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I always just go chat it up. It's where we take Biblical and what was it? This will make the podcast. I'm sure other people are like, this is Biblical. It's fine. The only podcast where we make and take Biblical arguments and Biblical truth and chat it up.
Welcome back, everybody. Thank you for joining us. As you can see, Pastor is not here. So Lowell and I, I almost called you our T guy, our tech guy, totally just butchered the intro. So if you know it, comment below.
I would love to see how many viewers of ours actually know our own intro as opposed to the host of the show not even knowing. Today we have Ms. Amos here and then Lowell, our guy, is behind the computer.
He will actually be chiming in throughout the podcast. So we're excited to have everybody on. So you want to get started with our game? Yes. Okay, so we're going to do Would You Rather? We ended up doing it a few, I don't know, like at this point, it's probably like 10 episodes ago.
And I had a lot of fun with it. So I thought we could try it again. So we went over some of them beforehand, but we'll try to do some different questions. Would you be or sorry, let me restart. Like just butchered it right off the bat.
Let's play would you be instead. Would you rather have the ability to see 10 minutes into the future or 150 years into the future? Probably just 10 minutes. I don't really want to see that. Really? Why?
I don't know. The way things are going right now, I don't know. I just, I think I'd be more scared to see what that would be like. Um, yeah, 10 minutes probably would be nice, because then I could have like, a reaction ready.
But what if what you're saying in 10 minutes isn't like, what's the word I'm thinking of? Like, impactful, like, it's not something that's I mean, life altering, I guess, like, it's just you going to the bathroom in 10 minutes.
Yeah, but we're like eating your lunch in 10 minutes. You don't have,.
Like a continuous view 10 minutes in the future, or you just get flashes or what?
I feel like it would just be what I read it that you would just be able to get like one chance to see. Well, yeah, would you rather? Well, it says the ability to be able to see 10 minutes into the future, too, I guess.
So yeah, I guess it could just be whenever you wanted. Yeah, whenever you just pause, but then it would be like constantly like, but then it would be like, constantly 150 years. So like, yeah, that's why I see.
Yeah, it's kind of seeing the same thing.
Yeah, the 10 minute one is the useful one. Yeah. 150 is the depressing. Yeah, I don't know.
Honestly, I think I would rather do the 150. I mean, like, just to keep your life simple today. So you're not constantly trying to, because there's nothing that I'm going to be able to do that will affect 150 years from now.
Like, you know, like in 10 minutes, I'm just like, that would always have me not living in the moment. I feel like you could stop a car accident, though. But if it meant to happen, it meant to happen.
I mean, I'm just saying. But if you get really.
Strategic, like you're not constantly looking 10 minutes in the future, but you're like, okay,.
What happens if I do X? Yeah, like you can see your consequences or whatever.
Yeah, the other qualifier here, like if you see it, can you change what's going to happen? Yeah, that's a big deal. Because otherwise, you're just living it twice, you know?
Yeah. That ain't helping nobody. Yeah. I don't know. I would probably stick with 150. Because I'll be long and dead by that point. Yeah. And so that's not, it's like, it will defect me because I know that, like, you know, my, like, great, great grandkids or whatever, like, will be there.
But yeah, so I think I would do 150 years. Let's see. I had a couple picked out. I'm trying to find them. What was the. Oh, no, dang, we're not going to do that one. Oh, would you rather have everyone you have known be able to read your thoughts, so everyone would be able to read your thoughts?
Or would you rather have everyone you know, have access to your internet history? Mine would probably be internet history. Because I don't look up a lot of I don't look up any bad things on the internet.
It's like questions to Google. Yeah, I'm definitely on team. What's that? Yeah, internet all the way. Or like the stupid things I watch on YouTube. Like I was pulling up my history today to try to find something for my husband to watch.
And that's just like the weirdest videos ever. Like I have a fun like last night, we were watching a compilation on like funny kid fails or like funny things that kids do just you know, because we have a kid and it's relatable.
There is this one where this one girl's playing like pretend like restaurant like she calls into place like a takeout order. Yeah. And the little girls I don't know, probably like four or something and she goes, Okay, so I'm going to order a hamburger.
Instead of a hamburger, a hamburger. Okay. Okay, we'll take one hamburger, please. Hangover. And so my husband and I we went out last night for dinner. And it's to this restaurant that they have like burgers and like burritos like just like very a lot of variety at this place.
And so he's like, I'm gonna say I'm gonna order my burger and I'm gonna ask for a hamburger.
Have you seen Pink Panther? Yeah, he's trying to smuggle the hamburgers. Sir, what is in your pockets? Because the sniffer dog is like super interested. So they think he's got, you know, he's like, I have in my pocket.
A ham worth sports.
Tell us what is in your pocket. But yeah, I would probably do internet history. But why opposed to like reading your thoughts? Because I'm be honest, I don't really think a lot of nice things. There are certain times especially last night when I was watching that movie.
I did not have a lot of nice things in my head. I overthink a lot. And I don't really want people to see that.
Side of my brain, you know? Yeah, I'm, I'm with you guys. I mean, because even, even if I'm not ashamed of my thoughts, which is not true all the time, but it's still personal. You don't,.
You don't want someone. Well, not everything in your mind needs to be said. Like not everyone.
Needs to know everything. That's, that's why scripture doesn't quite talks about what we say so harshly, you know, rather than just everything we think. If we, if we can be angry and do not.
Sin. All right. Cause like I said, there are some things in my mind that are not very kind and I'm supposed to be a Christian woman and be an example. But in my mind, a lot of things that are not very Christian like of me or Christ like of me.
And so, yeah, I definitely think the internet's like, cause like you're not going to find any bad things. You're just going to be like, what the heck? Like look up, don't sew. How would I sew XYZ? That was very interesting.
I'll watch somebody sew this one dress that she's making for her wedding. That is really cool. Don't sew. That's what you're going to find on my internet history. Yeah. Okay. Next one. Would you rather lose your sight or your memories?
Oh no. Probably, oh dang, actually, I don't know. I would rather lose my sight. I would rather lose my sight because memories,.
You have those forever. Yeah. Without the memories, I'm really not even who I am today. I mean, I'm, I'm starting fresh basically as someone else. Yeah. No deal.
Amy, you said your sight as well. I didn't mean to put it that way. You know, I could start out and I'm like, um, yeah, probably just sight. Cause I, I, the main thing is I really like art and you can't really do that that well without seeing.
Yeah. You'd have to take up sculpting. Yeah. Yeah. But I also like hiking and, you know, hiking is only really great for the views. So that's true. I don't know, but like saying that, I didn't know that we have, we're like on different, um, state and state different stages of life.
Like my memories are just so valuable because like the birth of my son, like getting married and you know, like all those big life events. And it's like, I just would not trade any of those for the world.
And that's the thing is like, you know, it would be a lot losing sight, but I would never want to lose like my memories with my family or anything like that. But I totally get what you're saying. Like we went to Gatlinburg this last summer.
Um, and we did this hike with this like beautiful waterfall in the mountains. And I'm just like, how could people just see that and not think that there's like a creator, you know? And so I love seeing God's beauty.
