What Is prayer?

Q: What does the Bible say about prayer?

The Bible teaches that prayer is genuine communication with God from the heart. Prayer, as shown in the Scriptures, is a heartfelt conversation with God that transcends mere words and rituals. It involves sincerity, humility, and a desire to seek God's will rather than our own. Jesus emphasized this in Matthew 6, instructing us that prayer should not be for show or lengthy recitations, but rather a genuine expression of the soul's desire to communicate with God. Additionally, prayer should come from a spirit of dependence, acknowledging our need for God’s guidance and provision.

Q: How do we know prayer is important for Christians?

Prayer is vital for Christians as it strengthens our relationship with God and aligns our will with His. Prayer is essential in the life of a believer as it is the avenue through which we communicate with God. It helps us to grow in faith, depend on His grace, and align our desires with His will. James 5:16 highlights the power of prayer, stating that the effective prayer of a righteous person avails much. This means that prayer is not just an act of obligation, but a vital component in the believer's relationship with God, influencing both personal transformation and intercession for others.

Q: Why is sincerity important in prayer?

Sincerity in prayer ensures that our communication with God is genuine and heartfelt. The Bible underscores the necessity of sincerity in prayer, as God desires authentic communication from His people. In Matthew 6:5, Jesus warned against praying to be seen by others; instead, we should seek a genuine interaction with God. Our prayers should reflect our true feelings, needs, and desires, free from pretense or ritualism. When we pray sincerely, we acknowledge our dependence on God and recognize our position before Him, thus fostering a deeper relationship with our Creator.

Q: What does the Bible say about effective prayer?

Effective prayer is characterized by faith, alignment with God's will, and sincerity from the heart. The effectiveness of prayer is rooted in several biblical principles. First, praying in accordance with God's will is crucial, as expressed in 1 John 5:14, which states that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. Furthermore, James 1:6 emphasizes the importance of faith in prayer, stating that we must believe when we ask. Finally, sincere and heartfelt communication with God, as illustrated in Psalm 51, demonstrates that God values the condition of our hearts over mere words. By embodying these traits, our prayers become truly effective.

Now the subject of my message
tonight is prayer. Brother Danny Parks gave me a study which he prepared on
the subject of prayer. I read it and studied it on the
way back from the island, and it was such a blessing to me
that I borrowed much of what he said for the message this
evening. Now, I do not profess to have
all the answers on the subject of prayer. I feel exactly like
the apostles we read about a moment ago who said unto the Lord Jesus
Christ, Lord, teach us to pray. Teach us to pray. I don't hold
myself up as an example in the matter of prayer. I prepare this
message and preach it tonight for myself as much as for you. I want to learn to pray. And the first question I ask
is this, what is prayer? What is prayer? Now, in defining
or understanding prayer, the first thing that must be done
especially in our day, is to take out of it the form and the
ritualism and the phoniness and the ceremonialism and all of
these things that destroy prayer. Prayer, like love, must be genuine. Prayer, like faith, must be sincere
to even be heard. God's not going to hear a form
or a ritual, he's not going to listen to it. He said in Matthew
23, now I'm not going to ask you to turn to these because
I have several scriptures, but if you're taking notes, I'll
move along slowly so that you can write down these scriptures.
But what I'm saying is when we start out on the subject of prayer,
let's get the phoniness out of it. Let's get the showmanship
out of it. Let's get the form out of it.
Prayer, like love and faith and humility or anything in that
vein, has got to be genuine. It's got to be sincere. It's
got to be from the heart, or it's no good to begin with. He
said to the Pharisees, now listen, Matthew 23, 14. Scribes and Pharisees, you're
hypocrites. For you, for a pretense, make
long prayers." He said, you'll receive the greater condemnation. If you notice the prayers of
the Bible, and I have jotted down in my Bible, in the back
of the Bible, the different prayers that were prayed by David and
Solomon and Hannah and different ones, and they're all brief. They're not long, drawn-out prayers. And he said to these Pharisees,
for a pretense, it's pretension, you make these long, long prayers. And he condemns them. And then
he said in Matthew 6, verse 5, and when you pray, you shall
not be like these hypocrites who left to pray standing in
the synagogues and on the street corners that there may be seen
of men. The thing I'm most interested
in, I know we must have public prayer. I appreciate I'm edified
by public prayer, and we'll continue to have public prayer, because
a part of a worship service is prayer, calling upon the Lord. But the thing that I'm encouraging
for myself and for you more than anything else is private prayer. Our Lord said, when you pray,
enter your closet and shut the door, and your Father which heareth
in secret will reward you openly. And this is the thing that you
say, we don't meet around here enough for prayer. Yes, we meet
enough for prayer. Maybe our fault is we don't un-meet
enough for prayer. private prayer. That's where we do business with
God. And then he said in Matthew 6,
verse 7, and when you pray, you understand, don't make, no, for
a pretense, make long, long, drawn-out prayers. And then don't
pray to be seen of men. And then he said, Matthew 6,
says, when you pray, don't use vain repetitions. as the heathen
do, they think they shall be heard for their many words."
You don't have to worry in prayer about theological accuracy. You
don't have to worry about using theological terms and over and
over again making sure that God knows that you are well-read
and well-taught. Just pray as you talk. You don't even have to talk to
pray. But the smartest child can pray. You don't have to have
these repetitious theological words, because God doesn't hear
us for our many words, or words of accuracy. And then in James
4, verse 3, he said, you pray and fail to receive because you
ask with the wrong purpose. I'm reading from the Amplified
here now. You ask with the wrong purpose
and selfish motives. Your intention is to use it for
sensual, natural purposes, and not the glory of God. We've got
to find the will of God, like you said in your prayer a moment
ago. Teach us to pray according to the will of God, not for our
own selfish, sensual, natural purposes. And then let me add
this. Changing my voice in prayer to
a pious tone and a pious whine indicates insincerity. Prayer
is conversation with God, not to impress someone else, and
so if prayer is conversation with God, I ought to speak in
the same conversational tone that I speak to anyone else.
We don't change our voice to preach. We don't change our voice
to pray. And then, hollering. Have you
heard people holler when they pray? Unnecessary volume in prayer
indicates an ignorance of God. God Almighty hears a thought. God Almighty hears a whisper. God Almighty can hear the voice
or the thought or the whisper of his child with all of the
noises and bedlam of this whole universe going on. God Almighty
can hear a look. But we don't have to scream.
We don't have to holler. You know, that's what Elijah
said to those prophets of Baal. He said, holler a little louder,
maybe your God's asleep. You'll have to wake him up. But
God hears a whisper. And then this about prayer, and
these are the things it's not. Claiming certain power. I hear
