WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.840 Real life presents the Jack Hibb's podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim 2 00:00:05.840 --> 00:00:09.500 truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. 3 00:00:09.500 --> 00:00:13.160 Whatever this world throws at us, you got to understand something. 4 00:00:13.160 --> 00:00:18.000 That God is not surprised by what's coming our way. 5 00:00:18.000 --> 00:00:23.500 Heaven is listening. 6 00:00:23.580 --> 00:00:30.140 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibs.com slash podcast. 7 00:00:30.140 --> 00:00:36.060 Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled life in Christ, 8 00:00:36.060 --> 00:00:39.340 then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. 9 00:00:39.340 --> 00:00:45.900 To us, that's like saying amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen. 10 00:00:45.900 --> 00:00:49.260 Now open your hearts to what God's Word has to say to you. 11 00:00:49.260 --> 00:00:52.460 Here is Jack Hibb's. 12 00:00:52.460 --> 00:00:54.700 The world is searching for peace. 13 00:00:54.700 --> 00:00:56.220 How do we get that? 14 00:00:56.220 --> 00:00:58.540 Number one, by listening. 15 00:00:58.540 --> 00:01:00.540 Mark it down if you would. 16 00:01:00.540 --> 00:01:05.980 All of what God has designed for us to help us comes in us listening. 17 00:01:05.980 --> 00:01:08.220 Heaven is listening. 18 00:01:08.220 --> 00:01:09.260 Heaven is listening. 19 00:01:09.260 --> 00:01:09.980 I'm listening. 20 00:01:09.980 --> 00:01:11.100 You're listening. 21 00:01:11.100 --> 00:01:11.500 Why? 22 00:01:11.500 --> 00:01:13.580 It's a dialogue. 23 00:01:13.580 --> 00:01:18.060 We are to be listening to God speaking. 24 00:01:18.060 --> 00:01:19.500 And God listens to us as well. 25 00:01:19.500 --> 00:01:21.900 He hears from us as believers. 26 00:01:21.980 --> 00:01:24.940 But the stress here is the fact that Heaven is listening. 27 00:01:24.940 --> 00:01:26.140 Look at verse 26. 28 00:01:26.140 --> 00:01:30.540 Likewise, the Spirit Himself, the Holy Spirit, this is the Spirit of God. 29 00:01:32.300 --> 00:01:34.140 Also helps our weaknesses. 30 00:01:35.660 --> 00:01:37.820 This is an amazing thing because the word prayer. 31 00:01:37.820 --> 00:01:39.020 You ought to write that down. 32 00:01:39.020 --> 00:01:40.060 Please write this. 33 00:01:40.060 --> 00:01:40.780 Pray. 34 00:01:40.780 --> 00:01:41.820 Prayer. 35 00:01:41.820 --> 00:01:42.540 To pray. 36 00:01:43.420 --> 00:01:44.620 The root word of 37 00:01:44.700 --> 00:01:48.460 to pray is proscanale. 38 00:01:48.460 --> 00:01:49.740 And it simply means this. 39 00:01:50.380 --> 00:01:54.620 Proscanale means to lick or to kiss the hand. 40 00:01:54.620 --> 00:01:58.140 It's referred to in 1st century Greek as a puppy. 41 00:01:58.140 --> 00:02:00.700 You know what a puppy just automatically licks your hand. 42 00:02:00.700 --> 00:02:02.380 He'll lick your face if you can get to you. 43 00:02:02.380 --> 00:02:03.020 They just lick. 44 00:02:03.980 --> 00:02:05.260 That's the word proscanale. 45 00:02:05.260 --> 00:02:05.740 Guess what? 46 00:02:05.740 --> 00:02:09.660 The word proscanale was also in the New Testament used for the word worship. 47 00:02:11.020 --> 00:02:13.180 Did you know that prayer is a form of worship? 48 00:02:14.700 --> 00:02:15.740 Did you ever think about that? 49 00:02:16.540 --> 00:02:19.580 I find it extremely interesting 50 00:02:19.580 --> 00:02:23.740 that people have a tendency to avoid worship and prayer. 51 00:02:25.340 --> 00:02:28.060 But God's people will pray and they will worship. 52 00:02:28.860 --> 00:02:30.860 For example, there are those who say to themselves, 53 00:02:31.580 --> 00:02:32.060 we're okay. 54 00:02:32.060 --> 00:02:33.180 We're not late for church. 