Mar 3
2016
When Praying Feels Hard
For most of us, even long time believers, prayer tends to become a rut. Something that we just do out of habit, if not out of force. And when we read a passage like this in the Bible, "And this is the confidence that we have toward Him, that if we ask anything according to His will He hears us" (verse 14), we feel like reading an experience that is almost entirely foreign to us. Although when we think about it, it shouldn't be foreign to us. The apostle John is not writing to a group of super Christians. Nor is he writing merely to church leaders or ministers. In fact, many times in this short letter, he addresses them as ‘children’. These are regular, ordinary, day to day Christians just like you and I.