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In the 11th chapter of the book of Luke, we are told in v1-11,
Now Jesus[a] was praying in a certain place, and when he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.” 2 And he said to them, “When you pray, say:
“Father, hallowed be your name.
Your kingdom come.
3 Give us each day our daily bread,[b]
4 and forgive us our sins,
for we ourselves forgive everyone who is indebted to us.
And lead us not into temptation.”
5 And he said to them, “Which of you who has a friend will go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves, 6 for a friend of mine has arrived on a journey, and I have nothing to set before him’; 7 and he will answer from within, ‘Do not bother me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I cannot get up and give you anything’? 8 I tell you, though he will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his impudence[c] he will rise and give him whatever he needs. 9 And I tell you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
The particular verse of our interest is verse 9 and the question we ought to ask ourselves is this, what are we to ask for? That's what we are going to be investigating in today's presentation. Be sure to watch it in its entirety, see video
Scripture References:
Luke 11:1-9
2 Peter 1:1-10
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hello good morning and this is thaiba
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tives.com
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and welcome back to our study on uh look
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11.
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uh today we are going to be looking at
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verse 9
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which is the topic of our interest and
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verse 9 reads
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you can look on my screen it reads and i
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tell you ask
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and he'll be given to you seek and you
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will find
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knock and you'll be opened to you
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now i've heard a lot of people a lot of
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christians say what the bible say ask
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and it shall be given to you sick
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and you will find the knock and the dog
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be open so you better ask
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now what is jesus really teaching
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in this chapter is what we need to know
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and to understand that we have to look
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at the context
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in which the lord was speaking and then
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why he said
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those words we can't just pull the verse
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out of context
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and just apply it as a general rule we
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need to understand
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the mind of the lord because we are told
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uh
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through the book of timothy that we need
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to correctly divide the word of god
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okay and and our duty as believers is to
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really understand what god is teaching
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through these scriptures so we can
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properly apply this
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messages and verses to our lives okay
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so i'm going to be going back on my uh
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main screen
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my study end you can see
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i said ask and will be given to you and
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the question
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is ask for what and that's what we are
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going to be talking about
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so first i'm going to give you a quick
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uh
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background so if you look at let's go
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back to look
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and we're going to read this portion
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verse i'm going to read from verse 1 to
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verse 9.
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now jesus was praying in a certain place
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and when he finished
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one of his disciples said to him lord
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teach us to pray as john taught his
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disciples
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and he said to them when you pray say
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father hallowed be your name your
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kingdom come
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give us each day each day our daily
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bread and forgive us
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our sins for we ourselves forgive
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everyone who is indebted to us
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and lead us not into temptation and
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jesus said to them
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which of you who has a friend will go to
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him at midnight and say to him
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friend lend me three loaves of bread
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for a friend of mine has arrived on a
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journey and i have
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nothing to set before him and he will
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answer from within
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do not bother me the door is not shut
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and my children are with me in bed
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i cannot get up and give you anything i
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tell you
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though he will not get up and give him
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anything because he's his friend
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yet because of his impudence he will
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rise and give him
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whatever he needs and i'll tell you
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ask and you'll be given to you seek
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and you will find knock and you'll be
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opened
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to you so now we are going to be
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looking at that entire portion of
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scripture
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and the question that i have is like i
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said ask for what
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okay and first i'm gonna read off my
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screen
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the disciples they had now been with
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jesus for quite some time
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okay we are in chapter 11. so they've
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seen him perform
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miracles they've seen him bear fruits in
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his life
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they had seen him and could testify that
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his prayers
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were being answered so they saw prayers
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being answered
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they had basically witnessed the work of
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god being performed
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in jesus and through jesus and they
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understood that jesus prayers were not a
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gimmick
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jesus was not a poser like many of his
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contemporaries
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he was genuine and the evidence was in
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the works he was doing
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so on one occasion they had the
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privilege privilege of watching him pray
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and they finally had enough courage to
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ask him to teach them
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how to pray the right way so jesus
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taught them the mother prayer which we
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read
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and uh then he went on to explain to
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them how to pray
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effectively so he showed them the moral
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but i believe
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he did not want him to use this as a
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form of incantation of mantra
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he didn't want them to just use this as
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a well this is how you should pray and
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go out there and
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just say the same thing i'm saying every
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time now because as people
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we have the tendency to want routines
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and then when we know something we want
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to use this as
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this is how you pray and this is what we
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do like he was giving them the model
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and say build your prayers based on the
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matter that i gave you
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so he proceeded to teach them the
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practical aspect of prayer by giving
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them an illustration and
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and we read the illustration and i'm
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going to explain that a little bit
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so again what can we take out of this
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model prayer is this
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jesus does not want us to just pray
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in vague like pray just to repeat those
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words
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because they become just empty words he
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taught them and he teaches us today the
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moral
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right this is the model prayer now i'm
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going to show you
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how to use this model in your personal
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life and this is what
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jesus was going to teach next uh through
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his illustration so we are going to look
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at that now
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so the moral prayer and the attitude and
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object of prayer this is the title of
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this section
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and we're gonna read that in verse five
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through eight i'm gonna read that
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portion again
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one more time because i believe it's
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important for us to to read that
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so verse five through eight so jesus
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taught the disciples
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how to pray and now he's teaching them
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how to put that in practice
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and he says and he said to them which of
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you who has a friend
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will go to him at midnight and say to
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him
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friend lend me three loaves for a friend
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of mine has arrived on a journey
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and i have nothing to set before him
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and he will answer from within do not
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bother me the door is not shut
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and my children are with me in bed i
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cannot get up and give you
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anything i'll tell you though he would
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not get up and give him anything because
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he's his friend
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yet because of his impudence he will
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rise and give him
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whatever he needs and then we need to
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figure out what this word means here
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impedance it means persistence
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okay because he's he persisted he kept
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on going
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all right so let's go back to the slides
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so we are talking about the attitude and
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the object of prayer
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okay so
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like in those times hospitality was
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highly valued in that culture
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so jesus used a perfect example to
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illustrate this point
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like not being able to provide for the
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needs of your guest was a very shameful
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thing you can remember lot he took this
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idea of hospitality to a perverted
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level when he was willing to trade his
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two daughters
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to protect his guest the angel okay
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against the angry mob so you remember
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lot was willing to do that because
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hospitality was something that was
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really
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highly valued in that culture okay
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so jesus uses that example so you can
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understand why
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the man in the illustration was so
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desperate it was almost as if his life
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and honor
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were on the line so the boldness in his
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request
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came from a place of helplessness he
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wasn't being obnoxious
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as someone who have us think like but he
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came from a place of humility
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he knew that his friend had
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he knew that his friend had what he
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needed
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and the hour of the day did not matter
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the hour didn't matter he was relentless
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in his quest he knocked on the door to
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ask
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and notice that he the friend didn't
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help him because
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of their friendship but because of his
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boldness
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and i also want you to notice that the
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request was not to fulfill some kind of
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selfish need okay because he wanted to
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serve his guest
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and he was willing to do whatever it
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took to serve the guest
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the request was granted because of the
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urgency of the matter
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and jesus painted a picture of attitude
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in prayer
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the sense of urgency the sense of need
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unselfishness
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pray as if our lives and honor depended
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on it
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jesus was also teaching about the
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generosity of the giver
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in this case the friend would definitely
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had compassion on the one making the
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request
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not because of their friendship but
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because of the urgency
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dependency the relentlessness in the
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pursuit of the object needed
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he understood the need like when the guy
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came he understood
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this man is willing to come out this
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late at night
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to serve his friend he is desperate he
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desperately need that help and he's
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relentless he didn't allow
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shame he didn't allow the night he
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didn't allow anything to stand in the
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way he knew that he needed
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that because his honor and the friend's
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comfort was on the line so he came out
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at night
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to ask for help he said it doesn't
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matter what that makes me look like i'm
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gonna go because
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i desperately need this bread because my
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guest is here
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and he understood that hospitality was
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highly valued so he was willing to go
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out
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to ask relentlessly he wasn't being
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obnoxious he came because he was a sense
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of urgency it was a need
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that needed to be fulfilled and he went
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out in the middle of the night
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to ask okay
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so in verse nine jesus gives his
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punchline
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he goes and i tell you ask and he'll be
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given to you
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seek and you will find knock and you'll
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be opened
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to you so so jesus was teaching his
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disciples about the heart of god
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god wants to give good gifts he wants to
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apportion his gifts to his children
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paul said in romans 8 verse 32 he
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would did not spare his own son but gave
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him up for us all
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how will he not also along with him
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graciously give us all things
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okay keep that in mind so that leads me
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to me to my next point the object of
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prayer
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we talked about the attitude of prayer
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now let's talk about the object of
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prayer
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what are we to pray for okay so that's
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what
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we're going to talk about next so the
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object
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so jesus goes and he says in verse 11
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what father among you if his son asks
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for a fish will instead of a fish give
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him a serpent
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or if he asks for an egg we give him a
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scorpion
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if you then who are evil know how to
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give good gifts to your children
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how much more will the heavenly father
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give
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the holy spirit to those who ask
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him so the question is if you recall
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verse 9
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he says and i tell you ask and you'll be
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given to you
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seek and you will find knock
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and the door will be open to you so
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the big question is ask seek
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and knock for what
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what are you to ask for what am i to ask
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for in prayer and jesus gives the answer
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in verse 13 how much more
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will the heavenly father give the holy
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spirit
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to those who ask him
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so the asking is not for things
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for yourselves really like just anything
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like i want a mercedes-benz and i want
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this and i want all these
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gifts the asking primarily is
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we have to ask god for more of the holy
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spirit
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because the spirit of god knows exactly
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what we need so scripture also says that
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his divine
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power has given us everything we need
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for life and godliness through our
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knowledge of him
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who called us by his own glory and
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goodness we can read
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second peter to second peter one verse
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one to ten
