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Series Code: TDYFW
Program Code: TDYFW018002A
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00:01 I want to spend my life
00:07 Mending broken people 00:12 I want to spend my life 00:18 Removing pain 00:23 Lord, let my words 00:29 Heal a heart that hurts 00:34 I want to spend my life 00:40 Mending broken people 00:45 I want to spend my life 00:51 Mending broken people 01:08 Hello and welcome to another 3ABN Today Family Worship. 01:13 We are so glad that you've joined us 01:15 and happy Sabbath to you. 01:16 That's right. 01:17 Phew, it's been a long week, a busy week, 01:20 but a good week serving the Lord. 01:22 And I don't know how your week was. 01:24 Hopefully, I'm sure it was busy as well. 01:26 All of us have a lot, I know, on each of our place, 01:28 I'm sure you at home do as well, 01:30 but we just appreciate you taking the time 01:33 to tune in for the Family Worship. 01:35 And I think most importantly is spending time with God 01:38 and His Word. 01:40 I know that I always look forward 01:41 to the Sabbath hours 01:43 and especially during the winter months, 01:45 the sunset turns to be a little bit earlier, 01:48 at least in Southern Illinois anyway. 01:50 And so I know Jill and I oftentimes say, 01:53 you know, we're grateful that sundown comes... 01:55 Friday night's here. A little bit earlier, yeah. 01:57 That's for sure. 01:59 But thank you for your prayers and support 02:00 to the ministry of 3ABN. 02:02 It's definitely a team effort and we appreciate your support. 02:05 Many of you from the very beginning 02:07 and we thank you for that. 02:08 And I think a neat thing is this is a family, 02:10 we'll introduce who we have here. 02:12 But you're also part of the family. 02:15 And though we may never meet here 02:17 on this side of heaven, 02:18 we look forward to eternity will build us spend 02:21 many, many hours together 02:22 and of course with Jesus Christ. 02:23 But who do we have around the table? 02:25 What a blessing Sabbath is? That's right. 02:26 You know, just to come apart from the cares of the week 02:29 and spend time with you, our 3ABN family at home, 02:32 and our 3ABN family around the table here. 02:35 We have Dee Hilderbrand on our right, 02:37 and your production coordinator and been here for many years. 02:41 Oh, over 20 years. 02:43 Is that over 20? Yes, 22. 02:46 So it's been a joy being here watching 3ABN grow, 02:50 watching me grow, watching other people, 02:52 it's just been an amazing experience. 02:55 I couldn't imagine being anywhere else. 02:57 Never intended on being here 02:58 this long but can't imagine being anywhere else now. 03:01 And we can't imagine 3ABN without you as well, 03:03 you know, what I mean, 03:04 Dee is just part of the family here with 3ABN. 03:07 We were closer together, 03:08 Dee, and I appreciate all of the hard effort and work 03:11 that Dee puts into 3ABN, a lot of scheduling too. 03:14 And you wouldn't believe 03:15 how complicated scheduling can get 03:17 with all the different networks and the staff 03:18 and the different things, Dee, that happen. 03:21 Nobody wants my job. 03:24 But you are a joy as a boss too. 03:26 It's a blessing to work together. 03:27 I have wonderful bosses. 03:28 It's a blessing to work together. 03:30 Thank you, Dee, for being part of this family. 03:32 And on this side, we have another Dee. 03:34 We have Dee Casper, 03:36 and we're just so glad to have you here, 03:37 Dee, as well. 03:39 Now you're part of UnScene Media, 03:40 even though we consider you're part of the 3ABN family. 03:42 Oh, we do. 03:43 But you're part of UnScene Media, 03:44 tell us what you do there. 03:46 So I'm the evangelism director, 03:47 so I take care of speaking appointments, 03:49 evangelism training, networking, 03:53 some of the devotional videos that we do 03:54 as far as being the face for those, 03:56 writing those, and that type of thing. 03:57 And yeah, I love it. 03:59 Good to be involved in media and evangelism together. 04:01 It's great. Amen. 04:02 I think it's really neat, 04:03 you know, 'cause you're mentioning though 04:05 you may not be employed by 3ABN, 04:06 still you're part of the family. 04:08 'Cause for those of you that have been to 3ABN, 04:10 we have the uplink building, original building. 04:12 And UnScene Media is right next to the uplink building, 04:16 that's where the headquarters is located. 04:18 And it's a blessing, 04:20 so you're close from this building, 04:21 what is it? 04:22 A mile? No, two miles. 04:24 Probably two miles, 04:25 and 3ABN brought me into the Message, 04:26 so there is certainly more than a way to tie me 04:28 to this organization. 04:30 You know, that's a good point too 04:31 'cause you actually... 04:32 were you born and raised here in southern Illinois? 04:34 About a half hour from here, yeah, 04:35 and I never heard of the Seventh-day Adventist 04:37 and just found it on TV one day. 04:38 And I was encouraged by my dad to start watching. 04:41 He started. 04:42 But, yeah, we're just over the air broadcast 04:44 and that's how we stumbled across the Message. 04:47 And here you are so involved in His work, 04:48 been a part of it for a number of years now. 04:50 When were you baptized? December 2010. 04:52 Wow. Okay. 04:54 That's amazing. Well. 04:55 Yeah. How time flies. 04:57 Man, yes. It's a blessing. 04:58 Thanks for taking your time 04:59 'cause you have a busy schedule. 05:01 Oh, you bet. 05:02 And sitting next to you is, Jonathan Babb. 05:03 And, Jonathan, I want to say you grew up here. 05:05 We could almost say... That's true. 05:06 You've been here for many years. 05:07 I remember you being at our local church school, 05:09 and then you went away 05:11 and went to college and came back, 05:12 and he's now the manager of the 3ABN call service. 05:15 So Jonathan, we're glad you're here. 05:17 Thank you, I'm glad to be here. 05:18 And you've been the manager there 05:20 for about four years. 05:21 How long has it been? 05:22 Is that right, three or four years? 05:24 Close to... 05:25 between three or four maybe. Wow! 05:26 Yeah, you're doing a great job there, 05:28 that's for sure. 05:29 And you went away to a school like Jill was saying 05:31 and took a degree in computer... 05:34 help me out. Computer Science. 05:36 Computer Science. 05:37 And I know you're not doing 05:38 all computer science at the call center. 05:40 Not all but... 05:41 That's the neat thing that how God works. 05:43 Still a lot of it. What was that? 05:44 Still doing a lot of it though. Oh, you are. 05:45 Yeah, lot of behind the scene stuff. 05:47 But, yeah, we appreciate you and your family for sure. 05:50 And what year did you welcome your family? 05:51 The baptism? 05:53 2001, I think it was the end of year 2000. 05:57 Okay. Wow. 05:59 That's incredible how time flies. 06:01 You know, and the whole Babb family 06:02 is involved in ministry here. 06:04 You know, your dad works in radio, 06:06 and your mom in a County Infraservices, 06:08 and then your sister in one's a way at school, 06:12 and brother works here. 06:13 So we got the whole family here, right. 06:15 3ABN's definitely a family ministry. 06:17 That's true. Yeah, that's a good point. 06:20 They had a good deal on that one. 06:22 Yeah, what a blessing, I tell you. 06:23 And thank you again for joining us 06:26 for our family worship. 06:28 And our topic before we go into a song 06:30 and have our prayer is on prayer. 06:33 So I think we should start with prayer 06:34 before we do our song and launch 06:36 into our study this evening. 06:38 And, Dee, 06:39 would you mind to open our Family Worship with prayer? 06:41 Sure. Thanks. 06:43 Oh, dear heavenly Father, we just thank 06:45 that we can come together on this Friday evenings. 06:47 We start our start our worship, Lord, praising You, 06:52 and coming into Your presence to spend the Sabbath with You. 06:56 I just asking blessing on all of us here 06:59 and all of our viewers, 07:01 Lord, that we will open our hearts 07:03 to Your leading and that our prayers 07:05 will be forwent towards you, Father. 