"Prayer - Our Father" - Dr. Reginald Klimionok

Hello and welcome to Logan City Christian Church Podcast. Today we have an impactful

teaching by Dr. Reginald Klimanok. Dr. Klimanok's preaching has touched the lives of many, inspiring

and challenging audiences with his deep insights into the Bible and Christian theology. Join

us as we delve deep into his powerful messages uncovering timeless truth and practical wisdom

that can transform our lives today. Get ready to be inspired, encouraged and equipped as

we journey through the rich tapestry of Dr. Klimanok's preaching.

During this morning I've gone through about 100 truths just pouring over what do you want

me to say Lord? And Thursday morning the way God speaks to me I was not awoken I was still

in that revelation dimension. God said preach on this. So for a week or two I'm going to

do this and I know I'm in the mind of God as clear as I stand here because I know when

God talks to me. And so I want you to turn to Matthew 26 please in your Bibles. Thank

you. From verse 36 onwards Jesus is in Matthew 26 from verse 36. He comes to a place called

Gethsemane and he said to his disciples, sit ye here when I go and pray yonder. He took

with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee and began to be sorrowful and very heavy.

Then said he unto them, he went back to them and said my soul is exceeding sorrowful even

unto death. Carry and watch with me. And he went to the father and fell on his face and

prayed saying, oh my father it would be possible that this cup pass from me and that's not

my will but is thou wilt. And he cometh unto his disciples and findeth them asleep and

saith unto Peter, what could you not watch with me for one hour? Watch and pray that

you enter not into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing but the flesh is weak. Tremendous

amount of truth in these principles here. While the Littre Crusade used to have, I was

part of that for a long time in Australia and around the world, the hour that changes

the world. It is something about praying even for an hour that has tremendous power with

God. And then he uses, comes to this credible term, the spirit indeed is willing but the

flesh is weak. If you read through the Psalms frequently, the psalmist says quicken me,

oh God. Quicken me, oh God. Some of us need like a real quickening to go after God because

you're battling this thing called the flesh. The flesh has many derivatives in it. There's

the flesh, what Paul talks about in Romans chapter 7, the things you don't want to do

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you do. If you walk in the spirit, Romans 8, not in the flesh. But here he's talking

about even the natural, he's not talking about temptation here in my estimation. He's talking

about the flesh that prefers not to do the things of God, not to follow the Lord with

intensity. I preached about this last Sunday night, the struggles we have in these areas

to truly follow God with all of our passion. The spirit is so often willing with all this

packing going on and all these things everywhere now. I don't have that often the privacy I'd

like to have. And I kept crying out, God quicken me. Quicken me, oh God. Because we need that

quickening. Come on church. The spirit is willing. We want to do it. But the flesh is

weak. There's tremendous truth in that. So I don't know if there's something supernatural

when we pray for an hour. Jesus says pray, couldn't you watch with me for an hour? I

forgot there's a bit more here you have to read. And it says watch and pray. And he went

again the second time, verse 42, saying, oh fuck my father. He was drinking the cup of

sin. It was so strong as you know that even out of his corpuscles, the ooze blood, because

he was, I think Hebrews chapter five, this crime, you're not driven unto resisting, unto

blood striving against sin. The agony of that moment as he took the cup of sin, the sin

of the world upon his shoulder. He said, father, let this cup pass from me, for me except I

drink it, I will be done. He comes back and he finds them asleep again, for their eyes

were heavy. He didn't disturb them this time. And he left them again and prayed the third

time saying the same words. And he comes to his disciples and he says, sleep on now. Take

your rest. Behold the hour is at hand and the son of man is betrayed into the hands

of sinners. Rise, let us be going. Behold he is at hand, the death betraying me. Jesus

asking them to pray. Now turn to Luke, please. Luke is an amazing writer. In chapter one,

you'll notice here, many people that were very much against the book of Acts, Luke is

the author of it or the writer of it, two great scholars a century ago, not so long,

but who wrote strongly against the book of Acts, does not be historic. Went to Israel,

went through every phase of it. I can give you the names, but I can remember them now

and discovered the incredible accuracy of Luke as a historian and totally changed and

became Christians, two of the great historians of history. And here again he says, now for

as much as many have taken verse one of chapter one into hand to set an order, a declaration

of the things which are most surely believed amongst us. So these were Christians. He said,

to believe all this, he said, even as they deliver them unto us, which were from the

beginning where I witnessed, ministers of the word. So he began to put together the

