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00:00:00 today's scripture reading is taken from 1st Chronicles 4: 4-10 the descendants of Judah Perez hezron Ki her and Shel Rea son of Shel was the father of jth and jth the father of aumi and lahad these were the clans of the zorah sites these were the sons of itam jezrael ishma and idash their sister was named helle Al Pony penel was the father of gdor and AER the father of husha these were the descendants of her the firstborn of ephrath and father of Bethlehem Asher the father of takoa had two wives hila and Nara Nara bore him
00:00:56 ausam hepher timini and hashari these were the descendants of Nara the sons of hila zarth zohor ethnan and Kaz who was the father of anub and hoba and of the clans of aaral son of Haram Jaz was more honorable than his brothers his mother had named him Jaz saying I gave birth to him in pain jabz cried out to the god of Israel oh that you would would bless me and enlarge my territory let your hand be with me and keep me from harm so that I will be free from Pain and God granted his request this is the word of
00:01:48 God thank you Sarah that was a tongue twisting word something all right um just to uh fill you in our brother Elder Arnold is not here today unless is you know changed um he's got covid like everybody else all right so therefore when you got covid you got to quarantine for seven days so this is what we call an emergency sermon yeah well if I knew our brother uh David Adams and Suzanne will be back let's look at them back there so welcome that then I would have pressed them into National service
00:02:36 right but then again I just saw them walking through the door well that's too bad is somebody else Jeremy oh Jeremy the young man from Dublin he's back okay okay so all right let's get down to uh word of prayer as we ask the Lord to speak to us this morning through a very simple prayer father Lord we ask this morning not withstanding the circumstances that thou would still take your word and implant them into our hearts and in so doing let this word grow that it may transform us we ask for Jesus sake
00:03:18 amen about 20 years ago there was a American Author Called Bruce Wilkinson famous for the walk through the bible program which I'm sure many of us have gone through who wrote a book on this particular prayer otherwise it's so obscure nobody would have you know taken to preach on it and so therefore and the book caused a lot of controversy he became very famous it shot up to the New York bestseller list in weeks and uh in a few years it exceeded the public uh printing of about 10 million uh copies in sale I think to
00:03:56 date it's about 20 million it's uh C ped him to fame it was on all the talk shows uh and there only about four other Christian books which have surpass this number of sales uh in the world as it were so therefore a lot of people got very much interested in this prayer a lot of people use this prayer how many people read this book or use this prayer put your hands up don't be shy nobody only one two three you know okay all right so um and it's the the the fame and importance of this spread even further than the Lord's Prayer can you
00:04:32 imagine and you've got mugs you've got the prayer wheel you've got the key the the keychain the the bracelet the t-shirts you even got a jabz football team would you imagine that a jabz football team and if you go to cot Kinabalu you will actually see a resort called the Jaz Resort so it's it's got so much Fame uh and this is what Bruce Wilkinson says in his introduction I want to teach you how to pray a daring prayer that God always answers it's brief which is good news for some of you only one sentence with four parts tucked
00:05:11 away in the Bible and I believe it contains the key to a life of extraordinary favor with God in fact thousands of believers who are applying its truths are seeking seeing miracles happen on a regular basis so basically he's saying if you can see Miracles every day you just have to pray this prayer and he means it and bring word for word then there a whole bunch of folk who believe he's taken this out of context anti- prayer uh jbz prayer books out at least about four Publications one of them is by Frank hgraph called the
00:05:45 prayer of Jesus instead so this morning I think we need to set the record straight and look at the proper perspective in how you take the prayer of jabz and this is an exercise in how to learn how to read the Bible as it were so we've got up here the sons of Judah Perez Etc this is the context of the particular passage it's actually genealogy it's not my attempt to tongue twist poor Sarah over there she was complaining you know she can hardly pronounce all those things uh it it's so it is actually a genealogy so you could
00:06:25 take a genealogy for what it is in terms of what kind of literature it is it doesn't tell you what to do because otherwise some of you have two wives you Rec one of them had two wives right so you might say oh he got two wives I might as well do that uh so it's a genealogy gen are important in fact there was a study that came out uh uh just shown in 24th of February in CNN that using DNA they actually revealed the biggest ever family tree dating back 100,000 years and you can see that the G DNA clusters
00:06:59 are on different parts of the world but the important conclusion from this as mentioned by Anthony Wilder Wars at MIT was that we have a simple single geneology that traces the ancestry of all of humanity and shows we are all related to each other today isn't that fantastic DNA shows we all have one family tree so geneology works that way all right and so therefore this is the context in which the Jeb best prayer was actually prayed one Chronicles is written by Ezra Ezra was part of the folk who prophesied and God people to
00:07:41 come back from the Exile in Babylon the people were discouraged they've been cast out of their land they've been traumatized by War when Babylon came and took them over it's not unlike the disaster that we are seeing in keev right today when the Russian are at the door with tanks and missiles but at least hopefully they won't export the entire population out to Moscow but this is what they did and and and coming back to Jerusalem coming back to Israel they would have lost their identity and so therefore when this genealogy is written
00:08:22 out there it gives you a bit of a history and reminds them that God has a covenant with Israel and God has not forgotten through the TR veils and pain of Exile to a loss of identity we are still there you know and the best thing to do is to use a genealogy because it traces your roots we all need our roots and so if you look at the genealogy not very interesting reading for the first nine chapters of one Chronicles chapter one he traces it from Abraham to David from from uh uh David onwards in chapter one two
00:09:00 Judah uh Chronicles 4 and then the other 12 tribes and the priesthood the main thing is to link all of Israel's background to the coming Messiah one day and it is out of the genealogy of Judah where the line of Judah will come out is where we actually get a little bit of a snippet of the story of jabz all right so let's get down to look at Jaz now he describes this part of genealogy occurs not after the Exile but it describes the time where Joshua is coming into the promised land and the promised land has
00:09:35 been occupied by Canaanites and they are fighting the Canaanites and trying to reclaim this land because it's part of God's covenant to them you have to understand the context in which this occurs otherwise you will completely misinterpret the text and use it for yourself all right we are not fighting for the promised land we are not at the edge of Israel we are not fighting Palestinians or whatever this this is the New Testament so let's look the at the factual verse Jaz was more honorable than his brothers his mother called his
00:10:08 name jabz saying because I bore him in pain the first thing to notice is the word yabes which is in Hebrew yabes all right what does this mean it means it reflects something of what his mother has gone through perhaps his mother has no epidural so therefore she gives birth to him pain must be very bad bad pain first pregnancy it could be 12 hours a lot of ladies are here you can see that nodding their heads in agreement it is a very painful Affair without the epidural nowaday as soon as pain comes oh hands
00:10:42 up epidural please but imagine she was such a traumatic birth that the name given to YZ is pain and in those days the name is very important what your father calls you will determine your life or your mother if you look at Jacob okay Jacob 's name is actually the supplanter the Wy one the one the con man trying to take over your land uh and after wrestling with God at panil God changed them to Israel which is God shall fight God shall fight on your behalf you don't have to fight and con everybody else his
00:11:17 life changed in Chinese culture it's the same isn't it you look at this chap W if you actually translate the Hang Hong it actually talks about a flying swan Zoom look at see his kick right so that's why it's called that uh and here you actually give the name gives us a clue of a mother's rejection imagine calling your son oh painful one time for dinner oh painful one and your friends coming to call you all right uh uh to football match oh let's call the painful one maybe he can inflict pain on the other
00:11:58 side and and Psych ologist like Freud tell us why does a mother call the son oh painful one it's actually projection whatever your feelings you project to the other person if you are untruthful then you will call everybody else untruthful and having fake news especially if news doesn't flatter you if you are Unfaithful or you then therefore you always suspect your husband of being unfaithful and you accuse him of being unfaithful if you think people hate you all right so or you hate people then you tell everybody
00:12:31 else that you actually hate you what about men they call everybody else C because they got such low self-esteem because they are CES so it's projection so when somebody else insults you think they are projecting so don't feel bad so here we actually have the mother projecting her insecurities or her sorrow onto the sun imagine growing up with pure rejection everybody just mention your name means you're the old painful one and this little clue tells us the kind of Life J best had right now if you look all through the Chronicles
00:13:15 you will see father of theor father of anud J got father not obviously he is a father but the father's name is never mentioned it is an honor to have your father's name mentioned so in Jer goes to W say my father OT the one with the white hair all right because he's proud because he has a genealogy the father determines the ancestry the background the pride of the family and here assiduously mention is all the fathers but when it comes to JZ no mention of the father he's not fatherless but he is really held in low esteem no mention
00:13:58 father at all so therefore we actually have JZ is a man of low esteem humble Bel Beginnings you got to see where he comes from he's got four requests in this prayer the first request is blessing JZ called upon the god of Israel saying oh that you would bless me and enlarge my border if you look at the original Hebrew language it's got Nuance of double intensification which means bless me with overwhelming blessing because you know why everywhere they call me painful one so therefore it is in the context of
00:14:36 that that he wants to reverse his humble beginnings so but instead of trying his best you know what his recourse is taking extra tution lessons doing bodybuilding going for beauty uh uh treatment no his first recourse to re to reverse his humble beginnings and his cursed life as it were was to call upon the name of the Lord if anybody needs blessing I need double that's what he's saying because it comes from that sort of background the second thing is Jaz called upon the Lord saying of Israel saying oh that you would bless me and
00:15:14 enlarge my border wow I'm sure this fellow have been praying a lot enlarge my border Ukraine is mine it's mine and he looks Westward now is that how you apply the scripture if you look very carefully we're in the context of Chronicles and at Chronicles talking about the conquest of the promised land and the conquest of promised land is actually fulfillment of God's covenantal promise so therefore when he asks God to enlarge his borders he's asking God to fulfill his promises to Israel of which he is part
00:15:58 of and that's a right thing to do in his particular context if you look at that famous Deuteronomy chapter 8 passage just before they entered the promised land they were the kingdom of Moab just before they crossed over Abraham described to them this Covenant and the Covenant says blessings as well as curses and you I will read to you Deuteronomy says and the Lord will make you the head not the tail you shall only go up and not down if you obey the Commandments of the law Lord your God which I command you today being careful
00:16:33 to do them and if you do not turn aside from any of the words I commanded you today to the right or to the left or go after gods or serve them so when you ask God to bless you and enlarge your borders and fulfill God's covenantal promises to Israel of which you are an integral part of it comes with blessing and it comes with warnings as well Chuck swindall actually uh writes very aptly and I'm going to read his uh his his commentary to you increased acreage involves a greater stake in the plan of
00:17:08 God for Israel asking God for more land was asking for greater share in the Covenant which also brought with it all of his conditions curses and Disobedience some people think enlarging my border is cut blanch for all the good stuff and the bad stuff that happens to you because you disobeyed carefully put aside disregarded the today's equivalent we not in Israel and waging any war is Matthew chap 6:33 when he says but you seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things shall
00:17:48 be added to you you can't take Jeb's prayer and stand outside US J5 and say enlarge my borders and that's a wrong way of doing it because you can stand there and say I'm going to seek first the kingdom and tell my neighbors about our Lord Jesus Christ this third request blessing enlargement of his borders is and that your hand might might be with me that you would keep me from harm they may not bring me pain so your hand the hand of the Lord is very important if you use the word hand is actually a symbol of
00:18:24 power of strength of skill of control you you want the hand of the Lord to be with you and then that's a right thing for us to pray whenever I go into surgery the first thing I will ask the Lord in every single case is that your hand your hand be with me not my hands and that shows a kind of humility that we recognize our innate strengths and Gifts all come from God and you want to have a god empowered God Inspired Life and that's a Godly thing to ask the last one is that that your hand might be with
00:18:59 me that you will keep me from harm so that and not bring me pain what he's saying here is that he wants to be Unshackled from the humble beginnings and the pain that has characterized his fatherless life nothing wrong with that isn't it he's not asking to be bulletproof but he's asking God to reverse the situation of which he was born and and painfully uh you know castigated by his mother humble beginnings God is's asking the hand of God to reverse that in his life and the great thing was chapter 10 B 4
00:19:41 uh verse 10 B and God granted what he asked fantastic now I want to go back to chapter 4:9 Jaz was more honorable or better still more honored than his brothers you have to understand when you look at the genealogy every body gets a little bit of a description and that description describes their life this is not a prescription these are descriptions it's like going to the to the um cemetery and you see all the epat and in 20 words describes your entire life I mean imagine that it genealogy is like that rais four
00:20:25 beautiful daughters with only one bathroom and still there was love he love bacon oh and his wife and kids too uh how about here here lies John yeast pardon me for not Rising what about uh here lies Clyde his life was full until he tried to mil a bull a bull's got no milk right uh I made some good deals and I made some bad deals I really went into the hole with this one and that's what he did what about this one Make Love Not War next time I think this applies to the Russian president so here he is honored the
00:21:11 thing that describes his life is not a joke that he was honored the word Cabot here is basically he's heavy he's impressive his life made a difference his life becomes a contradiction to his name all that his name had implied by the power of God he had reversed that because he trusted God so became heavy or a honored person that describes his life in fact uh uh the historical data showed that he was a doctor of law a legal scholar from Jewish literature and in fact they also have a town called JZ
00:21:50 he was so famous all the scribes the clans of scribes lived at Jes and he was probably a chief of the Jes they named the whole town after him and this is 1 Chronicles 2:55 small town Boy made good how do you apply this sermon today because there's so many ways in which been misapplied the prayer we have to look at the prayer of JZ next to the Lord's Prayer and next to Pauline prayers to make some conclusions the first thing the prayer of jabz tells us of a faithful Covenant keeping God that's all it tells us that
00:22:28 in the the life of so many people jab stood out because he trusted God and God fulfilled his desires because he was in Covenant with God it cannot be used in a ritualized manner to get what you want from God and here is what he says uh how Bruce Wilkinson has misinterpreted it he says the little book that you are holding is about what happens when ordinary Christians decide to reach out to the extraordinary life which is as it turns out exactly the kind God promises this is very misleading it's look like you to pray this prayer
00:23:02 word for word and then things will happen to you I challenge you to make the JB prayer for the blessing part of the daily fabric of your life to do that I encourage you to follow unwavering the plan outline here and that's in his book for the next 30 days at the end of that you'll be noticing significant changes in your life and the prayer will be on its way to become a treasured lifelong habit and you can find in his uh website there there all the people who had answers to that prayer will be all
00:23:30 listed out there but what he Advocates is a word for word a recitation of that particular prayer as if it becomes a mantra that actually compels God to answer your prayer now look at what the Lord Jesus said our lord Jesus said when you pray do not Heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do which means you repeat a phrase again and again and again as if that empty phrase has a magical ability to coerce God to do what you want him to do they think they'll be heard for their many words or their particular words or
00:24:11 the magical incantation do not be like them why because your father knows what you need before you ask him you think the father doesn't know what the prayer of jbz is before you open your mouth you already knows so why is the recitation of those particular verses even though they come from the Bible why do they have some magical power they do not and this is what's happening we cannot ritualize the kind of prayer and some people on the other hand for example the Catholic church I grew up as a Catholic since birth and and and one
00:24:43 of the things that actually I have struggled pray because after confession the the priest will say ah you go home you be a naughty boy right so therefore 25 Hil berries and 2,000 of others and you go oh my God I'm going home and I have to say the Our father as Penance which means punishment when you associate prayer with punishment right you grow up thinking God is that horrible or and I could to pray empty phrases I can tell you as a young man I when I prayed those prayer I was afraid of God I had no relationship with God
00:25:20 and that's what you do when you ritualize prayer The Lord's Prayer is to get us in contact and renew our relationship with our Lord and when we actually say the Lord's Prayer it actually expresses what we want Our Father Who and heaven Hallowed Be My your name that's what we want thy kingdom come that's what you want it is not a magical set of words of incantations to get God to do what you want him to do so therefore never use prayer as Penance if you look in Bruce Wilkinson's life itself he says he's
