When we pray God does something he wouldn't have done if we hadn't prayed.

In Amos 7 we see that the prophet changed God's mind.

What do we need to get started?

1. A time

2. A place

3. Words

We ended the talk with a great story of an unlikely answer to prayer.

There's something so special about the fact that God has chosen to pour out His Spirit upon his people, and loves to give more of Himself when we ask (Luke 11).

That was the agenda tonight.

2 Timothy 1:7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

My friend Wayne once told me that most of us live our whole Christian life in the wilderness after we're rescued out of Egypt. We don't cross over the Jordan and enter in to the promised land.

This sermon is about crossing over and entering in.

Is faith certainty or is it more like walking a path of surrender in response to the call of the beckoning mystery encoded into life itself?

The kingdom of death has no rightful claim on the kingdom of life. Yet much of the time we live from the wrong story - the facts of our life instead of the Truth.

Jesus said he's the vine and we're the branches and that apart from him we can do nothing, but if we remain in him we will bear much fruit.

That's in John 15

We gotta fight the real fight and not get fooled.