Welcome to Windber PA's First Assembly of God's The Sermon Prayer Part IV - An Entering In by David McGee Page

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If you do not receive one of these style handouts last week. Please take one important interview Hamlet today. Please make sure that we get it printed in today. I am, I'm going to speak on prior imagine that it's only been the fourth week that we are discussing prayer is that while you thought about it for four weeks, we should know that we should know more. Well, we should know it all out. Believe me, we haven't began begun to scratch the surface of what prayer is about and what what the value of training is in our Sunday school lesson this morning was about growing in prayer and how that just the need for our life, and is quoted there was a number of Scriptures that was there and I like the outline on this. There's really no formula. There's no formula that states that he always kind of outline that we have in the Lord 's prayer and brass. I'll conclude on my five weeks of prayer on speaking of prayer. Next Sunday with the Lord 's prayer, but what any of the ideas is that that fresh of the and entering in the case and in the illustration that the use in the in the Sunday school lesson was that there is a threshold is like an entryway as we enter into prayer leaders are, and by confession and penance God. We are having a Hitler and her watch that Indiana Jones the guys what will search for the holy Grail is going back that that that that hallway because the penitent man, the penitent men penitent men by Romero happened and I'm not as a why is he going to cut in half to death not what happened in this prayer, okay, but the ideas, the penitent man is one who is repentant so that is the threshold that we entered into prior in our community in communication with God is that we, the hybrid says I'm sorry if there is sin in my life in the something that I've done in thought, word or deed, I'm asking for forgiveness and sold that car insurance, but then I get into this place to be. Maybe the sanctuary are entering into the room and if we find it in that context. In this place on this road than we have in our community and our fellowship with God while it's it's more than just making requests is more than just making request that part of it, but it is in this place in the sanctuary that we speak of our adoration. I thought this place were we offer our warship, hallowed be thy name yell is the worship of God. It's a recognition of God in and out of his presence in our lives and we began to understand that where what the Scriptures teach us. It's in this place of warship displays of being God 's presence that we quote the scripture that identify and find while we ask God that his his grace in his mercy be with us that his perfect peace is love casts out all fear. If we were to recognize that we have problems were asking God for wisdom and guidance in solving those problems. So we we had our prayer life. Our timeout praying it is not just the wish list by it. I wish I would wish I would we wish for you( I so wish or or something, but they don't worry everything will be all right. to make everything all right. Is it the the universal cosmos on all things falling together all the sky comes together and works, it is in understanding that whenever we pray we are directing our prayers and our request to God, and that we direct our our request to God, with the expectation not only that we will have to be heard, but that there will be a response. Now the challenge comes while he doesn't always give me what I want good thing is a good thing. While what if what I want is very very important what you think it may be very important. But we know that God has a way of working all things together for good to those who love him and are called according to his purpose. God is a way of working in our lives beyond what we are able to see in now and no, we don't know why things happen the way they do and don't know why certain circumstances and certain events happen the way they do it if we had all the answers. I have a book that I'd be a millionaire sitting in Beverly Hills. The thing I feel but I don't have the answers, and no one has all of the answers. Only Christ. So the challenge of frosting is that we need to take our needs to God in prayer. Now we create a long list of reasons why we're wait, we don't pray that we don't feel good enough in overnight when we've done something wrong or thought something wrong. I'll sometimes were bored don't have enough time know all are from all. I don't really want to bother God is just a little need and then we thought about this and can stay focused if you want to remember all the things that you've never done and having done writer need done to sit down and say you know what I'm up on the pray for a little while we are going up your mind just goes and takes off while if your mind wanders, bring it back is not a reason whether the reason they continue so prior to become part on on on on our everyday activity of our everyday life and in prayer isn't necessarily stopping everything in and going away in and into your closet and Bible talks about that go against the time to go away to be away from everything, but there is prior that is just part of who we are as we think of things that we offer a prayer is like when. When someone says you know you need to pray for sellers to stop at that moment in your mind regarding you offer a prayer for that person. The guy would be with them. The goblin help them think God is moved to buy our prayers that we are to pray about whatever is on our mind. What are you thinking what are you worried about what he concerned about what he enjoys what your sorrows. What are your expectations so the idea of our prayers are that they are to be heard and that God will answer frequent prayers with the expectation on it being a two-way communication and I ever talk to someone that you never get word and advised. I'm sure you never have, but we know that we have now some people are just incessant upon their conversation while that's not what God is about, well, you know, it's like we need to remind him we already know God already knows what we have need out, but it's honest making a request and combining it with the word of God is that we know all that, that we are praying the Scriptures, that he is a very important part of our life. We pray the Scriptures that we pray the Scriptures, God gives that all things work together for good to those who love you and are called according to your purpose. So God I pray that Scripture because I don't feel this way I don't feel like things are good. So therefore I pray you would help me to understand that I is coming it all comes to a divine drive in my life so therefore I pray without expectation that God will change this so I am praying the Scriptures. I'm praying the word of God about my life about my children love our grandchildren about our neighbors about you about each of us. So when we pray the Scriptures comfort those who more gives strength to those who are weak to those who are undecided friend, give direction. You see, there is this there is a prayer that goes on, we pray for you and each other is as then as you come to our minds, so weird when we pray this in time as we pray. We recognize that God is prompting us. God is guiding us use comforting us plenty spacious space is true that you are alive to give us gives us peace and understanding. Know that God speaks to us, even when our prayers are not answered. Often we believe that what we want and how we see it is exactly how God sees and how he needs it. You know what he wants it to be generous. A child enamored with a fan with a light socket. They want to stick their finger and environment China. Remember was that your finger in a light socket. What did you do I hear of anybody wanting on sometime. I know sometimes of you in the lobby, then you know they'll know not to do it again if we don't do that. I manually wait, we don't give them about it. We don't do that, why didn't you stop in London. They do I think why they filed why you would let them do what they wanted. Sometimes we see things perfectly clear. God, I want to stick my finger in that light socket and your stopping and we talk about, we pray we want certain things in your life and God knows that it's detrimental to us are. It's not the right thing and not directly. God doesn't answer our prayers. The firm is not a magic formula that if you do the right thing say the right thing, combined with a little faith you can get whatever you want. Prayer is instead a mysterious conversation, mysterious, and I wrote that down. I was again while I was at mysterious, while generously somebody talking somebody wasn't there. What we haven't all the time. Now you have any other site I had a double faulting Senator talk away in a guy you can get one done. All I has seemingly gone by an outside London. It's like there's going to carry on a conversation in anger, not then you find out they got that thing, secondary or and and or garden somebody on the phone, but not around people who talk to be born to, and we know they're not right that the this on another shoe fits wear it. They got all but but you see how I was soon out of our conversations and in that were carrying on a conversation regarding their. He always hears us when we pray he knows our I know the intent of them are and not even pray for them with routing that we are so hurt on the inside we time innards like owning going on inside of our paying our anguish or whatever .net is a prayer. God hears things they know all those things about us in our prayer is that we get directed towards God, not just groaning about why groaning and moaning again grumbling and complaining, but we are directing it. God, I really hurt. I don't understand. I need your help. Using we limit God in our effectiveness. We limit how the gods and respond to us when we pray, Jesus said in Matthew eleven twenty four therefore I tell you whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you receive it and it will be your American amazing promise that we believe and we will receive after and will happen, but there's something more to does in these verses. Verse twenty five. It says and when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your father in heaven may also forgive your sins. Sometimes whenever we are praying. We remember people who don't like us or who have hurt us or we hurt them in the Bible saying for us. Get rid of those things take those things out of your life get so out of your life. How do we get them. Ironically forgiven melodic out of that mean we have a magic eraser, no, it means that we are dealing with the pain and grief and sorrow whenever that there are life to ten. Therefore, and a negative and a detrimental way in English thank God this was a negative. This was a thing willfully intensely dead. This you know how you were in those situations, I was gutted to think of Jesus on the cross anything on the cross and the people who beat him, but the Florence pride of thorns on him. Now the cross of Jesus and his father, forgive them for they don't know what they're doing while they willfully intend to get all the things he says father forgive them because people don't understand sometimes when they're doing something exactly what they're doing and the long-term effects of so just as maybe somebody has done that the wasp. We've done it to them, and we have to ask for forgiveness and let go of those things so that doesn't stand in the way of God blessing our life. The general said, if you are totally not a blast where your rat and everything just fell into place the way you are, would you ever think you need to change coming. Would you change if you are forced to wait alike change. I like the fun things come into our life. This force us to look at things differently and changes. Therefore, raise, and is therefore progress and so we've got to do with the way that is yelling for us, relationships, so relationships with people if you harbor on forgiveness hatred and hinders our prayers and the answer to our life. Some relationships matter. Its automotive love this. James chapter four verse three when you ask, you do not receive because last with the wrong motive, God, you know if I can win the lottery, I'll give you money. I'll help the church, but I'll be rich I motive you seek Jesus spoke about the Pharisees who offered their prayers were very long and loud and on the street corners to be seen by people and they wanted people to believe that they were spiritual, and that there was something great about them so son loves us are selfish and self-centered like the young guy. The young man who pray for this beautiful girl that you become a Christian from the church. They can cater and ask her out. Now it's a really concerned about his or her salvation always a concern about how you look walking around this one thing. Only God knows a person 's motives. Proverbs sixteen to says all a man's ways are seen innocent to him, but the motives are weighed by the Lord God knows what's going on in the inside. When we look in the mirror. We don't have to hide who we are our doubts, our fears, our failures are mistakes are questions that is ever a problem with that. Otherwise estimate upfront with only are they wanted to be up front with them. We aren't in the questions we have, and ending in the challenges that we have an in-house that we don't see how this works in. Understand all of this is in all these other good qualities of ourselves the way we live also matters when we pray. Proverbs thirty four fifteen the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and easier our attention to their cry, God knows our ways, and he knows what's going on in our heart and what hurts us faith. James one six and seven, but when he asked he must believe and not doubt because the house is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind that a man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord that whenever we are doubting the flight while in manual work, maybe it won't, but I'm a mascot. No event, and I can have this in no persistence is that we see what we need as a very important part of our life and that we are persistent in our prayers and our expectation that God will answer you see that faith is an expectations on fifteen fourteen. This is the confidence we have in approaching God. This is the confidence we have in approaching God that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. And if we know that he hears us whatever we ask, we know that we have what we asked for him. It's an expectation other expectant mothers here, though he did the weekly spin now so he is either pregnant or she's not so shared an expectant mother. I thank you very much for your volunteering to stand volunteering and thank you very much expectations are we there expected only go there is no, I don't know( and I'm not you either are or you are not expectancy is that you know what you know and it is an expectation, so you're either going to have a baby. I don't have a wildly. I think the ideas you are gone is going to answer my prayers. Now he may answer them in the way the you know the you will going back to our scriptures. We've done a couple weeks ago that his thoughts are not our thoughts and his ways are not our ways, and as high as the heavens are above the earth, so either his thoughts and his ways higher than ours. Whenever we have an expectation we think and we pray that we wanted a certain way. Often we are limiting God, and how that God wants to really answer our prayer because we only have a limited expectation. God has a way of seeing things from a whole different perspective than we do. And often when we pray we would try and limit God, and put him in a box that is not only good but good enough) is not only good is good enough if it's good enough for what I have expected or what I know in my life, and this is what I think is what I know God to do to implement in this little box and say this is all you need to answer my prayers. In order for it to be correct. God is saying you don't have enough insight and foresight and knowledge. Let me increase that for you, so unanswered prayer is not about what we get or don't get prior is a confidence that God hears and answers according to his will. My life is a gift. My life is a gift to God. He will give me everything that I need to make my life a blessing and a fulfillment of his divine purpose. God is answering our prayers. The deep intent of our practice what we really asking for what we really asking for wooden frame with a God, I want to win the lottery, what we really asking for were looking at what we feel will make a secure today and tomorrow we won't have to worry about anything so quietly forget about praying for the lottery dumpling will begin within a black but yes I do know quite what. Because God is to take care of today and tomorrow whether I have this when I consider stability or not. Besides chances of you winning no way in two hundred billion to people whom one major lotteries. I went silent at the bank. The people of one major money have been bankrupt than five years because inside of us in this crazy thing that we will spend down, down to our where we feel comfortable and so we will we will ditch. All that money in order to get back to a level that we feel comfortable, so wind up being bankrupt, but you see, God doesn't answer our prayers because and because we have what is the real motive for the answer to our. We want security. We want peace. We want the ability to look at life today and tomorrow leave a legacy for children. We want these things, then why not try about them. Why not take it to the level of need. You see, at times, prayer can change our circumstances, but more importantly prayer will always change us new and high. This person, this is what the last for eternity. This person, not the things we possess, not all the things around us, but we as an individual. That is the person that Jesus is tied for this is the person that God wants to see through this life and into the next as we have hope in this life we have hope in the life to come. And as we have hope in God today, we have hope in God 's provisions for today and for tomorrow for the righteous have never been forsaken, nor has that his children ever been out baking bread. God has a way of making away for his children. So whatever your need is whatever your challenge is take back to God in prayer with an expectation that God will answer and be open for the answer, because he probably won't meet your needs. The way you have been boxed in God will meet your need in a greater way more than you could ever