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The Prayer that Changed Peter's Life
Illustration we all have life changing events:
Illustration we all have life changing events:
Career ending football injury - 1978
Graduation from Auburn - 1982
Marriage - 1983
Children - 1985-1991
Salvation 1988
Passing the PE - Exam - 1991
Director of Environmental services - 1994
Call to ministry - 1996
Voted in pastor of Walnut Creek baptist - 1999
For Peter this was the life changing moment:
He had recieved Christ as the messiah
He had surrendered to follow christ and be a fisher or men with many others
Now he would be one the the apostles with full authority for God!
The Peter we know cam out of this time of prayer.
Jesus had a large number of disciples and from those He picked 12 who were to be close to Him.
What a decision to make!
illustration
Do we pray for major decisions ?
Prayer that changes lives:
A job relocation - Jim Cornell
A job relocation - Jim Cornell
A career change
Marriage
A College
Educating your children
Jesus spent an entire night in prayer, a sure indication that the circumstances were pressing: the preceding controversy, the resultant threatening atmosphere, and the selection to be made of the twelve apostles.
The second clause indicates that the first was not a routine devotional exercise
The atmosphere was threatening
There was a buzz of persecution in the air
It was now time Jesus would choose the 12 that would learn of Him and carry on His mission after hew was gone.
he already had been saved and would follow Jesus having left his nets.
But now he would go from a follower to an apostle. he would have the full authority to Acts on behalf of Jesus.
What decision to make.
God wants his people to turn to him in prayer, individually and corporately, in times of need or crisis, and to bring requests to him as a Father
We have access to the father
eph 3.11
The results of this prayer would change peters Life.
I Driven to Payer
Luke 6.1
vs 11 says the people were mad at the healing of the man with the withered hand.
Jesus had performed this miracle on the sabbath.
Look how mark put it
Also it was time to choose the 12 that would follow
Time to pray
This drove jesus to all nigh prayer.
How many of us Christians today have ever spent a whole night in prayer?
In his prayer life, as in all else, the Lord Jesus stands far above even the best of us whose words about prayer need to be matched by the consistent practice of it.
He spent an entire night in prayer.
Jesus had a large number of disciples and from those He picked 12 who were to be close to Him.
These were specifically called apostles (apostolous) as opposed to the term disciples (mathētas).
Disciples were followers, but apostles were those sent out as messengers with delegated authority
What drives you to prayer:
sickness
broken marriage
finances
stress
illustration -
full time christian service
college for for our children
Sacrificial Sunday -
Hezekiah’s prayer
2 kings 20
Then answer
Notice : I have heard thy prayer and seen thy tears.
What Drives you to pray?
II Deciding on Peter
luke 6.13
it was now day after a night of prayer it was time to make a decision.
There comes a time we must put feet to our prayers.
Jesus had prayed all night and not it was time to act.
Design ing a building, all the parties have been contacted and the prints are ready.
meetings held and presented to the public.
Then all of a sudden the project is squelched and tabled.
Ladies and gentlemen there is a time to take action.
Peter was chosen
Peter was chosen
Jesus spent all night in prayer before choosing the twelve.
What a rebuke this is to our impulsiveness and independence of God! Luke is the only evangelist who mentions this night of prayer.
nemeiah 2.8
One of the keys to the Christian life is to Act on the prayers we make.
Jesus left the mountain immediately and name the apostles.
There were many followers but the Lord chose Peter and the other 11.
How did He come to to this position ?
How did He come to to this position ?
Answers from God
Roamns 8.26
We have helper!
God is not he author of confusion
III Disclosing the Answer
Luke
This would be there first time they would be together and presented.
The apostles along with the other disciples would then minister to the crowds.
There was no secret that this group had been selected.....
When God answers a prayer follow through acts on it and let it be known.
Illustration : When moved in my heart to go into the ministry I counseled with my Pastor and put a plan in place to:
disclose decision to family
resign my position at work / income replacement
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