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Lesson OneWhy Pray?4 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson TwoWhy Not Ask?4 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson ThreeWhen You Don’t Know What to Say4 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson FourObstacles to Prayer4 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson FivePraying for Others4 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson SixPraying with Others4 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson SevenPrayer and Fasting4 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson EightWhat about “Unanswered” Prayer?4 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson NinePersevering in Prayer4 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson TenLiving a Prayer-Filled Life4 Activities1 Assessment
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Course Wrap-UpCourse Completion1 Activity1 Assessment
Participants 3
Discussion Questions
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How does Jesus teach us to go deeper in our asking when we pray?
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Jesus teaches us to go deeper into our asking when we pray by giving us the Lord’s Prayer in Matthew 6: 9-13.
The prayer teaches us to focus on God first in our prayers, then follow by asking for our needs. -
By putting God first in our prayers and by realizing that we are His children who depend on Him just as our children depend on us.
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Jesus teaches us to go deeper in our asking when we pray by showing us how to ask. We must first acknowledge the things of God and then focus on our needs. We reverence His holy name and His will and then focus on our need and dependence for Him.
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There is a difference in just reciting words and coming to the Lord sincerely from the heart. We go deeper when we go into our prayer closets, (separate ourselves) and have an impactful one on one time with the Lord in prayer. It’s understanding the relationship we have with Him and how precious it is. It’s coming to Him in reverence but also with confidence because He is our Heavenly Father and He wants the best for His children. As we approach Him we remember that His way is what matters the most. We are tuned into Him, His glory, His majesty, His greatness and that His will be done in us and through us. Then we make our requests, ask for forgiveness and understand that it is only in His strength that this can be done. We seek first the Kingdom of God and all these things will be added unto it.
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By praying by the six guidelines of ‘The Lord’s Prayer’.
The first three focus on God, and the second three focus on our needs.
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How does knowing that God wants us to ask help us when we come to Him?
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When we know that God wants to hear from us and wants us to ask for help, He sees that we are vulnerable and dependent on Him. And, we understand that He does wants to be part of our lives each and everyday. He wants to help us no matter how big or small we may think the problem is.
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It helps us to feel free to open up about what ever we want to talk about.
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Knowing that God wants us to ask, help us when we come to him is very comforting, encouraging and it assures us that he is a generous loving God that is powerful. He gives us so many promises and he Knows the thing that we have need of before we ask him but he wants us to come and ask with faith to receive guidance to ask according to his will and with the right motives.
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Knowing removes any doubts that we may have when we pray to God. God wants us to come to him when we are in need. Just as any parent wants their child to come to them when they are in need as well.
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It helps knowing that God is always there and always ready to help us when we call on Him in prayer.
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Why is dependence on God in prayer so important?
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Dependence on God in prayer is so important because he is the only one that can do the IMPOSSIBLE. But God.
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Dependence on God in prayer is important because God is good and kind and he wants us to come to Him with our needs so he can encourage us to live lives that are dependence on him as his children. He wants to set us free to live expectantly as children of God. Looking forward to him most of allas Pastor Banks stated in his readings.
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When we pray to God we must think of ourselves as is children. We must come to Him and know that everything in our lives is depended upon him. Although we may think that we can make it through this life on our own, that is far from the truth. We need God to walk beside us along the way because we need to depend upon him for strength and knowledge to help fight out everyday battles.
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Our dependence on God is important because in our fallen natural we will only mess things up. There is nothing that God can’t do or nothing He can’t provide when we ask Him if what we ask is in His will. We can’t stand against Satan but when we pray to God for help in our temptations Satan can’t stand against Jesus.
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We must go to God in prayer like children. Depending on Him for our every need because we can’t do anything in our own strength. He is our source for everything.