things that Jesus from eye witnesses about Jesus. It seemed good unto me also having

a perfect understanding of all things from the very first to write unto thee in order,

most excellent theophilus. Thou mightest know the certainty of those rings they are thinking

where thou has been instructed. Now, Paul, in other words, Luke rather gathered the information

together and he says, I got this from eye witnesses who he was a Gentile. I've got this

together. The things we believe, the most certainty of those things. And he actually

gives us 23 parables. Only 18 of them only appear in this gospel. He gives us miracle

accounts, 20 miracles of Jesus, more than any other historian. And he gives us amazing

truths about the Lord and especially he emphasizes prayer. He talks about prayer here more than

any other gospel, recorded gospel. What's wrong with me? Never mind, I had a biscuit

and I shouldn't have had it. It's sticking my throat. Turn to Luke chapter 11, please.

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It says, and it came to pass as he was praying in a certain place. So it's felt that Jesus

often went there to pray. When he ceased, one of his disciples said to him, Lord, teach

us to pray as John taught his disciples to pray. And he said to them, when you pray,

say, our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be

done in heaven as in earth. Give us this day our daily bread. Forgive us our sins. We forgive

everyone that is indebted to us. Lead us not in temptation, but deliver us from the evil

one or evil. And then he went on to say, Matthew goes on to say, with Zionist he came to the

temple. But in here it says, immediately then resorts to a man that went to a friend at

midnight and kept asking, which was very difficult those days because the way the houses were

constructed, there were no, often they'd put all the furniture against the door for the

night that nobody could get in. Well, they had to move furniture to get what they asked

for. And then he says to them, ask, and really the original says, and keep on asking, seek

and keep on seeking, knock and keep on knocking. Don't give up. Be persistent until you receive

what God says. In Luke 18, please. Again, he's talking and teaching a parable about

prayer, a woman who went to this unjust judge and because of her consistency, he starts

this chapter, one of the great scriptures of the Bible, men always to watch and pray

and not faint or never, never, never give up, never give up, not faint. He talks about

this unjust judge that went to this widow that went to this unjust judge and keep pushing

and pushing and pushing until the father said, no matter what, I have to give it to her because

she wearies me. Don't buy prayer. And then he took another parable about two that went

to pray, the Pharisee and a publican. And one prayed with himself saying, I'm not as

bad as others are. I do all kinds of things. And the other came and simply said, Lord,

be merciful to me a sinner. And Jesus said that one went away justified because he came

in a certain way to God. Now here Jesus, when they asked him in Luke 11 to teach us to pray,

they must have seen the way he prayed, the power of his prayer life. And they said, we

want what you have, teach us. And Jesus started teaching them. Now, by many it's believed

that Jesus taught how the rabbis taught. The rabbis were masters in their teaching ability.

They used to teach topic upon topic upon topic. So when they would give a discourse, it would

be topic upon topic. It's believed when Jesus said, our father who art in heaven, hallowed

be thy name, he was touching on topic after topic after topic. And not just for 36 minutes,

36 seconds to say this and then leave it. He taught like this, that form of teaching

has never been improved. It's always been by people throughout the century. That's how

they taught truth upon truth. So here Jesus is teach, they say teach us how to pray. So

it's more than just saying this and then you pray. It's teaching us the way whereby we

enter the presence of God and you get upon truth upon truth. Now each day is different.

Each day has different burdens, different realities, but they can all be placed under

this kind of a topic. And I'll show you what I just do with one today, to show you how

the topics work and what they mean to us. That's why I've got that book on the Lord's

Prayer, How to Pray, because it's powerful. When I finish with you today, you'll see it's

like we used to, now it's finished anyway, used to walk along the beach. And when we

got to a certain place, we know we did so much, you know, we had got so far in our walk.

Walk to this point, turn around and come back and walk up here and come back. So there's

like Dr. Cho says there are points of demarcation, point after point after point to get to where

you're heading for the future. Now I want to teach you this morning how to pray because

some of us have problems how to pray, wandering minds, no clear direction. We pray a lot of

give me's, give me this and give me this or whatever, or whatever, you don't do that,

that's wonderful. But many people do that. We're always asking things. But there's a

way to pray that brings answers from God. Now, all right, so let's get into it. Jesus

started off by saying our Father, we're supposed to come to God, the Father, through Jesus

Christ. Remember, John 16, go to John 16 if you will, with me, not just listen. In John

16, 23 it says, in that day shall ask me nothing. What shall we ask the Father? The Father ask

who? The Father. In Ephesians 3, 14, Paul says, I bow my knee unto the Father of our

Lord Jesus Christ. We come to God, the Father, in Jesus' name. In John 15, verse 16, very

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similar, again, he says, address come to the Father. You have not chosen me, verse 17,

that I have chosen you, then you should bring forth much fruit. What shall we ask the Father?

