The Rock San Diego – 7/26/09 – Bubbles – Part 5, Answer Bubbles

1. No
   • Turning your ear away from hearing God will turn your prayer into an abomination to God
2. Wait
   • Don’t impose your timetable on God
   • His blessings are on His timetable
   • God speaks to us in a small still voice
   • He wants you to stop and wait – slow your life down
3. Yes, it is on its way
   • Many times the blessing is on its way, it just hasn’t arrived yet
   • The goal of prayer is not about getting God to say yes
   • The goal of prayer is for God to mold you into His image – making you holy
   • It’s about Him communicating with you, your response, and Him shaping you
4. Wrong prayer
   • It’s not about what you want, it’s about what God wants
   • When you are most dependent upon God, you are most strong
   • Surrender your intelligence to God
     • I have an idea, but what do you want?
5. Keep praying
   • How much is your prayer worth to you?
   • I wonder what miracles would happen in your life if you really spent time in prayer
   • You can’t get to know God with a minute here and a minute there
   • God wants to hang out with you, He wants you to know Him
   • Time makes a difference in prayer
   • You getting what you want is not the goal
   • How bad are you going to obey Him
   • Are you really pursuing God and what He wants?
   • How diligent do you pursue God?
6. Done
   • Already did it – past tense – you may not realize it yet
   • You’re already happy and don’t even know it – you may have an idea of happiness or what you want that isn’t real
   • Riches give you the opportunity to be more of who you really are
7. Why are you asking me that?
   • You want to be real careful that you don’t pray for something that you can’t swallow
     • Owning a business is nothing like what people think who haven’t done it
     • Owning a house
8. Get your life right
   • There is sin in your life that you need to deal with – you can’t keep living the way you’re living