The Power of Prayer - How to Pray with Absolute Confidence, Part 2
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 4 October 2024
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Summary
Imagine what it would be like if you needed wisdom, or deliverance from a difficult situation, or financial provision…and you could pray a prayer that God would answer 100% of the time. You can! In this message, Chip shows us how to pray with absolute confidence.
Main Points Faith:- Definition = Hebrews 11:1
- Importance = Hebrews 11:6
- Faith, therefore, is having absolute confidence that whatever God says, He will do.
Question: When you pray, are you going to God with absolute certainty and confidence that what you are asking for will be given?
You can pray with absolute confidence. -1 John 5:13-15
How?
- To whom is this promise made? -1 John 5:13
- How must we pray to know God hears our prayers? -1 John 5:14
- How can we know the will of God? -1 John 5:14 -- By the promises of His Word
- How can we know God’s will when we have no promise for a particular situation? -Romans 8:26-27
Conclusion: “We must pray in faith. That is, we must pray with confident expectation of getting the very thing we ask.” -George Mueller
Broadcast Resource Additional Resource Mentions- Daily Discipleship
- "Magnificent Prayer" By Nick Harrison
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 | One thing I know about Jesus, he had absolute confidence that God heard his prayers, that God's power would be unleashed as he trusted him. |
| 0:11.0 | Yes, Jesus was fully God, but he was fully man and his prayers |
| 0:15.3 | were as a dependent human being in faith trusting the will and the promises of |
| 0:20.5 | God. Here's my question. |
| 0:22.8 | Do you know how to pray with absolute confidence? |
| 0:25.0 | If not, stay with me. |
| 0:26.7 | That's today. |
| 0:27.4 | Welcome to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. |
| 0:35.0 | The mission of these daily programs is to intentionally disciple Christians through the Bible teaching of Chip Ingram. |
| 0:41.0 | Thanks for joining us as we wrap up Chip Series, The Power of Prayer. |
| 0:45.0 | For the past several programs, we've learned how God wants to answer our |
| 0:49.0 | impossible situations, the lifestyle we need to follow to communicate with our Heavenly Father and the |
| 0:54.6 | roadblocks that often stand in the way of God answering our prayers. So if you've |
| 0:59.0 | missed any part of this insightful series catch up at living on the edge dot o'r g or through the chip ingram map. |
| 1:06.0 | Well if you have a Bible open now to the book of first John chapter 5 as we join |
| 1:11.5 | chip for part two of his message how to pray with absolute |
| 1:14.9 | confidence. The next question that as this passage opens up is not only how to pray according to God's will, but how do you know God's will? |
| 1:30.0 | See at this point I hope your mind is saying, let me just have a quick aside, I hope your mind |
| 1:36.4 | is saying in your heart of hearts, I pray a lot of vague prayers. |
| 1:40.3 | I'm not sure I pray real specifically. I think I instead of having faith, you know what I find in my life and probably with many of you? |
| 1:47.0 | I find instead of praying in faith, I'm usually praying in hope. Oh God I hope this happens. Oh God this is a this happens. Oh God, this is a good desire. Oh God, this is be nice if you did it. |
| 1:56.0 | That's not what Jesus. Jesus said when you come asking in faith, believe that you've received it, and it'll be given to you. |
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