In this sermon, the preacher emphasizes the importance of the word of God and its power to transform lives. He highlights the need to seek God's will and pray for His kingdom to come on earth. The preacher also discusses the blessing of spending time with God through reading and meditating on His word. He contrasts those who have intellectual knowledge of the Bible but lack spiritual life with those who have encountered the Holy Spirit and have a deep understanding of God's glory through Jesus Christ.

We've been studying that wonderful prayer called the Lord's Prayer, and it is indeed the Lord's Prayer. I cannot pray it successfully. Jesus Christ prays it in me, not a thousand times in repetitions, but in every breath I draw, every pulsation of my heart says, Our Father, who art in heaven, for now He is as He is the Father of my life. Hallelujah. Someone has written a poem saying, Near to the heart of God, nearer I cannot be, for in Jesus Christ, His beloved Son, I'm just as near as He is. And the second verse says, Dear to the heart of God, dearer I cannot be. Thank God, for in Jesus Christ, His only Son, I'm just as dear as He is. And herein lies love, not that we love God, but that He loved us. And so, when it was as if He said, Well, He'll make intercession for you, for we have boldness and access with confidence. But in order to make my prayer, Jesus Christ had to take away, but now He's pitched a tent, a heavenly tent. The tabernacle of David, which was broken down, has been rebuilt, thank God. And that wonderful rabbi, that wonderful holy place. One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after, that I may dwell in the house of the Lord, in the secret of His. How amiable are thy tabernacle, soul. Oh, beloved, have you found that place? Have you learned to pray, Our Father, who art in heaven? Have you learned to stay at night? And the apostle Paul knew about trouble, in the world you shall have tribulation. You might as well make up your mind. Nor angels, nor principalities. My Father, my Father will stoop and hear the prayer of His child. But in spirit and in truth, He has sent forth this which you now see in glory to God. How earthly fathers love to hear their kids say, Hi, Dad. What joy must be in the heart of my heavenly Father when I come. Nobody between, nobody around, in that secret place of the most. Alone with God, alone with God, and not once in a while, not an hour in the day, but all the days of my life. Oh, when will I come to stand before God, send out thy light and thy truth. Beloved, that's worshipping God in spirit and in truth. Constantly seeking, constantly seeking. And when your soul is. They that seek me early shall find me. And glory to God. And He wants me to ask with confidence. It isn't my It isn't my proposition. My heavenly Father cares. He cares. He will guard you as the apple of His eye. Or at least I will miss my crown. Hallowed be thy name. I had to learn that when God. I used to be so fearful and so careful. And God had to teach me. Care, praise God. Of my spirit, of my soul, of my days, of my eternity, of everything. Beloved, when He says, hallowed be thy name. He says, if I'm a father, where is my honor? When you don't trust me. When you don't lean hard upon me and stand on my promise. Abraham gave glory to God when in the deepest, darkest trial that could come to any human being. When he drew the knife to slay his son. At that moment he was fully persuaded that what God had promised him. And listen, he is my father today. Hallelujah. He says through the prophet, and it shall be my delight. You're his child. You're ashamed of yourself. But Jesus is not ashamed to call you brother. He's not ashamed to dwell among us. He's not ashamed to dwell within us. When the Lord does it. Hallelujah. Our father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Yesterday we conspired. Thy kingdom come. Where is the kingdom of God going to be? That's what I'm here for. I am his kingdom. And when I sing the song, may it be what I please. These woe be gone murmurings and disputing, these complaining, these murmurings. Neither murmur ye as some of them also murmured and were destroyed. He's our light. He is my all in all. I don't manufacture joy. That's given to me. When in the very place where sin reigned and where I allowed sin to get at me. Now I plug in to the current of heaven and presently. Faith is that attachment. Faith is that victory. Faith relates to the fullness of the whole. You can't do it. I cannot do it. We know what failures we are in ourselves. Hallelujah. But today we rejoice. We glory in our infirmities. That his will might be done. Jesus Christ has been given to us. That where sin reigns, God might reign. Great might. He talks about the gift of righteousness. Hallelujah. They that receive abundance of grace. Do you have abundance of grace today? Well, you ought to show it on your face. Listen, the more you frown, the more you'll. But if you receive abundance of grace. Oh, hallelujah. Hallelujah. Something I have not deserved. It's the salvation which was given us in Christ Jesus. Wonderful. You notice these petitions coming. Thy kingdom comes. I will read back. Oh, ye of little faith. You don't have to bother about that. Don't question what shall we eat or