Doors Open When You Keep Praying

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You're listening to a podcast from Victory. Jesus taught us

to pray with perseverance. Learn more about asking, seeking and

knocking in Week fourteen of our series Redefined.

And today we'll look at Matthew seven verse seven to twelve,

So do not judge. Verse tieve is the famous Golden rule.

And in between those two is a sermon on prayer.

That's what I said, don't look at a sermon on

the mount as divided sermons. It's one sermon. So this

is actually tied up to the Lord's prayer on how

we should pray, because he was now going back again

to the theme of prayer. And so we go back here

in verse seven and we look at prayer now before

we jump off to the text. Here are one of

the things that we've noticed among Christians is that a

lot hesitate to pray. We're very hesitant to pray, Okay,

not a lot of us are into you know, prayers

and long prayers. And there are a couple of reasons

why we hesitate to pray right. One of the things

is because for Sunday, I think prayer doesn't really matter.

Why would I pray doesn't really matter? Somebody is doing it,

so might as well not pray. I had that same

inclination when I was young in the faith. I would

remember every time we would have missions, we just finished

our missions Sunday, where people would ask for prayer partners

and financial partners. In my mind, a prayer partner is optional.

What they're really looking for are financial partners. Until I

became a pastor and I entered ministry, and I realized

how much I covet prayers to people, how prayer is

such an important aspect of my life that I need

to build my own prayer team because it is so important.

I'd rather have a lot of prayer partners than financial partners,

because that's how important prayer is. It has shifted my

perspective about prayer. But for some days, saying you a

prayer doesn't really matter for some of them, and they're thinking,

you know, I hesitate because I might be praying the

wrong way and unlike the others. When I would hear

others pray or a pastor would pray, it's so eloquent,

it's so nice, it's so powerful. It gives you the

goose bumbs. But when I pray, I stuttered. That's why

I hesitate to pray. But remember, prayer is just talking

to God, right, you don't need to be so formal

in prayer. So a lot of people are afraid to

pray or hesitant to pray because they think they might

pray the wrong way, or for others, they're thinking there

are more important things to do than pray. Have you

heard the phrase pray time and pray well? And I'm

a tying inga go up because we think prayer is

not as important and doing is more important. I believe

in the balance of both that when I pray, I

need to do something about it. That's why I'm praying.

And so a lot of people hesitate to pray. Now

in discerment, Jesus goes and tells them, aside from the

Lord's prayer, here's how you will now pray, he says. First,

ask and it will be given to you. See, and

you will find knock and it will be open to you.

For everyone who asks receives, the one who seeks fines,

the one who knocks, it will be open. If you

look at this two verses, there was an emphasis on

asking and seeking and knocking right when Jesus was saying this.

This was not three levels of prayer. Level one, you ask,

level two you see, level three you knock. No, this

was an attitude of prayer that when you to me

as your heavenly father, I want you to ask, seek,

and knock. And let me emphasize this again by saying

that when you ask, you'll you'll receive. If you seek,

you'll find, If you knock, the door will be opened.

There was an emphasis on what we need to do

when we come to God in prayer, the attitude, the

spirit behind the prayer. We need to learn how to

ask with persistence. We need to ask in faith, so

we look as and it will be given. Seek, you'll find,

knock and the door will be open. As he says

Minika as verbally, Lord, can I have ask and it

will be given? Now Again, I want to tie this

up with Matthew five and six, when Jesus says asks,

not saying just ask anything you want, what he is saying,

as with the Kingdom of God in mind, and it

will be given to you. That was the thread of

the whole sermon of the mouth. If you ask anything

according to the agenda the Kingdom, it will be given

to you as will be given. There's so many promises

in the scripture that we don't tap into because we

don't read the scripture, do not in alum. We don't know.

That's why we don't know what to ask for. That's

why a lot of our prayers are no because those

are not in scripture as in faith, as with the

Kingdom in mind, and the Bible says it will be

given to you. Just a story. When I was a

campus missionary, there were things that we were believing God for,

but in the natural there's no way we could. That's

why we have to find ways to make it happen.

I remember if there was a time my kids were

asking that can we go to Disneyland. We really want

to go to Disneyland. We go to Distine, and we

were saying, you know, let's pray, let's ask God in

faith that we can go to Disneyland, so that you

can enjoy Disneyland and meet Mickey Mouns and Donald du

Chinese right version and weld and again that's what I said.

It's hard for us to do it because of the

funds that were coming until God, in his goodness gave

us piece of air. And with the piece of air,

we were able to get a flight to Hong Kong.

It was very cheap flight. And then we scouted around

for a hostel that could fit the four of us.

So I started crowdsourcing on Facebook. Guys, do you know

any hotel or hostel that's sheep that could fit four people.

One of my college friends has try this in called

the Wonderful in right. It's a very wonderful wonderful in

A and Mika look at them. They were very young

at this time, and we had to pep talk them

because I saw the website. The room was actually nice.

I got the family room. My college classmates said, in fact,

the receptionist is Filipina. You will feel really welcome. It's

a decent place. We were so happy. We went to

Hong Kong, rode the taxi. The taxi couldn't find Wonderful

in with the street with the address, couldn't find it. I

had to stop. If you know Hong Kong. Right, the

taxi is very expensive, so I said stop parah okay, right,

and I had to go long distance talk to my

sister to give me the coordinates exactly what building Wonderful

Inn is part of, so that we can find the place.

And we found the place, and we were in Wonderful

In after more than thirty minutes. What was supposed to

be only a ten minute, right, became thirty forty minutes.

We went there and lo and behold it was a philippinamboo.

Heeizer you Philippina. We're so happy. Family room. Here we go.

We opened the family room and it was as it

was expected. It was a family room, a family for one.

We were four, but I think the room was only

maybe a little bit bigger. Half of this not half

of the stage with everything in it already was so small.

Maybe it was from that one to this TV. It

was like this, right, so you can do everything there

by just one a turn, take a bath, you know, sleeep,

you just go around. You've been through the whole family room. Right.

In fact, we couldn't take any pictures in the family room.

It couldn't fit the you know, you can't. So we

took the picture here as a souvenir that will never

come back. Okay, so to wonderful In. But we told

our kids, young as they are, we told our kids,

you know, our goal here is to go to distey Land, right.

We've asked God to provide for us, and God gave

us the provision for a Distinland ticket. That's why we

talk wonderful In because we thought it was wonderful. But

but it's okay, and they all agreed and they were

very happy. Everybody was happy. We actually got sick because

the pollution of the city would go to our room.

That's how bad this in. What I'm not saying, don't

go there, do at your own risk, but it was,

you know, it was. We were happy. They were very happy.

My two dollars were very happy. But the day we

were leaving, the night before we were leaving, my Timmy

gathered everyone and said, let's pray. I believe I want

to pray for something. I have faith that in three

years time we'll go back to Disney and we'll stay

in Hong Kong disney Land Hotel. You don't know what

you're saying. You're raising the hopes of our kids. Because

we really took time time, and I took time to

really budget this. Wait for a piece of air and

a piece of but you have to wait until two

am because it kept crashing. Right, so until you get

your ticket right, and to go to Hong Kong diste

Land Hotel would be around nine thousand to twelve thousand

a night. That's almost six years in wonderful inn right.

The price difference would be really It's like, I don't

know if we could actually afford Hong Kong Disneyland Hotel.

It's impossible for us. I'm a campus missionary like Dave,

and I don't know if we can really afford this.

But then we're Christians. So we prayed. But she had

the faith and she prayed. Women very specific when they pray, Lord,

in three years time, we will come back here. We

will stay in Hong Kong. This hotels a right that

then I think this was October, we were and wonderful.

In November Timey gets an email. She's a blogger. She

gets an email that the Hong Kong tourism has actually

chosen her in some other Filipinos for three days to

night stay at Hong Kong. This an hotel with the

family all expense paid trip. Okay, this was the next month,

not after three years. Okay. We got the email and

I said, no, don't answer the email. It will ask

questions informations about you to get your credit card numbers.

Come you. Nobody gives away all expense paid trip. I know.

We prayed about this, but nobody would give that, all right,

and so we had to wait for two months December.

We weren't answering. We actually asked one of our friends

in Carlo, who attends our church here, who's a social

media guy. You know, can you can you research about

this person in this company that told us that we're

chosen by the end of December, he said, this is legit.

You're actually going to Hong Kong Disneyland, right, And so

this was October. She was praying, Yeah, she was. I

was agreeing. She was praying, all right. I don't know

if I was really agreeing, but she was praying. So

since we are one, we're married, it's the same. So

right October she was praying in faith, asking the Lord

to provide. There's no way we could go. But by

February we were in Hong Kong, Disneyland hotel, all expands

paid tripped. All right, amazing. I think for this trip

I shelled out one thousand, six hundred taxi fare from

airport to a hotel because they did not shoulder it.

