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Yeah, yeah
The end of white and amid fire burns
My heart is captured to lurk
I have in me the burning fire
Oh a shell of craven
I have in me the burning fire
So God is our Father Luke chapter 11. Let's go back there again.
Marty, Mark, Luke and John.
Now it came to pass as he was praying in a certain place
when he sees that one of his disciples said to him,
Lord, teach us to pray.
As John also told his disciples, hallelujah.
And he said to them, when you pray, say,
Our Father, our Father, our Father, our Father, our Father in heaven.
Glory to God. I don't know how that really blesses your life,
but my Father is in heaven.
I don't know how that results to you.
Our Father who is in heaven, my Father is in heaven.
Can you say that about yourself? Say, my Father is in heaven.
Come on like you mean, say, my Father is in heaven. My Father is in heaven.
Hallelujah. So Jesus is giving a mind,
He is giving us an orientation that prayer is not from,
you know, when the normal notion is what is prayer,
and then when that question is asked, say, prayer is talking to God.
How wrong that is. Prayer is not talking to God.
Prayer is talking to your Father in heaven.
Now I know all of you say, oh, but that is God, of course,
but Jesus didn't say our God who is in heaven, He says our Father who is in heaven.
So He tells us prayer is more of a relationship.
It's not a religious duty. Hallelujah.
It's a relationship with the Father.
So if you are zooming into prayer, what you're doing is that you are simply responding
to the relationship that is between you and the Father.
Hallelujah. Now that means you are not looking at somebody who is somewhere
who demands that until you pray.
You know, there are people who say they have this slogan, push,
pray until something happens. Now that's wrong.
We don't pray until something happens.
The worst you can go is that pray until you receive.
Now that means God is the one who is giving, you are the one who is receiving,
and God, the Bible says God is giving all the time.
So prayer is a relationship, is a response to our relationship with the Father.
So Jesus says when you pray, say our Father.
The first thing that must come to you in prayer is that you're talking to your Father.
Hallelujah. And I told you that if you study the prayer trends of Jesus in the Bible,
in the Gospel, Matthew, Matthew, Luke and John,
mostly in the prayer of Jesus, he refers to God as Father.
Now let's go to Luke, sorry, John 11.
You're going to say I'm there.
John 11, I'm now feeling the prayer teaching.
John 11, let's do from the verse 41.
Then they took away the stone, now this is talking about when Jesus was going to raise Lazarus
from the dead, hallelujah. I said hallelujah.
Yes, and then Jesus told them to take away the stone after everything.
Then the Bible says, then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid.
And Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, Father,
I thank thee that thou hast heard me.
Now Jesus is standing before somebody who has been dead for four days,
and Jesus says Father, he's not prayed yet.
He has not asked anything from God. He says Father, I thank you that you have heard me.
The right orientation that we ought to have about prayer
should cause us to stand before deadly situations and not complain.
Hallelujah.
We should be able to stand before a situation that looks very hopeless
and if we are people of relationship with the Father, we should say,
thank you Father that you have heard me.
Now remember, the Bible says when Jesus went, let's go to verse 35.
Let's begin from 33, alright.
When Jesus therefore saw her weeping and the Jews also weeping, which came with her,
he groaned in the Spirit and was troubled and said,
Where have you laid him?
Now that atmosphere was a mourning one, alright.
Not in the mourning, I mean mourning, like somebody crying, somebody who is not happy.
So Jesus said, Where have you laid him?
They said unto him, Lord, come and see.
Then 35, John 11, 35, John 11, 35, Jesus wept.
Why do you think Jesus wept?
Come on.
Because he was what?
Come on.
He was what? He was sad.
So Jesus was sad that the person was dead and Jesus recognized that the person was dead.
So a situation that has made you cry, still go to God and thank God.
And go say, Thank you Father that you have heard me.
Then listen, 36, Then said the Jews, Behold how he loved him.
So it means Jesus cried to the point that they saw that Jesus loved him.
Now a lot of times people think faith is denial of emotions.
That's not it.
Faith is not denial of emotions.
That Jesus didn't go and say, See, Jesus didn't go like how maybe, let's say,
Chairman would do it like how Pastor Chris would do it.
Hold on, let me finish my thing.
Then Jesus said, Where have you laid here?
Then he gets there.
Then he goes, he begins to go like that.
Take away the stone.
No, he doesn't go like that.
The Bible says he wept and he cried that the people, the Jews said how he loved him.
How he loved him.
Let's continue, verse 31.
And some of them said, Could not this man which opened the eyes of the blind have caused that even this man should not have died?
So as people were like, Oh, he really loved Lazarus.
Some are saying, Leave there.
He opened the eyes of the blind.
Couldn't he have seen that this person was about to die and all of that?
But I'm trying to tell you that Jesus wept, he cried.
Some say, I don't cry.
Jesus cried.
Hallelujah.
How would you get up?
Jesus cried.
That you cry.
That doesn't mean that all is lost.
Are you understand?
When you feel like crying, do what?
Come on, do what?
Cry.
He's not healthy.
The nurses are, is he healthy?
He's not healthy.
Cry.
You don't, Jesus did not cry out of desperation.
No.
Then the Bible says he wept.
Then says, Jesus therefore again groaning in himself came to the grave.
He means that in the weeping and in the sadness, he was in the grave.
Lazarus, Lazarus, Lazarus.
And they gave him a hug.
He was in the grave.
And that's how he was going.
Now look at that.
Verse what are we now?
Come on.
Verse 38.
So he was groaning in the spirit.
And then Jesus said, so he was walking, he was walking towards the tomb and he's crying.
Lazarus.
Then he said, take away the stone.
Oh my God, you caught it.
You caught it.
You can cry but don't lose faith.
Inside the tears, still say, still say, roll the stone away.
Take the stone away.
Hallelujah.
Come on, some of you didn't catch what I'm telling you.
You're crying but don't let your faith down.
You may not be standing before a physical stone but as you go, go like this.
I'm a child of God.
Bless God.
Thank you Father.
By the time you realize, I'll tell you something, I'll show you something right now.
Then the Bible says, Martha, the sister of the death, of him that was dead, said unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh, for he has been dead for four days.
Jesus said unto her, said I not unto thee, that if thou wouldest believe thou shouldst see the glory of God.
Then they took away the stone from the place that the dead was laid.
Jesus lifted up his eye and said, Father, Father, oh my God.
See, this is more of a devotional thing.
It's not like a preaching thing.
It's like, Father.
Like in John 7, Jesus says, Father, the hour is come.
Most often than not, you say Father when there is a strong need.
See, we are not hopeless people.
Are you understanding that?
Say I'm not hopeless.
So it says Father, I thank thee that thou hast hurt me.
I cried, but I know you have heard me.
I was mourning, but I know you have heard me.
Thank you, Father, you have heard me.
Who can stand before somebody you didn't wish for the person to die and say thank you Father, you have heard me.
Thank you Father, you have heard me.
Thank you that you have heard me.
Then listen, look at the next verse.
Uh huh, read it.
And I know that you always hear me.
Who?
He says, and I know that you always hear me.
What a mindset.
Jesus could have said, four days, four days, four days, four days.
But I know that you always hear me.
You always hear me.
And included in the always is when it's even late.
You always hear me.
Inside the always is when it is even stinking.
You always hear me includes when it is rotting.
When the matter has gotten to a place where it is even rotting.
You all thank you.
He says, and I know that you always hear me.
So because I know you always hear me, I can stand before that which stinks and command life to come out of it.
Because you always hear me.
So my confidence to stand before the stinking situation.
My confidence in standing before that hopeless situation.
That confidence is not because I am Jesus and I am powerful.
It's because I have a father whose will is to always hear me.
How did he always hear me?
Yeah, so that's what Jesus is saying.
Jesus did not come to say, I am the healer.
When he heard the people say, ah, this man, is he not the one who is opening the eye of the blind?
He didn't say, look at what I'm going to do right now.
He says, my confidence is not in the fact that I am powerful.
My confidence is not in the fact that I'm a son of God.
I am the Messiah.
Thank you, Father.
And I know that you always hear me.
No, I'm not going to give up.
I'm not going to give in.
I will not give in.
No, I will not throw in the towel.
I have a father who is always hearing me.
Glory to God.
I know he's always hearing me.
Thank you, Father.
I know that Jesus is not the one who is opening the eye of the blind.
He says, my confidence is not in the fact that I am powerful.
My confidence is not in the fact that I am powerful.
Thank you, Father.
maybe a cost of Abaya or Abaya.
I don't know who I'm talking to.
It may have come to a place, the whole thing is buried.
The finality has been declared,
but there is a Father who always,
not sometimes, not when I do right,
not when I am okay, not when I have prayed enough,
not when I have become righteous enough,
not when I'm a good person enough,
but He always, thank you Father,
that you hear me when I am happy,
you hear me when I am sad,
you hear me when I am up,
you hear me when I am down,
you hear me when I have money,
you hear me when I have no money,
you hear me, thank you Father!
Okay, there's no purpose in peppers.
There will be no purpose in money.
I am heard.
Don't judge my moment of tears.
To think that my father has abandoned me.
Even in the tears he is hearing me.
Oh come on, I don't know who I'm talking to.
Even in the tears he hears me.
I have a father who hears me.
Shatabaya.
I may cry.
I may feel like giving up.
And all of that.
But there is one constant truth.
There is a hearing father who is always ready
to hear me, to hear me.
Thank you father.
Shatabaya.
I don't know, maybe you are here,
you feel like giving up.
I don't know, maybe you are here.
You have concluded on so many things.
I came with a powerful word from the Lord Jesus Christ.
Thank you father.
That you always, always, always, always, always,
always, always, always.
Shatabaya, lift up your voice somebody.
I am heard.
Even in the tears, I will not let fate down.
Even in the confusion, I will not let fate down.
The conclusion of the matter is that
when a dead person is buried, we are done, we are done.
When a dead person is buried,
we have put a finality over the matter.
And Lazarus was not dead one day.
He was not dead for two days.
He was not dead for three days.
He was dead for four solid days.
Shatabaya, you have a hearing father.
You have a hearing father.
Can you see the future?
That same future you've given up on.
I want you with the eyes of faith
and with the heart of faith.
I know that you always hear me.
I know that you always, not sometime.
I know you always.
I know you'll always.
I know you always.
Hallelujah.
Shout it always.
Come on, come on, come on.
Always.
So the day I felt like giving up, he was hearing.
He was ready, he was hearing.
Hallelujah.
Come on, come on, come on.
Come on, come on.
Thank you Father that you always hear me.
Oh, hallelujah.
because you have a hearing father you stand before death situations and you will call life out of it
not because you have become powerful no but you have a powerful hearer you have a powerful hearer
you have a powerful hearer you have a powerful hearer you have a powerful hearer
and this is the confidence that we have that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us
he is a hearer the father is a hearer
the father is a hearer hallelujah sit down for two minutes
fight on your
say the father is a hearer come on the father is a hearer 우
He said, the father is a hearer.
Woo, the father is a hearer.
I don't know who I'm talking to,
but the father is a hearer.
The father is a hearer.
My father is a hearer.
My father, Ya-ya, be, hey, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Whoa, hallelujah.
papu
Glory to God sit down for some few minute
I know that thou hearest me always.
Emphasis on the always.
At all times.
The word always in there means at all times.
At all times.
When you felt like you were a miserable sailor,
he still hears you.
The father's ears are not closed to your prayers.
I want to say that again.
You have a father who is in heaven.
Kabbalah.
Your father who is on earth may not be hearing you always.
Your mother on the earth may not hear you always.
Your friend on the earth may not hear you always.
Your brother on the earth may not hear you always.
But you have a family member.
He is the father who is in heaven.
Who is hearing you always.
Oh my faith is dead.
My faith is dead.
Always.
I like it when they say the Lord is my shepherd I shall not want.
In the Hebrew he says the Lord is shepherd in me I lack nothing.
Always.
Hallelujah.
So Jesus said,
I thank you father.
See,
the Bible says he was still in agony of spirit.
The thing was still seeing him.
He was still affected by the death of his best friend Lazarus.
He says father,
I thank you.