07:08 We just thank You for these hours together 07:10 that You give us. 07:11 And we just praise You in Jesus' name, amen. 07:15 Thank you so much. 07:16 Prayer is kind of a broad topic. 07:18 We could spend hours 07:19 on every single one of the aspects of prayer, 07:21 but tonight we're talking specifically 07:23 about answered prayer. 07:25 So we're going to be sharing 07:26 some of the prayers that God has answered 07:28 in our own hearts and lives. 07:30 We'll be looking at biblical stories 07:32 of answered prayer, 07:33 and then some of those conditions 07:34 for answered prayer. 07:36 But before we do anything else, we want to go to some music. 07:38 And we have Summer at the piano, 07:40 and Summer's such a blessing in the ministry here, 07:43 so glad that she's here. 07:44 And what song we'll be doing is a song on prayer, 07:47 bringing our burdens, our cares, 07:49 whatever's on our heart to Jesus. 07:52 What a Friend We Have in Jesus. 07:54 And the words will be on the screen for you. 08:02 What a friend we have in Jesus 08:08 All our sins and griefs to bear 08:14 What a privilege to carry 08:20 Everything to God in prayer 08:26 Oh what peace we often forfeit 08:32 Oh what needless pain we bear 08:38 All because we do not carry 08:44 Everything to God in prayer 08:48 Let's go to verse three 08:50 Are we weak and heavy-laden 08:57 Cumbered with a load of care 09:03 Precious Savior still our refuge 09:09 Take it to the Lord in prayer 09:15 Do thy friends despise, forsake thee? 09:21 Take it to the Lord in prayer 09:27 In His arms He'll take and shield thee 09:33 Thou wilt find a solace there 09:39 Amen. 09:40 What a message in that song. Thank you so much, Summer. 09:43 Appreciate it very much. 09:45 You know, I like some of the lines to this song. 09:49 Verse 3, it says, "Are we weak and heavy-laden?" 09:52 I would say all of us probably have something 09:55 that's in our lives that may be an issue 09:56 or something we're dealing with. 09:58 And then it says, "Cumbered with a load of care? 10:00 Precious savior still out refuge," 10:03 and it says, 10:04 "Take it to the lord in prayer." 10:06 Praise the lord for that. 10:07 Now we have water here 10:08 on the set all of us have in case, 10:11 you know, we get a little thirsty or something. 10:12 I think a prayer's kind of like maybe water. 10:15 It's a life to the soul, and why is that? 10:18 I think it's because of communing with the Lord. 10:21 Absolutely, as we look at answered prayer, 10:24 we're looking some conditions of answered prayer. 10:26 But before we get into that, 10:28 have you all ever experienced 10:30 an answer to prayer in your life? 10:32 A few. 10:33 Many. 10:35 Who wants to be first? 10:36 So who wants to share an experience? 10:38 Dee, I see you over there. What have you got? 10:40 Well, there's a lots. I was trying to think of one. 10:42 Which one? 10:44 Well, I may have mentioned 10:46 this before on a previous program. 10:48 One of the biggest ones for me was when I... 10:51 Since God leading me to arise a Bible College 10:54 that David Asscherick runs. 10:56 But I didn't have any money to do it, 10:58 and I just really, really, really was wrestling 11:00 with how is this going to be possible 11:01 for the finances. 11:03 And just miracle, after miracle, 11:05 after miracle happened as having dreams 11:06 about certain situations 11:08 that are proving true and other stuff. 11:09 But it did more to affirm my faith 11:12 in that time of uncertainty than anything. 11:16 Whenever God showed up in a mighty way on moving day 11:19 of all days for Arise, 11:21 I was accepted but I didn't have the money, 11:24 I have to have half of the tuition 11:25 by certain date or they had to let someone 11:27 from the waiting list take a position. 11:30 So that time came, I didn't have the funds, 11:32 so someone 11:34 from the waiting list got my spot 11:35 and I just kept praying and praying and... 11:37 That'd be kind of discouraging, wouldn't it? 11:38 Oh, man. 11:40 Oh, God, I want to go there 11:41 and then someone takes your spot. 11:42 And I just wonder was I wrong. Yeah, of course. 11:44 You know, because I'm trying to make sense of things. 11:45 At this stage in life, 11:46 I didn't have a big resume of knowing 11:48 how to hear to God for myself. 11:49 You know, my success rate 11:51 wasn't very high at this stage of my experience. 11:53 This is kind of 11:54 one of those big steps of faith, 11:56 but anyway, 11:57 I got to a point from move-in day in August, 11:59 I didn't have the funds, 12:01 but my pastor called and said, 12:02 "Hey, we've got this much of the tuition. 12:06 Would you guys be willing to let us pledge to pay it off 12:08 before you graduate?" 12:09 They said, "You know, we normally don't do that, 12:11 but for Dee, we'll make an exception." 12:12 And they had an odd number of students 12:13 that particular year 12:15 just to make a spot for me 12:17 because I tried to attend a couple of years earlier 12:19 and it didn't work out. 12:20 They remembered me. 12:22 I wasn't an Adventist yet, but was close. 12:23 And they knew that. 12:25 They felt that this would be helpful for me 12:26 to kind of make a final decision. 12:28 And it was just such a blessing to me because one, 12:31 the Arise program 12:33 was one of the most empowering things 12:34 that ever could've happened to me 12:35 going into ministry, first of all. 12:37 Just to get the sense 12:39 that God could actually use me in ministry, 12:40 which I wasn't convinced of. 12:43 And not because just God isn't awesome, 12:45 but just I felt like I wasn't good enough, 12:47 you know, I couldn't speak in front of people, 12:49 I couldn't do Bible studies well. 12:51 In my mind, I just didn't think I would do well. 12:54 There's just a huge blessing for me to see 12:55 how God provided in such an amazing way 12:58 and paid off my debt when I taught at Arise, 13:00 a couple years later, at an airport of all places. 13:03 Someone overbooked the flight, the airline paid for my... 13:06 they refunded the ticket 13:07 and gave money and top of that. 13:09 That was the exact amount of my tuition. 13:10 I still owe to Arise. 13:12 So just that whole process convinced me 13:14 that when God calls, God provides 13:16 and gave me great confidence with future calls 13:18 that if He could do it then, He would do it again. 13:22 Yeah, you know, you just... 13:23 I want to say just brushed over this 13:24 but you just said something to me 13:26 is very amazing. 13:27 Exact amount. Yeah. 13:28 You know, so I mean it wasn't like okay, 13:30 there's lots and lots of extra money. 13:32 It was the amount that you... 13:33 I owed to Arise $600, and the plane ticket was $700 13:37 and airlines don't write checks. 13:40 Angie Lomacang actually informed me 13:41 this a couple years ago 13:42 when I did an interview with her. 13:44 She's like, "They don't do that." 13:45 I thought they did. 13:46 Said, "No, no, no, no, they give you vouchers, 13:48 they don't write checks." 13:49 Yeah, but they wrote you a check. 13:50 United or Delta wrote me a check for $1300. 13:52 It was the exact amount to refund 13:55 the plane ticket for Arise 13:56 because they paid for me to teach. 13:58 And the rest, I just gave them the whole check, 14:00 the rest paid off when I owed in my tuition. 14:02 Isn't it something? 14:03 And it was just an airport off all things in 2012. 14:07 So... 14:08 Wow, that's encouraging. 14:11 You know, just to see how God works 14:12 in the past gives confidence 14:15 for how He's going to work in the future. 14:17 That's true. 14:18 I like what you said because then that shows 14:21 you now, "Now I'm going to see how God's going to move again. 14:24 Now I have confidence, 14:26 I can come before Him boldly knowing 14:28 that when I'm in time of need 14:31 and I don't know which direction to go, 14:32 God's going to lead me again." 14:34 That's right. So that's powerful. 14:36 That's how I knew 14:37 so that I was supposed to be here was so obvious. 