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Spiritual
                 Disciplines for
                 the Christian
                 Life
                 Donald S. Whitney


Tuesday 8 May 2012
PRAYER...
                     FOR THE PURPOSE OF
                         GODLINESS
                            Chapter 4




Tuesday 8 May 2012
A survey of 17,000 evangelical
 Christians found that on average
 they prayed for less than 5
 minutes each day
 A survey of 2,000 pastors and
 their wives found they prayed for
 less than 7 minutes per day.
 Whitney says that prayer is
 second in importance only to
 God’s word.
 Carl Lundqvist said this about
 prayer and the wog...

Tuesday 8 May 2012
“The New Testament church built two other disciplines upon
       prayer and Bible study, the Lord’s Supper and small cell
       groups. John Wesley emphasized five works of piety by
       adding fasting.The medieval mystics wrote about nine
       disciplines clustered around three experiences: purgation of
       sin, enlightenment of the spirit and union with God. Later the
       Keswick Convention approach to practical holiness revolved
       around five different religious exercises.Today Richard
       Foster’s book, Celebration of Discipline, lists twelve disciplines
       – all of them relevant to the contemporary Christian. But
       whatever varying religious exercises we may practice, without
       the two basic ones of Emmaus – prayer and Bible reading –
       the others are empty and powerless.”

Tuesday 8 May 2012
PRAYER IS EXPECTED
 Jesus expects us to pray
 Matt 6:6-9 But when you pray, go
 into your room, close the door and pray
 to your Father,who is unseen.Then your
 Father, who sees what is done in
 secret, will reward you. 7 And when you
 pray, do not keep on babbling like
 pagans, for they think they will be
 heard because of their many words...
 9 “This, then, is how you should
 pray:“‘Our Father in heaven,
 hallowed be your name,
 Lk 11:9, 18:1
Tuesday 8 May 2012
GOD’S WORD MAKES IT CLEAR




Tuesday 8 May 2012
GOD’S WORD MAKES IT CLEAR
 Col 4:2 Devote yourselves
 to prayer, being watchful
 and thankful.




Tuesday 8 May 2012
GOD’S WORD MAKES IT CLEAR
 Col 4:2 Devote yourselves
 to prayer, being watchful
 and thankful.
 1 Thess 5:17 pray
 continually,



Tuesday 8 May 2012
GOD’S WORD MAKES IT CLEAR
 Col 4:2 Devote yourselves
 to prayer, being watchful
 and thankful.
 1 Thess 5:17 pray
 continually,
 Did you notice anything
 about these two verses?

Tuesday 8 May 2012
GOD’S WORD MAKES IT CLEAR
 Col 4:2 Devote yourselves
 to prayer, being watchful
 and thankful.
 1 Thess 5:17 pray
 continually,
 Did you notice anything
 about these two verses?
 They are commands
Tuesday 8 May 2012
GOD’S WORD MAKES IT CLEAR
 Col 4:2 Devote yourselves to prayer,
 being watchful and thankful.
 How devoted are you to prayer -
 compare this devotion to your
 devotion to other things in your life.
 1 Thess 5:17 pray continually,
 This emphasises that prayer is
 relational - it comes out of an
 unbroken relationship with the Father.
 Whitney suggests it is like having two
 phone lines - God is always on one of
 them and you are aware of him even
 when speaking on the other.
Tuesday 8 May 2012
Martin Luther,
 “As it is the
 business of tailors
 to make clothes
 and cobblers to
 mend shoes, so it
 is the business of
 Christians to
 pray.”
Tuesday 8 May 2012
What excuses do you use for not
 praying? Most people claim other
 demands, priorities etc. - yet if
 you asked them they would gladly
 tell you how important it is to
 pray!
 The call to prayer is also an
 invitation - Heb 4:16 Let us
 then approach God’s throne of
 grace with confidence, so that we
 may receive mercy and find grace to
 help us in our time of need.

Tuesday 8 May 2012
Note here that there is no need
 to be pessimistic about praying -
 God is happy to hear and give
 grace - prayer is not an obligation
 but an opportunity to respond
 and receive
 God’s command is a command of
 love - he wants to hear from us,
 to communicate with us and to
 bless us.


Tuesday 8 May 2012
Prayer is important in spiritual
warfare: John Piper suggests we can
see prayer as the use of a walkie-talkie
in warfare, not for our own
convenience or ease of life.
The example of Jesus in prayer is
important - he prayed and so should
we, he needed it, so do we - Lk
5:16 But Jesus often withdrew to lonely
places and prayed.
Major reasons for prayerlessness:
- a lack of discipline - prayer time is
not planned or prioritised
Tuesday 8 May 2012
- the problem of often not “seeing” the
result of prayer - after all it is primarily
a spiritual activity
- sometimes we do not feel God’s
nearness when we pray, it is easy to
pray when we feel God’s closeness
- when we don’t see the need to pray,
Jn 15:5 “apart from me you can do
nothing” - yet we are proud and self
sufficient
- when we do not see God’s greatness,
when we lose focus on the cross

