Driven by Prayer (2 of 2)
Ernest L. Easley
Luke 11.5-10
We're thinking tonight about the power of prayer. So take your Bible and turn please to Luke chapter 11. As I told you a couple of weeks a go .. I believe we're at a crossroads as a church. As we enter into this new millennium . . .. we must decide if we're going to be a church driven by programs or prayer. We must decide if we're going to be a church driven by personalities or prayer! We must decide if we're going to be a church driven by pep or prayer.
Churches that experience the unleashing of God's power and presence are churches driven by prayer! The kind of prayer that convicts the heart and cleanses the soul and cures the body! That's the kind of prayer we read about in the Word of God. The early church was a prayer driven church! No wonder they saw thousands saved! No wonder they saw people healed! No wonder the church was growing numerically and spiritually! They were a prayer driven church! And therefore . . . they reached their potential for God.
May I ask you a personal question? Are you living beneath your potential by not praying? If you're living beneath your potential by not praying than First Baptist is living beneath her potential because the church is nothing more than the sum total of the membership!!
Oh .. wouldn't it be wonderful for us to reach our potential as a church? Wouldn't it be wonderful for our Sunday School to reach it's potential? Wouldn't it be glorious for our music ministry to reach it's potential? Wouldn't it be great for our mission ministries to reach their potential! Well . . . I can tell you this: our ministries won't reach their potential without First Baptist being a prayer driven church! Oh . . . that we could hang a sign out front that says: ''Our Church is Prayer- Conditioned.''
Now we find a prayer promise in Luke 11! God promises us in this parable that He hears and answers us when we're persistent in our pra ...
Ernest L. Easley
Luke 11.5-10
We're thinking tonight about the power of prayer. So take your Bible and turn please to Luke chapter 11. As I told you a couple of weeks a go .. I believe we're at a crossroads as a church. As we enter into this new millennium . . .. we must decide if we're going to be a church driven by programs or prayer. We must decide if we're going to be a church driven by personalities or prayer! We must decide if we're going to be a church driven by pep or prayer.
Churches that experience the unleashing of God's power and presence are churches driven by prayer! The kind of prayer that convicts the heart and cleanses the soul and cures the body! That's the kind of prayer we read about in the Word of God. The early church was a prayer driven church! No wonder they saw thousands saved! No wonder they saw people healed! No wonder the church was growing numerically and spiritually! They were a prayer driven church! And therefore . . . they reached their potential for God.
May I ask you a personal question? Are you living beneath your potential by not praying? If you're living beneath your potential by not praying than First Baptist is living beneath her potential because the church is nothing more than the sum total of the membership!!
Oh .. wouldn't it be wonderful for us to reach our potential as a church? Wouldn't it be wonderful for our Sunday School to reach it's potential? Wouldn't it be glorious for our music ministry to reach it's potential? Wouldn't it be great for our mission ministries to reach their potential! Well . . . I can tell you this: our ministries won't reach their potential without First Baptist being a prayer driven church! Oh . . . that we could hang a sign out front that says: ''Our Church is Prayer- Conditioned.''
Now we find a prayer promise in Luke 11! God promises us in this parable that He hears and answers us when we're persistent in our pra ...
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