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I. Superstitions - Playing ball, never wash clothes put socks on same way - Sometimes with God - Good things happened because I…. - Bad things happened because I…. - Manipulations - Children with parents (play one against the other) - Me, washing clothes - Our prayers to manipulate God - God says for us just to ask - Luke 11:9-13 - James 5:13-15 II. What about when we ask, but it seems to be unanswered? - Pray over and over for something with no results - Not alone - Paul – II Corinthians 12:8 - Jesus – Matthew 26:39,42 - Our faith is challenged in unanswered prayers III. Jesus Stories Continued - Matthew 9:1-8, Mark 2:3-12, Luke 5:18-26 - Tell story of paralytic without the healing - Obviously that’s not how the story ended - If it did, how would we feel? Disappointed? Cheated? - Finish story IV. God’s Priorities are different from ours - He is more concerned with the spiritual than the physical - Point of story is not healing, or conflict with Pharisees, but SPIRITUAL TRANSFORMATION - We don’t always get what we ask for physical, but we will always get forgiveness, spiritual transformation V. Our priorities are different - Two different church scenarios - Faith healing service - Prayer meeting - Both make God like a vending machine - Focus is mainly on physical and very rarely on spiritual VI. Go back to previous verses and keep reading - Luke 11:9-13 - James 5:13-16 - answers were given in spiritual results - even Jesus request on the cross was overridden by spiritual need VII. God’s concern for you is Spiritual Transformation - He wants you to be like Jesus - Is that your prayer today? - Why not begin that spiritual transformation? |
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