Notes

Purpose of Prayer

Prayer is communicating with and hearing from God

Philippians 4:6-7 (NLT) Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done.

John 10:3-5 (NLT) The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep recognize his voice and come to him. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. 4After he has gathered his own flock, he walks ahead of them, and they follow him because they know his voice. 5They won’t follow a stranger; they will run from him because they don’t know his voice.

Prayer Is A Spiritual Weapon

John 10:10 (NLT) The thief’s purpose is to steal and kill and destroy. My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life.

Ephesians 6:12 (NLT) For we are not fighting against flesh-and-blood enemies, but against evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world, against mighty powers in this dark world, and against evil spirits in the heavenly places.

Ephesians 6:18 (NLT) Pray in the Spirit at all times and on every occasion. Stay alert and be persistent in your prayers for all believers everywhere.

How Do We Pray

Privately or Personally

Matthew 6:5-6 (NLT) When you pray, don’t be like the hypocrites who love to pray publicly on street corners and in the synagogues where everyone can see them. I tell you the truth, that is all the reward they will ever get. 6But when you pray, go away by yourself, shut the door behind you, and pray to your Father in private. Then your Father, who sees everything, will reward you.

Mark 1:35 (NIV) Before daybreak the next morning, Jesus got up and went out to an isolated place to pray.

Have A Certain Time

Have A Certain Place

Have A Certian Plan

Sincerely

Matthew 6:7 (NLT) When you pray, don’t babble on and on as the Gentiles do. They think their prayers are answered merely by repeating their words again and again.

Pray to the heavenly Father

Matthew 6:9 (NKJV) In this manner, therefore, pray: Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name.

With His agenda first

Matthew 6:10 (NKJV) Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

1 John 5:14-15 (NLT) And we are confident that he hears us whenever we ask for anything that pleases him. 15And since we know he hears us when we make our requests, we also know that he will give us what we ask for.

Express your dependance on Him

Matthew 6:11 (NKJV) Give us this day our daily bread.

Ask for His forgiveness as you forgive others

Matthew 6:12 (NKJV) And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

Engage in spiritual warfare

Matthew 6:13a (NKJV) And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.

Praise God for His power over all your challenges

Matthew 6:13b (NKJV) For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen

Prayer is Better Than We Think

#1 - Prayer frees us from the weight of life.

1 Peter 5:7 (NLT) Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you.

#2 - Prayer transforms us

Hebrews 12:28-29 (NKJV) Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. 29For our God is a consuming fire.

#3 - Releases harvest workers into the harvest

Matthew 9:35-38 (NKJV) Then Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.

36But when He saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were weary and scattered, like sheep having no shepherd.

37Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few. 38Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.