I don't know why anyway, Lamoina, all right, grab this lord,

just an amazing again. This is God. You know, it's

amazing when somebody calls you up in the hotel room

and tells you to go down. You can now go

down and go to a restaurant here in Hong Kong,

Disneyland or anything you want. You know, we were ordering

anything we want. It was all expense paid. Now. On

the first day, we had a tour guide, a cast

member who would guide us to Disney. Everybody was lining

up for thirty minutes average. We were lining up for

a minute because we were entering the exit because we

were VIPs. Almost half they were almost done with Hong

Kong Disneyland. That was how VIP we were at that time.

You know. It was amazing. The kids were so happy.

It was like, Wow, this is the dream. No, not

looking at the price of the men. You actually we

look so that we can order what we want, right

And it was it was God providing for everything that

we need. Now women, you know, men very different from women.

You know that, right, we asked for well, yeah, as

a family, we asked for this trip. We were there Februari.

I was so happy. I was lording in thank women.

Very specific, Lord like this, Lord like that, Lord like this. Lord.

See donald too specific sometimes now, right, I'm not saying

that was the prayer request of timing, but she would

have specific prayer requests. Like one of her prayer requests

was in the itinerary given to us. We weren't going

to have buffet in the other hotel, which was more expensive, right,

we weren't having buffet with the cartoon characters. So she

was saying, you know, let's believe God, we would go

and have buffet on the other hotel, right, and every

breakfast you have no cartoon character with you, right, And

but then she prayed and then out of the call,

you know, we change your plan tomorrow. You're going to

have breakfast in the other hotel with all the cartoon characters.

So again, even to the smallest detail, ass in, you

just knew this was God. I couldn't afford this. God

knew I couldn't afford this, and that's why God was

answering and honoring the faith of my wife. It wasn't

out of excess or out of luju. We were happy

with wonderful inn. We were absolutely very happy with wonderfully in.

But to go Disneyland Hotel, we thank God for it.

But without this, we're actually very happy. Also as with

the Kingdom, in mind, not with a sense of entitlement,

but with a sense of gratefulness nor thank you. Some

of the prayers we asked, God has not answered yet.

Are you entitled and saying God, you're not answering, or

are you grateful? Lord, I'm so blessed. If you don't answer,

I'm okay. If you answer, thank you. As with the

Kingdom mentality, as with the Kingdom, mindset to the very specific.

So the second dayam and we were no longer VIPs.

We had three part tickets, but we had to walk

on our own. So now we were walking on our own.

And then you saw the dress Grace naal A la maya.

That's the dress of your daughters given to us cartoon

after right, And on the second day we were wearing this.

We were walking Disney and my wife said, you know

we missed the parade in the first day. Again, very

different perspective. Man in the part marriage Simon Artona, Right,

we don't need them on the parade, No, no, the

kids would enjoy the parade. So yeah, okay, yeah, okay.

Let's see behind the time. You know, we were trying

to plan our day and as we were walking, a

Chinese cast member of Disney approaches us.

Oh oh no, no, no, no, okay, it's okay, it's okay.

But he kept persisting. He was asking, seeking and knocking. Oh,

he's selling us something, right, al Mahir cut done, no, no, no, no,

So I didn't know what to do. And then he

just kept coming back at us and said, oh, free,

la free free. Imagine out of the thousands of kids

that day and Mika were chosen as princesses of the day.

And what's the goal of the princesses of the day.

During the parade. You'll be in a VIP section, You're

placed there, and the princesses would stop in front of

you and they'll get you in the parade and you'll

dance with them in the parade. It's just amazing, even

to the smallest details. God was answering the prayer of

my wife, and we were very thankful. Ass in faith,

ass and it will be given. Yesterday I was in

a child dedication of a couple who lost their I

think three year old daughter last year. June. Last year,

June this year they had the new baby, and we

were dedicating this three month old baby as a gift

from the Lord. We were crying. June last year, we

were celebrating, they were celebrating. June this year. We were

eating yesterday October to celebrate this gift. Asked with the

kingdom in mind. They didn't quit church when God took

away their daughter. They didn't question me, of course, there

were questions that couldn't be answered. They didn't quit on God.

They asked with the Kingdom in mind, not with a

sense of entitledness, but gratefulness. Lord, thank you you gave

us another. Lord, you gave us a son in exchange

for a daughter, as and it will be given. And

look around, I see so many people whose prayers have

been answered, miraculous, supernatural answered by God, as in faith.

Asked with the Kingdom in mind that the Bible says,

sekh and you will find again. Let's tide us up

to the whole sermon of the Mount. When you seek,

what do you seek, Matthew six, Seek first the Kingdom

of God and his righteousness, and all these things will

be given to you as well. What do you seek?

You seek the Kingdom and you'll find it. Seek the

Kingdom of God. Seek what God wants and you'll find it.

What do we see whose kingdom are rebuilding? When we pray?

When we as of God, are we really seeking what

God wants? Jesus is saying to the disciples, if you

seek what I want, you find it. You seek the Kingdom,

you'll find it. Everything will be added unto you. And

he says, knock and the doors will be open. Knock.

Don't just ask, don't just seek, you knock. Be persistent.

When we started our church here and we had zero

contacts in the youth ministry, we were praying, we were asking,

we were seeking, we were knocking. Last year, through asking

and seeking, we were able to get some one gym.

But the problem with some one gym was we couldn't

sustain the growth because every time there's a government program,

they kick us out. He said, we can't do church

this way. We don't even know if we'll have service

next week. So we were praying and we were seeking,

and we were now knocking, and out of the blue,

somebody had this crazy idea. Jue gym is maybe five

minutes drive away from SM. Santa Mesa. Let's go and

ask SM. Santa Mesa. Francis went there and we found

out that they were giving us a deal. In fact,

when the door opened, Christ was there. Christ, the manager

of the theater manager. His name is Christ. Christ opened

the door for us INM Santa Mesa. No kidding, his

name is Christ. So when when Francis went back and

reported to us, Christ opened the door for us. Yeah,

I thought he was being spiritual. No, it was Christ

in the holing card. Christ gave him a holing card

and told us Christ taught us to rent the cinema.

Christ is there every week looking after us. Christ and

cashs are checks, right. It's amazing how Christ literally opened

the door for us. We now have four hundred students

in Santa Mesa worshiping regularly. Those are four hundred new

people getting saved and disciples. We're now looking at having

two services because they've maxed out the place, and so

hopefully by next year we go to services on a

Friday and hopefully start a midweek service in Santa Mesa.

That's close to one thousand to two thousand new people.

Because we knocked the persistence gone. I know you want

us to do something, Lord, You want us to reach

out to more people and disciple more people, not as

citizens of the Kingdom of God. In the door will

be open persistence. Martin Luther said, the reason why Jesus

said this verse is that he knows that we are

timid and shy, that we feel unworthy and unfit to

present our needs to God. We think that God is

so great and we are so tiny that we do

not dare to pray. If you ever felt that way,

When you ask prayer for others, you're in faith. When

you pray for the church, you ask for millions. But

when you pray for your personal needs, is Lord, OK?

Why do you do that? Why do you believe God

in faith for others but they're not believe for yourself?

Sometimes there's a extension we feel like because it sounds selfish.

Remember when you ask with the Kingdom in mind, selfishness

will not be a problem for you. You're thinking about

the Kingdom you're thinking about God. You're thinking about his glory,

not your name. Selfishness would be a non issue for

you when you ask a faith, when you ask for

open doors, when you ask for business breakthrough in career advancement.

With the kingdom in mind, it will never be selfish

because it's not about your kingdom. It's God's kingdom, and

so I can ask boldly. We dare not ask because

we're timid, and sometimes we have the wrong perspective when

we ask in prayer. That is why Christ wants us

to lure us away from such timid thoughts, to remove

our doubts, and to have us go ahead confidently and

boldly ask see not. The stacking of these words that

Jesus was using was extremely forceful. He was founding, He

was hammering a point ask see not. By the way,

if you ask, you'll receive. If you seek, you find,

you knock, the door will be opened. Twice in one line,

he repeats the same words as emphasis to the church.

Don't be afraid to ask. We are to passionately persist

in prayer as seek, knock. See. There's a difference between

a fleshly stubbornness and a godly perseverance. Fleshly stubbornness insists

on getting one's will done in heaven. The latter determines

to get God's will done on earth. When I ask,

sek and not with the kingdom in mind, it's not

flesh stubbornness. It's persistence. There's a godly motivation behind my prayer.

Why I ask, I seek, and I knock. Firse John

five fourteen to fifteen tells us this is the confidence

we have in approaching God, that if we ask anything

according to his will, what he hears us. What do

we ask anything according to what his will, not your will,

not your kingdom? According to his will he hears. And

if we know that he hears us whatever we ask,

we know that we have what we ask of him.

He's happy because we're asking his will to be done

over our lives. His answer is, yes, I'll do it,

because you ask according to my name and ask according

to my will. Let's go back to Discermon the Mount.

