1 00:00:03,040 --> 00:00:05,560 Thanks for checking out the Anchor Faith Message podcast 2 00:00:05,560 --> 00:00:06,920 from St. Augustine, FL. 3 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:12,400 Now enjoy this message. Again, it's an honor. 4 00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:14,760 I'm for those who don't know me, my name is Vanessa Centron. 5 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:17,280 I am the children's minister here and also the preschool 6 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:19,560 director. And so most of the time I am 7 00:00:19,560 --> 00:00:21,640 with the littles. Thank you. 8 00:00:21,640 --> 00:00:24,320 It is my honor again to be here to minister. 9 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:26,520 Tonight. Pastor asked me to minister on 10 00:00:26,520 --> 00:00:28,000 prayer. And so tonight we're going to 11 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:30,760 talk about some Kingdom positions in prayer. 12 00:00:31,040 --> 00:00:35,480 And so we're going to do a little stirring up in the Word 13 00:00:36,240 --> 00:00:38,760 some people that knew I was minister and always ask, well, 14 00:00:38,760 --> 00:00:41,000 what's your object lesson? Because, you know, in children's 15 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:44,000 ministry, I've always got an object lesson or something I 16 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:46,000 pull out of a hat or a box or something. 17 00:00:46,320 --> 00:00:49,120 Tonight, this is my object lesson. 18 00:00:49,240 --> 00:00:52,600 This is my object right here. It's the Bible. 19 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:57,480 OK, if you ever, if you ever need your own object lesson, you 20 00:00:57,480 --> 00:01:00,320 just pull this right out. OK, so tonight we're just going 21 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:03,480 to we're going to keep it with the Bible and the holy ghosts. 22 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:06,640 OK, those those two and one and we're going to dig into some 23 00:01:06,640 --> 00:01:11,520 specific topics in prayer next coming Sunday. 24 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:14,800 We were we're going to go into another weeks long prayer and 25 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:17,560 fasting. And so pastor thought it would 26 00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:20,640 be fitting for us just to kind of review some things in prayer. 27 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:23,000 It's always good. Everything in the world's always 28 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:26,520 good to review because we need to be stirred up by way of 29 00:01:26,520 --> 00:01:28,080 reminder. That's what it tells us in 30 00:01:28,840 --> 00:01:31,200 second Peter 31. It says, you know, stir you up 31 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:33,400 by way of reminder. The only way that we're going to 32 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:36,480 be able to do that is to be able to open up the word and read the 33 00:01:36,480 --> 00:01:39,080 scripture. So I'm going to start out with 34 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:43,800 our key scripture tonight, and that is in John. 35 00:01:44,080 --> 00:01:47,320 Excuse me. First, John 5 verses one through 36 00:01:47,320 --> 00:01:48,320 15. So bear with me. 37 00:01:48,320 --> 00:01:50,520 It's going to be a little bit of a long text, but we're going to 38 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:52,520 read it first in the NLT version. 39 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:56,480 And it says this. In verse one it says everyone 40 00:01:56,480 --> 00:02:00,600 who believes that Jesus is the Christ has become a child of God 41 00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:05,160 and everyone who loves Father God loves his children too. 42 00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:10,199 We know we love God's children if we love God and obey his 43 00:02:10,199 --> 00:02:13,040 commandments. Loving God means keeping his 44 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:16,320 commandments, and His commandments are not burdensome. 45 00:02:16,760 --> 00:02:20,800 For every child of God defeats the evil world, and we achieve 46 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:24,800 this victory through our faith. And who can win this battle 47 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:28,840 against the world? Only those that Jesus who 48 00:02:28,840 --> 00:02:30,760 believe that Jesus is the Son of God. 49 00:02:31,480 --> 00:02:35,080 In verse 6 it says in Jesus Christ was revealed as God's Son 50 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:38,200 by his baptism and water and by shedding of his blood on the 51 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:42,360 cross, not by by water only, but by water and blood. 52 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:46,400 And the Spirit who is truth confirms it with his testimony. 53 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:50,480 So we have these three witnesses, the Spirit, the 54 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:52,880 water, and the blood, and all three agree. 55 00:02:53,120 --> 00:02:56,120 And since we believe human testimony, surely we can believe 56 00:02:56,120 --> 00:03:00,400 the greater testimony that comes from God and that God has 57 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:04,280 testified about his Son, who's his son Jesus, that we were 58 00:03:04,280 --> 00:03:06,840 singing about tonight. All who believe in the Son of 59 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:10,320 God know in their hearts that this testimony is true. 60 00:03:10,760 --> 00:03:13,960 Those who don't believe this are actually calling God a liar 61 00:03:13,960 --> 00:03:17,200 because they don't believe what God has testified about a son. 62 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:20,840 Verse 11 And this is what God has testified. 63 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:26,040 He has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son, 64 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:30,600 who's his son, Jesus. Whoever has this son has life, 65 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:35,160 and whoever does not have God's son does not have life. 66 00:03:35,720 --> 00:03:39,000 And verse 13 it says I have written this to you who believe 67 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:43,160 in the name of the Son of God so that you may know and have 68 00:03:43,160 --> 00:03:47,800 eternal life. And verse 14 and 15 will be our 69 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:49,960 our key scriptures tonight out of this text. 70 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:54,520 And we are confident say confident that he hears us 71 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:57,440 whenever we ask for anything that pleases him. 72 00:03:57,760 --> 00:04:01,760 And since we know He hears us when we make our request, we are 73 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:04,600 we know that He will give us what we. 74 00:04:04,600 --> 00:04:07,200 Asked for. OK, so this will be our key 75 00:04:07,240 --> 00:04:10,840 scripture when it comes to prayer tonight, and I want to 76 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:14,880 talk to you about six different positions in prayer. 77 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:17,600 And when I mean the word position, I'm going to give you 78 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:20,959 the Webster's dictionary definition is the state of being 79 00:04:21,959 --> 00:04:25,000 positioned or placed in the manner which something is 80 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:28,200 placed. It's also an attitude, a 81 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:32,240 condition or or something that's inclined to or an upright 82 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:34,160 position. We're going to use the 83 00:04:34,160 --> 00:04:36,560 definition when it comes to attitude. 84 00:04:36,840 --> 00:04:39,760 Another word in Scripture when we talk about position could 85 00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:42,240 mean something that's set or an attitude. 86 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:45,280 Right now in the world, we have a lot of things where people are 87 00:04:45,280 --> 00:04:48,040 given one position this way and one position that way. 88 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:51,800 But tonight we're going to talk about what it means to have the 89 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:57,760 Kingdom position in prayer, Kingdom position in prayer, 90 00:04:58,040 --> 00:05:01,400 because we want to make sure that we are set in the Kingdom 91 00:05:01,400 --> 00:05:04,640 way of looking at things, not just in the subject of prayer, 92 00:05:04,640 --> 00:05:06,200 but that's what we're going to tackle tonight. 93 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:10,880 But in all areas of the word of God, we always in any part of 94 00:05:10,880 --> 00:05:13,320 our life, we want to make sure that we are always looking back 95 00:05:13,320 --> 00:05:17,120 to the word. My object tonight, the word is 96 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:22,160 always has to be our source of where we fix our position. 97 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:25,640 Because it really doesn't matter what somebody says to the left 98 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:27,840 or to the right. We have to make sure we stay 99 00:05:27,840 --> 00:05:31,720 firmly in the middle and stay fixed to what God says about it, 100 00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:35,760 what he's already given the answer for and so. 101 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:39,920 As I was. Getting prepared and looking 102 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:43,720 over scripture, I kept getting going over this phrase that I've 103 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:46,720 heard all of my life, and especially as I've gotten older. 104 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:50,560 Sometimes people will say the phrase, oh, they're just set in 105 00:05:50,560 --> 00:05:53,600 their ways, you know, have you ever heard that before? 106 00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:56,200 Someone will say, Oh yeah, they're not ever going to change 107 00:05:56,200 --> 00:05:59,160 because that's just the way they are and they're set in their 108 00:05:59,160 --> 00:06:01,240 ways. Well, that may be true for 109 00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:04,880 people until they get victory and they get freedom and they 110 00:06:04,880 --> 00:06:08,520 come to know who they are in Christ, then they can become 111 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:10,880 something new. They can be something different 112 00:06:10,880 --> 00:06:12,360 and they should be something different. 113 00:06:12,360 --> 00:06:15,760 And that difference is being Kingdom minded. 114 00:06:16,080 --> 00:06:19,200 And when you get Kingdom minded and you do want to have this 115 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:23,640 philosophy that you are set in your ways, you're set in a 116 00:06:23,640 --> 00:06:27,720 Kingdom way because once you get yourself, your eyes fixed to the 117 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:30,920 author and the finisher of your faith, you do not want to come 118 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:33,560 off of it. You want to stay fixed. 119 00:06:33,560 --> 00:06:36,480 And so tonight as we read that scripture, our first point that 120 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:38,680 we're going to talk about is staying in a position of 121 00:06:38,680 --> 00:06:41,640 righteousness. When we think about prayer, the 122 00:06:41,640 --> 00:06:46,440 very first prayer that we've ever said as a believer is the 123 00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:50,960 prayer of salvation. That's the entryway into being 124 00:06:51,080 --> 00:06:53,960 born again. And so in Romans 10/9 and 10, it 125 00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:56,040 says, you know, if you believe in your heart and you confess 126 00:06:56,040 --> 00:06:58,720 with your mouth that it takes an action of you confessing. 127 00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:03,440 And that's the prayer that then you pray to ask the Lord to come 128 00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:05,960 in your heart. You know, make him first of your 129 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:07,400 life. You know he, he say. 130 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:09,960 Not only does he save you, but he endeavors to then be your 131 00:07:09,960 --> 00:07:14,040 Lord. As you say, he is Lord over 132 00:07:14,040 --> 00:07:16,640 everything. He's number one in a supreme and 133 00:07:16,640 --> 00:07:18,760 authority of everything. And so when you do that, that's 134 00:07:18,760 --> 00:07:22,160 that first entry prayer that we that we make and then we take. 135 00:07:22,440 --> 00:07:26,080 And so we have to know that whenever we get positioned at 136 00:07:26,080 --> 00:07:31,000 that moment where we say, Lord, I want all of you, that we are 137 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:33,760 then put in place into a right standing. 138 00:07:34,040 --> 00:07:37,880 We were wrong before, and then you're put into the right 139 00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:39,840 alignment and you're in the Kingdom. 140 00:07:39,840 --> 00:07:43,680 And so Second Corinthians and the Amplified Classic tells us 141 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:46,120 this. It says for our sake He made 142 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:52,800 Christ virtually to be sin, who knew no sin, so that in, in and 143 00:07:52,800 --> 00:07:57,240 through him we might become endued with viewed as being in 144 00:07:57,240 --> 00:08:01,200 and examples of the righteousness of God, what we 145 00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:04,280 ought to be approved and acceptable and in right 146 00:08:04,280 --> 00:08:08,080 relationship with Him by his goodness. 147 00:08:08,200 --> 00:08:11,840 So that last part says in right relationship the. 148 00:08:11,840 --> 00:08:14,720 Moment that we are in Christ and it's all because of who? 149 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:15,960 Who were we singing about tonight? 150 00:08:16,640 --> 00:08:19,080 Jesus, it always, it comes back to Jesus. 151 00:08:19,080 --> 00:08:24,080 Jesus took care of this for us. God made a way for him to come 152 00:08:24,080 --> 00:08:27,080 and take care of the penalty of sin for us. 153 00:08:27,080 --> 00:08:29,680 So now we could be back in right standing. 154 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:34,280 So in our position of prayer, we have to remember who we are, 155 00:08:34,280 --> 00:08:38,480 that we're right. So we have a right to come and 156 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:42,640 talk to the king. We made, we made the contract 157 00:08:42,640 --> 00:08:46,800 connection and signed the deal. Whenever we said, I want you, 158 00:08:46,800 --> 00:08:49,520 Lord, I, I'm giving my all to you. 159 00:08:49,520 --> 00:08:52,840 I give it all up and I, I surrender my life to you. 160 00:08:53,080 --> 00:08:57,680 At that moment we became right and we're in righteousness. 161 00:08:58,080 --> 00:09:02,760 Romans 8 verses 12 through 17 tells us this. 162 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:07,120 Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation, but it's 163 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:09,760 not to the flesh to live according to it. 164 00:09:09,760 --> 00:09:12,960 For if you live according to the flesh, you will die. 165 00:09:13,280 --> 00:09:17,400 But if you live by the Spirit, you put death to the misdeeds of 166 00:09:17,400 --> 00:09:21,440 the body, you will live. For those who are led by the 167 00:09:21,440 --> 00:09:24,640 Spirit of God, they are who they are children of God. 168 00:09:25,160 --> 00:09:28,400 And the spirit you received does not make you slaves so that you 169 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:32,120 lived in fear again. Rather the spirit you received 170 00:09:32,240 --> 00:09:34,480 brought about your adoption to sonship. 171 00:09:34,920 --> 00:09:40,080 And by him we cry ABBA Father the Spirit himself testifies 172 00:09:40,080 --> 00:09:42,840 with our spirit that we are God's children. 173 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:48,000 Verse 17 Now if we are children, then we are now heirs and heirs 174 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:53,880 of God and Co heirs with Christ. And if we indeed share in his 175 00:09:53,880 --> 00:09:58,280 sufferings in order that we might also share in his glory. 176 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:04,040 You know, children have different access than just any 177 00:10:04,040 --> 00:10:05,560 old person. You know, if you think about it 178 00:10:05,560 --> 00:10:08,960 in your own house, your children have the right to come in, go 179 00:10:08,960 --> 00:10:11,480 through the refrigerator, go through the pantry. 180 00:10:11,480 --> 00:10:14,960 You know they're at home because they are with their family. 181 00:10:15,080 --> 00:10:19,080 There's an intimacy there. We're heirs, which means we have 182 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:23,200 right to everything. Everything in the Kingdom that 183 00:10:23,200 --> 00:10:27,120 the Lord is, it's there for us, and we have a right to it 184 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:32,280 because we are right, because he made a way for us to be right. 185 00:10:32,680 --> 00:10:35,960 And so when we're thinking about in the terms of prayer and US 186 00:10:36,280 --> 00:10:40,360 communicating to God and communing with God, we can come 187 00:10:40,360 --> 00:10:44,720 to him and we can come to him with boldness because we're his 188 00:10:44,720 --> 00:10:47,520 children. We don't have to be afraid. 189 00:10:47,520 --> 00:10:50,840 We don't have to cower. We don't have to be ashamed 190 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:55,320 about anything if we're in and we remain and right standing 191 00:10:55,320 --> 00:10:59,320 with him because we're in that relationship and we get to tap 192 00:10:59,320 --> 00:11:02,680 into all of the benefits that he has. 193 00:11:02,920 --> 00:11:05,680 You know, it's a benefit. And and you know, my house, 194 00:11:05,680 --> 00:11:08,560 whatever's in there, you know, in the pantry, you can have it. 195 00:11:08,920 --> 00:11:10,160 You know, I've got a teenage son. 196 00:11:10,160 --> 00:11:12,800 So he says there's usually not enough in there, but that's, you 197 00:11:12,800 --> 00:11:14,320 know, he needs to get his faith in there. 198 00:11:14,320 --> 00:11:17,600 I guess on that right. But when we're in a right 199 00:11:17,600 --> 00:11:21,240 standing position, we have to remember that we're in right 200 00:11:21,240 --> 00:11:24,680 standing and we need to stay in that right, that right position. 201 00:11:25,400 --> 00:11:27,920 So that's our first position in prayer. 202 00:11:27,920 --> 00:11:30,600 Our next one is in faith. And I'm only going to just give 203 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:34,480 you a little snippet because our pastor has given us a great 204 00:11:34,480 --> 00:11:37,800 study on that here recently in the last past Wednesdays. 205 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:40,640 And so if you haven't listened, you need to go online and make 206 00:11:40,640 --> 00:11:42,200 sure that you listen to those past. 207 00:11:42,200 --> 00:11:44,320 I believe we had five weeks of faith there. 208 00:11:44,480 --> 00:11:47,160 There's nothing in the word that we could ever exhaust. 209 00:11:47,480 --> 00:11:52,640 There's just so much, so much in every single session that we 210 00:11:52,680 --> 00:11:54,360 Pastor Marcy was ministering in faith. 211 00:11:54,360 --> 00:11:55,840 There was just more and more and more. 212 00:11:55,840 --> 00:11:58,760 She could go for 10 more weeks on it because there's so much 213 00:11:58,760 --> 00:12:01,960 that we need to remember and be stirred up in. 214 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:05,640 You know, we can forget. We can forget where we put our 215 00:12:05,640 --> 00:12:07,480 keys. We can forget where we, you 216 00:12:07,480 --> 00:12:09,880 know, did we start the laundry? Did we do, you know, did we do 217 00:12:09,880 --> 00:12:11,600 that? Because there's so many things 218 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:13,160 going on in our life. There's so many different 219 00:12:13,160 --> 00:12:15,440 distractions. But it's so important that we do 220 00:12:15,720 --> 00:12:18,800 maintain that attitude to stay stirred up and fresh in the 221 00:12:18,800 --> 00:12:20,680 word. So we are going to talk a little 222 00:12:20,680 --> 00:12:24,800 bit about faith because we had to have the faith in the moment 223 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:28,160 that we said, I'm going to believe, I'm gonna, I believe 224 00:12:28,160 --> 00:12:29,800 that there's a God. I'm hearing that there's this 225 00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:34,000 God who's who sent Jesus for me, that sent someone to rescue me. 226 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:36,000 And then I'm wrong and I need to get right. 227 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:39,680 So there's a level of faith that you had it to to call upon him 228 00:12:39,680 --> 00:12:43,760 that day to get right. And in John first, we just read 229 00:12:43,760 --> 00:12:49,040 in first John 5/14, as we we said, and this is the victory 230 00:12:49,400 --> 00:12:52,640 because we're born again. This victory that we have is 231 00:12:52,640 --> 00:12:55,120 because of the faith we have. And what kind of faith is 232 00:12:55,160 --> 00:12:59,880 overcoming faith in every obstacle, in every circumstance? 233 00:12:59,880 --> 00:13:03,480 If we're positioned in the right alignment of prayer that the 234 00:13:03,480 --> 00:13:06,200 Lord has placed us in, guess what? 235 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:10,800 We will have an overcoming victory in every circumstance, 236 00:13:10,800 --> 00:13:13,680 in every situation. No matter what comes, we're 237 00:13:13,680 --> 00:13:16,320 going to have an answer because we're in Him. 238 00:13:16,320 --> 00:13:18,440 We're in, we're positioned right with Him. 239 00:13:18,960 --> 00:13:21,360 Hebrews 11. One great faith. 240 00:13:21,360 --> 00:13:25,000 Scripture says now faith is a confidence and what we hope for 241 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:27,480 the assurance about what we do not see. 242 00:13:28,040 --> 00:13:31,320 Other versions tell us that this isn't a confidence is another 243 00:13:31,320 --> 00:13:34,520 word for assurance. Being sure it becomes your 244 00:13:34,520 --> 00:13:39,600 reality. Your reality becomes what God's 245 00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:45,480 reality is as his child, what he has, what he says, what he's 246 00:13:45,480 --> 00:13:49,520 done in the word now is your reality, whether you see it with 247 00:13:49,520 --> 00:13:53,760 your physical eyes or not. And I like this next version 248 00:13:53,760 --> 00:13:55,280 because it it touches on that little bit. 249 00:13:55,280 --> 00:13:58,560 It says now, and this is in the amplified classic. 250 00:13:58,560 --> 00:14:01,320 It says now faith is the assurance, the confirmation, the 251 00:14:01,320 --> 00:14:06,080 title deed of things we hope for being the proof of things we do 252 00:14:06,080 --> 00:14:11,320 not see and the conviction of their reality, faith perceiving 253 00:14:11,320 --> 00:14:14,840 as real fact. But what is this? 254 00:14:14,840 --> 00:14:16,720 What is not revealed in the census? 255 00:14:16,720 --> 00:14:19,960 So it's not anything we see externally, not anything that's 256 00:14:19,960 --> 00:14:22,880 out here. It's in and by faith that we 257 00:14:22,880 --> 00:14:26,400 believe whatever it is that we're praying for, that we're 258 00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:30,520 going to receive it because our dad, Father God has told us and 259 00:14:30,520 --> 00:14:33,400 we're his child and we believe our Father and we know what he 260 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:35,520 said is true. So guess what, we we say 261 00:14:35,520 --> 00:14:38,880 position and faith, no matter what comes, I'm going to say 262 00:14:38,880 --> 00:14:42,000 right directly position and I'm going to be set. 263 00:14:42,440 --> 00:14:44,640 I'm going to be set. I'm going to be set in my way 264 00:14:44,800 --> 00:14:47,240 that what God told me it's going to be. 265 00:14:48,040 --> 00:14:51,320 So it doesn't waver. Our position is what you hold on 266 00:14:51,320 --> 00:14:56,760 to and it stays steady and. Strong and you don't back down. 267 00:14:57,520 --> 00:15:01,600 So when you're when we are praying, we pray out the 268 00:15:01,600 --> 00:15:06,440 solution. Now our relationship with God is 269 00:15:06,720 --> 00:15:09,440 is one of those and again, I'm not going to go into too much. 270 00:15:09,440 --> 00:15:12,320 In fact, if you haven't read Pastor Mercy's prayer book, you 271 00:15:12,320 --> 00:15:13,880 need to get it at guest relations. 272 00:15:14,600 --> 00:15:17,280 It's a great book cool of the day. 273 00:15:17,480 --> 00:15:20,160 It goes over prayer breaks them and she actually talks about 274 00:15:20,160 --> 00:15:23,640 positions and prayers well, and she gives you a great 275 00:15:23,960 --> 00:15:27,920 illustration of a really what our relationship is the oneness 276 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:30,840 of the father and kind of takes you on a journey there as well. 277 00:15:31,040 --> 00:15:33,040 We're not going to have time to get into all that tonight, but 278 00:15:33,040 --> 00:15:36,120 get get her. It's great a great pick me up. 279 00:15:36,120 --> 00:15:38,320 I read it again. It's just one of those things to 280 00:15:38,320 --> 00:15:40,400 stir yourself up in the subject of prayer. 281 00:15:40,400 --> 00:15:44,800 You can't read it too much so, but what I liked about the book 282 00:15:44,800 --> 00:15:47,880 is it it talks about it starts out talking about our oneness 283 00:15:47,880 --> 00:15:49,920 with Christ, which is our communication. 284 00:15:50,160 --> 00:15:53,800 And pastor said this not too many services ago where he said 285 00:15:53,800 --> 00:15:56,200 that well, how the Lord arrested him when he was at Raymond said 286 00:15:56,200 --> 00:15:59,840 if you spent as much time with your wife as you did with me, 287 00:15:59,840 --> 00:16:01,600 then you wouldn't be married very long. 288 00:16:01,920 --> 00:16:05,160 And so we it it takes you back to remembering that your 289 00:16:05,160 --> 00:16:08,800 relationship with the Lord when you prayed the prayer of 290 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:11,320 salvation and got into the Kingdom. 291 00:16:11,320 --> 00:16:15,120 That was just an entry prayer. He didn't want you to stop 292 00:16:15,120 --> 00:16:20,440 talking. He wants us to continue talking 293 00:16:20,440 --> 00:16:23,000 and communing with him every single day. 294 00:16:23,360 --> 00:16:25,920 And that's why we'll get to it in somewhere in my notes about 295 00:16:26,080 --> 00:16:28,920 the fact that prayer is not just a one time occurrence. 296 00:16:28,920 --> 00:16:31,760 It's to pray without ceasing. It's something that we'll do all 297 00:16:31,760 --> 00:16:36,560 the time, and when you keep that mindset and that fixed position 298 00:16:36,800 --> 00:16:41,640 that I'm going to stay in my communication with the Father, 299 00:16:42,440 --> 00:16:46,920 then it's very, very easy to trust because the more you know 300 00:16:46,920 --> 00:16:52,200 someone, the more you know about them, the easier it is to trust. 301 00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:54,320 Now, prayer is one way we get to know God. 302 00:16:54,320 --> 00:16:56,960 Obviously, we get to know Him in the Word as well. 303 00:16:57,120 --> 00:17:00,560 And so those two things work hand in hand as we continue 304 00:17:00,560 --> 00:17:06,839 staying set in our ways with the King in the Kingdom. 305 00:17:06,839 --> 00:17:10,119 Mindedness. OK, so our confession when? 306 00:17:10,920 --> 00:17:12,960 We again when? We pray the prayer of salvation 307 00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:16,119 that got us positioned right and now we're in the right way. 308 00:17:16,119 --> 00:17:18,119 We can talk to the Father easily. 309 00:17:18,440 --> 00:17:21,200 You know, I imagine there's people out there that pray all 310 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:26,760 the time, and a lot of times we see when great tragedy comes to 311 00:17:26,760 --> 00:17:30,440 the world that everybody goes to their knees at that moment 312 00:17:31,080 --> 00:17:33,560 because. They know that there's a God, 313 00:17:33,560 --> 00:17:35,160 whether they've called upon him or not. 314 00:17:35,280 --> 00:17:38,200 They know that there's something greater the the creators 315 00:17:38,200 --> 00:17:41,280 speaking, you know, whether whether they've acknowledged it 316 00:17:41,280 --> 00:17:43,200 or not. But The thing is God. 317 00:17:43,200 --> 00:17:45,600 Doesn't want us just to come in our time of need. 318 00:17:46,400 --> 00:17:49,800 Scripture says we can come in our in the time of need, but he 319 00:17:49,800 --> 00:17:53,400 wants us to come all the time. He wants us to call and speak 320 00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:57,440 the name of Jesus all the time. It should be such an easy thing 321 00:17:57,440 --> 00:18:02,240 to do that I'm so set in my ways and it's not it's not habitual 322 00:18:02,440 --> 00:18:05,720 and so much so like the old test, I mean the New Testament 323 00:18:06,320 --> 00:18:09,920 Pharisees where they just did it so that they could show, make 324 00:18:09,920 --> 00:18:11,560 for show. We'll read that in just a few 325 00:18:11,560 --> 00:18:13,960 minutes. But it's an intimate 326 00:18:13,960 --> 00:18:17,400 relationship that you're spending the time with God, that 327 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:20,200 it's just something you do. It's just so natural. 328 00:18:20,480 --> 00:18:22,680 It's so natural. It's more natural than you 329 00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:24,920 picking up the. Phone and calling your parents 330 00:18:24,920 --> 00:18:27,760 or calling your sister or calling a friend. 331 00:18:28,120 --> 00:18:31,360 It's just it's it. The Holy Ghost number one is 332 00:18:31,360 --> 00:18:35,200 within you all the time. So when you're by yourself, 333 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:38,200 you're not by yourself. You've got the Holy Ghost with 334 00:18:38,200 --> 00:18:41,200 you and there's no separation wherever you're at, which 335 00:18:41,200 --> 00:18:44,200 whatever you're doing, you matter to the Lord. 336 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:47,200 And that's why I'm getting jumping ahead of my notes. 337 00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:50,360 But. It it's so awesome that God not 338 00:18:50,360 --> 00:18:53,960 only gave us Jesus, but then he gave us the Holy Ghost that we 339 00:18:53,960 --> 00:18:57,000 didn't have to be left alone. So I want to jump 2 ahead. 340 00:18:57,200 --> 00:18:59,960 But again, our, our first position is righteousness. 341 00:18:59,960 --> 00:19:03,040 We've been made right in him. And then because of that, we 342 00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:07,720 then enter into this life of faith into the Creator who we 343 00:19:07,720 --> 00:19:10,360 can't see. We can only see his effects. 344 00:19:10,680 --> 00:19:14,840 We can see and sense the Holy Ghost that gets placed upon us 345 00:19:14,840 --> 00:19:17,800 when we're born again. And then for those who have been 346 00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:21,160 filled with the Holy Ghost, then you get the a pawn that's now at 347 00:19:21,160 --> 00:19:24,240 the end filling where you then have a prayer language that you 348 00:19:24,240 --> 00:19:27,240 can pray out that language. And so that's so very important 349 00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:29,880 tonight. There'll be opportunities. 350 00:19:29,880 --> 00:19:34,720 So if you don't have that, get ready, have opportunity tonight. 351 00:19:34,840 --> 00:19:38,160 OK, position next is in confidence. 352 00:19:38,160 --> 00:19:41,680 So our key scripture tonight when we read. 353 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:46,880 In verse 14 of verse John 5, it says, and this is the confidence 354 00:19:46,880 --> 00:19:51,280 that we have towards Him, that if we ask anything according to 355 00:19:51,280 --> 00:19:56,680 His will, He hears us. Well, His will is His Word. 356 00:19:56,960 --> 00:20:01,680 So if we want to know what God thinks about something, what He 357 00:20:01,680 --> 00:20:04,920 desires about something, the only way is for us to find that 358 00:20:04,920 --> 00:20:09,200 out is for us to read the Word. We can find out His will and 359 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:11,920 then. We can pray just in line with 360 00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:15,600 that so that we know that he's hearing us. 361 00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:21,680 We're not praying wishes, we're not praying and in in a stance 362 00:20:21,680 --> 00:20:24,240 of begging. We don't have to do any of that. 363 00:20:24,360 --> 00:20:29,840 Again, we are His heirs and we have all of the benefits in His 364 00:20:29,840 --> 00:20:33,880 Kingdom, and if we have all of His benefits, we can tap into 365 00:20:33,880 --> 00:20:37,560 them and all we have to. Do is pray according to his 366 00:20:37,560 --> 00:20:41,320 word, and we have this thing called confidence. 367 00:20:41,720 --> 00:20:44,280 You know when you're confident you don't. 368 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:48,920 Nothing phases. You when you know you can go in 369 00:20:48,920 --> 00:20:51,640 and do something and you can feel like you can conquer the 370 00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:55,160 world when you have confidence and I'd much rather have the 371 00:20:55,160 --> 00:21:00,800 confidence of the Lord than any other any other way that or 372 00:21:01,840 --> 00:21:06,480 opportunity or alternative that could come in the world to give 373 00:21:06,480 --> 00:21:11,560 you confidence. The word is all I want, God is 374 00:21:11,560 --> 00:21:14,200 all I want, the Holy Ghost is all I want to give me the 375 00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:16,000 confidence. And he says in first. 376 00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:21,920 And 1st John of I'm going to read it in the back in the NLT 377 00:21:21,920 --> 00:21:30,200 version, it says, and this is a. And we are confident that he 378 00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:33,760 hears us whenever we ask for anything that pleases him. 379 00:21:34,480 --> 00:21:37,840 And since we know he hears us when we make our request, we 380 00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:41,520 also know that he will give us what we ask for. 381 00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:45,640 You know, our kids are very good about asking for things, right? 382 00:21:46,600 --> 00:21:48,880 So keeping that perspective when we're talking about that he's 383 00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:54,040 Father God and we're asking, you know, he wants us to remind him. 384 00:21:54,920 --> 00:21:57,880 He wants us to remind, you know, our kids sometimes what can I do 385 00:21:57,880 --> 00:21:58,640 this? Can I do this? 386 00:21:58,640 --> 00:22:00,480 Can I do this? Especially when they're younger, 387 00:22:01,240 --> 00:22:04,080 they'll they'll be repetitive and they'll ask and they won't 388 00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:06,880 forget. They won't forget if there's 389 00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:10,160 something they really wanted. And then you maybe you know my 390 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:12,920 my phrase, especially when they were younger was maybe. 391 00:22:13,920 --> 00:22:15,960 And they're like, oh, I don't. Like maybe I said you'd need to 392 00:22:15,960 --> 00:22:19,640 like maybe because maybe is maybe yes and maybe no. 393 00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:23,720 It's kind of middle of the road. So I was I was pretty pretty 394 00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:25,680 fair. I wasn't always no and wasn't 395 00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:28,080 always yes. And so it was a maybe. 396 00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:33,400 But with God, if it's according to his word, there's no maybe it 397 00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:38,640 is what he said it is. He said we can be healed. 398 00:22:40,120 --> 00:22:42,920 So there's no maybe there, he said. 399 00:22:42,920 --> 00:22:46,400 We can have freedom over whatever addiction. 400 00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:50,400 There's there's no there's no special case that that this 401 00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:54,000 won't happen for no, we have every single thing, he says. 402 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:58,280 We have peace. Even when it's a stormy mess in 403 00:22:58,280 --> 00:23:02,400 our life. All chaos is happening just in 404 00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:05,200 our own personal lives, or it could be all over the world. 405 00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:06,880 We see this and. That and just. 406 00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:10,760 We can rest and knowing that the Word says I can have peace in 407 00:23:10,760 --> 00:23:15,280 every situation and I can have the confidence to know that 408 00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:19,400 whatever I need to pray for, whatever I'm believing for, He 409 00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:21,880 hears me. I'm confident that nothing's 410 00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:24,880 going to get me off the fact that God said it. 411 00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:26,480 You know what? And a few weeks. 412 00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:30,400 In the summer and then just a couple weeks ago, a Nautilus, 413 00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:34,280 you know, I took Rhema's stance on what brother Hagin would say. 414 00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:37,120 God said it. I believe it. 415 00:23:37,360 --> 00:23:41,680 That settles it like there's no, there's no me changing like 416 00:23:41,760 --> 00:23:45,880 it's, it is what it is. I am set in my ways when it 417 00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:48,280 comes to the word and set in my ways when it comes to the 418 00:23:48,280 --> 00:23:49,720 Kingdom. It settles. 