Thank you.
this evening so good to see you all here for a Wednesday night service. Find your seats please take
a hymn though go to hymn 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 above hymn number 191 lift your voice together now that
Heavenly Father, Lord, we come before you this evening.
We thank you for the privilege and the opportunity
that we have to be in church on this Wednesday evening.
Thank you for the safety and the health
that you've provided for us to be able to be here.
We just ask, Lord, a blessing upon us
as we come before you tonight and assemble together
and worship you.
And we just ask your blessing upon us
and that you would anoint us with your Holy Spirit
as we sing unto you,
and that you would also just prepare our hearts
with your preaching tonight.
We ask that you fill the preacher with your Holy Spirit,
help him preach with power, with function,
Haven't speak the words that you'd want to speak and that we would be attended to the message tonight
And that all that said and done would bring back the honor and the glory that you deserve for it
And we'll thank you for in Jesus name. Amen
Him number 121 is next 121
Like a river glorious him number 121
I really can't hear myself. You guys get back there.
Alright, because I have to do something with this microphone.
It keeps falling off because this, I don't know,
it doesn't have enough grip on my tie.
You know, so I wrapped it around my neck, amen.
But I 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 left hand corner it's our service times below that it's our
so many 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
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 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 you a room for that weekend.
Once again, the hike itself is gonna be on the 14th,
but the sewing is gonna be on Friday, June 13th.
And once again, please RSVP at faithfulword1 at gmail.com
or talk to brother Ramon if you still wanna come,
but you haven't let us know.
If you've turned 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 Stephaz 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 Dona Sunday starting at 10 a.m.
for those in honor of those celebrating their birthday
in the month of June.
And also our upcoming events are right there.
Pastor Coleman 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 salvations 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 were 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 Ramon. 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
Salvation's a day is what we're averaging. I didn't believe it either. I'm like how in the world
My praise the Lord keep up the good work. Amen now for Tuesday anybody any salvation is on Tuesday
We got three right over here
And yet is that one or two?
That's a one right there for Tuesday any other salvation and Wednesday
Is that a one?
Amen.
Brother Ramon, is that a two?
All right.
Any other salvations?
Going once, going twice?
All right.
Brother Daniel.
All right, you can find the answer
in front of your hymn, though, with the hymn titled,
Give of Your Best to the Master.
If 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 of the best to your master.
You
If Jesus goes with me, I'll go anywhere.
Pim number 335.
Maybe in the mouth or out the stage or inside.
But if Jesus goes with me, I'll go anywhere.
Pim number 335.
See you guys together now.
Please turn your Bibles to 1 Peter chapter number five.
1 Peter chapter number.
1 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 fatheth not away.
Likewise ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder,
yea 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 careeth 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
unto 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 Sylvainus, a faithful brother unto you, as I suppose I've written briefly, exhorting,
and testifying that this is the true grace of God wherein ye stand.
The church that is at Babylon, elected together with you, saluteeth you, and so doth markest
my son.
Greach ye one another with a kiss of charity.
Peace be with you all that are in Christ Jesus.
Amen.
Dear Lord, thank you for Faith Word 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'd fill brothers to girl with your Holy Spirit help them to preach from your word and Jesus in my prayer
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 cash 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 eight. 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,
Walk about, seek Him whom He made devour.
And that's what He's doing tonight.
He's looking who He made devour, who He made 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 2640.
Go to Matthew 2640.
And I hope that you guys already, since you're the Winstonite 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 demonstrate just how much Jesus takes prayer very serious.
You know, it's in Matthew 2640.
And in Matthew 2640, this is Jesus, and he says,
and he comeeth unto the disciples and findeth them asleep.
And sayeth 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.
Mi problemas, mi problemas.
Things to pray for every day.
And mi 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 Bs instead of one.
Maybe you guys saw the title and wonder what the heck is he talking about?
Well, if you count the letters, it's 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, mi problemas is, of course, you know, two words in Spanish.
It means my problems.
But if you have a hard time remembering mi problemas, you could just change it to my problems.
So somebody would ask me, hey, when you pray, what do you pray about?
you know about my problems and we're going to go letter by letter through this acronym to kind of
give you guys an idea of what I'm talking about but you already saw Jesus Christ in Matthew 2640
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 135 he 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 wild
before a day and often preached on prayer
and always wondered like what time was that?
A great wild before a day?
What was it, two, three, four, five a.m.?
I don't think it's six a.m. in Arizona around this time
because it's already daylight, that is already day.
So if he got up a great wild before a day,
what time before it starts getting right around here?
Does anybody know?
In the summertime, what is it, five a.m.?
So a great while before that, it has to be at least 4 a.m.
But just to kind of see that, hey, 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 you 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 look into get up and pray. For example, Proverbs 8.17 says this,
I love them to love me, and those that seek me early shall find me.
Now, of course, it's talking about wisdom, but if you think about it, it's referring to God.
You want to find God early? You've got to get up early.
Psalms 5-3 says this, My voice should out here in the morning, O Lord, in the morning,
will I direct my prayer unto thee and will look up. And I think you 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
Now Psalm 5517 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 today
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 niquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me.
So one of the things that will hinder your prayers
is hidden sin.
Sending 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.
First 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 28-9 says this,
he that turned 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 with the intersauce,
Saying, After I am waxed old, should I have pleasure?
My Lord being old also.
And the Lord said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh?
Saying, Shall I have a shirty, buried child, which I 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 lie, laugh out loud, but she laughed on the inside.
First 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 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 dust blasphemes?
Who can forgive sins but God only
and immediately when Jesus perceived in his 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 about them.
And guess what? It hasn't changed. God can still hear you talking about 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 to Matthew 9.4,
and Jesus knowing their thoughts said,
wherefore think ye 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 in 1 Samuel 113.
Go ahead and go to 1 Samuel 113.
In Genesis 24.45 it says this,
talking about Abraham's servant
that went to go find Isaac a wife.
And it says before I had done speaking, he's kind of telling A, 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, Rebecca 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 it says before I had done speaking
in my heart.
So here's Abraham's servant, he's praying in his heart.
Because God says, before you even speak, I'm going to 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 of the Lord.
In the morning, I would direct my prayer on to thee and we'll look up.
And that was the verse I was looking for, but what he says is, 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 going to reward you openly.
And when I think about Abraham's servant, sometimes I think about my old pastor back
in California, pastor Azarello, David Azarello, he's the one who gave me the gospel, he's
the one who 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 pulled 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 tail light, 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 so you were talking on your phone.
And he's like, talking on my phone.
Yeah, I saw you.
He's like, officer, you're not going to 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
but this is a man who taught me how to pray and he did a lot of praying and I saw him pour a lot
of miracles in my eyes. I recognize a resident 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, and I 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.
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, A, 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 pray not a lot 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 just 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 to go to first Samuel 1 13. This is Hannah the story of Hannah where she did the same thing
Says now Hannah. She's fake in her heart only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard
Therefore, he let that she had been drunk in
So when it comes to prayer, you can see that,
hey, God didn't 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.
You know, but really quickly a few more things
and then I'll get into the acronym on 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 Derwish coffee?
The world's strongest coffee.
In case you're wondering why you're so wired at some time.
Because that's what I was getting.
They're like, tone it down.
You know, 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 once is this and he's faking parable on to them to this end that meant
Oh to always to pray and not to faint
I like this verse first Samuel 12 33 says more over as for me
God forbid that I should sin against the Lord and ceasing to pray for you
What did he say?
He says more over as for me God forbid that I should sin against the Lord and
Ceasing 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 7a says this, for everyone to ask it, receive it.
So what is that saying?
Some people that don't receive it's 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.
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 you lost and have not you kill and desire to have and cannot obtain
You fight in war yet you have not because you what ass not
Ass 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 them.
Get them, get them 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 you 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 already quoted it but thou when thou pray is enter into thy closet
And when thou has shut thy door pray to thy father, which is in secret and thy father was seen the secret shall reward the
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 your 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. We used to break down all the time, right Daniel?
We had to keep fixing it over and over. No way, I'm not going to embarrass you too much, bro.
I can see you're already, you know, getting a little bit upset over there, but that's okay.
Don't worry Daniel. Trust me. I'll be merciful. I'm gonna 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 like 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 I think 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 they may
We can hit up pastor give them some numbers. I'm like sure we're 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, like blasting that thing, you know?
And the guy's like, whoa, beast mode I see, you know?
So it's like, OK, it's OK.
What you got?
OK, well, I got this other one, $10,000 piano.
Once again, it sits down.
If you don't even know, I'm not talking about Kira, okay?
In case you're wondering.
I'm talking about our 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.
Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum.
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?
Well, it's good for the cigar, but I'm telling you,
you don't want to waste $10,000 like,
oh, that's a good piano,
but we need to look at something different.
I'm like, okay, $15,000, go.
We got it right over here, $15,000 piano.
I'm like all right, whatever, you know, I get paper 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?
$25,000.
It's like, personal girl, go for it.
Just go try it out.
So she goes and sits on it.
Then she looks at me, and she's like, oh, I'm like, oh, no.
You're a no.
No, no, no, no.
He's trying to get me fired.
He's like, I think we have to talk to Pastor.
I'm like, oh, man.
Well, he gets back in the day or so, so I'll talk to him.
Then Pastor finally shows up.
And he's like, OK, what's going on, guys?
We got to talk.
What's going on?
Well, me and Captain 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
10 maybe but not 25 well ago
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 got it 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 is like, you know what I've been thinking about that all day. I think you're right
And she's not like, hey, $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 gonna do?
What are we gonna do?
It's pray.
That's what I said.
We're gonna pray.
We're gonna get it.
I believe it's ours.
And if we're wrong, we're wrong.
And as soon as I say we're gonna get this piano,
Daniel overheard something different.
Because right away, he's like, what do you mean?
Pastor Sayre, we're not going to buy no $25,000 piano.
Remember that?
Remember that in my line?
Not lying.
Right away, he's like, what are you guys talking about?
You're going to get the piano.
Pastor Sayre 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 do you 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, right?
Listened to Pastor Anderson, finds out we need a piano,
calls me up after soul winning, and says,
I want to get you that piano.
I'm gonna say, 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 him we're here for that piano.
He's 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, let's type it again. Accept it
Well, like when you want it as soon as possible, what you're gonna do with the other one? I don't know
Just get it delivered. He's like don't doesn't matter. We'll get it delivered. Do our thing put it in the church
That's what it is
So I decided to get a
little bit
evil with it
so
that night
Catherine's practicing
Even in the 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 is sold.
It's gone.
It's on its way to his new owner.
Okay.
I guess it wasn't meant to be.
Nope, 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 gonna get delivered the guy comes in
I'm like, here we are bro bring this thing in because maybe she'll like leave work earlier or something
We just want to have it ready for her because usually shows up after work and comes practices at midnight
And especially the night before a service.
So then the guy comes in, puts it in there,
unwraps it, does this thing.
I get ropes with cones, wrap it around.
I put signs, do not touch or y'all die.
Unless you're Catherine.
And so sure enough, like 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 like hiding.
She walks in, taking her sweet time,
struggling with the key.
I'm like, is she messing with, does she know?
Like hurry up get in there, and then she's like messing with it. We're like hiding pops it open starts walking
walking walking looks up
She's staring at it, and she's like
Stars jumping, and I pop it a nowhere, and she's like, oh, I know it. I know it. I know it. You were messing with me
And she's like oh 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 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 look 22 get to look 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 then?
You're 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 any good in your heart.
I heard us all, right?
With two or three 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.
So, 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 acts,
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'll make sure I don't have an echo 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 what 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 have nothing more than to destroy our pastor.
Everything does rise and fall on leadership, and guess what?
And how do I know? Because, hey, remember what Jesus said to, I believe it was Peter and Luke 2231 it says this and the Lord said,
Simon, Simon, behold, Satan had 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 it 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 made devour.
That's what he does.
And so, of course, the devil loves to attack, you know, the leadership.
Zachariah 137 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,
it 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
second round 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 there for 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 peaceable 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.
And so of course the Bible says in Hebrews 13 17 obey them to have the roll over you and submit yourselves for they watch for
Your souls and that they watch for our souls
We should be watching for his soul as well, and I think we'll be awesome. I wonder how many people are in here right now
Who did 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
and thousands of thoughts every single day.
I guarantee you not all our thoughts are perfect.
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 him,
to fill him with the Holy Spirit's power
is stuff that we should all aim to do every single day.
See, in case you don't know, your prayer can't strengthen our pastor.
For example, Ephesians 619 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.
And 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.
They got what help them protect them, exactly what I just said.
And one example where pastors, they need their people is in Exodus 7.11, 1711.
It's 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 Erin 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 them by praying that God will strengthen him.
And He will answer your prayer. He promised us He will.
Just like Aaron and her, they weren't trying to take Moses' place,
but they stood beside him and that's how we should be.
We should be like Aaron 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.
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.
You know, but he's also preaching the truth in a world that's filled with lies, and guess
why the attack is 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 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 am I the eye next next thing that I recommend you pray for is
your family
Obviously, the eye stands for immediate, your immediate family.
You know, Job 1.5 says this, and it was so when the days of their feasts were gone about
that Job said 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.
That's the Job continually.
See, Job's prayer was for his family.
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 a 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, it may be that my sons have sinned
and curse got 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 a life is something that,
Well, 10 kids, you know, to do wrong.
And we all been there, we were all kids,
we were all teenagers, we were 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 it 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 gonna 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 seemed evil unto you to serve the Lord,
choose to this day whom you will serve.
But for me and 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 Joe 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 careeth for you
And that's one of the things that we need to do as parents is, yes, like First Timothy 5a says,
if any man provides not for his own, especially those for his own house, he has denied the faith,
he has worth an infidel, yes, we need to provide 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 is 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 have 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.
So he said he knows he can destroy the leader, you know, if he can destroy his children.
Maybe the leader is 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 2 Samuel 1833.
You can wait for me right there.
I'm just going to quickly read from Job 118.
We all know the story, but I'm going to read it while he was here speaking.
There came also another and said,
And behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness
that smelt the four corners of the house,
and it fell upon the young man, and they are dead,
and I 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 elder's brother's house,
and his twin came 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 111, we can see where he got permission
to do this.
It says, but put forth the hand now,
and touch all that he has.
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,
putting out 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, pray 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.
They're yearbook with everybody's names.
You know, but we should, every single day, bring, of course, not just pastor, not just
our media family, but also pastor's family.
Had just a special moment to pray for Mrs. Anderson and the kids, because that's who
the devil's 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 them 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'll tell 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
where 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.
And second Samuel, you know, we kind of get an understanding of how much parents love children
and went up to the chamber over the gate and wept, and as he went,
thus he said, O my son, Absalom, my son,
my son, Absalom, will God ahead die for thee?
O 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 the son that rebelled.
This is the son that tried to steal his kingdom. This is the son that tried 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 targeted 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 the devil is the one that's behind it.
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
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, name them one by one, bring them 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 I have a
prideful look and I'm being an abomination unto the Lord, maybe you hear 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 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, now go ahead and
meet me in Acts 5-3, go to Acts 5-3.
So what do I mean by our real family?
Here's what I mean by my real family.
I'm talking about you guys.
That's who my real family is just listen up Matthew 12 49 says this and he stretched off 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 wanted 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 821 says this in the answer to sit on to 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 they 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 to 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 going to 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.
Anybody who wants to get into fornication,
commit a sin that's worth it being kicked out,
you know what, let's deliver a month 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 gonna 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 of you guys as I can fit in
in 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 is 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 going to go past my hour, but I'm going to try to go through this as fast as possible.
So, obviously, like I said before, my problem is what's the acronym, the M is my pastor, the I is my media family, the P,
that's pastor's family, the R, that's my real family, and now the O.
Here's the O, other believers in Christ, people that are not in our church.
I'm talking about Pastor Jimenez, Pastor Mejia, I'm talking about Pastor Shelley,
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 New 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,
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.
Always try to pray for first works.
Always try to pray for steadfast.
And now obviously even anchor, you know why?
Because they need our prayers of protection as well.
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 Al, they're trying to
destroy him as we speak. And I don't know the latest info on him, but you know
what? If a hundred people pray for him as soon as possible, what do you think is
going to happen? Come on, one of us has to be right with the Lord.
really come on all we need is one guy to be right with the Lord. I'm just joking
but what about a hundred people that are right with the Lord? How about that?
What do you think is going to happen to Pastor Oz? 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 Romans 6 once is this I command up to
you Phoebe our sister which is a servant of the church which is as
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,
cease not to give thanks for you,
making mention of you in my prayers.
Now he's 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 think of hey? I start 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 member 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 would be a good night to bring up pastor alls 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 a we're praying for you, but we're not just saying that 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 could say,
our real family, other believers in Christ,
like Pastor Mejia, Pastor Jimenez, Pastor Shelley,
you know, Brother Oliver, the deacon down to your verity,
as many and every person you could possibly think of,
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 fathers Abraham, Isaac, they walked,
the God which fed me all my life long unto this day, the angel which redeemed me from
all evil, blessed the last, and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers
Abraham and Isaac, and let them grow into a multitude and a midst of the earth.
Jacob is praying and asking God to bless his grandsons.
Grandpa's grandma's a you know what if you're praying for your grandsons keep it up is the right thing to do
Here's more examples of people just praying for their bloodline
You could say Genesis 1823 in Abraham drew near and said without also destroyed the righteous with the wicked who is he praying for?
What 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 Lot.
Perventure there'd be 50 righteous within the city,
but also destroy and not spare the place
for the 50 righteous that are therein.
Abraham wasn't just praying for the city.
Who do you think he was praying actually for?
For 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 as part as much as he could
while he was still alive.
First Chronicle 2919 this is David praying for Solomon. He's telling God and give on to 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
2 Timothy 1.5, this is what it says,
when I call to remember is the unfaithful faith that is in thee,
which dwell first in thy grandmother Lois and thy mother Eunice.
I am persuaded that indeed 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 pray for Timothy and look how he ended up.
He's like, hey, your grandmother, she has a great reputation.
So does your mom.
Well, wonder if they prayed for old Timothy.
Oh, I believe he did.
And once again, it's a quick review.
Jacob blesses grandkids.
Abraham interceded for 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 prayed 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 them 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 would absolutely appreciate
how hundred 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 there'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 birtherin and any of you do air from the truth. What is that?
That's a backslider
They're airing 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 it.
You're the watchman, amen?
You weren't a wicked.
If they turn 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 which converted the sinner
from the error of his ways shall save us all from death
and shall hide a multitude of sins.
So if you can convince someone to repent, guess what?
You're gonna hide them from a multitude of punishments
that they're gonna receive because of their sins
and even save them from death
if they're going in the wrong direction.
Because saying when they just finished,
bring in four of 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 gonna 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 a these backsliders that have left our church Lord. Hey, 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 gonna talk 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 ye shall obey it in the lust they're of.
So instead of being free, they're back in bondage.
Hey, let's just pray for them, because think about it.
Pick the name.
100 of us pray for whoever we know.
I don't think God's just going to say, no, He's going to step in and do something, even
if it's like, Lord, whatever takes the biggest spanking in the world, give it to Him.
Help Him to get right by all means.
They'll thank you later, before they ruin their life to the point of no return, like
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 9-38, pray ye there for 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 are few.
Pray ye there for the Lord of the Harvest that he will send forth laborers into his harvest.
Romans 10-14, how then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed?
How shall they believe in whom they have not heard?
And now shall they hear without a preacher.
2 Peter 3 9 the Lord is not so concerned this promise some men count slackness
But long suffer towards us not willing that any shepherds, but that all should come to repentance bottom line
We should be praying that God brings them 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 gonna reach this these people Lord?
Give us some people
Help us out
And obviously he prayed for opportunities as well that God will give you when you're praying for the loss
You know before you go out so many and or even after you go out so many
Maybe you ran into someone you weren't able to get them saved
But maybe you're able to give them some some good
Scriptures and maybe you got him close just pray that God doesn't allow the devil
It was not that he allows into you
But the guy 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 the God gives 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 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.
I 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, come with 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 ready to get placed on to wrath.
For it is written, avenges his mind, God will repay.
And Proverbs 25, 21, if thy enemy hunger,
give him bread to eat, and if it be Thursday,
give him water to drink, for thou shalt heat
cause a fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward thee.
And of course, let me just wrap it up.
So we're ready on E.
We got 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 is constantly asking for prayer
And I don't know a lot of missionaries. I know brother Stucky. I know pastor Bullgaard. I think there's another brother named Urbanek
Is that his name?
He was sent out by Steph Fass. 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.
I'll just give you a few examples.
Romans 15.30 says this.
Now, I precede your 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.
With all praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of honorance to speak the
mystery of Christ for which I am also in bond, Ephesians 619. 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
Now, another one that I just threw in there, but I'll explain in a second, we already got
the N, 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 thought of this point, I saw Daniel, look what Daniel said in Daniel 9-3.
And I sent 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,
O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant in mercy to them that love him.
Let me just skip ahead for a second.
Says, we have sin and committed iniquity have done wickedly.
Daniel didn't just pray for himself,
he confessed and prayed for his whole nation,
even while under on godly Babylonian rule.
And even Moses, Moses felt bad when his nation was sinning.
And Exodus 32, 31 says this,
and Moses returned unto the Lord and said,
Oh, these people have sinned, a great sin,
and have made them gods of gold.
Yet now, if thou forgive their sin,
and if not, blot me, I pray thee,
out of thy book which thou hast 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 his buddies, his wife, you know,
just that they're 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 with Pete Heksett,
I've prayed, meaning there's probably not one of them. And I'm not saying that Heksett is saved.
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 was like, hey, he needs to remember the separation of churches
state where they don't even understand themselves.
So they're whining and 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?
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.
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 that will actually do something that can benefit America in a positive way.
because I don't think everybody's corrupt in Washington.
There's gotta be at least one safe 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 gonna 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 and 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 voted,
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, then I have the right to complain?
Reggie, what's up?
You don't you don't feel like being president. I'm not saying you're gonna 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
They 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 the Donald Trump is the only president the lost money
Being president is making billions of dollars losing money to you
He's making a lot of money in the 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 requests
And I start out with this group. I start praying for the sick
Why because that's what it says in James 5 14 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 it did go. Is she is she feeling better?
Or is she still struggling?
Nobody knows about Idigo.
I guess she has some kind of issues.
Mrs. Scranton, is she doing better, getting worse?
Well, she's going to start getting better tonight, right?
We've 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 requests.
Lord, is anybody sick?
Is there anybody straying?
Why?
Because the Bible says, if any man sees his brother's sin is sin, which is not a to-deaf,
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 straying.
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, 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?
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?
Micaiah, 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, it's 12 letters.
Meeple of lemmas, if you count them, it's 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 it 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
Aniston'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 had one of these guys that left our church. He text message 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 things 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 impregnatory, but I'll start now.
And I'm going to recruit about a hundred people from our church, and that's what you really want.
And then I'll recruit a thousand people on the internet, possibly ten thousand people on the internet, and 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 big problem us too long
Hey, do them my problems, you know, like I said L loss E enemies and it is what it is
There's always past the border you can pray for right
Pray for that missionary, and if you're ready to pray for America, you don't need to pray again.
Just skip straight to the S, and that's where anybody say,
strange, 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 asked for.
Like Pastor said, 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.
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.
Father, I did my best to be able to help people know what to pray for every single day.
Father, I ask you to bless everyone that's here.
Lord, you know their needs better than I do, and I ask you to meet them tonight in Jesus' name. Amen.
Amen. All right, ladies and gentlemen, take your hymns, please go to hymn number 309 hymn number 309
There to be a Daniel hymn number 309
Standing by a purpose true heeding out