Participants: Shelley Quinn (Host), Pavel Goia
Series Code: IAA
Program Code: IAA000280
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00:30 Hello, I'm Shelley Quinn.
00:31 And welcome again to "Issues and Answers". 00:34 Today, we're gonna be talking about prayer, 00:36 something that is so important 00:37 because this is the way that we communicate with God. 00:40 I want to share a scripture with you 00:42 that you may wonder what this has to do 00:45 with probe that you'll soon see. 00:47 It comes from Hebrews Chapter 12. 00:49 I'm gonna read verses 1 and 2. 00:51 And the Bible says, "Therefore, 00:53 since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses." 00:56 This is following the faith Chapter of Hebrews 11 00:59 talking about those who walked by faith. 01:01 It says, "Let us strip off 01:05 and throw aside every encumbrance and every sin 01:08 which so readily clings to us and entangles us. 01:12 Let us run with patient endurance 01:15 that appointed course of the race that is set before us. 01:19 Looking unto Jesus, 01:20 the author and finisher of faith." 01:23 And that's what this whole life is all about, 01:27 is learning to run the race of faith, 01:30 keeping our eyes focused on Jesus 01:32 and throwing off that sin that easily entangles us. 01:36 I hope that you've had the opportunity 01:38 to see our guest before. 01:42 His returning today, his name is Pastor Pavel Goia 01:46 and he is from Janesville, Wisconsin District, 01:49 where he pastors three churches. 01:51 Pavel, we're so glad to have you back. 01:54 Thank you for inviting me. 01:55 You know, we could probably do hundred programs 01:58 and never run out of the stories 02:00 that you have to tell us about prayer. 02:02 It's just amazing to me 02:04 how God has led you in your life 02:07 and taught you to be such a man of faith in prayer. 02:09 And you've seen many miracles in your life. 02:12 God is wonderful. He is wonderful indeed. 02:15 So we are talking about the-- I want to say problems 02:21 'cause it is a problem in the way 02:22 some of this approach the Lord. 02:24 And we have already talked about, 02:27 sometimes what we do is we go to God 02:30 and ask Him to do for us what He wants us to do, 02:33 what He will empower us to do. 02:35 Like, we say, "Lord, feed the poor." 02:38 And God is saying, "You get out and help feed the poor. 02:41 Pray for laborers in the field." 02:43 We've also talked about focusing on problems 02:46 instead of focusing on promises. 02:49 We've talked about putting the focus on ourselves. 02:53 In other words, we go to God 02:54 and it's all about us 02:56 when that's just the reverse of what it should be. 02:59 It should be all about Him saying, "Lord, what-- 03:03 You do Your will for the glory of Your name. 03:05 Whatever will glorify Your name." 03:07 So we're going to continue today 03:09 and talk about some more of the problems 03:12 how people are approaching prayer 03:14 with a wrong attitude. 03:16 What's another one you want to share with us? 03:18 Yes. Excuse me. 03:22 Very often people struggle 03:25 with the same scene again and again and again. 03:28 Sin is a big issue in our lives. 03:31 And people love and hate sin in the same time 03:36 and people want to change and they don't have power 03:39 and they go back with the same sin 03:41 and they ask forgiveness and then they do it again 03:43 and then they feel bad to ask for forgiveness again 03:45 because they know they're gonna do it again. 03:47 And it seems that they never actually 03:49 have the power to overcome sin. 03:52 So people come and ask, how can we overcome sin? 03:55 And I was praying for this very subject for a long time. 03:59 And in this prayer seminar, God showed me 04:01 some that I never, never observed before, 04:04 never noticed and just gave me joy. 04:07 Actually, I could say, it seems 04:10 that the God started to show me how to overcome sin, 04:14 how to gain victory over sin. 04:16 Oh, I know that everyone 04:17 who is listening to your voice right now 04:19 wants to hear that answer. 04:21 And I'm gonna first name it 04:24 and then eventually give a story about it. 04:25 Okay. 04:28 It seems that when we pray for forgiveness and for change, 04:35 we pray again and again and again and again 04:37 over the same sin and it's an attitude problem, 04:41 a perspective problem. 04:43 We keep our eyes on the sin. 04:46 God, help me get rid of the sin. 04:47 God, so--The more you pray against that sin, 04:49 where is our mind and our eyes? 04:51 On the sin. On the sin. 04:53 God wants us to confess. 04:56 But after confession, in faith, if we confess, 05:01 that's a deal between God and us. 05:04 If we do our part and confess, 05:06 God is certainly going to do His part too and forgive and, 05:09 not just to forgive that would not good enough, 05:11 but cleanse us, too. 05:13 He says in 1 John 1:9 that, 05:15 "If we will confess our sins, 05:17 He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins 05:19 and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." 05:20 Amen. And this is a big verse, 05:23 excuse me, that we read and go over. 05:25 And you don't understand the value. 05:28 If we confess, God is faithful and just. 05:31 He forgives and He cleanses right there, 05:34 right then when you confess. 05:36 Reading in Great Controversy, 05:38 I believe it's between Chapter 40 and 42, 05:40 it is a quotation that says, "When we confess, 05:43 we should be rejoiced, we should be happy 05:45 that we're forgiven and cleansed. 05:48 And if we're in faith, take God's word for it. 05:51 We are not in sin anymore. 05:52 We have power over that sin." 05:54 The problem is that we stand up for prayer 05:58 and we're not sure we're forgiven, 05:59 so we remain in sin. 06:02 And I cannot understand so I said, 06:04 "So what am I supposed to do?" 06:05 So simple, just so simple to accept fully 06:08 that I'm forgiven and to praise God 06:11 that I'm cleansed and praise God 06:13 that I didn't do it actually because I'm-- 06:16 It's all erased, it's all forgiven. 06:18 And Jesus gave me His righteousness 06:20 and suddenly came in my mind 06:22 that Abraham believed God and in the Hebrew says 06:26 it was considered righteousness, 06:28 but he says as righteous as God Himself. 06:31 So when we accept in faith, that's forgiveness. 06:34 Jesus takes it and we get His righteousness, 06:37 we are as righteous as Jesus Himself. 06:40 Amen. So I just rejoiced. 06:42 And suddenly I got the new start. 06:44 I had new motivation, 06:46 not to look over that sin anymore, 06:48 but to actually praise God for a new life. 06:51 You know, the Bible tells us 06:52 in Lamentations Chapter 3 06:53 that He is the God of new beginnings. 06:56 It actually says that His mercies 06:58 are new every morning, greatest as faithfulness. 07:01 But, you know, one thing that I add to that, 07:03 Pavel, is when I pray and ask Him, 07:07 I confess my sin, I know He's forgiving me, 07:10 but I also add Acts 5:31 that-- 07:13 It says that Jesus is the one 07:16 Who grants forgiveness of sin and grants repentance. 07:21 So I pray, Lord, grant me repentance, 07:24 give me repentance, turn me away from the sin, 07:27 give me the power to overcome the sin. 07:31 And then I just accept by faith that He has. 07:34 He will. Amen. 07:36 It's like, Jacob. 07:38 His father asked him who are you? 07:41 He pretended to be who he was not, 07:44 as we many times do and he-- 21 years later, 07:49 after trying to solve his problems on his own power, 07:53 in his own power, through his own methods. 07:57 He was a good Christian. 07:59 In fact, he had that dream of the ladder 08:02 and he dedicated his life to God praying, 08:04 if You bless me, if You take care of me, 08:06 if You give me food, if You provide, 08:09 if You bring me back, then You'll be my God. 08:11 When God said, "I'm the God of your father, 08:13 Abraham and Isaiah." 08:15 But He didn't say also your God. 08:17 Just the father of your-- 08:18 The God of your parents, fathers. 