- Today is the beginning of our Church wide 21 Days of Prayer & Fasting, so all of our devotions will be directed towards that.
- Let me encourage you to join us and experience the power of God through prayer!
- We are calling it, “JUST PRAY"
- Our theme verse is Philippians 4:6, "Don't worry about anything, instead pray about everything."
- Usually, we have a tendency to reverse that order.
- If you are anything like me, you worry first and then pray.
- It seems easy and natural to worry.
- We worry about money
- We worry about our kids
- We worry about our jobs.
- We worry about school and then our grades in school
- We worry about the economy
- We worry about the elections
- And the list goes on and on
- But Jesus says, “Don’t Worry about anything”
- How is that possible?
- The answer is in the verse.
- It goes on to say, “Instead”, or "in place of”
- Remove the worry and replace it with prayer.
- Replace the worry with prayer each and every time.
- Begin to train yourself, every time a fear or worry comes up in your mind, don’t speak it…Pray it!
- The very next verse says, “Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts
and minds as you live in Christ Jesus.”
- Peace is a direct result of prayer, just like fear is a direct result of worry.
- If your life is full of fear then you worry to much.
- If worry is knocking on your door this morning, don’t open it.
- When you open the door to worry, you just opened the door to fear.
- Doubt and fear will dominate your life.
- But if you want to be full of God’s peace, then begin to pray a lot!
- Pray about everything and anything.
- Prayer changes the atmosphere!
- Because when you pray, it’s all about relationship.
- In any relationship, the presence of that person comes in.
- And the person with the strongest presence, dominates the room.
- When you pray, what you are doing is you are opening the door for a relationship with the Prince of Peace…
- And you simply let His presence dominate!
- Open the door, let Him in and then let Him take over!
- In His presence, fear must flee!
- Prayer not only changes the atmosphere, prayer changes everything!
- If you build up your prayer life, you will build up your Faith!
- It will be a Faith Lift!
- So today, don’t worry about anything...
- Today, Just Pray!