Investment Plan: Prioritizing Prayer Church Together

Speaker: Pastor Andy Searles

Scripture Focus: 1 Timothy 2:1-7

Sermon notes are as follows:

Different Circumstances Require Different Prayers (1)
• Prayer must become our primary default, not our last request.
• Prayer asks the following questions: What’s on your list? What’s on your heart? What’s your plea? What are you grateful for?
• When we pray for people, it changes how we view people.

Difficult Times Require Direct Prayers (2-4)
• It is illogical not to pray for someone because we don’t like them.
• Godly ambition leads us to seek peace, not drama.
• We must walk into each room, relationship, situation, and circumstance  with a non-anxious presence – because we represent one who is not  anxious about anything.
• There isn’t a person you will meet today, or any day, who God doesn’t deeply love.

Divided Situations Require a Unifying Christ
• A mediator brings two separated sides together. Jesus, our mediator,  took away our sin so we could be “brought back together” with God.
• Good news gets out to the world as we proclaim facts, demonstrate the power of facts, and share the meaning of facts!