Prayer to the One | Ep. 128

The Lord's Prayer is not merely a set of words to be recited; it is a blueprint for understanding our relationship with God Almighty. This podcast progresses from a study on Daniel 7, drawing connections between the Old Testament visions and their New Testament counterparts. Through this exploration, we encounter the Ancient of Days, whose divine judgment and eternal presence permeate the pages of scripture. This imagery paints a picture of the eternal self-existent One who is both timeless and actively involved in the unfolding story of humanity.
 
As the episode unfolds, we are brought face to face with the awe-inspiring revelations presented in the book of Revelation chapter 5. The narrative transports us into the throne room of God, where John the Apostle witnesses the Lion of Judah break the seven seals, the One found worthy. This act of Christ is not just a historical moment; it is the culmination of prophecy, a celestial chorus heralding the triumph of divine love and justice.
 
The conversation then turns to the exclusive claim of the Bible to salvation. Listeners are confronted with the weighty implications of Jesus’ declaration that He is the only path to the Father. This discussion is critical, for it emphasizes the necessity of forgiveness and the pursuit of God's will over our own. It is a call to align our hearts with the divine will, recognizing the unchanging nature of God's judgment.
 
Finally, the episode examines the nature of prayer and God's willingness to respond to the faithful. The emphasis is placed on the alignment of our desires with God's will and coupled with persistency, prayer is both heard and answered. Listeners are encouraged to engage not merely by listening to the podcast but with the act of prayer itself, stirring their hearts to press into the presence and eternal glory of the Almighty.

Transcript

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The vision received was that of blood cells traveling throughout the body, supplying the much needed oxygen and other nutrients to the differing members of the body to fulfill their purpose. Once the blood cells are spent, they must return back to the heart to be refilled before being sent out again and fulfill their purpose.

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I feel like I've missed some of you, as I haven't been up here in what I feel like is a while, but I'm always glad that the Lord has chosen me. I consider it a privilege and an honor to be up here, to be able to minister and to share. Minister doesn't mean I'm over you, minister, means I'm serving you. Here I am today to serve you and to show you this delicious course meal that God has in store for us today In our testimonies. There was a lot about prayer, interestingly enough.

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That is a good heap of what the message is about today that I'd like to share with you. It's a very famous scripture. I'm sure all of you, once I start talking, they will know what they call it the Lord's prayer, as if the Lord needed to pray in the in particular. But it's actually the disciples prayer. You know it starts with our Father, which are the men, and you know the rest of it.

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They're going to get to the rest of it, but I want to stop there, because sometimes, when we get into the scriptures, we just read it so fast and we don't spend time meditating, we don't spend time considering the ramifications of this, and I'm guilty of it. I'm guilty of it all my life and I'm probably still guilty of it now. But when the Lord has me to serve in the capacity that I'm doing now, those are the moments that, instead of just you know, kind of reading over and trying to gain a better understanding of His Word and His heart, I can slow down more, because I realize that what I'm receiving from the Lord is something that I need to share with others. And so you have to go slowly. You have to consider things that you probably would just overlook, like our Father, which are to have.

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See, it's a pretty simple passage and there's not a lot of meaning to it, but I guess, as I read it and as I was considering, considering what I was going to be sharing this week, we were in the midst of a Bible study with the kids, our kids.

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We were in Revelation and something just jumped out at me as we were reading and it seemed like that's really really important, really really important. So I want to just stop right there on our phone who is our phone? And we read some scriptures in Revelation and I had some notes of something that I realized years ago I can't remember when, because I just take notes as I read and it just builds from there about something in Daniel. So if everyone would, they have the Bible. Turn to Daniel, chapter 7, verse 9. We weren't reading this. We were reading something in Revelation, but I was reminded as I was reading in Revelation with the kids that wait a second. We've read this in the Old Testament. This whole scenario played itself out in the Old Covenant first. So let's look at this and let's see how it pertains to what we were reading in Revelation.