55 00:02:33.180 --> 00:02:34.700 They're only worshiping right now. 56 00:02:34.700 --> 00:02:38.140 We're not all translation. 57 00:02:38.140 --> 00:02:38.780 It's all right. 58 00:02:38.780 --> 00:02:39.980 We're just ripping God off. 59 00:02:39.980 --> 00:02:41.980 We're not giving what's due to Him. 60 00:02:41.980 --> 00:02:42.940 We'll get there later. 61 00:02:43.900 --> 00:02:48.780 You're stiffing God when you just blow it off like that. 62 00:02:48.780 --> 00:02:51.980 Listen, the root believer must proscanale. 63 00:02:51.980 --> 00:02:55.420 The root believer must experience a relationship with God. 64 00:02:55.420 --> 00:02:58.060 And it's worshipful by nature. 65 00:02:58.060 --> 00:03:00.860 And prayer is not a labor. 66 00:03:00.860 --> 00:03:03.420 We can labor in prayer, but it's always worship. 67 00:03:03.420 --> 00:03:06.460 But prayer as an opportunity is not a labor. 68 00:03:07.180 --> 00:03:08.060 It's an open door. 69 00:03:08.060 --> 00:03:09.100 It's an opportunity. 70 00:03:09.100 --> 00:03:10.700 And God's children will pray. 71 00:03:10.700 --> 00:03:12.540 Listen, mom and dad, you've got little kids. 72 00:03:13.180 --> 00:03:14.940 You've got little kids. 73 00:03:14.940 --> 00:03:15.580 I understand. 74 00:03:15.580 --> 00:03:17.900 I already hear you in your head saying to me, 75 00:03:17.900 --> 00:03:18.860 yes, I've got little kids. 76 00:03:18.860 --> 00:03:21.580 And what I'm about to say is don't you love it when they speak to you. 77 00:03:21.580 --> 00:03:22.300 It depends. 78 00:03:22.300 --> 00:03:24.860 You need to be able to quiet them down sometimes. 79 00:03:25.500 --> 00:03:26.540 But let's be honest. 80 00:03:26.540 --> 00:03:29.900 Parents love when the little kid comes up and says something, 81 00:03:30.540 --> 00:03:31.740 I need help with this. 82 00:03:32.620 --> 00:03:35.180 Dad, can you, dad, mom, can you? 83 00:03:35.180 --> 00:03:36.300 And it warms your heart. 84 00:03:36.300 --> 00:03:40.540 It's part of being that parent where it's so meaningful. 85 00:03:40.540 --> 00:03:42.460 The child comes and asks for help. 86 00:03:42.460 --> 00:03:47.020 Did you know that when you go to ask God for help or when you ask God to listen 87 00:03:47.020 --> 00:03:50.220 or when you ask God to answer or when you ask God to hear, 88 00:03:50.940 --> 00:03:52.460 you are actually worshiping him. 89 00:03:53.100 --> 00:03:54.060 Did you know that? 90 00:03:54.060 --> 00:03:55.660 You're going to him with your need. 91 00:03:56.220 --> 00:03:58.700 Wouldn't it be terrible if your kid went to the neighbors 92 00:03:59.340 --> 00:04:01.660 to ask for help in their day of trouble? 93 00:04:02.300 --> 00:04:03.580 Boy, what does that say about you? 94 00:04:05.260 --> 00:04:06.620 God wants you to come to him. 95 00:04:07.980 --> 00:04:08.940 Heaven is listening. 96 00:04:09.420 --> 00:04:13.580 And rarely do we often think as a believer that God is as it were, 97 00:04:13.580 --> 00:04:16.060 cupped his ear, he's waiting to hear from us. 98 00:04:16.780 --> 00:04:18.300 You know, you and I are the same. 99 00:04:18.300 --> 00:04:21.100 We get so busy in life and things are going on. 100 00:04:21.820 --> 00:04:25.980 And then there's times when I realize, oh my goodness, God, you're so good. 101 00:04:25.980 --> 00:04:27.260 I haven't talked to you in a while. 102 00:04:27.260 --> 00:04:29.500 You know, I love you and you're amazing. 103 00:04:30.780 --> 00:04:32.780 And then there's times when it drags on a little longer. 104 00:04:32.780 --> 00:04:34.860 And I'm convinced he's in this. 105 00:04:34.860 --> 00:04:36.380 I'll stub my toe. 106 00:04:36.380 --> 00:04:37.420 I'll do something. 107 00:04:37.420 --> 00:04:39.580 Something I, whatever it might be. 108 00:04:39.580 --> 00:04:41.340 And I'll say, oh, Lord, and he'll say, 109 00:04:41.340 --> 00:04:44.700 Jack, it's so great to hear from you again. 110 00:04:47.180 --> 00:04:48.140 Heaven is listening. 111 00:04:48.140 --> 00:04:50.620 The question is how often is heaven receiving from us? 112 00:04:51.660 --> 00:04:58.460 Request tears crying out and asking him to instruct us and to lead us and to give us guidance. 113 00:04:59.740 --> 00:05:00.620 Heaven's listening. 114 00:05:02.060 --> 00:05:03.180 He's not abandon us. 115 00:05:03.660 --> 00:05:07.660 He's not way up there and we're down here. 116 00:05:07.660 --> 00:05:11.260 Oh, no, that's what the Holy Spirit is all about in the 117 00:05:11.260 --> 00:05:12.700 indwelling of the believer. 118 00:05:12.700 --> 00:05:16.220 But the Spirit also helps our weaknesses. 119 00:05:16.220 --> 00:05:19.660 And that word, weakness is an amazing word. 120 00:05:19.660 --> 00:05:21.900 It's the coming from weakness. 121 00:05:21.900 --> 00:05:25.740 Listen, you and I are weak because we come from the origin of weak. 122 00:05:25.740 --> 00:05:29.900 It means to come from the origin of frailty, ailments. 123 00:05:29.980 --> 00:05:32.060 You and I were born into a world. 124 00:05:32.060 --> 00:05:34.860 This word means of diseases, illnesses, 125 00:05:34.860 --> 00:05:38.380 infirmities, sicknesses, distress, depression, 126 00:05:39.260 --> 00:05:42.620 physical ailments, mental, emotional ailments. 127 00:05:42.620 --> 00:05:44.380 Be honest, this world hurts. 128 00:05:46.060 --> 00:05:47.500 And it inflicts upon us. 129 00:05:48.380 --> 00:05:51.420 And the word, weakness, stands for all of human weakness. 130 00:05:52.540 --> 00:05:54.140 General weakness of a human. 131 00:05:55.100 --> 00:05:58.380 And the Bible tells us that the Holy Spirit has come to help us. 132 00:05:59.340 --> 00:06:01.100 For those of you who don't know the Bible, 133 00:06:01.100 --> 00:06:02.540 this is the Bible I'm talking about. 134 00:06:02.540 --> 00:06:04.780 It's the Bible that says, God has come to help you. 135 00:06:06.060 --> 00:06:07.420 It is the God of the Bible. 136 00:06:08.140 --> 00:06:10.460 After last service, somebody was talking to me about 137 00:06:10.460 --> 00:06:11.820 how messed up their marriage is. 138 00:06:11.820 --> 00:06:14.460 And this woman was saying something about her husband 139 00:06:14.460 --> 00:06:16.060 who was standing right there. 140 00:06:16.060 --> 00:06:18.380 And the first thing I said was, I looked at them 141 00:06:18.380 --> 00:06:19.900 and I said, where's your Bibles? 142 00:06:21.340 --> 00:06:22.460 So we don't have any Bibles. 143 00:06:23.180 --> 00:06:24.940 And that's why your life is messed up. 144 00:06:25.820 --> 00:06:26.380 No, I did. 145 00:06:26.380 --> 00:06:27.340 You don't want to counsel with me. 146 00:06:27.340 --> 00:06:28.620 I don't have to give the counseling. 147 00:06:28.620 --> 00:06:31.100 I just told them, your life's messed up. 148 00:06:31.100 --> 00:06:32.540 When's the last time you guys were in the Bible? 149 00:06:32.540 --> 00:06:33.100 They were silent. 150 00:06:35.340 --> 00:06:36.540 And they said, we use pray for us. 151 00:06:36.540 --> 00:06:37.100 And I said, no. 152 00:06:39.100 --> 00:06:39.500 Why? 153 00:06:39.500 --> 00:06:40.300 Why should I pray? 154 00:06:40.300 --> 00:06:41.420 I said, why should I pray for you? 155 00:06:42.540 --> 00:06:44.380 Why should I pray for you when you're not doing what you're 156 00:06:44.380 --> 00:06:45.580 supposed to be doing? 157 00:06:45.580 --> 00:06:47.100 What do you want me to do? 158 00:06:47.100 --> 00:06:50.940 You want me to just put a pastor's prayer on it? 159 00:06:50.940 --> 00:06:52.380 They say, there you go. 160 00:06:53.500 --> 00:06:55.260 And what are you going to do about it? 161 00:06:56.220 --> 00:06:58.700 Because you're not seeking God out of your own hearts. 162 00:06:59.420 --> 00:07:00.700 My prayer is not magic. 163 00:07:00.700 --> 00:07:03.740 This is not some sort of a fortune cookie thing. 164 00:07:05.340 --> 00:07:07.580 And I said, you go seek God on your own. 165 00:07:07.580 --> 00:07:08.460 I'll pray for that. 166 00:07:08.460 --> 00:07:08.860 God. 167 00:07:08.860 --> 00:07:09.260 And I did. 168 00:07:09.260 --> 00:07:11.180 I said, God, cause them to seek you. 169 00:07:12.060 --> 00:07:13.340 And I gave them some homework. 170 00:07:13.340 --> 00:07:15.020 Now if they do the homework, praise the Lord. 171 00:07:15.020 --> 00:07:16.700 I gave them a Bible study to do. 172 00:07:17.260 --> 00:07:18.940 And let's see if they do it. 173 00:07:19.740 --> 00:07:20.780 But the point is this. 174 00:07:21.900 --> 00:07:23.740 They weren't even calling out to God. 175 00:07:24.700 --> 00:07:26.540 They said they're at the brink of divorce. 176 00:07:27.660 --> 00:07:30.940 And they never went up in prayer to God. 177 00:07:31.740 --> 00:07:33.020 How many people live like that? 178 00:07:33.740 --> 00:07:37.100 When the Holy Spirit is standing ready to help you, to help me. 179 00:07:38.940 --> 00:07:42.300 Jesus said in John 14 verse 16, I love this. 180 00:07:44.780 --> 00:07:50.300 John 14 16, Jesus says, I will pray the Father and He shall give you another 181 00:07:50.380 --> 00:07:54.620 comforter or helper that He may abide with you forever, 182 00:07:54.620 --> 00:07:57.660 even the spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive. 183 00:07:57.660 --> 00:08:01.100 Because it's seeeth them not, neither knoweth him. 184 00:08:01.740 --> 00:08:05.420 But you know him, for he dwelleth with you and shall be in you. 185 00:08:06.060 --> 00:08:07.180 The Holy Spirit. 186 00:08:07.180 --> 00:08:09.900 John 14 verse 26, Jesus continued. 187 00:08:09.900 --> 00:08:13.900 But the comforter, paracletos, pera, come alongside, 188 00:08:13.900 --> 00:08:17.820 clitos to comfort, the Holy Spirit will come alongside you and be your comforter. 189 00:08:17.980 --> 00:08:24.620 We all need comfort as a believer, but the comforter, which is the Holy Spirit, 190 00:08:24.620 --> 00:08:31.740 whom the Father will send in my name, He will teach you all things and bring all things to your 191 00:08:31.740 --> 00:08:35.660 remembrance whatsoever I have said unto you. Is that awesome or what? 192 00:08:35.660 --> 00:08:40.220 He brings all things to remembrance if God has reminded you of something deal with it. 193 00:08:40.220 --> 00:08:43.500 But listen, on the positive, God will remind you. 194 00:08:43.500 --> 00:08:47.980 I love you. I have loved you within everlasting love. 195 00:08:47.980 --> 00:08:51.020 God says, I've drawn you to myself. 196 00:08:51.020 --> 00:08:52.780 I will never leave you or forsake you. 197 00:08:53.660 --> 00:08:55.260 The comforter comes alongside. 198 00:08:55.900 --> 00:09:00.380 And it's a beautiful statement because it's the comforter coming alongside you and I. 199 00:09:00.380 --> 00:09:04.140 And what is implied is not only daily, the word is constant, 200 00:09:04.140 --> 00:09:06.700 but it's most stressed in the time of need. 201 00:09:08.140 --> 00:09:09.420 Are you in a time of need? 202 00:09:09.980 --> 00:09:12.060 Jesus says the Spirit of God is there. 203 00:09:12.060 --> 00:09:13.900 Are you hurting? He says he'll be there. 204 00:09:15.660 --> 00:09:19.180 He's always with us as believers, but when the going gets tough, 205 00:09:19.900 --> 00:09:24.700 the Spirit of God shows up and He'll minister to you to the Word of God. 206 00:09:26.140 --> 00:09:28.540 That's why Bible reading, you guys get tired of hearing about it, 207 00:09:28.540 --> 00:09:31.580 but we're always talking to you about reading your Bible, reading your Bible. 