Good to Great in God's Eyes - Pray Great Prayers, Part 2
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🗓️ 3 January 2025
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Summary
What kind of faith does it take to ask for the improbable, expect the impossible, and receive the unthinkable? It’s a faith that God has promised to give you. In this message, Chip tells how to take hold of it!
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 | What kind of faith does it take to ask the improbable, expect the impossible, and receive |
| 0:07.7 | the unthinkable? |
| 0:09.1 | If you think that's for great saints of another time, another era back in the old Bible times, |
| 0:15.1 | you might be wrong. |
| 0:16.8 | God wants to do great things through ordinary people like you. Today, we'll learn how. |
| 0:22.6 | Stay with me. |
| 0:26.6 | Thanks for listening to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. |
| 0:30.6 | Living on the Edge is an international teaching and discipleship ministry, |
| 0:34.6 | motivating Christians to live like Christians. Well, in this program, Chip continues his popular series, Good to Great, in God's Eyes. |
| 0:43.3 | But before we get going, if you've missed any part of this practical teaching, you can catch up any time at |
| 0:48.3 | Living on the Edge.org or through the Chip Angramath. We have a lot to cover today. |
| 0:54.4 | So here's Chip with part two of his message, |
| 0:56.6 | Pray Great Pray Great Prays from John Chapter 16. |
| 1:01.0 | The third characteristic of great prayers |
| 1:04.6 | is that they champion God's agenda. |
| 1:10.6 | God is greatly delighted |
| 1:12.4 | when our focus shifts from our own world |
| 1:16.6 | and our own needs to his world |
| 1:18.5 | and his agenda for his world. |
| 1:21.0 | Now, don't get me wrong. |
| 1:22.7 | You know, we pray for our daily bread. |
| 1:25.0 | We pray for the specifics of life. and he knows our needs even before we ask |
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