Campus Alive - What is Prayer

1. What is prayer?
Prayer is communication with God: a
dialogue - God talking to you and you talking
to God. It is not only important what you say
to God, but what He has to say to you is just
as-if not more important.

2. Why should we pray?
1. God tells us to do so

3. Ephesians 6:18
18Praying always with all prayer
and supplication in the Spirit, and
watching thereunto with all
perseverance and supplication for
all saints

4. I Thessalonians 5:17
17Pray without ceasing.

5. I Timothy 2:8
8I will therefore that men pray
every where, lifting up holy hands,
without wrath and doubting.

6. Why should we pray?
2. It helps improve our
relationship with God

7. Why should we pray?
3. It brings God’s will to pass in
the earth.

8. Why should we pray?
No Prayer No Power
Little Prayer Little Power
Great Prayer Great Power

9. How should we pray?
Luke 11:1-4 NIV
One day Jesus was praying in a certain place.
When he finished, one of his disciples said to
him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John
taught his disciples.”
He said to them, “When you pray, say:

10. How should we pray?
Luke 11:1-4 NIV
“‘Father, hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come.
Give us each day our daily bread.
Forgive us our sins,
for we also forgive everyone who sins
against us.
And lead us not into temptation.’”

11. How should we pray?
A. Our Father in heaven-Pray to the Father in
the name of Jesus
1. Matthew 6:6
2. John 16:23, 24

12. How should we pray?
B. Hallowed (sanctify, set-apart, purify) be thy
Name-acknowledge Him for Who He is
1. Jehovah Shalom – I am your peace
Isaiah 9:6
2. Jehovah Rophe – I am you healer
Psalm 103:3
3. El Shaddai-the Almighty
Genesis 17:1

13. How should we pray?
C. Your Kingdom Come, Your will be done on
earth as it is in heaven

14. How should we pray?
D. Give us day by day our daily bread-praying
for God's provision
1. John 6:47-51
2. Matthew 6:33
3. Philippians 4:19

15. How should we pray?
E. Forgive us our sins for we also forgive
everyone who is indebted to us-repent of sin
1. Isaiah 59:1, 2
2. Matthew 6:14, 15

16. How should we pray?
F. Do not lead us into temptation but deliver us
from the evil one-God's protection
1. Colossians 1:13
2. 2 Thessalonians 3:3

17. II. INGREDIENTS TO GET YOUR
PRAYERS ANSWERED
A. 1 John 5:14
Must be according to the will of
God
B. John 15:7
Word of God must abide in you

18. II. INGREDIENTS TO GET YOUR
PRAYERS ANSWERED
C. Matthew 21:22
Must believe
D. Mark 11:23, 24
Must act on what you believe

19. III. HINDERANCES TO YOUR
PRAYER
A. Division between husband and wife
(1 Peter 3:7)
B. Double-minded person who lacks
stability in the daily walk with God
(James 1:5-8)
C. Sin
(Isaiah 59:1, 2)

20. III. HINDERANCES TO YOUR
PRAYER
D. Fainthearted or giving up
(Luke 18:1)
E. Doubt in heart & mind
(Mark 11:23)
F. Praying to be seen by men
(Matthew 6:5)

21. III. HINDERANCES TO YOUR
PRAYER
D. Fainthearted or giving up
(Luke 18:1)
E. Doubt in heart & mind
(Mark 11:23)
F. Praying to be seen by men
(Matthew 6:5)

22. III. HINDERANCES TO YOUR
PRAYER
G. Asking for wrong reasons or with
wrong motives
(James 4:3)
H. Unforgiveness
(Matthew 6:14, 15)

23. Most common mistakes people
make about prayer
1. They don’t pray

24. Most common mistakes people
make about prayer
Acts 1:14
14These all continued with one
accord in prayer and supplication,
with the women, and Mary the
mother of Jesus, and with his
brethren.

25. Most common mistakes people
make about prayer
Acts 2:42
42And they continued steadfastly
in the apostles' doctrine and
fellowship, and in breaking of
bread, and in prayers.