208 00:09:31.580 --> 00:09:35.500 Why? You want to know? Listen, you read the Bible because in the day of need, 209 00:09:35.500 --> 00:09:39.420 the Spirit of God brings the Bible up out of you and He uses it for the moment. 210 00:09:40.140 --> 00:09:46.540 It's like fuel going into your tank and it's eventually burned out and the vehicle is moved forward. 211 00:09:46.540 --> 00:09:53.660 It's used. The Holy Spirit uses the Bible in your life and the Word of God being hidden in you 212 00:09:54.460 --> 00:10:00.860 to a remarkable statement. And that word help, the Spirit of God helps us in our weakness. 213 00:10:00.860 --> 00:10:05.740 The word help means to take hold. Listen, everybody. It means the Spirit of God 214 00:10:05.740 --> 00:10:11.420 takes hold and the Word implies one end of the log. So think of a big log. 215 00:10:12.300 --> 00:10:17.580 And the Bible is telling us here that the Spirit of God will take hold of the log on this end. 216 00:10:18.620 --> 00:10:22.060 Now, if you're thinking right now, you're thinking, what about the other end? 217 00:10:23.260 --> 00:10:26.380 That would be a normal conclusion. Okay, that's great for that end. 218 00:10:27.180 --> 00:10:36.940 What about this end? Oh, this end answers to, I am called to daily pick up my cross and follow him. 219 00:10:36.940 --> 00:10:41.900 So the issues of our lives, the Holy Spirit carries, but I've got to go with him. 220 00:10:42.860 --> 00:10:45.980 That's called discipleship. That's called living in this world right now. 221 00:10:45.980 --> 00:10:49.980 Well, why is it so tough? Don't worry about it. God's got this thing. 222 00:10:50.620 --> 00:10:56.940 He's carrying the heavier part. I'm certain the end that I'm carrying is probably the size of a toothpick. 223 00:10:57.980 --> 00:11:01.180 The part he's carrying is probably the size of General Sherman tree, you know. 224 00:11:03.740 --> 00:11:09.660 I'm sure he carries the heavy part. But what he's doing is that he's helping me. He's helping you 225 00:11:09.660 --> 00:11:14.860 carry the load of life. None of us are to do this on our own. We're not to go through this life 226 00:11:14.860 --> 00:11:20.060 on our own. And we think about that. Think about that as a believer. Don't answer, but do you know 227 00:11:20.620 --> 00:11:24.780 and do you name the name of Christ? Well, the next thing should be, are you listening 228 00:11:26.220 --> 00:11:31.660 for heaven's command, for heaven's leading, for heaven's guiding? Because listen, heaven is listening, 229 00:11:31.660 --> 00:11:37.020 heaven is waiting to hear from you. Oh, God help me, we would say. Peter is out walking on the water. 230 00:11:37.020 --> 00:11:43.980 Remember this. He's walking on the water. And he cries out to Jesus. Lord help. 231 00:11:45.660 --> 00:11:51.260 Shortest prayer in the Bible, by the way. You don't have much time when you're about two feet 232 00:11:51.260 --> 00:11:55.820 from drowning. Lord help in the Bible says he immediately Christ scooped him up. 233 00:11:59.580 --> 00:12:04.780 We need to cry out to him more. Why? Because it's an act of worship. Yes, he's promised to be there 234 00:12:04.780 --> 00:12:10.540 in our time of need. In church family, listen, whatever this world throws it as you got to understand 235 00:12:10.540 --> 00:12:19.900 something, that God is not surprised by what's coming our way. Heaven is listening. And verse 26 236 00:12:19.900 --> 00:12:27.580 goes on to say for we do not know what we should pray for as we ought. Okay, this gets interesting. 