these fellows on television commanding God. We command you to do this,
God. In the name of Jesus, I command
you, this sort of thing. I tell you, shame on the creature
who commands the Creator in any shape, form, or fashion. We don't
command God. We plead with God. We plead and
pray for mercy and for his help. And then I went to a meeting
one time, well, two or three times in different places where
everybody prayed audibly at the same time. Now this is not praying
in unison, this is praying in confusion is what it is. And
if you read the 14th chapter of 1 Corinthians, you'll find
this sort of thing condemned very strongly. The Lord tells
us when we gather together as a church, let's speak one at
a time so the others can hear and the others can say amen.
The Holy Spirit is not the alter of confusion. And so when we
pray, that's the reason I invite someone to come up here and pray,
and I pray myself and others pray. As we're sitting here,
we're saying amen to what the brothers prayed. He's leading
us in prayer. And another thing that I do not
really see any profit in at all is to have three or four or five
people pray one right after the other. asking and praying the
same thing. In other words, when Brother
Charlie stood here and prayed, there's no use having someone
else come up and pray, and after him someone else, and after him
someone else. We're not heard for our much speaking. We're
not heard for our many words. We're not heard for the length
of our prayer. And prayer is not to inform God of our needs.
He knows our needs. So our Lord clearly shows us
some things here. Don't try to make long prayers. It's a pretense. And then don't
pray to be seen or heard of anyone or to impress anyone. And then
when we pray, let's not try to use vain repetition. Let's just
speak from our hearts and our own way of saying things. And
then let's try to find the will of God. and not pray that we
might consume it on our own selfish lust. And then let's pray in
a conversational tone, and not try to impress God with our whining
or our hollering or unnecessary volume. And let's not command
God, let's seek the will of God. Now then, what is prayer? Well,
Brother Dan gave several words from different writers
of bygone days, and I'll give you a few of them. What is prayer? Well, prayer is quite simply,
one man said, communion with God. Conversation with God, directed
from the heart of a man to God. And it's not just seeking our
good, but it's seeking his will and seeking his glory. Another
one said, what is prayer? It is to have communion with
God as a needy beggar has communion with his king. It is to have
communion with God as a servant with his master, as a bride with
her bridegroom, or as a child with his father. And isn't that
the example our Lord gave us in this scripture here when he,
the disciples said, teach us to pray? And he gave them that
disciple's prayer, and then he said, Which of you, if your son
ask bread, will give him a stone? So it's just communion, as a
son with his father, as a bride with a bridegroom, as a servant
with his master, as a beggar with a king. And then someone else said this.
What is prayer? It's a sincere and sensible and
affectionate pouring out of the soul to God, through our Redeemer,
the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the strength and with the assistance
of the Holy Spirit, for such things as God has already promised.
Isn't that good? Now let me get to you. Paul is
a sincere, sensible, and affectionate, pouring out of the soul to God.
through the Lord Jesus Christ, through the Redeemer, the Lord
Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit, and with the assistance of the
Holy Ghost. For such things, as God has already promised.
I know my wants. I don't really know my needs,
do I? But he does. And that's what we're praying
about. And then someone else says this, prayer is not to inform
God of our needs. We don't even know that. We know
not what things we should pray for as we ought, Romans 8, 27
says. But we don't have to inform God
of our needs. Doesn't the scripture say your
Father knows you have need of these things? Then if prayer
is not to inform God of our needs, what is it? It's, this man said,
it's a confession to him of our sense of need. and our dependence on him to
meet it. I like that. Prayer is not to
inform God of my needs. He knows my needs. But prayer
is a confession to him that I know where it comes from, and I have
a deep sense of need. And then someone else said this.
Prayer may be in simple words. anyone can pray. I always get
amused when I read these religious crusaders trying to get prayer
back into school. You can't put prayer out of the
schools. You can't put prayer out of anywhere.
Now, you can put ritualism out, and ceremonialism out, and tradition
out, and form out, but prayer may be in simple words spoken
to God, or prayer might even be a wish toward God. Or prayer might even be a look
unto God out of my helplessness. Or prayer may even be a sigh
in sorrow. Or prayer may even be a smile
of gratitude. Isn't that right? It's communion
with God. God is Spirit. And they that
worship God, worship him in spirit, not in form, not just in words. You know, we read the story of
Hannah. Hannah had no children. She desperately wanted a son.
She went up there to Shiloh with her husband, and after they had
eaten and drunk, she was sitting over there against one of the
