WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE TALKING TO?
40 Days of Prayer - Part 3
October 7, 2018
Carlton Gerrell - cgerrell@tvcc.us
Our understanding of what God is really like shapes everything else in our life, including our prayer.
1 . God’s plans for my life will
Jeremiah 29:11-12
For I know the plans I have for you”-this is the LORD’s declaration-“plans for your well-being, not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. You will call to me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.
Psalm 31:19
How great is your goodness that you have stored up for those who fear you and accomplished in the sight of everyone for those who take refuge in you.
Romans 8:28
We know that all things work together for the good of those who love God, who are called according to his purpose.
Genesis 50:20
You planned evil against me; God planned it for good to bring about the present result-the survival of many people.
Romans 5:3
And not only that, but we also rejoice in our afflictions, because we know that affliction produces endurance,
2 . God always gives me
Psalm 103:10-12
He has not dealt with us as our sins deserve or repaid us according to our iniquities.11 For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his faithful love toward those who fear him.12 As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.
Psalm 51:1-2
Be gracious to me, God, according to your faithful love; according to your abundant compassion, blot out my rebellion.2 Completely wash away my guilt and cleanse me from my sin.
Psalm 27:10-13
Even if my father and mother abandon me, the LORD cares for me.11 Because of my adversaries, show me your way, LORD, and lead me on a level path. 12 Do not give me over to the will of my foes, for false witnesses rise up against me, breathing violence.13 I am certain that I will see the LORD’s goodness in the land of the living.
Hebrews 4:15-16
For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who has been tempted in every way as we are, yet without sin. 16 Therefore, let us approach the throne of grace with boldness, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in time of need.
3 . God puts
John 10:14-15
“I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and my own know me, 15 just as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.
John 15:13
No one has greater love than this: to lay down his life for his friends.
2 Corinthians 5:21
He made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Romans 4:25
He was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.
Romans 8:32
He did not even spare his own Son but offered him up for us all. How will he not also with him grant us everything?
4 . He does not say
Luke 11:11-13
What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead of a fish? 12 Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? 13 If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him??”
Matthew 20:22
Jesus answered, “You don’t know what you’re asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink??” “We are able,” they said to him.
Isaiah 55:8-9
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways.” This is the LORD’s declaration. “For as heaven is higher than earth, so my ways are higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
5 . He invites us to live with
2 Thessalonians 2:16-17
May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who has loved us and given us eternal encouragement and good hope by grace, 17 encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good work and word.
Psalm 119:37, 40
37 Turn my eyes from looking at what is worthless; give me life in your ways.
40 How I long for your precepts! Give me life through your righteousness.
Lamentations 5:21
LORD, bring us back to yourself, so we may return; renew our days as in former times,
All Bible verses from the Christian Standard Bible (CSB)