A Prayer For Unity Part 2

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Thank God for you. We are so much enjoying this St. John 17 this prayer that Jesus praying to the father with which this should be called the Lord's prayer because he's in direct communion with the father. He's communion with him in the garden. He knows this is the final hour and so last week we looked at Jesus praying for himself and we started this week. Jesus praying for the disciples and I want to look at verse number nine because he says I pray for them, but I don't pray for the world.

But for those who you have given me, for they are yours.

So why wouldn't Jesus pray for the world. If you go down there and work verse number 14, it says I have given them your word and the world has hated them because they are not of the world. Just as I am not of the world. So there are going to be folks out there who God wants to bring them to him, but they are going to reject that still small voice.

They're not going to listen. They're going to continue to hold onto the world because that's where the love is there. Love is for the world. Their love is not for the Lord, and if you if you listen when you yourself when you're praying you might find that you're not praying effective as God has laid out in his word with seat like this particular prayer because last week we talked about. It's a unifying prayer. It's bringing believers together and I think about all of the folks out there who are born again, and if we as one body can be unified. There is nothing the body of Christ cannot get accomplish. But Satan has used so many tools to keep us separated to keep us divided to keep us talking amongst ourselves. They are not of the Lord because they're not doing this the word of God says that you must do this in order for you to be safe there, not of the word of God because they're doing that and so we are getting down in an fist fighting amongst ourselves and Satan is enjoying this because he says if I can get them fighting amongst themselves, then they will be divided and separated and there will be no unity because he he wants division.

He doesn't want unification. God wants us unified because I think you know that old cliché. Together we stand divided we fall.

That that is so true. We want to stay unified and we could be unified even though that there may be's small denominational differences amongst ourselves we can be unified. God says we can but I want to leave these verses here for minute because I want to address what we talked about last week. How many of you out there listening have prayed and you couldn't see anything happening when you pray so what did you do did you just stop praying, or you just said I'm just given up praying for this particular thing because I prayed, five, six, 10, 15 times and nothing's happened now I want to present to you this. Even if you don't see something happen when you pray doesn't mean that there's nothing happening when you pray so behind the scenes. God is working but you can't see it because you are looking for immediate results and were not saying that God can't bless immediately, but sometimes he doesn't. Sometimes you have to wait on him.

Sometimes you have to fast and pray in order to receive from God, and if you remember over in second Corinthians chapter 12 verses seven through 10 and all of you notice this passage, you who have a been born again for a while.

If the passage that talks about when Paul had this thorn in the flesh, and he went to God three times. He prayed remove it. God nothing remove it. God nothing remove it got nothing.

And finally he heard my grace is sufficient for you, my grace is all you need. I'm not going to remove the thorn of what I'm going to do is give you the grace so that you can go through whatever the thorn is now we have all kinds of theologians out there who who is saying you know the thorn was there, so the thorn was a physical ailment or some type of speech impediment or something like this.

We don't know what the thorn was but we do know that the apostle Paul came to a realization that God if you won't remove this thing didn't give me an answer on what I need to do and God answered his prayer by saying, my grace is enough to carry you through. Regardless of what you're going through so sites of God you going through something right now if you going through something right now.

Whatever it is I don't know what it is you having financial issues you are having issues with the children you have issues on the job. I don't know what it is issues in the church. I don't know but I do know this. What ever it is. If you go to God and pray God will give you an answer.

You have to look for it. It may not be the answer you're looking for, but he's going to answer you, and when he does you have to be at the point to listen to him to be able to understand who it is that's speaking to you in the airport.

Your actions need to be after God speaks to you, so never stop praying for that wayward child never stop praying for that financial situation or that job that you may want you if you have issues with someone in the church don't stop praying and don't run away from your trials don't run away go to God and let God bless you and him so that he can give you the answers that you need in order to deal with what ever it is that you are facing because God will answer prayer. I am a living witness now I want I want to throw to set you. It's almost been about seven years and I know some of you listeners notes you since my beloved wife passed away and we were praying, praying vigilantly, I mean we had people surrounding her laying hands. The oil arming the whole 9 yards complete healing. Yes, we wanted and and God took her own home now when something like that happens it's going to do two things to you is going to draw you to God or scholar push you away from God because you going to say what God I prayed, but you didn't do anything. I prayed earnestly but not you. You. You took her own home. Have we ever realized that their journey down here on this earth was over.

So when it happened. We did not put our fist in God's face. No no no no no no, what we did is we said God her journey in this life is over and I remember hearing when pastor Tony Evans, his wife passed. I believe it was last year sometime and there was millions of people praying for her and I thought read or heard somewhere where she had stated. Maybe Dr. Evans or one of his children said this had stated that she basically said let me go, you are prohibited for me.

Just let me go. She was ready to leave her journey here was over and seek just like people who you know who have passed on from this life to the that their journey have to come to an end. We don't know how it's going. Again, if it's going to be a physical ailment. If it's going to be an accident if it's going to be whatever it is we don't know how it's going to come but we do know it's going to come, but that doesn't mean we should stop praying. We should always continue to pray and Paul again is our example, as in second Corinthians chapter 12 verses seven through 10. He's an example that we should continue to pray, continue to seek God beat be like that woman. When she came in an end to the judge and she said hey Judge I want some justice and the judge is like even want to come down to the door and open up the door but he said he say look about him come down and open up the door to this woman I'm never going to get any sleep the sea. We have to be persistent with God and we have to be confident this like he says over and and first John five. I think it's either 16 or 17 ways that this is the confidence that we have in him that if we ask anything according to his will. Here if we know that he hears have the petitions that we ask of him.

