Why we need a prayer list

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From Disciplines of a Godly Man, R. Kent Hughes.

Essential to our effective prayer is a prayer list. I say this first because of my own repeated experience. For example, i may be praying about my mother, and as i pray for her i see our old family home at 747 edmaru ave. In front is parked my gray-primered 1941 ford. It has racing slicks on the back, a hopped up- '48 Merc engine, and on the side... Suddenly i am seventeen, wearing my blue swede leather jacket, sitting behind my gold steering wheel, and heading down the beach boulevard to Huntington beach. I can smell the ocean and cocoa butter. So much for my 'prayers for mother'! p. 101
 
Also from R. Kent Hughes:

[h=2]4. Discipline of Devotion[/h][FONT=&quot]Reading God’s Word is essential, but meditation internalizes the Word and responds, “I desire to do your will, O my God” (Ps. 40:8). Beyond instructions like Ephesians 6:18–20, there are two great reasons to pray. The more we expose our lives to the white-hot sun of Christ’s righteous life, the more his image will be burned into our character. The second reason is that prayer bends our wills to God’s will. Many men never have an effective devotional life because they never plan for it; they never expose their lives to his pure light.[/FONT]
 
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