PRAYER

Back To the Basics

1. What is (are) your favorite verse(s) about prayer?

2. What is prayer?

Prayer includes

Adoration (e.g., Jonah, Marys Song ),

Confession (e.g., Psalm 51 ; Tax Collectors Prayer in Luke 18 )
Thanksgiving (e.g., John 11:40 ; 1 Thes 1:2 ),
Petition/Supplication: Petition is a formal message requesting something that is
submitted to an authority. It is a major theme of most of our prayers
Underlying

God can be approached with prayer to intervene and effect changes in nature
Belief

and in the course of world events.

What is the basis of above belief?

Which verses from Bible affirm this belief?
Are there grounds to deny this belief? What do atheists or humanists or
existentialists believe about prayer?
What do you personally believe about above statement?

3. What are the major areas / causes included prayer in our day-today prayer
life?
Matthew 6:9-13 ; Luke 11:2-4, Acts 1:24 ; 12:5 ; 13:3, Philippians 4:6

4. What are some of the areas consciously or subconsciously excluded from

prayer in our day-today prayer life?

5. Praying is speaking out your heart to God.

Psalm 51 (For I know my transgressions)

Psalm 32 (Then I acknowledged my sin to you)
Job 6:8 (what I hope for)
Psalm 21:2 (request of his lips)
Philippians 4:6 (in everything / in every situation)

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Noida Evangelical Graduates Fellowship 17 March 2017
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Back To the Basics

6. Discuss following prayers or situations in the Bible and relevance thereof in

our lives today?

Luke 22:45
When Jesus rose from prayer and returned to the disciples, He found them asleep, exhausted
from sorrow. Why are you sleeping? He asked. Get up and pray so that you will not enter into
temptation.

2 Chronicles 16:12
In the thirty-ninth year of his reign Asa was afflicted with a disease in his feet. Though his
disease was severe, even in his illness he did not seek help from the LORD, but only from the
physicians.

1 Chronicles 4:10
Jabez cried out to the God of Israel, "Oh, that you would bless me and enlarge my territory! Let
your hand be with me, and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain." And God
granted his request.

2 Chronicles 33:10
The Lord spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they paid no attention. So the Lord brought
against them the army commanders of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh prisoner, put a
hook in his nose, bound him with bronze shackles and took him to Babylon. In his distress he
sought the favor of the Lord his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his
ancestors. And when he prayed to him, the Lord was moved by his entreaty and listened to his
plea; so he brought him back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the
Lord is God.

James 5:17
Elijah was a human being, even as we are. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did
not rain on the land for three and a half years. Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and
the earth produced its crops.

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Noida Evangelical Graduates Fellowship 17 March 2017