Prayer is intended to be powerful. Bill Johnson teaches from The Lord’s Prayer in Matthew 6 and describes how it is to be a model for us. Praying “On earth as it is in heaven” is not a prayer to simply keep us positive or busy until Jesus returns; it is the dream of God’s heart to co-labor with us, His sons and daughters, to see His Kingdom established in the earth. May we see impossible situations bow to the name of Jesus as we seek God’s heart and walk in the authority we have been given.

he doesn’t give us the exercise of

prayer to keep us busy

he gives us the assignment to pray

because of his intention to fulfill

the prayers that we pray

thank you

thank you

thanks thanks

by the way

ben fitz and

i think three or four of his team

they’re going into ukraine to preach the

gospel

so uh

that

run towards the fight

it’s like them wore horses

you know if you’ve ever read about war

horses they’re they’re literally trained

for war

and when they hear battle they run

towards it

and uh and they could there’s actually

stories of them standing next to a

burning building

and even though they’re getting burned

by the fires if they’ve been told to

hold still they hold still

and uh so

all right

bad conclusion to a good point

oh well oh well

uh thanks so much for

uh all your prayers for benny

um she has had some couple several good

nights of sleep which is

great progress real real thankful

we have

the important uh

uh doctor’s apartment this week so

we will have more information for you

but just thank you i understand there’s

like

ten thousand over ten thousand people

just signed up for the weekly slots

and they couldn’t all fit so

so there are more praying but that’s a

whole bunch that’s like

that’s that’s impressive

uh a pastor had dinner at the home of a

couple in his church after he left the

wife said to the husband i think he

stole our spoon

this bothered her for a whole year

a year later the couple had the pastor

over for dinner again unable to resist

the wife asked

did you steal our spoon last year

the pastor replied no i put it inside

your bible

that’s like my favorite all-time story

right there that

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that’s an anointed joke

that’s a that carries the anointing

right there

my grandpa told me he got to see the

titanic and from the beginning he told

him not to get on board

because he knew it was going to sink but

no one listened he repeatedly told him

until the minute he got kicked out of

the movie theater

that’s that’s that’s just dumb

i’m i’m i’m gonna follow down with

dumber dumb and dumber

one more

my wife tells me i have two major faults

i don’t listen

and something else

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open your bibles gospel of matthew

chapter 6

the gospel of matthew chapter 6.

actually yesterday i i was thinking and

praying about this today and

and i i kept feeling my heart pulled

towards

the whole thing with the new ukrainian

people by the way how many of you went

to the festival of cultures last night

i loved that event so much and there was

a table there uh with our ukrainian

students i don’t know if any of them are

in the room but got to talk with some of

them about their contact with the family

members and and one of them said yeah in

our town uh they dropped bombs in the

city but they didn’t explode they’re

just their unexploded bombs so it kind

of fits the story that

was told a minute ago so yeah so we’re

thankful but i i’ve just been i i’ve

i

you know you have to almost be brain

dead to not be

moved by some of these crises and these

stories but oftentimes we don’t really

know what to do i mean we know to pray

but can i say this without being uh

accusational just uh honest sometimes

our prayers are token prayers to make us

feel better about responding to crisis

and they’re not necessarily prayers to

make a difference

and the lord has actually

called us and positioned us to make a

difference in our co-laboring

relationship through prayer

the to me one of the greatest mysteries

in the bible is the fact that we were

designed to co-labor with god and it

fascinates me most every day of my life

and a prayer is is one of those moments

where

where um where we see it the clearest

and so i want to talk to you about

prayer today but most of what i’m going

to do is i’m going to actually review

things that we’ve heard that we’ve said

amen to

but i feel like i feel like probably for

at least a few of us

some of the things that i’m going to

talk to you about have been put on the

back burner and they need to be on the

front burner they need to be

right up front because of the moment

that we live in

you

were designed to be alive at this moment

honestly if if

that phrase and esther for such a time

as this if it ever applied to anybody it

applies to you right now

you’ve had many opportunities to die and

you’re still here

it’s it’s the truth i mean it’s let’s

let’s be honest every time you drive

down the road somebody could

have a heart attack and pull in front of

you and that’s it

the point is is god has

strategically arranged for you

as a representative of his world to be

positioned here

to make a difference

when he gave us the assignment to pray

he never told us to pray to keep us busy

he did not create prayer as a christian

activity to occupy our time

or to occupy our thoughts

or to engage us emotionally

knowing that we’ll never see the

fulfillment of what we’re praying it’s

just to keep us hopeful until we die or

jesus returns

it’s an insult to the design of prayer

the design of prayer comes out of this

place where he says come up here

it’s an engagement with the heart of the

father

here’s what the scripture says

number one i have been blessed ephesians

1 3 i have past tense been blessed with

every spiritual blessing in christ

in heavenly places

it is all in my account

warning it’s null it’s not all in my

possession

and the christian life is learning to

make withdrawals

many people boast that they have

everything but they can’t display

anything

what i just said

so he’s positioned us in this

co-laboring role

to partner with the father because the

father is looking for someone who will

stand in a place of influence through

prayer not by your title

but by your assignment to stand before a

righteous father and contend on behalf

of those who are in crisis or in need

you are alive for such a time

as this

want to give you about a 45 minute long

sermon in five minutes

so that don’t don’t you’re not getting

off easy so i can go into the second one

so don’t don’t don’t pack your bags yet

you’re not getting off that easy

honestly i want to set the stage for

something

that i think is a as for me anyway was

one of the great mysteries of prayer

hopefully this will bring clarification

so we can build and we’re going to we’re

going to actually look at the lord’s

prayer today

as we’ve said so many times

i don’t think the lord’s prayer that

title is a good title

i mean it works because we know where it

is but

it wasn’t his prayer

because in the prayers the confession of

sin and he had no sin

it was a model prayer i like personally

i like to refer to it as an apostolic

prayer because the apostolic mandate is

to get the blueprint of heaven and

implement it here on earth until this

world reflects the nature of that one

that’s the apostolic mandate and that is

the essence of this prayer that god has

given us to pray i i’m sorry i need to i

need to ramble a minute longer

maybe two or

three

i uh i was watching the chosen i don’t

remember now three weeks ago me i i

which i love the chosen and i was

watching this segment where

jesus i think he sat on like the edge of

his bed or was caught or something and

he went through a hebrew prayer and then

i saw the disciples do it i thought

i like that something clicked in my

heart it may not in yours but it clicked

in my heart and i thought

the discipline

of a repeated prayer

that you

refuse to reduce to repetition but you

keep it alive there is power in that

prayer

and so i i have taken it on in the last

recent weeks just to take this lord’s

prayer

and pray it uh when i get up in the

morning and to pray when i go to bed at

night now

i don’t think jesus gave us that prayer

to be prayed

i believe it’s a pattern prayer it’s an

outline prayer

but

when i pray it

every phrase is pregnant with meaning so

it’s more than just

uh a rope prayer and instead it is it is

packed with heart

that says our father and it starts with

there in this engagement with the

almighty god who has invited me to

co-labor with him and make a difference

on earth you are alive to make a

