In all times, in all ways

Common English Bible Chapter 6

18 Offer prayers and petitions in the Spirit all the time. Stay alert by hanging in there and praying for all believers.

The New International Version Chapter 6

18 And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people. 19 Pray also for me, that whenever I speak, words may be given me so that I will fearlessly make known the mystery of the gospel, 20 for which I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I may declare it fearlessly, as I should.

Practice of prayer: Pray daily -- in all times, in all places, in all ways

What is prayer?

Prayer is relating (talking and listening) to God directly (through Jesus Christ) with all of your life.

Prayer is relating (talking and listening) to God directly (through Jesus Christ) with all of your life.

(talking and listening) to God directly (through Jesus Christ) with all of your life.

to God directly (through Jesus Christ) with all of your life.

The passage: - let’s dig into a bit...

(through Jesus Christ) with all of your life.

All that I am going to say about PRAYING needs to be experienced more than it is simply to known

Prayer in the Spirit on all occasions

Full spectrum from Joy to Desperation

Spirit is what guides us - work of the Holy Spirit - helps us to prayer

with all of your life.

It is

With all kinds of prayers and requests

speaking - naming it out loud that God

it is also listening - speak for your servant is listening

It is confession - God forgive me

It is asking for guidance

With this in mind - be alert and keep on praying for all the Lord’s people

As you pray in all ways, at all time, BE ALERT

Be alert and be awake - prayer should help us alert and awake and aware

It releases us from being in control - it is not on us

God, do what only you can do for me

Pray also for me - that I might preach the Gospel without fear

prayer does things - it changes things

Paul wanted others to pray for him,

Paul would not just ask for the sake of niceties

Pray that I might declare it fearlessly, as I should

the mission is still at the forefront

Pray is to be the support system

Prayer is relating (talking and listening) to God directly (through Jesus Christ) with all of your life.

It re

Things that sometimes we think prayer is that it really is not...

not rubbing genie’s lamp

you can’t mess prayer up

Final thoughts

Prayer is surrender

Ask, seek, and knock

Lord, teach us to pray. .

It is not part of the life of a natural man to pray. We hear it said that a man will suffer in his life if he does not pray; I question it. What will suffer is the life of the Son of God in him, which is nourished, not by food, but by prayer. When a man is born from above, the life of the Son of God is born in him, and he can either starve that life or nourish it. Prayer is the way the life of God is nourished. Our ordinary views of prayer are not found in the New Testament. We look upon prayer as a means of getting things for ourselves; the Bible idea of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.

“Ask and ye shall receive.” We grouse before God, we are apologetic or apathetic, but we ask very few things. Yet what a splendid audacity a childlike child has! Our Lord says—“Except ye become as little children.” Ask, and God will do. Give Jesus Christ a chance, give Him elbow room, and no man will ever do this unless he is at his wits’ end. When a man is at his wits’ end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get into touch with Reality. Be yourself before God and present your problems, the things you know you have come to your wits’ end over. As long as you are self-sufficient, you do not need to ask God for anything.

It is not so true that “prayer changes things” as that prayer changes me and I change things. God has so constituted things that prayer on the basis of Redemption alters the way in which a man looks at things. Prayer is not a question of altering things externally, but of working wonders in a man’s disposition.

Chambers, O. (1986). My utmost for his highest: Selections for the year. Grand Rapids, MI: Oswald Chambers Publications; Marshall Pickering.

What does it mean to pray well?

How do I make it real

How do people see it

Prayer can be across a spectrum - desperation to joy and all that is in between

Releases us from thinking we are in control of things

God, do only what you can do

Can you mess prayer up?

Prayer is addressing God directly with all of your life (the good, the bad, the ugly)

Can you mess prayer up?

It is speaking and listening

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