00:25:56 been praying that prayer for 30 years he exactly just mouth the prayer of jez and he had a dream for Africa program he wanted to save 1 million AIDS offerings and he started the land of Swaziland he planted vegetable gardens had AIDS seminars he actually managed to get an an audience with King's mswati III and then he wanted the king to give him 32,000 Acres of prime land to have homes for one 10,000 orphans and he call them dream villain VES there will be a luxury hotel each place there will be 18 whole
00:26:33 golf course and American tourists will come you know what and watch African Swaziland kids do Rodeo rides you think that's very clever rodeo rids and of course the people in Swaziland get very upset you know you are teaching my children to do rodo what what's going on and he can pray the prayer all you like but in the end this entire Ministry collapsed Wall Street Journal even wrote about it why because you you said the prayer your best works miracles right and actually God slammed the door right
00:27:09 on his face to show you you can't coerce me you can't Strongarm me to do what you want to do even though it's a good thing to help orphans why don't you help orphans nothing wrong what about famous American singer if you recognize Janice Joplin wrote a that nice uh Mercedes 600 car and then she started to pray sing a song oh Lord won't you buy me a mercedesbenz all my friends Drive porous I must make amends I work hard all my lifetime No Help from My Friends oh Lord won't you buy me a mercedesbenz oh Lord won't you buy me a
00:27:45 night in the town I'm counting on you Lord please don't let me down show me you love me buy me the next round oh Lord won't you buy me a night out in the town you see songs like this that ref F sometimes our aspirations to be able to Strongarm God through various rituals or things that we do in order to get what we want and James says you do not you desire but do not have so you murder you covet and you do not obtain you fight and quarrel you do not have because you do not ask you ask and do not receive
00:28:18 because you ask wrongly to spend it on your passions that's exactly how you cannot use the prayer of jabz if you look in the book of Hebrews I always always bring this up there are jabz type Heroes of Faith Like Gideon Barack Samson jepta David Samuel who through faith conquered kingdoms enforced Justice obtained promises stopped the mouths of lions and quenched the power of fire escaped the age of the sword made strong out of weakness became Mighty in war and put armies foreign armies to flight and then you've got the
00:28:50 non jabz type heroes in Hebrews in that that that list in Hebrews chapter 11 women receive back their dead by Resurrection re their husbands died some were tortured refusing to accept release so that they may rise again to a better life others suffered mocking and flogging and even claimed chains and imprisonment they were stoned they were swn into two and the last bit it says and through all these things though commanded through their faith did not receive what was promised so in the life of Faith
00:29:24 there are those who receive what is Promised like jar and then there are those who do not receive what is Promised but both both are dual reflections of one issue which is basically faith and so therefore last week's sermon we talked about the glory of God and the glory of God is multifaceted it is not one where Elijah calls down fire from heaven the glory god is his majesty and his power and that Shining Light which you see in Transfiguration but the glory of God is also seen very clearly on the cross
00:29:58 where he sits where he's nailed and where you can see pure love mercy and yet with perfect justice so when you're asking God this morning to enlarge your borders Our Father who in heaven Hallowed Be Your Name Your Kingdom Come your will be done on Earth as the the borders of the Kingdom for jbass was the promised land what are your borders today and not physical borders Waters you can't stand in front of your restaurant and say oh can I have the whole Mall we're talking about the kingdom of God his desire his kingdom
00:30:38 his borders are the ones to be in our hearts and what about humble beginnings a struggling start in life doesn't mean a limited life not all of us are blessed to have come from Rich background or affluent countries or born somewhere maybe in Kong somewhere far away uh if you look at these three people anybody tell me what they have I we all know they're famous right Justin Bieber the other guy is a singer I think yeah this is a singer famous singer uh blind singer right okay and then you've got Steve Jobs and all of us got his
00:31:22 phone what do all three of them have in common anybody know this good thing about physical sermons right you guys at home can can't participate I know they got Fame but do you know that all of them were almost aborted by their mothers with one flush of that suction from a cruel gynecologist we would have no iPhone can you imagine that life without iPhone right we won't even have Samsung God they fell copy the iPhone humble beginnings right so so the issue isn't your background Paul says not that I've obtained it or I'm already
00:32:09 perfect but I press on to make it my own because Jesus has made me his own we are sitting here because Jesus has made us his own it doesn't matter where you come from or whether your mother wanted to abort you some of you sitting here may have had that situation where your mother had almost wanted you to abort you some of you may be orphans rejected at Birth and given up and you're coming from that background or you come from families when your mother always tell you you never amount to anything you are a
