Prayer forms the person who prays Spiritual maturity becomes visible when a believer responds to life with greater truthfulness, humility, patience, and obedience. Prayer contributes to that growth by bringing our motives, fears, plans, and relationships before Yahawah. As we commune with Him through Jesus Christ (Yahawashi), we learn to depend on His strength and submit our desires to His Word. The question is not only, “Did my circumstances change?” It is also, “Am I becoming more faithful within them?” Prayer is not an automatic technique for improving character. We can pray familiar words while resisting correction. Growth happens as we receive the truth Scripture reveals and act upon it. New Beginnings Faith Ministries encourages a prayerful life joined to faith in the Messiah and obedience to Yahawah’s commandments. Dependence replaces the need to control everything John 15:5 (KJV): “I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth...