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But I really want us to really think about prayer.
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And I want you guys to be able to look at prayer from a biblical perspective.
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And many times prayer can be taught from these other points of view where it's about your
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conversation with Jesus or your communion with Christ or these kinds of things.
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And communion would be more an appropriate thing.
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But I want us to really understand how God has called us and has given us a sacrament
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of prayer.
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That we should be praying as Paul states in the scriptures, continually.
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The question is how do we pray?
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Can we pray?
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So before we do anything we need to define prayer.
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And so I know I'm about to pray again and ask God to guide our conversation through
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this.
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But there is a clear model for prayer.
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And so we will, doing some very purposeful expository preaching through this as we expound,
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as we exegete these truths, I want you to make sure that you're spending time getting
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what's being said here and not overlooking it because you guys, because we've been taught
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by some other means that prayer is this or that.
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I want you to see what Jesus says about it.
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So Father I want to thank you so much that you are the awesome and mighty God.
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I'd ask you Lord that you would guide our conversation.
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Lord that as we come before you and seek the manna, spiritual manna and the spiritual water,
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everlasting water, Lord as a deer pants for the water so much so long as after you, that
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you would please Lord provide for us all that we need for our spiritual health.
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That we are alive in Christ and that we have a responsibility to continue to walk in holiness
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and to love you supremely.
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That we would love others by forgiving them and that we would commit to honoring you in
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our prayer life and really understand what you have given us here in the Lord's Prayer
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or as they would, as has been taught that this is the Lord's Prayer.
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This is really a model for us to live by as we worship and honor you in meeting with you.
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Lord we thank you and praise you in Jesus name, amen.
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What is prayer?
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So the word prayer from the beginning, you know, you're like you got to do one of these
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Greek words don't you?
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Yes because it's literally the only word that Jesus uses or that really the New Testament
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even describes as prayer.
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What is prayer?
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And it's pros ukomai.
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Pros ukomai is the word for prayer.
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Pros ukomai has two words within it.
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First one is pros which means to be near or to come before.
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So when you're thinking about prayer, you are coming near or coming before God.
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That's what it's about.
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The word ukomai is the word pray, will or wish.
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You're like God doesn't do wishes.
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Well God does give us the desires of our heart if there are certain things we do.
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But the point is I think the most important word here in ukomai is the word will.
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Whose will are you seeking in prayer?
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Have you ever thought about prayer from this perspective?
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I think we're going to have a very clear distinct understanding of prayer when you look at prayer
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from this perspective.
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Pros ukomai to come near according to the will of God.
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Many have said including me that it's communication with God or conversation with God and all
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that's true.
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There is some type of communication with God.
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Now God speaks to us through his word and we speak to him in our hearts as the Holy
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Spirit prays for us because we pray as we really don't know how to pray well.
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So it's very important that we understand that there is this idea that prayer is this
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communication but it's so much more than that.
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Prayer is so much more than that.
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The doctrine of prayer and here's the definition.
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The doctrine of prayer is a means of grace offered according to the will of God expressed
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in accordance with his word.
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Wow.
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When you think of prayer many think I can come to God and just ask whatever I want.
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One it's a fast food restaurant just go in give me a Big Mac large fry and a Coke and
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just leave.
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That's the way they look at God.
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But it's more than it's not that at all.
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This is not a one stop shop to get your stuff to get the stuff you want.
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This is a means of grace offered according to the will of God expressed in accordance
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with his word.
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If you want your prayers to be answered then you need to do it according to his word.
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Prayer is the language of the soul.
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John Calvin said opening up of our hearts before God.
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That's prayer.
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Prayer is so much more than just having a conversation.
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Prayer reveals more about your heart than the wallet in your back pocket or in your
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purse.
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You're like whoa.
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When you think about prayer you know when you think about your treasures where your
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treasure is there your heart will be also.
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So prayer has a tendency to show even more about the reality of your of the condition
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of your heart.
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Many of you may be convicted after this.
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After this be honest with you.
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It's quite revealing.
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So when we so if I want to sit and pay I listen to you guys pray.
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I listen to every all of our people pray.
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And some people are just way off.
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They just don't get it.
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And it may be because it's not being taught from the biblical perspective.
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It's not a good understanding of prayer that we we've taken prayer and we've modeled prayer
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and we've replicated prayer in such a way that now people pray in this kind of way and
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they missed the whole point of prayer.
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It's kind of amazing.
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We will clarify this in John 17 because we will end this whole series with John 17 the
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real Lord's Prayer.
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And you'll see that Jesus uses this model even in that prayer.
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OK.
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During these next few weeks we'll examine what scripture has to say about prayer how
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why what and when we should pray.
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Prayer is about aligning ourselves with God's will not our own.
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Matthew 26 36 just to give you a clear understanding that this is absolutely true.
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Turn to Matthew chapter 26.
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Now as you guys are turning there and I'm turning there.
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Matthew 20 we're going to go along the little journey since this is more of a expository
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topic of specifically prayer.
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It's going to be a little bit of walking but I will clarify these scriptures very clearly
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so you understand them.
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So in chapter 26 Jesus is in the garden of Gethsemane.
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And he has brought his disciples with him and they are there to to as Jesus goes and
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prays to the father verse 36 says chapter 26 verse 36 of Matthew then Jesus went with
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them to a place called Gethsemane and he said to it said to his disciples sit here while
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I go over there and pray and taking with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee he began
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to be sorrowful and trembled.
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And he said to them my soul is very sorrowful even to death remain here and watch with me.
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So Jesus is Jesus knows his time has come to an end and that there is a payment that
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must be paid and he realizes this is the moment that he has been talking about.
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So he goes to pray and you're going to see why.
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Verse 39 and going a little further he fell on his face and prayed saying he fell on his
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face and my father if it be possible let this cup pass from me nevertheless not as I will
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but as you will.
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What do you notice that Jesus does immediately?
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He reorients his will.
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Prayer reorients your will.
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It places your heart in the place it's supposed to be.
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So when Jesus goes before the father it's to reset his mind to be in communion with
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Christ with the father sorry.
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Now very simple truth there isn't it.
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Turn to Luke chapter 11.
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So Jesus is brought to this moment with his disciples and they've seen him pray several
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times they've seen him go off and pray and he come back and they've seen him pray before
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people.
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Now I want you to notice this look what it says in Luke chapter 11 verse 1 we're going
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to do one through four.
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Now Jesus was praying in a certain place when he finished one of his disciples said to him
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do you see that?
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How many times have we watched Hollywood?
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Jesus goes off and he comes back and his disciples say hey teach us to pray.
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No it's more than that.
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He's literally they literally just got done watching him pray.
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They've heard him pray and they're like I want to pray like that.
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How do we do that?
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And so they ask him the question Lord teach us to pray as John taught his disciples.
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How do we pray like that?
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We have to assume that that might be exactly why they're thinking will you teach us to
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pray?
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When he said to them when you pray say Father hallowed be your name.
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That word hallowed is the word holy.
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Father holy is your name.
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This is what he's saying Abba holy is your name Yahweh.
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The name of Yahweh is holy.
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For Abba holy your kingdom come give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our sins
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for we ourselves forgive everyone who is indebted to us and lead us not into temptation.
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What do you see about this particular prayer that the disciples are wondering how do we
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pray like that?
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Teach us to pray.
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And what you notice here is this is a reorientation of their heart.
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I will clarify this in Matthew.
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Principle number one God knows the intent of the heart.
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God knows the intent of the heart.
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A person always does what's in the heart.
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You are what you are.
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If you are flesh you're flesh and if you're spirit you're spirit.
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How do we know that?
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Because Jesus even tells you.
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It's not what goes into a man's mouth and into his stomach that makes a man unclean
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it's what comes from his heart and out of his mouth that makes a man unclean.
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What makes you think if we have conversations with each other in a way that is dishonoring
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the Lord what makes you think that you're honestly going to be able to go to God in
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prayer and you're not going to say something foolish?
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Here you go you ready?
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Matthew chapter six turn there.
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Just to clarify this truth Matthew chapter six verse five through six.
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Notice what he says and when you pray you must not be like the hypocrites for they love
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to stand and pray in the synagogue and at the street corners that they may be seen by
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others.
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Truly I say to you they have received their reward.
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How many of you guys would like look at certain individuals on TV or particular preachers
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or whatever and you go yo they're prayer warriors man they know how to pray.
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I could probably pick out a couple but I have a tendency to throw those people onto the
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bus quite a bit.
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You already know see I don't even got to talk I just did but you guys know who they are.
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You would say that's a prayer they know how to pray.
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Man they're calling out demons.
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Yeah they have no idea what prayer is.
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No idea why because they pray according to the flesh.
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They pray for what they can get not praying that they will reorient themselves before
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living in holy God.
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But notice what Jesus says in verse six but when you pray go into your room shut the door
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and pray to your father who is in secret and your father who sees in secret will reward
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you.
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In other words don't be like the hypocrites who pray for everyone to see so that they
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can be told hey you look you pray amazing.
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Your words are amazing I wish I could pray like you.
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No Jesus says the opposite.
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Why don't you close the door and pray and when your father who sees in secret what you've
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done he will reward you in secret.
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There are many men and women who are in jail in other countries because of their faith.
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They can't go to a secret room but they can go into the secret room of their heart.
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Have you ever thought about that?
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That the secret room is the secret room of your heart.
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What reward do we get?
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The conformity of Jesus.
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What more of a reward do you want?
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You think that the reward that you get because you prayed a certain prayer is going to be
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money in your pocket or your bills paid.
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Or is it conforming me into the image of a son?
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What more of a reward do you desire?
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God's will for you is to pray knowing God knows your need.
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That's the principle.
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Many professing believers pray like the idolaters begging for an answer as if God is a lifeless
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idol.
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It's one of the things that drives me nuts.
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They think that they will be heard for their many words.
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They think that they will be heard for their many words.
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They think that they will be heard for their many words.
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When you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do.
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For they think that they will be heard for their many words.
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Do not be like them for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
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I want you to notice something.
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Go to 1 Kings chapter 18.
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Many of you probably know this little scripture.
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Chapter 18, verse 18, verse 22.
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It's about Elijah.
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Interesting, because this is exactly what Jesus is talking about.
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He says, then Elijah said to the people, I, even I only am left a prophet of the Lord.
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But Baal's prophets are 450 men.
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Let two bulls be given to us and let them choose one bull for themselves and cut it
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into pieces and lay it on the wood and put no fire to it.
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And I will prepare the other bull and lay it on the wood and put no fire to it.
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And you call on the name of your God and I will call upon the name of the Lord, Yahweh.
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And Elohim who answers by fire, he is Elohim.
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And all the people answered, it is well spoken.
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Then Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, choose for yourselves one bull and prepare
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it first, for you are many, and call upon the name of your God and put no fire to it.
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And they took the bull that was given to them and they prepared it and called upon the name
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of Baal from morning until noon saying, oh Baal, answer us.
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All day, oh Baal.
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Oh Lord, take it away.
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Oh Lord, answer our prayer.
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As if the God of all creation is a lifeless idol like Baal.
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When the scripture clearly says that God already knows what your need is before you ask him,
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why don't you come before me and reorient your heart?
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Because I want something.
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See, God is a God like an idol to them, to get what they want.
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Now you see why Jesus gives this model.
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It's going to shock you, hopefully.
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Christ gives us principle, Christ gives us a clear model for prayer.
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Here's a statement.
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Why do you think we can do it better or come up with a more effective way to pray?
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Oh, because we have an issue of idolatry.
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We worship idols.
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We worship ourselves because we think we could do it better.
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And the Holy Spirit clearly states that we can't pray because we pray as we ought not
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to pray.
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Matthew 9, Matthew 6, 9 through 13.
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Here it is.
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You guys ready for the model?
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Love how Jesus teaches them to pray.
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This is what it says.
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Pray then like this.
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Our Father in heaven, hallowed, holy be your name.
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Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
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Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven our
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debtors and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
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Evil translation from evil, not evil one.
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I don't know about you, but I like to be delivered from all evil, not just the evil one.
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Just saying.
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What's the model here?
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Why does Jesus teach them to pray like this?
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Are you guys ready?
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Just exalt or praise.
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Here it is.
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Start with God.
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Exalt or praise.
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Exalt Him or praise Him.
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Our Father in heaven, holy be your name.
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If there's anything the elders know and people that pray with me know, I start with God,
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I end with God.
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I purpose to think through following the model because it reorients my heart, my mind, my
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will, the things I desire, I want to be what He desires.
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That's the whole point of prayer.
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Start with Him.
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Exalt or praise.
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Our Father in heaven, holy or how would be your name.
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Second, surrender.
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Surrender.
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Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
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Not my will, your will.
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Your kingdom come, your will be done.
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Do you see the difference here?
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When we praise Him and start with Him, then we're going to be able to really understand
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the point of surrendering to Him because He's the King.
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He's the masterful one.
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He's amazing.
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He's majestic.
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He's beautiful.
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It's easy when you realize that I am nothing to surrender my will and desires to Him and
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Him alone.
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As a result, you then can go before Him and ask Him for your needs.
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Why?
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Because you've given praise to the King.
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You've surrendered your will, which means your will has now become His will because
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you've surrendered your will to His will and you say, give us this day our daily bread.
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Why does He use this term?
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In other words, He's saying to you this, God, you are the source of my existence.
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Give us this day our daily bread.
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You notice He doesn't say, hey, I really want them brand new sneakers.
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I want that nice car.
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You're the source of all life for me.
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You care my daily, my physical needs, spiritual needs.
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Here we go.
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You ready?
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So, fourth.
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So, first is exalt and praise.
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Second, surrender.
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Third, ask according to His will.
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Fourth, repent.
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Spiritual need.
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What's your most important spiritual need?
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To get right with God.
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What does John say?
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1 John 1, 9, that if we confess that we have sinned, He is faithful and just to forgive
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us of all our sin and purify us from all unrighteousness.
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Repent and forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven our debtors.
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Forgive us.
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Help us to forgive.
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Jesus says, if you do not forgive your brother, I will not forgive you.
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Repent.
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Number four.
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Number five, because we've exalted God and glorified Him, because we've surrendered our
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will to His will, because we have asked according to His will and we've repented and gotten
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ourselves in right mind for Him, we then can petition Him, a petition, and lead us not
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into temptation but deliver us from evil.
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Notice what the petition is.
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The petition is not, hey, I would really like.
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No.
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The petition is make me more like Jesus.
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Keep me from sin and keep evil from me that I may walk in the holiness of your presence.
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What's the one thing that keeps us from being able to talk?
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I know men, you guys know this, fathers, if things aren't right with our wives, what happens
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to your prayer?
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Sometimes it feels like it hits the ceiling.
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Right?
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I'm looking at all the men.
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You're like, why are you pointing at me?
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Everybody gets a little bit, including me.
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Right?
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Petition.
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Lead us not into temptation.
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Make me right.
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Make me like Christ.
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Keep me from failure and keep me from evil.
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Lastly, not all, not, this particular phrase is not found in the earliest manuscripts nor
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in the modern manuscripts, though it is placed in there as a footnote because the earliest
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manuscripts don't have this in there.
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I will share this with you, though.
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It does fit amazingly.
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There's really nothing in here at all that would make us think that Jesus would not have
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said this.
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Okay?
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Just making it clear.
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King James would have it in some of the other translations, but this is what it says.
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So if we start with God, we surrender our will, we ask according to his will, we repent
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and get ourselves right, we then petition him to make us more like Jesus, we then go
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back to him and give him all the praise and glory.
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For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever.
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Amen.
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Now, when you think about a model prayer and the disciples go, teach us to pray, and he
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says, this is how you should pray, then how should you pray?
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I mean, should we pray like Joel's team?
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Nope.
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There's a way to pray.
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He's given us the model.
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Now, what's interesting about this model is, it doesn't, as long as you are really following
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the model, then everything gets reoriented and your prayers get heard and answered.
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How do we know?
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Because to be honest with you, God answers the prayer of Mount Eaton Church.
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It's amazing.
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You guys are praying, most of you guys are probably praying like this and don't even
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realize it.
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That's a spirit of God thing.
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I mean, how many times have we seen people healed and we haven't come over and like smacked
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them in the forehead and threw a jacket?
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I mean, think about it.
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Why?
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Because our hearts are right with him.
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The whole point of prayer is to reorient.
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Prayer is not a means to get something nor a way to seem more spiritual nor a duty.
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It's an act of worship and love.
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It's not a time to brag or give advice.
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Drives me nuts when I listen to people pray and they go, Lord, help this man, Lord Jesus,
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because I'm about to kick him.
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My kids are driving me crazy, Lord.
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I don't know what to do.
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You know, kids sitting next to you and just put your hand on them and just cast them out,
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Lord.
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Just Lord.
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Exactly.
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And so what ends up happening is that we end up giving advice to people during our prayer
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time.
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How irreverent is that?
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It's not time for you to say to somebody, get your act together.
