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Let's have a break
Do you have a fire? We thank the Lord for this morning
We thank you for the good God that you have given to us and also for the good weather
I pray Lord that you would bless each and every part of our service from the
Congregational singing from the reading of her word and also the preaching of the sermon
I pray to go God that you would bless brother Saki and help him preach and edifying sermon to us Lord and guide him and
Knowing his lips Lord. I pray that you would remove the distractions from us and so that we could be attentive with a sermon
I pray Lord that you would that's also our fellowship this afternoon and also the soloing and please
Keep the weather in good condition Lord and hold the rain for us to go out Lord and
Win souls for you, and we're asking all these things in Jesus name. We pray amen
For our next song let's turn to name number
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360 that sing the song
On the first
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All right morning everybody welcome to Verity Baptist Church take out your bullets in here today
And I did want to thank everybody for the prayers for my wife and our son who was born just a few days ago
And I did want to give a special
Thank you to a few people brother Matthias and brother Chris for stepping up and preaching that I mean everybody knew was gonna happen
Right like last second someone would have to come and preach because same thing as Christabel, but also a special
Thank you to brother June and sister glassy because you kind of figure you know wow did you guys get any sleep?
They didn't get any sleep
You know they're the ones who watched our kids and woke up in the middle of the night
You know drive us and everything's a special
Thank you to them and also everybody who prayed for us
But anyways our verse of the week is James 4 verse 2 the Bible reads
He lust and have not he kill and desire to have and cannot obtain
He fight in war yet you have not because he asked not in case you haven't figured it out the sermon is on prayer
That's why the songs and the verse are about prayer
We are a family integrated church meaning children and infants are welcomed during the services
We do have a mother-baby room back there for your convenience as well as the ladies comfort room the men's comfort room is up
Here in front remember no eating during the service maintain a professional
Atmosphere and keep the children from running and making noise during the church service on the next page our service times listed
Our first service is at 10 a.m.. Second service is at 1130 Wednesday evening Bible study at 7 p.m.
So winning times listed, so there is one change to the so winning times Wednesday is now going to be at 4 p.m.
So one hour earlier, and so I'll have it updated for next week's bulletin
but if you're going to be here for Wednesday, so winning you meet up at 4 p.m.. To head out for that and
Saturday afternoon we have so winning from 10 to 12 in case on Memorial Circle
Lunch provided by church, and then 2 to 4 p.m.. Of course we have so winning this afternoon at around 2 15 p.m.
And obviously as we're entering rainy season things kind of depend on the weather as well
So you know obviously we hope that the weather is going to be good
But we should have so many here this afternoon at around 2 15
We have our salvations and baptisms listed there for both of our churches and our Bible study fellowships
Birthdays and anniversaries for May are listed there below next page our Bible memorization challenge and our upcoming activities
So next week will be our prayer meeting
So we'll have that right after soul winning next week and also we do have an activity coming up in June that I don't yet
Have in the bulletin so as I said we delayed the ladies tea party
We also have Father's Day coming up
So it's going to be at the same time in a different location though so the ladies tea party will be here
And then the men will be out. You know doing something. We're still figuring that out
So basically the ladies tea party is going to be you know in June 19th. I think is Father's Day, so that's
four weeks am I correct four weeks from now and
We'll have the men's event as well on that date current an upcoming series. We are in the book of Daniel
What am I doing and also?
We're starting a new series next week verse by verse
We're gonna be going through the Song of Solomon, and so I personally love the Song of Solomon
It's one of the most misunderstood books
There's a lot of great wisdom whether you're married or not married
But it's it's it's a great book very misunderstood, so we're gonna start it next week
So I encourage you to be here for the first Sunday for that
We'll have an introductory sermon then just one sermon per week as we go through the chapters
Information on our group chat down there below and on the back there are notes for the sermons here today
So I believe that's it for announcements. We'll have brother Marlon lead us in another song
Even for our next song let's turn to him number 361
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This time we'll have our offering
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Amen for a scripture reading, please open your Bibles to the book of Exodus
Exodus chapter 2 second book in your Bible
Exodus chapter 2 and as our custom. We'll be reading the entire chapter
The Exodus chapter 2
Please say men if you're there
Amen
Exodus chapter 2 verse 1 and
there went a man of the house of Levi and took to wife a daughter of Levi and
The woman conceived and their son and then when she saw him that he was a goodly child
She hit him three months and when she could not longer hide him
She took for him an ark of bull rushes and docked it with slime in the pitch and put the chill up and put the child
there in and she laid it in the flags by the rivers brink and
his sister stood up far off to with what would be done to him and
A daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river and her maidens walk along by the rivers side
And when she saw the ark among the flags
she sent her maid to fetch it and once she had opened it she saw the child and behold the babe wept and
She had compassion on him and said this is one of the Hebrews children
Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter
Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew woman that she may nurse a child for thee?
And Pharaoh's daughter said to her go and the maid went and called the child's mother and Pharaoh's daughter said unto her
Take this child away and nurse it for me
And I will give thee thy wages and the woman took a child and nursed it
And a child grew and she brought him into Pharaoh's daughter and he became her son and she called his name Moses
And she said because I drew him out of the water
And he came to pass in those days when Moses was grown
That he went out into his brethren and looked under burdens and he spied an Egyptian a smiling in Hebrew one of his brethren
And he looked this way in that way
And when he saw that there was no man he slew the Egyptian and hid him in the sand and
When he went out the second day behold two men of the Hebrews strove together and he said to him that did the wrong
Wherefore mightest thou thy fellow and he said who may be a prince and a judge over us
Intendest thou to kill me as thou killest the Egyptian and Moses feared and said surely this thing is known
Now when Pharaoh heard this thing he sought to slay Moses
But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh and dwelt in the land of Midian and he sat down by a well
Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters and they came and drew water and filled the troughs to water their father's flock
As shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses stood up and helped them and watered their flock
And when they came to rule their father he said how is it the air come so soon today?
And they said an Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds and also drew water enough for us
And water the flock and he said unto his daughters and where is he?
Why is it that you have left the man call him that he made bread?
And Moses was content to dwell with a man and he gave Moses a porous daughter and she buried him a son
And he called his name Gershom. He said I have been a stranger in a strange land
And he came to pass in process of time that the king of Egypt died
And the children of Israel side side by the reason of the bondage and they cried and their cry came up unto God by reason
of the bondage and
God heard their groaning and God remembered his covenant with Abraham with Isaac and with Jacob and
God looked upon the children of Israel and God her respect unto them
Bless the root of God's word. Let us pray Lord God in heaven. Thank you Lord for state to give it to us
I pray that you would bless this day
Give us good weather for our soul any later on and a prayer load which would also bless the preaching and the preacher of your
Word Lord this day. Love you in Jesus name pray. Amen
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Right, we are in Exodus chapter 2 and as I mentioned in the announcements I am preaching on the topic of prayer here today and
Notice what it says in Exodus to look at verse number 23 Exodus chapter 2 verse 23
the Bible reads and it came to pass in process of time that the king of Egypt died and the children of Israel side by
Reason of the bondage and they cried and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage and God heard their groaning and God
Remembered his covenant with Abraham with Isaac and with Jacob and God looked upon the children of Israel and God had respect onto them
So we're here in Exodus chapter 2 and you know
what you find in the Bible is that God's people during this time period were under oppression and
They basically spent hundreds of years underneath Egypt and as they grew basically the Pharaoh ended up becoming mad or envious at that
So he's trying to oppress them and God's people which were very centrally located at that time
Were not able to serve God and I remember reading the Bible many years ago and I just kind of wondered in my head
Why would God allow that because you have to realize during that time period God's people were really centralized in one location
It pretty much shut down most of soul winning around the world
So why would God even allow something like that to happen and I was reading as I was reading my Bible
I realized it was simply because they did not pray for deliverance because what you see here is when they cry unto God
God hears their groaning and what happens?
Well, God ends up delivering them and he sends them Moses to deliver them and that's a pattern you see throughout the book of Judges
Over and over again, they basically backslide they get out of God's will once they pray unto God God delivers them
and so what I'm preaching on in this sermon is
Prayer the world's great time saver
Prayer the world's great time saver. Sometimes we have this idea. You don't understand brother Stuckey
I'm too busy to pray. My schedule is all over the place. I don't have any time. I'm tired all the time
But look when you feel like you do not have any time to pray that you're too busy to pray
You're actually too busy not to pray and it's not just a cool sounding cliche
I'll actually prove it to you from the Bible that prayer will actually save you time in your life and not cost you time
You feel like in the morning. I don't have 15 minutes
But in reality if you would spend that 15 minutes, it would actually save you a lot of time
Go to Psalm 23 Psalm 23 Psalm chapter 23
Psalm 23 I
Mean the book of Exodus it would have saved them hundreds of years
That's a lot of time
They could have saved if they just prayed on to God and asked for help and asked for deliverance and you know
We can read that and it seems very foolish, you know
Why would you not just cry out to God and pray and look realize I'm sure there were some safe people that were crying out to
God, but as a whole the people of God were not crying out to God where God was actually going to deliver them
But you know, we look at that and it seems kind of foolish and yet many times in our lives
We have situations we have difficulties
We don't spend any time praying to God about it, but we try to figure it out in our own wisdom
Is that not true?
We try to figure it out in our own wisdom and what we end up doing is
Wasting a lot of time that we could have saved if we just prayed on to God
Why does prayer help you save a lot of time?
Well number one because when you pray you get the directance of God in your life
You get the directance of God in your life when you pray Psalm 23 verse 1 the Bible reads
The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want he maketh me to lie down in green pastures
He leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul
Notice this he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his namesake now
It's kind of a common theme in the book of Psalms
It will mention
basically various paths
basically the paths of God or paths of righteousness and then the paths of the wicked one or the paths of the devil and
Basically, you know think of going out for a hike right you go out on a hike
Let's say it's a 10 kilometer hike
But there's usually a lot of side trails that you can go down if you go down this direction
It's a couple kilometers this direction this direction and you know
That's the analogy the Bible is trying to give you that you're basically trying to serve God live your life
And there's a lot of paths and you got to make decisions. Sometimes you're driving and it's either left or right or crash
Right, you got to choose left or you got to choose right?
And here's the thing when we try to figure things out in our own wisdom
Good luck
We're not that smart and one path might seem like the perfect one, but you don't really know right think of a basic example
Let's say you get two job offers
Well, here's the thing and you're gonna decide on one of them in your own wisdom this one pays more money
Better schedule or whatever a better room for advancement. It seems like an obvious choice that you're gonna take but here's the thing
We need to pray unto God because we don't know the end of the road
We see the first little bit of that path. We don't see a one kilometer down the road or two kilometers down the road
We don't know what a day brings forth. I don't know what my life is gonna be like in five years
I might be able to figure out the next couple days or whatever
But you can't figure out a long way in the future
That's why you need God to direct you in the right path go to Psalm 119
Psalm 119
You say well, how is he gonna do that?
Well, basically when you pray unto God God's gonna give you the wisdom where it's very obvious what the right thing is that you need
To do things. Maybe you didn't think about you're just thinking about immediately the example I gave with a job offer
The first thing you're gonna think about is money, right?
Which one's paying more money?
But then if you pray unto God you might think of some other things and realize well
Maybe that's not the best choice, right?
And you know what if you pray unto God he can help direct you in the right path in life
And here's the thing if this is 10 kilometers and you waste three kilometers this way
It's gonna take you a lot longer going around this way or you're gonna spend three kilometers three kilometers
You got 16 kilometers when you add it up, right just as an analogy notice what it says in Psalm 119 verse 105
Psalm 119 verse 105
Thy word is a lamp onto my feet and a light onto my path and it mentions there in Psalm 119
I know it's the longest chapter. So you guys are turning which you know page for Psalm 119
Okay, verse 105 thy word is a lamp onto my feet and a light onto my path
So mentions the path again and it mentions, you know light obviously the Bible gives the analogy. God is light, right?
But I want to give you an analogy to help you understand this about basically how you can waste time
You know if you're like me sometimes maybe it's late at night or early in the morning
You know, you don't want to wake up your kids
You don't want to wake up your wife, but you're you're trying to find something and you basically, you know
You know, it's somewhere in the room
but you don't know exactly where and it's kind of too dark to see and
Then all of a sudden you spend a couple minutes trying to find it you spend a couple minutes
you're wasting all this time and then you're like, all right, and then you basically take out your cell phone and
You turn on
This and then you find it in a couple seconds, right?
Just a basic analogy
But you wasted several minutes when you could have just taken a couple extra seconds
To turn on a small light and then you would have been able to find it
And if you're like me, I do that all the time, right? I try to find it cannot find it
And it's like alright, I got my cell phone
Let me just turn on this little light and I'll be able to find it and see the thing is in our lives
We can waste a lot of time because we're trying to figure things out in our own wisdom
And if we would pray unto God the path would just be lightened and it would be very obvious which path to go down
Well, this one's dark. I see all the problems here. This one's light and you can see what is the right path to actually take
Go to Proverbs 3 Proverbs 3
Proverbs chapter 3
Proverbs 3
And look this is one of those sermons it's it's a very easy sermon to preach
But it's not an easy sermon to apply. I'm not sitting here saying that for me
I just every morning I wake up and it's just like so easy to spend you know
I mean the songs in our hymnal sweet our prayer. I'm thinking our Wow
Right. I mean, it's not an easy thing to do and it's not an easy thing to
Basically put full confidence in because in our flesh we feel like we're wasting time sometimes now prayers not a waste of time
But if we're just honest with ourselves
Sometimes we feel like it's a waste of time like does it really make a difference I'm spending all this time
My life's so busy. I have so much to do today
I don't have time
But the reality is the Bible teaches it will actually save you time in the long run if you take a break and get God
to direct you
Proverbs 3 verse 5
Trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding in all thy ways
Acknowledge him and he shall direct thy paths as we said the directance of God
He will direct you in the right way to go
In your own wisdom, you might choose one thing, but you cannot lean on your own understanding
You must realize you are a sinner with limited knowledge. You can make mistakes. You can be wrong, right?
Something might seem right but you need to trust in God to actually direct you and if you choose to direct yourself in your life
You're gonna make a lot of mistakes. You're gonna have a lot of regrets
You're gonna spend a lot of time in this direction and spend a lot of time getting back on the right path
To get back in God's will go to Proverbs chapter 4 Proverbs 4
Proverbs 4
Now our general habit ought to be that every single day
We're spending time with God in the morning and the way I do my prayer is basically, you know, seven days a week
I pray for something different depending on what day it is. For example, one day I would focus on my personal growth myself
There's certain things I pray for every single day, but then there basically I have categories for the days one day
It's primarily praying for myself another day primarily for my wife another day primarily for my kids and I basically seven different categories
So it's not I'm saying the same thing every single day. Now. There are certain things. I think you should pray for every single day
But then there are certain things where basically you could pick a day and pray but then other things will come up in life big
Decisions and you got to add that to your prayer time and you got to pray about it
And you can't just trust in your own wisdom to figure it out
If something big comes up in your life a big decision
You need to pray to God to actually help you and he can lighten the path and make it various very obvious
What is the right choice rather than leaning on your own understanding and trying to figure it out yourself?
You
26 the Bible reads
Ponder the path of thy feet and let all thy ways be established and when the Bible says
Ponder the path of thy feet basically ponder means put in a lot of great thought and really think about you know
What direction you're headed like which direction are your feet headed?
Because here's the thing it might not seem like a big deal which direction you're headed because at the beginning of the path
It's not going to be so destructive for your life
But if you start heading down the wrong path
Let's check on in on you a year from now and your life could be destroyed
Ponder the path of thy feet verse 27 turn not to the right hand nor to the left remove thy feet from evil
Now go back to verse number 14 in this chapter because it's still in the same context here verse 14
verse 14
Enter not into the path of the wicked and go not in the way of evil men
Avoid it pass not by it turn from it and pass away
For they sleep not except they have done mischief and their sleep is taken away unless they cause some to fall
For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence
But the path of the just is as the shining light that shineth more and more on to the perfect day
So it talks about how the right path is the shining light that shineth more and more
Meaning as you start that path, you can't necessarily tell a major difference between these two paths
But as you start heading down the right path it shines brighter and brighter as you're getting closer to God
Okay, and it says this in verse number 19 the way of the wick the wicked is as darkness
They know not at what they stumble if you're in darkness. You don't see everything that's around you might accidentally
you know just bump into this or bump into this right because you don't see and
See if you're on the wrong path of life, you're gonna make a lot of mistakes. You're gonna be stumbling
You're gonna end up wasting a lot of time because you didn't get the directance of God go to Matthew chapter 6 in your Bible
Matthew 6
Matthew chapter 6
I'll give me an example for my life about four years ago
So four years ago before I lived here in the Philippines
We had you know the missions trip and I can't really remember everybody who was there
But I know a lot of people were there for that missions trip in
April of two I think it was April 2018 if I remember correctly and we had the missions trip in April 2018
And you know what the day before we flew out, you know
I was making sure everything was packed and I had everything arranged and that night
We had a men's preaching night that I was basically overseeing his pastor men as I think was out of town preaching or whatever
And I remember looking for everything and I was missing one very important thing. I was missing my passport and
I'm getting everything gathered. I'm like, where's my pack?
Because here's the thing with things that are important. I don't just move them around. I know exactly where they are
Okay, my passport is always in the same spot and it wasn't there
I'm like, you've got to be kidding me. And so I'm looking around frantically, you know getting in a you know
Pretty bad mood and everything like where is this?
This doesn't make sense and everything I'm looking around and I spent a lot of time trying to figure it out
My wife was helping me try to find this and everything like that and I was like, it doesn't really make any sense
But I didn't stop to pray to God about it
I was just figuring it out because I knew this is where it always is, right and I'm like
Why is it not there?
And so, you know, I ended up going to the men's preaching night and everything and I'm I'm pretty worried
Right because if I don't find that passport the next day, there might not be a BBC Manila. I don't know what happened
I probably would have been fired or whatever
I don't know
right and I'm trying to figure it out and everything and my wife called me when I was there and she
Found the passport and it turned out we actually had a relative that had actually visited our house and they had rearranged some stuff
And so in many ways they were helpful
So I don't want to you know be like too upset especially now four years have gone by
but they moved my passport and I was like
I knew where my passport was I couldn't find it and I knew for sure it has to be here and you know
It should have been except that it had been moved. But here's the thing, you know
We prayed about it before I went to the the men's preaching event and everything
My wife was able to find it shortly after that
But it's like sometimes God is waiting for us to rely on him and then it's like boom
Just check this location and I can think of other things that I've lost before and I prayed about it because I couldn't find it
After spending a lot of time and then all of a sudden it just popped into my head
Oh, I left it over here and then I find it immediately and it's like instead of wasting 20 minutes
He could actually pray to God and God can just reveal it to you and I believe sometimes God wants us to rely on him
So he'll put us in difficult situations to force us to start relying on him and
Sometimes in our lives when everything seems to be going so smoothly
We kind of just forget about God and God is wanting us to go back to him because he wants to direct us in the way
That we ought to go
Matthew chapter 6
Point number one because we get the directance of God in our life when we're praying on to him
Point number two because when we're not praying on to God
We have a tendency to deviate from God's commandments and will and get in to sin notice what it says in Matthew 6 verse 11
Matthew 6 verse 11
Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors verse 13 and lead us not into temptation
But deliver us from evil for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen
Now here in Matthew chapter 6 this is known as the model prayer and it's basically a template on how to pray
It's not something that we just repeat word for word
but in this template what it says is lead us not into temptation and
See what the model prayer is stating here is that we should pray to God God
help me not be in situations where I could be tempted or could screw up or make some sort of mistake and
See a lot of people in in 2022 have this attitude that you can basically be in any
Situation and just trust in your own strength not to commit a sin
But see what the Bible teaches is don't even be in the position to sin
Right. It's foolish to put yourself in a position where you've got to trust in your own strength
Because if you're strong
Ninety-five percent of the time that's not good enough
Ninety-nine percent of the time not good enough
Because if you're in that situation enough times eventually you're gonna screw up
But here's the thing if you never put yourself in that situation
You're not going to screw up and see part of the model prayer is hey
Praying God lead us not into temptation. I don't trust my own flesh
And look if you have this attitude brother Stuckey, you know, you don't trust your own flesh. Aren't you strong enough as a Christian?
Hey take heed lest ye fall the Bible says
Those that think they stand take heed lest ye fall one day because here's what I know
I'm a sinner and I'm capable of any sin that's a natural sin and you see godly people commit those sins in the Bible
So what do you do don't put yourself in that situation and see part of the model prayer is God
Help me not to be in those situations where I could screw up
Go to judges chapter 3 judges 3
judges chapter 3
And
Here's the thing when you get involved in sin
I mean it misdirects your life and you're gonna take a lot of time fixing the problems that have been caused by your sin and
See when you get involved in sin when you deviate from God's commandments
What takes place is you get involved in sin and you waste a lot of time fixing something and here's the thing
Instead of having to fix something that's broken. How about it just doesn't get broken. I
Mean it takes a lot of time to fix a mess
But here's the thing if there's no mess to begin with then it doesn't take any time
Right, I mean just imagine just spilling food on the ground spill pala book on the ground right on the carpet or something
You're gonna spend a lot of time fixing that
Right, you know for us, you know
We sometimes we've had candles that spill on our carpet at our house and I I'm an expert on how to remove
You know wax from carpets because unfortunately I've had to deal with that and there is actually a way to do it
But you know what?
It takes a lot of time
Right, but see better off is not getting into sin and you don't have to waste time fixing the problems that have started because of your
sin
judges 3 verse 7
judges 3 verse 7 and
The children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord and forgot the Lord their God and served Balaam and the groves
So here they're getting involved in in sin in verse 7 verse 8
therefore the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel and he sold them into the hand of I
Don't know Shushan risk of fame, I guess
King of Mesopotamia and the children of Israel served Shushan risk of fame eight years
So what you're seeing here in verse 7 is they get involved in sin
They deviate from God's commandments and how many years do they lose?
eight years
That's a lot of time
The Bible says our lives are roughly three score plus ten or four score seventy to eighty years
Eight out of eighty that's ten percent of your life
Do you really want ten percent of your life just to be gone?
I mean, I would hate to wake up tomorrow and then just eight years of my life is gone
Wouldn't that be pretty miserable eight years just gone like that now in in all realization
A lot of people just waste their lives. That's really what their lives are like
They just do nothing with their life and then they wake up. It's like what did I do?
The last 25 years it's like I saw every single movie every single TV show and that's about it every single video game
But you know what wasting eight years of your life would be, you know, quite a shame to lose eight years of your life
But they lose eight years
Simply because they get involved in sin and see if they had prayed to God for help
Then they wouldn't have gotten involved in that sin and wasted eight years
Verse nine and when the children of Israel notice this
Cried on to the Lord
So what are they doing crying on to the Lord? They're basically praying on to God and asking for help
They waste eight years
Get involved in sin and then they finally take a break to cry out to God and what happens the Lord raised up a deliverer
To the children of Israel who delivered them even off kneel the son of keen as Caleb's younger brother
So what you see in these verses is that prayer saves?
