Seven Simple Daily Prayers - Desiring God Take Psalm 86, for example Here are seven simple daily prayers drawn from David’s prayer 1 Listen to my prayer Give ear, O Lord, to my prayer; listen to my plea for grace (Psalm 86:6) David wrote an entire book of divinely inspired song-prayers to God, so you would think he might know that God hears all our prayers
Prayer - Desiring God In five short verses, Jesus himself taught us how to pray Transforming glories can be seen in these most familiar words of “The Lord’s Prayer” if we will slow down enough to see them In this series of three labs, John Piper puts the text on the screen and helps you mine more for your prayers
Six Prayers God Always Answers The prayers always answered positively are the prayers which explicitly ask God to deliver on his promises to us God will always say Yes when we ask him to do his work through his word I have found at least six basic prayers God will always answer 1 Glorify yourself through me
Prayer for Beginners - Desiring God Anything and everything, every day Don’t be afraid to pray big prayers, and small ones 7 Be willing to ask one more time Jesus knew we would lose heart in prayer, specifically that we would pray for things for long enough that we would start to question if God was listening or might ever answer But he didn’t want us to lose heart or
Seven Prayers for Those You Love - Desiring God If God answers these prayers, we will see the fruit over time — and we should thank him as often as we see it One of the best ways to stoke the fires of our big prayers for others is to praise God for what we see him doing in and through them This is the prayer Paul wrote as often as any other: “I thank my God for you ”
How to Pray the Psalms | Desiring God 1 Prayers of Jesus Often, the Psalms express the experience, the sufferings, the faith of Jesus of Nazareth in his fully human nature during his life on earth They are the prayers of Jesus They express his “loud cries and tears” (Hebrews 5:7) as well as his praises
What Do Answers to Prayer Depend On?, Part 1 | Desiring God When you spread forth your hands I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil, learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; defend the fatherless, plead for the
Where Do All Our Prayers Go? - Desiring God When we pray, where do our prayers go? This was the question answered by John Piper in his 2006 sermon titled “Prayer and the Victory of God” Here’s what he said What an amazing thing prayer is The final text we’ll consider to illustrate the connection between prayer and the victory of God is Revelation 8:4–5 This passage is amazing
Seven Steps to Strengthen Prayer - Desiring God So much of my prayers are “plagiarized” Scripture Without even realizing it, they become the vocabulary of my prayers, sometimes because the beautiful promises make my heart sing, and sometimes because all I can do is desperately cling to his words Show me your glory (Exodus 33:18) Turn my eyes from worthless things (Psalm 119:37)
The Main Ingredient in Effective Prayer | Desiring God It’s what I used to think But that’s the skim-milk meaning It’s what happens when we fly by the text without questions Our broken bent is to make the burden of this passage something to do with us We simply settle to think that, if we want our prayers to be effective, then we need to be righteous But this reading doesn’t hold up