Pray is important throughout Scripture | Rapp Report Daily 0173 | Striving for Eternity

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Prayer as a Vital Part of the Christian Life

When you think about prayer, it is a vital aspect of the Christian life. It is something we not only see Christ doing. We know that John the Baptist taught his disciples, just like Christ taught his disciples, how to pray.

But we also can look in the Old Testament and see that in great times of distress, you see people praying for long periods of time. Think about Nehemiah. Now, when you look at Nehemiah 1 and 2, you see Nehemiah, and at the beginning he hears about what's happening in Israel.

He is concerned about it. You then see him next going before the king and asking about being allowed to go back to Israel. Now, one of the things is that there's four months in between those chapters.

I believe that Nehemiah was praying much longer than just that moment when the king asks him why he's distressed, and he says a quick prayer. I think that was a quick prayer followed by months of prayer.

We see Daniel. Daniel was praying fervently in Daniel 9, before he gets that 70 weeks prophecy. But before that, he was praying. We see throughout the Old and New Testament, people spent much time in prayer.

Christ's Example of Prayer and Dependence on the Father

The fact that Christ spent so much time praying and he's God should tell us that prayer is important. If it's important enough for Christ, it should be important enough for us. And it is important because it forces us to be dependent upon God.

If Christ could be dependent on the Father, then so should we.

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