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84 - Why Your Prayers Feel Unanswered · The One Gospel Podcast

• 0:01
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to One Gospel, bringing you the full truth of God's Word, clearly explained.
• 0:07
  SPEAKER_00: Together with our host, Johann Tuit, we'll unpack scripture to understand what's written and grow as a disciple of Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ready to take notes?
• 0:16
  SPEAKER_00: Let's open the Bible.
• 0:20
  SPEAKER_01: Hi there, and welcome to today's episode of One Gospel.
• 0:24
  SPEAKER_01: I am your host, Johan Tut, and as always, I am excited to share the Word of God with you.
• 0:29
  SPEAKER_01: So, in today's episode, I'm gonna continue this series that I've started called Heart Matters.
• 0:34
  SPEAKER_01: And ma'am, there had been so much I've shared on, and yet it's so little because there's so much to share on the heart.
• 0:42
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, the Bible speaks over 800 times concerning the heart, and most of the times it's speaking about where the soul and the spirit come together, you know, like the core of your true being, where your faith system is, you know, who you truly are, and defines you and determines you.
• 1:01
  SPEAKER_01: And man, there is so much to share on because basically everything in the Bible is a hard matter.
• 1:07
  SPEAKER_01: You know, God sees our heart and He doesn't look at the appearance of men, and so you know, everything that we do, everything that we encounter, you know, whenever everything that we do and everything where we take action on, you know, everything that we say, everything that we undertake, you know, whatever, and everything that we believe and so on and so forth, everything has got to do with the situation of your heart.
• 1:32
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I I'm 100% sure that you know exactly what I'm talking about.
• 1:38
  SPEAKER_01: You know, if I, for example, said, you know, that one day, you know, you read your Bible, and you know, and then the other day you read the Bible, and you can determine exactly when you were reading the Bible completely focused in line with the Holy Spirit, and you were eating each and every word that you were reading, and the other time you were reading it and you were just reading it with your mind, but it didn't really enter into your system.
• 2:02
  SPEAKER_01: That was because one moment you were reading with your heart, and the other moment you were reading with your understanding, with your mind.
• 2:08
  SPEAKER_01: You were just you were distracted, and you were just reading and reading, and so you were not really there with your heart.
• 2:13
  SPEAKER_01: You see, so there is a lot of there's a lot of things you know that you know concerning the heart, you know, um in the Bible because it's all about the heart, it's all about what you truly, truly believe, and what your true motivation is, the reason why you are doing what you're doing and saying what you're saying, believing what you're believing, praying what you are praying, you know, it's all got to do with the heart.
• 2:37
  SPEAKER_01: And so I really want to recommend you to go back to the very first episode of this series.
• 2:42
  SPEAKER_01: But I've been sharing on the heart of the gospel where we can see the heart of the father from the beginning of creation, how he had this redemption plan in place for Jesus to come to pass, you know, and then be born in the flesh in the fullness of time, so that he could fulfill and restore what needed to be restored.
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_01: And so we are brought back into relationship with the Father so that he could be a father to us and we can be his sons and his daughters, because that's what he wants since the beginning of creation.
• 3:08
  SPEAKER_01: And so, then also the other heart of the gospel is that when once we become children of the living God, then we should act and walk and talk, you know, like Jesus did on his planet, you know, and bear fruit, you know, for the kingdom, but uh also with the right heart.
• 3:24
  SPEAKER_01: And Jesus was constantly moved with compassion and he was loving on people and helping them in their needs, and so you know that's what he expects from us, also, because you know the love of God has been poured out into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, and so you know, we now are born of God and we can act, we can think, we can walk, and we can love and we can forgive the same way that Jesus did when he was here on this planet, because we have his very nature now, amen.
• 3:51
  SPEAKER_01: And so then I shared on how believing also is a heart matter.
• 3:57
  SPEAKER_01: If you do not believe it in your heart, it doesn't matter what you say, because there's a lot of preachings out there, you've got what you say.
• 4:06
  SPEAKER_01: That's 100% true if you believe it in your heart.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, if you do not believe it in your heart, then there are just blanks that you are speaking, and it doesn't really do anything for you.
• 4:16
  SPEAKER_01: And so, and today I want to start this new uh aspect of heart matters, which is praying, uh, because uh also we can see that there is a lot of you know prayers that just go up in thin air, they're just blank, shoot at heaven, and they don't they are not fruitful whatsoever because of the heart.
• 4:40
  SPEAKER_01: And so, uh, Father God, thank you so much.
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  SPEAKER_01: Sorry, thank you so much for this teaching.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thank you for your love, thank you for your word, thank you for your Holy Spirit, and thank you that it's gonna be a blessing to those who hear.
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  SPEAKER_01: I give you all the praise in Jesus' name.
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  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
• 4:56
  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
• 4:57
  SPEAKER_01: And so let's look in John 16, John 16, verse 23.
• 5:02
  SPEAKER_01: Here it says, and in that day you will ask me nothing.
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  SPEAKER_01: Most surely I say to you that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he will give you.
• 5:14
  SPEAKER_01: Until now you have asked nothing in my name.
• 5:17
  SPEAKER_01: Ask and you will receive, and that your joy may be full.
• 5:22
  SPEAKER_01: Man, there is a lot of promise in here from Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is red letter, this is Jesus talking, you know.
• 5:27
  SPEAKER_01: He says, Most as surely, you know, don't you doubt whatsoever, because I'm telling you, most assured, most as surely I say, I am, say to you, Whatever you ask the Father in my name, he will give you.
• 5:44
  SPEAKER_01: Whatever.
• 5:46
  SPEAKER_01: Man, whatever means whatever.
• 5:48
  SPEAKER_01: And of course, you know, we will get to the point because um a lot of people maybe are, and that's again your heart situation.
• 5:57
  SPEAKER_01: I don't want to get ahead of myself, but you know, it's like you don't ask God for things that are not in line with his word, that they are not, that are not established in grace, that are not blessing him and not blessing other people?
• 6:11
  SPEAKER_01: You're not you're not gonna go to God and ask for ungodly stuff, but anyway, he says, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in my name, he will give to you, and until now you have asked nothing in my name, but ask and you shall receive, that your joy may be full.
• 6:28
  SPEAKER_01: Alright, so how many of you, you know, would love to have the certainty, the absolute 100% certainty that whatever you ask of the Father, that He will give it to you, that all your prayers are being answered, that all your prayers are being heard and answered by the living God.
• 6:45
  SPEAKER_01: How many of you would want to have that?
• 6:49
  SPEAKER_01: Because I'm I'm sure, you know, I'm confident that there are a lot of people that are praying and feel like their prayers weren't answered, or they didn't see them become manifest or become uh coming to pass in their lives, they didn't see it happen, or they just didn't feel it that you know that God hurt them or whatever like that.
• 7:12
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I've heard people so many people saying, you know, I've been praying for it, I've been praying for, but no results, you know.
• 7:18
  SPEAKER_01: I don't get my prayers answered, I'm not even sure if it's been heard.
• 7:22
  SPEAKER_01: And I know that there are people listening today that have the same that had the same problem.
• 7:26
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I had that many, many times.
• 7:28
  SPEAKER_01: You know, that I've been praying and I was like, I don't know.
• 7:31
  SPEAKER_01: You know, it just doesn't feel right, or something like that.
• 7:35
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, um this all it's got nothing to do with God because here it says, you know, most assuredly I say to you, John 16, 23, whatever you ask the Father in my name, he will give it you.
• 7:52
  SPEAKER_01: He will give you whatever you ask him.
• 7:54
  SPEAKER_01: So, how is it possible?
• 7:56
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I've been praying, I've been think thinking, you know, I I had shared my desires, you know, but I just didn't experience anything with it.
• 8:05
  SPEAKER_01: It didn't bring any conviction in my heart, even though, you know, I just felt like I was sharing everything that I was going through, you know.
• 8:16
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, there are people, you know, that pray even, you know, in auto pilot.
• 8:23
  SPEAKER_01: They are just praying, you know, this automatic prayer that had they they have studied that prayer, they memorized it, and that's the prayer they pray, and then that's all they pray.
• 8:32
  SPEAKER_01: There there is just this, you know, reciting of our Father who is in heaven, hallowed be your name, let your kingdom come, let your will be done, you know, and that's what they pray.
• 8:43
  SPEAKER_01: And that's it.
• 8:45
  SPEAKER_01: There's nothing, there's no relationship, intimacy, anything.
• 8:48
  SPEAKER_01: It's out of duty, it's a it's standard, you know, it's it's it's out of habit.
• 8:53
  SPEAKER_01: But you see, praying is a very personal thing.
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_01: So, you know, there are people that pray uh, you know, only in the morning and only in the night.
• 9:04
  SPEAKER_01: There are people that pray, you know, during the day, there are people that pray out loud, there are people people that pray, you know, in silence, you know, there are people that pray, you know, with the eyes closed, and there are people that pray with the eyes open and the hands folded or not folded or whatever actions they have, you know, it doesn't really matter.
• 9:20
  SPEAKER_01: You know, it's totally fine.
• 9:22
  SPEAKER_01: You know, if you're on your knees or you're sitting or you're standing, you know, or you're laying flat on your face, it's totally fine.
• 9:28
  SPEAKER_01: But what is really, really important, you know, is it you know, you can pray, you know, and come to the Father and pray and pray and pray and then experience all those things that I've just described, you know, um that can happen and that you can have experience that you you felt like didn't really, you know, do it, did anything for you.
• 9:50
  SPEAKER_01: Didn't you feel, you felt, ah man, sometimes my English, but it's like, you know, you are praying, and then when you're standing and praying there, you just you're not there.
• 10:00
  SPEAKER_01: You just didn't, you just don't feel it.
• 10:02
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and and we don't walk by feelings, we walk by uh by faith and not by sight, you know, and you know, emotions are emotions, but you know, you feel in your spirit, like man, you know, I'm praying the truth, and you know, I know that I'm gonna get things done in the spiritual realms at this moment.
• 10:18
  SPEAKER_01: You just know that.
• 10:20
  SPEAKER_01: You just know that you have this connection, you know.
• 10:23
  SPEAKER_01: But I will get to that.
• 10:25
  SPEAKER_01: There, you know, it's not important, you know, how you pray if you pray with your eyes closed or your eyes open or you're out loud or you know, just whispering or whatever.
• 10:34
  SPEAKER_01: That doesn't really matter.
• 10:36
  SPEAKER_01: It doesn't matter how you pray, it's a matter it does matter what you pray.
• 10:42
  SPEAKER_01: This really does matter.
• 10:44
  SPEAKER_01: What do you pray?
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_01: In my opinion, there are two kinds of prayers.
• 10:49
  SPEAKER_01: There's the prayer of faith, and there is a prayer of unbelief.
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_01: There is a fruitful prayer, and there is a fruitless prayer.
• 11:00
  SPEAKER_01: There is a spiritual prayer and there is a carnal prayer, you know, and there are also two motivations that fits, you know, in every uh kind of prayer that you can imagine.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm convinced of.
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  SPEAKER_01: One is, you know, for your needs and your desires, you know, like I don't know, whatever you requests you have, and whatever needs you have, and whatever desires you have, or whatever you want to see come to pass, whatever breakthrough you want, you know, whatever word of wisdom, leading, guidance, you know, whatever it doesn't matter, whatever need request, you know, or whatever it is.
• 11:33
  SPEAKER_01: And then the other one is thanksgiving and relationship, intimacy.
• 11:38
  SPEAKER_01: And so both of the both of them are okay, you know, they are great as long, you know, as as they are being in faith, and both of them can uh be happening on the same place and the same moment.
• 11:54
  SPEAKER_01: So I can pray and then I can come to God in thanksgiving and intimacy and relationship, and then also lay down my requests, which basically is a really good example that we can read.
• 12:06
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, you know, my spiritual father Andrew teaches really great on this, but you can read this in Matthew, in Matthew 6, uh, you know, where you where they are there's a lot of people praying this prayer because it's they think that Jesus says, you know, pray this.
• 12:23
  SPEAKER_01: You know, and so um they even call it the model prayer, you know, in the Bible, which is absolutely not the point.
• 12:31
  SPEAKER_01: It says here, it says, uh, in this matter, therefore pray.
• 12:37
  SPEAKER_01: It doesn't say, and then so they ask, teach us how to pray, and then he's not he's not saying like I want you to pray this.
• 12:43
  SPEAKER_01: Just pray this, and then that's okay.
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_01: He says, In this matter, therefore pray.
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_01: Our Father in heaven, hallow be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it as it is in heaven.
• 12:53
  SPEAKER_01: Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors, and do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one, for yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever.
• 13:04
  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
• 13:05
  SPEAKER_01: And so they just pray this prayer.
• 13:09
  SPEAKER_01: But that's not what Jesus says.
• 13:11
  SPEAKER_01: Jesus says, in this manner, therefore pray.
• 13:15
  SPEAKER_01: You know, and even in my Dutch translation, they translated it as like you know, you need to pray this prayer, but it's not that's not what it says.
• 13:23
  SPEAKER_01: Jesus says, Pray like this.
• 13:25
  SPEAKER_01: Not pray this, but pray like this.
• 13:28
  SPEAKER_01: And if you look at the prayer itself, and I'm not going to go too deep into it, but if you look at the prayer itself, you know, it starts with worship, it starts with relationship and intimacy and making God great.
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_01: And so it says, Our Father, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, and on earth as it is in heaven.
• 13:44
  SPEAKER_01: You know, and so that's the first thing that they that Jesus teaches us.
• 13:48
  SPEAKER_01: You start to praise God.
• 13:49
  SPEAKER_01: You start to worship God.
• 13:51
  SPEAKER_01: God thrones on the praises of his saints.
• 13:53
  SPEAKER_01: And so, and then there is your request, your need.
• 13:57
  SPEAKER_01: Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debtors, um, our debts, as we forgave our debtors.
• 14:06
  SPEAKER_01: And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.
• 14:10
  SPEAKER_01: So, yes, you request your need or whatever you you are you're desiring or believing God for or whatever, and then it closes.
• 14:18
  SPEAKER_01: For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever, with worship again and thanksgiving.
• 14:23
  SPEAKER_01: And so, you know, you here you can see this model prayer that they're talking about.
• 14:28
  SPEAKER_01: It's a prayer where you just come in worship, you know, make known your request, you know, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, you know, and then the peace of God which surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
• 14:41
  SPEAKER_01: You know that you have been praying the truth, you know you have been praying the way that God, you know, wants you to come to Him, you know, with a good heart, and then you just finish with worship and you know, and praise, because you know that's what Jesus says.
• 14:55
  SPEAKER_01: He says here, Most assuredly I say to you, whatever you would ask the Father in my name, he will give it to you.
• 15:01
  SPEAKER_01: Ask and you shall receive so that your joy may be full.
• 15:04
  SPEAKER_01: So if that's true, what Jesus says here, when I'm praying, you know, with worship and make my request known in prayer and supplication, you know, making my request and then worshiping the Lord because I believe that I have received, you know, then I will have, because that's what he says.
• 15:18
  SPEAKER_01: Whatever you ask the Father in my name, I he will give it to you.
• 15:21
  SPEAKER_01: And so this is the way, you know, that you should pray, but not just pray this prayer and then, you know, have no feelings whatsoever with it, and have no faith in it, no, there's no there's no connection within the spirit, you know.
• 15:34
  SPEAKER_01: It's so, but alright, let me just go to John, uh, sorry, to Philippians 4, because I've been mentioning it, you know, like with all prayer and supplication, but there's a lot to say for that.
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_01: There is a because a lot of people also interpret that again, you know, like in a way that I'm like, no, that's not what it says, you know.
• 15:50
  SPEAKER_01: And so we need to go sometimes, we need to go to the Greek, and you know, I don't know this word in the Greek out of my mind, but uh I've been um I've been studying on it and I know what it means, the word.
• 16:05
  SPEAKER_01: So you look it up in the concordance, you know, in the Greek, that word, uh supplication, you know.
• 16:11
  SPEAKER_01: Um that you go and look it up there because a lot of people think that this word supplication in Ephesians 4 is talking about you begging, begging and pleading God, you know, but that's not what it says.
• 16:24
  SPEAKER_01: Supplication means making requests, it's just your request, your need that you lay down with the Lord.
• 16:29
  SPEAKER_01: But let me just read from verse 4.
• 16:31
  SPEAKER_01: Philippians 4, verse 4.
• 16:33
  SPEAKER_01: Rejoice in the Lord always, again I will say, rejoice.
• 16:37
  SPEAKER_01: Let your gentleness be known to all men.
• 16:39
  SPEAKER_01: The Lord is at hand.
• 16:41
  SPEAKER_01: Be anxious for nothing but in everything, by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your request be made known to God, and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
• 16:55
  SPEAKER_01: Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, and whatever things are pure, and whatever things are lovely, whatever things are good, report.
• 17:03
  SPEAKER_01: If there's any virtue or anything that is praiseworthy, meditate on these things.
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_01: The things which you learned and received and heard and saw in me, these do, and the God of peace will be with you.
• 17:13
  SPEAKER_01: That was more than I wanted to read, but it's so good what it says.
• 17:17
  SPEAKER_01: Anyway, so first of all, we need to rejoice, and that's a choice.
• 17:23
  SPEAKER_01: It's a choice to rejoice.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, that would be a very good uh, you know, uh phrase for a sermon.
• 17:29
  SPEAKER_01: It is a choice to rejoice.
• 17:30
  SPEAKER_01: You you can choose whether you're gonna rejoice or whether you're gonna not rejoice.
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I don't know the counter word for it, but you know, you can rejoice or not.
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_01: And so if you rejoice, you know, it's a choice.
• 17:44
  SPEAKER_01: I can rejoice in the Lord always.
• 17:47
  SPEAKER_01: In any kind of situation, I can rejoice in the Lord, and so that's a that's not that's that that's a command.
• 17:53
  SPEAKER_01: It says, rejoice in the Lord always.
• 17:56
  SPEAKER_01: Again, I will say, rejoice.
• 17:58
  SPEAKER_01: You can make a choice to rejoice.
• 18:00
  SPEAKER_01: Let your gentleness, your kindness, your love, etc., your light be known to all men.
• 18:05
  SPEAKER_01: The Lord is at hand, he is with you.
• 18:07
  SPEAKER_01: He will never leave you nor forsake you.
• 18:09
  SPEAKER_01: Be anxious for nothing.
• 18:11
  SPEAKER_01: Don't you worry about anything, don't make yourself worries, you know, by pondering on what ifs.
• 18:16
  SPEAKER_01: You know, don't make it great in your mind and don't, you know, start to ponder and meditate on things that are just causing you to be anxious.
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_01: Be anxious for nothing.
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_01: But in everything, that's in every situation or in every circumstance, in every in every challenge, you know, in every in every situation, doesn't matter if it's a good one or a bad one, in everything, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your request be made known to God, and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds through Christ Jesus.
• 18:50
  SPEAKER_01: So if I come to the Lord and you know I'm coming and I'm rejoicing, and I'm praying, you know, with this worship and adoration and thanksgiving, and then make my requests known to him, then his peace, which surpasses all understanding, will guard my heart and my mind in Christ Jesus.
• 19:16
  SPEAKER_01: That means that you know, the moment that I'm going into prayer, into relationship, into connection, into intimacy with my father, stepping into his presence, and the moment I connect with him in spirit, the moment I'm praying and I'm worshiping, you know, and I'm letting him know, you know, what I'm going through, but like in a way of faith and not of unbelief and doubt, which I all will cover, I will cover all these moments.
• 19:42
  SPEAKER_01: But it's so important that when I when I do that, then the peace of God, the Bible says, let the peace of God rule in your heart.
• 19:51
  SPEAKER_01: So the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your heart and your mind, knowing that he heard you and he answered you, because you approached him in spirit and in truth.
• 20:04
  SPEAKER_01: And so the Bible teaches us in 1 Thessalonians 5:17 that we should pray without ceasing.
• 20:12
  SPEAKER_01: And a lot of people think that, you know, you see, so I need to go to God, you know, um, 24-7, begging and pleading and praying on my knees, laying, you know, flat on my face, and oh Lord, oh God, if you were willing and if you want, and if you only would know that I would go through what I would go through, you know, and all that stuff.
• 20:30
  SPEAKER_01: You know, it's that's that's what a lot of people do, but I believe that when you pray like that, then you are praying in unbelief.
• 20:37
  SPEAKER_01: You know, if you pray and you are rejoicing and glorifying God and you come to him in truth, you know, and in spirit, and you just know that you know, whatever he says in his word is yours in Christ Jesus.
• 20:49
  SPEAKER_01: So whatever you ask when you pray and you believe that you receive him, you will have him.
• 20:52
  SPEAKER_01: That's what it says in Mark 11, 24.
• 20:55
  SPEAKER_01: You know, but um if you just go all day to God and just pour out your wish list, the Bible says in Psalm 139 that you know he knows everything, he knows you're going in, he knows you're going out, even though there's not a word on your tongue, he already know it.
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_01: You know, he there is nothing, he knows it altogether.
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_01: There is nothing hidden for God.
• 21:16
  SPEAKER_01: You cannot hide for God.
• 21:17
  SPEAKER_01: He knows each and every thought.
• 21:19
  SPEAKER_01: Before you think it, he already knows it.
• 21:23
  SPEAKER_01: Before you say it, he already knows what you are gonna say, he knows your thoughts are far off.
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_01: Before you even start to have that thought, he already knows you're gonna have it.
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_01: You know, and before you're gonna say it, he already knows what you want to say.
• 21:37
  SPEAKER_01: So you don't need to go all day to God and just placing your requests, you know, at his feet and just saying, Oh Lord, you know about this, and did you know about that?
• 21:45
  SPEAKER_01: And I need to share this with you, and I need to share that with you, and I'm going through this, and I'm going through that, and I need help here, I need a breakthrough there.
• 21:52
  SPEAKER_01: And can you please bless me here?
• 21:53
  SPEAKER_01: And can you please bless me there?
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_01: And can you please do something for me here?
• 21:56
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, and just go and share, you know, did you hear this, what they said about me?
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, God knows it.
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_01: So if He knows it, you know, how easy it would be to come to me and say, Oh Lord, you know it all together.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_01: You know exactly what's living in my heart and what the troubles that I'm facing or the fears or the you know the anxiety that's trying to get a grip on me.
• 22:17
  SPEAKER_01: But Father, I trust you.
• 22:19
  SPEAKER_01: And I just come to you boldly, cast all my cares upon you.
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_01: You know my cares, and I just cast them all upon you because you will care for me.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_01: And I praise your holy name and I thank you for your goodness and your kindness.
• 22:30
  SPEAKER_01: I thank you that you already heard me and answered me because that's what you said in your word, and you are not a man that you can lie.
• 22:37
  SPEAKER_01: Oh Father God, I worship you and I praise your holy name.
• 22:39
  SPEAKER_01: And just come to Him like this, it's a way better prayer.
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_01: And you only take a few minutes, you know.
• 22:44
  SPEAKER_01: So if it's you know concerning that kind of stuff, it's not like you constantly, constantly, constantly, you know, praying without ceasing.
• 22:53
  SPEAKER_01: I believe, you know, um that praying without ceasing means something else.
• 22:59
  SPEAKER_01: Um but let's just first, before I get into that, look at Matthew 6 verse 7.
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_01: In Matthew 6 verse 7, here this is a this is very good about prayer, you know.
• 23:11
  SPEAKER_01: Matthew 6 verse 7, it says that and when you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathens do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words.
• 23:20
  SPEAKER_01: And so if you pray without ceasing, you know, that would you that would qualify you as somebody that's praying vain repetitions, because if you are without ceasing, praying, praying, praying, praying, praying, praying, praying, you couldn't even have a normal life anymore.
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_01: You know, and so it says, no, therefore do not be like them, verse 8.
• 23:37
  SPEAKER_01: For your father knows the things you have need of before you ask him.
• 23:41
  SPEAKER_01: And then he gives us this so-called model prayer where we just start to worship, we we place our request, you know, and we we end with worship.
• 23:48
  SPEAKER_01: But there's just a few lines, it's not like the whole Bible is full of how you need to pray this prayer, you know.
• 23:53
  SPEAKER_01: So it's very simple, very basic if it comes to those kinds of things.
• 23:57
  SPEAKER_01: And so we don't need to constantly remind God all our needs and all our desires, you know, like he has, you know, uh he's being under attack of Alzheimer's, you know, like oh man, I didn't did I why didn't I know that before?
• 24:10
  SPEAKER_01: Didn't you why didn't you come to me before?
• 24:13
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I totally forgot, dude.
• 24:15
  SPEAKER_01: You know, God doesn't have those kind of issues, he knows it altogether.
• 24:21
  SPEAKER_01: So if we really truly believe that he's God, if we really truly believe that he knows everything, you know, and that he is the Alpha and Neomaker, the beginning and the end, you know, the no the resurrection and the life, you know, he that he knows everything, the great I am, you know, then without any doubt, you know that God, who is not bound by space nor time, knows exactly what you need.
• 24:48
  SPEAKER_01: He knows exactly where you are, where where you stand, what you're going through, what your desires are, and whatever.
• 24:53
  SPEAKER_01: He knows it exactly.
• 24:54
  SPEAKER_01: There is no shadow of a doubt with God.
• 24:57
  SPEAKER_01: You know, and so you should also have no shadow of a doubt, you know, that he knows everything because he is Almighty God.
• 25:03
  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
• 25:04
  SPEAKER_01: And so all our thoughts are known to him.
• 25:07
  SPEAKER_01: So it doesn't mean that you are praying, you know, all day, 24-7, on your knees, praying without ceasing, as it says in 1 Thessalonians 5 17.
• 25:16
  SPEAKER_01: I believe it means something else.
• 25:18
  SPEAKER_01: I will get to that in the next episode because my time is up.
• 25:22
  SPEAKER_01: And uh, you know, thank you for watching, and I hope you're already uh triggered and uh interested.
• 25:27
  SPEAKER_01: And I hope to see you again in a new episode of One Gospel.
• 25:30
  SPEAKER_01: God bless you.
• 25:31
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• 25:48
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