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Proverbs in the Old Testament. In Proverbs fifteen, verse eight,

now I put the scripture up, okay, because today a

little bit more scripture. Okay, So hence there's not one

long text. But please turn to your bibles with me. Okay.

You bought your bibles alone, yes, okay, So why I

say turned to your Bible. Maybe I accidentally type wrongly,

or you have a different version, and you can learn

from both of the versions. Okay. So the scripture that

I'm showing will be mainly all from the New Living Translation,

but sometimes I will use the New King James, and

I'll indicate that. Okay. So let's do a Proverbs fifteen,

verse eight, it says the Lord detests the sacrifice of

the wicked, but he delights in the prayers of the upright. Now,

I'm not so much talking about the first part of

the verse, but I'm mainly speaking on the second part.

He delights in the prayers of the upright. Do you

know that you are upright seated today here in the

presence of God because of what Jesus has done amen,

not that we deserve it, but he in him, we

have been made upright, immed. And because we are upright,

he delights in your prayer. Now, do you know the

word delight is a strong word, indicates a strong pleasure,

a keen interest. That means Jesus, God is very interested

in your prayer. Okay, good news, isn't it? Good news? Okay?

God is very interested in your prayer. But that's of

course if you are upright, and we are all upright

here again by the grace and by the blood Jesus, immen,

we are upright when we are sincere, when we come

to God with prayer, he delights in our prayer. He

loves to hear us. Immen. Now, So there's the Old Testament.

Now going to the New Testament. We also have many scripture,

and all of it I will quote. One is what

Jesus say, okay, emphasizing that God wants to us to pray.

So there is also action on outside that we must

pray like okay, pray and he wants us to receive

what we pray for. So that is the review. Let

mess our God. It's not hiding it from us. No,

it's a secret. No, he revealed it to us. The

will of God for every believer is that we should

pray and that we should receive. Now why do I

say this because it's found in God's word. Now let's

look at gospels. So we're going to go from Matthew

to Mark to John. Okay, okay, So from Matthew. So

the first gospel in the Gospel of Matthew, chapter seven,

verse seven to eight. Now we're going to capture the

words of Jesus. But remember the gospels are all written

by different people, right, so different decip different ones capture

what Jesus said, maybe from a different perspective, and we

put it all together and we can see it all. Right.

So Matthew seven, verse seven to eight is Jesus said,

keep on asking and you will receive what you ask for.

Keep on seeking and you're fine. Keep on knocking and

the door will be open to you. You notice it

is very specific. Jesus didn't say ask one timer, and

it's not asking or just not one time, but it's

the He emphasized the keeping on That means there's a

continuously asking, a continuously seeking and knocking. And then he

somewhat added on my chum. In case you not clear,

let me give you the punchlinea verse eight for everyone

and everyone increases you and I everyone okay, who asks receives,

everyone who seeks finds, and to everyone who knocks, the

door will be opened. Now. Notice here in two verses

any negative statement, any butts no, I would say six times,

although it's repeated, but it's six times like a show.

Hello the If you don't get me, I'm telling you

six times six times. Jesus is telling us God wants

you to pray. Of course, by he also wants you

to receive what you pray for. Amen. Hallelujah is good news. Amen.

If it is courage today, be encouraged today. Hallelujah. Now

moving on in Metthiu So Methil a few chapters after,

in Mattel twenty one so chapter twenty one, Verse twenty two,

Jesus said, you can pray for anything, and if you

have faith, you will receive it. Thank you, Jesus. Hallelujah.

So simple. One line may be read, Okay, if you

can pray for anything and if you have faith you

will receive it. Jesus is directly straight to the point.

No foulhafu high here one. Okay. Now we look at

another gospel, okay, the Gospel of Mark, chapter eleven, verse

twenty four. And I feel this one is a direct

parallel verse to the one we read in Mattew twenty one.

It says, in Mark eleven twenty four, I tell you

you can pray for anything, and if you believe that

you have received it, it will be yours. So it

also explains what it means to have faith. Okay, So

if you have faith, that means you believe that you

have received it will be your Amen, Church a man, Amen, Church, Amen,

Amen to God's word. Not to mean I'm not I say. Okay.

Now let's look into the Gospel of John and see

what the apostle John wrote. So you saw what written

the Mark Matthew. Now John chapter fourteen, verse thirteen to fourteen.