imagine more than you could ever ask or think he has a way of touching our lives. AmenIf you do not receive one of these style handouts last week. Please take one important interview Hamlet today. Please make sure that we get it printed in today. I am, I'm going to speak on prior imagine that it's only been the fourth week that we are discussing prayer is that while you thought about it for four weeks, we should know that we should know more. Well, we should know it all out. Believe me, we haven't began begun to scratch the surface of what prayer is about and what what the value of training is in our Sunday school lesson this morning was about growing in prayer and how that just the need for our life, and is quoted there was a number of Scriptures that was there and I like the outline on this. There's really no formula. There's no formula that states that he always kind of outline that we have in the Lord 's prayer and brass. I'll conclude on my five weeks of prayer on speaking of prayer. Next Sunday with the Lord 's prayer, but what any of the ideas is that that fresh of the and entering in the case and in the illustration that the use in the in the Sunday school lesson was that there is a threshold is like an entryway as we enter into prayer leaders are, and by confession and penance God. We are having a Hitler and her watch that Indiana Jones the guys what will search for the holy Grail is going back that that that that hallway because the penitent man, the penitent men penitent men by Romero happened and I'm not as a why is he going to cut in half to death not what happened in this prayer, okay, but the ideas, the penitent man is one who is repentant so that is the threshold that we entered into prior in our community in communication with God is that we, the hybrid says I'm sorry if there is sin in my life in the something that I've done in thought, word or deed, I'm asking for forgiveness and sold that car insurance, but then I get into this place to be. Maybe the sanctuary are entering into the room and if we find it in that context. In this place on this road than we have in our community and our fellowship with God while it's it's more than just making requests is more than just making request that part of it, but it is in this place in the sanctuary that we speak of our adoration. I thought this place were we offer our warship, hallowed be thy name yell is the worship of God. It's a recognition of God in and out of his presence in our lives and we began to understand that where what the Scriptures teach us. It's in this place of warship displays of being God 's presence that we quote the scripture that identify and find while we ask God that his his grace in his mercy be with us that his perfect peace is love casts out all fear. If we were to recognize that we have problems were asking God for wisdom and guidance in solving those problems. So we we had our prayer life. Our timeout praying it is not just the wish list by it. I wish I would wish I would we wish for you( I so wish or or something, but they don't worry everything will be all right. to make everything all right. Is it the the universal cosmos on all things falling together all the sky comes together and works, it is in understanding that whenever we pray we are directing our prayers and our request to God, and that we direct our our request to God, with the expectation not only that we will have to be heard, but that there will be a response. Now the challenge comes while he doesn't always give me what I want good thing is a good thing. While what if what I want is very very important what you think it may be very important. But we know that God has a way of working all things together for good to those who love him and are called according to his purpose. God is a way of working in our lives beyond what we are able to see in now and no, we don't know why things happen the way they do and don't know why certain circumstances and certain events happen the way they do it if we had all the answers. I have a book that I'd be a millionaire sitting in Beverly Hills. The thing I feel but I don't have the answers, and no one has all of the answers. Only Christ. So the challenge of frosting is that we need to take our needs to God in prayer. Now we create a long list of reasons why we're wait, we don't pray that we don't feel good enough in overnight when we've done something wrong or thought something wrong. I'll sometimes were bored don't have enough time know all are from all. I don't really want to bother God is just a little need and then we thought about this and can stay focused if you want to remember all the things that you've never done and having done writer need done to sit down and say you know what I'm up on the pray for a little while we are going up your mind just goes and takes off while if your mind wanders, bring it back is not a reason whether the reason they continue so prior to become part on on on on our everyday activity of our everyday life and in prayer isn't necessarily stopping everything in and going away in and into your closet and Bible talks about that go against the time to go away to be away from everything, but there is prior that is just part of who we are as we think of things that we offer a prayer is like when. When someone says you know you need to pray for sellers to stop at that moment in your mind regarding you offer a prayer for that person. The guy would be with them. The goblin help them think God is moved to buy our prayers that we are to pray about whatever is on our mind. What are you thinking what are you worried about what he concerned about what he enjoys what your sorrows. What are your expectations so the idea of our prayers are that they are to be heard and that God will answer frequent prayers with the expectation on it being a two-way communication and I ever talk to someone that you never get word and advised. I'm sure you never have, but we know that we have now some people are just incessant upon their conversation while that's not what God is about, well, you know, it's like we need to remind him we already know God already knows what we have need out, but it's honest making a request and combining it with the word of God is that we know all that, that we are praying the Scriptures, that he is a very important part of our life. We pray the Scriptures that we pray the Scriptures, God gives that all things work together for good to those who love you and are called according to your purpose. So God I pray that Scripture because I don't feel this way I don't feel like things are good. So therefore I pray you would help me to understand that I is coming it all comes to a divine drive in my life so therefore I pray without expectation that God will change this so I am praying the Scriptures. I'm praying the word of God about my life about my children love our grandchildren about our neighbors about you about each of us. So when we pray the Scriptures comfort those who more gives strength to those who are weak to those who are undecided friend, give direction. You see, there is this there is a prayer that goes on, we pray for you and each other is as then as you come to our minds, so weird when we pray this in time as we pray. We recognize that God is prompting us. God is guiding us use comforting us plenty spacious space is true that you are alive to give us gives us peace and understanding. Know that God speaks to us, even when our prayers are not answered. Often we believe that what we want and how we see it is exactly how God sees and how he needs it. You know what he wants it to be generous. A child enamored with a fan with a light socket. They want to stick their finger and environment China. Remember was that your finger in a light socket. What did you do I hear of anybody wanting on sometime. I know sometimes of you in the lobby, then you know they'll know not to do it again if we don't do that. I manually wait, we don't give them about it. We don't do that, why didn't you stop in London. They do I think why they filed why you would let them do what they wanted. Sometimes we see things perfectly clear. God, I want to stick my finger in that light socket and your stopping and we talk about, we pray we want certain things in your life and God knows that it's detrimental to us are. It's not the right thing and not directly. God doesn't answer our prayers. The firm is not a magic formula that if you do the right thing say the right thing, combined with a little faith you can get whatever you want. Prayer is instead a mysterious conversation, mysterious, and I wrote that down. I was again while I was at mysterious, while generously somebody talking somebody wasn't there. What we haven't all the time. Now you have any other site I had a double faulting Senator talk away in a guy you can get one done. All I has seemingly gone by an outside London. It's like there's going to carry on a conversation in anger, not then you find out they got that thing, secondary or and and or garden somebody on the phone, but not around people who talk to be born to, and we know they're not right that the this on another shoe fits wear it. They got all but but you see how I was soon out of our conversations and in that were carrying on a conversation regarding their. He always hears us when we pray he knows our I know the intent of them are and not even pray for them with routing that we are so hurt on the inside we time innards like owning going on inside of our paying our anguish or whatever .net is a prayer. God hears things they know all those things about us in our prayer is that we get directed towards God, not just groaning about why groaning and moaning again grumbling and complaining, but we are directing it. God, I really hurt. I don't understand. I need your help. Using we limit God in our effectiveness. We limit how the gods and respond to us when we pray, Jesus said in Matthew eleven twenty four therefore I tell you whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you receive it and it will be your American amazing promise that we believe and we will receive after and will happen, but there's something more to does in these verses. Verse twenty five. It says and when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your father in heaven may also forgive your sins. Sometimes whenever we are praying. We remember people who don't like us or who have hurt us or we hurt them in the Bible saying for us. Get rid of those things take those things out of your life get so out of your life. How do we get them. Ironically forgiven melodic out of that mean we have a magic eraser, no, it means that we are dealing with the pain and grief and sorrow whenever that there are life to ten. Therefore, and a negative and a detrimental way in English thank God this was a negative. This was a thing willfully intensely dead. This you know how you were in those situations, I was gutted to think of Jesus on the cross anything on the cross and the people who beat him, but the Florence pride of thorns on him. Now the cross of Jesus and his father, forgive them for they don't know what they're doing while they willfully intend to get all the things he says father forgive them because people don't understand sometimes when they're doing something exactly what they're doing and the long-term effects of so just as maybe somebody has done that the wasp. We've done it to them, and we have to ask for forgiveness and let go of those things so that doesn't stand in the way of God blessing our life. The general said, if you are totally not a blast where your rat and everything just fell into place the way you are, would you ever think you need to change coming. Would you change if you are forced to wait alike change. I like the fun things come into our life. This force us to look at things differently and changes. Therefore, raise, and is therefore progress and so we've got to do with the way that is yelling for us, relationships, so relationships with people if you harbor on forgiveness hatred and hinders our prayers and the answer to our life. Some relationships matter. Its automotive love this. James chapter four verse three when you ask, you do not receive because last with the wrong motive, God, you know if I can win the lottery, I'll give you money. I'll help the church, but I'll be rich I motive you seek Jesus spoke about the Pharisees who offered their prayers were very long and loud and on the street corners to be seen by people and they wanted people to believe