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In this episode and the next we are going to look at a prayer in Isaiah 64. It's a corporate prayer of lament, but it's also my Easter-Prayer. You know I think it's difficult to grow in prayer, if the prayer "God we need you." isn't always at the center of our hearts and on the tip of our tongues. In fact O Hallesby in a classic book on prayer says, "Listen my friend your helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the hrt of God with greater effect than all your uttered pleas."

But helplessness is not our preferred state of life, is it? Acknowledgment of our helplessness is not our habit. We would much rather be busy than helpless. We embrace busyness because busyness is all about what we can do, what we need to do, what everyone expcts us to do...maybe even what we do pretty well.

But what if our helplessness, the kind of helplessness that would cause us to dive into prayer like it was necessary and urgent, what if that kind of helplessness would lead to the life-burst of God? That's my Easter-Prayer!