THE LIVING WORD TRANSCRIPT
PROGRAM AIR DATE: 6-21-20
LESSON TITLE: WHAT IS PRAYER?
WELCOME
THIS IS THE DAY THE LORD HAS MADE; WE WILL REJOICE AND BE GLAD IN IT," PSALMS 118:24! OH, HOW TRUE THESE WORDS SHOULD BE TO EVERY FOLLOWER OF GOD! THIS IS A GREAT DAY! WE SHOULD BE REJOICING! WE MUST BE GLAD! WHY WE ARE BLESSED SERVANTS OF GOD ABLE TO ASSEMBLE BEFORE HIS THRONE ON THIS, THE LORD'S DAY! I AM GLAD YOU ARE WITH US THIS MORNING AND THANK GOD YOU HAVE MADE THE RIGHT DECISION TO GIVE THIS TIME TO YOUR CREATOR. I LOOK FORWARD TO OUR TIME SPENT TOGETHER TODAY AS WE SING PRAISES TO THE ALMIGHTY AND AS WE STUDY FROM HIS MATCHLESS WORD! THIS MORNING, I KNOW WE WILL ALL BE EDIFIED THROUGH OUR TIME SPENT TOGETHER. SO LET'S ALL DO OUR PART TO MAKE THIS TIME PROFITABLE BEFORE GOD, AND FURTHERMORE MAY WE USE IT AS A GREAT ENCOURAGEMENT ONE TO ANOTHER! AT THIS TIME, LET'S APPROACH OUR FATHER'S THRONE IN PRAYER.
PRAYER: OUR GOD AND FATHER IN HEAVEN, WE ARE SO THANKFUL FOR THIS DAY AND EVERY DAY OF LIFE. WE ARE THANKFULL FOR THE OPPORTUNITY THAT WE HAVE TO BE CALLED YOUR CHILDREN AND TO BE SERVANTS IN YOUR KINGDOM. AND FATHER, WE ASK THAT YOU'LL HELP US TO ALWAYS LOOK TO YOUR SON FOR STRENGTH AND FOR GUIDANCE AND THE ABILITY THAT WE HAVE THROUGH YOUR WORD TO NOT ONLY KNOW HIM, BUT TO KNOW YOUR WILL AND OBEY. AND HELP US IN THE END FATHER TO RECEIVE THE GREAT REWARD OF THE PROMISED MANSION IN HEAVEN. AND THESE THINGS WE PRAY IN JESUS NAME, AMEN.
WELL, IT IS TIME TO JOIN IN OUR FIRST SONG OF THE MORNING. SO, WON'T YOU PARTICIPATE WITH THE CONGREGATION AT THIS TIME AS WE SING A HIM THAT GIVES GLORY AND PRAISE TO OUR BLESSED REDEEMER. THE NAME OF THE HYMN, "BLESSED REDEEMER!"
DEVOTIONAL THOUGHTS
ONE OF THE MOST ENCOURAGING THINGS ABOUT BEING A CHRISTIAN, IS THE KNOWLEDGE THAT OUR GOD IS ALWAYS WITH US. NO MATTER WHAT MAY COME OUR WAY, WHETHER TRIALS, TRIBULATIONS, PERSECUTIONS OR PROBLEMS OF ANY SORT OUR GOD IS THERE. HOWEVER, JOB HELPS US TO KNOW SOMETHING THAT GOD WILL DO AS HE IS WITH US THROUGH THESE DIFFICULT TIMES. IN JOB 23:10 WE READ, "BUT HE KNOWS THE WAY THAT I TAKE; WHEN HE HAS TESTED ME, I SHALL COME FORTH AS GOLD." DID YOU HEAR THE PROMISE OF OUR GOD IN THIS TEXT? GOD IS WITH US, HE KNOWS WHAT WE ARE GOING THROUGH, AND BECAUSE OF HIM WE WILL COME OUT AS GOLD. YOU KNOW WHAT THAT TELLS ME? EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE OKAY WITH GOD ON OUR SIDE. BUT BETTER THAN THAT, EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE GREAT AND FOR OUR BETTERMENT! REMEMBER WHAT PAUL SAID IN ROMANS 8:28? "AND WE KNOW THAT ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER FOR GOOD TO THOSE WHO LOVE GOD, TO THOSE WHO ARE THE CALLED ACCORDING TO HIS PURPOSE." OH, WHAT WONDROUS AND PRECIOUS TRUTHS THESE ARE TO US AS BELIEVERS. FURTHERMORE, CONSIDER PRAYER. HOW COMFORTING IT IS TO KNOW THAT WE HAVE A GOD WHO IS ALWAYS READY TO HEAR OUR PRAYERS AND TO ANSWER THEM WITH OUR BEST INTEREST AT HEART. YES, WE TRULY SERVE A LOVING AND CARING FATHER. I HOPE YOU ARE A TRUE FOLLOW OF GOD THIS DAY, BECAUSE AS YOU CAN SEE IT IS WELL WORTH IT. IF YOU ARE NOT YET HIS CHILD, STUDY HIS WORD, OBEY HIS WILL AND DO WHAT HE HAS COMMANDED IN ORDER TO BE A PART OF HIS KINGDOM! WILL YOU OBEY THE SAVIOR TODAY?
IN JUST A FEW MINUTES IT WILL BE TIME TO BEGIN OUR MAIN STUDY OF THE DAY. THIS MORNING WE WILL BEGIN A NEW SERIES OF STUDY ENTITLED, "PRAY WITHOUT CEASING." OUR FIRST LESSON IN THIS STUDY WILL ANSWER THE QUESTION, "WHAT IS PRAYER." AS FAR AS OUR SPEAKER THIS MORNING, WE ARE HAPPY TO AGAIN HAVE BROTHER JERRY SULLINS WITH US. AS MOST OF YOU KNOW, BROTHER JERRY IS THE DIRECTOR OF THE BIBLE INSTITUTE OF MISSOURI HERE IN SPRINGFIELD. WE THANK HIM FOR JOINING US AND LOOK FORWARD TO HIM LEADING OUR THOUGHTS FROM GOD'S WORD. NOW LET'S JOIN TOGETHER IN OUR NEXT SONG OF THE MORNING. THE NAME OF THIS HYMN, "SEEK YE FIRST."
LESSON
BY JERRY SULLINS
I WOULD LIKE TO WELCOME YOU AGAIN TO THE LIVING WORD BROADCAST AND WE'RE SO THANKFUL THAT WE HAVE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO BE WITH YOU EVERY SUNDAY MORNING AT THIS TIME ON KOLR 10 TO PRESENT THE BIBLE TO YOU AND TO STUDY WITH YOU THE WORD OF GOD. I WAS VERY HAPPY THAT ALSO WE'RE BEING ABLE TO WORK THROUGH THIS VIRUS SITUATION AND THAT THINGS ARE GETTING BACK TO NORMAL IN MANY WAYS AND FOR THAT REASON WE'RE COMING TO YOU THIS WEEK WITH A NEW SERIES - AND WE'RE HOPING THAT YOU WILL PROFIT VERY MUCH FROM IT.
COMMUNICATION IS SOMETHING THAT IS VERY VITAL TO ANY RELATIONSHIP. IN FACT - WHEN COMMUNICATION FAILS THEN NORMALLY THE RELATIONSHIP FAILS. AND SO WE ADVISE PEOPLE IN COUNSELING SESSIONS IF THEY'RE HAVING PROBLEMS - ESPECIALLY IN MARITAL RELATIONSHIPS - OR EVEN PARENTS WITH CHILDREN AND CHILDREN WITH PARENTS - THAT THEY ADOPT CERTAIN METHODS OF COMMUNICATION WHERE THEY CAN FREELY SPEAK TO ONE ANOTHER OR AT LEAST THEY CAN BE ON A SPEAKING OR LET'S SAY A SPEAKING POSITION WITH ONE ANOTHER SO THAT THEY CAN WORK OUT THE PROBLEMS THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE AND ALSO TO HAVE OTHER TYPES OF CONVERSATION THAT WILL BUILD THE RELATIONSHIP BACK TO WHERE IT NEEDS TO BE. SO COMMUNICATION IS SOMETHING THAT IS ALSO TAUGHT IN OUR UNIVERSITIES. BECAUSE IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE KNOW HOW TO COMMUNICATE WITH ONE ANOTHER. NOW IN THE SPIRITUAL REALM OF OUR EXISTENCE WHICH IS BASICALLY SOMETHING THAT IS INATE OR BUILT WITHIN US BY GOD HIMSELF AND IT IS NECESSARY THAT WE HAVE COMMUNICATION. GOD COMMUNICATES WITH US THROUGH HIS WORD BECAUSE ALL SCRIPTURE GIVEN BY INSPIRATION OF GOD IS PROFITABLE FOR DOCTRINE, FOR REPROOF, FOR CORRECTION, FOR INSTRUCTION IN RIGHTEOUSNESS THAT THE MAN OF GOD MAY