I told everyone I would post the scriptures and quotes from Sunday since I read so many. Hope this helps in your individual study! Blessings-- Russ
Matthew 6:5-8 (ESV)
5"And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. 6But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
7"And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words. 8Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
Proverbs 16:9 (NIV)
In his heart a man plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps.
Psalm 115:2-3 (ESV)
Why should the nations say,
"Where is their God?"
Our God is in the heavens;
he does all that he pleases.
Jeremiah 10:23 (ESV)
I know, O LORD, that the way of man is not in himself,
that it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.
Psalm 135:5-6 (ESV)
5For I know that the LORD is great,
and that our Lord is above all gods.
6 Whatever the LORD pleases, he does,
in heaven and on earth,
in the seas and all deeps.
Isaiah 46:10 (NIV)
I make known the end from the beginning,
from ancient times, what is still to come.
I say: My purpose will stand,
and I will do all that I please.
Exodus 32:9 (ESV)
And the LORD said to Moses, "I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people. …
James 4:2 (ESV)
You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.
Luke 11:9-10 (ESV)
And I tell you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 10For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.
Luke 11:13 (ESV)
If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!"
Matthew 21:22 (ESV)
And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.
John 15:7 (ESV)
If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
James 1:5 (ESV)
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.
2 Chronicles 7:14 (ESV)
if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
James 4:1-6 (ESV)
1What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don't they come from your desires that battle within you? 2You want something but don't get it. You kill and covet, but you cannot have what you want. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask God. 3When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
4You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. 5Or do you think Scripture says without reason that the spirit he caused to live in us envies intensely? 6But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says:
"God opposes the proud
but gives grace to the humble."
Genesis 15:1 (NKJV)
1 After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”
We look upon prayer as a means of getting things for ourselves; The Bible idea of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.
- Oswald Chambers
The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God.
- Oswald Chambers
Why we should pray:
- We are commanded to
- We are given the joy of being used by God for his purposes
- Prayer makes us aware: gives us the opportunity to bring him glory
- Prayer connects us to Him
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