columns, I guess, at the place of worship, and the scripture
said she prayed. but didn't speak a word. And
as she prayed, an effectual prayer of desperation, but never spoke
a word. And Eli the priest saw her mouth
moving, and she spake no words, and he went over and rebuked
her, and he said, Woman, how long are you going to tarry at
the bottle? Put away the wine, you're drunk. She said, My Lord,
I'm not drunk. I'm a woman of a heavy heart,
and a broken spirit, And I'm praying to God, and he said,
God's going to give you what you ask for it to. So prayer,
it may be just simple words spoken to God, it may be a wish toward
God, it may be a look out of my helplessness, it may be a
sigh of sorrow, it may be a smile of gratitude. One can engage
in true prayer, listen to me, anywhere, anytime, about anything. and it be unknown to any one
present. Is that correct? One may engage
in true prayer anytime, anywhere, for anything, and no one know
your prayer, but him to whom I pray. I'm not trying to impress
anyone with my piety. I don't have anything to impress
anybody with. So prayer, listen, James Montgomery
said this, prayer is the soul's sincere desire, unuttered or
expressed. Prayer is the motion of a hidden
fire that trembles in the breast. Prayer is the burden of a sigh,
the falling of a tear, the upward glancing of the eye when no one
but God is near. Prayer is the simplest form of
speech. that human lips can try. Prayer, the glorious strains
that reach the majesty on high. Prayer is the contrite sinner's
voice returning from his ways, while angels in their songs rejoice
and cry, Behold, he prays. O thou by whom we come to God,
the life, the truth, the way, The path of prayer, thyself hath
tried, Lord, teach me how to pray." Now, let me give you this. I've started to give you how
many things I'm going to give you, but maybe I better not tell
you how many things I'm going to give you. Because like Brother
Gary Shepherd said one time, we get in a pattern and they
see that last note and they think he's nearly through. Or if you
tell them you've got six points, you get to five, so he's just
got one more. So listen to these things here.
Some things that God has taught us about prayer, and some things
that we don't have to get these out and look at them in order
to pray, but these things are part of our consciousness while
we pray. But here's some things God has
taught us about prayer. Now then, first of all, we know
to pray and we want to pray in accordance with the will of God,
seeking his will. For he said, now this is the
confidence that we have in him, that if we ask anything according
to his will, he hears us. We pray according to his will. Our Lord, in this prayer, When
he taught the disciples to pray, he said, Pray, thy will be done
on earth as it is in heaven. Thy will be done. I want the
will of God done. I want to know the will of God,
and I want to be in the will of God. And then secondly, we
know to pray in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Now, I don't
have to always say that, as long as I understand that truth. I
don't have to say it. I don't have to always say, now
this is in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. As long as I understand
that in my heart, I understand that everything God has for me
is in Christ, because of Christ, and through Christ. So I don't
have to, when I pray, use that phrase. But that is true. He
has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places
in Christ. And our Lord said, whatsoever
you ask in my name, I'll do it. For there is none other name
unto heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. And
whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved."
And then thirdly, we pray and faith. Now, Hebrews 11.6 says
this, without faith it's impossible to please God. He that cometh
to God must believe. He must believe that God is And
that God is the rewarder of them that diligently seek him. And
Matthew 21, 22 says, All things whatsoever you ask in prayer,
believing, believing, you shall receive. We ask in faith. And then fourthly, is this not
true? We know to pray in love and obedience. Now, I would like
you to turn to 1 Peter, 1 Peter chapter 3. And there's this thing of a right
ordering of our attitude and lives if we expect to be heard
in prayer. In 1 Peter 3, he says in verse
1, Ye wives, likewise ye wives, 1 Peter 3, 1, be in subjection
to your own husbands. If any obey not the word, they
may without the word be won by the conversation of the wife.
your chaste conversation coupled with fear, whose adorning, let
it not be that outward adorning, the plaiting of the hair, the
wearing of gold, putting on of apparel, but let it be the hidden
man of the heart. In other words, there's an attitude
here, the hidden man of the heart. You see that, talking to the
lady, the attitude, the spirit. All right, now down at verse
7. Likewise ye husbands, dwell with your wives according to
knowledge, and give honor to the wife as unto the weaker vessel. There's an attitude, there's
a spirit in the home and in the heart, as being airs together
the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered. Now,
we not only pray according to the will of God and pray in the
name of the Lord Jesus and pray in faith, but now we can't fuss
and fight all day long and pray at night. And we can't have a
