I recently attended the president's
Easter prayer breakfast at the White House, along with a couple hundred religious
leaders from across the country. Before
breakfast, a seventy-six-year-old African-American preacher who served
alongside Martin Luther King Jr. in the civil rights movement said a prayer. I could barely hear his words, but his faith
was loud and clear. He prayed with such
a familiarity with the Father that it was convicting. It's like his words were deep-fried in the
faithfulness of God. After he said amen,
I turned to my pastor-friends… and said, "I feel like I've never prayed
before." I felt like he knew God in
a way that I didn't, and it challenged me to get closer to God. I wonder if that's how the disciples felt
when they asked Jesus to teach them to pray.
His prayers were so qualitatively different that they felt like they had
never prayed before.
-- Mark Batterson in The Circle Maker
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