14:41 God had... 14:43 You're talking at 3ABN? Mm-hmm. 14:45 God had said no to a very important prayer 14:48 just previous to that. 14:51 And so I had to know 14:53 that I had rededicated my life to Him. 14:56 And after you lose your spouse, significant thing, 15:00 you're not supposed to be making decisions 15:02 for at least a year, drastic decisions. 15:05 And here after just six months, I made a huge decision 15:10 of moving and leaving my family 15:13 and changing my job and everything, 15:17 I did everything you're not supposed to do. 15:19 But God was so evident in this move. 15:24 And even the actual move here, I had prayed and said, 15:28 "Okay, this is the date I'm going to leave, 15:31 but if I'm not supposed to leave, 15:32 You've got to take care of it." 15:34 Well, four days before I was supposed to leave, 15:37 I didn't have a home for the dog, 15:39 I hadn't sold mobile home... 15:40 Four days? 15:42 Four days before I was supposed to leave. 15:43 Wow. And the truck hadn't sold. 15:45 There was like three or four things 15:46 that my parents were getting very nervous. 15:48 You know... 15:50 So, Dee, you're going to make this move? 15:51 But all the stuff wasn't done, and I said, 15:53 "You know, God's in charge. 15:55 He knows what has to be done." 15:57 And two days before, 15:59 everything happened on the same day. 16:01 Everything, 16:03 I had a beautiful home for the dog, 16:04 he was so beautiful and happy. 16:06 And the truck sold. 16:07 And everything just fell in place. 16:09 But God also changed the day I left. 16:13 I left one day later than I had said I was going to 16:16 because I said, "He open and close door 16:18 so that I leave exactly when I'm supposed to." 16:20 And I left one day later and because of that, I had... 16:24 'cause this isn't November coming over the mountains, 16:27 form the West-Coast. 16:28 So the snow is behind us, and the storms were behind us, 16:31 and they were in front of us. 16:32 But I heard it and I said this one's before on 16:35 one of the programs. 16:36 While I was driving one day, 16:38 on the radio the announcer says, 16:40 "We're having 16:41 unseasonably warm weather today." 16:43 And I'm like "Hallelujah! Praise the Lord! 16:46 Thank you, God." 16:47 To me, it was a yes, a very solid answer of prayer 16:51 so I would trust Him in the future. 16:53 I will leave 3ABN when God leaves me 16:55 that strongly away from here as he did to here. 16:58 But to get an answer like 17:00 that after such a difficult no was amazing. 17:05 Yeah, well. Amen. 17:07 Yeah. That's great, Dee. 17:08 You know, I think, 17:09 you know, you're mentioning about the loss of your spouse. 17:13 And... 17:15 That was a no. Yes. 17:16 Correct, yeah, 17:18 that your husband wasn't healed. 17:20 In order to believe that God always answered 17:23 maybe not just the way that we want it to be. 17:28 No. Did that make sense? 17:29 And... Yeah. 17:31 And even though... 17:32 but even in that prayer of healing, 17:34 I was going to talk it about a little later. 17:35 He gave me a yes and a no at the same time. 17:39 Yeah, so yeah, we'll talk more about that. 17:41 Yeah. Yeah, it's amazing. 17:42 I think all of us run into that in a day-to-day, 17:44 in our daily life. 17:45 I mean, I'm sure you at home, same thing. 17:47 Jonathan, you think 17:49 I'm demanding for you answered prayer. 17:51 Well, one thing, 17:52 you know, a lot of times 17:54 when we think of answered prayer, 17:55 we think of big miracles or definite, 18:00 undeniable answers to prayer, such as Dee's and Dee's. 18:04 Yeah, like exact amount of money. 18:06 Exact amount, where obviously, God led. 18:08 But God answers all of our prayers, 18:11 most definitely our little prayers. 18:14 You know, we pray so often, 18:17 you know, just for little interactions for days 18:19 that He answers person, 18:21 we don't even think about or realize. 18:25 And for me, one recently, relatively recently 18:28 is when we sent the shipment of spiritual vigilantes 18:32 to Trinidad & Tobago. 18:33 Oh, well, yeah. 18:35 I never worked with shipping up a container before. 18:38 I was so worried 18:39 that we didn't do something right 18:41 that the books would get there, and it'll be sop and wet, 18:43 and useless or some. 18:45 But I just kept praying Lord, 18:46 you know, it's, it's in your hands 18:48 and they arrived safely. 18:49 They weren't sopping wet? No. 18:52 There were like, over 50 or above 50,000. 18:54 Yeah, 50,000. 18:55 And, you know, they sent pictures 18:57 and, you know, they were putting them away 18:59 and get rid of, have been campaigns with them. 19:02 So I know, Lord's going to be a blessing with them 19:04 and so He answered my prayer there 19:06 that, you know, they arrived safely. 19:08 That's a great point, 19:10 Jonathan 'cause it was actually special prayer 19:11 and I know you're praying as they were going to. 19:13 But they were special prayer for those... 19:14 Absolutely. 19:16 Isn't that indeed 19:17 how God helps us in our insufficiency? 19:19 True. 19:20 When we don't know what to do or where to turn, 19:23 He steps in and He covers that. 19:25 And so important in all of our positions. 19:27 Yes. 19:28 You know, I went school for computer science 19:30 and not a manager, 19:31 not for working at a call center, 19:33 I don't like answering the phone 19:35 but I do occasionally. 19:37 And but the Lord fills in everywhere 19:41 that we are deficient. 19:43 Ain't that amazing? 19:45 You know, I just think for myself stepping in, 19:47 you know, after the first of the year, 19:49 you know, Mollie went in three time 19:50 an stepping into general manager 19:52 and thinking, "I don't know how to do this." 19:54 I'm not sure, 19:56 you know, people walking in the office and saying now, 19:57 "What about this?" 19:59 And I'm thinking, "Oh, that's under my purview, 20:02 that means I need to do something here." 20:04 And just knowing that we can go before God 20:06 and He has all wisdom 20:08 and He has all knowledge and He can give us peace 20:11 and that's just an incredible thing. 20:14 It is. So you were right, Jonathan. 20:15 Thank you for sharing that. Praise the Lord. 20:17 I've always been amazed 20:19 how many people God brings into 3ABN 20:22 and He trains him Himself. 20:23 I know one of the questions 20:25 I got asked when I first started, 20:26 somebody said to me, 20:28 "Well, what are your qualifications?" 20:29 I'm like, "God brought me. I don't know. 20:31 Go ask the person that hired me." 20:33 So I see that time after time 20:35 that God brings people into this ministry 20:37 that may not have the exact background 20:40 that the world thinks they need to have that position 20:43 but then God trains them the 3ABN way, 20:46 it's amazing to me. 20:48 And look what we accomplished here 20:50 with so few people. 20:52 Amen. Yeah, praise the Lord. 20:54 Well, I was thinking of something out recently, 20:57 a several months ago, 20:58 you know, we did GYC and we had a power glitch. 21:03 See if I can explain this here. 21:04 So we had a power glitch here at 3ABN in Southern Illinois. 21:07 GYC was out west 21:10 and the power glitch of course affects us 21:11 because we're getting ready to go live 21:13 so let me back up. 21:15 The sermon had gone long 21:17 for that particular program at GYC 21:19 and so we stayed with the sermon, 21:21 stayed with the sermon 21:22 and so went along and we went off... 21:24 Yeah, we did the close and everything. 21:26 And we found out 21:28 that not long after we went long at GYC 21:31 that the power glitch happened here at 3ABN. 21:33 We have a generator and all of that 21:34 and it was kicking in 21:35 but there are some technical issues 21:37 with the transfers switch Anyway, and stuff. 21:39 we leave that to the electricians and engineers. 21:41 And so anyway, 21:42 without a signal going out of the airway. 21:44 So I think it was about an hour later 21:47 or less than an hour later, 21:48 we're supposed to go live again 21:50 and we were like a half an hour, 21:52 then 15 minutes till we went live, 21:54 then 10 minutes till we went live, 21:56 then 5 minutes and still nothing, 21:58 we were still off the air, 22:00 couldn't get the connection back up 22:01 to satellite or the internet. 