When your prayer life improves, your worship improves.
Today we ‘ll look at having The Right Prayer Perspective.
It’s easy to get caught up with our goals and projects and not having the right perspective.
Let’s move through something looking through our eyes and then through God’s eyes.
Illustration of the beauty of a picture like Pike’s Peak (show picture)
A perspective of the what the life God has called us to can look like.
The beauty is something looking at the mountain, but the trail up the mountain can be difficult. So many times we live with that view of our life.
The mountain of life from our perspective as we climb or go through life.
But when we get to the top, the perspective changes - Picture 3.
But this is the view from God’s perspective
Romans 8:31-39 (NIV)
31 What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? 33 Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. 34 Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36 As it is written:
“For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”[a]
37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,[b] neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Three thoughts from this passage.
1 - God loves you! Sometimes you need to hear that. He chose you. You were made for this moment in time and place. Whatever you’re facing, know you were made for this moment. He chose you! He loves you!
2 - Jesus intercedes for you! The king of heaven and earth is having a conversation with the Father. He sees you, and then asks the Father for what He can do.
3 - Nothing can separate you from His love. No matter the hardships of life, no matter the attacks of the enemy, there is nothing that can separate you from God’s love.
Action points:
Revelation 12:11They triumphed over him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death.
They triumphed (are those in the future including us as well), by the blood.
1 - Let’s pray from the perspective of he finished work of the cross.
We pray with confidence of Jesus’ finished and complete work.
2 - Pray with the perspective of what God is doing in your life.
He is doing a redemptive work in your life. He is doing Kingdom work in you!
3 - Pray from the perspective of complete surrender.
They did not love their lives so much as to surrender their life. (see Rev. 12:11)
When you are going up the mountain and having difficulty, know the view that God has for you no matter how difficult it might be for the moment.
