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>>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH
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RIGHT HERE IN SUNNY
SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA.
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WE'RE SO GLAD THAT YOU'RE TUNING
IN FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND
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AROUND THE WORLD. IT
DOESN'T MATTER HOW YOU'RE
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JOINING US, WE'RE
JUST GLAD THAT YOU ARE.
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WHETHER YOU'RE LISTENING ON
THE RADIO, WATCHING LIVE ON OUR
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WEB SITE AT 'SACCENTRAL.ORG'
OR ON THE VARIOUS
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TELEVISION NETWORKS, WELCOME.
AND I WOULD LOVE FOR YOU TO
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JOIN WITH US AS WE OPEN UP
OUR PROGRAM WITH A COUPLE OF
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FAVORITES. I'M SORRY
THAT I DID NOT GET THE
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NAMES OF THOSE WHO REQUESTED THE
SONGS WE'RE GOING TO SING, BUT
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I WAS GONE ALL WEEK
SO PLEASE FORGIVE ME.
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SO IF YOU REQUESTED THIS SONG,
PLEASE KNOW WE'RE SINGING IT FOR
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YOU, WE JUST DON'T HAVE
YOUR NAMES THAT WE CAN READ OFF.
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OUR FIRST ONE IS #286 -
'WONDERFUL WORDS OF LIFE' - AND
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WE'LL SING ALL THREE
STANZAS. JOIN WITH US.
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IF YOU'RE AT HOME,
PULL OUT YOUR HYMNALS - SING
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'WONDERFUL WORDS OF
LIFE' - ALL THREE STANZAS.
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(MUSIC)
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>>IF YOU HAVE A FAVORITE
SONG THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO SING
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WITH US ON AN UPCOMING
PROGRAM, IT'S VERY SIMPLE.
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ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS GO TO OUR
WEB SITE AT 'SACCENTRAL.ORG',
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CLICK ON THE 'CONTACT US' LINK,
AND ANY SONG HERE IN THIS HYMNAL
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WE WILL SING FOR YOU
ON AN UPCOMING PROGRAM.
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NEXT WEEK WE WILL CONTINUE
WORKING OUR WAY THROUGH THE
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HYMNAL SINGING THE
SONGS THAT WE DON'T KNOW YET.
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SO IF YOU WANT TO GET A
HEAD START, #81 IS WHAT WE'LL BE
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SINGING NEXT WEEK AND YOU CAN GO
AHEAD AND LEARN THAT SO YOU'RE
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ALL READY FOR NEXT WEEK.
BUT OUR NEXT ONE RIGHT NOW IS
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#294 - 'POWER IN THE BLOOD' -
AND WE'LL SING ALL THREE STANZAS
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OF THIS ONE. #294.
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(MUSIC)
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>>WOULD YOU BOW
YOUR HEADS WITH ME?
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FATHER IN HEAVEN, WE THANK YOU
SO MUCH FOR THE POWER THAT IS IN
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THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB - THE
POWER THAT WE HAVE THROUGH YOU
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TO LIVE A VICTORIOUS LIFE, THE
POWER THROUGH YOU TO LOVE THOSE
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THAT DON'T LOVE US, AND TO SHOW
THE WORLD WHAT BEING A CHRISTIAN
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IS ALL ABOUT. I PRAY
THAT YOU WILL BE WITH US
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AS WE OPEN UP YOUR WORD AND
WE STUDY TOGETHER RIGHT NOW.
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PLEASE BE WITH EACH PERSON HERE,
OUR SPEAKER, AND THOSE AROUND
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THE WORLD, THAT WE WILL EACH BE
TOUCHED BY YOU TODAY AS WE OPEN
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UP YOUR WORD AND WE STUDY
TOGETHER. IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
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AT THIS TIME OUR LESSON STUDY IS
GOING TO BE BROUGHT TO US BY OUR
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SENIOR PASTOR,
PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR.
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>>THANK YOU VERY
MUCH TO OUR MUSICIANS.
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IT'S FUN TO SING SOME OF
THOSE OLD REVIVAL SONGS LIKE
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'POWER IN THE BLOOD'.
HAPPY SABBATH CENTRAL CHURCH.
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DID YOU EAT TOO MUCH DURING
THE HOLIDAYS? NOBODY DID, HUH?
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I WANT TO WELCOME OUR FRIENDS
WHO ARE WATCHING AT HOME, OUR
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ONLINE MEMBERS, AS WELL AS
SOME OF OUR EXTENDED CLASS THAT
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STUDIES WITH US EACH WEEK.
IF YOU HAVE NOT FOUND OUT YET,
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WE ARE IN THE MIDST OF OUR NEW
QUARTER STUDY AND I JUST WANT TO
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REMIND YOU WE RECORD THE
LESSON HERE ABOUT THREE WEEKS IN
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ADVANCE SO THAT WE CAN EDIT AND
PUT THE SUBTITLES IN AND WE'RE
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IN THE THIRD STUDY IN A LESSON
DEALING WITH DISCIPLESHIP.
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TODAY'S LESSON, IN
PARTICULAR, IS ON PRAYER.
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AND WE'RE VERY THANKFUL
WE CAN OFFER YOU A BOOK THAT
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SPECIFICALLY DEALS
WITH THE SUBJECT OF PRAYER.
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IT'S CALLED, 'TEACH US TO PRAY'
AND WE'LL SEND IT TO YOU SIMPLY
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BY - IF YOU CALL AND
ASK. THE NUMBER TO CALL
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IS 866-788-3966. THE
ACRONYM FOR THAT WOULD
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BE 866-STUDY-MORE
THAT'S 866-788-3966.
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ASK FOR OFFER #717
AND WE'LL SEND IT TO YOU.
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IT REALLY - IT GOES THROUGH THE
LORD'S PRAYER AND TELLS US HOW
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THAT'S A TEMPLATE FOR
WHAT PRAYER SHOULD REALLY BE.
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AND WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE
IN OUR LESSON ON PRAYER AND IT
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COMES TO US - IT'S IN
THE NEW KING JAMES VERSION -
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IT'S FROM JOHN
17, VERSES 20 AND 21.
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I ALWAYS APPRECIATE IF
YOU CAN ECHO THIS WITH ME.
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WE'LL SAY THE
MEMORY VERSE TOGETHER.
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IF YOU HAVE YOUR LESSON, YOU CAN
JUST READ IT RIGHT OUT OF THERE.
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JOHN 17, VERSES 20 AND 21. ARE
YOU READY? JESUS IS SPEAKING.
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IT SAYS, "I DO NOT PRAY FOR
THESE ALONE, BUT ALSO FOR THOSE
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WHO WILL BELIEVE IN ME THROUGH
THEIR WORD; THAT THEY ALL MAY BE
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ONE, AS YOU, FATHER, ARE IN ME,
AND I IN YOU; THAT THEY ALSO MAY
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BE ONE IN US, THAT THE WORLD
MAY BELIEVE THAT YOU SENT ME."
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THIS IS SUCH A
PROFOUND SCRIPTURE IN ITSELF.
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WE COULD TAKE THE WHOLE LESSON
AND TALK ABOUT THAT BUT THE
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POINT, IN PARTICULAR, THAT
WE WANT TO DEAL WITH IS PART OF
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DISCIPLESHIP IS PRAYING FOR THE
PEOPLE YOU'RE TRYING TO REACH
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AND PRAYER IN OUR OWN LIVES.
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SO WE PRAY FOR THE NEEDS THAT WE
MAY HAVE AND WE'RE PRAYING FOR
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THE PEOPLE WE'RE TRYING TO REACH
- ALSO TEACHING THEM TO PRAY.
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I HEARD A PASTOR SAY ONE
TIME THAT DURING THE CONVERSION
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PROCESS IN THE BORN AGAIN
EXPERIENCE, IT IS SO IMPORTANT
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THAT RIGHT THEN IN THE
INFANCY THAT THEY LEARN TO PRAY.
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HOW IMPORTANT IS IT WHEN A
BABY IS BORN THAT IT LEARNS TO
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BREATHE? HAVE YOU
EVER SEEN THE DOCTORS
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AND THE NURSE CREW SCRAMBLING
AROUND A NEWBORN BECAUSE THEY'RE
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BORN BUT THEY'RE NOT BREATHING
YET. AND IT IS CRUCIAL THAT THEY
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LEARN TO BREATHE RIGHT
THERE AT THE BEGINNING.
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IT'S ALWAYS VERY TROUBLING WHEN
YOU SEE A NEWBORN THAT IS ON A
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RESPIRATOR BECAUSE THEY'VE NOT
LEARNED TO BREATHE ON THEIR OWN.
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IT IS CRUCIAL, AT THE TIME
OF THE NEW BIRTH, THAT THOSE WHO
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ARE BEING DISCIPLED UNDERSTAND
THE PRIORITY OF PRAYER.
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WELL, SALVATION IS
REALLY ABOUT KNOWING GOD.
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PRAYER IS THAT
COMMUNION WITH GOD.
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I'LL SAY SOMETHING - THERE'S
ALWAYS PEOPLE LISTENING FOR THE
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FIRST TIME - I'LL SAY SOMETHING
I SAY ALL THE TIME, THAT YOU
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CANNOT BE A CHRISTIAN
IF YOU DON'T LOVE GOD.
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YOU CANNOT LOVE
SOMEBODY YOU DO NOT KNOW.
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YOU WILL NOT KNOW GOD IF YOU DO
NOT TALK TO GOD AND HE DOES NOT
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TALK TO YOU. YOU KNOW
SOMEONE THROUGH COMMUNICATION.
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THE BIBLE IS THE PRINCIPLE
WAY THAT GOD SPEAKS TO US.
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WE NEED TO STUDY THE WORD AND
THE PRINCIPLE WAY THAT WE TALK
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TO GOD IS THROUGH PRAYER.
AND SO, I WOULD ENCOURAGE ALL OF
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US TO SPEND TIME IN
PRAYER AND PRAY FOR OTHERS.
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THAT'S HOW YOU REACH THEM.
SO IN OUR LESSON WE'VE GOT A
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NUMBER OF STUDIES AND ONE WOULD
BE 'TIME-TESTED COMPASSION' -
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UNDER SUNDAY, DAY #1.
AND LET'S LOOK AT A FEW
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VERSES THAT DEAL WITH
THAT. NOW, I'VE GIVEN OUT A FEW
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VERSES ALSO FOR YOU TO
READ. GO TO DANIEL 9, VERSE 1.
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IT SAYS, "IN THE FIRST YEAR OF
DARIUS THE SON OF AHASUERUS, OF
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THE LINEAGE OF THE MEDES, WHO
WAS MADE KING OVER THE REALM OF
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THE CHALDEANS - IN THE FIRST
YEAR OF HIS REIGN I, DANIEL,
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UNDERSTOOD BY THE BOOKS THE
NUMBER OF THE YEARS SPECIFIED BY
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THE WORD OF THE LORD THROUGH
JEREMIAH THE PROPHET, THAT HE
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WOULD ACCOMPLISH SEVENTY
YEARS IN THE DESOLATIONS OF
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JERUSALEM." SO
DANIEL IS STUDYING THE BIBLE
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AND IN THE PROCESS OF STUDYING
THE BIBLE HE SAYS, YOU KNOW,
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DANIEL - JEREMIAH RATHER,
PROPHESIED THAT THERE WOULD BE
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SEVENTY YEARS OF TIME THAT
THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WOULD BE
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CAPTIVE IN JERUSALEM - I'M
SORRY, IN BABYLON - AND DURING
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THOSE SEVENTY YEARS THEY DIDN'T
KNOW, YOU KNOW, ALL THE THINGS
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THAT THEY WOULD EXPERIENCE
BUT DANIEL REALIZED JEREMIAH
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PROPHESIED SEVENTY YEARS. HE
LOOKED AT THE STARTING POINT.
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HE SAID, 'THIS IS ABOUT THE TIME
THAT WE SHOULD BE GOING BACK.'
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AND EVEN THOUGH IT WAS
PROPHESIED, DANIEL THEN GIVES
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HIMSELF TO PRAY.
CHAPTER 9 IS A GREAT
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INTERCESSORY PRAYER FOR GOD'S
PEOPLE. IT'S A GOOD PATTERN
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FOR US TO PRAY FOR
OTHERS WE'RE TRYING TO REACH.
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THE ONE THING I THINK IS REALLY
IMPORTANT IN THE PRAYER - CAN
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ANY OF YOU EVER NAME A TIME
IN THE BIBLE THAT DANIEL SINNED?
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CAN YOU THINK OF
ANY SIN OF DANIEL?
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BUT YOU'LL NOTICE THAT IN DANIEL
9, HE'S CONFESSING HIS SIN - IT
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DOESN'T SAY SPECIFICALLY WHAT IT
WAS - HIS SIN AND THE SIN OF HIS
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PEOPLE. AND SO HE
PUTS HIMSELF INTO THE
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GREAT NEED OF HIS
PEOPLE FOR REVIVAL.
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NOW ONE REASON THIS PRAYER
IS IMPORTANT, AT THE END OF
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DANIEL'S PRAYER IT
TELLS US THAT AN ANGEL COMES.
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IF YOU PRAY AND AN ANGEL SHOWS
UP, YOU'VE PRAYED A PRETTY GOOD
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PRAYER. IS THAT RIGHT?
AND SO THIS IS A GOOD PRAYER.
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YOU KNOW, I'LL TELL YOU ANOTHER
LITTLE STORY ABOUT THIS PRAYER.
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I WISH I COULD SAY THAT
THIS HAPPENED TO ME OFTEN BUT IT
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DIDN'T, BUT THERE WAS ONE
NIGHT WHEN I WAS WITH A FRIEND
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STUDYING THE BIBLE AND WE GOT SO
INVOLVED IN STUDYING THE BIBLE
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THAT WE JUST WOULD BREAK OUT IN
PRAISE AND PRAYER AND WE SPENT
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JUST ABOUT THE WHOLE
NIGHT STUDYING THE BIBLE.
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IT WAS THIS CHAPTER - DANIEL
CHAPTER 9 - AND I DON'T KNOW IF
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YOU'VE EVER STUDIED BEFORE WHERE
YOU JUST FELT THE PRESENCE OF
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GOD IS VERY CLOSE AND IT'S LIKE
HE'S REVEALING THINGS TO YOU AND
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WE WOULD READ A VERSE AND
LOOK AT EACH OTHER AND GO 'WOW!'
