Praying For Unity ... United By Prayer #6 - 7 Ways To Amplify My Prayers

When you spread out your hands in prayer, I hide my eyes from you; even when you offer many prayers, I am not listening…

Isaiah 1:15 NIV

Saul asked the LORD… but the LORD refused to answer him, either by dreams or by sacred lots or by the prophets.

1 Samuel 28:6 NCV

God’s word says my prayers can be amplified if…

1. I Pray Consistently.

You don’t have the things you want, because you don’t pray for them.

James 4:2 GWT

And so I tell you, keep on asking, and you will be given what you ask for… For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And the door is opened to everyone who knocks.

Luke 11:9, 10 NLT

I Tend to Pray

_{Never                       Inconsistently                                      Always}

1.           2.            3.           4.           5.           6.           7.          8.           9.           10.

2. I Pray Selflessly.

And when you do ask, you still do not get what you want because your motives are all wrong—because you continually focus on self…

James 4: 3 VOICE

My Prayers tend to be…

_{About my me                 Balanced                                            About other’s}

1.           2.            3.           4.           5.           6.           7.          8.           9.              10.

3. I LIVE OBEDIENTLY.

If you refuse to obey what you have been taught, your prayers will not be heard.

Proverbs 28:9 LB

Your sins are the roadblock between you and your God. That’s why he doesn’t answer your prayers!

Isaiah 59:1, 2 CEV

If I had ignored my sins, the Lord would not have listened to me.

Psalms 66:18 TEV

I Tend to Deal with the Sin In My Life…

_{Inattentively                              Casually                          Seriously}

1.           2.            3.           4.           5.           6.           7.          8.           9.           10.

4. I LIVE BENEVOLENTLY.

Whoever ignores the poor when they cry for help will also cry for help and not be answered.

Proverbs 21:13 NCV

My attitude and dealings with the poor are best described as…

_{Contemptuous            Contrived                          Caring}

1.           2.            3.           4.           5.           6.           7.          8.           9.           10.

5. I Treat my Spouse Considerately.

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers.

1 Peter 3:7 NIV

I treat my spouse…

_{Rudely                                                Erratically                                                    Respectfully}

1.           2.            3.           4.           5.           6.           7.          8.           9.           10.

6. I Trust God Fully.

If you have faith in God and don’t doubt, you can tell this mountain to get up and jump into the sea, and it will. Everything you ask for in prayer will be yours, if you only have faith.

Mark 11: 23, 24 CEV

If any of you needs wisdom.., you should ask God, and he will give it to you. God is generous to everyone and doesn’t find fault with them.  When you ask for something, don’t have any doubts. A person who has doubts is like a wave that is blown by the wind and tossed by the sea. A person who doubts shouldn’t expect to receive anything from the Lord.

James 1:5-8 GW

When I Pray, I Pray…

 _{Doubtfully            Wishfully                         Confidently}

1.           2.            3.           4.           5.           6.           7.          8.           9.           10.

7. I am Connected to God Relationally.

Pray like this: Our Father in heaven...

Matthew 6:9 NLT

 If your son asked for a fish, would you give him a snake? No … you would give him a fish—the best fish you could find. So if you, who are sinful, know how to give your children good gifts, how much more so does your Father in heaven, who is perfect, know how to give great gifts to His children!

Mathew 7:11 VOICE

In Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.

Galatians 3:26, 27 NIV

I have become a child of God, in faith, though baptism? Yes, _____ No _____.