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Are you a Jesus’s Disciple in Prayer?
Are you a Jesus’s Disciple in Prayer?
There’s liberating clarity for you!
Three Areas of Prayer – Bringing Clarity
Are you a Jesus’s Disciple in Prayer?
There’s liberating clarity for you!
Three Areas of Prayer – Bringing Clarity
Three Areas of Prayer –
Bringing clarity
Three Areas of Prayer – Bringing Clarity
(Chicken soup)
Three Areas of Prayer – Bringing Clarity
Three Areas of Prayer –
Bringing clarity
Three Areas of Prayer – Bringing Clarity
Disciples are learners…They need teaching
Three Areas of Prayer – Bringing Clarity
Liberating teaching on prayer includes areas like…
Three Areas of Prayer – Bringing Clarity
Liberating teaching on prayer includes areas like…
1) The goodness of God
Three Areas of Prayer – Bringing Clarity
Liberating teaching on prayer includes areas like…
1) The goodness of God2) You don’t need many words
Three Areas of Prayer – Bringing Clarity
Liberating teaching on prayer includes areas like…
1) The goodness of God2) You don’t need many words3) Saved by grace; pray by grace!
Three Areas of Prayer – Bringing Clarity
Liberating teaching on prayer includes areas like…
1) The goodness of God2) You don’t need many words3) Saved by grace; pray by grace!4) Pray in faith – which comes from
God’s word
Three Areas of Prayer – Bringing Clarity
Disciples are learners…They need teaching…
But teaching isn’t enough!
Three Areas of Prayer – Bringing Clarity
Disciples DO it!They make mistakes and get better
– that’s where the best learning happens
Three Areas of Prayer – Bringing Clarity
We are Jesus' disciples in prayer!
Three Areas of Prayer – Bringing Clarity
Area # 1:
Three Areas of Prayer – Bringing Clarity
Area # 1:
Requests
Three Areas of Prayer – Bringing Clarity
Area # 1:Requests
Be Specific
Three Areas of Prayer – Bringing Clarity
Area # 1:Requests
Be Specific Luke 18:41 - (“What do you want me to do for you?”)
Three Areas of Prayer – Bringing Clarity
Area # 1:RequestsThings we can request:
Three Areas of Prayer – Bringing Clarity
Area # 1:RequestsThings we can request:
Wisdom (James 1:5)
Three Areas of Prayer – Bringing Clarity
Area # 1:RequestsThings we can request:
Boldness (Acts 4:29-30)
Three Areas of Prayer – Bringing Clarity
Area # 1:RequestsThings we can request:
The Holy Spirit (Luke 11:13)
Three Areas of Prayer – Bringing Clarity
Area # 1:RequestsThings we can request:
Healing (Ex 15:26, Matt 15:30)
Three Areas of Prayer – Bringing Clarity
Healing is God’s will for you!
Three Areas of Prayer – Bringing Clarity
Healing is God’s will for you!
(so don’t try to convince Him!)
Three Areas of Prayer – Bringing Clarity
Area # 1:RequestsThings we can request:
Prayers from the “Lord’s Prayer”Lead us not…
Three Areas of Prayer – Bringing Clarity
Area # 2:
Three Areas of Prayer – Bringing Clarity
Area # 2:
Intercession
Three Areas of Prayer – Bringing Clarity
Area # 2:Intercession
Let’s get rid of a couple of “burdens”
Three Areas of Prayer – Bringing Clarity
Area # 2:Intercession
First burden – I can claim God’s promises for other people against
their will
Three Areas of Prayer – Bringing Clarity
Area # 2:Intercession
Exception from gospels – praying for children, members of
household…
Three Areas of Prayer – Bringing Clarity
Area # 2:Intercession
Second burden – I can’t intercede effectively because there is so
much I don’t know…
Three Areas of Prayer – Bringing Clarity
Area # 2:Intercession
Second burden – I can’t intercede effectively because there is so
much I don’t know…That’s a good place to be!
Three Areas of Prayer – Bringing Clarity
Area # 2:Intercession
Second burden – I can’t intercede effectively because there is so
much I don’t know…Romans 8:26-27 – the Spirit
interecedes…
Three Areas of Prayer – Bringing Clarity
Pray in the spirit! Spirit? spirit?
Three Areas of Prayer – Bringing Clarity
Pray in the spirit! Spirit? spirit?
(yes!)
Three Areas of Prayer – Bringing Clarity
Area # 2:IntercessionThings from the Bible we can
pray in intercession:
Three Areas of Prayer – Bringing Clarity
Area # 2:IntercessionThings from the Bible we can pray
in intercession:
1) Prayers like Paul’s prayers: spirit of wisdom and revelation (Eph. 1)
Three Areas of Prayer – Bringing Clarity
Area # 2:IntercessionThings from the Bible we can pray
in intercession:
2) Prayers like Paul’s prayers: Filled with presence of Jesus and love of
God (Eph. 3)
Three Areas of Prayer – Bringing Clarity
Area # 2:IntercessionThings from the Bible we can pray
in intercession:
3) God, send labourers into the harvest(Matt. 9:38)
Three Areas of Prayer – Bringing Clarity
Area # 2:IntercessionThings from the Bible we can pray
in intercession:4
4) “Now we pray to God that you will not do anything wrong”(2 Cor. 13:7)
Three Areas of Prayer – Bringing Clarity
Area # 3:
Three Areas of Prayer – Bringing Clarity
Area # 3:
Conversation
Three Areas of Prayer – Bringing Clarity
Area # 3:Conversation
Col. 3:17 - And whatever you do,whether in word or deed, do it all inthe name of the Lord Jesus, givingthanks to God the Father through him.
Three Areas of Prayer – Bringing Clarity
Area # 3:Conversation
Col. 3:17 - And whatever you do,whether in word or deed, do it all inthe name of the Lord Jesus, givingthanks to God the Father through him.
Three Areas of Prayer – Bringing Clarity
Area # 3:Conversation
Col. 3:17 - And whatever you do,whether in word or deed, do it all inthe name of the Lord Jesus, givingthanks to God the Father through him.
Three Areas of Prayer – Bringing Clarity
Area # 1:Requests
Three Areas of Prayer – Bringing Clarity
Area # 1:RequestsArea # 2: Intercession
Three Areas of Prayer – Bringing Clarity
Area # 1:RequestsArea # 2: IntercessionArea # 3: Conversation
Three Areas of Prayer – Bringing Clarity
Area # 1:RequestsArea # 2: IntercessionArea # 3: Conversation
Honourable mention: Thanks
Three Areas of Prayer – Bringing Clarity
Area # 1:RequestsArea # 2: IntercessionArea # 3: Conversation
Honourable mention: ThanKs
Three Areas of Prayer – Bringing Clarity
1 Tim. 2:1 - I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers,
intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people--
Three Areas of Prayer – Bringing Clarity
1 Tim. 2:1 – I urge, then, first of all, thatrequests, intercession, conversation with God (and donot forget thanksgiving!) bemade for all people--
Three Areas of Prayer – Bringing Clarity
Now we get to pray!
Three Areas of Prayer – Bringing Clarity
Shine, Jesus Shine - Graham Kendrick
Lord, the light of Your love is shiningIn the midst of the darkness shiningJesus, light of the world shine upon usSet us free by the truth You now bring
usShine on me, shine on me!
Shine, Jesus Shine
Shine, Jesus shine!Fill this land with the Father’s gloryBlaze, Spirit blazeSet our hearts on fireFlow, river flowFlood the nations with grace and mercySend forth Your word, Lord
and let there be light
Shine, Jesus Shine
Lord, I come to Your awesome presenceFrom the shadows into Your radianceBy the blood I may enter Your
brightnessSearch me, try me,
consume all my darknessShine on me, shine on me!
Shine, Jesus Shine
Shine, Jesus shine!Fill this land with the Father’s gloryBlaze, Spirit blazeSet our hearts on fireFlow, river flowFlood the nations with grace and mercySend forth Your word, Lord
and let there be light
Shine, Jesus Shine
As we gaze on Your kingly brightnessSo our faces display Your likenessEver changing from glory to gloryMirrored here, may our lives tell the
storyShine on me, shine on me!
Shine, Jesus Shine
Shine, Jesus shine!Fill this land with the Father’s gloryBlaze, Spirit blazeSet our hearts on fireFlow, river flowFlood the nations with grace and mercySend forth Your word, Lord
and let there be light
