RESTORATION CHURCH
Pre-Encounter Worksheet
Session Ten
Prayer
Teaching About Prayer
It is the _______ _________ thing you will ever do.
It is the source of all _______________ and _________________ with God. It is the ___________ and __________ to hear and see and to obey all that the Father desires.
Jesus gave them this answer: “I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. John 5:19
Bob Sorge say’s that, “Prayer, in the true biblical sense is: The full spectrum of ____________ ______________ to God. It is the all-encompassing title to describe the entire gamut of expression we can offer up to God. Therefore, prayer includes: Praise, thanksgiving, __________, intercession, ____________, ____________, shouts of joy, lifting of hands, ___________, honor, exaltation, affection, _____________, surrender, dancing, mourning, contemplation, ___________ _____________, prophesying and much more.
Watchman Nee say’s: “Prayer is the ________ of the believer’s _______ with the _______ of God… it is simply _________ out the will of _______ through the mouth of the ___________.
Jesus did it much and taught on it a lot.
This, then, is how you should pray: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name,”
Matthew 6:9
To __________ and ___________ God and to _________ Him.
Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name. Psalm 100:4
To cause ________ _________ to be done on the earth.
“Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Matthew 6:10
Pray for God’s will to be done in my _______, in my _______, in my ______, in my _______, in the _________, in the _________ and in the ___________.
To ask God to __________________________________.
“Give us today our daily bread.” Matthew 6:11
What needs can I pray about? _____________________________________________
And my God will supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:19
He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things. Romans 8:32
You do not have because you do not ask. James 4:2
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be known to God. Philippians 4:6
This is the confidence which we have before Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests which we have asked from Him. 1 John 5:14-15
To ask God to _______________ as I ____________ others.
Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. Matthew 6:12
For if you forgive other for their transgressions, your heavenly Father will forgive you. But if you do not forgive others, your heavenly Father will not forgive your transgressions. Matthew 6:14-15
4 Steps to Forgiveness
Ask the Holy Spirit to _______________ ever sin.
Search me, I God and know my heart; try me and know my anxious thought; and
see if there be any hurtful way in me and lead me in the everlasting way.
Psalm 139:23-24
Confess each sin_______________.
He who conceals his transgression will not prosper, but he who confesses and
forsakes them will find compassion. Proverbs 28:13
By faith, __________ God’s forgiveness.
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to
cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:9
Make _______________ to others when necessary.
Therefore if you present your offering at the altar, and there remember that your
brother has something against you; leave your offering there before the altar and
go; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and present your offering.
Matthew 5:23-24
“… as we also have forgiven our debtors.” Matthew 6:12
To pray for _________ _____________.
First of all, I urge that entreaties and prayers, petitions and thanksgiving, be made on behalf of all men. 1 Timothy 2:1
We give thanks to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you.
Colossians 1:3
We give thanks to God always for all of you, making mention of you in our prayers.
1 Thessalonians 1:2
To this end also we pray for you always, that our God will count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire for goodness and the work of faith with power, so that the Name of our Lord Jesus will be glorified in you, and you in Him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Thessalonians 1:11-12
Other scriptures to pray for people:
Ephesians 1:15-19 / Colossians 1:3-12 / Philippians 1:9-11
“And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.”
Matthew 6:13
To ask God for _____________________.
Believers face ____________ ________________ everyday. Satan wants to defeat you through ____________ and _______________. By Praying for protection, you can ______________ all that the enemy throws at you.
You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. 1 John 4:4
Praying the Lord’s prayer is not just a ___________ but it is a _____________.
Prayer is a ___________ ____________ that we don’t go to once in a while, it is a __________ ___________, a place where we ____________.
He who dwells I the secret place of the Most High, shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. Psalm 91:1
It is also a place of ______________.
You hide them in the secret place of Your presence from the conspiracies of man; You keep them secretly in a shelter from the strife of tongues.
Psalm 31:20
For in the day of trouble, He will conceal me in His tabernacle; In the secret place of His tent He will hide me; He will lift me up on a rock.
Psalm 27:5
Jesus taught us that we should go into the secret place to _________ ________.
But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
Matthew 6:6
Where is our Father? The Father is in ______________.
Mtt. 6:9 – “Our Father is in Heaven.”
So we see that when we ________ into the _________ place, we enter into the very ________ to the _______________of God. And there is where God ____________ to us.
Where He ___________ His plans and purposes to us. Where He gives us power to make decisions for our ____________ and to carry out His ________.
Jesus knew the power he needed and was in the secret place. He knew that was where He could see and hear what the Father was doing and saying.
Jesus gave them this answer: “I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. John 5:19
Jesus went from _________ to __________, and back to __________ and back to ___________.
He did only what he saw the Father doing and it came out of a secret place of prayer.
Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus god up; left the house and sent off to a solitary place, where he prayed. Mark 1:35
Immediately, Jesus made is disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of him to Bethsaida, while he dismissed the crowd. After leaving them, he went up on a mountainside to pray. Mark 6:45-46
After feeding the 5,000, He sent His disciples away and there He prayed.
But Jesus Himself would often slip away to the wilderness and pray.
Luke 5:16
One of those days Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray and spent the night praying to God. When morning came, he called his disciples to him and shoes twelve of them, whom he also designated apostles: Luke6:12-13
He spent all night in prayer to ___________ the twelve.
Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful.
Colossians 4:2
They devoted themselves to the apostles teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Acts 2:42
The Bible tells us that we should devote ourselves to prayer.
It is essential to establish a secret place of prayer and everything that we need well come out of that. A consistent devoted time with God produces a constant abiding with and in God, where we live and move and have our being, and the purposes of God are fulfilled. Where it is just not times of prayer, but it becomes a life-style.
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