LESSON 09

Come Near God for Prayer

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You don ever feel say you need person to guide you for your life? You get some important questions wey you go like get the answer? You need comfort or you need to know say person de care for you? You go like dey near Jehovah? Prayer go fit help you with all this things. But wetin be the correct way to pray? God de listen to the prayers of everybody? Wetin you fit do to make sure say God go listen to your prayers? Make we see.

1. Who we suppose pray to, and wetin we fit pray about?

Jesus teach say make we pray only to our Papa for heaven. Even Jesus pray to Jehovah. E talk say: “Make wuna de pray like this: ‘Our Father for heaven . . . ’” (Matthew 6:9) When we pray to Jehovah, e go make us be e tight friends.

We fit pray to Jehovah about anything. If we want make God answer us, our prayer must agree with wetin e want. “Anything wey we beg God and the thing na wetin [God] want, e go answer.” (1 John 5:14) Jesus give examples of correct things to pray for. (Read Matthew 6:9-13.) As we de pray, make we no forget to thank God for wetin e don do for us and still beg God to help other people.

2. How we suppose pray?

Bible talk say “make [we] pour [our] heart to God.” (Psalm 62:8) So make our prayers come from our heart. When we de pray, our voice fit come out, or we fit pray for our mind. Whether we kneel down, or sit down or stand up, when we de pray, make e show respect for God. We fit pray anytime and for any place.

3. How God de answer our prayers?

E de answer our prayers for different-different ways. Jehovah don give us Bible to answer our questions. When person de read Bible e fit “make person get sense when e no know something.” (Psalm 19:7; read James 1:5.) God de give us peace of mind when we de face problems. And e fit use e servants help us when we need help.

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Learn how you fit pray from your heart for way wey God go like, and see how you fit gain when you pray.

4. God get how e want make we pray

Wetin go make God accept our prayers? Play the VIDEO.

VIDEO: God De Hear All Prayers?—Small Part (2:42)

Jehovah want make we pray to-am. Read Psalm 65:2, and talk about this questions:

As God de hear prayer, you think say e want make you pray to-am? Why you answer like that?

We must live our life for the way God want if we want make e answer our prayer. Read Micah 3:4 and 1 Peter 3:12, and talk about this question:

Wetin we fit do if we want make Jehovah listen to our prayer?

When war dey, the two sides fit de pray to win. E make sense to think say God go answer this prayers?

5. Make we tell Jehovah how we de really feel when we de pray

They don teach some people say when them de pray make them de repeat the same prayer again and again. But na so God want make we de pray? Read Matthew 6:7, and talk about this question:

How you fit pray so that you no go de talk “the same things again and again”?

Everyday, you fit think of one thing wey Jehovah don do for you and thank Jehovah for that thing. Do this one everyday for one week, and you go see say for that week you go don pray about seven different topics and you no repeat the prayer.

Better papa go want make e pikin talk how e de really feel. Na so Jehovah be, e want make we pray from our heart

6. Prayer na gift from God

How prayer fit help us especially when we de face problems? Play the VIDEO.

VIDEO: Prayer De Help Us Endure When We De Face Problems (1:32)

Bible tell us say prayer fit help us get real peace of mind. Read Philippians 4:6, 7, and talk about this questions:

Na true say sometimes prayer no go remove our problems, but how prayer de help us?
Wetin be some things wey you go like to pray about?

You Know?

“Amen” mean “make e be so” or “I agree.” Na since the time wey them de write Bible they don de use “amen” to end prayer.—1 Chronicles 16:36.

7. De always find time to pray

Sometimes we dey busy sotey we de forget to pray. How important prayer be to Jesus when e dey this earth? Read Matthew 14:23 and Mark 1:35, and talk about this questions: