Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. Psalm 139:23 Yesterday we looked at praying dangerous and bold prayers. In Psalm 139, David asks God to look at four specific areas in his life. The first area was his heart. Second, David prays that God would reveal his fears, his anxious thoughts. What is it that…

“Search me, God, and know my heart. Test me, and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.” Psalm 139:23-24 At the close of Psalm 139, David prays for God to look at four specific things. The first thing that David prays is for God to search his heart. David…

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.‘ Matthew 6: 13 Jesus ends His prayer reminding the disciples not to give in to temptation and to ask God to deliver them from the evil one. Matthew 6:13 in the NLT says, And don’t let us yield to temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. We know…

Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. Matthew 7:12 The fourth thing that Jesus teaches us in His prayer is to seek God’s forgiveness for our sins. For some of us, that’s a once-a-week prayer.  For some of us, it’s like every two minutes.  We need to acknowledge our “missing the mark” and ask God to forgive the…

Give us today our daily bread…Matthew 6:11 Jesus taught us in His prayer to seek God’s provision for our daily needs. “Jehovah-Jireh,” means that God is our provider, and so many times, I think that we forget that God is our provider.  Many times, we think that we provide.  Or, we think that Wal-Mart provides, or McDonald’s provides.  Some of you think…

… your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Matthew 6:10 Another important aspect of praying that Jesus taught the disciples and teaches us is to seek God’s will and His priorities over our own. Matthew 6:33 tells us to seek His (God’s) kingdom and His righteousness, and all of these things will be given to…

 “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name…”   Matthew 6:9 We spent Sunday diving into and unpacking the prayer that Jesus taught the disciples. If you were like me, maybe you grew up reciting the “Lord’s Prayer.” Like the Pledge of Allegiance and some of the creeds we used to recite in church or in scouts or wherever, sometimes, sadly overtime, they…

We know that God does not listen to sinners. He listens to the godly man who does his will. John 9:31 In the book of John is a story of a blind man that was healed. The Pharisees, who claimed to be followers of Moses because God spoke through Moses, said that the man that healed him could not be from God…

I John 5:14-15 says, This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us-whatever we ask-we know that we have what we asked of him. What a powerful statement. If we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. There are some churches…

But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord…James 1:6-7 Besides relationships, motives and living a God-honoring life, another thing that matters to God when we pray is our faith. What is…