WEBVTT 00:00:01.240 --> 00:00:04.219 Sharing good news of great joy to all people. 00:00:04.799 --> 00:00:10.019 Elation Church. Week number two in our series 00:00:10.019 --> 00:00:14.839 that we entitled Powerful Prayer. Powerful Prayer. 00:00:15.859 --> 00:00:17.719 And since we have a lot of first -time visitors, 00:00:17.940 --> 00:00:19.760 you might say, well, I missed the last one, so 00:00:19.760 --> 00:00:21.920 is it going to be okay? Yeah, it's going to be 00:00:21.920 --> 00:00:26.559 okay. All right. Each week could stand alone. 00:00:26.739 --> 00:00:30.660 I do have some recap this week to help you. from 00:00:30.660 --> 00:00:33.659 where we started last week. We started by looking 00:00:33.659 --> 00:00:36.659 at Jesus and how important prayer was to him. 00:00:36.820 --> 00:00:39.820 Mark 1 .35, before daybreak the next morning, 00:00:39.920 --> 00:00:43.299 Jesus got up and went out to an isolated place 00:00:43.299 --> 00:00:49.460 to pray. So, if I'm going to get up before daybreak 00:00:49.460 --> 00:00:52.439 and do anything, it's going to have to be intentional. 00:00:53.840 --> 00:01:00.130 I'm just saying. Gayna is a morning person. I'm 00:01:00.130 --> 00:01:04.709 not. Somebody smile or something. Did I get too 00:01:04.709 --> 00:01:07.230 rough in the taking notes thing that you can't 00:01:07.230 --> 00:01:12.290 even smile today? But that was important for 00:01:12.290 --> 00:01:15.810 Jesus to get up even before the son came up and 00:01:15.810 --> 00:01:20.450 go get by himself and talk with the father. Jesus 00:01:20.450 --> 00:01:25.329 said, he said, I don't say anything that my father's 00:01:25.329 --> 00:01:27.450 not saying. I don't do anything that my father's 00:01:27.450 --> 00:01:34.349 not doing. How does that happen? By fellowship, 00:01:34.549 --> 00:01:39.469 by communication, by spending time. That's how 00:01:39.469 --> 00:01:44.290 that happens. Matthew 14, 23. After sending them 00:01:44.290 --> 00:01:49.709 home, they'd just been, I'm sure, talking very 00:01:49.709 --> 00:01:52.750 loud to be able to talk to 5 ,000 people plus. 00:01:54.329 --> 00:01:59.750 How many of you know that can be strenuous? Everybody's 00:01:59.750 --> 00:02:02.530 out there to listen to you, and you're out there. 00:02:02.870 --> 00:02:07.290 He didn't have microphones and speakers. He found 00:02:07.290 --> 00:02:10.669 places that the acoustics worked a little better 00:02:10.669 --> 00:02:15.530 than others, but it's still a lot. And get this, 00:02:15.610 --> 00:02:18.569 he doesn't just speak for 45 minutes to an hour. 00:02:22.990 --> 00:02:27.819 Hello. He doesn't just speak for... He doesn't 00:02:27.819 --> 00:02:30.599 just give sermonettes for Christianettes. He 00:02:30.599 --> 00:02:36.039 would speak all afternoon. I mean, he had already 00:02:36.039 --> 00:02:38.819 spoke so long that he's like, okay, these people 00:02:38.819 --> 00:02:40.500 have been here long enough. We're going to have 00:02:40.500 --> 00:02:46.680 to feed them now. Don't worry. I'm not going 00:02:46.680 --> 00:02:49.780 to preach for five hours, even though sometimes 00:02:49.780 --> 00:02:53.990 I think I could. After sending him home, he went 00:02:53.990 --> 00:02:57.069 up into the hills by himself to pray. Night fell 00:02:57.069 --> 00:03:01.810 while he was there alone. This kind of sums it 00:03:01.810 --> 00:03:06.909 up, Luke 5, 16. Jesus often withdrew to the wilderness 00:03:06.909 --> 00:03:11.389 for prayer. This wasn't just a one -time thing. 00:03:11.490 --> 00:03:13.750 This is something he did on a regular basis. 00:03:13.849 --> 00:03:17.110 He went and got alone to talk to the Father. 00:03:19.870 --> 00:03:26.030 In Luke 11, It says, once Jesus was in a certain 00:03:26.030 --> 00:03:29.409 place praying, and as he finished, one of his 00:03:29.409 --> 00:03:33.050 disciples came to him and said, Lord, teach us 00:03:33.050 --> 00:03:38.969 to pray. Obviously, they saw that spending time 00:03:38.969 --> 00:03:43.729 with God in prayer resulted in a powerful life. 00:03:46.009 --> 00:03:47.849 So they're like, I don't want to miss out on 00:03:47.849 --> 00:03:53.139 this, so teach us to pray. Last week we looked 00:03:53.139 --> 00:03:57.860 at Jesus' words to learn what prayer is and what 00:03:57.860 --> 00:04:01.419 prayer is not. Let's take a look at some of that. 00:04:01.479 --> 00:04:06.439 Prayer is not being hypocritical. That word hypocrite 00:04:06.439 --> 00:04:09.639 in the Greek language, in the Koine Greek, it 00:04:09.639 --> 00:04:15.599 means play actor. So prayer is not being yourself, 00:04:15.960 --> 00:04:18.639 right? And then all of a sudden when it's time 00:04:18.639 --> 00:04:20.980 to pray, you're going to put on a mask. going 00:04:20.980 --> 00:04:27.199 to put on a spiritual mask to pray. And during 00:04:27.199 --> 00:04:30.579 this time, they would often have plays where 00:04:30.579 --> 00:04:34.199 public performance of plays where one character 00:04:34.199 --> 00:04:36.980 would play, one person would play multiple characters 00:04:36.980 --> 00:04:41.720 just by putting on a different mask. How are 00:04:41.720 --> 00:04:43.879 you doing today? I'm doing great. How are you 00:04:43.879 --> 00:04:51.610 doing? Changing masks. So that's what prayer 00:04:51.610 --> 00:04:58.329 is not. Prayer is not coming from your regular 00:04:58.329 --> 00:05:01.790 self going into some kind of spiritual self to 00:05:01.790 --> 00:05:05.189 pray. We're just talking with God. Prayer is 00:05:05.189 --> 00:05:07.490 not suddenly beginning to speak old English, 00:05:07.689 --> 00:05:15.129 putting a TH on the end of every word. That's 00:05:15.129 --> 00:05:19.269 not what prayer is. Prayer is not a public display. 