Peter Roselle: Guard Your Heart From the Sin of Prayerlessness (1 Samuel 12:23)
Channel: King of Kings Worship Center
Date: 15/12/2020

Peter Roselle: Guard Your Heart From the Sin of Prayerlessness (1 Samuel 12:23)
1 Samuel 12:23 says, “As for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the LORD by ceasing to pray for you.” Prayer is a difficult discipline for many Christians for a wide range of reasons. Quotes: On my journey, I’ve learned that prayer is not such a big formal thing, it is about relationship. God loves me. Hebrews 7:25 says, “He is able, once and forever, to save those who come to God through Him. He lives forever to intercede with God on their behalf.” Jesus is praying for me. Don't be like the typical guy that doesn't like to ask for help because he thinks it's a sign of weakness. Well, for me, many times, prayer is asking for help. He loves me, so why wouldn't God want to help me?”

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Luke 18:1 says, “One day Jesus told his disciples a story to show that they should always pray and never give up.” Look at somebody and say, "Always pray and never give up."  You might be saying, "Wait a minute. How can I always pray? I have a job. How could I pray if I'm working?" But Jesus wouldn't ask us to do if it wasn’t possible.

As a young Christian, I thought prayer was binary, as in, “I'm either working or I'm praying, I’m not good at multi-tasking.” But that is a juvenile approach and a misunderstanding of Father heart God. On my journey, I’ve learned that prayer is not such a big formal thing, it is about relationship. God loves me. Hebrews 7:25 says, “He is able, once and forever, to save those who come to God through Him. He lives forever to intercede with God on their behalf.” Jesus is praying for me. Don't be like the typical guy that doesn't like to ask for help because he think it's a sign of weakness. Well, for me, many times, prayer is asking for help. He loves me, so why wouldn't God want to help me? 

Psalm 121:4 “He who watches over Israel never slumbers or sleeps.” He's never slumbering, he's never sleeping, and he always loves hearing from me. Isn't that amazing? He loves hearing from you too. What we started with in Luke is often called “The Parable of the Unjust Judge,” but it should be called “The Parable of the Persistent Widow.” She was relentless. God is not the unjust judge – the point of the story is that if her persistence eventually got her the breakthrough, how much more will your heavenly father respond when you ask Him for justice?

Luke 18
7 Don’t you think God will surely give justice to His chosen people who cry out to Him day and night? Will He keep putting them off? 
8 I tell you He will grant justice to them quickly! But when the Son of Man returns, how many will He find on the earth who have faith?”

God is saying, “Why would you struggle alone when I'm available whenever you want me?" 
Did you know that prayerlessness is a sin? 1 Samuel 12:23 says, “As for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the LORD by ceasing to pray for you.” 

So why wouldn't we just bring our needs before the Lord on a regular basis? All right, so then he says in verse seven, in this position of saying, look, if the earthly judge even decides to give justice, don't you think that God will surely give justice to his chosen people who cry out to him, when? Day and night.

I'm looking at Joe Bilotta down here in the front, and you just never know when the Lord is going to move mightily in somebody's life. Joe and Anna Bilotta, lived through the tragedy of losing their first child in an accident at a family party. Nobody should ever have to live through that. I have found as a pastor that helping people deal with the loss of a child is one of the most difficult losses in life.  

But what I remember about the story is that somebody invited Anna to go to a Joyce Meyer Conference in the midst of probably one of her worst seasons during that time. Anna decided to go by faith because she was numb emotionally. After the trip, Joe said, "The person I picked up at the airport after she took that trip was a different person than the person I dropped off.” 

Something happened at that Joyce Meyer Conference that caused a breaking. A breaker anointing lifted the grief from Anna's life. And when she came back, it was evident - without even saying a word - that something had shifted. We want to keep a fire on the altar of our heart burning - better that it's blazing fire - but never that it goes out, right?