Day 20 - The Heart of Prayer

On Day 20 we pray Matthew 6:5,8 thanking God for His invitation to us to engage Him in real relationship through prayer and asking that Muslims be drawn to the same.content uniquely adapted from https://ramadan.prayer.tools/fuel/20Transcript:Today’s verses are Matthew 6:5-8, “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. ... And do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.”The idea of Islamic Ṣalāh (Sa-Laah), that is ‘prayer,’ describes the memorized recitations that Muslims must speak and the prescribed motions they must go through five times a day. Yet the idea of prayer presented by the Scriptures is one of two-way conversation with God where followers of Jesus engage in relationship with their savior. Today, let’s ask for Muslims to have  a divine encounter with God through prayer.Father, thank you for engaging us in real relationship and giving us prayer as a means of conversing with you. We pray today for the Muslim world. That you would stir in them a longing for more, for a real relationship with you that breaks the box of memorized recitations and prescribed times of prayer. Pour out a spirit of prayer so that as they voice the longings of their hearts they would be met by you, the only one who can truly hear and respond to our prayers.In Jesus Name - Amen.