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You know, while back there was a
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and I began to study about 
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in-depth. 
And I began to ask people about 

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prayer. 
And it's at that time that I 

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really got exposed to an idea 
among some of our own brother 

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in, which can we really kind of 
surprised me prayer was for to 

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thank God, you know, 
thankfulness mostly appreciate 

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pray for things in the future, 
but, you know, prayer really 

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doesn't work much change. 
JH because God doesn't work like

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you used to. 
I had a brother tell me. 

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He doesn't work. 
Like you used to. 

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And so, prayer is basically a 
spiritual discipline. 

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Somebody told me for humility 
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I began to think about is that, 
the way a lot of people view 

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prayer, is that what the Bible 
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It became amazing to be. 
Well, the Bible has a lot to say

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about prayer and 1st 
Thessalonians. 

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It tells us rejoice, always pray
without ceasing verse 17. 

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First Thessalonians 5 verse 17. 
Pray without ceasing. 

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Now, that first of all, I'd 
doesn't mean that we're supposed

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to be such prayers that we 
forget how to drive or we forget

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how to talk to anybody or do 
other things. 

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It's talking about an attitude 
of the presence of God in our 

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life. 
It's talking about being a 

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companionship with him, having 
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his presence and being Able to 
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That's the kind of prayer. 
We should have prayer life where

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God is immediately present in 
time of need. 

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The Bible also talks and other 
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something that we should be 
doing all the time. 

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It's something we should be 
instant in, you know, I mean 

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immediately be able to pray. 
Well, some of us haven't got 

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that discipline as well, but I 
really began to think about 

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people who are trying to 
overcome sin in their lives. 

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And we're not using prayer as 
access to the throne of grace to

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find help. 
In time of need, they weren't 

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even praying because they didn't
believe God did much. 

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God didn't work that way, and we
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the time, God pre-wrote all of 
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and why he's able to prophesize 
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number. 
So, and so and told us what was 

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on that page? 
Well, is everything so preset 

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that were absolutely locked in 
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anything? 
Does God change his mind? 

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Some people say God is 
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He doesn't ever change his mind.
My friends, whenever the Bible 

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talks about the immutability of 
God, it's talking about his 

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character and his concept of 
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unrighteousness. 
It's not talking about his 

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ability to change his mind. 
The Bible does tell us that God 

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changed his mind. 
He had a covenant, he made a New

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Covenant even prophesied. 
There was going to be a new 

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covenant coming. 
The Bible tells us in the owen 

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in the Old Testament. 
On many different places. 

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And basically, in Isaiah 38, 
listen in those days Hezekiah, 

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became mortally ill and Isaiah, 
the prophet, the son of a 

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mosque, came to him and said to 
him, thus, saith the Lord set 

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your house in order for you 
shall die and not live, you 

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know, whatever you have both 
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Shall I die? 
You shall not live. 

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You get the point. 
I'm about to kick the bucket 

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here. 
I'm not going to make it any 

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longer notice. 
Then Hezekiah turned his face to

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the wall. 
Prayed to the Lord and said, 

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remember now, O Lord. 
And by deceit you how I have 

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walked before you in truth with 
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what is good in your sight and 
Hezekiah wept bitterly than the 

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word of the Lord came to Isaiah,
seeing go to Isaiah and says, 

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thus, saith the Lord, the god of
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David, I have heard your prayer.
I have seen your tears behold. 

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I will add 15 years to your 
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I will deliver you in this city 
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Assyria and will defend this 
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T. 
Now, tell me God doesn't answer 

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prayers. 
God had made a proclamation, a 

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very strong Proclamation. 
You're gonna die. 

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Get your house in order and then
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prays to God before the property
Ben gets out of the courtyard. 

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He's told to go back and tell 
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He's got 15 more years to live. 
Does God change his mind. 

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Absolutely. 
There are some people here 

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tonight. 
That you've been told by some 

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brother you have implied from 
from some scripture, you have 

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missed believed the teaching of 
scripture that you don't believe

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God changes his mind about 
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I've talked to people who've 
lived hopeless lives. 

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I've talked to people who have 
been into sinned and you know 

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what? 
They're told, their hope has 

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been crushed because they have 
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that way. 
I'm sorry you were born that way

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and you just need to accept it 
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No, that's not the case. 
We find you get, you may get 

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your physical characteristics 
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That's right. 
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characteristics, your shortness,
Your tallness, your lack of 

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hair, whatever, as the old 
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you're the reason why our kids 
are ugly, you know, you do get 

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your characteristics from your 
parents, but your spirit is not 

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born, totally depraved. 
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you are not born with total 
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The Bible says God is the father
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You don't get your spirit from 
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kinds. 
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We don't get our eternal spirit 
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We get it from God and we're all
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we have made choices and oh yes 
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All of us have to deal with as 
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sins and the consequences of 
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But all of us have the 
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All of us have been given the 
power to access for help in time

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of need. 
Notice what the scripture says 

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in Ephesians chapter 3 and I 
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these passages and Ephesians 
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starting red breeding Birds 
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Now to him, who is able to do 
far more abundantly I didn't lie

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beyond all that we ask or think 
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works within us to him be glory 
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And in Jesus Christ Jesus to all
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Beyond what were able to ask or 
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That's right. 
Don't you ever doubt the power 

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of prayer? 
Don't you ever fail to humble 

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yourself before? 
God who truly in time? 

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Considers your need at that 
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Don't you ever believe that? 
There's no reason to pray 

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because things are not going to 
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I want you to know, God is able 
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Or think you have a reason to 
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That prayer. 
Has power don't ever practice 

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prayer without believing in its 
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Notice it, James, the fifth 
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I'm just going to go quickly 
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It says, prayer of a righteous 
man can accomplish much can 

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accomplish nothing. 
No, can accomplish a little no? 

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Can accomplish much is what it 
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Power of prayer, God is alive 
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for help in time of need and 
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The Bible says, let us remember 
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Grace to help in time of need. 
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friends when you're driving and 
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person who's driving next to, 
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your tongue in time of need, 
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And you think that nobody's 
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Remember God is there and God is
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time of need? 
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when they begin dating. 
I said don't you ever get in the

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backseat crisis? 
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And you know what, we want to 
put a distance between ourselves

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and God and the world wants us 
to practice that distance 

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between us and God. 
Get really hurt. 

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Whenever people, there was a 
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out. 
They said I'm sorry, but 

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thoughts and prayers are not 
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I go. 
What God are you praying to, 

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because thoughts and prayers are
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Thoughts and prayers are beyond 
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My friends. 
Don't let the devil tell you 

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that thoughts and prayers are 
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They are not. 
Now there's a hypocrisy for 

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people who pray and don't 
believe that they're the answer 

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to that prayer. 
Sometime the Bible tells young 

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people flee and Times of Youth, 
God Gave You feet? 

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Use them God, made a way of 
escape. 

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The Bible says, we've got a prey
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that. 1st Corinthians 10:13. 
But God is there to help in time

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of need. 
That's right. 

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You know, I talk to sometimes, 
there's people who have the sin 

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of homosexuality in their life, 
and they believe that they've 

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been born that way. 
They are genetics. 

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Are coded. 
Everything is encoded and I'm 

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sorry, but that's just the way I
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No, it isn't no, but at listen 
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Neil Whitehead, dr. 
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paragraph in a nutshell. 
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twins in which one, Twin is 
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That means given that identical 
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identical, homosexuality, cannot
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No one is born gay dr. 
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Now I don't know what the world 
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its message together, right? 
But I'm here to tell you, there 

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is not a sin that God cannot 
forgive and God cannot help you 

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overcome that in your life. 
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don't care how long I don't care
how Whatever It Is. 

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God can change your life. 
And prayer can change your life 

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as well. 
Five minutes. 

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Okay good timing. 
Now you may say you may say how 

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come God doesn't answer my 
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I asked for a million bucks and 
I ain't got it yet. 

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Why doesn't God give me what I 
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Well, there's a lot of reasons 
will Godwin. 

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My, our brother just gave a 
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tribulations, brother, Todd. 
Bernard did a good job. 

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He tells us sometimes. 
God gives us our trials and 

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Temptations in order for us to 
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that. 
That's right. 

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But there's also a lack of 
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James 1:6, the rate, it might be
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verses 1 and 2 Proverbs 28:9, 
First, Peter 3:7, we might not 

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see Seek the kingdom of God. 
First, we may just want God to 

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add to our fleshly life. 
We may pray for something to 

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consume it upon our lust. 
The Bible says, I'm sorry, God's

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not going to answer that prayer 
in the affirmative. 

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God always answers prayer, but 
sometimes it's, nope. 

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I used to talk argue with my 
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Mom, you didn't hear me. 
She goes, oh, I know. 

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I heard you. 
The answer is no. 

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I learned from that that 
sometimes God hears us but the 

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answer is no, no. 
As my mom said, is an answer, 

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that's right. 
Yes. 

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No. 
Maybe later. 

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But I want you to know God, 
always hears the cries of his 

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children. 
That's right. 

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We need to realize, we need to 
pray like Jesus, not my will, 

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but thine be done. 
James, you asked it for verse 3.

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You ask and do not receive 
because you ask with wrong 

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motives, that's right. 
When you asked that Brakes go 

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out on your enemies car. 
When you brat would you pray 

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that God May Smite them? 
I'm sorry. 

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God does it that's not the right
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Attitude God wants his enemies 
to repent. 

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We need to have the right 
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friends, here's one thing you 
can do in this is my last point.

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You can trust God, you can trust
that God has your interest to 

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heart because he didn't have to 
give us prayer at all. 

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Can you imagine trying to live a
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We're, we're trying to be 
pleasing unto God and God did 

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not give us prayer. 
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to give you Grace in, it's a 
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You obey me, you get forgiven of
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clean until the judgment. 
God gave us prayer to find help 

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in time of mate, be thankful for
prayer through. 

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We receive mercy and find Grace,
be thankful for prayer to ask 

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for help. 
There's all kinds of God has 

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done everything he can do to 
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what we need to be spiritually, 
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Hope. 
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hopeless, I want you to know God
has answers to your 

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hopelessness, you have access to
tools that will Give you help 

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that will give you strength in 
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You can be Victorious. 
And I don't care how long you've

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been in that sin. 
God can give you help, you can 

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be victorious over it. 
There is no sin in this world 

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that God can't help you with. 
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can consume it upon our less 
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Fifteen if we ask anything 
according to his will he hears 

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us ask and pray thy will be done
just like Jesus did in the 

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garden. 
Pray at the end of their lord, I

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want you to die. 
Would this is what I want. 

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But it's according to your will 
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Not my will, but thine be done. 
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the right things. 
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verses 7 through 10 prayed three
times that he had a thorn in the

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flesh. 
Lord take it away from me and if

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anybody ought to have God listen
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So to speak. 
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Paul had it. 
Paul asks for help. 

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What did God say? 
God find him being a prophet. 

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God gave him an answer. 
Paul. 

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No. 
Not going to take it away that 

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the power of Christ May rest 
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Friends. 
How humbling that would be to 

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get that? 
Where God explained to, Paul? 

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Paul? 
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take this away, you may fall 
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Paul said, then I would rather 
rejoice I'd rather Rejoice you 

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know sometimes we need to be 
thank God for unanswered prayers

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because they may take away our 
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one last verse Job 13 and verse 
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Even though he slay me yet, look
well, I trust him yet without 

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trust him. 
My friends. 

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God is a good god and there's a 
first I didn't get to read God. 

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Wants to give good gifts to his 
children. 

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God wants to answer your prayer 
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Active. 
He knows yes. 

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No. 
And maybe later. 

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I don't know. 
But here's one thing, you can 

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trust. 
You can trust him to have your 

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interest at heart. 
You can trust that as a good 

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father in Heaven. 
He desires for you to have that,

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which you absolutely need 
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If you're here, he wants you to 
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He desires for you to be saved 
and the world may be whispering 

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in your ear. 
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The devil's lies that there is 
hopelessness the There's not 

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going to give you the power to 
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That things won't change my 
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I want you to know God has given
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God has given us all that we 
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So that we may share his nature 
forever, but don't you ever 

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forget prayer? 
Because prayer is where God 

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changes his mind and flawed 
considers your plight and God 

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will give you help always and 
time of need tonight. 

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Do you need to make things right
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If you're not a Christian, you 
don't have access to those 

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blessings that are found only in
Christ. 

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You need to in your faith, 
repent of your sins, Luke 13:3 

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confess his name before men upon
that confession. 

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You're a fit subject for baptism
for the remission of your sins 

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Acts 2 verse 38. 
That's right. 

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You get added to the body of 
Christ, he will add you to his 

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body. 
And in the body of Christ, you 

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have all spiritual blessings, 
which includes prayer. 

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What a blessing. 
To have it. 

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What a horror to realize that we
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If you're here tonight and 
you're outside of Christ, God 

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does not hear a sinner's prayer,
your sins. 

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And iniquities have caused him 
to turn his ear away from you so

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that he will not hear. 
Oh, that's a scary place to be. 

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If you're here and can't pray 
tonight, how scared you and 

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concerned? 
You should be. 

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But if you're a Christian 
tonight, you can get forgiveness

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and Grace to help. 
In time of need, you can get 

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access to the throne Of God. 
What a wonderful blessing to 

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