Prayer moves the heart of God

Second Kings, chapter 20, King Hezekiah's prayer, to meditate for a moment on the power of prayer, as we have done throughout the week. And we have examined the right, the privilege of praying before God from different aspects, and we have touched on different dimensions of prayer. Our desire is to enrich your prayer life, to show you that the Bible itself teaches us that God wants us to pray, to cry out to him, that there is nothing impossible, there is nothing outside of God's reach, there is no fear, there is no situation of our life, there is not a circumstance, there is not an act, a problem of our life that does not have a possible solution in God and in approaching the throne of grace.

God himself invites us saying that we confidently enter the throne of grace to receive timely help. The writer Santiago also says that when someone is sick, pray, and the prayer of faith will heal the sick. He says that if we lack wisdom, what does he say? Ask God. And how does God give? With a teaspoon, with a drip, a dropper? It says, who gives abundantly.

If you ask, well, how does God give, how does God answer prayers? Say, abundantly, and what else? And without reproach. What does that mean? That when you come to the throne of God and ask God for something, God doesn't get upset and says, well, to get out of trouble I'll give you that but don't bother me anymore. No, he says, without reproach. That means, God never minds that you expose your fragility in front of him. Oh, how can you bring that to my person? How can you think of having had that temptation? How do you think of having fallen into that situation? How can you think of allowing your marriage to get to that point?

No, when you come to the throne of grace. Grace means that God receives you with love, God receives you graciously. God receives you by telling you, my son, what do you need me to do for you? My daughter, what is your request? God is willing to respond to our needs. God's heart is ready.

And I believe that if we understood that, that the throne of God is a throne of grace, it is not a throne of condemnation. Damnation for those who are outside of it, those who have not appealed to Christ. But if you are in Christ Jesus, you love Christ, your life is centered on Jesus, you have grace before God. There will be correction at times, because he loves you and his grace includes his correction, but his grace is generous, gentle, brotherly, loving. And that should also predispose us to take advantage of the privilege of prayer.

I want to present to you the case of King Hezekiah, a just man, not perfect, he had feet of clay, as did Jehoshaphat. He made a mistake that the Bible tells us, we are not allowed to know exactly what his sin consisted of, but at the end of his life it seems that he became proud and God corrected him, but he humbled himself and once again aligned himself with the will of God, and God blessed him and forgave him.

But he was a man who took the glory of God very seriously, believed in the power of God, made significant reforms in his kingdom to eliminate Baal worship, removed the high places where people worshiped Baals, reestablished genuine worship of God. He was a man who came, in fact, from a corrupt father, an unjust king, a king who did not recognize the true God, a pagan God and a worshiper of false gods. And this man, Hezekiah, turned out to be the complete opposite of his father. He loved the Lord, he made alterations to the temple, he established worship in the temple, he re-established the Levites and the priests, he sent news to all Israel of a great Passover celebration, which seems not to have been celebrated for many years, had fallen into disused the worship of Jehovah and he reestablished it. He loved the Lord great, greatly.

Look here where this story comes in. Chapter 20, Second Kings, says that:

“…In those days, - we are going to see what those days were in a moment -… In those days Hezekiah fell ill… - not with a cold, not with a virus that bothered him, not with arthritis, but with a death. A deadly disease - …and the prophet Isaiah, son of Amos, came to him, - his reign was given in the times of the prophet Isaiah's ministry - … and he said to him, Jehovah says thus,… - look where the news of death came from, look where the death sentence came from, it was not from a wrong doctor who had done an x-ray and had the wrong diagnosis. No, it came from Jehovah himself, - … Jehovah says like this, Order your house because you will die… - and just in case he had any doubts - … and you will not live…”

So that he was clear about what the sentence consisted of. Now what did Hezekiah do? He said, well, Lord, if that is your will, amen. I submit to you, and my days are fulfilled, amen, take me with you Jehovah. That is what we would do. It is the pious and religious response many times and evangelical. And if he had said it, we would say, look, amen, what a dedicated, obedient, submissive man. But Hezekiah was not going to stay calm like that. He had a passionate heart and says that:

“…Then he turned his face to the wall… - I don't know if he was lying down or standing up and he turned simply to worship him. I suspect that he was lying down because he was dying, he was lying down, I think perhaps there were servants around him, -...he turned his face to the wall and prayed to Jehovah..."

Say with me, prayed to Jehovah. You see, I have preached that prayer changes the situation. Here is one of the most dramatic cases of how a sentence changes a situation that seems closed, well closed.

"... He prayed to the Lord and said, I beg you, oh Lord, I beg you... - sometimes you have to repeat to the Lord, it is not that he is deaf but you have to attract his requests over and over and over again, until we know that he has arrived at the throne of grace our prayer. –

"... I beg you, Jehovah, I beg you to remember that I have walked before you in truth and with an upright heart, and that I have done the things that please you... - I wish we could pray like this when we have need, with that authority , not with a sense of self-justification, but with a sense that, Lord, I have wanted to please you, I have done everything I could, Father, why?

“… And Hezekiah wept with great weeping… - I think the neighbors at the other end of the city heard him, he wept with great weeping. Don't be afraid to cry, man. - …And before Isaiah heard this, before Isaiah went out to the middle of the courtyard of the royal property, the word of Jehovah came to Isaiah, saying, Return and tell Hezekiah, prince of my people, thus says Jehovah, the God of David, your father, I have heard your prayer and I have seen your tears. Behold, I heal you. On the third day you will go up to the house of Jehovah and I will add to your days 15 years and I will deliver you and this city from the hands of the king of Assyria... - he gave him a tremendous ñapa too. - … and I will protect this city for the love of myself and for the love of David, my servant. And Isaiah said, take a mass of figs and taking it, they put it on the sore and it healed. And Hezekiah had said to Isaiah, what sign will I have that the Lord will heal me and that I will go up to the house of the Lord on the third day? Isaiah answered, This sign you will have from the Lord that the Lord will do what he has said. The shadow will advance ten degrees, he is referring to the sun, its circulation, the way of measuring the hours in these not too scientifically developed cultures, a clock of some kind that measured the course of the sun and as the shadow of the sun established itself, the afternoon would making progress. So they could measure what time it was.

“…Will the shadow move forward ten degrees or back ten degrees? And Hezekiah answered, "Well, it's easy for the shadow to decline ten degrees... - it's easy for the clock to go to the right, one, two, three, four, five, six, a normal, modern clock -... it's easy that the shadow decline ten degrees but not that the shadow go back ten degrees..."

Brothers, if you see the needle of your watch going backwards, run, run. Or get on your knees to pray and cry out to God because something very strange is happening.

“…but not that the shadow goes back ten degrees. Then the prophet Isaiah cried out to Jehovah and made the shadow return by the degrees that the Acas clock had descended, ten degrees back..."

That is one of the most scandalous accounts in the entire Bible and many Christian scientists and apologists have racked their brains trying to justify how this could possibly happen. Did God make the sun go back? Did God just make it local, a vision or whatever? But the fact is that Hezekiah received the signal that he needed so much.

As you can see, this is a beautiful story, an exemplary story, a story that leaves us with a good taste in our mouths, that it is possible. Why did God record this event in the life of King Hezekiah? Not only to record a historical fact, a historical curiosity that happened. God wanted to leave a story that when God's people read it centuries and centuries later, they would feel motivated to believe that God is one who listens to prayers, that God is a God who does impossible things, that God is a God who is even willing to change his own edicts, his own statements and decisions in response to a man or a woman who dares to believe him, and as Esther says, "if I perish, I perish, but I will go and enter to the throne of God and I am going to prostrate myself and I am going to present my need to him and he will then know what he is doing, whether he responds or not.”

When you go to pray, don't ask yourself, well, is this possible? Will God do it? Am I praying correctly? Amen, you can perhaps ask the Holy Spirit for wisdom, but look, bring your need before God, present your need before God, fight for your need and if God gives you victory, amen, otherwise that is his business, but you do your part. You cry out clearly before God. Don't be doubting.

That is what happens, many times when we pray there is insecurity, uncertainty, is God going to answer me, is he not going to answer me? Will this be from God, will it not be from God? And then, I believe that once you have decided, I have a need, I need an answer from God. Come safe before the Lord, slim down your prayer like a laser beam and present it to God. That is why the Apostle Santiago says, "but ask with faith", when he says pray to the Lord, God gives abundantly, he says but ask with faith, not doubting anything. Wow! We must ask the Lord, Lord, increase our faith, increase my faith.

I tell you the truth, when one prays, if you are honest, if you are honest and I am honest, it is interesting, I have observed this psychological phenomenon when we pray. It's like there's a veil, there's an extremely thin membrane, when we pray, it sort of muffles our prayers. And that part is human biology that prevents us from praying with all ease and with all faith, with all belief before God.

