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89 - What Unforgiveness Does to Your Prayer Life · The One Gospel Podcast

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to One Gospel, bringing you the full truth of God's Word.
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  SPEAKER_00: Clearly explained.
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  SPEAKER_00: Together with our host, Johann Tuit, we'll unpack scripture to understand what's written and grow as a disciple of Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ready to take notes?
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's open the Bible.
• 0:20
  SPEAKER_01: Hi there and welcome to today's episode of One Gospel.
• 0:23
  SPEAKER_01: I'm your host, Joan Tut, and as always, I am excited to share the Word of God with you.
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_01: Man, I started this series called Heart Matters, and I really want to recommend you to go back to the very first episode and just watch it from the beginning because I've been sharing some amazing stuff concerning hard matters, and it really excited me as well, built me up in my spirit.
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  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so I've been covering things concerning the heart of the gospel, which also is dealing with the heart of the Father in that story, and then also our heart, you know, concerning the gospel and the way that we walk as children of the living God with the same motivation and in the same heartbeat.
• 1:02
  SPEAKER_01: And I've been sharing on, you know, how believing, you know, is a heart matter, because he who comes to God must believe that he is.
• 1:10
  SPEAKER_01: And then also I've been sharing on praying after the heart of the father or praying with the right heart, because praying is a hard matter.
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_01: And man, I've been sharing a lot, and some things you know, maybe I have you know uh repeated uh in the previous lessons because you know there is so much to say on it, and if you read those verses that I've been sharing on, um you know, you you just find out every time new things and every time it's got to do with the heart.
• 1:49
  SPEAKER_01: If you come to God and you have the certainty that He will answer you when you pray to Him in the name of Jesus, then there are things that are in have to be in place for that to be true.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you just take that verse, you know, like in John 16 that I've been sharing on, you know, John 16, 23, you know, where I've been sharing on that Jesus says, until now you have prayed nothing in my name.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let me just quote it right and correct.
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  SPEAKER_01: So here it says in John 16 23, and in that day you will ask me nothing, most as surely I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in my name, he will give to you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Until now you have asked nothing in my name, ask and you will receive that your joy may be full.
• 2:35
  SPEAKER_01: And I've shed on that how people can interpret this in that whatever means whatever.
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  SPEAKER_01: Also in Mark 11, 24.
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  SPEAKER_01: Whatever you pray when you desire, believe that you receive them, and whatever you desire when you pray, you know, believe that you receive them and you will have them, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then this whatever we think it's whatever, but it's whatever has been established in grace and is in the will of the Father.
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  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so, and then in the previous episode, I ended up, you know, uh sharing on, you know, knowing who you are in Christ Jesus and approach God with that attitude.
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_01: And so I will continue there, but before I'm gonna do that, just you know, one more time, uh, please get this copy, God of Restoration.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's an amazing love story, you know, of the Father uh towards us, his children, the lost and the found.
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  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so, you know, how God restored everything in Christ Jesus, has restored everything in Christ Jesus, and you know, and how we are now uh able to walk in the fullness that he has established for us in within Christ Jesus.
• 3:33
  SPEAKER_01: And I really believe it's gonna be a blessing for you.
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• 3:38
  SPEAKER_01: Father God, thank you for this teaching and thank you for your prompting of the Holy Spirit, and I love you so much, Lord, and I thank you for who you are, and I thank you that the people that are listening are gonna be blessed by your teaching in Jesus' mighty name, amen.
• 3:54
  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so, in the previous episode, I ended, you know, where I was I have been sharing on um how you know we need to know who we are and what we have and what we um are allowed to, uh I don't know how you say that in English, but what we are able to or capable of uh of in Christ Jesus.
• 4:17
  SPEAKER_01: And so, and also we need to know who God is.
• 4:19
  SPEAKER_01: And so I've shared on, you know, you need to approach God as a son who knows who he is, who knows his position in the kingdom of God, who knows the promises, who knows the blessings, who knows what the word of God says uh uh concerning a lot of things, who has his heart and his mind set on the things of above, who comes to God with an upright, clean heart, knowing that his heart has been sprinkled and cleansed from an evil conscience.
• 4:46
  SPEAKER_01: And so the things that he comes with the heart that he comes to the Father, it's a pure and upright heart where he doesn't want to spend it on his pleasures and his wrong motivations or in his carnal natural man, but he just wants to step into the spiritual realm and have this communion and intimacy and relationship with his father, knowing that all the things he needs in this life and the coming and all his requests in Christ Jesus, made in truth, in spirit and in truth, are yes and amen.
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  SPEAKER_01: He just knows who he is, and that's the way that he approaches God.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I can guarantee you, if you come to God the same way as I have been describing, in the way that I have been describing, that all your prayers will be answered.
• 5:27
  SPEAKER_01: I can guarantee you that.
• 5:28
  SPEAKER_01: You know, you have to look at Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_01: Look, Jesus was praying to the Father, and when he was praying to the Father, you know, he didn't go back to God and say, Do you do you remember what I prayed?
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  SPEAKER_01: Did you forget, Lord?
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  SPEAKER_01: He doesn't he doesn't say, Father, do you you know, do you recall I was talking to you last week, and you know, I asked this from you, and then you know, no, I don't see, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: He doesn't, was he just he knew I'm gonna go to my father, I'm gonna have my time with my father, then I'm then you know, whatever it is that I'm gonna share with him, you know, then that's it.
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  SPEAKER_01: I can let it go.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't have to, you know, come back for it or remind him or all this kind of things.
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  SPEAKER_01: He was just praying, and that was it.
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  SPEAKER_01: It was a done deal.
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  SPEAKER_01: Look what it says in John 11.
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  SPEAKER_01: I love John, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: I believe it's the most beautiful book of the Bible.
• 6:18
  SPEAKER_01: Not because it's my name, of it obviously.
• 6:22
  SPEAKER_01: Um let me see.
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  SPEAKER_01: My name is Joan, but in English it's John, in Spanish it's just Juan, and in Spain they call everybody Don, so it's Don Juan, you know?
• 6:34
  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
• 6:34
  SPEAKER_01: Just kidding.
• 6:36
  SPEAKER_01: So John 11, 41, here it says, Umright, so here is Lazarus, he died, right?
• 6:45
  SPEAKER_01: And Lazarus is in the grave, and then it says in 41, then they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying.
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  SPEAKER_01: And Jesus lifted up his eyes and he said, Father, I thank you that you have heard me.
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  SPEAKER_01: He didn't man, I can I can hang around a little bit here, but he hadn't said anything yet.
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  SPEAKER_01: He didn't ask anything yet.
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  SPEAKER_01: He hadn't spoken yet.
• 7:18
  SPEAKER_01: What he did do was saying, you know, I am the resurrection of the life and the life.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, he said, you know, your brother will rise again.
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  SPEAKER_01: I am the resurrection and the life.
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  SPEAKER_01: He who believes in me, though he may die, he shall live, and whoever lives and believes in me shall never die.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, I um and you know, and and so he says that, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: Here in John 11, you can read it yourself, the red letters.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so, you know, um, and then he says in verse 40, he says, Did I say to you that if you would believe, you would see the glory of God?
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  SPEAKER_01: So what he did, he was confessing and proclaiming all day long, you know, who he is.
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  SPEAKER_01: And you know, uh, I wanted to say who he is in Christ Jesus, but he is Christ Jesus, amen.
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  SPEAKER_01: But you know who he is, I am, you know, the beginning and the end, you know, I am the bread of life, you know, I am the way, I am the truth, I am the life, you know, and I'm the good shepherd, and so on and so forth, you know, and so that was what Jesus was talking.
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  SPEAKER_01: He believed who he was, he had no doubt that he was who he was, who he was claiming to be.
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  SPEAKER_01: He knew that before Abram was I am.
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  SPEAKER_01: He knew.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so, you know, he just that's what Jesus was doing.
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  SPEAKER_01: But then he says to the Father, Father, I thank you, verse 41, John 11, 41.
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  SPEAKER_01: Father, I thank you that you have heard me.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, that you heard, that I believe, that I am who I say that I am, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so he says, and I know that you always hear me.
• 8:47
  SPEAKER_01: You know, the Bible says in Psalm 139, before there is even a word on my lips, you know, you know it altogether.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know my thoughts are far off.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know what lives in my heart, you know exactly what I'm gonna say.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's what it says in Matthew 6.
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  SPEAKER_01: Jesus is teaching on that, you know, God already knows what you need before you even ask him.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so he says, Father, I thank you that you have heard me, and I know you always hear me, but because of the people that are standing here, I say this that they may that they may believe that you have sent me.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, so he's he knew, he had no doubt in his heart.
• 9:22
  SPEAKER_01: He knew that his father always hears him, always hears him, always answers him, because he is walking in the perfect will of the father.
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  SPEAKER_01: He says, I am not here to do my will but the will of the father.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm not coming to do my works, but the father doeth the works in me.
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  SPEAKER_01: What I speak, I don't speak of my own, I've received it from my father.
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  SPEAKER_01: He was perfectly walking in the will of the father, and so everything he did, everything he undertook, everything he said, was in the perfect will of the father, and so he could easily say, I know you heard me.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thank you that you heard me, and I know you always hear me.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't say this for myself because I know.
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  SPEAKER_01: I just say that for the people so that they can believe that you truly sent me.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, and then he said, when he when he had said these things, verse 43, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then that's it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Jesus didn't go like, you know, all right, guys, give it just a few seconds.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna check if it worked, and if not, I'm gonna pray again.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, there was no nothing.
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  SPEAKER_01: He just spoke, Lazarus, come forth.
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  SPEAKER_01: He knew that God heard him.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's what he said.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thank you that you've heard me.
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  SPEAKER_01: I know you always hear me.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's just for them to believe that you have sent me.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, he walked in the truth that he was preaching himself.
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  SPEAKER_01: The things that I was sharing on, you know, in Matthew 6.
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  SPEAKER_01: In Matthew 6, where Jesus says, in verse 7, he says, Ask and it will be given to you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Seek and you will find.
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  SPEAKER_01: Knock and it will be opened for you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, that's for that's chapter 7, which is also amazing and true.
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  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_01: But in chapter 6, verse 7, 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.
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  SPEAKER_01: Don't be like them, for your father knows the things you have heed of, of need of, before you ask him.
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  SPEAKER_01: So he was walking in that truth that he was preaching, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: And how amazing, you know, because in chapter 7 of Matthew, it says in verse 7, ask and it will be given to you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Seek and you will find and knock, and it will be open to you.
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  SPEAKER_01: For everyone who asks receives, and who seeks he finds, and to him knocks it will be open.
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  SPEAKER_01: Why?
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  SPEAKER_01: Because he is your father.
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  SPEAKER_01: And if you go to him with the right heart motivation, if you go to him with the true, pure, upright heart, the way that I've been describing through all this series, you know, if you come to him with this pure heart and you come to him in spirit and in truth, you know, whatever you ask, you will receive, and if you knock, it will be opened.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, and if you seek, you will find.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because of your heart, because of you understanding your position with the Father and your Father who is in you and you are who you are in him.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know your position in the kingdom of God, you know what belongs to you in Christ Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_01: Therefore, you can ask whatever you want and you will receive it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's powerful, man.
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  SPEAKER_01: But Jesus didn't doubt a second if the father would hear him, he just knew it.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, before I ask, it's already given, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so he just said thank you, and bam, he rose uh raised the Lazarus from the dead.
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  SPEAKER_01: And in the same way that Jesus worked with the Father, and the same way that he approached the Father, the same way that he got his prayers answered, is the same way that we can come to the Father, and we can be heard and answered in all our prayers if we come with an upright heart in thanksgiving to God in spirit and in truth.
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_01: Just believe the word.
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_01: You know, James 1:5 says that if anyone lacks wisdom, let him ask of God who will give all liberally to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to them.
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  SPEAKER_01: You are not a righteousness of God in Christ Jesus, you are a new creation, you are holy, pure, and blameless before him in love.
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  SPEAKER_01: You are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus, heir of the kingdom, son of God, in whom he is well pleased, man.
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  SPEAKER_01: Jesus, you know, God gave his son for you and I while we were yet sinners.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, how much more will he now not give us freely all things?
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  SPEAKER_01: Now we are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_01: All things, you know, and that according to his riches.
• 13:35
  SPEAKER_01: Look what it says in Romans 8.32.
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_01: It's so important that you start to understand what your true identity is in Christ Jesus and you know, and then approach God in that matter.
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  SPEAKER_01: In that matter.
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  SPEAKER_01: Here it says in Romans 8.32.
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  SPEAKER_01: It says, Alright, let's read verse 31 also.
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  SPEAKER_01: What then shall we say to these things?
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  SPEAKER_01: If God is for us, who can be against?
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  SPEAKER_01: You need to know that.
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  SPEAKER_01: He who did not spare his own son but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
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  SPEAKER_01: All things freely.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, he gave his son while you were yet a sinner, you know, and go in your own way as a lost sheep, without a shepherd, weary, you know, and now, you know, he gave up his son for you while you were yet a sinner.
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  SPEAKER_01: How much more now you are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus, he will not give you all things freely.
• 14:40
  SPEAKER_01: And then in Philippians 4.19, in Philippians 4.19, it says something very nice.
• 14:47
  SPEAKER_01: Philippians 4.19.
• 14:49
  SPEAKER_01: Here it says this, and my God, that's my father, talking, he's talking about my father, and my God shall supply all your need, all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, God knows exactly what you need, he knows exactly what you have need of, what your requests are, what your desires are, and all of his promises and all of his blessings are in Christ Jesus, yes and amen for you as his son, because that's what it says in 2 Corinthians 1.20, that all the promises of God, and many as they are, they are yes and amen in Christ Jesus.
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_01: And in Ephesians 1:3 it says that we have been blessed with every spiritual blessing in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.
• 15:36
  SPEAKER_01: So I have all the blessings and all the promises in Christ Jesus, and he knows exactly what I need, and he will supply me according to all my needs, he will he will supply me all my needs according to his riches, according to his riches.
• 15:51
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know if you understand what that means and how rich God is, amen.
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  SPEAKER_01: But you need to come to him with the position where you know who you are and what belongs to you in Christ Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now you can possess that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, last point I want to make in this praying after the heart of the Father is that you need to make sure that there is nothing standing between you and God for your prayers to be answered, because that could be the case.
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  SPEAKER_01: And you know, we have like bitterness, jealousy, envy, you know, the desires of the world, the temptations of the riches, you know, doubt, unbelief.
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_01: These things are like a stumble block for you to receive from God, because you cannot pray after his heart if these kind of things are in your heart.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's not the heart that God wants you to approach with him to him.
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  SPEAKER_01: But the greatest stumble block to pray after his heart and therefore also to receive from God to be answered in your prayers is unforgiveness.
• 16:48
  SPEAKER_01: Look what it says in Matthew 7 7.
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  SPEAKER_01: Matthew 7 7, and unforgiveness, man, it's so uh many people don't pay attention to that part, but I will show you that it's amazing that you know we read the first part, but you don't read the rest of it.
• 17:06
  SPEAKER_01: Matthew 7 7 and 12, it says, Ask and you will be given to you, seek and you will find, knock and it will be opened for you, for who everyone who asks receives, and who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be open.
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  SPEAKER_01: Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for a bread, will give him a stone, or if he asks for a fish, he will give him a serpent.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_01: If you then being evil, knowing how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him?
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_01: Therefore, whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them, for this is the law and the prophets.
• 17:43
  SPEAKER_01: Because God will give you everything you need according to his riches, you know, all your needs, he will supply all your needs, and God will come to you and help you, and come to your aid, and give you your breakthrough and answer all your prayers as a father answers his children, and don't give them what they don't need, but give them what they need and know what they need.
• 18:01
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, he says, What you know, how much more your father who is in heaven will give give good things to those who ask him.
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  SPEAKER_01: Knowing all those things, do to men what you want them to do to you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Treat others the way that you want to be treated.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's that's together with this.
• 18:17
  SPEAKER_01: Keep asking, uh, you know, asking, seeking, and knocking.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's together in that same piece of chapter.
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  SPEAKER_01: It belongs together.
• 18:26
  SPEAKER_01: You want, you know that God gives you everything and He answers you and forgives you and He's there for you and helps you with all your needs, and then you need to treat others the way that you want to be treated.
• 18:35
  SPEAKER_01: And so God wants to give you anything, everything, you know.
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_01: But if you want to be forgiven, then you need to forgive others.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_01: Look what it says in Matthew 6 5, verse 15.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_01: Um, 6, 5 until 15.
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_01: And when you pray, you should not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray, standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men.
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_01: Surely I say to you, they have their reward.
• 18:57
  SPEAKER_01: But but you, when you pray, 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.
