GETTING WHAT GOD GIVES YOU (7 OF 7)
by Jeff Strite
Scripture: Genesis 24:1-26
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Getting What God Gives You (7 of 7)
Series: The Father Figure
Jeff Strite
Genesis 24:1-27
OPEN: A woman was telling about her brother and wife were expecting another baby. Hoping to get her 4-year-old niece to talk about it... she asked her ''What do you want, a baby brother or a baby sister?'' ''Aunt Donna,'' she chided, ''sometimes you just gots to take what God gives ya.'' (Donna Patton, Hillsboro, OH. Christian Reader, ''Lite Fare.'')
A lot of people approach prayer that way.
They don't think it matters what you pray because God's gonna give ya, what God gonna give ya anyway, so why bother? It's not going to make any difference!
But the Bible has a different take on prayer. Psalm 81:10 ''I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.''
James puts it this way ''You do not have, because you do not ask.'' James 4:2
In other words: God's wants to give ya... what YOU want Him to give ya. So pray! Ask! Seek! Knock on the door!
Or, as Jesus said it: ''Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.'' Matthew 7:7
The Bible is filled with passages like the one we read today that tell of God answering very specific prayers in a very specific ways. Now, we all know there are several reasons why God might not answer our prayers: If it's not in God's Will; If it's not God's Timing; If we ask with wrong motives; OR if we have Sin in our lives, and on and on. There's no question, there are qualifiers as to whether our prayers get answered. But today, we're not going to focus on why some prayers don't work or aren't answered. Instead, we're going to focus on why THIS prayer did work and was answered.
A LITTLE BACKGROUND:
Abraham is an old man, and his only son Isaac is about 30 years old. The time has come for Isaac to take a bride... but there's a problem. Abraham knows what the girls are like in Palestine, and he's not pleased. He ma ...
Series: The Father Figure
Jeff Strite
Genesis 24:1-27
OPEN: A woman was telling about her brother and wife were expecting another baby. Hoping to get her 4-year-old niece to talk about it... she asked her ''What do you want, a baby brother or a baby sister?'' ''Aunt Donna,'' she chided, ''sometimes you just gots to take what God gives ya.'' (Donna Patton, Hillsboro, OH. Christian Reader, ''Lite Fare.'')
A lot of people approach prayer that way.
They don't think it matters what you pray because God's gonna give ya, what God gonna give ya anyway, so why bother? It's not going to make any difference!
But the Bible has a different take on prayer. Psalm 81:10 ''I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.''
James puts it this way ''You do not have, because you do not ask.'' James 4:2
In other words: God's wants to give ya... what YOU want Him to give ya. So pray! Ask! Seek! Knock on the door!
Or, as Jesus said it: ''Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.'' Matthew 7:7
The Bible is filled with passages like the one we read today that tell of God answering very specific prayers in a very specific ways. Now, we all know there are several reasons why God might not answer our prayers: If it's not in God's Will; If it's not God's Timing; If we ask with wrong motives; OR if we have Sin in our lives, and on and on. There's no question, there are qualifiers as to whether our prayers get answered. But today, we're not going to focus on why some prayers don't work or aren't answered. Instead, we're going to focus on why THIS prayer did work and was answered.
A LITTLE BACKGROUND:
Abraham is an old man, and his only son Isaac is about 30 years old. The time has come for Isaac to take a bride... but there's a problem. Abraham knows what the girls are like in Palestine, and he's not pleased. He ma ...
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