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Welcome to Week 6
Empowering Prayer

2. Empowering prayer
Homework: What are the ‘ingredients’ of a prayer of commitment?

3. Why do we find it difficult to share our faith?
Don’t know what to say
People wouldn’t be interested
I might get asked something I don’t know the answer to
I don’t think my life is a good enough witness

4. Why do we find it difficult to share our faith?
Has your confidence grown?
Have your recognised opportunities to listen and share your story?
What more do you need?

5. Prayer is vital
Why do we pray when God knows everything already?

6. Prayer is vital Prayer helps us recognise that we can engage with God.
Prayer helps us experience God working through us
Prayer helps change us
Prayer is vital to our relationship with God

7. Prayer is vital Prayer helps us to discover:
passion for the lost like God’s
power to enable us to do what God wants

8. Action
Prayer is most effective with action – Landbeach Baptist Church

9. Action Do you believe what Jesus said is true?
“Ask and it will be given to you, seek and you will find, knock and the door will be opened to you.”
(Matthew 7:7)
Do you believe what Jesus said is true?

10. Prayer is vital
Prayer is more than asking, it’s also doing – Jesus calls us to a radically different lifestyle:
Loving enemies
Giving secretly to needy
Focusing on God not stuff
Not judging others

11. What to pray?
Prayer is about God changing me, not me changing God!

12. What to pray?
Specific
Honest
Alone or with others
Harvesting

13. Reflect
Look back at your hopes and fears in week 1 - have they been met / allayed?
Are there unanswered questions that your church need to answer?