FellowSHIP
Ships • Week 3
Fellowship is an essential part of living life as a follower of Jesus. But often we think of fellowship in terms of time with other believers. While community is important, it is essential that we spend time, intentional time, with God in prayer. Daniel Bunn reminds us of this as he focuses on Fellowship with God through prayer in week 3 of Ships.
MESSAGE NOTES
FellowSHIP in Prayer
Ships | Week 3
November 8, 2020 | Daniel Bunn
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Fellowship with God through prayer comes through time with God.
Psalm 119:164 NIV
Seven times a day I praise you for your righteous laws.
Fellowship with God through prayer comes through vulnerability with God.
Psalm 139:1-6 NIV
You have searched me, Lord, and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue you, Lord, know it completely. You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
Psalm 44:20-26 NIV
If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god, would not God have discovered it, since he knows the secrets of the heart?Yet for your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered. Awake, Lord! Why do you sleep? Rouse yourself!Do not reject us forever. Why do you hide your face and forget our misery and oppression? We are brought down to the dust; our bodies cling to the ground. Rise up and help us; rescue us because of your unfailing love.
Fellowship with God through prayer comes through relationship with God.
Psalm 103:1–13 NIV
Praise the Lord, my soul; all my inmost being, praise his holy name. Praise the Lord, my soul, and forget not all his benefits—who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion, who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s. The Lord works righteousness and justice for all the oppressed.He made known his ways to Moses, his deeds to the people of Israel: The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love.He will not always accuse, nor will he harbor his anger forever; he does not treat us as our sins deserve or repay us according to our iniquities. For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his love for those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us. As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him;