Sermon Tone Analysis

Good Morning, Please turn with me in your Bibles this morning to were going to be looking at verses 22-25.

While you are turning there I want to say something that I really mean from the bottom of my heart I love you all with all of my heart.

I do not get to tell you enough how much I love each of you and those who are serving in the back.

God has blessed me with a good church, with people that I consider my family, and I want you to know that I love you.

I am grateful to be called the pastor of this place, and I pray I can be with you for the extended future.

I truly believe the best days for Union Hill are in front of us not behind us, and I beleive in my heart that God is doing something among us and within the hearts of His people.

I just wanted to share that with you.

We need Revival, We need revival.

Now lets personalize it I NEED REVIVAL it starts with me amen?

What is revival?

Revival is the glory of God filling the house of God, and if your saved you are the house of God.

Your the house of God, God doesnt dwell in buildings made by human hands, God dwells in redeemed people.

God if you are saved, God is living in you right now and my prayer is that you would be filled with His Spirit and that you would become literally a house of prayer.

I want to talk with you this morning about prayer.

Now I dont know any Christian who is against prayer, but alot of people dont pray because they dont know how.

I really believe that we need to know how to pray.

Have you ever been in a conversation with somebody and you run out of things to say?

Thats awkward isnt it?

Now the ladies probably dont have a clue what Im talking about.... run out of things to say?

No you ladies know alot more about how to communicate than us men folk, you even go to the bathroom together I mean guys dont do that ok.

Guys dont say alright bro we need to finsih this conversation will you go to the bathroom with me?

Someone would knock you out if you did that...

But you understand its awkward when you get in a situation and you dont know how to talk to someone, especially when the other person is God.

You sitting there and your saying Lord I have said all that I know I been sitting here for ten minutes.

I have said all of the bless this person and that person that I know how to say.

I dont know what else to say...

Did you know that God wants us to learn how to pray?

Some of you have some big issues in your lives, some of you have some mountains in your lives, some of you have some problems.

This church has some problems even though I love it even though I would never say anything harsh about the people I love, we have some mountains we have to face.

Some of you personally have some mountains that you are facing, and I beleive the reason why you are facing these mountains and the reason this church is facing these mountains is because God is trying to teach us all how to pray, and walk by faith.

God put it in my heart to preach this message HOW TO MOVE MOUNTAINS THROUGH PRAYER

Mark 11:22

(Let’s Pray)

The words that I just read to you were spoken by our Lord Jesus, Jesus CHrist had just ridden into Jerusalem.

If you were to take the same Journey Jesus took you would come down off of the mount of Olives, youlld go down across the Kidron Valley and youll be walking where Jesus was riding on a donkey, people were shouting Hosanna, Hosanna blessed is HE who comes in the name of the Lord.

He is just a few days away from His crucifixion, and that week called the passion week Jesus Christ went to the temple one day and on His way He was hungry.

He saw a fig tree but it was barren it had no fruit.

So what He did was He cursed the fig tree, and then you know what he did next when He went into the Temple HE cleasned the Temple, He ran those religious people out of there and He said MY HOUSE SHALL BE CALLED A HOUSE OF PRAYER, But you have made it a robbers den.

HE goes back out He comes back the next day heading to the Tmple, and Peter looks and he sees the fig tree and it is withered.

Bible says it was withered from the root up, and Peter said Lord how did that happen so fast whats going on?

How did this tree wither?

and JEsus said...

Have faith in God truly I say to you whoever says to this mountain be taken up and be cast into the sea, and believes in His heart it will be granted him.

Therefore ALL THINGS every body say ALL THINGS...

ALL THINGS for which you ask believe that you have recieved them and you shall receive them and then forgive people, if anyone has anything against you or you have anything against anybody forgive them and my Father will answer your prayers from Heaven.

Whats JEsus teaching us?

How many of you believe that we are living in difficult times?

40 -50 years ago they would not have dreamed that anything like what is going in our nation would be going on....

