Revolutionary Faith: Let Us Pray
Revolutionary Faith: Let Us Pray
Speaker: Pastor Lee Cummings
Date: August 29, 2020
The things you get busy with will not last in eternity – your prayers will. In the final week of our Revolutionary Faith series, Pastor Lee Cummings speaks on prayer and the unlimited access that each of us have to it.
Focus Scripture
James 5:13-18 (ESV)
“Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise. 14 Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. 15 And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. 16 Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working. 17 Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth. 18 Then he prayed again, and heaven gave rain, and the earth bore its fruit.”
Sermon Highlights
“He who knows how to overcome with God in prayer has heaven and earth at his disposal.” - Charles Spurgeon
Prayer should be our first response, not our last resort.
Prayer is not an event, it’s a lifestyle.
Jesus called us to pray without ceasing.
Effective prayer is not dependent upon your nature, but Gods.
Don’t underestimate what God will do if we pray.
Prayer is a weapon in the arsenal of every believer.
2 Corinthians 10:3-4 (ESV) “For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. 4 For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds.”
John 14:13-14 (ESV) “Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.”
It’s not your righteousness that gives you access, it’s Jesus’ righteousness that qualifies you to ask in His name.
Don’t pray once and give up. Too often we allow ourselves to become distracted. Stay the course. Don’t stop praying.