November 30th, 2025
Praying Like It Matters
While You Wait
Jon Fredricks
Today's Scripture: Habakkuk 2:4 NIV
Psalm 16:11 NIV
You make known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand.
Matthew 11:28 NIV
“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
Acts 17:27 NIV
God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us.
James 4:8 NIV
Come near to God and he will come near to you.
Habakkuk 2:4 NIV
4 “See, the enemy is puffed up; his desires are not upright—but the righteous person will live by his faithfulness
Habakkuk 2:4 KJV
4 Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.
Galatians 3:11 NIV
11 Clearly no one who relies on the law is justified before God, because “the righteous will live by faith.”
Romans 1:17 NIV
17 For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed—a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.”
Proverbs 15:29 NIV
The Lord is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.
1) FIND WHAT IS TRUE
Habakkuk 2:4 KJV
4 Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.
Matthew 6:10 NIV
your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
2) TAKE THE STEPS YOU ALREADY KNOW
Habakkuk 2:4 KJV
4 Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.
1 Peter 3:12 NIV
For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and his ears are attentive to their prayer, but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”
James 5:16 NIV
Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.
Acts 10:1-4 NIV
At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion in what was known as the Italian Regiment. 2 He and all his family were devout and God-fearing; he gave generously to those in need and prayed to God regularly. 3 One day at about three in the afternoon he had a vision. He distinctly saw an angel of God, who came to him and said, “Cornelius!” 4 Cornelius stared at him in fear. “What is it, Lord?” he asked. The angel answered, “Your prayers and gifts to the poor have come up as a memorial offering before God.”
Isaiah 58:10 NIV
and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry
and satisfy the needs of the oppressed,
then your light will rise in the darkness,
and your night will become like the noonday.
3) GET FOCUSED ON FAITH
Habakkuk 2:4 KJV
4 Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.
Matthew 21:22 NIV
If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.”
Matthew 17:20 NIV
He replied, “Because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.”
Galatians 3:11 NIV
11 Clearly no one who relies on the law is justified before God, because “the righteous will live by faith.”
Galatians 3:14 NIV
He redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.
John 14:6 NIV
6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
John 14:13 NIV
13 And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
AFTER THE LIVESTREAM
Pray -
Jesus, I know that I have been separate from you my entire life. I have tried to pretend otherwise, but I realize today that my decisions, choices...my sin has separated me from God. I believe you are the Son of God and my only way forward. Please save me as I surrender the rest of my life into your hands. Thank you that you hear me!
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