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Speaker 2: In good shame and now here's your message. You're listening
Speaker 2: to a podcast from Victory. Jesus taught us to pray
Speaker 2: with perseverance. Learn more about asking, seeking and knocking in
Speaker 2: Week fourteen of our series Redefined.
Speaker 1: Let's look at Matthew seven Versus seven to twelve. Matthew seven,
Speaker 1: Verses seven to twelve, it says, here, ask and it
Speaker 1: will be given to you. Seek and you will find.
Speaker 1: Knock and it will be open to you. For everyone
Speaker 1: who asks receive, and the one who seeks fins, And
Speaker 1: to the one who knocks, it will be open. Or
Speaker 1: which one of you, if his son asks him for
Speaker 1: a bread, will give him a stone, or if he
Speaker 1: asked for a fish, will give him a serpent. If you, then,
Speaker 1: who are evil, know how to give good gifts to
Speaker 1: your children, how much more will your Father reason Heaven
Speaker 1: give good things to those who ask him. So whatever
Speaker 1: you wish that others would do to you, do also
Speaker 1: to them. For this is the law and the prophets
Speaker 1: that's spewed on our heads, and its pray, Oh God
Speaker 1: of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, that it be known today
Speaker 1: that you are God. Answer us, Oh Lord, answer us,
Speaker 1: that we may know that you are working in our hearts,
Speaker 1: that you are calling us to you. You're drawing us near
Speaker 1: that fire from heaven. Come down and consume us in
Speaker 1: Jesus name. Amen. Look at the first two verses of
Speaker 1: the what we're reading right now, Matthew seven, verses seven
Speaker 1: to eight. It says, here ask it will be given
Speaker 1: to you, see and you will find knock and it
Speaker 1: will be open to you. And he repeats it again.
Speaker 1: He says, ask seek, knock, ask, seek, knock, God, who
Speaker 1: is our King. And at the same time, our Father
Speaker 1: through Jesus, is commanding us one thing, which is the
Speaker 1: same thing. Actually he just used three different words to
Speaker 1: describe this one thing, and that's prayer coming to God.
Speaker 1: In prayer, God is commanding us to pray to him.
Speaker 1: You know, every time we read or every time we
Speaker 1: see a command in the Bible, actually most of the
Speaker 1: time we see a command in the Bible, there is
Speaker 1: usually an upcoming promise to it. You see Jesus right
Speaker 1: now is using three words, and he repeats it. Ask, seek, knock,
Speaker 1: ask seek, knock, it says if Jesus is saying, oh,
Speaker 1: you gotta get this prayer, prayer, something amazing here. And
Speaker 1: not only that, if you would also realize that's the
Speaker 1: command of God, ask seek not the promise of God
Speaker 1: is that when you ask, you will receive. When you seek,
Speaker 1: you will find. When you knock it will be opened.
Speaker 1: And if you would realize also tens from a present
Speaker 1: tent or a future test, there's a present tense. What
Speaker 1: does it all mean? In this verse couple of verses alone,
Speaker 1: Jesus was saying the importance of prayer. Oh, you just
Speaker 1: you have to do this. There's something here, there's there's
Speaker 1: there's a promise every time when we pray. And not
Speaker 1: only that, not shift cha my present tense, my future tests.
Speaker 1: What does it mean? It means that we can come
Speaker 1: to God in prayer in our present situation, whatever your
Speaker 1: background is. What kum nasa mantayo is a stage na.
Speaker 1: We can come to God right now as we are
Speaker 1: and expect, because you promise, expect that we will receive,
Speaker 1: find and it will be open to us, and not
Speaker 1: only that, we can come to God even in the future.
Speaker 1: And no now, when we pray in the future, he
Speaker 1: will make a c receive and the door will be opened.
Speaker 1: So prayer is not just a one time event. Indeed,
Speaker 1: on tie you know we pray miketai, Jesus is saying
Speaker 1: prayer is more of a lifestyle, and we don't end
Speaker 1: in prayer. God is actually commanding us to persist in
Speaker 1: prayer's persistence meaning indeeda to mitigail. You know what, there's
Speaker 1: a parallel verse of this found in Look eleven. I
Speaker 1: won't read it, but I'll just share to your story
Speaker 1: similar to how Jesus delivered it. Sail all of a sudden, beglong,
Speaker 1: my bosita, someone visited that person's house. Now the problem
Speaker 1: is doesn't say it stay there. He was not prepared,
Speaker 1: ada or anything. And you know us right, have you
Speaker 1: experienced that when someone visits your house, sometimes in the
Speaker 1: expected and all of a sudden you need to you Knowabaska,
Speaker 1: you know, growing up, one of my family members, not
Speaker 1: my mom, one of your family members from my bisaton
Speaker 1: and as a cabinet Spanish bread, milka, spam, beclome, you know,
Speaker 1: on your air con We want accommodate the guest. No.
Speaker 1: The problem with this man. When this visitor came, it
Speaker 1: was already nighttime Gabina and he doesn't have anything good
Speaker 1: thing make up with Baisha or my Friendsha Madamimpakai's pall
Speaker 1: pray uham become my extra jumping in them food, So
Speaker 1: den I burn along? Sorry, Donna lit the neighbor men message,
Speaker 1: can I talk Minis Colla and whom on here? You
Speaker 1: know already of someone, so Broncolett. At the end of it,
Speaker 1: have you ever experienced that you tell the ie on
Speaker 1: the eye on the mansana you don't want to do
Speaker 1: it because they were so persistent, so Bronculet, solet you
Speaker 1: just gave in. We have all experienced that right in
Speaker 1: the same way that this maculit friend, this persistent friend
Speaker 1: was with his other friend. Jesus is actively telling us
Speaker 1: to be that Maculett persistent in our prayers. Ask seek knock,
Speaker 1: ask seek knock, be persistent in prayers. If you would
Speaker 1: notice there's ask seek knock. This is not levels of prayer,
Speaker 1: you know, ind or entry level prayer, ask level, expert level,
Speaker 1: not prayer. It's not like that it's more of an
Speaker 1: attitude of the heart. You know what you're looking at
Speaker 1: that story? I remember whom mong you here? You have kids?
Speaker 1: You have kids, I'm after I have a toddler right now.
Speaker 1: And for some of you who have kids, maybe top
Speaker 1: of suppose a stage, not at all. They're so cute
Speaker 1: and adorable, not toddlers. Yeah, and if you know or
Speaker 1: get into that, say your way. Papa kin, nephew, niece
Speaker 1: three years old, Papa ba three four years Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: they're so cute right and nosy at the same time.
Speaker 1: You know what, when their parents are there or maybe
Speaker 1: you are there, isn't it true that they keep on
Speaker 1: asking things? Barriet, Barriet, why why? But do you know that?
Speaker 1: And not only that I have a daughter right now
Speaker 1: and he doesn't speak yet, you know, but he keeps
Speaker 1: on asking us to do things for him, like my Bookamon,
Speaker 1: and it keeps on asking. When my kid knows that
Speaker 1: we're there, he keeps on coming to us and tell us, hey,
Speaker 1: did you do this, like open the wallet, give me money?
Speaker 1: But when sometimes, you know, we can't really look at
Speaker 1: him always. Sometimes we clean at the other side of
Speaker 1: the room. And when when when when my kid realized
Speaker 1: that realizes that he's alone, and maybe nephew Nie realize
Speaker 1: that they are alone and their parents are not there.
Speaker 1: Isn't it true?
Speaker 3: They start being anxious and they start looking for their parents,
Speaker 3: and if they know that their parents is in the
Speaker 3: other room to Sarado and Pinto, isn't it dude, that
Speaker 3: they knock the door and then make noise and then
Speaker 3: they cry.
Speaker 1: But that's how Jeday does it when he knows that
Speaker 1: we're just somewhere in the house but he doesn't see us,
Speaker 1: but he just cries. Aver. You is crying, he's knocking,
Speaker 1: he's throwing our TV. Oh no, he doesn't do that.
Speaker 1: The oulet crying out. God's saying, we can do that
Speaker 1: to God because He is our father. It's not a level,
Speaker 1: it's actually an attitude, desperate, hungry, longing for God his presence.
Speaker 1: You know what, all of us here we've experienced this,
Speaker 1: especially Kumbago and Christian. Isn't it true? Sometimes when we
Speaker 1: pray to God, sometimes we feel the presence of God.
Speaker 1: We feel like He's there now when we pray. But
Speaker 1: I'm feeling you start up a worship you kind start
Speaker 1: to go worship God, Worship God, is feeling, you're crying,
Speaker 1: you're worshiping to God. But isn't it also true that
Speaker 1: there are times that when we pray, it's as if
Speaker 1: no one's listening, or even worse, he's not answering our prayers,
Speaker 1: or instead of the prayers that you're asking for happens,
Speaker 1: it's the other way around. India prayers. What do we
Speaker 1: do when we feel like God's not there? What do
Speaker 1: we do when we feel like the doors of heaven
Speaker 1: Heaven are closed? What do we do when we feel
Speaker 1: like no one's listening. I've met already some people, and
Speaker 1: some of them just wants to give up on their faith. Lord, Iron,
Speaker 1: I'm a victory group, Iron them a disciple, Ion, I'm
Speaker 1: a service Iron am a church. Just gives up on
Speaker 1: God some of them. I've talked to people. They got
Speaker 1: more bitter, or they got better with God. And here
Speaker 1: was Jesus saying, no, ask, seek, knock. Like a child
Speaker 1: longing for his father, ask, seek, knock. Persist in prayer,
Speaker 1: because if you ask, you will receive. If you seek,
Speaker 1: you will find. Continually knock it will be open to you.
Speaker 1: Persist in prayers. Why can we persist in prayers? How
Speaker 1: is it that we can persist in prayers? Pantag God.
Speaker 1: The answer is found in the next verse. Look at this.
Speaker 1: In verse nine, it says, here, or which one of you,
Speaker 1: if his son asked for a bread, will give him
Speaker 1: a stone, or if we ask for a fish, will
Speaker 1: give him a serpent. There's no right minded parent who
Speaker 1: asked for a bread and will give him a stone.
Speaker 1: In short, Malaga and God, Jesus is saying God's like that.
Speaker 1: In fact, he pushes the analogy further. In the next verse,
Speaker 1: he says, here, if you, then, who are evil, wow,
Speaker 1: Jesus just called us evil and we're honest. It's true.
Speaker 1: If we look at our hearts we have we have
Speaker 1: sin apart from the grace in the the what Jesus
Speaker 1: Christ has done on the cross for us, we are sinners.
Speaker 1: We are are evil. But guess what. Isn't it true
Speaker 1: even though if we're not perfect, we still give good
Speaker 1: gifts to our loved ones. Right He says there, If you, then,
Speaker 1: who are evil, know how to give good gifts to
Speaker 1: your children, how much more will your father, is an
Speaker 1: event give good gifts or good things to those who
Speaker 1: ask him. The reason why we can persist in prayers
Speaker 1: is because we have a good father. We have an amazing,
Speaker 1: perfect father. God is not like our earthly fathers, who
Speaker 1: is who are as amazing as they are. We all
Speaker 1: would agree right that they're not perfect. If you're a
Speaker 1: parent here, you would agree, oh, in the whole perfect.
Speaker 1: There are some things that I want to do give
Speaker 1: I can't, and sometimes I'm doing something that that's wrong.
Speaker 1: We're not perfect, but God's not like that. That's what
Speaker 1: Jesus is saying. You know, we we have punishment, but
Speaker 1: God's not like He says, how much more God who
Speaker 1: gives good things to those who ask him. The reason
Speaker 1: why we can come to God and persist in prayers
Speaker 1: is because we have a good father. We can come
Speaker 1: to him. The problem is sometimes we come to him
Speaker 1: with all the wrong reasons. Sometimes we come to him thinking, Lord,
Speaker 1: it's good, it's even best. I've been praying for this
Speaker 1: years years. I don't see why you won't give this
Speaker 1: to me. This is good. It's gonna bless other people,
Speaker 1: it's gonna help my family, it's gonna help my work.
Speaker 1: Why won't you give this to me? I got reminded
Speaker 1: of James four versus two to three it says here,
Speaker 1: Actually you desire and do not have, So your murder
Speaker 1: you covet and cannot obtain. So you fight and quarrel
Speaker 1: you do not have because you do not ask. Sometimes
Speaker 1: that's the reason why we don't have the promises of
Speaker 1: God in our lives, because we're not asking. But look
Speaker 1: at this, you ask and do it received because you
Speaker 1: ask wrongly to spend it on your passions out James.
Speaker 1: And sometimes we have that things right, we have those
Speaker 1: prayers and not feeling that in God this is good.
Speaker 1: Going back to the analogy, a son asks for a
Speaker 1: bread and a fish because God is a good father,
Speaker 1: he wouldn't give a stone and an eel. But what
Speaker 1: would happen? Would you think God is a good father
Speaker 1: when the child thinks that he is asking for a bread,
Speaker 1: but he's actually asking for a stone. Do you think
Speaker 1: God is good if he gives the stone? What do
Speaker 1: I mean? Sometimes we think what we're asking God is
Speaker 1: good because we can only see it in our level,
Speaker 1: in our finite minds. But God's infinite in his wisdom,
Speaker 1: perfect in his holiness, unending in his love and mercy
Speaker 1: to us, my mama Baga, Because God is a different
Speaker 1: perspective in life. Sometimes we pray those prayers. Lord, give
Speaker 1: me a love life Christmas. Not Lord shannatalaga. Lord, he
Speaker 1: has twelve back aps centipede. Here's the answer to my prayer.
Speaker 1: This is the business that I've been waiting for. This
Speaker 1: is the the opportunity that that I've been looking for.
Speaker 1: God give it to me. And there's nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 1: It's just that we don't know. Oh, it completely like God.
Speaker 1: You know what. God defines what is good or not.
Speaker 1: We don't get to tell him. I don't pray its name, best, best,
Speaker 1: best best. As a good father, he defines what is
Speaker 1: good or not. It is our job. It is our
Speaker 1: duty as a son and a king, a son and
Speaker 1: a citizen of the kingdom to pray in faith. Now
Speaker 1: does it mean a paraha pray your heart God? No? No, no,
Speaker 1: it's okay again. We can come to God with all
Speaker 1: our with all of our flaws and all of our
Speaker 1: faulty prayers. It's okay. We can come to God. We
Speaker 1: can come to God. Malaya. Motivation of heart's not and
Speaker 1: that's the good thing about our God. But I hope
Speaker 1: as we pray to God, we would realize that it
Speaker 1: is actually a journey of our relationship with him. There
Speaker 1: are certain things now when God doesn't answer our prayers,
Speaker 1: I hope our response is it ginovato? And then that's
Speaker 1: where we mature. We realize, Oh, I've been praying for
Speaker 1: this and it's not the best. Okay, Lord, I will
Speaker 1: trust and yield and obey. It's hard, right, So how
Speaker 1: can we do this? How can we pray in faith?
Speaker 1: And I hope the message wouldn't make us feel pray. No,
Speaker 1: it's in fact the opposite. We can come to God
Speaker 1: as we are, and He will meet us where we are,
Speaker 1: But we don't define what's good or not. He does.
Speaker 1: It's our responsibility to come to Him in faith. So
Speaker 1: it's hard, right, it's a good thing. In the same
Speaker 1: parallel verse, in Look eleven, God says this. Jesus says this,
Speaker 1: If you then are evil, know how to give good
Speaker 1: gifts to your children? How much more will you have
Speaker 1: any Father? He defines it right now good things? But
Speaker 1: this time he says, will Father will give you the
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit to those who ask him what does it mean?
Speaker 1: Left on our own our personal desires, that's where things
Speaker 1: go wrong. We become selfish. We become thinking about ourselves.
Speaker 1: But that's where the Holy Spirit needs to come. Ask, seek,
Speaker 1: find is redefined. It's so hard to do apart from
Speaker 1: the power of the Holy Spirit. So what should we do?
Speaker 1: Ask the Holy Lord, give me the Holy Spirit. Lord,
Speaker 1: fill me with the Spirit. Lord, guide me, give me wisdom.
Speaker 1: The Holy Spirit is our counsel. Lord. He changes our desires.
Speaker 1: That's the nice thing about the Holy Spirit. He changes
Speaker 1: our hearts so that our personal desires will be aligned
Speaker 1: will with the kingdom desires of God. Remember the context
Speaker 1: of redefined. Redefined is never about and even the whole Bible,
Speaker 1: the message of Jesus doesn't revolve around us and our needs.
Speaker 1: He is redefining it so that our needs are aligned
Speaker 1: to the kingdom needs are aligned to the will of God.
Speaker 1: Your Kingdom Come, Your will be done. Remember that prayer.
Speaker 1: So how will that change? When we ask the Holy
Speaker 1: Spirit change our hearts God so that our desires will
Speaker 1: be kingdom desires. When the kingdom becomes personal to us,
Speaker 1: When the kingdom needs and desires becomes personal to us,
Speaker 1: and when we pray the personal needs and desires that
Speaker 1: we have, we know that it has an effect to
Speaker 1: the Kingdom of God. It means that, yes, we can
Speaker 1: come to God with whatever we want to pray for vacation, provision, healing, salvation.
Speaker 1: But ultimately we know that it's not about ai paramagi
Speaker 1: medallium buheiko. No. The reason why we're asking for favor,
Speaker 1: provision and breakthrough, healing salvation is because we know this
Speaker 1: is the will of the king. This is the Kingdom
Speaker 1: of God coming down here on earth. When we realize
Speaker 1: that our big problems and I'm not belittling anyone's problems here,
Speaker 1: but when we see our problems, we suddenly realize, oh,
Speaker 1: I have a big problem, but I have a bigger God. Oh,
Speaker 1: I thought, this is the scope of God's work, And
Speaker 1: then we see the Kingdom of God. Oh, He's moving
Speaker 1: not just in my life, but in that aspect, in
Speaker 1: that nation, in that family, in that campus, in that company. Wow.
Speaker 1: If God can work in those things, I know he
Speaker 1: can work in my life. And then the problem suddenly
Speaker 1: becomes smaller because we realize God is big, because the
Speaker 1: Kingdom becomes personal to us. If God can deal with
Speaker 1: the problems of the nations, he can deal with our
Speaker 1: issues well. Because the Kingdom becomes personal. And now we
Speaker 1: have that confidence to pray you or you're gonna do
Speaker 1: your mighty work in my life. Yahaya Natima administer kite
Speaker 1: my problematima pray kan. I just want to share a story,
Speaker 1: you know about this. We've been constantly doing prayer walks
Speaker 1: and these students are praying, some of them are fasting
Speaker 1: for their campus. Let me just say that they're not perfect. Okay,
Speaker 1: they're far from perfect. And not only that, all of
Speaker 1: them have challenges in their life. Maybe the island DNA.
Speaker 1: But how can they pray? How can they believe God
Speaker 1: for their campus? How can they believe God for open doors?
Speaker 1: No problem? The answer is the Kingdom was personal to them.
Speaker 1: It was personal to them. I remember, as you know,
Speaker 1: we are Confebrarim one year in natalios A, Santa Mesa. Okay,
Speaker 1: in our youth service in Santa Mesa. Just to give
Speaker 1: you a background, we started with that crazy idea because
Speaker 1: we knew that there are lots of people out there
Speaker 1: who couldn't come here in our Friday youth service. So
Speaker 1: the students and all of us realized, no, that's why
Speaker 1: we need to go out. So we started going out, praying, evangelizing, preaching.
Speaker 1: The gospel, asking, seeking, knocking. We started a small youth service.
Speaker 1: I don't have the picture in opedro. We started a
Speaker 1: small youth service with eighty eighty students in the second
Speaker 1: floor of the multi purpose holing some one medical center
Speaker 1: somewhere there. Oh it's hot, it has two windows, it
Speaker 1: has no air con, and it has no electric fun
Speaker 1: We were on fire. We were sweating. We were like, oh,
Speaker 1: but I mean illego. Okay, all you have to do
Speaker 1: is stand there and you'll be wet. That happened for
Speaker 1: two times. Okay, all got you know what. The students
Speaker 1: were saying, Lord, give us a place, a bigger venue.
Speaker 1: Come September, we transferred to someone jam that has like
Speaker 1: what four hundred sitting capacity, and students came in from
Speaker 1: eighties somewhere to around two hundred, two hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: or so. Students came. They realized that God was doing
Speaker 1: something in their lives. But the student says, Lord, Lord,
Speaker 1: they're not saying this out of convenience. They were saying
Speaker 1: this out of faith. God answered. God just answered their prayers. Service.
Speaker 1: Oh didn't God answer their prayers? They were transferred to
Speaker 1: a bigger venue air So God was now asked that
Speaker 1: they're now praying Lord, nor we're praying for a big place.
Speaker 1: Nor be praying not just for someone, but for Kastle
Speaker 1: City and for Manila. And Lord, please give us an
Speaker 1: air cone. That was September, October or no, sorry, November.
Speaker 1: We went out praying, asking knocking, just did a random
Speaker 1: call to sm it was open or nothing. We're asking, seeking,
Speaker 1: knocking and guess who welcomed us there? The name of
Speaker 1: the point person there was Christ Christ opened the door.
Speaker 1: Francis called it's Upsillia. Then afterwards, guys, good news. Christ
Speaker 1: is at work. Christ is gonna hit us. So what
Speaker 1: am I? That was December January we're praying. February we
Speaker 1: launched and right now I think we're averaging three hundred
Speaker 1: three fifty four hundred max. Believe with us. We're praying
Speaker 1: either for a bigger venue or we're praying for two services.
