“A Heart for Prayer” - Rabbi Steve Weiler (08/15/2026)

And I would just mention this to you.

Some of you probably are not used to praying.

Some of you are not used to praying for a long period of time.

Would you listen to what Yeshua said? Luke 18.1 Yeshua told them a parable to show that they should always pray and not be discouraged.

Okay, so always pray.

That's actually more than most people do, right? Always? Yes, always.

And secondly, not be discouraged.

It's hard not to be discouraged because God answers prayers in different ways.

We don't always get the answer we want or expected.

And so we get discouraged.

And as somebody said, I think it was Natalia in her prayer that, you know, that we cannot get discouraged.

That's not who he made us to be.

Now, God established prayer in order that we have a relationship with him.

So if you're not praying a long time each day, I mean, whatever long is, I'm not going to give it a number.

But if you're not really spending time in prayer with God, then you're not having quite the relationship that God wants you to have with him.

You're not hearing as much as you ought to hear from God because he wants to speak to you as much as he wants to hear from you.

Prayer is proof of your faith.

Prayer is proof of your faith.

if you don't pray a lot, I'm going to suggest to you that your faith needs to be encouraged.

Because prayer is that which we're showing God that we have faith, that we have faith in his word, we have faith in who he is, we have faith that he is sovereign, we have faith that he is does what it says in Hebrews 11.6. You know what it says in Hebrews 11.6? Now without faith it's impossible to please God, for the one who comes to God must believe that he exists, that's the first thing, and that he's a rewarder of those who seek him.

So faith is that ability to know that God rewards us for seeking him.

How do we seek him? We seek him in prayer.

So if you pray a lot, you expect a lot, and you're not going to be deterred because you don't get a prayer answered the way you'd like.

A relationship with God allows us to know him better.

Our prayers are our acknowledgement that we are needy and that we believe and trust that Yeshua is deity and that he's sovereign and we can lean on him and depend on him.