Speaker 1: Welcome to Hanaway Tagalog Sermon Podcast, your daily dose of inspiring,
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Speaker 2: And speakers all over the Philippines.
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Speaker 2: You're listening to a podcast from Victory. Jesus taught his
Speaker 2: disciples how and what to pray. Learn more about the
Speaker 2: Lord's prayer. In week ten of our series, we defined.
Speaker 1: I know that many of you you know that before
Speaker 1: coming here in Green Hills, before you know, we're reassigned.
Speaker 1: I used to be one of the pastors in Victory,
Speaker 1: you Belt, and I used to pastor high school and
Speaker 1: college students back in you Belt. Every time there's a
Speaker 1: bored exam examination coming up, or attendance shoots up Bigland,
Speaker 1: the three play quadrupoleung number students who would attend the service.
Speaker 1: People don't normally go to. The service would come one
Speaker 1: time every Friday. It would normally be full of students,
Speaker 1: but everybody seated, but there was one time when it
Speaker 1: was standing room only. And before the service. There are
Speaker 1: three services every Friday, three, five and seven. The people
Speaker 1: waiting for the seven o'clock service were lining up starting
Speaker 1: from the entrance of the mall ground floor up to
Speaker 1: the fourth floor where we are we are holding our
Speaker 1: services in Saint Francis Mall, so gan Cahabai and Pila.
Speaker 1: We're just so amazed because of the number of students
Speaker 1: who wants to get inside and be part of the
Speaker 1: worship service. It's like a concert and it's like all
Speaker 1: these young people coming in. The difference also was after
Speaker 1: the service they stayed and they went in front and
Speaker 1: asking us to pray for them faith level but may
Speaker 1: examine no, So every prayer amazing. Also how passionate they
Speaker 1: are in saying Amen Lord Palaynabikoca, Lord Amen, gonna Sellem
Speaker 1: sober and passionate and excited because they they need prayer
Speaker 1: at the time. But you know, in general, for all
Speaker 1: of us here we like being prayed for. In my
Speaker 1: own experience, even people who don't consider themselves religious, when
Speaker 1: you offer prayer, they would say yes. Very rarely that
Speaker 1: you will encounter people who would say no to prayer
Speaker 1: because we want to be prayed for. There's something about
Speaker 1: it there that we know, there's there's a power in prayer.
Speaker 1: But what what sometimes is puzzling about this is that
Speaker 1: even though we want to be prayed for, many of
Speaker 1: us are not praying personally on a daily basis. And
Speaker 1: one of the reasons for that is that sometimes we
Speaker 1: have wrong mindset or ideas about prayer, making it boring
Speaker 1: at times or making it ineffective. That's why I won't
Speaker 1: be able to blame why some people would not be
Speaker 1: excited when the topic is about prayer, okay, because if
Speaker 1: you don't understand something, then the experience will be very different.
Speaker 1: Some people don't want to pray because they feel like
Speaker 1: they are not in a position to pray ay Pastor
Speaker 1: in the prey Papilloyd Jan Perroro, no Macellan and pastor,
Speaker 1: and so we are not confident. Some people they don't
Speaker 1: pray again because of their religious background, where it's mechanical,
Speaker 1: it's it's serious, it's very formal, uh, and so they
Speaker 1: don't know how to to pray like that. Some people
Speaker 1: they don't know what to say, you know, even here
Speaker 1: in Victory. You know, sometimes when you pray, we buy
Speaker 1: on a gizikah, like we make up commun and assaba
Speaker 1: and Lord, God, God Lord. I mean, so you don't
Speaker 1: know how to pray. Some people, I know they will.
Speaker 1: They are stressed when somebody when they are asked to
Speaker 1: pray in front telagon, you stress in the papalpitate when
Speaker 1: they're asked to pray in front some people, they don't
Speaker 1: pray because in the past when they prayed, nothing happened,
Speaker 1: and so in their mind they're saying, why bother to pray?
Speaker 1: It's not working. So some people doubt the power of prayer.
Speaker 1: Is there's really somebody there listening to our prayer or
Speaker 1: is this really something that works in real life? Or
Speaker 1: are we just wasting time doing this? So there's so
Speaker 1: many wrong ideas about prayer. In the same way, during
Speaker 1: the time of Jesus, there were many religious people who
Speaker 1: practice prayer, yet they are doing it wrong. Uh. And
Speaker 1: last week we mentioned a portion of that where some
Speaker 1: people prayed for a show. They just want to be seen.
Speaker 1: Some people what they do is that they prolonged their
Speaker 1: prayer because in their mind, the longer the prayer, the
Speaker 1: more powerful it will be. So they make up they're
Speaker 1: making up prayer. So on Habahba Lord God, we pray
Speaker 1: for world peace. God, we pray for hallelujah. But parallem
Speaker 1: pa mahama one are God is here? Praise God five
Speaker 1: minutes long in prayer feeling God five minutes long. But
Speaker 1: we measure the sincerity and the effectiveness with the length
Speaker 1: of time a lot to do it. So Jesus had
Speaker 1: to come and to redefine what prayer is about. And
Speaker 1: God had to bring back the heart and the spirit
Speaker 1: behind the spiritual activity, which became a religious duty. It's
Speaker 1: just like a to do list that we need to
Speaker 1: do in order to fulfill our religious obligation. But Jesus said,
Speaker 1: there's more to prayer than just doing this as a ritual.
Speaker 1: And so Jesus taught his disciples. Now that you are
Speaker 1: followers of Christ, this is how you should pray. Matthew
Speaker 1: chapter six beginning and verse seven. It says, and when
Speaker 1: you pray, do not hip hop empty phrases as gentiles do,
Speaker 1: for they think that they will be heard for their
Speaker 1: many words. Do not be like them. For your father
Speaker 1: knows what you need before you ask him. Pray then
Speaker 1: like this, he said, our Father in heaven, hallowed be
Speaker 1: your name, your kingdom. Come. Your will be done on
Speaker 1: earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day
Speaker 1: our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we
Speaker 1: have also forgiven our debtors and lead us not into temptations,
Speaker 1: but deliver us from evil. How many of you you
Speaker 1: grew up memorizing this prayer. Okay, let's have a contest
Speaker 1: right now, we'll call you up on stage. Let's just
Speaker 1: break this down. Jesus thought the disciples how to pray,
Speaker 1: and this is not meant to be memorized. When Jesus
Speaker 1: thought his disciples to pray, God was not telling them
Speaker 1: to memorize this word for word and telling them that
Speaker 1: if you're going to pray to me, this is exactly
Speaker 1: how you pray, regardless of the purpose why you're praying.
Speaker 1: So if you're praying for your tuition, this is how
Speaker 1: you should pray. Our Father in Heaven hall would be
Speaker 1: your name. Family, Na's hospital, Nago Buddha, our father in heaven,
Speaker 1: Hollo be your name. It's not a memorized prayer, but
Speaker 1: that's what it became. We don't do that in our
Speaker 1: normal conversation. My kids don't do that to me. I
Speaker 1: don't do that to my wife. I don't have a
Speaker 1: memorized line every day like I'll go to my wife
Speaker 1: and the most beautiful of all the women in the
Speaker 1: world let's go. But sometimes that's what we do in prayer.
Speaker 1: So first of all, Jesus said, when you pray, you
Speaker 1: start with this our Father in heaven. And that was
Speaker 1: very new to the audience at that time because in
Speaker 1: their tradition, going back to the Old Testament, the people
Speaker 1: in the Old Testament don't call God their father. They
Speaker 1: never addressed him as father. It's always Lord and God.
Speaker 1: In the book of Exodus, the people told Moses, please
Speaker 1: don't ever let God talk to us directly again, because
Speaker 1: the last time he talked to us, the ground show
Speaker 1: there was like thunder and storm. They were so scared,
Speaker 1: and they said, if God would speak to us, please,
Speaker 1: can you talk to God and then you talk to us?
Speaker 1: Because God was just God, is massive, is big, is powerful.
Speaker 1: Even his voice alone sometimes can be overwhelming, and so
Speaker 1: nobody addressed him as Father, only Lord, God. Then Jesus came,
Speaker 1: and this is a mind blowing like teaching for them
Speaker 1: that Jesus told them, if you're going to pray to
Speaker 1: this big God, here's how you should address him. Not Lord,
Speaker 1: not God, but you say our father, big massive David
Speaker 1: and some when he was reflecting on the greatness of
Speaker 1: God at the same time his relationship to his people.
Speaker 1: Here's what he wrote in Psalm eight three to four.
Speaker 1: He said, when I look at your heavens, the work
Speaker 1: of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you
Speaker 1: have said in place, what is Man that you are
Speaker 1: mindful of him? And the Son of Man that you
Speaker 1: care for him? You know? Hebrews eleven says that Jesus
Speaker 1: spoke the universe into existence. Do you have any idea
Speaker 1: how the universe came to be? The Bible says it's true,
Speaker 1: the word of God. He just spoke it into existence.
Speaker 1: That's how powerful God is. Yet, David said, when I
Speaker 1: look at the stars and the moon, and when I
Speaker 1: try to wrap it around my head in my brain,
Speaker 1: how can a God who created all of these things
Speaker 1: so it is massive and big and powerful, how can
Speaker 1: that God be personal at the same time? How can
Speaker 1: God like that care for me? Who am I Lord?
Speaker 1: That I should find attention and favor from your eyes?
Speaker 1: And it can't just really get over it? Who are you?
Speaker 1: But yet? That's who God is? You know. There's one
Speaker 1: thing we need to know about God. God is personal.
Speaker 1: God is a personal God. He is a relational God
Speaker 1: wants to have a relationship with us. In fact, he said,
Speaker 1: I want you to relate to me as your father,
Speaker 1: and I want to relate to you as my sons
Speaker 1: and daughters. You know, one of my prayer is that
Speaker 1: we will have a greater revelation. What that means. I
Speaker 1: know that that word father is loaded with emotion, some negative,
Speaker 1: some positive, depending on our experiences with our earthly fathers.
Speaker 1: And sometimes that becomes a hindrance for us to imagine
Speaker 1: God as your father. But yet when we say God
Speaker 1: is our father, it misses our perfect, heavenly father who
Speaker 1: loves us, who cares for us. And and David said,
Speaker 1: and Jesus said, here's how you should pray. When you pray,
Speaker 1: you start with this idea that is about relationship. It's
Speaker 1: about relationship. I like this quote from John Piper, and
Speaker 1: I think it's powerful. He said, we are not meant
Speaker 1: to be somebody. We were meant to know somebody. We're
Speaker 1: here not to prove our worth and value. We're not
Speaker 1: here to be somebody. We are here to be somebody.
Speaker 1: That's a purpose of life, to know God and to
Speaker 1: serve his purpose. It's about relationship, and that's the starting
Speaker 1: point of prayer, not a ritual, not a tradition. It's
Speaker 1: about relationship with God made possible by Christ. How many
Speaker 1: of you here you're grateful for the relationship you have
Speaker 1: with Christ. And maybe for some of us here you're
Speaker 1: here for the first time and you feel far away
Speaker 1: from God in your in your mind you're thinking, how
Speaker 1: can I have that relationship? I mean, what can I
Speaker 1: do in order for me to have that intimate relationship?
Speaker 1: Or and I can come and say my father, and
Speaker 1: I can actually have the confidence to relate as a
Speaker 1: son or a daughter. What would to take for that
Speaker 1: to happen? You know, here's what the Bible says in
Speaker 1: efficients chapter two, verse thirteen. But now in Christ Jesus,
Speaker 1: you who once were far off, have been brought near
Speaker 1: by the blood of Christ. We used to be far
Speaker 1: away from God. But because of what Christ has done
Speaker 1: on the cross for us, the blood of Christ, were
Speaker 1: reconciled back to God. It's never about what you can do.
Speaker 1: It's about what Christ has already done for us. And
Speaker 1: because Jesus died on the cross, you and I today
Speaker 1: can be reconciled back to God and have that relationship.
Speaker 1: And continuing in verse eighteen to nineteen, it says, for
Speaker 1: through Him, we both have access in one's spirit to
Speaker 1: the Father. I don't have a better access than you.
Speaker 1: I don't have a special access just because I'm a pastor.
Speaker 1: Even if you're the newest believer here, just one week old.
Speaker 1: I want you to know that you and I were
Speaker 1: given equal access to God. Your prayer is as effective
Speaker 1: as my prayer because it's not about you. It's not
Speaker 1: about the title attached to your name. It's about who
Speaker 1: is our God, who made this possible for us with
Speaker 1: just Christ. And he said, so, then you are no
Speaker 1: longer strangers and aliens. Can you look at the persons
Speaker 1: in the next to you and tell that person in
Speaker 1: the alien you're no longer foreigner an alien, but you
Speaker 1: are a fellow citizen with the saints and members of
Speaker 1: the household of God. You're not a stranger anymore. You're
Speaker 1: a part of the family. If you have given your
Speaker 1: life to Jesus, if you have asked for the forgive
Speaker 1: forgiveness of your sins and put your faith in Christ,
Speaker 1: the Bible says you're adapted to the household. You are
Speaker 1: given the spirit of sonship, and today, whoever you are,
Speaker 1: you can come to God and say, my Father in heaven.
Speaker 1: Jesus said that should be the starting point, the starting
Speaker 1: place of prayer. It's about a relationship. And second he said,
Speaker 1: how loud be your name, which means set apart, which
Speaker 1: means holy, holl would be your name, your kingdom come,
Speaker 1: Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Speaker 1: And that's what this is about. Not only that, it's
Speaker 1: about relationship. Prayer is about aligning our hearts in our
Speaker 1: lives to his will. That's what prayer is about, for
Speaker 1: his kingdom to be advanced and for his will to
Speaker 1: be fulfilled not only in our life but on earth
Speaker 1: as it is in heaven. It's about God's will. Another
Speaker 1: quote that I want to share with you, last quote,
Speaker 1: It says the function of prayer is not to influence God,
Speaker 1: but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
Speaker 1: Prayer is transformative. When we pray, something happens. In fact,
Speaker 1: the greatest reward of prayer is us becoming more christ
Speaker 1: Like in character, us becoming aligned to God's will and
Speaker 1: having God as our greatest reward. And that's prayer. Prayer
Speaker 1: is not twisting the arms of God. Prayer is not
Speaker 1: manipulating God. Prayer is not building up a case to
Speaker 1: convince God that what you're demanding is valid. Prayer is
Speaker 1: not nagging God until he becomes tired of listening to
Speaker 1: us and give into what we're asking. No. Prayer is
Speaker 1: us aligning our hearts to God's will, and the more
Speaker 1: we pray. You know, my wife and I are practice.
Speaker 1: Every time we're about to make an important decision, we
Speaker 1: would always say, Okay, let's pray about this. Many times
Speaker 1: we would give it three days. Let's slip over this.
Speaker 1: I know we're excited, I know this sounds good, I
Speaker 1: know this looks good, I know this feels good. But
Speaker 1: let's slip over this decision. Pray, pray. After three days,
Speaker 1: let's talk and let's see if this is still are
Speaker 1: still confident about this? You know why because one thing
Speaker 1: that we learned from following Christ and from the people
Speaker 1: who discipled us, is that our life is not just
Speaker 1: about money. It's not about being productive, it's not about
Speaker 1: being successful and reaching our goals. It's about serving our purpose.
Speaker 1: It's very possible to be successful in doing the wrong things.
Speaker 1: It's possible to be prosperous and be out of God's will.
Speaker 1: That's why Moses in Exodus chapter thirty three, maybe for
Speaker 1: some of you, here there are dreams, there are promises.
Speaker 1: You're claiming from God every single year. And Moses in
Speaker 1: Exodus thirty three, there they are so near the promised Land.
Speaker 1: They've waited for this for years and years and years.
Speaker 1: They can smell it already, it's within reach. They can
Speaker 1: see the promise already. They're about to cross and enter.
Speaker 1: Yet here Moses deal with God. He said, Lord, I
Speaker 1: know this is important to us or excited for the
Speaker 1: promised land, but if your presence will not go with us,
Speaker 1: I'm not willing to go. I'm willing to lose the promise,
Speaker 1: but I'm not willing to lose you. I'm not willing
Speaker 1: to lose your presence because that blessing without you is nothing.
Speaker 1: It's not going to be a blessing in the end.
Speaker 1: And that's my prayer for all of us, that we
Speaker 1: will be able to get to that point wherein we
Speaker 1: can honestly say, and we can confidently say, to God, Lord,
Speaker 1: you are more important than money. You are more important
Speaker 1: than my career, You are more important than my reputation.
Speaker 1: I would choose you any time of the day, and
Speaker 1: I believe God. That's where God wants to bring us
Speaker 1: all where we desire God's will for us. And Jesus said,
Speaker 1: that's the starting point. You want to understand prayer. You
Speaker 1: want to experience an intimate relationship with God. Here's what
Speaker 1: is about. It's about relationship, and it's about aligning your
Speaker 1: heart to God and understanding that you pray this first,
Speaker 1: you pray for your daily bread. How many of you
Speaker 1: here you have needs today? How many of you need
Speaker 1: healing today, need provision today? I mean, I don't know
Speaker 1: what you need, but one thing I know, all of
Speaker 1: us we always have a need, We need something. We'll
Speaker 1: never get to that point wherein we don't need anything
Speaker 1: at all. And Jesus said, when you pray, you pray
Speaker 1: for you said, give us this daily bread. Pray for
Speaker 1: your needs. What's the first thing you do when you
Speaker 1: have a need? Who do you call? Where do you go?
Speaker 1: What do you do? Jesus said, if you have a need,
Speaker 1: don't call your mama, don't post in Facebook dropping hints
Speaker 1: on your friends. Praying for my needs today, I know
Speaker 1: God will provide urgent Family members and friends. Believing in
Speaker 1: faith only God Jesus said, if you have a need,
Speaker 1: you pray. Prayer is not your last option, it's your
Speaker 1: first course of action. When you have a need, go
Speaker 1: to the Father. You know why, because God wants you
Speaker 1: and I to learn to look to Him for everything
Speaker 1: we need. Rely on God because God is the source.
Speaker 1: Everything else is just a channel. Your job is a
Speaker 1: channel of God's provision. But God is the source. Let's
Speaker 1: pray for God's provision. We had a lunch I think
Speaker 1: two weeks ago with a friend our campus missionaries in Australia.
Speaker 1: We used to work here in Metro Manila together, but
Speaker 1: two years ago they moved to Australia. They felt like
Speaker 1: God was calling them to be there, and they talked
Speaker 1: to our leaders and they prayed over them. They said, yes,
Speaker 1: we feel like this is God. Many people don't consider
Speaker 1: Australia as a mission field because it's a first world country,
Speaker 1: but because it's rich and people are comfortable in that place,
Speaker 1: there is this feeling that they don't need God. It's
Speaker 1: slowly becoming an atheist nation, and so there is a
Speaker 1: need for people to bring the gospel there. Another thing
Speaker 1: is that it's a melting pot of different nationalities where
Speaker 1: more than one hundred nationalities are represented in Australia, one
Speaker 1: of the most diverse nation in the world. And so
Speaker 1: if you reach the students studying there, you can send
Speaker 1: them back to their countries and he can spread the
Speaker 1: gospel in a greater scale. And so they went there,
Speaker 1: but they're living by faith, they're raising their support. And
Speaker 1: during our lunch we talk about many things. And when
Speaker 1: they told us how much they are raising every month,
Speaker 1: believing by faith, in order to stay there and do
Speaker 1: campus ministry and plant a church, it was just, I
Speaker 1: mean mind blowing, and I said, I salutor Faith for
Speaker 1: living by faith every single day. And by the grace
Speaker 1: of God, not only that God provide that the money
Speaker 1: is not really good. In English, he would say that
Speaker 1: to you. He grew up in Tondau Manilasso ma Jeomatic
Speaker 1: Gaspool and that Australia a ahira pero. You know, by
Speaker 1: the grace of God, my friend here and his family
Speaker 1: were able to plant a church in the city of Sydney, Australia.
Speaker 1: And we have more than forty students coming to the
Speaker 1: church today. Let's give the a lot a big hand
Speaker 1: for that. And Jesus said, you pray give us today
Speaker 1: our daily bread. How many of you know that God
Speaker 1: is not only willing to provide, he is able to provide.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't know how many fathers do we
Speaker 1: have here, But as a dad, my heart is to
Speaker 1: always provide for my children. Compare de la latinam guston
Speaker 1: going big guide. But sometimes you know, all I have
Speaker 1: is heart. I have the heart. I am willing, but
Speaker 1: I'm not able. But I'm glad. God is not like
Speaker 1: me who's limited. Our God is unlimited, and God is
Speaker 1: not only willing, He's always able to provide for each
Speaker 1: and every one of us. But it doesn't mean that
Speaker 1: every time we pray to God and ask him, he
Speaker 1: will always give us what we ask what we ask
Speaker 1: of him. No, how many of you here you prayed
Speaker 1: and God did not give you specifically what you're asking for,
Speaker 1: And there's nothing wrong with that. I do that also
Speaker 1: as a dad. Not everything that my children ask of
Speaker 1: me I give them. My two year old would come
Speaker 1: to me as being a daddy knife knife people begin
Speaker 1: of No, I don't do that as a good father.
Speaker 1: As a wise father, I know I will not give
Speaker 1: him everything he asked me because some of the things
Speaker 1: he's asking me will endanger his life. Not only that
Speaker 1: if I always do that, that I always just give everything,
Speaker 1: I would spoil his character. I would ruin his character.
Speaker 1: He will never learn how to wait, He will never
Speaker 1: learn the value of contentment. He will never learn wisdom
Speaker 1: and patience and all these things. And you know why God, sometimes,
Speaker 1: even though he's capable, not giving us everything we ask
Speaker 1: of him. Because God knows what's best for us. That's
Speaker 1: why when we pray, it's aligning our hearts to him.
Speaker 1: I don't go to God and say, Lord, this is
Speaker 1: what I want. You have no choice but to bless it.
Speaker 1: God is not obligated to bless what he did now initihape.
Speaker 1: But if that is God's will, you be sure God
Speaker 1: is with you, and God will always give us everything
Speaker 1: that we need. And last last two part of the prayer,
Speaker 1: he said, then forgive us our debts, as we also
Speaker 1: have forgiven our debtors. I don't know with you, but
Speaker 1: sometimes my phone would hang up, not experience in hubayon,
Speaker 1: especially in my touch screen. It's not going to move.
Speaker 1: It would hang. And so what I would do is
Speaker 1: that I would turn it off and then turn it
Speaker 1: on again, reset, and then after that it would function
Speaker 1: properly again. You know, praying for forgiveness is like an
Speaker 1: everyday reset, because you and I need a fresh start
Speaker 1: every single day. Even though we are followers of Christ,
Speaker 1: we still sin, how many of you would admit, we
Speaker 1: still commit mistakes, We still lose the fruit of the spirit.
Speaker 1: From time to time. We lose the patience, we explode,
Speaker 1: we lose the gentleness, we become harsh, we lose the
Speaker 1: self control, we lose the joy. You know, I have
Speaker 1: one confession to make. Last month, after a one on
Speaker 1: one discipleship meeting with a with a guy in one
Speaker 1: of the restaurants here in Green Hills, I went to
Speaker 1: the parking lot and then I drove pala parking guard
Speaker 1: checked my parking ticket and said, okay, sir, three hundred
Speaker 1: lamp three hundred, one hundred in order. I was. I
Speaker 1: was shocked, and uh, you know, just right after me
Speaker 1: discipling somebody teaching him how to be godly walk with God,
Speaker 1: here I am just because of a parking ticket, just
Speaker 1: like that, maybe by hundred. I went down, went back
Speaker 1: to the restaurant, called the manager with the guard and talked.
Speaker 1: I was really obviously irritated, I said, you never told me.
Speaker 1: I stayed there for three hours. I thought, it's free.
Speaker 1: I'm the very while I'm doing Thatlloyd, you know, I
Speaker 1: just know God is convicting me part in my mind
Speaker 1: and my thoughts. Me said, Lord, he will speak to
Speaker 1: you by by dropping a thought in your mind. And
Speaker 1: parent pastor and a table that was the easy Korean
Speaker 1: shacks Bahamad church to one of these days. It's a service, Kalpa.
Speaker 1: So I cooled down, said but if I need to pay,
Speaker 1: you know, understand, you know when we're talking. I was
Speaker 1: silently repenting my mind. And then after that, you know,
Speaker 1: so it's okay, so first time, but next time, the
Speaker 1: first one R is free succeeding or will be one
Speaker 1: hundred bests per our parking the mantou. So okay. Then
Speaker 1: I apologize to the manager. I apologize to the guards.
Speaker 1: I said, if ever, you know I should a bad
Speaker 1: face if I said something that, I'm so sorry. I
Speaker 1: was shocked. Sorry, So I went and then repented. How
Speaker 1: many of you here you need mercy and forgiveness every
Speaker 1: single day, but not only you, the people around you
Speaker 1: as well. So Jesus said, every day pray for forgiveness,
Speaker 1: but you also release forgiveness to others. And last thing
Speaker 1: lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
Speaker 1: Temptation is real. There's temptation all around us at home,
Speaker 1: in church, in Edza Santas. Some temptation exercise, young young
Speaker 1: prayer like Lord, I bless you Churchill, to test your patience.
Speaker 1: I mean, temptation is all around us. Temptation is real.
Speaker 1: Evil is real. We have a real enemy, but you
Speaker 1: know the trick of the enemy in order to defeat us.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's so he will try to convince us that
Speaker 1: it doesn't exist. Some people believe that there's no such
Speaker 1: thing as evil. We're basically good people. If you really
Speaker 1: believe that, can you leave your car open and leave
Speaker 1: your phone and wallet on the table and go So
Speaker 1: sometimes he would convince you that he's more powerful and
Speaker 1: he is capable of hurting you, And so we become
Speaker 1: paralyzed and paranoid of the devil. No so so magnified
Speaker 1: you demonio. Either way you lose demonual time of disciple
Speaker 1: Bahabelican Taio. They're gonna restach res Baian fraternity either Alan
Speaker 1: a disciple tomorrow Babelicanka maca pimples, come, I'm gonna But
Speaker 1: the reality is, yes, we have an enemy, and though
Speaker 1: is defeated, he's trying his best to steal, kill and destroy.
Speaker 1: But you know, here's here's the assurance for us in
Speaker 1: the Bible and First Christians ten verse thirteen. It's as
Speaker 1: no temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man,
Speaker 1: and God is faithful. Everyone says God is faithful. He
Speaker 1: will not let you be tempted beyond your ability. But
Speaker 1: with the temptation he will also provide the way of
Speaker 1: escape that you may be able to endure it. You know,
Speaker 1: one of the lies of the enemy to us is
Speaker 1: that don't tell this to anyone. You're the only one
Speaker 1: going through this. But the Bible says, know, the temptation
Speaker 1: you're going through is the same temptation that everybody is
Speaker 1: going through. The more you isolate and keep it to yourself,
Speaker 1: you're denying yourself. Sometimes of the way out God is
Speaker 1: providing you. At least in my own life, most of
Speaker 1: the time, the way of escape are the people that
Speaker 1: God has surrounded me with. If you are not part
Speaker 1: of a victory group, I want to encourage you to
Speaker 1: be part of a victory group. And if you are
Speaker 1: already in the victory group, I will encourage you to
Speaker 1: open up your life and let other people get involved
Speaker 1: and know you who you really are and what's going
Speaker 1: through your life. Or else if you're just attending the
Speaker 1: victory group and you're not opening your life, you're just
Speaker 1: hanging out with people. But the way out is relationship.
Speaker 1: Many times so Jesus said, you know every temptation and
Speaker 1: evil you will face. You will never face a temptation
Speaker 1: that is beyond your ability to overcome. The temptation is strong,
Speaker 1: but the grace of God is strong. And but here's
Speaker 1: our responsibility. And I'm going this is the last point.
Speaker 1: Here's here's our responsibility. In look twenty two, verse forty,
Speaker 1: pray that you may not enter into temptation. You know,
Speaker 1: the setting was that they were in the garden of
Speaker 1: Gethsimoni and Jesus was about to be crucified. And he
Speaker 1: told these disciples, you pray right there while I pray,
Speaker 1: and then disciples iban pray. Did I be pray to
Speaker 1: look parent prey? No, Lord, Lord, you don't know what's
Speaker 1: about to come. I'll be arrested, there will be persecution,
Speaker 1: there will be I may it's going to be complicated.
Speaker 1: You're all going to run away. Pray so that you
Speaker 1: will not fall into temptation. The same way with us. Pray.
Speaker 1: We need to pray so that we when you go out,
Speaker 1: before you go out of the house in the morning,
Speaker 1: before you start your day, you pray. You pray. That's
Speaker 1: how we overcome. Jesus said, this is how you should pray. First,
Speaker 1: understands about relationship. Second, it's about God's will, aligning your
Speaker 1: heart and plans and goals and priorities and values. Pray
Speaker 1: for your needs, Pray for forgiveness, and pray that you
Speaker 1: will have the protection and grace to overcome. Last verse,
Speaker 1: and then will end in here's the encouragement of the
Speaker 1: Bible for us Philippians, Chapter four, verse six to seven.