08:21 And he says that strange pair, 08:23 if You take care of me then You'll be my God. 08:27 God walks with him. 08:28 And after 21 years when he is 60, and that night, 08:33 he was fighting God and running away from God 08:35 without realizing that he was fighting God. 08:38 And he says when God touched him 08:41 and he realized that He's God, 08:42 He's not a stranger, He's not a thief. 08:44 He says, "I'm not gonna let you go 08:46 before you bless me." 08:47 And that's persistent, consistent, serious prayer, 08:51 I call it-- I compare it 08:53 with the anemic prayers we pray. 08:55 Anemic? Anemic prayers we pray. 08:58 That's the real deal, the real prayer. 09:01 I'm not gonna let you go. 09:03 I die here, but I'm determined. 09:07 And God instead of saying, "Okay, I bless you." 09:08 God says, "Tell me your name." And this is good. 09:12 It's excellent because it is a repentance 09:15 that you just mentioned. 09:16 God said you pretended you to be who you're not. 09:19 I want you to own who you are and then I can bless you. 09:24 So he says, "I'm the deceiver, 09:25 I'm the heel-catcher, I'm Jacob. 09:26 I'm not your son." 09:28 So God says, "Okay, I'm gonna--" 09:29 And as soon as we repent, we have knowledge who we are. 09:33 Confess and repent. God does a few things for us. 09:36 First, God changed His name that means a new name 09:40 and you start a new character. 09:42 He was adopted. 09:44 Secondly, God gave him a new life, a new start. 09:47 Amen. God gave him the blessing. 09:49 And God may him the blessing for many other nations. 09:52 And the fourth one, the same night 09:54 God show to His brother in dream 09:56 and said, "Do not touch your brother." 09:57 So God started to fight His battles. 10:00 Exactly, and that was after that persistent prayer. 10:04 It was more, you know, we've discussed 10:06 how sometimes people come and they lay their plans up 10:09 before the Lord and say, "Lord, 10:10 I want You to do this, this, 10:11 and this and this for me." 10:13 And not really confess their sins, 10:16 but when he came to him after praying 10:19 that way before and not realizing 10:20 he really had made him God of his life. 10:23 When he came to-- When Jacob came to God 10:27 and really prayed in such a way as to say, 10:30 "This is who I am. 10:31 Oh, Lord, don't leave me this way. 10:34 Let me be like the one who is holding on to you, 10:37 I will not let You go till You bless me." 10:40 Then God became his God. 10:43 It reminds me of Luke 18:8, 10:45 Jesus is talking about the story of the persistent widow 10:49 and how she kept asking Him, kept asking 10:52 and Jesus is commending her for this 10:54 because it says in Luke 18:8, 10:57 "When the Son of Man, will he find faith on earth 11:00 when he returns?" 11:02 And that's that persistent pressing into prayer 11:05 and saying, "God, I'm not gonna let You go 11:07 till You find me." 11:09 It is so nice the fact that God-- 11:14 This is God's covenant with us. 11:16 God offers to care of it and we try to fight 11:20 a supernatural battle in natural powers. 11:24 And for a supernatural, we need supernatural powers. 11:28 So that's the reason we need to go to God 11:30 as we are, confess and then ask Him for help 11:35 and believing His promise. 11:37 It's way to control of our lives to Him 11:39 and believe in His power. 11:42 We cannot please God without faith. 11:44 I want to share a scripture 11:45 'cause I know you love this one too. 11:47 But I just want you to hear that in the audience. 11:50 In 1 Thessalonians 5:23, it says, 11:54 "May the God of peace himself sanctify you." 11:57 He is the one that's going to make you holy 11:59 and set you apart. 12:00 It says, "And may your spirit, 12:02 soul and the body be preserved sound, 12:05 completely blameless until the coming of our Lord Jesus." 