Welcome to Windber PA's First Assembly of God's The Sermon Lord Teach Us To Pray by David McGee Page

This is a machine transcript of the sermon. It won't be completely accurate of what's said in the sermon.

The final Matthew chapter six verses five through eighteen. Those of you who were here thirty two weeks ago I reached this thing Scripture. So I looked on the Internet for our Windber verses in the God I knew that I use this tax. I wasn't quite sure when I had spoken before, so I found that it was thirty two weeks ago, so it's different than the thirty two weeks ago can I listen to that service. While I regret I didn't. I'm not using the same, the same approach as I did then, though the title bar says sermon today are the message that is more tedious to pray. Lord teach us to pray and those thirty some weeks ago we had a series of all five or six sermons on prayer and would think while you have it down by now. I have is one of the things that you you you always are asking or searching what would God want us to speak on what would you have for me to have the day resent I keep thinking up with the idea that you gave me the idea of prayer and number of things came along to put that in place of the drive. I've already spoken on this not too long ago, but since it was thirty two weeks ago it. The explosive smile okay but Matthew chapter six verses five through eighteen and when you come before God don't turn that into a theatrical production, either all these people make a regular shell out of their prayers hoping for stardom giving God said to the box seat. Here's what I want you to do. Find a quiet secluded place, so you won't be tempted to role-play before God just be there as simply and honestly as you can imagine it as you can manage the focus will shift from U2, God, and you will begin to sense his grace the world is full of so-called prayer warriors of old who are prayer ignorant. They're full of formulas and programs and advice, peddling techniques for getting what you want from God. Don't fall for that nonsense. This is your father, you are dealing with and he knows better than you what you need with a God like this loving you. You can pray very simply. Like this. Our father in heaven reveal who you are set the world right do what's best about so below. Keep us alive with three square meals, keep us forgiven with you and forgiving others keep us safe from ourselves and the devil. You're in charge. You can do anything you want your ablaze in beauty. Yes yes yes him Fred. There was a connection between what God does in what you do, you can get forgiveness from God. For instance, without also forgiving others. If you refuse to do your part. You cut yourself off from God 's part. When you practice some appetite denying discipline to better concentrate on God. Don't make a production out of it. It might turn you into a smalltime celebrity, but it won't make you with saying if you go into training inwardly I normally outwardly shampooing: your hair brush your teeth, wash her face. God doesn't require attention getting devices he won't overlook what you are doing you reward you well. So when we think of prayer. ;-) I think Parcells 's pupils that we are students and of course students need teachers while we has the students. God is the teacher, God and Milton Holy Spirit with us as the teacher and the word of God, the Scripture is the/ so we are using our relationship with God using the Scripture memory. I'm allowing the Holy Spirit to speak to a high and so that we will be able to pray. Now I'm imagine every one of us appraised right and everyone is anyone you never prayed. Okay thank you how would you define then what prayer is if you look at your life and you look at your prayers. What would it be the file could you define what was right down on a piece of paper and say a prayer is not asking the state a while, but in your own mind. What would be to define prayer. What would you call it or say it in some instances since we could call it simply just talking with God, but so hardly the way talk with God. How then do you approach God who knows everything, and you approach God who is all powerful everywhere present, who knows the thoughts and intentions of your heart. How are you going to be able to pray about something in which he knows you still intimately. He knows whether your car trying to con him or trying to get what you want trying to feed your appetite or how do we pray how do you talk with God while I highlighted sometimes no. I think back to buddy of older individuals. Remember John John, who was President Kennedy 's new boy and how that he would walk into the White House and into the normal office and ease about one oh three or four years old time and I was remember this picture of him walking into the Oval Office and here's this little boy walking into the Oval Office of the present of the United States and like he belonged there. And for us it that same concept we belong there. We belong in a conversation with God. So there are many things that come into wildlife and try to challenge us that when I'm good enough for that God 's not listening to us or that our prayers are never going again answered, never, never get out above the roof got to hear me. If you believe along there and we belong with our father in that place of communion with him. Why would we feel that we don't belong. Why would we feel inadequate. Why would we feel that what we have to say is not important. Québec becomes the villain of our lives in the one who would try and rob us on our position and our position as one of being in the presence of God, and talking to him about what's going on in our life, because we belong to. There are principles. There are outlines and these things are important as we will go through, the outline is in the works. Prayer meetings are important, but all that must be integrated into who we are all must be integrated into who you are as a person. You don't have to be like the pastor or life somebody on TV or like something you read in the book in order to offer the correct prayer are for our our conversations with God about our life, the good the bad the ugly the best and worst bizarre conversation with God. So let's look at verse five, and in this section here in Matthew, you must train your knees praying our worship are presentations, our desires and put them before the first five and when you come before God, there is that statement when you come there is an understanding that you are going to pray it is an understanding that is presented here in the gospel that we are going to pray when you come not, if you come when you come, don't turn it into a theatrical production. All these people making a regular shell of their prayers hoping for stardom. You'd think the gods that the box seat. We've all heard the dog be like the hypocrites, and a hypocrite is another word for actor. So here we have anything. James, this is don't be a hypocrite and what it's saying here in the message Bible is to be an actor don't feel like you have to put on a performance like God is sitting up there in the box seat. He has a special seat watching you perform your prayer giver. If you like. I've got a video and an comment like that I think is in the big illustration of this years the Pharisees and the Sadducees that they were individuals that were religious leaders in the community and they were dressed in their very expensive robes and a rebel on the street corners, and while they were on the street corners, but with a Weber have these flamboyant Frierson loud prayers to God yelling out to God, so that everybody would see them and what they were doing was performing. They were performing for the people around, they didn't want to necessarily think that God was going to answer their prayers. They just wanted people to pay attention to them, and how holy and righteous. They were and what kind of clothes they had how rich they were things like that, and that the gospel. Here's telling us don't think that you have to be a performer on a stage in order to hear God Fred water forgot to hear your press so that you think God 's will think that God sits in a box seat in the theater. State action God is the rate your performance when you know that was the real performance David wow, what a prayer in Mister Franken. I just like to hear you say those words, God is a game that goes on verse six is what I want you to do is to find a quiet secluded place, so you won't be tempted to role-play before God find a place where you don't have to play the role of a Christian. You don't have to play the role of someone in need. Wanting to get the attention of God go there to find a quiet place where you're not tempted to be afraid of the critics who would scoff at your prayer in public and then pray you pray you, I know you, you pray with God knows and sees the sacred places of our life, and it is here in the sacred places, rather than in the sacred places trying to do things wrong in the secret places we want to do things right, and if there that we pray just be there as simply and as honestly as you can amend as you can manage. Be there in the secret place as sampling and is honestly I don't know saying kids keep it simple stupid. What I would only do that with our prayers. The long and very waste and keep it simple and honest on this say what you're thinking. Say what you're feeling discussed the idea of when God. The focus will shift and this is the key point, the focus will shift from you to draw for it isn't about you and it isn't about me. It's about God working in us anything about our problems and difficulties were facing. It's about the answer. The God is going to bring to those problems, and to those situations so as we are in this quiet place with God were being simple and honest. We know that make up words impressive simple and honest, and the attention it goes from me to draw it is and how big our problem is a topic. God is, how great God is to work in our lives. Please see our our first then, is how much how great God is in our lives begin to sense his grace, not our merit, you know. I've been good. I've done this. I've done it for. Be sincere and honest, and recognize that it's his grades, his mercy that is that we are there or seven thirteen. The world is full of so-called prayer warriors who are prayer ignorant. These are individuals that are full of formulas and programs. They are individuals who know to say the Lord 's prayer five times in your digit answer and reprinted take this e-mail that you just received and send it to twenty people, and God will answer your prayer. You will receive one hundred dollars in the mail. If you do this in the next five if you will say this prayer for you. I remember seeing those e-mails. If you say this prayer guide your answers are in, you know you do what you wanted to. And if you don't send this guy to get you into what we do on his beginning what to say right here. The Scripture even before computers came in and e-mails and all that stuff. Wherever you try here. People who are full of formulas and programs and advice, peddling techniques for getting what you want