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- Learning to want what God wants can happen through the primary and urgent matter of communicating with God.
- 1 Timothy 2:1-4 through Supplications, Prayers, Intercessions, Thanksgivings
- εὐχαριστία (yoo-khar-is-tee'-ah) thankfulness, the giving of thanks (Remeber Phil 4:6 & Col 4:2)
- An attitude of gratitude - the blessing and benefits of thankfulness.
- Thankfulness is something even unbelievers value and practice.
- Most common prayer entry point
- Can you think of a time someone didn’t open a prayer with “Thank you God for…” or some version of that?
- Consider your practice of thankfulness in prayer.
- We thank God for circumstances
- We thank God for His goodness
- We thank God for people
- Thanksgivings for ALL PEOPLE?
- How hard would it be to make a list of people for whom you are not thankful?
- How would you offer prayers of thanksgiving for them?
- Prolepsis: what is it
- Genesis 20:3 - “you’re dead!” מוּת (mooth)
- Isaiah 65:8 - “new wine” in the grape cluster
- Luke 1:68-70 - “he has visited” and “has raised up” - note verb mood - indicative (a done deal before Jesus is even born)
- 2 Timothy 1:10 - “abolished death” - καταργέω (katargeō)
- to cause a person or thing to have no further efficiency
- to deprive of force, influence, power
- to cause to cease, put an end to, do away with
- Proleptic Gratitude
- Present subjunctive - “so that we can live peaceful and quiet lives marked by godliness and dignity” (1 Tim 2:2)
- Verb mood - Is the mood of possibility and potentiality. The action described may or may not occur, depending upon circumstances. (see Gen 20:3)
- Can you give thanks then for what God has already done in the future?
- Imagine how praying this way would change YOU
- Put prayers of proleptic gratitude in the context of the previous 3 forms of prayer.
- Look around at the needs, and ask God to act
- Look up and listen to what God has to say to you about your requests
- Look in and see how God needs to conform your heart to His own
- Look ahead at what God is able to do. Let God open your eyes to what He is capable of doing. Then give thanks for that.
- Present subjunctive - “so that we can live peaceful and quiet lives marked by godliness and dignity” (1 Tim 2:2)
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