Sermon – May 6, 2018: “Extreme Prayer – Maximizing Jesus’ Prayer Promises”

Maximizing Jesus’ Prayer Promises

Extreme prayer strategies

  • Begin by asking God to show you what He wants you to do.
    • Ask for awareness of those who live far from God.
    • Ask for awareness of those who are suffering and in need, and ability to reach them.
    • Ask for revelation as to how you can do your part in fulfilling the Great commission.
    • Ask for revelation concerning the seemingly impossible things God would have you do to minister in His kingdom.
    • Ask for God to use you to make an unattainable goal happen in order to make a difference in this community.
  • Listen for God’s assignment
    • Pray that God will help you to recognize and hear His voice.
    • Pray for patience.
    • Pray for the ability to obey.
    • Engage in in fasting as you pray.
  • Keep strategic prayer lists.
    • Make a list of all the people who are within your sphere of influence.
    • Make lists that are in cooperation with the church and ministries you are involved in.
    • Develop a prayer strategy and be consistent in praying through these lists.
  • Get together regularly with others and pray
    • Pray with your spouse.
    • Pray with your family.
    • Pray with your brothers and sisters.
    • Pray with your small groups.
    • Pray with your ministry groups.
  • Pray expectantly.

Prayer strategy for KCC

  • Weekly prayer focus
  • Mid-week prayer service
  • Better accessibility to churchwide prayer concerns
  • Better communication concerning prayer needs for unified prayer in our life groups
  • Incorporating periods of prayer and fasting

Let’s begin a new era of praying

  • Pray for the endeavor to live the entirety of our lives the way Jesus lived his life.
  • Pray that prayer becomes essential in our lives on both personal and communal levels.
  • Pray that God guides us as individuals and as a body into developing and executing a strategy to reach Kingman.

 

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