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Prayer Is Practical: 4 Steps In Biblical Prayer - 1 Tim 2:1-2

4 words, each with unique meaning, are used by Paul at the beginning of 1 Tim 2 exhort us on how to prayer. The order of these words is intentional, their meanings are nuanced, and by understanding them we will have a deeper prayer life.

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Ethan Tripodi

Friday, May 13, 2022

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Outline

"How and why prayer must be lead to action."

As we turn to 1 Timothy 2:1-2, we're going to see how to make prayer practical through the 4 practices of prayer that Paul points out, and we're going to see why to make prayer practical as Paul points out 4 purposes of prayer.

Introductory Points

  • We must make prayer practical
  • ​End of 1 Tim 1 - The realities of life, shipwrecked faith

Main Points

  • Practices of Prayer (V1)
  • ​Supplications - Feel It
  • ​Prayers - Ask Him
  • ​Intercessions - Do It
  • ​Thanksgivings - Thank Him
  • Purposes of Prayer (v2)
  • ​Outer experience of quietness
  • ​Inner experience of quietness
  • ​Inner response to weightiness
  • ​Outer response to weightiness

Concluding Points

  • ​1 Tim 2:3-4, be part of God's work and stay in his approval!

Ethan Tripodi is a missionary with Youth for Christ Australia and his mission role is made possible through the prayer and financial support from individuals and organisations just like you.

Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ. For this I toil, struggling with all his energy that he powerfully works within me. Colossians 1:28-29, ESV.

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