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! Prayer – A Commune with God
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Introduction.
If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14, NIV
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Repentant – Expressing sincere regret or remorse about wrongdoing or sin
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Humility – Placing Other’s Importance above Your Own Importance
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Our understanding of a prayer life revolves around these 2
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concerns.
! I. What Kind of People Does God Listen To?
“This is what the Lord says: Stand in the courtyard of the Lord’s house and speak to all the people of the towns of Judah who come to worship in the house of the Lord.
Tell them everything I command you; do not omit a word.
3 Perhaps they will *listen and each will turn* from his evil way.
Then I will relent . . .
Luke 18:9-14, NIV
Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked?
declares the Sovereign Lord.
Rather, am I not pleased when they *turn from their ways and live*?
Ezekiel 18:23, NIV
! God Listens to REPENTANT People
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! II.
Why is Humility so Important?
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True humility indicates a righteous heart, genunine obedience, and lack of destructive behaviors - sin.
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If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.
9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:8-9, NIV
To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everybody else, Jesus told this parable: 10 “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.
11 The Pharisee stood up and *prayed about himself:* ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector.
12 I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.’ 13 “But the tax collector stood at a distance.
He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘*God, have mercy on me, a sinner*.’14
“I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home *justified* before God.
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
*Luke 18:9-14, *
The Lord detests all the proud of heart. .
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Somoman Proverbs 16:5,
The Lord is far from the wicked but he hears the prayer of the righteous.
Proverbs 15:29, NIV
*If anyone turns a deaf ear to God’s law, even his prayers are detestable.
Proverbs 28:9, NIV*
If I had cherished sin in my heart, the Lord would not have listened; 19 but God has surely listened and heard my voice in prayer.
Psalm 66:18
*Your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.
Isaiah 59:1-2*
(Zechariah 7:4-13) When you fasted and mourned for the past seventy years, was it really for me that you fasted?
6 And when you were eating and drinking, were you not just feasting for yourselves?
Administer true justice; show mercy and compassion to one another.
10 Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the alien or the poor.
In your hearts do not think evil of each other.'
"But they refused to pay attention; stubbornly they turned their backs and stopped up their ears.
12 They made their hearts as hard as flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the LORD Almighty had sent by his Spirit through the earlier prophets.
*/"'So the Lord said, When I called, they did not listen; so when they called, I would not listen,'./*
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III.
What Kind of Prayer Does God Answer?
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ENSURE THAT GOD HEARS YOU
If you had responded to my rebuke, I would have poured out my heart to you and made my thoughts known to you.
24 But since you rejected me, you will call to me but I will not answer; you will look for me but will not find me.
Proverbs 1:23-28, NIV
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Hypocracy?
Hypocrisy - Is their a credibility gap between our
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words and our actions . . .
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SECOND.
UNDERSTAND, PRAYER IS A FAMILY PRIVILEGE
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/Church Family Privilege/ - out of our relationship with God
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life.
No one comes to the *Father* except through me.
7 If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well.
From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”
John 14:6-7, NIV
“This, then, is how you should pray: ‘Our *Father* in heaven, hallowed be your name . .
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Matthew 6:9, NIV
I will do *whatever you ask in my name*, so that the* Son* may bring glory to the* Father*.
14 You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.
John 14:13-14, NIV
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APROACH GOD IN FAITHFULNESS
It was about this time that King Herod arrested some who belonged to the church, intending to persecute them. 2 He had James, the brother of John, put to death with the sword.
3 When he saw that this pleased the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter also.
*So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was earnestly praying to God for him.
* 6 The night before Herod was to bring him to trial, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and sentries stood guard at the entrance.
7 Suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared and a light shone in the cell.
He struck Peter on the side and woke him up.
“Quick, get up!” he said, and the chains fell off Peter’s wrists.
8 Then the angel said to him, “Put on your clothes and sandals.”
And Peter did so.
“Wrap your cloak around you and follow me,” the angel told him.
9 Peter followed him out of the prison, but he had no idea that what the angel was doing was really happening; he thought he was seeing a vision.
10 They passed the first and second guards and came to the iron gate leading to the city.
It opened for them by itself, and they went through it.
When they had walked the length of one street, suddenly the angel left him.
11 Then Peter came to himself and said, “Now I know without a doubt that the Lord sent his angel and rescued me from Herod’s clutches and from everything the Jewish people were anticipating.”
12 When this had dawned on him, he went to the house of Mary the mother of John, also called Mark, where many people had gathered and were praying.
13 Peter knocked at the outer entrance, and a servant girl named Rhoda came to answer the door.
14 When she recognized Peter’s voice, she was so overjoyed she ran back without opening it and exclaimed, “Peter is at the door!” 15 “You’re out of your mind,” they told her.
When she kept insisting that it was so, they said, “It must be his angel.”
16 But Peter kept on knocking, and when they opened the door and saw him, they were astonished.
17 Peter motioned with his hand for them to be quiet and described how the Lord had brought him out of prison.
Acts 12:1-17, NIV
(Luke 17:5-6) The apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith!"
6 He replied, "If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, 'Be uprooted and planted in the sea,' and it will obey you.
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