Sermon Notes from 12.26.10

We did an abbreviated service this Sunday and here are the notes from the sermon.  You can find the notes and audio at sermons.heritagepark.org.  I like to end each year with some teaching on prayer and an exhortation to it.  I hope, before God, that this stirred people to it.

Prayer 2010

Ephesians 6.17-18

The imperative:  take up the sword of the Spirit.

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Take it up personally

• Ask questions of the text that will help you live it out.

Take it up prayerfully

• The Scriptures are inherently relational because they reveal God to us.
• Fueling our prayers with Scriptures puts our eyes on God.
• The promises in the Bible incite our prayers and affections.

Take it up missionally

• Pray with a sense of the warfare around you.
• Push your prayers outward – begin with you but end with something global.