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Sermon Outline
Sermon Outline
 
The Unshakable Hope of Answered Prayer
 
When two of you get together on anything at all on earth and make a prayer of it, my Father in heaven goes into action. (Matthew 18:19, MSG)
 
Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete.(John 16:24, NIV)
 
Key Point: No
 
52 And he sent messengers on ahead, who went into a Samaritan village to get things ready for him; 53 but the people there did not welcome him, because he was heading for Jerusalem. 54 When the disciples James and John saw this, they asked, “Lord, do you want us to call fire down from heaven to destroy them?” (Luke 9:52-54, NIV)
 
 
Key Point: Slow
 
8 “…my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways... 9 “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.(Isaiah 55:8-9, NIV)
 
 
Key Point: Grow
 
Unconfessed sin
…your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.(Isaiah 59:2, NIV)
 
Unresolved conflict
If you enter your place of worship and, about to make an offering, you suddenly remember a grudge a friend has against you, abandon your offering, leave immediately, go to this friend and make things right. Then and only then, come back and work things out with God.(Matthew 5:23-24, NIV)
 
Selfishness
When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.(James 4:3, NIV)
 
 
Key Point: Go
 
Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.(Psalm 37:4, NIV)
 
You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it. (John 14:14, NIV)