how do we pray?
We ask. We do not command. Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. -Matthew 7:7-8
We call. Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you create and hidden things that you have not known.-Jeremiah 33:3 And the Lord came and stood, calling as at other times, “Samuel! Samuel!” And Samuel said, Speak, for your servant hears.-1 Samuel 3:10
Lay our requests before the Lord. O LORD, in the morning you hear my voice; in the morning I prepare a sacrifice for you and watch. -Psalm 5:3
In solitude. And rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he departed and went out to a desolate place, and there he prayed. -Mark 1:35
In community. And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.-Acts 2:42
In the Spirit. Praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication.-Eph 6:18. Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groaning too deep for words. -Romans 8:26
In humility. Because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before God when you heard his words against this place and its inhabitants, and you have humbled yourself before me and have torn your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you, declares the Lord. -2 Chron 34:27
We pray in faith. Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. -Heb. 11:1 For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty and lift up your face to God. You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you, and you will pay your vows. -Job 22:26-27
Laying on of hands. Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. -James 5:14