00:05:20.040 --> 00:05:22.720 of your super spirituality. We looked at that 00:05:22.720 --> 00:05:27.160 last week. I'm about to show everybody how spiritual 00:05:27.160 --> 00:05:30.339 I am, so I'm going to pray. I'm going to pray 00:05:30.339 --> 00:05:33.160 this magnificent prayer that everyone is going 00:05:33.160 --> 00:05:37.240 to be in awe of. They'll be in awe of me when 00:05:37.240 --> 00:05:43.920 I pray like this. No, that's not prayer. Prayer 00:05:43.920 --> 00:05:48.629 is communication between you and God. So you 00:05:48.629 --> 00:05:50.569 don't need to talk to him any different than 00:05:50.569 --> 00:05:55.910 you would talk to the person beside you. You're 00:05:55.910 --> 00:05:59.310 talking to God. You're talking to God. It's not 00:05:59.310 --> 00:06:02.610 a religious exercise. It's talking with God. 00:06:03.610 --> 00:06:05.889 And get this, you don't have to do all the talking. 00:06:07.389 --> 00:06:09.930 You ever notice that you're around someone and 00:06:09.930 --> 00:06:11.790 they're doing all the talking, you don't want 00:06:11.790 --> 00:06:13.509 to even be around them much anymore because they're 00:06:13.509 --> 00:06:14.850 just doing all the talking and you can't get 00:06:14.850 --> 00:06:22.889 in a word edgewise? Let God talk to you. Y 'all 00:06:22.889 --> 00:06:26.569 just look at me really funny sometimes. Some 00:06:26.569 --> 00:06:28.230 preachers just stare at the back wall and they 00:06:28.230 --> 00:06:31.569 never look at people's faces, but I'm not one 00:06:31.569 --> 00:06:34.949 of those. All right. We also learned that prayer 00:06:34.949 --> 00:06:45.850 is not mindless and meaningless repetition. I'm 00:06:45.850 --> 00:06:50.920 just letting this sit there a minute. It's not 00:06:50.920 --> 00:06:53.180 coming to God with some memorized prayer that 00:06:53.180 --> 00:06:54.959 you're not even thinking about what you're saying 00:06:54.959 --> 00:06:58.180 and you're just spouting off these memorized 00:06:58.180 --> 00:07:05.420 words or these memorized phrases. Look at the 00:07:05.420 --> 00:07:06.899 person beside you and tell them, check yourself. 00:07:07.839 --> 00:07:14.180 Check yourself. When you pray, are you really 00:07:14.180 --> 00:07:18.699 communicating with God or are you just ripping 00:07:18.699 --> 00:07:22.319 off? Some religious phrases that you've memorized. 00:07:26.740 --> 00:07:31.019 In Matthew 6, 9, Jesus said, pray like this. 00:07:31.079 --> 00:07:34.540 Everybody say like this. Notice that Jesus did 00:07:34.540 --> 00:07:42.120 not say pray this. He said pray like this. People 00:07:42.120 --> 00:07:48.939 have been mad at me for saying that. Pray. Picked 00:07:48.939 --> 00:07:52.079 up a word study on Bible Hub. That's the Greek 00:07:52.079 --> 00:07:53.939 word. I'm not even going to try to pronounce 00:07:53.939 --> 00:07:56.779 the Greek words this week. You can pronounce 00:07:56.779 --> 00:08:00.819 it if you want to. And just in case you don't 00:08:00.819 --> 00:08:02.779 know, the New Testament was written in Koine 00:08:02.779 --> 00:08:06.459 Greek, not in English. It was translated into 00:08:06.459 --> 00:08:15.420 English in the 1500s. Okay? So, what is prayer? 00:08:16.810 --> 00:08:20.329 Prayer is interacting with the Lord by switching 00:08:20.329 --> 00:08:25.329 your human wishes and ideas for His wishes or 00:08:25.329 --> 00:08:32.350 His will as He imparts faith or divine persuasion. 00:08:35.809 --> 00:08:38.730 Now, sometimes we think that prayer is, we just 00:08:38.730 --> 00:08:44.370 got to beg, prayer is begging God to do what 00:08:44.370 --> 00:08:50.460 I want Him to do. Hello? Has anybody prayed where 00:08:50.460 --> 00:08:52.360 you're begging God to do something that you want 00:08:52.360 --> 00:09:01.720 him to do and that's what you're praying? Like 00:09:01.720 --> 00:09:04.779 this, is like this, in this manner, in this way, 00:09:04.860 --> 00:09:08.620 in this fashion, in accordance with this description 00:09:08.620 --> 00:09:12.700 or along this line. The Lord's Prayer should 00:09:12.700 --> 00:09:16.519 be seen as a pattern. a guide or a model for 00:09:16.519 --> 00:09:21.220 prayer. Because here's why. The memorized Lord's 00:09:21.220 --> 00:09:26.019 Prayer can easily become mindless, meaningless 00:09:26.019 --> 00:09:34.840 repetition. Now don't get me wrong. You can actually 00:09:34.840 --> 00:09:39.740 pray the Lord's Prayer every day as long as you 00:09:39.740 --> 00:09:42.139 are considering the words that you are saying 00:09:42.139 --> 00:09:45.309 and the words are coming from your heart to God 00:09:45.309 --> 00:09:49.590 is not mindless, meaningless repetition. But 00:09:49.590 --> 00:09:52.970 if all you're doing is going through some spiritual 00:09:52.970 --> 00:09:56.029 motion just to rip out the Lord's Prayer, you 00:09:56.029 --> 00:10:02.750 might as well not pray at all. So today, we're 00:10:02.750 --> 00:10:04.490 going to dig in deep. Look at the person beside 00:10:04.490 --> 00:10:07.370 you and say, we're going to dig in deep. Just 00:10:07.370 --> 00:10:12.809 going to look at the first sentence. Some of 00:10:12.809 --> 00:10:14.649 you think it might be already time to go. It's 00:10:14.649 --> 00:10:19.269 not quite time to go yet. Matthew 6, 9. Our Father 00:10:19.269 --> 00:10:24.269 in heaven. How many of you memorize it? Hallowed 00:10:24.269 --> 00:10:31.730 be thy name. May your name be kept holy. Let's 00:10:31.730 --> 00:10:35.289 say that line together. Our Father in heaven. 00:10:35.929 --> 00:10:40.350 May your name be kept holy. Let's say it again. 00:10:40.889 --> 00:10:45.990 Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. 