We're that normal. If you're here and you're
like, what is this? This is how normal we are.
We're family and family enjoys just banter, right?
Like family enjoys banter. Here's what I know
about life. And I know this because I'm living
it right now. Life is hard. Life is hard. And
life can be hard unexpectedly. And we were made
to need each other. We were made for community.
And in my own life this week, there have been
needs that came out of nowhere, that community
has been wrapped around and been loving us. And
I'm not ready to get into all those details yet.
At some point, I will. But just know that, like,
if you're here and you go, what is this about?
Here's my hope. That you would see a group of
people that believe Jesus so much that they put
themselves in community because he calls his
family. That when you see the way the family
of God treats and cares and loves that you go,
hey, this is not this authentic nature of community
is not available anywhere else on the planet
other than in the family of God. And it points
you to Jesus. And I hope because you are with
the family, you get to meet Jesus. I guess the
hope in all this, because he's the only thing
that's going to change. He's the only thing that
is going to change your life for the better.
He's the only one that's going to empower you
to live the life he always intended you to live,
being human. And so we're just we're just here
going, hey, we're a bunch of people, normal,
ordinary, football, loving football, hating some
of you. Right. People that we're just stumbling
towards Jesus and stumbling towards this God
who is good in nature and loves us. And we don't
even deserve it. And yet he loves us so much.
And so if that's you and you're here and you're
like, I'm trying to figure this out. Welcome.
We're glad you're here. Maybe you're across the
screen and you're like, I didn't know I was getting
that today. And you're welcome. We're glad you're
here. With that, we do these things called collections,
right? Collections of talks. I know some people
have an issue with collections of talks because
they're like, it's a series, okay? Okay, if you
go to Netflix and a new series comes out, what
do you do with that series that you've been waiting
for? You binge it. And then what do you do? You
forget about it. Right? Like, when's the next
one coming out? Right? Okay. The hope of this
is as we spend time together in a collection,
the hope is that the Holy Spirit gives you something
from the Bible about God, about your life, about
Jesus, that you just go, man, I got to hold on
to that. I got to collect that. Right? Because
what do you do with a collection? You keep it.
It's valuable to you. And so the hope is that
as we spend time together, this becomes valuable
to you and you walk away holding something that
will transform and move your life in the direction
that God has for you. So we're in a collection
of talks. And that collection of talks specifically
has been wrapped around prayer and the idea that
we need to do something different. And I'm speaking
to myself because this is where it came from.
I realized one day my prayer life's not good.
I'm going to change my prayer life. How do I
do that? Man, I got to. I got to read a book.
And in reading the book, I got really mad at
God. And in getting mad at God, I discovered
I don't need more information. I need more transformation
through action in my life. That if I'm going
to have a prayer life and I'm going to be close
and intimate the way God died to connect me to
him, to give that to me, then here's what I need
to do. I just have to pray. Right? Like it's
like somebody who goes, I just want to be healthy,
but then they don't do anything to get healthy.
You know what I mean? You're like, you're never
going to be healthy. That's just the reality
of what you're doing. If you want to pray, the
only way to pray is you've got to pray. Right?
Like that's it. It's that simple. You just have
to pray. And along with that, we talk week one
that we've got to reframe what prayer is. And
so prayer is this gift that waters into life.
Prayer brings us to water into life all the things
that God's put inside of you that he always intended
to be a part of your life, to grow and mature,
right? And then we talked about as you pray,
another gift is as you pray, you end up seeking
and seeking leads you to find a person and person
leads you to a table that we had over here. And
at the table, hopefully what happens as you sit
face to face with God, you have honest conversation
and discover that he's provided everything you
will ever need. to grow and mature into who he's
called you to be. And then last week, if you
were here, we had leaf blowers and generators
and all kinds of different stuff. But the big
idea behind it was this, that prayer is a gift
because it ties you back into the purpose and
mission that God has always had for you. Prayer
is the way that the power of heaven is released
through you. That when you engage in prayer,
what you're doing is you're taking the connection
that cost Jesus his life and I'm plugging into
it to allow the Holy Spirit to flow through me.
