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87 - Why do you pray? · The One Gospel Podcast

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to One Gospel, bringing you the full truth of God's Word, clearly explained.
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  SPEAKER_00: Together with our host, Johann Toit, we'll unpack scripture to understand what's written and grow as a disciple of Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ready to take notes?
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's open the Bible.
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  SPEAKER_01: Hi there and welcome to today's episode of One Gospel.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm your host, Jon Toot, and as always, I am excited to share the Word of God with you.
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  SPEAKER_01: I started this series called Heart Matters, and I've been covering a lot of stuff concerning the heart.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's been really, really amazing.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, the Bible talks a lot about our heart, about our true motivation, about our true self.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, that we live from the heart, we speak from the heart.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, the motivation should always be coming from a pure heart, an upright heart if it comes to the things of the kingdom of God, because God sees the heart.
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  SPEAKER_01: 1 Samuel 16, verse 7, he doesn't look at the imperial of man, but he sees the heart.
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  SPEAKER_01: He looks and he sees exactly what lives in your heart, what is your true motivation.
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  SPEAKER_01: But then also we can see in the Bible the heart of the Father, his true nature.
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  SPEAKER_01: And Jesus came to reveal that, of course, but we can see it through all of the scriptures.
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  SPEAKER_01: From the beginning of creation, we can see the heart of the Father and how He always wanted to have a relationship with us and wanted us to be His children, His sons and His daughters, and so that He could be a Father to us and not only God, very far away, you know, this omnipotent God, but He also wanted to be very close, He wanted to dwell within you and have community and relationship with you.
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_01: And herein you can also see the heart of the Father.
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_01: And so I've been sharing a lot of heart matters in this series, Heart Matters, but you know, it's I I don't believe that I'm gonna uh be able to cover all that there is concerning the heart.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I really want to encourage you to go yourself into the word and just search all the topics and all the themes, you know, concerning the heart.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because man, once your heart is good, once you understand the heart of the Father, once you understand, you know, you how your own heart uh has to be and can be now in Christ Jesus, and with what kind of motivation you do what you do, uh man, I believe your life is really gonna change and it's really gonna bless you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh and that's why the Bible, David says to God, search my heart and see if there's any damaging way.
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  SPEAKER_01: And and you also can ask that to God, but in the same time, you know, ask the Holy Spirit to reveal to you, you know, what is your true motivation, why you do what you do.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so, not to condemn you, but that you can change that.
• 2:37
  SPEAKER_01: Because the love of God has been poured out into our hearts, and we are now able to love others, to love ourselves and to love God with all our hearts, with all our soul, all our mind, and all our strength, you know, with everything that's within us, you know, we are able to love the same way that God loves us.
• 2:52
  SPEAKER_01: And man, there's so much to share.
• 2:54
  SPEAKER_01: I already got myself into trouble just you know recounting some of the things, but I've been sharing about the heart of the gospel, uh, you know, in um how God from the beginning of the creation already wanted to have this relation and intimacy with us.
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  SPEAKER_01: We have been created for his pleasure, and so even though we messed it up because he gave us a free will, he gave us still a way out, and finally, in the fullness of times, Jesus had come, and then Jesus has fulfilled and restored all that was lost.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, relationship and intimacy.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, you know, we've been reconciled to God in Christ Jesus, and so now I've shared on believing is a hard matter for you to believe the gospel, it's it's a matter of the heart.
• 3:34
  SPEAKER_01: And then also uh I ended up now in um a few episodes concerning praying after the heart of the father or praying with the right heart motivation, which is the same thing basically.
• 3:45
  SPEAKER_01: And so um I've been sharing on you know that um the way that we approach God in in our heart motivation, and I feel that there's still a lot to share on.
• 3:56
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm gonna today today I'm gonna continue in this um in this same flow.
• 4:00
  SPEAKER_01: Uh but before I do that, just uh want to remind you this book, The God of Restoration.
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  SPEAKER_01: You can get it, you get a hard copy, you can get uh you know, PDF, e-hub, and all that stuff in the link below.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I promise you it's gonna be a blessing for you, and it's for free.
• 4:16
  SPEAKER_01: So make sure you kind of get your copy.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, Father God, thank you so much for your word, thank you for your truth, and I pray, Father, that your Holy Spirit will lead and prompt me to teach those people that need to receive this truth so that they can be blessed.
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  SPEAKER_01: I give you all the honor in Jesus' mighty name.
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  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so I wanted to uh continue to read here in 1 John 5, verse 14.
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  SPEAKER_01: Here it says, now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us, and if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him.
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  SPEAKER_01: Man, this is such a powerful, powerful verse, but it's also a very important key that is hidden in these verses.
• 5:12
  SPEAKER_01: First of all, you can have the confidence in Christ that if you ask anything according to His will, and so there is a lot you can ask God if it's not according to His will, He doesn't hear you, He doesn't answer you in that matter because it's not according to His will.
• 5:32
  SPEAKER_01: It doesn't help you, it doesn't help nobody else, it's not it's not gonna be safe for you, it's not gonna bless God, it's not gonna be a good testimony, and so God is not answering those kind of prayers that you you know have brought into your own pleasures and desires and and so on and so forth.
• 5:47
  SPEAKER_01: And so I will get to that uh verse also that the Bible says that you pray but you do not receive because you want to pass it, you want to spend it on your pleasures.
• 5:58
  SPEAKER_01: And you see, so there the heart motivation was not right, is what James says in James 4.
• 6:04
  SPEAKER_01: But or if it's in James 1.
• 6:06
  SPEAKER_01: Let me just check that out for you quickly because I don't want to misquote anything.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh yeah, so I think it's in James 4.
• 6:16
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not I'm not thinking.
• 6:18
  SPEAKER_01: Uh here it says in verse uh 3 you ask and do not receive because you ask and miss that you may spend it on your pleasures.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, this asking in other translations is pray.
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  SPEAKER_01: You pray, but you do not receive because you ask amiss that you spend it on your pleasures.
• 6:35
  SPEAKER_01: God won't bless that kind of prayer, he won't answer that kind of prayer, you won't receive or see anything manifest concerning these kind of prayers that I've been sharing on in Galatians that are prayers, they're carnal, uh, there are natural uh prayers that you know are not in line with the things of the kingdom of God or don't don't really bless you or bless God in what kind of way whatsoever.
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  SPEAKER_01: The same way that I'm gonna pray that God will do something bad to somebody else.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's not in his will.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, uh Lord, I pray that you let that guy stumble, that he will go flat on his face, and so he knows that he mustn't mess with me.
• 7:13
  SPEAKER_01: No, that I mean those voodoo doctors maybe do that kind of stuff, but our God is not like that, amen.
• 7:18
  SPEAKER_01: And so you don't share, you don't ask and go to God for this kind of nonsense.
• 7:22
  SPEAKER_01: But I'm just saying here, John 1 John 5, verse 14.
• 7:26
  SPEAKER_01: This is the confidence, this is the certainty, this is the trust, the faith, the knowing for sure that we have, you know, this confidence that that I have in Christ Jesus, that if I ask anything according to his will, he will hear me.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, I've been reading from John 16.
• 7:42
  SPEAKER_01: I'm just gonna take it there quickly because um, you know, just to get it in um so you know, are we gonna get it into perspective?
• 7:52
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_01: Anyway, John 16, verse 23, and in that day you will ask me nothing.
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  SPEAKER_01: Most assured, this is the confidence, most assured I say to you, it's Jesus who tells you this, the great I am, the beginning and the end, the Alpha and the Omega.
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  SPEAKER_01: I say to you that whatever you ask the Father in my name, He will give you.
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  SPEAKER_01: He will give you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Until now you have asked nothing in my name, but ask and you will receive that your joy may be full.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is the confidence, John uh 1 John 5 14.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is the confidence that we have in him, because he promised it.
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  SPEAKER_01: He made the promise.
