Category: Worship

  • Prayers of Confession and Repentance

    In the Lord’s Prayer, Jesus taught his followers to pray, “Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.”  This is one prayer Jesus never had to ask for himself.  As the sinless Savior, Jesus never had to repent or confess sin.  On the other hand, we are fallen people desperately in need of grace…

  • Prayers of Praise and Worship

    The Bible contains some incredible models of prayer given for us to learn and follow.  In the next few blogs I am going to include some of the great prayers in the Scriptures.  The book of Psalms is primarily a book of prayers, some given as songs and poems.  Since there are 150 of those,…

  • Biblical Promises of Answered Prayer

    Intercession and petition are part of our prayer lives.  God does encourage us to interact with him by taking our requests.  In Philippians, Paul says, “Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.  And the peac eof God, which surpasses…

  • Biblical Reasons God does not answer some prayers

    The Bible promises that God answers the prayers of his people.  But there are occasions in the Scriptures where God does not answer, and in some texts, does not even hear our prayers.  This does not mean that God needs a hearing aid, rather that prayer is first and foremost a relational activity between God…

  • Biblical reasons to pray

    I mentioned on Sunday that I was going to publish a few blogs this week on the issue of prayer and our prayer lives.  I am going to pick several topics about prayer, and then let the Bible speak for itself.  Most of these will be lists with Scripture passages.  In this blog I am…