And I join God in co -shaping and co -managing
and bringing the resources of heaven into the
present moments of life. That prayer has the
power to do that. One of the clearest ways we
see this is when we see somebody who is sick,
who needs healing, and God shows up. Can I just
tell you that I've had two people in the last,
like last night and then this morning, share
that they decided they were going to take this
idea of prayer and they were going to pray big
prayers. And both of them had to do with cancer
and healing. And both of them this morning talked
about and last night talked about that God has
showed up and has healed what was sick. This
is why you being plugged into the resources of
heaven is so important, and the way that it is
released is through prayer. So Jesus says you're
going to pray specifically, right? Now that brings
us to today. Have you ever been in a situation
where you might have been the person that had
the means to help somebody else, and they knew
that you had the means to help them? Often this
happens when you travel. For me, I got to go
to Kenya a bunch of years ago. And specifically,
there's a vision trip of how could Heights partner
with some of the things that are happening within
Kenya. And so we got to go to these areas, these
different slums, and one of them was massive.
It was so large, it just sprawled and sprawled
and sprawled. But on the way to the slum, here's
what was interesting. On the way to the slum,
Up on the hill, there was a school that looked
like Hogwarts, right? Like it had been kind of
designed after Hogwarts. So you had this Harry
Potter -esque school on the hill that was private
for the rich people. And then roughly about seven
miles, I think it was, you got to this slum that
had so many people, I couldn't count them. And
by slum, I mean like... There's human waste on
the path. It wasn't a street. We're talking a
narrow path between houses and human waste on
the ground. There's these shacks that barely
holding together. Anything they could find had
been kind of put to make a shelter of some sort.
And wouldn't you know that as we're visiting
and we're sitting down, they're looking at me.
and going, you can help, right? They're going,
you're a person of means. You can make a difference
about this. And so what is the natural thing
to do? They ask. I don't know, just a side note,
you guys, we don't realize how blessed we actually
are. You know what I mean? Like we whine about
the stupidest stuff sometimes, don't we? And
yet sitting in that moment and realizing, realizing,
To them and their situation, yes, I have the
means to transform what's in front of me. And
what was the natural thing for them to do? Because
they recognize that, to ask. And I think that's
what Jesus is kind of building within Matthew.
We read these verses last week, but in Matthew
chapter six, you remember the context was the
disciples have asked him. Would you teach us
how to pray? And you can go back and kind of
hear the frame up to this, but this is his response
to how to pray. This then is how you should pray.
Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name,
right? So our Father, so relational connection
to this heavenly being, to this supreme being.
but you're my father, so there's relationship,
and your name is higher than any other. There's
no name, right? So when you were just praying
during worship, and you were reordering, like
I've made it about other stuff, and it's about
you because you're the highest, that's what this
is getting at, right? Like this prayer is, your
name is the highest. Verse 10, your kingdom come,
your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
If you were here last week, we talked about this,
that this is connected to this massive purpose
and mission that God has always had for humanity,
that you would be someone who would reflect the
image of God, who would take the resources that
God has provided, the resources of heaven, and
you would bring them into this moment. And essentially
heaven would crash into earth because of you.
And what would happen, and his transformation
of your world around you that looks an awful
lot like God and an awful lot like what he is
building within his kingdom. The things that
he stands for have come into this space. And
so in this moment, you have this big purpose
mission. And then the very next verse is this,
give us today our daily bread. Hey God, would
you give us what we need today? It takes it from
this big lofty, and then notice what happens
next, verse 12. And forgive us our debts as we
also have forgiven our debtors. Anyone that you've
ever had to walk the path of forgiveness, you
know how large forgiveness is, right? Like this
idea goes from the big purpose mission of what
God always intended to, hey, would you give us
what we need back up to... This idea of forgiveness
that cost Jesus, cost God his very life to provide
forgiveness. And we're claiming that forgiveness
in prayer. So again, back to this huge theological
scope. And then the very next thing he says is
this. This is how you should pray. And lead us
not into temptation, but deliver us from the
evil one. Now we're into the cosmic battle of
the universe between God and his enemy. Like,
would you protect? So you have in the same prayer.
You have the big vastness of God, right? Like
you're the name above all other names. You've
got this heaven crashing to earth purpose, mission,
co -manage. The earth would be shaped by the
kingdom of God. Your kingdom come, your will.
And then out of that, you get this moment where
it's like, and give us what we need. Give us
today our daily bread. And then we're back to
this big. vast forgiveness, hardest thing to
do. One of the hardest things to do, if we're
honest, being human, forgive another person,
right? And yet the God of the universe has forgiven
us. And so out of that, and then you have this
cosmic battle. You have the hinge point of this
prayer is found in the dirt of today. This is
Jesus teaching us how to pray. And he goes, hey,
your mission and purpose is God's pulling you
back. You've got so much purpose to your life.
You matter so much because you're shaping the
kingdom of God. And you also give us today our
daily bread. It's a daily bread kind of prayer.
You know what I love about daily bread kind of
prayer? Is daily bread. renounces the idea that
God is distant. Here's what I mean, right? Like,
cause sometimes we can think like God is, God
is busy, you guys. He's running the universe.
He don't have time to worry about the little
things of life. God doesn't really have time
to worry about if your football swag matches
or not. God doesn't have time to worry about
if you got that parking space. God doesn't have
time to worry about your eyebrows. God's got
other things he's doing. And if we're not careful,
we can make God distant. God's out there. He
only shows up in your life for the big things.
He only shows up for the kingdom come prayers.
But what Jesus teaches us is what? Give us today
our daily bread, which pulls God from distant
and brings him to the present, to the dirt. under
your feet right now, the needs you walk through
the door with. I like it. It renounces this idea
that God's just out there. He don't really care
what you do today. That's not true. Jesus teaches
us that what? That in the daily bread prayer,
we pull God into the present. Daily bread prayers
renounce that God is distant and it brings him
into the present of your life right here, right
now. And what I think Jesus is doing with this,
there's something much greater going on with
the daily bread prayer. Because daily bread prayers,
think about them, right? Like the idea of daily
bread. What do you need today to live the life
that God gave you? Like what is it in your life
that you go, hey, this is a need today. And God,
right? Like that's an idea of a daily bread prayer
that I'm just going to tell God what I need to
be able to live the life that he's put me in.
Then on top of that. Right? There's this repetition.
It's a daily bread. In fact, daily bread prayers,
when you get into the original language, it's
not a, I wake up and I say it. It's a continuous
throughout my day, moment by moment, I'm inviting
the God of the universe into the dust of my day.
Right? Like the idea that God is meeting me in
the midst of the real time things that are happening
in my life. It's a daily consistent. What do
you need today? But I think there's something
else going on here. What I mean is this. I think
it's connected back to where we were last week.
If you remember last week, we were in Genesis,
and we talked about this idea that your kingdom
come, your will be done, is connecting to the
overarching reason for humanity even existing.
Well, I think this week, with a daily bread prayer,
that what daily bread prayers are doing is they're
found in what happens in chapter 3 of Genesis.
Verse 1 says this, Now the serpent was more crafty
than any of the wild animals the Lord had made.
What you need to know if you're not familiar
with the Bible is that this is a moment where
the enemy of God, who is Satan, has taken the
form of a serpent, and in the form of a serpent
has showed up to his perfect creation, and now
he's going to have a conversation with the humans.
