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Biblical Foundations of Prayer
WHAT PRAYER IS NOT
Part 8
Matt 6:7 And when you pray, do not use vain (useless) repetitions as the heathen do. 8 "Therefore do not be like them. For your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him.
Popular Tradition:
1. Counting beads
2. praying to the saints is rooted on praying for the dead.
Matt 6:9 In this manner, therefore, pray: Our Father in heaven NKJV
Ex 20:1-7 And God spoke all these words, saying: 2 "I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 3 "You shall have no other gods before Me. 4 "You shall not make for yourself a carved image — any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; 5 you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, 6 but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments. 7 "You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain. NKJV
WHO TO PRAY TO
Deut 5:4-5 The Lord talked with you face to face on the mountain from the midst of the fire. NKJV
John 16:23 "And in that day you will ask Me nothing. Most assuredly, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in My name He will give you. 24 Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full. NKJV
Eph 3:14 For this reason I bow mykneesto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
PRAYERS GOD CANNOT ANSWER
1 John 5:14 Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will (Not all prayers are heard. We know His will according to His word. Cannot pray his will if do not know his will), He hears us. 15 And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know (Faith, boldness, confidence begins where the will of God is known) that we have the petitions (not things needed, thought deserved) that we haveasked of Him.
What He told us to do
THE MESSAGE1 John 5:14 And how bold and free we then become in his presence, freely asking according to his will, sure that he's listening. 15 And if we're confident that he's listening, we know that what we've asked for is as good as ours.
Eph 5:17 Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the
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