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Good morning, Boyd Hill. >> Good morning. >> I will trust God.

>> I would like to say um giving an honor to Pastor Bob in his absence, to Reverend Williams and associates to our deacons, trustees, members, and friends. These are our announcements for today. Oh, before I begin, we will get an announcement from Deacon Greg Tate.

>> Good morning, Bill. Um, we wanted to stop just for a minute and announce that we're going to open up the life center and we're going to start it this coming Tuesday and it'll be open on Tuesday, Tuesday, uh, June the 2nd of course and Thursday, June the 4th. This is our beginning and it's going to be from 5 to 7.

Um, of course we're going to start out with the basketball and of course we got the walking track over there and of course as time proceeds on then of course we'll open up to other things at this moment in time but at least we want to get started. So we want to announce that our opening is this coming Tuesday and we also be open on Thursday and uh we're hoping to of the young folks, even some of us older folks as well. And uh you're definitely welcome.

Of course, we'll have forms and all like that over there uh for everyone to sign up and be a part. So, this coming Tuesday and Thursday is our beginning. Any questions?

Send me after church. We are in sympathy with Deacon Wayne Jennings, Senior, and family in the passing of his brother, Mr. Glenn Patrick Jennings.

The visitation will be at Robinson Funeral Home on June the 1st from 5 to 7 p.m. Funeral services will be held at Boyd Hill on Tuesday, June the 2nd at 100 p.m. Please keep the in your prayers.

I also add to our special prayer request um Miss Barbara Bullwware. Please continue to pray for her and uh the others that are on the uh prayer request list. Attention um all Sunday school students, Deacon Tar Bryce, the superintendent of Sunday school, would like for you to please come out to Sunday school.

Uh you can come out every from 9:30 to 10:30 or either join in on Zoom and all that information is in your bulletin for Zoom. The new books for June, July, and August are available in the back on the tape in the vestibule. Please pick up a copy on your way out today.

Attention all graduates. Recognition Sunday will be next Sunday um during morning services. Please be dressed and ready in the church festival at 10:45 to march in on next Sunday.

There will be a debate between Representative John King and Paris Sutton running for district seat 49 at the transformation center on Monday, June the 1st from 6:30 p.m. I think until 8:30, but that will be um tomorrow, June the 1st. If you need a ride to the poll for early voting, please contact Sister FA Miles a day in advance and her number is 8034122546 and early voting will end on June the 5th.

So if you need a ride, please reach out to Sister Fay Miles. Also, Sister Fay Miles will be collecting canned goods on Saturday, June the 6th from 9:30 to 11:30 in the fellowship hall for the women's state convention. The annual Sandy River Baptist Association Upper Division Field Day will be held also on Saturday, June the 6.

All youth are asked to plan and participate participate. Please see uh Brother Lawrence Barry if you have any questions. Pastor Barbara wanted to remind everyone that the month of June is declared men's month at Boy Hill Baptist Church.

So on the first Sunday and the third Sunday in June on Sunday mornings, we will have the men um singing. So um Elliot said there's going to be rehearsals starting Thursday at 700 p.m. And that's June the 4th.

Thursday at 7 p.m. all men are asked to please come out um to sing for the first and third Sunday mornings. Installation services for Reverend Shemica Simmons, Pastor Le of Crossro Baptist Church, Sharon, South Carolina will be installed on Sunday, June the 14th at 300 PM.

Pastor Barbara will bring forth the message. Please know that the church bus and the van will be on the road for this special occasion. If you need transportation, please sign up on the sheet in the vest view.

And also there's a sheet outside the office in your bulletin. We have vacation Bible school. Um we made a error there, but there's a correction.

They're going to start Monday, June the 6 through Wednesday. Not June, excuse me, Monday, July the 6 through Wednesday, July the 8th from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. and it's going to be over at the Family Life Center.

I think we just have the 7th and the 8th, but it's going to start Monday through the 8th. The community outreach committee is asking for donations for their nursing home visits and they're asking for special items um to take with them. So, next We're going to have a list of those items posted in your bulletin.

South Carolina State Junior Brotherhood will have a boys and girls joy night and track meet. Joy night service will be Friday, June the 12th at 700 p.m. and that's at St.

John Baptist Church in Newberry, South Carolina. And also, um, the track meet will be held at Newberry High School on Saturday, June the 13th, starting at 800 a.m. Pole workers are needed for the June 9th primary and June 23rd runoff.

Please refer to the link election workers/ York, South Carolina. And there's additional information for voting back in the best of you on the table. Please feel free to pick up a copy of the additional information on the table in the back as you leave today.

Carolina Community Actions, they have some information also with um on the back table there's a flyer with information regarding utility assistance on the table in the church festival. Attention all high school graduates. The Sandy River Baptist Association upper division will award two scholarships to qualifying applicants.

Is if you're interested, please pick up the 2026 scholarship application on the table in the church vest. At this time, we would like to acknowledge our visitors. Please stand.

Hello. Thank you. Um, and thank you for having me.

My name is Andrew Kloff. Um, I'm currently running for United States Congress, District 5 to replace Ralph Norman. Um, and I'm union member.

I'm working class and um, but we all know there's one true leader up there and I'm just being a servant to him and to the people. Thank you. Thanks for having us.

On be on behalf of Pastor Barbara in his absence and the entire church family, we would like to thank you for coming to worship with us today. Please know that our doors are always open and whenever you are in the area, please come and worship with us. Thank you for coming and please come again.

These are our announcements for today. Have a blessed day in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. At this time um we would like to hear um to hear from Andrew Claw.

He is running for Congress District 5. >> Thank you everyone for having me. Like I said, um I appreciate it and um I'm just here to be a servant of God and a servant to the people because I believe um as a representative, you're supposed to listen to the people, be involved in the community, and take it back.

The problem is a lot of politicians, I'm not a politician, I believe, have gotten away from that, you know, what it's like to be involved in the community and to actually spend time talking to people. And that's what I plan on doing. Um, like you said, the early voting is going on all next week, Monday through Friday, and then the actual election day on Tuesday, June 9th.

Um, I'm a union member. I've been endorsed by the South Carolina AFL CIO. I'm workingass.

I live here in Rock Hill. I work for American Airlines on the ramp paycheck to paycheck. Um, and my top priorities are inflation, healthare, and immigration.

My wife is an immigrant from Mexico. So, I really take that seriously and what's going on in this country right now. I appreciate I'll place a warship, but I do have my flyers if they would like to talk to me after the service, I will be around.

And my slogan is enough is enough for club. Thank you. Thank you sir.

Thank you for coming. Thank you for our announcements. Remember that veryapt And then it's wonderful to know that our neighborhood.

So I'm grateful that not only seniors need something to do except just sitting at home not doing anything. So I'm thankful for that because a bill that's sitting there doing nothing is a waste. It's a waste and it's a shame.

So thank God for that. I thank all those that are here this morning. I imagine that I shouldn't say I'm pastor's out of town.

We don't know who's going to bring the word. So kind of slack off. But I'm grateful for those that are here this morning to come and worship our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ because it's not about who stands here.

>> Not at all. It's about who we serve. >> It's about who we trust and believe in.

And that's Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. This morning, I made some mistakes. But that's all right because I haven't been here for a while.

A lot of you probably know why. So, I ask for your prayers this morning, not just for me, but for my family. and pray for yourselves this morning so that as the word goes forth that whatever the Lord needs you to know that he would place on my heart this morning to share it with you so you can go out and live for Christ as he would have you to live.

Is that all right this morning? >> Amen. Let us pray.

Heavenly Father, we thank you, Lord, for your guidance throughout the week. We thank you, heavenly father, for your protection. We thank you, heavenly father, for giving us this day.

We take this time to give you back a portion for which you've allowed us to have. May it be used toward the upbuilding of this kingdom. Amen.

>> Amen. Love Jesus sure will [singing] carry me. >> Love of Jesus.

I know it will carry me >> here without m care for me. The love >> your will. Love Jesus, sure will he carry me.

[singing] >> Carry me. >> Love of Jesus, I know he will carry me. >> If you trust him whenever doubt, he should bring you out to love.

[singing] Jesus >> show. >> He will [singing] carry you. >> Carry me.

