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dropping off, I think one of my resolutions was to like,

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on New Year's Day, I was like,

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eating a really unhealthy breakfast burger.

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I literally survived about two hours,

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not even that necessarily.

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But one of our most important resolutions

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that we could ever make,

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and it's not just resolution that should fall off,

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but resolution to make is to continue to grow

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in Christ's likeness.

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And that's the purpose of our series tonight,

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this holy habits, is that we wanna make spiritual growth,

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not just a hope, not just a goal,

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but that eventually falls off, but a reality,

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that these become habits in your life.

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That these are things we do without even,

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necessarily thinking about it.

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And I love Pastor Corey's definition of what a habit is,

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is this rhythm of life,

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is something that's normal to us.

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We're used to it, because we've done it so much,

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but it's so important.

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It's a cornerstone of our life.

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And our first habit that we talked about

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was scripture reading.

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and hearing from him, and memorizing his word,

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and having his word stick with us.

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And today we're gonna talk about praying,

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and I think a good way to start off,

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will be to pray, so let's pray.

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Dear Heavenly Father, we thank you

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for being a good, good Father.

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We thank you for how invested you are in our lives, Lord.

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I think about who I am,

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and Lord, I don't deserve your love,

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but you're gracious and you're merciful,

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and we get to be here tonight and worship you.

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We get to pray to you.

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We get to learn about how necessary

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and important prayer is.

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So I pray that you bless this.

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I pray that the Holy Spirit moves,

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works in each one of our hearts,

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and now we go out, praying,

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in your precious holy name, amen.

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All right, so tell me, who is your,

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oh, we'll do this, okay, I'll get you talking,

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so you don't have to yell at me, okay?

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Look to the person next to you and answer this question.

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and you talk to someone,

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you wanna hang out with someone,

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or any of those, who is your go-to person?

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Tell your neighbor, go.

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All this, I see a lot of lost spouses

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like you're my go-to person.

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All right, good.

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All right, we got it, we got it.

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Everyone's looking at it.

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I've seen if siblings are saying it to each other

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if they're actually their go-to person.

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All right, so like, I looked at like

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the top answers for a go-to person.

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A lot of people said like their spouse,

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a lot of people said their sibling's friends.

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like the go-to person's mom, like, all the time.

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I don't know what's happening,

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hey mom, like, I did a dump, I did a dump thing.

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whenever I make like really big purchases.

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it was the most money I've ever spent,

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Am I financially bankrupt?

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instinctual as a kid for me to call my mom.

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I was about, I don't know, the younger I get,

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the more acceptable it is that the dumb thing I did.

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everything was fine, and I was brushing my teeth,

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and I was like, what, what?

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it's like, what is it?

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I was like, mom, what is this?

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like there wasn't just like a little bit.

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oh that taste where it's like,

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oh I guess the toothpaste has expired,

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that's what I thought.

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and even she was like, what did you do?

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just give them a popsicle.

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and got a popsicle, and it was all fine.

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it was all falling apart.

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I don't care if she sent me to bed.

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there's people that you go to.

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like, and you just wanna talk with them,

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you just wanna be with them, there's people you go to.

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is the one we should always run to is our father,

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who cares about us.

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It's a privilege not only come before his presence,

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but to actually communicate and fellowship with him.

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I wanna have this mindset of when something happens

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in my life, I say, I need to tell my father about this.

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I need to talk to my God about this.

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And actually have this communion with him.

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the one who had the best prayer life.

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but also in this hypostatic union, he's also a fully man.

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He faced hungry, faced thirst,

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he faced even sickness.

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in the midst of attack, spiritual attack,

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attack against others?

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You see this habit of him praying.

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but a necessity.

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Prayer's not just something I do when I think about it.

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Prayer's something that I need this to actually live

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a successful, victorious Christian life.

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It's not just I pray when I want to.

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I need to talk to my God about this.

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It should be this habit, this instinct.

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is that every believer can learn the habit

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of holy habit of prayer by following four practices

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from the perfect life of Jesus.

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I wanna see his habit.

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topically and just pick whatever we want

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and smoosh it together.

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we see a rhythm, we see a lifestyle, we see Jesus praying.

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I want us to look at four passages and exegete those

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and expose those and find how our Savior prayed.

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So turn with me first.

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We're gonna be in our Bibles a lot.

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I want you to actually turn there with me.

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but it helps you when you actually turn there.

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and we're gonna be in verse 35.

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Mark chapter one, verse 35.

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Now Mark is a gospel that's characterized by it,

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by being fast.

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He says the word immediately a lot

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because he's trying to, he's the shortest gospel.

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He's trying to make things go fast.

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that there was this busyness

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that Jesus was busy in ministry.

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is Jesus enters compertium, which was kind of like

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the headquarters of his ministry.

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he goes to the synagogue, and he teaches.

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cast out those demons.

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that he continues, and he actually goes

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and heals Peter's mother-in-law.

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around about six o'clock,

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he's healing all the sick and oppressed.

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and people just keep coming and knocking on the door,

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knocking on the door, wanting healing.

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People that are oppressed by demons wanting to be freed.

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The whole city is at his door scene.

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This guy can heal people.

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This guy changes things.

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We want what he's giving.

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how many people came to his door,

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and how long he must have been there,

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how tired Jesus must have been.

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That is a busy day.

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You've all had busy days.

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Jesus doesn't, but he had a busy day.

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He wasn't just sitting around doing nothing.

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He was teaching, then he was healing,

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then he was healing another person,

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then there was travel involved in the whole evening.

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He's just healing people at a door

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over and over and over and over again.

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that's just magnificent to me in Mark chapter one, verse 35.

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It says, in the morning, after that long day,

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in the morning, rising up a great while before day,

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he went out and departed into a solitary place

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and there, prayed.

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And what that says is he woke up early and prayed.

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What's interesting to me is those late hours,

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like he was healing for a while,

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but those late hours did not keep him

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from his appointment with his father.

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Before the business of the day started,

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it says he woke up in the morning,

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rising up a great while before day,

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before the sun has even come out,

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before the day has started.

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He says, I need to pray.

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I need and I want to talk with my father.

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And he goes alone and he prays and he talks with God.

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And what's fascinating here, what's encouraging,

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what's actually convicting is that Jesus didn't just say

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that that prayer would just happen.

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No, he made an intentional decision.

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And there have been so many times in my life

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that I say I am just way too tired to pray.

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Way too tired to wake up.

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Like my day was really long.

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Like Lord, you just don't understand how long my day was.

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And like, I'm just kind of exhausted.

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I'll pray in the morning.

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And then I wake up and my alarm goes off

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and I say, I got a snooze button.

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I can do it later.

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And I press snooze and I press snooze

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like the next 30 times.

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And I'm like, oh, I'm late.

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Now I don't have any time to pray.

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I need to get going because I'm going to be late.

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And then I say, well, I'll pray at some point during the day.

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But now the day's slowly going by.

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I say, well, eventually I'll pray.

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I just got a lot of stuff to do.

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Lord, you know, these are really important tasks.

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I gotta get these tasks done.

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And then before I know it, it's 12 o'clock.

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I say, well, I'll pray at lunch.

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But then I get into a conversation with someone.

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I can't actually take the time to finish this conversation.

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But then I go throughout the whole day.

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I say, well, when I get home, I say, well, Lord,

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it was a really busy day.

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I just need to relax a little bit.

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And then let me do it right before I go to bed.

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But then I do it right before I go to bed.

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I'm actually laying in bed.

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I close my eyes and say, well, I'm just going to pray to you

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before I fall asleep.

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What I end up doing, falling asleep and never once pray.

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And what I'm showing there is that there's,

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maybe I'm the only person in the world that's like that.

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But I tell myself I'll do it and then I don't.

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Because I didn't want to make time for it.

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We do and have time for what we care about.

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And then if we care about prayer, we'll make it a pivotal part of our day.

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And Jesus did this.

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You know how tired Jesus must have been?

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But he said, no, I'm going to get up.

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It wasn't even like an if in his mind.

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It's like, no, I'm going to get up.

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I'm going to pray and I'm going to talk to my father.

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I'm going to wake up before everything gets crazy because there's a lot of

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distractions and ministry to be done.

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But before I can even think about doing that, I need to talk with my father.

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We have time for what we care about.

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I remember in college, well, probably even throughout college,

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that thing I always try to find time for were naps.

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Like I always wanted to take a nap.

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I always take a nap.

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I took a nap today.

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It was beautiful.

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It was glorious.

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But I love taking naps.

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And I could find it at any time.

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I remember there was one, this is probably not a good thing to share,

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but I remember I was at an internship one time and it was VBS week and I was just tired.

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And we have this giant volcano because it was like some island theme.

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So there was this giant volcano on the choir platform.

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And it was like two o'clock.

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I just had been with screaming kids all day.

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There was glitter everywhere.

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There was glitter coming out of my ears.

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I had it vacuumed glitter for like the past three hours.

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I was like, I bet no one will notice if I take a nap.

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So I went under the volcano.

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It was the coolest nap I've ever taken.

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I went under the volcano, took a nap, and like, I don't think anyone ever found

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out I took a nap, but that's not good.

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Don't do that.

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That's not it.

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But I remember I was like finding time to this.

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I was like, I want to take a nap.

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Maus is going to take a nap.

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And I had this intentional resolve.

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What Jesus has here is this intentional resolve of I'm going to talk with my father.

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I can find time to do a lot of things because I care about it.

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If I care and see prayer, I'm truly vital.

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Not just an option, but a necessity.

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I'm going to make time for it.

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And Jesus had actions through this.

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I love the action words that are used here.

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That it says he was rising, that he woke up, that he went out, that he made this decision

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to go out alone, that he departed and found a place.

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He didn't just go out and be near people.

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He said, I'm going to find a place that is solitary, and then I'm going to pray.

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Jesus made prayer a priority even when he was tired.

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We were never too busy to pray.

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And Jesus was more busy than we could ever think of being busy.

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Sometimes we use our business as like a badge font.

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Like, look how busy I am.

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Like, Jesus was the most busy.

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And when I'm so busy, that's why I need to pray the most.

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Like, it's like I need to stop and actually pray to him because I'm not getting it through

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my day.

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I need to pray.

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And all the people who are around him, the healing, the cast, and the teaching, even

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the disciples, it says in the next verse that they come looking for him.

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But he says, before I do all this, I need time alone with my Savior.

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And he didn't say I need some like me time.

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He didn't say I just need to go and like, thank to myself.

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Sometimes I do that.

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My prayer becomes coupled with me just wanting to be alone.

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And I go alone instead of like actually talking to the Father about it and talking to him,

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having conversation.

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I'm just thanking and praying through my next day.

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It's not prayer.

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Prayer is when I'm right before my Father talking to him, bringing my concerns, my requests

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before him.

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And I like that it says in the verse, it says, a solitary place.

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It's not condemning praying publicly or with others, but saying I need time alone with

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God.

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So one of the prayer tools I think that we can utilize, I want to give you four different

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ones that I'm giving these to you.

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And I'm like, these have all worked perfectly for me.

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More so that like I need to start applying these more because it would change my prayer

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life if I did.

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The first one is I encourage you to find a prayer closet.

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And there's like a whole bunch of fancy, if you like Google prayer closet, some of them

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like people have decked out prayer closets like they made in their house.

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I'm not making that really.

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I'm more so saying like have a place at your home, have a place at school, have a place

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at work, have your car, like that's a beautiful place to do it.

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Like your commute, find a time where you're alone and you can just talk with God.

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There needs to be a time.

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And I don't, it is not good.

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It's like this, if I try to do like, if I try to do my homework, right on my bed before

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I went to bed, you know, I'm going to end up not doing my homework.

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I'm going to fall asleep.

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Like find somewhere where you're actually awake, you're alert, you can think and you

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have this time.

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Like I encourage you to schedule a time to pray.

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Like we schedule a time for everything else that's important in our life.

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Why do we think we can't schedule a time to pray?

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Like say this is my time where it's my God time.

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Every time I should be praying without ceasing, correct.

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But I need a time where I'm praying.

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Like and you don't be like, I'm going to pray for the next hour.

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It's like you weren't praying for five minutes.

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Let's start slow.

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All right.

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Pray for five minutes in this day.

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This is my five minutes uninterrupted.

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And then start growing.

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What is this schedule time, the schedule place?

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And what I love that Jesus does is that he was always doing it.

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You see a pattern is that he was doing it in the morning and even in the evening.

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Someone once said that prayer is the key to the morning and the bolt to the evening.

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Start your day off well and ends it.

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Giving it to God.

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And what is what the application of this is not a conviction of like, well, I just

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need to miss sleep and just wake up at 3 a.m. and start praying.

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I don't think that's the point at all.

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I think it's more look at the Savior's example.

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Nothing, nothing could keep him from conversing with his father.

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So question I thought I'm saying this to you, but I don't apply this to me.

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Can I be alone with God?

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Can I just be alone with him?

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Away from the business just with the father.

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Jesus knew that he needed the father to face the day, the hardships, the trials and temptations.

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And he knew that would make a difference.

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So first we need a time to pray privately.

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Now we got to add some content to those prayers.

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All right, we're praying in a solitary place.

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Not bad to pray publicly.

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Not bad to pray with others.

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Actually biblical.

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But I need a time to pray privately.

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What else do I need?

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Well, I need some content.

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What's awesome that Jesus does is he prays about his plans.

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Turn with me to Luke chapter 6.

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Luke chapter 6 and we'll be in verse 12, verse 12 and 13.

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And we see in this context here that Jesus' ministry is growing and now he's at this point

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where he needs to appoint disciples.

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And he wants to find men that are useful for his ministry.

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Men that he knows one day are going to lead his church.

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He wants to find the right men.

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And what is fascinating to me, I never saw this before.

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What is fascinating, before he chooses the 12, he prays.

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You see this in verse 12.

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I'll make sure I got it in my Bible.

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All right, verse 12.

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And it came to pass in those days that he went out into a mountain to pray and continued

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all night in prayer to God.

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Two important things I want to point out in that verse is first, a mountain.

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Once again, he's going to a solitary place.

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He's not in the valley where everyone else is at.

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He's going to a mountain.

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That's saying that he's going alone, once again, private, away from the crowds.

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Because the crowds like to follow Jesus.

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And then what is so amazing to me is that it says that he continued all night in prayer

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to God.

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He had this deep concern and he knew that the best solution to find was going to be through

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prayer.

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He was only going to find a solution by talking to his father about it.

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I don't know about you, but like, all night is a long time.

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Like, let me prove it, okay?

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This will prove it.

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Him with the next one, Logan.

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All right?

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So these are pictures from, you guys remember, I put you up with that consent.

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Sorry.

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All right, but you're all up there.

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All right?

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This is our teen all night.

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We're like two different ones.

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All right?

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Okay.

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I want you to see something.

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How long an all night is.

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Okay?

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So that's like all the teens that were here last time.

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Great.

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It was great.

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Okay?

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We look like we're awake, but those are lies.

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Okay?

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That's like 6 a.m. and we're barely making it.

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All right?

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But this was one thing we did where we threw toilet paper.

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That was fun.

508
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That was Todd's idea.

509
00:17:52,560 --> 00:17:53,560
Todd, you proud of that?

510
00:17:53,560 --> 00:17:54,560
He's, he is.

511
00:17:54,560 --> 00:17:55,560
All right, good.

512
00:17:55,560 --> 00:17:57,080
And then this was us like, this is like us hopeful.

513
00:17:57,080 --> 00:17:58,080
Okay?

514
00:17:58,080 --> 00:17:59,560
So that's like us at the very end where we're delusional.

515
00:17:59,560 --> 00:18:00,560
All right?

516
00:18:00,560 --> 00:18:05,120
So the pictures are about like, maybe like 12 a.m. I think when these happened, all right?

517
00:18:05,120 --> 00:18:06,840
That's Miles at like 4 a.m.

518
00:18:06,840 --> 00:18:09,400
And if you zoom out of that picture, Miles is barely there.

519
00:18:09,400 --> 00:18:11,360
He's holding like an air to drink, his hands are shaking.

520
00:18:11,360 --> 00:18:13,100
He's like, I don't know where I am, but I'm here.

521
00:18:13,100 --> 00:18:14,100
All right?

522
00:18:14,100 --> 00:18:16,320
It's like, by the time you get to 4 a.m. at all night, you're like, I don't know what

523
00:18:16,320 --> 00:18:17,320
life is.

524
00:18:17,320 --> 00:18:18,320
I just don't want a kid to die.

525
00:18:18,320 --> 00:18:19,320
All right?

526
00:18:19,320 --> 00:18:20,320
That's our goal right now.

527
00:18:20,320 --> 00:18:21,320
We want to get them back home.

528
00:18:21,320 --> 00:18:22,320
All right?

529
00:18:22,320 --> 00:18:23,320
We're doing something.

530
00:18:23,320 --> 00:18:24,320
I don't know what we're doing.

531
00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:25,320
All right?

532
00:18:25,320 --> 00:18:26,320
And so you parents are like, we're never seeing him back to an all night or ever again.

533
00:18:26,320 --> 00:18:27,320
All right?

534
00:18:27,320 --> 00:18:30,820
One of the things is that all night is a long time.

535
00:18:30,820 --> 00:18:33,840
And that's what's amazing me about Jesus.

536
00:18:33,840 --> 00:18:36,000
That's why he's our example.

537
00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:37,920
That me right now to go and say,

538
00:18:37,920 --> 00:18:39,640
I'm gonna go pray all night.

539
00:18:39,640 --> 00:18:40,880
I don't think I could do it.

540
00:18:40,880 --> 00:18:42,280
I'll be honest with you.

541
00:18:42,280 --> 00:18:45,200
But Jesus says, no, I'm gonna go pray all night

542
00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:46,960
and talk to my father.

543
00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:48,240
All night.

544
00:18:48,240 --> 00:18:49,880
Even though he has a busy day,

545
00:18:49,880 --> 00:18:52,480
he literally goes a few hours after everyone wakes up

546
00:18:52,480 --> 00:18:53,800
and goes and chooses to 12.

547
00:18:53,800 --> 00:18:55,280
He still continues his day.

548
00:18:55,280 --> 00:18:56,360
And Jesus uses that as an excuse

549
00:18:56,360 --> 00:18:58,120
to keep sleeping the rest of the day.

550
00:18:58,120 --> 00:19:00,480
Now, make it clear that Jesus knew how to rest as well.

551
00:19:00,480 --> 00:19:01,320
He kept the Sabbath.

552
00:19:01,320 --> 00:19:03,080
He wasn't being irresponsible.

553
00:19:03,080 --> 00:19:06,960
But he knew, I need to talk to my father.

554
00:19:06,960 --> 00:19:10,360
It's taken a long time because it's that important.

555
00:19:10,360 --> 00:19:12,400
And we see what he does in verse 13.

556
00:19:12,400 --> 00:19:13,800
And when it was day,

557
00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:15,360
and this is why these two verses work together,

558
00:19:15,360 --> 00:19:16,600
it's saying he was praying that night.

559
00:19:16,600 --> 00:19:18,680
Then when it was day of that same day,

560
00:19:18,680 --> 00:19:21,240
he called unto him his disciples.

561
00:19:21,240 --> 00:19:25,640
Of them he chose 12 and he also named apostles.

562
00:19:25,640 --> 00:19:28,840
When daylight came, he went and called the 12 disciples.

563
00:19:28,840 --> 00:19:29,680
Why then?

564
00:19:29,680 --> 00:19:31,200
Well, he had peace.

565
00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:32,880
He went and prayed and talked to his God all night

566
00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:35,280
to his father all night about it.

567
00:19:36,320 --> 00:19:38,840
You know, what I found as a tendency in my life,

568
00:19:38,840 --> 00:19:40,800
and this is me, okay?

569
00:19:40,800 --> 00:19:41,680
Maybe it's no one else.

570
00:19:41,680 --> 00:19:44,040
But like, I get so stressed about things

571
00:19:44,040 --> 00:19:46,360
and then I like get so anxious about things

572
00:19:46,360 --> 00:19:47,560
and I get so worried about it.

