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Sermon Outline
Prayer isn’t easy
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- Sometimes it involves pain and deep emotion (Heb 5:7)
- 2 words used for praying:
- prayers: (Acts 1:16, 2Cor 1:11)
- supplication:
- 2 strong emotions:
- loud cries: (Lk 1:42, Ex 11:6)
- Tears
- Jesus wasn’t a stoic! (Mt 26:42, 27:46, Mk 14:34)
- What does this all mean? (Heb 5:7)
- 2 words used for praying:
- Sometimes it involves suffering (Heb 5:8)
- Sometimes it appears to be unanswered (Heb 5:7-8)
- Prayer doesn’t guarantee that the suffering will be eliminated!
- That is a difficult thing to reconcile with other passages of scripture (Jn 14:14, Mt 7:7, Lk 18:1-8)
- Sometimes it involves pain and deep emotion (Heb 5:7)
But
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- Prayer is worship (Heb 5:7, Lk 23:34)
- Prayer is our connection to God (Jn 8:38)
- Prayer strengthens us to persevere and trust in God (Lk 22:42, HC 28)
All of this in Jesus’ life led to him becoming (Heb 5:8-9, 12:1-3)
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- Obedient
- Perfect
- Source of eternal salvation (Acts 4:12)
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