Well, we have one more lecture after today. Today we are going to look at a prayer notebook, extended time in prayer, and the Word of God in prayer. Next week we will look at meditation in prayer and practical applications for meditation. then we'll take our break and for those who are interested we're going to turn back to doctrine and we're going to look at doctrines of discipleship beginning with prayer So we've been looking at the how to's this semester. So over the summer, the summer studies are standalone studies because people take the rule of thumb cannot be I get to take a vacation, but you cannot. So I understand. I don't want to shut down the studies during the summer, but I do understand that people come and go. They have Christian conferences, vacations. church conferences, all sorts of things happen during the summer. So you can miss one or two and then rejoin it and you will not have missed anything because each of the studies will be stand-alone. Well, let's go to the Lord in prayer, shall we? O Lord God, this is your holy word. We are your servants. Give us understanding that we might know your testimonies. You have prayed, O Lord. Sanctify them in truth. Thy word is truth. Use your holy, eternal, inerrant written word to set us apart this day to your service and to your glory. Show us now great and mighty things which we do not know. The sower sows the word. Let not your word go out and return empty, but accomplish that purpose for which you are sending it out and for which you have gathered us together. Protect us from Satan who will snatch your word. Protect us from the world's cares and the delight of wealth and the passion of other interests which enters in and chokes your word. Protect us from a wrong reaction to difficulties and discouragements and persecutions which make our hearts hard and unresponsive to your word. Rather, plow now the hard ground of our hearts, O Lord. Give us good soil that your sown word would send roots downward and then bear fruit upwards. Unsheathe now the sword of your spirit, O Lord. Cut to the dividing point of bone and marrow, soul and spirit. Judge now the thoughts and intention of each heart gathered here. Spread your word before us as a banquet table, O Lord. Grant grace that we might eat of the rich meat and drink of the sweet milk of the great doctrines of your word. Give us the heart of the prophet who cried to you. Thy words were found and I did eat them. and thy words became to me a joy and a delight of my heart from call by thy name, O Lord God of hosts. O Lord, we live in a dark and a wicked age. Broad is the way, and many are on it, which leads to destruction. Make your word a lamp to our feet. Make your word a light to our paths. Show us that narrow way that you would have us run. And Lord, as we run in the paths of your commandments, enlarge our hearts that in loving you, we might be more obedient to your written word. Drop your word against our lives as a plumb line, oh Lord. Grant grace that we might see how we deviate from its high and holy purposes. Make your word to us a mirror, O Lord. Grant grace that we might not be as those who look and go away and forget, but make us active doers, not forgetful listeners of your holy word. O Lord, because of our fealty to you, Because of our undying love and devotion to your Son, our resurrected Savior, we pledge to you this day our total submission to your holy, eternal, and inerrant written word. And we pledge to you our unquestioning obedience to all of its commands. In the name of our Lord and resurrected Savior, Jesus Christ, we pray. Amen. Okay, we're going to look at our prayer notebook first. Your prayer notebook begins with one page. for each of these areas, a total of seven pages. So you have a notebook, it has seven pages in it. It can grow over the time, but not necessarily. Now my prayer notebook, I've shown it to you before, is a little on the thick side. But, I'm full time in the ministry and I have an hour to spend in the morning working through prayer. That's basically ten minutes on adoration, confession, thanksgiving, supplication, intercession, and spiritual warfare. Then I do my meditation separate from my prayer notebook. but that's how much time I've spent. You may have one minute for each of these and three minutes for a minute. Ten minutes with God may be the time you begin with and then you can grow. Few lay people have more wiggle room in their day than 30 minutes in the morning a couple minutes in each of these areas and then five minutes to read a passage and make some application before they hit the road. Some have more. All depends on your capacity and your work schedule. What other demands you have being made on you. But let's begin with one page for each. Now at the end of this study, I'm going to resend you suggested pages but I do not want to put you under the law now you'll notice in my prayer notebook I've shown you this before and I'll give you an example of this under adoration I have 70 attributes of God I don't know if you can see that but you see those little tick marks I have by each one is that showing up I don't know if it's showing up on there or not. But you can see right here, there's a couple down there. I do not pray over every verse, over every attribute, every morning. I have three verses per attribute. I do one attribute and pray over those three verses. put a tick mark by that. The other 69 I just mention to the Lord. I praise you because you are holy. I praise you because you are righteous. I praise you because you are just. I praise you because you are gracious. Some days I don't pray over the verses at all. I just pray over the attributes. Other times I might linger over a particular attribute and then move on. So I'm not putting you under the law what this attribution, adoration section and the attributes of God is big picture. It's the worship of God without reference to man. Now God in his grace has revealed to us who he is. And since he has taken the time out to do that, it behooves us to make a list of his attributes and pray through them. But we are not commanded to do that. We are commanded to worship. But we remember that in the area of adoration it's the worship of God without reference to man. Confession. Confession, remember, is confessing our sins. It's repenting for the sake of restoring fellowship, not gaining actual forgiveness. Now that's very important that we remember that, and we will revisit that when we talk about the doctrines of prayer. But, Isaiah 53, 5 and 6. Deanna, would you read Isaiah 53, 5? And Bishan, would you read Isaiah 53, 6? But he was pierced for our transgressions him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed." Okay, and six, Bishan, Isaiah 53, 6. Isaiah 53, 6 says, All we like sheep have gone astray. We have turned everyone to his own way, and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. Now here we have in Isaiah 53-6 the twin doctrines of substitutionary death of Christ, that He took our place, that was verse 5, and imputation, that when He took our place, our sins were placed on Him And substitution means that the heavy hand of God's judgment fell on Jesus as punishment for those sins. Now, that happened 2,000 years ago. So, when you received Christ, that is not when Christ died for your sins. That's when you experience the grace of God and we're credited against that. But it's not when it happened. Now, Roman Catholic doctrine says that's when it happens. And then it happens, and then it happens, it happens every Mass. But we know that's not true. Deanna, if you would turn with me to Hebrews Chapter 9, verse 24 and 25, and then Bishan, if you would read Hebrews 9, verse 26. For Christ has entered not into holy places made in hands, which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly as the high priest enters the holy places every year with blood, not his own. 26 for then he would have heard to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world was as it is He has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself so 2,000 years ago when Christ died on the cross he was on the cross and But because of his transcendent nature, where else was he? In verse 25 Deanna, I mean in verse 24. Was he in the earthly temple in verse 24? into heaven. He was in heaven. That's because that is a doctrine that we will study this summer called transcendent. That God is transcendent in nature. He transcends time and space. So, Jesus Christ laid aside certain attributes when he came to earth. Which ones did he lay aside and which ones did he keep? Well, I will study that this summer. But one of the attributes he did not lay aside was his transcendent nature. That's why in John 14, verse 9, he said to Peter, Philip, have I been so long with you, Philip, that you do not know who I am? Why do you say, show us the Father? He who has seen me has seen the Father. So, I and the Father are one. So, Jesus was with God in heaven continually while he was on earth. He is transcendent. We just accept that by faith. So, our sins were placed on Jesus and forgiven two thousand years ago. We experience the results of that when we receive Christ and are born again. when we receive Christ and are born again. But once forgiven, all are forgiven. Once forgiven, all are forgiven. And this is what I mean by that. Many people will say, okay, here I am. That's me, and I have received Christ. So, this is when I was born. So, when I received Christ, these sins I committed were placed on Christ. But, what about the sins I commit after I've received Christ? What happens to those? And they'll say, well, you confess them and then they're forgiven. Okay? No. And here's the problem. deanna do you confess your sins all of them that too many every single one by name uh... they're they're mostly under a couple of categories yeah we we can't even remember all of our sins can we and but we say well at the end of the day we always say and forgive those sins that i don't remember well we say that but we don't really do that every day we try to do that every day What happens if you have unconfessed sin? Well, Bishan, turn with me to the book of James, please. Bishan, if you would read James 4, I mean James 2, verse 10. James 2 verse 10 No, you're doing great James 2 10 says for whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one Okay, but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it. So if you forget to confess one single sin, what happens? You're guilty. You're guilty. Yeah. Not of the Ten Commandments, but of the over 2,000 commandments. So, but this is a nonsensical statement. Because when were your sins forgiven? 