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AND WE JUST FELT THE PRESENCE
OF GOD AND WE WERE UNDERSTANDING
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THAT WHAT DANIEL SAID IN CHAPTER
9 WAS REALLY RELEVANT FOR GOD'S
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PEOPLE TODAY AND GOD'S PEOPLE
THROUGH TIME AND WE UNDERSTOOD
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WHAT SPIRITUAL BABYLON WAS
AND HOW GOD'S PEOPLE HAD BEEN
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CAPTIVE IN SPIRITUAL BABYLON.
THE PRAYER OF DANIEL FOR HIS
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PEOPLE TO BE DELIVERED FROM
ANCIENT BABYLON WAS LIKE OUR
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PRAYER WE SHOULD BE PRAYING
TODAY FOR GOD'S PEOPLE TO BE
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DELIVERED FROM SPIRITUAL
BABYLON AND ALL THESE THINGS -
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I CAN'T EVEN REPEAT
IT NOW BECAUSE SOMETIMES
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WHEN YOU HAVE LIKE A DIVINE
REVELATION, YOU'VE GOT TO BE
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THERE. YOU CAN'T
EVEN TELL ANOTHER
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PERSON BECAUSE SPIRITUAL THINGS
ARE SPIRITUALLY DISCERNED.
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SO I CAN'T EXPLAIN TO YOU
WHAT HAPPENED THAT NIGHT BUT I
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ACTUALLY DROVE ON A MOTORCYCLE
FOR SEVERAL HOURS TO GO TO THIS
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BIBLE STUDY, STAYED UP ALL NIGHT
- STUDIED WITH THESE PEOPLE -
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FELT LIKE GOD WAS SO CLOSE, AND
THEN DROVE SEVERAL HOURS ON A
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MOTORCYCLE BACK HOME
AGAIN. AND IT WAS THAT IMPORTANT
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TO HAVE THIS BIBLE
STUDY. AND WE WEREN'T TIRED WHEN
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WE GOT UP IN THE MORNING.
WE HAD BEEN INVIGORATED BY IT.
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BUT IT WAS THIS PRAYER.
NOW, MAYBE I'LL TAKE OFF AND
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JUST READ A LITTLE BIT OF
IT. VERSE 3 - DANIEL 9, VERSE 3,
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"THEN I SET MY FACE TOWARD
THE LORD GOD TO MAKE REQUEST BY
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PRAYER AND SUPPLICATIONS, WITH
FASTING, SACKCLOTH, AND ASHES.
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AND I PRAYED TO THE LORD MY GOD,
AND MADE CONFESSION, AND SAID,
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'O LORD, GREAT AND AWESOME GOD,
WHO KEEPS HIS COVENANT AND MERCY
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WITH THOSE WHO LOVE HIM,
AND WITH THOSE WHO KEEP HIS
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COMMANDMENTS" - HE'S QUOTING
MOSES HERE - "WE HAVE SINNED AND
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COMMITTED INIQUITY, WE HAVE DONE
WICKEDLY AND REBELLED, EVEN BY
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DEPARTING FOR YOUR
PRECEPTS AND YOUR JUDGMENTS.
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NEITHER HAVE WE HEEDED YOUR
SERVANTS THE PROPHETS, WHO SPOKE
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IN YOUR NAME TO OUR KINGS AND
OUR PRINCES, TO OUR FATHERS AND
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ALL THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND. O
LORD, RIGHTEOUSNESS BELONGS TO
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YOU, BUT TO US SHAME OF FACE, AS
IT IS THIS DAY - TO THE MEN OF
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JUDAH, TO THE INHABITANTS OF
JERUSALEM AND ALL ISRAEL, THOSE
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NEAR AND THOSE FAR OFF IN ALL
THE COUNTRIES TO WHICH YOU HAVE
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DRIVEN THEM, BECAUSE OF
THE UNFAITHFULNESS WHICH THEY
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HAVE COMMITTED AGAINST YOU.
O LORD, TO US BELONGS SHAME OF
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FACE, TO OUR KINGS, OUR PRINCES,
AND OUR FATHERS, BECAUSE
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WE HAVE SINNED AGAINST YOU.
TO THE LORD OUR GOD BELONG MERCY
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AND FORGIVENESS, THOUGH
WE HAVE REBELLED AGAINST HIM.
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WE HAVE NOT OBEYED THE VOICE OF
THE LORD OUR GOD, TO WALK IN HIS
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LAWS, WHICH HE SET BEFORE US
BY HIS SERVANTS THE PROPHETS."
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- NOW HE'S QUOTING WHAT
MOSES SAYS HERE. IN OTHER WORDS,
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THROUGHOUT DANIEL'S PRAYER HE'S
REFERENCING OTHER SCRIPTURE.
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YOU REMEMBER WHEN SOLOMON SAID,
'IF YOUR PEOPLE ARE UNFAITHFUL
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AND THEY DON'T OBEY AND THEY'RE
CARRIED OFF TO A FOREIGN LAND
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IF THEY PRAY
TOWARDS THIS PLACE'?
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THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT
DANIEL IS REFERENCING.
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WE'VE BEEN UNFAITHFUL,
THAT'S WHY THIS HAS HAPPENED.
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NOW WE'RE DOING WHAT YOU SAID:
WE'RE HUMBLING OURSELVES, WE'RE
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PRAYING TOWARD THIS PLACE' AND
HE'S ECHOING THAT WHOLE THING.
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NOW, ONE OF THE POINTS I WANT TO
MAKE HERE: SOMEONE GO TO DANIEL
00:17:23.63\00:17:26.86
6:10 - WE GAVE
THAT OUT TO SOMEBODY.
00:17:26.86\00:17:29.53
IF YOU'VE GOT THAT
- YOU GOT THAT EDDIE?
00:17:29.53\00:17:31.10
LET'S GET YOU A MICROPHONE.
DANIEL CHAPTER 6, VERSE 10.
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ONE OF THE IMPORTANT THINGS
I WANT US TO REMEMBER ABOUT THE
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PRAYER OF DANIEL HERE IN
DANIEL CHAPTER 9 AND - PRAYER OF
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DISCIPLING IS - IT STARTS OUT
BY SAYING, 'AS I WAS READING THE
00:17:44.73\00:17:51.03
PROPHECIES OF JEREMIAH'
THEN HE GOES INTO THIS PRAYER.
00:17:51.03\00:17:56.66
AND SO WHAT DO WE LEARN ABOUT
DANIEL'S DISCIPLING PRAYER AND
00:17:56.66\00:18:03.20
WHAT WAS THE GENESIS FOR THAT?
ALRIGHT, I THINK WE'RE READY.
00:18:03.20\00:18:06.90
WE'RE READY. ALRIGHT, GO
AHEAD READ DANIEL 6, VERSE 10.
00:18:06.90\00:18:10.06
>>DANIEL 6, VERSE 10, "NOW WHEN
DANIEL KNEW THAT THE WRITING WAS
00:18:10.06\00:18:15.43
SIGNED, HE WENT HOME. AND
IN HIS UPPER ROOM, WITH HIS
00:18:15.43\00:18:20.76
WINDOWS OPEN TOWARD JERUSALEM,
HE KNELT DOWN ON HIS KNEES THREE
00:18:20.76\00:18:24.86
TIMES THAT DAY, AND PRAYED
AND GAVE THANKS BEFORE HIS GOD,
00:18:24.86\00:18:29.30
AS WAS HIS CUSTOM
SINCE EARLY DAYS."
00:18:29.30\00:18:33.53
>>DANIEL HAD A REGULAR
PATTERN OF PRAYER, DIDN'T HE?
00:18:33.53\00:18:37.90
WOULD ANYTHING
KEEP DANIEL FROM PRAYER?
00:18:37.90\00:18:40.73
WHY DID DANIEL PRAY WITH HIS
WINDOWS OPEN TOWARD JERUSALEM?
00:18:40.73\00:18:46.00
DID SOLOMON SAY 'IF THEY
PRAY TOWARDS THIS PLACE'?
00:18:46.00\00:18:49.83
HE READ THAT IN THE
BIBLE AND HE DID WHAT IT SAID.
00:18:49.83\00:18:51.90
WHY DID DANIEL
PRAY THREE TIMES A DAY?
00:18:51.90\00:18:56.00
ANYONE REMEMBER PSALM 55:17?
'MORNING, EVENING AND AT NOON
00:18:56.00\00:19:03.46
WILL I PRAY AND LIFT UP MY
VOICE' - DANIEL READ WHERE KING
00:19:03.46\00:19:07.03
DAVID SAID,
'MORNING, EVENING AND AT NOON'.
00:19:07.03\00:19:09.26
DANIEL DID WHAT HE SAID AND
SO IS THERE A CONNECTION BETWEEN
00:19:09.26\00:19:13.13
BIBLE STUDY AND PRAYER?
ALL THROUGH THIS INTERCESSORY
00:19:13.13\00:19:17.93
PRAYER OF DANIEL'S
HE'S REFERENCING SCRIPTURE.
00:19:17.93\00:19:21.33
HE'S PRAYING THAT GOD'S PEOPLE
CAN GO HOME BECAUSE THE TIME OF
00:19:21.33\00:19:25.26
THEIR CAPTIVITY IS ALMOST
COMPLETE. AND SO, WHAT DOES HE
00:19:25.26\00:19:28.23
USE - WHAT IS HE CLAIMING THAT
GOD MIGHT ANSWER THEIR PRAYERS?
00:19:28.23\00:19:32.80
HE'S POINTING TO THE PROMISES
OF GOD THROUGHOUT THE BIBLE.
00:19:32.80\00:19:35.86
HE'S QUOTING FROM SOLOMON, HE'S
QUOTING FROM MOSES, HE'S QUOTING
00:19:35.86\00:19:38.66
FROM THE PROPHETS, HE'S QUOTING
FROM JEREMIAH AND HE'S SAYING,
00:19:38.66\00:19:42.33
'LORD, WE'RE
DOING WHAT YOU SAID.
00:19:42.33\00:19:44.36
WE'VE SUFFERED FOR OUR
SIN. IT'S BEEN SEVENTY YEARS.
00:19:44.36\00:19:47.23
WE'RE HUMBLING OURSELVES.'
DANIEL'S PRAYING IN SACKCLOTH
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AND ASHES AND
GOD HEARS HIS PRAYER.
00:19:49.70\00:19:53.06
ALRIGHT, SO IN THE TECHNIQUE OF
DISCIPLESHIP PRAYER WE WANT TO
00:19:53.06\00:20:01.43
BE PRAYING FOR OTHERS,
CLAIMING THE PROMISES OF GOD.
00:20:01.43\00:20:05.23
IS JESUS INTERESTED
IN OTHERS BEING SAVED?
00:20:05.23\00:20:09.13
HOW IMPORTANT IS THAT TO
JESUS? YEAH, I'D SAY IT'S AT
00:20:09.13\00:20:14.46
THE TOP OF THE LIST.
WHY DID HE COME AND DIE?
00:20:14.46\00:20:17.90
THAT OTHERS MIGHT BE SAVED.
I WANT TO READ SOMETHING TO
00:20:17.90\00:20:20.70
YOU FROM 'MEDICAL MINISTRY' P.
244, "LET THE WORKERS GRASP THE
00:20:20.70\00:20:24.80
PROMISES OF GOD
SAYING, 'THOU HAS PROMISED.
00:20:24.80\00:20:27.96
ASK AND YOU SHALL RECEIVE. I
MUST HAVE THIS SOUL CONVERTED
00:20:27.96\00:20:31.70
TO JESUS CHRIST.'
SOLICIT PRAYERS FOR SOULS FOR
00:20:31.70\00:20:35.06
WHOM YOU LABOR.
PRESENT THEM BEFORE THE CHURCH
00:20:35.06\00:20:38.06
AS THE OBJECTS FOR SUPPLICATION.
SELECT ANOTHER AND STILL ANOTHER
00:20:38.06\00:20:41.93
SOUL DAILY SEEKING GUIDANCE FROM
GOD, LAYING EVERYTHING BEFORE
00:20:41.93\00:20:45.70
HIM IN EARNEST PRAYER AND
WORKING IN DIVINE WISDOM."
00:20:45.70\00:20:49.06
SHOULD WE PRAY FOR OTHERS?
SHOULD WE JUST - HOW OFTEN
00:20:49.06\00:20:54.40
SHOULD YOU PRAY
FOR OTHERS? DAYS?
00:20:54.40\00:20:58.33
ANY OF YOU HAVE FAMILY
MEMBERS YOU'RE PRAYING FOR?
00:20:58.33\00:21:02.80
ANY OF YOU HAVE FAMILY MEMBERS
YOU'VE PRAYED FOR FOR YEARS?
00:21:02.80\00:21:06.43
WELL, GOD HASN'T ANSWERED THE
PRAYER IN YEARS, SO SHOULD YOU
00:21:06.43\00:21:08.53
GIVE UP? I KNOW
PEOPLE WHO HAVE PRAYED
00:21:08.53\00:21:11.83
FOR THEIR CHILDREN'S CONVERSION
FOR 30 YEARS, 40 YEARS AND THEN
00:21:11.83\00:21:16.26
WE'VE HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF
BEING INVOLVED IN THEIR BAPTISM.
00:21:16.26\00:21:20.16
AND BOY THOSE PARENTS ARE HAPPY.
00:21:20.16\00:21:21.40
THEY HAD STORED A
LOT OF PRAYERS IN HEAVEN.
00:21:21.40\00:21:24.36
OR I KNOW SPOUSES THAT
HAVE PRAYED FOR THEIR SPOUSE FOR
00:21:24.36\00:21:27.83
YEARS AND - SOME OF YOU REMEMBER
GEORGE MUELLER WHO WAS A GREAT
00:21:27.83\00:21:32.70
MAN OF PRAYER AND HE SAID HE'S
GOT FRIENDS - THREE SPECIFIC
00:21:32.70\00:21:36.40
CLOSE FRIENDS HE PRAYED FOR
THEIR CONVERSION AND ONE BY ONE,
00:21:36.40\00:21:38.76
OVER THE YEARS, HE WATCHED THEM
CONVERTED AND ONE OF THEM HE
00:21:38.76\00:21:41.96
PRAYED FOR FOR 50 YEARS AND HE
SAID, WHEN HE WAS INTERVIEWED AT
00:21:41.96\00:21:45.33
93 - HE LIVED TO BE 93 - HE
SAID, 'I STILL TRUST GOD THAT
00:21:45.33\00:21:48.73
HE'S GOING TO
CONVERT THIS FRIEND OF MINE.
00:21:48.73\00:21:51.00
WELL, IT TURNS OUT THAT THAT MAN
GAVE HIS HEART TO THE LORD AT
00:21:51.00\00:21:52.76
MUELLER'S FUNERAL. AND
SO GOD STILL ANSWERED HIS
00:21:52.76\00:21:56.43
PRAYERS BUT YOU HAVE TO
BE PERSISTENT IN PRAYING.
00:21:56.43\00:21:59.53
SO PART OF
DISCIPLESHIP IS PRAYER.
00:21:59.53\00:22:01.63
HOW LONG WAS DANIEL
IN BABYLON? 70 YEARS.
00:22:01.63\00:22:06.53
SO THAT'S A LONG TIME TO
PRAY. DID DANIEL LIVE TO SEE THE
00:22:06.53\00:22:09.73
DECREE WHERE GOD'S PEOPLE COULD
GO BACK TO THE PROMISED LAND?
00:22:09.73\00:22:13.20
DID HE LIVE TO SEE HIS
PRAYER ANSWERED? HE DID.
00:22:13.20\00:22:16.13
AND YOU CAN BE SURE
HE REJOICED OVER THAT.
00:22:16.13\00:22:18.13
LETS LOOK UNDER THE SECTION
'TIME FOR PRAYER'. MATTHEW 14 -
00:22:18.13\00:22:22.26
I TELL YOU, FIRST I WANT TO
GET SOMEONE TO GET READY FOR
00:22:22.26\00:22:25.40
MARK 1:35. WHO HAS THAT VERSE?
OVER HERE? THANK YOU, JOLYNE.
00:22:25.40\00:22:30.06
MARK 1:35 WILL BE NEXT BUT I'M
GOING TO READ MATTHEW 14, VERSE
00:22:30.06\00:22:33.03
22 AND 23, "IMMEDIATELY JESUS
MADE HIS DISCIPLES GET INTO THE
00:22:33.03\00:22:39.93
BOAT AND GO BEFORE HIM TO THE
OTHER SIDE, WHILE HE SENT THE
00:22:39.93\00:22:43.60
MULTITUDES AWAY. AND WHEN HE
HAD SENT THE MULTITUDES AWAY,
00:22:43.60\00:22:47.13
HE WENT UP ON THE MOUNTAIN
BY HIMSELF TO PRAY." YOU KNOW,
00:22:47.13\00:22:51.83
THEY WERE GETTING READY TO
COME AND TAKE JESUS BY FORCE AND
00:22:51.83\00:22:54.10
MAKE HIM A KING AND HE THOUGHT,
'NO, THIS IS NOT GOD'S PLAN.'
00:22:54.10\00:22:57.43
HE SENT THE PEOPLE AWAY
00:22:57.43\00:22:59.53
AND HE WENT UP ON THE
MOUNTAIN BY HIMSELF TO PRAY.
00:22:59.53\00:23:01.96
HE WAS GOING TO GO TO THE
DISCIPLES - MATTER OF FACT, HE
00:23:01.96\00:23:04.66
GOES TO THE
DISCIPLES WALKING ON WATER.
00:23:04.66\00:23:07.40
I WONDER HOW WELL - PARDON ME
- I WONDER HOW WELL JESUS COULD
00:23:07.40\00:23:11.60
HAVE WALKED ON WATER
IF HE HADN'T PRAYED FIRST.
00:23:11.60\00:23:17.60
WHEN PETER TOOK HIS EYES
OFF JESUS HE STARTED TO SINK.
00:23:17.60\00:23:20.80
AND CHRIST HAD HIS
EYES ON THE FATHER.
00:23:20.80\00:23:24.13
HE WAS ABLE TO WALK
ON WATER AFTER PRAYING.
00:23:24.13\00:23:26.43
BUT YOU NOTICE IT SAYS 'HE WENT
UP INTO THE MOUNTAIN BY HIMSELF
00:23:26.43\00:23:29.53
TO PRAY'?
ALRIGHT, WHO'S GOING TO
00:23:29.53\00:23:30.86
READ FOR US MARK 1:35? GO AHEAD.
>>"AND IN THE MORNING, RISING
00:23:30.86\00:23:36.13
UP A GREAT WHILE BEFORE DAY,
HE WENT OUT, AND DEPARTED INTO
00:23:36.13\00:23:40.20
A SOLITARY PLACE,
AND THERE PRAYED."
00:23:40.20\00:23:44.20
>>YOU KNOW, GOOD TIME FOR
PRAYER IS NOT FOUND, IT'S MADE.
00:23:44.20\00:23:49.50
YOU CAN'T SAY, 'WELL, I HOPE I
CAN FIND SOME TIME TO PRAY', YOU
00:23:49.50\00:23:53.43
HAVE TO TREAT TIME FOR PRAYER
LIKE YOU TREAT TIME FOR FOOD.
00:23:53.43\00:23:58.20
MOST OF US, WE MAKE FOOD A
PRIORITY AND WE SCHEDULE A TIME
00:23:58.20\00:24:02.36
EACH DAY WHEN WE'RE GOING
TO EAT. MAYBE THIS IS NOT A
00:24:02.36\00:24:07.43
GOOD ANALOGY BUT SOME
PEOPLE ARE ADDICTED TO THINGS.
00:24:07.43\00:24:15.03
I'VE NOTICED THAT WHEN PEOPLE
ARE ADDICTED - IF SOMEONE IS
00:24:15.03\00:24:17.63
ADDICTED TO CIGARETTES THEY'RE
GOING TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY GO
00:24:17.63\00:24:21.16
TO A PLACE WHERE THEY'RE
GOING TO HAVE A SMOKING AREA.
00:24:21.16\00:24:24.00
THEY'RE GOING TO FIND A TIME AND
A PLACE AND A BREAK TO GO OUT.
00:24:24.00\00:24:26.56
ANY OF YOU EVER GO INTO WALMART
OR ONE OF THESE STORES AND SEE A
00:24:26.56\00:24:30.36
BUNCH OF THE STAFF OUTSIDE
SMOKING BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT
00:24:30.36\00:24:32.20
ALLOWED TO SMOKE IN THE STORE?
00:24:32.20\00:24:33.70
ISN'T IS SOMETHING WHEN YOU GO
TO A HOSPITAL AND YOU SEE NURSES
00:24:33.70\00:24:37.16
OUT IN FRONT OF
THE HOSPITAL SMOKING?
00:24:37.16\00:24:39.96
I MADE A HOSPITAL VISIT
LAST NIGHT AND I SAW THAT AND I
00:24:39.96\00:24:42.06
THOUGHT, 'THAT'S
THE STRANGEST THING.
00:24:42.06\00:24:43.40
YOU'D THINK THEY'D KNOW BETTER.'
BUT THEY CAN'T SO THEY'VE GOT
00:24:43.40\00:24:46.36
THIS SMOKING AREA OUT
THERE. IT'S KIND OF A CON -
00:24:46.36\00:24:48.93
WHAT DO YOU CALL THAT? A
CONFLICT OF TERMS TO HAVE
00:24:48.93\00:24:53.16
A SMOKING AREA
OUTSIDE OF A HOSPITAL.
00:24:53.16\00:24:56.33
MY FATHER STRUGGLED WITH ALCOHOL
FOR YEARS AND WHENEVER HE WENT
00:24:56.33\00:25:00.73
TO EAT LUNCH, HE ALWAYS - WE
NOTICED THAT HE WOULD ALWAYS GO
00:25:00.73\00:25:04.96
TO LUNCH AT PLACES WHERE THEY
ALSO SERVED ALCOHOL BECAUSE HE
00:25:04.96\00:25:09.63
HAD TO HAVE A DRINK AND
THAT WAS A PRIORITY FOR HIM.
00:25:09.63\00:25:14.43
PEOPLE MANAGE TO
SCHEDULE THEIR ADDICTIONS.
00:25:14.43\00:25:17.56
YOU NEED TO KNOW THAT YOU NEED
A FIX OF PRAYER EVERY DAY - THAT
00:25:17.56\00:25:22.16
YOU'RE JUST NOT GOING TO MAKE
IT WITHOUT IT AND IF YOU DON'T
00:25:22.16\00:25:24.36
SCHEDULE IT, YOU DON'T MAKE IT
HAPPEN, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE A
00:25:24.36\00:25:27.76
SPIRITUAL WITHDRAWAL AND YOU'LL
FIND YOURSELF WITHOUT JESUS.
00:25:27.76\00:25:31.10
IT'S GOT TO BE
THAT IMPORTANT TO YOU.
00:25:31.10\00:25:32.96
ADDICTION'S NOT A GOOD WORD
- FOOD IS BETTER - IT NOURISHES
00:25:32.96\00:25:35.53
THE SOUL. IT'S LIKE BREATH.
00:25:35.53\00:25:38.50
IF YOU'RE A SCUBA DIVER YOU
WATCH YOUR GAUGE ON YOUR TANK
00:25:38.50\00:25:42.33
BECAUSE IF YOU FIND YOURSELF
A HUNDRED FEET DOWN AND OUT OF
00:25:42.33\00:25:44.86
AIR, YOU'RE GOING TO DIE.
YOU'VE GOT TO SCHEDULE THAT.
00:25:44.86\00:25:49.26
IT'S JUST - YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON
IT. AS A CHRISTIAN, IF YOU WANT
00:25:49.26\00:25:52.70
TO LIVE, YOU'VE GOT TO BREATHE.
YOU'VE GOT TO SCHEDULE PRAYER.
00:25:52.70\00:25:56.66
IT'S GOT TO BE A
PRIORITY FOR YOU.
00:25:56.66\00:25:57.93
JESUS DID THAT.
IT SAYS HE TOOK TIME.
00:25:57.93\00:26:00.20
SOMETHING ELSE YOU'LL NOTICE -
I'LL READ ONE MORE - WHEN WE'RE
00:26:00.20\00:26:03.90
TALKING ABOUT A TIME FOR PRAYER,
NOTICE SOMETIMES YOU NEED A
00:26:03.90\00:26:07.30
PLACE ALONE FOR PRAYER. WE
JUST READ A MINUTE AGO JESUS
00:26:07.30\00:26:11.10
WENT UP ON THE MOUNTAIN BY
HIMSELF TO PRAY AND THEN IT SAYS
00:26:11.10\00:26:15.80
HERE IN MARK 1:35, IT SAYS
THAT HE FOUND A SOLITARY PLACE.
00:26:15.80\00:26:21.46
NOW LOOK IN LUKE 5, VERSE 15,
"HOWEVER, THE REPORT WENT AROUND
00:26:21.46\00:26:27.16
CONCERNING HIM ALL THE MORE; AND
GREAT MULTITUDES CAME TOGETHER
00:26:27.16\00:26:30.13
TO HEAR, AND TO BE HEALED
BY HIM OF THEIR INFIRMITIES.
00:26:30.13\00:26:33.13
SO HE HIMSELF OFTEN WITHDREW
INTO THE WILDERNESS AND PRAYED."
00:26:33.13\00:26:38.56
IT SEEMS LIKE THE MORE
THE MULTITUDES CAME, THE MORE
00:26:38.56\00:26:41.93
NECESSITY HE FOUND TO
GET OFF BY HIMSELF AND PRAY.
00:26:41.93\00:26:46.50
AND I REALLY - I
MISS LIVING IN THE HILLS.
00:26:46.50\00:26:53.80
I'LL JUST TELL YOU I DO.
00:26:53.80\00:26:56.73
KAREN'S VERY UNDERSTANDING -
EVERY NOW AND THEN I JUST TAKE
00:26:56.73\00:27:00.46
OFF AND GO TO COVELO
FOR A DAY OR TWO BY MYSELF.
00:27:00.46\00:27:04.06
TO STUDY, PRAY, DECOMPRESS
- EVERYBODY NEEDS TO HAVE SOME
00:27:04.06\00:27:07.93
TIME LIKE THAT WHERE YOU JUST GO
AND YOU CAN BE - NOW SOME PEOPLE
00:27:07.93\00:27:11.40
YOU JUST - YOU DON'T WANT TO
EVER BE ALONE AND SO YOU STILL
00:27:11.40\00:27:15.60
NEED TO HAVE AT LEAST A CLOSET
SOMEWHERE YOU CAN GO TO AND
00:27:15.60\00:27:18.23
PRAY. THAT'S
IMPORTANT. DID JESUS DO THAT?
00:27:18.23\00:27:22.86
HE DID. ENOCH WOULD DO THAT.
00:27:22.86\00:27:25.66
YOU EVER READ THE CHAPTER
ABOUT ENOCH IN 'PATRIARCHS AND
00:27:25.66\00:27:27.76
PROPHETS'? HE
WOULD SPEND TIME IN THE
00:27:27.76\00:27:29.60
MOUNTAIN SO HE
COULD GO TO THE MULTITUDE.
00:27:29.60\00:27:32.16
JOHN THE BAPTIST - HE WAS IN THE
WILDERNESS AND THAT'S WHERE HE
00:27:32.16\00:27:35.36
WAS SPENDING TIME WITH GOD AND
HE'D DISAPPEAR FREQUENTLY AND
00:27:35.36\00:27:39.63
HE'D SHOW UP AT THE JORDAN AND
HE BE BAPTIZING AND THEN HE'D
00:27:39.63\00:27:41.86
DISAPPEAR AND HE'D SPEND
TIME PRAYING AND CHARGING UP.
00:27:41.86\00:27:45.16
LOOK AT THIS AGAIN - I'LL GIVE
YOU ANOTHER ONE - LUKE 6:12,
00:27:45.16\00:27:49.13
"NOW IT CAME TO PASS IN THOSE
DAYS THAT HE WENT OUT TO THE
00:27:49.13\00:27:52.30
MOUNTAIN TO PRAY, AND CONTINUED
ALL NIGHT IN PRAYER TO GOD."