Tuesday 8 May 2012
PRAYER IS LEARNED
 We start the Christian lives in need
 of learning to pray - and continue
 to grow and learn about prayer
 throughout our Christian lives.
 On one level we know instinctively
 how to pray - much as a baby
 knows how to ‘talk’ from its
 earliest days - yet still we need to
 see, as the disciples did, that we
 need Jesus to teach us to pray - Lk
 11:1 - how do we do this?
Tuesday 8 May 2012

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  • 1. Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life Donald S. Whitney Tuesday 8 May 2012
  • 2. PRAYER... FOR THE PURPOSE OF GODLINESS Chapter 4 Tuesday 8 May 2012
  • 3. A survey of 17,000 evangelical Christians found that on average they prayed for less than 5 minutes each day A survey of 2,000 pastors and their wives found they prayed for less than 7 minutes per day. Whitney says that prayer is second in importance only to God’s word. Carl Lundqvist said this about prayer and the wog... Tuesday 8 May 2012
  • 4. “The New Testament church built two other disciplines upon prayer and Bible study, the Lord’s Supper and small cell groups. John Wesley emphasized five works of piety by adding fasting.The medieval mystics wrote about nine disciplines clustered around three experiences: purgation of sin, enlightenment of the spirit and union with God. Later the Keswick Convention approach to practical holiness revolved around five different religious exercises.Today Richard Foster’s book, Celebration of Discipline, lists twelve disciplines – all of them relevant to the contemporary Christian. But whatever varying religious exercises we may practice, without the two basic ones of Emmaus – prayer and Bible reading – the others are empty and powerless.” Tuesday 8 May 2012
  • 5. PRAYER IS EXPECTED Jesus expects us to pray Matt 6:6-9 But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father,who is unseen.Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. 7 And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words... 9 “This, then, is how you should pray:“‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, Lk 11:9, 18:1 Tuesday 8 May 2012
  • 6. GOD’S WORD MAKES IT CLEAR Tuesday 8 May 2012
  • 7. GOD’S WORD MAKES IT CLEAR Col 4:2 Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful. Tuesday 8 May 2012
  • 8. GOD’S WORD MAKES IT CLEAR Col 4:2 Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful. 1 Thess 5:17 pray continually, Tuesday 8 May 2012
  • 9. GOD’S WORD MAKES IT CLEAR Col 4:2 Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful. 1 Thess 5:17 pray continually, Did you notice anything about these two verses? Tuesday 8 May 2012
  • 10. GOD’S WORD MAKES IT CLEAR Col 4:2 Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful. 1 Thess 5:17 pray continually, Did you notice anything about these two verses? They are commands Tuesday 8 May 2012
  • 11. GOD’S WORD MAKES IT CLEAR Col 4:2 Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful. How devoted are you to prayer - compare this devotion to your devotion to other things in your life. 1 Thess 5:17 pray continually, This emphasises that prayer is relational - it comes out of an unbroken relationship with the Father. Whitney suggests it is like having two phone lines - God is always on one of them and you are aware of him even when speaking on the other. Tuesday 8 May 2012
  • 12. Martin Luther, “As it is the business of tailors to make clothes and cobblers to mend shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray.” Tuesday 8 May 2012
  • 13. What excuses do you use for not praying? Most people claim other demands, priorities etc. - yet if you asked them they would gladly tell you how important it is to pray! The call to prayer is also an invitation - Heb 4:16 Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need. Tuesday 8 May 2012
  • 14. Note here that there is no need to be pessimistic about praying - God is happy to hear and give grace - prayer is not an obligation but an opportunity to respond and receive God’s command is a command of love - he wants to hear from us, to communicate with us and to bless us. Tuesday 8 May 2012
  • 15. Prayer is important in spiritual warfare: John Piper suggests we can see prayer as the use of a walkie-talkie in warfare, not for our own convenience or ease of life. The example of Jesus in prayer is important - he prayed and so should we, he needed it, so do we - Lk 5:16 But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed. Major reasons for prayerlessness: - a lack of discipline - prayer time is not planned or prioritised Tuesday 8 May 2012
  • 16. - the problem of often not “seeing” the result of prayer - after all it is primarily a spiritual activity - sometimes we do not feel God’s nearness when we pray, it is easy to pray when we feel God’s closeness - when we don’t see the need to pray, Jn 15:5 “apart from me you can do nothing” - yet we are proud and self sufficient - when we do not see God’s greatness, when we lose focus on the cross Tuesday 8 May 2012
  • 17. PRAYER IS LEARNED We start the Christian lives in need of learning to pray - and continue to grow and learn about prayer throughout our Christian lives. On one level we know instinctively how to pray - much as a baby knows how to ‘talk’ from its earliest days - yet still we need to see, as the disciples did, that we need Jesus to teach us to pray - Lk 11:1 - how do we do this? Tuesday 8 May 2012