evening so good to see you all here for a Wednesday night service find your
seats please take a hymn I'll go to him 191 and we'll begin tonight hymn number
191 in my heart there rings the melody hymn number 191 once you find your
place begin singing on that first I have a song that Jesus gave me it was sent
from heaven upon hymn number 191 lift your voice together now in the hymn 191
we come before you this evening we thank you needy that we church on this
evening just ask Lord a blessing upon us as we come before we sing and say to
fill the preacher with your Holy Spirit preach with heaven speak the words that
you'd want them to speak tend them to the message tonight and that all that's
said and done bring back the honor and glory that you deserve for it and we'll
thank you for it in Jesus name amen hymn number 121 next 121 like a river
glorious hymn number 121 can't hear myself you guys get back there I have to
do something with this is a microphone it keeps falling off because this I
don't know it doesn't have enough grip on my tie so I wrapped it around my neck
amen can still talk pretty good so let's get to the bulletin if you need one
raise your hands and the ushers will give you a bulletin as soon as they can
if you have one please open it up on the upper upper left hand corner it's our
service times below that is our soul winning times and at the very bottom is
our salvation and baptisms for the year and on the right corner once again
congratulations to the Betty family and the birth of their precious baby boy
Luca Alfred born on May 18th at 313 a.m. weighing nine pounds nine ounces and
measuring 21 inches and in case you don't know the Father's Day weekend
soul-winning hiking trip for Friday June 13th through the 14th you know it's
it's gonna be something that we have to RSVP so if you haven't emailed us yet
you can hit us after the service talk to brother Ramon so we can get you on the
list and get your room for that weekend once again the hike itself is gonna be
on the 14th but the soloing is going to be on Friday June 13th and once again
please RSVP at faithfulword1@gmail.com or talk to brother Ramon if you
still want to come but you haven't let us know if you turn around your bulletin
this Sunday coming up please join us you know for our morning and our evening
service with our special guest pastor Jonathan Shelley from Staphaz Baptist
Church I look forward to listening to him preach he's a great preacher and a
great friend of our church and also we will have Donuts Sunday starting at 10
a.m. for those in honor in honor of those celebrating their birthday in the
month of June and also our upcoming events are right there pastor Colman
Russell will be preaching on June 18th and obviously that's because pastor
Anderson will be on a missions trip winning souls amen all right so if you
got somebody saved this Monday go ahead and raise your hand give me the numbers
turn on my left hand side any salvation for Monday really none somebody go get
somebody saved there we go all right just a quick quiz let's see who knows
the answer who thinks they know how many salvations faithful where Baptist Church
averages or has been averaging every day this year who wants to get it who wants
to give it a shot I'll give you multiple choice was that I heard 20 I heard 5 I
heard 20 10 5 12 all right and the number is Ramone you know what it is
it's over 25 a day we're tracking all our salvations averaging them out per
month and per day and so so far 25 salvations a day is what we're averaging
I didn't believe it either I'm like how in the world but praise the Lord keep up
the good work amen now for Tuesday anybody any salvations on Tuesday we
got three right over here and yet is that one or two it's a one right there
for Tuesday any other salvations and Wednesday that a one amen brother Ramone
is that a two all right any other salvations going once going twice all
right brother Daniel give of your best to the master you don't have an answer
please raise your hand one of the ushers will hand you one we'll sing it on that
first verse together give up the best of your master
turn your Bible first Peter chapter number five Peter chapter number five
first Peter chapter number five the elders which are among you I exhort who
am also an elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ and also a partaker
of the glory that shall be revealed feed the flock of God which is among you
taking the oversight thereof not by constraint but willingly not for filthy
lucre but of a ready mind neither as being lords over God's heritage but
being in samples to the flock and when the chief shepherd shall appear you
shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away likewise the younger
submit yourselves under the elder ye all of you be subject one to another and be
clothed with humility for God resisteth the proud and giveth grace to the humble
humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God that he may exalt you
in due time casting all your care upon him for he careth for you be sober be
diligent because your adversary the devil as a roaring lion walketh about
seeking whom he may devour whom resists steadfast in the faith knowing that the
same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world but
the God of all grace who hath called us under his eternal glory by Christ Jesus
after that you have suffered a while make you perfect establish strengthen
settle you to him be glory and dominion forever and ever amen by sylvanus a
faithful brother unto you as I suppose I've written briefly exhorting and
testifying that this is the true grace of God wherein you stand the church that
is at Babylon elected together with you saluteth you and so doth Marcus my son
greet ye one another with a kiss of charity peace be with you all that are
in Christ Jesus amen dear Lord thank you for Faithward Baptist Church Lord Lord
I pray that you would help us all to be better Christians every day and that
showing up to church this evening would help us all to love one another more and
love you more and to love the lost and Lord I pray that you fill brothers to
grow with your Holy Spirit help them to preach from your word in Jesus name I
pray amen amen I just want to start out by saying that it's been an absolute
pleasure stepping in for pastor Anderson being able to allow him to go
have a vacation with his family and be able to do some missions as well and so
don't worry you only got me for one more Wednesday night and then after that is
back to regular schedule program amen so before that obviously we have a sermon
tonight to preach and if you have your Bible right there in 1st Peter 5 the
verse that I want to focus on is verse number 7 that says casting all your care
upon him for he careth for you and that's what I want to do tonight is I
want to help you guys be able to do that be able to cast all your care upon God
why because that's what he wants because he cares about you he wants to hear from
you you as his children amen and what ultimately for right there look at
verse number 8 he wants you to be sober be vigilant and it's a reminder that we
do have an adversary and who is that adversary the devil because your
adversary the devil it's a roaring lion walketh about seeking whom he may devour
and that's what he's doing tonight he's looking who he may devour who he may
destroy and one of the ways we can help you know to keep ourselves from being
destroyed is through prayer so if you have your Bibles go ahead and go to
Matthew 26 40 go to Matthew 26 40 and I hope that you guys already since you're
the Winston Knight crowd take prayer as serious as possible because God takes it
as serious as possible and one verse that I like to just show people to show
to demonstrate just how much Jesus takes prayer very serious you know it's in
Matthew 26 40 and in Matthew 26 40 this is Jesus and he says and he cometh unto
the disciples and finding them asleep and saith unto Peter what could ye not
watch with me one hour not half an hour not two hours he says at least one hour
why because prayer gives us strength prayer is super important amen and the
title of my sermon tonight is this hopefully you can stay with me for a
sec this is the title of my sermon me problemas me problemas things to pray
for every day and me problemas may sound like I'm saying some kind of word in
Spanish but it's not a word it's an acronym in case people on the internet
are wondering hey he misspelled the word two B's instead of one maybe you guys
saw the title and wonder what the heck is he talking about well if you count
the letters is 12 letters and tonight I want to go over 12 things that I think
we should all be praying for every single day and of course me problemas is
of course you know two words in Spanish it means my problems but if you have a
hard time remembering me problemas you could just change it to my problems so
somebody would ask me hey when you pray what do you pray about well I pray you
know about my problems and we're gonna go letter by letter through this acronym
to kind of give you guys an idea what I'm talking about but you already saw
Jesus Christ in Matthew 26 40 he made a big deal about the the disciples staying
awake and praying with him one hour but you don't have to go there I'll just
quickly read some verses about Jesus Christ's prayer life and in Mark 1 35
it says this and in the morning rising up a great while before a day he went
out and departed into a solitary place and there prayed notice says in the
morning rising up a great while before a day and often preached on prayer and
always wondered like what time was that a great while before a day what was it
two three four five a.m. I don't think it's 6 a.m. in Arizona around this time
because it's already daylight that is already day so if he got up a great while
before a day what time before it starts getting bright around here does anybody
know in the summertime but is it 5 a.m. the lights are up so a great while
before that it has to be at least 4 a.m. but just to kind of see that a great
while before a day what was it 3 a.m. but he's definitely getting up early and
that's one of the things this isn't one of my points but I just want to go over
prayer really quickly because I think it's important every time we talk about
prayer to talk about kind of what Jesus did how he prayed and some verses that
kind of give us an idea of when we should looking to get up and pray for
example Proverbs 8 17 says this I love them that love me and those that seek me
early shall find me now of course let's talk about wisdom but if you think about
it it's referring to God you want to find God early you got to get up early
Psalms 5 3 says this my voice should thou hear in the morning oh Lord in the
morning will I direct my prayer on to thee and will look up and I think he
said morning twice for a reason because I think God wants us to get up in the
morning before I guess you can say bad things may happen now Psalms 55 17 says
this evening and morning and at noon I will pray and cry out loud and he shall
hear my voice so we see that even in the morning here evening and at noon it's
not just once a day that David's talking about praying he's talking about three times
in a day and of course let me just go quickly over some hindrances because
this is always a good reminder for people there are some things that can
hinder your prayers and for example I bring this up a lot because I want
people to just remember it as much as possible
Psalm 66 18 says if I regard iniquity in my heart the Lord will not hear me so
one of the things that would hinder your prayers is hidden sin. Sin that you're
not confessing to God willing to forsake it those can hinder you can hinder your
prayers. Another thing Mark 11 25 says this and when you stand praying forgive
have you ought against any that your father also which is in heaven may
forgive you your trespasses but if you do not forgive another way your father
which is in heaven forgive your trespasses. So nothing that can hinder
your prayers is an unforgiving spirit. Another thing that can hinder your
prayers and this is one of the things that I didn't know until it was explained
to me or I read it myself but then I had it explained as well is that having a
bad marriage having a bad marriage can hinder your prayer. 1st Peter 3 7 says
this likewise ye husband dwell with them of course talk about your wives dwell
with them according to knowledge giving honor unto the wife as unto the weaker
vessel as being heirs together of the grace of life that your prayers be not
hindered and one of the reasons why I believe pastor Anderson has a good
marriage is because he has prayed a lot and a lot of his prayers have come true
so I think his prayers are not being hindered regardless of what people out
there on the internet may think or say. Another thing that can hinder your
prayer is if you turn away from God's Word. Proverbs 28 and 9 says this, "He that
turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination."
