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Speaker 2: You're listening to a podcast from Victory. Jesus taught us
Speaker 2: to pray with perseverance. Learn more about asking, seeking and
Speaker 2: knocking in Week fourteen of our series Redefined.
Speaker 3: And today we'll look at Matthew seven verse seven to twelve,
Speaker 3: So do not judge. Verse tieve is the famous Golden rule.
Speaker 3: And in between those two is a sermon on prayer.
Speaker 3: That's what I said, don't look at a sermon on
Speaker 3: the mount as divided sermons. It's one sermon. So this
Speaker 3: is actually tied up to the Lord's prayer on how
Speaker 3: we should pray, because he was now going back again
Speaker 3: to the theme of prayer. And so we go back here
Speaker 3: in verse seven and we look at prayer now before
Speaker 3: we jump off to the text. Here are one of
Speaker 3: the things that we've noticed among Christians is that a
Speaker 3: lot hesitate to pray. We're very hesitant to pray, Okay,
Speaker 3: not a lot of us are into you know, prayers
Speaker 3: and long prayers. And there are a couple of reasons
Speaker 3: why we hesitate to pray right. One of the things
Speaker 3: is because for Sunday, I think prayer doesn't really matter.
Speaker 3: Why would I pray doesn't really matter? Somebody is doing it,
Speaker 3: so might as well not pray. I had that same
Speaker 3: inclination when I was young in the faith. I would
Speaker 3: remember every time we would have missions, we just finished
Speaker 3: our missions Sunday, where people would ask for prayer partners
Speaker 3: and financial partners. In my mind, a prayer partner is optional.
Speaker 3: What they're really looking for are financial partners. Until I
Speaker 3: became a pastor and I entered ministry, and I realized
Speaker 3: how much I covet prayers to people, how prayer is
Speaker 3: such an important aspect of my life that I need
Speaker 3: to build my own prayer team because it is so important.
Speaker 3: I'd rather have a lot of prayer partners than financial partners,
Speaker 3: because that's how important prayer is. It has shifted my
Speaker 3: perspective about prayer. But for some days, saying you a
Speaker 3: prayer doesn't really matter for some of them, and they're thinking,
Speaker 3: you know, I hesitate because I might be praying the
Speaker 3: wrong way and unlike the others. When I would hear
Speaker 3: others pray or a pastor would pray, it's so eloquent,
Speaker 3: it's so nice, it's so powerful. It gives you the
Speaker 3: goose bumbs. But when I pray, I stuttered. That's why
Speaker 3: I hesitate to pray. But remember, prayer is just talking
Speaker 3: to God, right, you don't need to be so formal
Speaker 3: in prayer. So a lot of people are afraid to
Speaker 3: pray or hesitant to pray because they think they might
Speaker 3: pray the wrong way, or for others, they're thinking there
Speaker 3: are more important things to do than pray. Have you
Speaker 3: heard the phrase pray time and pray well? And I'm
Speaker 3: a tying inga go up because we think prayer is
Speaker 3: not as important and doing is more important. I believe
Speaker 3: in the balance of both that when I pray, I
Speaker 3: need to do something about it. That's why I'm praying.
Speaker 3: And so a lot of people hesitate to pray. Now
Speaker 3: in discerment, Jesus goes and tells them, aside from the
Speaker 3: Lord's prayer, here's how you will now pray, he says. First,
Speaker 3: ask and it will be given to you. See, and
Speaker 3: you will find knock and it will be open to you.
Speaker 3: For everyone who asks receives, the one who seeks fines,
Speaker 3: the one who knocks, it will be open. If you
Speaker 3: look at this two verses, there was an emphasis on
Speaker 3: asking and seeking and knocking right when Jesus was saying this.
Speaker 3: This was not three levels of prayer. Level one, you ask,
Speaker 3: level two you see, level three you knock. No, this
Speaker 3: was an attitude of prayer that when you to me
Speaker 3: as your heavenly father, I want you to ask, seek,
Speaker 3: and knock. And let me emphasize this again by saying
Speaker 3: that when you ask, you'll you'll receive. If you seek,
Speaker 3: you'll find, If you knock, the door will be opened.
Speaker 3: There was an emphasis on what we need to do
Speaker 3: when we come to God in prayer, the attitude, the
Speaker 3: spirit behind the prayer. We need to learn how to
Speaker 3: ask with persistence. We need to ask in faith, so
Speaker 3: we look as and it will be given. Seek, you'll find,
Speaker 3: knock and the door will be open. As he says
Speaker 3: Minika as verbally, Lord, can I have ask and it
Speaker 3: will be given? Now Again, I want to tie this
Speaker 3: up with Matthew five and six, when Jesus says asks,
Speaker 3: not saying just ask anything you want, what he is saying,
Speaker 3: as with the Kingdom of God in mind, and it
Speaker 3: will be given to you. That was the thread of
Speaker 3: the whole sermon of the mouth. If you ask anything
Speaker 3: according to the agenda the Kingdom, it will be given
Speaker 3: to you as will be given. There's so many promises
Speaker 3: in the scripture that we don't tap into because we
Speaker 3: don't read the scripture, do not in alum. We don't know.
Speaker 3: That's why we don't know what to ask for. That's
Speaker 3: why a lot of our prayers are no because those
Speaker 3: are not in scripture as in faith, as with the
Speaker 3: Kingdom in mind, and the Bible says it will be
Speaker 3: given to you. Just a story. When I was a
Speaker 3: campus missionary, there were things that we were believing God for,
Speaker 3: but in the natural there's no way we could. That's
Speaker 3: why we have to find ways to make it happen.
Speaker 3: I remember if there was a time my kids were
Speaker 3: asking that can we go to Disneyland. We really want
Speaker 3: to go to Disneyland. We go to Distine, and we
Speaker 3: were saying, you know, let's pray, let's ask God in
Speaker 3: faith that we can go to Disneyland, so that you
Speaker 3: can enjoy Disneyland and meet Mickey Mouns and Donald du
Speaker 3: Chinese right version and weld and again that's what I said.
Speaker 3: It's hard for us to do it because of the
Speaker 3: funds that were coming until God, in his goodness gave
Speaker 3: us piece of air. And with the piece of air,
Speaker 3: we were able to get a flight to Hong Kong.
Speaker 3: It was very cheap flight. And then we scouted around
Speaker 3: for a hostel that could fit the four of us.
Speaker 3: So I started crowdsourcing on Facebook. Guys, do you know
Speaker 3: any hotel or hostel that's sheep that could fit four people.
Speaker 3: One of my college friends has try this in called
Speaker 3: the Wonderful in right. It's a very wonderful wonderful in
Speaker 3: A and Mika look at them. They were very young
Speaker 3: at this time, and we had to pep talk them
Speaker 3: because I saw the website. The room was actually nice.
Speaker 3: I got the family room. My college classmates said, in fact,
Speaker 3: the receptionist is Filipina. You will feel really welcome. It's
Speaker 3: a decent place. We were so happy. We went to
Speaker 3: Hong Kong, rode the taxi. The taxi couldn't find Wonderful
Speaker 3: in with the street with the address, couldn't find it. I
Speaker 3: had to stop. If you know Hong Kong. Right, the
Speaker 3: taxi is very expensive, so I said stop parah okay, right,
Speaker 3: and I had to go long distance talk to my
Speaker 3: sister to give me the coordinates exactly what building Wonderful
Speaker 3: Inn is part of, so that we can find the place.
Speaker 3: And we found the place, and we were in Wonderful
Speaker 3: In after more than thirty minutes. What was supposed to
Speaker 3: be only a ten minute, right, became thirty forty minutes.
Speaker 3: We went there and lo and behold it was a philippinamboo.
Speaker 3: Heeizer you Philippina. We're so happy. Family room. Here we go.
Speaker 3: We opened the family room and it was as it
Speaker 3: was expected. It was a family room, a family for one.
Speaker 3: We were four, but I think the room was only
Speaker 3: maybe a little bit bigger. Half of this not half
Speaker 3: of the stage with everything in it already was so small.
Speaker 3: Maybe it was from that one to this TV. It
Speaker 3: was like this, right, so you can do everything there
Speaker 3: by just one a turn, take a bath, you know, sleeep,
Speaker 3: you just go around. You've been through the whole family room. Right.
Speaker 3: In fact, we couldn't take any pictures in the family room.
Speaker 3: It couldn't fit the you know, you can't. So we
Speaker 3: took the picture here as a souvenir that will never
Speaker 3: come back. Okay, so to wonderful In. But we told
Speaker 3: our kids, young as they are, we told our kids,
Speaker 3: you know, our goal here is to go to distey Land, right.
Speaker 3: We've asked God to provide for us, and God gave
Speaker 3: us the provision for a Distinland ticket. That's why we
Speaker 3: talk wonderful In because we thought it was wonderful. But
Speaker 3: but it's okay, and they all agreed and they were
Speaker 3: very happy. Everybody was happy. We actually got sick because
Speaker 3: the pollution of the city would go to our room.
Speaker 3: That's how bad this in. What I'm not saying, don't
Speaker 3: go there, do at your own risk, but it was,
Speaker 3: you know, it was. We were happy. They were very happy.
