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Steve wanted to let us know that he's taking Amy home.

No, he wanted to remind us that there is no elders meeting this afternoon.

Remember, the elders meetings are a business meeting and anyone is invited to go to find out what's going on or to ask questions or to keep tabs on us.

That's you're more than welcome to do that.

We have been talking about The Sermon on the Mount.

For quite a while now since the beginning of January and we are only up to chapter 6, but we're also studying in the Bible class.

So we may get the chapter 7 there.

So we were making some progress, but I'm going to slow it down just a little bit.

And we're talking about prayer today and I feel that this is a momentous.

Topic.

And I think it's one that we all struggle with the most.

And that is keeping a consistent prayer life.

And so I'm going to spend the next two, three, four weeks.

Don't know how long I'm going to go.

But at least three weeks talking about prayer and so we're going to be talkin about Lord, teach us to pray and the Lord was going to teach his disciples.

How to pray, but before we do.

Let's go to God In Prayer together.

Are loving and righteous father.

We are grateful to be here this morning.

We're thankful for the good and Divine Providence that has allowed us to come here this morning.

Father was thankful for the opportunity to worship you in spirit and Truth.

We thank you that as a family of God, we get to do this together.

And father were so thankful for.

This time that we can come to you in prayer.

We know that.

You are the great.

God, The Great.

I Am.

The creator of Heaven and Earth.

And yet, you are mindful of us.

And yet, you desire.

To hear from each of us.

If I were thankful for the Avenue of Prayer.

That we can lay on you.

Our burdens, our desires.

Our needs.

And even our wants.

It's rather grateful that you hear us.

father, we also pray that as we think about your word this morning, we come to the realization that were in Perfect People.

But we're thankful that we have a perfect savior.

I thought it was thankful that we have a perfect message.

Switch to live by.

We pray.

Father that.

Each of us will take it upon ourselves.

The Divine responsibility given to us to continue, living by that word by that message, and not reliving that.

We also can share that message and teach others about Jesus.

The teacher others about His church, his body.

and father, even to think, and to teach about The afterlife.

All those things are taught in your power forward.

Father.

Help us to share him all the prey, all these things through Christ, Our Lord.

Amen.

Inner 1985.

the greatest football team that I ever witness played in the Super Bowl in 19 1885 Chicago Bears, and if you remember, if you're old enough, some of us all our That Mike Ditka was the head coach.

And Jim McMahon was the quarterback and they had this big old fella who played defensive tackle.

His name was William Perry the called him William without Refrigerator Perry cuz he was as big as a refrigerator and he ate just as it.

So, my kitchen one time.

This story is told by the team, chaplain at the time, Cassius.

And a Tom tells a story about Mike Ditka who was given the chapel talk on this particular day.

And so he before he began giving the chapel talk and motivating, the team returned to William Perry the refrigerator and asked him if he would lead the team in the Lord's Prayer, following his comments and Jim McMahon had who was the quarterback at leaned over the shoulder of Tom Cassius was telling the story and he says, I bet you $50.

He doesn't know the Lord's Prayer.

And Tom Caster says, I took the BET even though it was during a time of worship.

I took the $50 back.

So after Ditka was done talking and motivating the team, he nodded his head to the fridge in the fridge was in just kind of nervous mouth.

And he said, now I lay me down to sleep.

I pray the Lord my soul to keep But it got better, because Nick man leaned over and gave us the $50 and he said, I didn't know you knew the Lord Prayer.

As followers of Christ.

We are called to.

Make followers of Christ.

And so the Bible tells us therefore go and make disciples of all the nations baptizing them in the name of the father Son and the Holy Spirit teaching them.

And so it's a shame that we have given to us by our Lord Church of Christ and really all churches that claim the Lord.

And that is to grow to make and roll Disciples of Christ.

And the growing ass that comes through, teaching.

It comes through experience.

Certainly comes through those forms of learning.

But I consider being a follower of Christ, the idea of following kind of implies there steps to be taken.

And so there are steps that involve being a servant of Christ that we're just serve.

Each other were to serve others.

And then there is the, the step of giving giving giving of ourselves, both to God to ours, to one another into our community.

And of course, probably the most important one.

And that is the one that we need to begin with.

And that is, we need to take the step of Prayer.

Understanding that this is a significant item of work that Jesus has given to each of us that we are to pray.

Pray without ceasing, the Bible tells us.

And so we find ourselves struggling with that, you know, where or when we were in a tight Jam.

We pray when we're not feeling good or when someone's close to death, we pray.

But Jesus said, Pray without ceasing don't stop praying.

Continue praying in the good times and it in the bed, but you keep on praying.

And if you look at the prayer life of Jesus Christ, you get to see that it was his custom to get up very early in the morning.

And what did he do?

He begin his day in prayer.

Sometimes he had a a nice spot there in the garden.

He would go and pray in the garden.

That was his custom.

And of course, with the Jews that would play at least three times a day.

All right.

So now I'm stopped praying, continue praying, morning, noon and night, is the idea that Jesus would pray.

And so, as Christians were to do the same thing.

It would be good for us if we could just set times for ourselves away from others.