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Introduction
Big Idea: Praying God’s will is a core value of Oasis Community Church
Continuing through series on the church’s identity and direction
We are examining two parts of our identity: our mission and our values.
Our mission answers the question of why we exist.
Our values answers the question of what is most important to us.
Previously we looked at the church’s mission: to love all people into the family of Jesus, and the first of our values: teaching God’s word.
We now turn to our second value.
Imagine soldier going into war.
He is being sent into the enemy’s territory.
He is young, and has little experience and ability, but he is part of an invading force.
Before they send him off, his commander gives him a radio and tells him that at any time he can call for air support.
The mission he is being sent on is so significant that it cannot fail.
So all he needs to do is radio in for support and the bombers and fighters can come in and make short work of his targets.
Now, imagine, that this same soldier heads out and immediately forgets that he has this radio.
He will think that the war effort depends entirely on him.
He will be terrified when he sees just how outnumbered he is.
Or imagine that he believes he doesn’t need air support.
He believes he has the skill and power as a lone infantry unity to take out the entire enemy on his own.
Both scenarios are exactly what happens when Christians fail to pray.
We have been sent into enemy territory as the church.
We are called to take ground for the King.
And we have been given a radio that doesn’t just go to our commanding officer.
It goes directly to the King himself who is willing to unleash all of heaven at your request.
Yet we forget to pray.
Or worse, we think we do not need prayer.
Prayer is the greatest untapped resource available to us as Christians and as the church.
As such, prayer is one of the core values of Oasis Community Church.
To look at why we value prayer the way that we do, we are going to look at a few texts.
Prayer accomplishes the works of God
Jesus came to bring us to his Father.
His works were performed to convince people that he really was from the Father.
John 14.1-13
Jesus says that his disciples will do the same validating works that point to the authority of Jesus to bring people to his Father.
How?
By asking Jesus to do the work through them.
God means to do mighty works in validating the authority of his Son through our prayers.
Let me share something both incredibly humbling AND freeing.
God’s mission to expand his Kingdom does not require you.
You are not essential to God’s plans.
None of us are.
This is freeing though, since we need to be less concerned with our work, and more concerned with asking God to work.
We value prayer, not just as a prerequisite for doing a great work.
We value prayer because it is the work.
Prayer invites the Father’s reward
Jesus does not forbid us from praying to be seen.
He just tells us who it is we want to be seen by.
Matthew
Prayer is a horrible way to be righteous
Prayer is an excellent way to enjoy intimacy with God.
When we pray to be seen by God, not man, we are rewarded with God, not men.
We value prayer because we desire intimacy with the Father
Prayer harnesses the Power of God
Matt 6.5
Prayer is powerful.
We get to bend the ear of the most powerful being in existence and he delights to answer us.
Prayer is powerful enough to alter weather patterns and diseases.
Prayer matters.
Prayer works.
Prayer accomplishes much.
We value prayer because it brings into existence things that would have not otherwise existed had we not prayed.
How we value Prayer
Prayer will never be a hoop to jump through but part of the essential work of the church
We will pray in our services, small groups, and other ministries.
We will continue to take seriously our prayer ministry
Essential to our discipleship strategy will be teach our people to depend on God through prayer
Communion
On the night that Jesus was betrayed...
The Lord’s supper reminds us of why our prayers are able to be heard in the first place
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