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Preparing for Easter – part 3

Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes, and love respectful greetings in the market places, and chief seats in the synagogues and places of honor at banquets, who devour widows’ houses, and for appearance’s sake offer long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation.” Luke 20:46-47 I’ve been thinking a lot this week how about how many people…

Preparing for Easter – part 2

But Jesus looked at them and said, “What then is this that is written: ‘The stone which the builders rejected, This became the chief corner stone’? Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces; but on whomever it falls, it will scatter him like dust.” Luke 20:17-18 Yesterday we read and saw how Jesus cleaned the Temple from what…

Preparing for Easter – part 1

It is written, ‘And My house shall be a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a robbers’ den.” Luke 19:46 Easter is not a day, it is a season, and for us Christ followers, it is a way of life. In order for us to prepare for Easter Sunday, I want us to spend this week looking at Jesus’ last…

Dangerous and Bold Prayers – part 5

This week we have been looking at Psalm 139 and praying bold and dangerous prayers. Today I want you to consider your response to God’s call, His direction, His leading. In the Bible, there are three types of responses: Jonah’s Response: Here I am. I’m not going (“Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has…

Dangerous and Bold Prayers – part 4

See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. Psalm 139: 24 In Psalm 139, David asks God to look at four specific areas in his life. The first area was his heart. Second, David prays that God would reveal his fears, his anxious thoughts. Third, David asks God to reveal his sins. David ends…

Dangerous and Bold Prayers – part 3

See if there is any offensive way in me…. Psalm 139:24 This week we are looking at praying dangerous and bold prayers. In Psalm 139, David asks God to look at four specific areas in his life. The first area was his heart. Second, David prays that God would reveal his fears, his anxious thoughts. This is where it gets even a…

Dangerous and Bold Prayers – part 2

 Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. Psalm 139:23 Yesterday we looked at praying dangerous and bold prayers. In Psalm 139, David asks God to look at four specific areas in his life. The first area was his heart. Second, David prays that God would reveal his fears, his anxious thoughts. What is it that…

Dangerous and Bold Prayers – part 1

“Search me, God, and know my heart. Test me, and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.” Psalm 139:23-24 At the close of Psalm 139, David prays for God to look at four specific things. The first thing that David prays is for God to search his heart. David…

Praying Like Jesus – part 5

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.‘ Matthew 6: 13 Jesus ends His prayer reminding the disciples not to give in to temptation and to ask God to deliver them from the evil one. Matthew 6:13 in the NLT says, And don’t let us yield to temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. We know…

Praying Like Jesus – part 4

Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. Matthew 7:12 The fourth thing that Jesus teaches us in His prayer is to seek God’s forgiveness for our sins. For some of us, that’s a once-a-week prayer.  For some of us, it’s like every two minutes.  We need to acknowledge our “missing the mark” and ask God to forgive the…