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Honest to God
How should prayer look in order to be "good" prayer? Greg uses biblical examples of prayers by Moses, Jeremiah, David, etc. to illustrate honesty when talking with God. This is a great message about opening up to God! |
1/10/93 |
Job's Prayer of Desperation
There are times when God DOESN'T answer prayer. Sometimes it feels like God has withdrawn, and left us abandoned on the front line. Many holy biblical people prayed the prayer "Lord, where are you?!" It is important to be real with God no matter where you are in your life. This message releases us from the idea that we must pray a certain way, and not get angry at God. |
1/17/93 |
Prayer 101–Open Our Eyes Lord
There is a difference between a belief or understanding of abstract ideas, and living in the reality of those abstractions. By moving from belief to living reality, our lives are impacted. The bible says that Satan "...has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ..." We need to turn over our areas of unbelief, and behold the face and the glory of God! |
1/31/93 |
Open Our Eyes. Part 2
Do you ever feel like your prayers don’t count because of sin in your life? |
2/7/93 |
Prayer 101–Dealing with the "S" Word
"Sin" is an old archery term for "missing the mark." Ignoring it, packing it away, justifying it, or denying it, won't change the fact that sin is real. It needs to be seen clearly and dealt with. Steve Van Sikle describes some gifts brought by repentance from sin: Unconditional, Unfailing love; Sin=Gone!; Refreshed and filled with God's spirit again... |
2/14/93 |
Prayer 101 Pray for me
Since God is all-powerful and completely good, isn’t God going to do all the good things we might pray for anyway? Why pray for those things, then. Dr. Boyd shows from Scripture that God chooses our prayers as a means of getting things done that otherwise will not happen if we do not pray! |
2/28/93 |
Physical Healing
Healing is not a footnote to the bible. The number one thing Jesus did, next to teaching, was healing; It was central to the mission of Jesus and the early church! However, there is much controversy over this issue. There is a "positive confession" movement, which says it is ALWAYS god's will to heal. Others say that healing was ONLY for the days of the apostles. How does one strike a balance with biblical truth? This is a very enlightening message on many beliefs regarding God's healing power. We can't begin to understand the whole picture and the workings of heaven. Realizing this, we can't box God into our expectations! |
3/7/93 |
Warfare Prayer
This message discusses beginning to see the reality of the spiritual realm. Paul tells us that "...our struggle in not against flesh and blood..." There is a spiritual dimension to our struggles; How do we approach this? Greg also illustrates our position (biblically), in relation to the forces in the spiritual realm. [also see section on Spiritual Warfare] |
3/14/93 |
Praise Prayer
Praise is the single, most frequently commanded activity in the bible! While coming to a city, Jesus healed 10 lepers. After getting verification of cleanliness (and re-admission to the city), only one of them took the time to return to Jesus to thank and praise him. Christ then asked if 10 were not healed, and why did only one return to praise God. Every breathing moment of our lives is a gift from God. The bible says "The earth is filled with the glory of God!" Praise should come before work, family, friends, everything! The bible says that "God inhabits the praises of his people;" When we praise God, and his Spirit begins to inhabit that praise, all that we know about Him in our heads, begins to become a reality in our heart. |
3/21/93 |
Prayer a Powerful Pipeline to God
There is no mystery about the great revivals in church history. They were simply the result of large-scale prayer efforts. It is a spiritual law: when believers pray, God moves. |
9/11/94 |
Moving Mountains with Prayer
Pray in the Spirit on all occasions.... Much of God's will, which is or is not carried out, is a direct result of prayer. Our prayers are not simply nice inconsequential thoughts or words. Prayer is the means by which things in the spiritual realm get done - a spiritual law of cause and effect. God attaches an incredible amount of promises to prayer; lives, cities, even nations have hung on the prayer of people. Prayer accomplishes more than we could ever do on a physical level; If we do only one thing to make a difference, it should be prayer! |
5/26/96 |
Problems with Prayer
If God is all-powerful, why is the world full of horrible things? Why do things happen that go against His will? Why doesn't God just take control when things get bad/crazy? Why does God NOT answer some prayers? Most of God's answers to prayer are not lightening striking miracles. Most prayer is answered after the fact, when we aren't even looking for, and thus fail to notice the answer. Greg talks about many other misconceptions and problems associated with prayer... Must prayer sound good, and be done in a specific manner? Is there a formula to use when praying? How do we go to God? Great message about openness to God! |
6/2/96 |
Is Anyone on the other End
Is there anyone listening when we pray? |
6/9/96 |
Do You Measure Up
How we pray reveals much about how we view God. Do we thank God that we are not so bad as the next person? Or are we like the tax collector, who, understanding his sin confessed it before God and was counted as righteous. Dr. Boyd discusses the parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector.
Many people think that they are not good enough to be Christians. This is a tragic thought. It is precisely because we are NOT good enough that Christ died for us and we are now free to be Christians. Dr. Boyd discusses Gal. 5 where Paul said, “It is for freedom that Christ has set you free.” |
9/1/96 |
Variables in the Effectiveness of Prayer
The Bible teaches that our prayers are powerful and effective. But sometimes we wonder why we don’t see the results we expected. Greg described some of the reasons we might not get what we expected. |
5/16/99 |
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