2,000 years ago. 2,000 years ago. That's 2,000. So to say when I received Christ, these sins I had not committed for 2,000 years were placed on Jesus. but these sins i had not committed for two thousand years cannot be placed on jesus that's nonsensical isn't it because when you receive christ these sins were not placed on jesus when you received christ they were placed on jesus when he was on the cross So, to say, well, of course my sins are forgiven, you know, when I receive Christ, but what about the sins I committed after I received Christ? I hadn't even committed them yet. Well, these sins and these sins are the same. When they were placed on Jesus on the cross, you had not committed these sins, and you had not committed these sins. But God is transcendent, He is omnipresent, and He is omniscient, and He took them all, past, present, and future, and placed them on Christ, and punished them for Him. that's the doctrine of propitiation that God is totally satisfied that God is totally satisfied so it's important for us to remember when we are confessing our sins we are restoring our fellowship with God not gaining actual forgiveness we're acknowledging our sin and repenting But, you are not gaining actual forgiveness because that happened 2,000 years ago. Romans 5a. Deanna, would you read that please? But God chose his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. No, Christ died for us 2,000 years ago. And if God was not going to forgive a sin, He wouldn't have started down that road with you in the first place, would He? But God is omniscient, and He knew every sin you would ever commit, and 2,000 years ago, Christ died for those sins. So the, what about the sins I committed after I received Christ? They're not, they haven't been placed on Christ because I haven't committed them is nonsensical. Because when you pray to receive Christ, sins, which you had not committed were placed on Christ already. It happened 2000 years ago. It can be difficult to wrap our heads around that, but we have to think in terms of that timeline that Jesus died 2,000 years ago. So I was born in 1951 and I received Christ in 1968. And to say that, of course, when I received Christ in 1968, those sins were placed on Christ. But what about, this is the year 2022, what about these sins since 1968 to 2022? Well, that's nonsensical to say that those sins that I had not committed for 1,951 years all the way up to 1,968 years, those sins I hadn't committed yet, because I hadn't been born were placed on Christ but the sins I hadn't committed after 1968 were not placed on Christ because I hadn't committed them yet. Well the first set you hadn't committed when Jesus died on the cross. You hadn't committed any sins because you weren't born. So we don't worry about that aspect of forgiveness when we confess. All of our sins have been placed on Christ and punished. So we're thinking in terms of the prodigal son, of repenting and returning to God as an obedient son, that we might restore fellowship with him and walk with him. Then the next page is Thanksgiving. That's the worship of God in reference to man. And there I would encourage you to have some generic categories to jog your thinking in terms of thanking God. And I would encourage you not just to have the pleasant things you are experiencing to thank God for, but also the difficulties you are experiencing. Two passages we will read is Deanna, if you will turn to 1 Peter chapter 1 and Bishan, if you will turn to Hebrews chapter 12. You could use these passages or some other passage. Diana, if you would read 1 Peter 1 verse 6 and 7. In this ye rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, ye have been grieved by various trials, so that the tested genuineness of your faith, more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ." It's necessary for us to go through trials because God is refining our faith like gold and wants us to have riches in heaven. Bisham, if you will read Hebrews 12, if you will read verse 10 and 11, please. Hebrews 12, 10 and 11 says, For they disciplined us for a short time, as it seemed best to them. But He disciplines us for our good, that we may share His holiness. For the moment all the discipline seems painful rather than pleasant. but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who are being trained by Him." Now God does not punish us for our sins. Who did God punish? Jesus. That's right. Romans 8 verse 1 Romans 8 verse 1 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. Now, it is, people are going to say, yes, but we are all going to stand before the judgment seat of Christ. Diana, would you read Hebrews 9.27, please? And Bishan, if you will turn to 1 Corinthians. just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment. Yes. And so, we will be judged, won't we? We will be judged. I'm sorry, Bishan Romans 10, not 1 Corinthians 10. Oh, you know my mind is... Review, review, review. If you could read 1st Corinthians 10. Verse 13, please. 1st Corinthians 10, verse 13. No temptation has overtaken you. that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability. But with the temptation, he will also provide the way of escape. You may be able to endure it. Now, we will stand before the judgment seat of Christ, but the verdict will be not guilty, won't it? And when we are tempted, God's response is one of grace. God's response is one of grace. It is not one of judgment. 