The weather was very strange that day. The sun was shining, but a strange mist on Texas brought dismay to many pilots who came to Dallas, they could see the city, but not the airport. It was a big airport, 747 off and landing huge there, but we could not locate through the cloudy atmosphere.
"We sighting at any moment, "said the pilot. He took his radio and called the control tower. The answer was loud and clear: "Follow your course." As we continue the journey, there was increasing communication between the pilot and the tower. When last we saw the airport and the tower told us which runway to use. The plane approached smoothly, down, and eventually landed safely. A man in the tower, invisible to us at that time, led us on landing.
Like radio antennas of the plane contacted the control tower and vice versa, prayer is a powerful means of communication of God between heaven and earth. "Well, I do not know, "says one," I'm not sure that prayer is so good. I prayed once and it did not work, nobody answered. "
Perhaps we need to learn something about prayer. Why does it seem that some have answers and others do not? Many ask today: What is real prayer? Or is this just an exercise of the mind? If real, how can we ensure that we attain God when we need it? If the prayer is not enough to prevent a disaster, what is the point? Is there a "formula" that some use? Today's lesson will reveal the secrets of a prayer of success.
Scripture Reading: Matthew 6:5-15, Luke 18:1-5
When it became the first cable across the Atlantic in 1850, great celebrations erupted on both sides of the ocean, as two great continents had been joined . When sin separated heaven and earth, moved the mighty "cable" of prayer, and ever since then until now has been cut. The disciples once asked Jesus to teach them how to pray. And he did. It would be good memorizásemos the Lord's Prayer (Matthew 6:9-13) and often utter from the depths of our hearts. Anyway, no need to memorize all of our prayers, as the prayer is actually being in communion with God and therefore a personal and intimate experience with the Lord.
1. What is prayer
A young scientist compared the sentence with a radar, you send it to what is not, and the response bounces. In the simplest sense, prayer is open our hearts to God as a friend. It is not just asking for things. A fellowship will v10eces deep silence, a sense of God's presence. "Be still and know that I am God," suggests the Psalmist (Psalm 46:10). While on earth, Jesus lost face to face communion with God in which both had reveled in the sky. Was long in prayer, because this is how he spoke with the Father. Before sin, Adam could talk to God face to face.
When sin separated man from God, the media had to be modified. What a privilege it is to communicate with our heavenly Father through prayer at any time and under any circumstances. God wants us to open our hearts and our problems to bring you looking for your help. Discover how we talk to God that our prayers are heard and answered.
2. What is prayer
1. Do we pray to win the favor of God? Matthew 5:45
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If the Christian farmer always has good crops and bad unbelieving neighbor, the neighbor is likely to join the church, but from a selfish motive. If the Christian never gets sick, the churches would be full, the whole world profess to be Christian. If prayer give us anything we want, is not likely to end up praying for temporary benefits before sainthood? Do not would begin to take God's blessings for granted? Many are like that little boy who did not pray at the table one morning. When his father asked him why, he said: "No need to ask for bread today. I looked in the kitchen and there is enough for three days. "
2. Do we pray to show how religious we are? Matthew 6:5-7
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Prayer is not just repeating phrases or words. A cassette can repeat and repeat a few sentences, but can not pray. A parrot can repeat phrases, but can not pray from the heart. Are we being parrots or cassettes, or are we really praying?
3. Do we pray to tell God our needs? (Verse 8)
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David prayed: "O Lord, You ... you know when I sit and when I rise, you understand my thoughts from afar ... and all my ways are known. For there is not a word in my tongue, and behold ... you know it all "(Psalm 139:1-4). Although God knows all of us, never get tired of going to Him in prayer. You can download our hearts on It at any time and place that you need, and always understood. Urges us not to finish, your line is always free, never "busy."
4. Do we pray that God wants to help? Luke 11:13
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Prayer is not overcoming the resignation of God to help us, but to lay hold of his great and good will.
5. Do we pray for God to change? Malachi 3:6 ______________________________________________________________
Prayer lifts us, unite our mind with it so that we are in harmony with his will. Prayer is probably the least used source of energy to switch to that has to be changed, man. It enables us to receive God. Paul's experience is a good example (Acts 9:10-18).
Before you pick up the hotline to heaven, know that prayer has risks. You can see yourself as it is, which can be quite traumatic. Then there is the danger of having their prayers answered, prayers, "Lord, make me honest make me pure." Have you considered the consequences of such prayers when God does? Millions of lives have been changed through prayer. Yours may be one.
6. Do we pray because we need God? Luke 18:13
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The publican recognized his great need, the Pharisee was completed only himself. This concept makes a short prayer. Isaiah compares the heart that feels the need with a dry and thirsty land (Isaiah 44:3). Such kind of soil holds each drop of rain. Jesus said, "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied" (Matthew 5:6).
7. Do we pray because we know that only God can help us? John 15:5
______________________________________________________________ Only at the altar of God we can turn our lamp with divine fire (Isaiah 50:10, 11). In short, the sentence
- not a meritorious act to win the favor of God.
- There is an ostentatious display of piety.
- not tell God what we need, because you already know.
- There is a kind of bribe to make God help us.
- Unable to change the mind of God, but to place ourselves in harmony with God.
But it is:
- A recognition of our need and thirst for God.
- An admission that we are helpless and disabled without him
3. prayers promises
1. What does God promise to those who pray?
Psalm 34:10 "But those who seek the LORD shall not want
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Psalm 37:4" Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you _________________________________________________". ______________
John 15:7 "If you abide in me and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and _________________________________________".
