Prayer - Desiring God
Jan 1, 2015 · What Should We Pray For? Most of us sense the desire to pray, and even want to develop a better prayer life, but we don’t know what to pray for. Each of these resources offers ideas for requests you might bring to God in prayer. Some are more specific and others more general, but all offer examples that you can adapt to make your own.
A Simple Way to Pray Every Day - Desiring God
Feb 6, 2017 · How to Pray as Jesus Taught Us. First, Luther recommends simply to pray through the prayer once, as recorded in the Gospel of Matthew (Matthew 6:9–13). He then says to go back through the prayer and pray each petition individually: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
Prayer for Beginners - Desiring God
Apr 27, 2016 · “Pray for my co-worker whose dad passed away last week.” Or, “Pray for my grandmother who’s back in the hospital, again.” It’s not wrong by any means (we should be praying for these things, and asking others to pray, too). But if we take that mentality into prayer, we may only ever pray for physical or circumstantial needs.
How to Pray in the Holy Spirit - Desiring God
Apr 30, 2018 · How to Pray in the Spirit. Praying in the Spirit has three aspects: (1) admitting our inability, (2) enjoying the creation of a living communion with God, and (3) pleading the promises of God with boldness and assurance. Step One: Admitting Our Inability to Pray. We should start with confession: we must admit our inability to pray as we ought.
What Should We Pray For? - Desiring God
Nov 10, 2006 · To pray what the New Testament prays is a safe and powerful way to pray. “From time to time, our prayers need a jolt out of the rut they have fallen into.” Prayer remains one of the great and glorious mysteries of the universe — that the all-knowing, all-wise, all-sovereign God should ordain to run his world in response to our prayers is ...
Pray - Desiring God
Learn to pray again as John Piper rehearses some of the most profound and familiar words ever spoken. Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we have forgiven our debtors.
Seven Ways to Pray for Your Heart - Desiring God
Jul 19, 2013 · These are just suggestions. God may lead you to pray in other ways. But however he teaches us, whatever means we find helpful, may God cause us all to grow in faith until we pray without ceasing (1 Thessalonians 5:17) and never lose heart (Luke 18:1).
Three Motivations to Pray - Desiring God
Oct 8, 2014 · And Matthew 6:9 says, “Pray then like this: ‘Our Father in heaven.’” That is number one. We pray because dozens of times in the Bible, we are told to pray. And God loves us. He wouldn’t tell us to do something that is bad for us. It is good for us. 2. Prayer increases our joy. We pray because it is a means to the increase of our joy.
Six Prayers God Always Answers
Nov 26, 2017 · Jesus teaches us to pray and to freely ask our Father for the desires of our heart: “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.” (Luke 11:9–10)
How to Pray the Psalms - Desiring God
Feb 15, 2020 · Teach Us to Pray. Let’s go back to basics. We need to be taught how to pray. It is a wonderful privilege that Christian people have: through Jesus Christ and his death for our sins, and by the ministry of the Holy Spirit in our hearts, we have access to God the Father in prayer (Ephesians 2:18).