Unanswered Prayers
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WE EXIST TO HELP PEOPLE KNOW JESUS AND FIND PURPOSE
How to deal with unanswered prayer
BE PERSISTENT
Parable of the persistent widow
7 “Keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you.
Why not just give it to me the first time? Cause he wants you to get what you want AND the character trait of persistence
“I’ve been praying for years...” Have you really? Daily Pray
GOD WILL ANSWER IN HIS TIME — It may not be how you want… but he’ll come through
SOMETIMES GOD SAYS YES
HAVE A JOURNAL OF YOUR PRAYERS TO GOD — Then you can go back and see all the prayers he answered — odds are there are a lot you just are not keeping up with them.
1 I love the Lord, for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy. 2 Because he turned his ear to me, I will call on him as long as I live.
20 For all of God’s promises have been fulfilled in Christ with a resounding “Yes!” And through Christ, our “Amen” (which means “Yes”) ascends to God for his glory.
THERE’S A WARNING WITH YES FROM GOD — You are then responsible with that Yes — Provide man or woman… now you have to steward it well — prayed for kids… now you have to steward that yes well — BE FAITHFUL IN THE YES
SOMETIMES GOD SAYS WAIT
Psalm 55:22 (NIV)
22 Cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous be shaken.
IF HE NEEDS TO SUSTAIN YOU … IT MUST MEAN THERE IS A WAIT — Disney world universal… EXPERTS at the wait — They keep you going.
DOCTORS WAITING ROOM — They come and get you and get to what — WAIT AGAIN IN A SMALLER ROOM WITH NO HGTV
SOMETIMES THE WAIT IS A TEST! — To see if you will actually wait on God and HIS timing
10 I want to know Christ and experience the mighty power that raised him from the dead. I want to suffer with him, sharing in his death, 11 so that one way or another I will experience the resurrection from the dead!
MAYBE GOD WANT’S YOU TO DIE TO YOUR NEEDS FIRST — ABRAHAM AND ISSAAC — WORSHIP THE BLESSING INSTEAD OF THE BLESSER — Are you willing to say “Even if I don’t get it i’ll worship you
WILL YOU USE YOUR GIFT WHEN NO ONE IS APPLAUDING OR ONLY WHEN PEOPLE ARE LOOKING? — Kids worship vs. Main Aud worship — BE FAITHFUL IN SEASON AND OUT OF SEASON — PREACH WITH 40 or 4,000?
14 Wait patiently for the Lord. Be brave and courageous. Yes, wait patiently for the Lord.
BE BRAVE AND COURAGEOUS WHILE YOU WAIT… Not just sitting around — PREPARE AS IF GOD IS GOING TO MAKE IT HAPPEN
GOD IS THERE ANYTHING I CAN BE DOING RIGHT NOW THAT WOULD MAKE YOU WANT TO BLESS ME IN THIS?
CAPTAIN CRUNCH STORY
IT’S GOTTA BE THE BERRIES AND THE CRUNCH — WE PICK OUT WHAT WE WANT — God bless me financially! Awesome start tithing as well — Bring me great friends! Awesome forgive some people that have wronged you — I want to feel full of purpose! Start serving
THERE IS OUR PART AND GOD’S PART
MOSES RED SEA ILLUSTRATION
MOSES — BURING BUSH — TELL WIFE — GO BACK TO EGYPT WANTED MAN — TELL FATHER IN LAW YOUR BOSS — WALK ALL THE WAY BACK TO EGYPT — FIND YOUR PEOPLE AND EXPLAIN — TELL PHAROH THE MOST POWERFUL MAN LET THE PEOPLE GO — STAY FAITHFUL AS YOUR PEOPLE GET MADDER — IM GONNA BRING PLAGUES — TELL THEM TO PACK UP — HAUL EVERYTHING TO RED SEA — YOU’RE GONNA BE EXAUHSTED AND TIRED AND PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE CHASING YOU — BACKS AGAINST THE WALL — THEN I’LL PART THE RED SEA
SOMETIMES GOD SAYS NO
THIS IS THE PART NOOOO ONE LIKES — There will be things that sometimes God give you a hard no on — God says no to EVERYONE about something
JOHN THE BAPTIST — BAPTIZED JESUS — Amazing Ministry — was thrown in prison — asked a follow “LET JESUS KNOW IM IN PRISON” — Tells Jesus and Jesus tell’s John “STAY FAITHFUL” — LATER JOHN WAS MURDERED IN PRISON
BUT IF I’M FAITHFUL GOD WILL ALWAYS SAY YES — God said not to John — Some of you prayed this last year for someone you loved and you got a no — GOD HEALED THEM DIFFERENTLY THAN YOU WANTED
PAUL WAS FAITHFUL TO GOD AND KEPT GETTING THROWN IN PRISON OVER AND OVER AGAIN — BECAUSE HE WAS IN PRISON HE KEPT WRITING LETTERS
BECAUSE PAUL HEARD NO WE HAVE 1/3 OF THE NEW TESTAMENT
SOMETIMES GOD’S GREATEST WORK IS DONE IN THE NO
JESUS WAS TOLD NO AT GETHSEMANE
IF GOD SAYS NO… IS JESUS ENOUGH???
