My New Bible!

I have just acquired the ESV Study Bible!  I am SO excited about this.  I have been wanting one of these for months and my parents decided to give me one as an early Christmas present.  I think that I am going to use this new resource that I have been given to create a new series of blogs that will be listed under the catagory "ESV Study".  They will contain all the new information I learn from the new Bible.  Now, some of you may be saying, "Isn't that jsut like the new info you would learn from any other Bible." You are saying that because you may not know what a study Bible is.  It has extra cultural, contextual, and philosophical information on the different passages that you are reading throughout the Bible.  All the new information that I learn from this extra material will be placed on this blog for you guys to learn along with me! And I think I will start with this little tid bit of info:

Luke has the most extensive record of Jesus's prayer life.  Eleven different prayers are recorded in this gospel and nine other times Jesus is found teaching on the subject of prayer.  This shows that Jesus did put a big emphasis on prayer and sees it as an important topic.  If we are looking to follow Christ's example in all things then we must have a vibrant prayer life.  Now, I am not giong to lie.  I am not too good at this.  My prayer life is nothing to be envied, but God has been convicting me more and more lately about the fact that I don't spend much time just talking to Him.  I can spend all day talking ABOUT Him, but unless I am spending a good chunk of time talking TO Him I won't truly know His heart.