How To Bring Confidence To Your Prayerlife

SPEAKER A You once to every time in the sight of the good or evil sky don't break on you that I choice of life forever with that darkness. And. SPEAKER B The Bible assures us in Ephesians two, verses eight to ten, for by grace you have been saved through faith. And that not of yourselves. It is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. For we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. Welcome to faith to faith Here are your hosts, Ettienne McClintock and Braedan Entermann. SPEAKER C Dear listener, greetings and a warm welcome. Thank you for joining us again on the program today. We are delighted to have your company. SPEAKER D And just as we start our study, we just invite you to bow your heads with us in prayer. SPEAKER C Gracious Father in Heaven, we deem it. SPEAKER D A privilege to come into your presence. SPEAKER C Yet again to learn from you. SPEAKER D And we just pray, Father, for a fresh anointing of your Holy Spirit on us and the listener out there so we can understand spiritual things which you discern to us spiritually. May you bless us as we study. SPEAKER C Further regarding this beautiful topic of faith. SPEAKER D And what it means to believe and how we can actually strengthen our prayer life by knowing how to pray according to your will. May you bless us study. Today is our prayer in Jesus name. Amen. SPEAKER E Amen. SPEAKER C So Braedan, I've been enjoying this journey we've been taking through the Bible, understanding what faith is. SPEAKER D I mean, I think it's made it. SPEAKER C Very simple and has taken that concept of faith that faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen, and has taken it out of the realm of the mysterious and made it a lot more practical. SPEAKER F Because isn't that so interesting? ETI and the probably three most misunderstood. SPEAKER E Words god, love and faith. Yes, all of those words are so. SPEAKER F Misunderstood in our world today. And by God's grace, if we can make them clearer, that's just going to be a whole lot better for our Christian experience. SPEAKER D Yeah, well, that's true. Faith is something that's misunderstood quite often and this is what the program is all about. But even like you mentioned know, Hollywood. SPEAKER C Has taken love to another level and. SPEAKER D They'Ve indoctrinated people, they've adulterated. SPEAKER C The word love, and I don't actually. SPEAKER D Mean it pun intended, but I guess. SPEAKER C It'S appropriate to use that because the love that's portrayed on television and in. SPEAKER D The movies is very different to the love we see in the Bible. The love in the Bible is a love that never fails. And how often do people fall in love? They get married and then almost half the marriages end in divorce. So we know that that's not really the biblical love. God's love is enduring and it is one that actually is self sacrificing. And we see that evidence in the life of Christ. God demonstrated his love. He's agape self sacrificing love to us in that while we're yet ungodly and sinners, that Christ died for us. So we want to unpack faith a. SPEAKER C Little bit further today and we want to look at the concept of praying according to faith because if we can know the will of God, surely that should give us confidence when we do talk to God and we ask Him. Because the Bible is very clear. There's a text there in One John, chapter five and verse 14. SPEAKER D I just want to page that and. SPEAKER C Maybe we can start our study. Well, let's start our study there. First John, chapter five and verse 14. SPEAKER D Which says now, I don't know if you're there yet, but if you can read it if you like. SPEAKER E So First John 514, it says now. SPEAKER F This is the confidence that we have. SPEAKER E In Him that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. SPEAKER C So we can have confidence in prayer. And this is the confidence we can have in God that if we ask anything now, what's excluded? SPEAKER D Nothing. SPEAKER C If we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. So what is the emphasis there? If you want to have that confidence in God, you need to know God's will. God's will. Because if you know God's will, you can ask things according to his will and he will hear it. And then in verse 15 it says and if we know that he hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petition that we have asked of Him. So that's the confidence we can have on Him. And this is what we want to pack a little bit today. SPEAKER F So doesn't it make it so important for us then to know what God's will is and to know where to find God's will? SPEAKER C Yes. SPEAKER F And I think it's all about having. SPEAKER E Being on the same page with God. SPEAKER F I've heard people sometimes mentioning things that they're like would God answer if I asked Him for this or for that? Sometimes we don't really know how to approach God. Would he answer if I asked him for a brand new Ferrari? So we don't understand how to relate to God. It's so important that we know where to find God's will, number one. SPEAKER E And number two, to discern it and to find it. SPEAKER F And then that will impact our prayer. SPEAKER E Life in a big way. SPEAKER D Now, would you suggest that that would be a fruitful search if people started. SPEAKER C Searching for God's will? SPEAKER D Would he disappoint them if they started searching his will? SPEAKER F God would never disappoint anyone who is. SPEAKER E Searching to know his will. SPEAKER C And that reminds me of the words of Jesus. SPEAKER D People were confronting Him regarding some of the things that he was saying. And he was saying, well, if you knew God's will, you'd know whether I'm speaking of my own authority or whether this is actually coming from God. SPEAKER C And we find that statement in the Gospel of John. John, chapter seven and verse 17. SPEAKER D And let's start in verse 16, just. SPEAKER C To give us context. John, chapter seven and verse 16. Jesus answered them and said, my doctrine. SPEAKER D Now the word doctrine, quite often people think bad things about the word doctrine. SPEAKER F Another misunderstood, another misunderstood word. SPEAKER C But the word doctrine just simply means teaching, doesn't it? So there is a doctrine regarding love in the Bible. It's a teaching regarding love, a beautiful thing. So the word doctrine, well, you shouldn't. SPEAKER D Get