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The Power of a Plan
Example of wandering into an area of life that we are unprepared for and having a guide to walk you through.
(Retirement plan, diet plan, sewing pattern)
Raw materials (finances, ingredients, lumber, thread) get organized into something of use.
People get organized, too.
Coaches turn around teams.
Two factors:
Organizing resources toward a purpose
Overcoming obstacles
Hedgerows of Normandy
Our lives have the most impact under God’s plan.
How do we follow God’s plan?
Stay active in prayer.
Easy to skip over
We know we should; most of us don’t pray enough
Why are the most exciting things considered boring?
Thanksgiving - expressing gratitude
Praying - conversing with the Creator of the universe and influencing his plans, vicarious participation in the lives and ministry of others
George Mueller
Frank C. Laubach, missionary and head of world literacy program, Prayer: The Mightiest Force in the World.
He writes that to change our outlook on prayer, we must believe that
every prayer we utter from the heart begins to change history at once…Evangelical Christianity is lost unless it discovers that the center and power of its divine service is prayer, not sermons; God, not the preacher.
-Frank C. Laubach, Prayer: The Mightiest Force in the World, 1946.
The true vitality of a church is not found in its Sunday worship attendance; it’s found in its prayer meeting attendance, in its weekly Bible studies.
Measured in the character of prayers uttered each time.
Paul had a hotline to God - like Batman and Commissioner Gordon - yet he asked for prayer.
Jesus asked for prayer, too!
Pray with expectation, active participant.
Reasons for prayer
That the Word of the Lord may speed ahead and be honored
Honor - doxadzo - like doxology - praise and recognition of greatness
Some cars have both speed and honor
Scout, Century, Taurus
Speed ahead like going viral, message spread
That we may be delivered from wicked and evil men
When you shine the light, you’re going to find some dirt.
Lord’s prayer - Thy kingdom come, thy will be done…deliver us from evil.
“For not all have faith.”
Two responses to the gospel to watch for: Acceptance and opposition
Stay confident in God’s faithfulness.
Direct comparison of the faithless with God, the Faithful One.
(Greek construction)
“…not all have faith.
Faithful, however, is God.”
Headlines, doom & gloom, woe is us…God is faithful.
Confidence in God means we do not worry.
We don’t take matters into our own hands.
ILL: Handley Page, aviation pioneer, flying to remote areas.
Rat got aboard…sickening sound of gnawing - fragile mechanisms, difficult repairs.
Remembered reading that rats can’t survive high elevations, pulled stick up until he could barely breathe.
Gnawing stopped.
APP: When we face opposition, confidence in God means go high and not low.
Low is own strength.
High is faith in God.
Don’t give oxygen to trouble.
“Establish you”
Set firm.
Circumstances may not be fixed, but you are.
“Guard you”
Against the evil one.
Evil men vs. evil one
Symptom vs disease…source of trouble
Confidence in God about others
Stay busy in God’s work.
Expectation - are doing and will do what they are commanded.
Are doing - refers to what was already commanded in prior letter.
Some of the shortest verses in Scripture
Stay open to God’s direction.
The Lord is directing
Relinquish control
Refuse to let other forces direct
Hearts are the object
Doing in v4 vs being in v5; hands and heart
Align heart to God and the hands will follow
To the love of God
To the steadfastness of Christ
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