June 5, 2024
The Transformative Power of Prayer
Transformative Power of Prayer
Have you ever wondered how the simple act of prayer can yield miraculous results? Join us on Renewed Mindsets as we unravel the extraordinary power of prayer and its role in connecting us with the divine. We'll explore the lives of Elijah, Moses, and Jesus, showcasing the incredible impact their prayers had—from parting seas and healing the sick to raising the dead. Discover how faith, persistence, and thanksgiving turn prayer into a transformative journey that shapes our spiritual lives and character. We'll also delve into personal stories and scriptural teachings that emphasize the omnipotence of God, who hears and answers our prayers.
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00:02 - Power of Prayer
08:43 - The Power of Prayer
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Transcript
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Prayer is a fundamental part of being a Christian, but its impact goes far beyond the rituals and routines.
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It's a profound way to connect with the divine, seek guidance, find comfort and express gratitude.
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Whether you're facing a challenging situation, seeking peace or simply looking to deepen your relationship with God, prayer is a powerful tool.
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Let's talk all about it.
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Let's go, boys.
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Hey, welcome to Renewed Mindsets, where we study the basics of the faith through the lens of our middle-aged experiences.
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I'm Rick.
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Welcome to the show where I help you, gen Xers and Millennials, navigate spiritually through a world that looks nothing like we expected back, when cars were square and mullets were totally awesome.
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I am so glad you're here.
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What is the power of prayer?
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I mean, how can prayer bring a person back to life?
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How can it heal the sick?
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How does prayer comfort those who are anxious or sinking into the depth of depression?
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Why do Christians pray for their future spouses, or pray prayers of protection over their children as they send them off to school?
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How can prayer impact those who don't know Jesus, or help in a time of crisis like a pandemic?
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The answer is found in one scripture Matthew 18, 18 through 20.
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Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
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Again, I say to you if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven, for where two or three are gathered in my name, there I am among them.
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Now there's dozens of real-life accounts in the Bible where Jesus and other disciples battled in prayer.
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God shut the heavens up and prevented rain from falling for three years because Elijah prayed about it.
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He parted the Red Sea for Moses to lead his people through because Moses prayed about it.
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He cast out demons.
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Jesus healed the sick and gave sight to the blind, and on and on, and on, and.
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On more than one occasion Jesus raised people from the dead, like Lazarus.
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Now, do we realize that the power that we have available to us when we take our authority in prayer?
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If we did, we would be praying in Jesus' name all day long.
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I'm telling you, there'd be no such thing as doubt or fear or anxiety, because we'd be on our faces before God, storming the realms of heaven, in battle with darkness and evil forces in our world, talking to God.
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So what exactly is the power of prayer.
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The power of prayer isn't the words that you say.
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It's not about what you pray or even how you pray.
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Prayer can be defined as talking to God, but it's much more than that.
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Prayer is an act of worship that glorifies God and it reinforces our need for Him.
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And through living a life of prayer we communicate with the very source of, and the purpose for our existence.
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It's the fiercest weapon against the enemy that we have and against everything else in this fallen world.
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Prayer is the portal that brings the power of heaven down to earth.
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It's like kryptonite to our enemy and all of the evil ploys that he has against us.
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Prayers are prophecies.
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They predict our spiritual future.
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Who you are and who you become is determined by how you pray, and if you had a transcript of all your prayers that you could read at the end of your life, it would become the script of your life.
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Who you are or who you become, the circumstances in your life, the core of your character, they're all determined by what you talk to God about.
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According to the Bible, the power of prayer is very simply the power of God, who hears and answers prayer.
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God is all-powerful.
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The Lord, god Almighty, can do all things and there's nothing that's impossible for Him.
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That's from Luke 1, verse 37.
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The character and heart of God is the very fabric of the gospel, and when we close our eyes and get on our knees, the Spirit of God whispers to us.
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I am the Lord, the God of all mankind.
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Is there anything too hard for me?
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It's as if to say to our hearts no need is too great or too small.
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The God wants us to pray to him.
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He invites us and encourages us and wants us to talk to him.
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We're supposed to come to him in faith James 1.5.
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And we come to him with persistence.
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That's from Luke 18.1.
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And we come to him with thanksgiving Philippians 4.6.
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We come to him within his will Matthew 6.10, and from a heart that is right with God James 5.16.
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And if you look at it, in Luke 18, verse 1, we read and Hebrews, chapter 4, 14 through 16, talks about Jesus as our high priest and says that he can sympathize with us.
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Hebrews 4, 16 says let us then, with confidence, draw near to the throne of grace that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
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We have been given access to the very throne of God through prayer, and the Lord, god Almighty, answers prayer.
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I'll call on you, o God, for you will answer me.
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Psalm 17.6, the righteous cry out and the Lord hears them.
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He delivers them from all their troubles.
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That's Psalm 34, 17.
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And in John 16, 23-24, jesus makes a stunning, sweeping, glorious promise to us.
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Truly, truly, I say to you whatever you ask of the Father in my name, he will give unto you.
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Until now, you have asked nothing in my name.
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Ask and you will receive that your joy may be full.
