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  HOW DO I TALK TO GOD
  by Carter Conlon
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Summary: This sermon emphasizes the power of sincere, personal, and
trusting prayer to God, highlighting the importance of being honest and
open in our communication with Him. It encourages listeners to come to
God with their burdens, sins, and struggles, knowing that He is faithful
to forgive, restore, and empower those who seek Him. The message also
underscores the transformative impact of God's love and mercy in our
lives, inviting individuals to experience the joy and freedom found in a
personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

Topics: "The Power of Prayer", "God's Forgiveness and Restoration"
Scripture References: Matthew 6:5, Luke 15:11, Luke 18:9, 1 Corinthians 11:23, Luke 11:9

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This sermon emphasizes the power of sincere, personal, and trusting
prayer to God, highlighting the importance of being honest and open in
our communication with Him. It encourages listeners to come to God with
their burdens, sins, and struggles, knowing that He is faithful to
forgive, restore, and empower those who seek Him. The message also
underscores the transformative impact of God's love and mercy in our
lives, inviting individuals to experience the joy and freedom found in a
personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

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I'm here tonight with my friend Ron Brown, Executive Director of Teen
Challenge Southern California. Twelve locations, 700 young people in the
program right now. And Ron's got life, he's got incredible life because
he has lived his life for the sake of others.

And this is a real unique opportunity for me and him to sing together
tonight. We're both ex-cops by the way. We are? Amen.

Praise God. We've got to get it all out because we may never be asked to
sing anywhere again. So we're going to get it all out tonight.

A hundred and thirty-four years between us of life experience, so you
listen tonight online. The one thing we can tell you above everything
else, it's glory, glory, hallelujah, since I lay my burdens down, glory,
glory, hallelujah, since I lay my burdens down, well I'm feeling so much
better since I laid my burdens down, well I'm feeling so much better
since I laid my burdens down, glory, glory, hallelujah. Come on, sing
along now.