In my name, he will give it to you. So we come to the Father in the name of what? Jesus.

Now, I say, I pray to Jesus, okay, you pray to Jesus, but you're supposed to come to the

Father in Jesus' name. Now, what does this first topic mean? It firstly means relationship.

It means fellowship. It means communion. It's not just a word you use about Father. He is

your Father. You have entered into sonship through Jesus Christ. We are sons of God.

We're not sons of Jesus. Jesus is our elder brother. We are now the sons of God, and God

is our heavenly Father, or our Father, the God that fills eternity, whose throne is in

the heavens. The earth is His footstool. This awesome, powerful God is your Father. How

close should God be to you, closer than any other person in the universe? This is the

mystery of communion and fellowship. Why did God originally make you? He made you for fellowship.

Years ago, when they declared their faith, they said, man's chief end is to glorify God

and to enjoy Him. Hello, church. To enjoy Him forever. You're supposed to be close,

but you say, with all of my garbage and so on, that's why you've got Luke 18. You come

with your garbage and lay it upon the altar. You give it to God. You get rid of all that

stuff. Now, this is very serious. You don't just say, you come and you present yourself.

You die to the flesh. You give yourself to God, and then you enter. You must come to

the point where He's your Daddy. Where there, at Romans 8, one says, there's therefore now

no condemnation, because you've come to God. You've laid upon the altar. You're not like

Roman Catholics, keep justizing yourself to think that that will bring God to you. No.

You lay upon the altar all that is wrong, and then you come to your Daddy. Hello, church.

You come to your Father. You are in fellowship. There's an intimacy described in this. Your

Father should be closer than anybody else in the world, even your wife. Hello, church.

Is He that close? You can tell Him things that nobody else needs to know. Hello, church.

You can pour out your heart, your feelings, your burdens, your stress. You can lay it

all upon the living God, upon your Father, because He is your Father. Come on. The Greeks

didn't have any concept of this. God was far removed away from them. Neither did the Jews.

The Jews, when they came to Mount Sinai, had said to Phonemoses, when they saw the awesomeness

of God, said, You talk to Him. You can do this. They came to fire around Mount Sinai,

remember? They said, Look, you talk to God. The Jews even wouldn't mention God at all.

When they would write, describe, whatever, they're just, ah. They're frightened even

to use His name. No Mohammed has any concept like this. No Hindu has any concept like this.

No Shintoism or Confucianism, Buddhism has any concept like this. We're different to

anyone else. We have an intimacy with God. Come on, church. This is the first reason why

you pray. Now, the Greeks had a word for prayer, for Father, that was Pater, P-A-T-A-R, but

that wasn't a close term. Now, I've talked with this with the scholar that was in our

school that knows, and we chatted on this. As far as we know, the New Testament was first

written in Aramaic, and then it was translated to Greek. Now, Aramaic is a cognate language

of Hebrew, the dead language, as we know now. Jesus spoke Hebrew, a very colloquial Hebrew,

Jew, but He also spoke Aramaic. The Aramaic word for Father is Abba. It's a very endearing

Papa, Daddy, my Daddy. That's why the Jews were incensed with Jesus because He put God

so close. He called God His Father. Who does He think He is? He brought mankind so close

to God, because Abba is like saying, My Daddy. My son calls me Papa. His children call Him

Papa. It's an endearing word. I'm Poppy to them because I'm the grandfather, but Papa,

He is Abba, my Daddy. God should be very close to you. We know definitely before the cross

in the Garden of Gethsemane, He used the word Abba. Abba, Daddy, let this cup pass from

me. Then on the cross when He cried, Ipai, Ipai, Lama Sabakthinai. Actually, the word

is Daddy again. He was very close to God. Now, this to us today comes through the work

of the Holy Spirit. Notice to go to Romans chapter 8, please, very important. He, when

