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Growing toward maturity in Christ without

Growing toward maturity in Christ without. shortcuts or gimmicks…. Prayer. James 4:2b-3. Prayer. Thus began my 50-year journey of confusion about prayer. James 4:2b-3. Larry Crabb, "Great Expectations,"  Pray!  magazine (November/December 2006), p. 34. Text. Failure to Pray.

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Growing toward maturity in Christ without

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  1. Growing toward maturity in Christ without shortcuts or gimmicks…

  2. Prayer James 4:2b-3

  3. Prayer Thus began my 50-year journey of confusion about prayer. James 4:2b-3 Larry Crabb, "Great Expectations," Pray! magazine (November/December 2006), p. 34

  4. Text Failure to Pray 2b You do not have, because you do not ask God. 3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. James 4:2b-3 Failure to Pray With the Right Motives

  5. Context 1 What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? 2 You want something but don’t get it. You kill and covet, but you cannot have what you want. You quarrel and fight. Question Answer James 4:1-2a Explanation Peacemakers understand the danger of self-centered desires.

  6. War James 4:1-2a Block I want something

  7. Big Ideas James 4:1-2a Peacemakers understand the danger of self-centered desires. James 4:2b-3 Peacemakers understand the danger of self-centered prayer.

  8. In the past I spent hours with God, beseeching him to bless my agenda and help me achieve my goals. …now I spend much more time with God, praying for His will to be done, not my own… James 4:1-2a Peacemakers understand the danger of self-centered desires. Peter Scazzero

  9. Text Failure to Pray 2b You do not have, because you do not ask God. 3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. James 4:2b-3 Failure to Pray With the Right Motives

  10. Text Failure to Pray 2b You do not have, because you do not ask God. James 4:2b-3 Matthew 6:9 “This, then, is how you should pray: “ ‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name,

  11. Text What? Why? James 4:2b-3 3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. Failure to Pray With the Right Motives

  12. Text Matthew 6:10 Your kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. The Lord’s Prayer

  13. “Action” Lord, help me to see the sinful, selfish desires present in my heart. (Psalm 139:23-24) James 4:2b-3

  14. “Action” Lord, help me to see the sinful, selfish desires present in my heart. (Psalm 139:23-24) James 4:2b-3

  15. “Action” Lord, help me to see the sinful, selfish desires present in my heart. (Psalm 139:23-24) James 4:2b-3 More than one church split has been caused by saints who take out their frustrations with God on the members of the church. Many a church or family problem would be solved if people would only look into their own hearts and see the battles raging there. (Wiersbe)

  16. “Action” Lord, help me to see the sinful, selfish desires present in my heart. (Psalm 139:23-24) James 4:2b-3 But none of us can side-step the accusation of self-pleasing. It is as likely to turn our highest endeavors into sins as it is to make our base passions more defiled. (Motyier)

  17. What areas of knowledge are open to God? Why? James 4:2b-3 James 4:1-3 calls us to look beneath the surface.

  18. Why? How do we get insight? James 4:2b-3

  19. “Action” Lord, help me to see the sinful, selfish desires present in my heart. (Psalm 139:23-24) James 4:2b-3 Psalm 139:23-24 23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. 24 See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

  20. “Action” Lord, help me to see the sinful, selfish desires present in my heart. (Psalm 139:23-24) James 4:2b-3 Lord, help me to want what you want. (Philippians 2:13) … for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose.

  21. Big Ideas James 4:1-2a Peacemakers understand the danger of self-centered desires. James 4:2b-3 Peacemakers understand the danger of self-centered prayer.

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