He was praying in a certain place, and when he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples.”
Luke 11:1 (CSB)
1. We are to pray personally.
5 For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus.
1 Tim. 2:5 (CSB)
7 When you pray, don’t babble like the Gentiles, since they imagine they’ll be heard for their many words.
Matt. 6:7 (CSB)
2. We are to pray boldly.
5 He also said to them, “Suppose one of you has a friend and goes to him at midnight and says to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread, 6 because a friend of mine on a journey has come to me, and I don’t have anything to offer him.’
Luke 11:5-6 (CSB)
7 Then he will answer from inside and say, ‘Don’t bother me! The door is already locked, and my children and I have gone to bed. I can’t get up to give you anything.’
Luke 11:7 (ESV)
8 I tell you, even though he won’t get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his friend’s shameless boldness, he will get up and give him as much as he needs.
Luke 11:8 (CSB)
2 You desire and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and wage war. You do not have because you do not ask.
James 4:2 (CSB)
3. We are to pray expectantly.
9 “So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and the door will be opened to you. 10 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.
Luke 11:9-10 (CSB)
7 If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you want and it will be done for you.
John 15:7 (CSB)
11 What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead of a fish? 12 Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? 13 If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”
Luke 11:11-13 (CSB)
6 But let him ask in faith without doubting. For the doubter is like the surging sea, driven and tossed by the wind. 7 That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord
James 1:6-7 (CSB)