Since I laid my burdens down, glory, glory, hallelujah, since I laid my
burdens down, I feel better, oh yes I do, so much better since I laid my
burdens down, oh yes, I feel better, so much better since I laid my
burdens down, well glory, glory, glory, hallelujah, since I laid my
burdens down, oh glory, glory, hallelujah, since I laid my burdens down,
oh yes, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory, hallelujah, since I laid my
burdens down, oh yes, glory, glory, hallelujah, since I laid my burdens
down, since I laid my burdens down, since I laid my burdens down, my
burden, my burden, thank you Lord, thank you Lord, Jesus is the burden
bearer, thank you Jesus, thank you for taking the burdens Lord, thank
you Lord for taking the burdens and giving us your amazing peace, your
amazing grace, your amazing love, your amazing joy, your amazing mercy,
thank you Lord, thank you Lord, thank you Lord, thank you Lord,
hallelujah, since I laid, since I laid, since I laid, since I laid, my
burden down, give me a key, Jesus on the main line, tell him what you
want, Jesus on the main line, tell him what you want, Jesus on the main
line, tell him what you want, Jesus on the main line, tell him what you
want, Jesus on the main line, tell him what you want, if you need a
healing, tell him what you want, if you need a healing, tell him what
you want, call him up and tell him what you want, oh just call him up,
call him up, tell him what you want, oh call him up, call him up, tell
him what you want, oh call him up, call him up, tell him what you want,
tell him what you want today, Jesus on the main line, Jesus on the main
line, tell him what you want, Jesus on the main line, tell him what you
want, oh Jesus on the main line, tell him what you want, just call him
up and tell him what you want, one more time, call him up, just call him
up, call him up, tell him what you want, call him up, call him up, tell
him what you want, you've got to call him up, call him up, tell him what
you want, Jesus on the main line now. He's God, oh hallelujah,
hallelujah, hallelujah, I'm supposed to preach after that, thank God,
you know for folks that are listening online tonight with us, just want
you to know that there is joy in the Lord, and God will be faithful, as
I said tonight between Pastor Ron and I there's 134 years of life
experience, and the one thing we can tell you tonight above everything
else is if you will give your life to Christ, Jesus Christ will be
faithful to you, he will keep you, he will deliver you, he will set you
free, he will bless you, he will give you a reason to live, there's no
promise in the scripture that when you come to Christ that you won't go
through trials or difficulties, but he promises to walk with you in the
waters that will try to drown you, and with you through the fire and it
will not burn you, and every trial that you will have to pass through in
life, you will know him as a friend that stays closer than a brother to
you, and he will walk with you right through into eternity, if you give
your life to Jesus Christ tonight, he promises that heaven will be your
eternal home when you leave this world, and it just puts everything in
its right perspective suddenly, you suddenly know that you're in the
hands of God, and God has everything under control, after the brief
sharing of God's word tonight we're going to go to the communion table
and that means we're going to celebrate the victory that Jesus Christ
won on the cross for you 2000 years ago, if you have any juice or bread
or crackers or whatever in your home, you're more than welcome to
celebrate with us, if you are turning to God with all your heart, you
want him to be your Lord and Savior, you're more than welcome to partake
of this celebration with us, don't let anything stop you from doing
that, tonight I want to share a brief, I'm getting a lot of feedback
sound guys if you don't mind up here, I want to just share a brief word
tonight with you about how do I talk to God, how do I talk to God, you
know this is a prayer meeting and a lot of folks you've come into a
prayer meeting tonight and maybe you're not familiar with the prayer
meeting, and you don't know how to pray, you're watching us pray and
you're saying is that the way it's done, I want to just share some
things with you from the word of God tonight about how to talk to God
from the very heart of Jesus Christ himself, how he told us that we
should pray and what should be our attitude of heart when we choose to
pray and come to him, if you'll turn in your Bibles or whatever device
you have to Matthew, Gospel of Matthew chapter 6, I'm going to read
verses 5 to verse 8, now father whenever your word is spoken our lives
should be changed, I want to thank you tonight God for the touch of
heaven on this word tonight, I thank you for the ability to deliver this
word, I thank you God for the anointing of your Holy Spirit that will
take this word deep into the hearts and minds of people who are in
places where they need to learn how to talk to you, you call it prayer,
but really it's just talking to you, and so father I thank you tonight
God, give me the ability to share this clearly, and I give you the
praise and the glory for it in Jesus name, Amen and Amen. Matthew
chapter 6 beginning of verse 5, how do I talk to God? Jesus said and
when you pray you shall not be like the hypocrites, now a hypocrite in
it's original text means an actor, somebody who just is putting on a
play, but they're not really sincere in a sense about the part that
they're playing, it's just an act, for they love to pray standing in the
synagogues and on the corners of the streets that they may be seen by
men, assuredly I say to you they have their reward, but you when you
pray go into your room, and when you shut your door pray to your father
who is in the secret place, and your father who sees in secret will
reward you openly, and when you pray do not use vain repetitions as the
heathen do, that means those who live outside of a relationship with
God, for they think they will be heard for their many words, therefore
do not be like them, for your father knows the things that you have need
of before you ask him.

