How to Pray
April 26, 2016
“How To Pray”
“Keep company with God, get in on the best. Open up before God, keep nothing back; he’ll do whatever needs to be done: He’ll validate your life in the clear light of day and stamp you with approval at high noon.” (Psalm 37:4–6 Message)
- Approach With An Attitude
“For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name.” (Ephesians 3:14–15)
- Attitude of Honor
“For this reason I kneel before the Father” (Ephesians 3:14–15)
- Attitude of Privilege
“For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name.” (Ephesians 3:14–15)
“Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.” (Hebrews 4:16)
- Appeal With A Prayer
- Change my Heart
“I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being,” (Ephesians 3:16)
- Experience Jesus Living Through Me
“I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith.” (Ephesians 3:16–17)
- Experience Christ’s Unimaginable Love
“And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.” (Ephesians 3:17–19)
“‘As there is springtime in nature so is a revival the spiritual springtime in God’s kingdom.’ Pastor Elias Aas, who moved in 1904 from Farmington, Minnesota to Northwood wrote these words to introduce his account of a spiritual awakening that gripped the Northwood and Hatton communities several years before his arrival to serve a parish there.” (Robert Lee)
III. Ascribe With Praise
“Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.” (Ephesians 3:20–21)