Supplication - How to Unleash the Power of Prayer

This morning we are learning about prayer. We have already seen that no one ever prayed as much as Jesus.

No one ever said as much about prayer as Jesus. And, no one can impact our lives more to pray and be heard by our Father in Heaven -- than Jesus.

No one else but Jesus can put through our prayers to be heard by our Father in Heaven. Jesus is the intercessor, the operator that connects us, and puts our calls through.

This morning Jesus warns us that there are some prayers He can't put through for us. Please open with me to Matthew 6.5-15.

Prayers are like phone calls, both are about talking to someone you believe is there but you just can't see them. The telephone, invented in 1877, by Scottish born inventor -- Alexander Graham Bell, was a big hit. Today in America there are 194 million land-line phones, 140 million cell phones and in the world there are many hundreds of millions more phones.

In the olden days, many years ago, long before cell phones, wireless handsets, and a phone in every room, were the days of telephone operators. These ladies (did you ever get a man back then?) would say "Operator" and then you would say "I would like to place a call to …" and then they would proceeded to try put that connection in place.

Some of the most dreaded words back then for all of us helpless and dependent telephone users were, "I am sorry I can't put that call through for you". Then would come the reasons – we had given an incorrect sequence of numbers, or the lines there were not functioning, or the party was not answering, or that party was not even accepting calls, or we had not been able to settle the whole matter of paying for this event.

But back to the dread