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In other words, when we ask God to give us a love for our neighbors, he does.
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When we ask for patience, he begins to tend to our hearts, uprooting areas of impatience, and then provides opportunities to practice patience.
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I don't recommend you ask for that one, but he'll answer it, I promise.
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And when we ask him to be near us, his presence sweeps in and surrounds us like a cozy, blanketed embrace and it's filled with peace and strength.
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And even when we lack faith or have very little faith, sometimes learning to trust God with our prayers is like being a toddler we wobble around and fall, but he doesn't chastise us.
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He encourages us to get back up and try again.
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And with his hands held out.
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He looks at us and he says because of your little faith, he told them.
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For I assure you, if you have the faith the size of a mustard seed, you will tell this mountain move from here to there and it will move.
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Nothing will be impossible for you.
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Matthew 17, 20.
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So how do you tap in to the power of prayer?
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The power of prayer isn't in the person praying it.
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It's not a magic formula.
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There's no keywords like a website.
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It's an open heart, humble and filled with awe of who our mighty God is.
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Rather, the power resides in the God who's being prayed to.
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1 John 5, 14-15 tells us this is the confidence we have in approaching God that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.
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And if we know that he hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we'll have what we asked of him.
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Yeah, in fact, jesus rebukes those who pray using repetitions or those who pray in public to seek attention or those who don't have the right heart.
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And when you pray, do not keep babbling like the pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words, and don't be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him.
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That's Matthew 6, 7, and 8.
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Psalm 107, verses 28 through 30, reminds us.
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Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble and he brought them out of their distress.
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He stilled the storm to a whisper, the waves of the sea were hushed.
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They were glad when it grew calm and he guided them to their desired haven.
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There is power in prayer.
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And now Deep Thoughts from Rick Juhasz.
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I think I'll pray for some very large shrimp, like extremely large.
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That way I could ride one, then after a camp out, I could eat it.
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How about it, god?
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So many of us are familiar with prayer, most of us really.
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Let's just say but do we really understand the power of prayer?
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Now, they may only be words, but our words become powerful when they connect with God through prayer.
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There's power through our prayer.
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Now, I never thought much of prayer and I always excused myself out of thinking.
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I didn't have the gift of prayer warrior in me, because I could never find the right words to make my prayers sound big and grand.
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So I told myself that prayer just wasn't my thing.
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I'd pray here and there, but I never really invested my heart in it, whether it was praying for myself or others.
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They would just be a quick few words that I could move on in my day.
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And then I came to the church that I go to, where prayer is so important that we set aside one day during the week for us all to meet to do nothing but pray corporate prayer as a church and it's so powerful.
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And I realized over the past nine months that God wanted me to work on my prayer.
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He wanted me to pray more Now.
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I didn't think God had called me to become a prayer warrior, but he showed me that everyone is called to pray.
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I started creating little prayer cards with Bible verses on them for me to proclaim over myself and this podcast and for those people that God put on my heart to pray for.
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Now, ever since I've been praying more, I've seen God work more and more through my life, especially with Renewed Mindsets.
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I've received messages from people all over the world how Renewed Mindsets has touched their life.
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I credit all of this to God.
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Through prayer, god's anointing and the power have become stronger in me and more evident in my life.
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You might just see prayer as simple words, but our prayers draw the power of God into our lives and into our ministries, and our prayers opened doors for God to do what we would consider to be the impossible.
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A good example of that is the life of Elijah, the prophet Elijah from the Bible.
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Elisha was a man of prayer and a powerful prophet that was used by God, and Elisha would always pray to God before any miracle happened through God.
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2 Kings 6, verses 17 and 18 says and Elisha prayed Open his eyes, lord, that he may see.
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Then the Lord opened the servant's eyes and he looked and saw the hills full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.
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Elisha prayed to the Lord strike this army with blindness.
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So he struck them with blindness, as Elisha had asked.
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Now God's power was displayed through Elisha because of his prayers.
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Just as God used Elisha to bring miraculous powers, god also wants to use our prayers to shine his light and glory.
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God has plans to use our prayers to bring his power and restoration and miracles into the world.
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God's power becomes evident in our lives through prayer.
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We just have to make prayer a priority.
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We're called to pray regardless if we consider ourselves a prayer warrior or not.
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1 Thessalonians 5.17 says Pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Jesus Christ.
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Prayer is not a requirement for some, but it's for everybody.
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God calls you to pray because it's only through prayer that he can do wonders with your life.
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When you live a life following God's way and his righteousness, your prayers become powerful and effective.
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That's James 5.16.
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When was the last time you invested your heart in prayer?
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Have you realized the power your words have through prayer?
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God wants to show you more of himself in your life, but he asks you to seek him with all your heart through prayer.
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God promises to those who seek him with all their heart that they will find him.
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Remember, when you pray, you're calling on a mighty God to move on your life.
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Pray with faith and boldness, trusting that God can do the impossible.
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Remember there is power through prayer.
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Lord God, I thank you that I can call on you to do wonders in my life through prayer, amen.
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Over the past few months, I've gotten a lot of emails, a lot of messages from people talking about prayer, and a lot of them were questions about what is the proper way to pray.
