The Bridge Sunday School. Acts Prayer Model Week 1
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The Bridge Sunday School. Acts Prayer Model Week 1
- 1. THE ACTS PRAYER MODEL
- 2. WHAT IS SO GOOD ABOUT PRAYER? Prayer Changes your circumstances Prayer Mends Relationships Prayer helps you physically. It can make a tangible difference in your physical health Prayer helps you emotionally. It can heal emotional wounds and brokenness. Prayer changes you.
- 3. WHAT IS SO GOOD ABOUT PRAYER? Prayer Mends Relationships A healing salve that you can apply to the wounds of torn and broken relationships A pride buster to soften your heart and allow you to reach out. Something that pulls people together as they mutually submit to a higher power. Not what I want or need but what God wants and provides.
- 4. WHAT IS SO GOOD ABOUT PRAYER? Prayer helps you physically. It can make a tangible difference in your physical health Prayer helps you emotionally. It can heal emotional wounds and brokenness. Prayer changes you. Sometimes it is not the circumstances that need changing, it is you who needs changing God is very interested in seeing you being transformed and redeemed in you heart, that change is forever.
- 5. SHOW METHE DATA Patients received angioplasty procedure who were prayed for suffered much fewer complications (Nov 2001 American Heart Journal) Heart Patients who were prayed for had fewer problems and shorter hospital stays. (May 1999 Internal Medicine) 400 heart attack patients (half prayed for) resulted in fewer deaths, faster recovery and fewer complications. (July 1988 Southern Medical Journal)
- 6. THE FIVE ATTITUDES OF PRAYER Be Aware: Prayer is a keen awareness of whom you’re praying to. Be Real: Pray with both an earnest and genuine heart.This applies to both the words you use and what you are praying about. Luke 18:10-14 Be Repentant: Sin is a serious obstacle to you prayers.Approach prayer with a spirit of repentance and willingness to seek forgiveness and abandon sin. Be Dogged:The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective. James 5:16
- 7. SECRET RECIPES How does one make a good Cake? How does one make a bad Cake?
- 8. THE SECRET INGREDIENTSTO MAKEYOU PRAYERS AMAZING Adoration to God Confessing you sins Thankfulness Supplication Remembering the request of others in your prayer Asking God for your own requests
- 9. ADORATION Adoration is giving God praise and honor for who he is and what he does. Everything we say in prayer should be said in Adoration but there needs to be a specific time to worship and give Adoration to God This one is the most unnatural parts of prayer because it is the part of prayer where it is completely about him and not about you. If you give Adoration and praise then it requires effort because it is the least intuitive part of prayer.
- 10. ADORATION: BE QUALITY DRIVEN One can only say holy and hallelujah so many times, Concentrate on the following qualities of God Creativity of the world as seen by diversity in nature and humanity Holiness that makes him without blemish Faithful, his selfless unending love for us Boundless mercy and grace shown in Jesus dying Perfect Justice Power that can and will conquer all evil. Sovereignty show he is in full control Unchanging nature Wisdom and perfect will so that all things work together
- 11. ADORATION Psalms 8 is a vivid example of how we can adore God. Other Psalms 8, 19, 46, 47, 66, 95, 96, 100, 148, 149, 150 Begin Where you are: C.S. Lewis use this advice from a friend to begin his Adoration Journey. Instead of looking for perfect theological words he used what he saw and experienced around him as a starting point for Adoration. Look Around you and see God’s handiwork Don’t Stretch it out.Worship as long as you’re praying from the heart. Don’t descend into empty accolades to fill a quota
- 12. QUESTIONS What experiences in life help you feel closer to God? How would you use these experiences to improve how you Adore God? Have you used the Psalms to help lead you into Adoration for God? What was that like? Why is this a good place to start? What attitude about Prayer spoke to you? What were your thoughts? Have you seen Prayer mend relationships? Heal People? What are some of those most important moments in prayer that you have experienced?