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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - The Power of Faith-Kneeling (Part 1) | May 2, 2025
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- Male announcer: from the pulpit of the first baptist church of
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- Dallas, texas, this is "pathway to victory"
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- With dr. robert jeffress.
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- Dr. robert jeffress: hi, i'm robert jeffress, and welcome
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- Again to "pathway to victory."
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- As god's children, we're free to lay any request at the feet of
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- Our heavenly father.
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- Yet oftentimes, we forget to bring our cares and concerns
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- To him.
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- Or, we only view prayer as the last resort when everything else
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- Has failed.
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- Well, today, i want to share with you two truths that will
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- Help you unleash the power of prayer in your life.
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- My message is titled "the power of faith-kneeling" on today's
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- Edition of "pathway to victory."
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- Jeffress: one writer calls it "the prayer fade."
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- You may not be familiar with that term, but i bet you've
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- Experienced the reality behind it.
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- You read a book, you hear a sermon, you attend a seminar
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- That talks about the importance of prayer.
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- You're reminded that all of the great men and women of the bible
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- Prayed consistently and experienced the power of
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- God consequently.
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- You're reminded that even jesus himself, the son of god, made
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- Prayer priority in his life.
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- He got up in the early morning when it was still dark, and he
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- Found a lonely place to pray.
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- And you're told that jesus, the son of god, made prayer a
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- Priority in his life, how much more should it be a priority in
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- Our life?
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- And so, convinced of the lack of prayerfulness in your own life,
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- You make a vow to god.
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- You say, "god, whatever else i do every day, i'm gonna spend at
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- Least five or ten minutes talking with you."
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- And that commitment lasts several months, several weeks,
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- Several days, until you give up, disgusted by your own lack of
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- Discipline and disappointed in god's answers to your prayers.
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- Has that ever happened to you?
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- One writer describes "the prayer fade" this way in his own life.
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- He said, "when i first became a christian, the idea of speaking
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- To the god of the universe excited me.
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- I couldn't pray enough.
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- I prayed in the morning before the day began.
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- I took time off at lunch to pray.
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- We prayed at meal times as a family.
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- I prayed at night before i went to bed.
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- I was seeing answers to my prayers all the time.
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- Prayer was changing me and others, but then i don't know
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- What happened.
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- I lost interest.
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- Even though i'm still active in the church, i just don't pray
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- That much anymore."
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- We've all been there, haven't we?
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- And yet as you look at the bible, you find that prayer is
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- One of those important channels through which the holy spirit's
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- Power is poured into our life.
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- If you have your bibles this morning, turn to romans
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- Chapter 15.
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- I like what john piper has written, he said, "prayer is our
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- Splicing our lamp wire into the lightning bolt of heaven."
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- Another good description, "prayer is splicing our lamp
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- Wire into the lightning bolt of heaven."
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- Indeed, as you look at both the old and the new testaments,
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- You'll discover that it was through prayer that the power of
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- God fell from heaven and consumed the sacrifices on mount
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- Carmel when elijah was battling against the prophets of baal.
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- You'll discover it was through prayer that jesus was able to
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- Transform five loaves and two fish in order to feed 25,000
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- People or more.
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- You'll find that it is through prayer that peter was
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- Supernaturally released from prison.
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- Through prayer, over and over again, we see the power of
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- God demonstrated.
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- And i imagine most of us here today could also give a personal
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- Testimony of how god's power was unleashed in our life
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- Through prayer.
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- I remember some years ago when i was at my previous church, we
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- Were getting ready to build a new worship center, a
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- New sanctuary.
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- We were faced with a dilemma, though.
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- We wanted to build the new sanctuary on the parking lot,
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- Across from where our main facility was, but there was a
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- Street that bisected our main property from the parking lot.
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- And in order to build that new sanctuary there, we needed the
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- City to give us that street.
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- Well, they made it very clear they had no interest in giving
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- Us that street.
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- And so, we had the dilemma, where are we going to stay in
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- Our present location or move the church to a new location?
