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WHAT ABOUT UNANSWERED PRAYERS? (1 OF 4)
by Central Christian Church of Arizona
Scripture: John 11:1-57
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What about Unanswered Prayers? (1 of 4)
Series: Prayer Circles
Cal Jernigan
John 11
1) Opening Thoughts:
a) Welcome to all campuses
b) Next Week--Mark Batterson
i) Prayer Conference on Friday night
ii) 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM on the Gilbert Campus
2) What Do You Make of That?
a) The story of the guy with the marble.
i) A long time ago I heard the story of a mystery program on the radio that has never left me.
ii) It was about a man who was condemned to solitary confinement in a pitch black cell. The only thing he had to occupy his mind was a marble, which he threw repeatedly against the walls. He spent hours listening to the marble as it bounced and rolled around the room. Then he would grope in the darkness until he found his precious toy. One day, the prisoner threw his marble upward-but it failed to come down. Only silence echoed through the darkness. He was deeply disturbed by the ''evaporation'' of the marble and his inability to explain its disappearance. Finally, he went berserk, pulled out all of his hair and died.
iii) When the prison officials came to remove his body, a guard noticed something caught in a huge spider's web in the upper corner of the room.
iv) That's strange, he thought. I wonder how a marble got up here?
b) One of the realities of being ''human'' is that we always want to understand.
c) We need ''meaning''
(1) We need to be able to make ''sense'' of things around us.
(2) We don't really do all that well with mystery.
(3) If we can't find meaning to the situations of our lives we lose hope...We fall into despair
3) Prayer and The Need to Understand
a) Our current series: Prayer Circles
b) Getting Ready:
i) Get your Bibles: Open to John 11
ii) Get your Journal: Week 1
(1) Title: What About Unanswered Prayers?
(2) Big Idea: When it comes to prayer, there are always variables hidden from your sight.
4) Key Issues Regarding Prayer
a) Does God answer prayer?
i) Jesus sa ...
Series: Prayer Circles
Cal Jernigan
John 11
1) Opening Thoughts:
a) Welcome to all campuses
b) Next Week--Mark Batterson
i) Prayer Conference on Friday night
ii) 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM on the Gilbert Campus
2) What Do You Make of That?
a) The story of the guy with the marble.
i) A long time ago I heard the story of a mystery program on the radio that has never left me.
ii) It was about a man who was condemned to solitary confinement in a pitch black cell. The only thing he had to occupy his mind was a marble, which he threw repeatedly against the walls. He spent hours listening to the marble as it bounced and rolled around the room. Then he would grope in the darkness until he found his precious toy. One day, the prisoner threw his marble upward-but it failed to come down. Only silence echoed through the darkness. He was deeply disturbed by the ''evaporation'' of the marble and his inability to explain its disappearance. Finally, he went berserk, pulled out all of his hair and died.
iii) When the prison officials came to remove his body, a guard noticed something caught in a huge spider's web in the upper corner of the room.
iv) That's strange, he thought. I wonder how a marble got up here?
b) One of the realities of being ''human'' is that we always want to understand.
c) We need ''meaning''
(1) We need to be able to make ''sense'' of things around us.
(2) We don't really do all that well with mystery.
(3) If we can't find meaning to the situations of our lives we lose hope...We fall into despair
3) Prayer and The Need to Understand
a) Our current series: Prayer Circles
b) Getting Ready:
i) Get your Bibles: Open to John 11
ii) Get your Journal: Week 1
(1) Title: What About Unanswered Prayers?
(2) Big Idea: When it comes to prayer, there are always variables hidden from your sight.
4) Key Issues Regarding Prayer
a) Does God answer prayer?
i) Jesus sa ...
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