July 15, 2026 • 64 mins
The Porch explores the significance of prayer in the Christian faith through the lens of the Lord’s Prayer. It emphasizes its role as the most intimate form of communion with God, drawing from the Lord’s teachings and scriptural examples to illustrate that prayer is not merely a ritual, but a heartfelt conversation with your Heavenly Father.
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I'm Richard Grund.
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Thank you for your support, your encouragement, and your prayers.
Contact us if you need prayer. Remember we care about you,
We want to pray for you. We start out with praise.
We never enter his presence without praise and thanksgiving. So
I praise Him for my salvation, for my home, my wife,
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my family, sons, daughter in law, grandchildren, furry kids, everything
we have, whether here or in paradise. I praise Him
for his provision and protection over each and every one
of us, for the dreams and the visions as he
allows us to live out Joel to twenty eight. I
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praise him for divine health and healing, for divine abiding favor,
for making me a new creation living in these prophetic times,
and allowing the continued revelation of the Holy Spirit to
flow from Him to us. We should always praise him
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for that, never take that for granted. Now, let's pray
Psalm one two verses six through eight, say this, pray
for the peace of Jerusalem. May they prosper who love you.
Peace be within your walls, Prosperity within your palaces. For
the sake of my brethren and companions. I will now say,
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peace be within you, no matter what your politics is,
no matter what you think you believe. The word is
really clear. Israel and the Jews are our brothers and sisters.
They are the children of Abraham Isaac Jacob, and we
should always pray for them. I pray for divine wholeness,
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health and healing in me and my wife, my family,
and each and every one of you as we get
back to our divine design. I pray for healing right
now for any who are sick or injured, or in
pain emotional or physical, that in the name of Yashihamashiek
Jesus the Messiah, you be healed. I pray for his
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protection over us, to seal us in that armor to
guard us with his angels. I pray for divine inspiration,
for the fire of the Holy Spirit to drive us,
to fuel us, to give us the power to go
and do what He needs done, which means I pray
for the remnant to wake up, arise and answer the
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call to action, and for those who are called to
be a blessing to let that blessing flow can do
what needs to be done. Without provision. The manner no
longer falls from heaven. He uses his children to provide it.
I pray our combined prayers together to put the demonic
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armies to flight, coming into agreement, pushing them back Holy Spirit,
faith filled powered prayers, focusing the power the Holy Spirit
like a laser onto the targets. That the Lord gives
us a unified aggressive effort against the themes of the fallen,
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confronting the enemy with confidence, purpose and power. I pray
that Psalm ninety one protection over us, covering us during
the supernaturally dangerous time. I pray for edification, encouragement, inspiration,
pulling down strongholds and principalities that would dare to exalt
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themselves against the knowledge of God, and that we'd rise
up as the victorious Kingdom of God, setting the captives
free and destroying the work of the enemy. And finally,
I pray for the kingdom finances to do all those
things we just prayed about, and to be about our
father's business. So Abah Papa, we come to you right now.
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We boldly approached the throne of grace and mercy. We
love you, We thank you, we praise you and worship you.
We want to feel your presence. We want to hear
your voice.
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Lord.
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We thank you for the cross, the empty tomb, the
upper room, all that you've done, all that you're doing,
all that you're going to do. So we asked that
you would bless this time, bless the technology, bless the word,
protect us from the enemy. Let your word go forth,
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and your will be done. And I pray all these
things in your Shoe's name.
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If you agree with me, say amen.
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Okay, let's get those bibles open. Let's get prepared with
still talking about praying all we're going to focus on
the Lord's prayer. But as I was working on this
this morning, the Lord gave me a word to share
with you, and this is specifically to you who are listening.
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The Lord said, I call you to be a people
of prayer, my people of prayer, praying as I lead
you where I lead you, and for my purposes, enter
into the secret place of My glory.
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That's what we want to do. Through prayer.
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We enter into the secret place of His glory. We
pray because by the Lord's example and the Word, understand
that the most intimate communion with God comes only through prayer.
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Prayer is exhaling.
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The spirit of Man and inhaling the spirit of God.
That's what rock is. It's breadth in and out. Prayer
is intimacy with God. Prayer brings closeness and clarity with God.
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Prayer brings trust, confidence, relief, and peace. So may say, Richard,
I pray. I don't feel any of those things. No,
you're not praying, you're just talking at God. You're not
in an interaction with him. There's no intimacy. You don't
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wait and listen.
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You just talk talk, talk talk.
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That's not commune, that's not communication in a very honest sense,
it's just noise. You might as well be talking to yourself. Therefore,
if you've been raised with Messiah to a new life,
sharing in his resurrection from the dead, keep seeking the
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things that are above, where Messiah is seated at the
right hand of God. Set your mind and keep focused
habitually on the things above, the heavenly things, not on
the things that are on the earth, which have only
temporal value. Set your mind and keep it focused habitually
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all the time on things above, the heavenly things, not
on things that are on the earth, which only have
temporal fleshly value. So how do you set your mind
on things above?
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Through prayer?
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When you get into that quiet stage, that quiet place. Again,
Today was a pool day. I spent the thirty minutes
of the workout praying, talking to the Lord, listening, petitioning, interceding,
asking questions, getting answers. It was thirty minutes of Yes,
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exercise good for my body, but it was good for
my spirit.
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Man two.
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Matthew, chapter six, starting verse seven, read Letters of the
Lord him speaking, and he says when you pray, you
shall not be like the hypocrites, For they loved to
pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of
the streets, where they may be seen by men. Assuredly,
I say to you, they have their reward, meaning the
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attention they got from the people. That's their reward. But you,
when you pray, go into your room, and when you
have shut your door, pray to your father, who is
in the secret place. And your father, who sees in secret,
will reward you openly. And when you pray, do not
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use vain repetitions as they heathen do, for they think
that they will be heard for their many words. The
Defender Study Bible says this principle could apply both to
ritualistic prayers and also to the modern idea of repeating
several times the sentiment sung in worship choruses. All prayer,
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whether verbalized, sung or silence, should come from the heart
and be addressed to God, not an audience. Let me
say that again, should come from the heart and be
addressed to God, your heavenly Father, and not to an audience.
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See the Pharisees, they would pray to be seen, Oh
look at me, Look how I can pray. Look how
spiritual I am. Oh, you've seen them in every congregation
I've ever been in, there's been one or two. They're
always louder, They're always more boisterous, they always have their
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they got the show going on.
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Let's just be honest here. But when you pray, don't
don't do that.
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See those that do what I just said, they they
have their reward. They have man's attention, and that's all
they'll ever get because their motives are wrong.
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Now there are you know.
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I can say I have prayed forcefully and with passion
because it was flowing from my heart. But it wasn't
for attention, and it wasn't like I was trying to
get the Lord's attention either, in the fact that I
know he hears. But it wells up inside of you.
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You'll know when it's righteous and it's real. We are
to be the example to the world. The world is
seen enough religion. They've seen enough of what I call
the dog and Ponies show. We need to show the
real We need to be real. You are the light
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of the world. A city that is set on a
hill cannot be hidden, nor do they light a lamp
and put it under a basket, but on a lamp stand,
and it gives light all who are in the house.
Let your light so shine before men that they see
your good works and glorify your Father in heaven. Matthew five,
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verses fourteen through sixteen. That's what real prayer is. It's
being a light to the world. When you get around
people that have never heard real, anointed powerful prayer, and
then you pray almost always to look at you and go,
I've never heard prayer like that before. I've never felt
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prayer like that before. And hopefully you have planted a seed,
you've shaken something loose inside of them. But if you're
going to do good works just so that you can
be seen and receive other people's praise, there's no reward
for you waiting in heaven. And I think personally this
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is just my opinion. I think performative spirituality like that,
doing religious activities to be noticed by God and others
is thoroughly rejected by him. That's why Yashua gave the
sharpest criticism to the Pharisees and the Sadducees, to the
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hypocrisy of the religious leaders of his day. Obviously, it
offended him, and if it offended him, it offended the Father.
At that same moment, Matthew twenty three, verse one, and
Yashua said to the crowds and to his disciples, the
teachers of religious law and the Pharisees are the official
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interpreters of the law of Moses. So practice and obey
whatever they tell you, but don't follow their example, for
they don't practice what they preach. They crushed people with
unbearable religious demands, and never lift a finger to ease
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the burden. Everything they do is for show on their arms.
