Books: Becoming a Woman of Prayer
Lord, rekindle the passion for prayer I once had inside me
Okay, so I have read a lot of books dealing with the Christian life and have marked them up considerably. Points in the books I would like to remember or pray into, even notes I make in the margins of thoughts that come to me (or that God speaks to me). I finally decided I should post what books I read and what speaks to me.
I keep telling myself I wanna get into the Power of a Praying series, and I still have yet to do that. There are just to many good books out there that I want to read!
PREFACE
Standing in the need of prayer
Standing in the need of spending time in prayer
God has made it clear to me that I need to deepen my prayer life
(Lord, help me to recognize the answers)
He shows us our need and then creatively begins to meet that need
(been praying about this desire for a significant other , praying that even God could fulfill that desire with giving me more of Himself)
God desires to be intimate with me.
He invites, encourages, even helps me to pray.
That God may be glorified in the answers
INVITATION TO INTIMACY
Jeremiah 33:3
Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know
(Expect answers)
(God puts in our hearts what to pray for, Satan would rather us not pray to the Father)
Martin Smith - What if God wants prayer in order to satisfy us?
" Lord, show me the desires of my heart that You have put there"
To pray is to let Jesus come into our hearts
It is not our prayers that move the Lord Jesus, it is Jesus that moves us to pray.
Our prayers are always a result of Jesus' knocking at our hearts door.
What has been our idea of prayer? Our going to God or His coming to us?
Like my singing, He gets joy from hearing me pray.
See prayer as an opportunity to receive from the Lord.
PRAYING IN FAITH
James 1:6-7 Ask in faith without any doubting
Tell Jesus how weak our faith is
Let Him into your heart, He will fulfill your hearts desires.
What God wants is our faith - belief, trust,dependence and confidence.
As we do come in Jesus name, its the same as if Jesus prayed
Believe what you've already asked for in prayer. FAith accepts it as good as doneeven though the actual answer is still future.
Where do my desires come from, God or flesh?
GOD'S HELP IN PRAYER
Prayer...allowing Him to lead us in praying for what He is more ready to give than we may be to ask.
Bring to Him a deep longing to abide in Him by faith.
Rely on Go dmore deply for His support in your life of prayer
He inspires our prayers
He is moDELIGHTING IN GOD
Ask for nothing but what will please God
Initially I responded to His call to delight in Him to ensure the fulfillment of His promise to give me the
desires of my heart. I had no idea He would give me a new heart –Jer.24:7
As we delight in what God delights in, such prayers are inspired by God
Charles Spurgeon – Lord, if what I ask for does not please you, than neither would it please me. My desires are put in your hands to be corrected. Strike the pen through every petition I offer that is not right. And put in whatever I have omitted, even though I might not have desired it had I considered it…”Not as I will, but as Thou wilt.”
GOD’S ANSWERS
Persistence
Get a hold of God, NOT the answers
Our primary needs are spiritual
When therefore, the Spirit has taught us that God is inexorable on this point and that Nhe Himself decides when and how our prayers are to be answered, then we shall experience rest and peace when we pray.
1Kings 3:3 – 14
God appears to Solomon in a dream and asked him to tell Him what He wanted
God sometimes answers our prayers by allowing things to become worse before they get better
…apparent failure is eternal victory (classes @ UM)
Pray as He did, until prayer makes you cease praying. Pray until prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God’s will.
Prayer makes us stronger
God loves me despite unanswered prayer
WHEN GOD IS SILENT
Fidelity involves learning to trust that, out beyond the perimeter of fog, God still reigns and has not abandoned us, no matter how it appears.
Lord, what are You teaching me in the midst of this silence?
Anyone who finds his prayers ineffective, should not conclude that the thing in which he asks of God is not according to His will but should go alone with God with the Psalmists prayer, “Search me oh God, and know my heart; try me, and know my thoughts, and see if there be any wicked way in me”. And wait before Him until He puts His finger on the thing that is displeasing in His sight. Then this sin should be confessed and put away.
Trusting God…learning to rest in his silence
THE LORDS PATTERN OF PRAYER
We must have faith…trust in His ways
Temptation = trial; trying circumstances; whether of temptation or affliction
Thine is the kingdom, power, glory forever… = Let all that happens to me be under Your authority
Wanting Your glory and Your will to be evidenced in our world begins with me.
The Lord ’s Prayer maintains a focus on God
INTERCESSORY PRAYER
The Lord’s Prayer teaches us to pray Our and Us (not just my and mine)
To intercede means to plead on behalf of someone
A clear understanding of Truth, a clean obedient life, earnest service, a strongly simple trust in God, clear assurance of one’s own salvation and relation to God, and a good grip of the truth for others – prepare a man for the real conflict of prayer. Such a man-praying- drives back these hosts of the traitor prince. …invincible in his Chief, Jesus
Ephesians 3:14 – 21 (19)
Col. 1:9-12
2 Thess 1:11-12
Far more of our nation’s life is shaped by prayer than is formed by legislation.
