"Praying Like Jesus" | Pastor Steve Gaines

take your Bibles in turn with me please to Luke chapter 11 Matthew Mark Luke and John Luke is the only Gentile writer in the Bible and he wrote two really big books the Gospel of Luke and also the book that we just spent a year and a half going through the book of Acts and we're going to look at chapter 11 verse 1 in just a minute and I want to talk to you today about praying like Jesus somebody asked me what is the Christian life about look at me here it is it is real simple Jesus Jesus if you don't live like Jesus if you don't live for Jesus in my opinion you're wasting your life and if you live for Jesus and if you walk with Jesus one thing is going to happen to you for sure you're gonna learn how to pray because Jesus while he was on this earth prayed and you know what we need to be like Jesus we need to be like Jesus not only in the way he acts not only way he thinks and the way he talks but we need to be like Jesus in the way that he prays now I want you to look at me everybody looking at me let's focus I want about thirty five minutes of your time and I want to share with you what I believe is the greatest subject on prayer and that is the prayer life of Jesus I want to talk with you for about thirty-five minutes and then we're going to give an invitation if you don't know the Lord will give you an opportunity to receive Christ to be born again to be saved to have all your sins forgiven and we'll do that at the end of the service we'll also if you've never been baptized give you an opportunity to set up a time to do that at the end of the service when I call for people to come if you've already been saved you can come and be baptized and we don't baptize you today but we'll set up that time for you and then also if you want to join our church we'll let you start that process today but that's all at the end of the service but I want to say this to you I believe that your prayer life is what your Christian life is I don't believe you're ever going to experience all that stuff that we saw in the book of Acts all the miracles that we read about all the anointing all the power all the real Christianity only comes to people that learn how to pray and so what I'm talking I'm teaching you today from the life of Jesus do you know why because nobody in here especially me nobody in here is an expert on prayer the only one that's an expert on prayer is the Lord Jesus Christ and so we can learn from him but I want to say this to you your your walk with the Lord is no better than your prayer time so if your prayer times not doing good you really need to listen up that's not something you can just let slide you have to stay on this and I know I talked a lot about it and it's because the Christian life begins with prayer I mean you've got to pray to even get saved you got to call upon the name of the Lord I'm memorizing a verse right now out of Psalm 99 it says and I don't have it all memorized so I'm not gonna but I love what it says I have this much of it memorized Moses and Aaron were among his priests and Samuel was among those who called on his name they called upon the name of the Lord and he answered them and he instructed them and they kept his testimonies and his statutes now that's not word for word but that's about 95% word for word okay but they were among the people who called on the Lord not just for salvation but even after you get saved you've got to call on the Lord I hear people tell I said all the times that how's it going with my marriage is tough you know what you got to do you got to call on the Lord I talked with some people back in guest central day they'd been married 60 years guess what they've done a lot of calling on the Lord amen amen that's true you get you're raising children you need to call upon the Lord you got sickness in your body you need to call upon the Lord you got financial issues you need to call upon the Lord you got doubts in your mind about Jesus or about the world you need to call on the Lord because I'm telling you God knows how to fix every problem you've got but you got to call upon the name of the Lord so I want us to learn not from Steve but just straight from Jesus today all right I love Luke 11 verse 1 I like the way it starts it happened I like that I like things to happen don't you I don't like to wait on things I like things to get going so it happened what happened that while Jesus was doing what what was Jesus doing hey if Jesus needed to pray do you think maybe you need to pray alright just a little thought there that's not even in my notes I just came right from the Lord how about that while Jesus was praying in a certain place he had a place of Prayer after he had finished one of his disciples said to him Lord teach us to what said hell out pray just as John also taught his disciples if you read the Bible they never said Lord teach us to make disciples they never said Lord teach us to build big buildings they never said Lord teach us how to preach they never said Lord teach us how to teach they never said Lord teach us how to sing they never said Lord teach us how to have a denomination they never said any of that the only thing they said Lord teach us to was teach us to pray because they saw Jesus life and they even though they knew he was the Messiah even though they knew he was the Anointed One even though they knew that he had come from God and that he was God in the flesh they saw in his life a power that they knew was directly connected with his prayer life when you pray you have power that you don't have when you don't pray I can't explain it but I'm just telling you that's the and when you pray all of a sudden you're under and anointing that you normally I've never walked up these steps when I preach I'm gonna do it one time all right you've got an anointing that you've never had before when you pray how many of you how many of you have been around somebody you say that person is anointed by God raise your hand anybody you know I'm talking about there's difference and there's a difference then somebody that just goes to church reads the Bible every once in a while goes to a class maybe whatever but somebody that you when you get around them you just know they've been spending time with the Lord let me tell you some that comes from prayer I want to be that I want to be like that don't you I want to be like I want to learn how to pray and the best person to learn from is the Lord Jesus Christ I want to talk like he talks I want to walk like he walks I want to live like he lives and I want to pray like he prays so let's see let's say what are you seven things must not be a Baptist sermon this would be three right but okay okay number one if you want to pray like Jesus pray in the morning not an amen in the bunch not too late that's too late mark chapter 1 verse 35 in the early morning while it was still dark this is early Jesus got up look at your neighbor and said you need to get up you know what you got to do for you get up you need to go to bed on time look at your neighbors say get to go to bed on time all right now don't enjoy that too much all right and he left the house he left Simon Peters house in Capernaum I've been to that house 12 times when I first went there nobody had built anything over it but now the Roman Catholics have built a church over it on stilts and you go up into the church and look down into Peter's house they know it was his and that's the house he'd been in he went away to a secluded literally a lonely place prayer is the language of loneliness when you're alone with God you're not alone and he was praying there that's one of the most beautiful verses especially when you look at it in the context if you look back in chapter one Jesus had had a very busy day Jesus had gone to the synagogue while he was in the synagogue a demon-possessed man came forth and started screaming and Jesus cast the demon out when we go to Israel we go to that synagogue where Jesus cast that demon out then he walks over to Peter's house just a stone's throw away and he walked in there and the Bible says Peters mother-in-law if you think Peter was the first pope the first Pope was married all right he had a mother-in-law don't even know why I said that just thought it let you know all right so Peter his mother-in-law was sick and jesus healed he rebuked the fever and cast the fever out and she got up and she started cooking and waiting on everybody she loved the Lord and all of a sudden all these people start coming in to Peter's house Andrew and Peter lived there his wife mother-in-law others and it's not a very big place it's just about that big right there and they all lived there together and so all these people were coming in and they were being healed and Jesus was also casting out demons and he did it into the wee hours of the morning if you read mark chapter 1 and then the very next day in the early morning while it was still dark Jesus could have easily said hey father I'm gonna take the day off I had a busy day yesterday you know all the power that went through me I'm exhausted he could have said now you know I I just can't I don't have time to pray Jesus knew that a day without prayer is a wasted day and so Jesus gets up early in the morning before the Sun had even risen and he went out by himself nobody knew about it at a time somebody found about it later or they wouldn't have been able to write about it but he didn't brag it didn't he didn't wake anybody else he just kind of slipped out he won the battle of the covers how many of you know what I'm talking about right there your alarm goes off you want to get up oh just one morning you slept that thing about 40 times you got to win the Battle of the covers get up get out of bed get out of the room go someplace to a secluded place Jesus said in mark or Matthew chapter 6 verse 6 but you when you pray go into your inner room shut the door pray to your father who is in secret and your father who sees in secret will listen to you and he will answer you Jesus went out and spent time with the Father why in the morning because when you pray in the morning you pray over your entire day you pray for what's going on because guess what if you don't pray over it God's not going to anoint you in it you're not going to have the wisdom and the power to do what you need to do say what you need to say meet the people you need to meet a lot of you are missing out because you don't pray in the morning and some of you don't pray in the morning because you don't go to bed on time I mean as serious as I can be this starts at night you go to bed at night on time you set your alarm you get up you spend time with the Lord and let me tell you something if you're serious about it let me tell you something bout the Lord he will wake you up he will wake you up early in the morning a lot of times in the fourth watch between 3 a.m. and 6 a.m. you say oh that couldn't be god yes that is God you go and get up and talk like I'm telling you God wants you to pray more than you want to pray and Jesus got up the Bible says in Psalm 5 verses 1 through 3 give ear to my words O Lord consider my meditation hearken unto the voice of my cry my king and my god for unto thee will I pray my voice shalt thou hear in the morning in the morning and then he says I will direct my prayer under the in the morning I will direct my prayer into thee and I will look up I tell you morning is time to get up so you can look up spend time with the Lord Psalm 143 verse 8 calls me to hear thy loving-kindness in the morning for indeed do I trust cause me to know the way wherein I should walk we don't know which way we should go sometime you'll find out in your prayer time where I lift up my soul under that's what praying is lifting up your soul to the Lord some people take better