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MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD IN HEAVEN
God yearns for His people to pray so He can answer
"You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed."
- - John Bunyon
MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD IN HEAVEN God yearns for His people to pray - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD IN HEAVEN God yearns for His people to pray - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD IN HEAVEN God yearns for His people to pray so He can answer 2 Chronicles 7:14 "You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed." -- John Bunyon When
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When our voice is heard in Heaven His voice is heard on Earth
- -Barry Black, Chaplain US Senate
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“If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.“
2 Chronicles 7:14
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Pray . . . So . . . YOUR VOICE HEARD IN HEAVEN AND GOD CAN SEND FORGIVENESS AND RESTORATION
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- 1. THE POSTURE
OF PRAYER
“If my people will humble themselves . . . “
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“Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.”
LUKE 18:10
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"I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before
- God. For everyone who exalts
himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted."
LUKE 18:14
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"Do you want to enter what people call 'the higher life'? Then go a step lower down.“
- - Andrew Murray
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Humility is accepting God's assessment of me instead of trying to impress him (or
- thers) with my assessment.
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"All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, "God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble."" 1 Peter 5:5
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- 2. THE PRACTICE
OF PRAYER
“If my people will . . .pray . . . “
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"Again, I tell you that if two of you
- n earth agree about anything
you ask for, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven."
MATTHEW 18:19
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- 2. THE PRACTICE
OF PRAYER
“If my people will . . .pray . . . “
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- 3. THE PURSUIT
OF PRAYER
“If my people will . . . seek my face . . . “
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Is there a pattern, a habit in your life of SEEKING GOD . . . DRAWING NEAR TO HIM . . .
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I come to the garden alone While the dew is still on the roses And the voice I hear, falling on my ear The Son of God discloses
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And He walks with me And He talks with me And He tells me I am His own And the joy we share as we tarry there None other has ever known
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He speaks and the sound of His voice Is so sweet the birds hush their singing And the melody that He gave to me Within my heart is ringing
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And He walks with me And He talks with me And He tells me I am His own And the joy we share as we tarry there None other has ever known
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DETERMINE TO
MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD IN HEAVEN
2 Chronicles 7:14
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