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Message notes by Cole Beshore, January 23 2022

’PRAYER WITHIN REACH’

SIMON SAYS:

Deuteronomy 6:4-5

“LISTEN, O ISRAEL! THE LORD IS OUR GOD, THE LORD ALONE. AND YOU MUST LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, ALL YOUR SOUL, AND ALL YOUR STRENGTH.

Genesis 29:33

SHE SOON BECAME PREGNANT AGAIN AND GAVE BIRTH TO ANOTHER SON. SHE NAMED HIM SIMEON, FOR SHE SAID, “THE LORD HEARD THAT I WAS UNLOVED AND HAS GIVEN ME ANOTHER SON.”

1) LISTENING MEANS DOING

Matthew 6:5-13

“WHEN YOU PRAY, DON’T BE LIKE THE HYPOCRITES WHO LOVE TO PRAY PUBLICLY ON STREET CORNERS AND IN THE SYNAGOGUES WHERE EVERYONE CAN SEE THEM. I TELL YOU THE TRUTH, THAT IS ALL THE REWARD THEY WILL EVER GET. BUT WHEN YOU PRAY, GO AWAY BY YOURSELF, SHUT THE DOOR BEHIND YOU, AND PRAY TO YOUR FATHER IN PRIVATE. THEN YOUR FATHER, WHO SEES EVERYTHING, WILL REWARD YOU. “WHEN YOU PRAY, DON’T BABBLE ON AND ON AS THE GENTILES DO. THEY THINK THEIR PRAYERS ARE ANSWERED MERELY BY REPEATING THEIR WORDS AGAIN AND AGAIN. DON’T BE LIKE THEM, FOR YOUR FATHER KNOWS EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED EVEN BEFORE YOU ASK HIM! PRAY LIKE THIS:

OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN,

MAY YOUR NAME BE KEPT HOLY.

MAY YOUR KINGDOM COME SOON.

MAY YOUR WILL BE DONE ON EARTH,

AS IT IS IN HEAVEN.

GIVE US TODAY THE FOOD WE NEED,

AND FORGIVE US OUR SINS,

AS WE HAVE FORGIVEN THOSE WHO SIN AGAINST US.

AND DON’T LET US YIELD TO TEMPTATION,

BUT RESCUE US FROM THE EVIL ONE.

2) PRAY LIKE THIS:

- FATHER

- YOUR KINGDOM, NOT MINE

- BREAD

- FORGIVE

- RESCUE

3) THE CONVERSATION THAT CHANGES EVERYTHING. YOUR PEARLS TO PIGS! THEY WILL TRAMPLE THE PEARLS, THEN TURN AND ATTACK YOU.

2) NOT JUST FRIENDS

3) STAYING CONNECTED