573
00:19:47,560 --> 00:19:49,000
And then I try to solve it myself

574
00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:50,120
and then it starts failing.

575
00:19:50,120 --> 00:19:51,840
And then I get even more anxious about it.

576
00:19:51,840 --> 00:19:54,200
And what I realized is that I'm so stressed

577
00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:55,120
and I'm so worried,

578
00:19:55,120 --> 00:19:56,840
and I even get sometimes mad at God.

579
00:19:56,840 --> 00:19:58,000
But then I ask myself, it's like,

580
00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:00,080
Miles, have you prayed about it?

581
00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:02,120
And not just the prayer of like, Lord, help me.

582
00:20:02,120 --> 00:20:04,520
It's like, no, have you sat down in prayer

583
00:20:04,520 --> 00:20:06,960
and talked to God about what's going on?

584
00:20:07,880 --> 00:20:12,320
And then I do it and there's this crazy thing that happens.

585
00:20:12,320 --> 00:20:14,160
I feel better.

586
00:20:14,160 --> 00:20:15,920
And it's not about me like feeling bad enough.

587
00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:17,720
So it's just like, I've given it to God

588
00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:18,560
who can actually,

589
00:20:18,560 --> 00:20:19,640
who the one who can actually take care of it,

590
00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:20,880
I've finally given it to.

591
00:20:20,880 --> 00:20:22,760
I'm like, oh, you are the God of all

592
00:20:22,760 --> 00:20:24,040
and you can't take care of my problems

593
00:20:24,040 --> 00:20:25,560
and I don't have to be stressed.

594
00:20:25,560 --> 00:20:26,920
I should pray more.

595
00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:29,200
And then like a week later I do the same thing.

596
00:20:30,360 --> 00:20:33,400
But what Jesus shows here is that he didn't get stressed,

597
00:20:33,400 --> 00:20:34,480
he didn't get anxious.

598
00:20:35,680 --> 00:20:36,880
He said, I'm gonna pray.

599
00:20:38,800 --> 00:20:40,320
I'm ashamed to think about this

600
00:20:40,320 --> 00:20:42,480
because like I've made some big commitments

601
00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:45,120
and like, I'm like, did I pray about those?

602
00:20:45,120 --> 00:20:48,040
Did I pray about this big decision I have?

603
00:20:48,040 --> 00:20:49,620
Have I actually talked to God about it?

604
00:20:49,620 --> 00:20:51,200
I remember a pastor said something to me

605
00:20:51,200 --> 00:20:53,520
one time right in a sermon when I was in high school

606
00:20:53,520 --> 00:20:56,680
and he said, I think he was talking to a group of students

607
00:20:56,680 --> 00:20:58,440
and he said, students, you need to pray.

608
00:20:58,440 --> 00:21:00,480
You know what, even pray for something as small

609
00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:01,480
as like purchasing a car

610
00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:03,640
and that's not a small thing necessarily at all.

611
00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:04,880
He's like, pray about it.

612
00:21:04,880 --> 00:21:05,720
And it just hit me.

613
00:21:05,720 --> 00:21:08,960
I was like, God cares about what car I purchase?

614
00:21:08,960 --> 00:21:11,200
Yeah, because he cares about you.

615
00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:12,800
He cares about what happens in your day.

616
00:21:12,800 --> 00:21:14,680
He wants to hear about it.

617
00:21:14,680 --> 00:21:15,520
He wants to hear from you

618
00:21:15,520 --> 00:21:17,960
and see that you're surrendering to him.

619
00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:20,280
He doesn't want just a haphazard prayer here and there

620
00:21:20,280 --> 00:21:22,880
and I don't mean that of like not having a routine of prayer.

621
00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:25,080
I mean, sometimes I just say these routine prayers

622
00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:27,000
just to say that I'm praying right before my meals

623
00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:28,240
right when I wake up in the morning

624
00:21:28,240 --> 00:21:31,120
or like, I just kind of say like a routine thing.

625
00:21:31,120 --> 00:21:32,640
I don't really mean it.

626
00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:34,880
I've noticed that this week for praying for this was like,

627
00:21:34,880 --> 00:21:36,680
I'm praying, but am I praying

628
00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:38,160
or am I just saying things that come to my head

629
00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:40,080
and not actually talking to God about it?

630
00:21:40,080 --> 00:21:41,120
I'm just saying it to get it over with

631
00:21:41,120 --> 00:21:42,880
so I can say that I did it.

632
00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:46,280
But no, an actual prayer, why stop and pray?

633
00:21:46,280 --> 00:21:48,200
What is interesting to me is that Jesus just

634
00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:49,880
did not do anything at this decision.

635
00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:50,720
He didn't just say, well,

636
00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:52,440
I'm gonna trust the Holy Spirit's leading.

637
00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:53,680
Now, he knew that there was pressure here,

638
00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:55,400
that these men were gonna be the future leadership

639
00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:57,400
of the church and he says, I'm gonna pray

640
00:21:57,400 --> 00:22:00,040
because my father's going to work.

641
00:22:00,040 --> 00:22:02,800
It makes me think, how much have I missed

642
00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:05,560
because I haven't prayed about something?

643
00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:07,600
Like, what if I prayed about that?

644
00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:08,760
And it's not like God's holding back.

645
00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:11,320
It's more so that I need to have this prayerful dependence

646
00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:13,560
upon him and then I see him work amazingly.

647
00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:15,400
He always does, but think about what he would do

648
00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:17,440
if I just stopped trying to do it

649
00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:20,320
and just got out of his way and watched him work

650
00:22:20,320 --> 00:22:22,520
as I'm serenading over to him.

651
00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:25,320
So kind of something that's applicable

652
00:22:25,320 --> 00:22:27,720
and that's helped me is that whenever I have a big decision,

653
00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:30,360
I wanna do this, I don't do it enough.

654
00:22:30,360 --> 00:22:33,880
But it's called a pros and cons list, you know that,

655
00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:35,280
but then you couple it with prayer.

656
00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:37,800
This is so practical, but it's so important.

657
00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:39,080
That's why I'd have a teenager do it

658
00:22:39,080 --> 00:22:40,280
if we're gonna talk about some decision

659
00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:41,240
they're gonna make.

660
00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:42,280
We're gonna talk through it,

661
00:22:42,280 --> 00:22:44,160
but we're gonna do it with prayer.

662
00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:46,320
And what it does is like, you know pros and cons,

663
00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:48,520
this pros all the good things, then the cons,

664
00:22:48,520 --> 00:22:50,800
all the negative things, and then you yield.

665
00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:51,800
You pray to the Lord about it.

666
00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:53,920
You say, let's pray through each of those things.

667
00:22:53,920 --> 00:22:55,000
Let's pray through this decision.

668
00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:56,960
Let's talk about it through prayer.

669
00:22:56,960 --> 00:22:58,520
Let's go through each facet of it

670
00:22:58,520 --> 00:23:00,680
and pray to the Lord about it.

671
00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:03,000
What's cool is that I saw a team do this.

672
00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:04,440
And they even necessarily like need me.

673
00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:05,400
That was the cool part of like,

674
00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:07,000
they just do this by themselves.

675
00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:07,840
They prayed about it.

676
00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:09,640
They sought counsel and they made a decision.

677
00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:12,400
It was a biblical good decision.

678
00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:16,360
And it's like, we pray that God gives us wisdom.

679
00:23:16,360 --> 00:23:19,320
Like the best advice, and sometimes it can sound like cold

680
00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:20,160
sometimes, right?

681
00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:23,160
But the best advice is like, pray about it.

682
00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:25,960
If I'm having a team come and talk to me,

683
00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:28,400
like it sounds really cliche, but it's powerful.

684
00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:31,280
But if I have a team that's coming to me, right?

685
00:23:31,280 --> 00:23:32,800
And some of you I've said this to you, right?

686
00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:34,120
Hopefully, hopefully I have, all right?

687
00:23:34,120 --> 00:23:37,000
But it's gonna do a whole lot more

688
00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:38,720
coming before the sovereign Lord than coming before me.

689
00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:40,760
You're telling me, but have you talked to God about it?

690
00:23:40,760 --> 00:23:41,680
Because watch what he will do.

691
00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:43,160
Have you prayed about it?

692
00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:45,920
It's like, before we do anything, we gotta pray.

693
00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:47,200
Have you talked to God about it?

694
00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:48,200
Because I can't solve your problem.

695
00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:49,120
You can't solve your problem.

696
00:23:49,120 --> 00:23:49,960
God can.

697
00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:51,360
Let's talk to him.

698
00:23:51,360 --> 00:23:52,320
That's the best thing to do

699
00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:53,480
when you're trying to make a decision.

700
00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:54,320
Like think through it.

701
00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:56,400
He doesn't want you to be foolish in it.

702
00:23:56,400 --> 00:23:58,600
He still wants you to make the decision.

703
00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:02,600
But if I can go through and just give it over to him,

704
00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:03,720
we have these big decisions,

705
00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:07,000
but we have a bigger God who can handle big requests.

706
00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:08,640
And he takes care of us.

707
00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:10,320
And see, I can come to God with decisions.

708
00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:11,800
That's kind of like the crisis mode.

709
00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:12,960
I can come to God when I'm scared,

710
00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:14,800
when I'm fearful, when I'm certain.

711
00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:17,280
But I'm also supposed to be in daily prayer.

712
00:24:17,280 --> 00:24:18,120
What does that look like?

713
00:24:18,120 --> 00:24:20,600
What does it mean to be in daily prayer with the Lord?

714
00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:22,480
Because not always am I just praying to him in crisis.

715
00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:25,640
Like how do I establish this routine of prayer?

716
00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:29,320
And we see this too in Luke 11, verses one through four.

717
00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:31,800
So it turned me Luke 11, verses one through four.

718
00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:33,800
And that leads us to our third point.

719
00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:35,160
Okay, we see that we need to pray privately.

720
00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:37,560
We see we need to pray about our plans.

721
00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:41,520
We also see that Jesus prayed with a plan.

722
00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:43,520
He prayed with the plan.

