Prayer as a Lifestyle: Strengthening Our Daily Walk

And when the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send and consecrate them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my children have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts.” Thus Job did continually.

QUESTION: What was Satan’s argument against Job to God?

Job 1:9–11 ESV

Then Satan answered the Lord and said, “Does Job fear God for no reason? Have you not put a hedge around him and his house and all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land. But stretch out your hand and touch all that he has, and he will curse you to your face.”

1 Thessalonians 5:17 ESV

pray without ceasing,

1 Thessalonians 5:14–19 ESV

And we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all. See that no one repays anyone evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to everyone. Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. Do not quench the Spirit.

1. You Can Know Your Identity in Christ

You can know who you are meant to be now and forever because of what Jesus did for you. WHY?

Hebrews 2:10–11 ESV

For it was fitting that he, for whom and by whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, should make the founder of their salvation perfect through suffering. For he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one source. That is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers,

2. God Alone Determines your true worth, value, and nature

Gideon in Judges 6 “o mighty man of valor”

Judges 6:11–12 ESV

Now the angel of the Lord came and sat under the terebinth at Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, while his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress to hide it from the Midianites. And the angel of the Lord appeared to him and said to him, “The Lord is with you, O mighty man of valor.”

We have been trained to find our identity and value based on what someone says about you and whether or not they approve of you.

Ephesians 3:10–12 ESV

so that through the church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places. This was according to the eternal purpose that he has realized in Christ Jesus our Lord, in whom we have boldness and access with confidence through our faith in him.

1 Peter 2:9–11 ESV

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.

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Don’t Be Woven into the Fabric of the World

You cannot have a lifestyle of prayer caught-up in worldly group-think.

The World determines your worth by what you do and who you are (superficially)

Acts 4:17–20 ESV

But in order that it may spread no further among the people, let us warn them to speak no more to anyone in this name.” So they called them and charged them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus. But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, you must judge, for we cannot but speak of what we have seen and heard.”

The whole world can be against you but God alone determines your value

3. Always be Thankful

1 Thessalonians 5:18–19 ESV

give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. Do not quench the Spirit.

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