12:09 Then verse 24 says, "Faithful is he who calls you 12:14 and he will also do it." 12:17 What you're saying to me is that 12:21 when we get to that point, if we're focusing on our sin 12:24 and not focusing on God's power, 12:27 transforming power of the word and the spirit to change us, 12:31 we're gonna be as long as we continually 12:35 confess the same sin over and over 12:36 with our focus on the sin, 12:38 we'll never gonna be victorious over that sin 12:41 till we get to that point where you're saying, 12:42 "Lord, You're the one that sanctifies me, 12:44 You're the one that's working in me to willing to act, 12:47 You're the one that's gonna give me 12:48 the power to overcome the sin." 12:51 We seek in Mary, she goes again and again and again 12:54 to the same place and when finally Jesus says, 12:58 "I do not condemn you." 13:01 And Jesus says, "Go and sin no more 13:03 But it also can be translated, 13:05 therefore you can go and sin no more. 13:07 Only accept this gift of-- I'm not condemned. 13:11 Pray for me." 13:12 He is offering this gift to me then we have motivation 13:15 and we can go and sin no more. 13:18 What impresses me the most in this Jacob's story 13:21 is that after God forgave him and changed him, 13:26 it's forgiveness and cleanseness and the new life. 13:29 Jacob got it and now he says, 13:32 "Now I want you to tell me your name." 13:35 So he says kind of like, "Moses, I want to know you, 13:38 I want to show-- I want to know who you are, 13:40 I want to know my God. 13:41 If I know my God, I'm safe. I want to know you." 13:45 And end of the verse says as the light came 13:48 that next morning as the sun was bright, 13:51 he called that place Peniel. 13:54 I've seen God's face 13:55 and I know that I'm redeemed, I'm saved. 13:59 And he was limping, but he was saved. Amen. 14:05 Like Moses, I want to see your face. 14:07 When you have that privilege to get to know him 14:10 and to focus on him not on the sin, 14:12 we know that we are saved. 14:14 That's wonderful. I love that point. 14:16 So and what is the next point that you want to make? 14:20 Next point, next point. 14:21 We usually go to God with an agenda 14:26 that we prepared and doesn't have to be a bad one 14:31 and we say please bless me and held me in this plans. 14:35 And many times that agenda maybe good, 14:39 but we have to place it before God and say, 14:41 "These are my plans, You bless them 14:43 the way You want, whenever You want." 14:45 What are your plans? 14:48 That reminds of me something 14:50 when I was first in ministry full time 14:52 and I came up here to do a program on 3ABN 14:54 and we were running a ministry out of our home in Texas 14:57 and just the exposure on 3ABN, 14:59 I was getting all these phone calls, 15:01 people were calling for prayer and counseling 15:04 and I was trying to write a book. 15:06 And I had a conference president who called 15:08 and we were talking and I told him, 15:10 "I'm spending 8 hours a day on the phone on prayer." 15:14 And I said, "These poor people just need help." 15:17 And he made a comment to me and he said, 15:19 "Shelley, do think that's God's will?" 15:21 And I'm thinking, "Well, of course 15:22 that would be God's will 15:24 because this is a good work I'm working with His people." 15:28 And so more or less how I responded, 15:31 but I'm still at the same time frustrated 15:33 'cause I know God's given me a project 15:35 that I'm not getting completed. 15:37 And this pastor who was a conference president 15:39 said to me, "Sometimes, Shelly--" 15:42 He said, "If you don't take your plans to the Lord, 15:44 you'll end up doing the good 15:46 and sacrificing the best." 15:49 That's what you're saying. Yeah. 15:52 God has not just a plan for our life, 15:55 a generic big plan, 15:57 but He has a plan for everyday, every hour. 15:59 I believe that. 16:00 And we many times walk by 16:03 because we don't know that plan. 16:05 And I learnt in the morning to go before God and I say, 16:07 "Make me sensitive, 16:09 open my eyes to see Your plan today. 16:11 I want to fulfill my plan, I want to be part of it." 16:14 I don't say this is my-- I do say this is my plan, 16:16 but then I say, "Open my eyes to see Your plan 16:19 because Yours has priority over to mine." 16:21 And I'll give you a small, very short example. 