Last week Sunday we started our 21 Days of Prayer as a church. Our goal each week is to encourage you and your family to strengthen your prayer muscle through:

• Read and studying the scripture on prayer
• Planning a time to spend in prayer
• And learning to listen to the voice of God

The key verse for our 21 Days of Prayer is found in:

1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 ^NLT
Always be joyful. Never stop praying. Be thankful in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you who belong to Christ Jesus.

This month series is called PRAY LIKE JESUS based on the Lord’s Prayer from Matthew 6:9-13. Let’s begin today by reading this Model Prayer aloud together:

Matthew 6:9-13 ^NKJV
9 In this manner, therefore, pray:
Our Father in heaven,
Hallowed be Your name.
10 Your kingdom come.
Your will be done
On earth as it is in heaven.
11 Give us this day our daily bread.
12 And forgive us our debts,
As we forgive our debtors.
13 And do not lead us into temptation,
But deliver us from the evil one.
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.

His names have meaning, which acknowledge one of many characteristics of who he is and our relationship to him.

God is My Righteousness (Jer. 23:6)
God is My Sanctifier (Lev. 20:7-8)
God is My Healer (Exodus 15:26)
God is My Provider (Gen. 22:14)
God is My Banner of Victory (Ex. 17:15)
God is My Peace (Judges 6:24)
God is My Shepherd (Ps. 23:1)
God is Always There (Ez. 48:35)

Exodus 3:5 ^NLT
5 “Do not come any closer,” the Lord warned. “Take off your sandals, for you are standing on holy ground.

Exodus 3:14 ^NLT
God replied to Moses, "I Am Who I Am. Say this to the people of Israel: I Am has sent me to you.".

Exodus 17:15 ^NLT
Moses built an altar there and named it Yahweh-Nissi (which means “the
LORD is my banner”).

Mark 4:37-39 ^KJV
37  And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full. 38  And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish? 39  And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And thewind ceased, and there was a great calm.