things we can learn from the Lord's Prayer coming up day
hey everyone welcome to Wednesday's with crystal I'm crystal Sparks I'm so glad
that you are here on my channel hey I am and the series of talking about prayer
and so if you have missed any of the last few weeks maybe you're new here on
my channel you want to be sure jump over watch the playlist I've got some great
content over there that's just going to help you see prayer a little bit
differently and so over the next few weeks we're just talking about prayer
and I believe that God wants us to deepen our prayer life understand it in
a better way prayer was so important that the disciples could have asked
Jesus how to do anything and the one thing that they asked him in Luke
chapter 11 was Lord teach us to pray and so I'm going to impact three things to
you and this video that I believe that we can see out of the Lord's Prayer and
I think it's really going to inspire you and help you see the Lord's Prayer in a
different way than you've ever seen it before the first thing is is that God's
will is heaven on earth in Luke 11 it says that and he said to them when you
pray say our Father who is in heaven Hallowed be your name your kingdom come
your will be done on earth as it is in heaven
see that line right there he says your will be done on earth as it is in heaven
so here's the thing people question all the time
what is God's will for my life what is God's will for my business for our world
for everything here what we can know is that God's will for the earth is
whatever is happening in heaven so in us looking at heaven we can know what God
wants on earth the Bible tells us that there's no sickness in heaven there's no
sadness in heaven that the streets are paved with gold and back to Genesis
chapter 2 verse 11 and 12 when God created a man it says that he stuck them
in the land with gold pearl and onyx so if God didn't care about money and he
didn't care about our finances then why was he paving streets with gold and why
when he created Adam he put him in a place with gold pearl and onyx the
reason why is because he put him in a place that looked like where he lived
and so it looks like where God lived so in our own lives we can know that
whatever is happening in heaven that's God's will here on earth the Bible tells
us there's no sickness in heaven that we're all and love there's no
unforgiveness there's no hostility there's no wars so the truth is is
that's God's will here as well so any area of lack in your life is under the
influence of the enemy and not under the influence of heaven because God's will
is for you to walk in abundance in every single area and whenever and we see this
all throughout Scripture because in building the tabernacle if God had the
people give so much money that they had to tell them to stop giving because what
they had given was enough think about Jesus at his birth the most commentaries
would tell you that the Magi when they brought the gifts to him that the worth
of all those gifts was enough to last Jesus the rest of his life Jesus and his
mother for the rest of their life just in those gifts given what is what is
that telling us is that God's will is for abundance and think about Jobe
whenever the enemy began to attack Joe the first thing that the enemy did was
attack job's finances so whenever we see that we can say that God's will for our
life is whatever it looks like on heaven that's what he wants it to be here on
earth so you can have confidence whenever you're praying for anything
that you know is seen in the heavenly realm you can be confident that that is
God's will here on earth the second thing I want you to get out of the
Lord's Prayer is Jesus opens it up like this
our Father now I want you to realize that nowhere in the Old Testament did if
the people ever call God their father for the first time ever Jesus is telling
not just that he approaches God as father which would make sense right
because he's the son of God but he's letting them know you can approach him
as your father whenever we see God I want you to know that he wants him to he
wants you to see him as your father Jesus came
he might restore relationship between us and God he doesn't want us to see God as
this higher being that we could never ever talk to or never approach and just
being honest that's the reason why a lot of people don't spend time in prayer
it's because they see God is this far distant person that there's no way they
could ever come to him and the truth is is that God wants to be seen as a loving
father I'll never forget and Brailey my daughter we were going through a time
with her and she was in that stage where she was just testing our patience on
everything you guys know what I'm talking about and that our parents and
we had to get her in trouble for something that she had done and later on
that afternoon I told her I said hey brightly let's go grab some ice cream
and she said mom I don't deserve ice cream and I said yes you do and she goes
I was bad and I talked back and forth with her and then with big tears running
down her cheek she said mom do you still love me and I began to realize this is
exactly how we are with God Jesus is in that opening statement of our Father
he's letting the people know that God came ultimately for us to be in
relationship with him that he loves us without restraint in Romans 8 it says
that he there is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ
Jesus see a lot of times we don't receive from God because not because we
aren't will he isn't willing but because we feel undeserving it's because we're
not coming to him in the relationship that we have we're coming to him feeling
undeserving and because we feel undeserving we don't pray bold prayers
the third thing I want you to get out of the prayer the Lord's Prayer is that you
have everything that you need for today you have everything you need for today
he says Lord give us this day our daily bread and to understand this fully you
need to know that in the Old Testament the Bible tells us that they were fed by
manna each day but the one thing about them being fed with manna each day was
that they could only collect enough for that day so there was people who
in their worry and in their stress the Bible tells us that they hoarded up more
than what they could have for the day and in the morning they would wake up
and they would open their sack and it would be filled with worms and totally
destroyed and I began to think about that that's exactly what worry and
anxiety does it tries to hoard up for tomorrow with today's provision and God
never wanted us to live that way I heard a statistic recently that said
eighty-five percent of what we worry about never happens I would probably
like to say that that's probably a whole lot higher than eighty five percent
because our minds are constantly going see part of God's will for our life is
that we have everything we need to provide for us emotionally spiritually
and physically every 24 hours every 24 hours it's like it's on auto-ship that
God has a fresh dose of his provision of his joy of his strength to get you
through today often times when we start feeling worried and overwhelmed it's
usually because we start letting our minds wonder about things that are weeks
ahead or maybe even months ahead the Bible tells us to cast our cares on him
for he cares for us oh now we can cast our cares the Bible doesn't say that
he's going to take them from us but we do have the choice in casting them to
him and now once we cast them to him he's faithful to take it but he's not
going to come take something away from you that you're not giving so usually
what I ask myself if I start getting in worry or overwhelmed the first thing I
ask myself is this is there anything I can do today to change it is there
anything I can do today to change it you know I had a speaking event recently and
my flight I was flying in and I had plenty of time I had booked the flight
with plenty of time to be able to get off the airplane drive over to the event
even have time for lunch right and so when I was sitting in the airport
they let us know that we are playing got delayed well the first delay was no big
deal it was just 15 minutes so I was like it's fine it's just 15 minutes well
then it got thirty minutes more 45 minutes more an hour or more
and oh my goodness by the time they finally got us on the plane I was like
it's finally we're still going to be fine and then the pilot comes over the
speaker and he says we're gonna be sitting on the take off the tarmac for
45 minutes before we're going to be cleared for takeoff because there's so
much congestion here at the airport and here's the thing is I had this thought I
hit my mind thoughts of worry and anxiety I'm supposed to speak at this
event what am I going to do and I thought to myself is there anything I
can do today to change it I'm not a pilot I don't have another fly airplane
I can't fly you know I'm not that I'm not a superhero so all I can do is sit
here on the plane and just choose to not worry about it
you know I showed up right on time for the event and everything turned out just
fine God took care of it all and here's the thing is that if I would have let
myself get in to worry and to overwhelm then I wouldn't have been able to stand
up and began to speak God's Word boldly why because I would have been so
burdened by worry and anxiety and it wasn't gonna change anything it wouldn't
make the plane take off any faster and it wouldn't make a skip there any
quicker and the same is true for you when you start feeling that overwhelmed
ask yourself is there anything I can do to change it because part of God's
promise for my life is that I have everything I need for today the second
question that I ask myself is why am I not trusting God in this area worried
anxiety and stress show where you begin to trust yourself as being the provider
for your life I love that Jesus here he says Lord give us this day our daily
bread he doesn't say let us make our own bread
he doesn't say let us go find our own bread he doesn't say lord help us figure
out a way to get more bread he says God give us so in our lives when we are
living the way that God's called us to live our heads are always upward we're
knowing where our source is and anytime I start feeling stressed and overwhelmed
it's because I'm in the kitchen trying to make something that God never told me
to make I'm trying to provide for myself instead of trusting God to provide for
me so hey did you get something out of that
you see the Lord's Prayer a little bit different next week I'm going to talk to
you about one area rather that is hindering our prayer life I think you're
gonna get a lot out of it so you want to be sure be subscribed hey
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