Stan Roberts
Ephesians 6:18 GW
“Pray in the Spirit in every situation. Use every kind of prayer and request there is. For the same reason be alert. Use every kind of effort and make every kind of request for all of God’s people.”
NIV 10-4:9 1 Chronicles
9 Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother had named him Jabez, saying, “I gave birth to him in pain.”
10 Jabez cried out to the God of Israel, “Oh, that you would bless me and enlarge my territory! Let your hand be with me, and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain.” And God granted his request.
1. Pray for BLESSING.
Psalm 18:35 NIV
35 You make your saving help my shield, and your right hand sustains me; your help has made me great.
Genesis 12:2 NLT
2 I will make you into a great nation. I will bless you and make you famous, and you will be a blessing to others.
2. Pray for INFLUENCE.
God has available to you a life bigger than you.
Ephesians 1:18 NIV
18 I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people,
Your design points to your destiny!
Psalm 2:8 NIV
8 Ask me, and I will make the nations your inheritance, the ends of the earth your possession.
3. Pray for PRESENCE.
Acts 11:21 NIV
21 The Lord’s hand was with them, and a great number of people believed and turned to the Lord.
Exodus 17-33:15 NIV
15 Then Moses said to him, “If your Presence does not go with us, do not send us up from here.
16 How will anyone know that you are pleased with me and with your people unless you go with us? What else will distinguish me and your people from all the other people on the face of the earth?”
17 And the Lord said to Moses, “I will do the very thing you have asked, because I am pleased with you and I know you by name.”
4. Pray for PROTECTION.
1 Peter 5:8 NIV
8 Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.
Romans 8:35-37 NKJV
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36 As it is written: “For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”
37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
Two choices in prayer:
What YOU want to talk about.
What GOD wants to talk about.
1. Pray for BLESSING.
2. Pray for INFLUENCE.
3. Pray for PRESENCE.
4. Pray for PROTECTION.
“Essentially there are two actions in life: Performance and excuses. Make a decision as to which you will accept for yourself.”
– Steve Brown