00:10:46.970 --> 00:10:49.090 I want you to say it like you're talking to him. 00:10:50.309 --> 00:10:52.809 Not just repeating it like we're in the third 00:10:52.809 --> 00:10:54.389 grade and we're reading something off the board. 00:10:55.629 --> 00:11:00.490 I want you to consider what this is saying. And 00:11:00.490 --> 00:11:03.970 I want you to say it to him. Our Father in heaven, 00:11:04.149 --> 00:11:10.929 may your name be kept holy. Let's break it down. 00:11:11.029 --> 00:11:18.789 Our father. Our father. The word there is pater, 00:11:19.029 --> 00:11:26.190 pater, father, parent. Listen, it means he's 00:11:26.190 --> 00:11:34.110 the one who imparts life. And he's not just imparting 00:11:34.110 --> 00:11:42.360 life and walking away. He's imparting life and 00:11:42.360 --> 00:11:48.539 he's committed to it. He's committed to it. God 00:11:48.539 --> 00:11:52.340 didn't just make this creation and create man 00:11:52.340 --> 00:11:57.720 and cause him to breathe the breath of life into 00:11:57.720 --> 00:12:02.259 humanity. He didn't do that and just walk away. 00:12:03.320 --> 00:12:10.009 He's committed to it. He's... Bringing into being, 00:12:10.309 --> 00:12:17.029 imparting life, bringing into being to pass on 00:12:17.029 --> 00:12:23.830 the potential for likeness. I thought that was 00:12:23.830 --> 00:12:29.950 good. Let's break it down. Look to the person 00:12:29.950 --> 00:12:35.090 beside you and say, you are created in the image 00:12:35.090 --> 00:12:47.970 of God. He created us in his image. And he imparted 00:12:47.970 --> 00:12:51.370 life to us. And he's committed to the life that 00:12:51.370 --> 00:12:54.549 he imparted to humanity. And here's what he wants 00:12:54.549 --> 00:12:59.929 to do. He's wanting to bring us to the place 00:12:59.929 --> 00:13:08.230 to look like him. The Holy Spirit is at work 00:13:08.230 --> 00:13:11.679 in the lives of believers to conform them. Into 00:13:11.679 --> 00:13:19.340 the image of Christ. We're growing spiritually 00:13:19.340 --> 00:13:23.659 when we look more like Jesus tomorrow than we 00:13:23.659 --> 00:13:27.500 did today. That's when their spiritual growth 00:13:27.500 --> 00:13:29.899 is happening. It doesn't really have a lot to 00:13:29.899 --> 00:13:33.120 do with how much spiritual knowledge that you 00:13:33.120 --> 00:13:37.679 get, words and ideas. It's how much are you transformed 00:13:37.679 --> 00:13:44.139 into the image of Christ. Because he's a father 00:13:44.139 --> 00:13:53.259 that wants to be, let's put it this way, he wants 00:13:53.259 --> 00:14:02.799 to imprint himself on his children. And that's 00:14:02.799 --> 00:14:10.779 what parenting is. Right? I mean, we don't want 00:14:10.779 --> 00:14:15.429 our kids to be... Not exactly like us, but when 00:14:15.429 --> 00:14:17.570 we train up a child in the way they should go, 00:14:17.690 --> 00:14:23.929 they should get some things, right? We don't 00:14:23.929 --> 00:14:25.830 just send them off for somebody else to raise 00:14:25.830 --> 00:14:32.889 them. Help me out when I'm preaching good. So 00:14:32.889 --> 00:14:36.470 he's a father. He imparts life. He's committed 00:14:36.470 --> 00:14:39.529 to it. He's bringing into being to pass on the 00:14:39.529 --> 00:14:43.440 potential for likeness. Here's a different thing 00:14:43.440 --> 00:14:48.759 under the same Bible hub word study. He imparts 00:14:48.759 --> 00:14:52.899 life from physical birth to the gift of eternal 00:14:52.899 --> 00:14:55.299 life through the second birth, being born again. 00:14:56.299 --> 00:14:59.639 Through ongoing sanctification, the believer 00:14:59.639 --> 00:15:02.639 more and more resembles their heavenly father. 00:15:05.340 --> 00:15:08.779 That's who he is. And when we say our father, 00:15:09.000 --> 00:15:13.919 what we're saying is, God, you gave me life. 00:15:15.740 --> 00:15:22.740 You gave me spiritual life. And basically, when 00:15:22.740 --> 00:15:25.659 we call him Father, we're agreeing with him that 00:15:25.659 --> 00:15:29.799 he wants to work in our lives and make us look 00:15:29.799 --> 00:15:36.340 more like Jesus every day. I mean, I was just 00:15:36.340 --> 00:15:38.419 blessed just doing this study, just looking at 00:15:38.419 --> 00:15:41.769 the words, because... Because it's always been 00:15:41.769 --> 00:15:44.730 our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy 00:15:44.730 --> 00:15:46.250 name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth 00:15:46.250 --> 00:15:48.029 as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily 00:15:48.029 --> 00:15:52.769 bread. Right? I mean, I've been preaching over 00:15:52.769 --> 00:15:55.149 30 years and I've never dug this deep before. 00:15:55.289 --> 00:15:59.789 So I get blessed when I'm digging deep. Our Father 00:15:59.789 --> 00:16:04.990 in heaven. In heaven. There's your Greek word. 00:16:05.710 --> 00:16:10.029 It's translated air, heaven, or sky. The sky. 00:16:12.250 --> 00:16:17.490 Heaven as the abode of God where God lives. I 00:16:17.490 --> 00:16:22.389 thought this was interesting. It's happiness. 00:16:23.029 --> 00:16:34.169 It's power. It's eternity. I grew up thinking 00:16:34.169 --> 00:16:40.220 that God is just like real stern. Just watching. 