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INTRODUCTION
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Many often say they don’t know how to pray.
· Often what we see in church (people praying) is very different from what God intended prayer to be.
· When we see people (eloquent) — Intimidating
2. When you really understand what prayer is, you realize that God has made prayer available to all (24hr ACCESS)
3. We live in day of access.
§ Just to prove this point, consider this:
o If some of us LOST OUR PHONE, we wouldn’t know what to do.
We invest most of our time in communication.
o We put emphasis on communicating with each other, rather than communicating with God.
4. Prayer is personal communication with God involving talking and listening to him.
§ It is the channel of communication between the believer and God, whereby God’s power is released into the earth realm through a combination of our faith and the word of God.
5. Prayer is communion with God (Communion v. Communication)
§ When people say what’s up, they don’t want anything past that particular greeting.
— ex.
Communication
§ But it is not communion.
§ With communion, it goes much further.
§ In communion, the two that are talking want to stay a while and have a
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Prayer has to take place frequently and consistently.
In fact, a writer by the name of D. J. Moody is quoted as saying, “He who kneels the most, stands the best” .
Learning how to pray powerful prayers can be the difference between defeat and victory.
I. How do we pray?
ACTS is an acronym we use to make sure that we have the elements that are found in the model prayer that Jesus gave us in .
Out of this acronym we get the following:
The model prayer.
In (NKJV) we find The Model Prayer which reads 11Now it came to pass, as He was praying in a certain place, when He ceased, that one of His disciples said to Him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.”
2 So He said to them, “When you pray, say: Our Father in heaven,[a] Hallowed be Your name.
Your kingdom come.[b]
Your will be done On earth as it is in heaven.
3 Give us day by day our daily bread.
4 And forgive us our sins, For we also forgive everyone who is indebted to us.
And do not lead us into temptation, But deliver us from the evil one.”[c]
– This is a model prayer , but it doesn’t mean our prayer should be this prayer (word for word), every time we pray.
It simply means that when we pray, our prayer should contain some of the same components as those that our found in the model prayer.
A. Mathew adds a different twist to the model prayer.
(NKJV) says 13 And do not lead us into temptation, But deliver us from the evil one.
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever.
Amen.[a] – Matthew gives the same model prayer, but he acknowledges the ending by giving adoration to God.
1. Adoration:
2. Confession:
3. Thanksgiving
4. Supplication
§ This derives from the root word Adore.
§ We should express our adoration in our prayer to God.
§ We praise God for who is and what he is 1st when we pray in any form or fashion.
§ When Jesus prayed “our father who is in heaven hallowed be thou name …” he was giving us model to go by.
o IOW— he was showing us how our prayer should flow.
Our prayers should contain the same elements that are found in Jesus’ model prayer.
o We want to thank him before we ask him for anything.
You got to adore God.
You have to be in awe of God.
We talk to God sometimes like we know God on a first name basis which is ok, but we have to be careful not to get so comfortable that we disrespect his reverence.
2. Confession:
§ We have to agree with God about our sin.
We are guilty of being sinners (all of us).
: 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
§ Confession involves repentance.
o We know we have done something wrong and we acknowledge it when we pray.
o David had some issues if you look back at his stories, but God still called him one after his own heart.
Think about all you have done wrong and that would be enough confession to fill a whole prayer by itself.
It is important to understand where we are theologically.
§ Confession is between you and God.
We don’t have to confess to man, because no one is a in a moral position to judge our confession.
We are yet sinners ourselves yet saved.
This is why God removed the veil.
He allowed us to be able to go directly to him and not depend on a priest to carry our confessions to him.
3. Thanksgiving
§ We express appreciation to God for what he has done.
§ : Be thankful in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you who belong to Christ Jesus.
-When we pray, even if we are not where we think we are supposed to be, we have to thank God.
§ Before we ask for anything, we thank God for life.
Before adding up you problems count your blessings.
No matter how little you think you have, God gave you something
4. Supplication
§ Supplication is making a request.
§ It is like being specific on what you want.
God will give you the desires of your heart.
§ : 6 Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything.
Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done.
7 Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand.
His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus.
–We must be specific in our request and do it with thanksgiving.
§ Ex – When you go into a restaurant, you are specific.
When you make an order at a restaurant drive-thru, we are specific about our request.
If we want a sandwich without tomatoes, we order the sandwich without tomatoes.
o Often when we pray, we are general and not specific.
We ask God to send us a wife or we ask God to send us a husband, but we are not specific about what we want.
If you want a wife or husband that is tall, we have to be specific about it.
If we want a wife or husband that goes to church, we have to add this to our prayer.
Make your specific request known to God.
You might not get it all, but at least you won’t miss the opportunity to make your request known.
§ Ex- Imagine if Oprah Winfrey came too your church service and said she wanted to bless somebody with anything they want, you would be excited.
If the Pastor picked somebody out and they asked Oprah that they wanted her to pay their light bill, you would be furious.
You wouldn’t be able to understand why they would miss the opportunity to get anything they wanted, by choosing something as small as a light bill.
You would feel like they wasted a wish.
Likewise, we have to stop limiting our prayer request, thinking that God is not big enough to fulfill it.
II.
What are some hindrances to prayer?
1. Holding on to sin
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