2 Corinthians 5 verse 18 does say that Verse 10, 2 Corinthians 5.10, does say that we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. But we also know that our judgment has been paid for by Jesus. That God's response to us is to discipline us Not to punish us. And in Hebrew, when that passage in Hebrews 12, 10, 11, what is the purpose of God's discipline, Bishan? In Hebrews 12? Uh-huh. 10, 11. Why does God discipline us? For what purpose? Let me take a look. Hebrews 12, 10 and 11. for they discipline us for a short time as it seems best, but he disciplines us for our good. So why does he discipline us? For our good. That we may share in his holiness. Yeah, for our good. So it's that we can share in his holiness, that we can have riches in heaven, that we can be obedient children. You can't have it both ways. People say, well, you know, why does God have to discipline us? You know, why can't, why can't he just make us all holy? Okay, okay, God's gonna make us all holy. Well, why did God make us zombies? Why did God make us robots? Why didn't he give us free will? Okay, he gives us free will. Now he has to discipline you. Yeah, but why does God, why, you can't have it both ways. You can either be a robot that never sins, Or you can have the free will to sin be created in the nature of God and be disciplined by God to have riches in heaven. But you can't have it both ways. So we thank God for the good things that happen to us, but it's important also to thank God for the difficulties that we experience. And that will keep us from becoming bitter. I know one of the prayers I had for a long time was, Lord, help me be as thankful during the trial as I am when it's all over and I see what you were doing in my life. And I thought, well, one of the ways I can do that is I can list areas of trials that historically I go through and thank God for those. I can thank God that He has taken me through them, but when I'm going through them, they will help me refocus myself. Yes, this is God's will. He's disciplining me for my good. Then the next area, our next page, is supplication. That's presenting our requests to God, but submitting these requests to His will. And the important thing to remember here is that prayer is spending time with God, not manipulating Him. So, our key verse there, Diana, if you will look up John 15, 7. And then Bishan, if you will look up 1 John 5, 14. If you abide in me and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish and it will be done for you. Yeah, if you're walking with Jesus, where Jesus is going, and if your prayers are being ordered by God the Holy Spirit through the word, then go ahead and ask. But if you're going a different direction of Jesus, and you're going a different direction than the word of God, you can ask, but God's not going to grant you a request that is contrary to his will. Bishan, if you would read 1 John 5, 14. And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. Yeah, and so when I first read this passage, I thought, why pray if God is not going to do what I ask Him to do? Well, you know, if you have that attitude, you're not asking God, you're telling God. Let's be honest. Why pray if God is not going to do what we tell Him to do? Well, that completely takes off the table God's will in our relationship with God. So we need to remember that prayer, we don't do adoration, confession, and thanksgiving to get it out of the way so God will do what we tell Him to do. No, it's all aspects of spending time with God. Because if we're really honest, do we want God to do something for us that is not His will? No. Then you will say, well, why bother to pray if God's only going to do His will? Well, that is supremely selfish statement. What you're saying is, I'm not willing to spend time with God if He's not going to do what I tell Him to do. What earthly relationship will that work with? Not marriage, not parent-child, not pastor congregation, not friend to friend. So we shouldn't do it in our relationship with God. Then intercession is the same thing. It's presenting our request for another to God, but submitting these requests to the will of God. Then we have spiritual warfare. Remember, spiritual warfare is using the Word of God to oppose specific and general works of Satan. And you have the spiritual warfare sheet. Then you have meditation. And meditation is reading a passage, reflecting on the truths for the ultimate purpose of obedience. Bishan, if you would read Joshua 1.8, please. Diana, if you would read Ezra 7.10. Joshua 1.8 says, This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have Now, most people, when they think of this verse, quote it this way. Tell me what's wrong with the way I'm quoting this verse. This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you should meditate upon it day and night, and then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. Bisham, what did I leave out? You left out This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate upon it day and night. Then you will make your way prosperous. Then you will have good success. What did I leave out? You left out, and be careful to do everything written in it. Yeah, I left out obedience. Obedience, yes. And so we read a passage and reflect on the truths, but the ultimate purpose of meditation is obedience. How to obey God. Another way this verse is quoted, Bishan, how about this? I empty my way, my mind and I allow God to speak to it, then I will make my way prosperous, then I will have good success. What did I leave out? The word of God. That's right, and obeying the word of God. So meditation is not listening prayer where we empty our mind of scripture. I know of no passage in the holy scriptures where we are exhorted to empty our minds. Now, we're exhorted that in Eastern mysticism. We're exhorted to do that in many pagan religions, but not the Word of God. Deanna, Ezra 7.10. For Ezra had set his heart to study the law of the Lord, and to do it, and to teach his statutes and rules in Israel. So, Ezra had set his heart to teach the Bible. What did I leave out, Deanna? To do it and to teach His statutes