Oh my, my, my.
I thank you.
I thank you that you always hear me.
That gives us confidence in prayer.
It gives us confidence in prayer.
That when you are praying you are not like the religious person who is praying to a statue.
You are praying to your heavenly father.
Yeah.
Let me show you something.
Say I have a father.
Oh hallelujah.
Hallelujah.
Oh.
Hallelujah.
Look at what Jesus said.
Matthew chapter 6. Let's go to Matthew 6.
Whenever Jesus introduces prayer he calls God father.
Let's see that.
Verse 25.
Therefore, I say unto you,
take no thought for your life.
Oh my God.
Woo.
It is well with me.
Listen, Jesus said,
take no thought for your life.
What you shall eat or what you shall drink,
nor yet for your body,
what you shall put on, is not the life more than meat and the body than clothes.
Behold the fowls of the air, for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into pines, yet your heavenly father feedeth them.
Now I want to show you the twist.
Jesus did not say yet their heavenly father feed them.
He said your heavenly father.
Now you, you, you are always worried.
You are always worried. You are always thinking.
Your father is feeding those who are not even his children.
What's wrong with you?
Oh, you didn't catch what I'm telling you.
He says the fowls of the air, they don't work.
The birds of the field, they don't work.
But your heavenly father feeds them.
He giveeth to all men, Libra, including things.
And I am better than a bird.
Oh, you didn't catch what I'm talking about.
I feel like shouting, my life is good.
What do I help you? My life is good.
My life is good.
Listen, the birds don't pray for God to feed them.
The fowls don't fast before God feeds them.
He's telling you about your own father.
Your father feed people who don't go on 21 days.
Your father feed things who don't pray.
How much more you shouted, father!
He's got my life made.
I don't know about it, but I will not be shaken.
I will not be shaken.
My father is the feeder of all the universe.
I have a father.
Jesus, our Lord says, don't cry about how your life is going to be.
Do you understand that?
Don't cry.
Hey, we are holding on to the word of God.
Do I have people in this building?
Maybe there's somebody seated here who thinks what we are doing is concept.
Leave that person, let the person be.
But I'm talking to you about your own father.
Say, I'm holding on to God.
I'm holding on to my father.
I don't care how it looks like.
Oh, I don't care the tides.
But I hold on to my father.
I hold on to my father.
It is well with me.
My life is good.
Now, now, now, hold on.
Sit down, let me show you something.
More striking.
I love you, Father.
Now, let me read it again.
He says, Behold.
It means consider.
Meditate.
Think about this thing.
He says, Behold.
The fowls of the air.
For they so not, neither do they reap,
nor gather into the bands.
Yet.
Hold on.
He says, They don't do all these things.
Yet.
I can preach on that area.
For three days.
And we'll do that at prayer come destiny.
I promise you.
He says, he says, he says, yet.
What he's trying to say is that,
they don't deserve the provision of God.
The introduction of the word yet,
means that, because they don't reap,
they don't do all these things,
they don't deserve to eat.
Yet.
You're heavenly Father.
I don't know, maybe, maybe some of you have
terrible experiences with God.
I don't know about that.
But my father feeds the undeserving.
It's my father.
See, I feel like we should laugh throughout the service and go home.
Life is awesome.
Now, listen, listen.
He says,
Now, now listen.
He says, yet.
Your heavenly Father,
feeds the.
Are you not much better than they?
Oh, my God.
Lord of the guy I am better.
I am better.
I am better. Come on. I am
better. I am better. I am
better. I am better.
Sit down. Sit down for 2
minutes. Let's close. Sit down.
Sit. Sit. Sit.
Jesus is saying don't write yourself off.
You are not too bad to be taken care of by God.
You're heavenly father.
Your situation is not too worse that God will say, I'm tired of this guy.
Hallelujah.
I look at these scriptures and I'm like, God.
See, so that is why we pray.
And that is why we are confident in prayer.
Because we are talking to our Father who feeds the barriers.
What the abomination.
God cannot be too busy that he will put me on the waiting list.
I say my life is good.
Now put your hand on your belly and say my life is good.
My life is good.
See, like how David would do.