Basically, however many extra years they would have lost if they had cried on to God at the beginning
Eight years they would have saved and how much more time could have gone by if they didn't pray on to God and ask for help
Right. They lost hundreds of years in the book of Exodus at the end of Genesis beginning of Exodus
why because they didn't pray on to God verse 10 and
The Spirit of the Lord came upon him and he judged Israel and went out to war and the Lord delivered
Chushan-Risethamem king of Mesopotamia into his hand and his hand prevailed against Chushan-Risethamem
And the land had rest 40 years and Othniel the son of keen has died
So a godly man dies and then also notice verse 12 and the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord
Once again, they're deviating from God's commandments
They're getting involved in sin and the Lord strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel
Because they had done evil in the sight of the Lord and look the Bible does teach that a nation can be in bondage
Due to the sin of that nation and that's what we're actually seeing from God's people
I mean, these aren't the heathen people. These are God's people in bondage. Why because of their sin
They're deviating from God's commandments
then it says in verse 13 and
He gathered on to him the children of Ammon and Amalek and went and smote Israel and possessed the city of palm trees
So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab
18 years
That's basically 25% between 70 to 80 if that's your lifespan
25% of your life could be lost
Right. I mean that's a lot of time and they lose 18 years. Why because they get involved in sin
Well, what fixes the problem verse 15, but when the children of Israel cried unto the Lord the Lord raised them up with the liver
He had the son of Gera a Benjamite a man left-handed and by him the children of Israel sent a present on to Eglon the king
So basically sin makes them lose all this time and when they pray to God all of a sudden God gives them a deliverer
And look if you get involved in sin in your life
you can waste a lot of time trying to fix it yourself or you can actually cry unto God and have true repentance for your
Sin and God can deliver you and help you out through that
But what we're seeing is because they were not praying they lost a lot of time
Eight years 18 years and look this is the entire book of Judges pretty much
I'm just giving you a couple of examples. But if you're familiar with your Old Testament and you've read Judges
This is the same thing over and over again history repeats itself, doesn't it? They lose eight years. They lose 18 years
They lose 20 years over and over and over again. And once they cry out to God God sends them a deliverer
Right turn in your Bible
To Psalm 90 Psalm 90 Psalm chapter 90
Psalm 90
I
Mean because some of you might think well, you know brother Stuckey, I mean 15 to 20 minutes a day
You know, my life is busy. That's a lot of time and look over a year. That's a
hundred hours
Right, if it's 15 minutes a day, you're looking at 90 plus hours if it's 20 minutes a day. It's 120
So like a hundred hours, I mean that's a lot of time to pray
But here's the thing. You don't know how much time you would actually lose if you weren't praying on to God
You don't really realize how bad you'd screw up your life
If you weren't praying on to God and it might feel like a lot of hundred hours a year
And that is a lot of time
But here's the thing that will actually save you a lot of time in the long run
You could actually lose years and years and years of your life because you're not praying unto God
That's a lot more than a hundred hours. I mean, it only takes basically four days to get to a hundred hours
So it might seem like a lot but imagine losing years and years and years of your life
Because you screw up your life because you're not actually allowing God to direct you and help you not to deviate from his commandments and rules
Point number one we saw the directance of God prayer will help give you the directance of God point two
Prayer will help you not to deviate from God's commandments point three
Prayer will help you to discern what is important in life and to discern what is not important in life
Psalm 90 verse 9
For all our days are passed away
For all our days are passed away in thy wrath
We spend our years as a tale that is told
When it says we spend our years as a tale that is told
What the Bible is saying is that our lives are like a story or a tale think of a fairy tale
We live our lives as a tale that is told now. We don't tell our own story, but we basically act out that story
We determine what is going to be told about our lives, but we don't actually tell the story about our lives
So basically, you know think about somebody dying and then at a funeral people give various words about the person people that are close to
Them and everything and here's the thing you have to ask yourself that if you were to die
What would you want people to tell about your life?
What kind of story would you want people to tell?
Right say man that person love money. Is that what you want people to tell about your life?
Right
Man that person he really loved to get every new every new movie that came out every new video game
Is that what you want people to tell about your life? I mean you got to ask yourself
What kind of story do you want told about your life? What do you want people to say about your life?
What kind of impact you want to have on this world because here's the thing people will tell stories about you
Right now I'm sure people tell stories about you while you're alive, too
I mean whether it's good like they're praising you or gossip
I mean it takes place, but here's the thing
You know what for sure when you pass away at your funeral people will tell stories about your life
You've got to ask yourself. What do you want people to say about your life?
Once you want somebody to say man that person he loved God
That person was always in church. Just happy to be in the house of God where that person man. He loved his kids
He poured his heart and his care and his love into his kids
That man was a family man that loved his family
I mean wouldn't you want good things to be said about your life?
But here's the thing if if you live a pretty miserable life those things aren't going to be said
Think about rich people that have died that just lived all for themselves and all about money
What kind of story do you think people told about their lives?
It's all about their business transactions and the money they made look. There's nothing wrong with working hard at your secular work
I believe we should work hard. I believe it's okay to be successful
I believe God can bless us, but let us get a proper balance on everything
And here's the thing if your whole life is just money and living for yourself
What a miserable way to live your life, and you want the sort of story people are going to tell is not going to be
That great of a story
Can you imagine if your kids at your funeral could have nothing really that positive and say about you?
That'd be pretty depressing. We live our lives as a tale that is told the days of our years are three score years in 10
70 years and if by reason of strength they be four score years yet
It is their strength labor and sorrow for it is soon cut off and we fly away, so the Bible says you live basically
70 to 80 years and obviously there's exceptions
But generally it's going to be within that time frame or a little bit to one of those sides
It'd be rare for someone to live to be a hundred years old
It'd be rare for someone to live you know a much shorter life, but in general
70 to 80 years is a decent-sized life right 70 to 80 years the Bible says and
Then it says this who knoweth the power of thine anger even according to thy fears so is thy wrath
So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom
So what this passage is saying is we're going to live our lives as a tale that is told
But you know we only have a short amount of time to live that life. It seems like a lot of time
Right I mean we feel like we have all the time in the world to accomplish this stuff and yet your life
Flashes before your eyes, and I really don't understand how it does this, but time speeds up as you get older is that not true
I don't understand it. That's what they tell you when you're a kid, and it turns out
They're right you never believe your parents when they tell you that
But that's true as you get older your life starts to really speed up, and it's just like things just pass
Really quickly I mean I've lived in the Philippines three and a half years. I'm like what?
It's really been three and a half years like where did all that time go and yet
I mean this church has been around for three and a half years
I mean that time went by pretty quickly and time really does fly by so what it says here in this passage
Is teach us to number our days?
This is someone basically talking to God praying on to God and say God help me realize how short my life really is
Because if you don't stop to meditate upon it
It just feels like you have all the time in the world to accomplish everything, but see when you pray you discern
What is important and you discern? What is not important?
You say why is that because you have two natures inside of you if you're saved you've got the new man and the old man
And see when you're not praying unto God you're walking in the old man, and what seems important are the things that the flesh wants
Which are not necessarily sinful, but it's not the spiritual man
But see when you pray unto God it will help discern to you help you understand
What is actually important in life, and here's the thing if you waste time on things that are not important
You're gonna spend years of your life doing nothing
Nothing actually important, but if you pray unto God God will help you discern
What is important and what is not important go back to Matthew chapter 6 Matthew 6?