He said to the woman, did God really say you
must not eat from any tree in the garden? The
woman said to the serpent, we may eat a fruit
from the trees of the garden, but God did say
you must not eat from the tree that is in the
middle of the garden and you must not touch it
or you will die. Now, chapter two, we know that
God didn't say that. She embellishes, she adds
to it to try and add clarity, right? Notice what
the enemy does. The enemy jumps on that. You
will not certainly die, the serpent said to the
woman, for God knows that when you eat from it,
your eyes will be opened and you will be like
what? God. You're not going to die. You will
be like God, knowing good and evil. When the
woman saw that the fruit of the tree. was good
for food and pleasing to the eye and also desirable
for gaining wisdom. She took some of it, some
and ate it. She also gave some to her husband
who was with her and he ate it. Then the eyes
of both of them were open and they realized they
were naked. So they sewed fig leaves together
and made coverings for themselves. So what you
get is you get the enemy of God showing up. And
the enemy of God brings lies to the humans, which
what happens in that moment, the enemy or the
humans follow those lies. They believe what they
are told. And what you end up with is now the
humans doing something they have never done before,
experiencing things they've never experienced
before because they bought into the lie of the
enemy. Here's what I'd like to propose to you.
That when we say, give us. give us our daily
bread, there is far more going on than you realize.
Here's what I mean. The idea of asking, right?
The idea that you would ask someone for something.
If I was to come to you and ask you for the keys
to your car, right? Because I got to walk home.
I'm taking all control, right? I'm making myself
vulnerable. to bring you into my story and what?
I'm placing my need in your hands and you have
the choice, you have the power, you have the
determination, you have the option to grant or
not, to disappoint or make me very happy, right?
Like you have that in your hands. Asking naturally
makes us vulnerable, which guess what? As humans,
that's why we don't like it. We don't like to
be vulnerable. We don't like to be in, four -letter
word, need. There is not anybody in this room
that goes, oh, I like to be needy. In fact, we
use needy as a bad term, right? Like, oh, you're
so needy, right? It's a negative. And in this
context, we're told by God to what? To ask because
you have need. Okay, now, bigger picture. What
is happening in a daily bread prayer is you,
you are declaring war on the enemy's lies in
your life. Daily bread prayers, the most simple
of simple of simple prayer, declares war on the
enemy's lies in your life. Here's what I mean.
Maybe this will help us catch it. You ever played
the game war, anybody? Right? Like you're going
to take a deck of cards. You divide them up evenly.
Give one stack to one person. One stack to another
person. Right? And then if you haven't played,
here's how it goes. You take turns flipping a
card. And you flip a card. And if the other card
is higher than yours, that person wins. Right?
I wonder, I wonder in our declaration of war
by our daily bread prayers, here's what I mean.
We declare war on the lies of the enemy. So the
enemy plays his first card, right? The enemy
plays his first card. That you can be God. Right?
You be your own God. You do you. You don't have
to sit under the authority of God. You, you can
be your own God. It's your life. You can be the
supreme being of your life. You don't need, isn't
it interesting, a daily bread prayer. Remember
how it starts? Our Father, and if you're like
me, you learned it in another language, who art
in heaven. I don't know why we put art in there,
but there you go. Our Father in heaven. Your
name is higher than any other. So simply, simply,
according to Jesus, when I go and I go, hey,
God, I'm hungry. Can you provide? What did I
just do? I go, you are God. And I am not. God,
I submit to your authority. This need reminds
me that you are God. And so I come with the daily
bread prayer. I declare war on the lie of the
enemy, that I have to be God, that I have to
be all the attributes that you are. I deny that.
And what I actually do is I just declare you
are God. Simply by going, can you give me today
what I need? Because if not, I'm just talking
to Bluey in the sky, right? Right? If not, I'm
just talking to whatever. But when I frame up
who I'm actually asking, what I've instantly
done is gone, I am not God, you are God. So therefore,
I win this hand on the enemy's lies. The enemy
throws out the idea that, hey, you're in control.
You know what's interesting in the fall? And
when I say fall, when sin entered the world and
every single human that was born from that point,
guess what? We were all born control freaks.
Some of you more so than others. We're not judging.
