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Title: Prayer: Part 3 of 3(000,000)


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Prayer Part 3 of 3(000,000)
  • Sue Bohlin
  • November 19, 2002

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Prayers we pray persistently (review)
  • God, show me where Im being deceived.
  • Prayer for protection of ourselves and others

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How Do You Cultivate a Love Relationship with God?
  • Ask Him for a child's heart (Baileys Jesus)
  • Ask Him for a lover's heart toward Jesus
  • The Sacred Romance (John Eldredge and Brent
    Curtis)

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How Do You Cultivate a Love Relationship with God?
  • Gratitude / God Sighting Journal
  • Give
  • Spend time with Him
  • Praise music
  • Seek freshness in His word The Message

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  • "Are you tired?
  • Worn out?
  • Burned out on religion?
  • Come to Me.
  • Get away with Me
  • and you'll recover your life.
  • I'll show you how to take a real rest.
  • Walk with Me and work with Me -
  • watch how I do it.
  • Learn the unforced rhythms of grace.
  • I won't lay anything heavy
  • or ill-fitting on you.
  • Keep company with Me
  • and you'll learn to live freely and lightly."
  • Jesus

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Listening Prayer How Do You Know God's Voice?
  • Relationship means one speaks, the other listens,
    and vice versa
  • My sheep hear My voice John 1016
  • Christianity is supposed to be supernatural
  • Check it out with the Word, with wise counsel,
    with circumstances
  • Go to where the peace is

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Listening Prayer How Do You Know God's Voice?
  • Munich
  • Ray God's no to Chicago
  • You don't always know it's God
  • Curt There's the girl you're going to marry"

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Learning to Listen to God
  • 1. Quiet your heart and spirit before God
  • 2. "Lord, do You have anything You'd like to say
    to me?"
  • 3. Read through a passage of scripture with an
    attitude of expectation that He wants to speak to
    you

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Learning to Listen to God
  • Different from reading the Bible to check off
    your "to do" list
  • Different from Bible study
  • Read it until He stops you. Then listen.

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Learning to Listen to God
  • 4. Isaiah 551-2
  • "Ho! Every one who thirsts, come to the waters
    And you who have no money come, buy and eat.
    Come, buy wine and milk Without money and without
    cost. Why do you spend money for what is not
    bread, And your wages for what does not satisfy?
  • 5. Be alert around water (bath, shower, pool)

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Praying in Jesus Name
  • Star Trek Jean-Luc Picard's "Make it so
  • Christian belief that saying "In Jesus' name"
    forces God to make it so
  • That's a belief in the power of words to create
    or change reality sorcery.

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Praying in Jesus Name
  • Christs death on the Cross is what it cost to
  • Pay for our sins
  • Reconcile us to God
  • Give us the authority to approach God
  • We must never pray as if we deserved to be
    heard.
  • On the other hand. . .

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Praying in Jesus Name
  • Therefore let us draw near with confidence to
    the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy
    and find grace to help in time of need. Hebrews
    416

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Praying in Jesus' Name Means
  • We approach the throne of God with a conscious
    identity of who we are
  • We pray the same way the Lord Jesus would pray.
  • HWJP? (How Would Jesus Pray?)
  • In confident expectation of being heard
  • In humble submission to the Father's perfect will

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Praying in Jesus' Name Means
  • Praying on the basis of the authority Christ
    Himself granted us.
  • Is anyone among you sick? Then he must call for
    the elders of the church and they are to pray
    over him, anointing him with oil in the name of
    the Lord and the prayer offered in faith will
    restore the one who is sick, and the Lord will
    raise him up, and if he has committed sins, they
    will be forgiven him." James 514-15

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The Role of Faith
  • Word-faith praying is
  • Deciding what you want
  • Confessing with your mouth that God has done it
  • The power is in your faith, not really in God

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  • Many sincere Christians have been influenced
    by the sorcerer's gospel to imagine that faith
    has some power in itself. . . .To them faith is
    not placed in God but is a power directed at God,
    which forces him to do for us what we have
    believed he will do. At the very least this makes
    God subject to alleged "laws" that we can
    activate by "faith" at worst it eliminates God
    from the process altogether, putting everything
    in our own hands and thus turning us into gods
    who can make anything happen by our "power of
    belief."

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  • If everything works according to such "law,"
    then God is no longer sovereign and there is no
    place for grace. All one needs to do is to
    exercise this "power of belief." That is the
    basic idea behind sorcery.
  • Dave Hunt and T.A. McMahon, The Seduction of
    Christianity

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The Role of Faith
  • We need to have faith in GOD, not faith in our
    FAITH
  • We need to trust God, believing that
  • He CAN do whatever we ask
  • We submit to His will regardless of what it is

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The Role of Faith
  • "God, I believe you can do what I'm asking.
  • I trust You to do what is best here.
  • I ask for ______, but I want your will to be
    done."

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Faith That Moves Mountains
  • "Truly, truly I say to you, whoever says to this
    mountain, 'Be taken up and cast into the sea, and
    does not doubt in his heart, but believes that
    what he says is going to happen, it shall be
    granted him." Mark 1123
  • This kind of faith is a gift of God, not a work
    of the flesh.

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Faith That Moves Mountains
  • "20 Reasons We Do Not Receiving Healing" essay
  • "If you use 'If it be thy will,' you are
    destroying faith. God said already that it is His
    will."
  • Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane "Please let
    this cup pass from me, but not My will but Thine
    be done."

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Faith That Moves Mountains
  • Mountain-moving faith is a spiritual gift (1 Cor.
    129)
  • Don't feel guilty if God didn't give you the gift
    of supernatural faith!
  • Experiencing God author Henry Blackaby has the
    spiritual gift of faith

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Prayer and the Law of Agreement
  • "Again, I tell you that if two of you on earth
    agree about anything you ask for, it will be done
    for you by My Father in heaven. For where two or
    three come together in My name, there am I with
    them." Matthew 1819-20
  • Context of this passage church discipline
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