“I need prayer”

“communicate with people. And in the 66 books of the Bible, there are 650 prayers that are recorded. Prayers of praise, prayers of confession, prayers for protection. There are prayers that are full of hope and prayers for those that are running on empty. Prayers for immediate need and prayers for things in the future. All kinds of prayers are written down throughout scripture. But one consistent thing that we see is prayer is the most powerful form of communication we can have.”

“marched up the street to St. Paul's Chapel in New York City. There and then, the entire government, which was much smaller, at its inception knelt in prayer. It was prayer, prayer, and more prayer that began the nation in humility, acknowledging the sovereign God. So the greatest need, I want to say this morning, of our country is prayer, prayer, and more”

“our families again our church our community for our friends the people in our lives and so we have to labor in prayer because it's a priority and so I've said a lot about prayer and maybe you've heard a lot about prayer and you know a lot about prayer because you've grown up in the church but I'm going to ask you before we move to the next section, what does your prayer life look like? Like this week, what does your prayer life look like? We're almost halfway through the year. What does it look like, the communion, the conversations that you're having with the Lord?”

“Prayer is the platform of both our private and our public praise and worship. Prayer is the lifeline of our sustained daily communion with God. Prayer is the place of intercession for the needs and cares of others. Prayer is the practice that teaches us dependence, and prayer is the panic button of our last resort. And for some, it's thanking God for food and panic button. That's”

“Most people think of prayer as like this weird voodoo thing that if you pray the right thing in the right ways, the right things happen. Or some people think prayer is just repeating over and over again. God is great, God is good, let us thank him for our food, amen. But prayer is a communication. Prayer comes from deep within our souls. Prayer comes from the things we go through in life and our reliance upon God. It comes from a humble heart that is surrendered to a powerful, perfect, and loving God.”

“as Paul explicitly says, he says, first of all, to start out, and this wasn't a reference to time, it was a reference to importance. The first thing that you, young Timothy, have to understand is that if anything is going to happen in this church, it has to be through prayer. Prayer is crucial, not just for ourselves. We tend to think of prayer, and we think of our own personal relationship with God, but prayer is to be for other people. And he, Paul, specifically says for”

“can see are the practices the pattern that arises from this and so we must have this practices of prayer down and the first practice i'm gonna be five of them so there's gonna be five practices of prayer from these three verses. So prayer is, first and foremost, honoring God's power. Prayer is honoring God's power.”

“something powerful about praying. It's been the catalyst of every great revival. Every movement of God began with people devoted to prayer. Every great thing that any person has done has been done with the heart's surrender to God through prayer. So I want to take a look at an encounter with Jesus that he had with his disciples about prayer. And I want us to begin to walk through this and let what Jesus teaches his disciples to teach us about prayer itself. So”

“So prayer must start with honoring God's power. So we honor God's power. Secondly, we long for God's presence. Do you have a longing for the presence of God? That's what prayer is. It's stepping into the presence of God. It's slowing down, as Jonathan said, to be still and know that he is God. Again, prayer is communion, not consumption. And we need to stop thinking of prayer as that 911 call,”

“Most of the time, we don't feel super close to God when we pray. We don't often see results, clear answers that are downstream from your prayers. We can't measure the supposed spiritual growth we're told should be happening. You will never see prayer as a good use of your time if you're thinking of prayer in terms of usefulness. That's the wrong starting point. Guys, prayer isn't a genie in a bottle. It's not something we go to at a 911 emergency point in our life.”

“the other. Guys, Jesus probably taught on praying more than once. So he probably worded it slightly different in each time, and that's okay. But what we have here is very similar to what's found in Matthew, what you probably have memorized. And it's what we call the Lord's Prayer. But in the Lord's Prayer, what we're given are actually practices of prayer. Practices of prayer. You see, one of the”

“Prayer is waiting on God's wisdom. Throughout all of this prayer, there is an element that is not fully written, but is kind of the heartbeat of all of this. It's that prayer is praying for God's will in God's time, in his perfect plan. Prayer is a practice of waiting, and as we submit in humility to the perfect mind of”

“And we pray those songs as we praise them. And that's what is happening here in Jonah. It's a psalm of thanksgiving in the most incredible place, the belly of a fish. But it's a psalm of thanksgiving, putting a prayer to prose. And we can learn a lot from the prayer of Jonah and what he reveals to us about God through his prayer and through his circumstances. So let's take a look at this prayer from the belly of the fish.”

