LED BY THE SPIRIT (4 OF 4)
by Steve Jones
Scripture: Romans 7:18, Romans 8:13-15
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Led by the Spirit (4 of 4)
Series: Just Do Something - How to Find God's Will
Steve Jones
Selected Scripture
INTRODUCTION: Two young boys were spending the night at their grandparents' house. At bedtime, the two boys knelt beside their beds to say their prayers. The youngest one began praying at the top of his lungs, ''I PRAY FOR A NEW BICYCLE. I PRAY FOR A NEW NINTENDO. I PRAY FOR A NEW VCR...'' His older brother leaned over and nudged the younger brother and said, ''Why are you shouting your prayers? God isn't deaf.'' To which the little brother replied, ''No, but Grandma is!''
Perhaps we're used to thinking of prayer in terms of asking for THINGS. Today I want us to think of prayer in terms of asking God for POWER.
Have you ever noticed how many times in the Bible our examples of faith PRAYED in order to gain a victory?
For example, in the 14th year of Hezekiah, the King of Judah, Sennacharib, the King of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them. Jerusalem was left isolated against hundreds of thousands of armed Assyrian soldiers. All there was in Jerusalem was a frightened people, a prophet named Isaiah, and a praying king.
The Assyrian emissary stood by the conduit outside the city and mocked the people. He taunted them, saying that he would even give them 2,000 horses if they could find the men to put on them. He scoffed at the Lord God: ''Has any of the gods of the nations delivered His land out of the hand of the King of Assyria?''(Is.36.18). And he threatened to starve the city until people would eat their own dung and drink their own urine (Is.36.12).
Eliakim, the king's steward, listened to all this and then brought the emissary's words to King Hezekiah. The king tore his clothes and went up to the house of the Lord, spread Sennacharib's letter before God and said:
Is.37:20 ''Now, O Lord our God, rescue us from his power; then all the kingdoms of the earth will know that you, alone, O Lord, are ...
Series: Just Do Something - How to Find God's Will
Steve Jones
Selected Scripture
INTRODUCTION: Two young boys were spending the night at their grandparents' house. At bedtime, the two boys knelt beside their beds to say their prayers. The youngest one began praying at the top of his lungs, ''I PRAY FOR A NEW BICYCLE. I PRAY FOR A NEW NINTENDO. I PRAY FOR A NEW VCR...'' His older brother leaned over and nudged the younger brother and said, ''Why are you shouting your prayers? God isn't deaf.'' To which the little brother replied, ''No, but Grandma is!''
Perhaps we're used to thinking of prayer in terms of asking for THINGS. Today I want us to think of prayer in terms of asking God for POWER.
Have you ever noticed how many times in the Bible our examples of faith PRAYED in order to gain a victory?
For example, in the 14th year of Hezekiah, the King of Judah, Sennacharib, the King of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them. Jerusalem was left isolated against hundreds of thousands of armed Assyrian soldiers. All there was in Jerusalem was a frightened people, a prophet named Isaiah, and a praying king.
The Assyrian emissary stood by the conduit outside the city and mocked the people. He taunted them, saying that he would even give them 2,000 horses if they could find the men to put on them. He scoffed at the Lord God: ''Has any of the gods of the nations delivered His land out of the hand of the King of Assyria?''(Is.36.18). And he threatened to starve the city until people would eat their own dung and drink their own urine (Is.36.12).
Eliakim, the king's steward, listened to all this and then brought the emissary's words to King Hezekiah. The king tore his clothes and went up to the house of the Lord, spread Sennacharib's letter before God and said:
Is.37:20 ''Now, O Lord our God, rescue us from his power; then all the kingdoms of the earth will know that you, alone, O Lord, are ...
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