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The Lord's Prayer: A Guide to Humility and Spiritual Communication · Growing Closer to God with Guided Meditation

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  Pastor Robert Young: Hi friends, welcome to season three of Not your Parents Religion podcast.
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  Pastor Robert Young: I'm your host, pastor Robert Young, and joining me today is co-host Jill.
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  Pastor Robert Young: In this season of the podcast, I will be leading a roundtable discussion series about biblical questions that people have asked us in our travels from city to city.
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  Pastor Robert Young: My co-host and I will dispel various myths and fallacies and false narratives about the Bible and the faith.
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  Pastor Robert Young: With our 30 plus years of church planting, mentoring other pastors and 30 plus years of teaching leaders evangelism and discipleship, we will continue to present the true, untainted gospel so that you can make an informed decision about Jesus Christ.
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  Pastor Robert Young: And today our discussion is about prayer in your home.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Hi friends, we're continuing our series that we started before our three week break.
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  Pastor Robert Young: The series is called Saving America Begins at Home, in particular prayer.
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  Pastor Robert Young: We're talking about praying with your family at home.
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  Pastor Robert Young: However, some people may think that they don't know how to pray.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Don't worry.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Even Jesus' disciples asked him to teach them how to pray, as we see recorded in Luke, chapter 11.
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  Pastor Robert Young: But first let me make the pastorial presentation about this subject and then our co-host, which we have, jill, with us today.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Hi everyone, then we're going to discuss and ask questions about the subject.
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  Jill Young: Yeah, I have a number of different questions I got for you on this one.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Okay, well, the Lord's prayer, as you know, is a well-known prayer found in the Gospel of Matthew, chapter 6, verses 9 through 13.
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  Pastor Robert Young: As we stated earlier, it's also found in the book of Luke as well, and there's many, many, many, many prayers written throughout the Bible, but this prayer in particular is a prayer that Jesus taught his disciples as a model for how to pray, and we want to go over an explanation of each line of the prayer, starting with, well obviously, the beginning, "Our Father, which art in heaven.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Now, this opening acknowledges God as a loving Father and recognize that he is in a heavenly realm.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Yeah next one.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Hallowed be thy name".
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  Pastor Robert Young: This line speaks to the holiness and reverence of God's name, emphasizing that it should be respected and recognized as sacred.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Next up, thy kingdom, come.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Here the prayer expresses the hope and desire for God's kingdom to be done on earth, as it obviously is in heaven right, because whenever he says something in heaven, it's done.
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  Pastor Robert Young: So our prayer is to have it done here.
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  Pastor Robert Young: When he says something, for us to do it.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Next up, "Give us this day, our daily bread.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Now, this line asks God to provide for our physical needs on a daily basis, recognizing him as the ultimate source of sustenance and nourishment.
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  Pastor Robert Young: And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Now, this part acknowledges the need for God's forgiveness for our sins and mistakes, while also emphasizing the importance of forgiving others who have wronged us and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
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  Pastor Robert Young: In this line, we ask God to guide us away from temptation and protect us from the influences of evil forces.
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  Pastor Robert Young: There's tons of scripture that we'll go through in some other podcast or episode that talks about all of this stuff in more detail.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Finally, "For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Amen.
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  Pastor Robert Young: This closing line acknowledges and affirms God's sovereignty, God's power and God's eternal glory.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Jill.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Overall, the Lord's prayer teaches us to approach God with humility, reverence and an attitude of submission to his will.
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  Pastor Robert Young: It reminds us of our dependence on him for our daily provision for forgiveness and protection, while also acknowledging his ultimate authority and rule.
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  Pastor Robert Young: So, just like with any other relationship, any other authority, we don't just approach that person any old kind of way.
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  Jill Young: Right.
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  Pastor Robert Young: That God gives us specific rules.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Let's think about that for a second.
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  Pastor Robert Young: If God created the universe and all that we know and can see and don't see, do you think of God like that?
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  Pastor Robert Young: And I know I hear people say, well, if he was loving, well, maybe I shouldn't be mocking.
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  Pastor Robert Young: But people say, well, if he was loving, we should be able to.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Yeah, he never said don't approach me.
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  Pastor Robert Young: He said, be careful how you talk to me.
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  Jill Young: Right, just like you would any person of authority, a police officer, a teacher, a boss, a parent and that's who he is a parent.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Right.
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  Pastor Robert Young: And he said in Matthew, I believe he said, listen, if you, being evil parents or not good parents know how to do good for your kids, how much more will God know how to take care of his kids?
