Ever sense that your prayers lack power? Is it possible that we can pray wrongly? That is a big question for me. Sometimes I wonder if my prayers are about me or are they truly connecting with God. Below are some passages of Scripture from part one of a series entitled “jesusprays.”

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How jesusprays

Matt. 6.6 When you pray go away by yourself..pray to your Father in private.
Matt. 14.23 …he went up into the hills by himself to pray.
Matthew 19.13 One day some parents brought their children to Jesus so he could lay his hands on them and pray for them.
Matthew 26.36 Then Jesus went with them to the olive grove called Gethsemane, and he said, “Sit here while I go over there to pray.”
Matthew 26.39 He went on a little farther and bowed with his face to the ground praying, “My father!”
Mark 1.35 Before daybreak the next morning, Jesus got up and went out to an isolated place to pray.
Luke 9.18 One day Jesus left the crowds to pray alone.

jesusprays for transformation

Matthew 6.9 Pray like this Our Father in heaven may your name be kept holy.
Luke 9.29 And as he was praying the appearance of his face was transformed and his clothes became dazzling white.
Luke 18.1 One day Jesus told his disciples a story to show that they should always pray and never give up.
Luke 22.32 But I have pleaded in prayer for you, Simon, that your faith should not fail. So when you have repented and turned to me again, strengthen your brothers.
Luke 22.40 There he told the, “Pray that you will not give into temptation.”
Matthew 5.44 But I say love your enemies! Pray for those who persecute you.

Faith Community Correction

Matthew 6.5 When you pray don’t be like the hypocrites who love to pray publicly on street corners and in the synagogues where everyone can see them. I tell you the truth that is all the reward they will ever get.
Luke 10.21 At that same time Jesus was filled with the joy of the Holy Spirit and he said, “O father Lord of heaven and earth thank you for hiding these things from those who think themselves wise and clever and for revealing them to the childlike. Yes, Father it pleased you to do it this way.
Luke 18.11 The Pharissee stood by himself and prayed this payer: “I thank you God that I am not a sinner like everyone else. For I don’t cheat. I don’t sin, and I don’t commit adultery. I’m certainly not like that tax collector!
Luke 19.46 He said the them, “The Scriptures declare, ‘My temple will be a house of prayer,’ but you have made it into a den of thieves.”
Luke 20.47 Yet they shamelessly cheat widows out of their property and then pretend to be pious by making long prayers in public. Because of this they will be severly punished.