Thank you. You can ask for anything in my name,

same thing, different authors, by the way, same thing, And

I would do it, Jesus said, so that Ah. But

God added on stuff here okay, to let us understand

sometimes the purpose and how and some of Okay, Now

where am I getting to is there are conditions? Now, okay,

there are certain conditions that needs to be met as well.

All right, So they are letting us in so that

the Son, as in the Son of God, can bring

glory to the Father. Amen. Verse fourteen. Yes, ask me

for anything in whose name, not my name, not your name,

in Jesus's name, and I will do it. So you

can see a few points here. Is to glorify God

is to ask in his name. John fifteen. One chapter

after that, Jesus continue the talk. Just thought the Lord

very good, very good, not in a bad way. Okay.

But if you remain in me hahah, and my words

remain in you John fifteen, you may ask for anything

you want and it will be granted because some more

conditions and all you must remain in God and allow

God's work to remain in earth. Amen. Now last one,

at least for now, John sixteen. Not a chapter again.

Verse twenty four. Jesus say, you haven't done this before,

ask using my name, and you will receive. And then

he didn't stop there, but did he say, and you

will have abandoned joy. That is the God that we serve. Hallelujah.

You're excited. I'm excited that. So I was telling the

am Church when I was preparing this. I strugg go

at the beginning. I stull get the longest at the beginning.

You know why? It's so simple? And yet God was

asking me, Joe, do you really believe that I'm hearing

your prayer? Because sometimes I admit, right, we pray, but

we don't think God really hears our prayer. One, but

we feel we have to pray. That it's our job,

our duty to pray. But never my lo, God, if

you don't hear me, never mind, No, it's not never mind.

God wants to hear a prayer. Amen, amen, but just me,

I confess, all right. Then it's a reminder, Jode, I

hurt you. I will take care of you. Don't worry,

okay for example? All right? Yes, so yes, so amen.

So Jesus challenged us. But you know this, God got

action on outside on every time it's got us ask

us want to pray, pray, prayer that it's not like

you just sit there doing nothing and then give okay,

there's also action on outside. All right, But isn't it

wonderful to know that the creator of the whole universe

is interested in our prayer and he is waiting to

answer our prayer. Amen. Okay, So just from the just

from these few verses, it's definitely not only this, but

just from these few verses, I drove out a few points. Firstly,

we have to ask next night, thank you xtiv. We

have to ask, and then we have to have faith.

And then it was explained in two of the Gospels,

meaning we have to believe that we have received Amen.

And then we have to ask in Jesus's name. And

then I put record right purpose that mis Your purpose

of you asking is so that the Father will be glorified, Amen,

and that we will have abundant joy. You see how

God never leave us out w I know Cau also

care that you have abundant joy. Amen. God is a

good God. Amen. Amen. So what is so the question

would be what is the motive of our prayer? What

is the motive that's acceptable to God? It is that

God may be glorified? And do you know why God

wants to answer our prayer? Because He will be glorified

when He answers our prayer. Amen. So the more we

claim God's promises, the more God will be glorified. Amen.

And the last point we have to remain in Jesus

and have His word remain in us halleliah Imen. But

this is just an introduction, okay, and I won't be

talking about this maybe part two if I ever speak again,

lentity if I well, no worries, okay, but maybe eight am.

I will continue. But today, following our here, I first

of all, I want to establish this as an introduction

because I will go into some principles and some conditions

for effective prayer. I will just touch on three points today.

But even as we go into that, let us not forget,

as I said, now that we look into God's word,

that we believe that God hears our prayer, imen, and

that God wants to answer our prayer. Amen. So on

that premises we will go on in our message today,

will be good tend to the church. Yes, that God

really wants us to pray, and God really hears us,

and he really wants to answer our prayer. Amen. I'm

going to go to three basic principles or conditions for

approaching God in prayers so that our prayer will be effective.

Do you want your prayer to be effective? I want

my prayer to be effective, Amen. So I'll just touch

on treatings. Firstly, I summarize first, so that I give

you the whole view. First. It's a very typical good

thing I am. And today we're gonna achieve. Okay, okay,

you want to. We should approach God with praise and thanksgiving. Amen.

