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Today's Reading: Small Catechism: Lord's Prayer, Conclusion Daily Lectionary: Judges 15:1-16:3; Galatians 3:23-4:11 He Himself has commanded us to pray in this way and has promised to hear us. (Small Catechism: The Lord's Prayer, Conclusion) In the Name + of Jesus. Amen. Prayer can be a strange thing. I don't know many Christians who are satisfied with their prayer lives. Either they pray and don't hear anything back, or they have trouble praying at all. It can be very difficult to pray if you're not sure that God will listen to you. So, we are tempted to neglect prayer. Why bother? We bother with prayer because Jesus has promised to hear us! He has even told us what to pray! Prayer from the heart, with words that you've come up with are good, but sometimes, we do not know what words to pray. The disciples also struggled with prayer. They noticed that Jesus was very good at it, so they asked Him to teach them (Luke 11:1). He responded by teaching them what we now know as the Lord's Prayer. The Lord's P