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Prayer Life

James 5:16

The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective. NIV

LORD’S PRAYER

Luke 11:1

11 Now it came to pass, as He was praying in a certain place, when He ceased, that one of His disciples said to Him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.”

The disciples didn’t ask Jesus

How to–– Preach or teach or start a church

How to pray––They seen by example the key to life of Jesus PRAYER

MATTEW 6:9-13

Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name.10Your kingdom come. Your will be done On earth as it is in heaven. 11Give us this day our daily bread. 12And forgive us our debts, As we forgive our debtors. 13And do not lead us into temptation, But deliver us from the evil one. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.

WEEK 1: OUR FATHER WHO IS IN HEAVEN, HALLOWED BE YOUR NAME.

OUR-ALL FATHER-to be honored

Week 2: YOUR KINGDOM COME YOUR WILL BE DONE ON

EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN.

Faithful Obedient Authentic

WEEK 3:GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD

WEEK 4 FORGIVE US OUR DEBTS, AS WE FORGIVE OUR DEBTORS.

3 areas in our life considering debt:

Justification, Sanctification, and Glorification

Deliverance is Yours

Big Idea: Dependence on God through prayer is essential for overcoming temptation and evil in our lives.

MATTEW 6:13

And do not lead us into temptation, But deliver us from the evil one.

First thing make clear…

Temptation does not come from God

James 1:13

13 Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God”; for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He Himself tempt anyone.

God’s permissive will. God permits that evil

Gen 22:1

Now it came to pass after these things that God tested Abraham

naw-saw’; a prim. root; to test; by impl. to attempt:

pĕirasmŏs, pi-ras-mos´; experience [of evil], solicitation, provocation)

One is a test of faith, and the other is to provoke you to sin.

James 12:12-15 ESV

12 Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him. 13 Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one. 14 But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. 15 Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.

Temptations come in 2 ways

1. Flesh holes

External forces find an internal desire and gives birth

Example: DBM Board –– Saudi Arabia

Good news

1 Cor. 10:13 NKJ

13 No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.

2. Satan/Evil

And do not lead us into temptation, But deliver us from the evil one.

We are weak we pray for deliverance

Matthew 26:41 NKJ

41 Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit

indeed iswilling, but the flesh is weak.”

They all fell into sin when the time came for Jesus

Their downfall wasn’t when the soldiers came and they scattered,

Girl yelled out that Peter was one of Jesus’s

It happened when they failed to follow Jesus’ instruction to watch and pray.

Eph 6:11 ESV

10 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. 11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. 12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

Put on the full armor of God so that there is…

No opening at the head, the feet, the heart, the belly, the eye, the ear, or the tongue, is to be given to Satan

Romans 13:14 ESV

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.

Side Note:

The enemy will use family and friends to get you to sin in your flesh

Our fight is spiritual

1 Peter 5:8

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

Why does he come at you, it’s not because your so important

It’s because the Lord has set His Love and affection toward you

He is a bitter enemy of the people of God!!

Some of his names

Evil One

Lier

Deceiver

Tempter

Murderer

Prince

Accuser of the Brethren

Destroyer

He is intelligent. He is aggressive. He is cunning. And he is destructive.

One of His most brilliant tricks is to make people think he doesn’t exist,

And he is doing a good job at it

Maybe you say he never bothers me, “If you’ve never met the devil, it’s because you and the devil have been going in the same direction.”[1]

Christians surveyed by Barna

Satan is not a living being but is a symbol of evil––

40% Strongly agree 19% agree somewhat

Believe Satan is real––

26% strongly, 9% somewhat remaining 8% not sure what they believe

22%) strongly agreed that Jesus Christ sinned when He lived on earth,

with an additional 17% agreeing somewhat.

How?

Satan has gotten people to downplay his existence

Evanston, IL Northwestern Univ. Football team named demons

Devil’s food cake

Deviled eggs

Things that break a car may call it demon

Say things like I had a devil of a time

Halloween is a night of spooks and haunted houses, of ghosts, goblins, and

Witches,

All in the name of fun

Book of Revelation In the great tribulation

4 major sins

Rev. 9:21 NKJ

21 And they did not repent of their murders or their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts.

Sorceries Greek- pharmakon, n.c., drug; medicine

Nothing wrong with buhl Drugs

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon says that word means

an enchanter with drugs.

David Wilkerson who worked with drug addicts in NY once said,

“I have yet to see anyone who was into demon worship who did not, first of all, open his mind to spiritual experiences through the use of drugs.”

Can I just say anything we allow to control our mind is opening ourselves to demonic activities

Alex Berenson is a New York Times Columnist and author of a number of books. His wife Jacqueline is a Forensic Psychiatrist and researcher at Columbia University. An essential part of her job is dealing with and treating patients who have committed homicides or other acts of violence-the criminally mentally ill.

In a conversation one day, she told her husband that "in practically every case that I see, people were using Cannabis (marijuana) at the time they committed these terrible crimes."

Being a Liberal Columnist, Mr Berenson responded by saying that it sounded like nonsense to him. His wife then challenged him to research the data for himself.

To his surprise he found that there was a proven and clear link between Cannabis and mental illness. And he also discovered a proven link between Psychosis (mental illness) and violence. Multiple studies showed that people who smoked marijuana, especially in their youth were at a high risk of developing Schizophrenia which is absolute torture for those who suffer with it. These people live in a state of paranoia.

We give thanks the Lord has given us victory through prayer

“We don’t pray for a victory; we pray from the victory. The victory has already been won.”

Big Idea: Dependence on God through prayer is essential for overcoming temptation and evil in our lives.

[1]Adrian Rogers and Steve Rogers, When We Say Father: Unlocking the Power of the Lord’s Prayer (Nashville, TN: B&H Books, 2018), 102.