723
00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:45,000
This is one of the most familiar

724
00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:46,840
and beautiful prayers ever uttered.

725
00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:48,760
And we see in Luke chapter 11,

726
00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:51,800
I will start in verse one.

727
00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:53,560
All right, let's see if I can get my Bible there.

728
00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:56,000
All right, Luke 11, verse one.

729
00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:56,840
All right, it says,

730
00:24:56,840 --> 00:24:59,800
And it came to pass as he was praying in a certain place

731
00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:02,560
when he ceased and one of his disciples sent him,

732
00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:04,640
Lord, teach us to pray.

733
00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:07,440
As John also taught his disciples.

734
00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:10,040
Jesus was praying and it came to pass as he was praying

735
00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:10,880
in a certain place.

736
00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:12,200
So Jesus is a certain place.

737
00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:13,280
He's praying.

738
00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:15,560
His disciples saw that, knew he was praying.

739
00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:16,880
And what's interesting to me is they didn't go

740
00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:19,560
and interrupt his prayer, which I think is fascinating.

741
00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:22,080
Cause I think they knew by this point

742
00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:23,880
is that we don't mess with that.

743
00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:26,920
There's this holy, beautiful relationship that's happening

744
00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:29,560
where the son is talking to the father and it's this beautiful.

745
00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:30,400
Could you imagine?

746
00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:32,880
Like just, just like, thank for a second.

747
00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:33,920
Don't get so like caught up.

748
00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:34,760
This is real.

749
00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:36,280
Like think about Jesus actually praying

750
00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:38,440
how beautiful that had to have been.

751
00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:40,440
Man, just think about when you get to heaven

752
00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:42,080
and like just seeing Jesus and it's just,

753
00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:42,920
oh, it's just amazing.

754
00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:45,160
And then seeing him on earth, like you walk behind a tree

755
00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:46,880
and like Jesus is praying.

756
00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:48,000
And they're like slowly backing up.

757
00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:49,200
It's like, we don't interrupt that.

758
00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:50,600
We're gonna let him finish.

759
00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:52,080
Jesus finished his praying.

760
00:25:52,080 --> 00:25:54,200
They come up to him and then they ask him a question.

761
00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:56,760
One of the disciples and they ask him what?

762
00:25:56,760 --> 00:25:59,780
They say, Lord, teach us to pray.

763
00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:02,200
Teach us to pray.

764
00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:04,960
They didn't ask Lord, teach us to cast out demons.

765
00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:06,720
They didn't ask Lord, teach us to heal.

766
00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:08,840
They didn't ask us Lord, teach us to do miracles.

767
00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:10,600
They didn't even say Lord, teach us to preach.

768
00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:14,640
They say Lord, teach us to pray.

769
00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:15,480
And why?

770
00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:17,200
I think it's because they saw this commitment

771
00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:18,560
that Jesus had to it.

772
00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:20,760
They saw that probably what he did most

773
00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:24,400
is he's praying daily without ceasing.

774
00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:25,760
We're commanded to pray without ceasing.

775
00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:26,960
Jesus did that.

776
00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:30,360
He prayed and they saw the effect of it.

777
00:26:30,360 --> 00:26:31,800
Like they saw that Jesus would pray and say,

778
00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:33,000
guys, we need to pray about this.

779
00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:34,520
And then they see it answered and say,

780
00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:36,160
oh, it works, prayer works.

781
00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:39,160
Lord, we want that Lord, teach us to pray.

782
00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:41,720
And I heard a pastor say like,

783
00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:43,920
would someone ever ask me that?

784
00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:45,680
Would someone ever say that to me?

785
00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:46,920
And not like in a prideful sense,

786
00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:49,080
but I'd be so characterized in my prayer life

787
00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:50,480
that someone could come up to me and say,

788
00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:52,160
hey, teach me to pray.

789
00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:53,640
Because what you have is what I want.

790
00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:54,480
And that convicted me.

791
00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:56,000
Because it's like no one's coming up to my prayer life

792
00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:58,320
being like, Miles, teach me to pray.

793
00:26:58,320 --> 00:26:59,160
Why?

794
00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:01,520
Because I'm not praying like I should.

795
00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:02,520
But I don't want to be there.

796
00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:05,360
And obviously I'm not gonna meet that perfection of Jesus

797
00:27:05,360 --> 00:27:07,880
by no means, but I want to have a life that is like Jesus

798
00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:10,360
that's characterized by praying.

799
00:27:10,360 --> 00:27:13,360
And what his amazing that Jesus does is he teaches them.

800
00:27:13,360 --> 00:27:15,400
I see this verses two through four, let's look at it.

801
00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:16,640
Very familiar.

802
00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:18,640
And he said to them, when you pray,

803
00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:20,560
say, our Father which are in heaven,

804
00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:22,080
hallowed be thy name.

805
00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:24,120
Thy kingdom come, thy will be done,

806
00:27:24,120 --> 00:27:26,120
as in heaven so on earth.

807
00:27:26,120 --> 00:27:27,880
Give us day by day our daily bread

808
00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:29,320
and forgive us our sins,

809
00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:32,440
for we also forgive everyone that is indebted to us.

810
00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:34,120
And lead us not into temptation,

811
00:27:34,120 --> 00:27:36,240
but deliver us from evil.

812
00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:39,400
And while there's, it's a whole another sermon

813
00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:40,400
to dissect all of that.

814
00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:43,240
That's not necessarily my point to do tonight.

815
00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:46,040
More so I want you to see that he gives a plan.

816
00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:49,880
Maybe it's just me, but like when I start praying

817
00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:53,520
and I don't have a plan, my mind starts wandering.

818
00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:55,760
Right, when it's time to pray, like,

819
00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:57,680
I keep bringing this up because I do it all the time

820
00:27:57,680 --> 00:27:58,800
of like falling asleep.

821
00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:00,120
Like I don't keep saying that.

822
00:28:00,120 --> 00:28:01,640
It's just like I keep doing it.

823
00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:05,040
I need to be like, Miles, get out of the bed and go pray.

824
00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:06,280
All right, cause you're going to fall asleep.

825
00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:07,480
I'm like, no, it'll be different tonight

826
00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:08,320
and it's never different.

827
00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:10,200
All right, but like I start praying to the Lord

828
00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:12,520
and I realize I started thinking about the whole day.

829
00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:14,520
I start like planning my next day.

830
00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:17,080
I start thinking about what I'm going to eat later for dinner.

831
00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:18,320
Like I'm thinking about my,

832
00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:19,640
you could be thinking about your grocery list.

833
00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:20,640
I'm thinking about an assignment.

834
00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:22,440
I need to finish an email that needs to be done.

835
00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:23,720
I remember there was one time I was like,

836
00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:25,680
thinking about like how many slices of pizza

837
00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:26,720
I've eaten my whole life.

838
00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:29,240
Like it's like, I'm just thinking about the dumbest stuff.

839
00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:31,280
And it's like, cause my mind is just wandering.

840
00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:32,760
Cause I went in with no plan

841
00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:34,800
and I'm getting the results I planned for.

842
00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:36,000
Cause I didn't do anything.

843
00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:38,120
And it doesn't mean we can't go to Jesus anytime.

844
00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:40,400
It just means like, maybe I should think about

845
00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:42,200
what I'm going to pray and say.

846
00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:43,920
It doesn't mean I necessarily have to have it scripted.

847
00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:45,560
That's not the point at all.

848
00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:47,920
Right? Cause Cary's given us a format to follow.

849
00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:49,360
It's not bad to recite,

850
00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:53,160
but it needs to be sinuant and sincere and genuine

851
00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:54,640
and a prayer.

852
00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:58,360
Not a command, but a format to give us.

853
00:28:58,360 --> 00:28:59,640
Jesus assists us with this.

854
00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:01,160
He says, our Father, which are in heaven,

855
00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:02,280
how will be thy name?

856
00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:04,360
Thy kingdom come, thy will be done.

857
00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:05,560
As in heaven, so on earth.

858
00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:08,200
He says, first start off, praise God.

859
00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:10,280
We have a lot to praise God for, amen?

860
00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:11,400
Amen? All right.

861
00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:13,760
So we start off saying, Lord, you're amazing.

862
00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:14,600
You're great.

863
00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:15,440
Look at what you've done today.

864
00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:17,000
We start praising it.

865
00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:18,320
And then we even have this surrendered heart

866
00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:19,560
that will be done.

867
00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:21,800
And then after I praised him, I can go in and he wants,

868
00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:22,640
that's an amazing thing.

869
00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:25,000
He wants us to give our request to him.

870
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:26,800
We can say, give us day by day our daily bread.

871
00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:30,720
Lord, give me what I need today, this physical request.

872
00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:33,000
And he goes in and says, forgive us our sins.

873
00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:34,680
Forgive, and we also forgive everyone

874
00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:36,040
that is indebted to us.

875
00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:37,360
It's this moral request.

876
00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:39,120
There was physical, now it's moral of,

877
00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:41,680
Lord, help me to grow in you and live for you.

878
00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:43,040
Forgive me for the sins I've done,

879
00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:45,800
but Lord, also help me to live and care for others,

880
00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:47,760
to love others.

881
00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:49,880
And then, so we have the physical, we have the moral,

882
00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:52,280
and then it also goes into the spiritual direction

883
00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:54,760
of request, says, lead us not into temptation,

884
00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:56,440
but deliver us from evil.

885
00:29:56,440 --> 00:29:58,320
It says, Lord, I need some guidance.

886
00:29:58,320 --> 00:29:59,480
I need your wisdom.

887
00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:02,640
And James 1 5 says, if I ask for it, you will give it to me.

888
00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:04,960
I believe that you will give it to me without wavering.

889
00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:06,920
And Lord, I need protection, because there's an adversary,

890
00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:08,680
there's an enemy he's looking to devour me.

891
00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:10,360
What I need you each day,

892
00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:12,720
I need you through this day to fight for me.

893
00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:17,120
And it's going through and talking with the Lord about life.

894
00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:21,720
Lord should not care about my life.

895
00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:24,040
Like, he does.

896
00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:25,520
Does that like amaze you?

897
00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:28,280
Like, does that excite you, that the Lord cares about you?

898
00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:30,040
He cares about your exam?

899
00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:31,280
He cares about your work?

900
00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:32,880
He cares about what you're feeling?

901
00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:34,720
Like, every time you feel that way,

902
00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:37,560
there's no one in your life that's like that.

903
00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:38,760
You might have people that are close,

904
00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:41,520
but no one's like God that cares about everything

905
00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:44,160
and shows it all the time.

906
00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:45,560
That's God.

907
00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:47,360
He loves us.

908
00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:49,560
We need to talk to him, be vulnerable,

909
00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:51,560
and have this plan of just praising him,

910
00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:53,640
asking requests, and surrendering to him.

911
00:30:54,840 --> 00:30:56,800
What I've learned in my life is that,

912
00:30:56,800 --> 00:31:00,480
sometimes I'm not great at that.

913
00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:03,040
Like, I fail at this.

914
00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:06,280
And I don't really talk to him.

915
00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:08,680
I don't talk to him like he's God.

916
00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:11,080
I just kind of like, I have this routine I followed

917
00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:13,320
and there's this fancy language that I do.

918
00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:15,480
It's weird, okay?

919
00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:16,720
Because we don't talk to anyone else

920
00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:18,920
like how sometimes we talk to God about prayer.

921
00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:20,500
All right, James, I'm using you, all right?

922
00:31:20,500 --> 00:31:23,520
Okay, so sometimes when I'm talking to God, right?

923
00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:27,240
I just start repeating myself over and over again.

924
00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:29,120
Like, I don't know if you said, okay, like, I'm praying.

925
00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:31,040
If I go up to James, okay, I'm talking to him,

926
00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:31,880
like, James, how are you doing?

927
00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:33,400
James, I hope you have a really good day, James,

928
00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:35,280
and I hope James, that things just go really well

929
00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:36,120
for you and James.

930
00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:36,960
Thank you for all that you do, James.

931
00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:39,360
You're so good, so good, so good.

932
00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:41,040
James, thank you.

933
00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:43,520
James, James, James.

934
00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:46,120
And it's like, there's not this, I'm like talking,

935
00:31:46,120 --> 00:31:48,560
I'm not talking to him like he's God and he's listening.

936
00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:50,000
I'm just kind of like repeating it.

937
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:51,840
Sometimes that's because we haven't practiced it before,

938
00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:53,680
but it's like, we can talk to God.

939
00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:55,720
We don't, like, I don't know if you do that,

940
00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:58,120
but then also, I do this, I do this too, okay?

941
00:31:58,120 --> 00:32:00,000
If I did this to James, because you would expect me

942
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:01,600
to like say hi to James and talk to him,

943
00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:03,920
but if I'm like, if I just go up to James and just say,

944
00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:06,360
hey, James, I need five bucks right now, five bucks, five bucks.

945
00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:07,920
Get your wallet out, get your five bucks.

946
00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:09,480
Five bucks, sweet, come on, come on, come on, come on.

947
00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:11,160
Five bucks, five bucks, five bucks, come on.

948
00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:12,840
I'm serious, five bucks, all right, five bucks,

949
00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:14,080
let's go, what you got?

950
00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:19,200
That's $2, that's three, all right, thank you, all right?

951
00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:21,440
And I just leave, all right, that was it.

952
00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:22,880
Like, sometimes that's what I do.

953
00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:24,720
I'm like, God, I need you, all right, thanks,

954
00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:26,520
and then I take it, like, there was no conversation

955
00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:27,840
that happened, right?

956
00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:29,920
And I look at you, like, four guys like,

957
00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:31,040
you mean it, Miles?

958
00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:34,120
Like, you won't be, like, that's not how you talk to people.

959
00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:35,880
I'll give you your $3 back, all right?

960
00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:38,120
But, like, sometimes we go to him

961
00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:39,960
and we just treat him like this vending machine,

962
00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:42,120
it's like, I hit the button, give me what I want, all right?

963
00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:44,280
And he starts shaking the vending machine, give it to me,

964
00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:45,240
right?

965
00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:47,640
And I don't talk to him like he's the God of the universe

966
00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:50,840
that I'm before and get to be with.

967
00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:52,480
And that's an amazing thing to me,

968
00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:55,160
that I get to talk to God, and I can just talk to him.

969
00:32:55,160 --> 00:32:57,280
Like, just, I remember there was someone in college

970
00:32:57,280 --> 00:33:00,040
I was talking to him, we pray together,

971
00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:03,000
and they talked to God, like, that was their best friend.

972
00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:05,640
And it wasn't this, like, fancy language,

973
00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:06,600
they weren't trying to press anyone,

974
00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:08,280
they were just talking to God.

975
00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:11,360
It's not a performance, it's a conversation.

976
00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:13,480
With the almighty sovereign ruler.

977
00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:15,280
Now, think about that, you could have a conversation

978
00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:17,080
with the almighty sovereign ruler.

979
00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:19,760
Man, some of you teens look really bored, all right?

980
00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:22,040
Because I get to, like, have an almighty conversation

981
00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:24,120
with the Father, and he listens to me.

982
00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:25,640
Like, you're like, Miles, you're a little too excited.

983
00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:28,640
Maybe we need to get more excited and we would pray more.

984
00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:30,520
Because it's amazing.

985
00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:32,000
All right, I'll breathe, all right, there we go.

986
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:34,560
But, here's my tool for you, that I think would help me.

987
00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:38,720
This is my personal goal for this, this year,

988
00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:41,680
because I haven't been doing it, is keep a prayer journal.

989
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:44,160
Like, write down what you're praying.

990
00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:45,440
It doesn't have to be something fancy,

991
00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:47,480
because I hear that, I'm like, oh, homework assignment.

992
00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:49,000
I don't want to write down stuff.

993
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:51,120
No, all you need to do is just write down, like,

994
00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:52,600
okay, I prayed to the Lord, I praised him

995
00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:54,960
for his character of love, and how he loves me.

996
00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:58,200
Go ahead and put up that acronym I have,

997
00:33:58,200 --> 00:33:59,360
because that'll make more sense.

998
00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:00,480
It's kind of the form and I follow,

999
00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:02,280
and I write this down in my prayer journal.

1000
00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:04,160
Okay, I have, I pee, and I find something

1001
00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:06,160
to praise God for, and I write it down.

1002
00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:09,160
I want to write it, I need to do better at this, all right?

1003
00:34:09,160 --> 00:34:10,720
And then, then R, it's like, okay,

1004
00:34:10,720 --> 00:34:12,320
I've messed up at some point.

1005
00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:14,000
And instead of just saying, Lord, forgive me for all my sins,

1006
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:15,000
let me give him a specific.

1007
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:17,360
Lord, I've thought thoughts I shouldn't.

1008
00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:19,720
I was prideful, forgive me, Lord.

1009
00:34:19,720 --> 00:34:21,880
I don't want to have anything in the way.

1010
00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:23,000
And then I go in and I say,

1011
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:25,480
Lord, help me with this specific problem.

1012
00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:27,280
Not just a general of like, Lord, give me what I need,

1013
00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:29,760
but, Lord, hey, I'm struggling this way.

1014
00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:30,920
Or this conversation I have come,

1015
00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:32,360
can you help me with this, Lord?

1016
00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:34,000
Can you give me grace and wisdom?

1017
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:36,040
And then always in the prayer of,

1018
00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:39,360
Lord, your will, not mine, then amen.

1019
00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:40,680
And then you like, you feel better,

1020
00:34:40,680 --> 00:34:42,280
and there was this format that happened.

1021
00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:44,600
It wasn't just saying a whole bunch of words.

1022
00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:46,160
It wasn't just like throwing requests at him,

1023
00:34:46,160 --> 00:34:47,480
it was talking to him.

1024
00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:51,000
This helps keep me on track in an insane amount.

1025
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:54,880
So we have first, we need to pray privately.

1026
00:34:54,880 --> 00:34:57,320
In crisis, we can come to them with our decisions.

1027
00:34:57,320 --> 00:34:58,920
And the everyday we can come to them.

1028
00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:00,720
Now what we see with Jesus,

1029
00:35:00,720 --> 00:35:02,240
and I think his encouragement to us,

1030
00:35:02,240 --> 00:35:04,000
is Luke chapter 18, verse one, our last one.

1031
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:05,160
Go ahead and turn there with me.

1032
00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:08,240
Luke chapter 18, verse one.

1033
00:35:08,240 --> 00:35:12,080
And we see that Jesus says, now don't stop praying.

1034
00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:16,700
Jesus prayed with persistence.

1035
00:35:16,700 --> 00:35:18,400
You know, the problem with like a habit,

1036
00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:19,520
is in order to make it a habit,

1037
00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:20,880
and Corey said this perfectly last week,

1038
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:22,600
is like, to make it a habit,

1039
00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:24,280
you gotta like continue doing it.

1040
00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:27,320
But we give up.

1041
00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:31,440
Yet even here we can look to Jesus' instruction and example.

1042
00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:33,680
You see this in Luke chapter 18, verse one.

1043
00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:36,400
And he spake a parable unto them, to this end,

1044
00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:39,240
that men ought always to pray and not to faint.

1045
00:35:40,240 --> 00:35:41,920
What's interesting, before he gives this parable

1046
00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:45,200
to the next verses, he tells them the point of it.

1047
00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:46,560
He says, don't miss the point.

1048
00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:48,800
I'm gonna give you a parable, but here's the point.

1049
00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:50,600
Sometimes they miss the point.

1050
00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:52,560
Is men ought always to pray.

1051
00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:54,400
We are always to pray and not to faint.

1052
00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:55,640
Don't stop praying.

1053
00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:57,960
And then he continues to give this parable,

1054
00:35:57,960 --> 00:35:58,880
and we couldn't take it apart,

1055
00:35:58,880 --> 00:36:00,080
but I'll tell you the overview of it,

1056
00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:02,160
of the parable of persistent widow.

1057
00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:04,600
And it's this widow who keeps coming to this judge,

1058
00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:06,360
and the Bible says that it's a judge who,

1059
00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:07,400
who doesn't care about people,

1060
00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:09,620
doesn't like people, and doesn't like God.

