HOW TO PRAY PART ONE

Congratulations, you re getting ready to embark on a great learning experience. We will be speaking on our private prayer time.

To keep track of what we are praying about we will need to have a notebook. You can use paper in a folder, a tablet or actual notebook, or you might want to get a nice blank journal.

I do not recommend keeping your prayer requests on the computer. Being guilty of this myself, I have had the computer be down and even crash. Yes, I lost it all. This is one time for paper and pen.

Next pick a location. This is each to their own. Pick a place where you can be comfortable and have a place for your Bible, paper and pen. You want to be alone and able to read and write.

There are times when I like to play music softly. This is called praise and worship music, no singing just music. Another relaxing sound is the CD’s that play “soft” sounds. Either is good and helps to block out background noises.

Now that we have a place, music if wanted, and our Bible, paper and pen we are ready to prepare to pray.

The best guide we have as to how to pray is in the Bible.
Matthew 6:5-15
5 And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
7 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
8 Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
9 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
10 Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
11 Give us this day our daily bread.
12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
14 For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:
15 But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

The Bible is the Word of God. God’s Word is God’s will. God cannot lie, so if we tell God this is what He said and we believe then we will see answers.

Wait a minute, am I getting into uncharted waters here. You didn’t know that, or you find it hard to believe. You are not by yourself. There are a lot of Christians out there that do not know what rights and privileges they have. But God is a good God, and He even has a scripture for that.
Matthew 7:7
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:

Luke 17:6
And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamore tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you.

We have our place, our tools, and a guideline. Today take the time to read over the Lord’s Prayer and write down in your notes what this actually means to you. Take it line by line and tell your self what does this mean to me.

Tomorrow we will go over it line by line and explain why it is a guideline, and what it means to you.

God Bless
rECj/LJG