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Intro
Prayer
How is your prayer life 1 to 10 ________,
How is your prayer life?
Do you ever get bored by prayer?
Do you ever fall asleep during prayer?
Do you wish you were better at praying?
Do you feel like your prayers are going nowhere?
Well, you are not alone.
Many Christians have some of these thoughts at least at one time or another.
We may even feel guilty or inadequate about our prayer life.
Let me describe a scenario for you, and you can decide if this you.
The first prayer that starts it all for the Christian is sometimes called the sinners prayer.
Preachers try to motivate people to pray.
Let me describe a scenario for you, and you can decide if this you.
The first prayer that starts it all for the Christian is sometimes called the sinners prayer.
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The sinners prayer is really a prayer of repentance and telling God that you trust in the saving work of the Lord Jesus Christ at the cross, and not on your own works.
This prayer is the result of the Gospel taking hold of our heart.
We hear about God’s holiness, we hear about our sinfulness, and we hear about how Jesus paid the price for our sins at the cross, and the Holy Spirit acts upon our hearts.
We pray out of our sinful heart and ask God to forgive us.
We tell Him we trust in Jesus for the forgiveness of our sins.
And at that time-eternity is shaken.
We walk from the kingdom of the world into the Kingdom of God.
Heaven and earth are changed.
Things are different.
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This prayer is the result of the Gospel taking hold of our heart.
We hear about God’s holiness, we hear about our sinfulness, and we hear about how Jesus paid the price for our sins at the cross, and the Holy Spirit acts upon our hearts.
Then we pray out of our sinful heart and ask God to forgive us.
We tell Him we trust in Jesus for the forgiveness of our sins.
At that time-eternity is shaken.
We walk from the kingdom of the world into the Kingdom of God.
Heaven and earth are changed.
Things are different.
It reminds me of this prayer from the Old Testament, prayed by Solomon at the dedication of the temple.
Listen to this prayer and the result from
2 Chronicles 6:40-7:3
This was a big prayer, with a big result.
Our salvation was a big prayer with a big result, that started with the Gospel message.
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Or, are you constantly amazed by prayer?
When you pray
Then, as we walk through the Christian life, our prayers, are often more about our needs and the needs of of our friends, church members and relatives needs.
We compile a prayer list.
We try and remember to pray for the things on the list, like a new job, or our car, or someone who is sick.
We pray for someone traveling and for a friend who is having a difficult marriage.
But nothing really compares to that big prayer.
Daily we try and remember to pray for the things on the list, like a new job, or our car, or someone who is sick.
We pray for someone traveling and for a friend who is having a difficult marriage.
These prayers, wear on us.
Occasionally, we see a quick answer, but more often the prayers go on for weeks, months, before anything seems to change.
We do not see any apparent progress and we grow tired.
The fire does not fall, and we wonder when we will see the glory of the Lord.
Now, before we go forward I want to be absolutely clear.
Keep praying for those things.
God’s words says and in everything by prayer and petition present your requests to God.
And to pray continually, and give us this day our daily bread.
So keep praying those things.
However for now, I want to talk about a big prayer in addition to those prayers.
Gospel centered prayer.
Prayers that are focused on the gospel.
Gospel centered prayers, unlike those other prayers involve eternity.
In gospel centered prayer you are praying prayers that may actually change heaven and earth.
Theses prayers are asking for God himself to do what He does, and what only He can do to fill people, to draw people, forgive people, to save people.
Gospel centered prayer.
Prayers that focused on the gospel.
Prayers involving eternity.
Prayer that may actually change heaven and earth.
Prayers asking for God-himself to fill people, draw people, forgive people, save people.
The Apostle Paul prayed those kinds of prayers many times in his letters.
Like
Philippians 1:9-11
Phil 1:9
Colossians 1:3-6
1 Thessalonians 1:2-5
1 Thes 2
2 Thessalonians 1:11-12
Church if we are praying prayers like that, If our prayers take on the characteristics of Pauls’s prayers.
We are not going to get bored.
These are prayers have an eternal consequence.
These prayers have outcomes that change heaven and hell.
Do you ever get bored by prayer?
We are in the introduction section of the book of Romans in Chapter 1.
Last week we finished the address, and this week here in the introduction in verses 8-13, the Apostle Paul tells the Roman church he is praying for them.
That prayer like so many of Paul’s prayers are gospel centered.
And even though the prayer is directed toward the church, that is those who have already recieved the call of the gospel.
He continues to keep his prayer gospel centered.
So let’s read , through 13.
mans 1:8-13
Romans 1:8-13
There are 5 things we can learn about gospel centered prayer from this passage.
The first, is that
Gospel centered prayer is for everyone.
If we go back a few verses in Romans we know Paul is writing this letter to the church of Rome.
The gospel is not just for unbelievers.
The Gospel is the center of the Christian faith,
Gospel centered prayer has world impact.
At the heart is the gospel.
Gospel centered prayer, is not confined to our immediate circle.
It could be, but it doesn’t have to be.
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