Restart Your

(1) Get rid of all sin.

13 I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life. 14 This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. 15 And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him. 1John 5

• Mark 1:35 – Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed.

• Matthew 14:23 – …he went up on a mountainside by himself to pray. When evening came, he was there alone.

• Luke 6:12 – One of those days Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and spent the night praying to God.

• Luke 22:41-44 – He withdrew about a stone's throw beyond them, knelt down and prayed,

Rest Upon God

Prayer is not just getting what we want form God; it is God’s way to shape us to what He wants us to be.”

• Key Condition – Wait According to God’s Will.

• When you pray, do you focus on telling God…?

• When you are asking God for guidance, are you willing to OBEY...?

• When you didn’t get what you are asking, can you still trust God…?

• In prayer, we discuss what God wants for us

Interact and Converse With God

He is more concerned with His relationship with you than saying Yes to all your request.

• When you pray, do you sense God listening to you, or do your prayers seem to just floating in the air?

• Do you hear what God has to say, or do you struggle to discern any message from Him?

• Do you pray frequently because you love to do so? Or do you often neglect to pray because you’re discouraged or worried that you’re somehow not praying correctly?

• Develop a hunger for God. • Seek intimacy with God. • Pursue God with passion. • Listen to God. • Pray out loud.

Focus On The

• In prayer, we cultivate proper attitude and develop the need to pray for the right things.• Prayer is focusing on God’s priorities.

• Ask God for more practical insight into scripture so that you can become more godly in character (Ps.119:33,34).

• Ask God for better understanding of what God has given you in Christ (Eph.1:16-19) & how much God loves you (Eph.3:18,19) so you can mature spiritually.

• Ask God for greater love for other people (1 Thess. 3:12) & better discernment on how to love them effectively (Phil.1:9).• Ask God for opportunities to share

your faith, & the courage & wisdom to make the most of those opportunities (Col. 4:3,4; Eph. 6:19,20).

• Ask for God to expose sinful attitudes that are hurting you and others and dishonoring God (Ps.139:23,24).• Ask God for wisdom to understand

what he wants to teach you through the adverse circumstances he has allowed into your life (Jas.1:5).

• Pray for your brothers & sisters who are not doing okay in their faith instead of judging them (1John 5:16)

INTENTIONALLY

• “It’s been said that if we aim at nothing, we will hit it every time. The same is true for prayer. If we are aimless in our prayer life we will pray randomly, at best.” • “Many people pray as if God were a big

aspirin pill; they come only when they hurt.”

• Abraham Lincoln: I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had absolutely no other place to go.

• Martin Luther King Jr: “To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.”

• Oswald Sanders: “Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work. The meaning of prayer is that we get ahold of God, not of the answers.”

• Hebrews 12:2 “Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, so that we will not grow weary and lose heart.”

• Make a daily prayer list• Make a list of things you need to

pray for each month.• Create your own prayer journal.• Have a pen and a paper.• Have a specific time and place where

you meet God.

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