You need help...
and you want to know, how can you
pray to God for help?
Well, it's good, because He's the only One
that can really help you.
There's not a specific formula,
5 Steps, or 10 steps, that you need to do
for God to hear you.
He always listens to you, He's always there.
God is everywhere, all the time. He is not limited
by time or space or matter or by anything.
And He just wants you to speak to Him.
He's with you right now.
Even if it doesn't feel like it. You know, prayer is not this mysterious thing.
All it is, is just you speaking to God,
from your spirit in truth. Because God can only be worshiped
in truth and in spirit. [John 4:23] So instead of just
thinking all the time about all your problems which,
doesn't really help, right?
Go to Him and just talk to Him, in Philippians 4 verse 6,
it says "[reads onscreen verse]
So it says, "be anxious for nothing"so if you feel
anxious, and you don't have that peace yet, then
you have to pray more and more and more until you get that breakthrough in prayer
where you get the peace of God.
When you get that peace in your heart, it's like, [gestures silently],
nothing else matters, but you know:
everything will be okay. And you can stop praying. [Not permanently, of course.]
So what do you pray about? What do you, talk to God about?
Well, everything. You can talk to God any time, anywhere, but it is also better
if you go and make specific time for God.
Go to your room, close the door.
Where it's quiet, where nobody can disturb you, and
when there are no distractions. It's just you, and God.
And then, have a detailed conversation.
Usually, when you do that,
when you pray, and when it's just you and God, the words just flow.
Right? But if you struggle,
and if you can't, if you struggle to connect, just pray,
and ask the Holy Spirit to help you. And pray to God,
and say:
"God, I'm here, there's a lot of issues here, [gestures at heart] and I have a lot of problems, and I need help.
I don't know how to talk to You. I d--- I don't know,
"But I'm asking that You would help me, and guide me through the Holy Spirit.
Tell me what you want me to talk to you about."
And the Holy Spirit will help you.
And then just continue with prayer, in supplication and thanksgiving. [He emphasized "and"]
Which means to talk to, or plead with God, humbly, while also thanking Him. [He emphasized "plead"]
Why "also thanking Him"?
Because, when we pray just about our problems all the time,
we tend to focus just on our problems all the time.
And it brings us down.
And this is also a very powerful weapon that the devil can use.
Because he [the devil] knows if we focus on the problem all the time.
We lose our focus --
that it should be on God that is all powerful and that can do anything.
Your problems might be huge, they might be big,
but God is bigger.
So if you pray to God with thanksgiving, [he emphasizes "giving" from "thanksgiving"]
Your mind shifts. From focusing on the problems and the negative stuff in your life all the time ... to God.
[To God] And what He has already done in your life. All the problems He already sorted out.
And all the things that He's already done for you. [gestures at screen when saying "for you"]
All the good things that's in your life, right now.
And so when you look at your problem from this perspective, you're focused on God
and not the problem; And you pray differently, you look at it differently.
And you know,
that God can help you.
Then, it says "let your requests be made known to God"
and then give it to Him. And trust God with everything you've got--
-- leave all your problems with Him. Because He's the only One,
that can see the future, and your purpose in it.
And you might think you have a big problem, and
you're just thinking about this problem "and it's big and it's huge and you don't know what to do, and..." [takes breath]
You need to remember: When we look at problems, we don't see the whole picture.
But God Does. That's why we can trust God because, when He looks at the problem,
He sees the truth of it.
And so, sometimes when it looks like a problem for you,
it might just be God that's closing one door because He
knows if you continue in this direction,
it's going to lead into something that's not good. And so He opens up another door, for you. ["for" is slightly emphasized.]
A door He wants you to move into that is actually better, but it might not look that way, to you.
Because we can't see the whole picture.
So you need to know that you can fully trust God with your whole life --
-- EVEN if you don't fully understand it.
It's important to know that God never promised us
that life would be EASY - that you will never have any problems.
But He did promise us, in Romans 8 verse 28
that "[reads on-screen verse]" [slight emphasis on the words "together", "love God", "called", "His purpose"]
Do you see what he's saying here? If you truly love God,
and you put Him first. [emphasizes "first"]
All the things that you will go through in life won't be good on its own.
But together [emphasis on "together"]...
... it will be good.
It's like if you bake a cake. When you go to bake a cake, you need salt, you need flour, baking powder,
All those stuff [the ingredients] if you eat it on its own, it's terrible. It's not good.
But if you throw all the ingredients together,
then you get a delicious cake!
And that's how life is with God. You need to pray to God from this perspective.
And so you pray this certain thing until you get that peace from God.
And then you feel it in your spirit, "A!, okay, God is taking care of this. I don't even need to pray about this anymore."
And then God answers you, through the Bible, through someone else, through the Holy Spirit.
Or through the situation, itself, that just works out.
You know, this peace you get from God,
The world can not offer you anything like it.
It is the Peace of God Himself, [He will now be quoting on-screen text.]
"Which surpasses all understanding" [emphasizes "all"]
(cont') And it "will guard your heart and mind through Jesus Christ."
But remember,
You need to fully trust God. If you don't fully trust God, you will not have peace.
James 1 verse 6 to 8 says, "[quotes on-screen text]"
So when you pray to God,
trust Him and leave you problems with God.
Trust Him that He will take care of it.
Trust Him that He will help you. ["Will" is emphasized]
It won't always be in the way that you think it should be, [emphasizes "you"]
but, it will be in the way that He knows it's going to be the best for you, and for the people around you.
Remember: God sees the whole picture; You don't.
So fully surrender all your problems,
to God, and He will help you ["Will" is very emphasized.]
Proverbs 3 verse 5 says,
"[quotes on-screen text]"
Now remember: You can pray to God anywhere at any time; In the subway, going to work, on the sport field; Anywhere!
Any time! You are never alone! [emphasis on "never"]
He knows you better than you know yourself,
because He CREATED you, [He isn't yelling, just emphasizing]
and He has a purpose, for you. [pauses emphasize "purpose"and "for you"]
And He loves you, more... than you can ever think.
I love you too.
See you in the next video, Bye!
Hymn sung: "Take my life and let it be"
"consecrated Lord, to thee!"