We think rightly or wrongly about prayer according to the idea of prayer we have in our minds. If we think of prayer as the breath in our lungs and the blood in our hearts, we think rightly. The breathing continues ceaselessly; the blood flows ceaselessly. We\u2019re not always conscious of these activities, but they are always going on. This is how it ought to be with prayer. We might not be conscious of Jesus keeping us in perfect, prayerful harmony with God, but if we are obeying him, he always is. Prayer isn\u2019t an exercise; it\u2019s life. To \u201cpray continually\u201d means to keep the childlike habit of spontaneous prayer in our hearts at all times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jesus never mentioned unanswered prayer. He had the boundless certainty that prayer is always answered. Do we, through the Holy Spirit, share Jesus\u2019s certainty? Or do we always think of the times when it seemed God didn\u2019t answer? Jesus taught that \u201ceveryone who asks receives\u201d (Matthew 7:8). \u201cBut, but, but . . .\u201d we say. We forget that God answers prayer in the \u043b\u0443\u0447\u0448\u0438\u0439<\/em> way\u2014not sometimes but every time. His answer might not come immediately, nor in the exact way we want, but it does come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Do we truly expect God to answer prayer? The danger with many of us is that we want to water down what Jesus said. We want to make his words mean something that agrees with common sense. If what Jesus said is only common sense, it wasn\u2019t worthwhile for him to say it. The things Jesus said about prayer are supernatural revelations.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u041c\u044b \u043f\u0440\u0430\u0432\u0438\u043b\u044c\u043d\u043e \u0438\u043b\u0438 \u043d\u0435\u043f\u0440\u0430\u0432\u0438\u043b\u044c\u043d\u043e \u0434\u0443\u043c\u0430\u0435\u043c \u043e \u043c\u043e\u043b\u0438\u0442\u0432\u0435 \u0432 \u0437\u0430\u0432\u0438\u0441\u0438\u043c\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0438 \u043e\u0442 \u0442\u043e\u0433\u043e, \u043a\u0430\u043a\u043e\u0435 \u043f\u0440\u0435\u0434\u0441\u0442\u0430\u0432\u043b\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0435 \u043e \u043d\u0435\u0439 \u0443 \u043d\u0430\u0441 \u0432 \u0433\u043e\u043b\u043e\u0432\u0435. \u0415\u0441\u043b\u0438 \u043c\u044b \u0434\u0443\u043c\u0430\u0435\u043c \u043e \u043c\u043e\u043b\u0438\u0442\u0432\u0435 \u043a\u0430\u043a \u043e \u0434\u044b\u0445\u0430\u043d\u0438\u0438 \u0432 \u043b\u0435\u0433\u043a\u0438\u0445 \u0438 \u043a\u0440\u043e\u0432\u0438 \u0432 \u0441\u0435\u0440\u0434\u0446\u0435, \u0442\u043e \u043c\u044b \u0434\u0443\u043c\u0430\u0435\u043c \u043f\u0440\u0430\u0432\u0438\u043b\u044c\u043d\u043e. \u0414\u044b\u0445\u0430\u043d\u0438\u0435 \u043f\u0440\u043e\u0434\u043e\u043b\u0436\u0430\u0435\u0442\u0441\u044f \u043d\u0435\u043f\u0440\u0435\u0440\u044b\u0432\u043d\u043e, \u043a\u0440\u043e\u0432\u044c \u0442\u0435\u0447\u0435\u0442 \u043d\u0435\u043f\u0440\u0435\u0440\u044b\u0432\u043d\u043e.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":2030,"template":"","collection":[],"class_list":["post-13687","modern-classic","type-modern-classic","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/modern-classic\/13687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/modern-classic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/modern-classic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/modern-classic\/13687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=13687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}