Sunday 02/12/2017

Who Do You Say That I AM? A Journey with Jesus - Sermon 35 Luke 11:1-13 Heb. 4:14-16 Heb. 10:19-22 I. Instructions for prayer - Vs. 2-4 Address Praise & humility Eternal perspective Submission Reliance Repentance Relationship Make prayer a priority with a time and place. "Don't pray just when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it. A believer is powerful on his knees." - Corrie Ten Boom "The battle of prayer is against two things - wandering thoughts and lack of intimacy with God's character as revealed in his Word. Neither can be cured at once, but both can be cured by discipline" - Oswald Chambers II. Importunity in prayer - Vs. 5-10 In prayer we find our connection with God, our communion with God, and our conduit with God. III. Investment of prayer - Vs. 11-13 Investment - an act of devoting time, effort, or energy to a particular undertaking with the expectation of a worthwhile result. "Beware in your prayers, above everything else, of limiting God; not only by unbelief, but by thinking that you know what He can do. Expect unexpected things 'above all that we ask or think." - Andrew Murray Faith prompts prayer and prayer fuels faith.