bad . . . Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion
one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous, not
rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing, but contrarywise
blessing, knowing that you are there unto call that you should
inherit a blessing. Let your prayers be not hindered.
If I've got a bad spirit and a bad attitude toward others,
then I'm in no condition to talk to God. Isn't that right? All right, let's move on. So
we pray. We pray, first of all, according
to the will of God. Now, this is not a list I have
to get out, but it's just something that these things we know. If we're going to pray according
to the will of God, by faith, in the name of the Lord Jesus
Christ, and with the right attitude, not only towards God and myself,
but towards others by spirit. And then, thirdly, we know to
pray in sincerity from the heart. Now, the man who calls on God
will be sincere and serious and dedicated, or he'll not be heard. This is one thing that's bothered
me all through my life. what we call automatic prayer,
or expected prayer, or regimented prayer. You don't always have
to pray before the meal, you can pray after the meal. You don't always have to open
the service with prayer, you can close the service with prayer.
In other words, when it's a duty, it's not a prayer. James wrote
this, and I read this from the Amplified, talk about the effectual,
fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much." What he's
saying there is the active, energetic, genuine, fervent prayer of a
righteous man availeth much. When we talk to God, let's talk
to God. Isn't that right? Let's talk to God. You know, when we talk to someone,
some individual here, if we have a conversation at the church,
you're standing talking to that individual. He listens to you
and you have a conversation, but if you're going to say what
you're saying for the benefit of everybody around you, it's
not a personal conversation with that man at all, and he may be
highly offended. And you know, when we're praying
to God, better to pray five words with sincerity and a genuineness
than five hundred words to impress someone else. ought to be heard
and seen of men. We have, I'd rather have one
prayer of sincerity, genuineness, fervent prayer unto God, than
a half a dozen prayers form in ceremony, hadn't you? Then in
the next place, we know to pray humbly. confessing our sins and
our unworthiness. Turn to Psalm 51. I think this
is one of the most beautiful prayers in the Bible. I read
one this morning, Abraham's intercession for Sodom. You remember how he
prayed, Lord, I'm just dust and ashes, and I've taken upon myself
to speak with the Lord of heaven. And Lord, don't be angry, but
let me speak one more time. It's a genuine humility. Genuine. And here, listen to David. And
this is a man after God's own heart. This is the king of Israel.
This is the hand-picked ambassador of God. And yet he says, have
mercy on me, O God. According to thy lovingkindness,
according to the multitude of thy tender mercies, blot out
my transgressions and wash me freely from mine iniquity. Cleanse
me from my sin. Acknowledge my transgression,
my sin as ever before me. against thee and thee only have
I sinned. He goes on like that in verse
17, the sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and
a contrite heart, O God thou wilt not despise. Brother Walter
Groover called on a man down in Mexico, one of the young men
to pray. He had never called on him before.
And they were having some kind of meeting, and Walter was in
the pulpit, and he called out this young man's name. He said,
Lead us in prayer. And the young man got up, and
the first words out of his mouth, he said, Now, Lord, you forgive
me for what I'm about to say. And I feel like that's the right
attitude. Just forgive me for what I'm about to say. Hear my
heart. Don't pay a whole lot of attention
to my words. So prayer with a humble spirit. And then in the next
place, number seven, we know to pray with forgiveness in our
hearts toward others. You know, in that prayer he read
a moment ago from Luke 11, forgive us our sins, our debts, as we
forgive those who sin against us. That's right in the middle
of that prayer. Turn to Mark chapter 11 and listen
to the Lord here. Mark chapter 11. When we pray, let us pray with
forgiveness in our hearts toward others. In Mark 11 verse 25,
listen to this, our Lord speaking. We'll read verse 24 and 25 and
26. Mark 11, 24. Therefore I say unto you, what
things soever you desire, when you pray, believe that you receive
them, and you shall have them. And when you stand praying, forgive. If you have ought against any,
that your Father also, which is in heaven, may forgive you
your trespasses. But if you do not forgive, neither
will your Father, which is in heaven, forgive your trespasses.
There's no need in me praying. have an unforgiving spirit, because God's not going to hear
that kind of spirit. And then in the eighth place,
we know to pray with thanksgiving. God is not pleased with murmuring.
He's not pleased with discontented hearts and covetous hearts. In
Philippians 4.6, it says, by prayer and supplication with
thanksgiving. Let your requests be made known
to God by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving. Let your requests
be made known to God. And then 1 Thessalonians 5, 18,