How thin, how thick that membrane is depends on God's anointing on our life and the amount of faith God has given us. But I believe that every human being, by reason of being biological in nature, has something that prevents him from asking God with the ease with which you would ask Obama, if he had him there, to give you a position in his administration. Is not the same.

You see? Because it's like one is asking but secretly in our subconscious there is something that says, well, will God listen or not? And the Apostle Santiago tells us, look as much as possible, ask God or start acquiring that conviction. I believe that as God's blessing falls on our life, the anointing of faith falls on our life, the more conviction there is that we are speaking directly to God. And that he is willing to listen.

We have to tell him, Lord, help me to remove all those subconscious things, those subconscious brakes that are in us, those subconscious contaminations that pull in different directions, so that the ray of my prayer does not go in a straight line but always goes scattered. and zigzagging and arrive not in the very center of the sentence. And that comes from the practice of prayer, it comes from fasting, it comes from understanding the word of God, it comes from sanctification, it comes from continuous communion with the people of God, it comes from serving the Lord. All these things together are giving power and conviction to our prayers.

When those things are lacking in our life, they take away its strength, take away its conviction. That is why we have to ask the Lord clearly, because God is willing to listen.

Here we have this man, Hezekiah had experienced great miracles from God. God had done a tremendous miracle when he literally eliminated an entire powerful army that had surrounded his city and in response to a prayer that Hezekiah made, when he couldn't take it anymore, he took a letter, which was a declaration of war from Zenakerib, a very powerful king. , and Hezekiah took the letter where he said he was going to destroy his city, and do you know what Hezekiah did? Instead of shedding tears on that letter, she took the letter and brought it to the temple. And he went into the temple and said, Lord, this is your problem, this is not my problem. Look what this man is saying to me. He's going to destroy my people. And Hezekiah cried out to the Lord. And the story says that God sent him a prophecy through Isaiah and told him, I'm going to take care of that matter. And that same night, he says, God sent his angel and completely destroyed that army, and the surrounding nations were afraid because they saw the glory of God manifest in the life of Hezekiah.

After that great victory Hezekiah suffered a terrible illness. That's why it says, after those days, or in those days they give him a death sentence through disease. What does that tell us? Brethren, the Christian life is a dynamic life. There may be times in your life when you will have a great blessing from God, there may be times when all the bills will be paid, your marriage will be very harmonious, your children will be going to church and seeking God, You are going to feel full of enthusiasm for the things of God, your work is going to be very good, your boss is going to be happy with you, you are going to have good relationships with your co-workers, and in those times rejoice, praise the Lord , attend church, celebrate God's blessing, try to fill the bank account as much as you can, because days of trials and difficulties will also come in your life.

The Christian who wants only calm seas all his life doesn't know what he's talking about. We have to be both freshwater and saltwater sailors. When the test comes we have to be prepared to know what to do too, because the affliction comes. Jesus Christ says "in the world you will find affliction". That is the nature of the world.

Hezekiah had a great victory, a great blessing, but at the moment a crisis is coming into his life. And it's good that at that moment he didn't collapse, but knew what he had to do. I say something very important in the book "Feet of Clay", and that is that when things are going well for you in your life, that is the time that you should use to strengthen the inner walls of your spiritual life.

Many people, when everything is going well, neglect themselves. I have seen many people that when things are going well for them, there is a lot of work, they offer them part time and over time at the moment, you know, they get into it and forget about church. Everything is fine, everything in life is fine, so let's go on vacation. The church today, well, we're going to the beach and we're going to do this, we're going to do that. And we forget about the Lord.

you know what? I have learned something, that when things are going well for me I have to use every minute of peace and tranquility to treasure strength in my spirit. It is when I must serve the Lord the most, I must take advantage to have more times to be awake, to fast, to seek the face of God early in the morning, to read the word, to study, to serve God more. In the quiet and good times in your life, treasure energy, serve God.

Says the word, is anyone happy? What should you do, well, sing praise, worship the Lord. He is sad? Well then, pray and look for a solution, look for healing. There is time for everything says the prophet.

So why am I saying this? Because when the crisis comes to your life, when the devil is breaking down the door with a hammer, if you do not have the attitudes of a Christian warrior at that time, and you do not know God, if your life of power is not as it should be, If you don't know who to turn to, if there is no spiritual authority in your life, you are going to collapse and the devil is going to serve himself with the big spoon in your life.

That is why in times of peace, prepare for war, so that in times of war you know what you have to do. Imagine a soldier, who when the bullets are whistling over his head starts reading his manual about how to make a trench or how to use the rifle, or how to use defense techniques. That's not the time, the time is when you...

We have to live the Christian life framed in the things of the spirit, be it good times, be it bad times, I am a child of God, I am a spiritual being, my life has to be defined in terms of my spiritual identity.

Thank God that Hezekiah was a man who knew that God has power and that God answers prayer. He had experiences with God. He had spent his life serving the Lord. He had lived as full a life as he could. I'm sure he wasn't a perfect man, but he says, when war comes to his life, he has where to draw reserves. He has where to appeal, and that's why he gets the victory. Instead of breaking down and saying, oh, Lord, you are unfair, why do you allow this to happen to me if I have done… No, he does not recriminate God, he appeals to God.

And one sees that over and over again, when the crisis comes, God's people draw from the reserves that they have accumulated during times of peace. Look at something else here in this passage. The death sentence was absolutely clear. As I was saying, it is one thing for a doctor to tell you, look, you have terminal cancer, and another thing is for them to tell you, God says that you have terminal cancer and prepare to die.

I believe that the writer records this in this way because he wants to make the response that Hezekiah received from God even more dramatic. And for me that is one of the great mysteries of God. Here we are given an entrance, first into the heart of God, the intention of God, and the will of God. And God's will is for this man to die, his time has come and he tells him, get ready because God has already determined...

And this is something that many times creates confusion for theologians and that sometimes generates strange theology that God does not know everything that is going to happen in the future, etc. There is great complexity here. Did God know or not that Hezekiah was going to pray and that he was going to heal him? I think so. Now, I am not going to puzzle over how it is that God combines time and space and eternity, his absolute knowledge and the limitation of men.

The Bible is a book that records the eternal, the absolute, the infinite and tries to do so in a very limited language and rational categories. We cannot include all the complexity of God. What it does tell me here is one thing, it is that God had said and determined that this man was going to die, but Isaiah cried out to the Lord, prayed and changed. I am going to say it this way so as not to go into too many stories here, God's will changed, at least God's intention changed. And God, who is faithful, merciful, forgiving and compassionate, withdrew his death decree and had the grace to extend this man's life.

There are few situations so clear, so graphic in the Bible that tell me, Roberto, pray and cry out to God. That's why we did what we did here this morning. I believe in prayer, I believe that prayer changes the air, I believe

that we live in a tremendously mysterious world, I believe that when we do spiritual warfare and confront the powers of darkness and declare spiritual victories, the devil says that he is the strong man who rules nations, rules cities, rules economies, rules systems that rule countries and cities, and when the people of God fight back and bind him and make his work of destroying lives difficult, he turns and wants to kill, steal and destroy and do harm and we have to counteract that force by calling grace and mercy. Mercy of god.

Hezekiah did this. Hezekiah cried out to God, he said, Lord, I have served you, what is happening? Because? I don't think Hezekiah cried out like that because he was afraid of death. I believe Hezekiah cried out like this because he instinctively understood that his time had not come. I believe Hezekiah still wanted to do things for God.

How interesting that when God tells him, you know what? I am going to heal you and on the third day you are going to my house. Notice that it doesn't tell you on the third day you are going to mount your royal horse and go back to your normal business of government again. He doesn't tell her you're going to take a two-week vacation so you can get over the scare you've been through. He tells her, no, in three days you will go to my house.

Look how, that is, the Bible defines, frames, computes the events of the life of the man, the woman of God in terms of their relationship with God. When was the last time you received great news and the first thing you thought is, am I going to go to church today to thank the Lord? A lot of people say, no, we're going to go to dinner, we're going to celebrate tonight. We're going to see a good movie, we're going to New York for a weekend. We are not going to give the Lord a tithe, we are going to celebrate in the house of God, we are going to testify of what God has done in our lives.

I believe that Hezekiah wanted to, he was a man who loved God and he said, Lord, my time has not yet come, there are things that I want to do. Have mercy on me and he cried.

Do you remember what I said last Sunday about the prayer of Jabes, the oh of Jabes. Oh, if you would give me a blessing and your hand would be with me, and you would deliver me from evil so that it does not harm me, and you would widen my territory. That sentence was a complete sentence, but that Oh was an expression that came from the depths of his heart. God loves passionate people, people who say, if you don't give me this, Lord, I'll die. Dare to ask the Lord that way. That is what happens, in the Christian life there are many people, as I said, lukewarm, indifferent, people who want God to bless them, but are willing to pay the price, people who want to do great things for them.