Verse nine, he says, or which one of you, if

his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone,

or if he asks for a fish, will give him

a serpent. Stand If you, then, who are evil? What

Jesus was saying, is we, as human beings who are sinful,

know how to give good gifts to your children? How

much more will your father in heaven give good things

to those who who ask him? Even the mean dad

would give you a birthday present, Even a sinful dad

will give you gifts. How much more your father give

good things to those who ask of him. Some of

you might be knew in the faith, and you're asking

the Lord certain things that are not according to this will.

Because you don't even know his will. You just ask Lord,

paying a lot of number combination. Come on, come on, Lord, Lord,

don't have to become baby Maganda. Lord Lord, we ask

things that are very selfish in nature. Here's what I believe.

We all go through a journey where we don't know

what we're asking for. It's like us when we were kids.

Remember the days and if you're a parent, remember every

time you have kids I really like and persistence are them?

De Ba? That's one of mysters. No no, no, no

more toys. The selfish nature comes out now. If you're

knew in the faith, it's messages like this that would

tweak and alter how you pray. Oh Malipa Oh, that's

not how you ask, not asking with the kingdom in mind.

But then if you pray that way before you know,

don't be so dishearted. And why because you're asking a father,

not just a sinful father, an earthy father with infinite wisdom.

In his wisdom, Will a good dad give a candy

to a boonging son, No, I won't. Will I give

sugar to somebody who's about to sleep?

No, Why, I have wisdom. If I give you that,

both of us will not sleep. How much more the

heavenly Father, in his infinite wisdom.

You think God will give that to you if it

will destroy you, you can ask all you want, you'll

be tired. But in his infinite wisdom, he will not

give it to you. In his holy nature, he will

not give give you something that's sinful, like a lot

of combination or no ma matera incapit bahimo right, or

whatever prayers you make that are contrary to God's word.

Because of his holy nature, he will not give that

to you. He's a good father, and he's also a

loving father. He knows what to give you. He knows

so we will learn through as we mature in the faith,

what we need to ask for, and I hope this

message helps you to ask with the Kingdom in mind.

Before it was your kingdom in mind that you're not,

at least now you know. That's why the answer has

always been no, no, no, no. It's always been known,

because in his infinite wisdom, in his holiness, and in

his loving kindness, he knows what to give us. Our

business is to ask, and as we mature in the faith,

we ask with the Kingdom of God in mind. Second

Corinthians one, nineteen to twenty. For the Son of God,

Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, by

Me and Silas and Timothy, was not yes and no.

But in him it has always been what yes, For

no matter how many promises God has made, they are

yes in Christ, and so through him the amen is

spoken by us to the glory of God. What was

the primise behind it? For the promises of God? What

he said he'll do. I pray those things. That's why

all my prayers, Paul said, was yes. It was never no.

It's always yes, because I based my prayers on the

promises of God. What's our job to know the promises

of God, to know the Kingdom agenda, so that I

can now start praying and the answer would always be

what yes? And when he says yes, I'll say amen,

for whose glory? For the glory of God, according to Paul,

So clear right, how we can pray and have yes answers.

So let me end verse twelve sandwich between the prayer.

Do not judge the golden rule. So whatever you wish

that others would do to you, do also to them,

for it is the law and the prophets. Now verse twelve.

What's tricky about Matthew five six seven is we don't

know if this was a highlight of the notes of

Matthew or if it was all like one message. Did

he miss out something? We actually don't know, different views

from different people. But verse twelve is not just tied

up to verse one to eleven. It's tied up to

Matthew five six and seven because it sums up the

law and the prophets, sums up everything it's like for

in science. Therefore, I conclude this is my conclusion, not

just with verse one to ten or eleven, but with

everything else. So I want to now look at this

at the angle of prayer. Ask and it will be

given seek and you'll find out and the door will

be opened. Your Father will give you good gifts. So

now whatever you wish or in another version, therefore, whatever

you wish that others would do to you, do also

to them. For this is the law and the prophets.

What does that mean when it comes to prayer? What

that means is that when we pray, let us also

learn how to pray for others, not only for ourselves.

When we do good, righteous acts could actually be an

answer to somebody else's prayer. Will he shared this morning

about how God used him as an answer to prayer.

He shared to us this morning how God answered this prayer.

