The Power of Faith and Prayer

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The Power of God in Your Life is Made Evident by Your Faith and Prayer

Going through the verses.

I want to dive in at V. 24 & 29

What is a lack of Faith- Unbelief

You dont believe because you do not have every answer.

Sometimes your lack of faith will play a role in the disbelief and lack of faith in another person.

V. 18 I asked your disciples to drive it out but they couldn’t.

The faith the size of a mustard seed

Faith at work brings freedom form all daemon possession.

The power of God will not be made known to you if you contiue to think you got it all together.

You cannot rely upon your understanding your knowledge

You do not have faith because you are relying on yourself.

You have not because you ask not.

All you have to do is ask for Faith.

Faith is a gift form God

Ephesians 2:8–10

8 For you are saved by grace through faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is God’s gift—9 not from works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared ahead of time for us to do.

Faith comes by hearing the word of God

This is the message of faith that we proclaim: 9 If you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 One believes with the heart, resulting in righteousness, and one confesses with the mouth, resulting in salvation. 11 For the Scripture says, Everyone who believes on him will not be put to shame,, 12 since there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, because the same Lord of all richly blesses all who call on him. 13 For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.,

ISRAEL’S REJECTION OF THE MESSAGE

14 How, then, can they call on him they have not believed in? And how can they believe without hearing about him? And how can they hear without a preacher? 15 And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news., 16 But not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, Lord, who has believed our message?, 17 So faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through the message about Christ., 18

Ro 10:8–18.

7 “Ask, and it will be given to you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and the door will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

Christian Standard Bible (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2020), Mt 7:7–8.

WThe practice of communicating with a deity.

PRAYER

Prayer is taking up your cross

Prayer is a reliance upon God Strength and not your own.

In out weakness our faith leads us to Pray

Christian Standard Bible Chapter 21

And if you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.”

Christian Standard Bible Chapter 21

And if you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.”

Dictionary of Bible Themes 8603 prayer, as a relationship with God

Prayer is based on God’s love for believers. Through his grace, he gives them things which they do not deserve, while through his mercy he shields them from those things which they do deserve.

Prayr is not a prosparity Gospel Health Weah and so on.

The weka things shame the strong - We cannot do it alone

whatever it is you cant do it alone

In our powerless ness God’s Power persists

Our strength is not our own!

Jesus High Prayer JN 17

John 17 CSB

Jesus spoke these things, looked up to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son so that the Son may glorify you, since you gave him authority over all people, so that he may give eternal life to everyone you have given him. This is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and the one you have sent—Jesus Christ. I have glorified you on the earth by completing the work you gave me to do. Now, Father, glorify me in your presence with that glory I had with you before the world existed. “I have revealed your name to the people you gave me from the world. They were yours, you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. Now they know that everything you have given me is from you, because I have given them the words you gave me. They have received them and have known for certain that I came from you. They have believed that you sent me. “I pray for them. I am not praying for the world but for those you have given me, because they are yours. Everything I have is yours, and everything you have is mine, and I am glorified in them. I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by your name that you have given me, so that they may be one as we are one. While I was with them, I was protecting them by your name that you have given me. I guarded them and not one of them is lost, except the son of destruction, so that the Scripture may be fulfilled. Now I am coming to you, and I speak these things in the world so that they may have my joy completed in them. I have given them your word. The world hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. I am not praying that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. I sanctify myself for them, so that they also may be sanctified by the truth. “I pray not only for these, but also for those who believe in me through their word. May they all be one, as you, Father, are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us, so that the world may believe you sent me. I have given them the glory you have given me, so that they may be one as we are one. I am in them and you are in me, so that they may be made completely one, that the world may know you have sent me and have loved them as you have loved me. “Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, so that they will see my glory, which you have given me because you loved me before the world’s foundation. Righteous Father, the world has not known you. However, I have known you, and they have known that you sent me. I made your name known to them and will continue to make it known, so that the love you have loved me with may be in them and I may be in them.”

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