1 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:12,200 Hi, and welcome to the. We're Zion sermon podcast. 2 00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:16,200 We are a local church based here in Chennai, India, we are so 3 00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:19,300 glad you are with us and hope that this will encourage 4 00:00:19,400 --> 00:00:21,800 Inspire. And, instead of fresh faith in 5 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:26,000 you, we are doing a short series on prayer as we head into the 6 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:29,800 season of Pentecost prayer. Cannot be the Christine's back. 7 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:34,800 Her plan, but our soul option in the times that we live in the 8 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:38,800 spiritual battle around us is real and without a vibrant and 9 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:42,600 Spirit-filled prayer life. We will not make it out alive. 10 00:00:43,300 --> 00:00:47,000 Christine shares with us today on how we can Model A Prayer 11 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:50,100 life on Jesus and pray as he did. 12 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:54,300 We pray that as you listen in that, you get excited about all 13 00:00:54,300 --> 00:00:57,200 the ways in which you connect with God through prayer. 14 00:00:58,300 --> 00:00:59,800 Hi certificate. Joy to teach. 15 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:03,100 Again on prayer. It's not something that we have 16 00:01:03,100 --> 00:01:04,599 figured out completely something. 17 00:01:04,599 --> 00:01:08,600 We're learning along the way and we have been excited to bring 18 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:11,300 you along on this journey of learning about prayer together. 19 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:13,400 We looked at how prayer helps us see. 20 00:01:13,400 --> 00:01:17,700 The Unseen, we looked at how we can use scripture to pray and 21 00:01:17,700 --> 00:01:20,400 engage in spiritual warfare. And today we're going to be 22 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:24,100 looking at how we can create the Jesus way. 23 00:01:24,300 --> 00:01:27,300 In the way Jesus taught us the instructions, he gave us about 24 00:01:27,300 --> 00:01:29,200 prayer and how he murdered prayer for us. 25 00:01:29,500 --> 00:01:31,100 That's we will be looking at today. 26 00:01:31,300 --> 00:01:34,600 I was reading this story, I'm not sure if it's true, but I was 27 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:37,300 reading about this young woman. She was a single mom. 28 00:01:37,700 --> 00:01:40,800 Her little one was at home with the babysitter she was at work. 29 00:01:40,900 --> 00:01:43,800 When she gets a call from her babysitter and says, man, the 30 00:01:43,800 --> 00:01:46,300 child, the child is sick, she's running a high temperature. 31 00:01:46,300 --> 00:01:49,500 Can you go to the pharmacy, pick up some medicines and then bring 32 00:01:49,500 --> 00:01:52,600 it home for us. So, the mother of frantically 33 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:56,000 shuts down, work gets into our car, goes to the pharmacy, picks 34 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:57,800 up the medicine when she comes back to the car. 35 00:01:57,800 --> 00:01:59,800 She realizes that the keys were locked. 36 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:02,400 Say the cop. She doesn't know what to do. 37 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:05,600 She called the babysitter and says, this is my predicament. 38 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:06,900 I don't know what to do is babysit. 39 00:02:06,900 --> 00:02:08,800 I give her an idea. She says, look around if you 40 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:12,200 find an old Hangar, you know, a clothes hanger, if you find it 41 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:14,900 anywhere, use that and open the car door. 42 00:02:15,900 --> 00:02:20,100 So the lady says, okay, if she cuts the call, she's asking God, 43 00:02:20,100 --> 00:02:21,500 lord. I don't know where I want to 44 00:02:21,508 --> 00:02:24,800 find a clothes hanger. Help me she turns around and in 45 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:27,800 the gravel there's an old clothes hanger broken and just 46 00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:30,400 lying there. So she takes It and she's 47 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:32,900 looking at it, but then she realize she's so grateful that, 48 00:02:32,900 --> 00:02:34,600 you know, how prayer was immediately answered. 49 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:37,000 But then she realizes she doesn't know what to do with the 50 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:39,000 clothes hanger, she's live. What am I going to do with this? 51 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:42,600 How do I open a door with this? And then she says, Lord help me. 52 00:02:42,700 --> 00:02:44,800 I don't know how to use this, to open the door. 53 00:02:45,500 --> 00:02:47,200 She finishes praying that prayer. 54 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:51,600 When a biker comes into the driveway, he's an old biker. 55 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:54,600 He's got a scarf on his head, doesn't look very well. 56 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:59,300 Kept looks a bit Haggard, and he drives in and stands beside her. 57 00:02:59,300 --> 00:03:01,700 And then she Just wondering still what to do when he gets 58 00:03:01,700 --> 00:03:03,500 off the bike and his mom, can I help you? 59 00:03:03,700 --> 00:03:08,100 And she says, sir, I'm stuck here, my child is at home, my 60 00:03:08,100 --> 00:03:10,500 keys are in the car and I don't know what to do with this 61 00:03:10,500 --> 00:03:12,500 Hangar, and he says, don't worry, I'll help you. 62 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:16,200 He gets off the bike, straightens out, the hangar uses 63 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:19,400 it to open the car and gets her in when she gets in. 64 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:21,600 She said, sir, thank you so much. 65 00:03:22,100 --> 00:03:25,200 You must be such a good man to stop and help me in such a way. 66 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:27,900 And he says laughingly. He says, Mom, I'm not a good 67 00:03:27,900 --> 00:03:30,800 man, I'm an ex-convict. I just Just got out of jail 68 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:33,100 today. I was put in jail for robbing a 69 00:03:33,100 --> 00:03:35,400 car. And so the woman looks up to 70 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:38,500 heaven and says, Thank You. Lord, you sent me a professional 71 00:03:39,700 --> 00:03:41,200 while. The story is funny. 72 00:03:41,900 --> 00:03:45,600 The truth is that prayer Works, whether it does something in the 73 00:03:45,600 --> 00:03:47,400 Heavenly Realms. It does something in US. 74 00:03:47,700 --> 00:03:51,600 It creates room for hope it, it moves us into partnership with 75 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:55,200 God, and I believe that as we learn to pray, the Jesus way, it 76 00:03:55,200 --> 00:03:56,900 will shift how we look at prayer. 77 00:03:57,300 --> 00:03:59,500 No longer will we look at it as a drudgery something. 78 00:03:59,500 --> 00:04:01,800 We have. To do with check checklist. 79 00:04:01,900 --> 00:04:06,300 But instead of we come into it with joy and with hope, when we 80 00:04:06,300 --> 00:04:09,900 look at the gospels and how Jesus lived on earth, we find 81 00:04:09,900 --> 00:04:13,400 that he laid down some basic principles about being the first 82 00:04:13,400 --> 00:04:17,100 principle he laid down was that we must be persistent in prayer. 