November 12, 2025 • 60 mins
Part 5 of Spiritual Warfare discusses how focused, specific prayer plays a pivotal role, offering fresh insight into the Lord’s Prayer. It highlights prayer not just as a method of spiritual warfare but also to discern God’s will. The Lord taught His disciples to use this model prayer as an example of direct and heartfelt communication with God to further His Kingdom.
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the world. Always, always, always keep them in your prayers,
do not forget them. And of course we pray for
the peace of Jerusalem. May they prosper who love you,
because the Lord told us too, and that means for
me the return of the Prince of peace. There can
be no peace until he returns. Prophecy will be fulfilled,
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and we are watching it happen every day. Abba, we
come to you in the name of your son, the
name above all names. We boldly approach your throne of
grace and mercy, saying Abbah Papa Daddy, thank you, oh
my goodness, thank you so much for all that you're
doing for us, all that you've done, and all that
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we believe that you will do. Thank you for you sure,
thank you for the blood. Thank you for the freedom.
Thank you for the Holy Spirit. Thank you for everything
you set in motion because you loved us too much
to let us spend eternity apart from you. We thank
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you for our homes, our families, our pets, and our possessions.
I know I do each and every day, and I
thank you for their love and their presence in my life.
I thank you for your love for them. Thank you
for the people that are listening to your sons and
your daughters. Lord, I pray right now, I'm getting ahead
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of myself, but I'm just going to flow with the spirit.
I pray that you had touched them and heart, mind, body,
soul and spirit, that you would draw them close to you,
that they would feel your residents all around them and
come to know you as I know you as Abbah
as father. Thank you, Lord for the cross, the empty
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tomb in the upper room. Thank you for the blood
that you shed. Thank you for paying the price we
never would have been able to pay. Thank you for
sending back the Holy Spirit to walk with us, to
teach us, to guide us. It's Holy Spirit, this is
your time. Do whatever you want to do. We ask
you to protect the technology protect us, keep the enemy
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out of the way, and let this word go forth,
and do what you desire it to do. And I
pray all these things in your shoe is name. Amen.
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Word talking spiritual warfare. And the interesting thing about soldiers
in the military, which I've studied for many years. When
I began writing scripts, squips, what a squips? That's what
Elmer Flood writes, squips. I write scripts anyway, I would study,
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read research. That's actually how I met Larry, my fellow
member of SRT and brother and the Lord and partner
in many things, was through one of the books I'd read,
and he was in there, and the Lord told me
to reach out to him, and I did. And I
think that was back in two thousand ninety seven, two
thousand somewhere around there, a long time ago. So the
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Lord said that in motion because of my research. But
the thing about soldiers, and I've always been fascinated by
them and wished i'd had served. But when I was
a young man looking to join, they had much more
stringent requirements, and I did not meet some of them,
and they said, oh, we'll take you and stick you
behind a desk. And had I been smart, I would
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have said, yay, let me take the desk and the
benefits and all that went with it and the camaraderie.
But that wasn't the Lord's plan for my life. The
thing about soldiers, they're soldiers for life. It's their identity.
That's why they have such a hard time reacclimating to
civilian life. It's the foundation of their character. There exists,
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it's their personality, and it's imbredened them by the military.
Two Timothy, Chapter two, verse four kind of hints at
that no one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the
affairs of this life that he may please him who
enlisted him as a soldier. No soldier an active service
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gets entangled into the ordinary business affairs of civilian life.
They avoid them so that they may please the one
who enlisted them. To serve pleasing the captain of the
host becomes a part of that identity. We say, well, Richard,
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I'm not a soldier. Actually you are get over that
if you you know, we're going to have to get
over that aspect. Just being a believer in your shoe
it marked by the blood name written in a lamb's
book of life. You are an enemy to the kingdom
of darkness. So just receive it, get over it, and
get on with doing what He's called you to do.
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But one of those things you need to do is
you need to know who you are in Him and
why you are doing what you're doing. It's one of
the first things they ingrain into a soldier, that aspect
of camaraderie and identity. Galatians three twenty six tells us,
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for you who are born again, have been reborn from above,
spiritually transformed, renewed, sanctified, and are all children of God,
set apart for His purpose with full rights and privileges
through faith in Messiah Yeshua. John in First John three
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to one says, see what an incredible quality of love
the Father has shown to us that we would be
permitted to be named and called and counted the children
of God, and so we are for this reason. The
world does not know us, because it did not know
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him who's the God of this world. Satan and the fallen,
they're the ones who rule it. They not only don't
know us, they don't like us, and they don't want
us to be who we are. Ephesians two ten tells
us who we are, for we are His workmanship, his
own master work, a work of art created in Messiah.
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Issue are reborn from above, spiritually transformed, renewed, ready to
be used for good works which God prepared for us beforehand,
taking paths which he sets so that we would walk
in them, living the good life which He prearranged and
made ready for us. Oh boy, amen to that. Living
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the good life as children of God also means we
become targets of the enemy. Look what's going on in
the secular world right now. Anyone who wants to live righteously,
or live in the name of Yeshia, or live by
the precepts of the Bible as being attacked. It's being hated.
There are religions out there that would seek to destroy
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us that I would say are demonically inspired. And the
day of Pentecost set the time of evil in motion
due to the arrival of the empowered Church. That day
of Pentecost was God's way of saying, enough Satan, enough
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fallen angels, enough demons. I have empowered my church to
deal with you. Let's get it on. Well, maybe he
didn't add that part, but that just comes from my nature,
my feeling of warfare, of righteous indignation, of standing up
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for the name of the Lord. Ephesian six, starting verse twelve,
New Living Translation, we are not fighting against flesh and
blood enemies, but against evil rulers and authorities of the
unseen world, against mighty powers in this dark world, against
evil spirits in the heavenly places. Doesn't sound too peaceful
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to me. Therefore, put on every piece of God's armor
so that you will be able to resist the enemy
in the time of evil. Then after the battle you
be standing firm, stand your ground, putting on the belt
of truth, the body armor, the breastplate of righteous God's
righteousness for shoes. Put on the peace that comes from
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the good News, so that you will be fully prepared
to preach the Gospel. In addition to all of these,
hold up the shield of faith to stop the fiery
arrows of the evil one we know with the devil.
Put on salvation as your helmet. That helmet is salvation.
And take the sword of the Spirit, which is the
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Word of God. Praying in the spirit at all times
on every occasion. Stay alert and be persistent in your
prayers for all believers everywhere, with all prayer and petition. Pray, pray,
pray with specific requests at all times, on every occasion,
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in every season in the spirit capitalists, and with this
in views, stay alert with all perseverance and petition, interceding
in prayer for all God's people, for all the saints.
Why would you stay alert, Because there's a roaring lion
seeking whom he may devour. So the army gave us
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the wad of spiritual warfare of the prayer, gave us
the how for everyone listening. You can do this. You
can pray, you can stand in the gap, you can intercede.
You can pray before the throne for someone's salvation, for
someone's rescue, for someone's healing, for the Gospel to go forth,
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for those called to do what they would do, for
the Kingdom of God, to have every need met and
have a covering over them, prayer, communication with God, petition, thanksgiving, praise,
hymns or a lament. And pray not only in the
name of the Lord, Oh, but pray in the powerful
faith of the Lord. John five pointnineteen. Most assurely, it's
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the Lord speaking, most assuredly. I say to you, the
son can do nothing of himself but what he sees
the Father do. For whatever he does, the son also
does in like manner. He does nothing but what he
has seen the Father do. Well, no human could say
that unless they were pre existent, unlest they had been
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there at the beginning of time, unless they already know him.
John chapter eight, Stirting, verse twenty six. The Lord speaking
read letters. I have many things to say to you
and to judge concerning you. But he who sent me
is true, and I speak to the world these things
which I have heard from him. They did not understand
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he spoke to them of the Father. So then you
sure have said to them, when you lift up the
Son of Man, and you will know that I am he.
And then I do nothing of myself. But as my
father taught me, I speak these things, and he who
sent me is with me. The Father has not left
me alone for I will always do the things that
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please him, as he spoke these words when he believed
in him John twelve forty nine. Who getting hit early? Here, folks,
hold on John twelve forty nine. For I've not spoken
on my own authority, but the father let me try
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to get control of my tongue. For I have not
spoken on my own authority, but the father who sent me,
gave me a command what I should say in what
I should speak? You sure did not act independently of
the father. On the contrary, he understood that because he
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and the father were one, and he only did what
the father showed him. If the father did it, the
Lord sought and he showed it to us, And he
only taught what the Father had designed to be understood.
Understand a serious question. Understand Are you understanding that he
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didn't come of his own will? He didn't come of
his own accord. The father sent him and will send
him a again to come back and to finish everything.