[music] Oh, the love >> you can depend [music] on it. God love [music] >> God. >> God love >> show will [singing and music] >> carry you.

>> Love of Jesus show will carry [music] you. Lord of Jesus. [music] I know it will carry you through.

>> Jesus died on the cross. [music] So our soul [singing] would be lost. [music] The love of Jesus [music] >> show will [singing] guarantee.

Carry me. >> Oh, the love. [singing] >> You can depend on it.

all around [singing] me. [music] >> Depending on [music] God's [singing] love, >> love [music] Jesus. >> God love Carry me.

>> Carry me. >> Carry me. >> Carry me.

>> Carry me. >> Carry me. Oh, [music] [singing] the love.

>> You can depend on it. My queen [music] >> carry me. [music] >> Walk with me.

>> By my side. Always my God. >> You can depend on it.

>> Love. >> Show him. at this time.

It's time to come You have something that's on your mind that's laying heavy on your heart and you want to come and do that prayer. Whatever is on your mind or your heart, this is the time to lay before the altar. Not that it's the only time to pray, but we open the altar up at this time to come and bring your concerns to the altar.

Let us pray. Father God, we come to you for your altar. This is say thank you for continuing just to bless us, continue to be so good in our lives.

Lord, we thank you for watching over us on last night while we slept in summer. I didn't know we was in this world and touching us to wake us up bright and early to see this beautiful day, Father. Every day is beautiful and you touch us to wake up this year, Father.

I thank you for continuing just keeping us and keeping your loving arms around us, Father, as we continue to go to and from the different places that we have to go. Father, we thank you for being right by our side, Father, just like you said you would, Father. Father, I pray for our pastor right now.

Father, continue to bless him and his wife and their ministry here at Bill. And Father, I pray for the Bull here church family as a whole. We continue to hold up the right arm of faith that others can see you in us, Father, they may say, "What must I do to be saved?" Father, Father, I pray for those that came this morning that's around the altar.

Father, I pray for those that are standing in their in their seats. Father, Father, I pray that you bless them with a double blessing that they would know that that whatever is on their heart, whatever they may be coming from that you would grant it, Father, and they would see it. Father, I thank you for being so good in our lives.

Lord, I pray right now for those that are in bereavement, Father. I pray for those that are going through illness, whatever the ill may be. Pray for those that are in distress and know which way to turn.

>> Father, we know that that you can do anything but fail. We just look to the heels. We come with all of our help.

All our help is in you, Father. Father, even we know that you can bless, Father. Even when our life is in turmoil, Father, even in our darkest hour, Father, we give you all the honor and all praise because we know that you can make a way.

You can make a way out of nowhere, Father. Father, I thank you for your love and grace. Thank you for just bestow all blessing on us, Father.

Father, we give your name all the honor and all praises, Father. Father, we ask you just please forgive us for all our sins. We may come back to you strongly and never loving you and giving you all the praises.

Father, when this world cannot afford a home, Father, we pray that you place it somewhere in your kingdom, we may see your face, we may say we're home at last. Father, I thank you. I adore you, I lift you up, I build you up, put you on the pedestal, praise your holy name as all your son, Jesus name.

Amen. We reach reach that sea. will be over.

[singing] Halleluach home. The day is coming, coming up in the sky. You know there's a better day coming.

Way up in the sky [singing] is coming. and believe that >> this morning I'll be able to see what I need. with age 10 years ago.

I'm finding out some things about such as it is. Praise God. Here I am.

I have the assignment of sharing with you. So this morning I'm going to be reading from the book of Luke 18 verse may not have but you can stand I'll be reading from the living paraphrase and I chose to do that because it seems to clarify a bit more about what we need to know. Luke 8 verse one day to illustrate their need for prayer and to show them that they must keep praying until the answers.

There was a cityless man who had a widow of that city came to him quickly to appeal for justice against a man who had harmed her. The judge ignored her for a while but eventually she got on his nerves. I fear neither God nor man.

He said to himself, but this woman gets for she is wearing me out with her. Then the Lord said an evil judge can be worn down like that justice people who will answer them quickly. But the question is when I the return will find that's the word of God for this morning.