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Paul writes about a relationship with God, he says, for as many, verse 14, are led by

the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. He says, you've not received the Spirit of

bondage again to fear, but you received what? The Spirit of adoption. Now, adoption was

like, as far as I understand this, even in the ordinary family, when the son becomes

a mature son, he's then adopted into that mature sonship. It's not adoption. You're

adopted. He says, you are my son. He says, whereby we cry what? Abba, Abba, Daddy, are

you with me? My father, my papa. You see, love, God so loved us. And love to be powerful

must have reciprocation. There's no love going on if any one loves the other doesn't

love. That's why in 1 John, he's so strong to save. You don't love, you don't know God

because God loves us. And when his love's inside of us, we love him and we love one

another. Come on, church. But you see, it's a close, endearing word. Now, how many of

us have come now with the son, how many of us have come to the place where we know the

love of the Father? What love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we, the Father, that

we should be called the sons of God, the Father. Paul says, Abba, many unto the Father. First,

Ephesians chapter 1, blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Who has blessed

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us? Who has blessed us? The Father. With all spiritual blessings in Christ Jesus. Who pours

out his love in those verses? The Father. You read it. Planned us in love. Who did that?

The Father. Predestined us in love. Who did that? The Father. Read it for yourself. It's

the Father at work because Daddy loves you. And you're supposed to... He longs for your

followership. The Father now. We always talk to Jesus. But the Father wants you to come

to him. Say, Abba, my Daddy, you're my Father. Sit in his presence. Say, Father, I love you.

I come to you. Give myself to you today. You come to him who loves and cares for you. Who

gave everything. Go to Galatians chapter 4. But when the fullness of time has come in

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verse 4, God sent forth... You see, let me just say this. Even in that Nicaean council,

they still only spoke Aramaic. In all the debate about Christology in Christ, it was

still in Aramaic. But in Galatians chapter 4, in verse 4, when the fullness of time has

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come, God sent forth a son made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that are

under the law, that they might receive the what? Adoption of what? Sons. And because

you're sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of the Son into your hearts, crying what?

Papa, Daddy, Abba, your Father. And the more you work with the Holy Spirit, the more the

Holy Spirit wants you to understand the power of your sonship with God, the greatness of

our redemption. We are full-grown sons. Thou art my son, like a father says in the Hebrew

at the age of 11. You are my son. I've adopted you into the fullness of sonship. Everything

I have is yours. The Spirit of God comes to us, and because of His sonship, now we are

the sons of God. These aren't theological terms, Church. You're supposed to cry. What?

Abba, Dad, my Father, who loves you, who has given everything for you, and come to Him

with your needs. Bring yourself to God. There should be an intimacy there that is indescribable.

A great man of God I knew, I know, I haven't been in touch in a long time, spoke of Dr.

Walker, one of the great Baptist leaders who was as much involved in prayer, the God of

God. The more childlike we would be to the Father, the more of a Father you'd be to

us. Robert Martin McChain, one of the greatest men of God in the world, said, when I was

God is worth a lifetime with men. Spend time with God. You have a daddy. Every word here

is pregnant with meaning. It says when you pray, say, hour. It's not singular. It is

plural. It's all right, brother. It's not making much noise. It's okay. Don't have

to go out. It is plural. You never stand alone. Even when you may be alone in your room to

shut the door, you're standing with a whole family of God. Now, notice in Matthew when

Jesus talks about this, the Lord's Prayer. He says there in the previous chapter, he

says when you come in verse 23 of Matthew 5, bring your gift to the altar and your brothers

and against you, deal with it first and then come to God. In the next chapter, you'll notice

here, the Lord's Prayer again, and then he says in verse 12, forgive us our debts if

we forgive our debtors. But then he re-emphasizes that last, that forgiveness where he says

in verse 14, after the definition of the prayer, Lord's Prayer, if you forgive men, the trespasses,

your heavenly father will also forgive you. But if you forgive not men, the trespasses,

neither will your heavenly father forgive your trespasses. That is very serious. That's very

serious. Not just nice words. God, that's why it's the hour is here, Father. You're

not coming alone. You're coming with everybody else. And when you get into the Bible, the

New Testament, you discover that forgiveness is very crucial. If you don't forgive, God

can't forgive you. That sounds tough, but it's true. And you've got to forgive people

because you're coming to a father that's his kids too. You may not like them, but they're

his kids too. They're oldest children. And you must forgive. If you want to be divinely

effective with God, you have to forgive people. Somebody say, oh, me or something. You can't

live with bitterness. You can't live with unforgiveness of any nature because he says

that in the Lord's Prayer. If you don't forgive, and if you're unforgiven, you've got no right

to access to God. So you've got to get rid of all unforgiveness. You've got to forgive

everybody. You mean even that person? Yes, even that person. You mean my previous husband?

