Prayer: Asking and Receiving

This begins Part Two of John R. Rice’s Prayer: Asking and Receiving, entitled “What to Pray For,” and Chapter 5, “Praying for Daily Bread.” “Give us day by day our daily bread” (Luke 11:3). In this chapter, Mr. Rice encourages us to pray for all of our material needs, and gives a number of examples from

AKA, Chapter 4, The Answer to Prayer is Receiving These are my notes/thoughts from John R. Rice’s Prayer: Asking and Receiving A few years ago, I used to hang out in an online Christian forum. When the forum first began, it was open to many ideas and different viewpoints of the Christian faith. But as it

These are my notes/thoughts from John R. Rice’s Prayer: Asking and Receiving In the last chapter, Mr. Rice emphasized that if it ain’t asking, then it ain’t prayin’ (southern emphasis added). Adoration, thanksgiving, confession are all necessary, but they are not prayer. Prayer is asking, pure and simple. In this chapter, his emphasis is if you

These are my notes/thoughts from John R. Rice’s Prayer: Asking and Receiving. These next two chapters are a couple of my most favorite in this book. These two chapters lay the foundation for the book. In chapter three, Mr. Rice repeats over and over that “Prayer is asking.” Nothing else is prayer. Adoration, Praise, Thanksgiving, Confession,

These are my notes/thoughts from John R. Rice’s Prayer: Asking and Receiving In this chapter, Mr. Rice gives 7 reasons why people should pray, some of which include: We are commanded to pray. It’s the way for Christians to get things fro God. Answered prayer is an argument against unbelief. Prayer, then, is a duty expressly

These are my notes/thoughts from John R. Rice’s Prayer: Asking and Receiving In chapter one, Mr. Rice shows us that the first thing we need to know about prayer is that the One we pray to loves to answer prayer. It’s part of who He is. It’s one of His attributes. The foundation of this chapter