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:

Study 2: Strategies for Growth in Prayer

Heart

1. Which Prayer strategy (Pray Bigger, Pray Specific, Pray in real life) do you struggle with the most? Why?

Hands:

1. Think about which one you struggle with and use that to create a new prayer card for yourself. (Look at this prayer card guide and stay tuned for day 4 this week). Try it out and implement it into your regular prayer time.

Study 3: Prayer and Fasting

Heart

1. Have you ever fasted before? Why did you decide to do it? How did it go?

Hands

1. Participate in our day of fasting on September 3.

2. Use the Preparation and Prayer Guide

Study 4: Tools for Prayer

Heart

1. Pick one or two of the prayer tools showed or talked about in the video, that will be easiest or most effective for you. Plan to implement them into your prayer life.

Hands

Here are some more helpful guides and helps for using some of these prayer tools:

1. Prayer List: This is a modified version of a prayer list I was using every day about 2 years ago. It was my weekly prayer list, where each day I pray through what’s in that day’s column. Prayer list template

2. Prayer Cards: Check out this quick guide for using prayer cards. Many of the major concepts and ideas behind prayer cards comes from Paul Miller, “A Praying Life”

3. Prayer Workout Guide 

4. All the Time Prayer Reminders (See Week 4 day 2)

5. Prayer Apps 

   1. Prayer Notebook

   2. The Daily Office