Are You Focused On Your Friend? - Bro Ray Asher 3-5-2025

Preach. I'm just gonna sort just a few moments.

Uh.

The Holy Ghost has moved sobraten in this it has

just been spectacular.

Thank you for it.

I saw just so much for you tonight, O man,

brother Christian, would.

I want to go look with the loop Chapter eleven.

Just read just a few verses to you.

It came to pass as he was praying in a

certain place when he seized one disciples said to him, Lord,

teach us to pray that.

John also told his disciples. He said to them, when

you pray, say our Father, which are in heaven, hollow

it be thy name, thy kingdom. Come. I will be

done as in heaven, so on earth, give us day

by day our daily bread, and forgive us our sins.

We also forgive everyone that is indebted to us, and

lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

Notice notice this he has just told.

Them that great method prayer.

Verse five. And he said under.

Them, which of you shall have a friend, and shall

go to him at midnight and.

Say under him, friend, lend me three loaves. For a

friend of.

Mine in his journey is come to me.

And I have nothing to sit before him? And he

from within shall answer and say, they trouble me not.

The doors now shut, and my children are.

With me in bed.

I cannot rise and give thee I say unto you.

Though he will not rise and give him because he

is his friend. Yet because of his importunity, he will

rise and give him as many as he needed. And

I say unto you, asking it shall be given. You seek,

and ye shall find, knock, and it shall be.

Opened unto you. For everyone that asketh.

Receive it, and he that seek and findeth, and to

him that knocketh it shall be open. If a son

shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will.

He give him a stone?

Or if he ask a fish, will he give for

a fish, give him a serpent? Or if he shall

ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion.

If ye, then, being evil to allow to give good gifts.

To your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father

give the Holy Spirit to them that asked him? And

I have read these scriptures for how many times, and

preach from them some. But I saw something today in praying,

and their brother house sent me in text. It was

just right along what I was praying and reading.

But usually when this is thought upon.

We think upon that man being on the door begging

for bread, and that man in the house that has

to bread that.

Is seemingly resisted. He's not that seemingly.

So.

The woman that's never mentioned is the friend, the woman.

That inspired the entire indable.

This man was not there to.

Get something for himself. He was trying to get something

to take to somebody that he knew that needed it.

Amen, James tells us, she have not because you ask not,

You receive not because you ask Himiss that you may

consume it upon your own loss. We're not in this

for us. This friend that we're preaching about it and

that the Lord has been.

Blessing us with it is not just for us.

It is for us to be enable to give it

to somebody else.

I want to just for a moment, ask you, are

you focused on your friend? Amen?

Yes, if there is one that comes into our next

service after service, there's one that comes into our next

there's one that steps into.

Our services, and sometimes it seems, like Mother Nathaniel, we

feel like we have nothing to offer him.

I'm not talking about Amen, simply the stranger the walks

in the back door.

I'm talking about a heavenly friend. I'm talking about a

friend that sticks host tom closer than a bridle. I'm

talking about a heavenly visitor that comes.

By and then our cardinal endeavors.

We have nothing offer him, We have nothing to give you.

If he wanted gold, he make him out and nag.

If he wanted, if he wanted, if he wanted diamonds,

he turned the Hayman in postate puilding into a diamond.

He comes in seeking praise and seeking worship, and seeking adulation,

and seeking honor from his children.

And here we said as children. So now we're in that.

Great endeavor where we say, Lord, we've got needs here.

We've got only a heavenly visitor here, but we've got

folks here with needs.

Lord, I'm coming to you asking.

You for bread, not for me, Amen, heymen, but I

want to take it, and I want to present it

to my heavenly visitor.

I want to present it to my friend.

I want my friend, Heyman to know that I'm not gonna.

Hey but this man, he now, would he have even

went there not been that friend of his came buy?

What have you?

Even in Revelation we're told about the church of the

honestee it, and they said, we're rich, increased in goods,

we have need of nothing nothing. May I say, when

you're in need of nothing, you are nothing of need.

The world does not need you either.