22:03 And so we're getting ready go to the back 22:06 of the auditorium at GYC 22:07 and do the open from the back which is what the jib 22:10 and you see the audience, we welcome everyone there. 22:12 And so Jill and I just started talking, 22:14 we weren't sure if it was live or not. 22:16 And it was even going out of the airways 22:18 and of course our lots of prayers taking place. 22:20 And do you know 22:21 what they told me about a minute 22:23 or so I think just before we went live again, 22:24 the power and all those technical transfer switches 22:27 and things like that got going again. 22:29 Praise the lord. So I think about His timing. 22:31 We went along 22:32 and the electricity was still on, still on. 22:34 And about as soon as we're done with that sermon, 22:36 we lost power. 22:37 And then, 22:39 we're just getting ready to go live again, 22:40 live again 22:42 and they came back on to me, that's God. 22:43 In all those things, 22:44 it's need to see His hand at work for sure. 22:49 That's powerful. It's exciting to see God work. 22:51 Let's look at our scripture 22:53 as we move into conditions for answered prayer. 22:55 How about we look at 1 John 5? 22:57 I know many times, we think, 23:01 and I know I thought this many times. 23:03 So I'm not saying you think this at home 23:05 and we don't this here 23:06 'cause I know we have thought this too. 23:07 Well, God, if I ask anything, you're going to grant it. 23:12 So then what do we do when we ask, 23:15 and maybe it doesn't seem to be granted the way 23:17 that I wanted to or the way that I expected. 23:21 So this verse talks about asking according to His will. 23:23 And let's... Do you have it? 23:25 Sure. 1 John 5:14, 15. 23:26 Yeah. 23:28 1 John 5, beginning with the verse 14. 23:30 "Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, 23:33 that if we ask anything according to His will, 23:35 He hears us. 23:37 And if we know that He hears us whatever we ask, 23:40 we know that we have the petitions 23:42 that we have asked of Him." 23:44 So what's the condition there in that verse? 23:45 According to his will. Asking according to his will? 23:49 If we ask according to God's will, 23:50 it's guaranteed to be answered. 23:53 So how do we know 23:54 what's according to His will then? 23:56 'Cause we definitely don't know the big picture. 23:58 We're always asking Him what His will is. 24:00 Right. We don't know. 24:02 One of the ways that you can submit 24:04 to His will in your prayer, 24:06 so you can say, Lord... 24:08 In your situation for instance 24:09 it's very difficult whenever someone is in need 24:12 and you're wrestling 24:13 and with you'd like to see their condition improve 24:15 and we want them with us. 24:17 We want them with us 24:19 and that's difficult for us in those moments of, 24:22 you know, potential loss. 24:24 But we can ask what it is that we would like to see, 24:26 but in the end we're surrendering 24:27 the whole process to His will but God I'm choosing to rest 24:30 in your perfect will knowing that, 24:32 you know, what's in their best interest and I don't. 24:35 And situations like that and it gets one way 24:37 which we can know God's will is by pray 24:41 according to God's will, phrase it that way is that 24:43 we can have our requests, 24:44 but we yield to whatever His will maybe 24:46 in that situation. 24:47 I like that. 24:49 We always yield to when we were, 24:50 even Dave and I, when we prayed, 24:52 it was always we accept, 24:54 we will accept your answer whatever it maybe. 24:59 So, yes. 25:01 It's easier said than done sometimes, isn't it? 25:02 Oh, yes. 25:04 'Cause I know my own life, you know, it's like, oh, 25:05 you know, you're praying, dear God, 25:07 you know, I really want this. 25:08 But then like you said, whatever your will is. 25:11 I think about Christ, Jonathan, in the garden Gethsemane, 25:14 remember his struggle there. 25:15 Absolutely. They're not my will. 25:17 But what, you will be done. Yeah. 25:20 And that was Christ in the garden of Gethsemane. 25:22 And, you know, one of the things 25:23 we need to look at is, is knowing God's will, 25:28 His will is within His character 25:29 and what is His character? 25:31 That's excellent, Dee. 25:32 So, you know, God cannot... 25:36 I know someone who said, I said, 25:39 "Have you talked to the Lord? 25:40 Have you, you know, 25:41 ask the Lord to show you himself?" 25:43 And she's like, "He doesn't answer my prayers." 25:46 Well, I got 25:48 into a little discussion of these prayers 25:50 and I knew the prayers 25:51 were not something God could answer. 25:54 God cannot give us revenge or justice right now sometimes. 26:00 He is not going to hurt someone else 26:01 to make us feel better. 26:04 And so we cannot... 26:08 We have to be careful what we're praying for 26:11 and is it in God's character. 26:13 Does it fit his character? That's good. 26:17 I have a book here. 26:18 I just wanted to read one sentence out of it. 26:20 This is "Longing for God." 26:22 My friend Melody Mason sent it to me. 26:25 And Dr. Hasel wrote it. 26:26 He was actually just here at 3ABN, 26:28 we did the interview with him. 26:30 And it's a prayer in Bible journal. 26:33 And Dr. Hasel went through something similar to UD 26:36 and that his wife passed away several years ago. 26:38 And out of that process of pain I guess you could say 26:42 'cause he said we anointed his wife 26:44 and prayed for healing. 26:45 If it was in God's will 26:47 and then yet, she wasn't healed. 26:49 And so in the midst of that process, 26:52 he wrote this journal. 26:54 And at the end of January, 26:56 there's a section on prayer that pleases God 26:58 and I actually just read it this morning. 27:00 And it talks about 27:01 how many times we pray for selfish motives, 27:05 you know, you want something fixed 27:07 or something to be a success because it reflects on you 27:10 and it has nothing to do with the other person 27:13 and many things what we pray for a selfish. 27:15 And then it says, 27:17 "Prayer that is pleasing to God has a different focus. 27:20 God becomes central. 27:22 Prayer that is pleasing to God recognizes God is a friend, 27:25 whose companionship I seek because he is important to me, 27:29 not because I want something from Him." 27:32 So I wonder if we put that with this verse 27:35 "asking according to his will..." 27:38 then my prayers become something I seek God 27:40 because He's my friend, because of who He is, 27:43 not because of something I want or I think I need. 27:47 Pavel Goia actually touches on that's too. 27:50 He talks a lot of prayer. 27:51 And he says that, you know, 27:55 "God doesn't mail the blessings to us, 27:57 the blessings come with him." 27:59 And so what we should be asking for in a prayer 28:01 and I know why he refers to this as well 28:03 that prayer is how we receive God. 28:05 It's one of the means, 28:06 that's the goal for us to receive him. 28:08 And so with God 28:10 it is the answer to my financial difficulty, 28:12 with God is the answer to my heart break, 28:14 with God is the answer to my grief, 28:17 with God comes the answer to my lack of wisdom 28:20 whatever the situation maybe. 28:22 And so his recommendation was our priority 28:24 and prayer should be to receive him. 28:26 Not what it is that He gives us 28:28 because those things come with him anyway. 28:30 And it just took kind of coincide with what, 28:33 Mr. Hasel was saying in this book. 28:35 That's powerful. Absolutely. 28:37 The Lord living in us, 28:40 receiving him is what the answer 28:42 is to every problem we have. 28:45 Or either change the situation 28:48 or change us to accept the situation. 28:50 Right. 28:52 So I mean with God, 28:54 you know, the prayer will be answered 28:55 by either answering our prayer directly 28:57 and changing the situation or just changing 29:00 how we view the situation to, 29:03 you know, as a blessing 29:04 instead of what we thought was maybe a negative. 29:07 I like that. 29:09 You know what, I think of the situation 29:10 of Martha, Mary, and Lazarus and they wanted their brother 29:15 more than they wanted the comfort 29:17 that Jesus had to offer them at that moment. 29:19 He said, "You know, if you had been here 29:20 my brother would not had died." 29:22 Exact same line from Martha and Mary in that situation 29:26 and Jesus had comfort for them 29:28 but they wanted their brother more than they wanted 29:30 that comfort that Jesus 29:31 had to offer them at that moment. 29:32 And they just couldn't in vision, 29:34 to them happiness meant them being with their brother 29:37 not their brother resting in your arms Jesus 29:39 in to the resurrection 29:41 and that was a difficult thing for them to grasp 29:43 because and we go through that in loss 29:44 that we want them here with us 29:46 because that's what we feel would be the best situation. 29:49 But for that person, 29:50 I don't know why you are referencing this 29:52 with John the Baptist 29:53 I think that he died a conqueror 29:55 and I believe it's in the context 29:57 of John the Baptist, 29:58 but it's in our commentary on the death in a prison lived 30:00 John I believe, but regardless of those people 30:03 who follow sleep in Jesus, they die conquerors. 30:06 Nothing can tempt them or pull them away 30:08 out of the hands of God at that point, 30:10 and that's actually a safer place for them 30:13 to be than with us. 30:14 There were hearts want then here, 30:15 we can have that assurance. 30:17 It's the right with God. That's, it's a seal deal. 30:21 And so they wrestled with that 30:23 and I think we all do in different areas, 30:24 but I found great solace and better understanding 30:27 that I need to want Him 30:30 and to want them to be secure in Him 30:32 more than I want anything else. 30:34 I love that. 30:36 Wanting Jesus instead of what he can give me 30:39 or what I can get from him but just wanting Him. 30:41 What about the element of faith? 30:43 And when we look at answered prayer. 30:44 Let's look at Mark 11. 30:47 And, Jonathan, you want to get that? 30:50 Mark 11:24. 30:57 Or may be let's back up a little bit, 30:59 you want to back up to may be start 31:00 with 22 or something? 31:02 That will give us context. 31:04 So Mark 11, I'm starting with verse 22. 31:07 "So Jesus answered and said to them, 31:09 'Have faith in God. 31:10 For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, 31:14 'Be removed and be cast into the sea,' 31:17 and does not doubt in his heart, 31:19 but believes that those things he says will be done, 31:22 he will have whatever he says.' 31:24 Therefore I say to you, 31:25 whatever things you ask when you pray, 31:28 believe that you receive them, and you will have them." 31:33 So how does the element of faith plan 31:36 to answered prayer? 31:38 'Cause you can almost go down this line and say, 31:39 you know what if I had more faith, 31:41 if I had prayed hard enough 31:42 then my loved one would be healed. 31:44 Yeah, I have a totally different 31:46 interpretation going on. 31:47 Good. Yeah, go it for, Dee. 31:50 I know that... 31:51 I know that my husband is resting in Jesus. 31:55 That is where my faith lies. 31:57 I do not know why David had to die 32:00 but then at that time. 32:04 But I have faith that God has a reason 32:06 and I believe in him 32:08 and I believe that when I get to heaven 32:10 and I find all the answers, I am given all the answers, 32:13 then I will say 32:14 that was the best thing you could have done. 32:17 So my faith comes in knowing 32:20 that David is safe and saved in the Lord. 32:26 And sometimes even if we lose someone 32:28 we don't know for sure, we have to remember, 32:31 we don't know for sure we can never say, 32:33 "Oh, that person died. 32:35 I will never see them again 32:36 because they weren't safe in the Lord." 32:37 We don't know. That's right. 32:39 So if you had a loved one that you just don't know 32:41 if they were safe in the Lord, 32:42 you need to remember that you don't know. 32:45 So, don't assume 32:46 that they are not safe in the Lord 32:48 no matter there are circumstances. 32:49 Trust God. 32:50 So you have faith, and so I have faith 32:53 God did answer my prayer the way 32:55 it needed to be answered 32:57 in the best interest of having Dave and I both 33:00 in heaven together with Him. 33:03 So when I say, when it says here, 33:07 "Whatever you ask in prayer, 33:08 believe you will receive them and you will have them." 33:12 I have what was best for me and what was best for Dave 33:16 and what was best 33:18 even if I don't know or understand why, 33:21 what I wanted was not the best. 33:26 I don't know if I make sense there. 33:27 It makes perfect sense. 33:29 Thank you for sharing your personal experience. 33:30 It goes back to accepting the will of God 33:33 and not having that faith supersede with that. 33:36 There is another thing, 33:38 Powell from Prayer just have been 33:39 revolutionary for may be, 33:41 he has another saying where he says 33:42 that it's not safe to pray 33:43 until we've praised him enough to trust. 33:46 And the point that he is making is, 33:49 praise is one of reflecting up on the faith 33:50 instead of God in our past. 33:52 We talked about this. 33:53 That's what we need to document or remind ourselves 33:55 that's how God has worked in our past. 33:57 But to praising him for who he is 33:59 and that we can receive him now 34:01 that when we start our process of prayer in praise, 34:03 we are going to believe 34:05 that God actually cares about us 34:07 and what we're bringing to Him at prayer. 34:09 And that's where faith plays in is it... 34:11 I think James I think is one of them refers 34:13 to we need to believe that he is or is it 1 John? 34:16 That believe that he has not as reward of the... 34:18 intelligently speaking. I think it's 1 John. 34:21 I think it's 1 John too. 34:22 But I think the point 34:23 is just that we can have that assurance 34:25 that we come to him in faith, we know that God is real, 34:27 that God cares for my needs 34:30 and that if I give God permission do 34:31 what's best for me, 34:32 He is going to do what's best for me. 34:34 That's in means of coming to God at faith not just that, 34:37 He isn't given me whatever I ask. 34:39 I don't know what I need as Paul says a Romans 8, 34:41 I don't even know what to pray for as I odd. 34:43 But if I trust God 34:45 and allow the spirit to intercede on my behalf, 34:47 when I come to Him, He will provide what's needed. 34:51 That's why I said meeting to His will and His prayer of, 34:55 Lord, this is what I want, this is what I think I need. 34:59 I mean Dave and I, Dave and Dee, Dee and Dave, 35:01 we were one together 35:03 and I didn't want to separated on this earth at that time 35:06 but I would rather, we have eternity together. 35:11 And if that was, 35:12 if losing him so long ago was the answer 35:17 that we would be together for eternity, 35:19 then that's the answer I wanted. 35:21 Now I have faith 35:22 that that's what will happen ultimately, 35:26 and so God did answer my prayer and he answered it, 35:32 yes, but not now, so. 35:35 That's a good point. 35:36 I am thinking of healing 35:38 because I have heard others by word of Pastor Mark, 35:40 Finley mentioned this too 35:42 that you know God always is willing 35:44 to heal sometimes is right now, sometimes is wait a little bit, 35:48 or sometimes it's in eternity 35:50 that will go to sleep in Jesus with whatever disease it is, 35:53 and then wake up with a new body afterwards. 35:55 So it's not that God wants us to suffer and just anguish, 36:00 that's not part of his plan at all. 36:02 You know, God did give a yes to healing too 36:05 because even though he said no to David's life. 36:10 David took a chemo pill that he, 36:13 that he said to me just shortly after he took it. 36:17 I can't handle this, I can't take this, 36:19 and we immediately prayed. 