BIBLICAL PRAYER
- DEVOTE YOURSELVES TO PRAYER, keeping alert in it with an attitude of thanksgiving" (Col. 4:2)
- "WITH ALL PRAYER AND PETITION PRAY AT ALL TIMES in the Spirit." (Eph. 6:18)
- "Therefore I want the men IN EVERY PLACE TO PRAY lifting up holy hands" (Tim.2:3)
- "LET US CONTINUALLY OFFER UP A SACRIFICE OF PRAISE TO GOD, that is, the fruit of lips that gives thanks to His name." (Heb. 13:15)
- "These all with one mind were CONTINUALLY DEVOTING THEMSELVES TO PRAYER" (Acts 1:14)
Focus on God
- Adoration (Neh. 8:6, Rev. 5:13,14); reciting the character and works of God (Psalms)
- Praise (1 Chron. 23:30; Psalm 34:1; Heb. 13:15)
- Thanksgiving (Phil. 4:6; 1 Thess. 5:18)
- Confession (Neh. 9:3; Psalm 32,51; 1 John 1:9)
Petitions for Others
- Prayer for all men; intercession (I Tim. 2:1)
- Prayer for our enemies (Matt. 5:44)
- Prayer for world rulers and all people in authority (I Tim. 2:2)
- Prayer for fellow Christians, teachers of the word; for the spreading of the Gospel and for Christian churches (Col. 4:3; Luke 22:32; beginning of Paul's epistles)
- Prayer for more Christian workers (Matt. 9:38)
Petitions for Ourselves
- Prayer for wisdom; know how to please God in all respects (James 1:5; Col.1:9, 10)
- Prayer for perseverance; to resist temptation that our faith would never fail (Mark 14:38; Psalm 119:117)
- Prayer that God would reveal to us our secret faults (Psalm 19:12; 139:23,24)
- All prayers that the Spirit leads us
Petitions for the Kingdom
- That God's cause would be vindicated on the earth; "Come Lord Jesus" (Mt. 6: 10; Rev. 22:21
- For our preparedness at the time of His Coming (Luke 21:36)
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