You may be seated. bow for prayer. Heavenly Father, we come now for yet another opportunity to stand behind the sacred Brothers and sisters, what it means to answer.

This is ago on this day and said yes not all I would be going through but I'm here didn't have it together, but I knew God wanted me to talk about prayer because you believe that God answers prayer and kind of surpris that some of the folks that were asking that because these are people that as far as I knew were Christians, but then there were some people on the other hand that were not Christians. They hadn't given their life to the Lord yet. And I say yet because we're still praying for them.

But it was kind of puzzled me to my mind. So our sermon this morning talking about prayer and the title of the song, you need a title. When you pray, God will answer.

When you pray, >> we got that when. So, we have to pray. If we don't pray, then there's not going to be an answer.

We have to with God. We have to talk with God. We have to tell him all about our troubles.

>> So when we pray, God will answer. Jesus used this parable to make a contrast. And even a selfish, unjust human judge will eventually respond to a persistent How much more will a loving father, heavenly father, answer the people when they cry out to him?

That's a question for us and that helps us to realize that when we pray, we expect or we should be expecting God to answer us. So uh we should be encouraged to know that God will and does answer our prayers. If you are a child of the king God almighty, if you are God's own elect, just know that he hears your every word spoken and unspoken.

This parable encourages us to pray without ceasing. It appears that the widow had no intention of giving up. She was persistent.

She was passionate about her request and she was patient. And sometimes that's the way we have to be. We have to be persistent.

It's not that God doesn't hear us. It's not that he's not acknowledging us. But we need just to be persistent about what it is.

We need God to bless us. We need to be persistent even in our own minds and hearts to know that this is something that I want to take to the Lord in pray. So, I've got to be persistent about not that he doesn't hear us or he doesn't have our attention.

He knows everything that's going on with us. >> Everything. But he wants us to be persistent because I I believe he wants to know that we're depending and trusting on him.

>> But then also the the the widow was passionate. She had a passion about what she was asking this judge about. Something went wrong with her.

It says that someone had done something to her. So, she was passionate about getting that judge, that human judge to do something about it. The Bible doesn't say what it was, but she kept going to this human judge, requesting that he do something for her.

>> And then, not only was she passionate, but she was also patient. Sometimes we get in a hurry and we want God to answer our prayers immediately. Why are we trusting God or are we trusting in ourselves?

When you trust God, you wait on God >> because he and only he knows exactly what we need. >> Wait. Yes.

Wait on the Lord for he knows exactly what we need and when we need it. So this was just interesting parable to me that God would talk to us about this woman who kept going to this judge over and over again. Uh you know our personal prayers and even our intercessions should follow a specific uh pattern.

Uh mainly the pattern is very Thy will be done. Thy will be done. Not our will but God's will.

And I say that because sometimes I think when you pray, let me talk about myself. Sometimes you pray or I pray and I'm thinking this is what God's will. God knows what he knows.

He knows how we need it and when we need it. He knows the exact time that that prayer should be answered. So it's thy will be done.

So before we go any further also let's define what prayer is and what prayer is not. Prayer is not an attempt to inform God of our circumstances or what our needs are. And then persuade him to act according to our petitions.

If we were able to persuade God according to our petitions and what we want or what we think we want and what we think we need, we'd be in a mess. And you know that's the truth because half of us sometimes we don't really know what we need. Sometimes we see somebody else with something because they have it we want it too.

You know, we want that big house on the But are the little house that you got on the hill, are you keeping that together? >> Are you working on that and keeping that clean? Are you doing what needs to be done to keep that house up, but yet you want a big house on the hill?

>> Are you paying what you're supposed to be paying to get that house taken care of? Are we going to ride in the most popular car? Well, if you're not walking, thank God for what you already have.

Some of these fine cars that you see people riding around sometimes trouble too. But thank God for what we already have. Prayer is an intimate time that is designed to align our heart, spirit, and soul with God.

It's an opportunity to address God in all his glory to intervene and unlock the spiritual resources he desires to bless us with. As Christians, we are to incorporate prayer into our lives daily, every day, often throughout the day. Keep in mind the parable about that widow.

