Where can I pray

I. Where can I prayA. ___________________

1. In the place of ________________ – Ezra 10:12. In the place of ________________ – Psalm 5:13. In the place of ________________ – Matthew

26:394. In the place of ________________ – Matt 6:5-8

ANYWHERESORROWSILENCESUBMISSION

SECRET

II. WHY DO I HAVE TO PRAY IN SECRET

A. It shows you choose to ______________ – you are not a hypocrite

B. It shows you choose to ______________ – you are a servant

C. It shows you choose to ______________ – you want to communicate with God

D. It shows _______________

PRAY

OBEY

CONVEY

HUMILITY

What humility looks like

What humility looks like

What humility looks like

What humility looks like

What humility looks like

What humility looks like – 3 objectives

1. What are the 5 most humiliating incidences your group has ever heard of? (Keep it clean).

2. What are the 5 most humiliating/humbling incidences the members in your group have experienced? (Share with everyone after)

What humility really looks like

What humility really looks likePhilippians 2:7-8

But (Jesus) made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. 8And being found in appearance as a

man, he himself and became obedient to death— even death on a

cross!

HUMBLED

What humility looks like – 3 objectives

1. What are the 5 most humiliating incidences your group has ever heard of? (Keep it clean).

2. What are the 5 most humiliating/humbling incidences the members in your group have experienced? (Share with everyone after)

3. What are the 5 most spiritually humbling incidences the members in your group have experienced?

III. PRAYING IN HUMILITY1) The Key to a humble prayer –

a. ____________ – Matt 11:29 – Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

i. He Recognized his _________________ii. He recognized ______________ as his strengthiii. He wanted God’s will to be done, ___________ his

own

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WEAKNESSES GOD

NOT

IV. PRAYING IN THE PLACE OF HUMILITY

A. Praying “_________” the Unseen – “If nothing worthwhile exists under the sun, our only hope must lie above it”

B. Praying “_________” the Unseen – “If the man with everything investigated every visible delight and still wounded up unsatisfied, then what satisfies must be invisible

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IV. PRAYING IN THE PLACE OF HUMILITY

C. Praying to the Father – “If the wisest man on earth finds no answers under heaven, then we must look to heaven itself for those answers.”

1. We pray to the unseen father because only he can give us our life’s needs

a. ________________ – 1 John 1:9b. ________________ understanding and wisdom – Proverbs 2:6-

8, 3:5c. _______________ – Philippians 4:6

2. King Solomon found out three things concerning life – a. Without God – Ecclesiastes 1

i. There is no ______________ (1:3-4)ii. There is no ______________ (1:5-7)iii. There is no ______________ (1:8-11)

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V. Praying in the place of humility leads to the place of PEACE

Matthew 11:28-30 "Come to me, all you who are weary and

burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am

gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy and

my burden is light.”