Prayer

A New Hymn Verse 1

• Why do I not feel you all the time?

• Is it your fault or is it mine?

• Close to you is where I long to be,

• Tell me why I feel so far from thee.

Feel Jesus

A New Hymn Verse 2

• Why do I not see you all the time?

• Through my eyes I find you hard to find.

• Should I go and seek to search another place?

• Tell me where, O Lord, to look to find your face.

See Jesus

A New Hymn Verse 3

• And why do I not hear you all the time?

• When I pray, I listen for a sign,

• but my own voice it echoes in my heart.

• Tell me how to tell the two apart?

Hear Jesus

A New Hymn Verse 4

• Tell me why I question all the time,

• why small doubts still linger in my mind?

• But as I seek so also shall I find,

• for I know that you are faithful all the time.

Faithful all the Time

A New Hymn

• By Todd Miller, © 1998 Blue Pelican Publishing.

How to Develop a Life Changing Dangerous

Prayer Life

Pastor Mark A. Anderson

Why Pray?

† To Feel God in our lives and know we are not alone

† To See God in our brothers and sisters

† To Hear God and Word for us and to be heard

† To know God is faithful all the time

Jesus and Prayer

† Jesus Prayed –Matt 26:30

† Jesus taught His disciples to pray – Matt 6:5

† Jesus commanded His Disciples to Pray-Matt 26:41

† People brought others for Jesus to pray for – Matt 19:13

Mathew 7:7

• Ask, and it will given to you;

• Search, and you will find;

• Knock, and the door will be opened to you

• Do not ask, and it will not given to you;

• Do not Search, and you will not find;

• Don’t knock, and the door will be not opened to you

How To Pray?

† Set Aside a time and place for daily prayer

† Start by focusing † The Lord’s Prayer –

Matt 6:5+† Use the prayers of

faith: St. Francis, Luther’s Morning & Evening prayer, Serenity Prayer

† Pray the Bible

Pray with an Outline-ACTS-

A – Adoration

C – Confession

T – Thanksgiving

S - Supplication

Danger!This Could Develop Into

A Habit

Five Fingers of Needs

Thumb: Pray for the closest to you

Pointing – pray for those who guide us

Tallest – pray for those who stand tall

Weakest – pray for those who are weak

Smallest – my needs

Danger!This Could Change Who

You Are!

Pray for Your Enemies

You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbors and hate your enemy.’ but I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.

-Matthew 5:43-44 -NRSV

Danger!This Could Lead To ADeeper Prayer Life

The Jesus Prayer

• Thessalonias “Pray constantly”

• “Ceaseless interior prayer is a continuous aspiration and a yearning to the spirit of man toward God”

• “Acquire the habit of prayer and it will be easy for you to do good”

THE JESUS PRAYER

Jesus of Nazareth, Son of God, Have mercy on me, a sinner

The Jesus Prayer

Jesus of Nazareth

The Jesus Prayer

Jesus of Nazareth

Son of God

The Jesus Prayer

Jesus of Nazareth

Son of God

Have Mercy on Me

The Jesus Prayer

Jesus of Nazareth

Son of God

Have Mercy on Me

A Sinner

Contemplative Prayer

Weekday Schedule

3:15 Rise

3:30 Vigils

4:10 Reading/Private Prayer, Breakfast

6:30 Lauds

7:00 Mass

8:00 Reading/Private Prayer

9:15 Terce

9:30 Work

11:45 Sext

12:00 Dinner

12:30 Reading/Private Prayer, Siesta

1:45 None

2:00 Work

4:30 Reading/Private Prayer.

5:30 Vespers

6:00 Reading/Private Prayer, Supper

7:30 Compline

8:00 Retire

The secret to prayer

• Have genuine compassion for yourself, including all your past history, failings, limitations, and sins. Expect to make mistakes.

• By His own example, Jesus taught the forgiveness of everything and everyone and the service to other in their need.

Danger!This Could Lead Being Asked

To Pray Aloud

Corporate Prayer

ThisOne

In this place

All Everywhere

Corporate Prayer

• “We believe what we pray”

• God loves prayer

• …but there are simple mistakes that are easy to avoid

Corporate Prayer

Use “we” when you are leading

Luke 18:10

“Two Men went up to the temple to pray…” -NRSV

Corporate Prayer

Avoid “Lord I…”

Matthew 6:7

“When you are praying do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard because of their many Words” -NRSV

Corporate Prayer

Avoid “JUST” and other “empty phrases”

“Just”

• Only, merely, simply as in “I was just a child”

• I just want to pray for the WIYLDE participants

“Just”

• Only, merely, simply as in “I was just a child”

• I (ONLY) want to pray for the WIYLDE participants

Way To LiveWay To Live

The great thing is prayer. Prayer itself. If you want a life of prayer, the way to get it is by praying…You start where you are and deepen what you already have – Thomas Merton

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