Pastor Michael Adams teaches on "Increasing Our Prayer Life Effectiveness" in this Sunday morning celebration.Increasing Our Prayer Life Effectiveness
Pastor Michael Adams
Sunday, March 25, 2012
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Sermon Notes:
Increasing Our Prayer Life Effectiveness
Prayer is key in our walk with Christ and keeps us grounded in WRM. It changes us and empowers us to change the world.
James 5:16b
The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results.
"The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayer-less studies, prayer- less work, or prayer-less religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks our wisdom but trebles when we pray." Samuel Chadwick
"The prayers of God’s saints are the capital stock in heaven by which Christ carries on His great work upon earth." E.M. Bounds
Basis for Prayer:
The disciples were in a prayer saturated culture but they had never heard the way this man, Jesus, prayed.
Matthew 16:15-19
13 When Jesus came into the region of Caesarea Philippi, He asked His disciples, saying, “Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?”14 So they said, “Some say John the Baptist, some Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”15 He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?”16 Simon Peter answered and said, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”17 Jesus answered and said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven. 18 And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. 19 And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”
1. Know Who Jesus Is
2. Build the Church
3. Keys to the Kingdom
Power Filled Prayer:
Matthew 6:5-13
7"When you pray, don't babble on and on as people of other religions do. They think their prayers are answered merely by repeating their words again and again. 8Don't be like them, for your Father knows exactly what you need even before you ask him! 9Pray like this: Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. 10May your Kingdom come soon. May your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven. 11Give us today the food we need,* 12and forgive us our sins, as we have forgiven those who sin against us. 13And don't let us yield to temptation,* but rescue us from the evil one.*
ACTS Prayer Model
Adoration
Confession
Thanksgiving
Supplication
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