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Doctrine of Prayer: From Transaction to Transformation

Josh Agerton — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 20:41:02 +0000

We’ve been in a great message series these last weeks at Cornerstone – “Doctrine”. This past week I carried us through a message on the Doctrine of Prayer – mainly taking us from a transactional prayer to a transformational experience of prayer. Some have asked for a copy of the notes from the message so I’ve attached them here (remember…rough notes for myself.) You can also listen to to the podcast for this and other messages through the series from our website – or subscribe to the podcast through iTunes (search Cornerstone Church Auburn).

Doctrine of Prayer Sermon Notes

4 Days Set Apart

Josh Agerton — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 14:35:47 +0000

Wanted to ask any readers/friends out there to be praying for me next week. I am going to be taking a journey to Texas to spend 4 days with 2 very close friends. I would call them covenant friends…Brandon Frenzel and Joe Nader – both pastors who I went to school with at Asbury Theological Seminary. These are some amazing dudes. Brandon serves as a Youth Pastor and Joe as the Director at the Univ. of TX, Arlington Wesley Foundation.

For about the last 4 years we have been walking alongside of each other in some intentional ways: talking weekly (to vent, listen, pray, encourage, love, speak truth); read books/blogs together; meeting for a few days together each year to peer into each others lives. Our friendship has been a very healing thing in my life and become a place to experience more of Christ’s love for me.

So next week I’m flying into Dallas on Monday and we are headed down to Lake Granbury. Going to just hold ourselves up in a place on the lake and cook together, go hiking, maybe fish a little. Also we going to be reading Brennan Manning’s new book, The Furious Longing of God and talking through that together. Check out the trailer for this book below.

Please be praying for us as we put our lives out before each other and Christ. My biggest hopes/intentions for the week – eat a steak of a charcoal grill, eat some TX bbq, laugh till my face and stomach muscles are sore, be real and be loved – by my friends and my Father. And thanks Leslie for supporting me in getting away like this. Expectant.

One Prayer Recap

Josh Agerton — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:45:45 +0000

Wanted to drop in a video here from our One Prayer Service Day from last month. Several church’s in the Auburn area got together to serve the community as one body of Christ…part of the One Prayer movement that nearly 2,000 churches participated in. We ended up sending about 200 people to work at Auburn’s ten public schools doing some serious clean-up. It was an all out blitz of kindness. Had a great time working alongside friends and it is something we for sure will be doing again…very soon. So check it out. (And be careful if you’re allergic to Poison Ivy…there’s some in this video):

Auburn One Prayer from Cornerstone Church on Vimeo.

²⁰“My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, ²¹that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. ²²I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one: ²³I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. ²⁴“Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world. ²⁵“Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. ²⁶I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them.” John 17:20-26

Prayer of Surrender

Josh Agerton — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 04:06:29 +0000

Just wanted to drop in this prayer. I shared it in a sermon a few weeks back and have had several folks ask about it. It’s one that John Wesley first prayed in 1780 with his early Methodist preachers. This became part of thier annual covenant service they would do at the beginning of each year to re-commit their lives in service to Christ. We have so much to learn from this. This version is a little more contemporary but you can find it in it’s original text here.

I am no longer my own, but yours.
Put me to what you will, place me with whom you will.
Put me to doing, put me to suffering.
Let me be put to work for you or set aside for you,
praised for you or criticized for you.
Let me be full, let me be empty.
Let me have all things, let me have nothing.
I freely and fully surrender all things to your hope and service.
And now God, my Creator, Redeemer, and Sustainer,
you are mine, and I am yours.
So be it. Amen.

“Call to Me”

Josh Agerton — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 13:25:23 +0000

I’m sitting here in my office this morning just getting ready for church today. Thinking of all the people that will walk through our doors this morning to worship God. Some will come from the peak of a mountain and some will come from the lowest valley. Some will think they are all alone…living in a wilderness. For some it will check off the box and others it will be the very sustenance of their life. And some will wonder why in the heck they are even here…”this is pointless.” I’m praying for all of them.

I start most of my mornings listening to what I call my prayer songs. It’s just collection of songs that I listen to that kinda guide me in prayer. Just want to share one with you all today.

It’s by a guy named Jason Upton. You won’t find him on the radio much…he’s kind of a hidden, prophetic songwriter/singer. Might be good to get to a quiet place, even lay down on the floor and let these words be sung over you.

Click here to listen (song will automatically play from his website.) And buy a CD or get his stuff on iTunes to support Jason.