I’ve been reading J B Torrance’s Worship, Community and the Triune God of Grace with a few friends from College and I thought I’d share this little gem on prayer. 

The first real step on the road to prayer is to recognize that none of us knows how to pray as we ought to. But as we bring our desires to God, we find that we have someone who is praying for us, with us, and in us. Thereby he teaches us to pray, and to pray in peace to the Lord. Jesus takes our prayers - our feeble, selfish, inarticulate prayers - he cleanses them, makes them his prayers, and in a “wonderful exchange” [...] he makes his prayers our prayers and presents us to the Father as his dear children, crying: “Abba Father.” (p46).