Bro John Pople, from the series “Growing Closer to GOD” which was given at the 2015 New Zealand Bible School, class 4 was used for GCT episode #224<\/p>\n
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\nOur third period study is
\nBrother, John poeple, on growing<\/p>\n
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\ncloser to God.
\nThe subtitle for today is <\/p>\n
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\nlearning to pray.
\nThis is the fourth talk in the <\/p>\n
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\nseries and the introductory
\nreading is Luke 15 verse 11 to <\/p>\n
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\nThe End by the John.
\nGood evening. <\/p>\n
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\nOnce more, my dear brothers and
\nsisters, I do offer an apology <\/p>\n
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\nconsidering its come, this late
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\nexplain all these slides can be
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\nthe DVDs.
\nBut if you have your own flash <\/p>\n
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\ndrive, I can happily give you
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\nyou need.
\nSo don’t feel that you have to <\/p>\n
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\ntake notes to get the
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\ntake notes, obviously, please
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\nSo, this is the last talk.
\nOf this series of for growing <\/p>\n
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\ncloser to God.
\nAnd now we’re going to look at <\/p>\n
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\nthe best example of all.
\nWe’re going to look at the Lord.<\/p>\n
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\nJesus Christ.
\nWe don’t therefore look at his <\/p>\n
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\nlife as we do at the others, to
\nsee how he closed the Gap with a<\/p>\n
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\nby overcoming a shortcoming that
\nhe had. <\/p>\n
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\nBecause it’s not, it’s not
\npossible for us to tag <\/p>\n
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\nshortcomings in the development
\nof the Lord, Jesus Christ. <\/p>\n
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\nBut if there’s something, I
\nthink we’re Jesus really stands <\/p>\n
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\nahead and shows us a way in
\nwhich we can All improve, it’s <\/p>\n
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\nabout learning to pray.
\nI’m not suggesting. <\/p>\n
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\nYou don’t know how to pray but
\nhow to develop one’s prayer? <\/p>\n
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\nLife prayer.
\nI speak personally, but perhaps <\/p>\n
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\nI speak for more than just one
\nprayer, is a very difficult <\/p>\n
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\nactivity.
\nIt’s very difficult to know the <\/p>\n
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\npoint.
\nThe reason the correct manner of<\/p>\n
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\nconstruction, you already know
\nthat the Lord God knows <\/p>\n
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\neverything.
\nYou think and feel even before <\/p>\n
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\nyou express it.
\nSo you wonder even about its <\/p>\n
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\nvalue.
\nYou so it is a very difficult <\/p>\n
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\nthing, but I have every
\nconfidence that if a disciple <\/p>\n
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\nwill really just say to me, I
\nwant to be a better disciple. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat should I work on almost
\ncertainly, the idea answer would<\/p>\n
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\nbe improve your prayer life.
\nI just feel that that’s likely <\/p>\n
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\nto be the case, a very difficult
\nanswer, but perhaps the <\/p>\n
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\nnecessary one.
\nWhy pray? <\/p>\n
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\nStraight question.
\nWhy pray? <\/p>\n
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\nI think many good answers.
\nCould be given? <\/p>\n
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\nWhat might you suggest?
\nTo talk to God, and that’s good.<\/p>\n
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\nAnd yet, you know, if I were to
\nbe adversarial, I would say. <\/p>\n
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\nBut God already knows what I
\nthink, but you’re still correct.<\/p>\n
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\nI don’t dispute that.
\nAnd perhaps, I think it’s a <\/p>\n
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\nreally good answer.
\nIf you didn’t hear Brother Paul.<\/p>\n
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\nThe idea is that in articulating
\nand vocalizing your own <\/p>\n
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\nthoughts, you begin to
\ncrystallize them. <\/p>\n
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\nIn other words, yes.
\nGod knew what you were thinking <\/p>\n
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\nbefore you prayed, but you might
\nnot have done. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd as you actually begin to
\nfind words or at least feelings <\/p>\n
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\nin which to express that prayer,
\nwe learn to refine our feelings <\/p>\n
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\nand understand more about what
\nit is that we really want. <\/p>\n
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\nWe’re acknowledging God, we
\nacknowledge In his presence. <\/p>\n
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\nYes, we’re acknowledging.
\nThat we know that he’s there and<\/p>\n
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\nhere’s a very simple answer that
\nattracts me, why pray? <\/p>\n
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\nBecause Jesus did We’re told he
\nis our example and if his <\/p>\n
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\nresonance with the almighty
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\nours.
\nIE his distance between him and <\/p>\n
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\nThen God knew what Jesus was <\/p>\n
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\nthinking, even more, if it’s not
\na foolish statement, then God <\/p>\n
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\nJesus did it, we can trust.
\nIt’s the right thing. <\/p>\n
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\nRemember, one of the charges we
\nhave in discipleship is become <\/p>\n
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\nlike Jesus.
\nWell, to become like Jesus. <\/p>\n
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\nIsis.
\nWe do what Jesus did. <\/p>\n
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\nNot just in appearance, but more
\nin actual lifestyle, we’re going<\/p>\n
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\nto try a little bit later on to
\nbecome like the 1960s that’s all<\/p>\n
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\nrather fun and realistically the
\nonly thing we can modify in an <\/p>\n
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\nevening isn’t our outward
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\nour dress code and our outward <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s just an external match.
\nBut if we’re going to become <\/p>\n
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\nlike Jesus, we become like Jesus
\nby doing what Jesus did the news<\/p>\n
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\nabout Jesus spread all the more
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\nhear him and to be healed of
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\nI noticed that whether Jesus
\noften withdrew to lonely places <\/p>\n
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\nand prayed Jesus prayed
\nfrequently do I pray frequently <\/p>\n
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\nI’m not sure it’s frequently
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\nWhy don’t I pray frequently
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\nBecause my life is already full
\nof stressful activities that’s <\/p>\n
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\nIsn’t it?
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\nWhat were you hoping prayer <\/p>\n
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\nAnd, again, that’s Brother, <\/p>\n
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\nBy the time I say it out loud. <\/p>\n
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\nI suddenly realized, that’s
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\nI need to change what I’m doing.
\nJesus was the closest to the <\/p>\n
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\nmind what he doesn’t mean.
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\nI and my father are one. <\/p>\n
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\nI don’t need to add anything.
\nThat’s a beautiful statement. <\/p>\n
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\nWhy pray?
\nYour kingdom come for example. <\/p>\n
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\nJesus instructed.
\nHis disciples asked Lord, how <\/p>\n
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\nideas and one of those was your
\nkingdom. <\/p>\n
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\nCome.
\nI hope we believe that. <\/p>\n
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\nDo we believe that God’s kingdom
\nwill come? <\/p>\n
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\nI’m hoping that’s a general.
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\nhoped for but it’s still a form
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\nWill it?
\nCome? <\/p>\n
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\nYes, we believe it will come
\nbrothers and sisters. <\/p>\n
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\nWill God’s kingdom, come if I
\ndon’t pray for it. <\/p>\n
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\nYes.
\nLet me go one step further, will<\/p>\n
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\nit come if I pray for it, not to
\ncome. <\/p>\n
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\nYes. so, I pray Why pray for
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\nThat’s not a case of
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\nI already know what the <\/p>\n
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\nunderstanding is your kingdom
\ncome. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s a very direct statement.
\nIt’s not a complex feeling. <\/p>\n
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\nIt helps our conviction, that’s <\/p>\n
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\nan excellent answer.
\nWe’re going to come onto that. <\/p>\n
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\ncome to that just directly but <\/p>\n
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\nLet the days may be shortened, <\/p>\n
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\nwho said that very good.
\nTJ the back there. <\/p>\n
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\nIt very well may change the
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\nthat.