from God. If you just do what I tell you this little e-mail you will get from you will get what you want from God. And if you don't use the punishment shelving in the Bible where that's true and if you will just send it to hundred people, you're bound to get what you want for ignorant people think. Don't fall for that nonsense. I say that in here as I narrated it to say that there don't fall for that nonsense. ) if you rated what to say that all fall for that nonsense don't be like that. This is your father who you are dealing with. This is your father. This is your file manager dealing with and he knows better than you what you need with a God like this loving you. You can pray very simply, you see, it's your father you're dealing with. I know you better than you know yourself. I know what you have enough. And in the reason that we pray is that if we don't pray we don't have Scott will come up with the assumption of good. I did this on my own. I only got devices. I didn't write about this. I got this right. all about me, not about us. The focus changes from us to God and God is working in our life in the car and he understood these must have a right understanding of God that God is not out to get us does not bring us and I think their forces out right down the list of condemnation and guilty things that you've done wrong, God is there to forgive us and to allow our relationship with him to complete us. We are to be complete in Christ Bible said to be make perfect department doesn't mean without flaw. But when Christ comes into our life, he forgives us and we are complete in him complete. Now with that completeness we live our life. We bring our needs. The God that he is at work in my life changed me from the inside out. God can give. Before we ask God can give more than we asked he can withhold you can hold back because he knows there is a divine timing. There is a timing in which things take place and we don't understand the timing. We don't understand why things happen the way they do. But we know that God is with us and he will take us through Romans eight twenty six and twenty eight. I want to throw this one in here. Meanwhile, the moment we get tired of waiting God 's Spirit is right alongside helping us along very important that we understand this whenever we pray don't become tired and waiting to become weary in well doing, in due season reap a harvest if you don't the message Bible says the moment we get tired in the waiting God 's Spirit is right alongside helping us. It isn't about how I'm going to make God happy guys going to work with were in this together. We are complete in him, he is there with us and if we don't know how or what to pray below in the place where we are alone with God is like. I will say things are so bad, things hurt so bad. Things are so long I don't even know what to say. And here Paul is saying to the church of Rome. It doesn't matter God. He dies are praying in us and for us. How making prayer out of our wordless sighs. We are in this place, this quiet place and I don't even know what to say but I'm focused on God. God is what that was a prayer. God knows what the site is about God knows what the need is he. Our aching groans he knows her prayers. He understands us. He knows us far better than we know ourselves. He knows arthritis condition, ladies, I'm a number of those God knows your pregnant condition that the worried that go along with them. Giving birth. I know that anything is present before God. That's why we can be so sure that every detail of our lives on love for God is worked into something good. God is at work, working all things together for good to those who love God and are called according to his purpose but in this one is saying we can be sure that every detail in our lives and our love for God is being worked out. So here we are in our client place with our prayers that we can't even formulate in our thoughts just in its sole out of sorts and in our groanings. They are prayers and in those groanings. We know that God is working out every detail. Our father in heaven. You know, Jesus says, brings that out as our father. He doesn't say my father because our father and in heaven member Rita sang this song wonders beyond our galaxy, Lord of heaven and earth, Lord of you look at Singapore euros, while not on worship the Lord of heaven and earth are our prayers wise of all the cares and needs of this life. Our father who art in heaven, see our news in our life. We think we can become so focused on our temporal things and the things around us. We lose focus on our prayers are towards God, who in and he was yet is in heaven of work, else what is in our heart is in heaven. It's a perfect place of the holy place. It's a place where God 's will has no objection he sees us and knows our voice, our father who art in heaven hallowed be thy name that the name of God is reverence on our lips, no inmate in the Jewish custom. It is in and in the Jewish religion. It is forbidden to even name the name of God is forbidden to say his name the singer to send only say in his holy name in our lives. We are praying and we can, and his name is referenced in our lives to the point that when someone would use his name in vain. It would hurt us because we know that the holy and sacred reveal who you are my kingdom come, thy will be done reveal who you are, the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Your will be done in earth, your will be done in my life as it is in heaven. I am in this place I am in this quiet place, God, let your will be done in me reveal who you are through your words. Prayer is personal. It is a formula for heart to say what we are thinking and feeling set the world right by will be done. God do your thing in the do your will in the set the world right do what's best, as above so below below thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Let nothing stand in your way. It's a personal prayer, Lord let your will be done inner in the as it is in heaven. In heaven there are no objections to your will. There are not. There is nothing that can stop your will from being done. God let bad attitude, being me, but nothing in me. Stop your will from being accomplished. Keep us alive with three square meals. Give us this day our daily bread every day Lord God provide for my daily needs. So here I am in my prior closet. My secret place. When it's out in the woods, whether it's in the our weather is sitting on a chair in the living room. It's my place of prayer to God, and in this place. My daily provisions. God, I am confident I am praying he will take care of them, forgive us, keep us forgiven with you and forgiving others forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. Forgiveness is not an option. We must stay in an attitude of forgiveness, because whenever we don't forgive those things create blockages in our relationship with God, and it closes doors to our future, because we won't go certain places because we don't like certain people and we haven't forgiven the certain individual soul. Therefore we will not deal with those situations that perhaps through that door is where we need to go, so forgive, forgive and let it go. Forgive and let it go. Forgive us our debts as we forgive you notice that what we what we read in the verse fifteen fourteen in prayer, there is a connection between what God does and what you do is directly connected to this that there is a connection between what you do and what God does, so keep us forgiving that I can't give a forgiving myself and forgiving others keep us safe from ourselves and the devil lead us not into temptation. The drive doesn't tempt us. We are tempted by our own lusts, we are tempted by our own desires. God don't let me be led away by my selfish desires in this prayer place. I'm not putting on it. I'm not putting on a performance I'm being myself and in this place of being myself, I'm allowing God to work in the end. So keep me safe from my own temptations my own weaknesses don't allow me to be tempted. Your entire for thine is the kingdom if your kingdom in me and ended in the heaven we see that your kingdom Lord in my life and in the world around us. You can do anything you want by visiting them in thine is the power, all powers given in Jesus name. He spoke the world into existence. He can do anything he wants. You can do anything you want God working me your ablaze in beauty, the glory Isaiah chapter six, Isaiah goes into the presence of God, and false at God speak with the great beauty of God in holiness of God and the King and the message says yes yes yes forever and ever. There's no into your brain, there's no end to what you can accomplish so here I am in this place of prayer and friend. There is a connection between what God doesn't want you to do so. There is a direct connection between my prayers and what God wants to do in my life because the focus turns from me to God and God 's work bringing about his kingdom in my life. You can just you can't get forgiveness from God. For instance, without also forgiving others because forgiveness is such a major part of our life, we have to let go of our sins, and we have to let go of people who love send against us. What hurts us. If you refuse to do. You. You refuse to do your part. You cut yourself off from God 's part. I cut myself off from what God wants to do in my life because I refuse to follow through with what God is started in the when you practice some appetite denying disciplines to better consecrate on goddesses like people who would fast and pray, work, family of people who would pray for hours or whatever and dedicate themselves to reading the Scripture whenever anyone do anything. So, some appetite. Discipline don't make a production out of it. If you're going to take time to pray and you want to dedicate your life to prayer and him don't be like the Pharisees standing on the on the street corners and don't be like the other people who might turn you into a smalltime celebrity wow, they must be really praying look at them. If you go into training, inwardly where you're going to dedicate yourself to prayer act normally outwardly go put on a show is back to helping a production manager shampoo and comb your hair. If I did call the software was all give up and pray all the way down. That's not how it works. Shampoo your hair brush your teeth, wash your face God doesn't require attention-getting devices. God doesn't want you out there getting attention in San Angelo, call the attention from someone in what's supposed to happen in case of prayer, what's supposed to happen in the place of prayer. We draw attention to God, not us. So when we pray it's not about us. It's about God. He won't overlook what you're doing. God won't overlook your prayers. It will overlook your knee. He will reward you. Be faithful in your place am thankful in your time of prayer. The faithful to your place of prayer, and so I then is we have this place a quiet but secretly, for we recognize that God is our father. God is the one who watches Oval Office, he thought God was the one who successfully by Dave takes our needs are in America