Sermon Tone Analysis

Prayer

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However much he may want to, I do not believe God will answer the prayer of the student who turned in his test and prayed, “O God, please let Paris be the capital of England!”

—Nicky Gumbel, “How and Why Should I Pray?” Alpha Evangelism Series (HTB Publications, 1994)

You can now send your prayers to God via a website.

Newprayer.com

says, “Simply click on the Pray button and transmit your prayer to the only known location of God.”

The site claims it can send prayers via a radio transmitter to God’s last known location: the star cluster M13, believed to be one of the oldest in the universe.

Crandall Stone, fifty, a Cambridge, Massachusetts, engineer and freelance consultant, set up the site after a winter’s night of sipping brandy and philosophizing with friends in Vermont.

The conversation turned to Big Bang theories of creation.

Someone suggested that if everything was in one place at the time of the explosion, God must have been there too.

“It’s the one place where we could be sure he was,” Stone said.

“We thought that if we could find that location and had a radio transmitter, we could send a message to God.”

After consulting with NASA scientists, the friends settled on M13 as the likely location.

They chipped in about $20,000 to build a radio wave-transmitting website.

Newprayer.com

transmits about 50,000 prayers a week from seekers around the globe.

Note: Newprayer.com is no longer operational.

—Judith Gaines, “Tapping into God,” Denver Rocky Mountain News (March 13, 2000)

It has been said that what drives most people to prayer is either:

Devastation - something bad has happened and you need God to deal with it.

Desperation - something good needs to happen and you need God to do it.

There is another factor that leads people to pray:

What is that factor?

Glad you asked.

Devotion - God is in control of your life regardless of what bad or good happens, you love God, you love His Word to us, and you just want to display it.

Two different text I want to read this morning: and .

ONCE YOU FIND YOUR WAY TO THOSE PASSAGES EITHER ON YOUR PHONE, TABLET OR LITERAL BIBLE - PLEASE JOIN ME IN STANDING TO HONOR GOD

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In our series on “Living by the Book: A Text Driven-Life.”

- we have discovered from scripture proof of such a life is seen in our convictions that help us make godly choices and commitments leading us to fulfill the Great Commission - in all of God’s word we are content.

We have been promised by God in His Word that by his word we will be transformed, educated and joy-filled.

He declares His Word will enlighten us, stabilize us and satisfy our need for justice.

The focus today, in this sermon titled “The Prayer of a Text Driven-Life.” is on prayer driven by our devotion to God and love for His Word.

There is no greater texts that reveals this connection between prayer and God’s Word than what we read in and in the entirety of .

As we have learned, the text-driven life is the focus of the text-driven sermon, both of which are as Dr. Steven Smith says, “A re-presentation of scripture.”

He also says that, “A text-driven life is a life that responds to God through His Word.”

That response begins with our prayer.

The intention God has in us reading the Bible is to hear from Him, but it is not enough simply to sit down, read the words, and rise to walk away with no response.

No prayerful response leads to no fruitful results.

a text-driven life is a life that responds to God through His Word.

We must seek to begin our time of reading by asking God for His Illumination and we must end by asking God for transformation.

We must begin our time commitment to evangelization by asking God for His conviction upon the one needing conversion.

There is no greater texts that reveals this connection between prayer and God’s Word than what we read in and in the entirety of .

There is an important truth that the Psalmist teaches us in

Prayer is your response to God about His revelation and your greatest act of worship.

When the Psalmist finishes his praise of God’s glory seen in the world and God’s grace seen in His word, he responds with a prayer.

When the Psalmist finishes his praise of God’s glory seen in the world and God’s grace seen in His word, he responds with a prayer.

When the Psalmist finishes his praise of God’s glory seen in the world and God’s grace seen in His word, he responds with a prayer.

As we have learned, the text-driven life is the focus of the text-driven sermon, both of which are as Dr. Steven Smith says, “A re-presentation of scripture.”

