Great & Mighty Prayer Part 1
Jer 33:3 ‘Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.’
Realize – Jeremiah live in tough times:
1. Jeremiah was a prophet called by God living in the midst of a sinful nation. Sound familiar?
a. He preached to the Jewish nation and it’s people about their sin but they wouldn’t listen to him.
2. He had prophesied that if the Nation of Judah wouldn’t turn from their sin and turn back to God, they would fall into the hands of the Babylonians. (Exactly what happened)
3. His message was rejected. People didn’t listen.
4. Today, people hear the message of the Gospel but turn a deaf ear and reject the Lord when the Lord has said ;
John 10:10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
Before Going on please Pray. Speak Lord for Your Servant is Listening!
Chuck Swindoll: Had a simple Quiz, it’s just Yes or No answers. So here we go:
- Are you satisfied with your prayer life? Yes or No ?
- When you pray, are you confident?
Do you pray with confidents? Are you absolutely certain that you know what you are doing? When you finish, are you absolutely confident that God is in control of the thing that you prayed about? Do you pray with confidents? Yes or No?
- When someone says to you please pray with me about this, Do You?
A good check point would be that 3 days latter you could tell someone else precisely what the prayer request was and or you are back in touch with that person asking about the answer. When someone says pray for me about this do you really do that? Yes or No?
- If you were asked to name 4 or 5 specific request that you ask of God this week could you stand and give those requests? Yes or No?
- Is your time in the word of God balanced with time in meaningful prayer?
Yes or No?
Now it’s time to Grade yourself, if all yes then you don’t need this lesson.
If you have 1 or 2 no’s then you pass.
If you have 3 or 4 no’s, this is the reason for this lesson.
Great things can happen here in your life. If you ask and believe …
Jer 33:3 ‘Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.’
He Promises the POWER OF GOD
The Lord said: “Call unto Me”
Above everything else, we should pray for the Power of God.
Jeremiah knew that he could call on God and God would answer.
Do you know that God can answer our prayer?
Isa 58:9 Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;
So, Jeremiah prayed and Called out to God.
Call in Hebrew is “qara” means to “cry out”, call aloud, roar, summons, to call together
OT:7121 qara’ (kaw-raw’); a primitive root [rather identical with OT:7122 through the idea of accosting a person met]; to call out to (i.e. properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications):
KJV – bewray [self], that are bidden, call (for, forthself,, upon), cry (unto), (be) famous, guest, invite, mention, (give) name, preach, (make) proclaim (-ation), pronounce, publish, read, renowned, say.
This is a powerful word with a powerful meaning.
When we “call” on God, when we “cry out” to God, we are summoning the Power of God in our lives.
We acknowledge that He alone is God and that we can’t accomplish in our own strength all that He is able to accomplish.
Jer 32:17 ‘Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for You.
Jer 32:27 “Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for Me?
Many times, we try to handle out lives under our own power. (I can do it myself today)
The world wants to do it their way-just like the people of Judah but we need to be doing it God’s way
Abraham Lincoln was asked if God was on his side and he said “Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.”
It is time to rely on Christ, CALL UPON THE LORD so that HE can show us great and mighty things that only He can get the credit for.
It is not our great faith in God that can move mountains but faith in a GREAT GOD!!! Not Great faith but a great God
Folks, we need to place our Faith in a LIVING GOD who has the power to answer our prayer!!!
I don’t put my faith in the miracles of God but in the God of miracles.
Michael Youssef: Faith is not believing in spite of the evidence; Faith is obeying in spite of the consequence.
As a Christian we have Power within us to:
Overcome Satan
Satan is Aggressive in today’s world.
There is a lot of opposition in this world.
Just like there is a personal God, there is a personal Devil —
He is aggressive (TV, Newspaper)
He is behind every evil thing and aggressively moves against Christians today
Where God is seeking to love, Satan is seeking whom he may devour.
We can overcome Satan and all his forces thru the Power of God.
James 4:7 Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. 8 Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9 Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. 10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up.
As a Christian we have Power within us to: Stand against the world and the sin it has to offer
People need to realize that preaching the blood of Jesus Christ and the cross is offensive to the world.
When the Word is preached today, people think they are being scolded and they resent it.– (Conviction of sin)
But in many of today’s churches, we deny the problem of sin.
But some people will act upon that conviction and receive the forgiveness that only Christ can give.
Unfortunately, most will not and will continue to live in a world of sin just like Judah.
But God has given us the power to overcome the world!
1 John 4:4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
As a Christian we have Power within us to: See lives changed
Mark 9:23 If thou can believe, all things are possible to him that believeth
God will change your life if you believe He can.
Maybe you are here and you say “but you don’t know how bad it is or how bad I am.” Could be……but I know how good God IS !!
Maybe God is saying to you “Call unto ME”
What an invitation.
An invitation to come before a living God who is able to transform your life.
An invitation to receive eternal life thru His Son and be saved.
An invitation to receive the power that only God can give.
Matthew 28:18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
Power to: Move mountains, Part the sea, Change lives, Save your soul from hell.
Jesus said “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh to the Father but by Me” ¨ He is it the only way, not Allah not Buddha not Mohamed… Go to there grave. They are still there. Go to Christ grave.
He is not a good, great, wonderful, awesome, way He is the Only way!
When we seek the Lord with all of our hearts, ask the Lord to come into our lives, He opens a new and exciting life.
*How much more great and mighty can it get??
When we call upon God, our lives become new….
He makes us into a new creature, old things are passed away behold all things become brand new.
Eph 3:20 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,
Remember our text: Jer 33:3 ‘Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.‘
Call unto me and I will answer you.
He PROMISES TO ANSWER PRAYER
In order for God to answer our prayer, we should understand:
#1. That we serve a LIVING God.
#2. He is ABLE to answer our prayer
Ps 145:18 The LORD is near to all who call upon Him, To all who call upon Him in prayer.
He wants us to have the desires of our heart.
Prov 11:23 The desire of the righteous is only good, But the expectation of the wicked is wrath.
Mans part our part is to Call (Prayer Asking)
The source GOD!
Rom 8:26 Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. 27 Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. 29 For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. 30 Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.
The Simplicity Is Prayer
The Scope of Prayer (anything anywhere anyone anytime)
More to come next week.
