A Prayer For Wisdom

Father, I need You; I need Your wisdom as I walk through this day—at home and at work—in all my relationships. You caused Jesus to be made wisdom unto me. Holy Spirit, remind me that the fear of the Lord is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding. I reverence You, my Lord, and depart from evil. Thank You for Your gift of wisdom that is from above. Help me remember that it is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. Amen

A Prayer, By Trevor Hudson

 

Prayer Postures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Prayer - Being Real

Your will be done...

 

Bowing Before The Lord

"Hallowed be Your name.."

Realizing the holiness, power, glory, and reign of God will cause us to pause and bow our heads and hearts in veritable awe and wonder.

Praying and Living

Heavenly Father,

Strengthen our inner man, and our faith and trust in you. May we hunger and thirst after You. Draw us closer to You and fill us to overflowing with Your Spirit to do those things You have called us to do.  Give us wisdom and Your words of hope and peace so that we can minister and be Your servants. Guide our steps so that we will always be encountering those with whom we have Divine appointments. Let us run and not be weary, walk and not be faint. Allow our sleep to be restful and sweet. Protect us from that which would distract us or lead us away from Your will. May all that we think, speak and do bring glory and honor to You and Your Kingdom. 

Find A Certain Place

 

ADPD and WMD - What?

A few simple hints that will help us overcome Attention Deficit Prayer Disorder (ADPD) and Weapons of Mass Distraction (WMD).


Focused Prayer. Prayer Time. God Speaking - These seem to be oxymoron's, and yet they are not. We can experience a time of speaking to God and hearing from God during focused prayer. In order to help you overcome ADPD and WMD and experience a more fruitful time of prayer try the following:

1. Make the time and find a place for prayer. Carve out some time during a day and in the week to spend time with God. Find a place or places that allow you some silence and stillness in your life.

2. Start short. Five minutes is a great place to start. If you go over five minutes that is fine. Just start. A good way to start is stat short.

3. Develop a system. You use systems everyday. You have a system for waking in the morning, preparing for the day, progressing through the day, ending the day, etc. You may realize you are using systems, but you are. Developing a system or plan for your prayer life will help you stay focused. Develop a pattern or patterns that help guide you. You can use the acrostic of ACTS = Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, Supplication. You can focus on your family, including you, then move to your friends, and then begin to speak to God and hear from God about your daily and weekly schedule. A system I use during the day to help me stay in tune with God is STP = Stop, think, Pray. During the day when I am transitioning from one event to another I will take just a few seconds to stop (pause), think (reflect), and pray (a whisper to God or just seek to listen). STP happens in a matter of seconds and is a simple system.

4. Keep in mind that prayer is about a relationship. Prayer is conversation God. Prayer is communicating with God. God desires to relate to you. He takes pleasure in your time with Him. You do not need any magical words or have to know any big churchey words in order to pray. Just begin to speak to God and He will listen and answer.

5. CHANGE. Change will occur in you life as you begin to pray. Be open to God and allow Him to work in your life as you grow in your relationship with Him and others through prayer.

6. Stay at it. If you fall short of a desired goal or time that you had planned for prayer take a "do over" and give prayer another effort. Ask God to strengthen you. He will and you  will begin with a fresh start.

7. Find a partner, a prayer partner, that you can call on a weekly basis and spend time praying a few minutes over the phone. This does not take long, is fairly simple to begin, and yet the "pay off" of praying weekly with a friend will be encouraging to you and the prayer partner.

My Life A Prayer

Lord, grant me a joyful heart and a holy sense of humor. Please give me the gift of faith to be renewed and shared with others each day. Teach me to live this moment only, looking neither to the past with regret, nor the future with apprehension. Let love be my aim and my life a prayer. Holy Humor, Cal and Rose Samra

Do Not Be Afaid

 

A Call From Jesus

Pray - Quotes

Prayer is not getting man's will done in heaven, but getting God's will done on earth. It is not overcoming God's reluctance but laying hold of God's willingness. - Richard C. Trench.

More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of. - Alfred Lord Tennyson

God does nothing but by prayer, and everything with it. - John Wesley.

Prayer requires more of the heart than the tongue. - Adam Clarke.

No one is a firmer believer in the power of prayer than the devil; not that he practices it, but he suffers from it. - Guy H. King.

Spend plenty of time with God; let other things go, but do not neglect Him. - Oswald Chambers

I am so busy. How can I find time to pray? Ask for forgiveness. Ask to be cleansed of all the sin of having no time to pray. - Corrie ten Boom

Prayer is not a convenient device for imposing our will upon God, or bending His will to ours, but it is the main way of submitting our will to His. - John Stott

Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still. - E.M. Bounds

I would rather teach one man to pray than ten men to preach. - Charles Spurgeon

The man who mobilizes the Christian Church to pray will make the greatest contribution to world evangelization in history. - Andrew Murray

Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, and despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers. - Sidlow Baxter

Prayer is where the action is. - John Wesley

The greatest tragedy in life Is not unanswered prayer, but unoffered prayer. - F.B. Meyer

Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence and secures His aid. - E.M. Bounds

If Christians spent as much time praying as they do grumbling, they soon would have nothing to grumble about. - Anonymous

When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I do not, they don’t. - William Temple

If you pray for bread and bring no basket to carry it, you prove the doubting spirit which may be the only hindrance to the gift for which you ask. - D.L. Moody

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing. - Martin Luther

Whatever else prayer may be, it is intended to be a sharing and taking counsel with God on mattes of importance to Him and His Kingdom. God has called you to attend a celestial board meeting to deliberate with Him on matters of Divine destiny. - John White

There is only one limit to what prayer can do; that is what God can do. R.A. Torrey

