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LRH: Order in Prayer - 8

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  1. Do you want to build your faith?

  2. Do you desire to have a true encounter with God

  3. through his word? Then listen to Lorgus ramer I with

  4. Reverend Doctor Joseph Baubin, head Pastor of Harvest Chapel International Commercy.

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  9. the Word of Truth.

  10. God richly loves you.

  11. Welcome to the logo streamer are with God savant Reverend

  12. Doctor Joseph Being, head Pastor of Harvest Chapel International Commercy.

  13. And now to today's message.

  14. Amen, let's take a conversion from Joshua one verse aid,

  15. this book of the Law shallow depart out of my mouth,

  16. but I shall meditate in it to day at night

  17. that I may observe to do according to all that

  18. is written in there. But then I will make my

  19. way prosper us, and then I will have good success

  20. in Jesus' name. Amen, why don't you take your seats

  21. and hallelujah. So let's continue our discourses on bringing order

  22. into our prayer lives. Let's take our Bible reading. Let's

  23. read through where are looked after eleven, Let's read through

  24. one to thirteen, and then we will see how best

  25. we can break down some of the key truths that

  26. God wants us to know and understand. So one says,

  27. now it came to pass as he was praying in

  28. a certain place, when he sees that one of his

  29. disciples said to him, Lord, teach us to pray, as

  30. John also taught his disciples.

  31. Two.

  32. So he said to them, when you pray, say our

  33. Father in heaven, hallow it be your name, your kingdom.

  34. Come.

  35. You will be done on earth as it tastes in heaven.

  36. Give us day by day our daily breath, and forgive

  37. us as sins. But we also forgive everyone who is

  38. indebted to us. And do not lead us into temptation,

  39. but deliver us from the evil one. And he said

  40. to them, which of you shall have a friend, and

  41. go to him at midnight and say to him, friend,

  42. lend me three loaves. Where a friend of mine has

  43. come to me on his journey, and I have nothing

  44. to set before him. And he will answer from within

  45. and say, do not trouble me. The door is now shut,

  46. and my children now with me in bed, I cannot

  47. rise and give to you. I say to you, though

  48. he will not rise and give to him because he's

  49. his friend.

  50. Yet because of.

  51. His persistence, he will rise and give him as many

  52. as he needs. Now, so I say to you, ask,

  53. and it will be given to you. Sick, and you

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

  55. For everyone who asks red, and he will six fights.

  56. And to him who knocks, it will be open. Verse eleven.

  57. If a son asks for bread from any further among you,

  58. only give him a stone. Or if he asks for

  59. a fish, only give him a second instead of a

  60. fish twelve, Or if he asks for an egg, only

  61. over him a scorpion thirteen.

  62. If you, then, being.

  63. Able, know how to give good gifts to your children,

  64. how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy

  65. Spirit to.

  66. Those who ask him a man.

  67. So now let's go back to verse one, and then

  68. let's speak up and some of the lessons that we

  69. have already learned, and then we would add up to eight.

  70. And now it came.

  71. To pass as he was praying in a certain place,

  72. when he sees one of his disciples said to him, Lord,

  73. teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.

  74. And then we said that lets you or the enterprise

  75. of prayer is something that we have to learn. A

  76. man god gees ask his children how to pray. Jesus

  77. Christ was asked or implored by his disciples to take them,

  78. just like John had done to his disciples. And even

  79. though Jesus Christ is not currently present with us, remember

  80. he has left his spirit with us and for you

  81. and I as believers, the Holy Spirit comes to take

  82. center stage in our lives and comes alongside of us

  83. throughout our journey or pilgrimage with Jesus Christ. And so

  84. just like the disciples asks Jesus to teach them how

  85. to pray, it behooves us to also teach or asked

  86. the Holy Spirit to teach us how to pray. Harleeluier

  87. a man and the Holy Spirit. Remember Jesus taught in

  88. John fourteen through to sixteen that he is giving us

  89. our teacher, He's giving us an advocate, He's given us

  90. a comforter, and he will teach us a man. And

  91. in line with that, we have looked at the persistence

  92. in prayer. We looked at corporate prayer when we looked

  93. at the story of Peter and the jail break that

  94. the Holy Spirit organized for him when he was putting

  95. chains and then locked up by King Herod planning to

  96. kill him after the Passover ceremony in Acts chapter twelve.

  97. But the Bible says, the church prayde we have seen

  98. the power of prayer. The church prade, and God sent

  99. this angel and organized the jail break and got Peter

  100. out Hallelujah. We also looked at the power behind individual

  101. spraying Hallelujah a man, bold carriageous individuals. And we read

  102. through the story of Anna Hallelujah a man how that

  103. for a long time she had been trusting God for

  104. the fruit of the woman someway. Somehow God had delayed it,

  105. and she kept on coming and coming. And on one

  106. day when they went from one of the Jewish festivals

  107. in Shiloh, energized, probably prompted by the Holy Spirit, she

  108. just put her food aside and marched Hallelujah to the Temple.

  109. And there the Bible said, she poured out her heart

  110. to God. And she indeed even went into you know,

  111. a vow and an agreement to God that God, if

  112. you give me a man child, I'm going to ensure

  113. that I'm going to train him in such a way

  114. and I'm going to bring him such that all the

  115. days of his life he will be committed and dedicated

  116. to you. And God said, you can have him. I

  117. can also have a true prophet. God was looking for

  118. a prophet in Israel, and I was able to do that,

  119. and God and.

  120. Ited heir desires.

  121. It coincided with God's timeline when the prophet that God

  122. was planning all along in Israel so that he could

  123. get rid of bothening finishers. And they are condescending that

  124. Elie the priest God was able to do that haln

  125. Louiah in May. And then we also saw last Wednesday,

  126. we looked at the story of the syoh phonician woman

  127. who you know, get crashed into Jesus' presence and then

  128. we said she.

  129. Didn't even have a formulas. She didn't.

  130. She just came and they said, I'm not going to

  131. allow you to rest. And even when the disciples were

  132. trying to drive her away.

  133. She wouldn't go.

  134. Even when Jesus Christ was trying to tell her that

  135. your time has no and when I look on my timeline,

  136. your prayers are not you. The healing of your your

  137. demonized child cannot pray and be aned. And she persisted

  138. that no, yes, healing may belong to the children of God,

  139. but even the dogs that eat and take the cramps

  140. are the children's table, are entitled to a certain form

  141. of blessing. And because of her persistence, that's what the

  142. Bible say, because of her persistence, And we looked at

  143. this in context or in connection with we putting ourselves

  144. up to intercede for our loved ones who may not

  145. be in a situation to pray for themselves. So this

  146. very bold, courageous and daring woman get crashed into Jesus

  147. and the disciples where they were hoping to take some rest,

  148. and was able to persuade Jesus.

  149. Christ to.

  150. Also release the blessing that she desired or that deliver,

  151. and that she saw much desire for her child. Hallelujah Amen.

  152. So like we said, yes, and we are going through

  153. a very very structured form of prayer as Jesus taught

  154. his disciples. But nonetheless, any time anyway we can always

  155. you know, get crashed into the presence of God and

  156. make our case for God to intervene in the situations

  157. that concerns our life.

  158. Hallelujah. Amen.

  159. So now we can go to verse two. So that's

  160. this one now in verse two, and we are learning

  161. he said, so after he asks them, or the disciples

  162. asked Jesus Christ to teach them how to pray. The

  163. Bible says, so he's set to them, so he said

  164. to them, And we are saying that with the same truth,

  165. God is ever willing to teach us all how to pray.

  166. And the fact that He oblige this hamble requests reinforces

  167. the idea that prayer should not just beat spontaneous to

  168. the believer's life. Halleluiah, a man for it to become

  169. spontaneous to the believers like or work with God if

  170. you hope to have effective prayer lives a man. Prayer

  171. is an art. It's a skill that is developed when

  172. we commit to studying the word of God just so

  173. we can know God better. Halleluiah, and living out the word.