They wear extra wide prayer boxes with scripture verses inside,
and they wear robes with extra long tassels. Zeat seats,
and they love to sit at the head of the
table at banquets and in the seats of honor in
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the synagogues. They love to receive respectful greetings as they
walk in the marketplace, and be called a rabbi jumping
down a verse twenty seven of Matthew twenty three, the
Lord says, what sorrow awaits you, teachers of religious law,
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and you pharisees hypocrites, For you are like whitewashed tombs,
beautiful on the outside but filled on the inside with
dead people's bones and all sorts of impurity. Outwardly you
look like righteous people, but inwardly your hearts are filled
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with focracy and lawlessness. If you've never crossed paths with
this type, you don't know what he's talking about. But
I have, and often, And when I was a younger
Christian with less experience and maturity, I had a hard
time keeping my mouth shut and not calling them out
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on their practices. See, they were not only concerned with
emphasis on religious formalism and the external practices. They missed
the heart of God regarding internal righteousness. They put on
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the show. It's a dog and pony show. They put
on the performance. They got the people riled up, they
got the people's attention, and then when they came off stage,
it was all in act.
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And they will.
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Gladly lead people down a legalistic path into performative spirituality
and never changed the inside. You can't change them inside out,
as I say, unless you've been changed inside out, unless
you are the real deal. These pharisees of his day,
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they were ignorant of God's truth, even though they spoke
it and they taught it, and in doing so, they
were hiding God's truth from the multitudes or claiming to
be experts in the religious law.
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God's law.
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They substituted their own lifeless, man made religion for the
power and vitality of truly knowing God. And we are
no different today in the denominations, aboma nations, things that
have been created by man, we've substituted. We've filled in
the gaps, We've created traditions that have have nothing to
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do with God. And so after he addressed their improper motives,
he dealt with the aspect of prayer, how we should pray.
The Life Application Bible Commentary says, if they really wanted
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fellowship with God, he sure has suggested that they go
alone into a room, close the door, and pray. This
room was probably some inner room without windows, a storeroom,
a secret place. Prayer in public is subject to concern
over a correct word, usage, political correctness, even pride. Private
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prayer enables believers to pour out their hearts to God,
to express their true feelings and listen in the quietness
for God's answer. Leonard Ravenhill, British Christian evangelists and author, said,
if sufficient do not pray, the self satisfied will not pray.
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The self righteous cannot pray. No man is greater than
his prayer life. You should be an inspiration to others
and how you pray. Not that they pray like you,
but they want to pray. They want to develop their
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relationship with God. They want to develop their intimacy and
have access to the throne room. That's why repeating the
same words over and over it looks just like babbling
and like it's some magical incantation. It won't ensure that
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God hears your prayer more than likely, I believe it
kind of hinders it. The Pagans the Gentiles focused on
how they delivered their prayers, repeating the right words, write order,
and often repeated the names of their gods to get
a blessing. Now you talk to somebody you love, That's
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not how you interact with somebody that you have a
relationship with. Prayer is God's way of bonding with us
and allowing us to interact with our heavenly Father. He
wants us to appeal to his heart. He doesn't want
it to be superficial and distant. Philippians four, starting verse six,
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amplified verse and do not fret or have any anxiety
about anything. But in every circumstance and in everything, by
prayer and petition, definite request, with thanksgiving, continue to make
your wants known to God. And God's peace shall be yours.
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The tranquil state of his soul, assured of its salvation
through Messiah, so fearing nothing from God and being content
with its earthly lot of whatever sort. That is, that
peace which transcends all understanding, shall garrison and mount guard
over your hearts and minds in Messiah issue in every circumstance,
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in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, make your wants,
make your needs known to God.
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This is a thing.
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I'm speaking to things not as they are, but as
they should be. So when I go into his presence,
I thank him already for the need that I'm asking
him for. Thank you, Father, that you are as good
as your word. Thank you for the provision, Thank you
for the healing. Prayer has always been the connection between
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man and God. Once we once we lost what Adam
had in the garden, once he did what he did
and we were severed from that kind of intimacy, we
had to do it through prayer. I don't think Adam
had to do anything, but think. Be and God were
connected so intrinsically, which is why when he fell and
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God was walking in the garden and Adam, where are you,
that connection was no longer. Their sin had broken it.
And just think what it'll be like some day when
all that's gone. You'll be connected to Him in every thought,
in every emotion, in every desire. In their captivity in Babylon,
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Israel prayed to the Lord Jeremiah twenty nine ten. For thus,
says the Lord, after seventy years are completed at Babylon,
I will visit you and perform my good word towards you,
says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil,
to give you a future and a hope. Then you
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shall call upon me and go and pray to me,
and I will listen to you, and you will seek
me and find me. When you search for me with
all your heart, I will be found by you, says
the Lord. And I will bring you back from your captivity.
I will gather you from all the nations, from all
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the places where I've driven you, says the Lord. And
I will bring you to the place from which I
cause you to be carried away captive. Even in their captivity,
he was listening to the voices of his children. So
pray to God as your father, as your Abbah, go
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with me to Matthew six verse eighteen. Of course we
know that this is the Lord's prayer. It's two versions,
Matthew and Luke. Therefore, do not be like them, you know,
the babbling pagans. For your father knows the things you
have need of before you ask them in this manner. Therefore,
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pray our Father in Heaven, how it would be your name,
your kingdom. Come, Your will be done on earth as
it is in heaven. Give us to stay our daily bread,
and forgive us our deaths, as we forgive our debtors.
And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us
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from the evil one, for yours is the kingdom and
the power and the glory forever, bh Man. In developing
your relationship with your heavenly Father, the Lord's Prayer is
always a good place to start. Not to turn it
into a ritual, but speak it from your heart and
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let it develop from there. There are twenty three elements
in the Lord's Prayer. One relationship our Father, recognition of
who he is, and where he is, who is in heaven. Adoration,
Hell would be your name, anticipation, your kingdom, Come, consecration,
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your will be done, universality on earth, conformity as it
is in heaven. Supplication. Give us what this day when
definitive necessity, which is what our daily bred penitence. Give
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us our debts, which is an obligation to Him, as
we forgive our debtors, which means as we offer forgiveness,
love and mercy. And lead us, which is guidance. Where
you're leading us not into temptation. That's protection, but deliver us.
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Deliverance is salvation, deliver us from evil. That's righteousness. Now
we enter into faith for yours as the kingdom and
the power and the glory, humility and reverence and timelessness
because it's forever. And then the affirmation of the prayer
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when we say amen, his three partitions of the prayer
that makes seven points concerning God, and the last four
petitions make sixteen points concerning man. That's how intricate that
one simple prayer is. Frederick Buchner, an American author, preacher,
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and theologian, says, we do well not to pray the
Lord's Prayer lightly. It takes guts to pray it at all.
To speak those words is to invite the tiger out
of the cage, to unleash a power that makes atomic
power look like a warm breeze. The Lord's prayer is
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a refrain of a promise that will soon be fulfilled.
Someday it will be on earth as it is in heaven,
and until then.
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We pray.
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Ian Bound says prayer should not be regarded as a
duty which must be performed, but rather as a privilege
to be enjoyed. If you're struggling to pray, you haven't
found the joy in it. In the book, when we
say Father, unlocking the power of the Lord's Prayer by
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Adrian and Steve Rogers says this, the Lord said in
this manner, Therefore pray. This is not necessarily a prayer
to be repeated by wrote our Lord warned about vain
repetitions in this same passage. Sometimes we'll be in a
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public assembly and someone will say, let us all stand
and say the Lord's prayer. Well, friend, you don't say prayers.
You pray prayers. Suppose I come and sit down in
your living room and you look at me and say,
say a conversation that would make sense, would it. Prayer
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is not talking at God, it's talking with God, rattling
up beautiful thoughts or even verses of scripture. You're sure
Jesus is giving us a model prayer. He's saying, pray
like this. Don't pray for a particular length of time.
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It's not the length of your prayer that counts. Don't
argue with God. It's not the logic of your prayer
that counts. Don't use fancy language. It's not the language
of your prayer that counts. It's the focus of your prayer.
Focus on Almighty God. It's the force of your prayer.
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Pray in the power of the Holy Spirit, and it's
the faith of your prayer. Pray, believe and you'll receive pray.
In doubt, you will do without. Pray Believe and you'll
receive pray. In doubt, you'll do without. So this should
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really be called the model prayer, because we see in
Luke e levin one the other place that you'll find it.
And came to pass as he was praying in a
certain place and he ceased, that one of his disciples
said to him, Lord teach us to pray, as John
also taught his disciples. So in his behavior, the Lord
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is an example of one who prays. Oh, shouldn't we
be like him? Shouldn't we follow his example? His prayer
life caused one of the disciples to ask for an
instruction in prayer because John the Baptist had done that
for his disciples. I have no idea what prayer he
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taught them. Obviously wasn't important enough. It's not been included
in the Bible. But this prayer is The Lord is
suggesting this pattern to us because he knew how to pray.
He was the epitome of prayer. King David was close,
but the Lord was the epitome of prayer. We see
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a really good prayer by King David in First Chronicles
twenty nine, starting verse eleven. Yours, Oh Lord, is the greatness,
the power, and the glory, the victory and the majesty.
For all that is in heaven and in earth is yours.
Yours is the Kingdom, O Lord, and you are exalted
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as head overall. Both riches and honor come from you,
and you reign overall in your hand, as power and
might in your hand. It is to make great and
to give strength to all. Now, Therefore, Oh God, we
thank you and praise your glorious name. Pretty good, that's
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good prayer. David knew how to pray, but you can
see by the words it was coming from his heart.
It's not a ritual, but it's an example of focus
and intention.
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That's the key to prayer, right there.
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Focus and intention, not an empty recitation of words. I
told you when I was a kid. Because the way
I was raised, because the way I went to school
and the religion I was raised in, I could I
could recite it. Oh boy, I can machine gun out
those words. That wasn't praying. I want to pray like this,
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in this manner. Therefore pray. I want to pray like
he prais. I want to praise God. I want to
intercede for his work in the world, for the provision
of daily needs and for help and daily struggles. Again,
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if you're having trouble praying, just get out the Lord's prayer.
Read it out loud, say it out loud. You know,
these Bible studies aren't for me, although I do get
blessed by them. When the Spirit uses me and the
Lord shows me something, I haven't seen before.
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This is for you.
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To take these words, this time the work and the effort,
for your spirit to grow, for His power to grow
inside of you, for the glow of the Holy Spirit
to shine from you, for you to be able to
change people's lives by a word, a whisper, a hug, Hey,
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Can I pray for you? And when you're done praying,
to see the tears and their eyes flowing down their cheeks,
and to know that a heart has been healed, the
life has been changed, a relationship has been restored because
they have felt the presence of Heavenly Father in your words.
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So the pattern of praise and intercession and in our
petitions help us to understand the nature and the purpose
of prayer through the relationship with our Father. Believer study
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Bible says, through prayer, one recalls personal needs and adopts
an attitude of dependent trust, which is ready to receive
God's gifts and to yield and open trust and praise
to his Demand's Prayer is communion not a battering ram
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used to break down the door to God's treasure house.
It's a receptacle with which the child of the Father
receives that which he already prepared to give you. Hear
that again, Prayer is a receptacle with which the child
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of God receives what he's already prepared to give. That's
the love of a father. So get along with God,
open your heart to give and to receive our Father.
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We'll even get more personal.
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Abah, my Abah in heaven, Hallowed be your name. Oh
right there should open the door to you. Abah in heaven,
Hallowed be your name. Holy is your name, Holy, Holy,
Holy Lord, God Almighty, who was and is and is
to come. Abah Papa Daddy. That's the focus of your prayers.
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You're Abbah, who is holy and should be revered as holy.
That's what hallowed means. He is majestic, He transcends everything
on this earth, and in all of that, he's your
Abba Father, personal and loving. The Life Application Bible Commentari
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says these words remind us that God wants to hear
and listen as a loving father, but that coming to
him is an awesome privilege. We must enter the King's
throne room respectfully. And when we pray for God's name
to be hallowed, we pray that this world will honor
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his name, and we look forward to Messiah's return, when
that will be a reality. Your Kingdom, Come, Your will
be done on earth as it is in heaven. I'll
use that section of that prayer sometimes when I'm interceding
Your kingdom. Come, Lord, you will be done on earth
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as it is in heaven. There's no sin in heaven.
There's no sickness in heaven. There's no rebellion in heaven.
There's no death in heaven. Your Kingdom, Come, your will,
for all those things will be done here on earth
as it's been in heaven. The Home and Bible Dictionary
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says Jesus and the Early Christians. The early believer is
believed in two ages, the present Evil Age and the
coming Good Age, the Age to come, which would be
brought by a decisive intervention of God at the end
of history. The shift of the ages would be accompanied
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by the resurrection from the dead and the Last Judgment.
Before either of these events, there would be a time
of great suffering or tribulation. One name given to the
Age to Come was the Kingdom of God. It was
an ideal state of affairs when Satan Hasatan would be defeated,
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Sin would be conquered, and death would be no more.
Jesus believed that in his ministry, the activity of God
that was to bring about the shift of the ages
was already taking place within this world of thought. The
Lord's prayer must be understood because of his ministry, because
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of the Cross, because of the empty tomb, because of
the Upper Room. It has begun, The transition has begun.
We're waiting for the culmination of that transition. Your kingdom come,
and you will be done on earth as it is
in heaven. Are all petitions for the shift of the
ages to take place and for the ideal state of
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affairs to come about. They constitute a prayer for the
final victory of God over Satan the devil, and in
death the kingdom of darth.
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It's possible they were also.
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Understood by the early believers, the early Christian to be
a petition for God's rule in their lives and the
here and now. And I agree with that when I
pray that, that's what I'm saying here and now. Yes,
then I'm longing for then, but I want it now.
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So the Lord's prayer is a prayer of petition.
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It's a significant model prayer for believers. It's not praise
and not thanksgiving. It's not meditation or contemplation, but petition.
It's asking God for something. This prayer petition seeks two objects. First,
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one who prays in this way employs God to act
so as to achieve his purpose capital age in the world. Second,
one who prays in this manner requests God to meet
the physical and spiritual needs of the disciples. It's significant
that the petitions come in the order they do. First
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God's vindication, then the disciples satisfaction, because, let's face it,
we can't do anything to help with that or to
be a part of that unless our physical and spiritual
needs are met. So such a prayer petition assumes a
certain view of God. A God to whom one prays
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in this way is assumed to be in control. And boy,
God is in control no matter what you think you see,
no matter what man thinks he's doing, He's in control.
He's able to answer. He's also assumed to be good,
which means he wants to answer. The Father to whom
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Jesus you should have taught his disciples to pray, is
one who is both in control and good. Just remember,
God is good, but not every good thing is God.
You got to make sure the tom line up. Just
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because you're doing something good doesn't mean it's of God.
But every god thing you do is good. And we
want his spiritual kingdom, God's kingdom, not Israel's, not man's.
We want his kingdom. In praying for God's kingdom, we're
praying for his justice, his righteousness, his peace and mercy
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to be established. And the kingdom began when Ya sure
it came to earth and began this in the heart
of his followers, who then passed it on to all
that would come after him Luke seventeen, verse twenty. Now,
when he was asked by the Pharisees when the Kingdom
of God would come, he answered them and said, Kingdom
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of God does not come with observation, meaning it's not visible,
nor will they say see here or see there. For indeed,
the Kingdom of God is within you know. What he
was saying, is in your heart. That's where it begins.
When we pray this prayer, we're also praying for the
second coming. Do you pray for that? Do you even
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believe in it? Are you praying for his return? When
we seek his will, we are reinforcing the concept of
unity and family. We are all in this together, and
if we could ever get our act together, just think
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the damage we could do to the kingdom of darkness. See,
we are of the family of God. Matthew twelve thirenty,
verse forty six. When he was still talking to the multitudes, behold,
his mother and brothers stood outside seeking to speak with him. Yes,
I know there's some denominations that tell you he didn't marry,
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didn't have any other children, he had no brothers, blah
blah blah. That's not what the word says, So I'm
going to go with the word. His mother and brother
stood outside seeking to speak with him. Then one said
to him, Look, your mother and your brothers are standing
outside seeking to speak with you. And he answered and
said to the one who told him, who is my
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mother and who are my brothers? He stretched out his
hands towards his disciples and said, here are my mother
and my brothers. For whoever does the will of my
Father in Heaven is my brother and sister and mother.
By this point, when his ministry had become active, the
scope of family had expanded for him, and his will
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reveals his family, meaning those who do his will from
the heart. Are of the family of God? Will you
do that? Will you do his will from the heart?
Will you seek his will for your life? Or are
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you so caught up in you.
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In your needs?
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And I know it, when you're struggling, when you're suffering,
it's really easy to get caught up in that. But
if you're praying from the heart, you're seeking his needs
as well. What do you want, Lord? What do you
want me to do? What do you want me to say?
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Where do you want me to go? Let your will
be done in my life? Prayers asking God to align
you with his will rather than asking him to be
aligned with yours. Let me say that one again. Prayer
is asking God to align you with his will rather
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than asking him to be aligned with yours. Your Kingdom, Come,
your will, Father, His perfect purpose established on earth in
our lives, as it is in the throne room. So
focusing on his will, on God's will is of crucial importance,
more so than our personal needs.
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But we can ask him for.
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Our daily bread, for daily needs to be met, and
to forgive us our debts as we forgive those who
are indebted to us. These are the daily provisions and
conditions to.
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Live by.
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His will for our life is a daily consideration. This
is why you start the day out in prayer. This
is why you end the day prayer. So that when
you go to sleep and your body sleeps and your
spirit man is awake, you've entered prayer. You've entered the
prayer state. It keeps the focus on the ongoing relationship,
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the back and forth that flow, the eternal flow, up
and back, up and back. You're always connected with God.
