41.20 Teaching Helps on Prayer

The general issues which a good study on prayer will treat, exposit, and explain are the following:

1. What is prayer?
2. What words are used for prayer in the Bible and what particular meaning and additional understanding do they bring us?
3. How does prayer relate with confession of sin, thanksgiving, praise, worship, etc?
4. How do we pray?
5. What is the proper form for prayer?
6. What are the proper positions, places, and times of prayer?
7. What are the biblical examples of prayer?
8. What are the biblical requirements of prayer?
9. What is the improper form for prayer?
10. To whom should we pray?
11. Why should we pray? What is the biblical obligation for us to pray?
12. What are the hindrances to prayer?
13. What are the problems in prayer?
14. Why are our prayers not answered?
15. What are the object of prayer? What should we pray for?
16. What are the secrets of prayer?
17. How does prayer interface with our devotional life?

Very Important Subpoints

1. We must pray in accordance with God's will. If this is true, then, How do I discern the will of God?
2. We are at once to pray only in God's will, and also at the same time to pray in an opportune way (insisting). Where should importunity stop and the resting in a "no" answer begin?