  174. We are saying again without the adequate knowledge of God.

  175. Because reading, our studying, our way, applying those truths in

  176. our life helps us to get to know God so

  177. that in the place of prayer we can pray meaningful

  178. prayers and impactful prayers. Hallely Louiah A man, very very

  179. and it's a skill. We master it through constant practice.

  180. The more and more you pray and steady the way,

  181. the more and more you get to know the likes

  182. the dislikes of God, the prayers that you pray that

  183. would probably touch the heart of God, and probably elliss

  184. sit and answer, hallly Luiah. If you don't know the

  185. word of God, I'm afraid you will keep on asking

  186. about frivolous things that God may not hanner because it's

  187. not in his will for any of his children.

  188. Halleluiah, Amen.

  189. And if you are not careful, unanswered prayer can be

  190. a very, very, very big disincentive to prayer. Our prayers

  191. must be had, and our prayers must be answered. But

  192. we might spray in the will of God, and that

  193. will of God is revealed in the word of God.

  194. Halleluiah, A man.

  195. We always say in the school of prayer, whence you

  196. get born again, you will be sealed by the Holy Spirit.

  197. And this Holy spirit enrose all the children of God

  198. into the school of the prayer of or the school

  199. of prayer where the Holy Spirit giving us our teacher

  200. and our master is going to coach us. Hallelujah, a

  201. man and let or teach us the ways of God.

  202. And there's no day of graduation for any one.

  203. Of us in all the disciplines that we need to

  204. do or need to know to be effective. Ambassardors of Jesus,

  205. you're on hearth, hallelujah. So a pastor, you can't say

  206. that after HPIP then you go back. No, that's why

  207. we've been doing it, halle Luiah, year by year, even

  208. as God.

  209. Leaves and guides us. Halenluier. Amen.

  210. So no one, no one gets to graduate in your

  211. prayer life past these deacons, apostles, profess or share Sunday

  212. school children, students, teachers, Halenluier. We must all learn how

  213. to pray, and we must pace ourselves for a lifetime

  214. of prayers.

  215. Say a big amen.

  216. When you become the CEO, you don't stop praying because

  217. you have now a CEO, Halleluier. When you get a

  218. lot of degrees and qualifications, it doesn't entitle you that

  219. you should stop praying. If you're a child, of God

  220. or God starts giving you a fat salary doesn't mean

  221. that you should stop praying. Then it means that you

  222. never understood the place of prayer. Hallelujah. It is not

  223. about titles, It is not about money. It all has

  224. to do with finding the will of God at any

  225. particular time in our walks, in our walk and in

  226. our adventure with Him. And that is for a lifetime. Hallelujah.

  227. You never we will never know God here fully on

  228. this earth. Halenlujah.

  229. That's why I.

  230. Said the more you read the word, the more you

  231. study the word, the more you get breakthroughs in prayer, the.

  232. More it drives you to your knees in prayer.

  233. So you get one or two prayers or breakthrough and

  234. you stop praying, that it means you never understood it.

  235. Hallelujah. The same aggression that we are now that we

  236. know nothing, we.

  237. Are aggressive towards God or before God looking for breakthrough

  238. the same aggressiveness should go on in all our work

  239. and adventures with Him. It because you will learn that

  240. the adventures with God, if you like, they increase.

  241. That's why it.

  242. Helps us exercise our mascles of faith. They say, the

  243. higher you go, is it the tougher it becomes hallelujah.

  244. So more breakthroughs in me, the more challenges. And we

  245. must stay on our knees and pray. Hallelujah. So God knows,

  246. even God knows he's waiting for us. And he said,

  247. when you pray, He says, when you pray, because I

  248. know you will pray. And we said, we look at

  249. him himself, even on the cross, he was praying until

  250. he exited this.