Speaker 1: Stand with us in prayer. How did this happen? And
Speaker 1: that's just Santa Messa. Amazing things happening in Green Hills
Speaker 1: as well started and there was one hundred percent grove.
Speaker 1: What did we do? Did you know? Did something? No? Pray?
Speaker 1: Ask seek Bonie Erano, why are youth service there in
Speaker 1: Bonie Erano, who has only fifty seating capacity. They were asking,
Speaker 1: they were in faith surprised lad Ancle Santaia. But pray
Speaker 1: with us who knows? Why do Alian workbel God is
Speaker 1: at work? Ask, seek, knock. Then let me end with
Speaker 1: this verse says here verse twelve. So whatever you wish
Speaker 1: the others would do to you, do also to them,
Speaker 1: for this is the law and the profits. Now when
Speaker 1: the first time I read this to prepare this speeching parang, hmm,
Speaker 1: many message. We were praying about prayer, being persistent in prayers,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden the Golden rule. You've heard
Speaker 1: this right. There are similar commands like this in other religions,
Speaker 1: like do not do unto others. You don't want others
Speaker 1: to do unto you. You've heard this right. But Jesus
Speaker 1: command was different. The word was due. It makes a bien.
Speaker 1: We are proactive, we are doing something. It makes a bien. Hey,
Speaker 1: you want others to forgive and love you, Why don't
Speaker 1: you go forgive and love them even though they are
Speaker 1: not lovable, no strings attached. Do also to them what
Speaker 1: you want others to do unto you. But the question
Speaker 1: is okay, allow money as a topic. Nothing about being
Speaker 1: persistent in prayers. The key word is the word so
Speaker 1: can you say so? So in its Greek word, what
Speaker 1: it actually means is therefore, And as you know, every
Speaker 1: time you see or read in the Bible the word therefore,
Speaker 1: you should look what is there before war and basil
Speaker 1: and natagen. So what does it mean in the context
Speaker 1: of prayer and being persistent in prayer? It means that
Speaker 1: not only do we ask seek knock for our personal desires,
Speaker 1: not only do we ask seek not for the Holy
Speaker 1: Spirit to move in our hearts, to change our hearts.
Speaker 1: Not only do we ask seek knock for the Kingdom
Speaker 1: of God to come in our lives, but we also
Speaker 1: ask seek not persist in prayers for others. And God
Speaker 1: was saying, as you do this, you would realize you
Speaker 1: love God and you love other people. And if you
Speaker 1: summarize that, that is actually the summary of the Bible.
Speaker 1: To love God and love others as you love yourself.
Speaker 1: That is the law in the prophets. That what Jesus
Speaker 1: was saying, Imagine a community that loves other people. Imagine
Speaker 1: a community that not only praise for their own desires,
Speaker 1: but praise for other people as well. Could you imagine
Speaker 1: someone who is knocking, seeking or asking persisting in your
Speaker 1: needs as well. Imagine a community like that. Again, you
Speaker 1: know this not to bring them in the spotlight, but
Speaker 1: for me, I'm just so thankful for the team that
Speaker 1: we have here. These people were with me when there
Speaker 1: are hard times in my life. They were praying with me,
Speaker 1: they visited us, or when when there was challenges in
Speaker 1: my personal family. They were genuinely concerned about me, not
Speaker 1: just with my work or what I do. And the
Speaker 1: goodness is this just doesn't happen with that. I have
Speaker 1: heard stories already among victory groups we're in the leader
Speaker 1: or even the members go the extra mile of praying
Speaker 1: for that person, standing with them an antibah. And that's
Speaker 1: our culture today. Just listen to our earphones to our
Speaker 1: We just put our earphones. We just listen to our
Speaker 1: music and our own world. But God saying no, imagine
Speaker 1: a community in the Kingdom of God, in the Family
Speaker 1: of God. We're in all of us here collectively communally
Speaker 1: are asking, seeking, knocking for our needs and other people's needs.
Speaker 1: For the Holy Spirits work and other people's work. The
Speaker 1: Holy Spirits work in other people's lives, for the Kingdom
Speaker 1: to come in our lives, our families, our work, our campuses,
Speaker 1: and for the Kingdom to come in their lives and
Speaker 1: their campuses and their companies and families. So in short,
Speaker 1: it's not just about us, and that's redefined. It was
Speaker 1: never about us. It was about Him and collectively us
Speaker 1: living to worship God. I just want to encourage all
Speaker 1: of us here. It's okay. We can pray, Lord, pray
Speaker 1: for grades. You must do this point under. They are
Speaker 1: in the hell week submissions find us. But at the
Speaker 1: same time, we may say, Lord, we're praying for my
Speaker 1: business provision opportunities, pray for my family. That's good. When
Speaker 1: was the last time you prayed for the other person's grades, family,
Speaker 1: company opportunities. God is saying, as a kingdom member, as
Speaker 1: a citizen, we do not only come and persist in
Speaker 1: prayers for our own needs, but for others as well. Church,
Speaker 1: and encourage you come to God. Let's ask seek and not.
Speaker 1: God's promise is we will receive, we will find and
Speaker 1: the door will be opened spelled. Don our heads in pray. Lord,
Speaker 1: I pray right now that you would do a mighty
Speaker 1: work in our hearts. Holy Spirit, come or we're sorry
Speaker 1: because right now we may have prayed wrong prayers. Believe
Speaker 1: God is telling you, right now that's okay, son, that's okay,
Speaker 1: my child, that's okay, my daughter. I love you anyway,
Speaker 1: Come to me, Come to me, Thank you Lord. Believe
Speaker 1: God is renewing the spirit of sonship upon us, that
Speaker 1: he turns the sons to the fathers and fathers to
Speaker 1: their sons. That there's going to be reconciliation, not just
Speaker 1: for you, but right now. I believe in the name
Speaker 1: of Jesus, Holy Spirit. May you put a burden in
Speaker 1: our hearts. Holy Spirit. Come, you call us not to be,
Speaker 1: not just to ask, seek, and not for our own needs,
Speaker 1: but also for the needs of others. Holy Spirit, Would
Speaker 1: you reveal to us specific people circumstances that we need
Speaker 1: to pray for right now? A Holy Spirit belief some
Speaker 1: of us God is revealing to us a person, a sister,
Speaker 1: a tita, or maybe an opportunity, or maybe in your campus.
Speaker 1: Many reveal says to God praying pray for your campus,
Speaker 1: or your boss or the business of your competitor. I
Speaker 1: don't know what it is, but if the Holy Spirit
Speaker 1: has revealed something to pray for. I'm going to give
Speaker 1: you a moment right now to pray for that. Why
Speaker 1: don't you bless that person, ask the Kingdom of God
Speaker 1: to come upon that person or that circumstance or that
Speaker 1: company's life. I believe as we are praying, the Holy
Speaker 1: Spirit wants to set us free from being entitled and selfish.
Speaker 1: For where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom,
Speaker 1: and he's freeing us from bitterness. He's freeing us for
Speaker 1: being self absorbed. He's expanding your horizon. Lord, Thank you
Speaker 1: right now because you're opening our eyes so that we
Speaker 1: may see what's in front of us Jesus name, and
Speaker 1: another group of people, and another thing that I want
Speaker 1: to pray for, maybe for some of us here for
Speaker 1: saying Lord, I feel like it's so hard to pray,
Speaker 1: or I'm praying, but it's not going there. I feel
Speaker 1: like not doing it with all heads bowed and eyes closed.
Speaker 1: I want to declare the truth of God over your
Speaker 1: emotions right now. If that's you, with no one looking around,
Speaker 1: I want to pray for you. Can you quickly raise
Speaker 1: your right hand, Thank you Lord, Thank you God for
Speaker 1: those hands. You can put it down theories. Thank you, Lord, Lord,
Speaker 1: you saw those hands and us. You're trying to pray,
Speaker 1: but they just feel like they can't go through. Right now,
Speaker 1: God is telling you, my son and my daughter, that
Speaker 1: I'm bigger than your emotions. Know this, my son, and
Speaker 1: trust in this. Fix your eyes in Jesus. The offer.
Speaker 1: He started this, the offer and perfector He will finish this,
Speaker 1: the author and perfector of your faith right now, I believe.
Speaker 1: Let me just declare this, God, would you redefine how
Speaker 1: they see you, that they would see you crucified and
Speaker 1: that you have the joy set before you endure the
Speaker 1: cross scorning it's shame, so that we could come to you,
Speaker 1: Lord God, bold and confident, knowing that you are gracious
Speaker 1: and true.
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