Women of Grace Fall Semester ‘03

With the Master in the Upper Room

Homework for Lesson Seven: John 14:13, 14

The Method, the Motive
and the Miracle of Prayer

Your Homework is Not Only to Sharpen Your Understanding of the Bible but a Ministry to Others in Your Small Groups! Be Faithful to Give Careful Thought to Each Answer with the Expectation of Sharing with Others What You have Discovered.

 

Memory Work-John 14:13

1) Read John 14:13, 14. (a) What are the profound statements that Jesus makes in these two verses regarding prayer?

 

 

 

 

 

 

(b) What should be our motives as we pray, according to these verses?

 

 

 

 

 

 

2) Read Matthew 6:5-13. (a) Contrast the way the hypocrites pray with the way believers pray.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(b) How do the requests in the Lord's Prayer (Matt. 6:9-13) glorify the Father?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3) Read and examine Daniel's prayer in Daniel chapter nine.

(a) How does his prayer glorify the Father?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(b) How does his prayer compare with some of the prayers we hear today?

 

 

 

 

 

4) Read Luke 1:26-56.

(a) Did Mary pray "in His name?" (vs. 38)

 

 

(b) How did her prayer glorify the Father?

 

 

 

 

(c) What was the result of Mary's submission to God's will? (See Luke 2:1-14)

 

 

 

 

 

5) (a) What do you think it means to pray "in My name?" (John 14:13,14)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(b) How are these verses taken out of context?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(c) How can you use I Timothy 6:6-11 to admonish those who use John 14:13, 14 as verses to ask for worldly desires?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6) Examine your prayer life this week.

(a) How do you think your prayers glorify the Father?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(b) Do you pray for selfish desires, or do your prayers concern Christ and His kingdom?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7) Come prepared with a prayer request that will glorify the Lord!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Come with a request so that we might pray for you.