And just some things about prayer that I want to quickly go over. Obviously you
saw the hindrances of prayer. You saw where it says that we should get up
early, seek the Lord. That's one of the things that we should aim for. Obviously
if you work the graveyard shift and maybe as soon as you wake up, that's your
morning prayer. You know, but I don't know if I tell you to go to Genesis. If not,
don't worry about it. You can go to Mark 2 if you can get there before I do. But
here's some of the things I also like to point out to people when it comes to
prayer. Genesis 18-12 says this, "Therefore Sarah laughed within herself,
saying, 'After I am waxed old, shall I have pleasure, my Lord being old also?' And
the Lord said unto Abraham, 'Wherefore did Sarah laugh?' Saying, 'Shall I of a
surety-buried child, which am old? Is anything too hard for the Lord? And at
the time appointed, I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and
Sarah shall have a son.' Then Sarah denied, saying, 'I laugh not.' Yeah, you didn't
laugh out loud, but she laughed on the inside. For she was afraid, and he said,
'Nay, by doubt this laugh.'" So in other words, God knows what you're saying on the
inside, and God can also not just hear you on the outside, he can also
hear you on the inside, and this is important because this is a way of me
telling you guys that you can pretty much pray anytime during the day. From
here to the bookshelf, I don't know, maybe 20 seconds? You can get a lot done from
here to there. And if you're thinking, would that even really count? Well, let's
keep reading your mark, correct? It says this, "But there were certain of the
scribes sitting there and reasoning in their hearts." So these are people speaking
in their hearts. Why did this man thus blaspheme? "Who can forgive sins by God
only, and immediately when Jesus perceived in the Spirit that they saw
reason within themselves, he said unto them, 'Why reason ye these things in your
heart?'" So he's hearing them talking bad about him. And guess what? It hasn't
changed. God can still hear you talking bad about your fellow church member or
your fellow co-worker or your boss or your wife or your husband. So don't
forget that the eyes of the Lord are in every place beholding the evil and the
good, and he can hear you. And this is what it says in Matthew 9-4, "And Jesus
knowing their thoughts said, "Wait for thinking evil in your hearts." Luke 5-22
same thing, but when Jesus perceived their thoughts, He answered and said unto
them, "Why reason ye in your hearts?" I don't know if you guys can get to Genesis
24-45, but you know what? Meet me at 1st Samuel 1-13. Go ahead and go to 1st Samuel
1-13. In Genesis 24-45 it says this, talking about Abraham's servant that went
to go find Isaac a wife. It says, "Then before I had done speaking," he's kind of
telling, "Hey this is what happened to me when I was coming over here to look for
a wife for my master son, and before I had done speaking in my heart, behold
Rebekah came forth with her picture on her shoulder, and she went down onto the
well and drew water, and I said unto her, 'Let me drink, I pray thee.'" And the part
that I want you guys to listen to is where he says, "Then before I had done
speaking in my heart." So here's Abraham's servant, he's praying in his
heart, but yet that counted, because God says, "Before you even speak, I'm gonna
answer you." And this is a perfect example. Here he is speaking in his heart, and
guess what happens? His prayer is getting answered as he's speaking in his heart.
So when it comes to prayer, I can just tell you right now, do it as much as you
can, do it wherever, do it secretly. But of course, like you saw in the earlier
verse, where David said this, "My voice should out here in the morning, O Lord, in
the morning I would direct my prayer unto thee and will look up." And that was
the verse I was looking for, but what he says, "And cry out loud." So sometimes we
should, you know, speak out loud. But obviously God wants us to do things in
secret and whatever you pray in secret, He's gonna reward you openly. And when I
think about every half-servant, sometimes I think about my old
pastor back in California. Pastor Azzarello, David Azzarello, he's the one
that gave me the gospel, he's the one that got me saved. And he was talking about one
time, you know, he was praying. You know, he was praying in his car and next thing
you know, the police pulls him over. And he just wonders, like, "What the?" I wasn't
speeding or anything, so he just ends up pulling over. The cops comes up to him
and he's asking him, "Do you know why I pulled you over?" And he's like, "Officer, I
honestly don't know. I wasn't speeding." "No, you weren't speeding." He's like, "What, my
taillight?" "Nope." He had a brand new SUV. I think he had an Acura that the Deacons got him,
you know, just to be a blessing onto him. And he's like, "Well, I don't know what's
going on. The reason I pulled you over is because you were talking on your phone." He's like,
"Talking on my phone? Yeah, I saw you." He's like, "Officer, you're not gonna believe this,
but I was not talking on my phone. I was actually praying." But he was praying and he was being
bugged by whatever he was praying and he had his hand kind of like resting his head. Did you
remember that story, Joan? Yeah, she remembers that story. He's like, "I got pulled over by the
cops praying," because he was into it. You know, he was praying and his lips were moving and the
cop on the bike sees him and he thinks he has a phone because he's moving his mouth. But this is
a man who taught me how to pray and he did a lot of praying and I saw him pull a lot of miracles
in my eyes. I recognize the Red Sea miracle, you know, it is what it is. You guys will probably
recognize the same. And so when it comes to praying, praying is something you can do internally.
Externally, God will hear you, as long as you don't have those hindrances to prayer.
Now try to keep it simple, just four hindrances. You know, if you don't remember them, let
me know and I'll give them to you. I'll text them to you, whatever the case. You know,
but I want you guys to start out seeing some things. Number one, we should get up early
to pray when we can. Number two, there are hindrances. Make sure that you don't hinder
your prayers and I give you a list of four things. Number three, hey, whatever it is,
internal, external, just pray. God wants to hear your voice and he will answer you if
it's best for you to pray internally because he doesn't want you to be this holier than
doubt just praying out loud every single second of the day. That could weird people out. Who's
ever seen that before? People just can't help themselves like the Pharisees. Every little
second they can, everything has to be out loud. They just have to let everybody know
that they're praying. But in case you doubt the servant, I had you go to 1 Samuel 1, 13.
This is Hannah, the story of Hannah where she did the same thing. It says, "Now Hannah,
she's fake in her heart. Only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard. Therefore, Elatashi
had been drunken." So when it comes to prayer, you can see that God did answer her as well.
