Pt. 4 - Walking With God (Teach Us To Pray)

0:00 we began a series uh I guess what three lessons back three Sundays back and the title of the series is teach us to pray go to Luke 11 if you would Luke 11 and then also we're going to Matthew chapter 6 Luke 11 Matthew chapter 6 Luke 11 and um one says it came to pass that as he as Jesus was praying in a certain place when he ceased one of his disciples said to him Lord teach us to pray as John also taught his

0:48 disciples and uh among other things he gave them what we call the Lord's Prayer the very next verse he said uh when you pray say our father who who are in in the heavens I'm reading the Young's literal Hallowed be your name your Reign come or your kingdom your will come to pass as in heaven also on Earth our appointed bread be giving us daily forgive us our sins for we also uh for also we ourselves forgive everyone indebted to us a and and mayest thou not bring us into temptation but Deliver Us from Evil this is what we call the The Lord's Prayer but actually it's him teaching us to

1:34 pray and U it's not that you repeat these phrases over and over robotically but these are the main emphasis areas to pray and um we talked some about that and if you weren't with us uh go online and and watch or listen to the previous messages no no charge no cost now with me to Matthew 6 please this is the same uh uh happening but one is Luke's account of it the other is Matthew's account of the same thing and in Matthew 6 we have more detail that when they asked the Lord to

2:19 teach them to pray he actually began by teaching them what not to do telling them don't pray like this don't do this so in Matthew 6 and five he said when you pray not if you pray When you pray you shall not be as the Hypocrites are for they love to pray standing in the synagogues or in the corners of the streets that they may be seen of men verily I say to you they have their reward there's a lot of

3:04 praying that is useless and and there's prayers that's even abhorent to the Lord there's even prayers that are sin so sometimes people use the word prayer and they say oh yeah I believe in prayer well what are you talking about though prayer to who prayer about what no prayer is not prayer there are millions of people on the planet praying to false gods that don't even exist their prayers are sin their prayers are disrespectful of the one true Living God their prayers are

3:50 rebellion and sin and the scripture says in Proverbs that if you turn away your ear from hearing the law the word even your prayer is an Abomination I know uh brother Hagen my father in the faith years ago said when he was pastor and a man came to him and asked him to agree with him that he was praying and believing that God would give him another man's wife that was in the church well it's prayer huh no see that's the the word's real plain I mean there's a specific verse about

4:36 that one Thou shalt not covet is that right your neighbor's wife and so he's acting like that that word is not even in the scripture and praying something completely contrary and opposite to it that prayer is um an abhorent prayer that prayer is sin right can you see that and that's why you know a couple of sessions back we talked about uh John 15 uh7 that Jesus said if you abide in me and my words abide in you you will ask whatever you will and it shall be done for you that's right now that's not just

5:21 asking anything off the top of your head right that's you communing daily and regularly with the Lord and you're being full of his word and knowing his will and his ways well then you're going to ask in line right in line with his word and his ways and you're going to pray a prayer that he can hear and that he can receive and that he can answer these things are of the utmost importance he went on to say um in in verse six When you pray enter into your closet and when when you've shut the door pray to your father which is in secret and your father which Sees In Secret shall reward you openly so you

6:07 don't pray for other people's benefit you know like uh one Minister was talking about he was walking by the altar one time and and there were people down there praying and and you know uh um uh one guy was praying close to somebody that in the church that had a lot of money and he's praying oh God you know I need this money you know by the end of the week and move on somebody move on move that's not you're not praying to God no you're trying to con somebody that's right that's right right right

6:54 that's that's that's not okay at all it's hypocritical acting like you're praying and you're not even trying to talk to God that's right you're talking to somebody else proverbial proverbially over God's shoulder talking to them and that's what he was saying he said those people they they only pray where they can be seen and heard they're praying for other people's benefit and that means the god they can't see is not real enough to them but if you really have faith in God you'll pray where nobody sees it and nobody hears it that's right except him that's right hallelujah hallelujah if

7:42 you don't really believe in God you're not going to pray by yourself alone that's right so uh he went on to say uh verse 7 When you pray don't use use not vain repetitions now boy this is ignored in whole denominations in groups because people pray the same phrases over and over and over and over again and the Lord said it is vain vain means useless useless there's a lot of praying it does absolutely no

