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Where can I pray. ANYWHERE. ___________________ In the place of ________________ – Ezra 10:1 In the place of ________________ – Psalm 5:1 In the place of ________________ – Matthew 26:39 In the place of ________________ – Matt 6:5-8. SORROW. SILENCE. SUBMISSION. SECRET.
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Where can I pray ANYWHERE • ___________________ • In the place of ________________ – Ezra 10:1 • In the place of ________________ – Psalm 5:1 • In the place of ________________ – Matthew 26:39 • In the place of ________________ – Matt 6:5-8 SORROW SILENCE SUBMISSION SECRET
WHY DO I HAVE TO PRAY IN SECRET PRAY • It shows you choose to ______________ – you are not a hypocrite • It shows you choose to ______________ – you are a servant • It shows you choose to ______________ – you want to communicate with God • It shows _______________ OBEY CONVEY HUMILITY
What humility looks like – 3 objectives • What are the 5 most humiliating incidences your group has ever heard of? (Keep it clean). • What are the 5 most humiliating/humbling incidences the members in your group have experienced? (Share with everyone after)
What humility really looks like Philippians 2:7-8 But (Jesus) made himself nothing, taking the very natureof a servant, being made in human likeness. 8And being found in appearance as a man, he himself and became obedient to death— even death on a cross! HUMBLED
What humility looks like – 3 objectives • What are the 5 most humiliating incidences your group has ever heard of? (Keep it clean). • What are the 5 most humiliating/humbling incidences the members in your group have experienced? (Share with everyone after) • What are the 5 most spiritually humbling incidences the members in your group have experienced?
PRAYING IN HUMILITY • The Key to a humble prayer – • ____________– Matt 11:29 – Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. • He Recognized his _________________ • He recognized ______________ as his strength • He wanted God’s will to be done, ___________ his own JESUS WEAKNESSES GOD NOT
PRAYING IN THE PLACE OF HUMILITY AS • Praying “_________” the Unseen – “If nothing worthwhile exists under the sun, our only hope must lie above it” • Praying “_________” the Unseen – “If the man with everything investigated every visible delight and still wounded up unsatisfied, then what satisfies must be invisible TO
PRAYING IN THE PLACE OF HUMILITY • Praying to the Father – “If the wisest man on earth finds no answers under heaven, then we must look to heaven itself for those answers.” • We pray to the unseen father because only he can give us our life’s needs • ________________ – 1 John 1:9 • ________________ understanding and wisdom – Proverbs 2:6-8, 3:5 • _______________ – Philippians 4:6 • King Solomon found out three things concerning life – • Without God – Ecclesiastes 1 • There is no ______________ (1:3-4) • There is no ______________ (1:5-7) • There is no ______________ (1:8-11) FORGIVNESS SPIRITUAL BLESSINGS PROFIT PURPOSE PROGRESS
Praying in the place of humility leads to the place of PEACE Matthew 11:28-30 "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”