Examples of Prayer
1.
Hannah
a.
1
Samuel 1:15 And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a
sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured
out my soul before the Lord.
b.
Sometimes
when you pray so intently, no sound comes from your mouth
2.
Solomon
a.
1 Kings 8:22-54 And Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence
of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven: And
he said, Lord God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven above, or on
earth beneath, who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk
before thee with all their heart: Who hast kept with thy servant David my
father that thou promisedst him: thou spakest also with thy mouth, and hast
fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is this day. Therefore now, Lord God of
Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him, saying,
There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel; so
that thy children take heed to their way, that they walk before me as thou hast
walked before me. And now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be
verified, which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father. But will God
indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot
contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded? Yet have thou
respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O Lord my God,
to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer, which thy servant prayeth before
thee to day: That thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even
toward the place of which thou hast said, My name shall be there: that thou
mayest hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall make toward this place.
And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel,
when they shall pray toward this place: and hear thou in heaven thy dwelling
place: and when thou hearest, forgive. If any man trespass against his
neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and the oath
come before thine altar in this house: Then hear thou in heaven, and do, and
judge thy servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his head; and
justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness. When thy
people Israel be smitten down before the enemy, because they have sinned
against thee, and shall turn again to thee, and confess thy name, and pray, and
make supplication unto thee in this house: Then hear thou in heaven, and
forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which
thou gavest unto their fathers. When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain,
because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and
confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest them: Then hear
thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel,
that thou teach them the good way wherein they should walk, and give rain upon
thy land, which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance. If there be
in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if
there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities;
whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be; What prayer and supplication
soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every
man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:
Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to
every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou
only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;) That they may fear thee
all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.
Moreover concerning a stranger, that is not of thy people Israel, but cometh
out of a far country for thy name's sake; (For they shall hear of thy great
name, and of thy strong hand, and of thy stretched out arm;) when he shall come
and pray toward this house; Hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and do
according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for: that all people of the
earth may know thy name, to fear thee, as do thy people Israel; and that they
may know that this house, which I have builded, is called by thy name. If thy
people go out to battle against their enemy, whithersoever thou shalt send
them, and shall pray unto the Lord toward the city which thou hast chosen, and
toward the house that I have built for thy name: Then hear thou in heaven their
prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause. If they sin against
thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and
deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land
of the enemy, far or near; Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land
whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee
in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and
have done perversely, we have committed wickedness; And so return unto thee
with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies,
which led them away captive, and pray unto thee toward their land, which thou
gavest unto their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which
I have built for thy name: Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication
in heaven thy dwelling place, and maintain their cause, And forgive thy people
that have sinned against thee, and all their transgressions wherein they have
transgressed against thee, and give them compassion before them who carried
them captive, that they may have compassion on them: For they be thy people,
and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst
of the furnace of iron: That thine eyes may be open unto the supplication of
thy servant, and unto the supplication of thy people Israel, to hearken unto
them in all that they call for unto thee. For thou didst separate them from
among all the people of the earth, to be thine inheritance, as thou spakest by
the hand of Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O
Lord God. And it was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all
this prayer and supplication unto the Lord, he arose from before the altar
of the Lord, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven.
3.
Jesus
a.
Luke
5:15-16 But so much the more went there a fame abroad of him: and great
multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities.
And he withdrew himself into the
wilderness, and prayed.
i.
He
went to a place of solitary.
1.
Many
times you need to be alone with God without some many distractions.
b.
Luke
6:12-13 And it came to pass in those
days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in
prayer to God. And when it was day, he called unto him his disciples: and of
them he chose twelve, whom also he named apostles;
i.
Jesus
prayed before selecting the disciples.
c.
Luke
22:39-46 And he came out, and went, as
he was wont, to the mount of Olives; and his disciples also followed him. And
when he was at the place, he said unto them, Pray that ye enter not into
temptation. And he was withdrawn from them about a stone's cast, and kneeled
down, and prayed, Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me:
nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done. And there appeared an angel unto
him from heaven, strengthening him. And being in an agony he prayed more
earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to
the ground. And when he rose up from prayer, and was come to his disciples, he
found them sleeping for sorrow, And said unto them, Why sleep ye? rise and
pray, lest ye enter into temptation.
i.
Jesus
prayed in the garden before being arrested and lead to the cross.
4.
Elijah
a.
James
5:16-18 Confess your faults one to
another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual
fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. Elias was a man subject to
like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it
rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain,
and the earth brought forth her fruit.
i.
Effectual:
1.
Active
2.
Efficient
ii.
Effective:
1.
Producing
a decided, decisive, or desired effect.
iii.
Fervent
1.
Very
hot, glowing, marked by great warmth of feeling, exhibiting deep sincere emotion.
b.
1
Kings 18:41-46 And Elijah said unto
Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of abundance of rain. So
Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and
he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees, And
said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. And he went up, and
looked, and said, There is nothing. And he said, Go again seven times. And it
came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little
cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab,
Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down that the rain stop thee not. And it came
to pass in the mean while, that the heaven was black with clouds and wind, and
there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel. And the hand of the
Lord was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the
entrance of Jezreel.
i.
The
birthing of rain through prayer
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