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his little boy who was misbehaving
one night when his father is trying him down bad
the mother was away in a meeting
and the dead already talked to men
but was having difficulties with
the lab
the child first of all played the classic
i needed have a drink of water
you know how that works
he's funny men the dad went downstairs to read and also in the year
that i need a drink of water
he go get the drink of water
put him down tennis later what do your parents
i need to use the bathroom
this one on several
times
and then the little boy got out of bed again
and is that was getting kind of upset at this point
anne when danny said son you need to go to bed and you need to stay
churn up a few seconds later the pitter patter of little feet
the father bolts to the bottom of the stairs annie says so i'm
if you do that at that one more time
i'm comin op the stairs
you're in big trouble annually getaway it then
father went
set out dot as book out
quiet for a few seconds
and then
the voice came drifting down from the top
of the stairs
when you come up stairs to give me a whipping
may i have a glass of water
the brazen requests of the little boy matches the shameless petition of the
main character in our story today
and luke chapter eleven which eternal in chapter eleven with me please
to charlie chaplin levin disciples of jesus christ had watched jesus prairie
what a privilege
that must have been
and that's a were watching him for a when jesus finished
they asked him
lowered
teach osx
to pray
jesus gave to us what is commonly now
known as the lord's prayer i would probably call it the disciples prayer
would be a better way will see and john chapter seventeen
later on what we might want to call the boards prayer the longest recorded
inscription that the lord jesus christ had given to you
uh... symbol get to that a little bit later but before i i read
the tax to you
today let me ask you these two questions and ponder these with me
what should your added to be
when you go to god in prayer for your needs
in other words should you be
***
should you be bold
should you be quiet
should you be lau what should you added to be when you go
to pray about your particular needs
and i'm going to
why should you turned to god to meet your needs
and other words wide-eyed
why not go to people why in the world would you turn to god to meet
your needs
think about this do you think the battering the scripture to you
new chapter eleven beginning inverse
five
and he said to them which of you should have a friend and going in at midnight
and say to him friend
lend me three loads
for a friend of mine has come to me on his journey and i have nothing to set
before eight p m
and if you answer from within and say do not trouble me the doors now shot in my
children are with me in bed i cannot rise and give to you
i say to you though he will not rising give to him because he is his friend
yet because of his persistence he will rise in give him as many as he needs
so i say do you
ask
and will be given
seek and you will find knock
and all the all pinned
to you
for everyone u_s_ three season he who seeks finds in the him who knocks it
will be opened
if assigned asked for bradford any father among you
willie give him a stone
or if he asks for officially give 'em a serpent instead of a fish
working as foreign aid
will he offered him
a scorpion
if you then being evil
no how to give good gift to your children how much more were your
heavenly father give the holy spirit of those
who asked him
father i love the simple word
and sc
father this morning i ask
as a dependent child upon his father for the ability today
to communicate
this tax in a way that it was meant
to be shared
father would you empower your servant
with the spirits and able men today
and would you grant father the each one to you
the divine ability elimination if they need at the white would turn on an ego
i'd
so father we look to you this morning for your guidance i asking jesus
jesus used as an literary device in our story today it's called parable
apparel constitute greek words which just simply means two pats alongside
in other words as a simple story oric illustration
that gives us a comparison between
two things
two things
jesus says an invasion yourself if you will
and you have a friend
that you go and you visit him and think about this at midnight with a request
i need three loads a bread
now when you think bread think necessity
because that's what the people used in order to fill
their and p
caverns
the reason is precipitation is given it is
stirred for us in for six
seek the reason you at com to your friend
it's because you have had a friend
to you
it's an on expected
get
and he comes to you
harry lay one night now nine point this out to you
in the middle east
it was our reproach to an individual
not to give hospitality to someone who comes to your door
not only would it be reproach to you
but it would be a blot on the into higher community
if you did not meet the needs of one
who had traveled
to see you
why is that the individual shows up so late at night
well palestine was quite are hot climate
so maybe this individual was traveling at night in order not to be under the
hot sun
or maybe like many of you
you just got the latest journey ever start to go somewhere
and he opted not coc seven one oh at nine o'clock in setting one eleven
o'clock and you're out of the house you know i'm talking about
that you're done that
maybe that's a case either way pick up the story it's midnight
and here you are
at your friends door
at a matching the grouchy friend
well from his standpoint he has been ridley awakened by you
at midnight and this is what he does in canyon vision go on
luca he said they had to get such good yarn
imitations the highest form of flattery i've learned from watching you are when
i preach that's right
do not troubled me the door is now shotgun mic children are with me in bed
and i cannot
arise and give
consider the awaken man's
predicament
children
in maybe a house with just
one room
everybody's sleeping on the saying matt
and that's the way but not when the door comes
so for the gentlemen to arise after maybe he had to go through the water
routine with his own children you know
drink a lot
go to bat confining its settle down
and the rap comes on the door
and he basically says
because fido door
to one latched involved that's why i wanna wake up
family
and have to go through this same routine
again
jesus
the master storyteller
then makes the following observation inverse a i'd say do you
though he will not rising given to him because he is his friend
yet because of his persistence he will rise to give him as many as he
needs although the homeowner is a friend or at least x
that isn't going to move him the action but let me tell you what moves him to
action
and we have in the new look and james
version of word
persistence
the worker and literally mean
with out showing
the idea is live this letter is shameless
to pursue that means of his bs
so jesus if you will uses the brazen baldness of the visitor who is not going
away
until he hasn't excuse everybody colored text says it
until
his needs arnett does say is wants his needs are
came up on this years ago there's a huge about the company
that was one of the world's largest magazine for feldman
firms that means they handle subscription mailings by computer
among other things they sent out renewal and expiration notices
one day at the computers company
uh... computers are the company's computer mouth
functions
get this everybody so there was a rancher in powder bluff colorado who got
nine thousand
seven hundred and thirty four separate mailings
informing him that his subscription to national geographic and expired
night that house and
seven hundred and thirty
four separate pieces of making false statements that your subscription
is no longer
mazlin
that got the ranchers attention
p he immediately went to ten miles to is a local post office
he gladly send in the renewal form with the check
and this is the note that he sent in that envelope i'd give up
send me your magazine
there is something about multiple requests that brings inserts can i tell
you i'm not sure exactly how this works
the same is true when it comes
please understand this our
terrible is not to compare
god
tool uh... route ci friend
what we have before us here
is that phrase that has lavished upon
their grouchy may end
because why he's gonna get
because of his friends
persistence
what we have is what we call in a forty or eight argument and argument if you
well from the lesser
to the greater
so you have one conclusion which we will see now
the reason
that the grouchy man gets up is because his friend it was persistent
but we will see another conclusion in a few moments why we should rather go to
god
shamelessly
with our request it dot please equate died
with the crotchety
friend that is not the point of
the story
now as you let your i come down the verse nine you'll catch three key birds
and i pray that these three keywords would change
the first one is ask
the second one is seek
and the third one is
not
let me tell you a couple things you should understand about
what is given their number one they were all present tense verbs
in other words
keep on asking
keep on seeking
people are not going to go out and
you don't stop
you keep at
number two there are
imperatives
that is they are commands
the lord jesus christ is telling us
in the context of having our needs met
they keep on that scheme
became want seeking
dekhi
on knocking
and when we all
com cuba on the father with his brains and boldness
notice to result in verse ten
for everyone to acts
re seeds
and he didn't see x minds
and they can not
it will be opened too
him
is that simple everybody
it's just so sad
his art heavenly father
socom into his presence and askin james says it cover so well in james chapter
for the first two
you have not
because u_s_ not
have you ever wondered why he might awsome means not met have you haven't
turned out and say god i have a sneak
and i'm thinking about scheme
i want to keep seeking and i want to keep knocking until the need is met
anything come out on this one eighty point hats
as a loving father he delights in having his children come to him
persistently
and pretation him
for two things that she knew ny
we've been in our series called for a place i mean now do you feel prayer
point number twenty one
boldly
and consistently task
for provision listed again
boldly
and consistently ask
four provision now you'll notice
with the power point toward ask what do you see a
period
kpr anymore
when you think about asking god i want you to come up with three works
in the present tense
that are all commands
anytime you are moving commented a presence of god and make a petition
i want you to think of the word bask in the sense of asking seeking
and knocking you got it
that's exactly what god expects from us he wants us to keep asking
he wants us to keep some seeking
and he wants us to keep knocking
so don't give up
what are the things on your list that god has burning you about that are means
for you
that have not been met yet
guide says keep on asking
keep on seeking
keep on knocking that's what we learned from vs five to ten
now as we move on let me give you prayer point number twenty-two
ask your father for provision
because
he is good
ask
seek
and knock
when you come to god for provision and why do you do that and everybody defense
because he is good
our god is not grouchy friend
who's gonna get up and give you just because you shall was leaked onto him
and you're not going away until you get the red
i dot is a good god who delights to give good things to his children
by because his nature is that
um...
goodness and i want to draw your attention to the word ask
it appears twice
in vs five
through ten is repeated surewest twice
and then when you come down for are there
to eleven c thirteen issues three more times now in your anguish translation it
might actually be given four times depending on your translation
but notice down in the middle verse eleven just a
share this with you it says are their feet *** four fish he see that
seattle toward their ask that's in italics that means is not part of the
original
translation
c our translator put this and in order to make its mood but that words not be
resupplied
in order that the english peace moves that make sense
five times and this is what i want to do
understand
the word ask is used to understand you
u_n_ you lack winston what is james chapter one say if any man lax with some
biomass from god
it is it any more sample the net
dr dot lights we come into his presence
and we ask him for our needs that's what we're learning here now the second
terrible we are about to see is a compliment
to the first there is another example we haven't verses eleventh if their team
of going from the lesser
to the grader
why do we have in verse eleven if assigned tasks
for a bread
how many dads are going to give him
a stone
now in palestine apparently
the bread must of look like certain rocks that were there set can you really
indigenous
your son constant hungry
op really hungry
can you give me some bread
so you walked over to rock climb because icerocket your son supplements were met
magic
or if my son comms
and he says i've got a hankering dad proficient a necessity
that you go okay the fishermen are just pulling their net cn from the sea of
galley let me go over there
so you go over there and that's our bringing in this law herridge
catch a fish
guess what you have interspersed
with the fish you have some water snakes
wider sticks so can you imagine you're asking for fish
and your dad comes over with the water moccasins says dear son
have fun with that
that's loony is it not
is absolutely crazy to you now why would we thank you god is good
that we come to him for it needs
he would give us anything
that is
harmful
antennae here's one more illustration their inverse twelve
if the
senescent fourth time to worry ask is used for an eg
well he give him usko rpi
but in terms of might understand today to say you have
a son who likes to play baseball
annie wants database party buddy i'm probably doesn't it
baseball glove
so it comes to me says bad
i need a baseball glove
so you don't store
and there you buy eight pink set of gardening tools
and you give that to your son
he you don't get beat up on a baseball trivia subject
what daughter and you know i've been noticing all the ladies and out wearing
a blue today
sharp little boots borrowed too sometimes you got enough people to
philly saint shoe size and weight of our base but nonetheless you daughter comes
to you
and says you know
really like to have apparently has been scanned can you get those to me
so you go to store and you come back in
the daughter looks into the box in there are workmen's boots
it doesn't work that way with moms and dads 'cause moms and dads and our normal
of your kids
and in one of the christian capital city at
and they want to provide what is best for the trial
how much more
alarming god who delights in doing what is right and what is good for news
children
how much more
does he want to provide for
angie's list
pieces together
four oz inverse thirteen anne makes a statement and and it makes you stop a
new tracks and look at this is says if you then being evil
yes the present tense verb everybody
when jesus is talking to his disciples he says annual while being able
why don't we all inheritance in nature from adam
we were all have within us some evil doing odd
the capacity to do what's wrong with the passing being mean the capacity to
strike
when someone doesn't deserve to be struck
we have that ability with us in jesus says very simply it if your and beanie
evil
know how to get a good yes to your children
how much more you cd forty or e argument the argument from the lesser to the
greater it's all over scriptures have learned a pattern and it says how much
more
what you're happily father guild
the holy spirit to those who ask him
they got to thinking timeframe of luke chapter eleven
for the day pentecost why is an important
because it that's time in history
when people put their faith in god
they did not have the holy spirit permanently and well them and as you
read through the script remember since eleven just repeat this for my devotions
the judge's thirty what would happen
when he had need the spirit of god and come up on him
empower him
and he would take the phyllis teens today
but then when he was bill so being in the got a chapter sixteen because he was
and that's right and has haircut
it's very sad because when the fellow students came up on him a judge's
sixteen twenty assessed he did not know
that those word had left him asset statement