difference on the planet and our prayers

are to count

they are to have effect now one more one

more comment in this regard i think one

more

one or possibly two or three more

comments in this regard and then we’ll

start

we’ll start with sermon one

when he invites us

into this place

to pray

it’s not as though i’ve been assigned to

persuade him

i’ve been assigned to engage with him

i’ll we’ll talk about that a little bit

more later

for such a time as this

he doesn’t give us the exercise of

prayer to keep us busy

he gives us the assignment to pray

because of his intention to fulfill

the prayers that we pray

there’s two basic kinds of prayers that

i want to take a quick look at

and uh and so we’ll we’ll do that and

then we’ll we’ll see if we can make

sense of this go to matthew chapter six

and let’s start with verse

seven

this is the five minute sermon starts

right now oh boy i better hurry all

right when you pray do not use vain

repetition as the heathen do for they

think they will be heard for their many

words therefore do not be like them for

your father knows the things you have

need of before you ask

i love that he says

he says when you pray don’t repeat your

prayer over and over and over and over

and over again the heathen pray that way

because they think that by praying a

prayer over and over again they can earn

the answer

they engage with god who gives them

points for repeated prayers

don’t do that that’s what the heathen do

and then the reasoning behind that he

says for your father knows what you have

need of

to come before my father

first of all

it doesn’t remove for me the

responsibility to pray for my daily

needs

here it says give us this day our daily

bread so the very next verse is he gives

the assignment to pray for our daily

needs so it’s not he knows what you need

so don’t pray he doesn’t say that he

says he knows what you need so come

before him as a father who does not be

need to be persuaded to take care of his

children

be a part of the ever evolving

economy of heaven where in your

partnership you make agreement to see

the release of his supply and his

abundance but it comes from the heart of

a father who’s looking for the the needs

of his children

he’s not the uh manager of an orphanage

the caretaker of an orphanage making

sure that you have three meals and a cot

to sleep on a coat to wear in the winter

he’s not he’s not someone who just

basically takes care of your needs but

your wants is something else that’s not

the way he is he is a father who cares

for your needs so bring it before him

and because you know he’s a loving

father because you know what he’s like

you know you don’t need to pray that

prayer a hundred times because he heard

you the first time

give us this day our daily bread

if you belabor the prayer it doesn’t

mean he won’t provide it just comes out

of a misunderstanding of who he is as

your father

it was better than your response i know

that much for sure

all right

now i’ll go to matthew 7

and we’ll take the other part of this

verse 7

says ask it will be given to you seek

and you will find

knock and it will be opened to you

everyone who asks receives he who seeks

fines to him who knocks will be opened

the original language here says

ask and continue asking

all right chapter 6

don’t continue asking chapter 7

continue asking

i love that i love these conflicts in

scripture because they’re all

invitations

they’re all invitations

many people take the conflicting

thoughts and they get rid of one and

just give all their weight behind the

the one they agree with or understand

these two work together what is it

number one he says in john in mark 6

matthew 6 i’ll get it one of the guys

said it

and we read it

your father knows what you have neither

don’t do that repeated prayer thing but

by the time we get to chapter seven he

says knock continue knocking seek

continue seek ask continue to seek why

verse

um verse 11 if you being evil know how

to give good gifts to your children how

much more will your father in heaven

give good things to those who ask him

chapter six is needs

chapter seven is dreams

chapter 6

is your basic needs chapter 7 is

the good gifts

that our father awards his children with

what’s the difference

the one-time prayer of chapter six

daily prayer for provision

is because of who he is as a father

the repeated prayer

changes me

it’s not a prayer that persuades god

it’s a prayer that transforms me as one

who continually stays before him with

the same issue on my heart day after day

after day it transforms me so that i

become

a person who could properly steward the

answer that i’m contending for

the dreams that fill this room right

here were birthed in your heart by god

but many of us lack the confidence to

stay before him in prayer because we

feel sometimes like well he didn’t

answer the first time we prayed so it

must not be his will or i fasted three

days nothing happened so we sacrificed

the very thing he birthed in us he put

in us and he he gives us the assignment

to knock and continue knocking because

something changes in me where i engage

with him and the more you engage with

god over a given subject the more he

transforms you into the person needed

necessary to be a proper steward of that

answer

all right first one’s over let’s go to

the lord’s prayer

verse 9

matthew even though many of you can

quote it i do encourage you

please look at it in your bible

something about

seeing it and saying

verse 9 chapter 6 of matthew in this

manner therefore pray our father

in heaven

hallowed be your name

your kingdom come

your will be done

on earth as it is in heaven

give us this day our daily bread

forgive us our debts

as we forgive our debtors

do not lead us into temptation but

deliver us from the evil one

for yours is the kingdom and the power