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  SPEAKER_01: He said, Listen, until now you didn't ask anything in my name, but you know, on that day you won't ask me nothing.
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  SPEAKER_01: Most assuredly I say to you that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he will give to you.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is the confidence that we now have in him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he will hear us.
• 8:44
  SPEAKER_01: And so here again, you know, I won't go back to Mark 11, 22 until 24, where it says that whatever you say, that you will have it, if you believe it in your heart and you do not doubt, but that whatever is have that has to be according to his will.
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  SPEAKER_01: According to his will.
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  SPEAKER_01: So you want your prayers to bear fruit.
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  SPEAKER_01: You want your prayers to be answered.
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  SPEAKER_01: And if you have a prayer life where your prayer life is not being answered, where you do not do not bear a lot of fruit, and you're, you know, then there's something there is wrong with your prayer life.
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  SPEAKER_01: There is no condemnation, God is not judging you, rejecting you.
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  SPEAKER_01: He just wants you to learn how you can approach him, pray after his heart, pray in spirit and in truth, come to him in spirit and in truth, connect with him in the spirit with the right motivation, with the right heart, and then your prayers will be answered and he will hear you.
• 9:37
  SPEAKER_01: And man, and that's so much better than just going in there and you know, have nothing.
• 9:42
  SPEAKER_01: Just go in with nothing and go out with nothing, you know, not even being built up.
• 9:46
  SPEAKER_01: The only thing you did is just drop your frustrations, dropped your wish list, dropped your problems, you know, and just inform him, like you know, you would go into a small little box in a certain church and tell the priest, you know, all the things you have done wrong, you know, and that's it's basically comes down to the same thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: You go there and you just drop everything you drop and say maybe five merry hell, you know, whatever prayer you call that, you know, and then that's it.
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  SPEAKER_01: There was nothing there.
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  SPEAKER_01: God wasn't even in the picture, you know, He was not even involved, anyway.
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  SPEAKER_01: It wasn't in spirit and truth, and therefore you don't receive your your um your answer.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so it's a waste of your time.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now I can give a lot of examples, but I'm gonna I'm gonna cover a few before we go into the next level of praying after the heart of the Father.
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  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so, first is you pray, but your motivation, your heart is wrong.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, that was the verse that I was quoting in John uh sorry in James 4, verse 3.
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  SPEAKER_01: That you ask and you do not receive.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you pray, but you do not receive because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_01: And so in the Amplified, I wrote it down in the Implified, it says, You do ask God for them, and yet fail to receive because you ask with wrong purpose and evil, selfish motives.
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  SPEAKER_01: Your intention is when you get what you desire to spend it in sensual and carnal pleasures.
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  SPEAKER_01: So a prayer with wrong desires and longings is not a prayer after the heart of the Father.
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  SPEAKER_01: And you can forget about that.
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  SPEAKER_01: He doesn't hear that.
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  SPEAKER_01: And and you can fill it in for yourself.
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  SPEAKER_01: There are a lot of things, you know, that you can pray, you know, with wrong desires, you know, wrong purposes and evil selfish motive motives.
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_01: You can, if you just, you know, write down all the things that you are praying, maybe you'll find a few of them also in the midst, you know, and so don't do that anymore because God doesn't hear that, doesn't bless him, you know, and he doesn't answer it.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so that's one.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then two, you pray, but it has not been made available for you in grace.
• 11:54
  SPEAKER_01: As I said in Mark 11, 24, it says that everything that you desire when you pray, believe that you receive them and you will have them.
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  SPEAKER_01: So therefore, he says that.
• 12:05
  SPEAKER_01: Let me say it's therefore, because it's something therefore.
• 12:09
  SPEAKER_01: And of course, you know, I'm not gonna go into deep because I already have been covering Mark 11, but it's such a good verse to to prove your point, to show your point, you know, and so where Jesus says that, you know, um, verse 23, uh, for surely I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, be removed and cast into the sea, and do not doubt in his heart, but believe that those things he says will be done, he will whatever have, whatever he says.
