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scripture, this Lord's day comes from the Psalms, and from Matthew's gospel, You know, the Psalms are the prayer book of the Bible.

And the songs you can find every aspect of the Human Condition from extreme joy to the depth of pain and sorrow from anger to frustration bitterness.

Everything is there and what it teaches us as we pray through, the Psalms is how a faithful person interacts with our God who can handle anything that we have.

Bitterness disappointments.

Discouragement depression but also Thanksgiving enjoy.

I've made it a practice for many, many years to read a Psalm each day and part of my devotional life.

I don't encourage you to do the same.

Sometimes I read it aloud, sometimes I read it silently.

Sometimes I make up a melody and sing it off, then I will do what the song says to do clap meal.

Shout It's an amazing book.

Psalm 72.

Blessed.

Be the Lord, the god of Israel who alone does wondrous things blessed, be his glorious name forever, may his glory, fill the whole earth and I'm in a Matthew's gospel.

Jesus speaking on what we know is The Sermon on the Mount concerning prayer.

And whenever you pray, do not be like the Hypocrites for they love to stand in for in the synagogues and on the street corners and so that they may be seen by others.

Truly, I tell you, they have their reward but whenever you pray go into your room and shut the door and pray to your father who is in secret and your father who sees in secret will reward you.

When you're praying, do not Heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do for.

They think that they will be heard because of their many words, do not be like them for your father, knows what you need before you even ask.

Then this way, our Father in heaven, Hallowed Be Your Name, Your Kingdom Come your will be done on Earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day, our daily bread and forgive us our debts as we have also forgiven our debtors and do not bring us to the time of trial but rescue us from the evil one.

For if you forgive others, their trespasses, your heavenly father will also forgive you.

But if you do not forgive others, neither will your father, forgive you, your trespasses.

This is the word of the Lord.

Thanks be to God.

Let us pray.

Lord be with us in the sharing of your word and its truth.

So that we may come to a deeper understanding of how it is.

You want us to live these days for Christ's sake, man.

I was an English literature, major and undergraduate and so I was thinking of Tennyson, as I Was preparing a sermon today.

Alfred Lord Tennyson said more things are wrought by prayer than this world ever dreams of more things are wrought by prayer than this world ever dreams of testify to the truth of that.

And if you ask Cecily, she can, she can tell you, as well, our time and Africa was difficult in many ways.

There are countless occasions.

When we escaped danger by my dad, used to say by the hair of our chinny chin chin.

And I'm most moments those moment we knew without a shadow of doubt that someone was praying, it may have been right at that moment.

Even, but we felt constantly surrounded.

By the communion of saints, interceding for us to God.

Important prayers, important thing about it before but I want to speak about it in a different way today.

In this next three.

Sundays, I want to look at the marks of a minister, the marks of a minister.

And I want us to think about it in three different ways and will explain it a little bit more in just a minute.

Author, Eugene Peterson wrote a scathing admonition to pastors.

And what you said.

Pastors.

Are giving up their professions in America by the drove.

He went on to say, they're not leaving their churches.

They're not looking for another job, but they have become shopkeepers.

And the shops that they manage, we call churches.

We're more interested in efficiency and measurable data.

Economic viability.

Perception image.

Things that would bring in customers to our shop.

So that we might peddle our Wares to them.

And thinking about this and then realizing that you very soon, will be nominating a path for nominating committee to find God's person for the senior Minister position of this church.

I wanted to direct your attention into the new PNC's.

Attention to at least three characteristics that I think are essential marks of a minister essential marks of a minute and I will have in our next three.

Sundays prayer, the study of scripture and the giving of spiritual direction for Council, these have been for the last two thousand years, the march of the minister ministers jobs are multifaceted but the main thing of minister is supposed to do is to keep the congregation into to God.

To keep the congregation attentive to God.

I don't know.

Perfect, ministers are, no perfect churches.

But these characteristics are vital for minister of missionary anyone who's in leadership in the Christian Community, triangle.

And this graphic, I hope will show a couple of thing.

The lions are the things that most people see.

You see, preaching, you experience teaching, You observe Administration.

These are visible.

What you don't see?

Is a Minister's prayers.

The minister study of scripture.

Are the ministers giving of Godly counsel and spiritual direction to people who need it away with not having any of them in your life.

if you just had the three things in various degrees, you could have preaching teaching Administration, and whatever, whatever proportion worked for the organization that you were working for him.

Probably the people who paid your salary, and who came on a Sunday morning, wouldn't know any different.

But you'll notice what's missing in this graphic, is there are no angles They're just lying.

Just about anybody.

Can do those three things.

With the modern technology.

And even before, when we had books of people sermons created plagiarism, Anybody can give a message.

Teaching why we have such great resources now it even says read this save this.

How many books are on Administration and smooth office running or a 3-day course?

You don't have to have any connection to God, to run a shop that only has those three things.

Those visible things, But you say when we don't have the angles, right?

Then we have a distorted picture, a distorted image a distorted reality of what the church is and it's not what God wants.

so, the first Mark that we're going to look at it sprayer, Prayer prayer, prayer prayer, is the single most vital thing that can be done by a clergy person.

A missionary a minister I want to talk about a few aspects of prayer today.

First, have you ever considered that prayer is dangerous?

Prayer is dangerous.

When we enter into prayer, we are entering into the holy of holies.

We are coming face-to-face with the creator of the universe and we fear of touching the ark.

It's almost as if we are being thrown in the Lion's Den and we don't know if we're going to come out alive or Shane.

And Hebrews chapter 10 verse 13 and says it is a fearful thing to be put in the hands of the Living God.

William Carey father, the 19th century missionary movement said prayer, fervent secret believe in prayer, lies at the root of all godliness.

Root of all Godly.

Godliness is not what I have.

It involves me adapting changing.

Missionary to China.

Said that Satan will move into any.

He will put anything for us to do when we ought to be praying.

I wrote in that the news later this week about change, Change is tough because we are here.

And if we change, we have to go here.

And we don't know what this is going to look like, or how it's going to play out.

We've all experienced some sort of change in our lives.

And if some of it has been Pleasant, some of it's been unpleasant.