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  Pastor Robert Young: God, you know that's a big piece of it too, Jill, that we don't look.
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  Pastor Robert Young: A lot of people don't look at God, at God, as a father, but they look at him as some weird entity, in the sky that doesn't want to have any type of relationship with you.
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  Pastor Robert Young: And we believe that our God, the creator of the universe, is so good that he says that we can come to him and communicate, because that's all prayer basically is, in a nutshell, and I hope I don't oversimplify this, but he is.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Prayer is communication with the creator, sure, and that has certain rules of communication, like any other rules of communication with any authority.
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  Jill Young: Right, he wants to have a private conversation with you.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Yes.
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  Jill Young: He doesn't want you to be screaming from the rooftop trying to get his attention.
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  Jill Young: He knows what's going on at all times.
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  Jill Young: So when you pray, you pray privately with him and have that conversation like you would any of your family members.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Now let's break it down a little bit and then we'll get into a little bit more details on because, remember, this is part of the Save America how we're going to save America series, teaching you how to have Bible study in your home, how to have worship in your home, how to have prayer.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Now, prayer could be we're talking corporate prayer with your family members, and you also have that private prayer, like Jill just talked about, alone with God.
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  Pastor Robert Young: But the corporate prayer when we all get together, however many people are in your family or in your church or whatever and we pray collectively to God and ask him to help us and help others.
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  Pastor Robert Young: And the biggest piece about prayer is that it needs to be sincere.
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  Jill Young: Of course yes.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Oh, as we said, and it can't just be it.
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  Jill Young: well, it certainly can be for the moment, but when you're not faithful and you're not faithfully praying to God, then all of a sudden you need something right.
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  Jill Young: And you're like it's like that story I heard where someone said, oh God, I've been driving around for the past hour to find a parking lot.
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  Jill Young: Please just help me find a parking spot.
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  Jill Young: And then the parking spot opens up and it's like, oh, never mind, I just got one.
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  Jill Young: No, God opened that spot for you.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Now if we realize that God wants a personal relationship with us, and I think that's a big stumbling block for a lot of people.
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  Pastor Robert Young: They can't fathom the idea of the creator of the universe wanting to talk to them.
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  Pastor Robert Young: They think that, well, I'm not worthy.
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  Pastor Robert Young: And they're right we're not worthy.
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  Pastor Robert Young: They think that I'm not good enough.
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  Pastor Robert Young: They're right again You're not good enough.
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  Jill Young: All of those things, that there was only one person that was good enough.
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  Jill Young: That was Jesus Christ.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Exactly so, all of those things that we think, you know I'm not good enough, I'm not worthy.
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  Pastor Robert Young: You're right, but through the bloodshed that Jesus did for us, on our behalf, God doesn't count us as worthy.
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  Pastor Robert Young: He counts that sacrifice that Jesus did.
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  Pastor Robert Young: He counts it for us.
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  Pastor Robert Young: So now we can approach, as the scripture says, the throne of grace so that we can receive help in time of need, whatever that need may be, even if it's a need for someone else.
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  Pastor Robert Young: We pray and ask God, not on our own worthiness, not on our own goodness, but because of what Jesus did for us, and thank you.
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  Jill Young: Right.
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  Jill Young: Well, in the beginning of Matthew, which is what I've been focusing on today, it talks about doing good deeds and the importance of doing good deeds.
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  Jill Young: It also talks about when you do those good deeds, you don't tell everyone that you did good deeds.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Right right.
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  Jill Young: It specifically says don't do your good deeds publicly, so don't let your left hand know what your right hand is doing.
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  Jill Young: So if you're doing good for others, the thanks is in your own heart.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Right.
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  Jill Young: And with God.
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  Pastor Robert Young: And God sees that Right and you're not doing it.
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  Jill Young: You shouldn't.
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  Pastor Robert Young: If you're making donations.
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  Jill Young: Your name doesn't necessarily need to go on a building.
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  Jill Young: Right right To show that, hey, this is what a good person I am Right right.
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  Jill Young: Well, you are a good person.
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  Jill Young: Thank God you're doing that.
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  Pastor Robert Young: But what does the Bible say about those people who do things for a show?
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  Pastor Robert Young: What does it say?
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  Jill Young: It says they're a hypocrite.
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  Pastor Robert Young: It says that also, that that's the reward that they're going to get right here on Earth.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Just manly reward, earthly reward.
