POWER OF PRAYING PARENT
THE GOOD NEWS
God has given everything we need for life and godliness (2 pet 1:3
All promises are yes and amen in jesus – 2 cor 1:20
I John 5:14-15 – This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.
Then the question is – WHAT IS GOD’S WILL
SAVED – born again (1st timothy 2:4)
SANCTIFIED – clean, holy (I peter 1:15-16)
Spirit filled – Ephesians 5:18
Submissive – to god and man – james 4:7 and Ephesians 5:21
Suffering –
PROBLEM #1 – do we pray for god’s will or our will (comfort / preferences) = SELFISH VS SELFLESS
NATURAL – WE WANT TO BE BLESSED
To be BLESSED does not mean nothing bad ever happen to children
Protection – yes provision – yes – NOT MEAN COMFORTABLE
In fact – suffering is god’s will –
Hebrews 2:10 –jesus made perfect through suffering
Hebrews 5:7-9 – jesus learned obedience by what he suffered
Romans 5:3-5 – suffering produces perseverance, character, hope
James 1:2-4 – suffering so can be mature and complete
God came to make us holy, not happy, to be blessed and not comfortable
PROBLEM WITH PRAYERS
James 4:2-3 – You want something but don’t get it. You do not have, because you do not ask God. 3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. (OR COMFORTS, OR WHAT’S FUN – OPPOSITE OF GOD’S WILL – DRIVEN BY AVOIDANCE OF PAIN)
QUESTIONS
IS GOD GOOD?
DOES HE KNOW WHAT IS BEST FOR US
DO WE WANT GOD’S WILL?
ARE WE AFRAID OF WHAT GOD’S WILL IS?
TWO BIGGEST PRAYERS
1) help
2) god’s will be done
WE CAN PRAY SPECIFICALLY HIS WILL – saved, sanctified, godly
PRAY GENERALLY GODS WILL – think want new car, house, job
- nevertheless, not my will but yours be done
PROBLEM #2 – WHAT HINDERS PRAYER = SIN
Disobedience (want to do evil) – I peter 3:12
Mistreat your mate – I peter 3:7 and Ephesians 5:22-24
Busy / out of control – I peter 4:7
Unconfessed sin – psalms 66:18-19
Unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment – matthew 6:14-15
OTHERS – pride and rebellion, immorality, shame
BAD NEWS – sin blocks prayer
GOOD NEWS –
jesus came to forgive sin and wipe it out (I john 1:9 and acts 3:19)
jesus came to set the captives free –isaiah 61:1
jesus came that we might be pure and blameless (phil 1:10 and 2:15)
BY CONFESSION AND REPENTANCE
PRAYERS – promises of god – w things leave alone (why/when = mystery)
Our job is to pray – his job is to work the timing
Q over Q (quantity of force over quantity of time) – luke 18 (persistent widow)
SOMETHING MORE AND DIFFERENT
1 vs 2 or 3
Lay hands on
Anoint with oil
Fast
THE POWER OF BELIEF
Believe and you will be saved (acts 16:31)
Have whatever you ask for in prayer (mark 11:22-24)
He could not do any miracles there (mark 6:4-6)
I believe; help my unbelief – mark 9:24
Mustard seed – matthew 17:20
- sign that “enough” faith is that you pray (mustard seed – help)
Romans 4:18-22 – Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as it had been said to him, “So shall your offspring be. Without weakening in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as dead —since he was about a hundred years old —and that Sarah’s womb was also dead. Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God, being fully persuaded that God had power to do what he had promised. This is why “it was credited to him as righteousness.”
BOTTOM LINE
I John 5:14-15 – This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.
PRAY GOD’S WILL
Saved
Mature
Men and women of god
Wise
Holy
Pure
Free of sexual immorality
Protected by the blood of jesus
No weapon formed against them will harm them
KNOW IT WILL COME TO PASS
TRUST GOD WITH THE TIMING
BELIEVE
KNOW THE SCRIPTURES – KNOW WHAT YOU HAVE INHERITED
SPEAK IT BE FAITH
LEAVE THE RESULT TO GOD
your do your job – pray.
He’ll do his job – timing and results
Open your mouth wide and I will fill it – psalms 81:10
Ask of me and I’ll make the nations your inheritance – psalms 2:8
SPEAK LIFE
SPEAK THE PROMISES
SPEAK BLESSINGS
ROLE PLAY FOR THEM
TOOLS AND RESOURCES
Affirmations
Binding and loosing prayers (2 kinds) – bind = tie up, loose = untie
BOOKS
God guides, by mary geegh (listening prayer)
Any books on prayer by EM bounds
Stormie omartian – praying parent
Scotty Kessler Resource Library 