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How to Pray 101
May 4, 2025
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Luke 18:9-14,

How to Pray 101

May 4, 2025   /   Pastor Dan Plourde   /   Luke 18:9-14   /   Calvary Church

The Pharisee and the Tax Collector (vv. 9-14)

God’s Perspective: The Pharisee prayed to (v.11)

… was praying this to himself – Luke 18:11 (NASB95)

Pharisee’s Problem: Used as the standard of his standing with God (v.11)

…for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God… – Romans 3:23 (NASB)

Pharisee’s Thought: Prayers answered based on  (v.12)

God responds to (v.14)

“God, be merciful (hilaskomai) to me, the sinner!”  – Luke 18:13 (NASB)

Hilaskomai: propitiation (MCED), Atoning Sacrifice (Webster’s)

God, be merciful to me through Your atoning sacrifice for sins, because I am a sinner. (Guzik) 

The Forgiven/Justified offered no  and made no about future

Ultimately, the Pharisee was condemned by his

So, how do I begin to develop a prayer life?

I must my prayer time

In the early morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house, and went away to a secluded place, and was praying there. – Mark 1:35 (NASB95)

Begin with

We are called to “Praise the Lord” over

Therefore by Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name. But do not forget to do good and to share, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

– Hebrews 13:15-16 (NKJV)

Let the earth yield her increase; and God, even our own God, shall bless us. God shall bless us; and all the ends of the earth shall fear Him. – Psalms 67:5-7 (KJV)

When they began singing and praising, the Lord set ambushes against the … (enemy) – 2 Chronicles 20:22-23 (NASB)

 (Jesus) Remember, your Father knows exactly what you need even before you ask him! – Matthew 6:8 (TLB)

  the not the

And let them say continually, “The LORD be magnified, Who delights in the prosperity of His servant.” – Psalms 35:27 (NASB95)

 And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that always having all sufficiency in everything, you may have an abundance for every good deed… – 2 Corinthians 9:8 (NASB95)

If possible, pray

“According to your faith will it be done to you”…  – Matthew 9:29 (BSB)

 …faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. – Romans 10:17 (NKJV)

Rhema: spoken word

Keep a prayer

Write how

Write what has God (and what is God )

it

And you shall remember all the way which the Lord your God has led you in the wilderness these forty years, that He might humble you, testing you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. And He humbled you and let you be hungry, and fed you with manna which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that He might make you understand that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord – Deuteronomy 8:2-3 (NASB77)

After prayer only what God

Can two walk together, except they be agreed? – Amos 3:3 (KJV)

Let us hold fast the profession (homo-logia: ) of our faith (hope) without wavering; (for He is faithful that promised)… – Hebrews 10:23 (KJV)

Saying what God says is

…for we walk by faith, not by sight…  – 2 Corinthians 5:7 (NASB)

 

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