Yes, even your previous husband. Whoever it might be, you have to forgive them. Hello,

church. If you want God to forgive you. He has many kids. And the big word with God is

relationship with him and with each other. There's no self seeking in this. You're praying

for everybody. You believe in God for everybody. You're approaching God together with everybody

else. Some of the greatest miracles I've seen and heard have been somebody was praying for

somebody else. Remember Ruth Carter? Ruth Carter, Christine Carter, I've shared with

you her miracle of the creative bone in her body. She was in a meeting in Garden City

when I was pastoring there. We had a speaker there. And she was praying for others. Never

even thought about herself. Just caring for everybody. God healed that person. God healed.

And when she got home, her husband said, you've got another rib. She had taken it out because

she had some problems physically years ago. And the operator took one of the ribs out

and it was restored back. Created a miracle. But she was involved with others. Praying for

others. There's nothing more powerful when you get selfless in prayer. Can you say amen?

Nothing more powerful. She was concerned for the whole... See, when you're praying, you're

praying with people in Korea and Africa, all over the world. And right now, I mean, you

asked me what's that picture that says there's a million people praying. Look at a big one

of that. When I was in Korea, I was in a prayer meeting of one million people. We prayed most

of the day. One million. Were you there? You were there for the one million, were you?

That was an incredible prayer meeting. Incredible prayer meeting. That's the biggest prayer

meeting I've been in. Now they've changed all that. They put buildings up. They can't

just use that for airplanes and so on. Just as I've talked to Joe's church. But they've

changed all that. But one million people. I've got the picture. I've got my wife in

it. Just got my wife in it. And the rest. And it's marvelous. You're praying with all

those Koreans that know how. You're praying with the Chinese. Come on, church. This is

a big prayer meeting. So all over the world, some people get up and pray all day. Great

prayer meetings. Great powerful times. And there's something about hour that brings the

whole hour together. The whole people of God around the world. Can somebody say amen? God

is big on relationship. Because you are having a relationship with God. He's Abba. He's your

daddy. You come in Jesus' name. We are sons of God. He's our elder brother. Often talks

about, see Christianity is not religion, but relationship. It's the kingdom. It's relationship

and culture. It's not just laws. Yes, you follow God and all the principles of God.

But you're not made righteous by following the law. You're made righteous through the

blood of Jesus, through the cross. To all He's done for you. And you come to God. And

that's the time you ponder over the works of Jesus. How do you thank God? Like we sang

this morning, worthy is the lamb. When I began to prepare this, I was going on a walk and

I was singing all the songs like worthy is the lamb seated on the throne. The darling

of heaven crucified. You know, and I sang the songs of redemption because Jesus did

it all. Come on. But the father gave it all. Hallelujah. And we are redeemed by the blood

of the lamb. Come on church. When relations, we should be the happiest people on this earth.

But we forget what God has done. We get enmeshed in our difficulties. Ponder over the cross.

Ponder over the blood of Jesus. Now we're the sons of God. We are children of the most

high and God is our father. You got to get hold of that. And he's a good daddy. But that's

that is not just give me, give me, give me. You got to understand what's going on here.

You've got redemption through the blood of Jesus. Come on church. He was wounded for

you and everything that you might live eternally. Now the greatest way to pray is to know what

the Bible says on the given subject and then pray on that subject. And I pray the Bible

you know that I've told you that before. I like what Ryan Hart Bonke said when God raised

him up to be a powerful man of God around the world. The first time God said my words

in your mouth are as powerful as my words in my mouth. So you've got the word of God.

So when you get going in these areas, you pray the word, you speak the word, you declare

the word, you believe the word. Can you say amen? You're saying what God says and you're

talking to God in relationship. Sometimes you just pull out your heart. Father I need

you so much. But build relationship. Don't come give me, give me, give me. Just love

him. Father I love you. Thank you for sending Jesus. I'm your child. How about my daddy?

You said I want to get to personal. Well it is personal. My father is you know was very

personal to me in many ways. Amen. But relationship, relationships, also friendship actually means

that God is our friend. Now my greatest friend in this world is my wife. She's not just my

wife but she's also my friend. And we hate being apart. We like doing things together.

I hate traveling overseas without being close to her. And it's always good to have your

close friend. She's my wife. She's the boss. No. But she's also my friend. And you see

now in our friendship with God, we have no fear. Perfect love cannot start what? All

fear. You've not received the spirit of bondage again to what? Fear. You receive the spirit

of adoption whereby you cry of a father. Most religions of the world have tremendous fear.

