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<table style="font-size:13px;min-width:100%;border-collapse:initial" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr id="gmail-m_3914262358168077170layout-row15062" class="gmail-m_3914262358168077170layout gmail-m_3914262358168077170layout-row gmail-m_3914262358168077170widget gmail-m_3914262358168077170_widget_html gmail-m_3914262358168077170style15062" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><td id="gmail-m_3914262358168077170layout-row-padding15062" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);padding:30px 30px 0px" valign="top"><table style="font-size:13px;min-width:100%" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td id="gmail-m_3914262358168077170html_div14674" width="590" align="left"> <p style="color:black;font-family:Sorts Mill Goudy;font-size:18px;line-height:1.5">Friends,
<span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>our Gospel today is about prayer and the power of prayer. </b></span>This excerpt
from Luke is filled with wisdom in regard to the proper attitude of
prayer. What is prayer, and how should we pray? <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>Prayer is intimate
communion and conversation with God.</b></span> Judging from Jesus’ own life,
prayer is <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>something that we ought to do often, especially at key moments
of our lives.</b></span></p>
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<p style="color:black;font-family:Sorts Mill Goudy;font-size:18px;line-height:1.5">Well,<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>
how should we pray? </b></span>What does it look like? You have to<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b> pray with
faith.</b></span> Have you noticed how Jesus, time and again, says to people before
working a miracle, “Do you believe I can do this?” Can you hear the
simple faith in this astonishing line of <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">Jesus: </span>“I tell you, whatever
you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it and it will be
yours.”</b></span></p>
<p style="color:black;font-family:Sorts Mill Goudy;font-size:18px;line-height:1.5">And
today he says, “<span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>Ask and you will receive; seek and you will find; knock
and the door will be opened to you. </b></span>For everyone who asks, receives;
and the one who seeks, finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will
be opened.”</p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div>