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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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Discuss Dr. Banks’ statement that when we live prayerfully in the moment with God, “He will take us places and show us things that we otherwise would not see.”
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As I spend time with God, I notice more and more of His attributes. I see the beauty of Him more clearly, His peace and comfort become more tangible.
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Dr. Banks’ statement rang true for me. Before I lived prayerfully, I could not forgive others. I did not have true peace. I was not secure but needed others validation. But when I began to live prayerfully, I found I could forgive and pray for others who had hurt me and some who still did. I found what it meant to be truly at peace in my body, mind, heart and soul with God’s peace, not the worlds. Now I no longer need people or men to validate me or love me to feel loved and whole for I know that the one who matters to my eternity loves me and holds me in his arms. So he has took me too places and has shown me things otherwise I would never have seen or felt in my life.
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Clear your mind of all distractions and focus on God and His goodness and love, at that moment He will show you some things about yourself and how you relate to others.
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God will take us to all kind of places and show us things and people that we would miss without Him. When we live prayerfully in the moment with God, we are not distracted by everything and everyone around us. We are actually in His presence.
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I think that just thinking about it, makes me excited. When we live prayfully in the moment with God, as we pray and talk with him daily we will see and experience his greatness, love, peace, strength, goodness and he will also take us places and show us things that we otherwise would not see. Like God three Atrributes; 1. God’s Omniscience- all knowing. 2. God’s Omnipresence – He is every where. 3. God’s Omnipotence there’s no limit to his power. The Two examples from scriptures referred to in this lesson also reinforces why we should live prayfully in the moment with Him. God is able to keep us from stumbling and present us before his glorious present without fault and with great joy (1:24) and
God is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work with us (Ephesians 3:20.
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What does it mean to not only talk with God, but also to be with Him when we pray?
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Prayer is about more than requests and demands. It’s also about listening to God and taking the time to allow Him to show us things that we otherwise would not see.
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I like to think that when I pray that God sits right beside me like a physical friend when I talk to Him and I sit with Him as if to wait and hear what He has to say to me as well when I ask a question or make a request. I do not audibly hear Him but sometimes just sit with Him and wait in His presence knowing He is with me and I with Him. So to me that is no only talking to Him but being with Him.
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When we are with Him when we pray We are sending our prayers and petitions to Him, He is granting us peace and guarding our heart and mind.
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When we are in prayer, we are not just talking to Him. For a relationship to truly develop, we do talk, but we also listen, rest in and lean on Him.. Being fully aware of His presence.
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When we Pray we are not only talking with God we are having a relational private and personal conversation with Him, we are in our secret place with the door close. We need to lean into him and be aware of how much he loves us and keep our eyes on him and not on our problems, we need to listen for his small gentle voice and spend as much time alone with him in prays.
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Why do you think God wants us to live lives that are connected to Him through prayer?
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We live lives connected to Him through prayer out of love and relationship. We want to spend time with those we love.
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Because I think He just loves to know that we are there with Him and love being with Him and talk to Him. To me it is a sign of respect for all He has done for us, all He will do for us and all He is doing for us and staying connected to Him in prayer keeps us strong in Him.
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God wants us to live lives that are connected to Him so we can worship, be strengthened and be built up in the faith.
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God wants us to be connected to Him. In pray, the connection is very personal. He created us to have a relationship with Him.
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God Wants to live lives that are connscted to Him through prayer because it is the only way we can grow in a relationship with him. He indwells in us as his Holy Spirit and we need to stay close to him for stength and to learn from him by focusing on his promises instead of our problems. God want to meet us where we are so we can spent time worshipping, praising and thanking Him for who he is.