1 / 48

Prayer Evening

Prayer Evening . 15/9/13. Sense and Nonsense about Prayer . Emmaus Course Lots of Verses on prayer 3 Nonsense Prayers 3 Sensible Prayers. Nonsense Prayers. Unforgiveness. Mark 11:25-26.

selah
Télécharger la présentation

Prayer Evening

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Prayer Evening 15/9/13

  2. Sense and Nonsense about Prayer • Emmaus Course • Lots of Verses on prayer • 3 Nonsense Prayers • 3 Sensible Prayers

  3. Nonsense Prayers • Unforgiveness

  4. Mark 11:25-26 • 25 “And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses. 26 But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your trespasses.”

  5. Matthew 6:14-15 • 14 “For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 15 But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

  6. Unforgiveness • We have been forgiven

  7. Ephesians 4:32 • 32 And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.

  8. Story 1 • A Forgiving prayer

  9. Matthew 5:44 • 44 But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you

  10. Good Bible Examples • Paul and the Church in Corinthians • Paul forgave the Corinthians

  11. Ourselves – Forgiveness • Easy to read and say but perhaps the hardest obstacle in prayer. • However we must look to Jesus as our example. • Forgive Friends and enemies.

  12. Nonsense Prayers • Unforgiveness

  13. Nonsense Prayers • Unforgiveness • Unconfessed Sins

  14. Proverbs 28:13 • 13 He who covers his sins will not prosper,But whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy.

  15. Isaiah 59:1-2 • 59 Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened,That it cannot save;Nor His ear heavy,That it cannot hear.2 But your iniquities have separated you from your God;And your sins have hidden His face from you,So that He will not hear.

  16. Bad Example : The Old Testament • Israel had sinned and were not heard.

  17. Good Bible Examples • Ezra • Daniel • Nehemiah

  18. Ezra 9:6 • 6 and prayed: “I am too ashamed and disgraced, my God, to lift up my face to you, because our sins are higher than our heads and our guilt has reached to the heavens.

  19. Daniel 9:4-5 • 4 I prayed to the Lord my God and confessed: • “Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps his covenant of love with those who love him and keep his commandments, 5 we have sinned and done wrong. We have been wicked and have rebelled; we have turned away from your commands and laws.

  20. Ourselves – Confess Sin • We can criticise Israel but are we really that much better? • We can look at Paul Letters to see our faults • We must humble ourselves when we come to pray.

  21. Nonsense Prayers • Unforgiveness • Unconfessed Sins

  22. Nonsense Prayers • Unforgiveness • Unconfessed Sins • Selfishness

  23. James 4:3 • 3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.

  24. Matthew 7:7 • 7 “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

  25. Matthew 7:7 & Matthew 6:33 • 7 “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. • 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.

  26. Bad Example – James & John Mother • 20 Then the mother of Zebedee’s sons came to Him with her sons, kneeling down and asking something from Him. 21 And He said to her, “What do you wish?” She said to Him, “Grant that these two sons of mine may sit, one on your right hand and the other on the left, in your kingdom.” 22 But Jesus answered and said, “You do not know what you ask. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?” They said to Him, “We are able.”

  27. Ourselves – Don’t be Selfish • We must put God first in our prayers. • We should thank God that he hasn’t given us everything we have asked for.

  28. Sensible Prayers • 3 Areas

  29. Sensible Prayers • Thanksgiving

  30. Psalm 100 • 1 Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth.2     Worship the Lord with gladness;    come before him with joyful songs.3 Know that the Lord is God.    It is he who made us, and we are his;    we are his people, the sheep of his pasture. • 4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving    and his courts with praise;    give thanks to him and praise his name.5 For the Lord is good and his love endures forever;    his faithfulness continues through all generations.

  31. Philippians 4:6 • 6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.

  32. Another Story…

  33. Another Story • ‘Be thankful for nothing and anxious for everything.’

  34. Good Examples • Jesus and Paul

  35. John 11:41 • 41 Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying.And Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me.

  36. Acts 16:25 • 25 But at midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. • Paul often started his letters with thanksgiving

  37. Ourselves - Thanksgiving • Would we never thank a friend? • Is it easier to thank God in good times or bad times?

  38. Sensible Prayers • Thanksgiving

  39. Sensible Prayers • Thanksgiving • Faith

  40. 1 John 5:14-15 • 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.

  41. James 1:5-7 • 5 If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you. 6 But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. 7 That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord.

  42. George Muller • Have Faith in God

  43. Sensible Prayers • Thanksgiving • Faith

  44. Sensible Prayers • Thanksgiving • Faith • In the name of Jesus

  45. John 14:13-14 • 13 And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.

  46. Colossians 3:17 • 17 And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

  47. Ourselves • An illustration and a story • We pray to the father in the name of the LORD Jesus

  48. Sense and Nonsense Sense Nonsense • Thanksgiving • Faith • Jesus • Good Examples • Unforgiveness • Unconfessed Sins • Selfishness • Bad Examples

More Related