• 12:35
  SPEAKER_01: This is a spiritual principle, the spiritual kingdom truth that Jesus is teaching us that what that you have what you say, if you believe in your heart that the thing that you are saying, you know.
• 12:44
  SPEAKER_01: So this is what is a spiritual principle, but then this whatever, I told you it has to be in the will of the Father and has to be established in grace.
• 12:51
  SPEAKER_01: If it's not established in grace, you can't have it.
• 12:54
  SPEAKER_01: And so, uh verse 24 it says, Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them and you will have them.
• 13:02
  SPEAKER_01: And I know that there are a lot of pastors and a lot of preachers say, Whatever means whatever.
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  SPEAKER_01: In my Bible, it means whatever.
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  SPEAKER_01: In the Greek it means whatever.
• 13:10
  SPEAKER_01: But you know, uh, I'm sorry, you know, to say that that's soulish that you just preach that because you know, you have to know yourself that you know when you desire something from God, when you are praying, when you are in true relationship with Him, these will be things that always are good for you, good for somebody else, or blessing God, and not, you know, in selfish motives, you know, or har harming for you without you knowing that it's harming for you, you know, damaging for you or other people around you, doesn't add nothing to your life, it doesn't bless your life, it doesn't help you forward, doesn't give you the breakthrough that you truly need, you know, like the guy wanted alms, and God didn't didn't give him what he wanted, he gave him what he needed, he needed to be healed, amen.
• 13:55
  SPEAKER_01: In Acts 3, where Peter and John had this encounter with this lame guy, and so you know, um, whatever.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm sorry, I believe that you know, in the old King James Version, when you read John 15, verse 7, it says that if you abide in me and my words abide in you, you shall ask what you desire.
• 14:13
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I also believe it says it in the New King James Version, but it says it even a little bit stronger in the King James Version.
• 14:18
  SPEAKER_01: I cannot quote it exactly as it is, so please forgive me and have grace with me.
• 14:23
  SPEAKER_01: But it but it actually really makes it really clear that when you are praying, when he abides in you and you abide in him, then when you are praying that whatever you desire will be in line with the word of God because you are connected with the living God, you are connecting with his spirit, you are thinking on the things of above and you are worshiping God, then it's impossible for you to have some evil, selfish desire coming out of your mouth and out of your heart while you're praying in that matter.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_01: And therefore, it's whatever he has established in grace, you know.
• 14:54
  SPEAKER_01: If you desire those things, it's bill will be given to you.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_01: No worries about that.
• 14:58
  SPEAKER_01: And that's also, you know, provision, you know, it's all also the abundance, you know, and healing and all that kind of stuff.
• 15:05
  SPEAKER_01: But you know, it's just like anyway, I don't want to go into deep anymore, but you know, Jesus says, whatever you desire, and whatever you desire should be, you know, in line with the word of God, and it should not be, you know, to spend it on your own desires.
• 15:19
  SPEAKER_01: Otherwise, it's not a prayer after the heart of the Father.
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  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
• 15:22
  SPEAKER_01: And so then we have three, you pray, but you pray in unbelief.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_01: Hebrews 11:6 says, but without faith it is impossible to please him, for those who come to God must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him.
• 15:38
  SPEAKER_01: And so when you come to God and you are not sure if he's gonna answer you or not, if he's gonna hear you, yes or not, if you're gonna get established whatever you come for to God, you know, if if you're not sure that you're gonna have this relationship with him, this community with him, that you're gonna connect with him in the spirit, if you are not sure that he is answering you and blessing you and building you up, you know, in your most holy faith, if it's if it's not, if you're not sure, then you know you can forget that.
• 16:06
  SPEAKER_01: Because, you know, if you're not sure, you don't believe.
• 16:10
  SPEAKER_01: It says here that without faith, it's impossible to please him.
• 16:13
  SPEAKER_01: For he who comes to God, he who comes to God in prayer, in worship, you know, with your need, your request, or just to have a relationship, he who comes to God must believe that he is.
• 16:23
  SPEAKER_01: And if you are not sure that he is, a rewarder of those who diligently seek him, if you're not sure that he is the one that can provide you and give you all your needs in this life and the life that comes, and everything that you pray in his will, that it will be yes and amen in Christ Jesus.
• 16:38
  SPEAKER_01: If you do not really believe that, then you can go to him, but you won't receive it, because he who doubts will do it out, and he who believes will receive.
• 16:47
  SPEAKER_01: And so, you know, like you say, you know, I know that God is my healer, but the doctor says that's not a prayer in faith.
• 16:54
  SPEAKER_01: That's not coming to God and just, you know, believing that he will, you know, help you to give your breakthrough.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then you have this point four, or you're praying endlessly with vain repetitions, but you don't say anything.
• 17:05
  SPEAKER_01: You look what it says in Matthew 6, Matthew 6, verse 7.
• 17:11
  SPEAKER_01: We've been reading this also, so I don't want to go over them too many times again, but you know, it's also the power of repetition for you to to let to let it all sink in.
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_01: Here in Matthew 6, verse 7 and 8 it says, and when you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words.
• 17:33
  SPEAKER_01: Therefore, do not be like them, for your father knows the things you have need of before you ask him.
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_01: If you know this, if you know that he already knows what you need, and if you know that he already knows what you're gonna say, and that you know that you already that he already knows what you're gonna think, then you don't have to use a lot of words.
• 17:54
  SPEAKER_01: You just can come to him and say, Father God, thank you so much that you know all things, you know it all together.
• 17:58
  SPEAKER_01: You know my going in, you know my going out, you know what I need, you know my desires, you know my fears, you know my worries, my troubles, my needs.
• 18:05
  SPEAKER_01: Lord, I just cast all my cares upon you and I trust you, Father God, that you are my provider in everything I need, and I just worship your holy name.
• 18:13
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you, Lord, that I've received my answer and my breakthrough because you are with me.
• 18:17
  SPEAKER_01: I don't need to bend your arm for you to do something for me.
• 18:20
  SPEAKER_01: You are already here to come to my aid.
• 18:22
  SPEAKER_01: You are already here to come to my help because the Lord is my helper.
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_01: If God is for me, then who can stand again?
• 18:27
  SPEAKER_01: So it doesn't matter how high the walls are, how deep the valley is, how high the mountains are, you know, it doesn't matter what you know what challenge comes my way, even if I go to the valley of the shadow of death, I don't have to be afraid.
• 18:39
  SPEAKER_01: It doesn't matter where I go, where I, you know, where I am, what the situation is, you are for me and I love you so much, Father God.
• 18:45
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you for my breakthrough in Jesus' mighty name.
• 18:47
  SPEAKER_01: Now that's a prayer in spirit and in truth, amen.
• 18:50
  SPEAKER_01: So, you know, and then you also have people that pray, you know, out of obligation, you know, instead of you just having a relationship with the Father, that that's also not what God wants, you know, these obligated prayers, legalistic prayers, you know, I need to pray so many times a day, because if I do not preach so many, pray so many times a day, then God can bless me.
• 19:07
  SPEAKER_01: Then God cannot come to me, then then God can you know can't uh then I'm not faithful, then I'm not good enough for God to bless me.
• 19:16
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I've been um I've been in situations where I have really believed that if I'm not praying enough, if I'm not reading my Bible enough, you know, if I don't go to church every Sunday, if I'm not always gonna give my tithes and all these kinds of things, God can't bless me, can't use me, don't love me, don't trust me, you know, will reject me, and so on and so forth, which is legalism.
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's pure legalism because you think that God deals with you based on your performance and you know whether you are faithful and whether you, you know, are trustworthy, you know, and all that kind of stuff.
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_01: But God is never acting on based on what you can do for him, he's always acting on what Jesus has done for you.
• 19:55
  SPEAKER_01: And so God is faithful, God is trustworthy, you know, God is true, and every man is a liar.
