One Life Church
One Life Prayer Guide
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One Life East
333 Plaza E Blvd, Evansville, IN 47715, USA
Sunday 11:59 PM
God’s greatest movements in this world have been conditioned on, continued and fashioned by prayer. God has put Himself in these great movements just as men have prayer. Persistent, prevailing, conspicuous and mastering prayer has always brought God to present. How vast are the possibilities of prayer! How wide its reach! It lays its hand on Almighty God and moves Him to do what He would not do if prayer was not offered. Prayer is a wonderful power placed by Almighty God in the hands of His saints, which may be used to accomplish great purposes and to achieve unusual results. The only limits to prayer are the promises of God and His ability to fulfill those promises. - E. M. Bounds
Bible passages to build your faith....
Jesus' Teaching on Prayer
According to His will - Biblical Prayers:
Pray that:
WE WILL BE ONE
WE WILL BE ONE
• PEOPLE WILL COME TO CHRIST
• WE WILL KNOW JESUS BETTER
• OUR HEARTS TO BE ENLIGHTENED TO HOPE, GOD'S RICHES AND HIS POWER FOR THEM
• OUR HEARTS TO BE ENLIGHTENED TO HOPE, GOD'S RICHES AND HIS POWER FOR THEM
• WE MAY BE STRENGTHENED WITH POWER
• WE MAY HAVE POWER TO GRASP THE LOVE OF CHRIST
• WE WILL KNOW THE LOVE OF CHRIST
• WE MAY HAVE POWER TO GRASP THE LOVE OF CHRIST
• WE WILL KNOW THE LOVE OF CHRIST
• WE WILL BECOME ACTIVE IN SHARING OUR FAITH
• WE MAY ENJOY GOOD HEALTH AND ALL MAY GO WELL
• GOD WILL SEND WORKERS INTO HIS HARVEST FIELD OF CHINA, MYANMAR, AFGHANISTAN, and OTHER LEAST REACHED AREAS OF THE WORLD.
• GOD WILL ENLIGHTEN AND AWAKEN MILLIONS OF CHINESE MISSIONARIES TO TAKE THE GOSPEL ALL THE WAY BACK TO JERUSALEM
• GOD WILL ENLIGHTEN AND AWAKEN MILLIONS OF CHINESE MISSIONARIES TO TAKE THE GOSPEL ALL THE WAY BACK TO JERUSALEM
• OUR LOVE MAY ABOUND – IN ALL KNOWLEDGE AND DEPTH OF INSIGHT
• WE WOULD BE PROTECTED FROM THE EVIL ONE
• WE WILL BE FILLED WITH THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD’S WILL THROUGH ALL SPIRITUAL WISDOM AND UNDERSTANDING
• THEIR LOVE WILL INCREASE AND OVERFLOW FOR ONE ANOTHER AND FOR EVERYONE ELSE
• WE WILL SPEAK THE WORD WITH GREAT BOLDNESS
• GOD WILL DO MIRACUALOUS SIGNS AND HEAL PEOPLE
• GOD WILL DO MIRACUALOUS SIGNS AND HEAL PEOPLE
• WE WILL ALL BE FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT
• WE WILL DISCOVER AND LIVE OUT GOD’S PURPOSES FOR THEIR LIVES AND FINISH THE TASK HE HAS GIVEN OUR GENERATION
• WE WILL BE COUNTED WORTHY OF HIS CALLING
• GOD WILL FULFILL EVERY GOOD PURPOSE OF OURS AND EVERY ACT PROMPTED BY OUR FAITH
• GOD WILL FULFILL EVERY GOOD PURPOSE OF OURS AND EVERY ACT PROMPTED BY OUR FAITH
ABOVE ALL ELSE PRAY THAT:
THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST WILL BE GLORIFIED IN OUR CHURCH, THROUGH THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST WILL BE GLORIFIED IN OUR CHURCH, THROUGH THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
Quotes from great preachers and teachers on prayer:
• “Lack of heart and lack of heat are two things Jesus hates”
• God often waits for our passionate persistence in prayer. It isn't that God is reluctant and needs to be persuaded. Our persistence doesn't change God, it changes us, developing in us a heart and passion for what God wants
• Jesus endeavors to lodge this truth deeply into the hearts of those who want to learn to pray—prayer accomplishes a great deal. Ask and you will receive—EVERYONE who asks, receives. This is the eternal law of the kingdom. If you ask and don’t receive it must be because there is something missing in the prayer. Let the word and the Spirit teach you to pray properly. But do not lose confidence that he wants to give you – that EVERYONE who asks – receives.” Andrew Murray
• We prevail with men by importunity because they are displeased with it, but with God because he is pleased with it.
