Passionate Prayer

House Rules - Prayer

Dave Riddle - 10/23/2022

Key Passage: Ephesians 3:14-21

Passionate Prayer

  • growing in our desire and commitment to seek God (individually and with others) and yield to His will for our lives.

Key Concept: Surrender!

  • Prayer is acknowledging that we don’t have complete control

Posture of Humility

  • Ephesians 3:14

  • Philippians 2:10

  • Pray = proseuchomai (Greek: προσεύχομαι) to pray to God, supplicate, worship.

  • Worship = proskyneo (Greek: προσκυνέω) - to fall upon the knees and touch the ground with the forehead as an expression of profound reverence

Phenomenal God

  • Ephesians 3:14b-16a

  • Ephesians 3:20

    • dynamis (Greek: δύναμις) strength, ability of power, especially inherent power, residing in something (or someone) by virtue of its (or their) nature.

Passionate Request

  • Ephesians 3:16

    • Praying for spiritual maturity

  • Ephesians 3:17

    • Praying for a strong foundation

  • Ephesians 3:18-19

    • Comprehend, know, filled with the fulness of God

      • Know = ginōskō: to know in a deeply experiential way.

Point of it All

  • Ephesians 3:21