Family Meeting
Sermon Focus: The Stubborn Intercessor
Teaching on Luke 5:17-26 (paralytic lowered through roof)
Three-part series: God enthroned on worship → Stubborn intercessor → Secret place
Jesus was teaching with power present for healing when friends disrupted to bring paralytic
Power of Disruptive Intercession
Paralytic’s friends wouldn’t take no for an answer when crowd blocked access
Dug through roof, dropped dirt on Jesus while he taught
Intercessors must be willing to disrupt and be persistent
Jesus had to stop teaching to respond to their faith
Key principle: Intercessory prayer should be disruptive
2026 Prayer Challenge
Three categories for stubborn intercession:
Unsaved person who doesn’t know Jesus
Impossible situation needing breakthrough
Unreached nation for salvation
Focus on people who are “paralyzed” and can’t get to Jesus on their own
Shift from self-focused to other-focused prayer life
Jesus’s Response to Faith
Saw their faith and forgave paralytic’s sins first
Pharisees questioned his authority to forgive
Jesus proved authority by commanding healing: “Rise and walk”
Immediate healing followed - man walked home glorifying God
Crowd amazed: “We have seen remarkable things today”
Worship Transition
Called for disruptive intercessory prayer for congregation
Shifted focus from teaching to worship of enthroned King
Emphasized worship discipline: focus on Jesus’s beauty and glory
Time to give praise, thanks, and acknowledgment to God
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