We should approach God without condemnation, and we will look

into God's word. And we need to approach God with

right relationships so that our prayers will not be hindered,

our prayers will be answered. Amen. Are we ready? Yes?

We are ready? All right? Come, So the first one

we need to approach God, we praise and thanksgiving. So

now we all know, and I'm sure we all heard

this message before. We don't praise God based on our feelings.

We praise God because of the truth of who he is. Amen.

And because He is God and he doesn't change his goodness,

his mercy and yours forever that we sung just now,

that's why we will always have a reason to praise

Him and thank Him. So the praising and thanking God

is not dependent on our situation, our circumstances, or our feelings. Meaning,

if your boss is nice to you, then you praise God.

What's not nice to you, then you don't pray God

so it's not dependent on that. So we go into

another realm where we are writing on the truth of

God's love, meaning that's who God is. I praise God

because God is good regardless of what is going on

about me, and I'm sure we all know that, all right. Yeah,

So we don't praise God based on the things that

are happening. Now, if we don't do that, because the

word of God, which I will bring us later on,

we will see that the way to access to God

is the way of praise and thanksgiving, and there's no

other way, all right. So if we don't come to

God we pray and thanksgiving, we will be praying. So

we're talking about prayer now, we will be praying from Afar.

And that's why sometimes maybe we feel like God is

very distant from us. All right. So let's look at

Psalms hundred. Now some hundreds is a very famous sum,

and usually worship leaders I like to, you know, we

declare this some at the start because it's correct, it's

biblically correct, and we've got to come into what His

gates with thanksgiving, isn't it. So let's look adverse. For

in Psalms hundred, it says, enter his gates with thanksgiving,

go into his courts, praise, give thanks to him, and

praise his name. So what is the gate here? What's

the gate thanksgiving? Now? How do you enter? Any you enter?

Or the dollar? So in other words, like the dollar.

All right, the door or the gate is thanksgiving. Now

you don't climb over the fence, right, the climb over

the fans are who thieves? And all? Okay, we are

children of God right now we don't know, so we

go to the gate. So the gate is thanksgiving, and

the cord of access into God's presence is praise. Hallelujah.

In the word of God. The gate is thanksgiving. The

cord of access is praise. So if you don't come

with thanks and praise, we actually don't have access into

the process of God. So sometimes you may say that,

how come I don't feel the presence of God because

you never come to the gate? Law, okay, the gate

is thanksgiving? All right? Yeah, all right? And you may

feel lonely. You may feel lonely. You feel like, oh,

I won't do my quiet time, but I don't feel

like I don't feel God is here. Maybe you haven't

entered the gate all right, okay, so you got to enter,

all right. And sometimes we do feel lonely, we do

feel shut off, we feel we move, we feel God

is far away from us. But that's when we should

begin to praise and to thank him. Amen. And do

you know that the petition part, that your prayer part,

the asking part, doesn't take very long because God already

know your needs. So that's why God always teaches us

you go first with praise and thanksgiving. Then you then

when you come right into the process of God. Huh,

you give up all you give your by the time

you want to pray by you're like Jesus, I know

you would do it all for me. True or not,

it happens to all of us. Amen. Amen. So it's

going into that relationship with God first where we know

that then whatever you pray God, here's your prayer. Amen,

and God will do it. Amen. And we pray according

to His will. Now New Testament. So that was Psalm

hundred and four. Now Philippians for six and some of

us can memorize this or so what does it say?

Don't worry? All right? So Philippines for six says, don't

worry about anything. This is a new living transition in

the new King, James will be be anxious of nothing. Instead,

pray about everything. Tell God what you need and thank him.

That means that even before you get your answer, you

are thanking the Lord for all that he has done.

All right, Amen, So never withhold the thanksgiving part. And

as we begin to thank God for who he is

for what he has already done, faith will arise naturally

in our hearts even before we even pray for our needs. Amen.

So again I conclude this for this point. The means

of access to God, or the only way into His presence,

is the way of thanksgiving and praise. So enter into

his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts we praise.

So before we can begin our petitions, always take time

to thank and to praise God. So my question for

us today have we did this morning when we worship together?

Of course, yeah, we worship, you know this morning? Have

we entered into His presence? You could to ask ourselves

the I really enter into His presence? Amen? And I pray.

