He gives them an order of prayer. He said, when you pray, this
is a model prayer, you say, Our Father, you address the Father.
Our Father which art in heaven, you address the Father in the
name of the Son. He said to them later, whatsoever
you ask the Father in my name, he'll give it to you. You address
the Father in the name of of the Lord Jesus Christ and by
the power of the Holy Spirit. And then you celebrate his attributes,
the one to whom you're speaking. Hallowed be thy name. Glorifying
God's name and his attributes and his perfections. Hallowed
be thy name. And then thy kingdom come. The old Jews used to talk about
the kingdom of the Messiah, but the Lord Jesus didn't had the
kingdom of the Messiah come, he was standing there. But he
said, you continue to pray for the success of the gospel, for
the success of the kingdom of God. He delivered us from the
kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of his son. So you pray,
thy kingdom come, the gospel run well, that's what Paul said,
the gospel may be effectual. And thy will be done. Thy will
be done. This is not the Lord's prayer,
this is the disciple's prayer. The Lord, when the Lord prayed,
when the Lord Jesus prayed, he said, I will. He's the only one
who could pray that way. He said, Father, I will that
those whom thou givest me be with me where I am. On another
occasion, he said, not my will, but thy will be done. But he
prayed, he said, I know you always hear me, and I will that They'd
be with me, but you always pray, and I always pray, thy will be
done on earth as it is in heaven. His will is done among the armies
of heaven, and thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
And then he says, now petition, and it's very brief, but it covers
a vast area. Give us day by day, day by day,
our daily bread. And by bread is meant here all
the necessities of life, for the support of life, for the
comfort of life, for the sustaining of life. Give us all our necessities,
day by day, our daily bread. And then he told them to ask
for forgiveness of sins. You know, when people say that
believers should live above sin, and they, believers can reach
a point of perfection where they do not sin anymore. Well, you
couldn't pray this prayer then, could you? Because this prayer
is the model prayer the Lord gave the disciples, and he told
them to ask God to forgive their sins, day by day. And the Jewish writers called
that They call sins debts. I believe in Matthew's account
of this, he said, forgive us our debts as we forgive those
who are indebted to us. And here he says, forgive our
sins as we also forgive everyone that is indebted to us. And the
Jewish writers call sins debts. And what is the point he's making
is God doesn't forgive our sins because we forgive others. But what he's saying here is
this, it's useless for a person to ask God to forgive him if
he doesn't forgive others. That's just useless to pray that
way. For us to ask God to forgive
us and we're not willing to forgive others? Actually, Paul taught us to be
kind and forgive one another as God, for Christ's sake, has
forgiven us. The attitude in which we ask
God to forgive us, because we also have a spirit of forgiveness. And lead us not into temptation.
God doesn't lead man to sin. No man says when he's tempted
to sin, I'm tempted of God. But what he's saying here is
let us not be led into temptation. Let us not be led into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one. That's what he said to Peter,
he said, Satan had desired thee that he may lead you into this
denial. But I prayed for you. So this
prayer, our Lord is saying, let us not be led into temptation,
but deliver us from the snare of the evil one. For thine is
the kingdom, in Matthew's prayer, thine is the kingdom, the power,
and the glory forever. All right, the disciples were
asking, Lord, teach us how to pray. But my message tonight
is the same question, Lord, teach us to pray. But I'm not asking
the Lord to teach me how to pray or the method of prayer. And
really, I believe their question later on would be different.
Remember, though we esteem, highly esteem, and highly regard these
disciples, at the time they asked this question, Lord, teach us
to pray as John taught his disciples to pray, and then the Lord gave
them this model prayer. At this time, these men were
immature in faith, they were immature in understanding, they
even were asking the Lord not to go to Jerusalem and die. They just didn't have the understanding
and the faith that they later received. I believe much later,
if they had entertained this same question, here is the way
it would have been asked. Not teach us how to pray, as
John taught his disciples, but, Lord, teach us to pray always,
all the time. Teach us to have an attitude
and a spirit. That's what Paul said, men are
always to pray, always to pray, not to faint. He said again,
pray without ceasing. And I want you to turn to Philippians
4 and listen to this scripture here. Lord, teach me to pray. Teach me to be one who prays. Instruct me in that regard, that
I might be one who always prays. Look at Philippians 4 and 6.