36:21 We asked God please and we were so ignorant, 36:25 we ask him just to heal Dave, 36:26 just take this from him right now 36:28 because David can't handle this. 36:31 Before we said, 36:32 when I said amen, David said, "I am okay." 36:38 And he never had another symptom 36:42 and he refused to take that pill ever again 36:44 but he didn't have another symptom. 36:46 And later on we found out, 36:48 you suffer with those symptoms for three to four days 36:50 when you take that pill. 36:52 And he didn't. David did not. 36:54 And so God does heal, he still heal. 36:58 So even, so when I said I got both yes 37:00 and a no when we were asking for healing, 37:03 God will heal David completely later 37:06 but he gave us healing during that time 37:09 and it was miraculous because like I said, 37:12 we didn't know we prayed in our ignorance 37:16 and he gave us complete healing. 37:17 So sometimes when, you know, what it says, 37:19 "You have not because you ask not..." 37:21 That's right. 37:22 Sometimes we pray to, 37:23 we're afraid to ask God for a miracle of healing 37:27 and we did and we got it. 37:30 It was amazing. 37:33 You know, I think about Jonathan, 37:35 you know, you were at the call center 37:36 and you get a lot of phone calls there, 37:38 you know, your department does. 37:40 And I'm thinking of, 37:41 you know, that we have mobile devices now 37:43 which I mean like cell phones and stuff and you will always, 37:45 you know, "Hey, can you hear me? 37:46 Can you hear me?" 37:48 And I know even with your phones 37:49 that are wired and hooked 37:50 in there still sometimes a hard time like, 37:52 "Hello, are you there? 37:53 Hello!" I think with God it's neat. 37:55 I'm going back in to the 1 John. 37:57 Where is that 1 John 5... 1 John 5:14. 38:00 Yeah, that it says, 1 John 5:14. 38:03 "And this is a confidence," I like that word, 38:05 "that we have in him," that's Jesus 38:07 "that if we ask anything according to His will," 38:11 He sometimes hears us. 38:13 No, it doesn't say that. It says, "He hears us." 38:16 And I think that's beautiful because he is hearing us, 38:18 it's not like, 38:20 "Well, God, I don't think you are hearing me." 38:21 Of course, He does. 38:22 He is hearing you, He is listening 38:24 and He is taking in to consideration Jonathan, 38:25 you mentioned earlier... 38:28 the big picture. 38:30 Yeah, our lives end of this world. 38:33 So it's trust 38:34 I guess coming down to the God hears us 38:35 and He has what's best for us. 38:37 Yes. 38:38 Comes down to the person 38:40 where you are talking about before Dee, you know, 38:41 receiving the person instead of the things 38:44 or what we get from Him but the person. 38:47 It's true. Let's take a look at Isaiah 59. 38:53 Now this breaks it down 38:55 sometimes there is something in my own self. 38:57 Now, we need to bring our own will 38:59 until a line meant without of God and all of that. 39:02 But sometimes I am hanging on to something 39:04 that may be is preventing 39:05 that prayer from being answered. 39:07 Let's look at Isaiah 59. 39:08 So what we are doing 39:10 'cause I know we are trying to make to do these points 39:11 but we are talking about 39:13 "No one seeks God will" 39:14 and then asking faith, 39:15 and this is the other part 39:17 which is Isaiah 59:1 and 2 39:19 which is pretty shares in. 39:20 Absolutely. 39:22 Do you have that one, Dee? Let me turn to Isaiah. 39:24 Isaiah 59:1 and 2, it says, do I have this right? 39:29 Isaiah 59:1 and 2, 39:33 "Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, 39:36 that it cannot save. 39:37 Nor His ear heavy, that it cannot hear. 39:40 But your iniquities 39:42 have separated you from your God. 39:44 And your sins have hidden His face from you, 39:47 so that He will not hear." 39:50 So there it says that God won't hear us. 39:51 Wow. Go ahead. 39:53 You know, there is, I like to think this in terms 39:56 of the souls of the heart I prayer. 39:59 And so it's not 40:01 that God isn't capable of hearing 40:02 or doesn't want to hear someone 40:04 who wants to repent who is then. 40:05 Correct. 40:06 The difference is, let's say that we say, 40:09 "God, I want you to set me free from this sin" with our mouth, 40:13 but in our heart we tell Him but do not yet. 40:16 You ever been in those situations? 40:17 I have been there. 40:19 Just out of world wide television. 40:20 I have been there. 40:22 Where you... 40:23 One more night with the frogs I am thinking. 40:26 You know that was Pastor CA's Sermon. 40:28 It was, but it's a great title. 40:29 I want to be free but do not yet. 40:33 You recognize the harm of what you have done, 40:35 you recognize the punishment that comes along with that 40:38 and you got to pay the piper, you know that there are 40:41 consequences to sin. 40:42 Sin separates us from our source of life 40:45 which is Jesus and death is inevitable result. 40:47 It's not that Jesus rejects us, 40:49 it's that we separate ourselves from that source of life. 40:53 And so in this situation, 40:54 God has to answer the prayer of our heart 40:57 instead of the prayer of our mouth 40:58 and he can't hear 40:59 what we are asking because we are telling him, 41:01 I don't want you 41:02 because when we are telling God we want something else, 41:04 what we are really telling him is we don't want him 41:07 and that is something 41:09 that causes the separation in this difference. 41:11 I just want to make sure that's clear 41:12 that God is looking for reasons to be involved in our lives, 41:15 God is looking for reasons to save us. 41:17 But when we make decisions to voluntarily separate 41:20 those lines of communication, 41:23 God is bound to honor that wish of our heart 41:26 regardless of what our mouth may be saying 41:27 to the people around us or to Him. 41:29 And that's where the soul of the heart matters 41:31 I believe in prayer. 41:33 That's one of the clearest things 41:34 I have heard, yeah, the way you put that, 41:36 you are absolutely right 'cause we have all been there. 41:40 And you know that's a thing, I mean Bible says 41:41 all have sinned 41:43 and fallen short of the glory of God. 41:44 So you are watching and say, 41:46 "Well, I know I am a sinner" well, we are too. 41:47 I mean each one of us has fallen short of that glory 41:51 but that doesn't mean that, 41:52 because we have sinned God doesn't hear us. 41:54 It doesn't mean that at all. 41:56 He says, "If we can face our sins, 41:58 he is faithful and just to forgive us." 42:00 1 John 1:9, and that cleanses from all unrighteousness. 42:03 So it has nothing to do with that, 42:05 it has to do with when we purposely choose 42:09 and say in God's faith. 42:10 No, I don't want you. No, I don't want you. 42:11 I don't want to hear. 42:13 I don't want anything to do with that, 42:14 I am doing my own thing. 42:16 And then he says, 42:17 "I can't work 42:18 because he don't allow me access to do that." 42:20 And sometimes I think we are like something 42:23 kind of fix our conscience 42:25 and we are like, "Oh, I need to work on that." 42:28 and God wants us to work on it right now 42:31 and we are saying with our mouth, 42:33 "No, I need to work on that." 42:35 And sometimes, 42:37 I wonder if we don't look at something 42:40 and it's not really a sin. 42:43 I have a problem with reading too much. 42:47 And so I would neglect other things... 42:49 But reading is a good thing, Dee, isn't it? 42:51 Well, normally reading, 42:53 who's going to say that reading is a sin? 42:55 I wasn't reading sinful things, 42:58 so reading is not a sin in itself. 43:01 However, I read too much 43:03 and I had to get rid of my library card 43:06 and I had to get very drastic to start reading so much 43:11 because I allowed it to separate me from things 43:13 I should be doing. 43:15 So isn't that not a cherish sin really? 43:18 You are doing something you know you shouldn't be doing 43:21 whether it is actually a sin to somebody else or not. 43:25 I am sure, Jonathan, 43:27 you don't think reading is a sin, do you? 43:29 No, about normally. 