My prayer is that all of us every Sunday when

we come together as a body of Christ, but of

course individually in your marketplace, in your room daily. That's

what really comes actually here. But here you got people

to pray together with you and worship together with you.

Do it right now, I feel and one day I

one Sunday, I miss Sunday. I feel the difference on

know then you go back to your Monday to Saturday.

Oh yo, how I miss the Sunday because you are

gathering together with the body of Christ. Imen. So every

time we come together, come into God's presence. Immen amen.

So that's the first point. We approach God in prayer

with praise and thanksgiving right now. Moving on, we approach

God in prayer without condemnation. Okay. So in other words,

we have to approach God boldly. Now I want to

refer us to some sixty six. Okay, some city six. Now,

some sexy six. I'm not too sure who's the author.

It could be King David. It may not be him,

but somehow it did not indicate it was him. It

could be it sounds like him. Okay. Now, let's read

verse eighteen in Psalm sixty six. The Psalmi said, if

I had not confessed the sin in my heart, the

Lord would not have listened. Okay. So this is the

new living translation in the New King James. Maybe some

of you are more familiar. If I regard iniquity in

my heart, the Lord, we're not here. So what does

it mean if I regard iniquity in my heart, or

if I don't confess the sin in my heart? It

just means that I'm coming to God. But I'm conscious.

I'm conscious of in my heart of something that condemns me. Okay.

And every time I try to approach God with faith,

Satan will come and remind me of this thing that

is not right, and that you have not dealt this,

with this, with that, with that, but sin. Maybe that

you have not confessed, or you or even if you

have confessed, you have not claim and received forgiveness from God. Amen. Now,

So I'm conscious of this thing in my heart all

the time. And if I come and this is what

we call a guilty conscious okay, So you come to

God with this condemnation, we will not receive the answer

to our prayers, it says in God's word. All right,

So we must first remove this consciousness of sin from

our hearts, and this can only be done by faith.

So I want to turn us to first John one nine.

It's one of my favorite verses because it helps us

claim and shut off the voice of the enemy, all right,

that will constantly come and accuse us. Imen. Now so

because when we confess our seeing the Scripture says what

in first John one nine, if we confess our saying,

he's faithful and he's just to forgive us our sins

and doesn't stop there, you know, Church, to cleanse us

from all unrighteousness in New King James or wickedness. Wickedness

here just means any deviation from the will of God,

any disobedience in our hearts, all right, not in full

obedience to God, you know? And what and sin is

a sin? Okay? So anything, but it covers everything in

this verse. Amen? Amen? And what we need to do?

What is the ax on our part? Confess our sins

to the Lord? Now why the Lord? But saying oh

if I wrong, conscin, I say sorry to correct fellow men.

To men, we also need to say apologize, we make

right spouse, husband and wife, children, parents? But do you

know who you ultimately sin? God? How do we know?

David said it in Psalms fifty one. I believe yes,

it's against you and you only have I seen you

only you know. So actually, yes, you sin against your brother,

your sister, but actually you're sinning against God. So it's

God that you need to make right with. Amen. Amen.

But when we confess it, when we repent, So there's

the confession and the repentance part here, Okay, God will

forgive us, God will cleanse us. Amen Amen. And we

cannot do anything about the sin problem. So I say

again except to confess it, to repent and say God,

I will not do this anymore. Just like King David,

he repented and then trust God. So the moment you

confess you repented, you trust God for the forgiveness and

the cleansing that he has promised. And when you receive

a D, receive a D. Don't go about worrying about

your sins anymore, okay, because if we remain conscious, are

conscious about our sin when we pray God, it will

hinder our prayer, immen. So that's what it means. Okay. Now,

the beautiful thing about this sum is that let's read on. Okay,

So some sixty six. Now I'll go a little bit

forward to verse sixteen, and then after that again backward

and forward. So verse sixteen the Psalmi said, come and listen,

all you who fear God. And I believe I'm speaking

to hearts this morning who fear the Lord. Amen. We

sincerely fear God. We want to walk upright with the Lord, immen.

