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hi everybody I’m Rick Warren pastor
Saddleback Church here in Southern
California author of The Purpose Driven
Life
welcome to 40 days of Prayer you know
over the last 40 years I have the
opportunity of traveling about a hundred
and sixty plus nations around the world
one of the things I found that’s
universal is you can find an ocean
eventually connected to every continent
something else I’ve noticed is that on
every one of those continents people
pray
it’s an inborn instinct in every human
being now they may not pray to the one
true God and they pray to an idol they
may pray to ancestors they may pray to
themselves but every body prays why is
it because we were made in God’s image
and we were given the ability to
communicate to God cows don’t pray dogs
don’t pray ants don’t pray only human
beings and all of God’s creation of the
universe only human beings pray it is
our greatest privilege and it is our
greatest responsibility and so for the
next 40 days we’re going to look at how
to do what God why are you to do we’re
gonna learn how to pray in different
kinds of circumstances we’re gonna learn
some of the barriers to prayer some of
the ways to see God’s answers to prayer
some of the ways to be persistent in
praying all of these as we looked at the
pattern of prayer that Jesus gave us
it’s gonna be a great experience
together and I’m glad you’re here let’s
get started
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hello everybody and welcome to 40 days
of prayer did you know that prayer was
God’s idea if he didn’t want to hear
from you he wouldn’t have made you the
way he did God created you to pray it’s
really part of your human makeup
everybody prays well we don’t all pray
to the same God some people pray to
idols some people pray to their dead
ancestors some people to pray to some
kind of cosmic force the followers of
Jesus Christ we pray to the Living God
our Creator our healer a provider our
Savior our Heavenly Father and our
friend you know prayer is so simple that
even a child can do it so why is it that
we as adults struggle so often not
knowing how to pray you know we have a
hard time knowing what to say or how
long to keep praying about something and
we wonder about the kind of prayers that
God answers what kinds of things can we
pray about how do I know that God hears
me when I pray how do I know that God
even cares and what is the secret to
answers to prayer well for the next 40
days we’re going to focus on your
personal prayer life and we’re going to
answer these tough questions we’re going
to learn how to pray in a crisis we’re
going to learn how to pray for a