TALKING WITH GOD

Goal: You learn to talk to God and pray effectively. You make it a habit to pray every day.

Why we talk to God:

📖 Psalm 116:1-2

Jesus explains to his disciples how they should pray. He gives us a "model" of how we can pray.

📖 Matthew 6:5-15

• Discuss the individual sections of the Lord's Prayer and why Jesus probably said it this way.
• Pray together in your own words using this model of prayer. Start talking to Jesus as if he were sitting next to you. Prayer is a personal conversation between you and him, in which you discuss things with him and lay out your concerns before him.

God speaks to us in many different ways. Here is a list of some of them. Tell each other where you have experienced God speaking.

• Through the Bible
• Through sermons
• Through inner images
• Through thoughts
• Through dreams
• Through friends
• Through circumstances
• Through nature
• Through art

What might be the way God most often uses to speak to you?

Prayers out of faith make a difference:

📖 James 5:14-18