care of their cell phones than they do their souls you need to lift your soul up to the Lord every day and say Oh God I need you so much lord I need you I want to say this to you I for many years I struggled with praying on son because I have so much going on on Sunday and one day just dawned on me of all the days I need to be praying Sunday probably is the most important day I've got so I don't need to skip prayer on Sunday so I've started something different if you invite me over to something late on Saturday night it ain't going to happen not because I don't like you but I'm going to bed early so I can get up early because I'm here at 7 o'clock every Sunday morning with the guys praying over the same your seat has been prayed over because somebody got up out of the bed and wanted to come in your your various seat everybody in this room all these seats have been touched and they have been touched not only with the hands of our staff about 70 of us every Sunday morning at 7 o'clock but we also been touched by the hand of God because we prayed over it because I believe that where you pray is important where you pray God's power falls and so we prayed this morning but I wanted to get up early and so I this morning went out there not trying to brag not trying to blow anything like that just try and tell you I'm not gonna ask you to do something I don't do it I went out there it was so it was so peaceful the doves started cooing and then some old crow started doing his thing and I rebuked him in the name of Jesus and sure enough he left I'm telling you you think I'm crazy all you won't - I don't like crows alright but I love the doves and I was out there and just me and the Lord looking up praying lifting you up lifting this service up why because the day is not right if you don't pray in the morning think about the Lord's Prayer it was a morning prayer what did Jesus say give us this day our daily bread that makes sense only if you pray in the morning so I want to encourage you number one you get up in the morning and you pray don't enter a day that has not been prayed over number two if you want to pray like Jesus take prayer retreats take prayer retreats you said what in the world are you talking about Luke 5:16 but Jesus himself would often slip away to the wilderness and pray I like that that's given again he had just healed a guy on the Sabbath all the Jewish leaders were mad at him so Jesus just kind of slips away and he prays Jesus got away in the loan in the wilderness and he prayed I like the word slip away he didn't do it to show off he did it discreetly he went to spend time with the Lord in prayer back when I was a kid I had a bow and arrow did anybody ever you know they won't even let you have one now they don't let you have anything that's fun anymore all right because it's dangerous you're gonna hurt somebody or something you know but anyway how many of you had a bow and arrow anybody have a bow and arrow I love those things my daddy got a bunch of wheat straw bales of wheat straw we put him out in the backyard we put all kind of targets on them out there and we one day we lit a match on and burned the whole thing down all right and it and my daddy whipped us really bad but anyway I just grown up but one thing I learned about a bow and arrow you cannot leave the string tight all the time when you're not using it you have to undo it you know why it will lose its elasticity and you know what some of you some of you have lost your spiritually last days you know why because you're always going and you never take time to pull away to be with the Lord you don't do it you don't even think about it you just go non-stop all the time that is not the will of God if you're too busy to pray you are too busy if you're too busy to talk with God you're doing something that God does not want you to do I want to encourage you every once in a while just take a prayer retreat now I don't know how you do it I can do how I do it my wife does it she'll just go take a walk she'll walk around the neighborhood and just take about an hour and she'll just talk to the Lord and and my wife is a godly woman I love her so much and she she prays and she's not perfect you know and I'm not perfect but you know what she talks with the Lord and she just gets away with the Lord you know what I like to do I like to drive out in the country I'm from the country I like to drive out in the country I lie and I like to just take prayer prayer drive and I did it yesterday Donna was gone she was down in Birmingham with her mother they were celebrating her mother's birthday and all that and so I took the time I'd never turned the television on while she was gone I didn't want to watch all that and so I I just got him a car got all my scripture prayer cards and I took off man I drove all over Fayette County I drove all over Shelby County out in the country and I I just had a great time talking with the Lord I say that to you not to try to impress you but to try to encourage you figure out whatever it is and just pull aside and pray talk to the Lord get away spend a whole half day with the Lord read your Bible pray Jesus did it all the time he himself would often slip away the wilderness and there he would pray again times spent in prayer is never wasted time you need to be in those prayer retreats on a regular basis if Jesus needed to pray you know that you do number three pray before you make decisions oh this is a biggie oh this is huge look at Luke chapter six look at on the screen verses 12 and 13 it was at this time that he Jesus went off to the mountain to pray he spent the whole night in prayer what was going on have you ever spent a whole night in prayer what's going on he had a big decision look at this and when day came he called his disciples to him and he chose twelve of them whom he also named as apostles they would be the leaders of the church when he left he had to make the right decision he needed to talk with God he needed to pray before he made us a big decision how many of you believe that Jesus needed to pray all night long amen look at me if Jesus needed to pray over big decisions so do you I'm telling you I hear people say Oh Steve I'm gonna take this job as more money it may be more money it may be maybe more mess to you don't take a job just because it's more money you take a job because you've prayed about it and you do what God wants you to do I want to say this to you if I were you I'd pray about every decision I have and if you do that and God says you're gonna make less money I'd rather make less money in the will of God then more money outside the will of God you don't make decisions just on the way things look well we're going to buy this house why because it's in a nicer neighborhood what's nice for what are you talking about you don't like the people you're around you don't think God created them you don't think that well my my house my values going down I Got News for you when you die it's not going to matter what your house is worth you're not taking anything with you you know what they're gonna say it's your funeral somebody's gonna say well how much did he leave behind you know what somebody else is gonna say everything you know I'm gonna tell you you came in without a stitch of clothes and that's how you're going out you not gonna have anything so what does it matter where you live we're always wanting something else that we don't have God wants you before you make any decision to pray about it Jesus did listen to this proverbs 3:5 and say if you don't know these verses proverbs 3 chapter chapter 3 verses five and six the this is a memory text right here here it is trust in the Lord with all your heart and don't lean on your own understanding let me stop and just say past experience is not necessarily what ought to teach you in the future because God is a God who does a new thing and you can really mess up say well I already know how to I don't even need to pray about that I've already been there done that you know that's that's the bad thing about getting old you know too much you got too many experiences and you think that God wants you to to deal with you exactly the way did in the past you know there's a time where I said to Moses I want you to strike the rock and water will come out but then the next time he said I want you to speak to the rock and Moses said I'll just go back and do as he last time he hit the rock and water came out and he didn't get to go into the Promised Land because he did it the way you used to do it it's the way that God said to do it now don't trust your past gods our God of the new thing you got to be listening to God you got to be trusting God don't lean on your own understanding but in all of your ways do what acknowledge him what does that pray about everything be anxious for nothing but in everything by prayer and supplication with Thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God don't lean on your own understanding and all of your ways acknowledge him and he will direct your paths listen to me pray about everything pray about every decision and I pray these verses all the time I pray them every day psalm 32 verse eight and here's how I pray it Lord I pray that you will instruct me and teach me in the way that I should go I pray that you will guide me with your eye upon me Isaiah 30:21 lord I pray that my ears will hear a voice behind me saying this is the way Steve walking and whenever I turn to the right or the left pray it every day Jeremiah 33 god I thank you you said call upon me and I will answer thee and show thee great and mighty things which thou know it's not in God there's a lot I don't know but you know it all God I'm calling on you show me what I need to know God loves prayers like that Bible says in James chapter one verses five through eight if any of you lacks wisdom and we all do let him ask of God pray about it who gives all too generously without reproach that's talking about wisdom it will be given to him but he must ask in faith without any doubting for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea driven and tossed by the wind like a just like a wave coming he just tossed all the time always stirred up always anxious and everything you're not supposed to live like that you're supposed to pray verse seven for that man ought not that they expect that he'll receive anything from the Lord being a double minded man a tus old man unstable in all his ways are you gonna be unstable or are you going to pray and have the confidence that only comes when you know you're in the will of God because you've prayed about it some of you are facing major decisions in life that affect not only you but your children your family and future generations you know what you need to be in prayer all the time I don't want to live a life I don't want to live a day that is not prayed over I've lived long enough to know and you can make some really bad decisions if you don't pray I'm gonna look you right now and tell you I've got some things in my life that if I had prayed over it it would have been a lot better and I'm just telling you I've made enough mistakes I don't want to make any more mistakes like that I want to pray and spend time because when you're praying you get the wisdom of God pray before you make decisions number four if you want to pray like Jesus pray when you are tempted everybody's tempted that's when you need to pray Jesus was tempted but notice what the Bible says about his temptation Hebrews 4:15 we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weakness but one who has been tempted in all things as we are but he doesn't stop there yet without sin he was tempted but he never yielded to any temptation and I believe it's because he prayed when he was tempted the Bible says in Matthew chapter 4 verses 1 & 2 Jesus was lit up by the holy spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil and after he had fasted 40 days and 40 nights he became hungry Jesus was praying and he was being tempted by the devil he was being tempted by the devil to have a selfish ministry turned that stone into bread to have a spectacular ministry jump off the pinnacle of the temple to have a shortcut ministry bow down and worship me but Jesus prayed and he has quoted Scripture and the sword of the Spirit in prayer defeated the devil and it still does you need to pray when you are tempted you need to pray the Word of God Jesus prayed when he was being tempted not to go to the cross when he was in the Garden of Gethsemane the Bible says in Luke 22 verse 44 being in agony Jesus was praying very fervently and his sweat became like drops of blood falling down upon the ground when is the last time you've prayed so intensely that you literally were sweating you broke a sweat while you were praying you were praying oh god I have to have you I want to say this to you they'll come a time in your life well you'll have enough of the tragedy where you go before God then you say God I can't get up until I receive from you what I went down for god I can't get off the floor until you give me that peace in my heart that you're gonna work this thing out god I've got to pray through I'm not messing around today God this is not a little blessed Eve day this is a God you got to come down date God I'm asking you God in the name of Jesus to break through that's the kind of prayer you got to get to that's where you got to get some of you aren't there yet I'm telling you live long enough you're going to pray through you're going to do what Jacob did you got to grab hold of God and say I'm not letting you go I am not letting you go until you bless me and he may give you a Jacobs limp and you may limp the rest of your life but I'd rather have the limp of Almighty God and have the power of God then not to pray through we're talking about serious business today God's talking to some of you right now you've got an issue you've got something going on in your life and you just kind of play at prayer some of you are living in sexual immorality right now and you know it and you laugh about it but I Got News for you God's not laughing about it and the only reason God hadn't taken you out is because of the sheer mercy of God you need to pray and repent today now that's a word I don't know who that's for I did not say that another service but and I'm not looking at anybody thinking anybody buddy I'm just telling you you need to be really careful because the mercy of God is one thing but don't you tempt the Lord your God it's time to stop and repent and pray and call out to God fervently and the writer of Hebrews said this when Jesus prayed like that in the garden he was being tempted not to go to the cross because he didn't want to be separated from the Father notice what the writer of Hebrews whoever that was said about Jesus prayer in Gethsemane and he says in Hebrews five seven in the days of his flesh talking about Jesus Jesus offered up both prayers and supplications with loud crying and tears to the one able to save him from death and he was heard because of his piety sometimes the reason you shut that door is you're gonna cry out to God you don't want anybody else hearing it you just want to cry out to God he was heard because of his reverent submission jesus said to his disciples in Matthew 26:41 keep watching and praying that you may not enter into temptation the Spirit is willing but the flesh is what's a doubt out week how many of you know the flesh is weak but the Spirit is willing so you let the spirit have dominance over your flesh and you get out there and you pray and you resist temptation pray before you're tempted pray when you're tempted and pray for God to give you strength number five if you want to pray like Jesus don't just pray when you're tempted but pray while you are suffering Jesus suffered more than anybody else ever has suffered while he was on the cross and he prayed oh how he prayed he prayed when he first went on the cross while they were gambling for his last possessions his only possessions his clothes he prayed for them Luke 23:34 as he suffered Jesus said Father forgive them they don't know what they're doing they cast lots dividing up his garments among themselves and then at the end of the time his time on the cross Jesus prayed again at about three o'clock these words Matthew 27 verse 46 about the ninth hour that's three o'clock Jesus cried out with a loud voice saying Eli Eli lama sabachthani my God my God why have you forsaken me God the Father put all of your sin and my sin on Jesus and God the Holy Father poured out the wrath of God and turned away from his son momentarily Jesus was temporarily forsaken of God so that you and I would not be eternally forsaken of God in hell and Jesus couldn't stand it he's cried out why have you forsaken me oh Jesus prayed while he suffered he prayed while he suffered some of you going through a great turmoil right now in your marriage some of you are going through the hardest time of your life through some sickness some of you go through going through problems with the child problems at work problems with finances problems with stubborn neighbors whatever it might be hear the word of the Lord James 5:13 is anyone among you suffering then he must was said I'll out pray if you're going through a hard time if you're suffering the solution is prayer number six if you want to pray like Jesus pray with Thanksgiving pray with Thanksgiving twice in the Bible at least in the New Testament Jesus breaks out and thanks the Father in prayer Luke 10 21 at that very time Jesus rejoiced greatly in the holy spirit and said I praise you O Father Lord of Heaven and Earth that you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and have revealed them to infants or babe's yes Father for this way was well pleasing in your sight father I thank you that it's not just the people that are intellectual that gets you I thank you Father that men can't figure you out I want to thank you that you give the blessings and the anointing to the ones that will just be little spiritual babes who humble themselves in your sight and make you everything and think of themselves as nothing Oh father I thank you he thank God on another day when he was about to raise Lazarus out of a grave he had been dead he had been dead for for three days three or four I don't remember doesn't matter don't worry about it he'd been dead and the Bible says Jesus said in John 11:41 so they removed the stone Jesus raised his eyes and said father I thank you I love that I thank you that you have heard me I knew that you always hear me because of the people standing around I said it so that they may believe that you sent me and then he cried out Lazarus come forth and the grave gave out that body and Jesus Christ raised him from the dead and he thank God right before he did it you need to thank God you need to thank God for everything you've got he said I don't have much what you've got God gave you you ought to thank God for food how many of you had food to eat this morning when you woke up did you thank God how many of you had clothes to put on before you got out of bed or before you got out of the house did you thank God how many of you had a roof over your head last night anybody you got thank God how many of you look at me how many of you been forgiven for all your sins don't you need to thank God how many of you God provides all of your needs according to his riches and glory through Christ Jesus anybody out there you ought to thank God how many of you got somebody a human being that loves you raise your hand anybody you ought to thank God how many of you your name is written in the Lamb's Book of Life don't you think y'all thank God let's thank God right now amen praise Him praise Him just thank you amen even in his resurrected State Jesus would not have put a morsel of bread in his body before he thanked God Luke 24 30 while he was at Emmaus when he had reclined the table with them he took the bread he blessed it he broke it he began giving it to them he blessed it he thanked God for a piece of bread even though he'd been raised from the dead I love what Paul said in Colossians 4 verse 2 devote yourselves to prayer how do I do that keeping alert in it how do I do that with an attitude of Thanksgiving next time you can't pray just start thanking God for what he's done putting the last 24 hours you'll have a great time of Prayer and the last thing is this Jesus is praying you will pray like Jesus then pray right now I want to say again if you if you have not prayed today with all due respect you have wasted today thus far make sure that before this day is up you spend time with God in prayer Hebrews 7:25 what is Jesus doing right now in heaven why doesn't he come home back well he's preparing to come back he's also preparing a home for all of us that know him he's also pardoning the loss in the sins of lost people that are repenting and believing him but there's another thing he's doing do you know that Jesus is praying right now Hebrews 7:25 they'll get on the screen therefore he is able everybody say God is able he is able to save forever those who draw near to God through him since he always lives to make intercession for them I'll be going along and be down in the dumps and all of a sudden the Holy Ghost will remind me hey Jesus is praying for you you're gonna make it and you know what all of a sudden I realize my Jesus my Savior my Lord my master is talking to the Father through the power of the Holy Spirit on my behalf and saying I'm praying for Steve today father I pray that you'll lift him up and you know what the father hears every prayer of Jesus I'm gonna make it through because Jesus is praying for me some of you right now going through problems in your family some of you going through problems with your health some of you going through problems with your finances some of you going through problems whatever it might be at work or whatever I'm telling you Jesus is praying for you some of you are lost in this service right now if you died you would not go to heaven you'd go to hell and if you live tomorrow you won't live with the anointing of God you won't live being able to understand this book because you don't know the author and you don't know the spirit who inspired this but when but right now Jesus is praying for you that you in just a moment will come down one of these aisles talk to a preacher and just give your heart to Jesus Christ so that you can be saved so that you can have the Holy Spirit in you so that you can read a love letter every time you read the Bible God wants to change your life God is wanting to change your life Jesus is praying for you right now what is it that's keeping you from following the Lord Jesus Christ Jesus is praying for your gonna make it through troubled one you're gonna make it through all the tribulations you're gonna make it through all the ridiculing you're gonna make it through that messy thing you've got going on in your marriage you're gonna make it through you know why Jesus is praying and I Got News for you when Jesus prays things happen things happen you gonna make it you know why Jesus is praying and Jesus is praying right now if Jesus is praying right now I want Steve to pray right now let's pray right now father in the name of Jesus we want to be like Jesus and we want to pray God we want to pray at all times Lord teach us to pray let's all pray that out loud Lord teach us to pray let's all say it again Lord teach us to pray in Jesus name and all God's people said

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Published: Tue May 22 2018