He gave her a child. She was praying. People couldn't see what she was doing. People couldn't
tell what she was doing, but she was clearly preaching to the Lord. But really quickly,
a few more things and then I'll get into the acronym. I'm 13 minutes in. I'll try to wrap
it up in an hour. If you need some stronger coffee, let me know. They told me to get rid
of the strong coffee I was buying. Who's ever heard of Dead Wish coffee? The world's strongest
coffee. In case you're wondering why he's so wired at some time, because that's what
I was getting. They're like, "Tone it down. Get the good stuff, but don't get something
so strong." But really quickly, why should we pray? Well, because if you don't, it's
sin. Let's just start out with that one. Luke 18 says this, "And he spake a parable unto
them, to this end, that meant always to pray and not to faint." I like this verse. 1 Samuel
12-33 says, "Moreover, as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the Lord and cease
him to pray for you." What did he say? He says, "Moreover, as for me, God forbid that
I should sin against the Lord and cease him to pray for you. But I would teach you the
good in the right way." So one of the things that motivates me to keep praying every day
is that it's sin, and I don't want to have sin in my life. So I want to make sure that
I pray every single day. Another reason we should pray is because so God can bless you.
Just listen up. Matthew 7 and 8 says this, "For everyone that asketh, receive it." So
what is that saying? Some people that don't receive is because they're not what? Asking.
And what is prayer? Prayer is not praising. Prayer is not singing, unless you're singing
in a way where you're asking God for something. But simply put, prayer is asking. So why should
we pray? Because if you don't, it's sin. Because guess what? God wants to bless you, and when
you pray, He can bless you. James 4.2 says this, "Ye lost and have not, ye kill and desire
to have, and cannot obtain, ye fight in war, yet ye have not, because ye" what? "Ask not."
Ask not. So why should you pray? Because if you don't, it's sin. If you don't pray, God
cannot bless you. Why else should you pray? Because it's fun. It's fun to pray. You're
missing out if you're not praying, especially when you're praying for your enemies and you're
like, "God, get 'em. Get 'em, get 'em good. No mercy on this guy. It is crystal clear
he is a child of the devil." But for everyone else that hates us because they ain't us,
have mercy on those people, Lord. Have mercy on them. Have fun with it. Don't believe me?
Look what it says right here. John 16, 24, "Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name.
Ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full." You want to have some joy in your
life? Don't just do the right thing. Pray, pray. You'll realize it's actually fun to
pray, and I'll give you some tips on how to pray. And another reason why you should pray
is because it's rewarding. Let me explain. Matthew 6, 6, I already quoted it, "But thou
when thou prayest enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy
father which is in secret, and thy father which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly."
Amen? And it's awesome when God rewards you openly. I got to tell you the story of the
piano that kind of has to do with this. Who knows the history of this piano? No one? You?
Awesome. Well, let me quickly say it. Daniel, you know. Yeah, I'm kind of put you a blast
a little bit, but I hope that's okay. You'll see what I mean. So let me tell you the history
of this piano. So we used to have another piano. Used to break down all the time. Right,
Daniel? We had to keep fixing it over and over. No, I'm not going to embarrass you
too much, bro. I can see you already getting a little bit upset over there, but that's
okay. Don't worry, Daniel. Trust me. I'll be merciful. I'm going to make you look good
in a way. So we used to have a really, really old piano. I mean, this thing, I think they
got it out of that Titanic from the bottom of the ocean. It was that old. It was just
old. At least 80 from when they looked up the records. The guy that came to tune it
one time, he was curious. He's like, okay, he's looked it up. There's a way to figure
out how old the piano is based on the serial numbers, the model and all that stuff. He's
like, man, this thing's over 80 years old. I'm like, I don't even know how it's still
working. But it would break like every single month, if not twice a month. So of course
it was what it was that piano player says, hey, listen, I have to have a serious conversation
with you. I'm like, what's going on? I think it's time to get a piano. I'm like, well,
I don't know anything about pianos. What do you want to do? Well, me and this other church
member were thinking maybe we should go to the piano store and see what they got. And
then maybe we can hit a pastor, give them some numbers. I'm like, sure, why not? Let's
do it. So we end up doing that. We're like, okay, fine, let's just go. So we went to
the piano store. Every single piano, you know, I don't know if they're still open, but it's
like one of the biggest warehouses out here. So we walk in. What are you looking for? We're
looking for a piano, but I don't know what. Talk to them. So I just kind of just chilled
and they're all talking. He's showing them pianos. So then of course they start with
the $5,000 piano. And she's like, damn it, like blasting that thing, you know? And the
guy's like, whoa, beast mode, I see, you know? So it's like, okay, it's okay. What you got?
Okay, well I got this other one, $10,000 piano. Once again, sits down. If you don't even know,
I'm not talking about Kira, okay? In case you're wondering. I'm talking about an old, old, old
pianist. You know, if you don't know who I'm talking about, that's okay. But let's just put
it this way. Sometimes she got into beast mode. So then that's what she's doing at the store.
She's like tearing up these pianos. Next thing you know, it's like, what else you got? I'm like,
what else you got, Catherine? That's like 10,000 already. What do you mean, what else you got?
This is a girl, but I'm telling you, you don't want to waste 10,000 like that. It's a good piano,
but we need to look at something different. I'm like, okay, 15, go. We got it right over here.
15,000 dollar piano. What you got? I'm like, are you serious, Catherine? Hits the 20,000 dollar
piano range. I'm like, all right, whatever. You know, I get paid per hour. I don't care.
So she gets on it and this is kind of good. You know, then she had a little backup pianist
as well that I guess she can kind of tell if it's good or bad. So she's listening, yeah, yeah,
it's good. What else you got? Well, I got this one over here, but it's way more than y'all were
thinking. I'm like, how much? 25, 25,000 dollars, $25,000. It's like, go for it. Just go try it out.
So she goes and sits on there and she's like, okay, I made that up. But, but you get the point.
Then she looks at me and she's like, I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, no. It's like he's trying to
get me fired. He's like, I think we should talk to Pastor. I'm like, well, he gets back in a day or
so, so I'll talk to him. Then Pastor finally shows up and he's like, okay, what's going on guys? We
got to talk. What's going on? Well, me and Catherine want to talk to you about a new piano, like now.
Oh, what's up? Well, this thing breaks. Constantly tuning it. It's over 80 years old. He's like,
I know, I know. So I think we found one, but it's a little expensive. It's like, just hit me with it.
Let's go. How much? $25,000. No way. Ten maybe, but not 25. Well, like, oh, we just figured we ask
in case somebody happens to show up and drop a bag full of money, that should be on the first on the
list. So he told us no. And then later in the day, me, her, and him, we just happened to be hanging
out late. And she's like, I need to talk to you. I'm like, okay, I need to talk to you too. And she
walks up to me and she's like, listen, I think there's the piano God wants us to have. He's like,
you know what? I've been thinking about that all day. I think you're right. And she's not like,
a $25,000 piano. No, she said this, this $25,000 piano, not another one like it. But this particular
one on the floor. And I said, yep, I agree. So what are we going to do? All we're going to do is
pray. That's what I said. We're going to pray. We're going to get it. I believe it's ours. And
if we're wrong, we're wrong. And as soon as I say we're going to get this piano, Daniel overheard
something different. Because right away, he's like, what do you mean? Pastor said we're not
going to buy no $25,000 piano. Remember that? Remember that? Am I lying? Not lying. Right away,
he's like, what are you guys talking about? You're going to get the piano. Pastor already said no.
And we're like, hush. Remember that? Hush. This is what's going to happen. We're going to pray
right now, Daniel. Me, you, and Catherine. And we're going to say, Lord, we want this piano
down in Arizona Pianos. We want it. We think that's the piano for us. You know what? We don't ask
that it'll come out from our budget. We just ask that somebody online listens to Pastor Anderson,
realizes they're not saved, gets saved, has some money, shows up, finds out what's going on,
and pays for the piano. They did not say that. That's exactly what it said. In Jesus' name,
amen. Right? What did he say? Three weeks? Two weeks? A month? Let's put it this way. Before you
know it, it's in the building. And that's exactly what happened. Somebody walked in that was excited
to be here, recently saved, listening to Pastor Anderson, finds out we need a piano, calls me up
after soul winning, and says, "Hey, I want to get you that piano." I'm like, "What do you mean?
