York Alliance Church Message Podcast

The prayer that Jesus taught His disciples to pray is a beautiful model for us as we approach God. Using the short-hand ideas of pause, rejoice, ask, and yield, we learn to powerfully engage God in prayer.

The prayer that Jesus taught His disciples to pray is a beautiful model for us as we approach God. Using the short-hand ideas of pause, rejoice, ask, and yield, we learn to powerfully engage God in prayer.

Jesus declared the present reality of the Kingdom of God, and our hearts can become a place where God's rule and reign is effective and complete. When we pray we increasingly become representatives of the Kingdom.

Prayer begins with the recognition of who God is: both the Almighty Creator and our Daddy. When we hold together the transcendence of God along with His eminence, we start to understand the mystery of prayer.

Our natural pathway to change is to perform or conform, but Jesus invites us to be transformed.

The difference between reading the Scriptures and any other book is the deep power to change us. As God reveals Himself to us, we begin to engage the wisdom of God and not our own earthly wisdom.

The beauty of Jesus is seen in the Scripture, so how do we engage the Word to see how the Good News of Jesus is good news for us?

The first step of reading the Scripture is recognizing who God is and who we are. He supplies everything we need and lack.

Luke clearly indicates that the call of Jesus to his followers in the beginning of the story remains as our marching orders. The themes from the book of Acts continue to be lived out by apprentices of Jesus today.

Where Paul’s bold and unhindered testimony ends without closure, ours begins.