Monday, February 27, 2017

Jesus Getting His Prayer on.

Alan Witham preached on Mark 1:35-39 to jump-start our 40 Days of Prayer.


These are my sermon notes, loosely organized. I hope you can be challenged by Jesus' example of prayer as we head into this time of focused devotion to the Lord starting next week (March 6th)





1) Jesus prioritized a definite time for his prayer.

  • He was busy. So are we. 
  • Do I think my life is busier than Jesus'?
  • When the sun comes up, things get busy.

2) Jesus established the priority of a definite place.

  •   Desolate- by himself, without distraction.

3) Jesus had a definite practice

  • Jesus made it a priority.
  • If Jesus needed to pray, how much more do we need to pray?
  • Few people pray who don't allot time for this.
  • We need to allot times for prayer.

4) Prayer prepares you for spiritual warfare

  • When you strengthen you prayer life, you will be prepared for battle of spiritual warfare.
  • When our prayer life is strong, we can over come the world, our flesh, and the devil.
  • The more consistently you pray, you can overcome the world, self, and devil.
  • Your prayer life affects other as well. It strengthens their walk of faith.
5) Strengthening our prayer life enables us to prioritize our time.

  • The disciples knew where Jesus was and what he would be doing.
  • He did this until people were looking for him. 
  • Jesus chose to say no to some good things to say yes to the best things. 
  • Prioritizing. Many decisions are either for good or best, not just bad or good. 
  • We need to pray "lord please give me wisdom to say no to what I need to say no to and yes to your will today"



Thank You Alan for a challenging sermon and a commission heading into these 40 days of prayer!