Do You Need a Prayer?

This is what the LORD says, he who made the earth, the LORD who formed it and established it--the LORD is his name: “Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.”

Words of the Prophet Jeremiah 33:2-3

Dear Father always near us,
may your name be treasured and loved,
may your rule be completed in us—
may your will be done here on earth
in just the way it is done in heaven.
Give us today the things we need today,
and forgive us our sins and impositions on you
as we are forgiving all who in any way offend us.
Please don't put us through trials,
but deliver us from everything bad.
Because you are the one in charge,
and you have all the power,
and the glory, too, is all yours—forever—
which is just the way we want it! 

Jesus was a man with a lot to do and very little time in which to do it. Yet he had time to wine and dine and laugh and share stories. He knew that very soon he must go to Jerusalem to suffer and die. Yet he poured his life into the needs of others, patiently accepting each urgent interruption and setting people free in body and mind.

begin with God.

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In our church family we have people who love to talk with God on behalf of others. The Spirit of Jesus has given these folks a heart full of compassion and a special capacity to pray for others who have needs. Praying for one another is something Christians do all the time.

• We believe that the infinite, personal God listens when people pray.
• We pray because Jesus prayed and he’s our example.  
• Jesus also taught about prayer and invited us to pray. 

One of Jesus’ most important statements regarding prayer is:

"And so I tell you, keep on asking, and you will be given what you ask for. Keep on looking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened.  For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And the door is opened to everyone who knocks.   

"You fathers--if your children ask for a fish, do you give them a snake instead?  Or if they ask for an egg, do you give them a scorpion? Of course not!  If you sinful people know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him."

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• We believe that the infinite, personal God listens when people pray.
• We pray because Jesus prayed and he’s our example.
• Jesus also taught about prayer and invited us to pray.

One of Jesus’ most important statements regarding prayer is: