Half-Million Mobilization Sermon Series

Praying Our Way to Pentecost Faithfail Luke 22:31-34

Did Jesus’s prayer work? We believe prayer works. We know it works because prayer connects us to our heavenly Father and further aligns us with the heart of God. We know that prayers are not wasted and that God responds to the pleas of his people in ways we can see and in ways we will never understand.

Praying Our Way to Pentecost Faithfail Luke 22:31-34

Praying Our Way to Pentecost: Jericho Walls

If you are going to seek God first, there are a couple of things that are nonnegotiable. The first thing is that we must spend daily time in God’s Word. It is a book that I highly recommend. The whole idea is that by being in the Word, you allow God to speak to you through the pages of the Bible, often directly applying the words of Scripture to your situation or circumstance. The second thing is daily prayer, which we will look at more in depth.

Praying Our Way to Pentecost: Jericho Walls

Praying Our Way to Pentecost - Mobilize: Knees

Have you ever noticed that when someone asks you a question, the question reveals something about the person’s heart?

Questions are a window into the heart. They can be a road map to our deepest longings.

It’s like having a front-row seat into the soul.

When you take time to hear the questions people are asking, you begin to understand what people really desire.

Praying Our Way to Pentecost - Mobilize: Knees

Praying Our Way to Pentecost Mobilize: Hearts

Have you ever tried to work together with someone who didn’t have his or her heart in it?

It’s like the times when I find myself grocery shopping with my wife. I like being with my wife, but I don’t like grocery shopping!

She usually shops by herself, but there are those occasional times when I’m with her, and she needs to “stop and get a few things.”

The next thing I know, she is reminded of a few more things that she needs “while we are here.”

Meanwhile, I am mindlessly scooting along, pushing the grocery cart, and trying to entertain myself with my phone, hoping the battery doesn’t die.

My heart is NOT in grocery shopping.

Praying Our Way to Pentecost Mobilize: Hearts

Praying Our Way to Pentecost The Power of a Praying Church

Have you ever had a dream that seemed so real that you wondered afterward whether the experience might have actually happened? That’s what happened to Peter in Acts 12.

This morning we are going to look at the power of a praying church. My grandfather used to say:

Much Prayer = Much Power
Little Prayer = Little Power
No Prayer = No Power

Prayer is a powerful weapon. It’s like a missile. It can be aimed anywhere in the world, and it hits its target at the speed of thought, every single time.

Prayer is an evangelistic tool. Your children can tune you out. Your neighbors can slam the door in your face. But they cannot keep the Holy Spirit from knocking at the doors of their hearts in response to your prayers.

Praying Our Way to Pentecost The Power of a Praying Church

Praying Our Way to Pentecost Valley of Praise

In the nineteenth century, the printed word industry made a concerted effort to soften the crude language and swearing that had become prevalent in American culture. Authors began to incorporate “mild oaths” in their stories and reporting. Phrases such as “holy moly,” “gee whillikers,” and “heavens to Betsy” became common substitutes for more coarse alternatives. A favorite expression to denote surprise in this era was, “Jumpin’ Jehoshaphat!”

If you’re wondering what this literature lesson has to do with prayer, the passage we are reading today in 2 Chronicles features King Jehoshaphat, fourth king of Judah, circa 850 BC.

Praying Our Way to Pentecost Valley of Praise

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