43:30 But I was reading so much, 43:32 I would get buried in the books and ignore stuff, 43:34 so then it became a cherish sin for me 43:38 that I had to deal with but other people didn't. 43:41 So I think we had to identify those things in our lives 43:44 that may be separating us or we may be saying, 43:48 "I need to work on that" but we don't. 43:50 And it really is, 43:52 we are not identifying for what it really is. 43:56 Biblical principle for sinners it, 43:57 to those who know 43:58 what is good at do it not to make a sin. 44:01 And whenever we're pursuing I do think that they neglected 44:03 what God would have for us to do. 44:06 It can be problematic and it's good to understand 44:08 it can be broader than you think. 44:10 Because the more entranced in a religious structure 44:14 we get, the more naval gazing we tend to do with it. 44:17 At least, I am not so and so at least I don't do this. 44:20 You know look, 44:22 I am just reading books, you know. 44:23 That persons got a cigarette problem, 44:25 all I do is read too many books. 44:27 But the point is if there is a heart issue 44:30 that something has our affections 44:32 and hinders our usefulness even for the kingdom of heaven. 44:37 We need to have that type of self reflection 44:39 that are there things down spending time 44:41 with that are keeping me spending time 44:43 with what matters most, my family, my children. 44:45 I did a seminar at GYC on the social media 44:48 and I had two separate young people literally tell me 44:52 during the Q&A section in front of everybody. 44:54 My parents are obsessed with social media and addicted. 44:58 They are not paying attention to us. 45:01 They don't talk to us. 45:02 Now you think this is what parents say 45:03 about young people and they do. 45:05 But these young people are concerned 45:06 that their parents are getting lost 45:08 in social media and their phones. 45:10 They are addicted to their phones 45:12 and they are losing the sight of the people 45:13 around them. 45:14 It's just some phone. 45:16 I am just looking at family pictures 45:17 or whatever the thing may be, 45:18 but the point is if it's neglecting 45:20 your responsibility to your children. 45:22 It's a problem, right? 45:24 This can't be a broader. 45:25 I think it's good to point out that cherish sin 45:27 can be something 45:28 more than just pornography or cigarettes, 45:30 it could be something seemingly harmless 45:33 that still causing harm because it's keeping me 45:35 from being available to God service. 45:37 It's keeping me serving my family, 45:39 my local church or something else. 45:41 Yeah, absolutely. That's good. 45:44 Well let's, boy, our time is going quickly here. 45:46 Let's look at points we look at next four. 45:49 Make things right with others, Matthew 5. 45:51 Let's look at Matthew 5:23 and 24. 45:57 Wish I hope you are turning near by, 45:58 we are not just sitting back and just washing 45:59 but that you are involved as well 46:01 'cause this is Family Worship together 46:03 with you. 46:04 Matthew 5, let me get to Matthew 5:23 and 24, 46:08 you have to read that. 46:10 You know what's very interesting 46:11 about this principle, I know we read this scripture 46:12 is that it's amazing I can think, okay, 46:17 everything's right with me and Jesus. 46:19 I can't think of anything 46:20 but if I have an issue with my husband 46:23 or with the Casper or with somebody 46:26 which I don't but I was just using 46:27 as an illustrate of purpose. 46:29 If I have an issue with that then that's stands in the way 46:33 as well of God hearing. 46:35 So not only those cherished sins 46:37 but me having holding the grudge 46:39 or that bitterness against someone else 46:42 who has that. 46:43 You cannot take a small, 46:45 oh, I just don't care for that person 46:47 and buried in your heart somewhere 46:48 and leave it 46:50 and not knowing this is going to separate you from God. 46:53 It will grow. Yes. 46:55 Go for it, Dee. 46:58 "Therefore if you bring your gift to the altar, 47:01 and there remember 47:02 that your brother has something against you, 47:04 leave your gift there before the altar, 47:06 and go your way. 47:08 First be reconciled to your brother, 47:11 and then come and offer your gift." 47:13 I find what's interesting it says 47:16 if your brother has something against you, 47:19 not if you have something against your brother. 47:21 It's good, Jonathan. 47:22 This is if brother has someone to get against you. 47:25 It obviously goes the other way too, 47:27 but if you know someone has a problem with you 47:30 whether you have a problem with them or not, 47:32 it's try and reconcile it. 47:34 Now, that's not always possible, 47:36 we leave all things up to God and we do our part. 47:39 But if we know somebody has something against us, 47:43 Lord says, "Go and try and reconcile it." 47:47 Matthew 18, 47:48 can I share something on the other side 47:49 that if you have a situation with your brother 47:51 that you need to address it directly with him 47:52 and not let the gossip mail will get to him eventually 47:56 and similar principle can go with ways. 47:59 Yes. 48:01 It just releases your heart and soul to have things right, 48:05 to be able to sit in church or go to work 48:07 and know that you have love for everyone 48:10 that there isn't a problem. 48:11 I am trying to reach the point of my life 48:13 where I don't have the problem in the first place 48:17 because I got to the point where I can quickly apologize 48:22 or say I am sorry 'cause I as like, 48:23 "Oops, I shouldn't have said that" 48:25 or say such as somebody, "Is everything okay between us? 48:29 Did I do something?" 48:31 But I want to reach the point 48:33 where I don't have to go do that in the first place 48:37 so, but always being aware. 48:41 You can tell sometimes 48:43 if someone is not comfortable... 48:45 you are like, 48:46 "Oh, there is not something quite right here" 48:48 and we need to ask. 48:49 Don't be afraid to ask. 48:51 This reminds me and I don't know 48:52 somewhere is a story very briefly 48:54 but I was praying with a friend's, 48:56 the parent of a friend of mine couple years ago, 48:58 and about some family things but in praying together 49:02 something happened in their church 49:03 they end up interfering their family 49:04 that the kind of started 49:06 this church together with some other families 49:08 and them with another family. 49:10 We are having tension 49:11 because it's so relationship stuff 49:13 that just kind of cause some difficulties. 49:15 One family felt wrong by some decisions 49:19 that one of their made it and another family, 49:22 it cause a lot of tension between them 49:23 and the dads are elders and together and. 49:27 Any way, when we started praying 49:28 that we ended up happening that we couldn't, 49:31 it was their communion service 49:33 and mom felt convicted to pray with the other mom 49:38 and then the dads had already been talking, 49:40 but the fact that they needed to meet together. 49:42 And one of the things 49:43 we do in the Seventh-day Adventist church 49:44 and our communion service, 49:46 foot washing is not just something you do, 49:47 it's meant to be that time 49:49 where these situations can be dealt with. 49:51 And we ended up happening 49:52 was not only did the moms wash each other's feet, 49:55 and the dads wash each other's feet. 49:57 But even the two children 49:58 that they had a difficulty with each other 49:59 because it's relationship thing 50:01 they ended up meeting together as well. 50:02 Amen. Praise God. 50:04 And one of them was out of town, 50:06 I think lived out of town 50:07 but they happened to be in town for that particular situation. 50:09 I just thought the power of God 50:11 in bringing reconciliation to just trying to work 50:13 through some of these things and smooth over and meeting 50:16 at the home later to kind of talk through it more 50:18 and it's just a powerful testimony 50:21 about this can actually take place, 50:23 and what better time 50:25 than those situations quarterly that why this exists. 