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! Introduction:
/“An Exhortation to Prayer”/
I.
Abraham
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He Didn’t Seek counsel from the Lord but listened to the voice of his wife:
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He tried to figure out the problem
2. Genesis 16:1-2 – He heeded the voice of his wife
3. Genesis 15:1-4 – It made logical sense at the time and in the culture
4. God desires to do exceedingly above and beyond what we ask or think.
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Joshua
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He should have sought God first in the manner seen in verses 6-9
1. “If he would have went up as he came down, he would have come down as he went up.”
2. The Reason we do not pray is Laziness!
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Joshua 9
Consequences
1. Verses 3-4 and 14-15 then 16-21
III.
Samuel
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See It as Sin!
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After the Holy Spirit has called and called, then it becomes resistance to the Spirit, quenching and sin.
2. The sin of prayerlessness – 1 Samuel 12:23
3. Those who are spiritual will see it is a sin – not the carnal!
4. Spurgeon: “A prayerless church member is a hindrance.
He is in the body like a rotting bone or a decayed tooth.
Before long, since he does not contribute to the benefit of his brethren, he will become a danger and a sorrow to them.”
IV.
The Disciples—Matthew 26:36-46
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Resistance to Prayer
/Divine Meditations, /R.
Sibbes (p.164).
“When we go to prayer, the devil know we go to fetch strength against him, and therefore he opposes us all he can.”
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Acts
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Key Scripture in Just the First Six Chapter of Acts
1. Acts 1:14 – The church started in prayer
2. Acts 1:24 – prayer for leaders
3. Acts 2:42 – One of the characteristics of the church
4. Acts 3:1 – The hour of prayer
5. Acts 4:23-31 – Good prayer focusing on God’s sovereignty
6. Acts 6:4 and 6:6
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