And the Sami said, I will tell you what he

did for me verse seventeen. For I cried out to

him for help, praising him as I spoke. And this

is the first point. We just say, as you cry out,

you must praise the Lord. Amen. Amen. Verse eighteen. We

just read just now. If I had not confessed the

sin in my heart, the Lord would not have listened

verse nineteen. But God did listen. Amen. He paid attention

to my prayer. Praise God who did not ignore my

prayer or withdraw his unfailing love for me. Hallelujah, Jesus.

God is good. Amen. Amen. But this shows us that

you cannot hire anything from God. Okay, your heart will

condemn you. Okay, you wrong? Really, just say sorry to

God and do it with God, you know. Yeah, Meaning

we cannot hire anything from Godd already knows and we

need to come clean before him. Amen a man, hallelujah,

thank you Jesus. Amen. Now I want to read from

first John. Now we read first John one nine just

now right, okay, now we want to read first John tree.

Now this talks about the heart not and the condemnation

the heart, okay, which is very important. So let's read

First John three twenty. What does it says here, For

if our heart condemns us another hallelujah versa, God is

greater hallelujah. God is greater than our heart, and he

knows all things. So if our heart condemns us, God

is greater. Amen. So we don't have to hide anything

from God. God already knows what we need to do.

Here is church. We need to be open, We need

to be honest with him. We need to be sincere.

We need to confess every sin, every transgression, every thought,

every shortcoming that you know that has hurt God, has

sin against him or others. And then once it's confessed,

once we dealt with it, let's receive and accept complete forgiveness,

complete cleansing. Then we can come to God without condemnation.

A man church a man. On verse chapter three, verse twenty,

we're gonna read on verse twenty one and twenty two.

It says, dear friends, so when you don't feel guilty.

So if we don't feel guilty, after we set to everything,

we can come to God with bold confidence. Amen. Church.

So this is what it means to come to God

with both confidence, the confidence that comes from being forgiven

and being cleansed by God. Amen. And then what verse

twenty two. Hallelujah our prayer? Right? Okay, And we will

what we see from Him whatever we ask, because we

obey Him and we do the things that please him. Amen. Wow,

Thank you Jesus. Amen. God is good. Hallelujah. Amen. Amen.

So we know when we come to God, after we

as settle everything, God hears us, and we will receive

all that because we work in the obedience to Him. Amen.

Now so we read from first John. Now we're going

to go to Hebrews for a short while. Can you

follow me? Are you still doing? Okay? Turn to your

neighbors and say are you okay? Turn the gener neighbors.

Stay awake all right, don't worry. We're getting to the

end day, okay. Hebrews. Now Hebrews chapter four, verse sixteen.

Then later we go to Hebrews ten. Just a quick one.

This is you hear us. You hear these verses a

very famous verse. All right, but we want to talk

about coming into the presence of God. And even as

you pray every day in your prayer closet, in your

quiet time, this is how we should approach God. Amen.

So in verse sixteen, in chapter four, the author of

Hebrews wrote, so let us come boly. Can you see

the why come bowly? Now, come bodly to the throne

of our gracious God. Now in the New King James,

he says, let us come bowly onto the throne of grace.

There we will receive his mercy and we will find

grace to help us when we need it. Most awesome.

God is awesome, Hallelijah. So remember it is a throne

of grace that we are coming to now. So we

come to a throne of grace, not based on merit. No,

because it's traun of grace. Day. They miss trying and

tell you you men man don't deserve the men mon okay.

The ma man is the word. I like this word.

I don't know of any other English word that will

that will give the same meaning of men moan. It's

me maha men monk okay. I don't know how to

say any other way. Okay, Okay, So it's me moan

you men man, we men, man not deserving. Okay, So

it's a trone of grace. So we come not on

the basis of merit, but we come in the name

of Jesus. We come with So back to point number one,

we come, we approach God in prayer to the throne

of Grace, with praise and thanksgiving for who he is.

Can you see how it all links together? Because it's

me man, what He has done for us? Right? And

we come without condemnation. We dealt with everything, we confess,

we repent right, and we come boldly because God has

called earth to come and he's there sitting on the

throne of Grace. Amen. Now let's turn to Hebrews chapter ten, right,

verse nineteen to twenty two, And so, dear brothers and sisters,

we can boldly enter Heaven's most holy place because of

the blood of Jesus. Now I'm not sure I appreciate

this here, but I think, am Church, we thought about

the most holy place basically is the presence of God. Amen.

