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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
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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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When we truly pray to Him with our hearts, minds and souls in line with Him He blesses us by showing His love for us and takes us to a place full of content and joy that we would not know without Him leading us. He blesses us with His presence with we come prayerfully to Him with our hearts tuned to Him and Him alone.
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Living in the moment with God refers to our prayer relationship with Him. How we consciously desire to seek Him and spend time with Him. We ask Him to fill us with His Spirit enabling us to see things that we sometimes take for granted.
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God speaks through other lips. He directs people to talk to me . It is to me like He is pointing to me the better ways. It makes me glad to hear Him and be assured that He is near.
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When we live prayerfully in the moment with God, He will open our eyes to a myriad of changes or options that are available to us to solve our problems. Besides, praying for others also afforded the same opportunity to others to experience transformational changes in their lives.
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If we are too busy with our thoughts and our lives and our busyness and problems, we have no room to see God’s view of the world. We are stuck in the temporal plane, but God wants to show us more than that. He wants to show us the eternal, spiritual, and supernatural world, which we cannot see if we do not live with God.
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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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It means that not only do we listen to Him but that our hearts, minds, and souls are filled with Him and that the daily problems, concerns, and activities of our lives are left behind as much as possible.
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One of my prayer warriors always says before we go into prayer, “Let’s clear our minds”. In order to spend quality time with God in prayer, we should go to our prayer closet so there can be no distractions from the outside. It’s difficult enough to keep our minds from wandering.
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I say a prayer to worship Him to thanking Him for His grace, peace and His love.
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Prayer is much more than simply a way to ask God for things we need or want. It is also the time to be with Him during our prayers. We spend time with Him in conversation (prayer), opening our hearts to Him and listening to Him simultaneously. We acknowledge when we’ve done wrong and seek forgiveness. We praise and worship Him at the same time.
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When you are with a friend or a partner, you don’t have to talk all of the time. Sometimes, you just want to be together. You look forward to the times you can spend together, no matter what you are doing. That is how God wants us to be- to not just talk to him, but to be WTIH him- and to want to be with him.
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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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It is such an amazing thought to know that the creator and sustainer of all wants us to talk to him personally. And I think that is why he wants us to connect to Him through prayer. It keeps us in Him, with Him, grounded and secure.
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Because through prayer we can give Him all our worries, doubts, fears, needs, and problems in life as we rely on Him with childlike dependence. In our prayers we can listen to Him as a child listens to his/her Father. In our prayers God can lead us and guide us through life. Through our prayers He can give the peace, content, and joy that is unspeaking and that can only come from Him.
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Prayer is our phone line to God, how we are to communicate with Him. We need God’s guidance in all things; we are nothing, can do nothing, without our connection to Him, and that is our prayer life. Jesus is our example, and if He felt the necessity to be dependent on the Father, we have even a greater need.
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At the heart of prayer is an act of worship to the Lord. Prayer is an important part of the Christian life, and it is also a way to communicate with the Lord and grow in our relationship with Him. Through this relationship, God will bless us and change us to be like Jesus – deny ourselves, take up our crosses, and follow Him (Luke 9:23).
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So that we can grow closer to him and not rely on our own abilities. This will provide us with the utmost peace and joy that we can find, and will fulfill our purpose as human beings.