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This sermon today will finish up this short series on Prayer...
Though I hope your prayer life doesn’t slow or cease due to us now closing out this series...
As just a quick recap to look back at what we’ve seen so far...
We’ve seen that Prayer is - first of all...
A Privilege Bought with Blood…the blood of Jesus Christ!
see, when Christ died on the cross for our sins...
He not only purchased our FORGIVENESS…but He also purchased our DIRECT access to the Father…!
(**the temple veil that tore)
And that ACCESS to God - a GIFT to us - given to us at the cost of the Son of God’s life...
SO THINK of the VALUE of this thing called PRAYER...
The price tag on it - reads - The Blood of Jesus!
We also saw that Prayer is...
Personal COMMUNION with God...
ONLY THOSE who BELIEVE in Jesus Christ have access to God’s ear in prayer...
AND SO - prayer is - PERSONAL!!
God delights to hear from - YOU...
He WANTS to hear from you...
*As a parent - are you satisfied in only hearing from your kids teacher about how school is going?
OR - do you LONG to hear from your child?
You WANT to hear from them!!
God WANTS to hear from you - not just your pastor or spouse...
Only IN Jesus Christ do we have access to God’s ear...
And so we saw that - NOT ALL Prayer is created equal...
God hears the prayers of those who are His...
And so - What a PRIVILEGE we have - the creator of the universe HEARS us!!
We’ve ALSO SEEN how much of an IMPACT our prayers have and WILL have in God’s story of REDEMPTION!!
As we saw last week - From Scripture - that our prayers will USHER in the coming victory of God - in Jesus Christ!
That our prayers will all CULMINATE into the return of Jesus Christ!
And so - WOW - what a POWERFUL tool we have at our disposal!
WHICH BRINGS me to the cards on your seat this morning...
**The cards on your seat are for you to fill out…and turn back into us… (offering boxes)
They’re simply for you to fill out - write down things that you HOPE WOULD COME TO PASS…!
Whatever it is - as CRAZY as it may seem...
We serve a God who is - ABLE!
And so after you turn them in - we’ll end up redistributing them back out to different people in the congregation...
With the hope being that put these on our...
refrigerators...
in our cars…wherever we’ll be able to see them - and PRAY for them - with your FAMILIES...
throughout this year!
And speaking of FAMILIES - this doesn’t just end with us - The kids in their classes today will be getting these same cards…to fill out
And so - throughout this summer - at our gatherings, we’ll pray over these things...
And then NEXT MAY - when we revisit this topic of prayer again - We’ll have some great testimonies of us - GETTING ON OUR KNEES and pleading...
SO - we have a challenge today!
Before YOU LEAVE today- get these filled out.
If you walk out these doors today without doing so, will you get to it?
Ok - now - Having this challenge before us...
KNOWING - WHAT prayer is
KNOWING - WHY to pray...
It would be helpful to know - HOW do we pray...
If we want to please the Lord in our prayer life - we need to know - HOW to pray...
Which brings us to our sermon today...
Today we’re going to see that God-Honoring prayer is done -
in the Spirit
in the closet
in confidence!
And so we’ll be jumping around Scripture to see these truths…so let’s begin!
SLIDE: God-Honoring Prayer Happens: In the Spirit
God-Honoring Prayer Happens
So what does this mean?
We’ve heard this phrase before have we not? - In the Spirit
And we actually heard it not too long ago in the Gospel of John...
Remember the woman at the well...
What did Jesus tell her?
ONLY - in the Spirit can God be worshiped!
It’s one thing to MERELY proclaim FACTS about God - to God...
It’s ANOTHER thing to do so - in the Spirit...
When a person is AWAKENED to Christ and puts his faith in Christ...
The Holy Spirit comes and lives in that believer....
Now - what does the Spirit do?
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The indwelling Spirit comes to a soul dead in sin and creates new life (Titus 3:5).
2. The indwelling Spirit confirms to the believer that he belongs to the Lord and is an heir of God and fellow-heir with Christ (Romans 8:15–17).
3. The indwelling Spirit gives spiritual gifts (God-given abilities for service) to the believer to edify the church and serve the Lord effectively for His glory (1 Corinthians 12:11).
4. The indwelling Spirit helps the believer understand and apply the Scripture to his daily life (1 Corinthians 2:12).
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The indwelling Holy Spirit empowers the yielded believer to live for Christ to do His will (Galatians 5:16)
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And lastly…the Spirit helps us with our prayer life...
NOW - lest we think that the Spirit only helps us - SOMETIMES....when it comes to prayer...
Listen to this...
Do you see how VITAL the Spirit is - when it comes to our PRAYER life...
This here says...
If you have the Spirit inside you....and you are speaking IN THE SPIRIT - NO ONE - WHO HAS THE SPIRIT -
would ever say - AND MEAN - Jesus is accursed!
ALSO - NO ONE can say - Jesus is Lord (and MEAN it) - UNLESS they speak in the Spirit!!
So this means that - to pray in the Spirit - it means to be speaking...
…UNDER THE GUIDANCE of the Holy Spirit
FUELED by the Holy Spirit
HELPED by the Holy Spirit
AND think this thru - If the Holy Spirit helps us to UNDERSTAND the scriptures...
then if I want to GLORIFY God in my prayer life- I will - MOST DEFINITELY - need to pursue Christ in the Word of God...
Do you see the connection?
I CANNOT ignore God’s WORD - and still GLORIFY God in my prayer life
SLIDE:
I cannot ignore God’s Word, and still glorify God in my prayer life
And this is why your PRAYER LIFE - needs work.
It needs to be cultivated.
The SEED of Prayer cannot grow apart from the fertile soil of God’s Word.
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The seed of prayer cannot grow apart from the fertile soil of God’s Word.
SO NOT ONLY do we pursue prayer - in the Spirit...
But we also honor God through prayer - in the closet.
SLIDE: God-Honoring Prayer Happens: In the Closet
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