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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

*John Wesley – “God Does Nothing But in Answer To Prayer”

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…

4 Reasons Christians Pray

  1. Because Jesus commanded it (Luke 18:1 & Matt 7:7)
  2. To emulate Jesus' example (Luke 11:1)
  3. God promises to answer when we pray (2 Chronicles 7:4)
  4. To stay spiritually tuned with God (Acts 4:31)