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It is a liability, living where we do. Orange county - money, Disneyland, doctors, food (plenty of it), and more. That necessary sense of desperation that should accompany the Christian's prayer life is not common today. Occasionally we encounter deep troubles that bring us humbly to our knees: family issues, health, accidents. But, it seems that part of the ordinary life of the ordinary believer should include a sort of trust and confidence in God that isn't regularly present for us. I don't mean the sort of trust we usually think of; I mean looking to Him continually in gratefulness, and a weighty acknowledgment that without His blessing, the whole thing would fall apart. This desperation, tempered almost paradoxically with the confidence we have from the Gospel, must be present in us when we go to God, to truly call our brand of prayer "good." What about the millions in Orange County who have no notion of the coming judgment, no idea of the free grace available in Jesus? Who feels desperation in prayer for them in the same way that the Apostle Paul did for his kinsmen in Romans 9:1-3; 10:1? The topic of this blog from Kevin DeYoung is prayer and its attributes: desperate, continual, comforting and necessary.