419 00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:52,240 It's done. I've you've drawn a line in the 420 00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:55,320 sand and you said I'm not passing this point. 421 00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:59,520 I'm with God and I'm firmly persuaded because of the faith 422 00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:02,760 and because that I know I'm His child that I can confidently 423 00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:05,440 ask. Ephesians 313 says this. 424 00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:09,280 Because of Christ and of our faith in Him, we can now come 425 00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:13,560 boldly and confidently into His presence. 426 00:24:13,920 --> 00:24:20,800 Again, there's no condemnation for those who are in Christ, so 427 00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:25,720 there's never a reason for us not to be able to come in and be 428 00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:29,960 confident in His presence, no matter what, that we can come 429 00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:32,080 and we can just speak. And again, it doesn't have to be 430 00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:33,720 something special. You don't have to wait till you 431 00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:35,480 get to church on Sunday or Wednesday. 432 00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:41,400 He wants this at all times in, in every circumstance, in every 433 00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:45,040 situation of our life. He wants us to come into His 434 00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:48,240 presence and with boldness and with confidence. 435 00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:57,280 Hebrews. 4. 16 It says, Let us then with confidence draw near 436 00:24:57,280 --> 00:25:01,760 to the throne of grace, that may we may receive mercy and find 437 00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:07,840 grace in the time of need. We have to maintain that our set 438 00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:12,320 position is in confidence. And when we do that, we then 439 00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:16,320 start tapping into the this thing called authority that we 440 00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:18,160 have. Again, that's a whole other 441 00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:24,080 topic, but we as believers have authority because we're Kingdom 442 00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:27,720 citizens. We can tap in to all the Kingdom 443 00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:32,040 benefits and in our prayer time, we can start seeking those 444 00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:35,360 things out and we can only expect confidently that we're 445 00:25:35,360 --> 00:25:39,760 going to have what we ask for, right? 446 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:44,640 So stirring you up just to think in the mindset of prayer, prayer 447 00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:47,240 is not a one time occurrence. Prayer is something we're doing 448 00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:53,600 consistently, constantly, you know, and if you're new here or 449 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:57,280 you don't, you, you're questioning what prayer is, You 450 00:25:57,280 --> 00:26:00,280 know, prayer is just simply communicating with God. 451 00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:04,520 It's communication. It's not just one way, it's both 452 00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:08,360 ways because not only will you speak to him, but he will speak 453 00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:13,160 back to you. You know, some other belief 454 00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:16,840 systems, other other religions, you know, get really fascinated 455 00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:21,360 by the actual physical position that somebody gets into prayer. 456 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:24,680 There's no right or wrong. You know, sometimes you'll 457 00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:28,080 notice here in service, you know, some may kneel, some may 458 00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:30,480 bow. There's going to be moments in 459 00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:34,040 the Spirit of God where where we may do those things in it and 460 00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:38,080 it's honoring to the Lord. But there's no wrong or right 461 00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:41,400 way to, you know, you don't have to have your, you know, head 462 00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:43,360 bowed and just like this. I know sometimes we do that with 463 00:26:43,360 --> 00:26:45,520 the kids to help them practice and concentrate. 464 00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:49,240 Sometimes it is easier to close your eyes, especially when 465 00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:51,880 you're in a stance of worship. But if you're just alone with 466 00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:55,760 God, you can kneel by the bed. You can sit on the bed and talk 467 00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:57,680 to him. I mean, you can talk to him 468 00:26:57,680 --> 00:27:00,360 while you're in the car, while you're in the shower. 469 00:27:00,360 --> 00:27:03,080 I mean you this is there's no like set. 470 00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:05,720 Place. That you have to be to make this 471 00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:09,000 happen. Prayer is whenever, wherever. 472 00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:11,000 In fact, sometimes he may or he may. 473 00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:13,480 He may nudge you to have a conversation. 474 00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:16,480 He may be just just like the kids come and nudge us for a 475 00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:19,120 conversation. He might be coming up to gently 476 00:27:19,120 --> 00:27:21,280 because that's what the Holy Ghost will do to have a 477 00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:25,520 conversation, to remind you of something to spark, to spark 478 00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:28,720 some things in you. Because God ultimately wants to 479 00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:31,880 see us continue to grow and grow and grow further in our 480 00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:35,440 relationship with them. And so in order to do that, we 481 00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:37,960 got to talk. We can't know him more. 482 00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:40,560 We can't do more, but we have to talk. 483 00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:43,960 And so just wanted to give you that little insight that, you 484 00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:47,120 know, it's not so much of A about a literal position, 485 00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:48,880 although all of those things work. 486 00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:53,200 You know, I know some people that is their, that is their way 487 00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:55,520 of communicating with God. And there's nothing wrong with 488 00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:57,120 that. If that's your routine to get up 489 00:27:57,120 --> 00:27:59,640 in the morning and have your, your alone time with God and 490 00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:02,000 it's a certain way, then you keep doing that. 491 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:06,400 You keep growing in it, but don't, don't be limited to that 492 00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:09,800 because God can talk to you in any moment and he wants to 493 00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:14,920 continue to do that. So maintain your position and 494 00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:19,400 your confidence to know that when he hears you, when you 495 00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:21,960 speak, he hears you and he's going to answer that prayer. 496 00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:25,440 Next, let's talk about the position being positioned and 497 00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:29,160 forgiveness set and forgiveness. Now when you were born again, 498 00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:32,120 you were forgiven. All was forgiven clean. 499 00:28:32,120 --> 00:28:36,760 Slate, wipe slate, but this? Is a moment, as you know, as we 500 00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:40,280 talk about prayer, the scripture tells us about searching our own 501 00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:44,440 heart because there are some hindrances to prayer there. 502 00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:49,960 There are some things that can happen in prayer or happened in 503 00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:55,960 our life that cause us to have an offense or cause us to have a 504 00:28:55,960 --> 00:29:00,000 block and us not getting somewhere with what we're 505 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:02,440 believing for. And a lot of times we have to 506 00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:05,800 search ourselves and make sure, OK, we know God's word's true 507 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:08,680 and we know that it's he said he'll never fail us. 508 00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:12,720 He'll never forsake us. I know what his will is and I'm 509 00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:14,800 praying that, but I'm just not seeing the results. 510 00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:17,800 And so we have to go back and make sure we search our hearts 511 00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:21,720 to to see if there's anything within us that we need to deal 512 00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:22,840 with. And so let's talk about 513 00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:27,080 forgiveness for just a moment. You know, the, it's so important 514 00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:32,880 that as we come and we start to come in corporately, you know, 515 00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:35,080 we have, we're talking about prayer and some different ways 516 00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:38,000 tonight. Prayer individually for the 517 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:41,120 believer is something we all do. But then when we come together, 518 00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:46,000 there's some power and greatness that can happen when we're all 519 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:50,960 unified in prayer, we're all having the same mindset. 520 00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:55,160 We're all in the same fixed position in alignment. 521 00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:57,320 So let's take it back to children. 522 00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:00,280 You know, we I'm not many of you have different family dynamics, 523 00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:02,160 but if you think about a family that has, you know, more than 524 00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:06,400 one or two children, you know their siblings, you know, if one 525 00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:10,840 child is out of alignment, you know, just use dinner for an 526 00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:13,880 example. If just one child is often 527 00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:17,040 dinner, guess what that is just caused a little chaos to 528 00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:21,840 everyone at the table. Everyone is affected, right? 529 00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:28,600 So if someone's at the table and they're ready to eat dinner and 530 00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:29,600 little Joey. I'm. 531 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:37,800 Sorry, little Joey, first name I thought about so little Joey. 532 00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:41,360 He doesn't want to eat the green beans or whatever. 533 00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:42,960 And then he throws a temper tantrum. 534 00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:48,080 Not him. So he he's throwing a tantrum. 