Speaker 1: Now that we all have access to God, the Bible says,
Speaker 1: do not be anxious, do not be stress. Do not
Speaker 1: worry about anything about that deadline, about that bills you
Speaker 1: need to pay, About the physical condition of a family member,
Speaker 1: about that marriage, about your children who are not walking
Speaker 1: with the Lord today, whatever that is, that pressure at
Speaker 1: work or at home, whatever that is. Now that you
Speaker 1: have access to God, your Father. The Bible says, do
Speaker 1: not be anxious, remove the false burden. Don't even attempt
Speaker 1: to carry that load, because you won't be able to.
Speaker 1: You will be crush. Do not be anxious about anything,
Speaker 1: but in everything, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, Let
Speaker 1: your requests be made known to God. And the peace
Speaker 1: of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your heart
Speaker 1: and your mind. And Christ Jesus, you know that's what's
Speaker 1: amazing when we pray, when we go to God and
Speaker 1: recognize that it's about God's will, that is our father.
Speaker 1: The Bible says, you will have peace. Even if the
Speaker 1: answer is not yet there. There is peace in your
Speaker 1: heart and mind. You can do God's will. You can
Speaker 1: treat other people the way God will wants you to
Speaker 1: treat them. You can be the man and the woman
Speaker 1: that God wants you to be. We can live for God,
Speaker 1: not because we already have everything we need, pey praying nothing,
Speaker 1: but because we have God in our life. And with God,
Speaker 1: we know God will take here. God will take care
Speaker 1: of us. He's in charge and he's in control. Amen.
Speaker 1: God wants us to have peace, and God wants us
Speaker 1: to access and build that relationship with him. The better
Speaker 1: the communication, the better the relationship. And God wants you
Speaker 1: and I to experience an intimate relationship with them, and
Speaker 1: that is possible through prayer. Amen, let me pray for us.
Speaker 1: Can you bow your heads with me and close your
Speaker 1: eyes as we pray. God, we thank you for teaching
Speaker 1: us how to pray. We may not be part of
Speaker 1: the original group of disciples, we may never have that
Speaker 1: opportunity to directly hear it from you and you month form.
Speaker 1: Yet we have your word today and it's the same thing.
Speaker 1: It's just like us sitting at your feet and hearing
Speaker 1: this word from your mouth. Thank you for teaching us
Speaker 1: how to pray. It's about relationship, It's about your will. Lord.
Speaker 1: My prayer is that we will all have a greater
Speaker 1: revelation of who you are as a father. Teach us
Speaker 1: how to relate to you as your sons and daughters. Lord.
Speaker 1: I pray that also we will become more and more
Speaker 1: aligned to your will and your purposes for our life.
Speaker 1: Make us a people who's all about honoring you, who's
Speaker 1: all about pursuing you. Lord, I pray God. We have dreams,
Speaker 1: we have goals. Lord, we pray everything that's in our
Speaker 1: heart will be aligned to your will and to your word.
Speaker 1: Make us more like Jesus, that it will not be
Speaker 1: about us, it will always be about You. That we
Speaker 1: will not be consumed about the things of this world.
Speaker 1: We will be consumed with you, God. Lord. I also
Speaker 1: pray for those who have needs today, whatever need they have. Lord,
Speaker 1: we thank you that you are not only willing, you
Speaker 1: are able. So thank you Lord, because you said we
Speaker 1: should not worry, we should not be stressed about it,
Speaker 1: We should not lose sleep over it. We should come
Speaker 1: to you and prayer and supplication, and your peace will
Speaker 1: come to us. So Lord, we thank you for your peace.
Speaker 1: Let your peace come. And God, we thank you in advance,
Speaker 1: because every time we pray, you hear us and you
Speaker 1: answer us. And Lord, I pray for those who are
Speaker 1: here for the first time. I pray they will know
Speaker 1: you and they will have a relationship with you, that
Speaker 1: they will move beyond relig john to relationship. Lord. I
Speaker 1: pray that you will draw them closer and closer to you.
Speaker 1: And I pray you will use people to help them,
Speaker 1: to guide them to disciple them. Father, God, we thank
Speaker 1: you for this church. We thank you for this community
Speaker 1: of faith. Lord, we thank you for your word, and
Speaker 1: we pray that yourr word will accomplish the purpose that
Speaker 1: you have for sending it to us today. Bless every
Speaker 1: family represented here, Bless the rest of the day, and
Speaker 1: bless the coming week. We pray for your kingdom to
Speaker 1: come and your will to be done here on earth
Speaker 1: as it is in heaven. Thank you for listening to
Speaker 1: this message.
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