16:24 My wife and I were driving from Tennessee to Wisconsin, 16:28 we were visiting our kids for few days 16:31 and before getting in the car as usually we prayed 16:33 and I said, "God, now we'll be driving 12 hours, 16:37 I don't want to loose 12 hours. 16:39 We need to do something, maybe we listen to tapes, 16:42 maybe we talk, maybe we call people on the phone, 16:44 but if You have plan for us, please make it clear." 16:49 We got in the car, no answer 16:51 then we were driving, after about 5, 6 hours drive, 16:55 we're on the interstate and I hear the voice 16:57 talking to me, "Call your classmate and the name." 17:02 And I smile and I said, "I'm not gonna call him, 17:05 that guys talks too much. 17:07 He doesn't stop." 17:09 You knew you wouldn't get off the phone, huh? 17:11 He is like--He is-- You don't need to unplug him 17:14 because he goes on battery, you know, he goes forever. 17:18 And I said, "I'm not gonna call him." 17:20 But the voice said, "Didn't you pray 17:21 that I show you My plan." 17:23 So I said, "Honey, 17:24 God is impressing me to call this man." 17:27 I said, "Honey, if you call him, 17:29 we end up visiting with him 5, 6, 7 hours. 17:32 We never get to the board meeting tonight, 17:34 we don't get home in time." 17:36 And I said, "Do not call him." 17:37 I said, "Honey, didn't we pray that." 17:39 I said then call him. So I called him. 17:43 When I called him, he said, "Where are you?" 17:46 Well, I'm just driving by your exit. 17:48 He said, "Listen, I was praying for the last two hours." 17:51 It was that snow storm in the late winter this year. 17:56 And he said, "I was going on a mission trip overseas 18:00 and because of the storm the bus didn't come. 18:03 My car doesn't work 18:04 and I cannot find anybody to give me a ride." 18:07 He said, "I know you have four wheel drive, 18:09 I know you go that direction, 18:11 would you drop me to airport?" 18:13 So I pick him up, I got him right in time 18:15 to catch the plane. 18:16 I was so happy. I got late for-- 18:18 I didn't even go to the board meeting. 18:20 Do it, I know you told me. 18:22 And I had such a fulfillment, 18:24 so much joy that I said, "God, 18:27 show me the plans we have for this tape." 18:30 You know, every time 18:32 I have prayed for divine appointment. 18:35 And I just challenge you to do this 18:37 at home sometime try it. 18:38 If you pray in the day and you say-- 18:40 You know, the Bible does say in Proverbs, 18:42 "Commit your plans to the Lord 18:43 and He will cause them to succeed." 18:45 Well, that's after you spent a lot of time 18:47 with the Lord saying, "Lord, are these Your plans?" 18:50 But if you would get up in the morning and say, 18:52 Lord, this is my plan for the day. 18:54 Now you may interrupt-- If this isn't Your perfect plan 18:58 then interrupt in anyway 18:59 and if you say Lord give me a divine appointment. 19:02 He will every time. 19:04 He'll bring some stranger that you can witness to. 19:07 And here you had a divine appointment 19:09 to get this pastor to the airport 19:11 so that he could go on this missionary trip. 19:13 And it doesn't have to be a big miracle. 19:16 It's just--God has His plans every second, every hour. 19:20 And if He doesn't talk now then you must wait. 19:24 Whenever He talks, we must be ready. 19:26 You know, you said something about Jacob 19:30 that toward the end after he had confessed 19:33 who he was to God and God changed His name 19:36 from Jacob to Israel right there. 19:38 He gave him spiritual name, but now Jacob looks to Him 19:42 and says I want to know your name, who are You? 19:46 Don't you feel that one of the important parts of prayer 19:50 is not just to lay our request before the Lord 19:54 which we're supposed to do, but the important part-- 19:57 Most important part of prayer is coming 19:59 and saying, "Lord, I want to know who You are, 20:03 I want to understand Your love, lead me, guide me, 20:05 direct me, you know, take me in Your word, 20:08 show me who You are. 20:10 I want to expand my vision of who You are 20:12 and I want to understand who I am in Christ Jesus." 