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Good Morning again!
God is GOOD! (all the time!)
All the Time! (God is good!)
Amen!!!
I am so excited for today!
We have been talking about prayer… and I hope that you are experiencing the Love and Mercy of God in a new way through this time!
Pray with me: “Father God pour out Your Holy Spirit on us in a new way!
Lord fill us to the brim… until we are overflowing… Father ignite a fire in us … cause us to burn with an unquenchable desire to know You… to serve You… and to share You with others.
Cause us to be a people who DAILY seek Your Blessings … Your Spirit… and Your Fire… to fill our circles.
Make us into a people who both Dream Big, and Pray Hard! Cause us to be a people who burn brightly with the amazing … awesome… beautiful… unstoppable fire of Your Love for us!
Glorify Jesus in us, Lord … So that we will be glorified through Him....”
Well… So far… we have talked about the need to draw that circle of prayer… and we have been drawing it!
We’ve focused (at least I hope you have) on seeking God to fill that circle with His Holy Fire — His Holy Spirit — everyday!
We’ve begun to DREAM Big… and PRAY Hard!
Today, we are going to take it a step further…
You see — We need to learn to think “long-term” in our prayers.
There is a story told about Honi — the “Circle Maker”…
Honi is famous for drawing a circle in the sand and praying a prayer that saved a generation!
One day, Honi when Honi was out for a walk, He passed a man who was planting a Carob tree… (Now, a Carob tree takes seventy years to bear fruit.)
Knowing this, Honi said to the man, “Since it takes seventy years for a Carob tree to bear fruit, are you certain of living that long?”
Listen to the man’s answer: “I found the world provided with Carob trees; as my forefathers planted them for me, I likewise plant them for my descendants.”
Do we think like that?!
When it comes to prayer, we need to “Think Long”.
Sometimes, I think, we are “short-sighted” in our prayers…
We pray these quick, small, prayers for our daily needs, but… We forget the long-term impact prayer has on our families and our community.
We have the right and privilege to pray — not only for our daily needs — But for the long-term needs of our families… our church… our community…
We have been given the power to intercede for our children’s sake!
Are we binding the enemy’s activity here on earth?
Are we binding sin, suffering, oppression, hurt…?
Are we “loosing” the blessings of heaven?!
We have been given the awesome privilege to bring the power of prayer to bear in our lives and in the lives of our families and community… Are We?
“But Pastor… I’ve prayed before and God hasn’t answered....”
Let me tell you: “Prayers do not have an ‘expiration date’!”
God will answer our prayers in His time… Across generations!
Look at the promise to Abraham…
Scripture instructs us to offer prayers that will influence future generations… knowing that God will fulfill them.
Are we praying for future generations?
— Are we praying for our children’s future jobs?
For their spouses?
For their children?
For their welfare and salvation?
We need to be.
Jesus didn’t just pray for the disciples that were following Him then… He prayed for the future… He prayed for US!!!!
Are we praying for future believers also?
Let me ask you this: “Have you ever thought that your prayers are an offering to God?”
We need to learn to pray long-term Faith-filled prayers… Because…
Faith-filled Prayers are a “memorial offering” to God.
We know the story, right?
(summarize)
We are in the midst of forty days of prayer… We are building a memorial to God.
And let me tell you… God will remember our prayers long after we have forgotten them!
And He WILL answer them!
Mark Batterson confesses: “I’ve heard the still small voice of God say: ‘Mark, the prayers of your grandfather are being answered in your life right now!’”
Faith-Filled Prayers have generations in mind.
Do you think Caleb had been praying?
Do you think he had his future generations in mind?
— Are we praying for our future generations?
(relate the history on this church) I want to see it be that again… and to remain that!
Look back at Caleb’s story…
Five hundred years after Caleb prayed that prayer… and made his request… David was crowned king in Hebron!
God doesn’t just answer our prayers once… He answers them over and over again!
Have you ever considered that God’s blessings in your life might be answers to the prayers your ancestors prayed?!
What about those who follow after you?
Will they experience God’s blessings because of your prayers?
Praying Long means that we get on God’s timeline… We give it ALL to Him… We let Him work in His Time… and we “pay it forward in prayer”!
This time of focused… intentional prayer… is an opportunity to do just that!
Faith-filled Prayers are often answered generations later.
Calebs prayers were fulfilled in David…
Jehoram was a wicked king… He lived 117 years after David, yet…
2 Kings 8:19 (NIV)
19 Nevertheless, for the sake of his servant David, the Lord was not willing to destroy Judah.
He had promised to maintain a lamp for David and his descendants forever.
Because of David’s prayers… and His promise to David… God did not destroy Judah…
— God has a good memory.
He doesn’t forget His promises… or the prayers of His people.
Are we interceding for the future generations?
Walt Winkler — “History belongs to the intercessors.”
We have the right… and the responsibility to “break the chains of disobedience… of unfaithfulness… of Sin… in the lives of our children!
Are we standing firm… and faithfully declaring “It stops here!”?
Are we praying down the blessings of Heaven on our children… our grandchildren… and our grandchildren’s children?!
Are we claiming God’s promises for their future!
We should be!!!!
And… We should be faithfully and persistently praying for God to bless our children and their children… for God to break the chains of sin… and prevent the influence of the enemy…
We should be praying for… and declaring… the blessings of God over our children, KNOWING that God is faithful to fulfill those promises!
We need to offer Faith-Filled prayers with patience and persistence.
In Luke 18, we find the story of the “persistent widow”… who sought justice from the uncaring judge…
Jesus point is this: “If a reluctant judge who neither ‘feared God nor cared what people thought’ (Luke 18:2) could be swayed for justice, how much more will our loving Father answer us when we persist in prayer?”
Paul tells us to “pray without ceasing.”
“Ask… Seek… Knock”
These verbs are “present active imperatives.
— Imperative is a command… not a suggestion.
We are to ask, seek, and knock.
— The present tense means that it is a continuous action… We are to ask and keep on asking… We are to seek and keep on seeking… we are to knock and keep on knocking…
— The “active voice” means that we are the performer of the action… not the recipient…
WE are to do the actions of asking, seeking, knocking, AND WE ARE TO KEEP ON DOING IT!
It is our responsibility to pray and to keep on praying… AND to NEVER quit!
Mark Batterson states it well: “It’s always too soon to give up!”
Think about it like this…
Ultimately… What can we really do about any given situation we face?
When we face hardships… dreams… desires… that are bigger than we can handle… that are “God-sized”… there are really only two options: to pray, or not to pray!
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