He said, praise the Lord oh my soul.
He said, calm down.
Calm down oh my soul.
Your father is God.
Hallelujah.
Glory to God.
Alright sit down, let me try to wrap up.
So the Lord Jesus, the Lord Jesus teaches us that we ought to know that God is our Father.
See, your understanding, your comprehension and your enjoyment of the Fatherhood of God is important to your life of prayer.
Else, you throw in the towel, you just give up.
You don't want to go to church again, you don't want to do anything again, you're just tired of life.
I want you to say, my life is not at the end of the tunnel.
My life is not at the end of the tunnel.
Believe it and walk it.
Hallelujah.
See sometimes you just have to say, Father will handle it.
My Father is handling it.
My Father is taking care of it.
So the Bible says, cast all your cares upon him.
For he cares.
Glory to God.
I am carefree.
Just cast it like this, put it on God.
See, just walk, go.
God says, my friend, go, go, don't mind.
It's like God says, hey don't mind, don't mind anybody, we are cool here, let's go.
I have a father man.
Ask somebody, do you have a father?
Say, I have a father.
Come on, I'm talking to all of you, say, I have a father.
He's in heaven.
So constantly be excited.
Constantly be excited.
Even when the situation is taking, and you look at it and you are,
by the time you are ended, which you hear,
let's sit down, let me finish.
Let me finish.
Glory to God.
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, sit down.
Now, let's get into the word.
He says, verse 27,
Which of you, by taking thoughts, can add one cubit onto your stature?
So he's saying, what is your problem worrying?
Jesus is asking, when you worry, you become taller.
He says, you become better.
Jesus really doesn't want us to be too serious in life.
Hallelujah.
Then you are quiet.
Then you are moody.
Then you are crying.
Then you are angry.
Then you are confused.
We are shouting you, we are moving you.
We are singing you.
You are always in the mood.
Always, you know, you are confused.
You see, always you want to know.
Alright, so from tomorrow, from next day.
Shout it out, I am irresponsible.
That's what I want to say.
Hallelujah.
About the worries of life.
I am irresponsible.
I am not responsible.
When it comes to worrying, I am not responsible.
Praise the name of God.
That's exactly what Jesus is saying.
He says, take no thoughts.
It means be irresponsible.
Paul says, be anxious, be careful for nothing.
He says, Paul is saying, live a careless life.
Hallelujah.
See, sometimes you are looking at, maybe you want a house.
You want a car.
Maybe you are looking for a more financially secure job.
And then you are looking and then you are thinking,
how can I crack this nut?
How can I this?
How can I?
And then you are there and you are angry.
And you are busy.
And you don't know what to do.
And you are looking at the next two years.
Am I not growing?
What is happening?
Okay, this business didn't work.
That one didn't work.
Am I serious in life?
Is my life going somewhere?
Jesus said, my friend, move forward, just walk.
Be careless.
Say, I'm careless.
I don't care.
How is it?
Then it says, verse 28 says, and why take your thoughts for clothes?
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow.
They toil not, neither do they spill.
Jesus is serious.
I'm telling you.
Now, hold on, hold on.
Let's continue.
And yet I say unto you, that even Solobud in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
If God so clothed the grass of the field, which today is and tomorrow is cast into the oven,
it means it dies, shall he not much more clothe you?
Oh ye of little faith.
Then it says, wherefore?
There's a devil.
Take no thought, saying, what shall we eat or what shall we drink?
Or wherewithal shall we be clothed?
For after all these things do the unbelievers seek.
For your heavenly Father knows that you have need of all these things.
But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness.
All these things have been added on to you.
Jesus said, Lord, let your focus be the kingdom.
Let your focus be the kingdom.
Don't seek after things and get away from the kingdom.
Hallelujah.
Yeah.
Don't seek after things and get away from the kingdom.
But seek ye first the kingdom.
See, concentrate on the things of God.
Concentrate on the work God is doing in you.
Concentrate on the work of God.
Concentrate on the word of God that comes to you.
The daily increment, the daily growth that comes to you.
Jesus says, let your mind be on that.
Hallelujah.
Praise the name of the Lord.
Let your mind be on that.
