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[781.74 --> 783.94] And for those of you who, I encourage you to sign up.
[784.02 --> 787.44] There's a link and all that to join our prayer walk.
[787.56 --> 789.56] There's even paper, Valerie talked about it.
[789.56 --> 795.30] But we're going to walk this property, and we're going to, every day, somebody's going to be walking this property and praying.
[795.60 --> 799.62] Because we want to see what God is up to, and we want to get in on that.
[801.58 --> 803.02] Doing things in His name.
[804.02 --> 810.72] And trusting Him to do what He is going to do.
[810.72 --> 815.22] And when we pray, and when we cry out to God, we can be assured God hears us.
[815.30 --> 816.64] We can be assured He cares.
[816.98 --> 819.10] And we can be assured God hears our prayers.
[819.48 --> 822.28] And His answers and His will are perfect.
[822.60 --> 824.36] Even when we may think otherwise.
[826.24 --> 829.16] Jesus Himself prayed at one point in the Garden of Gethsemane,
[829.26 --> 831.18] Lord, please take this cup, take this cup.
[831.40 --> 832.10] And God said, no.
[833.56 --> 834.58] And Jesus said, okay then.
[835.28 --> 836.32] Thy perfect will be done.
[836.32 --> 839.40] That's a prayer that trusts God.
[840.62 --> 844.66] So yes, Lord, please, please move that mountain, whatever that mountain is for you.
[845.08 --> 846.12] And I want to ask you that.
[846.36 --> 848.98] Are there mountains in your life that are impacting you?
[849.30 --> 852.20] Health concerns, physical or mental health concerns.
[852.68 --> 853.86] Relational conflicts.
[854.24 --> 854.68] Addictions.
[855.18 --> 856.16] Economic problems.
[856.34 --> 856.70] Loneliness.
[856.90 --> 857.30] Despair.
[857.60 --> 857.90] Fear.
[858.04 --> 858.54] Anxiety.
[858.86 --> 859.30] Issues.
[859.66 --> 860.80] Yes, of course there is.
[860.80 --> 862.64] We all have some of that in our lives.
[862.96 --> 864.20] And we want it gone.
[866.32 --> 868.62] We want it gone, of course.
[870.18 --> 872.60] And we trust that God somehow is going to work in all that.
[873.20 --> 875.60] And we do say it out loud.
[876.56 --> 880.78] It's interesting to me in our passage out of Mark 11, you know, the verse that I ended on.
[881.18 --> 884.02] After, you know, saying ask anything in prayer and receive it.
[884.40 --> 886.92] But then this verse, which seems like it doesn't belong.
[887.42 --> 887.82] Verse 25.
[887.96 --> 892.18] And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive them.
[892.18 --> 894.74] So that your Father in heaven may forgive you and your sins.
[895.82 --> 897.68] I thought, wow, why is that suddenly there?
[900.30 --> 901.48] And I think it's this.
[902.60 --> 906.40] I think it's important that we do some soul searching.
[906.40 --> 912.00] Maybe there's some areas in you that need some healing and some honesty.
[912.64 --> 916.44] And then when you pray, you might pray, Lord, Lord, heal this relationship.
[916.90 --> 918.66] And yet you hold on to such anger.
[918.86 --> 920.54] And you haven't looked at your own heart.
[920.72 --> 922.04] And you've got some work to do.
[922.26 --> 924.98] And that's God's answer to your prayers.
[926.58 --> 928.72] Somehow working in you.
[928.72 --> 931.76] How about this?
[933.16 --> 934.68] 2 Corinthians 12.
[935.38 --> 939.06] Where Paul has this thorn in the flesh, as it's called.
[939.16 --> 939.76] This problem.
[940.20 --> 941.46] We don't even know exactly what it is.
[941.54 --> 942.16] But he says this.
[942.40 --> 943.48] Three times I pleaded.
[943.60 --> 947.12] I'm praying with the Lord to take that thorn away from me.
[947.54 --> 950.58] But he said to me, my grace is sufficient for you.
[950.86 --> 951.92] My power is made perfect.
[952.00 --> 952.26] How?
[952.50 --> 953.32] In weakness.
[953.32 --> 959.54] Therefore, I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me.
[959.72 --> 964.40] Notice how the power comes through simply living in grace.
[965.86 --> 970.24] Occasionally, I think mountains are placed in our paths as a means of shaping our character.
[971.02 --> 972.44] Making us more like Christ.
[973.84 --> 979.06] And like Paul, sometimes I need to learn to rest in God's grace, whatever's happening.
[979.06 --> 983.84] And yes, we can then ask whatever in alignment with the Father's will.
[984.46 --> 987.04] But his will over ours.
[987.62 --> 994.76] And so in this, in this kind of attitude and posture, I need not just speak, but I also need to listen.
[996.56 --> 1001.88] I need quiet with my Lord so I hear his voice and know his will.
[1004.28 --> 1006.68] How many of you trust your will completely?
[1006.68 --> 1009.90] I don't know.
[1011.64 --> 1012.24] I don't know.
[1012.48 --> 1016.62] If God came to me and said, hey, you know, can you give me some advice, Sid?
[1016.62 --> 1017.88] I'd say, no, I can't.
[1019.08 --> 1020.68] You're best off going elsewhere.
[1022.08 --> 1023.80] I want to know God's will.
[1025.30 --> 1025.58] Right?
[1025.88 --> 1029.54] So yes, make space to hear God in prayer.
[1029.90 --> 1031.06] And to know his word.
[1031.06 --> 1034.56] So when you pray, you pray in accordance with the will of God.
[1036.68 --> 1043.64] According to William Barclay, a theologian, he said the term moving mountains was a common Jewish expression for overcoming difficulties.
[1043.90 --> 1045.32] I think for us it's often that too.
[1046.12 --> 1051.44] Jesus is instructing us to speak of our mountains, to share them with God.
[1051.60 --> 1053.20] I think that's a powerful thing.
[1053.48 --> 1056.68] We tell God about the mountains that are in our way.
[1056.68 --> 1057.78] We say them.
[1057.90 --> 1058.90] We name them.
[1062.34 --> 1066.80] Otherwise, the mountain will become the focus and remain our focus.
[1066.80 --> 1071.76] And then we will feel our powerlessness.
[1072.08 --> 1074.58] Because if it's up to us, we are powerless.
[1075.28 --> 1077.38] And our joy and our hope will be diminished.
[1077.72 --> 1083.58] So yes, name your mountains so you can focus on Jesus and then leave the mountains to him.
[1083.58 --> 1090.86] One of my favorite passages out of Hebrews 12, where we read,
[1091.54 --> 1097.68] Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything, everything, the attitude, whatever sin,
[1097.94 --> 1100.24] that so easily entangles us and trips us up.
[1100.54 --> 1103.44] And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.