That piano that you guys are talking about over in Arizona Piano Place? Let's go get it. Right now?
Right now. I'm coming to get you, buddy, before you change your mind." So we go over there. We tell
them, "We're here for that piano. You still got it?" "Yes, we do." I'm like, "All right. How you paying?
Card. All right. Swipe it. Reject it." He's like, "One second." Calls the bank. "Yep, it's me. All
right. Swipe it again." I accept it. We're like, "When you want it, as soon as possible. What you're
going to do with the other one?" "I don't know. Just get it delivered." He's like, "Doesn't matter.
We'll get it delivered. Do our thing. Put it in the church." And that's what it is. So I decided to
get a little bit evil with it. So that night, Catherine's practicing breaking piano chords,
like always. And I'm like, "Catherine, I got some bad news." And she's like, "What is it?" "That
piano you wanted. Just find out today it's sold. It's gone. It's on its way to its new owner."
To me, it wasn't. Just wanted to let you know, bye. Go back into my office and I'm just laughing
my butt off because she is hurting bad. Like she's emotional, emotional. Can't get. My wife's like,
"You're so mean." I'm like, "I know, but it's worth it though. It's worth it." So then she goes to
work and then I knew when it was going to get delivered. The guy comes in. I'm like, "Hurry up,
bro. Bring this thing in." Because maybe she'll leave work early or something. We just want to
have it ready for her because she usually shows up after work and comes to practices at midnight,
and especially the night before a service. So then the guy comes in, puts it in there, unwraps it,
does his thing. I get ropes with cones, wrap it around. I put signs, "Do not touch or you'll die."
Unless you're Catherine. And so sure enough, I'm staying at the building, just waiting for her to
come, and I finally see her on her bike. I'm like, "All right, let's hide, let's hide, let's hide."
So we're hiding. She walks in, taking her sweet time, struggling with the key.
I'm like, "Is she messing with Chit? Does she know? Hurry up, get in there." And then she's
messing with it. We're hiding, pops it open, starts walking, walking, walking, looks up.
She's staring at it, and she's like, starts jumping, and I pop out of nowhere. And she's like,
"Oh!" And she's like, "Oh, I feel so dumb. I should have just said, 'Yep, it's getting delivered.'"
And I'm like, "Well, it's like the Bible says, whatever you pray in secret,
hey, God's going to reward you openly." Then we tell Pastor, and he's like, "Man,
hey, whenever I need something big, I'm going to call her up, because who knows?
Who knows when I'll need her?" And all that to say this, prayer is super important. I don't
think God just answered that for fun. He answered it so I can have it as this cool illustration and
keep it from sleeping, amen? But now that we're through with the intro, I'm 26 minutes and 51
seconds left. So if you can get to Luke 22, get to Luke 22 as fast as you possibly can.
So, my acronym, mi problemas. Obviously, if you know a little bit of Spanish, it does mean me,
my problems, but it has an extra B and I'll explain that later. But these are 12 things
I think we should all pray for every single day, and I have them in the order that I think matters.
What's up Daniel, you gonna punch me in the face? Oh okay, sorry I didn't mean to embarrass you too
much. But you were there, you were part of the prayer bro. Exactly, you know it got answered
because you didn't have an equal in your heart. God heard us all right, with two or three I gathered
there he was in the midst, correct? If it weren't for you it wouldn't have got either right? Even
though you doubt it, that's another story. Mi problemas. M-I-P-R-O-B-B-L-E-M-A-S. What is the
first letter? Well obviously it's the M. What does it stand for? Here's what it stands for. I honestly
believe that after, of course I've talked about this in the past, whenever I pray I use the
acronym AXE. The A stands for adoration. I just start singing to the Lord, praising the Lord,
telling Him how great He is. And then after that I confess all my sins so I make sure I don't have
an equity in my heart so the Lord can hear me. Then of course I don't want to just get right into
prayer. I want to thank Him before I start asking. Thank Him for as much possible things as I can.
You know, in the amount of time that I have, could be an hour, 15 minutes, 10 minute break,
whatever the case. I do it every single time. You know, so then after that, then I get to my
supplication part. And of course my supplication part is where I'm asking. And so when it comes
to the first thing I start praying for, the first thing I start praying for, which is the letter M,
is my pastor. That is the first thing I start praying for. Why? Because the devil will love
nothing more than to destroy our pastor. Everything does rise and fall on leadership. And guess what?
If he gets the shepherd to just scatter, we're all going to scatter. And how do I know? Because hey,
remember what Jesus said to, I believe it was Peter, in Luke 22, 31, it says this, and the Lord said,
"Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat." And I'm telling
you tonight that it hasn't changed for actual men of God that are doing a lot for the Lord.
The devil is still out to get them. He's also out to get you if you're doing a lot for the Lord.
So guess what? I'll talk about it later. But yeah, we all should be praying for each other.
But most importantly, we should start out by praying for our pastor. If you just have one minute,
I wish that everybody would realize just how important it is to pray for our spiritual leader
because Satan will have nothing more than to destroy our pastor in case you haven't figured
that out. Why? Because spiritual leaders are on the front lines. You know, Jesus warned Peter that
Satan specifically desired him. Imagine that. I mean, there's billions of people on this planet.
I told my kids this. Let me ask you something. Do you guys really think that the devil doesn't
know your name? Doesn't know every single person in this church? I guarantee you he knows you. He
knows you. He knows brother Jimmy. He knows his wife. He knows the pastor. He knows all you guys.
And I can guarantee you that he's looking around seeing who he may devour. That's what he does.
And so, of course, the devil loves to attack, you know, the leadership. Zechariah 13, 7 says this,
"Smite the shepherd and the sheep shall be scattered." See, when a pastor falls,
it affects the whole church and even other churches. It may not even be in the exact same
country, could be somewhere else in another part of the world. And we need to do our best to protect
our pastor and the best way we can do it is not with our guns, even though I love guns, amen,
it's with our prayers. And so of course, you know, Jesus quotes the same verses that I just quoted
you guys, Zechariah 13, 7, you know, "But we're commanded to pray for those that are in authority."
For example, 1 Timothy 2, 1 says this, "I exhort therefore that first of all supplications, prayers,
intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings, and for all that are in authority,
that we may lead a quiet and peaceful life in all godliness and honesty. For this is good and
acceptable on the side of God our Savior." Your pastor is a God-given authority, just like the
government is a God-given authority as well. Our parents are God-given authorities, so are pastors
as well, and we need to, like it says right there, exhort them, supplications, prayers for them.
And so, of course, the Bible says in Hebrews 13, 17, obey them to have the rule over you and
submit yourselves, for they watch for your souls, and if they watch for our souls, we should be
watching for his soul as well. And I think it will be awesome. I wonder how many people are in here
right now. Who did the count? How many we got? 156. I guarantee you, at least 100 of those 156
can pray, and I would love it if all 100 of those 156 or more, every day, first thing in the morning,
first thing they do is put our pastor in their heads and start praying for him that God will
protect them, that God will pardon them, if obviously we're all, none of us are perfect,
so it is what it is. There's going to be sin that we all commit every day. I'm not saying
these out there commit adultery, but I'm telling you that we have hundreds if not thousands of
thoughts every single day. I guarantee you not all our thoughts are perfect. Some are foolish,
some are lustful thoughts, but at the end of the day, we all sin every single day. So of course,
asking God to pardon our pastor if he's done anything wrong, to protect them, to fill them
with the Holy Spirit's power, it's stuff that we should all aim to do every single day. Amen? See,
in case you don't know, your prayer can't straighten our pastor. For example, Ephesians 6 19 says,
"And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly to make known the
mystery of the gospel." In some places are easier than others to preach the gospel, but what is Paul
saying? Listen, pray that God will give me boldness so our prayers can give our pastor boldness. See,
pastors, you don't understand, they have a lot of burdens. You know, they have to deal with a lot
of things, and it's very hard sometimes, and what we can do at the bare minimum is pray every single
day for them. That God would help them, protect them, exactly what I just said. And one example
where pastors, they need their people is in Exodus 7-11. 17-11 is the story of when Moses,
when they're fighting Amalek, and it says, "And it came to pass when Moses held up his hands that
Israel prevailed. And when he let down his hands, Amalek prevailed. But Moses' hands were heavy,
and Aaron and Her stayed up his hands, and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun."