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In Daniel, chapter 7, verse 9, I could talk about the whole chapter and talk about. Daniel was having visions in the night and he was seeing things that were literally terrifying him. He did not understand what they were about, but what he saw was shaking him to his core and he saw a beast that I mean he saw four different beasts in one. The first one was like a lion, the next one was like a bear and the other you know, he saw four different beasts and he was focusing all on these beasts and they were really terrifying him. And that's really what verse 1 through 8 was about, and I skipped all that because I really want to focus on something else.

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So in his night visions he then sees the Lord. He said I beheld till the thrones were cast down and the thrones were the kingdoms of those beasts that he saw. They were cast down and then he saw the ancient of days did sit the ancient of days. God Almighty was seated upon the throne and it said his garment was white as snow, his hair of his head was like pure wool, his throne was like a fiery flame and wheels as a burning fire and there was a fiery screaming issue and came forth from before him. It says thousands and thousands ministered unto him and ten thousand times ten thousand were standing before him and the judgment was set.

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And the books were open.

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You've got to start, you've got to pause.

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You can't just read over this, you have to get into hope. He was in the midst of the throne. He saw the great Lord, God Almighty, whom Isaiah saw. He was high and lifted up and his train filled the temple and here Daniel was seeing him and he's seeing him with eye, you know, with a garment white as snow and hair white as wool, and there's this fiery flame and it's spewing forth from the throne room of God and it says that there were thousands upon thousands and ten thousand upon ten thousand that were standing before him ministering unto him, and it says the judgment was set and the book was open and I say the book because I know it says there are books and I went and looked at the Hebrew and I found that it was written in Aramaic, as Daniel wrote in Aramaic at the time he was in the Babylonian catenity and it said the book, just book. The book was open and I have to just point that out to you because we're going to see that again in Revelation. There was a book that was open.

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And.

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I'm going to skip 11 and 12 because again it talks about those four beasts in the kingdom and I'm trying to focus on something else. So in verse 13 it's that Daniel said I saw in the night visions After. I saw God and I saw him in his hair as white as wool and I saw all this flaming fire and judgment was set. Then I saw and behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven and came to that ancient of days that's one of my most favorite titles of the Lord, that ancient of days. And they brought him near before him.

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So one like the Son of man with the cloud of heaven came unto the ancient of days and was seated on the throne. And then it says there was given him the Son of man that came unto him. There was given him dominion and glory and a kingdom that all people, nations, language should serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion which shall not pass away in his kingdom, that which shall not be destroyed. So you see, great God Almighty seated on the throne. Judgment was set.

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There was a book that was open and all of a sudden one, like the Son of man, coming to him, and this Son of man was given dominion and power and glory and all of this honor, and everyone was to serve him, everyone was to worship him, because that kingdom that he was being given would never pass away, would never be done. And Daniel, I mean I'm focusing on these verses, but Daniel didn't focus on these verses, daniel was focused on those beasts. I mean, you can look at it real quick. If you just turn up to verse 8, you saw this beast that was a lion and you saw this other beast that was a bear. And then you saw this other beast and then he saw this fourth beast that was. He couldn't get his eyes, he couldn't get his mind, he couldn't get his heart off of this fourth beast because it was so unlike all the others, it was so massive and powerful to him that he was just terrified. And it says in verse 19,. I, daniel, was grieved in my spirit, in the midst of my body, and the visions of my head troubled me. I couldn't handle what I was seeing. And then Bishop just said maybe he doesn't allow us to see the enemy because we probably freeze, we probably be just worthless. So sometimes he doesn't see, but sometimes he allows some others to see who can handle. It's called the discernment of spirits and they see those.

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But Daniel was just so focused on these beasts he's so terrified, it says I came near unto one of them that stood by and asked him the truth of all this. He didn't understand. He asked one that was closer what is this? What is going on here? And so he told me and made me know the interpretation of these things. And he starts talking about these great beasts, which are four, are four kings which shall arise out of the earth.

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But he doesn't focus on what Daniel is so terrified about, because he says but the saints of the most high shall take the kingdom and possess the kingdom forever, even forever and ever. And I'm focusing on that because the angel that's giving him the interpretation doesn't just stay on these beasts. He says again I beheld, and this horn that made war with the saints prevailed against him in verse 21. He's talking about who this horn is and all this stuff. But he says again until the ancient of days came and judgment was given to the saints of the most high and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom. The angel is focusing on not what the beast are doing or who the beast are. He's focusing on what God had said in his judgment. It said his judgment was set.

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It said, one liken to the Son of.

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Man came unto him and it was given to him the kingdom and glory and power. And the angel was saying, yes, that's going to happen, but the saints are going to possess the kingdom. And he says again in verse 25, and this horn, yeah, he's going to speak great words against the most high, he's going to wear out the saints of the most high. He's going to think the change of times and the laws, and they shall be given into his hand until a time. Times and the dividing of a time. That's three and a half years, that's 42 months. We've gone over that.

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But I'm not focusing on that. I'm trying to focus on what this angel was focused on.

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This angel said but the judgment shall sit. See, he first said the judgment was set and now he says again the judgment will sit. Not only did God declare a judgment, that judgment will not change, what God has declared is not going to change. He may like, try to change the times and the laws and the season, this little horn, but the judgment is set and what God has declared is going to happen, it's going to take place and we're going to. It says that dominion is going to be taken away, it's going to be consumed and destroyed until the end. But it says and the kingdom and the dominion and the greatness of the kingdom under all of heaven, all of heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most high, whose kingdom is a never lasting kingdom and all dominion shall serve and obey him. And this angel says it three times. Daniel, I know you're terrified, but listen.

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In verse 18, the saints of the most high shall take the kingdom and possess the kingdom forever and ever.

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He says in verse 22,. The saints of the most high will possess the kingdom.

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He says in verse 27, the kingdom and the dominion and the greatness of the kingdom under all of heaven shall be given to the people of the saints of the most high.

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Daniel, are you listening? Are you hearing what I'm saying? Because you're terrified over nothing. The kingdom, in the end the judgment is set, will be given to the saints. And he says in verse 22, hitherto is the end of the battle. As for me, Daniel, my cogitation struggled me, my countenance changed me, but I kept the matter in my heart. He didn't get it. Whatever the angel was trying to tell him did not pierce his heart and settle him. He was still worried about and wondering what is all that I've seen? And so now I want to get to where I was with the kids this past week.

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You were reading in Revelation. Does everybody turn to Revelation 5? See if you see any parallels, see if you see any similarities, and you'll get that. What we're about to read in Revelation comes from a different perspective. It comes from John the Apostle's perspective, the beloved. But this perspective is more than just John's perspective. Let me clarify that John's perspective is a perspective that comes only by the revelation of Jesus Christ. So many of us are intimidated by Revelation. We're intimidated to read it because we're afraid we're not going to understand it.

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We're afraid of all these things, like Daniel was afraid about this beast.

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And what is this beast? And he's standing in the water and he's standing in the lake. And what is this beast? And I don't understand and I don't want to read Revelation. I don't want to read Revelation, but I tell you that John, in the very first five, six words of the book, tells you would you quit worrying about the beast. His first five, six words was the revelation of Jesus Christ. When you get into the book of Revelation, your perspective should be not in the beast, not in the horn, not in this and that, but what is the revelation of Jesus Christ found therein? It says John had the revelation of Jesus Christ. God gave it unto him. He showed his servant the things that are going to come shortly to pass. He sent and signified it by his angel to his servant, John.

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So when we get into this, don't get so focused on all of the periphery stuff. Find the revelation of Jesus Christ, and so let's read Revelation five. And I saw, in the right hand of him that sat on the throne, a book. Daniel saw the ancient of days sitting on the throne and he had a book. It said books, but it was a book. And John, he sees, it doesn't say the ancient of days, but it sees the one seated upon the throne.

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Well, we know, there's only one throne and it's only owned by only one being, so let's think that's probably the ancient of days, that's probably God Almighty, because there's only one throne and there's only one seated upon the throne in heaven. And he was taken up into heaven. John come up hither so that I can show you. So he came up in the spirit. He was seeing things in heaven, and there was one seated upon the throne of the book and it was read on the inside and the outside but it had seven scenes and I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice who is worthy?

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I have to stop there because that's a real, real important question who is worthy to open the book, to loose the seals thereof, it says. And no man in heaven, it says. And no man in the earth, it says. And no man under the earth was able to open the book nor to look thereupon. And John begins to weep. Daniel was terrified. He didn't weep, but John understood, being in the spirit, that that book that had the seven seals needed to be open, and he cried because there was no one found to open the book, it says. I wept because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to even look thereon. And so he wept In his spirit, he understood that book has got to be open.

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That book has got to be open. And John said, and one of the elders said unto me don't cry, weep not. Behold the lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, have prevailed to open the book. What's important is not that the book wasn't open or that there was no man found, but that there was one one, one found worthy, that finally came, that prevailed and did open the book and loosed the seven seals so that the book could be open. But only he was worthy. It says that I beheld and lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts and in the midst of the elders stood a lamb, as it had been slain, and it had seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God. Now, in Daniel, the terms that Daniel understood in his old covenant perspective, the ancient of days, and one like unto the Son of man, came unto the ancient of day.

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But John doesn't have an old covenant perspective, he has a new covenant perspective, he has the revelation of Jesus Christ perspective, and when he saw it, he saw a lamb that was slain came to the one that was seated on the throne with the book, and this lamb that was slain had seven eyes and seven horns. That seems really weird in and of itself. I don't know no lamb with horns. But you have to understand that. These words it says he signified it, he signified it unto John. These things, this revelation, these are metaphors. These are things that if you look into the Scriptures deep enough, you'll realize.

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Oh, the seven spirits of God that was spoken of in Isaiah, chapter 11, verse one through four, which says and there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse I know who Jesse is. He's the father of who, he's the father of David. Now listen to what it said in Revelation about this lamb that was slain. It said that behold the line of the tribe of Judah, the what of David, the root of David, the one who came before David, because the root is the beginning of a plant.

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Right Now. We read in Isaiah 11 about not a root but a rod that will come out of the stem of Jesse, a branch, and it says and the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him and the Spirit of wisdom and understanding and counsel and might and knowledge and the fear of the Lord, the seven spirits of God, shall rest upon this branch that comes out of the root of David and it's going to make him having the seven spirits of God upon him. It's going to make him quick of understanding and the fear of the Lord, and he shall not judge after his own sight, after his own eyes, and he won't reprove after the hearing of his ears, but with righteousness shall he judge the poor and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth and he shall smite the earth. With the rod of his mouth, with the words of his mouth, he's going to smite the earth and those in the earth, and with his lips he shall slay the wicked.

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Now by the revelation of Jesus Christ. You know that this is talking about the man, Jesus Christ. We can also look at Isaiah 61, verse 1 through 3. And this is why I know it is Jesus, because it says here prophetically, through Isaiah the Spirit of the Lord, god is upon me, because the Lord have anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek.

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He had sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and the opening of the prison to them that are bound. Who said that in the days of his flesh, didn't he? Where was he In the temple? What had just happened prior to him saying that? Where did he just come out of?

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Jordan, maybe Was it Jordan? Right before that, he was in the wilderness for 40 days being tested of Satan, and he says he came back full of the spirit and the power of the spirit and he sat there in the synagogue and he said this, he quoted himself because who was it that prophesied through all the prophets of old? It was the spirit of Christ. From 1 Peter 111.

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See he just repeated the matter.

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He repeated in himself to say hey, I said through the prophet Isaiah what I was going to say today. So this is about Jesus Again, the revelation is the revelation of Jesus Christ.

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So this line of the tribe of Judah, who's?

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also the root of David, who's also the offspring of David, comes in the perspective that John has to the ancient of days to open up the book, to open up the seals, this lamb, as it had been slain. And Jesus was slain. But if you read in the first chapter of Revelation, he says I am the out from the make of the beginning and the end, the first and the last. I was he that was dead but now is alive forevermore. That was Jesus' word In the red letter, if you take a look at that. So it says he came and he took the book out of the right hand of him that sat on the throne.

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So the one that was like unto the Son of man that Daniel saw was actually Jesus coming to the ancient of days to take the book.

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And it says when he had took in the book, the four beasts, the four and twenty elders, they fell down before the lamb, having every one of them harps and golden vials full of odors, which are the prayers of the saints. When he did that, every creature in heaven bowed themselves low because he was the only one worthy. And we still don't know what that book was about, but it had to have been immensely important because John wheat, wheat, wheat and every single creature bowed themselves down when he finally came and opened up the seas. It needed to be opened, If you read enough of the book of.

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Revelation, you would realize that there was a book of life and in that book of life was all the names of all the saints that were going to live eternally with him. He's written their names in the book of life. You bet you'd want that book opened if you wanted to live eternally, if you did not want to get cast into hell.

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That was going to get cast into the lake of fire.

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You want that book opened. You want the relationship that you established with Jesus in the days of your flesh to be found, to be tried and true, and then to begin to sing the new song thou art worthy to take the book and to open the seals thereof, for thou was slain and has redeemed us to God by the blood out of every kindred and tongue and people and nation, and has made us, or has made us, unto our God, kings and priests, and we shall reign on the earth. Does that not echo what we just read in Daniel? The saints of the kingdom shall possess it, it shall be given to them. And we're seeing the same picture in Revelation.

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In order for the saints of the most high to possess the kingdom, someone had to open the book. That had to take place first because it said it delineated who would possess the kingdom, and so they all just began to celebrate the Lord, they all began to worship the one who was found worthy. It says, and I beheld and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beast and the elders, and the number of them was 10,000 times 10,000. That was the same words Daniel used the same words.

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Daniel used. And then it says and thousands of thousands, same words Daniel used. It was the same event. They both saw the same thing. They one from an old covenant perspective and the other from the new covenant perspective, and they all said with the loud voice worthy is the lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing. This is an event that we should all be partaking in now. Worthy is the lamb.

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Worthy is the one who opened up the seals and brought about salvation and healing, and deliverance to all the saints, to all those that are called by his name, and every creature which is in heaven and on earth and under the earth and such as are in the sea and all that are in them, started saying blessing and honor, glory and power. That's the song Ron Kenoly said. They should reverberate in our spirit, that that is what is going on and what will go on. All of this is unto him that sitteth upon the throne and the lamb forever and ever. There was a scripture, I think, that my son put up, or maybe you put up just a while ago, first Timothy 3, 6, and we sung about it today, did we not? Great is the mystery of God, and is what? What was so great about the mystery of God is that who Did what God manifested in the flesh. So you see the ancient of days, god seated upon the throne, and you see this manifestation of the flesh coming to him.

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In other words, the one who came in the flesh, who died and resurrected again, was the one found worthy to open up the seals, but we're talking about one and the same person God who manifested in the flesh, not a God who manifested in the flesh. Not another God, who manifested in the flesh. It says God manifested in the flesh. It can't be any clearer than that. Who was Jesus, god manifested in the flesh? Who wrought the salvation of mankind? Who reconciled? It says all the world unto God.