  251. World, halenlujah.

  252. And on our death base we should be found praying,

  253. say at begetting mad, halleluiah. And now then the next

  254. thing that he now takes, he say, when you pray,

  255. say our father, who at in heaven? Hallelujah. So God

  256. now introduces very very important and points here that maybe

  257. we'll just stay here and then learn a few things

  258. about the fatherhood of God. Hallelujah.

  259. Amen.

  260. Jesus wants his disciples to see God just like any

  261. every dad.

  262. Hallelujah.

  263. In Jewish culture, and I believe many cultures, Fatherwood was

  264. key or is key for the holistic development of every child.

  265. Amen. Even now, hallelujah.

  266. The psychologists will tell you that children who grew up

  267. without their dad's being home, because dad's represented authority figures.

  268. They were supposed to help their children in theirmoral and

  269. spiritual training. Hallelujah, a man. They were supposed to be

  270. there as protector. They were supposed to be there as provider.

  271. They were supposed to be there permanently, coming alongside their

  272. children and helping them to navigate the challenges and the

  273. complexities of life. Why because they have been there and

  274. they have experience, and they can impart these experiences to

  275. their children.

  276. Hallelujah amen.

  277. And they were also supposed to be their teacher and

  278. their mentor. That's why everybody sees is that just like Hercules, Halenelujah,

  279. my father can't do anything at all. Halenelujah. Every child

  280. sees their dad as tough, tough guy because of the

  281. way children were seeing. So then the dad was supposed

  282. to be teacher or supposed to mentor, and as I said,

  283. the authority and figure in their lives.

  284. Hallelujah amen.

  285. And Jesus wants us, you know, to begin to wrap

  286. our minds about us, particularly those of us who benefited there.

  287. I know there are a lot of us here outside

  288. and throughout the Kingdom of God who never because we

  289. live in a disfunctional well, a lot of us who

  290. never had the benefit of experiencing proper fatherhood.

  291. Amen.

  292. So, and sometimes this concept teaching it don't register immediately.

  293. I'm not saying they should be absent. They don't register

  294. immediately because soon after we get born again, God steps

  295. in and whatever deficits or gods are there, God is

  296. prepared to teach us as we read, as we study

  297. the Bible, Harlene lujah.

  298. Indeed, in the Kingdom of God.

  299. That's why he said, God them, you'll find Apostle Paul

  300. in these letters, particularly to the physians, helping us to

  301. know that our pastors and the leadership they serve us

  302. if you like these figures in our lives. So he says,

  303. talks about fathers in the church. We have mothers in church.

  304. We have big brothers, big sisters you know in church,

  305. and peers in church. And they are all so that

  306. we can picture the Church of God.

  307. Just like any family setting. Hallelujah.

  308. And we should give them reverence as they undertake their job.

  309. If you don't undertake your job, then you don't earn it, hallelujah.

  310. They may not too long ago.

  311. In recent past, we've had to deal or cancel or

  312. hear the story of people who have lost their parents,

  313. their dads specifically, and these dads never played any role

  314. in their lives because they were literally absent until the

  315. I don't lie. Some of them says they tried approaching

  316. the dad pushed them back and I don't want to

  317. have anything to do with you. And some way, somehow

  318. God stepped in, and some way some are God. When

  319. we say God stepped in, God will use other people,

  320. you know, to mentor you to take or play that role.

  321. And now these people now are playing or if you

  322. like them, have matured and and now this biological appearance.

  323. Or dads die and.

  324. People are insisting they should go for the funeral and

  325. go and hander them. And they said, as much, inas

  326. much as I would like to do that, because I'm

  327. a child of God, there is no connection. It's very difficult.

  328. You know, I can go there. But I could just

  329. speak the word and say that, but.

  330. It's not there.

  331. If I decided that I'm going to write a tribute

  332. because I'm a child or they are, there's nothing to

  333. write because I never experienced him. I said that maybe

  334. if I decided to write it. Do all be bitterness

  335. and anger and all that you know? So we said, okay,

  336. we understand you. Halen Lujah. Amen.