See, Moses needed support. You know, he was the leader, but he still needed people to help him
out. And Moses was the leader, but he couldn't hold up his arms forever, so he needed help.
And see, the burdens that our pastor has that you may not know of, we can help him go through
him by praying that God will strengthen him. And he will answer your prayer. He promises he will.
Just like Erin and her, they weren't trying to take, you know, Moses' place, but they stood
beside him. And that's what we should be. We should be like Erin and her and stand behind our
pastor and help him with the burdens that he goes through with the ministry, with this world,
with his children. You know, every single pastor will tell you the exact same thing that is harder
than I thought it was going to be if they're doing a great job for the Lord. If they're not,
they may not think so. But at the end of the day, when you're really doing something for the Lord,
when you're really going out there and getting people saved, when you're not just playing church,
when you're changing people's lives, guess what? That will draw the devil towards you
to destroy you, to get you to stop. So your pastor needs your prayers every single day.
He is fighting battles that you will probably never see. He's carrying burdens that you will
never know. But he's also preaching the truth in a world that's filled with lies. And guess what?
The attacks not just going to be from the devil, it's going to be from his minions, his devils,
and his children. And he's just a man, but you know what? We can help him be as strong as humanly
possible. Galatians 6 says this, "Let him that is taught in the word communicate out to him
that teaches in all things." Let him that is taught in the word communicate. And how do we
communicate with God? Through prayer. And that's one of the things that we can do for our pastor
every single day. Amen. And obviously the next letter is the I, because you got me,
M-I, the I. Next thing that I recommend you pray for is your family. Obviously the I stands for
immediate, your immediate family. You know Job 1-5 says this, "And it was so when the days of
their feastings were gone about that Job sent and sanctified them and rose up early in the morning
and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, 'It may be that my
sons have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.' Thus did Job continually." See Job's prayer was
for his family, and I recommend we do the same thing. Because if you're doing something for the
Lord, when you want to do something for the Lord, the devil knows that he needs to do something to
you, and if he can't get you to fall, guess who he's going after next? Your family. So it's our
responsibility as dads to pray for our children. You know, Job didn't wait for trouble to come.
You know, he started to preemptively pray for his children, and that's how parents need to be. We
need to be our spiritual watchmen for our children and pray for them as much as possible. And it says
clearly that children are heritage of the Lord. You know, it's a blessing to have children. You know,
we need to do our best to take care of those children, and one of the things that we can do
is to pray for them that God will protect them, and it will happen. It reminds me of when Pharaoh,
when Pharaoh took Abraham's wife. He was going to take her as his wife, and he was going to do what
husbands do when they get a wife. But of course, God stepped in and he stopped Pharaoh from sinning
against them, and another guy as well. And so if you think that prayer doesn't work in a way that
you think it works, just keep reading the word, it'll build your faith in prayer. And we need to
pray for our children, consistently pray for them. You know, this was a daily discipline that Job had.
You know, he prayed for his family consistently, not occasionally. And think about it like this,
he was praying even though he wasn't sure, just in case his kids were going in the wrong direction,
he was praying for them. Like it says, "And maybe that my sons have sinned and cursed God in their
hearts." And that's what he ended up doing. He didn't just pray just for the sake of it,
he did it because he knew that hey life is something that will tempt kids you know to do
wrong. And we all been there, we were all kids, we're all teenagers, we're all young adults,
some of you guys are young adults right now. You probably already figured out that temptation
is out there, the devil wants you to fall for it, and he will love nothing more than to ruin you
your testimony so that you won't do much for the Lord. But we need to do what Proverbs 4:23 says,
"Keep thy heart with all diligence for out of it are the issues of life." And that's what we need
to understand that we need to make the choice that we're going to do our best to protect our
children. And one of the ways to do it is to pray for them. Joshua 24 15, you know, it says,
"And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, treat to this day whom you will serve." But for me
in my house, we will serve the Lord. And one of the ways to do that is to come to God with prayer.
Amen. So don't neglect your own children. Parents, make sure that you're doing everything you can
to protect them. Make sure they were praying for them like Joel did one by one. Pray for each one
by name. You know that each one has a different issue. So bring that issue up to God. Like we
read in 1st Peter 5, "Casting all your cares upon the Lord because he careth for you." And that's
one of the things that we need to do as parents is yes, like 1st Timothy 5a says, "If any man
provided not for his own, especially those for his own house, he has denied the faith, he is worse
than an infidel." Yes, we need to provide, you know, food. We need to provide shelter. We need
to provide clothing. But don't forget, they also need to provide protection. And one of the ways
to do that, it's like Job did, is to get up early, because he also got up early, and he prayed for
his children because he cared about his immediate family. And I'm sure that his wife was also
somebody that he prayed for. But listen, even if you pray for your children, even if you pray for
your wife, things still may happen to them. But at least it's not because you're not praying. At
least you can always look back and be like, "Well, whatever's going on right now, whatever this
situation is, you know, one thing for sure, it's not because I failed to pray for my kids." Let it not
be that reason why things may be going wrong with your kids or your wife, because we all know the
story of Job. Hey, his kids got destroyed, his wife was losing her mind, telling Job to curse
God and just quit. But that's not what God wanted. It was a test. So we need to realize that even
though we pray for our children, things may still happen. But once again, just let it not be because
you're not praying. Amen? Alright, so besides my pastor, besides my immediate family, who do I
pray for next? Well, the next piece stands for the pastor's family. See, Satan knows he can destroy
the leader, you know, if he can destroy his children. Maybe the leader's too strong. Well,
who is he going to go after? He's going to go after the kids. So if you have your Bible,
go ahead and go to 2nd Samuel 18.33. You can wait for me right there. I'm just going to quickly
read from Job 1.18. We all know the story, but I'm going to read it. While he was just speaking,
there came also another and said thy sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their
eldest brother's house and behold there came a great wind from the wilderness and smote the four
corners of the house and it fell upon a young man and they are dead and not only am escaped alone
to tell thee and of course what's going on he's telling them that his children just died they were
drinking wine in his eldest brother's house and this wind came from and destroyed the four corners
of the house and it fell on the young man and now his children are dead. Who was ultimately behind
this it was ultimately Satan that was behind this because in Job 1 11 we can see where he got
permission to do this it says but put forth the hand now and touch all that he hath that's
including his children and he was cursed to thy face and the Lord said unto Satan behold
all that he has is in thy power only upon himself put not forth thy hand. So he goes out there and
he goes and destroys his kids why because he knew that this is one of the things that can get
pastors to fall we've all heard of Eli what was the issue with Eli is that his sons were just wicked
and he couldn't think anything about it so it ruined him and it ruined his ministry and ultimately
God replaced them so he knows okay maybe I cannot get rid of the man of God but I'm going to go
after his children so I'll beg you guys if you can throughout the day every day pay for Mrs. Anderson
pray for the kids and if you don't have a list of their names hey come let me know I'll text it to
you if you have where's Ramon at Ramon we got to get that thing out as fast as possible you know
what I'm talking about their yearbook with everybody's names you know but we should every
single day bring of course not just pastor not just our immediate family but also pastor's family
have just a special moment to pray for Mrs. Anderson and the kids because that's who the
devil is going to target because he knows the devil knows if I can get rid of these kids get
them to just go astray hurt them in any way shape or possible it's going to affect our pastor you
know and ultimately what's the devil's goal to get him to quit and those of us that have children
we love our kids more than they even know anything happens to them anything they say or do it can
affect us in a negative way and that's what we need to do our best to not just pray for our own
family not just to pray for our pastor but to also bring our pastor's family as much as we can see
Job was a godly man and saying and he knew he knew that you know what I probably won't get him to
curse God but you know what I can hurt him and increase my chances of being able to succeed in
it but I told you to go to second Samuel 1833 if kids don't know yet I just want to let you know
tonight that as parents we love the living daylights out of you guys we want the best for
you guys the devil knows it and that's why you guys need to also kind of do your part and not
just pray for yourself but also increase your chances of succeeding and being able to fight off
the the the arrows of the devil in second Samuel you know we kind of get an understanding how much
parents love children and it says that the king was much moved and went up to the chamber over the
gate and wept and as he went thus he said oh my son Absalom my son my son Absalom what god I had
died for thee oh Absalom my son my son who is this this is David the leader what's going on
he's crying over his son and this is a son that rebelled this is a son to try to steal his kingdom