And so that would be something that would be very difficult, but I'm like, you know what, I'm going to be able to see in heaven and I'll be able to see stuff that's like more beautiful than that. So that's how I justify that.
One more note on losing memory. It's, you're not just losing memory of, you know, things that you're fond of time with family, friends and whatever, like experience all of a sudden you're.
Not good at anything. You're just a vegetable. That's a good point. Okay. Um, we talked about this one earlier, but I think it's one that we should mention. Would you rather swim in a pool full of Nutella or a pool of maple syrup?
Do you say syrup or syrup? Syrup. It's syrup because.
That's how it's supposed to be pronounced. I'm sorry guys. I say syrup. I accept that this is the South and everyone calls it syrup and I don't give anyone a hard time about it. Would you consider where you're from the South?
I would. Yes. I grew up in the South. However, like Chattanooga is a metropolitan area, but the biggest influence on my pronunciation though, is my parents, you know, and that whole family, which came down from Chicago.
So we'll see. Yeah. So that was a whole nother layer of influence there. Okay. That makes more sense. You know, training up a child.
In the way they should go. So you don't sound like a country hit. All right. Now syrup is the correct pronunciation. And so I have like a, I don't know, touch texture. Yeah. I don't like, it's not bad, but I can't like my entire body being in like syrup or Nutella just sounds disgusting.
Um, I would rather do Nutella. See, I'm also allergic to Nutella. Oh, I forgot about that. Yeah. She's allergic to tree nuts. Yeah. So what's not a tree nut that you can have? Like, cause in my mind, I think that like all tree nuts are peanuts.
Yeah. You can have peanuts. Peanuts are legumes. Right. So not like, so you can have a macadamia nut, but you can have a peanut. Peanut butter would be even less swimmable though. Yes. Unless it's like that organic peanut butter.
Oh yeah. We bought some for the youth trip and I just bought like a pack from Costco. I think it's their, their Kirkland brand organic peanut butter. And it's like the kind that like you just stir or whatever.
Cause it has the oil that's like settles at the top. That was the runniest peanut butter I've ever seen in my entire life. Like you would just put the knife down in it and the peanut butter would just run off of it.
It's like, what the heck? I I'm a Jif girl. I don't even think I had to need to be quite honest. I'm a Jif girl. Like I'm a peanut butter snob. Um, but you stick that in there, but they even have like the, those types that are like that.
But anyway, so all of that to say, Nutella is my vote. I, I wouldn't mind swimming in either, to be honest. I'll do both. I don't care. Whatever. Like do I get snacks like with it?
Pretzels and fruit. Let me take a pancake floaty. All right. I was about to say that. A pancake float. Yeah. That'd be so cool. But I do question whether or not being in some pool filled with Nutella is even swimmable.
Like it's the viscosity is so high.
Maybe with microwave. Is this set out? It's gonna be warmer.
Is it warmer? Yeah. It would be like being in quicksand or mire or something like that. But.
Well, I told you it was probably going to be like, um, if you've ever been to like a gymnastics gym or like a trampoline park, they have those foam pits. I guess. And those are so annoying to get out of.
Right. I guess the question. Also not swimming. Yeah. But, but it's like, that's how I would relate to it. Okay. Versus swimming in water. Like that would probably be something like close. Like you couldn't really like get out of it.
Yeah. Or like go to the top. Is this like a survival thing? Cause if that's the case, like how deep is the pool? Cause if I'm trying to survive, I'd say. Oh yeah. You will die in Nutella. Yeah. Like it's quicksand.
Either way. Okay. We would all die in Nutella. I would say just like leisure,.
You know, just like for fun. You can stand with your chin above the water. But then you think,.
Okay, but then the aftermath, if getting out, you know, like you get out of a pool, you have to shower. What would be the most annoying thing to wash off? I would think the Nutella. Oh, sorry. Syrup in my hair.
But Nutella is like thick and chunky. Exactly. The sugary syrup. That's very water soluble. Yeah. Nutella. You just get a little bit of soap on it. Yeah. Or.
You have to like, because the Nutella has a lot of oil. Right. So yeah. You just think you have.
To like scoop it, like scrape it off of your body. And yeah, that would suck. I don't know. I feel like I'm undecided on this one. Neither one sounds fun, but I'd probably have to go with.
Syrup. Definitely love Nutella. You come out like next day, it's like you've had a Nutella.
Spray tan. Yeah, probably. Okay. Um, we can do, we'll do two more. Would you rather have a personal maid or a personal chef? Oh, chef all the way. Yeah. All the way. Like I like cooking enough, but if someone else is cooking for me, they're doing the dishes.
And then like has to clean it up. Yeah. I just come home and eat. Well, but would that be something the maid would do? Clean dishes. I would assume the maid would do your dishes. So the chef would just be there to like grocery shop and like cook for you, like prepare the meals.
But I feel like the maid would do all the cleaning. I don't mind cleaning. I'm a little OCD. I feel like I already have a personal chef at home. So part of me is like maid, definitely a maid. Then I'd have both.
Yeah.
But yeah, personal chef would probably be good too. I like this one because you can't lose in.
This one. Yes. Um, but having, not having to grocery shop would be awesome. That would be.
Pretty awesome. It's very tempting. I think I'm leaning towards personal chef because anyone can clean well enough. Not everyone can cook well enough. I'm, I'm discovering that.
I'm probably below average. You are, well, you have two roommates. Yeah. And so who does the.
Cooking? You know, so we don't actually eat together a lot because we're all, we actually.
Don't eat. We just like just filter feed like sponge. No, it's a lot of chips, you know,.
I'm just playing. I'm just playing. But, uh, because we're all pretty busy, we're all out a lot, you know, having a dinner with the church or friends or whatever. So there aren't a lot of meals at home and rarely do we, are we there long enough to take the time to prepare a meal?
Yeah. That being said, I think Ricky has prepared the most meals out of anyone. He's good. He knows what he's doing in the kitchen. Hey, it's all about taste,.
But that's the thing. Like there have been some people's cooking. I'm just not a fan of, and they think it's like the best thing that they've ever had. And I'm like, that's great. But taste is also subjective because there, we have a food and wine festival here in town.
Um, I do not pay for these tickets. I get gifted these tickets each year. They're like 250 a pop. So like we, my husband and I always go in there. I'm like, I feel like we are not supposed to be here because we do not look like these other people.
Um, but so we go and there is this one, um, food booth that they have, like they have chefs from all over the city, like just very talented chefs, very privileged, um, and grateful to be able to eat from their booth.
And so we're eating. There was this one lady who, um, I guess she was like one of the reps or something from the restaurant. She was talking about this, um, tartar that they had this beef tartar. Um, and if you don't know what that is, it's like essentially raw meat.
You can do like tuna, tartar, like beef, whatever. So you cube up the meat and then you use like a lime or like some type of citrus for your fruit. And that citrus and like the acidity will essentially like not cook the meat, but like take the bacteria out of it.
So like, it's okay to eat raw. Um, and she's like, oh my gosh, this is the most amazing, like, you know, just like trying to sell it to me being all fancy. It's just delectable tartar. This is the greatest you ever had in your life.
It's sitting on top of a pork grind, but they use like a chicharrones instead, you know, like just trying to hype it up. And I ate it, I immediately spit it out. And I'm just like, that's the most disgusting thing I've ever put in my mouth.
