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Soul Thirst:  Going Deeper with God

Alan Parker

Jump Start Your Devotional Life

Nicole Parker

Sword or Sawdust

How to Pray with Passion and Power

Crystal Fountains and Slimy Cisterns

When Truth Meets Life

The Secret to Vibrant Spirituality

I have no remote clicker, it has gone missing, so I'll just have to push the button every now and again.

But what we're dealing with in this particular section is prayer.

And I know that each 1 of us wants to have a deeper prayer life.

And so before we get into our main section here, we're going to give you the opportunity to spend some time in prayer.

It would be ironic if we had a seminar on prayer but we didn't pray.

And so we want to give you an opportunity to just focus your thoughts on God.

I find it useful when I'm praying to not just get into the rote prayers.

You know, dear God be with my family, be with my pet dog, I love you Lord, thanks for the weather.

But we're still praying 8 year old prayers when we're 18 and when we're 28 and 38.

So we need to change our prayers to be more meaningful.

So what I want to encourage you to do for the prayer time that I'm going to give you now is to take 1 thing that is on your heart, 1 particular area that's on your heart, and to pray about that 1 thing And continue interceding with the Lord on that 1 thing.

But wherever you are right now, just take 1 thing on your heart.

It could be an area in your life that you're struggling with.

It could be just praising God and just saying, I'm going to praise you, God, about things that you've done in my life.

It could be about a decision you have to make.

So whatever it is, I want you to take 1 thing, And I want you to pray about that 1 thing before we begin our session on prayer.

So kneel down, stand, raise your hands, don't jump up and down and start speaking in tongues, but you can do how the spirit leads you as you pray to him now.

So take 1 thing and we're gonna pray about that 1 thing for just a few minutes here.

Lord, in this moment of worship, We come to you knowing that you are a God who can do all things.

You've heard the prayer requests, the praises.

Because we believe that as we are in prayer, when 2 or 3 are gathered together, you are in their midst.

So Father, we're pleading for your presence to transform.

We're talking about how to pray with passion and power.

And how many of you have discovered that your prayer lives are often not what they should be?

If you have a perfect prayer life, then you probably should go to 1 of the other seminars.

Because this is, for us, for those of us who are struggling with the fact that we struggle to pray with passion and power.

And so I want to suggest to you that as we begin this, that you can take a method, a strategy, and that's going to work in all situations.

And you just do these 5 things, you'll have a great prayer life.

It's much more like a relationship that It's going to take time, energy, effort.

It's gonna take a commitment, but the rewards are worth it.

It's not gonna be a strategy, it's gonna be spirituality.

So we wanna deal with some of the challenges of a prayer life and how we can change.

My prayers feel like they're bouncing off the ceiling.

I don't know if God hears them or if He even cares.

Have you ever heard that said to you before?

I can't seem to concentrate during prayer.

As soon as I close my eyes, I start thinking of something else.

I find myself saying the same things over and over every day.

Lord, you know what I prayed about yesterday?

My three-year-old, OK, would you like to pray?

Well, I guess there is food, but he doesn't understand that.

I remember listening to Dick O'Phill, and he was saying when he was younger, his little baby sister used to go, didapudapan for prayer.

And it came out to didapudapan, because you just shorten it.

And so how are we going to move beyond these routine prayers and be able to go deeper with God?

And I'm suggesting in this seminar that there are 2 missing ingredients, 1 that we lack passion, and secondly, that we lack power.

What is the difference between passion and power?

And many people have dry prayers that have no emotion.

I remember going to this 1 prayer meeting and they started praying.

And the first person, they prayed some long prayer, but it was, Our Father who dwells in the heavens.

And then the next person next to them, they started praying, Our Father who dwells in the heavens and is, you know, over all the earth.

And then the next person prayed, our Father who dwells in the heavens and is over all the earth and is right here in this room.

And then the next person added to it until they had these long, complicated prayers.

Because the routine was killing my passion.

I mean, these complicated ritualistic prayers was killing the passion.

Did Jesus expect that there would be power attached to prayer.

He said when you pray, you can expect mountains to move.

When you pray in answer to faith, incredible miracles will happen.

And today, it seems that we lack both passion and power.

Say the whole prayer, none of this, et cetera, et cetera.

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Soul Thirst: Going Deeper with God

How to Pray with Passion and Power

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4. Relentless Prayer

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