Say, God is building something in me.
God is working with me.
The Father is alive in me.
The Lord is taking me somewhere.
My father, my father's ears are not close to my prayers.
And no, step by step, I'm gaining height.
Step by step, I am growing.
I didn't used to like the Lord like this.
I didn't used to know how to pray like this.
I didn't know how to do the work of ministry like this.
I can see that my life has shifted.
The money has not come.
The car has not come.
But I know God.
I feel like God is doing something.
And Jesus says, seek ye this thing.
Let this thing be your concentration.
Let your mind be on these things.
See, it's like saying shoe or no shoe, praise the Lord.
Cow or no cow, praise the Lord.
Food or no food, praise the Lord.
Hallelujah.
He says, just walk with the Lord like that.
And by the time you realize, by the time if you are able to get the courage, alright,
and the tenacity, and the audacity to walk with God,
without looking at anything that should sustain you apart from God,
and you walk with God, he says, listen, by the time you go with God,
see, you are looking at all these things, these things will move and meet you here.
He will bring them.
I'm serving God.
Say, my mind is on the kingdom.
Now sit down and listen.
There are good stuff in the word.
I said, there are good stuff in the word.
There are good stuff in the word.
Hallelujah.
Praise God.
So, knowing him as your father is important to your prayer life.
Yeah, it's important to your prayer life.
The Bible describes him as God, and the definition the Bible gives to him as God,
makes him really unrelational.
So, when Jesus brings father, he's bringing you to a relationship,
a relationship with him, a relationship with the father.
Hallelujah.
Now, so, I said that's what Jesus knew.
Now, let's go to John.
These words speak Jesus and lifted up his eyes to heaven and said, father.
Hey.
See, always when he's praying, he lifts up his head.
Father.
You know, whenever, I don't know about it, but whenever I say, I mean, since we started,
when I say father, it's, it's, he says father.
When he lifted up his eyes, he said, father, the hour is come.
Glorify thy son, that thy son also may glorify thee, as thou hast given him power over all flesh.
I mean, look at, look at, look at the tenses of Jesus in prayer.
He does not go to the father as a beggar.
Oh God, oh God, no.
Now he begins, he says, father, father, the hour is come.
Glorify thy son, that thy son may also glorify thee.
Verse two, as thou hast given him power over all flesh,
that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.
And this is eternal life, that they might know thee the only true God and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.
I have glorified thee on the earth. I have finished the work which you gave me to do.
Oh, my God. And now, oh father, glorify thou me with thy own self.
If Jesus tells you that, whatsoever you ask, he means it.
He told God, glorify me with your own self.
He didn't catch it. He didn't catch it.
He told God, glorify me with your own self.
What's the request?
You. It's not like, give me glory. Glorify me with your own self.
It's like saying that you are going to pray and God asks you, what's your prayer request? He says you.
God says, what do you want? He says, you are the one I want. Calm down.
He says, glorify thou me with your own self.
And listen.
With the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
I have manifested thy name unto them, unto the man which thou givest me out of the world.
Thine the way and thou givest them me and they have kept thy word.
Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me out of thee.
For I have given them the words which thou givest me and they have received them and have known surely that I came out of thee and they have believed that you sent.
Hallelujah.
As the point is, in this crucial moment of prayer, the Bible says he goes into prayer and he's not rushing.
He gets time to lift his eyes up as his father.
Father?
I believe if we really want to become like Jesus, when we pray, let's try to lift up our eyes to heaven more.
Father.
There were times Jesus would say, the words that I do, the father who is in me, the father who is in me, do what they want.
So I got the father in me.
Father.
If you want to tell me more, maybe next year, we'll go through the times of prayer again.
Hallelujah.
Yeah. I'll teach you how to pray again.
Prayer of petition.
Father.
I know a lot of you, you don't, you don't, like the father doesn't mean anything to you because you're African people.
You don't really care about the father.
Pattern.
Source.
Bringer.
Generator.
So that's what he's saying.
So you are just looking at father.
No.
Jesus didn't say father.
No.
No, no, no.
Jesus is an African man.
Jesus didn't say, no.
He says father.
Father.
I don't feel like continuing.