When somebody says, oh I don't feel him, I don't
sense him, I know you're not praying. You're not creating intimacy,
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you're not creating connection with him. Just like with the
manner and the wilderness, we still have to do something.
But He is the sustainer and the provider. Luke eleven Ford,
forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who
has sinned or is indebted to us. Debts are sins.
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Forgive others because He has forgiven us, and it's not optional.
Oh I just can't forgive them, I can't let go. Well,
that's on you, and you've just now stepped outside of
his will. When you say that, you've stepped outside of
his realm. Of influence. When you say something like that, oh,
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they hurt me too much. They did this, or they
did that, that's not what the Word says. The Word
says you have to forgive Matthew six, starting verse fourteen.
If you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father.
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Will also forgive you.
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But if you do not forgive their trespasses, neither will
your father forgive your trespasses. Forgiveness isn't optional. Selfishness keeps
us from forgiving others. It also keeps us from his blessings.
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We need to let go of the blockage to receive blessings.
When I hear somebody that has refused to forgive in
a relationship or marriage or whatever, and they've cut people
off or they've gotten a divorce without any biblical qualifications
for divorce, I just shake my head and I feel
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bad because they've opened the door into their life where
not only will his blessings be lost, but the enemy
will now have access to them. That's all the enemy
waits for. It waits for us to make the mistake
and open the door. Forgiving others reflects a repentant, regenerated heart,
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which makes our own forgiveness possible. Those who have experienced
God's forgiveness will forgive. If you remember what you were
like and He forgave you, how could you not forgive others?
I Sue implies. Those who are unwilling to forgive have
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not perceived God's mercy, perhaps never truly repented. Think about
what He's done for you, And do not lead us
into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. First
of all, God does not lead us into temptation or
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tempt us to do evil James one thirteen. Let no
one say when he's tempted, I am tempted by God.
For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he
himself tempt anyone. How about we say, don't let us
yield to temptation, but rescue us from the evil one.
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The New Living translation of verse thirteen help us keep
us from it. Rescue us because we know there's a
rowing lion out there seeking to devour us. We need
his help. That temptation is testing you know He won't
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test you beyond what you can endure. Life Application Bible
commentary says, sometimes God allows his people to be tested
by temptation, but this testing is never without a purpose.
God is always working to refine his people, teach them
to depend on Him and strengthen their character to be
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more like him. They'll always give you a way out
Psalm eighteen, verse two. The Lord is my rock and
my fortress, and my deliverer, my God, my strength, and
whom I will trust my shield, and the horn of
my salvation, my stronghold. He sure knows what temptation is.
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He experienced it in the wilderness and looke. For that's
why that scripture out of Hebrews four point fifteen is
so powerful, especially when we're dealing with this. We don't
have a high priest who's unable to sympathize and understand
our weaknesses and temptations, but one who has been tempted,
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knowing exactly how it feels to be human in every
aspect as we are, yet without committing any sin. So
when we pray that do not let us yield the temptation.
We're printing for divine intervention, from the enticement and the
snares of the wicked one, from the things that the
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enemy knows will trip us up. That's why the Holy
Spirit is there inside of you. Viction and correction to
strengthen you. First Corinthians ten thirteen. No temptation has overtaken you,
accept such as is common to man. But God is faithful.
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Who's faithful. God is faithful, who will not allow you
to be tempted beyond what you are able. But with
the temptation will also make a way of escape that
you may be able to bear it. Oh, I have
a besetting sin, Richard. I can't get rid of it.
I can't let go of it. I have a huge
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problem with that kind of thinking. But because I know,
even when I was unsaved, I could break free of
things temporarily. I couldn't permanently get the root out because
that took supernatural means. But if you really want to
stop doing something, you'll stop if you've reached the point
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that you can't control it well in its demonic bondage.
But the fact is you can loosen the soil by prayer.
You can pray the word Psalm one forty one, Verses
four and nine. Do not incline my heart to any
evil thing, to practice wicked works with men who work iniquity,
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and don't let me eat their delicacies. Keep me from
the snares they have laid for me and from the
traps of the workers of iniquity. Martin Luther was very clear,
prayers a strong wall and a fortress of the church.
It is a godly Christian weapon. Whatever you're dealing with,
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whatever the struggle is, whatever the enemy's using to torment
you or to trip you up, you have the power,
through the name of Yustua, the name of the Lord,
and the Holy Spirit, to stop it.
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If you really want to.
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That is now why we talked about putting on the
full armer of God for his precepts, or like the
splendid armor of the heavily armed soldier, so that you
may be able to successfully stand against all the schemes
and the strategies and the deceits of the devil. Ephesian
six eleven. The Lord's prayer ends on the declaration of
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a need from God to deliver us from the evil
of this age, a world, and a time that is
on a demonic march to armageddon, and we're watching it
play out every day. Am I afraid?
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No?
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Am I concerned? I'm watching it because I know where
it's headed. In the original Greek, it literally says deliver
us from the evil one, not just talking about sin,
but talking specifically about Satan, the adversary. So you should
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had taught us to pray that we would be delivered
from Satan, which means delivered from the kingdom of darkness,
delivered from all that serve it, the kingdom of darkness.
Satan's in it too. But we'll just we won't. We
won't go there. I think I just did. Sorry whatever
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and Acts twenty six, when Paul tells about what the
Lord said to him twenty six, verse seventeen. I will
deliver you from the Jewish people as well as from
the Gentiles, to whom I now send you to open
their eyes in order to turn them from darkness to light,
and from the power of Satan to God, that they
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may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance amongst those
who are being sanctified by faith in me. Acts twenty six,
Verses seventeen and eighteen. That's what we're saying. For yours
is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever.
Amen of Saint thinks this is his world, this is
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his kingdom. Yes, he does have a kingdom, the Kingdom
of darkness. But we've been translated into the Kingdom of Light,
the kingdom of the Son of His Love. So what
we're speaking at the end of that prayer is a
blessing to the eternal authority and power of God we
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seated over and over through the scriptures Philippians four twenty.
Now to our God and Father be glory forever and ever.
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Amen. David understood this. Isn't that amazing? He understood this.
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Prayer of King David in First Chronicles twenty nine to eleven.
For Yours, oh Lord, is the greatness, the power, and
the glory, the victory and the majesty. For all that
is in heaven and in earth is yours. Yours is
the kingdom, O Lord, and you are exalted as head.
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Over all You Lord, You sure yours is the greatness.
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Yours is the power and the glory, the victory and
the majesty. All that it's in heaven and all that's
in earth is yours. It's your kingdom, Lord, and you
are exalted as head.
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Over all.
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The power and the glory and the victory and the
majesty in heaven and on earth. His dominion, his kingdom,
he is exalted. His name is Exalted. If you're going
to pray always, then you're praying in His name. You're
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speaking the word, You're speaking it out loud. Yourselves are
hearing it. Your body is hearing it, your spirit man
or woman is hearing it. So let's go back to
that word in the beginning from the Lord, which I
don't think in all the times I've ever done this,
that the Lord gave a word to the people that
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were listening to a specific session of the porch. So
if you're listening, this is for you. I call you
to be a people of prayer, my people of prayer,
praying as I lead you where I lead you, and
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for my purposes, enter into the secret place of my glory.
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O Lord, O Lord, oh Lord. Do we want that.
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Lead us, guide us, guard us, show us how to pray,
show us what to say, open our hearts, open our eyes,
open our ears, change us from the inside out. We
want to be your people of prayer in this hour,
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for this time, to be the ones that you can
rely upon to wake up in the night hours, to pray,
to intercede, to stand in the gap.
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Yours, oh Lord, yours, oh Lord. The will.
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We want your will in our life yes, we need
your blessings to do these things. We need our daily
provisions so that we're not distracted from what you need
to do. That the enemy does not have any access
to us. And Lord, I pray right now for the
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power the Holy Spirit, the infeeling of the Holy Spirit.
For as much as we need to have to fill us,
to fill us right now. So whether we speak and
pray in English or we pray in our heavenly language,
your will is done. Your needs are met as ours
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are being met. Your kingdom is being furthered, you are
being glorified, and that no matter how dark it gets,
we are shining bright and strong and leading the people
out of darkness to safety. We are interceding. We are
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standing in the gap. We're raising up the name. We're
raising up the banner so that others can come to it,
so that others can go in and pray, pray, pray
in Jesus' name. Amen, May the Lord bless you and
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keep you. May the Lord make his face do shine
upon you and be gracious to you. May the Lord
I do now you're sure, haamasiak Jesus the Messiah, lift
up his countenance upon you and give you peace, Give
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you shallow. I'm Richard Grund. This has been the Porch
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Contact us if you need prayer. Remember we care about you,
We want to pray for you. We start out with praise.
