how to

pray

your guide to prayer

your guide to prayer

  • Acknowledge you’re in God’s presence

  • Come before Him with reverence & intimacy

  • Call Him whatever you’re comfortable with

1. Addressing God

2. thanking God

  • Cultivate gratitude by thanking God for His blessings and gifts

  • Thank Him for who He is

  • Consider keeping a gratitude journal

  • Confess your sins and repent (1 John 1:9)

  • Confess worries, hurts, disappointments weighing on you

3. confessing to God

4. SUPPLICATION:
YOUR PRAYER REQUESTS

  • Offer up your needs and requests

  • Pray for the work of the Gospel

  • Intercede for others

  • Mark 11:24 tells us to have faith in our prayers

  • Pray with expectant faith

  • Trust God to hear you and answer your prayers

5. HAVE FAITH IN YOUR PRAYERS

6. CLOSING YOUR PRAYER IN
JESUS' NAME

  • We close our prayers in Jesus' name because of the power & authority in His name

7. CLOSE YOUR PRAYER WITH AMEN

  • We close with "amen," meaning "so be it."

  • Saying "amen" is like putting a seal on what we have just prayed.

7 Daily prayers

  • God help me to love as you have commanded me to love.
    (1 Corinthians 13:4-7)

  • God surround me with your peace.
    (1 Peter 5:7)

  • God I pray for others to receive you in their life.
    (1 Timothy 2: 1-5)

  • God if there is anything I have done wrong, please forgive me.
    (1 John 1:19)

  • God show me what you want me to do today.
    (Jeremiah 42:3)

  • God keep your hands of protection around me.
    (Deuteronomy 31:6)

  • Item description God help me to believe you will meet all of my needs.
    (Mark 11:24)

5 finger prayer

Thumb: Loving God, (Praise God)
Pray for those closest to you: your family and friends.

Pointer finger: Sometimes I forget to be helpful and kind, please forgive me. (Confess Your Sins)
Pray for those who point you in the right direction: your teachers, and other leaders in your life. Pray for wisdom and support.

Middle finger (tallest): Thank you for being there for me. (Thank God)
Pray for those that lead us: those in
government, in business, in church leadership. Pray for guidance and wisdom.

Ring finger (weakest): Help those who are hungry. (Pray for Others)
Pray for those who are poor, sick, in pain, in trouble: those most in need.

Pinkie finger (smallest): Help me be a better person. (Pray for Yourself)
Pray for yourself and your own needs.

In Jesus name, I pray. Amen (Closing)


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