Episodes
Tuesday Feb 05, 2019
02-03-19 Kevin Goins - The Desire to Pray
Tuesday Feb 05, 2019
Tuesday Feb 05, 2019
“The Desire to Pray” Matthew 6:5-13
It takes more to pray than simply knowing how to do it. Something else is required and what is required is desire. Do we want to pray? Why should we love to pray? Our text tells us.
I We may swear we l_______ God, but can we really mean it if we have no d_______ to talk to him.
A. How, can it be that we don’t love talking with God? The enemy has taken our v________ and turned everything u________ d_______.
B. Matthew 6:9-13 is a p________, or b_____________, for the kind of prayer which followers of Jesus need to pray. But not only does this passage teach us h_____ to pray, but in this prayer we learn why we should l______ to pray.
II Who are the super-saints who have a n__________ a________ to love prayer? Jesus says it is the h_____________.
A. Hypocrites could not choose the t______ for prayer, but they could decide w______ they would be when those times came.
B. But notice Jesus’ response: he does not say the hypocrites were hypocritical because they prayed in order to receive a r________, he says they are hypocrites because they pray for the ________ reward.
III Here is the first reason why we should be t________ with prayer: Prayer strengthens the most wonderful relationship we can have, a relationship with _____.
A. The reason we often think of prayer as duty, rather than pleasure, is because we look at prayer in the _______ way: We often think of prayer as one long list of r___________ to dump on God.
B. Prayers of request are legitimate prayers, but they are not the o____ kind of prayer and they are not the most i________ kind of prayer.
IV The four steps for relational prayer are:
A. P___________ yourself to God without p___________.
B. A__________ to how you t________ about God.
C. P_________ yourself of anything blocking your relationship with God.
D. A_________ God as the f_______ concern of your life.
Wednesday Jan 23, 2019
01-20-19 Kevin Goins - Ministry in the Middle
Wednesday Jan 23, 2019
Wednesday Jan 23, 2019
“Ministry in the Middle” Luke 11:5-8
There is a kind of ministry in which every follower of Jesus must stand in the middle, and this ministry in the middle is one of the most important ministries in which any believer ever takes part. In Luke chapter 11 Jesus uses a parable to explain this ministry to us.
I This story is about ________ people:
A. First, there is the man/woman in the ___________, and this could easily be ______ or _____.
B. Who are we in the middle of? On one side we have a friend who is on a journey and he comes to our door hoping for r_______ and b_______ for the night.
C. The third person in the parable is the one who stands on the o_______ side of us, our n________ who has the bread we lack.
II This story is about being a middleman/woman in the p________ sense: one who stands between a friend who n_______ bread and another who h____ bread.
A. But a parable uses a common event in the physical world to help us understand what happens in the s__________ world.
B. An i____________ is someone who stands between a person who has a need only God can meet and God himself.
C. Jesus says when you act as an intercessor for a friend in need, and you come knocking on God’s door for help, that door will be ____.
II We have looked at the three individuals in the parable, but what does the man/woman in the middle teach us about being an intercessor?
First, to be an intercessor we must have a f_______ who is willing to c_____ to us for help.
Second, to be an intercessor we need to know the difference
between needs we can ______ and needs only ______ can meet.
C. Third, to be an intercessor we must be convinced prayer makes a _____________.
D. Fourth, to be an intercessor we must be s_____________.
E. Finally, to be an intercessor we must be willing to p_____ the p_______ of being an intercessor.
Tuesday Jan 15, 2019
01-13-19 Kevin Goins - Praying the Lord's Prayer
Tuesday Jan 15, 2019
Tuesday Jan 15, 2019
“Praying the Lord’s Prayer” Matthew 6:9-13
When the disciples asked Jesus to teach them how to pray, he gave them the prayer we know as the Lord’s Prayer. Many people have committed this prayer to memory, but it also works well as a pattern or framework upon which we can build our own daily prayers. Each of the five petitions of the Lord’s Prayer gives us a piece of the structure which we can use to fashion an effective and powerful prayer
I The first part of the prayer structure is what we call w________ or a__________ (6:9).
