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Pastor Rick's Daily Hope | How To Pray Throughout Your Day Part 1 | May 22, 2022
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- Pastor Rick Warren: This weekend we are in part five of "40 Days
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- of Prayer," and I want us to look at how do you pray
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- throughout your day?
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- When you look at Paul, it's real obvious that Paul prayed all the
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- time, and in every book he starts with a prayer as he
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- writes most of the New Testament.
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- And he says I'm always praying, I'm continually praying, I'm
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- constantly praying, I'm praying without ceasing, I never stopped
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- praying for you.
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- He's always, always praying.
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- How do you do that?
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- How do you pray without ceasing?
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- How do you continually pray without stopping?
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- In Ephesians, there at the top of your outline, Ephesians
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- chapter 6 verse 18, it says this, "Pray in the Spirit at all
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- times with all kinds of prayers, asking for everything you need.
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- Now to do this, you must always be ready and never give up.
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- And always pray for all of God's people."
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- Now, in that one verse he gives us seven instructions.
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- Let me just point 'em out real quick.
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- First he says I want you to pray in the Spirit.
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- He starts by saying pray in the Spirit, what does that mean?
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- It just means let God lead you.
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- Listen to impressions.
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- If all of sudden somebody just puts in your mind--somebody's
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- image of them is put in your mind, pray for 'em.
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- You get an idea, pray about it.
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- You think about something, pray about it.
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- When the Holy Spirit puts an idea in your mind, stop and pray
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- about it.
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- Don't say I'll pray about it later, do it right then.
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- Follow the Spirit's leading.
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- It's always good to listen to what God is saying to you.
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- So he says pray in the Spirit, and then he says at all times.
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- There is no bad time to pray.
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- There's never an inappropriate time to pray, every time,
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- anywhere, you can pray.
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- All the time.
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- And then he says, 'cause it's always a good idea to pray, and
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- he says pray with all kinds of prayer.
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- Did you know that there are different kinds of prayer?
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- There are many, many different kinds of praying, there's not
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- just one right way to pray.
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- There's lots of kinds of prayers, depending on your
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- emotion, and depending on the circumstance.
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- And if you want a good example of it, look at the Book
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- of Psalms.
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- In the Book of Psalms, there is a prayer for every emotion known
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- to man.
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- There are complaining prayers.
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- There are crying-out prayers.
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- There are comforting prayers.
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- There are clarifying prayers.
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- There are courageous prayers.
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- There are confessing prayers.
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- There are celebrating prayers when you're happy.
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- The Book of Psalms, 150 chapters, it's right in the
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- middle of your Bible.
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- If you open up in the middle, there's where it is.
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- It's the book of prayers and songs, and there is a prayer for
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- every emotion known to man.
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- And for thousands of years, people have prayed the psalms.
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- If you want to learn how to pray, just read the psalms.
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- Say, "Lord, make this my prayer," and let it be
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- your prayer.
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- But there's a prayer for all times, and there are prayers for
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- all emotions, and there are prayers for all kinds
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- of situations.
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- So he says pray in the Spirit, pray at all times, pray all
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- kinds of prayers, asking for everything you need.
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- What does that mean?
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- There are no subjects off limit.
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- There is nothing that you cannot pray about.
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- If you're interested in it, God's interested in it.
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- If you worry about it, pray about it.
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- If you prayed as much as you worried, you'd have a lot less
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- to worry about.
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- Worry never changes anything, but prayer can change things.
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- So when you start to pray, start to worry, just stop and say
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- well, if I'm worried about it, I might as well pray about it.
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- He says you can pray about everything.
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- Nothing is off limits.
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- You can pray about physical issues, mental issues, you can
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- pray about financial issues, sexual issues, you can pray
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- about relational issues, career issues, political issues.
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- There is nothing off limits.
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- He says pray all the time, pray in all the different ways, pray
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- wherever you are, pray whatever you're interested in, pray about
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- everything, and then he says, number five, he says always
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- be ready.
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- He says if you're gonna pray all the time, to do this you have to
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- always be ready.
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- What does ready mean?
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- It means you gotta have a plan.
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- That's what we're gonna talk about today.
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- How do you plan your prayers?
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- Spontaneous prayers are great.
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- Spontaneous prayers are good.
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- Spontaneous prayers are what you need to do in the moment, but
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- the Bible says you also need to plan your prayers.
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- You need to think them out.
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- You need to be strategic.
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- You need to prepare.
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- You need to think through when you want to pray, where you want
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- to pray.
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- You gotta have a plan.
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- You have to be prepared if you're gonna be ready.
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- And then he says to do this, you must always be ready and never
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- give up, which means to never stop praying.
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- And finally he says, "And always pray for all of God's people,"
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- which means we're supposed to pray for everybody.
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- I can't do that if I only pray two minutes a day, I gotta pray
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- throughout the day.
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- How do I do this?
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- It's what I want us to look at this weekend.
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- How do I pray throughout my day?
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- Well, there's two different ways, I want you to write
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- these down.
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- Two different ways that you can pray throughout your day.
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- The first is just to keep a running conversation with God,
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- and you just talk to God like I'm talking to you, like you
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- talk to anybody else.
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- You just keep a running conversation with God.
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- You don't end the prayer, don't say, "In Jesus's name, amen,"
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- you just talk, and if something comes up, you talk to God
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- about it.
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- And then maybe a minute or two goes by, and then you're talkin'
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- about somethin' else, it's kinda like breathing.
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- You don't think about breathing, you just do it, and if you did
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- not breathe, you die.
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- Prayer is spiritual breathing.
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- Prayer is to your soul what breathing is to your body, and
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- it needs to become as natural so that you don't even think
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- about it.
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- Right now, you probably have to think to pray, but you can
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- actually develop a habit, like I have done, and many, many people
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- have done, where I don't even have to think about it when I'm
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- praying, I just, instead of talking to myself, I talk to
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- God, all the time.
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- Now, you talk to yourself all the time, you know that.
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- You are your biggest fan.
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- And no matter what happens to you, and you feel it, taste it,
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- touch it, smell it, you know, sense it, you talk to yourself
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- about everything you experience in life.
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- Well, it's not that hard to just kinda make a switch where
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- instead of talking to yourself all the time, you talk to God
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- all the time.
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- And that's the kind of conversation, you're just
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- driving the car, you do it in the carwash, you're walking
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- through a grocery store, you pick up some trash, you deliver
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- some mail or whatever you do, you can just talk to God all
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- the time.
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- It's conversational praying.
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- Now, to pray conversationally, what do you do?
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- You just talk to God about whatever you're interested in at
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- that particular moment.
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- It's not formal, it's just like I'm watchin' TV and I talk to
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- God about what I'm watching.
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- Did you think that was funny, God?
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- I didn't, you know, and you can just, you know, you're watchin'
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- some western and you go, man, that's a beautiful place.
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- God, that was really cool you made that Monument Valley out
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- there in Arizona?
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- And the Bible says in Ephesians 6:18, "Pray on every occasion,
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- as the Spirit leads."
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- On every occasion means as I said, you can talk to God
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- anywhere, anytime, about anything, all the time, as the
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- Spirit leads.
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- When you get an impression, you pray about it.
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- Now, here's what I've noticed, and I just wrote this down
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- this week.
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- I don't think I'd ever thought about it.
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- If I don't feel like praying, it means I'm not praying what
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- I feel.
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- Let me say that again.
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- If I don't feel like praying, I'm not praying what I feel.
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- If the only time you pray is when you pray stuff you think
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- God wants to hear, well, that's boring.
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- But if you pray about what you're feeling right now,
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- nervousness, or anxiety, or your stomach's upset, or you're
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- frustrated, you're tired, and you just talk to God about it,
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- when you talk to God about what you feel, then you're gonna feel
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- like praying.
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- When you don't feel like praying it means you're praying about
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- the wrong thing.
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- God isn't interested in what you're not interested in.
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- God already knows everything in your life, he just wants you to
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- talk, just like a father or a mother longs to have their
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- children talk to them.
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- You long for your children to grow up to the day that they can
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- talk to you and have an intelligent conversation.
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- Frankly, it doesn't matter what they talk about, you just like
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- having their attention, listening to them.
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- And so, you keep a running conversation with God.
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- And if you don't feel like praying, it means you're not
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- praying what you feel.
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- First Thessalonians 5:17 says, "Never stop praying."
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- In other words, pray all the time.
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- Well, one of the ways is to keep a running conversation, and the
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- other way, write this down, is to schedule prayer times
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- throughout my day.
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- And I'm going to teach you a very, very simple way to do this
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- this weekend.
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- Schedule prayer times throughout my day.
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- Now, this is not some new idea.
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- From the beginning of time, people have scheduled their
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- prayer times.
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- The Jews in the Old Testament scheduled their prayer times.
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- They set times, there were fixed hours, and the Bible tells us in
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- Daniel, remember when we studied that great character?
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- It said he kneeled in prayer three times a day, morning,
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- noon, and night.
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- He kneeled three times a day.
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- But what really happened, well, something that happened during
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- the Roman Empire, and when the Romans took over the known world
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- at that time, one of the things they did is they would build a
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- forum in every major city, and in that forum they would put up
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- a bell tower.
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- And the Roman's bell tower would ring about six or seven times
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- a day.
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- It would ring first at about 6:30 in the morning, and that
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- was called prime, or the first hour.
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- It meant everybody get to work.
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- It was the alarm clock that says work has now started in this
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- city, at about 6:00, 6:30 a.m.
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- About 9:00 a.m.
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- the bell would ring again.
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- Now, it's about three hours later, so it's called the third
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- hour, the third hour.
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- When you read the Bible, it talks about when Jesus hung on
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- the cross from the sixth hour, and it talks about the ninth
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- hour, and the third hour, you find it all through the Bible.
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- They're using Roman Legion terms.
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- Prime was about six o'clock, nine o'clock was the third hour,
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- 12 o'clock noon was the sixth hour of the day, and there was a
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- lunch break.
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- And here's the cool thing, in the Roman Empire, the lunch
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- break lasted till 3:00 p.m.
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- It was a three-hour lunch break, okay?
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- Now, that's the good news.
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- The other point was you didn't get to go home until about 6:30.
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- So at noon, the bell would ring again, and then it would ring
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- again at 3:00 in the afternoon, okay, and then it would ring
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- again at about 6:00 p.m.
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- in the evening, which meant work's over, go home.
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- Everybody could hear these bells, and the Romans had these
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- goin' for hundreds of years, so you know what happened?
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- The Jews and the Christians started using the Roman bells
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- for the times of prayer, and they developed a habit of
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- praying every time those bells rang, and that's called the
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- liturgy of the hours.
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- And even today, Catholic church has the liturgy of the hours,
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- and they still use the Roman terms that the Romans gave, the
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- third hour, and the sixth hour, and the ninth hour, and you
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- know, vespers, and prime, and the different kinds of words
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- that are used for the prayers throughout the day.
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- female announcer: We all experience disappointments,
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- obstacles, and seemingly impossible circumstances in
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- our lives.
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- Maybe you need a breakthrough in your marriage, your finances,
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- relationships, or with habits and painful memories that have
- 00:14:02.098 --> 00:14:05.801
- held you back.
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- You'll get a breakthrough in your life when you seek one, and
- 00:14:07.737 --> 00:14:11.040
- the way you do that is through prayer.
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- That's why Pastor Rick created the "40 Days of Prayer"
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- study kit.
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- In this life-changing, six-session DVD and workbook
- 00:14:18.748 --> 00:14:21.951
- study, Pastor Rick helps you cultivate a powerful
- 00:14:21.951 --> 00:14:25.021
- prayer life.
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- You'll learn how to pray for a breakthrough and how to pray
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- with more confidence and greater faith than ever before.
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- Get the "40 Days of Prayer" study kit today, and experience
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- the blessing of answered prayer.
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- certain hope of Jesus to people around the world, we'll send you
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- the "40 Days of Prayer" study kit to say thanks.
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- Pastor Rick: Now what's interesting is over time, the
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- monks who were having monasteries started putting
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- their own bells in the monasteries.
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- That's why they had bell towers.
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- And they would ring the bells, 'cause then it meant it's time
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- to pray again.
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- Another three hours, another three hours, time to pray again.
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- In fact, in the 1400s, the monks start thinking you know what,
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- this is a bad deal where we always have to have one guy
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- right there ready to ring the bell, so they started creating
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- mechanical instruments that would ring the bells
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- on schedule.
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- And the Latin word for bell is clock.
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- You ever heard of that?
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- You didn't know this.
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- Clocks were invented to make time for prayer.
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- It's the whole reason we have clocks.
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- The clock was not invented to make life speedier, to make life
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- rush, everybody has secularized.
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- We now have watches, and all kinds of time pieces, but the
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- clock was invented for worship, so that everybody would know
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- it's time to pray, it's time to pray, it's time to pray.
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- And the word "clock," as I said, is the Latin word or clock is
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- the word for bell.
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- Now, in Psalm 119 verse 164 there on your outline, David
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- says, "Seven times a day I pray to you."
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- And over the centuries, these daily times of prayer throughout
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- the day began to be known, as I said, the liturgy of the hours
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- or divine office.
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- It got very, very complicated, and I would not recommend--in
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- fact, I have the volumes that are literally thousands of pages
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- for the liturgy of the hours.
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- It's about that thick, it's four volumes, about that tall, and
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- it's very, very complicated.
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- I want to teach you something far simpler, far, far simpler
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- that you could memorize and you can use.