535 00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:50,440 Well, you know, all the other kids are eating, they're doing, 536 00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:53,160 they're supposed to, But this one is causing the distraction. 537 00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:56,640 This one is causing a fit. This one is not right at the 538 00:30:56,640 --> 00:31:00,560 moment. So yes, parenting, yes, they 539 00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:02,920 need to address it and deal with it and get them right back in 540 00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:05,680 alignment in the fixed position he needs to be in and eating 541 00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:08,080 those green beans, right. But that's a whole different 542 00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:10,360 subject and conference and all that. 543 00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:12,920 But yes, you do need to deal with it for sure. 544 00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:16,280 As a preschool director and children's pastor, yes, please 545 00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:20,240 deal with with that. But for purposes, I'm talking 546 00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:22,440 about you guys. I'm not talking about little 547 00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:26,600 John, Joey, Johnny, Joey. I'm talking about the grown up 548 00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:31,880 Joey that comes to feed here, you know, because this is part 549 00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:35,680 of us being part of the body of Christ is that we come to eat. 550 00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:40,040 You know, there's multi facets that the Lord built the church 551 00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:43,800 and part of it is we come to get some bread, We come to get the 552 00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:46,520 our shepherds here to feed us and it because we're his the 553 00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:49,320 we're the flock. And so we got to be hungry. 554 00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:53,800 But if somebody's messing up some stuff at the table, then 555 00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:57,480 that can cause some disruption and in unity. 556 00:31:57,480 --> 00:32:00,120 And so then this is what's so important as we get ready to go 557 00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:03,720 into a week of prayer and fasting that we get things 558 00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:07,560 right, that we're in right alignment, we're right fixed 559 00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:10,000 position. We're not going to get off of 560 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:11,040 it. We're going to make sure that we 561 00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:13,280 got everything right. And so as we talk about 562 00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:18,120 forgiveness, let's go to James because we don't want to have 563 00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:21,800 any hindrances to anything that we're believing for. 564 00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:24,840 And we want to be able to come and connect with our brothers 565 00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:27,840 and sisters in Christ and know that I'm fixed in position, 566 00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:29,960 they're fixed in position, that was fixed in position. 567 00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:31,520 And guess what? We're all fixed. 568 00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:37,240 Then we can get in unity and we can bring some power together, 569 00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:39,040 bring some authority with our prayer. 570 00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:41,040 And guess what? We can see things happen and 571 00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:46,280 change quicker and easier if we're in the right place. 572 00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:50,240 So James 516 says this. It says, therefore confess your 573 00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:54,920 sins to one another, your faults, step your offenses, and 574 00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:58,480 pray for one another that you may be healed and restored. 575 00:32:59,920 --> 00:33:03,560 The heartfelt and persistent prayer of a righteous man or 576 00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:07,800 believer can accomplish much when we put into action and made 577 00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:11,400 effective by God. It is dynamic and can have 578 00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:15,000 tremendous power. So there's a lot to unpack here 579 00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:17,360 because it's first telling us that we need to make sure that 580 00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:19,160 there's anything that we need to confess. 581 00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:22,000 So we get it right. We go to our brother and we 582 00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:27,080 ultimately are coming to them to confess so that there's healing 583 00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:30,680 and restoration. And sometimes that can be a huge 584 00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:33,040 stumbling block to someone's answered prayers. 585 00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:34,640 And then they can say that prayer doesn't work. 586 00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:38,440 But really, we got to go back to what's on the inside that needs 587 00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:40,760 to be dealt with with my brother. 588 00:33:40,760 --> 00:33:44,320 Did someone offend you did. Is there something in you that 589 00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:45,640 you know you did? And you're like, I need to 590 00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:47,600 apologize. I need to make it right with 591 00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:51,680 someone, whatever that may be. And this is talking to the 592 00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:55,120 believer. Get it right because if you get 593 00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:59,120 it right, you as just a single believer on your own. 594 00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:03,240 It says that if you have a heartfelt and persistent prayer. 595 00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:10,480 You can accomplish much much. So just imagine if I'm in the 596 00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:12,639 right position, you're in the right position. 597 00:34:12,639 --> 00:34:16,600 All each one of us in this body right now, in this sanctuary is 598 00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:19,560 in right position. How much effectiveness we can 599 00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:24,440 have, dynamic dunamis power that we can have in the Greek right, 600 00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:28,280 mighty and effective that we can have if we are in the right 601 00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:33,280 position, if we're set in the Kingdom way and set in the 602 00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:36,920 Kingdom way. And so it's also, we're going to 603 00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:39,600 get to jump to it in a little bit, but it's also embedded in 604 00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:41,199 the Lord's Prayer. We're going to go through that 605 00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:44,719 in just a little bit. But that it, it talks about the 606 00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:46,920 fact that we have forgiveness and it's right smack in the 607 00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:49,360 middle. It talks about some things and 608 00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:52,440 then right in the middle it says that we must forgive. 609 00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:55,920 So that must be pretty important to God that we can't go any 610 00:34:55,920 --> 00:35:00,960 further in our prayer life with him and our conversation with 611 00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:03,640 him. If we can't, we can't forgive 612 00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:08,400 one another. OK, Matthew 6 verses 14 through 613 00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:11,200 15, the amplify tell us for if you forgive others, their 614 00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:15,680 trespasses, their reckless and willful sins, your heavenly 615 00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:19,200 Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive 616 00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:23,360 others, nurturing your hurt and anger with result that 617 00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:25,960 interferes with your relationship with God. 618 00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:30,880 It says it, it interferes, Joey and those green beans is 619 00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:35,400 interfering at the dinner table. So if you've got a hurt and an 620 00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:40,000 anger that's unresolved, guess what, it's hindering and 621 00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:42,720 interfering the relationship with God that says then God will 622 00:35:42,720 --> 00:35:46,160 not forgive your trespasses. You're you're putting a blockade 623 00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:50,400 from from the flow of what God wants to do and what's in his 624 00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:55,240 will in the word when you don't forgive and you don't open that 625 00:35:55,240 --> 00:35:56,880 up. So it's so very important that 626 00:35:56,880 --> 00:36:01,360 we do that. And now let's go to the Lord's 627 00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:05,000 Prayer. So Matthew 6, one through 18, 628 00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:12,000 and it says this in the NSAB 1995 edition. 629 00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:15,320 It says beware of practicing your righteousness before men to 630 00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:18,120 be noticed by them. Otherwise you have no reward 631 00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:20,760 with your Father who is in heaven. 632 00:36:21,720 --> 00:36:24,840 So when you when you give to the poor. 633 00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:28,400 And it emphasizes when you, because we are to pray. 634 00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:31,640 It's not if you pray, it's when you pray. 635 00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:34,520 Give to the poor. Do not sound a trumpet before 636 00:36:34,520 --> 00:36:37,480 you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, 637 00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:39,360 so that they may be honored by men. 638 00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:42,640 Truly, I say to you. That they have the reward in 639 00:36:42,640 --> 00:36:45,520 full. But when you give to the poor, 640 00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:48,520 do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 641 00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:52,360 so that you your giving will be in secret, and your Father who 642 00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:54,480 sees what's done in secret, will reward you. 643 00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:58,800 When you pray, you are not to be like the hypocrites, for they 644 00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:02,160 love to stand on the and pray in the synagogues and on the street 645 00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:04,240 corners so that they may be seen by men. 646 00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:07,600 Truly, I say to you, they have the reward in full. 647 00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:12,440 But when you pray, go into your inner corner, close the door, 648 00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:15,040 and pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who 649 00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:17,720 sees what is done in secret, will reward you. 650 00:37:18,120 --> 00:37:22,000 And when you pray when you're praying, do not use meaningless 651 00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:25,960 repetitions as the Gentiles do for they suppose that they will 652 00:37:25,960 --> 00:37:30,440 be heard for their many words. So do not be like them for your 653 00:37:30,440 --> 00:37:33,040 Father knows what you need before you ask. 654 00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:36,160 And then it goes on to say, OK, here is how you pray. 655 00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:39,480 And this is what we we don't was known as the Lord's Prayer. 