8:27 good in fact people would be better off not doing it but there is a prayer that God can hear Hallelujah and receive and answer and miracles result that's the only kind of praying I'm interested in how about you I don't care about this religious ritual stuff I want to be delivered from all that I only want to pray a prayer that the Lord pleased with and will hear and can answer when you pray don't use vain repetitions as the Heathen do for they think they shall be heard for their much

9:12 speaking be not ye therefore like to them for your father knows what things you have need of before you ask him when you come and talk to the father about something whatever you're telling him is not news to him that's right that's right right right you didn't inform him of anything he didn't already know and so there's no reason to tell him another 400 times that's right not only did he hear you the first time he knew it before you said it the first time that's right true that's right we need to uh keep ourselves aware of who we're talking to amen amen amen the Creator

10:01 glory to God of the universe right Hallelujah the all powerful all knowing Hallelujah everywhere present almighty God is my father Hallelujah and I can come boldly to the throne of grace and he'll hear Meo can we really talk to the creator of the universe yes will he really give us an audience yes will he really hear us this is no small thing this is big big big big but we need to have proper

10:47 respect and and conduct ourselves with at least a little bit of dignity right I mean what if you went into in any top office in the World president's office prime minister's office King's uh receiving room and you came in there screaming and yelling oh King oh King oh King oh King oh King oh king and you did this for an hour well that Dr that drag you out of there long before that but what would the king or the Prime Minister be saying what what do you want right uh stand up and and and talk like

11:34 an intelligent person what are you wanting to say to me what are you asking of me now I say this because people have gotten religious right and just do a bunch of junk and go through a bunch of gations and motions and yelling and all kind of stuff and just because they have gotten into a an emotional religious rut that's right and it you'll see that it's a repetitious thing repetitious repeti same stuff over and over and over the Lord said don't do it that's don't do it if the Lord said don't do it don't do it if he said don't do it you do it

12:22 anyway should you expect that prayer to get answered no no you're ignoring what he said that's what this that's what the proverb says if you turn away your ear from hearing what he said even your prayer is an Abomination the Lord don't want to hear it he wants you to pray in line with what he said and he wants you to be in agreement with him now we we said what is prayer and we gave a definition we said prayer is communion with the Creator prayer is f fellowship with the father now you already know and I already know what communion

13:07 is we already know what Fellowship is what is it it's spending time with somebody talking and listening right sharing time sharing space sharing ideas maybe having a meal together sharing food the the idea of Fellowship is a share sharing in common not one-sided well we're talking about communing with God fellowshipping with him that's what prayer is now men have turned it into this religious ritual but it was never that

13:53 not not with God uh look with me if if you would in Luke the 18th chapter you believe the Lord is is hearing our prayer at the front of the service and helping us with these things and we're growing and we're going to get rid of all the junk prayer yes huh and we're going to pray effectively we're not going to be religious foolish about it we're going to commune with God and we're going to pray prayers he can hear and we're going to hear from him H sir this is real prayer in uh Luke the 18th chapter and

14:40 verse one Luke 18:1 Jesus spoke a parable to them to this end to what end that men ought always to pray and not to faint not to give up give up praying we spent some time two or three sessions ago talking about the Bible said pray without ceasing and I will that men pray everywhere lifting up holy hands without wrath and doubting he's not talking not that you pray every breath this you know part of the time you're asleep right part of the time you're doing other things but you you never go a day and don't

15:27 pray amen this is how you live this is not a Sunday thing and that's what the Master's saying he spoke that men ought always to pray I want you to just go ahead and say it say I pray I pray every day every day every day every day I pray I pray now it's not like it's this terribly difficult thing to do you you talk to other people every day that's right right right you spend time with other people we're just talking about spending time with him talking to him listening to him and it being real not some

16:13 religious ritual thing now keep reading he said there was a in a city a judge which feared not God neither regarded man and he uh uh he he said avenge me of mine adversary AR she said and he would not after a while he said within himself though I fear not God nor regard man yet because this Widow troubles me I'll I will avenge her lest by her continual coming she weary me and the Lord said here what the unjust judge says and shall not God avenge his own elect which cried day and night to him though he bear along with them now this is a contrast he's saying even in un Godly

17:00 ruler would give in to somebody who wouldn't quit amen he's not saying he's like the ungodly leader he's saying persistence will pay off even in the world even with ungodly folks and he's saying how much uh you know more will God avenge his own elect and and you see why some of this it couldn't happen the same day that you prayed it the these things have to do with judgment avenge me uh this these things had to do with judgment and you don't know and I don't know when people have gotten to the point where they will never repent and we want to be merciful with

17:48 them like the Lord's been merciful with us but if things are not right and people are being hurt and Wrongs are being done and you cry out to God he hears you and even though you might not see it all change my next week he won't forget that's right I said he won't forget right and sometimes people think well yeah well they died and and they got away with it it ain't over I said it ain't it ain't over nobody ever gets away with anything amen the good news is if you'll repent the blood of the Lamb can wash you and cleanse you so that you will not be judged for it because Jesus was judged

18:34 but if you won't do that you will have to answer for it that's right if not in this life pass this life but the next verse let's go into verse eight I tell you that he will avenge them speedily nevertheless when the son of man com shall he find faith on the earth keep going and he spoke this Parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were right I and despised others and you'll see he's still talking about prayer keep going two men went up to the temple to do what pray to pray the one a Pharisee now Pharisees were the most religious sect they uh spent a lot of time studying the scriptures technical

19:24 study of the scriptures and they had a lot of rules dos and don'ts the other was a Publican now publicans were tax collectors and some of the most hated people in the whole area they were you know you they use the word Publican like a cuss word Publican that means you are pun scone you are low low so one of them's the most religious person you could find the other one was considered the lowest sorry as person that's one of the reasons why is because some of these Tax Collectors abused

20:10 their positions on they would pad the tax bill and pocket the difference [Laughter] yeah crooked's been around a long time ver verse 12 this this Pharisee is praying now he's praying in front of people all right and he's praying where other people can hear him he and he starts off with I now you're going to see that word again several times but the prayer the lord gave us to pray how does it start

20:56 out with my father father who is in heaven Hallowed Be Your Name it don't start off with me starts off with him but this Pharisee he said uh uh back up to verse uh 10 was it was it 10 yeah the Pharisees and the Publican verse 11 notice this now this language is so telling the Pharisees stood up and prayed how with his so who's in this prayer him and who else just

21:46 him is this a communion with God uh-uh no this is just something he's doing with himself you reckon anybody else has done that since then oh yes I'm well what good is that though what good is that he said uh oh God I thank Thee I I am not like other men extortioners unjust adulterers I'm not like this Publican over here this guys over here trying to pray

22:31 too and the Pharisee goes thank God I'm not like him loow life Publican and verse 12 I I I I'm so thankful I'm not like this sorry human being here I fast twice a week I give tithes of all I possess I mean I get out the calculator and I tithe salt and

23:19 pepper now now let let's remind our what's he doing praying he's praying [Laughter] no the scripture said he's praying but who's he praying to who's he praying with God is not a part of this prayer that's right he's acting like he's praying to God he used the word God but God's not in it re reckon how many other prayers God is not even in it he's not even in the conversation and see that's why the Lord started out in Matthew 6 when they asked him to pray

24:04 teach him to pray he started out by telling them don't do this and don't do this and don't do this why elsewise your prayers are meaningless they they they're absolutely useless and accomplish nothing now people other people can do what they want to but we don't come just to play church that's right that's right to us God is real yes right huh and and we know that he's smarter than us that's right and we know that Jesus is Lord not me that's right not you that's right and so he says do it this way we want to do it the way he said right and we want to pray prayers he can answer yes we do and so we got to get rid of this other

24:52 stuff keep reading he said back back up to verse 12 again I see the emphasis I fast twice in a week I give tithes of all that I possess yeah but who's he doing it for for whose benefit he's not even talking to God about it he's certainly not hearing from God about it keep going the Publican standing a far off he wouldn't even get close he wouldn't lift up so much as his eyes to Heaven well he's probably knows he's made a lot of mistakes messed up maybe he was doing

25:38 what we talking about padding the tax bill pocketing the money taking advantage of people lying and stealing but God's merciful that's right I said he's merciful he'll forgive people you wouldn't forgive that's right he will he will and uh he wouldn't even lift up his eyes to heaven but he smoted his breast and he said God be merciful to me a sinner is he really talking to God yes yeah he is is he putting on the show for somebody else to see and hear no no he's not for one thing he got far off he

26:23 didn't get up there in the front did you notice some people the only they'll dance is in front how' we get to [Laughter] there why can't you dance in the [Laughter] back just a thought he said God be merciful to me a sinner do you remember the scripture said God resists the proud do you want to be resisted of God oh no you're not g to make it in that

27:10 kind of way but he gives grace to the humble Hallelujah and with enough Grace you can come out of anything come on I said with another one one definition of Grace is is God's help right that's part of his grace with enough God's help you can get free of anything with enough of God's help you can overcome anything with enough of God's help you can come from the absolute bottom of the ditch to the top to the top to the top the Bible said he takes people from the dungill and sets them with princes come on oh glory to God GL to God

27:57 hallelujah Hallelujah glory to God but it won't happen you playing games that's right huh and fronting and and acting you know trying to act religious and doing things for other people's benefit and and God the Bible said all things are open and naked before the eyes of him with whom we have to do you cannot hide anything from God you you can't shade anything you can't you got to get real and be real and genuine and honest and humble with him if you want to

28:42 connect if you want to connect with him there's no other way because he he won't listen to a bunch of phony stuff he just won't listen to it he knows you're not even trying you're not even serious other people might not know it but he knows it he knows it so the man smoted his his breast and he said oh God be merciful to me is he humbling himself with the Lord is he aware of who he's talking to yes he's not doing it for somebody else's benefit and verse 14 Jesus is using this as an example he says I'm telling you this man which man the Publican the hated man he went down

29:28 his her his house Justified rather than the religious man the Pharisee why he's saying God heard his prayer if he went down to his house Justified then God heard his prayer and forgave him and was merciful to him this is real prayer this is prayer with results Hallelujah hallu this is a man that no matter what he had done and how ugly and and dishonest he had been he's got Mercy I said he's got mercy and Grace to help and Jesus Is Lifting this up as an example can you see this is prayer and he's saying do not pray like this don't stand up and tell me how great you are that's

30:16 right [Laughter] huh cuz he knows he knows the stuff other folks don't know he knows it all right so do not stand up there and act like something that's not true and right and he said uh for everyone that exalts himself will be a based and he that humbles himself shall be exalted and again who gets the grace those that humble themselves under the mighty hand of God Scripture said he'll lift you up Hallelujah you lift up yourself you're own your own amen you don't get

31:01 help uh look with me if you would go over to the book of uh Genesis Genesis uh 3 part of this is is one of these saddest things in the Bible because it is the fall of Man and uh we cannot throw stones at Adam and Eve because all of us have done the same thing you might say I have not you most certainly have you have sinned and come short of the glory of God yes and that's what they did so you and I have already proven what we would

31:47 have done if we' have been in their place the only way you could say no no if I had been in the garden I would not have eaten that forbidden fruit is if you could stand up and say I have never sinned I have never violated light and don't you dare stand up and say that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God that's what they did and so that's why all of us just as much as Adam and Eve we need needed a savior and thank God we have one yes hallelujah thank God we have one to save us from our own sin and failures and faults and

32:34 rebellion and Disobedience but notice what things were like before this happened in Genesis 3 uh skipping down to to verse six the woman uh ate of the fruit and gave to her husband and and he did eat and uh their eyes were open verse 7 the eyes of them both were opened and they knew that they were naked prior to this they didn't know really what naked

33:20 was and there was no reason to be embarrassed or ashamed or afraid of anything about anything what a wonderful place we're going to experience a place like that again the Lord has prepared for us new heavens and a new Earth wherein dwells righteousness but they had uh they had sinned they had disobeyed and fallen and now had knowledge not only of good but of evil some things you're better off not knowing yes H listen to me especially young people uh don't experiment with

34:11 drugs huh don't don't sleep around and experiment with sex don't do it if if you will heed this you will spare yourself Untold problems y'all with me because for one thing how can the Devil tempt you to be a heroin addict and you've never tried it right you don't know what it is huh he can't tempt you with something you have no experience he can he can talk about it he can try but the problem is there's some things if you try it your flesh May really like it right hm

