The Sermon Prayer (Part III): Constant Communication by David McGee
Feb 12, 2012
Prayer (Part III): Constant Communication (29:14)
Referenced Scriptures: Isaiah 55:6-11; 1 Thessalonians 5:17-18; Luke 18:1-8; 1 Samuel 1:12-13; Psalm 119:145-149
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Isaiah 55:6-11
6) Seek you Yahweh while he may be found; call you on him while he is near:
7) let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
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.
10) For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn‘t return there, but waters the earth, and makes it bring forth and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater;
11) so shall my word be that goes forth out of my mouth: it shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
1 Thessalonians 5:17-18
17) Pray without ceasing.
18) In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.
Luke 18:1-8
1) He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,
2) saying, "A certain judge was in a city, who didn‘t fear God, and didn‘t respect man.
3) A widow was in that city, and she came often to him, saying, ‘Defend me from my adversary!‘
4) He wouldn‘t for a while, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I don‘t fear God, nor respect man,
5) yet because this widow bothers me, I will defend her, or else she will wear me out by her continual coming.‘"
6) The Lord said, "Listen to what the unrighteous judge says.
7) Won‘t God avenge his elect, who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?
8) I tell you that he will avenge them quickly. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?"
1 Samuel 1:12-13
12) It happened, as she continued praying before Yahweh, that Eli marked her mouth.
13) Now Hannah, she spoke in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had been drunken.
Psalm 119:145-149
145) I have called with my whole heart. Answer me, Yahweh! I will keep your statutes.
146) I have called to you. Save me! I will obey your statutes.
147) I rise before dawn and cry for help. I put my hope in your words.
148) My eyes stay open through the night watches, That I might meditate on your word.
149) Hear my voice according to your lovingkindness. Revive me, Yahweh, according to your ordinances.
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Whatever we are communicating with God. It is not a life you will mean that your hey, look here. Look at lock into you Lord, you know and Laura; and the snowman, you know, beat yourself with minutes outside in some traditions handed that they have whips and now Bob, they may have to beat themselves in order to make themselves worthy and actually read themselves the point of bleeding and yelled so that God will give them, and there are some some beliefs that enable they will stand up and bow the hallway for thousands of miles they will do this continuously down on their knees for us. No layout before God for their knees stand up and get down underneath and a day and stairway hundreds, sometimes thousands of miles to these places into the shrines. In order to obtain some type of favor with this God whom they are trying to blaze and what are the documentaries document carries us on this. The woman had her child tied with a rope around your hand to the child, and she was doing this pilgrimage in order to get someplace on favor with God Martin Luther in this. This is not Christian and this is another one but Martin Luther. This is not Christian, Martin worked on his affect the stairways to two dollars. This is his assent of tenants in which it was pace all that God would hear his prayer, he was still on his face growing up the steps and yelled to get to God. And while he's doing this descriptor is over in his mind that by grace ye are saved through faith, not of works, lest any man should boast in Martin Luther King 's idea Festival. How did God favor Martin Luther says it's not by my what I'm going to obtain favor with God. It's by his grace, grace and mercy, grace is that he gives to us what we don't deserve. We discern in our sin. We deserve punishment. But God forgives us. He is a sacrifice for our sin and forgive the and is in his grace. He forgives us in his mercy he bestows his gifts on us even though we are not worthy to receive a divine gift to give them to us so Martin Luther reformed in the Reformation, reformed the charge and started it was aware of the Protestant. The Protestants of the old way of looking at things, though these are the idea of somehow gaining some type of favor with God. So that our Bibles to Isaiah chapter fifty five verse six and seven verse eight nine ten eleven that if you follow that if verses six through eleven of Isaiah chapter fifty five, and then first Thessalonians five seventeen, eighteen, we've read this verse last couple weeks. Isaiah fifty five seek God while he feared to be filed prior to him while he is close at hand. Now, remember God is never so far way is to be just near us so prayed to him while you know that God is with you trainer, you know while he is here with us. Let the wicked abandon the way of life. The evil way, the evil their way of thinking, but then come back to God was merciful, come back to our God has lavished with forgiveness, a eight I don't think the way you think the way you work isn't the way I work, got decreased far as the sky so using at the sky sword high above the earth. So the way I work surpasses the way you were in the way I think beyond the way you think so whenever we are praying it's important for us to understand why will it not been Sunday school we did this with one of the sound doctrine the sound doctrines