00:16:43.720 --> 00:16:46.220 I'm so disappointed in you. You messed up again 00:16:46.220 --> 00:16:54.759 today. I pictured that. Nobody specifically taught 00:16:54.759 --> 00:16:57.440 me that, but that's just kind of the, it's just 00:16:57.440 --> 00:17:05.000 like, you know. I want to tell you, heaven's 00:17:05.000 --> 00:17:14.579 a happy place. It's a happy place. I said heaven's 00:17:14.579 --> 00:17:19.980 a happy place. The Bible says there's rejoicing 00:17:19.980 --> 00:17:21.920 in the presence of the angels of God over one 00:17:21.920 --> 00:17:23.940 person who turns from their sin and turns to 00:17:23.940 --> 00:17:27.480 God. Out of the billions of people in the world 00:17:27.480 --> 00:17:30.539 and out of the, I don't know, hundreds of thousands 00:17:30.539 --> 00:17:34.059 of preachers in the world and out of the billions 00:17:34.059 --> 00:17:36.119 of Christians in the world who are sharing their 00:17:36.119 --> 00:17:39.339 faith. How often do you think somebody is turning 00:17:39.339 --> 00:17:45.579 from their sin and turning to God? I think it's 00:17:45.579 --> 00:17:50.000 an ongoing thing in the earth. Not just on Sunday. 00:17:50.500 --> 00:17:52.460 Maybe it gets revved up a little bit more on 00:17:52.460 --> 00:17:56.220 Sunday, but it should be happening all the time. 00:17:58.079 --> 00:18:01.539 So that means there's rejoicing in heaven. It's 00:18:01.539 --> 00:18:11.789 a celebration. It's happy. It's eternity. How 00:18:11.789 --> 00:18:13.690 many of you are looking forward to stepping out 00:18:13.690 --> 00:18:21.210 of this captive by time realm that we live in 00:18:21.210 --> 00:18:25.869 and stepping into eternity one day? Where there's 00:18:25.869 --> 00:18:28.450 no death, there's no sorrow, there's no pain. 00:18:31.710 --> 00:18:38.250 I mean, I'm not taking up a busload today. We 00:18:38.250 --> 00:18:42.500 should look forward to that, right? And then 00:18:42.500 --> 00:18:47.380 it's also translated actually as the gospel too. 00:18:49.519 --> 00:18:56.980 Our Father, the one who gave us life and continues 00:18:56.980 --> 00:19:00.759 to give us life and to transform us into your 00:19:00.759 --> 00:19:04.619 image. It's a process. You're transforming us. 00:19:07.720 --> 00:19:12.099 You're... and you're in power and you're in eternity 00:19:12.099 --> 00:19:23.799 and you're all about love for people. Our Father 00:19:23.799 --> 00:19:26.980 in heaven, may your name, everybody say name. 00:19:28.480 --> 00:19:35.259 Here's a word for name. And here's what that 00:19:35.259 --> 00:19:38.059 word means. The manifestation or revelation, 00:19:38.890 --> 00:19:46.329 Of someone's character. Distinguishing them. 00:19:46.430 --> 00:19:56.309 From all others. May your name. The manifestation 00:19:56.309 --> 00:20:01.390 and revelation. Of your character God. What is 00:20:01.390 --> 00:20:05.829 character? I'll just go ahead and tell you. God 00:20:05.829 --> 00:20:09.549 is a picture. Of ultimate character. Honesty. 00:20:09.730 --> 00:20:19.029 Faithfulness. Right? His actions. Because we 00:20:19.029 --> 00:20:21.789 don't always see character by someone's words. 00:20:21.829 --> 00:20:29.910 We see it by. Right? How they respond. God is 00:20:29.910 --> 00:20:35.740 the ultimate. The ultimate. So may your name, 00:20:35.819 --> 00:20:38.440 the manifestation and revelation of your character, 00:20:38.519 --> 00:20:44.000 God, who you are. Your character is who you are 00:20:44.000 --> 00:20:49.240 when you're all by yourself. That's where you 00:20:49.240 --> 00:20:57.039 can find out what your character is. May it be 00:20:57.039 --> 00:21:01.440 kept holy. Here's a Greek word. It means to make 00:21:01.440 --> 00:21:08.559 holy. To purify. consecrate, to venerate, to 00:21:08.559 --> 00:21:15.099 regard as special. Father, you're the one who 00:21:15.099 --> 00:21:20.220 gives me life. You're the one who gives me life. 00:21:20.259 --> 00:21:22.859 You're the one who's working in me. That's what 00:21:22.859 --> 00:21:25.019 we're saying when we're saying the Lord's Prayer. 00:21:26.059 --> 00:21:27.759 You're the one who's working in me. This is what 00:21:27.759 --> 00:21:36.579 Jesus taught us to pray. life giver, father, 00:21:36.779 --> 00:21:46.380 you're at work in me. And your name is special 00:21:46.380 --> 00:21:54.660 to me. It's one of the most special things that 00:21:54.660 --> 00:21:57.079 are in my life, that's in my life today. God, 00:21:57.160 --> 00:22:08.269 your name is special to me. It's really special 00:22:08.269 --> 00:22:17.990 to me. We did a series, right? I want you to 00:22:17.990 --> 00:22:20.309 consider this when you're praying. We're going 00:22:20.309 --> 00:22:22.490 to back up. I think it was January or February, 00:22:22.549 --> 00:22:27.750 we started a series on who God is and what God 00:22:27.750 --> 00:22:31.390 does. So I'm not going to preach the whole thing 00:22:31.390 --> 00:22:34.589 again. I just want you to think about it. When 00:22:34.589 --> 00:22:38.809 you're talking to God, If his name is special 00:22:38.809 --> 00:22:44.609 to you, maybe there's something you're going 00:22:44.609 --> 00:22:48.349 to God to talk to him about. Something specific 00:22:48.349 --> 00:22:50.970 that's in your life. Maybe it's not just general 00:22:50.970 --> 00:22:53.809 communication and conversation, which is awesome. 00:22:53.970 --> 00:22:56.210 And we'll be talking about that in weeks coming 00:22:56.210 --> 00:22:58.750 up. That we need to be in constant communication 00:22:58.750 --> 00:23:02.910 with God. But maybe you want to pray to him. 00:23:02.950 --> 00:23:05.269 You want to talk to him about something that's 00:23:05.269 --> 00:23:13.950 going on in your life. Chances are, what's going 00:23:13.950 --> 00:23:21.809 on in your life? God has given us who he is. 00:23:22.809 --> 00:23:26.609 God has given us who he is. He's given you who 00:23:26.609 --> 00:23:30.349 he is. So when you come to him, you begin to 00:23:30.349 --> 00:23:33.529 tell him how special his name is. And God, I 00:23:33.529 --> 00:23:37.049 know that this is who you are based on your word. 00:23:37.190 --> 00:23:42.329 I know you. I have this revelation of who you 00:23:42.329 --> 00:23:47.910 are and what you do. Come on, somebody. Somebody 00:23:47.910 --> 00:23:51.690 smile and say, I'm going to get this. Two people. 