WEBVTT - Beth Jones - Oct 24 - 8:30 am 0:00:00.930 --> 0:00:04.410 Hi guys, I'm Beth Jones and welcome to The Basics 0:00:04.490 --> 0:00:08.470 with Beth where learning God's Word is a joy. In 0:00:08.570 --> 0:00:11.690 every message, we will do our best to teach you 0:00:11.730 --> 0:00:15.460 the Bible basics in such a way that it strengthens 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:20.579 your faith foundation. In addition, I want to empower and 0:00:20.640 --> 0:00:24.720 equip you so that you have confidence to share these 0:00:24.820 --> 0:00:28.940 Bible basics with others. So lean in and listen with 0:00:28.980 --> 0:00:32.090 your heart. If you'd like to know more about our ministry, 0:00:32.120 --> 0:00:37.370 just go to thebasicswithbeth.com and get all the scoop. With 0:00:37.610 --> 0:00:41.810 all of that said, now let's jump into today's message. 0:00:43.550 --> 0:00:45.090 Praise the Lord. How many of you were with us 0:00:45.470 --> 0:00:48.660 last week for week one of Living on a Prayer? Yay. 0:00:48.729 --> 0:00:51.419 And how many of you, this is your first week? Okay, good. 0:00:51.450 --> 0:00:52.930 We'll try and get everybody up to speed. We're in 0:00:52.970 --> 0:00:56.390 a series called Living on a Prayer. Last week we 0:00:56.430 --> 0:00:59.050 talked about this whole idea of getting dialed in. Because 0:00:59.070 --> 0:01:00.670 when it comes to prayer, you know, people have lots 0:01:00.710 --> 0:01:04.890 of questions and some frustrations and all kinds of dots 0:01:05.090 --> 0:01:07.470 aren't connected. And so we said it starts with just 0:01:07.490 --> 0:01:10.290 getting dialed in. Let's get a good hookup with the Lord. 0:01:10.310 --> 0:01:13.330 Let's get all the bars, you know, on this wireless 0:01:13.380 --> 0:01:16.260 connection real strong. And there were some specific things the 0:01:16.280 --> 0:01:18.650 Bible tells us about how to dial in. and have 0:01:18.670 --> 0:01:21.230 a relationship with the Lord, a prayer life with the Lord. 0:01:21.650 --> 0:01:24.090 Today we're going to talk about your daily dose. How 0:01:24.110 --> 0:01:26.350 to have a daily prayer life. Because for many people, 0:01:26.670 --> 0:01:29.550 there's inconsistency. You know, they want to be consistent, and 0:01:29.590 --> 0:01:33.080 yet they find themselves being inconsistent because they either get 0:01:33.110 --> 0:01:35.920 bored or distracted. And we'll talk a little bit about that. 0:01:35.980 --> 0:01:39.380 So your daily dose today. Next week, don't miss next week, 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:42.360 we're going to talk about get your ask in gear. 0:01:42.380 --> 0:01:45.700 All right? And the reason that's so important is because 0:01:45.740 --> 0:01:50.140 the Bible says... that you have not because you ask not. 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:54.380 There are many things, you know, isn't this interesting? There 0:01:54.420 --> 0:01:56.460 are many things the Lord would like to do for 0:01:56.560 --> 0:01:58.940 us and on our behalf, but the Bible says you 0:01:58.980 --> 0:02:02.140 have not because you ask not. I just wonder how 0:02:02.180 --> 0:02:05.780 many things in our lives have not happened because we 0:02:05.820 --> 0:02:08.320 didn't ask. But then that verse goes on to say, 0:02:08.340 --> 0:02:09.840 and we'll get into this next week, but it goes 0:02:09.940 --> 0:02:14.600 on to say, you ask and don't receive because, and 0:02:14.639 --> 0:02:17.810 it gives some becauses, some why's as to why some 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:20.470 prayers are not answered. So we'll get into that next week, 0:02:20.510 --> 0:02:22.470 this whole idea of asking. Then the very last week, 0:02:22.770 --> 0:02:25.710 get set to get wet. And there's some really important 0:02:25.750 --> 0:02:27.750 things concerning prayer. We won't spend a lot of time 0:02:27.790 --> 0:02:30.090 trying to explain it now, but just come back week four. 0:02:30.510 --> 0:02:33.690 We'll talk about some final things as it relates to prayer, okay? 0:02:33.970 --> 0:02:35.350 So if you have your Bibles, go ahead and pull 0:02:35.370 --> 0:02:38.310 them out. Turn to James chapter five. And while you 0:02:38.330 --> 0:02:39.630 guys are doing that, let me just give you a 0:02:39.650 --> 0:02:43.190 couple of preliminary thoughts on prayer. We'll get everybody up 0:02:43.350 --> 0:02:46.370 to speed. So many times when it comes to prayer, 0:02:46.669 --> 0:02:50.010 people ask the who, what, when, where, why, and how questions. 0:02:50.590 --> 0:02:53.350 And those are good questions to ask. The who question is, 0:02:53.450 --> 0:02:56.010 who do you pray to? You know, who are we 0:02:56.030 --> 0:02:57.960 supposed to pray to? Do we pray to God the Father? 0:02:57.980 --> 0:03:00.300 Do we pray to Jesus? Do we pray to the 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:03.750 Holy Spirit? I was raised Catholic. So am I supposed 0:03:03.790 --> 0:03:05.940 to pray when I was raised as a young child? 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:08.320 Am I supposed to pray to Mary? You're supposed to 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:10.280 talk to angels. Who are you supposed to talk to 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:13.420 in prayer? And does it matter? And the Bible has 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:15.540 a lot to say about it. It does matter. And 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:18.310 the Bible tells us exactly, Jesus told us exactly who 0:03:18.770 --> 0:03:20.850 to pray to. And we'll get into some of that 0:03:20.910 --> 0:03:24.310 next week. Who, what, what do you pray about? I mean, 0:03:24.330 --> 0:03:26.810 there's so many things to pray about. So many things 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:29.000 you could pray about. What should you pray about? Should 0:03:29.020 --> 0:03:30.880 you pray about your own life and your kids and 0:03:30.900 --> 0:03:33.639 your family? Or is that selfish? Should you be praying 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:36.380 for the president or is that somebody else's responsibility? Should 0:03:36.420 --> 0:03:38.800 you be praying for your coworkers? Should you be praying 0:03:38.820 --> 0:03:43.200 for your neighbors? What should you be praying about? What, who, what, when, 0:03:43.240 --> 0:03:45.280 when should you pray? Talked about that a little bit 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:47.100 last week. And we said, you know, sort of the 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:50.200 summary was we're supposed to pray all the time, right? 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:53.360 Pray always. And yet we should have a time, a 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:56.030 set time where we get alone with the Lord. And 0:03:56.070 --> 0:03:59.750 we have some hang time with the Lord. Who, what, when, where? 0:03:59.780 --> 0:04:01.680 We talked about where last week a little bit too. 0:04:02.100 --> 0:04:04.700 Where do you pray? Like, is there a preferred spot? 0:04:05.500 --> 0:04:07.380 Is it like more powerful if you're in a room 0:04:07.400 --> 0:04:13.420 with incense? Is there a where? Well, the Bible says 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:15.880 you should pray everywhere. So in one sense, you pray 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:18.520 everywhere all the time, right? But then right on the 0:04:18.560 --> 0:04:21.520 other hand, Jesus said, when you pray, get into this 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:24.900 where place, get into this secret place. You get into 0:04:24.940 --> 0:04:27.710 your hideout, your hangout with the Lord. So on one hand, 0:04:27.750 --> 0:04:29.690 you pray everywhere, but on the other hand, you have 0:04:29.730 --> 0:04:32.330 a place. And maybe you've got a couple of hideouts, 0:04:32.350 --> 0:04:37.589 but you've got some specific places you and the Lord meet. Who, what, when, where, why? 0:04:37.710 --> 0:04:40.460 This is a big one. Why should I pray? Because 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:43.460 after all, if God's God, you know, and he's going 0:04:43.480 --> 0:04:46.180 to do what he wants anyways, he's the almighty sovereign God. 0:04:47.040 --> 0:04:48.940 And if he's going to do what he wants anyways, 0:04:48.980 --> 0:04:52.430 what difference do my prayers make? Well, we're going to 0:04:52.470 --> 0:04:54.210 find out a little bit this week and then the 0:04:54.250 --> 0:04:55.670 rest of our time, we're going to find out God 0:04:55.710 --> 0:04:58.330 is almighty. He is sovereign, but in his word, he 0:04:58.370 --> 0:05:02.290 has obligated himself to operate within certain spiritual principles he 0:05:02.330 --> 0:05:05.539 set up. And one of those is prayer. And unless 0:05:05.620 --> 0:05:08.320 we ask for some things, even though it is thoroughly 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:11.230 God's will, even though he absolutely wants his will in 0:05:11.290 --> 0:05:15.430 heaven to be done on earth, unless we participate with 0:05:15.470 --> 0:05:17.909 him in prayer, there are some things that won't happen. 0:05:19.650 --> 0:05:21.370 And so probably for all of us, you know, if 0:05:21.410 --> 0:05:23.390 we could really see into the invisible realm, we might 0:05:23.450 --> 0:05:25.070 all be bummed out to find out there were so 0:05:25.089 --> 0:05:27.920 many more things available to us and for us. We 0:05:27.980 --> 0:05:32.000 just never appropriated them by faith and prayer. Why should 0:05:32.020 --> 0:05:34.180 you pray? Because there's some things that won't happen unless 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:39.580 you do. And all the people said, who, what, when, where, why, 0:05:39.620 --> 0:05:41.640 and how. And then oftentimes when it comes to the how, 0:05:41.660 --> 0:05:44.839 that's a biggie. How do I pray? I have great intentions. 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:48.360 Y'all got great intentions? Yeah, I know I should pray. 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:50.050 I want to pray. But how do you do it? 0:05:50.060 --> 0:05:52.350 Because I get in my prayer closet and after five minutes, 0:05:52.430 --> 0:05:57.670 I am bored as a gourd. Right? I'm speaking from 0:05:57.710 --> 0:06:01.039 experience too. Yeah, sometimes you can get so distracted. Have 0:06:01.060 --> 0:06:03.650 you ever been so distracted in your prayer life? You know, 0:06:03.670 --> 0:06:05.070 you get in your little place, you kneel down or 0:06:05.089 --> 0:06:06.770 you're sitting in a chair or whatever the case, and 0:06:06.790 --> 0:06:08.910 you're starting to pray and you just start to talk 0:06:08.930 --> 0:06:10.230 to the Lord. And then you start thinking about a 0:06:10.290 --> 0:06:13.530 junk drawer that needs to be organized or the garage 0:06:13.570 --> 0:06:16.460 needs to be tidied up, right? Or you think about 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:19.720 your grocery list or some decorating ideas, who you got 0:06:19.740 --> 0:06:24.220 a Facebook. You just get so distracted. We all do. 0:06:24.770 --> 0:06:27.510 And so is there a way to harness our minds 0:06:27.550 --> 0:06:29.530 and our hearts and really zoom in with the Lord 0:06:29.570 --> 0:06:32.349 and pray some effectual prayers? Because listen, the goal of 0:06:32.450 --> 0:06:35.810 prayer isn't to punch in on the prayer clock and 0:06:35.860 --> 0:06:38.300 to punch out and say, hey God, I prayed. The 0:06:38.330 --> 0:06:42.060 goal is to make the connection and get results. Because 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:44.780 the Bible calls it effectual prayer. The goal is to 0:06:44.820 --> 0:06:49.060 be effective and get some answers. Get God's supernatural involvement 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:51.720 in your life, right? So, but the how is really 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:55.120 difficult sometimes. How do I do it without falling asleep? 0:06:55.380 --> 0:06:57.680 You know, you think about, have y'all ever prayed prayers 0:06:58.180 --> 0:06:59.760 and you're like in the middle of a sentence and 0:06:59.779 --> 0:07:03.180 you fell asleep and then you come back, Lord, all right, 0:07:03.200 --> 0:07:08.780 what were we talking about? Bless everybody, I think. But 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:10.760 think about it. If you had an audience with some 0:07:10.820 --> 0:07:13.520 high ranking person, I mean, you finally got to have 0:07:13.580 --> 0:07:16.650 lunch with some high ranking person. How many of you 0:07:16.710 --> 0:07:18.890 would not fall asleep in the middle of your sentence 0:07:20.030 --> 0:07:23.140 over lunch? No, you'd be equipped and ready, and you'd 0:07:23.180 --> 0:07:25.740 have an awesome conversation, probably some good questions to ask. 