50:28 And if you have a situation at home, 50:30 you haven't been having the best of the relationship 50:33 so many of your local church, 50:34 that's a great time to deal with that 50:35 if you are the same gender, all right, 50:37 but just kind of work through that. 50:38 I think it is a wonderful opportunity 50:40 to reconcile and to serve and to build those bridges. 50:44 Amen. Well, said. 50:45 And it builds a bridge with the Lord. 50:46 It does. 50:48 That communication, that open communication, yeah. 50:51 Prayer is such an incredible gift. 50:53 You know that God has granted to us, 50:55 we have just barely scratched, 50:58 not even scratched but discuss just a few things 51:00 but praise the lord what he wants to do. 51:02 I know that he loves you at home 51:04 that he wants to hear and to answer your prayers 51:08 according to his will. 51:09 So find out who Jesus is, seek him as a person. 51:15 Seek him as your best friend, 51:17 know that he loves you with an ever lasting love 51:19 and he wants to work in your heart and life 51:21 to reconcile those relationships 51:23 both with him 51:25 and with your brother's and sister's. 51:26 And he wants to work to hear and to answer those prayers 51:29 and we want to spend some time to prayer. 51:31 We do. 51:32 You know I was thinking to, 51:33 I should have mentioned this earlier 51:35 but, you know earlier in this Family Worship 51:36 we are talking about answer prayers. 51:38 The each one of us had experienced. 51:40 And I am sure you have some as well and you know what, 51:43 we would like to hear that from you. 51:45 So if you want to send us a letter 51:47 and I am talking snail mail, 51:48 if you want to do that put a stamp on it 51:50 and send it to 3ABN, 51:52 may be put Jill and my name on it. 51:53 You know, we are always encouraged 51:55 by hearing answering prayer 51:56 and how God is working in your life as well 51:58 or may be even an email. 52:01 And you can send it to, is that mail@3abn, Jonathan? 52:04 Okay, so mail, 52:06 it's mail@3abn.org? 52:11 Yes. 52:13 So I know it's on the bottom of the screen right now 52:14 but mail@3abn.org, 52:16 may be just put in there answer prayer. 52:18 And we will be happy to read those 52:20 and is encouraging and to hear how God is working. 52:22 But yes, you mentioned prayer 52:23 and we are going to do, yeah, just some short prayers. 52:25 And, Dee Casper, why don't you start. 52:28 Sure. 52:30 God in heaven, I just thank you for the privilege to come 52:32 in to your presence of prayer. 52:35 And I just ask first and foremost, 52:36 you would forgive all of our sins today 52:39 that you would cover them 52:40 with the blood of Jesus 52:42 and I pray that the spirit of Jesus 52:43 would draw us to you. 52:45 You would open our eyes to the things 52:47 that keep us from you. 52:48 And I pray 52:50 that we would be closer you to than ever... 52:52 Thank you. 52:53 When dealing with these things directly. 52:55 Father, we all have needs, we all have an adequacies, 52:58 we have weaknesses and brokenness. 53:00 And I just thank you 53:02 that Jesus is sufficient to understand 53:05 and that you can offer deep, deep healing. 53:08 And so we pray for that today, 53:09 we pray for that for our viewers, 53:12 for the brokenness, the difficulties 53:13 that things come against some 53:15 that you would just ministered them in a way 53:16 that none of us ever could. 53:19 And we just thank you 53:20 that you delight to hear from us 53:22 and you long to do even greater things 53:23 than we have asked, and we ask this in Jesus name. 53:27 Amen. 53:29 Dear Lord, how can I want to ask you 53:32 please forgive my sins Lord. 53:35 Me too. 53:36 Show me the sins 53:37 that need work lord then that you show me 53:39 what needs to be done to remove them from my life. 53:42 And lord I want to ask that, 53:44 when I pray to you that I am asking for you 53:48 and my life first that it is my faith in you 53:52 and that you are in my life as what gives us meaning 53:55 and fights all the blessings not we asked for 53:59 but who we ask for that. 54:01 So Lord I ask that through my life 54:03 that you may shine out 54:06 where to be a blessing to myself 54:08 and everybody I interact with Lord 54:11 that I won't be a stumbling block to anybody 54:13 including myself, Lord. 54:15 So I ask for your continued presence, amen. 54:19 Oh, Father, I just, I thank you for the privilege 54:22 that we have our relationship with you 54:25 that we can come to not only as our savior and our father 54:29 but as our friend and our brother, Father. 54:32 Thank you so much that e have this communication 54:36 that we can talk to you and you will talk to us, 54:38 and so that you care so deeply father 54:41 about each person's individuals life 54:44 and the details of their life. 54:45 Father, help all of us here and our viewers understand 54:49 that you are involved 54:50 in our lives lord on a intimate basis, 54:53 on a daily basis, minute by minute 54:55 and then you care about the big prayers, 54:57 the important prayers 54:59 that ones that change our lives. 55:00 But Lord that you care about the details of our lives 55:02 through the small things. 55:05 Father, I know 55:06 that the small decisions that we make, 55:08 the small prayers that we make, 55:10 those are the building blocks so the burden's of our life, 55:13 our future, our eternal future, Lord. 55:16 I left each and every one of us up to you 55:18 to reach out to you 55:20 to have that eternal relationship 55:21 with you Father through prayer. 55:23 We just thank you father in Jesus name. 55:26 Amen. 55:27 Thank you, Father, 55:29 for what have you done in our lives 55:30 and hear that you saved us 55:32 and redeemed us with the blood of Jesus 55:35 and now you cleanse us, 55:36 and stand us up as your sons and daughters. 55:39 Thank you for the privilege 55:41 of calling you Abba, Father, daddy, 55:44 and then we can come boldly 55:45 before you are throwing a grace. 55:47 Lord, I just pray 55:48 from my brothers and sisters 55:50 watching and listening right now 55:52 that you would bring healing where that's needed. 55:54 Where that you would bring transformation in victory 55:57 where that's needed 55:59 that you would bring deliverance, 56:00 that you would bring peace and hope 56:02 and assurance and healing, and comfort, 56:06 and most of all that you would reveal yourself 56:10 in such an incredible way, 56:11 and we thank you for what we are going to do. 56:16 Father in heaven, Lord, 56:18 I just thank you for the Sabbath hours 56:20 and for the time we can spend with you. 56:22 And Lord, I just pray that, I want to thank you first, 56:26 thank you that you always hear and listen to them 56:29 or I don't want to stand in the way 56:31 of you been able to act and to answer prayers lord. 56:37 Well Lord, we just want to have faith, 56:38 that's really what I am praying for lord 56:40 that I have faith in you 56:41 and that I would just ask all things in accordance 56:43 with your will and then accept them. 56:46 Lord, knowing and trusting that you know what is best, 56:49 I just pray 56:51 that you would increase my faith in lord 56:54 that we would rest assured 56:55 that Jonathan and others have said 56:58 you see the big picture 56:59 or we can trust you with our lives. 57:01 Lord, I just pray for those 57:02 who are reviewing and listening tonight 57:03 are that you would bless them each with the blessed Sabbath 57:06 and in Jesus name we pray, amen. 57:08 Amen. Amen. 57:09 Hard to believe our time is almost gone. 57:11 Thank you, Dee, and Jonathan and Dee. 57:15 It was fun Dee and Dee doing a program, 57:16 we never done that before. 57:18 It's so special. 57:20 Thank you for joining us as you do each and every day, 57:22 but especially for this Family Worships. 57:24 Amen. Pray to Jesus. 57:26 Look for how God is answering your prayers in your life. 57:28 We hope you have blessed evening 57:30 and a wonderful Sabbath. 57:32 Thank you again for tuning in to 3ABN Family Worship. 57:34 God bless. |
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