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Messages by Desiring God

Foundations for Prayer Toward the Global Purpose of God

Messages by Desiring God

Desiring God

Christianity, Messages, Sermons, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Preaching, Desiring God, 163859, Religion & Spirituality, John Piper

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2000

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

God will sovereignly bring the nations to himself. But he will use our prayers and petitions to fuel a movement of the word that reaches the world.

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Well, that precious church which I serve has a mission statement and it says, we exist to spread

0:10.0

a passion for the supremacy of God in all things, for the joy of all people.

0:15.0

So that's why I'm here, and I'd like to begin by praying that God would help me do that your name would be exalted in what I say and

0:26.4

in heaven I ask for your help now

0:29.8

in these few minutes that your name would be exalted in what I say and that you would guard my mouth

0:36.0

from error.

0:37.0

I pray that you protect us from the evil one, the great deceiver.

0:46.0

And I pray that I would speak the truth as these friends need to hear it and that you would work in their hearts and their minds to

0:54.8

incline them to your word and not to gain, you'd open their hearts to see wonderful things in your

1:01.9

word, you'd unite our hearts to feel. to see wonderful things in your word.

1:03.5

You'd unite our hearts to fear your name

1:06.4

and that you would satisfy us in the morning

1:08.6

with your steadfast love and free us

1:11.4

for the most radical kind of engagement in world evangelization

1:16.0

movement of prayer that is possible for justified sinners to experience.

1:21.0

So come now I pray and make these few minutes.

1:25.0

Epic making in individual lives.

1:29.0

I pray that the stone that I drop in this little pool would be breathed upon in such a way that the

1:36.3

ripples would become waves that break on shores 12,000 miles away and if you Terry 1,200 years away. In Jesus' name I pray, amen.

2:00.0

My theme is, is foundations for prayer toward a global purpose of God.

2:09.1

And here's the thinking behind that title. In order for a movement or a heart or a church of prayer to be sustained,

2:22.1

you have to talk first about something besides prayer.

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