The Mindset of Prayer
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Corrie Ten Boone - “Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.”
Hudson Taylor - “It is possible to move men, through God, by prayer alone.”
Oswald Chambers - “Worship and prayer must go together; the one is impossible without the other. Prayer means that we rouse ourselves up to get the mind of Christ about the one for whom we pray.”
Alexander Maclaren - “There must be the inward worship within the shrine if there is to be outward service.”
Elisabeth Elliot - “Prayer lays hold of God's plan and becomes the link between his will and its accomplishment on earth. Amazing things happen, and we are given the privilege of being the channels of the Holy Spirit's prayer.”
A Misplaced Mindset (v. 9)
A Misplaced Mindset (v. 9)
When we come to this passage, we are tasked with discovering with whom Jesus is conversing.
We find them in 17:20, and they are not presented in a positive light.
Pharisaism most likely derived its beginnings under the tyrannical rule of the Selucid dynasty in which the modern day celebration of Hanukkah survives.
They were considered to be cultural guardians.
Religious elites
Social setters - their name derives from a Hebrew word that means to divide or separate.
Now, read the verse again, and let us conceptualize the audience for our day.
As the United States of America turns every more liberal, would you not say it is the Christian community which hinders the revision of our nation’s history?
Is it not the Christian community which claims to hold the only way, the truth, and the life.
Is there not a powerful almost magnetic pull for the Christian to separate themselves from the society of this world?
Dare I say it, READ the verse again and see the average SBC church, see the membership of HPBC, see yourself in the pages.
An Egotistical Mindset (vs. 10-12)
An Egotistical Mindset (vs. 10-12)
v. 10 introduces the two characters of our parable. A Pharisee (the separating one) and the Publican (the sinning one).
Publicans were considered traitors to their countrymen.
Rome liked to hire locals to extract their taxes from their conquered citizens. (EX: toll booths in Florida)
Jesus portrays these two individuals as going before the presence of God to pray.
vs. 11-12 the marks of an egotistical mindset in prayer:
The elevation of self.
A divided view between one’s self and humanity.
A recall of your deeds.
An egotistical mindset will elevate one’s self through the degradation of others and the display of one’s own self worth.
The activity of our lives displays the intentions behind our prayers:
How lost people have you witnessed to last year?
How many backslidden believers have your encouraged to return back to the house of God?
In your daily routine, do you intentional seek to put yourself in situations outside of a Christian enviroment?
A Submissive Mindset (v. 13)
A Submissive Mindset (v. 13)
The marks of a submissive mindset in prayer:
Understands its position before God. “he stood afar off...”
Understands its situation before God. “he would not lift his eyes and smote upon his chest...”
Understands its need for God. “he sought the forgiveness of God.”
A submissive prayer life places the truths of God above the desire of one’s heart.
A Forgiven Mindset (v. 14)
A Forgiven Mindset (v. 14)