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S5 157. ROOR - Anatomy Of A Prayer Part Three · Millennial Mustard Seed

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  If you were just starting out in prayer, how do you start?
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  You start from a contrite or remorseful heart, and you start
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  with repentance and a request for the Holy Spirit or ruah ha
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  kodesh. That is what salvation requires.
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  Let's start with the Salvation prayer from bridemovement.com.
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  In order to be saved, we must not only believe that Jesus
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  died, but that he was resurrected on the third day.
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  The victory wasn't in the death, but in the resurrection of Jesus
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  Christ when He arose, having all power in heaven and on earth.
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  He later ascended to heaven and sat down at the right hand of
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  the Father, where he remains to this day, continually making
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  intercession for us. This is the God that I serve.
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  This is the God of love. This is the gospel of Jesus
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  Christ. The Bible says that if we
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  confess the Lord Jesus Christ with our mouth and believe that
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  God has raised Him from the dead in our heart, we will be saved.
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  If you believe this testimony of Jesus Christ in your heart, then
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  you can confess this prayer with your mouth and you will be
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  saved. Jesus, I come before you and
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  acknowledge that I am a Sinner. I repent, I call upon your name,
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  and I ask you to cleanse me with your blood.
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  Forgive me of my sins. I invite you into my heart,
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  Jesus Christ. I believe that you were born a
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  virgin, died, and were resurrected on the third day
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  that I might have eternal life. I open my life to you and I ask
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  you to come in and be my Lord and Savior.
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  Thank you for saving me. In Jesus name I pray, Amen.
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  Let us take the Sermon on the Mount and the Lord's Prayer in
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  Matthew 6. This prayer is a template given
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  to us on how we should pray. Jesus starts by saying in this
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  manner, Pray our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name,
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  your Kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in
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  heaven. If you've been paying attention,
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  you'll hear the points laid out for you previously in this
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  video. First of all, we address God as
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  Father, our Father in heaven. That makes all the difference.
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  We are not praying to a remote or unknown deity or some
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  impersonal force. We are praying to a person who
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  has made himself our Father through Jesus Christ.
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  The next phrase, hallowed be your name, expresses an attitude
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  of reverence, of worship. After we have acknowledged God
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  as Father, we need to adopt an attitude of reverence.
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  Next we come to the two petitions, Your Kingdom come,
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  and then your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
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  Notice that we do not begin by praying for what we need.
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  That follows. Give us this day Our Daily
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  Bread, and forgive us our trespasses.
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  But that is not where we start. We start with God's purposes.
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  What is important to God? When done genuinely, it sheds
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  our natural conceit and reveals our humility.
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  Now we need to have a little clarity about the way the
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  Kingdom is established. Paul defined the Kingdom and its
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  essential nature. The Kingdom of God is not eating
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  and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy
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  Spirit. Righteousness comes first.
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  Without true righteousness, there will never be true peace.
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  The world today talks a great deal about peace.
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  Many sections of the church are praying for peace.
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  That is a good prayer. But bear in mind that without
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  righteousness, peace will never come.
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  God says twice through the prophet Isaiah that there is no
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  peace for the wicked. The Kingdom can come invisibly,
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  both in the individual hearts of believers and in fellowship of
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  the true church. But that is not the ultimate.
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  The ultimate is the visible establishment of God's Kingdom.
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  And just as the invisible Kingdom requires a king, so does
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  the visible Kingdom. Only when the king himself has
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  returned visibly and in person can the true Kingdom of God be
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  established on earth. Then Jesus said this in his
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  prayer. Your will be done on earth as it
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  is in heaven. I beseech you therefore,
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  brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a
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  living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your
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  reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this
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  world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you
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  may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of
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  God. For I say, through the grace
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  given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of
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  himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think
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  soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith.
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  For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do
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  not have the same function, so we being many, our one body in
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  Christ, and individually members of one another, having then
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  gifts, deferring according to the grace that is given to us,
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  let us use them. If prophecy, let us prophecy in
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  proportion to our faith or ministry, let us use it in our
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  ministry. He who teaches in teaching, he
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  who exhorts in exhortation, He who gives with liberality, He
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  who leads with diligence, He who shows mercy with cheerfulness,
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  this is what God's will be done means.
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  This does not mean everything is perfect on earth, but it means
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  that in any given situation, God's purpose and solution can
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  be perfectly worked out. Do you believe that?
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  You see, you will pray differently if you convince
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  yourself that it's true. Once you have successfully and
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  righteously begun your prayer, you may enter into the next
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  stage where you ask for bread and forgiveness of sin, as you
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  have forgiven others who've sinned against you.
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  Then for strength against temptation of the flesh.
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  Because God is the Kingdom and the power and deserves all the
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  glory for all time.