Prayer (2)
Dane Aaker
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PRAYER
Guest Speaker: Dane Aaker
1 Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up. 2 He said: “In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared what people thought. 3 And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, ‘Grant me justice against my adversary.’ 4 “For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, ‘Even though I don’t fear God or care what people think, 5 yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won’t eventually come and attack me!’ ” 6 And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unjust judge says. 7 And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? 8 I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”
1 Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up.
Slide: George Mueller (late 1800's).
2 He said: “In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared what people thought. 3 And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, ‘Grant me justice against my adversary.’
4 “For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, ‘Even though I don’t fear God or care what people think, 5 yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won’t eventually come and attack me!’ ”
Slide: James J. Corbett (https://www.britannica.com/biography/James-J-Corbett)
6 And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unjust judge says. 7 And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? 8 I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”
Leon Morris - “If a wicked man will do good even from bad motives how much more will God do right.”
William Barclay - “If in the end an unjust judge can be wearied into giving a widow woman justice how much more will God who is a loving father give his children what they need.”
1 Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up.
5 Then Jesus said to them, “Suppose you have a friend, and you go to him at midnight and say, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread; 6 a friend of mine on a journey has come to me, and I have no food to offer him.’ 7 And suppose the one inside answers, ‘Don’t bother me. The door is already locked, and my children and I are in bed. I can’t get up and give you anything.’ 8 I tell you, even though he will not get up and give you the bread because of friendship, yet because of your shameless audacity he will surely get up and give you as much as you need.
“It isn’t the brassiness of a smart aleck making demands, but the forwardness of a person who is so taken with an awareness of need that he abandons normal protocol.” - Jack Hayford
1 See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
9 “So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 10 For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. 11 “Which of you fathers, if your son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead? 12 Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? 13 If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”
15 The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are attentive to their cry;
3 In the morning, Lord, you hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait expectantly.
20 Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, 21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.
Bill Johnson "I can’t live knowing that certain things are possible in a human life and not pursue them. I cannot stand by and say, ‘Oh, that’s for somebody else.’ Not if God says it is possible to step into greater works. Not if it is possible to see nations discipled. Not if it is possible to have words become reality, and to raise the dead and see things transformed that are absolute impossibilities. I cannot stand by and realize that it is possible but decide it’s just not for me. No."
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Ending Song: Battle Belongs / Phil Wickham