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How, through Jesus Christ, no man cometh unto the Father, but by me you could try, and you will fail if you try to get to the Father without going through Jesus. He did that on purpose. He did that on purpose. 35,000 Christian denominations, not to mention all the other religions that are in the world, all now saying in one accord oh, it doesn't matter, it's all the same, we're all going to just get our way to heaven. They're all they're going to get. No, that's not what Jesus said. I am the way, I am the truth, I am the life. No man cometh unto the Father, but by me. He made himself the crux of your eternal life. And so I go back to that disciples prayer.

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Our.

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Father. Is this Our Father? Is this one that was found worthy? And look at all of the praise and the worship and the honor and the blessing and the power that he began to be receiving from all the creatures in heaven and earth, and under the earth and under the sea.

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They were all worshiping him for does it not say that one day will come where all will bow down and declare that Jesus Christ is the one, our Father, who is in heaven? So when we pray because Jesus was teaching them how to pray we have to come through the revelation of Jesus Christ. The revelation of Jesus Christ says our Father is the One who is worthy, and then what came to that becomes that's hallowed be thy name. Holy is your name, set apart, sanctified, special, unique above and all.

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Any other name is not his name above every other name, that, at the name of Jesus, every knee should bow every tongue should confess that he is Lord. To the glory of God, the Father Hallowed be thy name when you come to him in prayer, recognizing who he is, the one who is worthy, holy. Are you Set apart? Are you worthy to be praised and adored? Are you? And then thy kingdom come, then thy will be done. Why? Because Daniel said the judgment was set. The judgment is set. What God said He will do is going to be done and no one is going to change his mind from doing it.

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Because he wrote history. No man came unto him and made him rewrite history. He wrote it from beginning to end. He's the author and finisher of our faith. Whether we like it or not, whether we accept it or not. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth. Is that we recognize? There ain't nothing I can do to change his judgment. There ain't nothing I can do to change his will. So let me, like Jesus did in the garden of Gethsemane.

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Not, my will be done but thine will be done.

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He set that example for us. Walk in his footsteps, walk as he walked, because I was your example of what I want from you as a man who is dependent upon my spirit that now entwels you. For those that are on you, that's the attitude of that. We come to him in prayer, recognizing that he is worthy, recognizing that he is set apart alone to be worshiped, recognizing that there ain't nothing I can do to change his judgment. So let thy will be done.

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Let thy kingdom come.

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And then what happens? Then we begin to pray in Matthew 6: 11 to 13. Us, us, our, us, us. Then we see, then we can start asking. But it comes with the recognition or knowledge of who he is first and how much he's worthy and why we should even be seeking him because he's worthy, he's able. So then we can say give us this day our daily bread. That's just not talking about food.

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Give me my daily man. Give me my word for the day, because it is not by bread that man shall live, but by every word that proceeded out of the mouth of God. Give me this day my daily bread. Let me hear your voice today. Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. It's conditional. God is not going to forgive you if you're holding something against someone else. If you're still not having forgiven, why should he forgive you? He shouldn't, if he's going to be a just God. If you're going to hold this against someone else when you are just as guilty of sin as he is and he's forgiving you, why do you hold it against him? Forgive me as I forgive others. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. And then listen to the last words, for thine is the kingdom, thine is the power, thine is the glory, forever and ever.

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And you begin to echo what all creation was echoing when he came and took the book and opened the seals. So when we come to him in prayer, we have to come to him by the revelation of who he is and that judgment has been set, it's already done, deal, it's declared. He doesn't change. He said I change not. And when you come to him in prayer you need to be ready to be unreasonable. What do I mean by that?

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Now I read through Matthew, the Lord's Prayer, the disciples prayer. It was also reiterated. It through Luke and Luke, chapter 11, five through eight. After he said the Lord's Prayer, he started saying this Jesus said it to them. Which of you, if you have a prayer, shall go into him at midnight and say to him this is like my brother from another mother. John comes to my house is one o'clock in the morning and everybody knows I sleep like a log. He goes banging on my window. I got some guests over my house and I ain't got no food. Could you please give me some food so I can, you know, serve my guests and he keeps knocking and he keeps knocking.

