Purity of prayer

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THE PURITY OF PRAYER

“Confess your faults one to another.” from prayer meeting outlines

 Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a r

Luke 6:41 “And why worry about a speck in your friend’s eye when you have a log in your own?

James 5:16 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.

Tyndale House Publishers. (2013). Holy Bible: New Living Translation (). Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers.ighteous person has great power and produces wonderful results.

1. Confess our own shortcomings. A real Christian will be willing to confess his sin and shortcomings, and forgive others, too.

There are many promises in the Bible. However, for each promise there is a condition which we must meet. For example the promise of

9 But if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness.

9 But if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness.

9 But if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness.

God will forgive our sins, but we must confess our sins. Also notice the promise of

There are many promises in the Bible. However, for each promise there is a condition which we must meet. For example the promise of . God will forgive our sins, but we must confess our sins. Also notice the promise of . We will find God, if we search Him with all our heart. If we meet the conditions God gives to us, He will keep His promises.

God will forgive our sins, but we must confess our sins. Also notice the promise of

13 If you look for me wholeheartedly, you will find me.

13 If you look for me wholeheartedly, you will find me.

We will find God, if we search Him with all our heart. If we meet the conditions God gives to us, He will keep His promises.

1. Confess our shortcomings—. A real Christian will be willing to confess his sin and shortcomings, and forgive others, too.

2. complacency

17 Remember, it is sin to know what you ought to do and then not do it.

 Remember, it is sin to know what you ought to do and then not do it.

Many sins are committed by doing nothing! There are sins of commission and sins of omission.

2 Samuel 11: 1 In the spring of the year, when kings normally go out to war, David sent Joab and the Israelite army to fight the Ammonites. They destroyed the Ammonite army and laid siege to the city of Rabbah. However, David stayed behind in Jerusalem.

In the spring of the year, when kings normally go out to war, David sent Joab and the Israelite army to fight the Ammonites. They destroyed the Ammonite army and laid siege to the city of Rabbah. However, David stayed behind in Jerusalem.

This is one of mans greatest challenges

3 stubbornness

: 23 Rebellion is as sinful as witchcraft, and stubbornness as bad as worshiping idols.

23 Rebellion is as sinful as witchcraft,

and stubbornness as bad as worshiping idols.

A disobedient and a stubborn person loses the touch of God upon his life. Many are stubborn and will not forgive. They hold bitter feelings and grudges. Read very carefully and memorize

A disobedient and a stubborn person loses the touch of God upon his life. Many are stubborn and will not forgive. They hold bitter feelings and grudges. Read very carefully and memorize .

 Instead, be kind to each other, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God through Christ has forgiven you.

32 Instead, be kind to each other, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God through Christ has forgiven you.

New Living Translation Chapter 4

32 Instead, be kind to each other, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God through Christ has forgiven you.

and stubbornness as bad as worshiping idols.

Tyndale House Publishers. (2013). Holy Bible: New Living Translation (). Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers.

Tyndale House Publishers. (2013). Holy Bible: New Living Translation (). Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers.

1 Once Jesus was in a certain place praying. As he finished, one of his disciples came to him and said, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.”

16 Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.

9 For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to Him.

12 Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. 13 And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.

A. Daily.

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 will forgive their sin and heal their land.

Now Jabez was more honorable than his brothers, and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him in pain.” 10 And Jabez called on the God of Israel saying, “Oh, that You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that Your hand would be with me, and that You would keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain!” So God granted him what he requested.

1. David’s prayer——three times daily.

“Praying that hits the mark”

1. “Oh, that You would bless me indeed”. Go ahead and ASK.

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. 9 Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? 11 If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

2. Daniel’s prayer——three times daily.

. . . You do not have, because you do not ask.

And being in agony he prayed more earnestly; and his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.

3. Psalmist prayer——notice: prayer continually.

2. “Enlarge my territory”. It’s ok to ASK FOR MORE.

“So God granted him what he requested”

Now Jabez was more honorable than his brothers

B. Determined.

1. Personal prayer——notice: “And he prayed again.”

2. Persistent praying——attitude in praying.

3. Patience in praying——never give up in praying.

Tyndale House Publishers. (2013). Holy Bible: New Living Translation (). Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers.