The Importance of Prayer

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Prayer
James 516 The effectual fervent prayer of a
righteous man availeth much.
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The Sovereign God Responds To OUR PRAYERS Unto
His Glory.
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2 Cor. 110-11
...and He will yet deliver us, you also joining
in helping us through your prayers, so that
thanks may be given by many persons on our behalf
for the favor bestowed on us through the
prayers of many.
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What Prayer Is

• 1 Timothy 21
• First of all, then,I urge that supplications,
  prayers, intercessions,and thanksgivings bemade
  for all people

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What Prayer Is

• Supplications (deésis)
• a wanting, a need, an asking or entreaty (Vine)
• occurs 19 times in the NT
• In the ASV always supplication
• In the KJV translated prayer 12 times, make
  request once, and supplication 6 times.

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What Prayer Is

• Supplications (deésis)
• Prayers (proseuché)
• used of prayer in general (Vine) emphasizes
  communion with God, devotion, praise and worship

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What Prayer Is

• Supplications (deésis)
• Prayers (proseuché)
• Intercessions (enteuxis)
• seeking the presence and hearing of God on behalf
  of others (Vine)

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What Prayer Is

• Supplications (deésis)
• Prayers (proseuché)
• Intercessions (enteuxis)
• Thanksgivings (eucharistia)

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Philippians 46
Do not be anxious about anything but in
everything by prayer and supplication with
thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto
God
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Romans 121-25
For although they knew God, they did not honor
him as God or give thanks to him Therefore God
gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to
impurity
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1 Thess. 516-18
Rejoice always pray without ceasing in
everything give thanks for this is the will of
God in Christ Jesus to youward.
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Colossians 315
And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts,
to which indeed you were called in one body. And
be thankful.
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What Prayer Is

• An Expression of Dependence Upon A Higher Being

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Ecclesiastes 612
For who knows what is good for a man during his
lifetime, during the few years of his futile
life? He will spend them like a shadow.
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Jeremiah 1023
O Lord, I know the way of man is not in himself
It is not in man who walks to direct his own
steps.
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Proverbs 1625
There is a way that seems right to a man, but
its end is the way of death.
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What Prayer Is

• An Expression of Dependence Upon A Higher Being
• An Act of Faith

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Hebrews 116
for he who comes to God must believe that He is
and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him.
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What Prayer Is

• An Expression of Dependence Upon A Higher Being
• An Act of Faith
• Our Hearts Desires Expressed To Our Father

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Romans 101
Brethren, my hearts desire and my supplication
to God is for them that they may be saved.
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Whose Prayer Does God Hear?

• Involves Questions About
• Relationship
• Condition of Heart
• Manner of Life

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Whose Prayer Does God Hear?

• One Who Is Seeking God (a child, a faithful
  Christian, one who wants to obey God)

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Proverbs 1529
The Lord is far from the wicked, but He hears
the prayer of the righteous.
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1 Peter 312
For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous,
and his ears unto their supplication But the
face of the Lord is upon them that do evil.
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Proverbs 289
He who turns away his ear from listening to the
law, even his prayer is an abomination.  
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Psalms 6618
If I regard wickedness in my heart, the Lord
will not hear.  
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Isaiah 592
But your iniquities have made a separation
between you and your God, and your sins have
hidden His face from you so that He does not
hear.
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Acts 104Regarding Cornelius
Your prayers and alms have ascended as a
memorial before God.
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1 Peter 37
grant her honor as a fellow heir of life, so
that your prayers may not be hindered.  
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Whose Prayer Does God Hear?

• One Who Is Seeking God
• One Who Prays In Faith

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James 15-8
But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of
God... But he must ask in faith without any
doubting, for the one who doubts is like the surf
of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind. For
that man ought not to expect that he will receive
anything from the Lord
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Whose Prayer Does God Hear?

• One Who Is Seeking God
• One Who Prays In Faith
• One Who Has Spiritual Motives

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James 43
You ask and do not receive, because you ask with
wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your
pleasures.
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Whose Prayer Does God Hear?

• One Who Is Seeking God
• One Who Prays In Faith
• One Who Has Spiritual Motives
• One Who Shows Forgiveness

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Mark 1125
Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have
anything against anyone, so that your Father who
is in heaven will also forgive you your
transgressions.  
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Whose Prayer Does God Hear?

• One Who Is Seeking God
• One Who Prays In Faith
• One Who Has Spiritual Motives
• One Who Shows Forgiveness
• One Who Prays According To Gods Will

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1 John 514-15
This is the confidence which we have before Him,
that, if we ask anything according to His will,
He hears us And we know that we have the
requests which we have asked  
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Whose Prayer Does God Hear?

• One Who Is Seeking God
• One Who Prays In Faith
• One Who Has Spiritual Motives
• One Who Shows Forgiveness
• One Who Prays According To Gods Will
• One Who Prays In Jesus Name

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John 1414
If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do
it.  
Colossians 317
Whatever you do in word or in deed, do all in
the name of the Lord Jesus.  
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The Priority Of Prayer

• Luke 181,8
• 1 And he told them a parable to the effect that
  they ought always to pray and not lose heart
• 8 Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will
  he find faith on earth?

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The Priority Of Prayer

• Matthew 77-11
• 7 Ask, and it will be given to you seek, and you
  will find knock, and it will be opened to you 
• 11 If you then, who are evil, know how to give
  good gifts to your children, how much more will
  your Father who is in heaven give good things to
  those who ask him!

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The Priority Of Prayer

• Romans 1212
• continuing steadfastly in prayer
• Acts 242
• And they continued steadfastly in the apostles
  teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread
  and the prayers.
• 1 Thess. 517
• Pray without ceasing

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Will You Become A Christian?
Hear The Word (Rom. 1017) Believe That Jesus is
the Son of God (John 824) Repent of Your Sins
(Acts 1730) Confess That Jesus is the Son of God
(Acts 837) Be Baptized for the Forgiveness of
Sins (Acts 238) Live Faithfully Until You Die
(Rev. 210)