656 00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:42,200 And so we're going to read that in just a second and verse 9. 657 00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:47,960 But I want to key in on this. This is talking about the fact 658 00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:53,920 that our prayer time is not to be a brag, you know, 659 00:37:53,920 --> 00:37:56,640 braggadacious, so to speak. If I want to use that word it 660 00:37:57,320 --> 00:37:59,840 the people that were Gentiles just wanted to brag. 661 00:37:59,920 --> 00:38:03,800 It was all about just putting on a show inside. 662 00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:06,680 They weren't changed. So everything that they were 663 00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:10,760 doing on the outside was just just to make it look like it was 664 00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:13,040 something. No, it's deeper with God. 665 00:38:13,160 --> 00:38:17,360 God wants something way more than just me check in a box. 666 00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:20,080 Just like when we read the word, It's not just about us getting 667 00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:22,040 it done. Prayer is not like that either. 668 00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:26,360 And it's also not about us just flaunting and and being now 669 00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:29,760 there's a moment when we have corporate prayer that we should 670 00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:32,480 be talking. And it's not that we're talking 671 00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:35,120 loud so everybody can hear us, but we're talking in the 672 00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:39,080 boldness and authority that we have because we're proclaiming 673 00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:41,240 things out to the Lord. And that's a little bit 674 00:38:41,240 --> 00:38:43,320 different. And I imagine pastor would have 675 00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:45,440 no problem with us if we, we all were in here. 676 00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:47,400 Just like it's time for praise and worship. 677 00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:51,960 And there's there's a, a volume change with our with our lips 678 00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:55,520 and our mouths as we're singing. When we come in prayer, we can 679 00:38:55,520 --> 00:38:57,240 have that. It doesn't have to be quiet and 680 00:38:57,240 --> 00:38:59,560 solemn. And we can't say anything 681 00:38:59,720 --> 00:39:01,880 because they can't hear it. That's not what this is saying. 682 00:39:01,920 --> 00:39:04,480 We don't have to whisper. We can talk. 683 00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:07,880 We can, we can speak out and, and the authority that we have 684 00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:10,320 and talk because really that's what it is. 685 00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:12,960 It's just talking to God and just it doesn't have to be 686 00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:17,520 eloquent and, and all flowy and perfect and new King James or 687 00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:20,520 not new King King James version. It doesn't have to be that like 688 00:39:21,720 --> 00:39:24,760 it's not formal. It's not formal. 689 00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:28,120 It's just you talking to the king, speaking at his will. 690 00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:34,400 So it's so easy to look at this example and say, OK, not 691 00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:37,280 supposed to do that, not supposed to do that, OK, this is 692 00:39:37,280 --> 00:39:39,600 what I'm supposed to do. And this he tells us in verse 9. 693 00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:42,400 He says I want you to pray this way our. 694 00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:46,240 Father who art in heaven, or who is in heaven, hallowed be your 695 00:39:46,240 --> 00:39:50,520 name, your Kingdom come. Down here, right, your will be 696 00:39:50,520 --> 00:39:52,960 done on earth as it is in heaven. 697 00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:56,000 Give us this day Our Daily Bread, and forgive us. 698 00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:59,120 There's that forgiveness of our debts, as we also have forgiven 699 00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:01,160 our debtors. And do not lead us in 700 00:40:01,160 --> 00:40:03,360 temptation, but deliver us from evil. 701 00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:07,880 For yours is the Kingdom and the power and the glory forever. 702 00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:11,520 Amen. So again in verse 14 it talks 703 00:40:11,520 --> 00:40:13,640 about forgiveness. Again it says if. 704 00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:16,600 For if you forgive others their transgressions, your heavenly 705 00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:19,120 Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive 706 00:40:19,120 --> 00:40:22,800 others, then you, your father will not forgive your 707 00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:27,880 transgressions goes on to same verse 16 whenever again not if 708 00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:30,680 you pray, but whenever. Now he's talking about fasting. 709 00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:34,120 He said don't when you fast, don't put on a gloomy face as 710 00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:37,920 the hypocrites do, for they neglect their appearance so that 711 00:40:37,920 --> 00:40:40,760 they will be noticed by men. And they were went that they are 712 00:40:40,760 --> 00:40:42,560 fasting. Truly, I say to you that they 713 00:40:42,560 --> 00:40:46,480 will have the reward in full, but you when you fast, anoint 714 00:40:46,480 --> 00:40:49,240 your head, wash your face so that your fasting will not be 715 00:40:49,240 --> 00:40:52,080 noticed by men, but your father who is in secret and your father 716 00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:55,160 who sees what's what's done in secret or reward you. 717 00:40:55,480 --> 00:40:58,040 Of course, we're pastors called and said we're going to have a 718 00:40:58,040 --> 00:41:00,000 time of corporate prayer and fasting. 719 00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:03,280 You know, we should live really a fasted life when, when that 720 00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:05,760 what that means is at any moment, if the Lord says I need 721 00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:08,920 you to adjust this or tweak this and I need you to maybe abstain 722 00:41:08,920 --> 00:41:12,400 from this food, or maybe there's something that you're needing an 723 00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:17,280 answer on that is part of living a fasted life that you take some 724 00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:24,640 time and you starve the flesh so that you can let your that your 725 00:41:24,640 --> 00:41:30,200 soul realm get connected with the spirit and you can hear and 726 00:41:30,200 --> 00:41:33,920 be finely tuned because that's really what it's about. 727 00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:38,320 Fasting is not, you know, although it will be helpful 728 00:41:38,320 --> 00:41:41,160 sometimes to get rid of distractions of media and TV and 729 00:41:41,160 --> 00:41:44,880 things like that. But scripturally a fast is about 730 00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:50,240 fasting a food item or, or food group or sometimes food all 731 00:41:50,240 --> 00:41:52,880 together. And so you want to be led by the 732 00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:55,760 spirit on that, on what it should be that that God is 733 00:41:55,760 --> 00:41:58,760 asking you to do because it, it's not the same for everybody. 734 00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:00,840 God knows what you're dealing with and what you need. 735 00:42:00,840 --> 00:42:05,120 And so whatever that may be, may be a meal, it may be a whole 736 00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:08,440 food group, it may be you're going to, you know, cut out 737 00:42:08,440 --> 00:42:11,400 something that you is really maybe has a hold on you. 738 00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:15,800 And nothing in this life should ever have so much of a hold on 739 00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:19,640 us that we can't say, God, I'm done with that. 740 00:42:21,040 --> 00:42:24,040 I just want you and all. Of you is OK. 741 00:42:24,560 --> 00:42:27,560 And so these moments and these times of prayer and fasting are 742 00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:31,880 are times for us to consecrate this, this snippet of time, 743 00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:34,880 although we're again supposed to be praying everyday, praying 744 00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:36,880 without ceasing. These are moments though 745 00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:41,200 corporately though we're all in our regular routines, but we're 746 00:42:41,200 --> 00:42:44,520 taking a moment to really concentrate and consecrate our 747 00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:49,480 time during a prayer and a fast. And so this coming week, as we 748 00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:55,560 start on Sunday, whatever it is that God's placing in your life 749 00:42:55,560 --> 00:43:01,960 to to take a take a, a pause or a break on, you can do it. 750 00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:04,960 You can do it if you've never. Fasted before it's it. 751 00:43:05,320 --> 00:43:08,040 You can do it. Your flesh will will be OK. 752 00:43:08,040 --> 00:43:11,480 It will want to rise up, whatever it is that that God's 753 00:43:11,480 --> 00:43:13,760 calling you to to put down for the weak. 754 00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:17,440 You will be able to. Hear and be fine-tuned to say, 755 00:43:17,440 --> 00:43:19,640 OK, God, what is it that you need to show me? 756 00:43:19,640 --> 00:43:23,040 This week I went back through my notes because I do take paper 757 00:43:23,040 --> 00:43:24,840 notes, but a lot of times in here, it's easy just for me to 758 00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:27,800 get on my notes on my phone. And I, we've done a few 759 00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:30,600 different prayer and fastings this year and I went back 760 00:43:30,600 --> 00:43:34,200 through and not only do we do we prayer and fast on our own, but 761 00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:37,400 then we come and we have a corporate time here together 762 00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:40,280 during that week. So every night we'll be having a 763 00:43:40,280 --> 00:43:43,080 time where we come together in prayer. 764 00:43:43,640 --> 00:43:47,400 But pastors usually have a little moment or they'll do some 765 00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:50,080 teaching on, on prayer or whatever they're sensing in the 766 00:43:50,080 --> 00:43:53,760 spirit to maybe pray for something specific or minister. 767 00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:57,280 But I had some awesome notes and some things that pastors 768 00:43:57,280 --> 00:44:01,640 ministered during those nights, especially back in January and 769 00:44:01,640 --> 00:44:04,000 then. All the words that the Lord. 770 00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:08,560 Spoke to me during that time. I was stirring myself up reading 771 00:44:08,560 --> 00:44:10,520 them. And so I just challenge you. 772 00:44:10,520 --> 00:44:13,040 Not even just for this weekend and prayer and fasting. 773 00:44:13,280 --> 00:44:18,360 If you're not a note taker for me, I'll retain it. 774 00:44:18,360 --> 00:44:21,040 But I'll be honest, it's a discipline. 775 00:44:21,720 --> 00:44:24,680 I, it's a discipline for me. It's one of those things that I, 776 00:44:24,840 --> 00:44:30,960 I take notes because it helps to, to concentrate and, and keep 777 00:44:30,960 --> 00:44:33,960 myself fixed and focused on what's being said. 778 00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:37,320 And I, I have a little thing on my notes and I'll write Mt, 779 00:44:37,520 --> 00:44:39,840 which means it's my thought, which I know it's not really my 780 00:44:39,840 --> 00:44:41,440 thought. It's the Holy Ghost's thought. 