WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.160 --> 00:00:09.000 Welcome Just hand Away Tagalog Sermon podcast, your daily dose 2 00:00:09.039 --> 00:00:12.919 of inspiring from heartfelt tagalog sermons from different factors and 3 00:00:13.000 --> 00:00:16.120 speakers all over the Philippines. We hope that this podcast 4 00:00:16.160 --> 00:00:16.640 finds you. 5 00:00:16.640 --> 00:00:24.679 In good shame and now here's your message. You're listening 6 00:00:24.719 --> 00:00:29.359 to a podcast from Victory. Jesus taught us to pray 7 00:00:29.399 --> 00:00:34.200 with perseverance. Learn more about asking, seeking and knocking in 8 00:00:34.280 --> 00:00:37.119 Week fourteen of our series Redefined. 9 00:00:42.759 --> 00:00:46.880 Let's look at Matthew seven Versus seven to twelve. Matthew seven, 10 00:00:47.000 --> 00:00:50.399 Verses seven to twelve, it says, here, ask and it 11 00:00:50.399 --> 00:00:53.280 will be given to you. Seek and you will find. 12 00:00:53.759 --> 00:00:56.520 Knock and it will be open to you. For everyone 13 00:00:56.520 --> 00:00:59.759 who asks receive, and the one who seeks fins, And 14 00:00:59.799 --> 00:01:02.600 to the one who knocks, it will be open. Or 15 00:01:02.679 --> 00:01:05.040 which one of you, if his son asks him for 16 00:01:05.120 --> 00:01:08.719 a bread, will give him a stone, or if he 17 00:01:08.799 --> 00:01:12.280 asked for a fish, will give him a serpent. If you, then, 18 00:01:12.400 --> 00:01:15.519 who are evil, know how to give good gifts to 19 00:01:15.599 --> 00:01:18.879 your children, how much more will your Father reason Heaven 20 00:01:19.319 --> 00:01:22.959 give good things to those who ask him. So whatever 21 00:01:23.000 --> 00:01:25.840 you wish that others would do to you, do also 22 00:01:25.920 --> 00:01:28.760 to them. For this is the law and the prophets 23 00:01:28.879 --> 00:01:31.239 that's spewed on our heads, and its pray, Oh God 24 00:01:31.280 --> 00:01:34.400 of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, that it be known today 25 00:01:34.400 --> 00:01:37.439 that you are God. Answer us, Oh Lord, answer us, 26 00:01:37.760 --> 00:01:40.599 that we may know that you are working in our hearts, 27 00:01:41.640 --> 00:01:44.159 that you are calling us to you. You're drawing us near 28 00:01:44.519 --> 00:01:47.599 that fire from heaven. Come down and consume us in 29 00:01:47.719 --> 00:01:51.000 Jesus name. Amen. Look at the first two verses of 30 00:01:51.040 --> 00:01:54.680 the what we're reading right now, Matthew seven, verses seven 31 00:01:54.719 --> 00:01:57.239 to eight. It says, here ask it will be given 32 00:01:57.280 --> 00:01:59.719 to you, see and you will find knock and it 33 00:01:59.719 --> 00:02:02.079 will be open to you. And he repeats it again. 34 00:02:02.359 --> 00:02:08.879 He says, ask seek, knock, ask, seek, knock, God, who 35 00:02:08.919 --> 00:02:11.960 is our King. And at the same time, our Father 36 00:02:12.319 --> 00:02:16.319 through Jesus, is commanding us one thing, which is the 37 00:02:16.360 --> 00:02:19.800 same thing. Actually he just used three different words to 38 00:02:19.879 --> 00:02:23.080 describe this one thing, and that's prayer coming to God. 39 00:02:23.120 --> 00:02:26.360 In prayer, God is commanding us to pray to him. 40 00:02:27.400 --> 00:02:30.360 You know, every time we read or every time we 41 00:02:30.400 --> 00:02:32.759 see a command in the Bible, actually most of the 42 00:02:32.800 --> 00:02:35.759 time we see a command in the Bible, there is 43 00:02:35.879 --> 00:02:39.560 usually an upcoming promise to it. You see Jesus right 44 00:02:39.599 --> 00:02:44.680 now is using three words, and he repeats it. Ask, seek, knock, 45 00:02:45.080 --> 00:02:49.520 ask seek, knock, it says if Jesus is saying, oh, 46 00:02:49.560 --> 00:02:54.680 you gotta get this prayer, prayer, something amazing here. And 47 00:02:54.719 --> 00:02:57.680 not only that, if you would also realize that's the 48 00:02:57.719 --> 00:03:01.639 command of God, ask seek not the promise of God 49 00:03:01.840 --> 00:03:05.719 is that when you ask, you will receive. When you seek, 50 00:03:06.360 --> 00:03:10.560 you will find. When you knock it will be opened. 51 00:03:11.039 --> 00:03:15.840 And if you would realize also tens from a present 52 00:03:15.919 --> 00:03:18.439 tent or a future test, there's a present tense. What 53 00:03:18.560 --> 00:03:22.599 does it all mean? In this verse couple of verses alone, 54 00:03:22.719 --> 00:03:26.199 Jesus was saying the importance of prayer. Oh, you just 55 00:03:26.479 --> 00:03:30.439 you have to do this. There's something here, there's there's 56 00:03:30.479 --> 00:03:33.319 there's a promise every time when we pray. And not 57 00:03:33.360 --> 00:03:39.000 only that, not shift cha my present tense, my future tests. 58 00:03:39.000 --> 00:03:41.479 What does it mean? It means that we can come 59 00:03:41.560 --> 00:03:46.400 to God in prayer in our present situation, whatever your 60 00:03:46.439 --> 00:03:52.199 background is. What kum nasa mantayo is a stage na. 61 00:03:53.159 --> 00:03:56.120 We can come to God right now as we are 62 00:03:57.520 --> 00:04:02.960 and expect, because you promise, expect that we will receive, 63 00:04:03.280 --> 00:04:05.680 find and it will be open to us, and not 64 00:04:05.719 --> 00:04:09.000 only that, we can come to God even in the future. 65 00:04:10.000 --> 00:04:13.280 And no now, when we pray in the future, he 66 00:04:13.439 --> 00:04:19.399 will make a c receive and the door will be opened. 67 00:04:19.920 --> 00:04:23.240 So prayer is not just a one time event. Indeed, 68 00:04:23.240 --> 00:04:26.480 on tie you know we pray miketai, Jesus is saying 69 00:04:26.680 --> 00:04:29.680 prayer is more of a lifestyle, and we don't end 70 00:04:30.240 --> 00:04:34.480 in prayer. God is actually commanding us to persist in 71 00:04:34.959 --> 00:04:42.160 prayer's persistence meaning indeeda to mitigail. You know what, there's 72 00:04:42.199 --> 00:04:46.319 a parallel verse of this found in Look eleven. I 73 00:04:46.319 --> 00:04:48.360 won't read it, but I'll just share to your story 74 00:04:48.439 --> 00:04:54.560 similar to how Jesus delivered it. Sail all of a sudden, beglong, 75 00:04:54.600 --> 00:04:59.519 my bosita, someone visited that person's house. Now the problem 76 00:04:59.600 --> 00:05:06.600 is doesn't say it stay there. He was not prepared, 77 00:05:07.639 --> 00:05:12.279 ada or anything. And you know us right, have you 78 00:05:12.319 --> 00:05:14.800 experienced that when someone visits your house, sometimes in the 79 00:05:14.920 --> 00:05:20.160 expected and all of a sudden you need to you Knowabaska, 80 00:05:20.600 --> 00:05:23.800 you know, growing up, one of my family members, not 81 00:05:23.879 --> 00:05:28.000 my mom, one of your family members from my bisaton 82 00:05:28.079 --> 00:05:42.600 and as a cabinet Spanish bread, milka, spam, beclome, you know, 83 00:05:42.600 --> 00:05:47.920 on your air con We want accommodate the guest. No. 84 00:05:48.079 --> 00:05:51.279 The problem with this man. When this visitor came, it 85 00:05:51.399 --> 00:05:55.399 was already nighttime Gabina and he doesn't have anything good 86 00:05:55.439 --> 00:06:01.879 thing make up with Baisha or my Friendsha Madamimpakai's pall 87 00:06:02.000 --> 00:06:10.000 pray uham become my extra jumping in them food, So 88 00:06:10.959 --> 00:06:18.199 den I burn along? Sorry, Donna lit the neighbor men message, 89 00:06:18.279 --> 00:06:26.480 can I talk Minis Colla and whom on here? You 90 00:06:26.639 --> 00:06:30.000 know already of someone, so Broncolett. At the end of it, 91 00:06:31.920 --> 00:06:34.240 have you ever experienced that you tell the ie on 92 00:06:34.279 --> 00:06:36.120 the eye on the mansana you don't want to do 93 00:06:36.279 --> 00:06:41.279 it because they were so persistent, so Bronculet, solet you 94 00:06:41.399 --> 00:06:45.439 just gave in. We have all experienced that right in 95 00:06:45.560 --> 00:06:50.199 the same way that this maculit friend, this persistent friend 96 00:06:50.439 --> 00:06:55.040 was with his other friend. Jesus is actively telling us 97 00:06:55.920 --> 00:07:04.360 to be that Maculett persistent in our prayers. Ask seek knock, 98 00:07:04.839 --> 00:07:10.720 ask seek knock, be persistent in prayers. If you would 99 00:07:10.720 --> 00:07:13.759 notice there's ask seek knock. This is not levels of prayer, 100 00:07:13.759 --> 00:07:19.000 you know, ind or entry level prayer, ask level, expert level, 101 00:07:19.160 --> 00:07:21.800 not prayer. It's not like that it's more of an 102 00:07:21.839 --> 00:07:24.759 attitude of the heart. You know what you're looking at 103 00:07:24.759 --> 00:07:28.800 that story? I remember whom mong you here? You have kids? 104 00:07:29.079 --> 00:07:32.759 You have kids, I'm after I have a toddler right now. 105 00:07:32.879 --> 00:07:35.040 And for some of you who have kids, maybe top 106 00:07:35.040 --> 00:07:37.319 of suppose a stage, not at all. They're so cute 107 00:07:37.360 --> 00:07:40.600 and adorable, not toddlers. Yeah, and if you know or 108 00:07:40.879 --> 00:07:43.519 get into that, say your way. Papa kin, nephew, niece 109 00:07:44.120 --> 00:07:47.720 three years old, Papa ba three four years Oh yeah, 110 00:07:47.800 --> 00:07:51.279 they're so cute right and nosy at the same time. 111 00:07:51.519 --> 00:07:54.399 You know what, when their parents are there or maybe 112 00:07:54.480 --> 00:07:56.759 you are there, isn't it true that they keep on 113 00:07:56.839 --> 00:08:05.279 asking things? Barriet, Barriet, why why? But do you know that? 114 00:08:05.600 --> 00:08:07.959 And not only that I have a daughter right now 115 00:08:08.279 --> 00:08:11.399 and he doesn't speak yet, you know, but he keeps 116 00:08:11.439 --> 00:08:20.319 on asking us to do things for him, like my Bookamon, 117 00:08:25.680 --> 00:08:29.160 and it keeps on asking. When my kid knows that 118 00:08:29.240 --> 00:08:33.320 we're there, he keeps on coming to us and tell us, hey, 119 00:08:34.279 --> 00:08:37.960 did you do this, like open the wallet, give me money? 120 00:08:39.519 --> 00:08:42.320 But when sometimes, you know, we can't really look at 121 00:08:42.399 --> 00:08:46.159 him always. Sometimes we clean at the other side of 122 00:08:46.200 --> 00:08:51.080 the room. And when when when when my kid realized 123 00:08:51.080 --> 00:08:56.960 that realizes that he's alone, and maybe nephew Nie realize 124 00:08:57.000 --> 00:08:58.799 that they are alone and their parents are not there. 125 00:08:59.080 --> 00:08:59.600 Isn't it true? 126 00:08:59.600 --> 00:09:05.000 They start being anxious and they start looking for their parents, 127 00:09:06.279 --> 00:09:08.320 and if they know that their parents is in the 128 00:09:08.360 --> 00:09:10.720 other room to Sarado and Pinto, isn't it dude, that 129 00:09:10.799 --> 00:09:13.919 they knock the door and then make noise and then 130 00:09:13.919 --> 00:09:14.559 they cry. 131 00:09:15.960 --> 00:09:18.519 But that's how Jeday does it when he knows that 132 00:09:18.559 --> 00:09:21.080 we're just somewhere in the house but he doesn't see us, 133 00:09:21.200 --> 00:09:24.600 but he just cries. Aver. You is crying, he's knocking, 134 00:09:24.720 --> 00:09:29.039 he's throwing our TV. Oh no, he doesn't do that. 135 00:09:31.279 --> 00:09:38.480 The oulet crying out. God's saying, we can do that 136 00:09:38.519 --> 00:09:43.480 to God because He is our father. It's not a level, 137 00:09:44.200 --> 00:09:55.399 it's actually an attitude, desperate, hungry, longing for God his presence. 138 00:09:56.919 --> 00:09:59.080 You know what, all of us here we've experienced this, 139 00:10:00.320 --> 00:10:03.360 especially Kumbago and Christian. Isn't it true? Sometimes when we 140 00:10:03.399 --> 00:10:05.879 pray to God, sometimes we feel the presence of God. 141 00:10:06.240 --> 00:10:08.720 We feel like He's there now when we pray. But 142 00:10:08.799 --> 00:10:12.200 I'm feeling you start up a worship you kind start 143 00:10:12.279 --> 00:10:17.919 to go worship God, Worship God, is feeling, you're crying, 144 00:10:18.080 --> 00:10:22.480 you're worshiping to God. But isn't it also true that 145 00:10:22.519 --> 00:10:26.720 there are times that when we pray, it's as if 146 00:10:26.759 --> 00:10:33.519 no one's listening, or even worse, he's not answering our prayers, 147 00:10:34.679 --> 00:10:39.080 or instead of the prayers that you're asking for happens, 148 00:10:39.120 --> 00:10:47.559 it's the other way around. India prayers. What do we 149 00:10:47.600 --> 00:10:52.200 do when we feel like God's not there? What do 150 00:10:52.279 --> 00:10:55.559 we do when we feel like the doors of heaven 151 00:10:55.679 --> 00:10:59.879 Heaven are closed? What do we do when we feel 152 00:10:59.879 --> 00:11:04.320 like no one's listening. I've met already some people, and 153 00:11:04.360 --> 00:11:10.399 some of them just wants to give up on their faith. Lord, Iron, 154 00:11:10.440 --> 00:11:13.799 I'm a victory group, Iron them a disciple, Ion, I'm 155 00:11:13.840 --> 00:11:16.679 a service Iron am a church. Just gives up on 156 00:11:16.799 --> 00:11:22.440 God some of them. I've talked to people. They got 157 00:11:22.639 --> 00:11:26.879 more bitter, or they got better with God. And here 158 00:11:26.960 --> 00:11:33.960 was Jesus saying, no, ask, seek, knock. Like a child 159 00:11:34.159 --> 00:11:40.600 longing for his father, ask, seek, knock. Persist in prayer, 160 00:11:41.200 --> 00:11:45.519 because if you ask, you will receive. If you seek, 161 00:11:46.519 --> 00:11:50.960 you will find. Continually knock it will be open to you. 162 00:11:51.759 --> 00:11:57.600 Persist in prayers. Why can we persist in prayers? How 163 00:11:57.720 --> 00:12:02.960 is it that we can persist in prayers? Pantag God. 164 00:12:03.440 --> 00:12:05.600 The answer is found in the next verse. Look at this. 165 00:12:06.519 --> 00:12:12.919 In verse nine, it says, here, or which one of you, 166 00:12:13.039 --> 00:12:15.480 if his son asked for a bread, will give him 167 00:12:15.480 --> 00:12:17.759 a stone, or if we ask for a fish, will 168 00:12:17.759 --> 00:12:25.320 give him a serpent. There's no right minded parent who 169 00:12:25.440 --> 00:12:27.759 asked for a bread and will give him a stone. 170 00:12:28.000 --> 00:12:38.320 In short, Malaga and God, Jesus is saying God's like that. 171 00:12:38.440 --> 00:12:41.919 In fact, he pushes the analogy further. In the next verse, 172 00:12:42.000 --> 00:12:46.799 he says, here, if you, then, who are evil, wow, 173 00:12:47.240 --> 00:12:50.639 Jesus just called us evil and we're honest. It's true. 174 00:12:51.120 --> 00:12:52.879 If we look at our hearts we have we have 175 00:12:53.039 --> 00:12:56.320 sin apart from the grace in the the what Jesus 176 00:12:56.440 --> 00:12:59.360 Christ has done on the cross for us, we are sinners. 177 00:12:59.519 --> 00:13:02.480 We are are evil. But guess what. Isn't it true 178 00:13:02.519 --> 00:13:06.799 even though if we're not perfect, we still give good 179 00:13:06.840 --> 00:13:11.080 gifts to our loved ones. Right He says there, If you, then, 180 00:13:11.159 --> 00:13:14.159 who are evil, know how to give good gifts to 181 00:13:14.159 --> 00:13:17.080 your children, how much more will your father, is an 182 00:13:17.120 --> 00:13:20.799 event give good gifts or good things to those who 183 00:13:20.879 --> 00:13:23.960 ask him. The reason why we can persist in prayers 184 00:13:24.360 --> 00:13:29.879 is because we have a good father. We have an amazing, 185 00:13:30.279 --> 00:13:37.159 perfect father. God is not like our earthly fathers, who 186 00:13:37.240 --> 00:13:40.559 is who are as amazing as they are. We all 187 00:13:40.559 --> 00:13:44.720 would agree right that they're not perfect. If you're a 188 00:13:44.720 --> 00:13:47.799 parent here, you would agree, oh, in the whole perfect. 189 00:13:47.840 --> 00:13:50.120 There are some things that I want to do give 190 00:13:50.320 --> 00:13:53.120 I can't, and sometimes I'm doing something that that's wrong. 191 00:13:53.720 --> 00:13:58.080 We're not perfect, but God's not like that. That's what 192 00:13:58.200 --> 00:14:10.080 Jesus is saying. You know, we we have punishment, but 193 00:14:10.159 --> 00:14:15.480 God's not like He says, how much more God who 194 00:14:15.519 --> 00:14:19.320 gives good things to those who ask him. The reason 195 00:14:19.720 --> 00:14:23.919 why we can come to God and persist in prayers 196 00:14:24.679 --> 00:14:28.879 is because we have a good father. We can come 197 00:14:28.919 --> 00:14:33.000 to him. The problem is sometimes we come to him 198 00:14:33.039 --> 00:14:37.679 with all the wrong reasons. Sometimes we come to him thinking, Lord, 199 00:14:38.200 --> 00:14:43.600 it's good, it's even best. I've been praying for this 200 00:14:44.360 --> 00:14:48.600 years years. I don't see why you won't give this 201 00:14:48.679 --> 00:14:51.759 to me. This is good. It's gonna bless other people, 202 00:14:52.000 --> 00:14:54.519 it's gonna help my family, it's gonna help my work. 203 00:14:54.519 --> 00:14:58.480 Why won't you give this to me? I got reminded 204 00:14:59.159 --> 00:15:02.960 of James four versus two to three it says here, 205 00:15:03.080 --> 00:15:07.919 Actually you desire and do not have, So your murder 206 00:15:08.000 --> 00:15:11.639 you covet and cannot obtain. So you fight and quarrel 207 00:15:12.120 --> 00:15:15.559 you do not have because you do not ask. Sometimes 208 00:15:15.559 --> 00:15:18.159 that's the reason why we don't have the promises of 209 00:15:18.200 --> 00:15:20.919 God in our lives, because we're not asking. But look 210 00:15:20.919 --> 00:15:25.399 at this, you ask and do it received because you 211 00:15:25.480 --> 00:15:28.879 ask wrongly to spend it on your passions out James. 212 00:15:30.440 --> 00:15:33.799 And sometimes we have that things right, we have those 213 00:15:33.840 --> 00:15:36.600 prayers and not feeling that in God this is good. 214 00:15:38.399 --> 00:15:41.240 Going back to the analogy, a son asks for a 215 00:15:41.320 --> 00:15:44.200 bread and a fish because God is a good father, 216 00:15:44.320 --> 00:15:47.840 he wouldn't give a stone and an eel. But what 217 00:15:47.879 --> 00:15:50.240 would happen? Would you think God is a good father 218 00:15:50.799 --> 00:15:55.279 when the child thinks that he is asking for a bread, 219 00:15:55.519 --> 00:15:59.159 but he's actually asking for a stone. Do you think 220 00:15:59.240 --> 00:16:02.279 God is good if he gives the stone? What do 221 00:16:02.360 --> 00:16:05.759 I mean? Sometimes we think what we're asking God is 222 00:16:05.840 --> 00:16:09.240 good because we can only see it in our level, 223 00:16:09.559 --> 00:16:14.159 in our finite minds. But God's infinite in his wisdom, 224 00:16:14.240 --> 00:16:18.120 perfect in his holiness, unending in his love and mercy 225 00:16:18.159 --> 00:16:21.879 to us, my mama Baga, Because God is a different 226 00:16:21.919 --> 00:16:28.559 perspective in life. Sometimes we pray those prayers. Lord, give 227 00:16:28.559 --> 00:16:35.480 me a love life Christmas. Not Lord shannatalaga. Lord, he 228 00:16:35.559 --> 00:16:43.519 has twelve back aps centipede. Here's the answer to my prayer. 229 00:16:44.919 --> 00:16:48.360 This is the business that I've been waiting for. This 230 00:16:48.480 --> 00:16:52.000 is the the opportunity that that I've been looking for. 231 00:16:52.320 --> 00:16:56.679 God give it to me. And there's nothing wrong with that. 232 00:16:58.679 --> 00:17:03.320 It's just that we don't know. Oh, it completely like God. 233 00:17:03.840 --> 00:17:06.880 You know what. God defines what is good or not. 234 00:17:07.680 --> 00:17:10.640 We don't get to tell him. I don't pray its name, best, best, 235 00:17:10.680 --> 00:17:16.039 best best. As a good father, he defines what is 236 00:17:16.079 --> 00:17:19.960 good or not. It is our job. It is our 237 00:17:20.240 --> 00:17:22.680 duty as a son and a king, a son and 238 00:17:22.720 --> 00:17:26.400 a citizen of the kingdom to pray in faith. Now 239 00:17:26.440 --> 00:17:31.359 does it mean a paraha pray your heart God? No? No, no, 240 00:17:31.400 --> 00:17:34.400 it's okay again. We can come to God with all 241 00:17:34.559 --> 00:17:37.880 our with all of our flaws and all of our 242 00:17:38.319 --> 00:17:43.119 faulty prayers. It's okay. We can come to God. We 243 00:17:43.160 --> 00:17:45.880 can come to God. Malaya. Motivation of heart's not and 244 00:17:46.079 --> 00:17:49.400 that's the good thing about our God. But I hope 245 00:17:49.440 --> 00:17:53.519 as we pray to God, we would realize that it 246 00:17:53.640 --> 00:17:57.440 is actually a journey of our relationship with him. There 247 00:17:57.440 --> 00:18:01.200 are certain things now when God doesn't answer our prayers, 248 00:18:01.640 --> 00:18:08.440 I hope our response is it ginovato? And then that's 249 00:18:08.480 --> 00:18:13.880 where we mature. We realize, Oh, I've been praying for 250 00:18:13.920 --> 00:18:16.680 this and it's not the best. Okay, Lord, I will 251 00:18:16.720 --> 00:18:22.279 trust and yield and obey. It's hard, right, So how 252 00:18:22.319 --> 00:18:24.759 can we do this? How can we pray in faith? 253 00:18:25.319 --> 00:18:28.880 And I hope the message wouldn't make us feel pray. No, 254 00:18:29.000 --> 00:18:32.359 it's in fact the opposite. We can come to God 255 00:18:32.440 --> 00:18:35.680 as we are, and He will meet us where we are, 256 00:18:37.440 --> 00:18:40.079 But we don't define what's good or not. He does. 257 00:18:40.480 --> 00:18:43.920 It's our responsibility to come to Him in faith. So 258 00:18:43.960 --> 00:18:46.920 it's hard, right, it's a good thing. In the same 259 00:18:46.960 --> 00:18:51.160 parallel verse, in Look eleven, God says this. Jesus says this, 260 00:18:51.440 --> 00:18:53.319 If you then are evil, know how to give good 261 00:18:53.359 --> 00:18:55.440 gifts to your children? How much more will you have 262 00:18:55.519 --> 00:18:59.440 any Father? He defines it right now good things? But 263 00:18:59.599 --> 00:19:02.799 this time he says, will Father will give you the 264 00:19:02.799 --> 00:19:07.200 Holy Spirit to those who ask him what does it mean? 265 00:19:07.640 --> 00:19:14.000 Left on our own our personal desires, that's where things 266 00:19:14.039 --> 00:19:17.440 go wrong. We become selfish. We become thinking about ourselves. 267 00:19:17.960 --> 00:19:22.359 But that's where the Holy Spirit needs to come. Ask, seek, 268 00:19:22.480 --> 00:19:27.640 find is redefined. It's so hard to do apart from 269 00:19:27.720 --> 00:19:30.039 the power of the Holy Spirit. So what should we do? 270 00:19:30.400 --> 00:19:33.200 Ask the Holy Lord, give me the Holy Spirit. Lord, 271 00:19:33.279 --> 00:19:36.599 fill me with the Spirit. Lord, guide me, give me wisdom. 272 00:19:36.720 --> 00:19:40.759 The Holy Spirit is our counsel. Lord. He changes our desires. 273 00:19:40.799 --> 00:19:44.079 That's the nice thing about the Holy Spirit. He changes 274 00:19:44.240 --> 00:19:49.119 our hearts so that our personal desires will be aligned 275 00:19:49.160 --> 00:19:52.960 will with the kingdom desires of God. Remember the context 276 00:19:53.000 --> 00:19:58.160 of redefined. Redefined is never about and even the whole Bible, 277 00:19:58.359 --> 00:20:03.559 the message of Jesus doesn't revolve around us and our needs. 278 00:20:04.400 --> 00:20:08.559 He is redefining it so that our needs are aligned 279 00:20:08.599 --> 00:20:12.680 to the kingdom needs are aligned to the will of God. 280 00:20:13.640 --> 00:20:16.839 Your Kingdom Come, Your will be done. Remember that prayer. 281 00:20:17.880 --> 00:20:20.400 So how will that change? When we ask the Holy 282 00:20:20.440 --> 00:20:24.920 Spirit change our hearts God so that our desires will 283 00:20:24.960 --> 00:20:29.960 be kingdom desires. When the kingdom becomes personal to us, 284 00:20:31.039 --> 00:20:34.960 When the kingdom needs and desires becomes personal to us, 285 00:20:35.039 --> 00:20:38.160 and when we pray the personal needs and desires that 286 00:20:38.200 --> 00:20:40.759 we have, we know that it has an effect to 287 00:20:40.839 --> 00:20:44.720 the Kingdom of God. It means that, yes, we can 288 00:20:44.759 --> 00:20:50.279 come to God with whatever we want to pray for vacation, provision, healing, salvation. 289 00:20:50.920 --> 00:20:55.279 But ultimately we know that it's not about ai paramagi 290 00:20:55.359 --> 00:20:59.519 medallium buheiko. No. The reason why we're asking for favor, 291 00:20:59.519 --> 00:21:04.079 provision and breakthrough, healing salvation is because we know this 292 00:21:04.200 --> 00:21:07.480 is the will of the king. This is the Kingdom 293 00:21:07.519 --> 00:21:11.240 of God coming down here on earth. When we realize 294 00:21:11.279 --> 00:21:15.359 that our big problems and I'm not belittling anyone's problems here, 295 00:21:15.960 --> 00:21:20.279 but when we see our problems, we suddenly realize, oh, 296 00:21:20.319 --> 00:21:24.599 I have a big problem, but I have a bigger God. Oh, 297 00:21:24.799 --> 00:21:28.440 I thought, this is the scope of God's work, And 298 00:21:28.480 --> 00:21:31.799 then we see the Kingdom of God. Oh, He's moving 299 00:21:31.920 --> 00:21:34.559 not just in my life, but in that aspect, in 300 00:21:34.599 --> 00:21:40.920 that nation, in that family, in that campus, in that company. Wow. 301 00:21:41.599 --> 00:21:44.200 If God can work in those things, I know he 302 00:21:44.240 --> 00:21:48.119 can work in my life. And then the problem suddenly 303 00:21:48.200 --> 00:21:52.279 becomes smaller because we realize God is big, because the 304 00:21:52.400 --> 00:21:56.559 Kingdom becomes personal to us. If God can deal with 305 00:21:56.599 --> 00:21:59.440 the problems of the nations, he can deal with our 306 00:21:59.559 --> 00:22:04.640 issues well. Because the Kingdom becomes personal. And now we 307 00:22:04.720 --> 00:22:07.359 have that confidence to pray you or you're gonna do 308 00:22:07.400 --> 00:22:12.559 your mighty work in my life. Yahaya Natima administer kite 309 00:22:12.640 --> 00:22:18.200 my problematima pray kan. I just want to share a story, 310 00:22:18.200 --> 00:22:22.200 you know about this. We've been constantly doing prayer walks 311 00:22:22.319 --> 00:22:26.000 and these students are praying, some of them are fasting 312 00:22:26.079 --> 00:22:29.599 for their campus. Let me just say that they're not perfect. Okay, 313 00:22:29.640 --> 00:22:33.519 they're far from perfect. And not only that, all of 314 00:22:33.559 --> 00:22:39.039 them have challenges in their life. Maybe the island DNA. 315 00:22:39.799 --> 00:22:42.680 But how can they pray? How can they believe God 316 00:22:42.720 --> 00:22:46.119 for their campus? How can they believe God for open doors? 317 00:22:47.359 --> 00:22:53.599 No problem? The answer is the Kingdom was personal to them. 318 00:22:53.880 --> 00:22:56.960 It was personal to them. I remember, as you know, 319 00:22:57.559 --> 00:23:02.160 we are Confebrarim one year in natalios A, Santa Mesa. Okay, 320 00:23:02.200 --> 00:23:04.680 in our youth service in Santa Mesa. Just to give 321 00:23:04.680 --> 00:23:07.640 you a background, we started with that crazy idea because 322 00:23:07.680 --> 00:23:10.680 we knew that there are lots of people out there 323 00:23:10.680 --> 00:23:13.519 who couldn't come here in our Friday youth service. So 324 00:23:13.559 --> 00:23:15.759 the students and all of us realized, no, that's why 325 00:23:15.839 --> 00:23:21.880 we need to go out. So we started going out, praying, evangelizing, preaching. 326 00:23:21.920 --> 00:23:27.400 The gospel, asking, seeking, knocking. We started a small youth service. 327 00:23:27.440 --> 00:23:29.480 I don't have the picture in opedro. We started a 328 00:23:29.480 --> 00:23:33.680 small youth service with eighty eighty students in the second 329 00:23:33.680 --> 00:23:39.440 floor of the multi purpose holing some one medical center 330 00:23:39.559 --> 00:23:43.400 somewhere there. Oh it's hot, it has two windows, it 331 00:23:43.480 --> 00:23:45.920 has no air con, and it has no electric fun 332 00:23:46.359 --> 00:23:50.279 We were on fire. We were sweating. We were like, oh, 333 00:23:50.480 --> 00:23:53.559 but I mean illego. Okay, all you have to do 334 00:23:53.680 --> 00:23:58.079 is stand there and you'll be wet. That happened for 335 00:23:58.160 --> 00:24:00.519 two times. Okay, all got you know what. The students 336 00:24:00.519 --> 00:24:04.960 were saying, Lord, give us a place, a bigger venue. 337 00:24:06.359 --> 00:24:09.559 Come September, we transferred to someone jam that has like 338 00:24:09.720 --> 00:24:16.279 what four hundred sitting capacity, and students came in from 339 00:24:16.440 --> 00:24:20.240 eighties somewhere to around two hundred, two hundred and fifty 340 00:24:20.720 --> 00:24:25.519 or so. Students came. They realized that God was doing 341 00:24:25.559 --> 00:24:33.000 something in their lives. But the student says, Lord, Lord, 342 00:24:34.359 --> 00:24:36.480 they're not saying this out of convenience. They were saying 343 00:24:36.519 --> 00:24:42.000 this out of faith. God answered. God just answered their prayers. Service. 344 00:24:43.400 --> 00:24:45.839 Oh didn't God answer their prayers? They were transferred to 345 00:24:45.839 --> 00:24:50.640 a bigger venue air So God was now asked that 346 00:24:50.720 --> 00:24:55.200 they're now praying Lord, nor we're praying for a big place. 347 00:24:55.519 --> 00:24:58.160 Nor be praying not just for someone, but for Kastle 348 00:24:58.279 --> 00:25:01.359 City and for Manila. And Lord, please give us an 349 00:25:01.400 --> 00:25:06.799 air cone. That was September, October or no, sorry, November. 350 00:25:08.319 --> 00:25:14.599 We went out praying, asking knocking, just did a random 351 00:25:14.640 --> 00:25:22.559 call to sm it was open or nothing. We're asking, seeking, 352 00:25:22.599 --> 00:25:29.200 knocking and guess who welcomed us there? The name of 353 00:25:29.240 --> 00:25:34.119 the point person there was Christ Christ opened the door. 354 00:25:37.000 --> 00:25:44.640 Francis called it's Upsillia. Then afterwards, guys, good news. Christ 355 00:25:44.839 --> 00:25:48.400 is at work. Christ is gonna hit us. So what 356 00:25:48.440 --> 00:25:55.759 am I? That was December January we're praying. February we 357 00:25:55.880 --> 00:25:59.680 launched and right now I think we're averaging three hundred 358 00:25:59.759 --> 00:26:03.359 three fifty four hundred max. Believe with us. We're praying 359 00:26:03.480 --> 00:26:07.839 either for a bigger venue or we're praying for two services. 360 00:26:08.599 --> 00:26:10.480 Stand with us in prayer. How did this happen? And 361 00:26:10.519 --> 00:26:13.559 that's just Santa Messa. Amazing things happening in Green Hills 362 00:26:13.599 --> 00:26:16.920 as well started and there was one hundred percent grove. 363 00:26:17.240 --> 00:26:20.000 What did we do? Did you know? Did something? No? Pray? 364 00:26:20.480 --> 00:26:24.759 Ask seek Bonie Erano, why are youth service there in 365 00:26:24.839 --> 00:26:30.440 Bonie Erano, who has only fifty seating capacity. They were asking, 366 00:26:30.480 --> 00:26:34.359 they were in faith surprised lad Ancle Santaia. But pray 367 00:26:34.400 --> 00:26:40.200 with us who knows? Why do Alian workbel God is 368 00:26:40.240 --> 00:26:46.599 at work? Ask, seek, knock. Then let me end with 369 00:26:46.640 --> 00:26:50.039 this verse says here verse twelve. So whatever you wish 370 00:26:50.079 --> 00:26:51.839 the others would do to you, do also to them, 371 00:26:51.920 --> 00:26:56.200 for this is the law and the profits. Now when 372 00:26:56.319 --> 00:26:59.440 the first time I read this to prepare this speeching parang, hmm, 373 00:27:00.160 --> 00:27:06.200 many message. We were praying about prayer, being persistent in prayers, 374 00:27:06.240 --> 00:27:08.480 and all of a sudden the Golden rule. You've heard 375 00:27:08.480 --> 00:27:13.119 this right. There are similar commands like this in other religions, 376 00:27:13.119 --> 00:27:16.119 like do not do unto others. You don't want others 377 00:27:16.119 --> 00:27:18.680 to do unto you. You've heard this right. But Jesus 378 00:27:18.680 --> 00:27:21.720 command was different. The word was due. It makes a bien. 379 00:27:21.839 --> 00:27:25.279 We are proactive, we are doing something. It makes a bien. Hey, 380 00:27:25.720 --> 00:27:28.079 you want others to forgive and love you, Why don't 381 00:27:28.119 --> 00:27:31.200 you go forgive and love them even though they are 382 00:27:31.240 --> 00:27:36.279 not lovable, no strings attached. Do also to them what 383 00:27:36.359 --> 00:27:39.400 you want others to do unto you. But the question 384 00:27:39.480 --> 00:27:42.759 is okay, allow money as a topic. Nothing about being 385 00:27:42.839 --> 00:27:46.519 persistent in prayers. The key word is the word so 386 00:27:47.079 --> 00:27:51.160 can you say so? So in its Greek word, what 387 00:27:51.200 --> 00:27:55.599 it actually means is therefore, And as you know, every 388 00:27:55.599 --> 00:27:58.200 time you see or read in the Bible the word therefore, 389 00:27:58.480 --> 00:28:02.119 you should look what is there before war and basil 390 00:28:02.160 --> 00:28:05.079 and natagen. So what does it mean in the context 391 00:28:05.119 --> 00:28:09.039 of prayer and being persistent in prayer? It means that 392 00:28:09.240 --> 00:28:14.799 not only do we ask seek knock for our personal desires, 393 00:28:15.039 --> 00:28:18.359 not only do we ask seek not for the Holy 394 00:28:18.400 --> 00:28:20.880 Spirit to move in our hearts, to change our hearts. 395 00:28:21.200 --> 00:28:25.160 Not only do we ask seek knock for the Kingdom 396 00:28:25.200 --> 00:28:28.000 of God to come in our lives, but we also 397 00:28:28.400 --> 00:28:34.160 ask seek not persist in prayers for others. And God 398 00:28:34.279 --> 00:28:36.359 was saying, as you do this, you would realize you 399 00:28:36.519 --> 00:28:40.039 love God and you love other people. And if you 400 00:28:40.119 --> 00:28:43.839 summarize that, that is actually the summary of the Bible. 401 00:28:44.839 --> 00:28:48.039