this is a son to try to kill his father but yet what happened when he got killed it affected David
so whenever something happens to our children it can affect the leader and that's what we need to
do our best to increase the chances of the devil not being able to touch pastor Anderson's family
and we do that through prayer because the thing is pastor's kids are constantly being watched
they're constantly being judged they're constantly being target by the devil by wicked people
infiltrators i've been here since 2009 i've seen family after family after family come in creep in
try to destroy one kid one by one from the oldest all the way to the youngest and sometimes they
succeeded to get him to fall but ultimately it is what it is that that was the one that's behind it
amen but we need to do our best to try to protect these kids and of course we can't watch them
and i'm not talking about a physical type of protection i'm talking about just through
prayer just through faith amen so that's one of the things that i quickly want to just go over
is not just praying for pastor not just praying for your immediate family but also taking a
special moment to pray for mrs anderson pray for the kids and name them one by one bring him to
the lord and the lord would hear imagine if a hundred of us do that come on one of us has to
be right with the lord where he's going to hear man come on with faithful word hopefully it's more
but if you strike out maybe brother johnson he'll listen to you maybe you know if i'm filled with
pride or have a prideful look and i'm being an abomination unto the lord maybe here you or your
wife or jacob or brother brock over here or you or anybody else let's just do our best to remember
not just our family not just pastor but remember pastor anderson's his immediate family amen let's
just pray that god protects them because it will affect our pastor so not only should we pray for
you know our pastor our immediate family pastor anderson's family we should also pray for our
real family our real family what do i mean if you can i don't think you can get there fast enough
but if you can go ahead and meet me in acts five three go to acts five three so what do i mean by
our real family here's what i mean by my real family i'm talking about you guys i'm talking
about the church members that's who my real family is just listen up matthew 12 49 says this
and he stretched forth his hand towards disciples and said behold my mother and my brethren this is
when people are telling jesus hey your mother and your brothers there they're wanting to speak with
you and he looks at his disciples and he says behold my mother and my brethren mark 3 34 says
this and he looked around about them which said about him and said behold my mother and my
brethren luke 8 21 says this and he answered he said unto them my mother and my brethren are these
which hear the word of god and do it so who should we be praying for every day our real family who's
a real family you you you you you look around this is your real family according to christ see that's
the most important thing to realize is that a this is the group that you should be with there will be
people that backslide and then leave there could be people here in the future your kids may go
astray and take off but you know what jesus said that here's my real family those who are here the
word of god and they do it so god forbid any of my kids want to get into sin any of my kids want
to get into fornication drunkenness worldliness and they want to take off you know what i'm gonna
say hey he's dead to me that individual is dead to me here's my real family those that hear the
word of god and do it and you're like wow that's kind of crazy well isn't that what happened to
the prodigal son didn't he take off and get into fornication drunkenness partying you name it
right and when he came back what did the father say we should celebrate because your brother he was
dead now he's alive again hey let's just have a party and be happy you know he's no longer dead
now he's back now he's back with the living and now he's doing right so who is our real family
those who hear the word of god and do it so don't side with people that don't love the lord don't
love our church that's not your family this is your family this is who we should be praying for
every single day amen anybody wants to get into fornication commit a sin that's worth being
kicked out you know what let's let's deliver him on to satan so satan can get him right so the
faster satan gets him or her right the faster they can come back the faster they can get in
the right mind but until then this is the family that's alive and doing what's right this is the
ones that i'm proud i'm going to prioritize and pray for every single day as much as i can
obviously there's like what 250 people sometimes on a sunday night so as many as many of you guys as
i can fit in and whatever amount of time i have during the day i'll just try to get through
everybody as much as i can so when i stop and i think about okay my real family lord who should
i pray for hey people start popping in my head i'll start praying for things and i don't even
know if they even need them but i just start praying for as many people as i can so that's
somebody who i think we should be praying for every single day we should be loving each other
forgiving each other serving each other praying for one another and even correcting one another
according to galatians 6 1 whenever we need to i'm 49 minutes in i'm gonna go back past my hour
but i'm gonna try to go through this as fast as possible so obviously like i said before me
problemas what's the acronym the m is my pastor the i is my immediate family the p that's pastor's
family the r that's my real family and now the oh here's the oh other believers in christ people
that are not in our church i'm talking about pastor amanda is pastor mehiya i'm talking about
pastor shelly i'm talking about your friends at other churches we should be praying for them
let's take a really quick look you pretty much if you know the news testament that's what you
basically see for example romans 1 9 for god is my witness whom i serve with my spirit in the
gospel of his son that without ceasing i make mention of you always in my prayers here's paul
talking to the romans saying i'm always mentioning you guys in my prayers he's probably at some other
church but he's praying for members of another church and that's what we should do because he
says hey i mentioned you always in my prayers i don't know if always means always like every
single time he prays you know because he had a lot of friends but we should kind of have the same
attitude always try to pray for verity i always try to pray for first works i always try to pray
for steadfast and now obviously even anchor you know why because they need our prayers of protection
as well our prayers of power as well in case you don't know he just got done preaching on sunday
night goes home and he's in the media pastor all they're trying to destroy him as we speak
and i don't know the latest info on him but you know what if 100 people pray for him as soon as
possible what do you think is going to happen come on one of us have to be right with the lord
really come on all we need is one guy to be right with the lord is it you see i'm just joking but
what about 100 people that are right with the lord how about that what do you think is going
to happen to pastor aus he's going to be blessed he's going to be protected he's going to be
you know whatever but we need to do our part and just more examples look at this roman 6
1 says this i command unto you phoebe our sister which is a servant of the church which is as
sin crea now he's mentioning a woman by name that you resist her in the lord i'm sorry you receive
her in the lord as becoming saints ephesians 1 15 wherefore also after i've heard of your faith in
the lord jesus and love unto all the saints sees not to give thanks for you making mention of you
in my prayers nice talking to the ephesians what else the philippians i thank god upon
every remembrance of you and i try to do the same i try to thank god upon every remembrance of you
because obviously it would be impossible for me to pray for every single one of you by name every
single day but i do my best upon every remembrance of you guys when it's time for me to sit down and
think about okay let me pray about other believers in christ who can i thank god hey i started
thinking about members from other churches so think about it this is something that god wants
us to do as well philippians i thank my god upon every members of you colossians for this cause
we also since the day we heard it do not cease to pray for you so who else should we be praying for
other believers we should be praying with joy we should be praying with thankfulness that they're
out there doing great things for the lord because that's the right thing to do that they stay faithful
that they don't quit so hopefully if you haven't maybe tonight it'd be a good night to bring up
pastor alz before the lord and be like lord they're trying to destroy that man he was a blessing
unto us preaching here please do something you know do something step in at least we can tell
him hey we're praying for you but we're not just saying it we're actually doing it so who's next
here's who's next after you pray for your pastor your immediate family pastor's immediate family
you can say our real family other believers in christ like pastor mahiya pastor yemenes pastor
shelly you know brother oliver the deacon down there verity as many in every person you can
possibly think of another another group i think you should pray for every day is your blood family
maybe that doesn't sound so cool but that's all i can come up with with another b a man
your blood family what do i mean look how many times you see people praying for their family
for example genesis 48 15 i know i'm not giving you a lot of places to go to but just listen up
because i got to finish up as soon as i can listen to this genesis 48 15 and he blessed joseph and
said god before whom my father's abraham isaac did walk the god which fed me all my life long
until this day the angel which redeemed me from all evil blessed the lads and let my name be named
on them in the name of my fathers abraham and isaac and let them grow into a multitude in the midst
of the earth jacob is praying and asking god to bless his grandsons grandpas grandmas hey you know
what if you're praying for your grandsons keep it up it's the right thing to do here's more examples
of people just praying for their bloodline you could say genesis 18 23 and abraham drew near and
said would thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked who is he praying for who do you think
abraham's praying for if you know the bible a little bit you know who i'm talking about
