3/29/26 Pray for me. Part 3

So often when we pray, we pray for things, miracles, circumstances, and others but we forget to pray for ourselves. We often pray for our lives to get better but we forget to pray for ourselves to get better. In this series we are going to learn 3 “me” prayers to pray that will make us better servants of Jesus.

Over the last 2 weeks we learned the importance of praying, “Search me” and “Break me.” Today we are going to learn the importance of praying, Send me.”

#1: There are typically 3 responses to God’s call.

• The Jonah response: Here I am but I’m not going.

Jonah 1:2-3 Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me. 3 But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.

• The Moses response: Here I am but send someone else.

Exodus 3:10-11 Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt. 11 And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?

• The Isaiah response: Here I am. Send me.

Isaiah 6:8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.

To be sent we must first become surrendered.

#2: There are 3 things that we must experience to become fully surrendered to God.

• A genuine experience with the Presence of God.

Isaiah 6:1 In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.

• A genuine awareness of our sinfulness.

Isaiah 6:5 Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.

• A genuine understanding of God’s grace.

Isaiah 6:6-7 Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar: 7 And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.