Relational Prayer

06/03/06 05:28 PM
I am currently reading The Papa Prayer by Larry Crabb. Good read. . . very good read. In fact, it's one of the best books I've ever read on the subject of prayer. The premise of the book is that the primary purpose of prayer is relationship –– of truly getting to know God and deepening our relationship with Him. I thought the following paragraph was especially good and worth passing along:

"...remaining in Christ means that we consciously, every day, value Him as our source of life and stop demanding anyone else fill us up. It means that we depend on Him for everything good coming out of us and that we want His goodness coming out of us into others more than we want His goodness coming out of others into us. And it means that we pay whatever price is required and sacrifice whatever ambition we must in order to draw close to Him, to experience a level of union that arouses our awareness of His life within us. That's relational prayer."