We can come right into the presence of God without

anybody to sacrifice animal anymore for us a day through

the blood of Jesus, Amen, verse nineteen, verse twenty by

his death, So it's all about Jesus. Amen. Jesus opened

a new and life giving way to the curtain into

the most holy place verse twenty one. And since we

have a great high priest and there's Jesus who rules

over God's house verse twenty two, let us what Let's

go right into hallelujah, right into the presence of God.

That's my question to us this morning, myself, this morning,

have we gone right into the presence of God today?

As you worship? We sincere hearts fully trusting Him for

our guilty consciences have been sprinkled with Christ's blood, basically

covered by the blood of Jesus. Amen, Amen, to make

us clean, and our bodies have been washed with pure water. Church.

Do we know that that we can come boldly into

His presence? Amen? Amen. So don't ever let condemnations stop you,

because it's one of the greatest enemy to answer prayer.

Because we feel condemned, we won't even pray right now.

We feel like, oh, we can't pray. We don't even

deserve the pain. I don't know what to pay. Never,

don't fear praying because we feel so condemnity. Correct, so

it will even stop us at the very first step

right now. Again, I may not be speaking to all

of us. Maybe no, I never feel condemned. I know

you just love me. Okay, very good for you. Okay hah.

Maybe not all of us, but some of us today

definitely myself all right. Yeah. And it depends also maybe

on your makeup, your upbringing, or you not let make up,

they make up your you know you Like some of us,

we desire so much to do it right, make it

right with God. Why not? We want to serve God,

We love God. And sometimes, like you know, you do wrong.

Then I don't know how you deal with mistakes and

wrong Some people say, it's okay, just shove it under

the cupboard. It didn't happen. It didn't happen. It didn't happen.

Some people can one I think it's a gift or so,

But to me, I cannot. I cannot, I cannot. You'll

be right in my face. So the honest it depends also,

I say, the makeup, your makeup, the honesty. I say,

oh God, I did this wrong the first thing. So

sometimes forgive me if I notice what is wrong, because

that's just my natural self. Like I notice a chair

is saying it. Okay, okay, so it's okay. It's not

because of your fault or I don't love you. No, no, no, no no.

All right. Yeah. So but God says, hallelujah, we just

we can come boldly into His presence, Amen, and do

not let condemnations stop us. Now why because it sounds

very humble, Church, it sounds very humble. But do you

know the basis of self condemnation is self righteousness. Okay,

So we've got to come to a place where we

lay aside every attempt to justify ourselves because we justify

ourselves and we don't match up and say we self

condemn la all right, okay, so we've got to put

it aside and say that I receive by faith and

only by faith, right, not the righteousness from Jesus Amen,

that Jesus Christ has imputed on me by faith. So

having said that, as much as I will not worry

about not worry, sorry, yeah, I will not be too

caught up with the things that I do very well

on my merits, I will also not worry about myself

because it's covered by the blood of Jesus. Amen. As

much as I will not parade or be so puffed

up by my good deeds, I will also not be

ashamed by my bad days because it's covered by the

blood of Jesus. As much as I will come boldly

because it is a throne of grace, I will not

analyze my own heart so much until I keep saying

that I'm not good enough for God, because God has

made me write Amen, Amen, I will trust and I

will choose to trust that God, by the blood of Jesus,

he has cleansed me from all sin, and I can

come boldly right to the turne of gaye. Amen. Amen.

And that's the way that God wants us to approach

him in prayer Church. So as we approach prayer, as

we are fasting and praying during this time, let us

draw near with a sincere heart, fully trusting Him. Put

aside our guilty consciences. And if you have any sin,

let's come to God in repentance and allow Him to

forgive us and to cleanse us. Amen. Because a guilty

can will always keep us away from praying. Amen. Amen.

Are we good all right? Now? The last part when

we pray, we also need to approach God with right relationships.

Now do you know in the Lord's Prayer? I'm sure

we all know and we can recite right Mau Chapter

six ver was nine to thirteen, and I pray with

my kids every day Mandy chatter six was nine to thirteen. Amen.

