"The Life of Prayer" is a ppp with an overview of what a life of prayer is and how we might go about walking that out.

1. The Life of Prayer

2. What is the life of prayer?
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Is it about my righteousness before
God?
Is it about my calling and purpose?
Is it about being significant?
Is it about fixing myself and inner
healing?
Is it about hiding from the world and sin?
Is it about the church or the Kingdom of
God?
Is it about me or about us?

3. What do you want to
accomplish?
Change
outward conditions
Change your inner man
Get close to God
Both
Other

4. Are we all treated the same by God?

5. Streams of God
The Prayer-Filled Life
 The Virtuous Life
 The Spirit-Empowered Life
 The Compassionate Life
 The Word-Centered Life
 The Sacramental Life
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6. Called
Use gifts and talents to
fulfill life’s calling.
 Find communion with
God in fulfilling or
working at my calling.
 My passion is ________
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 Wonder why others don’t
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Called to Prayer
Use gifts and talents to
pray.
 Find communion with
God in prayer.
 My passion is prayer.
 Wonder why others don’t
pray.
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Everyone Prays

7. The Resources
The Real Distractions
Pride
 Anger
 Fear
 Suffering
 Pain / Sickness
 Ambition
 Coveting
 Greed
 Lust
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Jesus Christ
 Scripture
 Song
 Humility
 Endurance
 Contentment
 Hope
 Love
 Faith
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Daily life

8. The battle for the inner man

9. Place of Prayer
Prayer closet
 Prayer meetings
 Prayer rooms
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Daily Living
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Practice of His presence
Sacrament of the
Moment
Burden Bearing
Spirit Warfare
◦ Through lifestyle
◦ Through focused words and
deeds
Life of Prayer

10. Types of Prayer -Normal
Intercession
 Fellowship
 Waiting / Listening
 Bodily Worship
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Some people pray just to
pray and some people pray
to know God.
--Andrew Murray

11. Types of Prayer – Non-typical
Wishing
 Dreaming
 Hoping
 Worship (Rom. 12:1)
 Submission
 Serving
 Giving
 Forgiving
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There is a mighty lot of
difference between saying
prayers and praying.
--John G. Lake

12. Intercession
Praying scripture
 Crafted prayer
 Journal / List
 Circle prayers
 Group prayers
 Prayer stations
 Prayer boards
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I have so much to do that I
spend several hours in
prayer before I am able to
do it.
—John Wesley

13. Fellowship
Worship
 Praise
 Conversation
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◦ ―Lord Jesus have mercy on me a sinner‖
◦ ―Come Lord Jesus‖
Is prayer your steering
wheel or your spare tire?
-- Corrie Ten Boom

14. Waiting / listening
Silence
 Solitude
 Meditation
 Contemplation
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Pray, and let God worry.
-- Martin Luther

15. Bodily worship
Kneeling
 Bowing
 Lying prostrate
 Dance
 Clapping
 Singing
 Sitting
 Standing
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There are more tears shed
over answered prayers than
over unanswered prayers.
--Teresa of Avila

16. What is hindering you the most?
What you don’t know
What you don’t know in your heart, what
you are failing to grasp through
experience is the thing that is
hindering your transformation into
Christlikeness.

17. Prayer Networks
http://www.globalprayermovement.org/
http://idop.org/
http://nationaldayofprayer.org/
http://www.24-7prayer.com/
http://www.ihop.org/
http://www.globaldayofprayer.com/
http://www.worlddayofprayer.net/
http://www.praybook.com