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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome to simple man sermons, the preachings of
a simple man called by God to share the good
news of Jesus Christ. Today, I'd like to talk about prayer,
in different forms of prayer. We all know that we
(00:20):
should pray. This is nothing news, this is not a revelation,
but understanding that it is a core part of our
Christian walk, how are we to do it? And how
are different ways we can do it? By God's grace.
That's what we'll look into today and get some clarification
or a good, healthy reminder. Now I'm gonna start with
(00:42):
a very clear example because Jesus's desight, Jesus's disciples ask
him how ought we to pray or how should we pray?
Let's look at that in the Gospel of Luke, chapter eleven.
Now it came to pass as he was praying in
a certain place when he ceased, that one of his
disciples said to him, Lord, teach us to pray, as
(01:07):
John also taught his disciples. So he said to them,
when you pray, say our Father in heaven, hallowed be
your name, your Kingdom. Come. Your will be done on
earth as it is in heaven. Give us day by
day our daily bread, and forgive us of our sins,
(01:28):
for we also forgive everyone who is indebted to us,
and do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us
from the evil one. I also find the Lord's prayer
in Matthew chapter six, but that one very clearly has
his disciples coming to him and asking how do we pray?
And I think there's two parts to this. Very clearly,
(01:49):
you can pray exactly that exactly those words, could learn
it and the ancient Greek you could learn it in
ancient Hebrew. You could learn it in English and just
recite it, and there's nothing wrong with that. I don't
think you would ever be a fault for doing what
Jesus tells you to do. I don't think that it
(02:13):
well clearly not scriptural because look at all the other
prayers in scripture. You have to only pray the Lord's prayer,
because there's a lot of other prayer in scripture, righteous
prayer and scripture that is not this. But we see
some core concepts in the Lord's prayer. Almighty God in heaven,
(02:33):
Father in Heaven, he is above, we are beneath here
to remember that and give reverence and fear to God,
what is the conclusion, or let us hear the conclusion
of the whole matter. Fear God and keep his commandments,
a fear, a reverence and respect for God. He is God,
the one and only. We see this here hallowed be
(02:56):
your name, where to keep his name holy? We see
several the first of the ten commandments in this first
part of the Lord's prayer. And then your Kingdom come.
Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
We are praying for God's will to be done on earth,
for God's designed to be furthered on earth, not ours.
(03:19):
His First there's time to pray for requests. We'll get
to that, But first and foremost we should be praying
that God's will is done above our own right. Look
at Jesus in the garden, not mine, but your will
be done. We see that here Your will be done
on earth as it is in heaven. Give us day
(03:39):
by day our daily bread, daily this prayers, and to
win the lottery so you can buy enough bread to
store it in the storehouse. Oh, you're so much grain,
like the rich fool. But then we have our daily bread.
It reminds me of Proverbs thirty give me neither pop
(04:00):
pretty nor riches. Feed me with the food allotted to me.
At least I be full and deny you and say
who is the Lord? Or at least I be poor
and steal and profane the name of my God, praying
for our daily bread. And let us remember man does
not lived by bread alone. You can literally be praying
for your daily bread. And many Christians throughout history and
still today are hungry. A lot of us are spoiled
(04:23):
here in the year of our Lord twenty twenty five
in America, if that's where you're listening, and it's not
really a concern for us getting our daily bread. A
lot of people are often concerned with getting too much bread.
But for many people that's not an abstract thing. It
is very literally. They're hungry and they need to eat.
(04:45):
And forgive us our sins. That one's pretty clear, right.
Without forgiveness, we're damned. We're doomed, for all have sinned
and fallen short of the glory of God. And forgive
us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who is
indebted to us. To remind me of another key verse
(05:07):
in the Gospels, these are read letters for if you
forgive men their trespasses. Your heavenly father will also forgive you.
But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither
will your father forgive your trespasses. It's a Matthew six.
It's pretty clear here. For if you forgive men their trespasses,
(05:31):
your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you
do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your father
forgive your trespasses. Now I recall I don't even remember
what podcast it was. It was when podcasts were early
on in the podcast days. It was a testimony of
somebody who had survived the concentration camp and his family
(05:52):
maybe all or most had been killed. He had been
tortured unspeakably, and he talked to me. He was a Christian,
and he talked about forgiveness, forgiving, and that he brought
up this verse, you have to It's not a maybe
I will, maybe I won't. Like you, you know that
you need forgiveness. I know that I need forgiveness. Whatever
(06:12):
that person has done to you, it pales in comparison
to how much we spit in the face of God.
