Sower Church

Rooted in Prayer


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Good morning. Welcome. Welcome. Come on in. Hey, my name is mike, one of the pastors on staff here at, so a church, It’s great to be with you. We, uh, I’m excited about our content today, what we’re gonna look at, I like to open up a short story. So I have a wife and my wife makes me go to the doctor and I go to the doctor once a year and they take blood, they check my heart. I stand on a scale. The doctor talks to me about stuff. But this last couple of weeks I went in and they had a survey thing. Uh, and I took a photo as I was going through my paperwork. Um, and I asked the nurse is like, this seems different than last year and she said, well because of the reality of what’s happening in our society, they do mental health screens for people’s annual physicals, which, which makes sense. But you might have seen this piece of paper after your doctor. I even saw them on the football game I was watching yesterday a little bit, uh, NFL players were telling me it’s okay not to be okay talking about as we process life. The pains and stresses and anxiety and depression that’s part of the human experience. And so I’m excited to cover our topic today. Looking at what it means to be rooted in prayer because I know there’s answers and there’s hope and there’s healing found in the word of God. And so if you’re, if you’re far from God or you’re close to God of Christianity. Something you grew up in or, or if it’s something you’ve never experienced before. Uh, the word of God has a word for you this morning and it speaks to the human experience and human existence and how to cope and process life well. So if you take a moment and bow your heads with me as we uh, we jump into our passage this morning, let’s pray God. I thank you for, I think for today, I thank you for all the men and women you brought here today. You have a plan for their lives. You’re the, you have a purpose in their life and you’re doing work in their life. I prayed, you would just really draws closer to you as people, as individuals and as a collective church. I said, you just draw hearts together. Help knit our hearts to each other and to you help us to see you clearly in your heart and the word of God today as that you instruct us, convict us, encourage us in ways that only the word of God can speak to us in a way that convicts and changes us. Lord. Change the motivations of our heart and change uh, the actions of our lives because we love you God. Just use the word of God to do the work of God in our life. If you just and we pray this Amen. And so I was I was prepping for this week’s sermon and I was contemplating what prayer passage to pick in the bible and if you’ve ever seen your bible or open the bible, there’s a lot of different prayer passages in the bible and I was texting one of our pastors like late at night like I sometimes do and I was like, hey, I’m gonna spend a lot of time trying to find a passage, can you just tell me which passage I should I should do? And I woke up the next morning early and like I’m just gonna pick the one I wanted. So I picked the one I wanted and cause he doesn’t sleep with his phone and which is appropriate. So he texted me like at seven or eight a.m. Like a normal person, you know, I would do the Lord’s prayer and I’m like good 2.5 hours into my singer prep on the Lord’s prayer. If you’re looking for the Lord’s prayer, it’s on page 4 73 in the Blue House bible. If you don’t grab that bible, it’ll help you out. Um if you have your own personal bible and you’re a red letter bible snob like I am, it’s the part of Matthew chapter beginning in chapter five and it’s just several pages of red letters and that that symbolizes these aren’t just words, these are jesus words and so we’re gonna be looking at part of the sermon on the mount, loo…
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