Listen to Sermon: Conversations with God - Prayer… Keep it Simple [23Mb]

Prayer is simply a CONVERSATION with God.

Assumption: You have a DESIRE to pray.

Five Common Prayer Struggles

1. We tend to COMPARE ourselves to others.
2. We feel UNWORTHY.
3. We struggle with DISTRACTIONS.
4. We don’t feel the NEED.
5. We try to do it ALONE.

SIMPLE CONVERSATION

“Pray as you can, don’t pray as you can’t.” Don Chapman

9 “This, then, is how you should pray:

‘Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
10 your kingdom come,
your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
11 Give us today our daily bread.
12 Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’”
Matthew 6:9-13 (NIV)

My Father in heaven…

Hallowed be your name…

Your kingdom come…

Your will be done…

Give me today my daily bread…

Forgive me and help me to forgive…

Lead and deliver me…

 

“He that prays and does not faint will come to recognize that to talk with God is more than to have all prayers granted- that it is the end of all prayer.” George MacDonald