Wrestling with God

Do you ever feel like Jacob wrestling with God?  Actually, Jacob only wrestled with a messenger sent form God, but you get the point (Genesis 32).  This week at New Life we are focusing on prayer as a means to move towards God's purpose for our lives.

The Bible is clear -- God has a will, a purpose, or a plan for the whole world - you included.  So what does praying have to do with God's purpose?  There are many types of prayers.  But praying toward purpose can be a life-changing experience.  Many people, Christians included, tend to treat pray as an opportunity to present a "wish list" to God.  Praying towards God's purpose for your life begins with getting in touch with God's promises and principles of truth.

The more we know of God's promises and principles of truth, the more we pray accordingly.  Jesus taught us this in the "Lord's prayer" (Matthew 6:10) and lived it out in the Garden of Gethsemane (Matthew 26:36-44).  Praying towards God's purpose for you life transforms your life into a prayer which crys, "Not my will, but thine."

Join us Sunday as we consider Go's purpose for our lives and pray for his will to be done.  Pastor Tom