Sermon Tone Analysis

Quick word on Whats coming up:

Dream team dinner.

Marriage conference is next month

Today is baptisms.

I really want you to think about how you can play a part in BOTH.

If you haven’t registered for Together conference i want you to do that ASAP we only have a certain amount of spots available for childcare and spots for the conference so dont wait and think “its fine ill just wait til the day before… thats not a smart strategy!”

Baptisms: Do you need to get baptized today?

If you don’t - come support.... or if you cant come.

pray!

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OK - sounds good!

lets all stand and SAY The LORDS prayer together

Matthew 6:9–13 (ESV)

“Our Father in heaven,

hallowed be your name.

10 Your kingdom come,

your will be done,

on earth as it is in heaven.

11 Give us this day our daily bread,

12 and forgive us our debts,

as we also have forgiven our debtors.

13 And lead us not into temptation,

but deliver us from evil.

NEW SERIES: LAST WEEK WAS THE FREQUENCY OF PRAYER: WHEN, NOT IF

TODAY.....THIS IS THE PRAYER OF DESPAIR: a type of praying we see all throughout the bible, and common among Gods people, His leaders, His Shepherds… his Prophets and Kings....

What we could call the prayer of DELIVERANCE....PROTECTION.

REQUEST.

THE PRAYER OF HELP.

have you ever prayed a prayer like that?

A prayer that sounds something like

“God, get me out of here”

“God, i need an escape!”

“Father, rescue me from the enemy”

Thats what Jesus gives us as a prayer in verse 13

Matt 6:13 “13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.”

“Deliver us from evil”

get us out of his HOT MESS were in...

I need you

Help me

We are in serious trouble, if you don’t step in - i’m toast.

If i don’t get some help here, its OVER

This is a big one for people of FAITH:

SO MUCH OF WHAT WE PROFESS, CONFESS AND BELIEVE IS ROOTED IN THE FACT THAT WE SERVE A GOD WHO DELIVERS.

DELIVERS US FROM WHAT?

FROM THE ENEMY

WHAT IS THE ENMY?

is the enemy some big bad wolf? is the opposing force in our lives the devil.

or a person.

deliver us from WHAT?

..... THE ANSWER IS SIN. and ULTIMATELY what does SIN BRING?

CAPTIVITY… & DEATH.

And if we are

Inevitably we will find ourselves in a situation that requires DIVINE intervention

Have you ever been there before?

Jehoshaphat was a GOOD king, because he walked in the ways of God and not the ways of PEOPLE.

If you ever wonder what you should do - always juist go Gods way, its better!

BUT JEHOSHAPHAT FOUND HIMSELF IN A REAL BIND..... AND the King prayed a prayer just like this. the prayer of despair...

A PRAYER FOR THE LORD TO DELIVER THE PEOPLE of God from the coming EVIL that was the enemy coming into their lives.

I want us to come around this story, because this applies to your prayer life & my prayer life.

2 Chronicles 20:1–12 (ESV)

1 After this the Moabites and Ammonites, and with them some of the Meunites, came against Jehoshaphat for battle.

2 Some men came and told Jehoshaphat, “A great multitude is coming against you from Edom, from beyond the sea; and, behold, they are in Hazazon-tamar” (that is, Engedi). 3 Then Jehoshaphat was afraid and set his face to seek the Lord, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.

4 And Judah assembled to seek help from the Lord; from all the cities of Judah they came to seek the Lord.

5 And Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the Lord, before the new court, 6 and said, “O Lord, God of our fathers, are you not God in heaven?

You rule over all the kingdoms of the nations.