Summer of Prayer
learning & growing in prayer - Summer 2020
Confession
July 19, 2020 • Lyle Thompson
There’s something about confession that is powerful - something that cleanses our soul - and yet it’s something few of us have made a regular practice in our lives. But what if we did this more regularly? The Spirit nudges us toward confession by giving us feelings of conviction and as we respond in repentance, there is a freedom and growing relational depth we experience with God.
Adoration
July 12, 2020 • Pastor Jack Schull
We are not called to be microscopes. We are called to be telescopes. There is nothing and nobody more superior than God. And so the calling of those who love God is to ADORE HIS GREATNESS and to make his greatness begin to look as great as it really is to those around us. Be a telescope to the world of the infinite greatness of God. Seeing God for who he truly is, results in joyful worship and a compelling, growing adoration.
Hearing Begins With Thanks
July 5, 2020 • Pastor David Porter
Do you feel tired, warn down, frustrated and because of this your prayer life has taken a hit and it seems when you feel you need God more He feels further away and it seems its been a while since you last really heard from God?? Often this is because we have stopped thanking and praising God, we have forgotten to minister to the Lord early and often. This message serves as a wake up call, a call to the church to get back to its first love and its highest calling and to doing what is clearly God's will for our lives. Here's to all the ones who are answering this call!
Never Lose Heart
June 28, 2020 • Pastor David Porter
Jesus knew it would be difficult for His followers to continue to pray especially during hard and trying times and so he told them this story of a widow protesting an unjust judge and how she was able to change his mind and how boldly then we ought to protest God to act on our behalf against all forms of oppression. When the "Justice of Jesus" is enacted it comes in a very different way than any human government, judge, or people group can ever bring. The Justice of Jesus is always perfect and full of mercy and this Just Judge and King we must protest if we want to become "overcomers" in an unjust world.
Ears to Hear
June 21, 2020 • Pastor Jack Schull
God is a Guiding God. He doesn't leave people on their own, unattended to and not communicated with. If we want to be a people who HEAR from God, we have to learn how to recognize when God is speaking to us and ways in which we can tune in. Prayer is not just me talking with God. God talks back. We must cultivate ears to hear. Tonight we lean into 2 predominant ways God speaks: Scripture and Promptings.
The Lord's Prayer (part 2)
June 14, 2020 • Pastor Jack Schull
As we continue to lean into the Lord's Prayer we see within this blueprint for prayer some truths for us to engage in. We are active agents for God - partnered with Him to bring more of His ways activated within our world. We're to have a flow of forgiveness in our lives and we're to pursue a full allegiance to God and His best in life as we live within a world that tries to pull us away from God and his best.
The Lord's Prayer (part 1)
June 7, 2020 • Pastor Jack Schull
We want us to turn to where Jesus introduces what many refer to as the Lord’s Prayer. Jesus sets the backdrop to the relational nature and intimacy of prayer and he gives us a blueprint, if you will, of the core of prayer. This is taught in the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew ch. 6. Jesus radically changes the paradigm of how we approach prayer and invites us into making prayer personal and a powerful way to engage with our Heavenly Father.
Why Pray?
May 31, 2020 • Pastor David Porter
This question is simple and would seem to need no explanation, like the question why live or why breathe the question why pray is fundamental and essential to life in Christ yet many find it hard to do and make apart of their every days lives. This message is meant to give you a bigger WHY to your prayer life that would increase your desire to pray and pray more passionately! Once your desire for prayer becomes unquenchable all the other questions to prayer and living with purpose become as natural as breathing in and out. Prayerfully listen to this message as we hope it will ground you in the truth of Scripture and why you should pray with faith and joy unspeakable!