00:23:57.349 --> 00:24:01.390 He tells us this is who he is. Now, you can go 00:24:01.390 --> 00:24:03.430 back to a podcast and you can listen to every 00:24:03.430 --> 00:24:05.210 single one of these. I'm not preaching the whole 00:24:05.210 --> 00:24:08.130 thing. I'm just telling you who God is. Is his 00:24:08.130 --> 00:24:13.029 name? special to you? Has he given us his name 00:24:13.029 --> 00:24:16.970 that applies to what we're facing today? Chances 00:24:16.970 --> 00:24:21.369 are, yes. He is Yahweh Shalom. Everybody say 00:24:21.369 --> 00:24:25.170 Shalom. Now, everybody always says it's peace. 00:24:25.309 --> 00:24:28.769 Everybody say peace. But I double dog dare you 00:24:28.769 --> 00:24:32.269 to look up the word in Hebrew and get the definition. 00:24:32.470 --> 00:24:36.769 That's what I've got here. This is who God is. 00:24:36.869 --> 00:24:43.259 It's what God does. If you are feeling like you 00:24:43.259 --> 00:24:46.920 need to be safe, somebody to help you to be safe, 00:24:47.119 --> 00:24:49.680 guess what? That's who God is. God is safety. 00:24:50.859 --> 00:24:57.920 God is wellness. God is happiness. God is a friend. 00:24:59.799 --> 00:25:02.759 God is concerned about your well -being. That 00:25:02.759 --> 00:25:06.319 word welfare. Have you ever gone to him, praying 00:25:06.319 --> 00:25:08.539 to him, and there's something to do with your 00:25:08.539 --> 00:25:13.990 well -being? Well, you probably need to say, 00:25:14.049 --> 00:25:21.690 God, I know who you are. Based on your word, 00:25:21.809 --> 00:25:26.589 I know who you are. Your name is special to me. 00:25:26.630 --> 00:25:31.730 You are Yahweh Shalom. You know the situation 00:25:31.730 --> 00:25:34.150 that I'm dealing with. You know what I need even 00:25:34.150 --> 00:25:36.170 before I ask. But I just want to acknowledge 00:25:36.170 --> 00:25:38.660 you. that you're concerned about my welfare. 00:25:38.819 --> 00:25:41.279 You're concerned about my health. You're concerned 00:25:41.279 --> 00:25:44.059 about my prosperity. Don't go running down some 00:25:44.059 --> 00:25:46.880 road when I say a word, because it's in the Bible. 00:25:51.319 --> 00:25:54.539 I didn't say, God, you're concerned about me 00:25:54.539 --> 00:26:05.640 driving a Bentley. That's not what I said. That's 00:26:05.640 --> 00:26:10.230 not what I said. Don't run off with your definition 00:26:10.230 --> 00:26:13.789 of it. God's concerned with your flourishing. 00:26:14.670 --> 00:26:18.609 Let's use that word, flourishing. And he's concerned 00:26:18.609 --> 00:26:25.009 with your peace. That's who he is. That's what 00:26:25.009 --> 00:26:31.430 he does. So God, this is who you are. This is 00:26:31.430 --> 00:26:32.849 what I'm dealing with. You know what I'm dealing 00:26:32.849 --> 00:26:34.730 with. But God, I acknowledge you as who you are. 00:26:36.779 --> 00:26:38.619 Won't that make a difference in your prayer life? 00:26:40.819 --> 00:26:45.420 Hello? Instead of just thinking that you're coming 00:26:45.420 --> 00:26:48.920 to God to beg Him for something? See, here's 00:26:48.920 --> 00:26:50.640 the deal. A lot of times we come to God begging 00:26:50.640 --> 00:26:54.519 Him for something, and God has already given 00:26:54.519 --> 00:26:59.220 us the answer to our prayer. He's already given 00:26:59.220 --> 00:27:02.400 it to us, and then we're begging Him. And God's 00:27:02.400 --> 00:27:06.390 saying, it's who I am. It's what I've done. It's 00:27:06.390 --> 00:27:11.769 what I have given you. So powerful prayer would 00:27:11.769 --> 00:27:14.269 be us acknowledging who he is and what he's done. 00:27:15.869 --> 00:27:18.670 He's already done it. You don't have to beg him 00:27:18.670 --> 00:27:20.549 for it. He's already done it. It's who he is. 00:27:21.410 --> 00:27:28.569 Hallelujah. All right. He is Yahweh's Sid Canoe. 00:27:29.769 --> 00:27:33.450 Anytime you're feeling condemnation, Like we 00:27:33.450 --> 00:27:35.230 talked about at Life Group this week. We were 00:27:35.230 --> 00:27:39.630 talking about, you know, shame and guilt and 00:27:39.630 --> 00:27:43.089 condemnation. Does anybody feel that way sometimes? 00:27:43.549 --> 00:27:48.190 When you mess up, you're just like, I'm a no 00:27:48.190 --> 00:27:51.069 count good for nothing for God. Because I messed 00:27:51.069 --> 00:27:55.269 up again. I wanted to do the right thing, but 00:27:55.269 --> 00:27:58.750 here I go messing up again. God must be disappointed 00:27:58.750 --> 00:28:06.240 in me. Has anybody ever felt that before? Well, 00:28:06.319 --> 00:28:13.359 if we know who God is, He is our righteousness. 00:28:14.799 --> 00:28:18.640 We have no righteousness apart from Him. That's 00:28:18.640 --> 00:28:25.559 who He is. When we're in Christ, we are the righteousness 00:28:25.559 --> 00:28:30.819 of God in Christ Jesus. And God looks at us and 00:28:30.819 --> 00:28:38.900 he calls us righteous. So don't go to God saying, 00:28:39.000 --> 00:28:41.400 oh God, I messed up again. God, I'm just sorry, 00:28:41.500 --> 00:28:44.279 Christian. I just can't. I know you're disappointed 00:28:44.279 --> 00:28:46.460 in me. See, some people pray that. I've probably 00:28:46.460 --> 00:28:51.640 prayed that a few times in my life. But I'm not 00:28:51.640 --> 00:29:00.759 acknowledging what God has provided for me. Look 00:29:00.759 --> 00:29:02.059 to the person beside you and tell them, listen 00:29:02.059 --> 00:29:06.259 faster. All right. He is Yahweh's Sabbath oath. 00:29:06.640 --> 00:29:09.200 Does anybody find themselves in a spiritual battle 00:29:09.200 --> 00:29:11.640 every once in a while? You feel like you're being 00:29:11.640 --> 00:29:18.380 attacked. Well, this is who God is. He's the 00:29:18.380 --> 00:29:24.440 Lord of hosts. He's the commander -in -chief 00:29:24.440 --> 00:29:27.059 over a great mass of people or servants organized 00:29:27.059 --> 00:29:32.910 for battle. Remember when the prophet walked 00:29:32.910 --> 00:29:36.009 out and his servant walked out and they were 00:29:36.009 --> 00:29:41.049 surrounded? Like, oh no, what are we going to 00:29:41.049 --> 00:29:42.329 do? What are we going to do? What are we going 00:29:42.329 --> 00:29:55.670 to do? And then the prophet said, God, open his 00:29:55.670 --> 00:30:05.170 eyes. Send him back outside. He's like, there 00:30:05.170 --> 00:30:10.970 are chariots and angels and fire all over the 00:30:10.970 --> 00:30:18.130 place. Because God is Yahweh's Sabbath oath. 00:30:20.269 --> 00:30:25.410 You're never alone. Don't go to God and say, 00:30:25.470 --> 00:30:26.650 what am I going to do? What am I going to do? 00:30:26.650 --> 00:30:27.849 What am I going to do? What am I going to do? 00:30:27.890 --> 00:30:31.200 Go to God and say, God. Your name is special 00:30:31.200 --> 00:30:35.440 to me. You are Yahweh Sabaoth. God, you are the 00:30:35.440 --> 00:30:38.519 God of angel armies. You are on my side. I'm 00:30:38.519 --> 00:30:48.960 on your side. I will not be taken out. He is 00:30:48.960 --> 00:30:52.920 Yahweh Nisi. You can go back and listen to these, 00:30:52.980 --> 00:30:56.940 but he's our banner. When God's people were... 00:30:57.480 --> 00:30:59.559 took their eyes off the banner when the banner 00:30:59.559 --> 00:31:02.259 wasn't lifted up, when Moses' staff wasn't lifted 00:31:02.259 --> 00:31:05.759 up to where they were putting their eyes on that. 00:31:05.819 --> 00:31:09.180 When it dropped down, God's people began to be 00:31:09.180 --> 00:31:13.640 defeated. But as long as that banner is held 00:31:13.640 --> 00:31:16.900 up, just like, I mean, you've studied history 00:31:16.900 --> 00:31:20.839 before. When the flag on the fort goes down, 00:31:20.980 --> 00:31:22.920 it means that you've lost it and somebody else's 00:31:22.920 --> 00:31:27.619 flag has got it. Well, God is our banner. He's 00:31:27.619 --> 00:31:30.019 our banner of identification. He's our banner 00:31:30.019 --> 00:31:31.920 of remembrance. He's our banner of announcement. 00:31:32.119 --> 00:31:34.099 He's our banner of focus. He's our banner of 00:31:34.099 --> 00:31:37.140 hope. If you need hope, start saying, God, you 00:31:37.140 --> 00:31:41.740 are my banner. I look to you in the middle of 00:31:41.740 --> 00:31:44.059 what I'm going through. I look to you. You are 00:31:44.059 --> 00:31:48.000 my hope. You are my victory. Since you are for 00:31:48.000 --> 00:31:53.059 me, what does it matter who's against me? It 00:31:53.059 --> 00:32:02.470 doesn't even matter. He is Yahweh Ra. Or Ra 'al, 00:32:02.670 --> 00:32:05.789 I believe is the Hebrew pronunciation. The Lord 00:32:05.789 --> 00:32:07.809 is my good shepherd. Look to the person beside 00:32:07.809 --> 00:32:10.329 you and say, he's a good shepherd. So when you're 00:32:10.329 --> 00:32:16.490 praying, it's like, God, I need provision. I 00:32:16.490 --> 00:32:19.049 need peace and rest. I need my strength renewed. 00:32:19.670 --> 00:32:22.730 I need you to protect me and comfort me. I need 00:32:22.730 --> 00:32:25.269 you to vindicate me. I need you to bless me. 00:32:25.309 --> 00:32:27.940 I need you to satisfy me. That's what a good 00:32:27.940 --> 00:32:30.680 shepherd does for his sheep. Go check out 23rd 00:32:30.680 --> 00:32:37.259 Psalm. And he's a good shepherd. So if that's 00:32:37.259 --> 00:32:43.720 what you're facing, make sure that his name becomes 00:32:43.720 --> 00:32:50.240 special to you. You acknowledge it. You esteem 00:32:50.240 --> 00:32:53.880 it, who he is, in your life, in the situations 00:32:53.880 --> 00:32:59.740 that you're facing. He is El Shaddai. That means 00:32:59.740 --> 00:33:02.539 he's all sufficient. It means he's more than 00:33:02.539 --> 00:33:07.299 enough. He is the one who is mighty to completely 00:33:07.299 --> 00:33:10.700 nourish you, to completely satisfy you, and to 00:33:10.700 --> 00:33:19.880 completely supply you. Is his name special to 00:33:19.880 --> 00:33:23.470 you? See, it's easy to say yes, but then we don't 00:33:23.470 --> 00:33:25.390 know or we forgot because it was just another 00:33:25.390 --> 00:33:32.930 Sunday. And we're not really holding on to who 00:33:32.930 --> 00:33:39.150 God is and what he wants to do. He is pater, 00:33:39.250 --> 00:33:42.910 which is our father. We've already looked at 00:33:42.910 --> 00:33:48.549 that. Abba. He's a good and loving father. He 00:33:48.549 --> 00:33:54.509 loves you. He wants to lead you. Maybe you're 00:33:54.509 --> 00:33:56.349 going through a situation where you need God's 00:33:56.349 --> 00:33:59.210 help and direction for what's going on. We need 00:33:59.210 --> 00:34:03.650 to look to Him to lead us more than we do. I'm 00:34:03.650 --> 00:34:06.190 just going to say it. We need to look to Him 00:34:06.190 --> 00:34:10.230 to lead us. We need to be led by God. Spirit 00:34:10.230 --> 00:34:17.400 -led people. He is our source. We look to him 00:34:17.400 --> 00:34:21.239 to provide for us, to protect us, to restore 00:34:21.239 --> 00:34:27.619 us. Sometimes we need restoration. Is his name 00:34:27.619 --> 00:34:32.880 holy to you? Is it special to you? Yahweh Shammah. 00:34:33.940 --> 00:34:38.139 The Lord is there. He's not just there. He's 00:34:38.139 --> 00:34:46.559 there with directed and targeted purpose. Is 00:34:46.559 --> 00:34:48.219 this just too much to wrap your brain around? 