From Premier Christianity (Justin Welby)-The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby introduces a new prayer movement
Lately I have found myself constantly talking and thinking about prayer. This is not because I am an expert on it, or even particularly good at it. Nor is it because it’s the kind of thing I am paid to do. It’s because I see ever more evidence of the need for it. These words of Jesus in Luke 11 offer us a good foundation for why we pray: “So I say to you: ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.”
Prayer begins by acknowledging that we don’t have what we need, we aren’t who we want to be and we don’t see what we long to see.
Last year the Archbishop of York and I invited people up and down the country to pray for the ten days between Ascension Day and Pentecost. The prayers had just one focus – a request to God for a fresh infilling of the Holy Spirit so that those who don’t know the love of Jesus might turn, hear his call and themselves becomes his followers.
More here-
https://www.premierchristianity.com/Past-Issues/2017/May-2017/Justin-Welby-How-to-pray-Thy-Kingdom-Come-and-mean-it
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