Prayer Works

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Sunday - 9:15 AM Sunday School, 10:30 AM Worship Service

by: Denise Robinson

03/12/2021

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Our devotional series based on the book Climbing with Abraham by David Ramos continues. Last week, we looked at Abraham's compassion for the people of Sodom and Gomorrah, and how God invited Abraham to ask for mercy for these people he didn't even know personally. God not only invites us to pray for others in much the same way, but God is waiting for us to do so - to show compassion for others that is undeserved on their part and unselfish on our part. 
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Week 17: Read Genesis 19:27-29 (Prayer Works)

"Chapter 19 represents the worst case scenario come to fruition. Two of the three men who met with Abraham just a few days before enter Sodom. Lot tried his best to care for them as his uncle did, but the sins of the city overwhelm the visitors. In a terrifying scene, a mob forms and attacks Lot's home. Suddenly, the two strangers reveal their divine nature, blind the crowd, and scurry Lot's family to safety. Lot and his surviving daughters watch as fire rains down onto the place they once called home. 

Abraham wakes us the next morning and looks to find a valley flooded with smoke. The people he pleaded for have all been destroyed. And what about his nephew Lot? It's not until much later he discovers that Lot made it out alive. What could Abraham have been feeling as he saw the pillars of smoke the next day? Anger, failure, frustration, helplessness....

Six times Abraham begged God to do something else, to not destroy them, and for what? Did God even listen? Yes.

Verse 29 says that God "remembered" Abraham and, for that reason, made the effort to save Lot and his family. Lot was not offered salvation because of his own merits but because of the merit of his uncle Abraham. Who we are matters. Our character matters. And one day we might discover that it mattered a whole lot more than we could ever have imagined. God remembered Abraham's prayer because of who Abraham was. His prayer changed things, not in the way Abraham had hoped, but in such a way that three lives were spared that day. 
Abraham saved someone else's life because he was a good man and he prayed. How much more power do we today have since our merit is based, not on ourselves, but on Christ?"
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Takeaway from today's lesson:  Prayer works, just not always in the way we think it should.

Prayer: God, help me to become a person of character and a person of prayer. Thank you that even when I fall down, Christ is my merit and intercedes on my behalf. Give me the strength to pray for others and the understanding to accept Your answers to my prayers. Amen.
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Take 10 @ 10:00:


Our devotional series based on the book Climbing with Abraham by David Ramos continues. Last week, we looked at Abraham's compassion for the people of Sodom and Gomorrah, and how God invited Abraham to ask for mercy for these people he didn't even know personally. God not only invites us to pray for others in much the same way, but God is waiting for us to do so - to show compassion for others that is undeserved on their part and unselfish on our part. 
__________________________
Week 17: Read Genesis 19:27-29 (Prayer Works)

"Chapter 19 represents the worst case scenario come to fruition. Two of the three men who met with Abraham just a few days before enter Sodom. Lot tried his best to care for them as his uncle did, but the sins of the city overwhelm the visitors. In a terrifying scene, a mob forms and attacks Lot's home. Suddenly, the two strangers reveal their divine nature, blind the crowd, and scurry Lot's family to safety. Lot and his surviving daughters watch as fire rains down onto the place they once called home. 

Abraham wakes us the next morning and looks to find a valley flooded with smoke. The people he pleaded for have all been destroyed. And what about his nephew Lot? It's not until much later he discovers that Lot made it out alive. What could Abraham have been feeling as he saw the pillars of smoke the next day? Anger, failure, frustration, helplessness....

Six times Abraham begged God to do something else, to not destroy them, and for what? Did God even listen? Yes.

Verse 29 says that God "remembered" Abraham and, for that reason, made the effort to save Lot and his family. Lot was not offered salvation because of his own merits but because of the merit of his uncle Abraham. Who we are matters. Our character matters. And one day we might discover that it mattered a whole lot more than we could ever have imagined. God remembered Abraham's prayer because of who Abraham was. His prayer changed things, not in the way Abraham had hoped, but in such a way that three lives were spared that day. 
Abraham saved someone else's life because he was a good man and he prayed. How much more power do we today have since our merit is based, not on ourselves, but on Christ?"
___________________________
Takeaway from today's lesson:  Prayer works, just not always in the way we think it should.

Prayer: God, help me to become a person of character and a person of prayer. Thank you that even when I fall down, Christ is my merit and intercedes on my behalf. Give me the strength to pray for others and the understanding to accept Your answers to my prayers. Amen.
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