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Course outline on Prayer:
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*Webster’s Dictionary1*
*Prayer Slide 1*
*(1)*:* *an address (as a petition) to God or a god in word or thought 〈said a /prayer/ for the success of the voyage〉
*(2)*:* *a set order of words used in praying
*: *an earnest request or wish
*: *The act or practice of praying to God or a god 〈kneeling in /prayer/〉
*: *A religious service consisting chiefly of prayers — often used in Pl.
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: Something prayed for
* : *A slight chance 〈haven‘t got a /prayer/〉
Our ability to minister effectively is acquired through regularly scheduled hours of toil in the gym of the soul.
Those still throwing heat after decades of ministry have adhered to two major conditioning strategies: staying close to God and keeping a keen edge on ministry skills.
Ministry tends to pull us away from our spiritual center, and the constant pressures of ministry tend to dull the practice of it.[1]
– Ed Rowell
!! 1. Intimacy
1. Knowing God Slide 2
*a.
** Matthew 22:37*Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’
\\ *(NIV)*
2. Obey his Commands Slide 3
* a.
John 14:21*Whoever has my commands and obeys them; he is the one who loves me.
He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him.”
\\ *(NIV)*
3. God Reveals Himself Slide 4
a. we know him better
b. we love him more
c.
This cycle then continuously repeats itself
\\ \\ Love makes obedience a thing of joy!
To do the will of one we like to please
Is never hardship, though it tax our strength;
Each privilege of service love will seize!
Love makes us loyal, glad to do or go,
And eager to defend a name or cause;
Love takes the drudgery from common work,
And asks no rich reward or great applause.
Love gives us satisfaction in our task,
And wealth in learning lessons of the heart;
Love sheds a light of glory on our toil
And makes us humbly glad to have a part.
Love makes us choose to do the will of God,
To run His errands and proclaim His truth;
It gives our hearts an eager, lilting song;
Our feet are shod with tireless wings of youth!
—Hazel Hartwell Simon
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~*~*~*Mark Guy Pearse used to tell of the time he overheard one of his children admonishing the other, “You must be good or Father won’t love you.”
Calling the boy to him he said, “Son, that isn’t really true.”
“But you won’t love us if we are bad, will you?” the boy asked.
“Yes, I will love you whether you are good or bad,” Pearse explained.
“But there will be a difference in my love.
When you are good I will love you with a love that makes me glad; and when you are not good I will love you with a love that hurts me.”
/—Evangelistic Illustration/
[3]
~*~*~*A gentleman who was a professed Christian was taken seriously ill.
He became troubled about the little love he felt in his heart for God, and spoke of his experience to a friend.
This is how the friend answered him.
“When I go home from here, I expect to take my baby on my knee, look into her sweet eyes, listen to her charming prattle, and tired as I am, her presence will rest me; for I love that child with unutterable tenderness.
But she loves me little.
If my heart were breaking it would not disturb her sleep.
If my body were racked with pain, it would not interrupt her play.
If I were dead, she would forget me in a few days.
Besides this, she had never brought me a penny, but was a constant expense to me.
I am not rich, but there is not money enough in the world to buy my baby.
How is it?
Does she love me, or do I love her? Do I withhold my love until I know she loves me?
Am I waiting for her to do something worthy of my love before extending it?”
This practical illustration of the love of God for His children caused the tears to roll down the sick man’s face.
“Oh, I see,” he exclaimed, “it is not my love to God, but God’s love for me, that I should be thinking of.
And I do love Him now as I never loved Him before.”
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~*~*~*Among the first glimpses we get of our God is that of a Seeker: “Adam … Where art thou?” (Gen.
3:9).
In commenting upon this question to his Bible class, a teacher said, “You can never be a preacher if you read it as though God were a policeman.
Read it as though God were a brokenhearted Father looking for a lost child!”
—Al Bryant
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\\ \\ !! 2. Faith
- IN any study of the principles, and procedure of prayer, of its activities and enterprises, first place, must, of necessity, be given to faith.
It is the initial quality in the heart of any man who essays to talk to the Unseen.
He must, out of sheer helplessness, stretch forth hands of faith.
He /must/ believe, where he cannot prove.
In the ultimate issue, prayer is simply faith, claiming its natural yet marvelous prerogatives — faith taking possession of its illimitable inheritance.
True godliness is just as true, steady, and persevering in the realm of faith as it is in the province of prayer.
Moreover: when faith ceases to pray, it ceases to live.
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- Faith does the impossible because it brings God to undertake for us, and nothing is impossible with God.
How great — without qualification or limitation — is the power of faith!
If doubt be banished from the heart, and unbelief made stranger there, what we ask of God shall surely come to pass, and a believer hath vouchsafed to him “whatsoever he saith.”[7]
* a.
Mk 11:21-24 Slide 5 \\ Mark 11:21*Peter remembered and said to Jesus, “Rabbi, look!
The fig tree you cursed has withered!”
\\ *Mark 11:22*“Have faith in God,” Jesus answered.
\\ *Mark 11:23*“I tell you the truth, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him.
\\ *Mark 11:24*Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
\\ *b.
Matt.
8: 10-13 Slide 6*
10 When Jesus heard this, he was astonished and said to those following him, “I tell you the truth, I have not found anyone in Israel with such great faith.
11 I say to you that many will come from the east and the west, and will take their places at the feast with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.
12 But the subjects of the kingdom will be thrown outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
13 Then Jesus said to the centurion, “Go!
It will be done just as you believed it would.”
And his servant was healed at that very hour.
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*Billy Graham said:* “In August of 1949, I was so filled with doubts about everything that when I stood to preach and made a statement, I would say to myself: I wonder if that is the truth.
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