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    Lord, Teach Us to Pray: How to Have a Daily Quiet Time Alone with God
    Lord, Teach Us to Pray: How to Have a Daily Quiet Time Alone with God
    Lord, Teach Us to Pray: How to Have a Daily Quiet Time Alone with God
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    Lord, Teach Us to Pray: How to Have a Daily Quiet Time Alone with God

    By Rev. John S. Mahon

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    Lord, Teach Us to Pray provides a concise and easy to follow step-by-step program for developing a scripturally-based prayer life. It will be useful for individuals, for small groups, for home group Bible study, or for a church-wide emphasis on prayer. It can be a devotional guide or a tool for small group Bible study. It is a conservative, biblically-based approach to prayer and offers a valid alternative in the areas of meditation and prayer to the current mystical trends prevalent in some churches.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWestBow Press
    Release dateMar 23, 2015
    ISBN9781490869148
    Lord, Teach Us to Pray: How to Have a Daily Quiet Time Alone with God
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    Rev. John S. Mahon

    Rev. Mahon is the founding director of Grace Community International (www.gciweb.org). He has spoken on the disciplines of prayer and the personal devotional life in over 27 countries. He has an education degree from the University of Texas and a Master’s Degree from Moody Bible Graduate School. He has served as a college director for the Navigators as well as on their National Mission Team. He has, in addition, served in several pastoral positions. He is currently the visiting Professor of Pastoral Theology at the Reformed Seminary in St. Petersburg, Russia. He ministers extensively with Reformed Baptist, Reformed Presbyterian, The Navigators, and Campus Crusade for Christ, as well as a number of other conservative evangelical churches, graduate schools, and organizations. As of this printing, he has been married 39 years and has four children and nine grandchildren. All of his children have strong Christian testimonies, are active in local churches, and were brought up having a daily quiet time alone with God.

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      Lord, Teach Us to Pray - Rev. John S. Mahon

      Copyright © 2015 Rev. John S. Mahon.

      Author photo used by permission from Tom Bailey Photography

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      Scripture taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE®, Copyright © 1960,1962,1963,1968,1971,1972,1973,1975,1977,1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4908-6913-1 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4908-6914-8 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2015902107

      WestBow Press rev. date: 03/12/2015

      Contents

      Dedication

      Preface

      Acknowledgments

      Starting The Journey

      Chapter 1 Introduction To The Daily Quiet Time Alone With God

      Chapter 2 How To Pray

      Spiritual Disciplines Of Prayer

      Chapter 3 Adoration

      Chapter 4 Confession

      Chapter 5 Thanksgiving

      Chapter 6 Supplication

      Chapter 7 Intercession

      Chapter 8 Spiritual Warfare

      Moving Forward

      Chapter 9 From Project To Lifestyle

      Chapter 10 Developing A Personal Prayer Notebook

      Appendix

      Convictions In Prayer

      Applications For Personal Discipleship

      Personal Or Family Needs

      Family And Friends

      Ministry Fantasies

      Unbelievers

      Victory In Spiritual Warfare

      Adoration

      Confession

      Thanksgiving

      Supplication

      Intercession

      Spiritual Warfare

      The Prayer Hand Illustration

      Additional Resources

      DEDICATION

      This workbook is dedicated to Sam Clark—missionary, friend, spiritual mentor, and godfather to my son (after whom he is named). By this faithful man’s guidance and influence, I became convinced of the practice of the daily quiet time alone with God.

      PREFACE

      This workbook is designed to aid the follower of Christ’s growth through the introduction of a daily quiet time alone with God. Beginning with the simple disciplines of prayer and meditation upon God’s Word, this workbook prepares disciples to develop their own prayer notebooks based upon a deeper dependence upon God and understanding of His character as it relates to prayer. I am convinced that laying the foundation for discipleship begins with practicing the daily quiet time alone with God. In my experience, although only about one in ten individuals involved in Bible study go on to be disciple-makers, a full 50 percent of persons who give themselves to the discipline of the daily quiet time alone with God fulfill Christ’s calling to go and make disciples.

      Consequently, I hope that in mastering this discipline of time alone with God, you experience not only growth as a disciple but become equipped with a skill by which you commit to disciple others. Not everyone has the gift of teaching; not everyone has the gift of leadership; not everyone has been called to pastor a church; but everyone can disciple another Christian.

      The daily quiet time alone with God serves as the beginning of this discipleship process. I leave this workbook with you with the solemn exhortation that I penned these words, not solely for your benefit, but also for the benefit of that man or woman whom you begin to disciple through the discipline of the daily quiet time alone with God.

      By His mercy,

      Rev. John S. Mahon

      2 Corinthians 4:1

      Director, Grace Community International

      January 2015

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      The Lord, Teach Us to Pray workbook has undergone many revisions over the years. A special thanks to Charles Casebolt, Navigator representative at the University of Texas at Austin, who first taught me the philosophy of personal discipleship. Additionally, I am indebted to Navigator missionary and statesman, John Crawford, for the motivation and encouragement to put my

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