Formation prayer is our next lesson from Richard Foster’s book, Prayer: Finding the Heart’s True Home. The primary purpose of prayer is to bring us into such a life of communion with the Father that, by the power of the Spirit, we are increasingly conformed to the image of the Son. This process of transformation is the sole focus of Formation Prayer.

The prayer of relinquishment moves us from struggling with our desires, to releasing our will so we can align with…

What exactly is the prayer of tears? It is being cut to the heart over our distance and offense to…