Asking God for things can be tricky. He knows the desires of our heart, he knows what we need, he is the omnipotent God of creation, and yet, we are taught that we lack things either because we do not ask for them or because we are asking with wrong motivations. This week we dig into how and why we ask for things in prayer.
This week we explore the need for all people, even those “after God’s own heart,” to confess their sins before him in prayer.
Too often we open our prayers in adoration in an effort to manipulate God to act on our behalf. This morning we are going to focus in on adoring God because of his worthiness.
One of the regular practices of Jesus in the Gospels was to spend time alone with the Father offering up his desires in prayer, and this is something that we need to learn to incorporate in our Christian lives.
As we begin our series on prayer, we will look at how so many of the instructions from Jesus in the New Testament are teaching us that we need to be people that pray together as a church body.
As we close our look at the book of Ephesians, we look at what it means to live and pray in the Spirit as the family of God.