When a Christian  shuns fellowship with other Christians the devil smiles. When he stops reading the Bible the devils laughs, but when he stops praying the devil shouts for joy. - Corrie ten Boom

Prayer is not conquering God’s reluctance, but taking hold of God’s willingness. - Phillip Brooks

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness or else forgiving one another. - Jean Paul Ritcher

Prayer does not lead to greater works, it is the greater work. - Oswald Chambers

Trouble and perplexity drive us to prayer, and prayer drives away trouble and perplexity. - Phillip Melanchthon

Hurry is the death of prayer. - Samuel Chadwick

Pray for great things, expect great things, work for great things, but above all, pray. - R.A. Torrey

Dear Lord, never let me be afraid to pray for the impossible - Dorothy Shellenberger

Everything we do in the Christian life is easier than prayer. - D. Martin Lloyd Jones

We are too busy to pray, and so we are to be to have power. R. A. Torrey

Prayer is the first thing, the second thing, and the third thing necessary to a minister. Pray then my dear brother; pray, pray, pray. - Edward Payson

Every great movement of God can be traced to a kneeling figure. - D.L. Moody

God is looking for a people through whom He can do the impossible - what a pity we plan only the things we can do. - A.W. Tozer

An Advent Prayer

Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness, and put on the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life in which your Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious majesty to judge both the living and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal; through him who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

A Prayer of Thanks to God

God of all blessings,
source of all life,
giver of all grace:

We thank you for the gift of life:
for the breath
that sustains life,
for the food of this earth
that nurtures life,
for the love of family and friends
without which there would be no life.

We thank you for the mystery of creation:
for the beauty
that the eye can see,
for the joy
that the ear may hear,
for the unknown
that we cannot behold filling the universe with wonder,
for the expanse of space
that draws us beyond the definitions of our selves.

We thank you for setting us in communities:
for families
who nurture our becoming,
for friends
who love us by choice,
for companions at work,
who share our burdens and daily tasks,
for strangers
who welcome us into their midst,
for people from other lands
who call us to grow in understanding,
for children
who lighten our moments with delight,
for the unborn,
who offer us hope for the future.

We thank you for this day:
for life
and one more day to love,
for opportunity
and one more day to work for justice and peace,
for neighbors
and one more person to love
and by whom be loved,
for your grace
and one more experience of your presence,
for your promise:
to be with us,
to be our God,
and to give salvation.

For these, and all blessings,
we give you thanks, eternal, loving God,
through Jesus Christ we pray. Amen.

Vienna Cobb Anderson

Almighty God...

Almighty God, Maker of Heaven and Earth, I approach Your throne of grace with confidence, so that I may receive mercy and find grace to help in my time of need. (‎Heb.4:16) Thank You that Your everlasting love feeds my soul. Even if my heart faints, I never need to worry of Your supply. All that I needed, Your hand has provided. Great is Thy Faithfulness, Lord unto me. – Amen.

Taken from youversion reading plan - Filled. 

Offer This Prayer

To You, O Christ, we praise You with a full heart. We worship You with a sincere spirit of gratitude. The purpose of our worship is not to speak eloquent words, but to bring You worth and honor that is due unto Your Name. Give us a full heart of assurance, that we never have to look further than a whisper to be reminded that Your presence is near. In all things, Your grace, hope, love, and joy are sufficient for our needs. Help us to walk in faithfulness this day, and may the fruit of our lips bring You praise. – Amen.

Taken from youversion.com -Filled.

Lunch Break Prayer For Missions

Father in Heaven,

During this brief pause in the day I want to thank you for lunch, work, small businesses and my health. God, I lift up to you the Missions Emphasis for the BGAV during this week. I join thousands of your servants who are calling out to You. Hear our prayers. Please say, "Yes." to our request. God, I want to see your Spirit move in a mighty way. I thank You for the mighty work You are doing in Ghana Africa and ask You to do the same in the US. I thank You for the opportunity I have had to plant a Church and I ask that hundreds of more Churches be planted in Virginia. Please provide the servants and funding needed.

Lord, thank you for the ladies who gathered last night and called out to You and participated in mission work - THANK YOU. Strengthen and empower those ladies today. 

Author and Provider of Salvation may all of the mission work through the BGAV bring people to You, develop disciples, and bring You glory.

In Christ's Name, Amen. 

Part 1 - Prayer

Part 1. Prayer - talking, listening, whispering, hearing, screaming, humbling, standing, bowing, crying, rejoicing.

It's Time To Pray

“Are any of you suffering hardships? You should pray. Are any of you happy? You should sing praises.” (James 5:13)

Have you ever been in what appeared to be an impossible situation with no way out? Have you ever desperately needed or wanted something, but it seemed as though there was no way you would ever have it? Or, have you ever thought there was no future for you? If so, you need to know about the power of God that can take place through prayer.

One thing that comes out very clearly in the pages of God’s Word is that prayer can dramatically change situations, people, and sometimes even the very course of nature.

But what prayer actually changes the most is you. You change when you pray. The objective of prayer is not to change God or to get Him to do something differently. The objective of prayer is to align yourself with the will and purposes of God.

God will allow hardship and challenges and need—and sometimes even tragedy—so that He can reveal Himself to us and put His power and glory on display. He allows things to happen in our lives so we will turn to Him in prayer.

Yet we usually regard prayer as a last resort: Well, I’ve called all my contacts. I’ve pretty much done everything I can do. . . . So I guess all I can do now is pray.

In reality, the first thing we should do is pray and ask the Lord for His help, His direction, and even His provision. We need God’s help—that is why we pray. When we see our own weakness, we have a greater glimpse of the strength of God.

As someone wisely said, “If you are swept off your feet, it’s time to get on your knees.”

No matter what situation in which we find ourselves, we need to pray.

Taken from YouVersion.com - Grow In Prayer