That's okay. But we all love to be in control,
whether you admit it or not. Some of you are
just not good at hiding it. Other people are
good at hiding it. But you know that we all love
control because when you are out of control,
watch the response of the person. And you notice,
you notice. We love being in control. We like
to manage. And what the enemy tells us is, hey,
you're fully in control. You can manage your
world. You can hold all the cards in all the
places and you can do all the right things. And
here's how you do it. And just in case you really
need help, there's chat GPT and you can ask it
how to become rich and it'll tell you all the
steps and you're in control of your destiny.
The enemy plays the lie that you can have control
over your life. And so what does a daily bread
prayer do? It reminds me that God's in control.
God, I don't got this. Isn't it interesting,
you guys? We're so fragile. You know how I know?
You'll be hungry by dinner. You know how disconnected
we are from God's control over our daily bread?
That we have these things called credit cards.
Because if you get too hungry and you don't have
money, well, I'll just put it on the credit card.
But it was never meant to be that way. You see,
I think what society has done and what the enemy
has done a great job of is actually you're in
control and you can manage your own way. Just
go back. Just go back. Most of human history
has been reliant upon rain. Because if it didn't
rain, nothing grew. And if it didn't grow, you
didn't eat. Right. So the food is supposed to
be a reminder, like just a simple thing like
food. We're not even talking about your health.
We're not even talking about finances like all
of those go into it. We're not talking about
the relationships that you're trying to control.
See, when I release a relationship to God, hey,
God, I'm not doing well at controlling this person
like we think that's a good thing. Right. Like
that should work out. I'm reminded that the enemy's
lie is that I have control and what I realize
is God's in control. And so. I win that hand.
Two nothing in case you keep in score. So the
enemy, another one of his lies, independence.
You guys are Americans. I've learned that you
love your what? Oh, you guys are all, man, you're
in church. You should not be lying. You love
your independence. You know how I know? You have
a day to celebrate your independence. England's
no better. Trust me. They got their own ways
to celebrate it. Why? Because the enemy lies
to us that we don't need anybody else. We can
be independent. We can control things. We can,
right? And so what happens with independence
is it also pushes you away from people. Right?
Like all of a sudden, I don't need you. I don't
need God. I don't need because I'm independent
of all of that. And what a daily prayer, a daily
bread prayer does is it goes, God, I am deeply
independent on you. Right? It's just the words
that I got to ask God to provide something instantly,
instantly frames up that I am dependent on you
to provide. That in my independence, I can't
even do a little thing. And so God, I'm deeply
dependent. Now you go back to creation. That's
how we were intended to be, dependent on God.
What does the enemy come along and do? Go, no,
you don't need to be dependent on God. You got
this. You can be God. You can figure this out.
Three nothing. The enemy's lie is that God's
not trustworthy. You can't trust him. And what
does the enemy do? He'll tell you some story,
bring something to mind. He'll tell you a moment
where it should have worked out this way and
it didn't work out that way. So really, God,
is God trustworthy? What is he doing to the woman
in the garden? He's showing up and going, I don't
think you can trust God because he didn't really
tell you the whole truth because he said you
would die. You ain't really gonna die. What is
he doing? He's taking the God and he's shaping
God into this image that, God, you are not trustworthy.
And what does a daily bread prayer do? It goes,
God, I trust you. My trust is in you. If you
don't show up, God, if you don't show up, this
thing I'm facing, it's going to be too much.
