Breakthrough Week 3

This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun! —2 Corinthians 5:17 NLT

Week 1 - Check the Condition of our Heart

Week 2 - Tune Out the Noise and Listen to God

This Week…

Battle in Prayer and Fasting

  1. Check our Hearts
  2. Tune Out the Noise
  3. And Pray

5 “And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. —Matthew 6:5 NIV

6 But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. —Matthew 6:6 NIV

7 And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. 8 Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. —Matthew 6:7-8 NIV

Relationship…Not Ritual

5 “And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. —Matthew 6:5 NIV

6 But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. —Matthew 6:6 NIV

You Have Your Reward

God Provides Your Reward

9 “This, then, is how you should pray:

“‘Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name, —Matthew 6:9 NIV
Offer Praise and Adoration Out of Relationship

10 your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven. —Matthew 6:10 NIV

Pray, Desiring God’s Will and God’s Ways

11 Give us today our daily bread. —Matthew 6:11 NIV
Pray for God’s Provision

12 And forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors. —Matthew 6:12 NIV
Pray for God’s Forgiveness

13 And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one. —Matthew 6:13 NIV
Pray for God’s Deliverance as We Battle

14 For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 15 But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins. —Matthew 6:14-15 NIV

Fasting

16 “When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show others they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. 17 But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face, 18 so that it will not be obvious to others that you are fasting, but only to your Father, who is unseen; and your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. —Matthew 6: 5-18 NIV

You Have Your Reward

God Provides Your Reward

“I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. —John 15:5 NIV

You Have Your Reward vs. God Provides Your Reward
No Fruit vs. Fruit

Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever! Amen. —Ephesians 3:20-21 NIV