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Prayer: Connecting with God and Overcoming Temptation

Join us in a one-year journey through the Bible as we explore the power of prayer and learn how to overcome temptation. This study will take place in Room 120 every week at 9:30 starting next week. Discover the qualifications and hindrances to prayer, and find encouragement in biblical examples and teachings. Don't miss this opportunity to deepen your prayer life and grow closer to God!

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Prayer: Connecting with God and Overcoming Temptation

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  1. Through the Bible in one year • Begins next week at 9:30 • Room 120

  2. Luke 11:1-2(NIV) • One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.” • He said to them, “When you pray, say:

  3. Lamentations 3:22-23 (HCSB) • Because of the Lord’s faithful love we do not perish, • for His mercies never end. • They are new every morning; • great is Your faithfulness!

  4. Matthew 6:9-13 (NIV) • 9 “This, then, is how you should pray: • “‘Our Father in heaven, • hallowed be your name,

  5. 10 your kingdom come, • your will be done, • on earth as it is in heaven. • 11 Give us today our daily bread.

  6. 12 And forgive us our debts, • as we also have forgiven our debtors. • 13 And lead us not into temptation, • but deliver us from the evil one.’

  7. Our Father in heaven

  8. Hallowed be your name

  9. Your kingdom come, • Your will be done, • on earth as it is in heaven.

  10. 1 Chronicles 29:10-13 NIV • David praised the Lord in the presence of the whole assembly, saying, “Praise be to you, Lord, the God of our father Israel, from everlasting to everlasting.

  11. Yours, Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and the splendor, for everything in heaven and earth is yours.

  12. Yours, Lord, is the kingdom; you are exalted as head over all. Wealth and honor come from you; you are the ruler of all things.

  13. In your hands are strength and power to exalt and give strength to all. Now, our God, we give you thanks, and praise your glorious name.

  14. Give us this day our daily bread

  15. And forgive us our debts, • as we also have forgiven our debtors

  16. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’

  17. James 1:13 (NIV) • When tempted, no one should say, “God is tempting me.” For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He tempt anyone;

  18. Luke 4:1-2 (NIV) • Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, left the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, 2 where for forty days He was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and at the end of them He was hungry.

  19. Hebrews 2:18 (NIV) • Because He himself suffered when He was tempted, He is able to help those who are being tempted.

  20. Matthew 26:41 (NIV) • “Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

  21. 1 Corinthians 10:13 (NIV) • No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.

  22. Romans 8:26-27 (NIV) • In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans.

  23. 27 And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.

  24. Six qualifications of prayer:

  25. 1. Prayer should be in accord with God’s will • 1 John 5:14 (NIV) • This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.

  26. 2. Prayer should be ongoing • 1Thessalonians 5:17 (NIV) • pray continually

  27. 3. Prayer should be in faith. • Hebrews 11:6 (NIV) • And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.

  28. 4. Prayer should be sincere. • Psalms 145:18 (NIV) • The Lord is near to all who call on Him, • to all who call on Him in truth.

  29. 5. Prayer should be simple. • Matthew 6:7 (NIV) • And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words.

  30. 6. Prayer should be persistent. • Luke 18:7; (NIV) • And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off?

  31. Collosians 4:2 • Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful.

  32. Six hindrances to prayer

  33. 1. Unconfessed sin • Psalm 66:18 (NIV) • If I had cherished sin in my heart, • the Lord would not have listened;

  34. 2. Insincerity • Matt. 6:5 (NIV) • And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.

  35. 3. Carnal motives • James 4:3 (NIV) • When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.

  36. 4. Unbelief • James 1:5–6 (NIV) • If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you. 

  37. 6 But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.

  38. 5. Domestic problems • 1 Peter 3:7 (NIV) •  Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives,

  39. and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers.

  40. 6. Refusing to submit to biblical teaching • Proverbs 28:9; • If anyone turns a deaf ear to my instruction, even their prayers are detestable.

  41. Willmington's book of Bible lists

  42. Jeremiah 33:3 (NIV) • Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.'

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