She was persistent. So therefore, what should we be? Persistent, patient, passionate about what we're praying to God about.

The parable said that she sought out the one who she knew could help her. And we need to do likewise. Don't go call Miss Sally up and let her know what's all going on your business.

Don't call Brother Joe and tell him what's going on because they can't help you. Now, however, when you pray, if there is someone out there that the Lord is leading you to for you to talk with, maybe they need to counsel you or just sit down and have prayer with them. That's different.

But before you do anything as far as going out and telling this one, that one, and that one, you want to pray about it first. You want to give it to the Lord first and have the direct you into where he needs you to be, where you need to go. That's why sometimes when I pray for people, most often when I pray for people, I pray that the Lord will put someone in their life, >> put someone in their path that would help them to get where they need to be.

>> It's not just that God is going to open up the heavens and drop down what you need. >> And I imagine if he wanted to do that, he could do that. But sometime we just need someone to help us get from point A to point B.

And whatever it is that we need, God will do that for us. We just have to be patient and ask him about it. So in essence, I must tell Jesus all of my troules.

All of my troules. >> No one can help me but Jesus. Don't tell Miss all your problems, all your troules tell somebody else.

And how is that helping you? It's not. Tell Jesus all of your troules.

>> All of your troules. The NIV version of the parable states that yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice. In contrast, we know that you're not bothering God.

He wants to hear from his children. He wants to know about you. Even though he already knows, but he wants you to come to him and tell him.

He wants you to come and commune with him. So come and tell God all about your troules. You're not bothering him.

But the judge, he said, I will see that she gets justice. And God will do that for us also. He will see that not only do we get what we need, but he will see that we receive justice.

She did not just approach the king every now and then just when I guess the mood hit, but she was consistent. I imagine she went to this judge every single day. That was probably her first thought in the morning when she got together.

It's time for me to go and talk with this judge again. And we should do the same in the morning when we get up. The first thing we should do is pray.

Not asking God for this and that. But thanking God for where he has brought us from the day before this new day. For watching over us and keeping us safe throughout the night.

Waking us up. new day that we've never seen before. And not only that, but allowing us to go through that day.

>> So, yes, we're going to pray to God throughout the day. And it doesn't have to be anything in particular or special. You don't have to drop to your knees wherever you are.

But God hears your words. >> God hears your voice. Even when you're not speaking, God knows what's on your heart.

And if you just have a conversation with God, >> he knows exactly what you need. >> And he's waiting for you. You're his children.

It's just like mom and dad. When you're in trouble, when there's something wrong, they want you to come to them >> and speak with them about what's going on. Our God, our heavenly father, is the same way.

Whatever it is that's on your heart, whatever it is that's bothering you, take it to the Lord in prayer. >> So saying that, we need to know that prayer is something that it's not just asking God for something. It's not just talking to God about what we need.

But you know prayer is the lifeline of our uh relationship with God. Uh if you take notes I would tell you to underline or put in quotes around prayer is the lifeline of our relationship with God. >> How can we do without prayer?

How can we go a day without praying to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ? And I say that because God has called us to pray and not just pray, but pray without ceasing. Like the widow, she was there all the time.

I imagine every single day asking this judge for exactly what she needed, what she thought she needed, what she had to have. We go from day to day. There should be a perpetual awareness of God's presence.

And pray was designed by God to simply ask or to make a request, but it is to commune with our heavenly father and to strengthen our relationship and to strengthen us spiritually. Some would also say that prayer is the heartbeat of a believer's relationship. And just to to put a note right there, when we talk about relationship, I want to share with you that when we pray to God, our relationship with God stands to reason and really stands to reason.

It's not doing >> listen. Yes, God will answer your prayer. Do you want to listen and hear what he has to say or are you going to do all the prayer is about coming to God, talking with God and then listening for what he has to say to you to your spirit.

Matthew 6:6 says, "But when you pray, go into your room and when you pray, shut the door. Pray to your father who is in the secret place and your father who sees in secret will reward you openly. Prayer heartfelt prayer draws us nearer to a time wherein we worship God fully and it is to know him as our friend as well as our heavenly father and lean on him as our hope.