• 20:03
  SPEAKER_01: God is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_01: And so, you know, you just learn to know God and have a relationship with God, and then all other things will be added to you, and you don't have to worry about that because it's not based on your performance, it's based on the grace and the goodness of God Himself.
• 20:19
  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
• 20:20
  SPEAKER_01: Man, I don't that's too much.
• 20:23
  SPEAKER_01: Anyway, five, you pray, you know, to be seen and to be honored by others.
• 20:28
  SPEAKER_01: Here it says in St.
• 20:29
  SPEAKER_01: Matthew 6, verse 5, it says, And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray, standing in the synagogue and on the corners of the streets, that they have may that they may be seen by men.
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_01: Ah, surely I say to you, they have their reward.
• 20:48
  SPEAKER_01: You know, there are so many people that pray.
• 20:52
  SPEAKER_01: I was one time I was in um it's uh it's a nice testimony.
• 20:56
  SPEAKER_01: One time I was well, it's a sad testimony, but it's a good one to want to make my point, amen.
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_01: I was one time in in uh Israel.
• 21:04
  SPEAKER_01: Man, I loved Israel.
• 21:06
  SPEAKER_01: I love the food, I love the history, and I just feel the presence, you know, when you walk in certain places, you know.
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, it's it's not that there is more anointing there, it's that you know you become more aware, and the spirit confirms with you that you are, you know, in you're walking in history, you know, where Jesus walked himself, but he is still walking there because it lives in me, amen.
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_01: And so, but uh, you know, the people can be really harsh though.
• 21:32
  SPEAKER_01: Anyway, I came I came to the old uh Jerusalem, I went to the city and uh I came to the temple place where the the the moaning wall is or however you call that in uh in English.
• 21:43
  SPEAKER_01: Anyway, the wall of the temple of Jerusalem, you know, where everybody's complaining against the wall like this, you know, and putting papers in, you know, with all their complaints.
• 21:52
  SPEAKER_01: These are all those people that do that so everybody else can see them, amen.
• 21:55
  SPEAKER_01: Because we don't need a wall to go and to complain, but nevertheless, I went there just received.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_01: Also, you know, I just wanted to see and sense the presence and sing and drink it all in, and you know, it was amazing.
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_01: I also did put a little paper in the wall, and I just said thank you.
• 22:09
  SPEAKER_01: You know, that's all.
• 22:10
  SPEAKER_01: I just went in the wall, thank you.
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_01: No complaining whatsoever.
• 22:13
  SPEAKER_01: Anyway, this guy comes to me, you know, this Hebrew Israelite.
• 22:19
  SPEAKER_01: He comes to me, you know, with all this beautiful clothes and stuff and things like that, you know, with all the chords, and you know how you say that in English, I have no clue, but you know, with the original dress.
• 22:29
  SPEAKER_01: And he comes to me and he says, You know, I'm gonna pray for you.
• 22:32
  SPEAKER_01: I said, Yeah, sure, you know, and so he just takes my hands.
• 22:36
  SPEAKER_01: Man, this guy is praying.
• 22:37
  SPEAKER_01: It is sounds so beautiful.
• 22:39
  SPEAKER_01: Really, man.
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_01: I'm telling you, I never I never heard something so beautiful as that, you know.
• 22:44
  SPEAKER_01: It was just like beautiful words because it's Hebrew.
• 22:47
  SPEAKER_01: I don't understand anything he's praying.
• 22:49
  SPEAKER_01: Probably he's gonna say, when this guy gets off the square, you know, just mock him in the side of the street or whatever.
• 22:55
  SPEAKER_01: I have no clue what this guy is saying, you know, but it sounded beautiful, and so I'm just standing there, you know, and he's just praying and praying and praying like for two, three minutes, and it was really beautiful.
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_01: And so I said, Thank you, man, bless you.
• 23:07
  SPEAKER_01: I bless you too.
• 23:07
  SPEAKER_01: I speak life over you in the name of Jesus, and you know, I start to bless this guy, this guy says, No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, money, money, money.
