“For a good portion of our Christian lives, prayer did not make much sense. But that wasn’t our main problem. Our problem was that we weren’t being honest about it. We pretended that prayer made sense, but it didn’t. Prayer was dry, boring, and, while we’re being really honest, something we avoided at all cost. Prayer at meals was fine. A quick prayer for others was great. But being with God in the deep realities of life felt like wandering in a desert. Oddly, we never considered telling God how alienating prayer seemed.
“But then we heard good news: ‘For we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words’ (Romans 8:26). We don’t know how to pray. That is what God wants us to know about ourselves. But this is not something to despair. This is not a reason to stop praying. This is an invitation.”

- Where Prayer Becomes Real, Kyle Strobel & John Coe

“Jesus is saying that to fail to forgive others is to demonstrate that one has not felt the saving touch of God.”

- Pillar New Testament Commentary