Author: Steve Amato
Description: bible study on prayer
Keywords: prayer, miracles, bible, faith, believe, new testament

# PRAYER

## SUMMARY of
What Paul Prayed For

For HEARTS:

- to be Established blameless in holiness.
- to be Encouraged in every good word and work.
- to be Directed into the LOVE of God and into the STEADFASTNESS of Christ.

For Revelation of:

- The Hope of His calling
- The Riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints.
- The surpassing greatness of His Power toward us who believe

To be Strengthened with power in the inner man

- Resulting in Conviction
- Resulting in Christ's indwelling
- Resulting in Revelation of Christ's Love
- Resulting in Christlikeness

To be Established in every good word and work

For their Love to abound in

- Knowledge
- All discernment

To be Filled with the Knowledge of His will,
resulting in a worth walk, as demonstrated by:

- Being fruitful in every good work
- Growing in the knowledge of God
- Strengthened with all power, for all steadfastness and longsuffering with joy
- Giving thanks to the Father.

For Perfection:

- in all the will of God
- in faith
- blameless

For The Laborers and The Gospel:

- 1. Deliverance
- 2. Acceptable service
- 3. Utterance - to make known the mystery of the gospel with boldness.
- 4. Open door - situation and revelation.
- 5. The Gospel to have free course and be glorified.

## PRAYER FOR
MINISTERS OF THE WORD

Pray that they may bring the gospel in

- Power - FAITH
- The Holy Spirit - LOVE
- Full Conviction (assurance) - HOPE

Pray for their MOTIVATION

- Pleasing God
- Not by man-pleasing (seeking glory from men)
- Not by greed

To be proven by their

- Persecution
- Care for the believers
- Labor (not to be a burden)
- Character

Pray that they may have a VISION for the young believers:

- that they would have a walk worthy of God

Pray for their CHARACTER to be

- Just
- Devout
- Blameless
- An example to the believers in:

- word
- conduct
- love
- spirit
- faith
- purity

- Soberminded - be in one's right mind
- Has a well-ordered life
- Hospitable
- Able to teach
- Gentle
- Honorable
- Has a pure heart
- Has a good conscience
- Has a sincere faith
- Faithful in all things
- Showing themselves to be a pattern of good works
- Not reproachable
- Not given to wine
- Not overindulgent
- Not covetous
- Not greedy for money
- Not quarrelsome
- Not violent
- Not double-tongued
- Not a slanderer
- Prayer that they may treat the young believers

- As a mother
Gentle Cherishing them Affectionately longing for them
Establishing their hearts in faith
(Laborer's Heart for the young believers:
You are our glory and joy Now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord. Desire to be with them.)
- As a father:
Exhorting Encouraging Commanding
Encouraging them in the midst of tribulation concerned that they would be tempted to leave the faith

## PAUL'S EXAMPLES OF PRAYER

Rom 1:10-12 Unceasingly beseeching always at my prayers

- to impart some spiritual gift to establish you
- to be comforted in you through our mutual faith.

Rom 8:26 We do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit makes intercession for us with inexpressible groanings.

Rom 10:1 The good pleasure of my heart and my supplication to God on behalf of Isreal is unto salvation.

Rom 12:12 Be steadfastly continuing in prayer.

Rom 15:30,31 Strive together with me in your prayers to God for me, for

- Deliverance
- My service may be acceptable to the saints.

Eph 1:17-19 That God may give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him (the eyes of your understanding being enlightened) for you to know:

- The hope of His calling
- The riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints
- The surpassing greatness of His Power toward us who believe.

Eph 3:14-19 He may give you according to the riches of His glory to be strengthened with power by His Spirit in the inner man :

- for Christ to dwell in your hearts through faith :in order that
- You (being rooted and grounded in love) may be able to:

- apprehend with all the saints the multidimensions and
- to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge.
- in order that You may be filled with all the fullness of God.

inner power --> Christ indwelling --> Christ's love comprehended --> Christlikeness

Conviction --> Submission --> Revelation --> Transformation

Eph 6:18-20 Pray always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication

- for all the saints
- for me : : in order that

- Utterance may be given to me in the opening of my mounth to make known the mystery of the gospel with boldness, for which I am an ambassador in chains
- to the end that V I may speak it boldly as I ought to speak.

Phil 1:3-5 Thanks God for their fellowship in the gospel.

Phil 1:9-11 Your love may abound still more and more in:

- knowledge and
- all discernment,

- for You may approve the things that are excellent,
- in order that You may be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ, being filled with the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

Phil 1:19 I know that this will turn out for my salvation through your prayer.

Phil 4:6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

Col 1:3 Give thanks because of your faith and love. Praying always for you.

Col 1:9-12 We do not cease to pray for you. You may be filled with the knowledge of His will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

- that you may have a walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him:

- Being fruitful in every good work
- Growing in the knowledge of God
- Strengthened with all might, according the His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy;
- Giving thanks to the Father.

Col 4:2-4 Continue earnestly in prayer, being vigilant in it with thanksgiving meanwhile praying also for us,

- in order that God would open to us a door for the word to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in chains,
- in order that I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak.

Col 4:12 Always laboring fervently for you in prayers

- in order that You may stand

- perfect and
- complete in all the will of God.

I Thess 1:2 Thanks, remembering you without ceasing in our prayers, your work of faith labor of love hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

I Thess 3:10-13 Praying night and day that we may

- see your face
- perfect what is lacking in your faith.

