For many people, prayer is just an attempt to satisfy their selfish desires—a pious-sounding opportunity to present God with a worldly wish list, supposedly obligating Him to grant it by sealing it with Jesus’ own name. But that is blatantly pagan thinking.

So what is true prayer?

In this booklet, John MacArthur draws out the key principles Jesus gave His disciples when they asked Him, “Lord, teach us to pray” (Luke 11:1). See how our Great High Priest instructed His own to avoid blasphemous presumption and to pray instead as an act of worship—one that expresses our praise, our desire to see God’s will fulfilled, and our utter dependence on Him for all our needs.

Revitalize your prayer life, and experience all the blessings of approaching the throne of grace in the way our Lord prescribes.