You need forgiveness. You need to forgive, period. There's no
great area there, and do not lead us into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one. Satan Hacitan, the accuser.
He's looking for reasons to accuse you. He's looking to
(06:35):
trip you up. He is the accuser, the adversary. He's
looking for some accusation to bring against you before God,
and he's already got a bunch of ammunition. Don't give
him more. Pray that you be not led into temptation.
And I think we can pull any one of these
concepts with whatever wrestling with and pray them as a concept.
(06:59):
We see here many concepts. Pray that you be not
led into temptation. Pray that you can forgive. Maybe you
can't do it in your own strength. There's lots of
things you can't do in your own strength. Pray to
God that you have the strength to forgive somebody who's
really wronged you. Right any one of these concepts. You're
literally hungry. You pray for your daily bread. We pray
(07:21):
to God because he is holy, because his name is
to be worshiped, because he is to be worshiped, because
he is almighty God. We want his will to be done.
A core concepts here. There are many forms of prayer.
And these are in no particular order, but deep meaningful,
(07:45):
thoughtful prayers like where you've thought about it, you've premeditated
on it, like you've thought for quite a while about
what you want to present to God, praise, requests, thanksgiving,
and you've thought about it deeply and mindfully. And those
are great prayers and we should not shy away from those.
(08:08):
I think there is a time for that, or you
might think about it for a long long time, very
very thoughtful, if you have to explain a whole situation,
not that God doesn't already know it, but we grow
in a relationship through prayer. How good a relationship would
you have with your wife or your child if you
never talk to them, and if you thought you understood,
(08:31):
or you talk to them sometimes you can just chat.
Sometimes in any deep relationship, there's time for a deep,
meaningful conversation that you've thought out, hopefully very well. I
think there is a time for those prayers. There are
times where you can't manage that, where I can't manage that.
(08:53):
I would call these to crying out and despair prayers.
These are my own terms. We see in the Bible.
We see these often in the Psalms. I just turned
to the Psalms, and the first page I opened to
just happened to be forty. Do not withhold your tender
mercies from me, Oh Lord, let your loving kindness and
your truth continually preserve me. For innumerable evils have surrounded me.
(09:17):
My iniquities have overtaken me so that I am not
able to look up. They are more than the hairs
of my head. Therefore my heart fails me. Be pleased,
O Lord, to deliver me, O Lord, make haste to
help me. I just turn to that in the Psalms.
You'll find many others like that. There is a time
for crying out in despair. Who better to go to
(09:40):
when you're in despair than God? When you're depressed, when
you're lonely, when you're angry. It's never a mistake to
go to God. There's some things you shouldn't do, profane
the name of the Lord and things like that, but
if you're honestly struggling, it's never a mistake to go
to God. Going to God is always the right answer.
(10:01):
He has all the answers, and he's the only one
that does so. The crying out in despair prayers alongest lime.
Paul talks about groaning in the spirit. This is from
Romans eight. In the same way, the spirit helps us
in our weakness. We do not know what we ought
to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us
(10:23):
through wordless groans. There are times we don't even know
what we're supposed to be praying for. We just know
something's not right and we feel not at peace. And
again God already knows it. So there's a point to
be made here that Paul's making to pray even when
you don't know what the right thing is. Pray even
(10:44):
when you don't know, but you know you need to
go to God, but you don't know exactly what the
course of action is or what you should even say,
or you're in too much pain to say anything or
think anything. Pretty sure, Paul was acquainted with this. He
was shipwrecked, he was beaten time. It is busily he
had already been through I don't know how many beatings
in shipwrecks and on the run for his life. Just
(11:09):
because you don't know exactly what to say doesn't mean
you shouldn't go to God. Again. This is not a
theological act by any denomination. Category of prayer, but I'm
gonna call them kind of my go to prayers. My background,
I'm a military man, law enforcement, private security contracting. I've
(11:30):
been a professional gunfighter in one way or another most
of my adult life. I still am a private security contractor.
One of my go to prayers is Blessed be the Lord,
my rock, who trains my hands for war and my
fingers for battle. You'll find that in Second Samuel, and
you'll find that in the Psalms Exodus fifteen. The Lord
is a man of war. He makes my feet like
(11:53):
the feet of ADERI sets me on high places. He
teaches my hands to make war so that my arms
can bend a bow of bronze. Those are scriptural. I
pray those because they are a scripture. There are several
that I have that aren't a real simple one that
I have is just getting down on my knees, getting
prostrating myself, putting my face down and saying, Lord, I
(12:19):
pray for wisdom and strength, spirit, soul, mind and body.
Or even simpler, Lord, I pray for wisdom and strength,
or another one that I often pray, Lord, I pray
that you keep me on the path, keep me on
the path. It's so easy. Narrow and difficult is the way.
There are few who find it so easy to get
(12:41):
off the path. I pray that God keeps me on
the path. And those are just examples for me. They
may or may not be applicable to you, but I
think you should have some go to prayers. One other
thing that I would say is beware of hasty words
before God. Ecclesiastes, chapter five. Do not be quick with
(13:02):
your mouth. Do not be hasty in your heart to
utter anything before God. God is in heaven and you
are on earth, So let your words be few. Your
words have power. That's kind of the point of prayer
you made in the image of God. Now your words
don't do the same thing that God's words do. God
created the heavens and the earth with words, but your words.
(13:23):
You ought to be a man of your word, to
be careful what you utter hastily. It's always our right
answer going pray to God. But some things obviously are
sinful and not permitted. Obviously, never pray for sin. I
shouldn't have to say that, But like, never pray like
you can commit adultery with some woman you're coveting, You
(13:46):
should never ever pray for that, pray for deliverance out
of that temptation. Obviously, there are some wrong things to pray, obviously, blasphemy,
blaspheming the name of the Lord, that's a sin. You
should never do that. There are certain wrong things in prayer,
But there is no wrong time to pray. I don't
see that anywhere in scripture. There are many kinds of prayer.
(14:08):
And again, like any other relationship, what deep, meaningful relationship
do you have with any person that you don't talk to? Now,
some people you may just get more and you may
not have to talk to him as much to explain things,
but you still talk to them. How much more your
heavenly Father, slow to anger and rich in mercy, who
created you, who made you the way that you are,
(14:31):
who knows everything about you more than you know yourself.
How much more should we go and talk to him?
Pray to him? Prayers of thanksgiving, prayers of worship, prayers
of request, crying out in pain, many kinds of prayer.
(14:53):
Let us not neglect our prayer life. Thanks for listening,
and have a blessed day,
Hello, and welcome to simple man sermons, the preachings of
a simple man called by God to share the good
news of Jesus Christ. Today, I'd like to talk about prayer,
in different forms of prayer. We all know that we
(00:20):
should pray. This is nothing news, this is not a revelation,
but understanding that it is a core part of our
Christian walk, how are we to do it? And how
are different ways we can do it? By God's grace.
That's what we'll look into today and get some clarification
or a good, healthy reminder. Now I'm gonna start with
(00:42):
a very clear example because Jesus's desight, Jesus's disciples ask
him how ought we to pray or how should we pray?
Let's look at that in the Gospel of Luke, chapter eleven.
Now it came to pass as he was praying in
a certain place when he ceased, that one of his
disciples said to him, Lord, teach us to pray, as
(01:07):
John also taught his disciples. So he said to them,
when you pray, say our Father in heaven, hallowed be
your name, your Kingdom. Come. Your will be done on
earth as it is in heaven. Give us day by
day our daily bread, and forgive us of our sins,
(01:28):
for we also forgive everyone who is indebted to us,
and do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us
from the evil one. I also find the Lord's prayer
in Matthew chapter six, but that one very clearly has
his disciples coming to him and asking how do we pray?
And I think there's two parts to this. Very clearly,
(01:49):
you can pray exactly that exactly those words, could learn
it and the ancient Greek you could learn it in
ancient Hebrew. You could learn it in English and just
recite it, and there's nothing wrong with that. I don't
think you would ever be a fault for doing what
Jesus tells you to do. I don't think that it
(02:13):
well clearly not scriptural because look at all the other
prayers in scripture. You have to only pray the Lord's prayer,
because there's a lot of other prayer in scripture, righteous
prayer and scripture that is not this. But we see
some core concepts in the Lord's prayer. Almighty God in heaven,
(02:33):
Father in Heaven, he is above, we are beneath here
to remember that and give reverence and fear to God,
what is the conclusion, or let us hear the conclusion
of the whole matter. Fear God and keep his commandments,
a fear, a reverence and respect for God. He is God,
the one and only. We see this here hallowed be
(02:56):
your name, where to keep his name holy? We see
several the first of the ten commandments in this first
part of the Lord's prayer. And then your Kingdom come.
Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
We are praying for God's will to be done on earth,
for God's designed to be furthered on earth, not ours.
(03:19):
His First there's time to pray for requests. We'll get
to that, But first and foremost we should be praying
that God's will is done above our own right. Look
at Jesus in the garden, not mine, but your will
be done. We see that here Your will be done
on earth as it is in heaven. Give us day
(03:39):
by day our daily bread, daily this prayers, and to
win the lottery so you can buy enough bread to
store it in the storehouse. Oh, you're so much grain,
like the rich fool. But then we have our daily bread.
It reminds me of Proverbs thirty give me neither pop
(04:00):
pretty nor riches. Feed me with the food allotted to me.
At least I be full and deny you and say
who is the Lord? Or at least I be poor
and steal and profane the name of my God, praying
for our daily bread. And let us remember man does
not lived by bread alone. You can literally be praying
for your daily bread. And many Christians throughout history and
still today are hungry. A lot of us are spoiled
(04:23):
here in the year of our Lord twenty twenty five
in America, if that's where you're listening, and it's not
really a concern for us getting our daily bread. A
lot of people are often concerned with getting too much bread.
But for many people that's not an abstract thing. It
is very literally. They're hungry and they need to eat.
(04:45):
And forgive us our sins. That one's pretty clear, right.
Without forgiveness, we're damned. We're doomed, for all have sinned
and fallen short of the glory of God. And forgive
us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who is
indebted to us. To remind me of another key verse
(05:07):
in the Gospels, these are read letters for if you
forgive men their trespasses. Your heavenly father will also forgive you.
But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither
will your father forgive your trespasses. It's a Matthew six.
It's pretty clear here. For if you forgive men their trespasses,
(05:31):
your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you
do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your father
forgive your trespasses. Now I recall I don't even remember
what podcast it was. It was when podcasts were early
on in the podcast days. It was a testimony of
somebody who had survived the concentration camp and his family
(05:52):
maybe all or most had been killed. He had been
tortured unspeakably, and he talked to me. He was a Christian,
and he talked about forgiveness, forgiving, and that he brought
up this verse, you have to It's not a maybe
I will, maybe I won't. Like you, you know that
you need forgiveness. I know that I need forgiveness. Whatever
(06:12):
that person has done to you, it pales in comparison
to how much we spit in the face of God.
You need forgiveness. You need to forgive, period. There's no
great area there, and do not lead us into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one. Satan Hacitan, the accuser.
He's looking for reasons to accuse you. He's looking to
(06:35):
trip you up. He is the accuser, the adversary. He's
looking for some accusation to bring against you before God,
and he's already got a bunch of ammunition. Don't give
him more. Pray that you be not led into temptation.
And I think we can pull any one of these
concepts with whatever wrestling with and pray them as a concept.
(06:59):
We see here many concepts. Pray that you be not
led into temptation. Pray that you can forgive. Maybe you
can't do it in your own strength. There's lots of
things you can't do in your own strength. Pray to
God that you have the strength to forgive somebody who's
really wronged you. Right any one of these concepts. You're
literally hungry. You pray for your daily bread. We pray
(07:21):
to God because he is holy, because his name is
to be worshiped, because he is to be worshiped, because
he is almighty God. We want his will to be done.
A core concepts here. There are many forms of prayer.
And these are in no particular order, but deep meaningful,
(07:45):
thoughtful prayers like where you've thought about it, you've premeditated
on it, like you've thought for quite a while about
what you want to present to God, praise, requests, thanksgiving,
and you've thought about it deeply and mindfully. And those
are great prayers and we should not shy away from those.
(08:08):
I think there is a time for that, or you
might think about it for a long long time, very
very thoughtful, if you have to explain a whole situation,
not that God doesn't already know it, but we grow
in a relationship through prayer. How good a relationship would
you have with your wife or your child if you
never talk to them, and if you thought you understood,
(08:31):
or you talk to them sometimes you can just chat.
Sometimes in any deep relationship, there's time for a deep,
meaningful conversation that you've thought out, hopefully very well. I
think there is a time for those prayers. There are
times where you can't manage that, where I can't manage that.
(08:53):
I would call these to crying out and despair prayers.
These are my own terms. We see in the Bible.
We see these often in the Psalms. I just turned
to the Psalms, and the first page I opened to
just happened to be forty. Do not withhold your tender
mercies from me, Oh Lord, let your loving kindness and
your truth continually preserve me. For innumerable evils have surrounded me.
