Ideas for a bible study series

Someone told me the other day that the last thing you should speak about at a prayer meeting is prayer - it will surely make everyone feel as though they aren't able to pray properly, and discourage prayer within the meeting. This suggestion inspired the following outline for the first of a series of meetings:

Prayer Meeting 1: Pray first, ask questions later

Romans 8v26: 'Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.'

1. We do not know what to pray for as we ought, and that is ok.

2. It is ok because we are made acceptable prayer offerers by the work of Christ, and our prayers are made acceptable offerings by the intercession of the Spirit.

3. This freedom, which allows us to pray as we ought not to, should inspire us to pray more as we ought.

The aim of this outline is to encourage people to 'pray first, and ask questions later'. In other words, we pray because of the work of Christ and the Spirit, not because of our work studying the bible to learn about prayer. However, while we 'pray without ceasing', we strive to learn more about prayer because we wish to be more like Christ, the perfect prayer offerer.