Matthew 6
Matthew chapter 6
I mean and the Bible teaches this and I'll show you some verses on this
But there's just something about prayer that just really makes you realize
What is important in life and when you're not praying unto God you just kind of go about your life
And don't think about it, but once you pray it just kind of hits you
What's actually important, you know it really helps you discern helps you understand
What is important in life, and if you don't do that, then you basically have the wrong mindset
Matthew 6 verse 9
Once again we're hearing the model prayer here Matthew 6 verse 9
After this manner therefore pray so basically in this way pray
It does not say word for word pray this, but it says in this manner
Okay our father which art in heaven hallowed be thy name so the start of this sample prayer is basically saying
Our father which art in heaven and what that's doing is basically showing reverence to God
Basically you're our father. You're up in heaven. We're just I'm just a person here on earth right
I'm nothing special basically giving reference to God see in our modern day people say things like the man upstairs
I'm sorry, but that's disrespectful to God
It's like you look
I wouldn't appreciate if my son talked to me just in a disrespectful way being his father
And when we talk to God and don't put reverence upon him. It's insulting to him
Our father which art in heaven hallowed be thy name showing how powerful God is which shows that we're really nothing special
We're just a human being that God has in his hand that he can basically end at any moment if he chose to right
We're nothing right
Then it says this thy kingdom come thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven so what it's saying there is
basically let your will be done God
Not my will and the start of this prayer is about basically God. I want you to be exalted
You're powerful. I'm not I want you to be pleased
I want you to get what you want not what I want and that is the way that we should pray
You know sometimes we pray, and we say things which this is a good thing to say you know God
I would love to have this job if it is in your will
right
Now there's nothing wrong with saying I would like to have this job, but we must realize that wait a minute
It's what's more important. Is is it's in God's will
Now here's the thing you might think it is you might see nothing wrong with it
But see that's why you ought to pray and tell God hey if it's not in your will
Then I'm okay with that in my flesh. I want this I think would be great
But you know what you know all things God if it's not in your will then basically just let me know that
That's once again allowing God to do what direct you right make sure you make the right choices in life
And basically it's not about what we want, but it's about what God wants so what you're seeing in the start of this model
Prayer is right at the beginning
You're basically showing what the will of God to be done and what you're doing is discerning or trying to discern
What is important? What's not important? What you're saying is what God wants is important what I want is not that important verse 11
Give us this day our daily bread now in verse 11. This is just praying for a basic necessity
Basically give me bread, so I don't starve to death is basically what the prayer is now in our modern day
You know we really don't live poor lives and see we have a tendency to judge
What's poor or rich based on other people that were around and
Basically if you have the smallest house on the street you feel like you're poor or whatever someone has a bigger house
But you know to be honest in 2022 nobody here in the Philippines is really living that poor of a life right I mean in
This room you know we have a place to stay we have clothes to wear
God's providing your food, and here's the thing obviously you know what especially as you look at finances
You can get stressed sometimes, but I don't have to go personally on a daily basis saying
I hope I'm gonna have food to survive today. I
mean God provides my needs
Now by all means we ought to be smart with money be wise with money and work hard
I'm not saying to be foolish, but what you're seeing in this model prayer. Just give me my basic necessities
It doesn't say just give me like a 10-bedroom house
Just give me this job where I'm rich right that's not what you're seeing in the model prayer
You say why because that shouldn't be what's in your heart?
It's not important to be rich. It's important to have your needs provided go to Psalm chapter 8 Psalm 8
Psalm 8
And let me just give you an example for me
What was kind of humbling you know honestly like moving here in many ways things are a little bit different in some ways very humbling
Experience you know growing up in the u.s.. There's obviously the u.s.
Is a pretty rich country and in the u.s.
Growing up our family was basically middle class so basically right in the middle
You know we were neither rich or poor by American standards
But that's actually pretty rich by world standards
And there are certain things that you take for granted that you just kind of assume everybody has and you know everybody where I lived
everybody owns computers and
TVs and printers and washers and dryers and dishwashers
I mean when I was a kid
I just kind of took like everybody has that right like it's an actual necessity, and then you know what honestly
It's just like no people are just really rich in America
And you know for my wife, and I we actually bought a house when we were in Sacramento
And you know what I liked our house. It was great for us, but one thing that frustrated me is
I felt like it was really small
Now here's the thing to be honest as I look back. I think man that house was pretty big
Because you know moving here in the Philippines we've been tomorrow
We're headed back to Pampanga, but where we're staying you know at one spatial right now. It's just like it's a lot smaller
Right then where we live in Pampanga
It's a lot smaller than the house that we had in Sacramento
But the reason why I felt it was small is because I was comparing myself to other people that I knew that had bigger houses
There's nothing wrong with our house. I mean it was a two-bedroom house. We had a kitchen
We had a living room, and that's basically four rooms. We had a pretty big backyard
I mean it was plenty big, but the problem was I was comparing myself to other people right and see here's what I'm saying
you know when we actually pray unto God it can help us be thankful for what we do have and
Realize that you know what I don't need to have the biggest house in the world
I don't need to have the biggest car. I just need my needs provided
Psalm 8 verse 1 oh
Lord our Lord how excellent is thy name in all the earth who has set thy glory above the heavens
Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings has thou ordained strength because of thine enemies that thou mightest still the enemy in the avenger
When I consider thy heavens the work of thy fingers the moon and the stars which thou hast ordained and what you're seeing here
Obviously the book of Psalms is a song book
But this is like a prayer talking to God and this person is talking to God
And he's talking about the heavens the work of thy fingers
Which is the moon the stars the Sun all the things that God has created the mountains the rivers the lakes
Everything you see out there the sky the clouds and you look outside
so just imagine this you walk outside and you look at what God has created and
When you stop to look at it and think about it what you realize is what is man?
That thou art mindful of him
Right basically like who am I like why would God care so much about me when you look at what he's creating
It's so magnificent
It's amazing the things that God has made
And I remember I was in the u.s.. And I saw
Mount Rushmore they have like those four you know presidents that are sculpted there
And I remember looking at the sculptures
And this is like a famous thing in the u.s.. At Mount Rushmore the four sculptures
And then I remember just looking at the mountains beside the sculptures
And I was like the mountains are more impressive to me than the sculptures that may have made
Right I mean, it's like I looked at it, and I just wasn't impressed
I mean it's a long time ago
I saw that but I just remember thinking man the mountains are more beautiful to me than what
You know man-made and in reality when we look at what God has made. It's amazing
You look at all the animals that exist in the world that are so unique and so
Magnificent and so different. I mean it's just amazing the way that God has created the world
And it makes you stop and think you know what is man?
