Our Mission: Reaching out to Leaders Who Can Change the World

DISCIPLESHIP GROUPS

Our Mission: Reaching out to leaders who can change the world.

23 – 27 October 2006

DISCIPLESHIP: PRAYER

INTRODUCTION

· How would you define prayer and what do you expect when you pray?

TRAINING OBJECTIVE. To show that prayer is a demonstration of dependence on God and identify some key verses on prayer that might help with consistent and meaningful communication with God.

SCRIPTURE PASSAGES

· What do these verses say about Jesus’ priority and commitment to prayer?

o Mark 1:35

o Matthew 14:23

o Luke 6:12

o Luke 11:1

o Mark 14:32-42

· What do these verses encourage us to do? Hebrews 4:16; Psalm 62:8; 1Thessalonias 5:17; Philippians 4:6, 7; Ephesians 5:20?

· How do the principles identified in theses verses affect our prayer life?

o Psalm 66:18

o John 15:7

o Matthew 21:22

o 1 John 3:22

o 1 John 5:14, 15

o John 16:24

· How can we use the Lord’s Prayer in Luke 11 as a model for prayer? “ACTS”

· For whom should we pray? Romans 10:1; 1 Timothy 2:1-4; Matthew 9:36-38

· How can we incorporate the use of scripture in our prayers?

· What does fasting have to do with prayer? Daniel 9:3; Joel 1:14; Matthew 4:2: Acts 14:23

EVALUATION/APPLICATION

· What are some practical things you can do this week to enhance your prayer life?

· How can you become a prayer partner to a friend this week?

In the first place, prayer will promote our personal piety, our individual holiness, our individual growth into the likeness of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ as nothing else but the study of the Word of God; and these two things, prayer and the study of the Word of God, always go hand-in-hand, for there is no true prayer without the study of the Word of God, and there is no true study of the Word of God without prayer. R. A Torrey