237 00:12:27.660 --> 00:12:35.740 The Bible says we do not always know what we ought or should pray for. Did you know that? 238 00:12:35.740 --> 00:12:43.180 Our prayers at best are veiled or ignorant. Listen everybody. Are we to pray? Yes. 239 00:12:44.220 --> 00:12:49.180 Well, but if they're ignorant, prayer is what's the point? Because listen, the Bible has a key 240 00:12:49.180 --> 00:12:56.380 for us. In John chapter 15 verse 7, Jesus said, if my word abides in you, you may ask what you 241 00:12:56.380 --> 00:13:02.860 will and it shall be done unto you for hearing is my father glorified. What's the answer to prayer? 242 00:13:02.860 --> 00:13:09.260 The Bible. Pray the Bible. When you read your Bible, pray it. People say, man, I pray, I don't know 243 00:13:09.260 --> 00:13:16.140 what to pray about. Read your Bible. And by the way, we all go through that. We have all of the 244 00:13:16.140 --> 00:13:20.300 thousand things to pray for. And then we go to prayer and it's like, hmm, what do I pray for? 245 00:13:20.380 --> 00:13:29.820 When you read the Bible, you'll be able to take those verses and make them into your prayer and 246 00:13:29.820 --> 00:13:37.580 it's such a powerful truth. But we don't always know how to pray. So people will often say, listen, 247 00:13:38.300 --> 00:13:45.180 this is going to sting. Christians have a bad habit of saying things like this. Well, you know, 248 00:13:45.580 --> 00:13:55.100 I don't know what happens. I mean, we met at church and we got married. I prayed about it. 249 00:13:56.780 --> 00:14:04.700 And this guy turned out to be a nut or she. And I prayed about it. Notice when we say things like 250 00:14:04.700 --> 00:14:11.500 that. Oh, wow. I got this job and it's turned out to be horrible. I prayed about it. 251 00:14:11.500 --> 00:14:17.660 Do you want to do it? Are you listening to what you're saying? What are you implying? Well, 252 00:14:17.660 --> 00:14:25.900 somebody messed up. It wasn't me. Are you here? What are you implying? I prayed about it. Listen, 253 00:14:26.620 --> 00:14:31.660 when something goes south, we don't know what to do. So we tell people, I prayed about it and we 254 00:14:31.660 --> 00:14:38.140 throw this blanket on it trying to Christianize it when God was never in it. But I prayed. Let me ask 255 00:14:38.540 --> 00:14:47.180 did you wait for the answer? Watch. If you say yes, then I get to ask you just like you would ask me 256 00:14:47.180 --> 00:14:54.380 then what did he show you? Show me what he showed you when he answered you. Psalm 107 verse 20 says, 257 00:14:54.380 --> 00:15:01.900 behold, I've sent them my word and healed them of all their destructions. See, we say we pray as a 258 00:15:01.900 --> 00:15:07.660 Christian. But we don't wait long enough to listen to what he's saying. We assume because we want 259 00:15:07.660 --> 00:15:14.700 it. That's what we want. And that's a scary thing. That's a dangerous thing. You know, I'm going 260 00:15:14.700 --> 00:15:22.620 there. It's James chapter 4 verse 1. Where do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not 261 00:15:22.620 --> 00:15:29.660 come from your desires for pleasure that war in your members? Wow. Okay, your body parts are 262 00:15:29.660 --> 00:15:35.580 screaming to do the naughty stuff. But the new you is saying, I shouldn't do that anymore. 263 00:15:37.020 --> 00:15:43.740 And now you have a war going on. You lust and you do not have. You murder. The word is more hate. 264 00:15:43.740 --> 00:15:49.900 You hate and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war yet. You do not have because you do not 265 00:15:49.900 --> 00:15:55.340 ask. Is that amazing? You want this thing, but God has sent, excuse me, you're going about it your 266 00:15:55.340 --> 00:16:04.940 way. Why don't you ask me? Because heaven is listening. God wants to hear from us. 267 00:16:07.100 --> 00:16:13.500 And verse 3 he says, you ask and you do not receive because you ask a miss that you may spend it 268 00:16:13.500 --> 00:16:20.940 on your own pleasures. When we pray, we need to pray Bible church. And we need to be willing to 269 00:16:20.940 --> 00:16:25.180 wait when we pray. Let's be honest, everybody. When you pray, when you're really seeking God, 270 00:16:25.820 --> 00:16:34.140 let's be honest. Most often, if not always, the first response by God is wait. And it drives us 271 00:16:34.140 --> 00:16:42.460 crazy, which is why it's always God's first response. We don't do good at waiting. But that's 272 00:16:42.460 --> 00:16:48.540 what he's asked us to do. Listen to 1 Peter chapter 1 verse 6, 1 Peter 1 6. In this you greatly 273 00:16:48.540 --> 00:16:55.580 rejoice. Listen, in this you greatly rejoice. Though now for a little while, if need be, you have 274 00:16:55.580 --> 00:17:01.820 been greed by various trials, that the genuineness of your faith being much more precious than gold 275 00:17:01.820 --> 00:17:11.020 that perishes, though it is tested by fire, the difficulties of our lives, may be found to praise, 276 00:17:11.020 --> 00:17:17.980 honor and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ, whom having not seen you love, though now you do 277 00:17:17.980 --> 00:17:24.780 not see him yet believing you rejoice with joy and expressible in full of glory. That's the mark of 278 00:17:24.780 --> 00:17:32.540 the believer. When somebody asks you, how are you doing in that thing? I don't know. I'm just hanging 279 00:17:32.540 --> 00:17:37.980 on to God. I'm waiting upon God. Over and over again, the Bible says, wait upon the Lord. He'll renew 280 00:17:37.980 --> 00:17:43.260 your strength. Wait upon God. So Christian, listen, if somebody's pressuring you, you've got to make 281 00:17:43.260 --> 00:17:49.980 a decision. You've got to do this now. Don't do it. It's a pastor. I wish you would hurry up 282 00:17:49.980 --> 00:17:56.460 because that salesman at the car lot said, I had to be there by 1137 or else he's going to give 283 00:17:56.460 --> 00:18:04.860 it to somebody else. Let him give it to somebody else. And if you show up two hours later and that 284 00:18:04.860 --> 00:18:10.940 car is still there, then maybe it's from God. But God is never brought under the pressure of a car 285 00:18:11.020 --> 00:18:16.380 salesman or anybody else. Are you hearing me? This is very important because people get into a panic 286 00:18:16.380 --> 00:18:20.780 or they'll manipulate us and we think, we've got to jump. Where are we jumping? I don't know. Just 287 00:18:20.780 --> 00:18:29.820 jump. God is never in that. Wait. Wait. Oh, it's a hard thing to do, though. Wait. But it is good. 288 00:18:29.820 --> 00:18:34.620 Again, there's hope for you young people. The older you get, the more we walk with Jesus, it's like, 289 00:18:34.620 --> 00:18:40.220 okay, we're going to wait this out. And it's fun now to be at the age I am and what I do in life, 290 00:18:40.220 --> 00:18:44.540 people will say, why doesn't he do something? Why doesn't he do something about that? He's 291 00:18:44.540 --> 00:18:50.780 known about that for months. I haven't gotten an answer yet. I'm waiting. What'd you do something? 292 00:18:50.780 --> 00:18:55.740 Like what? Like jump from the frying pan into the fire? Is that what you want to say? 293 00:18:56.780 --> 00:19:01.980 And every time, listen, you can never say today. You know what? I waited upon God so long. 294 00:19:02.940 --> 00:19:11.420 It didn't work out. Listen, you cannot outweigh God. And listen, be willing to wait and wait. 295 00:19:11.420 --> 00:19:14.860 And then God will see to it that he'll bring it to pass. 296 00:19:19.500 --> 00:19:23.900 This Jack Hibbs podcast as well as all the broadcast outreach opportunities are 297 00:19:23.900 --> 00:19:28.380 listener-supported. Will you consider partnering with us through a special gift? 298 00:19:29.180 --> 00:19:34.860 Go to jackhibbs.com to learn more and stay connected.