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Praying with God’s Holy Spirit
Romans 8:26-27
Weakness, Your Greatest Strength
Me:
A Mother’s Pray
a. Abraham Lincoln said:
i. “I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me.
They have clung to me all my life.”
b.
My mother was my greatest fan.
i.
I could do almost no wrong.
ii.
She loved it that I was a pastor.
iii.
My mother prayed for me often.
iv.
I bet your mother prayed for you.
c.
I love prayer
i.
Let me show you some ideas about prayer
ii.
Tell me what you think?
We:
1.
When we pray
Pray is our greatest Christian privilege
i. Pray is also our greatest Christian service
Have you consider prayer as a service.
i. Greater than singing
ii.
Greater than preaching
iii.
Greater than sharing your faith
iv.
Greater than tithing
v. Greater than testifying
vi.
Greater than teaching
It’s also our greater failure
i.
I really believe that most here this morning would admit if they was honest would say that their prayer life is lacking.
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I wish my prayer life was better, greater, stronger, and purer than it is.
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What’s the missing ingredient.
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Check this out
God:
Weakness, Your Greatest Strength
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That makes no sense!
i.
The bible is full of these
ii.
E.g.
The first shall be last
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A dichotomy a contradiction a paradoxes
b.
A biblical dichotomy
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In our weakness the Spirit help us pray.
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Do we have a weakness?
i.
We just agreed that our pray life is lacking
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I wish I could have more faith
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God has even addressed our lack of faith
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In my own strength I’m a terrible preacher.
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I can even pronounce “dichotomy”
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So I will boast in my weakness so that the power Christ preaches for me.
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I encourage you to find your ministry.
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You can’t do a ministry in your own power.
Your greatest asset
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God I don’t how to pray for this.
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God’s Holy Spirit steps in and prays for you.
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What a powerful thing.
You:
Praying in the Spirit
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The key to a vital prayer life.
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It is the answer to your indifference - when God seems far away.
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It is the answer to your ignorance - when you don’t know what to pray for.
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It is the answer to your weakness - when you don’t become distracted.
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It is the answer to our inability, when we are not able to express the things that we’d like to express when we pray.
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