In the Muslim religion there's very little anything about a loving God. There's nothing

there of that. It's a God to be feared, an angry God. But we have a loving God. Amen.

We have a God that we can talk to like a friend. We can chat with him. You can tell him things

you don't even tell your wife. You can talk to him or your husband, vice versa. You see

it says in Hebrews 4.16, let us therefore come boldly to the throne, that's God's throne,

of grace. We may find grace to help in time of need. The literal translation would be

in the nick of time. You can come boldly just at the right time. Find mercy and grace to

help. The word boldly means great freedom of speech. It's used like in 1 John 5.4, this

is the confidence or same word, this is the freedom of speech we have. If you ask anything

according to his will, he hears us. The will of God is the word of God. Can you say amen?

So we can come freely asking God great freedom of speech, not irreverently please. Not foolishly,

not stupidly, I'm not saying that. He is God Almighty. But you can't come to daddy. You

can't say, Father, I'm tired of this. I give it to you. Take it Lord. Look Lord, like one

guy did years ago and didn't have much money. He took off his shoe and said, look Lord,

I need a pair of shoes of the hole in there. And he got a pair of shoes. You come to God.

Say God, you know my needs Father, but I'm supposed to come to you and I declare that

you're the God that promised me. I confess your provisions. I confess what you've said.

I believe what you've said. Can you say amen? And I ask you Father, take this burden away

costing all, how many? All your care upon him. For he cares what? For you. All of your

care, not some. In America they say all of your care. Put it all on God. That's why he

came for. He bore it all. Can somebody say amen? He took it all Church. Understand, but

I don't mean irreverently, but this is the story of the gospel. But God has done for

us through Jesus Christ. Now notice, both in Luke 18 when this woman

widow comes with his persistence, and then at the end it says when the son of man comes,

will he find faith? No, it doesn't really say that. We look at the Amplifier. When the

son of man comes, will he find this kind of faith that doesn't give up, that gets hold

of God and stays there and stays there and stays there until you weary that judge, so

to speak. What did Jesus say when he asked his Lord teachers to pray? As soon as you

finish the Lord's Prayer in Luke 11, he said about the man that had a friend, goes to him

at midnight now in Israel, you go to sleep when the lights go out. In other words, there

were no light streets in those days when the heavenly lights go out. You just have these

little lanterns or something, different lights start. You didn't go down the street, you

didn't go down to the city because the lights were on. Everything just went off. You'd get

up with the birds, you'd get up early in the morning with the crows, whatever, with the

chickens. You'd get up early in the morning. A friend arrives at midnight, this is the

income of Jesus. You come and you say, friend, give me some bread. He said, not because he's

a friend, but he'll do it for you. Some people out with God are like that fellow that had

a breakdown on the street, on the road, country road, and he couldn't find his jack. He's

looking for his jack and he says, I need a jack. So he saw some lights on the farm. He

says, walk into the farm. He says, they're going to throw me out. He gets closer and

he's got a bad dog in the round. He got closer and he said, who knows what they'll do with

me. He got nearer and he said, you can keep your jack. Some people are like that with

God. They don't persist with God. They ask once and that's enough. Like one fellow said

to his wife, I said, I love you and when I change my mind I will tell you. You're supposed

to regularly say that. Come on. Likewise, when it comes to God, it says here, you persist,

you push, you don't give up. You keep on asking. It's in the present tense. Ask and keep on

asking, keep on asking, keep on asking. That's free time. Keep on asking. Look at the original.

You don't give up. You don't give up. I love you Lord, but in the name of Jesus. You're

great, but in the name of Jesus. You're set in your name. You'll do anything for me. Jesus,

you want. Then also there's lordship here. Remember, although you have such friendship,

you are torn to the God of the universe. He is Lord. You don't come flippantly and irreverently.

You come with a consciousness of the greatness, the supreme rulership of God Almighty, but

he is your daddy. You come with a sense of awesomeness. You surrender. You don't come

in rebellion. You don't come with moods. You don't come with a chip on your shoulder. It

doesn't work like that. You can walk around with a chip on your shoulder, but not to God.

You can't do that. He is God. Come on church. You've got to get yourself. Then there's worship.

Your comment says, you worship in spirit and in truth. The word is proskuneo, which means

reverence to bow down. In first Corinthians 14, 25, it says, thus are the secrets of his

heart manifest. So falling down on his face, he will worship God. Revelation nine, seven

11 says the angel stood on the throne and worshiped him. So worship is crucial. You

come to a God you worship with him, to him rather. It's not a flippancy here. You understand

that? There's an intimacy. You can come to your daddy, but he is still God Almighty.

