One of the great misunderstandings...

One of the great misunderstandings about prayer and its fulfillment comes from the tendency to pray without taking sufficient account of Jesus and his teaching. “If my words abide in you, ask . . . .” Jesus clearly specifies here that prayer is an extension of his own word. Answered prayer is therefore that of the disciple who is indwelt by Jesus’ words, the disciple who is full of them and lives by them, to the point where his or her prayer flows from them as…