“Lord, make me sensitive to the promptings of Your Holy Spirit”
The Lord’s Prayer and Paul’s prayer
in John 17 – Pray them for my family and for others when I am unsure of the need. Before…there is no reluctance on god’s part to give us whatever is good for us. asking for anything, we should find out if it were according to the mind of the Lord
Ask to be filled with the knowledge of His will before making any petitions for a desired good.
PERSEVERING IN PRAYER
When we least feel like praying is the time when we most need to pray – R.A. Torrey
Faithful…persistent…discipline…patience in waiting for answers
God is a loving Heavenly Father who knows all our needs better than we do.
The strong man of prayer when he starts to pray for a thing keeps on praying until he prays it through and obtains what he seeks.
Be careful about what we ask from God…never give up praying for it until we get it or until God makes it very clear and very definite to us that it is not His will to give it.
Praise the giver
Praise and thanksgiving do not magically change my circumstances, but radically alter my viewpoint
Give God time, He will perfect that which concerneth you
ACCEPTING GOD’S INVITATION
The meaning of prayer is personal, individual contact with God
The purpose of fasting is not to get through to God, but to allow Him to get through to you
Spend the you would otherwise be eating in prayer and seeking God
Fasting is not a requirement
God should time initiate and maintain a fast
As you seek agreement and unity of request, they begin to hear the voice of God gradually conforming their differing thoughts into the will of God. And their prayer is answered.
To what extent are they ready to yield to his Spirit’s control.
re apart of my life than I realize
Ask for the eternal things of GodDELIGHTING IN GOD
Ask for nothing but what will please God
Initially I responded to His call to delight in Him to ensure the fulfillment of His promise to give me the
desires of my heart. I had no idea He would give me a new heart –Jer.24:7
As we delight in what God delights in, such prayers are inspired by God
Charles Spurgeon – Lord, if what I ask for does not please you, than neither would it please me. My desires are put in your hands to be corrected. Strike the pen through every petition I offer that is not right. And put in whatever I have omitted, even though I might not have desired it had I considered it…”Not as I will, but as Thou wilt.”
Okay, so I have read a lot of books dealing with the Christian life and have marked them up considerably. Points in the books I would like to remember or pray into, even notes I make in the margins of thoughts that come to me (or that God speaks to me). I finally decided I should post what books I read and what speaks to me.
I keep telling myself I wanna get into the Power of a Praying series, and I still have yet to do that. There are just to many good books out there that I want to read!
PREFACE
Standing in the need of prayer
Standing in the need of spending time in prayer
God has made it clear to me that I need to deepen my prayer life
(Lord, help me to recognize the answers)
He shows us our need and then creatively begins to meet that need
(been praying about this desire for a significant other , praying that even God could fulfill that desire with giving me more of Himself)
God desires to be intimate with me.
He invites, encourages, even helps me to pray.
That God may be glorified in the answers
INVITATION TO INTIMACY
Jeremiah 33:3
Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know
(Expect answers)
(God puts in our hearts what to pray for, Satan would rather us not pray to the Father)
Martin Smith - What if God wants prayer in order to satisfy us?
" Lord, show me the desires of my heart that You have put there"
To pray is to let Jesus come into our hearts
It is not our prayers that move the Lord Jesus, it is Jesus that moves us to pray.
Our prayers are always a result of Jesus' knocking at our hearts door.
What has been our idea of prayer? Our going to God or His coming to us?
Like my singing, He gets joy from hearing me pray.
See prayer as an opportunity to receive from the Lord.
PRAYING IN FAITH
James 1:6-7 Ask in faith without any doubting
Tell Jesus how weak our faith is
Let Him into your heart, He will fulfill your hearts desires.
What God wants is our faith - belief, trust,dependence and confidence.
As we do come in Jesus name, its the same as if Jesus prayed
Believe what you've already asked for in prayer. FAith accepts it as good as doneeven though the actual answer is still future.
Where do my desires come from, God or flesh?
GOD'S HELP IN PRAYER
Prayer...allowing Him to lead us in praying for what He is more ready to give than we may be to ask.
Bring to Him a deep longing to abide in Him by faith.
