TALKING WITH GOD
Goal: You learn to talk to God and pray effectively. You make it a habit to pray every day.
Why we talk to God:
Jesus explains to his disciples how they should pray. He gives us a "model" of how we can pray.
- Discuss the individual sections of the Lord's Prayer and why Jesus probably said it this way.
- Pray together in your own words using this model of prayer. Start talking to Jesus as if he were sitting next to you. Prayer is a personal conversation between you and him, in which you discuss things with him and lay out your concerns before him.
God speaks to us in many different ways. Here is a list of some of them. Tell each other where you have experienced God speaking.
- Through the Bible
- Through sermons
- Through inner images
- Through thoughts
- Through dreams
- Through friends
- Through circumstances
- Through nature
- Through art
What might be the way God most often uses to speak to you?
Prayers out of faith make a difference: