Speaker 1: Holy Spirit.
Speaker 2: We just thank you for your presence, thank you for
Speaker 2: your ministry to us already. Thank you for the way
Speaker 2: you care for us, the revelation of Jesus in our
Speaker 2: midst thank you for the nearness of your word. We
Speaker 2: welcome you right now to just take us deeper in you,
Speaker 2: take us deeper in the sweetness of relationship with you,
Speaker 2: with the Father, with the Son and Jesus' name. Everybody said, Amen,
Speaker 2: you may be seated. Allelujah. I want to dive into
Speaker 2: some stuff about prayer this morning and just to help
Speaker 2: us grow a little bit in our ability to prayer,
Speaker 2: our ability in prayer, our ability to pray. So because
Speaker 2: this is so vital. Prayer is so vital. Prayer is
Speaker 2: that communion with Father UH through the Holy Spirit. Right,
Speaker 2: we access Father through Jesus UH. And it's UH. It's
Speaker 2: the most important thing that we do as believers. It's
Speaker 2: the most important thing that we're called to His believers.
Speaker 2: So we're called UH to lead our families well, we're
Speaker 2: called to love well, we're called UH into honesty and
Speaker 2: upright living. But everything, you know, everything that we could name,
Speaker 2: actually flows out of a prayer.
Speaker 1: It flows out of our.
Speaker 2: Communion with God, much like much like, Oh, I don't know,
Speaker 2: I just I.
Speaker 1: Just want you to see that we feed.
Speaker 2: On Him, that we are, you know, he said over Israel,
Speaker 2: he said, at one point he said, open your mouths
Speaker 2: wide and I will fill them. And the picture in
Speaker 2: that passage was the picture of a baby bird. Open
Speaker 2: your mouth wide and I will fill. I will feed right. Uh.
Speaker 2: And And the the approach that we have to him
Speaker 2: for that very thing is first of all, in prayer.
Speaker 1: It's in prayer.
Speaker 2: And historically, historically Abraham knew this, Israel knew this, Judah
Speaker 2: knew this. The focus of our we are of our
Speaker 2: month is Daniel. Daniel knew this.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: And And there was a habit of prayer, like a
Speaker 2: prayer habit that was developed with the righteous. Right, there
Speaker 2: was a prayer habit developed where they would seek the Lord.
Speaker 2: And this was so common that it was called the
Speaker 2: hour of prayer.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, we're trying to McMuffin everything. You know,
Speaker 2: we're trying to we're trying to you know, we're trying
Speaker 2: to get get.
Speaker 1: McDonald's franchised in the church. Right. Uh.
Speaker 2: So everything, everything should be drived through, right, everything should
Speaker 2: be and even you know, even in our region, we
Speaker 2: have plenty of churches doing the MC church. You know
Speaker 2: thing they want one hour church. People want one hour church.
Speaker 2: I don't know what that was. I don't know what
Speaker 2: that is that mean? Does that mean hello? Does it
Speaker 2: mean you think that's me? I don't think it's mean Okay,
Speaker 2: But but prayer. Throughout history, prayer with God, a time
Speaker 2: with God was known as the hour of prayer. Prayer
Speaker 2: was known as the hour of prayer, and even in
Speaker 2: Acts chapter three, we're familiar, super familiar with this passage.
Speaker 2: In Acts chapter three, it says that Peter and John
Speaker 2: were going to the temple for.
Speaker 1: The hour of prayer.
Speaker 2: And that's where you know, that's where they came across
Speaker 2: the lame Man, and that's where they said, silver and
Speaker 2: gold we don't have We've heard that sermon a thousand times.
Speaker 2: You heard that sermon a thousand times, anybody, but pay
Speaker 2: attention to pay attention to where they were going. They
Speaker 2: were going to the House of the Lord for the
Speaker 2: hour of prayer. Did you hear the word hour? Heard
Speaker 2: stone it? What time is it? When you think about
Speaker 2: the hour of prayer, it's it's too thirty. No, No,
Speaker 2: that's when you go to the dentist. When you go
Speaker 2: to the dentist, it's two thirty when you the you know,
Speaker 2: the hour of prayer, the hour of prayer. Can we
Speaker 2: give up an hour for him? Can we can? We
Speaker 2: can we enter in to the spirit for an hour?
Speaker 2: Can we can we invest in him for an hour?
Speaker 2: The only way he can invest in us is if
Speaker 2: we invest in him. The only way he can invest
Speaker 2: in the world is if we invest in him. The
Speaker 2: avenue of prayer, it's the conduit of the spirit. If
Speaker 2: I if I don't flip on the brake. I got
Speaker 2: a big old electrical panel in my house, and I'm
Speaker 2: transmitting two hundred amps through that thing. And you know,
Speaker 2: I mean, we got lots going on in our place, right.
Speaker 2: I get the letters from the power company telling me
Speaker 2: you've exceeded all of your neighbors by you know, fifty percent,
Speaker 2: you know, and they, you know, they want to they
Speaker 2: want to regulate me, they want to throttle me down, right.
Speaker 2: But I got to have those breakers on. I've got
Speaker 2: to there's got to be conduit of electricity flowing. If
Speaker 2: I don't have that on, then there's no power distributed
Speaker 2: to my house, and prayer is where we activate those breakers.
Speaker 2: We have to activate those breakers because it's prayer that
Speaker 2: allows the power to come through the conduit into my
Speaker 2: life so that I can receive from God. And I'm
Speaker 2: receiving wisdom. I'm receiving revelation. I'm receiving the Word says
Speaker 2: that Luke A. Levin says that his word is seed.
Speaker 2: So I'm receiving these thoughts, these words, these revelations, they're
Speaker 2: coming in seed form. So if I'll receive them, then
Speaker 2: they'll give me the power to activate something bigger than
Speaker 2: what they were when they came.
Speaker 1: The harvest on.
Speaker 2: What I'm receiving is going to be bigger than what
Speaker 2: I'm receiving because I've positioned myself to receive, and I'm
Speaker 2: receiving seeds downloads words from God, and those words empower
Speaker 2: me to know how to live, to know what to do.
Speaker 2: I don't even know what to do. Without that breaker
Speaker 2: flipped on and that conduit flowing and those words were coming,
Speaker 2: I don't even know what to do. And I don't
Speaker 2: I don't want the satisfaction of a dwayne led life.
Speaker 2: I don't want the satisfaction of a flesh led life.
Speaker 2: I don't want the satisfaction of the limitations that are
Speaker 2: on me outside of him, because there my whole life
Speaker 2: is just framed with limitation and smallness. If I don't
Speaker 2: tap into him, if I don't flip those breakers on
Speaker 2: through prayer and allow him and get him and embrace
Speaker 2: him and welcome him to flow into my life. And
Speaker 2: it's not going to happen in five minutes. Who turns
Speaker 2: on the power and and and you know, the toastakes
Speaker 2: about three minutes. Who's on the power and gets the
Speaker 2: toast popped? And no jelly at this time of the year,
Speaker 2: and get those cinnamon rolls out of the kitchen.
Speaker 1: No jelly, no jelly.
Speaker 2: But you know, a little peanut butter of salt, no
Speaker 2: sugar in that peanut butter can have a But who
Speaker 2: does that and then goes to the panel and turns
Speaker 2: the breaker off? Well, that was enough for today. We're
Speaker 2: done with that. We got a little nurishment. No, we
Speaker 2: want more than a little nursehment. We want a fullness
Speaker 2: of joy. We want a fullness of wisdom, We want
Speaker 2: a fullness of understanding.
Speaker 1: Right, and so it was known as the hour of prayer.
Speaker 2: And this is the model of Jesus for us in
Speaker 2: Matthew twenty six. This is on the night that he
Speaker 2: was betrayed. And Jesus was always in prayer, always in prayer,
Speaker 2: daily for a time with God in prayer. He didn't
Speaker 2: live in prayer. He lived with access to God through prayer.
Speaker 2: But he didn't live in prayer. He lived eating, he
Speaker 2: lived walking, he lived doing all sorts of stuff. Right,
Speaker 2: there was all sorts of stuff going on. So, and
Speaker 2: if you watch the Chosen Boy, how did they had
Speaker 2: a lot of walking to do? Hello, somebody? They had
Speaker 2: busy lives, lots going on. But Jesus began his day
Speaker 2: in prayer. Isaiah fifty says Isaiah, I was gonna have
Speaker 2: it for you, but I don't. But Isaiah's fifty says,
Speaker 2: you awaken my ear every morning. You awaken my ear
Speaker 2: every morning. It's a messianic passage talking about him.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: And so Jesus was up in the morning, and this
Speaker 2: is where they would go to find him. They would
Speaker 2: go to find him in the morning. They would find
Speaker 2: him in prayer. They would know he would be off
Speaker 2: in prayer. Because that's before cell phone service was. Cell
Speaker 2: phone service doesn't come on till seven. Well, in those days,
Speaker 2: in those days, Comcast and AT and G, Broadcom, T Mobile, Sprint, Brison,
Speaker 2: none of it came on until seven am. So he
Speaker 2: was up before, he was up before interruption. Now this
Speaker 2: is important. It's important because this is the picture is
Speaker 2: friendship covenant. The friendship isn't were. The picture is not slavery.
Speaker 2: We aren't slaves the picture John fifteen, I no longer
Speaker 2: call you slaves. I call you friends. It's covenant terminology.
Speaker 2: We're brought near like Abraham was. We're brought near like
Speaker 2: Enoch was. We're brought near like David was. We're brought
Speaker 2: near into the bosom of Father. We're brought near into
Speaker 2: the presence of God through prayer. And there he shares
Speaker 2: with this what's going on. He shares with us what
Speaker 2: he's up to, He shares with us what he wants
Speaker 2: to do. He leads us and gives us direction. He
Speaker 2: is And one of the words we don't have up
Speaker 2: here is he is our shepherd. He is our shepherd.
Speaker 2: I think it's Jehovah Rowa, the Lord, our shepherd, Jehovah
Speaker 2: row Aw. So this is what he's doing, right, and
Speaker 2: so all of this is going on, and it's hard
Speaker 2: to do all of that in five, ten, fifteen minutes.
Speaker 2: It's hard to do all of that with our cell
Speaker 2: phone buzzing, with all the distractions, with everything going on,
Speaker 2: with our phone ringing. So the first fruits of our day,
Speaker 2: which is the best part of our day, the first
Speaker 2: fruits of our day, the best part of our day,
Speaker 2: is the part that we set up part under him
Speaker 2: before everything else starts getting our attention. Here in Matthew
Speaker 2: twenty six, it's the night he's betrayed, And here he
Speaker 2: also refers to the hour of prayer, and he goes
Speaker 2: into the garden and he's praying, and he's praying, let
Speaker 2: this cup pass from me verse thirty nine. And he
Speaker 2: brought three of the disciples into the inner part of
Speaker 2: the garden with him, and so they're there with him,
Speaker 2: and he says, would you watch and pray with me?
Speaker 2: And he comes back and they're sleeping. He came back
Speaker 2: verse forty and found them sleeping. You ever fallen asleep praying?
Speaker 2: Oh boy, thank you Jesus for the bean, not the
Speaker 2: pento bean, the coffee bean. Thank you Lord for the
Speaker 2: coffee bean. Right, So, because I'm so guilty of falling
Speaker 2: asleep many times when I'm trying to press into prayer.
Speaker 2: And so I've needed the holy bean, the roasted bean,
Speaker 2: the ground bean, to rescue me. And he came to
Speaker 2: the disciples and found them sleeping. He said to Peter,
Speaker 2: so you men could not keep watch with me one hour,
Speaker 2: keep watching and praying. So he's been gone an hour,
Speaker 2: he's been gone from them an hour. He comes back,
Speaker 2: he finds them sleeping. He says, keep watching and keep
Speaker 2: praying with me. He's exhorting them, that he's exhorting them,
Speaker 2: that he needs them.
Speaker 1: This is interesting.
Speaker 2: He's exhorting them that he needs them to stand with him,
Speaker 2: and that he's brought these three, the inner three, the
Speaker 2: close three, the inner circle. He's brought them into the
Speaker 2: depths of the garden with him. And then he exhorts them.
Speaker 2: He says that the spirit is willing, but the flesh
Speaker 2: is weak.
Speaker 1: The flesh is.
Speaker 2: Always going to make up now, uh uh. No matter
Speaker 2: how many times you've been to the altar, no matter
Speaker 2: how no matter how many times you've been through deliverance, ah,
Speaker 2: no matter how many times you've been to church, your
Speaker 2: flesh is going to be weak. Your flesh is the
Speaker 2: weak link. Your flesh is going to have excuses. You're
Speaker 2: gonna fly, Your flesh is going to start thinking about food.
Speaker 2: Your flesh is going to be drawn away. Your flesh
Speaker 2: is going to struggle.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: You, Your flesh might want to fall asleep. Your flesh
Speaker 2: might move into boredom. Uh, your flesh might and other
Speaker 2: people's flesh might interrupt your flesh. And he doesn't even say,
Speaker 2: He doesn't even say the spirit is willing, but the
Speaker 2: sin about you is weak.
Speaker 1: He didn't say that. He didn't say the sin about
Speaker 1: you is weak.
Speaker 2: He's talking about your earth suit. He's talking about your
Speaker 2: earth suit. That your earth suit doesn't get it, so
Speaker 2: you got to get it. For your earth suit, you've
Speaker 2: got to discipline your earth suit.
Speaker 1: You have to lead your earth suit. You have to
Speaker 1: be in charge of your earth suit. You have to.
Speaker 2: Govern your earth suit. If you don't discipline this earth suit,
Speaker 2: you can't move into the delight of the Spirit and
Speaker 2: the delight of partaking of Him and from him. The
Speaker 2: only way we delight in partaking of him and from
Speaker 2: him is we have to discipline our earth suit. We
Speaker 2: have to bring it under subjection. And he actually said
Speaker 2: you know, watching Bray. What he was trying to say
Speaker 2: is he was trying to say, stand up. You know,
Speaker 2: if you lay around, you're gonna If you're reclining as
Speaker 2: you sleep, you're setting yourself up for a good slumber
Speaker 2: right there, right, don't recline as you sleep. So he's
Speaker 2: trying to give them wise instruction that, two thousand years
Speaker 2: later is still wise instruction. And the calling that he
Speaker 2: needs us, the calling that we are companions, the calling
Speaker 2: that we're partners, the calling that we co labor with him,
Speaker 2: the calling that we fit into everything that he's up to,
Speaker 2: is still real today. And the calling that we would
Speaker 2: spend an hour with him is still real today.
Speaker 1: It's still real today.
Speaker 2: There's nothing more powerful you could do over your marriage.
Speaker 2: Nothing more powerful you could do over your business. Nothing
Speaker 2: more powerful you could do over your children. Nothing more
Speaker 2: powerful you could do over your future. Nothing more powerful
Speaker 2: you could do over your investments. Nothing more powerful you
Speaker 2: could do over your appetites. Nothing more powerful you could
Speaker 2: do over you name it. There's nothing more powerful you
Speaker 2: could do than spend time with him in prayer. Nothing
Speaker 2: more powerful, nothing more And even today we have to
Speaker 2: examine our hearts, right like, am I into this? Am
Speaker 2: I doing this Daniel thing? Am I? Am I kind
Speaker 2: of diving into it? Am I partaking a little bit?
Speaker 2: Am I spending any time with the Lord? Am I
Speaker 2: sharpening my time? Is this a time where I can
Speaker 2: offer a first fruits under him? For twenty twenty six?
Speaker 1: Well? Not really.
Speaker 2: I mean we have to really kind of examine ourselves
Speaker 2: and ask, Okay, then, do I really.
Speaker 1: Trust the Lord?
Speaker 2: Is the Lord just fire insurance for me, like eternal
Speaker 2: fire insurance? But knowing him, hearing from him, being led
Speaker 2: by him is really not that important. It's that it's
Speaker 2: really not that big of a deal. Not really, it's
Speaker 2: not really what I want. I want to lead my
Speaker 2: life and just have the cherry if you turn the
Speaker 2: life on top. I still want to be in charge,
Speaker 2: you know, for the most part, I really want to
Speaker 2: be in charge. I really trust me mainly. I mean,
Speaker 2: we have to ask this question, do I really trust him?
Speaker 2: Because if we're not marking out time for the development
Speaker 2: of this relationship with him, it's not slavery, it's friendship,
Speaker 2: it's covenant. He wants to share with us the depth
Speaker 2: of his heart. He wants to reveal to us what's
Speaker 2: on his heart. He wants to lead us into insight,
Speaker 2: wisdom and blessing beyond our understanding and lift the limit
Speaker 2: of our lives. But if we if we don't, really,
Speaker 2: if we're not pursuing him in that, we really have
Speaker 2: to ask the deep question, how come I'm not what's
Speaker 2: my hang up? What's my hindrance? What's my problem? What's
Speaker 2: my roadblock? What's the source of that roadblock?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: We got to ask that question because it's costing us
Speaker 2: more than we realize. It's costing us so much. Whatever
Speaker 2: it is, I don't know what it is. I don't
Speaker 2: know if it's pride. I don't know if it's you know,
Speaker 2: just a sour you know, a sourness. I don't know
Speaker 2: if it's unresolved disappointment. I don't know if it's a
Speaker 2: doubt or unbelief or or what you know, what we
Speaker 2: perceived God did for Aunt Sally and Uncle Bob, you know,
Speaker 2: and you know, if that's all he could do, I
Speaker 2: really I'm okay without it. I don't know what it is,
Speaker 2: But we have to resolve that. We have to look
Speaker 2: at our lives and really resolve that because we're missing
Speaker 2: out on the most important thing in the whole entire world.
Speaker 1: H h.
Speaker 2: Kah. I want to talk a little bit about when
Speaker 2: we pray and as we pray, and how we pray,
Speaker 2: what that looks like, and how do we enter in UH,
Speaker 2: and how do we how do we make how do
Speaker 2: we make what we're doing even better?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: How do we make it better? I think on the
Speaker 2: other side of desiring to pray UH, desiring to to
Speaker 2: really press in and to know him more. On on
Speaker 2: the other side of that, there's the frailty that he
Speaker 2: talked about there, the frailty of our earth suit, and
Speaker 2: the frailty of our thought life, and the frailty of
Speaker 2: busyness that and maybe the frailty of knowledge, just the
Speaker 2: lack of knowledge where you know, we're five minutes into
Speaker 2: our daily prayer and we're kind of feeling done, We're
Speaker 2: kind of feeling or seven minutes in or ten minutes in,
Speaker 2: or twelve minutes in or fifteen minutes in or twenty
Speaker 2: minutes in, and we're kind of feeling like we've kind
Speaker 2: of tapped out. And so I want to I want
Speaker 2: to address that a little bit by encouraging.
Speaker 1: Us in.
Speaker 2: Knowing how to sustain that intimacy so that it is richer,
Speaker 2: so that it's better, so that it goes deeper, so
Speaker 2: that it's.
Speaker 1: More than just.
Speaker 2: Remember when you were thirteen and you held hands for
Speaker 2: the first time. Remember that, and that was that was
Speaker 2: a really big deal. How old were you when you
Speaker 2: held hands for the first time?
Speaker 1: One twenty one?
Speaker 2: Oh, there's holy people in the front row, Holy people
Speaker 2: in the front row. Thank you, Pastor Dennis. Of course
Speaker 2: he started kissing at thirteen, but holding hands, I mean
Speaker 2: that was that was later.
Speaker 1: That was later.
Speaker 2: The Lord wants our intimacy to be a little deeper
Speaker 2: than just holding hands, right, So and we we do this.
Speaker 2: We understand this by looking at the model prayer. And
Speaker 2: Jesus gave us the model prayer in Matthew chapter six,
Speaker 2: and it starts, the model prayers starts this way, our Father,
Speaker 2: who are in heaven hell, it would be thy name, right.
Speaker 2: So he's answering the question from the disciples, the disciples,
Speaker 2: and he's all of chapter six talking about prayer. Up
Speaker 2: to that point, he's talking about prayer, he's getting inside
Speaker 2: on prayer, understanding about prayer, he's teaching them about prayer.
Speaker 1: And then he.
Speaker 2: Gets to this point where he says, after this manner, pray,
Speaker 2: pray like this, embrace prayer like this. Now we know
Speaker 2: that this is an outline because you can pray it
Speaker 2: in thirty seconds. Right, wow, So he would have never
Speaker 2: given us a prayer to that we could pray in
Speaker 2: thirty seconds when everybody knew that prayer.
Speaker 1: Is an hour.
Speaker 2: Talk about it. And when he has acknowledged that when
Speaker 2: you tarry with him, he would like you to tarry
Speaker 2: for an hour. And even when he went in to
Speaker 2: meet with father, even though it only tells us one
Speaker 2: sentence of the prayer, we know he was gone for
Speaker 2: an hour. And so when he gave us this outline,
Speaker 2: he wasn't saying, guys, here's the deal. Just pray this
Speaker 2: and you're done.
Speaker 1: That's good. It'll take you about thirty seconds a day,
Speaker 1: and you'll be good. You'll have it.
Speaker 2: He was giving us an outline for prayer. And if
Speaker 2: we follow this outline, or we look into it, or
Speaker 2: we build upon it, and we see the purpose in
Speaker 2: it and the richness of it, then we can develop
Speaker 2: an hour of prayer. And when we begin to develop
Speaker 2: this out and it takes a little bit of time,
Speaker 2: by the way, but when we begin to develop out
Speaker 2: a little richer running after him in prayer, the richness
Speaker 2: of the spirit begins to overflow in our lives in
Speaker 2: a beautiful way.
Speaker 1: So he starts this way because this has.
Speaker 2: Been This is like the way you start, right. And
Speaker 2: I want to tell you that because this is the
Speaker 2: way Daniel would have started. This is the way David
Speaker 2: would have started. This is the way in the tent
Speaker 2: of Zion. This is the way they would have started.
Speaker 2: And we've got all these verses and psalms that tell
Speaker 2: us very much insight, parallel insight about this is the
Speaker 2: way you start. You, as you draw near to God
Speaker 2: in prayer, you start by hallowing his name ps Psalm
Speaker 2: ninety five two. Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving.
Speaker 2: Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving. Let us
Speaker 2: make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise.
Speaker 2: How am I going to come into his presence? I
Speaker 2: don't want to come into his presence with petition. I
Speaker 2: don't want to come into his presence with complaint. I
Speaker 2: don't want to come into his presence with discouragement. I'm
Speaker 2: not afraid of that. He's not afraid of that. We
Speaker 2: don't have some riff in our relationship. But the wise
Speaker 2: way to approach him, the wise way to approach him
Speaker 2: is to come into his presence with thanksgiving. Come in
Speaker 2: to his presence hallowing his name, Psalm one hundred, verse three.
Speaker 2: And for enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts
Speaker 2: with praise. Give thanks to him and praise his name.
Speaker 2: Praise his name. For the Lord is good, and his
Speaker 2: love endures forever, his faithfulness continuous role generations Psalm in
Speaker 2: eighteen nineteen. Open for me the gates of the righteous.
Speaker 2: I will enter and give thanks to the Lord. This
Speaker 2: is the gate of the Lord through which the righteous
Speaker 2: may enter. I will give you thanks for you have
Speaker 2: answered me. What is the gate that we the righteous injury?
Speaker 1: What is the gate?
Speaker 2: The gate the righteous enters through. Is the gate of thanksgiving.
Speaker 2: It's the gate of honor. It's the gate of sanctifying
Speaker 2: his name. It's the gate of setting apart his name.
Speaker 2: It's the name of It's the gate of amplifying his name,
Speaker 2: bringing glory, bringing honor, bringing and making his name Halload.
Speaker 2: Halload is sanctified. The word Holload is holy, our fatherhood
Speaker 2: art in heaven. Holy is your name sanctified? Is your
Speaker 2: name special? Is your name set apart? Is your name unique?
Speaker 2: Is your name.
Speaker 1: Unbelievable? Is your name inscrutable? Is your name sufficient? Is
Speaker 1: your name? Right? Now? This is how we enter it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you care to, you can blow through thirty
Speaker 2: minutes on point number one of the outline of prayer
Speaker 2: and have barely scratched the surface. But by entering in
Speaker 2: through that gate of hallowing his name, where are you entering.
Speaker 2: You're entering the course of God. You're ascending a It's
Speaker 2: an act of ascension. You're going to come right up
Speaker 2: into the very glory of his throne. With hallowing his name,
Speaker 2: with blessing him, with worshiping him, with lifting up his name.
Speaker 1: It's going to.
Speaker 2: Take you from Fife to Wallop, Federal Way, Algona.
Speaker 1: Pacific, Gig Harbor Park.
Speaker 2: London, Mid London. It's going to take you from where
Speaker 2: you're at right into the very throne of God. It
Speaker 2: is the gate that we open, and it's the first
Speaker 2: thing we do. As we build an altar daily, building
Speaker 2: an alder daily, we're offering ourselves. We're saying today I
Speaker 2: want to live on the altar. Well, you live on
Speaker 2: the altar you build, and you build the altar in prayer,
Speaker 2: and the first part of prayer is we enter in
Speaker 2: with thanksgiving, hallowing his name. Now, I wanted to bring
Speaker 2: attention to his name today because here's what he's done
Speaker 2: in his name, is that he revealed his name as Yahweh.
Speaker 2: Now that's kind of the best we can say. We
Speaker 2: say Yahweh because there's no vowels in the Hebrew. So
Speaker 2: Yahweh in the Hebrew there's no vowels. We've added vowels.
Speaker 2: We've added vowels so that we can understand potentially how
Speaker 2: to say his name. He's not offended that we've added vowels.
Speaker 2: Then we've transliterated the Hebrew into the English, and so
Speaker 2: we would say Jehovah, or we would say Jehovah. We
Speaker 2: tend to in our transliteration. We tend to say the
Speaker 2: why as a ja. So where where in the Hebrew
Speaker 2: or Hebrew speakers would say Jehovah, or like here, Jehovah girah.
Speaker 2: Have you heard that before? Where we would say Jehovah Girah.
Speaker 2: We sang about it when I was young, Jehovah Jiroh.
Speaker 2: My provider is great, is sufficient?
Speaker 1: For me right.
Speaker 2: Remember that, well, we were sounding like Americans. We were
Speaker 2: sounding in our transliteration because the Hebrew way to say
Speaker 2: it would be Jehovah youuay, because the J sounds like
Speaker 2: a y Jehovah youiray. He's not offended, however, you might say,
Speaker 2: this Holy Spirit can handle your poor pronunciations as he
Speaker 2: does mine. But I want you to see this. This
Speaker 2: is where he reveals his name as the I Am.
Speaker 2: This is in Exodus when Moses is drawn to the
Speaker 2: burning bush and there's a conversation, and in the conversation
Speaker 2: he says, who shall I say sent me? And he
Speaker 2: says I Am. He said, yahweh Jehovah, he said.
Speaker 1: I Am.
Speaker 2: This is where he revealed himself as I Am. And
Speaker 2: as it pertains to that name, from then on, that
Speaker 2: name is joined, joined to his character and to his
Speaker 2: attributes and to his person throughout scripture in many other ways,
Speaker 2: and I've listed some of them. Here is this too
Speaker 2: far away? I feel like I'm walking a mile. Let's
Speaker 2: move the podium.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: So this is I Am, and I am the God Superior,
Speaker 2: I am the God Supreme, I am the God above
Speaker 2: all things. And then he joins. He joins this in
Speaker 2: situation after situation to show them by character in situations
Speaker 2: what his name is. So what happens with us is
Speaker 2: that when we read these scriptures, we read these scriptures,
Speaker 2: we don't when we read these scriptures, we don't read
Speaker 2: these scriptus and understand God's actually giving us one of
Speaker 2: his names like this one here Exodus thirty one, twelve
Speaker 2: through fourteen. Jehovah m Kettish is the God who sanctifies.
Speaker 2: Sanctifized means I've made you special, I've made you holy,
Speaker 2: I've made you special. I've set you apart from every
Speaker 2: other person on the planet. Now, the context of this
Speaker 2: is Exodus thirty one. In Exodus thirty one, the context
Speaker 2: is the Sabbath, and he says to them, guys, I
Speaker 2: want you to keep the Sabbath, but you're going to
Speaker 2: be the only nation on the planet out of seventy nations,
Speaker 2: you're going to be the only nation on the planet
Speaker 2: that is going to rest on the seventh day. I
Speaker 2: don't want you to worry about that. I don't want
Speaker 2: you to get nervous. I don't want you to wonder
Speaker 2: about your riches, your wealth, or your productivity I want
Speaker 2: you to rest on the seventh day because I'm setting
Speaker 2: you apart. I am the God who sanctifies you.
Speaker 1: Here it is the verse is up there.
Speaker 2: Thank you for helping me. Thank you, Thank your team.
Speaker 2: So he said, I don't need this if you'll help me.
Speaker 2: Bless the Lord. So he's telling them, listen, I'm setting
Speaker 2: you apart. I'm making you the most unique people in
Speaker 2: the world on the entire earth because you only.
Speaker 1: Have to work six days a week.
Speaker 2: Every other nation's going to have to work seven days
Speaker 2: a week just to survive. But you are going to
Speaker 2: rest on the seventh day, and you're going to honor
Speaker 2: me on the seventh day, and we're going to have
Speaker 2: communion on the seventh day, and I'm going to get
Speaker 2: to speak into you on the seventh day, and it's
Speaker 2: going to be a rest for you while every other
Speaker 2: nation has to work on that day because I sanctify you. Now,
Speaker 2: when he says this, he literally says that you might
Speaker 2: know that I am the Lord who sanctifies you. If
Speaker 2: you read that in the English, you don't see that
Speaker 2: he he's actually giving you a name. But actually what
Speaker 2: that says in the Hebrew, it actually says I am
Speaker 2: jehovah Im kedish.
Speaker 1: That's what it says.
Speaker 2: If you looked in the Hebrew, you would have never
Speaker 2: known that he's given you one of his names. So
Speaker 2: you wouldn't have known to hallow that name. That's actually
Speaker 2: a name that now you can hallow. Holy Spirit. I
Speaker 2: thank you set me apart. I'm not like anybody else
Speaker 2: on the planet, Holy Spirit. I bless you that you
Speaker 2: sanctify you me. You set me apart, you make me holy,
Speaker 2: You hallow me, you esteem me, you wash me, you
Speaker 2: cleanse me, you preserve me, you deliver me.
Speaker 1: This is part of your worship.
Speaker 2: This is part of you entering in through the Gate
Speaker 2: of Thanksgiving. Is your naming who he is. And as
Speaker 2: you name who he is, you participate. You partake. You
Speaker 2: eat of him, you eat of You partake of what
Speaker 2: you see him as and what you believe him to be,
Speaker 2: and what you believe he is unto you. That's what
Speaker 2: you partake of. That's what you get to enjoy. That's
Speaker 2: the baby birdhism that those are the worms that are
Speaker 2: dropping down. That's the conduit. You got certain breakers on
Speaker 2: the panel, right, I've got about forty breakers on my panel,
Speaker 2: and one of those breakers is Jehovah m Kidesh hit
Speaker 2: the breaker. As I see him as the one who
Speaker 2: sets me apart. He's loosed in my life to begin
Speaker 2: to set me apart. Jehovah sid Canoe. Jehovah sid Canoe,
Speaker 2: is my righteousness?
Speaker 1: Is?
Speaker 2: This happened when Israel was sinning, and Jeremiah talks about
Speaker 2: it in twenty three. He talks about it in thirty three.
Speaker 2: I pulled this one up. They were sinning, they were
Speaker 2: away from God, they were under delusion, they were separated,
Speaker 2: and Jeremiah prophesies at that moment. Behold, the days are coming,
Speaker 2: declares the Lord. When I will raise up for David
Speaker 2: a righteous branch, who do you think that might be?
Speaker 2: And he will reign as king and act wisely and
Speaker 2: do righteous justice and righteousness in the land. And in
Speaker 2: his days, Judah will be saved and Israel will dwell safely.
Speaker 2: That's coming by the way, before the rapture, that's coming
Speaker 2: by the way.
Speaker 1: And this is his name.
Speaker 2: By which he will be called, the Lord our Righteousness.
Speaker 2: Now you might not have known that, but he was
Speaker 2: actually giving us a name of God. He was actually saying,
Speaker 2: and this is the name. This is how you're going
Speaker 2: to know this one that's coming, because he is the
Speaker 2: righteous branch of David, and you're gonna know him as
Speaker 2: Jehovah Sitknue. So this is one of the one of
Speaker 2: the names of God that we can hallow him for.
Speaker 2: And I'm telling you what a blessing. Think about this.
Speaker 2: When you come to God out of your trouble, you
Speaker 2: come to God, out of your difficulty, out of your faltering,
Speaker 2: out of a sin, out of an error, you come
Speaker 2: to God and you recognize him. This is you entering in. Now,
Speaker 2: you're entering in through the gate of Thanksgiving. That Lord,
Speaker 2: You've got me covered. You are my righteousness. I bless you,
Speaker 2: Jehovah sit Canoe, that you cover me. I bless you,
Speaker 2: Jehovah's sit Canoe, that you've imputed righteousness to me. I
Speaker 2: bless you, Jehovah sit Canoe, that you are the God
Speaker 2: who is beyond my works, who's beyond my righteousness, who's
Speaker 2: beyond anything that I have done or can do. I'm
Speaker 2: entering into you, Father because of your righteousness. Right, Jehovah,
Speaker 2: your ray, Jehovah, you ray, the God who is my provision.
Speaker 2: Do you Remember this story Genesis twenty two. This is
Speaker 2: where Abram, Abraham is asked to take Isaac up to
Speaker 2: Mount Mariah, to the top and offer him as a sacrifice. Right,
Speaker 2: And this is where he's offered to take him as
Speaker 2: now here's Isaac. Isaac is the promise, the fulfilled promise.
Speaker 2: Isaac is the coveted son. Remember Abraham and Abraham and
Speaker 2: Sarah couldn't have children. It takes twenty five years to
Speaker 2: get to Isaac. Twenty five years, twenty five years of
Speaker 2: waiting for the promise to come to pass. The promise
Speaker 2: first comes in Genesis fifteen, is reiterated in seventeen, reiterated
Speaker 2: in twenty one. All of this stuff's going on. Finally
Speaker 2: the promise comes. Now the promise has grown up. Now
Speaker 2: the promise is a young man and Abram who walks
Speaker 2: with God, who's known as a prophet, who is the
Speaker 2: father of faith. Abraham, who has believed God, isn't God
Speaker 2: isn't sure that there's something going on in Genesis twenty two.
Speaker 2: You want to read it. Read Genesis twenty two, go
Speaker 2: home and read it. There's something going on where God.
Speaker 2: It's like Abraham has kind of exalted the promise above
Speaker 2: the promise giver, and like he's focused more on the
Speaker 2: promise than he is on the promise giver. And there's
Speaker 2: more fellowship with the promise than there is with the
Speaker 2: promised giver. And so the promised giver Father says, I
Speaker 2: need to check your heart. I need to check your heart.
Speaker 2: Am I still number one? I mean, you wanted that
Speaker 2: promise really bad, and I gave you that promise. I
Speaker 2: need to check your heart which would be willing to
Speaker 2: take the promise and offer the promise under me? And
Speaker 2: this is where Jehovah when it says Jehovah jirah, Jehovah,
Speaker 2: rae is my provision or God sees. Another translation is
Speaker 2: God sees. God sees, and he provides, God is my provision.
Speaker 2: What happened is they get up on that mount right.
Speaker 2: And it says in Hebrews chapter eleven that Abraham was
Speaker 2: willing to give up Isaac. And Abraham received Isaac from
Speaker 2: the dead, believing that God could raise him from the
Speaker 2: dead because the promise would still somehow come through him,
Speaker 2: So he was willing to offer him up totally. And
Speaker 2: because of his willingness to offer the promise to Father
Speaker 2: instead of hang on to the promise.
Speaker 1: That's where the provision showed up.
Speaker 2: Suddenly there was a ram caught in a thicket, and
Speaker 2: the angel showed up and said, look, lift up your eyes.
Speaker 2: And there was provision. There was provision. And so you
Speaker 2: might say, Abraham, God his cake, and he got to
Speaker 2: eat it too. He got to keep the son, and
Speaker 2: he got the fullness of the Father. He got both.
Speaker 2: Why because he chose the fullness of the Father. Here's
Speaker 2: what it's trying. This is God's character, God's character. What
Speaker 2: God's trying to say is that nothing I asked you
Speaker 2: to sacrifice will ever result in an absence of my provision.
Speaker 2: Nothing I ever ask you to sacrifice will ever result
Speaker 2: in the absence of my provision and my promise. If
Speaker 2: you will trust me and the sacrifice, then you will
Speaker 2: still receive your promise. That's what he's trying to say,
Speaker 2: and and and he's trying to say it so deeply.
Speaker 2: He's trying to say, and that's my nature. It's my
Speaker 2: name and my nature. When you look to me, you
Speaker 2: can honor me for this, you can hallow my name
Speaker 2: for this, you can actually worship me, you can actually
Speaker 2: lift me up. According to this because it's my name
Speaker 2: and my nature. I'm true to it. And so this
Speaker 2: is this is part of how we can worship. Like
Speaker 2: what's God been asking of you? What's he asking of
Speaker 2: you right now to do? What is it that when
Speaker 2: he asks you, when he asks something of you, you
Speaker 2: sense the argument, the resistance, and he's trying to say,
Speaker 2: look to my name before you even get into the
Speaker 2: rest of your prayer. Look to my name before you
Speaker 2: go on into the prayer outline, Look to my name
Speaker 2: before we go further into having any kind of discussion today.
Speaker 2: I see what's happening with your heart. So look at
Speaker 2: my name, look at my name, amplify my name, magnify
Speaker 2: my name, lift up my name, and watch your heart soften,
Speaker 2: and watch your heart transform before me as you begin
Speaker 2: to restore your trust of me, because I'm good and
Speaker 2: I'll never ask you of anything wherein I won't provide
Speaker 2: abundantly for you. Jehova and NII God is my banner.