00:27:52.30\00:27:59.53
YOU KNOW, THE GOAL FOR A
CHRISTIAN - WE'RE TALKING ABOUT
00:27:59.53\00:28:01.46
A TIME FOR PRAYER - THE GOAL FOR
A CHRISTIAN IS THAT YOU HAVE AN
00:28:01.46\00:28:04.90
EXPERIENCE WHERE YOU
PRAY WITHOUT CEASING.
00:28:04.90\00:28:08.00
MOST OF US DON'T HAVE THAT
EXPERIENCE. THE BIBLE SAYS WE
00:28:08.00\00:28:11.33
SHOULD WALK WITH GOD.
THAT'S OUR GOAL, RIGHT?
00:28:11.33\00:28:15.16
AS A STARTING POINT WE SHOULD AT
LEAST SCHEDULE A TIME FOR PRAYER
00:28:15.16\00:28:20.73
AND THEN BUILD ON IT FROM THERE
WHERE YOU TRY TO MAINTAIN AN
00:28:20.73\00:28:23.60
AWARENESS OF GOD'S PRESENCE AND
YOU'RE SENDING UP PRAYERS TO HIM
00:28:23.60\00:28:26.70
ALL THE TIME SO THAT YOU
HAVE LIKE AN ATMOSPHERE OF GOD'S
00:28:26.70\00:28:30.43
PRESENCE. ONE OF
THE THINGS THAT I REALLY
00:28:30.43\00:28:32.30
MISS - WHEN I WAS TALKING ABOUT
BEING ALONE IN THE MOUNTAINS -
00:28:32.30\00:28:35.33
WHEN YOU ARE ALONE IT'S
SOMETIMES EASIER TO JUST
00:28:35.33\00:28:38.53
TALK OUT LOUD TO GOD AND
BE AWARE OF HIS PRESENCE AND
00:28:38.53\00:28:41.83
YOU THINK ABOUT HIM MORE.
WHEN I WAS FIRST CONVERTED AND
00:28:41.83\00:28:44.66
I WAS LIVING BY MYSELF IN
THE HILLS, I WAS JUST - I FOUND
00:28:44.66\00:28:48.43
MYSELF TALKING TO GOD
ABOUT THE LITTLEST THINGS.
00:28:48.43\00:28:51.23
EVERY LITTLE THING I DID
I WAS TALKING TO HIM ABOUT.
00:28:51.23\00:28:53.43
I REALIZED THAT IF, YOU KNOW, HE
NUMBERS THE HAIRS ON MY HEAD - I
00:28:53.43\00:28:56.83
ALWAYS FEEL FUNNY QUOTING THAT
VERSE - BUT IF HE, YOU KNOW,
00:28:56.83\00:28:59.90
EVEN SEES THE SPARROW WHEN HE
FALLS, IF GOD IS INTERESTED IN
00:28:59.90\00:29:03.63
THE MINUTIAE OF OUR LIVES
- IF HE CANNOT BE TROUBLED BY
00:29:03.63\00:29:09.56
ANYTHING WHEN YOU COMMUNE WITH
HIM AND GOD IS INTERESTED IN
00:29:09.56\00:29:13.73
EVEN THE VERY
SMALLEST THINGS, YOU KNOW?
00:29:13.73\00:29:16.56
ANY OF YOU EVER PRAY ABOUT A
PARKING PLACE WHEN YOU GO INTO
00:29:16.56\00:29:19.30
A BUSY SHOPPING CENTER?
00:29:19.30\00:29:21.76
AND THE LORD HAS JUST WORKED
WONDERFUL MIRACLES WHERE I
00:29:21.76\00:29:24.03
THOUGHT, 'OH MAN, I'M IN A HURRY
AND I DON'T SEE - THE PARKING
00:29:24.03\00:29:26.56
LOT IS ABSOLUTELY FULL AND
THERE'S SOMEONE I'M SUPPOSED TO
00:29:26.56\00:29:29.30
MEET - 'OH LORD, HELP ME' - AND
I'LL DRIVE THROUGH AND ALL OF A
00:29:29.30\00:29:32.90
SUDDEN, RIGHT THERE, THE PRIME
PARKING PLACE - OTHER THAN THE
00:29:32.90\00:29:37.60
HANDICAPPED ONES BECAUSE I
DON'T PARK IN THOSE - THE PRIME
00:29:37.60\00:29:40.43
PARKING PLACE - ALL OF A SUDDEN
THE CAR BEGINS TO PULL OUT AND I
00:29:40.43\00:29:43.13
RACE AROUND AND I
SAY, 'THANK YOU LORD'.
00:29:43.13\00:29:45.16
DOES GOD CARE
ABOUT THINGS LIKE THAT?
00:29:45.16\00:29:48.63
HAVE YOU - SOMETIMES I'M LATE
FOR AN APPOINTMENT AND I SAY,
00:29:48.63\00:29:51.46
'LORD, MAKE THE LIGHTS GREEN'.
YOU KNOW, I DO A LOT OF PRAYING
00:29:51.46\00:29:56.53
IN MY CAR
BECAUSE I'M OFTEN ALONE.
00:29:56.53\00:29:58.20
SO YOU CAN TALK TO THE LORD, BUT
YOU START OUT - SCHEDULE TIME
00:29:58.20\00:30:02.90
FOR PRAYER. WHAT WAS THE
SCHEDULE THAT DANIEL HAD? DAVID?
00:30:02.90\00:30:07.33
MORNING, EVENING, AND AT NOON -
THREE TIMES A DAY EVER SINCE HE
00:30:07.33\00:30:09.73
WAS YOUNG, THE BIBLE
SAYS. WE SHOULD HAVE TIMES
00:30:09.73\00:30:12.86
WHERE WE SCHEDULE. YOU
SHOULD THANK GOD FOR FOOD
00:30:12.86\00:30:15.36
BUT THAT'S NOT THE KIND OF
PRAYER WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.
00:30:15.36\00:30:16.86
YOU SHOULD ALWAYS
THANK GOD FOR YOUR FOOD.
00:30:16.86\00:30:18.33
I'M TALKING ABOUT
COMMUNION WITH GOD.
00:30:18.33\00:30:21.16
YOU'RE NOT GOING TO LOVE GOD
IF YOU DON'T HAVE A RELATIONSHIP
00:30:21.16\00:30:23.13
WITH HIM. HE'S
GOING TO SEEM DISTANT
00:30:23.13\00:30:25.33
AND IMPERSONAL TO YOU.
AGAIN, SOMEONE READ FOR
00:30:25.33\00:30:30.10
ME LUKE 11, VERSE 1.
WHO'D WE GIVE THAT TO?
00:30:30.10\00:30:34.63
OVER HERE? LET'S
GET YOU A MICROPHONE.
00:30:34.63\00:30:36.70
AND WHILE WE'RE FINDING THAT, I
WANT TO READ A VERSE FROM 'STEPS
00:30:36.70\00:30:40.56
TO CHRIST' PAGE 93, "PRAYER IS
THE OPENING OF THE HEART TO GOD
00:30:40.56\00:30:46.33
AS TO A FRIEND. NOT
THAT IT'S NECESSARY IN ORDER
00:30:46.33\00:30:49.50
TO MAKE KNOWN TO GOD
WHAT WE ARE, BUT IN ORDER TO
00:30:49.50\00:30:52.76
ENABLE US TO RECEIVE HIM.
PRAYER DOES NOT BRING GOD DOWN
00:30:52.76\00:30:56.90
TO US BUT IT
BRINGS US UP TO HIM."
00:30:56.90\00:30:59.90
SO OFTEN WE THINK OF PRAYER AS
THE MECHANISM BY WHICH WE OPEN A
00:30:59.90\00:31:03.43
TRAP DOOR AND THINGS FALL
FROM HEAVEN TO US, BUT THINK OF
00:31:03.43\00:31:07.50
PRAYER AS ONE OF THOSE DOORS IN
GARAGE THAT BRINGS A LADDER DOWN
00:31:07.50\00:31:11.13
THAT YOU MAY GO UP. AND
SO WHAT PRAYER IS DOING IS
00:31:11.13\00:31:14.50
IT'S NOT JUST, YOU KNOW, SO GOD
CAN EMPTY HIS SANTA BAG FOR YOUR
00:31:14.50\00:31:18.70
PARTICULAR GIFTS, PRAYER IS
A WAY TO LIFT YOU BECAUSE GOD
00:31:18.70\00:31:23.20
KNOWS WHAT YOU NEED BEFORE YOU
ASK. WHEN YOU CONFESS YOUR SINS
00:31:23.20\00:31:26.66
TO GOD, DOES HE
ALREADY KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO?
00:31:26.66\00:31:29.90
SO WHAT IS PRAYER DOING?
WHAT IS CONFESSION DOING?
00:31:29.90\00:31:33.53
IT'S NOT BRINGING GOD
DOWN, IT'S LIFTING YOU UP.
00:31:33.53\00:31:36.53
IT'S BRINGING YOU
CLOSER TO GOD'S WILL.
00:31:36.53\00:31:38.83
I THINK - ARE WE
READY FOR - WHAT DID I SAY?
00:31:38.83\00:31:41.76
LUKE 11, VERSE 1?
GO AHEAD, READY OR NOT.
00:31:41.76\00:31:45.43
>>LUKE CHAPTER 11, VERSE 1,
"NOW IT CAME TO PASS, AS HE WAS
00:31:45.43\00:31:50.20
PRAYING IN A CERTAIN PLACE,
WHEN HE CEASED, THAT ONE OF HIS
00:31:50.20\00:31:55.10
DISCIPLES SAID TO HIM, 'LORD,
TEACH US TO PRAY AS JOHN ALSO
00:31:55.10\00:32:00.43
TAUGHT HIS DISCIPLES.'"
>>NOTICE A WORD THAT APPEARS
00:32:00.43\00:32:03.46
TWICE IN THIS VERSE?
'TEACH US AS JOHN TAUGHT.'
00:32:03.46\00:32:08.13
YOU KNOW WHAT THAT
TELLS ABOUT PRAYER?
00:32:08.13\00:32:10.80
IN THE BUSINESS OF DISCIPLESHIP
PRAYER IS SOMETHING THAT CAN BE
00:32:10.80\00:32:16.36
TAUGHT. NOW WHEN
THEY ASKED JESUS TO
00:32:16.36\00:32:18.93
TEACH US TO PRAY,
WHAT DID JESUS SAY?
00:32:18.93\00:32:22.03
WHO KNOWS WHAT CHRIST
SAID NEXT? THE LORD'S PRAYER.
00:32:22.03\00:32:26.53
IT WAS LUKE'S VERSION, WHICH IS
VERY MUCH LIKE MATTHEW'S VERSION
00:32:26.53\00:32:29.53
EXCEPT I THINK MATTHEW'S SAYS
'FOR THINE BE THE KINGDOM AND
00:32:29.53\00:32:32.40
POWER AND THE GLORY FOREVER'
AND LUKE'S SAYS 'FORGIVE US OUR
00:32:32.40\00:32:36.56
TRESPASSES' AND MATTHEW'S
SAYS 'FORGIVE US OUR DEBTS AS WE
00:32:36.56\00:32:40.23
FORGIVE OUR DEBTORS'.
OTHERWISE THEY'RE IDENTICAL.
00:32:40.23\00:32:42.80
BUT IS THE LORD'S PRAYER A
PRAYER THAT WE ARE TO ECHO?
00:32:42.80\00:32:46.93
THERE'S NOTHING WRONG IN
REPEATING THE PRAYER - WE
00:32:46.93\00:32:49.70
SOMETIMES DO THAT - BUT JESUS
REALLY GAVE THE LORD'S PRAYER
00:32:49.70\00:32:53.43
AS A PATTERN FOR PRAYER.
00:32:53.43\00:32:54.86
BY THE WAY, IN THE FREE
OFFER THAT WE MENTIONED AT THE
00:32:54.86\00:32:57.16
BEGINNING OF THE PROGRAM -
'TEACH US TO PRAY' - WHAT THIS
00:32:57.16\00:33:00.36
BOOK DOES IS IT TAKES THE LORD'S
PRAYER - AND THIS IS FREE TO
00:33:00.36\00:33:03.10
ANYONE THAT ASKS FOR IT - IT
TAKES THE LORD'S PRAYER AND IT
00:33:03.10\00:33:05.53
GOES THROUGH IT POINT BY
POINT AND IT SHOWS THAT IT IS A
00:33:05.53\00:33:08.33
PATTERN - IT IS A
MODEL FOR OUR PRAYERS.
00:33:08.33\00:33:13.10
IT STARTS BY DIRECTING THE
PRAYER TO GOD - HIS GLORY, HIS
00:33:13.10\00:33:16.63
NAME, HIS WILL. IT
TALKS ABOUT THESE FIRST
00:33:16.63\00:33:19.40
PETITIONS DEAL WITH GOD,
THE LAST PETITIONS DEAL WITH US.
00:33:19.40\00:33:22.86
FIRST IT'S LOVE THE LORD,
NEXT IT'S LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR
00:33:22.86\00:33:25.40
AS YOURSELF. SO
PART OF PRAYER IS LOVING
00:33:25.40\00:33:27.83
YOUR NEIGHBOR - DISCIPLESHIP
- PRAYING FOR THE CONVERSION
00:33:27.83\00:33:30.30
OF OTHERS. SO THE
LORD'S PRAYER IS A
00:33:30.30\00:33:33.03
BEAUTIFUL TEMPLATE FOR PRAYER.
WE DON'T HAVE TIME TO GO THROUGH
00:33:33.03\00:33:35.86
ALL OF THAT NOW, BUT
PRAYER CAN BE TAUGHT.
00:33:35.86\00:33:38.60
WHAT'S THE BEST
WAY TO TEACH PRAYER?
00:33:38.60\00:33:42.83
WHEN YOU PRAY WITH SOMEONE WHO
REALLY KNOWS HOW TO PRAY, YOU
00:33:42.83\00:33:47.23
OFTEN LEARN BY EXAMPLE. HOW
DO MOST OF US LEARN TO PRAY?
00:33:47.23\00:33:50.70
IF YOU GREW UP IN A CHRISTIAN
HOME, HOPEFULLY YOU LEARNED TO
00:33:50.70\00:33:52.76
PRAY BY
LISTENING TO YOUR PARENTS.
00:33:52.76\00:33:55.43
THE PROBLEM WITH THAT IS FAMILY
PRAYER, PUBLIC PRAYER, PRAYER
00:33:55.43\00:34:03.86
FOR WORSHIP - BECAUSE WHEN YOU
PRAY WITH YOUR CHILDREN, IF IT'S
00:34:03.86\00:34:05.90
TOO LONG IT BECOMES TEDIOUS - IS
DIFFERENT THAN PERSONAL PRAYER.
00:34:05.90\00:34:13.36
THE PRAYER OF ELIJAH WHEN
HE ASKED FIRE TO COME DOWN FROM
00:34:13.36\00:34:17.16
HEAVEN, WAS THAT A PRIVATE
PRAYER OR A PUBLIC PRAYER?
00:34:17.16\00:34:20.90
VERY PUBLIC PRAYER.
HOW LONG WAS IT? I TIMED IT
00:34:20.90\00:34:24.26
WITH YOU A FEW WEEKS AGO.
TWENTY SECONDS SOMEONE SAID?
00:34:24.26\00:34:28.06
I FORGET. IT WAS LESS
THAN HALF A MINUTE. VERY SHORT.
00:34:28.06\00:34:34.16
DANIEL'S PRAYER IS ONE
OF THE LONGEST PRAYERS.
00:34:34.16\00:34:36.26
IT'S A PRIVATE PRAYER.
00:34:36.26\00:34:38.66
YOU CAN READ THE PRAYER OF
HANNAH - IT'S A LONGER PRAYER.
00:34:38.66\00:34:42.50
YOU CAN READ THE PRAYERS OF,
LIKE, NEHEMIAH AND SOME OF THESE
00:34:42.50\00:34:45.26
PERSONAL PRAYERS - THE PRAYER OF
JESUS IN JOHN 17 IS THE LONGEST
00:34:45.26\00:34:49.50
PRAYER OF CHRIST
YOU'LL FIND IN THE BIBLE.
00:34:49.50\00:34:51.80
THESE ARE PERSONAL PRAYERS.
WE SING THAT SONG 'SWEET HOUR OF
00:34:51.80\00:34:55.50
PRAYER' - DO WE
REALLY PRAY FOR AN HOUR?
00:34:55.50\00:35:00.46
SOMETIMES WHEN WE SING THAT -
WE SING SONGS THAT ARE A LITTLE
00:35:00.46\00:35:05.96
HYPOCRITICAL - 'O FOR A THOUSAND
TONGUES TO SING' - WE DON'T USE
00:35:05.96\00:35:09.56
THE ONE THAT WE HAVE. WE
SING ONE OR TWO VERSES OF THE
00:35:09.56\00:35:12.83
SONG 'O FOR A
THOUSAND TONGUES TO SING'.
00:35:12.83\00:35:16.86
'SWEET HOUR OF PRAYER' - MOST
OF OUR PRAYERS ARE TEN MINUTES.
00:35:16.86\00:35:23.03
YOU KNOW THE GREAT PEOPLE OF
REVIVAL, THEY DID SPEND HOURS IN
00:35:23.03\00:35:26.26
PERSONAL PRAYER AND I REMEMBER
HEARING A STORY ONE TIME WHERE
00:35:26.26\00:35:30.63
DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY
WAR A FARMER CAME TO HIS HOME.
00:35:30.63\00:35:35.16
HE SAID, 'MARTHA,
WE'RE GOING TO WIN THE WAR.
00:35:35.16\00:35:36.90
WE'RE GOING TO WIN THE WAR!'
SHE SAID, 'HOW DOST THOU KNOW?'
00:35:36.90\00:35:39.50
HE SAID, 'I WAS OFF WALKING
THROUGH THE WOODS AND I HEARD A
00:35:39.50\00:35:41.80
NOISE AND I WENT TO WHERE THE
NOISE WAS COMING FROM AND THERE
00:35:41.80\00:35:45.46
WAS A MAN KNEELING DOWN IN THE
WOODS PRAYING THE MOST WONDERFUL
00:35:45.46\00:35:48.30
PRAYER AND I GOT A LITTLE
CLOSER AND I SAW IT WAS GENERAL
00:35:48.30\00:35:50.50
WASHINGTON.' HE SAID, 'I KNOW
WE'RE GOING TO WIN THE WAR.' SHE
00:35:50.50\00:35:53.70
SAID, 'HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT?'
HE SAID, 'I HEARD HIM PRAY.
00:35:53.70\00:35:56.43
GOD HAS TO ANSWER A PRAYER LIKE
THAT.' AND SOMEONE ONCE WENT TO
00:35:56.43\00:36:00.83
THE - THEY WENT TO CONGRESS
AND THEY SAID, 'I'D LIKE TO KNOW
00:36:00.83\00:36:05.50
WHICH ONE IS WASHINGTON?'
THEY SAID, 'WASHINGTON IS THE
00:36:05.50\00:36:08.56
ONE WHO WILL GET ON HIS
KNEES WHEN THEY OFFER THE
00:36:08.56\00:36:10.70
CONGRESSIONAL PRAYER.' HE
WAS A VERY DEVOUT MAN THAT WAY.
00:36:10.70\00:36:16.96
AND, YOU KNOW, IT BOTHERS ME
WHEN A LOT OF THESE REVISIONISTS
00:36:16.96\00:36:19.30
REWRITE AMERICAN HISTORY AND TRY
AND MAKE IT SOUND LIKE ALL THE
00:36:19.30\00:36:21.66
FOUNDING FATHERS WERE
DEISTS. A FEW OF THEM WERE.
00:36:21.66\00:36:25.23
THE VAST MAJORITY OF THEM
WERE VERY RELIGIOUS CHRISTIANS.
00:36:25.23\00:36:28.20
SEVERAL OF THEM WERE PASTORS.
AND SO, DON'T LET PEOPLE REWRITE
00:36:28.20\00:36:31.96
THE HISTORY BOOKS FOR YOU.
YOU OUGHT TO READ THE THINGS
00:36:31.96\00:36:34.33
THAT THE FOUNDING FATHERS
SAID. THEY READ THEIR BIBLES.
00:36:34.33\00:36:37.03
I'LL BET YOU THE AVERAGE
SIGNER OF THE CONSTITUTION KNEW
00:36:37.03\00:36:41.00
SCRIPTURE BY MEMORY BETTER -
JEFFERSON, WHO WAS A DEIST, KNEW
00:36:41.00\00:36:45.33
SCRIPTURE BETTER THAN THE
AVERAGE SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST.
00:36:45.33\00:36:48.80
EVEN THOUGH HE DIDN'T
BELIEVE IN MANY OF THE MIRACLES,
00:36:48.80\00:36:51.83
HE COULD QUOTE THE SCRIPTURES.
LINCOLN COULD QUOTE THE
00:36:51.83\00:36:55.13
SCRIPTURES BY MEMORY AND HE DID
A LOT OF IT, ACTUALLY, IN HIS
00:36:55.13\00:36:58.76
SPEECHES. AND SO
THESE PEOPLE, THEIR LIVES
00:36:58.76\00:37:01.00
WERE BAPTIZED IN THE
WORD OF GOD AND THEY DID PRAY.
00:37:01.00\00:37:03.83
AND WE NEED TO PRAY.
ALRIGHT, LET ME KEEP GOING.
00:37:03.83\00:37:06.53
SO THERE'S TIME FOR PRAYER AND
WHEN YOU'RE PRAYING, IF WE'RE
00:37:06.53\00:37:14.13
DISCIPLING - HAVE YOU
EVER BEEN IN A PRAYER CIRCLE?
00:37:14.13\00:37:20.26
LET ME ASK THIS
QUESTION DIFFERENTLY.
00:37:20.26\00:37:22.23
HOW MANY OF YOU ARE
CONVERTS TO CHRISTIANITY?
00:37:22.23\00:37:26.53
YOU WERE NOT ALWAYS A CHRISTIAN.
YOU CONVERTED TO CHRISTIANITY.
00:37:26.53\00:37:28.73
SOME OF YOU MAY HAVE GROWN UP
IN A SEMI-CHRISTIAN HOME BUT YOU
00:37:28.73\00:37:32.20
REALLY WEREN'T PRACTICING.
HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER THE
00:37:32.20\00:37:35.40
FIRST TIME YOU WERE IN A GROUP
AND THEY WERE GOING AROUND A
00:37:35.40\00:37:37.60
CIRCLE PRAYING AND YOU
KNEW EVENTUALLY THEY WERE
00:37:37.60\00:37:40.60
GOING TO GET TO YOU? OR
THEY ASKED FOR YOU TO PRAY
00:37:40.60\00:37:42.23
IN FRONT OF OTHERS
- WERE YOU TERRIFIED?
00:37:42.23\00:37:45.03
SOME OF YOU MAYBE EVEN GREW
UP IN THE CHURCH AND YOU JUST -
00:37:45.03\00:37:47.76
FINALLY ONE DAY YOU WERE IN A
GROUP AND THEY SAID, 'ALRIGHT,
00:37:47.76\00:37:50.43
WE'RE GOING TO ALL TAKE TURNS.
WE'RE GOING TO GO AROUND AND
00:37:50.43\00:37:51.96
EACH UTTER A SHORT
PRAYER AND JUST - YOU BEGIN TO
00:37:51.96\00:37:54.63
HYPERVENTILATE AND 'WHAT AM I
GOING TO DO WHEN MY TURN COMES?'
00:37:54.63\00:37:57.13
AND YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY
AND YOU'RE SCARED. THAT WAS ME.
00:37:57.13\00:38:00.66
AND I WAS SO SCARED - WE USED
TO BE IN BIBLE STUDIES AND THE
00:38:00.66\00:38:03.56
PASTOR WOULD SAY, 'OKAY,
LET'S READ THROUGH THIS HERE.
00:38:03.56\00:38:05.33
YOU READ THIS VERSE.
WE'LL EACH TAKE A TURN.
00:38:05.33\00:38:06.86
WE'LL READ A VERSE.' I DIDN'T
HEAR ANYTHING ANYONE ELSE READ.
00:38:06.86\00:38:09.86
ALL I KNEW WAS I'D COUNT AROUND
THE ROOM AND SAY, 'OH, THIS IS
00:38:09.86\00:38:12.23
WHEN MY VERSE IS GOING TO BE -
THIS VERSE - AND I WAS SO AFRAID
00:38:12.23\00:38:14.40
TO READ THE BIBLE OUT
LOUD BECAUSE I WASN'T VERY GOOD
00:38:14.40\00:38:17.20
READING OUT LOUD LET ALONE THE
BIBLE, YOU KNOW, THAT LANGUAGE.
00:38:17.20\00:38:20.63
PRAYING TERRIFIED ME.
00:38:20.63\00:38:23.23
BUT AS I SPENT MORE TIME WITH
CHRISTIANS, AND I HEARD - THE
00:38:23.23\00:38:27.00
PASTOR WHO BAPTIZED ME, I SPENT
A LOT OF TIME IN HIS HOME AND I
00:38:27.00\00:38:31.63
LISTENED TO HIM AND HIS WIFE
PRAY AND THEY LOVED THE LORD SO
00:38:31.63\00:38:34.20
MUCH AND THEY TALKED TO THE LORD
AS IF THEY WERE DEAR FRIENDS ON
00:38:34.20\00:38:38.30
FIRST NAME BASIS AND I THOUGHT,
'THEY'RE SO RELAXED ABOUT IT.
00:38:38.30\00:38:43.03
IT'S SO NATURAL.
00:38:43.03\00:38:44.40
THEY'RE JUST TALKING FROM THEIR
HEARTS.' IT WASN'T SCRIPTED SO I
00:38:44.40\00:38:46.96
THOUGHT, 'OKAY, WELL, SO WHEN
YOU PRAY TALK FROM YOUR HEART.'
00:38:46.96\00:38:50.90
AND BY WATCHING
OTHERS I LEARNED.
00:38:50.90\00:38:53.70
PRAYER CAN BE TAUGHT AND SO YOU
SAY, 'WELL, I DIDN'T HAVE ANYONE
00:38:53.70\00:38:58.56
MODEL PRAYER FOR ME,
PASTOR DOUG, WHAT DO I DO?'
00:38:58.56\00:39:01.20
READ THE PRAYERS IN THE
BIBLE. USE THEM AS A MODEL AND
00:39:01.20\00:39:04.70
PRAYER CAN BE TAUGHT.
LOOK AT HOW DANIEL PRAYED.
00:39:04.70\00:39:07.06
LOOK AT HOW SOLOMON
PRAYED AND DAVID PRAYED.
00:39:07.06\00:39:09.16
READ THROUGH THE PSALMS.
MANY OF THE PSALMS ARE PRAYERS
00:39:09.16\00:39:13.20
AND THEY'RE A WONDERFUL EXAMPLE.
OKAY, 'TIMELESS TEACHING' -
00:39:13.20\00:39:18.03
MATTHEW CHAPTER 6, VERSE 7 AND
8, "AND WHEN YOU PRAY, DO NOT
00:39:18.03\00:39:23.63
USE VAIN REPETITIONS
AS THE HEATHEN DO." -
00:39:23.63\00:39:26.50
THERE'S ANOTHER PRINCIPLE FOR
PRAYER - "FOR THEY THINK THAT
00:39:26.50\00:39:28.83
THEY WILL BE HEARD
FOR THEIR MANY WORDS.
00:39:28.83\00:39:30.46
THEREFORE DO NOT BE LIKE THEM.
FOR YOUR FATHER KNOWS THE THINGS
00:39:30.46\00:39:34.20
YOU HAVE NEED OF BEFORE YOU
ASK HIM." YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES
00:39:34.20\00:39:39.16
WHEN WE PRAY WE'LL BE IN A GROUP
PRAYING AND IT'S LIKE PEOPLE
00:39:39.16\00:39:43.76
ARE TAKING TURNS AND I'VE
HEARD SOMEONE IN THE GROUP SAY,
00:39:43.76\00:39:47.33
WHEN THEIR TURN CAME, THEY
SAID, 'LORD, EVERYBODY THAT JUST
00:39:47.33\00:39:51.23
PRAYED SAID EXACTLY WHAT I
WAS GOING TO PRAY AND I CAN'T
00:39:51.23\00:39:54.43
REALLY IMPROVE ON THAT SO I
JUST WANT TO SAY 'AMEN' TO WHAT
00:39:54.43\00:39:56.73
THEY SAID.' I THOUGHT,
'WELL I APPRECIATE THAT.
00:39:56.73\00:39:59.73
THEY DON'T WANT TO JUST BE
PRAYING SO THAT THEY CAN, YOU
00:39:59.73\00:40:02.53
KNOW, REPEAT THE SAME
THING.' GOD, YOU KNOW, HE'S NOT
00:40:02.53\00:40:06.20
INTERESTED IN VAIN REPETITION
AND - HAVE YOU EVER BEEN IN ONE
00:40:06.20\00:40:09.60
OF THOSE YOU FELT LIKE EVERYONE
HAD TO OFFER THEIR OBLIGATORY
00:40:09.60\00:40:13.03
PRAYER AND SO THEY ALL
SAY SORT OF THE SAME THING?
00:40:13.03\00:40:15.43
BUT ANOTHER WAY PEOPLE PRAY
IN VAIN REPETITION IS WHEN WE'RE
00:40:15.43\00:40:20.53
BEING TOLD, 'WELL, IF YOU WANT
YOUR SINS FORGIVEN, REPEAT THIS
00:40:20.53\00:40:22.83
PRAYER TWELVE TIMES.' WHERE
DOES IT SAY THAT IN THE BIBLE?
00:40:22.83\00:40:26.76
THAT'S NOT REALLY PRAYER.
00:40:26.76\00:40:28.43
YOU'RE NOT EVEN THINKING
ABOUT WHAT YOU'RE SAYING.
00:40:28.43\00:40:30.73
GOD WANTS YOU TO OPEN YOUR HEART
AND TALK TO HIM FROM YOUR HEART
00:40:30.73\00:40:33.06
BECAUSE YOU ARE TRANSFORMED
BY THAT KIND OF PRAYER.
00:40:33.06\00:40:36.56
MATTHEW CHAPTER 7, VERSES 7
THROUGH 11, "ASK, AND IT WILL BE
00:40:36.56\00:40:42.76
GIVEN TO YOU; SEEK, AND YOU
WILL FIND; KNOCK, AND IT WILL BE
00:40:42.76\00:40:45.73
OPENED TO YOU." -
NOW ALL OF THESE -
00:40:45.73\00:40:46.96
ASKING, SEEKING, KNOCKING -
ARE IN THE CONTEXT OF PRAYER
00:40:46.96\00:40:50.73
AND SO THIS IS THE WAY THAT WE
ACTUALLY PRAY. IT'S TO BE GIVEN
00:40:50.73\00:40:56.83
- ASK, SEEK, KNOCK AND IT WILL
BE OPENED - "FOR EVERYONE WHO
00:40:56.83\00:40:59.56
ASKS RECEIVES, AND HE WHO SEEKS
FINDS, AND TO HIM WHO KNOCKS IT
00:40:59.56\00:41:03.73
WILL BE OPENED. OR WHAT
MAN IS THERE AMONG YOU WHO,
00:41:03.73\00:41:06.26
IF HIS SON ASKS FOR
BREAD, WILL GIVE HIM A STONE?
00:41:06.26\00:41:08.76
OR IF HE ASKS FOR A FISH,
WILL HE GIVE HIM A SERPENT?
00:41:08.76\00:41:11.56
IF YOU THEN, BEING EVIL, KNOW
HOW TO GIVE GOOD GIFTS TO YOUR
00:41:11.56\00:41:14.60
CHILDREN, HOW MUCH MORE WILL
YOUR FATHER WHO IS IN HEAVEN
00:41:14.60\00:41:17.63
GIVE GOOD THINGS
TO THOSE WHO ASK HIM?"
00:41:17.63\00:41:22.06
DOES GOD KNOW WHAT
YOU NEED BEFORE YOU ASK?
00:41:22.06\00:41:26.96
WILL GOD DO THINGS FOR YOU
WHEN YOU ASK THAT HE OTHERWISE
00:41:26.96\00:41:30.33
WILL NOT DO IF YOU DON'T ASK?
00:41:30.33\00:41:32.76
HOW MANY PRAYERS, WHEN YOU
GET TO HEAVEN, ARE YOU GOING TO
00:41:32.76\00:41:36.26
DISCOVER NEVER GOT ANSWERED
- THAT GOD WANTED TO ANSWER -
00:41:36.26\00:41:39.16
BUT YOU DIDN'T ASK?
NOW THINK ABOUT THAT.
00:41:39.16\00:41:44.13
THERE ARE SO MANY PRAYERS THAT
GOD WOULD LIKE TO ANSWER FOR US,
00:41:44.13\00:41:47.33
THAT WERE NEVER
ANSWERED BECAUSE WE DIDN'T ASK.
00:41:47.33\00:41:50.56
YOU KNOW WHEN YOU NEED TO PRAY
THE MOST? WHEN YOU FEEL LIKE IT
00:41:50.56\00:41:54.73
THE LEAST. WHEN WE DON'T FEEL
LIKE PRAYING IS OFTEN WHEN WE
00:41:54.73\00:41:59.10
NEED TO PRAY THE MOST.
HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT - OH, WE
00:41:59.10\00:42:05.93
HAVE FAMILY WORSHIP
AND WE HAVE FAMILY FIGHTS.
00:42:05.93\00:42:11.30
NOW I HOPE YOU
HAVE FAMILY WORSHIP.
00:42:11.30\00:42:13.53
IF YOU'VE GOT A FAMILY I BET YOU
SOMETIMES HAVE FAMILY FIGHTS.
00:42:13.53\00:42:17.13
DISAGREEMENTS - IN CHURCH WE
CALL THEM DISAGREEMENTS - AND
00:42:17.13\00:42:22.80
SOMETIMES AFTER A FAMILY
DISAGREEMENT, WHATEVER IT MIGHT
00:42:22.80\00:42:26.33
BE, WORSHIP TIME COMES AND WE'RE
VERY RELIGIOUS ABOUT WORSHIP
00:42:26.33\00:42:31.13
TIME BECAUSE I'M A
PASTOR, I HAVE TO BE.
00:42:31.13\00:42:32.73
WHAT KIND OF EXAMPLE
WOULD I BE FOR YOU, RIGHT?
00:42:32.73\00:42:35.30
SO SOMETIMES I DON'T FEEL LIKE
BEING A PASTOR AND I DON'T FEEL
00:42:35.30\00:42:38.53
LIKE PRAYING. I FEEL LIKE BEING
00:42:38.53\00:42:40.00
MAD BECAUSE I'M MAD.
USUALLY I'M BEING PROUD.
00:42:40.00\00:42:44.40
I'M BEING STUBBORN BUT I DON'T
WANT TO ADMIT THAT AT THE TIME,
00:42:44.40\00:42:47.06
I JUST WANT TO BE RIGHT AND I'M
NOT BEING RECOGNIZED FOR BEING
00:42:47.06\00:42:50.76
RIGHT AND SO I'M MAD. OR
WHATEVER, YOU KNOW, FILL IN
00:42:50.76\00:42:54.86
THE BLANKS. YOU KNOW WHAT
I'M TALKING ABOUT? YOU'RE UPSET
00:42:54.86\00:42:57.83
BUT YOU'VE GOT TO PRAY NOW WITH
THE PEOPLE THAT YOU'RE MAD AT.
00:42:57.83\00:43:03.96
AND I THINK TO MYSELF,
'I DON'T FEEL LIKE PRAYING'.
00:43:03.96\00:43:08.83
AND A LITTLE VOICE SAYS, 'YOU
REALLY NEED TO PRAY NOW' BECAUSE
00:43:08.83\00:43:13.66
WHEN YOU FEEL LIKE IT THE LEAST
IS WHEN YOU NEED IT THE MOST.
00:43:13.66\00:43:18.10
SO I'VE TRIED TO DISCIPLINE
MYSELF TO PRAY WHETHER I FEEL
00:43:18.10\00:43:22.43
LIKE IT OR NOT AND I
FOUND THAT AS I PRAY -
00:43:22.43\00:43:28.16
YOUR HEART STARTS TO MELT.
00:43:28.16\00:43:30.50
THE THINGS THAT YOU'RE ANGRY
ABOUT STOP SEEMING SO IMPORTANT.
00:43:30.50\00:43:34.03
AND IN YOUR PRAY - IN YOUR
PRAYER - IF YOU'RE PRAYING THE
00:43:34.03\00:43:36.33
WAY YOU SHOULD PRAY - YOU START
PRAYING FOR OTHER PEOPLE AND YOU
00:43:36.33\00:43:40.06
REALIZE YOU'RE SAYING, 'LORD,
PLEASE HELP THIS PERSON THAT HAS
00:43:40.06\00:43:42.50
A TERMINAL DISEASE'.
YOUR LITTLE PROBLEM DOESN'T
00:43:42.50\00:43:45.26
SEEM SO BIG ANYMORE.
AND 'LORD, PLEASE BLESS THE
00:43:45.26\00:43:49.83
MISSION OF YOUR
CHURCH AROUND THE WORLD'.
00:43:49.83\00:43:51.80
I'M THINKING, 'YEAH, HOW'S THE
LORD GOING TO GET THE MISSION OF
00:43:51.80\00:43:53.43
THE CHURCH AROUND THE WORLD?
I CAN'T GET IT THROUGH THE
00:43:53.43\00:43:55.06
LIVING ROOM.' YOU KNOW, AND
SO AS YOU'RE PRAYING SOMETHING
00:43:55.06\00:44:00.96
HAPPENS TO YOU IN YOUR PRAYER.
THE TIME YOU FEEL LIKE PRAYING
00:44:00.96\00:44:06.83
THE LEAST IS USUALLY WHEN
YOU NEED TO PRAY THE MOST.
00:44:06.83\00:44:11.90
'OH, IT'S - I'M TIRED
LORD, I DON'T WANT TO PRAY.
00:44:11.90\00:44:15.30
I JUST WANT TO HAVE BREAKFAST.'
YEAH THE LORD HE KNOWS - OR THE
00:44:15.30\00:44:19.13
DEVIL, SORRY - THE DEVIL KNOWS
THAT AS YOUR FEET HIT THE GROUND
00:44:19.13\00:44:23.13
AND YOU GET BUSY WITH THE
GETTING READY FOR YOUR DAY, IF
00:44:23.13\00:44:26.33
YOU DON'T TAKE TIME TO PRAY,
PRETTY SOON YOU'LL FIND THAT
00:44:26.33\00:44:29.80
IT'S RUSHED OR IT DOESN'T HAPPEN
AT ALL AND YOU'LL ENTER INTO
00:44:29.80\00:44:32.90
THAT DAY TOTALLY UNPREPARED OR
WITH A TOTALLY SECULAR MIND SET.
00:44:32.90\00:44:39.10
IT'S JUST ALL ABOUT YOU AND WHAT
YOU'VE GOT TO ACCOMPLISH AND
00:44:39.10\00:44:41.50
YOUR SELFISH NEEDS AND YOU'RE
STARTING THE DAY WITHOUT GOD.
00:44:41.50\00:44:44.73
THE TIME YOU THINK - OR YOU WANT
TO PRAY THE LEAST IS USUALLY
00:44:44.73\00:44:48.70
WHEN YOU NEED IT THE MOST AND SO
PRAY WHETHER YOU FEEL LIKE IT OR
00:44:48.70\00:44:53.73
NOT BECAUSE OFTEN IN THE
MIDST OF PRAYING YOU'LL START
00:44:53.73\00:44:58.36
FEELING LIKE IT.
00:44:58.36\00:45:00.60
HAVE YOU EVER HEARD SOMEONE SAY,
'I'M NOT HUNGRY' AND THE DOCTOR
00:45:00.60\00:45:05.06
WILL SAY, 'YOU NEED TO EAT
ANYWAY' BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT GOING
00:45:05.06\00:45:11.00
TO HAVE STRENGTH TO FIGHT
WHATEVER IT IS MAKING YOU SICK
00:45:11.00\00:45:13.13
UNLESS YOU KIND OF FORCE
FEED YOURSELF A LITTLE BIT.
00:45:13.13\00:45:16.33
AND SOMETIMES YOU'VE GOT TO
FORCE YOURSELF TO DO WHAT YOU
00:45:16.33\00:45:18.93
KNOW THAT YOU NEED TO DO EVEN
THOUGH YOU DON'T FEEL LIKE IT.
00:45:18.93\00:45:24.06
SO PRAYER IS VERY IMPORTANT.
NOW I WANT TO READ MATTHEW 18,
00:45:24.06\00:45:28.00
VERSES 19 AND 20, "AGAIN I SAY
TO YOU THAT IF TWO OF YOU AGREE
00:45:28.00\00:45:31.23
ON EARTH CONCERNING ANYTHING
THAT THEY ASK, IT WILL BE DONE
00:45:31.23\00:45:35.23
FOR THEM" - IS THERE
POWER IN CORPORATE PRAYER?
00:45:35.23\00:45:41.03
IS THE LORD MORE LIKELY TO
ANSWER THE PRAYER OF 20 PEOPLE
00:45:41.03\00:45:45.63
THAN ONE PERSON? I GOT
ONE VOTE - YES. I THINK YES.
00:45:45.63\00:45:57.40
I - NOW, THE FERVENT EFFECTUAL
PRAYER OF A RIGHTEOUS MAN OR
00:45:57.40\00:46:02.36
WOMAN AVAILS MUCH. SO
YOU GET ONE RIGHTEOUS PERSON
00:46:02.36\00:46:06.06
AND THEY CAN CHANGE
THE COURSE OF HEAVEN.