Everything he said, everything he did was about restoration to
the Father. So the main element needed for us to
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understand the father is prayer. You sue a new prayer.
The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia says in the Bible, prayer
is used in a simpler and also more complex, a
narrower and wider signification. Little play on words there, it's
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simple and it's complex, It's narrow and it's wide. In
the former case, it's application for the benefits, either for oneself,
which is a petition, or for others, which is intercession.
In the latter, it's an act of worship which covers
all the attitudes of the soul in its approach to God.
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The supplication is at the heart of it, for prayer
always springs out of a sense of need and a
belief that God is a rewarder of them that diligently
seek Him gee which scripture does that come from Hebrews
eleven six. But adoration and confession and thanksgiving also find
a place so that the petitioner becomes a worshiper. By
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teaching us to approach God as our father, Yshure raised
prayer to its highest plane, making it not less reverent
than it was at its best in Old Testament times,
while far more intimate and trustful. So Yushua was emphatically
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a man of prayer, praying frequently in private and public
spending nights in communion with his heavenly Father, speaking to
the disciples about prayer, cautioning them again against the flamboyant,
so showy prayers of the Pharisees, urging perseverance and faith
and great expectations from their prayers. And then he gave
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them a model, which we call the Lord's Prayer. There's
two accounts of the Lord's Prayer, and Luke and Matthew
and said, I know everybody just went, well, wait a second, Richard,
we're talking to spiritual warfare. Why are you teaching us
about the Lord's prayer? Because I'm going to offer you
a unique perspective on the Lord's prayer, So just just
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bear with me. So there are two places, Luke and Matthew.
The Book of Luke, written in between sixty and sixty
two AD unanimously believe the ancient testimony of Luke the
Beloved Physician mentioned in Colossha's four fourteen that he wrote
the Third Gospel. Modern scholarship draws attention to the Act
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as Acts, also written by Luke, is actually the companion.
The two should actually go together. These two works written
by the same author, have the same message and flow cohesively.
I wonder if anybody's ever done that, taking Luke and
Acts and put them into one book. So together they
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alone make up half the New Testament. So by sheer
volume of output alone, Luke takes on a special significance.
And I believe that the understand to understand the Book
of Acts, Church lies and tying the two together. King
James study Bible Notes says some ever courdingly stressed his
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meaning Luke's contribution as a historian, a discoverer, and a
preserver of facts. Others see him primarily a Theolosian and
an expositor of the meaning of facts. He's really both.
He presents both the meaning of the Gospel saga and
its factual ground. He produces what is, by the reckoning
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of Many, the Gospel most attractive in style, poignant, and
message that we possess. Several themes dominate the Gospel of Luke.
He stresses the overreaching plan of God in human history,
as revealed through Israel, Messiah, and the Church. He put
special emphasis on salvation. As such, the word note, though
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not the idea, is absent from Matthew and Mark and
appears once in John. He's concerned concerned. Excuse me, the
nasal thing just happened there. Bear with me today. He's
concerned with individuals. We see Zacharias, we see Elizabeth, we
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see Marry the mother of Jesus, Mary and Martha, and Zechias,
just to name a few. He shows the importance of
women and call special attention to children, the poor, and
the disreputable. He stresses the Holy Spirit both in the
life of Yeshua and in the early Church. And finally,
as in all the gospels, he covers Yeshua's suffering and
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death in lengthy and detailed treatment. Luke's gospel is careful,
an engrossing presentation of God's saving will and work in
the world, predominantly through his son. And I would offer,
if you accept all of that, that God handpicked Luke
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a doctor, somebody who understood details, a historian. He handpicked
him to be his reporter to the world. Now, having
set all that up, let's go to Luke chapter eleven.
We'll start with verse one. Now came to pass as
he was praying in a certain place when he ceased. Again,
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he capitalates Yeshua that one of his disciples came to him,
Lord teach us to pray. As John also taught his decipiples,
You need to understand the religious communities of the day
customarily had their own distinctive prayers first too. So he
said to them, when you pray, say our Father in
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heaven hell, it be your name, your kingdom. Come, Your
will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us
our sins, for we also forgive everyone who is indebted
to us. And do not lead us into temptation, but
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deliver us from the evil one. Now Matthew six nine
through thirteen says essentially the exact same thing, except for
the ending in verse thirteen of Matthew six, do not
lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one,
for yours as the Kingdom and the Power and the
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glory forever. Amen. So two different accounts of the same teaching,
a succinct and powerful expression of how to pray in
light of the Gospel and the Kingdom of God. Every
time you pray this prayer, I want you to think that, yes,
it's personal, but this is a Kingdom prayer. And Matthew
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the prayer appears in the Sermon on the mount. When
your shoe has spoke about righteousness exceeding the scribes and
the pharisees, who's actually speaking to them? How to exceed
the religious frauds of the day. It's also not to
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make a public display, not to heap up empty phrases,
thinking that you're going to be heard by all the
words you speak Matthew six, seven and eight. When you pray,
do not use vain repetition, as the Heathens do, for
they think they'll be heard for the many words. Therefore,
do not be like them. Your father knows the things
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that you need of before you ask him. And I
don't understand it, but since I got saved in October
of eighty eight to now, anytime I've been in a
corporate setting, there's always somebody who does exactly what they're
not supposed to be doing. Repetition, repetition, repetition. Wordy, I'm
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going to pray for you right now. Well, I grew
a beard while you've been praying for me. Have we
done yet? So do not use vein repetition. Pray from
the heart, not just the tongue. The eloquence of prayer
consists in the fervency of the desire and the simplicity
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of your faith. We need to not use so many words.
We need to be humble and trustful in the Lord
and have confidence that He already knows what we're about
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to say, and there's nothing we can say to him,
can't manipulate him. He knows the things which we need.
See Jewish scholars of the day. They use fixed prayers
during that period of time and generally held them to
be acceptable if one's intent was genuine. Greek prayers piled
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up as many titles of the deity addressed as possible,
hoping to secure his or her attention, and Pagan prayers
typically reminded the deity of favors done or sax Sacrifice
is offered attempting to get a response from the God
on contractual ground. And listen to what I just said
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right there, because there are people in the church teaching
you to remind God of him his obligations to you.
That's what heathens do, that's what gentiles do. Your father
knows your needs. And in Judaism, God was the father
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of Israel, and he delighted to meeting the needs of
his people. He knew their thoughts, he knew their needs.
Yashia took that and made it intimate, not a business model,
but something more intimate. Other post says Ephesian six eighteen,
praying always with all prayer and supplication in the spirit.
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If you're going to pray in the spirit, you're not
going to pray like the Heathens would, being watchful to
this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints. Basically,
he knows the need get to the point in this manner.
Therefore pray. He gives us an example of how to pray,
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briefly and focused, and it's offered as a substitute of
the long winded, showy prayers of the day. Don't make
it empty reciting I used to do that. I was
raised to pray that prayer, and a couple of other ones.
We won't go over that now, but I could shotgun
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them without meaning, without thinking what I was saying. Your
shoe is my example to pray. His prayer life, his
instructions to follow, and the Lord's prayer is very similar
to the common Jewish prayers of the day. The kadish
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so we have his expression of our new faith. See
he tells them in the beginning what to pray for
and Luke eleven, nine through thirteen. Let me back up
there for a second. I don't want you to miss
any of this, because I believe, first of all, if
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you know me by now, you know that if I'm
teaching it, I think it's important. I'm not here to
waste your time or mine, And I teach what the
Lord gives me. Luke eleven, starting verse nine. So I
say to you, ask and it will be given to you.
Seek and you will find. Knock and it will be
open to you. For everyone who asks receives, everyone who
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seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.
Stop right there nine to ten and realize, I need
to know how to pray. I need to know what
to ask for. I need to know what to say.
Those two scriptures apply to that. What do you need?
You need revelation, pray. But then we get into the tangible.
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If a son asks for bread from any father among you,
will it give them a stark? Or if he asks for
a fish, will he give him a serpent instead of
a fish. Or if he asks for an egg, will
he offer him a scorpion? If you, then, being evil,
know how to give good gifts to your children. How
much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit
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to those who ask him? That's what you're praying for
nine and ten. Tie into verse thirteen, giving you the
Holy Spirit, because with the Holy Spirit you can do
all things. You can do exceedingly and abundantly, beyond anything
you could think or imagine. So the Lord's prayer becomes
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a model of what to pray for. Pray for favor
with the Father, ending in receiving the Holy Spirit, which
gives you the connection and the power and the ability
to do all the things that he'll show you to do.
Romans A sixteen. The Spirit capitalists himself, bears witness with
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our spirit, little less human spirit, holy Spirit, that we
are the children of God. His spirit joins with our
spirit to affirm that we are God's children. And that's
how we approach them. And what does the enemy do
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to disrupt that? He entices the soldier of God to
commit treason, spiritual adultery. It's the tool of the enemy
to betray the one whom we serve, the one who
called us, the one who died for us James Verses
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four and five. Adulterers and adultresses, do you not know
that friendship with the world is enmity with God. We
know enmity is what it's hatred. Whoever therefore wants to
be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy
of God. Or do you think that the scripture says
in vain the spirit dwells in us yearns jealously, You adultress,
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you disloyal sinners, you flirting with the world and breaking
your vow to God. Do you not know that being
the world's friends, loving the things of the world is
becoming God's enemy. If you choose to be a friend
of the world, you make yourself an enemy of God.
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That's how the enemy gets us to betray him, to
commit treason. So the infilling of the Holy Spirit becomes
affirmation and connection, and declaring the Lord's prayer reaffirms our
loyalty and our identity. And praying him this way is
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a distinguishing mark of a disciple. So when we say
our Father in heaven, Israel would say our heavenly Father,
but we're saying Abba Papa, which is pretty rare. That
was not used for that situation, which is why they
hated him for this. Jews ever called him Abba, and
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the only time Yeshue had didn't use the word abba
in is on the cross in Mark fifteen thirty fourth,
the ninth hour, you Shoe had cried out with a
loud voice saying, Lo aloi lama sabaktani, which has translated
my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? And
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at that point he was speaking for humanity. He wasn't
directing him as father. He was directing him of the
God of all humanity. That's why he shed every drop
of blood, That's why he suffered for us. So Abba,
which you hear me use a lot. And once I
learned and that aspect of God, my entire spiritual life changed.
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It's an Aramaic word. It's intimate, it's affectionate. It's like
I felt that in my heart. It's like one of
my grandson Jason, calls me Papa. It's affectionate. It should
be the first word a child utters. We should never
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forget that aspect of our fathers. Sometimes students of the
day use that for their teachers, but it's intimate, and
the Jews did not use that word, which is why
what Yushua was doing was giving us the privilege in
personal prayer to call God Abbah. And I believe that
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was from the Father's heart. Remember what he said, I
only do it, Father says, I believe that giving us
this prayer came directly from the heart of our heavenly Father.
Let your name be celebrated, venerated, and esteemed as wholly
everywhere and received from everyone proper honor for who you are.
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That's the heartfelt wish and desire of a worshiper, that
the name of God, God himself, our Father, should be
revered and respected. I for one, and I know I've
shared this before. Hate when unbelievers use his name in vain,
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use the Lord's name in vain. And I have in
public situations looked at somebody and says, just to let
you know, my father's last name is not damn. It
hurts my heart, yet it angers me. So you have
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no right to use his name. You have no right
to speak his name, but definitely not like that. And
in media and movies and things, when they put a
a four letter word behind you, show his name Jesus
something something. I just want to reach through the screen
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and grab him by their face and say, let's have
a little conversation. Let's have a come to Jesus moment,
So adoration and subjection to his will. That's what this
is about. Submission and his will. His way should be
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enough for us. Posted that on a story on Instagram
and Facebook. His will, his way should be enough for us.
When we say your will be done on earth as
it is in heaven, we should mean it. Why would
we want anything else? Why would you want your way
over his way? You think you know more than him,
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You think you can see the end from the beginning.
But how do we know the will of God? Well,
the will of God is the word of God. It's
there first Thessalonians four, verses three through five. For this
is the will of God your sanctification, that you should
abstain from sexual immorality, that each of you should know
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how to possess his own vessel and sanctification and honor,
and not in passion of lust like the gentiles do,
who do not know God. Why it is that, because
that's an open door to the enemy, that's access to
your soul, that sustain upon you, that's a connection to you.
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One John two seventeen, amplified in the world is passing
away in the lust of it. But he who does
the will of God abides forever. So the will of
God from the Word of God is obedience and its sanctification,
which is holiness, which you can't do without the Holy Spirit.
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So when we're praying his will be done on earth
as it is in heaven, we're praying that His revealed
will would be obeyed and loved. That his can call
it the law, you can call it, his rules are
perfectly obeyed, not the least of which his son, being
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Lord of your life, being your savior, your Messiah, and
that we as a children, should desire and pray for
that to be obeyed on earth. Oh, Richard, I don't
want to offend anybody. I don't want to push this
on anybody. Nobody's telling you to. But what you're praying
when you pray that prayer, is for them to come
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to the realization that His will, his desire, is for
everyone to be saved. So we're gonna glorify his name.
We're going to pray that His kingdom is established, and
the glory of His kingdom fills our hearts, and our
petitions make it before His throne of grace. For when
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the kingdom of righteousness and peace and joy and the
Holy Spirit. In the Holy Spirit is established in the
hearts and minds of those that know Him and love him,
but also those that come to know Him and love him,
then provision will be made to fulfill His divine will. Saying,
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your Kingdom Come, Your will be done with speaking both
present and future, the New Living Translations, study Bible says,
and praying for God's kingdom to come. You shoe his disciples.
Pray for His justice, righteousness, peace, and mercy to be established.
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Outside God's will, no person, no one will be permitted
into God's presence. So as believers, we should willingly submit
fully to God's will. If you shoe a lord of
our life, that shouldn't be a question, and we should
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pray this prayer daily for the consummation of God's rule,
in which He will rule fully and completely over the world.
If you're not seeing a shift right now in this
world spiritually against the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob,
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against his son Ya Shohamashiah, Jesus the Messiah, you are
blind and you're not paying attention. His ministry in us
was to bring a shift of the ages to the world,
starting on the day of Pentecost issue. In the early Church,
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they believed in two ages, the present Evil Age and
the coming Good Age. The Kingdom Age and the shift
will be accompanied by the resurrection of the dead and
the final judgment. But before those events can take place,
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there'll be a time of great suffering and tribulation. Why
because there's a kingdom here that doesn't want that. It's
pretty basic if you see it. Clearly, we're praying for
something a Satan and his angels and their demons don't want.
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They're going to resist it. They're going to try to
stop it, either individually against us or corporately against us
as the Church. So when we pray, we are imploring God,
our father, to achieve his purpose in the world. Physical needs,
spiritual needs for his children. That's a purpose, vindication, spiritual satisfaction,
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that's a purpose. And when we pray like that, when
we pray to God like that, we're basically saying we
believe he's in control and that he's able to answer us.
And we're also saying we believe that he is good
and wants to answer us. And that's what the Lord
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is saying in this prayer. Pray to the one who
is both in control and good because he's your Abba.
So when I say Abbah, your kingdom come. The minute
I start this deck of I'm declaring who I am
as his child. Now I could go off on a
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tangenteer and teach you on all the names of God,
whether it's Elohim, Creator, transcend It, mighty and strong, how
Joanan knew him. I could do El Shadai, the all
sufficient one, self sufficient one. That's how Job knew him,
Oda or and I Master or Lord, the prophets knew
him Yahweh, and I am the covenant named Moses knew him.
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By I could teach you about Almighty, Eternal God, Father
of Lights, Heavenly Father, Holy One of Israel, the most
High God. Or I could just sum it all in Alba.
I used to do all that. Shelley was great at
teaching on the names of God, and I used to
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eat that up, and I used to pray those names,
and I speak those names out, and then I had
the revelation I'm speaking in the most powerful name I
have Abah Papa, because when I say Abba, I'm including
all those aspects of who he is, God's name, God's Kingdom,
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God's will, that's what I'm praying for, and if I
do that, it will keep me from praying selfishly. So
the foundation of all prayer comes from what your personal
relationship with God as father. Now we get into a
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little thing. It's not even in my notes. It just
came to me O spirits having some fun, and I
love it. The reason most people struggle to pray is
because of their fractured relationships with their earthly father. So
one of the first things you need to pray for
is to be healed of that and for him to
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become now and always you're abba. That's what it took
for me to learn this, for that pain and suffering
and brokenness that my earthly father brought to me to
be removed, and he became my father once I became
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born again, I had only one father, my father in heaven,
and he has set apart. He is holy, he's hollowed.
So when I come to him, I come in a
frame of mind of intimacy and also respect because of
who he is. I don't take anything for granted. I
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don't follow a formula. I follow a revelation of who
he is, and I'm in awe of him. I'm submitted
to him. I'm dependent upon him, and I am completely
confident in my Father's love. That's what the Lord prayer
does for me. Give us this day our daily bread,
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ah Man Wilderness. But it's more than that. It's the
amount of bread I think both tangible and the word
of God and necessary to survive for a day. That's
all it was in the wilderness. Daily bread. Provision, that's
what it's about. Provision. Proverbs thirty verses eight and nine.
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Remove falsehood and lies far from me. Give me neither
poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food allotted to me.
Lest I be full and deny you Lord, and say
who is the Lord? Or lest I be poor and
steel and profane the name of the Lord. I thought
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about this quote that's attributed to Napoleon that an army
marches on its stomach, meaning an army's effectiveness depends upon
having good and sufficient food, and he was known for
providing good food to his soldiers. If I apply that
to this, it highlights the importance of upper spiritual nutrition
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for us to perform our duties and to do what
He's asked us to do. So I need both my
natural needs met and I need, my spiritual needs met
give us to stay our daily bread. So you're asking
him to take care of your daily need so you
can go about kingdom business relieved of care or worries.
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That's always my pray every day, Lord, send the blessing
so that we can do what you've called us to
do without hindrance, without delay, without care. Therefore, I say
to you, do not worry about your life, what you
will eat, what you will drink, nor about your body.
What you will put on. Is not life more than food,
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and the body more than clothing. Look at the birds
of the air, for they neither sow, nor reap, nor
gather into barns. That your heavenly Father feeds them. You
not of more value than they, which of you, by worrying,
can add one cubit to your stature. So why do
you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field,
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how they grow. They neither toil nor spend. And yet
I say to you that even Solomon, in all his glory,
was not a raid like one of these. Now, if
God so clothes the grass of the field, which is
today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he
not much more clothe you of your little faith. Therefore,
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do not worry, saying what shall we eat, or what
shall we drink? Or what shall we wear? For all
these things the gentile seek. For your heavenly Father knows
that you need all these things. But seek first the
Kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things
shall be added to you. Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow,
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for tomorrow will worry about its own things sufficient, for
the day is its own trouble. All these things will
be added. So you seek first the Kingdom of God
and his righteousness. Everything that you need to do, everything
that He's called you to do, everything that he put
on your mind to do, he will provide, and he
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will prepare you to do it while you waited. And
ye Shua wanted his disciples, which I believe includes us,
to live in a constant state of dependence upon the
Father and his provisions. John six starting Versus by the
way that was sermon on them, Ount Matthew six twenty
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five through thirty four that I've read to you before,
Sue said, most assuredly, I say to you, most did
not give you the bread from heaven. My Father gives
you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of
God is he who comes down from heaven and gives
life to the world. John six thirty two through forty. Hey,
this is provision. Lord, give us this bread. Always. They
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weren't thinking spiritually, they were thinking naturally. They're thinking manna.
And you show us that I am the bread of life.
He who comes to me shall never hunger. He who
believes in me shall never thirst. But I said that
to you, that you have seen me, and yet do
not believe. All that the Father gives me will come
to me. And the one who comes to me, I
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will by no means cast out, For I have come
down from heaven not to do my own will, but
the will of him who sent me. And this is
the will of the Father who sent me, that all
he has given me I should lose nothing, but should
raise it up on the last day. And this is
the will of him who sent me. That everyone who
sees the Son believes in him may have everlasting life,
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and I will raise him up at the last day.
John six thirty two through forty. Forgive us our sins,
our deaths to God and to others. So we also
forgive everyone who's indebted to us. This is where the
prayer really blows up. For a lot of people. Those debts,
those are obligations, incurred sins of omission, sins of commission,
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and forgiveness means the cancelation of those debts and obligations.
God for forgives those who are truly repentant, and true
repentance results in a willingness to forgive others. But it
comes with a warning Matthew six fourteen and fifteen. For
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if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will
also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men
their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. Forgiveness
with the Father depends upon forgiveness among the families of God.
This forgiveness affects our relationship as a family and affects
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our relationship with God. It's an obligation. If you do
not forgive, he does not forgive you. Now why is
that important? Because that creates an open door that gives
the enemy access and rights and powers over us. We
don't want that. Forgiving others is a reflection of a repentant,
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regenerated heart. Means you can feel the convicting presence of
the Holy Spirit, and that makes forgiveness possible. If we've
experienced his forgiveness, we will forgive and you, Sue implies.
Those unwilling to forgive have not truly perceived God's mercy,
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that have never truly repented. I have met supposed believers,
he says what they say. They are of the most bitter,
unforgiving people I've ever met. And every now and then
I've called him out on the fact that you don't
know him, nor have you ever known him, because the
way you spewed that ved amount of your mouth tells
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me your heart has never changed. You got to be
willing to let go. You have to be willing to
see the other person as flawed and broken as you are.
So the Greek grammar used in this indicates that a
disciple praise for forgiveness from God only after having first
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expressed forgiveness to others. And that key's right into what
I said about open doors. Do not lead us into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one, and then we'll
let We'll tack on yours as the kingdom and the
power and the glory forever. I'm in it's a temptation. Well,
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I don't have to forgive them. They've never asked for forgiveness.
Do you know what they did to me doesn't matter.
Look what they did to you. Shure he forgave you.
Sure it was tempted, Luke four Versus one through eleven.
Temptation will test the disciple's character. So what does he do?
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He urges us to pray for God's enabling to stand
the test. Paul thought that one Corinthians ten thirteen, no
temptation has overtaken you, except such as common a man.
God is faithful who will not allow you to be
tempted beyond what you are able. But with the temptation
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will also make a way of escape that you may
be able to bear it. David, in all of his flaws,
prayed in Psalm one forty one, verse four. Do not
incline my heart to any evil thing to practice practice
wicked works with men who work in equity, and do
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not let me eat their delicacies. I'll tell you another
thing thing about temptation. It doesn't come from God. I've
seen some people lately post some things that kind of
indicate they and they they believe that their sin or
their error was inspired by the Holy Spirit, and they're
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following the path that God has set them on. Ah,
thank you for playing. Pick up your parting gifts on
the way out be a brand new Bible. Should read it.
Temptation does not come from God James one thirteen. Let
no one say when he is tempted, I am tempted
by God. For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor
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does he himself tempt anyone. Oh, boh, wait, there was
a scripture before that verse twelve which set that up.
Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he
has been approved, he will receive the crown of life
with which the Lord has promised to those who love him.
I inverted it just to get the point at cross.
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God doesn't do this to you because he wants to
bless you with the crown of life. Do not permit
us to be overcome by evil a sin, but deliver
us from the evil one, deliver us from the schemes
of the enemy. Nope, now we're getting back to the
armor of God. See at all ties together. You look
at Lot, Sodom, Gomorrah, he's living there. Takes a bad
place to live. But he isn't succumb he's not seduced.
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The angels come and get him out. Which what God
knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and
to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment.
He delivered Lot, he delivered Noah, he delivered all these people.
He'll deliver you. The prayer of believers is for the
coming kingdom and the second coming of Messiah. And when
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we pray that, it triggers engagement with the enemy, because
that's not the kingdom they want. And that's why I
like adding that final doxology, that final statement for yours
is the kingdom and the Power and the glory forever,
am men. I am stating his kingdom, his power, his glory.
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And some critics say, oh, that's not in there, that
was added, But out of the five hundred cotises that
are out there that have been printed, only eight actually
omit it. So I like it. I'm going to keep it.
Someday the kingdoms of this world that Satan offered the
Lord and Luke four to five will become the kingdoms
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of our Lord and his Messiah, and he shall reign
forever and ever, Satan will be defeated finally, once and
for all, both naturally and spiritually, Sin will be conquered,
and death will be no more. The kingdom, the dominion,
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the rule of the world will finally be finally be his.
But until then we will tarry, and we will occupy.
Father Abbah, Papa Daddy, we love you. Forgive us any
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time that we have been seduced by this world, anytime
we have not hallowed your name or revered who you are,
or taken you for granted. We worship you, We honor you,
the God of all creation, El el Eon, God Most High,
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Thank you forgiving us you shore Thank you for giving
us this prayer that you inspired him to give to us,
so that we could have that connection with You that
I have felt this whole time, even teaching it. Help us,
Holy Spirit, help us to say these words with meaning,
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and to live this life and to do the things
that need to be done too occupied to tarry, to
set the captives free, to break the chains, to cast
out the demons and the bondages into all the things
that have trapped your children. I'm praying right now, Lord,
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for healing in the hearts and minds, of your sons
and daughters, so that they can fully and completely see
you as Abbah, be healed of anything done to them
by their earthly fathers. All the disappointment, all the pain,
all the tears, washed away and fully embraced into the
family of God, no longer a part of this world,
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and waiting, oh, waiting so passionately for the return of
the King, our Lord and Savior, Jesus the Messiah. I
pray this Lord in your name, and you shoe his name. Amen.
May the Lord bless you and keep you. May the Lord,
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may I don't know, I make his face to shine
upon you. Be gracious to you. May the Lord I
don't know you shoe a Hummosiah, Jesus the Messiah, lift
up his countenance upon you and give you peace. Give
you shallam. I'm Richard Grund. This has been the porch
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the world. Always, always, always keep them in your prayers,
do not forget them. And of course we pray for
the peace of Jerusalem. May they prosper who love you,
because the Lord told us too, and that means for
me the return of the Prince of peace. There can
be no peace until he returns. Prophecy will be fulfilled,
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and we are watching it happen every day. Abba, we
come to you in the name of your son, the
name above all names. We boldly approach your throne of
grace and mercy, saying Abbah Papa Daddy, thank you, oh
my goodness, thank you so much for all that you're
doing for us, all that you've done, and all that
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we believe that you will do. Thank you for you sure,
thank you for the blood. Thank you for the freedom.
Thank you for the Holy Spirit. Thank you for everything
you set in motion because you loved us too much
to let us spend eternity apart from you. We thank
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you for our homes, our families, our pets, and our possessions.
I know I do each and every day, and I
thank you for their love and their presence in my life.
I thank you for your love for them. Thank you
for the people that are listening to your sons and
your daughters. Lord, I pray right now, I'm getting ahead
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of myself, but I'm just going to flow with the spirit.
I pray that you had touched them and heart, mind, body,
soul and spirit, that you would draw them close to you,
that they would feel your residents all around them and
come to know you as I know you as Abbah
as father. Thank you, Lord for the cross, the empty
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tomb in the upper room. Thank you for the blood
that you shed. Thank you for paying the price we
never would have been able to pay. Thank you for
sending back the Holy Spirit to walk with us, to
teach us, to guide us. It's Holy Spirit, this is
your time. Do whatever you want to do. We ask
you to protect the technology protect us, keep the enemy
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out of the way, and let this word go forth,
and do what you desire it to do. And I
pray all these things in your shoe is name. Amen.
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Word talking spiritual warfare. And the interesting thing about soldiers
in the military, which I've studied for many years. When
I began writing scripts, squips, what a squips? That's what
Elmer Flood writes, squips. I write scripts anyway, I would study,
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read research. That's actually how I met Larry, my fellow
member of SRT and brother and the Lord and partner
in many things, was through one of the books I'd read,
and he was in there, and the Lord told me
to reach out to him, and I did. And I
think that was back in two thousand ninety seven, two
thousand somewhere around there, a long time ago. So the
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Lord said that in motion because of my research. But
the thing about soldiers, and I've always been fascinated by
them and wished i'd had served. But when I was
a young man looking to join, they had much more
stringent requirements, and I did not meet some of them,
and they said, oh, we'll take you and stick you
behind a desk. And had I been smart, I would
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have said, yay, let me take the desk and the
benefits and all that went with it and the camaraderie.
But that wasn't the Lord's plan for my life. The
thing about soldiers, they're soldiers for life. It's their identity.
That's why they have such a hard time reacclimating to
civilian life. It's the foundation of their character. There exists,
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it's their personality, and it's imbredened them by the military.
Two Timothy, Chapter two, verse four kind of hints at
that no one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the
affairs of this life that he may please him who
enlisted him as a soldier. No soldier an active service
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gets entangled into the ordinary business affairs of civilian life.
They avoid them so that they may please the one
who enlisted them. To serve pleasing the captain of the
host becomes a part of that identity. We say, well, Richard,
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I'm not a soldier. Actually you are get over that
if you you know, we're going to have to get
over that aspect. Just being a believer in your shoe
it marked by the blood name written in a lamb's
book of life. You are an enemy to the kingdom
of darkness. So just receive it, get over it, and
get on with doing what He's called you to do.
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But one of those things you need to do is
you need to know who you are in Him and
why you are doing what you're doing. It's one of
the first things they ingrain into a soldier, that aspect
of camaraderie and identity. Galatians three twenty six tells us,
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for you who are born again, have been reborn from above,
spiritually transformed, renewed, sanctified, and are all children of God,
set apart for His purpose with full rights and privileges
through faith in Messiah Yeshua. John in First John three
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to one says, see what an incredible quality of love
the Father has shown to us that we would be
permitted to be named and called and counted the children
of God, and so we are for this reason. The
world does not know us, because it did not know
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him who's the God of this world. Satan and the fallen,
they're the ones who rule it. They not only don't
know us, they don't like us, and they don't want
us to be who we are. Ephesians two ten tells
us who we are, for we are His workmanship, his
own master work, a work of art created in Messiah.
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Issue are reborn from above, spiritually transformed, renewed, ready to
be used for good works which God prepared for us beforehand,
taking paths which he sets so that we would walk
in them, living the good life which He prearranged and
made ready for us. Oh boy, amen to that. Living
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the good life as children of God also means we
become targets of the enemy. Look what's going on in
the secular world right now. Anyone who wants to live righteously,
or live in the name of Yeshia, or live by
the precepts of the Bible as being attacked. It's being hated.
There are religions out there that would seek to destroy
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us that I would say are demonically inspired. And the
day of Pentecost set the time of evil in motion
due to the arrival of the empowered Church. That day
of Pentecost was God's way of saying, enough Satan, enough
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fallen angels, enough demons. I have empowered my church to
deal with you. Let's get it on. Well, maybe he
didn't add that part, but that just comes from my nature,
my feeling of warfare, of righteous indignation, of standing up
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for the name of the Lord. Ephesian six, starting verse twelve,
New Living Translation, we are not fighting against flesh and
blood enemies, but against evil rulers and authorities of the
unseen world, against mighty powers in this dark world, against
evil spirits in the heavenly places. Doesn't sound too peaceful
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to me. Therefore, put on every piece of God's armor
so that you will be able to resist the enemy
in the time of evil. Then after the battle you
be standing firm, stand your ground, putting on the belt
of truth, the body armor, the breastplate of righteous God's
righteousness for shoes. Put on the peace that comes from
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the good News, so that you will be fully prepared
to preach the Gospel. In addition to all of these,
hold up the shield of faith to stop the fiery
arrows of the evil one we know with the devil.
Put on salvation as your helmet. That helmet is salvation.
And take the sword of the Spirit, which is the
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Word of God. Praying in the spirit at all times
on every occasion. Stay alert and be persistent in your
prayers for all believers everywhere, with all prayer and petition. Pray, pray,
pray with specific requests at all times, on every occasion,
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in every season in the spirit capitalists, and with this
in views, stay alert with all perseverance and petition, interceding
in prayer for all God's people, for all the saints.
Why would you stay alert, Because there's a roaring lion
seeking whom he may devour. So the army gave us
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the wad of spiritual warfare of the prayer, gave us
the how for everyone listening. You can do this. You
can pray, you can stand in the gap, you can intercede.
You can pray before the throne for someone's salvation, for
someone's rescue, for someone's healing, for the Gospel to go forth,
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for those called to do what they would do, for
the Kingdom of God, to have every need met and
have a covering over them, prayer, communication with God, petition, thanksgiving, praise,
hymns or a lament. And pray not only in the
name of the Lord, Oh, but pray in the powerful
faith of the Lord. John five pointnineteen. Most assurely, it's
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the Lord speaking, most assuredly. I say to you, the
son can do nothing of himself but what he sees
the Father do. For whatever he does, the son also
does in like manner. He does nothing but what he
has seen the Father do. Well, no human could say
that unless they were pre existent, unlest they had been
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there at the beginning of time, unless they already know him.
John chapter eight, Stirting, verse twenty six. The Lord speaking
read letters. I have many things to say to you
and to judge concerning you. But he who sent me
is true, and I speak to the world these things
which I have heard from him. They did not understand
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he spoke to them of the Father. So then you
sure have said to them, when you lift up the
Son of Man, and you will know that I am he.
And then I do nothing of myself. But as my
father taught me, I speak these things, and he who
sent me is with me. The Father has not left
me alone for I will always do the things that
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please him, as he spoke these words when he believed
in him John twelve forty nine. Who getting hit early? Here, folks,
hold on John twelve forty nine. For I've not spoken
on my own authority, but the father let me try
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to get control of my tongue. For I have not
spoken on my own authority, but the father who sent me,
gave me a command what I should say in what
I should speak? You sure did not act independently of
the father. On the contrary, he understood that because he
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and the father were one, and he only did what
the father showed him. If the father did it, the
Lord sought and he showed it to us, And he
only taught what the Father had designed to be understood.
Understand a serious question. Understand Are you understanding that he
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didn't come of his own will? He didn't come of
his own accord. The father sent him and will send
him a again to come back and to finish everything.
Everything he said, everything he did was about restoration to
the Father. So the main element needed for us to
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understand the father is prayer. You sue a new prayer.
The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia says in the Bible, prayer
is used in a simpler and also more complex, a
narrower and wider signification. Little play on words there, it's
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simple and it's complex, It's narrow and it's wide. In
the former case, it's application for the benefits, either for oneself,
which is a petition, or for others, which is intercession.
In the latter, it's an act of worship which covers
all the attitudes of the soul in its approach to God.
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The supplication is at the heart of it, for prayer
always springs out of a sense of need and a
belief that God is a rewarder of them that diligently
seek Him gee which scripture does that come from Hebrews
eleven six. But adoration and confession and thanksgiving also find
a place so that the petitioner becomes a worshiper. By
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teaching us to approach God as our father, Yshure raised
prayer to its highest plane, making it not less reverent
than it was at its best in Old Testament times,
while far more intimate and trustful. So Yushua was emphatically
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a man of prayer, praying frequently in private and public
spending nights in communion with his heavenly Father, speaking to
the disciples about prayer, cautioning them again against the flamboyant,
so showy prayers of the Pharisees, urging perseverance and faith
and great expectations from their prayers. And then he gave
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them a model, which we call the Lord's Prayer. There's
two accounts of the Lord's Prayer, and Luke and Matthew
and said, I know everybody just went, well, wait a second, Richard,
we're talking to spiritual warfare. Why are you teaching us
about the Lord's prayer? Because I'm going to offer you
a unique perspective on the Lord's prayer, So just just
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bear with me. So there are two places, Luke and Matthew.
The Book of Luke, written in between sixty and sixty
two AD unanimously believe the ancient testimony of Luke the
Beloved Physician mentioned in Colossha's four fourteen that he wrote
the Third Gospel. Modern scholarship draws attention to the Act
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as Acts, also written by Luke, is actually the companion.
The two should actually go together. These two works written
by the same author, have the same message and flow cohesively.
I wonder if anybody's ever done that, taking Luke and
Acts and put them into one book. So together they
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alone make up half the New Testament. So by sheer
volume of output alone, Luke takes on a special significance.
And I believe that the understand to understand the Book
of Acts, Church lies and tying the two together. King
James study Bible Notes says some ever courdingly stressed his
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meaning Luke's contribution as a historian, a discoverer, and a
preserver of facts. Others see him primarily a Theolosian and
an expositor of the meaning of facts. He's really both.
He presents both the meaning of the Gospel saga and
its factual ground. He produces what is, by the reckoning
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of Many, the Gospel most attractive in style, poignant, and
message that we possess. Several themes dominate the Gospel of Luke.
He stresses the overreaching plan of God in human history,
as revealed through Israel, Messiah, and the Church. He put
special emphasis on salvation. As such, the word note, though
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not the idea, is absent from Matthew and Mark and
appears once in John. He's concerned concerned. Excuse me, the
nasal thing just happened there. Bear with me today. He's
concerned with individuals. We see Zacharias, we see Elizabeth, we
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see Marry the mother of Jesus, Mary and Martha, and Zechias,
just to name a few. He shows the importance of
women and call special attention to children, the poor, and
the disreputable. He stresses the Holy Spirit both in the
life of Yeshua and in the early Church. And finally,
as in all the gospels, he covers Yeshua's suffering and
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death in lengthy and detailed treatment. Luke's gospel is careful,
an engrossing presentation of God's saving will and work in
the world, predominantly through his son. And I would offer,
if you accept all of that, that God handpicked Luke
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a doctor, somebody who understood details, a historian. He handpicked
him to be his reporter to the world. Now, having
set all that up, let's go to Luke chapter eleven.
We'll start with verse one. Now came to pass as
he was praying in a certain place when he ceased. Again,
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he capitalates Yeshua that one of his disciples came to him,
Lord teach us to pray. As John also taught his decipiples,
You need to understand the religious communities of the day
customarily had their own distinctive prayers first too. So he
said to them, when you pray, say our Father in
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heaven hell, it be your name, your kingdom. Come, Your
will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us
our sins, for we also forgive everyone who is indebted
to us. And do not lead us into temptation, but
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deliver us from the evil one. Now Matthew six nine
through thirteen says essentially the exact same thing, except for
the ending in verse thirteen of Matthew six, do not
lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one,
for yours as the Kingdom and the Power and the
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glory forever. Amen. So two different accounts of the same teaching,
a succinct and powerful expression of how to pray in
light of the Gospel and the Kingdom of God. Every
time you pray this prayer, I want you to think that, yes,
it's personal, but this is a Kingdom prayer. And Matthew
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the prayer appears in the Sermon on the mount. When
your shoe has spoke about righteousness exceeding the scribes and
the pharisees, who's actually speaking to them? How to exceed
the religious frauds of the day. It's also not to
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make a public display, not to heap up empty phrases,
thinking that you're going to be heard by all the
words you speak Matthew six, seven and eight. When you pray,
do not use vain repetition, as the Heathens do, for
they think they'll be heard for the many words. Therefore,
do not be like them. Your father knows the things
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that you need of before you ask him. And I
don't understand it, but since I got saved in October
of eighty eight to now, anytime I've been in a
corporate setting, there's always somebody who does exactly what they're
not supposed to be doing. Repetition, repetition, repetition. Wordy, I'm
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going to pray for you right now. Well, I grew
a beard while you've been praying for me. Have we
done yet? So do not use vein repetition. Pray from
the heart, not just the tongue. The eloquence of prayer
consists in the fervency of the desire and the simplicity
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of your faith. We need to not use so many words.
We need to be humble and trustful in the Lord
and have confidence that He already knows what we're about
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to say, and there's nothing we can say to him,
can't manipulate him. He knows the things which we need.
See Jewish scholars of the day. They use fixed prayers
during that period of time and generally held them to
be acceptable if one's intent was genuine. Greek prayers piled
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up as many titles of the deity addressed as possible,
hoping to secure his or her attention, and Pagan prayers
typically reminded the deity of favors done or sax Sacrifice
is offered attempting to get a response from the God
on contractual ground. And listen to what I just said
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right there, because there are people in the church teaching
you to remind God of him his obligations to you.
That's what heathens do, that's what gentiles do. Your father
knows your needs. And in Judaism, God was the father
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of Israel, and he delighted to meeting the needs of
his people. He knew their thoughts, he knew their needs.
Yashia took that and made it intimate, not a business model,
but something more intimate. Other post says Ephesian six eighteen,
praying always with all prayer and supplication in the spirit.
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If you're going to pray in the spirit, you're not
going to pray like the Heathens would, being watchful to
this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints. Basically,
he knows the need get to the point in this manner.
Therefore pray. He gives us an example of how to pray,
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briefly and focused, and it's offered as a substitute of
the long winded, showy prayers of the day. Don't make
it empty reciting I used to do that. I was
raised to pray that prayer, and a couple of other ones.
We won't go over that now, but I could shotgun
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them without meaning, without thinking what I was saying. Your
shoe is my example to pray. His prayer life, his
instructions to follow, and the Lord's prayer is very similar
to the common Jewish prayers of the day. The kadish
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so we have his expression of our new faith. See
he tells them in the beginning what to pray for
and Luke eleven, nine through thirteen. Let me back up
there for a second. I don't want you to miss
any of this, because I believe, first of all, if
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you know me by now, you know that if I'm
teaching it, I think it's important. I'm not here to
waste your time or mine, And I teach what the
Lord gives me. Luke eleven, starting verse nine. So I
say to you, ask and it will be given to you.
Seek and you will find. Knock and it will be
open to you. For everyone who asks receives, everyone who
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seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.
Stop right there nine to ten and realize, I need
to know how to pray. I need to know what
to ask for. I need to know what to say.
Those two scriptures apply to that. What do you need?
You need revelation, pray. But then we get into the tangible.
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If a son asks for bread from any father among you,
will it give them a stark? Or if he asks for
a fish, will he give him a serpent instead of
a fish. Or if he asks for an egg, will
he offer him a scorpion? If you, then, being evil,
know how to give good gifts to your children. How
much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit
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to those who ask him? That's what you're praying for
nine and ten. Tie into verse thirteen, giving you the
Holy Spirit, because with the Holy Spirit you can do
all things. You can do exceedingly and abundantly, beyond anything
you could think or imagine. So the Lord's prayer becomes
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a model of what to pray for. Pray for favor
with the Father, ending in receiving the Holy Spirit, which
gives you the connection and the power and the ability
to do all the things that he'll show you to do.
Romans A sixteen. The Spirit capitalists himself, bears witness with
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our spirit, little less human spirit, holy Spirit, that we
are the children of God. His spirit joins with our
spirit to affirm that we are God's children. And that's
how we approach them. And what does the enemy do
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to disrupt that? He entices the soldier of God to
commit treason, spiritual adultery. It's the tool of the enemy
to betray the one whom we serve, the one who
called us, the one who died for us James Verses
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four and five. Adulterers and adultresses, do you not know
that friendship with the world is enmity with God. We
know enmity is what it's hatred. Whoever therefore wants to
be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy
of God. Or do you think that the scripture says
in vain the spirit dwells in us yearns jealously, You adultress,
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you disloyal sinners, you flirting with the world and breaking
your vow to God. Do you not know that being
the world's friends, loving the things of the world is
becoming God's enemy. If you choose to be a friend
of the world, you make yourself an enemy of God.
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That's how the enemy gets us to betray him, to
commit treason. So the infilling of the Holy Spirit becomes
affirmation and connection, and declaring the Lord's prayer reaffirms our
loyalty and our identity. And praying him this way is
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a distinguishing mark of a disciple. So when we say
our Father in heaven, Israel would say our heavenly Father,
but we're saying Abba Papa, which is pretty rare. That
was not used for that situation, which is why they
hated him for this. Jews ever called him Abba, and
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the only time Yeshue had didn't use the word abba
in is on the cross in Mark fifteen thirty fourth,
the ninth hour, you Shoe had cried out with a
loud voice saying, Lo aloi lama sabaktani, which has translated
my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? And
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at that point he was speaking for humanity. He wasn't
directing him as father. He was directing him of the
God of all humanity. That's why he shed every drop
of blood, That's why he suffered for us. So Abba,
which you hear me use a lot. And once I
learned and that aspect of God, my entire spiritual life changed.
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It's an Aramaic word. It's intimate, it's affectionate. It's like
I felt that in my heart. It's like one of
my grandson Jason, calls me Papa. It's affectionate. It should
be the first word a child utters. We should never
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forget that aspect of our fathers. Sometimes students of the
day use that for their teachers, but it's intimate, and
the Jews did not use that word, which is why
what Yushua was doing was giving us the privilege in
personal prayer to call God Abbah. And I believe that
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was from the Father's heart. Remember what he said, I
only do it, Father says, I believe that giving us
this prayer came directly from the heart of our heavenly Father.
Let your name be celebrated, venerated, and esteemed as wholly
everywhere and received from everyone proper honor for who you are.
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That's the heartfelt wish and desire of a worshiper, that
the name of God, God himself, our Father, should be
revered and respected. I for one, and I know I've
shared this before. Hate when unbelievers use his name in vain,
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use the Lord's name in vain. And I have in
public situations looked at somebody and says, just to let
you know, my father's last name is not damn. It
hurts my heart, yet it angers me. So you have
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no right to use his name. You have no right
to speak his name, but definitely not like that. And
in media and movies and things, when they put a
a four letter word behind you, show his name Jesus
something something. I just want to reach through the screen
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and grab him by their face and say, let's have
a little conversation. Let's have a come to Jesus moment,
So adoration and subjection to his will. That's what this
is about. Submission and his will. His way should be
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enough for us. Posted that on a story on Instagram
and Facebook. His will, his way should be enough for us.
When we say your will be done on earth as
it is in heaven, we should mean it. Why would
we want anything else? Why would you want your way
over his way? You think you know more than him,
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You think you can see the end from the beginning.
But how do we know the will of God? Well,
the will of God is the word of God. It's
there first Thessalonians four, verses three through five. For this
is the will of God your sanctification, that you should
abstain from sexual immorality, that each of you should know
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how to possess his own vessel and sanctification and honor,
and not in passion of lust like the gentiles do,
who do not know God. Why it is that, because
that's an open door to the enemy, that's access to
your soul, that sustain upon you, that's a connection to you.
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One John two seventeen, amplified in the world is passing
away in the lust of it. But he who does
the will of God abides forever. So the will of
God from the Word of God is obedience and its sanctification,
which is holiness, which you can't do without the Holy Spirit.
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So when we're praying his will be done on earth
as it is in heaven, we're praying that His revealed
will would be obeyed and loved. That his can call
it the law, you can call it, his rules are
perfectly obeyed, not the least of which his son, being
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Lord of your life, being your savior, your Messiah, and
that we as a children, should desire and pray for
that to be obeyed on earth. Oh, Richard, I don't
want to offend anybody. I don't want to push this
on anybody. Nobody's telling you to. But what you're praying
when you pray that prayer, is for them to come
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to the realization that His will, his desire, is for
everyone to be saved. So we're gonna glorify his name.
We're going to pray that His kingdom is established, and
the glory of His kingdom fills our hearts, and our
petitions make it before His throne of grace. For when
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the kingdom of righteousness and peace and joy and the
Holy Spirit. In the Holy Spirit is established in the
hearts and minds of those that know Him and love him,
but also those that come to know Him and love him,
then provision will be made to fulfill His divine will. Saying,
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your Kingdom Come, Your will be done with speaking both
present and future, the New Living Translations, study Bible says,
and praying for God's kingdom to come. You shoe his disciples.
Pray for His justice, righteousness, peace, and mercy to be established.
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Outside God's will, no person, no one will be permitted
into God's presence. So as believers, we should willingly submit
fully to God's will. If you shoe a lord of
our life, that shouldn't be a question, and we should
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pray this prayer daily for the consummation of God's rule,
in which He will rule fully and completely over the world.
If you're not seeing a shift right now in this
world spiritually against the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob,
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against his son Ya Shohamashiah, Jesus the Messiah, you are
blind and you're not paying attention. His ministry in us
was to bring a shift of the ages to the world,
starting on the day of Pentecost issue. In the early Church,
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they believed in two ages, the present Evil Age and
the coming Good Age. The Kingdom Age and the shift
will be accompanied by the resurrection of the dead and
the final judgment. But before those events can take place,
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there'll be a time of great suffering and tribulation. Why
because there's a kingdom here that doesn't want that. It's
pretty basic if you see it. Clearly, we're praying for
something a Satan and his angels and their demons don't want.
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They're going to resist it. They're going to try to
stop it, either individually against us or corporately against us
as the Church. So when we pray, we are imploring God,
our father, to achieve his purpose in the world. Physical needs,
spiritual needs for his children. That's a purpose, vindication, spiritual satisfaction,
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that's a purpose. And when we pray like that, when
we pray to God like that, we're basically saying we
believe he's in control and that he's able to answer us.
And we're also saying we believe that he is good
and wants to answer us. And that's what the Lord
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is saying in this prayer. Pray to the one who
is both in control and good because he's your Abba.
So when I say Abbah, your kingdom come. The minute
I start this deck of I'm declaring who I am
as his child. Now I could go off on a
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tangenteer and teach you on all the names of God,
whether it's Elohim, Creator, transcend It, mighty and strong, how
Joanan knew him. I could do El Shadai, the all
sufficient one, self sufficient one. That's how Job knew him,
Oda or and I Master or Lord, the prophets knew
him Yahweh, and I am the covenant named Moses knew him.
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By I could teach you about Almighty, Eternal God, Father
of Lights, Heavenly Father, Holy One of Israel, the most
High God. Or I could just sum it all in Alba.
I used to do all that. Shelley was great at
teaching on the names of God, and I used to
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eat that up, and I used to pray those names,
and I speak those names out, and then I had
the revelation I'm speaking in the most powerful name I
have Abah Papa, because when I say Abba, I'm including
all those aspects of who he is, God's name, God's Kingdom,
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God's will, that's what I'm praying for, and if I
do that, it will keep me from praying selfishly. So
the foundation of all prayer comes from what your personal
relationship with God as father. Now we get into a
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little thing. It's not even in my notes. It just
came to me O spirits having some fun, and I
love it. The reason most people struggle to pray is
because of their fractured relationships with their earthly father. So
one of the first things you need to pray for
is to be healed of that and for him to
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become now and always you're abba. That's what it took
for me to learn this, for that pain and suffering
and brokenness that my earthly father brought to me to
be removed, and he became my father once I became
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born again, I had only one father, my father in heaven,
and he has set apart. He is holy, he's hollowed.
So when I come to him, I come in a
frame of mind of intimacy and also respect because of
who he is. I don't take anything for granted. I
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don't follow a formula. I follow a revelation of who
he is, and I'm in awe of him. I'm submitted
to him. I'm dependent upon him, and I am completely
confident in my Father's love. That's what the Lord prayer
does for me. Give us this day our daily bread,
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ah Man Wilderness. But it's more than that. It's the
amount of bread I think both tangible and the word
of God and necessary to survive for a day. That's
all it was in the wilderness. Daily bread. Provision, that's
what it's about. Provision. Proverbs thirty verses eight and nine.
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Remove falsehood and lies far from me. Give me neither
poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food allotted to me.
Lest I be full and deny you Lord, and say
who is the Lord? Or lest I be poor and
steel and profane the name of the Lord. I thought
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about this quote that's attributed to Napoleon that an army
marches on its stomach, meaning an army's effectiveness depends upon
having good and sufficient food, and he was known for
providing good food to his soldiers. If I apply that
to this, it highlights the importance of upper spiritual nutrition
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for us to perform our duties and to do what
He's asked us to do. So I need both my
natural needs met and I need, my spiritual needs met
give us to stay our daily bread. So you're asking
him to take care of your daily need so you
can go about kingdom business relieved of care or worries.
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That's always my pray every day, Lord, send the blessing
so that we can do what you've called us to
do without hindrance, without delay, without care. Therefore, I say
to you, do not worry about your life, what you
will eat, what you will drink, nor about your body.
What you will put on. Is not life more than food,
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and the body more than clothing. Look at the birds
of the air, for they neither sow, nor reap, nor
gather into barns. That your heavenly Father feeds them. You
not of more value than they, which of you, by worrying,
can add one cubit to your stature. So why do
you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field,
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how they grow. They neither toil nor spend. And yet
I say to you that even Solomon, in all his glory,
was not a raid like one of these. Now, if
God so clothes the grass of the field, which is
today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he
not much more clothe you of your little faith. Therefore,
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do not worry, saying what shall we eat, or what
shall we drink? Or what shall we wear? For all
these things the gentile seek. For your heavenly Father knows
that you need all these things. But seek first the
Kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things
shall be added to you. Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow,
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for tomorrow will worry about its own things sufficient, for
the day is its own trouble. All these things will
be added. So you seek first the Kingdom of God
and his righteousness. Everything that you need to do, everything
that He's called you to do, everything that he put
on your mind to do, he will provide, and he
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will prepare you to do it while you waited. And
ye Shua wanted his disciples, which I believe includes us,
to live in a constant state of dependence upon the
Father and his provisions. John six starting Versus by the
way that was sermon on them, Ount Matthew six twenty
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five through thirty four that I've read to you before,
Sue said, most assuredly, I say to you, most did
not give you the bread from heaven. My Father gives
you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of
God is he who comes down from heaven and gives
life to the world. John six thirty two through forty. Hey,
this is provision. Lord, give us this bread. Always. They
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weren't thinking spiritually, they were thinking naturally. They're thinking manna.
And you show us that I am the bread of life.
He who comes to me shall never hunger. He who
believes in me shall never thirst. But I said that
to you, that you have seen me, and yet do
not believe. All that the Father gives me will come
to me. And the one who comes to me, I
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will by no means cast out, For I have come
down from heaven not to do my own will, but
the will of him who sent me. And this is
the will of the Father who sent me, that all
he has given me I should lose nothing, but should
raise it up on the last day. And this is
the will of him who sent me. That everyone who
sees the Son believes in him may have everlasting life,
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and I will raise him up at the last day.
John six thirty two through forty. Forgive us our sins,
our deaths to God and to others. So we also
forgive everyone who's indebted to us. This is where the
prayer really blows up. For a lot of people. Those debts,
those are obligations, incurred sins of omission, sins of commission,
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and forgiveness means the cancelation of those debts and obligations.
God for forgives those who are truly repentant, and true
repentance results in a willingness to forgive others. But it
comes with a warning Matthew six fourteen and fifteen. For
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if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will
also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men
their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. Forgiveness
with the Father depends upon forgiveness among the families of God.
This forgiveness affects our relationship as a family and affects
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our relationship with God. It's an obligation. If you do
not forgive, he does not forgive you. Now why is
that important? Because that creates an open door that gives
the enemy access and rights and powers over us. We
don't want that. Forgiving others is a reflection of a repentant,
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regenerated heart. Means you can feel the convicting presence of
the Holy Spirit, and that makes forgiveness possible. If we've
experienced his forgiveness, we will forgive and you, Sue implies.
Those unwilling to forgive have not truly perceived God's mercy,
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that have never truly repented. I have met supposed believers,
he says what they say. They are of the most bitter,
unforgiving people I've ever met. And every now and then
I've called him out on the fact that you don't
know him, nor have you ever known him, because the
way you spewed that ved amount of your mouth tells
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me your heart has never changed. You got to be
willing to let go. You have to be willing to
see the other person as flawed and broken as you are.
So the Greek grammar used in this indicates that a
disciple praise for forgiveness from God only after having first
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expressed forgiveness to others. And that key's right into what
I said about open doors. Do not lead us into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one, and then we'll
let We'll tack on yours as the kingdom and the
power and the glory forever. I'm in it's a temptation. Well,
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I don't have to forgive them. They've never asked for forgiveness.
Do you know what they did to me doesn't matter.
Look what they did to you. Shure he forgave you.
Sure it was tempted, Luke four Versus one through eleven.
Temptation will test the disciple's character. So what does he do?
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He urges us to pray for God's enabling to stand
the test. Paul thought that one Corinthians ten thirteen, no
temptation has overtaken you, except such as common a man.
God is faithful who will not allow you to be
tempted beyond what you are able. But with the temptation
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will also make a way of escape that you may
be able to bear it. David, in all of his flaws,
prayed in Psalm one forty one, verse four. Do not
incline my heart to any evil thing to practice practice
wicked works with men who work in equity, and do
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not let me eat their delicacies. I'll tell you another
thing thing about temptation. It doesn't come from God. I've
seen some people lately post some things that kind of
indicate they and they they believe that their sin or
their error was inspired by the Holy Spirit, and they're
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following the path that God has set them on. Ah,
thank you for playing. Pick up your parting gifts on
the way out be a brand new Bible. Should read it.
Temptation does not come from God James one thirteen. Let
no one say when he is tempted, I am tempted
by God. For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor
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does he himself tempt anyone. Oh, boh, wait, there was
a scripture before that verse twelve which set that up.
Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he
has been approved, he will receive the crown of life
with which the Lord has promised to those who love him.
I inverted it just to get the point at cross.
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God doesn't do this to you because he wants to
bless you with the crown of life. Do not permit
us to be overcome by evil a sin, but deliver
us from the evil one, deliver us from the schemes
of the enemy. Nope, now we're getting back to the
armor of God. See at all ties together. You look
at Lot, Sodom, Gomorrah, he's living there. Takes a bad
place to live. But he isn't succumb he's not seduced.
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The angels come and get him out. Which what God
knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and
to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment.
He delivered Lot, he delivered Noah, he delivered all these people.
He'll deliver you. The prayer of believers is for the
coming kingdom and the second coming of Messiah. And when
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we pray that, it triggers engagement with the enemy, because
that's not the kingdom they want. And that's why I
like adding that final doxology, that final statement for yours
is the kingdom and the Power and the glory forever,
am men. I am stating his kingdom, his power, his glory.
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And some critics say, oh, that's not in there, that
was added, But out of the five hundred cotises that
are out there that have been printed, only eight actually
omit it. So I like it. I'm going to keep it.
Someday the kingdoms of this world that Satan offered the
Lord and Luke four to five will become the kingdoms
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of our Lord and his Messiah, and he shall reign
forever and ever, Satan will be defeated finally, once and
for all, both naturally and spiritually, Sin will be conquered,
and death will be no more. The kingdom, the dominion,
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the rule of the world will finally be finally be his.
But until then we will tarry, and we will occupy.
Father Abbah, Papa Daddy, we love you. Forgive us any
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time that we have been seduced by this world, anytime
we have not hallowed your name or revered who you are,
or taken you for granted. We worship you, We honor you,
the God of all creation, El el Eon, God Most High,
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Thank you forgiving us you shore Thank you for giving
us this prayer that you inspired him to give to us,
so that we could have that connection with You that
I have felt this whole time, even teaching it. Help us,
Holy Spirit, help us to say these words with meaning,
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and to live this life and to do the things
that need to be done too occupied to tarry, to
set the captives free, to break the chains, to cast
out the demons and the bondages into all the things
that have trapped your children. I'm praying right now, Lord,
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for healing in the hearts and minds, of your sons
and daughters, so that they can fully and completely see
you as Abbah, be healed of anything done to them
by their earthly fathers. All the disappointment, all the pain,
all the tears, washed away and fully embraced into the
family of God, no longer a part of this world,
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and waiting, oh, waiting so passionately for the return of
the King, our Lord and Savior, Jesus the Messiah. I
pray this Lord in your name, and you shoe his name. Amen.
May the Lord bless you and keep you. May the Lord,
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may I don't know, I make his face to shine
upon you. Be gracious to you. May the Lord I
don't know you shoe a Hummosiah, Jesus the Messiah, lift
up his countenance upon you and give you peace. Give
you shallam. I'm Richard Grund. This has been the porch
on Firefall Talk Radio.
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