BE COMPLETE THOROUGHLY FURNISHED UNTO ALL GOOD WORKS. SO WE KNOW THAT THE BIBLE IS TRULY A LAMP UNTO TO OUR FEET AND A LIGHT UNTO OUR PATHWAY. AND WITHOUT GOD'S WORD IT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE FOR US TO KNOW WHAT GOD EXPECTS OF US AND HOW GOD LOVES US AND THE PLAN OF SALVATION THAT GOD HAS GIVEN FOR US AND SO MANY OTHER THINGS. WE WOULD NOT KNOW HOW WE WERE CREATED AND SO WE RELY ON THE WORD OF GOD; TO READ IT AND TO STUDY IT TO KNOW HIS WILL FOR US. ON THE OTHER HAND IT IS IMPORTANT THAT WE COMMUNICATE WITH GOD IN HEAVEN AND WE DO THAT THROUGH WHAT IS CALLED AND WHAT WE CALL PRAYER. I GOT A FEW DEFINITIONS OF PRAYER OFF THE WEB AND BASICALLY IT SAYS OR ONE PERSON SAID THAT IT IS AN ACTIVE COMMUNICATION TO AN OBJECT OF WORSHIP. WELL, WE KNOW THAT THAT'S VERY MUCH TRUE AS WE JUST CASUALLY GO THROUGH THE SCRIPTURE WE SEE THAT THAT IS TRUE. IT HAPPENED IN THE OLD TESTAMENT TIMES AND EVERY OLD TESTAMENT CHARACTER WHO WAS FAITHFUL TO GOD WE SEE HIM OR HER PRAYING TO GOD, WHICH WAS A WAY THAT THEY COMMUNICATED WITH GOD.
IN MANY INSTANCES GOD WOULD IMMEDIATELY COMMUNICATE WITH THEM - SO WE KNOW THAT THAT HAPPENED IN OLD TESTAMENT TIMES. IN THE NEW TESTAMENT IT ACTUALLY SAID OF THOSE WHO WERE CONVERTED ON THE FIRST DAY ON THE DAY OF PENTECOST AS IS RECORDED ACTS CHAPTERS 1 AND 2 THAT IN ACTS CHAPTER 2 VERSE 42 THE SCRIPTURE SAYS: THEY CONTINUED STEADFAST IN THE APOSTLE'S DOCTRINE IN THE FELLOWSHIP IN THE BREAKING OF BREAD ( THAT IS THE LORD'S SUPPER ) AND IN PRAYERS. AND SO THROUGHOUT THE NEW TESTAMENT WE SEE THAT PRAYER WAS AN INTRICAL PART IN MAN'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD HIMSELF. NOW HOW ARE WE TO PRAY? WE HAVE DISCUSSED THAT PRAYER IS SPIRITUAL COMMUNICATION BETWEEN GOD AND MAN SO HOW DO WE COMMUNICATE PROPERLY WITH GOD? WELL, I THINK WE CAN SEE THAT - IN FACT I KNOW WE CAN SEE THAT IN WHAT IS COMMONLY CALLED THE LORD'S PRAYER ALTHOUGH JOHN 17 IS MORE OF A COMPLETE LORD'S PRAYER THEN WE FIND IN MATTHEW 6 AND OTHER PLACES IN THE GOSPEL ACCOUNTS. BUT IN THAT PRAYER ACTUALLY THERE ARE FIVE ELEMENTS THAT ARE USED BY JESUS HIMSELF. ONE IS ADORATION WHERE HE ACTUALLY BEGINS THE PRAYER BY SAYING - OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN HALLOWED BE THY NAME. HALLOWED MEANS HOLY IS THY NAME. IT IS AN EXPRESSION OF ADORATION WHEN WE REFER TO GOD AS THE ALMIGHTY GOD, WHEN WE REFER TO HIM AS THE EVERLASTING GOD - IN ANY WAY THAT WE REFER TO GOD AND THERE CAN BE HUNDREDS OF WAYS THAT WE ADORE THE NAME OF GOD - THAT WE PUT HIS NAME ABOVE ALL OTHER NAMES AS WE CAN SEE PLAINLY USED IN ALL OF THE 150 PSALMS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. SO ADORATION IS SOMETHING THAT SHOULD BE IN OUR PRAYERS. AND MANY BRETHREN TODAY START THEIR PRAYERS WITH THE EXPRESSION THAT GOD IS HALLOWED AS FAR AS THEY ARE CONCERNED BECAUSE THEY MODEL THEIR PRAYERS AFTER WHAT IS COMMONLY CALLED THE LORD'S PRAYER. ANOTHER PART OF PRAYER IS CALLED CONFESSION - WHICH IS SO IMPORTANT. IN FACT JAMES SAID IN JAMES 5:16 THAT WE ARE TO CONFESS OUR FAULTS WHICH MEANS TRESPASSES OR SINS TO ONE ANOTHER AND PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER THAT WE MIGHT BE CLEANSED. SO CONFESSION OF SINS IS SOMETHING THAT SHOULD TAKE PLACE. AGAIN, THE LORD'S PRAYER (MATTHEW SIX WHERE THE STATEMENT IS MADE) FORGIVE US OF OUR DEBTS OR OUR SINS OR OUR TRESPASSES AS WE FORGIVE THOSE WHO SIN AGAINST US. AND SO CONFESSION OF SINS IS SO IMPORTANT. IN FACT JAMES, AS WE'VE ALREADY SAID, SAYS THAT IT CONTINUES TO BE IMPORTANT - IN FACT JOHN EVEN MENTIONS IF WE CONFESS OUR SINS HE IS FAITHFUL AND JUST TO FORGIVE US OF OUR SINS AND TO CLEANSE US FROM ALL UNRIGHTEOUSNESS - FIRST JOHN CHAPTER 1 VERSE NINE. SO CONFESSION IS A PART OF A PRAYER OR A MEANS THAT WE COMMUNICATE WITH GOD AND THAT'S WHAT GOD EXPECTS BY THE WAY.
ANOTHER PART IS THANKSGIVING. THANKSGIVING IS SOMETHING THAT WE ALL OUGHT TO DO. THE APOSTLE PAUL SAID SIMPLY IN PHILIPPIANS 4 VERSES SIX THROUGH SEVEN: BE ANXIOUS FOR NOTHING BUT IN EVERYTHING BY PRAYER AND SUPPLICATION. BY THE WAY THAT'S ANOTHER PART OF PRAYER - PRAYER AND SUPPLICATION WITH THANKSGIVING. LET YOUR REQUESTS BE MADE KNOWN UNTO GOD AND THE PEACE OF GOD THAT PASSES ALL UNDERSTANDING SHALL GUARD YOUR HEARTS AND MINDS THROUGH CHRIST JESUS OUR LORD. SOMEONE WHO IS NOT THANKFUL TO GOD IS SOMEONE WHO'S NOT PLEASING GOD. GOD EXPECTS US TO BE THANKFUL. AND EVEN OUR PARENTS EXPECTED US TO BE THANKFUL - AND BY THE WAY YOU OUGHT TO BE TEACHING YOUR CHILDREN AND YOUR GRANDCHILDREN TO BE THANKFUL. FIRST OF ALL TO GOD FOR ALL THINGS AND THEN TO EVERY INDIVIDUAL WHO MIGHT GIVE THEM SOMETHING OR GIVE THEM A PRIVILEGE IN LIFE THAT THEY WOULD NOT HAVE ORDINARILY RECEIVED. SO THANKSGIVING IS SOMETHING THAT WE ALSO OUGHT TO DO AS FAR AS GOD IS CONCERNED. TO BE THANKFUL IN EVERY WAY FOR EVERYTHING BECAUSE EVERYTHING COMES FROM GOD.
ANOTHER PART IS SUBMISSION. WE MUST SUBMIT OURSELVES TO THE WILL OF GOD. EVEN JESUS HIMSELF IN LUKE 22 VERSE 42 SAID BASICALLY NOT MY WILL BUT YOURS BE DONE. THAT WAS IN THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE WHERE HE WAS SWEATING SWEAT DROPS AS A BLOOD ON HIS FOREHEAD BECAUSE OF THE TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCE THAT HE KNEW HE WAS ABOUT TO GO THROUGH, THE CRUCIFIXION. HE KNEW THE PAIN AND SUFFERING THAT HE WAS GOING TO TO GO THROUGH. HE SAID FATHER IF IT BE POSSIBLE LET THIS CUP PASS FROM ME BUT NEVERTHELESS NOT MY WILL BUT YOURS BE DONE. AND CERTAINLY JAMES ALSO EMPHASIZED THAT WE OUGHT TO SAY IF THE LORD WILLS WE OUGHT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE UNDERSTAND THAT EVERY ACTION THAT WE TAKE IN OUR LIFE SHOULD BE ACCORDING TO THE WILL OF GOD AND BASE OUR PRAYERS UPON THAT SAME PRINCIPLE. SUPPLICATION IS THE LAST ONE - GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD JESUS SAID. SO CAN WE MAKE SUPPLICATION? WE JUST SAID IN PHILIPPIANS 4:16 AND 17 THAT WE OUGHT TO BE ANXIOUS FOR NOTHING BUT IN EVERYTHING BY PRAYER AND SUPPLICATION LET YOUR REQUESTS BE MADE KNOWN UNTO GOD. GOD IS THERE! HE'S A PRESENT HELP IN TIME OF TROUBLE AND HE BIDS US TO USE THE OPPORTUNITY THAT WE HAVE AS HIS SERVANTS TO APPEAL TO HIM FOR ANYTHING THAT WE DESIRE. AND AS JAMES SAYS - ACCORDING TO HIS WILL. WE CAN ASK FOR THINGS THAT WE SHOULD NOT ASK FOR BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT THEY WOULD NOT BE THE WILL OF GOD. AND EVEN IF WE DO NOT KNOW THEM GOD IS GOING TO ANSWER NO I'M NOT GOING TO DO THAT BECAUSE IT IS NOT ACCORDING TO HIS WILL. SO YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED ADORATION, CONFESSION, THANKSGIVING, SUBMISSION, AND SUPPLICATION THAT MAKES UP THE WORD ACTS WITH AN EXTRAS. AND SO WHEN WE DO THOSE THINGS OR WE PRAY AND THAT WAY WE ARE PRAYING ACCORDING TO THE PATTERN THAT JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF GAVE US IN THAT SIMPLE LITTLE ALL-INCLUSIVE PRAYER THAT WE CALL THE LORD'S PRAYER. AND MANY PEOPLE WHO REFER TO THEMSELVES AS CHRISTIANS KNOW THE LORD'S PRAYER FOR SURE. WELL, THE GREATEST EXAMPLE OF ALL PRAYER IS FOUND IN THE LORD HIMSELF. AND I ONLY HAVE A FEW MINUTES LEFT BUT I WANT TO MAKE QUICKLY A STATEMENT CONCERNING JESUS AND HIS PRAYER LIFE. HE PRAYED ON EVERY OCCASION. WE SEE AT HIS BAPTISM IN LUKE THREE VERSE 21 AS HE WAS PRAYING THE SPIRIT OF GOD DESCENDED UPON HIM. AND GOD SPOKE - THIS IS MY BELOVED SON IN WHOM I AM WELL PLEASED. THAT'S WHILE HE WAS PRAYING. JESUS USED PRAYER. HE COMMUNICATED WITH GOD. WHEN HIS FAME WAS INCREASING OFTEN HE WENT OUT INTO THE WILDERNESS AND PRAYED ACCORDING TO LUKE CHAPTER 5. WHEN HE WAS CHOOSING THE 12 HE CONTINUED ALL NIGHT IN PRAYER BEFORE HE CHOSE THE 12 DISCIPLES. NOW THAT'S AMAZING ISN'T IT! I'VE HEARD OF PEOPLE BEFORE WHO WOULD ASSEMBLE AND PRAY ALL NIGHT. THAT MIGHT BE A WONDERFUL THING FOR US TO DO EVEN IN THIS PERIOD OF TIME AS FAR AS WHAT OUR COUNTRY IS GOING THROUGH POLITICALLY AND AS FAR AS THE VIRUS IS CONCERNED AND EVERYTHING. MAYBE WE OUGHT TO PRAY ALL NIGHT. WHEN HE WAS WITH HIS DISCIPLES ALONE IN LUKE 9 HE PRAYED. BEFORE HIS TRANSFIGURATION SOME PEOPLE SAY YOU CAN SAY WHERE JESUS WAS IN A MODE OF PRAYER. HE TAUGHT THEM TO PRAY AS WE SAID IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 6 AND ALSO IT'S REPEATED IN LUKE CHAPTER 11 VERSE ONE. IN GETHSEMANE ALONE HE PRAYED WHAT? HE PRAYED TO THE FATHER. AND ON THE CROSS SEVEN EXPRESSIONS WERE MADE OF PRAYER - WHILE JESUS WAS UPON THE CROSS HE WAS COMMUNICATING WITH THE FATHER ABOVE. SO MUCH COULD BE SAID AND MAYBE ONE OF OUR SERIES AS IS GOING TO BE GOING ON FOR SEVERAL WEEKS WILL INCLUDE EVEN MORE ON THIS WONDERFUL EXPRESSION OF THE LORD'S DESIRE TO COMMUNICATE WITH HIS FATHER THROUGHOUT ALL PERIODS OF HIS LIFE. PRAYER IS POWERFUL! THROUGH THIS SERIES WE ARE GOING TO HEAR ABOUT THE POWER OF PRAYER. I KNOW OF AN EXAMPLE OF JOB WHEN HE PRAYED WHILE HE WAS SUFFERING FROM SO MANY THINGS; TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS OF LIFE. WE ARE GOING TO SEE HOW PRAYER IS IMPORTANT IN THE LIFE OF SIMON THE SORCERER WHEN HE WAS TO ASK FOR FORGIVENESS. WHEN DAVID WOULD PRAY WHAT IMPRESSES ME ABOUT DAVID THE KING HOW HE PRAYED CONCERNING THOSE WHO WERE PERSECUTING HIM AND HE PRAYED FOR PROTECTION FROM GOD. IF WE EXPECT TO ACCOMPLISH ANYTHING IN OUR LIVES THE WAY WE CAN ACCOMPLISH IT IS BY COMMUNICATING WITH THE FATHER ABOVE. NOW I AM GOING TO CLOSE IN TELLING YOU ABOUT AN INSTANCE OF PRAYER THAT MADE A GREAT INFLUENCE IN MY LIFE. I KNOW YEARS AND YEARS AGO, IT HAD TO BE AS YOU LOOK AT ME. YOU KNOW I AM NOT A YOUNG GUY. WHEN I WAS JUST A BOY MY PARENTS WOULD CALL US IN AND THIS WAS ALMOST EVERY NIGHT OR AT LEAST TWO OR THREE TIMES A WEEK WE WOULD KNEEL BESIDE THEIR BED AND THEY WOULD ALSO BE KNEELING AND WE WOULD PRAY TO GOD ABOUT THE DAILY AFFAIRS THAT HAD TAKEN PLACE AND THE FUTURE WHERE WE WOULD RELY UPON HIS GRACE AND HIS CARE AND HIS KEEPING - ONE OF THE MOST IMPRESSIVE THINGS IN MY WHOLE LIFE CONCERNING PRAYER. AND I ENCOURAGE YOU TO BEGIN TO USE PRAYER MORE BECAUSE WITH PRAYER AND NO IT WON'T BE FOR YOUR SAVING - THE SAVING OF YOUR SOULS - IT WILL MAYBE BE A PART OF YOUR GETTING CLOSE ENOUGH TO GOD WHERE YOU WILL DESIRE TO DO HIS WILL. BUT WE NEED TO PRAY WITHOUT CEASING BECAUSE GOD IS ALWAYS THERE TO CARE FOR US WHO ARE FAITHFUL TO HIS WILL. AND WE NEED TO LEARN THE POWER OF PRAYER TO OUR ALMIGHTY GOD.
CLOSING COMMENTS
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AS WE ARE REMINDED OF THE GIFT OF PRAYER, I HOPE WE WILL ALL REALIZE ITS TRUE POWER AND PRIVILEGE TO THOSE WHO ARE FOLLOWING GOD. MAKE SURE THAT TODAY THAT YOU ARE RIGHT WITH YOUR CREATOR AND GIVING HIM YOUR VERY BEST AS A BELOVED AND FAITHFUL CHILD IN HIS KINGDOM.