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so let's let's go there real quick okay
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let's let's read that
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so the scripture says
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his divine power has granted to us
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all things that pertain to life and
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godliness through the knowledge of him
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who called us to his own glory
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and excellence by which he has granted
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to us his precious and very great
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promises
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so that through them you may partake in
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the divine nature
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having escaped from the corruption that
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is in the world because of sinful desire
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for this very reason make every effort
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to supplement your faith with virtue
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and virtue with knowledge and knowledge
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with self-control
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and self-control with steadfastness and
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steadfastness with godliness
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and godliness with brotherly affection
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and brotherly affection with love
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for these qualities are yours and are
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increasing they keep you from being
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ineffective
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or unfruitful in the knowledge of our
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lord jesus christ for whoever lacks
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these qualities
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is so nearsighted that he's blind having
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forgotten that he was cleansed
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from his former sins therefore brothers
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be all the more diligent
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to confirm your calling and election for
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if you practice these things
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you will never fall that's a promise
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okay
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so we have the blueprint ask for the
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holy spirit because
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all the stuff that peter is calling out
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here
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are the fruits of the spirit
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knowledge self-control faith
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virtue brotherly love love
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godliness all these attributes and
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qualities are the fruits
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of the spirit so we have to ask for
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those things
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in our lives this is what jesus is
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talking about
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ask for more of the spirit this is the
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object of our prayer
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okay because we are made we we are to be
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confirmed the
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likeness of jesus so that's what we have
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to ask for
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anything else is our own
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selfish desires okay and the reason why
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we are to ask for more of the holy
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spirit is because we don't even know
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what to pray for or ask for we cannot
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pray in the flesh remember jesus says
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those that worship the father in spirit
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and in truth
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those are the the one the father is
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seeking he's going
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after because god himself finds those
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people because god himself
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prompts their heart and he finds them
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and he leads them in that kind of prayer
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so we don't pray in the flesh because
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the flesh is always an
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enmity against god okay we've got i mean
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so let's read let's see what romans 6
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romans 8 verse 26 and 27 is saying
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so the scripture says in the same way
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this spirit helps us in our weakness we
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do not know how to pray or what
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we do not know what we ought to pray for
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but the spirit himself
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and the seeds for us through wordless
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groans
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and he who searches our hearts knows the
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mind of the spirit
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because the spirit and the seeds for the
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god's people in accordance with the will
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of god
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the spirit of god knows the will of god
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because he prays in accordance with the
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will of god because the spirit of god is
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god himself
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okay so this is why jesus says
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ask for more of the holy spirit because
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the spirit
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prays and intercedes for god's people in
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line
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with the will of god this is why our
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prayers are to be always to ask
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for more of the holy spirit more of the
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fruit of the spirit
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because he's the greatest gift we've
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been given god himself
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in us and we ought to ask that we may
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decrease
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so that he may increase and that's the
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object of our prayer
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every day and james gives us a warning
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we are told in in james 4 verse 2-5 you
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do not have
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because you do not ask and when you ask
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and you do not receive because you ask
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wrongly to spend it on your passions
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you are adulterous people do you not
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know that friendship with the world is
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enmity with god
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therefore whoever wishes to be a friend
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of the world
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makes himself an enemy of god or do you
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suppose it is to no purpose that the
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scripture says
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he yearns jealously over the spirit that
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he has made
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to dwell in us you see the warning
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okay god is a jealous god and he will
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not have any rival
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his spirit in us opposes the deeds of
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the flesh to keep us from doing the
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things that we want to do
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we are told that in galatians to please
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ourselves
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you see that i will repeat that again
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god is a jealous god
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and he will not have any rival his
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spirit in us opposes the deeds of the
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flesh
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to keep us from doing the things that we
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want to do to please ourselves
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so we therefore ought to pray that by
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the help of god's spirit
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we ask for things that will bring honor
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to god
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and our good and the good of those
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around
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us so the big question again is this
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what are we to pray for and ask for in
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closing
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we have to ask for more of
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the holy spirit so that when our minds
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are in line with the holy spirit we can
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pray effectively
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remember peter says somewhere be sober
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minded for the sake of your prayers
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paul also said present your bodies as a
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living sacrifice holy unto the lord
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so you must decrease and he must
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increase so for us to have
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effective prayers we are to be led by
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the spirit
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because those who worship god who
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worship him
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in spirit and in truth so my exhortation
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to you this morning is
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pray and ask for more of the holy spirit
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because that's the only thing that we
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need
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really is when we are being led by the
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spirit
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we ask and our asking will always be
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with a yes because the spirit praise the
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will of god
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know the word of god pray the will of
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god ask
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for more of the holy spirit all right
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and i'll leave you with that today so i
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encourage you to to go back and read
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that passage
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and ask god to fill you with his
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knowledge and the knowledge of his will
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through his spirit have a wonderful day
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and i'll see you next time
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