34:58 now you got a problem cuz the enemy's got a hook I said he's got a hook cuz he can come and say man that high was something you know you want to do it again what if you had never experienced it the enemy can't can't mess with you about it that's right now if you if you already have like many uh starve yourself in that area of anything to do with that and the desire will grow weaker and weaker and weaker over time until you'll go months and not even think about it but if you if you mess around with it if you look at it listen to it you know the desire will stay strong and it'll

35:44 get stronger until it can torment you doin dominate you but young people are you listening spare yourself all all this spare yourself so the scripture says uh that they they sewed fig leaves Together made themselves aprons that's pitiful it's pitiful and it's a perfect picture of man's attempt to cover up his mistakes how long as fig leaves going to last right

36:29 what if a big Breeze comes blowing [Laughter] through or a rainstorm right I mean this has no future but notice verse eight notice verse eight and they heard the voice of the Lord God Walking In The Garden in the cool of the day and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the Trees of the garden like they could hide themselves from him and uh the Lord God Called to Adam and said uh where are

37:16 you and he said I heard your voice now that word can also be translated sound I heard your voice I heard your sound in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked and I hid myself and he said who told you you were naked did you eat of the tree I commanded you that you should not eat and I don't want to get into this side of it but can you see that this was something that apparently happened maybe every day God personally visits can you see this yeah and they

38:05 knew it was him because they would hear a sound and he would come uh that where it says in the cool of the day that could be translated breezes Breeze well Breeze makes you cooler and God is spirit and you know the Holy Spirit came on the day of Pentecost with a sound like a rushing Mighty Wind right right so they would hear this very unique right sound and Breeze coming through and they knew that was Jehovah come on hallelujah

38:50 hallelujah that was the almighty their creator and their father the father of spirits and there's something unusual about this in that they didn't meet him this time they went and hid which is why he calls for them he knows what's happened but this is what it was like from the beginning and notice the term walked walking look at it again verse 8 they heard the voice or the sound of the Lord God Walking In The

39:38 Garden in the cool of the day and they didn't it didn't say they ran away from him because they' never heard a sound like that and they were scared of him no the reason they ran away is because they said they were naked now that's the change and so God made the Earth and made human beings and the next thing he did is visits with them is that right visits with them and I think you could you know this could infer from this that this was a regular thing

40:27 perhaps a daily thing cool of the day well that happened every day and here he comes and he and they commune that's why he made them us H that's why he made them that's why he made us we talked about this before but it'll bear repetition to look that we are called the scriptures said to communion oh somebody say communion Fellowship Fellowship put up first John 1:9 again please 1 John

41:13 1:9 are we still talking about prayer yes prayer is not this dead religious ritual thing that so many people have fallen into prayer is communion with the Creator That's goes all the way back to Adam and Eve prayer isow fellowship with your father Hallelujah I have a relationship with the almighty I'm related to him he is my father I am his child his son well relationships don't mean much

41:58 if there's no Fellowship not enough to just say somebody's legally related to somebody that's not what we'd call a real relationship there's got to be the fellowship aspect of it you spend some time with somebody yes you know them they know you you talk they hear you they talk you listen and he said uh what this first John excuse me first Corinthians 1 Corinthians 1:9 1 Corinthians 1:9 said God is faithful but notice what this is said in connection with by whom you were called to

42:43 whatow every believer is called to Fellowship yes that's your first call and your most important call every preacher every apostle Prophet evangelist Pastor teacher the first and most important call is not preaching to people it's this Fellowship because if you don't have the fellowship with him your preaching won't be what he supposed to be your ministry won't be what it's supposed to be whatever it is let's say you feel like my Ministry is more of giving and and helping people in need yeah but you can't meet everybody's needs so what should you do with with whom where how

43:29 when where you going to get all that Fellowship fellowshipping with him you find out what's my part what I can and should do when where how and with whom say out loud I am called I am called to Fellowship to Fellowship hallelujah hallelujah fellowship with him fellowship with him 2 Corinthians 13:14 2 Corinthians 13:14 says the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the what communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all amen communion can you see that when

44:17 it's this phrase walked with they walked with him he walked with them and that word walk it has the meaning of a keeping step with well that makes sense if I'm if you're walking at this pace and I'm walking at another pace you're walking that direction and I'm walking that direction we're I'm not walking with you we're doing our own thing that's right but if I'm walking with you I'm in sync with you is that right the the definition is to keep step

