WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.080 --> 00:00:06.960 Hello, and thanks for joining us here on Pastor Rick's 2 00:00:07.000 --> 00:00:12.000 Daily Hope, the audio broadcast ministry of Pastor Rick Warren. Today, 3 00:00:12.320 --> 00:00:16.280 Rick continues teaching a series called Connecting with God the 4 00:00:16.399 --> 00:00:19.760 Lord's Prayer. In these lessons, Rick shows you what it 5 00:00:19.839 --> 00:00:23.600 means to truly be spiritually connected to God and to 6 00:00:23.719 --> 00:00:27.440 each other through the power of God's love and God's word. 7 00:00:27.960 --> 00:00:30.000 In a moment, we're going to tell you how to 8 00:00:30.160 --> 00:00:34.399 get the Daily Hope Advent Calendar. This special resource will 9 00:00:34.399 --> 00:00:38.679 help you experience all that Christmas promises. Go to Pastorick 10 00:00:38.759 --> 00:00:41.759 dot com to find out more, or text the word 11 00:00:41.840 --> 00:00:45.560 daily to eight hundred six hundred five thousand and four. 12 00:00:46.000 --> 00:00:50.079 That's Pastorick dot com. Or the word Daily to eight 13 00:00:50.159 --> 00:00:54.520 hundred six hundred five thousand and four. Right now, here's 14 00:00:54.640 --> 00:00:57.479 Pastor Rick with part two of a message called the 15 00:00:57.600 --> 00:00:58.880 Prayer of Deliverance. 16 00:00:59.520 --> 00:01:04.519 Step one one, identify what makes me vulnerable. Watch, don't 17 00:01:04.599 --> 00:01:08.719 just pray, Watch and pray. Then once you know that pattern, 18 00:01:08.799 --> 00:01:13.680 here's a step number two. Plan to avoid it. You 19 00:01:13.760 --> 00:01:17.280 plan to avoid it. You don't wait until you're in 20 00:01:17.280 --> 00:01:21.760 the situation. Decide am I gonna give into this or not? No, 21 00:01:21.959 --> 00:01:27.480 you decide before your emotions kick into gear. You know, 22 00:01:27.519 --> 00:01:30.599 when I used to be a youth pastor many years ago, 23 00:01:31.480 --> 00:01:33.920 and I would tell kids that they needed to plan 24 00:01:34.040 --> 00:01:36.760 their dates. I said, just don't go out on a 25 00:01:36.799 --> 00:01:38.840 date and say what do you want to do. You're 26 00:01:38.840 --> 00:01:41.280 gonna end up in the back of a car because 27 00:01:41.280 --> 00:01:43.400 you're bored. There's nothing else to do. I said, you're 28 00:01:43.439 --> 00:01:49.920 either gonna go by your plans or your glands. So 29 00:01:50.000 --> 00:01:54.120 I said, plan your dates, know where you're headed, know 30 00:01:54.159 --> 00:01:56.560 what you parents. You need to teach that to your kids. 31 00:01:56.959 --> 00:01:58.599 Don't just go out and say we're gonna we don't 32 00:01:58.599 --> 00:02:01.359 know what we're gonna do. It says you know, plan 33 00:02:01.760 --> 00:02:05.280 to avoid it. You need to know what you're going 34 00:02:05.400 --> 00:02:07.760 to do now. The Bible says this plan carefully what 35 00:02:07.840 --> 00:02:12.879 you do, avoid evil, Walk straight ahead, don't go one 36 00:02:12.960 --> 00:02:16.639 step off the right way. Whenever I read that verse, 37 00:02:16.639 --> 00:02:21.159 it reminds me when I was in college in nineteen 38 00:02:21.240 --> 00:02:25.400 seventy four, I actually lived in Nagasaki, Japan, and I 39 00:02:25.439 --> 00:02:31.479 taught English in a church in Nagasaki, Japan, and I 40 00:02:31.599 --> 00:02:35.319 lived with the missionaries who lived there permanently in Nagasaki, 41 00:02:35.560 --> 00:02:38.039 and their house was at the top of a hill. 42 00:02:38.199 --> 00:02:40.319 Nagasaki is kind of like San Francisco. It's all hills 43 00:02:40.319 --> 00:02:44.919 and valleys in beautiful bay. But to get from the 44 00:02:45.000 --> 00:02:48.080 church to their house, I had to walk through the 45 00:02:48.199 --> 00:02:54.319 Nagasaki red light district every single day and there were 46 00:02:54.360 --> 00:02:57.759 no there were I mean no holds barred there. I 47 00:02:57.759 --> 00:03:00.400 mean it was there were posters of nudity every where, 48 00:03:00.560 --> 00:03:03.800 and I basically had to walk, and as I did, 49 00:03:03.879 --> 00:03:09.120 I would avoid evil. Walk straight ahead, don't step off 50 00:03:09.240 --> 00:03:11.919 one to the right or to the left. Okay, I 51 00:03:12.080 --> 00:03:14.919 just put my blinders on, just headed for the home. 52 00:03:15.000 --> 00:03:17.159 You know, it's like cow going back to the barn 53 00:03:17.280 --> 00:03:23.199 or whatever. Now, Temptation always begins with the natural desire 54 00:03:23.280 --> 00:03:23.680 in you. 55 00:03:25.039 --> 00:03:25.599 Temptation. 56 00:03:25.879 --> 00:03:28.439 If you didn't have a natural desire, it would never 57 00:03:28.560 --> 00:03:33.719 key into it. And often temptation is fulfilling a legitimate 58 00:03:33.759 --> 00:03:37.719 desire in the wrong way, or fulfilling a legitimate desire 59 00:03:37.960 --> 00:03:42.159 at the wrong time or in the wrong amount. You 60 00:03:42.319 --> 00:03:45.479 have a natural desire to eat, You have a need 61 00:03:45.520 --> 00:03:45.879 to eat. 62 00:03:46.319 --> 00:03:47.560 You have a natural. 63 00:03:47.159 --> 00:03:52.120 Desire to drink, to sleep, you have natural sexual drives. 64 00:03:52.560 --> 00:03:54.280 These are natural. Where do you think you got those? 65 00:03:54.400 --> 00:03:57.599 God gave them to you. Those are not evil. What 66 00:03:57.719 --> 00:04:01.840 is temptation. Temptation is when we abuse and misuse what. 67 00:04:01.879 --> 00:04:02.759 God has given us. 68 00:04:03.680 --> 00:04:07.199 That's temptation, when we abuse and misuse something that God 69 00:04:07.199 --> 00:04:10.360 has given to us for good. Fire is good, but 70 00:04:10.400 --> 00:04:13.400 if you amuse it, use it and misuse it, it's 71 00:04:13.400 --> 00:04:16.720 going to burn up your house. Water is a good thing. 72 00:04:16.800 --> 00:04:19.120 Your body is ninety percent water, but if you get 73 00:04:19.120 --> 00:04:22.519 too much of it, you're gonna drown. And so there's 74 00:04:22.519 --> 00:04:26.519 nothing wrong with water, it's just misused and abused. It 75 00:04:26.560 --> 00:04:31.480 becomes a temptation. So temptation what it does is it 76 00:04:31.519 --> 00:04:34.319 turns a routine desire into. 77 00:04:34.079 --> 00:04:35.240 A runaway desire. 78 00:04:36.120 --> 00:04:38.480 I gotta have it, and I've got to have it 79 00:04:38.600 --> 00:04:42.600 now and now now, now, wrong time, wrong way, wrong amount, 80 00:04:43.279 --> 00:04:46.040 and it becomes more than any important, than anything else, 81 00:04:46.120 --> 00:04:50.000 and it's all you think about. And any good God 82 00:04:50.079 --> 00:04:54.439 given desire out of control becomes a sin. So you 83 00:04:54.560 --> 00:04:57.480 have to plan in advance. I say, you know what 84 00:04:57.560 --> 00:05:00.360 I know. I get tempted in sports bars. We'll simple, 85 00:05:00.399 --> 00:05:05.519 don't go to sports bars. Okay, I get tempted to 86 00:05:05.600 --> 00:05:09.240 pick up the porno magazines and seven elevens. Don't go 87 00:05:09.319 --> 00:05:12.199 to seven elevens. It's real simple. If you don't want 88 00:05:12.240 --> 00:05:16.680 to get stung. You stay away from the bees. So 89 00:05:16.879 --> 00:05:19.839 you know that the when, the where, the why, the who, 90 00:05:19.920 --> 00:05:22.439 the what, the how that makes you vulnerable, and then 91 00:05:22.519 --> 00:05:27.839 you plan to avoid that area. Step number three, I 92 00:05:27.959 --> 00:05:34.560 guard my heart. I must guard my heart. Now this 93 00:05:34.720 --> 00:05:39.759 is very, very important because the Bible says, out of 94 00:05:39.839 --> 00:05:43.319 the heart. Everything comes out of the heart, a man 95 00:05:43.399 --> 00:05:48.240 speaks and all of the issues of life. Temptation always 96 00:05:48.319 --> 00:05:52.160 starts inside of you. We think temptation is on the outside. No, 97 00:05:52.279 --> 00:05:55.600 it is not the triggers on the outside, but the 98 00:05:55.639 --> 00:05:59.959 temptation is actually inside you. And if there were no 99 00:06:00.279 --> 00:06:04.240 natural temptation inside you, based on your shape and your nature, 100 00:06:05.199 --> 00:06:07.680 it wouldn't have any attraction to you. It's like a magnet, 101 00:06:08.240 --> 00:06:10.839 you know, if a magnet doesn't attract plastic because there's 102 00:06:10.839 --> 00:06:13.000 nothing inside the plastic that's metal. 103 00:06:14.079 --> 00:06:14.720 To pull it out. 104 00:06:16.240 --> 00:06:18.319 The Bible says this up here on the screen James 105 00:06:18.319 --> 00:06:22.759 one fourteen. We are tempted by our own desires that 106 00:06:22.959 --> 00:06:26.680 drag us off and trap us. And look at this 107 00:06:26.759 --> 00:06:31.279 next verse. The Bible says, it is inside you. It's 108 00:06:31.319 --> 00:06:32.680 inside you, out of. 109 00:06:32.639 --> 00:06:33.639 A person's heart. 110 00:06:33.800 --> 00:06:36.720 That's why you have to guard your heart come evil thoughts, 111 00:06:37.800 --> 00:06:46.439 sexual immorality, theft, the desire to kill people, adultery, greed, wickedness, deceitfulness, 112 00:06:46.439 --> 00:06:52.000 that's when you manipulate other people, lust, envy, slander, arrogance, 113 00:06:52.199 --> 00:06:56.720 and foolishness. All these vile things come from not outside 114 00:06:57.279 --> 00:07:04.600 but from inside. So if you're serious about breaking some 115 00:07:04.720 --> 00:07:09.199 bad habits and breaking a bad temptation, you got to 116 00:07:09.199 --> 00:07:12.279 do a little heart check up first. So let's do 117 00:07:12.319 --> 00:07:15.399 a little X ray, a spiritual X ray of your 118 00:07:15.399 --> 00:07:19.480 heart right now. And I've listed there some questions. There 119 00:07:19.480 --> 00:07:21.040 are ten questions. What I want you to do is 120 00:07:21.079 --> 00:07:23.879 I want you to circle zero one, two, three, four 121 00:07:23.959 --> 00:07:27.560 four being really strong about it. Are zero being you know, 122 00:07:27.639 --> 00:07:30.519 on the on the left handed side, and I want 123 00:07:30.519 --> 00:07:33.240 you to evaluate. Then we'll add up the points and 124 00:07:32.759 --> 00:07:34.879 I'll interpret it for you. Know, this is going to 125 00:07:34.920 --> 00:07:37.079 be a real eye opener for some of you. Okay, 126 00:07:37.519 --> 00:07:42.759 So number one right now your emotional experience. Do you 127 00:07:42.800 --> 00:07:48.120 feel more physically exhausted over to the left hand side 128 00:07:48.160 --> 00:07:50.120 of the column or do you tend to feel right 129 00:07:50.160 --> 00:07:53.920 now more energetic and in shape? Okay, just give yourself 130 00:07:53.959 --> 00:07:58.199 a zero, one, two, three four more physically exhausted. Are 131 00:07:58.199 --> 00:08:02.720 you tending towards that end? Are tending more toward I feel. 132 00:08:02.519 --> 00:08:04.680 Energetic and in shape. Okay? 133 00:08:04.680 --> 00:08:07.560 How about the next one right now? 134 00:08:07.639 --> 00:08:08.680 How are you feeling right now? 135 00:08:08.720 --> 00:08:13.439 Are you more discouraged and pessimistic about your life, about 136 00:08:13.439 --> 00:08:16.560 the economy, about your family, or your faith, whatever, or 137 00:08:16.600 --> 00:08:20.319 are you more encouraged and hopeful? You need to give 138 00:08:20.360 --> 00:08:24.360 yourself rate yourself on zero, one, two, three, four? Okay 139 00:08:24.360 --> 00:08:25.199 the number three? 140 00:08:25.560 --> 00:08:25.959 Right now? 141 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:28.959 Are you feeling in your life more bored with your life, 142 00:08:28.959 --> 00:08:31.959 more discontented with your life? Or are you feeling at 143 00:08:31.959 --> 00:08:37.320 the other end more challenged and contented? Okay, the next one? 144 00:08:37.720 --> 00:08:38.159 Right now? 145 00:08:38.200 --> 00:08:43.679 Do you feel more spiritually dry or spiritually empty or 146 00:08:43.720 --> 00:08:46.320 do you feel no? I feel spiritually alive and I 147 00:08:46.360 --> 00:08:51.759 feel like I'm really growing. I'm growing again. How about 148 00:08:51.759 --> 00:08:54.360 the next In relationships right now? Are you feeling more 149 00:08:54.440 --> 00:08:57.519 alone a lot of the time or distant from others, 150 00:08:57.559 --> 00:09:00.759 especially those you love, or are you feeleeling right now 151 00:09:00.799 --> 00:09:03.480 close to those you love. There's not a lot of 152 00:09:03.559 --> 00:09:06.080 conflict going on. You feel pretty close to those you love. 153 00:09:07.240 --> 00:09:10.519 The next one, do you feel more insecure or unsure 154 00:09:11.360 --> 00:09:15.200 about yourself? Or are you feeling right now, more confident 155 00:09:15.799 --> 00:09:21.600 and secure because you're you sure? The next one? Are 156 00:09:21.639 --> 00:09:27.200 you feeling wounded? Are you feeling deeply hurt? Or do 157 00:09:27.240 --> 00:09:32.440 you feel loved and understood? Give yourself zero to four? 158 00:09:33.639 --> 00:09:34.279 Next one? 159 00:09:34.759 --> 00:09:35.200 Right now? 160 00:09:35.240 --> 00:09:37.639 Do you tend to feel more bitter or angry about 161 00:09:37.639 --> 00:09:39.840 something that's happened in your life that you've just gone 162 00:09:39.840 --> 00:09:44.480 through or are you feeling I really have forgiven everybody 163 00:09:44.480 --> 00:09:46.919 in my life. I'm not holding on to any any 164 00:09:46.960 --> 00:09:51.320 regrets or any resentments. Next one, where are you on 165 00:09:51.399 --> 00:09:54.960 the happiness sad continuum? Are you feeling more sad these days? 166 00:09:54.960 --> 00:10:00.360 Are you feeling more happy these days? And this the last? 167 00:10:00.600 --> 00:10:02.240 Have you felt recently. 168 00:10:01.840 --> 00:10:03.120 More like you've failed? 169 00:10:04.399 --> 00:10:07.480 Or have you felt more recently like you have been 170 00:10:07.759 --> 00:10:10.679 succeeding at whatever you were doing? Okay, now, what I 171 00:10:10.720 --> 00:10:12.240 want you to do is just count up that number 172 00:10:12.279 --> 00:10:14.879 right now and write your score at the bottom, and 173 00:10:15.080 --> 00:10:17.759 I'm gonna interpret it for you. Okay, So just add 174 00:10:17.799 --> 00:10:20.639 it all up. Count up all of the ones and 175 00:10:20.679 --> 00:10:29.240 the twos and the threes and the fours, and add 176 00:10:29.279 --> 00:10:33.159 it all up. Obviously, if you got all zero's, you 177 00:10:33.240 --> 00:10:36.159 got zero. If you've got all ones, you've got ten. 178 00:10:37.840 --> 00:10:40.799 And all twos would be twenty and all fours would 179 00:10:40.799 --> 00:10:41.159 be forty. 180 00:10:41.200 --> 00:10:45.799 So you're not gonna have more than forty. So add 181 00:10:45.840 --> 00:10:46.200 that up. 182 00:10:48.559 --> 00:10:53.919 Okay, let a doctor Rick give his evaluation. 183 00:10:56.799 --> 00:11:00.799 I've got a doctorate. Okay, I'm a doctor. Okay, yeah, 184 00:11:01.000 --> 00:11:05.840 I'm a doctor. All right, all right, here we go. 185 00:11:06.480 --> 00:11:11.080 If your total is thirty to forty, you are in 186 00:11:11.120 --> 00:11:15.480 good shape. You're in really good shape, and you're going 187 00:11:15.559 --> 00:11:19.720 to be much more resistant to temptation than most people would. 188 00:11:20.080 --> 00:11:21.159 That's a really good sign. 189 00:11:22.000 --> 00:11:28.159 If you have between twenty to thirty points, friends, you're 190 00:11:28.200 --> 00:11:33.279 in serious danger. Really, the yellow lights are flashing in 191 00:11:33.320 --> 00:11:36.000 your life right now. You need to be aware that 192 00:11:36.039 --> 00:11:38.720 you are being set up by Satan for a fall, 193 00:11:39.480 --> 00:11:41.440 because he always hits you when you're down. You just 194 00:11:41.480 --> 00:11:44.679 need to be aware of that twenty to thirty points. 195 00:11:45.039 --> 00:11:48.679 If you've got less than twenty points on your score, friend, 196 00:11:49.879 --> 00:11:51.840 you are in crisis and you don't even know it. 197 00:11:53.440 --> 00:11:56.759 And you really need to talk to somebody in your 198 00:11:56.759 --> 00:12:00.000 small group or get a reference for a Christian count 199 00:12:00.200 --> 00:12:03.240 or somebody. You are in crisis right now and you 200 00:12:03.320 --> 00:12:06.799 seriously need some support, some. 201 00:12:07.000 --> 00:12:09.919 Energy in your life now. 202 00:12:09.960 --> 00:12:11.919 Once you know the when and the how and the 203 00:12:12.000 --> 00:12:13.440 where and the who and the what, and you know 204 00:12:13.480 --> 00:12:16.120 all of this, how your heart is going. You need 205 00:12:16.159 --> 00:12:18.480 to ask yourself, how long have I been at this level? 206 00:12:19.679 --> 00:12:22.759 The longer you've been at the twenty level, the more 207 00:12:22.879 --> 00:12:28.480 vulnerable you are, the longer you've been at the condition 208 00:12:28.600 --> 00:12:32.519 you're in, the more serious it is. Now when you 209 00:12:32.600 --> 00:12:34.919 mix all of these together, and you mix several of these, 210 00:12:34.960 --> 00:12:38.639 like frustration and anger and hurt, it is a powerful combo, 211 00:12:38.960 --> 00:12:41.120 and all of a sudden you'll hear somebody start whispering 212 00:12:41.159 --> 00:12:46.639 in your air. I deserve to have some relief. I 213 00:12:46.840 --> 00:12:52.240 deserve to have some fun. I deserve to be loved. 