83 00:04:17,500 --> 00:04:20,800 When you look at Luke 11 verses 9 to 10, this is what he says. 84 00:04:21,700 --> 00:04:24,700 So I see it, you ask and it will be given to you seek and you 85 00:04:24,700 --> 00:04:28,600 will find knock and the door will be open to you for everyone 86 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:32,000 who asks receives He's the one who seeks finds and to the one 87 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:37,400 who knocks the door will be opened Luke, 18:1 7 and 8 says 88 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:41,600 Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they 89 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:46,200 should always pray and not give up to cut a long story short, 90 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:48,500 that was the parable of the persistent Widow. 91 00:04:48,500 --> 00:04:52,500 He says this woman goes to an unjust judge and keeps begging 92 00:04:52,500 --> 00:04:54,300 him for justice and he doesn't care. 93 00:04:54,300 --> 00:04:56,900 He doesn't bother. But after prolonged period of 94 00:04:56,907 --> 00:05:00,600 time, the judge who is unrighteous says, how how Me was 95 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:03,300 an unrighteous judge. Not give this woman Justice, she 96 00:05:03,300 --> 00:05:05,800 is coming and bugging me, night and day. 97 00:05:06,300 --> 00:05:08,800 And this is what Jesus says, will not God. 98 00:05:08,900 --> 00:05:12,100 Bring about Justice for his chosen ones who cry out to him 99 00:05:12,100 --> 00:05:14,400 day and night. Will he keep putting them off? 100 00:05:14,700 --> 00:05:18,100 I tell you, he will see that they get Justice and quickly. 101 00:05:18,100 --> 00:05:21,300 What have you been asking? God for repetitively, have you 102 00:05:21,300 --> 00:05:23,800 been like me many times? I think God, I sound like a 103 00:05:23,808 --> 00:05:25,800 spoiled child. Asking you for the same thing 104 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:28,000 again and again and again. But when you read this, you 105 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:31,800 realize he said keep on Asking keep seeking, keep knocking. 106 00:05:31,800 --> 00:05:35,500 Don't stop. Our heavenly father is not like 107 00:05:35,500 --> 00:05:38,200 us Earthly, parents, who, when a child asks us for something 108 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:40,800 repeatedly? We just see no blanket know. 109 00:05:41,500 --> 00:05:45,600 He loves that we come into that place of familiarity with him 110 00:05:45,700 --> 00:05:49,300 and that we can keep coming to him and asking him for what we 111 00:05:49,300 --> 00:05:52,600 need. Don't get put off by by, you 112 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:54,600 know, the fact that you're reputa to be asking him for 113 00:05:54,600 --> 00:05:58,100 something Jesus said, keep asking, it's okay, what have you 114 00:05:58,100 --> 00:05:59,700 been asking him for? Have you given up on? 115 00:05:59,900 --> 00:06:02,700 And things. It's okay to come again and 116 00:06:02,700 --> 00:06:05,600 again with the same request to the father, it's completely. 117 00:06:05,600 --> 00:06:10,500 Okay, he loves that. You would consider him worthy of 118 00:06:10,500 --> 00:06:14,200 bringing that request again. And again, the second principle 119 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:16,900 that Jesus talked about was prayer, not being a publicity 120 00:06:16,900 --> 00:06:21,200 stunt, he lived in a time and the Pharisees, the teachers of 121 00:06:21,200 --> 00:06:24,200 the law describes in others, or walking around, they're flowing, 122 00:06:24,200 --> 00:06:28,200 robes and and forcing people to listen to them and demanded 123 00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:31,100 respect. And also, So upgraded, their 124 00:06:31,100 --> 00:06:34,600 prayers, as a way of, you know, attracting attention and praise 125 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:38,600 Matthew 6, verses 5 to 8. He says when you pray, do not be 126 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:41,200 like the Hypocrites for. They love to pray standing in 127 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:44,500 the synagogues and on the street corner to be seen by others. 128 00:06:44,500 --> 00:06:47,500 Truly I tell you they have received their reward in full 129 00:06:47,500 --> 00:06:51,800 but when you pray go into your room close the door and pray to 130 00:06:51,800 --> 00:06:55,100 your father who is unseen, then your father who sees what is 131 00:06:55,100 --> 00:06:59,200 done in secret will reward you and when you pray do not keep on 132 00:06:59,200 --> 00:07:01,600 babbling. Pagans for they think they will 133 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:03,600 be heard because of their many words. 134 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:06,000 Do not be like them for your father. 135 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:10,800 Knows what you need before. You ask for them, prayer is 136 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:14,000 about growing in our intimate relationship with God is really 137 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:17,400 not, it being an oratorical competition, the greatest words 138 00:07:17,400 --> 00:07:21,200 I can use how I can embellish Mike request and ask God how I 139 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:24,100 can show others about this relationship know it's such a 140 00:07:24,100 --> 00:07:29,000 private Pursuit and it's really about pursuing the heart of God 141 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:32,400 listening for God's voice, presenting our request to him. 142 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:36,600 It's that simple. So he says, don't portray this 143 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:38,400 image that. You know, you're praying so much 144 00:07:38,400 --> 00:07:41,200 in another reference, he talks about when you are fasting put 145 00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:44,400 oil on your head and look normal, don't you know, make 146 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:47,600 yourself look so somber and that people ask you to go and fasting 147 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:49,900 and praying. No, he says do it. 148 00:07:49,900 --> 00:07:51,800 It's part of your life. It's part of your routine. 149 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:54,700 Let it not be something that you used to shove it down. 150 00:07:54,700 --> 00:07:59,700 Someone's throat that you are holier than them Pride, cannot 151 00:07:59,900 --> 00:08:03,500 Being the fact that we break, our pride must be in the one, we 152 00:08:03,500 --> 00:08:07,700 pray to called rights of anyone will boast in anything, let him 153 00:08:07,700 --> 00:08:10,400 boast in the Lord. Our pride should not be in our 154 00:08:10,400 --> 00:08:12,400 prayer life. Cried should be the one. 155 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:16,000 We pray to the fact that he's a prayer answering God that he's a 156 00:08:16,008 --> 00:08:19,100 listening. God, the third thing is that 157 00:08:19,100 --> 00:08:22,400 this is something that Jesus himself did in John 17. 158 00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:25,200 You see how Jesus prayed for himself? 159 00:08:25,200 --> 00:08:27,700 Then he prayed for his disciples and then he prayed for the ones 160 00:08:27,700 --> 00:08:29,300 who would be saved in the future. 161 00:08:30,400 --> 00:08:34,200 And I believe that we must pray for ourselves before praying for 162 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:36,700 others. So often it's easy to, you know, 163 00:08:36,700 --> 00:08:39,799 be this intercessor and paying for everybody and all the needs 164 00:08:39,799 --> 00:08:42,900 are just great but have you prayed for yourself? 165 00:08:43,700 --> 00:08:45,500 Have you prayed the scriptures over yourself? 166 00:08:45,500 --> 00:08:49,400 Have you asked God to reveal things about your life, but your 167 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:54,000 family to you first, it's okay to pray for yourself. 168 00:08:54,100 --> 00:08:57,900 Especially women mothers were so caught up in praying for our 169 00:08:57,900 --> 00:09:00,600 husbands, our children, our parents, In-laws. 170 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:04,000 We forget to pray for ourselves. It's important that we cover 171 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:07,200 ourselves, Jesus himself, when he before he prayed for his 172 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:09,500 disciples, he tells he talks to God about himself. 173 00:09:09,500 --> 00:09:11,300 He says, I've done all that you've asked me to do be 174 00:09:11,300 --> 00:09:16,300 glorified in my life and I wonder how different up realized 175 00:09:16,300 --> 00:09:18,900 we would begin. It's not a selfish thing to 176 00:09:18,900 --> 00:09:22,100 begin by praying for yourself. Pray for yourself first and then 177 00:09:22,100 --> 00:09:24,900 pray for others. Ask God to reveal any sin in 178 00:09:24,900 --> 00:09:27,100 your life. This is something that I've 179 00:09:27,100 --> 00:09:29,600 started doing before, I pray for anyone else before. 180 00:09:29,800 --> 00:09:32,500 I asked God for Revelation about any issues in our life. 181 00:09:32,500 --> 00:09:35,200 I first asked me, what shoe things show me things in my life 182 00:09:35,900 --> 00:09:37,600 and he never fails to disappoint. 183 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:40,000 There's always stuff that he wants to reveal about me that he 184 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:42,600 wants to change in me. So, would encourage you that you 185 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:44,600 would first. Pray for yourself. 186 00:09:45,200 --> 00:09:49,300 Another important principle is that you must pray in humility 187 00:09:49,300 --> 00:09:53,400 before the father, but you must walk in authority after that. 188 00:09:53,900 --> 00:09:57,300 If you look at Jesus, he spent much time playing in solitude. 189 00:09:57,300 --> 00:10:00,700 It would say the disciples probably Home, but then he would 190 00:10:00,700 --> 00:10:03,700 go into a solitary place, he would go into the hills and he 191 00:10:03,700 --> 00:10:06,400 would pray and he spent a lot of time and Brendan come back in 192 00:10:06,400 --> 00:10:08,600 the morning. And through the day, he operated 193 00:10:08,600 --> 00:10:11,700 in power, he drove out demons and heal the sick. 194 00:10:11,700 --> 00:10:17,500 He taught Power Pack 2 days. But the Deep basic thing about. 195 00:10:17,500 --> 00:10:20,600 That was a lot of prayer. He was so humble before the 196 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:23,900 Lord, before his father, he kept connecting with him. 197 00:10:24,700 --> 00:10:28,100 But the offshoot of that was walking in authority and power 198 00:10:29,200 --> 00:10:32,600 Maki. 8:33 says this when Jesus turned and looked at his 199 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:35,300 disciples, he rebuked, Peter get behind me. 200 00:10:35,300 --> 00:10:38,200 Satan. He said you do not have in mind 201 00:10:38,500 --> 00:10:41,200 concerns of God, but merely human concerns. 202 00:10:41,300 --> 00:10:45,100 Jesus did not rebuke Peter. He rebuked the one who is using 203 00:10:45,100 --> 00:10:48,400 Peter as a mouthpiece Authority power. 204 00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:53,400 He didn't cower before negativity, he didn't Flinch. 205 00:10:53,500 --> 00:10:56,400 He didn't turn away. He battled it straight on. 206 00:10:56,700 --> 00:10:59,900 Mark for 39. He got up and rebuked the And 207 00:10:59,900 --> 00:11:03,600 then said to the waist quiet be still, then the wind died down 208 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:07,400 and it was completely calm. If you've noticed that a lot of 209 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:09,700 times when you've been in prayer for a bit of time, you finish 210 00:11:09,700 --> 00:11:11,900 prayer and you get back to regular life, cooking or 211 00:11:11,900 --> 00:11:15,100 cleaning or back to work back to calls, you will find that there 212 00:11:15,100 --> 00:11:18,100 will be some upheaval that happened, some misunderstanding 213 00:11:18,100 --> 00:11:21,900 and the immediate reaction of ours as humans is to react to 214 00:11:21,900 --> 00:11:25,700 rather than respond to probably argue to get triggered. 215 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:28,900 But the important thing to remember is that when we finish 216 00:11:28,900 --> 00:11:31,700 praying and Up out of that prayer, closet or prayer room, 217 00:11:31,700 --> 00:11:35,500 or the prayer bench, we now are clothed with the righteousness 218 00:11:35,500 --> 00:11:38,200 of Christ, and we have the authority that he gave. 219 00:11:38,200 --> 00:11:41,000 We have a delegated authority. We are walking in power and 220 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:42,700 authority that he has given to us. 221 00:11:43,100 --> 00:11:47,000 And we should not give room for the things that the enemy throws 222 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:50,300 at us to pull us down. I remember this teaching by John 223 00:11:50,300 --> 00:11:53,400 and Lisa bevere day. They had, they have four Sons 224 00:11:53,500 --> 00:11:55,900 today their grandparents, but this happened in the early days 225 00:11:55,900 --> 00:11:58,700 of their marriage and this is what they said, Lisa would say, 226 00:11:58,700 --> 00:12:02,100 sometimes the Atmosphere in the home of diesel charge them. 227 00:12:02,300 --> 00:12:03,800 The children will be out of control. 228 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:06,600 She and John will be having a lot of arguments getting in each 229 00:12:06,600 --> 00:12:10,300 others face and soon she learned that the authority of the 230 00:12:10,300 --> 00:12:12,500 spiritual atmosphere in the home, lay in them. 231 00:12:13,600 --> 00:12:17,100 So what she would do is when she sensed that upheaval and that, 232 00:12:17,100 --> 00:12:20,000 you know, they were all being quarrelsome and fidgety, she 233 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:22,400 would bind every part of Darkness. 234 00:12:22,400 --> 00:12:25,800 I was working against them. She would rebuke it in the name 235 00:12:25,800 --> 00:12:26,700 of Jesus. You think? 236 00:12:26,700 --> 00:12:29,000 Calm down. We're going to, we are, we have 237 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:30,500 the piece of Christ in this home. 238 00:12:30,500 --> 00:12:33,000 She would declare the promises of God, she would rebuke the 239 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:36,200 enemy she would say, within half an hour, the entire atmosphere 240 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:39,300 in the house would change. And I think that we need to 241 00:12:39,300 --> 00:12:42,000 remember this that we have, all power. 242 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:46,900 All authority has been given to us to trample over snakes and 243 00:12:46,900 --> 00:12:49,600 scorpions. That is what Jesus gave us that 244 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:52,600 is what God, the Father gave him that Authority and he delegated 245 00:12:52,600 --> 00:12:56,100 that to us today. You and I are not without that 246 00:12:56,300 --> 00:12:58,800 Authority. So we dare not be timid after we 247 00:12:58,800 --> 00:13:01,600 finished praying. Walk in that Authority, claim 248 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:05,100 that Authority as yours declare, that authority to the spiritual 249 00:13:05,100 --> 00:13:08,900 realm. So when we look at this again 250 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:12,800 couple of principles Persistence in prayer. 251 00:13:12,800 --> 00:13:16,100 Phase of prayer is not a publicity stunt. 252 00:13:16,500 --> 00:13:20,100 Pray for yourself before praying for others, pray and then walk 253 00:13:20,100 --> 00:13:23,100 in power and authority. Those are a few principles now. 254 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:25,900 We're going to look at how According To Jesus. 255 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:27,900 We need to know what to pray for. 256 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:31,100 You know, you might ask me, is it okay to pray for anything and 257 00:13:31,100 --> 00:13:33,100 everything? Absolutely, it's completely. 258 00:13:33,100 --> 00:13:37,200 Okay, Jesus himself said, ask God for anything and everything 259 00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:39,500 in my name. So the first thing that we 260 00:13:39,500 --> 00:13:42,100 should pray for is everything. Isn't that amazing? 261 00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:45,000 It can be from the smallest to the biggest thing. 262 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:50,000 John 16:23-24 says this in that day, you will no longer ask me 263 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:51,900 anything. Very truly. 264 00:13:51,900 --> 00:13:56,000 I tell you, my father will give you whatever you ask in my name. 265 00:13:56,600 --> 00:14:00,800 Until now you have not asked for anything in my name, ask and you 266 00:14:00,800 --> 00:14:03,800 will receive. And your joy will be complete 267 00:14:03,900 --> 00:14:06,000 many times. We take this literally and we 268 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:09,200 forget a very important aspect you and I should have come to a 269 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:13,200 place of Jesus being the Lord of all We have to have declared 270 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:16,300 with our mouth. That Jesus is God, and we have 271 00:14:16,300 --> 00:14:18,400 to allow him to be the master of allies. 272 00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:22,200 And then this promise comes into effect, which means I can ask 273 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:24,900 him for anything the wildest Things dream. 274 00:14:24,900 --> 00:14:28,700 Scary pres dream, huge press, bigger than you ever imagined 275 00:14:29,300 --> 00:14:33,000 and believe that in Jesus name, he will grant it, according to 276 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:37,100 his perfect will according to steaming, this is what c.s. 277 00:14:37,100 --> 00:14:39,300 Lewis writes. He says, perhaps, as those do 278 00:14:39,300 --> 00:14:43,400 not turn to God in Petty try. Mi will have no habit or such 279 00:14:43,400 --> 00:14:46,600 resort to help them when the Great Trials come. 280 00:14:46,700 --> 00:14:49,700 So those who have not learned to ask him for childish. 281 00:14:49,700 --> 00:14:54,100 Things will have less Readiness to ask him for great ones. 282 00:14:54,300 --> 00:14:58,400 We must not be too high-minded. I fancy we may sometimes be 283 00:14:58,400 --> 00:15:04,000 deterred from small prayers by a sense of our own dignity rather 284 00:15:04,100 --> 00:15:08,400 than of gods so you can absolutely ask God for the most 285 00:15:08,400 --> 00:15:11,400 silly small things. And it said Stuff. 286 00:15:11,400 --> 00:15:14,700 It comes into this place of having a confidence in a God who 287 00:15:14,700 --> 00:15:17,500 cares for the largest things of our life and the smallest 288 00:15:17,500 --> 00:15:22,000 details as well? Ask him for anything asking for 289 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:24,600 everything. The second thing that we 290 00:15:24,700 --> 00:15:28,200 According To Jesus should ask for a pray, for is more of the 291 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:31,300 Holy Spirit. Sometimes we're so content with 292 00:15:31,300 --> 00:15:33,800 the and level of anointing. We have, you know, we have the 293 00:15:33,800 --> 00:15:37,100 Holy Spirit, he helps me, he AIDS me along my way. 294 00:15:37,100 --> 00:15:40,600 But he says, in Luke 11 11 to 13 is what he says. 295 00:15:41,100 --> 00:15:44,400 Each of you fathers, if your son asks for a fish, will give him a 296 00:15:44,408 --> 00:15:47,100 snake instead. Or if he asks for an egg, we 297 00:15:47,100 --> 00:15:50,700 give him a scorpion if you then though you are evil. 298 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:53,000 Know how to give good gifts to your children. 299 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:55,600 How much more will your father in heaven? 300 00:15:55,600 --> 00:15:59,600 Give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him a lot of times we 301 00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:02,300 think this is about just asking and receiving he's actually 302 00:16:02,300 --> 00:16:04,600 talking about the gift of the Holy Spirit. 303 00:16:05,500 --> 00:16:08,300 When you ask this is a prayer, he will never reject. 304 00:16:08,300 --> 00:16:09,900 This is a prayer, you never deny. 305 00:16:10,600 --> 00:16:13,500 He To give you more of the Holy Spirit. 306 00:16:13,500 --> 00:16:15,900 Have you been watching how others serve in church? 307 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:18,600 And you think Lord, I don't have any gifts, I don't have anything 308 00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:22,500 to serve you with ask him, ask the Holy Spirit to pour himself 309 00:16:22,500 --> 00:16:25,400 into you so that you begin to operate in the gifting of the 310 00:16:25,400 --> 00:16:27,300 Holy Spirit. Maybe you're saying, I don't 311 00:16:27,300 --> 00:16:29,800 have my life, is bearing food. I don't know if I'm impacting 312 00:16:29,800 --> 00:16:32,500 anyone else. Ask the Holy Spirit, help me 313 00:16:32,500 --> 00:16:35,600 bear fruit so that others would taste and see that the Lord is 314 00:16:35,600 --> 00:16:39,200 good. Ask for more of the Holy Spirit. 315 00:16:39,200 --> 00:16:41,000 Don't be shy about it don't be timid. 316 00:16:41,100 --> 00:16:43,500 Don't think well I'm not you know I have such a horrid 317 00:16:43,500 --> 00:16:45,100 passed. Why would the Holy Spirit flood 318 00:16:45,100 --> 00:16:48,200 my life? No, he's not a respecter of men, 319 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:52,400 he comes when you ask he is given in abundance. 320 00:16:52,900 --> 00:16:57,400 So ask for the Holy Spirit. Jesus also spoke in Mark 13. 321 00:16:58,400 --> 00:17:01,600 He said talks about the end times in detail and a lot of 322 00:17:01,600 --> 00:17:04,900 times we get caught up in this apocalyptic scripture. 323 00:17:04,900 --> 00:17:06,700 We get caught up in all the end times. 324 00:17:06,900 --> 00:17:08,500 The truth is, we're living in the end times. 325 00:17:08,500 --> 00:17:10,500 You read the newspaper, you know, we're living in the end 326 00:17:10,500 --> 00:17:13,200 times. And very clearly Jesus in the 327 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:17,200 whole teaching in Mark 13, he explains to us. 328 00:17:17,200 --> 00:17:23,000 How we must pray that this the apocalypse as such, the whole 329 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:26,300 Armageddon and all of that would not happen in winter. 330 00:17:26,300 --> 00:17:29,400 He's a spray, doesn't happen in winter and oh goodness, help 331 00:17:29,500 --> 00:17:32,600 God, help the, the nursing mothers and the pregnant women. 332 00:17:33,300 --> 00:17:36,900 So he's predicting and telling us, there is going to be bad. 333 00:17:36,900 --> 00:17:41,300 The India's are bad, if, if you watch the news and you see Ends 334 00:17:41,300 --> 00:17:44,500 which are being torn by Civil War by Strife by War. 335 00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:47,900 You see, the suffering because of natural calamities, you know, 336 00:17:47,900 --> 00:17:50,600 that we are in the end times, you know, that Jesus is return 337 00:17:50,600 --> 00:17:55,900 is imminent, but Jesus, clearly asks us to pray for endurance in 338 00:17:55,900 --> 00:17:59,400 the end times. He says when the son of man 339 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:03,000 returns, will he find Faith? Which means we'll my faith. 340 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:05,700 Have endured till my time to go home. 341 00:18:06,100 --> 00:18:09,400 Arrives endurance. Pray for endurance. 342 00:18:09,400 --> 00:18:11,700 Don't take it for granted that you can end your pray for it. 343 00:18:11,700 --> 00:18:16,000 He says He asked you to pray for a Rich Harvest of souls. 344 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:17,700 In these times, we are living in the time. 345 00:18:17,700 --> 00:18:20,600 When there is the Harvest is plentiful, the workers are few, 346 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:24,100 you can ask him, he says, pray to the Lord of the Harvest so 347 00:18:24,100 --> 00:18:27,500 that he will send out workers into the Harvest field. 348 00:18:27,500 --> 00:18:32,000 Matthew 9, 37 and 38, are you praying for more workers? 349 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:36,200 Are you praying that you will be prepared for the second coming? 350 00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:39,300 A lot of times, we are pushing the content of the second 351 00:18:39,300 --> 00:18:42,800 coming, but you and I we need to look at ourselves nor am I Where 352 00:18:42,800 --> 00:18:47,900 if you were to come tonight, if my number is called tonight, am 353 00:18:47,900 --> 00:18:50,900 I ready for you? Will I have to enter Paradise, 354 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:54,800 will I be with you for eternity? Pray for preparedness, pray that 355 00:18:54,800 --> 00:18:58,400 we want following. Jesus himself said, pray for the 356 00:18:58,400 --> 00:18:59,800 end times. Pray that you will have 357 00:18:59,800 --> 00:19:01,700 endurance. Pray that they will be a Rich 358 00:19:01,700 --> 00:19:04,100 Harvest, pray that you will be prepared. 359 00:19:04,300 --> 00:19:07,700 She repeatedly talks about the parable of the virgins and so 360 00:19:07,700 --> 00:19:08,900 many other. You know, this is the wicked 361 00:19:08,900 --> 00:19:11,300 servant. It's all about preparedness and 362 00:19:11,300 --> 00:19:14,800 preparedness comes in our Life, when I'm playing the Lord will 363 00:19:14,800 --> 00:19:18,100 show me areas in my life, where I've backslidden, where I've 364 00:19:18,100 --> 00:19:21,000 gone Wayward, he was show me areas where I need to tighten 365 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:22,700 up. My God, he will show me areas 366 00:19:22,700 --> 00:19:26,900 where I'm not been alert, he will prepare me crave for that. 367 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:31,700 Pray for that. Jesus also asked us to pray that 368 00:19:31,700 --> 00:19:35,600 we will not fall into temptation, Luke 22:42 on 369 00:19:35,600 --> 00:19:37,500 reaching the place, the Mount of Olives. 370 00:19:37,500 --> 00:19:42,300 He said, pray that you will not fall into temptation and this is 371 00:19:42,300 --> 00:19:44,400 fun. Me because she leaves them. 372 00:19:44,600 --> 00:19:48,200 A couple of them out in the Garden of Gethsemane and he he's 373 00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:51,900 heading in, he staying outside and he tells them don't fall 374 00:19:51,900 --> 00:19:53,300 into temptation. And what do they do? 375 00:19:53,300 --> 00:19:56,800 They fall asleep and if this is, if you're someone like me, the 376 00:19:56,800 --> 00:20:00,600 minute you sit to pray is when you feel the most sleepy, when 377 00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:02,700 you sit to pray, you remember all the things you've not done 378 00:20:04,700 --> 00:20:07,900 bigger issues than that? It is required of us. 379 00:20:07,900 --> 00:20:10,100 We are not superhuman. I often tell this to my 380 00:20:10,100 --> 00:20:12,800 children, when, you know, they are acting like, you know, Other 381 00:20:12,800 --> 00:20:15,700 people have greater sins in their life and they are 382 00:20:15,700 --> 00:20:17,100 completely. Okay, I see, you know what? 383 00:20:17,100 --> 00:20:20,000 None of us are Saints. Here we are all sinners. 384 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:22,900 Who have been saved by grace? We are sinners at the. 385 00:20:22,900 --> 00:20:25,700 Bottom line is, this we are sinners, but because of Jesus, 386 00:20:25,700 --> 00:20:29,700 we are saved. And so, let's not think that we 387 00:20:29,700 --> 00:20:34,000 can get through this life without praying to protect us 388 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:36,400 from Temptation. We need God's protection from 389 00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:42,100 Temptation, we will fail. There will be times when we we 390 00:20:42,100 --> 00:20:45,100 miss them. Mark, so this is a pre-emptive 391 00:20:45,100 --> 00:20:48,000 prancing Lord. Keep me from Temptation, Lord. 392 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:52,100 I'm hitting my middle-aged, keep me from a midlife crisis. 393 00:20:52,100 --> 00:20:55,100 Let me not mess up. Protect my reputation, protect 394 00:20:55,100 --> 00:21:00,600 my family, let us not fall into any Financial traps. 395 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:03,500 Let us not be immoral in any way guard. 396 00:21:03,500 --> 00:21:07,300 My eyes lat, these our prayers. We can pray, because Jesus said, 397 00:21:07,500 --> 00:21:10,100 pray that you will not fall into temptation. 398 00:21:10,100 --> 00:21:13,200 So these are the things that Jesus says, we Just pray for. 399 00:21:13,200 --> 00:21:15,400 He says, ask me for anything in my name. 400 00:21:16,100 --> 00:21:17,900 He says, pray for more of the spirit. 401 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:20,500 He praised for his prey for the end times that you will have 402 00:21:20,500 --> 00:21:23,400 endurance. He says, pray that you will not 403 00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:28,700 fall into temptation. The most important thing though, 404 00:21:28,700 --> 00:21:33,500 is that Jesus himself. God, In the Flesh modeled 405 00:21:33,500 --> 00:21:35,600 prayer. It was not like he could have 406 00:21:35,600 --> 00:21:36,900 been above it, right. He's God. 407 00:21:36,900 --> 00:21:40,700 He, every person he touched and he was someone he created, he 408 00:21:40,700 --> 00:21:42,600 knew everything about them before. 409 00:21:42,600 --> 00:21:44,800 They open their mouth, he knew what was in their mind. 410 00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:47,500 He created the Earth, He Walked on. 411 00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:50,000 Why did he have to pray? He was God himself. 412 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:54,600 Hundred percent got 100% man. He had power oozing out of him. 413 00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:58,500 Why did he need to pray? I believe that he modeled prayer 414 00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:00,800 so that we would see how much we need it. 415 00:22:01,300 --> 00:22:03,400 If you're thinking you can get by without prayer. 416 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:06,400 One liner is good a day. I would urge you that you would 417 00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:10,000 step up your prayer life and see how God changes your life. 418 00:22:10,100 --> 00:22:13,600 See how God starts moving things that you can actually visibly. 419 00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:17,600 See, does God protect us? Even if we don't pray. 420 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:22,800 Yes, that's his goodness and Grace, but he loves When we come 421 00:22:22,900 --> 00:22:27,800 to him and ask, he loves that, we would actually take the time 422 00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:31,300 to sit there and bear our hearts to him and I believe that Jesus 423 00:22:31,300 --> 00:22:35,100 modeled three kinds of prayers and I believe we can take, you 424 00:22:35,100 --> 00:22:38,000 know, step into that Mahdi and try it for ourselves. 425 00:22:38,300 --> 00:22:41,100 The first kind of prayer style that he modeled was one of 426 00:22:41,100 --> 00:22:46,600 Thanksgiving Matthew 11:25-26. It says, at that time Jesus 427 00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:50,600 says, I praise you father, Lord of Heaven and Earth because 428 00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:53,500 you've hidden these things from Wise and learned and revealed 429 00:22:53,500 --> 00:22:55,600 them to Little Children. Yes. 430 00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:59,100 Father for this is what you were pleased to do. 431 00:22:59,300 --> 00:23:03,600 A prayer of Thanksgiving openly in front of disciples, many 432 00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:05,800 others. He lives his eyes up to heaven 433 00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:08,800 and thanks his Heavenly Father for the Revelation that he's 434 00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:13,800 granting, the disciples and another couple of occasions when 435 00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:17,800 he fed the 5000 he fed the 4000. It said he looked up to heaven, 436 00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:20,400 he gave thanks and then broke the bread. 437 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:21,500 And you know what happened? The rest. 438 00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:24,800 It is history. Many were fed, many basketfuls 439 00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:26,900 were left behind, everyone was content. 440 00:23:27,100 --> 00:23:33,000 Jesus modeled Thanksgiving. He was God himself. 441 00:23:33,100 --> 00:23:34,600 Why did he have to thank the father? 442 00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:38,000 I believe he did it, so that we will know how important 443 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:40,000 Thanksgiving is in our prayer lives. 444 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:44,400 So often we bring our request and literally it's like a, you 445 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:48,100 know, truckload become, we dump it on our father's lap, which is 446 00:23:48,100 --> 00:23:51,600 great. We forget to thank him for all 447 00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:54,900 All that he's done. You remember the ten lepers nine 448 00:23:54,900 --> 00:23:58,000 or ten were healed? Nine forgot and walked away one. 449 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:02,300 Return in Jesus himself says, we're in the Ten of you only one 450 00:24:02,300 --> 00:24:04,900 recognized remembered and thanked me for it. 451 00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:08,100 Jesus is surprised at that moment. 452 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:12,400 She has the thing Thanksgiving shifts. 453 00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:13,900 Everything. When our prayers are about 454 00:24:13,900 --> 00:24:16,400 Thanksgiving, you will start to find. 455 00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:18,100 You has so much to thank God for that. 456 00:24:18,100 --> 00:24:21,000 The petitions actually will decrease in their intensity. 457 00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:24,400 You will start to see that the God who did all of this. 458 00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:29,000 In my life can do this, and more in the current situation. 459 00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:32,600 The one who led me through that red, see through that, Jordan 460 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:35,100 Will Lead Me. Now as I walk through the 461 00:24:35,108 --> 00:24:38,000 Wilderness, he's not left me. He hasn't changed. 462 00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:41,400 That's what Thanksgiving does. The Apostle Paul writes that we 463 00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:44,100 shouldn't be anxious for anything but in everything by 464 00:24:44,100 --> 00:24:47,600 prayer and petition with Thanksgiving he says make your 465 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:50,100 requests known to God. And so this is something that 466 00:24:50,100 --> 00:24:53,200 Jesus model, I believe it. I think that Jesus if he did 467 00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:55,900 something, it's good for us to try it out, it's good for us to 468 00:24:55,900 --> 00:24:59,300 model allies on that. And so with, would you and I in 469 00:24:59,300 --> 00:25:04,900 the midst of struggle, in the midst of conflict, if we can 470 00:25:04,900 --> 00:25:08,100 raise up sacrifice of Thanksgiving and praise, it will 471 00:25:08,100 --> 00:25:13,100 shift the entire atmosphere believe that Thanksgiving 472 00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:16,800 confuses the enemy because when he's oppressing us on one side 473 00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:18,300 and we are seeing thank you, Lord. 474 00:25:18,300 --> 00:25:20,300 We believe that you're doing something good. 475 00:25:20,300 --> 00:25:23,100 Even in this situation, I I believe that you are unchanging. 476 00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:25,900 The enemies confused. He said, what are they doing? 477 00:25:25,900 --> 00:25:28,800 I'm trying to defeat them. I'm trying to make them feel 478 00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:31,300 despair, but this person is thanking God. 479 00:25:31,300 --> 00:25:35,100 I don't get it. So it's a very effective form of 480 00:25:35,100 --> 00:25:38,600 warfare prayer to just keep singing your praise to keep 481 00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:42,800 speaking out in Thanksgiving. We are unbeatable when we are 482 00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:45,900 thankful, remember that you? And I, we are unbeatable. 483 00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:48,800 When we are thankful. The second kind of prayer that 484 00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:55,000 Jesus modeled was the element. Matthew 26 verse 39 says, going 485 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:57,300 a little farther. He fell with his face to the 486 00:25:57,300 --> 00:26:01,600 ground and prayed my father. If it is possible, may this cup 487 00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:07,600 be taken from yet, not as I will, but as you will, Matthew 488 00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:10,900 27 verse 46 says about three in the afternoon. 489 00:26:10,900 --> 00:26:16,100 Jesus cried out in a loud voice, he like Eli Lama sabachthani 490 00:26:16,300 --> 00:26:20,600 which means my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? 491 00:26:22,100 --> 00:26:26,500 Element is not a complaint. It is a rending of our heart is 492 00:26:26,500 --> 00:26:30,600 breaking it open and saying god this is my deepest wound. 493 00:26:30,700 --> 00:26:33,000 You saw what this person did to me? 494 00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:35,300 You saw what are speaking about me? 495 00:26:35,300 --> 00:26:38,500 Lord you're hearing it Lord, I've been through so much why 496 00:26:38,500 --> 00:26:44,500 this additional burden also It's breaking my heart wide open so 497 00:26:44,500 --> 00:26:47,600 that he can see every wound as Roy. 498 00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:50,700 It is as it is, it's saying I will not put up a show with you 499 00:26:50,700 --> 00:26:54,600 God, I will not pretend to be okay, I will not cover it up 500 00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:57,800 with well-shaped words. For I will weep before you and 501 00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:04,800 say Lord help me Lord meet me and was cam says this element is 502 00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:08,600 a cry of belief. In a good god, a God who has his 503 00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:11,600 dear to our hearts. Oh God who transfigures the 504 00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:16,100 Glean to Beauty complaint is the bitter Hound of unbelief. 505 00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:21,500 If, in any benevolent, God In This Moment, a distrust in the 506 00:27:21,500 --> 00:27:25,500 love of the Father's Heart. It's not amazing. 507 00:27:25,700 --> 00:27:29,400 It's a distrust in the love, beat of the Father's Heart. 508 00:27:29,700 --> 00:27:33,500 Bitterness complaint is different element is coming 509 00:27:33,500 --> 00:27:36,900 before him naked, and raw and bleeding. 510 00:27:36,900 --> 00:27:40,900 And saying, God, this is me, I don't know why it is happening. 511 00:27:40,900 --> 00:27:44,600 Help me. It's like job sitting there. 512 00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:49,300 Broken pottery rubbing his skin in pain lost all his children 513 00:27:49,300 --> 00:27:52,000 lost his property and seeing Lord help me. 514 00:27:52,700 --> 00:27:54,300 I thought I was doing the right thing. 515 00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:58,300 What happened God? That's what lament is Jesus. 516 00:27:58,300 --> 00:28:02,300 Modeled it on that cross. Jesus, modeled it in Gethsemane. 517 00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:06,100 He said, Lord, help me if it is possible. 518 00:28:06,100 --> 00:28:10,500 Take this cup. Jesus, again was human and God, 519 00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:17,000 He humbly submitted to his father's will and yet and yet he 520 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:21,400 lamented at that moment on the cross crying out for all to hear 521 00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:27,500 God, why have you forsaken me? You and I have permission to 522 00:28:27,500 --> 00:28:31,100 lament Christian in our Journeys individually. 523 00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:33,700 We are allowed to lament. It's an important part of our 524 00:28:33,700 --> 00:28:35,900 beliefs. Don't think that, you know, you 525 00:28:35,900 --> 00:28:38,700 always have to have a tough exterior and a tough front. 526 00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:42,700 You can let down your guard with the make Sure of your soul, you 527 00:28:42,700 --> 00:28:45,500 can do it. The third type type of prayer 528 00:28:45,500 --> 00:28:49,600 that Jesus modded was a prayer of Declaration. 529 00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:55,600 Mark, 7 verses 33 to 35. It says, after he took him aside 530 00:28:55,700 --> 00:28:59,300 away from the crowd, Jesus, put his fingers into the man's ears. 531 00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:02,100 Then he spit and touched the Man's Tongue. 532 00:29:02,500 --> 00:29:03,800 She looked up to heaven and earth. 533 00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:08,900 The deep sigh, said to him, if after, which means be opened at 534 00:29:08,900 --> 00:29:13,900 this, the man's ears were opened His tongue was loosened and he 535 00:29:13,900 --> 00:29:17,100 began to speak plainly, just one word. 536 00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:23,700 Jesus just made a declaration be opened and it opened Luke 22. 537 00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:30,100 Luke 23 verse 34 says Jesus said, father forgive them for. 538 00:29:30,100 --> 00:29:31,600 They do not know what they are doing. 539 00:29:31,900 --> 00:29:35,800 And they divided up his clothes by casting lots another 540 00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:40,400 declaration and this declaration when it was being made was what 541 00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:42,900 set into motion. All the things that God was 542 00:29:42,900 --> 00:29:46,500 going to do through that moment. It was because of that, 543 00:29:46,500 --> 00:29:50,300 sacrifice a perfect sinless sacrifice on the cross that 544 00:29:50,300 --> 00:29:56,200 every man woman and child sins were forgiven, Jesus made a 545 00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:59,100 declaration of prayer. He declared a prophetic 546 00:29:59,100 --> 00:30:02,800 declaration, over the situation, which changed everything as we 547 00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:08,200 went, there is a time for each of us in our prayer lives to 548 00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:10,100 move from petitioning to declaring. 549 00:30:10,500 --> 00:30:12,100 Sometimes. We're always you You some nice 550 00:30:12,100 --> 00:30:14,400 vehicle, always groveling and asking God for something. 551 00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:17,100 And honestly, a petition is conversation. 552 00:30:17,100 --> 00:30:18,200 It seems what I need this. What? 553 00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:19,600 What do you think? I need, right? 554 00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:22,500 It's not really groveling. But there is a time when you 555 00:30:22,500 --> 00:30:26,800 must move from petitioning to declaring, what is it that you 556 00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:30,500 believe God has told you to declare in the season, but I 557 00:30:30,508 --> 00:30:32,700 believe that health is my portion. 558 00:30:33,500 --> 00:30:36,800 I believe that I'm going to succeed in what I put my hands 559 00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:38,300 to Lord. I believe that you want to 560 00:30:38,300 --> 00:30:41,300 stablish the work of my hands. What are you declaring? 561 00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:44,900 Trudy, you need to be very sensitive to the shift that will 562 00:30:44,900 --> 00:30:46,700 happen. When the Holy Spirit, will say 563 00:30:46,700 --> 00:30:51,200 stop asking declare, the victory is already, has declared it. 564 00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:54,400 Now, I have to give you a statutory warning, it doesn't 565 00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:56,500 happen all the time. So this is not some name it and 566 00:30:56,500 --> 00:30:59,400 claim it kind of thing. No, this is something that the 567 00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:01,700 holy spirit will lead you to do. There will be times when you 568 00:31:01,700 --> 00:31:05,200 must keep asking seeking knocking but there is a time 569 00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:07,800 when there will be a shift and the Holy Spirit seen of declare 570 00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:10,900 believe it that is already yours, ask for it. 571 00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:15,800 As I close, I want to just close with. 572 00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:17,700 What Jesus said, is a very pivotal moment. 573 00:31:17,700 --> 00:31:21,500 Jesus had the triumphal entry, he came into Jerusalem and after 574 00:31:21,500 --> 00:31:24,700 coming into Jerusalem, he comes into the temple, and he sees the 575 00:31:24,700 --> 00:31:28,700 money changers, and the guys was merchants, and all of them, and 576 00:31:28,700 --> 00:31:33,400 he creates a whip, he chases them out and he says Matthew 21. 577 00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:35,600 Verse 32 says, it is written. He said to them. 578 00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:40,100 My house will be called a House of Prayer, but you are making it 579 00:31:40,100 --> 00:31:45,100 a den of robbers. Is Jesus was zealous for his 580 00:31:45,100 --> 00:31:49,100 church? There's there's a verse which is 581 00:31:49,700 --> 00:31:52,300 referenced in this place. It says, Zeal for your house 582 00:31:52,300 --> 00:31:55,300 consumes me, the disciples remembered it, and they knew 583 00:31:55,300 --> 00:31:57,300 that that's what was driving. Jesus is actions. 584 00:31:57,300 --> 00:31:59,500 It was our anger, it was not frustration. 585 00:31:59,700 --> 00:32:01,900 It was a Zeal for his father's house. 586 00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:03,600 And today, I want to leave this with you. 587 00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:07,100 Jesus looks at the body of Christ today, you know each of 588 00:32:07,100 --> 00:32:08,700 you you can be part of some church, right? 589 00:32:08,700 --> 00:32:11,100 Where you're at. You're part of me has Ian here. 590 00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:14,300 This is a house of prayer for too long. 591 00:32:14,300 --> 00:32:17,600 We have looked at the church as something that should feed, our 592 00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:21,500 consumeristic means, or you know, what, I go there because I 593 00:32:21,500 --> 00:32:23,100 need to make connections for business. 594 00:32:23,300 --> 00:32:25,100 I go there because I need that medical. 595 00:32:25,100 --> 00:32:28,900 If I don't get the miracle in one year I'm moving church or 596 00:32:28,900 --> 00:32:30,400 they need to cater to my child's. 597 00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:33,100 Every need they need to do what I can do for my child. 598 00:32:33,100 --> 00:32:37,300 So often we put demands on the local churches but this is Jesus 599 00:32:37,300 --> 00:32:40,500 his dream for his church. He says it would be called a 600 00:32:40,500 --> 00:32:42,900 House of Prayer. Care for all nations. 601 00:32:43,500 --> 00:32:46,300 I want to ask you, will you look at your church, the body of 602 00:32:46,300 --> 00:32:49,900 Christ with a simple view and say, got out. 603 00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:53,200 I want to step in there, knowing it's a House of Prayer. 604 00:32:53,700 --> 00:32:55,900 I want to go in there. So that along with other 605 00:32:55,900 --> 00:32:59,700 believers, other members of the body of Christ, we raise our 606 00:32:59,700 --> 00:33:04,100 voices up to you, that I will go there to be an instrument in 607 00:33:04,100 --> 00:33:07,000 your hands because the minute, we look at it, through the lens 608 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:09,000 of Jesus, how Jesus looked at the church. 609 00:33:09,700 --> 00:33:11,300 It changes what our expectations. 610 00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:14,600 Of church need to be instead of putting that Demand on your 611 00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:17,100 leaders or you know what they play those preachers empty 612 00:33:17,100 --> 00:33:18,500 sermons. I don't get anything from. 613 00:33:18,500 --> 00:33:20,500 What if you started praying for your leaders. 614 00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:24,000 What if you say, you know what, there's no events in this 615 00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:26,800 church, super boring, I have nothing to do the whole week. 616 00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:29,900 What if you start asking or Lord, help me to help them on 617 00:33:29,900 --> 00:33:33,300 their weekends? Give me a passion for Souls. 618 00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:37,300 What if you start to look at church, the way Jesus looked at 619 00:33:37,300 --> 00:33:39,900 the church. At it's a house of prayer for 620 00:33:39,900 --> 00:33:44,800 all nations. As we close, I want to pray the 621 00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:47,600 prayer with you, that Jesus taught his disciples and he 622 00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:50,000 taught it to them. And I learned that it begins. 623 00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:53,400 He says, our father, he hasn't seen my father, so it was not a 624 00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:56,900 personal prayer is prayer for the corporate Collective body 625 00:33:57,300 --> 00:34:02,400 and he tell him John taught his disciples, Lord teach us And I 626 00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:04,100 am, like I said, I'm all for anything. 627 00:34:04,100 --> 00:34:07,900 Jesus taught, we must follow it. And so, I want you, if you are 628 00:34:07,900 --> 00:34:10,699 at home, if you would like to kneel down, you like to stand 629 00:34:10,699 --> 00:34:13,400 up, you are going to believe that you are connected 630 00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:16,300 intrinsically to the rest of the body of Christ on an isolated 631 00:34:16,300 --> 00:34:19,199 island, you are connected to the body of Christ. 632 00:34:19,300 --> 00:34:23,500 Would you pray this? Lord's Prayer with me and as we 633 00:34:23,500 --> 00:34:28,199 play it, can we ask that his will be done for the church that 634 00:34:28,199 --> 00:34:31,699 his will be done for individuals and the church that he Would 635 00:34:31,699 --> 00:34:34,400 keep us from temptation as his chosen ones. 636 00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:39,500 That he would set us apart that he would provide us all that we 637 00:34:39,500 --> 00:34:41,400 need. Can you make that your prayer? 638 00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:47,400 Let's play This Together. Our Father in heaven, Hallowed 639 00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:51,400 Be Your Name. Your Kingdom Come your will be 640 00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:54,300 done on Earth as it is in heaven. 641 00:34:54,800 --> 00:35:00,100 Give us today our daily bread and forgive us our debts as we 642 00:35:00,100 --> 00:35:05,100 also have forgiven Our debtors and lead us not into temptation, 643 00:35:05,700 --> 00:35:07,900 but Deliver Us from the evil one. 644 00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:14,300 In Jesus name we pray, amen. Amen, God bless you. 645 00:35:14,300 --> 00:35:17,600 I pray that as you continue the rest of the year, that prayer 646 00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:21,300 will become a very part of your DNA that you will not stop being 647 00:35:21,300 --> 00:35:23,800 persistent, that you will pray for everything that you would 648 00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:25,900 believe God to come through for you. 649 00:35:26,100 --> 00:35:29,000 God bless. Thank you, Queen to this 650 00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:32,100 message. 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