The End Time Commandments: Work, Watch, and Pray, Part 2 (Praying Through the Bible #157)

http://www.buzzsprout.com/3192/305344-the-end-time-commandments-work-watch-and-pray-part-2.mp3 TEXT: Mark 13:32-37 32 But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father. 33 Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is. 34 For the Son of Man is as a man taking …

Fake Christians and Fruitful Christians (Praying Through the Bible #144)

http://www.buzzsprout.com/3192/280236-fake-christians-and-fruitful-christians.mp3 TEXT: Matthew 21:18-22 18 Now in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered. 19 And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the …

God Wants Realness Not Ritual in Prayer and Fasting (Part 4)

\ Praying Through the Bible #109 TEXT: Zechariah 7:8-14 Over the past three weeks we have looked at the issue of ritualism in our prayers and in other aspects of our spiritual lives which we all ought to be striving to avoid. The Methodist minister Samuel Chadwick said, “Truth without enthusiasm, morality without emotion, ritual …

God Wants Realness Not Ritual in Prayer and Fasting (Part 3)

[audio https://www.buzzsprout.com/3192/209013-god-wants-realness-not-ritual-in-prayer-and-fasting-part-3.mp3] Praying Through the Bible #108 TEXT: Zechariah 7:8-14 Many of us have, at times, struggled with going through the motions in our spiritual lives. Perhaps we have struggled with feeling like we are just doing something because that is what we have always done or because it is what we think someone expects of …

God Wants Realness Not Ritual in Prayer and Fasting (Part 2)

Praying Through the Bible #107 TEXT: Zechariah 7:8-14 On last week, we looked at the first seven verses of Zechariah 7 in which some of the children of Israel who had returned from exile in Babylon came to Jerusalem to inquire about whether or not they should continue to observe ritual fasts that they had …

God Wants Realness Not Ritual in Prayer and Fasting

Part 1: [audio https://www.buzzsprout.com/3192/205229-god-wants-realness-not-ritual-in-prayer-and-fasting-part-1.mp3] Part 2: [audio https://www.buzzsprout.com/3192/205230-god-wants-realness-not-ritual-in-prayer-and-fasting-part-2.mp3] Praying Through the Bible #106 TEXT: Zechariah 7:1-7 A Christian man once told the story of how he went to a men's conference to learn how to be a better husband. One of the speakers at the conference was a very well-respected relationship expert, and he gave the men …

Habakkuk’s Prayer of Praise, Prayer for Revival, and Prayer for Mercy (Part 2)

Praying Through the Bible #105 TEXT: Habakkuk 3:1-2: "A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth. O Lord, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: O Lord, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy." In part 1 of this message, …

Habakkuk’s Prayer of Praise, Prayer for Revival, and Prayer for Mercy (Part 1)

[audio https://www.buzzsprout.com/3192/201671-habakkuk-s-prayer-of-praise-prayer-for-revival-and-prayer-for-mercy-part-1.mp3] Praying Through the Bible #104 TEXT: Habakkuk 3:1-2: "A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth. O Lord, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: O Lord, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy." Today we turn our attention …

Standing in the Gap (Part 8)

Praying Through the Bible #100 TEXT: Daniel 9:11-17 Jennifer Kennedy Dean, the founder of the Praying Life Foundation, wrote the following in her book titled Live a Praying Life: "To pray with power, the pray-er must agree with God. A pray-er must be in agreement with the intercession of Jesus, who is always in agreement …

Standing in the Gap (Part 7)

Part 1:  Part 2:  Praying Through the Bible #99 TEXT: Daniel 9:11-16 We come once again to this passage in Daniel at a time when nations around the world have been met with disaster after disaster. Former U.S. Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, put it succinctly when she said, "the world is a mess." For …