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Is it the best to pray standing up or sitting down or kneeling?
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Should your hands be open or closed?
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Do your eyes need to be open or closed when you pray?
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Is it better to pray in church or out in nature, or in the morning when we get up or before we go to bed.
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Are there specific words that we're supposed to say?
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How do we begin our prayer?
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How do you close it?
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Well, do any of the above things matter?
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I don't know.
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Let's talk about it a little Now.
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Far too often, prayer is viewed like a magic formula, like a wish.
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Some people believe that if we don't say exactly the right things or pray the right words or take the right position, god's not going to hear and answer our prayer.
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Now, that is just completely unbiblical.
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That is just completely unbiblical.
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God does not answer our prayers based on when we pray, where we are, what position our body's in and what order we use words in our prayers.
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We're told in 1 John 5, verses 14 and 15, to have confidence that when we come to God in prayer, that we need to know that he hears us and will grant whatever we ask, as long as it's in His will.
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And in John, chapter 14, verse 3, see, if that was a prayer, it'd be all messed up right now, according to some of y'all.
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But God doesn't mind flubs, and I don't either, which is why I'm going to keep that.
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But in John, chapter 14, verses 3 through 14, we hear and I will do whatever you ask in my name so that the Son may bring glory to the Father.
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You may ask me anything in my name and I'll do it.
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So, according to these and many other scriptures, god answers prayer requests based on whether they're asked according to his will and in the name of Jesus to bring glory to Jesus.
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So what's the proper way to pray?
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Philippians 4, 6, and 7 tells us to pray without being anxious to pray about everything, and to pray with thankful hearts.
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God will answer all your prayers with the gift of his peace in our heart.
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The proper way to pray is to pour out our hearts to God, being honest and open with God.
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He already knows us better than we know ourselves, and we're to present our request to God keeping in mind that God knows what's best and will not grant a request that is not in His will for us.
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And we're supposed to express our love and our gratitude and worship to God in prayer, without worrying about having just the right words to say.
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God's more interested in the content of our hearts than in the eloquence of our words.
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Now, the closest the Bible comes to, giving a pattern for prayer, is the Lord's Prayer Matthew 6, 9 through 13.
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I need you all to understand that the Lord's Prayer is not a prayer that we're supposed to memorize and recite to God, and it's an example of the things that should go into a prayer Worship, trusting God, request, confession, submission.
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We're supposed to pray for the things the Lord's Prayer talks about, using our own words and customizing it to our own journey with God.
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The proper way to pray is to express our hearts to God, sitting, standing, kneeling, hands open or closed, eyes open or closed, in a church, at a home or outside, in the morning or at night.
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These are all side issues and they're subject to your own personal preference and your conviction and your appropriateness.
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God's desire is for prayer to be real and personal.
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It's a connection between himself and you.
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For a last-minute thing, this made me laugh.
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Well, for a last minute thing, this made me laugh, jeez.
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About 25 years ago I was a children's minister youth and children at a little church in Alabama and I had to do a little children's sermon each Sunday morning and I didn't make this up, but I had found it and thought well, the little kids will get this one and I had more adults come to me and say, hey, what were those five things again.
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So I thought maybe y'all would enjoy this for the podcast.
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It was something I found called the five-finger prayer and it's just a method to help you remember the categories of people to pray for.
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It's just a memory device used as an aid for prayer.
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So if you hold your hand out and hold your left hand up, I guess your right hand it doesn't really matter which hand, because I guess it's the same, it would just be the direction you go in.
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But look at your fingers.
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Your fingers are extended.
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So I always start with the thumb, because it's the thickest and it's the strongest and when the hand is at rest, the thumb is nearest to the rest of the body.
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It reminds us to pray for family and friends and people who are closest to us.
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And then, next to that, is your pointy finger, your index finger.
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And then, next to that, is your pointy finger, your index finger.
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That one should remind you to pray for people who point the way teachers, church leaders.
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Then we come to the middle finger.
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It's the tallest finger that one should remind us to pray for our government leaders.
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It's odd that it's a, or maybe it's not odd that it's the middle finger, but we'll move on from there to the ring finger.
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The ring finger is usually the weakest of our fingers and it should remind us to pray for the weak and the sick that are all around us.
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And then, last but not least, is your little finger, the pinky.
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It's the smallest finger and it represents you, the person that's praying.
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We need to pray for ourselves, but in humility we need to remember that we're the least important and really the last that we should be praying for, last that we should be praying for.
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So that's it.
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There's nothing specific to this.
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There's nothing that's unbiblical about it, except maybe that middle finger part, and I promise I did not teach that to the little children.
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It's just a method to help people remember who to pray for.
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It's just like a prayer list, and since our hands are always attached to us, if we have hands, if we don't, I apologize, but I didn't know.
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Just to remind you that the need of prayer is constant.
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Well, that's all for this week's show.
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You know, the name of this show speaks my hope for you.
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It's taken from the words of Romans, chapter 12, verse 2.
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Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing, you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
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If it was valuable to you, it will be to them.
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I just might play it on a future episode until next week.
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