18002 Praying for Greater Intimacy with God - Part 2

Welcome to the Prayer and Faith Podcast.   As we come together today to pray, I hope this will be a blessing to you and your family.  We are going back to finish or continue a topic we began a couple of weeks ago.  We are continuing to look at and address steps that can lead us into greater intimacy with God.   Just a reminder, in the first part we focused on doing the will of God, meditating on the Lord, meditating on his works, meditating on the Word of God and his law and finally meditating on his promises.   Today we will continue by looking at worship, prayer, living by faith and giving.  As usual we will begin with our faith builder verse of the day.  As a reminder all verses are taken from the ESV or English Standard Version translation of the bible.

Faith Builder Verse

MATTHEW 7: 7-8

7 “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.

Prayer of Thanksgiving

The Lord wants us to enter into his presence with Thanksgiving and Praise.  We never want to be remiss in remembering God’s Goodness.  

Psalms 69:30

I will praise the name of God with a song;

    I will magnify him with thanksgiving.

Welcome Brothers and Sisters and we continue to focus on our intimacy with the Lord in this upcoming year.   It is my hope that as we are praying you are focusing your attention on your walk with the Lord   We all have very busy schedules, which makes it even more critical that we focus our attention on the Lord and our relationship with him.

Worship the Lord

Psalm 29:2

Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name; worship the Lord in the splendor of holiness.

Psalm 95:6

Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker!

Psalm 96:9

Worship the Lord in the splendor of holiness; tremble before him, all the earth!

Revelation 7:11

And all the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God,

Throughout the Psalms we are exhorted to worship God.   In Revelation, we get a picture of what is happening and they are falling on their face and worshipping God.  We too should make sure a part of our day  is spent worshipping God.

Prayer

Prayer is critical to your intimacy with the Lord.  Jesus made a point of prayer himself.  If he prayed, how much more should we pray.

Matthew 14:23

And after he had dismissed the crowds, he went up on the mountain by himself to pray. When evening came, he was there alone,

Matthew 26:36

Then Jesus went with them to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to his disciples, “Sit here, while I go over there and pray.”

Luke 6:12

In these days he went out to the mountain to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to God.

Jesus tells us to pray that we may avoid temptation

Matthew 26:41

Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Luke 18:1

18 And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart.

Faith

Hebrews 11;6

And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

Romans 1:17

For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”

Romans 4;3

For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.”

James 2:23

and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”—and he was called a friend of God.

Giving

As we look at our relationship with God, there are those who will argue that giving has nothing to do with it, god doesn’t need our money.  While it is true, he does not need our money.  It is false that there is no relationship between giving and our relationship with him.  

Matthew 6:21

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

The following is what Jesus said to the Rich your ruler.

Mark 10:21

And Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, “You lack one thing: go, sell all that you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”

If we pursue these disciplines we can increase our intimacy with the Lord and so we will p

Prayer for the Lost 

Afghanistan

Afghanistan has a population of approximately 32.5 million people.

99 percent of population are muslims with 90 percent of the population being Sunni and most of the remainder being Shia.

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For the 1st Podcast on this topic, go to podcast 17007