It honestly, I was telling my husband, it honestly just tastes like I had a spoonful of, um, if you've never had it, like it's very strong sesame oil. Like if you use it in the Asian dishes, like there's this one recipe we cooked with, it was like calling for a tablespoon of it.
Way too much. When my husband and I cook with it, we go, I think that was too much. Like I think, but it was just like a mouthful of whatever. So taste is just very subjective. My husband cooks very well.
Like there's, I don't think, there might've been like one, there's might've been like one thing that he cooked that I just didn't prefer the taste of. Um, but no, like I, I think for me it would be the maid because I have a baby.
Yeah. And like, there's some things that I cannot get clean in my house. Like for example, I was cleaning my bathroom literally from top to bottom yesterday and our grout and our shower is stained. Like don't know how to fix that.
Like it's like stained from mold. And so it just constantly looks like my shower. So I'm like, if I could hire somebody that would know how to clean that, I would be happier because I already have a husband who can cook.
So he's like my personal chef. Yeah. I make the desserts. He makes the meals. You make good desserts. Thank you. Every time I make something for him to take, my husband and her used to work together. And so every time I make something for him to take to work, I'm like, Oh, Amy's going to be so happy.
I'm like, Oh, she doesn't work there anymore. I'm like, I'm sorry. Cause I made these. Oh, well I made those cookies that one time. It was like right before you left and they had walnuts in it. And so you couldn't have it.
It was, I'm sorry. I walked past them and I was like, yeah, I was like, make sure you tell Amy that these have nuts in it. It was a very selfish decision because I was selfish, selfish, selfish decision.
But it was a decision that I made that was very selfish because I love nuts in my baked goods. So I was just like, sorry, Amy, you just got to do it out. So you made cookies for someone else? No, for me that I was willing to share.
Yeah. I'm missing the selfishness, but I wanted the nuts, but I knew I was going to give some to work, but you were making cookies for you. Yeah, but I was going to get, but I was going to give some to work and I knew that you couldn't have it.
So I mean, someone told me to eat one. So that, you know, you can just, Oh, yeah. Okay. Yeah. He's, he's a special person. Okay. You said chef.
Yeah. But admittedly, that's a very close one for me.
I'm going to show his house, like really messy, like being three bachelors. If it was just you in the house, it'd be probably, I would probably do a little bit.
Better than it is right now. And it's, it's not bad, but you know, we've all got our little clutter.
Areas that everyone has a little corner or like countertop or something.
And when some of us haven't fully moved in, including myself, I mean, there, there are a few boxes that I have not unpacked stuff that, you know, doesn't have a place yet. Well, how long have you been there?
Um, let me think about four months.
Okay. That's not that bad. That's fine. I mean, it took me, we moved in our house in September of last year, and then we had our son right after that. I don't think we were fully moved in until like January or something like it was, but I'm like, you know, I just had a baby.
I'm not going to worry about all that. Okay. Last one. And then we'll move on. Um, would you rather be 11 feet tall? Amy would have experience 11 feet tall or nine inches tall. Would you rather be even taller than you currently are or be nine inches tall?
Probably nine inches. That sounds like fun. Cause she's like, I've had my experience. It's like being short. I already get so many tall jokes. Like if I was like just a little bit taller, you know, how tall are you?
Six? Um, five, 11, five, 11. Okay. So how tall are you? Five, 10, five, four. Can't tell what these platforms look. I'm filling in for pastor today. I'm wearing my platform shoes. I'm trying to be like, he wore like flip-flops the other day and I was just like, Oh, I forgot.
We love you pastor. We hope that you're having a lot of fun and doing a lot of the Lord's work in the Bahamas. We appreciate everything you do, but you said you would want to be nine inches instead. I could see that for you.
That'd be fun. Part of me is like, I would like to know what it's like to be able to reach the tall things in our cabinets. But then I'm like, I have to currently have to buy short length pants or like they call it petite length because I'm so short.
The regular length is too long. Like they drag on the floor. Um, but I'm like, man, it would be, I feel like it'd be a lot harder to find pants if you're 11 feet tall versus nine inches. Like I can just wear a dress or, you know, like a little, um, like just a little, uh, candy wrapper or something for my dress instead of like, you know, long yards and yards and yards of fabric.
Longs are already too short for me. Are they really? Yeah. Do you have to get like long torso items? Not really. But everything's cropped now anyway. So like, you know, finding a shirt in general is hard.
All right. So this question, this question needs to be tuned up in my opinion. I heard you say 11 feet and I go, okay, I'm taking the short option. And then you said nine inches and I'm like, nope. Cause nine inches that I would be the least independent person I'd ever met.
Can't do anything. There's, there's almost no job out there that I could do being nine inches tall. Yeah. Like I, I can barely lift a cell phone at nine inches tall. That's jump on the keys. Yeah.
I'm trying to think there's like a, oh man, I don't remember what show it was. Someone got, oh, I know what it was. Episode of SpongeBob. I always have to reference SpongeBob on the show. An episode of SpongeBob where Plankton was trying to play the harmonica.
And so there's a harmonica laying on the table and he's literally running to like each of the little blocks and like run into the other block to try to like play the song. And he's like just dead by the end of it.
So I'm like, yeah, that's a, but then if you're 11 feet tall, like you're too big to like, yes. Life is very inconvenient. How tall is Shaq or like who's that guy? Who's that basketball player from China?
Yeah. How tall is he? He's taller than Shaq. Yeah. I don't know that one.
Either, but we're, we're still talking less than eight feet. Yeah. I would like to know what he.
Maybe eight feet, three, something like that. Here's the thing I'm picturing is like, yeah, you may not be able to get a job. You could always do like online work though,.
But the keys. You'd have to have a special keyboard, but here's the thing.
Buying land is so different. Like building a house. I'm just imagining like living. Like I, I, a pillow is all I need. What's a bit like a, you're talking about, you're talking about being nine inches tall.
Yeah. Like, I'm just seeing so many more pros to that. Cause like you got to buy everything special and less expensive Barbie clothes. That's good because you can't make money. You could work online. You could get the special keyboard.
If you had to,.
You could learn how to work. Otherwise you find just the perfect keyboard. Yeah. Yeah. I've had,.
I've adapted. I've been short all my life. So I feel like I do the nine inches. Yeah. Cause like what size shoe are you going to have if you're 11 feet tall? Yeah. You can't even find shoe. What? Like the highest that I've seen is like a 14 in men's.
I think I know someone that may have had a 14 or a 15. That's just, I don't remember. Are you also going to find a car that works for a nine inch person? Dude, like Barbie, like Barbie is my answer. It take you like 10 years to get there.
The battery is going to die before you get to work. And make sure you don't use any public roads cause you're going to die. Yeah. You see how they drive in Memphis? Yeah. You're going to die. Okay. So you said nine inches.
Gotta go with 11 feet. I don't see the.
Nine inch thing is really being feasible. Like you can't, the more I think about it, the more.
Impossible it sounds. Get in the building. Like you got to duck everywhere. You're going to have.
Some major spine issues. Yeah. That's so much worse than walking up to a door and thinking, Hey, that door handle is taller than my house. My little Barbie doll house. I will never get.