Do you believe its time for God’s people to call upon Him in prayer?

Do you believe its time for us as families to come together in prayer?

Do you believe its time for us as churches to come together for prayer?

Do you believe its time for us as denominations to come together in prayer?

Listen to me church there are so many churches today that are so focsued on the business meetings and advertising and getting the name out of the church through different venues that the church has forgotten that our business is prayer, our business is calling on God , our business is telling people about Jesus!

So how do we apply what Jesus said let me give you three things:

How can you move the mountains in your life, some of you have problesm in your life right now that seem impossible to overcome, youve got financial problems, youve got family problems, youve got all kinds of problems.

Those are types of mountains, so how are you going to take those mountains and cast them into the sea.

Mountains are Moved When Gods People Pray With Fervency

Listen to me when Jesus talks to you about moving mountains he doesnt want you to move the mountains in northern Alabama ok.God is not talking about moving literal mountains ok, He is talking about the problems in our lives and we all have them.

HE says you need to pray about those mountains and those problems and you need to pray passionately, you need to pray with intensity, you need to pray with fervency.

Pray with passion, and with desperation.

Notice Jesus’ words again

Mark

Whatever esle you say about those words its obvious, that its describing something that is not business as usual praying.

God bless the cream corn, God bless the mashed potatoes He’s not talking about that!

He is tlaking about a fervent type of prayer.

Its kind of like when Jacob was wrestling with the angel of the Lord and the Bible tells us that he grabbed hold of the angel of the Lord and he said I WILL NOT LET GO UNLESS YOU BLESS ME!

Whens the last time you grabbed hold of God, whens the last time you grabbed hold of Jesus robe?

You touched the hem of His garment with your faith?

I tell you what when grace and faith get together good things happen!

When is the last time you said I AM LAYING HOLD OF GOD AND I AM GOING DOWN IN PRAYER AND I AM NOT COMING UP UNTIL I KNOW IN MY SPIRIT I HAVE BEEN TOUCHED BY THE HOLY GHOST?

When is the last time you cried out to God like that?

I am not talking about business as usual Im talking about I WILL NOT LET YOU GO UNTIL YOU BLESS ME.Where are the Christians praying with fervency for the United States of America?

Where are the Christians praying with fervency for the supreme court of the Uninted States of America?

Where are the Christians who are crying out to God for revival to come again to the house of the Lord?

Back in the 1500’s there was a man named John Knox John Knox was a Scottish pastor he was a leader of the protestant reformation.

He founded the presbytyrian church in Scottland, and he is famous for a well known prayer:

“Give me Scottland or I die”

Give me Scottland God or I die

A desperate passionate fervent prayer, He was often inprison he was often stricken with physical illness but he beleived that ONE MAN WITH GOD IS ALWAYS IN THE MAJORITY.

It is said that Mary Queen of Scotts who was a roman catholic said this:

“I fear the prayers of John Knox more than all the assembled armies of Europe”

Give me Scotland or I die

I want to ask you something....

Who is praying that for Alabama?

Who is praying that for Dothan?

Who is praying that for Rehobeth?

WHo is praying that for Cottonwood?

Who is saying God give us Cottonwood for CHrist or we die!

Who is praying fervently?

IS THERE IS FERVENCY IN YOUR PRAYER LIFE?

When is the last time you cried or wept as you were praying?

You know there is only one thing the disciples asked the Lord to teach them.

They didnt say Lord teach us how to preach, Lord teach us how to make disciples, Lord teach us to read books , or to create programs.

NO LORD TEACH US HOW TO PRAY!!!!

What did JEsus say?

What does the Bible teach us about Jesus...

DID JESUS EVER PRAY?

Oh He prayed, He prayed at His baptism and the Bible said that the Spirit of the Lord came down Im gonna tell you something God doesnt waste His Holy SPirit on prayerless people.

If your not praying God is not going to pour out His Spirit upon you...

When the church exploded in the book of Acts they were all huddled in a room together having a prayer meeting.