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:30.080 So we have an audience with the most high. And, 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:35.310 you know, we're drooling our prayers oftentimes. But there is 0:07:35.350 --> 0:07:36.910 a way to pray, the how. And we're going to 0:07:36.930 --> 0:07:38.350 talk about some of the how today. There is a 0:07:38.390 --> 0:07:40.890 way to pray that makes it fun and exciting. It 0:07:40.910 --> 0:07:44.510 makes it an adventure. And you won't get bored. What 0:07:44.530 --> 0:07:45.910 we're going to talk about today, we're going to talk 0:07:45.950 --> 0:07:50.100 about a little real practical way to pray. Okay. And 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:51.340 what I'm going to share with you guys today, this 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:52.720 is something I've been doing in my life, and many 0:07:52.740 --> 0:07:54.120 of you have as well. This will be old news 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:56.440 for many of you, new news for some of you. 0:07:56.500 --> 0:07:58.320 But this is something I've been doing in my life, 0:07:58.380 --> 0:08:00.970 you know, for many, many, many years. And I'll tell 0:08:01.010 --> 0:08:02.570 you what, I've found that I can do this, what 0:08:02.590 --> 0:08:04.050 we're going to talk about today, I can do it 0:08:04.110 --> 0:08:07.550 in 20 minutes on the treadmill. Jeff and I work 0:08:07.570 --> 0:08:09.130 out about three mornings a week, and when I'm on 0:08:09.150 --> 0:08:11.940 the treadmill for my 20 minutes, I do this. So 0:08:11.980 --> 0:08:13.900 I can do it in 20 minutes, and man, it's heartfelt, 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:17.820 it's effectual, it's intentional. But then when I have time 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:19.480 to spend a little more time with the Lord, I 0:08:19.500 --> 0:08:21.120 can do what we're going to talk about today. I 0:08:21.140 --> 0:08:23.690 can take some more time and do this for over 0:08:23.830 --> 0:08:27.110 an hour or two hours. Easy. And not be bored 0:08:27.150 --> 0:08:32.780 at all, but pray some intentional, effectual prayers. So with 0:08:32.820 --> 0:08:38.610 that in mind then, James 5 verse 16. Let's pray. Father, 0:08:38.650 --> 0:08:40.430 thank you so much for your word. Thank you so 0:08:40.470 --> 0:08:42.870 much for the Holy Spirit. Lord, help us to get 0:08:42.910 --> 0:08:46.170 this today, our daily dose. Help us to know how 0:08:46.210 --> 0:08:51.060 to pray effective prayers. Lord, make it really practical for everybody. 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:52.560 I ask you to do that. I thank you that 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:55.520 you will. Your word is so simple. You've leveled the 0:08:55.540 --> 0:08:58.199 playing field for all of us. Pray that you'll help 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:00.780 everybody figure out how to customize this for their own 0:09:00.820 --> 0:09:02.600 lives and their own walk with you. And so we 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:06.880 commit it to you in Jesus' name. Everybody said amen. Amen. 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:12.220 James 5.16, the earnest, heartfelt, continued prayer of a righteous 0:09:12.280 --> 0:09:17.300 man makes tremendous power available, dynamic in its working. This 0:09:17.340 --> 0:09:21.990 is kind of our foundational verse for the series. The earnest, heartfelt, 0:09:22.370 --> 0:09:25.370 who knows, there is nothing more boring than a prayer 0:09:25.410 --> 0:09:31.550 that is not heartfelt. It's just dutiful, it's obligatory, it's boring. 0:09:32.450 --> 0:09:34.300 And that's not the kind of prayer God's interested in. 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:39.620 He's interested in earnest, heartfelt. Listen, when you feel something, 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:43.010 when you have an earnest desire for God to show 0:09:43.070 --> 0:09:44.709 up in an area of your life, it is not 0:09:44.770 --> 0:09:49.430 hard to pray heartfelt prayers. And this verse promises us 0:09:49.490 --> 0:09:52.730 the earnest, heartfelt, continued. And that's kind of what we're 0:09:52.750 --> 0:09:54.510 going to talk about today. How do you continue in 0:09:54.550 --> 0:09:59.010 this daily? Continued prayer of a righteous man. And the 0:09:59.059 --> 0:10:00.940 bible says that through christ we've all been made the 0:10:00.980 --> 0:10:04.420 righteousness of god in christ so you qualify for this 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:06.020 don't let the enemy talk you out of this and 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:08.179 say well you know you're not good enough no if 0:10:08.200 --> 0:10:10.569 you're a christian jesus christ is the lord of your 0:10:10.610 --> 0:10:15.490 life then you've been made his righteousness you qualify the 0:10:15.550 --> 0:10:22.439 earnest heartfelt prayer of a Dynamic and it's working power 0:10:22.800 --> 0:10:26.599 can be made available and this is huge. What kind 0:10:26.620 --> 0:10:31.739 of power God's power Y'all ever needed God's power in 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:33.920 your life. Think about your life. Think about just to 0:10:33.980 --> 0:10:37.080 be a Christian How many of you know you cannot 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:40.260 be a Christian without God's power? You can try but 0:10:40.280 --> 0:10:41.590 you'll fail. I you know, we've all done it We've 0:10:41.610 --> 0:10:43.830 all tried and failed but no the way that you 0:10:44.170 --> 0:10:47.680 be a Christian is with God's power and And who knows? 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:50.059 You know, it's sad, isn't it? No, who does not 0:10:50.100 --> 0:10:51.700 want this? Who does not want to come to church 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:54.520 and be some churchified person and then go out in 0:10:54.559 --> 0:10:56.490 your real life and nobody even knows you're a Christian? 0:10:57.590 --> 0:11:00.250 It feels very hypocritical. I don't know. They said they 0:11:00.270 --> 0:11:01.750 go to that church, but they sure don't live like it. 0:11:03.470 --> 0:11:06.830 And all the people said, yeah. Well, so then how 0:11:06.870 --> 0:11:09.590 can you have your life congruent 24 seven? How can 0:11:09.610 --> 0:11:13.870 you be a Christian power? You need power. You need 0:11:13.910 --> 0:11:16.770 to make, through prayer, you need to make some power 0:11:16.929 --> 0:11:21.540 available for you to be a Christian. How about marriage? 0:11:21.580 --> 0:11:27.210 Anybody ever noticed? It takes power to be married. Doesn't it? 0:11:27.500 --> 0:11:31.000 Doesn't it take power to forgive? I think it takes 0:11:31.020 --> 0:11:36.810 supersonic power. It takes power to stay married. You're the 0:11:36.870 --> 0:11:39.090 novelty if you've been able to stay married. It takes 0:11:39.170 --> 0:11:42.449 power to stay married. It takes power for your spouse 0:11:42.470 --> 0:11:44.819 to understand that you are right all the time. It 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:51.800 takes God's power, right? Who knows? It takes power to 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:57.200 raise kids. Yeah, that takes most of heaven's power to 0:11:57.240 --> 0:11:59.660 raise kids, to understand the temperaments of each one of 0:11:59.700 --> 0:12:03.330 your kids and how to, you know, blaze a trail 0:12:03.370 --> 0:12:05.510 for them and raise them up in a godly way. 0:12:05.530 --> 0:12:09.089 That takes power. You cannot be a parent alone without power. 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:13.320 How about your business, business guys, business gals in this economy? 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:16.140 Who needs some power? God, I need some power to 0:12:16.179 --> 0:12:20.460 have a successful business, a prosperous business. At the end 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:22.260 of the year, we'd like there to be more money 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:29.670 as opposed to debt. Okay, one amen, yay. No, you 0:12:29.710 --> 0:12:33.950 need power to do that. And the earnest, heartfelt, continued 0:12:34.010 --> 0:12:38.980 prayer of a righteous person makes tremendous power available. It 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:42.260 can become available. How about healing? Anybody need healing in 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:44.900 their body? You know, you got a body that's