\nThe days may be shortened. <\/p>\n
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\nHis brother, TJ said there’s
\ngood scriptural evidence. <\/p>\n
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\nNot only in that promise for
\nsomething that hasn’t yet <\/p>\n
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\nBut for the things that did <\/p>\n
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\nhappen when they were prayed for
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\naffected the speed at which the
\nanswer arrived. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd the more people praying
\noften affected the speed at, <\/p>\n
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\nwhich God’s will played out.
\nAnd I think that’s maybe why one<\/p>\n
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\nscriptures. <\/p>\n
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\nNo, man knows the day, or the
\nhour or the year when the son of<\/p>\n
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\nman shall return.
\nAnd I think one of the reasons, <\/p>\n
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\nthe day is not fixed. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd one of the parameters on
\nwhich it flexes is, how much <\/p>\n
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\nprayer and how much desire we
\nexpress and that the father <\/p>\n
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\nhears US Express, Do You Really
\nWant Jesus to come if you do <\/p>\n
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\npray, pray more frequently for
\nit. <\/p>\n
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\nPray harder for it and it very
\nwell. <\/p>\n
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\nAccording to the promises of
\nscripture may come sooner that’s<\/p>\n
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\nreasonable.
\nEvery time, God speaks about the<\/p>\n
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\ncoming of the Lord Jesus Christ.
\nHe tends to use the analogy of <\/p>\n
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\nI’m somehow this Diwali or wheat
\nor anything ask any farmer. <\/p>\n
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\nDon’t look at me the closest
\nI’ve got to farming is a <\/p>\n
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\nroommate growing tomatoes on the
\nwindowsill that’s about as close<\/p>\n
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\nas it gets but that’s that’s the
\nlimit of my understanding of <\/p>\n
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\nfarming but even then I gained
\nenough education from that to <\/p>\n
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\nthink about the coming of the
\nLord Jesus Christ on what day <\/p>\n
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\nare you going to pick those
\nTomatoes roommate? <\/p>\n
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\nWell, What did the roommate
\nreply? <\/p>\n
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\nwhen they’re ready, when the red
\nnot green, And so, who are the <\/p>\n
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\ntomatoes?
\nThat’s us. <\/p>\n
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\nOur color dictates the coming of
\nharvest time. <\/p>\n
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\nSo that’s a very good reason why
\nto pray. <\/p>\n
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\nIt also changes us, two people
\nhave already commented <\/p>\n
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\nparticularly to that end.
\nIt changes us. <\/p>\n
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\nIt increases our desire by
\nmaking our vision more tangible,<\/p>\n
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\nthe more we picture something,
\neven if it isn’t physically in <\/p>\n
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\nfront of us, if there’s a
\npicture of it in our mind, then <\/p>\n
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\nthe more we are attached to it.
\nSo as you You pray for the <\/p>\n
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\nkingdom paint pictures of it in
\nyour mind think what certain <\/p>\n
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\nparts of the earth will look
\nlike physically or <\/p>\n
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\ngeographically, or
\nsocioeconomically, or whatever <\/p>\n
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\npaint, those pictures and look
\nat those pictures and describe <\/p>\n
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\nthose pictures in your prayer
\nthat you desire, because then <\/p>\n
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\nthe picture will make things
\nmore tangible to. <\/p>\n
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\njob and not be the slightest bit<\/p>\n
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\n00:20:29,700 –> 00:20:34,200
\nsecure in my future.
\nI might be married and not feel <\/p>\n
341
\n00:20:34,200 –> 00:20:37,400
\nthe slightest bit fulfilled.
\nWhy didn’t I pray for what? <\/p>\n
342
\n00:20:37,400 –> 00:20:40,500
\nI actually wanted.
\nAnd so over the years, I’ve <\/p>\n
343
\n00:20:40,500 –> 00:20:46,400
\nlearned to pray for this column
\nand not for any of the tangibles<\/p>\n
344
\n00:20:47,300 –> 00:20:50,600
\nthat I might trick my mind into
\nthinking, what will actually <\/p>\n
345
\n00:20:50,600 –> 00:20:55,700
\ncome in this column, and there’s
\nanother advantage to praying <\/p>\n
346
\n00:20:55,700 –> 00:21:01,600
\ndirectly, you’re able to catch
\nyourself out when you cheat. <\/p>\n
347
\n00:21:02,600 –> 00:21:06,800
\nDo not be, do not be surprised
\nthat the human mind is deceitful<\/p>\n
348
\n00:21:06,800 –> 00:21:09,800
\nabove all things.
\nYou might pray that this <\/p>\n
349
\n00:21:09,800 –> 00:21:12,700
\npreaching campaign, be
\ntremendously successful, and we <\/p>\n
350
\n00:21:12,700 –> 00:21:16,600
\nhave at least five, maybe ten
\nbaptisms as a result of three <\/p>\n
351
\n00:21:16,600 –> 00:21:21,100
\nmonths work, for example, that’s
\na beautiful thing to pray for. <\/p>\n
352
\n00:21:22,400 –> 00:21:25,700
\nIsn’t it?
\nBut what if I’m praying <\/p>\n
353
\n00:21:25,700 –> 00:21:30,200
\nactually, to be proved right.
\nI designed this preaching <\/p>\n
354
\n00:21:30,200 –> 00:21:34,100
\ncampaign and I said, do it like
\nthis and the other guy had tried<\/p>\n
355
\n00:21:34,100 –> 00:21:36,700
\nto do it like that for six
\nmonths and nothing happened. <\/p>\n
356
\n00:21:36,700 –> 00:21:39,600
\nSo if we do it like this, like I
\nsaid and we get a lot of <\/p>\n
357
\n00:21:39,608 –> 00:21:41,600
\nbaptisms.
\nThat’s why I’m praying for the <\/p>\n
358
\n00:21:41,600 –> 00:21:45,100
\nbaptisms and I can catch myself
\nin things like that. <\/p>\n
359
\n00:21:45,400 –> 00:21:48,000
\nSometimes what I’m really
\npraying for is to be proved <\/p>\n
360
\n00:21:48,000 –> 00:21:53,100
\nright or to indulge myself or to
\nlook Superior and that can <\/p>\n
361
\n00:21:53,100 –> 00:21:57,000
\nhappen when we play Pray for
\nthese indirect tangibles because<\/p>\n
362
\n00:21:57,000 –> 00:22:00,900
\nin the indirect tangible, you
\ncan hide a lot of things that <\/p>\n
363
\n00:22:00,900 –> 00:22:05,100
\nyour little undermined will
\nsneak in under the tangible. <\/p>\n
364
\n00:22:05,100 –> 00:22:10,200
\nBut when you pray directly for
\nfulfillment or protection for <\/p>\n
365
\n00:22:10,200 –> 00:22:13,700
\nloved ones, without any of the
\ntangible coverings, you will <\/p>\n
366
\n00:22:13,700 –> 00:22:15,800
\ndiscover.
\nIf any of these, rather less <\/p>\n
367
\n00:22:15,800 –> 00:22:19,700
\nworthy things have crept in with
\nyour thinking, because you’ll be<\/p>\n
368
\n00:22:19,700 –> 00:22:22,300
\nanalyzing your desires,
\nabsolutely directly. <\/p>\n
369
\n00:22:22,300 –> 00:22:25,100
\nSo, that’s my second piece.
\nOf advice. <\/p>\n
370
\n00:22:25,400 –> 00:22:28,600
\nPray directly.
\nGod will choose whatever <\/p>\n
371
\n00:22:28,600 –> 00:22:34,100
\ntangibles to supply in order to
\nto fulfill the direct goal for <\/p>\n
372
\n00:22:34,100 –> 00:22:39,100
\nwhich you’re praying.
\nSo at this point, we come to a <\/p>\n
373
\n00:22:39,108 –> 00:22:48,600
\nrather unusual section.
\nI’m going to show you a literal <\/p>\n
374
\n00:22:48,600 –> 00:22:54,700
\ntestimonies of real people.
\nNeither of whom, you know, who <\/p>\n
375
\n00:22:54,700 –> 00:22:58,400
\nhave commented and agreed to
\ncomment publicly on their prayer<\/p>\n
376
\n00:22:58,400 –> 00:23:01,000
\nlife.
\nNow, at some point particular in<\/p>\n
377
\n00:23:01,000 –> 00:23:02,900
\nthe second case, it’s very
\npersonal. <\/p>\n
378
\n00:23:02,900 –> 00:23:04,800
\nI’ve cut out, the bits that are
\nsort of a little bit too <\/p>\n
379
\n00:23:04,800 –> 00:23:08,200
\ngruesome.
\nBut it’s I think it’s useful to <\/p>\n
380
\n00:23:08,200 –> 00:23:12,500
\nsee real people.
\nIn action in their prayer Lives <\/p>\n
381
\n00:23:12,500 –> 00:23:16,300
\nwho are happy to comment upon
\nthem and one of them is a very <\/p>\n
382
\n00:23:16,300 –> 00:23:18,900
\nhappy story that will be the
\nsecond one there. <\/p>\n
383
\n00:23:18,900 –> 00:23:21,300
\nFor a first will address this
\none. <\/p>\n
384
\n00:23:21,300 –> 00:23:25,300
\nThe name is a pseudonym, not her
\nreal name and she comments in <\/p>\n
385
\n00:23:25,300 –> 00:23:29,100
\nthis way.
\nIf you had asked me as a young <\/p>\n
386
\n00:23:29,100 –> 00:23:32,300
\nChristian, whether I believed in
\nprayer, I would have quickly <\/p>\n
387
\n00:23:32,300 –> 00:23:35,900
\nsaid, yes, I would have told you
\nabout the time I spun out in the<\/p>\n
388
\n00:23:35,900 –> 00:23:38,800
\nsnow and didn’t get hurt.
\nWell, the time I dropped a house<\/p>\n
389
\n00:23:38,800 –> 00:23:43,000
\nkey somewhere in my 74, Dodge,
\nDart, and couldn’t find it for <\/p>\n
390
\n00:23:43,000 –> 00:23:46,500
\nhours.
\nUntil I prayed, maybe God takes <\/p>\n
391
\n00:23:46,500 –> 00:23:48,700
\ncare of, neophyte Believers.
\nI don’t know. <\/p>\n
392
\n00:23:49,100 –> 00:23:51,500
\nHe doesn’t seem to take care of
\nOld-Timers though. <\/p>\n
393
\n00:23:52,800 –> 00:23:54,700
\nI could list probably 100
\nprayers. <\/p>\n
394
\n00:23:54,700 –> 00:23:57,600
\nThat haven’t been answered.
\nI’m not speaking of selfish <\/p>\n
395
\n00:23:57,600 –> 00:24:01,900
\nprayers but important prayers,
\nGod keep my kids safe. <\/p>\n
396
\n00:24:02,100 –> 00:24:04,200
\nKeep them away from the wrong
\ncrowd. <\/p>\n
397
\n00:24:04,600 –> 00:24:08,200
\nAll three ended up in trouble
\nwith the law abusing drugs and <\/p>\n
398
\n00:24:08,200 –> 00:24:12,200
\nalcohol.
\nI’ve got to say Jesus story of <\/p>\n
399
\n00:24:12,200 –> 00:24:16,000
\nthe persistent Widow Sowers,
\nthousands of people pray for a <\/p>\n
400
\n00:24:16,000 –> 00:24:18,600
\nChristian leader, who has cancer
\nand he dies. <\/p>\n
401
\n00:24:19,000 –> 00:24:22,300
\nWhat did Jesus mean by the
\nparable that we keep beating? <\/p>\n
402
\n00:24:22,500 –> 00:24:27,200
\nOur heads against a wall.
\nI’d guess maybe 20% of my <\/p>\n
403
\n00:24:27,200 –> 00:24:29,100
\nprayers, get anything like the
\nanswer. <\/p>\n
404
\n00:24:29,100 –> 00:24:33,900
\nI want over the time I give up,
\nI pray for those things, I <\/p>\n
405
\n00:24:33,908 –> 00:24:36,700
\nbelieve will happen, or I just
\ndon’t pray. <\/p>\n
406
\n00:24:37,300 –> 00:24:40,900
\nI review my journal and see God,
\ndoing less and less. <\/p>\n
407
\n00:24:41,500 –> 00:24:44,600
\nI get mad like a child.
\nI stop talking. <\/p>\n
408
\n00:24:44,600 –> 00:24:48,800
\nI’m passive aggressive with God.
\nI put him off maybe later. <\/p>\n
409
\n00:24:49,700 –> 00:24:53,600
\nI went to a mentor and poured
\nout, my soul describing in <\/p>\n
410
\n00:24:53,600 –> 00:24:55,200
\ndetail.
\nAll, I’ve been through in the <\/p>\n
411
\n00:24:55,200 –> 00:24:58,300
\npast few years with my health
\nand especially with my kids. <\/p>\n
412
\n00:24:58,800 –> 00:25:02,500
\nWhat do I do?
\nI asked he set there for the <\/p>\n
413
\n00:25:02,500 –> 00:25:06,700
\nlongest time and said, I don’t
\nknow, Joanne, he sighed. <\/p>\n
414
\n00:25:07,000 –> 00:25:09,800
\nI waited for words of wisdom.
\nNone came. <\/p>\n
415
\n00:25:10,700 –> 00:25:15,700
\nThat’s how it is with prayer,
\ntoo. so, One thing we can <\/p>\n
416
\n00:25:15,700 –> 00:25:19,900
\nconclude the prayer.
\nLife was a bad experience. <\/p>\n
417
\n00:25:20,500 –> 00:25:22,900
\nWhat had gone wrong challenge
\nyourself. <\/p>\n
418
\n00:25:23,600 –> 00:25:27,600
\nThat woman has come to you
\nearlier, on this afternoon, sat <\/p>\n
419
\n00:25:27,600 –> 00:25:31,000
\ndown next to you on the bench
\nand said, precisely that. <\/p>\n
420
\n00:25:31,900 –> 00:25:35,400
\nWhat’s your response?
\nIf we Disciples of Christ, we <\/p>\n
421
\n00:25:35,408 –> 00:25:37,900
\nshould be ready for moments such
\nas these. <\/p>\n
422
\n00:25:39,200 –> 00:25:43,000
\nWe’ll think about that in just a
\nminute, but before we do, let’s <\/p>\n
423
\n00:25:43,000 –> 00:25:51,300
\nintroduce our second testimony.
\nHilda, my family in Costa Rica <\/p>\n
424
\n00:25:51,300 –> 00:25:53,500
\nhad no money.
\nAnd so when I was four years <\/p>\n
425
\n00:25:53,500 –> 00:25:55,900
\nold, my mother sold me into
\nsexual slavery. <\/p>\n
426
\n00:25:56,400 –> 00:25:58,600
\nMen pay a lot of money to have
\ntheir way with children. <\/p>\n
427
\n00:25:59,100 –> 00:26:02,600
\nSo while other kids, my age went
\nto school, I worked in a brothel<\/p>\n
428
\n00:26:02,800 –> 00:26:06,000
\nturning over all my earnings to
\nmy mother, all my life. <\/p>\n
429
\n00:26:06,000 –> 00:26:09,900
\nI felt ugly and dirty ashamed.
\nI learned to drink alcohol, and <\/p>\n
430
\n00:26:09,900 –> 00:26:13,000
\nuse cocaine very early as a way
\nto dull the pain. <\/p>\n
431
\n00:26:13,800 –> 00:26:17,300
\nWhen I was a teenager, I had two
\nchildren of my own from, then <\/p>\n
432
\n00:26:17,300 –> 00:26:18,200
\non.
\nI worked hard. <\/p>\n
433
\n00:26:18,500 –> 00:26:20,200
\nEarn money to support my
\nchildren. <\/p>\n
434
\n00:26:20,800 –> 00:26:22,900
\nIt was the only way I could show
\nmy love for them. <\/p>\n
435
\n00:26:23,700 –> 00:26:25,600
\nOne day, a customer.
\nGot Furious. <\/p>\n
436
\n00:26:25,900 –> 00:26:27,500
\nWhen I wouldn’t do what he
\nasked. <\/p>\n
437
\n00:26:27,800 –> 00:26:30,200
\nHe pulled a knife on me.
\nThen hit me with a baseball bat,<\/p>\n
438
\n00:26:30,200 –> 00:26:34,100
\nsplitting my head open, they
\ntook me to the hospital and I <\/p>\n
439
\n00:26:34,100 –> 00:26:36,400
\nlay in that bed plotting to kill
\nmyself. <\/p>\n
440
\n00:26:37,100 –> 00:26:40,600
\nFinally, I got down on my knees
\nbeside the bed and plead with <\/p>\n
441
\n00:26:40,600 –> 00:26:45,100
\nGod, I wanted somehow to escape
\nprostitution to become a real <\/p>\n
442
\n00:26:45,100 –> 00:26:48,200
\nmother to my children and God
\nanswered that prayer. <\/p>\n
443
\n00:26:48,300 –> 00:26:50,400
\nWith a miracle.
\nHe gave me a vision. <\/p>\n
444
\n00:26:50,700 –> 00:26:54,600
\nI actually saw the words look
\nfor Rahab Foundation. <\/p>\n
445
\n00:26:55,200 –> 00:26:58,300
\nI was barely literate and didn’t
\nknow the word Rahab, it’s not a <\/p>\n
446
\n00:26:58,300 –> 00:27:00,500
\nSpanish word.
\nOne of the nurses. <\/p>\n
447
\n00:27:00,500 –> 00:27:05,300
\nHelp me find their number though
\nand I called the phone rang and <\/p>\n
448
\n00:27:05,300 –> 00:27:08,300
\nrang and I prayed Lord, if you
\nreally exist, make somebody <\/p>\n
449
\n00:27:08,300 –> 00:27:11,900
\nanswer that phone at last a
\nwoman named Marie, Liana. <\/p>\n
450
\n00:27:11,900 –> 00:27:15,100
\nAnswered turns out.
\nShe was the director of Rahab, <\/p>\n
451
\n00:27:15,200 –> 00:27:18,200
\nwhich was closed for the day,
\nbut she had stopped by to pick <\/p>\n
452
\n00:27:18,300 –> 00:27:20,800
\nPick up some papers.
\nI need help. <\/p>\n
453
\n00:27:20,900 –> 00:27:24,300
\nI told Maria Liana, I’m dying.
\nI can’t take it anymore. <\/p>\n
454
\n00:27:24,800 –> 00:27:27,700
\nShe told me that God loved me
\nand would not leave me alone. <\/p>\n
455
\n00:27:28,100 –> 00:27:30,800
\nShe would help me get away from
\nprostitution and start a new <\/p>\n
456
\n00:27:30,800 –> 00:27:33,800
\nlife.
\nA few days later, she brought me<\/p>\n
457
\n00:27:33,800 –> 00:27:36,700
\nto her home, bruised and
\nbandaged fresh from the <\/p>\n
458
\n00:27:36,700 –> 00:27:39,300
\nhospital.
\nShe welcomed me with a huge hug <\/p>\n
459
\n00:27:39,300 –> 00:27:43,400
\nand said you’re safe here Hilda.
\nShe told me Rahab was named for <\/p>\n
460
\n00:27:43,400 –> 00:27:46,400
\na prostitute in the Bible.
\nOne who became a heroine. <\/p>\n
461
\n00:27:47,000 –> 00:27:49,600
\nI couldn’t believe the Hope on
\nreally Anna’s face. <\/p>\n
462
\n00:27:49,900 –> 00:27:53,700
\nIt felt like a dream.
\nShe gave me a clean bed flowers <\/p>\n
463
\n00:27:53,700 –> 00:27:56,900
\nin the room and a promise that
\nno man would harass me, she <\/p>\n
464
\n00:27:56,900 –> 00:28:00,000
\nintroduced me to other women who
\nhad left, prostitution, she <\/p>\n
465
\n00:28:00,000 –> 00:28:01,400
\ntaught me how to be a real
\nmother. <\/p>\n
466
\n00:28:01,700 –> 00:28:05,200
\nAnd now I I am studying a trade
\nto live for the glory of God. <\/p>\n
467
\n00:28:06,100 –> 00:28:09,700
\nNow some fairly Stark details in
\nthere and I apologize for any <\/p>\n
468
\n00:28:09,700 –> 00:28:12,900
\nshock they cause, but I think
\nit’s valuable to consider this <\/p>\n
469
\n00:28:13,100 –> 00:28:17,000
\ntestimony because one thing we
\ncan conclude in opposite to the <\/p>\n
470
\n00:28:17,000 –> 00:28:19,900
\nfirst testimony.
\nThe prayer life had been a very <\/p>\n
471
\n00:28:19,900 –> 00:28:23,500
\nbeneficial experience.
\nWhat had gone right? <\/p>\n
472
\n00:28:24,200 –> 00:28:28,300
\nWhy has God chosen one and
\nignored the other or so, it <\/p>\n
473
\n00:28:28,300 –> 00:28:31,700
\nseems Where should we find an
\nanswer? <\/p>\n
474
\n00:28:32,300 –> 00:28:35,100
\nWe will find an answer where we
\nalways find an answer. <\/p>\n
475
\n00:28:35,400 –> 00:28:38,000
\nIt’s the word of God that will
\ngive us the answer. <\/p>\n
476
\n00:28:40,300 –> 00:28:43,700
\nLuke chapter 15 and will find
\nthat here. <\/p>\n
477
\n00:28:44,000 –> 00:28:47,000
\nLies a very good key to the
\nanswer and that’s why thank you,<\/p>\n
478
\n00:28:47,008 –> 00:28:49,800
\nbrother.
\nJohn he read that passage for <\/p>\n
479
\n00:28:49,800 –> 00:28:52,900
\nus.
\nLuke chapter 15 begins this way.<\/p>\n
480
\n00:28:54,600 –> 00:28:56,700
\nThere was a man who had two
\nsons. <\/p>\n
481
\n00:28:57,000 –> 00:29:01,700
\nThe younger ones said, father,
\ngive me my share of the estate. <\/p>\n
482
\n00:29:01,700 –> 00:29:05,000
\nWe’re going to focus just on
\nthat youngest, son for the <\/p>\n
483
\n00:29:05,000 –> 00:29:07,900
\npurpose of this evening and
\nwe’re going to focus on two <\/p>\n
484
\n00:29:07,900 –> 00:29:11,900
\nprayers.
\nThis is his prayer In a before <\/p>\n
485
\n00:29:11,900 –> 00:29:13,800
\nState and the other Pro we’re
\ngoing to look after. <\/p>\n
486
\n00:29:13,800 –> 00:29:17,300
\nLook out for is the same man,
\neven though it’s a hypothetical <\/p>\n
487
\n00:29:17,300 –> 00:29:20,000
\ncharacter after his
\ntransformation. <\/p>\n
488
\n00:29:22,100 –> 00:29:24,700
\nWhen he came to his senses, he
\nsaid, father I have sinned <\/p>\n
489
\n00:29:24,700 –> 00:29:28,000
\nagainst heaven and against you,
\nI am no longer worthy to be <\/p>\n
490
\n00:29:28,000 –> 00:29:32,200
\ncalled your son, make me like
\none of your hired men and we <\/p>\n
491
\n00:29:32,200 –> 00:29:34,100
\nknow the education.
\nWe’re going to get from these <\/p>\n
492
\n00:29:34,100 –> 00:29:37,300
\nwords is excellent because they
\nwere never spoken by a fallible <\/p>\n
493
\n00:29:37,300 –> 00:29:42,200
\nhuman mind rather Jesus crafted
\nthem himself in a parable for <\/p>\n
494
\n00:29:42,200 –> 00:29:44,400
\nus.
\nDo you see the difference <\/p>\n
495
\n00:29:44,400 –> 00:29:47,200
\nbetween those two prayers?
\nLook again. <\/p>\n
496
\n00:29:48,400 –> 00:29:51,400
\nThere was a man who had two sons
\nthe younger one said, father, <\/p>\n
497
\n00:29:52,000 –> 00:29:54,800
\ngive me.
\nLet’s just stop there. <\/p>\n
498
\n00:29:55,200 –> 00:29:57,800
\nThat’s really all we need.
\nWe just need those three words. <\/p>\n
499
\n00:29:58,300 –> 00:30:02,400
\nFather, give me.
\nThat’s an excellent summary of <\/p>\n
500
\n00:30:02,408 –> 00:30:04,100
\nthat prayer.
\nWhat he was asking to be given <\/p>\n
501
\n00:30:04,100 –> 00:30:06,100
\ndoesn’t really matter.
\nWe can take the code away. <\/p>\n
502
\n00:30:06,300 –> 00:30:10,000
\nThat was the nature of the
\nprayer and the second prayer <\/p>\n
503
\n00:30:10,400 –> 00:30:16,000
\nwhen he came to his senses, he
\nsaid, father Make me. <\/p>\n
504
\n00:30:17,100 –> 00:30:21,200
\nThose three words, sufficient I
\nthink therefore we can just drop<\/p>\n
505
\n00:30:21,500 –> 00:30:26,000
\nthat quote away to those.
\nThat’s the essence of the two <\/p>\n
506
\n00:30:26,000 –> 00:30:29,200
\ndifferent prayers.
\nJesus is always teaching us <\/p>\n
507
\n00:30:29,200 –> 00:30:31,700
\neverything.
\nHe says everything he does and <\/p>\n
508
\n00:30:31,700 –> 00:30:36,000
\nhe’s saying there’s a man who
\ngrew up and whilst he was still <\/p>\n
509
\n00:30:36,300 –> 00:30:41,700
\nimmature and spiritually young,
\nhe prayed father, give me but <\/p>\n
510
\n00:30:41,700 –> 00:30:47,700
\nafter he had matured he prayed,
\nFather Make Me And you’ll notice<\/p>\n
511
\n00:30:47,700 –> 00:30:52,900
\nthe difference about give me and
\nmake me, give me, I don’t have <\/p>\n
512
\n00:30:52,900 –> 00:30:56,900
\nto do anything.
\nI just sit here and people give <\/p>\n
513
\n00:30:56,900 –> 00:31:01,000
\nme things that’s actually true.
\nIn the dining hall, I’m slow to <\/p>\n
514
\n00:31:01,000 –> 00:31:02,300
\nget up and people bring me
\nthings. <\/p>\n
515
\n00:31:02,300 –> 00:31:08,100
\nIt’s wonderful father, give me,
\nbut in the second case, father <\/p>\n
516
\n00:31:08,100 –> 00:31:11,500
\nmake me there has to be giving
\nfrom both sides. <\/p>\n
517
\n00:31:12,400 –> 00:31:15,600
\nBecause the person who is about
\nto be made, has to give effort <\/p>\n
518
\n00:31:16,300 –> 00:31:19,800
\nor give up control in order to
\nbe changed. <\/p>\n
519
\n00:31:21,200 –> 00:31:24,800
\nSo let’s look at those two
\nprayers again and realize this <\/p>\n
520
\n00:31:24,800 –> 00:31:28,900
\nmay have been the reason of the
\ndifference between them you put <\/p>\n
521
\n00:31:28,900 –> 00:31:32,000
\nup the same words this time.
\nI’m just going to read the ones <\/p>\n
522
\n00:31:32,000 –> 00:31:34,900
\nthat I’ve highlighted in the
\nyellow typeface. <\/p>\n
523
\n00:31:35,400 –> 00:31:39,400
\nI could list probably 100
\nprayers, that haven’t been <\/p>\n
524
\n00:31:39,400 –> 00:31:41,700
\nanswered.
\nHow do you know they haven’t <\/p>\n
525
\n00:31:41,700 –> 00:31:45,600
\nbeen answered because it wasn’t
\nthe answer that I wanted. <\/p>\n
526
\n00:31:46,400 –> 00:31:49,000
\nGod keep my kids safe.
\nKeep them away from the wrong <\/p>\n
527
\n00:31:49,300 –> 00:31:52,400
\ncrowd.
\nI’d guess maybe 20% of my <\/p>\n
528
\n00:31:52,400 –> 00:31:57,000
\nprayers get anything like the
\nanswer I want. <\/p>\n
529
\n00:31:58,000 –> 00:32:00,800
\nSo God was never really given a
\nchoice. <\/p>\n
530
\n00:32:01,400 –> 00:32:04,000
\nGod was given a set of
\ninstructions. <\/p>\n
531
\n00:32:05,000 –> 00:32:10,700
\nTo fulfill a Santa Claus list.
\nFather, give me is the <\/p>\n
532
\n00:32:10,700 –> 00:32:15,900
\nunderlying Spirit of this prayer
\nand perhaps why it was indulged <\/p>\n
533
\n00:32:16,000 –> 00:32:19,500
\nearly on when she was still
\nyoung, but as she Grew Older, <\/p>\n
534
\n00:32:20,000 –> 00:32:23,800
\nher prayer life never actually
\nmatured, and she just became <\/p>\n
535
\n00:32:23,800 –> 00:32:25,900
\nangry.
\nThat things didn’t happen. <\/p>\n
536
\n00:32:26,300 –> 00:32:30,400
\nWe pray to God sometimes, but
\nsometimes insist on retaining <\/p>\n
537
\n00:32:30,400 –> 00:32:32,900
\ncontrol of what the outcome must
\nlook like. <\/p>\n
538
\n00:32:34,500 –> 00:32:36,400
\nWe don’t pray and intangibles
\nthat. <\/p>\n
539
\n00:32:36,400 –> 00:32:39,800
\nAllow God to work.
\nWe just say God, you need to do.<\/p>\n
540
\n00:32:39,800 –> 00:32:42,100
\nGod, give me.
\nLet me get that job. <\/p>\n
541
\n00:32:42,100 –> 00:32:46,000
\nLet me get that job guard.
\nAnd you don’t get it. <\/p>\n
542
\n00:32:46,700 –> 00:32:49,500
\nDid he really deny your prayer
\nor was the prayer not <\/p>\n
543
\n00:32:49,500 –> 00:32:54,200
\nwell-sculpted father, I’m
\nfeeling very insecure about my <\/p>\n
544
\n00:32:54,200 –> 00:32:58,700
\nfinancial future.
\nPlease Salve, my insecurities, I<\/p>\n
545
\n00:32:58,708 –> 00:33:00,700
\nmight get a job that gives more
\nmoney. <\/p>\n
546
\n00:33:00,900 –> 00:33:04,700
\nWell, the insecurity may be
\ntaken away, some other means all<\/p>\n
547
\n00:33:04,700 –> 00:33:06,700
\nprayers.
\nIn this sense, become orders <\/p>\n
548
\n00:33:07,000 –> 00:33:10,100
\nissued to God for him to perform
\nfather. <\/p>\n
549
\n00:33:10,200 –> 00:33:15,000
\nGive me this specific thing.
\nThe consequences guard is Just <\/p>\n
550
\n00:33:15,000 –> 00:33:19,200
\nto a cosmic slave.
\nHe just gets to fulfill the <\/p>\n
551
\n00:33:19,200 –> 00:33:23,200
\norders that we send Heaven words
\nand any contradiction of our <\/p>\n
552
\n00:33:23,200 –> 00:33:27,400
\npredetermined outcome can induce
\na faith crash any horrific <\/p>\n
553
\n00:33:27,400 –> 00:33:29,600
\ndisaster.