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- And we were battling back and forth, roy sparkman back there
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- Was the chairman of our committee.
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- And we debated back and forth, you know, should we move?
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- We didn't want to move, but we couldn't stay with that street
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- Not being given to us.
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- And so one morning, one wednesday morning, i was meeting
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- With our pastor's prayer partners just discussing the
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- Situation, and i had this novel idea.
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- It was a revolutionary idea.
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- Why don't we pray about this?
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- You know, isn't it sad that the pastor has to think of prayer as
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- The last resort instead of the first thing that we ought to do
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- When we face a difficulty?
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- I bet i'm not the only one who does that, though.
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- You know, you wait until your back is up against the wall, and
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- When nothing else works, pray.
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- Well, i said, "let's pray about it."
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- So, we got 50 of the men who were there that morning, and we
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- Marched down to the old sanctuary, and we spent about 30
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- Minutes on our knees praying before god, asking for him to
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- Give us that street.
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- Now, that was about 7:30 on that wednesday morning.
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- 4:30 that afternoon, one of the city officials called me.
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- Now, he had said over and over again, "we're not giving you
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- That street, you can appeal it if you want to,
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- But we're not gonna give it to you."
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- The city official called me at 4:30 that afternoon and said,
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- "are you still interested in having that street?"
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- And within a month, we had possession of that street.
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- Is that just a coincidence?
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- I like what one person said, "it's amazing how many
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- Coincidences occur when we begin to pray."
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- We see that all the time.
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- I imagine every one of you here today could give a testimony
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- About how god miraculously answered a prayer in your life.
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- So, why don't we pray more?
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- I mean, if we believe intellectually, we know
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- Experientially that prayer is the conduit through which god's
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- Power is poured into our life, why don't we pray more?
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- Well, some people say, "i don't have time to pray.
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- I'd like to, i just don't have time to do it."
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- The fact is, we make time for doing the important things in
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- Our life, don't we?
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- I mean, we make time to eat.
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- I can tell by looking at a lot of you, you make time to eat.
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- That's a cheap shot from the pulpit.
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- Pardon me, forgive me for doing that.
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- I mean, we do.
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- We make time for the things that are important to us.
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- I like what oswald chambers writes, he says, "remember, no
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- One has time to pray.
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- We have to take time from other things that are valuable in
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- Order to understand how necessary prayer is."
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- Now, i realize that talking about the need to pray induces
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- About as much guilt on us as talking about our need to read
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- The bible.
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- I mean, we all know we ought to pray more, just like we need to
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- Read the scriptures more.
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- And yet, most of us have difficulty maintaining a
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- Consistent prayer life.
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- Could i share with you, as we begin this morning, two truths
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- That i think will be an encouragement to you
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- About prayer?
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- First of all, remember that "praying consistently
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- Is difficult."
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- Praying consistently is difficult.
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- Look at romans 15, verse 30.
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- Paul writes, "now i urge you, brethren, by our lord jesus
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- Christ and by the love of the spirit, to strive together with
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- Me in your prayers to god for me."
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- Paul said, "i beg you to strive in your prayers for me."
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- That word, "strive," is the greek word "agonitzomai."
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- "agonitzomai," you don't have to have a degree in greek to know
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- What that word means.
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- It's the word we get our english word "agonized" from.
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- "agonize with me in prayer."
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- Paul is saying, "prayer is agonizing work."
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- That word, "agonitzomai," is an athletic term.
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- It refers to the effort expended by someone in an
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- Athletic contest.
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- It refers to the sweat, the effort.
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- And it's particularly referring to a wrestling match.
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- Just as a wrestler struggles with his opponent, paul says,
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- "prayer is a struggle."
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- Say, "well, how is prayer a struggle?"
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- Well, first of all, it's a struggle with our enemy,
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- With satan.
