Walking with Jesus pt 2
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01-13-2019
Walking with Jesus pt 2
Prayer
Intro -
welcome to Maranatha
Recap
Today we continue with our series walking with Jesus
Before we can continue I first want to recap last week
In case you missed it and were unable to watch it, or if you were here and were down stairs or if you were here and fell asleep
See we are talking about walking with Jesus and for you to be able to walk with Jesus and grow in your walk with Jesus
you have to you must be reading your Bible
You cannot expect to grow in your personal relationship with Jesus unless you read your bible!
16 All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; 17 so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work.
We must be reading our Bibles
The Bible serves a purpose but you will never understand that purpose unless you read it
Hear me you have to read your Bible,
You might say I am not a reader, become one, you will say that some of it is boring, read it anyway
Now we can move into pt 2
Prayer
IF you expect to grow in your walk with Jesus
You have to pray
see prayer at its basic form is communication with God
If you only communicated with your spouse once or twice a week you would say you would have a very successful marriage
if you only communicated with your boss or co workers once or twice a week work would be going to good
Do you see what we are saying, communication is very important, except not when it comes to your walk with Jesus, for some reason we think we can do fine not communicating with Jesus
In
17 And He began to teach and say to them, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a robbers’ den.”
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Jesus begins to teach and the first thing he Does is reference other old scripture
why because he knew His Bible, he must have read it
But he is telling the people that first and foremost the church, Gods house is a house of prayer
Church thats why we offer Corporate prayer, except not very many of you come
If this is a house of prayer, I must ask where is all the prayer?
7 Even those I will bring to My holy mountain And make them joyful in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be acceptable on My altar; For My house will be called a house of prayer for all the peoples.”
The church is supposed to be a house of prayer
See this building is to be a house of prayer
see the believer is supposed to be a house of prayer
so I think we have to ask ourselves
Where has all the prayer gone
If we say that communication is important then why dont we apply it to our walks with Jesus and as individuals we must be praying
As a church we must be praying
We are called a house of prayer
as believers in Christ we are called a house of prayer, do you understand that you were intended to be a house of prayer, this building and the gathering of believers were intended to be house of prayer
a house where you and I can communicate with Jesus and brings things before the Father
If you intend to walk with Jesus and grow your walk you must begin to pray
this like last week is not an option
What better example to look is there other than Jesus
35 In the early morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house, and went away to a secluded place, and was praying there.
I told you Jesus is our example
Notice in the Jesus gets up early while its still dark outside
Before his day had started, not always easy but if you will make Jesus the priority in your life then you will begin to wake up early
Notice that Jesus goes away to a secluded place, most of us have a big enough house you can find a quite place for Just you and Jesus
Jesus got up to spend time with Jesus
Jesus got up to spend time praying communicating with God the father
If Jesus is our example and if we want to grow in our own walks with Jesus church we need to be what we were intended to be which is a house of prayer
Church we need to be praying, where has all the prayer gone??
Why is it when things go bad do we pray, we need to be praying all the time
15 But the news about Him was spreading even farther, and large crowds were gathering to hear Him and to be healed of their sicknesses. 16 But Jesus Himself would often slip away to the wilderness and pray.
So if you struggle to get up in the morning and you are trying to get up in the morning or if you are a morning person
Notice Jesus still found time through out the day to slip off and do some praying
When we went on the mission trip, the one thing we did every morning as a team and as individuals, was spend time with Jesus and would cover that day in prayer
So maybe you are working on getting up in the morning earlier thatn you do becasue you pastor is calling you out, but dont forget that through the day you need prayer
I get to ride around in a Police car all day long, and at times I will drive around just praying for what comes to mind or on my way to a call I will pray that God would give me wisdom for this call
But church is prayer was important to Jesus, and important enough that through the day, through ministry, through out work he would retreat to pray
Most of you may not know this and some of you may know this, but Sunday Service begins in a classroom behind the stage
Myself, Doyal, and sometimes others gather to pray over the service
Church I cannot begin to stress this point enough but during your work day begin to find time to pray
Jesus got up to pray in the early morning, and would find time to pray through out the day
46 After bidding them farewell, He left for the mountain to pray.
Well maybe you have guessed it
See Jesus after sending people away and telling them good bye, he goes again to pray
At the end of the day Jesus finds it important enough to spend time in prayer again
Most of us would think getting up in the morning before the sun gets up to pray would be enough
Then maybe if we pray through out the day we would think we have it covered
Jesus through out his ministry found time to slip away and pray
You and I are to be houses of prayer, but we can find time to get up in the morning and pray, or that our day is to busy to sneak off and pray, or we have so packed our busy lives with stuff that we cant find time to sneak off and pray
Church We must be praying through out our day
Church this place is to be a house of pray and we cant find time to gather and pray because we are so busy or because we are at the church every night
I guess maybe I should have said that you are not going to like this sermon either
But if you and I want to grow our personal relationship with Jesus then we have to be praying, we have to be communicating with God
that means we need to be meeting together to pray we need to be getting up early and praying and praying through out the day and praying at the end of our day
Understand me that prayer is more than just a laundry list of our own problems, but it is an opportunity to sit down with the Creator of the Universe and talk and listen!
17 pray without ceasing;
Finally to sup it up
we need to be praying at all times
To be in a constant state of prayer
yes we need to find special times alone to pray, and yes we need to gather at times as a church to pray but all in all we need to be praying all the time
you might say but I don't have that much to pray, but you do
If you will read the Psalms and then begin to pray them
See you are reading and praying, and if you get to a psalm you don’t understand tell God that
Church we need to be praying!!
closing
our invitation is going to be a bit different
they are going to come up and play some music I am going to invite you to just sit in your seat and spend sometime in prayer
maybe you want to come to the altar and pray
or maybe you are here and do not have a personal relationship with Jesus, and none of this has made sense to have a walk with Jesus, to talk to the creator of the universe, but you feel God calling you to Himself
you can come down front and we will have people who can open up the Bible and show you though scripture how you can begin a personal relationship with Jesus