We need to see prayer as a relationship, rather than a meeting with our bank manager!

In Ephesians 6:18, Paul instructs us to "pray in the Spirit, on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests." Corrie Ten Boom once asked the question "Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tyre?" As we read Ephesians we realise prayer was Paul's steering wheel (see Ephesians 1:15-17, 3:14-21, 6:10-20).

Jesus mission statement in Luke 19 says, "The Son of Man came to seek and save that which was lost". En route to the cross, where Jesus would suffer and die for the sins of the world, he passed through Jericho and found a prime example of the people he came to save. He called Zachaeus by name and invited himself to dinner at his house. God wants us to see ourselves like Zachaeus, in need of saving grace.

Walking is a key word to understand how to live the Christian life. It might seem unspectacular but it can have profound and glorious consequences.