you are in a a will is and will will and God were to follow our will and he and will lose her house andThe final Matthew chapter six verses five through eighteen. Those of you who were here thirty two weeks ago I reached this thing Scripture. So I looked on the Internet for our Windber verses in the God I knew that I use this tax. I wasn't quite sure when I had spoken before, so I found that it was thirty two weeks ago, so it's different than the thirty two weeks ago can I listen to that service. While I regret I didn't. I'm not using the same, the same approach as I did then, though the title bar says sermon today are the message that is more tedious to pray. Lord teach us to pray and those thirty some weeks ago we had a series of all five or six sermons on prayer and would think while you have it down by now. I have is one of the things that you you you always are asking or searching what would God want us to speak on what would you have for me to have the day resent I keep thinking up with the idea that you gave me the idea of prayer and number of things came along to put that in place of the drive. I've already spoken on this not too long ago, but since it was thirty two weeks ago it. The explosive smile okay but Matthew chapter six verses five through eighteen and when you come before God don't turn that into a theatrical production, either all these people make a regular shell out of their prayers hoping for stardom giving God said to the box seat. Here's what I want you to do. Find a quiet secluded place, so you won't be tempted to role-play before God just be there as simply and honestly as you can imagine it as you can manage the focus will shift from U2, God, and you will begin to sense his grace the world is full of so-called prayer warriors of old who are prayer ignorant. They're full of formulas and programs and advice, peddling techniques for getting what you want from God. Don't fall for that nonsense. This is your father, you are dealing with and he knows better than you what you need with a God like this loving you. You can pray very simply. Like this. Our father in heaven reveal who you are set the world right do what's best about so below. Keep us alive with three square meals, keep us forgiven with you and forgiving others keep us safe from ourselves and the devil. You're in charge. You can do anything you want your ablaze in beauty. Yes yes yes him Fred. There was a connection between what God does in what you do, you can get forgiveness from God. For instance, without also forgiving others. If you refuse to do your part. You cut yourself off from God 's part. When you practice some appetite denying discipline to better concentrate on God. Don't make a production out of it. It might turn you into a smalltime celebrity, but it won't make you with saying if you go into training inwardly I normally outwardly shampooing: your hair brush your teeth, wash her face. God doesn't require attention getting devices he won't overlook what you are doing you reward you well. So when we think of prayer. ;-) I think Parcells 's pupils that we are students and of course students need teachers while we has the students. God is the teacher, God and Milton Holy Spirit with us as the teacher and the word of God, the Scripture is the/ so we are using our relationship with God using the Scripture memory. I'm allowing the Holy Spirit to speak to a high and so that we will be able to pray. Now I'm imagine every one of us appraised right and everyone is anyone you never prayed. Okay thank you how would you define then what prayer is if you look at your life and you look at your prayers. What would it be the file could you define what was right down on a piece of paper and say a prayer is not asking the state a while, but in your own mind. What would be to define prayer. What would you call it or say it in some instances since we could call it simply just talking with God, but so hardly the way talk with God. How then do you approach God who knows everything, and you approach God who is all powerful everywhere present, who knows the thoughts and intentions of your heart. How are you going to be able to pray about something in which he knows you still intimately. He knows whether your car trying to con him or trying to get what you want trying to feed your appetite or how do we pray how do you talk with God while I highlighted sometimes no. I think back to buddy of older individuals. Remember John John, who was President Kennedy 's new boy and how that he would walk into the White House and into the normal office and ease about one oh three or four years old time and I was remember this picture of him walking into the Oval Office and here's this little boy walking into the Oval Office of the present of the United States and like he belonged there. And for us it that same concept we belong there. We belong in a conversation with God. So there are many things that come into wildlife and try to challenge us that when I'm good enough for that God 's not listening to us or that our prayers are never going again answered, never, never get out above the roof got to hear me. If you believe along there and we belong with our father in that place of communion with him. Why would we feel that we don't belong. Why would we feel inadequate. Why would we feel that what we have to say is not important. Québec becomes the villain of our lives in the one who would try and rob us on our position and our position as one of being in the presence of God, and talking to him about what's going on in our life, because we belong to. There are principles. There are outlines and these things are important as we will go through, the outline is in the works. Prayer meetings are important, but all that must be integrated into who we are all must be integrated into who you are as a person. You don't have to be like the pastor or life somebody on TV or like something you read in the book in order to offer the correct prayer are for our our conversations with God about our life, the good the bad the ugly the best and worst bizarre conversation with God. So let's look at verse five, and in this section here in Matthew, you must train your knees praying our worship are presentations, our desires and put them before the first five and when you come before God, there is that statement when you come there is an understanding that you are going to pray it is an understanding that is presented here in the gospel that we are going to pray when you come not, if you come when you come, don't turn it into a theatrical production. All these people making a regular shell of their prayers hoping for stardom. You'd think the gods that the box seat. We've all heard the dog be like the hypocrites, and a hypocrite is another word for actor. So here we have anything. James, this is don't be a hypocrite and what it's saying here in the message Bible is to be an actor don't feel like you have to put on a performance like God is sitting up there in the box seat. He has a special seat watching you perform your prayer giver. If you like. I've got a video and an comment like that I think is in the big illustration of this years the Pharisees and the Sadducees that they were individuals that were religious leaders in the community and they were dressed in their very expensive robes and a rebel on the street corners, and while they were on the street corners, but with a Weber have these flamboyant Frierson loud prayers to God yelling out to God, so that everybody would see them and what they were doing was performing. They were performing for the people around, they didn't want to necessarily think that God was going to answer their prayers. They just wanted people to pay attention to them, and how holy and righteous. They were and what kind of clothes they had how rich they were things like that, and that the gospel. Here's telling us don't think that you have to be a performer on a stage in order to hear God Fred water forgot to hear your press so that you think God 's will think that God sits in a box seat in the theater. State action God is the rate your performance when you know that was the real performance David wow, what a prayer in Mister Franken. I just like to hear you say those words, God is a game that goes on verse six is what I want you to do is to find a quiet secluded place, so you won't be tempted to role-play before God find a place where you don't have to play the role of a Christian. You don't have to play the role of someone in need. Wanting to get the attention of God go there to find a quiet place where you're not tempted to be afraid of the critics who would scoff at your prayer in public and then pray you pray you, I know you, you pray with God knows and sees the sacred places of our life, and it is here in the sacred places, rather than in the sacred places trying to do things wrong in the secret places we want to do things right, and if there that we pray just be there as simply and as honestly as you can amend as you can manage. Be there in the secret place as sampling and is honestly I don't know saying kids keep it simple stupid. What I would only do that with our prayers. The long and very waste and keep it simple and honest on this say what you're thinking. Say what you're feeling discussed the idea of when God. The focus will shift and this is the key point, the focus will shift from you to draw for it isn't about you and it isn't about me. It's about God working in us anything about our problems and difficulties were facing. It's about the answer. The God is going to bring to those problems, and to those situations so as we are in this quiet place with God were being simple and honest. We know that make up words impressive simple and honest, and the attention it goes from me to draw it is and how big our problem is a topic. God is, how great God is to work in our lives. Please see our our first then, is how much how great God is in our lives begin to sense his grace, not our merit, you know. I've been good. I've done this. I've done it for. Be sincere and honest, and recognize that it's his grades, his mercy that is that we are there or seven thirteen. The world is full of so-called prayer warriors who are prayer ignorant. These are individuals that are full of formulas and programs. They are individuals who know to say the Lord 's prayer five times in your digit answer and reprinted take this e-mail that you just received and send it to twenty people, and God will answer your prayer. You will receive one hundred dollars in the mail. If you do this in the next five if you will say this prayer for you. I remember seeing those e-mails. If you say this prayer guide your answers are in, you know you do what you wanted to. And if you don't send this guy to get you into what we do on his beginning what to say right here. The Scripture even before computers came in and e-mails and all that stuff. Wherever you try here. People who are full of formulas and programs and advice, peddling techniques for getting what you want from God. If you just do what I tell you this little e-mail you will get from you will get what you want