Now these four verses don't tell us everything, but they tell us a great
deal about how Jesus himself used this sacred interaction, may I call it
that, between us and himself, an interaction that he had with Adam and
Eve in the garden of Eden when the scripture says he would come down in
the cool of the day and they would just converse with one another, it
wasn't necessarily complicated, at some points the scripture tells us
that he would bring animals to Adam and say to Adam what shall we call
this, and so Adam gave a name to some of these creations of God, and
that became a way of conversing, now sin entered into the human race,
and that ability to communicate with God was lost, there were only maybe
a select few in the Old Testament that really had this channel through,
like Moses for example of talking face to face with God, but it was lost
to the greater part of humanity until the cross of Jesus Christ, when
Christ himself destroyed the power of sin and death and the devil,
defeated it, made an open display of it, and opened the way again for
you and I to come into the presence of God and to speak to him again, to
talk to him, you know I tried for years all of these schemes to pray,
folks let me tell you something, if there's a book on prayer to read,
I've read it, I've read Praying Hyde, I've read all of these books,
Reese Howell's Intercessor, and I howled and I tried to get my Hyde
praying, I did all of these things and I burst blood vessels in my eyes
because I felt you had to be, I even went out in the snow one day
because it was brainerd, I went out in the snow and prayed for the
Indians and the scripture says the snow around them melted, not
scripture but the history says, and I went out, I just near froze to
death, nothing melted around me except my resolve melted to ever do
anything like that again, and after trying all these things to try to
get to pray and exhausting myself, I even started the five o'clock club
in Canada where you would call each other in the morning and wake each
other up and pray, it has to be at five in the morning, of course it's
not holy if it's not five in the morning, you have to go in your living
room and you have to get on your knees which I did because if you
weren't on your knees it wasn't holy, folks, I've been through the
crucible, I've been beat up to a pulp by the prayer ministries of
America that I used to be part of, and you have to get on your knees
because it's not holy if it's not on your knees and not five o'clock in
the morning, then I would put my face down, I remember it was a green
couch and I put my face down between the two cushions right in the
center of that couch and generally I'd wake up at about seven o'clock,
however I was on my knees and I could honestly say, well semi-honestly
say I was on my face before God this morning, finally one day after I'd
exhausted all of these avenues the Lord, you know when you just finally
stop running God says can we talk now, he said Carter I had a friend
called Adam and I loved my friend and I would come down to my friend and
I would converse with my friend and it's what I've longed for as God, I
longed for this companionship with this man and because sin entered into
his heart I lost my friend so I came to this world as a man, Jesus
Christ, and I went to a cross, defeated the power that had defeated him
so that I could talk again to Adam's descendants, he said Carter just
talk to me, it's an amazing revelation, it shouldn't be but it is, it's
an amazing revelation, just talk to me, you don't have to speak a
hundred miles an hour, you don't have to use King James English, the
posture doesn't matter, you can talk to me when you're walking down the
street, talk to me when you're brushing your teeth, talk to me when
you're having a coffee in the morning, talk to me when you're walking
along the way to wherever you're going, talk to me when you come home,
talk to me when you get up, talk to me when you go to bed, as a matter
of fact the apostle Paul, when I first read the verse where Paul said
pray without ceasing, I remember I burned it out, how in heaven's name
do you do that? Well you just, you get into a habit of talking with the
one who not only redeemed you but now resides inside of you, God's not
off in the cosmos so that you have to shout at him to get through to
him, he actually indwells your physical human body in the third person
of the Godhead, the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit is God dwelling inside
these earth and so he goes with you wherever you go so you don't have to
shout and when you do talk to him, give him time to speak to you too as
well. Now he tells us in our conversations that he asks that we be
sincere when you pray, it says when you pray don't be like the actors or
the hypocrites, they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the
corners of the streets that they might be seen by men, assuredly I say
to you they have their reward. Years ago in New York City we used to
have open prayer on Tuesday night, I don't know if anybody here
remembers that, but we had an open microphone in the front of the church
and anybody was welcome to come down and pray.

And I remember one night this older gentleman came down and he took the
microphone and he prayed almost like a poet, it was very poetic and it
was eloquent and it was actually quite good in a sense as far as the
English language went. I remember David Wilkerson leaning over to me and
he goes the old phony. And it turned out he wasn't old phony, his prayer
was, he wasn't talking to God, he was wanting the people in the
sanctuary to esteem his spirituality.

Have you ever been in a place in a prayer meeting and somebody starts
praying and it's not really a prayer, it's their latest sermonette that
they want to get out, they want everybody in the room to hear it, but
they're really not talking to God. They're talking for the, it's a
duplicitous reason and he said when you stand or when you go into your
secret place, just be sincere, just talk to me, don't give a sermon. If
you're in a public meeting and you're asked to pray, don't give a sermon
to the congregation, talk to God.

It's an audience of one that we go before and we're not there to utter
prayers to impress the people around. That's what Jesus was saying, when
you utter your prayers in the synagogue, don't do it so that other
people can esteem you to be spiritual. You know just talk to him.

Like you don't have to change the way you speak in other words. And it
doesn't have to be long and it doesn't have to be eloquent, it just has
to be sincere, it has to be honest. I love the scripture in Luke chapter
18 where Jesus said two men went up to the temple to pray, one a
Pharisee and the other a tax collector.

The Pharisee stood and prayed with himself thus. I love that. He stood
and prayed with himself.

In other words, nobody, God is not listening to him. Now why is it in
the Bible? Well if you ever called a place and you don't get a person
when you call but you get a recording and before you record it says this
conversation will be recorded for quality purposes and education and
instructional purposes and stuff like that. Quality control and
instruction.

Well that's why this prayer is actually recorded in the Bible. God
wasn't listening to it, there was nobody there but it was recorded for
quality control and for instruction. That's how it got in the Bible.

It's not that it was ever accepted by God. He stood and prayed with
himself. Oh God I thank you I'm not like other men, extortioners,
unjust, adulterers or even as this tax collector.

I fast twice a week, I give tithes of all that I possess and the tax
collector standing afar off would not so much as raise his eyes to
heaven but beat on his breast and said God be merciful to me a sinner. I
tell you these are the words of Jesus. This man, the tax collector went
down to his house justified or in right relationship with God or we
could say answered rather than the other for everyone exalts himself
will be humbled and he who humbles himself will be exalted.

So when you pray just be sincere. Just be sincere. Don't fake it.

God knows already. Don't tell him how wonderful the day is when you're
really bummed and it's been a hard day and you're going through stuff
you don't understand. Be sincere.

Just be honest with God when you pray. And then in verse 6 he says when
you pray go into your room and when you've shut your door pray to your
father who is in a secret place and your father who is in secret will
reward you openly. Let your prayer be also personal.

Let it be private. Luke chapter 12 and verse 32 Jesus said don't be
afraid little flock it's your father's good pleasure to give you the
kingdom. So be sincere and let it be personal between you and God.