They have big dreams but they are not willing to sacrifice anything for God. They are not willing to deliver beyond the basics. They give the Lord the least. If the service takes more than an hour and if the pastor preached for more than 20 minutes, they are already looking at their watch so that he can see it from the pulpit. But they don't care if the football or baseball game goes on until 3 in the morning. Oh, no, what a game we played last night, until 3 in the morning they were fighting there. And they are enjoying the game until the last second, but tell them to give the Lord an hour of prayer and you will see how they immediately begin to make excuses.

Hezekiah was a man of great passions and he was not afraid when the death sentence came, brothers, he broke down crying there. He didn't care that the woman was there, he didn't care that the children were there, the snot came out of his nose and he said, no, I'm going to cry out to God. I am going to ask the Lord to have mercy. He says that he cried a great deal. The people heard it. He was not afraid that his servants would see the great King Hezekiah crying, he said, “Lord, have mercy on me.”

Bartimaeus said, “Lord, son of David, have mercy on me, have mercy on me” and the Lord listened to Bartimaeus. We have to ask the Lord, Lord, give me passion to be a man, a passionate woman in front of you, a person of great emotions, great convictions, great hatred of sin, for example.

Today, this moderation is celebrated in the evangelical world. You have to be moderate for everything. Don't make people uncomfortable at work by telling them about Jesus Christ. Do not pray in the name of Jesus in a public place so that people will not be offended. Remove the cross in front of the church so people don't think you're a fake, magical cult. Do not adore the Lord out loud in worship, but rather quietly, well ordered, the hujieres moving very carefully so as not to make noise. All elegant. Everything measured. Everything with a lot of balance, a lot of harmony, a lot of proportion.

Brothers, what moves the heart of God is when we get out of the ordinary. When we are willing to question, okay, there are television cameras here, what does it matter, we are going to pray to the Lord with even more force. The governor of Massachusetts is in the church, we are going to shout out loud that Jesus Christ is Lord. If they want to come, that's their business, but they're entering a holy place and we can't suppress our passion for God just for people to say, oh, what decent people, how elegant, how well behaved.

I see in Scripture an invitation to passion. Write that down there, invitation to passion. That's good, right? The next book says Diana, Invitation to passion. The Jewish people are a passionate people, you know. And we have to be committed, passionate, delivered. If there is something, a need that we have before God, a child that needs a special intervention from God, a marriage that is falling apart, a financial situation that is… cry out to the Lord and let God know your need.

Take one or two fasts, choose a vigil, seek the Lord in some way, present your cause to the Lord in an insistent manner and God will often listen.

In the case of Hezekiah, he says that he had not even reached the end of the patio when God spoke to him, go back, I have different news, change of plans. Plan B Isaiah. There is another interesting thing here, it tells us that Hezekiah turned his face to the wall. Why does the writer of Reyes put that cinematographic detail there? Because that's not necessary. It is superfluous.

I believe that when God puts those details in the Bible it is for a reason. Picture yourself in your mind. Visualize this man lying on his deathbed. They just gave him a sentence. The prophet turns, leaves. He is filled with pain and fear and what he does is he turns away. I can almost see the sheets on top of him turning with him and he turns his face to the wall.

Do you know what that says to me? Look when you have a cry, a need before God, look for the best possible environment, the best possible position, the best possible moment to cry out to God. Close the door of your house. Reserve a morning. If you are a person whose energies are strongest in the morning, do not pray at 12 midnight when you are tired and want to sleep. So what you have there is a prayer, Lord, have mercy on me. He lies down and already forgot to even pray anymore. He didn't finish the sentence and he's already sleeping.

No, use the best time. I am a daytime person. My wife is nocturnal, at 3 in the morning she is happy doing work, preparing a meditation or whatever. I, at that time, forget it, the world can fall on top of me and I'm out of shape. But for this reason, my favorite time to pray is very early in the morning, before the sun rises, my favorite time, as I have told you, a cup of coffee, in a very comfortable chair, in a little corner of the house, with the world totally disappeared from my sight and my hearing, praying to the Lord. That moment is irreplaceable for me, it is the best time of my entire life, the morning.

Others perhaps, it is night. But what is the best time of your life? When you are focused or when there is energy in your mind and you can give the Lord the best possible time, before the boys get up and run around, before you hear the news and your mind becomes a problem too, before you listen to the weather or whatever. No, have the time of your life.

