Calling on the Name of the Lord - Jesus Centered Prayer

PRAYER TEACHING OUTLINE – WEEK 10

Topic: Calling on the Name of the Lord – Jesus at the Center of Prayer

Vision Reminder: Pour Over Nights and our entire Pursuit in Prayer season are not about spiritual performance — they are about coming back to the origin and center of all true prayer: calling on the name of the Lord — trusting Him to do what we cannot do for ourselves.

Check-In from Last Week:

- Did you feel your prayers shifting from hype to heart?

- Did you see any places where your motives needed refining?

- How did you keep your prayers simple, honest, surrendered?

I. PRAYER BEGINS WITH A PROMISE

Genesis 4:26

“Then men began to call upon the name of the Lord.”

- The first recorded prayer in Scripture wasn’t a ritual — it was a cry for God to fulfill His promise to crush the enemy’s head.

- Prayer started as dependence, not performance.

- It was never about having the right words — it was about trusting the promise.

II. CALLING ON HIS NAME IS THE MARK OF HIS PEOPLE

- Throughout Scripture — Abram, Isaac, Elijah, David, Joel — they called on the name of the Lord when they saw their need and trusted His promise.

- This was the heartbeat of prayer: “God, do what only You can do.”

- Peter and Paul carried it into the New Testament: “Whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” (Acts 2:21; Romans 10:12–13)

III. JESUS HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE CENTER OF PRAYER

- Every prayer in Scripture pointed forward to the promised Seed — the Savior who would crush the enemy’s head.

- Today, our prayers still find their power in Him alone.

- To pray is to admit: “I need You. I cannot save or fix myself.”

- Prayer is not self-reliance — it is surrender.

IV. CLOSING CHARGE

- What promise do you need to call on tonight?

- Where have you relied on your own strength instead of His finished work?

- Let your prayer be: “God, do in me what only You have promised You will do.”

- Jesus is the center. Let Him be the center of your prayers again.

PRAYER ACTIVITY – Assignment:

- Pray: “I call on You, O God…” — say it out loud.

- Name what you need Him to do that you cannot do alone.

- This week:

- Keep returning to the promise: “Whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

- Rest in His covenant — let every other prayer grow from this one.