Confidence in Prayer
May 15, 2022 / Pastor Brent SnookConfidence in Prayer
Sermon by Pastor Brent Snook / May 15, 2022
Text: 1 John 5:14-15
“I can take my telescope and look millions and millions of miles into space; but I can lay the telescope down – go into my room and shut the door – get on my knees in earnest prayer and I see more of Heaven and get closer to God than when assisted by all the telescopes in the world.” -Isaac Newton
And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he heareth us: And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him. I John 5:14-15
I. THE PRECEDENCE OF PRAYER
A. OUR
B. OUR
C. OUR
II. THE PREREQUISITES OF PRAYER
A. GOD’S WILL
B. GOD’S WILL
Two Basic Guidelines to Discern God’s Will
1. God’s Word
2. on the Holy Spirit
C. GOD’S WILL
III. THE PICTURE OF PRAYER
A. DIRECT
B. DELAYS
C. DIFFERENT
D. DENIAL
Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us … Ephesians 3:20