2 Jan 2010 Sermon
Title: Big

Question: Are you doing something big with your life? Or just basically wasting your life and time .

What is big is your life?

We must not focus on the trivial things in our life but look in to the big things that you can accomplish.

Matthew 6:25"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? 26Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life[b]?
28"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 31So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' 32For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Verse 33: seek Him first the kingdom of God

The question that we need to ask ourselves is :"What is the thing that you are praying big?".

We need to commit this year to pray for something that is real God's size. Something that big that on God can accomplish it... something that if God don't turn up for it, you will be in deep trouble

The size of your prayer communicate the size of the God to your friends and people around you.

We need to pray the prayer that is do big that will proably twist your faith .

Luke 11:1-4-
1One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, "Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples."
2He said to them, "When you pray, say:
" 'Father,[a]
hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come.[b]
3Give us each day our daily bread.
4Forgive us our sins,
for we also forgive everyone who sins against us.[c]
And lead us not into temptation.[d]' "


The key not be backslide is to....
1) 15 Min talk to God
2) 15min listen to God
3) and share with someone about God

The point of prayer is not to repeat same things again and again but is to pray BIG,BOLD, SHAMELSSLY

Verse5-6: God is the sleeping guy. Sometimes that we pray, we may feel this way that God is asleep and not listen to my prayer

Shameless, bold, persistent: The guy that is knock is desperate for bread.

And it is because this guy desperateness , he will get what he wants.

The friend that is sleep will have no choice but give the bread to him

Verse 9-So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you

Luke 18:1-8-The Parable of the Persistent Widow
1Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up. 2He said: "In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared about men. 3And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, 'Grant me justice against my adversary.'
4"For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, 'Even though I don't fear God or care about men, 5yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won't eventually wear me out with her coming!' "

6And the Lord said, "Listen to what the unjust judge says. 7And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? 8I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?"



God is not offenced by desperate and demanding prayers but is actually honoured by it.

Our prayer need to be bold, shameless, and persistent

We just need to keep knock, seek, ask!!!!