The Disciples’ PrayerPart 1

Luke 11:1-4

• Acts 2:42 They were continually devoting themselves…to prayer.

• Acts 2:42 They were continually devoting themselves…to prayer.

• “The secret of all failure is our failure in secret prayer.” Unknown

• Acts 2:42 They were continually devoting themselves…to prayer.

• “The secret of all failure is our failure in secret prayer.” Unknown

• “When we work, we work, when we pray, God works.” Oswald Smith

• 1. God desires our fellowship with Him through prayer:

• 1. God desires our fellowship with Him through prayer:

• Psalms 116:1-2 I love the LORD, because He hears My voice and my supplications. (2) Because He has inclined His ear to me, Therefore I shall call upon Him as long as I live.

• 2. All of the great people of the Bible whom God used to perform His work were men and women of prayer. From Abraham to Paul.

• 3. We pay to discern and do the will of God:

• 3. We pay to discern and do the will of God:

• Proverbs 3:5-6 Trust in the LORD with all your heart And do not lean on your own understanding. (6) In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He will make your paths straight.

• 4. It is a means of appropriating God’s help at the point of our need:

• 4. It is a means of appropriating God’s help at the point of our need:

• Hebrews 4:15-16 For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin. (16) Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

• 5. It is a means of maintaining the joy of our salvation:

• 5. It is a means of maintaining the joy of our salvation:

• John 16:24 "Until now you have asked for nothing in My name; ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be made full.

• 6. It is a means of appropriating the peace of God in our hearts and minds:

• 6. It is a means of appropriating the peace of God in our hearts and minds:

• Philippians 4:6-7 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. (7) And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

• 7. It is a means of appropriating God’s power in our ministries:

• 7. It is a means of appropriating God’s power in our ministries:

• Acts 4:31 And when they had prayed, the place where they had gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak the word of God with boldness.

• 8. It is a means of considerable influence with the Father:

• 8. It is a means of considerable influence with the Father:

• James 5:16b The effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much.

• 9. God wants to give us the desires of our hearts inasmuch as they align with His will and everything else He has revealed about prayer:

• 9. God wants to give us the desires of our hearts inasmuch as they align with His will and everything else He has revealed about prayer:

• Psalms 37:4-5 Delight yourself in the LORD; And He will give you the desires of your heart. (5) Commit your way to the LORD, Trust also in Him, and He will do it.

• 1. God desires our fellowship with Him through prayer:

• 2. All of the great people of the Bible whom God used to perform His work were men and women of prayer.

• 3. We pray to discern and do the will of God: • 4. It is a means of appropriating God’s help at the

point of our need:

• 5. It is a means of maintaining the joy of our salvation:

• 6. It is a means of appropriating the peace of God in our hearts and minds:

• 7. It is a means of appropriating God’s power in our ministries:

• 8. It is a means of considerable influence with the Father:

• 9. God wants to give us the desires of our hearts.

• (1) It happened that while Jesus was praying in a certain place, after He had finished, one of His disciples said to Him, "Lord, teach us to pray just as John also taught his disciples."

• John 5:19 "Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, unless it is something He sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, these things the Son also does in like manner.

• Philippians 2:6-7 who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, (7) but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men.

• “Think of Jesus Christ. He was the Son of God, God incarnate, the perfect man and the absolute Creator God who also as the God-man adequately and continuously fulfilled every expectation of God for man. He was the constant delight and joy of the Father’s heart. He always pleased the Father.

• Now, thinking of Him as such, ask yourself this question. How much did He personally, as man, contribute to His mighty works, deeds, and ministry? NOTHING! Christ Himself gives us the answer, “. . . the father abiding in me does His works” (John 14:10). And how did that come about? Through prayerful dependence on the Father!” J. Hampton Keathley

• “Prayer for our Lord proceeded out of a basic attitude of deep dependence that resulted in a very intimate fellowship that He always had with the Father because, from the standpoint of His humanity, He was totally convinced He could do nothing of (His) own resources. It is this that undoubtedly brought deep conviction and longing in the lives of the disciples.

• They came to recognize that, while they could be believers in the Lord, they could not be true disciples who became like their teacher (Luke 6:40) unless they learned to pray to the Father like the Lord Jesus in the intimacy and dependency that He constantly demonstrated.” J Hampton Keathley

• John 14:12-14 "Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do; because I go to the Father. (13) "Whatever you ask in My name, that will I do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. (14) "If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it.

• Matthew 6:7 "And when you are praying, do not use meaningless repetition as the Gentiles do, for they suppose that they will be heard for their many words.

• (2) And He said to them, "When you pray, say: 'Father, hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come.

• (2) And He said to them, "When you pray, say: 'Father, hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come.

• Psalms 42:1 As the deer pants for the water brooks, So my soul pants for You, O God.

• “Prayer is the thoughtful exercise of the heart and the mind through which we seek to draw near to God in worship and dependence on Him because of who He is as our sovereign God and support.”

J Hampton Keathley

• John 1:12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name,

• John 1:12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name,

• John 16:23 Truly, truly, I say to you, if you ask the Father for anything in My name, He will give it to you.

• Ephesians 6:18 With all prayer and petition pray at all times in the Spirit, and with this in view, be on the alert with all perseverance and petition for all the saints,

• Hebrews 4:16 Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

• Revelation 5:13b To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be praise and honor and glory and power, for ever and ever!