Listen to Sermon: Conversations with God - Prayer… Why Bother? [29Mb]

A Time of Questioning…

Three Starting Assumptions:

• GOD EXISTS
• GOD IS CAPABLE OF HEARING MY PRAYER
• GOD CARES ABOUT MY PRAYERS

Why do we struggle with prayer?

• Advances in Science and Technology
• Modern Skepticism
• Prosperity
• Time Pressures

Seven Reasons Why You Should Pray

1. Pray because you are LOVED.
2. Prayer acknowledges His LEADERSHIP and SOVEREIGNTY.
3. Pray because it is in prayer that your relationship with Jesus becomes very REAL.
4. Pray because it is in conversation with God that the REAL YOU can be seen.
5. Prayer is the place where you can take your deepest doubts and complaints and expose them to the LIGHT.
6. Prayer invites you to bring my whole life into God’s presence for CLEANSING and RESTORATION.
7. Pray because JESUS prayed.

NEXT STEP: Start Simple, but start.

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