so here he is praying for who exactly he's praying for a lot pervents sure there'd be
50 righteous within the city would also destroy not spare the place for the 50 righteous that
are therein abraham wasn't just praying for the city who you think he was praying actually for
for a lot he didn't want him to get destroyed he knew he was living over there look at a prayer of
a father for his son this son is somebody who obviously didn't end well but at least he did
his part as much as he could while he was still alive first chronicle 29 19 this is david praying
for solomon he's telling god and give unto solomon my son a perfect heart to keep thy commandments
thy testimonies and thy statues to do all these things and to build the palace for the which i
have made provision david's praying for his son to follow the lord and do what's right so we should
all as parents be doing the exact same thing 2nd timothy 1 5 this is what it says when i call to
remember is the unfeigned faith that is indy which dwelt first in thy grandmother lois and thy mother
unis i persuaded that indy also that one doesn't necessarily have to do with anybody praying for
anyone but it talks about timothy's mom timothy's grandma saying hey they had great faith i wonder
if they prayed for timothy and look how he ended up he's like hey your grandmother she has a great
rotation so does your mom well i wonder if they prayed for old timothy oh i believe he did and
once again it's a quick review jake blessed his grandkids abraham interceded for a lot
david prayed for solomon and timothy he had a godly family that influenced them and i have a
hard time believing that his mom and his grandma didn't pray that they weren't good prayer warriors
quote unquote so let's keep moving another group that i think we should pray for every single day
is backsliders people that left our church they're like why because if i was a backslider i would
love it if 100 people pray for me to get right at least by the golden rule we should be praying for
backsliders that have left well i don't really like it that much well you know what golden rule
i'm sure if you were them you got blinded by the devil you're bitter you're backslidden you leave
the church your life is going downhill i'm pretty sure you will you absolutely appreciate 100 people
praying for you that god will help you to get right see the light and get back on track and help
us to win the world for the lord because it's a big world we need every single rifleman we can
possibly get did i lose my microphone still good and here's an example james 519 says this brethren
and any of you do err from the truth what is that that's a backslider they're erring from the truth
and what convert him this isn't a conversion for salvation this is convincing the person that
you're going in the wrong direction you got to fix yourself if they have ears to hear let them
hear and if not you try you're with a watchman amen you weren't a wicked if they turned from the
wicked ways then great but if not hey then they're going to get punished they will suffer but their
blood is not going to be on your hands let him know that he was converted to sin from the error
of his ways to save us all from death and to hide a multitude of sins so if you can convince someone
to repent guess what you're going to hide them from a multitude of punishments that they're
going to receive because of their sins and even save them from death if they're going in the wrong
direction because sin when it is finished bring it forth what death have you heard of alcohol
incidents people that are like well what's the big deal the big deal is that you're probably
going to get drunk one day and kill someone like you constantly see on youtube guys getting drunk
and killing people at high speeds is unbelievable but it's a real danger not just for for people
that are just already bitter but anybody anybody can fall so pray that hey these backsliders they
have left our church lord hey if there's a chance help them in any way possible that's the attitude
that we should have because i don't want people to get destroyed you know i don't take pleasure
in the death of the wicked i want people who have left bitter that can still be saved i'm
not talking about people that are reprobates i'm not talking about them you guys know who i'm
talking about you know i'm talking about people who just got deceived that's all they're blind
again you know like the bible says let not sin rule over your mortal body that you should obey
it in the lust thereof so instead of being free they're back in bondage hey let's just pray for
them because think about it pick the name hundred of us pray for whoever we know i don't think god
is just going to say no he's going to step in and do something even if it's like lord whatever it
takes the biggest spanking in the world give it to them help them to get right by all means they'll
thank you later before they ruin their life to the point of no return like epsilon like name the
bible character amen all right so besides our pastor besides your immediate family besides
pastors immediate family you know besides our real family other believers in christ besides blood
family besides backsliders who should we be praying for lost souls lost souls matthew 938
pray you therefore the lord of the harvest that he will send laborers into his harvest
luke 10 2 therefore say he unto them the harvest truly is great but the laborers a few pray you
therefore the lord of the harvest that he was saying for laborers into his harvest romans 10 14
how then shall they call on him and whom they have not believed how should they believe in whom they
have not heard and now shall they hear without a preacher second peter 3 9 the lord is not so
concerned this promise some men count slackness but long suffer towards us not willing that any
should perish but that all should come to repentance bottom line we should be praying that god brings
in laborers that we can use more help to help us reach the billions of people out there that should
be something that we obviously should be doing because when you see the multitudes it breaks
your heart you're like man is anybody going to reach these people lord give us some people help
us out and obviously pray for opportunities as well that god will give you when you're praying for
the loss you know before you go out so winning or even after you go out so winning maybe you
ran into someone you weren't able to get them saved but maybe you were able to give them some
some good scriptures and maybe you got them close just pray that god doesn't allow the devil to
not that he allows them to but that god will protect this person from the devil coming by
and snatching it up because obviously any opportunity can happen anytime when you're
out there knocking doors like the you know the samaritan woman that christ gave the gospel to
you know just when she was just sitting down she just showed up and that was an opportunity
that presented itself pray that god gives you opportunities like her where you're just sitting
around somebody walks by hey give me some water hopefully they're like what do you mean bro this
is my water but you guys know the story so besides obviously laborers are praying for the loss
another group we should be praying for i'm already an hour in i promise i'm going to wrap it up in
the next five minutes the next group i think we should be praying for every day is our enemies
because that can that can get really fun think about all the people that talk trash say bad
things that you think no these people are no way you know just normal sinners these people
are going above and beyond trying to do horrific things well it is what it is god says to pray
for who pray for our enemies you know i'm not necessarily talking about those that hate
you know the lord i'm talking about those that may not like you for whatever reason
at work maybe it's even here at church which is sad if that's the case but you shouldn't be the one
that's causing the issue if somebody doesn't like you it better be because they're bitter because
guess what is their pride not your pride last time i checked only by pride coming contention
so if you have issues with someone check your pride and if it's not your pride guess what we
are allowed to strive with people you know if we have a cause if they're doing us harm but if there's
no reason for you to go after someone or be angry at someone then you know what you need to confess
your sin and your sin is pride because you're the one with the problem but if it's not you and it's
them what does the bible tell you to do love your enemies bless them that curse you do good to them
that hate you. Luke 6 28 bless them that curse you pray for them to spitefully use you and of
course Romans 12 19 dearly beloved avenge not yourself or to get placed unto wrath for it is
written vengeance is mine God will repay and Proverbs 25 21 if thy enemy hunger give him bread to eat
and if it be thirsty give him water to drink for thou shall he cause a fire upon his head and the
Lord shall reward thee and of course let me just wrap it up so ready on e we got two three more
letters i'll just quickly go through them here's one of the things we should also be praying for
as much as we can we should be praying for missionaries if you know the old new testament
this is something that constantly paul is asking for he's constantly asking for prayer and i don't
know a lot of missionaries i know brother stuckey i know pastor bulgard i think there's another
brother named urbaneck is that his name he was sent out by stephast is that the case and obviously
we got brother raymond over there in the philippines somewhere hanging out right well once in a while
we should be bringing them up to the lord why because guess what they need it look what paul
did paul just kept bringing it up hey pray for me pray for me pray for me i'll just give you a
few examples romans 15 30 says this now i beseech you brethren by the lord jesus christ's sake and
for the love of the spirit that you strive together with me in your prayers to god for me second
thessalonians 3 1 finally brethren pray for us that the word of the lord may have free course and be
glorified even as it is with you you know colossians 4 3 with you know with all praying also for us
that god would open unto us a door of honor to speak the mystery of christ for which i am also
in bonds ephesians 6 19 and for me that honors may be given unto me that i may open my mouth
boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel so simply we should be praying that these missionaries
are saved god opens up doors god gives them bonus and that they effectively spread the gospel amen
now another one that i just threw in there but i'll explain in a second we already got the end
which is missionary the next letter is the a and the a stands for america america but if you don't
live in america it could be australia and if it's not australia it could be africa even though
