SERIES: Transformed By Prayer
TITLE: Worn-Out Knees
TEXT: Jer. 33: 1-3 (p. 662)
“Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon his knees.” William Cowper
- WORN-OUT KNEES INVOLVES AN APPEAL
The word LORD in Hebrew is all caps and stands for God’s (personal covenant name). Used 6823 in the OT. It is God’s invitation to know Him (personally).
The word used is (Yahweh).
Several Scriptures dovetail with this verse:
Is.49:22- “Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations.”
Psalm 116:1- “I love the Lord, because he has heard my voice and my pleas for mercy.”
Psalm 50:15- “And call upon me in the day of trouble.”
- WORN-OUT KNEES INVOLVES ASSURANCE
1. First assurance: Titus 1:2 (p.988)
2. Second assurance: “I will answer you.”
- “This is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.”
I John 5:14-15
- WORN-OUT KNEES INVOLVES AFFIRMATION
(Insight/wisdom) come through prayer.
There are enemies of prayer: (anger, fear, and doubt) to name a few.
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