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Lord, Teach Us to Pray

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THE disciples had been with Christ, and seen Him pray. They had learnt

to understand something of the connection between His wondrous life in public,

and His secret life of prayer. They had learnt to believe in Him as a Master in

the art of prayer—none could pray like Him. And so they came to Him with the

request, ‘Lord, teach us to pray.’ And in after years they would have told us

that there were few things more wonderful or blessed that He taught them than

His lessons on prayer.

And now still it

comes to pass, as He is praying in a, certain place, that disciples who see Him

thus engaged feel the need of repeating the same request, ‘Lord, teach us to

pray.’ As we grow in the Christian life, the thought and the faith of the

Beloved Master in His never-failing intercession becomes evermore precious, and

the hope of being Like Christ in His

intercession gains an attractiveness before unknown. And as me see Him pray,

and remember that there is none who can pray like Him, and none who can teach

like Him, we feel the petition of the disciples, ‘Lord, teach us to pray,’ is

just what we need. And as we think how all He is and has, how He Himself is our

very own, how He is Himself our life, we feel assured that we have but to ask,

and He will be delighted to take us up into closer fellowship with Himself, and

teach us to pray even as He prays.