My Walk with Christ
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The Rock San Diego – 6/28/09 – Bubbles – Part 2, Got Bubbles?
Posted on August 30th, 2009 No comments1 Peter 3:7 – Husbands, likewise, dwell with them with understanding, giving honor to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.- God is not obligated to answer your prayers
- God has more answers to prayers than ‘yes’ or ‘no’
- God wants to answer your prayer
- God can follow your prayer, but can you? Are you jumping all over the place, and will not recognize His answer when it comes?
- Write down whatever you feel God saying to you
- How do you know when God is speaking to you?
- It’s a small, still voice and it’s Biblical
- Think about one big miracle in your life
- Not self-serving, something you can’t do, and in alignment with God’s call in your life (quitting smoking, etc)
- When God answers your prayer, He glorifies Himself
- A – Admire God
- Thank Him for everything – don’t take your blessings for granted – life, clear water, clothes, food
- W – Wait
- Imagine you’re sitting in front of a river, calm – release thoughts like they’re floating away down the river
- Can say “Thank you Jesus” to let go of those thoughts
- C – Confess
- Agree with God about your sin
- Here’s what I did, and here’s why I did it
- God, create in me a clean heart – help me understand my sin
- There’s stuff you need to pay for in your life – you will pay for it in one way or another
- I – Intercede
- Pray for other people, anyone
- Love your enemies – reveal your holiness to them, bring their life in alignment with the your Word – bless them
- The mouth speaks from the overflow of the heart
- P – Petition
- God wants to bless me – doesn’t mean He wants to give you want you think you want – God’s love is based on truth
- Ask for anything – ask for a miracle
- A – Admire
- While praying, I pictured [my daughter] sitting with me at the river in the W step, with our bare feet dangling in the water, just hanging out admiring the nature around us.
- While praying at C step, I realized that lust may be a symptom of my lack of intimacy with [my wife]. I pray that God would help me build more intimacy with [my wife].
- While praying at I step, I prayed for Angelo, that God would reveal His holiness and provide His peace to him. I realized that praying for someone who I instinctually feel has ‘more’ than me is liberating in a way, because it helps me relate to that person as human and needing Jesus. He’s not foreign just because he’s a powerful leader.
- Prayer is work, it can be difficult – praying for others, confession, submission