from God. And if you don't use the punishment shelving in the Bible where that's true and if you will just send it to hundred people, you're bound to get what you want for ignorant people think. Don't fall for that nonsense. I say that in here as I narrated it to say that there don't fall for that nonsense. ) if you rated what to say that all fall for that nonsense don't be like that. This is your father who you are dealing with. This is your father. This is your file manager dealing with and he knows better than you what you need with a God like this loving you. You can pray very simply, you see, it's your father you're dealing with. I know you better than you know yourself. I know what you have enough. And in the reason that we pray is that if we don't pray we don't have Scott will come up with the assumption of good. I did this on my own. I only got devices. I didn't write about this. I got this right. all about me, not about us. The focus changes from us to God and God is working in our life in the car and he understood these must have a right understanding of God that God is not out to get us does not bring us and I think their forces out right down the list of condemnation and guilty things that you've done wrong, God is there to forgive us and to allow our relationship with him to complete us. We are to be complete in Christ Bible said to be make perfect department doesn't mean without flaw. But when Christ comes into our life, he forgives us and we are complete in him complete. Now with that completeness we live our life. We bring our needs. The God that he is at work in my life changed me from the inside out. God can give. Before we ask God can give more than we asked he can withhold you can hold back because he knows there is a divine timing. There is a timing in which things take place and we don't understand the timing. We don't understand why things happen the way they do. But we know that God is with us and he will take us through Romans eight twenty six and twenty eight. I want to throw this one in here. Meanwhile, the moment we get tired of waiting God 's Spirit is right alongside helping us along very important that we understand this whenever we pray don't become tired and waiting to become weary in well doing, in due season reap a harvest if you don't the message Bible says the moment we get tired in the waiting God 's Spirit is right alongside helping us. It isn't about how I'm going to make God happy guys going to work with were in this together. We are complete in him, he is there with us and if we don't know how or what to pray below in the place where we are alone with God is like. I will say things are so bad, things hurt so bad. Things are so long I don't even know what to say. And here Paul is saying to the church of Rome. It doesn't matter God. He dies are praying in us and for us. How making prayer out of our wordless sighs. We are in this place, this quiet place and I don't even know what to say but I'm focused on God. God is what that was a prayer. God knows what the site is about God knows what the need is he. Our aching groans he knows her prayers. He understands us. He knows us far better than we know ourselves. He knows arthritis condition, ladies, I'm a number of those God knows your pregnant condition that the worried that go along with them. Giving birth. I know that anything is present before God. That's why we can be so sure that every detail of our lives on love for God is worked into something good. God is at work, working all things together for good to those who love God and are called according to his purpose but in this one is saying we can be sure that every detail in our lives and our love for God is being worked out. So here we are in our client place with our prayers that we can't even formulate in our thoughts just in its sole out of sorts and in our groanings. They are prayers and in those groanings. We know that God is working out every detail. Our father in heaven. You know, Jesus says, brings that out as our father. He doesn't say my father because our father and in heaven member Rita sang this song wonders beyond our galaxy, Lord of heaven and earth, Lord of you look at Singapore euros, while not on worship the Lord of heaven and earth are our prayers wise of all the cares and needs of this life. Our father who art in heaven, see our news in our life. We think we can become so focused on our temporal things and the things around us. We lose focus on our prayers are towards God, who in and he was yet is in heaven of work, else what is in our heart is in heaven. It's a perfect place of the holy place. It's a place where God 's will has no objection he sees us and knows our voice, our father who art in heaven hallowed be thy name that the name of God is reverence on our lips, no inmate in the Jewish custom. It is in and in the Jewish religion. It is forbidden to even name the name of God is forbidden to say his name the singer to send only say in his holy name in our lives. We are praying and we can, and his name is referenced in our lives to the point that when someone would use his name in vain. It would hurt us because we know that the holy and sacred reveal who you are my kingdom come, thy will be done reveal who you are, the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Your will be done in earth, your will be done in my life as it is in heaven. I am in this place I am in this quiet place, God, let your will be done in me reveal who you are through your words. Prayer is personal. It is a formula for heart to say what we are thinking