781 00:44:41,440 --> 00:44:43,480 But it's, that's always, I've just done that since I was a 782 00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:46,680 teenager. I wrote Real Uppercase Mt and 783 00:44:46,680 --> 00:44:49,840 when I go back to my notes, I know that that meant that during 784 00:44:49,840 --> 00:44:52,960 the message, it wasn't what Pastor said or who was 785 00:44:52,960 --> 00:44:55,680 ministering at the time. It was what the Lord said to me 786 00:44:55,880 --> 00:44:59,240 and gave me revelation. And during these times of prayer 787 00:44:59,240 --> 00:45:02,680 and fasting, the Lord wants to reveal more to us. 788 00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:06,960 He wants to speak more into our life, and He wants us to be able 789 00:45:06,960 --> 00:45:10,960 to have eyes wide open because the prayer and fasting is that. 790 00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:13,840 That's one part, but it's also for us to come together in 791 00:45:13,840 --> 00:45:20,800 unity, fixed in that position, Kingdom minded, stubborn, 792 00:45:20,800 --> 00:45:23,560 Kingdom minded people. That's that's when you want to 793 00:45:23,560 --> 00:45:25,880 be stubborn is when you're Kingdom minded. 794 00:45:25,880 --> 00:45:27,840 You get your mind so set and fixed. 795 00:45:27,840 --> 00:45:31,440 There's nothing that's going to change it that and those things, 796 00:45:31,440 --> 00:45:34,240 those two things, we can see change. 797 00:45:34,400 --> 00:45:38,800 We can see things move and we want to do that. 798 00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:46,120 So and looking at forgiveness, those are just a few things that 799 00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:49,720 the Lord showed me through Scripture today that we need to 800 00:45:49,720 --> 00:45:55,760 make sure that we are keeping our selves fixed in forgiveness. 801 00:45:55,760 --> 00:45:59,120 So if there's something that you got to deal with before you even 802 00:45:59,120 --> 00:46:02,480 get to the fast, deal with it this week and just have an open 803 00:46:02,480 --> 00:46:05,000 clean slate to say, God, I'm ready to walk into something 804 00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:07,280 this week. You know, I know, I know 805 00:46:07,440 --> 00:46:10,400 September has been a month. In past years, we have said 806 00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:14,000 separate timber, you know, separate a time of separation 807 00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:18,600 away from some normal habits, normal routines and again, food 808 00:46:18,600 --> 00:46:23,160 items and things that it you know, when you get hungry. 809 00:46:23,160 --> 00:46:26,200 I was just talking about to somebody not too many days ago 810 00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:31,080 and they talked about being hungry and that that is a real 811 00:46:31,080 --> 00:46:32,920 thing for people. You know, sometimes when you 812 00:46:32,920 --> 00:46:37,080 just, they reminded me of the Snickers commercial, I laugh, 813 00:46:37,080 --> 00:46:40,280 'cause she's in here. And, you know, they, they, they 814 00:46:40,280 --> 00:46:43,080 made it really good when they said that they did their 815 00:46:43,080 --> 00:46:46,080 advertisement there because it, people sometimes do get a little 816 00:46:46,080 --> 00:46:48,800 bit cranky when they just haven't had a bite to eat. 817 00:46:48,920 --> 00:46:50,520 You know, they haven't had anything to eat. 818 00:46:50,520 --> 00:46:53,920 They're just, I don't know, Joey should have eaten those green 819 00:46:53,920 --> 00:46:56,800 beans, right? Healthier than a Snickers bar. 820 00:46:57,120 --> 00:46:58,800 But you, you get what I'm saying. 821 00:46:58,880 --> 00:47:01,120 You know, you know when you're hungry, you know when things are 822 00:47:01,120 --> 00:47:04,240 growling, you know when you know it may not be, it may not be 823 00:47:04,240 --> 00:47:06,120 food. We know when we're getting when 824 00:47:06,120 --> 00:47:08,960 things are getting testy, when we haven't been in the word and 825 00:47:08,960 --> 00:47:11,680 we haven't been praying and we haven't been community like we 826 00:47:11,680 --> 00:47:14,240 know we know what our own personal triggers are. 827 00:47:14,240 --> 00:47:18,040 And if you don't know, the Holy Ghost will remind you of of it. 828 00:47:18,040 --> 00:47:21,760 And don't turn a deaf ear to it. We want to be open and listening 829 00:47:21,760 --> 00:47:24,360 all the time to what he has to say. 830 00:47:24,360 --> 00:47:30,600 So get yourself selves in a position to be forgiven and 831 00:47:31,040 --> 00:47:34,720 grant forgiveness so that you don't hinder any of what you're 832 00:47:34,720 --> 00:47:37,240 believing for or what someone else is believing for. 833 00:47:37,240 --> 00:47:40,200 So let's talk about we talked a little bit touched on as we were 834 00:47:40,200 --> 00:47:42,760 talking about forgiveness, but purpose, you know, another 835 00:47:42,760 --> 00:47:45,120 position is what? Why do I pray? 836 00:47:45,120 --> 00:47:50,760 What's my purpose and and in even talking to God or bringing 837 00:47:50,760 --> 00:47:54,320 something before him. I've referenced it a couple 838 00:47:54,320 --> 00:47:57,720 different times tonight, but first Thessalonians 5 chapter 5 839 00:47:57,720 --> 00:48:01,640 verses 16 through 18 says rejoice always pray without 840 00:48:01,640 --> 00:48:06,000 ceasing. Give thanks in all circumstances 841 00:48:06,200 --> 00:48:11,680 for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you see our 842 00:48:11,680 --> 00:48:14,840 participation. Sorry I'm skipping ahead and our 843 00:48:14,840 --> 00:48:17,800 participation. That is one of the reasons that 844 00:48:17,800 --> 00:48:20,280 he's given us purpose for prayer is that we'll participate. 845 00:48:20,280 --> 00:48:21,360 We'll get to that in a minute, but. 846 00:48:21,640 --> 00:48:25,200 We are too. To know that prayer is for us, 847 00:48:25,200 --> 00:48:29,240 it's our communication link. We don't have to go to someone 848 00:48:29,240 --> 00:48:32,840 else in the church on our behalf to talk to God for us. 849 00:48:33,800 --> 00:48:37,520 We don't have to rely upon an intermediate. 850 00:48:37,520 --> 00:48:41,040 Some, like some belief systems, are I can go right to him and 851 00:48:41,040 --> 00:48:45,400 say I blew it or I'm going through this or I need help with 852 00:48:45,400 --> 00:48:49,840 this or whatever, or hey, this is what's going on today. 853 00:48:49,840 --> 00:48:51,520 At what? What direction should I go in? 854 00:48:51,520 --> 00:48:56,160 This is why it's so important to know what your position is and 855 00:48:56,160 --> 00:49:04,040 where you should be firmly set. Because once you do and you dig 856 00:49:04,040 --> 00:49:06,600 in your heels and you say, I'm not going to, I'm not going to 857 00:49:06,600 --> 00:49:10,040 change anything when it comes to the word other than you're going 858 00:49:10,040 --> 00:49:11,240 to change when the word says change. 859 00:49:11,360 --> 00:49:13,120 But what I mean by that is you're not going to change. 860 00:49:13,120 --> 00:49:15,440 You're not going to get off the fact that you're trusting and 861 00:49:15,440 --> 00:49:19,400 believing and staying focused and fixed on what God says in 862 00:49:19,400 --> 00:49:21,400 his word and you're going to stay on that in prayer. 863 00:49:21,800 --> 00:49:29,040 So that's our purpose. So when we participate, that's 864 00:49:29,040 --> 00:49:32,040 our next one. We're position in participation. 865 00:49:32,840 --> 00:49:36,800 You know, there's a quote by John G Lake says that I'm 866 00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:40,440 paraphrasing, but there he says that man, we can't do anything 867 00:49:40,440 --> 00:49:44,000 unless man prays basically that we want to see change. 868 00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:49,920 God won't do it. He won't do it because he can't 869 00:49:49,920 --> 00:49:54,360 do it without us. God has already made the way, 870 00:49:54,920 --> 00:50:01,080 but He can't make the change without us using our voice to 871 00:50:01,120 --> 00:50:09,720 confess, to proclaim, to use our authority and grab hold of what 872 00:50:09,720 --> 00:50:13,240 He's already done for us. And so if a man can't pray, the 873 00:50:13,240 --> 00:50:16,880 man can't receive. And so that is our way is to be 874 00:50:16,880 --> 00:50:21,480 positioned in our participation that we keep our set attitude in 875 00:50:21,480 --> 00:50:26,280 the Word, that we listen to the Spirit which will bear witness 876 00:50:26,280 --> 00:50:29,480 to the Word of God. And then in everything we do, we 877 00:50:29,480 --> 00:50:33,560 stand in that position and we know if it's something that's 878 00:50:33,560 --> 00:50:35,960 got to change, we know it will change. 879 00:50:36,200 --> 00:50:38,080 Because the word says it'll change. 880 00:50:39,480 --> 00:50:41,760 We don't we don't look to the right or to the left, what we 881 00:50:41,760 --> 00:50:46,040 say firmly focused and know that his word is true, that he's 882 00:50:46,040 --> 00:50:49,920 faithful to his word. So you position yourself only 883 00:50:49,920 --> 00:50:53,640 only only to see the result. Again, earlier I said, you know, 884 00:50:53,640 --> 00:50:58,160 you pray the solution. Now I'm not saying you can't be 885 00:50:58,160 --> 00:51:01,240 real with God and tell them the crummiest parts of what's going 886 00:51:01,240 --> 00:51:03,360 on in your life because you should just be real with God and 887 00:51:03,360 --> 00:51:04,640 that's fine. He's going to hear you. 888 00:51:04,640 --> 00:51:07,720 But when you're saying God, I believe, you know, you can say 889 00:51:07,720 --> 00:51:11,400 God, I'm going through this, but I know what your word says. 890 00:51:11,880 --> 00:51:15,640 I know what the word says. You always go back to remind him 891 00:51:16,120 --> 00:51:21,960 of what his word says, right? His word is what we stay fixed 892 00:51:21,960 --> 00:51:27,680 on when we participate in. That's in in anything that we're 893 00:51:27,680 --> 00:51:30,160 believing for. And again tonight our key 894 00:51:30,400 --> 00:51:34,000 scripture in first John 514 and 15. 895 00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:37,120 And this is the confidence that we have towards him that if we 896 00:51:37,120 --> 00:51:41,760 ask anything according to his will, he what hears us. 897 00:51:41,760 --> 00:51:46,240 So again, in our participation, there's a hearing two way, two 898 00:51:46,240 --> 00:51:49,640 way communication. One is hearing, one is doing the 899 00:51:49,640 --> 00:51:52,320 speaking. You know, we can't do all the 900 00:51:52,320 --> 00:51:55,040 speaking. Some that love to talk so much. 901 00:51:55,760 --> 00:51:58,720 Sometimes you got to stop and listen to there's a there's a 902 00:51:58,720 --> 00:52:00,440 two way St. You can't just do all the 903 00:52:00,440 --> 00:52:04,440 talking and you can't just do all the listening, right. 904 00:52:04,440 --> 00:52:07,520 God wants you to to be a participator on both sides of 905 00:52:07,960 --> 00:52:11,400 the spectrum. So again, he hears us and we 906 00:52:11,400 --> 00:52:15,200 know that if we ask whatever according to his will, we're 907 00:52:15,200 --> 00:52:17,680 going to have those requests because it says it, the word 908 00:52:17,680 --> 00:52:20,800 says it. And what I love about the fact 909 00:52:20,800 --> 00:52:25,680 that we get to participate in prayer is that God promised 910 00:52:25,680 --> 00:52:28,160 greater works. And if you look at what he 911 00:52:28,160 --> 00:52:33,680 promised us and then you see in the early church and Acts, you 912 00:52:33,680 --> 00:52:40,360 know, God promised us in the Scripture, Jesus would tell his 913 00:52:40,360 --> 00:52:42,560 disciples, you know, I've got to leave. 914 00:52:42,720 --> 00:52:44,640 You know, he, he would tell him, I'm going to die, I'm going to 915 00:52:44,640 --> 00:52:48,200 raise three days later. And then, you know, again, he 916 00:52:48,200 --> 00:52:49,840 told him I'm going to have to leave. 917 00:52:49,840 --> 00:52:52,520 And then when he came back and he was, he was risen again. 918 00:52:52,520 --> 00:52:54,880 I've got to leave. He, he would, he always said, 919 00:52:54,880 --> 00:52:57,600 I've got to leave because I've promised something better. 920 00:52:58,320 --> 00:53:01,640 And the better is what we're living in. 921 00:53:02,200 --> 00:53:04,640 He said we would. He would have to leave so that 922 00:53:04,640 --> 00:53:08,320 the greater one would be able to come, so more and more could be 923 00:53:08,320 --> 00:53:10,960 done. And so let's go to John 14, 924 00:53:11,320 --> 00:53:15,200 verses 12 through 17. And it says this very truly. 925 00:53:15,200 --> 00:53:19,720 I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been 926 00:53:19,720 --> 00:53:23,960 doing, and they will do even greater things than these 927 00:53:23,960 --> 00:53:27,880 because I'm going to the Father and I will do whatever you ask 928 00:53:27,880 --> 00:53:31,440 in my name so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 929 00:53:31,840 --> 00:53:34,520 You may, may ask me for anything in my name and I will do it. 930 00:53:35,080 --> 00:53:38,400 If you love me. Keep my commands and I will ask 931 00:53:38,400 --> 00:53:40,840 the Father and he will give you another advocate. 