Holy Spirit Pickaxe
Matthew 7:7-11
Part of Prayer Experiment—2023
October 1, 2023

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Prayer Challenge

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Review

Dunamis - Holy Spirit’s Power and Force

Ingredients to Prayer:
1. Pure Motivation
2. Surrending to God’s Will

Holy Spirit Pickaxe

Keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened. —Matthew 7:7-8 (NLT)

Find the Target

Keep on Praying

For most of us, the problem is not that we are too eager to ask for the wrong things. The problem is that we are not nearly eager enough to ask for the right things. —–N.T. Wright

You parents—if your children ask for a loaf of bread, do you give them a stone instead? Or if they ask for a fish, do you give them a snake? Of course not! So if you sinful people know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good gifts to those who ask him. —Matthew 7:9-11 (NLT)

Keep On Knocking


Go Beyond the Sermon…

All summer, there will be daily devotions to help you take the sermon into your day-to-day life. Keep up through the church app, website, or on our social pages. We also have a Zoom conversation every Sunday at 4:00 pm.

Questions to Ponder:

What does it mean to pray through the Holy Spirit’s power?

For Further Reading: Dynamite Prayer by Rosario Picardo and Sue Nilson Kibbey
Sunday - Day 15
Monday - Day 16
Tuesday - Day 17
Wednesday - Day 18
Thursday - Day 19
Friday - Day 20
Saturday - Day 21