but you see any all testament
the spirit of god and come up on people and it could leave people
that's why david after he committed a sin of adultery praise a song fifty one
don't think you will be spared from evil or
by just ahead from luke eleven we would see acts chapter two with the date on
the cost
and on that day that was going to do something spectacular
that when people believed on christ at that moment on board the spirit of god
would come up on them and stan
with them
that is why dylan paul writes and first corinthians twelve thirty four by one
spirit
we have paldon what bath
ties
placed in identified in one body
so we don't need to ask today
for god's holy spirit if you will and the way they did envious
weight of time but
we need god's provision
and when you need that's prevention you learn to has scaled
four e and the reason you
ask him
is because he is good listeners someone nineteen over sixty eight it says
you are good
and you do
good
and if i want to say god is good but when you say to me
all the time
see it is true because that's his nature gandhi is
the now
let me enlarge this for you
because maybe your needed in right now physical
maybe it's not
to make your rent
maybe it's not to have looting your pantry
maybe it goes beyond that maybe you are a pastor or an evangelist
and your need seriously is out of salts
because if you want to do what god's called you to do
then you have to reach people write is that how it works whatever you need
might be
who we turn to inordinately timmy we always turn
in a victorian error there was a gentleman by the name of george miller
you for me mentioning him before
george miller started orphanages in inland
and he said i am not going to ask anybody for one she only
but i'm gonna rather go to prayer and trusted my god will provide all beneath
this man
had so many answers to prayer it was on believe what can you know what you did
this
he said we're not going to buy it wasn't hard i mean every bit of it
i don't mean to see if anything
to know that you are true itis believe it
there's a world out there that
skeptical
self would you please in a very
supernatural way make provisions
informaiton
so the rest of the world can see that you are a lot
that was his attitude
and god gave extraordinary
the diary of george miller
in november eighteen forty four i began to pray for the conversion
of five individuals
noted eighteen forty four
i pray everyday without a single intermission
whether sick or in health
on the land on the sea and whatever the pressure of my engagement smite b
eighteen months elapsed before the first of five
was converted
i thank god
and prayed for the others
five years elapsed and then the second was converted
i thank god for the second and trade on for the other three
day-by-day ag continue to pray for them and six years passed before the third
was converted
i thank god for the three
and went on frame forty other two
these two remained unconverted
thirty six years later he wrote that the other two sons of one of yours friends
were still not converted hero quote
what i hope in god
hyper-link and look for the insert they are not converted yet
but they will
joint
do you like that
i like that
in eighteen ninety seven fifty-two years
after he began to pray
these two men works
finally converted after
he
c nowhere understood what jesus meant when he said
that men should always pray and never
give
and i get rather audacious myself
was last time you put got on the spot
i'm serious
if this is what he said one was the last time you alim to it
what was the last time he said god
your son died
for all of mankind and i'm trying to reach stalls with the gospel of jesus
christ
wenzhou brings some my way that i can lead them to christ
what was the last time you could go out on a spotted said god that's your heart
you desire all then be saved and come to the knowledge that shoot
i'm gonna believe your word on the go out
add a little weight on you
that you can track meet it's also like to see them come the price
some no i don't think i would be disappointed with that kind of audacity
with that kind of shameless in this
and a half that one you need to pray for physical thinks
dodgy made a promise
philippians four inverse nineteen
and this was by the way the context of people who were giving to me pause needs
that paul said that you would take care
but my god
just supply all your need
according to his riches in glory by christ jesus
what was the last time you said what i have a need
and weapons chapter four inverse nineteen says that you promise to supply
all my knee
what was the last time you said dot i believe you word
and i'm just gonna trust you
to implement your word in my life
you read the prayers of the bible's my friends
you look at what moses david dot says i'm going to destroy the people what do
you do remain
a petition it dot
and he said hey god
you're the one you rescued them at age of twelve all these are there's think
about you
guidance you make a promise to abraham dissected jacob
that you want to build a great nation
