1 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:06,120 So let me read your little verse of Scripture before we put 2 00:00:06,120 --> 00:00:08,920 anything up on the board. Read your little verse of 3 00:00:08,920 --> 00:00:10,560 Scripture. We are learning how to pray. 4 00:00:10,560 --> 00:00:13,200 None of us have arrived. None of us are. 5 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:16,480 The Bible says don't Babble. Like men on street corners that 6 00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:18,280 you look like you, super spiritual. 7 00:00:18,520 --> 00:00:21,440 I don't think any of us have arrived at the point where we 8 00:00:21,440 --> 00:00:25,120 can say we are heavenly prayers. None of us are there. 9 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:27,360 None of us have. Actually, none of us have 10 00:00:27,360 --> 00:00:28,400 arrived. There, but I'll tell. 11 00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:35,240 You this the power of prayer changes the world and the secret 12 00:00:35,240 --> 00:00:39,440 of the Christian life is pray. And the problem is that the 13 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:42,880 majority of us are not regular prayers. 14 00:00:43,480 --> 00:00:47,160 We we, we get on with our life and we are not utilizing this 15 00:00:47,160 --> 00:00:51,160 great privilege called pray. This is what it says in, in, in 16 00:00:51,160 --> 00:00:52,800 Revelation 8. You don't have to turn there. 17 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:55,920 I'll just read it to you. It says when he opened the 7th 18 00:00:55,920 --> 00:00:58,360 seal there was. Silence in heaven for about half 19 00:00:58,360 --> 00:01:02,560 an hour and I saw the seven angels who stand before God and 20 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:05,319 to them were given 7 trumpets another. 21 00:01:05,319 --> 00:01:08,680 Angel, who had a golden censor, came and stood. 22 00:01:08,680 --> 00:01:10,720 At the altar. He was given. 23 00:01:10,720 --> 00:01:15,400 Much incense to offer with the prayers of all the Saints. 24 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:20,200 On the golden altar before the throne, the smoke of the 25 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:21,680 incense. It's the thing that those. 26 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:24,880 Bishops carry down the that, that, that, that, that, that 27 00:01:24,880 --> 00:01:26,320 censor with the, with the. Smoke. 28 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:30,800 The smoke of the incense, together with the prayers of the 29 00:01:30,800 --> 00:01:36,680 Saints, went up before God. From the angel's hand you 30 00:01:36,720 --> 00:01:43,680 imagine that this rich smell with the prayers of all the 31 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:47,840 Saints. Then the Angel took the sensor 32 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:50,880 filled. With fire from the altar and he. 33 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:54,600 Hold it on the earth. And they came, peals of Thunder, 34 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:59,160 rumblings, flashes of lightning, and an earthquake. 35 00:02:00,800 --> 00:02:06,360 Prayers are movers and shakers. When we pray, things change. 36 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:08,400 Amen. Things change. 37 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:11,200 This, friends. This. 38 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:22,640 Is a 1983 Honda XR200R speedometer made? 39 00:02:22,640 --> 00:02:31,840 By the Nippon Business in. Japan and I have a 1983 Honda 40 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:35,840 XR200R which I spent 300 hours paying. 41 00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:40,120 My dad off he bought. It for 3000, Rand in 1983 and I 42 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:45,960 had to work for 300 hours, 10 Rand an hour as a petrol station 43 00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:50,680 attendant in order and so this bike is in absolutely pristine 44 00:02:50,680 --> 00:02:53,880 condition and I had it. Fixed up and get. 45 00:02:53,880 --> 00:02:55,800 All the paint. And when they fixed it up. 46 00:02:55,800 --> 00:03:01,680 This thing was stolen because this thing you can't find and so 47 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:04,800 for. Five years I've gone to every 48 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:08,960 website on motorbikes all over the world to try and find. 49 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:13,720 This thing. I've prayed, I've cried, I have 50 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:19,760 tried to bribe, I have almost stolen, I have looked at and the 51 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:22,520 only thing that stops you is I know God will catch me, but I've 52 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:23,680 seen. Them and think about just. 53 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:25,320 Whipped it like that. It did. 54 00:03:25,320 --> 00:03:28,960 Nobody would even know and I've got a hold. 55 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:31,480 Of companies and I've. Written to Honda and Japan and 56 00:03:31,480 --> 00:03:33,840 they say we don't. Supply parts that are 40 years 57 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:35,240 old. And so I thought, well. 58 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:37,000 The only thing I can do is I can pray. 59 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:39,400 To our Father who. Art in heaven and I pray. 60 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:41,680 Somewhere he's going to. Send down a peal of Thunder and 61 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:43,880 something's going to shake and whoever's got. 62 00:03:43,880 --> 00:03:45,640 This stuck in the. Garage, It's going to come 63 00:03:45,640 --> 00:03:47,200 unshaken. It's going to come to me. 64 00:03:48,320 --> 00:03:51,600 But there was nothing. And so I. 65 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:53,280 Prayed and prayed and prayed and said God. 66 00:03:53,280 --> 00:03:54,320 Are you deaf? We are. 67 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:56,800 You, Lord God, I need. This Lord, I need it. 68 00:03:57,800 --> 00:04:03,080 This is just a trivial, useless piece of equipment that deals 69 00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:07,800 with my unusual nature that if it doesn't, I'd rather give my 70 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:10,360 bike away than drive it without a speedometer. 71 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:14,040 I lost the pen now that I'm praying for that one as well. 72 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:15,360 I have a whole. Collection. 73 00:04:15,520 --> 00:04:17,760 They're cheap, they're only ¥250, but I've got a whole 74 00:04:17,760 --> 00:04:19,800 collection. I've collected them over 20 75 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:23,640 years but the green ones gone and they stop making it I feel. 76 00:04:23,640 --> 00:04:24,880 Like giving the whole collection. 77 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:26,920 Away. 20 years of. Collection because every time I. 78 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:28,600 Look at them. I think it doesn't look right, 79 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:31,720 but this morning I. Took my collection, I said O 80 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:33,480 our. Father who art in heaven. 81 00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:37,320 Hallowed be your name for just stupid trivial things like pens. 82 00:04:39,160 --> 00:04:42,000 And then I was driving to court to go and be a witness. 83 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:44,040 And I know some of you know this story, but I was driving to 84 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:46,480 court along Lynwood Road and along Lynwood Rd. there's 85 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:47,720 another Rd. Called Dire. 86 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:54,160 Road not named after me. I wish it was, but every time I 87 00:04:54,160 --> 00:04:57,400 go there I'm reminded there was somebody of my forefathers and 88 00:04:57,400 --> 00:04:59,200 every time I go past Dire Rd. I think. 89 00:05:02,480 --> 00:05:06,240 I'm driving past Dire Rd. And then just passed Dire Rd. 90 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:09,920 I see an antique shop and I feel God say inside that antique shop 91 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:16,480 is this thing I've never heard. God speak to I wish. 92 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:19,360 He would. I feel like I no, I don't 93 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:22,400 deserve it. I'm only joking as I went to 94 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:26,160 court for seven hours and we witnesses and all those things. 95 00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:27,560 I don't worry. I wasn't on the dock. 96 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:30,680 I was the the advocate told me I wasn't dressed properly. 97 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:33,440 And you know me and my advocates, it's an ongoing 98 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:43,160 journey and God bless you. I don't know how you can, but 99 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:48,040 God bless you anyway. And so we. 100 00:05:48,080 --> 00:05:50,600 We were driving, I was. Driving back and I went past 101 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:54,080 Linwood Rd. and Dyer. I thought I remember that so so 102 00:05:54,080 --> 00:05:58,080 I did AU turn and and I went into the shop and I said hi, my 103 00:05:58,080 --> 00:05:59,520 name is Rory. Said hello Rory, I'm Chris. 104 00:05:59,520 --> 00:06:01,840 I said Chris, what do you do? He said I'm a property developer 105 00:06:01,840 --> 00:06:04,320 and we got talking about property and he loves antiques. 106 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:06,240 I said Chris, the strangest thing happened. 107 00:06:06,880 --> 00:06:12,000 I drove past your shop. I've got a 1983 200, he said. 108 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:14,360 Yo, the one with the. Blue seat and the yellow side 109 00:06:14,360 --> 00:06:15,760 go. I said, yo, you remember that 110 00:06:15,760 --> 00:06:19,840 182, it was black and white and then 84 they put the twin 111 00:06:19,840 --> 00:06:22,200 carbon, he said. When they put the twin carbon 112 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:24,600 they completely messed it up. I said yo they're not the same. 113 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:28,160 I said Chris I need this but he said hey Rory, those things are 114 00:06:28,160 --> 00:06:31,720 like hens teeth. I said but Chris can you help 115 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:32,600 me? He said I'll try. 116 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:36,480 And the week lady phoned me said, hey, I found one for you, 117 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:39,520 but it's broken. I think, oh, I'd rather have a 118 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:43,840 broken one there than nothing. But but, but our Father who art 119 00:06:43,840 --> 00:06:45,680 in heaven, I mean, surely God, you're not going to give me a 120 00:06:45,680 --> 00:06:50,600 broken speeder. And then when I went to 121 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:51,840 Australia, begin here, he phoned me. 122 00:06:51,840 --> 00:06:53,040 He said, hey Roy, you won't believe it. 123 00:06:53,040 --> 00:06:55,040 I found one. That's an absolutely perfect 124 00:06:55,360 --> 00:06:58,840 working condition. You see, friends, when we pray, 125 00:06:59,200 --> 00:07:01,880 we're trying to ask God to. Come by his power. 126 00:07:01,880 --> 00:07:07,160 Into the Russian Ukrainian war. And we can also ask him trivial 127 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:15,600 things like speedometers and pens and the restoration of your 128 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:23,600 marriage and your children to come back to God and for God to 129 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:27,080 give you a scripture that you can find the dignity of 130 00:07:27,080 --> 00:07:30,640 employment. And for God to supernaturally 131 00:07:30,880 --> 00:07:35,360 intersect your path with somebody that can give you 132 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:40,200 advice and help you out. And tell a man in Bedford View 133 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:43,720 to come to a church in Pretoria, E because there's a black girl 134 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:47,040 who didn't have a dad who could help her up in any possible way 135 00:07:47,320 --> 00:07:50,200 and have access to some kind of finance so that the little girl 136 00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:52,880 that she's given birth to can travel in a safeguard. 137 00:07:53,680 --> 00:07:56,080 It's the same God that can do this, can do that. 138 00:07:57,920 --> 00:08:00,960 And as Nico will preach as he as we shared lunch together on 139 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:04,400 Friday, he doesn't tell a story without relating it to a 140 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:07,240 scripture and one of the scriptures. 141 00:08:07,240 --> 00:08:09,800 I've never forgotten, Nico, when you were lying in your bed 142 00:08:10,120 --> 00:08:13,040 overseas and your business was under deep pressure and COVID 143 00:08:13,040 --> 00:08:15,840 had affected every single part of your business and you're 144 00:08:15,840 --> 00:08:18,960 reading Psalm 107, it says we were at our wit's. 145 00:08:18,960 --> 00:08:20,720 End. Remember, you taught me we were 146 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:25,480 at our wit's end. But we cried out to God and he 147 00:08:25,480 --> 00:08:28,080 answered, I want to tell you, friends, that the God of heaven, 148 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:29,840 when you see. Heaven in the. 149 00:08:29,840 --> 00:08:32,200 Bible. It's not some far off distance 150 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:35,120 place. Heaven is actually all around us 151 00:08:35,440 --> 00:08:39,640 and God is just waiting by his hand to reach into us. 152 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:41,919 And so we live with this incredible mystery. 153 00:08:41,919 --> 00:08:46,280 Between the sovereignty of God and the prayers of men, they 154 00:08:46,280 --> 00:08:47,160 will. God is sovereign. 155 00:08:47,160 --> 00:08:50,880 Everything will happen. But God somehow uses our 156 00:08:50,880 --> 00:08:53,800 prayers. And so I want to. 157 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:55,800 Invite you on. Tuesday night to come and join 158 00:08:55,800 --> 00:08:59,480 us to learn how to pray, to learn how to pray. 159 00:08:59,840 --> 00:09:03,520 Amen. So let's turn to Matthew chapter 160 00:09:03,520 --> 00:09:04,480 6. I won't preach long. 161 00:09:04,480 --> 00:09:06,800 I just want you to catch the heart of it. 162 00:09:17,700 --> 00:09:22,740 This then is how you should pray Matthew 6 verse. 163 00:09:22,740 --> 00:09:25,140 Now this then is how you should. Pray. 164 00:09:26,180 --> 00:09:28,780 And and you know, the longer you serve God. 165 00:09:29,760 --> 00:09:32,200 The harder it is to. Admit that you don't have a 166 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:35,840 prayer life. It's like the longer you've 167 00:09:35,840 --> 00:09:38,240 served God, the harder it is to admit that you don't know your 168 00:09:38,240 --> 00:09:43,120 way around the Bible. This is not some kind of hotshot 169 00:09:43,120 --> 00:09:46,280 spiritual centre. This is just a family having a 170 00:09:46,280 --> 00:09:49,880 go at serving God, making mistakes, falling. 171 00:09:51,760 --> 00:09:54,080 You know when my kids. Fell off when they were learning 172 00:09:54,080 --> 00:09:56,400 to walk. I didn't smash their faces in, I 173 00:09:56,400 --> 00:09:59,760 didn't beat them up and say don't fall down. 174 00:09:59,760 --> 00:10:02,600 I just picked them up and I dusted them off and I loved them 175 00:10:02,600 --> 00:10:05,080 until they stopped crying and I said have another go. 176 00:10:06,280 --> 00:10:09,440 They would walk and stumble and fall and I'd pick them up again 177 00:10:09,440 --> 00:10:12,080 and I'd have another go and, and then they started running. 178 00:10:12,080 --> 00:10:15,080 And then, and then I've got this whole range of children from 27 179 00:10:15,080 --> 00:10:19,040 to 16 and, and what I expect of my 27 year old son, I don't 180 00:10:19,040 --> 00:10:21,920 expect of my 16 year old son because they're on different 181 00:10:21,920 --> 00:10:23,360 journeys. They've got different levels of 182 00:10:23,360 --> 00:10:26,680 maturity and inside of this auditorium we've got all sorts 183 00:10:26,680 --> 00:10:29,000 of different levels of maturity. You think, well, there must be a 184 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:30,680 standard. No, there's not a standard. 185 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:34,240 When he taught them to pray, he said this is the standard. 186 00:10:34,480 --> 00:10:42,320 Our Father say our Father, so. So that takes away all sovereign 187 00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:44,720 God, Lord Almighty. Holy. 188 00:10:44,720 --> 00:10:48,280 God, all of those things are beautiful and we can address God 189 00:10:48,280 --> 00:10:51,880 with all those things, but when he taught us to pray, He bought 190 00:10:51,880 --> 00:10:56,280 it down to a relational level where you and I act like sons 191 00:10:56,280 --> 00:10:58,240 and daughters of a really good God. 192 00:10:58,760 --> 00:11:02,840 The problem with that, as we did on Tuesday, when you ask people 193 00:11:02,840 --> 00:11:07,000 about their dad, some of them said my hero, a legend, 194 00:11:07,360 --> 00:11:13,400 unbelievable, generous, kind, loving, strong, but others said 195 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:17,680 alcoholic, disappointing, absent and so, so we. 196 00:11:17,680 --> 00:11:18,400 Come to. Pray. 197 00:11:18,400 --> 00:11:22,080 And we've got all these earthly perspectives of our own fathers. 198 00:11:22,080 --> 00:11:25,200 That's why I've got Lawrence up here, because Lawrence is this. 199 00:11:25,200 --> 00:11:29,240 Picture of this really rugged, strong, successful. 200 00:11:29,240 --> 00:11:31,040 Man. But actually, when he walked 201 00:11:31,040 --> 00:11:33,880 down the aisle, there was this. Tenderness inside of him. 202 00:11:34,640 --> 00:11:37,120 And the words that came out of mouth were this beauty. 203 00:11:37,120 --> 00:11:40,560 And I realized the accessibility that that beautiful girl had 204 00:11:40,560 --> 00:11:46,680 with her dad was what we tried to convey as we learn how to 205 00:11:46,680 --> 00:11:50,600 pray together and so God. Has to bypass. 206 00:11:50,640 --> 00:11:54,680 Our earthly understanding of Father in order that we can get 207 00:11:54,680 --> 00:11:58,440 and so God sends his son Jesus and the Bible says. 208 00:11:58,440 --> 00:12:01,800 If you have seen me. You have seen the Father. 209 00:12:02,120 --> 00:12:04,040 So he comes and says here's here's what it looks like. 210 00:12:04,040 --> 00:12:06,680 I don't, I don't know what it looked like for you, but here's 211 00:12:06,680 --> 00:12:09,920 what it looks like on earth. If you've seen Jesus, you've 212 00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:13,160 seen the Father, and then the Son goes back to the Father and 213 00:12:13,160 --> 00:12:15,120 he says actually to make this thing real. 214 00:12:15,320 --> 00:12:16,840 I'm going to pour my Holy Spirit. 215 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:18,640 Into your heart and. By the Spirit. 216 00:12:18,640 --> 00:12:21,880 Of God, you're going to cry, ABBA Father. 217 00:12:22,120 --> 00:12:24,960 So actually we can. Bypass all the earthly. 218 00:12:24,960 --> 00:12:27,920 Stuff we can. Bypass it all. 219 00:12:28,640 --> 00:12:31,400 How are we going to do it, Rory? Well, we're going to do it like 220 00:12:31,400 --> 00:12:36,040 this, Damien. Is going to wait on God because 221 00:12:36,040 --> 00:12:38,920 Damien chooses who leads the meetings so. 222 00:12:38,920 --> 00:12:41,400 Damien's going to wait. On God and he's going to pray 223 00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:44,120 and he's going to say our. Father who art in heaven. 224 00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:48,160 Hallowed be your name on Sunday. Father God, we have to. 225 00:12:48,160 --> 00:12:50,800 Speak and represent. You to the group of. 226 00:12:50,800 --> 00:12:52,880 People that are going. To come from all over the 227 00:12:52,880 --> 00:12:55,720 country. So, Father, who do you? 228 00:12:55,720 --> 00:13:01,360 Think should lead the meeting on Sunday and then Damien sees when 229 00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:02,600 SMS he. Says hey raw. 230 00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:04,760 I was thinking about Maggie leading the meeting. 231 00:13:04,760 --> 00:13:06,920 What do you think? I said, hey, it's not my 232 00:13:06,920 --> 00:13:09,000 responsibility. That's your responsibility, 233 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:09,920 Damien. He said. 234 00:13:09,920 --> 00:13:11,760 I think. Maggie should lead the meeting 235 00:13:14,040 --> 00:13:16,000 and then he sends an SMS. Hey Maggie, do you think you 236 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:18,360 should lead the meeting? So I just got to chat to Naya. 237 00:13:18,360 --> 00:13:20,360 Because we've got a baby. That we share and somebody. 238 00:13:20,360 --> 00:13:22,520 Has to babysit and gets back and says. 239 00:13:22,680 --> 00:13:25,400 Yes, actually, Naya's going to look after you to malign and 240 00:13:25,400 --> 00:13:27,120 I'll lead the meeting. Thank you so much. 241 00:13:27,120 --> 00:13:30,000 And then and then God has to speak through praise our Father 242 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:31,640 art in heaven to a guy called Gideon. 243 00:13:31,800 --> 00:13:34,960 Whose wife Karine used to live in Durban and our church and 244 00:13:34,960 --> 00:13:36,520 think. I wonder where we should go on 245 00:13:36,520 --> 00:13:38,640 Father's Day. So there's a guy called Rory who 246 00:13:38,640 --> 00:13:41,160 actually he loves the. Father, heart of God, so let's 247 00:13:41,160 --> 00:13:43,920 go there on Father's Day. And God starts to. 248 00:13:44,040 --> 00:13:47,720 Put the pieces together because. Somehow he needs a car to go 249 00:13:47,720 --> 00:13:49,000 from the CEO. Of. 250 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:51,360 A car company. To one of his daughters. 251 00:13:51,960 --> 00:13:54,000 And God starts to. Put the whole thing together 252 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:57,440 through Damien. Who's asking God who should? 253 00:13:57,440 --> 00:14:02,920 Lead the meeting. And so who's the hearer is it? 254 00:14:02,920 --> 00:14:04,440 The guy who came from Bedford View. 255 00:14:04,560 --> 00:14:06,360 Is it there's a? Girl who's leading the meeting? 256 00:14:06,680 --> 00:14:09,480 Or is it just some guy who just happens to get onto? 257 00:14:09,480 --> 00:14:11,920 His knees and instead. Of going through a roster. 258 00:14:11,920 --> 00:14:15,080 System thinks, I wonder. By God's grace, you should leave 259 00:14:15,080 --> 00:14:21,000 the meeting today. And you've got to. 260 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:25,840 Know that in every supernatural. If every supernatural. 261 00:14:25,840 --> 00:14:27,560 Crossing of the. T and dotting of the. 262 00:14:27,560 --> 00:14:30,360 I behind. That is the hand of God who is 263 00:14:30,360 --> 00:14:33,400 trying to break. Into our world, and heaven is 264 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:34,280 not. Far away. 265 00:14:34,440 --> 00:14:39,120 It's not some unreachable place. It's close by. 266 00:14:40,200 --> 00:14:41,640 It's close by. Amen. 267 00:14:43,720 --> 00:14:48,640 Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. 268 00:14:50,200 --> 00:14:52,400 This, this is not a prayer. We just our Father art in 269 00:14:52,400 --> 00:14:53,880 heaven, hallowed be your name, your Kingdom come. 270 00:14:53,880 --> 00:14:55,400 You will be done on earth as it is in heaven. 271 00:14:55,960 --> 00:14:57,920 Give us today Our Daily Bread and forgive us our sins as we 272 00:14:57,920 --> 00:15:00,440 forgive those who sin against us and deliver us from evil. 273 00:15:00,920 --> 00:15:04,120 It's not a formula that you go through in 3 minutes. 274 00:15:04,320 --> 00:15:09,200 It is a model that we can spend the next 30 years of our lives 275 00:15:09,200 --> 00:15:13,320 trying to understand the depths and diversity of what God is 276 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:16,360 trying to teach us. And, and it says our Father, I 277 00:15:16,360 --> 00:15:19,960 don't want to pray it alone. I want to pray it with people 278 00:15:19,960 --> 00:15:23,520 who are prepared to give up their Tuesday nights and come 279 00:15:23,520 --> 00:15:28,320 and sit with me. When I sat here on Tuesday 280 00:15:28,320 --> 00:15:31,200 night. There was a man who left the 281 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:35,960 church 20 years ago, 20 years ago he left the church and 282 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:41,120 because of a wedding that we did in this church, because of a 283 00:15:41,120 --> 00:15:44,520 family that don't believe in Christmas. 284 00:15:45,240 --> 00:15:47,040 Because we had a. Christmas tree. 285 00:15:47,320 --> 00:15:49,800 A man came to see me and said, I don't believe in Christmas tree. 286 00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:51,480 I said I don't care what you believe in. 287 00:15:51,640 --> 00:15:55,680 If you date one of our girls, you come here, China, I'll stick 288 00:15:55,680 --> 00:16:02,760 the tree up your nostrils. Do you really? 289 00:16:02,760 --> 00:16:05,520 Think I am going to fight about a Christmas tree? 290 00:16:05,640 --> 00:16:09,720 I couldn't give a hoot about a Christmas tree, seriously. 291 00:16:10,840 --> 00:16:15,600 But because of that, because of that Christmas tree, a boy, a 292 00:16:15,680 --> 00:16:20,240 young man, decided to come here to honor his fiance and here he 293 00:16:20,240 --> 00:16:23,080 learnt about God and at his wedding day, one of the guests 294 00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:24,360 said. If that's how you. 295 00:16:24,360 --> 00:16:25,800 Preach, then I'll come to church, he said. 296 00:16:25,800 --> 00:16:29,960 But I'm only going to come to your church once, so that's good 297 00:16:29,960 --> 00:16:32,920 enough for God. When he came once, he said I'll 298 00:16:32,920 --> 00:16:39,600 come a second time, and then he said I might come back a third 299 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:41,920 time. I said really? 300 00:16:43,640 --> 00:16:46,880 And on our staff, we've got a girl who's been crying out to 301 00:16:46,880 --> 00:16:49,880 God to get married. It's one of the desires of their 302 00:16:49,880 --> 00:16:51,560 heart. Every single. 303 00:16:51,560 --> 00:16:55,600 Day of my life I pray for every one of our staff members by name 304 00:16:55,600 --> 00:16:59,120 I get on my knees and I'll say our Father who art in heaven 305 00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:04,720 hallowed be your name I've. Prayed for that girl for. 306 00:17:04,720 --> 00:17:09,640 Years to meet a man and the dad that I met at a wedding who 307 00:17:09,640 --> 00:17:11,599 happened to come to church, bought his son. 308 00:17:11,599 --> 00:17:14,800 And when his son came to church, he saw the girl and the girl is 309 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:17,680 now his girlfriend. And when he came to me, instead 310 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:20,079 of some earthly thing like saying hey, I'm watching you 311 00:17:20,079 --> 00:17:22,280 because it's one of our girls, I started to weep. 312 00:17:22,280 --> 00:17:24,599 I said you are an answer to pray. 313 00:17:29,640 --> 00:17:31,920 But the man who's not come for the 5th or the 6th. 314 00:17:31,920 --> 00:17:34,920 Time on. Tuesday was sitting about there 315 00:17:34,920 --> 00:17:36,880 where that Lady is with the green jersey. 316 00:17:37,520 --> 00:17:41,040 He was sitting on the carpet with his hands like this on the 317 00:17:41,040 --> 00:17:46,080 floor for an hour as we prayed. Our Father, let's say it, our 318 00:17:46,080 --> 00:17:49,520 Father, our Father who art in heaven, who art in heaven, 319 00:17:50,120 --> 00:17:56,440 hallowed be your name. And we have got no idea when 320 00:17:56,440 --> 00:17:59,680 those prayers go to God with the smoke of the sensor. 321 00:17:59,840 --> 00:18:03,520 When those prayers go to God and he starts slowing down, Thunder 322 00:18:03,520 --> 00:18:07,080 and lightning and pills and earthquakes and rumblings and 323 00:18:07,240 --> 00:18:11,680 shakings, we've got no idea what God is doing. 324 00:18:11,800 --> 00:18:14,640 I want to tell you instead of coming to church with lacquer 325 00:18:14,640 --> 00:18:16,960 clothes, we should come with crash helmets and seatbelts. 326 00:18:16,960 --> 00:18:20,400 Thinking when we start praying, it's like TNT gets released 327 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:24,160 inside of this place and the power of God becomes absolutely 328 00:18:24,160 --> 00:18:26,440 uncontrollable. And we will start to see 329 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:29,640 miracles taking place that we've never even dreamt of. 330 00:18:29,640 --> 00:18:42,210 If you can put the quote up, I read this quote, it says the 331 00:18:42,210 --> 00:18:45,280 Lord. 'S prayer covers the world of 332 00:18:45,360 --> 00:18:48,920 everyday trifles. Seriously, God. 333 00:18:49,520 --> 00:18:52,400 Seriously, Rory, are you going to spend time praying? 334 00:18:52,600 --> 00:18:56,160 For a jolly speedometer of a 1983 motorbike, yes I am. 335 00:18:56,160 --> 00:18:58,120 Why? Because God is in the detail of 336 00:18:58,120 --> 00:19:02,160 my life and He knows. Some of you are ADD and some of 337 00:19:02,160 --> 00:19:08,800 you are He knows. The Lord's Prayer covers the 338 00:19:08,800 --> 00:19:13,840 world of everyday trifles and universal history, the world 339 00:19:13,840 --> 00:19:18,440 with its hours. Of joy and bottomless anguish. 340 00:19:19,880 --> 00:19:22,360 The world of citizens and soldiers. 341 00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:29,040 The world of monotonous routine. My boss again and sudden. 342 00:19:29,040 --> 00:19:33,240 Terrible catastrophe. The world of carefree children 343 00:19:33,960 --> 00:19:39,880 and the problems that can shatter grown men, all contained 344 00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:43,240 in this incredible thing called the Lord's Prayer. 345 00:19:45,880 --> 00:19:49,800 Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your Kingdom come, 346 00:19:50,800 --> 00:19:54,200 your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. 347 00:19:55,280 --> 00:19:57,520 Give. Us today, Our Daily Bread. 348 00:19:58,480 --> 00:20:03,960 Forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven our debtors and 349 00:20:03,960 --> 00:20:05,680 lead us not. Into temptation. 350 00:20:07,040 --> 00:20:09,040 But deliver us from the evil one, for instance. 351 00:20:09,040 --> 00:20:11,400 You just have to. All I'm asking over this next 352 00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:13,960 month is to just read it and read it. 353 00:20:13,960 --> 00:20:16,760 Not like our father Aknehal. Just read it. 354 00:20:16,760 --> 00:20:19,320 And what is God? He's he's trying to teach us 355 00:20:19,320 --> 00:20:22,720 about himself. He wants us to know what he's 356 00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:26,760 like. Then he wants us to know. 357 00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:30,520 What the Kingdom looks like and what pleases him. 358 00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:34,040 His will, not my will. His will not my will. 359 00:20:34,120 --> 00:20:37,600 His will, not my will. We see it with Jesus the whole 360 00:20:37,600 --> 00:20:42,240 way through His. Life We see Jesus at 12 years 361 00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:44,800 old, he's in the he's in the temple and his mum and dad leave 362 00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:46,680 and they come back and they angry and say hey. 363 00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:50,560 You've caused enormous stress because we left and we left you 364 00:20:50,560 --> 00:20:52,800 behind and it's taken us two days to find you. 365 00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:56,200 Where are you? He says I'm busy with my 366 00:20:56,200 --> 00:21:00,840 father's will, I'm busy with my father's business. 367 00:21:00,840 --> 00:21:04,160 And then the disciples go and get food. 368 00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:07,400 And in John chapter four, they go and get food and and they 369 00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:09,960 come back and they say you must eat because you haven't. 370 00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:11,280 Eaten, he said. I have. 371 00:21:11,280 --> 00:21:16,240 Food, you know, not of my food is to do the will of the Father 372 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:19,360 and we and we realized that actually the whole thing that 373 00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:21,560 that that that shaped Jesus life was the. 374 00:21:21,560 --> 00:21:26,720 Will of the Father. And he's busy preaching and his. 375 00:21:26,720 --> 00:21:29,280 Mother and brothers are outside and they come and say your 376 00:21:29,280 --> 00:21:31,800 mother and your brothers because they want to go and rescue him 377 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:33,840 from doing his stuff and. He says your mother. 378 00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:35,400 And brothers. Are outside, he says. 379 00:21:35,600 --> 00:21:38,560 These are my mother and brothers, the ones who do the 380 00:21:38,560 --> 00:21:43,960 will of the father. And then we see this amazing 381 00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:47,240 wrestle that Jesus has in the Garden of Gethsemane, where he's 382 00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:49,000 crying. Out and he's sweating blood. 383 00:21:49,240 --> 00:21:52,440 And I feel like I'm one of those guys in the Garden of Gethsemane 384 00:21:52,840 --> 00:21:55,920 that every time Jesus goes to pray, I just fall asleep. 385 00:21:57,160 --> 00:21:59,960 That's what I feel like. Sometimes that Jesus. 386 00:21:59,960 --> 00:22:03,560 Comes back and they fast asleep and he's in this unbelievable 387 00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:07,520 wrestle between his will and his father's will. 388 00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:11,680 He says, Father, please, please Father, take this will from me. 389 00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:14,960 Please take this cup from me. I can't go through this thing, 390 00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:20,720 Lord God, because all evil, all sin has come and sacrificed the 391 00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:24,760 obedience to God's will and we all live self-centered lives 392 00:22:24,760 --> 00:22:28,640 that benefit ourselves alone. And Jesus in this unbelievable 393 00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:31,360 tug and says, Father, please take this cup. 394 00:22:31,360 --> 00:22:36,160 From me but not my will be done your will and it's a. 395 00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:40,320 Mess if he wins back. The will of God for you and I so 396 00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:47,520 that when we wait upon him, Nico's bought these unbelievable 397 00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:51,760 properties all over the country, but one of them he bought in 398 00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:56,120 Santon. He said it was a good deal, but 399 00:22:56,120 --> 00:23:00,560 it wasn't a God deal. It was a good deal, but it 400 00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:04,240 wasn't a God deal. And we learn as we pray and we 401 00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:07,240 wrestle and we say with people and we, we learn what the will 402 00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:12,160 of God looks like and then we can ask him some questions. 403 00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:14,320 But Lord God, I need, I need resource for this. 404 00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:19,480 I need bread not, not for 25 years, just for one day, 24 405 00:23:19,480 --> 00:23:20,760 hours. I learn how to trust God. 406 00:23:21,360 --> 00:23:23,920 And some of us need more bread than others and some of us need 407 00:23:23,920 --> 00:23:26,680 less bread than others. But we but we learn how to tap 408 00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:34,080 into the provision of God. Give me today my daily bread and 409 00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:35,480 and forgive our sins. We learn. 410 00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:38,680 We learn about grace because I want to tell you it doesn't 411 00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:40,320 matter who you are. And it's one of the things we 412 00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:43,480 forget when we don't pray is that is that people must give me 413 00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:45,320 grace, but I mustn't give them grace back. 414 00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:48,040 No friends, I'm a Sinner that needs forgiveness. 415 00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:50,080 I'm not talking about justification. 416 00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:53,200 I don't have to keep if I don't forget yourselves. 417 00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:54,760 It's not my my salvation at stake. 418 00:23:54,760 --> 00:24:02,000 It's my daily walk with people. It's my attitude and I and I tap 419 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:06,720 into grace as I pray and lead me not into temptation, but deliver 420 00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:09,160 me from the evil one. For instance, I left hearted, 421 00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:10,600 beers put down. We got in our car. 422 00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:13,520 I'm studying the Lord's Prayer, studying the Lord's Prayer. 423 00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:17,680 We we got in the car, my wife and I, about 8:45 on Friday 424 00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:21,320 evening. I said, God, we know if you go 425 00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:23,920 that way from Hardy Best, but damn, that road is not safe 426 00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:26,800 because it goes through an area and it says hijackings. 427 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:29,960 And everybody said to me, now you turn right, you turn left, 428 00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:31,200 you go towards. Brits. 429 00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:34,960 You get on the 511 and the 511 takes you onto the N 4 and I 430 00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:38,720 said, Heavenly Father, please protect us from the evil 1. 431 00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:46,920 It's very dark for the 511 turns onto the N4 and when we got on 432 00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:50,120 the N4 about 200 meters down the N4 there was there was lots 433 00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:54,120 flashing and we saw a security van do AU turn and dust 434 00:24:54,120 --> 00:24:57,280 everything dust coming back to the and we got home and my wife 435 00:24:57,280 --> 00:25:00,640 turned on her traffic thing and it says hijacking sparking 436 00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:05,200 reported on the R 511 and the N four at 9 O clock. 437 00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:11,120 We're living in a tough country. There are two options you can 438 00:25:11,120 --> 00:25:14,760 pack up and go to Perth or wherever you want to go or we 439 00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:18,520 can tap into the Lord's Prayer because most of us can't leave 440 00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:22,680 here. We don't have an option and so 441 00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:25,640 we have to ask God. He says my prayer is not that 442 00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:27,920 you take them out of the world. My prayer is that you protect 443 00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:36,000 them from the from the evil 1. So put the put the other display 444 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:43,320 up the next one. This thing is how you should. 445 00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:47,680 Pray. Let's say together our Father in 446 00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:52,040 heaven, hallowed be. Let's emphasize whatever it's 447 00:25:52,080 --> 00:25:55,080 emphasized, let's emphasize it. So let's read it together, one 448 00:25:55,080 --> 00:25:57,160 shot. Our Father in heaven, hallowed 449 00:25:57,160 --> 00:26:03,080 be your name, your Kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it 450 00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:06,440 is in heaven. Give us today Our Daily Bread. 451 00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:10,680 Forgive us US our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors 452 00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:13,800 and lead us not into temptation, but deliver. 453 00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:19,360 The first thing that prayer does is it absolutely reorientates 454 00:26:19,360 --> 00:26:26,760 our lives where yours becomes more important than us and most 455 00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:29,400 people are US focused. Our Father art in heaven. 456 00:26:29,520 --> 00:26:32,880 I need a job. Our Father in art in heaven. 457 00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:35,640 Fix my marriage. Our Father and art in heaven. 458 00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:39,440 My kids are on. No, just you need to reorientate 459 00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:42,560 your life. We are not here to exist for 460 00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:44,040 ourselves. We're here to honour God. 461 00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:47,440 We're here to honour God. Amen. 462 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:51,480 So let's say it again. Our Father who art in heaven 463 00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:55,880 hallowed be your name. You've got to learn about the 464 00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:59,160 name of God. Friends when I had a brain 465 00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:04,400 operation always say this, at least somebody can go to court 466 00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:09,320 and say they've seen it. But I remember, I remember going 467 00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:12,560 to Durban. I remember going to Durban and 468 00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:16,840 sitting with a who are the guys who do brain surgery? 469 00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:25,560 I know. I'm just asking you the thing 470 00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:34,880 of, you know, the brain doctor, I, I went to this brain doctor, 471 00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:40,760 neurosurgeon and I sat in his office. 472 00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:45,920 When I sat there, it just didn't feel right. 473 00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:50,320 This didn't feel right. And So what I did is I just 474 00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:53,120 asked a whole lot of people. They say there's a guy in 475 00:27:53,120 --> 00:27:57,240 Merrittsburg who's got a good name. 476 00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:02,680 He's got a good name. They're doctors in this building 477 00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:05,560 today. You can't get into them for two 478 00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:08,720 or three months because they've got good, they've got good 479 00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:12,760 reputations, they've got good what they're studying and what 480 00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:16,120 they do and over a course of they've developed good names. 481 00:28:18,120 --> 00:28:21,840 It happened last week as a doctor, I saw him walking just 482 00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:25,880 now operates. I won't tell you what hospital 483 00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:31,400 he operates in, but last week a young man walked onto this 484 00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:35,440 property whose parents were in the church for many, many, many 485 00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:39,400 years and he was completely disorientated. 486 00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:43,840 No money, no income, no it just, he was disorientated. 487 00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:51,080 And we felt we needed to orientate him with an amount of 488 00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:54,640 money just so that he could just settle himself. 489 00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:58,200 So we gave him the gift within a couple of hours. 490 00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:01,880 This doctor SMS was on Saturday last week, Saturday afternoon. 491 00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:06,720 Sunday morning we get a message to say I've put money into the 492 00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:09,720 three CR bank account. I'm going into an operation now 493 00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:12,280 because I need to operate. But actually I'm going to pay 494 00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:16,720 for the coffees for the next two Sundays. 1500 cappuccinos. 495 00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:20,800 What? What's is God's will for him to 496 00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:22,480 be a pastor? No, God's will for him to be a 497 00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:25,240 doctor. But God wants access to his 498 00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:27,920 money so that he can extend the Kingdom of God in a coffee shop 499 00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:31,360 so that people who don't know how the whole thing works will 500 00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:33,360 arrive there when they think, oh, who are you, God? 501 00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:34,760 And Humber says there's a free coffee. 502 00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:41,240 Well, I don't know where Dave is. 503 00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:43,320 Where's Dave Salias? Where you, Dave? 504 00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:46,400 You normally sit here. You're sitting there. 505 00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:53,040 You've moved. We don't do that in three CI. 506 00:29:58,080 --> 00:30:06,600 You are in Dave's chair, Lawrence. 507 00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:19,120 He's also a Big Oak. Simon, Dave's brother, is a 508 00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:22,400 scientist and lecturer at Oxford University in England or 509 00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:25,400 Cambridge University or one of the universities in England. 510 00:30:25,560 --> 00:30:28,000 And he says this stuff here with church stuff is a lot of 511 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:32,760 gobbledygook. So I just bought him to church 512 00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:37,640 anyway and he thought, I'm going to go and hang around with 2500 513 00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:43,800 gobbledygook guys. And he was sitting there and I 514 00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:46,120 was preaching on the Father heart of God and I said you, 515 00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:51,920 Sir, you Sir, you Sir don't know about my Father in heaven. 516 00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:56,280 And because his father on earth was dodgy, he started to weep. 517 00:30:56,880 --> 00:31:00,640 And all his scientific brain got completely because our Father 518 00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:02,760 who art in heaven, you see, he's got a name. 519 00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:06,560 And the reason I never had my operation in Durban and I went 520 00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:09,000 to Merrittsburg is because that doctor had a name. 521 00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:14,920 His name was Errol Ackerman. When before I went into the 522 00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:16,760 hospital, his nurse came to see me. 523 00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:20,920 He said Mr. Dyer, I was 21 years old, about to have my brain 524 00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:23,640 opened up. He said, Mr. Dyer, can I tell 525 00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:25,920 you about Doctor Errol Ackerman's hands? 526 00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:29,440 I said, yes, please, ma'am. She said, I've been working with 527 00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:32,680 him for 20 years. She said his hands, he never 528 00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:36,680 used to shake your hand in case he hurt it, in case some came in 529 00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:39,800 and and squeezed it too hard. And he had an incredible 530 00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:41,520 business. I came from Harry Smith. 531 00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:44,200 He had this incredible name amongst all the Harry Smith 532 00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:45,920 people. And I remember one of my friends 533 00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:48,560 went in for a back operation. He went in and he said Doctor 534 00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:51,720 Ackerman, my back. He said the problem is not your 535 00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:53,400 back, so your problem is your front. 536 00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:59,160 He said fix your front up, your back will sort itself out. 537 00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:03,200 I don't need to operate. Says your back can't carry that 538 00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:15,840 big, heavy thing in the front. And the nurse said to me said, 539 00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:18,360 you know, Mr. Dyer, one of the highlights of my life, I said, 540 00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:20,240 what man? She said there was a time when 541 00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:26,080 we were operating deep inside of somebody's brain and Doctor 542 00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:30,040 Ackerman didn't know what to do. And he put down his utensils and 543 00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:32,560 he opened his hands, the hands that he wouldn't shake anybody's 544 00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:34,960 hands with. And he said, Heavenly Father, 545 00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:41,720 guide me, guide me. You see, this prayer, friends, 546 00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:46,200 is relational. This prayer is spiritual. 547 00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:50,920 This prayer guides, this prayer provides this prayer looks 548 00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:53,480 after. And she said, I want to tell 549 00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:58,160 you, you're about to go into the safest hands that you could ever 550 00:32:58,160 --> 00:32:59,040 go into. Why? 551 00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:06,720 Because he had a good name. The anaesthetist was his wife, 552 00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:10,280 Doctor Mustard. And one day I was standing at 553 00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:11,840 the front of the tent. Yeah. 554 00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:14,920 And I met a man. He just walked in. 555 00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:16,480 I said, how you serve? My name is Rory. 556 00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:17,360 He said, hi, Rory. I'm. 557 00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:20,160 I said, what do you do, Sir? He said what? 558 00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:22,160 What do you mean what I do? I said, what do you do for a 559 00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:23,680 living? He said I'm an anaesthetist. 560 00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:26,400 I said I actually had an anaesthetist once. 561 00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:29,560 Her name was Doctor Mustard. He said yes, that's my sister. 562 00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:33,840 You see, friends, somewhere between the choice of doctors 563 00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:37,320 and the choice of Sundays and where you go to church and, and, 564 00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:42,720 and the shops that you have coffee at is this father who's 565 00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:45,000 putting it all together. So whether you're going to court 566 00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:48,800 or bringing your brother from England, who's the father is 567 00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:50,400 busy putting this whole thing together. 568 00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:53,160 He just needs us to put a bit of time aside to pray. 569 00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:55,920 It's hard to pray. We always want to fall asleep. 570 00:33:55,920 --> 00:33:57,880 We're always busy. We're tired at the end of the 571 00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:01,200 day, but we're calling the church to pray. 572 00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:07,520 Our Father who art in heaven, will you break into the 573 00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:09,600 situations of the people on the earth? 574 00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:12,120 Will you give me, Lord God, that green pen? 575 00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:14,679 And also, would you get people saved on Sunday? 576 00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:17,040 And those who are on drugs, would you set them free? 577 00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:20,560 Mighty God, would you take my prayers and would you throw down 578 00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:22,960 the sensor that? Causes an earthquake and a. 579 00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:26,320 Shattering Lord God and. Breaks powers over people. 580 00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:30,000 Because your will, when I look at it, Lord God, is to create 581 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:32,880 and to multiply and to bless. Lord God, that's what you said 582 00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:34,760 to Abraham. I will bless you and you'll be a 583 00:34:34,760 --> 00:34:36,480 blessing. And when I pray to you, God, 584 00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:39,040 will you give me words that I can be a blessing to people, 585 00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:40,560 Lord God? And the whole book of. 586 00:34:40,560 --> 00:34:42,520 Exodus, Lord God, is about liberty. 587 00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:45,440 Let my people go so that they might worship me. 588 00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:48,719 Lord God, that when people sit under our ministry and under our 589 00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:50,840 prayer, you will break shackles off them. 590 00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:54,719 He would remove the past, He would break the abuse. 591 00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:56,760 That was the things that bind them. 592 00:34:56,760 --> 00:35:01,040 Lord God, that's your will is to set people free that they don't 593 00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:04,720 come from the power of sin into the church and get completely 594 00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:11,720 chained up by religious systems. And the man who was sitting in 595 00:35:11,720 --> 00:35:14,600 the church on Sunday, there on Tuesday there with his hands 596 00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:18,920 open, he was so scared to come here because he thought in a big 597 00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:22,880 church there are systems. Friends, when Jesus set us free, 598 00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:24,880 he didn't just set us free from sin. 599 00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:29,920 He set us free from systems, even the expectations. 600 00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:33,440 Of a pastor. Who's on a process of holiness 601 00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:36,480 himself. My words are not meant to bind 602 00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:38,400 you up. My words are meant to liberate 603 00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:39,680 you. That is the. 604 00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:43,520 Prayer that we pray. Amen. 605 00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:45,760 Amen. Let's say it together. 606 00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:49,040 Our Father, our Father to art in heaven, to art in heaven. 607 00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:52,640 Hallowed be your name. Hallowed be your name. 608 00:35:52,640 --> 00:35:55,560 Teach us about yourself. God show us what you like. 609 00:35:56,840 --> 00:36:01,840 Melanie's my wife's mum, my wife's flatmate. 610 00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:08,000 Her mum went to an operation in Durban in the same day that I 611 00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:10,120 went into an operation in Peter Merrittsford. 612 00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:16,560 And I know accidents happen, but the doctor that I was with, that 613 00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:20,080 I did not feel comfortable about, opened up the wrong side 614 00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:23,280 of Melanie's flatmate's mother's head. 615 00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:29,800 I had to sew it up, open the other side and remove the tumor. 616 00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:35,000 And I, by the grace of God, was with the Doctor Who had a good 617 00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:37,760 name. You go to advocates in this 618 00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:39,320 church because they've got a good name. 619 00:36:40,640 --> 00:36:42,840 You do business with financial advisors. 620 00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:48,280 Mine is there about 12 or 15 rows back. 621 00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:50,520 I can see him now. He's got glasses on and a blue 622 00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:51,520 shirt. He's sitting next to you. 623 00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:55,720 The reason, the reason I do business with him is because 624 00:36:55,720 --> 00:36:58,920 he's got a good name. He's got a good name. 625 00:37:01,240 --> 00:37:11,500 I want people to come to this church because we have a good 626 00:37:11,500 --> 00:37:13,940 name. We set people free. 627 00:37:13,940 --> 00:37:16,180 We preach the gospel. We talk about forgiveness. 628 00:37:16,500 --> 00:37:21,620 We teach people how to pray. I want to tell you about my 629 00:37:21,620 --> 00:37:28,880 Father who has a great name. Your dad might not have, but my 630 00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:31,960 father does. Can we say it again together? 631 00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:37,840 Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be your name.