Rely on Go dmore deply for His support in your life of prayer
He inspires our prayers
He is moDELIGHTING IN GOD
Ask for nothing but what will please God
Initially I responded to His call to delight in Him to ensure the fulfillment of His promise to give me the
desires of my heart. I had no idea He would give me a new heart –Jer.24:7
As we delight in what God delights in, such prayers are inspired by God
Charles Spurgeon – Lord, if what I ask for does not please you, than neither would it please me. My desires are put in your hands to be corrected. Strike the pen through every petition I offer that is not right. And put in whatever I have omitted, even though I might not have desired it had I considered it…”Not as I will, but as Thou wilt.”
GOD’S ANSWERS
Persistence
Get a hold of God, NOT the answers
Our primary needs are spiritual
When therefore, the Spirit has taught us that God is inexorable on this point and that Nhe Himself decides when and how our prayers are to be answered, then we shall experience rest and peace when we pray.
1Kings 3:3 – 14
God appears to Solomon in a dream and asked him to tell Him what He wanted
God sometimes answers our prayers by allowing things to become worse before they get better
…apparent failure is eternal victory (classes @ UM)
Pray as He did, until prayer makes you cease praying. Pray until prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God’s will.
Prayer makes us stronger
God loves me despite unanswered prayer
WHEN GOD IS SILENT
Fidelity involves learning to trust that, out beyond the perimeter of fog, God still reigns and has not abandoned us, no matter how it appears.
Lord, what are You teaching me in the midst of this silence?
Anyone who finds his prayers ineffective, should not conclude that the thing in which he asks of God is not according to His will but should go alone with God with the Psalmists prayer, “Search me oh God, and know my heart; try me, and know my thoughts, and see if there be any wicked way in me”. And wait before Him until He puts His finger on the thing that is displeasing in His sight. Then this sin should be confessed and put away.
Trusting God…learning to rest in his silence
THE LORDS PATTERN OF PRAYER
We must have faith…trust in His ways
Temptation = trial; trying circumstances; whether of temptation or affliction
Thine is the kingdom, power, glory forever… = Let all that happens to me be under Your authority
Wanting Your glory and Your will to be evidenced in our world begins with me.
The Lord ’s Prayer maintains a focus on God
INTERCESSORY PRAYER
The Lord’s Prayer teaches us to pray Our and Us (not just my and mine)
To intercede means to plead on behalf of someone
A clear understanding of Truth, a clean obedient life, earnest service, a strongly simple trust in God, clear assurance of one’s own salvation and relation to God, and a good grip of the truth for others – prepare a man for the real conflict of prayer. Such a man-praying- drives back these hosts of the traitor prince. …invincible in his Chief, Jesus
Ephesians 3:14 – 21 (19)
Col. 1:9-12
2 Thess 1:11-12
Far more of our nation’s life is shaped by prayer than is formed by legislation.
“Lord, make me sensitive to the promptings of Your Holy Spirit”
The Lord’s Prayer and Paul’s prayer
in John 17 – Pray them for my family and for others when I am unsure of the need. Before…there is no reluctance on god’s part to give us whatever is good for us. asking for anything, we should find out if it were according to the mind of the Lord
Ask to be filled with the knowledge of His will before making any petitions for a desired good.
PERSEVERING IN PRAYER
When we least feel like praying is the time when we most need to pray – R.A. Torrey
Faithful…persistent…discipline…patience in waiting for answers
God is a loving Heavenly Father who knows all our needs better than we do.
The strong man of prayer when he starts to pray for a thing keeps on praying until he prays it through and obtains what he seeks.
Be careful about what we ask from God…never give up praying for it until we get it or until God makes it very clear and very definite to us that it is not His will to give it.
Praise the giver
Praise and thanksgiving do not magically change my circumstances, but radically alter my viewpoint
Give God time, He will perfect that which concerneth you
ACCEPTING GOD’S INVITATION
The meaning of prayer is personal, individual contact with God
The purpose of fasting is not to get through to God, but to allow Him to get through to you
Spend the you would otherwise be eating in prayer and seeking God
Fasting is not a requirement
God should time initiate and maintain a fast
As you seek agreement and unity of request, they begin to hear the voice of God gradually conforming their differing thoughts into the will of God. And their prayer is answered.
To what extent are they ready to yield to his Spirit’s control.
re apart of my life than I realize
Ask for the eternal things of GodDELIGHTING IN GOD
Ask for nothing but what will please God
Initially I responded to His call to delight in Him to ensure the fulfillment of His promise to give me the
desires of my heart. I had no idea He would give me a new heart –Jer.24:7
As we delight in what God delights in, such prayers are inspired by God
Charles Spurgeon – Lord, if what I ask for does not please you, than neither would it please me. My desires are put in your hands to be corrected. Strike the pen through every petition I offer that is not right. And put in whatever I have omitted, even though I might not have desired it had I considered it…”Not as I will, but as Thou wilt.”
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