Foundational
Stuff Every Christ Follower Needs to Know
Topic: Prayer
1. Is Prayer?
Genesis 3:8 And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool [afternoon breeze] of the day…
Psalm 139:4 Before a word is on my tongue, you know all about it, Lord.
Psalm 145:18 The Lord is near all who call out to Him, all who call out to Him with integrity.
Psalm 18:6 I called to the Lord in my distress, and I cried to my God for help. From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry to him reached his ears.
Psalm 66:19-20 19 However, God has listened; He has paid attention to the sound of my prayer.
20 Blessed be God! He has not turned away my prayer or turned his faithful love from me.
2. Should I Pray?
God’s Word clearly details the reasons Christians should pray:
• Prayer us to stand strong against the strategies of the .
Ephesians 6:13 For this reason take up the full armor of God, so that you may be able to resist in the evil day, and having prepared everything, to take your stand.
• Prayer is man’s means of obtaining and maintaining a with God.
Jeremiah 29:11-13 11 For I know the plans I have for you”—this is the Lord’s declaration— “plans for your well-being, not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. 12 You will call to me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. 13 You will seek me and find me when you search for me with all your heart. 14 I will be found by you”…
• Prayer is God’s appointed way of receiving and .
Hebrews 4:16 Therefore, let us approach the throne of grace with boldness, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in time of need.
• Prayer in Jesus’ name brings the of God and fullness of .
Isaiah 26:3 You will keep the mind that is dependent on you in perfect peace, for it is trusting in you.
John 16:23-24 23 “In that day you will not ask me anything. Truly I tell you, anything you ask the Father in my name, he will give you. 24 Until now you have asked for nothing in my name. Ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.
• Prayer will you.
Luke 21:34-36
34 “Be on your guard, so that your minds are not dulled from carousing, drunkenness, and worries of life, or that day will come on you unexpectedly35 like a trap. For it will come on all who live on the face of the whole earth.36 But be alert at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are going to take place and to stand before the Son of Man.”
3. Do I Pray?
Matthew 6:9-13
9 “Therefore, you should pray like this:
Our Father in heaven,
your name be honored as holy.
10 Your kingdom come.
Your will be done
on earth as it is in heaven.
11 Give us today our daily bread.
12 And forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
13 And do not bring us into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one.
1 Thessalonians 5:17
…pray constantly,…