Always Pray About Anything And Everything God Wants To Hear From You

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Today we are talking about how it is important for you to always pray. You always need to be praying every minute, every day. You got to be praying as you go through your day when you are just walking around when you are thinking to yourself. Be praying, thanking God for something. Be praying, saying God help me do this, God help me do that.

Thank you for this food. Lord help me with this. God, please give me some strength and energy. God help this meeting to go well. Lord get me on time here. Lord have me drive safely to this place. God, please have the car work well. Lord Jesus, I ask that this would be prosperous. Thank you for this person. Thank you for this. Thanks all the time. You get the idea. Every minute of every day, all your thoughts for Christ. You are a child of God, you are God’s child.

Now this is going to be a heavily scripture-filled day, so have your Bibles ready. We are going to be turning a lot, warm up your fingers, do a little finger exercise of friction so that they are not going to be too cold, get them warmed up.

Let’s turn to some Bible verses. We got 1 John chapter 3 verse 1, 1 John 3:1. Now of course if you are driving you are taking advantage of multitasking and you are listening to the podcast while you drive, no problem, go back later, look up all these verses, they will be in the description below for you.

1 John 3:1 says, ‘How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God?’ How great is His love that we should be called children of God? Not only are we to be called it though and this is what we are.

‘The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him.’ Another great verse. The reason it did not know us, is because it did not know Him. Why does the world not know us? Because we are not of this world. We are simply in this world. Why are we not of this world? Because we are of a heavenly world. Our Kingdom is up there with God, with Jesus, in heaven.

We are here for probably about 120 years if you can make it. That would be great to make it 120 years and preach Jesus with as many people as possible. I certainly hope that 80 years from now I am preaching just like this. I will be old and hunched over. I will have to lower the camera, but I will be preaching. ‘How great is His love that we should be called children of God?’ That is what we are, we are children of God. Incredible.

Galatians 4:6-7 says, ‘Because you are sons, God has sent the spirit of his son into our hearts. The spirit who calls out Abba, Father. So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and since you are a son, God has made you also an heir.’

Now of course this is being spoken about sons and daughters of Christ, or brothers and sisters of Christ. So if you are a Christian, you are a child of God. You are a child, you are a son and a daughter, and your spirit, the spirit that God has put in you, the holy spirit, cries out Abba, Father. It cries out that. If it is crying out, Father, you are a child of God. You are a child of God and He is your heavenly father. He is your heavenly father.

How do we know this? Well, let’s turn to two more verses. 2 Corinthians 6:18 says, ‘I will be a father to you and you will be my sons and daughters, says the LORD almighty.’ Now of course this is taken from another part of the Bible, this is taken from 2 Samuel 7:14 and also 7 verse 8. ‘You will be sons and daughters, says the LORD almighty.’

That means you will be children of God. Of course, back in Samuel, it was a prophecy. When we become Christians, when we have Jesus in us, we have the holy spirit within us, it is crying out Father. We are children of God. He will be our father. That is what it says. I will be a father to you.

Next Matthew 23:9. Now we had a whole sermon on this before, it is called One Father. You can check it out on our YouTube channel or on our website, One Father. It is also in the podcast, social media. You can search for it anywhere.

Matthew 23 verse 9 says, ‘And you do not call anyone on earth father, for you have one father and he is in heaven.’ Now of course you can call your dad, father. But this means father spiritually. What is the point of all that, well we have a lot of verses there, the point is you are a child of God, that is number one.

Number two, God is your father and by definition, if He is your father, you are His child. He is your parent, there is no question that God loves you, there is no question. After all, what good parent would not love their child? Good parents love their children. They love them, they take care of them, and in everything they provide for them. God loves you.

You want some more proof? Let’s go to John 3:16. What does it say? ‘For God so loved the world that he gave his only son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish, but have everlasting life.’ It is pretty reasonable to say that God is the greatest most loving parent of them all. He is a good parent and a good father. He is a great father.

But ask yourself this, what good parent would not want to hear from their child? Good parents want to talk to their children all the time. They want to know what is going on in their child’s life. They want you to call them. The answer is none. No good parent would not want to hear from the child. All good parents love to hear from their kids. They want to know everything about what their kids are doing.

Good parents understand though that their kids do not want to tell them everything. After all, you are not going to call up your parents and tell them that you went out to the bar and had too many drinks or you are not going to call your parents and tell them all about everything that goes on between you and your spouse.

