Prayer Thoughts – How They Prayed In the New Testament – John Piper

This is from John Piper. We should never have any shortage of things to pray for if we read the New Testament and pray what they prayed for:
They called on God to exalt his name in the world: Pray then like this: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name (Matthew 6:9).
They called on [...]

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Prayer Thoughts: Godward Motivation for Prayer

A GODWARD MOTIVATION FOR PRAYER:
HE HEARS AND ACTS WHEN HIS PEOPLE PRAY
 
When we cry out in prayer, God Himself– Creator, Sustainer, Life-giver, Life-taker– puts Himself within range of our voice. He does so not only in a way that is glorious and mighty (though He certainly is) but also in a way that is [...]

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Prayer Thoughts – PrayBrooks again :)

GOD REVEALS HIMSELF TO THOSE WHO SEEK
Another motivation, Brooks writes, is that “you are the only persons in all the world that God has made choice of to reveal his secrets to.” Disciples of Christ are those to whom, in John 15:15, Christ promises to reveal the things of the Father.

He continues,
[Christ] cannot but open [...]

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Prayer Thoughts: Prayer Meetings

If You Do Not Have A Prayer Life, You’re Not A Christian – Bob Jennings –The Prayer Meeting

“[Prayer] is a mark of true Christianity. If you do not have a prayer life, one thing you know for sure is, you’re not a Christian. Every Christian has a prayer life, he lives, he walks, he breathes [...]

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Prayer Thoughts: Prayer Photo Album

Creative Connection
Letitia Suk
For years, my prayers were scattered. I’d start with the crisis of the day, then mentally spin off to groceries I needed or calls I had to make. Then I’d nod off for a short nap and wake with the resolution to “pray harder” next time.
That all changed the day I leafed through [...]

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Prayer Thoughts: Thomas Brooks – Tears as Prayers

TEARS AS PRAYERS
And here, Brooks encourages us to bring our tears and hurts before the One who sits on the throne of grace. Looking at examples like David (as in Psalm 6:6-8) and Peter (Matt. 26:75), he writes, “prayers and tears are not only very pleasing to God, but also very prevalent with God.“
Bellarmine offered [...]

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Prayer Thoughts: How to Pray in an Economic Crisis (Yancey)

How to Pray in an Economic Crisis
 
During one of the most volatile periods of the current economic crisis—a week in which global stock markets declined by $7 trillion—Philip Yancey received a call from an editor at Time magazine. The editor’s question was simple: “How should a person pray during a crisis like this?” Here is [...]

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Payer Thoughts: Your Father Knows What You Need

Your Father Knows What You Need
I love this from John Piper. I needed this today!
Jesus wants his followers to be free from worry. In Matthew 6:25-34 he gives at least seven arguments designed to take away our anxiety.
One of them lists food and drink and clothing, and then says, “Your heavenly Father knows that you [...]

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Payer Thoughts: J.I. Packer on the Lord’s Prayer

From J. I. Packer’s Praying the Lord’s Prayer:
We need to see that the Lord’s Pray is offering us model answers to the series of questions God puts to us to shape our conversation with him. Thus:
What do you take me for, and what am I to you?
Our Father in heaven.

That being so, what is it [...]

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Prayer Thoughts: How to Pray

How to Pray
Believers do not pray with the view of informing God about things unknown to him, or of exciting him to do his duty, or of urging him as though he were reluctant. On the contrary, they pray in order that they may arouse themselves to seek him, that they may exercise their faith [...]

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