Different Kinds of Prayer
We have been in a study of Prayer. I believe that we need to learn how to pray so that we can see results.
Many Christians have prayed for years and cannot tell you for sure that “GOD ANSWERED MY PRAYERS”.
Everyone prays, Christians pray, sinners pray and heathen pray. I learned how to pray by what I heard the preacher, my parents, radio preachers and anyone else that I thought knew how to reach God.
I was 19 years old when I saw a miracle because of my prayers and I was shocked.
I thought that I had learned the secret of prayer but it was years later before I saw for sure another prayer answered.
We need to learn how to Pray and get Results.
We have talked about Why to Pray and How to Pray and tonight we want to talk about Different Kinds of Prayer.
Eph. 6:18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
19 And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel,
20 For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
Here Paul is telling the Church that they should pray with all kind of prayer and also tells them to Pray in the Spirit and to keep on praying for the saints.
THEN he says pray for me so I can be bold. We know Paul was bold because he witnessed to Rulers of Rome, established churches in pagan cities and shook off snakes that bit him, into the fire. I THINK HE WAS ALREADY BOLD.
He wanted to make known the mystery of the gospel and He wrote most of the New Testament.
IF HE NEEDED PRAYER, HOW MUCH MORE DO I NEED PRAYER.
PRAY FOR YOUR PASTOR.
Different Kind of Prayer.
18 Praying always with all prayer.
The prayer Paul was asking for was a Supplication Prayer.
There are Agreement Prayers, Consecration and Dedication Prayers, Prayer of Faith Prayers, Intercession Prayers, Thanksgiving Prayers and many other kinds.
Many Christians think Prayer is Prayer.
God set up prayer and He set up rules of Prayer. There is a right way and a Wrong way to Pray.
Just as there are different rules for Sports there are different rules of Prayer. If you play Basketball with Football rules you will not win. If you play Baseball with Hockey rules you will not get a Hit. If you pray a Thanksgiving Prayer to get Healing it will not work.
God set the rules and we find His Rules in the WORD OF GOD.
I want to look at three different king of Prayers.
Prayer of Agreement.
Matt. 18:19 Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.
20 For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
This is a Prayer for a Situation.
If you have a family member that is dealing you misery. You can find someone that will agree with you JESUS SAID ASK THE FATHER AND HE WOULD DO IT.
You need to find someone that will pray.
Lev. 26:8 And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
Ec 4:12 a threefold cord is not quickly broken
There is power in Unity.
FIND SOMEONE TO AGREE WITH YOU.
Prayer of Faith
James 5:13 13 Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.
14 Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:
15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
Here is the Prayer of Faith.
There are rules of Prayer of Faith.
Afflicted Let the Afflicted pray for Himself.
Afflictions are Trials, hardships, tribulations
Everybody has them.
Ps 34:19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.
Teach us to rely on God
Ps. 119:67 Ps 119:67 Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.
68 Thou art good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes.
Paul tells us to Pray for our self.
Prayer for the sick: let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:
15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
It is clear that the sick call for prayer.
Many believe that the preacher ought to call for the sick but the PRAYER RULES are for the sick to call for the MATURE of the CHURCH and then the Prayer of Faith WILL WORK
The Prayer of Faith is based upon knowing that it is Gods Will to heal.
Isa 53:5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed
1Pe 2:24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed
Ps 103:3 Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;
It is clear that Healing is for us today and if we follow the teaching of the Scripture WE WILL BE HEALED and even if there is sin in our life it will BE FORGIVEN.
The Prayer of Faith is for things, It does not change People.
Mark 11:24 Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
Consecration and Dedication Prayers
Matt. 26:36 Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples, Sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder.
37 And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy.
38 Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
39 And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.
Here is a Prayer that has been used to prove that we always pray “If it be thy will”
Jesus Knew what the will of God was.
He clearly said “There is a cup that I must take but I don’t want to but I want your will.”
When we pray “If it be thy Will” we are saying to God, the devil, demons, that we don’t know what the will of God is.
This will kill your prayer. If you don’t know what Gods will is LOOK IN THE WORD OF GOD.
There are 7000 promises that tells you what Gods will is.
Jas 1:5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him
This is for those things that are not clearly stated in the WORD.
Jesus was praying a prayer to DO GODS WILL not to FIND GODS WILL,
42 He went away again the second time, and prayed saying O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done
43 And he came and found them asleep again: for their eyes were heavy
44 And he left them, and went away again, and prayed the third time, saying the same words.
Jesus continued in prayer and got the flesh under subjection.
I prayed a lot of years before I came under the will of God to become a pastor.
I taught Sunday School, I Sang, I went on Mission trips, but I was not doing the will of God. I knew the will of God but I did not want to do it.
After I Prayed and decided to do Gods Will then I needed to find Gods WISDOM.
Gods WISDOM is how to do GODS WILL.
Dan. 3:15Da 3:15 Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made; well: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands?
16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter.
17 If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king.
18 But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
These men Knew Gods Will.
It was not Gods will for them to worship Idols.
They said IF YOU THROW US INTO THE FIRE OR YOU DO NOT THROW US INTO THE FIRE “GOD WILL DELIVER US”
These men did not Pray “IF IT BE THY WILL WE MAY BURN UP”
They had been practicing Prayer in a pagan Land. They had dedicated their life to God and had full confidence in the delivering power of God.