Jeremiah 29:12, 13 "Then I will call upon, and come and pray to me, and I seek ____________; ___________ ____________________, and search for Me with all your heart. "
Jeremiah 33:3 "Call unto me, and _______________________, _______________________ ____________ and I will show you do not know."
Isaiah 65:24 "And _____________ that call I will answer, while still ________ I will have already heard."
Ephesians 3:20 "Now to Him who is able to immeasurably more than ___________________________ the __________________ and _____________, which
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encouraging are the promises of God to those who communicate with him apparently all resources of Almighty God, hoping no impediment to the children of the heavenly King! And yet we little. It is as if a bank had given us an unlimited account where the debt load, and continue to walk instead of using a car, or shivering in a thin coat when we could wear fur coats, or be sick at home when the best private hospitals are at our disposal. "Ask and you shall receive" these are words of the Lord, the Creator, the One who governs the universe. The riches of this world are yours. Why hesitate then?
4. The requirements of the sentence
1. What attitude is necessary on our part before that prayers are answered? Mark 11:24
______________________________________________________________ 2. What does James compare a person who prays without faith? James 1:5-7 __________________________________________________________________
Prayer without faith is like a key with no place to grab to turn in the lock. "Without faith it is impossible to please God, because it is necessary that cometh to God must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who diligently seek Him" \u200b\u200b(Hebrews 11:6).
3. What should we avoid to hear from us for our prayers heard? Psalm 66:18
______________________________________________________________ God can help as much as you let cherished sin. As the dirt in an electrical connection, so is the sin for the flow of the power of God. Take away the dirt, let us our sin so appreciated and power from on high will flow again. (By Arthur S. Maxwell, Good news for you, p.157). "He who conceals his sins does not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy" (Proverbs 28:13).
4. What gives John the Apostle requirement that the prayers are answered? 1 John 3:22
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Obedience is the fruit of faith. "Faith without works (obedience) is dead" (James 2:20). Or let's put it another way: "Facts speak louder than words."
5. How should we ask for things? 1 John 5:14, 15
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happened in the Garden of Gethsemane. Our Savior, facing the biggest test of his life, and sweating great drops of blood, fell prostrate on the floor. Three times he prayed: "Father, if possible, this cup pass from me." Jesus was tempted back to his father and let this human race at the mercy of their own sins. But his prayer was not finished yet. Of those dry lips came the words, "But as I will but as thou wilt" (Matthew 26:39).
6. Why should we ask according to God's will? Romans 8:27, 28
______________________________________________________________ Sometimes our prayers are purely selfish. Ye ask and receive not, because you ask wrongly, to spend on your pleasures "(James 4:3). No wise father will give your child everything he wants. Sometimes you have to say "No", sometimes providing a substitute, a rubber ball Instead of scissors, a glass of juice instead of an ice cream bar. Other times I say, "Not now." We must trust in God, knowing that He loves us too much to give us something that will hurt us.
5. Extra help to pray
1. Who should we pray? Luke 11:2
______________________________________________________________ 2. "In whose name we have to approach God? John 14:14
______________________________________________________________ 3. Who will join in prayer and to us? Romans 8:26
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4. What should mingle our prayers? Philippians 4:6
______________________________________________________________ 5. How often should we pray? Ephesians 6:18
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1 Thessalonians 5:17
______________________________________________________________ We should be in the spirit of prayer at all times while work, talk, drive or are sitting on the desk. You must also have a burning secret prayer. If Jesus came to your house, you would give welcome, would sit and talk and show him respect. Would time with Him So it is with prayer. The enemy will do everything possible to stop such communion, because he knows he can not beat anyone who communicates with heaven through the habit of prayer. Prayer develops patience. We must give time to God to work. Would deadline to express trust God? It takes time to grow a rose. It takes time to change a heart. But do not give up, God will respond. Yes it may be, or may be not, or later. But if you trust and wait, know your answer and be satisfied.
6. What example Jesus gave prayer? Mark 1:35
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Luke 6:12
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Jesus prayed early in the morning. He prayed at night and sometimes all night. He prayed in public, pray in private (mostly at the end of the ministry). Peter prayed for his disciples, by his enemies, for anyone who could ever believe, you and me (John 17:20). Prayed to victory in Gethsemane, and in the sky "lives forever to intercede" for us (Hebrews 7:25). Should we, as weak mortals, neglecting prayer, when we have available through Christ all power in heaven and earth? (Matthew 28:18).
7. In addition to prayer, what should we do? Habakkuk 2:1 ______________________________________________________________
Maurice Stevenson
account of a visit to his father made his home in the land of Pennsylvania oil. Were in the store, while his father went and opened a window and asked, "Son, where are drilling?" "Nowhere," replied the boy. "Yes, they are, I can hear how they are preparing the tools now. "The child could not hear anything, so they stuck his head out the window. Very faintly in the distance, the sound of the cable said, the turning of the pulleys and gears. Then he remembered that he was drilling a well at a mile and a half away. Why did the father when he heard he could not hear? Because half of the life of his father was employed in the oil business, was accustomed to hearing such sounds. This should be every Christian, on the lookout for God's voice!
8. Why we are warned, especially at this time to pray? 1 Peter 4:7
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In these closing years of the history of this land, we need to be careful that the cares of this life do not drown our preparation for the return of our Lord. Would not you like being so close to God, that every unexpected trial their thoughts turn to Him as naturally as flowers turn to sun? The relationship between God and every person is so different and full as if there was another human being on earth on which they had to worry about, as if there were not another by which to give your beloved Son to die. Thank you, oh God, for the privilege of prayer! -------------
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