Through Jesus Christ and through his blood, you have the right to come boldly to the throne

and expect much from God. Can somebody say amen? So you consecrate your relationship

to God. You prepare your heart. You then talk to God about your relationship. You are sanctified

in the name of Jesus. Now why build relationship just quickly? You're getting cold? That's

okay. Just keep moving or something. Why do we build relationship? Some people are cold

up here, brother. You do what you like, Bert, but I'm just giving you a hint because this

is particularly, listen carefully, what Satan attacks. Are you listening? If anything Satan

wants to attack is your relationship. Most people crumble because they don't have a good

relationship with God. They don't know how to secure their relationship. Relationship

with your wife is something you build. Now it can be strange, especially moving from

house to house, but it's something you build. If you're a good husband, you've got some

nows up here. You know how to build relationship. You tell her you love her. Can somebody say

amen? You do things to build your relationship. Remember what the devil particularly attacked

with Job? He said you've got this relationship and you're looking after him. You're looking,

you're doing everything for him. I love this thought though. You build a hedge around him.

Hallelujah! There's a hedge around us. Come on church. Remove the hedge and he'll curse

you. So much devil and then he came back. Ah, skin for skin. Then he touched his body

and he'll curse you. So relationship. What is he in Revelation 12.1, Satan, the accuser

of the brethren? What does he accuse us for? To tear our relationship. Some people allow

that up and down like yo-yos. One Sunday, one Sunday not. Encourage him for a while,

better for a while, down again. Build strong relationship where nothing moves you. Come

on church. Well you know that you know that you know.

But in anything in the book Giants and Grasshoppers, the last chapter, the most insidious attack

of the devil is the Jebusite spirit. When the devil comes and says give up on God. Give

up your position now. Throw thought worth it. He undermines the blood of Christ. He

wants to take away from you the power of your relationship with God Almighty. Come on church.

Also because your relationship is the strongest bond you have in God. There's nothing greater.

It says in Ephesians 2.1, you once were not a people of God but now are you what? The

people of God. And frequently in various ways. The language of the Bible is strong relationship.

In a marriage you build your relationship with your children. I'm so sorry my son's

not around. We call him every day. But you build relationship with your children. You

talk to them. You encourage them. You help them. You lift them. You inspire them. You

did this with your wife. You talk to her with your husband. My greatest inspiration is my

wife. She encourages me. She's my strength. She keeps saying things to me. Good things.

Helpful things. No matter what it might be. Build relationship with God because that's

the strongest thing you have. Build security into God. Make sure that you have this security

that you know what the Bible says about your relationship with God. And tell God. He wants

to hear it. Don't just assume it. He wants to hear your love. Jesus, John 14, he talks

about love. First John has filled this man that walks so close with God about incredible

love. Think of the scripture in John 10. Tell God about it. In John 10 Jesus said, if I

can find it here quickly. He said in verse 28, he says, and I give unto them eternal

life and they shall never, and the words there in the original is never, no never, no never,

no never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My father, which is,

which gave them unto me is greater than all. And no man is able to pluck them out of my

father's hand. I and my father are one. He talks about this relationship. He said, I

will never, no never leave you, John 13 and 5. What a security. Great is he that is not

and neither is in the world. You've overcome the world. First John 4, Romans 8, 4, you

can cry out the Father. Build strength into God. Build strength into God. Build strength

into my Father. Build strong relationship. Tell God. Talk to God about this. Now if you

don't know what to do, get my book. I have a lot of those confessions there because it's

a relationship that secures us for eternity. We have eternal life. We are eternal beings.

We are saved forever. Come on church. We are not home yet. This is just a stepping stone

in the presence of God one day. But you've got to get out of you that fear, that lack

of relationship, that excitement of coming to God and just sitting down and being with

God. Say, Father here I am. Daddy here I am. I want to be with you for a while. Just be

in your presence. Whatever. But Lord, I love you. Don't understand it all, but I do love

you. Thank you for giving us Jesus. Thank you for eternal life and I'll never, no never,

no never perish. Thank you. I'm redeemed by your blood. And in that book I've got all

the powerful confessions you can make to God regularly. You know, you're trying to become

so great as the apostle Paul said, I'm in a straight detrick, too, in Philippians 1.23.

