These verses are teaching us that to become more holy and obedient we must learn to pray in the way that these verses describe. We are going to see that Christ Himself prayed in the way that these verses describe, and when He did so, He had His requests answered in relation to His own obedience to God's Word. So what I want to do this morning is to take the words of David the Psalmist and apply them to the experience of the Lord Jesus and to our own experience. The question that we are asking this morning is this. Based upon the prayers of David, what did the Lord Jesus pray for then, that He would have us to pray for now, if we would become holy even as He is holy? 1st of all - He would have us to pray earnestly to be able to keep God's Word. 2nd - He would have us to pray earnestly in order to apply God's Word. And then 3rdly - He would have us to pray earnestly in order to be faithful to God's Word, even when surrounded by wicked men.
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Pastor Paul Rendall was born in November of 1951, and grew up in Davenport, Iowa. He went to college at Drake University and the University of Iowa where he received a B.A. degree in Social Work and History in 1974. Paul searched for truth in all the wrong places in college, but...