Be anxious for nothing. That's the word there, be careful,
be anxious for nothing. But in everything by prayer and
supplication with thanksgiving, let your request be made known
unto God. Teach me to pray. Always to pray,
not to faint. Pray without ceasing. Let me,
like Enoch, walk with God in a constant communion with God. Not just how to pray, but to
pray. And then the second part of this
would be teach me the things for which to pray. Now turn to
Matthew 20, and I'll show you an example of someone who asked
the Lord for something, and he said that that's not right. That's
not right. You don't know what you're asking.
This is Matthew 20, verse 20. Matthew 20, verse 20. The mother
of James and John asked the Lord for a favor. She asked him to
fulfill a request. Matthew 20, verse 20. Then came
to him the mother of Zebedee's children with her sons. John
and James brought her sons with her, worshiping him. She was
sincere. She worshiped the Lord and desiring
a certain thing of him. And he said to her, What wilt
thou? She said to him, Grant that these my two sons may sit,
one on your right hand, the other on your left hand, in your kingdom.
And Jesus answered and said, You know not what you ask. You know not what you ask. Are
you able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, to be
baptized with the baptism I'm baptized with? They said, We're
able. Well, you don't know what you're asking. And I want to
know the things about which to pray, the things for which to
ask, the things that are of the Spirit of God. In Romans 8, let's
look at this scripture here. It talks about our weaknesses
and infirmities, and it says here, in verse 26 of Romans 8,
Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities, for we know
not what we should pray for, as we ought. We know not what
we should pray for. That's what he said to the mother
of Zebedee. He said, You don't know what
you're asking. Then James warned us not to pray
amiss, that we may consume it on our list. That's bad praying. But the Spirit himself maketh
intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. He searches
the heart. He who searches the heart, he
knows what's the mind of the Spirit. because he makes intercession
for the saints according to the will of God. All right, in preparing
this message on Lord teach me to pray, to be a person continual
in prayer. Teach me to pray and teach me
what to pray about. I went through the book of Luke
and I found the prayers of Christ himself. I looked at 11 prayers
of our Lord in the book of Luke. prayers which I love Jesus himself
prayed while he walked this earth as a man in the flesh and the
things he of which he asked and the things which he sought in
prayer to his father and I thought that's a pretty good way to learn
to pray and what pray for pray for what he prayed for and if we'll watch if you'll
do this now while I go through these prayers of Christ this
is the Lord Jesus himself You watch and you listen to him,
and we'll learn the importance of prayer, why we ought to pray
all the time, why we ought to be praying people, and the things
about which we should pray. All right, Luke 3, that's the
first one that I looked at, Luke 3. Luke 3, verse 21. Now, when all the people were
baptized, John the Baptist was baptizing down in the Jordan
River. He came to pass of Jesus also being baptized. He came
down to the water. You remember he told John, baptized
him. John said, I have need to be
baptized of you. He said, suffer it to be sold
full for all righteousness. It became him to administer baptism. That was the ministry God gave
him. It became Christ to be baptized to fulfill all righteousness.
So, being baptized and praying. Our Lord was baptized and then
he prayed. And the heaven was opened. And the Holy Ghost descended
in a bodily shape like a dove upon him. And a voice came from
heaven saying, this is my beloved son. In thee I am well pleased."
After he was baptized, he prayed. What did he pray about? Our Lord
was about to begin his ministry as the prophet of God. He prayed
for the Holy Spirit. He prayed for the Spirit of God.
He prayed as a man for the Spirit of God to anoint him and to qualify
him and to equip him for his public office, prophet of God. The Spirit of God, he said, is
upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel. So here
he stands in the Jordan after he is baptized, and he prays. Father, send thy Spirit. You see, all who do anything
in the name of God need his Spirit to do it, even the Son of God. He was given the Spirit without
measure. And all of us need his Spirit
to do what we do, to sing, Mike, to read, Frank, to preach, Pastor,
to teach your class about him. Before we stand in front of me,
we ought to stand in front of God and cry for help. That's
right. That we may do it for his glory,
that we may do it effectually, that others may understand that
it is of God, and that they might believe it. Pray for the Spirit
of God to anoint you. I don't care what you're going
to do. If you're just going to go next door and talk to a neighbor
about the gospel. If you go alone, you're in trouble.
But if he goes with you, you can't fail. That's an example,
isn't it? Don't leave me alone. Secondly, Luke 5, another prayer,
Luke 5, verse 12. It came to pass when he was in
a certain city, behold, a man full of leprosy. who seeing Jesus,
fell on his face, and besought him, saying, Lord, if you will,
if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. And the Lord Jesus
put forth his hand, touched him, saying, I will, be thou clean.
And immediately the leprosy departed from him. And he charged him
to tell no man, but go and show yourself to the priest, and offer
for thy cleansing according as Moses commanded, for testimony
to them. But so much the more, when out
of fame abroad of him, everybody heard about this, the word spread. And his fame was known everywhere. It's so that great multitudes
came together to hear him, and to be healed by him, and to be
touched by him, and to see him. Crowds began to come. Well, what
did he do? He withdrew himself and went
into the wilderness and prayed. what he's saying here and showing
us that prosperity and blessings and success demand more prayer
time than failure. You know, most folks, if crowds
are beginning to come and people are beginning to listen and we're
getting a following, well, now is the time to capitalize on
the momentum and get busy. Like the preachers while down
in Florida told me one time, said, you've got to strike while
the iron's hot. Well, not the Lord Jesus, now's the time to
withdraw and pray. When God is moving and God is
blessing, and things are happening, and people are hearing, that's
not the time to get busier, that's the time to come apart and be
sure that we're in his will. Isn't that right? He set that
example. All this was going on, and the
Lord went into the wilderness and talked to the Father about
it. It's not by my age, it's not by power, it's by my spirit,
says God. We know those verses. Except
the Lord build a house, they labor in vain that build it.
And preachers go to a town and try to build a church, and the
first thing they do is hit the streets and start walking and
calling and talking and visiting and carrying on. If you want
to build anything, go to the wilderness and pray. And get
in the pulpit and preach. That's the formula. All right,
the third one, Luke 6. Verse 12, listen. He came to pass in those days
that the Lord Jesus Christ, now listen to this, went out into
a mountain to pray, and he prayed all night long to God. What in
the world, what in the world is ahead? It caused him to pray
all night long. The next verse is going to tell
us. And when it was day, he called
unto him his disciples, and of them his followers he chose twelve,
whom he also named apostles. He was about to choose his apostles,
the twelve. And he went to the Father. This
is Christ, our Lord. He went to the Father and spent
all night long praying about this. Lay hands suddenly on no man.
That's what scripture says. I've been reading today about
Mr. Spurgeon's ministry in London,
England. It began in 1855 and lasted 38
years until he was 52 years of age. He died in 1892. And the last time he left London
to go to Mentone, France in the fall of 1891, he died in 1892.
He stayed down there a while. time when he left London. And
he chose a man to fill the pulpit at Metropolitan Tabernacle Church. And he didn't use much wisdom,
didn't use any wisdom. Before he left London for the
last time, he arranged for a Presbyterian minister whom he met just three
years before. He met him just three years before.
But the man was described by many friends as a man with a
good mind, magnetic personality, and imposing stature. And that's the way he was described. He impressed Mr. Spurgeon. They
became friends. And when Spurgeon left his church
to go down to the place where he would die in a few months,
he put this man's book there. And the church started downhill
from that moment. I'll read you something here. In 1861, when Spurgeon opened
that tabernacle, they built that great tabernacle. His ministry
started in 1855, and six years later they had this huge tabernacle
constructed seating 5,000 people. It was always full every time
he preached for 38 years. But when they opened that tabernacle
in 1861, they opened it with a Bible conference on grace. five points of Calvinism. The
first speaker was preached on total depravity. The second speaker
preached on election. The third speaker was his brother,
James, who spoke on particular redemption. Remember now what
I said. His brother, who was his assistant
pastor for 30 years. His brother spoke on particular
redemption. The next speaker spoke on effectual call. The
next one spoke on perseverance of the He died in 1892, eight
years later. Eight years later. The old tabernacle
had burned, they built a new one, and they opened it with
a conference. Dwight L. Moody, song leader, led the singing.
By that time they were having altar calls, and people were
coming down to the front, raising their hand, going to the inquiry
room. They had 2,000 additions. I will thank who led the music,
F.B. who's not a Calvinist, J. H. Jowett, who's not a Calvinist,
Alexander McLaren preached the messages. None of them, not one
of them, of Spurgeon's persuasion. And his brother, church leader,
during all of this, after his brother died, finally decided
he didn't believe in particular Egyptian after all. What can happen If we don't pray,
and I hear people say, well, Brother May, for my children's
sake, I want this church to continue with a pulpit graced by men who
believe grace. Well, have you prayed all night
about it? A priest in Dayton, Ohio, had
a Sovereign Grace Church several years ago. The pastor was celebrating
his 25th anniversary. And just had a great time, became
good friends. And a few years later he felt
led to retire. And he handpicked a man to take
his place. And a man told me just recently
at a funeral, I was conducting a funeral, it was at Don McLean's grandmother's funeral. This man came to me and said,
Have you heard about the church in Dayton? I said, No. He said,
They don't preach grace there anymore. I said, This young man
did for a while, and then he decided he didn't believe it.
And when they get the pulpit and decide they don't believe
it, that's when the church decides they don't believe it. And this
point I'm making here is the Lord Jesus, our Master, Son of
Man, was going to next day choose his twelve disciples, and he
spent all night in prayer to God. I'll tell you Luke 9. Here's another time, another
prayer, Luke 9.18. And it came to pass as he was
alone praying. Our Lord was alone praying in
a solitary place. His disciples were with him.
How do I reconcile that? He was alone praying, but they
were in the vicinity. They were on the premises. Our
Lord, they stayed there and he went over here and prayed. You
need to go down to Gethsemane's garden. But they were there,
and he was praying. I'll tell you what he was praying
about. He was praying about them. He was praying about them. And
he says when he finished praying, His disciples were with him,
and he asked them, saying, Whom do people say that I am? Now,
I'll tell you what he's praying about here. Our Lord is praying
that these disciples might have a clear understanding and knowledge
of him and revelation of his person. You remember when he
asked Thomas, said, Have I been so long time with you, and you
don't know me? Philip was it, Philip. Have I been so long?
He wants them to know him. He's praying about this matter,
and that's when He stopped praying and he looked at them and said,
who do they say I am out there? And the disciples said, well,
some say you're a liar, some say you're one of the prophets
risen again. He said, but whom do you say that I am? Whom do you say that I am? Oh,
that's a matter for prior edges. I might know him. and the power
of his resurrection, I might win Christ and be found in him.
Thou may lay hold upon that for which God has laid hold of me."
That's a subject of prayer all the time. Oh, God, reveal thyself
to me. And Peter said, Thou art the
Christ, the Christ of God. The Christ of God. And he said,
Thou art the Christ of God. In verse 21, he straightly charged
them, commanded them to tell no man that thing. saying the
Son of Man must suffer many things, be rejected of the elders, chief
priests and scribes, and be slain and raised the third day." Why
would he tell them not to tell anybody? I'll tell you why. You
see, this is his reason. He wants them to know who he
is, his mission. He's sending them out to preach.
And he wants this all cleared up in their minds, who he is,
settled at once for all. But he said, tell no man his
reason is this, the scribes and Pharisees would be stirred up.
They would seek his death before the time. The jealousy of the
Roman government, the Roman Caesars and the Roman rulers would be
stirred up, and they would try to put him out of the way. He
chose for the revelation of his person and work to be from his
own mouth, his own ministry, his own message, as long as he
was on this earth. But when he went back to the
Father, he said to the disciples, now, you be my witness. You tarry
in Jerusalem, and the Holy Ghost will come upon you, and you shall
be witnesses of me in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and the other
most parts of the earth. But right now, you be still,
and I'll tell them who I am, in my own way, in my own time.
I'll tell them who I am. But our Lord's prayer was that
they might know him, that these children might know him, and
that's our prayer for one another. They might know him. What happens to a church like
Spurgeon's Tabernacle so long, and then such a short time devastated? But it's certainly not that they're
trying to make Christ known, they're trying to do something
besides that. They're operating under different marching orders,
operating led by some other spirit besides the Holy Spirit. Here's
the next prayer, Luke 9. I'll move a little more quickly. Luke 9, verse 28. came to Paris
about eight days after these sayings. He took Peter and John
and James and went up to a mountain to pray. And as he prayed, the
fashion of his countenance was altered, his raiment was white
and blistering. And behold, there talked with
him two men, which were Moses and Elias, who appeared in glory
and spake of his decease, which he should accomplish at Jerusalem.