of the Scripture give us a foundation from which we pray again so is the foundation upon which we stand as individual God forgives us because of his great, so therefore Bible says let us come boldly to the throne of grace, so that we may obtain mercy. So I am going boldly to the throne of grace. I I and I am walking into God 's presence because I don't deserve it, but God by his grace, I enter that I may obtain mercy that he will give to me all that I need in my life that I might accomplish the task that he is going to do in the paper, papers, we had no those are tasks and not all of us are called to do the same thing but we will receive mercy, which is God 's help in achieving certain tasks that God lays on our hearts. The now because God lays our hearts. The dividend doesn't he were to be perfect on the first time young like my setup to reach my first sermon. They gave me twenty minutes I did for you. Now you pray for that to happen again as God hear our prayer that I first Thessalonians chapter five verses seventeen making the cheerful mulatto watch what's the next verse. But the thing went back seventeen but the thing for all the time. Be cheerful lament of what are all the time because you will know matter what, pray all the time say that the example matter what, pray all the time. Then again be example, not matter what, pray all the time. Thank God no matter what happens. This is the way God wants you who belong to Christ Jesus to live. Pray without ceasing, but one of the King James has frightened about seizing, so I question how many of cell phones. I would have a favorites list. I don't know what favorites list. Is it the little button on the bottom of any push it in as both the people in there that your favorite again. I do know that this week or two ago, my wife is also one going through the whole bill out for that, trying to find that she does all push your favorite all-time favorite, just as infallible, but like I was concerned she was in there the other followers). Innovative a couple I didn't know they ran out of how they got in my favorites list. But in how many have ever attached someone you think I'm not in charge. So effectively make Richard Blanck went okay I have ever tested and tested that the word in our liaison with our proper were tested, I think so, and without proper work. I will check someone I'm not tested someone that you tested someone buying out if you text someone what you do you are communicating with and if you send out a text you wait for an answer, not always in the last word in your text to someone who you are today. I will try to get this. Should you say okay thank you I've heard that I got this idea and only got while texting is away in in in out communicating that honest communication of life in this moment is prayer. So what if we were going to tax God. If you go back over the people you text while you telling them I design them important things important things. The one thing and then were you telling it like New Jersey and a group of individuals and I don't necessarily have to be young people in being out and out to get five individuals in all standard looking at the problems normal moon. Yes, like ejecting them know this. I didn't thought that I don't catch them, and I understand I do that you are also not available like SNL and AEN humanism and that the old guard in genocide. Your statement). What would you check your, what would you tell him, and even went on a brief message, together with your child is in on estimate how many purposely lie on your text values in Loja, alleluia. But if the family would purposely lie in your text to someone. I you generate communicating what you're thinking or feeling or what. In his locker room for miscommunication because when I read something I'm reading it from my perspective, not necessarily your trouble from texting. I see those hands. What happened, how many people misinterpret what I meant. Because you weren't there. You aren't there to tell them they weren't there to see your body language. They interpreted it targeted as I connected they would interpret what was given to then sent to them in the moment they found themselves and how they are in that moment and that mental frame and their perspective on something they interpreted so a lot of miscommunications come about and misunderstandings. Ms. understandings come about because of because of what we say but because were not present in our conversation, we are always present in our conversation with God, and that our communication with God is not only in our prayers. But we know that, and in our voice, but we know that we communicate with God through music sellers were playing and singing, you are worshiping expressing your relationship with God through the words that we saying are saying no, some of us who can't sing to save them. Well I was saying them to God, and it is getting also direct N/A is testing the God who is wife here in this moment and we are communicating with them. Think anything, IR, body language, unrelenting fund the Lord in by the and Islam that we can. I was Islam. I need to find the other night and this morning so the Sunday school leaflet Bob get one. They're laying there like a leaflet. Thank you. In Psalm one nineteen verse one forty five I call with all my heart Angelina Lord and I will obey your decrees. I called I was expecting an answer. So the whole idea in this section of this psalm verses one forty five one forty nine is about an expectation of God hearing us and Islamists is saying I rise up knowing Rebecca, I call after you saved me and I will keep your statutes. I rise up before the dawning cry