So go here last, let God lead to in that direction. Don't give up just because you don't see it happening like right now right away you might be tested with coming up over break. This is good talking about the unity of God to your CMM would love to have you join their community of men for breakfast every first and third Friday of every month and Bible discussions and fellowship at the best breakfast in town meeting location is at their voracious poster First Christian Church and Connors will 1130 N. Main St. encouraged him a hard start at 7 o'clock from a hard stop at a first time visitors eat for free.

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Oldest not good seat and that's why we were seen earlier. It's going to draw you in a push you away and there's been countless times stories that I have read people who have talked to have counsel as pastor as so many people and they said this prayer thing don't work when they do it one time. Listen site. One time they prayed and ate and when it doesn't happen when they wanted to do it and they say old don't work and so now they are off, you know, doing their own thing, or going back into the world and see Derek. They are perfect example of when Jesus talked about the parable to see they never got rooted they were just hoping that this thing is going to work in a they took it as like a this this magical hat pulling the bunny out of the hat you know we we look at all kinds of ways in which we want things to happen and then when it don't happen when we want to happen then we get discouraged and we abandon the calls but I got another one for you sites. This one took some searching, in the word of God and asked myself this question and I'm wondering when I asked this I want you to go look it up because I want you to see this for yourself.

Turn over there to first Timothy chapter 4 and verse 20. Now Paul. He had a bunch of needs in a course. He was coming coming down to the end of his life and he had a bunch of leads and he was requesting some things in there but it it says that Paul left Truax for Miss sick.

He left him sick, so he we went on to another place and he left Truax from the sick and so I'm saying to myself, wait a minute.

God has given you the authority God is giving you the power. Why would you leave a fellow believer sick. Why didn't you go back and say in the name of Jesus sickness leave Truax from his body, and you know the answer to that is, we don't know we don't know why the apostle Paul left Truax for Miss sick. We don't know, but see within our mind. Our mind have a tendency to attempt to feel in the gaps of things that we don't know because Scripture doesn't tell us why he left Truax from a sick doesn't say seek our mind wants to come up with some reason why we think he left Truax from the sick, so we are throwing it out there people will grab a hold of it and then start to run with it, but the simple fact is we don't know because the Scripture does not say don't try and put in imagine things if the Scripture says it, we believe it. That settles it. If the Scripture don't say it will give us a reason behind it.

Let it go because what we're doing is we're attempting to try and look back into history and come up with the best explanation that we can which more than likely isn't the explanation at all. If we don't have any historical account so that in and of itself, I think should tell us that when we pray and when things don't happen when we pray it does not mean that God is not listening or God is not working. Keep praying God is listening. Keep fasting, God is listening and continue to believe in God indeed will give you the desires of your heart that I want to go down now want to go back to St. John 17 to end of our time together. Jesus in verse 20 of John 17 says that he do not. He don't pray for these alone so he he's not just praying for the disciples, but he said also for those who will believe in me through their word. The ones who will believe in me when the disciples go out there and proclaim the gospel and get other people say and then when those folks are say they going to pass on the gospel to someone else there going to be say an instant.

They will pass on the gospel to someone else.

And finally, in the course of history. It it came down to us. Someone had to preach to us the gospel. Someone else had to talk to us about the good news of Jesus Christ.

And when they did.

We came to Christ, based on hearing that word.

You and I are no different than someone who lived in 1870 or 1434 the word of God.

They had to hear the word of God and the Lord God Almighty had to draw them to Jesus Christ because we couldn't come on now so that the whole sphere of what were talking about today sense of God.

Don't be discouraged when you don't get immediate answer to your prayer. Keep praying. Keep fasting, keep believing. Second thing we want to take from this is that when you pray to God, don't go to God unless you have confess any unconfessed sins because member.

First John 19 if we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Confess the sin don't go to God before you confess that will clear that channel and make that connection even stronger between you and the Lord. When you do this your praying according to the will of God and God in your prayer will be effective and God would answer it in his time, not your time, but in his time you'll answer all of what we are in Jesus Christ is what he made us to be with no more, where no less. He don't love people in 1769, than he does in people who were born in 1256 than people who were born in 1952. His love goes across history. He doesn't love anyone more or less, than the next believer or children of God was in Christ Jesus. He loves us all the same.

Sometimes when you get discouraged when things are not happening your way. Just think about Lord. Maybe I am being tested. And I want to go through this because just as you told Paul and in second Corinthians 12, just as you told him my grace is sufficient.

I'm going to grab hold of that promise. And I want to say regardless of what I'm going through your grace is sufficient, and if it is sufficient. It will take you through. Think about Joe think about you hear Joe doing everything that God is called him the do sacrificing for self-sacrifice and for his children and all of a sudden God and Satan is having this conversation in Job chapter 1 and Job chapter 2. They have this conversation about Job and in Job don't even know what's happening until it happens to him.

He don't know that God and Satan had this conversation and then all of a sudden things started happening to him, and Satan came in and he PD at the three things, in which he is a master of killing stilling and destroy. And that's exactly what he did with Joe two children kill stole all the cattle ship destroyed the house whirlwind kanban house came from Linda. So when you think about the suffering that you and I have to go through. That's nothing compared to what Jesus Christ so as we leave tonight. I want you to understand that there is nothing that you cannot conquer. If you continue to walk by faith not by sight. Jesus is the only way is the only truth and he is the only life there is nothing that can separate you. You continue to walk according to the way he told you this is pastor will Hardy with the man thought we love you today because God loves you and so do I believe was see you and listen next time because God is as we wrap up today show.

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