00:46:06.06\00:46:08.73
YOU GOT SOMEONE WHO'S GOT A
STRONG RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD AND
00:46:08.73\00:46:12.13
THEY PRAY, LIKE
DANIEL IN CHAPTER 9,
00:46:12.13\00:46:14.26
AMAZING THINGS CAN HAPPEN.
BUT IT SEEMS THAT THE BIBLE
00:46:14.26\00:46:18.46
TELLS US THAT THERE IS MORE
VALUE IN ADDITIONAL PRAYER -
00:46:18.46\00:46:24.40
WHEN WE JOIN TOGETHER IN
PRAYER. WHAT'S STRONGER, ONE
00:46:24.40\00:46:28.20
STRAND IN A ROPE OR
THREE? THREE STRANDS, RIGHT?
00:46:28.20\00:46:32.43
'IN THE MOUTH OF TWO OR THREE
WITNESSES LET EVERYTHING BE
00:46:32.43\00:46:35.10
ESTABLISHED.' 'IF MY PEOPLE WILL
HUMBLE THEMSELVES AND PRAY' -
00:46:35.10\00:46:40.90
THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT
CORPORATE PRAYER THAT GOD SAYS,
00:46:40.90\00:46:45.06
'LOOK, MY PEOPLE ARE PRAYING'
AND SO THE LORD SAYS, 'GET
00:46:45.06\00:46:49.26
TOGETHER WITH OTHERS AND PRAY'.
AND YOU KNOW ANOTHER REASON I
00:46:49.26\00:46:53.00
THINK IT'S IMPORTANT
FOR US TO PRAY TOGETHER?
00:46:53.00\00:46:55.03
THERE'S
ACCOUNTABILITY IN YOUR PRAYER.
00:46:55.03\00:46:56.36
SOME PEOPLE WILL SAY, 'YOU KNOW,
LORD, I WANT A BIG ROOT BEER.'
00:46:56.36\00:47:01.06
OR WE PRAY FOR SILLY THINGS
AND HE SAYS, 'LOOK, I PRAYED.
00:47:01.06\00:47:03.23
HOW COME I DIDN'T
GET MY ROOT BEER?'
00:47:03.23\00:47:04.93
AND SOMEONE MIGHT SAY TO
YOU, 'LOOK BROTHER, LET'S PRAY
00:47:04.93\00:47:07.30
ACCORDING TO GOD'S WILL.'
PRAY ABOUT THE IMPORTANT THINGS.
00:47:07.30\00:47:10.33
PRAY ABOUT THINGS WHERE
YOU CAN CLAIM GOD'S PROMISES.
00:47:10.33\00:47:12.30
THERE'S NO PROMISE
ABOUT ROOT BEER IN THE BIBLE.
00:47:12.30\00:47:14.86
AND SO, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES WE
MISAPPLY THESE PROMISES WHERE IF
00:47:14.86\00:47:17.86
ANY OF YOU TWO AGREE
UPON ANYTHING ON EARTH.
00:47:17.86\00:47:20.56
WELL, IT SAYS IF WE ARE AGREEING
ON THINGS THAT ARE ACCORDING TO
00:47:20.56\00:47:23.76
HIS WILL. THERE'S A QUALIFIER
TO THAT. HE WILL ANSWER.
00:47:23.76\00:47:28.66
SO IS IT GOD'S WILL
THAT THE LOST BE SAVED?
00:47:28.66\00:47:32.23
HOW MUCH SHOULD WE BE PRAYING
FOR THE SALVATION OF OTHERS?
00:47:32.23\00:47:36.80
WHEN PETER WAS IN PRISON
ON DEATH ROW, WAS THE CHURCH
00:47:36.80\00:47:39.86
GATHERED TOGETHER PRAYING?
HOW MUCH WAS THE CHURCH PRAYING?
00:47:39.86\00:47:44.40
IT SAYS THE CHURCH
DID NOT CEASE TO PRAY.
00:47:44.40\00:47:47.83
THAT NIGHT THAT HE WAS IN PRISON
THEY PRAYED ALL NIGHT LONG FOR
00:47:47.83\00:47:50.96
PETER. DID GOD
ANSWER THEIR PRAYER?
00:47:50.96\00:47:53.73
EVEN THOUGH SOME OF THEM IN
THE ROOM DIDN'T BELIEVE GOD WAS
00:47:53.73\00:47:55.66
GOING TO ANSWER THEIR PRAYER
BECAUSE WHEN PETER CAME TO THE
00:47:55.66\00:47:57.53
DOOR THEY DIDN'T
BELIEVE IT WAS HIM.
00:47:57.53\00:48:00.10
BUT GOD ANSWERED THEIR PRAYER.
I'VE HEARD A LOT OF STORIES
00:48:00.10\00:48:04.16
ABOUT SOME AMAZING ANSWERS TO
PRAYER BECAUSE GOD'S PEOPLE GOT
00:48:04.16\00:48:07.26
TOGETHER AND THEY SPECIFICALLY
PRAYED FOR SOMETHING UNIQUE.
00:48:07.26\00:48:15.73
DID STEPHEN PRAY
WHEN HE WAS BEING STONED?
00:48:15.73\00:48:21.40
WHAT DID HE PRAY FOR? HE
PRAYED FOR THE FORGIVENESS OF
00:48:21.40\00:48:26.03
THOSE THAT WERE
INVOLVED IN HIS EXECUTION.
00:48:26.03\00:48:28.96
WHO WAS ONE OF THE
PEOPLE INVOLVED IN HIS EXECUTION
00:48:28.96\00:48:31.73
THAT WAS CONVERTED?
00:48:31.73\00:48:33.50
HAD HIS NAME 'SAUL'
LATER CHANGED TO 'PAUL'.
00:48:33.50\00:48:37.03
STEPHEN DIDN'T GET TO SEE
THE ANSWER TO THAT PRAYER.
00:48:37.03\00:48:39.00
WILL HE SEE IT
WHEN HE GETS TO HEAVEN?
00:48:39.00\00:48:41.46
CAN YOU IMAGINE WHAT
THAT'S GOING TO BE LIKE?
00:48:41.46\00:48:43.50
DID JESUS PRAY FOR HIS ENEMIES?
ONE OF THE LAST THINGS CHRIST
00:48:43.50\00:48:46.90
PRAYED FOR WAS 'FATHER FORGIVE
THEM. THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT
00:48:46.90\00:48:49.76
THEY'RE DOING.' JESUS -
DID JESUS EVER PRAY FOR YOU?
00:48:49.76\00:48:54.90
IN JOHN 17 THE LORD SAYS, 'LORD,
I'M NOT ONLY PRAYING FOR THE
00:48:54.90\00:48:58.53
DISCIPLES BUT I'M PRAYING FOR
THOSE WHO WILL BELIEVE BECAUSE
00:48:58.53\00:49:02.26
OF THEIR WORD.'
WHO IS THAT? IT'S ME.
00:49:02.26\00:49:06.56
I BELIEVE BECAUSE OF
THE WORD OF THE GOSPELS.
00:49:06.56\00:49:09.43
JESUS SAID, 'I'M PRAYING FOR
YOU, DOUG. I'M PRAYING FOR YOU
00:49:09.43\00:49:12.76
BECAUSE YOU'RE ONE OF THOSE
WHO BELIEVE BECAUSE OF THE WORD
00:49:12.76\00:49:15.40
THAT THEY SPOKE.' AND
SO JESUS PRAYED FOR YOU.
00:49:15.40\00:49:19.26
AND THERE'S PROBABLY MANY OTHER
PLACES YOU COULD CITE FOR THAT.
00:49:19.26\00:49:23.46
ALRIGHT, SOMEONE LOOK UP HEBREWS
CHAPTER 2, VERSE 17 AND BEFORE
00:49:23.46\00:49:28.76
WE READ THAT I'M GOING TO READ -
THIS IS TALKING ABOUT 'TIMELESS
00:49:28.76\00:49:31.23
COMPASSION' - I'M GOING
TO READ LUKE 22, VERSE 31,
00:49:31.23\00:49:36.30
"AND THE LORD
SAID, 'SIMON, SIMON!
00:49:36.30\00:49:38.10
INDEED, SATAN HAS ASKED FOR YOU,
THAT HE MAY SIFT YOU AS WHEAT.
00:49:38.10\00:49:42.03
BUT I HAVE PRAYED FOR YOU, THAT
YOUR FAITH SHOULD NOT FAIL; AND
00:49:42.03\00:49:45.90
WHEN YOU HAVE RETURNED TO
ME, STRENGTHEN YOUR BRETHREN."
00:49:45.90\00:49:50.26
NOW JESUS KNEW THAT SATAN
WAS REALLY BATTLING OVER PETER'S
00:49:50.26\00:49:55.30
SOUL AND THAT THERE WAS
GOING TO BE A GREAT STRUGGLE.
00:49:55.30\00:49:58.53
YOU THINK PETER WAS THE ONLY
ONE WHO'S HAD THAT STRUGGLE?
00:49:58.53\00:50:01.90
ESPECIALLY WHEN PEOPLE
ARE AT THE POINT OF THOROUGH
00:50:01.90\00:50:04.93
CONVERSION, THE
DEVIL TIGHTENS HIS GRIP.
00:50:04.93\00:50:09.03
RARELY DO YOU SEE A BIGGER
BATTLE OVER A PERSON'S SOUL WHEN
00:50:09.03\00:50:12.86
THEY'RE COMING TO THE POINT
OF MAKING A COMPLETE SURRENDER.
00:50:12.86\00:50:16.40
WHEN THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WERE
ABOUT TO LEAVE EGYPT DID THE
00:50:16.40\00:50:18.96
PHARAOH CHASE AFTER THEM?
HE DID EVERYTHING HE COULD
00:50:18.96\00:50:21.56
BEFORE THEY CROSSED THE
RED SEA. HE EVEN WENT INTO THE
00:50:21.56\00:50:24.16
RED SEA AFTER THEM. THERE
WAS A TREMENDOUS STRUGGLE.
00:50:24.16\00:50:26.46
ALL THESE PLAGUES, ALL THAT
TURMOIL THAT HAPPENED IN EGYPT
00:50:26.46\00:50:28.70
AT THE TIME OF THE EXODUS IS
A SYMBOL FOR THE TURMOIL THAT
00:50:28.70\00:50:32.16
COMES TO A SOUL -
THERE'S WRESTLING THAT HAPPENS.
00:50:32.16\00:50:35.13
WHEN JACOB CAME INTO
THE PROMISED LAND THE GREAT
00:50:35.13\00:50:37.50
WRESTLING THAT HAPPENED - WHEN
A PERSON IS BEING BORN AGAIN.
00:50:37.50\00:50:42.10
AND JESUS SAID, 'SATAN
HAS DESIRED TO HAVE YOU.
00:50:42.10\00:50:45.06
HE WANTS TO DESTROY YOU BUT
I HAVE INTERCEDED FOR YOU.' DID
00:50:45.06\00:50:48.50
THE INTERCESSION OF PRAYER MAKE
A DIFFERENCE IN A SPECIAL WAY?
00:50:48.50\00:50:52.66
YEAH, AND HE CAME AROUND.
PETER COOPERATED WITH THAT
00:50:52.66\00:50:55.56
INTERCESSION WHERE
JUDAS DID NOT AND HE WAS LOST.
00:50:55.56\00:51:00.43
AND SO, THERE NEEDS
TO BE THAT INTERCESSION.
00:51:00.43\00:51:02.30
ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD, READ
FOR US HEBREWS 2:17, I THINK.
00:51:02.30\00:51:06.23
>>"THEREFORE, IN ALL THINGS
HE HAD TO BE MADE LIKE HIS
00:51:06.23\00:51:09.16
BRETHREN, THAT HE MIGHT BE
A MERCIFUL AND FAITHFUL HIGH
00:51:09.16\00:51:12.53
PRIEST IN THINGS PERTAINING
TO GOD, TO MAKE PROPITIATION
00:51:12.53\00:51:16.50
FOR THE SINS OF THE PEOPLE."
00:51:16.50\00:51:19.06
>>YOU KNOW, WHEN JESUS
PRAYED, HE PRAYED AS WE PRAY.
00:51:19.06\00:51:24.00
HE COULD RELATE TO
US, ISN'T THAT RIGHT?
00:51:24.00\00:51:26.33
LOOK AT THIS - AND THIS IS
FROM 'STEPS TO CHRIST' PAGE 93.
00:51:26.33\00:51:29.80
THESE ARE ALL ON
THAT CHAPTER ON PRAYER.
00:51:29.80\00:51:32.76
"JESUS HIMSELF, WHILE HE DWELT
AMONG MEN, WAS OFTEN IN PRAYER.
00:51:32.76\00:51:36.90
OUR SAVIOR IDENTIFIED HIMSELF
WITH OUR NEEDS AND OUR WEAKNESS
00:51:36.90\00:51:40.00
IN THAT HE BECAME A SUPPLIANT -
A PETITIONER - SEEKING FROM HIS
00:51:40.00\00:51:43.46
HEAVENLY FATHER FRESH SUPPLIES
OF STRENGTH THAT HE MIGHT COME
00:51:43.46\00:51:46.33
FORTH BRACED FOR DUTy AND TRIAL.
00:51:46.33\00:51:48.63
HE IS OUR EXAMPLE IN ALL
THINGS. HE IS A BROTHER IN OUR
00:51:48.63\00:51:52.60
INFIRMITIES, IN ALL
POINTS TEMPTED LIKE WE ARE.
00:51:52.60\00:51:56.60
BUT AS THE SINLESS ONE,
HIS NATURE RECOILED FROM EVIL.
00:51:56.60\00:52:00.06
HE ENDURED STRUGGLE AND TORTURE
OF SOUL IN A WORLD OF SIN.
00:52:00.06\00:52:03.80
HIS HUMANITY MADE PRAYER
A NECESSITY AND A PRIVILEGE.