Philippians 4 tells us that be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be known unto God. So we can talk to God any time, day or night, whatever situation we have, we can pray to God because prayer is a mental and spiritual activity that also us physical benefits as well as spiritual benefits that strengthen us our faith. And maybe that's why some of the people that were asking me about God answering their prayer, maybe there's a lack of faith because if you don't believe in God, if you're not trusting in your heavenly father, then maybe that's why you don't believe So I would suggest to you that check your faith in God.

And there's nothing wrong with checking your faith. Find out where you are in God, Christ Jesus. Sometimes we do fall off the wagon, so to speak.

Sometimes we do step in the wrong direction. Sometimes things happen where we backslide. I haven't heard that word in a long time.

Backslide. Backsliders. We don't use that word much.

But but but but I know I speak about myself. I know >> there is a reason why we have that word backslides because I'm not perfect. I don't do everything that I'm supposed to do.

I don't say everything that I'm supposed to say. But I do know I have a heavenly father that forgives and allows me to come before him and say, "Father, I have sinned. Help me, Lord, to get back into your grace.

Thank you, Lord, for your mercy. Because without Jesus Christ dying on the cross, I wouldn't be able to come to the father and say, "Forgive me, Lord, >> for what I've done. It's about Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior, your Lord and Savior.

If it had not been for Lord on my side, where would I be? Where would you be? So, yes, God answer our prayers.

He may not answer them the way you want them to be answered, but God does answer prayer. There's three ways that our father pray and you probably already know them, but I'm going to go over them anyway. The first way he answers prayer is yes.

And that seems like that's what we always want, a yes. We can't always have yes, but God does answer yes. Sometimes God grants us specific requests exactly as we ask, revealing his immediate provision and care.

The other way he answers prayer is no. And of course, you may not like that, but God will tell us no. >> Thank you, God, for telling me no.

>> Because when you told me no, there was something that was waiting there to take me out. >> And I was able to avoid that. Thank you, God, for saying no >> because it wasn't that would benefit me or my family.

So God will answer us no. God withholds the request knowing it not for our ultimate go good for his glory protecting us from the things we cannot see. See, we don't we don't know what's down the road.

We don't know what's behind that locked door. We don't know what's on the other side of town. You know, sometimes morning when I'm getting ready to go to work and something happens and I'm like, "Okay, I got to go ahead and deal with this." But then I'm going to be late.

I'm not going to leave the time I would like to leave. But then I find out that if I had left a few minutes early, >> if I had left maybe one minute early, >> I would have been taken out >> because on that very corner that I passed, >> somebody was in a car crash. because I decide not to do a particular thing, I got a blessing out of what I thought I wouldn't enjoy.

So yes, God does say no. Thank you, God, for saying no. But then lastly, God answers us and he says, "Wait." Sometimes, you know, we don't want to wait.

Sometime we're like little kids. You know, mommy said you going to do this, you said you going to do that. waiting.

Well, just keep on waiting. Just like the widow, she wait. She was persistent, but she waited.

She was passionate and she waited. She waited and she waited. But she got what she needed.

>> And it's the same thing with God, our heavenly father. Just wait on him. >> Just wait.

There's a reason why you're waiting. It's not that he didn't your call or your cry. He knows everything about you.

>> Before you even open your mouth or your mind, God already knows what you're going through. >> But you just need to wait >> on him. >> So wait, God causes the answer.

Choosing to develop to develop our patience. Sometimes we just have to develop patience, just wait, trust and spiritual maturity before providing what we need. So yes, if somebody asks you that question, do you believe that God answers prayer?

I certainly do. >> He may not answer the way we want him to answer it, >> but God does answer prayer. I don't know why Jesus loves, but I'm going to keep on asking God for whatever it is my heart and my spirit says that I should ask.

I'm going to be like that widow every single day throughout the day. I'm going to call on God. And it's wonderful that in this day and age that it's almost reminds me of the telephone.

I remember when I was a little girl telling my age, but that's okay. Um we had a phone and sometimes pick up the phone to make a phone call and you hear someone talking and that's because I forget what they call that was because they had >> Anybody know what they what was that? >> Party line.