Inside this building. I mean, that's why you just like find someone to open the door for you, you know? Okay. But if you're nine feet or nine inches tall, tall people can duck. I've seen it. I have seen that happen.
I mean, yeah, but how tall is the ceiling? This is probably eight, 10 feet. Exactly. Eight at the max. The door. Yep. The door, like that's just painful. So like.
You're going to have to duck everywhere. Very inconvenient in a lot of ways. Yes. Nine inches, almost impossible. The limitations abound. Whatever. All right. We're just going to.
Be divided on this one. Okay. So topics for today are. What does it mean to be a slave for Christ? And then we'll get into prayer. What's it for and what should it look like a little later? So just open question for anyone.
What does it mean to be a slave for Christ?
So one thing that I think is overlooked, I'm starting off with the overlooked stuff. Maybe that's better for like the cherry on top. But one thing that's overlooked in being a servant for Christ is that servants don't actually own anything.
Right? So we talked a little bit about stewardship a couple episodes ago. Well, a servant, everything he owns belongs to his master. And that's perspective that I think a lot of Christians need to pick up on.
Nothing you have is yours. If you don't even belong to yourself, nothing that you have that you, you know, think you own or in some practical sense you do own, none of that belongs to you. You have to focus on honoring God with every bit of it.
Not, and not 10 like a lot of Christians think. Honor God.
With 100 of what has been entrusted to you. That's good. That's a good word. I listened to a podcast this last week and that's like this one guy, like there are a bunch of Christians. He's like, that's a good word.
That's a good word. Like after everything, that was a good word. Oh, thanks. Okay. What about you, Amy? Um, wait, okay. I just want to answer what the question is right there on the board. So what does it mean to be a savior?
She can't read on the screen. Class is right there. With the headphones on it hurt. Um, so I'd say, you know, as a Christian, we believe that we are born with the nature. So then as a Christian, like you accept God's call.
And that means that Jesus died on the cross for your sins. So we're indebted to God for everything that he has done for us. So I think that that's just living every day, not as this is my time. How do I want to spend it?
This is my time God has given me and I am here just to be a vessel for him, a tool for him. And obviously you're not going to get it right. Right. Um, but just trying to live every day, using every time, every moment that you have for God's glory.
Okay. I can get behind that. I think also, um, just with our culture, the, the perspective that a lot of people have about like being a slave for Christ is that it's oppressive kind of like you said, um, not like, oh, I'm not going to be able to do anything.
Like we'll mention, like, I don't have anything that belongs to me. Like, you know, I belong to somebody else like that just sounds horrible. Um, but the way that I see it, it's, it's kind of like people's view on having a budget.
They see budgets as very restrictive and like, oh my gosh, I'm not going to be able to spend any money. And like, you're just going to be so controlling and blah, blah, blah. And it's like, well, that's actually not the case.
Like you can spend money on a budget, but you're going to spend it in such a way that will allow you to do other things later. You're having the discipline needed in order to like reap the benefits later.
And so I feel like that's like a, um, what's the word? Uh, words very similar in the way, um, that a lot of people do that. You have something to add?
Yeah. I'm just, that's, that's a really good point there. Cause in a way the person who budgets is more free than the person who doesn't because they, they're not careful with their money. They waste, they get themselves into trouble and then they're trying to dig themselves out of having their life is a mess.
They are slave to the debtor. Yes. And so, I mean, that, that applies directly to, you know, what you were talking about being, being a slave to Christ. If we submit ourselves to what God intended, really, we experienced more freedom than the ones that try to do things their own way and end up, you know, just really, really putting themselves in a bad position where they're forced to continue in their mess.
Yeah. And I,.
I've seen both sides of that. I have been on both sides of that, like with being a slave for Christ and then with like the whole budget, budget thing. It is true. Like you feel more, you feel like you have more freedom, um, when you do have a budget and like when you belong to, um, I don't want to call it a slave owner.
That's not the right thing. But when you belong to the father, um, we have a I'm going to read. It's Romans 6, um, 16. And it says, do you not know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey?
So not of everybody else, just the slave of the one that you obey, um, whether you're slave to sins, which leads to death or obedience, which leads to righteousness. Pastor and I were, um, we were planning on doing this topic last week, but we ended up running out of time.
And he actually quoted him on the board over here. He said, you're either a slave to Jesus or to sin, but you are not free. Um, and so like, you're always going to be slave to something like the scripture mentioned, um, whether you're slaves to sin, which leads to death, or if you're a slave to obedience, which lead, like which one leads to righteousness, it's obviously obedience.
Um, and so that one, and then I'll also read Romans 6, 22. Um, but now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.
So it says right there, like that is exactly what happens if you are a slave to Christ. You will reap the benefits. You will have eternal life. I keep looking at Lowell like, you know, I need to be looking at the camera.
Um, so it actually looks like I'm looking at you guys instead. Um, but yeah, just now. I'll stand by the camera. You just stand right behind the camera. Um, but being set free from sin and having become slaves of God, you, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.
And so like I said, the culture nowadays, you know, like there's slavery in the world, which is horrible. Um, you know, we can get into that a little later, um, like on another time. Um, but the slave, like that you are to Christ is not the same.
Like I said, you actually, like with the budget thing that Lowell mentioned, you actually have more freedom, um, with the budget. You have more freedom with Jesus. It's not a book of things telling you, like you can't do X, Y, and Z.
You know, like it's not a book, but like you just need to sit still. It's telling you don't do this, but do this instead. I'm giving you other options, and it's for our benefit. I mean, it's also just like we know what it's like when you're not with God, because there's always going to be a time before you're a Christian, and you can also just see what it's like living without God.
So living with God, you may miss out on things that are like fun or whatever, like how just today's world, you know, going out partying, drinking all the time, like doing drugs, and like that whole culture, I guess, especially like during college.
Like I know in like high school, maybe, um, people are just like, oh, you're no fun, because you're not going to come do that with us. And it's like, okay, your opinion of fun and my opinion of fun are two different things.
I'd rather be the boring one. That was never my thing anyway. Like I'd been a Christian, I don't know, I think I was like 12, and that was just never my thing. And I'm just like, I'm not the one who's hungover throwing up in the toilet the next morning.
Yeah. I just stayed up too late and ate a little bit too much sugar. Yeah. And then like, I see like addicts occasionally, you know, at work. So, um, I'm just me, like I was just like what part of that looks like fun, because you're like kind of a slave to your addiction then.
Yeah. Um, and I would much rather be, um, a servant of God than of anything else, because it's just so much more at peace. Well, and two with the addiction aspect is they get that high at some point, and then it's like when they're coming down from it is like when they feel like they are a slave to it.
I mean, my mom, she smoked from like when she was 16 up until like sometime in her 50s. And she's just like, I could not do anything without like having a cigarette. Like when she was, it was always when she was driving.
She's like, I just had to have a cigarette in my hand. And she's like, and if I didn't have one, then I had to go to the store. And like, she like planned her whole day around it. She took smoke breaks, you know, at work.
And then she would have them like all throughout the day. And so when she stopped, she's like, I have so much more free time. She's like, I did not realize like how much of a slave I was to, to that addiction.
Because it is like with the nicotine. But a lot of the times people don't see it as really like when they're trying to chase that high, or when they do get that high, it's like the relief. And so they don't feel like they're being a slave to it.
But once that high wears down, and then they have to search for it, then that's when they can kind of feel that way. But.
Yes, sir. Just going back to build off of the contrast Amy was making, you know, between our old life before Christ and our new life. So in 1 Corinthians 6, starting at the end of verse 19, he's talking about how we, we are a temple of the Holy Spirit.
And so, you are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body. So we, we were bought with a price. We used to have another master, right? Sin, and a pretty, pretty awful task master, right?
So, so being bought and submitting to the authority of Christ as our master, that's, that's not the, you know, not what other people imagine it to be. It's this, this unhappy sort of glum thing. But we're, you know, looping back around to how that's, that's where we actually experience freedom.
Being free from sin. I'm trying to think of a quote I read recently. There are two types of people in the world. Those who are a slave to sin, you know, or, or those who are freed from sin by Christ. I kind of paraphrased there, but that's, that's the idea.
Totally get it.
Good word. That was a good word. Not that your words aren't good, Amy. Your words are good too. Thank you. Yeah, but. Just less. You just think about the consequences of sin as well. And you know, we keep talking about the word freedom.
It's just like, it's so much better, like you said, with the peace that you have. And that scripture, like that's only given by the Spirit. The peace that surpasses all understanding. And it's like, y 'all, it's so much better over here.
Your life will not be perfect, but I tell you, it is so much better than anything that you could do on your own. And that's another thing too, is like, with some religions, it's, you're working towards, like, you're doing everything for good works.
But in Christianity, Jesus has already died for your sins. He's already paid the price. Yeah. So you're gonna mess up. You are going to mess up. That is just a fact. Part of some nature. But you are forgiven.
So you can, like, just move on and, like, just know that your God loves you. Even though he already knew everything, every mistake you're gonna make. Well, and like you said, I mean, we're getting, we're gonna get on prayer next.
And we had talked about, like, what is prayer? Like, what's it for? And I'm like, you know, a lot of these, Lowell and I were talking about as we were prepping, and it's like, a lot of these religions require prayer.
Like, you know, so many times a day. Like, we talked with Islam, like, a few podcasts, like, several podcasts ago. I forget how many daily prayers that they have to do. They have to, it's like three to five or something.
But they have to say one, like, before they get out of bed. And like, you know, there's like, I don't know, there's like a handful of prayers that they say, like, even before they leave the house in the morning, you know, to go to work.
And so, I don't know, we just serve a God that is so gracious and so loving. And the word slave, in the context of Scripture, is not always oppressive. I mean, you know, it does talk about slavery in Scripture, but this, this form of the word is not oppressive at all.
It's actually, like Lowell had mentioned, it's very, it's very freeing. So, prayer. We'll go ahead and get on. Do you have another thing? I'm sorry.
One last thing on servanthood, because I think sometimes we'll capture, you know, some practical thing, practical things, but not, not drill down on the standard that's set in Scripture. So, we know we're supposed to be servant and, you know, that requires some kind of sacrifice on our part.
But sometimes Scripture just really sets the bar for us to kind of put us in our place. So, Jesus was teaching on servanthood, and he said this, will any, any one of you who has a servant plowing or keeping sheep say to him when he has come in from the field, come at once, recline at table.
Will he not rather say to him, prepare supper for me and dress properly and serve me while I eat and drink, and afterward you will eat and drink? Does he thank the servant because he did what he was commanded?
So, you also, when you have done all that you were commanded, say, we are unworthy servants. We have only done what was our duty. Like, that's, that's pretty potent right there. You know, there, there are a lot of commands in Scripture, and, you know, if I follow a handful that seem really big to me, I feel like I'm doing pretty good, but then Scripture's like, nope.
The standard's up here. You're a loser. Keep, keep going. Keep going, you know, and if I do everything that's commanded of me, you know, I'm not even, not even profitable. I'm breaking even, basically.
That's the, so, sometimes we gotta, gotta just look at the standard that's really set in Scripture and let that, let it humble us and let it motivate.
Us. Man, well, we need to have you on the podcast more often. Like, seriously, why are you behind the computer? Well, somebody gotta be right here. That's true. Yeah, we, we need some, we need some other people back there.
Okay, so, um, prayer. What is it for? Um, Amy, if you could look up 2 Chronicles 7 -14, and Lowell, can I get you to look up a couple? Absolutely. Um, can you look up 1 Thessalonians 5 -16 through 18, and then, um, I'll have you do another one.
It's in Matthew. Okay, and then I'll do, um, Philippians 4 -6. Okay, so, prayer. What is it for? What are some of the reasons that we pray? I mean, that's just how you communicate with God. So, like, I, you know, thanking Him, you can, um, wow, I'm just blanking.
Okay. She can't see them. Put your glasses on there. One second. Okay, you can thank Him, um, for repentance. So, like, when you messed up, um, and you're just asking for forgiveness, and just how to act what you need to do, um, after you have messed up, and then, um, obedience, and I don't really understand that one.
Obedience? No, the one under that. Oh, earnest requests. So, like, Lowell had actually mentioned that one, like, our requests to God, like, God, can you please heal this person of this, you know, like, and I feel like the majority of our prayers are probably in a form of a request.
Absolutely.
Yeah, because that's, that's a very natural thing for us to value when we've, we've got something that we need, or someone that we care about needs, you know, all of a sudden, we're like, okay, it's time to talk to God.
Yeah. Not so much when, when we're, you know, there's something that we need to be thankful for, or maybe we even, we are thankful, but we're just not taking time to show.
That thanks. Because you're in, you're in the green. Right. Or in the black. Exactly. Crisis.
Avoided. All right. You know, it's, I'm thinking of the, the 10 lepers now. Jesus healed 10 lepers, and what was it, like, one of them came back to thank Him for healing them? Yeah. Like, that's, that's it right there.
We, we got what we wanted, and, and we're good. Yeah. Thanks, God. I'll talk.
To you the next time I need something. But I mean, that's convicting, because, like, I mean, how guilty of that are we? I'm guilty of that. And there are certain, like, every time, and I'd mentioned this to a little earlier, it's like, I'd try every time I pray, is to, like, thank God first.
Because then you just start getting into your prayer, and it's, like, very selfish, or, you know, like, what, whatever's going on in your life, and you forget to thank Him for all of the things. Like, even allowing you to have breath.
Yeah. You know, like, today, or allowing you to have the job that you have, or, like, your spouse, or significant other, or your home. You know, like, all of these different things. Did you have one thing?
Yeah, real quick. So, like, in children's church, at one of my old churches, they taught us, like, a little acronym, JOY. Jesus, Others, Yourself. So, I honestly can't remember if that was for prayer.
I think it was. But, you know, it's, like, first, okay, look at this. I'm not judging. That's really paid attention.
That can probably be applied a few different ways.
Yeah, yeah. So, but anyway. You know, just, like, thanking God for what He's done, or Jesus, you know, thanking God, and then praying for others, and then also praying for yourself. So, it's just a way to remember that it's not just all about you, and not treating God like a genie.
You know, like, oh, I really want this to happen. So, like, God, please make it happen. Well, and then people get bitter when God doesn't answer their prayers. I'm just, like, it's not about you. You know, like, get down to the root of the problem.
Yeah. But I'll read. This actually applies to two of our, I don't know what's wrong with my brain today, y 'all. It applies to two of our answers. Thanksgiving, like, so thanking God, and then requesting, you know, certain things.
Philippians 4, 6. We've all probably heard this one. Don't be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. Um, and so, with anything, with prayer and petition, let your thanksgiving, like, present yourselves.
Let your thanksgivings be made known to God. Let your requests be made known to Him. Um, you know, like, like we were saying, you, you need to thank the Lord, because He has done so many things for you.
He said, well, God sacrificed Jesus, like, His Son. Jesus sacrificed Himself. Um, I was watching this thing. I don't remember if we mentioned this on the podcast. It was a conversation I had with pastors some time ago.
Um, but we were talking about crucifixion. Oh, I think it was on the Islam podcast. We were talking about, like, the crucifixion, and, like, how it was, like, an art. Like, it was very specifically done for certain purposes, and how just, like, violent it was.
And it's, like, and Jesus did that for us. And if, like, we're inconvenienced, and, like, one of our prayers aren't answered, like, we get all bitter and butthurt about it, and you're just, like, okay.
So, be thankful, like, no matter, like, humble yourselves. Be thankful for what the Lord has given to you, and let that be made known to Him. Um. And the next verse too, can you, are you in the Bible?
Yeah, I can pull up the whole chapter. Verse seven, and the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Yeah, so, like, even when you, like, did something, like, even if something, like, you went through a trial, praise God in that, because He helped you grow in areas that you didn't even need, know you needed growth, probably.
Yeah, and there are certain situations that have happened in my life that have made me stronger. Like, um, like, I can't think of one off the top of my head. I promise y 'all, like, I have some, but, I mean, just think about certain situations that you've gone through, and you're just, like, if I wouldn't have gone through X, Y, and Z, I wouldn't have been stronger for it, and then I wouldn't have been able to help somebody else who has that same issue, because there were things that I went through, you know, in my childhood that, like, I'm, like, God, why is this happening to me?
Like, this, I mean, it was some pretty bad stuff, and I'm, like, I don't understand why this is happening to me. Now, like, I'm not with the youth girls, like, as much as I want to be, just, like, due to scheduling, but, like, I try to, like, always go on the youth trips, and, like, every year, I'm, like, this is why.
It's so that I can help these teenage girls and this next generation through similar things that I went through, because a lot of the times, especially as teenage girls, well, I don't relate to them, because, like, they don't understand what I'm going through, but you have that opportunity and that leg up.
It's, like, no, actually, I do know what you're going through, um, and I think that the trials, like you said, those are a huge blessing in our lives, and we have the ability to, um, have different perspectives through things instead of, like, with the world, just being, like, oh my gosh, like, I have no idea what, why this is happening to me, and you just, like, being bitter about it, but as a believer, you can see, okay, if the Lord is going to use that to edify me and, like, edify somebody else, so thank you for sharing that other, that other verse.
Um, okay, let's do the next one. Amy mentioned repentance, so we're going to read out of 2 Chronicles 7 14. All right. And my people who bear my name humble themselves, pray and seek my face, and turn from their evil ways.
Then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land. Okay, it says if we turn to him that he will forgive us, um, we need to repent. That's one of the reasons why we have prayer is so that we can repent.
Also, Amy mentioned that it was, like, a form of communication, um, with God as well, and so you can talk to him, and apologize for what, what, like, a dingus you were, you know, all the things that you screw up on, um, and he will always forgive you through that.
Do you have something? Uh, yeah, uh, building.
Off of that verse Amy just read, so we see later on in the New Testament, uh, James saying, therefore confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. So that's, that confession, that's, that's part of repentance, right?
And, and praying for one another, and in response to that, so that we may be healed. Yeah, because one thing that I really.
Want to go off of that verse is, um, there's a lot of times where people can go through something, and just be like, okay, you know, that just happened, um, I'm never going to make that mistake again, but I'm not going to tell anyone, and, like, I'm going to pray and get right with God.
Like, no, because either one, you're not thinking about everything that you need to get right, and someone else's counsel and prayer can really help you in that situation, but also, um, you might be able to be used because, like, what you were saying with the youth girls is, like, if people know what you've gone through, like, you can, people can be like, hey, this is a really good person you can talk to, because I know they've gone through similar things, and if you don't share what you've gone through for prayer and, like, everything,.
Then how would people know? Yeah. Right. Plus, like, if, even if you're feeling just awful about something, you will get over it. Yeah. Absolutely. So unless you share that with someone who's going to hold you accountable, you're, you're going to be right back in the.
Same issue again. Yeah, and I think that's why, um, well, one of the reasons I love our church so much is that we do have those accountability groups, and, I mean, you know, like you guys mentioned, if we don't share our struggles or, like, these secret sins, like, secret sins, they will eventually come out.
Yeah. Whether you want them to or not, um, and so being able to get not only, like, the counsel, but just also the support from people in your lives. Yeah. It's just very, very beneficial. Um, so that was, that was good.
And typically, when it is secret sin, it snowballs, and it starts out small, and then you just keep keeping it to yourself, and it just gets worse and worse. Oh, yeah. There was, like, one thing that I did in private, and, um, like, everyone, and I say everyone, I mean, like, everyone ended up finding out.
It was very embarrassing, but never made that mistake again. Just kidding. I made it many more times, and so I wish I would have had somebody back then to, um, help guide me, but, yeah, y 'all, like, don't be alone in, you know, in that sin.
That's also something I would recommend is don't be alone in it. Like we've mentioned, um, if you don't have accountability groups at your church, I don't even know if other people besides our church people watch this, um, but if you don't have an accountability group, get with somebody like a mentor who is godly, who was, um, more mature to, um, disciple you, and to help you through this, and share your struggles with them, um, because you, like Scripture said, you will be healed.
I mean, there are so many things that, like, I've struggled with that I've discussed with my, um, accountability group, and I've just gotten so much wisdom, and I'm like, man, I avoided so much pain. Yeah, absolutely.
Um, from doing that. Okay, um, next is obedience. Lowell, did you want to read 1 Thessalonians 5 16 through 18? And Amy, can you actually look up Matthew 26 41? Sure. And then you can read that.
After Lowell reads his. All right. 1 Thessalonians 5 16 through 18. Rejoice always. Pray without ceasing. Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. That's awesome.
So, I mean, pray without ceasing. That's, that's pretty hard to overlook. That's,.
That's pretty simple. That was the first verse we found. I was like, you know, obedience, and he's like, what do you mean by that? And I'm just like, well, let me, let me look up some Scriptures, because, like, none are coming to mind.
I'm like, it's not, like, a religious thing. Like, you know, like, we were talking about the other religions of, like, you have to pray so many times a day. This just says, like, you constantly pray without ceasing.
That's, that's something that. And this.
Is a command. Right. Yeah. That's, that's something that I think we got to get out of our minds, like prayer time. Now, it's awesome to have time set aside just for praying. Yeah. Especially, you know, if you're busy, you got stuff going on, you might have to set aside some time.
