BASIC Tools - Prayer (follow up)

Leaders: This mini-curriculum is a follow-up to the recent tool on prayer. Please use this with your groups the second half of October as you coach your groups toward Spiritual transformation.

We talked in BASIC Tools - Prayer about the difference between the “on the go” me-centered praying that we sometimes fall into and the refreshing “in our room” dedicated times with God which are possible and which our Father wants with us.

Last time we met we laid out the challenge of intentionally spending at least one or two times in dedicated prayer with the Father. Would anyone share about how one of your times with God went this week? Some of you who are experienced with this, can you offer any tips for those of us who are not?

Remember that outline of prayer we talked about?
1) Worship Him
2) Say sincerely “your will not mine”
3) Ask for the things on your heart.

Ask for two volunteers to read Mt 6:5-13 and Luke 11:1-4. (Don't put people on the spot to read!)

How do we reconcile the fact that these two versions of the Lord’s prayer are different? These prayers can be different because the prayer is a model outline, not an exact wording to be repeated. Worship him, your will not mine, ask for the things on your heart. It is a pattern for prayer.

Let’s this week carve out at least two times that we can spend in dedicated time with the Father. It doesn’t have to be long, but try to use that outline Jesus gave us as he was teaching his disciples to pray.

We'll talk next time about how it went!