When you buy a new gadget, it comes with an owner’s manual that tells you how to operate it. Maybe you read or skim the manual quickly (at best), or never bother to read it at all. Why is that?

Is it because it’s too tedious? Is it too time consuming? Or are you confident that you can figure it out? Surely, we’re smart enough to figure this out without reading the directions. But then we can’t figure out why this stupid product doesn’t work right! Maybe we need to go back and read the manual!

God has given us His Word as the manual for our salvation. It tells us all we need to know to walk with God and live wisely in light of eternity.

But, as we do with so many owner’s manuals, we read it superficially or hardly at all and then wonder why our Christian life isn’t working the way it’s supposed to! We need to go back and read the manual carefully, asking God to give us His wisdom and understanding.

So in this series on prayer, my hope for us all, (self included) is that we would see the necessity, the importance and the value of spending time in prayer.

And in our prayers it’s good to be specific. We often don’t have trouble being specific when it comes to physical needs and wants but what about the spiritual needs of our life?

In this message we pick up where we left off last week.