not 0:12:44.940 --> 0:12:48.790 feeling well. God's power. And when he's talking about power, 0:12:48.830 --> 0:12:52.489 he's talking about God's power. God's power at work on 0:12:52.530 --> 0:12:54.490 your behalf. How can I get a hold of some 0:12:54.510 --> 0:12:59.030 of that power? The earnest, heartfelt, continued prayer of a 0:12:59.070 --> 0:13:04.090 righteous person makes tremendous power available. You put power on 0:13:04.130 --> 0:13:07.860 deposit in prayer. For your life, for your kids. Listen, 0:13:07.900 --> 0:13:10.179 young people, young people in here, get a hold of 0:13:10.220 --> 0:13:13.020 this now. And if you'll get ahead of the prayer curve, 0:13:13.570 --> 0:13:15.369 y'all know what I mean? You can get ahead of 0:13:15.410 --> 0:13:17.870 the prayer curve or you can be behind the prayer curve. 0:13:18.490 --> 0:13:20.670 If you're ahead of the prayer curve, you are a 0:13:20.790 --> 0:13:23.750 prayer and you put a lot of things on deposit 0:13:23.770 --> 0:13:25.830 for your life, for your family, for your kids, for 0:13:25.850 --> 0:13:29.219 your church, for your friends, for your world. And then 0:13:29.260 --> 0:13:31.420 the rest of your life, you just make withdrawals. You 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:34.900 constantly put on deposit. You constantly make withdrawals. You live 0:13:34.920 --> 0:13:39.329 what is known as the victorious Christian life. Why? Because 0:13:39.350 --> 0:13:42.490 you have power. Power has been made available to you. 0:13:43.510 --> 0:13:45.770 Young people, you can pray out ahead of time so 0:13:45.830 --> 0:13:48.750 much of your life. You can put so much power 0:13:48.809 --> 0:13:54.090 on deposit for yourself, for your future marriage. College kids, 0:13:54.130 --> 0:13:57.230 be praying now. Put some stuff on deposit for that 0:13:57.290 --> 0:14:03.410 future marriage. Parents of preschoolers, pregnant peoples. Man, put some 0:14:03.429 --> 0:14:05.570 stuff on deposit now. We would pray, I would pray 0:14:05.590 --> 0:14:07.250 all the time, Jeff and I together, but then individually, 0:14:07.670 --> 0:14:09.870 we would put on deposit things for our kids from 0:14:10.190 --> 0:14:14.130 really even before I was pregnant. Even before that, I 0:14:14.150 --> 0:14:16.190 was praying for whoever these kids would be one day. 0:14:16.850 --> 0:14:19.650 Putting stuff on deposit. And listen, it is such a 0:14:19.710 --> 0:14:22.750 good place to be, moms, dads. When you've spent time 0:14:22.790 --> 0:14:26.640 in prayer, For your kids, is there little people, elementary people? 0:14:27.140 --> 0:14:28.950 By the time they get to middle school or high school, 0:14:29.010 --> 0:14:32.430 and sometimes there can be potential issues, there's such a 0:14:32.470 --> 0:14:36.250 sense of peace if you know, hey, some power is 0:14:36.290 --> 0:14:40.250 available to help us get through the teen years, help 0:14:40.310 --> 0:14:45.600 us get through some young adult years. Power's been made available. Amen. 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:47.980 In any area of life. And then notice the very 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:50.460 last part of that. It says dynamic and it's working. 0:14:50.700 --> 0:14:54.460 I love this. God customizes it. Because who knows all 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:57.300 the dynamics of your life? Who knows all the dynamics 0:14:57.320 --> 0:15:00.780 that all of us face except God? Only God does. 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:03.060 And as we pray, the things we're going to talk about, 0:15:03.100 --> 0:15:06.410 as we pray, we put God's power on deposit. And 0:15:06.430 --> 0:15:09.270 then when a withdrawal is made, God is able to 0:15:09.370 --> 0:15:15.370 figure out all the dynamics and appropriate power for those dynamics. 0:15:17.690 --> 0:15:21.910 This is the victorious Christian life. This is foundational to it. 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:24.160 So I want to stir you up. I know for 0:15:24.180 --> 0:15:25.760 some of you, this is brand new. Others of you, 0:15:25.780 --> 0:15:28.500 this is old stuff. But for all of us, man, 0:15:28.580 --> 0:15:33.680 what a season to be living on a prayer. Amen? Okay, 0:15:33.700 --> 0:15:37.480 so then let's look at our verse, Matthew 6, verse 9. 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:39.040 You guys know this prayer. Who's ever heard of the 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:43.120 Lord's Prayer or the Our Father? Yeah, that's real familiar. 0:15:43.140 --> 0:15:45.020 We all know those prayers, and we've sung them. Who 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:48.619 sung them? Quoted them, read them at a funeral or 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:50.800 at church or at a baptism or something? But we're 0:15:50.820 --> 0:15:52.900 going to see some things in this prayer. We'll read 0:15:52.940 --> 0:15:54.240 it because you guys all know it. This is from 0:15:54.260 --> 0:15:57.480 the King James. This is the version most of us learned. 0:15:57.580 --> 0:16:00.140 Jesus said this, after this manner, his disciples said, Lord, 0:16:00.180 --> 0:16:04.360 teach us to pray. He said, after this manner, therefore, 0:16:04.460 --> 0:16:09.260 pray ye. Poke your neighbor and say, pray ye. Here's 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:12.330 what he said. Our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed 0:16:12.350 --> 0:16:15.550 be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done 0:16:15.570 --> 0:16:17.730 in earth as it is in heaven. Give us this 0:16:17.790 --> 0:16:20.119 day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts as 0:16:20.160 --> 0:16:23.460 we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:26.500 but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:30.400 and the power and the glory forever. Amen. Well, we 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:33.270 all know this prayer, right? Many of us know it. 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:35.900 If we look at that very first phrase that Jesus 0:16:35.940 --> 0:16:39.400 said where he said, After this manner, therefore pray ye. 0:16:40.160 --> 0:16:45.330 It's interesting because that word manner means model. Jesus is 0:16:45.390 --> 0:16:47.470 basically telling the disciples, hey, listen, I know you're going 0:16:47.490 --> 0:16:49.580 to need to pray because if you pray earnest, heartfelt, 0:16:49.620 --> 0:16:54.100 continued prayers, you'll put power on deposit. So after this model, pray. 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:57.260 The Our Father or the Lord's Prayer was not necessarily 0:16:57.300 --> 0:17:03.490 intended to be a verbatim memorized prayer. It's a model 0:17:03.810 --> 0:17:08.210 for prayer. It's a pattern. It's a template. It's an outline. 0:17:08.450 --> 0:17:11.250 It's a table of contents. And we're going to see 0:17:11.270 --> 0:17:14.460 there are six chapters in There are six phases. There 0:17:14.500 --> 0:17:18.440 are six pit stops in prayer that Jesus itemized in 0:17:18.480 --> 0:17:21.379 the Lord's Prayer. And see, now, in Matthew there's a 0:17:21.400 --> 0:17:23.480 version of this prayer, and in Luke there's a version 0:17:23.500 --> 0:17:26.359 of this prayer. And they're two different versions. They're similar, 0:17:26.380 --> 0:17:28.820 but they're different. So if it was supposed to be 0:17:28.859 --> 0:17:31.600 a verbatim prayer, which version should you be verbatim about? 0:17:33.260 --> 0:17:35.119 On top of that, never in the rest of the 0:17:35.180 --> 0:17:37.419 New Testament is there any record that the disciples ever 0:17:37.480 --> 0:17:40.590 prayed this prayer. The disciples prayed, but there was no 0:17:40.640 --> 0:17:45.070 record that they prayed this prayer verbatim. On top of that, 0:17:45.190 --> 0:17:49.230 Jesus said, whenever you pray, pray in his name. His 0:17:49.300 --> 0:17:52.180 name's not even mentioned in this prayer. So it's not 0:17:52.240 --> 0:17:56.199 necessarily a prayer to be memorized and prayed verbatim as 0:17:56.359 --> 0:17:59.760 much as it is an outline, a pattern for prayer. 