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Prayer is coming into communication with the living and active God... Prayers moves us from the: Physical to the Spiritual Temporal to the Eternal From self-focus to God-focus This week we are going to look at the NT How Not to Pray 5 “And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to…

An old saying goes, “A day hemmed in prayer is less likely to come unraveled. 16 Rejoice evermore. 17 Pray without ceasing. 18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. 1 Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and…

TEXT: JAMES 5:14-15 | THE PRAYER OF FAITH INTRO EXPLANATION : We have ventured far through this incredible book by Jesus’s half brother James. We first began our Journey on July 3, 2022. We have weaved our way through some of the complex verses found in the 5 chapters of this book and have been challenged…

Over the past few weeks we have taken a look at some of the Lord’s Parables that He used to teach others as well as His own disciples important lessons. Last week we began to look at some of the parables that deal with Christian living. In other words, how are we to live as believers? Today I want to…

Main Idea Prayer is a means by which God works out His ends and changes us in the process Outline & Passage Why is devoted prayer a core value? I - Because it's effectual II - It honors God III - It’s thoroughly biblical IV - It changes us 6 do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer…

1. The Practice of Honesty 2. The Practice of Order in the Home 3. The Practice of Resolving Conflict Spiritually 4. The Practice of Peacefulness 5. The Practice of Bearing Holy Fruit e. The Christian is to bear the {fruit} of the Spirit in his daily walk. Gal. 5:22-23 G alatians 5:22-23 22 But the fruit…

Tonight, we will learn 5 principles of prayer that will help you in your prayer life. God has principles in place for prayer that will bring him to answer you and all of us want God to answer our prayers. Tonight we will look to James, the half brother of Jesus and draw some principles out of them that…

Introduction We will be talking about prayer again this week. This text makes me feel a little uncomfortable, to be honest. I think it may do the same for you when we get done. But before that... I want us to talk about prayer in general. Have you ever given serious consideration to why we pray? Do our…

Introduction Two young men are talking to each other, and like young me, trying to one-up the other. They were discussing what each of them knew, and which one knew the most. One said, well I know the bible as well as anyone. The other said, I’ll bet you ten dollars you can’t even recite the Lord’s Prayer.…

Introduction Two young men are talking to each other, and like young me, trying to one-up the other. They were discussing what each of them knew, and which one knew the most. One said, well I know the bible as well as anyone. The other said, I’ll bet you ten dollars you can’t even recite the Lord’s Prayer.…

Starting with Prayer Persecution happening - James martyred Peter arrested When things look bleak - Church prayed Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The urgent request of a righteous person is very powerful in its effect. Faith that Fears…

1 John 5:1-5 born of God born of God = believes Jesus is the Christ = saved = everlasting life 1 John 3:9 “Whoever has been born of God does not sin , for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.” 1 John 4:7 “Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and…

The Christian in Prayer Grace to you and peace, from God our Father and from our risen Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. There are many things in our society, in the world, including our very own lives that can cause us to become discouraged. In our society and world, we are living under the threat…

The Christian in Prayer Grace to you and peace, from God our Father and from our risen Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. There are many things in our society, in the world, including our very own lives that can cause us to become discouraged. In our society and world, we are living under the threat…

James 5:15 "You need to go to the hospital!” If you were seriously injured, I might say to you, “You need to go to the hospital in order to survive!” But there are no guarantees. We assume that. But we still go. I think that is what James is saying about prayer in this text. How should we react to problems?…

How do we react to problems? Anger, sorrow, fear, worry, etc. How should we react to problems? James is telling us here that we should react/respond to problems with prayer - in faith . James begins and ends his letter with the theme of problems. James 1:2-4 , 12 James 5:7–11 Outline for this text...…

Pastor Chase wraps up our series on "This is Us". Today is all about prayer. If God is all knowing, why do we bother praying? How should we pray? We will dive in to all of this and more in the message. Take a listen!

INTRODUCTION Today we’re gonna continue our series in Colossians Let’s turn together in our Bibles to Colossians 1 . & we’re gonna read verses 9-12 . Colossians 1:9-12 . & when you find that in your Bible pls stand for the reading of God’s Word. The Title of today’s teaching is: Live a Life Worthy of…

Genesis 3:14-15 Dec 17, 1927 8 year old S class submarine conducting tests off coast of MA. 2273 Any Hope Of Rescue? Someone has said that if you could convince a man there was no hope, he would curse the day he was born. Hope is an indispensable quality of life. Years ago the S-4 submarine was rammed…

God dispersed the people for their own good, then later He united the peoples out of His mercy.

Does anyone know what this picture represents? This might be the most amazing data picture you see in a lifetime! It shows the 63,779 cross-references in the Bible. The white bars along the bottom represent each Bible chapter, Gen. 1 - Rev. 22 . The line’s color shows the reference’s distance from the…

Good morning, Gateway! Scripture: Psalm 31 . Prayer Intro Good morning, again! August 5, 2001 was a beautiful night in Cleveland, Ohio at Jacobs Field, especially if you were a Seattle Mariners fan. The Mariners coming into the game were 80-30, they had won the first two games of the series, and seemed…

Good morning, Gateway! Scripture: Lam 3:21-26 . God of creation. God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. God of the covenant. You are merciful, and gracious, slower to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and sin, but you are also…

Last Spring, we studied through the Sermon on the Mount. One of the great themes of Matthew is the coming kingdom. The Book of Revelation speaks of the time when that new kingdom is fully realized. I shared with our Elders a week ago an observation that I gleaned about songs describing Heaven. Historically…

The Dilemma of Belief. Have you ever had those moments when you wondered, “Is this really true?” Maybe life has gotten difficult. Maybe you have come to the Derailment of your hopes and dreams like Joseph, Mary’s husband, when he found out that his betrothed bride was pregnant after all his time and…