00:34:49.119 --> 00:34:53.539 I say God is there with directed and targeted 00:34:53.539 --> 00:34:57.320 purpose in your life. He is with you. He will 00:34:57.320 --> 00:34:59.800 not leave you. He will not turn His back on you. 00:35:02.380 --> 00:35:04.599 Does anybody ever feel alone every once in a 00:35:04.599 --> 00:35:07.920 while? Just your feelings. You feel alone. You 00:35:07.920 --> 00:35:11.519 feel abandoned. You feel like, I'm going down 00:35:11.519 --> 00:35:17.139 for the last time. We don't live by our feelings, 00:35:17.199 --> 00:35:24.260 we live by faith. What we're established in. 00:35:25.519 --> 00:35:36.519 Be established in this. God is with you. He is 00:35:36.519 --> 00:35:40.280 Yahweh Makedesh. He's the one who consecrates 00:35:40.280 --> 00:35:43.659 us and sanctifies us. He's the one who sets us 00:35:43.659 --> 00:35:52.619 apart. and makes us holy. That's who He is. Maybe 00:35:52.619 --> 00:35:55.519 you need to talk to Him about something that's 00:35:55.519 --> 00:35:57.000 going on in your life that has something to do 00:35:57.000 --> 00:36:07.099 with this. He is Yahweh Jireh. He provides, and 00:36:07.099 --> 00:36:09.679 technically the word is translated, He will see 00:36:09.679 --> 00:36:18.010 to it. So whatever you're facing, if you'll put 00:36:18.010 --> 00:36:22.989 your trust in God, if you will look to Him and 00:36:22.989 --> 00:36:27.590 quit being smacked around and tossed around by 00:36:27.590 --> 00:36:29.389 the things that you're dealing with, if you'll 00:36:29.389 --> 00:36:36.789 look to Him, you can find someone who will see 00:36:36.789 --> 00:36:43.699 to it. Go back and listen to those sermons. There's 00:36:43.699 --> 00:36:45.400 a bunch of testimonies that goes along with these 00:36:45.400 --> 00:36:50.780 things. He is Yahweh Rapha. What does that mean? 00:36:51.199 --> 00:36:53.659 It's who God is. It's what He does. I am the 00:36:53.659 --> 00:36:58.239 one who heals, mends, restores, cures, and thoroughly 00:36:58.239 --> 00:37:02.900 makes you whole. And that's who He is. That's 00:37:02.900 --> 00:37:11.840 His name. This isn't a denomination or some kind 00:37:11.840 --> 00:37:23.320 of... Crusade. It's who God is. Now, if you say, 00:37:23.320 --> 00:37:26.280 that's not who God is. Well, there you go. He's 00:37:26.280 --> 00:37:30.599 not going to be that for you. But this is who 00:37:30.599 --> 00:37:36.619 He is. It's who the Bible says He is. So we look 00:37:36.619 --> 00:37:40.820 to Him. If something's going on, and you need... 00:37:41.269 --> 00:37:44.610 healing and restoring and curing. If you need 00:37:44.610 --> 00:37:47.250 to be made whole, if you see parts of yourself 00:37:47.250 --> 00:37:50.730 as being broken, you go to the one who can fix 00:37:50.730 --> 00:37:59.670 it. He is Adonai, despotis, kurios. Everybody 00:37:59.670 --> 00:38:04.849 say Lord. He is Lord. What does that mean? That 00:38:04.849 --> 00:38:07.809 he's our respected authority. He's the absolute 00:38:07.809 --> 00:38:11.400 ruler. He's our Lord and owner. He's supreme 00:38:11.400 --> 00:38:14.940 in authority. That's what you're saying when 00:38:14.940 --> 00:38:18.099 you call him Lord. That's what you're agreeing 00:38:18.099 --> 00:38:23.280 to. He's the authority in my life. He's my respected 00:38:23.280 --> 00:38:38.559 authority. I surrender my life to him. Here's 00:38:38.559 --> 00:38:44.539 the deal. Our prayers become powerful when we 00:38:44.539 --> 00:38:48.619 acknowledge God, acknowledge who He is, when 00:38:48.619 --> 00:38:54.840 we praise Him for who He is, when we honor Him 00:38:54.840 --> 00:38:57.579 for who He is and what He does, when we esteem 00:38:57.579 --> 00:39:02.760 Him. That's when our prayers are going to be 00:39:02.760 --> 00:39:09.860 powerful. When we quit just... Coming out of 00:39:09.860 --> 00:39:15.280 ignorance, our lack of knowledge of the Word 00:39:15.280 --> 00:39:19.360 and who He is. See, our prayers aren't going 00:39:19.360 --> 00:39:26.219 to be powerful if they're ignorant prayers. If 00:39:26.219 --> 00:39:32.619 you want your prayers to be powerful, make sure 00:39:32.619 --> 00:39:39.599 His name is special to you. And you have confidence 00:39:39.599 --> 00:39:45.559 in who He is based on His Word. Not based on 00:39:45.559 --> 00:39:47.320 what the preacher said, but based on His Word, 00:39:47.380 --> 00:39:50.280 who He is and what He does. You trust Him and 00:39:50.280 --> 00:39:55.000 have confidence in that and you pray and let 00:39:55.000 --> 00:40:00.820 Him know that His name is special to you. Your 00:40:00.820 --> 00:40:05.119 prayers are going to be different. They're going 00:40:05.119 --> 00:40:12.949 to be powerful. Somebody say hallelujah. Hallelujah. 00:40:13.269 --> 00:40:19.090 Thank you, God. Thank you for your truth. All 00:40:19.090 --> 00:40:21.289 this is available to those who are in Christ. 