Many times we think of prayer as only asking God for things. When our requests don’t get answered, we wonder why God isn’t coming through. Yet Jesus doesn’t turn to our requests until the middle of the Lord’s Prayer, prompting us to rethink what it looks like to share our requests with God.

Unifying Phrase: Prayer works.

• Jesus asserts that you can actually go to God and ask for something and he will hear you.
• Unanswered prayer is one of the best ways to discover who you are.
• God is not the Genie from Aladdin’s Lamp.
• Godly requests are birthed from a healing of perspective on who we are and who God is.
• The more we see ourselves as children, the more our requests will be Godly.