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Prayer involved in my niece's healing.
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Desire to pray needs to come before discipline.
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Keep on watch for what God is doing. The encouragement of answered prayer.
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Discipline will protect those times when God works on a different time scale to yours.
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Prayer taps into God's resources, so be prepared to be surprised. Major statement: TRUST ME IN THIS.
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Do you want to see change - on God's terms?
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Do you want to know your part in it?
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Do you want the strength to take up that part?
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Do you realise your limits, and will you admit it?
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Time apart with God.
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Time with someone else.
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Privacy and value of non-interruption/distraction.
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Regular prayer time; why not first thing?
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Pray on bad days as well as good.
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Thank-you prayers with whole family.
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Instant prayers and the discipline of prayer as first priority.
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Matthew 5:44 Prayer for those you dislike.
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Mark 11:25 Forgiveness prayers
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Matthew 6:5-7 Keep to the point and don't follow a formula.
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Matthew 14:23, Mark 1:35, Luke 5:16, Luke 6:12 Jesus' discipline of one-to-one prayer away from distraction.
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Acts 12 Disciplines of intercessory prayer and corporate prayer.
Have a group "Thank-you" prayer session.
Share with each other your own prayer disciplines. Don't be afraid to bring out any personal difficulties - you are all in different circumstances.
How do/did you train your children in prayer discipline/habits? Were you ever trained as a child?
Choose a situation that is happening NOW and go straight for it in prayer. (First priority discipline!)
Decide upon an intercession prayer target for the whole group to focus on this week.
Discipline of Prayer