and rules in Israel. That's right, to do it. So we remember that when we're looking at meditation, when we're reflecting on God's Word, God wants us to obey it before we teach it. So I often say the definition of wisdom is knowledge plus application. Then you can wisely teach the knowledge. This is what the Bible says. This is what I do. Now, if you're not doing anything, do what I do, and then do something different if you can improve upon it. But do something. So how do we spend extended time in prayer? People often talk about spending a day in prayer, a night in prayer. Now, The first things we have to realize is that passages dealing with exact periods of time are historical and not doctrinal in nature. For instance, Luke 6.12 says, it was at this time that he, Jesus, went off to the mountaintop to pray. He spent the whole night in prayer to God. It's telling us what Jesus did. That is not a command to spend the night in prayer. I personally have never spent a night in prayer. I started out a couple times, but I got so tired and I had a headache and I kept falling asleep, so I just went to bed. I have spent a day in prayer, an eight-hour day in prayer, and that was much more successful. I fasted for breakfast, for lunch, for dinner, and then I broke my fast after the dinner time, And so I spent the day fasting in prayer. You don't have to fast. You can spend the day eating in prayer. It's whatever you want. But specific times, like there's a song, Sweet Hour of Prayer. Does the Bible teach us to spend an hour in prayer? No. Clock's warning's in it. for about another 1,300 years. There wasn't an hour. The time framework of the hour didn't exist. So, how not to spend a day or night in prayer? Matthew 6, seven and eight and when you are praying do not use meaningless repetition as the gentiles do for they suppose that they will be heard by their many words so do not be like them for your father in heaven knows what you need before you ask him so when we pray before you pray does God know your needs? yes so why do we bother? for the relationship If you have children, do you know their needs? So why should your children ever bother spending time with you if you're going to take care of them anyways? Because they love you! So, Bishan, in Matthew 6, verse 7, what are we not to do when we spend extended time with God in prayer? engage in meaningless repetition. Yeah, that's exactly right. Oh Lord Jesus, oh Lord Jesus, come, oh Lord Jesus, bless, oh Lord Jesus, how I praise you, oh Lord Jesus, oh Lord Jesus, oh Lord Jesus. Boy, I'm in churches where they talk about spending time in prayer, the night in prayer, and this is exactly what they do. Why do they do that? Because they run out of things to say. The first time I tried to spend an hour in prayer, I set my clock right there on the floor next to me. I was a junior in high school. I had received Christ. My mother, who was not a Christian, still thought I should be religious. So she bought me a phonograph record. That was back when everybody listens to phonograph. She went to the record store and said, my son has become religious. I would like to buy him some religious music. And the guy said, well that would be Tennessee Ernie Ford, he's very popular, he has a TV show, and he sings religious music. So she bought me that. Also Elvis Presley had some religious music, so she bought me that. Well, at least Tennessee Ernie Ford was a Christian. Not a womanizing drug addict like Elvis Presley. But, nevertheless, I listened to that and one of the songs Tennessee Ernie Ford sang was Sweet Hour of Prayer. So I said, well, must be good. So I set my clock and I got down on my knees and I prayed for what I thought was an hour and I looked up and it was about five minutes. And I ran out of things to say. Well, God granted me grace that I just didn't engage in meaningless repetition, but I just said, well, someday I'll be spiritual enough to pray for an hour, but it's not now. So, Bishan, if your church or your ministry wants to spend a night in prayer or a day in prayer, make sure they have the exhortation, no meaningless repetition. Because it does become meaningless. See, here's Bishan, how are you? How are you? Bishan, Bishan, how are you? How are you? I hope you're good, I hope you're good, I hope you're good. Bishan, Bishan, how are you? Bishan, Bishan, how are you? I hope you're good, I hope you're good. Bishan, good to see you, good to see you, good to see you. Bishan, Bishan, how are you, how are you? Bishan, Bishan. It's meaningless, isn't it? So, don't do that. The other thing, look at the prophets of Baal. What did they begin to do? They were leaping around the altar. They were cutting themselves. They were screaming. So we don't have to do that. We don't have to engage in false enthusiasm and begin shouting and screaming and clapping our hands. And we don't have to, as some Roman Catholics and Orthodox Christians do, and I say Orthodox, Coptic, Greek Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, crawl around on our knees till they bleed. engage in ascetic practices because we've already looked at Colossians that God does not accept severe treatment of the body as a form of worship. So we don't do that. So that's how not to spend the night in prayer. So how do you do it? Well, this is how, if I had a ministry, Kishon, if you had invited me to your city and you wanted us to spend the night in prayer, I would hand out the first handout, which was adoration with 60 attributes of God. And I say, now the first thing we're going to