"It is like breathing.

Praying is to the spiritual life what breathing is to the physical life. At birth we enter into an atmosphere that immediately exerts pressure on our lungs. That forces us to take air in and to begin to breathe.

Similarly, when you're born into the family of God, you enter into a spiritual atmosphere wherein God's presence and grace exert pressure, or influence, on your life. Prayer is the normal response to that pressure." — Spiritual Boot Camp, verse by verse with John MacArthur 💫