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Unpacking Prayer

Explore the connection between prayer and our relationship with God and others. Discover the importance of private prayer, faith, a pure heart, unity, and corporate prayer. Understand that while God always hears our prayers, He values our relationships more than immediate answers to formal requests.

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Unpacking Prayer

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  1. Unpacking Prayer Part 16: Prayer and Relationship

  2. If God always answers prayer, then why do I sometimes feel like He is not listening?

  3. Psalm 66:18 If I regard iniquity in my heart,         The Lord will not hear.

  4. The Connection Between Prayer and Relationship

  5. Prayer and our relationship with God - The importance of private prayer (Matt. 6:5-7)

  6. Matthew 6:5-7 “And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly. And when you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do. For they think that they will be heard for their many words.”

  7. Prayer and our relationship with God - The importance of private prayer (Matt. 6:5-7) - The importance of faith in prayer (Matt. 21:22, Ja. 1:6-8)

  8. James 1:6-8 But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

  9. Prayer and our relationship with God - The importance of private prayer (Matt. 6:5-7) - The importance of faith in prayer (Matt. 21:22, Ja. 1:6-8) - The importance of a pure heart (James 4:1-3)

  10. James 4:1-3 Where do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure that war in your members? You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet you do not have because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.

  11. Prayer and our relationship with God - The importance of private prayer (Matt. 6:5-7) - The importance of faith in prayer (Matt. 21:22, Ja. 1:6-8) - The importance of a pure heart (James 4:1-3)

  12. Prayer and our relationship with others - Our relationship with God includes our unity with His body. (Matt. 5:23-24)

  13. Matthew 5:23-24 “Therefore if you bring your gift to the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.”

  14. Prayer and our relationship with others - Our relationship with God includes our unity with His body. (Matt. 5:23-24) - We are connected to others. (1 Peter 3:7)

  15. 1 Peter 3:7 Husbands, likewise, dwell with them with understanding, giving honor to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.

  16. Prayer and our relationship with others - Our relationship with God includes our unity with His body. (Matt. 5:23-24) - We are connected to others. (1 Peter 3:7) - Unity in corporate prayer is powerful. (Acts 1:14)

  17. Acts 1:14 And when they had entered, they went up into the upper room where they were staying: Peter, James, John, and Andrew; Philip and Thomas; Bartholomew and Matthew; James the son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot; and Judas the son of James. These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brothers.

  18. Prayer and our relationship with others - Our relationship with God includes our unity with His body. (Matt. 5:23-24) - We are connected to others. (1 Peter 3:7) - Unity in corporate prayer is powerful. (Acts 1:14) • Corporate prayer is a major part of normal body life. • (Rom. 12:10-13)

  19. Romans 12:10-13 Be kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honor giving preference to one another; not lagging in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord; rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, continuing steadfastly in prayer; distributing to the needs of the saints, given to hospitality.

  20. Prayer and our relationship with others - Our relationship with God is included in our unity with His body. (Matt. 5:23-24) - We are connected to others. (1 Peter 3:7) - Unity in corporate prayer is powerful. (Acts 1:14) • Corporate prayer is a major part of normal body life. • (Rom. 12:10-13)

  21. Our prayer life cannot be separated from our interaction with those whom God sees us as one with.

  22. Psalm 66:16-20 Come and hear, all you who fear God,         And I will declare what He has done for my soul.I cried to Him with my mouth,         And He was extolled with my tongue.If I regard iniquity in my heart,         The Lord will not hear.But certainly God has heard me;         He has attended to the voice of my prayer. Blessed be God,         Who has not turned away my prayer,          Nor His mercy from me!

  23. God always hears us, but He sees our relationships as more important than the immediate answer to our formal requests.

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