Pray Without Ceasing
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Pray Without Ceasing
Ancil Jenkins
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Newsweek Poll
87%: God answers prayers
54%: pray on a daily basis, including
25%: pray once a day
29%: more than once a day
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82% ask for health or success for a child or family member
82% believe God does not play favorites in answering prayers
79%: God answers prayers for healing someone with an incurable disease
75% ask for strength to overcome personal weakness
72%: prayers for help in finding a job are asnwered
54%: when God doesn’t answer prayer, it wasn’t God’s will to answer
51%: God does NOT answer prayers to win sporting events
36% never pray for financial or career success
Newsweek Poll (continued)
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3 Questions1. What is “answered” prayer? Is it only when God says “yes”?2. Why do 18% of people surveyed say they turn away from God when their prayers are not answered?
3. What does it mean to “pray without ceasing”?
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What Prayer Is NOT
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What Prayer Is NOT
•Prayer cannot be selfish (James 4:3)
•Not just help in times of trouble
•Prayer cannot be trivial (does our prayer-life mature as we do?).
•“Yeses” to prayers are not performance-based.
•Prayer does not depend on outward circumstances.
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What Prayer IS
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What Prayer IS
•Acceptable prayer depends on the condition and attitude of one’s heart.
•It is a child speaking with his/her Father (Matthew 6:9; 7:11).
•It is seeking.
•It is something on which we improve.
•It shows our dependence upon God, and our submission to Him.
•POWERFUL!
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An Unknown Author Said…
The size of your GodDetermines the size of your prayer request;
The size of your prayer requestDetermines the size of your answers.
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What Are Your Requests?