Prayer is in essence the method by which christians practice and keep fellowship with God. I submit to you that if you did not pray, you don’t have a relationship with God. Saved people, regenerate people talk to God. 

Living in the pressure cooker of warfare that we live in these days, I don’t see how you can go one day and not be forced into prayer, forced into a place where you realize that you can’t do it, you don’t have the strength, you don’t have the wisdom, the stamina. I must pray. I must ask, I must tell Jesus. 

If you signed that document on Sunday and did it in all sincerity, if you truly are willing to fight for holiness, for power with God, for authority and confidence with God in this world, then you must understand the power of prayer, the importance of prayer and just how desperate you should be to pray!

Titus 2:7-8

7 In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity,

8 Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.

Titus 2:7-8

7 In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity,

8 Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.

What is being taught here is integrity, reverence, and the incorruptibility of the Christian, and the structure that God requires within the church and the Christian home. There is order to all of this! God designed, we are to obey it.

That pattern looks like this. Live for God with all you have, today! Then do it again tomorrow, and as you do, you’ll actually grow in the grace and knowledge of Jesus Christ! Paul, here in Titus is talking about doctrine, but a pattern of living out sound doctrine leads to you to consistency with God and it doesn’t leave you in the same place you were, the benefit is growing in grace and the knowledge of the lord Jesus Christ.