Father.
You can say father to all, you can say to all my secret prayers.
Father.
Actually, you take a deep breath before you say that.
Like, you know, father.
I know you are with me.
I was telling somebody.
Sometimes I think we overwork ourselves.
Father.
What's wrong with you?
And even the father is no relational.
And God is saying, who is that?
Then God says, are we fighting?
God is saying, my brother, are we fighting?
Father.
Thank you that you have heard me.
Yeah, father, I mean, things have not gone so well lately.
For the past two months.
I told you, prayer is conversational.
No, no, you don't go to your father with arranged.
No.
No, no, no.
You just go to God.
You just go in prayer.
I don't know how to pray.
Are you born again?
Talk.
That's prayer.
Talk.
Father.
For the past three months, I've not been peaceful.
I have not been peaceful.
I've not lived as you want me to live.
But Lord, you are my father.
Thank you, Father, for your peace.
Then you begin to shoot scriptures.
Sooner or later, you go grab that bar.
I'm a child of God.
You understand what I'm talking about?
So you have a father.
You have a father.
You are not an orphan.
I say you are not one.
But you don't like what I'm telling you.
I say you are not one.
You are not an orphan.
You are a child of God.
Let's close on this.
Hallelujah.
See, I got a father.
One more time.
I got a father.
All right.
Let's go to Mark.
Oh, glory to God.
So from today, when you go, when you stand to pray, what are you going to say?
Good.
What are you going to say?
Hallelujah.
Let's go to 11.
Now.
I think we should close.
See, forget about that March 11.
I want to talk to you about whatsoever things you desire.
I'm going to talk to you about the
next week.
Let's go to Matthew 5.
I say unto you, verse 43, ye have heard that it has been said thou shall love thy neighbor and hate your enemy.
But I say unto you, love your enemies, bless them that curse you.
Do good to them that hate you and pray for them which despisefully use you and persecute you.
That you may be the children of your father simply means that you will exemplify your father.
So it means, what is Jesus saying?
God does not curse those who curse him.
That's what Jesus is saying.
That's what he's saying.
If somebody curses God, God doesn't curse back.
I will talk about that later.
In the nature of God, we'll find it.
Then he says, that you may be the children of your father which is in heaven.
Because he maketh his son, the son belongs to my father.
He maketh his son to rise on the evil and on the good.
And his sins reign on the just and on the unjust.
What is he saying?
Your father provides for everybody.
Don't go to God.
Don't make God look like he's stingy.
The mouth says he gives to all men.
He gives us good gifts to enjoy.
See, fall in love with your father.
Be in love with your father.
I say do what?
Fall in love with your father.
Hallelujah.
I mean you go in the prayer and say, Father, I thank you this morning.
I boldly come to you in prayer.
Thank you Father.
The Bible tells me that you give good gifts.
You give us gifts.
It's like saying, God do me sure.
Someone said, God do me sure.
I have a father.
And he does not discriminate.
Someone says, God will not hear your prayer.
He will not hear your prayer.
If your prayer is not according to his will, he will not hear your prayer.
You'll be like, thank you that God will not hear.
My father, he hears.
Me always.
Never forget that word, always.
The word is pantote or pantote.
That's a Greek word.
It means all the time.
Or in every kind of time.
That's the word.
Jesus says, thank you Father, that you hear me in every kind of time.
So regardless of the time, you hear.
So God does not have good days that he hears our prayer.
Somebody says, when you pray in the night, God is able to hear well.
No.
The four watches or whatever watches.
The night watches.
You pray at 12, 3, 6, 9, 12.
Those are times of portals.
But even God hears us always.
Always.
He hears us always.
Always.
In every kind of time.
345 you hear.
729 you hear.
125 you hear.
221 you hear.
768 you hear.
That's what Jesus is saying.
All kinds of time.
Get away with your nonsense.
Hallelujah.
One man was saying that if you wake up and pray at 3 a.m. for six months or three months or something, you will start seeing.
Brother, always.
Always.
Hallelujah.
Yeah, for discipline sake, you want to say, okay, I want to be praying, let's say at 3 a.m. or 12 midnight.
That's fine.