00:40:23.030 --> 00:40:26.309 Everything I said. But that's the stipulation 00:40:26.309 --> 00:40:30.250 in Christ. Because if you're not in Christ, there's 00:40:30.250 --> 00:40:33.670 only one prayer that he's going to hear. And 00:40:33.670 --> 00:40:35.730 that prayer is that you come to him and you say, 00:40:37.130 --> 00:40:42.429 I surrender my life to you. I believe you are 00:40:42.429 --> 00:40:44.489 who the Bible says you are. I believe you're 00:40:44.489 --> 00:40:46.590 the Son of God. I believe you died on the cross 00:40:46.590 --> 00:40:49.969 for me and my place for my sin. I believe you 00:40:49.969 --> 00:40:56.929 rose again from the grave. And I ask you to forgive 00:40:56.929 --> 00:41:03.849 me and be my Lord. Listen, I didn't say joining 00:41:03.849 --> 00:41:06.320 a church does that for you. I didn't say... being 00:41:06.320 --> 00:41:08.199 dip, dunked, or sprinkled does that for you. 00:41:09.019 --> 00:41:11.039 I've got this friend in Myrtle Beach who was 00:41:11.039 --> 00:41:16.159 dip, dunked, and sprinkled. All before she actually 00:41:16.159 --> 00:41:24.260 came to Christ. In her, how old was Norma? In 00:41:24.260 --> 00:41:27.840 her 70s maybe? Late 60s or 70s? That's when she 00:41:27.840 --> 00:41:30.400 came to Christ. She had been a very religious 00:41:30.400 --> 00:41:35.039 person up until that point. But she had never, 00:41:37.829 --> 00:41:39.929 confessed her sin and surrendered her life to 00:41:39.929 --> 00:41:43.210 Christ. She had never done that. She had a relationship 00:41:43.210 --> 00:41:45.309 with religion and a relationship with church, 00:41:45.389 --> 00:41:50.489 but not a relationship with God. And if she was 00:41:50.489 --> 00:41:55.809 here, she would tell you that testimony. So here's 00:41:55.809 --> 00:42:01.210 my question, and I'm done. Has that ever happened 00:42:01.210 --> 00:42:06.380 in your life? Have you ever came to the point 00:42:06.380 --> 00:42:08.280 where you realize that you are a sinner and your 00:42:08.280 --> 00:42:11.099 sin separates you from God and you realize that 00:42:11.099 --> 00:42:14.179 Jesus died on the cross for you like we talked 00:42:14.179 --> 00:42:17.000 about in communion today and you realize he did 00:42:17.000 --> 00:42:19.420 that for you. He died for you. He shed his blood 00:42:19.420 --> 00:42:23.260 for you and he loves you and he demonstrated 00:42:23.260 --> 00:42:31.579 his love for you. Have you ever come to him and 00:42:31.579 --> 00:42:36.750 say, God, I've messed up. I'm a sinner, but I 00:42:36.750 --> 00:42:39.190 know that you love me and I know that you died 00:42:39.190 --> 00:42:42.730 for me, so I ask you to forgive me. Help me to 00:42:42.730 --> 00:42:45.110 turn away from those things in my life that don't 00:42:45.110 --> 00:42:47.230 honor you. Help me to turn away from those things. 00:42:49.110 --> 00:42:50.869 And I want to live for you. I want to follow 00:42:50.869 --> 00:42:54.349 you. I want to know you. So I ask you to be my 00:42:54.349 --> 00:42:59.190 Lord. I surrender my life to you. Have you ever 00:42:59.190 --> 00:43:04.789 done that? If you would, I want everybody to 00:43:04.789 --> 00:43:06.190 bow your head and close your eyes just for a 00:43:06.190 --> 00:43:10.210 minute. I want you to be alone. That's the only 00:43:10.210 --> 00:43:13.650 reason I ask you to do that. And if today you 00:43:13.650 --> 00:43:15.449 would say, Dean, you know what? I look back over 00:43:15.449 --> 00:43:18.909 my life and I've been to church and I've gone 00:43:18.909 --> 00:43:20.829 through all these things, but there's never really 00:43:20.829 --> 00:43:25.210 been a specific time when I have asked Jesus 00:43:25.210 --> 00:43:29.230 to forgive me. There's never been a specific 00:43:29.230 --> 00:43:34.210 time when I've surrendered my life to him. And 00:43:34.210 --> 00:43:38.429 ask Him to be my Lord. The Bible says, if you 00:43:38.429 --> 00:43:40.289 call on the name of the Lord, you'll be saved. 00:43:44.429 --> 00:43:47.309 It's never happened. But I would like to today. 00:43:50.769 --> 00:43:54.269 That's the good news. Today is the day of salvation. 00:43:55.170 --> 00:43:59.590 It's today. So if that's what you want, I ask 00:43:59.590 --> 00:44:02.550 you to pray with me. There's nothing magic about 00:44:02.550 --> 00:44:04.750 the words of this prayer because we can teach 00:44:04.750 --> 00:44:11.570 birds to repeat words after people. But if you 00:44:11.570 --> 00:44:13.510 listen to this prayer and it sounds like what 00:44:13.510 --> 00:44:16.670 you want to say to God from your heart, here's 00:44:16.670 --> 00:44:19.309 the deal. I know He will hear you. I know He 00:44:19.309 --> 00:44:22.469 will forgive you. I know He will welcome you 00:44:22.469 --> 00:44:25.530 into His family. I know He will send His Spirit 00:44:25.530 --> 00:44:29.179 to live on the inside of you. And His Spirit 00:44:29.179 --> 00:44:31.320 will seal you until the day of redemption. I 00:44:31.320 --> 00:44:35.460 know those things according to God's Word. So 00:44:35.460 --> 00:44:36.980 if that's what you want, I ask you to pray with 00:44:36.980 --> 00:44:41.519 me. It's a simple prayer. One Friday morning, 00:44:41.719 --> 00:44:44.400 I pray a prayer a lot like this, and I've never 00:44:44.400 --> 00:44:49.280 been the same since. Jesus, I believe You are 00:44:49.280 --> 00:44:52.860 the Son of God. I believe You died on the cross 00:44:52.860 --> 00:44:58.929 for me, in my place, for my sin. I believe you 00:44:58.929 --> 00:45:01.289 rose again from the grave, just like the Bible 00:45:01.289 --> 00:45:04.130 says. I don't fully understand it, but I believe 00:45:04.130 --> 00:45:11.110 it. And Jesus, today, I confess my sin to you. 00:45:11.289 --> 00:45:16.269 I'm guilty. I've messed up. I ask you to forgive 00:45:16.269 --> 00:45:22.090 me. Wash me clean. Thank you for shedding your 00:45:22.090 --> 00:45:27.670 blood for me so that I could be forgiven. And 00:45:27.670 --> 00:45:35.190 Jesus, today, I ask you to be my Lord. I surrender 00:45:35.190 --> 00:45:38.489 my life to you. I want to live for you. I want 00:45:38.489 --> 00:45:43.150 to follow you. I want to know you. So I ask you 00:45:43.150 --> 00:45:47.849 to be my Lord, my Savior. Jesus, thank you for 00:45:47.849 --> 00:45:51.750 forgiving me. This online worship experience 00:45:51.750 --> 00:45:54.250 was brought to you by the Friends and Partners 00:45:54.250 --> 00:45:55.289 of Eulation Church.