20:16 Absolutely. 20:19 When I used to date my wife-- Actually I started to-- 20:24 I put my eyes on her since she was three years old 20:28 she was my very first and last girl friend. 20:31 How old were you? Six. 20:32 You were six, okay. 20:34 And sure my sister was making fun of me. 20:36 She said, you're gonna change your mind many times. 20:40 Well, when I was dating her, 20:44 we were meeting at the school or at the church 20:47 or in the park and I was watching her face 20:50 and closing my eyes and trying to picture her in my mind. 20:54 Her eyes, her cheeks, her mouth, her lips, her nose. 20:59 Close enough that when I go home 21:01 I could imagine her and then I got to understand 21:05 why God would compare our relationship with marriage 21:09 because I started to learn when I got to prayer 21:11 instead of just asking, asking, asking, you know, 21:14 it was spiritual thinks asking. 21:17 I'm trying to learn how is God, 21:20 who is God, how He looks? 21:22 What is His character? 21:24 And that's mediation and not the oriental mediation 21:26 that you focus on nothing or focus on yourself. 21:29 But the Biblical mediation that you talk 21:31 and then you let God talk to you 21:33 and you open the word and read 21:35 and then you contemplate upon God's character 21:38 what He has done for you. 21:40 And not-- When we praise God, 21:43 we say, thank You, for Your blessings. 21:44 That's not good enough. He is like forgive my sins. 21:46 That's not good enough. You got to be specific. 21:49 Do not forget any of His blessings. 21:51 So I start mentioning one by one. 21:54 You have helped me that time when I was specific. 21:56 I praise You. 21:57 And then I contemplate of what or what God has done for me 22:02 and then what I contemplate, 22:03 then what I contemplate on His cross and His love 22:05 and His blessing and His miracles. 22:07 The more I--The happier I am and the more 22:09 I get to know Him. 22:11 So when I spend time with God, 22:14 that's the best prayer and it happens 22:16 that throughout the day I have more victories 22:19 then in the days when I pray for my needs. 22:21 It's true, it's true. 22:22 And it's reminding me, I believe it's Psalm 100 22:25 that says, "Enter His gates with Thanksgiving in your heart, 22:28 enter His courts with praise." 22:30 The way I look at it and I distinguish 22:33 Thanksgiving and praise. 22:34 Thanksgiving, I'm thanking God for everything 22:37 He's done in my life, but praise 22:39 is where I'm praising Him for His attributes, 22:43 His character, His characteristics. 22:45 And you know, we-- The Bible tells us 22:47 we were born. 22:49 I mean, we were created to praise God. 22:51 And I always ask people why. 22:55 Do we feel that our praise in anyway changes God? 22:59 Not so ever. But praise changes us. 23:03 And we come into the Lord, thanking Him 23:06 for what He's done, remembering what He's done. 23:08 And then beginning to praise Him 23:10 for who He is all of His characteristics, 23:13 it changes our attitude so that as we're pressing 23:17 into His presence and in prayer. 23:19 We recognize who were coming before. 23:23 Absolutely. And it is so nice, it is so simple. 23:27 Paul says that we are changed 23:29 from glory to glory by beholding. 23:31 As we behold Him, He's worth all our praises 23:34 regardless how many. 23:35 As we praise Him and behold Him, 23:37 we don't even realizing, we start shining like Moses, 23:41 reflecting His character in our life. Yes, yes. 23:44 Have you found-- One of my favorite parts 23:49 for praise is I'll go back through the Psalm 23:51 sometimes and read them 23:53 and right them out in my own words or something 23:55 because David-- The only way-- 23:57 And I don't mean this to sound wrong. 23:59 I hope it doesn't, but when I look at David's love 24:02 for the Lord, it was the word 24:05 that I would want to describe it is as far as 24:09 an American word would be or an English word would be. 24:13 It's almost like a romantic love. 24:14 He had such an intimate love for the Lord 24:17 that you read what He wrote 24:19 and it's almost like what we with-- 24:21 You're talking about dating your wife. 24:22 He talked about God in such glowing ways. 24:25 It's like a man who's got this love for a bride. 24:30 I think that praise is something 24:32 that we really haven't learned how to do very well. 24:35 What do you think? Absolutely. 24:37 I think that we spend so much time in prayer 24:40 asking and just so little praising. 24:43 We should switch it around 24:45 and should spend just a little asking 24:47 because God knows, He knows our needs. 24:50 What can we tell Him that He doesn't know? 24:53 Now He cares for us more than 24:54 we do certainly He does. 24:56 So we don't need to inform Him, 24:58 to explain Him to given Him methods 25:00 how to solve our problems. 25:02 He had a solution before we had a problem. 25:04 So we'd rather say, You know, my problems, 25:08 I just put them before You just to give Your permission, 25:10 just to let You know that I need You, 25:13 may your will be done. 25:14 But now I'm gonna spend all my time focusing on You 25:18 and knowing who You are, I'm praising You. 25:20 So we should switches around 25:21 and I spend more time praising God. 25:23 And one way that you've discussed in the past 25:25 and something I also do is to make prayer 25:28 a two way communication you get into the word 25:31 and let the Lord speak to you through the word. 25:33 So when you're praying and asking God, 25:36 "Oh, Lord, I want to know You." 25:38 Don't just sit there say, Lord, 25:40 show me who You are in the word 25:42 and get into the word in a new way 25:43 where you are contemplating the character of God. 25:47 And sometimes we pray 25:49 and stand up and hurry to leave. 25:51 Oh, boy. That's big mistake in prayer. 25:54 Exactly. 25:55 In "Thoughts From The Mount Of Blessing" 26:00 I believe, the English name page 52 I believe, 26:05 52 to 58 right there it says, 26:08 when every voice from our mind is hush, 26:11 is quite after we study and pray 26:14 in the quietness of our soul, we allow God to talk to us. 26:19 So when I pray, I pray, I study 26:22 and then I think about it then I pray again, 26:24 I study and then I think. 26:25 I don't just pray and leave 26:27 or just stay quite for one hour. 26:29 Like, I just myself I cannot do that. My mind goes. 26:33 You know, when the Lord first started teaching me 26:36 to pray for an hour, two hours at a time 26:38 in the morning, I remember the very first time, 26:42 I thought I would prayed for two hours 26:43 and I thought I was through praying 26:45 and all of a sudden He said, 26:47 "Be still and know that I am God." 26:50 And it is-- There is something. 26:51 Especially even when we're praying for healing, 26:54 if we're praying sometimes I'll pray with somebody 26:56 and we have earnest prayer as soon as we finish praying, 26:59 everybody just starts talking normally 27:01 and you go no, no, no, no, sit here 27:03 and receive from the Lord, you know, if we need to. 27:06 Our time is already has slipped away so fast, 27:11 but we want you to come back again. 27:13 And, Pastor Pavel Goia, thank you so much 27:16 for being a man of God. 27:18 Thank you so much for the witness 27:20 that you are for the Lord. 27:21 Praise the Lord. Thank you for inviting me here. 27:23 Well, it's our joy. 27:25 And I hope those of you at home 27:28 will throw off those sins that easily entangle, 27:31 you look at that great cloud of witnesses 27:33 that we have in the Hebrews 11, 27:35 Chapter of Faith and pray to God 27:38 that He will help you to keep your eyes 27:41 on our Lord Jesus Christ, 27:42 the Author and Finisher of our faith 27:44 because when you've got your eyes on Him, 27:46 you will become who you behold. 27:49 May the Lord multiply His mercy, love and grace to you. 27:52 Please join us again. |
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