Sermon Audio: Pray Receptively
Speaker: Pastor Val Watkins
Scripture Text: Acts 13:1-2, Acts 16:6-10, Romans 8:26-27
Duration: 31:22
Size: 17.4 MB
Prayer That Works
Pray Receptively
Acts 13:1-2, Acts 16:6-10, Romans 8:26-27
We need to understand that prayer isn’t just us talking to God.
It’s God talking to us as well
They were worshiping and fasting when the Holy Spirit gave them instructions, and then they fasted and prayed some more.
Fasting is the discipline of going without something, usually food, although people talk about fasting from TV or social media, or something else, in order to focus on spiritual things.
Wouldn’t it be so much easier if the Holy Spirit spoke to us in an audible voice?
Hide God’s Word in your heart.
Because that is the primary channel through which God speaks to us today. Receptive prayer lets the Holy Spirit speak.
Are you willing to open your hands to God in prayer, and receive what He so wants to give you?
It’s all good because the Holy Spirit, who knows you perfectly, who knows the mind of God perfectly, is praying for you according to the perfect will of God.
If we limit our prayers to only what we ask for, what we think we need, and how we think things need to be accomplished, how much are you limiting God?
When we pray with open hands, it gives the Holy Spirit the opportunity to go above and beyond what we pray.