The Gospel of Luke: Divine Appointment | Prayer |Purpose | Power | Mission - Video

Sermon Notes 1/27/25 Corey Deyamport Luke 6: 12-19 . Check us out at: https://citylightvicksburg.org/ Or check us out here: https://www.facebook.com/citylightvicksburg . Prayer should be the default in our lives when making big decisions. When Jesus calls His 12 disciples, He modeled for us what it looks like to live dependently on God. Three things stand out in this passage to us: Intentional prayer Purposeful positioning Divine power. Intentional Prayer - Before Jesus picked His disciples, He spent all night in prayer. Jesus has demonstrated that He is powerful and Lord of the Sabbath. But even still, He went out to pray - away from the crowds and even the disciples. He isolated Himself and then prayed. He spent time intentionally with the Father. We are always so easily drawn away from our time with God, it is so powerful to get away from everything. Purposeful positioning - fisherman and tax collectors (who would have been at odds) the tax collector and the zealot who would have been at odds as well. Jesus called such a different group of people together. Now, it’s easy for us to separate ourself from groups who aren’t like ourselves. But God’s purpose is not about comparing ourself to others. But with the holy burden of being chosen for a task. Divine Power - as Jesus came down from His night of prayer, the multitude was waiting for Him. Jesus’s mission was always for the needy. And he sent out the newly elected disciples to work for Him, with all the power to heal and cure. When we are on mission, we are granted divine power to affect the world around us. It is for the labor we have been called, and among a multitude we are called to our divine appointment.