• 23:15
  SPEAKER_01: He wanted money.
• 23:17
  SPEAKER_01: I said, What do you mean, money?
• 23:19
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not gonna give you any money.
• 23:20
  SPEAKER_01: He says, Yeah, yeah, I pray for you.
• 23:21
  SPEAKER_01: You need to give me money.
• 23:22
  SPEAKER_01: I said, Are you selling your prayers?
• 23:24
  SPEAKER_01: Are you kidding me?
• 23:26
  SPEAKER_01: Never in my lifetime, you know, and I just felt like you know, the Holy Spirit wanted to say in me, don't make my father's house a place of business.
• 23:35
  SPEAKER_01: You know, it was man.
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_01: I told the guy, I said, Man, I said, you know, if you know who is your source, you don't need to ask me for money.
• 23:45
  SPEAKER_01: I ain't got no money for you.
• 23:47
  SPEAKER_01: Gold and silver I do not have, but what I do have in the name of Jesus, be free of the demon, you know.
• 23:55
  SPEAKER_01: So, anyway, it was a really, really funny situation.
• 23:58
  SPEAKER_01: Of course, I don't give the guy no money because I'm not gonna be fooled, but I saw him, you know, with other people, and other people were giving him money, and he was like, more, more, more.
• 24:05
  SPEAKER_01: And I told the people, don't let this guy rob you.
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_01: It's not you're not obligated to give him anything.
• 24:10
  SPEAKER_01: We're gonna pay for a prayer.
• 24:12
  SPEAKER_01: What is that?
• 24:13
  SPEAKER_01: I never saw anything like that in my life.
• 24:15
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, and there's a lot of Christians that do that, they call themselves apostles and prophets, and I don't know, and they're in the hotel rooms, you know, people go there and they receive a word or a prayer and they pay for it.
• 24:25
  SPEAKER_01: Man, it's terrible.
• 24:27
  SPEAKER_01: It's really something to be ashamed of, you know.
• 24:29
  SPEAKER_01: But anyway, he says, Do not pray like the hypocrites.
• 24:33
  SPEAKER_01: They love to pray and standing in the synagogues on the corners of the street, so that they may be seen by men.
• 24:40
  SPEAKER_01: Most assured I tell you, they have their reward.
• 24:43
  SPEAKER_01: Mine didn't because I didn't give them anything, but you get the point, right?
• 24:48
  SPEAKER_01: So, you know, when you pray, you go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your father who is in the secret place, and your father who sees in secret will reward you openly, verse 6.
• 24:58
  SPEAKER_01: And that's beautiful.
• 24:59
  SPEAKER_01: You see the heart of the father, and you see what kind of heart he wants from you?
• 25:03
  SPEAKER_01: He doesn't want you to be outward, he wants you to be inward, connect with him from your heart, from who you truly are, from your spirit.
• 25:11
  SPEAKER_01: All the other forms, you know, that I've just been sharing, they won't achieve nothing.
• 25:16
  SPEAKER_01: It's a waste of time, it remains fruitless, you know, and um you don't please God with that.
• 25:23
  SPEAKER_01: So, ma'am, just be honest and just diligently seek him and believe him that he is, you know, with a desire and a relation for intimacy, with a heart, you know, that doesn't judge you and doesn't condemn you, you know, that you just know that you can come freely and boldly to the living God because you know he is your father and he just wants to have relationship and intimacy with you, and you want to have intimacy and relationship with him.
• 25:46
  SPEAKER_01: And in the meantime, you will you'll you'll just you know make him known your request in with prayers and supplication in thanksgiving, knowing that he already heard you and already answered you.
• 25:58
  SPEAKER_01: Man, my time is up now, but I'm gonna continue in the next episode of Heart Matters, and I truly pray that you're gonna be there with me also.
• 26:07
  SPEAKER_01: Alright, God bless you, and I hope to see you next time.
• 26:09
  SPEAKER_01: Bye-bye.
• 26:12
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