do is we're going to spend 45 minutes worshiping God. So we're going to go around and as the Lord leads you, choose an attribute and pray over the verse. Now, we have plenty of verses to spend an hour, don't we? Then I would say, okay, we're through with adoration. Let's sing a couple of confession songs or songs. like just as I am without one plea or blessed assurance. Then we're going to spend some time confessing sins. We're going to do that privately. And here's, I'm giving you a hand, I'm going to ask you to pray through the Sermon on the Mount and if you still have some time, the book of James. Every time you come upon something that convicts you of sin, confess it. They won't get through that. We'll blow the whistle, come back, sing a song, and now we're going to do times of thanksgiving. Now, we're going to, before we thank God for specific things, we're going to thank God for some of the things He's done for us. First, let's spend some time praying over Isaiah 53 and thanking God for all the things Christ suffered for us. Now, let's just go around and thank God for things He has done for us. Then we would, now we're into hour four. Now we're going to do some supplication. And I would pass out sheets of paper with verses on the word, prayer, witnessing, fellowship, obedience, and lordship. About our relationship to the church. and we would spend some time praying over those. Now we're going to ask God to transform our lives in the area of character. We're going to break up now in twos and threes and I will pass them out some sheets on character. The tongue, purity, judgmental attitude, uh... worldliness all these areas of character and they will pray then we will come back so now we're going to pray we're going to do intercession first in the area of intercession we're going to pray for our church and ministry we would do that now sing a song or a psalm now we're going to pray for our missionaries we will pray for that now we're going to pray for our country we would pray for that well now that's your eight hours if you get it done and then then we will have another time of worship and some sharing of bible verses that God has laid on our heart and it's over now that's isn't that better than a praying for five minutes and running out of things to say and faking it or b, engaging in meaningless repetition saying the same things over and over and over again so if you want to spend the day in prayer that's how you can do it if you want to there is in the area of gifts and ministries To my knowledge, there is no gift or ministry specifically oriented toward prayer in the New Covenant. Where in the New Covenant, someone, that's his ministry. He just prays all day, every day. I do not know of a passage, I'm open to that. But, if you do decide you want to spend an extended time in prayer, this is a way it can be done orderly and in conjunction with and being led by the Holy Spirit through His Word. Can you see, Bishan, the difference in doing it this way than in engaging in meaningless repetition and fake excitement and exuberance? So that's how we spend extended time with God in prayer. We follow the disciplines of prayer, but all the times during the day, each time we pray, if you spend 10 minutes with God, or 30 minutes with God, or an hour with God, you're always thinking, boy, wouldn't it be great if I could just spend, instead of spending 10 minutes on adoration, I could spend an hour. Wouldn't it be great, instead of spending 10 minutes on confession, I could spend an hour. Thanksgiving, supplication, intercession, spiritual. Well, you can. That's how you spend a day in prayer. And if it's a group, it's good. We're going to do, this is a group adoration. This is individual confession. We're going to break up in groups of four Thanksgiving. Now we're going to come back and break up in twos supplication. Now we're going to do large group intercession. Now we're going to break up back in fours and do spiritual warfare. Now we're going to come back as a large group and have a shared time. What did God say to you from the Word of God? From the Word of God. What verses did God lay on you? Not mysticism. from the Word of God. And that's your day in prayer. Or your night in prayer, if you have the endurance to do it. Now today, I leave my last Bible study. I finish it at 2.30 tomorrow morning. Dad just about had it by then. In Nairobi or Russia, which is a nine hour time difference, if I stayed up till three, I could lead a noon Bible study in Russia. But no, I cash it in. I go to bed. But some people can stay up all night. Well, God bless them. Let them do it, but let's do it in an orderly manner According to John 15 7 Bishan read John 15 7 for me again, please John 15 7 John 15 7 says If you abide in me and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish and it will be done for you. So when we're going to spend a day in prayer, we are going to do it by God's word abiding in us. We're going to be spirit led by the word of God. They say, well, why do I need the word of God to lead me spiritually? And I always say, because you're not that spiritual, that's why. You'll be too susceptible to other spirits. So when we have our share time, I don't want to hear what other spirits said in your brain. I want to hear as you were praying over and filling your mind with the word of God and praying in accordance to the word and will of God, what Bible verses really stood out to you. That's what I want to hear about. May God add his blessing to his holy word. In Christ's name we pray, amen.