Here I Am… I’m Not Going (Dangerous Prayer Part 3)
How Many Times Have You Said No to God?
What if we prayed more about what we could do for God than what God could do for us?
Prayer of Availability
Three responses to God’s call:
1) JONAH: HERE I AM. I’M NOT GOING.
Jonah 1:1-3
‘“Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.” But Jonah ran away from the Lord.’
2) MOSES: HERE I AM. SEND SOMEONE ELSE.
Exodus 3:10-11
‘So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.” But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”’
3) ISAIAH: HERE I AM. SEND ME.
Isaiah 6:8
Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?” And I said, “Here am I. Send me!”
WHAT DO YOU NEED TO FULLY SURRENDER TO GOD?
1) A GENUINE EXPERIENCE WITH THE PRESENCE OF GOD.
Isaiah 6:1
In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple.
2) A GENUINE AWARENESS OF YOUR SINFULNESS.
Isaiah 6:5
“Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”
3) A GENUINE UNDERSTANDING OF GOD’S GRACE.
Isaiah 6:6-7
Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. With it he touched my mouth and said, “See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.”
Isaiah 6:8
“Whom shall I send? “Here am I. Send me!”
Not a one time decision but a continual surrender.
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