That thou art mindful of him and see when you pray to God and talk to God and you realize
How it would be thy name our
Heavenly Father and speak to him in reverence you really start having this idea. You know what is man?
I'm nothing significant. What what's happening is you are discerning
What is important and what is not important?
And if you waste time on things that are not important
Then you're losing a lot of time in your life that you could have saved on things that actually matter
turn in your Bible
to Joshua 10 Joshua 10 Joshua 10
Joshua chapter 10 Joshua chapter 10
Joshua chapter 10
Point number one we saw that prayer will give you the directance of God in your life point to
Prayer will help you not to deviate from the commandments of God point three
Prayer will help you to discern or understand what is important in life, and what is not important in life
And point four prayer can actually delay time
Prayer can delay time now
I'm gonna give you an example in Joshua 10 of what I'm talking about and I want you to realize I'm not saying it's gonna
Work in the same way as it does in Joshua 10
But we're seeing an example of Joshua 10 where there's actually a literal miracle that takes place
Where there's extra time in the day, and I'm not saying that if you pray unto God
There's gonna be like 26 hours today instead of 24. That's not what I'm saying
But the concept is understood from Joshua 10 Joshua 10 verse 12
Then spake Joshua to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel
And he said in the sight of Israel son stand now still upon Gibeon and now moon in the valley of Agelon
So Joshua they want to win this battle and he asked for the son to basically stop moving
Son stand now still and the son stood still and the moon stayed until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies is not this
Written in the book of Asher so the son stood still in the midst of heaven and hated not to go down about a whole
Day and there was no day like that before it or after it that the Lord hearkened unto the voice of a man for the
Lord fought for Israel so in Joshua chapter 10 we see a literal miracle that takes place
Joshua prays that the son is basically gonna stop and basically instead of 24 hours because everything kind of works like clockwork
24 hour days the Sun rise at the same time every day it sets at the same time every day
He prays that the day will be
Extended and God actually extends the day for them to get done what they need to get done now
I'm not saying this is gonna be the same way in your life
But if you pray unto God and you have actual important things that you must do and you pray unto God for help
I believe he can give you the time to get done what you actually need to get done
Go to Malachi chapter 3 and I'll show you exactly what the Bible is talking about
Malachi 3
See in life there are certain things that we must do and then certain things that are not sinful
But are not necessary and certain things that are waste of time or sinful complete
And so for example, you know some things that you must do
Well, you need to read the Bible every day. The Bible says you need to be in church every week
You need to pray every day certain things you need to do every day, but not just spiritual
In your personal lives. There are things that you need to do every day, right? You need to work to make money
You got to pay your bills. You got to take a shower brush your teeth. You got to eat food
There are basic necessities that you need to or at least you should be doing every single day, right?
There are certain things you need to get done and you want it takes a lot of time to do all of these things
You know, you can be very busy doing these things and see, you know, sometimes, you know
You feel like you're really busy because you waste time on things that aren't important and you run out of time
You need to realize in your life and look it might be something you just consciously know or you might just need to write
Down the things that you need to get done. I try to live a very organized life
So for me personally on my phone
It will tell me this is what I need to do on Monday and I'll have a list in
Order of the things I need to get done some things I don't get done on Monday
They carry over the next day on Tuesday just basic things. I need to get done on Monday Tuesday Wednesday or whatever
I have a basic schedule
You should live your lives if you're smart and want to be successful based on routine not based on emotions
But on routine that will just tell you this is what I do at this time
This is what I do at this time. Obviously, it's hard for it to be perfect
Sometimes it can get messed up, but you should have a basic idea what you're trying to get done
And so you need to make sure you get those things done because those are necessary things to do
Now here's the thing. These are things that God wants you to get done
Whether it's spiritual or whether it's you know, your personal maintenance, you know showering brushing your teeth eating food
Those are things you need to get done right God wants you to get those things done
Now the key is not wasting your time on things that are not important
That goes back to that idea of praying that God will help you discern what is important and what's not important
So you do the important things first and if you have time for the hobbies or whatever you do those as well if you
Would like if you have extra time
But here's here's what I'm trying to tell you the Bible says we need to redeem the time because the days are evil
You say what does that mean redeeming the time because the days are evil?
Well, the evil days are referencing when you get older in life
Ecclesiastes 12 talks about you know, basically all these things that take place as you age and get older and
Basically instead of waiting where basically, you know, you're a lot older and you run out of time redeem your time work hard
Don't waste your time
Because as you get older you're not gonna be able to do certain things that you were able to do when you're younger redeem your time
Don't waste it. This should start even at a young age
People that are in this room you say well, I'm not even 10 years old
This sermon doesn't apply to me. You should take heed now. I
Wish I had read the Bible once a year when I was a kid. Wouldn't that be great? I
Mean, it doesn't seem like much but if you're 10 years old and you read the Bible once through cover to cover when you're 10
Years old and 11 and 12, you know, you're gonna know more than most Baptist pastors in a couple years
Right
You're gonna know more than most people because most people don't really read the Bibles
It's like I wish when I was a kid
I had spent more time on things that mattered rather than spending time on video games and things that did not matter
Now if by all means we believe kids should be allowed to be kids and have fun and play
I'm not saying but what I'm saying is a proper balance
Not just basically you waste your first 18 years and boom you are now officially an adult now take life seriously
Why not just work hard at a young age and then basically you're gonna be very thankful that you didn't waste all your time
right
Here's what it says in Malachi 3 verse 10 Malachi 3 verse 10
Now the direct context of Malachi 3 is about money
But we can make the same applications with time Malachi 3 verse 10
Bringing all the tithes into the storehouse that there may be meat in mine house and prove me now herewith sayeth the Lord of hosts
If I will not open you the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing that there shall not be room enough to receive
It the basic principle is that if you give your tithe you give your 10% to God. God will provide your needs
Doesn't say you're gonna be the richest person in the world, but he will provide your needs
Okay, and he basically says test me give your 10% and I will
Basically make sure you're provided for okay
the same
Applications can be made with time
Give your accurate time to God don't waste your time and see here's the idea if God can look if God gives you a bunch
Of money and you use it on drugs and alcohol. You know what God's gonna say. I'm not gonna give that person more money
Because he's just gonna waste it
Just gonna screw up his life. Why would God give more money to someone who's wasting it, right?