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- Paul uses a similar term, not the same term, but a similar
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- Term in ephesians 6, verse 12, where he says, remember, "for
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- Our struggle, our struggle, is not against flesh and blood, but
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- Against the rulers, against the powers, against the unseen
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- Forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of
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- Wickedness in the heavenly places."
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- We spent months studying the subject of spiritual warfare,
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- And we said we have a very real enemy who wants to destroy
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- Everything important in our life.
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- Does satan want you to pray?
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- Does he want you to receive the power of god's blessing in
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- Your life?
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- Of course not, and so he's gonna do everything he can to
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- Discourage you from praying.
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- That's why paul says, "prayer is a struggle."
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- It's a struggle, first of all, with satan.
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- But secondly, prayer is a struggle with god himself.
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- Remember jacob in the old testament?
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- He struggled, he wrestled with god.
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- In the new testament, we see jesus wrestling with god in the
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- Garden of gethsemane.
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- It was a wrestling match over whether god's will or jesus's
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- Will was gonna be accomplished.
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- With jacob, it was either god's will or jacob's will.
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- That's why it tells us in luke 22:44 that when jesus agonized
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- In the garden of gethsemane, that "he began to sweat as if
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- Great drops of blood were falling to the ground."
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- Prayer is a struggle.
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- It's a struggle with whether we're going to acquiesce to the
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- Will of god or not.
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- We're gonna say more about that in a moment.
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- But not only is prayer struggle with satan, it's a struggle
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- With god.
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- Most of all, prayer is a struggle with ourselves,
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- Isn't it?
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- I mean, let's face it, it is a struggle to get up in the
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- Morning and get some blanket victory in order to take a few
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- Moments to pray.
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- It's a struggle of whether or not we're gonna say no to that
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- Additional television program and instead make time to pray.
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- It's a struggle to lay aside that great scintillating novel
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- We just started in order to take time to pray.
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- It's a struggle, even when we do begin to pray, to keep our mind
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- Focused on what we're saying to god, instead of reviewing our
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- Daily to-do list.
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- Prayer is a struggle.
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- The good news is god understands that.
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- God says he knows our frame.
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- He understands that we're nothing but dust.
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- Sometimes, god has a better understanding of our limitations
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- Than we do.
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- I love what brother lawrence wrote one time.
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- He said, "for many years, i was bothered by the thought that i
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- Was a failure at prayer.
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- Then one day, i realized i would always be a failure at prayer,
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- And i've gotten along much better at praying ever since."
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- And just mark it down, remember it, praying consistently will
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- Always be a struggle.
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- Nobody ever ends that struggle.
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- But here's the balancing truth.
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- Yes, praying consistently is difficult, but praying
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- Effectively is simple.
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- Write it down, "praying effectively is simple."
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- Turn over to matthew chapter 6, the passage we just read a few
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- Moments ago.
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- You know, there is a plethora of books, seminars, cds, sermons
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- About prayer, but i think one of the downsides of all of this
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- Information we have out there about prayer is we have overly
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- Complicated prayer.
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- I mean, we've given people the idea that unless everything is
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- Right in your life, or unless you have the right vocabulary,
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- Unless you have a phd in intercessory prayer, you're just
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- Not qualified to pray.
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- And that's why more people don't pray more consistently.
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- We've overcomplicated prayer.
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- For example, we give the idea to people that unless you have two
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- Or three hours to pray every day like martin luther did, you
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- Might as well not bother.
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- To pray a simple short prayer to god is almost disrespectful
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- Of god.
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- God will only hear a long prayer, not a short prayer.
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- And yet, look at what jesus said in matthew 6, verse 7, "and when
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- You are praying, do not use meaningless repetition as the
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- Gentiles do, for they suppose that they will be heard for
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- Their" what?
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- "many words."
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- Jesus said it is a myth to think that god is impressed with how
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- Many words you use.
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- Don't confuse the length of your prayer with the strength of
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- Your prayer.
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- Let me illustrate that for you, why length and strength are not
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- Always related.
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- Who in here today, in this vast audience, can identify a man
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- Named edward everett?
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- How many of you know the name edward everett?
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- We had two people in the first service.
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- One, two, marshall, i should know you would, or you ought to
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- Know who edward everett is.
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- He spoke for two hours at the dedication of the
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- Gettysburg cemetery.
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- And yet, only two of you know who he is, and i bet not one of
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- You can recall anything he said in his two hours at the
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- Dedication ceremony of the gettysburg cemetery.
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- But his speech was followed by a man named abraham lincoln, who
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- Spoke for two minutes at the gettysburg cemetery, and we all
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- Remember his words.
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- "four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on
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- This continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and
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- Dedicated to the principle that all men are created equal."
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- Isn't that interesting?
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- Two minutes, and yet we remember those words.
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- Don't confuse the length of your words with the strength of
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- Your words.
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- Think about elijah, 1 kings, chapter 18.
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- Here he is in this battle to prove to everyone is yahweh or
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- Is baal the true god?
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- Remember he allowed the prophets of baal to go first to
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- Demonstrate baal's power?
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- And the bible says that "the prophets of baal danced around
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- The altar from noon until the time of the evening sacrifice,
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- Pleading, pleading, repeating, 'oh, baal, hear us.
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- Oh, baal, answer us.'
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- And baal did not answer," the bible says.
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- "he could not answer."
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- And then by contrast, elijah stands up, and he prays this
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- Simple, short prayer.
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- A prayer that in the english language is only 64 words long.
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- And yet after those 64 words, the fire from god fell from
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- Heaven and consumed those animal sacrifices.
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- Don't fall into the trap of thinking that god is impressed
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- By the length of your words.
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- Other people say, "well, you know, in order to pray
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- Effectively, i've just got to empty myself of anything i
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- Really want and pray about the things i think i'm supposed to
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- Pray about."
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- Boy, what a myth, to think that we can't tell god what is really
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- On our hearts.
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- Think about the apostle, peter, for a moment.
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- Remember the story?
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- Peter and the apostles were out on a boat ride one evening.
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- Actually, god had told them to go from one side to the other
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- Side, and he would meet them on the other side.
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- And they looked out, and they saw jesus walking on the water.
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- And peter was enthused by that, and he jumps out of the boat and
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- Into the water to go walk toward the lord.
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- And he's doing well until he takes his eyes off the lord and
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- Begins to look at the boiling sea underneath him, and he
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- Begins to sink.
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- And what does he do?
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- He begins to pray.
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- And this is what he prays, "oh lord, the father of abraham,
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- Isaac, and jacob, how we thank you today for your
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- Glorious name.
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- And god, while i'm praying, i wanna remember the missionaries
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- In ecuador.
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- Oh lord, bless them as they share," is that how he prayed?
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- No, he prayed a simple three-word prayer.
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- "lord, save me. lord, save me."
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- Now you don't get much more selfish in your praying than
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- That, but that's what he needed.
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- He shared with the lord the real need that was in his own heart,
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- And what did the lord do?
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- He reached out his hand, and he lifted up peter.
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- Don't think that prayer is trying to fool god.
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- Don't think prayer is trying to empty yourself of anything that
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- You want and just praying about what you think you should
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- Pray for.
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- Some people think, in order to pray effectively, that they have
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- To have enough faith.
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- You've heard that said before, that unless you're 100%
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- Convinced that god is going to do what you ask him to do, you
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- Might as well not pray at all.
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- Well, the bible dispels that myth as well.
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- Turn over to acts chapter 12 for just a minute.
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- Remember the story?
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- The early church had gathered together in a home to pray for
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- Their pastor, peter, who'd been in prison because of his
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- Faithfulness in preaching the gospel.
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- So, peter is in jail, the church members are in a home praying
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- For their pastor's release, and acts 12 tells us that because of
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- The early church prayer, that god miraculously released peter
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- From jail.
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- The chains fall off, peter is free, so where does he want
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- To go?
