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Title: Learning to Pray


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Learning to Pray
  • June 7

2
Think About It
  • Consider Corrie ten Booms statement, Is prayer
    your steering wheel or your spare tire?
  • What kind of prayers fit in each category?

Today we look at Jesus teaching about prayer
the importance of prayer a pattern for prayer
Steering Wheel Prayers Spare Tire Prayers

3
Listen for ways Jesus said we should not pray
  • Matthew 65-9 (NIV) "And when you pray, do not be
    like the hypocrites, for they love to pray
    standing in the synagogues and on the street
    corners to be seen by men. I tell you the truth,
    they have received their reward in full. 6 But
    when you pray, go into your room, close the door
    and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your
    Father,

4
Listen for ways Jesus said we should not pray
  • sees what is done in secret, will reward you. 7
    And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like
    pagans, for they think they will be heard because
    of their many words. 8 Do not be like them, for
    your Father knows what you need before you ask
    him. 9 "This, then, is how you should pray "
    'Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name,

5
Prayer Shows Relationship
  • According to this passage how did hypocrites
    pray?
  • What will be the result or reward of their
    religious showmanship?
  • And how do the pagans pray?

6
Prayer Shows Relationship
  • Examples of pagan prayers
  • Tibetan prayer wheels
  • Each revolution sends the prayer to the deity

7
Prayer Shows Relationship
  • What common or overused phrases do you hear
    frequently repeated in peoples prayers?
  • How can we keep prayer from being babble.
  • What relationship to God does Jesus stress?
  • Implicit in this model prayer is the Fathers
    expectation that His children communicate with
    Him in prayer. Why do you like to talk to your
    children?

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Prayer Shows Relationship
  • Jesus specifies that the name of Jesus should be
    hallowed. To hallow Gods name means
  • to recognize Gods holiness and
  • spread His reputation throughout the world.
  • How is it possible to approach God as Father
    while respecting His holiness?

9
Prayer Shows Relationship
  • How do our relationships with our earthly fathers
    influence our relationship with God, our heavenly
    Father?
  • Two implications of this
  • be a godly father it influences how your
    children see God
  • if you had an ungodly father, you must learn to
    see past that experience and know that God is
    loving, wise, kind

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Listen for ways to glorify God, according to this
prayer.
  • Matthew 610 (NIV) your kingdom come, your will
    be done on earth as it is in heaven.

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Prayer Glorifies God
  • The Kingdom of God is the realm where God rules.
    What do you think the priorities of Gods
    authority and rule might be?
  • When God rules in our lives and in our
    situations, God is glorified!

12
Prayer Glorifies God
  • Evaluate what kinds of concerns occupy most of
    your prayer time
  • praise
  • confession
  • petition
  • organ recital (list of physical needs heart,
    gall bladder, bad knees )
  • spiritual needs (personal, family, church)

You might ask yourself How do my prayers
glorify God?
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Prayer Glorifies God
  • Jesus prays for Gods will to be done on earth,
    as it is in heaven. How should Gods will
    influence the way we live our day to day lives?

14
Listen for basic requests that are to be included
in our prayers.
  • Matthew 611 - 13 (NIV) Give us today our daily
    bread. 12 Forgive us our debts, as we also have
    forgiven our debtors. 13 And lead us not into
    temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.'

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Prayer Expresses Needs
  • What are the three types of requests mentioned
    here?
  • What other kinds of daily needs besides food do
    you think might be included in daily bread?
  • Why do you think specific requests for
    forgiveness are so often neglected?

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Prayer Expresses Needs
  • What sins or offenses by others do we find
    especially difficult to forgive?
  • Jesus talks about deliverance from evil.
    Inability to forgive might be one kind of
    deliverance we need. From what other kinds of
    evil do we need deliverance.
  • Note temptations are a fact of life
  • the temptation is not a sin
  • the yielding to temptation is the sin

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Application
  • 4.1 Analyze your prayer requests in the light of
    our study
  • What percentage of your prayer requests focuses
    on physical needs?
  • What percentage focuses on the Kingdom/Rule of
    God?
  • What percentage focuses on spiritual needs?

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Application
  • 4.2 When praying for others, apply principles of
    the Lords Prayer
  • Pray that Gods forgiveness will be realized in
    their lives
  • Pray that they will allow God to rule in their
    lives
  • Pray that God will meet their physical and
    spiritual needs

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Application
  • Ask God to help you repair any strained
    relationships by forgiving specific offenses
  • Even though the person may have offended
    unintentionally
  • Even though they offended with malice
  • Even though they might not be willing to seek
    forgiveness

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Learning to Pray
  • June 7
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