There's this idea that the enemy wants to tell
you you can't trust God and what a daily bread
prayer does. As simple as it is, is it puts me
in a posture of trust to this God that I am not,
who I am dependent on, right? And so we win that
hand. He wants you to be self -sufficient. He
wants you to be self -made. He wants you to believe
that you can just do you, you be you. You can
be whatever you wanna be. You work it out. Your
future's dependent on you and nobody else. And
so we have all these like life coaches and books,
self -help books, and all of them are gonna tell
you how to be the best version of you because
you don't need nobody. You just need you and
you can be self -sufficient and self -made and
everyone will look up to you and go, wow. You
were never meant to be like that. You know what
you were meant to be? So we, in a daily bread
prayer, go, God, I'm reliant on you. You were
never meant to be self -sufficient. You were
meant to be God -reliant. You were designed to
rely on a God who is good in nature, in his character,
who has your best. My best, who is bending the
universe to look like his kingdom come and his
will be done. And you are invited through daily
bread prayers to align your soul to what? To
say, God, I'm reliant on you. And so what happens
is, what happens is we're at five nothing now.
I love that. Philippians chapter four. And if
you've been around church and you're hearing
a message on prayer, you're like, I knew he'd
go to this. You're right. I'm predictable. But
what's interesting is I think these verses define
for us what a daily prayer, daily bread prayer
looks like. So the daily bread prayer that is
declaring war on the enemy's lies, this is what
it sounds like. Starts in verse four, rejoice
in the Lord always. I say it again, rejoice.
Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord
is near. So there's the premise of what he's
about to say, that the Lord is near. He is in
the details. He is in the dirt of your day. The
Lord is near. And then it says, do not be anxious
about anything. Okay, so just a quick pause on
being anxious, right? The enemy wants to convince
you of all those lies. And guess where those
lies lead? To you believing you have control,
to you trying to manage your life, to you being
overwhelmed, exhausted, and anxious. How do I
know that? Take a look, take a survey of our
society that is so advanced. Take a look at our
society and look at the rates of... anxiousness,
overwhelmness, depression, exhaustion, suicide
is higher than it's ever been. How are we doing?
Right, like something's gotta change. And then
what it's getting at here, when it talks about
anxious, it's like a windshield, right? Like
you drive around here, we put stuff on the roads
to help us not slide off the roads, but inevitably
what happens? One flies up and what does it do?
Hits your window and you're like, oh. I got a
little buddy now. And you're like, it's not that
bad. And all of a sudden you get another one.
But it's okay because they're not hanging out.
But you're like, I should do something about
that. And once you know it, a third buddy shows
up and all of a sudden it just... That's the
picture of anxiety. It shatters us. It separates
us. And that's what it's getting at here is the
effects of believing the enemy's lies. The effects
of sin in our world shows up that we are shattered
on the inside. You can know Jesus and be shattered
on the inside. Right? Like this isn't, oh, well,
if you knew Jesus, then everything would be better.
No, you can know Jesus and still be living under
the enemy's lies, which is why Jesus teaches
us to what? Pray daily bread prayers. Why? Because
daily bread prayers not only declare war on the
enemy's lies, they declare war on the enemy's
effects and sin's effects. Here's what I mean.
Do not be anxious about anything, but in every
situation, that sounds like all of life, every
day, kind of daily bread kind of stuff. By prayer,
that first word for prayer there is prayer. Just
talking to God. So anxious, enter into talking
to God, which is community, which is relational.
Enter in and talk to God. To which, then it says,
and petition. If you were here the first week,
we talked about a word called supplication. That's
the word petition. What that means is this, that
it's the emotion of the moment combined with
the. urgency. So I'm just talking to God, but
what's combined is the emotion that I have and
the urgency of the moment. Remember daily bread
prayers. If you're hungry and you have no resource
for food, how desperate are you? I got to eat
God, right? Like you're crying out to him. It's
urgent and there's emotion to it. If my marriage
just fell apart, guess what? There's emotion
and there's urgency. That's that idea of petition,
right? That you would be talking to God, but
in the midst of it, bring the urgency and the
emotion to it. And then it carries on. It says,
with thanksgiving, we're gonna talk about that
next week, present your requests to God. You
know what that word request is? Be specific.
Tell God exactly what you need. Because sometimes,
sometimes, I don't know about you, we're real
vague. What do I mean by that? God, just be present
with them. He's already present. So how about
instead of just, God, be present, we go, God,
I know you're there. Will you do this for them?
