Praying with other believers is an amazing act of unity. God has an incredible storehouse of riches for Christians to pray into each others' lives. God’s ability is not limited by our inability!

1. Oregon City Evangelical Church
Application November 1, 2009
Sermon Notes
7. At a recent Sunday evening prayer time Eugene Morgan Pastor Tom
taught about the distractions/hindrances to our prayer life
and their antidote. They are listed below. Which Ephesians 3:14-21
hindrance is most challenging for you and what antidote I. Praying with other believers is an amazing act of unity.
do you need to focus on? (Have each person share and
someone else in the group pray for them.) When we pray with other believers we demonstrate to
Hindrances: Fear ~ Doubt ~ Uncertainty ~ Impatience ~ the visible and invisible world that we are part of God’s
Negative talk ~ Questioning the truth of God’s Word whole family in heaven and on earth.
Antidote:
1. Agree with and believe God’s Word is absolutely true. John 17:17
2. In context of God’s Word, receive its promises. Psalm 77:8-15
3. Determine that we will not let distractions deter our faith or our II. God has an incredible storehouse of riches for
prayers. Christians to pray into each other’s lives.
8. Reflect on the two prayers in Ephesians (1:15-23 and
3:14-21) along with the Scriptural prayers you studied
with your Growth Group. Which prayer is most impacting
to you? Which prayer could you use as a pattern prayer
to help you develop your practice of prayer this week?
Prayer Corner:
Pray for those who have recently come to Jesus as
Savior. Pray that they will grow in Christ and not
waiver as new Christians.
Pray for those in the OCEC who are experiencing III. God’s ability is not limited by our inability!
financial crisis and possible foreclosure on their God’s ability to meet our need is beyond our ability to ask
homes. Pray for God’s family to graciously help. or imagine but we often leave roadblocks to answered
Pray for financial provision for the church ministries. prayer in place. James 1:2-8; 4:1-10; Matt. 5:23-24; 6:14-15
Prayer Tip:
Build up your prayer experience by turning to a Biblical
prayer and read it as a prayer with modern circumstances
and people in mind. Take an additional step and actually Let praise and honor to God become a wonderful antidote
put events and names in the prayer! to fear and waning faith.

2. Growth Group Study Guide Into the Word
4. The following passages are a few of many prayers
Week of _November 1, 2009_ recorded in Scripture. One way a person can learn to
pray is by using Scriptural prayers as a guide.
Complete the chart, making special note of any
Getting Started principles that could help you grow as a “pray-er”.
1. What was the hardest and easiest thing to ask your Passage Who Prayer Prayer Principles
parent(s) for when you were a kid? Prayed Theme(s)
Matthew
6:5-14
Luke
18:9-13
2. Sometimes parents (or Sunday School teachers) teach
Philippians
children a prayer to say at dinner or bedtime. If this is 1:9-11
true for you then tell about a prayer you were taught as
a child. If not, share about a time as a child you
remember hearing someone else say a memorized Daniel
prayer. 9:1-19
Acts
4:23-31
2 Samuel
7:18-29
3. Share about a time when you remember someone
praying and it really inspired or encouraged you to want
to pray.
5. What do these sample prayers tell you about the types
of things people should pray about?
6. What additional principle for praying powerful prayers
do you find in 1 John 5:14-15?