We never enter his presence without praise and thanksgiving. So
I praise Him for my salvation, for my home, my wife,
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my family, sons, daughter in law, grandchildren, furry kids, everything
we have, whether here or in paradise. I praise Him
for his provision and protection over each and every one
of us, for the dreams and the visions as he
allows us to live out Joel to twenty eight. I
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praise him for divine health and healing, for divine abiding favor,
for making me a new creation living in these prophetic times,
and allowing the continued revelation of the Holy Spirit to
flow from Him to us. We should always praise him
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for that, never take that for granted. Now, let's pray
Psalm one two verses six through eight, say this, pray
for the peace of Jerusalem. May they prosper who love you.
Peace be within your walls, Prosperity within your palaces. For
the sake of my brethren and companions. I will now say,
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peace be within you, no matter what your politics is,
no matter what you think you believe. The word is
really clear. Israel and the Jews are our brothers and sisters.
They are the children of Abraham Isaac Jacob, and we
should always pray for them. I pray for divine wholeness,
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health and healing in me and my wife, my family,
and each and every one of you as we get
back to our divine design. I pray for healing right
now for any who are sick or injured, or in
pain emotional or physical, that in the name of Yashihamashiek
Jesus the Messiah, you be healed. I pray for his
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protection over us, to seal us in that armor to
guard us with his angels. I pray for divine inspiration,
for the fire of the Holy Spirit to drive us,
to fuel us, to give us the power to go
and do what He needs done, which means I pray
for the remnant to wake up, arise and answer the
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call to action, and for those who are called to
be a blessing to let that blessing flow can do
what needs to be done. Without provision. The manner no
longer falls from heaven. He uses his children to provide it.
I pray our combined prayers together to put the demonic
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armies to flight, coming into agreement, pushing them back Holy Spirit,
faith filled powered prayers, focusing the power the Holy Spirit
like a laser onto the targets. That the Lord gives
us a unified aggressive effort against the themes of the fallen,
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confronting the enemy with confidence, purpose and power. I pray
that Psalm ninety one protection over us, covering us during
the supernaturally dangerous time. I pray for edification, encouragement, inspiration,
pulling down strongholds and principalities that would dare to exalt
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themselves against the knowledge of God, and that we'd rise
up as the victorious Kingdom of God, setting the captives
free and destroying the work of the enemy. And finally,
I pray for the kingdom finances to do all those
things we just prayed about, and to be about our
father's business. So Abah Papa, we come to you right now.
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We boldly approached the throne of grace and mercy. We
love you, We thank you, we praise you and worship you.
We want to feel your presence. We want to hear
your voice.
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Lord.
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We thank you for the cross, the empty tomb, the
upper room, all that you've done, all that you're doing,
all that you're going to do. So we asked that
you would bless this time, bless the technology, bless the word,
protect us from the enemy. Let your word go forth,
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and your will be done. And I pray all these
things in your Shoe's name.
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If you agree with me, say amen.
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Okay, let's get those bibles open. Let's get prepared with
still talking about praying all we're going to focus on
the Lord's prayer. But as I was working on this
this morning, the Lord gave me a word to share
with you, and this is specifically to you who are listening.
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The Lord said, I call you to be a people
of prayer, my people of prayer, praying as I lead
you where I lead you, and for my purposes, enter
into the secret place of My glory.
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That's what we want to do. Through prayer.
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We enter into the secret place of His glory. We
pray because by the Lord's example and the Word, understand
that the most intimate communion with God comes only through prayer.
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Prayer is exhaling.
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The spirit of Man and inhaling the spirit of God.
That's what rock is. It's breadth in and out. Prayer
is intimacy with God. Prayer brings closeness and clarity with God.
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Prayer brings trust, confidence, relief, and peace. So may say, Richard,
I pray. I don't feel any of those things. No,
you're not praying, you're just talking at God. You're not
in an interaction with him. There's no intimacy. You don't
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wait and listen.
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You just talk talk, talk talk.
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That's not commune, that's not communication in a very honest sense,
it's just noise. You might as well be talking to yourself. Therefore,
if you've been raised with Messiah to a new life,
sharing in his resurrection from the dead, keep seeking the
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things that are above, where Messiah is seated at the
right hand of God. Set your mind and keep focused
habitually on the things above, the heavenly things, not on
the things that are on the earth, which have only
temporal value. Set your mind and keep it focused habitually
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all the time on things above, the heavenly things, not
on things that are on the earth, which only have
temporal fleshly value. So how do you set your mind
on things above?
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Through prayer?
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When you get into that quiet stage, that quiet place. Again,
Today was a pool day. I spent the thirty minutes
of the workout praying, talking to the Lord, listening, petitioning, interceding,
asking questions, getting answers. It was thirty minutes of Yes,
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exercise good for my body, but it was good for
my spirit.
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Man two.
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Matthew, chapter six, starting verse seven, read Letters of the
Lord him speaking, and he says when you pray, you
shall not be like the hypocrites, For they loved to
pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of
the streets, where they may be seen by men. Assuredly,
I say to you, they have their reward, meaning the
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attention they got from the people. That's their reward. But you,
when you pray, go into your room, and when you
have shut your door, pray to your father, who is
in the secret place. And your father, who sees in secret,
will reward you openly. And when you pray, do not
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use vain repetitions as they heathen do, for they think
that they will be heard for their many words. The
Defender Study Bible says this principle could apply both to
ritualistic prayers and also to the modern idea of repeating
several times the sentiment sung in worship choruses. All prayer,
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whether verbalized, sung or silence, should come from the heart
and be addressed to God, not an audience. Let me
say that again, should come from the heart and be
addressed to God, your heavenly Father, and not to an audience.
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See the Pharisees, they would pray to be seen, Oh
look at me, Look how I can pray. Look how
spiritual I am. Oh, you've seen them in every congregation
I've ever been in, there's been one or two. They're
always louder, They're always more boisterous, they always have their
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they got the show going on.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Let's just be honest here. But when you pray, don't
don't do that.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
See those that do what I just said, they they
have their reward. They have man's attention, and that's all
they'll ever get because their motives are wrong.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Now there are you know.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
I can say I have prayed forcefully and with passion
because it was flowing from my heart. But it wasn't
for attention, and it wasn't like I was trying to
get the Lord's attention either, in the fact that I
know he hears. But it wells up inside of you.
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You'll know when it's righteous and it's real. We are
to be the example to the world. The world is
seen enough religion. They've seen enough of what I call
the dog and Ponies show. We need to show the
real We need to be real. You are the light
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of the world. A city that is set on a
hill cannot be hidden, nor do they light a lamp
and put it under a basket, but on a lamp stand,
and it gives light all who are in the house.
Let your light so shine before men that they see
your good works and glorify your Father in heaven. Matthew five,
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verses fourteen through sixteen. That's what real prayer is. It's
being a light to the world. When you get around
people that have never heard real, anointed powerful prayer, and
then you pray almost always to look at you and go,
I've never heard prayer like that before. I've never felt
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prayer like that before. And hopefully you have planted a seed,
you've shaken something loose inside of them. But if you're
going to do good works just so that you can
be seen and receive other people's praise, there's no reward
for you waiting in heaven. And I think personally this
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is just my opinion. I think performative spirituality like that,
doing religious activities to be noticed by God and others
is thoroughly rejected by him. That's why Yashua gave the
sharpest criticism to the Pharisees and the Sadducees, to the
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hypocrisy of the religious leaders of his day. Obviously, it
offended him, and if it offended him, it offended the Father.
At that same moment, Matthew twenty three, verse one, and
Yashua said to the crowds and to his disciples, the
teachers of religious law and the Pharisees are the official
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interpreters of the law of Moses. So practice and obey
whatever they tell you, but don't follow their example, for
they don't practice what they preach. They crushed people with
unbearable religious demands, and never lift a finger to ease
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the burden. Everything they do is for show on their arms.
They wear extra wide prayer boxes with scripture verses inside,
and they wear robes with extra long tassels. Zeat seats,
and they love to sit at the head of the
table at banquets and in the seats of honor in
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the synagogues. They love to receive respectful greetings as they
walk in the marketplace, and be called a rabbi jumping
down a verse twenty seven of Matthew twenty three, the
Lord says, what sorrow awaits you, teachers of religious law,
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and you pharisees hypocrites, For you are like whitewashed tombs,
beautiful on the outside but filled on the inside with
dead people's bones and all sorts of impurity. Outwardly you
look like righteous people, but inwardly your hearts are filled
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with focracy and lawlessness. If you've never crossed paths with
this type, you don't know what he's talking about. But
I have, and often, And when I was a younger
Christian with less experience and maturity, I had a hard
time keeping my mouth shut and not calling them out
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on their practices. See, they were not only concerned with
emphasis on religious formalism and the external practices. They missed
the heart of God regarding internal righteousness. They put on
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the show. It's a dog and pony show. They put
on the performance. They got the people riled up, they
got the people's attention, and then when they came off stage,
it was all in act.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
And they will.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Gladly lead people down a legalistic path into performative spirituality
and never changed the inside. You can't change them inside out,
as I say, unless you've been changed inside out, unless
you are the real deal. These pharisees of his day,
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they were ignorant of God's truth, even though they spoke
it and they taught it, and in doing so, they
were hiding God's truth from the multitudes or claiming to
be experts in the religious law.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
God's law.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
They substituted their own lifeless, man made religion for the
power and vitality of truly knowing God. And we are
no different today in the denominations, aboma nations, things that
have been created by man, we've substituted. We've filled in
the gaps, We've created traditions that have have nothing to
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do with God. And so after he addressed their improper motives,
he dealt with the aspect of prayer, how we should pray.
The Life Application Bible Commentary says, if they really wanted
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fellowship with God, he sure has suggested that they go
alone into a room, close the door, and pray. This
room was probably some inner room without windows, a storeroom,
a secret place. Prayer in public is subject to concern
over a correct word, usage, political correctness, even pride. Private
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prayer enables believers to pour out their hearts to God,
to express their true feelings and listen in the quietness
for God's answer. Leonard Ravenhill, British Christian evangelists and author, said,
if sufficient do not pray, the self satisfied will not pray.
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The self righteous cannot pray. No man is greater than
his prayer life. You should be an inspiration to others
and how you pray. Not that they pray like you,
but they want to pray. They want to develop their
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relationship with God. They want to develop their intimacy and
have access to the throne room. That's why repeating the
same words over and over it looks just like babbling
and like it's some magical incantation. It won't ensure that
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God hears your prayer more than likely, I believe it
kind of hinders it. The Pagans the Gentiles focused on
how they delivered their prayers, repeating the right words, write order,
and often repeated the names of their gods to get
a blessing. Now you talk to somebody you love, That's
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not how you interact with somebody that you have a
relationship with. Prayer is God's way of bonding with us
and allowing us to interact with our heavenly Father. He
wants us to appeal to his heart. He doesn't want
it to be superficial and distant. Philippians four, starting verse six,
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amplified verse and do not fret or have any anxiety
about anything. But in every circumstance and in everything, by
prayer and petition, definite request, with thanksgiving, continue to make
your wants known to God. And God's peace shall be yours.
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The tranquil state of his soul, assured of its salvation
through Messiah, so fearing nothing from God and being content
with its earthly lot of whatever sort. That is, that
peace which transcends all understanding, shall garrison and mount guard
over your hearts and minds in Messiah issue in every circumstance,
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in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, make your wants,
make your needs known to God.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
This is a thing.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
I'm speaking to things not as they are, but as
they should be. So when I go into his presence,
I thank him already for the need that I'm asking
him for. Thank you, Father, that you are as good
as your word. Thank you for the provision, Thank you
for the healing. Prayer has always been the connection between
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man and God. Once we once we lost what Adam
had in the garden, once he did what he did
and we were severed from that kind of intimacy, we
had to do it through prayer. I don't think Adam
had to do anything, but think. Be and God were
connected so intrinsically, which is why when he fell and
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God was walking in the garden and Adam, where are you,
that connection was no longer. Their sin had broken it.
And just think what it'll be like some day when
all that's gone. You'll be connected to Him in every thought,
in every emotion, in every desire. In their captivity in Babylon,
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Israel prayed to the Lord Jeremiah twenty nine ten. For thus,
says the Lord, after seventy years are completed at Babylon,
I will visit you and perform my good word towards you,
says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil,
to give you a future and a hope. Then you
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shall call upon me and go and pray to me,
and I will listen to you, and you will seek
me and find me. When you search for me with
all your heart, I will be found by you, says
the Lord. And I will bring you back from your captivity.
I will gather you from all the nations, from all
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the places where I've driven you, says the Lord. And
I will bring you to the place from which I
cause you to be carried away captive. Even in their captivity,
he was listening to the voices of his children. So
pray to God as your father, as your Abbah, go
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with me to Matthew six verse eighteen. Of course we
know that this is the Lord's prayer. It's two versions,
Matthew and Luke. Therefore, do not be like them, you know,
the babbling pagans. For your father knows the things you
have need of before you ask them in this manner. Therefore,
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pray our Father in Heaven, how it would be your name,
your kingdom. Come, Your will be done on earth as
it is in heaven. Give us to stay our daily bread,
and forgive us our deaths, as we forgive our debtors.
And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us
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from the evil one, for yours is the kingdom and
the power and the glory forever, bh Man. In developing
your relationship with your heavenly Father, the Lord's Prayer is
always a good place to start. Not to turn it
into a ritual, but speak it from your heart and
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let it develop from there. There are twenty three elements
in the Lord's Prayer. One relationship our Father, recognition of
who he is, and where he is, who is in heaven. Adoration,
Hell would be your name, anticipation, your kingdom, Come, consecration,
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your will be done, universality on earth, conformity as it
is in heaven. Supplication. Give us what this day when
definitive necessity, which is what our daily bred penitence. Give
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us our debts, which is an obligation to Him, as
we forgive our debtors, which means as we offer forgiveness,
love and mercy. And lead us, which is guidance. Where
you're leading us not into temptation. That's protection, but deliver us.
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Deliverance is salvation, deliver us from evil. That's righteousness. Now
we enter into faith for yours as the kingdom and
the power and the glory, humility and reverence and timelessness
because it's forever. And then the affirmation of the prayer
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when we say amen, his three partitions of the prayer
that makes seven points concerning God, and the last four
petitions make sixteen points concerning man. That's how intricate that
one simple prayer is. Frederick Buchner, an American author, preacher,
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and theologian, says, we do well not to pray the
Lord's Prayer lightly. It takes guts to pray it at all.
To speak those words is to invite the tiger out
of the cage, to unleash a power that makes atomic
power look like a warm breeze. The Lord's prayer is
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a refrain of a promise that will soon be fulfilled.
Someday it will be on earth as it is in heaven,
and until then.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
We pray.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Ian Bound says prayer should not be regarded as a
duty which must be performed, but rather as a privilege
to be enjoyed. If you're struggling to pray, you haven't
found the joy in it. In the book, when we
say Father, unlocking the power of the Lord's Prayer by
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Adrian and Steve Rogers says this, the Lord said in
this manner, Therefore pray. This is not necessarily a prayer
to be repeated by wrote our Lord warned about vain
repetitions in this same passage. Sometimes we'll be in a
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public assembly and someone will say, let us all stand
and say the Lord's prayer. Well, friend, you don't say prayers.
You pray prayers. Suppose I come and sit down in
your living room and you look at me and say,
say a conversation that would make sense, would it. Prayer
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is not talking at God, it's talking with God, rattling
up beautiful thoughts or even verses of scripture. You're sure
Jesus is giving us a model prayer. He's saying, pray
like this. Don't pray for a particular length of time.
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It's not the length of your prayer that counts. Don't
argue with God. It's not the logic of your prayer
that counts. Don't use fancy language. It's not the language
of your prayer that counts. It's the focus of your prayer.
Focus on Almighty God. It's the force of your prayer.
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Pray in the power of the Holy Spirit, and it's
the faith of your prayer. Pray, believe and you'll receive pray.
In doubt, you will do without. Pray Believe and you'll
receive pray. In doubt, you'll do without. So this should
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really be called the model prayer, because we see in
Luke e levin one the other place that you'll find it.
And came to pass as he was praying in a
certain place and he ceased, that one of his disciples
said to him, Lord teach us to pray, as John
also taught his disciples. So in his behavior, the Lord
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is an example of one who prays. Oh, shouldn't we
be like him? Shouldn't we follow his example? His prayer
life caused one of the disciples to ask for an
instruction in prayer because John the Baptist had done that
for his disciples. I have no idea what prayer he
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taught them. Obviously wasn't important enough. It's not been included
in the Bible. But this prayer is The Lord is
suggesting this pattern to us because he knew how to pray.
He was the epitome of prayer. King David was close,
but the Lord was the epitome of prayer. We see
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a really good prayer by King David in First Chronicles
twenty nine, starting verse eleven. Yours, Oh Lord, is the greatness,
the power, and the glory, the victory and the majesty.
For all that is in heaven and in earth is yours.
Yours is the Kingdom, O Lord, and you are exalted
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as head overall. Both riches and honor come from you,
and you reign overall in your hand, as power and
might in your hand. It is to make great and
to give strength to all. Now, Therefore, Oh God, we
thank you and praise your glorious name. Pretty good, that's
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good prayer. David knew how to pray, but you can
see by the words it was coming from his heart.
It's not a ritual, but it's an example of focus
and intention.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
That's the key to prayer, right there.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Focus and intention, not an empty recitation of words. I
told you when I was a kid. Because the way
I was raised, because the way I went to school
and the religion I was raised in, I could I
could recite it. Oh boy, I can machine gun out
those words. That wasn't praying. I want to pray like this,
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in this manner. Therefore pray. I want to pray like
he prais. I want to praise God. I want to
intercede for his work in the world, for the provision
of daily needs and for help and daily struggles. Again,
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if you're having trouble praying, just get out the Lord's prayer.
Read it out loud, say it out loud. You know,
these Bible studies aren't for me, although I do get
blessed by them. When the Spirit uses me and the
Lord shows me something, I haven't seen before.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
This is for you.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
To take these words, this time the work and the effort,
for your spirit to grow, for His power to grow
inside of you, for the glow of the Holy Spirit
to shine from you, for you to be able to
change people's lives by a word, a whisper, a hug, Hey,
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Can I pray for you? And when you're done praying,
to see the tears and their eyes flowing down their cheeks,
and to know that a heart has been healed, the
life has been changed, a relationship has been restored because
they have felt the presence of Heavenly Father in your words.
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So the pattern of praise and intercession and in our
petitions help us to understand the nature and the purpose
of prayer through the relationship with our Father. Believer study
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Bible says, through prayer, one recalls personal needs and adopts
an attitude of dependent trust, which is ready to receive
God's gifts and to yield and open trust and praise
to his Demand's Prayer is communion not a battering ram
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used to break down the door to God's treasure house.
It's a receptacle with which the child of the Father
receives that which he already prepared to give you. Hear
that again, Prayer is a receptacle with which the child
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of God receives what he's already prepared to give. That's
the love of a father. So get along with God,
open your heart to give and to receive our Father.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
We'll even get more personal.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Abah, my Abah in heaven, Hallowed be your name. Oh
right there should open the door to you. Abah in heaven,
Hallowed be your name. Holy is your name, Holy, Holy,
Holy Lord, God Almighty, who was and is and is
to come. Abah Papa Daddy. That's the focus of your prayers.
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You're Abbah, who is holy and should be revered as holy.
That's what hallowed means. He is majestic, He transcends everything
on this earth, and in all of that, he's your
Abba Father, personal and loving. The Life Application Bible Commentari
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says these words remind us that God wants to hear
and listen as a loving father, but that coming to
him is an awesome privilege. We must enter the King's
throne room respectfully. And when we pray for God's name
to be hallowed, we pray that this world will honor
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his name, and we look forward to Messiah's return, when
that will be a reality. Your Kingdom, Come, Your will
be done on earth as it is in heaven. I'll
use that section of that prayer sometimes when I'm interceding
Your kingdom. Come, Lord, you will be done on earth
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as it is in heaven. There's no sin in heaven.
There's no sickness in heaven. There's no rebellion in heaven.
There's no death in heaven. Your Kingdom, Come, your will,
for all those things will be done here on earth
as it's been in heaven. The Home and Bible Dictionary
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says Jesus and the Early Christians. The early believer is
believed in two ages, the present Evil Age and the
coming Good Age, the Age to come, which would be
brought by a decisive intervention of God at the end
of history. The shift of the ages would be accompanied
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by the resurrection from the dead and the Last Judgment.
Before either of these events, there would be a time
of great suffering or tribulation. One name given to the
Age to Come was the Kingdom of God. It was
an ideal state of affairs when Satan Hasatan would be defeated,
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Sin would be conquered, and death would be no more.
Jesus believed that in his ministry, the activity of God
that was to bring about the shift of the ages
was already taking place within this world of thought. The
Lord's prayer must be understood because of his ministry, because
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of the Cross, because of the empty tomb, because of
the Upper Room. It has begun, The transition has begun.
We're waiting for the culmination of that transition. Your kingdom come,
and you will be done on earth as it is
in heaven. Are all petitions for the shift of the
ages to take place and for the ideal state of
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affairs to come about. They constitute a prayer for the
final victory of God over Satan the devil, and in
death the kingdom of darth.
Speaker 2 (41:02):
It's possible they were also.
Speaker 1 (41:04):
Understood by the early believers, the early Christian to be
a petition for God's rule in their lives and the
here and now. And I agree with that when I
pray that, that's what I'm saying here and now. Yes,
then I'm longing for then, but I want it now.
Speaker 2 (41:20):
So the Lord's prayer is a prayer of petition.
Speaker 1 (41:24):
It's a significant model prayer for believers. It's not praise
and not thanksgiving. It's not meditation or contemplation, but petition.
It's asking God for something. This prayer petition seeks two objects. First,
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one who prays in this way employs God to act
so as to achieve his purpose capital age in the world. Second,
one who prays in this manner requests God to meet
the physical and spiritual needs of the disciples. It's significant
that the petitions come in the order they do. First
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God's vindication, then the disciples satisfaction, because, let's face it,
we can't do anything to help with that or to
be a part of that unless our physical and spiritual
needs are met. So such a prayer petition assumes a
certain view of God. A God to whom one prays
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in this way is assumed to be in control. And boy,
God is in control no matter what you think you see,
no matter what man thinks he's doing, He's in control.
He's able to answer. He's also assumed to be good,
which means he wants to answer. The Father to whom
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Jesus you should have taught his disciples to pray, is
one who is both in control and good. Just remember,
God is good, but not every good thing is God.
You got to make sure the tom line up. Just
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because you're doing something good doesn't mean it's of God.
But every god thing you do is good. And we
want his spiritual kingdom, God's kingdom, not Israel's, not man's.
We want his kingdom. In praying for God's kingdom, we're
praying for his justice, his righteousness, his peace and mercy
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to be established. And the kingdom began when Ya sure
it came to earth and began this in the heart
of his followers, who then passed it on to all
that would come after him Luke seventeen, verse twenty. Now,
when he was asked by the Pharisees when the Kingdom
of God would come, he answered them and said, Kingdom
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of God does not come with observation, meaning it's not visible,
nor will they say see here or see there. For indeed,
the Kingdom of God is within you know. What he
was saying, is in your heart. That's where it begins.
When we pray this prayer, we're also praying for the
second coming. Do you pray for that? Do you even
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believe in it? Are you praying for his return? When
we seek his will, we are reinforcing the concept of
unity and family. We are all in this together, and
if we could ever get our act together, just think
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the damage we could do to the kingdom of darkness. See,
we are of the family of God. Matthew twelve thirenty,
verse forty six. When he was still talking to the multitudes, behold,
his mother and brothers stood outside seeking to speak with him. Yes,
I know there's some denominations that tell you he didn't marry,
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didn't have any other children, he had no brothers, blah
blah blah. That's not what the word says, So I'm
going to go with the word. His mother and brother
stood outside seeking to speak with him. Then one said
to him, Look, your mother and your brothers are standing
outside seeking to speak with you. And he answered and
said to the one who told him, who is my
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mother and who are my brothers? He stretched out his
hands towards his disciples and said, here are my mother
and my brothers. For whoever does the will of my
Father in Heaven is my brother and sister and mother.
By this point, when his ministry had become active, the
scope of family had expanded for him, and his will
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reveals his family, meaning those who do his will from
the heart. Are of the family of God? Will you
do that? Will you do his will from the heart?
Will you seek his will for your life? Or are
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you so caught up in you.
Speaker 2 (46:19):
In your needs?
Speaker 1 (46:23):
And I know it, when you're struggling, when you're suffering,
it's really easy to get caught up in that. But
if you're praying from the heart, you're seeking his needs
as well. What do you want, Lord? What do you
want me to do? What do you want me to say?
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Where do you want me to go? Let your will
be done in my life? Prayers asking God to align
you with his will rather than asking him to be
aligned with yours. Let me say that one again. Prayer
is asking God to align you with his will rather
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than asking him to be aligned with yours. Your Kingdom, Come,
your will, Father, His perfect purpose established on earth in
our lives, as it is in the throne room. So
focusing on his will, on God's will is of crucial importance,
more so than our personal needs.
Speaker 2 (47:31):
But we can ask him for.
Speaker 1 (47:33):
Our daily bread, for daily needs to be met, and
to forgive us our debts as we forgive those who
are indebted to us. These are the daily provisions and
conditions to.
Speaker 2 (47:48):
Live by.
Speaker 1 (47:50):
His will for our life is a daily consideration. This
is why you start the day out in prayer. This
is why you end the day prayer. So that when
you go to sleep and your body sleeps and your
spirit man is awake, you've entered prayer. You've entered the
prayer state. It keeps the focus on the ongoing relationship,
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the back and forth that flow, the eternal flow, up
and back, up and back. You're always connected with God.
When somebody says, oh I don't feel him, I don't
sense him, I know you're not praying. You're not creating intimacy,
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you're not creating connection with him. Just like with the
manner and the wilderness, we still have to do something.
But He is the sustainer and the provider. Luke eleven Ford,
forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who
has sinned or is indebted to us. Debts are sins.
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Forgive others because He has forgiven us, and it's not optional.
