SERIES: Transformed By Prayer
TITLE: God Has Answers
TEXT: Selected Scripture
QUESTION/STATEMENT #1: I am too insignificant for God to even spend his time listening to me.
- Psalm 8:3-4 (p.450)
- Psalm 139:13-18 (p.522)
QUESTION/STATEMENT #2: The answer will be something I don’t want to hear or am not prepared to hear.
- Matthew 7:7 (p.812)
- Romans 8:28-29 (p.944)
- “He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man’s heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done for the beginning to the end.” Eccl.3:11
QUESTION/STATEMENT #3: I’ve prayed for this before I think God is tired of hearing about it, or He’ll be mad that I keep asking.”
- Luke 11:5-13 (p.869) See also Luke 18:1-8
- Jesus taught two parables to teach men (not to be discouraged) in their prayer lives.
QUESTION/STATEMENT #4: I don’t pray because sometimes I don’t know the words to say.
- Romans 8:26-27 (p.944)
- “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you. Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.” John 14:26-27
QUESTION/STATEMENT #5: It is easy to pray when things seem to be beyond our control, an dyou need to look to God for help and guidance. We sometimes forget to pray when everything appears to be going well.
- Sometimes being a follower of Jesus puts us under greater trial so we can be a (tribute to Him), so we can bring (glory to His name).
QUESTION/STATEMENT #6: God already knows what I am going to say; He already knows my needs; why should I pray?
- James 1:5-8 (p.1011)
- God wants us to ask Him, not for Him, but for us!
QUESTION/STATEMENT #7: I am praying but it seems like either I am not getting an answer or God simply isn’t listening.
- Are you listening to God?
- Are you harboring anything against anyone?
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