• 19:06
  SPEAKER_01: 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.
• 19:11
  SPEAKER_01: Therefore, do not be like them, for your father knows the things you have need of before you ask him.
• 19:16
  SPEAKER_01: In this manner, therefore, pray, our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
• 19:23
  SPEAKER_01: Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, and as we forgive our debtors, and do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.
• 19:31
  SPEAKER_01: For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever.
• 19:34
  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
• 19:34
  SPEAKER_01: For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_01: But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
• 19:46
  SPEAKER_01: We don't read that part.
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_01: We don't read like, you know, you want to receive from God, then you need to be like God.
• 19:52
  SPEAKER_01: You need to be you need to treat others the way that you want to be treated.
• 19:55
  SPEAKER_01: Not only by men, but also want to be treated by God.
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  SPEAKER_01: The way that you want to be treated by God, you need to treat others.
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_01: You need to love your neighbor as yourself, and you need to love God with all your heart and all your mind and all your strength and all your understanding.
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
• 20:06
  SPEAKER_01: And so here in Mark 11, I mean, we have read this over and over again, but I'm gonna read it one more time and I'm gonna blow your mind, you know, if you not already know this, because you know, this is something that we don't hear when they are preaching this verse.
• 20:20
  SPEAKER_01: And here it says in Matthew 11 uh sorry, in Marcus, oh man, I'm I got so much to I want to go fast because I want to close it in this uh chapter.
• 20:32
  SPEAKER_01: But it says here in uh Mark 11, uh 22, Jesus answered about the victory, have faith in God.
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_01: For surely I say to you, whoever says to this mountain be removed and cast into the sea and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he said will be done, he will have whatever he says.
• 20:49
  SPEAKER_01: Therefore, I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them and you will have them.
• 20:55
  SPEAKER_01: Point.
• 20:55
  SPEAKER_01: Nobody a period, you know, nobody else is gonna continue there.
• 20:58
  SPEAKER_01: They're just gonna preach this part and say, You can have whatever you have, blah blah blah blah blah.
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, that's all true.
• 21:03
  SPEAKER_01: But then it continues.
• 21:04
  SPEAKER_01: And whenever you stand praying, so when you are praying, when you are seeking your father, when you come to him, when you approach him, when you want to step into his presence and have relation and communion with him and make him know all your requests and supplications in thanksgiving.
• 21:19
  SPEAKER_01: When you do that, whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, that your father in heaven may also forgive your trespasses.
• 21:29
  SPEAKER_01: But if you do not forgive, neither your father in heaven forgive your trespasses.
• 21:35
  SPEAKER_01: That's powerful stuff, man.
• 21:37
  SPEAKER_01: You see, people let that out.
• 21:39
  SPEAKER_01: But you have to be clean not only when you come to God, you have to be clean with your neighbors, you have to be clean with the people that you hold a grudge against, you know, people that you can't forgive, that you are bed bitter with or envy with.
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_01: You need to come clean with them.
• 21:52
  SPEAKER_01: You need to be clean, man.
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_01: You know, don't hold anything against anybody because it can be a stumble block for God, it can be a stumble block.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_01: Block, you know what you sow is what you reap.
• 22:03
  SPEAKER_01: You don't want to have stumble blocks in your prayer life.
• 22:05
  SPEAKER_01: You want to come to God knowing that you have nothing against nobody, and if you had something against somebody, you already forgave them with your heart, not with your mouth.
• 22:13
  SPEAKER_01: You forgave them with your heart because you know that's what your father wants from you.
• 22:16
  SPEAKER_01: The way that he has forgiven you, you forgive others, and the way that you want to be treated, you treat others, and you the way that you want God to bless you, you bless others because we are blessed to be a blessing.
• 22:24
  SPEAKER_01: Man, it's a mouthful, but this is powerful stuff, I'm telling you.
• 22:27
  SPEAKER_01: It will change your life, man.
• 22:29
  SPEAKER_01: If you come, you know, if you understand this, just bring it into the light and just deal with it, you know, and so you're you can come upright in everything.
• 22:36
  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_01: And so when we pray, we seek the things of above, Colossians 1, you know, we are busy with the things of above, we are focused on the things of above, we are connected with the Father, and everything that is not in line with his word, you know, we don't come and desire from him because we know that he won't answer that.