One time he was praying and the Lord told him,

I want you to give this certain specific amount to

this millionaire guy. The amount God gave him was twenty

peszels and eighty cent tabos. With His problem was, this

is insulting to the millionaire. How can I give twenty

peszels and eighty cent tabos. And this was during the

time that when the centavos was the aluminum the thick one, right,

So nobody gives you the thick one, right. They give

you store in the starty store. She's like TWENTYI how

do I get the eighties in doubles? It was so hard.

He had to go to his wife. Do you have

eighty cent douvas? Please look for some coins because I'm

going to give this guy. Well, I don't want to

give this guy twenty peszels and eighty cent tabos. So

he was hesitating, Lord, I think it's wrong. I think

that's not the right amount. It could be maybe two

thousand and eighty pestels, but it's not twenty. So the

wrestling he had in his mind, but the prompting that

was so strong. So he got an envelope put twenty

peszels in eighty cents. He didn't know how to approach

the guy. The guy was a stockbroker, had three golden bullpens.

Here drives a BMW and who are you to give

him twenty pestels in eighty cent tavos man, that's a

little insulting, right, But he says, I just have to

do this. Mustered the courage went to the guy and said, here,

I have something for you, and started to walk away.

And the guy opened it and he saw twenty pastels

and eighty cent tables, and he calls Willi, Willy Willy,

and when Willi heard his name, he walked faster right,

But the guy ran after him and and and got

a hold of him and said, Willie, why did you

give me this? Will I don't know how. I don't

know how to explain. You might find me weird. But

I got a prompting from the Lord to give you

twenty patzels and eighty cent tabos. And the millionaire started

crying in front of him. You don't know what you

just did, he said, Willy. Aside so nobody could hear.

He said to Willie, what you don't know is I'm

now broke, bankrupt. I'm no longer a stock broker. I'm broke,

and I'm trying to keep up externally so that I

could get more clients. That's why I can't sell my BMW.

I have to pretend I'm doing well, but I'm not.

I prayed to the Lord one night, and he said

the guy was a Christian Lord. I've given my tides,

I've given my offering. I've been faithful giving to you.

Is this really true? Is your word true? And then

he challenged the Lord, Lord, if you're really true, give

me twenty pestls and eighty cent tables. Willie, Kingdom minded

crazy gave twenty paessls and eighty cent table to this guy.

You don't know that you can be an answer to

somebody else's prayer, no matter how crazy it is. This

is kingdom living, This is going beyond what seems like.

You know, I don't know. If God tells you to

do something, and God is telling us ask, seek, knock,

I will give it to you. On the other side

of the spectrum, God is using someone and that could

be you. Just like Willie. Maybe somebody now is praying

to the Lord out of desperation. You might be the answer.

Whatever you wish others would do to you, you do

unto others. What is to bow down their heads in pray?

I want you to come right now to the Lord

in prayer? What is to practice? What was spreach? Today?

Want you to ask, to seek, and to knock this morning?

I want you to ask with the kingdom in mind.

I know you're praying for something. Some of you. You've

been praying for financial breakthrough, healing, restoration of relationship. We've

read your prayer requests every week. We've seen those, and

you're believing God for something. But I want you right

now to come with a different perspective. You're now asking

with the Kingdom in mind. You're seeking the will of

God and his kingdom. You're knocking at the door of

the king. I want you to lift it up in prayer,

whatever it is that you've been praying for, in asking God,

but no longer for your own, but for his. Lord.

We come to you with our prayers, lifting it up

to you, with your kingdom in mine, with you as

our priority, with you as our king and Lord, we

come to you Jesus out of gratefulness. Lord. We ask,

we seek, we knock, We live up to you. Lord,

we storm the gates of heaven, asking whether it's a

restoration of relationship, a career advancement, finances to come through,

debts to be pain, salvation of loved ones, open doors

for ministry, open doors for business. But Lord, right now

we ask the God's Kingdom in mind. Lord, I pray,

Lord that you will be glorified in every answer to

our prayer. Lord, teach us to pray well, teach us

to pray with persistence, Teach us to pray according to

the will of God. Starting today, Lord, thank you for

being a good father, that in your infinite wisdom, loving kindness,

and your holiness, you know what to give us. You

give us good gifts. And when we learn, Lord, doc

sem the no answers, because you're doing something in our hearts,

sometimes exposing mispriorities, sometimes exposing selfishness. So I pray God

that make us Lord surrendered to the will of the

King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. Lord, thank

you so much for the privilege of prayer. We can

come bold into the throne of Grace with confidence and Lord,

just like Paul Lord when he says, all our prayers

are yes and Amen in Christ Jesus, thank you.

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