What I am saying is, you are not going to go into details with your parent on sensitive topics. You are probably not going to tell your parents about any major sins you are going through, although you should. You should. Parents want to know. They want to know and they want to help. They want to help you through things, but they know that you do not want to tell them everything. That is okay. They accept that when their children do talk, they listen. They are delighted to listen.

The difference is God listens every single time His children talk to Him. Sometimes even good parents are too busy. You call them up and they might not have time. They might have to go or they might not want to hear it or they might say, hey I do not want to hear about this anymore. They may not want to listen to everything all the time.

God does. God wants to listen every single time you talk to Him. You are a child of God. He loves it when you talk to Him. You say, how do I talk to God? You pray, not only at meal times and before bed but every minute of every day. You should be talking to God all day long. Talk to Him, everything, anything and everything. It does not matter what about, it really does not matter.

Philippians 4:6, ‘Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.’ So there are a few things right there. In everything, first of all, in everything. With prayer and petition, what does that mean? Well, prayer is talking to God, but what is this petition word thrown in here?

A petition, as in a document that you go around and get people to sign? It is more than that. That is what you think a petition is, that is the standard definition, but there is more. The root word of petition is deeper. To petition is like to repeatedly ask to gather support, to continue to go there again and again and again.

That is where we get the modern-day petition because it is repeated. I have a signature, a signature, a signature, a signature. That petition is then brought to wherever, say you are petitioning to get a law changed, you bring the petition to the legislator, the magistrate, or the government or wherever, and then they say wow, you got a lot of signatures. We will consider it.

By prayer and petition. They take this or they do not anymore because they are lazy or corrupt or something. But a petition would mean they would look at these signatures and let’s say there is a hundred of them, they would say, wow we have a hundred people that just came to our office one at a time for every hour.

So for the last hundred hours, we have had people saying, hey I want you to fix this, hey I want you to fix the same thing. They say okay we get the picture and then they get it done because they have had so much petitioning that they do not want to hear it anymore. That is really what it is, they are like get them off my doorstep. Let’s get this done.

So this verse is saying with prayer and petition present your request to God. That does not mean being like, alright Lord, my back hurts today. Can you fix that? Thank you. Done. No, it is every single time your back is hurting, God please heal my back. A half-hour later you move, God, hey man, take care of my back. Lord, hey can you heal my back? Lord Jesus my back really hurts, take care of that, please. Every single time. Now the difference is God is not going to get tired of hearing it, but the more you request He is gonna be delighted that you are trusting Him so much.

Oh my back hurts, I need a chiropractor. No, your back hurts, you need to go and you need to pray to God. Yeah, the chiropractor might help. But pray to God and maybe He will help you with finding a chiropractor.

The point is, everything needs to go to God and you got to learn to rely on God for everything. That is what this verse is saying, with prayer and petition. He is not going to get sick of you. Do it so much. Have that goal. Try, He will never be sick of you.

In everything, prayer and petition with thanksgiving. Though God does not want you to be complaining to Him. Oh, my back hurts. No. Hey, my back hurts and just bring it up to Him, and then when it does not hurt be thanking Him. Thank you that the rest of my body is okay.

With thanksgiving. You got to be thanking God in everything all the time as well. Thanking him for the ability to heal your back if He chooses to do so. Thanking Him for the other things in your life that you are thankful for. You got to be going through life thanking God in all of that. In everything.

But keep presenting your requests to Him. He wants to hear from you. He will never get sick of you. Put it to the test. Keep praying, keep praying over and over and over and over again about anything and everything. Because guess what, He will never grow tired of hearing you. He wants to hear your voice. Remember He is a good parent, good parents want to hear from their children.

1 Thessalonians chapter 5 verses 16 to 18. Be joyful always. Be joyful always. Do not be complaining to God. ‘Be joyful. Pray continually. Give thanks in all circumstances for this is God’s will for you.’ In Christ Jesus pray continually. Give thanks in all circumstances. It is awesome, it is awesome. Be joyful.

Always pray continually. That is what God is saying. He wants you to do that. He wants you to pray continually. He wants you to give thanks in all circumstances. That means the good and the bad, not just when something good happens, but even when bad things happen thank God for getting you through it.

