Confidence in Prayer

May 15, 2022 / Pastor Brent Snook

Confidence in Prayer

Sermon by Pastor Brent Snook / May 15, 2022

Text: 1 John 5:14-15

“I can take my telescope and look millions and millions of miles into space; but I can lay the telescope down – go into my room and shut the door – get on my knees in earnest prayer and I see more of Heaven and get closer to God than when assisted by all the telescopes in the world.” -Isaac Newton

And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he heareth us: And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him. I John 5:14-15

I. THE PRECEDENCE OF PRAYER

A. OUR

B. OUR

C. OUR

II. THE PREREQUISITES OF PRAYER

A. GOD’S WILL

B. GOD’S WILL

Two Basic Guidelines to Discern God’s Will

1. God’s Word

2. on the Holy Spirit

C. GOD’S WILL

III. THE PICTURE OF PRAYER

A. DIRECT

B. DELAYS

C. DIFFERENT

D. DENIAL

Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us … Ephesians 3:20

Confidence in Prayer