what shall we drink. But labor for the meat which perisheth not. I am that bread of life which the father give us unto you. Beloved, that's how the father. I used to be delighted when I visited my brother when all they had an oval table and the eight of them sat around the table. And I wondered how here was the bread and here was the oil. Give me a piece of bread. But he cared for them. They were hungry. And my brother was father. And he would rather starve himself than let the children starve naturally. My heavenly father, beloved, he cares for me. He knows that a man shall not live by bread only. Do you know why we're so lean spiritually? Do you know how to be filled with the fullness of God? It cannot come any other way but by God's way. Man shall not live by bread alone. The word that proceedeth out of my mouth. Oh, how gracious is my father to send his word in the form of Jesus. Do you love the word of God? Do you love the Bible? Maybe we do. We have quizzes on. Paul says, when God who chose me from my mother's womb and called me by his grace to reveal his son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles. Now he had the word of God intellectually. He knew the Bible from A to Z. But it wasn't until the Holy Ghost came and shed a broad light in his soul. He said, shine in our heart to give. Give us this day our daily bread. Oh, my father wants to be your Bible teacher. I know we need teachers. I know God has said in the church, preachers and teachers, they help us. If they lead us to the fountain, a good teacher will not. He'll lead you to the fountain and show you how to eat yourself. He'll show you where the bread basket is. That's what Jesus Christ did. That's what the Apostle Paul did. He says, I commend you to God. And the Apostle Peter says, now that you meditate, give thyself. Beloved, I need this bread every day. And I need to come to my father every day. Oh, what a meeting every day. What a wonderful day is this day. Today he will give me my daily bread. He won't give me a whole household today, but he'll give me as much as I need. We would become Bible students. We would become teachers. You know what he says to the Hebrews? Why, by this time you ought to be teachers. And you have need that one teach you again the first principle. You have need of milk and not of meat. It's a rebuke. But oh, and a dear child of God. And what does he say? Be you followers of God as a dear child of God comes. God will be faithful. You may not read a whole chapter a day, but there will be some word of it will speak to you. God will speak to you. Oh, that's the wonder of this New Testament. Thy words were found and I did eat them. And thy word was the joy and the rejoicing of my heart, for I'm called by thy name. You know who spoke that? Jeremiah. Do you know at what occasion he spoke? It was at a time when the Bible was lost, had been lost. And the Jews and Israel had fallen into deep sin, into idolatry. And there was a king, a wonderful King Josiah, who was a godly young man. And he commanded the temple to be cleaned. And as they cleaned the house of God, they found the book. Hilkiah the scribe found the book and Shabner brought it to the king. And he said, Hilkiah has found the book. He brought it tremblingly. Oh, how they honored that book. It had been lost a long, long time. And what did he read? Curses, warning, judgment. And that's what Jeremiah says, thy word. Have you discovered the man who got into grave sorrow of heart? He started a business here. Salt was the heir. So they wrote him a letter, a registered letter, telling him that he was an heir of many millions of dollars. And when he got this letter, the postman wanted to serve his father. What? For my uncle? He never done anything for me. You see, I found to read a chapter in the Bible to give me his word. How that word will change me. It'll do the very thing unto which I send it. Beloved, we would all be filled with exceeding great faith today. And we ought to be. We ought to be teachers today. We ought to have that word in us because that word is sublime. And we're careless. Do you know this wonderful fellowship with the Father? I believe God would like us to learn more about it. All the fountain of life that what would have happened. And they use it for text to preach. How very different when God can look down from heaven. And when I pray, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is done in heaven. God, it'll accomplish that where unto I send it. We don't know how bread is changed into blood and into. We know that it is our daily bread. Oh God, do you know the blessing of the morning watch? Have you found it out? Martin Luther says, if I fail to pray two hours in the morning, that you know the blessing of meeting your father over his word. Are you wasting your time when you do that? Well, you don't waste your time when you cook your meat. How carefully watched we have. Ding! Now the roast has to go. Very careful. Finally went in to see what a saint she was. He is there to feed you, to give you the bread of heaven. Oh, it's very different when God. Do you know that we don't take? We're not still enough over the Bible. You can't get it just by. I was so over. To me, it seems sacrilege. This is a diamond. His life and to become a Bible.