But Peter and David were with him, were heavy with sleep, and
when they were they saw his glory, and the two men that stood with
him. He prayed, and after he prayed, look what they saw. They
saw his glory. I just know that the subject
of this prayer, communicating with the Father, was this happening. The subject of that prayer was
this particular happening. Moses and Elijah and his glory
manifested, and these disciples saw it. See, that's what Moses
prayed, Lord, show me your glory. Not just your power and your
creation, but show me your glory, your chief glory. And he said,
I'll be merciful. Paul's prayer was, God forbid,
that I should glory, save in the cross of Christ. This is
the first work in conversion, God who spake the light. Let me find this in
2 Corinthians and be careful about quoting this. who commanded
the light to shine out of darkness, had shined in our hearts to give
the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face
of Christ. That's what these disciples saw.
Our Lord prayed that they might know him, that they might see
his glory. You see, somebody said Satan
believes God, Satan believes there's a God, but he doesn't
see his glory, he doesn't love his glory. We can learn doctrine and still
not see his glory. I think that people preach in
doctrine. I think that people are preaching a form of doctrine
pretty accurately. But the glory of Christ, the
glory of Christ is missing. You see, that was Moses' prayer,
I want to see your glory. That's the first work in conversion,
that he might reveal the glory of God in the face of Christ,
and that's the crowning finish. Father, I will, that those whom
you've given me be with me where I am, that they might behold,
what? My glory. My glory. Now, you're not going
to stray. If you see his glory, you're
just not going to quit, you're not going to... After 49 years
now I've been preaching here, in October it'll be 49 years.
My message has not changed one iota. Not one iota. I think I've learned
more about it, I feel sure, and got a deeper... understanding. But I saw his
glory. I saw his redemptive glory. I
saw the glory of God in the face of Christ Jesus and came to know
who he is, who he is in this. When you see him in his glory,
there's nothing else that would take you away. There's not anything
that man can give you or man can add to you or anything in
this world You can go and see where you can live and the position
you occupy that even compares with his glory. That's what he's
praying about here. Let's look at Luke 10. This is important here. Listen
to this, Luke 10. You know, in Luke 10, verse 1,
after these things the Lord appointed another 70 also, and sent them
out two and two before his face to every city and place where
he himself would come. He sent them out to preach. Verse
9, and healed the sick, healed the sick that are therein, and
saying to them, The kingdom of God has come among you. Go out
and preach and heal the sick. So they came back in verse 17. And the 70 returned again with
joy, saying, Boy, they were excited. They were flushed with joy and
success. They said, Lord, even the devils are subject to us
in your name. They never experienced anything
quite like that. Even the devils are subject to us. And he said
to them, calm down. I saw Satan's lightning fall
from heaven. Behold, I give you power to tread
on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy.
and nothing shall by any means hurt you, notwithstanding, nevertheless,
don't you rejoice that the spirits are subject to you? Don't you
rejoice that the gifts have been used by you? Don't you rejoice
that the healings have come your way? Don't you rejoice that the
conquest of evil powers has been accomplished by your preaching
of your hands? You rejoice because your names
are written in heaven, written by God himself, redeemed
by the Son of God himself. Your names are written in heaven.
And in that hour, right then, he rejoiced in spirit and prayed. Father, I thank you, Lord of
heaven and earth, that you have heard these things from the wise
and prudent. What's these things, the important
things? Don't rejoice that you've got
the biggest building in town, and the greatest crowd, making
the most noise, got the demons subject to you, and got healings
going on, and all that kind of commotion and success. In this
rejoice that your name's written in the book of life, written
by God the Father in his elective grace, the book of eternal life,
the book of the Lamb, before the foundation of the world.
The book of eternal love and mercy, the book of the mercies
of a covenant God, who wrote the book, who sealed the book,
who gave the book to his son to accomplish the purpose of
the book. That's what you rejoice in. And he said, Father, I thank
you that you hear these things. Religious world can see the charisma
They can see the success. They can see the outward doings
and deeds and accomplishments, but the internal is eternal.
Where men can't see, what men can't see, that's the eternal. I thank you, Father, that they
see it. I thank you that you've built
these things from the wise and prudent revealed in the day.