But remember that you, you can pray really just any time, you know. It's, it's nice to have that peace and quiet, but while you're working, while you're driving, really some of the best prayer time I've ever had is while I'm driving.
Oh, yeah, me too. Mm-hmm. Same. So, we're kind of, kind of fast-forwarding to another bullet that we're going to talk about, communion, because I think this verse really, really fits that one. Communion, just being a, a constant communication with God.
Like, what's the point of having the Holy Spirit in you if, if you're not going to be aware of His presence and, and benefit from that all day? Did you want.
To read your verse next? Yeah. Okay. This is Matthew 26, 41. Stay awake and pray so that you won't enter into temptation. The Spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. So, going off of what Lowell just read about, like, praying without ceasing and then this verse, it's like, prayer is healing.
Prayer will keep you out of things because the flesh is weak. And so, I mean, even look at, I mean, just how important prayer is, is, like, Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, like, right before He's arrested.
I mean, He was just, just, like, laying it out all to God and just, like, sweating, literally sweating blood, just anxious, like, knowing what He's about to encounter. And He found comfort, like, you know, as much comfort as one can get from a time like that.
But just doing, having prayer and doing that instead of, like, let me rephrase that. My brain, you guys, like I said, it's not working all right today. Just having prayer and instead of doing, you know, sinful things or, like, whatever because the flesh is weak, turning to God in those moments of temptation and being, like, Lord, just please, like, deliver me from this.
And if something is tempting for you, just, like, walk away. But also going back to what we were talking about earlier, just, Lowell said it, well, Lowell, like, described it, but just, like, being intentional with your prayers.
Because there are times, like, I will pray throughout the day. Like, I'll pray, my husband and I carpool and so I'll drop him off and I have, like, a little bit of time by myself before, like, I go to work.
And so I'll pray during that time or, like, I work for a neurology clinic here in town and I work in the Peds department. So I see a lot of sick kids who come in who have brain tumors and, like, all of these things.
And I'm just, like, God, thank you for, like, allowing me to have a healthy baby. And because there are babies younger than mine who are going in for brain surgeries. I'm just, like, God, I'm just so thankful.
And, you know, Lord, thank you for my job. And, you know, just, like, throughout the day you'll pray. Because I found, you know, like Lowell said, if you have, like, certain prayer time for prayer and this is just me personally, it just felt, like, very regimented and, like, religious in mind.
Like, if that works for you, that works for you. I'm just telling you, like, for me that just I do better. And then also it's kind of, like, my prayers never really end because I never say, like, an amen.
I love you. Amen. It's just, like, throughout the day, like, I'll just pray, you know, about certain things or, like, you know, you know, we had that thing happen at one of the medical offices, like, here in town, like, a week ago with, you know, that shooting and stuff and just, like, thanking God for protection and, like, you know, it's just, it's horrible.
But just having that constant state of prayer, I think, is very beneficial. But also, like, having, like, you know, prayers before meals. You know, like, that's a good time to sit down, like, because food is not readily available to everybody, you know.
And so prayers just, like, as we've seen through, like, all aspects of your life, it's for Thanksgiving. So, like, thanking God for everything that he's blessed you with or experiences, whatever, then you have repentance and, like, being obedient, like, commandment to pray.
And he says, God says that praying is healing. And so it's not even just for, like, his benefit. It's for our benefit. Not that, like, we should do it out of selfish ambition, but it's, like, we do get healing benefits from that.
And then also just, like, requesting things of God, like, our needs. Like, we've prayed over people at our church and anointed them, like, if they've had cancer or if they've, you know, had something else going on in their lives.
We've prayed for them, and we know that prayer is powerful. Do you have something? I can just see your look in your.
Eyes, so I want to... Yeah, I think I'm looking ahead. We're not covering... We can... No, the.
Needs. Yeah, I just mentioned needs. So if you want to mention... I think we talked about a scripture for that, but I ended up not writing anything down on the notes. I think what I will.
Be jumping ahead a little bit, because I see what we're talking about next, the Lord's Prayer, because.
That has something pretty important for us. Well, we can go ahead and jump down. Yeah, so I'll go.
Ahead and just go ahead with it. So what we just read about bringing your earnest request to the Lord, like, that's kind of God saying, it's okay. You can... This is really important to you. Go ahead and ask about it.
We don't have to stress out about whether or not, you know, we can pray for this thing. Is it... Is it... It's important to me. Is it important to God? I don't know. You know, should I pray for this? But God is saying, bring your earnest request before the Lord.
Now, James puts up a guardrail for us, so... I love James. Yeah, scripture's pretty awesome like that. It anticipates our questions, the things that we're going to struggle with, so I'll just go ahead and read.
I'm in James chapter 4. I will start in verse 3. You ask and do not receive because you do not ask. It's like, okay, well, that goes back to bringing your earnest request because you ask wrongly to spend it on your passions.
So, okay, there's the guardrail. Selfish ambition. Exactly. If it's important to you, go ahead and... Go ahead and pray about it. Now, if you're asking God to help you get away with tax evasion, maybe don't do that, all right?
Or... Or if you're asking God to, you know, bless you with some big promotion, but really that's just because you're tired of having to trust Him month to month, yeah, maybe that's not honoring to God either.
So there's... There's the guardrail there. It's like, if you can't honor God with the little, how are you going to honor Him with much? Exactly. And so... And so here's where I'd jump ahead to the Lord's Prayer because we know from Scripture that Jesus knew what He came to do, that He was going to die, and still He prays, Lord, if there's any way, let this cup pass from me.
So, like, that's... He still let His request be made known. Exactly. He... He knew the Lord's will. He let His request be made known. Here's... Here's the other guardrail, because Jesus followed up with, nevertheless, not my will, but yours be done.
So if... If we can... If we can do that part, submit to God's will no matter what, and if we can ask things that honor God and not... Not just out of selfishness, then chances are we're... We're bringing an earnest request that is actually honoring to God, that our...
Our faith in asking that in the first place is honoring to God. Yeah.
Well, you need to be a regular. That's right. He is so good. I know that him and Pastor would just have, like, the best time. Pastor would love it. I'll... I'll text in the group me after we're done, and he'll just be like, oh, absolutely.
We're going to make this a thing. No, but I... I completely agree, because, I mean, you think about all the times that, like, and, you know, in our personal lives that we've prayed for things out of selfish ambition.
Like with me, I mentioned last week with wanting to be a nurse. It wasn't to really, like, yeah, like, I enjoy helping people. I like talking to people and whatnot, but it wasn't about, like, oh, I want to be a nurse, because I want to help people.
You know, like, I want to be able to take care of them. It was like, no, nurses make good money, and they are not, like, valued over certain things, but they're, like, more respected throughout careers, you know, like, all... all the different occupations, and so it was, like, all about me, me, me, me, me, and I just remember being in nursing school and just hating it.
Couldn't even prick my own finger, like, one of the labs, and, like, this should have been one of the signs, but just absolutely hating it, and I'm just, like, God, just, like, help me through, like, help me, you know, become a nurse, and, like, help me, and it's just, like, it never worked out, and then, like, okay, well, I'm not going to do a nurse.
