Why So Many People Struggle With Prayer
And How You Can Learn to Pray Well
At 20, I would leave the house at about 8 or even 9 PM and come home two hours later. Initially, my family may have been a little concerned. I wasn’t getting high the way I used to, and all I did was talk about Jesus. They thought I was losing it, for sure. What they didn’t know, but later learned, was that I was walking five miles away to the golf course, to go and talk to God. I walked and talked with God the whole way, and when I arrived and no one could see me I sang, I conversed with God, and I cried. It was a school of prayer led by the Holy Spirit.
Prayer is one of the most under-used, misunderstood, and disappointing facets of the Christian life. I have concluded over the years that most people do not know how to pray well. They say their prayers are never answered, that it never seems to make a difference, and that they never hear from God. My hope is to give you a few points to demystify prayer and get you on the right track.
- Prayer, before anything else, is a dialogue with God. It is a living dialogue that continues after you have left your knees, after you have left the church, after you have put the rosary beads down. There is no point at which prayer ends. There is no point at which listening to God ends. When I pray I am listening. When I go about my…