You reckon you could pray that before you go to sleep tonight,
Father? I thank you. I'm one of those babes. And I
really see what's important. Who's important? The message
of the gospel. I'm not affected or influenced
by the commotion and charisma going on around me in the name
of God and religion. I'm impressed by you loved me
and gave yourself for me and wrote my name in the book of
life. of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
That's something to pray about. Our Lord prayed about it. All
right, move on. Number 7, look at Luke 22. They came together to eat the
Passover. They came together to eat the
Passover. The Lord Jesus in Luke 22, verse
14, When I was come, he sat down with the twelve apostles with
him, and he said unto them, With desire I desire to eat this Passover
with you, before I suffer. I say unto you, I'll not any
more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God.
And he took the cup, and what did he do? He gave thanks. He
prayed. Take this, and divide it among
yourselves. I say unto you, I'll not drink of the fruit of the
vines, until the kingdom of God come. He took the bread, and
gave thanks. That's the time to pray at the
table with your family. Time to give thanks. Offer unto
God a prayer of thanksgiving. Food and drink, clothing, comforts. I know a lot of people don't
pray when they sit down to a meal with the family, but that's time
to pray. Our Lord gave us an example here. He lifted his eyes to heaven,
thank God. Because everything we have is
by his grace. All right, here's the next time,
Luke 22, verse 31. And the Lord said, Simon, Satan
hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat. But
I pray for you. I pray for you that your faith
fail not. And when you're converted, strengthen
your brethren. Our Lord prayed that Peter's
faith would not collapse under the trials of Satan. We need
to pray for ourselves and for one another, because the trials
are upon us, and the trials are in front of us, and they're very
difficult, and that's the prayer we need to offer, that our faith
Our confidence in God and our Lord and in his will and his
purpose will not change. John 17, I'll just make a reference
to this one. In his high priesthood prayer
he prayed about this same thing, John 17. In these verses, look
at verse 9 first, I pray for them. I pray not for the world,
I pray for them which you have given me, they are thine. Verse 10, And all mine are thine,
and thine are mine, and I am glorified in them. And I am no
more in the world, but these are in the world. I come to you,
Father, keep them, keep them, through thine own name, those
whom thou hast given me, that they may be one. Verse 15, I
pray not that you should take them out of the world, but keep
them, keep them from the evil one. Our Lord prayed, Peter,
I prayed for you that your faith fail not. Let's pray for one
another. that you're in trials and troubles
and difficulties and tests of our faith, you'll keep us on
the rock, Christ Jesus. Then Luke 23. Our Lord was in
the garden of Gethsemane, and he was in agony. His soul was
suffering under the weight of our sins. and guilt. He prayed there in Gethsemane's
garden, the disciples were with him, and he prayed and he said, Let's see if it's Luke 22. I
wrote the wrong scripture. There it is, Luke 22, verse 40. Verse 39. He went out and came
out and went as he was walked to the bough of olives. His disciples
followed him. And when he was at the place,
he said to them, You pray that you enter not into temptation.
And he was withdrawn from them. But a stone's cast kneeled down
and prayed, If thou art be willing, remove
this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but
thy will be done. That's the Lord praying. That's
our example. Teach me to pray and teach me
what to pray for. Not my will, but thy will be
done. His will is greater than ours. His purpose is greater
than ours and greater than us. And that has to be our prayer.
And then in Lise I'll just give you briefly, Luke 23, 33, look
at this, he prayed for his enemies. Luke 23, verse 33. And when they
would come to a place which is called Calvary, there they crucified
him, and the male factors, one on the right hand and the other
on the left, and then Jesus said, Jesus, Father, forgive them. They know not what they do. And while they were down below
parting his garment and casting lots and making fun of him, he
was praying for them. They don't know what they're
doing. They don't know what they're doing. Forgive them. And I'm sure the Father did,
some of them, because some of these people were converted at
Pentecost. Pray for your enemies. Pray for
them which despitefully use you. Pray for those who speak evil
of you. Curse not. Pray for them. It's our Lord's
example. You know, it's pretty hard to
hate somebody when you're praying for them. All right, Luke 23,
and I'll close. He prayed as he died. Our Lord
died praying. In Luke 23, verse 45, And the
sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was
rent in the And when Jesus cried to the loud voice, he said, Father,
into thy hands I commend my spirit. Having thus said, gave up the
ghost. I just believe that that study
in prayer there helped me as much as any study I've ever been
involved in. How to pray. The method was given. All right. To pray. the spirit
and attitude of prayer at all times, and for which, the things
for which I should pray. Everything. And live praying
and die praying. And pray all night. If it's serious
enough, and I tell you, that's pretty serious. All right. This
thing teaches me to pray.