We need to recognize the effects prayer can have on our lives and our world. There is a lot of unrest and anxiety in our nation today, but prayer changes situations on a personal and national scale. It is our responsibility as believers to pray for the future, not to become anxious about it. Laying our cares at Jesus’ feet in prayer helps us feel less anxious and lifts our burdens.
Series: BACK to BASICS
Message: God’s Word – Water of Life
Text(s): Revelation 12:15, John 4:14
Pastor Tom Cogle
Sunday, January 17, 2021
The Word of God is a nourishing and cleansing water.
1. Satan tries to flood us.
Satan’s accusing words attack our health, relationships, finances, and many other areas of our lives relentlessly.
Revelation 12:15So the serpent spewed water out of his mouth like a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away by the flood.
2. Satan tries to famish us.
If the Word of God is our daily bread, then Satan wants to starve us by preventing us from reading and understanding the Bible.
Mark 4:14-1514 The sower sows the word. 15 And these are the ones by the wayside where the word is sown. When they hear, Satan comes immediately and takes away the word that was sown in their hearts.
3. Jesus wants to fill us.
Jesus offers living, spiritual water that gives us life. When we read the Bible, His Word becomes a fountain inside of us
John 4:14
14 but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”