Speaker 1: Jehovah.
Speaker 2: Thisy this happened when the Amalekites were attacking Israel. The
Speaker 2: Amalakites are attacking Israel, and you know the story Moses
Speaker 2: is up on top of a cliff, and Joshua was
Speaker 2: down in the valley and he's fighting against the Amalekites,
Speaker 2: and the Lord says, lift up the banner, lift up the.
Speaker 1: Rod, lift up the staff, lift up the pole.
Speaker 2: And for us, we've taken this into our armies. We've
Speaker 2: taken this into we have a standard, we have a pole,
Speaker 2: we have a flag. We have we we run with
Speaker 2: the standard. We run with the flag. Well, in that day,
Speaker 2: God was saying, lift up my power, my grace, my
Speaker 2: sufficiency over you.
Speaker 1: And if you will lift.
Speaker 2: Me up as a banner, I will fight the battle
Speaker 2: for you. Jehovah Nissi is God, my banner, God, my warrior, God,
Speaker 2: my standard, God, my overcomer God, God my victory.
Speaker 1: And so you know what happened.
Speaker 2: You know, every time Moses would hold up the banner,
Speaker 2: Joshua would prevail. And when they would let down, when
Speaker 2: he would let down, then the Amalikites would prevail. And
Speaker 2: so Aaron and Her came and held up each arm,
Speaker 2: and Aaron and Her held up his arms so that
Speaker 2: the banner of the Lord, that the staff of the Lord,
Speaker 2: the rod of the Lord, would be held up. And
Speaker 2: that's where God revealed himself as Jehovah. The scene sad
Speaker 2: with me this morning. I'm trying to help us because
Speaker 2: I know you want to pray. I know you want
Speaker 2: to draw near. I know you want more from God.
Speaker 2: I know you want to be near to him. I
Speaker 2: know you want fellowship with him. I know you want
Speaker 2: more of the Holy Spirit. I know you want that.
Speaker 2: But the Lord said, there's weakness in our flesh, and
Speaker 2: sometimes the weakness is just knowing how to press in
Speaker 2: and knowing how to amplify and magnify the very thing.
Speaker 1: That we want to do. Because we get we get stuck.
Speaker 2: I get stuck with Thank you God, Thank you God,
Speaker 2: Thank you Father, Thank you Father, Thank you Jesus, Thank
Speaker 2: you Jesus. I get stuck. But in the word there's
Speaker 2: there's insight, and there's victory. In the Word, there's insight
Speaker 2: and there's understanding. And we can expand our adoration of
Speaker 2: him as we understand his name, his character, and we
Speaker 2: understand that he's faithful to his name and faithful to
Speaker 2: his character and what he revealed himself to be. He
Speaker 2: continued to be over and over again with the people
Speaker 2: of God. Father, we thank you today for helping us
Speaker 2: come on. Would you put up your hands all across
Speaker 2: the room today, welcome Holy Spirit right now. Welcome his
Speaker 2: help in prayer. Welcome his help in prayer. Welcome his help.
Speaker 2: Just lift up your voice and welcome his help in prayer.
Speaker 2: Welcome his help. Just you and him, just you and him.
Speaker 2: The Holy Spirit is he is the helper, He's the paraclete.
Speaker 2: He's the helper. He's the one that comes into our
Speaker 2: weakness and helps us. He's the one that comes and
Speaker 2: coaches us and guides us. Holy Spirit is living in
Speaker 2: us to bring us into this deep, fulfilling, fruitful relationship
Speaker 2: with Father, with the son. And we can't really pray
Speaker 2: on our own. We can't, we can't. We can't lay
Speaker 2: hold of this stuff on our own. We aren't meant to.
Speaker 2: We aren't meant to. But what's what's developing is this
Speaker 2: beautiful marriage.
Speaker 1: He's the groom, we're the bride.
Speaker 2: And what's developing as this beautiful, beautiful marriage. And we
Speaker 2: are the Proverbs thirty one wife, and and and he
Speaker 2: can trust our heart fully because we take in his
Speaker 2: words and we cherish his words, and we yearn to
Speaker 2: be with him. We are the Song of Solomon wife
Speaker 2: that he pursues, and and then we pursue back. We
Speaker 2: are we are that lover, and that mystery is unfolding
Speaker 2: and becoming fuller and fuller because we are running after him,
Speaker 2: and we are bringing our earth suit into subjection, and
Speaker 2: we're not letting the world's system or the distractions.
Speaker 1: Lord over us.
Speaker 2: We are bringing those things into subjection, and we're saying,
Speaker 2: Holy Spirit, you're teaching me to pray, and I'm receiving
Speaker 2: from you the grace, the enablement, the strength, the life,
Speaker 2: the essence of your word, and I'm pressing into you
Speaker 2: and I'm embracing this fellowship with you. Parentee, would you
Speaker 2: come as we close, If you're here this morning and
Speaker 2: you're giving your life back to the Lord, don't leave
Speaker 2: without sealing that. If you're here needing and healing in
Speaker 2: your body, if you're here with any heart's cry that
Speaker 2: hasn't been met yet this morning, we want you to
Speaker 2: come as we worship. We're going to close and worship.
Speaker 2: We want you to come and be prayed for a
Speaker 2: ministered to and courage. Don't leave here without receiving fully
Speaker 2: what you came for.
Speaker 1: Today.
Speaker 2: We bless you, We bless this week. As you continue
Speaker 2: in prayer and fasting. Thank you for being a part
Speaker 2: today God bless search