40 Days of Prayer
2023
Prayer as Petition
January 22, 2023
"Prayer as Petition" Digital Bulletin - https://mailchi.mp/alliancechurch/prayer-as-petition Questions for Personal Reflection/Group Discussion: 1. How might the words “give us” describe the relationship God desires to have with us? 2. How, in your life, have you seen God orchestrate events in a way that could never have been planned or predicted? 3. What does this part of the prayer, “this day our daily bread”, teach us about the relationship God is inviting us into? 4. What is your dependence level right now? 5. Do you think of God as YOUR Father? 6. If our earthly fathers sought to provide, HOW MUCH MORE will our heavenly Father DELIGHT in caring for our daily needs? (Matthew 7:7-10)
Prayer as Petition
January 15, 2023 • Gerald Gruber
"Prayer as Petition" Digital Bulletin - https://mailchi.mp/alliancechurch/prayer-as-petition Questions for Personal Reflection/Group Discussion: 1. How might the words “give us” describe the relationship God desires to have with us? 2. How, in your life, have you seen God orchestrate events in a way that could never have been planned or predicted? 3. What does this part of the prayer, “this day our daily bread”, teach us about the relationship God is inviting us into? 4. What is your dependence level right now? 5. Do you think of God as YOUR Father? 6. If our earthly fathers sought to provide, HOW MUCH MORE will our heavenly Father DELIGHT in caring for our daily needs? (Matthew 7:7-10)
Prayer as Kingdom Partnership
January 8, 2023 • Jim Moynihan
Prayer as Kingdom Partnership Digital Bulletin - https://mailchi.mp/alliancechurch/prayer-as-kingdom-partnership Questions for Personal Reflection/Group Discussion: 1. What do you find yourself praying about often and passionately? 2. How often do you pray that God’s name be worshiped in the earth? How often do you pray that God’s Kingdom would COME into specific situations? How often do you pray that God’s will would be DONE in specific situations? 3. Dallas Willard described the Kingdom of God as “God in action”. How does it impact you that Jesus invited/called us to participate in what He is doing in the earth to rescue people from the power of sin, the rule of Satan, and the tyranny of their own wills? 4. In what way is praying the will of God an act of war? 5. What do we need to be careful of when praying in our pain?
Prayer as Worship
January 1, 2023 • Jim Moynihan • Matthew 6:5–9
Prayer as Worship Digital Bulletin - https://mailchi.mp/alliancechurch/prayer-as-worship-jotitlk3d2 Questions for Personal Reflection/Group Discussion 1. In Matthew 6:5-8, Jesus outlines two major pitfalls that people seem to fall into when it comes to prayer. What are they? 2. What is Jesus teaching instead about true prayer in these verses? 3. Why does the phrase “Our Father” denote both intimacy and authority? How does this impact that way we should pray? 4. Meditate on the many ways God has been a father to us. Which aspects are most meaningful to you and why?