This document discusses the importance of prayer and how to have an effective prayer life. It notes that Jesus often went off by himself to pray. Prayer is about developing a relationship with God rather than just asking for things. The document provides tips for prayer such as developing a hunger for God, listening to God, praying out loud, focusing on God's priorities in prayer, and creating regular prayer habits like keeping a prayer journal. Maintaining an active prayer life is vital for spiritual growth.

8. • 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.
• Matthew 14:23 – …he went up on a mountainside
by himself to pray. When evening came, he was
there alone.
• Luke 6:12 – One of those days Jesus went out to a
mountainside to pray, and spent the night praying
to God.
• Luke 22:41-44 – He withdrew about a stone's
throw beyond them, knelt down and prayed,

10. Prayer is not just getting what we
want form God; it is God’s way to
shape us to what He wants us to be.”

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He is more concerned with His relationship with you than
saying Yes to all your request.

18. • When you pray, do you sense God listening to
you, or do your prayers seem to just floating in
the air?
• Do you hear what God has to say, or do you
struggle to discern any message from Him?
• Do you pray frequently because you love to do
so? Or do you often neglect to pray because
you’re discouraged or worried that you’re
somehow not praying correctly?

19. • Develop a hunger for God.
• Seek intimacy with God.
• Pursue God with passion.
• Listen to God.
• Pray out loud.

22. • In prayer, we cultivate proper
attitude and develop the need to
pray for the right things.
• Prayer is focusing on God’s priorities.

29. • “It’s been said that if we aim at
nothing, we will hit it every time. The
same is true for prayer. If we are
aimless in our prayer life we will pray
randomly, at best.”
• “Many people pray as if God were a big
aspirin pill; they come only when they
hurt.”

30. • Abraham Lincoln: I have been driven many times to
my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had
absolutely no other place to go.
• Martin Luther King Jr: “To be a Christian without
prayer is no more possible than to be alive without
breathing.”
• Oswald Sanders: “Prayer does not fit us for the
greater work; prayer is the greater work. The
meaning of prayer is that we get ahold of God, not
of the answers.”
• Hebrews 12:2 “Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the
author and perfecter of our faith, so that we will not
grow weary and lose heart.”

31. • Make a daily prayer list
• Make a list of things you need to
pray for each month.
• Create your own prayer journal.
• Have a pen and a paper.
• Have a specific time and place where
you meet God.

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