1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:14,720 Father God with heaven above and surrounded with your wonderful love and in the caring 2 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:31,360 keeping of our Lord. Peace of mind, peace of soul. We are rich. We have something all the money in 3 00:00:31,360 --> 00:00:46,160 the world cannot buy. Thanks. Well sirs, we're continuing our heart to heart talk regarding 4 00:00:46,160 --> 00:00:54,160 that portion of the prayer that Jesus set as a pattern for our praying and that's exactly what 5 00:00:54,160 --> 00:01:06,960 it is. In this great masterpiece of a sermon that Jesus gave, he gave us a pattern as recorded in 6 00:01:06,960 --> 00:01:17,120 the sixth chapter of Matthew for our praying. Oh sometimes I think that men have made this subject 7 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:30,160 of prayer so hard, so difficult when really Jesus has made it so simple. Now in this pattern that 8 00:01:30,160 --> 00:01:44,880 he gave us is a part that is so profound that sometimes I wonder if any one of us can fully 9 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:58,400 comprehend the full depth of its meaning. Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven. 10 00:01:59,920 --> 00:02:07,280 Therefore we can readily see that there are two wills involved. One in heaven 11 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:18,480 which is God's perfect will for our lives. There is in heaven this very hour in the mind of God 12 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:33,520 a perfect will for your life. A perfect will for my life. But at the same time 13 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:42,640 you have a will of your own which is exercised here and now while you're on this earth. 14 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:55,680 And I have a will separate and apart from the will of any other human being. And that will 15 00:02:55,680 --> 00:03:05,760 can be exercised separate and apart from the will that God has for me according to his blueprint 16 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:14,720 in glory. May I remind you again how important human life is. There's nothing 17 00:03:16,720 --> 00:03:19,920 in the mind of God that's more important than human life. 18 00:03:19,920 --> 00:03:27,200 Don't ever feel that you are unimportant to God. Never. You are vitally important. 19 00:03:27,200 --> 00:03:38,400 Every human life, the living of that life is so important. Every day is important. Every hour is 20 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:49,920 important. I pass this way but once you go through this life but once after this day 21 00:03:52,000 --> 00:04:01,280 has passed and gone. When the clock strikes the midnight hour you cannot bring back a single 22 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:10,560 opportunity. You cannot relive a single moment of this day. It's gone forever. 23 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:19,440 It's history never to be brought back to you again. That's the reason this thing of living, 24 00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:26,560 this thing of life is so important. The hours are so fleeting. The hours are so important. 25 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:37,040 The hour is so fleeting. Be careful what you do with this life of yours. 26 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:47,280 You did not come by chance. You are not living this life by chance. 27 00:04:47,280 --> 00:04:56,320 God is not a permissive God. You are as important to him as though you were the only person 28 00:04:57,120 --> 00:05:06,080 who was ever born. When you pray, your prayer is as important to him as though you were the only 29 00:05:06,080 --> 00:05:17,600 person praying. Now watch. When you were born, and I believe this with every atom of my being, 30 00:05:19,200 --> 00:05:29,120 when you took that first cry, that first breath, in that body of yours was a soul 31 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:34,160 with eternity for a lifetime, death cannot touch that soul. 32 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:44,720 Man is a strange combination of the eternal and the material. The old body will go back 33 00:05:45,280 --> 00:05:51,920 to the dust of the earth from whence it came. But there's a part of you that is eternal. 34 00:05:51,920 --> 00:06:00,480 Nothing can destroy. Death cannot touch it. But you were also born with a will. 35 00:06:02,640 --> 00:06:11,920 Our wills are ours. Every person is born with a will separate from the will of anyone else. 36 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:17,280 You are free to exercise that will of yours. 37 00:06:17,280 --> 00:06:26,640 You and I are born free moral agents. You can do with your life whatever you please. 