Why We Pray? [Podcast]

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Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another couple of minutes podcast. I've got to come up with a better. I call this Bible Books and Blockchain, but I got to come up with a better name, so I'm going to be working on that in the next couple of weeks. I do love doing these, though, and I know they might not get a lot of traction, and very few people actually might listen to this, but if you saw what I wrote earlier this week and produced earlier this week, I'm not after millions of people, I'm after one person. You know, I want one person to hear this and to get stirred in their heart, and that's really what I hope for and pray for. Speaking of prayer, that's what I wanted to talk to you guys about tonight. Like you know, I've been on the road here for almost a week. It'll be a week on Saturday night. So tomorrow night, it'll be a full week on the road. And I haven't really had a great experience when I'm stopped, because for whatever reason, my heater's not working. So without getting into too much details here. It's been a cold, even though this is spring, and it should be nice and warm out. It's not. It's actually very cold, and today it was snowing and massive amounts of snow. I couldn't believe it. So I wasn't really prepared for the cold weather. And to top it all off, like I said, the heater hasn't been working, and I've tried everything, and just nothing was working, which was very frustrating. But there's a beautiful story here. that I want to share with you guys. So, I'm parked, and I'm talking to a lady, lady and her husband came in, and were talking to me, and we got to discussing the heater, and I just, I told her this, you know, like, oh, you know, it's been a week now, and I haven't had any heat, and it's been pretty bad, and, you know, the weather isn't cooperating, and I told her I was going to try another fix. even though I've already tried fixing it throughout the entire week, tried everything I knew. You know, I'm obviously not a technician when it comes to heating, so my skill set is very limited. But I told her I was going to try this again and see if I can get it working, because it was really cold today. And she's like, look, let me pray for you. And prayer is something that... We do as believers. And sometimes we treat God as this genie in a bottle, and I've mentioned this in the past couple of episodes, too, and we pray for what we want, and we pray for success and this and blessings, and we pray for all this stuff, thinking God is just going to magically... make things happen for us, but that's not the way God works, right? It's God's will. So, you know, your will be done on earth. It's not my will. It's God's will. And we get fellow believers to pray for us. Not that, you know, God knows. He's... He's the Lord of Lord King of Kings for a reason. He knows what's best for us. We might not know. We might think we know what's best for us, but he knows. So prayer, on one hand, makes a lot of sense when you have faith. But it can be confusing and kind of wishy-washy on the other side of it as well, unless you have faith. And... We sit and we pray, we pray, we pray, we pray, and God doesn't deliver, and we get angry, and we blame God, grumpy, grumpy. But again, that's not how God works. There was a popular saying that used to go around, and I loved it. It was God's delays or not his denials. And you know what? Throughout this entire week, I never once prayed. I never prayed before I tried to fix my heater. I never... I relied on my own skill and lack thereof to get this fixed. So this lady says, hey, let's pray. We're going to have a prayer, and she's like, Heavenly Father, please get this heater working. We need it. He's getting cold. We need him to be warm. And, you know, it was a beautiful prayer, nothing long, you know, 30 seconds to a minute long. And it was great. And I'm like, thank you. And she's like, God bless you. And went on her way. So I'm sitting there thinking, you know, that was really nice of her. And so I said, okay, time to get to work. So I start working on the heater, and guess what starts working? Guess what starts working? Yeah, yeah, my heater starts working. Now, here's the kicker. And I want to say, someone will say, oh, it's just, you know, luck and, you know, you did something different. I didn't do a single thing different that I'd already tried before throughout this entire week. Nothing different. Nothing changed. I switched things on and off throughout the week. I tried this. I tried that. I just did it again today after a prayer session with this lady. Now, for someone who is of faith... to me, that is God answering prayer. That's it. You know, you can, you can doubt it, you can, you can, you can, you can, you know, check it off as just happenst, and it just happened, and, you know, that was prayer answered. And it was very clear to me how that was prayer answered. And I told my wife about it, we kind of had a good laugh about it, and God is good. And that's, that's the, the, the aha moment I had today was, I tried to do things myself without praying to God first. That's why we pray. We don't pray for magical genie gifts. We don't pray for millions of dollars in our bank accounts. We don't pray for, we pray for God's will. Let your will be done on earth. And God's will today was for me to get that heater working. He answers prayers. You might not believe it. You might just check it off as pure luck. My God is bigger than luck. And I was so grateful for not only this lady praying for me. but for reminding me why we pray. Why do we pray? It's because we can't do this life thing without God. So, if you're a believer, you understand. If you're a person of faith, you understand this. If you're not, don't take my words as someone who's just wishy-washy and thinking this is all magic and this, that. When I tell you, I did nothing, the only difference, the only difference between me trying to fix this earlier this week, and today, the only difference between both of those actions was that this lady prayed for me. That's it. We serve a mighty, mighty, mighty God, and sometimes I think we need to remember that. Actually, not sometimes we need to remember that all the time. We need to remember that. Hope you guys have a fantastic weekend, and I will see you on the next episode. God bless you.

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