May 9th - Interceding Prayer
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Walking and Talking with Jesus
1. Listening
2. Talking
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Teacher / Rabbi
One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.”
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Pattern:
1. Parent, personal, present
2 He said to them, “When you pray, say: Father
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Pattern:
2. Worship authority
hallowed be your name,
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Pattern:
3. Focused purpose
your kingdom come.
(your will be done on earth as it is in heaven)
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Pattern:
4. Declare dependence
Give us each day our daily bread
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Pattern:
5. Engage kingdom dynamics
Forgive us our sins,
for we also forgive everyone who sins against us.
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Pattern:
6. Enter aware
And lead us not into temptation
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Passionate Persistence
8 I tell you, even though he will not get up and give you the bread because of friendship, yet because of your shameless audacity[e] he will surely get up and give you as much as you need.
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Disciplined Repetition
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.
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God's great and gracious gift
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!”