Ten Steps to Experience God Through Prayer

Ten Steps to Experience God Through Prayer

"Help us, O Lord our God, for we rely [lean] on you ..." 2 Chronicles 14:11 NIV)

One of the ways that we can experience God is through prayer. Some of us need to have our prayer lives energized. In her book The Power of a Praying® Church: Experiencing God Move as We Pray Together (Stormie Omartian and Jack Hayford), Stormie shares ten practical steps to experience God in our prayer lives.

I would encourage you to prayerfully work through these practical steps and allow God to revitalize your prayer life.

Step 1. Acknowledge God as your heavenly Father.

Step 2. Praise God for who He is and what He has done.

Step 3. Choose one of God's names, attributes, or characteristics and thank Him for being that to you.

Step 4. Present your day to the Lord.

Step 5. Present your body to the Lord.

Step 6. Confess your sins before God and ask Him to help you live His way.

Step 7. Ask God to help you speak only words that bring life.

Step 8. Ask God for whatever you need.

Step 9. Pray for God's will in your life.

Step 10. Pray for other people and situations.

Lord, may we experience You and Your glory as we pray! -- Bill Welte is President and CEO of America's KESWICK

Check out this week's STEWARDSHIP INSIGHT from Crown Financial Instructor, George Hutchison: http://www.americaskeswick.org/363836.ihtml#h_6275

God's WORD for YOU: Proverbs 8; Job 36-37; Acts 15:22-41

Great Quote: Clarification -- Yesterday's quote was attributed to Fredrick Buechner, but it was really made by Albert Schweitzer. Thanks, Glen Heavilin, for catching the mistake!

Bad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely content with the life that he is living, with the thoughts that he is thinking, with the deeds that he is doing, when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do because he is still, in spite of all, the child of God. Phillips Brooks