In everything give thanks, whatever it may be, give thanks in everything,
for this is the will of God in Christ concerning you. Thanks be unto God for his And then, that in the ninth place,
we know to pray sensibly and with understanding and with importunity
or perseverance. Let's continue to pray. Continue
to pray. Don't hang up the phone. Continue
to pray with perseverance, with sensibility, with understanding.
I jotted down this scripture here, 1 Corinthians 14, 15. Let's
turn over there and look at this a moment. 1 Corinthians 14, verse
15. It says here, 1 Corinthians 14,
verse 15. What is it then? I will pray
with the Spirit. I want the Holy Spirit to teach
me to pray and teach me the things for which I should pray, and
I want to pray in the Spirit. I want to pray a spiritual prayer.
But then I will pray with the Spirit, but I'll pray with the
understanding also, with the understanding. And I'll sing
with the Spirit, I'll sing in the Spirit, but I'll sing with
the understanding, that I understand and you understand. I think one
of the best examples of this is over here in the book of 1
Kings 18. I want you to turn over there
just a moment. I think this is one of the, it's meant as much
to me as any prayer in the Bible. 1 Kings chapter 18. Now, just briefly, let me show
you what's involved here. Here on Mount Carmel, Israel
had been led by the false prophets just to turn away from God, away
from the true worship of God. This is a critical highway. meaningful hour. This is such
an awesome time. Here they are on Mount Carmel,
and there's a contest between God's true prophet, Elijah, and
all the prophets of Baal, 450 of them. Somebody says 850 of
them, because they're the 400 prophets of the globe. And Elijah
challenged them to pray. He challenged them. He said,
now you call on your And I'll call on the living God,
and the one that answers by fire, let him be God." Now, he threw
out the gauntlet, didn't he? Well, they prayed, and they had
an all-day prayer meeting, and every one of them prayed. And
they went through all those shenanigans, even cut themselves, rolled on
the floor, prostrated themselves, rolled on the ground, prostrated
themselves, went through all those many words and all these
things. And finally in the evening, time
for the evening sacrifice, they'd worn themselves totally out,
and their God had not answered. And Elijah built an altar, put
the wood on it and the sacrifice, and had them douse it with water
three or four times, just cover it with water, so there could
be no mistaking that God heard. And then in that time, now here
This is heaven and earth. This is the truth of God as opposed
to error. This is the living God's very
reputation at stake. Now, how is this man going to
pray? Well, I want you to hear how simple the prayer is, how
sincere, from the heart, in faith, according to the will of God,
simple it is. Sixty-three words. It didn't
take him forty-five seconds to pray. In 1 Kings 18, verse 36, it came
to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, Elijah
the prophet came there and said, he didn't scream, he didn't wallow,
he didn't cry, he just said, Lord, God of Abraham, Isaac,
Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God of Israel,
that I am thy servant, that I have done all these things at thy
word. Hear me, O Lord, hear me, that this people may know that
Thou art the Lord God, and Thou hast turned their heart back
again." Then the fire fell. That's a
simple prayer. But that's what I'm saying. He
prayed with the Spirit, prayed with the understanding. He prayed
humbly in faith. Anybody can understand those
words. There's no much speaking, there's no theological terms,
there's just the cry of the heart of one of God's servants. Lord,
show us yourself, reveal your power, let it be known that you're
God. And then last of all, we need
to learn to pray unselfishly. Now James chapter 5, and this
will be my closing remarks, I hope it's been beneficial to you.
James chapter 5. And I pray that this message
will encourage us to pray, that we'll all be found before the
Lord praying, calling upon his name. In James chapter 5 verse
16, confess your faults, James 5 verse 16, confess your faults
one to another and pray one for another, pray for one another.
Here's the great apostle. Here's the chief apostle. Here's
the apostle to the Gentiles. He said, brethren, pray for me.
Pray for me. How many times did he say, pray
for me? Someone asked Spurgeon one time, what was the success
of his ministry? And he said, this congregation
prays for me. That's the success of my ministry.
They're asking God to help me that I might help them. Pray
for one another. My friends, it matters not whether
you're standing or whether you're sitting, or whether you're kneeling
or lying down. It matters not whether you pray
in the morning or noon at night. It matters not whether you pray
before the meal or after the meal, as long as you pray in
faith, through the name of the Redeemer. seeking the will and
glory of God from a sincere heart. Isn't that right? And wise man
Solomon said in Proverbs 58, and the prayer of the upright
is God's delight. Lord, teach me to pray. All right, Mike, come lead us
in a closing hymn, if you will. Oh, yeah.

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Joshua

Where this book stands in the tradition

Plato

Augustine

The Western Christian Tradition

This Book