• Prayer isn't a tool to get what we want from God. It is a method to get God's will accomplished in us and all around us
• Lord Jesus! I ask You this day to enroll my name among those who confess that they do not know how to pray as they ought, and specially ask You for a course in teaching in prayer. Lord! Teach me to wait with You in the school and give You time to train me. May a deep sense of my ignorance, the wonderful privilege and power of prayer, of the need of the Holy Spirit as the Spirit of prayer, lead me to cast away my thoughts of what I think I know, and make me kneel before You in true teachableness (sic) and poverty of spirit.” -- Andrew Murray
• He who prays in a businesslike way, meaning what he says, honors the Lord. The Lord does not play at promising, Jesus did not sport at confirming the word by His blood, and we must not make a jest of prayer by going about it in a listless un-expecting spirit.
• “If Jesus dwells at the fountain of my life; if the currents of his life have displaced all self currents; if obedience to him is the inspiration and force of every movement of my life, then he can safely commit the praying to my will, and pledge himself, by obligation as profound as his own nature, that whatsoever is asked is granted.”
• “Lack of heart and lack of heat are two things Jesus hates”
• God often waits for our passionate persistence in prayer. It isn't that God is reluctant and needs to be persuaded. Our persistence doesn't change God, it changes us, developing in us a heart and passion for what God wants
• Jesus endeavors to lodge this truth deeply into the hearts of those who want to learn to pray—prayer accomplishes a great deal. Ask and you will receive—EVERYONE who asks, receives. This is the eternal law of the kingdom. If you ask and don’t receive it must be because there is something missing in the prayer. Let the word and the Spirit teach you to pray properly. But do not lose confidence that he wants to give you – that EVERYONE who asks – receives.” Andrew Murray
• We prevail with men by importunity because they are displeased with it, but with God because he is pleased with it.
• Prayer isn't a tool to get what we want from God. It is a method to get God's will accomplished in us and all around us
• Lord Jesus! I ask You this day to enroll my name among those who confess that they do not know how to pray as they ought, and specially ask You for a course in teaching in prayer. Lord! Teach me to wait with You in the school and give You time to train me. May a deep sense of my ignorance, the wonderful privilege and power of prayer, of the need of the Holy Spirit as the Spirit of prayer, lead me to cast away my thoughts of what I think I know, and make me kneel before You in true teachableness (sic) and poverty of spirit.” -- Andrew Murray
• He who prays in a businesslike way, meaning what he says, honors the Lord. The Lord does not play at promising, Jesus did not sport at confirming the word by His blood, and we must not make a jest of prayer by going about it in a listless un-expecting spirit.
• “If Jesus dwells at the fountain of my life; if the currents of his life have displaced all self currents; if obedience to him is the inspiration and force of every movement of my life, then he can safely commit the praying to my will, and pledge himself, by obligation as profound as his own nature, that whatsoever is asked is granted.”
Some prayers I pray or have prayed for our church:
• As our crowds grow that we would prize and value individuals even more.
• A mighty roar of praise and a sea of hands raised in worship to God from the congregation
• To be an Acts 2, Purpose- Driven, Prevailing, Great Commission- fulfilling, Holy Spirit filled church.
• To make a tremendous impact in the “1040 Window” – the least reached countries of the world.
• To have a true spirit of love for people
• That the distinguishing characteristic of our church will be – “filled with the Holy Spirit to the glory of God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.”
• The preaching would be Christ-centered, Cross centered and “in Christ” centered.
• We would live up to all He has given us – to the fullness of our redemptive potential.
• Wisdom for unity.
• As our crowds grow that we would prize and value individuals even more.
• A mighty roar of praise and a sea of hands raised in worship to God from the congregation
• To be an Acts 2, Purpose- Driven, Prevailing, Great Commission- fulfilling, Holy Spirit filled church.
• To make a tremendous impact in the “1040 Window” – the least reached countries of the world.
• To have a true spirit of love for people
• That the distinguishing characteristic of our church will be – “filled with the Holy Spirit to the glory of God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.”
• The preaching would be Christ-centered, Cross centered and “in Christ” centered.
• We would live up to all He has given us – to the fullness of our redemptive potential.
• Wisdom for unity.