  337. Amen, is the same thing.

  338. Amen, if you have not experienced the love of God

  339. and the mentorship of God and the father would of God,

  340. this thing that Jesus is thained that when you come

  341. to the place of prayer you should say our Father,

  342. you you find it very difficult to connect with. Wasn't yesterday?

  343. A couple of days ago I had another daughter sending

  344. in her sending me on my God. I asked that

  345. everybody should write any and some of them are sharing

  346. with me Halene Loujah.

  347. And as I.

  348. Read through once again, I asked the first one I

  349. read through and the second one as I was reading

  350. through and they were sharing their their story and and

  351. about God his Father, would how God has been not

  352. just their God? And the common thread was seen and

  353. recognizing the fatherhood of God and sharing truth that I

  354. could connect with and everyone who has enjoyed the Father

  355. of God when you hear the stories as similar.

  356. When nobody was there, God stepped in.

  357. And even when we thought we thought that we were

  358. alone without God, and now that we have come to God.

  359. Now we are seeing that, oh so all along. That's

  360. the thing about the Father would of God, that when

  361. you come into relationship and connect through the legal means

  362. that God has spelt out for us all to be

  363. able to come back home and connect with God, our Dad.

  364. God has always been our father in ages past, even

  365. when we did not know him.

  366. Halenelujah.

  367. He said he knew us even before the foundations of

  368. the world. The common thread, I hope. I wish that

  369. I had known him earlier. That's all they all say.

  370. I wish that I had come home earlier. But even

  371. now what I am enjoying the Father would of God

  372. that I'm enjoying. I look back and I am able

  373. to see God's hands and favor all along in my life.

  374. That is why even the apostle Paul, we see that

  375. that he knew that God knew him before.

  376. The foundations of the world. Hallelujah. Amen.

  377. Remember with the other they were sharing this, and this

  378. is true. I want to share realitreated there are three

  379. tiers of blessings in life, and said three tiers or

  380. three four blessings in life. Number one we said it, hallelujah.

  381. Where God as Creator is responsible for all humankind, and

  382. these blessings are coming from God, the Father would of

  383. God see it. God as Creator is responsible for all

  384. human our welfare, hallelujah, and all irrespective of our current

  385. relationship with him. God still sees us as his children

  386. say a big ay man to that. That's why the

  387. Bible says that He allows his reins to fall on

  388. the just and the unjust, those who are not Him,

  389. and they don't under him, they are entitled to a

  390. certain tear of blessing that God has put in place

  391. for all humankind. Whether you're insulting or you don't insulting,

  392. whether you mess up your life, whether you're a rebel,

  393. you are a criminal, whatever, God has a certain blessing

  394. for all humankind, and those blessings are there to entice

  395. you to come home, so that when we come home

  396. and get into the relationship, be reconnected with God in

  397. the relationship. Then we move to tia two blessings. Hallelujah, Amen,

  398. and that tear two blessings, this is.

  399. What we will.

  400. Jesais say that the devil comes to still kill and

  401. to destroy, But I have come that you may have

  402. life and to have abandoned life in Tier two and blessings,

  403. it is for all the children of God, all those

  404. who have come back home and reconnected with God and

  405. are now seeing God.

  406. That's their Dad, our father in heaven. Hallelujah. That also

  407. brings a certain truth. Let me just cut off before

  408. we come to.

  409. Theater three that for all of us, Amen, particularly those

  410. of us who belong today Kingdom of God, will experience

  411. or we are entitle to or year mark. Maybe let

  412. me use the word year mark for two Beth say

  413. amen to that Birth number one is the natural best

  414. that we all experience, and Beth number two is the

  415. born again experience that we receive or experience as children

  416. of God. Hallelu In Beth number one we get bathed

  417. into the natural world. In Beth number two we get

  418. delivered or bath into the spiritual and the heavenly world.

  419. These are the teachings and that so we can connect

  420. well how the Father would of God comes in.

  421. Hallelujah. Amen. In Beth number one, and that.

  422. We all experience, everybody experience, our parents are responsible for that.

  423. In Beth number two, in the Kingdom of God, God

  424. the Father is responsible for that.

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