Speaker 3: My two dollars were very happy. But the day we
Speaker 3: were leaving, the night before we were leaving, my Timmy
Speaker 3: gathered everyone and said, let's pray. I believe I want
Speaker 3: to pray for something. I have faith that in three
Speaker 3: years time we'll go back to Disney and we'll stay
Speaker 3: in Hong Kong disney Land Hotel. You don't know what
Speaker 3: you're saying. You're raising the hopes of our kids. Because
Speaker 3: we really took time time, and I took time to
Speaker 3: really budget this. Wait for a piece of air and
Speaker 3: a piece of but you have to wait until two
Speaker 3: am because it kept crashing. Right, so until you get
Speaker 3: your ticket right, and to go to Hong Kong diste
Speaker 3: Land Hotel would be around nine thousand to twelve thousand
Speaker 3: a night. That's almost six years in wonderful inn right.
Speaker 3: The price difference would be really It's like, I don't
Speaker 3: know if we could actually afford Hong Kong Disneyland Hotel.
Speaker 3: It's impossible for us. I'm a campus missionary like Dave,
Speaker 3: and I don't know if we can really afford this.
Speaker 3: But then we're Christians. So we prayed. But she had
Speaker 3: the faith and she prayed. Women very specific when they pray, Lord,
Speaker 3: in three years time, we will come back here. We
Speaker 3: will stay in Hong Kong. This hotels a right that
Speaker 3: then I think this was October, we were and wonderful.
Speaker 3: In November Timey gets an email. She's a blogger. She
Speaker 3: gets an email that the Hong Kong tourism has actually
Speaker 3: chosen her in some other Filipinos for three days to
Speaker 3: night stay at Hong Kong. This an hotel with the
Speaker 3: family all expense paid trip. Okay, this was the next month,
Speaker 3: not after three years. Okay. We got the email and
Speaker 3: I said, no, don't answer the email. It will ask
Speaker 3: questions informations about you to get your credit card numbers.
Speaker 3: Come you. Nobody gives away all expense paid trip. I know.
Speaker 3: We prayed about this, but nobody would give that, all right,
Speaker 3: and so we had to wait for two months December.
Speaker 3: We weren't answering. We actually asked one of our friends
Speaker 3: in Carlo, who attends our church here, who's a social
Speaker 3: media guy. You know, can you can you research about
Speaker 3: this person in this company that told us that we're
Speaker 3: chosen by the end of December, he said, this is legit.
Speaker 3: You're actually going to Hong Kong Disneyland, right, And so
Speaker 3: this was October. She was praying, Yeah, she was. I
Speaker 3: was agreeing. She was praying, all right. I don't know
Speaker 3: if I was really agreeing, but she was praying. So
Speaker 3: since we are one, we're married, it's the same. So
Speaker 3: right October she was praying in faith, asking the Lord
Speaker 3: to provide. There's no way we could go. But by
Speaker 3: February we were in Hong Kong, Disneyland hotel, all expands
Speaker 3: paid tripped. All right, amazing. I think for this trip
Speaker 3: I shelled out one thousand, six hundred taxi fare from
Speaker 3: airport to a hotel because they did not shoulder it.
Speaker 3: I don't know why anyway, Lamoina, all right, grab this lord,
Speaker 3: just an amazing again. This is God. You know, it's
Speaker 3: amazing when somebody calls you up in the hotel room
Speaker 3: and tells you to go down. You can now go
Speaker 3: down and go to a restaurant here in Hong Kong,
Speaker 3: Disneyland or anything you want. You know, we were ordering
Speaker 3: anything we want. It was all expense paid. Now. On
Speaker 3: the first day, we had a tour guide, a cast
Speaker 3: member who would guide us to Disney. Everybody was lining
Speaker 3: up for thirty minutes average. We were lining up for
Speaker 3: a minute because we were entering the exit because we
Speaker 3: were VIPs. Almost half they were almost done with Hong
Speaker 3: Kong Disneyland. That was how VIP we were at that time.
Speaker 3: You know. It was amazing. The kids were so happy.
Speaker 3: It was like, Wow, this is the dream. No, not
Speaker 3: looking at the price of the men. You actually we
Speaker 3: look so that we can order what we want, right
Speaker 3: And it was it was God providing for everything that
Speaker 3: we need. Now women, you know, men very different from women.
Speaker 3: You know that, right, we asked for well, yeah, as
Speaker 3: a family, we asked for this trip. We were there Februari.
Speaker 3: I was so happy. I was lording in thank women.
Speaker 3: Very specific, Lord like this, Lord like that, Lord like this. Lord.