38 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:33,680 And I still believe with every atom of my being that there's many a man, many a woman 39 00:06:33,680 --> 00:06:38,640 who's walking the streets of failure in defeat. 40 00:06:38,640 --> 00:06:49,360 Licked by the problems of life who might have been a wonderful spiritual giant for God, 41 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:55,920 a glorious leader who might have lived that life in victory. 42 00:06:57,520 --> 00:07:04,960 Had only one life. And that life was a life of victory. 43 00:07:04,960 --> 00:07:15,760 In victory. Had only they surrendered their will to the perfect will of God. 44 00:07:17,440 --> 00:07:21,840 You will remember that when I left you in our last little heart to heart talk, 45 00:07:21,840 --> 00:07:30,480 I gave you proof positive from the word of God that God has a permissive and a perfect will. 46 00:07:30,480 --> 00:07:37,280 I gave you that proof in the word of God as found in the 106th song. 47 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:43,520 The children of Israel had just enjoyed that wonderful victory. 48 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:48,880 And the waters covered their enemies. There was not one of them left. 49 00:07:49,840 --> 00:07:53,920 Then believe that they his words, they sang his praise. 50 00:07:53,920 --> 00:08:00,720 But true to human nature, they soon forget his works. 51 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:09,200 They waited not for his counsel, but locked it exceedingly in the wilderness and tempted God 52 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:18,720 in the desert. And he gave them their request, but sent leanness into their soul. 53 00:08:18,720 --> 00:08:30,000 Here we have a concrete example of God having given a people that which they desired, 54 00:08:31,040 --> 00:08:37,200 that which they wanted, that which they requested. But it was not his perfect will. 55 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:44,880 It was not heaven's best for them. But he gave them his will. 56 00:08:44,880 --> 00:08:54,160 He gave it to them because they wanted it. They desired it. They sought it. 57 00:08:55,360 --> 00:09:02,480 But in giving it to them, in giving them that which they desired, 58 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:08,560 he was giving them his permissive will. 59 00:09:08,560 --> 00:09:15,360 This beloved means more to me than I can tell because you see, 60 00:09:17,120 --> 00:09:25,040 I've come a long way since I first began the ministry. I've had to learn the hard way. 61 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:32,000 It seems to me that I've had to learn everything in my life the hard way. 62 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:42,080 Oh, I tell you, I've been knocked down so often. I brought all my troubles on myself because of my stupid. 63 00:09:43,920 --> 00:09:51,840 I can't blame God for a thing that I've ever suffered in my life. And I look back, I brought it all on myself. 64 00:09:51,840 --> 00:10:05,600 You see, it's because I'm one of those creatures that just naturally is impetuous. I like peace. 65 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:15,280 In my natural construction, I have a lot of patience. 66 00:10:15,280 --> 00:10:21,680 In my natural construction, I have problems. 67 00:10:24,400 --> 00:10:33,200 Just like I told you when I first began this series of messages, I did not decide on what country to be born in, 68 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:42,160 what century to be born in, my sex. I had no choice in this whatsoever. I had no choice regarding my physical appearance. 69 00:10:42,160 --> 00:10:55,920 My goodness of life, I wish I had had long black hair. What did I get? Red hair and freckles. 70 00:10:55,920 --> 00:11:09,040 I had no choice in it. It's just like that. And in my temperament, it would be just wonderful to be the finally patient. 71 00:11:09,040 --> 00:11:18,960 What did I get? Anything else but patience. 72 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:29,920 Impetuous. Everything has to be done right now. It can't wait. 73 00:11:29,920 --> 00:11:44,800 Therefore, I have found that many a time, I have gotten God's permissive will. 74 00:11:44,800 --> 00:12:01,760 Because I couldn't wait. I didn't wait. I went in where angels did fear to tread. 75 00:12:01,760 --> 00:12:15,040 I prayed. I stormed heaven. Now, Heavenly Father, right now. It's got to be right now. 76 00:12:15,040 --> 00:12:25,040 He saw the sincerity of my heart. He wouldn't disappoint my confidence in him. 77 00:12:25,040 --> 00:12:40,400 He said, all right, child, I will give you that which you have asked. I'll answer your prayer, all right. 