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Question Q. What is prayer? of the Westminster Larger Catechism

Question Q. What is prayer? of the Westminster Larger Catechism - answer with proof texts
Q. 178. Q. What is prayer?
A. Prayer is an offering up of our desires unto God, in the name of Christ, by the help of his Spirit; with confession of our sins, and thankful acknowledgment of his mercies.
  • Psalms 62:8.
  • John 16:23.
  • Romans 8:26.
  • Psalms 32:5,6.
  • Daniel 9:4.
  • Philippians 4:6.

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Question Q. What is prayer? of the Westminster Larger Catechism

Question Q. What is prayer? of the Westminster Larger Catechism - answer with proof texts
  1. Q. Is any man able perfectly to keep the commandments of God?
  2. Q. Are all transgressions of the law of God equally heinous in themselves, and in the sight of God?
  3. Q. What are those aggravations that make some sins more heinous than others?
  4. Q. What doth every sin deserve at the hands of God?
  5. Q. What doth God require of us, that we may escape his wrath and curse due to us by reason of the transgression of the law?
  6. Q. What are the outward means whereby Christ communicates to us the benefits of his mediation?
  7. Q. How is the Word made effectual to salvation?
  8. Q. Is the Word of God to be read by all?
  9. Q. How is the Word of God to be read?
  10. Q. By whom is the Word of God to be preached?
  11. Q. How is the Word of God to be preached by those that are called thereunto?
  12. Q. What is required of those that hear the Word preached?
  13. Q. How do the Sacraments become effectual means of salvation?
  14. Q. What is a Sacrament?
  15. Q. What are the parts of a Sacrament?
  16. Q. How many Sacraments hath Christ instituted in his Church under the New Testament?
  17. Q. What is Baptism?
  18. Q. Unto whom is Baptism to be administered?
  19. Q. How is our Baptism to be improved by us?
  20. Q. What is the Lord's Supper?
  21. Q. How hath Christ appointed bread and wine to be given and received in the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper?
  22. Q. How do they that worthily communicate in the Lord's Supper feed upon the body and blood of Christ therein?
  23. Q. How are they that receive the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper to prepare themselves before they come unto it?
  24. Q. May one who doubteth of his being in Christ, or of his due preparation, come to the Lord's Supper?
  25. Q. May any who profess the faith, and desire to come to the Lord's Supper, be kept from it?
  26. Q. What is required of them that receive the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper in the time of the administration of it?
  27. Q. What is the duty of Christians, after they have received the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper?
  28. Q. Wherein do the Sacraments of Baptism and the Lord's Supper agree?
  29. Q. Wherein do the Sacraments of Baptism and the Lord's Supper differ?
  30. Q. What is prayer?
  31. Q. Are we to pray unto God only?
  32. Q. What is it to pray in the name of Christ?
  33. Q. Why are we to pray in the name of Christ?
  34. Q. How doth the Spirit help us to pray?
  35. Q. For whom are we to pray?
  36. Q. For what things are we to pray?
  37. Q. How are we to pray?
  38. Q. What rule hath God given for our direction in the duty of prayer?
  39. Q. How is the Lord's Prayer to be used?
  40. Q. Of how many parts doth the Lord's prayer consist?
  41. Q. What doth the preface of the Lord's prayer teach us?
  42. Q. What do we pray for in the first petition?
  43. Q. What do we pray for in the second petition?
  44. Q. What do we pray for in the third petition?
  45. Q. What do we pray for in the fourth petition?
  46. Q. What do we pray for in the fifth petition?
  47. Q. What do we pray for in the sixth petition?
  48. Q. What doth the conclusion of the Lord's Prayer teach us?