June 12, 2022
A Life Without PRAYER is a Life Without GOD Showing Up
James 4:2 …You do not have because you do not ask God. New International Version
James 4:3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. New International Version
How To Pray When We’re Treated UNJUSTLY
Luke 18:1 Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up. New International Version
Luke 18:2 He said: “In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared what people thought. 3 And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, ‘Grant me justice against my adversary.’ New International Version
Luke 18:4 “For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, ‘Even though I don’t fear God or care what people think, New International Version
Luke 18:5 yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won’t eventually come and attack me!’” New International Version
Luke 18:6 And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unjust judge says. 7 And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? New International Version
Luke 18:8 I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?” New International Version
How To Pray When It Feels Like We Can’t CATCH A BREAK
1 Chronicles 4:9 Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother had named him Jabez (sorrow maker), saying, “I gave birth to him in pain.” New International Version
1 Chronicles 4:10 Jabez cried out to the God of Israel, “Oh, that you would bless me and enlarge my territory! Let your hand be with me, and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain.” And God granted his request. New International Version
Numbers 6:23 “Tell Aaron and his sons, ‘This is how you are to bless the Israelites. Say to them: New International Version
Numbers 6:24 ‘“The Lord bless you and keep you; 25 the Lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to you; 26 the Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace.”’ 27 “So they will put my name on the Israelites, and I will bless them.” New International Version
Psalm 23:6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; And I will dwell in the house of the Lord Forever. New King James Version