But 12 midnight prayer is not more powerful than 725 p.m. prayer.
The Bible says, he says, thank you, Father.
I know that you hear me always.
Always.
Don't be carried away by those nonsense rubbish jargons.
Times to pray to break your portal.
Times to pray to break into the realms.
Thank you, Father.
Always.
You see, Paul says that I would that men will lift up their hands.
Everywhere.
Holy hands everywhere.
Praising God.
Praising and praying.
Do you understand?
Everywhere.
Like you're going to board the train and you just say, thank you, Father.
Glory to God.
He heard that one too.
Be spiritual.
Let your spirituality be nice.
Don't wear a moody face for the rest of your life.
It is useless.
It's useless.
Be a lovely person.
Because you have a hearing father.
Every day you are walking in.
One will see you.
No.
It looks like you don't have a hearing father.
Thank you, Father.
Amen.
You see, I'm going to become irresponsible.
The devil will marvel.
All my prayers are answered.
I don't know about you.
They are answered.
You didn't hear me.
Okay, you don't understand what I mean.
I'm every one of them.
Hallelujah.
I'm every one of them.
It's not my business.
It's God's business.
This is faith.
That's why Jesus says, all ye of little faith.
It means that when you don't understand that your father is the supplier, your faith is little.
So you worry and you get trouble because you don't know your father.
I want to dance like Pastor Poinettia right now.
You know, the way you can do the leg like this.
Always.
My father is an always hearer.
And he is an all things giver.
He gives to all things.
So when you pray, enjoy.
Some say when you pray, that's when you pray.
It will take God 40 decades to bring you the answer.
And when we talk about these things, people think we are joking.
There is a real.
You need to break into a cycle.
Always.
You are not beginning.
It's always.
Look at, let's close.
I mean, five seconds, I'm done.
The Bible said, we are done, let's go home.
We can't say, we can't finish preaching the word of God.
Are we together?
Let's go home.
Hallelujah.
Daniel said himself to pray.
The Bible says, prayed for 21 days.
Was fasting, I was praying.
And I am irresponsible.
And the Bible says an angel came.
So when the angel came, it says, oh Daniel, a man greatly loved of God.
For the very first day you said yourself to pray.
That first day you prayed.
I was dispatched to bring the answer.
But the Prince of Persia was too old.
Daniel, in the New Testament, God was not his father.
Babaya.
Hallelujah.
He says that day.
Amazingly, that day.
For that 20 days, Daniel added to it.
The angels say, Jama, you try.
But it was the first day.
The first day.
We don't get answers to our prayers.
Today is the last day.
We don't get answers to our prayers.
Because we have been taught wrong.
Like, I'm serious.
Somebody asked the question, I think, Rayard Monge, the question is, why?
I forgot to ask the question, but it's like, why does prayer not work?
Why does faith not work all the time?
He says it's because we have a lot of books written on why faith doesn't work.
And it is true.
Sometimes when you listen to preachers, you are confused with God to pray to.
You don't even know God.
This one says when you are praying, this one happy.
This one says you are breaking pot.
This one says you are losing.
He says the first day, the day you, the first day, the answer was released.
Amazing.
All like Daniel, we have been brought to God.
Our answers are not given to angels.
No.
That's it.
They are formed from us.
So that very first day, you open your mouth.
It's working.
God's ears are not blocked.
His hands are not shut.
See, in Isaiah 59 or so, he says, but it is your sins that have blocked his ears.
So it means sins block the ear of God.
Amazing.
The Lamb of God, we take away the sin of the world.
And the Bible says he was made sin for that he might become the righteous of God.
So right now, there's nothing.
He says he reigns his reign on the sinner and on the righteous.
He gives to all men liberally, all men, all men.
Sinner, because you see, if God is not giving to the sinner, the sinner will not even be alive for us to meet them with the gospel.
So he's giving to everybody.
He's giving to everybody.
God is taking care of everybody.
Say he's taking care of me.
My future is well arranged.
Nothing is changing.
The end of my tenement fire burns.
My heart is captured to lurk.
I have in me the burning fire.
Oh, a sound of great things.
I have in me the burning fire.