Leading Question: What messages have you received over the course of your life about what prayer

is? How did you learn how to pray?

Scripture Focus: Psalm 23, Daniel 2:20-23, Psalm 44, Psalm 22, Psalm 60

The Big Idea: Prayer is both automatic and also a skill we can learn and cultivate. The Psalms allow us to glimpse many facets of people’s journeys with God and each other, and praying the psalms can serve as a kind of apprenticeship in prayer.

For Discussion:

Most of the Psalms mentioned in this lesson are lament psalms. Before we examine this kind of poem in more detail, ...