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Saturday, July 6 th 5:30 P.M. Christian Foundations. “To pray is to change. Prayer is the central avenue God uses to transform us.” Richard Foster "God does nothing except in response to believing prayer." John Wesley
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Saturday, July 6th 5:30 P.M.
“To pray is to change. Prayer is the central avenue God uses to transform us.” Richard Foster • "God does nothing except in response to believing prayer." John Wesley • "Prayer will make one cease from sin, or sin will entice one to cease from prayer." John Bunyon
“Coincidences occur much more frequently when we pray.” William Temple • "Prayer - secret, fervent, believing prayer - lies at the root of all personal godliness." William Carey • “The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous person makes tremendous power available.” James 5:16b
Attentiveness • Matthew 14:23 - After he had dismissed them, Jesus went up on a mountainside by himself to pray. Later that night, he was there alone. • Mark 1:35 - Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed.
Alignment • Confessing sin and the Word • "If you want…power in prayer, you must remain in…abiding union with the Lord Jesus Christ." – C. H. Spurgeon
Assignment • “How I would love to see you…commune with God, through the things He has created. Your soul longs for it, and you will never be thoroughly happy until you do this.”
Appeal • Abraham and Moses • Petition & Intercession • Romans 8:26-28
Declaration: “I will be attentive to the Spirit of God, aligning myself with Christ. By grace, I will discern prayer assignments and then make my appeal—my intercessions—before God. I will then enter into rest, abandoning or surrendering all into the Lord’s hands. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.”