Who do you copy when you're praying?
All of us tend to model this most difficult area of the Christian's life on some respected friend or Christian leader.
The best role model of all is Jesus - a pattern for our prayers is given by Him in the Lord's Prayer.
More vitally we can see that, for Him, prayer was as essential as breathing.
Revitalise your prayer life by understanding how our Lord prayed and how He depended on God for everything.
David Martin McIntyre was a Scottish preacher and Principal of the Bible Training Institute, Glasgow from 1913 to 1938. David's father Malcolm was Free Church of Scotland minister of Monikie, Angus from July 1849 to his death. David had an elder sister Margaret Grace and an elder brother Miller Malcolm, both of whom died in their childhood (1863 and 1874 respectively). David's mother was the daughter of the previous minister of Monikie, James Miller, who came out of the Church of Scotland at the Disruption.
His academic career centred in Edinburgh, and he worked as a missionary in St John's Church, Leith, under the guidance of Dr John Kelman, father of the minister of the same name at St George's, Edinburgh.
McIntyre wrote a good number of Christian books, often under the spelling M'Intyre, and edited The King's Writ - A Quarterly Journal of Bible Study in the 1920s. His best known book is probably "The Hidden Life of Prayer".
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