Nonstop

1 Thessalonians 5:17  What does it mean?             *Carry a spirit of complete dependence upon God.                                  *Engage in a continuous conversation with God.              *Never give up praying.                         Why is this hard?             *Because we are busy.                     *Because we can be lazy.             *Because it is a learned behavior.             How can we do this?             *By the grace of God.                                     *With the Spirit of God.                         1.      1 Thessalonians 5:17             Pray without ceasing.  (ESV)             Pray constantly.  (HCSB)             Pray continually.  (NIV)             Pray all the time.  (Message)             Never stop praying.  (NLT, NIRV)   2.      Daniel 6:10 (ESV). 3.      Luke 18:1 (ESV) 4.      Luke 11:1 (ESV) 5.       “One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.” --John Piper 6.       Romans 8:26-27 7.       Ephesians 6:17-18