(09:17):
My iniquities have overtaken me so that I am not
able to look up. They are more than the hairs
of my head. Therefore my heart fails me. Be pleased,
O Lord, to deliver me, O Lord, make haste to
help me. I just turn to that in the Psalms.
You'll find many others like that. There is a time
for crying out in despair. Who better to go to
(09:40):
when you're in despair than God? When you're depressed, when
you're lonely, when you're angry. It's never a mistake to
go to God. There's some things you shouldn't do, profane
the name of the Lord and things like that, but
if you're honestly struggling, it's never a mistake to go
to God. Going to God is always the right answer.
(10:01):
He has all the answers, and he's the only one
that does so. The crying out in despair prayers alongest lime.
Paul talks about groaning in the spirit. This is from
Romans eight. In the same way, the spirit helps us
in our weakness. We do not know what we ought
to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us
(10:23):
through wordless groans. There are times we don't even know
what we're supposed to be praying for. We just know
something's not right and we feel not at peace. And
again God already knows it. So there's a point to
be made here that Paul's making to pray even when
you don't know what the right thing is. Pray even
(10:44):
when you don't know, but you know you need to
go to God, but you don't know exactly what the
course of action is or what you should even say,
or you're in too much pain to say anything or
think anything. Pretty sure, Paul was acquainted with this. He
was shipwrecked, he was beaten time. It is busily he
had already been through I don't know how many beatings
in shipwrecks and on the run for his life. Just
(11:09):
because you don't know exactly what to say doesn't mean
you shouldn't go to God. Again. This is not a
theological act by any denomination. Category of prayer, but I'm
gonna call them kind of my go to prayers. My background,
I'm a military man, law enforcement, private security contracting. I've
(11:30):
been a professional gunfighter in one way or another most
of my adult life. I still am a private security contractor.
One of my go to prayers is Blessed be the Lord,
my rock, who trains my hands for war and my
fingers for battle. You'll find that in Second Samuel, and
you'll find that in the Psalms Exodus fifteen. The Lord
is a man of war. He makes my feet like
(11:53):
the feet of ADERI sets me on high places. He
teaches my hands to make war so that my arms
can bend a bow of bronze. Those are scriptural. I
pray those because they are a scripture. There are several
that I have that aren't a real simple one that
I have is just getting down on my knees, getting
prostrating myself, putting my face down and saying, Lord, I
(12:19):
pray for wisdom and strength, spirit, soul, mind and body.
Or even simpler, Lord, I pray for wisdom and strength,
or another one that I often pray, Lord, I pray
that you keep me on the path, keep me on
the path. It's so easy. Narrow and difficult is the way.
There are few who find it so easy to get
(12:41):
off the path. I pray that God keeps me on
the path. And those are just examples for me. They
may or may not be applicable to you, but I
think you should have some go to prayers. One other
thing that I would say is beware of hasty words
before God. Ecclesiastes, chapter five. Do not be quick with
(13:02):
your mouth. Do not be hasty in your heart to
utter anything before God. God is in heaven and you
are on earth, So let your words be few. Your
words have power. That's kind of the point of prayer
you made in the image of God. Now your words
don't do the same thing that God's words do. God
created the heavens and the earth with words, but your words.
(13:23):
You ought to be a man of your word, to
be careful what you utter hastily. It's always our right
answer going pray to God. But some things obviously are
sinful and not permitted. Obviously, never pray for sin. I
shouldn't have to say that, But like, never pray like
you can commit adultery with some woman you're coveting, You
(13:46):
should never ever pray for that, pray for deliverance out
of that temptation. Obviously, there are some wrong things to pray, obviously, blasphemy,
blaspheming the name of the Lord, that's a sin. You
should never do that. There are certain wrong things in prayer,
But there is no wrong time to pray. I don't
see that anywhere in scripture. There are many kinds of prayer.
(14:08):
And again, like any other relationship, what deep, meaningful relationship
do you have with any person that you don't talk to? Now,
some people you may just get more and you may
not have to talk to him as much to explain things,
but you still talk to them. How much more your
heavenly Father, slow to anger and rich in mercy, who
created you, who made you the way that you are,
(14:31):
who knows everything about you more than you know yourself.
How much more should we go and talk to him?
Pray to him? Prayers of thanksgiving, prayers of worship, prayers
of request, crying out in pain, many kinds of prayer.
(14:53):
Let us not neglect our prayer life. Thanks for listening,
and have a blessed day,
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