Text: Matt 7:7-11; Jam 5:16
*Note: Intensity, Passion, Persistence in Prayer
Subject: Why Christians Ought to Pray Without Ceasing.
Title: DON’T STOP PRAYING – GOD STILL ANSWERS PRAYER!
Thesis: Prayer Is Not An Option But A Necessity For a Child of God.
Note: prayerlessness leads to powerlessness! Show me a prayerless Church/Christian and I will show you a powerless Christian.
Definition of Prayer = 1. Communication with God; 2. asking something specific of God and receiving it
Key 1: If we don’t pray, heaven will not intervene in earth’s Affairs…we are the watchmen on the wall (Ezekiel 3:17-19).
Illustration 1: In praying, there are gentle knockers, lousy Knockers, loud knockers…
Key 2: Doors of heaven are not automatic; you have to knock! Be like the midnight friend who refused to take a no…