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  Pastor Robert Young: But God is looking at it.
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  Pastor Robert Young: There's a scripture in the Old Testament that says man judges by the outside what he sees, but God knows the motivations.
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  Jill Young: That's a part of it, isn't it?
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  Pastor Robert Young: Of why somebody does what they did.
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  Pastor Robert Young: He said God knows the heart.
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  Pastor Robert Young: He sees that, even though you might be doing the right thing, but you're doing it for the wrong reason.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Because that's why he said in the scriptures that on that day of judgment there's going to be many people that said, lord, didn't I do this in your name?
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  Pastor Robert Young: Didn't I pray in your name?
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  Pastor Robert Young: And these are talking about Christians too.
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  Pastor Robert Young: All these things did not I do this for you, and Jesus is going to reply to them.
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  Pastor Robert Young: You did those things for selfish reasons.
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  Pastor Robert Young: You did it to be seen and heard of man.
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  Pastor Robert Young: You didn't do that because you loved me or that you love the people.
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  Jill Young: Right.
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  Pastor Robert Young: And depart from me.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Good Lord, help us all.
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  Jill Young: And well?
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  Jill Young: So here's a question people have.
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  Jill Young: When you go out on the street and you hold up a sign that says honk for Jesus, God knows what your motivation is right and truly.
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  Jill Young: If you're truly a man of God or a woman of God, you're out there doing it so that you are, just for that moment, helping someone to think about Jesus.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Amen, amen, and we pray as the scripture shows us.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Paul the apostle, all of the apostles in the New Testament, teaches us and tells us to pray for one another and to don't stop praying and to enter what we call intercede, in other words, praying specifically for a person, for their need, spiritual, physical, whatever, so that God can bless that person, is a completely selfless prayer.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Yes, and that's what we call it intercessory, where you're praying for someone, and not just when there's a terrible tragedy or some sickness, but just in general.
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  Pastor Robert Young: I love the prayer.
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  Pastor Robert Young: That's Colossians, I believe chapter one, starting at around verse 18, I believe I have often prayed this prayer quite a bit for people.
• 12:45
  Jill Young: I'm going to look it up.
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  Pastor Robert Young: And it talks.
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  Pastor Robert Young: It's just about the perfect prayer, I think, so I'm going to look that up too.
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  Jill Young: Colossians, chapter one, verse number.
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  Pastor Robert Young: I believe it starts at verse 18 or 19.
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  Pastor Robert Young: And listeners, please just give us a second to get to that.
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  Pastor Robert Young: This is one of those unscripted things where we just Colossians.
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  Jill Young: Colossians, chapter one chapter one and you think it's 16.
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  Pastor Robert Young: I believe let's start at 16.
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  Pastor Robert Young: See what it says.
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  Pastor Robert Young: All right, nope, nope, nope, nope, no this is not a verse nine.
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  Jill Young: Verse nine yes.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Here's what it says in Colossians, chapter one, verse nine, for this cause.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Now, this is Paul the apostle.
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  Pastor Robert Young: He's talking to a group of Christians and he's talking about how their faith is well known and he's praising them.
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  Pastor Robert Young: But then, in verse nine, this is a prayer for this cause.
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  Pastor Robert Young: We also since today we heard it heard what?
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  Pastor Robert Young: of their faith.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Do not cease to pray for you and to desire that you might be filled with the knowledge of his will, who's will, God's, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding, that you might walk worthy of the Lord unto all, pleasing, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of who, God, that they would be strengthened with all might, according to God's glorious power, onto all patience and long suffering, with joyfulness and giving thanks unto the father, and and on and on He goes, but the the thing here is, .
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  Pastor Robert Young: did you notice something in that prayer, though?
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  Pastor Robert Young: It was always about that person?
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  Pastor Robert Young: Those christians know God better.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Right to know God better, because if God is the ultimate answer to every question that we may have, is the ultimate authority, to everything that is, and the ultimate everything, our biggest things that we can do for someone, is to show them God, yeah, and all of his love, his patience, his Provision.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Now, that that's not to say that we don't feed the poor and visit the homeless and pray for the sick.
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  Pastor Robert Young: We do all those things, but here's the clincher.
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  Pastor Robert Young: We do those things because we love God, right?
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  Pastor Robert Young: Not because it's just a good.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Now, if you're doing those things, whatever your motivation is for doing them, keep on doing them.
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  Pastor Robert Young: I'm not telling you to stop, keep on doing them, but realize this.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Jesus said that they're gonna say to me, didn't I do this, this, this and this?
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  Pastor Robert Young: And Jesus is gonna say you did those things because of this, this and this.
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  Pastor Robert Young: You didn't do them because you really loved me.
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  Jill Young: Uh, and it may very well be because you love mankind.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Right.
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  Pastor Robert Young: You know what we like to say.
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  Pastor Robert Young: You cannot love mankind the way God wants mankind to be loved until you get the love that God has to give you so that you can love mankind the right way, Because you don't know what you got until you got it right.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Um, well, we also say that our human love Is subject to change.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Well, yeah, depending on how much you take me off today right, I didn't do that.
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  Pastor Robert Young: No, just a wild example.
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  Pastor Robert Young: But god's love doesn't change it's unconditional.
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  Pastor Robert Young: And so in order to love mankind the way that God wants mankind to be loved by each other, you have to, because he is love right.
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  Pastor Robert Young: You have to come to him to get the love to love somebody the right way.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Otherwise you're just loving them with human love and that's fine.
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  Pastor Robert Young: That's fine.
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  Pastor Robert Young: But there's a deeper level of love than mankind's love, that unconditional or what we call.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Agape love.
• 16:39
  Pastor Robert Young: So, agape love.
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  Pastor Robert Young: So I hope that.
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  Pastor Robert Young: So the question is well, how do I institute this in my home?
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  Pastor Robert Young: Pastor young, because that's what we're talking about prayer, and you can get yourself a concordance or a concordance app now and look up all the the ways and all the times that the word prayer, pray, prayer, praying are used in the bible, and it'll give you an overall view of some of the ways in which God likes to be communicated with.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Yes that's basically what we're saying.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Yes, what is God's love language?
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  Jill Young: Well, can we also go back to Matthew five for a minute, sure?
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  Jill Young: We can and it says in here Uh about having a.
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  Jill Young: You're trying to clean up your brother who has a speck in his eye.
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  Jill Young: Yes when you have a plank in your own eye.
• 17:31
  Jill Young: Yes, so he's saying get yourself cleaned up before you point out the the error of someone else's ways, or before you think you can guide someone else right, there's another scripture in.
• 17:47
  Pastor Robert Young: I'm not sure I can't recall where it is exactly, but it's in there.
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  Pastor Robert Young: It said if you see you're is talking to christian people, if you see your brother overtaken in some sin or some fault, ye, which are spiritual, restore him in the spirit of meekness.
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  Pastor Robert Young: In other words, if you have a right standing with God, and, yeah, try to guide your brother back to the right thinking or to the faith.
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  Pastor Robert Young: So how do we clean ourselves up?
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  Pastor Robert Young: Simple, as we said here, forgive us.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Forgive us our trespasses.
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  Jill Young: In other words our sins and those that trespass against us.
• 18:22
  Pastor Robert Young: Forgive.
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  Pastor Robert Young: When we forgive someone.
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  Pastor Robert Young: That doesn't mean that we go over and have lunch at their house all the time, but if that can be worked out, and that's fine.
• 18:32
  Jill Young: We well, and you're not hurting anyone by yourself right If you're holding on to that grudge.
• 18:37
  Jill Young: It's not healthy for you and probably not for the people that are around you on a day to day basis.
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  Pastor Robert Young: And remember there's a scripture that Paul, I believe, said if it be possible, live peacefully with all men.
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  Pastor Robert Young: So what they're saying is you may forgive someone, but you still may not be able to be around that person.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Right?
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  Pastor Robert Young: Right.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Because you're Christian doesn't mean that you have to put up with their nonsense.
• 19:02
  Pastor Robert Young: You forgive them and you keep it moving.
• 19:04
  Pastor Robert Young: Right, you keep it moving.
• 19:05
  Pastor Robert Young: Don't hold those grudges, because that's just going to start a bitterness and all kinds of nonsense in your life and in your heart.
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  Pastor Robert Young: So you want to forgive.
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  Pastor Robert Young: So what do we do?
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  Pastor Robert Young: We find, as we said in other episodes of this series, find a particular room in the house, set aside that room for this devotion time.
• 19:30
  Pastor Robert Young: We talked about the worship.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Now we're talking about the prayer time.
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  Pastor Robert Young: When should it come in the worship service?
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  Pastor Robert Young: You decide.
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  Jill Young: Right.
