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11. Displays a strong belief in the power of prayer, and praying for others is a natural response of that belief—sensitive to the compassion of Jesus and able to respond with that compassion.
Warm-Up
Prayer is Expected
Matt. 6:5 -”And when you pray”
Matt. 6:6 “But when you pray…”
Matthew 6:7 “And when you pray…”
Matt 6:9- “This..is how you should pray…”
Luke 11P:9- “Ask..; seek…; knock.”
The expectation is specific
Colossians 4:2 - “Devote yourselves to prayer.”
1 Thess 5:17- “Pray continually.”
Note: While devote yourself to prayer as an activity, pray continually reminds us that prayer is also a relationship. Prayer is in one sense an expression of a Christian's unbroken relationship with the Father. So we must see the expectation to pray not only as a divine summon, but also as a royal invitation. As the writer of Hebrews tells us, “Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.” (4:16)
God has expected us to pray just as a general expects to hear form his soldiers in the battle. One write reminds us that
“prayer is a walkie-talkie for warfare, not a domestic intercom for increasing our conveniences.” God expects us to use walkie talkie of praeyr because that is the means he has ordained not only for Godliness, but also for spiritual warrfare between His Kingdom and the Kingdom of His Enemy. To abandon payer is to fight the battle with our own resources at best, and to lose interest in the battle at worse.
Jesus Prayed:
Luke 5:16- Jesus withdrew to pray.
Q: if Jesus needed to prayer, how much more do we need to prayer? Continual prayer is expected for us because we need it.
Why do so many believers confess they do not pray as they should? Sometimes the problem is primarily a lack of discipline. Prayer is never planned; time is never allotted just for praying. For we do not pray because we doubt that anything will actually happen if we pray. Of course we don't admit this publicly. A lack of sensing the nearness of God may also discourage prayer.
Prayer is Learned
Moving beyond infancy in prayer. Just crying for basic needs is minimal communication, we must learn to pray for the glory of GOD, in His will, in faith, in the name of Jesus, with persistence, and more. A child of God gradually learns to pay lie this in the same way that growing child learns to talk.
Pray for others
The disciples learned to pray not only by hearing Jesus teach about prayer, but also by being with him when he prayed. In a similar way we can learn to pray by praying with other people who can model true prayer for us. But we pray with them to learn principles of prayer, not phrases of prayer.
ACTION STEPS: Use these prayers to pray for five believers today. Let your devotional time be focused on God and others.
PRAYER: “Father, thank You for the privilege of praying for these friends today. Please raise up someone who will pray the same way for me today.
Nugget: “Faith does not operate in the realm of the possible. There is no glory for God in that which is humanly possible. Faith begins where man's power ends.”
― George Müller
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By Travis Tyler - Brent Snyder11. Displays a strong belief in the power of prayer, and praying for others is a natural response of that belief—sensitive to the compassion of Jesus and able to respond with that compassion.
Warm-Up
Prayer is Expected
Matt. 6:5 -”And when you pray”
Matt. 6:6 “But when you pray…”
Matthew 6:7 “And when you pray…”
Matt 6:9- “This..is how you should pray…”
Luke 11P:9- “Ask..; seek…; knock.”
The expectation is specific
Colossians 4:2 - “Devote yourselves to prayer.”
1 Thess 5:17- “Pray continually.”
Note: While devote yourself to prayer as an activity, pray continually reminds us that prayer is also a relationship. Prayer is in one sense an expression of a Christian's unbroken relationship with the Father. So we must see the expectation to pray not only as a divine summon, but also as a royal invitation. As the writer of Hebrews tells us, “Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.” (4:16)
God has expected us to pray just as a general expects to hear form his soldiers in the battle. One write reminds us that
“prayer is a walkie-talkie for warfare, not a domestic intercom for increasing our conveniences.” God expects us to use walkie talkie of praeyr because that is the means he has ordained not only for Godliness, but also for spiritual warrfare between His Kingdom and the Kingdom of His Enemy. To abandon payer is to fight the battle with our own resources at best, and to lose interest in the battle at worse.
Jesus Prayed:
Luke 5:16- Jesus withdrew to pray.
Q: if Jesus needed to prayer, how much more do we need to prayer? Continual prayer is expected for us because we need it.
Why do so many believers confess they do not pray as they should? Sometimes the problem is primarily a lack of discipline. Prayer is never planned; time is never allotted just for praying. For we do not pray because we doubt that anything will actually happen if we pray. Of course we don't admit this publicly. A lack of sensing the nearness of God may also discourage prayer.
Prayer is Learned
Moving beyond infancy in prayer. Just crying for basic needs is minimal communication, we must learn to pray for the glory of GOD, in His will, in faith, in the name of Jesus, with persistence, and more. A child of God gradually learns to pay lie this in the same way that growing child learns to talk.
Pray for others
The disciples learned to pray not only by hearing Jesus teach about prayer, but also by being with him when he prayed. In a similar way we can learn to pray by praying with other people who can model true prayer for us. But we pray with them to learn principles of prayer, not phrases of prayer.
ACTION STEPS: Use these prayers to pray for five believers today. Let your devotional time be focused on God and others.
PRAYER: “Father, thank You for the privilege of praying for these friends today. Please raise up someone who will pray the same way for me today.
Nugget: “Faith does not operate in the realm of the possible. There is no glory for God in that which is humanly possible. Faith begins where man's power ends.”
― George Müller