Lord Teach Us to Pray

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Lord Teach Us to Pray

• Luke 111

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Outline

• What people think prayer is
• What the Bible says prayer is
• How to pray
• God answering our prayers
• What prayer is not

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What people think prayer is

• Negotiating with God
• In case of emergency
• Just a way to ask God for things
• Something that only the weak do

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What the Bible says prayer is

• Our way of talking to God
• 2 Chronicles 3027
• Nehemiah 111a
• Psalms 69
• Making our request to God
• Philippians 46-7

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What the Bible says prayer is

• A commandment
• 1 Thessalonians 517
• Luke 181
• God cares for us
• 1 Peter 57
• Psalms 3417-18

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How to pray

• Christ is our example
• 1 Peter 221

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How to pray - Preparing

• Jesus prepared
• Quite place
• Mark 135
• Luke 612
• Make time
• Mark 646
• Psalms 5516-17
• Daniel 610

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How to pray - Performing

• Pray according to Gods will
• 1 John 514
• Matthew 2639
• Being humble
• Luke 1810-14
• Isaiah 648

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How to pray - Performing

• Have faith
• Matthew 2122
• James 15-8
• Joshua 2415
• 1 Kings 1821
• Revelation 315-16

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How to pray - Performing

• Giving thanks
• Philippians 46
• Ephesians 13
• Jeremiah 3217-25

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How to pray - Performing

• Length of the prayer
• Matthew 2639, 42
• Luke 612
• Ecclesiastes 52
• Holy Spirit helps us pray
• Romans 826-27

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How to pray - Closing

• In Christ name
• John 1516
• Ephesians 520

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How to pray - Closing

• Amen
• Strongs
• Verily
• So it is, so be it, may it be fulfilled. It was a
  custom, which passed over from the synagogues to
  the Christian assemblies, that when he who had
  read or discoursed, had offered up solemn prayer
  to God, the others responded Amen, and thus made
  the substance of what was uttered their own.

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God answering our prayers

• God told Paul no
• 2 Corinthians 128-9
• God works in His time
• Ecclesiastes 311a

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What prayer is not

• What pray cant accomplish
• Take away our responsibility
• 2 Thessalonians 310
• Violate mans free will
• Romans 101
• Make a person a Christian
• No sinners prayer

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Steps to Salvation

• Hear - Romans 1017
• Believe - John 318
• Repent - Acts 1918-19, Acts 1730
• Confess - Acts 836-37, Romans 109
• Baptized - Acts 238
• Live faithfully - Revelation 210