Not like, oh I wish that did not happen. But how about, thank you God for getting me through that bad experience or that bad situation. Thank you for not letting it be worse. Thank you for teaching me whatever lesson you learned in that experience. Thank you in all circumstances. It is very very important.

Keep praying, never stop praying. Do not worry about the right way to pray or the wrong way to pray, because there is no right or wrong way to pray. You simply need to pray. You gotta talk to God. If you need to know a little bit more about specific prayers, we had a great sermon on the Gethsemane prayer that you can check out on our YouTube channel or our website. It is awesome. It is a great message. A great way for you to pray in all circumstances, seriously it is a great prayer.

Matthew chapter 7 verses 7 and 8, ‘Ask, and it will be given to you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and the door will be open. For everyone who asks, receives. For everyone who seeks, finds, and to him who knocks, the door will be open.’

Knock on the door. If God has got the door closed, bang on that sucker. Knock, break that door down, be knocking all the time with prayer, with petition, presenting your request. You are going to get so tired, you got to knock with this hand. Then pretty soon you are going to be so tired, you are going to be knocking with stuff.

You are going to be banging on the door with your Bible, praying, verses. You are going to be getting a stick. You are going to be beating it down. You are going to get one of those things the police have and boom, a battering ram. You are going to be knocking on that door with prayer and petition, but also with joy.

You are going to be joyfully knocking. You are going to be knocking with a smile on your face. Not trying to beat it down in anger. Knock joyfully. Ask and it will be given to you. Seek, you will find. Knock and guess what, that door will be opened. Talk to Him, anything and everything, as if you are speaking to your best friend.

Jeremiah 33 verse 3, this is a great verse. ‘Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things that you do not know.’ That is God. He is speaking. He is saying, call to me, I want to hear from you. Remember you are His child. He is your father.

He is saying call to me, ask me. Those were Jesus’ words in Matthew. He is saying ask, seek, knock, you will find. Ask me. I want you to ask. Ephesians chapter 6 verse 18, ‘And pray in the spirit on all occasions, with all kinds of prayers and requests.’

It does not say, some. Does not say, hey pray when you have trouble, pray when things are tough but when things are good, you are fine, you will be alright. No, it says pray on all occasions. In all kinds of prayers.

Hey, I only want to hear prayers where you are thanking me for stuff. No, all kinds of prayers. I only want you to request things that are for my Kingdom. No, all requests. That means you can request stuff that is of your own heart and your own desire. Whether God gives it to you or not, it does not matter. He says I want you to tell me everything, all the time, on all occasions, all the time.

With this in mind, ‘Be alert and always keep on praying for all the saints.’ Always pray. It does not say, all right you can pray on all occasions, you can pray about everything, you can pray about anything, you can ask me for anything, you can ask me for everything but only during the hours of nine to five and not on weekends. No, always.

Always pray, that means 24/7/365. Every minute of every day, about anything and everything in your life, no matter how big, no matter how small, always be praying about it. Always pray every minute of every day. Seriously. Even while I am preaching to you, while I am speaking to you, I am praying.

When I pause for a second maybe I am like, oh thanks God, that was really cool because I did not plan that, it just came out. Maybe I am like, all right Lord help me find this verse pretty quickly while I am paging so that I do not run out of stuff to say. Or maybe I am like, man please God give them their Bibles, help them find the verses, I always pray. In anything and everything, God wants to hear from you.

Let’s pray. Lord Jesus thank you so much for your words. Thank you father that you are such a loving father, Father Yahweh. That you love us so much that you sent your son. That you made us your children and your heirs. That we have a place in heaven. That we can receive an inheritance in heaven. That we have a home that you have prepared for us.

Thank you so much for that. Thank you that you want to hear from us. Lord, I pray that each and every person out there would start praying more. That even if they say they pray a lot, that they would pray more. We can always pray more.

Lord I ask that they would be filled with prayer, filled with requests, filled with whatever it is you want them to pray for. For themselves, for others, for everyone, that they would pray about every single thing every minute of every day. That they would always have prayer in their heads. That their spirits would pray and call out to you.

Thank you so much that you have given us that opportunity. That you have told us this in the Bible. That you are always there. That we can call out to you about every single thing every minute of every day. You are so great, God. Thank you in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Seriously get out there and pray. Pray with others. Pray by yourself. Pray in solitude. Pray all the time. I hope that you pray so much that even in your dreams you are praying. God bless.