How To Talk With God, Not To God.

Intro

Two questions most people have are;

How to Pray?

How do I get closer to God?

The first is the answer to the second, but often our prayer can get a little stale and/or we were never taught how to pray - deeper.

This is a short guide of thoughts and techniques that have helped me pray deeper, better, and from the heart.

Jesus Gives Us The Example On How To Pray. The Lord’s prayer

The Lexham Bible Dictionary (Structure)

StructureThe Lord’s Prayer is commonly divided into two parts:

1. A prayer directed toward God (Matt 6:9–10; Luke 11:2).

2. A prayer for daily needs (Matt 6:11–13; Luke 11:3–4).

Each part contains three petitions—“three ‘Thou-petitions’ addressing God’s honor” and three “ ‘we-petitions’ addressing the suppliants need” (Keener, Matthew, 214). Some see a fourth petition in the second set—“deliver us from evil”—reflective of an “asymmetric balance as in some psalms” (Keener, Matthew, 214). The structure of the prayer in Matthew can be represented as follows:•

(Matt 6:9a) Address

• (Matt 6:9b–10) Thou-petitions

• “Your name be made holy”

• “Your kingdom come”

• “Your will be done”

• (Matt 6:11–13) We-petitions

• “Give us this day our daily bread”

• “Forgive us our debts”

• “Lead us not into temptation and deliver us from evil”

Kuo, J. C. (2016). Lord’s Prayer. In J. D. Barry, D. Bomar, D. R. Brown, R. Klippenstein, D. Mangum, C. Sinclair Wolcott, L. Wentz, E. Ritzema, & W. Widder (Eds.), The Lexham Bible Dictionary. Lexham Press.

Christian Standard Bible (Chapter 5)

16 Yet he often withdrew to deserted places and prayed. Luke

Presence

Heart

Trust - Faith

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