Study 1: Am I Growing in Prayer?

Heart

1. The video talked about prayer doing things–what kinds of things do you want your prayers to do?

2. Look at this list of things that prayer accomplishes and circle the 2 biggest areas where you need to grow:

   1. Recognize more answered prayer

   2. Thinking about God more

   3. Thanking God more

   4. Loving God more

   5. Relying on God more

   6. Fearing God more

   7. Wanting more of Christ’s Kingdom

   8. Wanting to see more of God’s glory in the world and in my life

   9. Thinking about others’ needs more than your own

   10. You’re more generous - leaving more time, money and effort in your budget to serve others instead of yourself

   11. Responding to others with love for them instead of more selfish reactions

   12. A desire to be honest and fair with everyone

   13. Honoring and respecting others more

   14. Wanting others to know Jesus, and having that reflected in the way you talk to them

Hands

1. Take the 2 things you circled and make 2 new all-the-time prayer reminders for yourself based on them. It will probably work best to make all-the-time prayer reminders (see week 4, day 2) or prayer cards.

2. Use the growth area as the theme of the prayer reminder. Come up with a short phrase to use for your “breath prayer”. Then jot down common examples of situations where you want to remember to pray your breath prayer.  It might look something like this: