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Good morning. 
My name is Daniel. 

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I am the lead pastor here at Res
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Thanks for braving the rain. 
I know, I know in Bakersfield, 

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when it rains, I mean, literally
if it even sprinkles, we all 

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flip out like it's a welcome to 
the hurricane of California. 

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You know, we're made of sugar 
and we're going to melt. 

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We're in week two of a series on
prayer. 

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I'm excited that you're here 
today. 

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We are we're kind of walking 
through last week was the was 

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the why and and what of prayer. 
And then this week we're going 

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to talk a lot about the how for,
for me. 

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Let me I have in my life, just 
in different moments, different 

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circumstances I have experienced
just just gruelling moments in 

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a, in a emergency room, hospital
room, just on on the floor of 

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the hospital, on my knees in a 
in a hospital gown, just 

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writhing in pain. 
By the way, hospital floors are 

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really gross. 
I, I, I just, just just just 

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crying out to God in, in just 
extreme pain. 

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I, I have poured my heart out to
God asking him to explain why I 

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lost a child. 
I have, I have had moments where

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I'm just up to here with 
frustration, feeling like God's 

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calling me towards something, 
but but not actually knowing 

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what it is that he's calling me 
toward and just kind of being 

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frustrated that I don't feel 
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And, and I'm and I'm asking, but
he's not answering. 

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I have felt spiritually dry at 
times where I just, I feel like,

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man, there's nothing there. 
And yet intellectually I know 

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that my feelings don't match 
what I know to be true about 

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God. 
But I don't understand why I'm 

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feeling the way that I feel in 
all those seasons or moments in 

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my life. 
Are, are, are kind of those real

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times where I think back to just
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powerlessness, like I'm not in 
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I can't fix a thing that's wrong
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don't understand or I don't know
or feeling forgotten, feeling 

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lost, feeling taken advantage 
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And, and in every one of those 
scenarios, it is, it is reaching

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back toward God, like, like 
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going, hi, I need you to move on
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Anybody else felt that way? 
Oh, just, I need you to move. 

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I need to experience God's 
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move. 
And so here we are Week 2 

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talking about prayer. 
If you're, if you're here or 

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you're watching and maybe you're
new to Christianity or you're 

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not a Christian and you're just 
kind of a skeptic, you're 

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checking it out. 
Someone invited you. 

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And, and look, I'm glad you're 
here. 

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In fact, if you're here and you 
don't understand prayer, man, 

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what a wonderful time to come to
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We're going to talk a lot about 
this every one of those moments 

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of my life and maybe some of you
can relate even if you're not 

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Christian have been these times 
where prayer for me prayer is 

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simply reaching out to God in 
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And so in our in our sermon last
week where we we came up kind of

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a working definition of what is 
prayer and we said it this way. 

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Authentic prayer is encountering
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meaning, but prayer, real 
prayer, is just looking toward 

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God and beginning to experience 
who he is, which changes us. 

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And so today what I want to do 
is I want to take a look at a 

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couple prayers in the Bible and 
and I want to see if from there 

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we can build a framework for the
how to pray, not why to pray 

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that was last week, but the how 
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How do we go about this? 
So maybe prayer seems a little 

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intimidating to you and it, and 
it shouldn't, you shouldn't at 

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all. 
So we're going to look at a 

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couple texts today. 
The 1st is going to be in Luke 

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18 in in Luke 18, there's a 
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about us and, and, and about 
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In fact, he uses prayer to make 
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And, and so Jesus made-up a lot 
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I don't know if you know that or
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We call them parables to make it
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But he's made his stories up to 
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And he, he made-up a story to 
teach a very specific lesson in 

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Luke 18. 
And I want you to see this. 

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Here's what it says. 
We're going to start in verse 9 

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if you're if you're in your 
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is Jesus also told this parable 
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themselves that they were 
righteous and treated others 

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with contempt. 
Say me because every one of us 

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struggles with this right here 
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We think that we we're righteous
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contempt. 
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others with contempt because we 
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self-righteous, which in that 
moment is ironic because we're 

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being self-righteous. 
Verse 10 two men went up to the 

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temple to pray. 1A Pharisee. 
Now listen, a Pharisee, you 

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don't have to know much about 
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I'll explain. 
A Pharisee was a professional 

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religious person. 
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OK, a Pharisee and the other a 
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Now look, I know that we don't 
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We ain't got nothing on how they
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the 1st century. 
In 1st century in Jerusalem, a 

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tax collector was the worst of 
the worst of the worst, an 

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absolute traitor. 
I mean, you could be anything 

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other than a tax collector. 
You could be a prostitute, you 

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could be a murderer, you could 
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Worse than that, if you could 
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collector. 
A tax collector. 

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Verse 11, the Pharisee, the 
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standing by himself, prayed 
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God, I thank you that I'm not 
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unjust adulterers. 
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yourself, right? 
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Democrats, my neighbor, 
whatever, or even like this tax 

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collector, verse 12, I fast 
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all that I get. 
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notice where he where he's at 
standing far off would not even 

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lift his eyes to heaven, but 
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merciful to me a Sinner. 
I tell you, the man went down to

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his house justified rather than 
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For everyone who exalts himself 
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humbles himself will be exalted.
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prayer. 
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completely wrong and the amateur
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example. 
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what we're going to do is we're 
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prayer. 
A framework. 

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Now, it's not a formula, it's 
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It's just, it's just a way, a 
framework that we're going to 

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see from Jesus who actually 
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And at the very center of this 
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needs to be a heart that is in 
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OK, and it what I here's what I 
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Without a posture of humility, 
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Without a posture of humility, 
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In fact, our big idea, if we 
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take this one concept. 
Prayer is a spiritual 

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chiropractor, it realigns the 
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Prayer is a spiritual 
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posture of our soul. 
My soul is constantly in need of

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an adjustment. 
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about all these seasons of my 
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because often times my heart is 
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desperate. 
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true that often times what God 
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allows us to experience this 
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on us so that we can begin to 
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pretty terrible. 
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I really need God's presence. 
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Let's just consider this. 
When are you most appreciative 

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of a life vest? 
When you're standing on the boat

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and it's nice, it's sunny 
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this big bulky thing on and it's
actually making you kind of hot 

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and it's itching my neck. 
Like what do I got to wear this 

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thing? 
Or when the boat is capsized and

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the waves are blotting out the 
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like, I would die right now if 
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man, I'm thinking about this 
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differently right now. 
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I I I asked myself this question
about 10/10/12 years ago and it 

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is, it is just kind of haunted 
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It's it's constantly on my mind.
It comes back up in prayer all 

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the time. 
Here's the question. 

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How can I become desperate for 
Jesus even when things are going

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well? 
Because look, I got no problem 

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being desperate for Jesus in the
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Amen man, none at all. 
I have a journal entry in my 

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prayer journal from the weeks 
right after my wife and I lost a

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child. 
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Hey, godfather, whatever it is 
that I'm supposed to learn from 

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this storm right now, I'd like 
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go through this again. 
And I and I believe that the 

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primary thing that God has been 
teaching me over the course of 

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the last decade is how to desire
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when things are good. 
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posture issue. 
Now that may not make sense. 

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You can posture issue. 
Let's go ahead say what? 

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See, thanks for asking when when
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when I'm screaming for God and I
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be good if God shows up. 
But when I when I have that kind

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of realization of how much I 
need him, then what in my life 

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would create that level of 
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outside of a tragedy, apart from
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Let me just let me ask you here,
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survey. 
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Raise your hand if you would 
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and contentment. 
OK, now hold it up, Ray. 

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Now raise your other hand if you
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without having to suffer tragedy
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Right. 
What if I could experience God's

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goodness, but I'd not have to go
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there? 
And here's the crazy part, OK? 

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A guy named Daniel Henderson has
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prayer. 
And in one of his his books, he 

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wrote this. 
He wrote this line. 

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It says this, most Christians 
pray out of a crisis or a 

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grocery list. 
See, either everything's going 

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wrong. 
So I could now I'll pray or I 

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gotta, you know, well, God pray 
for them and I want this right. 

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And we just checked the little 
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But but, but my question for you
is like, what if, what if we 

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could change that? 
What if we could change that? 

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What if we experience God's 
goodness out apart from the 

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tragedy? 
What if we could experience 

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God's goodness all the time? 
And I believe, and this has been

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the last decade of my life, I 
believe that it that if we will 

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begin to follow the framework 
for prayer in the Bible and we 

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will begin to actually get 
consistent with that framework, 

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consistently doing that, I 
actually think we will 

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experience God's presence in our
life all the time, all the time.

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That's my promise to you if you 
would just begin to do what 

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Scripture shows us to do when it
comes to prayer, man, we it will

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grow your faith in your pursuit 
of Christ like nothing else. 

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Let me just show you we're going
to look at 1:00 central prayer 

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today. 
Jesus taught his disciples how 

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to pray. 
It's called the Lord's Prayer. 

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It's in Matthew 6. 
It's also in Luke. 

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We're going to be Matthew 69 
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This is what it says. 
Our Father in heaven, hallowed 

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be your name, your Kingdom come,
your will be done on earth as it

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is in heaven. 
Give us this day Our Daily 

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Bread, and forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our 

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debtors. 
And lead us not in since 

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temptation, but deliver us from 
evil now. 

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This little tiny, short prayer 
has all the elements of a 

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framework that we're going to 
lay out today that we could use 

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for any prayer, for all prayer, 
for prayer every day or all the 

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time. 
And prayers can be short and 

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prayers can be long. 
Jesus shows us this, this lesson

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in a tiny prayer, but it also 
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alone with the Lord and prayed 
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In fact, we we see him 
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spend time praying to the Lord. 
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Ji Packer says it this way. 
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Lord's Prayer, is the pattern 
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Jesus is teaching that prayer 
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when the attitudes, thoughts, 
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pattern. 
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should be a praying of the 
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It's not just the Lord's first 
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It's the most important lesson. 
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Jesus, we have a recorded 
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years where we have stories of 
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and a public Kingdom work. 
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period, of all the accounts we 
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disciples only asked him one 
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do something. 
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Hey, Jesus, teach us how to heal
the lame didn't ask teach us how

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to heal a blind part didn't ask 
teach us how to multiply all 

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them fishes and loaves into a 
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Man, I'm going to do 
Chick-fil-A. 

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Like didn't ask teach us how to 
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coins out of fish's mouth. 
Didn't ask one thing. 

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Teach us how to pray like you do
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So I would just say you might 
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after all of that supernatural 
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disciples ever looked at Jesus 
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was prayer, it might be 
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Yeah, let's try. 
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I'm going to give you this 
framework up front so you can 

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track along with me. 
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They're in your, your, your 
bulletin. 

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Just to give them to you up 
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Five parts of a prayer framework
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glorifies God #3 gratitude 
driven #4 groans of confession, 

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and #5 gets the requests last. 
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this and and show you and then I
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remember it at the end. 
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Grounded in Scripture, we should
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And if you're not sure about 
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Really I've been using the word 
posture. 

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And, and the idea is that we 
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how much we're not like that's 
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correctly. 
And so we need our our heart and

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our attitude to change toward 
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we could actually break down 
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segment of this short little 
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it back to verse after verse 
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Testament. 
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in the New Testament in this 
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paraphrase of concepts from the 
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been said and already been 
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earlier. 
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your name? 
How will it just means most 

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worthy be your name? 
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actually say the exact same 
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come. 
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Daniel 4 when he says, give us 
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That's Exodus 16, Deuteronomy 8,
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When when every part of this 
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things God's already said. 
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my heart, my attitude, my mind 
toward God to get a correct 

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perspective is to worship God 
with his own words. 

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To worship God with his own 
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Why? 
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and mine are not So, so, so to 
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reverence, I highly recommend 
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It's not the only way. 
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And, and I want to show you what
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you're new to Christianity and 
you understand, why would you do

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that? 
Why would you read God's words 

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back to him? 
We believe as Christians, we 

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believe that the word of God, 
that's the Bible is perfect and 

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without error. 
Amen. 

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It's perfect. 
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They asked him what's more 
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praying? 
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second and he went, what's more 
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or breathing out? 
They're the same thing, they're 

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the same coin. 
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God is part of communicating and
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Amen. 
Reading God's word, allowing Him

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to speak to us. 
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is alive and active and sharper 
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Hearing from God and letting Him
Pierce our very soul with His 

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words is as important as 
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Him and, and, and, and. 
I want to start with something 

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perfect. 
Say perfect. 

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I want to start with something 
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because I am an inconsistent 
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My emotions, my circumstances, 
my health, the people around me,

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the influences are around me, 
the world, it all has an impact 

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on me. 
I am an inherently selfish, 

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mean, egotistical little 
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In fact, if I even took my own 
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I've I took Daniel's standard 
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own life, I still wouldn't pass.
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I need something objectively 
perfect, objectively true, 

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objectively moral, objectively 
holy to hold up and highlight 

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how far off the path my life, my
distortions, my perspective have

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become. 
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the road when it comes to 
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And that's what the Bible does. 
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reverently reading God's word, 
it keeps me low where I belong 

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because it shows me the gap 
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And so here I'm going to do it 
for you and, and maybe this will

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help. 
Just doing it sometimes helps, 

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right. 
I want you to imagine if you 

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can, that you're about to go to 
the Lord in prayer, but you're 

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angry that someone has offended 
you recently. 

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That's not that's happened to 
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Anyone ever been offended and 
angry but know they needed to 

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pray? 
Yes, 410 all of us. 

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Yes, all of us or, or, or or I'm
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or I'm hurting. 
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or someone's taking advantage of
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You know, all the feelings that 
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they affect my view of you guys,
right? 

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And So what I do is I go to God 
reading his word. 

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It looks like this Ephesians 2 
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And I was dead in my trespasses 
and sins in which I once walked,

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following the course of this 
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the power of the air, the spirit
that is now in work, in the sons

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of disobedience, among whom we 
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of our flesh, carrying out the 
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mind. 
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wrath, just like the rest of 
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But you, being rich in mercy, 
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which you loved me, even when I 
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me alive together with Christ. 
By grace I have been saved, and 

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you raised me up with him and 
seeded me with him in the 

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heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
so that in the coming ages you 

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might show the immeasurable 
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kindness toward me in Christ 
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For by grace I have been saved 
through faith, and this is not 

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my own doing. 
It is a gift of God, not a 

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result of works, so that no one 
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For I am His workmanship, 
created in Christ Jesus for good

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works which you prepared 
beforehand, that I should walk 

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in them. 
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By what right do I have to claim
being offended? 

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By what right do I have to claim
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mistreatment? 
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executed as an enemy and rebel 
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That would be fair. 
If life were fair, I would face 

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an eternity in torment apart 
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I don't want fair. 
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Offended. 
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honest, really honest, and you 
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have, you'd find out that the 
secret me is far worse than the 

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me that I want you to see. 
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despicable, far worse than 
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perspective, our posture before 
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glorify God. 
Oh God, I may be nothing, but 

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you are something. 
So we spend a little bit of time

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remembering who God is. 
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I will bless the Lord at all 
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His praise shall continually be 
in my mouth. 

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My soul makes its boast in the 
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Let the humble hear and be glad.
Oh, magnify the Lord with me, 

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and let us exalt His name 
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I sought the Lord, and He 
answered me and delivered me 

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from all my fears. 
Those who look to him are 

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radiant, and their faces she'll 
never be ashamed. 

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The poor man cried, and the Lord
heard him. 

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That's me, and saved him out of 
all of his troubles. 

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The Angel of the Lord encamps 
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delivers them. 
Oh, taste and see that the Lord 

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is good. 
Blessed is the man who takes 

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refuge in him. 
Amen. 

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What are we doing? 
We are gazing into the character

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of God. 
We are gazing into Him. 

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We are looking at Him, and it 
will show us the gap. 

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And as we begin to see the gap 
between who God is and who we 

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are, it puts us in our place 
that's resetting on adjusting 

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our posture. 
That's why Jesus starts his 

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prayer with Father in heaven. 
Your name is worthy. 

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Worthy are you worthy? 
Is your name your Kingdom come? 

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Your will be done. 
It's about you, not me. 

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The third thing we do is, is, is
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he's already done. 
It is gratitude driven that the 

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Bible constantly, just 
consistently says, hey, remember

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what God has done. 
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Old Testament, which is the 
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find that one of the most 
consistent spiritual disciplines

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and all the Old Testament is, 
hey, remember God's 

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faithfulness. 
Hey, remember what God's already

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done. 
Hey, in fact, they told every 

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generation, you need to teach 
the next generation to remember 

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what God has already done 
because they're going to forget 

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you are too. 
So here's what we're going to 

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do. 
We're going to come up with 

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ceremonies and sacrifices. 
We're going to come up with 

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holidays so that you will not 
forget because man, are we some 

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forgetful people. 
Remember, remember what God has 

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already done. 
Don't allow the circumstances of

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the moment to make you forget 
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And so, so we should do that in 
prayer. 

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This is part of the framework of
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So, so let me give an example. 
Let's say hypothetically, we 

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were in the middle of, I don't 
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church. 
And so I really want to pray for

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God to do stuff. 
Come on, God, like, let's just 

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rain some dollar bills on this 
place. 

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But before I can get there, you 
know, I probably need to stop 

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and remember all the things he's
already done. 

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So I, I'm, I'm praying God's 
word to him and I'm remembering 

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his character and I'm glorifying
him. 

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And then before I go any 
further, let me, let me remember

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his faithfulness. 
Let me spend a little bit of 

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time remembering how much he's 
already provided. 

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Father, we, we give you glory 
and honor and praise for all 

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that you are doing in this 
church. 

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Thank you for Rez church. 
Thank you for facilities to meet

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in. 
Thank you for elders who love 

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you in this church. 
Thank you for raising up 

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deacons. 
Thank you for volunteer leaders.

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Thank you for all these small 
group leaders. 

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Thank you that we get to see so 
many people come to Christ in 

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this church. 
Thank you for gospel growth. 

451
00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:33,160
Thank you for helping us get a 
foothold in this neighborhood 

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and sending people here to this 
church that we can care for a 

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00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:39,120
disciple. 
Thank you for the gift of brand 

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new members who chose to go 
through a membership class and 

455
00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:44,840
and join this church. 
Thank you for men and women in 

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00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:46,800
mentorship. 
Thank you for steering this 

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00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:49,320
church toward partnerships that 
you have for us. 

458
00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:52,560
Thank you for faithful givers 
who have obediently given to 

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00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:54,480
this church. 
Thank you for a legacy of two 

460
00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:58,760
separate churches who for years 
and many former pastors and 

461
00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:01,480
attenders have laid building 
blocks for this church to stand 

462
00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:06,240
upon. 
We see your hand at work and we 

463
00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:08,920
acknowledge that we could done 
none of this without you. 

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00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:14,680
Thank you in Jesus name, Amen. 
We thank Him. 

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00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:16,320
We should remember how good he 
is. 

466
00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:20,720
Now look it, don't you feel 
better? 

467
00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:28,040
We haven't even asked for 
anything yet, and I already feel

468
00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:30,120
better. 
All I had to do was begin to 

469
00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:34,080
remember how good God is, how 
faithful He's been, all the 

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things that He's done, and I'm 
already feeling better. 

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00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:40,480
There's a Psalm or a hymn from 
1897. 

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It goes like this. 
When upon life's billows, you 

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are Tempest tossed. 
When you are discouraged, 

474
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thinking all is lost, Count your
many blessings, name them one by

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one, and it will surprise you 
what the Lord hath done. 

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00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:10,360
Remember all the things He's 
done #4 groans of confession. 

477
00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:13,360
So, so we start with scripture 
and we approach the Lord to 

478
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recalibrate our heart and we 
speak his goodness and we 

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00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:17,960
remember our blessings. 
And then Jesus would say this. 

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Forgive us our debts. 
He's essentially saying forgive 

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00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:24,320
us our sins. 
Now here's the thing, it's a 

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really short portion of Jesus 
prayer because he had none. 

483
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But he knows we do. 
And the best way, the best way 

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00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:40,600
to do that is to confess them, 
to speak them out loud to God. 

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00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:47,560
Jesus didn't have anything to 
confess, but I do Amen. 

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00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:54,280
You do. 
And so oftentimes, I think they 

487
00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:57,280
will really only get to that 
point after we've spent some 

488
00:30:57,280 --> 00:31:03,240
time in the Word of God 
remembering and acknowledging 

489
00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:08,600
who God is, remembering his 
faithfulness. 

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00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:12,120
Spending time doing those things
begins to allow some of that 

491
00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:15,200
conviction to bubble up to the 
surface and things that we 

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00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:16,800
didn't really want to talk 
about. 

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00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:22,040
You get to the point, you 
realize I've got to confess this

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00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:28,320
to the Lord. 
David put it this way in Psalm 

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32. 
For when I kept silent, my bones

496
00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:37,000
wasted away through my groaning 
all day long, for day and night 

497
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:40,480
your hand was heavy upon me. 
My strength was dried up as by 

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00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:45,000
the heat of summer. 
Salah, I acknowledged my sin to 

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00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:48,160
you. 
I did not cover my iniquity. 

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00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:53,240
I said, I will confess my 
transgressions to the Lord, and 

501
00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:55,000
you forgave the iniquity of my 
sin. 

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00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:59,040
Do you know what this does? 
It's still recalibrating our 

503
00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:04,120
heart. 
So if I started my prayer angry 

504
00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:10,120
and offended and and mad, and I 
get to the part where I begin to

505
00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:14,080
realize how much sin I have to 
confess to the Lord, it's like, 

506
00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:24,320
oh, I was really angry, but then
I have to look at my sin. 

507
00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:28,840
I was trying to find a visual 
for that, how you feel if you've

508
00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:30,760
ever prayed like that. 
I found one. 

509
00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:45,160
Check this out 
and I confess it. 

510
00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:54,720
So before I've asked God for 
anything, we've we've started 

511
00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:57,280
with scripture, we've glorified 
God. 

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00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:00,520
Oh man, we've practiced some 
gratitude. 

513
00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:06,640
There's some groans of 
confession and then we get to 

514
00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:09,720
request last. 
Now I'm ready to ask now I'm 

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00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:15,800
ready to go to God with my 
petitions and God wants us to. 

516
00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:19,440
He asks you to. 
He tells you to heck and James, 

517
00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:22,040
for he says you have not because
you ask not. 

518
00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:28,080
Why aren't you asking two things
about asking the Lord. 

519
00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:30,000
Number one, I would say do it 
last. 

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00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:33,360
Here's the second thing. 
If you'll, if you'll do this 

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00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:36,160
other stuff first, if you'll 
follow this framework, you'll 

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00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:39,080
find that by the time you get to
your request, your request will 

523
00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:45,520
change sometimes a little bit, 
sometimes a lot of bit because 

524
00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:47,720
God has been working in our 
heart through that whole 

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00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:51,800
process. 
And listen, the entire Christian

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00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:55,320
faith is based on the concept 
that God changes hearts. 

527
00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:59,640
Amen. 
I didn't change mine, and you 

528
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:03,120
can't change yours. 
God changes hearts. 

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00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:07,040
And so in my prayer life, when I
start with the things that 

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00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:10,679
realign my posture recalibrate 
me toward God by the time I get 

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00:34:10,679 --> 00:34:13,880
to request they change, here's 
the second thing. 

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00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:18,719
We always ask, like Jesus did 
not my will, but yours be done. 

533
00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:23,880
And here's why. 
I know what my heart wants. 

534
00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:28,560
I also know I shouldn't trust my
heart, so sometimes I'm going to

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00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:30,159
ask and I'm going to go. 
God, I don't even know if what 

536
00:34:30,159 --> 00:34:33,920
I'm asking for is sinful or not.
I'm not sure. 

537
00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:38,199
God, I don't even know if I 
could handle the blessing. 

538
00:34:38,199 --> 00:34:40,800
If you gave it to me, I might 
mess that up. 

539
00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:43,600
So here's what I'm going to ask.
But then I'm going to say not my

540
00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:47,000
will, but yours. 
I don't know everything, but you

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00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:49,600
do. 
So I'm going to ask because you 

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00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:51,600
told me to ask. 
And then I'm going to leave it 

543
00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:53,639
in your hands because I know 
that you know better. 

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00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:59,400
Not my will, but yours be done. 
Now I know it might be difficult

545
00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:04,160
to remember 5 GS when you sit 
down to pray, so I made an 

546
00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:06,000
acronym for you. 
It's space. 

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00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:10,400
It's in your handout space. 
Scripture, praise, acknowledge, 

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00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:13,320
confess, entreat. 
We start with scripture. 

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00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:16,920
We praise Him first. 
We acknowledge all of the 

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00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:19,480
blessing and faithfulness He has
shown us in our lives. 

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00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:23,040
We confess our sin. 
And lastly, we entreat him. 

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00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:26,880
Entreat just means to plead with
God or to ask urgently, I 

553
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:31,720
entreat. 
And if we'll do that, prayer is 

554
00:35:31,720 --> 00:35:35,400
a spiritual chiropractor. 
It will rely in the posture of 

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00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:37,640
our soul. 
And so here's what we're going 

556
00:35:37,640 --> 00:35:40,600
to do to end our service today 
is we're going to do this. 

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00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:43,920
We're going to pray this way 
together as a church. 

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00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:50,560
And then if you're willing to 
pray like this consistently, if 

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00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:55,000
you start to practice this, 
there are five things that will 

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00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:57,960
begin to happen as a result of 
this. 

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00:35:57,960 --> 00:36:00,480
And I didn't have time to preach
it, so I stuck it in your bone 

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00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:02,680
or in your bulletin in that 
little outline. 

563
00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:05,680
There's five things in there. 
We're going to call that the 

564
00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:07,440
bone. 
You have the extended edition. 

565
00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:10,680
You need to take that home. 
It's a little bone. 

566
00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:12,440
It's a little nugget for you. 
You can fold it away, put it in 

567
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:14,040
your pocket for later, like 
leftovers. 

568
00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:19,560
So we're going to practice this 
together using this framework of

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00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:23,200
space Scripture. 
Praise, acknowledge, confess, 

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00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:24,280
and entreat. 
Here we go. 

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00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:29,160
We're going to start in Psalm 8.
We're just going to pray 

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00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:30,520
Scripture to God. 
Here we go, ready. 

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00:36:32,040 --> 00:36:38,000
Pray with me, O Lord our Lord, 
how majestic is your name in all

574
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:41,680
the earth. 
You have set your glory above 

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00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:46,200
the heavens, out of the mouth of
babies and infants. 

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00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:51,040
You have established strength 
because of your foes, to still 

577
00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:56,440
the enemy and the avenger. 
When I look at your heavens, the

578
00:36:56,440 --> 00:37:02,600
work of your fingers, the moon 
and the stars which you have set

579
00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:09,160
in place, what is man that you 
are mindful of us, and the Son 

580
00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:16,920
of man that you care for us? 
Oh God, we stop and we pause and

581
00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:20,360
we wait in the glory of your 
name and of your character and 

582
00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:23,360
of your faithfulness. 
You are holy and we are not. 

583
00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:28,160
And we acknowledge. 
We see what you're doing around 

584
00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:30,240
this church. 
We, we, we see the changed 

585
00:37:30,240 --> 00:37:32,240
lives. 
We see the marriages being 

586
00:37:32,240 --> 00:37:34,400
strengthened. 
We see our kids coming to 

587
00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:36,520
Christ. 
We see people getting hungry for

588
00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:41,600
your word and for your presence,
Father, we see real life change 

589
00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:46,400
and we thank you for what you 
are doing, for letting us see 

590
00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:49,640
it, for letting us notice it, 
for letting us participate in 

591
00:37:49,640 --> 00:37:56,880
your work. 
And we confess God, I know that 

592
00:37:56,880 --> 00:37:59,640
I allow circumstances of this 
life. 

593
00:38:00,240 --> 00:38:04,800
I allow the difficulty of of 
messy people, especially me, to 

594
00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:09,880
to cloud my view, to shake my 
faith. 

595
00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:15,040
Father, I am. 
I'm prone to doubt that you have

596
00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:17,760
a plan. 
And I in my sinfulness, I get 

597
00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:21,720
anxious about the future. 
I get worried about not being 

598
00:38:21,720 --> 00:38:23,760
able to see all the steps in 
front of me. 

599
00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:28,160
And I doubt you. 
And so I confess my sin and I 

600
00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:32,160
repent to you. 
Wash me clean and renew in me a 

601
00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:36,280
clean heart. 
And I bring my request for our 

602
00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:39,320
church before you. 
I ask that you grow our hunger 

603
00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:45,040
for your presence in our prayer 
lives, in our desire to study 

604
00:38:45,040 --> 00:38:46,960
your Word. 
I ask God that you provide for 

605
00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:51,600
this church exactly what it 
needs financially, through the 

606
00:38:51,600 --> 00:38:55,640
generosity of the Saints in 
leadership, through the 

607
00:38:55,640 --> 00:38:58,800
empowerment of people you saved 
and equipped. 

608
00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:03,760
God help us to spread your 
gospel to every edge of 

609
00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:10,000
Bakersfield and beyond, for 
yours is the glory forever in 

610
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:13,440
Jesus name and all of God's 
people said Amen. 

611
00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:22,440
May God respond to the pleas of 
his people for the the last 

612
00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:25,360
moment or two that we have 
remaining in this sermon. 

613
00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:28,320
I just get your attention for 
just a second. 

614
00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:35,280
If you do not know the God of 
this universe personally, if 

615
00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:39,000
you've never surrendered your 
life to Christ, I want to give 

616
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:40,880
you an opportunity to do that 
today. 

617
00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:45,280
If you if you believe that you'd
like to do that, I'm going to 

618
00:39:45,280 --> 00:39:46,840
lead you in a prayer. 
All you have to do is simply 

619
00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:48,440
repeat after me or something 
similar. 

620
00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:52,800
I'm going to use the same space 
framework for this prayer. 

621
00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:55,760
And so if you're willing to ask 
him for forgiveness and 

622
00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:59,960
salvation, just follow after me.
We we bow your heads and close 

623
00:39:59,960 --> 00:40:10,080
your eyes for just a moment. 
Father, your word says, if I 

624
00:40:10,080 --> 00:40:17,680
confess with my mouth that Jesus
is Lord and believe in my heart 

625
00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:23,080
that you raised him from the 
dead, I will be saved. 

626
00:40:26,280 --> 00:40:35,200
So I lift you up perfect and 
holy, and I acknowledge that you

627
00:40:35,200 --> 00:40:42,800
created me and everything around
me, and I confess that I am 

628
00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:44,640
hopeless and in need of a 
Saviour. 

629
00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:53,280
So I surrender everything to you
and I ask you to save me. 

630
00:40:54,400 --> 00:41:02,880
Be my Lord, please Jesus, if you
said that prayer for the very 

631
00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:10,800
first time, will you raise your 
hand for me to say thank you, 

632
00:41:11,720 --> 00:41:17,440
thank you, you put your hands 
down in Jesus name, Amen. 

633
00:41:17,560 --> 00:41:26,000
Real quick, Jesus loves you so 
much more than you realize right

634
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:30,320
now. 
And if moments ago or recently 

635
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:34,440
you gave your life to Christ and
you haven't told anybody, let me

636
00:41:34,440 --> 00:41:36,080
be the first to say welcome to 
the family. 

637
00:41:43,600 --> 00:41:46,360
Will you stand? 
We're going to sing a song and 

638
00:41:46,360 --> 00:41:50,560
respond to this sermon. 
Our prayer team is going to be 

639
00:41:50,560 --> 00:41:52,040
up here. 
We, we love praying with you. 

640
00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:55,400
If you have given your life to 
Christ, maybe it was moments 

641
00:41:55,400 --> 00:41:57,840
ago, maybe it was recently and 
you haven't told anyone yet. 

642
00:41:57,840 --> 00:42:00,040
There's some tables in the back 
that say I raised my hand. 

643
00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:03,680
As we sing, as we respond to 
this, as we come up for prayer, 

644
00:42:03,920 --> 00:42:06,840
you can, you can sneak back 
there, talk to somebody, tell 

645
00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:09,200
them about your decision to 
follow Christ. 

646
00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:10,400
We would love to celebrate with 
you. 

647
00:42:10,760 --> 00:42:12,600
If that's too intimidating, you 
can just come down for prayer 

648
00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:15,560
like everybody else. 
We would love to pray with you 

649
00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:17,520
for any reason. 
Whether you made a decision 

650
00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:19,720
recently, whether you just need 
prayer, whether you need 

651
00:42:19,720 --> 00:42:21,320
encouragement, we love praying 
for you. 

652
00:42:22,640 --> 00:42:24,560
You move as the Lord leads. 
We love you, Church.