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Before you begin your Bible study, as a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, be sure you have named your sins privately to God the Father.
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
(Known, Unknown and Forgotten sins) (1Jn 1:9)
You will then be in fellowship with God, Filled with the Holy Spirit and ready to learn Truth from the Word of God.
"God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in Spirit and Truth," (John 4:24)
GOD’S COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
While God communicates with man through His Word, He has given believers a grace means of communication with Himself; prayer.
Prayer is an extension of the faith-rest technique (Mixing the Word of God with faith; and then Thinking with the Word; in EVERY circumstance; Rom 4:20-21) which we have already studied.
Just as we learned a basic Thought of faith-rest, “Casting all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you.”
(1Pe 5:7) we need to know and use Promises related to prayer.
Some of these are Promises involving faith and are important because in faith there is no merit; therefore, faith is compatible with the concept of grace.
"/And all things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive."
/(Matt 21:22)
/ "Therefore I say to you, all things for which you pray and ask, believe that you have received them, and they will be granted you./
(Mark 11:24)
In eternity past God the Father devised a Plan for mankind.
This was divided into three parts, which we call Phase One; (Salvation) Phase Two; (The believer is to reach Spiritual maturity; in time) Phase Three, (Eternity).
In Phase One, the Lord Jesus Christ paid for man’s sins with His substitutionary death on the Cross.
(2Co 5:21) Phase Two includes provision for regenerate man’s every need.
The Holy Spirit, who sustained the humanity of Jesus Christ, also sustains the believer on earth.
Phase Three is the provision of God the Father for eternity.
In earlier studies we have seen various aspects of a believer’s life: Spirituality, faith-rest, Divine mental attitude, and carnality.
Prayer is another vehicle of God’s grace provision for all believers, and God expects us to use it.
However, people can’t use what they don’t Spiritually UNDERSTAND!
When we speak to God it’s just as though He were in the room with us; (Omnipresence) because He hears us immediately.
(Isa 65:24) But, let’s consider the distance to the throne room of God.
The sun is about 93,000,000 miles from the earth.
(Eight thousand times as far away as the United States is from China) The next closest star is much farther away than that.
Light travels 186,000 miles a second, or six trillion miles a year.
Light from the sun reaches us in eight minutes, but it takes light from the nearest star, (Proxima Centauri) more than four years to reach us!
If Sirius (The Dog Star) should explode tonight, it would be nearly nine years before we saw the explosion!
I have often speculated on how far prayer travels in a second.
We know that the closest cluster of stars visible to the naked eye is Andromeda Nebula.
Remember, one light year equals six trillion miles.
The light we see from Andromeda Nebula left there one million, six hundred thousand light years ago.
Not miles — light years!
Now we can only speculate as to how far the throne room of God is beyond Andromeda Nebula — billions, perhaps trillions of light years away!
This, then, is the distance your prayer travels.
We talk about the speed of the age in which we live, the rapid thrust of rockets and various other types of power systems; but their speed is nothing compared to the speed of prayer.
I want you to know that we are dealing with a Divinely designed system which is faster than anything known to science.
Now, let’s look at a few verses dealing with prayer.
/ I love the LORD, because He hears My voice and my supplications.
Because He has inclined His ear to me, Therefore I shall call upon Him as long as I live!
/(Psa 116:1-2)
Notice, there are two kinds of prayer in these verses: “hears my voice,” and a more intense type of prayer, “supplications.”
Sometimes we can pray in a normal, natural, easy way.
At other times we are in such a serious situation that the prayer is intensified.
It may be nothing more than “Oh, God” or “Oh, Lord, help me!” “I will call upon him” implies a vocal request; however, it is not necessary to pray by speaking out loud.
You can “Think” a prayer as well as “speak” one.
Both are definitely acceptable.
Two other very excellent Old Testament Promises connected with prayer are:
/ "It will also come to pass that before they call, I will answer; and while they are still speaking, I will hear.
/(Isa 65:24)
/ 'Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know.'
/(Jer 33:3)
It is very safe to conclude from Jeremiah 33:3 that we have yet to exploit the depths and riches of prayer.
There are also many wonderful New Testament prayer Promises.
In, (Matt 7:7) we are commanded to pray:
"/Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you/
Here we see three facets of prayer: (1) “asking” is normal prayer; (2) “seeking” is prayer with the concept of guidance; (3) “knocking” is intense prayer, or supplications.
/ "Whatever you ask in My name, that will I do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
"If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it.
/(John 14:13-14)
/ "If you abide in Me, (Stay in fellowship) and My Words abide in you, (Think with His Thoughts) ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
/(John 15:7)
/ Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, (Human thinking) will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
/(Php 4:6-7)
/Pray without ceasing./
(1Th 5:17)
/ Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need./
(Heb 4:16)
Remember, when you pray, you are utilizing a Divinely designed system.
When you say, “Father,” you reach the throne room of grace immediately, even though you are a tremendous number of light years away.
This provision is something we do not earn or deserve; it is graciously provided by God.
*BASIC PRINCIPLES OF PRAYER *
There are a few points on prayer which should be understood, for they are God’s ground rules, and they must be observed.
(1) Prayer is for believers only.
/For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus./
(Gal 3:26)
/But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name.
/(John 1:12)
Only because we are members of the family of God do we have the right to open our mouths and say, “Father.”
A relationship must exist before prayer becomes a bona fide function.
(2) All prayer is directed to the Father (Matt 6:9) in the name of the Son, (John 14:13-14) in the power of the Holy Spirit.
(Eph 6:18) Also (Heb 7:25) tells us that Christ is praying for us at the right hand of the Father.
(Rom 8:26-27) informs us that the Holy Spirit is praying for us.
Since They both make intercession for us, we never address our prayers to the Son or to the Spirit.
(3) Long prayers should be reserved for private prayers.
Make your public prayers short and to the point.
Generally, a public prayer is for something specific.
Pray for that specific item and move on.
So (Matt 6:5-8) emphasizes these points:
/ When you pray, you are not to be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and on the street corners so that they may be seen by men.
Truly I say to you, they have their reward in full.
But you, when you pray, go into your inner room, close your door and pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you.
And when you are praying, do not use meaningless repetition as the Gentiles do, for they suppose that they will be heard for their many words.
So do not be like them; for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him.
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