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Celebration
Prayer Problems
This morning we planned on watching and joining Eastmont Baptist Church in their celebration.
If you want to watch this it is available on Facebook at Eastmont’s page.
We are not doing it this morning because it is just incredibly choppy.
Since we are really here to worship, you can watch the special service later.
This morning we are going to continue looking at the Gospel of Luke.
So lets start reading at Luke 1 verse 5 and continue to verse 17
Your Prayer has been heard
We are going to focus in on verse 13.
Your prayer has been heard.
Often times we get to a point where we wonder if God has even heard our prayers.
Haven’t you ever heard someone say I prayed and prayed but God never answered me?
This morning I want to take a look at that.
I think there are some problems we need to consider.
One problem is un-asked prayers.
Un-prayed Prayer
Many times we get mad because he doesn’t answer our prayers.
Part of this problem is sometimes our prayers are not requests to a Holy Just all powerful God.
They are demands made by spoiled children who do not understand what scripture tells us.
Folks grab verse out of context and then began to make demands of God.
Name it and claim it.
Years ago Issac Airfreight had a comedy routine called the Ronco Bible.
In that routine they suggested a new Bible.
This one had a three pens.
One was an eraser.
One was a black pen and the other was a highlighter.
You find a promise of scripture in the Bible and then you personalize it.
The idea at the time was big of personalize promises.
John 3 16.
For God so loved Mike that he gave his only begotten son.
This idea went one step further.
You find the promise then you erase the name and put yours in there.
Then you change the promise.
For God so loved the chapmans that he gave them a Winnebago.
No you just highlight it and hold God to it.
He has to- its in the bible.
Silly I know.
But it is what people do.
Remember the movie the War Room.
A place set apart where you meet God.
You learn His heart.
You present your requests.
You learn the heart of God.
When prayer becomes an intentional conversation with God, we learn to listen.
We stop using prayer as a wish list to use when we want something from God and it becomes an intimate personal conversation with Him.
God cannot answer what is not prayed
Look at what God tells us about prayers.
In first Samuel we see that not praying is a sin-
Paul writes we should pray without ceasing in
says in essence we are always supposed to pray.
And in
we are told that to pray keeps us out of temptation.
Prayer- personal prayer is way too important to miss out on.
In the book of James 4 he tells us this.
We don’t ask.
Matthew writes in
Ask and it will be given Seek and you will find, knock and it will be open unto you.
But we have to ask.
You HAVE to ask
Un-answered prayer
All prayer is answered
So whu does it seem like we have unanswered prayers?
Because as much as we think we know we still don’t understand how life works.
We don’t understand how God works.
I believe God answers every prayer we ask.
Sometimes the answer is yes, sometimes the answer is no, sometimes the answer is wait a while.
Adrian Rodgers put it this way.
Sometimes the answer is denied, sometimes the answer is strategically delayed and sometimes the answer is oddly different than what we ask.
Sometimes NO
Sometimes the answer is simply no.
but why would a loving God simply tell us no?
Back to James.
Sometimes we ask with the wrong motives.
Sometimes our hearts are so far away from what God’s is- we do not know what to ask for.
Look sometimes we play with fire.
I have fiends who play with sin.
They push things to the limit.
Do you ever remember as a child being told you are not allowed to do something and pushing to just see how far you could go?
My niece Nicole was two or three and I went to visit.
I was at my sisters house and talking to my sister and beside ne was the stereo.
Nicole walked over to it and turned it on.
My sister said no no Nicole and got up and came and turned it off.
Debbie walked back over to her chair and sat down.
Nicole walked back to the stereo and turned it on.
Again No no Nicole.
Again she got up and turned it off.
The third time as Debbie said no no Nicole as she reached to turn it on I gently slapped her hand and said No.
She was testing her boundaries.
When she found it she wanted to go home with me.
The point is we play with Sin.
We give Satan permission to mess with our lives.
And then we ask for things that are actually clearly outside of the will of God.
Imagine if you are newlyweds.
Ladies imagine you and your husband are on your honeymoon in Hawaii and your husband comes up to you and asks for some money to go into another hotel to meet his girlfriend.
Do you think you would want to give it to him?
So when we pray for something outside of God’s will why expect it?
A friend of mine wrote me that he and his wife were having problems.
So he was on the computer and he met a woman online.
He flew to Chicage to meet her and this is what he wrote me.
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