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So as we come now to this second week on this topic of Prayer...
Last week you remember that we focused on the “WHAT” of prayer...
…in asking the question - WHAT is PRAYER?
And what we saw last week is that PRAYER is:
a privilege bought with blood
personal communion with God
That on the one hand - it’s a PRIVILEGE...
a privilege - PURCHASED for us!
What was the cost of this purchase?
the life of the SON of GOD...
It took God Himself - coming in the flesh - to PURCHASE for us…this thing called PRAYER...
in that NOW - (IF) we believe and TRUST in Jesus Christ and what He did for us on the cross..
THEN we have God’s EAR in prayer...
We have the PRIVILEGE of speaking directly with the Creator of ALL things...
And we saw that SINCE this privilege is based on FAITH - individual FAITH in Jesus Christ...
Then THAT means that PRAYER itself - is - Personal Communion with God!
BLESSING US in that prayer HELPS US TO:
enjoy Him
confess our sins
we ask Him to meet our needs
we align our will with His
All of this we saw last week - THE WHAT of PRAYER -
and NOW this week - We’ll look at the “WHY” of prayer...
Why do we pray?
Why should we pray?
I think most of you at least - know that I love listening to Pastor John Piper...
He has influenced my walk in many ways...
Well - in 2006 - John Piper preached a sermon on prayer, with this same title as you see today...
AND it was such a powerful message on WHY we should pray...
I have no qualms in telling you that this sermon today is a REHASHING of that sermon.
It’s a truth that needs to BE KNOWN and so hopefully we’ll all walk away from this today...
CHANGED.
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What we need to understand as Christians, and always remember...
..is that THE VICTORY of GOD - is coming!
And the point of this sermon is to help us see - that it’s coming BY MEANS of OUR prayers!
SO - let’s start by looking at - the COMING VICTORY of God...
This is the Victory of God - that is coming!
Jesus Christ is coming back -
to punish all those who have rejected His grace!
To gather to Himself his elect...
…and to establish justice, righteousness, peace, and joy...
…on the new earth....FOREVER!
Paul speaks of ALL of this in Titus 2
SO - we know and we hopefully believe that ALL that we just read is - TRUE...
That this VICTORY is coming...
SEE - i think more often than not - our prayer lives CONSIST of us:
asking God to help us in the DETAILS of our lives...
The smallest of details...
Maybe we pray about:
our kids health
our health
our jobs
our finances
schooling
social relationships
possessions / lack thereof
THESE and MORE - fill up our CUPS as we offer them to God.
NOW - not a bad thing.
Is it bad or wrong to pray for our kids… NO
Wrong to pray for our finances… NO
wrong to pray for relationships …or health…NO
BUT - the hope for this sermon is that we’ll catch of BIGGER GLIMPSE of the IMPACT of our prayers...
SPECIFICALLY in what we pray for...
And i get it - some of us are like - LISTEN - I’m just trying to get through TODAY...
I just want my marriage to survive - TODAY...
I just want my kids to LOVE Jesus - today!
I get it, but at the same time, what we’re looking at today - WON’T ROB you of FAITH...
BUT INSTEAD - will FREE you...
Liberate you as you now SEE all of your consuming problems in CONNECTION to God’s GLOBAL Victory!
SO YES - God cares about the DETAILS of your life...
He cares about your sick kid...
He cares about your marriage...
your depression...
BUT ALL of those things ONLY have their GREATEST MEANING in relation to the Victory of God.
*If you think of World War I and World War II - ALL of the widows that resulted
All of the loneliness and heartache - FINDS it’s DEEPEST meaning in the great, larger purposes of the WAR...
And so it’s no different with OUR SUFFERINGS - under the larger banner of God’s Global Victory!
And so TODAY - I hope we see the CONNECTION between our lives and the coming Victory of God - Being PRAYER!
We need to know - that OUR PRAYERS are the means that God uses to accomplish the Victory of Christ over this world...
And I know for most of us - we usually don’t pray about these things...
And so I think God wants to help us with this...
That we would get to a point of PRAYING for the victory of God in this world
And if our response to this is - “Well, I’m too insignificant....I’m not educated....i don’t know the lingo....I’m not a good candidate...”
Remember this:
God chose a simple, peasant virgin, to bear His Son!
God uses the SIMPLE to confound the WISE...
What an amazing CALLING we have in Christ!
SO - let’s walk through some scriptures now that will show you the connection between our PRAYERS and the coming Victory of God...
and then we’ll close with a passage in Isaiah 37.
(PRAY) - that God would awaken in us a passion to PARTICIPATE in the coming of God’s victory!!
In Matthew 6 Jesus teaches us HOW to pray...
The coming of God’s kingdom and the DOING of His will on earth - the way the angels do it in heaven - IS the VICTORY of GOD...
THIS is what everything is moving toward!
And Jesus says here -
PRAY FOR IT!!
Ask God to hallow his name.
Ask him to bring in his kingdom.
Ask him to make his will be done.
Therefore prayer is God’s way of winning His victory - through you.
Pray for this He says!
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