45:06 with in agreement with in accord with in line with we're not just to work for God we are to work with God h you can work for God and never pray true and never hear from God and you might do a few good things here and there but you'll make more mistakes than anything else amen and you'll waste all kind of time and you'll do all kind of things you shouldn't be involved in and you'll be frustrated and this goes on and on a lot of people do a lot of things for God

45:53 that the Lord never told them to do but to work with God you got to pray right you got to spend time with him talking to him about it and listening to him about it everybody say walk walk with with God God work work with with God not not just for with with you'll find this keeps coming up they heard the sound and they knew it was the

46:41 almighty why is he here he he's come to visit he's come to talk to you we're made in his likeness and image with the capacity to understand him with the you're you're your mind is not your brain I've heard people you know maybe in University or something people are studying for finals and somebody says man I think I've got something crammed in every cell in my brain your brain is not your mind your mind is part of your being that you can't see and it is unlimited

47:28 there is no limit to what you can learn that's right there's no limit to what you can understand even when your brain is decomposing in the grave you'll still be you you'll still have your mind and you'll be expanding in knowledge and understanding in a different place and one of these days the trumpet's going to sound and God's going to restore your brain come on and your whole body and it's going to be become Incorruptible and Immortal and give it back to you and now you'll have a body that can keep up with your spirit and never rage Hallelujah never

48:14 deteriorate has God done it all for us or has he done it all for us hallelujah go to Genesis 5 please to walk with means to keep step with it actually was used also as a military term like soldiers Marching In step with each other so that the row stays straight so if you're walking with God you're not here and he's not over there if you're walking with God y'all are walking together and you're in agreement with where you know he's not just going with

49:01 you you're going with him amen amen sir huh yes sir he's not just supporting you you're doing his will and his plan that's right in agreement with him in accord with him in line with him these are definitions of walking with we know Adam and Eve did that with God before the fall and that's prayer that's prayer in Genesis 5 verse 21 it said Enoch lived 6 and5 years and begat

49:46 Methuselah and verse 22 Enoch did what walk with God huh walk with God now you'll find different terms in the script scripture one of them is about walking before God that's a different term that's a different meaning this one is the communion one walk you could walk before God in uprightness and trying to do the right thing and this and that but the walking with is talking about fellowship and Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah 300 years and beget sons and daughters so for three centuries he's honing his prayer life

50:36 am can you see this and what's what's he doing well the Bible calls it Walking with God what is that it's Fellowship it's communion how do you do it well the B it goes on to say verse 23 all the days of Enoch were 365 years all of these ages in this chapter are symbolic of um Pro and and Incorporated in Prophecy as well there is so much in this chapter with these numbers now don't get into just a numerology thing I'm not talking about that but it portrays uh well enough see uh verse 24

51:23 and Enoch did what to make sure you understand this now Enoch I mean what else do we know about Enoch H not much except this but this is a biggie Enoch did what walked with in step in lock step in agreement with in accord with he walked with God and then he was not for God took him not what not around anymore you couldn't find him couldn't find his grave couldn't find his body where'd he go uh God took him where we don't know

52:12 where is he we don't know where's Uncle enck uh God took him well uh Hebrews 11 is verse five and six talks about this how he did it Hebrews 115 and 6 because you got to remember this is many many years past Adam and Eve's fall yes yes so sin and and the curse and death is in the earth now uh God made men's and women's bodies so perfect that it took almost a

53:01 millennia for the devil to teach people how to die back then because their body wasn't made to die e even now uh those that study these things your body replaces every cell ever so many years so theoretically you should never die that's right but because of the curse at a certain point once you reach your Peak uh physically the cycle doesn't quite make it huh but that God designed it to be endless that's right but thank God he's going to glorify the body we talked about

53:47 that by faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death why how by faith because God had translated him now that means taking you out of one thing and putting you in something else and uh before his translation he had this testimony that what God he was praying prayers contrary to what God said nuh no no he was walking with him he was in line with him he was agreeing with him he was fellowshipping with him he had this testimony that pleased God verse six without faith it's impossible to please him so we know how

54:35 Enoch walked with God exactly the same way we do today not that he saw him not that he could hear him with his ear or touch him with his hand he walked with him by Faith by faith so how'd that start well apparently when he was about 65 huh so 65 is not too old to start some great big new things huh huh uh he uh he got to thinking you thought now we all know about Adam and Eve those stories would

