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    An Hour of Prayer: A Practical Guide to 12 Kinds of Prayer
    An Hour of Prayer: A Practical Guide to 12 Kinds of Prayer
    An Hour of Prayer: A Practical Guide to 12 Kinds of Prayer
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    An Hour of Prayer: A Practical Guide to 12 Kinds of Prayer

    By Phillip Kayser

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    When Jesus asked (with apparent disappointment), “What! Could you not watch with Me for one hour?” (Matt. 26:40), the disciples were no doubt disappointed in themselves. Perhaps you can relate.
    If you have struggled with the idea of praying for extended periods of time, it may simply be that you have never had extended prayer modeled to you. Just as John the Baptist and Jesus modeled to others on how to pray (Luke 11:1), hopefully this booklet will spark some ideas for your own prayer life. It is designed to expose you to twelve quite distinct kinds of prayer, and to show how easy it is to spend an hour in prayer.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBiblical Blueprints
    Release dateJan 1, 2018
    An Hour of Prayer: A Practical Guide to 12 Kinds of Prayer

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      Good Book. It will make one hour go so fast while praying.
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    An Hour of Prayer - Phillip Kayser

    An Hour of Prayer

    A Practical Guide to 12 Kinds of Prayer

    Phil Kayser

    This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

    Table of Contents

    Introduction

    1. Praise

    Sample Prayer of Praise

    2. Sing to the Lord

    3. Surrender yourself to the Lord

    Sample Prayer of Surrender

    4. Repentance

    Sample Prayer of Repentance

    Prayer of Repentance on Behalf of the Church

    5. Forgiveness of others

    Sample Prayer Forgiving Others

    6. Pray for Filling of the Holy Spirit

    Sample Prayer For Filling Of The Spirit

    7. Read Scripture

    8. Wait Upon The Lord

    9. Spiritual Warfare

    10. Intercession

    11. Petitions

    12. Thanksgiving

    About the Author

    Notes

    Introduction

    Do you have difficulty praying for extended periods of time? Do you have trouble with making prayer a daily habit? Do you run out of things for which to thank and praise God? If your answer is Yes to these questions, then you are not alone. Even the apostles struggled with prayer in the early days of their ministry. They no doubt felt like failures when they saw that Jesus could pray all night long (Luke 6:12) and yet they couldn’t even pray for one hour (Matt. 26:40). The heart cry of the apostles to Jesus, Lord, teach us to pray (Luke 11:1), is a cry that many Christians continue to have to this day. And the way we learn to pray is the same way that those apostles learned to pray:

    By receiving the Holy Spirit from Jesus (John 20:22; Acts 1:8; 4:31; Rom. 8:26) so that we can pray in the Spirit (Eph. 6:18; Jude 20). If prayer is to get past the ceiling, we must have the Spirit praying from within us in an intercessory work that makes our prayers acceptable to the Father (Rom. 8:13-17,23,26-27). It is the Holy Spirit who links our prayers with the prayers of Christ (Rev. 8:4) in ways that move heaven and earth (vv. 5-7). It is His intercession that gives power to our intercession.

    By hanging around those who can pray with power and imitating them in prayer (Matt. 11:25-26; John 11:41-42; 17:1-26; etc.). There is no better way to learn how to pray than by going to prayer meetings where others who are more mature are praying powerfully.

    By reading the prayers of others and adopting them as your own heart cry. Reading prayers is not unspiritual. Jesus not only taught on prayer, but He also gave them prayers to recite on more than one occasion (Matt. 6:9-15; Luke 11:1-4). In doing this, He was continuing the long tradition of the church praying prayers composed by others – especially the Psalms.

    Though this book is very inadequate in many ways, I offer it with the hope that it will accomplish four things:

    I pray that this book will give our congregation some creative ideas on how to improve their prayer life. While it is no

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