Now do you know inside the Lord's Prayer is a

it has it says, what forgive my dads as I

forgive others? And do you know after my teacherter three,

verse are six, verse nine to thirteen, verse fourteen, and

verse fifteen, Jesus went on to Tamba Dambaro and add

honor to say that if you don't forgive, I'll not

forgive you. He added on someone like as though, if

you don't get me on, let me say very clearly

to you that all right, okay. So this is one

of the things that Jesus had taught us. And I'm

sure we all have heard this before and we all

know that we for that when we pray, we ask

her to forgive us. Well, so we need to forgive others. Amen. Amen. So,

and it just means that in the same proportion that

we forgive others, God will forgive us, Meaning if we

forgive others completely, God will also forgive us completely. If

we forgive others partially, God will also forgive us partially. Okay, hallelujah. Amen.

I don't want God to forgive me partially. I don't

want Okay, I'm sure none of us want to God

to forgive us partially, right, Yeah. But then having said that,

we will need to make that choice to also forgive entirely. Amen.

And one of the reason why sometimes our prayers are

not answered is due to the failure to fully forgive

our fellow brothers and sisters. And I think all of

us can say that all of us have been through

it ourselves as well. Amen. So the question for us

today is are we willing to forgive now? Maybe you

say that, oh, but then you don't understand, joy or

what's joey? I do you don't understand? Or I don't

know if I can do this. It's really hard. You

know what God is gonna say to you or me,

then it's very hard for me to forgive you too. Ouch. Ouch.

If you're like, oh my gosh, God, God can say that, man,

mm hmmm, I don't know what I can forgive though,

then God tell you I don't know what I can

forgive you. So ouch is ouch? Okay? Now I did

this illustration or you're so so okay? And my girls

are not here, I use their names, Okay, we tell

them okay, Okay, they don't know, they don't know, they

don't know. Okay, So I will talk about Marca pan caps,

dirty socks and sticker chants. Okay, okay, we have that slide.

Now an older sister, I call her Adelia, tell us

some mom, mom my sister, and we call her Dora

has forgotten to close the cap of my Marca pen

again for the sake stuff, can you please remove six

of her sticker charts from her six stickers from a

sticker chart. By the way, if you don't know a

sticker chart, it's like a reward chart for kids. They

don't have any morey, no more, last time, last time, God,

then they get reward every time and they do a

good thing, or then they ticking out the sticker if

they did the wrong thing. Okay, So she is demanding

that I the mother, removed six from her sticker chart

because she forgot to close the cab. She deserves it,

Mom said, girl, do you not remember that you have

forgotten to put your dirty socks into the basket for

the sixtieth time yesterday, and I still pick them up

for you. I reminded you. But no consequences. Can't you

give your sister another chance? If not, I would then

need to remove sixty stickers from your sticker chart. If

you want to be given a chance to keep your

sixty stickers, then you forgive her six stickers. Just joking,

all right. So it's just an illustration to see how

patty we can be. And in the Bible, God also

gave us those other parables. Right, we are so patty

and say, but then quanchin, quanchin. But then God will say,

but joy you and I forgive all your see, and

just because he forgot to buy you something, then you

cannot forgive him. Okay. I mean it's as petty as

that now, because we say at this level we joke

about it. But I understand we all go through life

and we get hurt, right, and it's not funny at

the time, not funny, right, not funny okay, But this

is God's law, no matter how hurt you think. But

it's but it's so unfair and so and you know

of so many unjust things that's happening now, right, Okay, imagine,

but God still say forgive though, Okay, So there's no alternative,

not like ways right, alternative route right, don't have Okay,

God say you the measure that you forgive others will

be the measured that you are forgiven. And this is

in the Lord's prayer. Now, if you look at the

Lord's prayer, what's the last partition in verse thirteen? Leaders

not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.

Do you know that the forgiveness part was before this?

So until we forgive, we've got no right to pray. God,

you deliver us from the evil one. And I really

believe the sequence is not by coincidence. There is a purpose. Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen, ah,

not do you mean? Amen? Amen? Jesus alilujah Amen. Okay.

Let's look at Mark right now, Mark eleven, twenty five,

twenty six. Jesus is speaking to his disciples. What did

Jesus say whenever now we're talking about prayer today. We're

talking about prayer, right, Okay, when you whenever you stand praying,

if you have anything against anyone, forgive him so that

your father in Heaven may also forgive you your trespasses.

