2012.7.22 building your prayer life 5

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Developing Your Prayer LifeThe Importance of Prayer’s

Promises

UNCONDITIONAL PROMISES

When You’re Against the Wall

Psalms 50:15 "... and call upon me in the

day of trouble; I will deliver you, and

you will honor me."

UNCONDITIONAL PROMISES

When You Walk in Mystery

Jeremiah 33:3 "Call to me and I will

answer you and tell you great and

unsearchable things you do not know."

UNCONDITIONAL PROMISES

God's Desire to Answer Prayer

Matthew 7:7 "Ask and it will be given to

you; seek and you will find; knock and

the door will be opened to you.

UNCONDITIONAL PROMISES

8 For everyone who asks receives; he who

seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the

door will be opened."

CONDITIONAL PROMISES

1 John 5:14 This is the confidence we

have in approaching God: that if we ask

anything according to his will, he hears

us.

CONDITIONAL PROMISES

15 And if we know that he hears us--

whatever we ask--we know that we have

what we asked of him.

CONDITIONAL PROMISES

1 John 3:21 Dear friends, if our hearts do

not condemn us, we have confidence

before God 22 and receive from him

anything we ask, because we obey his

commands and do what pleases him.

CONDITIONAL PROMISES

Psalms 37:4 Delight yourself in the

LORD and he will give you the desires of

your heart.

CONDITIONAL PROMISES

John 15:7 If you remain in me and my

words remain in you, ask whatever you

wish, and it will be given you.

CONDITIONAL PROMISES

John 14:14 You may ask me for anything

in my name, and I will do it.

CONDITIONAL PROMISES

Matthew 18:19 "Again, I tell you that if

two of you on earth agree about anything

you ask for, it will be done for you by my

Father in heaven. 20 For where two or

three come together in my name, there

am I with them."

CONDITIONAL PROMISES

Matthew 21:21 Jesus replied, "I tell you

the truth, if you have faith and do not

doubt, not only can you do what was done

to the fig tree, but also you can say to

this mountain, 'Go, throw yourself into

the sea,' and it will be done.

CONDITIONAL PROMISES

22 If you believe, you will receive

whatever you ask for in prayer."

CONDITIONAL PROMISES

James 5:16 Therefore confess your sins to

each other and pray for each other so

that you may be healed. The prayer of a

righteous man is powerful and effective.

CONDITIONAL PROMISES

Luke 18:1 He told them a parable to the

effect that they should always pray and

not lose heart.

THE TRIFECTA OF PRAYER

Luke 11:9 "So I say to you: Ask and it

will be given to you; seek and you will

find; knock and the door will be opened

to you.

THE TRIFECTA OF PRAYER

10 For everyone who asks receives; he who

seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the

door will be opened.

THE TRIFECTA OF PRAYER

11 "Which of you fathers, if your son asks

for a fish, will give him a snake instead?

THE TRIFECTA OF PRAYER

12 Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a

scorpion?

THE TRIFECTA OF PRAYER

13 If you then, though you are evil, know

how to give good gifts to your children,

how much more will your Father in

heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who

ask him!"

OBJECTIONS TO PRAYER

1. God has more important things to take

care of than my petty stuff.

2. Why do we have to tell Him what we

need? Isn't He supposed to already know?

3. I haven't prayed for lots of stuff and still

gotten it. What's the point?

THE TRIFECTA OF PRAYER

Luke 11:13 If you then, though you are

evil, know how to give good gifts to your

children, how much more will your

Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to

those who ask him!"