II The second part of the prayer structure is s__________ or s___________ (6:10).
A. When we pray God’s will to be done in our life, we are surrendering our right to be the o____ who is in c__________.
B. But this request is not just about ____, it is about _____ people everywhere on earth.
III The third part of the prayer structure is p___________ (6:11).
IV The fourth part of the prayer structure is c______________(6:12).
. This petition makes our forgiveness by God depend on our w_____________ to forgive those who have _______ us.
B. This prayer is hard to pray because we so enjoy being _________ at those who wrong us.
V The fifth part of the prayer structure is the prayer for d______________ (6:13).
A. The best way for evil to hurt the progress of God’s Kingdom is to show that the work Jesus did on the cross is i______________.
B. E_______ is behind every sorrow and pain this world experiences, and so looking to Jesus to help us with t___________ will accomplish more than any political party ever could.
Tuesday Aug 15, 2017
08-13-17 Kevin Goins - The 4 Cs of Confident Prayer
Tuesday Aug 15, 2017
Tuesday Aug 15, 2017
“The Four C’s of Confident Prayer” 1 John 5:14-15
This life is filled with uncertainty. In his first epistle, however, John tells us that this uncertainty has no place in our prayer life. He tells us that when we pray we should always pray with confidence. In our text John makes four points about confidence in prayer:
I First, John points to the c_______ of confidence (5:14a).
II Second, John then reminds us that we have c________ to be confident and the cause of our confidence is the o_____ to whom we pray (5:14)
- What is the alternative to bringing our needs to God? Looking to __________ to meet our needs. But this brings two variables into the equation:
- W_______________.
- A________________.
- Why does the fact that we pray to God give us confidence?
- We have confidence because of ______ God is.
- We have confidence because of ______ God has a___________ done.
- We have confidence because we have a p______ i_________ from God.
III Third, John also reminds us that this confidence has c__________(5:14)
- First, to be confident prayers, obviously, we must be willing to ______.
- The second condition of confident praying is that we must ask _____ _________.
- The third condition of confident prayer is that we must ask with a c________ h_________ and a willingness to _______.
- The fourth condition of confident prayer John specifically mentions here: We must pray in a____________ with ________ _________.
IV Lastly, John tells us the c_______________ of confidence.
-God’s answer might be: 1. d___________ 2. d____________ 3. d____________
Monday Aug 07, 2017
08-06-17 Kevin Goins - Prayer Makes a Difference
Monday Aug 07, 2017
Monday Aug 07, 2017
Prayer Makes a Difference: The Discipline of Prayer 1 Timothy 2:1-4
Prayer is not only the most well-known of the spiritual
disciplines, many would say it is the most transformative. Practicing it makes the greatest difference in the Christian life. In our text
today we see how certain the Apostle Paul is that prayer always makes a difference.
I First, Paul is so convinced prayer makes a difference that he sees prayer as the church’s n_________ o_______ most urgent need (2:1).
-The only way to prioritize prayer is to p_______ for prayer.
II Second, Paul is so convinced prayer makes a difference that he wants the church’s practice of prayer to be m___________(2:1).
- Requests are prayers for s___________ n______.
- Prayers are r_________ that can only be made to ________.
- Intercession is asking God for something on behalf of s___________ e_____.
- Thanksgiving is thanking God for what he h____ a_______ d______ and for what we believe he w____ d___ in the f_______.
III Third, Paul is so convinced prayer makes a difference that he wants the church to use it on behalf of a____ p_______ (2:1-2a).
-This means two things: Prayer is never to be e____________. We must pray for k_______, or those in a____________.
IV Lastly, Paul is so convinced prayer makes a difference that he wants the church to rely on prayer for the e_______________ of the w_________ (2:1-4).