Right Praying

February 09, 2020

Dr. Dwight Perry

As we have mentioned before, maintaining joy in the face hardship and opposition is difficult; however, it is not impossible. The first step to doing so is learning how to pray biblically. In the sermon Joy Stealers, we looked at things that rob us of our joy. Consequently, we learned that we inflicted many of those problems on ourselves. For example, we rob ourselves of joy by interpreting our circumstances too negatively. Other people are able to rob us of our joy when we allow them to do so. Worry also robs of us of our joy when we allow our minds to dwell on it. As we begin to program our thoughts to a more spiritual way of thinking, we first need to abolish wrong thinking and wrong feeling. One greatly affects the other. When our thinking is wrong, then our feelings will be wrong also. However, there are steps that we can take to remove these joy robbers. First, we need to pray right. Second, we need to think right. Third, we need to live right. We will explore these three "right things to do" over the next few weeks. [visit bit.ly/aboutLCC for more information about Lucerne Community Church]