 Good afternoon pastor David. Hey John welcome everybody to unfiltered a random moment with pastor David today's Thursday and On Thursdays we like to tease out a little bit of what's going to come on Sunday through your message and so today pastor I wanted to talk to you a little bit about prayer as This is what you'll be teaching on this Sunday out of Mark And one of the things that you mentioned is that an outward religion without faith is an abomination We saw a picture of that with the temple the appearance and the beauty of the temple But inside it was a marketplace where people were getting ripped off. Yeah, full of hypocrisy saw that with the fig tree had an outer appearance of Green leaves and no figs and so it was cursed and and so in this Jesus is teaching them left lessons in faith and the lesson that you'll be covering this week on Sunday Prayer and pastor, you know, I don't know prayers one of these things that's part of Christian needs sometimes where I spent time and you weren't in prayer or a brother. I'll pray for you Sometimes I wonder is there really prayer and I wanted to ask you the importance of prayer that really demonstrates faith in God and Communion with him in the Christian life. I think that we very often get caught up with postures of prayer You know, we need to close our eyes fold our hands bow our head perhaps kneel We get caught up with physical posture of prayer, but we don't really understand the heart posture of prayer because prayer is really a Boiled down to the most simple way of speaking of it. It is conversation with God. It's Fellowship with God and it's not as if our God doesn't know the things we have need of Jesus made it very clear in Matthew chapter 6 that our father knows the things that we need before we even ask It's different what prayer is is it's a communion. It's the it's the heart of man the soul of man the spirit of man It's the entirety of man communicating with with our Heavenly Father and so it's it's a very Personal kind of thing. It's very intimate It's it's one of the most intimate things that we do as a matter of fact, I Remember sharing years ago now that When people think in terms of marriage they think that the most intimate act that husband and wife May share together is a physical one when in fact that's not true The most the most intimate act that a husband and wife Share is when they pray together Because they're opening their hearts and they're sharing what's the deepest part of their their spirit their soul and There's there's nothing more revealing than how a person prays how that person speaks to God how they How they address him the attitude as they do so and all of that and so yeah, we'll be looking at prayer because Jesus after he Cleanses the temple and after the fig tree it has been cursed and all well it causes Peter to be Surprise, you know Because the the withering of the fig tree was immediate, you know It it happened in a in very very quick time and so for him To say look at the fig tree, you know, Jesus used that and he said have faith But he didn't simply say say have faith. He said have faith in God and so I want to point on that point to that a little bit because People have faith in their faith. You know, there are some television Quote unquote evangelists who who have taught people to have faith in their faith And so, you know, that's what they say they said anything you desire if you believe you can have it And so what happens is your faith becomes the the center of Prayer when Jesus said it's not your faith. It's your faith in God. So it's not you're trying to Gin up some tremendous, but you can't do it anyway It's recognizing that your faith is more mustard seed and so it's not the Largeness of your faith. It's the largeness of your God and being aware of How we should pray and what we should pray for and the attitude that we should have in prayer It all ties in because Jesus speaks concerning Saying to a mountain to be placed into the sea and all of that and he speaks concerning Illustrations related to that in in other studies and other teachings But he's pointing the men to not only have a faith in a great God But also to have a relationship Because prayers relationship have relationship with their fellow workers because you know They've been arguing about greatness in the kingdom and yet Jesus is making it very clear That the things that will hinder you are your prayers is when you are Unable to forgive somebody so the context seems to indicate that Because of the continuation of their different Selfish ambitious ways ways of ministry and Jesus is trying to bring him to the basics He's trying to get us to see that look at it if I have ought against a brother and And yet I go and I start praying and saying God help me in this and that I'm really not doing the right thing. I need to be in fellowship with man Because I'm in fellowship with man. It helps me to be in fellowship with God But if I'm trying to say well, I love God, but I'm I'm hating my brother Well, John would have said that's just not true You're not telling the truth there because how can you love the invisible God and he can't get along with the visible brother See so it all ties together John And so prayer has a very social if you will a social Aspect to it because it's a conversation with God But it also reflects our relationship with others. We'll look at that this Sunday That's and want to invite you guys to invite your friends and family come join us Sunday morning at 8 30 and 10 45 a.m As Pastor David you're looking to be looking this on prayer I mean I was able to look at a little bit and and I always say this It's it looks like it's gonna be a good study like the points that let's hope that it is Again and then tonight we have our worship. It's a CCA worship conference starts tonight, but tonight's a little different It's not for those who paid for the conference for tonight only if you want to come worship with our church family Pastor David and Odin Fong will be there. You guys will be doing a Q&A Yeah, Odin's gonna leave in work lead in worship We're gonna have Q&A about worship and then he'll close with an afterglow and so church family It's a great opportunity to come out invite your friends to worship to To have the afterglow afterwards and to listen to the Q&A. I think that would be pretty cool Can be and so well pastor. Thank you so much church family Thank you also reminder that we are still taking interest signups for Israel You can actually sign up online through our Calvary ccv.org or you can actually sign the interest list at the gazebo The cost is gonna be forty three eighty nine. All right, and so God bless you church family and we will see you soon