It’s time for lesson four. Let’s review first.

1. Much praying is not done because we don’t plan to pray.
2. Adopt practical ways to impede mental drift.
3. At various periods in your life, develop, if possible, a prayer-partner relationship.

   And now:

4. Choose models, but choose them well.

D. A. Carson pays moving tribute to his parents in this regard, especially his father, a Baptist minister of a small church in Canada. Would that my sons would remember me for my model in prayer.