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I said hey, I'm asleep, it's one o'clock in the morning and he keeps knocking, but because he's my friend, I'm going to get up so I can go back to sleep and give him a bread. I will do that and in my imperfect state of being as a man, you would do that if you had a friend and you loved him and you wanted him off your back so you'd go to bed you would give him the bread.

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Okay, here have some cheese and butter. Go, yeah, you help make him bread and then go to sleep. So he tells his story. Jesus tells the story of this man coming to him at night and people on their journey came into his house.

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He didn't know oh my gosh, he has nothing. And he starts banging on his friend's door. Trouble me not. The door is now shut, my children are with me and I cannot rise and give to thee. But I say unto you, though, he will not rise and give him because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity, his unreasonableness, he will rise and give him just as much as he needs. That's because he's an imperfect man and he just wants to get him off his back so you can go back to bed. An imperfect man would do that.

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The heart of prayer, when you come to the One who is worthy, is that you need to persist in the face of unreasonableness. Your persistence in prayer should be unreasonable, whereas I won't stop until I get it. Now remember, when you come to him in prayer, what will you pray? Our Father identified who he is. Hallowed be Thy name, O God. You're so set apart, you're so able. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done. So when you come into him in prayer, you know praying for your own, you pray for His and you feel relentless in that prayer.

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and you are unreasonable.

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In that prayer it shall come to pass, because your praying His heart. His heart is that his kingdom come. His heart is that His will be done on earth as it is in heaven. We can go to Luke chapter 18:2. He says it again, Jesus saying listen, in the city there was this unjust judge. He didn't fear God, he didn't fear man, he didn't fear nobody. And this woman was taken advantage of. And this woman kept coming to him as the judge of the city. To set the record straight, to give me justice, there's widow said avenge me of my adversary.

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And he would not for a while. But afterward he said within himself though I don't fear God, I don't fear man. This widow is bothering me to no end. I cannot stand her. I will avenge her and get her out of my sight. And that's what he did, because that's what an unjust judge would do. You'd wear him down with your constant nagging, nagging, nagging, please avenge me, please avenge me.

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Every day in the morning, every day in the minute afternoon, every day in the evening, and then every week, and then every month. Oh no, no, no, no, I can't have this anymore. The unjust judge would get up and avenge you. Jesus is using this parable to give you an understanding of his heart for you. Me being an imperfect man, I would eventually get up and get him his bread and more and get him out of my sight. So I go back to sleep. This unjust judge to get this woman out of her sight.

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She's wearing me out.

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I will avenge you Get out of my sight. Thank God, I don't fear God, but that's what he would say. So the Lord said here what the unjust judge said I shall and shall not God avenge his own elect. Shall not God avenge his own children, his own sons and daughters Will he not do that, who cry unto him day and night, though he bear long with them, I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth? If unjust, imperfect men would do what we just described in these parables, will not God, a holy God, a just God, avenge you, avenge all the things that you suffer in this life? He absolutely will. He will not let it go without addressing the matter. He is a just God. He undoubtedly will recompense the evil that has been brought upon you with the evil that was given to you. There is no way in heaven, there is no way in hell. He will allow the things to go on as they are. He won't. That's his character, that's his nature.

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If you read his word enough and you get a revelation of Jesus Christ. He will not allow it to continue. He will avenge you. He will prop you up and put you in a place where you are called to be, Because the judgment has already been set. There is nothing that is going to change his mind from doing what he said we would do.

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We say it so many times he will perform it in the day of Jesus Christ. There is nothing that will change that. So now we go back to Revelation 6, verse 9.

