Biblical Priorities of CHBC. Evangelize Edification Encouragement.

Biblical Priorities of CHBC

EvangelizeEdification

Encouragement

TRANSFORMATION

1.Making Sunday mornings a priority

2.Getting involved in a life group

3.Taking part in discipleship

4.Finding a place of service in the body

5.Contribution in corporate prayer

Contribution in corporate prayer

(Act 4:31) And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all

filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with

boldness.

(2Ch 7:14) If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their

land.

(2Ch 7:15) Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer that

is made in this place.

(2Ch 7:16) For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may

be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.

(Luk 19:46) Saying unto them, It is

written, My house is the house of prayer: but ye have made it

a den of thieves.

(Act 2:42) And they continued stedfastly

in the apostles' doctrine and

fellowship, and in breaking of bread,

and in prayers.

A dynamic praying church must be built from the inside out, employing all four

levels of prayer: the secret closet, the family altar, small group praying and

finally, the congregational setting.

Developing your Secret

Closet of Prayer, Richard Burr, p 19.

Daniel 9

I. True prayer is based on the

PERSPECTIVE of his Word

(Dan 9:2) In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books

the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah

the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the

desolations of Jerusalem.

(Jer 29:10) For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be

accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word

toward you, in causing you to return to this place.

(Jer 25:12) And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are

accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith

the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make

it perpetual desolations.

(Neh 8:1-6) And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before the water gate; and they spake

unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded to Israel.

And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both of men and women, and all that could hear with understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month. And he read therein before the street that was before the water gate from the

morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law. And Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood… And Ezra opened the book in the sight of

all the people; (for he was above all the people;) and when he opened it, all the people stood up:

And Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God. And all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands: and they bowed their heads, and worshipped the LORD with their faces to

the ground.

(Ezr 9:4) Then were assembled unto me every one that trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the transgression of those that had been carried away; and I

sat astonied until the evening sacrifice.

(Ezr 9:5) And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness; and having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my

knees, and spread out my hands unto the LORD my God,

(Ezr 9:6) And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God:

for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the

heavens.

(Col 4:2-4) Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving; Withal praying also for us, that God would open unto

us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds: That I may make it manifest, as I

ought to speak.

(Eph 6:18-20) Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching

thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints; And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I

may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel, For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I

may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

I. True prayer is based on the PERSPECTIVE of

his WordII. True prayer is

based on a PLEADING of his

will

(Dan 9:3) And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and

sackcloth, and ashes:

(1Jn 5:14-15) And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we

ask any thing according to his will, he heareth

us: And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we

ask, we know that we have the petitions that we

desired of him.

(Rom 8:26) Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our

infirmities: for we know not what we should

pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh

intercession for us with groanings which cannot be

uttered.

(Mat 6:9) After this manner therefore pray ye:

Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy

name.

(Mat 6:10) Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done

in earth, as it is in heaven.

I. True prayer is based on the PERSPECTIVE of

his WordII. True prayer is based

on a PLEADING of his will

III. True prayer is based on a

PASSIONATE humility

(Dan 9:3) And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and

sackcloth, and ashes:

(Dan 9:4) And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my

confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the

covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his

commandments;

A prayerless man is proud and independent,

and any church that neglects corporate prayer is sadly no better. Only God's humble and needy

children take the time to pray. Everyone else is just going through the motions and naively trusting in their own

strength!

David Smithers

(Psa 34:18) The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.

(Isa 57:15) For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity,

whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of

a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

(Luk 18:10-14) Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and

the other a publican. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I

thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or

even as this publican. I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.

And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast,

saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every

one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be

exalted.

As a painted man is no man,

and as a painted fire is

no fire, so a cold prayer is no

prayer.

Thomas Brooks

(Jas 5:16) Confess your faults one to another,

and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

I. True prayer is based on the PERSPECTIVE of

his WordII. True prayer is based

on a PLEADING of his will

III. True prayer is based on a PASSIONATE

humilityIV. True prayer is to

realize how PERVERTED we

really are.

(Dan 9:4) And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love

him, and to them that keep his commandments;

(Dan 9:5) We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done

wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy

judgments:

(Dan 9:6) Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our

princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.

(2Ch 7:14) If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their

land.

(2Ch 7:15) Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer that

is made in this place.

(2Ch 7:16) For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may

be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.