Prayer: the Heart Issues

·       Andrew: Study of Prayer. What’s in it for me? Is it worth spending time?

·       David: Our visit to Brasstown Bald. Want to come if we go again?

·       Andrew: Why? What’s in it for me? Is it worth the time invested?

·       David: Just awe-inspiring beauty.

·       Andrew: So it did nothing for you?

·       David: We were refreshed, strengthened

·       RELATE TO PRAYER, MEETING GOD
And Scripture says, “Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart.”

·       Andrew: So I can ask anything?

Okay. I want a 35” TV with surround sound. Can I ask for that? (I’ll use it to show evangelistic videos to my neighbors)

·       David: Sure. And God will have time to hear you too.

·       Andrew: What do you mean, “Hear you, too?”

·       David: As well as the others he’s hearing.

·       While he’s holding the hand of a dying child and comforting the parents

·       While he’s hearing the prayer of a family of refugees who have no home and no earthly hope of a meal tonight.

·       While he’s hearing an Indian pastor who receives $20 a month salary as he prays for provision of his daughter’s school fees for the next term.

·       While Christian workers in Afghanistan are calling to him for direction in how to minister in the midst of a war without feeling panic.

·       So go ahead.

·       Andrew: Uh. I. Uh. I’m sort of embarrassed to ask now. Actually I think, when I hear about those things, that there are better things for me to do than just watch TV anyway.

·       TIMOTHY

·       David: Was I wrong to emphasize that? Maybe faith is an add-on for life; maybe it can be faith in anything.

·       Timothy: Relax, have an ice cream cone

·       [Tim offers cones. One is empty, the other has a banana]

·       “God has given us eternal life. This life is in his Son. Whoever has the son has life, whoever does not have the son does not have life” (1 John 5:11,12).