Sin makes slaves out of sinners, and what it uses as power over the sinners may surprise you!

All that we offer God, must come to God through Jesus, our merciful, faithful, and great, High Priest (Heb 5:1; 4:14; 10:21).

What happens in prayer helps us engage the work of God in Christ Jesus on our behalf.

God gives us opportunities in prayer. One of the biggest is confidence, not confidence in prayer, not confidence in self, confidence in the work of Christ and the faithfulness of our God!

David and Paul prayed for deliverance or protection from evil and violent men (Psa 140:1; 2 Thess 3:2).

Sometimes we get down, lower than a snake's belly in a wagon rut, and sometimes when we get down our souls cleaves to the dust, there. It is then that we need to see the "wonderful things in God's word" (Psalm 119: 25, 18).

The freedom God gives us in Christ, sets us free from the frustration that condemnation would bring to us under law. (Gal 5:1; Rom 8:1-4)

All Israel was baptized into freedom, but many did not remain faithful. This serves as a warning for us (1 Cor 10:13).

God has graciously granted us, in Christ, what no sinful person can accomplish -- righteousness! (Gal 2:21-3:14)

"But what about you, " He asked. Who do you say I am ? (Matt 16:15)