Why would he give more to one of his children that's just wasting the money
It's like man, he's better off not having the money
same thing with time
God gives you free time and then you use it to get involved in sin and just waste it and just
Screw up your life. You think God's gonna be like I need to give that person more time, right?
Because what's funny is people often feel like they're really busy, but in reality, they're not really doing much of this
But they're doing this and this I don't have any time to read the Bible, but you're on Facebook for five hours today
You're
On Instagram for like ten hours
But you don't have any time. It's like man. It's already four in the afternoon
It's like you just wasted your time. It's not that you don't have the time. It's just you waste the time that God gives you
Here's the thing if you waste the time that God gives you God might look at you and say
I'm not gonna give him any more God God
give me more time to get everything done God gives you extra time and then you waste it and
Then you pray again God give me more time you're wasting it you have the time, right?
You're not actually that busy and see if God can actually trust you with your time
God can give you more time to get done what you actually need to get done what he says in verse 11 is this I
Will rebuke the devourer for your sakes
the idea is think about someone who's farming he has plants he has fruits and
The devourer is a reference to someone that would devour or eat up those plants
So for example if you have fruits and vegetables sometimes there's animals that will destroy them
So for example at our my parents house in Pennsylvania
They've got an electric fence around it because if they don't then all the work for those fruits and vegetables are eaten by the deer
So it's basically a waste of time
Right and the Bible saying that God will rebuke the devourer and rebuking the devourer saying
Preventing someone that's going to destroy the plants and fruits and vegetables that I gave you the same thing works with time though
See here's the thing what I'm saying is you can be driving and hit every single red light you can be on in Lex and
It could be two hours or six hours
Right I Drive you know every week from Pampanga to Manila, and you know what most of the time
It's not so bad, but then if there's an accident it might be a couple extra hours
Right I'm gonna get back really late
I leave here at five you know usually I get back roughly a little bit after seven or something like that or around seven
But sometimes I've gotten back at nine
You say why because there's a traffic accident or whatever and there's a lot of traffic
And see when the Bible's saying I rebuke the devourer
He's gonna prevent something from destroying the money that he's giving you your ability to make money same thing with time if
You're using your time wisely
God can allow there not to be problems in your life that take up time
Problems take time to fix
Right I mean from a financial standpoint if you're driving
I mean you're driving behind a truck and then a rock kicks up and hits your windshield
And it breaks the windshield cracks it a couple days later. It's completely destroyed right it happened to me
I lost windshields in the u.s.. Driving. It was really frustrating you're driving you hear that rock hits your window
It's like well. That's gonna cost me $100 or whatever right well the same thing with time though
See God can allow that rock not to hit you God can allow the things not to come up that are gonna basically spend your
Time okay, but here's the thing are you using your time wisely because if you're not he's probably going to allow things to come up
Until we start relying on him
Then it says this and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground so the devourer will not destroy the fruits of your ground
Neither shall your vine cast or fruit before the time in the field saith the Lord of hosts
The idea of the last half of that verse is basically fruit is
a
Wonderful thing to eat as long as it's you know ripe
But not all fruit becomes fully ripe
And what the Bible is saying is he will allow not there not to be problems to take place to destroy
But he's also going to allow that fruit to become fully ripe so you can basically sell it and make money
Right and see the idea is that God can basically cause your time to feel like a lot less because all these problems come up
In your life, or you can basically
Give you more time if you're using it wisely
What I found in my life is that when I am doing right and serving God and living a clean and holy life
And I'm really busy in my life. It just feels like I have plenty of time to get stuff done
Just the way it works go to Luke 16. We'll look at one last place Luke 16
Luke 16
May as I've said before I'm an early riser
I wake up early in the morning
But I'll tell you what times when I've been really busy in my life, and and I have a lot to get done
I feel like it's so busy, and I'm scrambling to get stuff done. It's 11 o'clock at night
I'm finally going to sleep and then all of a sudden
It's like when I'm really busy, and I don't feel like I have any time
It's like I'll wake up at like 2 30 in the morning, and I'm fully refreshed. I'm like how is that possible?
You say why would why would that happen well because if you start your day off with God then God can give you the time
Needed to get stuff done
There's times. I felt like I've got to get this stuff done for work. I've got like 70 80 hours
I need to get done. I mean that makes your life pretty busy
And you only have so much time
But yet God can help you wake up early and be refreshed as long as he can trust you with that time
But if you first wake up and the first thing you're doing is just social media for an hour
Then God's like what's the point of me helping them get extra time because they're wasting it right Luke 16 verse 10
Luke 16 verse 10
Luke 16 verse 10 he that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much and he that is unjust in the least
Is unjust also in much if either if therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon
Who will commit to your trust the true riches now this is once again about money
But we can make the same applications the idea is if God gives you a little bit, and you waste it
He can't trust you with more
Same thing with time though right the concept is the same if God cannot trust you to give you
a little bit of free time
Then why is he gonna give you more time if you're just wasting what he is giving you?
Right and see here's the thing if you actually pray on to God and actually work hard and do what you need to do
God can actually
Delay time symbolically speaking or allow you to get everything done
You need to get done the problems that could come up will not come up
Why because you need to have that time and you're using it wisely and God will give it to you, right?
This is what about so look you might feel like brother Stuckey. You know okay? I get it
I know I should pray and here's the thing all of us know we should pray
Everybody already knows that but to be honest in my opinion prayer is one of the more difficult things to do in the Christian life
It's a pretty hard thing to do it takes faith because we feel like we can figure things out on our own
But here's the reality when you wake up in the morning, and you're scrambling around to get stuff done. You're like man
I need to get my coffee. I need to get my breakfast
I need to get this done before I go off to work. You know what you feel like you're too busy to pray
The reality is you're too busy not to pray
You would actually help save yourself a lot of time if you would take a break not rely on your own wisdom
But trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not onto thine own understanding. Let's close an order prayer dear Heavenly Father
Thank you for allowing us to be here today and getting to see your word in this topic and ask you to help us to
Apply this to our lives help us to be people that
Spend time in prayer including myself and my family and help us to rely on you and and
Take the time out every single day to just spend time in prayer and allow you to direct us in our lives in Jesus name
We pray Amen
On the first ready say
Oh
Amen