The Lord Jesus Christ many times separated all the people. When he went to pray for the daughter of Jairus, he left everyone out and only brought in two of his disciples, because he did not want them to interrupt him, he did not want the faith of others or the lack of faith of others to complicate his prayer.

Prayer has to be concentrated, things have to be visualized, requests have to be developed. There is, as I said before, give it a first and last name. You have to explain your need before God as you would talk to a psychiatrist or a psychologist. Give it luxuries of details, develop the territory that you want God to bless. Visualize what you want to receive from God. Fight against the doubt within you and bring your focused, clear prayer. You and God.

I love public prayer, brothers, that is why we have prayed. But you know what? I don't love public prayer so much because I love private prayer so much, personally, that's me. I like to pray with my brothers, and I have said that prayer is important, but for me, the most important prayer of all is when I am alone with God. He and I, hand in hand, fighting with the angel. My mind focused on him and silence around me so that my wife and no one listen to me. He and I.

And that is why I believe that Hezekiah turned his face towards the wall and the Lord leaves us something there, that when we pray, it is important, physical gestures, the body helps the spirit. There are links between the emotions, the body, the spirit, the mind, all of that is one thing. I find, when you kneel down and put your head in a chair or something, it helps even prayer. It helps you to concentrate, it is a symbolic act that gives a message to your brain and says, focus.

When we raise our hands, when we stand up, when we come forward, all of this is a message that we are giving to the spirit. I want to do something extraordinary and I want to receive the answer.

Brothers, the spirit world is very mysterious. There are mechanical aspects in spiritual things and the more one understands the word of God, the more one realizes that yes, there are mechanical, physical, symbolic dimensions that have a lot to do with the effectiveness in our prayer life, our effectiveness before of God.

Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and cried out to God. And he said, Lord, have mercy on me. Immediately the grace of God descended, God's response, Isaiah returned, and came… it seems that Hezekiah's prayer was so powerful that it unleashed abundant grace from God. He said, you know what, Hezekiah? Cancel the latest news and here is the new one: 15 years of life for you, 15 years. Doesn't that seem weird? Why not 10, why not 20? 15 years. God is a specific God. Just as we have to be specific because God is specific, God is concrete.

That reminds me that prayer is something, it does have a mysterious aspect, but it also has an everyday aspect. God is such a God, of course. He said I'm going to give you 15 more years, I'm going to extend you 15 years. I would have said, Hezekiah, don't worry, you're going to have an even longer life. But no, he said 15 years and there you have it.

That convinces me of the truth of that story. In addition to that, I am going to give victory to your people, I am going to bless you, I am going to bless you so much in your own life, your health, but also in your reign. God is an expansive God. Give abundantly and without reproach. And Hezekiah rejoiced and had victory and was able to go to the temple and give thanks to God.

His faith was not perfect. Look what happened there, he said, Lord, give me a sign. This is so big that he wanted to be sure, as a good Jew, he asked God to sign him a clear contract.

Mind you, he was a man with feet of clay. Gideon when God told him, go and attack the enemy with 300 men, 30,000 that he originally had, he was left with only 300, Lord, what sign will I have that you are going to use me in that way? Give me something and he said to him, if the fleece is made of wool at night, if the dew falls only on the fleece of wool but not on the rest, then I am going to believe. But then he said, but you know what? One more sign, please, this time let it fall on the grass and not on the fleece. How merciful is God. God deigns to please his servant. And he said, look, okay, I'm going to give you a signal, the clock is going backwards instead of forwards.

God is a merciful God. God sympathizes with your need. God knows, your faith does not have to be perfect. Do everything you can but at the end of the day, come before the Lord, with what you have. Lord, what I have here is a turtledove for my sacrifice, I don't have a ram, but what I have I give you, Lord. My prayer before you, I am weak, I am depressed, I am sad, I have doubts in my heart, but have mercy on me and receive what I offer you Lord. I cry out to you

Brothers, God invites us to be a praying church. Let's believe God. As the servant pities his children, the Lord pities those who fear him, for he knows our condition. He remembers that we are dust. Every day we have to believe God more and more and bring our requests before him.

Let us ask the Lord to help us more and more each day to be a people who pray, a people who cry out. Call on me and I will answer you and I will teach you great and hidden things that you do not know. Stand up. Thank you Lord Jesus. Thank my Lord.