Praying With Intensity “Prayer That is Powerful and Effective”
James 5:16-18, “The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.17 Elijah was a human being, even as we are. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years. 18 Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth produced its crops.”
See Mark 9:14-29
- The big lesson: they needed to pray with _______________.
- It means to pray with ______________________________.
- To pray intensely or earnestly suggests not only the quality of the prayer, but the _______________________________ of it.
- To pray intensely also means that we pray with ___________.
Mark 9:29, “Jesus replied, ‘This kind can come out only by prayer.’”
- It means you do not expect anything to happen in your own ____________________________.
James 4:2, “…You do not have because you do not ask God.”
- My question for you is: ____________ have you asked God?
Jeremiah 17:5, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who draws strength from mere flesh and whose heart turns away from the Lord.’”
Zechariah 4:6, “So He said to me, ‘This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ says the Lord Almighty.’”