Now here's a great example of this in Luke chapter 15 the prodigal son
we know the story most of us know it's a young man who just took his
inheritance went far away from the heart and the home of his father and
really brought disgrace to the family name spent everything he had on
himself and was living in a way he shouldn't live and ended up actually
feeding pigs and as a Jewish boy that's probably the worst thing you
could ever do because pigs were considered in every way unclean to the
Jewish culture and then one day he got up and decided to come home and a
prayer came into his heart remember Jesus he said in this verse of
scripture in Matthew he said your father who sees in secret will reward
you openly and so this boy formulated a prayer in his heart and it's
father I've sinned I've sinned against heaven and against you and I'm
not worthy to be called your son anymore so if you'll have me just make
me as one of your hired servants now as he's coming down the road the
scripture says his father ran to meet him his father ran and embraced
him his father fell on his neck and kissed him so this prayer you've got
to picture the scene with me the father is embracing the son and they
are cheek to cheek lips to ear may I put it that way and this prayer is
not for the entourage who followed the father it's a personal prayer
it's a private prayer between him and his father and he just I can see
him whispering it in his father's ear father I'm not worthy to be called
your son anymore I've disgraced you and I've disgraced the family but I
if you will take me back and make me as one of your hired servants now I
don't think anybody else heard this prayer it was a personal prayer
between this boy and his father because they're locked in embrace the
father is hugging this son he's so glad to have him home and the son is
not as we said in the beginning he's not uttering this prayer for the
sake of the entourage that ran down the road with the father and so he
prays in secret in a sense to his father but the father rewards him
openly and how shocked he must have been when we when we are sincere
when we when we go to God and we just we're just got honest with God you
might be out there tonight and you're you made the own the mess in your
own life you can't blame your father you can't blame your mother don't
blame your uncle don't blame your aunt don't blame anybody else you are
the one who got addicted you're the one who fell into depression you
stole from your business and your company it's nobody else's fault but
yours but tonight you just you get up and you come back and you find
yourself in the embrace of God it's hard to explain it but even tonight
online you're finding that somehow you feel the embrace of God coming
around you and all you can do is whisper your prayer you can't shout it
out the window and nobody wants to hear it anyway and you're just saying
father I've sinned against you and against heaven I've made a mess of my
life you gave me life for a divine reason you had a purpose and plan for
my life but I I left your calling for my life I left your house and I
went out and I did it my way and I made a mess of everything and I stink
like a pig and here I am and you're whispering it into the ear of God
and then suddenly how surprised this boy must have been when the father
claps his hands and says bring out the best robe and put it on him you
see you pray in secret and your father will reward you openly and so you
can hear the collective gasp of all the servants that have come running
this man is a wealthy man he hasn't come running down the road alone
there's an entourage with him and as he gives the command bring the best
robe and put it on my son you can hear the collective from the people
because this boy is now big he has prayed in secret but now he's being
rewarded openly God I tell you when you go on to sleep before God one of
the best prayers I've ever prayed and I still pray it today I prayed in
my whole life it's a really eloquent prayer Jesus help me I prayed I've
prayed it since the day I got saved matter of fact if you change the
intonations you can pray it nine different ways Jesus help me Jesus help
me Jesus help me you can just you can change you can change depending on
your mood you can you can change the intonation of the prayer and God
answers it every time I can't tell you how many times I prayed that
prayer in desperation I used to jog I used to be a runner believe it or
not if you close your eyes it makes it hard easier to believe it but I
used to be physically fit I used to be a runner and when I would run the
whole run I would say Jesus help me Jesus help me Jesus help me I got a
rhythm in it Jesus help me Jesus help me Jesus help me all the way and
he helped me he answered my prayer I prayed in secret he was nobody
there nobody on the roads the country roads I used to run but he heard
me he heard my prayer and he rewarded me openly and he helped me gave me
abilities that I don't naturally have gave me opportunities that could
never never come my way gave me resources that could only come from
heaven he clapped his hands and said bring the best robe and covered the
failure of his son praise be to God and not only that he calls for the
ring and it gives him the empowerment of heaven the empowerment of the
father's house is restored to him that ring had a signet and it carried
the weight of the father's authority behold I give you power I give you
power to tread on serpents and scorpions I give you power to stand
against your addictions and your depressions and your trials and
troubles and where the devil's come into your home is trying to steal
your children Jesus said you pray in secret I'll reward you openly I'll
