Prayer:%20Why%20Bother?

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Prayer Why Bother?
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Prayer Why Bother?

• Why is prayer so tough?
• We dont believe it matters.

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Prayer Why Bother?

• So to keep me from becoming conceited because of
  the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a
  thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of
  Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming
  conceited. Three times I pleaded with the Lord
  about this, that it should leave me. But he said
  to me, My grace is sufficient for you, for my
  power is made perfect in weakness.
• 2 Corinthians 127-9a

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Prayer Why Bother?

• Why is prayer so tough?
• We dont believe it matters.
• We are easily distracted.
• We feel guilty.

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Prayer Why Bother?

• Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an
  understanding way, showing honor to the woman as
  the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you
  of the grace of life, so that your prayers may
  not be hindered.
• 1 Peter 37

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Prayer Why Bother?

• Why should we pray?
• Jesus believed in prayer.

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Prayer Why Bother?

• And rising very early in the morning, while it
  was still dark, he departed and went out to a
  desolate place, and there he prayed.
• Mark 135
• In these days he went out to the mountain to
  pray, and all night he continued in prayer to
  God.
• Luke 612

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Prayer Why Bother?

• Why should we pray?
• Jesus believed in prayer.
• Spiritual work requires spiritual power.

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Prayer Why Bother?

• For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood,
  but against the rulers, against the authorities,
  against the cosmic powers over this present
  darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in
  the heavenly places.
• Ephesians 612

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Prayer Why Bother?

• Why should we pray?
• Jesus believed in prayer.
• Spiritual work requires spiritual power.
• God listens and answers.

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Prayer Why Bother?

• Therefore, confess your sins to one another and
  pray for one another, that you may be healed. The
  prayer of a righteous person has great power as
  it is working. Elijah was a man with a nature
  like ours, and he prayed fervently that it might
  not rain, and for three years and six months it
  did not rain on the earth. Then he prayed again,
  and heaven gave rain, and the earth bore its
  fruit.
• James 516-18

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Prayer Why Bother?

• Why should we pray?
• Jesus believed in prayer.
• Spiritual work requires spiritual power.
• God listens and answers.
• Prayer transforms us.

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Prayer Why Bother?

• Do not be anxious about anything, but in
  everything by prayer and supplication with
  thanksgiving let your requests be made known to
  God.
• Philippians 46

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Prayer Why Bother?

• Why should we pray?
• Jesus believed in prayer.
• Spiritual work requires spiritual power.
• God listens and answers.
• Prayer transforms us.

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