The Sermon Prayer Part II (God is at work) by David McGee
Feb 05, 2012
Prayer Part II (God is at work) (25:47)
Referenced Scriptures: Isaiah 55:8-9; Romans 5
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Isaiah 55:8-9
8) For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, says Yahweh.
9) For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Romans 5
1) Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;
2) through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
3) Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance;
4) and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope:
5) and hope doesn‘t disappoint us, because God‘s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit which was given to us.
6) For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
7) For one will hardly die for a righteous man. For perhaps for a righteous person someone would even dare to die.
8) But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
9) Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God‘s wrath through him.
10) For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.
11) Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
12) Therefore, as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.
13) For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law.
14) Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those whose sins weren‘t like Adam‘s disobedience, who is a foreshadowing of him who was to come.
15) But the free gift isn‘t like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.
16) The gift is not as through one who sinned: for the judgment came by one to condemnation, but the free gift came of many trespasses to justification.
17) For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.
18) So then as through one trespass, all men were condemned; even so through one act of righteousness, all men were justified to life.
19) For as through the one man‘s disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one will many be made righteous.
20) The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace did abound more exceedingly;
21) that as sin reigned in death, even so might grace reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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Are your Bible reading on prayer again and it is a miscommunication with God that we find our security and were going back to Isaiah fifty five percent versus eighty nine and these verses are are very portent because they speak to us about God being near to us seek God while he is here. Frankly while he is close at hand so we are looking that that God is near us and we need to pay attention. Did you ever have somebody sneak up on you and you finally found out that they were there scared out there socks off, you and what happen you to know that they were there while God is always there exist at weed on. We don't sense it or we don't pay attention to it, and that God is their God is here with us and it's like sometimes it's a surprise. Sometimes it's a surprise that God is here God is that close to us, you know was I was thinking of Joe when it comes to the house. Things and Andrea Andrea. She was at the house and she was she was there one day and I came home and student knowledge than I knocked on the door and because I knew she was. She was interworking and NI. I knocked on the door and opened the door as you stand and are not say hello how I'll hello and I stepped in a hello and she not went through the ceiling in the Army. She screamed and yelled and almost fell on the floor and I'd like. I shall not tonight. I did all the stuff we do know is here. Yes, while sometimes it's like that with God. He has been knocking and he has been speaking and all assignments while God is here and solve the challenges for us to know that God is dear right here at this moment in our life and he is here for us to play to him. I know that he is close at hand. God is close to us and then verse eight and nine. The Lorena got up the evident and anointed diaconate on, but if you have a yeah. Isaiah fifty five versus eighty nine fifty five Isaiah nine what does it say in my thoughts and my ways are not like yours all all the generic degenerative, you don't sometimes Rhonda and I don't think alike. Imagine that you will never have that problem in the NL while this one is wrong with the idea is that this was what is wrong. We don't think alike in a frenzy about what a friend because we think differently or maybe we think alike, but first I says I don't think the way you think and the way you work isn't the way that I work so you see those the way that God is working in our lives and the way that God is working in branded steps life the way to God is working in our life. Now if you think of an industry that Ron and I have had here. I mean, I've been a counselor will work the new game and you counseled hundreds of people, maybe thousands I work at the hospitals. The chaplain then and I've seen thousands of people yesterday we were. We ran in the grocery store and an individual came up to me and ill socket means that your heart that her mother is in hospice and she, her mother 's dying and she's I miss you and I- why haven't been there because of your being off of work, but she was waiting to see we so that she could talk to me about her mother and her mother told her mother 's condition and from others that and in no hurt decline and sell there any aisles of what is a tiny anal themed names, leaving even giant Eagle that very island, giant Eagle, someone is coming up to me and say ill and NATO made him go this church there there there I don't come know by now that they in AMA never been in our church, but I know them from the commute down from the community. Rhonda start their children down to give you a clue as to what might be here right and so we were able to talk about what was going on with her mother 's illness and what was going on and I asked her know finally got the point will house your mother spiritually. She frightened and we talk about how that no matter how frightened we may be, we ask Christ to forgive us and live within our hearts that the security and peak even if we done it a thousand times. It doesn't matter. We can continue to do it again to find a place of peace. You see God 's work in ways that we don't understand God 's work in ways that we don't understand. I remember whenever we we came here we were pastoring in entertaining and and I went to this church and someplace else and I was there anything very extended time, I stayed way beyond what I should have. I was there six months. Imagine that I was there six months and well it was it was probably the worst place I've ever been in my life because we know from the very first meeting I idealize like I have no idea. No clue why ever felt like to go there because of the very first time I met with the the individuals on that community, we clashed and things were off on the wrong foot and things didn't work and I was there six months, and but you know it was the discharge was not open at that time. When I first went there and it was open and the six month interval and I came here and spoke and thirty two years later, there we are guys that work, he doesn't. He doesn't always do things the way that we think you should as so. I don't think the way you think and I don't work the way you work to cease all whenever we are and to pray. It's important that we pray and we are honest with God. It's important that you see our prayers are about giving to God. What we are thinking and feeling because of where not honest with who we are, how they go to know what needs changed. How do you change something if you're if you're false with your your your conversation and your telling God something you think he wants to hear, then which one are you correcting what you think he wants you to hear again. But as we are honest with God, and honest with ourselves we find that God is at work doing something in us, and guilt. We are honest about what God wants to do in our life. God has a call upon each of our lives. God 's call for London. I has been to stay here these years and in and God is seen fit to bless us with you and God is seen fit to bless us with run instead for the last ten years, needs Dan and Emma God has seen fit to bless us with their with them for the last ten years, and these are all part of you know that's that's something Aaron could feel your in the church world because average stays there for five years and when God has been able to work in a way that we have been able to work here and in the community and so God has always done something a little different in us and I hope please been able to do something different in your life and how many changes us and how they did. He grows us, but God is at work in our lives are like things are grown. I don't like things do change as an oxymoron. Ill let you that makes you see it psychologically dissolved stuff. Note that anyhow you will miss my humor. There's even if this is because nobody got doubly hesitant to do a sense of humor like that, you know, so the let that Brad has a good sense of humans whose gaze is that even though the expert now you know that the one-liners are you there, so, but the relationship is established for us by Jesus Christ, and hearing from God flows out of our relationship. That's why they know that it's time for them to move on because of that relationship, but in the same token we know it is time for us to continue to grow, and if that relationship that we have with God that that causes what God wants to be accomplished to flow out of our lives, and that God 's will would be accomplished. We would never want to stop the will of God in our life from being accomplished that would be than that the worst mistake we could ever make in our life is to try and know to do something and not do that would be a death sentence glosses, individuals, so we must recognize what God is doing because of our relationship because of our prayers because of the given flow of God 's Spirit in his word in our life, we must see how God is at work in us and be honest with him and know that this relationship is established for us. It is for our best zinc, and this is this is the unique thing about the will of God. It is far Brandon staff, and even then, it is in their best interest to move on, that it is in our best interest that they move because it is the will of God. They feel it is the will of God, therefore it must be therefore they must follow the footsteps of what they feel God wants for them in the same token, we had that same responsibility to be God 's instrument where we are at to hear the voice of God to be at peace with what God is doing in us and around us. Even though because God doesn't work the way we work. He doesn't think the way we think and he has a way of helping us understand that if we don't pray specifically, we don't get a clear picture of what we are hearing from God. Romans, chapter five, says therefore, since we have been justified, made right with God through faith, we have to use with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through home we have gained access by faith into the grace in which we now stand. So it is by God 's grace that we have access to God. And in that access to God. It comes down to where we are starting where we stand in our life. We stand upon a very firm suits your foundation got once a God has a plan for us. God has a purpose for life. So no matter what we may be feeling. We do have a relationship with God, we belong to him. In this foundation is built upon Jesus Christ, and because of that we have peace with God, and from this place of peace, then we continue our day by day life. Going through the circumstances that come and go. The circumstances that we live in the circumstances that we wish never happen, but God has a way of bringing us through these things because we do have this relationship with Jesus Christ. We are since you are. We are secure because Jesus is with us and we now brawling the development of that relationship and he is here. What is here is decided if the Jesus as their user with us is inside, we grow in this relationship we move into an experience of God in our lives that the additional one-time shot. It's something that grows over time. It's a daily experience as a dipping of a relationship with a learning of some learning how to hear his voice. It's a learning how to hear his voice and hopefully God is very familiar with your if not the high-pitched time did you know we've all done that maybe few times that the icon is begotten on what I know everyday life. The everyday decisions. The everyday goings in and out of our life. We are conversing with God. We have art in our prayer chains or whatever that people call and say our moment. We pray for them, God, you know, so a seller has a need. I pray that you be with them in their need to see people that you just look at any of you know they need help. It is a God be with them help that person and help that person. I don't even know their name, but your pray for them and that is important. Your prayers are important and sometimes got open door for you to interact with them and help them in different ways, but sometimes I will never happen. But pray for individuals is not this long, elaborate, you know downhill half hour exhortation is a statement of intent from a heart because we sense a need in a person 's life was a God help them be with them. Now, I often don't give people a hug and say, God bless you for God be with them help and comfort the given piece of hardware Cipro is not making a speech prayer is not a one-sided conversation. Prayer is communicating. Isaiah says, praying to him while he is close in their wake you up, but is there it was fifty years you feel sometimes were startled by his clothes. I didn't realize a plate and lobbyists for here is a straightforward conversation and did you know that prayer involves more than just talking prayer involves more than just talking how many different ways we communicate the body language I ever way you communicate and they roll their eyes never left you unable to rise. She will body language web body language. We are sculpting and painting, cleaning on the was work, communicate, communicate, he is praying. The Bible says we pray with groanings that can't even be honored in the spirit interprets that the jet about all American now. Sometimes we that somebody is okay but the groaning that we have here is that we are saying of God when we doing that the prayer is what you're communicating the anguish of what's going on on the inside. You're communicating facial expressions, dancing about rising the city. Sometimes, what where you feel comfortable. Some people don't feel comfortable in conversation they feel comfortable riding, so writing a prayer. Why, because we are recognizing that God is near. We don't have to mail God. The latter faster. I wrote a letter, we deliver to them. Usually we try all the time they just that we don't realize that of God I hated. I hate when people take the name of Jesus in vain because they don't realize that the person you're talking to is right there enough they'll recognize that his presence is right there and they are sending him with their language and with their derogatory statements but prayer is communicating with God, and we have our favorite ways to communicate and God is fluent in all ways of communication. God is floated everywhere. Communication. So if we need to just stop for a moment and say, oh God if we need to lie on the floor and put our faith in the Florida sale God. We need to kneel in an altered buyer that failed to driving down the road to stop it. You know in a moment saying God, thank you for being with riproaring prey. God must enjoy the prayers, God most enjoys the prayers that are natural that are direct that are simple. God enjoys our natural one ear. What is you are not wrong, but what if you want words are used to describe how you're feeling. You know best how to statement that is what God wants to hear that it was to hear the good things must hear the bad things that the bad and ugly. It was the enemy was that it wasn't the time from you because they are yours, and the most important quality of communication is our gut level honesty what comes from within our gotten level honesty. God, I don't like this one bit. It now. I don't like Mondays. Not like whatever, maybe, and at once and I just say what it is and when you pray, Jesus says do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogue on the street corners so that everybody will see them. You see, God loves are simple prayers are simple, direct conversation that is just us saying to God what a life when we are afraid in which Ellen whenever were troubled. We tell when we have doubts. We, when we are angry with S Job prayed. I love my very life job was in such anguish he says I I I just I don't like my life and all I like the paid alike. Everything being robbed from me, my children, my houses in my land and my wealth and everything is operational like I love this, but Jesus never criticize the honest and direct prayers, only those that were long and Shelley and I close with this as a parent if your child climbed up on your lap and said that he am afraid of the dark would you help me when is a very simple, direct, honest prayer about this one, you imagine your job coming up and sitting on your lap of grand omnipotent father of my household, I beseech our presence of Albright provider of all that I have granted me my presence will bother all the long hours of the night I'm caught in the lingering fear in these fears babysat me all night long. Stay with me via father until dawn 's first rays of light coming through my windows and fill my heart with hope. Please don't bother here. My prayer is that with your kids setting on your lap. What would you say what you want. What an adventure asking me what you want to link to your magic on yelling here we are thinking. I can't pray I never thought to the amount of rent. What's wrong the rest of you. I never thought Udall not right that we all have because we think that prayer is this all omnipotent father, grandiose wonderful being grandeur of heaven and earth sustain me now in my power gave us the value comes by the way, can we touch me do this do that and you know God. I need your help. I may not say that than United front, we know how to pray insistently. We think that praying is something other than just being who we are with the God who is right beside us communicating we communicate with him with God, Arnie Fry with honesty. Be honest with who you are what you think and what you feel well I went to think we should pray while I don't think I should pray this way. Why those admissions timeless sincerity be honest to the simple make a specific open your heart to give up what you have and open your heart to see of what he will get back prayer is a two way communication, but it begins with us, opening the door and then can we be that simple can we be that simple. R do I need to read the prayer again can we be that simple why because Saint God while he is here praying to him while he is close and remember he doesn't think the way you think and the way you work is the way he works, so you need to tell him tell God about what's in your heart, your God level thoughts. Be open and honest and allow God to hear seat. It isn't that he doesn't know these things, he already knows them where the ones who need to be that open and transparent as we are open and transparent. God then can move our lives so we will remember to pray because God is near an end. Amen. Unless youAre your Bible reading on prayer again and it is a miscommunication with God that we find our security and were going back to Isaiah fifty five percent versus eighty nine and these verses are are very portent because they speak to us about God being near to us seek God while he is here. Frankly while he is close at hand so we are looking that that God is near us and we need to pay attention. Did you ever have somebody sneak up on you and you finally found out that they were there scared out there socks off, you and what happen you to know that they were there while God is always there exist at weed on. We don't sense it or we don't pay attention to it, and that God is their God is here with us and it's like sometimes it's a surprise. Sometimes it's a surprise that God is here God is that close to us, you know was I was thinking of Joe when it comes to the house. Things and Andrea Andrea. She was at the house and she was she was there one day and I came home and student knowledge than I knocked on the door and because I knew she was. She was interworking and NI. I knocked on the door and opened the door as you stand and are not say hello how I'll hello and I stepped in a hello and she not went through the ceiling in the Army. She screamed and yelled and almost fell on the floor and I'd like. I shall not tonight. I did all the stuff we do know is here. Yes, while sometimes it's like that with God. He has been knocking and he has been speaking and all assignments while God is here and solve the challenges for us to know that God is dear right here at this moment in our life and he is here for us to play to him. I know that he is close at hand. God is close to us and then verse eight and nine. The Lorena got up the evident and anointed diaconate on, but if you have a yeah. Isaiah fifty five versus eighty nine fifty five Isaiah nine what does it say in my thoughts and my ways are not like yours all all the generic degenerative, you don't sometimes Rhonda and I don't think alike. Imagine that you will never have that problem in the NL while this one is wrong with the idea is that this was what is wrong. We don't think alike in a frenzy about what a friend because we think differently or maybe we think alike, but first I says I don't think the way you think and the way you work isn't the way that I work so you see those the way that God is working in our lives and the way that God is working in branded steps life the way to God is working in our life. Now if you think of an industry that Ron and I have had here. I mean, I've been a counselor will work the new game and you counseled hundreds of people, maybe thousands I work at the hospitals. The chaplain then and I've seen thousands of people yesterday we were. We ran in the grocery store and an individual came up to me and ill socket means that your heart that her mother is in hospice and she, her mother 's dying and she's I miss you and I- why haven't been there because of your being off of work, but she was waiting to see we so that she could talk to me about her mother and her mother told her mother 's condition and from others that and in no hurt decline and sell there any aisles of what is a tiny anal themed names, leaving even giant Eagle that very island, giant Eagle, someone is coming up to me and say ill and NATO made him go this church there there there I don't come know by now that they in AMA never been in our church, but I know them from the commute down from the community. Rhonda start their children down to give you a clue as to what might be here right and so we were able to talk about what was going on with her mother 's illness and what was going on and I asked her know finally got the point will house your mother spiritually. She frightened and we talk about how that no matter how frightened we may be, we ask Christ to forgive us and live within our hearts that the security and peak even if we done it a thousand times. It doesn't matter. We can continue to do it again to find a place of peace. You see God 's work in ways that we don't understand God 's work in ways that we don't understand. I remember whenever we we came here we were pastoring in entertaining and and I went to this church and someplace else and I was there anything very extended time, I stayed way beyond what I should have. I was there six months. Imagine that I was there six months and well it was it was probably the worst place I've ever been in my life because we know from the very first meeting I idealize like I have no idea. No clue why ever felt like to go there because of the very first time I met with the the individuals on that community, we clashed and things were off on the wrong foot and things didn't work and I was there six months, and but you know it was the discharge was not open at that time. When I first went there and it was open and the six month interval and I came here and spoke and thirty two years later, there we are guys that work, he doesn't. He doesn't always do things the way that we think you should as so. I don't think the way you think and I don't work the way you work to cease all whenever we are and to pray. It's important that we pray and we are honest with God. It's important that you see our prayers are about giving to God. What we are thinking and feeling because of where not honest with who we are, how they go to know what needs changed. How do you change something if you're if you're false with your your your conversation and your telling God something you think he wants to hear, then which one are you correcting what you think he wants you to hear again. But as we are honest with God, and honest with ourselves we find that God is at work doing something in us, and guilt. We are honest about what God wants to do in our life. God has a call upon each of our lives. God 's call for London. I has been to stay here these years and in and God is seen fit to bless us with you and God is seen fit to bless us with run instead for the last ten years, needs Dan and Emma God has seen fit to bless us with their with them for the last ten years, and these are all part of you know that's that's something Aaron could feel your in the church world because average stays there for five years and when God has been able to work in a way that we have been able to work here and in the community and so God has always done something a little different in us and I hope please been able to do something different in your life and how many changes us and how they did. He grows us, but God is at work in our lives are like things are grown. I don't like things do change as an oxymoron. Ill let you that makes you see it psychologically dissolved stuff. Note that anyhow you will miss my humor. There's even if this is because nobody got doubly hesitant to do a sense of humor like that, you know, so the let that Brad has a good sense of humans whose gaze is that even though the expert now you know that the one-liners are you there, so, but the relationship is established for us by Jesus Christ, and hearing from God flows out of our relationship. That's why they know that it's time for them to move on because of that relationship, but in the same token we know it is time for us to continue to grow, and if that relationship that we have with God that that causes what God wants to be accomplished to flow out of our lives, and that God 's will would be accomplished. We would never want to stop the will of God in our life from being accomplished that would be than that the worst mistake we could ever make in our life is to try and know to do something and not do that would be a death sentence glosses, individuals, so we must recognize what God is doing because of our relationship because of our prayers because of the given flow of God 's Spirit in his word in our life, we must see how God is at work in us and be honest with him and know that this relationship is established for us. It is for our best zinc, and this is this is the unique thing about the will of God. It is far Brandon staff, and even then, it is in their best interest to move on, that it is in our best interest that they move because it is the will of God. They feel it is the will of God, therefore it must be therefore they must follow the footsteps of what they feel God wants for them in the same token, we had that same responsibility to be God 's instrument where we are at to hear the voice of God to be at peace with what God is doing in us and around us. Even though because God doesn't work the way we work. He doesn't think the way we think and he has a way of helping us understand that if we don't pray specifically, we don't get a clear picture of what we are hearing from God. Romans, chapter five, says therefore, since we have been justified, made right with God through faith, we have to use with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through home we have gained access by faith into the grace in which we now stand. So it is by God 's grace that we have access to God. And in that access to God. It comes down to where we are starting where we stand in our life. We stand upon a very firm suits your foundation got once a God has a plan for us. God has a purpose for life. So no matter what we may be feeling. We do have a relationship with God, we belong to him. In this foundation is built upon Jesus Christ, and because of that we have peace with God, and from this place of peace, then we continue our day by day life. Going through the circumstances that come and go. The circumstances that we live in the circumstances that we wish never happen, but God has a way of bringing us through these things because we do have this relationship with Jesus Christ. We are since you are. We are secure because Jesus is with us and we now brawling the development of that relationship and he is here. What is here is decided if the Jesus as their user with us is inside, we grow in this relationship we move into an experience of God in our lives that the additional one-time shot. It's something that grows over time. It's a daily experience as a dipping of a relationship with a learning of some learning how to hear his voice. It's a learning how to hear his voice and hopefully God is very familiar with your if not the high-pitched time did you know we've all done that maybe few times that the icon is begotten on what I know everyday life. The everyday decisions. The everyday goings in and out of our life. We are conversing with God. We have art in our prayer chains or whatever that people call and say our moment. We pray for them, God, you know, so a seller has a need. I pray that you be with them in their need to see people that you just look at any of you know they need help. It is a God be with them help that person and help that person. I don't even know their name, but your pray for them and that is important. Your prayers are important and sometimes got open door for you to interact with them and help them in different ways, but sometimes I will never happen. But pray for individuals is not this long, elaborate, you know downhill half hour exhortation is a statement of intent from a heart because we sense a need in a person 's life was a God help them be with them. Now, I often don't give people a hug and say, God bless you for God be with them help and comfort the given piece of hardware Cipro is not making a speech prayer is not a one-sided conversation. Prayer is communicating. Isaiah says, praying to him while he is close in their wake you up, but is there it was fifty years you feel sometimes were startled by his clothes. I didn't realize a plate and lobbyists for here is a straightforward conversation and did you know that prayer involves more than just talking prayer involves more than just talking how many different ways we communicate the body language I ever way you communicate and they roll their eyes never left you unable to rise. She will body language web body language. We are sculpting and painting, cleaning on the was work, communicate, communicate, he is praying. The Bible says we pray with groanings that can't even be honored in the spirit interprets that the jet about all American now. Sometimes we that somebody is okay but the groaning that we have here is that we are saying of God when we doing that the prayer is what you're communicating the anguish of what's going on on the inside. You're communicating facial expressions, dancing about rising the city. Sometimes, what where you feel comfortable. Some people don't feel comfortable in conversation they feel comfortable riding, so writing a prayer. Why, because we are recognizing that God is near. We don't have to mail God. The latter faster. I wrote a letter, we deliver to them. Usually we try all the time they just that we don't realize that of God I hated. I hate when people take the name of Jesus in vain because they don't realize that the person you're talking to is right there enough they'll recognize that his presence is right there and they are sending him with their language and with their derogatory statements but prayer is communicating with God, and we have our favorite ways to communicate and God is fluent in all ways of communication. God is floated everywhere. Communication. So if we need to just stop for a moment and say, oh God if we need to lie on the floor and put our faith in the Florida sale God. We need to kneel in an altered buyer that failed to driving down the road to stop it. You know in a moment saying God, thank you for being with riproaring prey. God must enjoy the prayers, God most enjoys the prayers that are natural that are direct that are simple. God enjoys our natural one ear. What is you are not wrong, but what if you want words are used to describe how you're feeling. You know best how to statement that is what God wants to hear that it was to hear the good things must hear the bad things that the bad and ugly. It was the enemy was that it wasn't the time from you because they are yours, and the most important quality of communication is our gut level honesty what comes from within our gotten level honesty. God, I don't like this one bit. It now. I don't like Mondays. Not like whatever, maybe, and at once and I just say what it is and when you pray, Jesus says do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogue on the street corners so that everybody will see them. You see, God loves are simple prayers are simple, direct conversation that is just us saying to God what a life when we are afraid in which Ellen whenever were troubled. We tell when we have doubts. We, when we are angry with S Job prayed. I love my very life job was in such anguish he says I I I just I don't like my life and all I like the paid alike. Everything being robbed from me, my children, my houses in my land and my wealth and everything is operational like I love this, but Jesus never criticize the honest and direct prayers, only those that were long and Shelley and I close with this as a parent if your child climbed up on your lap and said that he am afraid of the dark would you help me when is a very simple, direct, honest prayer about this one, you imagine your job coming up and sitting on your lap of grand omnipotent father of my household, I beseech our presence of Albright provider of all that I have granted me my presence will bother all the long hours of the night I'm caught in the lingering fear in these fears babysat me all night long. Stay with me via father until dawn 's first rays of light coming through my windows and fill my heart with hope. Please don't bother here. My prayer is that with your kids setting on your lap. What would you say what you want. What an adventure asking me what you want to link to your magic on yelling here we are thinking. I can't pray I never thought to the amount of rent. What's wrong the rest of you. I never thought Udall not right that we all have because we think that prayer is this all omnipotent father, grandiose wonderful being grandeur of heaven and earth sustain me now in my power gave us the value comes by the way, can we touch me do this do that and you know God. I need your help. I may not say that than United front, we know how to pray insistently. We think that praying is something other than just being who we are with the God who is right beside us communicating we communicate with him with God, Arnie Fry with honesty. Be honest with who you are what you think and what you feel well I went to think we should pray while I don't think I should pray this way. Why those admissions timeless sincerity be honest to the simple make a specific open your heart to give up what you have and open your heart to see of what he will get back prayer is a two way communication, but it begins with us, opening the door and then can we be that simple can we be that simple. R do I need to read the prayer again can we be that simple why because Saint God while he is here praying to him while he is close and remember he doesn't think the way you think and the way you work is the way he works, so you need to tell him tell God about what's in your heart, your God level thoughts. Be open and honest and allow God to hear seat. It isn't that he doesn't know these things, he already knows them where the ones who need to be that open and transparent as we are open and transparent. God then can move our lives so we will remember to pray because God is near an end. Amen. Unless you