: David Chotka
: Power Praying Hearing Jesus' Spirit by Praying Jesus' Prayer
: Made for Success
: 9781935012337
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: English
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Wit 2,000 years of commentary and writings on the Lord's Prayer, is it possible to glean anything new? Power Praying proves the answer is 'yes!' Unique and transformational describe the content of this personal or group study. You will be excited and challenged as you dig deeply into this model prayer. Learn to tap into the same power-through prayer-that was displayed in Jesus' ministry.

Power Praying can be used as an individual read, or in a group study. Divided into 8 weeks, each week looks at a phrase from the Lord's Prayer and provides helpful suggestions on including its principles in your own prayer life.

DAY 1

We need to decide to pray.

“It was Napoleon Bonaparte . . . who said: ‘There are only two forces in the world— spiritual force and material force, and spiritual force always wins.’ Napoleon died a prisoner on the island of St. Helena. His dreams of world conquest died with him, mute testimony to the fact that he had used the wrong weapons.”1

There comes a moment when a person has to make a decision about prayer. First of all, you have to conclude that prayer is helpful, meaningful, and a means to an end—knowing God and accomplishing God’s purposes in and through us. Then you have to decide to actually pray. After this, with the decision made, you just have to do it.

This decision shouldn’t be taken lightly, for prayer is life-transforming. If you want to remain as you are, don’t start to pray, for prayer will change you forever.

All of life consists of and is shaped by the decisions that we make, whether those decisions seem major or minor. Today you will make a series of decisions—from the time that you will rise, to the clothes you will wear, to the interactions you will have with people. Each decision will, in some sense, direct the course of your life, and leave you slightly (or radically) different than you were before. Life consists of decisions made, and each decision changes us.

Sometimes decisions that are seemingly inconsequential lead to big changes. You may decide to enjoy a drink at the coffee shop and meet your new employer at the next table. On the other hand, decisions that we agonize over sometimes lead only to minor changes in the way we actually live. You may need to buy a new vehicle, think that you are in way over your head, and blissfully discover that your monthly payment schedule is just about the same as the previous month’s—only now there is warranty with the vehicle.

To live is to choose, and to choose is to change. The only question that must be answered is whether you want to change one way or another. Our ability to choose is part of what makes us distinctively human.

To pray, or even to want to pray, is to choose. If you are just starting a life of prayer, then to pray is to make a choice to take a chance on a relationship with God (for to pray is to relate). If you are seasoned in praying, then to pray again is to choose as well. You are choosing to deep