I want to be with Christ, which is far better. But for your sake it's needful that I stay

here. He wanted so much to be with his master, his Lord. There's so much in this area. I've

got all the confessions of, for example, in John 5.24 it says, He that hears my words

and liveth them that sent me hath everlasting, everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation,

judgment, but is passed now from death to life. That relationship. You know, Hebrews

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chapter 10 is a powerful chapter to pray with God and to confess to God time and time again.

I'm nearly through. For example, it says in verse 12, verse 1 and 2 says, There is no

conscience of sin. But this man, Jesus, after he'd offered one sacrifice for sins forever,

sat down at the right hand of God, from henceforth, expecting till his enemies be made his footstone.

That's true, you and me. For by one offering hath he perfected forever them who are being

sanctified. That's what the word actually means. Wherefore the Holy Ghost also is a

witness to us. For after he had said before this, the covenant that I will make with them,

after these days, saith the Lord, I'll put my laws in the hearts and bright them in the

minds, and their sins and inequities I'll remember no more. Come on, church. Where there

is a mission, a removal of sins, there's no more offering for sin. Having the verboteness,

brethren, there we are in this family, to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus.

It's all through the blood, all through the cross. That is drawn near, it says, with full

assurance of faith, a heart sprinkled and so on. And there's so many confessions I have

about this. And then in that book, it's on prayer, I finish with the love of God. I give

you many scriptures, how much God loves us, how much He cares for us. The love of God

now, I'm talking about the love of God the Father, not so much the love of the Son. People

don't say, I can relate to the Son, but the Father? Yes, Daddy, your Father loves you

unconditionally. But give yourself to Him. There must be reciprocity. And you can read

Ephesians 2, 4-7 and other scriptures in regards to this. We have promises through these words,

I take us, of all that God has for us. Can somebody say amen? You've got a wonderful

Father. Would you please stand, please? Will you pray to Him? I've just taken our Father.

Next week I take which art in heaven, the authority to control the worship of God. But

our Daddy, our Father, He's an amazing God. And I guarantee most of us don't cry of this.

How great He is. Father, I adore you, brother. No, Father, I adore you. Lay my life before

you. Father, I adore you, brother. No, Father, I adore you. Lay my life before you. Father,

I adore you. Lay my life before you. Now this time, sing it to Him. Lift your hands. Father,

I adore you. Lay my life before you. How I love you. Another one that's just the first

verse, it's okay. But I love you, I love you, my Lord. Love you, my Lord. I adore you. I

love you. I love you. I love you. My Lord, I love you. Yes, Lord, I love you, Father.

You, I love you. My Lord, I love you. Yes, Lord, I love you, Father. You, I love you.

My Lord, I love you. Yes, Lord, I love you, Father. You, I love you. My Lord, you're worthy

to be praised. You're worthy. You're worthy. You're worthy. You're worthy. You're worthy.

Father, it seems to be so hard for us to grasp that God so loved the world. I love you. I

love you. And God loves me that I'm your child, son of God. That Jesus is my elder brother.

God's redemption through your blood. Now come boldly, come on, talk to God. Father, let

me understand your amazing love, oh love of God, how rich and pure, how measureless and

are measureless and strong. It shall forevermore endure. The saints and angels song.

We give ourselves to you today, Lord. They'll bring us back tonight. Oh God, I just want you to know

I love you. I thank you, Father, for loving me so much. Come on, tell Him you love Him.

I love you. I understand what all the burdens have been gone, but I declare you greatness.

I love you, Father. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you.

I love you. My Lord, I love you. I love you.

I love you. I love you. My Lord.

Can I ask you, would you talk to your daddy this week? Would you tell him how much you love him?

You know what to do. I'm sure most of you got that book on the Lord's Prayer.

Just talk to him. You have a relationship with God. Give him time.

If you don't know what to say, just sit there. Say, Father, here I am. I love you.

Come to me. Show me how to reach your presence, Holy Spirit.

Quicken the sonship I have. May the Lord bless and keep you this week.

May the Lord bless you. You're going out. You're coming in.

You're laying your labor and your leisure. May God be with you.

May God be with you. May He quicken every part of your body. May you live in that sonship

and relationship. May God perform miracles for you. May you see that He's a God of miracles.

Remember what Jesus was. He said, ask the Father in my name. He will give it to you.

He said, you've asked nothing in my name. Ask and receive that your joy may be for once. Give

you some joy. Hallelujah. God bless you. See you tonight. God be with you. Bye-bye.

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