“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.”

“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?”

“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”

“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.”

“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.”

“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,”

“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”

“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”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”