February 22, 2015

Ask. Seek. Knock.

Speaker: Dean Macke Series: The King's Speech Topic: Exposition Passage: Matthew 7:7–7:11

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WHAT A DISCIPLE LOOKS LIKE

 

REVIEW OF THE TEACHINGS OF JESUS

 

PERSERVERANCE: AN INVITATION TO PRAY

 

IT'S HOW WE LIVE AS DISCIPLES

 
   Psalm 141:3-4

 

IT'S OUR RESPONSIBILITY

 

PROMISE: AN ENCOURAGEMENT TO PRAY

 

DOES GOD GIVE US EVERYTHING WE ASK FOR?

 

GOD GIVES US GOOD THINGS

 
   1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
 
   Galatians 5:22-23

 

PRACTICE: A LIFE OF PRAYER

 

SET ASIDE TIME TO PRAY

 

PRAY WITH SCRIPTURE

 

FIND A PLACE TO PRAY

 

START

 

Community Meditation

Know

  • What images do the words ask, seek and knock bring to you mind and how does that change the way you think about prayer?
  • Compare the evil, earthly father and the perfect, heavenly father in the illustration. How are they the same? How are they different?

Feel

  • How does the Sermon on the Mount make you feel? Do you feel excited to go out and do it? Dejected that you'll never be able to do it? Apathetic toward it? Something else?
  • When you read that all who ask receive, that all who seek will find and to those who knock it will be opened, does that encourage you to pray? How?

Live

  • What things can you do to help become more regular in prayer?
  • How does the promise of Jesus to give all good things to those who ask effect the way you pray for an with others?

other sermons in this series

Apr 5

2015

The Authority of the King

Speaker: Reid S. Monaghan Passage: Matthew 7:28–7:29 Series: The King's Speech

Mar 29

2015

Foundation for the Good Fight

Speaker: Reid S. Monaghan Passage: Matthew 7:24–7:27 Series: The King's Speech

Mar 22

2015

House Builders

Speaker: Dean Macke Passage: Matthew 7:24–7:27 Series: The King's Speech