\nWe may observe in our personal <\/p>\n
554
\n00:33:29,800 –> 00:33:33,900
\nor broader social life may
\nsuddenly say how can there be a <\/p>\n
555
\n00:33:33,908 –> 00:33:37,900
\ngod when this happens?
\nAnd in a way that claim is true,<\/p>\n
556
\n00:33:38,500 –> 00:33:43,300
\nthat God is indeed dead.
\nThat God must fail that God <\/p>\n
557
\n00:33:43,500 –> 00:33:46,900
\ndoesn’t exist.
\nGod is not a cosmic slave. <\/p>\n
558
\n00:33:47,400 –> 00:33:49,800
\nVolta our direction.
\nIf we are giving the <\/p>\n
559
\n00:33:49,800 –> 00:33:54,000
\ninstructions of how God must
\noperate, who really is God to <\/p>\n
560
\n00:33:54,000 –> 00:34:00,900
\nus, It’s us.
\nRather Hilda’s prayer. <\/p>\n
561
\n00:34:01,800 –> 00:34:06,400
\nI got down on my knees beside
\nthe bed and plead with God, I <\/p>\n
562
\n00:34:06,400 –> 00:34:12,500
\nwanted to become a real mother
\nto my children, how by being <\/p>\n
563
\n00:34:12,500 –> 00:34:17,500
\ngiven what she doesn’t specify,
\nshe specifies a Godly goal and <\/p>\n
564
\n00:34:17,500 –> 00:34:20,199
\nsays God, you will know the path
\nto get there. <\/p>\n
565
\n00:34:20,600 –> 00:34:24,300
\nAnd I am open to your
\nmanipulation and control to <\/p>\n
566
\n00:34:24,300 –> 00:34:27,699
\narrive at that ends.
\nMeridiana taught me how to be a <\/p>\n
567
\n00:34:27,699 –> 00:34:30,699
\nreal mother.
\nOh and now I am studying a trade<\/p>\n
568
\n00:34:30,699 –> 00:34:36,500
\nto live for the glory of God.
\nFather, Make Me is clearly the <\/p>\n
569
\n00:34:36,500 –> 00:34:41,000
\nbasis of this young lady’s
\nprayer and so we’ve seen the <\/p>\n
570
\n00:34:41,000 –> 00:34:44,400
\ntangible results that happen
\nfrom a lifetime of Father. <\/p>\n
571
\n00:34:44,400 –> 00:34:49,699
\nGive me prayers and a lifetime
\nof Father, Make Me prayers and I<\/p>\n
572
\n00:34:49,699 –> 00:34:52,300
\nsuppose the obvious question
\nthat needs to be asked while we <\/p>\n
573
\n00:34:52,300 –> 00:34:55,500
\nsit here in potential Judgment
\nof the lives of others. <\/p>\n
574
\n00:34:57,000 –> 00:34:58,900
\nWhich one is my most common
\nprayer? <\/p>\n
575
\n00:35:00,300 –> 00:35:04,700
\nThink about the last 12, praise
\nyou gave your memories, not so <\/p>\n
576
\n00:35:04,700 –> 00:35:07,300
\ngood.
\nThink about the last three which<\/p>\n
577
\n00:35:07,300 –> 00:35:10,200
\nwould be the best summary of
\nthose three prayers. <\/p>\n
578
\n00:35:10,600 –> 00:35:13,800
\nCould you say it was this one?
\nOr would you say why? <\/p>\n
579
\n00:35:13,800 –> 00:35:17,800
\nI was probably that one father
\ngive me prayers are not Wicked <\/p>\n
580
\n00:35:17,800 –> 00:35:21,400
\nor wrong.
\nBut they are the neophyte level,<\/p>\n
581
\n00:35:21,400 –> 00:35:24,100
\nthey are the beginners level of
\nprayer and perhaps they still <\/p>\n
582
\n00:35:24,100 –> 00:35:27,500
\nhave some place in later life,
\nbut we need to make sure that <\/p>\n
583
\n00:35:27,500 –> 00:35:32,500
\nour prayer life is maturing from
\nfather give me generically into <\/p>\n
584
\n00:35:32,700 –> 00:35:37,600
\nfather make me it can apply.
\nEven at that most intimate of <\/p>\n
585
\n00:35:37,600 –> 00:35:40,800
\ntimes that we shared together as
\na community as we pass Bread and<\/p>\n
586
\n00:35:40,800 –> 00:35:44,200
\nWine behind and sometimes we use
\nthat time we don’t have to to <\/p>\n
587
\n00:35:44,200 –> 00:35:47,700
\nthink about the Forgiveness that
\nthat selves as and joins us in <\/p>\n
588
\n00:35:47,700 –> 00:35:51,800
\ncloser Union with our mast.
\nOur Father, give me this bread. <\/p>\n
589
\n00:35:52,700 –> 00:35:57,100
\nFather, give me this wine.
\nFather, give me forgiveness. <\/p>\n
590
\n00:35:57,900 –> 00:36:04,100
\nWhy not all three are freely
\ngiven or how about father with <\/p>\n
591
\n00:36:04,100 –> 00:36:09,400
\nthis bread?
\nAnd with this wine make me that <\/p>\n
592
\n00:36:09,400 –> 00:36:13,200
\nbetter disciple.
\nI desire to be and yet cannot be<\/p>\n
593
\n00:36:13,500 –> 00:36:20,100
\nalone.
\nI think the difference between <\/p>\n
594
\n00:36:20,100 –> 00:36:23,000
\nthe dramatic endings of the
\nfather. <\/p>\n
595
\n00:36:23,000 –> 00:36:26,500
\nGive me prayer in the Father
\nMake Me prayer come from their <\/p>\n
596
\n00:36:27,000 –> 00:36:30,200
\nessential basis.
\nThat one is based in entitlement<\/p>\n
597
\n00:36:30,300 –> 00:36:32,500
\nand one in back is based in
\nHope. <\/p>\n
598
\n00:36:32,700 –> 00:36:36,000
\nLook again, at the words that
\nwere in the testimony, I’ve got <\/p>\n
599
\n00:36:36,000 –> 00:36:40,100
\nto say Jesus story of the
\npersistent Widow Sowers, <\/p>\n
600
\n00:36:40,600 –> 00:36:43,900
\nthousands of people pray for a
\nChristian leader who has cancer <\/p>\n
601
\n00:36:43,900 –> 00:36:47,700
\nand he dies.
\nWhy does that make you annoyed? <\/p>\n
602
\n00:36:48,500 –> 00:36:51,200
\nBecause I had a right to see him
\nhealed. <\/p>\n
603
\n00:36:51,700 –> 00:36:55,000
\nDidn’t I just pray for it does?
\nGod not here English. <\/p>\n
604
\n00:36:55,200 –> 00:37:01,700
\nIs he deaf?
\nI had a right I was entitled to <\/p>\n
605
\n00:37:01,700 –> 00:37:05,100
\nwhat I prayed for and if you
\nhave if you’re entitled to what <\/p>\n
606
\n00:37:05,100 –> 00:37:07,600
\nyou pray for, that’s a bad
\nstart. <\/p>\n
607
\n00:37:07,600 –> 00:37:11,100
\nBut entitlements and hope are
\nrelatively similar things that <\/p>\n
608
\n00:37:11,100 –> 00:37:14,100
\nthey’re massively different in
\nend result but they can look <\/p>\n
609
\n00:37:14,200 –> 00:37:17,500
\nsimilar to start with and it’s
\nwhy the confusion can come. <\/p>\n
610
\n00:37:17,800 –> 00:37:21,900
\nHe gave me a vision says held.
\nI couldn’t believe the Hope on <\/p>\n
611
\n00:37:21,900 –> 00:37:25,400
\nme early on his face better.
\nThen that our prayers are <\/p>\n
612
\n00:37:25,400 –> 00:37:28,800
\ngrounded in.
\nHope we know, Father is a loving<\/p>\n
613
\n00:37:28,800 –> 00:37:32,800
\nfather and whatever happens will
\nwork out for the best loving <\/p>\n
614
\n00:37:32,800 –> 00:37:38,400
\ncare of all concerned.
\nEntitlements lead to demands. <\/p>\n
615
\n00:37:38,800 –> 00:37:41,400
\nWe have a right to see this man
\nhealed. <\/p>\n
616
\n00:37:42,300 –> 00:37:47,200
\nBut hope leads to please finally
\nI got down on my knees beside <\/p>\n
617
\n00:37:47,200 –> 00:37:53,400
\nthe bed and pleaded with God, I
\ndesperately desire to change. <\/p>\n
618
\n00:37:53,400 –> 00:37:57,800
\nI acknowledge my inability to
\nmake it happen, myself, and <\/p>\n
619
\n00:37:57,800 –> 00:38:03,500
\nfinally, therefore demands are
\nnot met or if not met will <\/p>\n
620
\n00:38:03,500 –> 00:38:06,800
\nnecessarily lead to bitterness
\nand anger. <\/p>\n
621
\n00:38:07,300 –> 00:38:11,200
\nI review my prayer journal and
\nsee God, doing less and less. <\/p>\n
622
\n00:38:11,700 –> 00:38:16,100
\nI Get angry.
\nBecause why are you angry, my <\/p>\n
623
\n00:38:16,100 –> 00:38:19,000
\ndemand wasn’t mad.
\nWhy did you have the right to <\/p>\n
624
\n00:38:19,000 –> 00:38:21,300
\nmake a demand?
\nBecause I was entitled to see my<\/p>\n
625
\n00:38:21,300 –> 00:38:26,300
\nprayer answer and this is the
\npathway to a very unhappy prayer<\/p>\n
626
\n00:38:26,300 –> 00:38:31,400
\nlife that is still the hope that
\nleads to the plea that can lead <\/p>\n
627
\n00:38:31,400 –> 00:38:33,900
\nto Joy and praise and
\nmotivation. <\/p>\n
628
\n00:38:34,000 –> 00:38:38,400
\nIt felt like a dream.
\nShe says, I am studying a trade <\/p>\n
629
\n00:38:38,400 –> 00:38:43,500
\nto live for the glory of God.
\nPraise of God motivation with <\/p>\n
630
\n00:38:43,500 –> 00:38:48,100
\nthe Joy in the dream.
\nThese are the natural emotional <\/p>\n
631
\n00:38:48,100 –> 00:38:52,300
\nbyproducts of going down a
\nprayer life, founded this way, <\/p>\n
632
\n00:38:52,300 –> 00:38:56,200
\nthe Father Make Me prayer so we
\ncan see these words of <\/p>\n
633
\n00:38:56,200 –> 00:38:59,400
\nscripture.
\nThe Bible isn’t some dead old <\/p>\n
634
\n00:38:59,400 –> 00:39:01,400
\nbook.
\nSpeaking from thousands of years<\/p>\n
635
\n00:39:01,400 –> 00:39:05,300
\nago in Easter, tarek terms, it
\naffects real people’s real <\/p>\n
636
\n00:39:05,300 –> 00:39:09,600
\nlives, whether they see it, or
\nwhether they don’t, we could be <\/p>\n
637
\n00:39:09,600 –> 00:39:15,700
\neither one of these people.
\nDo we invite God to be present <\/p>\n
638
\n00:39:15,700 –> 00:39:18,700
\nin our lives.
\nThis is a matter very much <\/p>\n
639
\n00:39:18,700 –> 00:39:21,300
\ncentered in the United States
\nwhere I live where it is <\/p>\n
640
\n00:39:21,300 –> 00:39:24,400
\nmandatory now that God is
\nremoved. <\/p>\n
641
\n00:39:24,400 –> 00:39:28,400
\nEven by reference from
\neducational and other state and <\/p>\n
642
\n00:39:28,400 –> 00:39:32,300
\nfederally run establishments for
\nyears, we’ve been telling God to<\/p>\n
643
\n00:39:32,300 –> 00:39:35,400
\nget out of our schools, to get
\nout of our government and to get<\/p>\n
644
\n00:39:35,400 –> 00:39:38,400
\nout of our Lives, being the
\ngentleman that he is. <\/p>\n
645
\n00:39:38,400 –> 00:39:40,800
\nI believe that he has calmly
\nbacked out. <\/p>\n
646
\n00:39:41,300 –> 00:39:45,000
\nHow can we expect God to give Us
\nhis Blessing and his protection.<\/p>\n
647
\n00:39:45,300 –> 00:39:49,300
\nIf we demand that he leave us
\nalone whilst that’s a good <\/p>\n
648
\n00:39:49,300 –> 00:39:52,600
\ncomments and excellently
\ninsightful comment on a national<\/p>\n
649
\n00:39:52,600 –> 00:39:56,700
\nand social scale.
\nI wonder to what level is that <\/p>\n
650
\n00:39:56,700 –> 00:40:01,400
\ncould that also be true in your
\nlife and my life personally <\/p>\n
651
\n00:40:02,000 –> 00:40:07,800
\nhave, we invited God to be
\npresent Do we need to invite God<\/p>\n
652
\n00:40:07,800 –> 00:40:10,300
\nto be present?
\nIsn’t he with us anyway? <\/p>\n
653
\n00:40:10,800 –> 00:40:14,500
\nAh, you mean, do we have a right
\nto having God With Us? <\/p>\n
654
\n00:40:15,600 –> 00:40:18,100
\nThere’s some very interesting
\npassages in the scripture. <\/p>\n
655
\n00:40:19,200 –> 00:40:23,600
\nThat show that God actually
\nlooks for his disciples to <\/p>\n
656
\n00:40:23,600 –> 00:40:27,100
\ninvite him to be present.
\nYou may not have noticed this <\/p>\n
657
\n00:40:27,200 –> 00:40:29,300
\nbecause I certainly didn’t
\nnotice this. <\/p>\n
658
\n00:40:29,700 –> 00:40:34,800
\nBut when Israel went out into
\nthe Wilderness under Moses God <\/p>\n
659
\n00:40:34,800 –> 00:40:39,300
\nhas initially said, I’m not
\ncoming with you to remember that<\/p>\n
660
\n00:40:39,300 –> 00:40:42,700
\nI did I miss that – Reid so
\nfast. <\/p>\n
661
\n00:40:42,700 –> 00:40:44,100
\nI just skipped right over the
\ntop of it. <\/p>\n
662
\n00:40:44,500 –> 00:40:48,600
\nGod said, I’ll paraphrase.
\nYou guys are really annoying and<\/p>\n
663
\n00:40:48,600 –> 00:40:50,300
\nHeat take me off every five
\nminutes. <\/p>\n
664
\n00:40:50,300 –> 00:40:52,400
\nI’ll tell you what.
\nIf I come with you I’ll probably<\/p>\n
665
\n00:40:52,400 –> 00:40:54,700
\nwipe you out.
\nAt some point, I will meet you <\/p>\n
666
\n00:40:54,700 –> 00:40:57,200
\nat the promised land off.
\nYou go. <\/p>\n
667
\n00:40:58,200 –> 00:40:59,800
\nClearly, that’s a bit of a
\nparaphrase. <\/p>\n
668
\n00:41:00,500 –> 00:41:03,100
\nYou are a stiff-necked people.
\nIf I were to go with you, even <\/p>\n
669
\n00:41:03,100 –> 00:41:04,800
\nfor a moment, I might destroy
\nyou. <\/p>\n
670
\n00:41:05,800 –> 00:41:08,600
\nIt’s actually pretty accurate to
\nwhat was said, so which Moses <\/p>\n
671
\n00:41:08,600 –> 00:41:12,600
\nwere replied Lord, if your
\npresence does not go with us. <\/p>\n
672
\n00:41:12,900 –> 00:41:15,900
\nDon’t even send us up from here.
\nHow will anyone know that? <\/p>\n
673
\n00:41:15,900 –> 00:41:18,800
\nYou are pleased with me and with
\nyour people, unless you go with <\/p>\n
674
\n00:41:18,800 –> 00:41:21,000
\nus, what else will distinguish
\nme? <\/p>\n
675
\n00:41:21,000 –> 00:41:24,100
\nAnd your people from all the
\nother people on the face of the <\/p>\n
676
\n00:41:24,100 –> 00:41:27,600
\nEarth.
\nThe Lord said to Moses, I will <\/p>\n
677
\n00:41:27,600 –> 00:41:32,100
\ndo the Everything you have asked
\nbecause I am pleased with you. <\/p>\n
678
\n00:41:33,100 –> 00:41:35,800
\nThat’s why God was with the
\nchildren of Israel. <\/p>\n
679
\n00:41:35,800 –> 00:41:39,000
\nIn the wilderness.
\nIt actually was the basis of an <\/p>\n
680
\n00:41:39,000 –> 00:41:41,600
\ninvitation from Moses without
\nit. <\/p>\n
681
\n00:41:41,700 –> 00:41:43,500
\nGod wasn’t going to go with
\nthem. <\/p>\n
682
\n00:41:43,500 –> 00:41:45,800
\nHe was going to meet them at the
\nPromised Land. <\/p>\n
683
\n00:41:48,800 –> 00:41:53,000
\nGod accompanies only when
\ninvited to do so God will do as <\/p>\n
684
\n00:41:53,000 –> 00:41:54,700
\nhe will.
\nI’m not trying to say God is <\/p>\n
685
\n00:41:54,800 –> 00:41:56,600
\nsomehow constrained by our
\nthoughts. <\/p>\n
686
\n00:41:56,700 –> 00:41:59,900
\nIf he decides, he will bust into
\nsomeone’s life in any such way. <\/p>\n
687
\n00:41:59,900 –> 00:42:04,200
\nHe certainly will take Pharaoh
\nfor example, but this is a text <\/p>\n
688
\n00:42:04,200 –> 00:42:09,500
\nthat least says God is looking
\nfor us to invite him along if we<\/p>\n
689
\n00:42:09,500 –> 00:42:13,100
\nwant him to be present and
\nactive in our lives. <\/p>\n
690
\n00:42:13,800 –> 00:42:16,700
\nGuess what?
\nJesus always does the same <\/p>\n
691
\n00:42:16,700 –> 00:42:19,700
\nthing.
\nJesus is the mirror image of his<\/p>\n
692
\n00:42:19,700 –> 00:42:23,800
\nfather, Perfect Image, and the
\nperfect representation of the <\/p>\n
693
\n00:42:23,800 –> 00:42:26,100
\nfather.
\nAs they approached the village <\/p>\n
694
\n00:42:26,100 –> 00:42:29,900
\nwhere they were going along the
\nroad to Emmaus, Jesus acted as <\/p>\n
695
\n00:42:29,900 –> 00:42:33,600
\nif he were going farther, but
\nthey urged him strongly. <\/p>\n
696
\n00:42:33,600 –> 00:42:38,300
\nStay with us, for his nearly
\nevening, the day is almost over <\/p>\n
697
\n00:42:39,000 –> 00:42:44,400
\nso he went in to stay with them.
\nThey invited him and he went in.<\/p>\n
698
\n00:42:44,800 –> 00:42:47,200
\nYou’ll find the same thing in
\nJohn. <\/p>\n
699
\n00:42:47,200 –> 00:42:51,000
\nChapter 6, on the see, that time
\nthat Jesus was walking on the <\/p>\n
700
\n00:42:51,008 –> 00:42:54,000
\nwater.
\nDon’t be misled into thinking, <\/p>\n
701
\n00:42:54,000 –> 00:42:56,300
\nhe was walking towards them to
\ncome into the boat. <\/p>\n
702
\n00:42:56,900 –> 00:42:59,700
\nHe was walking towards, he was
\nwalking and he came into their <\/p>\n
703
\n00:42:59,700 –> 00:43:05,400
\nsite and was going to go past
\nthem and they called to him and <\/p>\n
704
\n00:43:05,400 –> 00:43:08,200
\nit’s their call that made him
\ncome to them. <\/p>\n
705
\n00:43:08,800 –> 00:43:13,600
\nI believe Jesus operates that
\nway in your life and in mine, I <\/p>\n
706
\n00:43:13,600 –> 00:43:18,000
\nbelieve he makes himself.
\nClearly visible on the horizon <\/p>\n
707
\n00:43:18,000 –> 00:43:23,300
\nand says, hello.
\nI’m walking by And then it’s up <\/p>\n
708
\n00:43:23,300 –> 00:43:29,300
\nto us to say wait, no.
\nDon’t walk by, please. <\/p>\n
709
\n00:43:29,300 –> 00:43:34,000
\nCome in, reside, with me.
\nAnd Jesus accepts, invitations <\/p>\n
710
\n00:43:34,000 –> 00:43:38,400
\nto come and reside, have?
\nI invited Jesus to reside with <\/p>\n
711
\n00:43:38,400 –> 00:43:44,200
\nme Have you?
\nHas it been a prayer of yours? <\/p>\n
712
\n00:43:44,700 –> 00:43:46,700
\nIs it a constant prayer of
\nyours? <\/p>\n
713
\n00:43:46,700 –> 00:43:50,500
\nIs it a rare prayer of yours?
\nHas it ever been a prayer of <\/p>\n
714
\n00:43:50,500 –> 00:43:53,500
\nhours?
\nAnd that I think is the <\/p>\n
715
\n00:43:53,500 –> 00:43:58,700
\neducation we gained from how to
\npray from the Lord Jesus Christ <\/p>\n
716
\n00:43:58,700 –> 00:44:03,200
\nand that wraps up them.
\nOh various series on growing <\/p>\n
717
\n00:44:03,200 –> 00:44:06,300
\ncloser to God and I thank you
\nvery much for your attention in <\/p>\n
718
\n00:44:06,300 –> 00:44:09,200
\nsummary.
\nThen what did we see Ruth? <\/p>\n
719
\n00:44:09,500 –> 00:44:12,600
\nGave us this advice, spread your
\nwings. <\/p>\n
720
\n00:44:12,700 –> 00:44:15,700
\nMeaning provide Mercy, you
\nspread your wings, you’ll learn <\/p>\n
721
\n00:44:15,700 –> 00:44:20,600
\nto fly closer to heaven.
\nJacob said no wrestling. <\/p>\n
722
\n00:44:21,200 –> 00:44:25,000
\nThe end never justifies.
\nThe means wait upon the Lord. <\/p>\n
723
\n00:44:25,200 –> 00:44:26,900
\nTook him a whole life to learn
\nthat. <\/p>\n
724
\n00:44:27,400 –> 00:44:31,400
\nJohn the Baptist told us.
\nYou want to grow closer to God. <\/p>\n
725
\n00:44:32,200 –> 00:44:38,000
\nTake care of the poor, and Jesus
\nsays, pray more invite me to be <\/p>\n
726
\n00:44:38,000 –> 00:44:41,500
\npart of your journey and part of
\nyour discipleship. <\/p>\n
727
\n00:44:42,300 –> 00:44:45,800
\nThis is what we’ve learned from
\nthese fascinating scriptural <\/p>\n
728
\n00:44:45,800 –> 00:44:49,800
\ncharacters on the topic growing
\ncloser to God. <\/p>\n
729
\n00:44:51,000 –> 00:44:44,000
\nThank you John.
\nThis is what we’ve learned from <\/p>\n
730
\n00:44:44,000 –> 00:44:48,300
\nthese fascinating scriptural
\ncharacters on the topic growing <\/p>\n
731
\n00:44:48,300 –> 00:44:51,500
\ncloser to God.
\nThank you John.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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