2/9/2015 Matthew 6:7, NLT When you pray, don't babble on and on as - PDF document

2/9/2015 Matthew 6:7, NLT When you pray, don't babble on and on as people of other religions do. They think their prayers are answered merely by repeating their words again and again. 1

2/9/2015 Matthew 26:44, NLT So [Jesus] went to pray a third time, saying the same things again. Matthew 7:7, NLT Keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you. This, then, is HOW you should pray…pray LIKE this… Matthew 6:9, NIV & NLT Our Father in heaven… Matthew 6:9, NIV 2

2/9/2015 Matthew 7:9-11 & [Luke 11:12], NLT You parents—if your children ask for a loaf of bread, do you give them a stone instead? Or if they ask for a fish, do you give them a snake? [Or if they ask for an egg, do you give them a scorpion?] Of course not! So if you sinful people know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good gifts to those who ask him. …for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. Matthew 6:8, NIV Keep on asking… Matthew 7:7, NLT 3

2/9/2015 Galatians 4:4-6, NIV But when the right time came, God sent his Son…so that he could adopt us as his very own children. And because we are his children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, prompting us to call out, "Abba, Father." John 1:12, NIV Yet to all who did receive [Jesus], to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become the children of God. 4