YOUR PRAYERS HAVE POWER (4 OF 12)
by Tony Thomas
Scripture: ?James 5:16
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Your Prayers Have Power (4 of 12)
Series: Unshakable Hope
Tony Thomas
James 5:16
A trucker removes his hat and quietly bows his head at a noisy lunch counter. A child in PJ's kneels at her bedside. A baseball player crosses himself as he steps to the plate. A white-haired woman lights a candle and weeps.
Prayer. Although practiced in different ways, it is the most familiar discipline of the Christian life. Those who pray include skeptics and believers, the meek and mighty, and people of every creed and culture who pray out of pious faith or primal fear to a reality greater than one's self.
The earliest prayers in the Bible are intimate dialogues: Adam, conversing with God in the cool of the day; Abraham, stunned that God would grant him children; and Moses, removing his sandals and talking with God from a burning bush.
We're in a series called Unshakable Hope, and we're rehearsing twelve of God's greatest promises. The series is based on a passage from Peter's second letter:
2 Peter 1:4 God has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature.
Today's promise is, Your Prayers Have Power, and it's based on a promise that was penned by the brother of Jesus in James 5:16, ''The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.'' The CEV renders that verse like this, ''When a believing person prays, great things happen.''
Rodger Bingham was voted America's favorite contestant after his prayer was heard by 45 million viewers. Survivor is TV's all-time, top-rated reality series program. Bingham was one of sixteen contestants competing for $1 million in the Australian outback.
Bingham was the eldest contestant on season two. An Industrial Arts teacher, a part-time farmer, married for 33 years to his high school sweetheart, Bingham is an elder in the Crittenden Christian Church in Kentucky.
Each contestant brought one item to the island and Bingham brought his Good News Bible. ...
Series: Unshakable Hope
Tony Thomas
James 5:16
A trucker removes his hat and quietly bows his head at a noisy lunch counter. A child in PJ's kneels at her bedside. A baseball player crosses himself as he steps to the plate. A white-haired woman lights a candle and weeps.
Prayer. Although practiced in different ways, it is the most familiar discipline of the Christian life. Those who pray include skeptics and believers, the meek and mighty, and people of every creed and culture who pray out of pious faith or primal fear to a reality greater than one's self.
The earliest prayers in the Bible are intimate dialogues: Adam, conversing with God in the cool of the day; Abraham, stunned that God would grant him children; and Moses, removing his sandals and talking with God from a burning bush.
We're in a series called Unshakable Hope, and we're rehearsing twelve of God's greatest promises. The series is based on a passage from Peter's second letter:
2 Peter 1:4 God has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature.
Today's promise is, Your Prayers Have Power, and it's based on a promise that was penned by the brother of Jesus in James 5:16, ''The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.'' The CEV renders that verse like this, ''When a believing person prays, great things happen.''
Rodger Bingham was voted America's favorite contestant after his prayer was heard by 45 million viewers. Survivor is TV's all-time, top-rated reality series program. Bingham was one of sixteen contestants competing for $1 million in the Australian outback.
Bingham was the eldest contestant on season two. An Industrial Arts teacher, a part-time farmer, married for 33 years to his high school sweetheart, Bingham is an elder in the Crittenden Christian Church in Kentucky.
Each contestant brought one item to the island and Bingham brought his Good News Bible. ...
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