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Marked by Prayer Week 1: Prayer is the Work

We kicked off a brand new two-week sermon series called, Marked by Prayer. In this sermon, Pastor Scott Worthington preached… Read More
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Jun 22, 2025
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18

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Marked by Prayer
Week 1: Prayer is the Work
 
“Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.” 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
 
A Jesus Follower…
· ABIDES in Christ
· CONNECTS in community
· SHARES in the mission
 
We don’t pray before we work, prayer is the work, then God works.
 
Week 1: Prayer is the work – What’s our part?
Week 2:  Then God works – God doing what only he can do!
 
“Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.” 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
 
Three Questions About Prayer:
1. What is prayer? 
Prayer is a conversation with God.
 
"…do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God." Philippians 4:6
 
“‘My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.’” John 10:27
 
Three Questions About Prayer:
1. What is prayer? 
2. What do we get when we pray?
 
What do we get when we pray?
1. We get God’s presence
 
“You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.” Psalm 16:11
 
“As we spend devotional time in the Word and in prayer, God is pleased to commune with us and to reveal more of who He is, little by little.” Clyde Cranford
 
What do we get when we pray?
1. We get God’s presence
2. We get God’s perspective
 
“Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.” Proverbs 3:5–6

What do we get when we pray?
1. We get God’s presence
2. We get God’s perspective
3. We get God’s power
 
“What an instrument is this which God hath put into your hands! Prayer moves Him that moves the universe.” Robert Murray M’Cheyne
 
Three Questions About Prayer:
1. What is prayer? 
2. What do we get when we pray?
3. How is prayer work?
 
C – 
P – 
R – 
 
C – Create space
P – 
R – 
 
“And after he had dismissed the crowds, he went up on the mountain by himself to pray. When evening came, he was there alone.” Matthew 14:23
 
“In these days he went out to the mountain to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to God.” Luke 6:12
 
“In the morning, LORD, you hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait expectantly.” Psalm 5:3 (NIV)
 
If something is a priority, there will be a plan attached to it. If you don’t have a plan, it is not a priority.
 
“Is intentional, regular, disciplined, earnest, Christ-dependent, God-glorifying, joyful prayer a duty — a discipline? Well, you could call it that. It’s a duty the way it’s a duty for a scuba diver to put on his air tank before he goes underwater. It’s a duty the way hungry people eat food. It’s a duty the way thirsty people drink water. It’s a duty the way a deaf man puts his cochlear implant in. So you can call it a duty if you want. But if we don’t eat, we starve. If we don’t drink, we get dehydrated. If we don’t breathe, we suffocate. And just as there are physical means of life, there are spiritual means of grace. Resist these lies of the devil and get a bigger breakthrough in prayer than you’ve ever had.” John Piper
 
C – Create space
P – Pray what you’ve got
R – 
 
“…do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.” Philippians 4:6
 
“Pray as you can, not as you can’t.” John Chapman
 
“We must learn to lay before him what is in us; not what ought to be in us.” C.S. Lewis
 
C – Create space
P – Pray what you’ve got
R – Repeat
 
“Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.” Romans 12:12
 
"In prayer we persistently, faithfully, trustingly come before God, submitting ourselves to his sovereignty, confident that he is acting, right now, on our behalf." Eugene Peterson
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