• 22:54
  SPEAKER_01: It's not after his will.
• 22:55
  SPEAKER_01: You know, that the Bible in 1 John 5, verse 14 and 15 is teaching.
• 22:59
  SPEAKER_01: You know, it has to be according to his will.
• 23:02
  SPEAKER_01: Whatever we read in John 16, 23, 24, Mark 11, 22 until 24, you know, whatever we have been reading and teaching on, you know, it has to be according to his will.
• 23:11
  SPEAKER_01: That whatever is according to his will.
• 23:13
  SPEAKER_01: You need to know your position, you need to know what your position is in the kingdom of God, you need to know who your father is, you need to know what belongs to you in Christ Jesus, and you come to him with thanksgiving, you come to him with praise, you come to him because you want to connect with him and you want to you want to have relationship with him and intimacy with him, you want to have communion with him, you just want to be with your father, you just want to sit at the feet of Jesus and just want to worship him with a pure and upright heart.
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_01: That is that is free from condemnation, guilt, and shame, but it's also free from bitterness and envy, you know, free from you know unforgiveness towards other people, free from strife, free from evil desires and all that kind of stuff.
• 23:52
  SPEAKER_01: You know, all that is in the world is the loss of the eyes and the and the lust uh the the loss of the eyes, the loss of the flesh and the pride of life.
• 24:00
  SPEAKER_01: 1 John 2, verse 16.
• 24:01
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's not of God, you know, and so we cannot come in that way to God.
• 24:05
  SPEAKER_01: We don't desire that kind of stuff.
• 24:07
  SPEAKER_01: Now it says in Mark 4 18, then I'm gonna close.
• 24:11
  SPEAKER_01: Now these are the ones sown among thorns.
• 24:14
  SPEAKER_01: They are the ones who hear the word and the cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
• 24:24
  SPEAKER_01: And Jesus says in Matthew 6 24, he says, No one can serve two masters, for either will he hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other.
• 24:33
  SPEAKER_01: You cannot serve God and the mammon.
• 24:35
  SPEAKER_01: So, you know, it's it's very easy.
• 24:38
  SPEAKER_01: You know, you don't desire for the other stuff that's in the world.
• 24:41
  SPEAKER_01: You desire to be in the presence of God, you desire to have time with God, to spend time in relationship with God.
• 24:47
  SPEAKER_01: That's what you desire.
• 24:48
  SPEAKER_01: You want to be one with Him and seek the things of above and come to Him in spirit and in truth.
• 24:53
  SPEAKER_01: All the other things that you need in this life and in the coming life will be added to you.
• 24:57
  SPEAKER_01: That's what we can read in Matthew 6, you know, verse 33.
• 25:00
  SPEAKER_01: Just seek the kingdom of God first and his righteousness, and all the other things will be added to you.
• 25:04
  SPEAKER_01: So you don't come with those kind of desires because God knows what you need before you ask Amen.
• 25:08
  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
• 25:09
  SPEAKER_01: Man, it's that's it's so powerful, you know.
• 25:13
  SPEAKER_01: And so, man, I've got a lot to share, and I just don't have the time for it.
• 25:18
  SPEAKER_01: And I want to close in this uh episode, you know, this praying after the heart of the Father or praying that it's a hard matter because I really do believe that I made my point, you know.
• 25:28
  SPEAKER_01: But man, God has done so much in my life and He's blessed me so much.
• 25:33
  SPEAKER_01: But I I first seek the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and when I do that, all the other things will be added to me.
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_01: I know that because I know that I'm a son and I know my position in the kingdom of God, and I know that when I approach him in that way with an upright heart, just to seek his presence and to worship him, you know all my prayers will be answered because they will be done in spirit and in truth.
• 25:55
  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
• 25:56
  SPEAKER_01: And that's the kind of heart that God wants you to go to come to me.
• 25:59
  SPEAKER_01: It's really, really beautiful, praise God.
• 26:01
  SPEAKER_01: I really pray that you have been blessed by this uh part of the series Heart Matters concerning praying after the heart of the Father, and that you receive new insights.
• 26:10
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• 26:15
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• 26:19
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• 26:20
  SPEAKER_01: God bless you, and I hope to see you in the next episode of One Gospel.
• 26:23
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• 26:26
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