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Introduction
Greetings...
When it comes to praying to our God we know we are to pray, as the Bible is clear and expects as much from us.
The question isn’t whether we should pray the question is “How Do We Pray?”
Today we are going to examine this question with an acrostic.
Prayerful Actions
Physical prayer positions.
We see “bowing down.”
We see “kneeling.”
We see “falling on the face.”
We see “standing”
We see “lifting of hands.”
All of this tells us two things.
First, there is no specific physical action we must perform while praying.
In other words we don’t have to stand every time we pray or kneel every time we pray.
Second, what we actually never see is someone praying with no physically reverent position.
What I mean by this is our physical posture should be considered, more often than not, when we pray.
Summery
All of this tells us two things...
First, there is no specific physical action we must perform while praying.
In other words we don’t have to stand every time we pray or kneel every time we pray.
Second, what we actually never see is someone praying with no physically reverent position.
What I mean by this is our physical posture should be considered, more often than not, when we pray.
Prayer is not something that is a haphazard wandering without thought when it comes to our physical reverence to God, rather it is something we must consider and develop in our prayer life.
Ready To Pray
Being ready to pray means...
Our heart is true going into our prayer.
1 Ki 8:61
Our lips are free from deceit going into our prayer.
We are confident that God will hear us and answer us before we go to Him in prayer.
Jam
We are ready to submit to God’s will before we pray.
We want to communicate with our God before we begin to pray.
Summery
All of this tells us...
Before we even say one word to God we must be prepared to do so.
This isn’t saying prayer can’t or shouldn’t be spontaneous, it is sometimes, but that our life is being lived in such a way that if necessary our spontaneous prayer won’t be hindered.
Ask
God knows what we need already.
Listen, God already knows what we need, and what we are going to ask for.
Isaiah
Why ask God for anything?
First, because God tells us to.
Mt 6:
Second, because this is how we draw closer to God, by asking and thus relying on God for our needs and wants.
Third, because
Summery
James clearly tells us that the reason most don’t have is because they “haven’t asked.”
“…you do not have, because you do not ask.”
Yearn For Unity With God
Yearning is defined as...
To feel a longing for craving for someone or something.
Ask yourself, when is the last time your soul longed or craved praying to God?
Do you feel like something is missing in your day if you go that day without really praying to God?
We are to yearn for our God.
The palmist in states...
The psalmist in stated...
Yearning for God means yearning to pray.
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Eph
Summery
As Jesus told His disciples while on earth “that they ought always to pray and not lose heart” so too should be heed that advice from our Lord and Savior.
Conclusion
Unger’s Bible Dictionary says about prayer, “Prayer is the expression of man’s dependence upon God for all things.”
Martin Luther King Jr. summed up that idea when he said, “To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.”
Knowing “how to pray” affords us the opportunity to pray not only as we should biblically speaking, but it allows us to communicate in a more pure and full way with our God.
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