Friends of the Family: Effective Prayer

Pastor Mark Mateer

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” —Isaiah 55:8-9

If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. —John 15:7

“If you cling to your life, you will lose it; but if you give it up for me, you will save it.” —Matthew 10:39

27  “Now my soul is deeply troubled. Should I pray, ‘Father, save me from this hour’? But this is the very reason I came! 28  Father, bring glory to your name.” —John 12:27-28

When the disciples saw him walking on the lake, they were terrified. “It’s a ghost”, they said, and cried out in fear. —Matthew 14:26

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But as for me, I watch in hope for the Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear me. —Micah 7:7