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What does prayer look like in your church service?

1 Timothy 2:1. I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and
thanksgiving be made for all people.

Paul reminds Timothy (and us) that God wants us to pray for all people. Not just for our friends and
family and church members – but to pray for all people. Christians and non-Christians (that they
would come to faith in Jesus).
 Paul empathizes this truth four times in 1 Timothy.

1 Timothy 2:1. I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and
thanksgiving be made for all people.
1 Timothy 2:3-4. This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all people to
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be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth.
1 Timothy 2:6. Who gave himself as a ransom for all people.

1 Timothy 2:7. And for this purpose I was appointed a herald and an apostle—I am
telling the truth, I am not lying—and a true and faithful teacher of the Gentiles. … (to
all the nations or to everyone).

We resolve ourselves, and call upon our churches, to take much more seriously
the period of intercession in public worship; to think in terms of ten or fifteen minutes
rather than five; to invite lay people to share in leading, since they often have deep
insight into the world’s needs; and to focus our prayers both on evangelism of the world
(closed lands, resistant people, missionaries, national churches, etc.) and on the quest for
peace and justice in the world (places of tension and conflict, deliverance from war,
rulers and governments, the poor and needy, etc.). We long to see every Christian
congregation bowing down in humble and expectant faith before our sovereign Lord.
The Grand Rapids Report, 1982.

Is this practical?
1 Timothy 2:2. (We pray) … that we may live quiet and peaceful lives in all godliness
and holiness.
Why do you think it is important for God’s people to live quiet and peaceful lives?

What does a quiet and peaceful life look like to you?

4.4 Let’s Practice…

1. Write out the passage that tell us that the Bible is God breathed: (memorize it)

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