Sermon Tone Analysis

*THE PRAYER OF SURRENDER*

*The Lord’s Prayer: Path to Inner Peace*

*Part 3 of  8*

*Rick Warren *

*July 6-7, 2002*

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                      It’s Easy to Lose Your Inner Peace…

                             … when circumstances are uncontrollable

                             … when people are unchangeable

                             … when problems are unexplainable

 

/“May your kingdom come, may your will be done/

/on earth as it is in heaven.”/

Matt.

6:10 (GN)

 

 

God’s Kingdom is wherever ________________________________________

 

 

THE PRAYER OF SURRENDER MEANS…

 

1.

I ACCEPT ____________________________________________________________

 

/“I have learned to be satisfied with the things I have and with everything that happens.

I know how to live when I am poor, and I know how to live when I have plenty.

I have learned the secret of being happy at any time in everything that happens….

I can do all things through Christ, because He gives me strength.”/

Phil.

4:11-13 (NCV)

 

 

 

THE SERENITY RAYER

“God grant me the serenity

to accept the thing I cannot change,

the courage to change the things I can,

and the wisdom to know the difference.

Living one day at a time,

Enjoying one moment at a time

Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace

Taking as Jesus did, this sinful world as it is,

Not as I would have it;

Trusting that You will make all things right

If I surrender to Your will

So that I may be reasonably happy in this life

And supremely happy with You forever in the next.

Amen.

Reinhold Niebuhr

 

 

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2.

I SURRENDER ____________________________________________________________

/“Surrender yourself to the Lord, and wait patiently for Him.”/  Ps.

37:7a (GW)

 

/“If a person’s thinking is controlled by his sinful self, then there is death.

But if his thinking is controlled by the Spirit, then there is life and peace.”

/Rom.

8:6 (ICB)

 

/“Stop quarreling with God!

If you agree with Him, you will have peace at last, and things will go well for you.”

/ Job 22:21 (NLT)

 

 

3.

I TRUST ____________________________________________________________

/“You, Lord, give true peace to those who depend on You because they trust You.”/

Isa.

26:3 (NCV)

 

/“God will give you all you need from day to day if you live for Him and make the Kingdom of God your primary concern.”/

Matt.

6:33 (NLT)

 

/“Give yourselves to God… surrender your whole being to Him to be used for righteous purposes.”/

Rom.

6:13 (TEV)

 

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\\ *THE PRAYER OF SURRENDER*

*The Lord’s Prayer: Path to Inner Peace*

*Part 3 of  8*

*Rick Warren *

*July 6-7, 2002*

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Today is a very historic day in the life of Saddleback church as we open the first of three children’s buildings.

The nursery building opens today.

Next to that building in the plaza building many of you don’t know we are building, actually they’re opening today too, two video venues, so that when it’s too hot to set outside or it’s raining and it’s a little crowded we actually have two overflow venues that are actually seeing this service live right now on very large screens.

One downstairs inside on a pretty carpeted area.

The other upstairs in an open café.

That third floor is the best view in Orange County.

I’ve decided that next week I’m going to preach from here and this will be the overflow.

It’s really cool.

You can feel the breeze up there.

It’s absolutely gorgeous.

I hope you will visit it after the service.

Today we’re going to continue in our series as we go through The Lord’s Prayer.

I’m calling this “The Path to Inner Peace”.

Two weeks ago we looked at the fact that God says the key to peace is prayer.

In Philippians 4 He says, /“Don’t worry about anything.

Instead pray about everything and the peace of God will rule your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.”/

So God says the more you pray the more peace you have.

The less you pray the less peace you’ll have.

You can either worry or pray as you go through life.

Then the question becomes, what do we pray?

Of course, God gave us a model.

We call it the Lord’s Prayer.

For eight weeks this summer we’re going through this payer phrase by phrase as the eight steps to finding personal inner peace.

Actually it’s eight different prayers and we’re going to look at the third phrase today.

The truth is it’s really quite easy to lose your internal peace.

One minute everything’s cool.

You’re kicked back, laid back and it feels good and you’re in serenity.

And the next minute you get a phone call and you’re stressed out.

It’s very easy to lose your peace.

Three ways people most often get anxious or stressed…

 

       When your circumstances are uncontrollable.

You feel helpless.

When people around them are unchanageable.

They won’t cooperate.

Have you ever tried to change somebody who didn’t want to be changed?

That’s stressing.

Have you ever done a little personal improvement plan on your husband or wife or your kids and they won’t get with the action?