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We probably spend the majority of our time in prayer making requests. We certainly need to bring our petitions to God, but there is so much more to prayer than that! There is adoration of God (“hallowed by your name”); there is the process of comparing my desires with God’s and learning to align myself with him (“your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven”); there is a relational component to prayer in which I am think about others (“forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors”). Maybe it would help us get our prayers out of a rut if we practiced some of these things. This week, choose one or two of these areas of focus, and take steps to practice praying with purpose.