Why Prayer Starts With God, Not You
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Why Prayer Starts With God, Not You

B1IntermediateOctober 6, 20262 min
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"Holy" isn't a religious word you say to sound spiritual. It means God is unlike anything else — the source of all reality, without beginning or end. And your prayer reorients when you start by remembering that.

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A prayer doesn't start with your problems.

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You want God to fix your life, but he wants you to see him first. A prayer doesn't start with your problems. It starts with God's name. And when we don't start with God, we end up focusing on ourselves and the

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size of our problems rather than who he is. And I know, I know that's part of the reason why the Lord's prayer starts with reminding us first of the fatherly relationship that we have with him, then followed by, may your name be kept holy.

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In Psalm 99.3, it puts it this way, let them praise your great and awesome name. Your name is holy. Now that word holy, it's not something

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