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  Pastor Robert Young: But let it be known that corporate prayer the Bible says, where two or three Christians are gathered together and they believe on something and they connect on something.
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  Pastor Robert Young: God here he stands up and he hears that and he looks favorably upon that Right.
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  Pastor Robert Young: If it's something that is according to his will, we can know that he's going to answer that prayer, because that's what scripture says.
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  Jill Young: Right.
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  Jill Young: Well, in today's modern day, they talk a great deal about the health benefits of meditation.
• 20:10
  Jill Young: In today's modern day, they talk about the health benefits of meditation.
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  Jill Young: Well, prayer is meditation in a sense, but you are turning this conversation to God.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Right.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Who hears?
• 20:31
  Pastor Robert Young: The other part about prayer also is because we started out by saying that prayer is just a communication between you and God.
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  Pastor Robert Young: In any form of communication, whether it's spiritual or natural, part of the communication is one person talks, the other person listens, right?
• 20:50
  Pastor Robert Young: So prayer to God is more than just spilling out what you got to say and then walking away.
• 20:56
  Pastor Robert Young: Prayer is mostly just addressing the issue that you want to address with God, and there is something called a Thanksgiving prayer.
• 21:04
  Pastor Robert Young: There's many of scriptures that talk about giving thanks to God.
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  Pastor Robert Young: In other words, just come to God and thank him, praise him, worship him for what he's done, what he's going to do, what he's already done, and sometimes don't even ask for anything.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Right?
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  Pastor Robert Young: Can you imagine that when your kids say that they love you so much but they don't ask for anything?
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  Pastor Robert Young: Can you imagine if your child called you on the phone?
• 21:25
  Jill Young: No, I cannot imagine.
• 21:26
  Jill Young: They said Mama.
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  Pastor Robert Young: I was just sitting here thinking how wonderful you are and how wonderful you are and how much you were a blessing to me as I was growing up.
• 21:33
  Pastor Robert Young: And then you say okay, honey, I love you too.
• 21:36
  Pastor Robert Young: Then they said well, I got to go now.
• 21:38
  Pastor Robert Young: Yep, what, you'd probably hit.
• 21:39
  Pastor Robert Young: You would probably.
• 21:42
  Jill Young: Why they didn't ask for money or car keys or nothing, nothing.
• 21:47
  Pastor Robert Young: It just said okay, I got to go now, I just wanted you to know that?
• 21:49
  Pastor Robert Young: Can you imagine?
• 21:51
  Pastor Robert Young: One day that's going to happen for us.
• 21:54
  Jill Young: Yes, one day is going to happen.
• 21:55
  Jill Young: Yes, but it's good to build the prayer into your day.
• 22:01
  Pastor Robert Young: Right.
• 22:02
  Jill Young: So I know that you pray in the morning.
• 22:05
  Pastor Robert Young: Yes, I pray throughout the day, but specifically in the morning on my way to work, because I'm about to face the world and I want to have.
• 22:13
  Pastor Robert Young: As scripture says, I want my light to be shining when I go out into the community around other people.
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  Pastor Robert Young: Right so make that a specific time.
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  Pastor Robert Young: It doesn't have to be a long, drawn out prayer, because the scripture talks about that.
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  Pastor Robert Young: It's talks about those that keep babbling on and on and on about different things.
• 22:30
  Pastor Robert Young: So when we do it, make it short, sweet, and then a time of reflection, a time of listening.
• 22:37
  Pastor Robert Young: Yep, you know, just with any communication, listen, listen and wait for God to speak to your heart and to to your mind.
• 22:48
  Pastor Robert Young: I should say Now, if you hear audible voices, if you hear audible voices, maybe we should call some, some professional the next day and and have a talk.
• 23:03
  Pastor Robert Young: I say that funny, humorously, because most of the time God does not speak to us in audible voices, right, most of the time is to our hearts.
• 23:10
  Pastor Robert Young: Now, that is not to minimize mental health at all, no, you're just saying that if you are that person that's hearing that, then call someone, talk to someone about some help, because mental health issues now are a big thing and we want to acknowledge that.
• 23:27
  Pastor Robert Young: Right, we want to acknowledge that this is a legitimate issue and we would never minimize anyone's mental issues.
• 23:36
  Pastor Robert Young: Amen, amen, amen.
• 23:38
  Pastor Robert Young: So now we've got our specific room set aside.
• 23:41
  Pastor Robert Young: We're doing our devotion, we're praising God, worshiping God in song.