932 00:53:40,840 --> 00:53:43,880 Praise the Lord for the advocate to help you to be with you 933 00:53:43,880 --> 00:53:45,520 forever. That's what I'm talking about. 934 00:53:45,520 --> 00:53:49,040 That's the Holy Ghost on the inside that is with you wherever 935 00:53:49,040 --> 00:53:51,440 you go. Verse 17 says the spirit of 936 00:53:51,440 --> 00:53:53,600 truth. The world cannot accept Him 937 00:53:53,600 --> 00:53:55,880 because he neither sees him nor knows him. 938 00:53:56,120 --> 00:53:59,520 But you know him, for He lives with you and will. 939 00:53:59,520 --> 00:54:01,120 Be. In you. 940 00:54:01,440 --> 00:54:04,240 So that's the the Holy Ghost that resides on the inside of 941 00:54:04,240 --> 00:54:06,400 us. When we're born again and he's 942 00:54:06,520 --> 00:54:10,320 as our advocate, our guide, we can speak to him. 943 00:54:10,440 --> 00:54:13,680 That's how we are able to communicate with God. 944 00:54:14,160 --> 00:54:19,200 If he wouldn't have left, Jesus could only do so much as as 945 00:54:19,200 --> 00:54:21,080 living on the earth as an earthly man. 946 00:54:21,520 --> 00:54:24,440 There's three years of time and ministry until it was time for 947 00:54:24,440 --> 00:54:26,560 him to go to the cross. He could only do so much. 948 00:54:26,560 --> 00:54:29,640 He knew that if I sin now I've done my part. 949 00:54:30,520 --> 00:54:33,640 Now it's time for the Holy Ghost to do its part in the earth. 950 00:54:34,040 --> 00:54:42,360 And so we get to do the acts that were promised in this 951 00:54:42,360 --> 00:54:48,000 dispensation, this time of of life, we get to do in the acts 952 00:54:48,000 --> 00:54:50,840 that was promised that the that not only the greater would would 953 00:54:50,840 --> 00:54:56,040 come, but then power would be given to be endued from on high. 954 00:54:56,400 --> 00:54:58,360 And that power is the Holy Ghost. 955 00:54:58,360 --> 00:55:02,640 Now upon that then fills us with the Holy Ghost with evidence and 956 00:55:02,640 --> 00:55:06,440 speaking in tongues. And so we can participate in 957 00:55:06,440 --> 00:55:09,280 English or whatever your native language is that you were born 958 00:55:09,280 --> 00:55:11,400 into. But there's something even 959 00:55:11,400 --> 00:55:14,640 greater that we not only can I talk to God in English to it's 960 00:55:14,640 --> 00:55:18,400 much of my understanding that my mind can go to, but I've got the 961 00:55:18,400 --> 00:55:20,760 Holy Ghost on the inside that resides in me. 962 00:55:20,760 --> 00:55:25,280 And now I can pray out my prayer language and I, I can be, it can 963 00:55:25,400 --> 00:55:27,760 help lift me up. It can help encourage me. 964 00:55:27,760 --> 00:55:30,640 It can help stir me up. And then we're going to read. 965 00:55:30,640 --> 00:55:35,040 It's going to help me, as Romans 826 and 27 says. 966 00:55:35,440 --> 00:55:39,320 Now, in the same way, the Spirit also helps our weakness, for we 967 00:55:39,320 --> 00:55:42,640 do not know what to pray for as we should, but the Spirit 968 00:55:42,640 --> 00:55:46,200 himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. 969 00:55:46,520 --> 00:55:49,200 And he who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the 970 00:55:49,200 --> 00:55:53,680 Spirit is, because he intercedes for the Saints according to the 971 00:55:53,680 --> 00:55:56,560 will of God. So we not only have our we can 972 00:55:56,560 --> 00:55:59,280 talk to God just like we're talking tonight, but we've got 973 00:55:59,280 --> 00:56:02,040 the Holy Ghost on the inside that we can pray out our prayer 974 00:56:02,040 --> 00:56:03,880 language and we're praying out mysteries. 975 00:56:03,880 --> 00:56:06,080 We're praying out things we don't know. 976 00:56:06,520 --> 00:56:09,320 And so a lot of times, when pastor even leads us in our time 977 00:56:09,320 --> 00:56:13,720 of prayer, start out in English. Start out with what you know. 978 00:56:13,920 --> 00:56:18,080 Start out with what's on your heart about, you know, the 979 00:56:18,080 --> 00:56:19,440 church. And a lot of times when we come 980 00:56:19,520 --> 00:56:21,880 to corporately, that's not the time at that moment for you to 981 00:56:21,880 --> 00:56:24,320 be talking about all the things that's going on in your life. 982 00:56:24,320 --> 00:56:27,080 It's then for us to come together and talk about what's 983 00:56:27,080 --> 00:56:29,360 going on with the body of Christ, what's going on in the 984 00:56:29,360 --> 00:56:33,200 world that we need to cover in prayer, what needs changing, 985 00:56:33,440 --> 00:56:37,840 that we can connect our faith together and see that change. 986 00:56:37,840 --> 00:56:40,360 And so we get to be participators. 987 00:56:40,640 --> 00:56:47,200 We get to come and see as we are unified in the body of Christ in 988 00:56:47,200 --> 00:56:50,320 all of these positions that we've talked about tonight in 989 00:56:50,320 --> 00:56:55,680 righteousness because we're right, standing because we are 990 00:56:55,680 --> 00:56:58,040 right. We can follow in God's faith 991 00:56:58,280 --> 00:57:01,120 that He's given us with a confident expectation that 992 00:57:01,120 --> 00:57:03,760 whatever we're praying for, whatever we're believing for, He 993 00:57:03,760 --> 00:57:06,080 hears us and it's going to happen. 994 00:57:06,520 --> 00:57:10,200 And then we walk in a purpose. We're purposeful in our prayer 995 00:57:10,440 --> 00:57:15,480 that we are mindful of what we say to God and know that I'm 996 00:57:15,480 --> 00:57:17,080 only going to speak what the Word says. 997 00:57:17,080 --> 00:57:19,640 I'm going to come with the solution of the word. 998 00:57:19,760 --> 00:57:22,960 I know this is the problem and this is what I'm going through, 999 00:57:22,960 --> 00:57:27,880 but I know God's words is greater and it's stronger and 1000 00:57:27,880 --> 00:57:30,040 it's going to give me exactly what I need. 1001 00:57:30,040 --> 00:57:32,760 So I'm going to, I'm going to seek, seek out what the will of 1002 00:57:32,760 --> 00:57:38,040 God is for this situation. And then as we purpose in prayer 1003 00:57:38,200 --> 00:57:40,160 and keep ourselves fixed, then guess what? 1004 00:57:40,160 --> 00:57:43,840 That participation, we actually act upon it and we we show up, 1005 00:57:43,840 --> 00:57:46,600 we pray we should. What would it be if we all show 1006 00:57:46,600 --> 00:57:49,080 up? What it would be if every member 1007 00:57:49,080 --> 00:57:52,160 shows up every time that we have prayer. 1008 00:57:52,720 --> 00:57:55,560 You know, Pastor Marcy mentions this in her book and it and it 1009 00:57:55,560 --> 00:57:58,120 again, I believe our churches the anomaly. 1010 00:57:58,120 --> 00:58:02,920 We do have a strong not only do we have strong and prayer strong 1011 00:58:02,920 --> 00:58:05,000 and serving. I mean anchor faith rocks. 1012 00:58:05,400 --> 00:58:08,800 You know, hands down. I'm a little biased, but hey, we 1013 00:58:08,800 --> 00:58:11,120 should we rock anchor faith rocks. 1014 00:58:11,120 --> 00:58:14,600 You know, we do the word and so we should only expect that if 1015 00:58:14,600 --> 00:58:19,120 we're coming together and we got everything set and we're ready 1016 00:58:19,120 --> 00:58:22,640 to hear the words of the King. Every time we come to service, 1017 00:58:23,280 --> 00:58:27,600 we come to prayer just the same. We come not to get, but to give 1018 00:58:27,600 --> 00:58:31,520 out because not only when you come to get the word and get 1019 00:58:31,520 --> 00:58:35,600 fed, you're a participator. You know, as I mentioned, Joey 1020 00:58:35,600 --> 00:58:37,840 didn't want to eat his green beans at the dinner table. 1021 00:58:37,840 --> 00:58:41,480 But you know, family time and dinner time, and I know it's not 1022 00:58:41,480 --> 00:58:46,960 as common in our day and age as it was when I was a kid, but it 1023 00:58:46,960 --> 00:58:50,360 is important to do that. So if you, if you haven't, it's 1024 00:58:50,360 --> 00:58:53,040 a good thing to do to have family, family meal time. 1025 00:58:53,280 --> 00:58:54,680 And when you do that, guess what? 1026 00:58:54,680 --> 00:58:57,800 There's fellowship, there's participation. 1027 00:58:58,560 --> 00:59:01,600 Everybody takes a turn and has something to say about how their 1028 00:59:01,600 --> 00:59:03,080 day was. One thing, when our kids were 1029 00:59:03,080 --> 00:59:06,360 little, I would always play high, low, OK, give me your high 1030 00:59:06,360 --> 00:59:07,880 of the day. Give me your low of the day. 1031 00:59:07,880 --> 00:59:09,440 You can tell me whatever order you want. 1032 00:59:09,840 --> 00:59:13,200 And it would open up conversation, you know, and some 1033 00:59:13,200 --> 00:59:16,800 days the lows were really low. And then that gives you a chance 1034 00:59:16,800 --> 00:59:21,240 as a family to encourage one another, to strengthen one 1035 00:59:21,240 --> 00:59:23,920 another. And so that's what we do when we 1036 00:59:23,920 --> 00:59:26,920 come in here, when we're coming in prayer, we're not just coming 1037 00:59:26,920 --> 00:59:28,960 with a problem yet. We may have some lows, but we're 1038 00:59:28,960 --> 00:59:33,760 coming in here because we know that our power, the prayer, the 1039 00:59:33,760 --> 00:59:36,000 prayer that we're coming brings makes power available. 1040 00:59:36,000 --> 00:59:37,560 And so does the next person next to me. 1041 00:59:37,560 --> 00:59:40,640 And as we come and get connected and we stay fixed in that 1042 00:59:40,640 --> 00:59:44,200 position, we're only coming to see results happen. 1043 00:59:44,600 --> 00:59:48,800 That's all that we can expect and the greater things that he 1044 00:59:49,360 --> 00:59:52,520 promised would happen on the earth and in the earth at this 1045 00:59:52,520 --> 00:59:54,640 time, we get to participate in those. 1046 00:59:54,840 --> 01:00:00,080 We get to see all the things happen that were promised, deaf 1047 01:00:00,080 --> 01:00:03,320 ears open, blind eyes seen. I know Pastor minister a little 1048 01:00:03,320 --> 01:00:05,400 bit than this a couple of services ago. 1049 01:00:05,600 --> 01:00:08,880 We have to know that the Spirit of God wants to do some great 1050 01:00:08,880 --> 01:00:11,400 things in the earth, but it won't happen unless we 1051 01:00:11,400 --> 01:00:15,080 participate. It just isn't going to be poof, 1052 01:00:15,360 --> 01:00:19,480 God's not magical. He's not magical. 1053 01:00:19,640 --> 01:00:23,480 He's a God of order and he gave us exactly the right steps in 1054 01:00:23,480 --> 01:00:25,480 what we should do. And so we can do it anchor 1055 01:00:25,480 --> 01:00:28,520 faith, we can do at church. We can we can come and 1056 01:00:28,520 --> 01:00:34,320 participate and be stirred up in our own intimate communal prayer 1057 01:00:34,320 --> 01:00:37,400 time with the Lord that when we come here and we get together, 1058 01:00:37,720 --> 01:00:41,040 we're all coming with with a source. 1059 01:00:41,240 --> 01:00:43,880 We're all coming with a supply. And when we come where that 1060 01:00:43,880 --> 01:00:46,920 source and supply, guess what? These greater works that he 1061 01:00:46,920 --> 01:00:53,840 promised we're going to happen and this the the gates of hell 1062 01:00:53,840 --> 01:00:55,400 will not prevail against the church. 1063 01:00:57,120 --> 01:00:59,880 But we need to. Take our stance and we need to 1064 01:00:59,880 --> 01:01:04,920 take our authority that we have in the word and put it to 1065 01:01:04,920 --> 01:01:07,360 practice. We don't want anything coming in 1066 01:01:07,360 --> 01:01:10,960 that would try to come. I mean, arrows come, attacks 1067 01:01:10,960 --> 01:01:13,480 come. But if we come and we're ready 1068 01:01:13,480 --> 01:01:17,240 and armed, then then there's nothing that can withstand 1069 01:01:18,040 --> 01:01:21,800 nothing. And we know that we're part of a 1070 01:01:21,800 --> 01:01:26,320 Kingdom that cannot be shaken. And so I just encourage you, 1071 01:01:26,320 --> 01:01:30,200 Anchor Faith Church, that we come and this next week let's 1072 01:01:30,200 --> 01:01:35,360 get ourselves ready in position for a time of prayer, a time of 1073 01:01:35,360 --> 01:01:38,680 prayer, a time of purpose. That we know who we are in 1074 01:01:38,680 --> 01:01:40,560 Christ, that we've been made right. 1075 01:01:41,040 --> 01:01:44,000 That we're going to come full of faith, with confidence that 1076 01:01:44,000 --> 01:01:48,000 whatever God wants to do in US and then through us, that we're 1077 01:01:48,000 --> 01:01:50,520 going to be hungry and ready for that. 1078 01:01:54,960 --> 01:01:57,120 Thank you so much for listening to this message. 1079 01:01:57,200 --> 01:02:00,560 If you want more, subscribe to our message podcast on iTunes, 1080 01:02:00,680 --> 01:02:02,680 Google Play, Spotify, and SoundCloud. 1081 01:02:02,880 --> 01:02:05,320 Rating and leaving a comment will go a long way with helping 1082 01:02:05,320 --> 01:02:07,040 our messages get better circulation. 1083 01:02:07,640 --> 01:02:09,880 If you'd enjoy watching our weekend messages, visit 1084 01:02:09,880 --> 01:02:13,920 youtube.com/anchor Faith. 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