Sermon Cloud

"Getting Prayers Answered"

Big Idea: Keep Praying

"But I tell you this-though he won't do it as a friend, if you keep knocking long enough, he will get up and give you what you want so his reputation won't be damaged."  luke11/8nlt

"When Isaac was forty years old, he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram and the sister of Laban.  Isaac pleaded with the LORD to give Rebekah a child because she was childless. So the LORD answered Isaac's prayer, and his wife became pregnant with twins... Isaac was sixty years old when the twins were born."  genesis25/19>21, 26nlt

"Then, teaching them more about prayer, he used this illustration: "Suppose you went to a friend's house at midnight, wanting to borrow three loaves of bread. You would say to him, `A friend of mine has just arrived for a visit, and I have nothing for him to eat.'  He would call out from his bedroom, `Don't bother me. The door is locked for the night, and we are all in bed. I can't help you this time.'  But I tell you this-though he won't do it as a friend, if you keep knocking long enough, he will get up and give you what you want so his reputation won't be damaged.  "And so I tell you, keep on asking, and you will be given what you ask for. Keep on looking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened.  For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And the door is opened to everyone who knocks."  luke11/5>10nlt

God Expects Me To Pray when I have a need

"Call on me in times of trouble. I will rescue you, and you will honor me."  psalm50/15gw

God expects me to Persist In Prayer

""There was a judge in a certain city," he said, "who was a godless man with great contempt for everyone.  A widow of that city came to him repeatedly, appealing for justice against someone who had harmed her.  The judge ignored her for a while, but eventually she wore him out. `I fear neither God nor man,' he said to himself,` but this woman is driving me crazy. I'm going to see that she gets justice, because she is wearing me out with her constant requests!' "  luke182>5nlt

God Anticipates Answering my prayer to protect His Reputation

"And when I have honored my name by blessing you despite your wickedness, then, O Israel, you will know I am the Lord."  Ezekiel20/44tlb