Speaker 3: See donald too specific sometimes now, right, I'm not saying
Speaker 3: that was the prayer request of timing, but she would
Speaker 3: have specific prayer requests. Like one of her prayer requests
Speaker 3: was in the itinerary given to us. We weren't going
Speaker 3: to have buffet in the other hotel, which was more expensive, right,
Speaker 3: we weren't having buffet with the cartoon characters. So she
Speaker 3: was saying, you know, let's believe God, we would go
Speaker 3: and have buffet on the other hotel, right, and every
Speaker 3: breakfast you have no cartoon character with you, right, And
Speaker 3: but then she prayed and then out of the call,
Speaker 3: you know, we change your plan tomorrow. You're going to
Speaker 3: have breakfast in the other hotel with all the cartoon characters.
Speaker 3: So again, even to the smallest detail, ass in, you
Speaker 3: just knew this was God. I couldn't afford this. God
Speaker 3: knew I couldn't afford this, and that's why God was
Speaker 3: answering and honoring the faith of my wife. It wasn't
Speaker 3: out of excess or out of luju. We were happy
Speaker 3: with wonderful inn. We were absolutely very happy with wonderfully in.
Speaker 3: But to go Disneyland Hotel, we thank God for it.
Speaker 3: But without this, we're actually very happy. Also as with
Speaker 3: the Kingdom, in mind, not with a sense of entitlement,
Speaker 3: but with a sense of gratefulness nor thank you. Some
Speaker 3: of the prayers we asked, God has not answered yet.
Speaker 3: Are you entitled and saying God, you're not answering, or
Speaker 3: are you grateful? Lord, I'm so blessed. If you don't answer,
Speaker 3: I'm okay. If you answer, thank you. As with the
Speaker 3: Kingdom mentality, as with the Kingdom, mindset to the very specific.
Speaker 3: So the second dayam and we were no longer VIPs.
Speaker 3: We had three part tickets, but we had to walk
Speaker 3: on our own. So now we were walking on our own.
Speaker 3: And then you saw the dress Grace naal A la maya.
Speaker 3: That's the dress of your daughters given to us cartoon
Speaker 3: after right, And on the second day we were wearing this.
Speaker 3: We were walking Disney and my wife said, you know
Speaker 3: we missed the parade in the first day. Again, very
Speaker 3: different perspective. Man in the part marriage Simon Artona, Right,
Speaker 3: we don't need them on the parade, No, no, the
Speaker 3: kids would enjoy the parade. So yeah, okay, yeah, okay.
Speaker 3: Let's see behind the time. You know, we were trying
Speaker 3: to plan our day and as we were walking, a
Speaker 3: Chinese cast member of Disney approaches us.
Speaker 4: Oh oh no, no, no, no, okay, it's okay, it's okay.
Speaker 3: But he kept persisting. He was asking, seeking and knocking. Oh,
Speaker 3: he's selling us something, right, al Mahir cut done, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 3: So I didn't know what to do. And then he
Speaker 3: just kept coming back at us and said, oh, free,
Speaker 3: la free free. Imagine out of the thousands of kids
Speaker 3: that day and Mika were chosen as princesses of the day.
Speaker 3: And what's the goal of the princesses of the day.
Speaker 3: During the parade. You'll be in a VIP section, You're
Speaker 3: placed there, and the princesses would stop in front of
Speaker 3: you and they'll get you in the parade and you'll
Speaker 3: dance with them in the parade. It's just amazing, even
Speaker 3: to the smallest details. God was answering the prayer of
Speaker 3: my wife, and we were very thankful. Ass in faith,
Speaker 3: ass and it will be given. Yesterday I was in
Speaker 3: a child dedication of a couple who lost their I
Speaker 3: think three year old daughter last year. June. Last year,
Speaker 3: June this year they had the new baby, and we
Speaker 3: were dedicating this three month old baby as a gift
Speaker 3: from the Lord. We were crying. June last year, we
Speaker 3: were celebrating, they were celebrating. June this year. We were
Speaker 3: eating yesterday October to celebrate this gift. Asked with the
Speaker 3: kingdom in mind. They didn't quit church when God took
Speaker 3: away their daughter. They didn't question me, of course, there
Speaker 3: were questions that couldn't be answered. They didn't quit on God.
Speaker 3: They asked with the Kingdom in mind, not with a
Speaker 3: sense of entitledness, but gratefulness. Lord, thank you you gave
Speaker 3: us another. Lord, you gave us a son in exchange
Speaker 3: for a daughter, as and it will be given. And
Speaker 3: look around, I see so many people whose prayers have
Speaker 3: been answered, miraculous, supernatural answered by God, as in faith.
Speaker 3: Asked with the Kingdom in mind that the Bible says,
Speaker 3: sekh and you will find again. Let's tide us up
Speaker 3: to the whole sermon of the Mount. When you seek,
Speaker 3: what do you seek, Matthew six, Seek first the Kingdom
Speaker 3: of God and his righteousness, and all these things will
Speaker 3: be given to you as well. What do you seek?
Speaker 3: You seek the Kingdom and you'll find it. Seek the
Speaker 3: Kingdom of God. Seek what God wants and you'll find it.
Speaker 3: What do we see whose kingdom are rebuilding? When we pray?
Speaker 3: When we as of God, are we really seeking what
Speaker 3: God wants? Jesus is saying to the disciples, if you
Speaker 3: seek what I want, you find it. You seek the Kingdom,
Speaker 3: you'll find it. Everything will be added unto you. And
Speaker 3: he says, knock and the doors will be open. Knock.
Speaker 3: Don't just ask, don't just seek, you knock. Be persistent.
Speaker 3: When we started our church here and we had zero
Speaker 3: contacts in the youth ministry, we were praying, we were asking,
Speaker 3: we were seeking, we were knocking. Last year, through asking
Speaker 3: and seeking, we were able to get some one gym.
Speaker 3: But the problem with some one gym was we couldn't
Speaker 3: sustain the growth because every time there's a government program,
Speaker 3: they kick us out. He said, we can't do church
Speaker 3: this way. We don't even know if we'll have service
Speaker 3: next week. So we were praying and we were seeking,
Speaker 3: and we were now knocking, and out of the blue,
Speaker 3: somebody had this crazy idea. Jue gym is maybe five
Speaker 3: minutes drive away from SM. Santa Mesa. Let's go and
Speaker 3: ask SM. Santa Mesa. Francis went there and we found
Speaker 3: out that they were giving us a deal. In fact,
Speaker 3: when the door opened, Christ was there. Christ, the manager
Speaker 3: of the theater manager. His name is Christ. Christ opened
Speaker 3: the door for us INM Santa Mesa. No kidding, his
Speaker 3: name is Christ. So when when Francis went back and
Speaker 3: reported to us, Christ opened the door for us. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I thought he was being spiritual. No, it was Christ
Speaker 3: in the holing card. Christ gave him a holing card
Speaker 3: and told us Christ taught us to rent the cinema.
Speaker 3: Christ is there every week looking after us. Christ and
Speaker 3: cashs are checks, right. It's amazing how Christ literally opened
Speaker 3: the door for us. We now have four hundred students
Speaker 3: in Santa Mesa worshiping regularly. Those are four hundred new
Speaker 3: people getting saved and disciples. We're now looking at having
Speaker 3: two services because they've maxed out the place, and so
Speaker 3: hopefully by next year we go to services on a
Speaker 3: Friday and hopefully start a midweek service in Santa Mesa.
Speaker 3: That's close to one thousand to two thousand new people.
Speaker 3: Because we knocked the persistence gone. I know you want
Speaker 3: us to do something, Lord, You want us to reach
Speaker 3: out to more people and disciple more people, not as
Speaker 3: citizens of the Kingdom of God. In the door will
Speaker 3: be open persistence. Martin Luther said, the reason why Jesus
Speaker 3: said this verse is that he knows that we are
Speaker 3: timid and shy, that we feel unworthy and unfit to
Speaker 3: present our needs to God. We think that God is
Speaker 3: so great and we are so tiny that we do
Speaker 3: not dare to pray. If you ever felt that way,
Speaker 3: When you ask prayer for others, you're in faith. When
Speaker 3: you pray for the church, you ask for millions. But
Speaker 3: when you pray for your personal needs, is Lord, OK?
Speaker 3: Why do you do that? Why do you believe God
Speaker 3: in faith for others but they're not believe for yourself?
Speaker 3: Sometimes there's a extension we feel like because it sounds selfish.
Speaker 3: Remember when you ask with the Kingdom in mind, selfishness
Speaker 3: will not be a problem for you. You're thinking about
Speaker 3: the Kingdom you're thinking about God. You're thinking about his glory,
Speaker 3: not your name. Selfishness would be a non issue for
Speaker 3: you when you ask a faith, when you ask for
Speaker 3: open doors, when you ask for business breakthrough in career advancement.
Speaker 3: With the kingdom in mind, it will never be selfish
Speaker 3: because it's not about your kingdom. It's God's kingdom, and
Speaker 3: so I can ask boldly. We dare not ask because
Speaker 3: we're timid, and sometimes we have the wrong perspective when
Speaker 3: we ask in prayer. That is why Christ wants us
Speaker 3: to lure us away from such timid thoughts, to remove
Speaker 3: our doubts, and to have us go ahead confidently and
Speaker 3: boldly ask see not. The stacking of these words that
Speaker 3: Jesus was using was extremely forceful. He was founding, He
Speaker 3: was hammering a point ask see not. By the way,
Speaker 3: if you ask, you'll receive. If you seek, you find,
Speaker 3: you knock, the door will be opened. Twice in one line,
Speaker 3: he repeats the same words as emphasis to the church.
Speaker 3: Don't be afraid to ask. We are to passionately persist
Speaker 3: in prayer as seek, knock. See. There's a difference between
Speaker 3: a fleshly stubbornness and a godly perseverance. Fleshly stubbornness insists
Speaker 3: on getting one's will done in heaven. The latter determines
Speaker 3: to get God's will done on earth. When I ask,
Speaker 3: sek and not with the kingdom in mind, it's not
Speaker 3: flesh stubbornness. It's persistence. There's a godly motivation behind my prayer.
Speaker 3: Why I ask, I seek, and I knock. Firse John
Speaker 3: five fourteen to fifteen tells us this is the confidence
Speaker 3: we have in approaching God, that if we ask anything
Speaker 3: according to his will, what he hears us. What do
Speaker 3: we ask anything according to what his will, not your will,
Speaker 3: not your kingdom? According to his will he hears. And
Speaker 3: if we know that he hears us whatever we ask,
Speaker 3: we know that we have what we ask of him.
Speaker 3: He's happy because we're asking his will to be done
Speaker 3: over our lives. His answer is, yes, I'll do it,
Speaker 3: because you ask according to my name and ask according
Speaker 3: to my will. Let's go back to Discermon the Mount.
Speaker 3: Verse nine, he says, or which one of you, if
Speaker 3: his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone,
Speaker 3: or if he asks for a fish, will give him
Speaker 3: a serpent. Stand If you, then, who are evil? What
Speaker 3: Jesus was saying, is we, as human beings who are sinful,
Speaker 3: know how to give good gifts to your children? How
Speaker 3: much more will your father in heaven give good things
Speaker 3: to those who who ask him? Even the mean dad
Speaker 3: would give you a birthday present, Even a sinful dad
Speaker 3: will give you gifts. How much more your father give
Speaker 3: good things to those who ask of him. Some of
Speaker 3: you might be knew in the faith, and you're asking
Speaker 3: the Lord certain things that are not according to this will.
Speaker 3: Because you don't even know his will. You just ask Lord,
Speaker 3: paying a lot of number combination. Come on, come on, Lord, Lord,
Speaker 3: don't have to become baby Maganda. Lord Lord, we ask
Speaker 3: things that are very selfish in nature. Here's what I believe.
Speaker 3: We all go through a journey where we don't know
Speaker 3: what we're asking for. It's like us when we were kids.
Speaker 3: Remember the days and if you're a parent, remember every
Speaker 3: time you have kids I really like and persistence are them?
Speaker 3: De Ba? That's one of mysters. No no, no, no
Speaker 3: more toys. The selfish nature comes out now. If you're
Speaker 3: knew in the faith, it's messages like this that would
Speaker 3: tweak and alter how you pray. Oh Malipa Oh, that's
Speaker 3: not how you ask, not asking with the kingdom in mind.
Speaker 3: But then if you pray that way before you know,
Speaker 3: don't be so dishearted. And why because you're asking a father,
Speaker 3: not just a sinful father, an earthy father with infinite wisdom.
Speaker 3: In his wisdom, Will a good dad give a candy
Speaker 3: to a boonging son, No, I won't. Will I give
Speaker 3: sugar to somebody who's about to sleep?
Speaker 4: No, Why, I have wisdom. If I give you that,
Speaker 4: both of us will not sleep. How much more the
Speaker 4: heavenly Father, in his infinite wisdom.
Speaker 3: You think God will give that to you if it
Speaker 3: will destroy you, you can ask all you want, you'll
Speaker 3: be tired. But in his infinite wisdom, he will not
Speaker 3: give it to you. In his holy nature, he will
Speaker 3: not give give you something that's sinful, like a lot
Speaker 3: of combination or no ma matera incapit bahimo right, or
Speaker 3: whatever prayers you make that are contrary to God's word.
Speaker 3: Because of his holy nature, he will not give that
Speaker 3: to you. He's a good father, and he's also a
Speaker 3: loving father. He knows what to give you. He knows
Speaker 3: so we will learn through as we mature in the faith,
Speaker 3: what we need to ask for, and I hope this
Speaker 3: message helps you to ask with the Kingdom in mind.
Speaker 3: Before it was your kingdom in mind that you're not,
Speaker 3: at least now you know. That's why the answer has
Speaker 3: always been no, no, no, no. It's always been known,
Speaker 3: because in his infinite wisdom, in his holiness, and in
Speaker 3: his loving kindness, he knows what to give us. Our
Speaker 3: business is to ask, and as we mature in the faith,
Speaker 3: we ask with the Kingdom of God in mind. Second
Speaker 3: Corinthians one, nineteen to twenty. For the Son of God,
Speaker 3: Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, by
Speaker 3: Me and Silas and Timothy, was not yes and no.
Speaker 3: But in him it has always been what yes, For
Speaker 3: no matter how many promises God has made, they are
Speaker 3: yes in Christ, and so through him the amen is
Speaker 3: spoken by us to the glory of God. What was
Speaker 3: the primise behind it? For the promises of God? What
Speaker 3: he said he'll do. I pray those things. That's why
Speaker 3: all my prayers, Paul said, was yes. It was never no.
Speaker 3: It's always yes, because I based my prayers on the
Speaker 3: promises of God. What's our job to know the promises
Speaker 3: of God, to know the Kingdom agenda, so that I
Speaker 3: can now start praying and the answer would always be
Speaker 3: what yes? And when he says yes, I'll say amen,
Speaker 3: for whose glory? For the glory of God, according to Paul,
Speaker 3: So clear right, how we can pray and have yes answers.
Speaker 3: So let me end verse twelve sandwich between the prayer.
Speaker 3: Do not judge the golden rule. So whatever you wish
Speaker 3: that others would do to you, do also to them,
Speaker 3: for it is the law and the prophets. Now verse twelve.
Speaker 3: What's tricky about Matthew five six seven is we don't
Speaker 3: know if this was a highlight of the notes of
Speaker 3: Matthew or if it was all like one message. Did
Speaker 3: he miss out something? We actually don't know, different views
Speaker 3: from different people. But verse twelve is not just tied
Speaker 3: up to verse one to eleven. It's tied up to
Speaker 3: Matthew five six and seven because it sums up the
Speaker 3: law and the prophets, sums up everything it's like for
Speaker 3: in science. Therefore, I conclude this is my conclusion, not
Speaker 3: just with verse one to ten or eleven, but with
Speaker 3: everything else. So I want to now look at this
Speaker 3: at the angle of prayer. Ask and it will be
Speaker 3: given seek and you'll find out and the door will
Speaker 3: be opened. Your Father will give you good gifts. So
Speaker 3: now whatever you wish or in another version, therefore, whatever
Speaker 3: you wish that others would do to you, do also
Speaker 3: to them. For this is the law and the prophets.
Speaker 3: What does that mean when it comes to prayer? What
Speaker 3: that means is that when we pray, let us also
Speaker 3: learn how to pray for others, not only for ourselves.
Speaker 3: When we do good, righteous acts could actually be an
Speaker 3: answer to somebody else's prayer. Will he shared this morning
Speaker 3: about how God used him as an answer to prayer.
Speaker 3: He shared to us this morning how God answered this prayer.
Speaker 3: One time he was praying and the Lord told him,
Speaker 3: I want you to give this certain specific amount to
Speaker 3: this millionaire guy. The amount God gave him was twenty
Speaker 3: peszels and eighty cent tabos. With His problem was, this
Speaker 3: is insulting to the millionaire. How can I give twenty
Speaker 3: peszels and eighty cent tabos. And this was during the
Speaker 3: time that when the centavos was the aluminum the thick one, right,
Speaker 3: So nobody gives you the thick one, right. They give
Speaker 3: you store in the starty store. She's like TWENTYI how
Speaker 3: do I get the eighties in doubles? It was so hard.
Speaker 3: He had to go to his wife. Do you have
Speaker 3: eighty cent douvas? Please look for some coins because I'm
Speaker 3: going to give this guy. Well, I don't want to
Speaker 3: give this guy twenty peszels and eighty cent tabos. So
Speaker 3: he was hesitating, Lord, I think it's wrong. I think
Speaker 3: that's not the right amount. It could be maybe two
Speaker 3: thousand and eighty pestels, but it's not twenty. So the
Speaker 3: wrestling he had in his mind, but the prompting that
Speaker 3: was so strong. So he got an envelope put twenty
Speaker 3: peszels in eighty cents. He didn't know how to approach
Speaker 3: the guy. The guy was a stockbroker, had three golden bullpens.
Speaker 3: Here drives a BMW and who are you to give
Speaker 3: him twenty pestels in eighty cent tavos man, that's a
Speaker 3: little insulting, right, But he says, I just have to
Speaker 3: do this. Mustered the courage went to the guy and said, here,
Speaker 3: I have something for you, and started to walk away.
