Sermon
The Friend at Midnight
Cross Church
Speaker: Nick Floyd
August 1, 2021 · 37 min
Summary
Jesus teaches that persistent prayer reveals God's goodness and leads to intimacy with Him rather than merely answered requests. Through the parables of the friend at midnight and the father with his son, believers learn that God always provides what is good, not what harms, and that the greatest gift is the Holy Spirit—God's presence itself.
Highlights
God always does what is good. He doesn't do wrong things. The more you understand that and embrace it, the better your life is going to be.
More than anything else, more than answered prayer, I want you. That's what persistent prayer leads to—intimacy with God is better than any answered prayer.
You may not receive the answer you want, but you receive intimacy with the God that you need. And that is the point of the passage.