00:32:38 painful fellow a pain in my butt as it were how many times have your parents told you that didn't told me quite a few times when I was very naughty and that has stung your heart and every time you want to do something and Achieve something it holds you back because your father tells you never going to amount to anything but the issue isn't your background the issue is that Christ has made me his own that's what's important and then it's your direction it's not where you came from it's where you're going Paul says
00:33:12 whatever gain I had I counted as loss for the sake of Christ indeed I count everything is lost because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my the most important day in your life you know Mark Twain had a very famous saying there only two days there very important in your life anybody know what are the two days the first one is birth what's the second one some people say marriage their wife nods so you better say that the two important days in your life is the day you're born and the day you know
00:33:51 why if you sit here today and you don't know why you're born what your purpose purpose is then you live a very sad disorganized aimless life the day you're born at least Mark Twain he wasn't Christian knew that and the day you found out why and the why is that whatever gain I counted I lost compared to the surpassing knowledge of knowing Christ Jesus the most valuable day in my life was when I actually at the age of 17 found out that Jesus Christ actually is is God and loves me and gave his life for me and I give my
00:34:32 life to him that is what defines my life that is the direction of which it drives me and and no matter how bad things go if you look here in Psalm 3: 3 to four here is David if there anybody messed up his life is David you know why at the height of his career nothing to do you know he sends his generals out to to wage war and he sits at home in his spots a beautiful woman bathing on top of rooftop somewhere people don't do that nowadays right very dangerous and he actually commits adultery adultery has a child
00:35:11 the child dies his whole family is is torn apart because of his infidelity and his sin and his own children rebel against him and in Psalm Tre is written for a time when Absalon his son his handsome son actually turned against him and turned the population against him so that he has to run into the desert he has to hide from his very own son who's out with a imagine we then Jeremy comes after you with a knife or maybe this words and you know what he's been the king of Israel and now he's right at the
00:35:52 bottom of the rabbit hole there nowhere to turn and it is in that anguish and in that sorrow when he mouths these words but you oh Lord are shield about me my glory and the lifter of my head the crown isn't there anymore the throne isn't there anymore his army isn't there anymore his comfort isn't there he's sitting in the desert in the cave somewhere but he says my glory and the one who lifts my head I can hold my head high is you oh Lord that's what it means prayer is basically an expression of your heart it is not a
00:36:36 mantra it's not a set of words that can automatically turn miracles from heaven so therefore it's your destination Paul says I don't consider that I've made it my own but one thing I do forgetting what lies behind doesn't matter which background you come from whether your mother actually said to you you will never amount to anything or like jbz you're painful person one thing I do forgetting what lies behind maybe you've got sin in your life maybe you failed the Lord maybe you like David have immorality in your life
00:37:10 it doesn't matter but straining ahead towards what lies ahead I press on to the gold or the prize of the upward call of God in Christ God is calling us every single day of life to inch closer and closer to realizing that dream that you become part of his kingdom part of his dream so that God will look at you too like his son and said well done my beloved Son in Christ we can it's not on our own our destination is held by Christ it is through him that we achieve our destination and finally if you
00:37:48 actually are planning your funeral nothing wrong with planning I can plan right now I would like one thing on my plot I would say I fought a good fight I finished the race I've kept the faith do you know that's the most important thing that you could put on your you know don't don't put funny things on your on your Tombstone just say I fought the fight run the race I've kept the faith that's the only thing that matters and when you ask God for his hand to be with you that wonderful hand if you look at the New Testament this
00:38:28 how Paul prays about God's hands that he may Grant you to be strengthened with power his hand through his spirit in your inner being that Christ May dwell in your hearts through faith that you being rooted and grounded in love may have the strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the length the bread the height and depth and to that and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge that you may be filled with the full fullness of God brothers and sisters so many of us we're not asking to be filled with
