Teach Us How to Pray: A Complete Bible Study for Your Daily Life of Prayer

By Mike E. Cater Sr

My reason for writing this Bible study guide on prayer is to reintroduce everyone to the real basics for a successful prayer life. I want to give everyone a true sense of a relationship with a real all-powerful God. Our Savior-God wants a relationship that is totally honest concerning a Holy God and His Chosen People.

Christian prayers are not being answered today for several reasons. Gods word is trying to give us a peaceful heart through our baptism by faith in Jesus Christ. Since we have been quickened or made alive with God in Christ Jesus we need to put our will worship aside and worship our savior Jesus Christ.
Matthew 6:1-15
I want to let Gods Word help us rediscover our Christian prayer life. To do this, we need to re-examine our views of The Living, All Powerful God of the Universe! The best place to begin is in Matthew 6, where Jesus tries to introduce us to proper prayer life. Then, after we re-examine our Heavenly Father, I want to examine the hindrances to a successful prayer life that we commit because of our sinful daily walk, according to James 4:1-17.

I want to also discuss at least 5 ways that God does answer prayer. I realize that there are many ways to examine this part of our study, but we need to be honest with ourselves.

Mike

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Oct 21, 2011
• ISBN: 9781465364548

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Mike Cater was born in Kansas City, Missouri, on November 1st 1943 and lived out his childhood in Emporia, Kansas. He is the youngest of three children. His oldest brother, Robert L. Cater lived in California for most of his life and his older brother, William Cater lives in southern Kansas to this day.

Mike Cater is the son of Ida Carolyn Cater Olson Axe and William Danford Cater of Emporia, Kansas. His stepfather, Raymond Dean Olson, retired as a farmer outside of Pomona, Kansas after a long career as a road grader operator at several construction companies.

Mike Cater has extensive experience in Bible Church Service. He has attended classes at Baptist Bible College in Springfield, Missouri, (1962–64). He has taught in a high school Sunday school in Paola, Kansas. He was Sunday school director at Cornerstone Baptist Church and served as youth director at Fellowship Baptist Church in Lawrence, Kansas, (2010). He has filled the pulpit in six Baptist churches during his church ministry: Paola, Olathe, Oak Grove, Winifred, Easton, and Lawrence.

Mike Cater graduated from Pomona High School in 1961. He retired from Honeywell Avionics Incorporated in September 2009 after thirty years service as a facilities technician. Mike Cater now resides in Lawrence, Kansas, with his wife of 50 years.

Contents

Bible Prayer Study

According to the Directions of Jesus Christ

Note: All Bible Passages in this book are taken from The King James Version of the Bible

Theme: Philippians 4:4–7

Acknowledgments

I would like to acknowledge the assistance of several electronic programs that were instrumental in my use during the composition of this prayer study document. I am grateful for their functions to me, and therefore, each is listed herein in no particular order.

To Windows 98B, Windows-XP, and Windows 7 operating systems, I am grateful. It has taken a few years to finalize this book. (I started with Windows 98B and am now using Windows 7.

Power Bible 3.3 CD version (1999-2001)

PC Bible Study for Windows (2.1/1993-96 CD versions)

King James Version of the Bible (noted as KJV )

Vines Expository Bible Dictionary (PC Bible Study, Power Bible)

Thomas Nelson Bible Dictionary (PC Bible Study, Power Bible)

Crudens’s-Complete Concordance of the Bible (PC Bible Study, Power Bible)

Matthew Henry’s Commentary of the Bible (PC Bible Study, Power Bible)

Strong’s Greek/Hebrew Dictionary of Old and New Testament (PC Bible Study, Power Bible)

Unger’s Bible Dictionary of the Bible (PC Bible Study, Power Bible)

Vines Expository Dictionary C.1985 Tomas Nelson Publisher (PC Bible Study, Power Bible)

Praying Hands cover photo—Public Domain Clip Art (PDClipart.org) Image page 125 & 129 Public Domain Clip Art PD Clipart.org.

Prayer Group Study Theme

Philippians 4:4-7 (KJV)

4   Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, rejoice!

5   Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.

6   Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

7   And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

Philippians 4:8-13 (KJV)

8   Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

9   Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.

10   But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of me hath flourished again; wherein ye were also careful, but ye lacked opportunity.

11   Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.

12   I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.

13   I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

A Simple Prayer Formula

P    Praise God   Adoration

Tell God What He Has Done For You Lately. (Psalm150)

R    Reverence God   Honor His Attributes

List God’s Attributes That You Have Experienced Today. (Psalm 145)

A    Ask God   Prayer Requests

Supplication. (Psalm 7:7-8)

Y    Yield to God   My Will = God’s Will

Confessions. (James 4:7-10)

Teach Us How To Pray Our Heart Attitude Before We Pray

Caution = Caution = Caution = Caution = Caution = Caution = Caution = Caution Please Read Colossians 2:1-24 (KJV) Note: SELECTED VERSES, emphasis mine

Paul Is Trying To Give Us A Peaceful Heart.

1   For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

2   That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;

3   In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

We Have Received Our Baptism In Christ, By Faith

6   As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:

7   Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.

8   Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

9   For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.

10   And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:

11   In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:

12   Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.

We Have Been Quickened, Made Alive With Him, Christ Jesus.

13   And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;

14   Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;

Put Your Will Worship Aside And Worship Your Savior, Christ Jesus!

16   Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:

17   Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.

18   Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

20 Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,

22   Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men?

23   Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any

Please do not miss out in Paul’s Message from God

Please read the following scriptures for this Bible study.

Matthew 6:1-15 (KJV)

These Bible verses are your main scripture focus—now!

Alms Before Men

1   Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.

2   Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men.

Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

3   But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth:

4   That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.

Prayers of the Hypocrites

5   And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

6   But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

7   But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

8   Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.

Pray in This Manner

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