"Hi God, it's Me" - The Spiritual Discipline of Prayer
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· 6 viewsThe second of our spiriutal disciplines - Prayer. Also combined with our Cadet Sunday. "Hi God, it's Me."
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Why Pray?
Why Pray?
12 Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.
16 Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.
Heb 4:
“To pray is to change. This is a great grace. How good of God to provide a path whereby our lives can be taken over by love and joy and peace and patience and kindness ang goodness and faithfulness and gentleness and self-control.” ~Richard Foster, Prayer, p. 6
We pray because we love God and God loves us.
We pray because it makes a difference—for us, for those we love and for the world.
How to Pray?
How to Pray?
Pray for Our Own Growth
Pray for Our Own Growth
Simple prayer
Don’t buy into the myth that “we have to have everything ‘just right’ in order to pray” (Foster, p. 7)
Pray just as you are.
Think of Moses in : “Why have I not found favour in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me?...”
“…God can reach us and bless us in the ordinary junctures of daily life...” (Foster, p. 11)
“lay before [God] what is in us, not what ought to be in us.” (C.S. Lewis, Letters to Malcom: Chiefly on Prayer)
“Dear Jesus, how desperately I need to learn to pray. And yet when I am honest, I know that I often do not even want to pray. I am distracted! I am stubborn! I am self-centered! In your mercy, Jesus, bring my ‘want-er’ more in line with my ‘need-er’ so that I can come to want what I need. In your name and for your sake, I pray. Amen.” ~Foster, p15
Prayer on all occasions: loneliness, self-examination, grief, need to let go, for God to shape us, to make commitments to God and to receive God’s commitments (covenant prayer)
Loneliness, self-examination, grief, need to let go, for God to shape us, to make commitments to God and to receive God’s commitments (covenant prayer)
to examine ourselves
when we need to let go
for God to shape us
Covenant prayer?
Pray for Closeness to God
Pray for Closeness to God
Adoration, Rest, Always, from the Heart, Meditate, Contemplate
Rest
Unceasing Prayer
Prayer of the Heart
Meditative Prayer
Contemplative Prayer
Pray for Our Ministry
Pray for Our Ministry
Discernment & Compassion!
Discernment & Compassion!
Everyday Ordinary Prayer
Petitioning Prayer
Intercessory Prayer
Healing Prayer
The Prayer of Suffering
Authoritative Prayer
Authoritative Prayer
Radical Prayer