Be specific, right? Like that's what that word
means, request. Be specific. So be urgent, bring
the emotion in a conversation with God and, and
tell him exactly. What you need. And notice what
happens. Remember, this is waging war on what?
The effects of the enemy, the effects of sin.
And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding,
will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ
Jesus. And the peace of God. So wait, I came
with just a daily bread prayer. And what I did
is I waged war on what? The effects. Because
I've been believing the enemy's lies. So what
happens is I wage war on all those lies. I'm
not believing those no more. God, I'm going to
trust you. I'm dependent on you. God's in control.
You are God. I'm not. And what happens, what
happens is the effects of sin in my life by bringing
my daily bread, by bringing them into the dirt,
what happens is the peace of God, the peace of
God, the shalom of God, the wholeness, wholeness,
remember, if anxiety is to split apart, wholeness
is to be put back together. And this is how easy,
one more story we've done. This is how easy Jesus
says it is to pray. Luke chapter 11, right before
this is the prayer that we were just talking
about. The prayer that ties us back to the purpose,
ties us into this cosmic battle and brings us
to daily bread in the middle. This is the next
thing that Jesus said in Luke. Chapter 11, verse
five. Then Jesus said to them, suppose you have
a friend and you go to him at midnight and say,
friend, lend me three loaves of bread. A friend
of mine on a journey has come to me and I have
no food to offer him. And suppose the one inside
answers, don't bother me. The door is already
locked. My children and I are in bed. I can't
get up and give you anything. Anybody else go,
that's me. You come to my house and I'm in bed
and my kids are in bed and everything's locked.
Go away. I tell you, even though he will not
get up and give you the bread because of friendship,
yet because of your shameless audacity, he will
surely get up and give you as much as you need.
Jesus goes on to say after this, he compares
it to a father, that you earthly fathers know
how to give good gifts. Imagine, imagine, and
you're broken, right? Like you're sinful. You're
selfish. Imagine how much a perfect heavenly
father can give good gifts and wants to give
good gifts to his kids. That's what he compares
it to. But how did you get there? He goes, this
is easy. Praying is as easy as going to your
neighbor. Got any flour? I got to make some bread.
It's that easy. Jesus, the prayers that fight
the enemy's lies and effects in your life, Jesus
goes, it's as easy as going to your neighbor
and going, hey, I got some guests coming over,
and I'm just wondering, we're out of flour, could
I borrow some? It's that easy. Now, what that
teaches me is anyone can do that. That teaches
me you can do that. Sometimes when it comes to
prayer, I think, and we're going to fight the
enemy's lies and all that. I think we go, oh,
okay, I need a priest. I need a pastor. I need
somebody who's in a position of the church. No,
no, no. What Jesus teaches is you go ask the
neighbor for flour. You go to your heavenly father
and go, I need some flour. And so here's what
we're going to do. We're going to end. with a
time of you praying, daily bread kind of prayers.
What do you need? You posturing yourself to ask
your heavenly father for what you need. What's
in the dirt of your day, so to speak? And you're
just gonna ask God, hey, here's what I need today.
Here's what my daily bread is today. Would you
provide? Would you show up? Would you give? This
is just really simple. God, would you give flower
today? And then here's what we're gonna do. We're
gonna worship after. Can I just share something
with you guys? Some of you are prone to leave
at the end, like music starts and you're like,
I'm out of here. Now, I know some of you gotta
be places. I get that. I understand that. But
the team that God has entrusted to your spiritual
care works so hard, pour time and effort and
conversations into what happens after, after
what you may think is a throwaway song we believe
the Holy Spirit wants to use in your life. And
some of you, it pains me because you miss it.
You miss it. And we believe that in your response,
God is going to move in your soul. So don't miss
what God has for you. So we're going to spend
time just intentionally praying, and then we're
going to worship. But the next moments are yours
to have a daily bread prayer with God.