that they were spiritual, and that there was something great about them so son loves us are selfish and self-centered like the young guy. The young man who pray for this beautiful girl that you become a Christian from the church. They can cater and ask her out. Now it's a really concerned about his or her salvation always a concern about how you look walking around this one thing. Only God knows a person 's motives. Proverbs sixteen to says all a man's ways are seen innocent to him, but the motives are weighed by the Lord God knows what's going on in the inside. When we look in the mirror. We don't have to hide who we are our doubts, our fears, our failures are mistakes are questions that is ever a problem with that. Otherwise estimate upfront with only are they wanted to be up front with them. We aren't in the questions we have, and ending in the challenges that we have an in-house that we don't see how this works in. Understand all of this is in all these other good qualities of ourselves the way we live also matters when we pray. Proverbs thirty four fifteen the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and easier our attention to their cry, God knows our ways, and he knows what's going on in our heart and what hurts us faith. James one six and seven, but when he asked he must believe and not doubt because the house is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind that a man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord that whenever we are doubting the flight while in manual work, maybe it won't, but I'm a mascot. No event, and I can have this in no persistence is that we see what we need as a very important part of our life and that we are persistent in our prayers and our expectation that God will answer you see that faith is an expectations on fifteen fourteen. This is the confidence we have in approaching God. This is the confidence we have in approaching God that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. And if we know that he hears us whatever we ask, we know that we have what we asked for him. It's an expectation other expectant mothers here, though he did the weekly spin now so he is either pregnant or she's not so shared an expectant mother. I thank you very much for your volunteering to stand volunteering and thank you very much expectations are we there expected only go there is no, I don't know( and I'm not you either are or you are not expectancy is that you know what you know and it is an expectation, so you're either going to have a baby. I don't have a wildly. I think the ideas you are gone is going to answer my prayers. Now he may answer them in the way the you know the you will going back to our scriptures. We've done a couple weeks ago that his thoughts are not our thoughts and his ways are not our ways, and as high as the heavens are above the earth, so either his thoughts and his ways higher than ours. Whenever we have an expectation we think and we pray that we wanted a certain way. Often we are limiting God, and how that God wants to really answer our prayer because we only have a limited expectation. God has a way of seeing things from a whole different perspective than we do. And often when we pray we would try and limit God, and put him in a box that is not only good but good enough) is not only good is good enough if it's good enough for what I have expected or what I know in my life, and this is what I think is what I know God to do to implement in this little box and say this is all you need to answer my prayers. In order for it to be correct. God is saying you don't have enough insight and foresight and knowledge. Let me increase that for you, so unanswered prayer is not about what we get or don't get prior is a confidence that God hears and answers according to his will. My life is a gift. My life is a gift to God. He will give me everything that I need to make my life a blessing and a fulfillment of his divine purpose. God is answering our prayers. The deep intent of our practice what we really asking for what we really asking for wooden frame with a God, I want to win the lottery, what we really asking for were looking at what we feel will make a secure today and tomorrow we won't have to worry about anything so quietly forget about praying for the lottery dumpling will begin within a black but yes I do know quite what. Because God is to take care of today and tomorrow whether I have this when I consider stability or not. Besides chances of you winning no way in two hundred billion to people whom one major lotteries. I went silent at the bank. The people of one major money have been bankrupt than five years because inside of us in this crazy thing that we will spend down, down to our where we feel comfortable and so we will we will ditch. All that money in order to get back to a level that we feel comfortable, so wind up being bankrupt, but you see, God doesn't answer our prayers because and because we have what is the real motive for the answer to our. We want security. We want peace. We want the ability to look at life today and tomorrow leave a legacy for children. We want these things, then why not try about them. Why not take it to the level of need. You see, at times, prayer can change our circumstances, but more importantly prayer will always change us new and high. This person, this is what the last for eternity. This person, not the things we possess, not all the things around us, but we as an individual. That is the person that Jesus is tied for this is the person that God wants to see through this life and into the next as we have hope in this life we have hope in the life to come. And as we have hope in God today, we have hope in God 's provisions for today and for tomorrow for the righteous have never been forsaken, nor has that his children ever been out baking bread. God has a way of making away for his children. So whatever your need is whatever your challenge is take back to God in prayer with an expectation that God will answer and be open for the answer, because he probably won't meet your needs. The way you have been boxed in God will meet your need in a greater way more than you could ever imagine more than you could ever ask or think he has a way of touching our lives. Amen