give you power over these things that have tried to destroy your house
and destroy your life and then he put shoes on his feet and how
incredulous it must have been to be usually to come into the presence of
God per se you had to take your shoes off your feet because most people
who come into the presence of God generally come in with ideas and
strategies and skills and that's why he told Moses and Joshua take off
your shoes I don't want your strength to win this battle and I don't
need your strategies and I don't want your ideas I'm going to do this
for you but this boy was broken now this boy was honest before his
father so that the command to give him shoes was almost the opposite
he's ready now to represent my kingdom you know I've often said it I've
said it many times to this public what do you think pastor on that young
man's message was that when he went out from his father's house seven
steps to this thirteen steps to that no you've got to meet my dad you've
got to meet my father man oh man you've got to come to my father's house
everybody is welcome there and everybody gets fed there and when you
come home they bring out the band they bring out the band and they start
singing I don't know what they sang maybe it's oh glory glory hallelujah
since I laid my burdens down I don't know what the song was but the
father brings him home and because he's prayed in secret he rewards him
openly praise be to God and lastly pray trusting and when you pray do
not use vain repetitions as the heathen do they think they will be heard
for their many words I've often found that a lack of faith in prayer
often has many words attached to it the less a person believes the more
words they have to use to try to convince themselves that God will
answer their prayer God does not have to be persuaded to bless you your
father knows you have need of certain things before you even ask him
knows what you need it's amazing and you just come and say it not only
is my prayer sincere not only is it personal and just to you God but I
trust you I trust you I trust that what you say in your word to me is
truth I trust that when I pray believing I will receive I trust that my
enemies will not triumph over me I trust that you're the God who
restores things that I have lost perhaps through my own ignorance or the
way I've lived my life I trust that you will receive me and forgive me I
trust oh God that I can have a new future a new life a new heart a new
mind and a new hope and that's what talking to God is all about tonight
you know there's a lot of people maybe you hold back because you think
there's some kind of religious thing that we do that you don't know how
to partake of it or maybe you look online and you say wow these people
are they were in Bible school obviously they're all holy they all know
that's not true and if you don't give it another month it's coming your
way and you're thinking out there like how does this apply to me God
loves you God loves you the Bible says with an everlasting love he says
he engraved your name on the palm of his hands when he went to the cross
your name was on the point of those nails that went through his hands he
said a nursing mother could forget her child but I can never forget you
he loved you the Bible says before you were formed in your mother's womb
he knew you and he loved you and I think honestly that sometimes why God
hasn't judged this world already is because he's waiting for you to come
home one more son one more daughter one more person out there that has
the courage to say God I need to talk to you and I need to know what it
is that you're saying to me and I need to come home I'll tell you how to
get home admit that you can't get there by yourself you need the mercy
of God to get home to heaven admit that you can't save yourself which is
why God came to this earth as a man and went to a cross two thousand
years ago and paid the price for the things that you have done that have
offended God which the Bible calls that sin means it's disobedience to
what God says your life should be how you should live how you should
think how you should speak and that sin separated you from God but God
sent his son and on his son he laid your sin on that cross it's the same
as when the father embraced that son on the road he took the smell of
the field upon himself when when you came to the cross the son of God
took the smell of your your failing and your sin upon himself and
offered you a covering and freedom and forgiveness believe that he took
your place and believe it because he loves you not because he felt just
obligated to clean up a mess did it because he loves you the Bible says
God so loved the world put your name in there I don't know what your
name is out there tonight but put your name in there you in India China
Russia wherever you are tonight in Canada United States the UK put your
name in there God so loved you that he gave his only begotten son that
if you believe in him you will not perish that means be separated from
God for eternity but have everlasting life which means with God and you
confess him with your mouth Jesus if you want me that bad I'm yours I
give you my life if you want my mess you can have it if you want to
change my life you can change it if you want to call me to be something
other than what I am you can call me pray this simple prayer with me
right now right from your heart Lord Jesus Christ thank you for loving
me thank you for giving your life for me tonight I give my life to you I
open my heart to your offer of forgiveness and your desire to talk with
me again I do confess you tonight Jesus Christ as my Lord and my God for
the rest of my days as you help me I will walk with you and I will be