for help. I have put my hope in your word. My eyes stay open for the watches of the night. I have up all night with excitement and anticipation. God is answering my prayers know I have when I read that before the lesson of the thing is, as got up all night. Call now to God about all the problems going on in his life, and things are working well for him in the exact opposite is true. Disguise up all night and he doesn't want the morning to get here because he is so excited in the late getting his relationship with God about all the promises that God is making real to him through his word and through his law. So what if exact opposite of what I thought as I wasn't there. I'm just reading the text when I began to understand words and understand the context of the author. I find out the guys really excited about staying up all night meditating on God 's word and finding hope in his life is finding hope in his life through law of God, and he is excited about what God is doing and shoulders. This expectation of what's there. And so whenever we pray hear me answer me the same word here answer. I've tried with an expectation of an answer. So I pray through my voice to the music through body language sculptor Michelangelo 's Sistine top. The stone sculptors, the need that again paintings, facial expression, facial expression, dance, writing, honey, how do you express yourself. I'm not talking about Madonna. Thought talking and enjoy paying if you still need to try and talking isn't your thing, you can still be going to pray go on. There's a lady who won the America's got talent noted in when two years ago Boyle Susan Boyle, you know, I never got it straight. But here's this woman who was a phenomenal absolutely now she's too pretty. The Britain British version got talent and she got second place in Britain and she was the top performer built in millions in the combine billions and billions of dollars to make, but she went to church and I don't know if I heard it right. I could be wrong in this book means an inherent right off. She never sang in church to sing in church and thinking how lame of that creature at Carson and his nephew, and she never sang in church. So if you are in the POA Newton, saying there is a checkmark on that paper doll is dispatched to be laying when you call America's got talent and saying and you and I never like using the church. I thought how learning for Ms. Susan Boyle, who is not of course it wasn't the flamboyant, whatever persons you she you know Seattle blogs with you about on the program, but she had a voice that when clicked, and it's like, you see some of us have those qualities that you just I mean they just stuck behind something and we don't want them out. I think above your wife's sister act with the Whoopi Goldberg, whenever she is editing over the area rivers distractors. This is a squire, Anderson's little. This is mutual waiting to learn is what Israel will be due to she Eagles lose the other hand, this time with your stomach if you are are the people in the back. Because there was something in there that needed to the Taliban equality and why they needed and every one of us have and have a quality and anime in our life to be able to take what we have and express what is the God express what is in our service to God and God is in God is just beginning in our lives over and over again. He just beginning to take who we are and bring it out and so we all have that in our prayers. There are those in Ackerman says Bush whenever we pray twice. Pray until something happens and pray doesn't mean my business like pushing him to do something that I am praying and expecting I'm I'm I'm listening for the answer for what God is speaking to my life. I am praying so that the answer comes into my life. I'm not pushing God to do something. No, I'm not behind a person gets a map and push them down. Now go do this. I'm not pushing God to do something. I am praying and what I'm wondering in my praying is I'm listening for God to answer. I will pray until have an answer. I'm praying for minutes. How do you pray, honest, sincere direct, specific God is my need. This is where I met help me make the choice. The decision helped me fulfill your will be with me, speak to me. I open doors, God do your thing in my life. I am expecting an answer living chapter eighteen, and this is versus one through eight. Jesus told the story showing that it was necessary for them to play consistently and never quit. He said that was what the judge in some city who never gave God a thought and care, noting nothing. Karen and care nothing for the people I went out in that city kept after him. My rights are being violated. Protect me think he never gave her the time of day, but after this went on and on. He said to himself. I care nothing that. What God thinks even less what people think, but because this widow won't quit badgering me, I'd better do something and see that she gets justice, otherwise I'm going to end up beaten black and blue by her pounding in the master said you hear what that judge, corrupt as he is saying. So what makes you think that God won't step in and work justice for his people, who continue to cry out for help, won't he stick up for them. I assure you he will he will not drag his feet, but how much of hot but how much of that kind of persistent faith will the Son of Man find on earth when he returns a persistent faith, we pray to be hurt or we pray to be answered. We pray to be heard all we pray to be answered. We pray to have an answer. We pray to the answer and so we are persistent in our asking and persistent persistence is saying I have to have this man