![]() These are not peripheral truths but rather are integral to the very nature of the gospel. ![]() ![]() Let me offer a three-course meal highlighting several indispensable truths about prayer that, if reclaimed, have the potential to revitalize and nourish our souls. I offer this as one who has too often been content with being bottle-fed and whose appetite yearns to be sated by a robust meal. This daily special on prayer is offered as solid food and my hope for us all is that God might give us the palate and the constitution to eat heartily and be nourished by the vision of the Jesus-shaped and Spirit-empowered life that it invites us into. You need milk, not solid food for everyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is unskilled in the word of righteousness.” (Heb. The words of the author of Hebrews echo across the centuries as a prophetic warning to us all, “For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic elements of the oracles of God. In fact, we have so sold out to this mindless pursuit that often we are not mindful of how superficial and anemic our spirituality has become. Whether it is the latest viral video, what’s trending on Twitter, or the latest iOS update, we have an insatiable and ravenous hunger for the next thing that will titillate our senses. ![]() Nothing I am about to share with you is new. ![]()
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