Scripture Passage: 2 Chronicles 6:12-42

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Prayer Series
Learning from the prayers in the Bible
Learning How to Read the Bible

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Glory
a. love
b. temple
c. people
d. creation
c'. people
b'. temple
a. love
Glory

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Remember Ezra from last week?
5:13 sang: “He is good;
his love endures forever.”
... 14 and the priests could not perform their service because of the cloud, for the glory of the Lord filled the temple of God.

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And in chapter 7 after the prayer
2 The priests could not enter the temple of the Lord because the glory of the Lord filled it....4 saying, “He is good; his love endures forever.”

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Prayer Posture is Important
He stood on the platform and then knelt down before the whole assembly of Israel and spread out his hands toward heaven.

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Praying into longterm love
14...keep your covenant of love ... your promise to your servant David
42... Remember the great love promised to David your servant

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The Trouble with Temples
the highest heavens, cannot contain you. How much less this temple

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People Problems
22 “When anyone wrongs their neighbor... 24 ... have been defeated by an enemy...
32 “As for the foreigner ... 34 When your people go to war ...."

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Creation Crises
26 “When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain...
28 “When famine or plague comes...

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Glory
a. love
b. temple
c. people
d. creation
c'. people
b'. temple
a. love
Glory

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The refrain
21 Hear from heaven, your dwelling place; and when you hear, forgive.
23 then hear from heaven and act.
25 then hear from heaven and forgive
27 then hear from heaven and forgive

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more refrain
30 then hear from heaven, your dwelling place. Forgive, and deal with everyone
33 then hear from heaven, your dwelling place. Do whatever the foreigner asks

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more refrain
35 then hear from heaven their prayer and their plea, and uphold their cause.
39 then from heaven, your dwelling place, hear their prayer and their pleas, and uphold their cause. And forgive

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So What?
What does this all mean for my prayer life?

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All the messy stuff in d. creation and that happens with c. people
can be dealt with (refrain)
by meeting God in his b. temple
and knowing him as a. love

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But there is more
1:14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.

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Jesus on the temple
2:19 Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.”
21 But the temple he had spoken of was his body.

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Our role in this
3:16 Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst?

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This world-restoring deal called prayer happens through Jesus... and through us!!

October 15, 2023 - "Hear From Heaven and Forgive"