214 00:12:53.320 --> 00:12:57.120 And that's not God whispering in your ear. 215 00:12:57.159 --> 00:13:03.799 At that moment, you're listening to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope 216 00:13:04.080 --> 00:13:06.120 Rip will be back in just a moment with the 217 00:13:06.159 --> 00:13:09.159 rest of today's lesson. You can sign up for Pastor 218 00:13:09.279 --> 00:13:14.120 Rick's free email devotional at pastorick dot com. That's Pastorick 219 00:13:14.440 --> 00:13:15.480 dot com. 220 00:13:15.639 --> 00:13:18.679 Fall us here now and that means Christmas is right 221 00:13:18.679 --> 00:13:20.960 around the corner. That's why we want to let you 222 00:13:21.039 --> 00:13:23.879 know that Pastor Rick and his wife Kay created an 223 00:13:23.960 --> 00:13:29.480 ADVIC calendar with specially commissioned custom artwork. It's beautiful. 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That's eight hundred and six hundred and 242 00:14:32.240 --> 00:14:35.840 five zero zero four, or go to Pastorrick dot com, 243 00:14:36.039 --> 00:14:37.399 Thanks so very much. 244 00:14:37.559 --> 00:14:40.600 This is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope once again. 245 00:14:40.840 --> 00:14:41.480 Here's Rick. 246 00:14:42.039 --> 00:14:44.120 Now, when you mix all of these together, and you 247 00:14:44.159 --> 00:14:46.639 mix several of these, like frustration and anger and hurt, 248 00:14:46.960 --> 00:14:49.720 it is a powerful combo. And all of a sudden, 249 00:14:49.720 --> 00:14:52.759 you'll hear somebody start whispering in your air. I deserve 250 00:14:52.919 --> 00:14:58.759 to have some relief, I deserve to have some fun. 251 00:15:00.159 --> 00:15:05.279 I deserve to be loved. And that's not God. 252 00:15:05.840 --> 00:15:07.159 Whispering that in your ear. 253 00:15:07.200 --> 00:15:10.320 At that moment, you are being tempted and you're being 254 00:15:10.360 --> 00:15:12.480 set up. And the Bible says this look on the 255 00:15:12.480 --> 00:15:16.080 back of your outline. It says, do not give the 256 00:15:16.080 --> 00:15:19.240 devil a foothold. Circle the word foothold. How do you 257 00:15:19.240 --> 00:15:21.879 give the devil a foothold? What is a foothold. It's 258 00:15:21.919 --> 00:15:27.159 a mental state. It is a negative emotion. Anytime you 259 00:15:27.240 --> 00:15:29.799 hold a negative emotion in your life for an extended 260 00:15:29.799 --> 00:15:33.840 period of time, whether it's anger or worry, or fear, 261 00:15:34.240 --> 00:15:38.399 or bitterness or envy or jealousy or all of these 262 00:15:38.440 --> 00:15:41.480 other things, the longer you hold that, you are allowing 263 00:15:42.440 --> 00:15:46.159 the evil one to get a stronghold in your life 264 00:15:46.200 --> 00:15:50.919 in your brain. So you've got to guard your heart 265 00:15:52.000 --> 00:15:54.600 all right. Number four, the fourth thing you need to 266 00:15:54.639 --> 00:15:59.759 do is you need to pray for deliverance. Pray for deliverance. 