78 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:50,000 But in answering your prayer, I can only give you heaven's second best. 79 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:58,720 And sometimes I've gotten the third best. And sometimes I've gotten the fourth and fifth best. 80 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:05,680 Because I had to have it now, right now, God, now. 81 00:13:05,680 --> 00:13:30,160 When had I waited for his time, for his wisdom, he in perfect knowledge knew that had I waited a little longer, it would have been much better for me. 82 00:13:30,160 --> 00:13:43,040 What did he give me? The desire of my heart, but sent leanness to my soul, even as he did to the children of Israel. 83 00:13:43,040 --> 00:13:52,400 You know, this thing of knowing God's perfect will is one of the hardest things in the world. 84 00:13:52,400 --> 00:13:59,920 Don't ever think that anyone else can tell you what God's perfect will is for you. 85 00:13:59,920 --> 00:14:06,560 Don't ever come to me and say, Miss Kuhlman, what is God's perfect will for me? 86 00:14:06,560 --> 00:14:14,160 I can't give you the answer. I have a hard enough time myself trying to find out God's perfect will for me. 87 00:14:14,160 --> 00:14:20,960 No one else can tell me what God's perfect will is for me. Don't you try. 88 00:14:20,960 --> 00:14:26,880 Don't you try to come and tell me what God's will is for me. 89 00:14:26,880 --> 00:14:34,000 You have a hard enough time taking care of God's perfect will for you. 90 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:39,520 And that's one of the hardest things in the world. 91 00:14:39,520 --> 00:14:45,760 It's all very wonderful, all of this that I've been bringing you in previous Heart to Heart talks regarding, 92 00:14:45,760 --> 00:14:56,400 Thy will be done in earth as it is according to God's will in heaven. 93 00:14:56,400 --> 00:14:59,920 It's wonderful talking about. 94 00:14:59,920 --> 00:15:07,600 But when you come face to face with the thing, 95 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:16,640 and you say one thing is God's perfect will and something else is not God's perfect will, 96 00:15:16,640 --> 00:15:23,600 the both cannot be His perfect will. 97 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:32,960 I'll tell you a secret that I have learned through all these years of experience 98 00:15:32,960 --> 00:15:46,160 and through many bitter tears and many heartaches and heartaches. 99 00:15:46,160 --> 00:15:59,120 You can only know the perfect will of God when you get to the place where you have no will of your own. 100 00:15:59,120 --> 00:16:02,480 The same place where Jesus got to when he looked up and said, 101 00:16:02,480 --> 00:16:08,960 Father, not my will, but Thine be done. 102 00:16:08,960 --> 00:16:13,760 And he surrendered his will to the will of the Father. 103 00:16:13,760 --> 00:16:19,680 When you can look up and can get to the place of full surrender, 104 00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:28,640 where literally, actually, you have no will of your own. 105 00:16:28,640 --> 00:16:35,280 That's exactly what Paul meant in the eighth chapter of Romans, 106 00:16:35,280 --> 00:16:43,680 when he said, likewise the spirit also helpeth our infirmities. 107 00:16:43,680 --> 00:16:49,360 For we know not what we should pray for as we ought. 108 00:16:49,360 --> 00:16:51,360 How often we've gotten to that place. 109 00:16:51,360 --> 00:17:04,800 How often we've gotten to the place where we knew not what we should pray for as we ought. 110 00:17:04,800 --> 00:17:06,880 But Paul continues, 111 00:17:06,880 --> 00:17:18,960 But the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. 112 00:17:18,960 --> 00:17:27,200 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, 113 00:17:27,200 --> 00:17:40,320 because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God. 114 00:17:40,320 --> 00:17:43,760 This is priceless. 115 00:17:43,760 --> 00:17:47,680 Paul is giving us the answer right here, 116 00:17:47,680 --> 00:17:55,680 because he too had come to the place more than once, 117 00:17:55,680 --> 00:18:02,960 when he did not know what the perfect will of God was or how to pray. 118 00:18:02,960 --> 00:18:07,840 He said, all right, this is what I do. 119 00:18:07,840 --> 00:18:09,680 I go alone. 120 00:18:09,680 --> 00:18:11,920 I close the door. 121 00:18:11,920 --> 00:18:14,080 I look up. 122 00:18:14,080 --> 00:18:20,080 I surrender my will completely to the will of the Father. 123 00:18:20,080 --> 00:18:30,640 I get to the place where I have no will of my own, and then the two will become as one. 124 00:18:30,640 --> 00:18:33,520 I surrender to the will of the Father. 125 00:18:33,520 --> 00:18:42,080 Knowing not how to pray or what is the will of my God, I am quiet. 126 00:18:42,080 --> 00:18:50,400 And I permit the Holy Spirit, who knows the will of God for me, 127 00:18:50,400 --> 00:19:03,920 to pray through me, in me, and he will show me God's perfect will. 128 00:19:03,920 --> 00:19:15,920 I am giving one of the greatest spiritual secrets humanly possible to give. 129 00:19:15,920 --> 00:19:34,320 God bless you.