Today we're going to talk about prayer.

I’m going to jump right into it because I just think that it's fascinating in the first what 13 verses of Luke chapter 11. It’s really remarkable because the whole context is set up where they're seeing Jesus pray because this is one of the things that Jesus will do a lot right? Jesus would be praying. They would see Him go off by Himself but this is one of those occasions where they were watching the Lord pray.

I don't know if you've ever done that where you're just going to watch someone pray and you're like I wonder what's going on inside there. Here are the disciples of Jesus and they know that this person is different. They might not know who He is. They may not know that He is fully God and fully man, but they do know that He prays a lot and they know that He does it differently than them. So they ask Him like basically not just teach us how to pray like John taught his disciples but what's behind that is the question, “Lord, teach us to pray like you.” That is the question that is being asked. The request is “teach us to pray the way you pray because you pray differently.”

From Ascension