Prayer in Everything Results in Peace

Minister:
Date: PM
Text: Philippians 4:6,7
Psalters: 297, 162, 249, 8
  1. The occasion.
    1. To be carefree is to be not full of care with regard to anything, i.e., be no anxious.
      1. Care is ….
      2. Care concerns the things which we can do nothing about, but are God’s works.
    2. About what do we have care?
  2. The answer to worry is to pray.
    1. Prayer is to God; and He is the reason for not worrying.
      1. Literally it is “toward” God.
      2. He has set as the purpose of all things that He be glorified in the salvation of His people.
    2. Prayer is the verbal side of believer’s conversation with God; our covenant relationship with Him.
      1. It is our rejoicing in Jesus’ Lordship of your life.
      2. “Requests” refers to our petitions or requests.
      3. “Supplication” is prayer when characterized by intensity, fervency and urgency.
    3. While in fellowship with the Fountain of all good, let Him know your concerns.
  3. The benefit of such activity is not that we get what we want, but that we receive the spiritual benefit of peace.
    1. Though your problem remains, you will be delivered from fullness of care and peace enters.
      1. Peace is the result of our minds and heart (where worrying takes place) being kept in Jesus.
      2. It is because we realize that we are “in Christ Jesus.”
    2. Peace with God is as a garrison or fortress inside of which is real safety: “keep.”
      1. God’s peace is that He has peace within Himself and outside of Himself.
      2. While we can never get out of this fortress permanently, we do in our thinking see things without Christ Jesus.
    3. This results in “thanksgiving,” for gratitude will characterize everyone who truly sees “God” as our God.