When All You Can Do Is Pray

Isaiah 62:6-7
I have appointed watchmen on your walls; they will never be silent, day or night. There is no rest for you, who remind the Lord. ⁷ Do not give him rest until he establishes and makes Jerusalem the praise of the earth.

Jeremiah 29:13
And you will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.

Ephesians 3:14-19
For this reason I bend my knees before the Father, ¹⁵ from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name, ¹⁶ that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner self, ¹⁷ so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, ¹⁸ may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and height and depth, ¹⁹ and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled to all the fullness of God.

Our greatest hindrance in the church today may very well be our attempt to do the work of God without the _______________ and Presence of God that comes about by the power of _________________.

A reminder as we said last week, _______________ is Spiritual Warfare.

Luke 11:1
It happened that while Jesus was praying in a certain place, after He had finished, one of His disciples said to Him, “Lord, teach us to pray just as John also taught his disciples.”

Matthew 6:9
Pray, then, in this way: ‘Our Father, who is in heaven…..

Prayer is First ______________ focused. 

Matthew 7:9-11
Or what person is there among you who, when his son asks for a loaf of bread, will give him a stone? ¹⁰ Or if he asks for a fish, he will not give him a snake, will he?
¹¹ So if you, despite being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!

Matthew 6:9
Pray, then, in this way: ‘Our Father, who is in heaven, Hallowed be Your name.

Matthew 6:10
Your kingdom come.  Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

1.Prayer is First–God focused
2.Prayer is Second_______________ focused.

Matthew 6:11
Give us this day our daily bread.

1.Prayer is God focused
2.Prayer is Kingdom focused.
3.Prayer is ________________ Dependent.

Proverbs 30:8-9
Keep deception and lies far from me, give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is my portion, ⁹ So that I will not be full and deny You and say, “Who is the Lord?”  And that I will not become impoverished and steal, and profane the name of my God.

Matthew 6:12
And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.

Matthew 18:32-35
Then summoning him, his master said to him, ‘You wicked slave, I forgave you all that debt because you pleaded with me. ³³ Should you not also have had mercy on your fellow slave, in the same way that I had mercy on you?’ ³⁴ And his master, moved with anger, handed him over to the torturers until he would repay all that was owed him. ³⁵ My heavenly Father will also do the same to you, if each of you does not forgive his brother from your heart.”

What did God say to me today?