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Back to that vision, John's vision, John's perspective, through the revelation of Jesus Christ. This is after chapter 5,. It says and when he opened the fifth seal, Jesus began opening the seal, something happened. John saw the altar of the souls that were slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held, and they were all crying with a loud voice. How long, O Lord, ain't holding? In truth, Dost thou not judge and avenge our blood and then that dwell on the earth? Isn't that what he just described in those parables? They are constantly, constantly. How long, O Lord? How long do we have to wait? When's our judgment? When's our vindication? When is judgment going to? Rain and white robes were given to these souls and they were told rest for a little season until your fellow servants and your brethren. They need to be killed and their testimony need to be fulfilled. But it will happen. Rest Our robe doing my righteousness. It will happen. Now, these are talking about the souls that have already been taken through their death, but we're still here.

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But the same is true for us as it is for them, because we're all saints if we've been born again, Crying out for the deliverance of the bondage that we find ourselves in in this earth, whether it be financial whether it be through our job, whether it be through our bosses, whether it just be through being a part of a natural world that decays, it doesn't get any better on this life.

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But nevertheless, every good gift comes from above, doesn't it? The judgment is already set, it's already declared.

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It says Romans 12: 19, Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath, for it is written vengeance is mine, I will repay, say it the Lord. Again, it's already been declared, the judgment is already set In Luke 11: 9 through 13, And I say unto you ask, and it shall be given. Unto you, seek and he shall find. Knock and it shall be opened unto you. Everyone that asketh receiveth, and he that seeketh findeth, and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened. I know how many people that are not in the covenant read that and feel like they should have the entitlement to all that God has for them. The context of it is it's for the saints, it's for those that are born again, it's for those that are in covenant with Jesus Christ.

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It's for those that come to him in the reverence I've been describing to you. He alone is worthy and he is able. And my heart is thy kingdom, come, thy will be done. I want what you want Lord. I want what you want Lord. So when I pray, what?

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you want.

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I know that I'll have whatsoever. I ask, because I'm praying, what you want? He says again. Jesus is reiterating. He keeps stressing this If a son asks for bread from his father, is he going to give him a stone. If he asks for fish, is he going to give him a serpent? This is an unjust man. This is an imperfect man. A father wouldn't do that. He asked me for food that is healthy. Aren't I going to give my son or my daughter food that is healthy for him, that I know is good for him? Of course, why wouldn't you think that God is going to go on your behalf and give you what you need? We should be going to him in faith, believing that he is not against us but he's on our side, realizing and acknowledging that by the blood of the Lamb I've been reconciled to him.

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I am not an enemy of God anymore. If people, being evil, know how to give good gifts to the children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give you the Holy Spirit to them that asks. And it's not just the Holy Spirit, it's everything that is according to his will.

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So by the revelation of Jesus Christ, you understand the nature of God by knowing his heart more and more, as you walk with him daily, as you seek him, as you ask him, as you continue knocking with unreasonable persistence, you come to understand that he isn't just able to do what you ask, because those that I think are in covenant with him, I think they've gotten over that. He is able they struggle with, Is he willing? Everybody knows God is able, he's omnipotent, omniscient almighty. But then we question is He really for us? Does he really want me to have or to obtain this, if it's according to his will? Absolutely, because if your heart is after thy kingdom, come, thy will be done, not mine. So of course He's for you and not against you.

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So I'll close with this verse in 1st John 5, 14. This is the conditional verse of prayer for all those that are coming into covenant, for all those that are in covenant, regardless of the fact if you come to God in prayer and in faith. This is the confidence that we have in him If we ask anything according to his will. That's the condition. You can't just come to him in prayer and live your life the way you want and ask for anything you want and then be entitled to it Our father relationship. He is the almighty and I revere him. He is so holy and I want your kingdom, I want your will to be done. If I ask according to his will, I know that he hears. And then it says in the next verse if I know that he hears us, whatsoever I ask, whatsoever we ask. We know that we have the conditions that we have desired.

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But if you're not in the right place, you can't ask for anything and expect anything.

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You have to be in the right place, acknowledging him that alone or worthy, oh, to receive power and glory, you are holy, holy, holy, worthy as the land. I want your will to be done through my life. I want your kingdom to come through my life Romans 12, 1, as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable.

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