JUNE 11, 2023
SERIES: DEVELOPING CONFIDENCE TO LIVE IN TODAY’S CULTURE
MESSAGE: BUILDING CONFIDENCE IN PRAYER

Luke 5:16 – But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed.
7 Principles Towards Confidence In Prayer:
Make sure all known sin is confessed.
Psalm 68:18 – If I regard sin in my heart the Lord will not hear me.
Isa. 59:1-2 – Your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He will not hear.

Principle to live by: Before I pray for change in my circumstances, I should pray for a change in character.
James 5:16 – The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.

Keep a forgiving spirit towards others.

Principle: A forgiving spirit is not an act, it’s an attitude.
Matt. 5:23-24 – First go and be reconciled to your
brother.

Keep a surrendered will at all times.
James 4:3 – You ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly.

Principle to live by: If God lays a burden on our heart, He also purposes to grant it.
Psalm 33:13 – From heaven the Lord looks down and sees all mankind.

Principle: When God sees me He also sees the crowd and does what’s best for the whole group.

Understand God’s will

Principle to live by: I must accept the will of God in my life of prayer.

I must have faith.
James 1:5 – But let him ask in faith, with no doubting for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind.
Matt. 9:29 – According to your faith it will be done unto you.
Matt. 17:20 – If your faith is as small as a mustard seed you can say to this mountain move from here to there and it will.

Principle: To make prayer a force, I must look for question marks in my life.

I must have persistence.

Jacob
Ask, Seek, Knock

Principle: Persistence in prayer does not change God, it changes me.

Put action with your prayers.
James 2:14 – Faith without action is dead.

Principle: My great need is not faith and works, but faith that works.