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- Well, naturally, he wants to go to where his church members are
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- Gathering to pray for him.
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- He wants to share with them the exciting news of what
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- Has happened.
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- To me, this is just hilarious.
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- Look at verse 13.
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- He goes to the house where they're meeting, and the bible
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- Says, "when he knocked at the door of the gate, a servant girl
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- Named rhoda came to answer."
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- Now, all the church is in the living room gathered together
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- Praying, okay?
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- They hear this knock at the door.
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- They say, "rhoda, go answer that.
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- We're too busy praying.
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- You go answer that."
- 00:19:06.368 --> 00:19:07.703
- So, rhoda goes and answers the door, and the bible says, verse
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- 14, "when she recognized peter's voice, because of her joy, she
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- Did not open the gate, but ran in and announced that peter was
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- Standing in front of the gate."
- 00:19:18.580 --> 00:19:20.148
- Don't you know peter was frustrated?
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- He said, "here i am."
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- She runs away, forgets to open the door, leaves him
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- Standing there.
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- And she breaks into the prayer meeting, and says, "i've got
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- Some great news."
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- They say, "shhh, rhoda, we're praying, don't interrupt people
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- Of god, we're praying."
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- "but you don't understand." "don't interrupt."
- 00:19:36.298 --> 00:19:38.500
- Finally, they said, "what is it?"
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- They say, "peter," she says, "peter is here.
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- He's standing at the gate." and how did they respond?
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- Did they say, "oh, praise god that he has answered
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- Our prayers?"
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- No, they said to her, verse 15, "you're out of your mind."
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- But she kept insisting that it really was peter, and they kept
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- Saying, "it must be his angel."
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- Isn't that interesting to you?
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- Here they were, praying that god would release peter.
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- When the answer comes, they don't believe it.
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- So the fact is, they weren't 100% sure god could do it.
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- They weren't 50% sure.
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- They may not have even been 10% sure.
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- They had a teeny, tiny faith.
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- But what did jesus say?
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- He said, "if you have the faith of a," what?
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- "a mustard seed, you can move mountains."
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- It's not the quantity of your faith that matters, it's the
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- Object of your faith.
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- If your faith is in god, it doesn't matter how small that
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- Faith is, god will respond.
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- What i'm saying to you is, don't get caught up in these myths
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- About prayer, that you have to pray a long time, or you have to
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- Be dishonest in your praying and not tell god what's in your
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- Heart, or you have to have everything right in your life.
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- Or don't think that you have to have enough faith before you can
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- Pray, just pray.
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- I love what paul said in philippians 4:6.
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- He said, "in everything with prayer and supplication, let
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- Your requests be made known to god."
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- Notice what he says, "you can pray about everything."
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- I like the way one person says it, "when we pray, we don't need
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- To pray what we wish were in our hearts, but what is in
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- Our hearts."
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- Isn't that great advice?
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- When you pray, pray what's in your heart, not what you wish
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- Were in your heart, not what you think should be in your heart.
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- That's the kind of honest praying that god answers.
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- Why is that?
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- Look at verse 8, "so do not be like them; for your father knows
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- What you need before you ask him."
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- You know one reason you ought to be honest with god when
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- You're praying?
- 00:21:43.291 --> 00:21:44.860
- He already knows what's in your heart anyway.
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- And he knows what you need, so why not be honest with him?
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- Praying consistently is difficult, but the truth is
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- Praying effectively is quite simple.
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- Nevertheless, many of us struggle with maintaining a
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- Consistent prayer life.
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- And i believe we will never unleash god's power through
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- Prayer in our life until we have four questions about
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- Prayer answered.
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- Today, in the final moments we have, we're gonna look at two of
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- Those questions, and we're gonna look at the final two questions
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- Next week.
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- The first question that many of us have, but few of us have the
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- Guts to ask, is this question.
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- And that is, "why should we pray if god's going to do what he
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- Wants to do anyway?"
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- Have you ever wondered about that?