Oh I just can't forgive them, I can't let go. Well,
that's on you, and you've just now stepped outside of
his will. When you say that, you've stepped outside of
his realm. Of influence. When you say something like that, oh,
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they hurt me too much. They did this, or they
did that, that's not what the Word says. The Word
says you have to forgive Matthew six, starting verse fourteen.
If you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father.
Speaker 2 (49:39):
Will also forgive you.
Speaker 1 (49:40):
But if you do not forgive their trespasses, neither will
your father forgive your trespasses. Forgiveness isn't optional. Selfishness keeps
us from forgiving others. It also keeps us from his blessings.
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We need to let go of the blockage to receive blessings.
When I hear somebody that has refused to forgive in
a relationship or marriage or whatever, and they've cut people
off or they've gotten a divorce without any biblical qualifications
for divorce, I just shake my head and I feel
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bad because they've opened the door into their life where
not only will his blessings be lost, but the enemy
will now have access to them. That's all the enemy
waits for. It waits for us to make the mistake
and open the door. Forgiving others reflects a repentant, regenerated heart,
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which makes our own forgiveness possible. Those who have experienced
God's forgiveness will forgive. If you remember what you were
like and He forgave you, how could you not forgive others?
I Sue implies. Those who are unwilling to forgive have
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not perceived God's mercy, perhaps never truly repented. Think about
what He's done for you, And do not lead us
into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. First
of all, God does not lead us into temptation or
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tempt us to do evil James one thirteen. Let no
one say when he's tempted, I am tempted by God.
For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he
himself tempt anyone. How about we say, don't let us
yield to temptation, but rescue us from the evil one.
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The New Living translation of verse thirteen help us keep
us from it. Rescue us because we know there's a
rowing lion out there seeking to devour us. We need
his help. That temptation is testing you know He won't
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test you beyond what you can endure. Life Application Bible
commentary says, sometimes God allows his people to be tested
by temptation, but this testing is never without a purpose.
God is always working to refine his people, teach them
to depend on Him and strengthen their character to be
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more like him. They'll always give you a way out
Psalm eighteen, verse two. The Lord is my rock and
my fortress, and my deliverer, my God, my strength, and
whom I will trust my shield, and the horn of
my salvation, my stronghold. He sure knows what temptation is.
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He experienced it in the wilderness and looke. For that's
why that scripture out of Hebrews four point fifteen is
so powerful, especially when we're dealing with this. We don't
have a high priest who's unable to sympathize and understand
our weaknesses and temptations, but one who has been tempted,
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knowing exactly how it feels to be human in every
aspect as we are, yet without committing any sin. So
when we pray that do not let us yield the temptation.
We're printing for divine intervention, from the enticement and the
snares of the wicked one, from the things that the
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enemy knows will trip us up. That's why the Holy
Spirit is there inside of you. Viction and correction to
strengthen you. First Corinthians ten thirteen. No temptation has overtaken you,
accept such as is common to man. But God is faithful.
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Who's faithful. God is faithful, who will not allow you
to be tempted beyond what you are able. But with
the temptation will also make a way of escape that
you may be able to bear it. Oh, I have
a besetting sin, Richard. I can't get rid of it.
I can't let go of it. I have a huge
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problem with that kind of thinking. But because I know,
even when I was unsaved, I could break free of
things temporarily. I couldn't permanently get the root out because
that took supernatural means. But if you really want to
stop doing something, you'll stop if you've reached the point
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that you can't control it well in its demonic bondage.
But the fact is you can loosen the soil by prayer.
You can pray the word Psalm one forty one, Verses
four and nine. Do not incline my heart to any
evil thing, to practice wicked works with men who work iniquity,
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and don't let me eat their delicacies. Keep me from
the snares they have laid for me and from the
traps of the workers of iniquity. Martin Luther was very clear,
prayers a strong wall and a fortress of the church.
It is a godly Christian weapon. Whatever you're dealing with,
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whatever the struggle is, whatever the enemy's using to torment
you or to trip you up, you have the power,
through the name of Yustua, the name of the Lord,
and the Holy Spirit, to stop it.
Speaker 2 (55:58):
If you really want to.
Speaker 1 (56:02):
That is now why we talked about putting on the
full armer of God for his precepts, or like the
splendid armor of the heavily armed soldier, so that you
may be able to successfully stand against all the schemes
and the strategies and the deceits of the devil. Ephesian
six eleven. The Lord's prayer ends on the declaration of
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a need from God to deliver us from the evil
of this age, a world, and a time that is
on a demonic march to armageddon, and we're watching it
play out every day. Am I afraid?
Speaker 3 (56:45):
No?
Speaker 1 (56:45):
Am I concerned? I'm watching it because I know where
it's headed. In the original Greek, it literally says deliver
us from the evil one, not just talking about sin,
but talking specifically about Satan, the adversary. So you should
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had taught us to pray that we would be delivered
from Satan, which means delivered from the kingdom of darkness,
delivered from all that serve it, the kingdom of darkness.
Satan's in it too. But we'll just we won't. We
won't go there. I think I just did. Sorry whatever
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and Acts twenty six, when Paul tells about what the
Lord said to him twenty six, verse seventeen. I will
deliver you from the Jewish people as well as from
the Gentiles, to whom I now send you to open
their eyes in order to turn them from darkness to light,
and from the power of Satan to God, that they
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may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance amongst those
who are being sanctified by faith in me. Acts twenty six,
Verses seventeen and eighteen. That's what we're saying. For yours
is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever.
Amen of Saint thinks this is his world, this is
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his kingdom. Yes, he does have a kingdom, the Kingdom
of darkness. But we've been translated into the Kingdom of Light,
the kingdom of the Son of His Love. So what
we're speaking at the end of that prayer is a
blessing to the eternal authority and power of God we
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seated over and over through the scriptures Philippians four twenty.
Now to our God and Father be glory forever and ever.
Speaker 2 (58:45):
Amen. David understood this. Isn't that amazing? He understood this.
Speaker 1 (58:54):
Prayer of King David in First Chronicles twenty nine to eleven.
For Yours, oh Lord, is the greatness, the power, and
the glory, the victory and the majesty. For all that
is in heaven and in earth is yours. Yours is
the kingdom, O Lord, and you are exalted as head.
Speaker 2 (59:14):
Over all You Lord, You sure yours is the greatness.
Speaker 1 (59:24):
Yours is the power and the glory, the victory and
the majesty. All that it's in heaven and all that's
in earth is yours. It's your kingdom, Lord, and you
are exalted as head.
Speaker 2 (59:41):
Over all.
Speaker 1 (59:45):
The power and the glory and the victory and the
majesty in heaven and on earth. His dominion, his kingdom,
he is exalted. His name is Exalted. If you're going
to pray always, then you're praying in His name. You're
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speaking the word, You're speaking it out loud. Yourselves are
hearing it. Your body is hearing it, your spirit man
or woman is hearing it. So let's go back to
that word in the beginning from the Lord, which I
don't think in all the times I've ever done this,
that the Lord gave a word to the people that
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were listening to a specific session of the porch. So
if you're listening, this is for you. I call you
to be a people of prayer, my people of prayer,
praying as I lead you where I lead you, and
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for my purposes, enter into the secret place of my glory.
Speaker 2 (01:01:02):
O Lord, O Lord, oh Lord. Do we want that.
Speaker 1 (01:01:08):
Lead us, guide us, guard us, show us how to pray,
show us what to say, open our hearts, open our eyes,
open our ears, change us from the inside out. We
want to be your people of prayer in this hour,
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for this time, to be the ones that you can
rely upon to wake up in the night hours, to pray,
to intercede, to stand in the gap.
Speaker 2 (01:01:42):
Yours, oh Lord, yours, oh Lord. The will.
Speaker 1 (01:01:47):
We want your will in our life yes, we need
your blessings to do these things. We need our daily
provisions so that we're not distracted from what you need
to do. That the enemy does not have any access
to us. And Lord, I pray right now for the
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power the Holy Spirit, the infeeling of the Holy Spirit.
For as much as we need to have to fill us,
to fill us right now. So whether we speak and
pray in English or we pray in our heavenly language,
your will is done. Your needs are met as ours
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are being met. Your kingdom is being furthered, you are
being glorified, and that no matter how dark it gets,
we are shining bright and strong and leading the people
out of darkness to safety. We are interceding. We are
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standing in the gap. We're raising up the name. We're
raising up the banner so that others can come to it,
so that others can go in and pray, pray, pray
in Jesus' name. Amen, May the Lord bless you and
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keep you. May the Lord make his face do shine
upon you and be gracious to you. May the Lord
I do now you're sure, haamasiak Jesus the Messiah, lift
up his countenance upon you and give you peace, Give
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you shallow. I'm Richard Grund. This has been the Porch
on Firefall Talk Radio
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