Speaker 3: And the guy opened it and he saw twenty pastels
Speaker 3: and eighty cent tables, and he calls Willi, Willy Willy,
Speaker 3: and when Willi heard his name, he walked faster right,
Speaker 3: But the guy ran after him and and and got
Speaker 3: a hold of him and said, Willie, why did you
Speaker 3: give me this? Will I don't know how. I don't
Speaker 3: know how to explain. You might find me weird. But
Speaker 3: I got a prompting from the Lord to give you
Speaker 3: twenty patzels and eighty cent tabos. And the millionaire started
Speaker 3: crying in front of him. You don't know what you
Speaker 3: just did, he said, Willy. Aside so nobody could hear.
Speaker 3: He said to Willie, what you don't know is I'm
Speaker 3: now broke, bankrupt. I'm no longer a stock broker. I'm broke,
Speaker 3: and I'm trying to keep up externally so that I
Speaker 3: could get more clients. That's why I can't sell my BMW.
Speaker 3: I have to pretend I'm doing well, but I'm not.
Speaker 3: I prayed to the Lord one night, and he said
Speaker 3: the guy was a Christian Lord. I've given my tides,
Speaker 3: I've given my offering. I've been faithful giving to you.
Speaker 3: Is this really true? Is your word true? And then
Speaker 3: he challenged the Lord, Lord, if you're really true, give
Speaker 3: me twenty pestls and eighty cent tables. Willie, Kingdom minded
Speaker 3: crazy gave twenty paessls and eighty cent table to this guy.
Speaker 3: You don't know that you can be an answer to
Speaker 3: somebody else's prayer, no matter how crazy it is. This
Speaker 3: is kingdom living, This is going beyond what seems like.
Speaker 3: You know, I don't know. If God tells you to
Speaker 3: do something, and God is telling us ask, seek, knock,
Speaker 3: I will give it to you. On the other side
Speaker 3: of the spectrum, God is using someone and that could
Speaker 3: be you. Just like Willie. Maybe somebody now is praying
Speaker 3: to the Lord out of desperation. You might be the answer.
Speaker 3: Whatever you wish others would do to you, you do
Speaker 3: unto others. What is to bow down their heads in pray?
Speaker 3: I want you to come right now to the Lord
Speaker 3: in prayer? What is to practice? What was spreach? Today?
Speaker 3: Want you to ask, to seek, and to knock this morning?
Speaker 3: I want you to ask with the kingdom in mind.
Speaker 3: I know you're praying for something. Some of you. You've
Speaker 3: been praying for financial breakthrough, healing, restoration of relationship. We've
Speaker 3: read your prayer requests every week. We've seen those, and
Speaker 3: you're believing God for something. But I want you right
Speaker 3: now to come with a different perspective. You're now asking
Speaker 3: with the Kingdom in mind. You're seeking the will of
Speaker 3: God and his kingdom. You're knocking at the door of
Speaker 3: the king. I want you to lift it up in prayer,
Speaker 3: whatever it is that you've been praying for, in asking God,
Speaker 3: but no longer for your own, but for his. Lord.
Speaker 3: We come to you with our prayers, lifting it up
Speaker 3: to you, with your kingdom in mine, with you as
Speaker 3: our priority, with you as our king and Lord, we
Speaker 3: come to you Jesus out of gratefulness. Lord. We ask,
Speaker 3: we seek, we knock, We live up to you. Lord,
Speaker 3: we storm the gates of heaven, asking whether it's a
Speaker 3: restoration of relationship, a career advancement, finances to come through,
Speaker 3: debts to be pain, salvation of loved ones, open doors
Speaker 3: for ministry, open doors for business. But Lord, right now
Speaker 3: we ask the God's Kingdom in mind. Lord, I pray,
Speaker 3: Lord that you will be glorified in every answer to
Speaker 3: our prayer. Lord, teach us to pray well, teach us
Speaker 3: to pray with persistence, Teach us to pray according to
Speaker 3: the will of God. Starting today, Lord, thank you for
Speaker 3: being a good father, that in your infinite wisdom, loving kindness,
Speaker 3: and your holiness, you know what to give us. You
Speaker 3: give us good gifts. And when we learn, Lord, doc
Speaker 3: sem the no answers, because you're doing something in our hearts,
Speaker 3: sometimes exposing mispriorities, sometimes exposing selfishness. So I pray God
Speaker 3: that make us Lord surrendered to the will of the
Speaker 3: King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. Lord, thank
Speaker 3: you so much for the privilege of prayer. We can
Speaker 3: come bold into the throne of Grace with confidence and Lord,
Speaker 3: just like Paul Lord when he says, all our prayers
Speaker 3: are yes and Amen in Christ Jesus, thank you.
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