00:39:04 the fullness of God we're asking to be filled with so many other things and when life turns against you when the economy goes into the turmoil either by pandemic or world war or crisis we go down but we could be like David isn't it at the lowest point of his life you oh Lord are the glor glory and lifter of my head God's going to lift your head only if you look to him and it's not about the pain you know why Paul goes in the opposite direction of jabes jabz was born in pain once to get out of pain Paul born as a Hebrew of
00:39:42 Hebrews a Pharisees a distinguished scholar says that I may know him and the power of his resurrection that may share in his suffering my goodness you want more pain quite the opposite is it but it's real because when you get involved in the kingdom of God you share in his suffering that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection of the Dead let me end with a very famous Christian who also prayed who also prayed powerfully and in his liftime living up to 70 years first uh he actually cared
00:40:25 for a total of 10,000 offense you know FBC we only had like what 20 offense at the most in a Maria's home and that also people complaining how much it cost and then also we come up here every day and say know let's give to marar so you know George Buller looked after 10,000 offerings at the time and he didn't get up and ask for one single Cent and the beautiful thing about Josh Muller that he got on his knees and said God I'm going to look after this office because you asked me to do so and I'm
00:41:00 going to ask you for the money and when he asked God for money other people somehow hears from God and they bring that money to him a miracle you look at at that time there about 100,000 orphans all over UK he looks after 10% of that one single person with his team but if this guy can really pray he can really pray but look at his personal life God answers his prayers but with his personal life he struggles because he has he buried two wives at a time one at a time not not simultaneously four children two still
00:41:46 born one male Elijah died at one year of age his daughter Lydia died at 57 years of age he he had to bury everybody and then his wife Mary the one that's been with it longest was very sick one night and he started to pray and I want to bring not the prayer of jbz this morning I want bring the prayer of George Müller to see how one applies prayer from this prayer Warrior and he writes I am in myself a poor and worthless sinner but I've been saved by the blood of Christ and I do not live in sin I
00:42:28 walk uprightly before God therefore it's really good for me my darling wife will be raised if it's really good for me if for me my darling wife will be raised up again sick as she is God will restore her again but if she is not restored again then it would not be a good thing for me imagine saying that praying for someone if it's a good thing for him and for me and is your will raise her up get a terminal cancer what's the big deal she had rheumatic fever but if she's not restored again because it would not be a good
00:43:10 thing for me and so my heart is at rest I was satisfied with God in all these Springs as I've often said before from taking God's word believing what he says you see the bottom line with this prayer here here's a man who not uses doesn't use prayer special formula or Mantra to wrestle and and get what you want from God he was a prayer that expresses his satisfaction at his Almighty savior that whatever comes whether it be healing or not healing that I will be satisfied because he is the glory and the lifter of my
00:43:51 head and if you are going to go home tonight and get on your knees and you're going to pray pray the muler prayer Pray the jabz prayer too nothing wrong with that but understand its context understand what is about ask the Lord to enlarge your borders that you play a bigger part in his kingdom that his name be honored and whatever comes because life is uncertain that you will be satisfied pray that in the darkest moments that you be the glory and the lifter of our head let's pray father Lord we come before you like George
00:44:38 buah we don't know why he could pray and bring in millions and millions of pounds to look after 10,000 orphans and yet in his prayer he could not save a single child two born still born one died at the age of one and his daughter died at the age of 57 buried two wives we don't know why one hand your glory is shown by the Care by the power of Prayer of 10,000 offer and we don't know why the glory is also shown in the fact that you didn't save his family one brings Joy the other brings sorrow but yet George bull Lord found
00:45:37 satisfaction in you and so therefore as we pray this morning we're going to ask oh Lord you enlarge our borders increase our participation in the kingdom of God because that's the most and important thing that matters and we ask oh Lord that your hand be with us that whatever happen happens to us as we pray confidently we do not pray and determine the results we pray and leave the results to you that at the end we will say like George mler I shall be satisfied with you we ask this for Jesus sake amen