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It's not a time to point out others' faults or issues nor a time to remind God to fix
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others so that my life can be better.
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It is a time to reorient your heart, a time to position yourself properly before a holy
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God, a time to present yourself in humility, a time to come to daddy in faith and assurance
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that Father God hears you.
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That's what prayer is all about.
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A time to truly rely on Him because we do not pray as we should.
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Romans chapter 8, verse 26 through 27, you can write that down.
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Likewise, the Spirit helps us in our weakness.
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What's implied here is we are weak in our flesh.
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We don't pray as we should.
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You can't pray as you should because you live in a fallen, broken body that has not been
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redeemed yet.
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For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for
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us with groanings too deep for words.
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And He who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit because the Spirit intercedes
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for the saints according to the will of God.
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Why do you think Jesus gives us a model?
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He gives us a model because left to our own demise, we'll come up with all kinds of ways
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to pray and go, that's awesome prayer time.
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Why are you so adamant about this?
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Because remember, your prayer tells me more about your heart than your wallet.
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It's a time to love and worship Him.
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It's a time of refreshing and strengthening.
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It's a personal, private time with Him to enjoy Him with no distractions.
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It's our time together as God's people with Him, a time alone with Him.
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When we gather together, let's praise Him.
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Let's follow the model together.
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Lift Him high.
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Make the world know Him by our proclamation of the goodness of our God.
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And that in the midst of all that, that we are sinful and Lord that You would forgive
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us of our sin so that we can willingly and openly come before You and have the right
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attitude of mind to know what to ask for.
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When you come together, pray with intent.
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It is a time for comfort and peace, a time to know Him more deeply as we pray through
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His Word.
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So meet with Him continually in prayer and you will absolutely be changed.
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Make sure that your prayer time is purposeful.
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That you go before God to reorient your heart with Him.
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That doesn't mean that you can't go and petition for your spouse or petition for your kids.
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But make sure that you've done everything you have to do to make sure your heart and
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your mind, your will, your desires are all reoriented in His will according to His Word.
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And then when you pray for them, you pray for them according to their Word.
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Lord that You would save them if they do not know You.
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Lord that You would conform them into the image of Your Son as You have promised because
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they belong to You.
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And Lord that You would draw out of them and that they would commit according to Your Word
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of Romans 2 that they would not be conformed to the pattern of this world but be transformed
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by the renewing of their mind, Lord.
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Renew their mind.
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Don't conform that person into my image but Lord conform them into Yours.
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You see the difference when you're reoriented?
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When you start with Him and you go through the process and you end with Him, how much
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more, yes I said much more, it's bad English, I don't care.
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How much much?
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How much more much?
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Your prayer life is with the Holy, amazing God.
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Have you ever thought about prayer from that perspective?
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So let me give these to you one more time.
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Exalt or praise.
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Surrender your will to His will.
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Ask according to His will.
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Repent of your sin.
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Ask Him to help you forgive others.
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In Him for your conformity into Christ and help others to be more like Jesus and exalt
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and praise.
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Give all the glory to Him when it's all done.
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Very simple.
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Isn't that a nice model?
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That's an amazing model.
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To be honest with you, a couple of times I'm praying with the guys Wednesday night and
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they're like, man, it's a model, it's not mine.
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I just follow it.
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Your prayer life will be so refreshing.
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If you follow Christ's model, you don't need to change it.
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That being said, we're going to pick up next week in the doctrine of prayer as we start
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looking through why we gave you the how and the why.
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What should you pray?
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I gave you the model and when.
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We're going to deal with the issue of when next week.
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Then we'll start going through some examples of prayer, Old Testament, New Testament.
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I will tell you we're going to go through Hannah's prayer.
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An amazing prayer.
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Prayer of a woman who loves her God.
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Then we'll go through the prayer of Jesus.
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We got a lot to go through over the next several weeks.
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Father, I want to thank you so much for your faithfulness and goodness.
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To you be honor and glory.
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Thank you, Lord, for your word.
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Thank you again for all the spiritual manna, the reality of the truth that prayer is a
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reorientation of our heart and our mind, our will, our desires.
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That our needs are fully found and met in you.
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Help us to forgive as you have forgiven us.
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And to love others as you have loved us.
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To honor and lift you high in all things.
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To proclaim your wonderful name, the name of Yeshua, the God who saves.
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For we thank you and praise you.
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In Jesus' name, amen.