How we should pray

Tonight they talked to us about prayer. Sadly doesn't prayer sometimes just seem boring? I find myself getting distracted and just feeling like I don't really know what I am doing. Generally we only pray for things that we can do and it really makes it so dull and boring. Pray for what He can do, give Him the power. Start out small and watch the results start poring out in your life. I even catch my self doing Santa Clause prayers. What I mean by that is I pray with the attitude of God I've been good and I did this so I want this, this, and this. The Bible calls us to come to God as a child. Read Mark 10:14-15 and Matthew 18:3, They say you will never enter the Kingdom of heaven unless you come like a child. A child at a young age will speak their mind and come at you with an honest and open heart. A heart and mind willing to learn. This is how we are suppose to approach God when we pray to Him. Honestly and open. Next we should come to our Father messy. Don't try to get all cleaned up and then go to God. You cannot get clean without him. Or if you try to look all clean to God, he knows your lying. We are all sinful and deserve death. God wants you to come to Him with your problems. In Matthew 11:28 he asks for the weary and heavy laden. He wants to carry your baggage, because you cannot do it alone. Many people get this concept messed up. Either by thinking that they have to get clean before coming to the Lord, or that they will try to pep them selves up and make themselves look good while talking to the Lord. Neither work, God is the only one who can help you with your struggles and the funny thing is He wants to help. Also he sees through all your deceit, He knows the true you. Come to Him messy with all your baggage, and he will take care of you. Lastly, come as the real you. Luke 15:1-2, My summarization is God welcomes sinners the ones He came for, not for the righteous, Take of your mask! Don't sugar coat it. Jesus was sent to this world for all of us sinners, he didn't come to save the righteous. We need him and we need to be honest, don't put up a guard or a mask, open up and be the real you. He sees you for who you are, so talk to Him as you are. "Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.: Jeremiah33:3. "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. Foe everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened Matthew 7:7-8. So keep praying for me and this project.

Serving Him,

Daniel