Man, we look at the Lord and say I'm rich

and increased the goods and have need of nothing.

He does not need you any longer.

Amen.

Remember when we can say, Lord, give me that bread, evermore,

give me.

That water, evermore, give me that bread.

Because I have a friend that I want to take

it to. I have somebody that I want to bless

with it. I have somebody that I want to carry

it to. The notice of Prodigal said, my father's servants

have bread despair.

Amen. That means they're gonna share it with me. That

means they're gonna give me some of their bread. Amen.

If he thought the father's servants was sitting there with

her bread clapped up, I guess, and I'm not giving

it to nobody. Amen. He wouldn't have.

Left the home Black. We left the hoola because there

was a place that had something to share with you.

And then I'll fixing sitting down. But there's a scripture

that sometime and I know it's great and wonderful. I

feel every time I read it a tinge of sadness.

It's a twenty fifth chapter.

Of the Book of Matthew. When the foolish come unto

the wise and say, give us a your ale. F

our lamps are going out. That sign enough in itself.

But brother Samuel, when they look at the wise, say

not so lett, there not be enough for us and you.

What they were saying was, we just have enough. We

don't have enough to share. We don't have enough to

give you any at all. We don't have enough to

let you have any You say, well, that's their fault

that they got it.

I get you.

I understand that, And I'm not denied.

That they were wise and the others were foolish.

But wouldn't you love to have something to share it

to somebody when they come by? Would that lost person

comes I'm o, Dave, what God gave us here.

Denied was not just for us anymore. What God gave you,

deny it was not just.

For you, amen, And that.

You will see in the days to come that this

bread that He's been doling out to you. Hey, go

hold on to it real tight, keep it in a

place where you know where it's at.

Don't fall away, don't let it go back, because there's

somebody gonna be coming through that door saying I'm a

traveler from the foreign country, by the hell, and I

know how they praying at hungry. I'm really hungry.

I don't know what to do.

Ain't that all helpless?

Lord?

If the church has nothing to offer them?

Hey there, Hey that there.

Is a wall out there, hay that do you notice what?

But the How preached on him last night?

He thean the family in the land, not a hunger

for praying, nor thust for water, but for the hearing.

Not the same the hearing. They're not hearing it. I know,

hungry for it. I there looking for a place that

still has the bread of life doll around to them.

I appreciate the Lord tonight so much for what he's

done in this revival.

I'm really do I am revived. Amen.

I am taking some bread with me to places Amen

that I looked, and I'm.

Taking it and delivered it to them. Amen. There are

people listening amen over mix speaker, Amen, that are hungry

for bread, and you're giving it to them.

Thank God for that, Amen, Brother, How I just appreciate

the Lord tonight.

I love you, I love this church. I love the

spirit that's here.

Please please hold on to this, Please hold on to this.

Amen.

Amen. But bread, bread in.

The natural, goes back in a few days, Amen, because

it has so much good in it. You said, twinkie

on the shelf for twenty five years and pull it off.

It's still a twinkie. You need it. Of course, there's

nothing in it. But even back ter you will eat. Amen.

Say what I love them, I know, I know you do.

A man.

Amen, you can lay pop tart out in the sun

for days. I doubt an ancient did. But I love them,

my bed man. So you have to keep replenishing the bread.

You have to keep replenishing it. That's why we have relivals.

And that's why Sunday morning you'll come back and say, Lord,

give me some more bread. That's why you will come

back Sunday night and say Lord give me some more bread.

That's why next Wednesday.

You'll say, Lord, give me some more bread.

And men, because somebody's gonna come through the door and

they ain't gonna be bringing no bread with them because

they ain't gotten one.

Amen. The traveler didn't have him bread. Amen.

Amen.

And he went to a house that didn't have him bread.

But the one at the house that didn't have a bread,

Brother Caleb knew where that was sound. And I believe

in the last few nights, in the last few services, Amen,

since and.

Since about Amen, since about.

Sunday morning, God has endeavored to show Bethel you are

not only the house of bread.

In name only. Amen.

Amen, you are the house of bread in reality, Godness,

the Lord