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Hello Brothers and sisters.
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I'm Seanna in this video I'm going to share with
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you how to pray to gain the Holy Spirit's work.
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Yeah.
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Prayer is how we draw close to God as well as
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a necessary condition for us to be moved by the Holy Spirit
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and enlightened
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and illuminated by God.
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If we generally pray to God
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and understand the principles and practices of prayer
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when we encounter difficulties in our life,
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we'll be able to face them in a relaxed way.
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Then how to begin the work of the Holy Spirit
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and face life's challenges with these
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sincere prayers can bring him around
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God said,
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then show you call on me and you shall go and pray to me
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and I will listen to you,
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Jeremiah 29 12.
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God has clearly told us that
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as long as we generally call out to him in prayer,
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he will help us through difficult times.
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There are many stories recorded in the bible of
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situations turning around and problems be resolved through prayer.
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For example,
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Geneva
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who became corrupt and wicked to a point
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that offended God's
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disposition.
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But
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When the prophet Jonah communicated God's warning to them,
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they put on some clothes and ashes and fasted and prayed for 40 days
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as well as fully gave up their evil ways within their hearts.
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When God saw the Niva of truly repent,
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show them compassion and allow them to continue to live.
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So we can see that when we generally look to God and offer up sincere prayers to him.
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Unimaginable things can occur right
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and now.
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Less
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think about
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the reasons we cannot gain the Holy Spirit's work through our
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prayers.
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Perhaps some brothers and sisters will say
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we also pray to God when we are faced with difficulties.
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But after praying for a while
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there is still no resolution.
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It just seems like
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God doesn't hear our prayers.
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God is a faithful god.
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And as long as we sincerely pray to him, he will listen.
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If our prayers are not accepted by God
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is certainly that there was a problem with our prayers
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at times like that,
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we should immediately come before God and reflect upon the
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reason our prayers were not in line with with God's will
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then seek out a proper path
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below.
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We've consistently shared
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a few reasons we can gain the Holy Spirit's guidance. Okay,
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will we pray?
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Are we generally calling out to God
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much of the time because we lack genuine knowledge of God's almighty rule.
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We encounter difficulties in life
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in our hearts.
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We're relying ourselves and those around us,
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even though we're paying lip service to prayer and entrusting things to God.
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That kind of prayer is just doing things for the sake of appearance and that's why
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guys are unlikely to hear it.
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For example, he has a sister in my church and there was a long her family had taken out
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That had to be paid back ¥500,000 in three days.
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Otherwise
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they'd be taken to court
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in the face of difficulty even though she prayed to God,
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she never felt totally sure within her heart.
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She and her husband rushed around making use
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their connections borrowing money anywhere they could,
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but they couldn't collect enough
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in her anxiety and helplessness.
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The sister came before God and generally prayed and call out God,
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plus she sort out God's will within his words
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by reading God's words, she understood that everything is in his hands.
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God had his time for when the loan will be repaid
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and that she should leave it in God's hands and obey
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his rule
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and arrangements.
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Once she shift her attitude and generally rely relied
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on God becoming willing to obey his role and arrangements
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attendant stay in her house, paid a year worth of grant as well as lend her some money.
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So in the end,
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the family crisis was miraculously averted
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and she understood God's will from that and saw that although she believed in God,
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she had never understood him
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when trouble was on horizon, even though she had prayed to God
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that was just going through the motions.
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The reality was that she was still trying to rely on
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her own thinking and capabilities to to deal with it.
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She hadn't been able to feel and experience God's role
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in that kind of environment and as a result,
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she became someone who claimed to believe in God but
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didn't have a place for God in her heart.
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So God had allowed the kind environment to come upon her so that she would
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run to truly rely on God and experience his work in a very real way
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it was so that she could gain to understanding of
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God's almighty rule and really trust him in future challenges.
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Everything is decided by God's will.
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It just as God sat in the bible,
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not by might
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nor by power but by my spirit
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Zechariah 46.
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Mhm.
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And God said
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sometimes
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looking to God
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doesn't mean asking God to do something using specific words
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or asking him for specific guidance and practice practitioner
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rather is that when people encounter some issue,
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they're able to call on him sincerely.
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So
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what is God doing there? When people call on him?
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When someone's heart stirs
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and they have the thought,
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oh God,
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I can't do this myself.
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I don't know how to do it.
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And I feel really connective
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when these thoughts arise in them.
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Does God not know about it?
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When these thoughts arising, people,
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their hearts sincere
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when they call on God sincerely in this way
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does God has a sin to help them?
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Despite the fact that they may not have spoken a word,
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they show sincerity.
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And so God a sense to help them.
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When someone encounters an especially thorny difficulty
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when they have no one to turn to
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and when they feel particularly helpless,
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they put their only hope in God?
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What are their prayers like?
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What is their state of mind?
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Are they sincere? Is there any adulteration at that time?
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It's only when you trust God as though he were the
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last straw that you clutch onto to save your life,
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hoping that he will help you and that your heart is sincere.
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Though you may not have said much. Your heart has already stirred.
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That is you gave your sincere heart to God. And God listens when God listens,
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he sees your difficulties and he will enlighten you, guide you and help you
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Believers 1st. Need to see through the evil trends of the world.
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By carefully reading God's words. I can see that
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a turnaround in an event
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is a true environment of God's almighty rule.
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When we encounter difficulties,
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we must pray and call out to God with a general heart and sincere attitude,
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telling him what our deficiencies and difficulties,
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and
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seeking his will,
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enlightenment and guidance.
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God's spirit can see into all things.
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If he sees that we are genuine,
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he will give us faith and strength and
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guide us to resolve our difficulties and problems.