May God

- Direct our way to you
- Make you increase and abound in love to one another and to all
- for to establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints.

I Thess 5:23,25 May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be perserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Brethren, pray for us.

II Thess 1:3 Thanks for

- The faith grows exceedingly, and
- The love of every one of you all abounds toward each other.

II Thess 1:11,12 God would

- count you worthy of this calling, and
- fulfill all the good pleasure of His goodness and the work of faith with power,

- so that The name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and in Him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

II Thess 2:13 Thanks for God choosing them for salvation.

II Thess 2:16,17 May God

- encourage your hearts and
- establish you in every good word and work.

II Thess 3:1,2 Pray for us that

- The Word of the Lord may have free course and be glorified, just as it was with you, and that
- We may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men.

II Thess 3:5 May the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into the patience of Christ.

II Thess 3:16 May the Lord of peace Himself give you peace always in every way. The Lord be with you all.

## JESUS ON PRAYER

Matt 5:44 Pray for those who dispitefully use and persecute you.

Matt 6:5-13 Avoid being motivated by man-pleasing by praying in secret. Don't believe that God will hear me because of my many words. Don't keep repeating the same thing vainly.

"Our Father in heaven, hallowed by Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our depts, as we forgive our deptors. And do not lead us into temptation. But deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen."

Matt 9:38 For laborers sent to the harvest.

Matt 14:23 He went up on a mountain by Himself to pray. And when evening had come, He was alone there.

Matt 21:13 My house shall be called a house of prayer

Matt 21:22 Everything you ask in prayer believing, you shall receive.

Matt 26:36-42 "O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will."

"O My Father, if this cup cannot pass away from Me unless I drink it, Your will be done."

Mk 1:35 In the morning, having risen a long while before daylight, He went out and departed to a solitary place; and there He prayed.

Mk 6:46 He departed to the mountain to pray.

Mk 11:24 When you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.

Mk 11:25 Forgive, or God won't forgive you.

Mk 13:33 Take heed, watch and pray; for you do not know when the time is.

Mk 14:36 "Father, all things are possible for You. Take this cup away from Me; nevertheless, not what I will, but what You will."

Mk 14:38 "Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation."

Lk 3:21 Jesus was baptized, and while He prayed, the heaven was opened.

Lk 5:15,16 Then the report went around concerning Him all the more; and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by Him of their infirmities. So He often withdrew into the wilderness and prayed.

Lk 6:12 He went out to the mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.

Lk 6:28 Pray for those who spitefully use you.

Lk 9:18 And it happened, as He was alone praying, that His disciples joined Him, and He asked them, saying, "Who do the crowds say that I am?"

Lk 9:28,29 And it came to pass, about eight days after these sayings, that He took Peter, John, and James and went up on the mountains to pray. And as He prayed, the appearance of His face was altered, and His robe became white and glistening.

Lk 10:2 Laborers sent to the harvest

Lk 11:1-4 And it came to pass, as He was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, that one of His disciples said to Him, "Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples." So He said to them, "When you pray, say:

Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us day by day our daily bread. And forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one."

Lk 11:5-10 Parable of the Persistent Friend

Lk 11:11-13 Parable of the Good Father

Lk 18:1-8 Parable of the Woman and the Judge

Lk 18:9-14 Parable of the Pharisee and Tax Collector

Lk 18:1-8 Men ought always to pray and not lose heart. God will speedily avenge His own elect who cry out day and night to Him, though He bears long with them.

Lk 21:34-36 "But take heed to yourselves, lest you hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and the cares of this life... Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man."

Lk 22:40 Pray that you may not enter into temptation.

Lk 22:41-45 And He was withdrawn from them about a stone's throw, and He knelt down and prayed, saying, "Father, if it is Your will, remove this cup from Me; nevertheless not My will, but Yours be done."

Then an angel appeared to Him form heaven, strengthening Him. And being in agony, He prayed more earnestly. And His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground. When He rose up from prayer, and had come to His disciples, He found them sleeping from sorrow. Then He said to them, "Why do you sleep? Rise and pray, lest you enter into temptation."

Jn 17 Christ prays for himself: Glorify me that I may glorify you. Christ prays for his disciples:

Keep through Your name those whom You have given Me, that they may be one as we are one.

I do not pray that you should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one.

Sanctify (Set them apart) by Your truth. Your Word is truth.

Christ prays for all believers:

I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in me through their word; that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me.

Father, I desire that they also whom You gave me may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory.

## PRAYERS FOR BLESSINGS

Gen 28:20,21

Then Jacob made a vow saying, "If God will be with me, and keep me in this way that I am going, and give me bread to eat and clothing to put on, so that I come back to my father's house in peace, then the Lord will by my God."

I Chron 4:9.10

Now Jabez was more honorable than his brothers, and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, "Because I bore him in pain." And Jabez called on the God of Israel saying, "Oh, that You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that Your hand would be with me, and that You would keep me from evil, that it may not cause pain!" So God granted him what he requested.

## MOSES'S PRAYERS

Ex 3 THE CALL TO PREACH

Who am I that I should go? I will surely be with you.

Who are You? Who should I declare you as? I am who I am.

What if they don't believe? I will provide miracles.

I am not good at speaking. I will be with you mouth and teach you what you shall say.

Send someone else. I'll send you with someone else

INTERSESSION

Ex 32; Numbers 14:11+

Moses defends Israel against God on the basis of

- God's glory - God's destruction of Israel may communicate something false about God's ability to deliver.
- God's faithfulness to His promise.
- God's mercy.

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