Connecting Unto Prayer
July 30, 2023      |     By: Jonathan Brickley      |      Category: Sermons      |      Location: El Dorado
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Summing up where he left off last week (being sober-minded unto prayer), Jonathan begins teaching part 2 of this sermon concerning prayer. Jesus gave six radical prayer promises in John 14, 15 and 16. The chiastic structure places emphasis on the need to abide! As we saw last week, prayer is connected back again to love. At the end of the sermon several people share encouraging words, testimonies and an original poem.

Last week recap
1) sober minded/alert unto prayer
2) connected unto prayer

Six Radical Prayer Promises
John 14:13-14 (NIV)
13 And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
14 You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.

John 15:7, 16 (NIV)
7 If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.

John 16:23-24 (NIV)
23 In that day you will no longer ask me anything. Very truly I tell you, my Father will give you whatever you ask in my name.
24 Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete.

Chiasm
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Western = point, followed by supporting information. Transfer of information.
Eastern = discovery as the essence of learning. Discover the treasure/Jewel within the center.

Example
“those who exalt themselves will be humbled, but those who humble themselves will be exalted”
33 years Gospels, Cross of Christ, 33 years Acts

In fruit bearing, the Father’s divine life is expressed

Connection to Jesus is the key to all
Jesus provides all the power we need

Prayer connected back again to love
John 15:16-17 (NIV)
16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.
17 This is my command: Love each other.

Life is the source
Love is the condition
Prayer is the work
Fruit bearing is the goal

The Father as the husbandman is the source, the author, the planner, the planter, the life, the substance, the soil, the water, the air, the sunshine, and everything to the vine. The Son as the vine is the center of God's economy and the embodiment of all the riches of the Father. The Father, by cultivating the Son, works Himself with all His riches into the vine, and eventually the vine expresses the Father in a corporate way through its branches. This is the Father's economy in the Universe.