I'll just, like, go into x-ray, and then, like, I worked my butt off. Like, I did school part-time and, like, worked full-time, and it was before we had our son, and, like, really just, like, working really hard.
I applied to x-ray school and ended up not getting in, and I'm just, like, okay, Lord, like, I don't know what you have planned for me, but I'm going to trust you in that, and then, like, a year or so later, like, you know, I ended up getting pregnant with our son, and, like, now I'm not going to be working anymore, so I'm, like, man, I'm glad I didn't spend all that money on school only to, like, you know, stay at home, but it's, like, the Lord knows what He's doing, and, you know, He'll work things out like that, but just not doing things out of selfish ambition.
I can never. I have shellfish ambition. Shellfish. Yeah. The lobster ambition. The shrimp ambition, but, yeah, like, I think that was really, that was a really good point that you made, Will. Okay, so we'll go ahead and get into what should prayer look like, so this is where we are talking about the Lord's Prayer, so I'm going to read Matthew 6, 5 through 13, and then we'll get into something a little later, so I'll go ahead and read that, and when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others.
Truly, I tell you, they have received their full reward, but when you pray, go into your room, close the door, and pray to your Father who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what He has done in secret, will reward you, and when you pray, do not keep babbling like pagans, for they think you will be heard because of their many words.
Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him. Talking about, like, what Lil just mentioned. This, then, is how you should pray. Our Father, hallowed be thy name, or, I'm sorry, our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.
Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us of our debts, as we have also forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.
So, it talks about, we shouldn't pray to get notoriety from others. We shouldn't pray, like, you know, these powerful, I think about, like, these TV preachers, you know, just like, oh, Jesus, we love you, and we just thank you, and they're so loud, and they use, like, all these big words, and it's just, like, all this hype behind it, and it's just, like, He tells us to go into our rooms, like, close the door, pray in private.
That is your time with Him. Yeah. It's not to put on a show. He doesn't like that, and so, to the Father, He was also unseen, so He, you know, makes that relation, and He will reward you for what is done in secret.
It talks, it reminds me of the definition of integrity, like, always doing the right thing, even though, like, no one's around. It's, to me, that's very similar. Does anyone have anything to add on that portion, or the next portion of, like, how you should pray the actual Lord's Prayer?
I'll just share something about,.
Like, that vain repetition. It used to be a huge problem for me, you know. I had kind of a list, and this goes way back, but had a list of prayer requests, and I would just hit that list every time, you know, and it was, it was so robotic, but that's, that really doesn't do any good.
If you're not, okay, going back again to that verse, your earnest request, another word that, that fits there, sincere. If you're just, just going, just banging out a list of prayer requests, where's the.
Sincerity? Reminds me of that. Did y 'all ever say that prayer growing up? God is great. God is good. Let us thank him for our food. By his hands we are fed. Give us, Lord, our daily bread. Amen. Like, that's what I would pray, like, all the time.
Someone was sick. God is great. God is good. Let us thank him for our food. Like, anything. So, like, I didn't really know how to pray until, I don't know, I was probably a teenager, to be quite honest, but like you said, you just have these lists of things, kind of like what Amy mentioned, too, of, like, some people treat God like he's a genie, and then you go down that list, and it's just very robotic.
It's very regimented. It's very religious. Instead of just being, like, God, this is what I've got going on. I'm really struggling with X, Y, and Z. I need your help. I need discernment. I need wisdom.
Instead of just, like, God, I pray for, um, Jimmy, you know, because he's going through that thing. You know, God, I pray for, you know, I got a test tomorrow. Like, if you could help me swing that, that'd be great.
You know, yet, like you said, it's just very, it's not sincere. Yeah. So, okay, this is a few verses in Mark 11, and I don't know if I want to read the whole thing, or if I just want to, like, mention it.
I literally just had deja vu. Like, the same scenario, you saying that. Anyway, whatever you want. I don't care. Okay, I'm just gonna speed read. We're all held captive here. All right. Wait, too much scripture.
No, too much. That's too much. We gotta, we cut off. So, um, it's Mark 11, 22 through 25. Jesus replied to them, have faith in God. Truly, I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, be lifted up and thrown into the sea, and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him.
Therefore, I tell you, everything you pray and ask for, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven may also forgive you for your wrongdoing.
So, the main takeaway for me is just, when you're praying to God, just, like, the first verse, have faith in God. This is Jesus talking, and he is telling the disciples to have faith. And it's just really important that nothing is too small for God, and nothing is too big for God.
So, whatever it is, just ask God. And, you know, what is it? Is it yes, no, maybe, or yes, no, wait, or whatever? Oh, like God's answers, or whatever God's response is to your prayer. It's like, yes, no, or like, not yet.
I've heard all different variations. But, I don't know. Just, this is saying, like, have faith, and there. And one thing, while I'll add on that, is, if you don't get the response that you want, like, one thing that we had read, or Lowell had mentioned, in the Garden of Gethsemane, when Jesus is praying, it's like, God, please let this cut pass for me, but if not, your will be done, is having that, not, like, feeling revelation.
I'm, like I said, y 'all, I'm struggling today. Having that understanding that, like, my will is not his will. Because if it was my will, like, my life would look completely different. And so, being okay with that doesn't work out, because that's not in his will, and that's not what is best, either.
So, that's what I would have to add, to add on to that. But no, I completely agree with what you said. So, I just, I like this, since we're talking about how you should pray, in reference to, don't have doubt in your mind, while you're praying.
Just give it all to God, and have faith that he will do what's best. Well, and that's one thing, that, like, when I pray, I find myself doubting, like, not that he can't do it, but that he won't do it.
That's a tough one. Yeah. And so, I'll just be, like, but God, if it's in your will. I try to throw that in there. I'm, like, it's not that I don't trust you, it's just that I don't know if that's in your will, and I'm just, so yeah, that's hard, because I know he's powerful.
And that's the thing about really living out that phrase, not my will, but yours be done, because we recognize he can answer this prayer, he can do anything, and they're, like, oh, but what if he doesn't?
And submitting in that, not my will, but yours be done, sort of way, means not just, oh, if he doesn't, then I'll accept it. No, like, you've got to accept it. That's the part, that's faith right there.
When you accept that what he does is right and best, before you even find out what it is, that's the critical part. I want to add a verse or two to what Amy was saying about doubting. So this is also from James.
He talked a lot about faith and prayer. Yeah, so chapter one, starting in verse five, and he's talking specifically about wisdom, but I think we'll see that this can be applied pretty broadly. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given to him.
But let him ask in faith with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. So if you're bringing that request to God, like, go ahead and make up your mind and believe that he, that he can, and not just that he can, but that whatever he does do in response to that, you're, you're not going to regret it.
You're not going to be disappointed, ultimately. Yeah. You might struggle with that for a while, but then ultimately, you'd be like, yeah, you know what,.
God was right. This was a good podcast, y 'all. I can't talk, good podcast, y 'all. I'll eventually get it out. Hey, we went a lot longer than I thought we were going to go. Yeah. I was like, if we make the 30 minutes, I'll be okay.
Okay, will anyone have anything else to add? I don't think I have anything. I think pastor is going to be so proud of it. I don't think, I think he is. I think he'll be happy with this episode. That's our main concern is like having pastor's approval.
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