0:18:00.560 --> 0:18:03.260 Jesus is giving us the substance of what to pray, 0:18:03.840 --> 0:18:07.480 what and how to pray. Jesus gave us the pattern, 0:18:07.500 --> 0:18:09.359 and he started with kind of phase one. We're going 0:18:09.380 --> 0:18:12.080 to look at it in pit stops or phases. Phase 0:18:12.380 --> 0:18:16.119 one is this. Jesus said... Our Father, which art in heaven, 0:18:16.140 --> 0:18:18.739 hallowed be thy name. So how does that work? You're 0:18:18.760 --> 0:18:20.650 in your secret place. You've got some time with the Lord. 0:18:20.670 --> 0:18:23.530 You want to have a conversation. then what do you say? 0:18:23.550 --> 0:18:25.090 And this kind of dovetails a little bit with what 0:18:25.109 --> 0:18:26.750 we talked about last week. Do you all remember? We 0:18:26.770 --> 0:18:29.590 looked at Psalm 100 and talked about this connection with God, 0:18:29.609 --> 0:18:31.890 and it kind of starts with coming into his gates 0:18:31.930 --> 0:18:35.470 with thanksgiving, being thankful, coming into his courts with praise, 0:18:35.550 --> 0:18:37.930 praising God for who he is, and then coming before 0:18:37.970 --> 0:18:41.170 his presence, the Bible says, with singing. Well, Jesus basically 0:18:41.190 --> 0:18:42.840 says the same thing. He says, listen, when you come 0:18:42.859 --> 0:18:46.480 before the Lord, start with our Father, which art in heaven, 0:18:46.580 --> 0:18:50.340 hallowed be thy name. Hallowed means holy or set apart. 0:18:51.130 --> 0:18:53.360 Right from the get-go in your prayer life, let's get 0:18:53.390 --> 0:18:56.720 the perspective right, right from the beginning. Let's set apart 0:18:56.780 --> 0:19:00.380 God as the highest and the greatest and the most, 0:19:00.660 --> 0:19:03.560 our Father which art in heaven. There is none other. 0:19:04.200 --> 0:19:08.250 Nobody comes close. Nobody can compete. Basically, it's sort of 0:19:08.290 --> 0:19:11.050 like the Bible talks about. You take a magnifying glass out, right? 0:19:12.010 --> 0:19:13.390 Because who knows, in your life and in my life, 0:19:13.630 --> 0:19:15.850 there's a lot of voices and a lot of things 0:19:16.490 --> 0:19:19.690 that are trying for our attention. a lot of things 0:19:19.710 --> 0:19:22.100 that seem big you know maybe you're facing some very 0:19:22.130 --> 0:19:24.560 difficult things and they can seem big but what he's 0:19:24.600 --> 0:19:25.980 telling us to do is he said look from the 0:19:26.020 --> 0:19:28.020 beginning in your prayer life get the right perspective get 0:19:28.060 --> 0:19:30.520 the magnifying glass out because when you put a magnifying 0:19:30.540 --> 0:19:33.399 glass on an object it doesn't really make the object 0:19:33.440 --> 0:19:35.659 any bigger the object is what it is but it 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:39.950 makes it bigger to you so you magnify the Lord 0:19:39.990 --> 0:19:42.710 you get the magnifying glass on God and you look 0:19:42.730 --> 0:19:44.990 at how big God is and how great he is 0:19:45.030 --> 0:19:48.130 and he's the almighty the most high above him there 0:19:48.190 --> 0:19:50.979 is no other Jesus said, about the father he said 0:19:51.020 --> 0:19:55.360 my father is greater than all and man no matter 0:19:55.380 --> 0:19:57.320 what you're facing you can start off with God it 0:19:57.359 --> 0:19:59.460 doesn't matter what this day holds what this month holds 0:19:59.670 --> 0:20:02.810 you are greater than all my father which art in 0:20:02.850 --> 0:20:05.310 heaven and then you can take a little time and 0:20:05.330 --> 0:20:08.350 you can talk to Jesus in this particular phase and 0:20:08.850 --> 0:20:11.109 Because the Bible says about Jesus that he was given 0:20:11.130 --> 0:20:14.230 the name that is above every name, that at his 0:20:14.290 --> 0:20:17.350 name every name must bow. So, you know, who knows? 0:20:17.510 --> 0:20:23.169 Names are coming against you. Diseases have names. Financial troubles 0:20:23.210 --> 0:20:30.320 have names. Certain diagnosis, whatever. How do you say that word? Diagnoses. 0:20:31.240 --> 0:20:36.340 Is that right? Oh, whatever. You get it. Certain things. 0:20:37.990 --> 0:20:41.629 Come against you with the name, right? And so you 0:20:41.670 --> 0:20:43.310 can get in your little prayer closet and go, God, 0:20:43.330 --> 0:20:44.939 I'm going to get the right perspective here. I know 0:20:44.960 --> 0:20:46.560 there's a lot of things with names trying to come 0:20:46.600 --> 0:20:50.320 against me, but Jesus is the name above every name. 0:20:50.359 --> 0:20:52.879 And at his name, all this other stuff has to bow. 0:20:53.880 --> 0:20:56.389 Holy Spirit, you live in me. The Bible says the 0:20:56.450 --> 0:20:58.389 greater one lives in me. Greater is he that's in 0:20:58.410 --> 0:21:00.330