and the glory forever

amen go back to verse nine

our father

the western church has

fashioned the gospel

in such a way that the emphasis the

primary emphasis

is on individual fulfillment

the fulfillment of my call the

fulfillment of my dreams the fulfillment

of what i want to see from my family and

my family life

there is a place for that because god

has no grandchildren

everyone must come in personal

relationship with him and place their

faith in christ for their salvation

so there is the individual but listen to

me some prayers are so large they cannot

be answered for the individual they can

only be answered

in the hole for a body for a church

family even a spiritual nation

our father not my father

our father

who art in heaven

the scripture says that i am seated with

him in heavenly places this kind of a

prayer is not me in the middle of a

problem shouting out to god who i hope

hears me so that he can come and rescue

me instead it is me one who has been

raised up in the resurrected christ to

be with him

and to engage with him to see his

purposes his plans his desires fulfilled

on the planet

what is his will

on earth as it is in heaven that is the

mandate we’ve been given everything is

measured by that mandate

so we start with our father

one of the things that’s very hard for

us to deal with in the western world

is to uh in the western church

specifically is this thought that one

person

can can sin

and to have it affect somebody else’s

life well that just isn’t right but it’s

true it’s a reality

it’s a reality it doesn’t mean we are we

are are

uh

merciless at the hand of other people’s

choices but it does mean we are affected

when cain killed abel god showed up and

said where’s your brother and his

response was am i my brother’s keeper

and the answer is

yes

actually you are

see what we don’t always understand is

that we are actually members of one

another

this thumb is alive

because

this hand is alive

the hand dies the thumb goes with it

do you understand

there is something about

there is an aspect of the christian life

of this walk with christ that is

completely dependent on one another

it’s not the part that is emphasized a

lot but it is true aiken in in the

scripture when he he sinned and uh 15 i

think

uh maybe it’s 35

a whole bunch of israeli soldiers that

had obeyed god the day before died in

the next battle because of vacant sin

injust

not when you’re family

there are certain things that happen

when you understand that we actually are

members of one another so this prayer

while it is an apostolic prayer

the blueprint of heaven implemented here

on earth

it is a prayer for a family

our father who art in heaven

hollowed

revered

honored feared

is your name

praying prayers

understanding the fear of god

doesn’t weaken your prayer

it intensifies it takes a broad prayer

and turns it into a laser beam

in its effectiveness

because the fear of god

is the qualifier of everything effective

in the christian life

hallowed be your name

many people take the lord’s name in vain

and i i remember working in a

the police station once i was cleaning

a cleaning city hall and police

department i was a i was a

custodial engineer

janet janitor janitor yeah

and i remember i when i was in the city

hall and a guy

blurted out jesus christ is working in

the city all for the city and

i said man if if you just knew him you

wouldn’t you wouldn’t use his name like

that

it creates me to hear that whether it’s

on tv or with another person

i don’t feel the need to try to correct

everybody but it happens occasionally

that same night i was in the police

department and the dispatcher we were

talking and he did the same thing as man

if you knew him you wouldn’t the first

guy got mad at me i had to leave

he was mad at me but the second guy said

if you knew him you wouldn’t use his

name like that he said i am so sorry

that’s

disrespecting the name

but the more common way

the name is respected

when his name is used in vain

is by believers who say god told me when

he didn’t

hallowed be your name

the name of the lord is a strong tower

it’s interesting this scripture teaches

us that the name of the lord is a hiding

place but that hiding place

puts you

out of reach not out of sight

that hiding place

puts you out of reach the enemy cannot

reach you but he is forced to look at

your victory he is forced to look at

your safety he is forced to look at the

power of the name jesus that completely

covers you that jesus so unselfishly

gave to you for you to use at your

disposal for his purposes

hallowed be your name

your kingdom come

you will be done

on earth as it is in heaven

jack taylor a number of years ago

helped us to understand this first help

me to understand this verse

quite a bit better

because of the verb tense which i i it’s

above my pay grade so i just have to

point to jack say he knows

especially knows right now he’s in

heaven so

but he said the verb tense here uh

your kingdom come you will be done

actually can be quoted like this

will of god

be done

kingdom of god come will of god be done

it’s it’s actually a command

it’s a command it’s not a command aimed

at god

he has already made agreement he has

already created within his system of

prayer to fulfill that cry of his people

and so he invites us into that place

remember heavenly place conversation

where we make the decree

we see the heart of the father we feel

the compassion of the lord for a given

situation and we stand with the father

in the name of jesus and we see a

problem and we declare kingdom of god

come

will of god be done

the greatest definition for me in the

bible of the will of god is on earth as

it is in heaven

it’s such a broad general prayer that

it’s easy

to to pray it

and not be able to monitor your answers

does it make sense to you answers to

