May 28, 2025
Person of Prayer #
Mark 11:20-26
Introduction
I didn’t anticipate having a gap two week gap in these messages, but the Lord knows.
Last time, we looked at this passage, I preached on the Potential of Prayer: 1. Disaster’s Solved, 2. Diseases Healed 3. Dead Raised 4. Demons Cast out.
Tonight we are going to look at the Person of Prayer.
I. Person of Faith #
A. Whosoever - Is not a special person (23) “whosoever shall say” #
1. Who it is not: #
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- It is not a favorite child
- It is not a gifted ability to ask in prayer.
- It is not a saint, or Mary
- It is not limited to men, or women
- It is not limited to preachers
2. “Whosoever” = anyone #
B. Where our Faith is placed (22) #
- “Have faith in God” (22)
1. Where faith is not to be: #
- Faith is not to be in a church
- Faith is not to be in clergy, leadership
2. Where faith is to be: #
Genesis 18:14 “^14\ ^Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.”
Matthew 19:26 “^26\ ^But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.”
C. What our faith can do (23) – Possibility of our faith #
Ephesians 3:20 “^20\ ^Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,”
D. Weakness of our faith (23) “shall not doubt in his heart” #
Proverbs 3:5 “^5\ ^Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.”
E. Faith believes (23, 24) #
- (23) “believe that those things … shall come to pass”,
- (24) “believe that ye receive them”
II. Person of Forgiveness #
A. What is Forgiveness #
Forgive - To give up resentment or claim to requital on account of (an offense or wrong)
1. forgiveness requires letting go! #
Eph. 4:31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: 32 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.
B. Who do we forgive? – any #
1. Family -spiritual #
2. Family -physical #
3. Foe #
4. Forgiveness is not putting yourself in danger! #
C. Withheld forgiveness (26) #
John Phillip
So, while the Lord gives us here a very broad and sweeping promise, indeed, “What things soever ye desire,” the assumption is that the person, so approaching heaven with such a large request, will be exercising a faith rooted in a humble, Christlike spirit and that he will be observing all of the usual laws associated with prayer.