1061
00:36:09,620 --> 00:36:11,560
But this woman keeps coming to him and asking for justice.

1062
00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:12,800
Hey, this person wronged me.

1063
00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:14,400
There needs to be justice here.

1064
00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:15,760
And the widow comes, the judge says,

1065
00:36:15,760 --> 00:36:16,720
now I'm not gonna deal with you.

1066
00:36:16,720 --> 00:36:17,960
But the widow keeps coming back,

1067
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:20,320
and coming back, and coming back, and coming back.

1068
00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:22,240
And eventually the judge is like,

1069
00:36:22,240 --> 00:36:23,320
I'm gonna grant her a request,

1070
00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:26,120
not because I like her, not because I feel bad about it.

1071
00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:28,720
She's like, I want her to leave me alone.

1072
00:36:28,720 --> 00:36:31,120
And the point of this is not to compare God to the judge.

1073
00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:32,800
It's not what this parable's about.

1074
00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:35,000
This parable is the point of this widow

1075
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:37,200
kept persisting with her request.

1076
00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:39,960
And we need to keep praying.

1077
00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:41,400
And we see this in Jesus' instruction.

1078
00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:44,200
He says in that verse, ought always to pray.

1079
00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:46,960
That echoes us to 1st Thessalonians 517, right?

1080
00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:49,360
The pray without ceasing.

1081
00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:51,400
That I need to pray more than just words on my lips,

1082
00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:54,420
but it's this heart desire that's constantly desiring him.

1083
00:36:54,420 --> 00:36:56,240
It's like breathing to me.

1084
00:36:56,240 --> 00:36:57,840
It's not that I have to have this long prayer all the time,

1085
00:36:57,840 --> 00:36:59,000
although I think I should have these times

1086
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:01,200
where I'm being privately in prayer with him.

1087
00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:02,040
But it's just daily,

1088
00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:05,180
like having the spirit of dependence in prayer.

1089
00:37:05,180 --> 00:37:06,300
Always to pray.

1090
00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:10,040
And then it says not to faint, not to lose heart,

1091
00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:12,520
not to get discouraged, not to give up.

1092
00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:15,160
The sad reality is people have great intentions to pray,

1093
00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:16,880
but it slowly trickles off.

1094
00:37:18,600 --> 00:37:19,680
And it's hard.

1095
00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:20,880
It's kind of like if we,

1096
00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:22,980
has anyone ran a marathon before?

1097
00:37:22,980 --> 00:37:23,820
Anyone? Anyone?

1098
00:37:23,820 --> 00:37:24,660
All right, okay.

1099
00:37:24,660 --> 00:37:25,800
Everyone's like, okay, good.

1100
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:26,640
I haven't.

1101
00:37:26,640 --> 00:37:27,600
This is not me admitting that.

1102
00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:29,080
All right, how about let's go smaller.

1103
00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:29,920
5K.

1104
00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:32,400
5K, okay.

1105
00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:33,520
Maybe my wife ran a 5K.

1106
00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:34,400
Okay, I gotta step it up.

1107
00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:36,080
All right, man, good night.

1108
00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:37,080
All right, wow.

1109
00:37:37,080 --> 00:37:38,320
All right, I gotta run more.

1110
00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:39,160
Yeah, that's another goal.

1111
00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:41,240
Okay, I'll use Miss Heidi Berry.

1112
00:37:41,240 --> 00:37:42,400
Okay, if me and Miss Heidi,

1113
00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:43,920
I was like, Miss Heidi, you know what?

1114
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:44,920
I saw you raise your hand.

1115
00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:46,920
Like we need to go run a 5K.

1116
00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:48,040
And if we went and did that,

1117
00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:49,240
you know what she would end up seeing?

1118
00:37:49,240 --> 00:37:51,160
We would be up, we would be there at the very start.

1119
00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:52,280
And then we'd be pumping each other like,

1120
00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:53,120
hey, we're gonna do this.

1121
00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:53,960
This is gonna be great.

1122
00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:54,800
We're gonna run and we're not gonna stop.

1123
00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:55,880
And we're gonna be smiling the whole time.

1124
00:37:55,880 --> 00:37:56,720
We'll be joyful.

1125
00:37:56,720 --> 00:37:58,520
She started running maybe like the first block

1126
00:37:58,520 --> 00:37:59,360
and she turned around.

1127
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:01,000
She still be, she'd make it, man.

1128
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:02,920
But she turned around and be like, where's Miles?

1129
00:38:02,920 --> 00:38:03,760
Where's Miles?

1130
00:38:03,760 --> 00:38:04,600
Miles is dead at the start.

1131
00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:05,440
Like he didn't move.

1132
00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:09,320
He was like, yeah, I started moving, he was like, that's enough.

1133
00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:10,160
I'll go get a donut, man.

1134
00:38:10,160 --> 00:38:11,000
Like I'll come back.

1135
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:12,480
Like that's sometimes how I'm like of just,

1136
00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:13,840
I'm like, I have great intentions.

1137
00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:14,680
We'll do this.

1138
00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:15,520
It sounds really good.

1139
00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:16,760
And then we get to the starting line.

1140
00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:18,160
It's like, okay, I'm moving.

1141
00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:20,160
It's like, oh, that takes effort.

1142
00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:22,040
All right, I'm gonna go back over here.

1143
00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:23,200
Like you do great, Miss Heidi.

1144
00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:24,160
I believe in you.

1145
00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:25,000
I'll cheer you at the end.

1146
00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:26,760
I'm gonna get my car and come around to the finish line.

1147
00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:28,320
I'm not walking.

1148
00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:29,960
I'm not even running, right?

1149
00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:33,400
But like, that's me sometimes.

1150
00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:34,440
So I have these great goals,

1151
00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:36,720
but that's why we need to make it practically applicable

1152
00:38:36,720 --> 00:38:38,240
and just gives us encouragement.

1153
00:38:38,240 --> 00:38:39,240
Don't stop praying.

1154
00:38:39,240 --> 00:38:40,720
It gives all these tips of how,

1155
00:38:40,720 --> 00:38:43,160
all these instructions, more so his example.

1156
00:38:43,160 --> 00:38:44,360
Hey, don't stop praying.

1157
00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:46,000
Here's how you can stop,

1158
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:48,960
here's how you can start praying and continue praying.

1159
00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:52,000
You know, Christians aren't praying like they should.

1160
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:54,200
I think part of that is two reasons.

1161
00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:56,160
Is that first, I think sometimes we just don't have a plan.

1162
00:38:56,160 --> 00:38:57,000
We don't have a time.

1163
00:38:57,000 --> 00:38:57,840
We don't have a place.

1164
00:38:57,840 --> 00:38:58,680
We don't have content.

1165
00:38:58,680 --> 00:38:59,520
We don't know how to do it.

1166
00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:01,960
No one's taught us how to do it or teach us to pray.

1167
00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:03,320
How do we do it?

1168
00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:05,720
I think number two is sometimes we doubt.

1169
00:39:05,720 --> 00:39:06,560
We pray and say,

1170
00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:09,280
well, I pray this request forever.

1171
00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:10,120
Do you hear?

1172
00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:10,960
Do you care?

1173
00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:12,360
Does it even work?

1174
00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:13,200
Well, let me tell you,

1175
00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:15,480
prayer works and changes things.

1176
00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:18,720
Every prayer of someone who wakes up in the morning,

1177
00:39:18,720 --> 00:39:19,560
no matter their age,

1178
00:39:19,560 --> 00:39:20,400
and they pray,

1179
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:22,120
I know,

1180
00:39:22,120 --> 00:39:23,840
I did a nursing home ministry for a little while,

1181
00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:25,080
and I know my grandma,

1182
00:39:25,080 --> 00:39:26,160
I'll use my grandma's example,

1183
00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:30,680
of like, she prays every morning and she prays.

1184
00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:32,160
And she just talks to the Lord.

1185
00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:33,400
It's like, the Lord hears that.

1186
00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:34,640
The Lord hears that faithfulness

1187
00:39:34,640 --> 00:39:35,720
and is working through it.

1188
00:39:35,720 --> 00:39:36,680
I'm just thinking of like,

1189
00:39:36,680 --> 00:39:37,720
what have I been blessed with

1190
00:39:37,720 --> 00:39:40,280
because my grandma has just been praying for me

1191
00:39:40,280 --> 00:39:41,760
every morning?

1192
00:39:41,760 --> 00:39:43,520
Are the prayer of a five year old

1193
00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:45,160
every night before they go to bed, Lord?

1194
00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:46,280
Be with, and then,

1195
00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:47,120
my sister used to do it.

1196
00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:48,440
My mom would always make sure

1197
00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:50,560
to go through the prayers with her.

1198
00:39:50,560 --> 00:39:52,680
She sometimes understands, sometimes wouldn't.

1199
00:39:52,680 --> 00:39:53,560
But like, I'm just saying,

1200
00:39:53,560 --> 00:39:54,400
Lord, work through those prayers.

1201
00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:57,120
It's not just a routine thing that we do.

1202
00:39:57,120 --> 00:39:58,680
Like, when you go and pray with your child,

1203
00:39:58,680 --> 00:40:00,640
like, those prayers work.

1204
00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:01,800
Lord hears those.

1205
00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:04,600
It might be simple to their five year old self,

1206
00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:06,800
but it's powerful.

1207
00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:07,640
It changes things.

1208
00:40:07,640 --> 00:40:09,400
God hears every prayer of sorrow.

1209
00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:11,400
He hears every prayer of frustration.

1210
00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:12,440
Every prayer of uncertainty.

1211
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:13,720
Lord, what do I do?

1212
00:40:13,720 --> 00:40:15,400
He hears our request for Lord,

1213
00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:17,080
forgive me for this sin.

1214
00:40:17,080 --> 00:40:18,520
Lord, help me to forgive someone else.

1215
00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:19,800
Lord, give me peace.

1216
00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:20,840
I pray that a lot.

1217
00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:22,000
Lord, give me wisdom.

1218
00:40:23,160 --> 00:40:24,280
Lord, help me through the sickness.

