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OUR
PRAYER
LIFE
Copyright 1985,1993,2001,2007
Crossroads Full Gospel
International Ministries
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CONTENTS
OUR PRAYER LIFE.................................................................1
OUR PRAYER LIFE.............................................................2
HOW TO PRAY EFFECTIVELY.........................................3
THE PRAYER WE CALL “GRACE”................................11
ORGANIZING OUR QUIET-TIME...................................13
OUR RESPONSIBILITY AS CHRISTIANS.....................16
OUR PRAYER LIFE
Prayer is a significant aspect of the Christian walk.
Primarily, it
is a means by which we can communicate with God and fellowship
with our Lord.
Through prayer we can ask in faith for the Lord to
meet a need in our life or someone else’s.
Scripture declares to us the
value and influence of properly focused, properly anchored prayer.
JAMES 5:16 . . .
The effectual fervent prayer of a
righteous man avails much.
Through prayer we can seek direction, guidance, empowerment
or enlightenment.
Prayer can also be a response to God’s love, a
Divine interaction by which God’s desire can be implanted in man
and man’s desire can become that of his Creator.
Through prayer that
brings the grace of God to us, we can become more aligned with our
Father’s will, and more aware of His nature and characteristics as we
commune with Him on an intimate level.
Prayer is inviting God to divinely touch, fill and change
something or someone - maybe even ourselves.
Prayer is not so
much just an action of the individual as a state of the heart.
Our
prayer should always be conducted in the knowledge of our total
dependence on the Lord - from the air we breathe to the spiritual
strength, gained through the Divine Nature, needed to do His will.
We should not pray for anything outside the Lord’s will - not our
desires or wants, only that His will alone would be done in our lives.
This is the pathway to peace, empowerment and the development of
Christian character.
“. .
.Prayer is inviting God to divinely
touch, fill and change something or
someone. .
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OUR PRAYER LIFE
Background Reading: Matthew 6:5-15
The purpose of prayer in our daily lives as Christians is both
powerful and vital, prayer being a personal and spiritual interaction
between the Creator and the crown of His creation – man.
In Matthew Ch. 6 Jesus opens the subject of prayer with the
words “when you pray” (Matthew 6:5).
Notice that the Lord did not
say “if you pray,” to suggest that prayer is an optional extra to the
Christian life, or something reserved for religious fanatics.
Jesus
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