the person you desire me to be and it feels so good tonight to talk to
you if you prayed that prayer tonight I want you to text the word
decided to 51,000 on your cell phone somebody from Times Square church
should be a video come to you and we'll talk to you about what do I do
from here where do I go now how does this whole walk with God work we'll
help to answer those questions for you we're going to go to the
communion table and the communion table is just remembering God's love
for you and when we take communion tonight let there be just a simple
thought in your mind tonight as you partake of the bread which he said
represents his broken body and the juice which represents the blood that
he shed in giving his life for you so you could come home to God again
and as you take it just remember he did it for you we're going to sing
one song and then I'll be back together we'll be back together in just a
moment Oh surely my sin Nothing but the blood of Jesus What can nothing
but the blood of Jesus Oh precious is that flow That makes me light as
snow For once I know Nothing but the blood of Jesus For my part in this
I see Nothing but the blood of Jesus For my cleansing this my plea
Nothing but the blood of Jesus Oh precious is the flow That makes me
white as snow For once I know Nothing but the blood of Jesus Oh
precious, oh precious is the flow That makes me white as snow For once I
know Nothing but the blood of Jesus Oh precious is the flow That makes
me white as snow No other fount I know Nothing but the blood of Jesus
For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you That the
Lord Jesus on the same night in which he was betrayed took bread And
when he had given thanks he broke it and said Take eat, this is my body
which is broken for you Do this in remembrance of me In the same manner
he also took the cup after supper saying This cup is the new covenant in
my blood This do as often as you drink it in remembrance of me For as
often as you eat this bread and drink this cup You proclaim the Lord's
death until he comes Father we just want to thank you tonight For the
people online that have made a decision To trust you again We want to
thank you Lord for the chains that you are breaking right now We thank
you for the prison doors that you are opening We thank you for the eyes
that couldn't see a way forward Being given that vision that can only
come from God We thank you for wounded hearts being healed This very
very moment Lord from wounds that were so deep That they can't be healed
by any modern method God but supernaturally you are touching them right
now We believe that God, we believe that Because our prayers tonight are
sincere They are personal and we trust you Lord We trust you tonight
that our prayers for others are not in vain God we ask you to stretch
your hand out Through the internet tonight all over the world Every
country that's represented here this evening God So many different
countries, so many people listening in Reach through the internet Lord
and touch them right where they are Touch the lonely people sitting in
their cars with their cell phones right now And those on park benches
and those alone in their rooms Or their units or apartment buildings God
Touch the mothers Lord that are broken hearted over their children Give
them faith oh God to believe Lord That as they talk to you again you can
bring their children home God thank you, God thank you, God thank you
For an end time harvest of souls Thank you for miracles again Lord Thank
you God for power again in this generation Lord Beyond what we've ever
known in our lifetime Thank you for mercy God that even when we don't
deserve it You still run down the road and you embrace us And you call
for the robe and you call for the ring and the shoes And the band God
you still do it you haven't changed You're the same yesterday, today and
forever And so God I want to thank you tonight I want to thank you for
touching somebody out there In a way that they'll never be the same
again Oh Jesus Christ let us shout a glory for your name Go up through
the earth tonight oh God Because you're going to do wondrous things in
the days ahead of us We give you praise and we give you glory and we
give you thanks In your mighty name We always encourage you most every
week Stay and pray Even if you're alone or if you've got some friends
with you at home tonight Stay and pray and pray this one thing God fill
us with your Holy Spirit And just stay in the room And let God do what
only God can do Give us your Holy Spirit Lord Give us that internal
strength of God That we need to be the people you've called us to be
Give us the ring now, give us the shoes Help us to hear the joy of
heaven Over our names being spoken at the throne of God Open us up to
the generosity of your heart and your hands Stay and pray Stay and pray
Stay and pray tonight In Jesus name We're going to sing one more song
And then Pastor Pavel is going to come and close us out tonight And
we're going to stay and pray for just a few moments here in the
sanctuary as well At our Bible school Times Square Church's Bible school
We're going to be here and we're going to pray for a few minutes You do
the same Remember 10 o'clock Sunday morning Pastor Tim Delina in New
York City On the letter Y of The Bible Says You don't want to miss this
series A powerful, powerful series And then we'll be back again Next
Wednesday night 7 p.m. Eastern Time See you then because it's time to
pray

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Video: https://sermonindex2.b-cdn.net/10shHxAWByM.mp4
Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/carter-conlon/how-do-i-talk-to-god/
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