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Week 10
Lessons 65-70 lead to discovering the power of genuine prayer.
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Overview:
- What Prayer Is Not
- What Prayer Is…
- The Lord’s Prayer
- The Brass Ceiling Of Prayer
- Ask According To Whose Will?
- Catch A Habit
- The Lord’s Supper Prayer
Video Lesson
Memory Verses
Primary Verse:
But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
Matthew 6:6
Secondary Verse:
Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed.
Mark 1:35
Daily Lessons
Prayer
May 11th, 2026
Sometimes, in art, and particularly painting, to make a subject stand out, the artist will use “negative space” (sections of dark and shadow) to bring attention to the “positive space” – i.e. the subject. In defining real prayer, let’s start by letting the Bible itself tell us what prayer IS NOT: “And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues an...
Christ And Prayer
May 11th, 2026
Matthew 6:6 “But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.” There certainly is nothing complicated about understanding what this verse says. There isn’t a complex cultural puzzle, other than the obvious fact from context that people in Jesus’ day did a lot of public praying....
Christ And Prayer
May 11th, 2026
Matthew 6:9-13 This, then, is how you should pray: "Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.” Ironic that this much “mumbled” prayer follows RIGHT AFTER Jesus’ admonit...
Christ And Prayer
May 11th, 2026
Matthew 6:14-15 For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.
Psalm 66:18 If I had cherished sin in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.
James 4:3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get ...
Christ And Prayer
May 11th, 2026
John 15:7-8 If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples. “Lord, I feel connected to You, and I’ve memorized 5 verses now, so Your Word would be in me; now Lord, I want to pray for whatever I wish. Let’s see, Lord, I want a Porsche 911, red, preferabl...
Christ And Prayer
May 11th, 2026
Have you ever “caught” a habit? Modern corporate culture exudes habits and as a result employees seem to all walk and talk similar to each other. Family culture creates habits. Clicks, gangs, and clubs (from country to hunting) all have habits their members do which identify them as belonging. I remember one friend of mine who went to a Bible College whose President had a persistent throat problem...
Christ And Prayer
May 11th, 2026
This morning (or evening) I want you to do something VERY different. Find a private place, get down on your knees (unless you have knee problems or the floor is 35 degrees) and simply read line by line, Jesus’ longest recorded prayer, given just before His trial and crucifixion. Imagine Jesus praying that prayer, that night, with His disciples who had just had their feet washed by Christ and taken...