The Essentials

Discipleship
Harvest Baptist Church
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03 March, 2013
Message Six

Prayer: Your Communication Circuit

John 14:12-14
Eph 6:18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints; Ezek 43:5 So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house.

Luke 11:1 And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, The Tibetan monk turns a wheel on the end of a stick and calls it prayer The Roman Catholic lights a candle in the sanctuary and calls it prayer The Hindu beats himself on the back with a whip and calls it prayer The Muslim faces Mecca five times a day to say syllables he may not know the meaning of and calls that prayer

Definition
.:. The doctrine of the trinity is a tri-unity that means the Father is God in every place, the Son is God in one place at a time, and the Spirit is God __________ up among his people .:. Abide means to stay in a given state of _______________ .:. Communion is a ________ form of communication based on a relationship

Thesis
The disciples recognized ____________ is the key to being able to live the abundant life and to do the will of God

AN EXPERIENTIAL EXEGESIS OF PITIFUL PRAYER

1. Prayer is a magic __________they pray as an act of superstition 2. Prayer is a __________Aid kitthey pray as the last act of desperation 3. Prayer is a ______-ofwarthey pray as an act of aggravation 4. Prayer is a religious ________they pray as an act of obligation Matt 7:11 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?
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THE MIND OF GOD ON PRAYER

1. Prayer is an act of ________________________ as a declaration of dedication A. Prayer expresses our actual devotion to God B. Our continual dependence on God 2. Prayer is an act of ________________________ in communication, 2 Cor 13:14 3. Prayer is an act of ________________________ in requisition 4. Prayer is an act of ________________________ in the Great Commission

Discipleship: The Essentials for Life

Point 1. God is not going to let you live your life ______________ him. Point 2. Some people get so caught-up in the promise they ignore the ______________. Point 3. You cannot communicate with someone unless you first have a ______________________ with them. Point 4. When you fully discover Gods __________ in love to you, prayer will no longer be a problem for you. Point 5. There are some things God has promised to do for us ________ in answer to prayer. Point 6. If you want New Testament __________ you have to have New Testament prayer. Point 7. Prayer is not overcoming Gods reluctance, but laying hold on Gods ______________________.

2 Cor 13:14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen. Phil 4:6-7 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. Psa 81:10-12 I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me. So I gave them up unto their own hearts lust: and they walked in their own counsels.

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Prayer
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