Thursday, January 13, 2022

Prayer that Transforms


“Prayer that Transforms”


Search me, O God, and know my heart; 

test me and know my anxious thoughts. 

See if there is any offensive way in me, 

and lead me in the way everlasting.

- Psalm 139:23-24


Richard Foster – “To pray is to change.”

Life Lesson: We do not master prayer, prayer masters us.


The Power of Transformative Prayer

Application 1 – Transformative Prayer unpeels the layers of corruption in my heart.

Jeremiah 17:9 – “The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?” 

Psalm 139:23 – “Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my thoughts.”

“Search Me” invites God to dig deep into our hidden places.  

“Test me” has judgment seat overtones.

Application 2 – Transformative Prayer cleanses the impurities from my heart.

Psalm 139:24a – “See if there is any wicked way in me...”

Point: Transformative Prayer opens the way for God to remove anything that he deems wicked.

Application 3 – Transformative Prayer sets my vision on holiness.

Psalm 139:24b – “...and lead me in the way everlasting.” 

** Israel often deviated from the “Way”

Jeremiah 6:16 – “Thus says the LORD: Stand at the crossroads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way lies; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls. But they said, “We will not walk in it.”

** But Jesus not only showed us the Way back to God, he IS the Way.

John 14:6 – “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”

Point: Transformative Prayer enables us to choose holiness as our preferred lifestyle.



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