Today's Bible reading is the 11th chapter of the Book of Luke. You can read it here at Bible Gateway: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+11&version=NASB

Although we read of  how Jesus would go away and pray while alone, there were certainly times when He prayed while in the presence of His disciples. In today's passage we see that after one of those times, one of His disciples asked Him to teach them how to pray. The disciple was aware that John the Baptist had taught his disciples to pray and he asked Jesus to do as John had. I can't help but think that when His disciples heard Him pray that they were struck by both the content of His prayers and the manner in which He prayed. I can only imagine that the intimacy in which He prayed was unlike anything they had ever witnessed or experienced. In fact, there is a part of me that believes that what moved the disciple to ask the question was his desire to find the intimacy with the Father that Jesus demonstrated in His praying. Jesus graciously responded to the disciples request and taught them how to pray. The words that He gave are often referred to as "the Lord's prayer" although it may be more accurate to call them the disciples prayer. It gave them a guideline as to how to pray. May we grow in intimacy with the Father through the relationship that we have with Him in His Son Jesus and learn to pray as He did.