Teach Me How to Pray: An Instructional Guide on Prayer

By T. Lynn Matthews

Gods relationship with us is authenticated in the doctrine of prayer. Prayer maybe defined as follows: Prayer is personal communication with God. This definition is varying board. What we call prayer includes prayers of request for ourselves or others (sometimes called prayers of petition or intercession), confession of sin, adoration, praise, and thanksgiving, and also, God communicating to us indications of his response.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: May 4, 2012
• ISBN: 9781468573145

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MY FATHER’S HOUSE MINISTRIES

TEACH ME

HOW TO PRAY

AN INSTRUCTIONAL GUIDE ON PRAYER

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BY

T. LYNN MATTHEWS

LEAD INTERCESSOR

NEW TESTAMENT GOSPEL WORLDWIDE MINISTRIES

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© 2012 by T. Lynn Matthews. All rights reserved.

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Published by AuthorHouse 04/03/2012

ISBN: 978-1-4685-7315-2 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4685-7314-5 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2012906207

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Contents

Foreward

Why Does God Want

Us To Pray?

What Is Prayer?

The Purpose Of Prayer

Identifying Types Of Prayer

Principles Of

Prayer Growth

Understanding The Realms Of Heaven

Understanding Strategies For Prayer (4W)

Position Yourself

For Prayer

Spiritual Mapping

Touching Heaven

DEDICATED TO MY LOVING FAMILY:

DWAIN, BARRY, LAVAR, TREVOR, AND CEDRIC.

FOREWARD

The Bible and Christians around the world, testify to the fact that God both hears and answers prayer. The scriptures creditability, character, and intelligence of a vast number of witnesses make their testimony indisputable and incontrovertible.

The demand for this instructional guide on prayer comes from every true Disciple of Jesus Christ who desires to do God’s will, with God’s power, and most importantly with God’s blessings. It was the demand the Disciples asked of Jesus in the gospel of Luke Chapter 11:1. Lord, teach us how to pray. It is the demand of every disciple of Jesus Christ to be taught how to approach God in the sincere desire to appropriate God’s will through the doctrine of prayer. True believers understand that prayer authenticates our obedience, trust, and faith in our Heavenly Father.

The teachings in this guide are from the standpoint of biblical scriptural instructions rather than dogmatic denominational theology. The students of these instructions will almost always find a contrasting new perspective between what they have experienced and witnessed in the life of most Christians who have a form and a fashion of prayer, but no power to break strong holds, or to deliver a Christian from evil and temptation.

This instructional guide will prepare an Intercessor to be a Gladiator of faith. The Intercessor will be able to stand in the lion’s den, face the furnace of affliction, feast with betrayal, endure abandonment,