in these using the illustration someone who is a widow who has no legal rights in the system and it is up to the judge to be fair in making sure that her rights as a Jewish person under the law of God is met and he that Josh doesn't care for God, and doesn't care without she am bigger with no influence, but she going to continue to beat him up verbally, not physically, but it's like being B G just to continue to be on his door until they get justice and sky. Jesus is saying you have that persistent push. / until God answers your prayer. So I am not trying to be heard. God always hears me when I pray he knows my thoughts and intents of my heart. He knows all the things going on in my life. So my prayer is about petitioning God to be answered. God will answer my prayers. Nevertheless, with Brent that the young child comes the data uses data demonstrating that we sit with me for all omnipotent grandfather who provides all of my sick you're in my allowance is made to know the long hours of the night until Madonna wife breaks the glass of my software. We want our children to be specific, daddy, I'm afraid, dark below. That's a prayer that am afraid of dark, the company that you need this interest as we cry out a father that literally means daddy, daddy me cry daddy that father God, my father, hear my prayer here answer my prayer and what are we saying what, what is the specific need. As we increase our time in prayer were letting God know our daily life, and it isn't that God doesn't know our daily life is that we need to tell them we need to address God with Arctic does your dear friends, a detective need to doubt now your daily life while telling them what my friend. I went on one of the union with interesting and what's going on at the moment. Also, also smiling means, although the management talk to me at all and when they may have those kind of text in your text. The book now telephone anything have to want that but I got the decided study. I have that that's tomorrow and what will happen with his best not to beginning wasting time to the one. Telling people what died on what one is prayer. Prayer is wasting time is not the analogy that engine is not wasting time for letting God know in our prayers are that we are expecting an answer. It hasn't died in fighting God, I need your help with my study helming the time to make starting a help me make time to study God help me study quickly. I don't have much time God missing answer my prayer and what is persistence. You think Frank went on in France. Open our hearts to the mind of God Franklin, honest prayers. Open our hearts to the mind of God in genuine prayer we relate to God. In a conversation. His heart is restless until it finds rest in the Augustine wrote that that our hearts are restless until we find rest in God. So you are you have a restless Saturday night Saturday night. I am restless. I mean, you would think. I've never prayed before. My life. New England is my first sermon, because every Saturday night. I am restless. I'm, I'm just like, I'll healthwise logo are a left of happenings_ while this is going to come up. I know how this can happen in in in out praying until you are so I pray God you know what want to know them interred know what the needs are, you know what the needs of the people are meant to be help me to say the right things on the right things in place so that I can say when you want to say the touch their life and you plan to you. Peace, because this isn't automatic. This is God 's moment for us to communicate with him, and to accomplish his direction for our lives because eternity is in the balance for each of our lives. Every Sunday eternity is in the balance. Every Sunday for each of our lives. Because if we do not grow in our understanding of the word. We do not have a foundation upon which to stand, so that we can pray without ceasing that we can take our momentary ideas and momentary requests and pray with an expectation of answers coming to us and thenWhatever we are communicating with God. It is not a life you will mean that your hey, look here. Look at lock into you Lord, you know and Laura; and the snowman, you know, beat yourself with minutes outside in some traditions handed that they have whips and now Bob, they may have to beat themselves in order to make themselves worthy and actually read themselves the point of bleeding and yelled so that God will give them, and there are some some beliefs that enable they will stand up and bow the hallway for thousands of miles they will do this continuously down on their knees for us. No layout before God for their knees stand up and get down underneath and a day and stairway hundreds, sometimes thousands of miles to these places into the shrines. In order to obtain some type of favor with this God whom they are trying to blaze and what are the documentaries document carries us on this. The woman had her child tied with a rope around your hand to the child, and she was doing this pilgrimage in order to get someplace on favor with God Martin Luther in this. This is not Christian and this is another one but Martin Luther. This is not Christian, Martin worked on his affect the stairways to two dollars. This is his assent of tenants in which it was pace all that God would hear his prayer, he was still on his face growing up the steps and yelled to get to God. And while he's doing this descriptor is over in his mind that by grace ye are saved through faith, not of works, lest any man should boast in Martin Luther King 's idea Festival. How did God favor Martin Luther says it's not by my what I'm going to obtain favor with God. It's by his grace, grace and mercy, grace is that he gives to us what we don't deserve. We discern in our sin. We deserve punishment. But God forgives us. He is a sacrifice for our sin and forgive the and is in his grace. He forgives us in his mercy he bestows his gifts on us even though we are not worthy to receive a divine gift to give them to us so Martin Luther reformed in the Reformation, reformed the charge and started it was aware of the Protestant. The Protestants of the old way of looking at things, though these are the idea of somehow gaining some type of favor with God. So that our Bibles to Isaiah chapter fifty five verse six and seven verse eight nine ten eleven that if you follow that if verses six through eleven of Isaiah chapter fifty five, and then first Thessalonians five seventeen, eighteen, we've read this verse last couple weeks. Isaiah fifty five seek God while he feared to be filed prior to him while he is close at hand. Now, remember God is never so far way is to be just near us so prayed to him while you know that God is with you trainer, you know while he is here with us. Let the wicked abandon the way of life. The evil way, the evil their way of thinking, but then come back to God was merciful, come back to our God has lavished with forgiveness, a eight I don't think the way you think the way you work isn't the way I work, got decreased far as the sky so using at the sky sword high above the earth. So the way I work surpasses the way you were in the way I think beyond the way you think so whenever we are praying it's important for us to understand why will it not been Sunday school we did this with one of the sound doctrine the sound doctrines of the Scripture give us a foundation from which we pray again so is the foundation upon which we stand as individual God forgives us because of his great, so therefore Bible says let us come boldly to the throne of grace, so that we may obtain mercy. So I am going boldly to the throne of grace. I I and I am walking into God 's presence because I don't deserve it, but God by his grace, I enter that I may obtain mercy that he will give to me all that I need in my life that I might accomplish the task that he is going to do in the paper, papers, we had no those are tasks and not all of us are called to do the same thing but we will receive mercy, which is God 's help in achieving certain tasks that God lays on our hearts. The now because God lays our hearts. The dividend doesn't he were to be perfect on the first time young like my setup to reach my first sermon. They gave me twenty minutes I did for you. Now you pray for that to happen again as God hear our prayer that I first Thessalonians chapter five verses seventeen making the cheerful mulatto watch what's the next verse. But the thing went back seventeen but the thing for all the time. Be cheerful lament of what are all the time because you will know matter what, pray all the time say that the example matter what, pray all the time. Then again be example, not matter what, pray all the time. Thank God no matter what happens. This is the way God wants you who belong to Christ Jesus to live. Pray without ceasing, but one of the King James has frightened about seizing, so I question how many of cell phones. I would have a favorites list. I don't know what favorites list. Is it the little button on the bottom of any push it in as both the people in there that your favorite again. I do know that this week or two ago, my wife is also one going through the whole bill out for that, trying to find that she does all push your favorite all-time favorite, just as infallible, but like I was concerned she was in there the other followers). Innovative a couple I didn't know they ran out of how they got in my favorites list. But in how many have ever attached someone you think I'm not in charge. So effectively make Richard Blanck went okay I have ever tested and tested that the word in our liaison with our proper were tested, I think so, and without proper work. I will check someone I'm not tested someone that you tested someone buying out if you text someone what you do you are communicating with and if you send out a text you wait for an answer, not always in the last word in your text to someone who you are today. I will try to get this. Should you say okay thank you I've heard that I got this idea and only got while texting is away in in in out communicating that honest communication of life in this moment is prayer. So what if we were going to tax God. If you go back over the people you text while you telling them I design them important things important things. The one thing and then were you telling it like New Jersey and a group of individuals and I don't necessarily have to be young people in being out and out to get five individuals in all standard looking at the problems normal moon. Yes, like ejecting them know this. I didn't thought that I don't catch them, and I understand I do that you are also not available like SNL and AEN humanism and that the old guard in genocide. Your statement). What would you check your, what would you tell him, and even went on a brief message, together with your child is in on estimate how many purposely lie on your text values in Loja, alleluia. But if the family would purposely lie in your text to someone. I you generate communicating what you're thinking or feeling or what. In his locker room for miscommunication because when I read something I'm reading it from my perspective, not necessarily your trouble from texting. I see those hands. What happened, how many people misinterpret what I meant. Because you weren't there. You aren't there to tell them they weren't there to see your body language. They interpreted it targeted as I connected they would interpret what was given to then sent to them in the moment they found themselves and how they are in that moment and that mental frame and their perspective on something they interpreted so a lot of miscommunications come about and misunderstandings. Ms. understandings come about because of because of what we say but because were not present in our conversation, we are always present in our conversation with God, and that our communication with God is not only in our prayers. But we know that, and in our voice, but we know that we communicate with God through music sellers were playing and singing, you are worshiping expressing your relationship with God through the words that we saying are saying no, some of us who can't sing to save them. Well I was saying them to God, and it is getting also direct N/A is testing the God who is wife here in this moment and we are communicating with them. Think anything, IR, body language, unrelenting fund the Lord in by the and Islam that we can. I was Islam. I need to find the other night and this morning so the Sunday school leaflet Bob get one. They're laying there like a leaflet. Thank you. In Psalm one nineteen verse one forty five I call with all my heart Angelina Lord and I will obey your decrees. I called I was expecting an answer. So the whole idea in this section of this psalm verses one forty five one forty nine is about an expectation of God hearing us and Islamists is saying I rise up knowing Rebecca, I call after you saved me and I will keep your statutes. I rise up before the dawning cry for help. I have put my hope in your word. My eyes stay open for the watches of the night. I have up all night with excitement and anticipation. God is answering my prayers know I have when I read that before the lesson of the thing is, as got up all night. Call now to God about all the problems going on in his life, and things are working well for him in the exact opposite is true. Disguise up all night and he doesn't want the morning to get here because he is so excited in the late getting his relationship with God about all the promises that God is making real to him through his word and through his law. So what if exact opposite of what I thought as I wasn't there. I'm just reading the text when I began to understand words and understand the context of the author. I find out the guys really excited about staying up all night meditating on God 's word and finding hope in his life is finding hope in his life through law of God, and he is excited about what God is doing and shoulders. This expectation of what's there. And so whenever we pray hear me answer me the same word here answer. I've tried with an expectation of an answer. So I pray through my voice to the music through body language sculptor Michelangelo 's Sistine top. The stone sculptors, the need that again paintings, facial expression, facial expression, dance, writing, honey, how do you express yourself. I'm not talking about Madonna. Thought talking and enjoy paying if you still need to try and talking isn't your thing, you can still be going to pray go on. There's a lady who won the America's got talent noted in when two years ago Boyle Susan Boyle, you know, I never got it straight. But here's this woman who was a phenomenal absolutely now she's too pretty. The Britain British version got talent and she got second place in Britain and she was the top performer built in millions in the combine billions and billions of dollars to make, but she went to church and I don't know if I heard it right. I could be wrong in this book means an inherent right off. She never sang in church to sing in church and thinking how lame of that creature at Carson and his nephew, and she never sang in church. So if you are in the POA Newton, saying there is a checkmark on that paper doll is dispatched to be laying when you call America's got talent and saying and you and I never like using the church. I thought how learning for Ms. Susan Boyle, who is not of course it wasn't the flamboyant, whatever persons you she you know Seattle blogs with you about on the program, but she had a voice that when clicked, and it's like, you see some of us have those qualities that you just I mean they just stuck behind something and we don't want them out. I think above your wife's sister act with the Whoopi Goldberg, whenever she is editing over the area rivers distractors. This is a squire, Anderson's little. This is mutual waiting to learn is what Israel will be due to she Eagles lose the other hand, this time with your stomach if you are are the people in the back. Because there was something in there that needed to the Taliban equality and why they needed and every one of us have and have a quality and anime in our life to be able to take what we have and express what is the God express what is in our service to God and God is in God is just beginning in our lives over and over again. He just beginning to take who we are and bring it out and so we all have that in our prayers. There are those in Ackerman says Bush whenever we pray twice. Pray until something happens and pray doesn't mean my business like pushing him to do something that I am praying and expecting I'm I'm I'm listening for the answer for what God is speaking to my life. I am praying so that the answer comes into my life. I'm not pushing God to do something. No, I'm not behind a person gets a map and push them down. Now go do this. I'm not pushing God to do something. I am praying and what I'm wondering in my praying is I'm listening for God to answer. I will pray until have an answer. I'm praying for minutes. How do you pray, honest, sincere direct, specific God is my need. This is where I met help me make the choice. The decision helped me fulfill your will be with me, speak to me. I open doors, God do your thing in my life. I am expecting an answer living chapter eighteen, and this is versus one through eight. Jesus told the story showing that it was necessary for them to play consistently and never quit. He said that was what the judge in some city who never gave God a thought and care, noting nothing. Karen and care nothing for the people I went out in that city kept after him. My rights are being violated. Protect me think he never gave her the time of day, but after this went on and on. He said to himself. I care nothing that. What God thinks even less what people think, but because this widow won't quit badgering me, I'd better do something and see that she gets justice, otherwise I'm going to end up beaten black and blue by her pounding in the master said you hear what that judge, corrupt as he is saying. So what makes you think that God won't step in and work justice for his people, who continue to cry out for help, won't he stick up for them. I assure you he will he will not drag his feet, but how much of hot but how much of that kind of persistent faith will the Son of Man find on earth when he returns a persistent faith, we pray to be hurt or we pray to be answered. We pray to be heard all we pray to be answered. We pray to have an answer. We pray to the answer and so we are persistent in our asking and persistent persistence is saying I have to have this man in these using the illustration someone who is a widow who has no legal rights in the system and it is up to the judge to be fair in making sure that her rights as a Jewish person under the law of God is met and he that Josh doesn't care for God, and doesn't care without she am bigger with no influence, but she going to continue to beat him up verbally, not physically, but it's like being B G just to continue to be on his door until they get justice and sky. Jesus is saying you have that persistent push. / until God answers your prayer. So I am not trying to be heard. God always hears me when I pray he knows my thoughts and intents of my heart. He knows all the things going on in my life. So my prayer is about petitioning God to be answered. God will answer my prayers. Nevertheless, with Brent that the young child comes the data uses data demonstrating that we sit with me for all omnipotent grandfather who provides all of my sick you're in my allowance is made to know the long hours of the night until Madonna wife breaks the glass of my software. We want our children to be specific, daddy, I'm afraid, dark below. That's a prayer that am afraid of dark, the company that you need this interest as we cry out a father that literally means daddy, daddy me cry daddy that father God, my father, hear my prayer here answer my prayer and what are we saying what, what is the specific need. As we increase our time in prayer were letting God know our daily life, and it isn't that God doesn't know our daily life is that we need to tell them we need to address God with Arctic does your dear friends, a detective need to doubt now your daily life while telling them what my friend. I went on one of the union with interesting and what's going on at the moment. Also, also smiling means, although the management talk to me at all and when they may have those kind of text in your text. The book now telephone anything have to want that but I got the decided study. I have that that's tomorrow and what will happen with his best not to beginning wasting time to the one. Telling people what died on what one is prayer. Prayer is wasting time is not the analogy that engine is not wasting time for letting God know in our prayers are that we are expecting an answer. It hasn't died in fighting God, I need your help with my study helming the time to make starting a help me make time to study God help me study quickly. I don't have much time God missing answer my prayer and what is persistence. You think Frank went on in France. Open our hearts to the mind of God Franklin, honest prayers. Open our hearts to the mind of God in genuine prayer we relate to God. In a conversation. His heart is restless until it finds rest in the Augustine wrote that that our hearts are restless until we find rest in God. So you are you have a restless Saturday night Saturday night. I am restless. I mean, you would think. I've never prayed before. My life. New England is my first sermon, because every Saturday night. I am restless. I'm, I'm just like, I'll healthwise logo are a left of happenings_ while this is going to come up. I know how this can happen in in in out praying until you are so I pray God you know what want to know them interred know what the needs are, you know what the needs of the people are meant to be help me to say the right things on the right things in place so that I can say when you want to say the touch their life and you plan to you. Peace, because this isn't automatic. This is God 's moment for us to communicate with him, and to accomplish his direction for our lives because eternity is in the balance for each of our lives. Every Sunday eternity is in the balance. Every Sunday for each of our lives. Because if we do not grow in our understanding of the word. We do not have a foundation upon which to stand, so that we can pray without ceasing that we can take our momentary ideas and momentary requests and pray with an expectation of answers coming to us and then