Prayer: Part 3 of 3(000,000)

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Prayer Part 3 of 3(000,000)

• Sue Bohlin
• November 19, 2002

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Prayers we pray persistently (review)

• God, show me where Im being deceived.
• Prayer for protection of ourselves and others

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How Do You Cultivate a Love Relationship with God?

• Ask Him for a child's heart (Baileys Jesus)
• Ask Him for a lover's heart toward Jesus
• The Sacred Romance (John Eldredge and Brent
  Curtis)

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How Do You Cultivate a Love Relationship with God?

• Gratitude / God Sighting Journal
• Give
• Spend time with Him
• Praise music
• Seek freshness in His word The Message

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• "Are you tired?
• Worn out?
• Burned out on religion?
• Come to Me.
• Get away with Me
• and you'll recover your life.
• I'll show you how to take a real rest.
• Walk with Me and work with Me -
• watch how I do it.
• Learn the unforced rhythms of grace.
• I won't lay anything heavy
• or ill-fitting on you.
• Keep company with Me
• and you'll learn to live freely and lightly."
• Jesus

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Listening Prayer How Do You Know God's Voice?

• Relationship means one speaks, the other listens,
  and vice versa
• My sheep hear My voice John 1016
• Christianity is supposed to be supernatural
• Check it out with the Word, with wise counsel,
  with circumstances
• Go to where the peace is

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Listening Prayer How Do You Know God's Voice?

• Munich
• Ray God's no to Chicago
• You don't always know it's God
• Curt There's the girl you're going to marry"

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Learning to Listen to God

• 1. Quiet your heart and spirit before God
• 2. "Lord, do You have anything You'd like to say
  to me?"
• 3. Read through a passage of scripture with an
  attitude of expectation that He wants to speak to
  you

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Learning to Listen to God

• Different from reading the Bible to check off
  your "to do" list
• Different from Bible study
• Read it until He stops you. Then listen.

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Learning to Listen to God

• 4. Isaiah 551-2
• "Ho! Every one who thirsts, come to the waters
  And you who have no money come, buy and eat.
  Come, buy wine and milk Without money and without
  cost. Why do you spend money for what is not
  bread, And your wages for what does not satisfy?
• 5. Be alert around water (bath, shower, pool)

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Praying in Jesus Name

• Star Trek Jean-Luc Picard's "Make it so
• Christian belief that saying "In Jesus' name"
  forces God to make it so
• That's a belief in the power of words to create
  or change reality sorcery.

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Praying in Jesus Name

• Christs death on the Cross is what it cost to
• Pay for our sins
• Reconcile us to God
• Give us the authority to approach God
• We must never pray as if we deserved to be
  heard.
• On the other hand. . .

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Praying in Jesus Name

• Therefore let us draw near with confidence to
  the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy
  and find grace to help in time of need. Hebrews
  416

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Praying in Jesus' Name Means

• We approach the throne of God with a conscious
  identity of who we are
• We pray the same way the Lord Jesus would pray.
• HWJP? (How Would Jesus Pray?)
• In confident expectation of being heard
• In humble submission to the Father's perfect will

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Praying in Jesus' Name Means

• Praying on the basis of the authority Christ
  Himself granted us.
• Is anyone among you sick? Then he must call for
  the elders of the church and they are to pray
  over him, anointing him with oil in the name of
  the Lord and the prayer offered in faith will
  restore the one who is sick, and the Lord will
  raise him up, and if he has committed sins, they
  will be forgiven him." James 514-15

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The Role of Faith

• Word-faith praying is
• Deciding what you want
• Confessing with your mouth that God has done it
• The power is in your faith, not really in God

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• Many sincere Christians have been influenced
  by the sorcerer's gospel to imagine that faith
  has some power in itself. . . .To them faith is
  not placed in God but is a power directed at God,
  which forces him to do for us what we have
  believed he will do. At the very least this makes
  God subject to alleged "laws" that we can
  activate by "faith" at worst it eliminates God
  from the process altogether, putting everything
  in our own hands and thus turning us into gods
  who can make anything happen by our "power of
  belief."

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• If everything works according to such "law,"
  then God is no longer sovereign and there is no
  place for grace. All one needs to do is to
  exercise this "power of belief." That is the
  basic idea behind sorcery.
• Dave Hunt and T.A. McMahon, The Seduction of
  Christianity

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The Role of Faith

• We need to have faith in GOD, not faith in our
  FAITH
• We need to trust God, believing that
• He CAN do whatever we ask
• We submit to His will regardless of what it is

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The Role of Faith

• "God, I believe you can do what I'm asking.
• I trust You to do what is best here.
• I ask for ______, but I want your will to be
  done."

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Faith That Moves Mountains

• "Truly, truly I say to you, whoever says to this
  mountain, 'Be taken up and cast into the sea, and
  does not doubt in his heart, but believes that
  what he says is going to happen, it shall be
  granted him." Mark 1123
• This kind of faith is a gift of God, not a work
  of the flesh.

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Faith That Moves Mountains

• "20 Reasons We Do Not Receiving Healing" essay
• "If you use 'If it be thy will,' you are
  destroying faith. God said already that it is His
  will."
• Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane "Please let
  this cup pass from me, but not My will but Thine
  be done."

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Faith That Moves Mountains

• Mountain-moving faith is a spiritual gift (1 Cor.
  129)
• Don't feel guilty if God didn't give you the gift
  of supernatural faith!
• Experiencing God author Henry Blackaby has the
  spiritual gift of faith

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Prayer and the Law of Agreement

• "Again, I tell you that if two of you on earth
  agree about anything you ask for, it will be done
  for you by My Father in heaven. For where two or
  three come together in My name, there am I with
  them." Matthew 1819-20
• Context of this passage church discipline