Yeah, it was party line. >> It was a party line. So sometimes my my siblings and I just to be nosy, you know, doing something we have business doing, we would pick up the phone to see who was and see what was going on in the neighborhood.

And sometimes it was pretty interesting. So, thank God we don't have to wait on or experience a party life. When we call on God, he's there to answer us.

It may not be the answer we want or we desire, but it's the answer that we need. >> So, let people know that when you pray, >> when you pray, And and I and we have to kind of focus on when also because it it means you have to pray. You should pray.

He's not going to answer if you don't pray. When you pray, God will answer. >> He's your heavenly father.

He knows exactly what you need, how you need it, and when you need it. But first and foremost, Make sure when you pray you give God the glory. Make sure you recognize that he is God and beside him there is no other.

Jesus Christ us to pray. So Jesus model prayer covers these things we talked about. So Jesus said put God first.

So when you pray our father in heaven be thy name. >> Begin by recognizing your relationship with God as your father and honoring his your kingdom come. Your will be done.

And see, that's important about praying because it's not about our will, it's thy will be done. >> When we rest on the fact that God's will be done, you know, we're all right. So, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

surrender your own plans and ask God to establish his will and purposes in your life and the world. Give us this day our daily bread and God and ask God to provide for your physical and material needs one day at a time acknowledging your dependence on him and forgive us our debts as also have forgiven our debtors. You know, sometimes we pray.

Again, I'll talk about myself. Sometimes we pray and we talk about things that happened to us and we don't want to person that hurt our feel. But you know that for that person you have to because you don't first and foremost you have to go before the Lord and confess what I did.

He knows it for me. And then also you have to go back to that person and apologize to them. So that's important to us as we also have forgiven our debtors.

Confess your sins and ask for forgiveness while committing to extend the same grace to those who have wronged you. So you know that says that when someone has done Before you go to the Lord in prays against you, make sure that you are praying or have prayed and ask that person for forgiveness. And then lastly, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

Acknowledge your human weakness by asking for spiritual protection, for guidance, and for the strength. So when someone asks you, does God answer our prayers? It may not be the answer you were hoping for, but if you put your trust in God, you without a shadow of a doubt that God will and does provide you with all that you need.

Like the example of the widow, don't give up. Don't give up. And we don't need to give up.

We should give up because God's not giving up on us. By faith, be persistent. By faith, be passionate.

By faith, be patient. as you wait to hear from God. I don't know what you're looking for this morning, but that's what the Lord laid on my heart.

So, I pray that all is well with you in your prayer life. If not, it can be fixed. All you've got to do is call on the Lord.

That's all you have to do. And it's just so simple, so easy. Just time to look to your heavenly father and ask him to just restore my soul.

Ask him forgiveness if that's what it's about. Ask him for that. And we're not perfect.

I'm not perfect. So I know every day I'm doing something I probably shouldn't do or said something I shouldn't say or look somewhere or look particular way or whatever because we're not perfect. And God knows that.

But he wants to he wants us to announce the fact that he is God. Beside him there is no other. And he provided a way of salvation for us.

Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. Had it not been for him on our side where we trust in God. Don't stop praying.

Continue to pray. Amen. Let us stand.

That's a good song. Just keep on praying. >> Perhaps you don't know Lord God Almighty.

Perhaps you've not turned yourself to him and said, "Lord, what must I do to be saved? If you are that person, the doors of the church are open right now for you to come and we'll gladly pray with you so that you can be saved by Lord God Almighty. Perhaps you're looking for a church home.

The doors of the church are open. We're glad to have you. Or perhaps you are saved.

Perhaps you backsliding and you want to come back to the church. This is the time to do that. Come now while the doors of the church are open.

Hallelujah. >> Thank you for your participation. Thank you.

here this morning. Remember, let us pray for our pastor and family that wherever he is, he's safe and that he returns to us safely and that all will be well. We open the doors of the church to ask those that are in need of salvation to come.

We've done that what we're supposed to do. So, it's now time for us to exactly what we do. to him that is able to keep us from falling and to present us faultly before the throne of our heavenly father Jesus Christ.

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