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\nAccording to sociological studies, what do Americans do on a daily basis more often than go to work?
\nPray.[i]<\/sup><\/a>
\nPrayer is not only something that happens often in our lives; it\u2019s also something that increases significantly as we grow older. It\u2019s not just that older people pray more than younger people, although that is true; it\u2019s that the same people<\/em> pray more as they age. Compared to when they were polled in their twenties, roughly a third more Baby Boomers as well as a third more Gen Xers now report praying daily.[ii]<\/sup><\/a> So whether you are young and pray daily or are aging and discerning that you are more drawn to prayer as you get older, you are not alone.
\nOne day Jesus was praying. When he finished, one of his followers said to him, \u201cLord, teach us to pray\u201d (Luke 11:1). It\u2019s interesting that he did not say, \u201cYou don\u2019t need to be taught to pray. You just pray. Just talk to God. You can\u2019t get it wrong. Anyway, all prayers are the same. All prayers are acceptable.\u201d
\nInstead, Jesus effectively said, \u201cOkay, I\u2019ll teach you about prayer.\u201d And he had some very specific things to say about prayer. He taught us how to pray and told a story that we need to understand to know the secret of a better prayer life.<\/p>\n

A Prayer with No I\u2019s, Me\u2019s, or My\u2019s<\/h3>\n

Jesus said [to his followers], \u201cThis is how you should pray:<\/p>\n

Father, may your name be kept holy. May your Kingdom come soon. Give us each day the food we need, and forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who sin against us. And don\u2019t let us yield to temptation. Luke 11:2-4 (NLT)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you have heard this prayer before, you might be thinking, Wait a minute, Jesus. You didn\u2019t say it right. You have the \u201cFather\u201d in there but forgot the \u201cwho is in heaven.\u201d You got the \u201cmay your Kingdom come soon,\u201d but forgot \u201cyour will be done on earth as it is in heaven.\u201d Jesus, you misquoted your own prayer! That is weird, isn\u2019t it?
\nLuke is recounting Jesus\u2019 prayer here on a different occasion from the more commonly known version that was recorded by Matthew. Jesus is doing what many teachers of that day did: giving the shorthand version of the prayer he had already taught his followers before he gets to the story he wants to tell them to change their perspective and practice of prayer.
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\nIt is interesting to observe that you can pray the entire prayer without saying I, me, or my. The American culture elevates the individual above all else, yet when teaching us to pray, Jesus taught a communal prayer, with plural pronouns that begin with \u201cour Father and his Kingdom,\u201d not \u201cme and my Kingdom.\u201d
\nIt is not that our needs don\u2019t get addressed. Our needs are included throughout the prayer: our need for daily bread, our need to forgive and be forgiven, and our need to not yield to temptation. They are all named but in the context of coming to God as our providing Father.
\nGrowing up, I had a great dad. Not perfect, but great in my eyes. He was present and caring and provided for us through his hard work, he loved to laugh, and he told me every day that he loved me, was proud of me, and believed in me. I hope that was your experience with your dad too. However, maybe you had a different experience. Maybe your dad was begrudging, unwelcoming, absent, or even worse. Jesus knew that we would need help understanding the heart of our heavenly Father, which is why he goes on in his teaching on prayer to tell us a story. It starts out as a story about a neighbor but ends up being a story about our heavenly Father.<\/p>\n

How Does God Experience Our Prayers?<\/h3>\n

Teaching them more about prayer, he used this story: \u201cSuppose you went to a friend\u2019s house at midnight, wanting to borrow three loaves of bread. You say to him, \u2018A friend of mine has just arrived for a visit, and I have nothing for him to eat.\u2019 And suppose he calls out from his bedroom, \u2018Don\u2019t bother me. The door is locked for the night, and my family and I are all in bed. I can\u2019t help you.\u2019 But I tell you this\u2014though he won\u2019t do it for friendship\u2019s sake, if you keep knocking long enough, he will get up and give you whatever you need because of your shameless persistence.<\/p>\n

