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Prayer as Listening
Monday – Relax in the Silence
Hymn: Turn Your Thoughts to God (recording) (printed)
Tuesday – Lord, I Am Listening
Hymn: We Come Seeking You (recording) (printed)
Wednesday – Listen
Hymn: God Is Speaking (recording) (printed)
Thursday – A Hearing Heart
Friday – Listening to a Friend
Saturday – Hungry for a Word
Hymn: When Jesus Speaks (recording) (printed)
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Prayer 6
Monday – Dependent on Prayer
Tuesday – Focus on God
Wednesday – Alone with Jesus
Hymn: Peace in Christ (recording) (printed)
Thursday – Shape Me with Your Presence
Hymn: Jesus, I Need Your Spirit (recording) (printed)
Friday – Creative Communicators, Make Prayer a Priority
Saturday – My Own Prayer Retreat
Hymn: Psalm 5 (recording) (printed)
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Prayer 5
Monday – The Blind Man of Jericho
Hymn: From These Depths, O Lord (recording) (printed)
Tuesday – Come Like Jesus
Hymn: We Are Children (recording) (printed)
Wednesday – God Answers Prayer
Hymn: Almighty God Is Near! (recording) (printed)
Thursday – Stay Alert and Pray
Friday – Listen for His Word
Hymn: Is There Any Word from the Lord? (recording) (printed)
Saturday – Speak, Lord
Hymn: Here I Am (recording) (printed)
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Prayer 4
Monday – Ask #1
Tuesday – Ask #2
Wednesday – Ask #3
Hymn: Seeds of Prayer (recording) (printed)
Thursday – I Am Asking, Father
Hymn: I Want to Know You (recording) (printed)
Friday – Reshape My Desires
Hymn: Lord, Life Becomes More Simple (recording) (printed)
Saturday – Come Humbly
Hymn: You Are Holy; I Come in Silence (recording) (printed)
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Prayer 3
Monday – Teach Me to Pray
Hymn: Teach Us to Pray (recording) (printed)
Tuesday – Prayer in Gethsemane
Hymn: A Garden in the Night (BOYLSTON) (recording) (printed)
Wednesday – Praying Like Christ
Thursday – Christ Prays with Me
Friday – Surprising Examples
Hymn: We Thank You, O Lord! (recording) (printed)
Saturday – A Model for Prayer
Hymn: Only You (recording) (printed)
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Prayer 2
Monday – Turn to God
Hymn: Psalm of Trust (recording) (printed)
Tuesday – The Music of Prayer
Hymn: It’s So Good to Be with You (recording) (printed)
Wednesday – Be Open with God
Hymn: Holy Father, Only You (recording) (printed)
Thursday – Honest with God
Hymn: Always in You (recording) (printed)
Friday – Always Face to Face
Hymn: The Father’s Face (recording) (printed)
Saturday – Jesus Models Prayer
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Prayer 1
Monday – A Better Life Is Waiting
Hymn: I Have the Truth (recording) (printed)
Tuesday – Prayer Is Simply Talking to God
Hymn: As I Pray (recording) (printed)
Wednesday – Just Talk with Him
Hymn: Simple Faith (recording) (printed)
Thursday – Constant Prayer
Hymn: As I Trust You (recording) (printed)
Friday – God Enjoys Your Company
Hymn: Ephesians 1 (recording) (printed)
Saturday – Called Aside
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As we begin looking at our magnificent, transcendent God, I am reflecting on how He has patiently drawn me toward Himself. Here is the third of four major turning points.
In my mid-forties, God challenged me to begin spending more time with Him in prayer. He specifically asked me to begin using the Lord’s Prayer as the pattern for my praying. I had heard speakers suggest that before, and it had struck me as artificial. So when God asked me to do it, it took me by surprise. But I began to obey.
Then a few years later, in 1998, I reduced my work load to half-time in order to have more time to write. That schedule change took away my long-established means of daily exercise, so I found myself looking for another exercise routine. In early 1999, at age 49, I began taking long daily walks – an hour or more every weekday. Those walks soon became my prayer time.
Those extended prayer times have done more to enrich my life and my relationship with the Living God than anything else. The first half of the Lord’s Prayer, applied to my daily situation and prayed from the heart, has been deeply formative in the way I think of God and relate to Him.
Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven. (Matthew 6:9-10, NIV)
In the early years of those walks, I usually walked outside, alone, in nature. Spending all that time speaking with God the way Jesus taught us to pray, while immersed in His creation, continued God’s process of drawing me into Himself.
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Hymn: As I Pray
Recording
Printed Music & Lyrics
A reflection on Revelation 8:3-12,
the first four trumpets
Sovereign God is moved by the prayers of His people.
He seeks our prayers.
He welcomes our prayers.
He listens to our prayers.
He is pleased with our prayers.
He answers our prayers.
The God of fire acts mightily in response to our prayers.
The Holy God brings justice because we pray.
The God of the Exodus delivers oppressed people because we pray.
Our humble, stumbling prayers rise as fragrant incense
in the throne room of the universe,
in the presence of the Lord of all reality.
Our prayers matter because they align us
with His purposes,
with all He has and all He is.
Our prayers matter because the Sovereign God
says that they matter.
Father, may our prayers rise to You
as constantly as breath,
from hearts of love, warmed by Your love,
in simple, childlike faith.
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Hymn: As I Pray
Recording
Printed Music & Lyrics
I have loved you with an everlasting love;
I have drawn you with loving-kindness. (Jeremiah 31:3, NIV)
Practicing the presence of God is for everyone.
It is both necessary and easy.
Talking with God is
the most holy,
the most universal, and
the most necessary practice in the spiritual life.
We can speak humbly and lovingly to Him
at all times,
wherever we are.
There are no rules or procedures to follow.
Just talk to Him honestly and
believe that He hears you.
Though church is important,
you don’t have to be in church to talk to Him.
Make your heart a chapel where
you may escape from time to time
to talk with Him.
Everyone can live in
close,
constant fellowship
with the Living God.
Listen and sing:
Hymn: Looking to Jesus
Recording
Printed Music & Lyrics
by Brother Lawrence and Ken Bible
