Prayer Authenticity
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Prayer Authenticity - Desire and Desperation
Prayer Authenticity - Desire and Desperation
Prayer
A Movement of God Among the Bhojpuri of North India - Persistent Prayer
"Without persistent prayer, I am convinced there wouldn’t be a movement among the Bhojpuri. I recently sat in a room with the top Bhojpuri church planters. Each of these church planters and their teams planted at least 50 churches per year. One team planted 500 churches the year before. A research group, engaged to verify our numbers, wondered about possible common threads in what they saw in church planting among the Bhojpuri. They started asking questions to see if they could discover common elements present among church planters.
They asked, “How much time do you spend in prayer?” As they went around the room reporting, my jaw dropped. Team leaders spent an average of three hours a day in personal prayer. After that, they spent another three hours praying with their teams everyday. One day a week the leaders fasted and prayed. Their teams spent one weekend a month fasting and praying. Many of these leaders maintained secular jobs while engaged in their church planting. They got up to pray at 4 a.m. and were at work by 10 a.m. James tells us: “The intense prayer of the righteous is very powerful” (, HCSV). James was right. Just look at the Bhojpuri." - Perspectives
- Perspectives
What are your thoughts on this story?
What are your thoughts on this story?
What was one of the keys to their success?
What was one of the keys to their success?
How does one spend three hours of prayer a day? Pure discipline or something more?
How does one spend three hours of prayer a day? Pure discipline or something more?
Desire and Desperation
Desire and Desperation
What do you think
A Miktam of David. Preserve me, O God, for in you I take refuge. I say to the Lord, “You are my Lord; I have no good apart from you.” As for the saints in the land, they are the excellent ones, in whom is all my delight. The sorrows of those who run after another god shall multiply; their drink offerings of blood I will not pour out or take their names on my lips. The Lord is my chosen portion and my cup; you hold my lot. The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance. I bless the Lord who gives me counsel; in the night also my heart instructs me. I have set the Lord always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken. Therefore my heart is glad, and my whole being rejoices; my flesh also dwells secure. For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol, or let your holy one see corruption. You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.
Preserve me, O God, for in you I take refuge. I say to the Lord, “You are my Lord; I have no good apart from you.” As for the saints in the land, they are the excellent ones, in whom is all my delight. The sorrows of those who run after another god shall multiply; their drink offerings of blood I will not pour out or take their names on my lips. The Lord is my chosen portion and my cup; you hold my lot.
Psalm 16
The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance. I bless the Lord who gives me counsel; in the night also my heart instructs me. I have set the Lord always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken. Therefore my heart is glad, and my whole being rejoices; my flesh also dwells secure. For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol, or let your holy one see corruption. You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.
Psalms
Psalm of Confidence and Trust in God - David is giving us a picture of his relationship with God.
Psalm of Confidence and Trust in God - David is giving us a picture of his relationship with God.
Things to Note
Clear Conscious
Consecrated Life
True Trust
Sold Out
Right Priorities
Pure Delight
Future Realities
If you write a Psalm giving a picture of your relationship with God, how would it compare?
If you write a Psalm giving a picture of your relationship with God, how would it compare?
Do you have desire for God and desperation to see his mission accomplished?
Do you have desire for God and desperation to see his mission accomplished?
Are we all in and serving God?
Trusting God?
Satisfied in God?
Depth of Relationship with God
Prayer time is increased by a depth of relationship with God and a desperate need for his urgent intervention. Without this it's just great repetition and discipline. It still takes discipline, but it's joy.
Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
Necessity & Urgency
Engaged in Missions
Worship
He increases and we decrease.
