Empower Our Activities With Prayer—Part 10

Dream Power (continued)

When we, like Jesus, empower our activities with prayer, God often sees to it that impossible dreams come true. And what great joy we experience just as the fictional Amanda felt when the King came to her aid.

He smiled at Amanda, the old, wonderful smile filled with kingslove, and for a moment it was as though they were in the Inner Circle surrounded by the dancing, leaping Sacred Flame ….

Relief flooded Amanda. She bowed her knee in a courtly curtsey and murmured, “My Liege Lord.” Then, sheltering the frightened girl in his arms, he said, “I think you had better come and be a princess in the company of my people.”

In short order, they piled into a waiting taxi. To Amanda’s surprise, Hero was sitting in the front seat. He reached over, gave her hand a squeeze and said, “Good work.” How wonderful to be fellow to a brigade that could arrange last-minute rescues!

Amanda glanced through the open doors of the empty courtyard as the taxi pulled away. She felt relief, but—but jauntiness, too. Some of the old spirit of field and stream and childhood returned. A girl had been rescued from a terrible fate and was now nestled in the embrace of the King. No one—not Hero, not the cabbie, nor His Majesty—had scolded her with a “What-in-the name-of Great-Park-possessed-you?”

She smiled back at Hero and was proud because she did not remind him that street wise, alley smart, he had said she could do nothing. It was true. She had done nothing. The Names and the King had done it all—but for a field child unused to city ways, she had done nothing very well indeed!

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Sunday’s coming. Do you have your sermon ready? Is it relevant? Will it effectively motivate your congregation to walk more in step with the Master? What about that Sermon Series you’ve been thinking about?

Or, if you’re someone who plans well ahead, have you asked yourself what you will preach for your Easter Sermon, your Advent Sermon, your Christmas Sermon?

David Mains and Mainstay Ministries can help. We offer a wide variety of Sermon Starters and Full Sermons that will give you Sermon Ideas to help you prepare for regular Saturday or Sunday sermons, Mid-week Bible Sermons, and Sermons for special occasions.

We also offer assistance as you create Topical Sermons, Sermons Series, and sermons for special times of the year. We have resources available to help you with Advent Celebrations, Advent Sermons, Christmas Sermons, Easter Sunday Sermons, Patriotic Sermons, and more.

For more information on how to create better Bible Sermons and how to turn Sermon Ideas into Sermon Outlines, and then into effective, meaningful Sunday Sermons, please click here to visit David Mains’ website.

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Empower Our Activities With Prayer—Part 8

Fit for a King (continued)

The outer door-a key! Too late. The gatekeeper had returned.

Amanda drew herself to full stature and shouted the last names. “To the Monarch of All! To the King! To the Restoration of his Kingdom!” She knew she uttered treason and death was the penalty for her actions. But she was a princess of Great Park. Her heritage was of royal lineage; she would not whine or cry out or beg for mercy. For the sake of the King, she would march proudly to Burning Place.

Amanda held high her head as a man entered through the swinging gates.

He said, “Thank you, my sister. You honor me well.” It was the King himself!

Amanda gasped. “But how? The locked latch—the key—” Through the open gates she could hear the death drums beating louder, faster.

“Did you forget that I can open all closed doors?” He looked very plain. There were no golden highlights in his hair, his clothes were common—but the voice! It sounded of clear waters falling over great boulders, of winds blowing across fragrant fields. And the eyes! They contained the hush of the deep far sky itself, vast and infinite.

“Let us hurry to finish this work you have begun,” he said, and he stepped beneath the balcony where the princess was weeping hysterically with her head hidden in her arms. “Beloved!” he called quietly. “My beloved!”

The girl raised her head, and her eyes grew wide and her weeping stopped. The voice of the One of the Names had spoken; she knew him instantly and reached out her hands in an appeal for rescue. Clambering up the vines to the balcony, the King quickly lowered the princess by her wrists to the courtyard stones.

“We are a little short of princesses right now where I come from,” he explains gently after he himself had vaulted down. “They’re all growing up and accomplishing great things in the world—”

When your impossible dream is obviously going to advance the kingdom, you have every reason to believe that the King will give your dream His full attention. This is true even if He doesn’t demonstrate His support until what appears to be the last possible moment.

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Sunday’s coming. Do you have your sermon ready? Is it relevant? Will it effectively motivate your congregation to walk more in step with the Master? What about that Sermon Series you’ve been thinking about?

Or, if you’re someone who plans well ahead, have you asked yourself what you will preach for your Easter Sermon, your Advent Sermon, your Christmas Sermon?

David Mains and Mainstay Ministries can help. We offer a wide variety of Sermon Starters and Full Sermons that will give you Sermon Ideas to help you prepare for regular Saturday or Sunday sermons, Mid-week Bible Sermons, and Sermons for special occasions.

We also offer assistance as you create Topical Sermons, Sermons Series, and sermons for special times of the year. We have resources available to help you with Advent Celebrations, Advent Sermons, Christmas Sermons, Easter Sunday Sermons, Patriotic Sermons, and more.

For more information on how to create better Bible Sermons and how to turn Sermon Ideas into Sermon Outlines, and then into effective, meaningful Sunday Sermons, please click here to visit David Mains’ website.

You will also find a variety of resources for pastors and congregations at the Mainstay Ministries website. Just click here.

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