WILLARD ON PRAYER
Dallas Willard writes: “Prayer is conversing, communicating with God. When we pray we talk to God, aloud or within our thoughts. In the nature of the case, prayer almost always involves other disciplines and spiritual activities if it is to go well, especially study, meditation, and worship, and often solitude and fasting as well. “It would of course be a rather low-voltage spiritual life in which prayer was chiefly undertaken as a discipline, rather than as a way of co-laboring with God to accomplish good things and advance his Kingdom purposes. Yet prayer can be a discipline, and a highly effective one, as we see from our Lord’s advice to those with him in the Garden of Gethsemane: ‘Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation.'” Dallas Willard, The Spirit of the Disciplines, 184
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