How to Pray – Sunday School Outline
A lot of people have a lot of ideas about what prayer is, so let’s start with the actual definition.
I went to Blue Letter Bible and looked up the original Greek from several places in the New Testament.
There were 2 words in the definitions that kept coming up:
Intercession – to go to or meet a person, esp. for the purpose of conversation, consultation, or supplication
to pray, entreat
Supplication – need, indigence, want, privation, penury
a seeking, asking, entreating, entreaty to God or to man
From this we can see prayer is talking to God about a problem or situation you or someone else has.
It is NOT a one-way transaction or monologue.
It is a conversation.
We don’t just insert a prayer or two and go on our merry way, expecting to receive what we need.