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- It's somethin' I created based on the seven phrases of the
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- Lord's Prayer.
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- The Lord's Prayer is not simply a prayer to be prayed, it is a
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- model for life.
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- In fact, when Jesus gave the Lord's Prayer, he said you
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- should pray like this.
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- Notice he didn't say you should pray this, he said you should
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- pray like this.
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- Nowhere in the Bible are you commanded to recite the
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- Lord's Prayer.
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- In fact, God says multiple times in scripture, don't say
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- something over, and over, and over that becomes a vain
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- repetition and you don't even think about it.
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- But we typically take a model and make it a recipe.
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- But God in the Bible never says the Lord's Prayer is something
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- you should pray over, and over, and over.
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- He never says it.
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- He says this is a model, this is the pattern, this is how you
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- should pray not what you should pray.
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- And so, I want us to take a typical day in your life, and I
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- want to show you how, starting in the morning when you get up,
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- and then breakfast, and then midday, and then at noon, and in
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- an afternoon, and then in the evening, and before you go to
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- bed, you can use the seven phrases of the Lord's Prayer
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- just to remember, "Oh, I should talk to God right now."
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- Whether it's 30 seconds, or a minute, or 5 minutes, or
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- however much time you put into it.
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- It's a simple pattern that you can use.
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- Alright, let's get right into it.
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- Number one, we're going to start your day with the first phrase
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- the Lord's Prayer, and the first thing you do when you wake up,
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- here's what you do you, write it down.
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- First thing when you wake up, get up with gratitude.
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- Get up with gratitude.
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- When you get out of bed in the morning, before you eat
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- breakfast or do anything else, you should get up starting to be
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- grateful to God and telling God all the things you're
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- grateful for.
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- Now, you've got a choice on what attitude you're gonna have when
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- you get up.
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- One guy said, "You wake up grumpy in the morning?"
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- He said, "No, I usually let her sleep."
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- You can get up with grumbling, you can get up with griping, you
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- can get up with groaning, you can get up with grousing, you
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- can get up with grumbling, you can get up with growling, you
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- can get up with grunting, or you can get up with gratitude.
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- It's your choice.
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- Did you know that doctors have discovered that the single
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- healthiest emotion known to man is gratitude?
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- That the attitude of gratitude actually makes you healthier,
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- mentally, emotionally, and physically.
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- It's actually good for your health.
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- And so, why not start every morning with gratitude to God?
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- And you thank God for all the things that he has done for you.
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- And what I would recommend you do is that you keep a gratitude
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- list by your bedside, and I've put one, I gave it to you months
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- ago, put another one in your program.
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- You can take it home with you, you finish filling this out,
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- stuff you're grateful for, and put it by your nightstand.
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- You don't have anything memorized.
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- I've got mine memorized, A to Z, and stuff I'm grateful for.
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- But you could get up in the morning, and before you get out
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- of bed, you stop there and say, "Let me just be grateful, God,
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- for some things," and you can read some stuff off the list.
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- D, you designed my life for your great plan and purpose,
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- thanks, God.
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- E, you empower me with your Spirit.
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- F, you forgive me and you forget my sins.
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- You free me from shame and you fill my life with meaning, boom.
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- You can just read through this list, it will change
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- your attitude.
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- Doctors and actually psychologists have proven that
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- the attitude that you have for the day is set in the first
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- eight minutes.
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- So, you want to grumble, grouse, grown, grunt, or do you want to
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- be grateful?
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- So, you start your day with gratitude to God for the
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- goodness of God.
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- And one of the ways is just to use this little, you know, tool
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- to make a list of stuff you're grateful for.
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- Another ways is just to make a playlist of songs of gratitude.
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- Thank you songs to God.
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- You can go on Spotify, iTunes or something, and make a list of
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- songs that say thank you to God, and you can play those.
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- And so you get up with gratitude, and you wake up
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- with worship.
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- That'll set your attitude for the whole day.
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- Very, very simple.
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- You start with that.
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- Now, why do we do this?
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- Look up here on the screen.
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- The Bible says this.
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- "What do you have that God didn't give you?
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- Everything you have is a gift from God, and if it was given to
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- you, how can you brag about it?"
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- So really, what gratitude does is it gets me to focus on the
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- loving Father that we talked about last week.
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- The Abba, the Daddy, the Papa who gives me all that I need,
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- who meets all my needs.
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- And so, you start your day focusing on the goodness of God,
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- and that's the first phrase of the Lord's Prayer.
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- Look at this, Matthew 6 verse 8 and 9, Jesus said, "You know
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- your Father knows what you need before you ask him."
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- You know that when you pray.
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- "Your Father knows what you need before you ask him, so then this
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- is how you should pray.
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- 'Our Father in heaven.'"
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- He says start with thinking about God and his goodness.
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- He's a good, good Father.
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- Yes, you are, yes, you are.
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- He's a good, good Father.
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- He's caring, he's close, he's consistent, he's competent.
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- God, you're a good, good Father, and let me give you a list of
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- the ways that you're good to me.
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- And so you start your day not with confession, not with your
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- requests, you start it with gratitude.
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- God, you're a good, good Father.
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- Let me just tell you all the things I'm grateful for.
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- You know what?
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- I'm grateful for running water.
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- I'm grateful for indoor plumbing.
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- I'm grateful for ice.
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- I'm grateful for bed, and sheets, and a blanket.
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- I'm grateful for shoes to put on.
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- I'm grateful for a warm house when it's cold, and a cold house
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- when it's hot outside.
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- And you just tell God all the stuff you're grateful for, and
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- you take for granted.
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- He says you start with, "Our Father."
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- James 1:17, "Every good gift and every perfect gift, present,
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- comes from the Father, your Father of light in heaven."
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- So, the first thing out of bed, here's what I do.
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- Fill this in.
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- I thank my Father in heaven for his consistent love.
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- I recall all of the ways that he's good to me.
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- I thank my Father in heaven for his consistent love, and I
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- recall all of the ways that he's good to me.
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- That's how you start your day.
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- We're gonna have seven little snippets through the day, the
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- very first thing you do, you get up, you get up with gratitude.
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- And let me give you one more, and then we're going to sing
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- about it, alright?
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- Now, you get out of bed, you get dressed, you your shower, or
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- whatever you do, and now you're getting ready to eat.
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- First I get up with gratitude, the second thing I do is I bless
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- God's name at breakfast.
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- I bless God's name at breakfast.
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- Now I've gone from gettin' up to going to breakfast, and I can
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- pray at breakfast.
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- Doesn't have to be a long prayer, but what I do is I pray
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- the second phrase of the Lord's Prayer and I bless God's name
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- at breakfast.
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- What does it mean to bless?
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- It means to honor, it means to give respect, it means
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- to praise.
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- The word, the theological word is adoration.
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- We adore God.
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- We bless him.
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- We praise him.
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- And that's the second phrase of the Lord's Prayer.
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- "Our Father in heaven," you're a good God.
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- Thank you for all you've done.
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- You're a good Father.
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- And then he says number two, "Hallowed be your name."
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- That means holy.
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- I'm gonna respect your name.
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- I'm gonna honor your name.
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- I'm gonna praise your name.
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- I'm gonna adore your name.
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- That's the second thing you can do, and you can do it
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- at breakfast.
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- I bless God's name at breakfast.
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- announcer: We all experience disappointments, obstacles, and
- 00:25:49.071 --> 00:25:52.541
- seemingly impossible circumstances in our lives.
- 00:25:52.541 --> 00:25:56.812
- Maybe you need a breakthrough in your marriage, your finances,
- 00:25:56.812 --> 00:26:00.582
- relationships, or with habits and painful memories that have
- 00:26:00.582 --> 00:26:04.186
- held you back.
- 00:26:04.186 --> 00:26:06.121
- You'll get a breakthrough in your life when you seek one, and
- 00:26:06.121 --> 00:26:09.424
- the way you do that is through prayer.
- 00:26:09.424 --> 00:26:12.594
- That's why Pastor Rick created the "40 Days of Prayer"
- 00:26:12.594 --> 00:26:15.564
- study kit.
- 00:26:15.564 --> 00:26:17.132
- In this life-changing, six-session DVD and workbook
- 00:26:17.132 --> 00:26:20.335
- study, Pastor Rick helps you cultivate a powerful
- 00:26:20.335 --> 00:26:23.405
- prayer life.
- 00:26:23.405 --> 00:26:25.374
- You'll learn how to pray for a breakthrough and how to pray
- 00:26:25.374 --> 00:26:28.477
- with more confidence and greater faith than ever before.
- 00:26:28.477 --> 00:26:33.582
- Get the "40 Days of Prayer" study kit today, and experience
- 00:26:33.582 --> 00:26:37.185
- the blessing of answered prayer.
- 00:26:37.185 --> 00:26:40.522
- When you give a gift today to help "Daily Hope" take this
- 00:26:40.522 --> 00:26:43.525
- certain hope of Jesus to people around the world, we'll send you
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- the "40 Days of Prayer" study kit to say thanks.
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- ♪♪♪
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