prayer is what strengthens you for more

prayer

answers for prayer strengthen you for

more prayer actually gives you the

motivation the impetus to to contend for

even more

because we saw answers to

prayer well a prayer like that kingdom

of god come on earth as it is in heaven

is a pretty large prayer

if you don’t know how it’s answered you

won’t be encouraged by its answers

what does it look like for the kingdom

of come kingdom of god to come

every time you have a depressed friend

that you’re able to encourage

the kingdom came

you have that suicidal neighbor that

you’re able to talk with and pray with

over a period of a week or two and at

the end of two weeks that thing’s broken

off and you no longer have that drive

guess what that deliverance happened

because the kingdom came

that migraine headache that

torments that person you work with at

the office that you prayed for that

hasn’t had one in three weeks

the kingdom came

and if you don’t understand that’s the

fulfillment of this cry that we’ve been

positioned to make kingdom of god come

will of god be done our life is

implementing the reality of that world

and releasing it into this one that’s

life that’s prayer but hear me don’t

pray it if you’re not going to follow

with obedience

don’t pray it oh kingdom of god come if

you’re going to do nothing that he can

say amen to because it is our obedience

that that gives him the target to strike

i thought so i i thought

i thought it was a pretty good point

myself

i’m working hard anyway i know that much

give us this day

our daily bread notice notice this

prayer

give us

this day this prayer

is not a prayer for my provision it’s a

prayer for our provision

i i’m sure you you’ve done that but i i

have my doubts that most of us our

prayers for provision have been about

the else it’s been more about the me

give us

this day

our daily bread he leads into this

prayer with saying your father knows

what you have needed before you ask but

then he says ask

the the mirror

posture of asking

shows number one my obedience

and number two my understanding

of how this system

works

i stand i request he responds

i found a couple translations i think

three yesterday

i’ve got one here let me read you i

think this is william barkley

he said

give us today

our bread for the coming day

another translation

says give us today tomorrow’s bread

many of us

are accustomed to god answering

prayers at 11 59

but that may not be by his design it may

be because that’s when we pray best

many of us have created a theology

around the god who comes in at the last

moment

but this prayer says

give me today

tomorrow’s bread

to me that’s a prayer

of unusual abundance and here’s the

problem with our with

the way many of us have done life

is that we have felt that our promotions

our blessings our answers to prayer our

breakthroughs are for us not realizing

that the breakthrough has to benefit the

people around me or it was misused

when all right when you pray oh god

increase the anointing for healing in my

life who is it

for

it’s measured by the other people you

touch

the whole point is

when we pray our father

we are saying god do something

in me

in us that benefits the whole and the

moment my contending for breakthrough

hits a place where i think it’s about me

the breakthrough level’s off

there is no limit to what god would

release over an individual if

the breakthrough is released upon them

to benefit the people around them

give us today

tomorrow’s bread

i’d like to suggest

that in maturity the lord is bringing us

to a place

where he can trust us

with more than we need for now because

we’re already engaged in

give us

this day it’s about us

the early church there was not one

person who lacked anything

because they understood the us

give us

this day our daily bread give us today

tomorrow’s bread and forgive us our

debts our sins

as we forgive those who sin against us

once again this translation i saw

yesterday i really liked forgive us our

failures in our duty to you

as we have forgiven those who have

failed in their duty to us

i don’t know if you’re seeing this

the prayer for provision is a daily

responsibility

number two the repentance

the need to confess sin

of the slightest attitude that was off

it’s not a guilt shame game

it’s a sensitivity to the heart of god

that is so constant that i don’t want to

end any day

with an attitude that was wrong a

careless word that was spoken for it to

be

undealt with

we know the scripture says don’t let the

sun go down on your anger

don’t go to bed mad why because if you

do that thing will foul and faster in

your heart set down roots and begin to

affect your personality

it becomes very deeply rooted

and this is a lifestyle of repentance

and forgiveness

that is to be maintained every single

day

forgive us our sins

us

as we forgive those who sin against us

lead us not into temptation

but deliver us from the evil and lead us

not to temptation

this is another one of those conflict

ideas in the bible

which which i i like so much i i quote

often for you the proverbs passage it

says

don’t answer a fool according to his

folly lest he be wise in his own eyes

very next verse answer a fool according

to his folly

yeah let’s see be wise in his own eyes i

misquoted it

don’t answer a fool according to his

folly

for some good reason

the answer for

here we have

ask god not to lead you into temptation

yet james says it is impossible for him

to lead you into temptation

so why pray it

i think it’s important for us

not to live in shame from our past but

to live in the realization

that we can fail

and there’s something about that i call

it porn spirit

again not shame not beating ourselves up

that’s not humility that’s that’s a

subtle form of pride

but coming to the lord realizing i too

can fall

