Dangerous Prayers: Joy
Good morning and thank you for joining us in person or online at Crossroads Community Church! We are completing an eleven-week series today called Dangerous Prayers. We have been taking some prayers of the Bible and Praying them and asking God to move in our heart and lives and bring personal revival! As we begin, ask God to speak to you and be prepared to respond! ~Rick
Psalm 139:23-24
Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. 24 Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path of everlasting life.
It will be difficult to get to a place of Personal Revival without ________________________ and __________________________.
Our _____________________ can be an Indicator—An Expression of where we really are in our Relationship with God.
Psalm 141:2
May my prayer be set before you as incense, the raising of my hands as the evening offering.
1 Timothy 2:8
Therefore, I want the men in every place to pray, lifting up holy hands without anger or argument.
Ezra 10:1
While Ezra prayed and confessed, weeping and falling facedown before the house of God, an extremely large assembly of Israelite men, women, and children gathered around him. The people also wept bitterly.
1 Kings 18:42
So Ahab went to eat and drink, but Elijah went up to the summit of Carmel. He bent down on the ground and put his face between his knees.
Psalm 51:12
Restore the joy of your salvation to me, and sustain me by giving me a willing spirit.
Our Final Dangerous Prayer: Restore the _____________ of Your Salvation to me.
Psalm 16:11
You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.
Psalm 100:4
Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise. Give thanks to him and bless his name.
2 Samuel 6:1-2
David again assembled all the fit young men in Israel: thirty thousand. 2 He and all his troops set out to bring the ark of God from Baale-judah. The ark bears the Name, the name of the Lord of Armies who is enthroned between the cherubim.
2 Samuel 6:7-8
When they came to Nacon’s threshing floor, Uzzah reached out to the ark of God and took hold of it because the oxen had stumbled. 7 Then the Lord’s anger burned against Uzzah, and God struck him dead on the spot for his irreverence, and he died there next to the ark of God.
It is Essential we ______________ God!
2 Samuel 6:12b
So David went and had the ark of God brought up from Obed-edom’s house to the city of David with rejoicing.
Entering into the Presence of the Lord ought to bring us to a place of ________________________.
Psalm 16:11
You reveal the path of life to me; in your presence is abundant joy; at your right hand are eternal pleasures.
1 Peter 1:8-9
Though you have not seen him, you love him; though not seeing him now, you believe in him, and you rejoice with inexpressible and glorious joy, 9 because you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
2 Samuel 6:12-13
It was reported to King David, “The Lord has blessed Obed-edom’s family and all that belongs to him because of the ark of God.” So David went and had the ark of God brought up from Obed-edom’s house to the city of David with rejoicing. 13 When those carrying the ark of the Lord advanced six steps, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened calf.
Entering into the Presence of the Lord ought to produce JOY but also illicit a ____________________________.
2 Samuel 24:24a
The king answered Araunah, “No, I insist on buying it from you for a price, for I will not offer to the Lord my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing.”
2 Samuel 6:14
David was dancing with all his might before the Lord wearing a linen ephod. 15 He and the whole house of Israel were bringing up the ark of the Lord with shouts and the sound of the ram’s horn.
The Presence of the Lord >>>JOY>>>Sacrifice>>>>>Unhindered ________________________.
2 Samuel 6:16
As the ark of the Lord was entering the city of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked down from the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, and she despised him in her heart.
2 Samuel 6:21-22
David replied to Michal, “It was before the Lord who chose me over your father and his whole family to appoint me ruler over the Lord’s people Israel. I will dance before the Lord, 22 and I will dishonor myself and humble myself even more.
Psalm 92:1-4
It is good to give thanks to the Lord, to sing praise to your name, Most High, 2 to declare your faithful love in the morning and your faithfulness at night, 3 with a ten-stringed harp and the music of a lyre. 4 For you have made me rejoice, Lord, by what you have done; I will shout for joy because of the works of your hands.