00:52:03.80\00:52:07.66
HE FOUND COMFORT AND JOY
IN COMMUNION WITH HIS HEAVENLY
00:52:07.66\00:52:10.76
FATHER." - NOW HERE'S THE PART I
ESPECIALLY WANT YOU TO NOTICE -
00:52:10.76\00:52:13.63
"AND IF THE SAVIOR OF MEN,
THE SON OF GOD, FELT THE NEED OF
00:52:13.63\00:52:17.83
PRAYER, HOW MUCH MORE SHOULD
FEEBLE SINFUL MORTALS FEEL THE
00:52:17.83\00:52:22.43
NECESSITY OF FERVENT, CONSTANT
PRAYER?" JESUS HAS SET AN
00:52:22.43\00:52:26.53
EXAMPLE FOR US OF PRAYING
FREQUENTLY. JESUS - HE PRAYED
00:52:26.53\00:52:31.90
SUBMITTING TO THE FATHER'S
WILL - 'NOT MY WILL, THY WILL BE
00:52:31.90\00:52:34.96
DONE.' ISN'T THAT RIGHT?
JESUS WRESTLED IN PRAYER.
00:52:34.96\00:52:38.30
WHY DID HE HAVE TO
WRESTLE IN PRAYER LIKE JACOB?
00:52:38.30\00:52:40.56
IN THE GARDEN, WHEN HE SAID,
'NOT MY WILL, THY WILL BE DONE'
00:52:40.56\00:52:43.50
- DROPS OF BLOOD COMING
DOWN FROM HIS HEAD AS HE PRAYED.
00:52:43.50\00:52:46.13
WHEN HE PRAYED IN THE
WILDERNESS DURING THAT TIME OF
00:52:46.13\00:52:48.10
TEMPTATION WITH THE DEVIL.
00:52:48.10\00:52:50.70
PAUL SAYS IN ROMANS 8,
'LIKEWISE THE SPIRIT ALSO HELPS
00:52:50.70\00:52:54.33
IN OUR WEAKNESS FOR WE DON'T
KNOW WHAT WE SHOULD PRAY FOR AS
00:52:54.33\00:52:57.33
WE OUGHT TO BUT THE SPIRIT
HIMSELF MAKES INTERCESSION FOR
00:52:57.33\00:52:59.86
US WITH GROANINGS THAT CANNOT
BE UTTERED.' YOU KNOW, I THINK
00:52:59.86\00:53:04.36
RIGHT NOW IF THE VEIL
COULD BE DRAWN ASIDE -
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YOU EVER HAVE A
CLOSE CALL WITH DEATH?
00:53:09.86\00:53:16.70
I MEAN, YOU KNOW, YOU COULD PICK
YOUR OWN STORY AND PUT IT IN AND
00:53:16.70\00:53:21.43
- JUST THIS LAST WEEK I WAS
CHANGING LANES AND SOMEONE WAS
00:53:21.43\00:53:23.43
IN MY BLIND SPOT ON THE
FREEWAY - YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?
00:53:23.43\00:53:26.10
YOU LOOK IN YOUR
MIRROR, YOU DON'T SEE ANYTHING,
00:53:26.10\00:53:28.43
BUT YOU DON'T
TURN YOUR HEAD AROUND.
00:53:28.43\00:53:29.83
SOMEONE HAD COME INTO THAT SPOT
- THAT WINDOW WHERE YOU JUST
00:53:29.83\00:53:32.50
COULDN'T SEE THEM AND I WAS
CHANGING LANES AND JUST ABOUT
00:53:32.50\00:53:35.30
RAN THEM OFF THE ROAD INTO
ONCOMING TRAFFIC AND THEY HONKED
00:53:35.30\00:53:38.23
THEIR HORN AND I CORRECTED AND
SWERVED AND IT'S KIND OF SCARY
00:53:38.23\00:53:41.40
AND I THOUGHT, YOU KNOW,
'I'M REALLY GLAD THAT THERE ARE
00:53:41.40\00:53:43.80
ANGELS WATCHING OVER ME.' WE'VE
ALL HAD EXPERIENCES LIKE THAT,
00:53:43.80\00:53:47.90
YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT?
00:53:47.90\00:53:49.63
WELL WHEN THAT HAPPENS,
THEN YOU REALIZE THAT THERE IS A
00:53:49.63\00:53:54.53
SPIRITUAL WORLD RIGHT THERE AND
THE DEVIL WANTS TO DESTROY YOU.
00:53:54.53\00:53:58.10
AND I THINK IF WE COULD, RIGHT
NOW, HAVE THE VEIL DRAWN ASIDE
00:53:58.10\00:54:00.96
AND SEE HOW THE DEVIL IS TRYING
TO DESTROY US AND JESUS IS
00:54:00.96\00:54:03.80
INTERCEDING FOR US, WE'D
UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANCE OF
00:54:03.80\00:54:06.40
PRAYER - THAT WE'RE SO CARELESS,
YOU KNOW, ALL OF US ARE A
00:54:06.40\00:54:10.86
HEARTBEAT - ONE
BREATH - AWAY FROM ETERNITY.
00:54:10.86\00:54:14.20
AND WE'RE SO FLIPPANT
ABOUT REALIZING THE NECESSITY OF
00:54:14.20\00:54:19.13
CLINGING TO GOD AND PRAYING
WITHOUT CEASING THAT THERE IS A
00:54:19.13\00:54:21.86
TITANIC BATTLE - A COLOSSAL
BATTLE GOING ON ALL THE TIME
00:54:21.86\00:54:24.86
AROUND US FOR OUR SOULS
AND FOR THE SOULS OF OTHERS.
00:54:24.86\00:54:28.86
SO IT'S NOT JUST PRAYING,
'LORD, I WANT TO KNOW YOU.
00:54:28.86\00:54:31.43
I WANT TO BE SAVED.
00:54:31.43\00:54:32.80
I WANT TO BE IN YOUR PRESENCE.'
BUT ALSO INTERCEDING FOR OTHERS.
00:54:32.80\00:54:38.43
YOU EVER HAD AN IMPRESSION YOU
OUGHT TO GO SEE SOMEONE, MAYBE
00:54:38.43\00:54:40.53
TALK ABOUT SPIRITUAL THINGS AND
THEN YOU DIDN'T GO AND THEN THEY
00:54:40.53\00:54:46.80
DIED? THAT'S HAPPENED TO
ME. THAT'S A TERRIBLE, TERRIBLE
00:54:46.80\00:54:53.13
FEELING. YOU KNOW, YOU'RE
A PASTOR, THERE'S HUNDREDS OF
00:54:53.13\00:54:55.36
PEOPLE AND SOMETIMES YOU'RE
DOING AN EVANGELISTIC MEETING
00:54:55.36\00:54:58.20
THERE'S HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE
AND I'LL GET THIS - YOU'RE GOING
00:54:58.20\00:55:00.86
THROUGH THE NAMES AND 'OH, I
OUGHT TO CALL THAT PERSON, THEY
00:55:00.86\00:55:02.46
HAVEN'T BEEN HERE IN A FEW
NIGHTS' OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT
00:55:02.46\00:55:04.76
AND THEN YOU FAIL TO CALL AND
THEN A DAY OR TWO LATER YOU HEAR
00:55:04.76\00:55:09.33
THEY HAVE AN ACCIDENT, THEY HAVE
A HEART ATTACK - SOMETHING LIKE
00:55:09.33\00:55:11.06
THAT HAPPENS YOU THINK, 'OH!'
AND YOU REALIZE 'THE LORD WAS
00:55:11.06\00:55:14.96
IMPRESSING ME'. THAT'S PRETTY
HEAVY. THANK THE LORD I'VE HAD
00:55:14.96\00:55:20.30
THOSE IMPRESSIONS AND I DID
GO AND I DID CALL AND I DID PRAY
00:55:20.30\00:55:23.56
WITH THEM AND - I DID A
MEETING ONE TIME WHERE SOME
00:55:23.56\00:55:29.13
PEOPLE CAME TO A MEETING AND I
FELT IMPRESSED I SHOULD MAKE AN
00:55:29.13\00:55:31.30
ALTAR CALL AND I THOUGHT, 'NO, I
DID IT LAST NIGHT, I DON'T NEED
00:55:31.30\00:55:34.43
TO DO IT EVERY NIGHT.' AND I
THOUGHT, 'OH, THIS IS' - AND I
00:55:34.43\00:55:36.76
FELT A BATTLE WHETHER OR NOT
I SHOULD MAKE ANOTHER ALTAR CALL
00:55:36.76\00:55:40.06
AND I WENT AHEAD AND I
DID IT AND THEN SOME PEOPLE,
00:55:40.06\00:55:44.93
SPECIFICALLY I WON'T TELL YOU
BECAUSE IT WAS ACTUALLY IN THE
00:55:44.93\00:55:47.20
NEWS AND I DON'T WANT TO - SOME
PEOPLE RESPONDED DURING THAT
00:55:47.20\00:55:49.80
ALTAR CALL AND THEY DIED THE
NEXT DAY IN A CAR CRASH WHERE A
00:55:49.80\00:55:54.73
TRUCK, IN THE FOG, STOPPED
AND THEIR CAR RAN INTO IT AND
00:55:54.73\00:55:57.70
EXPLODED INTO FLAMES
AND THEY DIED INSTANTLY.
00:55:57.70\00:56:00.50
AND I THOUGHT TO MYSELF, 'I AM
SO THANKFUL I FELT IMPRESSED TO
00:56:00.50\00:56:04.03
MAKE THAT ALTAR CALL.' THESE
KIND OF BATTLES ARE GOING ON IN
00:56:04.03\00:56:07.56
THE BACKGROUND ALL THE TIME AND
WE NEED TO BE PRAYING FOR SOULS.
00:56:07.56\00:56:11.53
THE DEVIL IS
FIGHTING TO DESTROY PEOPLE.
00:56:11.53\00:56:13.36
GOD'S BUSINESS IS SAVING
PEOPLE - THAT'S HIS NUMBER ONE
00:56:13.36\00:56:16.03
BUSINESS. THE
DEVIL'S NUMBER ONE BUSINESS
00:56:16.03\00:56:17.80
IS TO TAKE LIFE - KEEP PEOPLE
IN A LOST, WORLDLY STATE AND
00:56:17.80\00:56:22.00
THEN SWEEP THEM
INTO ETERNITY UNPREPARED.
00:56:22.00\00:56:25.03
AND SO WE OUGHT TO BE
PRAYING THAT WE'RE READY.
00:56:25.03\00:56:27.66
WE OUGHT TO BE
PRAYING THAT OTHERS ARE READY.
00:56:27.66\00:56:29.70
THIS IS WHAT PRAYER AND
DISCIPLESHIP IS ALL ABOUT.
00:56:29.70\00:56:34.06
LET ME READ, JUST IN
CLOSING, ONE MORE VERSE.
00:56:34.06\00:56:36.73
AND THIS IS FROM ACTS CHAPTER
1, VERSES 13 AND 14, BEFORE THE
00:56:36.73\00:56:40.16
TIME OF PENTECOST AND THE
HOLY SPIRIT WAS POURED OUT.
00:56:40.16\00:56:43.20
"AND WHEN THEY HAD ENTERED,
THEY WENT UP INTO THE UPPER ROOM
00:56:43.20\00:56:49.40
WHERE THEY WERE STAYING: PETER,
JAMES, JOHN AND ANDREW; PHILIP
00:56:49.40\00:56:52.30
AND THOMAS; BARTHOLOMEW
AND MATTHEW; JAMES THE SON OF
00:56:52.30\00:56:54.23
ALPHAEUS AND SIMON THE ZEALOT;
AND JUDAS THE SON OF JAMES.
00:56:54.23\00:56:57.36
THESE ALL CONTINUED
WITH ONE ACCORD IN PRAYER AND
00:56:57.36\00:57:01.13
SUPPLICATION, WITH THE WOMEN
AND MARY THE MOTHER OF JESUS,
00:57:01.13\00:57:04.50
AND WITH HIS BROTHERS."
00:57:04.50\00:57:06.50
THEY WERE UP THERE IN THE
UPPER ROOM CONTINUING IN PRAYER,
00:57:06.50\00:57:09.56
PUTTING ASIDE THEIR DIFFERENCES,
PRAYING FOR THE GREAT WORK OF
00:57:09.56\00:57:11.80
PREACHING THE GOSPEL, PRAYING
THAT THEY COULD BE EMPOWERED TO
00:57:11.80\00:57:14.46
REACH THE LOST. WHAT
HAPPENED IN THE NEXT CHAPTER?
00:57:14.46\00:57:18.20
HOLY SPIRIT IS POURED OUT
IN PENTECOSTAL PROPORTIONS.
00:57:18.20\00:57:21.56
DO WE NEED A DOUBLE PORTION
OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN THIS
00:57:21.56\00:57:24.46
DAY AND AGE? THEN WE -
WHAT DO YOU THINK? SHOULD WE BE
00:57:24.46\00:57:27.83
MAKING PRAYER A PRIORITY?
PRAYING FOR EACH OTHER?
00:57:27.83\00:57:32.60
PRAYING IN OUR FAMILIES. PRAYING
WHETHER WE FEEL LIKE IT OR NOT?
00:57:32.60\00:57:35.66
PRAYING FOR OUR OWN SOULS
AND THE SOULS OF THE LOST?
00:57:35.66\00:57:38.36
I JUST - I THINK COMMUNION WITH
HEAVEN IS A GREAT PRIVILEGE WE
00:57:38.36\00:57:41.20
DON'T REALLY APPRECIATE.
IN CLOSING, SOME OF YOU MAYBE
00:57:41.20\00:57:44.00
DIDN'T HEAR AT THE BEGINNING
WE HAVE A FREE BOOK ON PRAYER.
00:57:44.00\00:57:47.30
I HOPE THAT YOU'LL SEND FOR
IT. IF YOU DO, PLEASE PROMISE TO
00:57:47.30\00:57:50.10
READ IT AND THEN
SHARE IT WITH SOMEBODY.
00:57:50.10\00:57:52.03
IT'S CALLED, 'TEACH US TO PRAY'.
IT'S OFFER #717 - ASK FOR THAT
00:57:52.03\00:57:56.13
NUMBER WHEN YOU CALL -
#717. HERE'S THE PHONE NUMBER:
00:57:56.13\00:57:58.73
866-788-3966.
WE'LL SEND IT TO YOU
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FOR FREE AND TIME IS UP.
GOD WILLING WE'LL GET TOGETHER
00:58:03.23\00:58:06.93
AND STUDY HIS WORD
NEXT WEEK. GOD BLESS.
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(MUSIC)
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