Prayer

Adoration

We should not approach God immediately making requests, but our prayers should begin with adoration and praise. This pattern is apparent in the Bible. Indeed, almost every one of the prayers of great men of faith recorded in the Bible begins with invocation. Although all our prayers should begin with adoration, at times we should focus longer prayers solely on adoring the God who has called us out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Confession

Group confession: In addition to our personal sins, we need to confess sins committed by groups with which we are identified. If you read some of Daniel’s prayer, you find that he is confessing the sins of the Jewish people, even though he was not personally guilty of those sins. We too need to be cognizant of the sins committed by our families, our nation, our race, and our church.

While most confession has to do with sin, we also need to confess before God our inability to accomplish anything without him, our lack of power to accomplish anything of eternal significance. This, again, is agreeing with God concerning his statements about us, and thus is logically a part of confession.

Thanksgiving

Here, we usually think of the blessings God has given us: our salvation, our families, our friends, our material possessions, etc. And, of course, we should thank God for all of these. But according to the Bible we should also thank God for the trials and difficulties we face.

Petition

When we are suffering through a trial, we can pray that God would use this testing of our faith to produce endurance in us, to perfect us, to make us complete, so that we would become like him. Petitions should include asking that God would be recognized as holy and just, praying that God's will would be done in this world and that the world would acknowledge him.

Thanks giving for blessings
Thanks for salvation
Praise about this church (HCC) and what He has done with us
Pray for our surrounding community that God is calling us to be apart of
Pray for our city of Springfield
Pray for our Missouri Government and State
Pray for our Nation and its leaders and especially for our President
Pray for our Soldiers and this War
Pray for this world God has blessed us with
Pray for our Pastoral Search
Pray for the different ministries going on in our church (HCC)
Praise that God provides for us and pray that we are faithful in giving back 10% or more of what He gives
Personal prayer requests

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