You Know Lord

This is Rodney from the masculine journey podcast. We explored manhood within Jesus Christ your chosen Truth Network podcast starting in just a few seconds. Sit back and enjoy it, share it, but most of all, thank you for listening and choosing The Truth Podcast Network. This is the Truth Network encouraging prayer, God offers an open invitation for his people to talk with him at any time about anything, and encouraging prayer Dr. James Banks, author of the best-selling product and many other books on prayer provides weekly biblical insight help you learn to love and now you know James, we have an interesting subject to talk about today to engineer another town. Some people say you know a lot you know you were just saying that allowed to make a point. Sometimes, especially me.

Unfortunately we use that phrase you now out of habit, and it doesn't really mean very much, but there's a time when we can use it. And in those times, it means a great deal that right, it can actually be one of the meanings to waste up right try to express something real important.

You couldn't get him to describe something that happened or maybe you were trying to tell them no matter how hard you try to say it failed.

They seem so inadequate to me all the time somebody talks on the radio for living. I mean sometimes it just can't get the words to come out right. Yeah, you, you have a wonderful gift. Robbie the perfect because we need to know that God doesn't. Instead that we get bored just right when we come to me not listening grammar or just the right sequence of right theological perspective on something, he just wants to come to him because he welcomes us as children before but it bears repeating. Repeating what father would insist that we get the word just right before we can even talk to me like that at all. So glad he's not so me to what James, you know, so that stuck about having this what I can only pray okay you are saying that a lot, but again it's kind of the device here but we think, think about what Jesus said in the sermon on the mount of our heavenly father knows what we need before we asking so that means that we don't have to spend a lot of time describing things to him. He already knows.

But he also wants to pour out our hearts to him, so you might think about a time that you were so upset about something you didn't know how to pray. Maybe you felt all prayed out wondering if you were asking wrong in praying the wrong way. This is where we come to the end of words, if you will and and we pray our emotions in the moment and every thought and everything that you not just take it and give it all to God and often it sounds like Lord you know it's a great way to pray to just take all of that and here it is. You know exactly what I need to know exactly what I'm going in. And usually when we pray this way, the cry for help.

So is there any Scripture that comes to mind when you think of praying that way. Absolutely best examples I think is Psalm 139, when the praise Lord you search me know me know when I sit and when I rise you perceive my thoughts from you discern my going out my learn and my lying down.

You are with all my ways before thought is on my tongue. You know it completely. Think Dr. Peter beginning at this number six such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain an amazing Psalm in so many ways. When you get down to verse 19 he cries out to God for help against the wicked. Again, there is another cry for help situation so I guess you just say the whole thing is now prayer really is. This emotion and it looks like David is in distress when he prays it. So again, this is a great way to pray really struggling and in our quite sure what so true that the parents particles come to mind here yet. That's a great example because so many times there I go again. You pray for Haley and you pray and nothing seems to change and you pray, you know, Lord, you can give everything that's on your heart and ask for the help that you really don't know how to ask for what words we talked about praying from the heart recently and that's what this is about what we can pray not only in stressful situations, but maybe you're physically sick. You're just unable to put a sentence together mean you're exhausted you wake up in the middle of the night and you know you need to pray so Lord you know is a great way to pray at times like that is also not an excuse for not really engaging God either going to bring it up because that's exactly right. Usually praying Lord you know is continuing a longer conversation with God that you vibrate and having it.

It's not an excuse for being lazy when our prayers get them over with quickly, just picking up where you left off. Continuing the conversation on something that matters deeply.

One of things I really appreciate about this really is how it emphasizes God's closeness and his tenderness. Yeah, we saw that someone 39 and it can be so comforting to pray this way. Just think about the person who's grieving the loss of a loved one just emotionally worn down. People can shut God out of it like that but just availing yourself of this simple prayer is a way of casting your cares on him and it's also an affirmation that he really does care. I mean it. No, often you know what I do is you know I love that verse that talks about the spirit groans with conferences are too deep for words as I was actually quite common for me to go okay Lord I know you know better than I what I need in this situation, what needs to happen in this situation so you know from forming in whatever that is. I really love that. That's a whole aspect of this as well so you know Robbie, I really enjoyed you know I didn't dare James is prayer Lord, you really do know what's on all our hearts all those listening right now those things that really stick out that mean so much to us, Lord, you do know Lord, teach us to pray, give us words but more than that give us a heart reaches and yearns for you in the night like James talked about in tears from how we really feel we know fall on loving when asked this hear more from Pastor James by visiting the website. James bank.org or by visiting these church in Durham, North Carolina. May God bless you and encourage you to pray.

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