now if you wipe them out
what does that say about what you would promise you see how it works everybody
do you understand that god wants us to take him at his word
that god wants us to act upon his work
that god wants us to understand that he is the only one that can provide and we
have a need
we go to him
see today so often we go to our flew in france oregon it just enhance around the
people that got the certainly going on
what do we shut the door going are closet and say dot on dot com anybody
about this
and i'm going to claim your word that you're gonna take care of
whatever
and i thought the big things as a single beyond the means for just a moment
how about the big
grandiose things
what do you trusting god to do maybe you have a list of five that you're praying
for that book and possible right now
maybe you're trusting god to pack out a church building because the community
is in dire need of christ so they don't recognize any awaiting upon god to do
something there
what is the big thing that you're asking god to do
what any angels say
to mary concerning john the baptist he was going to be born to elizabeth the
one who could not have a child
for with god
things
when was the last time we stepped into the presence of lawrence a god your eyes
and only two one four oh four alcohol are
looking for one of course is hard to a chalet who was paul
who is committed to you
and you promise and she will not go in at one and two great danes when was the
last time you said why would you know the name
because i'm trusting you for great things
here are the great things on trusting you four and i'm gonna ask and i want to
see gun but i'm not
and show you a answer them
if its four-year glory
and it's according to you
and if at all lines up my friend
you will see god do some of the most incredible
scenes
this is why
boldly
and consistently asked the father four
provisions
few years ago i knew god was bring penny on staff
on problem was we didn't have any money for does that does provide from what she
said
and i remember josh already have my treasurer sign if you like those numbers
very well to say hey that's not a good scenario we have a king and i was one of
response staff
but i want to bring one sat so what we didn't we start trusting god say dot
you know what you're the one is called the ministry wasn't me
you're the one who showed him this is where he needs to be in by the way we
try to show kenny other areas where he might have ministry
and other of personal reasons
we could see regions that might fit him we thought that
and got sit him down and i wanna right here so we started for a
so we started say okay i've got the ports as well and it is so much of the
pan am you know what we started and guess what the money came in
and then we noticed we needed a bottom up a little bit more kisses see you know
what i'm saying is not shoot the live around here
and we bought them up a little bit more dot store to bring the money
you eat you see how the same works all we have to understand is what god wants
to do and when there is a means there is not coming upon me to provide it
this is a monster
this is the church of jesus christ inc
i'm just simply one serving here trying to train and not our service
so one day when it's time to passport on we are set up to do that
this is powell works
and let me just say this to my dear friends and i hope you get your arms
around this one
see so often and you know only today two point five percent of christians truly
time two point five percent
and so those ones who have learned to give ten percent the god god bless you
but you know when you get there have been
dot at spotting let me show you what he accomplished through that ten percent u
gate but then you know he's gonna save you
do you know it's gonna save you
now let's talk about your other ninety percent let's talk about it all because
if we're talking wife tina stewardship
and were talking about the and generous in everything really belongs dot can i
ask you serious question does everything really belong to god
amid the lanham
for every year so i think by the carter center where barely getting by
and i remember we had already privacy fence up it would blow down dracula
alaska dot my fence
yes he's a dodger offense of blown down again what to do about it
yeah and eventually got provided for the french but i just
facts
whether it stands or falls halt surely belongs
and i want her to your friends dot doc sell yourself short
and don't think that one day because you know you had this one commitment and you
met daddy god bless you for that
but it's all stewardship everything that we have comes
and this is why we come boldly
and this is why we com consistently and we asked we seek we not do we say dot
here's army
would you please provide
four the need
and we learned we asked the father why don't we ask is because he's good
please get your arms around it sure arthur harm dot is a good god
anne delights in giving to his children
what this guy did great things i'll tell you he does great things
when he sends a word
the one of his profits one of his
and when people prayed
uh... than anybody know what actually happened two hundred twenty two years
ago today
i'll be very impressive but he really has a two hundred twenty two years ago
today
well this is the end of black history month
and you know slavery has always been off horrible
i was reading in david jeremiah spokane and this is like a blip on the other day
in the timing is always amazing amount like just how about just one line taking
up for me
and this is about the life of john wesley member john wesley one of the
uh... founders of the methodist church
amanda travel let's old on preaching the gospel of jesus friendly attack
and that man when any preached and he did what he needed to do
wanted a story was told about it he had been persecuted for a little while
he knelt down and said god why why not and persecuted for one x you know a
brick went flying by his head
and to thank you dot nine on back one point he got his forcing went to the
next nominee preached
give you some idea about this okay
on february twenty fourth such a shiver twenty-fourth
that's when when that
seventeen ninety one six days before he died
the eighty eight-year-old minister asked this helper to bring paper and will
to his bed
four years wesley heads
followed the attempts
william one sees the william wilbur force up member of parliament to have
slavery abolished in england
in seventeen seventy four wesleyan had written thoughts on slavery a book that
hit influenced wilbur force to push for abolition abolition
sadly all accounts had been
unsuccessful
now on his deathbed wesley occurred at wilbur force was about to give up
the vested interests of slavery in parliament would too powerful
with faltering pay and wesley wrote wilbur force a powerful letter of
incursion mind you he's about to die in six days
unless god has raise you up for this very thing you will be worn out by the
opposition of man and devils
but if god before you who can be against you or all of them stronger
than god
obi not weary of well doing going on
in the name of god in the power of this money
till every american slavery the virus that ever saw the sun shelby initial
wage beef
wilbur force received this letter after wesley
had died he vowed to once again take up the fight it took sixteen years but
in eighteen oh seven the british empire abolished
slavery
how does these things happen i'll tell you how it happens
from the word of god
that someone has the conviction and i tell ya read one history when you look
at abolition
do you know why
so many things changed in our country tell you why allot a white preachers
stood up and condemned slavery
and they had the audacity to get in the face of what was popular and tell people
that this is wrong
and we need to change it
and that should also be recognized during this month out of the year but
when you have people with the burden
and they understand the word of god in the power of it
and they have been given unassigned c
my needs is to reach a community do you understand that might need to reach this
community that miami this is what god's called me to do
but god is also said you can't just think locally
you gotta think globally
so from our little ministry we need to figure out how we can change the war
and that is actually going on by some of the ways a god has provided for us which
is a spell mean to me
how god has been so very faithful
but is very simple you need to understand
what god has called you to do
and then you come before him
with that need
and then you ask
and you see
and you knock boldly
and shamelessly
and you wait upon the living god for his perfect timing
to bring about
that he answered
so as i close assume for eric and i ask you
recommit yourself to asking
may i
challenge you to get back to the place in your life we don't get the skirts
like wilbur force ready to walk away from the fight
but rather you go okay board or something should pour my heart
there are some things i know that i need to do i want to continue to ask
i want to continue to seek and i'm going to continue the noc until you provide
for those things
will you be
like a george miller
after his death
recognize the five souls they came to almighty god
how does that happen to me tell you how it happens
it happens when we prioritize our lives to be in the word to be in prayer
and we go i'm going to ask
i'm going to seek anand won and knock
until it's done
and i cannot tell you something that's gotta be some odd geishas things ask how
to do some big things
asked god to bring together the white the black two hispanic and the asian
community and make this one in christ
asked god to make provisions
for our own families that we might learn to go and do the things that a ministry
be generous in one day we get before god we use the hundred-percent
of all that is provided for us well
do you understand what i'm saying my friends because this life is fleeting
it's going to be gone before we blink
let's make sure that we are men and women