55:20 have been passed down from generation to generation we all know about Grandpa and Grand Grandma how they used to hang out with God talk with God walk with God in the cool of the perfect Garden of Eden and he got to thinking why can't I do that why can't we do that I want to do that I want to do that but they can't get back in the garden and you know there's all this death and curse down here now and a lot of people just had given up and thought well that's it we're out it's over but not anoch he said no I want to walk with God like Adam did

56:07 yes like Eve did I I want to I want to why can't I why can't I and then God helped him out you know because if you hunger and desire for some things you'll be filled the Lord will show you he'll get you there so a thought came to him well uh am I not everywhere yeah do does do the Lord know and and everything yeah well he'd know it if you said something yeah well talk to me so ain't it goes outside say God I don't see you I don't feel you but I believe I believe you're here come on

56:57 and I I I've heard the stories that Adam and Eve told about you and and I believe you're a a a good God I I believe you're somebody I can talk to so I'm just going to talk to you I'm just going to talk to you and believe that you hear me could you call that prayer of course it is you know what happened you know what happened the moment he did that in genuine heart and faith and love and respect you know what happened he sensed the presence of God Amen praise God he didn't see but he sensed the Pres of he thought okay all right I'm doing this Hallelujah

57:46 and so day by day he would spend more time and the more time he spent and the more time he focused on on God and kept his mind on him and talking to him the more God's presence manifested with him and around him and the next thing you know God's talking to him he's not necessarily hearing a voice but the thoughts are coming so Crystal Clear to his mind and he knows I didn't think that up where that that came from God that came from God and so he got excited and he spent more time and he spent more time and he spent more time and he'd get caught up you know half a day and somebody say where's Enoch at he didn't come in for lunch well you know what

58:32 he's doing out there talking to God you know people can Mock and make fun if they want to but you experience the real presence of God nothing else will ever satisfy you again hallelujah hallelujah and is that not prayer yes talking to God hearing from God yes also called communion also called Fellowship also called Walking with with with God how about you huh how about you the Bible said he that walks with wise men shall be wise why well walking with people and hanging

59:20 out and uh if they're full of wisdom and full of knowledge and understanding if you'll be once in a while they'll say something and you'll go oh wow now that's good can that happen with God it's supposed to happen and it is happening it has happened with us to a degree let's take it another notch Hallelujah let's take it another step and spend spend some more time talking with God and focusing and we live in a a loud distracting World especially with all our technology there needs to be some times dear heart that you turn everything off

1:00:08 yes that didn't go over too good I said dear one there needs to be some times that you turn stuff off and you're not perpetually continually interrupted mid thought mids sentence midw that's not good that's not okay you wind up fatigued because of all this barrage of stuff all the time there needs to be a time where it's just you and him just you and him amen just you and him for more than two and a half minutes yes sir and you'll find if you just just

1:00:54 like Enoch by faith say Lord I know you're here your presence is everywhere I know you hear me when I I speak from my heart and I'm not playing games and so I'm going to talk to you and when you in genuine faith and love and respect reach out to him what the Bible say if you draw near huh if you draw near to him tell me what the rest of the verse you draw near to he will respond he will he will respond and draw closer to you and you'll sense it you'll I'm not trying to talk about trying to feel things physically but you'll sense his presence and the more you do it the stronger it will be until

1:01:40 it's undeniable hallelujah hallelujah and you'll know that you're doing better when you look down at your watch and time has passed more than you realized that's when you know you're you're doing it right you you you were going to just do this for a few minutes and you look down and it's been an hour and a half you think okay all right all right Hallelujah and you will have received some things some things will have gotten in you you will get direction know what to do where when how whom save yourself all kind of problems stand on your feet everybody

1:02:30 everybody said out loud I walk with God I walk with God and he walks with me and he walks with me I pray I pray and commune with God and commune with God every day every day every day every day I pray I pray Hallelujah lift up your hands lift up your voices somebody say thank you Lord thank you Lord hallelujah hallelujah that this is prayer right here lift up your hands lift up your voices say thank you Father oh just do it in your own way thank you Lord thank you Lord thank you Father thank you Father thank you for being so good being

1:03:15 so gracious being so kind being so merciful what a good God you are what a great God what a great father you are my father hallelujah hallelujah