The power of prayer

Prayer is the difference between the best we can do and the best God can do.  

 

The problem with trouble is we don't know where the problem is going.  

 

Prayer puts my unknown future into the hands of the all knowing God. 

 

Prayer puts my hopelessness into the hands of our all powerful God.  

 

Prayer puts my broken life into the hands of our all forgiving God.  

 

2 Corinthians 5:21

The Message

...In Christ. God put the wrong on him who never did anything wrong, so we could be put right with God.

1. Faith begins with a word from God.  

 

We get a word from God in the Word of God, the Bible. 

 

Romans 10:17

New Living Translation

17 So faith comes from hearing, that is, hearing the Good News about Christ.

 

A word about your family is in...

Joshua 24:15

New Living Translation

... But as for me and my family, we will serve the Lord.”  

A word about Covid 19 is in...

 

Psalm 91:2-3

New Living Translation

² This I declare about the Lord:
He alone is my refuge, my place of safety;
    he is my God, and I trust him.
³ For he will rescue you from every trap
    and protect you from deadly disease.

 

A word about your finances is in...

Philippians 4:19

New Living Translation

19 And this same God who takes care of me will supply all your needs from his glorious riches, which have been given to us in Christ Jesus.

 

A word about the election is in...

Psalm 121:1-3

New Living Translation

¹ I look up to the mountains—
    does my help come from there?
² My help comes from the Lord,
    who made heaven and earth!

³ He will not let you stumble;
    the one who watches over you will not slumber.

 

 

 

2. Faith builds when we determine not to give up. 

 

 

 

Romans 4:20-22

New King James Version

20 He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God, 21 and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform. 22 And therefore “it was accounted to him for righteousness.”

 

Hebrews 10:36-39

New King James Version

³⁶ For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise:

³⁷ “For yet a little while,
And He who is coming will come and will not tarry.
³⁸ Now the just shall live by faith;
But if anyone draws back,
My soul has no pleasure in him.”

 

 

 

3. Faith breaks through the natural into the supernatural.

 

 

 

James 5:17-18

English Standard Version

17 Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth. 18 Then he prayed again, and heaven gave rain, and the earth bore its fruit.

 

 

 

We aren't earthly people who are going to have a heavenly experience.  We are already heavenly people having a momentary earthly experience.   

 

 

 

It's not about the election, the virus, our finances, but about people knowing Him.  

 

 

 

James 5:19-20

Living Bible

19 Dear brothers (and sisters), if anyone has slipped away from God and no longer trusts the Lord and someone helps him understand the Truth again, 20 that person who brings him back to God will have saved a wandering soul from death, bringing about the forgiveness of his many sins.