Episode 72 -- Spiritual Combat c44.2 -- Desire, Confidence in God, Right motive for Prayer

Are there conditions of heart for praying well? Yes!

In this episode we will look the first three conditions that our hearts need in order to pray well:

1. desire — and the ways to grow in desire for prayer
2. confident faith that God can help us; and
3. the right motive, viz., to do the will of God.

Last episode we read a really short passage that connected Prayer to the other three weapons of the spiritual combat. Prayer is the greatest and most important weapon. By prayer we can obtain distrust of self, trust in God, and the right use of our faculties to grow in virtue. Prayer is the channel of all graces. “A man without prayer,” St. Philip Neri used to say,“ is like an animal without reason.”