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Lesson #6 - Pray For One Another
Series: The One-Another WayLESSON #6 – PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER
A CHURCH EVER PRAYING
~ The New Testament is filled will exhortations to pray.
Honor, praise and thanksgivings to God remain the primary focus of our prayers, and this is as it should be.
Acts 1:14 notes, These all with one mind were continually devoting themselves to prayer...
Acts 2:42 adds, They were continually devoting themselves...to prayer.
~ This is also a place for personal prayers - - “Lord, help me!”.
But we also see, carved out in Scripture, an emphasis on the need to pray for one-another.
Acts 12:5 / So Peter was kept in prison, but prayer for him was being made fervently by the church to God.
How often do you pray for others?
Does this occur once in a blue moon or is it a regular part of our prayer life?
If we kept a record of the people you prayed for by name, how many would it be in a typical week?
Do we just pray for the sick and grieving?
} Can you site an example of a prayer with specificity made on behalf of another? |?
The example of Epaphras (Col.4:12) - -
laboring earnestly for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and fully assured in all the will of God.
THE SUBJECTS OF OUR PRAYERS
~ The apostle Paul prayed frequently for others.
cf. Rom.1:8-10; 1Cor.1:4-5; Eph.1:15-16; Philp.1:3-4; Col.1:3-4 & 9-10; 1Thess.1:2 & 3:9; 2Thess.1:3 & 11 and 2Tim.1:3
~ Paul directs us to pray for all the saints (Eph.6::18) … and to pray for all men (mankind)/1Tim.2:1
While most of Paul's letters are addressed to churches (groups of Christians), he also prays for individuals.
e.g., Timothy (2Tim.1:3) … and Philemon, Apphia and Archippus (Phe.1-6).
Are we comfortable in asking others to pray for US?
~ This request for prayer for made often by the apostle Paul.
Brethren, pray for US / 1Thess.5:15 … Strive together in your prayers for ME / Rom.15:30 …
Pray for US / 2Thess.3:1-2 … Pray for US...I urge you all the more to do this / Heb.13:18-19
Devote yourselves to prayer...with an attitude of thanksgiving; praying at the same time for US / Col.4:2-3
Have you ever called on the elders to pray over you? - Js.5:14-15
Have you ever ask others to pray for you and your struggle with sin? - cf. Js.5:16
} What is the meaning of 1Jn.5:13-17? |
PRAYING FOR THOSE WE DON'T LIKE
How do you go about praying for those that you love (agape) but do not like?
Mt.5:44 / love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you
Lk.6:28 / bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you
~ Are these to be just imprecatory prayers beseeching a curse on our enemies? cf. Ps.55:15; 58:6; 69:28 & 109:1-13
P On deck" Do not judge one another.