galatians talks about this you who are

trying to restore our brother who has

fallen remember

you two can fall in other words do it

with gentleness if you do with arrogance

thinking you’re something

you’re creating a failure of your own

so this posture of humility before the

lord

lead me not into temptation

but the uh

the way i like to look at this story a

little better let’s say that

let’s say i’m really struggling

struggling financially chris and i go

out to lunch

i’m going to make him the hero of my

story

he liked it the first time so i’ll try

it again

we go out to lunch and and i’m let’s

just say i’m really i’m really

struggling

and we sit down at the table and he

excuses himself we just get there and i

sit down

and he goes use the restroom

and i’m sitting there and i look in

between the salt and pepper shaker and

there’s a hundred dollar bill folded up

there that the waitress obviously didn’t

see when she cleaned the table

and i’m looking at the hundred dollar

bill

recognizing my need

thinking jehovah jibra

god has provided for me in mysterious

ways and then i realized of course

that’s the spirit of stupid i’m not

gonna do that i rebuked that thing

there’s no way and i i get over and and

i don’t take the money chris comes back

from the rest and sits down and he for

the first time notices the money sitting

there between the salt and pepper shaker

he sees it he grabs it he says man

somebody left a good tip and he gets the

waitress’s attention and gives her the

hundred dollars

neither of us took the money

but it was appealing to one of us

sometimes it’s the condition of your

heart

that makes

a normal circumstance

appealing to do wrong

god didn’t create

the desire to do wrong

does that mean any sense at all there’s

there’s a difference here

so this prayer lead us not to temptation

is basically god as you lead me today

take my stupidity into your

consideration

you know things about me i’ve never seen

i don’t know about and probably a bunch

i’m not even willing to admit to

but please

as you leave me today

i only want to honor you

does that make any sense

lead us not to temptation but deliver us

from the evil

one

paul gives a warning in ephesians 4

don’t give place to the devil

and it was written to

what i think anyway historically was the

most mature church

at least of its time church at ephesus

not one

correction in there the only epistle

that didn’t have a word of correction it

was church

to the church at ephesus

and yet in them he warned them

don’t give place to the devil because

it’s possible for a believer to give the

enemy a legal opportunity to kill steal

destroy

so this prayer is important prayer but

please notice again it’s not just a

prayer me praying for me

it’s me praying for us

lead us

not

into temptation

but deliver us from the evil one

go ahead and stand and i want to end

with one more point

if you stand that i have to end

okay just hold hold tight please if you

would

here’s what i want you to notice

how does this

prayer start

our father

how does it end

for thine is the kingdom

you can go through the whole prayer and

miss the main point

every

bit of information

in conversation

about the kingdom of god

is about family

our father

for that is the kingdom

all kingdom issues

are family issues

and you may say well i come from a

broken home i don’t know how that could

apply listen if everybody in the room

had the most perfect family on the

planet it still wouldn’t apply directly

to you it would apply to us as the

family of god

the family on earth is a shadow of what

god has made us to be

together for thine is the kingdom the

power the glory

the whole point is this we are not part

of an institution

we’re not part of some kind of religious

organization

where a living family members of one

another and when we talk about seeking

first the kingdom we’re actually talking

about the privilege

of fighting on behalf of another person

to taste of the beauty and the wonder of

god’s will in their life at a level

they’ve never seen before

this is about us

i’m hoping that from today

yes pray for ukraine there are specific

ways we can pray because of what we’ve

shared today

but i’m hoping it goes beyond the

immediate crisis

and it goes into the way we approach the

father

and we start praying

more intentionally

for that other business to prosper as

well

for that other family to conceive and

have a child for that other family

there’s somebody right over here that is

asking to give to be able to conceive

and you’ve not been able to and i

believe it’s the word of the lord to

release that that gift to you that’s

right right of the arts

i saw it

so the lord is releasing that grace i

believe over this church family

to also pray

the us prayers

the we prayers

the our

prayer our father

father i pray for this family for our

online family

that you would teach us

how to pray

thanks

teach us

he’s assigned us to shape the course of

history through prayer

prayer that shapes the course of history

that’s our assignment

so teach us to engage so deeply with

your heart

that what we pray matters

amen

one last thing

i want to know if there’s anyone here

who has never made a personal commitment

to the lord jesus christ you’ve never

committed your life to him

you’ve never been with the bible calls

born again

you don’t know what it is to be forgiven

to be brought into a family but you’d be

wanted to say today i don’t want to

leave the building until i know i have

truly found peace with god

that i’ve been forgiven of sin

if that’s you put a hand up real quick

right where you are

i want to give opportunity for everyone

if you’re online doing this

please

we have pastors online that will talk

and pray with you all right

it looks like everybody’s in all right

bless you bless you bless you

[Applause]