For many people prayer is a mysterious, graduate level spiritual discipline OR a dry and obligatory Religious mandate. But Jesus teaches that the is a REWARD that comes thru prayer. Part if not all of that reward is knowing God as the Father He is and we all long for.

You learn a lot about what is important to somebody by the things they pass on at the end of their life.

Now, Joshua had seen God’s people both flourish and also make awful decisions and disobey God. He’s now challenging his listeners one last time to recommit themselves to what is really important.