As we remember this, we come to
our place of prayer with a sense of wonder and we are humbled. This helps
us to hand over our lives to him. It also helps us to pray the prayer Jesus
prayed in Gethsemance: 'Your will, not mine, be done' and to do what Jesus
encourages us to do: to ask:
'Ask, and you will be given what you ask
for. Seek, and you will find. Knock,
and the door will be opened.' ( Mattew
7:7LB)
With all this
in our minds, we think back to the people I mentioned in the Introduction
to this book. I asked them the question: 'What is prayer?' Those who said:
'Prayer is meeting God, talking to God, being loved, found and silent before
him.' were quite right. That is what Jesus encourages us to believe.