Pray like He Knows What You Need
Weekly Reading
Monday: Acts 21
Tuesday: Numbers 22:2-41, Acts 22
Wednesday: Numbers 23, Acts 19
Thursday: Numbers 24, Acts 23
Friday: Numbers 25:1-9
Saturday: Psalm 81-84
Sunday: Job 40-42, Ecclesiastes 1-12, Song of Songs 1-2
Tuesday: Numbers 22:2-41, Acts 22
Wednesday: Numbers 23, Acts 19
Thursday: Numbers 24, Acts 23
Friday: Numbers 25:1-9
Saturday: Psalm 81-84
Sunday: Job 40-42, Ecclesiastes 1-12, Song of Songs 1-2
Sermon Notes
Key Passage: Matthew 6:5-8
Hebrews 4:14-16
Psalm 139:1-2, 23-24
"On August 13, 1727, they gathered for another ordinary church meeting. Zinzendorf preached a powerful sermon on the cross, and as he did, the Holy Spirit fell in such an overwhelming way that in that very moment, in that very meeting room, they began to confess their wrongs and forgive one another - no buts, no explanations, no holding back - just naming the wrongs and wiping the slate clean. The Spirit fell so heavily that they stayed for hours in confession and actually stumbled out of the church service dizzy with supernatural experience, like drunks out of a pub at last call.
"Two weeks after that night, they decided to start a prayer meeting. That prayer meeting lasted a hundred years. So how did the Moravian revival happen? Most historians say, 'Prayer -- the whole thing was fueled by prayer,' and there’s a lot of truth to that. But according to the forty-eight refugees in the room, the eyewitnesses who lived and experienced it, they would have said, 'No, no, no. One hundred years of prayer was just the overflow of one night of unfiltered, healing confession.'
"Revival didn’t happen because everyone agreed it was a good idea; it happened because everyone stripped off their fig leaves in front of one another." -Tyler Staton, Living Like Monks, Praying Like Fools
Hebrews 4:14-16
Psalm 139:1-2, 23-24
"On August 13, 1727, they gathered for another ordinary church meeting. Zinzendorf preached a powerful sermon on the cross, and as he did, the Holy Spirit fell in such an overwhelming way that in that very moment, in that very meeting room, they began to confess their wrongs and forgive one another - no buts, no explanations, no holding back - just naming the wrongs and wiping the slate clean. The Spirit fell so heavily that they stayed for hours in confession and actually stumbled out of the church service dizzy with supernatural experience, like drunks out of a pub at last call.
"Two weeks after that night, they decided to start a prayer meeting. That prayer meeting lasted a hundred years. So how did the Moravian revival happen? Most historians say, 'Prayer -- the whole thing was fueled by prayer,' and there’s a lot of truth to that. But according to the forty-eight refugees in the room, the eyewitnesses who lived and experienced it, they would have said, 'No, no, no. One hundred years of prayer was just the overflow of one night of unfiltered, healing confession.'
"Revival didn’t happen because everyone agreed it was a good idea; it happened because everyone stripped off their fig leaves in front of one another." -Tyler Staton, Living Like Monks, Praying Like Fools
Discussion Questions
3DQ - 3 discipleship questions to ask each other: What is God saying to you? What are you going to do about it? How can I help?
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