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We started 2 Timothy last week.

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Only looked at the first couple of verses, kind of an introduction, even though these

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books are right next to each other.

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When you turn the page from 1 Timothy to 2 Timothy, there's three or four years or so

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that have passed by in this time.

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A little recap, Paul was writing this letter to Timothy at the end of his life.

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This was the last thing that Paul wrote, at least the last thing we know of that he wrote

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so far as the Bible's concerned.

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This is the last book that he would have written in his life, or letter I should say, that

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he would have written before eventually he was killed.

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Now, we don't know all the details of that, but ultimately Paul lost his life in service

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to the Lord.

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And so, he's writing this letter to Timothy, and so we talked about that a little bit last

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week.

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Tonight, we will start in verse 3, and we'll go from there.

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So let's pray, and we'll get started.

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Dear Lord, we come to you.

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We thank you for a good day.

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I pray, God, that your Holy Spirit would be among us, that you would help me to be ready

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to preach and teach your word, God, that you would help me to be free of the worries and

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the stresses and the thoughts of this world.

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Perhaps there are others, dear Lord, that come in here with stuff on their mind, worldly

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stuff, stresses of the world.

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I pray, God, that you would just free us of that tonight.

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I pray that your Spirit would speak to us, that we would hear your word, that we would

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learn from your word, and that it would instruct us, that we would listen to it, God.

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And I ask these things in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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There's a lot of good stuff here in verse 3.

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We'll read through it, then we'll talk about it.

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In Timothy chapter 1 verse 3, I thank God, whom I serve with a clear conscience, as my

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ancestors did, when I constantly remember you in my prayers night and day.

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Now this is a beautiful passage, I think, because we can look at each part of this passage,

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and we can see some good instruction here for us.

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We can test ourselves tonight, if you want to, as we look at this passage.

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We can test ourselves and see how good we do.

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What's the first thing we see here that Paul says?

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He says, I thank God.

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Okay, this is a good test for us.

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Do we thank God?

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Well hopefully we do, but sometimes our prayer life may kind of be overtaken with our concerns

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and our worries and our stresses and our needs, and God help me with this, and God help me

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with that, and God, I need you.

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Please help me.

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And there's nothing wrong with praying that.

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We want to pray to God.

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God wants us to come to him and bring our burdens to him, but we need to remind ourselves,

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perhaps from time to time, maybe we just need to offer up a prayer of thanksgiving.

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God, I thank you for a beautiful day.

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God, I thank you for the breeze that you gave me today.

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Boy, nothing feels better than a good breeze on a hot day.

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Even the simple things, acknowledging those things, not overlooking those things, not forgetting

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those things.

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Just a prayer of thankfulness, and maybe we thank God every day, or maybe we don't.

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Maybe there are times that we forget and times that the Holy Spirit kind of reminds us or

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we see something around us or we realize how much we're blessed, and we say, you know,

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God, thank you that I've got food on my table.

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Thank you, God, that there's air blowing on us right now in the middle of summer.

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Thank you, God, for being good to me and my family.

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God, thank you for our health.

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There are certainly many things we have in this world to be thankful for.

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Sometimes the stresses and the worries and the hardships of this world may kind of overshadow

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that.

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And maybe that's why it's good for us to look at passages like this to remember that even

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on our worst days, maybe we have some things to be thankful for that we're not realizing.

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And maybe that's a good place for us to start on a day where we're depressed or we're upset

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or we're angry or we're going through something really hard.

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As instead of giving in to the difficulty of our situation, to take a moment and say,

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God, I thank you for the good stuff that's going on.

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And that's how Paul starts right here at the beginning of this letter.

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He says, I thank God.

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And that may need to be part of our prayer life too, if it's not already.

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Whom I serve with a clear conscience.

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Okay, here we go.

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Here's the test.

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Are we serving God in our life?

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In the way that we live and the things that we do, are we serving God?

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And are we serving God with a clear conscience?

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Can we get to the end of our day or the end of our week and can we say, man, I really

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did all I could do and I did it with the right heart and I did it for the right reasons?

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Or maybe sometimes we don't.

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Maybe sometimes we do the right thing with the wrong heart.

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Maybe sometimes we do the right thing for the wrong reason.

