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God.

We thank you so much for a chance, just to be in your presence today.

We thank you for the opportunity to sing songs to you to a commune together around this table.

And remember the sacrifice of your son.

We are grateful for the opportunity to pray together and into just worship together and so many different ways today.

God, I pray.

Now that as we come to this time that we're going to open up your word and study that you will soften our hearts.

That you will open our hearts to your spirit guy that you will allow us to listen to hear to act God.

We pray that we will be motivated and convicted to make changes in her life and it really more than anything for the day's lesson that we will be encouraged by your presence.

That's in your son's name we pray.

Amen.

Help your Bibles to Psalms 139, Psalms 139, as we continue with our thoughts, on deeper and prayer together, this particular series of going to take us through the remainder of the month together.

Psalms 139 I was thinking this week, as I was putting some thoughts together beginning to put some thoughts together.

I've had a guy have had outside of vacation bible school.

I have had a very busy week of a lot of study Prayer by a couple of extra classes.

I got to go to Faulkner this weekend and teach at a youth conference is going on down there.

So I've had a lot of lessons going this week and as I was kind of working on all these different things, something came to my mind, cuz some of the things, you know, if you're working in a lot and a lot of different things at least in my life, as I work on my lessons are going to eventually overlap.

Those trains of thoughts are all going to kind of end up in the same direction and then they kind of did a lot of ways 12 questions I ask myself.

As I was studying this week and looked up some different thoughts that I do not have is what is the goal of our prayer life?

What is the goal of our prayer life?

And I think that there's a lot of ways that we can answer that question.

I think there's a lot of a lot of different directions that answer could go.

We could talk about, you know, it's our way to express our needs to God.

But, but I thought about that and I thought, well, you know, it is a way, it could be a gold express, my needs to God, but if I truly believe what scripture says this, God not know, my needs already.

Absolutely.

So so prayer is not necessarily Maybe the informative conversation with god that we like to think about, okay?

I know that when we talked about confession sometimes we talked about in the way as letting God know that we've done wrong and tell you what God already knows that we've done wrong if we've done it.

Right.

So we're not really informing God of anything.

Maybe we're we're accepting that God knows this and we're accepting that what we've done is wrong.

So, so prayer is not information for sake.

The goal of prayer is not a golden parachute, some people kind of think of prayer and its purpose, is kind of a golden parachute, right?

I'm in trouble.

I need something.

So what am I going to do?

I'm going to pray about it, I've tried everything else and that has it work.

So I'm going to take this time now and I'm going to pray to God and maybe that will solve my problem solved my situation.

I'm not sure if I put this in my slides, we'll see though it is what is the goal of prayer?

But this is kind of where where I came to The goal of prayer is for me to have an intimate relationship with God.

That's the goal of prayer is intimacy is to have this deep meaningful conversation and I got to thinking about it, in this way.

I've got some good friends, I do, I have some good friends in my life and I'm very blessed with those friends and so, so you but you know, that cut the conversations that you have with acquaintances.

It's different than the conversations you have with your best friends, right?

I mean, you can talk about the same thing, but that conversation going to be different because from acquaintances to friend or best friend, the intimacy level goes up, right?

And then I go from my best friend's to my spouse.

I go for my best friend to Blair, and even though I had may have great conversations with my friends, the conversations that I have with my wife or even more intimate, they're even more personal there.

There's a deeper connection.

And then, as we think about taking our prayer life, our conversation, I've been really.

That's what prayer is Prayer makes it sound real form, when I think there are times as appropriate to be respectful and formal before God, but ultimately prayer is a conversation.

Prayer.

Is your conversation with your God, with your father, with your Creator and that conversation should be the most intimate relationship that you have.

If for no other reason than God, already knows got enough of that.

It's not about the information.

Already knows what you're sharing.

So you should be as open and is transparent with him as possible.

And when we do that, some very important things happened, I believe there's some things that we're all searching for some things that we're all seeking for.

I think in our life we're all searching and seeking for things to bring us joy.

We're all searching and see seeking things to bring peace into our life.

And I believe a lot of us go through phases, we all go through phases.

When we try to figure out our purpose.

Why am I here?

What am I trying to accomplish?

And threw an intimate conversation life, an intimate prayer life with God.

I find the joy that I'm searching for.

I find the piece that I need.

And I'll find the purpose that ultimately satisfies me greater than anything in this world would say, is my purpose.

So, how do I get to that point?

How do I get to that point?

That's the whole purpose if you will, of this idea of deeper in prayer, is getting to the point that we have this intimate relationship with God.

But if you open your Bibles and keep them there to Psalm 139, we're going to learn something.

Some of you already know this, we're going to learn something about God today that I think is so vitally important for us to remember and that is this That prayer puts us in the presence of God.

I saw the stuff that back just a moment.

Yes.

Prayer puts us in the presence of God.

But as we read through parts of Psalm 139, what I want you to understand this morning is, you are always in the presence of God.

You're always in the presence of God.

How many of you had parrots?

That just seem to know everything about you, if you did something wrong, you got in trouble for it.

So I've got a boy that was in our youth group growing up more.

When he was growing up, he was in our youth group in McMinnville and he moved into the preachers with, with his uncle who was the preacher and gray had problems.

Grey had a lot of problems.

Greyhound, a lot of stuff stacked up against them to begin with the gray had a lot of problems and he had sixteen, he had snuck out of Tim's house, one not to smoke a cigarette and we live three houses down from him and Dana and gray and his sister.

They moved in and we're pulling through and I seen standing outside in the front yard, smoking this cigarette.

So what does the youth Minister do?

The youth Minister pulls right up to in front of him and that boy put that cigarette in his back pocket.

And the whole time we were standing there Grey's, doing this right here.

Yeah, man.

Yeah, and I just, we just sit there and talk and that thing burned a hole in the back of his britches.

And Burnham pretty bad.

So, when I got home, I text him.

I said, hey, this is what just happened, and the next day, grey comes and sets in the office and he says, man, I'm just, I'm just going to tell you when you pulled in last night.

I just played dumb.

When you pulled in last night.

This is why I was doing.

I thought that cigarette my back pocket, he doesn't burn me, burn me bad.

He goes to hear something.

I can't figure out and goes Tim knew about it because everything that I do, Tim knows, he goes, it's like Tim's everywhere that I go, and what he doesn't realize, it's Kim's.

Got a lot of eyes, you know, he's got a lot of people looking out, my parents still got a lot of people looking out, but I want you to know something this morning.