A Time For Prayer

People sometimes say to me that they don't know how to pray. My response always has something to do with them just sharing their honest heart and thoughts with God. More importantly, however, is that we start by praying what we know is God's will for us.

Let's look to Jesus and remember some obvious ways we all might pray. These prayer thoughts come from Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 6-7). They are simply turning some of His teaching into prayer:

O God, we pray

➢ Your will be done! (Matt. 6:10)
➢ Give us this day our daily bread (Matt. 6:11)
➢ Help us to be forgiving (Matt. 6:12)
➢ Deliver us from evil(Matt.6:15)
➢ Help us to store up treasures in heaven (Matt. 6:20)
➢ Help us not to worry (Matt. 6:25) 6:25)
➢ Help us to seek first your kingdom and Your righteousness (Matt. 6:33)
➢ Help us not to be judgmental (Matt. 7:1)
➢ Help us to pray, trusting in Your Fatherhood (Matt (7:11)
➢ Help us to treat people as we want them to treat us ((Matt. 7:12)

Here is one more prayer you might consider. It is a prayer of the apostle Paul. "I pray that your love will overflow more and more, and that you will keep on growing in knowledge and understanding" (Philippians 1:9).

S. D. Gordon said, "The greatest thing anyone can do for God or man is pray."