Introduction

Well good morning once again, friends! Glad you decided to join us for this final week of our series, “Live Ready”. We have spent three weeks now talking about how, biblically, we can be ready to respond to life’s toughest scenarios. Whether that be a personal painful experience we have, or an injustice we see in the world around us, we must know how God desires His people respond. So today, as we close out this series, we are going to talk about one of the most important and powerful aspects of our faith, being ready with prayer.

Prayer is, simply put, conversation with God. There are times when the conversation is passionate and fiery. There are times when it is quiet and muted. There are variations and seasons of prayer that a person may experience over the course of a lifetime. Whatever avenue or style you may adhere to, one thing remains the same. Prayer is not the least we can do; prayer is the best we can do. Prayer is powerful and mighty in the mouth of a disciple.

And yet unfortunately, many of us have a minimal or non-existent prayer life. We desire to see God move, we want more from our faith but at the same time we aren’t willing to invest the time and energy into prayer that’s necessary. R.A. Torrey says; “We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power. We have a great deal of activity, but we accomplish little; many services but few conversions; much machinery but few results.” That’s a hard quote to hear, but I can’t say he’s wrong. And that’s why it’s so important that we ready ourselves to pray.

Prayer is not the least we can do; prayer is the best we can do.

As we think about prayer today, we’re going to jump into a few places scripture speaks of the power of prayer ... View this full sermon with PRO Premium