WEBVTT 02:01.500 --> 02:06.840 Alright everybody welcome to Share Foundation Baptist Church if you could find your seats and grab your songbook and turn to page number 192 02:07.340 --> 02:11.260 We're gonna sing our first song which will be ring the bells of heaven 02:12.740 --> 02:18.020 page number 192 ring the bells of heaven 02:20.020 --> 02:25.220 Song 192 we'll sing together on the first 02:26.000 --> 02:31.240 Ring the bells of heaven, there is joy today, 02:31.240 --> 02:36.080 For a soul returning from the wild. 02:36.080 --> 02:41.080 See the Father meets him out upon the way, 02:41.080 --> 02:46.080 Welcoming his weary wandering child. 02:46.080 --> 02:51.160 Glory, glory how the angels sing, 02:51.160 --> 02:54.000 Glory, glory how the... 02:54.000 --> 03:06.540 harps ring, Tis the ransomed army like a mighty sea, Peeling forth the anthem of the free. 03:06.540 --> 03:16.300 Ring the bells of heaven, there is joy today, For a wanderer now is reconciled. 03:16.300 --> 03:22.000 Yes, a soul is rescued from his sinful way, and 03:22.000 --> 03:26.400 is born anew a ransom child. 03:26.400 --> 03:31.520 Glory, glory how the angels sing. 03:31.520 --> 03:36.560 Glory, glory how the loud harps ring. 03:36.560 --> 03:41.760 Tis the ransomed army like a mighty sea, 03:41.760 --> 03:46.560 peeling forth the anthem of the free. 03:46.560 --> 03:49.760 Ring the bells of heaven, spread the 03:50.000 --> 03:59.840 today. Angels swell the glad triumphant strain. Tell the joyful tidings, bear it 03:59.840 --> 04:11.440 far away, for a precious soul is born again. Glory, glory how the angels sing. 04:11.440 --> 04:18.000 Glory, glory how the loud harps ring. Tis the rancor 04:18.000 --> 04:26.880 some darmy like a mighty sea peeling forth the anthem of the free amen good 04:26.880 --> 04:40.400 scene brother Ryan could you open up a word of prayer? Thank you God for this church Lord I pray God that you'll be with those that couldn't make it today and you'll heal them so they can come back in your house and serve you God and I just pray you'll bless the rest of the service in Jesus name amen. 04:40.400 --> 04:42.400 Amen. We're saying it's not my son number 15. 04:44.000 --> 04:46.000 Lead me to Calvary. 04:46.600 --> 04:49.600 Song number 15, Lead Me to Calvary. 04:53.200 --> 04:56.060 Song number one five. We'll sing it together 04:57.300 --> 04:59.300 on the first. 04:59.300 --> 05:04.300 King of my life, I crown thee now, 05:04.300 --> 05:09.300 Thine shall the glory be. 05:09.300 --> 05:14.300 Lest I forget thy thorn crowned brown, 05:14.300 --> 05:19.300 Lead me to Calvary. 05:19.300 --> 05:24.300 Lest I forget Gethsemane, 05:24.300 --> 05:25.300 Last 05:25.300 --> 05:41.980 I forget thine agony, lest I forget thy love for me, lead me to Calvary. Show me the tomb 05:41.980 --> 05:49.660 where thou wast laid, tenderly mourned and wept. 05:49.900 --> 05:54.980 Angels in robes of light arrayed, 05:54.980 --> 05:59.540 Guarded thee whilst thou slept. 05:59.700 --> 06:09.700 Lest I forget Gethsemane, Lest I forget thine agony, 06:09.700 --> 06:19.700 Lest I forget thy love for me, Lead me to Calvary. 06:19.700 --> 06:27.700 Let me like Mary through the gloom, come with a gift to- 06:27.700 --> 06:39.800 Show to me now the empty tomb, lead me to Calvary. 06:40.300 --> 06:45.300 Lest I forget Gethsemane 06:45.300 --> 06:50.300 Lest I forget thine agony 06:50.300 --> 06:55.300 Lest I forget thy love for me 06:55.300 --> 07:00.300 Lead me to Calvary 07:01.000 --> 07:11.000 May I be willing, Lord, to bear daily my cross for Thee, 07:11.000 --> 07:20.800 even my cup of grief to share, Thou hast borne all for me. 07:21.300 --> 07:26.300 Lest I forget Gethsemane 07:26.300 --> 07:31.300 Lest I forget Thine agony 07:31.300 --> 07:36.300 Lest I forget Thy love for me 07:36.300 --> 07:41.300 Lead me to Calvary 07:41.300 --> 07:43.300 Amen, good scene. 07:43.700 --> 07:48.340 Such a great song. That's why all these, uh, this can not, I'm black, like I'm pretty 07:48.340 --> 07:51.780 concerned right now, but they're kind of off topic, but sometimes people make fun of us for like the 07:51.780 --> 07:55.780 hymns that we sing as Baptist, but truly there's nothing comparable to the beautiful hymns that we 07:55.780 --> 08:01.940 have compared to all the, the CCM out there. Though I did give you the exceptions for the CCM, but 08:01.940 --> 08:07.540 that's still better than most of them. If not all of them. Uh, but our verse of the week, uh, for, uh, 08:08.580 --> 08:11.620 our bulletin, I didn't print out the bulletin. Kylie usually does. 08:11.700 --> 08:14.340 that and and she's not here right now she's down visiting her parents in 08:14.340 --> 08:17.140 Sacramento so I'll just read off to you guys but the verse of the week is 08:17.140 --> 08:21.780 Galatians 5 16 it says this I say then walk in the spirit that you may not 08:21.780 --> 08:27.420 you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh that's Galatians 5 16 08:27.420 --> 08:32.980 again we're here at our Sunday morning service and it almost looks as if the 08:32.980 --> 08:36.860 rapture had happened but not quite it's got a lot of people gone but Paul and 08:36.860 --> 08:39.700 Miss Victoria at the the 08:40.100 --> 08:47.660 Yeah, I didn't want to I know if I should say that on the YouTube at the Israel conference, okay and 08:48.660 --> 08:51.380 brother Jason and his family they're sick and 08:52.380 --> 08:56.880 Yeah, we decided it's like there's like a sickness going around which we didn't really get too sick 08:56.880 --> 08:57.680 I felt like in the winter 08:57.680 --> 09:02.340 But now that we're in the start of the summer the sickness is coming on and that sickness is bad 09:02.340 --> 09:05.160 So I'm glad you guys haven't got it yet. Hopefully you guys don't get it 09:05.160 --> 09:07.820 I thought we stayed away from the church long enough, but 09:08.100 --> 09:10.920 I don't know if they got it from someone else or, or what's the deal. 09:10.920 --> 09:11.940 That's what I'm going on. Okay. 09:11.940 --> 09:16.860 Cause it sucks when your patient zero for the, for the big plague. Uh, 09:16.900 --> 09:21.500 but for the, uh, praise report so far, we got, uh, 83, 09:21.500 --> 09:24.900 I believe salvations now because Ms. Victoria got, she's their nephew saved. 09:25.240 --> 09:27.260 Praise God. Ms. Victoria is always getting people saved. 09:27.260 --> 09:30.720 She's always getting people in your life save. Super awesome. It's a good testimony. 09:30.720 --> 09:35.540 I'm glad. So we're at 83 now for 2026. And, um, 09:35.580 --> 09:36.100 as far as 09:36.100 --> 09:39.620 As far as our Wednesday service goes, we're still on 1st Corinthians 13. 09:39.620 --> 09:42.660 We're gonna be continuing on in charity. 09:42.660 --> 09:45.740 I believe the next point we're talking about is charity is not easily provoked. 09:45.740 --> 09:48.140 But I don't know if that one will get its own whole sermon like the other ones 09:48.140 --> 09:50.100 have gotten so far, but we'll see. 09:50.100 --> 09:50.700 You never know. 09:50.700 --> 09:52.940 Sometimes I think a sermon's gonna not be as long and 09:52.940 --> 09:56.180 then the rabbit trails come up and then they just never stop. 09:56.180 --> 09:58.020 So it just is where it is on that. 09:58.020 --> 09:59.620 But yeah, we'll be in 1st Corinthians 13. 09:59.620 --> 10:01.980 And then for as far as our events go, we have our homeschool day, 10:01.980 --> 10:03.900 which is on June 16th, and that'll be here. 10:04.100 --> 10:08.620 RSVP with my wife. You're planning on going to that and then we have on the 21st. It's 10:08.620 --> 10:14.460 Father's Day. So we're gonna have a Father's Day themed message and we're also gonna have 10:14.460 --> 10:18.380 a Mother's Day themed message. Not on that day but on a different day in June. As a matter 10:18.380 --> 10:22.700 of fact, the Mother's Day server is gonna be next Sunday because Ms. Victoria asked 10:22.700 --> 10:25.820 for it and then Ms. Victoria and then we'll be here. So. 10:26.200 --> 10:31.240 You guys are getting a delayed Mother's Day, so sorry about that, but that's when I had the plague. 10:31.240 --> 10:36.520 That's when I wasn't here, but I still care about you mothers out there, so we will have a Mother's Day sermon. 10:36.520 --> 10:41.080 But the the member verse for the children too, as well as Psalm 59 17, which says, 10:41.080 --> 10:48.200 unto thee, oh my strength, will I sing for God is my defense and the God of my mercy. 10:48.200 --> 10:54.120 So Psalms 59 17. That pretty much wraps up pretty much all that we have, so we'll go into the... 10:54.200 --> 10:57.400 prayer requests and then we will start our third song. Let's pray. 12:29.000 --> 12:33.240 Next song will be song number 301, which is 12:34.680 --> 12:39.580 Sweet hour of prayer and then right after that we are going to go right into the Bible reading 12:40.920 --> 12:45.920 song number 301 sweet hour of prayer 12:46.700 --> 12:48.700 Let's sing it together on the first. 12:48.700 --> 12:56.700 Sweet hour of prayer, sweet hour of prayer, 12:56.700 --> 13:02.700 that calls me from a world of care, 13:02.700 --> 13:09.700 and bids me at my Father's throne, 13:09.700 --> 13:14.700 makes all my wants and wishes. 13:17.200 --> 13:31.200 In seasons of distress and grief, My soul has often found relief, 13:31.200 --> 13:45.200 And oft escape the tempter's snare, By thy return, sweet hour of prayer. 13:45.200 --> 13:52.540 Sweet hour of prayer, sweet hour of prayer, 13:52.540 --> 13:59.460 Thy wings shall my petition bear 13:59.460 --> 14:06.260 To Him whose truth and faithfulness 14:06.260 --> 14:13.060 Engage the waiting soul to bless. 14:13.200 --> 14:26.920 And since he bids me seek his face, Believe his word and trust his grace, 14:26.920 --> 14:40.680 I'll cast on him my every care, And wait for the sweet hour of prayer. 14:41.400 --> 14:48.400 Sweet hour of prayer, sweet hour of prayer, 14:48.400 --> 14:55.120 May I thy consolation share, 14:55.120 --> 15:02.080 Till from Mount Pisgah's lofty height, 15:02.080 --> 15:05.480 I view my home. 15:05.900 --> 15:09.020 and take my flight. 15:09.020 --> 15:15.900 This robe of flesh I'll drop and rise 15:15.900 --> 15:24.460 to seize the everlasting prize and shout 15:24.460 --> 15:28.700 while passing through the air. 15:29.300 --> 15:36.300 Farewell, farewell, sweet hour of prayer. 15:36.300 --> 15:38.300 Amen. Good scene. This time we'll have our Bible reading. 15:43.000 --> 15:52.000 Good morning everybody. Welcome to Sure Foundation Baptist Church. If you can take your Bibles and turn to 1 Thessalonians chapter 5. 15:52.000 --> 16:02.000 1 Thessalonians chapter 5 is our text this morning. And as always, here at our church we read the entire chapter before the preaching. 16:02.000 --> 16:07.800 1 Thessalonians 5 the Bible reads 16:08.300 --> 16:14.620 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. 16:14.620 --> 16:20.540 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. 16:21.180 --> 16:27.180 For when they shall say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them as 16:27.180 --> 16:31.580 travail upon a woman with child, and they shall not escape. 16:31.800 --> 16:37.480 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. 16:37.480 --> 16:40.200 Ye are all the children of light. 16:40.500 --> 16:45.500 The children of the day we are not of the night nor of darkness 16:46.000 --> 16:48.820 Therefore let us not sleep as do others 16:49.060 --> 16:56.100 But let us watch and be sober for they that sleep sleep in the night and they that be 16:56.300 --> 17:01.780 Drunken are drunken in the night, but let us who are of the day be sober 17:02.420 --> 17:08.060 Putting on the breastplate of faith and love and foreign helmet the hope of salvation 17:08.500 --> 17:16.340 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to abstain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, 17:16.340 --> 17:22.660 who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him. 17:22.660 --> 17:28.860 Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do. 17:29.000 --> 17:35.400 And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, 17:35.400 --> 17:42.360 and admonish you, and to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake, and be at peace 17:42.360 --> 17:50.440 among yourselves. Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly. Comfort the feeble-minded, 17:50.440 --> 17:53.880 Support the weak. Be patient toward all men. 17:54.200 --> 17:58.520 See that none render evil for evil unto any man 17:58.800 --> 18:03.820 But ever follow that which is good both among yourselves into all men 18:04.520 --> 18:08.040 rejoice evermore pray without ceasing and 18:08.640 --> 18:13.780 Everything give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you 18:14.300 --> 18:22.380 Quench not the spirit, despise not prophesying, prove all things, hold fast to that which is good, 18:23.020 --> 18:29.580 abstain from all appearance of evil, and the very God of peace sanctify you holy. 18:30.220 --> 18:37.340 And I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming 18:37.340 --> 18:39.180 of our Lord Jesus Christ. 18:39.700 --> 18:43.700 Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it. 18:43.700 --> 18:46.000 Brethren, pray for us. 18:46.000 --> 18:49.100 Greet all the brethren with an holy kiss. 18:49.100 --> 18:53.000 I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read 18:53.000 --> 18:54.840 unto all the holy brethren. 18:55.400 --> 19:01.560 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen. Let's pray. Dear Heavenly Father, 19:01.560 --> 19:06.600 thank you God for this church and thank you for everybody that's here Lord and I pray God that 19:06.600 --> 19:12.280 you fill Brother Remy with your Holy Spirit and help him preach unto us and give us ears 19:12.280 --> 19:14.300 to hear tonight in Jesus' name, Amen. 19:16.600 --> 19:23.100 Amen. You guys are there in 1 Thessalonians 5. We're going to look in at verse number 19:23.100 --> 19:29.900 17 where the Bible says, pray without ceasing. And the title of my sermon this morning is 19:29.900 --> 19:33.540 Essentials, Pray Without Ceasing. Let's pray. Dear Father God, thank you so much for this 19:33.540 --> 19:36.260 wonderful day. Thank you so much for everything you do for us, God. Thank you so much for 19:36.260 --> 19:39.460 this church, God, and the opportunity to preach your word. I just pray right now, God, that 19:39.460 --> 19:42.940 you'd help me to be filled with your Holy Spirit. God, help me to deliver well the message 19:42.940 --> 19:44.600 you put on my heart guys pray they'd help me have a 19:44.600 --> 19:48.760 train of thought and I just pray God above all things in this sermon I just pray that 19:48.760 --> 19:52.360 this would help people's prayer life and that this would help people to understand the importance 19:52.360 --> 19:58.360 of prayer and I just pray that that we would really see the privilege and the advantage that 19:58.360 --> 20:03.400 we have in prayer and that we would use it to our full ability. I pray that you keep me from saying 20:03.400 --> 20:05.480 what you don't want me to say in this sermon. I pray that you tell me to say boldly what you do 20:05.480 --> 20:08.200 want me to say. In Jesus name I pray, Amen. 20:08.600 --> 20:14.300 Like I said again is essentials pray without ceasing. We're here in first Thessalonians chapter number five 20:14.300 --> 20:20.560 We're gonna be continuing the essential series and so far we've talked about two other essentials 20:20.560 --> 20:26.480 We talked about fearing God in the first sermon of this series and we talked about Bible reading and then now in the third part 20:26.480 --> 20:28.960 of this series we have pray without 20:29.640 --> 20:31.640 ceasing and 20:32.400 --> 20:36.960 Just to see how essential this is, the idea of prayer is, we'll read that verse one more time. 20:36.960 --> 20:43.200 It does say, pray without ceasing. And I talked about this before my last sermon, but we have to be careful 20:43.200 --> 20:48.800 not to become desensitized to verses that we know or that we hear repeated very often, because this is one of them. 20:48.800 --> 20:55.200 And it's a very short verse, because I guarantee you that almost every Christian out there that's had any kind of experience 20:55.200 --> 20:59.440 in going to church and reading the Bible has this verse memorized, because it's hard to not have memorized. 20:59.440 --> 21:00.320 I mean, it's only the three. 21:00.400 --> 21:05.760 words right? Pray without ceasing but it's a very powerful three set of words 21:05.760 --> 21:09.520 in this verse and and something that we should truly make sure that we don't 21:09.520 --> 21:13.120 just you know memorize as Christians but we actually internalize as Christians 21:13.120 --> 21:17.640 and that we apply this to our lives and that we actually follow the very small 21:17.640 --> 21:22.360 in word commandment that Paul writes right here because the reality about 21:22.360 --> 21:27.840 prayer is that it is essential and I really I have I esteem prayer at very 21:27.840 --> 21:28.400 high on 21:28.400 --> 21:32.220 the list because something that's interesting to me is that you know growing up in the old 21:32.220 --> 21:39.060 IFB and then those churches you know they really put a big focus on prayer to a degree 21:39.060 --> 21:42.760 that I don't think that we really do in our circles very much not not very often like 21:42.760 --> 21:47.220 obviously people say to pray but the way that the old IFB talks about prayer is the way 21:47.220 --> 21:51.880 that we kind of preach about someone in the way that we preach about Bible reading and 21:51.880 --> 21:55.860 this makes sense because obviously I'm not saying either one's right or wrong per se 21:55.860 --> 21:56.400 because 21:56.400 --> 22:00.620 These are both good things to focus on but you can't always you can't make everything the main thing 22:00.620 --> 22:03.360 You can't focus on everything or you focus on nothing 22:03.360 --> 22:06.780 So it just makes sense to me my pastor my old life the pastor explains to me one time 22:06.780 --> 22:11.920 He was like different groups of people different churches are gonna have different focuses and that's okay 22:11.920 --> 22:15.720 He's kind of related to like how different people have different gifts of God 22:15.820 --> 22:22.180 He was just saying like some churches will really focus on you know missions work and some will really focus on prayer or you know 22:22.180 --> 22:24.360 the I like the art movement focuses on 22:24.400 --> 22:28.080 soul-witting a lot and on Bible reading a lot and so this is a good thing that 22:28.080 --> 22:32.440 people have different focuses. However, I would say that I do think that we should 22:32.440 --> 22:36.640 probably harp on prayer a little bit more because I mean I guess I don't 22:36.640 --> 22:38.700 listen to that many sermons out there. 22:38.800 --> 22:44.680 Nonsense, they got the their channels nuked from YouTube. That was like a big blow to me because I hate rumble 22:44.680 --> 22:48.240 It sucks. The ads are stupid on rumble. Don't even give me a sir on that 22:48.280 --> 22:51.240 But it's like I just don't listen to remember very many sermons 22:51.240 --> 22:55.200 But in the sermons I did listen to I maybe there is one another I'm not thinking about but I don't really remember 22:55.200 --> 22:59.080 Hearing like a big ripper on prayer before I don't really remember hearing too much about it 22:59.080 --> 23:00.920 Maybe there is I just haven't seen it before 23:00.920 --> 23:06.720 But prayer we didn't understand why I'm preaching the sermon is an essential to your Christian life and we really do 23:06.800 --> 23:11.720 need to elevate it up into a point where we realize that it is essential and we 23:11.720 --> 23:15.000 shouldn't let this slip through the crack because prayer is from the 23:15.000 --> 23:18.000 beginning of the Bible. I mean you see all the way back in Genesis that before 23:18.000 --> 23:21.300 even the Word of God was written down you have men beginning to call upon the 23:21.300 --> 23:25.400 name of the Lord. So prayer has been with us basically since the beginning of time 23:25.400 --> 23:29.240 and we see over and over again I mean in the book of Psalms David and the other 23:29.240 --> 23:33.200 psalm is just crying out to God praying to God. We see Jesus Christ and then we 23:33.200 --> 23:34.800 see people like Daniel and we see people. 23:34.800 --> 23:40.240 like Joe and we see people like David spending an extended amount of time in prayer and we 23:40.240 --> 23:42.720 really understand that this is essential. 23:42.720 --> 23:45.880 This is important to us as Christians. 23:46.300 --> 23:50.580 Obviously, like when I'm talking about prayer right here, when this verse I should say, 23:50.580 --> 23:53.900 pray without ceasing, I've told you before that I don't like this dumb interpretation 23:53.900 --> 23:59.100 that people take where they'll act like this is being mega hyper literal because it's 23:59.100 --> 24:02.100 literally impossible to just pray 24-7, right? 24:02.100 --> 24:03.100 24-7. 24:03.100 --> 24:05.820 But I've heard people say things like this before and I think they're just trying to 24:05.820 --> 24:10.060 be like, I don't know, like wise guys when they're preaching or whatever. 24:10.060 --> 24:14.300 But they'll be like, oh yeah, we sin everyday because the Bible says pray without ceasing. 24:14.300 --> 24:20.000 So every second you're not praying you're sorry. Yeah, that you're not praying you're sinning. It's like, okay, come on now 24:20.000 --> 24:21.880 Let's be real. That's not what he's talking about 24:21.880 --> 24:27.540 What Paul is talking about though is that there should not be a season in your life that goes without prayer though 24:27.660 --> 24:30.420 There should not be you should not have a sporadic prayer life 24:30.460 --> 24:33.500 There shouldn't be a day that goes by where you don't have 24:34.140 --> 24:40.740 Communication with the Most High God is what we should take from this verse because we are to pray without ceasing is what the Bible 24:40.740 --> 24:42.300 says and so 24:42.300 --> 24:44.540 In this sermon, I'm going to be really, you know, 24:44.540 --> 24:45.380 hammering on this. 24:45.380 --> 24:46.660 This whole series, the Essential Series, 24:46.660 --> 24:47.940 is meant to hammer on these things, 24:47.940 --> 24:49.660 so don't get your toes stuck on 24:49.660 --> 24:51.620 if I'm getting a little passionate 24:51.620 --> 24:52.460 about some of these things. 24:52.460 --> 24:55.100 I just, I really do, I'm really glad that 24:55.100 --> 24:57.840 my old IAB pastor had such a focus on prayer 24:57.840 --> 25:00.780 because it really, you know, ingrained into my heart 25:00.780 --> 25:02.420 and made me have a big focus on prayer 25:02.420 --> 25:05.120 and a big respect for prayer 25:05.120 --> 25:07.860 and an understanding of how essential it is to my life. 25:07.860 --> 25:10.300 And I hope to impart that to you in the. 25:10.300 --> 25:13.640 in the things that he taught me in this sermon. 25:13.640 --> 25:17.000 Because the reality is, is that if you're not praying 25:17.000 --> 25:20.120 as a Christian, you have a huge spiritual blind spot. 25:20.120 --> 25:21.120 And when I'm talking about praying, 25:21.120 --> 25:22.840 I'm not just talking about, you know, 25:22.840 --> 25:24.880 the little prayer that you do before you go to bed, 25:24.880 --> 25:26.400 or not talking about the prayer that, you know, 25:26.400 --> 25:28.160 we all do as a church, that we do before someone. 25:28.160 --> 25:31.120 I'm talking about, if you don't have your own 25:31.120 --> 25:33.840 personal prayer life, you have a blind spot 25:33.840 --> 25:36.320 in your spiritual walk, you have a chink in your arm, 25:36.320 --> 25:37.240 is truly what I would say. 25:37.240 --> 25:38.300 You have a big thing that... 25:38.300 --> 25:40.620 that you're missing, a big gap that you're missing 25:40.620 --> 25:42.220 in your Christian life. 25:42.220 --> 25:45.900 So in this sermon though, I'm gonna hammer on prayer. 25:46.100 --> 25:51.680 And I'm gonna not just hammer though because I want to I want to say this because sometimes when it comes to 25:51.740 --> 25:55.540 Subjects in the Bible, you know, you'll yell about things and you'd be like, hey, you need to be doing this 25:55.540 --> 25:57.820 You need to be doing that you're doing this and that makes sense 25:57.820 --> 26:00.460 That's what the Bible says to do but when it comes to prayer specifically 26:00.460 --> 26:05.160 I think that there's a lot of people that do want to pray to God but they struggle to find how to pray to God 26:05.260 --> 26:10.660 Like the only thing I see a lot that people will say online is like how is it possible to pray for more than five minutes? 26:10.660 --> 26:13.780 Like what do you talk about in prayer? Like how does prayer work exactly? 26:14.100 --> 26:25.820 So in this sermon, I'm going to be giving you guys some tips on what's helped me in my prayer life and what's helped me to establish a consistent prayer life that was taught to me, like I said, by my former old IFB pastor. 26:25.820 --> 26:28.620 And I hope to impart on you guys as well. 26:29.400 --> 26:36.400 Because a lot of people think, going into this sermon, that prayer is simple, and prayer is very simple, 26:36.400 --> 26:39.000 but I think it's a little bit more deep than what people realize. 26:39.000 --> 26:46.500 Because something I don't think a lot of people realize is that the disciples specifically asked Jesus Christ to teach them how to pray. 26:46.700 --> 26:52.240 and I want you to see this go to Luke 11 one and we're going to be bouncing back to Luke 26:52.240 --> 26:54.320 11 one through the whole sermon. 26:54.320 --> 26:59.260 So stick with me on that Luke 11 one. 26:59.260 --> 27:01.240 So just keep a finger there the whole time in this sermon. 27:01.240 --> 27:02.560 Look what the Bible says there. 27:02.560 --> 27:06.940 It says in it came to pass that as he was praying in a certain place when he ceased 27:06.940 --> 27:13.580 one of his disciples said unto him, Lord teach us to pray as John also taught his disciples. 27:13.580 --> 27:14.700 So the first thing I want to point out to you is that the 27:14.700 --> 27:21.380 you from Luke 11 one is that the disciples are asking Jesus to teach them how to pray, 27:21.380 --> 27:26.300 which should naturally show you that Jesus Christ did most of his prayer in private. 27:26.300 --> 27:29.600 He did most of his prayer in secret because if that's not true, then why would they even 27:29.600 --> 27:34.380 have to ask him how to pray? They would just be seeing him pray all the time. But the reality 27:34.380 --> 27:37.740 is that when you check the Bible and check the verses about Jesus Christ praying in the 27:37.740 --> 27:42.140 Bible, he's constantly praying by himself. He's constantly praying in secret. Go if you 27:42.700 --> 27:47.160 Matthew 14, 23, and I'll read for you guys, Matthew 6, number 5, and this makes sense 27:47.160 --> 27:50.560 because of his teachings on praying in private. 27:50.560 --> 27:53.880 Like in Matthew 6, 5, while you guys are going to Matthew 14, 23, it says, and when thou 27:53.880 --> 27:57.200 prayest thou shall not be as the hypocrites are for they love to pray standing in the 27:57.200 --> 28:00.520 synagogues in the corners of the streets, and that they may be seen of men. 28:00.520 --> 28:02.880 Verily I say unto you, they have their reward. 28:02.880 --> 28:08.200 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou has shut thy door, pray 28:08.200 --> 28:10.680 to thy father which is in secret, and thy father. 28:10.700 --> 28:14.420 which is in secret shall reward thee openly." So there you see Jesus Christ 28:14.420 --> 28:17.100 saying, hey we should be praying in secret. You don't want to be making a big 28:17.100 --> 28:20.740 spectacle out of your prayer. This is not what Jesus Christ did. We don't see that 28:20.740 --> 28:24.540 in the Bible. Matthew 14 23 it says, and when he had sent the multitudes away he 28:24.540 --> 28:27.860 went up into a mountain apart to pray and when the evening was come he was 28:27.860 --> 28:28.600 there. 28:28.700 --> 28:34.620 So Jesus Christ was alone on a mountain in Matthew 26 36 it says then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called 28:34.820 --> 28:38.680 Gethsemane and saith unto his disciples sit ye here while I go and pray 28:39.460 --> 28:44.460 Yonder so even with his disciples he would purposely be like hey you guys can go here 28:44.460 --> 28:47.660 I'm gonna go pray, you know a little bit far away from you guys 28:47.860 --> 28:53.200 So we should we can see that almost every time that we see Jesus having like, you know his 28:54.020 --> 28:56.560 Like a big long session of prayer in the Bible 28:56.700 --> 29:03.220 He's praying by himself. He's praying in secret and that should teach us that that's what the majority of our prayer should be as well 29:03.220 --> 29:06.380 The majority of our prayer should be in private 29:06.380 --> 29:10.580 It should be in secret and not to like, you know, make a big show or a big spectacle 29:11.180 --> 29:14.940 Of it go to John 11 verse number 40 John 11 29:15.340 --> 29:17.780 verse number 40 because again if 29:18.260 --> 29:24.660 Jesus Christ wasn't praying a majority in private then the disciples would have no reason to ask him to teach 29:24.700 --> 29:27.700 just to pray because they would just be able to listen and hear what he's saying 29:27.700 --> 29:32.000 while he's praying. But this proves that he's going away from the disciples to 29:32.000 --> 29:36.700 pray, which is not to say that we can't have, you know, times where, you know, we 29:36.700 --> 29:39.600 pray for people because we also see where Jesus does pray for people in the 29:39.600 --> 29:43.600 Bible. Like John 11 40, it says Jesus sayeth unto her, said I not unto thee, 29:43.600 --> 29:47.200 that if thou was believed thou should see the glory of God, then they took 29:47.200 --> 29:49.700 away the stone of the place where the dead was laid and Jesus lifted up his 29:49.700 --> 29:52.700 eyes and said, Father, I think thee that thou has heard. 29:52.700 --> 29:59.100 me and I knew that thou hearest me always but because of the people which stand by I 29:59.100 --> 30:04.180 said it that they may believe that thou hast sent me and when he had thus spoken he cried 30:04.180 --> 30:06.980 with a loud voice Lazarus come forth." 30:06.980 --> 30:11.540 So don't get me wrong in the Bible there's many times where people do pray with each 30:11.540 --> 30:15.820 other we see this a lot but my whole point in even showing you the difference between 30:15.820 --> 30:20.700 these two things of group prayer and between private prayer is to say that 30:20.700 --> 30:25.700 the group prayer that we all do should not replace your private prayer time. 30:25.980 --> 30:28.300 That's my whole point in showing you this, that, you know, 30:28.300 --> 30:31.260 it's great to pray with your family before dinner, before meals. 30:31.380 --> 30:33.340 It's great when we pray as a church. I mean, 30:33.340 --> 30:35.700 the Bible says that the God's house supposed to be a house of prayer. 30:35.700 --> 30:38.700 So that's why we do their prayer request and why we pray before the service. 30:39.300 --> 30:41.620 It's great to pray before souling all these things, 30:41.860 --> 30:43.940 but you need to understand that with all those things, 30:43.940 --> 30:48.660 that is not a replacement for your own private, independent, 30:48.700 --> 30:54.860 prayer time with God because we see Jesus Christ doing both of these things in the Bible. 30:54.860 --> 30:58.640 And something I've heard that preach in a lot of churches that I agree with that kind 30:58.640 --> 31:02.400 of falls in line with what I'm saying right here is that you know short prayers should 31:02.400 --> 31:07.260 be prayers in public and long prayers should be prayers that are done in private. 31:07.260 --> 31:10.200 And there's obviously a few exceptions to that like there's like Solomon's prayer if 31:10.200 --> 31:14.380 you remember that in the in the in first Kings he prays a very long prayer in public but 31:14.380 --> 31:16.380 Most of the time in the Bible when we see Jesus 31:16.700 --> 31:20.900 Christ praying for hours or praying all night, he's praying by himself because 31:20.900 --> 31:25.260 prayer shouldn't be a show is the whole point of that. So we need to make sure 31:25.260 --> 31:25.740 that 31:26.000 --> 31:28.920 We're not trying to make our prayer a show, but there's anything I want to bring up about 31:28.920 --> 31:34.680 this from, you know, Matthew six is that this also proves that, you know, our prayer, like 31:34.680 --> 31:39.760 I was just saying, is not a group prayer, is not a substitute for our individual prayer 31:39.760 --> 31:43.480 time because I think my pastor also explained to me and I thought I thought that was a really 31:43.480 --> 31:47.880 good analogy was when he was talking about prayer, he said, it's kind of like when, you 31:47.880 --> 31:52.000 know, uh, the way he related is like, he's like, it's like when you go to meet a friend 31:52.000 --> 31:54.000 or someone, if you go out and meet them in a 31:54.000 --> 31:56.220 a big group of people, it still is good. 31:56.220 --> 31:57.540 Like you're hanging out with them. 31:57.540 --> 31:58.900 He's like, but it's not really special. 31:58.900 --> 32:01.140 It's not really, you know, like one-on-one time. 32:01.140 --> 32:03.420 He was like, that's how I would relate it to prayer. 32:03.420 --> 32:05.020 He was like, when you're praying in a group, it is good. 32:05.020 --> 32:07.820 It's nice to go and visit and speak with God. 32:07.820 --> 32:09.740 He's like, but that isn't the same 32:09.740 --> 32:11.920 as you just being one-on-one with God. 32:11.920 --> 32:13.580 Jenny was saying, he was kind of explaining to me, 32:13.580 --> 32:14.860 like, just like you wouldn't take, like, 32:14.860 --> 32:17.140 your friends out on your anniversary, right? 32:17.140 --> 32:18.460 Like if it's you and your wife's anniversary, 32:18.460 --> 32:20.300 you're not like, hey, come on, brother Paul, 32:20.300 --> 32:21.660 brother Ryan, let's go, right? 32:21.660 --> 32:22.000 It's like. 32:22.000 --> 32:23.560 It's just a private time, right? 32:23.560 --> 32:25.600 Because there is something to be said about, you know, 32:25.600 --> 32:29.400 just when it's just two individuals talking with one another. 32:29.400 --> 32:31.640 It's a special time, is how my pastor related it to me, 32:31.640 --> 32:33.640 and I think it's a very good example. 32:33.640 --> 32:36.040 Go back to Luke 11, verse number one. 32:36.040 --> 32:38.880 Luke 11, verse number one. 32:38.880 --> 32:41.520 So your own private prayer time 32:41.520 --> 32:44.120 should not be replaced with group prayer. 32:44.500 --> 32:46.860 Cause I'm going to be saying that a lot in the sermon, like, you know, do you pray? 32:46.860 --> 32:49.500 Do you pray? Do you pray? And some people I'm sure would be like, well, 32:49.620 --> 32:52.580 I do pray before I eat my food. And not when I'm talking about that. Okay. 32:52.580 --> 32:54.420 I'm talking about a real private prayer time. 32:54.420 --> 32:59.120 Like what we see Jesus do where he's purposely going apart from people to go and 32:59.120 --> 33:00.900 pray to God Almighty. 33:01.220 --> 33:04.260 The third thing I want you to notice is that the end of this verse in Luke 11, 33:04.260 --> 33:05.080 one, it says, 33:05.300 --> 33:08.400 and it came to pass as he was praying a certain place when he ceased, 33:08.400 --> 33:10.980 one of his disciples said to him, Lord, teach us to pray. 33:10.980 --> 33:12.480 as John also taught 33:12.500 --> 33:15.620 his disciples. So think about this for a second. If the, 33:15.620 --> 33:18.260 if the disciples are asking Jesus Christ to teach them how to 33:18.260 --> 33:22.420 pray and John we see here is teaching his disciples to pray. 33:22.420 --> 33:24.420 Don't you think there's something a little bit more to 33:24.420 --> 33:26.660 prayer than just like the surface level thing that we 33:26.660 --> 33:29.460 would see just in public because clearly like I showed 33:29.460 --> 33:32.180 you, Jesus is praying like sometimes in front of his 33:32.180 --> 33:35.860 disciples, but it's not his, you know, big independent prayer 33:35.860 --> 33:38.420 time. It's more of like a, you know, an asking for something 33:38.420 --> 33:40.460 on the spot kind of thing or when you're blessed. 33:40.500 --> 33:42.020 in a group kind of thing. 33:42.020 --> 33:43.580 But when the disciples, 33:43.580 --> 33:45.460 because obviously the disciples are no idiots, right? 33:45.460 --> 33:47.220 Like, it's not like, 33:47.220 --> 33:48.900 because if you think about it like with kids, 33:48.900 --> 33:50.260 even when you pray with your family, 33:50.260 --> 33:52.560 your little children can pray with you. 33:52.560 --> 33:53.700 It's not like they have to be like, 33:53.700 --> 33:54.620 hey, teach me how to pray. 33:54.620 --> 33:56.100 They know how to pray, right? 33:56.100 --> 33:57.420 I mean, Tyson and Karina, 33:57.420 --> 33:58.900 kids are funny, especially when they pray. 33:58.900 --> 34:00.420 They'll, like, Tyson and Karina, 34:00.420 --> 34:01.260 tell them a couple times, 34:01.260 --> 34:02.500 but then they'd be like, okay, I wanna pray, I wanna pray. 34:02.500 --> 34:05.940 And they'd be like, dear God, thank you for mommy, 34:05.940 --> 34:08.500 thank you for daddy, thank you for. 34:08.500 --> 34:13.540 Pokemon toys. Thank you for grandma and then if they don't mention each other then they like start arguing 34:13.540 --> 34:17.940 He's like hey, Nina didn't mention me in her prayer. It's pretty funny, but 34:18.620 --> 34:23.340 Like so but so that my point saying that is that kids know how to pray they learn to pray even we're just praying 34:23.340 --> 34:27.380 With them. So what's the deal with the disciples because clearly they're not just dumb what's going on here 34:27.460 --> 34:34.340 What I think the disciples are asking Jesus Christ and is that they want to know how to pray how he prays 34:34.460 --> 34:36.460 They want to know how the Jesus Christ 34:36.500 --> 34:41.420 prays for such long periods of time. That's what I believe the disciples are asking Jesus 34:41.420 --> 34:45.380 Christ right here. How do we pray basically like how you pray? Because they're seeing 34:45.380 --> 34:48.940 Jesus and it makes references multiple times, I was just showing you, they're seeing Jesus 34:48.940 --> 34:52.580 go off and they're probably asking when he comes back like where were you? He's like 34:52.580 --> 34:56.780 oh I was praying. They're like how do you pray for that long? I mean we saw in that 34:56.780 --> 35:01.060 story that Jesus Christ goes up to a mountain to pray alone and he prays there all night 35:01.060 --> 35:04.500 until the morning. That is like, it's like it's crazy to think about. 35:04.500 --> 35:08.780 They're like, how do you pray that long? That's what I think that the disciples are basically asking him here 35:08.780 --> 35:13.860 How do we pray like you pray not just like how do you literally form a prayer, right? 35:14.580 --> 35:18.760 Because like I was just saying Jesus Christ prays for extended amounts of time in the Bible 35:19.300 --> 35:24.020 And I think it's to show us that we should be, you know, not not exactly praying exactly how long Jesus Christ does 35:24.420 --> 35:30.260 But it should encourage us to pray more as christians and there's people that disagree with me on this about the 35:30.740 --> 35:32.740 The long prayer thing or whatever 35:32.900 --> 35:36.180 They'll say like oh we don't need any teaching people to pray for very long periods of time 35:36.180 --> 35:36.900 But i'll just tell you right now 35:36.900 --> 35:41.060 They're just 100% wrong like I just don't know how you could come to that conclusion from the bible truly 35:41.060 --> 35:44.900 I don't know how you could how you could think about this because like when you read the bible 35:44.900 --> 35:47.140 You just see that there's long prayers all 35:47.300 --> 35:50.620 over the Bible. Like think that Jesus Christ is talking about him being in the 35:50.620 --> 35:54.980 garden of Gethsemane. He's praying for an hour. He's going out. He's coming back. 35:54.980 --> 35:58.340 He's praying. He's going out. He's coming back. He's praying three times. Like how 35:58.340 --> 36:02.180 and then we see him praying all night from the night until the morning. How 36:02.180 --> 36:05.100 could you say that we shouldn't be convincing people to pray for long 36:05.100 --> 36:08.580 periods of time? Doesn't make any sense. You can't go to that conclusion by just 36:08.580 --> 36:12.580 reading the Bible. And the argument that someone told me one time that 36:12.580 --> 36:15.300 disagreed with me on this. They said like they said 36:15.300 --> 36:20.520 like well you know the the the the prayers that we see written out in the 36:20.520 --> 36:24.400 Bible they're never longer than five minutes they're never longer than ten 36:24.400 --> 36:28.000 minutes long so if that's what the Bible shows us then why would we pray any 36:28.000 --> 36:32.460 longer than that I was just like this is such a weird like argument because you'd 36:32.460 --> 36:35.400 also just you could apply the same thing to preaching like it think about the 36:35.400 --> 36:38.800 longest sermon that you ever see in the Bible how long does it take you to read it? 36:39.100 --> 36:41.660 10 minutes, maybe 15 minutes if you're a slow reader. 36:41.660 --> 36:44.420 Like think about the sermon on the mount like Matthew 5 36:44.420 --> 36:47.620 or think about you know like the Olivet Discourse 36:47.620 --> 36:49.420 where he's talking about the rapture or whatever. 36:49.420 --> 36:50.940 Think about the longest sermons in the Bible 36:50.940 --> 36:54.920 and it might take you at the most 15 minutes to read them. 36:54.920 --> 36:57.020 So should we only be having 15 minute sermons? 36:57.020 --> 36:58.900 I bet you guys would like that, okay? 36:58.900 --> 37:00.540 The 15 minute sermons, okay? 37:00.540 --> 37:02.140 Like just popcorn preaching, it's like, 37:02.140 --> 37:05.020 no because clearly when we're getting the sermons 37:05.020 --> 37:07.100 that we see in the Bible, you have to understand. 37:07.100 --> 37:10.660 these are not the whole sermon in their entirety. These are like, uh, 37:10.900 --> 37:13.100 I don't want to just say clips from the sermon, but it's like quotes, 37:13.140 --> 37:16.860 like the most relevant things that God thought were relevant to us that he put 37:16.860 --> 37:21.020 down in the Bible. And this is obvious by the fact that obviously in the 37:21.020 --> 37:22.420 gospels you see that, 37:22.620 --> 37:24.940 and this is something that people get stumbled up on sometimes. 37:24.940 --> 37:26.020 So I want to bring it up that 37:26.300 --> 37:29.500 Jesus will say something a little bit slightly different in a different gospel 37:29.620 --> 37:35.320 But I think that this makes sense because when you're talking about something especially in the context of a sermon 37:35.340 --> 37:38.660 You're gonna repeat yourself and you're gonna say things slightly different ways 37:38.660 --> 37:42.280 You don't want to just echo the exact same thing over and over and over again 37:42.660 --> 37:48.000 So when Jesus Christ is speaking it makes sense like we'll see this in the Lord's Prayer when you compare it to like Matthew 6 37:48.000 --> 37:54.260 Or Luke chapter 11 obviously that is not the only thing that he said, but it was what God wanted us to 37:54.300 --> 37:57.660 have in the Bible. So when it's quoted a little bit differently in Luke, 37:57.660 --> 38:01.500 he's probably just taking a different part of that long expert or excerpt and 38:01.500 --> 38:03.060 just, you know, rendering it that way. 38:03.600 --> 38:07.480 Also, there's more you can go into on that, and that's maybe not the only reason why things 38:07.480 --> 38:09.560 are different, but that is one reason. 38:09.560 --> 38:12.860 Another reason that would be true is that Jesus Christ, or excuse me, not Jesus Christ, 38:12.860 --> 38:18.420 but John also tells us that if we wrote down every single work that Jesus Christ did while 38:18.420 --> 38:21.580 he's on this earth, he's like, there wouldn't even be enough books on this world to contain 38:21.580 --> 38:23.460 everything that he did. 38:23.460 --> 38:27.220 So clearly, you're not going to have all the words of Jesus Christ in the Bible that he 38:27.220 --> 38:28.220 ever did. 38:28.220 --> 38:29.220 It's not possible. 38:29.220 --> 38:30.260 It's not possible for the world to contain them. 38:30.260 --> 38:31.540 So I just thought that that argument's like super- 38:31.600 --> 38:36.000 super weak. I'm like, what do you like that's that's super like I don't understand. 38:36.000 --> 38:39.500 Like, it's just not it's just not consistent. That's maybe that's what I should say. 38:39.500 --> 38:43.600 Okay, here's another bad argument that I've heard people bring up about this to 38:43.600 --> 38:50.600 try to debunk what I'm saying to me as they'll say that Jesus condemns long prayer in the Bible. 38:50.900 --> 38:53.620 No, he does not condemn long prayer in the Bible. 38:53.620 --> 38:55.140 Jesus is praying long prayers in the Bible. 38:55.140 --> 38:56.020 What in the world? 38:56.020 --> 38:58.020 But what they're talking about is this. 38:58.020 --> 39:00.100 Go to Mark 12, verse number 40. 39:00.100 --> 39:02.340 Mark 12, verse number 40. 39:03.000 --> 39:05.840 and see that people just don't understand English. 39:05.840 --> 39:06.920 I guess is what it truly is. 39:06.920 --> 39:08.840 Okay, this is the only explanation 39:08.840 --> 39:10.240 for things like this sometimes. 39:10.240 --> 39:13.440 Like Jesus condemns long prayers in the Bible. 39:13.440 --> 39:15.400 Let's see if that's what the Bible actually says. 39:15.400 --> 39:17.600 Mark 12, verse number 40, it says, 39:17.600 --> 39:21.040 which devour widows' houses, and look what it says, 39:21.040 --> 39:24.400 and for a pretense make long prayers. 39:24.400 --> 39:26.840 These shall receive greater damnation. 39:26.840 --> 39:29.000 So is Jesus Christ against long prayers 39:29.000 --> 39:29.840 and it of themselves? 39:29.840 --> 39:31.000 No, he's against making. 39:31.000 --> 39:36.160 long prayers for a pretense which means for like a faint appearance of being righteous 39:36.160 --> 39:40.120 is what he's talking about. Luke 20 verse number 47 you don't have to turn there you 39:40.120 --> 39:43.000 can go to Matthew 26 39 this is the the 39:44.000 --> 39:49.840 the parallel passage of this, he says, which devour widows houses and for a show, make long 39:49.840 --> 39:54.880 prayers. This same shall receive the greater damnation. So Jesus Christ is not against long 39:54.880 --> 40:00.960 prayers. He's against long prayers for a show is what the Bible says. I, that pisses me off 40:00.960 --> 40:04.880 because I hate, we will ignore modifiers and sentences. It's like, it like, it just like, 40:04.880 --> 40:08.640 you just like don't have like brain cells in here. Like what's going on? Like look what the verse 40:08.640 --> 40:11.680 actually says. Don't just make up things like, like read 40:12.000 --> 40:16.320 The verse in English because this is not even like a Bible spiritual. This is like an English issue 40:16.320 --> 40:23.060 It's like there's a modifier in the sentence. It's for a show make long prayers for a pretense make long prayers 40:23.080 --> 40:25.080 It's not just long prayers 40:25.700 --> 40:29.540 Good night. That gave me annoy. Let's it's so I just don't understand. That's weird 40:30.020 --> 40:32.900 Uh, but anyways, you guys are going to Matthew 26 verse number 39 40:33.620 --> 40:35.940 Matthew 26 verse 39 and this should make sense 40:35.940 --> 40:39.140 Why do you just condemning this because you guys have probably seen this before thank goodness 40:39.140 --> 40:41.060 I never see it from the people in this room 40:41.060 --> 40:45.860 You know, everybody's always short and sweet and good to eat when they pray they're never just like going all crazy 40:46.260 --> 40:51.060 But like if you were in any will ifb churches, you definitely saw this or if you've been in any kind of church 40:51.060 --> 40:53.620 You've probably seen this like the pastor like you're just gonna 40:53.700 --> 40:57.080 go eat some food or a potluck and he's like hey brother so and so can you bless 40:57.080 --> 41:01.740 the food and you're like oh brother why do you think that guy and then he's 41:01.740 --> 41:02.500 like 41:02.700 --> 41:07.020 Dear God of Abraham, of Isaac, of Jacob. 41:07.020 --> 41:09.900 I'm thinking back to Bethlehem's manger when you first came here. 41:09.900 --> 41:11.740 You're like, dude, what are we talking about? 41:11.740 --> 41:13.020 We're talking about blessing the food. 41:13.020 --> 41:14.460 Why are you doing this? 41:14.460 --> 41:15.900 But you know why they do that, though? 41:15.900 --> 41:17.100 They do it to seem spiritual. 41:17.100 --> 41:17.820 That's why. 41:17.820 --> 41:19.180 They want to seem really fancy. 41:19.180 --> 41:20.460 They want to seem really eloquent. 41:20.460 --> 41:22.300 They want to seem really spiritual. 41:22.300 --> 41:24.300 So they make these big, long prayers. 41:24.300 --> 41:26.380 That's what Jesus Christ is against. 41:27.020 --> 41:30.540 Or like going out in public and just trying to, you know. 41:30.700 --> 41:32.740 draw attention to yourself through prayer. 41:32.740 --> 41:33.820 Like going out on the street corner, 41:33.820 --> 41:35.420 like if we just like went on the street corner, 41:35.420 --> 41:37.100 we're just praying out there 41:37.100 --> 41:38.840 just to like make people think we're holy. 41:38.840 --> 41:40.220 That's what Jesus Christ is against. 41:40.220 --> 41:42.860 Not just like long prayer in general. 41:42.860 --> 41:45.160 How could Jesus Christ be against long prayers 41:45.160 --> 41:47.220 when he's praying long prayers in the Bible? 41:47.220 --> 41:48.900 It does not make sense. 41:49.800 --> 41:52.200 Matthew 26 39 this was in the Garden of Gethsemane 41:52.200 --> 41:56.480 He says and he went a little further and fell on his face and prayed saying oh my father if it be possible 41:56.960 --> 41:58.480 Let this cup pass for me 41:58.480 --> 42:03.240 Nevertheless, not as I will but that's thou will and he comes under disciples and finds them asleep and say that a Peter 42:03.240 --> 42:06.600 What could you not watch with me one hour? 42:07.360 --> 42:12.520 Like Jesus Christ is so accustomed to long prayers that he's like asking Peter like you couldn't even pray for an hour 42:12.800 --> 42:17.720 Because even like in our flesh is reading that I'm like dang like that's pretty like hardcore. He's like you 42:17.800 --> 42:21.580 couldn't even wait an hour like an hour is probably a length that most people 42:21.580 --> 42:25.060 have never even prayed in reality at all and Jesus is like you couldn't even 42:25.060 --> 42:28.260 wait with me one hour this is how accustomed Jesus Christ is to praying 42:28.260 --> 42:31.060 for long periods of time and this was even his whole session like I was just 42:31.060 --> 42:34.180 telling you guys in verse 42 he says he went away a second time and prayed again 42:34.180 --> 42:39.240 saying or in prayed saying oh my father if this cup may not pass from me 42:39.240 --> 42:44.580 may not pass away from me except I drank it I will be done and he's still 42:44.580 --> 42:45.800 not done he goes back in verse 44 42:45.800 --> 42:50.920 he says and he left them and went away again and pray the third time saying the same words so clearly 42:51.320 --> 42:56.800 Jesus Christ is an advocate for long prayers. He's not against long prayers. That's very that's very weird 42:56.800 --> 43:02.080 Okay, the only other decent or but I could even think to that is that people could say like well 43:02.080 --> 43:04.800 Jesus did lots of extreme works in the Bible that we don't have to do 43:05.240 --> 43:09.440 Which is kind of like technically true like you don't necessarily like fast for 40 days or for 40 nights, right? 43:09.560 --> 43:13.800 You don't necessarily have to fast for all, you know night until the morning 43:13.800 --> 43:17.520 That's probably something that nobody will ever do in this room. That's a like a very hard task 43:17.520 --> 43:18.340 Okay 43:18.340 --> 43:23.560 But like I would also just push back on that and say not necessarily have to do all that but that 43:24.000 --> 43:28.100 Jesus is not the only one who's praying for long amounts of time in the Bible that we see like I brought up to you guys 43:28.100 --> 43:32.600 Daniel earlier it says that Daniel would go down and pray three times a day before his window 43:32.760 --> 43:35.760 three times in the psalmist we see in Psalms 55 17 it says 43:36.360 --> 43:41.780 evening and morning and at noon will I pray and cry aloud and he 43:41.800 --> 43:46.300 shall hear my voice." So it's not just Jesus praying for long amounts of time in the Bible 43:46.300 --> 43:50.140 or for multiple times in the Bible, it's tons of righteous men. And the time would fail 43:50.140 --> 43:52.980 me to show you all the different examples of this in the Bible. I mean, this is about 43:52.980 --> 43:56.940 in the Psalms where he says seven times he raises to praise God in the day, which is, 43:56.940 --> 44:01.060 you know, even higher than three times a day. It's just like all over the Bible you see 44:01.060 --> 44:05.780 prayer magnified as a very spiritual and a very good thing. So I don't understand why 44:05.780 --> 44:09.380 we would attack that and be like, you shouldn't be praying for long periods of time. 44:09.800 --> 44:14.520 It's like we should be encouraging Christians to pray longer, not shorter. 44:14.520 --> 44:16.920 That's the, that's the reality. Cause I'll tell you this right now. 44:17.080 --> 44:21.560 Most Christians struggle with not praying long enough. It's not praying too long. 44:21.640 --> 44:25.840 That that is the reality. And anything else is just copium. It's just like, 44:26.000 --> 44:30.520 like a stretch for, you know, justifying yourself, not praying very much. 44:31.120 --> 44:34.960 Uh, go to first Corinthians seven, verse 34, first Corinthians seven, 44:35.560 --> 44:36.520 verse number 34. 44:37.100 --> 44:42.700 That's my whole point in this though is encouraging you guys, you know, uh, to be praying, you 44:42.700 --> 44:45.700 know, more and to be pushing yourselves in prayer. 44:45.700 --> 44:48.660 And I want to be clear though, cause you might, might be thinking in this point in the sermon, 44:48.660 --> 44:53.980 like Remy expects us to pray for, you know, hours and hours and hours. 44:53.980 --> 44:56.260 I don't expect you to pray for hours and hours and hours. 44:56.260 --> 45:00.340 In fact, it would even be a fool's errand to try to say that up here because the reality 45:00.340 --> 45:04.700 is it'd be silly to even ask you guys to pray an hour because most Christians 45:05.100 --> 45:07.580 Don't even pray for more than five minutes a day. 45:07.580 --> 45:10.780 So why would I ask you to pray for an hour at all? 45:10.780 --> 45:12.300 It's like such a big jump. 45:12.300 --> 45:15.420 What I would ask you to do is to look at your life 45:15.420 --> 45:17.140 and look at the verses that we're gonna read 45:17.140 --> 45:18.940 throughout this sermon and think to yourself 45:18.940 --> 45:21.100 and ask yourself this question, 45:21.100 --> 45:25.060 do I pray to God enough or am I lacking in that area? 45:25.060 --> 45:27.200 That's the question that people need to ask themselves. 45:27.400 --> 45:33.000 because there is no time limit on prayer in the Bible. There is no like minimum threshold 45:33.000 --> 45:38.760 you'd be praying. There is no like exact command for you know, you know how long and how often you 45:38.760 --> 45:45.240 should be praying. God clearly lead this up to you know, our you know, the our spirit, the spirit 45:45.240 --> 45:49.880 guiding us so that we can make it something that's special and that's actually natural and that's not 45:49.880 --> 45:54.040 just something that we've become desensitized to like the Muslims, they just get down, they pray 45:54.040 --> 45:55.240 the same prayers at the same time. 45:55.400 --> 45:58.640 every day. It's like that's just a vain repetition at that point. 45:59.080 --> 46:01.200 God wants prayer to be something that's special though, 46:01.200 --> 46:04.640 and something that means something and something that you do out of the good will 46:04.640 --> 46:06.720 of your heart, not just, you know, 46:07.040 --> 46:09.800 making it like a robotic routine or something like that. 46:10.500 --> 46:15.780 But I would ask you guys to consider throughout this sermon like ask you about that question truly like do I pray for enough in a day? 46:15.860 --> 46:19.940 Because the answer to probably to most people is that you don't pray enough if you're being honest with yourself 46:20.340 --> 46:23.060 Same is true for me. I'm not better than anybody else in this room. That's for sure 46:23.140 --> 46:25.940 like we could all work on extending that but 46:27.220 --> 46:30.340 The questions i'd ask you besides that though with this in mind as well 46:30.740 --> 46:38.340 Is do you pray to god at all in the day? Like is there you know time in your day where you specifically go and 46:38.500 --> 46:43.400 pray at all because if there isn't that time in your day then you should fix that as a 46:43.400 --> 46:47.320 Christian because this is the example that we see in the Bible. People going and making 46:47.320 --> 46:52.400 their private prayer time. Another question I ask you in the same vein as that is do you 46:52.400 --> 46:56.520 spend even more than five minutes praying to God in a day? I'd ask you even more so 46:56.520 --> 47:03.020 this, when's the last time you prayed more than five minutes in a day? Because even like 47:03.020 --> 47:03.400 like. 47:03.600 --> 47:09.000 Just that question alone would probably be enough to smile a lot of those hearts because the reality is is that a lot of people just don't emphasize prayer. 47:09.000 --> 47:15.000 It's just not very important to people. We just like lose how big of a privilege it truly is. 47:15.000 --> 47:17.000 But if you ask yourself that question. 47:17.600 --> 47:21.860 Whatever the Holy Spirit pricks you in your heart to do I would just submit to you that you need to do that 47:21.860 --> 47:27.080 And you need to be doing better and you didn't increase the amount of time that you're actually praying to God 47:27.360 --> 47:32.140 Because this is an essential thing as I'm getting getting into in this sermon. You guys are there in first 47:33.240 --> 47:35.740 Corinthians 7 verse number 34 47:37.700 --> 47:43.700 Because again, I'm telling you guys that as well as you guys are going there, or maybe you guys are already there, but that is me included, okay? 47:43.700 --> 47:49.200 Like, I'm not Mr. Perfect up here, and I don't ever want anybody to think that because it's just not true, okay? 47:49.400 --> 47:54.580 The one thing I would say is that you know because I was telling you guys earlier about my pastor 47:54.800 --> 47:59.280 My prayer life has been something that I've worked on for a long time to make it something that is consistent 47:59.400 --> 48:04.440 So consistent enough to where I feel confident to go up and preach a sermon because that's the worst thing when you're going to 48:04.440 --> 48:09.140 Preach on a subject and you're not doing that subject. Okay, it makes you feel like an idiot. Okay, so I try not to do that 48:09.140 --> 48:16.100 Okay, try to like actually, you know preach on things that you know, I'm not got down or whatever but that I'm doing 48:16.100 --> 48:17.400 You know, okay, Sean 48:17.400 --> 48:21.160 But even when asking myself those questions, it's like, you know what I 48:21.160 --> 48:24.600 realized? It's like I need to be praying more. You know, even if I am 48:24.600 --> 48:27.520 praying consistently for one time a day, it's like I see the psalmist praying for 48:27.520 --> 48:31.600 three times a day. So it's like we can always be improving in so many areas of 48:31.600 --> 48:34.920 our life as Christians. We never want to think that we've arrived and we never 48:34.920 --> 48:39.800 want to think that we've just, you know, become perfect because it's not the reality. 48:40.200 --> 48:45.720 Uh, the important caveat to this though about prayer, about long prayer specifically is 48:45.720 --> 48:51.600 that it's important to realize that Jesus Christ was a virgin though. 48:51.600 --> 48:53.280 Jesus Christ was a eunuch. 48:53.280 --> 48:56.560 So our prayer life is probably never going to exactly match his prayer life. 48:56.560 --> 48:57.640 If you're being honest, right? 48:57.640 --> 48:59.200 Like we see this in first grade. 48:59.200 --> 49:02.600 That's why I have you guys here that it says there's a difference between a wife and a 49:02.600 --> 49:05.960 virgin, the unmarried care for the things of the Lord that she may be holy both in body 49:05.960 --> 49:08.200 and spirit, but she that is married, cared for the things. 49:08.200 --> 49:12.440 the world, how she may please her husband. And this I speak for your own prophet, not that I may cast 49:12.440 --> 49:16.760 a snare upon you, but for that which is comely and that you may attend upon the Lord without 49:16.760 --> 49:21.240 distraction." So obviously Jesus Christ, because he's not married, he's going to have, you know, 49:21.240 --> 49:25.560 more time to be doing things like that. And also Jesus Christ is not working a nine to five job, 49:25.560 --> 49:29.320 though he is working in his ministry, don't get me wrong, but he's not doing the same thing as 49:29.320 --> 49:32.440 us because it's like, if I tried to go up to a mountain all night to pray, you know, then I 49:32.440 --> 49:36.120 can't work the next day, right? It's like I'm cooked after that. So there is a difference. 49:36.200 --> 49:39.720 in this so I'm not trying to say that this is the level that you need to be 49:39.720 --> 49:43.240 on but what I am saying is this is that five minutes a day is probably not 49:43.240 --> 49:47.580 cutting it not praying at all to God is surely not cutting it is what I want you 49:47.580 --> 49:51.880 to realize in this sermon and I just hope that this sermon will encourage you 49:51.880 --> 49:58.320 to you know work on your prayer life and to not let it be a gap in yeah in the 49:58.320 --> 50:02.800 army of God that you have on and when I say like five minutes doesn't cut it it's 50:02.800 --> 50:04.200 It's not because five 50:04.200 --> 50:06.800 minutes there it's not because there's like a magic length because I just told 50:06.800 --> 50:11.080 you that there is no like specific link in the Bible but with what I'm gonna 50:11.080 --> 50:14.080 show you in this sermon the reason I say five minutes doesn't cut it is because 50:14.080 --> 50:16.720 you can't pray for all the things you should be praying for in five minutes 50:16.720 --> 50:19.960 that's why I'm saying that so when people are praying less than that it 50:19.960 --> 50:23.120 just tells me they're cutting corners and they're not praying like they should 50:23.120 --> 50:24.900 be to God 50:24.900 --> 50:28.740 But yeah, so I thought that was important to bring up with Jesus Christ though that, you know, 50:30.180 --> 50:34.260 you're not going to be on the same level as Jesus Christ, but you can move more in that direction. 50:34.260 --> 50:39.780 That's the hope that we should always have as Christians. Go back to Luke 11 verse number one, 50:39.780 --> 50:47.860 Luke 11 verse number one. Luke 11 verse number one is where you guys are going. If you're like me though. 50:48.400 --> 50:53.200 The first time I ever heard a really hard sermon on prayer, you might be thinking to yourself, okay? 50:53.600 --> 50:56.480 How is it possible though to pray for more than five minutes? 50:56.480 --> 50:57.920 How's it possible to pray for like 10 minutes? 50:57.920 --> 51:03.920 So I just have to sit there and like repeat things or have to just sit there and keep asking for all the needs that I want. 51:03.920 --> 51:06.480 This is exactly what I thought when I was 16 years old. 51:06.480 --> 51:09.440 Because I remember the first time I heard a really hard sermon on prayer. 51:09.440 --> 51:17.920 It was my former old lifey pastor, uh, pastor Roman White, who is a really great, really spiritual guy, a really great teacher on, on the aspects of prayer. 51:17.920 --> 51:20.080 But he preached a whole sermon on like, you know, prayer. 51:20.080 --> 51:21.520 But one of the points that jumped out to me- 51:21.600 --> 51:25.740 was specifically that he brought the point that the disciples asked Jesus to 51:25.740 --> 51:27.000 teach him to pray. 51:27.100 --> 51:29.120 I was like, man, that is very interesting. 51:29.120 --> 51:31.580 So then I went to my pastor to the service because I was convicted. 51:31.580 --> 51:33.940 I was like, man, I haven't been praying like I should be. 51:33.940 --> 51:37.940 And I asked him, I was like, pastor, can you teach me how to pray? 51:37.940 --> 51:39.420 He was like, absolutely. 51:39.420 --> 51:43.980 So he showed me exactly how he prays because he was talking about praying for like 30 minutes. 51:43.980 --> 51:45.300 He's talking about praying for an hour. 51:45.300 --> 51:48.060 And I was like, how is that even possible? 51:48.060 --> 51:51.460 But he showed me a way that I know now is possible, that it makes a lot of sense. 51:51.460 --> 51:55.020 And he models what he does after the Bible. 51:55.020 --> 51:55.100 you 51:55.300 --> 51:58.180 Where you guys at though you guys are going to Luke 11 verse number one. Yeah 51:59.600 --> 52:04.460 Luke 11 verse number one. So in this I'm gonna show you what he taught me that helped me to change my prayer life 52:04.460 --> 52:09.860 And hopefully it'll help you as well and help to answer the question of how you can pray more than five minutes or how you can 52:09.860 --> 52:13.780 Pray more than ten minutes because with the method he showed me you can truly pray for a long period of time 52:13.780 --> 52:17.740 You pray for hours if you really want to if you have the willpower to do that is what I'd say 52:17.740 --> 52:20.740 Okay, it's not just like a you know 52:21.260 --> 52:27.600 Top ten tips to change your prayer life kind of a thing. It still is hard work to pray, but it's a method that helps 52:27.600 --> 52:32.740 helps you to like feel more guided I guess maybe I'd say in your praying. 52:32.740 --> 52:33.860 Before I do this though, okay? 52:34.500 --> 52:40.300 Want to bring up two prayer 101 tips, which is this okay very basic very very basic, okay? 52:40.300 --> 52:45.820 But sometimes people don't know these things when we pray as Christians. We should be praying to God the Father 52:45.820 --> 52:47.500 That's what the Bible teaches us 52:47.500 --> 52:53.540 Luke 11 verse number one the Bible says and it came to pass that as he was praying in a certain place when he ceased 52:53.540 --> 52:57.060 When the disciples said to him Lord teaches to pray as John also taught disciples 52:57.060 --> 53:02.220 And he said unto them when ye pray say our Father which are in heaven 53:02.500 --> 53:06.660 So when we pray to God, it should be to God the Father. 53:06.660 --> 53:08.100 That's what the Bible makes very clear. 53:08.100 --> 53:12.500 The only ever exception to that is when the Bible talks about calling upon the name of the Lord for salvation, 53:12.500 --> 53:14.020 you call upon Jesus Christ. 53:14.020 --> 53:16.660 You confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus. 53:16.660 --> 53:18.900 The Bible says that's how you obtain salvation. 53:18.900 --> 53:22.100 But after that point, we don't pray to Jesus Christ anymore. 53:22.100 --> 53:23.260 Jesus Christ is our mediator. 53:23.260 --> 53:25.500 He's the mediator between God and man. 53:25.500 --> 53:28.300 There's only one mediator is what the Bible says. 53:28.300 --> 53:29.860 But we should be praying to God the Father. 53:30.500 --> 53:34.020 that he shows us in the prayer not to the Saints by the way okay that's just a 53:34.020 --> 53:36.540 freebie I don't even want to get off on get off into that because it'll just 53:36.540 --> 53:42.060 derail me completely but imagine if you will Jesus Christ being asked how do we 53:42.060 --> 53:45.300 pray he lays out an example of how to pray and the Catholics are still just 53:45.300 --> 53:48.300 like but what if we just didn't do that and we pray to the Saints instead it's 53:48.300 --> 53:52.420 so so stupid like Jesus has prayed to the Father so we should be praying to 53:52.420 --> 53:55.980 the Father as a cool side note of that as well this shows us that like all three 53:55.980 --> 53:58.500 members of the Trinity are involved in prayer because you 53:58.500 --> 54:04.940 pray to God the Father through Jesus Christ, who's our mediator, by the Holy Spirit, which 54:04.940 --> 54:05.940 we saw in Romans. 54:05.940 --> 54:08.380 I'll just quote this for you guys because I've already read this for you guys before, 54:08.380 --> 54:11.420 but it says, Likewise, the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities, for we know not what we 54:11.420 --> 54:15.800 should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings 54:15.800 --> 54:17.500 which cannot be uttered. 54:17.500 --> 54:22.020 So the Holy Spirit, you know, guides our prayers and He helps us to pray when we don't know 54:22.020 --> 54:23.020 what we should pray for. 54:23.020 --> 54:26.500 Because that's what the verse says, it says, Likewise, the Spirit also... 54:26.500 --> 54:29.880 helped our infirmities for we know not we should pray for as we ought but the 54:29.880 --> 54:34.040 Spirit itself make it intercession for us so it's the spirit that's you know 54:34.040 --> 54:38.560 basically I've used it before so he's like you know interpreting maybe I say 54:38.560 --> 54:42.160 filtering our prayers is kind of what I what I believe the Holy Spirit does 54:42.160 --> 54:45.160 because you think you know what you should be asking for sometimes but you 54:45.160 --> 54:48.540 don't but the Holy Spirit does so he helps you in prayer so all three 54:48.540 --> 54:50.500 members of the Trinity are involved in prayer 54:50.600 --> 54:52.600 But you pray to God the father. Okay. 54:52.600 --> 54:54.600 Second point I want to bring up about this is that 54:54.600 --> 55:00.100 this is the pre-pre-point, the pre-last point before the real last point of my sermon, okay? 55:00.100 --> 55:04.100 Is that we should be praying in the name of Jesus Christ as well when we pray. 55:04.100 --> 55:06.600 Go to John 14 verse number 13. 55:06.600 --> 55:08.100 John 14 verse number 13. 55:08.100 --> 55:10.600 Callie, could you give me some water by chance, please? 55:10.600 --> 55:12.600 Thank you. 55:12.600 --> 55:16.000 John 14 verse number 13. 55:16.300 --> 55:18.100 We should be praying in the name of Jesus Christ. 55:18.100 --> 55:21.980 Because sometimes I think that we just like, you know, fall into a habit so much that we 55:21.980 --> 55:23.860 don't even understand why we do things sometimes. 55:23.860 --> 55:25.260 Like, why do we pray to God the Father? 55:25.260 --> 55:27.620 Why do we say, Dear Heavenly Father, when we pray? 55:27.620 --> 55:29.960 It's because Jesus shows us right there in that example. 55:29.960 --> 55:34.580 Why do we end every prayer with, in Jesus Christ's name we pray, amen, it's because 55:34.580 --> 55:36.540 that's the example that we see in the Bible again. 55:36.540 --> 55:40.820 John 14, 13, it says, And whatsoever you shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father 55:40.820 --> 55:42.820 may be glorified in the Son. 55:42.820 --> 55:44.300 If you shall ask anything. 55:44.300 --> 55:49.560 in my name I will do it. And in Acts 16 and 18 it says, In this she did many days, but 55:49.560 --> 55:53.820 Paul being grieved turned and said to the Spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus 55:53.820 --> 55:58.860 Christ to come out of her, and he came out the same hour. So we see in the Bible that 55:58.860 --> 56:02.060 when people are praying they're praying in the name of Jesus Christ. So that's why, you 56:02.060 --> 56:05.220 know, as a man in this room when you're asked to pray you should close your prayer in Jesus' 56:05.220 --> 56:06.460 name we pray. Amen. 56:07.400 --> 56:11.800 Um, go to back to Luke 11 one if you guys left your place. Hope you guys are keeping your place there 56:11.800 --> 56:13.800 Thank you again for the water Kelly 56:18.000 --> 56:23.320 Luke 11 verse number one because I'll show you guys what my pastor taught me from these verses now 56:23.320 --> 56:27.180 And I think I've talked about this a little bit before I don't know if I went into as details 56:27.180 --> 56:29.180 I'm going to a little bit in this sermon 56:29.400 --> 56:31.600 But I encourage if you guys are interested in this, that you should take notes on this 56:31.600 --> 56:36.640 because there's a lot of good stuff here that he taught me that'll help you to pray for 56:36.640 --> 56:38.140 great lengths of time. 56:38.140 --> 56:42.680 And I'll start off by saying too as well that my pastor rightly interpreted this passage 56:42.680 --> 56:47.720 of scripture and understood it as a formula for prayer or a model for prayer, not words 56:47.720 --> 56:49.240 that you should just repeat over and over again. 56:49.240 --> 56:51.440 Because that's what the Catholics do with these verses. 56:51.440 --> 56:53.040 They're like, oh yeah, it teaches how to pray. 56:53.040 --> 56:57.200 And then they're like, oh, so we should just, you know, just repeat this prayer over and 56:57.200 --> 56:57.400 No. 56:57.400 --> 57:01.200 and over again. I don't know where Hail Mary's come from, but they repeat this prayer just 57:01.200 --> 57:05.240 over and over and over again. But it's like Jesus Christ says in the parallel passage 57:05.240 --> 57:09.440 of this in Matthew 6, that you're not supposed to repeat vain repetitions like the heathens 57:09.440 --> 57:15.260 do. So the Catholics just, you know, they have a hard time getting right Bible doctrine 57:15.260 --> 57:17.600 for whatever reason it is. Well, I mean, I know the reason because they don't have the 57:17.600 --> 57:21.400 Holy Spirit in their heart. That's why, but we shouldn't follow that example. This is 57:21.400 --> 57:24.960 a formula of how to pray. That's what Jesus is showing us right here. Not things that 57:24.960 --> 57:25.400 that we should just. 57:25.400 --> 57:27.400 repeat mindlessly, okay? 57:27.600 --> 57:29.600 But here's the formula right here, okay? 57:29.600 --> 57:30.440 We'll read it one more time. 57:30.440 --> 57:31.640 It says, and it came to pass, 57:31.640 --> 57:33.200 that as he was praying in a certain place, 57:33.200 --> 57:34.880 when he ceased, one of his disciples said to him, 57:34.880 --> 57:39.160 Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples. 57:39.160 --> 57:40.920 And he said to them, when we pray, 57:40.920 --> 57:44.760 or when ye pray, say, our Father, which art in heaven, 57:44.760 --> 57:47.400 hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, 57:47.400 --> 57:51.720 thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth. 57:51.720 --> 57:53.960 So the first thing that my pastor taught me 57:53.960 --> 57:55.600 of how to pray and how... 57:55.600 --> 58:02.440 know that off of this model was that you should start off your prayer by praising and by thanking 58:02.440 --> 58:03.440 God. 58:03.440 --> 58:09.080 Go to Psalms 100 and verse number four, Psalms 100 verse number four, because we see right 58:09.080 --> 58:11.920 there that the first thing that Jesus Christ does, he says, our father which art in heaven, 58:11.920 --> 58:14.960 he says, hallowed be thy name, which is a blessing to God. 58:14.960 --> 58:18.000 He's like saying your name, let it be glorified, let it be holy, right? 58:18.000 --> 58:21.600 So my pastor took from this example, he was like, hey, the first thing you should do when 58:21.600 --> 58:23.600 When you praise, you should bless God. 58:23.600 --> 58:26.240 You should thank God or you should praise God and he kind of 58:26.960 --> 58:29.680 Lumped these he kind of separated the things in the prayer 58:29.680 --> 58:31.200 I kind of lump them together 58:31.200 --> 58:36.320 It's not doesn't really matter like but I do think that both of these things are good to incorporate into your prayer life 58:36.720 --> 58:39.040 Psalms 104 it says this it says 58:39.700 --> 58:48.600 100 verse number four, excuse me. It says enter into his gates with thanksgiving and to his courts with praise be thankful unto him and bless his name. 58:48.600 --> 58:55.600 And in Psalms 218.1 you don't have to turn there, but it says, Oh give thanks unto the Lord for he is good because his mercy endureth forever. 58:55.600 --> 59:03.600 So we see the psalmist right here saying the first thing that he does when he goes into the courts of God is he enters his gates with thanksgiving in his heart. 59:03.600 --> 59:04.600 With thanks in his heart. 59:04.600 --> 59:07.400 And the Bible, it is a command to give thanks unto the Lord. 59:07.400 --> 59:07.700 So we just. 59:07.700 --> 59:12.420 saw in Psalms 118. This is all over the Bible. Giving thanks to the Lord is a command from 59:12.420 --> 59:17.340 God and you should make no mistake about it, God expects you to be thanking him for the 59:17.340 --> 59:23.240 things that he does for you in your life. And I think this is one thing that people 59:23.240 --> 59:28.380 misunderstand a lot about prayer. This is why I think people struggle with prayer sometimes. 59:28.380 --> 59:32.500 They'll think that prayer is just asking God for things. Like, oh that's all we do. All 59:32.500 --> 59:35.700 you do is every time you pray you're just like, give me food, give me water. 59:35.700 --> 59:40.800 give me health like amen. No this is not how you pray this is not the only way 59:40.800 --> 59:43.440 that you should pray maybe is what I should say it's not the only aspect of 59:43.440 --> 59:47.680 prayer part of prayer isn't asking for things at all it's thanking God and it's 59:47.680 --> 59:51.880 praising God for who he is. What do I mean by thanking like thanking him for 59:51.880 --> 59:55.440 the things that he gives you thank you like for my wife thank you for my kids 59:55.440 --> 59:59.680 thank you for my salvation thank you for my church thank you for my parents thank 59:59.680 --> 01:00:03.680 you for my health thank you for my protection thank you for all the things 01:00:03.700 --> 01:00:07.120 that you've done for me in my life that I never even asked you for in the first place. 01:00:07.120 --> 01:00:10.860 Thank you for the things that I've begged you for and then you've finally given me. 01:00:10.860 --> 01:00:13.360 All these things we should be thanking God in prayer. 01:00:13.360 --> 01:00:15.080 We should come into his courts. 01:00:15.080 --> 01:00:19.840 We should enter his courts with thanksgiving in our heart and with praise in our heart 01:00:19.840 --> 01:00:22.220 for the things that he's done for us. 01:00:22.220 --> 01:00:23.220 And really if you like 01:00:23.220 --> 01:00:23.500 Thanks for watching! 01:00:23.800 --> 01:00:28.520 Try to even just pray like just thinking God for the things he does for you that in and of itself could just last for 01:00:28.520 --> 01:00:32.520 Ten minutes if you just sat down and weren't just like thank you for everything amen 01:00:32.520 --> 01:00:36.960 Okay, that doesn't count doesn't count if you actually like sit there and think about the different things that God has done for you 01:00:36.960 --> 01:00:41.060 In your life, you can spend ten minutes alone. Just thanking him for all the great things that he's done 01:00:42.520 --> 01:00:48.400 And like I said God making a mistake about it expects us to be thinking and go to Luke 17 verse number 12 Luke 17 01:00:48.680 --> 01:00:50.300 verse number 12 01:00:51.600 --> 01:00:54.400 because this is a big aspect of prayer that people miss as well. 01:00:54.600 --> 01:00:59.140 You should be telling God thank you when he does answer your prayer request. 01:00:59.140 --> 01:01:02.300 Luke 17 verse number 12, the Bible says, 01:01:02.300 --> 01:01:04.440 and as he entered into a certain village, 01:01:04.440 --> 01:01:07.640 there met him 10 men that were lepers which stood afar off. 01:01:07.640 --> 01:01:10.040 They lifted up their voices and said, 01:01:10.040 --> 01:01:12.200 Jesus, master, have mercy on us. 01:01:12.200 --> 01:01:14.040 When he saw them, he said unto them, 01:01:14.040 --> 01:01:15.400 go, show yourselves to the priest. 01:01:15.400 --> 01:01:19.120 It came to pass that as they went, they were cleansed. 01:01:19.120 --> 01:01:22.440 You see the lepers, they come to Jesus Christ and they're asking him, 01:01:22.600 --> 01:01:24.280 Please heal us of this leprosy. 01:01:24.280 --> 01:01:27.380 Leprosy is like a huge big deal back in the day. 01:01:27.380 --> 01:01:32.680 Just like you see all the laws attached to it in the Levitical priesthood. 01:01:32.680 --> 01:01:35.200 Leprosy is still a thing but we don't really deal with it. 01:01:35.200 --> 01:01:38.800 We don't really deal with it, not in America for sure. 01:01:38.800 --> 01:01:39.800 Who carries leprosy? 01:01:39.800 --> 01:01:41.280 Is it armadillos that carry leprosy? 01:01:41.280 --> 01:01:42.280 Do you remember? 01:01:42.280 --> 01:01:43.280 You don't know. 01:01:43.280 --> 01:01:44.940 Something carries leprosy. 01:01:44.940 --> 01:01:46.420 I think there's like two specific things. 01:01:46.420 --> 01:01:47.420 I think it's armadillos. 01:01:47.420 --> 01:01:48.420 Okay. 01:01:48.420 --> 01:01:50.420 I want to almost Google it right now but I'm going to stop. 01:01:50.420 --> 01:01:50.600 Okay. 01:01:50.600 --> 01:01:57.760 Anyways though, besides the armadillo rabbit trail, the lepers they asked Jesus Christ 01:01:57.760 --> 01:02:00.880 to heal them and he heals them is what it says in the story but look at the reaction 01:02:00.880 --> 01:02:05.240 of them afterwards it says, and one of them when he saw that he was healed turned back 01:02:05.240 --> 01:02:11.240 and with a loud voice glorified God and fell down on his face at his feet giving him thanks 01:02:11.240 --> 01:02:17.080 and he was a Samaritan and Jesus answering said, were there not ten cleansed but where 01:02:17.080 --> 01:02:18.080 There are the nine. 01:02:18.080 --> 01:02:18.580 There are not. 01:02:18.600 --> 01:02:22.500 that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger. 01:02:22.500 --> 01:02:27.400 And this truly shows like us how entitled we are as humans 01:02:27.400 --> 01:02:29.760 that we can come to God Almighty 01:02:29.760 --> 01:02:31.660 and expect him to give us things. 01:02:31.660 --> 01:02:34.040 Like people have like a chip on their shoulder with God. 01:02:34.040 --> 01:02:35.620 Sometimes it's like unreal. 01:02:35.620 --> 01:02:38.720 Like they think like God owes them things in prayer. 01:02:38.720 --> 01:02:41.620 They're like, oh yeah, you know why I don't believe in God? 01:02:41.620 --> 01:02:44.180 Because one time when I was five years old, 01:02:44.180 --> 01:02:46.600 I asked for this bike and he didn't give it to me. 01:02:46.600 --> 01:02:56.000 So God just doesn't care about me. People act like God is just like some servant or like he's some just genie in the bottle that you rub and you're just supposed to fall and beckon to your every single will. 01:02:56.000 --> 01:03:00.000 But people don't understand that we're the servants and God is the creator. 01:03:00.000 --> 01:03:05.400 He's the King of Kings and Lord of Lords and we're just dust that he breathed life into on this earth. 01:03:05.400 --> 01:03:14.600 And people think that they're owed to me from God. Even though God didn't owe us anything on this earth, he gave us everything because he sent his son to die on the cross for our sins. 01:03:14.600 --> 01:03:21.340 And then people have the audacity to say like why isn't God answering my prayer request look listen any prayer that God? 01:03:21.660 --> 01:03:23.320 Answers for you. It's a miracle 01:03:23.320 --> 01:03:28.480 It's a gift from God and that's how you should see it not that he owes you something God doesn't know you anything 01:03:28.640 --> 01:03:34.160 You owe your life to God. That's what the Bible says he says it's our reasonable service to serve God 01:03:34.700 --> 01:03:37.940 So if God doesn't just jump at your beck and will, 01:03:37.940 --> 01:03:40.020 you should realize that you're talking to 01:03:40.020 --> 01:03:42.140 the most powerful being in this universe, 01:03:42.140 --> 01:03:43.620 the one who created this universe, 01:03:43.620 --> 01:03:45.020 the one who is the Alpha and Omega 01:03:45.020 --> 01:03:46.540 at the beginning and the end. 01:03:46.540 --> 01:03:47.820 People need to like, 01:03:47.820 --> 01:03:49.580 maybe that's why God doesn't answer your request 01:03:49.580 --> 01:03:51.220 because you think that he's your servant, 01:03:51.220 --> 01:03:52.780 you're the servant though. 01:03:52.780 --> 01:03:53.820 You're underneath God. 01:03:53.820 --> 01:03:56.780 God does not just, you know, 01:03:56.780 --> 01:03:58.780 just follow whatever command you have. 01:03:58.780 --> 01:04:00.540 That's what a servant does, okay? 01:04:01.000 --> 01:04:03.200 He's not like some kind of circus performers and like that. I just, 01:04:03.220 --> 01:04:04.680 the audacity of people is crazy. 01:04:04.920 --> 01:04:08.880 But then when God does move for us because he cares for us because he loves us 01:04:08.900 --> 01:04:12.400 because he wants to make us happy because we're his children that he adopted into 01:04:12.400 --> 01:04:13.240 our family. 01:04:13.240 --> 01:04:17.800 When God does actually move his hand and answer our requests, 01:04:18.200 --> 01:04:21.000 this is the reaction that we see from so many people that when he answers our 01:04:21.000 --> 01:04:22.720 request, what do we do? 01:04:23.000 --> 01:04:24.640 we don't even go back and think for it. 01:04:24.640 --> 01:04:26.440 Like, what a crazy thought that this is. 01:04:26.440 --> 01:04:27.840 That, like, you can just see, 01:04:27.840 --> 01:04:28.920 I'm sure Jesus Christ's mindset. 01:04:28.920 --> 01:04:31.140 It's like, these guys come up to me, 01:04:31.140 --> 01:04:34.480 they ask me to perform a miracle in their life 01:04:34.480 --> 01:04:36.440 to heal them of their leprosy. 01:04:36.440 --> 01:04:37.280 And I do it. 01:04:37.800 --> 01:04:40.680 And only one person comes back and says thank you to me at all. 01:04:40.680 --> 01:04:43.480 Like what a slap in the face to Jesus Christ. 01:04:43.480 --> 01:04:46.920 And may this never be said of the people in this room. 01:04:46.920 --> 01:04:50.360 Let us not be a part of this nine that asks God for something. 01:04:50.360 --> 01:04:53.560 And then when we finally get it that we don't even say thank you for it. 01:04:53.560 --> 01:04:55.960 Or even worse when people ask God for something like, 01:04:55.960 --> 01:04:58.440 please give me this job. Please give me this house. 01:04:58.440 --> 01:05:02.600 And then once he gives it to them, they use that as an excuse to not even serve him. 01:05:03.240 --> 01:05:05.720 Let us not be like that. Let us be like this Samaritan here. 01:05:05.800 --> 01:05:10.520 that comes back and glorifies God for answering his request. 01:05:10.520 --> 01:05:15.160 And with a loud voice he praises and he glorifies God because he understands. 01:05:15.600 --> 01:05:20.080 the magnitude of what has happened here. The creator of the universe moved and answered his 01:05:20.080 --> 01:05:25.440 petition and healed him miraculously. That's the mindset we need to come to God in prayer with. 01:05:26.160 --> 01:05:32.640 A humble mindset where we don't expect things and that we appreciate and show thanks for the 01:05:32.640 --> 01:05:37.280 things that God just does answer for us because it's a blessing of God and we don't deserve 01:05:37.280 --> 01:05:40.800 anything. The only thing we deserve in this life was hell is the reality of it. 01:05:42.500 --> 01:05:47.660 Luke 11 go back to Luke 11 to I don't know if you guys ever left even there in the first place Luke 11 verse number two 01:05:48.260 --> 01:05:51.500 The thing I want to bring up because that's talking about thanking God. Okay 01:05:52.300 --> 01:05:58.620 You should be thanking God for the things that he does for you, for the prayer requests specifically that he answers for you. 01:05:58.780 --> 01:06:02.580 Don't let God answer a prayer request from you and then just never let him hear from you again. 01:06:02.740 --> 01:06:06.380 Because that's another thing that people do I didn't even talk about but like people will sit there and they'll 01:06:06.780 --> 01:06:11.380 actually when they have a need, you know, then they'll pray to God like they don't pray to God anytime else 01:06:11.380 --> 01:06:14.300 but then when they have something that they want they're like, oh, I really want this promotion. 01:06:14.340 --> 01:06:19.260 Then they'll pray to God and then as soon as he gives it to him doesn't hear from him anymore until the next need. 01:06:19.260 --> 01:06:20.300 It's like he's just 01:06:20.300 --> 01:06:25.020 like again like he's just some kind of genie that you rub and just come out when I need you God 01:06:25.020 --> 01:06:28.540 I'll serve you I'll ask you I need you but then you could go back into the bottle and I'll just 01:06:28.540 --> 01:06:29.660 continue with my life. 01:06:30.300 --> 01:06:32.540 It's a terrible attitude to have as a Christian. 01:06:32.540 --> 01:06:35.260 And that's one thing my pastor used to say that I really agree with as well. 01:06:35.260 --> 01:06:40.100 He's like, you don't want to be getting right with God when you're in the emergency room 01:06:40.100 --> 01:06:41.620 or your family's in the emergency room. 01:06:41.620 --> 01:06:44.280 He's like, you want to already have a habit of praying to God. 01:06:44.280 --> 01:06:48.300 So it doesn't just feel like you're using him, but it's just like, hey, God, we always 01:06:48.300 --> 01:06:49.680 have this relationship. 01:06:49.680 --> 01:06:51.100 So you feel comfortable. 01:06:51.100 --> 01:06:54.500 It's like he's saying, don't be like one of those friends where they only hit you up when 01:06:54.500 --> 01:06:55.500 they need something. 01:06:55.500 --> 01:06:56.500 Isn't that annoying? 01:06:56.500 --> 01:06:58.220 you'll have someone text you and they'll be like, 01:06:58.220 --> 01:06:58.300 hey. 01:06:58.300 --> 01:07:02.860 what's going on bro?" He just want to reply back like, what do you need? Okay? We 01:07:02.860 --> 01:07:06.060 don't want to be like that with God. We want to be talking to him all the time 01:07:06.060 --> 01:07:11.220 and when he gives us a request we thank him and we should continue to 01:07:11.220 --> 01:07:13.900 praise him and to serve him. 01:07:14.100 --> 01:07:18.600 We're talking about thanking God though, but then there's also like praising God, which 01:07:18.600 --> 01:07:19.900 is a little bit different though. 01:07:19.900 --> 01:07:23.660 Most of the time I just blend these together when I'm praying. 01:07:23.660 --> 01:07:26.260 Thanking God is thanking him for the things that he does for you and praising God is more 01:07:26.260 --> 01:07:27.880 like praising him for who he is. 01:07:27.880 --> 01:07:32.720 Like saying like, you know, praise your name God because you're so merciful, because you're 01:07:32.720 --> 01:07:38.300 so long suffering, because you're so kind, because you made this universe, because you 01:07:38.300 --> 01:07:42.100 sent your son to down the cross for our sins because you know you're 01:07:42.100 --> 01:07:44.540 everything that's good in this world, that's like praising God. 01:07:44.540 --> 01:07:47.340 And my pastor also said in terms of that, like, you know, 01:07:47.340 --> 01:07:51.860 if we as humans like to be praised for the things that we do or for who we are 01:07:52.220 --> 01:07:53.820 and we're made in the image of God, 01:07:53.900 --> 01:07:58.420 then surely God likes to be praised for who he is as well. And we see, I mean, 01:07:58.420 --> 01:08:02.740 the longest book in the Bible Psalms is a book of singing praises to God. 01:08:02.780 --> 01:08:05.700 So clearly this is something that he enjoys and something that we, 01:08:05.700 --> 01:08:09.340 we should be doing because God is amazing. And it's, it's, 01:08:10.100 --> 01:08:12.640 If people would like actually do this in their prayer life too, I think it would change a 01:08:12.640 --> 01:08:15.900 lot of people like to just realize like how blessed we truly are. 01:08:15.900 --> 01:08:23.680 Like the God we serve is all powerful and yet he still loves us and takes care of us 01:08:23.680 --> 01:08:25.720 and provides for all the needs that we have. 01:08:25.720 --> 01:08:28.640 Like even when we sin against him, it's like God is way. 01:08:29.000 --> 01:08:32.000 way too good for us, way too high for us. 01:08:32.000 --> 01:08:35.500 And if you'd actually sit there and dwell on these things and ponder on them, 01:08:35.500 --> 01:08:37.500 it'd help you have a lot better attitude as a Christian 01:08:37.500 --> 01:08:39.500 and help you have a better perspective on life. 01:08:39.500 --> 01:08:41.500 It would probably encourage you to be more zealous for God 01:08:41.500 --> 01:08:46.000 and the works that you do and for the spiritual things that you do for Him. 01:08:46.300 --> 01:08:52.900 So the first thing of this was that we should be thanking God and we should be praising God when we're praying to him. 01:08:52.900 --> 01:08:56.600 The second thing is that we should be praying for God's will to be performed on this earth. 01:08:56.600 --> 01:08:58.500 Look what it says in Luke 11, 2, it says, 01:08:58.500 --> 01:08:59.800 And he said to them, 01:08:59.800 --> 01:09:07.700 When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth. 01:09:07.700 --> 01:09:14.300 And so when I understand this, and I think the way that my pastor used to teach this is that basically this is when I would 01:09:14.300 --> 01:09:20.580 ask for my like the more abstract requests from God like not necessarily like my needs 01:09:20.580 --> 01:09:24.620 or like someone else's needs but more like the needs of like abstract things like you 01:09:24.620 --> 01:09:28.900 know praying to God for like you know please send more laborers to the harvest or you know 01:09:28.900 --> 01:09:34.100 please like help the church to grow please you know help people in Spokane to be receptive 01:09:34.100 --> 01:09:38.380 to the gospel you know different like things like that or like what we see in first Timothy 01:09:38.380 --> 01:09:39.220 3, 2, 1. 01:09:39.600 --> 01:09:41.120 You guys can... 01:09:41.120 --> 01:09:44.000 As a matter of fact, you guys wanna go over verse number two, verse number one? 01:09:44.700 --> 01:09:48.700 First, the two one we're getting to the end of the sermon stick with me a little bit here. Okay, this is the the world 01:09:48.860 --> 01:09:51.580 We're just getting through these little points about prayer and then we're gonna end the sermon 01:09:51.980 --> 01:09:56.540 But first Timothy two verse number one. It says I exhort therefore that that first of all 01:09:57.400 --> 01:10:04.220 Supplications prayers intercessions and giving of thanks be made for all men which notice there it even splits off things right there, right? 01:10:04.220 --> 01:10:12.620 You have supplications prayers intercessions and giving of thanks. These are all like separating these different things out. It said for all men he 01:10:12.700 --> 01:10:17.320 He says, for kings and for all that are in authority that we may lead a quiet and peaceable 01:10:17.320 --> 01:10:22.400 life in all godliness and honesty, for this is good and acceptable in the sight of God 01:10:22.400 --> 01:10:27.160 our Savior, who will have all men to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth. 01:10:27.160 --> 01:10:32.080 So as Christians, Jesus is telling us right here that we should be praying for God's will 01:10:32.080 --> 01:10:35.440 to be done in heaven, and as in heaven, so in earth. 01:10:35.440 --> 01:10:37.100 So we should be praying that it's done. 01:10:37.100 --> 01:10:39.940 And one of the things that we see is that we should be praying for people to get saved 01:10:39.940 --> 01:10:40.700 because this is 01:10:40.700 --> 01:10:42.460 is the acceptable will of God, right? 01:10:42.460 --> 01:10:44.580 He wants people to come to repentance 01:10:44.580 --> 01:10:46.520 and to believe on Jesus Christ. 01:10:46.520 --> 01:10:48.060 So we should be praying for this, 01:10:48.060 --> 01:10:51.060 and we should be putting the lost on our heart 01:10:51.060 --> 01:10:52.700 as Christians and praying, 01:10:52.700 --> 01:10:54.460 not just when we go out soul-winding, 01:10:54.460 --> 01:10:55.860 though we should pray before we go out soul-winding, 01:10:55.860 --> 01:10:57.020 it's a good practice, 01:10:57.020 --> 01:10:58.500 but beforehand we should also be praying, 01:10:58.500 --> 01:11:00.300 like God, would you please help these people 01:11:00.300 --> 01:11:01.840 to be receptive to the gospel? 01:11:01.840 --> 01:11:03.420 Like I remember coming up to CW, 01:11:03.420 --> 01:11:04.260 it's like I'm praying, 01:11:04.260 --> 01:11:05.900 like God, would you please help these kids 01:11:05.900 --> 01:11:08.620 to be receptive to the gospel, to hear your word? 01:11:08.700 --> 01:11:12.540 Why? Because I know that this is God's will because that's what the Bible tells us. 01:11:12.540 --> 01:11:16.620 So this is when we would pray for the abstract things. 01:11:16.620 --> 01:11:20.700 And also you can use this as a moment to sacrifice your will to God as well. 01:11:20.700 --> 01:11:23.820 Because in Matthew 26 39 the Bible says, 01:11:23.820 --> 01:11:26.860 and he went a little further and fell on his face and prayed saying, 01:11:26.860 --> 01:11:30.540 Oh my father, if it be possible, let this cup pass for me. 01:11:30.540 --> 01:11:33.740 Nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt. 01:11:33.740 --> 01:11:36.220 Jesus Christ knows what God wants him to do here. 01:11:36.700 --> 01:11:38.860 He knows what's expected of him, but his flesh is weak. 01:11:38.860 --> 01:11:40.460 Like his flesh doesn't want to die. 01:11:40.460 --> 01:11:43.180 And it makes sense because Jesus Christ never sinned. 01:11:43.180 --> 01:11:44.700 So he doesn't deserve to die. 01:11:44.700 --> 01:11:47.340 So it's like a just feeling that you can see, right? 01:11:47.340 --> 01:11:51.820 But obviously God's will is that Jesus Christ would sacrifice himself for his people. 01:11:51.820 --> 01:11:53.900 And so that's what Jesus Christ does. 01:11:53.900 --> 01:11:56.380 But look at the example that he sets for us right here. 01:11:56.380 --> 01:11:59.180 That even when he doesn't want to do this in the flesh, 01:11:59.180 --> 01:12:01.260 he says, nevertheless, not as I will. 01:12:01.600 --> 01:12:06.720 But that's thou will. Never less not my will, but thine be done. Jesus Christ is saying, 01:12:06.720 --> 01:12:10.800 it doesn't matter what my flesh wants. It doesn't matter what, you know, I want according to these 01:12:10.800 --> 01:12:16.080 earthly desires, whatever God the father wills, that's what I want to be done in my life. 01:12:16.080 --> 01:12:18.640 What do God more Christians would think like that? It even goes back to what I was saying on 01:12:18.640 --> 01:12:22.400 Wednesday, like would the God more people would stop just caring about themselves and their own 01:12:22.400 --> 01:12:26.800 needs and what they want to do in their life and what they think is fun and they'd sacrifice 01:12:26.800 --> 01:12:29.520 their will to God and allow him to work a great work. 01:12:29.600 --> 01:12:33.380 in their life. What if more people would lay this on their heart and be like hey this life 01:12:33.380 --> 01:12:38.420 is going to fade away someday. Everything that I see it's vain it's worthless but what 01:12:38.420 --> 01:12:43.020 we do for God is going to last into eternity so I'm going to sacrifice my will for the 01:12:43.020 --> 01:12:43.520 will of God. 01:12:44.000 --> 01:12:50.080 What a God for people would lay that on their heart and they would and they would care about what God wants and not just what they want 01:12:50.560 --> 01:12:53.840 So unfortunate like people just like ah, I just don't feel like doing this 01:12:54.240 --> 01:12:58.800 Well, jesus didn't feel like going to the cross, but i'm glad he did it for us. I'm glad that he said hey 01:12:59.120 --> 01:13:02.400 I'm not going to please myself. I'm going to please everyone else around me instead 01:13:03.040 --> 01:13:05.040 Which is what being a spiritual christian is 01:13:06.960 --> 01:13:09.460 Go back to luke we're gonna look at luke 11 verse number three 01:13:10.000 --> 01:13:12.240 This is what we need from Christians nowadays. 01:13:12.240 --> 01:13:14.040 People to sacrifice their own will. 01:13:14.040 --> 01:13:15.440 And that's an opportunity to do that in prayer. 01:13:15.440 --> 01:13:17.020 To tell God that that's what you want to do. 01:13:17.020 --> 01:13:18.880 That you want to be like, hey God, 01:13:18.880 --> 01:13:20.960 I know what I'm supposed to be doing. 01:13:20.960 --> 01:13:22.960 It's like that, what is that? 01:13:22.960 --> 01:13:23.800 The Kylo Ren meme. 01:13:23.800 --> 01:13:24.280 You guys know what I'm talking about? 01:13:24.280 --> 01:13:25.320 He's like, I know what I'm supposed to do, 01:13:25.320 --> 01:13:26.880 but I don't know if I'm strong enough to do it. 01:13:26.880 --> 01:13:27.400 You guys don't know? 01:13:27.400 --> 01:13:28.200 OK, I gotta show you some service. 01:13:28.200 --> 01:13:29.640 OK, it's pretty funny. 01:13:29.640 --> 01:13:31.920 It's like, that's like the thing that you gotta do though. 01:13:31.920 --> 01:13:32.880 It's just like, hey, you're like, 01:13:32.880 --> 01:13:34.640 so because sometimes this is the reality as Christians. 01:13:34.640 --> 01:13:36.080 Sometimes you know what you're supposed to do, 01:13:36.080 --> 01:13:37.680 you just don't want to do it. 01:13:38.000 --> 01:13:42.200 And you're just like, you sit there and you struggle, you're like, I just like, I know 01:13:42.200 --> 01:13:45.580 what I'm supposed to be doing, but it would suck to do it or it's going to be painful 01:13:45.580 --> 01:13:49.040 or it's going to be, you know, just not pleasing to my flesh. 01:13:49.040 --> 01:13:52.840 But you use that time in your prayer to say, God, I know what I'm supposed to do. 01:13:52.840 --> 01:13:54.160 And you say, you know what, this is what I'm gonna do. 01:13:54.160 --> 01:13:58.280 I'm going to do your will instead of my own will. 01:13:58.280 --> 01:14:00.000 Luke 11 verse number three it says, 01:14:00.200 --> 01:14:04.120 Give us day by day our daily bread. So the first thing we talked about was thanking God and praising God 01:14:04.120 --> 01:14:06.600 We talked about, you know praying for God's will to be formed 01:14:06.920 --> 01:14:12.440 Uh, and that's more like abstract things and then you have asking God for your own needs to be fulfilled 01:14:13.080 --> 01:14:16.380 Go to james 4 verse number 2 james 4 verse number 2 01:14:22.800 --> 01:14:29.560 James 4 to the Bible says you lost and you have not you kill in your desire to have and cannot obtain you fight in warrior 01:14:29.560 --> 01:14:36.600 You have not because you ask not you ask and receive not because you ask a miss that you may consume it upon your 01:14:37.160 --> 01:14:42.500 Own lust I'd love to like dive into this but I really cannot because we already like are definitely pressing the time already 01:14:43.240 --> 01:14:46.680 But I would just say in this regard that some people lack things on this earth 01:14:47.000 --> 01:14:50.680 Not because God isn't willing to give it to them, but it's because they just don't ask God 01:14:50.800 --> 01:14:54.920 at all or they ask for things that are a miss like this verse says but God is 01:14:54.920 --> 01:14:58.000 willing that's how great God is to us that you know I was talking about how 01:14:58.000 --> 01:15:00.200 he's not like a genie and all these things earlier and this is a hundred 01:15:00.200 --> 01:15:05.440 percent true but God is also a father to us that wants to please his children 01:15:05.440 --> 01:15:09.360 that wants to make us happy as long as it's according to his own will on this 01:15:09.360 --> 01:15:13.600 earth just like you know I want to make my kids happy because like you know 01:15:13.600 --> 01:15:16.760 there's just like there's just no greater joy than just seeing your 01:15:16.760 --> 01:15:18.800 children happy that's the reality like 01:15:18.800 --> 01:15:22.160 Tyson Karina when we, when I was just in Sacramento at the Red Hot Preaching Conference, 01:15:22.160 --> 01:15:25.400 I saw these stuffies at the store and I was like, they're going to love them. 01:15:25.440 --> 01:15:29.000 So I went and bought them and I come back and they're just like freaking out about 01:15:29.000 --> 01:15:32.200 the stuff. Then I was like, Oh, it's like, just warms your heart. You love to see it. 01:15:32.600 --> 01:15:36.600 But God has to be the same way with us because he loves to take care of our 01:15:36.600 --> 01:15:39.720 requests and to answer us. And what we have to do though, 01:15:39.720 --> 01:15:42.400 is we have to ask him because that's what my kids do. They'll be like, dad, 01:15:42.400 --> 01:15:44.560 can I have a gift? And I'm like, okay, I can't refuse. Okay. 01:15:45.200 --> 01:15:46.800 Maybe God's not as soft as I am. 01:15:46.800 --> 01:15:50.720 on that regard. But you know, we shouldn't be going and asking God for the requests we 01:15:50.720 --> 01:15:53.160 have. But I do think that most people know that you're supposed to be asking God for 01:15:53.160 --> 01:15:58.680 your requests. So I won't harp on this too much. But you should think of all the things 01:15:58.680 --> 01:16:03.140 that maybe you take for granted and you should pray for them as a Christian. Like for example, 01:16:03.140 --> 01:16:07.760 you know, good thing to be praying for is your marriage, for your spouse's health, 01:16:07.760 --> 01:16:12.880 for your kids' health, for your own well-being, your own safety and protection, you know, 01:16:12.880 --> 01:16:14.800 for your kids one day, Lord willing. 01:16:14.800 --> 01:16:18.560 to get saved if they're not at the age of understanding or if they are saved be praying 01:16:18.560 --> 01:16:22.200 that they would find a good godly spouse. That's always on my heart. I'm like, what 01:16:22.200 --> 01:16:27.040 if I raised like these great kids and then they got married to some scumbag? Like may 01:16:27.040 --> 01:16:31.920 it never be so. So I'm praying to God. I'm like, God, please set up a spouse that is 01:16:31.920 --> 01:16:37.560 a good godly man for my daughters and a good, you know, godly woman for my son. Like, and 01:16:37.560 --> 01:16:41.260 then once I get the more kids, they get added to that list and I'm praying for their salvation 01:16:41.260 --> 01:16:42.720 as well because none of them right now are quite. 01:16:42.800 --> 01:16:46.480 the age of understanding, but I'm like, God, as soon as they understand what's 01:16:46.480 --> 01:16:49.920 right from wrong, would you please help them to seek the gospel and they to 01:16:49.920 --> 01:16:53.240 preach the gospel to get them saved? Like there's so many things we take for 01:16:53.240 --> 01:16:56.540 granted sometimes in that regard, and we need to make sure that we're praying for 01:16:56.540 --> 01:17:00.600 the needs that we don't want to just roll the dice on, praying for wisdom, 01:17:00.600 --> 01:17:04.200 praying for knowledge. All these kind of things are good for you. Um, the fourth 01:17:04.200 --> 01:17:06.960 thing is that you should be asking for forgiveness and prayer as well. Luke 01:17:06.960 --> 01:17:10.800 11 four, it says, and forgive us our sins for we also forgive everyone. 01:17:10.800 --> 01:17:14.800 that is indebted to us and leaves not in the temptation but delivers from evil. 01:17:15.300 --> 01:17:19.140 And I'll keep it a stack with you guys right here. Okay. If I am slipping up, 01:17:19.140 --> 01:17:23.700 if I am sinning, if I am messing up, this one usually gets expedited all the way to the very 01:17:23.700 --> 01:17:27.860 top of the list. Okay. Because you just don't feel comfortable going to God and praying and asking 01:17:27.860 --> 01:17:30.900 for things while you have sin on your heart, while you feel like you've done something wrong. 01:17:31.620 --> 01:17:35.460 So I don't necessarily think you have to do the list in this order. Cause I definitely don't. If I 01:17:35.460 --> 01:17:39.300 have messed up, if I've sinned, if I do something that's on my conscience, that's on my heart, 01:17:39.300 --> 01:17:42.900 the first thing I do when I go to God in prayer is I'm like, God, please forgive me. 01:17:43.300 --> 01:17:47.200 Please forgive me my inequities forgive me for sin against you and for in for you know 01:17:47.480 --> 01:17:51.720 Going against your law and then I'll go into the other things from this list and I 01:17:52.240 --> 01:17:53.660 Hopefully though, you know 01:17:53.660 --> 01:17:58.160 You are asking for forgiveness of your sins as a Christian because obviously we understand it's not a salvation issue 01:17:58.480 --> 01:18:00.900 But you just want to have your heart right with God 01:18:00.900 --> 01:18:06.000 You want to be clean before God not just because you know, like you don't want to get the punishment from God 01:18:06.000 --> 01:18:07.320 Even though that is part of it 01:18:07.320 --> 01:18:11.300 But isn't it just like at such a heavy weight you bear on yourself when you don't go to God and ask 01:18:11.300 --> 01:18:16.100 forgiveness or sins just like you just like if I go stand up here to time where 01:18:16.100 --> 01:18:19.420 I'm slipping up and I'm not asking God to forgive me I can just feel it on my 01:18:19.420 --> 01:18:22.280 heart I thought of my conscience it feels like there's like a brick wall 01:18:22.280 --> 01:18:25.620 between me and God I'm like what's going on it's like oh that's what's going on I 01:18:25.620 --> 01:18:28.980 need to get down on my knees and confess to God my sins and the Bible says if I 01:18:28.980 --> 01:18:33.020 do that he's faithful and just forgive me of all unrighteousness and we need to 01:18:33.020 --> 01:18:35.700 make sure that we don't become hardened to sin because that's what a lot of 01:18:35.700 --> 01:18:39.020 people do good at Psalms 51 verse number one real quick Psalms 51 verse number 01:18:39.020 --> 01:18:39.300 one. 01:18:39.300 --> 01:18:42.660 A lot of people, why they get hardened and sinned, 01:18:42.660 --> 01:18:43.900 why they double down and sinned, 01:18:43.900 --> 01:18:45.180 why they never escape from their sin, 01:18:45.180 --> 01:18:48.180 why they get backslidden and they can't get back up 01:18:48.180 --> 01:18:50.860 is because at some point they sin and they sin 01:18:50.860 --> 01:18:52.300 and they sin and then they just. 01:18:52.500 --> 01:18:58.260 Stop asking for forgiveness and then they get hardened to what they're doing and then they get to a point where they're just like they 01:18:58.260 --> 01:19:01.960 Don't even feel like what they're doing is wrong anymore because you're so used to it. You're so accustomed to it 01:19:02.100 --> 01:19:06.700 They're like your heart is like hardened like the Bible talks about not to be a reprobate obviously 01:19:06.700 --> 01:19:09.240 But you know what? I mean? Like they're your neck gets stiffened 01:19:09.240 --> 01:19:11.440 Like you just you get so set in your ways 01:19:11.940 --> 01:19:13.780 That it's hard to come out of it 01:19:13.780 --> 01:19:19.500 You the way to avoid this as a Christian is every time you start to slip up you go to God and you confess your sins 01:19:19.500 --> 01:19:20.500 Because this is the question 01:19:20.500 --> 01:19:25.140 everybody in this room as well, when is the last time you like really went to God and got clean with God? 01:19:25.800 --> 01:19:29.400 When's the last time you went to God and weren't just like God, forgive me my sins. Amen. 01:19:29.400 --> 01:19:33.400 But like actually got down and prayed like the psalmist does here. Look what it says in psalm 01:19:33.400 --> 01:19:37.800 51. It says to the chief musician of psalm of David when Nathan the prophet came unto him 01:19:37.800 --> 01:19:42.440 after he had gone into Bathsheba. It says have mercy upon me, oh God, according to thy loving 01:19:42.440 --> 01:19:46.440 kindness, according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies, blot out my transgressions, 01:19:46.440 --> 01:19:51.560 wash me thoroughly from my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin, for I acknowledge my transgressions, 01:19:51.560 --> 01:19:53.560 my sin is ever before me against the... 01:19:53.800 --> 01:20:06.600 The only have I said and done this evil and I site that thou might as be justified when thou speakest and be clear when thou judges when you mess up as a Christian you be going to God and ask for your sins. 01:20:06.800 --> 01:20:20.200 But there does need to be times where you don't just go like I was just saying you don't want to do the quick please forgive me amen but then you really get your heart right with God because you don't want to be where it's like you know someone can do you wrong so many times that when they apologize it doesn't even mean anything anymore. 01:20:20.200 --> 01:20:21.600 Just kind of like you're like oh yeah. 01:20:21.800 --> 01:20:24.840 You apologize, but it's like you're just going to go to the same thing to me. 01:20:24.840 --> 01:20:29.320 But like that's why these moments in our Christian life are important in our prayer 01:20:29.320 --> 01:20:33.080 that there should be periods where you go to God and you really feel bad. You really feel 01:20:33.080 --> 01:20:36.440 sorrowful. You're down on your knees and you're praying to him and you're really confessing 01:20:36.440 --> 01:20:40.680 everything that's on your heart to him so that you don't get hardened in your sin and so that 01:20:40.680 --> 01:20:46.120 you can, you know, fix your relationship with God because the Bible tells us that our iniquities, 01:20:46.120 --> 01:20:49.720 they separate us from God. It tells us that. So don't let that happen to you. 01:20:49.800 --> 01:20:53.680 as a Christian because it separates your relationship from God. 01:20:53.680 --> 01:20:55.160 Go to Hebrews 4 verse number 14. 01:20:55.160 --> 01:20:56.360 Hebrews 4 verse number 14. 01:21:07.500 --> 01:21:09.500 Hebrews 4, verse number 14. 01:21:10.900 --> 01:21:16.020 The Bible says seeing then that we have a great high priest and that is passionate heavens Jesus the son of God 01:21:16.020 --> 01:21:21.940 Let us hold fast our profession for we have not and high priests which cannot be touched with the feeling of our of our infirmities 01:21:21.940 --> 01:21:27.140 But was in all points tempted like as we are yet without sin yet or you see me let us 01:21:28.620 --> 01:21:30.080 Yeah, it's me yet without sin 01:21:30.080 --> 01:21:34.760 Let us therefore become boldly into the throne of grace that you may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time need 01:21:34.760 --> 01:21:38.700 The only reason I bring these verses up because I want you understand as well. You don't want to fall into this trap 01:21:38.900 --> 01:21:41.940 where the devil kinda convinces you 01:21:41.940 --> 01:21:44.240 that you shouldn't ask God for forgiveness of your sins 01:21:44.240 --> 01:21:46.600 because you've been slipping on up on something so much. 01:21:46.600 --> 01:21:47.780 I don't know if you guys have ever experienced that, 01:21:47.780 --> 01:21:49.020 but sometimes you'll be like, 01:21:49.020 --> 01:21:50.180 God's not gonna forgive me, 01:21:50.180 --> 01:21:51.740 or you just feel like this looming judgment, 01:21:51.740 --> 01:21:52.580 you're just like, 01:21:52.580 --> 01:21:53.820 why would he even go confess to God? 01:21:53.820 --> 01:21:55.980 Like he's already probably pissed off at me, 01:21:55.980 --> 01:21:57.260 he's already pretty mad at me. 01:21:57.260 --> 01:21:58.080 You know, it's like, 01:21:58.080 --> 01:21:59.900 but I don't understand that this is a deceit 01:21:59.900 --> 01:22:00.840 from the devil though, 01:22:00.840 --> 01:22:04.580 because God says we can boldly go to the throne of grace, 01:22:04.580 --> 01:22:06.340 even when we mess up really badly, 01:22:06.340 --> 01:22:06.900 because that's- 01:22:06.900 --> 01:22:13.020 thing is that Jesus Christ knows our temptations because he walked in the flesh like we did. 01:22:13.020 --> 01:22:17.260 So he knows even though he didn't slip up himself he knows what it means to fall down 01:22:17.260 --> 01:22:20.980 and he's willing he's faithful and just to forgive your sins. 01:22:20.980 --> 01:22:23.020 You got to come boldly to the throne of grace though. 01:22:23.020 --> 01:22:26.140 Come boldly and don't hesitate and try to like shy away from it. 01:22:26.140 --> 01:22:28.260 Actually come and ask for forgiveness of your sins. 01:22:28.260 --> 01:22:31.460 The other part of that is that it says that we know for we also forgive everyone that 01:22:31.460 --> 01:22:32.460 is indebted unto us. 01:22:32.460 --> 01:22:33.460 That's in Luke. 01:22:33.460 --> 01:22:34.200 Um... 01:22:34.300 --> 01:22:38.300 I'm not going to go too deep into that, but I just say like, this is saying though, that 01:22:38.300 --> 01:22:41.660 when we go to ask for forgiveness of our sins, we need to make sure that we're forgiving 01:22:41.660 --> 01:22:45.860 people that have asked us to forgive them as well. 01:22:45.860 --> 01:22:51.060 So if you know, your brother comes to you and he asks for forgiveness, you should forgive 01:22:51.060 --> 01:22:55.480 him and you shouldn't like let this bitterness fester up in your heart. 01:22:55.480 --> 01:22:58.740 Because if you let this root of bitterness comes in, it says in Hebrews that many thereby 01:22:58.740 --> 01:23:00.100 are defiled by it. 01:23:00.100 --> 01:23:02.300 So you don't want to get to a point where, you know, if you're... 01:23:02.300 --> 01:23:05.780 comes to you that you're super angry with him that you can't just can't you 01:23:05.780 --> 01:23:10.300 know you just can't like even come to like 01:23:10.400 --> 01:23:12.920 Like even like a somewhat peaceable terms with him. You know what I mean? 01:23:12.920 --> 01:23:18.060 But you want to go to a place where it's like hey your conscience feels good before God you say hey God 01:23:18.060 --> 01:23:21.100 I truly forgive this person because if we don't do that 01:23:21.100 --> 01:23:25.980 We know the parable that where there's that guy that gets forgiven of his sins and then instead of forgiving the guy that's indebted 01:23:25.980 --> 01:23:27.980 To him he just goes and takes him by the throat 01:23:28.380 --> 01:23:31.400 It's right like the fourth the the force chokers 01:23:32.100 --> 01:23:36.900 It's like we don't want to be like that because then God's not gonna want to forgive us of our sins 01:23:36.900 --> 01:23:38.400 So we got to be careful that is great 01:23:38.400 --> 01:23:45.400 Christians. The fourth, the fifth thing, excuse me, is that you should pray against temptation 01:23:45.400 --> 01:23:50.640 and against, yeah, against sin and temptation. So yeah, go to Luke 11, 4 again. I don't know 01:23:50.640 --> 01:23:53.600 if you guys are already there. Luke 11, 4. We're going to the end. I know this was long. 01:23:53.600 --> 01:23:57.400 I told Brother Ryan this was the longest note I've ever put in a sermon, so I'm sorry. Okay. 01:23:57.400 --> 01:24:00.400 We're right at the end though. Stick with me. Stick with me just a little longer, okay? 01:24:01.700 --> 01:24:03.900 Just pretend I'm Pastor Thomas for a second, okay? 01:24:03.900 --> 01:24:06.300 Just pretend I'm his son, okay? 01:24:06.300 --> 01:24:09.500 It's like, it's just normal Pastor Thomas like, 01:24:09.500 --> 01:24:10.200 Luke. 01:24:10.500 --> 01:24:13.940 Oh, you guys are where you guys are. You guys are in Luke 11 for ya 01:24:14.100 --> 01:24:20.540 So pray against temptation says and forgive us our sins for we also forgive everyone is indebted to us and lead us not the temptation 01:24:20.540 --> 01:24:21.940 But deliver us from evil 01:24:21.940 --> 01:24:28.100 So we should be praying to God and ask him to deliver us from temptation and Matthew 26 for one year to go there 01:24:28.100 --> 01:24:31.940 But it says watch and pray the internet the patient the spirit indeed is willing but the flesh is weak 01:24:32.020 --> 01:24:37.180 There are some sins that we really struggle with in our lives and that what people call besetting sins a lot of times 01:24:37.260 --> 01:24:38.500 Where you just keep following 01:24:38.500 --> 01:24:42.060 of the same thing. You keep following into this habitual habit, but the answer 01:24:42.060 --> 01:24:47.340 to that from the Bible is to go to God in prayer and ask him to help you be 01:24:47.340 --> 01:24:51.160 delivered from temptation. He says the watch and pray the internet meditation, 01:24:51.160 --> 01:24:55.340 the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. We can overcome all these 01:24:55.340 --> 01:24:59.460 things because in Romans we saw that Jesus Christ has truly set us free from 01:24:59.460 --> 01:25:03.220 all of our sins. There is not a single sin that we cannot overcome on this 01:25:03.220 --> 01:25:06.420 earth, but there are sins that are vices to us and that 01:25:06.500 --> 01:25:09.200 hurt us more than they hurt other people. Whatever your 01:25:09.200 --> 01:25:13.200 vice is as a sin, what you need to be doing with it is going 01:25:13.200 --> 01:25:17.400 God continually in prayer and asking him to deliver you from 01:25:17.400 --> 01:25:20.400 that temptation because there's no temptation that's given us 01:25:20.400 --> 01:25:22.800 that's too strong for us. What the Bible says there's nothing 01:25:22.800 --> 01:25:25.700 that we can't resist as Christians. We have overcome 01:25:25.700 --> 01:25:28.500 sin rather Jesus Christ has overcome sin for us so we can 01:25:28.500 --> 01:25:32.500 escape it. But sometimes what it takes is not just a one-time 01:25:32.500 --> 01:25:34.500 prayer, not just a five-second prayer. 01:25:34.500 --> 01:25:37.100 but hours of prayer, okay? 01:25:37.100 --> 01:25:38.180 And maybe not all at one time, 01:25:38.180 --> 01:25:40.020 but throughout the extended time, 01:25:40.020 --> 01:25:41.500 praying against temptation, 01:25:41.500 --> 01:25:43.060 breaking up multiple times in a day 01:25:43.060 --> 01:25:44.500 if you're really struggling with something. 01:25:44.500 --> 01:25:45.940 That's what we see from Jesus Christ 01:25:45.940 --> 01:25:47.340 in the Garden of Gethsemane, is it not? 01:25:47.340 --> 01:25:49.180 Three times, even though he was perfect, 01:25:49.180 --> 01:25:50.260 that should be an example to us, 01:25:50.260 --> 01:25:51.860 even though Jesus Christ was perfect, 01:25:51.860 --> 01:25:56.020 he still was praying multiple times against temptation. 01:25:56.020 --> 01:25:57.780 How much more should we probably be praying 01:25:57.780 --> 01:25:59.500 against temptation that are sinners? 01:25:59.600 --> 01:26:04.360 So if you're really struggling with something, if it's really besetting you, if it's really a vice in your life, 01:26:04.360 --> 01:26:07.400 Pray! And you might say, I've already prayed. You haven't prayed enough though. 01:26:07.400 --> 01:26:10.400 Keep praying. That's the example that we see from Jesus Christ. 01:26:10.400 --> 01:26:13.400 And eventually, you overcome it and you win. 01:26:13.700 --> 01:26:19.140 If you stick and stay and if you actually do that because that's what we see. That's why Jesus is saying 01:26:19.140 --> 01:26:23.660 That's why the disciples fail by the way if you notice this in the story because think about what the disciples are doing instead 01:26:23.820 --> 01:26:30.020 What is that? What are they doing? They're sleeping right? But what is Jesus telling them to do watch and pray the inter non-dentation 01:26:30.020 --> 01:26:32.940 So what happens when they come to take Jesus? 01:26:33.660 --> 01:26:41.620 They flee why because they weren't praying against temptation. That's why so you use that as an example to where when you're but setting sand or 01:26:41.700 --> 01:26:44.140 When you're a major sinner with a sin that you're struggling with is coming into your 01:26:44.140 --> 01:26:48.500 life, if it keeps knocking you down, you need to take Jesus' example and pray more about 01:26:48.500 --> 01:26:49.500 it. 01:26:49.500 --> 01:26:50.500 Pray longer against it. 01:26:50.500 --> 01:26:52.580 Watch and pray that you enter not into temptation. 01:26:52.580 --> 01:26:54.220 Those are the words of Jesus Christ himself. 01:26:55.200 --> 01:26:57.800 And I'm not going to kid you that these things are hard. 01:26:57.800 --> 01:26:59.300 I mean, this was hard for Jesus too. 01:26:59.300 --> 01:26:59.900 That's what I'm saying. 01:26:59.900 --> 01:27:00.900 I'm sorry I'm rabbit trailing on this. 01:27:00.900 --> 01:27:02.400 But it's like, this is hard for Jesus too? 01:27:02.400 --> 01:27:05.300 It says that he's sweating drops like blood in the garden. 01:27:05.300 --> 01:27:08.100 Like, this is how dedicated he was to this. 01:27:08.100 --> 01:27:14.400 And yet he still overcame because we always overcome when we rely on the power of God and not on our flesh. 01:27:15.000 --> 01:27:18.640 So don't don't get to this point where you think that I just didn't listen for so long 01:27:18.720 --> 01:27:22.780 This has been in my life for so long that I can't overcome it. You absolutely can't overcome it 01:27:22.780 --> 01:27:29.680 You just got to pray against it and not just a little five-second prayer. That's why I'm really hammered on that because people I'm sorry 01:27:29.680 --> 01:27:33.080 I'm running all this but like people really say that like they'll go online that you see on reddit 01:27:33.080 --> 01:27:37.560 They're like I can't overcome this and you're like, okay pray about it. You're like I have prayed about it 01:27:37.680 --> 01:27:42.920 He hasn't prayed long enough about it then okay until you've actually been there praying for hours 01:27:43.000 --> 01:27:47.320 and hours and hours on your sand or on your knees against sand then you haven't prayed 01:27:47.320 --> 01:27:49.680 long enough is what we learned from this story. 01:27:49.680 --> 01:27:51.800 If that's what it takes then that's what it takes. 01:27:51.800 --> 01:27:57.160 But you know whatever it takes you got to do what you got to do even if it's hard but 01:27:57.160 --> 01:28:01.740 this is the problem with people is that they think that like if they just throw out one 01:28:01.740 --> 01:28:03.280 prayer that's enough. 01:28:03.280 --> 01:28:04.280 It's not enough though okay. 01:28:05.100 --> 01:28:08.760 Luke 11 verse 3, this is the last point of all these prayer things, okay? 01:28:08.760 --> 01:28:11.060 Is that, you know, we should be praying for others. 01:28:11.060 --> 01:28:15.220 Because if you notice in this passage, everything that he's been saying has been in like the plural tense. 01:28:15.220 --> 01:28:18.700 He says, give us day by day our daily bread. 01:28:18.700 --> 01:28:24.360 So when we're praying, we shouldn't just be praying for ourselves, we should be praying for the people around us as well. 01:28:24.360 --> 01:28:28.660 Ephesians 6, 18, you have to turn there, but it says, praying always with all prayer and supplication, 01:28:28.660 --> 01:28:33.060 the spirit watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints. 01:28:33.100 --> 01:28:38.120 The thing is though is that most people don't ever pray for anybody else's needs because they don't even pray for their own needs 01:28:38.120 --> 01:28:40.540 At all anyways, so that's another issue 01:28:40.540 --> 01:28:42.620 We're like when you let one thing fall in your life 01:28:42.620 --> 01:28:44.780 It makes so many things fall in your life 01:28:44.900 --> 01:28:48.220 But as a Christian you need to be first praying for your needs 01:28:48.220 --> 01:28:52.660 But you also need to pray for the needs of your brothers and Christ praying for the people in this room 01:28:52.740 --> 01:28:59.600 Like praying for your friends praying for your family praying for our pastor praying for our pastor friends praying for the missionaries are out there 01:28:59.620 --> 01:29:01.100 There's so much to pray 01:29:01.100 --> 01:29:04.700 for. You see why I say like you can't just do that in five minutes? There's so 01:29:04.700 --> 01:29:08.840 much. There's so much to pray for. So much we should be praying for and that we 01:29:08.840 --> 01:29:10.200 could be praying for. 01:29:10.200 --> 01:29:15.200 but that we don't because we don't esteem prayer as something as essential. 01:29:15.200 --> 01:29:22.200 But hopefully you see the importance of this from all these verses in this sermon and you make it something that's essential in your life. 01:29:22.200 --> 01:29:24.200 Even if you're not praying for hours, okay, you don't have to pray for hours. 01:29:24.200 --> 01:29:26.200 Okay, I'm not saying that. Hey, you know what a good goal would be? 01:29:26.200 --> 01:29:29.200 I think a good healthy goal is praying for 20 minutes a day. 01:29:29.200 --> 01:29:31.200 I think it's a good thing to shoot for. 01:29:31.200 --> 01:29:34.200 And if you're not praying at all, maybe just, you know, five minutes, 10 minutes a day. 01:29:34.200 --> 01:29:38.200 Hey, just build yourself up. Okay, if that's what it takes, you know, that's a... 01:29:38.200 --> 01:29:39.600 It's kind of like weightlifting. 01:29:39.600 --> 01:29:42.480 It's like you're not going to go bench 225 the first time you ever touch the barbell. 01:29:42.480 --> 01:29:43.800 You know, it takes some time. 01:29:43.800 --> 01:29:45.220 So if that's what it is, then that's what it is. 01:29:45.220 --> 01:29:47.200 You know, you can only spend five minutes in prayer. 01:29:47.200 --> 01:29:49.820 You only spend 10 minutes in prayer, then do that. 01:29:49.820 --> 01:29:52.040 But work on increasing your prayer life. 01:29:52.040 --> 01:29:54.040 Hopefully that's the message you get from this sermon. 01:29:54.040 --> 01:29:55.040 I know it's been long. 01:29:55.040 --> 01:29:57.720 I'm sorry about that guys, but it's not over yet. 01:29:57.720 --> 01:29:58.720 Okay. 01:29:58.720 --> 01:29:59.720 But it's almost over. 01:29:59.720 --> 01:30:00.720 Okay. 01:30:00.720 --> 01:30:01.720 Stick with me for a second. 01:30:01.720 --> 01:30:02.720 Okay. 01:30:02.720 --> 01:30:03.600 Go to Acts 3.1. 01:30:03.720 --> 01:30:03.600 This is the last place you'll turn. 01:30:04.720 --> 01:30:03.600 Last place you'll turn. 01:30:05.720 --> 01:30:03.600 Acts 3.1. 01:30:03.800 --> 01:30:06.520 This is definitely the record of my longest sermon though. Good night. 01:30:08.520 --> 01:30:11.880 I'm sorry about that. Okay. Don't worry about it. Ryan said he's going to preach a short sermon, 01:30:11.880 --> 01:30:18.440 right? Okay. Um, where are we? Where are we at? Oh, I, cause I told you in the beginning, 01:30:18.440 --> 01:30:21.080 I want to give you guys some tips. Here's some tips though that I wanted to give you on this. 01:30:21.080 --> 01:30:24.760 And they're very short. Number one, okay. For struggling to find prayer time, 01:30:24.760 --> 01:30:26.520 this is what has been really helpful to me. 01:30:27.500 --> 01:30:32.700 Find the little lulls of your life where you're doing little dinky stuff and replace it with prayer. 01:30:32.700 --> 01:30:37.100 For example, we know when I'm driving to work in the morning, that's usually when I do the majority of my prayer. 01:30:37.100 --> 01:30:39.500 Because my work is like 20 minutes away, so then it's like perfect. 01:30:39.500 --> 01:30:46.500 So I used to in the mornings just, you know, listen to a podcast, listen to a YouTube video, listen to music, like some kind of hymns or whatever like that. 01:30:46.500 --> 01:30:49.700 But now I just replace it. I'm like, this is just prayer time. 01:30:49.700 --> 01:30:55.500 And that's just, it's just, it's so nice because I know I'm guaranteed five times a week that I can... 01:30:55.500 --> 01:30:57.940 and go to a consistent place for prayer. 01:30:57.940 --> 01:31:00.720 And maybe it's not as focused if I was just on my home, 01:31:00.720 --> 01:31:03.440 at my house, just on my knees praying. 01:31:03.440 --> 01:31:04.460 But maybe it is more focused 01:31:04.460 --> 01:31:06.140 because the kids would be all over me on the floor then. 01:31:06.140 --> 01:31:09.300 Okay, they'd be attacking me, trying to wrestle around me. 01:31:09.300 --> 01:31:11.660 So, find those different things. 01:31:11.660 --> 01:31:13.460 Find, whatever it is though, 01:31:13.460 --> 01:31:15.220 maybe you don't drive anywhere, in the shower, 01:31:15.220 --> 01:31:17.140 that's also a good place to pray. 01:31:17.140 --> 01:31:19.140 There's so many times in your day 01:31:19.140 --> 01:31:20.340 where if you just notice you're just scrolling 01:31:20.340 --> 01:31:21.740 on your phone, just aimlessly, 01:31:21.740 --> 01:31:23.240 you're just like, what am I doing with my life? 01:31:23.240 --> 01:31:23.500 I'm doing. 01:31:23.500 --> 01:31:27.340 nothing productive on tick tock. It's like, Hey, replace it with prayer. 01:31:27.340 --> 01:31:28.980 It doesn't have to all be prayer. Okay. 01:31:29.180 --> 01:31:31.900 I'm not saying that because we are built to have fun as humans as well. 01:31:31.920 --> 01:31:35.500 So don't ever get this like acidic mindset where you have to just only pain is 01:31:35.500 --> 01:31:40.300 the way. Okay. But you probably should not just always be happiness, 01:31:40.300 --> 01:31:43.780 joy, fun, just lollipops, rainbows. There should be a balance of these things. 01:31:44.100 --> 01:31:45.340 Second thing. Okay. 01:31:45.800 --> 01:31:50.040 for prayer that has helped me tremendously. And I don't even know why it's so simple. 01:31:50.040 --> 01:31:54.520 Setting a timer to pray really helps you pray. This isn't applicable when I'm driving in the car 01:31:54.520 --> 01:31:57.640 because I mean, obviously I'm just driving, so I'm praying for the whole time or whatever. 01:31:57.640 --> 01:32:03.800 But it's like, if you are at home and you feel like you have a problem focusing, set a timer 01:32:03.800 --> 01:32:09.960 when you pray. Like if you set like a 10 minute timer, 15 minute timer, it really helps. Or what 01:32:09.960 --> 01:32:13.720 my pastor used to do, and this is really effective as well, if you have like a pro... 01:32:13.800 --> 01:32:20.800 He would just split these all up into these different categories and then he'd divide them over like times with like like over like minutes. 01:32:20.800 --> 01:32:25.800 So I could be like three minutes instead of timer praying for thankfulness when it goes off. 01:32:25.800 --> 01:32:29.800 Then you go three minutes for praise and you go, you know, three minutes for temptation, you know, all these different things. 01:32:29.800 --> 01:32:32.800 You add it up at the end. It's like, you know, 15 minutes, 18 minutes, whatever it is. 01:32:32.800 --> 01:32:35.800 OK, it's a good strategy. I don't know why it works, but it really works a lot. 01:32:37.500 --> 01:32:41.340 It feels like, because I think sometimes when you go to pray, you feel like it's like an endless thing. 01:32:41.340 --> 01:32:43.900 You're just like, oh, it's just like never ends. It's like the the the 01:32:43.900 --> 01:32:46.380 unsurety of not knowing how long it's going to last, but that helps out a lot. 01:32:48.600 --> 01:32:52.960 The third thing is that you should have a place to go to to pray. 01:32:52.960 --> 01:32:55.200 Like I was just telling you, like a place like Jesus goes to a mountain. 01:32:55.240 --> 01:32:59.600 It says also in Gethsemane, it says he often resorted there to go to prayer. 01:32:59.840 --> 01:33:03.480 He had specific place to go and pray and it's specific times to go and pray. 01:33:03.480 --> 01:33:06.360 That's what you guys see at a, uh, acts three one. This isn't just Jesus, 01:33:06.360 --> 01:33:07.440 but this is everybody. It says, 01:33:07.760 --> 01:33:10.400 now Peter and John went up together into the temple of the, 01:33:10.440 --> 01:33:13.880 or at the hour of prayer being the ninth hour back in the day, 01:33:13.900 --> 01:33:16.560 they have an hour of prayer. This is the prayer. 01:33:16.600 --> 01:33:20.400 It's not like the Muslims call a prayer where they're doing that weird sound. 01:33:20.400 --> 01:33:23.000 You guys don't even know about who's heard the call of prayer before in here. 01:33:23.000 --> 01:33:24.000 Okay. 01:33:24.000 --> 01:33:26.960 I lived the call of prayer because when I went to Tanzania, they were playing it woke 01:33:26.960 --> 01:33:27.960 me up in the morning. 01:33:27.960 --> 01:33:28.960 I was like, what is that sound? 01:33:28.960 --> 01:33:32.240 It's like, it sounds like a camel's like getting slaughtered or something like that. 01:33:32.240 --> 01:33:34.920 Like what? 01:33:34.920 --> 01:33:35.920 But that's what it was. 01:33:35.920 --> 01:33:36.920 Okay. 01:33:36.920 --> 01:33:37.920 But we don't have to do that. 01:33:37.920 --> 01:33:41.200 But you should have a time where you actually pray because that's what I told you guys before. 01:33:41.200 --> 01:33:42.520 And it's really true. 01:33:42.520 --> 01:33:44.560 When you don't have a set schedule of when... 01:33:44.600 --> 01:33:47.560 you're gonna do something, it just never gets fit in the schedule at all. That's 01:33:47.560 --> 01:33:51.200 what happens most of the time. It's like if you don't have like a specific time 01:33:51.200 --> 01:33:55.240 when you're reading, or the specific time when you're praying, it's like it just 01:33:55.240 --> 01:33:57.920 you fall into the habit. It's like it's just all over the place. It's all wishy-washy. 01:33:57.920 --> 01:34:03.960 So find a block of time to pray, or like I was doing, find those specific 01:34:03.960 --> 01:34:06.200 things where you immediately just like start to pray. 01:34:06.400 --> 01:34:10.560 Um, the last tip of this, okay, is that you should break it up throughout your day if 01:34:10.560 --> 01:34:11.560 you need to. 01:34:11.560 --> 01:34:14.760 Because if you see like, he says morning and at noon and at night I'll pray. 01:34:14.760 --> 01:34:18.320 I assume this is just my assumption, not actually what the Bible says, but I just assume that 01:34:18.320 --> 01:34:21.940 this would probably be that he's breaking up the different things that he's praying 01:34:21.940 --> 01:34:23.020 for throughout his day. 01:34:23.020 --> 01:34:26.160 Maybe he is repeating the same things out in the day, that could be possible. 01:34:26.160 --> 01:34:28.520 But I would imagine that if you're praying throughout multiple times a day, you could 01:34:28.520 --> 01:34:29.520 split these things up. 01:34:29.520 --> 01:34:32.160 Like you pray in the morning for the things you're thankful for and the things you're 01:34:32.160 --> 01:34:34.400 praising God for. In the middle of the day it's like 01:34:34.400 --> 01:34:39.240 Hey, you're you know, leaving on the temptation you're praying for your needs, you know, the other day you're praying for others needs 01:34:39.240 --> 01:34:41.240 You're praying for whoever's needs 01:34:41.480 --> 01:34:44.800 The abstract things whatever so I know these are kind of scatter tips 01:34:44.800 --> 01:34:50.560 I was hoping to work these in more fluid fluidly than I did but I ran out of time 01:34:50.600 --> 01:34:55.600 Okay, and we're and we're way out of time. Okay, but uh in conclusion for this sermon, okay 01:34:55.600 --> 01:35:02.200 These were the points for prayer. Okay as far as the breaking it down goes. Okay, you should enter God's gates with Thanksgiving 01:35:02.400 --> 01:35:05.760 and with praise. So you should thank God and praise God while you're praying. 01:35:05.760 --> 01:35:09.360 You should pray for God's will to be performed in this world. 01:35:09.600 --> 01:35:14.400 Uh, number three, you should, you know, uh, pray for your own needs to be 01:35:14.400 --> 01:35:18.720 fulfilled. You should also number four, ask forgiveness. Number five, 01:35:18.720 --> 01:35:23.680 you should ask, uh, for help against temptation, against sin. And number six, 01:35:23.680 --> 01:35:26.260 you should be praying for other people. If you do that, 01:35:26.260 --> 01:35:28.360 it's impossible not to pray more than five minutes. 01:35:28.720 --> 01:35:30.720 And if you look at your own prayer life, 01:35:30.960 --> 01:35:33.480 this also can help you to guide to see what you're missing. 01:35:33.480 --> 01:35:36.480 If you're missing blocks of these kinds of things. And again, 01:35:36.480 --> 01:35:37.560 I'm not going to tell you guys that I, 01:35:37.600 --> 01:35:42.940 been a perfect prayer person at all that is not true at all but you know this 01:35:42.940 --> 01:35:45.500 sometimes like I was saying you don't like to do it but sometimes you preach 01:35:45.500 --> 01:35:48.620 it for yourself as well to help motivate yourself and be like hey I know I could 01:35:48.620 --> 01:35:51.780 be doing it better in prayer so this sermons as much as for me as it would be 01:35:51.780 --> 01:35:55.500 for anybody else as well so in ending this sermon 01:35:55.800 --> 01:35:58.320 I do want to end it with the example of this prayer though. 01:35:58.320 --> 01:36:01.480 So we're going to end it and then I'm going to pray a little bit longer than I usually 01:36:01.480 --> 01:36:03.700 would because I'm going to follow this example just to kind of show you guys what's going 01:36:03.700 --> 01:36:06.880 on here and then we'll be dismissed. 01:36:06.880 --> 01:36:07.880 Let's pray. 01:36:07.880 --> 01:36:08.880 Dear Father God, thank you so much for this wonderful day. 01:36:08.880 --> 01:36:10.360 Thank you so much for everything you do for us God. 01:36:10.360 --> 01:36:12.840 Thank you so much God for this great church. 01:36:12.840 --> 01:36:16.400 God, thank you so much for the people that came today and for all the great friends that 01:36:16.400 --> 01:36:17.400 we have. 01:36:17.400 --> 01:36:19.200 God, thank you so much for the fellowship you allow us to have. 01:36:19.200 --> 01:36:23.080 God, thank you so much for our pastor God and thank you so much for the opportunity 01:36:23.080 --> 01:36:23.580 to preach. 01:36:23.800 --> 01:36:27.640 Thank you so much for my beautiful wife, my beautiful kids, God. 01:36:27.640 --> 01:36:32.040 And thank you so much that we have a place to go to that we can 01:36:32.040 --> 01:36:35.000 believe the doctrine that we believe and that we can fellowship with the people 01:36:35.000 --> 01:36:39.800 that whom we fellowship with, God. Just thank you so much, God, for the 01:36:39.800 --> 01:36:44.040 the souls that we were able to get saved this year, God. And thank you so much for 01:36:44.040 --> 01:36:48.600 the success in the college marathons. 01:36:48.600 --> 01:36:50.400 Thank you so much, God, for 01:36:50.900 --> 01:36:55.820 Being so merciful to us and for all the things that we don't even have to ask for in our lives God 01:36:55.860 --> 01:37:00.460 Thank you so much for the country that we're born in and the freedom that we have God and I just pray right now 01:37:00.460 --> 01:37:04.940 God that you would help us to to truly lay prayer on our heart 01:37:04.940 --> 01:37:10.300 God we praise you God because you're so mighty because you're so wonderful God because you are the King of Kings God 01:37:10.300 --> 01:37:11.740 And you are the Lord of Lords God 01:37:11.740 --> 01:37:16.800 We praise you because you gave us so much mercy God and you give us so much mercy God praise your name that 01:37:17.220 --> 01:37:18.900 You're a God that is long suffered 01:37:18.900 --> 01:37:24.580 God and that is very patient with us and that doesn't just throw us away as soon 01:37:24.580 --> 01:37:28.380 as we sin but God that you give us so many chances to get right with you God 01:37:28.380 --> 01:37:32.620 and so many times in the Bible we see that people just smacked you in the face 01:37:32.620 --> 01:37:36.740 and they didn't appreciate your mercy and yet you still were long suffering 01:37:36.740 --> 01:37:41.380 with them God I just pray that we would see how much God you've given for us and 01:37:41.380 --> 01:37:46.140 how much we don't deserve the great lives that we have on this earth God 01:37:46.140 --> 01:37:46.900 Praise God. 01:37:46.900 --> 01:37:49.840 your name for all the requests that you do for us God and for all the things 01:37:49.840 --> 01:37:52.900 that you've done for us in the past God thank you so much for the visitors that 01:37:52.900 --> 01:37:56.720 we've had thank you so much for the people in this room God thank you so 01:37:56.720 --> 01:37:57.900 much God that 01:37:58.200 --> 01:38:07.200 that we just have so many blessings, God, without number, that we couldn't even say them all if we wanted to in the prayer time, God. 01:38:07.200 --> 01:38:12.200 I just pray right now, God, that you'd help your will be fulfilled on earth as it is in heaven, God. 01:38:12.200 --> 01:38:19.200 I just pray that you'd help the people of Spokane, God, the laws that we have here, that they would reflect the laws that are in the Bible. 01:38:19.200 --> 01:38:23.200 And I pray that you'd help our government to make better choices for you, God. 01:38:23.200 --> 01:38:26.080 God, I pray that you'd get us a leader, God, that would actually 01:38:26.200 --> 01:38:32.020 care about your word God and that isn't so prideful and that doesn't just make 01:38:32.020 --> 01:38:36.540 himself look like a fool. I pray that you give us a people though first God. 01:38:36.540 --> 01:38:40.260 I pray that we as a people God would repent God and get right with you 01:38:40.260 --> 01:38:43.540 because that's what you say in the Bible that if we're your people that are called 01:38:43.540 --> 01:38:47.020 by your name will humble themselves and seek your face God that you'll heal our 01:38:47.020 --> 01:38:50.980 land at that point. I just pray that we would have the courage and have the 01:38:50.980 --> 01:38:54.200 zeal to make a difference in the land God to flip people's hearts to you. 01:38:54.200 --> 01:38:59.240 God to help people to be zealous and on fire for you. God, I just pray you'd help us to get more people saved when we go out 01:38:59.240 --> 01:39:01.240 So I pray you help us to be 01:39:01.760 --> 01:39:04.700 Not weary and well-doing God, but that you'd help us to 01:39:05.520 --> 01:39:09.520 Continually go and be patient with people and to preach a thorough gospel 01:39:09.520 --> 01:39:11.800 But we'd have free course with the Word God and that you wouldn't allow 01:39:12.360 --> 01:39:18.100 the enemy to attack us in any way shape or form and that people wouldn't interrupt us while we're out so wanting and that 01:39:18.100 --> 01:39:21.920 We would find people that are receptive to the gospel and that would hear and believe 01:39:22.200 --> 01:39:24.600 on you God. I pray that you would um... 01:39:24.800 --> 01:39:29.280 Help us to die. Just pretty forgive us of all our sins. God forgive us for the things that we do against you 01:39:29.280 --> 01:39:33.600 God forgive us for the things that we don't think are a big deal god and that are a big deal 01:39:34.000 --> 01:39:38.320 Uh, I pray that you forgive us for the things that we constantly fall into god the things that we constantly 01:39:39.360 --> 01:39:41.760 Fail to god. I just pray they'd help us to overcome these things 01:39:41.760 --> 01:39:45.760 And I just pray that you would wash us clean of our iniquities and of our sins god 01:39:45.760 --> 01:39:50.160 I just pray you'd help us to be right with you god and help us to to to do 01:39:50.800 --> 01:39:52.800 Uh what you want us to do god and I just 01:39:52.800 --> 01:39:55.300 pretty help us understand how important your commandments are God that they're 01:39:55.300 --> 01:39:59.200 not grievous God that they are there to help us in our day-to-day life and I 01:39:59.200 --> 01:40:02.900 pray that we lay them to our heart I pray that you would um 01:40:03.300 --> 01:40:06.180 be with the needs that we have on this earth. 01:40:06.180 --> 01:40:09.500 God, I just pray that you'd help me to love and to honor my wife, 01:40:09.500 --> 01:40:11.580 and I pray that she would submit to and reverence and love me. 01:40:11.580 --> 01:40:14.460 I pray that you'd help us to love our kids and raise them to be godly children. 01:40:14.460 --> 01:40:17.300 I pray that they would all get saved at the age of understanding God. 01:40:17.300 --> 01:40:21.780 I just pray that you would help them to all grow up and find good spouses 01:40:21.780 --> 01:40:24.500 and to be good, godly, faithful Christians. 01:40:24.500 --> 01:40:27.420 God, I pray that you'd protect us from harm at our house, 01:40:27.420 --> 01:40:31.300 and I pray that you would help us in the efforts that we want. 01:40:31.300 --> 01:40:35.940 to achieve in this life and I just pray that you help us to have a good relationship with our kids 01:40:35.940 --> 01:40:40.180 and help us to never let anything get between us God and I just pray that you'd help us to 01:40:40.980 --> 01:40:45.620 have the balance of teaching them your commandments God and of being strict with them God but also 01:40:46.660 --> 01:40:51.540 loving them and being compassionate with them and helping them to understand your love and 01:40:51.540 --> 01:40:54.740 your grace and your knowledge. I pray that you would 01:40:55.700 --> 01:41:00.700 Be with the request that we have as a church God as a whole I pray that you be with the people 01:41:01.140 --> 01:41:03.140 In this room I pray that you help the spouses 01:41:03.260 --> 01:41:08.500 In this room and that go to this church God for the the husbands to love their wives and the wives would submit in 01:41:08.500 --> 01:41:10.500 Revenues their husbands. I pray that you'd help 01:41:11.020 --> 01:41:15.980 the the families in here that have young children that aren't say that they would get saved the edge of understanding and I pray that you'd help 01:41:15.980 --> 01:41:17.340 them to 01:41:17.340 --> 01:41:21.700 Grow up and be faithful to you as well. I pray that you would help them to 01:41:22.600 --> 01:41:27.100 Be faithful to church and just never lose faith. 01:41:27.100 --> 01:41:31.300 And I pray that they be comforted in you and be strengthened in you all the days of their life. 01:41:31.300 --> 01:41:34.100 I pray that you be with the health issues of people in this church. 01:41:34.100 --> 01:41:36.500 I pray that you heal Brother Jason, help him to feel better. 01:41:36.500 --> 01:41:40.100 I pray that you help our pastor and help him to feel better as well right now, and my mom. 01:41:40.100 --> 01:41:43.200 I pray that you'd help the sickness not to spread in the church. 01:41:43.200 --> 01:41:50.500 And I just pray that you'd help us to, as Christians, continue to be zealous for you and on fire for you, God. 01:41:50.600 --> 01:41:54.280 I just pray that you would help us to see the dearth and land of soul wanting that there is. 01:41:54.280 --> 01:41:57.240 I pray that you'd help us not to fall into temptation, God. 01:41:57.240 --> 01:42:00.360 I pray that you'd help us to resist the things that so easily beset us. 01:42:00.360 --> 01:42:02.760 And I pray that we'd lay aside the weights that we have in our lives. 01:42:02.760 --> 01:42:06.040 And I pray that we'd lay aside the vanity and the distraction that we have 01:42:06.040 --> 01:42:08.920 and all the silly things that we get so wrapped up in with, God. 01:42:08.920 --> 01:42:11.480 And I pray that you would... 01:42:11.700 --> 01:42:14.260 Be with brother Ryan as he preaches a sermon tonight. I pray that you'd help him to preach a 01:42:14.260 --> 01:42:19.540 netifying sermon, a sermon that would help inspire people in this room to be better men. And I just 01:42:19.540 --> 01:42:24.900 pray that you help all the needs that I couldn't ask for right now, God. I know that you're able 01:42:24.900 --> 01:42:30.180 to do much more than what I could ask you, God. And I just pray that this sermon would touch people's 01:42:30.180 --> 01:42:34.420 heart in this room and help them to pray longer to you, God, and help them to understand how 01:42:34.420 --> 01:42:37.300 important this is. And I just pray that you help them to... 01:42:38.200 --> 01:42:45.400 To make this an essential in their life and give them the the strength to help them to have this be a habit in 01:42:45.400 --> 01:42:48.440 Their life if it's not we ask all these things. Did you see me pray? Amen 01:42:56.700 --> 01:42:58.940 All right, our last one is on number 355. 01:43:02.600 --> 01:43:04.600 355. 01:43:09.100 --> 01:43:11.100 What a friend we had in Jesus. 01:43:17.800 --> 01:43:24.800 Song number 355, What a Friend We Have in Jesus. Let's sing it together on the first. 01:43:25.900 --> 01:43:36.540 What a friend we have in Jesus, all our sins and griefs to bear. 01:43:36.540 --> 01:43:47.340 What a privilege to carry everything to God in prayer. 01:43:47.340 --> 01:43:52.940 Oh, what peace we often forfeit. 01:43:53.000 --> 01:43:58.000 Oh, what needless pain we bear 01:43:58.000 --> 01:44:04.000 All because we do not carry 01:44:04.000 --> 01:44:09.000 Everything to God in prayer 01:44:09.000 --> 01:44:15.000 Have we trials and temptations? 01:44:15.000 --> 01:44:20.000 Is there trouble anywhere? 01:44:22.500 --> 01:44:35.620 never be discouraged. Take it to the Lord in prayer. Can we find a friend so 01:44:35.620 --> 01:44:44.100 faithful who will all our sorrows share? 01:44:45.700 --> 01:44:50.380 As snow's our every weakness. 01:44:50.380 --> 01:44:56.060 Take it to the Lord in prayer. 01:44:56.060 --> 01:45:00.180 Are we weak and heavy-legged? 01:45:03.500 --> 01:45:04.780 with a load of 01:45:08.300 --> 01:45:13.300 precious Savior, still our refuge. 01:45:13.300 --> 01:45:18.300 Take it to the Lord in prayer. 01:45:18.300 --> 01:45:24.300 Do thy friends despise, forsake thee. 01:45:24.300 --> 01:45:29.300 Take it to the Lord in prayer. 01:45:30.200 --> 01:45:36.000 In his arms he'll take and shield thee. 01:45:36.000 --> 01:45:40.800 Thou will find us all is there. 01:45:40.800 --> 01:45:41.300 Amen. 01:45:41.300 --> 01:45:41.560 Good scene. 01:45:41.560 --> 01:45:42.960 Thanks for bearing with me on that one, guys. 01:45:42.960 --> 01:45:45.480 That was longer than even I anticipated, OK? 01:45:45.480 --> 01:45:47.320 But you guys stuck and stayed. 01:45:47.320 --> 01:45:49.760 And you guys endured hardness like some good soldiers. 01:45:49.760 --> 01:45:50.760 So I appreciate it. 01:45:50.760 --> 01:45:52.600 Brother Ryan, would you close the word prayer? 01:45:58.400 --> 01:46:03.440 Thank you for the preaching here and I pray God that you'll help us all in our personal prayer lives and 01:46:04.080 --> 01:46:09.860 Help us to shore that up if we need it lord, and I believe we all need it and we love you in Jesus name. Amen