1. Lord Teach Us to Pray Luke 11:1

2. Outline What people think prayer is What the Bible says prayer is How to pray God answering our prayers What prayer is not

3. What people think prayer is Negotiating with God In case of emergency Just a way to ask God for things Something that only the weak do

4. What the Bible says prayer is Our way of talking to God  2 Chronicles 30:27  Nehemiah 1:11a  Psalms 6:9 Making our request to God  Philippians 4:6-7

5. What the Bible says prayer is A commandment  1 Thessalonians 5:17  Luke 18:1 God cares for us  1 Peter 5:7  Psalms 34:17-18

6. How to pray Christ is our example  1 Peter 2:21

7. How to pray - Preparing Jesus prepared  Quite place Mark 1:35 Luke 6:12  Make time Mark 6:46 Psalms 55:16-17 Daniel 6:10

8. How to pray - Performing Pray according to God’s will  1 John 5:14  Matthew 26:39 Being humble  Luke 18:10-14  Isaiah 64:8

9. How to pray - Performing Have faith  Matthew 21:22  James 1:5-8  Joshua 24:15  1 Kings 18:21  Revelation 3:15-16

10. How to pray - Performing Giving thanks  Philippians 4:6  Ephesians 1:3  Jeremiah 32:17-25

11. How to pray - Performing Length of the prayer  Matthew 26:39, 42  Luke 6:12  Ecclesiastes 5:2 Holy Spirit helps us pray  Romans 8:26-27

12. How to pray - Closing In Christ name  John 15:16  Ephesians 5:20

13. How to pray - Closing Amen  Strong’s: Verily So it is, so be it, may it be fulfilled. It was a custom, which passed over from the synagogues to the Christian assemblies, that when he who had read or discoursed, had offered up solemn prayer to God, the others responded Amen, and thus made the substance of what was uttered their own.

14. God answering our prayers God told Paul no  2 Corinthians 12:8-9 God works in His time  Ecclesiastes 3:11a

15. What prayer is not What pray can’t accomplish  Take away our responsibility 2 Thessalonians 3:10  Violate man’s free will Romans 10:1  Make a person a Christian No “sinner’s prayer”

16. Steps to Salvation Hear - Romans 10:17 Believe - John 3:18 Repent - Acts 19:18-19, Acts 17:30 Confess - Acts 8:36-37, Romans 10:9 Baptized - Acts 2:38 Live faithfully - Revelation 2:10