DOES YHVH ALWAYS ANSWER PRAYER?
James 5:13-18: "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 wonderful results." 1 John 5:14-15: "We can be confident that He will listen to us whenever we ask Him for anything in line with His will." --- We can be confident of YHVH’s response to our prayer when we submit first to His will. 2 Corinthians 12:7-10: "Three different times I begged the Lord to take it away. Each time he said '... My power works best in your weakness.'” --- Sometimes like Paul, we will find that YHVH answers prayer by giving us not what we ask for but something better. Exodus 14:15: "Then the Lord said to Moses, 'Why are you crying out to Me? Tell the people to get moving!'” --- Our prayer must be accompanied by a willingness to obey with our actions.
HOW DO I LEARN TO TALK TO YHVH?
Isaiah 1:16-20: "Wash yourselves and be clean!" --- All our communication with YHVH must begin with confession. Philippians 4:6-7: "Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything." --- yhvh invites us to bring all our needs to him in prayer.
DOES THE BIBLE TEACH A “RIGHT WAY” TO PRAY?
Nehemiah 1:4-11: "For days I mourned, fasted and prayed to the God of heaven." --- Throughout the Bible effective prayer includes elements of adoration, confession and commitment, as well as requests. Matthew 6:5-13: "Pray like this" --- Yeshua taught His disciples that prayer is an intimate relationship with the Father that includes a dependency for daily needs, commitment to obedience and forgiveness of sin. Luke 18:1-8: "One day Jesus told His disciples a story to illustrate their need for constant prayer and to show them that they must never give up." --- Prayer is to be consistent and persistent. Nehemiah 2:4: "With a prayer to the God of heaven." --- Prayer can be spontaneous.
WHAT IS PRAYER?
2 Chronicles 7:14: "Then if My people who are called by My Name will humble themselves and pray and seek My Face and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear from heaven." --- Prayer is an act of humble worship in which we seek YHVH with all our heart. Psalm 38:15-18: "I confess my sins; I am deeply sorry for what I have done." 1 John 1:9: "If we confess our sins to Him, He is faithful and just to forgive us and to cleanse us from every wrong." --- Prayer often begins with a confession of sin. 1 Samuel 14:36-45: "The priest said, 'Let’s ask God first.'” 2 Samuel 5:17-19: "David asked the Lord, 'Should I go out to fight the Philistines?'” --- Prayer is asking YHVH for guidance and waiting for His direction and leading. Mark 1:35: "The next morning Jesus awoke long before daybreak and went out alone into the wilderness to pray." --- Prayer is an expression of an intimate relationship with our heavenly Father, who makes His own love and resources available to us. Psalm 9:1-2: "I will thank You, Lord, with all my heart... I will sing praises to Your Name, O Most High." --- Through prayer we praise our Mighty Creator.
Marten Perdue
I feel cut to the core.
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