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    Learning to Pray: The Journey Study Series
    Learning to Pray: The Journey Study Series
    Learning to Pray: The Journey Study Series
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    Learning to Pray: The Journey Study Series

    By Billy Graham

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    Learn to speak to God through prayer, offer him praise and thanksgiving, and listen for an answer.

    How important is prayer in the life of a Christian? Doesn't God know what we need already? Do you look forward to praying, or do you dread it?

    It is never a mistake to pray, but we need to understand fully what prayer is and its role in our lives. Learning to Pray, by Christian leader and pastor Billy Graham, looks at the incredible privilege we have of speaking directly with our Creator at any time. God wants to be in fellowship with us. Talk to God and get to know Him better as you journey on life's path. 

    The Journey Study Series is based on Billy Graham's best-selling book The Journey, the culmination of lifetime of spiritual insight and ministry experience. Each chapter explores the joys, triumphs, and conflicts we all encounter on our journey through life.

    • Use for self-study or shared experiences in small groups.
    • Includes six weeks of lessons.
    • Sidebars offer a scriptural journey through God's word.
    • Questions for starting group discussions.
    • Insight-filled Scripture passages to study.

    Each chapter includes thought-provoking questions, commentary, Scriptures, and insights to help you on life's journey.  Each lesson teaches the secret of walking with God on life's path.  Understanding God's truths will make life's journey easier and let Him fulfill His promise to lead you home.

    "You will only make this journey once.  What kind of journey will it be?"

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThomas Nelson
    Release dateJul 15, 2007
    ISBN9781418584610
    Learning to Pray: The Journey Study Series
    Author

    Billy Graham

    Billy Graham (1918–2018), world-renowned preacher, evangelist, and author, delivered the Gospel message to more people face-to-face than anyone in history and ministered on every continent of the world in almost 200 countries and territories. His ministry extended far beyond stadiums and arenas, utilizing radio, television, film, print media, wireless communications, and thirty-three books, all that still carry the Good News of God's redemptive love for mankind. Engraved on a simple fieldstone in the Memorial Prayer Garden where he is buried at the Billy Graham Library in Charlotte, North Carolina, these words exemplify how the man and the minister wished to be remembered: "Preacher of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ."

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      Book preview

      Learning to Pray - Billy Graham

      Learning

      to

      Pray

      The Journey Study Series

      Searching for Hope

      Living as a Christian

      Leaving a Legacy

      Dealing with Doubt

      Confronting the Enemies Within

      Embracing the Good News

      Building a Christ-Centered Home

      Learning to Pray

      The Facilitator’s Guide

      Learning

      to

      Pray

      A Thomas Nelson Study Series

      Based on The Journey

      by BILLY GRAHAM

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      © 2007 by Billy Graham Literary Trust

      Additional material written by Terry Hadaway

      All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, scanning, or other—except for brief quotations in critical reviews or articles, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

      Published in Nashville, Tennessee. Thomas Nelson is a trademark of Thomas Nelson, Inc.

      Thomas Nelson, Inc., titles may be purchased in bulk for educational, business, fund-raising, or sales promotional use. For information, please e-mail SpecialMarkets@ThomasNelson.com.

      Unless otherwise noted, all Scripture quotations are taken from The Holy Bible, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.

      Learning to Pray: A Thomas Nelson Study Series Based on The Journey by

      Billy Graham

      ISBN-13: 978-1-4185-1767-4

      ISBN-10: 1-4185-1767-0

      Printed in the United States of America

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      Contents

      1. The Privilege of Prayer

      2. The Process of Prayer

      3. Emotions That Defeat Us

      4. Things That Destroy

      5. When Life Turns Against Us

      6. When Others Disappoint

      Notes

      1

      The

      Privilege of

      Prayer

      TO GET THE MOST FROM THIS STUDY GUIDE, READ pages 114–121 of The Journey.

      Our relationship with God involves communication— not just an occasional brief chat, but a deep sharing of ourselves and our concerns with God. In the Bible God speaks to us; in prayer we speak to God. Both are essential—and both are gifts God has given us so we can know Him. He has given us the privilege of prayer because He loves us and wants our fellowship.

      BILLY GRAHAM

      The Journey

      THINK ABOUT IT

      Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God in order that he should be able to make use of us. It may be that one of our greatest faults in prayer is that we talk too much and listen too little.When prayer is at its highest, we wait in silence for God’s voice to us.

      —WILLIAM BARCLAY¹

      This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.

      —1 JOHN 5:14

      Talking . . . we’re all good at it. We manage to communicate in the most difficult of circumstances. With the raise of an eyebrow, we can send a message that can be understood across a room. In today’s culture, we’re never out of touch. From e-mail to text messaging to telephones and cell phones, we communicate at all times with people from all over the world.

      Yet in a culture where communication is vitally important, one form of communication seems to be on the downslide—prayer. We don’t seem to know what it is and how to use it. Is prayer our drive-through window with God taking our orders? Can we use prayer to change God’s mind? After we pray, does God say, Hey, I’ve never thought about it that way!? We need some help understanding what prayer is and its role in our lives.

      REWIND

      What are the three situations in which you are most likely to pray?

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      What is the nature of your most common prayers?

      ____ God, I made a mistake. Please forgive me.

      ____ God, this is a big deal. Please help me.

      ____ God, someone is sick. Please heal him or her.

      ____ God, I can’t make up my mind. Please guide me.

      There was a time when prayer was one of the first things we heard in public schools, civic organization meetings, high school football games, and government meetings. Public prayer still takes place in some situations, but in many places it has been replaced with a moment of silence.

      However, no one can

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