campus alive - what is prayer
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What is prayer?
Prayer is communication with God: a dialogue - God talking to you and you talking to God. It is not only important what you say to God, but what He has to say to you is just
as-if not more important.
Why should we pray?
1. God tells us to do so
Ephesians 6:18
18Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and
watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for
all saints
I Thessalonians 5:17
17Pray without ceasing.
I Timothy 2:8
8I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands,
without wrath and doubting.
Why should we pray?
2. It helps improve our relationship with God
Why should we pray?
3. It brings God’s will to pass in the earth.
Why should we pray?
No Prayer No Power
Little Prayer Little Power
Great Prayer Great Power
How should we pray?
Luke 11:1-4 NIV
One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to
him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.”
He said to them, “When you pray, say:
How should we pray?
Luke 11:1-4 NIV
“‘Father, hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come.
Give us each day our daily bread.
Forgive us our sins,
for we also forgive everyone who sins against us.
And lead us not into temptation.’”
How should we pray?
A. Our Father in heaven-Pray to the Father in the name of Jesus
1. Matthew 6:6
2. John 16:23, 24
How should we pray?
B. Hallowed (sanctify, set-apart, purify) be thy Name-acknowledge Him for Who He is
1. Jehovah Shalom – I am your peace
Isaiah 9:6
2. Jehovah Rophe – I am you healer
Psalm 103:3
3. El Shaddai-the Almighty
Genesis 17:1
How should we pray?
C. Your Kingdom Come, Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven
How should we pray?
D. Give us day by day our daily bread-praying for God's provision
1. John 6:47-51
2. Matthew 6:33
3. Philippians 4:19
How should we pray?
E. Forgive us our sins for we also forgive everyone who is indebted to us-repent of sin
1. Isaiah 59:1, 2
2. Matthew 6:14, 15
How should we pray?
F. Do not lead us into temptation but deliver us from the evil one-God's protection
1. Colossians 1:13
2. 2 Thessalonians 3:3
II. INGREDIENTS TO GET YOUR PRAYERS ANSWERED
A. 1 John 5:14
Must be according to the will of God
B. John 15:7
Word of God must abide in you
II. INGREDIENTS TO GET YOUR PRAYERS ANSWERED
C. Matthew 21:22
Must believe
D. Mark 11:23, 24
Must act on what you believe
III. HINDERANCES TO YOUR PRAYER
A. Division between husband and wife
(1 Peter 3:7)
B. Double-minded person who lacks stability in the daily walk with God
(James 1:5-8)
C. Sin
(Isaiah 59:1, 2)
III. HINDERANCES TO YOUR PRAYER
D. Fainthearted or giving up
(Luke 18:1)
E. Doubt in heart & mind
(Mark 11:23)
F. Praying to be seen by men
(Matthew 6:5)
III. HINDERANCES TO YOUR PRAYER
D. Fainthearted or giving up
(Luke 18:1)
E. Doubt in heart & mind
(Mark 11:23)
F. Praying to be seen by men
(Matthew 6:5)
III. HINDERANCES TO YOUR PRAYER
G. Asking for wrong reasons or with wrong motives
(James 4:3)
H. Unforgiveness
(Matthew 6:14, 15)
Most common mistakes people make about prayer
1. They don’t pray
Most common mistakes people make about prayer
Acts 1:1414These all continued with one
accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his
brethren.
Most common mistakes people make about prayer
Acts 2:4242And they continued steadfastly
in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of
bread, and in prayers.
Most common mistakes people make about prayer
Acts 3:11Now Peter and John went up
together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth
hour.
Most common mistakes people make about prayer
2. They beg God and ask continually over and over
Most common mistakes people make about prayer
Mathew 6:77But when ye pray, use not vain
repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard
for their much speaking.
Most common mistakes people make about prayer
3. Their sin issues hinder their prayers
Most common mistakes people make about prayer
2 Chronicles 7:14
if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and
pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear
from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land
Most common mistakes people make about prayer
4 things God requires:
Humility
Pray
Seek God’s face
Turn from wicked Ways
Most common mistakes people make about prayer
What he will do?
Hear from heaven
Forgive sins
Heal our land
1 Peter 3:7
Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as
being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not
hindered.
Most common mistakes people make about prayer
4. They don’t believe what they pray. They just pray because
what else are they going to to.
1 John 5:14
And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he
heareth us:
Most common mistakes people make about prayer
5. They are not consistent in their prayer
Mathew 26:44
41Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing,
but the flesh is weak. 42He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this
cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done.
43And he came and found them asleep again: for their eyes were heavy.
Most common mistakes people make about prayer
6. They come to God with wrong and improper motives in their
hearts
James 4:3
3Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it
upon your lusts
Most common mistakes people make about prayer
7. They look at prayer as simply speaking and talking but never
take time to hear from God.
2 Corinthians 13:14
14The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the
communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.
Most common mistakes people make about prayer
8. They pray silently. Life in death in power of the tongue
Mark 11:22-24 NIV
22 “Have faith in God,” Jesus answered. 23 “Truly[a] I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into
the sea,’ and does not doubt in their heart but believes that what they say will happen, it will be done for them.
24 Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have
received it, and it will be yours.
James 5:16
King James Version (KJV)16Confess your faults one to another,
and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent
prayer of a righteous man availethmuch.
James 5:16
Amplified Bible (AMP)16Confess to one another therefore your faults (your slips, your false steps, your offenses, your sins) and pray [also] for one another, that you may be healed
and restored [to a spiritual tone of mind and heart]. The earnest (heartfelt,
continued) prayer of a righteous man makes tremendous power available
[dynamic in its working].
James 5:16
New Living Translation (NLT)16 Confess your sins to each other
and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power
and produces wonderful results.
James 5:16The Message (MSG)
16-18Make this your common practice: Confess your sins to each other and pray for
each other so that you can live together whole and healed. The prayer of a person
living right with God is something powerful to be reckoned with. Elijah, for instance,
human just like us, prayed hard that it wouldn't rain, and it didn't—not a drop for three and a half years. Then he prayed that it would rain, and it did. The showers came
and everything started growing again.
What does effectual mean?
Effectual – (greek word energeo) – means to put forth power, be operative, to work. Can be worded a the prayer of a just man, wrought in him by divine energy. Has to do with put forth of energy and power
when you pray.
What does fervent mean?
Fervent – to be hot, to boil. Put together as a phrase means supplication consistent
with inwards conformity to the mind of God.