Good to Great in God's Eyes - Pray Great Prayers, Part 1
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🗓️ 2 January 2025
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Summary
Did you know there’s a secret weapon God has instructed us to use on our journey of faith to protect us and provide us with power when we get discouraged? It’s called prayer. And if you want to be great in God’s eyes, you need to know how to pray great prayers.
Main Points Introduction: A prayer I will never forget.- Haiti – 1982
- A jungle compound – “hospital of pain.”
- A professor who used the power of prayer.
Practice: Pray Great Prayers! --John 16:23-24
Six characteristics of great prayers:- Great prayers are deeply personal.
- Great prayers are birthed in bokenness.
- Great prayers champion God’s agenda.
- Great prayers take God seriously.
- Great prayers demand great courage!
- Is really a summary: Great prayers ask the improbable, expect the impossible, and receive the unthinkable because of Jesus.
- Because of Jesus’ command, we boldly ask the improbable. --Matthew 7:7-8
- Because of Jesus’ promise, we expect the impossible. --John 16:24
- Because of Jesus’ power, we receive exceedingly, abundantly beyond what we can ask or think. --Ephesians 3:20
Chip Ingram’s passion is helping Christians really live like Christians. As a pastor, author, and teacher for more than three decades, Chip has helped believers around the world move from spiritual spectators to healthy, authentic disciples of Jesus by living out God’s truth in their lives and relationships in transformational ways.
About Living on the EdgeLiving on the Edge exists to help Christians live like Christians. Established in 1995 as the radio ministry of pastor and author Chip Ingram, God has since grown it into a global discipleship ministry. Living on the Edge provides Biblical teaching and discipleship resources that challenge and equip spiritually hungry Christians all over the world to become mature disciples of Jesus.
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| 0:00.0 | When some people pray, nothing happens. They say sincere words. They talk with God, but really, |
| 0:08.2 | nothing happens. When other people pray, amazing, supernatural, unexplainable things happen. |
| 0:14.5 | What's the difference? How do you pray great prayers? That's what we'll explore today. |
| 0:25.6 | Welcome to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. We are a discipleship-driven ministry on a mission to encourage Christians everywhere to live like Christians. |
| 0:31.6 | Today we're diving back in a Chip series Good to Great in God eyes, 10 practices great Christians have in common. |
| 0:38.9 | So far, we've learned about the habits of dreaming big |
| 0:41.6 | and making sacrifices. |
| 0:43.3 | In this program, Chip shares a thought-provoking word |
| 0:45.7 | that will really challenge how you think about your prayer life. |
| 0:48.7 | So if you have a Bible, go now to John chapter 16 |
| 0:52.0 | as we join Chip for his message, pray great prayers. |
| 0:57.0 | It was 1982, and there's a professor at Dallas Seminary named Walt Baker. |
| 1:03.2 | And Walt was a career missionary, and the seminary had been pulling on his sleeve to say, |
| 1:08.7 | come, come teach missions at the seminary. We want a worldwide |
| 1:12.4 | impact. And Walt said, I can't leave the field. He'd been in Haiti for over 20 years. They said, |
| 1:17.7 | Walt, you've got to come because you could do more good sending students and giving a world vision |
| 1:22.6 | to these bright young people with a heart for God. He said, okay, tell you what I'll do. I will come to Dallas |
| 1:28.5 | Seminary. I will teach missions as long as God wants me to with this one condition. Every summer, |
| 1:35.6 | I have the entire summer off and I will take a group of students and we will go to Haiti and we |
| 1:40.9 | will do ministry in one of the most poor, needy, desperate countries. I cannot |
| 1:46.2 | let my heart ever get disconnected from Haiti. He was my missions prof. He was a friend of a leader |
| 1:54.5 | in our church. I found myself with three or four pastors and three or four businessmen getting on a plane |
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