Practical Discipleship: Prayer
Basic Discipleship Training • Sermon • Submitted • Presented • 33:45
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“And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.
Jesus didn’t say, “if you pray”. He said, “when you pray”.
Important to remember!
Prayer isn't meant to impress others, it is meant to implore God!
implore
■ verb beg earnestly or desperately
Examples of Prayer in Nehemiah
On his knees - Nehemiah 1:5
As he worked - Nehemiah 2:2-5
As he wrote - Nehemiah 6:9 & 6:14
As they gathered - Nehemiah 9:3-6
Knees
And I said, “O Lord God of heaven, the great and awesome God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments,
Work
And the king said to me, “Why is your face sad, seeing you are not sick? This is nothing but sadness of the heart.” Then I was very much afraid. I said to the king, “Let the king live forever! Why should not my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ graves, lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?” Then the king said to me, “What are you requesting?” So I prayed to the God of heaven. And I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, that you send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers’ graves, that I may rebuild it.”
Wrote
For they all wanted to frighten us, thinking, “Their hands will drop from the work, and it will not be done.” But now, O God, strengthen my hands.
Remember Tobiah and Sanballat, O my God, according to these things that they did, and also the prophetess Noadiah and the rest of the prophets who wanted to make me afraid.
Gathered
And they stood up in their place and read from the Book of the Law of the Lord their God for a quarter of the day; for another quarter of it they made confession and worshiped the Lord their God. On the stairs of the Levites stood Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani; and they cried with a loud voice to the Lord their God. Then the Levites, Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, “Stand up and bless the Lord your God from everlasting to everlasting. Blessed be your glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.
“You are the Lord, you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them; and you preserve all of them; and the host of heaven worships you.
A helpful format taken from Matthew 6:9-15...
Matthew 6:9-15
Praise
9 Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.
Matthew 6:9-15
Praise
Surrender
10 Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
Matthew 6:9-15
Praise
Surrender
Ask
11 Give us this day our daily bread,
Matthew 6:9-15
Praise
Surrender
Ask
Confess
12 and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
Matthew 6:9-15
Praise
Surrender
Ask
Confess
Deliver Me
13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
Matthew 6:9-15
Praise
Surrender
Ask
Confess
Deliver Me
Examine Me
14 For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you,
Praise
Matthew 6:9
9 Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.
Surrender
Matthew 6:10
10 Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
Ask
Matthew 6:11
11 Give us this day our daily bread,
Confess
Matthew 6:12
12 and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
Deliver Me
Matthew 6:13
13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
Examine
Matthew 6:14
14 For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you,
Another good way to pray...
A.C.T.S
A doration
C onfession
T hanksgiving
S upplication
Pray the Psalms or Other Prayers
9 And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, 10 so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, 11 filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
9 And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, 10 so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; 11 being strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy; 12 giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light.
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Prayer Journals
Prayer Books
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