1219
00:40:24,280 --> 00:40:25,840
Help me through this decision.

1220
00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:27,240
Lord, help me to spread the gospel.

1221
00:40:27,240 --> 00:40:29,160
Help me to be bold.

1222
00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:31,000
You know, the outcome's not always the way we expect,

1223
00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:33,520
but it's always the way God wants.

1224
00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:35,760
So I encourage you to use this to our final tool.

1225
00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:38,160
Is use an answer, record your answers.

1226
00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:40,760
Like, or get a recorder of, like, God answering your prayers.

1227
00:40:40,760 --> 00:40:41,720
If you have this prayer journal,

1228
00:40:41,720 --> 00:40:43,920
you write down a request, and then he answers it.

1229
00:40:43,920 --> 00:40:46,360
Like, take a moment to recognize that.

1230
00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:48,080
Like, he answered your prayer.

1231
00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:49,560
That's a beautiful thing.

1232
00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:50,720
And then when you're doubting,

1233
00:40:50,720 --> 00:40:52,760
because it comes up and Satan tries to come up

1234
00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:56,040
and make you doubt, and see those,

1235
00:40:56,040 --> 00:40:57,840
or sow those seeds of doubt,

1236
00:40:57,840 --> 00:40:59,720
go back and say, hey, Sam, I know what you're saying,

1237
00:40:59,720 --> 00:41:00,560
but I know my God,

1238
00:41:00,560 --> 00:41:02,400
and here's how he's answered here and here.

1239
00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:03,920
And I'm flipping pages through the record journal,

1240
00:41:03,920 --> 00:41:05,480
and I'm like, he's answered here and here,

1241
00:41:05,480 --> 00:41:07,400
and I requested this, and he provided this,

1242
00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:08,840
and he went even above what I thought,

1243
00:41:08,840 --> 00:41:10,720
and I requested this, but he actually did this,

1244
00:41:10,720 --> 00:41:11,920
and that was so much better.

1245
00:41:11,920 --> 00:41:14,840
Look at how my God's always faithfully provided.

1246
00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:17,480
Great is his faithfulness to us.

1247
00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:20,320
Prayer's not about us commanding God,

1248
00:41:20,320 --> 00:41:21,360
and saying, God, do what I want.

1249
00:41:21,360 --> 00:41:24,120
It's about us bringing our concerns before him.

1250
00:41:24,120 --> 00:41:26,520
He already knows them, the Bible says that.

1251
00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:27,440
But I can bring them before him,

1252
00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:30,280
not to inform him, but to depend on him,

1253
00:41:30,280 --> 00:41:32,120
and surrender to him, and watch him work.

1254
00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:34,120
And Jesus does this beautifully in the garden,

1255
00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:36,520
because in Matthew 26, verse 39,

1256
00:41:36,520 --> 00:41:39,720
right before he's brutally tortured and killed,

1257
00:41:40,680 --> 00:41:42,600
says, he went a little farther and fell on his face

1258
00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:45,320
and prayed, saying, oh, Father, fibby possible,

1259
00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:47,440
let this cup pass from me.

1260
00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:51,320
Nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou will.

1261
00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:53,480
Jesus prayed right before his death,

1262
00:41:53,480 --> 00:41:56,880
let this cup pass, but if not your will alone.

1263
00:41:56,880 --> 00:41:58,840
And in this passage, you see that it actually says,

1264
00:41:58,840 --> 00:41:59,680
you continue reading,

1265
00:41:59,680 --> 00:42:01,560
and he says that he did this three different times.

1266
00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:04,640
There was this anguish, and there was this persistence,

1267
00:42:04,640 --> 00:42:06,760
because he never lost hope, he never commanded God,

1268
00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:10,360
never distrusted God, and he never stopped praying.

1269
00:42:11,440 --> 00:42:14,600
Don't stop praying, and don't ever underestimate

1270
00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:17,000
what a small prayer can do.

1271
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:18,400
And I say small in quotation marks,

1272
00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:19,440
I'm just saying it's a small prayer

1273
00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:21,200
when you're before the holiness of God,

1274
00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:22,680
and he's hearing your requests.

1275
00:42:22,680 --> 00:42:25,840
But I need to pray to God about just like a quick prayer.

1276
00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:28,480
Like in visitation, I should make a habit of praying,

1277
00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:30,160
because I go up to someone's house and like,

1278
00:42:30,160 --> 00:42:33,040
I gotta say things, and I gotta say things that make sense.

1279
00:42:33,040 --> 00:42:34,760
I'm trying to point them to the gospel,

1280
00:42:34,760 --> 00:42:35,840
but I gotta make sure I get a conversation.

1281
00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:37,880
It's like, why would I go in miles of power?

1282
00:42:37,880 --> 00:42:39,280
That ain't gonna do anything.

1283
00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:41,360
Why don't I go and talk to the Lord about it,

1284
00:42:41,360 --> 00:42:42,880
and pray and say, Lord, help me.

1285
00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:44,360
When I have this really hard conversation,

1286
00:42:44,360 --> 00:42:46,400
maybe I should pray about it.

1287
00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:49,360
When I have a hard conversation with someone,

1288
00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:50,960
and things are just rough or it's just sad,

1289
00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:55,120
it's like, the best way to end anything is just to pray,

1290
00:42:55,120 --> 00:42:56,600
and just say, hey, this was really hard,

1291
00:42:56,600 --> 00:42:58,600
this was, or maybe it was really good, like,

1292
00:42:58,600 --> 00:42:59,520
I'm glad we gotta have this time.

1293
00:42:59,520 --> 00:43:01,320
Can we just pray together?

1294
00:43:01,320 --> 00:43:03,800
And then just make this habit of like, I'm gonna pray.

1295
00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:05,040
And it's not praying to like, be like,

1296
00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:06,000
I'm the best because I'm praying.

1297
00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:07,080
It's more like, I need the Lord,

1298
00:43:07,080 --> 00:43:09,520
so I'm gonna pray, would you like to pray with me?

1299
00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:11,280
And see how the Lord uses that.

1300
00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:14,080
Don't stop praying because he doesn't stop listening.

1301
00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:18,640
Jesus had a rhythm of prayer in his life.

1302
00:43:19,640 --> 00:43:21,240
Go ahead, look and throw up that slide for me

1303
00:43:21,240 --> 00:43:22,480
where I have all the tools for me.

1304
00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:23,720
Thank you, buddy.

1305
00:43:23,720 --> 00:43:26,200
We see that we have these practical tools,

1306
00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:29,520
and we're based on them off of practices of Jesus,

1307
00:43:29,520 --> 00:43:30,720
that he prayed privately.

1308
00:43:30,720 --> 00:43:32,800
I need to have a time with my father.

1309
00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:35,240
Do you have a reserved time to talk to God?

1310
00:43:36,520 --> 00:43:37,360
And that's convicting,

1311
00:43:37,360 --> 00:43:39,160
because like, I have a reserved time where I watch TV,

1312
00:43:39,160 --> 00:43:41,640
and I'm like, I need that to chill and decompress.

1313
00:43:41,640 --> 00:43:44,440
Do I have a reserved time to talk to God?

1314
00:43:44,440 --> 00:43:46,320
And is it more than my TV time?

1315
00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:47,560
Like, am I talking to God?

1316
00:43:48,480 --> 00:43:50,400
Jesus also prayed for his plans.

1317
00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:52,680
We make a lot of decisions in our day.

1318
00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:55,920
See how it changes when you talk to him about them.

1319
00:43:55,920 --> 00:43:57,200
You ask him for wisdom.

1320
00:43:58,040 --> 00:43:59,720
Jesus also prayed with a plan.

1321
00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:02,680
I mean, you get the result you plan for.

1322
00:44:02,680 --> 00:44:05,280
So plan your structure, grab a journal,

1323
00:44:05,280 --> 00:44:07,480
and just go through your prayer life.

1324
00:44:07,480 --> 00:44:08,320
Talk to him about it.

1325
00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:10,520
Talk about what you, write down what you want to talk

1326
00:44:10,520 --> 00:44:13,840
to God about, and then pray persistently.

1327
00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:14,680
Don't stop.

1328
00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:17,840
Jesus displayed this perfectly.

1329
00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:19,960
In the easy times and the hard times,

1330
00:44:19,960 --> 00:44:22,400
you could find him with his father praying.

1331
00:44:23,520 --> 00:44:24,760
And I think the best way,

1332
00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:25,920
it's not over complicated.

1333
00:44:25,920 --> 00:44:28,920
The best way to start following the practices

1334
00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:31,000
of Jesus' prayer life is get this,

1335
00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:34,440
ready, drum roll, start praying.

1336
00:44:34,440 --> 00:44:36,360
It's the best thing to do.

1337
00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:38,520
Go out and say, I'm gonna pray before I go to bed tonight.

1338
00:44:38,520 --> 00:44:39,640
You're like, Miles, I already do that.

1339
00:44:39,640 --> 00:44:41,360
Well, good, keep doing it.

1340
00:44:41,360 --> 00:44:43,160
The application is simple, start praying.

1341
00:44:43,160 --> 00:44:45,440
And you need to recognize, and this is important,

1342
00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:47,920
is that you don't need to go from zero to 60 real quick,

1343
00:44:47,920 --> 00:44:49,760
okay, you're setting yourself up for failure.

1344
00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:51,600
That's like me trying to run the marathon.

1345
00:44:51,600 --> 00:44:53,200
I haven't trained at all, I haven't done anything,

1346
00:44:53,200 --> 00:44:55,800
and I'm going in, it's like, I'm not gonna make it.

1347
00:44:55,800 --> 00:44:57,600
Start slow and in grow.

1348
00:44:58,440 --> 00:45:01,880
And in, like if you realize you're not really praying,

1349
00:45:01,880 --> 00:45:03,480
or there's no substance to your prayers,

1350
00:45:03,480 --> 00:45:05,920
like schedule a time to pray, and then have a journal,

1351
00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:06,840
try it.

1352
00:45:06,840 --> 00:45:09,040
Also find someone, find an accountability partner.

1353
00:45:09,040 --> 00:45:11,200
Like, you're all, everybody look at each other, okay?

1354
00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:12,600
Look at each other, all right?

1355
00:45:12,600 --> 00:45:14,480
Everyone's like, awkward, you're like, good, all right, good.

1356
00:45:14,480 --> 00:45:16,040
Okay, we're all in this together,

1357
00:45:16,040 --> 00:45:17,320
so stop trying to do it yourself.

1358
00:45:17,320 --> 00:45:18,960
Like say, hey, can we pray for each other?

1359
00:45:18,960 --> 00:45:21,000
Can we have a time each week, where we actually get together,

1360
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:22,720
and we pray for each other's prayer lives,

1361
00:45:22,720 --> 00:45:23,880
and we pray for what's going on in our life,

1362
00:45:23,880 --> 00:45:25,440
and then like, we can text each other,

1363
00:45:25,440 --> 00:45:27,360
this crazy thing of like prayer requests,

1364
00:45:27,360 --> 00:45:28,880
like throughout the week, we don't just have to do it

1365
00:45:28,880 --> 00:45:29,780
on Sunday, right?

1366
00:45:29,780 --> 00:45:32,280
We can talk throughout the week and pray for each other,

1367
00:45:32,280 --> 00:45:34,200
keep each other accountable.

1368
00:45:34,200 --> 00:45:36,320
And then also there's this prayer rule that I found

1369
00:45:36,320 --> 00:45:37,680
that I thought was interesting is,

1370
00:45:37,680 --> 00:45:40,400
like, and it's actually the mark of successful businessmen,

1371
00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:42,240
it's interesting, of like, when they finish a meeting,

1372
00:45:42,240 --> 00:45:44,480
they have five minutes, they don't waste those five minutes.

1373
00:45:44,480 --> 00:45:47,120
They go and do something, they make the most of their time.

1374
00:45:47,120 --> 00:45:48,400
And I realize when I have like five minutes,

1375
00:45:48,400 --> 00:45:49,360
you know what I'm starting to do, I'm like,

1376
00:45:49,360 --> 00:45:52,080
I got five minutes, and I just start scrolling,

1377
00:45:52,080 --> 00:45:53,760
it's like, I'm not really doing anything.

1378
00:45:53,760 --> 00:45:56,640
It's like, I got five minutes to just chill.

1379
00:45:56,640 --> 00:46:00,160
Like, no, I need, I have five minutes, let me pray.

1380
00:46:00,160 --> 00:46:02,280
Let me take this time, like, when I have a break at work,

1381
00:46:02,280 --> 00:46:04,000
like, let me go pray.

1382
00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:06,160
When I'm driving somewhere, and I have nothing to do,

1383
00:46:06,160 --> 00:46:07,840
and I'm just like, I can listen to music,

1384
00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:10,720
listen to podcasts, I could also pray.

1385
00:46:10,720 --> 00:46:12,280
When I'm walking through, all right, this is you,

1386
00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:13,960
this is you, don't do nothing to me, all right, this is you.

1387
00:46:13,960 --> 00:46:15,760
When you're walking through the halls at school,

1388
00:46:15,760 --> 00:46:17,160
there's this really cool thing you could do,

1389
00:46:17,160 --> 00:46:18,240
of like, when you're trying to go to class,

1390
00:46:18,240 --> 00:46:19,080
and you're like bummed out,

1391
00:46:19,080 --> 00:46:20,280
because your exam went horribly wrong,

1392
00:46:20,280 --> 00:46:22,120
or you're mad at someone, and someone was mad at you, okay?

1393
00:46:22,120 --> 00:46:23,800
Do you know, like, you're always happy at school, okay?

1394
00:46:23,800 --> 00:46:25,840
All right, but will it help make you happier?

1395
00:46:25,840 --> 00:46:26,880
Right, and it's not about your happiness,

1396
00:46:26,880 --> 00:46:28,320
it's about joy that the Lord gives you,

1397
00:46:28,320 --> 00:46:30,400
it's like, as you go from class to class,

1398
00:46:30,400 --> 00:46:31,720
like, instead of just taking your head down,

1399
00:46:31,720 --> 00:46:32,560
and just not looking at anyone,

1400
00:46:32,560 --> 00:46:34,080
just trying to bolt to your class, like,

1401
00:46:34,080 --> 00:46:35,560
pray, and talk to the Lord.

1402
00:46:35,560 --> 00:46:37,600
Say, Lord, Lord, help me.

1403
00:46:37,600 --> 00:46:39,320
Lord, I can talk to you throughout my day,

1404
00:46:39,320 --> 00:46:41,440
it doesn't just have to be Sunday, thank you, all right?

1405
00:46:41,440 --> 00:46:44,240
But like, looking for these times throughout my day,

1406
00:46:44,240 --> 00:46:45,640
of like, you have these free times,

1407
00:46:45,640 --> 00:46:48,960
fill it with prayer, you have more time than you think.

1408
00:46:48,960 --> 00:46:51,200
A minute of meeting finished early, like,

1409
00:46:51,200 --> 00:46:54,640
hey, I got time to talk to God, let me go talk to him.

1410
00:46:55,720 --> 00:46:57,400
I remember Pastor Ben said this really cool thing

1411
00:46:57,400 --> 00:46:59,840
at work in one of our meetings right before,

1412
00:47:00,800 --> 00:47:03,600
is it was good, it was good, it was good, I promise, all right?

1413
00:47:03,600 --> 00:47:06,120
But he was like, you guys do know you can like,

1414
00:47:06,120 --> 00:47:08,440
pray throughout the work day,

1415
00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:11,000
and that was like revolutionary, I was like,

1416
00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:12,880
I can pray, and like, it's like, yeah,

1417
00:47:12,880 --> 00:47:14,360
I'm also, you're the student, like, you can pray,

1418
00:47:14,360 --> 00:47:15,800
so you can pray, it's all right.

1419
00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:18,720
It's like, there's times like, I'm like, I gotta stop.

1420
00:47:18,720 --> 00:47:19,960
Like, I'll start writing a sermon,

1421
00:47:19,960 --> 00:47:21,920
and it's all man-made, I'm just trying to put it all together.

1422
00:47:21,920 --> 00:47:24,120
It's like, have I even prayed?

1423
00:47:24,120 --> 00:47:25,840
And it's like, this is not a pad of miles back,

1424
00:47:25,840 --> 00:47:27,360
it's like, Miles, you should have gotten this earlier.

1425
00:47:27,360 --> 00:47:30,040
Then you just walk out, go somewhere, and just pray.

1426
00:47:30,040 --> 00:47:31,600
Not to be like, not praying in the middle of the halls,

1427
00:47:31,600 --> 00:47:32,880
like, saying, amen, hallelujah,

1428
00:47:32,880 --> 00:47:34,360
so everyone knows Miss Rhonda hears me,

1429
00:47:34,360 --> 00:47:35,760
so she thinks I'm more spiritual,

1430
00:47:35,760 --> 00:47:38,680
it's like, no, I need to just go and pray privately.

1431
00:47:39,800 --> 00:47:42,880
Making this actual practice of praying.

1432
00:47:42,880 --> 00:47:45,000
And maybe you're like, I already have a practice of praying,

1433
00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:46,120
and a habit of praying, okay, well,

1434
00:47:46,120 --> 00:47:47,560
now it's time to take the next step in that,

1435
00:47:47,560 --> 00:47:50,480
don't just get content, this is holy discontentment of,

1436
00:47:50,480 --> 00:47:51,720
okay, well, now I'm gonna pray for longer,

1437
00:47:51,720 --> 00:47:52,920
I've been praying for five months,

1438
00:47:52,920 --> 00:47:55,200
maybe I can challenge myself to pray for 10 minutes,

1439
00:47:55,200 --> 00:47:57,320
maybe I can focus on the content of my prayer,

1440
00:47:57,320 --> 00:47:58,600
maybe I need to do it more privately,

1441
00:47:58,600 --> 00:48:01,120
maybe I need to fill in breaks throughout my day.

1442
00:48:01,120 --> 00:48:02,400
What I wanna leave you with

1443
00:48:04,080 --> 00:48:08,000
is remember how much a privileged prayer is.

1444
00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:09,440
Last verse, and then we're done.

1445
00:48:09,440 --> 00:48:11,000
Here's 4.16, it says,

1446
00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:13,960
lest therefore come boldly to the throne of grace,

1447
00:48:13,960 --> 00:48:17,720
and we may obtain mercy, find grace to help in time of need.

1448
00:48:17,720 --> 00:48:20,280
I can come before the Father,

1449
00:48:20,280 --> 00:48:22,640
because what Jesus has done,

1450
00:48:22,640 --> 00:48:24,720
I died on the cross and saved me from my sins.

1451
00:48:24,720 --> 00:48:26,960
Now, there's not this veil, there's not the separation,

1452
00:48:26,960 --> 00:48:30,000
I have a mediator, and now I can actually talk

1453
00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:32,600
to my Father and be before him.

1454
00:48:32,600 --> 00:48:35,520
What a privilege, I don't have to go to any priest,

1455
00:48:35,520 --> 00:48:36,360
I go to him.

1456
00:48:37,340 --> 00:48:38,680
I can have a relationship with the Father

1457
00:48:38,680 --> 00:48:39,760
because of what our Savior did,

1458
00:48:39,760 --> 00:48:42,200
and if you've never believed in Christ,

1459
00:48:42,200 --> 00:48:44,040
I encourage your first prayer before you leave tonight

1460
00:48:44,040 --> 00:48:45,520
is to pray to him and confess your sins

1461
00:48:45,520 --> 00:48:47,400
and bow before him and believe.

1462
00:48:48,320 --> 00:48:52,480
Our God hears, our God listens, and our God cares,

1463
00:48:53,680 --> 00:48:58,040
and our God acts, and he does that when we pray as well.

1464
00:48:58,040 --> 00:49:00,680
When we pray, we see that he listens, cares, acts,

1465
00:49:00,680 --> 00:49:04,600
and hears us, so what's stopping you from praying?

1466
00:49:04,600 --> 00:49:12,600
All right, with your head spout and your eyes.