267 00:16:00.039 --> 00:16:02.279 What I mean by that is just ask for God's help. 268 00:16:02.639 --> 00:16:04.879 And the Bible tells us God is ready to help. 269 00:16:04.919 --> 00:16:07.639 He says, we're to pray lead us not into temptation, 270 00:16:08.039 --> 00:16:09.480 but deliver. 271 00:16:09.240 --> 00:16:10.279 Us from evil. 272 00:16:10.360 --> 00:16:14.000 That is the prayer of deliverance, and you ask God 273 00:16:14.039 --> 00:16:20.159 for help. Now, the prayer of deliverance is often just 274 00:16:20.279 --> 00:16:26.759 one word help, Okay. It doesn't have to be our gracious, 275 00:16:26.840 --> 00:16:30.240 heavenly Father and knowing no you can do when you 276 00:16:30.279 --> 00:16:31.360 come to the prayer deliverance. 277 00:16:31.399 --> 00:16:36.039 You can do a microwave prayer help. Okay. 278 00:16:36.720 --> 00:16:39.960 You know I'm walking through keep my eyes straight. You 279 00:16:40.000 --> 00:16:42.759 know I'm going through this time. I don't like this person. 280 00:16:42.840 --> 00:16:44.960 I'm gonna have to deal with that clerk who's a jerk. 281 00:16:45.159 --> 00:16:47.120 And I do not want to get impatient. I do 282 00:16:47.120 --> 00:16:49.480 not want to get angry. I do not like the 283 00:16:49.519 --> 00:16:53.320 way my relative treats me. And I'm gonna see them today, 284 00:16:53.440 --> 00:16:54.519 and oh God, you. 285 00:16:54.480 --> 00:16:55.159 Got to help me. 286 00:16:56.600 --> 00:16:59.960 Because I just I lose my Christianity when I'm right 287 00:17:00.039 --> 00:17:04.200 on that person and God, I really need your help 288 00:17:04.200 --> 00:17:06.759 today because everything in me just wants me to slugger 289 00:17:07.680 --> 00:17:10.039 you know, or him or whatever. You know, You just 290 00:17:10.319 --> 00:17:15.160 that relative out there who just irritates you no end, okay, 291 00:17:15.880 --> 00:17:19.160 And so you pray for deliverance. Now. The Bible is 292 00:17:19.200 --> 00:17:24.319 full of examples of people who prayed for deliverance David, Daniel, Peter, Paul. 293 00:17:25.200 --> 00:17:30.359 And God provided provides assistance for anybody who asks, why 294 00:17:30.400 --> 00:17:32.559 can I expect God to help me when I pray 295 00:17:32.559 --> 00:17:36.559 the prayer of deliverance? Because God has promised it. Look 296 00:17:36.599 --> 00:17:40.720 at this verse Psalm fifty, verse fifteen. Call upon me 297 00:17:41.759 --> 00:17:47.640 in your day of trouble. I will deliver you and 298 00:17:47.720 --> 00:17:51.160 you will honor me. God says, you don't have to 299 00:17:51.160 --> 00:17:53.920 have a long conversation. You can just say, Hell, may day, 300 00:17:54.039 --> 00:17:58.240 may day, may day, sos God, I'm facing something now 301 00:17:58.279 --> 00:18:02.559 that will powers not a to keep me being nice 302 00:18:02.599 --> 00:18:05.880 to this person or whatever. God, I need to pray 303 00:18:05.920 --> 00:18:08.440 the prayer of deliverance. And you know what, God's sympathetic 304 00:18:08.440 --> 00:18:10.880 to your situation. He knows everything that's going on in 305 00:18:10.960 --> 00:18:14.440 your life. He knows how irritating those people are. He 306 00:18:14.519 --> 00:18:16.440 knows the things that tempt you in fact, look at 307 00:18:16.480 --> 00:18:21.079 this next verse. Jesus understands our weakness, for he faced 308 00:18:21.160 --> 00:18:23.480 all of the same temptations we do, yet he did 309 00:18:23.519 --> 00:18:30.000 not sin. So let us come boldly to our gracious God, 310 00:18:30.640 --> 00:18:34.480 and then we will receive his mercy and grace to 311 00:18:34.640 --> 00:18:39.039 help us when we need it. Notice, he says, Jesus 312 00:18:39.119 --> 00:18:43.880 understands why is he sympathetic? Notice he faced the same temptation. 