You’ll find encouragement in this lesson if you are struggling in prayer. Some misconceptions about prayer are addressed and three simple reminders are given: prayer’s focus is God, prayer seeks the will of God, and we must live righteously.

1. Are You
Struggling
with
Prayer?
Luke 11.1, CB NT p. 127

4. “Lord, teach us to pray”
Luke 11.1, CB NT p. 127

6. “Prayer is ultimately a battle of the will.”
— James Houston

7. Struggling to Pray

8. Struggling to Pray
Low priority?

9. Struggling to Pray
Too busy?

10. Struggling to Pray

12. Perception
What is your
of prayer?

15. MisconceptionsPrayer

16. something we do
MisconceptionsPrayer

17. custom
MisconceptionsPrayer

18. Misconceptions
“magic”
Prayer

19. Perception
What is your
of God?

20. Focus on God.

21. Seek the will of God.

22. Don’t just pray.

23. Don’t just pray.
“The prayer of a righteous person
has great power as it is working.”
James 5:16, CB NT p. 405

24. Don’t just pray.
“Man shall not live by bread alone,
but by every word that comes
from the mouth of God.”
Matthew 4:4; CB NT p. 5

25. Don’t just pray.
“And when they had appointed
elders for them in every church,
with prayer and fasting they
committed them to the Lord in
whom they had believed.”
Acts 14:23; CB NT p. 235

26. Don’t just pray.
“pray for one another”
James 5:16; CB NT p. 405

27. Are You
Struggling
with
Prayer?
Luke 11.1, CB NT p. 127

28. Will today be the day
you decide
to go to
heaven?

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30. Concerning Prayer
#01
Are You Struggling with Prayer?
Luke 11.1
Compiled and Presented by:
Dave Stewart
28 July, 2013
www.churchofchristmiranda.com
Synopsis: You’ll find encouragement in this lesson if you are struggling in prayer. Some misconceptions about prayer are addressed and
three simple reminders are given: prayer’s focus is God, prayer seeks the will of God, and we must live righteously.
“Let all that you do be done with love.”
“Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version, copyright © 2001 by Crossway
Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.”

31. Will today be the day
you decide
to go to
heaven?