PRAYER IS FOR GIVING THANKS:

Giving thanks to God for all things in your life. We are commanded to give thanks in all circumstances. Being thankful is being grateful for his protection, provision, blessing, and most of all for his Son.

PRAYER IS FOR MAKING PETITIONS:

We ask God for the things we need in our life. Give us our daily bread. Give us the things we need to survive, a roof over our heads, employment etc. Petitions are usually self orientated, presenting our personal needs to our Heavenly Father, in trust that He will provide.

PREVAILING PRAYER IS CONSISTENT AND REGULAR PRAYER:
Prevailing Prayer - fervent consistent insistent prayer until a breakthrough takes place, whether in your personal life, or for someone else

(intercession). Example Believing for emotional or physical healing.

Biblical Example: Luke 18:1/8. Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up.He said: "In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared about men. And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, `Grant me justice against my adversary.´ "For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, `Even though I don´t fear God or care about men, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won´t eventually wear me out with her coming!´" And the Lord said, "Listen to what the unjust judge says. And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?"

PRAYER OF INTERCESSION:

- Love on its knees in prayer, for others. Pleading on behalf of the needs of someone else. Standing in the gap, that is, praying prayers of repentance, etc.,

identifying yourself with the sins of those for which you are in prayer.

Biblical Example: Nehemiah, a godly man, identified with the sins of his people, praying prayers of repentance, asking the Lord to forgive and to have mercy and to raise up once again the nation of Israel.

Neh. 1:3 They said to me, "Those who survived the exile and are back in the province are in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates have been burned with fire." When I heard these things, I sat down and wept. For some days I mourned and fasted and prayed before the God of heaven.

Then I said: "O LORD, God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who keeps his covenant of love with those who love him and obey his commands, let your ear be attentive and your eyes open to hear the prayer your servant is praying before you day and night for your servants, the people of Israel.

I confess the sins we Israelites, including myself and my father's house, have committed against you. We have acted very wickedly toward you. We have not obeyed the commands, decrees and laws you gave your servant Moses. "Remember the instruction you gave your servant Moses, saying, `If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations, but if you return to me and obey my commands, then even if your exiled people are at the farthest horizon, I will gather them and bring them to the place I have chosen as a dwelling for my Name.´

"They are your servants and your people, whom you redeemed by your great strength and your mighty hand. O Lord, let your ear be attentive to the prayer of this your servant and to the prayer of your servants who delight in revering your name. Give your servant success today by granting him favor in the presence of this man."

OH YES MANKIND HAS BEEN PRAYING FOR OTHERS AND THEMSELVES FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS,WITH MANY GREAT RESULTS: SO SUPPOSE WE THINK OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST AND SOME OF HIS PRAYERS WHILE HERE ON EARTH:

MATTHEW
11/25
At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.

11/26
Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight.

MATTHEW
19/13
Then were there brought unto him little children, that he should put his hands on them, and pray: and the disciples rebuked them.

19/14
But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.

LUKE:
11/1
And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.

11/2
And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth.

11/3
Give us day by day our daily bread.

11/4
And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil.

1 CORINTHIANS:
11/23
For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread:

11/24
And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.

11/25
After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.

11/26
For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.

11/27
Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.

11/28
But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.

11/29
For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.

HEBREWS:
5/7
Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;

5/8
Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;

5/9
And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;

YES JESUS WAS A MAN OF PRAYER:

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