Stay Awake!

Notes

God's invitation to ALL people is to 'Keep praying!'  Prayerlessness and Prayerfulness will have a profound impact on our lives as well as the lives of those around us.

1.  Prayerlessness leads to powerlessness over sin.

• Prayer reorients our hearts and minds back to God.

2.  Prayerfulness helps others walk with God.

• God uses your prayers to help others see God.

Verses

{“Keep on praying.” Romans 12:12 NLT}{“Stay alert and be persistent in your prayers.” Ephesians 6:18 NLT}{“Devote yourselves to prayer.” Colossians 4:2 NLT}{“Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything” Philippians 4:6 NLT}{Peter declared, “Even if everyone else deserts you, I will never desert you.” Matthew 26:33 NLT}{“Keep watch and pray, so that you will not give in to temptation.” Matthew 26:41 NLT}{“My Father! If it is possible, let this cup of suffering be taken away from me. Yet I want your will to be done, not mine.” Matthew 26:39 NLT}

Quotes

Timothy Keller : “Prayer is awe, intimacy, struggle… there is nothing more important, or harder, or more life-altering. There is absolutely nothing so great as prayer.” (Prayer); Tim Keller : “When your prayer life finally begins to flourish, the effects can be remarkable.” (Prayer); Emilie Griffin : “There is a moment between intending to pray and actually praying… between thinking about prayer and really praying. It seems, then, that the greatest obstacle to prayer is the simple matter of beginning." (Clinging); Emilie Griffin : “Prayer is, after all, a very dangerous business. For all the benefits it offers of growing closer to God, it carries with it one great element of risk: the possibility of change. In prayer we open ourselves to the chance that God will do something with us that we had not intended.” (Clinging); Charles Spurgeon : “It is well said that neglected prayer is the birth-place of all evil.” (Sermons ); Emilie Griffin : “Deep down, we know that God is asking us to pray. Deep within we know that God is not asking a heroic time-commitment, but a giving of the heart.” (Clinging);