313 00:18:44.039 --> 00:18:48.519 Underline that Jesus faced the same temptation. Wait a minute, 314 00:18:49.599 --> 00:18:51.680 You saying Jesus was tempted to get angry. 315 00:18:51.759 --> 00:18:52.319 Yes, I am. 316 00:18:53.319 --> 00:18:56.599 You're telling me Jesus it was tempted to have self pity. Yes, 317 00:18:57.480 --> 00:19:01.680 you're telling him that Jesus had sexual temptations. Absolutely, you're 318 00:19:01.720 --> 00:19:05.000 telling me that Jesus sometimes was fatigued and tempted to 319 00:19:05.039 --> 00:19:10.359 be cranky. Absolutely every basic temptation. The Bible says he 320 00:19:10.440 --> 00:19:12.559 was tempted in all ways like as we Yet he 321 00:19:12.680 --> 00:19:13.200 said not. 322 00:19:13.559 --> 00:19:15.400 That's the difference. He never gave in. 323 00:19:17.000 --> 00:19:21.000 And so he had the freedom to choose. How do 324 00:19:21.079 --> 00:19:25.079 we know that Jesus had the freedom to choose? I mean, 325 00:19:26.000 --> 00:19:29.200 didn't he just have to be perfect because he was God? 326 00:19:29.440 --> 00:19:32.480 No, he didn't. He had the freedom to choose. 327 00:19:32.599 --> 00:19:35.759 That's why even at the cross the night before he's 328 00:19:35.799 --> 00:19:38.079 going to be crucified, he's thinking, I don't want to 329 00:19:38.119 --> 00:19:40.559 be crucified. I don't want to go through all that 330 00:19:40.599 --> 00:19:42.680 thing and in the garden against him, and he's praying 331 00:19:43.039 --> 00:19:45.680 and he's struggling with it, and he says, Father. 332 00:19:46.000 --> 00:19:51.640 Not my will, not my will, but yours be done. 333 00:19:51.720 --> 00:19:52.319 What does that mean? 334 00:19:52.599 --> 00:19:59.039 Jesus had a choice, and he suffered the same temptations 335 00:19:59.079 --> 00:20:03.680 we do in life, and so he understands. And in 336 00:20:03.799 --> 00:20:05.759 John six thirty eight he says, I didn't come to 337 00:20:05.799 --> 00:20:07.880 do my will. I came to do the will of 338 00:20:07.920 --> 00:20:11.759 the Father. So he was God in a human body. 339 00:20:12.640 --> 00:20:15.319 But even better is that he never sinned. What does 340 00:20:15.319 --> 00:20:17.759 that mean he can help you overcome? And so the 341 00:20:17.799 --> 00:20:21.640 Bible says, come boldly to God, Come and say, mayday, Sos, 342 00:20:21.720 --> 00:20:25.240 I need your help. God isn't ticked with you when 343 00:20:25.240 --> 00:20:28.960 you get tempted. He's not gonna scold you when you 344 00:20:29.079 --> 00:20:32.720 tempt me. He said, I'm ready here to help. So 345 00:20:32.759 --> 00:20:37.960 I pray for deliverance. And then number five, this is 346 00:20:37.960 --> 00:20:40.759 the real key on the six steps on the path 347 00:20:40.799 --> 00:20:47.359 to escape. I turn my attention elsewhere. I turn my 348 00:20:47.440 --> 00:20:51.279 attention elsewhere. I change the direction of my thoughts. I 349 00:20:51.359 --> 00:20:55.160 refocus on something else, I shift my attention. If you're 350 00:20:55.200 --> 00:20:57.880 watching something on TV you don't like, you don't sit 351 00:20:57.920 --> 00:20:59.839 there and go I'm not gonna listen. 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