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And so maybe we need to test ourselves and say, okay, God, there's some areas where maybe

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I've done some work.

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Maybe I served you in some way.

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But maybe we don't have a clear conscience about the way we've been living, the things

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we've been doing.

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But Paul says, look, I thank God whom I serve with a clear conscience.

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So we want to be those that serve God and that serve with a clear conscience.

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That when we get to the end of our days, that when we get to the end of our weeks, when

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we get to the end of our months, when we get to the end of our lives, that we don't have

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any regrets.

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Now, certainly we probably do tonight.

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There's probably some of us here tonight and maybe something you can think of the day that

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you regret.

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Man, I regret saying that.

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I regret doing that.

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I regret making that decision.

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Perhaps even today we have some regrets and there are certainly some in our past, but

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we want to be those who seek to serve God as best we can.

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We'll never be perfect.

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We seek to be perfect, as the scripture said, be ye perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.

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So we strive to be like God in every way, but we don't succeed in that.

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But that's our goal.

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And so we keep reaching for our goal so that hopefully we can be those who serve God with

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a clear conscience.

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Continuing on, he says, as my ancestors did.

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Now, that's a beautiful thing.

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Paul is acknowledging that there are many brothers and sisters in Christ who came before

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him who were faithful to God.

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Even in the Old Testament, before Jesus came, there are many who came before Paul who were

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faithful to God.

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Now, I suspect if we were to take a few minutes tonight and go around this room, if I were

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to ask you about a brother or sister in Christ that had a big impact in your life or a big

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impact in the community, you could probably tell me a couple.

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You could probably say, oh, yeah, I remember brother so-and-so.

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Man, he was a man of God.

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I remember when he said this and it stuck with me.

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I remember seeing him do that and it stuck with me.

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I remember sister so-and-so.

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Oh, I remember she was so sweet.

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I remember her spirit.

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I remember her love.

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I remember how she loved people and cared for people.

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And what a beautiful example these people are, that we can look back in our life at

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those who've come before us and we can see beautiful examples of who Jesus is.

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That is the hands and feet of Jesus.

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We see that so many times in the men and women who've come before us in our lives.

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We can probably all think of a few people that we would put on those lists.

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But here's the test for us.

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What will be said of us?

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What will be said of us a generation or two or three from now?

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What choices will we make?

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What things will we do for our families, for our community, for our nation that may have

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a bigger impact that we can imagine?

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What will those who come after us say about us?

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Will they be able to look at us and say, man, he was a man of God or man, she was a woman

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of God.

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Man, he left an example to be followed.

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She left an example to be followed.

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Well, only we can determine that.

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We determine that.

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We determine every day how we're going to live our lives.

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Now, we don't determine what's going to happen to us every day.

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We don't determine if it's going to be good or bad, if it's going to be hard or it's going

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to be easy.

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We can't determine what our circumstances are going to be, but we do have a part in

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what our response is going to be.

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So we want to strive to be those who are a good example so that there are people who

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are coming after us, that they'll be able to look at our life and that we'll have some

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positive impact on their life.

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Not so that they give us the glory, but so that they give God the glory so that they

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grow in their relationship with Jesus Christ, so that they see good examples and they carry

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on those examples to their children and their grandchildren and their communities.

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And Paul says, here, look, I serve God with a clear conscious as my ancestors did, just

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as those who came before me did.

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They were a good example and I've been a good example and I've lived a good Christian life.

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It's a good question for us to answer on our test tonight.

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Are we living a good example?

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Are we living a good Christian life?

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Continuing on, I thank God whom I serve with a clear conscious as my ancestors did.

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When I constantly remember you in my prayers, day, excuse me, night and day.

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So here's another key thing that we see.

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How often was Paul praying?

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He was praying night and day.

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He was praying daily and he was praying for Timothy.

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He was praying for the one whom he loved.

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He was praying for his brother in Christ.

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He was praying for the one who was doing the work that Paul by this point probably couldn't

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do because of his imprisonment.

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And so here he says, look, I pray for you every day and every night.

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Now I'm going to tell you what, there's something beautiful about when somebody tells you, I've

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been praying for you.

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I've been praying for you this week.

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I've been praying for you and your family.

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I've been praying for your surgery you got coming up.

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I've been praying for this job that you've got coming up.

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Now sometimes perhaps people tell us things, oh, I've got this coming up and that coming

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up and well, we've got enough stuff coming up on our own.

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We might not even think anything about it, but maybe we need to make a little note.

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I would say a mental note, but we'll forget that.

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We might need to make a little note on our phone or on a post-it card.

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I remember Mary Blaylock at the store sometimes.

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You'd say, be praying for so-and-so.

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And you know what he'd do?

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He'd pull his wallet out, he'd unfold this piece of paper and he'd write your name on

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there.

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And on that piece of paper was a whole list of other names.

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What a beautiful thing to know that there's somebody that's praying for you.

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And so we want to be those who pray night and day.

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We want to be those who pray to God and thank God for who he is, for what he's done.

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Most importantly, for Jesus Christ that our sins may be forgiven so that we may receive

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the grace of God.

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We want to go to God with all of our concerns and all of our fears and all of our burdens

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and all of our struggles, all of our requests.

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We want to let them be made known to God so that the peace of God, which transcends understanding,

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may fall upon us.

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We want to continually lift up our petitions to the Lord.

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We want to praise God.

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We want to thank God.

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We want to seek God for wisdom and for help and for deliverance.

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This is all part of our prayer life.

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We want to pray for our brothers and sisters in Christ.

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We want to pray for those who are struggling.

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We want to pray for the marriages that are falling apart, those who are struggling with

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addiction, those who are raising children, those who are trying to start a new job, those

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who have health issues.

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I mean, the list goes on and on.

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We want to pray for those people.

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We want to pray for each other.

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It ain't nothing wrong with telling somebody, if you see them, you know what?

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Brother, sister, I've been praying for you.

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You've been on my mind.

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You've been on my heart.

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It makes you feel good when you know that somebody cares about you, that somebody's

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praying for you.

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That's exactly what Paul says here to Timothy.

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He says, I pray every day and every night.

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Do we pray every day, every night, once a day, twice a day, 10 times a day?

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Well, a good place to start is once a day.

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If you don't pray once a day, today's a good day to start praying and pray whatever's on

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your heart.

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That's the thing about prayer.

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Some people say, I don't know what to, what do I say when I pray?

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You just say what's on your heart.

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You just say, God, I had a rotten day.

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God, I said some stuff I shouldn't have said.

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God, I wish I had a better heart.

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I wish I could love this person that I'm having a hard time loving.

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God, I want to do better.

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I want to give more.

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I want to help people more.

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God, I don't want to have such a bad attitude.

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I don't want to be so angry.

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There's your prayer.

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You just tell God what's going on.

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God, thank you for being good to me.

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God, this is a good hamburger from McDonald's and I thank you for it, even if it does cost

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$18.

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Whatever it may be, we need to pray to God and we need to thank God and we can just be

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honest with God.

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We can be ourselves.

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We don't have to use some fancy language or some big words.

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We don't have to pray for a long time or a short time.

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It doesn't matter.

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We just need to open our mouth and open our heart and say, God, I thank you and I need

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you and I pray for my brothers and sisters in Christ.

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There's a lot of good stuff in here that we can look at in this one verse that we can

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see if we're doing a pretty good job.

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We can test ourself.

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Sometimes we fail the test.

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Well, it's good to know when you fail the test because then you know you got some stuff

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to work on.

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Maybe in this short verse tonight, we realize that maybe we got some stuff to work on.

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Let's pray.

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Father God, we come to you.

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We thank you for your good word.

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We thank you for being good to us, God.

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We thank you for this country.

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We thank you for the freedom we have to come here.

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I thank you for these men and women who have come here.

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I thank you for giving us good examples in our life.

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Dear Lord, I suspect every one of us has got a good example.

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God, maybe there's some that don't.

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Maybe there's some listening online and they don't... Never had anybody that was a good

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example to them.

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But dear Lord, I pray that they would seek out some brothers and sisters in Christ.

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I pray that they would seek out some who are living by your word.

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God, I pray that we would be faithful to lift up those around us, those who are in need,

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those who are struggling, both those who are our brothers and sisters and those who do

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not yet know Jesus Christ.

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Dear Lord, I pray that we'd be faithful to pray and lift them up to you.

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I ask these things in Jesus' name, amen.