Hello Everyone,

FAITH IN PRAYER is one thing that definitely makes prayer powerful.

Luke 11:5-6 5Then he said to them, "Suppose one of you has a friend, and he goes to him at midnight and says, 'Friend, lend me three loaves of bread, ⁶because a friend of mine on a journey has come to me, and I have nothing to set before him.'

Faith was what got the man to the neighbor’s house.
(A willing love got the guy out of bed, but faith got him to the neighbors door)
He was sure, confident, certain that if only he asked the neighbor for some bread...he would get it.
He went totally convinced that His request would be answered.
(I don’t think he would have gone if he didn’t believe his request would be answered.)

Faithlessness will take power from your prayers.
If you don’t believe that God is going to answer your prayers...why pray?

*Hebrews 4:16 Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.
*James 5:15a "And the prayer offered in faith will make a sick person well; the Lord will raise him up....."

And the prayer offered in faith will....
*make a sick marriage well..

*make a sick attitude well
*make a sick church well..

James 5:16

“…..The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much”.

Faithlessness shows unbelief.
*When God answers your prayer and you’re shocked...you may have unbelief.

How do we develop faith? (Not a class, seminar, sermon)
We’ve already got a head start as believers.
*A. W. Tozer described the unusual characteristics of a Christian who lives by faith. "A real Christian is an odd number anyway.
*He feels supreme love for one whom he has never seen,
*talks familiarly every day to someone he cannot see,
* expects to go to heaven on the virtue of another,
*empties himself in order to be full,
*admits he is wrong so he can be declared right,
* goes down in order to get up,
*is strongest when he is weakest,
*richest when he is poorest,

*and happiest when he feels worst.
*He dies so he can live,

*forsakes in order to have,
*gives away so he can keep,

* sees the invisible,
*hears the inaudible,

*and knows that which passeth knowledge."

(To live by faith means embracing a lifestyle that contradicts most of life.)

Develop faith? Use what you have! ("There is no such thing as a correspondence course for swimming." If you want to swim you have to get in the water. Pro-active faith requires "getting wet." (Just do it!)

Faith is essential to powerful prayer.

Oh How HE Loves Us!

Pastor Phil