Life on the Highest Plane[The Prayerful Life]

Albert Samuel Milton

Prayer of NehemiahThe walls of Jerusalem were broken down.

Prayer of NehemiahFirst, Nehemiah prayed for four months.

Prayer of Nehemiah

• Artaxerxes, king of Persia, (445/444 BC) Granted Permission for Nehemiah.

Prayer of NehemiahBut we prayed to our God and posted a guard day and night to meet this threat. Nehemiah 4:9

Prayer of Nehemiah

• So on October 2 the wall was finished--just fifty-two days after we had begun. Nehemiah 6:15

Prayer of NehemiahGod answered the prayers.

What A Friend We Have in Jesus

What a friend we have in Jesus, All our sins and griefs to bear! What a privilege to carry Everything to God in prayer!what peace we often forfeit, O what needless pain we bear, All because we do not carry everything to God in prayer. - Joseph M. Scriven

What A Friend We Have in Jesus

Song Writer - Joseph M. Scriven

• His fiancée accidentally drowned in 1845, the night before they were to be married.

• There he again fell in love, was due to be married and the young woman suddenly fell ill of pneumonia and died.

• He then devoted the rest of his life to helping others.

What A Friend We Have in Jesus

• he received news from Ireland of his mother being terribly ill. He wrote a poem to comfort his mother called "Pray Without Ceasing” in the 1855.

• It was later set to music and renamed by Charles Crozat Converse, becoming the hymn "What a Friend We Have in Jesus” in 1868.

Why to Pray?

1. Pray to Know, Follow and Fulfill God’s Will.

2. Pray to overcome temptation.

1. Pray to Know, Follow and Fulfill God’s Will

• For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me. John 6:38

Pray to Know, Follow and Fulfill God’s Will

Jesus Prayed

• Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed. Simon and his companions went to look for him, and when they found him, they exclaimed: “Everyone is looking for you!” Jesus replied, “Let us go somewhere else—to the nearby villages—so I can preach there also. That is why I have come.” Mark 1:35-38

Before We Pray

1. We need to know God as our Father, we need to know with the revelation. No one in the old covenant ever called God as their Father, but Jesus revealed God as our Father and ask us to call God as our Father.

2. We need to know that God is able to do anything and everything according to His will. He is all powerful and almighty God.

What to Pray?

1. Pray about the things of God. (Matthew 6)

2. Pray about our needs. (Matthew 6)

1. Pray about the things of God(Matthew 6)

• Hallowed be thy name.• Thy kingdom come.• Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

2. Pray about our needs(Matthew 6)

• Give us this day our daily bread.• Forgive us our debts as we forgive others.• Don’t lead into temptations but deliver us

from evil.