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Prayer: Angels
This morning, we continue on our journey learning about prayer, which is simply communicating with God.
Last week, we learned that because of the unchanging character and nature of God, He will essentially change His mind in response to our prayers. Our prayers affect God.
This week, we’ll see how our prayers affect the heavenly realm!
Acts 1:14
14 They all (about 120 v. 15) joined together constantly in prayer, along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.
Acts 2:1-11
1 When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. 2 Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. 3 They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. 4 All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.
Who spoke in other tongues? All of them
Who enabled them to do it? The Holy Spirit
Who was doing the speaking? They were speaking, but by the Holy Spirit as the source, not from their mind
Check out 1 Corinthians 12-14 and Acts 10/19 for more on this topic
5 Now there were staying in Jerusalem God-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven. 6 When they heard this sound, a crowd came together in bewilderment, because each one heard their own language being spoken. 7 Utterly amazed, they asked: “Aren’t all these who are speaking Galileans? 8 Then how is it that each of us hears them in our native language? 9 Parthians, Medes and Elamites; residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, 10 Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene; visitors from Rome 11 (both Jews and converts to Judaism); Cretans and Arabs—we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues!”
As they were joined together in prayer, something significant changed! A prophecy from Joel 2 and a promise of Jesus happened to all of the followers of Jesus. They were filled with the Holy Spirit and they spoke in many different languages of men declaring the wonders of God. Just a few minutes later, that chaotic and brand new encounter lead to the salvation of thousands of people!
The Spirit of God was poured out into people. When the heavenly and the natural met, there were physical evidences of it! In 1 Kings 8 when the ark of the covenant was brought into the temple and placed in the Holy of Holies, the Presence of God came and filled the whole temple with a glory cloud. When the Presence of God came and filled the temples of flesh, there was a sound of a blowing violent wind, there were tongues of fire that separated and rested on each of them, and they spoke in many different languages.
What did Solomon request before the physical Presence of God at the dedication of that first temple? That God would fulfill His promises and hear the prayers of His people, which was the primary purposes of the temple. A dedicated place for the Presence of God to dwell on the earth and for prayer to the Lord. It was a place where Heaven and earth, the spiritual and natural, were to meet.
Now, thanks to Jesus, the Old Covenant is fulfilled and we live under a New Covenant with God which is the reality of which the old foreshadowed and was a copy of. Now the place where Heaven and earth meet, the place where the spiritual and natural collide, the place where prayer is to occur is within the new temple that Joel prophesied about.
Where is this New Testament/New Covenant temple located? Right there in your seat!
1 Corinthians 3:16
Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst?
1 Corinthians 6:19-20
19 Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20 you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.
God has chosen our bodies as t
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This morning, we continue on our journey learning about prayer, which is simply communicating with God.
Last week, we learned that because of the unchanging character and nature of God, He will essentially change His mind in response to our prayers. Our prayers affect God.
This week, we’ll see how our prayers affect the heavenly realm!
Acts 1:14
14 They all (about 120 v. 15) joined together constantly in prayer, along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.
Acts 2:1-11
1 When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. 2 Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. 3 They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. 4 All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.
Who spoke in other tongues? All of them
Who enabled them to do it? The Holy Spirit
Who was doing the speaking? They were speaking, but by the Holy Spirit as the source, not from their mind
Check out 1 Corinthians 12-14 and Acts 10/19 for more on this topic
5 Now there were staying in Jerusalem God-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven. 6 When they heard this sound, a crowd came together in bewilderment, because each one heard their own language being spoken. 7 Utterly amazed, they asked: “Aren’t all these who are speaking Galileans? 8 Then how is it that each of us hears them in our native language? 9 Parthians, Medes and Elamites; residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, 10 Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene; visitors from Rome 11 (both Jews and converts to Judaism); Cretans and Arabs—we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues!”
As they were joined together in prayer, something significant changed! A prophecy from Joel 2 and a promise of Jesus happened to all of the followers of Jesus. They were filled with the Holy Spirit and they spoke in many different languages of men declaring the wonders of God. Just a few minutes later, that chaotic and brand new encounter lead to the salvation of thousands of people!
The Spirit of God was poured out into people. When the heavenly and the natural met, there were physical evidences of it! In 1 Kings 8 when the ark of the covenant was brought into the temple and placed in the Holy of Holies, the Presence of God came and filled the whole temple with a glory cloud. When the Presence of God came and filled the temples of flesh, there was a sound of a blowing violent wind, there were tongues of fire that separated and rested on each of them, and they spoke in many different languages.
What did Solomon request before the physical Presence of God at the dedication of that first temple? That God would fulfill His promises and hear the prayers of His people, which was the primary purposes of the temple. A dedicated place for the Presence of God to dwell on the earth and for prayer to the Lord. It was a place where Heaven and earth, the spiritual and natural, were to meet.
Now, thanks to Jesus, the Old Covenant is fulfilled and we live under a New Covenant with God which is the reality of which the old foreshadowed and was a copy of. Now the place where Heaven and earth meet, the place where the spiritual and natural collide, the place where prayer is to occur is within the new temple that Joel prophesied about.
Where is this New Testament/New Covenant temple located? Right there in your seat!
1 Corinthians 3:16
Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst?
1 Corinthians 6:19-20
19 Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20 you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.
God has chosen our bodies as t