Prayer is not a tool for getting more of what we want. It is an act of surrender. In the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus modeled what true prayer looks like: bold enough to ask clearly, and surrendered enough to release the outcome entirely to God. He asked the Father to take the cup from Him, yet yielded completely to the Father's will. That cup represented the full weight of God's wrath toward sin, and Jesus willingly bore it so we would not have to. God's kingdom grows in our lives not through force, but through our willing surrender. Prayer is what makes that surrender possible.
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