If I were Jesus, I stopped there. I got it,

got it, Jesus. But Jesus didn't stop there. Okay. I'm

sorry to say that. Okay, But if you do not forgive,

neither were your father in Heaven forgive, your trustpasses. Not

a lot Jesus talk like that one, but the forgiveness

part is very very clear. Okay. So Jesus is speaking

to who when you stand praying. I don't think the

unbelievers will be praying, and you ask your heavenly Father.

So he's talking about you and I. All right, as

believers here today when we pray to our heavenly Father,

when we we cannot approach him in prayer with unforgiveness

in our hearts against anyone. Amen. And before we pray,

we need to forgive now first, Peter, Okay, this one.

Peter is speaking to husbands. Okay, I'm not husband. I

wish a husband easier for me to say, but not

I say one, okay, Peter, Peter, say one? Okay, first

Peter Tree seven, verse seven. It says, in the same way,

you husbands must give honor to your wives treat your

wife with understanding as you live together. She may be

weaker than you are, is it yeah, like yalla yalla?

Physically okay, you want to be weaker, confident that the

men can be stronger, mom, and not okay joking joking.

She may be weaker than you are, but she is

your equal partner in God's gifts of new life. Treat

her as you should, so your prayers will not be

hinder Amen. And husbands here say amen, Amen, So Peter

here is speaking about now. But but remember my point

just now is about approaching God with what right relationships?

All right, your relationship this level affects our prayer being answered. Amen.

So God Peter is thinking about that. So talking about

relationship between husband and whye. So it's a message to

husbands of us specifically, so and a wrong relationship with

your husband, I can hinder the answer to our prayer.

But I believe it's also talking on both sides, right,

both sides for sure, husband's side, wives side. And I

think it talks about the home as well. So what

we have to do in the home if we want

God to answer our prayer as a family. So parents here,

you want God to answer our prayer. Want God to

save our children. We're praying for our children, salvage or

our provision or anything. We've got to get right with

our partner. Amen. Our relationships have to be right, and

then God will bless and God will hear our prayer. Imen. Yeah,

we finished cheat points. Okay, I'm joined to a close

right now, all right, and I'll invite the wordship team up.

And it's okay to laugh and smile in church, It's okay. Yeah,

as Holy Spirit move in our house, so we have

the joy of the Lord. Amen. Amen. But of course

we also seriously want God to move us or amen.

And there are times that we look to God serious,

you know, and you know, seek the Lord. But that's

joining his presence. Amen. Amen. So we're going to worship

the God Lord together and again as I draw to

a conclusion, I want to bring us back again now

as we see some basic conditions. So firstly we approach

God with praise and thanksgiving. Immen. There are basic principles

and basic conditions for us to come before God to

access into God's presence and so that we can come

to God and we can pray and God will hear

our prayer Imen. So we come to him, we praise

and thanksgiving, and we come without condemnation. We deal with

our guilty conscience right, and we deal with the sin

in our lives, and we also come to God with

right relationships, making things right even at this level. And

so as we talk about some of these condition I

want to remind us again that we read in Psalm

sixty six just now, and I want to read the

verse again again. The Psalmist wrote, and I want us

to remember again that God the very first at the introduction,

God wants God hears our prayer, and he wants to

answer our prayer. Amen. So, reading again from verse sixty, says,

come and listen, all you who fear God, and I

will tell you what He did for me. For I

cried out to Him for help, praising him as I spoke.

If I had not confessed sin in my heart, the

Lord would not have listened. But God did listen. He

paid attention to my prayer. Amen. Praise God who did

not ignore my prayer or withdraw his unfailing love from me. Imen.

So I believe today, as we stand right now, we

will praise God. We will praise God with a fourth

song lift up his name, and I want us to

draw into his presence. It's another chance for us again

if we have not or again welways want to come

into his cards with praise, into his gaze, with thanksgiving

in our hearts, coming to his presence again and worship him.

Imen and I believe every Sunday I told the ADM

Church that we come to church, we cannot go away

without responding. The word of God has been preached for

Now is then your responsibility? Bus and just said yesterday

right are the teens now? I share with you all

Now it's your responsibility. So the word of God has

been preached for and I pray that we will all

take it. We will respond, We'll allow Holy Spirit. The

war has Amen. Let's worship God. Thank you Lord.

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