Prayer - Bringing Heaven to Earth

True prayer is the most powerful force in the world today. True prayer brings the force of our Almighty God into action. However, true prayer is sadly lacking in our generation.

Most Christians haven’t been taught how to pray from the Word of God, but have learned by listening to or experiencing other, often erroneous examples.

In the church of our tradition, we had Wednesday night prayer meetings. We sat in a circle and everyone related their problems, and those of their family and friends. Then they told us what they thought the answer should be. When we bowed our heads to pray, our chief concern was that we had forgotten some of the problems and might not tell them to God. The next week, we heard the same problems and the same desire for answers. We talked about unruly teenagers until they grew up. We talked about Aunt Hilda’s cancer until she died.

The Prayer Requests section in the church bulletin stayed almost the same week after week. We almost never heard of any answers to our prayers and after many years gave up going to prayer meetings. They were boring, negative times of dwelling only on the problems in everyone’s life and nothing seemed to happen anyway.

Through this study, our goal is to take a new, fresh look at prayer. Through the numerous biblical examples, we will learn what prayer is and how to pray.