This document summarizes a passage from Psalm 6 that discusses prayer. It explains that prayer is not something only for "good people" or those who have acquired a special language. Rather, prayer is elemental and allows one's language with God to become honest, true, and personal. The document then outlines the three regions of activity in prayer: addressing God with one's heart, waiting for God, and being honest with God. It provides examples of prayers for each region.

2. Psalm6

4. “Untutored, we tend to think
that prayer is what good
people do when they are doing
their best. It is not.”
Eugene Peterson

5. “Inexperienced, we suppose
that there must be an “insider”
language that must be
acquired before God takes us
seriously in our prayer. There is
not.”

6. “Prayer is elemental, not advanced,
language. It is the means by which our
language becomes honest, true, and
personal in response to God. It is the
means by which we get everything in
our lives out in the open before God.”

8. 3.
GOD
KINGDOM
OF HEAVEN
2.
SITUATION
BATTLE
GROUND
1.
ME
MY HEART
THREE
REGIONS
of activity

9. Lord, don’t rebuke me based on the reasons you
have to be angry
Or chastise me based on your reasons to be
displeased
Instead, be gracious to me because I am so weak
and weary.
Heal me O God because I feel troubled, even to my
bones
My soul is greatly troubled.

10. 1.Approaching

12. How long will I have to wait for you to come?
Turn back and rescue me
Save me by the outpouring of your great love
Becausein death there is no mention of you
And no one in Sheol will give you praise

13. 2.Waiting

15. I am weary from sighing
Every night I flood my bed with tears
My eyes waste away from grieving
I am weak because of what all of my
enemies are doing.

16. 3.Honestly

17. Let everyone who lives wickedly leave me alone
For the Lord has heard what I have requested
of him.
All of my enemies will be ashamed and greatly
dismayed.
They will turnback and be instantlyfilled with
shame.

18. 4.Different

19. FourBigCommunityIdeas
1. What’s making you pause?
2. What are you waiting for?
3. Where are you at (honestly)?
4. What do you need to download?

20. AREYOUWILLING
tomakethejourney?
1. Say exactly how you feel about yourself
2. Say everything true about God
3. Join the purposes of God in this matter
4. Declare the contrast between the way of God
and the way of the enemy.
5. Speak out what God has brought to your
heart through the visitation of his Spirit

21. AndYou?