Prayer is the highest activity of the human soul, and therefore it is at the same time the ultimate ________  of a man’s true spiritual condition.  There is nothing that tells the truth about us as Christians so much as our __________   ________. Everything we do in the Christian life is easier than prayer. 

Jesus is showing that we tend to take our self-awareness with us to church.  Our ________ tends to follow us all the way, even into the very presence of God.

According to Matt. 6, our greatest hindrance to true prayer is _______.  Therefore Jesus says, _____________! 

We should never think of sin simply in terms of things we do or do not do. It is also a disposition. A state of the _________.

The term “secret place” appears dozens of times in both Old and New Testaments. Some translations use the word shelter, covering, or ________. In the OT, the term “secret place” comes from the Hebrew root word cether, which means “to ______  or be concealed.” 

CS Lewis:  “I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm __________. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time, waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God. It changes _____.”