africa is not a country what i'm saying is your government is what it comes down to why because
we should when i when i thought of this point i saw daniel look what daniel said in daniel 9 3
and i set my face unto the lord god to seek by prayer and supplications with fasting and
sackcloth and ashes and i prayed unto the lord my god and made my confession and said oh lord the
great and the great and dressful god keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him let me
just skip ahead for a second says we have sinned and committed iniquity have done wickedly daniel
didn't just pray for himself he confessed and prayed for his whole nation even while under
ungodly Babylonian rule and even moses moses felt bad when you know his nation was sinning in
exodus 32 31 it says this and most of us return unto the lord and said oh these people have sinned a
great sin and have made them gods of gold yet now if thou will forgive their sin and if not blot me
i pray thee out of thy book which thou has written and of course we should pray that our leaders
start waking up why because psalms 33 12 says this blessed is the nation whose god is the lord
and the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance and who heard what happened at the
pentagon this week or maybe it was last week they got a bunch of people upset who knows who peak
hex it is the department of defense i think he's the secretary or whatever so of all things for
people to get upset about and don't get me wrong he's doing a lousy job he's leaking intel leaking
war plans texting you know his buddies his wife you know just that are about to go bomb you know
whatever over in the other side of the world but one of the things that i guess they all got upset
is that at the pentagon he was having like some kind of prayer service who's heard about that
you heard about that and they're all getting upset i'm like you know what of all the things
that get upset what pete hex said a prayer meeting is probably not one of them and i'm
not saying that hex said it's safe i have no clue i highly doubted the way he just lies and the way
he's just doing business i don't think he has a conscience but hey he's pretending to be a christian
maybe he is maybe he isn't i don't think he is but hey it's a start when was the last time somebody
prayed in the pentagon and so everybody's like hey he needs to remember the separation of churches
state where they don't even understand themselves so they're whining they're complaining hey can
you believe what this guy did what did he do now what did he leak out more war plans what did he
do now did he get drunk again because he's a drunkard what did he do now what did pique hexette
do now did he commit adultery again you know did he divorce his wife for like the fourth time
what did he do this is what he did he had a prayer meeting and they were praying in the pentagon
almost snap i don't know if that's an answer to prayer or if he's just trying to deflect so he
doesn't get a drill for the bad things he's doing but either way if you want to get yourself some
peace when you hear about all the corruption going on in washington then just pray for washington
pray that god will raise up some leaders and will actually do something that can benefit
america in a positive way because i don't think everybody's corrupt in in washington there's got
to be at least once a person out of how many politicians they have down there so he can use
our prayer whoever that person may be but honestly i've done it many times lord you know what they're
up to in washington lord you know what they're trying to push on our kids lord i don't know how
bad it's going to get but you do and at least i can say i pray i didn't vote for the red i didn't
vote for the blue but you know what i think that our righteousness in our prayers will do a whole
lot more than your vote and next time if anybody here wants to run for president i'll vote for you
just so i can say hey i vote it because that's what they want to say oh people on the right whatever
people on the left whatever some of you guys didn't vote so you don't have the right to
complain well can somebody here please run for president so i can vote for you they don't have
the right to complain reggie what's up no you don't you don't feel like being president i'm
not saying you're going to win i just need a way to get out of this whole mess huh take fidel with
you it was like i don't got papers bro i'm like okay hey watch out they're coming for you but
trust me it will give you some peace when you hear about the crazy stuff that trump is doing
with his crypto scam his 400 million dollar bribe of a plane that he's getting you know how he's
enriching himself and if i hear one more person say that donald trump is the only president the
last money being president is making billions of dollars losing money to you because he's making
a lot of money into billions but either way don't drive yourself crazy just pray for america amen
that's the a and if you live in africa australia whatever you do the same last but not least the
s stands for special prayer request and i start out with this group i start praying for the sick
why because that's what it says in james 514 is any among you if is any sick among you let him
call for the elders of the church and let him pray over him so when i think lord who's sick
in our church i know ediko is she is she feeling better or is she still struggling nobody knows
about ediko i guess she has some kind of issues mrs scranton is she doing better getting worse
well he's going to start getting better tonight right we got 100 people in here that can pray
amen and even if god doesn't remove the pain at least pray that god gives her the grace to
go through the pain we can all do that true so that's the group that i pray for as far as my
special request lord is anybody sick is there anybody strained why because the bible says if
any man see his brother sin a sin which is none of the death he shall ask ask what for forgiveness
like lord hey don't let this guy backslide to the point where he leaves so pray for anybody who's
strained and what else anybody who's struggling so i'm like lord who's struggling in our church
financially or whatever who's struggling with their marriage lord help them i don't have money but
you do so whatever it is that they need lord i don't know let give it to me i'll give it to them
or have somebody give it to them i don't care but i think such and such is struggling with this such
and such is struggling with that lord step in and help does it make sense or am i totally losing
you guys and it may seem like it's a lot but here's the deal it's only 12 things so if you
have a 15 minute break and praise the lord for america who gets breaks at their work great how
long is your break makaya how long is your break 30 minutes do you get one before that a quick
little 10 minute or nothing no i guess america isn't that great anymore nobody gets breaks before
the lunch anymore you do how long is your break oh i'm glad you said 15 minutes as you notice
is 12 letters if you count them is 12 letters one minute on each i'll help you out spend three
minutes one adoring god one confessing your sins one thanking god and then hit each letter for at
least one minute you'll get through pretty much everybody that's at least 15 minutes for the day
maybe you can do it at noon like david said morning night and noon i'll pray on today so if
you do it three times a day guess what that's 45 minutes 45 minutes of prayer and what did jesus
get upset about couldn't you stay awake at least one hour guys come on one hour and i'm not saying
for you guys to absolutely have to pray for an hour a day to be right with the lord but you should
pray some and if this is too long then do the english version my problems now you pray for
guess who you know my pastor your immediate family pastor's family real family other believers in
christ backsliders the laws my enemies because it's fun praying for your enemies pray for your
enemies don't we have a lot of enemies that we can pray for out here don't we imagine we have a
thousand people on average at the end of the week listening to pastor ennison's sermons if you're on
our side guess what if you know of our enemies what about a thousand people praying against one
of our enemies what do you think is going to happen to that guy oh yeah hopefully not too bad because
we need him to keep making stupid videos for easy rewards amen that's the way i see it i have one
of these guys that left our church he text messaged me how's your precatory prayers going i heard you
said i will never buy a house how you feel now and i'm thinking this fool really thinks that
prosperity is godliness what in the world he literally doesn't understand who god is
last time i checked wasn't there like 10 plagues before god killed somebody's son in the bible
and those are just warning shots so i'm thinking uh first of all i never prayed for any imprecatory
but i'll start now and i'm going to recruit about 100 people from our church if that's what you
really want and then i'll recruit a thousand people on the internet possibly 10,000 people
on the internet if that's what you really want so you got my number text me if you really want to
push this thing and push it hard we'll get to that point where you'll receive a slice of humble pie
quicker than you thought hopefully you'll get back to church and back on track but at the end of the
day like i said if you don't like the me problemas too long hey do the my problems you know like i
said l loss e enemies m it is what it is there's always pastor borgert you can pray for right pray
for that missionary and if you already pray for america you don't need to pray again just skip
straight to the s and that's where anybody say extreme struggling you can go ahead and ask in
that moment roger that and you can ask for your ferrari and your mansion and your supermodel wife
whatever else you want to ask for special request special request doesn't mean you're going to get
it but don't worry the holy spirit will give you something better than you even ask for like
pastor said hey praying for dumb things is better than not praying at all right i messed that up
but y'all know what i'm saying let's pray dear father we thank you so much for all that you've
done lord obviously father you take prayer very serious it's a very serious thing to you so it
should be very serious to us and father i did my best to be able to help people know what to kind
of pray for every single day and father i ask you to bless everyone that's here well lord you know
their needs better than i do and i ask you to meet him tonight in Jesus Christ's name amen amen all
right ladies and gentlemen take your hymnals please go to hymn number 309 hymn number 309
dare to be a daniel hymn number 309 standing by a purpose true heeding god's command number 309