INTENTIONAL DISCIPLESHIP SOL LEVEL 1 Lesson Plan Class: 04

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1 INTENTIONAL DISCIPLESHIP SOL LEVEL 1 Lesson Plan I. CLASS OBJECTIVES The objectives of this class are: 1. Understand what prayer is. 2. Learn how to pray. 3. Learn the different types of prayer. II. INTRODUCTION 1. Introduce Yourself 2. Name and connection in the G12 Strategy 3. Introduce your class assistant III. Student Icebreaker 1. Break your class into pairs (groups of two). 2. Have them introduce themselves to their partner and answer the following question: What have you done that you previously didn t think you could do? IV. INSTRUCTORS NOTE** When you are preparing your lesson please use personal examples as well as illustrations that will enhance your message and get the point across to the students. Read the class objectives and prepare to answer and minister to the students accordingly. This is not a Sunday school but a class that brings healing, deliverance, ministry to their needs and instruction while casting vision for their personal and ministerial lives.

2 V. LESSON: PRAYER Prayer is simply communicating with God. Communication is always two ways. Listening and speaking. When we pray to God we are communicating by listening and speaking to Him. Some of us feel inadequate to spend time with God because we don t know what to do or if we are doing the right thing. God is more interested in what s in our heart and about our lives than if we are following a list of things that we should or should not do in prayer. God desires to spend time with us. He longs for us to be with Him in His presence and give Him our heart. He wants to reveal to us His plan for every area of our life for every situation and circumstance. Jeremiah 33:3 (AMP) Call to Me and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things, fenced in and hidden, which you do not know (do not distinguish and recognize, have knowledge of and understand). 1. Enter into His presence. Jesus has made a way for us to have access to our Heavenly Father. We shouldn t feel condemned or guilty to approach a loving God, especially when He made a way. Hebrews 10:19, 20 (CEV) 19 My friends, the blood of Jesus gives us courage to enter the most holy place 20 by a new way that leads to life! And this way takes us through the curtain that is Christ himself. 2. Finding help in our time of need. Everyone in this world needs some type of assistance that only God can provide, whether that is to heal you in your body or for your daily provisions to carry out the will of the Lord in your life. God s grace (unmerited favor) is available at His throne. Hebrews 4:16 (NKJV) Let us therefore come boldly to the throne find grace to help in time of need. Pre SOL LEVEL 1 Page 2 of 5

3 A. How to Pray? i. The key to answered prayer is praying in the name of Jesus. When we pray in the name of Jesus we are acknowledging that He is Lord and that we don t come in our own authority but by the authority of that name, the name of Jesus. John 14:13-14 (NKJV) And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything in My name, I will do it. ii. We pray to our Heavenly Father in the name of Jesus. We don t pray to Jesus or the Holy Spirit. Jesus instructs us to pray to our Father in Jesus name so our joy may be full. John 16:23-24 (NKJV) And in that day you will ask Me nothing. Most assuredly, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in My name He will give you. Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full. B. What is in His name? i. There is authority and power in the name of Jesus because of who He is and what He has done. Philippians 2:8-11 (NKJV) And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross. Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. ii. We have been given permission and the right to use His name. Mark 16:17-18 (NKJV) 17 And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; 18 they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover. Pre SOL LEVEL 1 Page 3 of 5

4 C. Different types of prayers. Ephesians 6:18 (NKJV) Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints The apostle Paul tells us to pray with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit. There are different types of prayers for different situations and needs. i. Prayer of Repentance. As Christians we have come to realize that we are humans and we are not perfect. The bible says that, the goodness of God leads us to repentance. 1 John 1:9 (NKJV) If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. God is faithful to restore us back unto Him when we sin (miss the mark). ii. Prayer of agreement. Matthew 18:19 (NKJV) Again I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven. The prayer of agreement increases the power of God that is released in our prayers. iii. Prayer of faith. Mark 11:22-24 (NKJV) 22 So Jesus answered and said to them, Have faith in God. 23 For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, Be removed and be cast into the sea, and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. 24 Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them. The prayer of faith prays with the end results in mind. We don t pray about the problem but we speak to the problem to come into line with the Word of God (God s promises). The prayer of faith releases God into our situation until our situation conforms to the Word of God. Pre SOL LEVEL 1 Page 4 of 5

5 iv. Praying in other tongues. When we pray in other tongues we pray the perfect will of God, every time! Romans 8:26, 27 (NKJV) 26 Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us ] with groanings which cannot be uttered. 27 Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God. There is a difference between praying in the Spirit and Spirit led prayer. When we pray in the Holy Spirit we are praying in other tongues which our minds cannot understand. When we are led by the Spirit to pray for certain things, we pray in our understanding in how the Spirit of God directs us. v. Prayer of intercession. The prayer of intercession simply means praying on behalf of someone else or a group of people. We can get caught up in life that we only pray for ourselves because of our needs that we have. However, it is our duty to pray for others and on their behalf. God is always looking for someone who will intercede and stand in the gap on another s behalf. Ezekiel 22:30 (NKJV) So I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found no one. Pre SOL LEVEL 1 Page 5 of 5