• 23:45
  Pastor Robert Young: We've come to the time of prayer, where we we pray in.
• 23:49
  Pastor Robert Young: Prayer is communication.
• 23:52
  Pastor Robert Young: So anyone in this service can lead the prayer per se, as long as they know the scriptures and they know God.
• 23:58
  Pastor Robert Young: For the Bible says.
• 23:59
  Jill Young: Even if they don't know the the scriptures, they can read from the Bible.
• 24:05
  Pastor Robert Young: Yes, they can read the prayer we just read.
• 24:07
  Jill Young: Right, and so also there's so many versions of the Bible.
• 24:10
  Jill Young: So if you have a problem with the new King James, there's other versions out there that can help you.
• 24:18
  Pastor Robert Young: Amen.
• 24:18
  Pastor Robert Young: So when you pray in, here's the thing when you pray, believe, especially if you know that you're praying according to God's will.
• 24:27
  Pastor Robert Young: For example, lord, help Sister Jones because she's sick.
• 24:33
  Pastor Robert Young: Or help my, if it's one of the kids my, my other student, got in an accident down in the hospital.
• 24:41
  Pastor Robert Young: Lord, help them.
• 24:41
  Pastor Robert Young: You know that this kind of prayer is right God's will you can believe.
• 24:45
  Pastor Robert Young: The Bible says you can believe that God heard your prayer and if the creator of the universe has heard your prayer and is according to what he wants for life, you can know that he's going to do something about it.
• 24:59
  Pastor Robert Young: Whether he heals that person or tell you, or that person doesn't get healed, you can know that he heard that prayer Amen.
• 25:06
  Pastor Robert Young: So you've done your prayer.
• 25:08
  Pastor Robert Young: Now it's time to move on to your Bible study, which we will be talking about, probably in the next episode how to do Bible study in your own home because we are on a mission to tell everyone in America, everyone in the world that will listen, about this real, true, untainted gospel Amen.
• 25:28
  Pastor Robert Young: So, with that being said, if you've been listening to this podcast for any length of time and you've come to the decision that you want this Jesus Christ as your savior.
• 25:37
  Pastor Robert Young: Then, my friends, today is your special day.
• 25:40
  Pastor Robert Young: I want you to say this sinner's prayer with me.
• 25:43
  Pastor Robert Young: You know the routine.
• 25:44
  Pastor Robert Young: You've been listening for a while, so today is your day, so repeat this prayer with me.
• 25:49
  Pastor Robert Young: Father, forgive me, I am a sinner.
• 25:53
  Pastor Robert Young: I come to you now believing that Jesus Christ died on that cross so that I could be forgiven of my sins.
• 26:01
  Pastor Robert Young: I receive him now as my savior.
• 26:05
  Pastor Robert Young: I Believe that you're filling me right now with the Holy Ghost, which will empower me to live up to your righteous standards.
• 26:14
  Pastor Robert Young: I believe this and receive this in the name of Jesus Christ, right now.
• 26:19
  Pastor Robert Young: Amen, amen.
• 26:21
  Pastor Robert Young: Friends, if you said that with a sincere heart, the Bible let us know that your name has been written in a book up in heaven, call the lambs book of life.
• 26:32
  Pastor Robert Young: So I need you to do one more thing for us, though.
• 26:34
  Pastor Robert Young: I need you to do your due diligence.
• 26:36
  Pastor Robert Young: Do your research and find a Bible believing, God honoring, Jesus, accepting Church in your community, and then do what?
• 26:49
  Pastor Robert Young: Go to that church, become a part of that church.
• 26:52
  Pastor Robert Young: Let your presence be a blessing, so that you can receive more information, edification, clarification and sometimes, what's the word, rebuke, or being put back on the right way, in a loving manner, of course, because we don't promote spiritual abuse around here.
• 27:14
  Pastor Robert Young: No no, and we'll talk about that in an episode coming up too.
• 27:18
  Pastor Robert Young: What is spiritual abuse?
• 27:20
  Pastor Robert Young: Because there's a lot of that going on.
• 27:21
  Pastor Robert Young: So now, if you still need clarification about anything that has been said or more information about prayer, do not hesitate to get in contact with us in all of the ways to contact us in the description box below on this episode.
• 27:38
  Pastor Robert Young: So until next time.
• 27:40
  Jill Young: I am your host, pastor Robert young and I am Jill Young and take care of yourselves and each other.
• 27:47
  Jill Young: God bless, god bless you.