and feeling set the world right by will be done. God do your thing in the do your will in the set the world right do what's best, as above so below below thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Let nothing stand in your way. It's a personal prayer, Lord let your will be done inner in the as it is in heaven. In heaven there are no objections to your will. There are not. There is nothing that can stop your will from being done. God let bad attitude, being me, but nothing in me. Stop your will from being accomplished. Keep us alive with three square meals. Give us this day our daily bread every day Lord God provide for my daily needs. So here I am in my prior closet. My secret place. When it's out in the woods, whether it's in the our weather is sitting on a chair in the living room. It's my place of prayer to God, and in this place. My daily provisions. God, I am confident I am praying he will take care of them, forgive us, keep us forgiven with you and forgiving others forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. Forgiveness is not an option. We must stay in an attitude of forgiveness, because whenever we don't forgive those things create blockages in our relationship with God, and it closes doors to our future, because we won't go certain places because we don't like certain people and we haven't forgiven the certain individual soul. Therefore we will not deal with those situations that perhaps through that door is where we need to go, so forgive, forgive and let it go. Forgive and let it go. Forgive us our debts as we forgive you notice that what we what we read in the verse fifteen fourteen in prayer, there is a connection between what God does and what you do is directly connected to this that there is a connection between what you do and what God does, so keep us forgiving that I can't give a forgiving myself and forgiving others keep us safe from ourselves and the devil lead us not into temptation. The drive doesn't tempt us. We are tempted by our own lusts, we are tempted by our own desires. God don't let me be led away by my selfish desires in this prayer place. I'm not putting on it. I'm not putting on a performance I'm being myself and in this place of being myself, I'm allowing God to work in the end. So keep me safe from my own temptations my own weaknesses don't allow me to be tempted. Your entire for thine is the kingdom if your kingdom in me and ended in the heaven we see that your kingdom Lord in my life and in the world around us. You can do anything you want by visiting them in thine is the power, all powers given in Jesus name. He spoke the world into existence. He can do anything he wants. You can do anything you want God working me your ablaze in beauty, the glory Isaiah chapter six, Isaiah goes into the presence of God, and false at God speak with the great beauty of God in holiness of God and the King and the message says yes yes yes forever and ever. There's no into your brain, there's no end to what you can accomplish so here I am in this place of prayer and friend. There is a connection between what God doesn't want you to do so. There is a direct connection between my prayers and what God wants to do in my life because the focus turns from me to God and God 's work bringing about his kingdom in my life. You can just you can't get forgiveness from God. For instance, without also forgiving others because forgiveness is such a major part of our life, we have to let go of our sins, and we have to let go of people who love send against us. What hurts us. If you refuse to do. You. You refuse to do your part. You cut yourself off from God 's part. I cut myself off from what God wants to do in my life because I refuse to follow through with what God is started in the when you practice some appetite denying disciplines to better consecrate on goddesses like people who would fast and pray, work, family of people who would pray for hours or whatever and dedicate themselves to reading the Scripture whenever anyone do anything. So, some appetite. Discipline don't make a production out of it. If you're going to take time to pray and you want to dedicate your life to prayer and him don't be like the Pharisees standing on the on the street corners and don't be like the other people who might turn you into a smalltime celebrity wow, they must be really praying look at them. If you go into training, inwardly where you're going to dedicate yourself to prayer act normally outwardly go put on a show is back to helping a production manager shampoo and comb your hair. If I did call the software was all give up and pray all the way down. That's not how it works. Shampoo your hair brush your teeth, wash your face God doesn't require attention-getting devices. God doesn't want you out there getting attention in San Angelo, call the attention from someone in what's supposed to happen in case of prayer, what's supposed to happen in the place of prayer. We draw attention to God, not us. So when we pray it's not about us. It's about God. He won't overlook what you're doing. God won't overlook your prayers. It will overlook your knee. He will reward you. Be faithful in your place am thankful in your time of prayer. The faithful to your place of prayer, and so I then is we have this place a quiet but secretly, for we recognize that God is our father. God is the one who watches Oval Office, he thought God was the one who successfully by Dave takes our needs are in America you are in a a will is and will will and God were to follow our will and he and will lose her house and