How to Pray: Prayer with R.C. Sproul

R.C. Sproul describes the duty, joy, and nature of Christian prayer.

But notice that when we are told that in the New Testament that one of the keys to effective praying is that the prayers be fervent, that they not be desultory, that they not just be casual, but that when people expect to have answers to prayer they have to come into the context of prayer meaning business. I mean, if God were to walk into your house this afternoon and you wanted to talk with Him or to beseech Him, to implore Him for some action, or to extol Him for His greatness or to confess your sins, what would be the state of your soul in that conversation? It would certainly not be dull and casual.