“Pray Always” is a three-session Bible study that explores three aspects of prayer.
In the first session (the June issue), readers will learn about what Jesus and the early evangelists thought and taught about the importance of being persistent in prayer. The text is focused on the parable of the Persistent Widow in Luke 18.
The second session (July/August issue) will look at a few passages in the Hebrew Bible that exhort us to “wait upon the Lord” and will explore the relationship between prayer and waiting.
The final session (also in July/August) seeks to understand the power of prayer to change us and perhaps our circumstances too.
 The study is written by the Rev. Gladys Moore, an ordained pastor in the ELCA. For more than 22 years she served as an urban pastor in Jersey City and Newark, N.J., and for 16 of those years she was also an assistant to the bishop of the New Jersey Synod. Pastor Moore now serves as Dean of Religious and Spiritual Life at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Mass.
Moore writes, “The goal of this study is to deepen our relationships with God, ourselves and one another by attending to the Word and will of God for our lives and our world. As we bring our authentic selves to these studies--our hopes and dreams, our fears and failures, our histories and cultural heritages, may we be reminded that each of our lives is indeed a prayer, as Jesus lives and serves through us.”
Session One: Persistence
Luke 18:1-8
Session Two: Waiting with Patience and Hope
Isaiah 40:28-31
Session Three: Power
Ephesians 3:14-21
Each session has a brief leader guide section. This study and leader guide will be available on the Web site for free download in late May so it can be used in one-day retreats or other youth and adult education programs. |