And so I tell you, keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened. Luke 11:5-10 (NLT)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Everyone listening would have been familiar with this situation. Hospitality in Jesus\u2019 day was a much higher value than for us in our culture. When traveling, there were no places to stop for food or rest\u2014no Chick-fil-A, no Best Western. Giving and receiving hospitality was essential for survival. Due to the heat of the day in Jesus\u2019 part of the world, the accepted practice was to start your traveling in the evening, often arriving at your destination late into the night.
\nIn the story, the guest arrives when the daily bread has all been eaten. The host is not adequately prepared to feed him, so the host goes to a neighbor. He asks for three loaves of bread\u2014a modest request. He is trusting in the generosity of his neighbor, and to be asked was an honor. Nowadays, when our neighbors\u2019 houses are all battened down for the night, we assume the kids are asleep and we do not dare wake them.
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\nThis is the point Jesus wants to make: \u201cCan you even imagine that happening?\u201d Everyone said, \u201cNo way! Unthinkable! Impossible!\u201d For many modern readers, we might think this is acceptable. However, to all of Jesus\u2019 first listeners, each excuse was ludicrous. We can slip into seeing ancient people as inherently inferior compared to today, but such reflexive thinking has rightly been called \u201cchronological snobbery.\u201d[iii]<\/a> It\u2019s worth considering what we have lost in our connection with our neighbor by outsourcing hospitality to an industry rather than it being a cultural norm.
\nBut Jesus effectively says, \u201cPretend with me for a while that it happened. What would you do next? You would stay at the door and keep knocking every five minutes so the guy cannot go to sleep. He will eventually say to his wife, \u2018Is he still at the door?\u2019 At last he will respond. Friendship will not move him, but your persistent disturbance will.\u201d
\nThis is where many of us can get the wrong idea. We may think, Oh, okay. I get it. God is like the cranky neighbor. But if you keep banging on the door, you might bother him enough that he will give you what you want so you will leave him alone. That\u2019s what the pagans believed about prayer. The Greek and Roman gods were indifferent toward people. So the cultural belief was that in order to get something from them, you would have to wear them down by disturbing them to the point where they give up out of annoyance.
\nThat is exactly not what Jesus is saying by this story.<\/p>\n

What God Is Not Like<\/h3>\n

The neighbor is not the mirror image of God; in fact, God is the opposite of the neighbor. This is a story of contrast, not likeness. If you think this is a story of likeness, then you will completely misunderstand the heart of prayer and the heart of God that Jesus came down to earth to reveal to us. You\u2019ll think that Jesus is saying that even if your neighbor is grouchy and set against you, you can wear him down by disturbing him so you can get what you need and then go away.
\nWe know that this cannot be what Jesus means for us to take from this story. We know this because elsewhere when he teaches on the topic of prayer, he explicitly says,<\/p>\n

When you pray, don\u2019t babble on and on as the Gentiles do. They think their prayers are answered merely by repeating their words again and again. Don\u2019t be like them, for your Father knows exactly what you need even before you ask him! (Matthew 6:7-8, NLT).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What Jesus is communicating is that if this is true with an unimaginable neighbor, how much more should you confidently ask and pursue our Father, who never sleeps, is eager to give, is never distant, and is closer than your next breath. This parable is classified as a \u201chow much more\u201d parable, which ancient rabbis often used. Those parables were always ones of contrast. The uncaring neighbor is bothered by the disturbance; because of God\u2019s great care for us, God is not bothered and doesn\u2019t consider our requests a disturbance.
\nIf we took everything we are grateful for and every problem we are worried about to God first, it would do wonders in terms of our connection to him throughout our day. There was an English revivalist with a great last name: Smith Wigglesworth. Here\u2019s what he said: \u201cI don\u2019t ever pray any longer than twenty minutes. . . . But I never go more than twenty minutes without praying.\u201d[iv]<\/sup><\/a> If we think of God as the cranky neighbor, we will be hesitant to go to him in prayer. But if we see that Jesus is telling a story of contrast, not likeness, then our lives will become infused with prayer. Getting the point of this parable right is the secret to a better prayer life.<\/p>\n

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You’ve been reading with Tom Hughes from Down to Earth: How Jesus’ Stories Can Change Your Everyday Life<\/em>. Read a free excerpt from the beginning of the book here<\/a>. Or get started on the YouVersion reading plan<\/a> in English or Spanish.
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\n[i]<\/a> \u201cFrequency of Prayer,\u201d Pew Research Center, http:\/\/www.pewforum.org\/religious-landscape-study\/frequency-of-prayer\/<\/a>. Daily prayer is self-reported by 55 percent of Americans; 47 percent of Americans have full-time employment: The Automatic Earth, \u201cOnly 47 Percent of Working Age Americans Have Full Time Jobs,\u201d Business Insider, January 24, 2011, http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/real-employment-rate-47-percent-2011-1<\/a>.
\n[ii]<\/a> \u201cPassion for Daily Prayer Grows with Age,\u201d Preaching Today, http:\/\/www.preachingtoday.com\/illustrations\/2010\/may\/3051010.html<\/a>.
\n[iii]<\/a> Owen Barfield, \u201cChronological Snobbery,\u201d Owen Barfield, http:\/\/www.owenbarfield.org\/chronological-snobbery\/.
\n[iv]<\/a> Smith Wigglesworth, quoted in Colin Dye, \u201cSmith Wigglesworth on Prayer,\u201d Colin Dye (blog), March 4, 2013, http:\/\/www.colindye.com\/2013\/03\/04\/smith-wigglesworth-on-prayer\/.<\/p>\n

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