Make Known | POWERFUL PRAYER
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Part three of Powerful Prayer
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A primary means of communication that binds together God and humankind in intimate and reciprocal relationship.
Prayer is not primarily about what we can get out of God, but what He purposes to do in and through us for His own pleasure.
The great secret of prayer is to align ourselves to God’s purposes rather than seeking to align Him to ours.
Phase 1: Worship & Praise
Phase 2: Confession - Agreeing with God that we are wrong.
“Who may ascend the hill of the Lord...”
Intimacy in our prayer life deepens as we confess
Stories around the campfire
No one likes a one-upper
Relationships develop as we share our lives/
The link between powerful prayer and happiness is the act of confession.
Phase Three: Petition
Phase Three: Petition
This is the phase we all hold a doctorate degree in.
Problem is, they still give doctor degrees to the one’s who get a C.
John - “C’s get degrees”
Just because most of our prayer life has been spent petitioning God, it doesn’t mean that we are proficient at it.
Recap
Recap
A primary means of communication that binds together God and humankind in intimate and reciprocal relationship.
Prayer is not primarily about what we can get out of God, but what He purposes to do in and through us for His own pleasure.
The great secret of prayer is to align ourselves to God’s purposes rather than seeking to align Him to ours.
“The great secret of prayer is to align ourselves to God’s purposes rather than seeking to align Him to ours.”
Phase Three: Petition
Phase Three: Petition
This is the phase we all hold a doctorate degree in.
Problem is, they still give doctor degrees to the one’s who get a C.
John - “C’s get degrees”
Just because most of our prayer life has been spent petitioning God, it doesn’t mean that we are proficient at it.
Petition is about bringing our needs and wants to God, but there are so many more aspects to petition that most of us neglect.
THREE STEPS TO POWERFUL PRAYERS OF PETITION
Regularly pray through each fruit of the Holy spirit and ask God to develop the image and holiness of Christ within you.
Regularly pray through the Beatitudes and ask God to conform you to these godly characteristics (; ).
Regularly pray through other character words that are found in Scripture.
Purposeful prayers - Purpose for today, this year, etc.
“Modern Christians desperately need to grow up in their prayer petitions. Far too many are praying personal prayers that are mostly temporal and have little to do with eternal issues. … Remember, your true spiritual growth and service will not exceed the depth of your personal petitions. If your personal petitions are brief, non-specific, and temporal, your spiritual growth will be greatly limited.”
PRAYERS FOR DAILY GROWTH
Father, cause me to pray according to Your priority of holiness and sanctification in my daily life. Cleanse and transform me by the washing of the water by the Word (). God, instill the spiritual fruit and the Beatitudes into the very fabric of my heart. Reveal many Scriptures to claim for personal holiness and transformation. Help me hide Your words in my heart that I may not sin against You.
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Scratch Sheet
Hannah’s Prayer for a son ()
Solomon asks for wisdom ()
Hezekiah’s sickness and recovery (; Isa 38:1-8)
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Effective Prayer ()
Jesus heals blind Bartimaeus ()
Believers pray for courage ()
Faith and endurance ()
Power of prayer ()
We often view petition as humanities struggle to strong-arm God to get him to do what we want. We’ve got to learn to petition Him for the things He already desires for our lives.
He wants to give you good gifts
Kid’s ask for Pokemon cards vs book/guitar/football
We find purpose through prayers of petition as we learn to align our hearts with the heart of God.