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CRUX Sundays- Answered Prayers
Pastor Jon continues through our series on Prayer. This message is on the topic of answered prayer and how you can have your prayers answered. Check it out and share it with your friends and family.
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Righteous Prayers of a Righteous Person
Read: James 5:16
Reflect: What does it mean to be a righteous person? How does righteousness help our prayers?
Request (Prayer): Ask God to make you a righteous person?
The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working. Does that mean that the prayer of an unrighteous person doesn’t have power? Yes. How so? In order to understand this whole idea about a righteous persons prayer being powerful, we first need to understand what the word “righteous” means.
The word, righteous, means, “just and right; free from guilt and sin”. So the righteous person is one who is free of sin and guilt. What person is righteous? It’s the person whose hope and trust is in Jesus. It is the person who has confessed with their mouth and believed in their heart that Jesus is Lord. That’s the righteous person.
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What is Prayer Centered On?
Read: John 14:13
Reflect: What should our prayers be centered around?
Request (Prayer): Ask for God to be glorified in your life and in everything you pray for.
John 14:13 says, “Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.”
The whole idea behind prayer is not so we can get what we want, but to align our will and desires with God’s. What does that mean?
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CRUX Sundays- How To Pray
Adam Eaton teaches a sermon that answers the question, “How Do I Pray?” This is the second message in our series, “Prayer”.
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