Pray Humbly by Pastor Kevin Dibbley

This week our sermon, from Luke 18:9-14, is called Pray Humbly.

Jesus recognized that we have a tendency to fall into two ditches in our spiritual lives.  On the one hand, we can give into religious despair. We doubt that God actually cares about the needs of His people or He would have answered the way we expected. Jesus calls us to be bold and determined by faith in our praying. He wants us to be indefatigable prayer warriors who believe in the power and promise of God to bring His kingdom to its fulfillment at the day of Jesus Christ. The other ditch that we can slide into is that of religious pride or self-righteousness. We become confident in ourselves, not realizing that it is not our prayers but God's mercy that is the ground of our hope. Most of us have to recognize that we have to battle those two dangers - spiritual discouragement and spiritual pride.

In this passage, Jesus gives us a helpful diagnostic tool for discovering spiritual pride and motivating us to humble and faith-filled prayer. Would you pray for Waterbrooke to be filled with humble and hopeful prayer warriors? Let's look forward to being helped by the Holy Spirit as we gather to celebrate the grace of God towards undeserving sinner and saints through our Lord, Jesus Christ.

 

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