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What are they?
The lord definitely rocked me this week.
I had 2 different sermons planned and both of them had to be changed because God wasn’t ready for me to preach those.
I had this on my spirit all week but thought that it would be for a later time.
But it would quickly become something that God would not let me let go of.
That it was something I had to begin to preach this week and we shall soon see just where it takes us.
I am excited.
I am very excited to dive into this three part message series.
I want to welcome all our churches.
Excuse me.
All of our Network Churches, everybody at Church Online.
The reason I'm really excited about this, and I want to let you know right up front is because this series is life changing.
It is powerful.
This could be a defining moment in your walk with Christ.
For so many of us, we walk in a system and belief of safety and security.
As I told you my message has changed twice.
I was going to do a series over our book.
Never felt at peace about it.
Then was going to do a fun one this month about being at the movies.
I was going to do the movie called the Lion.
That led me then to Narnia.
Which then led me to a quote about Aslan.
In C.S. Lewis’s The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe when Mr. Beaver tells Susan that Aslan (the ruler of Narnia) is a great lion.
Susan is surprised, since she assumed Aslan was a man.
She then tells Mr. Beaver, “I shall feel rather nervous about meeting a lion.”
She asks Mr. Beaver if Aslan is safe, to which Mr. Beaver replies, “Safe?
Who said anything about safe?
‘Course he isn’t safe.
But he’s good.
He’s the King.”
But everything we think about God is safety.
We pray for safety.
We pray in safe ways.
Generic ways.
Benign ways.
We say protect us God.
We say bless us God.
We say use us God.
All safe.
In fact some extra safe.
Safety though doesn’t always get you what you need or what He wants you to have or where He wants you to go.
You realize that it wasn’t safe for Peter to ask to come out of the boat.
It wasn’t safe when Jonathan said lets god and perhaps God will be with us.
It wasn’t safe when Moses said I wont go without you.
It wasn’t safe with Joshua said declare today whom you will serve.
It wasn’t safe with Elijah was standing there and he said lord show your people who the real God is and that I serve you.
It wasn’t safe when Paul prayed that we would know his life, his death, and the power of his resurrection.
Safe prayers don’t cut it.
There are three prayers that when prayed are extremely dangerous.
We are going to walk through these three prayers with extreme vigor and no caution.
We throw caution to the wind.
Next weeks sermon will be about the prayer “Break me.”
Do you realize what that means when you pray that.
It is not a safe thing to pray.
The greatest victories come from extreme brokenness.
Week number three, for some of you will change the direction of your life.
We're going to pray send me.
In other words, instead of saying, "God, I'll do what I want to do for you," we're going to say, "God, I'm signing a blank check.
Basically whatever, whenever, however, God, I'm available to you.
Whatever you want to do, my life is yours.
You send me."
Today, we're going to start with an equally dangerous prayer, and we're going to look at a prayer that David prayed in :23-24.
David prayed this after his enemies and God's enemies were on the attack, and accusing David of having wrong motives.
Instead of saying, "No, no, no," and defending himself, he actually prayed a very dangerous prayer before God.
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This is what David prayed, a very dangerous prayer.
He prayed, "Search me, God, and know my heart.
Test me, and know my anxious thoughts.
See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting."
A very dangerous prayer.
Ok everyone repeat it.
Even if you are watching at home.
"Search me, God, and know my heart.
Test me, and know my anxious thoughts.
See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting."
In order to really get this we have to break it apart.
I want to take it piece by piece for you.
There are actually 4 parts to this.
The first thing that David prays is this:
1) "Search my heart."
He says it very directly in verse twenty-three, "Search me, God, and know my heart."
For some of you, you may look at that and go, "Now, why would we ask God to search our heart.
He knows it, and I've got a good heart anyway."
You've got a good heart, and I've got a good heart.
We got a good heart, right?
Actually, we need to understand that without Christ, we do not have a good heart.
It's a very common saying.
"Well, she's got a good heart."
Actually, she's got a wicked heart, if you want to be completely accurate.
says this: "The human heart," is what?
Let's all say it aloud.
"The human heart is the most deceitful of all things," and what is it?
"It is desperately wicked."
Who really knows how bad it is?
We need to understand that without Christ, our heart is not a good heart, that we deceive others, we deceive ourselves.
In fact, we're all liars.
How many of you are liars?
Raise your hands.
Raise them up.
Leave them up for a second.
Leave them up, if you will.
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