Sharing Your Faith and Prayer

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This is the Truth Network encouraging prayer, God offers an open invitation for his people to talk with him at any time about anything but encouraging prayer Dr. James Banks, author of the best-selling and many other books on prayer provides weekly biblical insight help you learn to love and now today on encouraging prayer. Talk about how prayer can really help you share your faith, James Robbie. Sometimes we find it difficult to assure because having a spiritual conversation personal thing and it's not always easy to begin, especially if you don't know someone, but the beautiful thing is that people are often open to prayer how people want to read my prayer the way they sometimes are when it comes to talking about having a relationship with God rights should tell someone that you pray for them about the need they just shared seems like there always regard as a good thing because it shows that you care about. That's right, care, and problems go hand-in-hand. We need help with our problems and we need others to care about what's going on in our lives in prayer is one way of showing that you really do want to help but you really do care and NSU price for other Scott sometimes shows you other practical things you can do to help them as well. Really it's practical yet it is several episodes back, I mentioned how when I go out to eat. I look like to talk to the person bringing our meal and find out how they're doing, you know, treat them like a human being that they are and I might say something like we always pray over meals and before I wanted to know if there's anything we can pray for you about almost always people respond positively to never have a negative response to it, although sometimes you know someone might be a little dismissive and say something like, no, not really. Usually deposit makes sense again doesn't want to be frightful.

I friend a pastor named Marty who likes to do the same thing when he found eat and one day their server. A young guy looked at him and said you do you don't think anyone ever pray for me before he actually sat down at the table with Marty and his wife a couple or kids in the parade right there. That's something that's yet it is usually you don't have that opportunity. You usually pray for someone's left the table and be sensitive to all the things that have because they're at work after all. But you never know what God will open someone. I know it's important thing that you stay sensitive to him in the moment. I remember I was interviewing Debbie Ryan which is great. Disney stocks and all of a sudden God just said after praying. How would you pray for and she said exactly the same thing like I can't believe I have the guts to say it but I did and she said you know Robbie nobody has ever asked me that.

And oh yes, pray for me because Disney stars fall in this much temptation so you're right, another friend Kevin was running on track with this he senses that God wants him to tell a man ahead of him on the track got one simply know that he loves you and you shouldn't give up on this planet and Kevin a reserved event to look depressed.

Maybe this message from God from the sky while also actually received the message that he should share with the got Philip in the book of acts right go to that chariot and stay near to you exactly sure about it.

At first you think this is just me got my head pray for you.

Let me see him at this point on the track comes up to that point on the track. The guys literally just standing there waiting for him and this is a big guy a lot taller than Kevin. Let it become adults sound a little unusual maybe, but God wants you to know that he loves you.

You shouldn't give up on your plan. Wow, what happened next click.

I looked down at him with this look almost shocking to have you been reading my mind, will, about then he starts to document how he was just passed over for promotion at work and it was right.

I thought maybe even race may have been involved in thinking about quitting. So Kevin prayed with them right there and in the Talking became friends, and later Kevin shared his faith with the man and the man became a follower of Jesus and God is doing a healing work in his marriage and he brought his wife and kids to Kevin's church and again. It's another beautiful thing. God is doing all because Kevin was open and listening to God in that moment on the track that's so important about this.

Are we open are we trying to be aware of the Lord's presence with us in the moment and listening to what he wants us to do or say and it usually doesn't happen that way with me.

You know like like like Kevin usually get a message from Kevin and I down to earth guy loves reading is pretty quiet again. You never know what God is going to do and when you stay open, you can you can see amazing things, success helps. Really when we realize that prayer is something we need to do something we get to do what we learn to live with God in the moment and let him in, mean, the more we'll see what only he can do. I know God is a moment like that when he let someone to stop and pray for me it's actually changed my life and drew me closer so I mean just like when I talked about for pastor little came and prayed for me when I had cancer, he changed everything. He was just driving by right and he felt like somebody there that car dealership needs prayer for healing.

That's what happened right. That's exactly what happened and you know I was covered in cancerous tumors but then come Monday morning. I wasn't and am clearly sensitive to the moment which seems really strange. The Don, but again, look at how everything changed as a result, ingested to be part of something like one it's a really good thing. Let's conclude today by asking God to help us do this to just stay open to love and serve others by praying for them and we do that now.

Please father, help us to serve others to truly humbly love them by being open to you in the moment and sensing. If you would have us pray for them.

Lord sometimes it's hard for us. Sometimes I it seems like a risk in whatever way you would would lead us, help us to be bold and help us to openly share your goodness with others by praying for you. Pray that we will see people say you love to hear more from Pastor James by visiting the website James Banks.org or by visiting churches. May God bless you and encourage you to pray. This is the Truth Network say what would you do if you were a new Christian and you didn't have a Bible like a Woolworth my way from Bible, the international you probably say well it happened my car I go to Christian bookstore or have one shipped to me with those word options sing with the faith.

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