He also says that, “A text-driven life is a life that responds to God through His Word.”

That response begins with our prayer.

A “meditation” can mean “a thought process that can include speaking the thoughts out loud.”

But he does not want to mutter just anything.

His desire is to offer prayers of worship acceptable to the one He is worshipping.

The term “acceptable” - pertains to offering a sacrifice, which in OT times was their act of worship equivalent to our prayers.

In Leviticus it often speaks of the sacrifice offered by the priest as being a fire offering of a pleasing aroma to the Lord.

In we find Cornelius praying at the customary hour of prayer and an angel visiting to tell him to send for Peter.

The angel tells Cornelius, “Your prayers and your acts of charity have ascended as a memorial offering before God.” gives us a vision of heaven to see an angel bring incense to the altar in front of the throne, and the smoke along with the prayers of the saints (us) going up in the presence of God.

is the epitome of that, and is the core text for the prayer of a text-driven life.

As we have learned, the text-driven life is the focus of the text-driven sermon, both of which are as Dr. Steven Smith says, “A re-presentation of scripture.”

He also says that, “A text-driven life is a life that responds to God through His Word.”

That response begins with our prayer.

The intention God has in us reading the Bible is to hear from Him, but it is not enough simply to sit down, read the words, and rise to walk away with no response.

No prayerful response leads to no fruitful results.

“The Word of God is inseparably linked with prayer.

The two are solidly joined, twins from birth, and twins by life...

The Word of the Lord is dependent on prayer for its rapid spread and for its full and most glorious success.”

- E. M. Bounds

We must seek to begin our time of reading by asking God for His Illumination and we must end by asking God for transformation.

We must begin our time of commitment to evangelization by asking God for His empowerment upon us who share and for conviction upon the one needing conversion.

We must bathe every ministry we have or will have in prayer if we are to ever see changed hearts and changed lives.

Brethren, why so many meetings with our fellow men and so few meetings with God? - ANDREW BONAR

The one concern of the devil is to keep the saints from prayer.

He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, prayerless religion.

He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.

- SAMUEL CHADWICK

Brethren, why so many meetings with our fellow men and so few meetings with God? - ANDREW BONAR

The one concern of the devil is to keep the saints from prayer.

He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, prayerless religion.

He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.

- SAMUEL CHADWICK

We are discussing the idea of reviving our Care Teams - Care Teams can become our Reaching Teams - and one of these Teams will be the UP-reach team - a team whose sole purpose is to spend its time praying for the IN-reach team whose sole purpose is to minister to our members and praying for our OUT-reach team whose sole purpose is to connect with our 1st time, 2nd time and long-time guests and people of our community, county to make disciples.

The UP-reach team will also be praying for our members and those we are trying to reach to become members.

We are discussing the idea of reviving our Care Teams - Care Teams can become our Reaching Teams - and one of these Teams will be the UP-reach team - a team whose sole purpose is to spend its time praying for the IN-reach team whose sole purpose is to minister to our members and praying for our OUT-reach team whose sole purpose is to connect with our 1st time, 2nd time and long-time guests and people of our community, county to make disciples.

The UP-reach team will also be praying for our members and those we are trying to reach to become members.

Prayer is the roof and the foundation for everything we do.

Prayer is our worship.

Rejoicing in Jesus begins with prayer.

Rejoicing in Jesus begins with prayer.

Prayer is the roof and the foundation for everything we do.

is the epitome of that, and is the core text for the prayer of a text-driven life.

Text-driven lives lead to a text-driven church.

A text-driven church is a praying church.

A praying church is a church Reaching the World to make disciples who live text driven lives.

is the epitome of that, and is the core text for the prayer of a text-driven life.

How do I read this passage in such a way that the words are alive and living right now in my context, my circumstances, my course of life?

How do I allow the scripture to adjust my feelings, thoughts, attitudes and actions?