1. Exploring the Possibilities

2. Share your prayer methods Sunday 6 September

3. An invitation to ask in prayer

4. "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; those who seek find; and to those who knock, the door will be opened. (Luke 11:9-10) Invitation Promise

5. The Big Ask Sandwich Safeguarded between two parables of Jesus: 1. Our persistent prayers “Shameless audacity” (NIV) “Shameless persistence” (NLT) e.g. Persistent widow/unjust judge (Luke 18), Jesus said, “pray and never give up”. 2.God’s goodness Father God knows how to give good gifts.

6. Relationship, Not Demands ‘The Circle Maker’- Mark Batterson

7. Blank Cheque? Terms & Conditions Apply: Be right with God If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. (John 15:7) Ask in God’s will If we ask anything according to his will, he hears us…. And we know that we have what we asked of him. (1 John 5:14-15) Ask with faith But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. (James 1:6) Ask with pure motives When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. (James 4:3)

8. Blank Cheque? Terms & Conditions Apply: Be right with God If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. (John 15:7)

9. Blank Cheque? Terms & Conditions Apply: Ask in God’s will If we ask anything according to his will, he hears us…. And we know that we have what we asked of him. (1 John 5:14-15)

10. Blank Cheque? Terms & Conditions Apply: Ask with faith But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. (James 1:6)

11. Blank Cheque? Terms & Conditions Apply: Ask with pure motives When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. (James 4:3)