Practice: Daily Prayer
Last in a series on prayer. Gerald Barrett speaks about the habit of prayer using the acronym ACTS Scriptures: 1 Thessalonians 5:12-24, Daniel 6:3-12 Having a conscious reference to God and a daily habit
Talks tagged with ‘prayer’
21 – 28 of 28 items
Struggle: asking God’s help
The text for Liz Pinnock’s sermon were: James 5:13-18 and John 14:5-14 This is the eighth in a series on prayer. Supplication – a cry for help, for yourself, for others and for the world. Balancing the purpose of petitionary prayer -your kingdom come’ and to align our hearts with God – ‘your will be […]
Awe: praising the Lord, part 2
Praise refers to ur positive responses to the revelation of God’s person that he has given in nature and Scripture; thanksgiving is praising God for what he has done; the two are intimately connected. Psalm 136:1-9, 26; Psalm 145.
Awe: praising the Lord, part 1
Praise refers to ur positive responses to the revelation of God’s person that he has given in nature and Scripture; thanksgiving is praising God for what he has done; the two are intimately connected. Psalm 136:1-9, 26; Psalm 145.
Intimacy: finding God’s grace
Fifth in our series on prayer. The following Scriptures were read: 1 John 1:5- 2:6; Luke 12:1-10 At the end of his talk Allen leads in prayer. You may wish to pause the playback to engage with the prayer yourself.
Praying for ourselves
Fourth in a series on prayer. The following we read Matthew 6:5-14 and Psalm 25 Rosie spoke about the praying for ourselves highlighted by seven ‘keys’. Listen for more . . .
Conversing with God
Third in our series on prayer. Readings were from Psalm 86:1-17 and Colossians 3:1-4 Peter speaks about prayers as like answering speech and our need to respond first to what God has spoken. To familiarise ourselves with prayer as answering speech we need to immerse ourselves in the God speech as we find it expressed in the […]
What is prayer?
As we talk about prayer over the coming Sundays let’s be clear we are looking to the Bible as the source of our encouragement to engage with the Lord God, YHWH, the God and father of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Prayer is engaging God in relationship with him, a relationship that has been brought about by Jesus. It is personal, an expression of that relationship with God who has become our Father – having adopted us as his dearly beloved children. Effective prayer is linked directly to our inheritance –the kingdom of God that is pure and undefiled, beyond the reach of change and decay, an inheritance that is given for everyone. Through prayer we are recognising the reality of God’s kingdom, gaining confidence, standing tall in our new identity as chosen and beloved of God.