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- I mean, why should we pray if god is sovereign and he's gonna
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- Do whatever he wants to do anyway?
- 00:22:36.244 --> 00:22:39.347
- I was actually asked that question one time by a deacon on
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- A wednesday night when we were walking down the hallway on the
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- Way to prayer meeting.
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- "now, pastor, why are we going down here to pray?
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- If god's gonna do what he wants to do anyway, does prayer
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- Actually change god's will and plan, or does it simply
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- Change us?"
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- Now people go to one of two extremes when they talk about
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- The relationship between prayer and god's sovereignty.
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- There's some people who say that god is actually limited in what
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- He can do by our willingness to pray.
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- To say that god is limited with what he can do by our
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- Willingness to pray is to strip god of his sovereignty.
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- God can do whatever he chooses to do.
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- Remember in romans chapter 9, god is talking about god's
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- Sovereign election.
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- He says, "jacob have i chosen, esau have i hated.
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- I will have mercy on whomever i will have mercy."
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- And then in romans 9:16, paul says, "so then, it does not
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- Depend on the man who wills or the man who runs, but on god who
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- Has mercy."
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- Ladies and gentlemen, god can do whatever he chooses to do
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- ♪♪♪
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- Jeffress: we know from the word of god and from our own
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- Experience that prayer is the key to experiencing god's power.
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- And i hope you'll join us again next time when i'll say more
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- About the importance of making prayer a consistent part of your
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- Daily life.
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- Now, before we close today, let me say thank you to those of you
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- Who generously provide financial support.
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- Light of his word.
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- I'll be back with more "pathway to victory" in just a moment.
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- Male announcer: the bible promises that when we put our
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- Faith in jesus christ, our lives will be changed from the
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- Inside out.
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- And yet, many christians feel discouraged and defeated in
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- Their daily walk.
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- Jeffress: if you're longing for something more in your
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- Relationship with god, you're not alone.
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- At one time, i felt dissatisfied and powerless to change it.
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- But by god's grace, i discovered how to deploy the power of the
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- Holy spirit in my life.
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- And today, i wanna help you discover that as well in my
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- Best-selling book, "i want more!"
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- Male announcer: the book, "i want more!," was written to help
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- You build spiritual strength as you pursue a fresh way to
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- Unleash god's supernatural power in every area of your life.
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- You're invited to request a copy of "i want more!"
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- When you give a generous gift to support the ministry of "pathway
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- To victory," or when you become a pathway partner.
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- And when you give $75 or more, we'll also send you the complete
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- "unleashed teaching" series on dvd and audio disc.
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- Jeffress: god has granted to you everything you need to lead a
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- Fulfilling existence while here on earth.
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- And everything he has given you is all wrapped up in the holy
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- Spirit of god.
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- Male announcer: your generous giving will help us encourage
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- And equip viewers like you with biblical truth and hope.
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- Thank you so much for your support as we continue to impact
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- You, your family, and our nation with the transforming truth of
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- God's word.
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- Jeffress: while praying effectively is simple, praying
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- Consistently can be very difficult.
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- And personally, i don't believe any of us will ever pray
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- Consistently until we have four specific questions answered
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- About prayer.
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- So on the next edition of "pathway to victory," i'm going
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- To answer the first two of those questions that can help every
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- Christian become more diligent in prayer, starting with
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- This one.
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- Why pray if god is going to do as he pleases?
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- Do our prayers actually make any difference?
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- Stay tuned for a preview of my answer to that question coming
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- Up on "pathway to victory."
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- Jeffress: so, what does it mean to pray, "god, your will
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- Be done?"
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- Here's what it means, it says, "god, this is what i want.
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- I'm gonna be very honest in what i want, god.
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- This is what i'm asking you to do, but i also realize that you
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- Know best.
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- And ultimately, i'm submitting myself to your
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- Providential will."
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- Male announcer: set your dvr and join us next time for part two
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- Of the message, "the power of faith-kneeling" here on "pathway
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- To victory."
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