26. Most common mistakes people
make about prayer
Acts 3:1
1Now Peter and John went up
together into the temple at the
hour of prayer, being the ninth
hour.

27. Most common mistakes people
make about prayer
2. They beg God and ask
continually over and over

28. Most common mistakes people
make about prayer
Mathew 6:7
7But when ye pray, use not vain
repetitions, as the heathen do: for
they think that they shall be heard
for their much speaking.

29. Most common mistakes people
make about prayer
3. Their sin issues hinder their
prayers

30. Most common mistakes people
make about prayer
2 Chronicles 7:14
if my people, who are called by my
name, will humble themselves and
pray and seek my face and turn from
their wicked ways, then I will hear
from heaven, and I will forgive their
sin and will heal their land

31. Most common mistakes people
make about prayer
4 things God requires:
Humility
Pray
Seek God’s face
Turn from wicked Ways

32. Most common mistakes people
make about prayer
What he will do?
Hear from heaven
Forgive sins
Heal our land

33. 1 Peter 3:7
Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with
them according to knowledge,
giving honour unto the wife, as
unto the weaker vessel, and as
being heirs together of the grace
of life; that your prayers be not
hindered.

34. Most common mistakes people
make about prayer
4. They don’t believe what they
pray. They just pray because
what else are they going to to.

35. 1 John 5:14
And this is the confidence that we
have in him, that, if we ask any
thing according to his will, he
heareth us:

36. Most common mistakes people
make about prayer
5. They are not consistent in their
prayer

37. Mathew 26:44
41Watch and pray, that ye enter not into
temptation: the spirit indeed is willing,
but the flesh is weak.
42He went away again the second time,
and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this
cup may not pass away from me, except
I drink it, thy will be done.
43And he came and found them asleep
again: for their eyes were heavy.

38. Most common mistakes people
make about prayer
6. They come to God with wrong
and improper motives in their
hearts

39. James 4:3
3Ye ask, and receive not, because ye
ask amiss, that ye may consume it
upon your lusts

40. Most common mistakes people
make about prayer
7. They look at prayer as simply
speaking and talking but never
take time to hear from God.

41. 2 Corinthians 13:14
14The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ,
and the love of God, and the
communion of the Holy Ghost, be
with you all. Amen.

42. Most common mistakes people
make about prayer
8. They pray silently. Life in death
in power of the tongue

43. Mark 11:22-24 NIV
22 “Have faith in God,” Jesus answered.
23 “Truly[a] I tell you, if anyone says to
this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into
the sea,’ and does not doubt in their
heart but believes that what they say
will happen, it will be done for them.
24 Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask
for in prayer, believe that you have
received it, and it will be yours.

44. James 5:16
King James Version (KJV)
16Confess your faults one to another,
and pray one for another, that ye may
be healed. The effectual fervent
prayer of a righteous man availeth
much.

45. James 5:16
Amplified Bible (AMP)
16Confess to one another therefore your
faults (your slips, your false steps, your
offenses, your sins) and pray [also] for
one another, that you may be healed
and restored [to a spiritual tone of mind
and heart]. The earnest (heartfelt,
continued) prayer of a righteous man
makes tremendous power available
[dynamic in its working].

46. James 5:16
New Living Translation (NLT)
16 Confess your sins to each other
and pray for each other so that you
may be healed. The earnest prayer of
a righteous person has great power
and produces wonderful results.

47. James 5:16
The Message (MSG)
16-18Make this your common practice:
Confess your sins to each other and pray for
each other so that you can live together
whole and healed. The prayer of a person
living right with God is something powerful
to be reckoned with. Elijah, for instance,
human just like us, prayed hard that it
wouldn't rain, and it didn't—not a drop for
three and a half years. Then he prayed that
it would rain, and it did. The showers came
and everything started growing again.

48. What does effectual mean?
Effectual – (greek word energeo) – means
to put forth power, be operative, to work.
Can be worded a the prayer of a just man,
wrought in him by divine energy. Has to
do with put forth of energy and power
when you pray.

49. What does fervent mean?
Fervent – to be hot, to boil. Put together
as a phrase means supplication consistent
with inwards conformity to the mind of
God.