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How to Pray
Last week, we started a new way to end our time together each week.
If you was not here, then each week we will finish the message and then after the message move in to an intentional prayer time.
Our desire during this intentional prayer time is that we value prayer and devote some time to prayer.
We also desire that we don’t limit what the Holy Spirit desires to do in our lives and in our church.
Often times ending the service it appears that we have to rush people to finish praying or counseling so we can “wrap up” the service.
We don’t want to limit the Holy Spirit during this time.
After hearing the Word of the Lord taught and read, we want to allow the Spirit to move in our lives and not have to say ok we are done here.
Our hope is that church does not end.
Just because we leave this building does not mean that church is over.
We are the church and the Holy Spirit lives inside of you so we want you to leave knowing that you are the church and church does not end.
So thinking about these, I think if we are to do an intentional prayer time then it is important for us to know how to pray.
To know how to pray, Jesus teaches us how to pray in the Sermon on the Mount
Matthew 6:5-
Pray
Attitude and place
Don’t be like the hypocrites, because they love to pray standing in synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by people.
Pray to be seen = seen by people is the answer to the prayer
When you pray, go into your private room, shut your door, and pray to your Father who is in the secret.
Your father who is in secret will reward you.
Jesus set the example as often in scripture we see Him going off by himself to pray.
Matthew 14:
Jesus is not teaching that you should never pray together and that you only can pray by yourself.
Matthew
James 5:
Jesus is addressing the reason that you pray.
If you pray so that you can be noticed that you are praying, then that is your reward.
Why do you pray?
How to pray?
Matthew 6:
The idolaters did not pray with a sincere heart.
They were perhaps showing that they could repeat “important prayers” and they were showing everyone their knowledge.
These prayers were not sincere.
Jesus is not saying that you should never repeat your prayers.
We see Jesus repeating his prayers in the garden
Matthew 26:36-
If you just simply repeat the Lord’s prayer over and over this is babbling like the idolaters
Christian shop in Bethlehem.
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Warren Wiersby says,
My friend Dr. Robert A. Cook has often said, “All of us have one routine prayer in our system; and once we get rid of it, then we can really start to pray!”
I have noticed this, not only in my own praying, but often when I have conducted prayer meetings.
With some people, praying is like putting the needle on a phonograph record and then forgetting about it.
But God does not answer insincere prayers.
My friend Dr. Robert A. Cook has often said, “All of us have one routine prayer in our system; and once we get rid of it, then we can really start to pray!”
I have noticed this, not only in my own praying, but often when I have conducted prayer meetings.
With some people, praying is like putting the needle on a phonograph record and then forgetting about it.
But God does not answer insincere prayers.
My friend Dr. Robert A. Cook has often said, “All of us have one routine prayer in our system; and once we get rid of it, then we can really start to pray!”
I have noticed this, not only in my own praying, but often when I have conducted prayer meetings.
With some people, praying is like putting the needle on a phonograph record and then forgetting about it.
But God does not answer insincere prayers.
Wiersbe, W. W. (1996).
The Bible exposition commentary (Vol. 1, p. 26).
Wheaton, IL: Victor Books.
He knows what we need before you ask Him
It is a personal relationship of intimacy which is continuous and dynamic.
The word know (ginōskōsin) here in the present tense, is often used in the Septuagint and sometimes in the Greek New Testament to describe the intimacy of a sexual relationship (e.g., Gen 4:1, “lay”; Matt.
1:25, “had … union”).
Thus a person who knows God has an intimate personal relationship with Him.
Prayer is intimacy in knowing the Father and not just the ability to repeat words
Matthew 6:
This is a pattern to be followed and not something that we memorize and just recite over and over.
It is worth noting that there are no singular pronouns in this prayer; they are all plural.
It begins with “OUR Father.”
When we pray, we must remember that we are part of God’s worldwide family of believers.
We have no right to ask for ourselves anything that would harm another member of the family.
If we are praying in the will of God, the answer will be a blessing to all of God’s people in one way or another.
It is worth noting that there are no singular pronouns in this prayer; they are all plural.
It begins with “OUR Father.”
When we pray, we must remember that we are part of God’s worldwide family of believers.
We have no right to ask for ourselves anything that would harm another member of the family.
If we are praying in the will of God, the answer will be a blessing to all of God’s people in one way or another.
Wiersbe, W. W. (1996).
The Bible exposition commentary (Vol. 1, p. 26).
Wheaton, IL: Victor Books.
Worship and reverence in Prayer
Our Father
Your name be honored as holy
Reverence for the name of God
God will fulfill all His covenant promises to His people
That God’s will be accomplished on earth as it is in Heaven.
Matthew 6:
Prayer that our daily needs would be met
The word daily here means sufficient for today.
It is right for us to pray for forgiveness
Psalm
Matthew 6:
We realize our Spiritual weakness as we pray and ask God to deliver us from the evil one.
Matthew 6:14-
Forgiveness
Job 1:4
Job 1:20-
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