“I love how Paul David Tripp describes the power of prayer. He says, it is important to know that the power of prayer is not the beauty of the words you say, but in the character of the one to whom you pray. Prayer is not about proving yourself to God. It's not about establishing worthiness. Prayer is about what the Puritans called importunity. That is, poverty of spirit. It's coming to God to acknowledge that he has every right not to hear me.”

“Like when prayer feels awkward, it feels so unnatural to us because we are sinful people and because we're used to communicating with someone who is physically right there with us. But we have to understand prayer is one of the most powerful things we can do. And we as a church have sadly missed the boat on teaching about prayer. Pun intended there. For Jonah, nobody? Okay. Golly, you guys. We'll keep you up. Keep you up. But as the church, we need to teach more about prayer.”

“guys today if you only woke up tomorrow with the things you prayed for and thank God for today what would you wake up with most of us it would probably just be food but God wants us to be devoted to prayer to take everything to him in prayer and to pray big expecting a big God to show in big ways. But one of the things that we struggle to understand is that same topic of prayer. What is it? I just want to give you a few statements about prayer before we get into our passage day.”

“Are you giving supplications? Are you asking for things? Are you praying and interceding for other people? Are you thanking God for the good things that he has done in your life? Are you neglecting to spend time with him? And then depending on how you answer that, allow that to draw you into his presence and just have a conversation with him because prayer is to be our priority. And then two, prayer honors God's authority over our nation. Prayer honors God's authority over our nation.”

“nothing. Absolutely nothing. And so the reason we pray in our lives with gratitude and give thanks is because we bring nothing to the table apart from Christ, apart from what he has done in our lives. And I'll say that again. We bring nothing to the table apart from what Jesus has done. We can't accomplish anything we can't build churches schools seminaries all these things we need the work and the power of Jesus in our lives and that comes through prayer which is why God calls us to be prayer warriors he's called us as the church to be prayer words to be on our knees praying for”

“I want to leave you with a quote by Jonathan Edwards about prayer. He said, The true spirit of prayer is no other than God's own spirit, dwelling in the hearts of the saints. And as this spirit comes from God, so doth it naturally tend to God in holy breathings and pantings. it naturally leads to God, to converse with him by prayer.”

“king of the universe who came to the earth constantly was in praying. That's something that the disciples observed early on in Jesus's life. We talked about it just a few weeks ago when we talked about his baptism and then his temptation in the wilderness. They were surrounded in prayer, devoted to 40 days and 40 nights of prayer and fasting. That's how Jesus began his ministry was with prayer. Every time Jesus was about to take a great undertaking on,”

“as that Google search, to be thinking of it, that air for our lungs. Without prayer, we will suffocate on this world. Without prayer, we will find ourselves empty and unsatisfied. Anxiety will continue to creep in. Depression will continue to reign. But with prayer, God begins to reorient. I'm not saying those things go away overnight. There are some things that are like the thorn in our flesh that Paul talks about”

“We ask God for something, and we expect it in a couple days, and when we don't, we get a little frustrated. If it's not an immediate answer, then we just kind of go down a rabbit hole. God doesn't care. He doesn't love me. He doesn't know what's going on in my life, or he doesn't exist at all. But we cannot trust our feelings regarding prayer. I love how Trevin Wax described this in an article about prayer. He said, prayer seems useless.”

“prayer. We've made prayer seem like it has to be these certain things, and that's not the goal of this today. Prayer is, first and foremost, it's just communion with God. It's part of our relationship with Him. If you have a relationship with anybody, you communicate with them. You talk to them. If you're married to someone and you don't ever talk, that's not going to end well. You have to”