INTERACTION
- To what extent was I able to put the last lesson into practice?
- What challenges me?
- Who did I tell about Jesus?
STUDY:
Goal: You learn to talk to God and pray effectively. You make it a habit to pray every day.
Why we talk to God:
📖 Psalm 116:1-2
Jesus explains to his disciples how they should pray. He gives us a "model" of how we can pray.
📖 Matthew 6:5-15
- Discuss the individual sections of the "Lord's Prayer" and why Jesus probably said it this way.
- Pray together in your own words using this model of prayer. Start talking to Jesus as if he were sitting next to you. Prayer is a personal conversation between you and him, in which you discuss things with him and lay out your concerns before him.
Communication means we talk to God:
📖 Philippians 4,6-7
Communication means God speaks to us and we listen to him:
📖 Isaiah 50,4
God speaks to us in many different ways. Here is a list of some of them. Tell each other where you have experienced God speaking.
- Through the Bible
- Through sermons
- Through inner images
- Through thoughts
- Through dreams
- Through friends
- Through circumstances
- Through nature
- Through art
What might be the way God most often uses to speak to you?
Prayers out of faith make a difference:
📖 James 5:14-18
Question:
- What habit related to prayer would you like to adopt?
ACTION STEP
- What are you actually implementing?
- What Bible verse or biblical principle are you memorizing?
- To whom can you pass on what you have learned?
- When is the next time we meet?