Great Prayers How high and how far

Sermon by Lay Leader Kelly Butz
How does our vertical life impact our horizontal life? It seems that God always magnifies those things in my life that I wrestle with as I prepare a sermon. If I am honest, my prayers have been hovering at ground level lately, simple prayers with low expectation. Are our comfortable lives generating comfortable prayers that lack the power to transform? If we are honest, it is easier to insulate ourselves from the pain of this world as we move comfortably through life, than it is to submit ourselves painfully before the Lord . God wants us to pray desperately! Prayer, our vertical relationship with God, spilling out into our everyday lives as we love deeply and serve others. Not serving for our own Glory, but for Christ alone. As Christ followers, we should be fueled by a sense of urgency to pray powerful prayers expecting that light will shine brightly into dark places. How high we reach determines how far our lives ripple out into the world. How High? How Far? Join us Sunday as we stretch toward heaven with great expectations to reach a broken world.