Yesterday I started sharing an outline for God-centered prayer.  I gave you two points out of 11, so here are the other 9:

3. Give Him glory as creator, protector, benefactor and ruler

• Praise God as the artist and engineer who has designed the most beautiful and complex creatures.  
• Worship Him for the protection placed around you at all time that you often take for granted or speak of as if it’s lacking.  
• Acknowledge Him as the only provider of grace and goodness in your life.  
• Bow to Him as ruler; as King.

So…it turns out all I pray about is me.

I pray for what I want. I pray about my sin. I pray about my friend’s needs. I pray for those I love who don’t know God. I pray for wisdom for my life. 

All good and important prayers, but, but until about two weeks ago, it had literally never occurred to me to pray to God about God.

I was reading some of Matthew Henry’s writings on prayer and it kind of messed me up.  (He’s a puritan, so, as you can imagine he is pretty intense about prayer).