hung up on that. SPEAKER C So if my doctrine is not mine, Jesus said, but his who sent me. SPEAKER D So he's saying, I'm not teaching my own teachings, I'm not coming up with this. Yeah, I'm not coming up with this. SPEAKER C It is from God, I received it from God. And then he makes this beautiful statement in verse 17. So John, chapter seven, verse 17. So just remember John seven, one seven. SPEAKER D John, chapter seven, verse 17. SPEAKER C If anyone wills to do his will, that is God's will, he shall know concerning the doctrine. So there's a promise if you want to anybody wills, anyone desires to know God's will, god will not disappoint Him. He will know concerning the teaching. And then he also says, further, not only will you know God's doctrine and God's will, it says, but you'll also know whether it is from God or whether I speak of my own authority. The word authority is added there, but you can actually then decipher whether someone is speaking for God or whether it's a false teacher. So it's important for us to know God's will, but to desire to know God's will is important as well. SPEAKER D And then God says he will not. SPEAKER C Disappoint, because if anyone wills to do his will, he shall know concerning the teaching. So God's promised that and Jesus has. SPEAKER D Made that promise to us. SPEAKER C So as far as the story is concerned, that can actually demonstrate or illustrate knowing God's will and then how we can use that knowledge to pray and ask God. SPEAKER D If we ask anything according to his. SPEAKER C Will, he hears us. SPEAKER D We've just been told that in one. John, chapter five, verse 13. SPEAKER C Is there a story in the Bible. SPEAKER D That can help us understand that and unpack that in a practical sense? SPEAKER F So we're going to be heading to Second Samuel, but before we go there, I'd like to read a verse in John 1717. SPEAKER E Jesus just reminds us where truth comes from. SPEAKER D Okay, yes, that's another one. So we just said John 717. SPEAKER C Now we go into John 17 1717. SPEAKER E Okay, jesus words again, sanctify them. SPEAKER F He's talking about his disciples. SPEAKER E Sanctify them by your truth, your word is truth. SPEAKER F And so Jesus points it out very clearly the importance of the Bible, the importance of God's words, the importance of Scripture, because it contains the truth. It is truth. And also, as we've shared many times, Romans 1017, it says, faith comes by. SPEAKER E Hearing and hearing by the word of God. Yes. SPEAKER F So this is going to set the stage for our story. We're going to head over now to. SPEAKER E Two Samuel, chapter seven. SPEAKER F We're going to spend the large portion. SPEAKER E Of our time here in this chapter. SPEAKER F Where we find an interesting story where. SPEAKER E David wants to build God a house. SPEAKER F And God wants to build David a house. SPEAKER D Yeah, that's interesting. I find the story so fascinating. SPEAKER C Somehow David finds it in his heart. SPEAKER D He looks at his palace where he's living. It's made of this magnificent wood called cedar wood, and it's got gold and everything in it. SPEAKER C And then he remembers, hang on, I'm living in this palatial, beautiful home, and God is still in the tent. Matter of fact, the tent is old now. SPEAKER D It's a bit dilapidated. SPEAKER C This was built like 400 years earlier. SPEAKER D When the children of Israel came out of Egypt. SPEAKER C Beautiful edifice when it was, and it was very mobile, and it had to. SPEAKER D Be because they were nomadic for a few years before they entered the promised Land. But this is now dilapidated and he's. SPEAKER C Thinking, God is in that tent and. SPEAKER F I'm in this, and I'm in this. SPEAKER D Beautiful edifice. SPEAKER C Something's wrong here. So he gets this desire welling up within him to say, look, I've got. SPEAKER D To do something special for the Lord. SPEAKER C His home should be better than mine. SPEAKER F I'll start reading. In verse one, it says now it. SPEAKER E Came to pass when the king was dwelling in his house, and the Lord had given him rest from all his enemies all around. That the king said to Nathan the prophet, see, now I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells inside tent curtains. Then Nathan said to the Lord, go do all that is in your heart, for the Lord is with you. But it happened that night that the word of the Lord came to Nathan saying, go tell my servant David. Thus says the Lord, would you build a house for me to dwell in? For I have not dwelt in a house since the time that I brought the children of Israel up from Egypt, even to this day, but have moved about in a tent and in a tabernacle wherever. I have moved about with all the children of Israel. Have I ever spoken a word to. SPEAKER F Anyone from the tribes of Israel whom. SPEAKER E I commanded to shepherd my people Israel, saying, why have you not built me a house of cedar? SPEAKER C Now, this is fascinating. The first thing that stands out for me is that David shares with Nathan the prophet. What is on his heart, Nathan thinks is a good idea. And then he says, go do all. SPEAKER D That is in your heart, for the. SPEAKER C Lord is with you. But then God says, no, I won't do that. SPEAKER D Now, we shouldn't probably divert too much. But there's another text. SPEAKER C It's a parallel part of the story. SPEAKER D We'Re reading elsewhere, where God tells David he's got too much blood on his hands because he's been a man of war and he won't be able to build this house to God, but his son will. And the son turns out to be Solomon. SPEAKER C But then God actually, when the word is spoken by a prophet, the prophet. SPEAKER D Actually gets it wrong in his own personal assessment. It made perfect sense. It seemed to be a thing that will honor God. But then God says, no, no. Sorry. SPEAKER C He changes the mind of the prophet, tells him, no, go back and tell David he will not build him a house, but God offers him something different. SPEAKER F So interesting. Would you be able to read verse eight? SPEAKER C Verse eight says now therefore, thus shall you say to my servant David. Thus says the Lord of Hosts, I took you from the sheepfold to following the sheep to be ruler over my people, over Israel. And I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have cut. SPEAKER D Off all your enemies from before you. SPEAKER C And have made you a great name, like the name of the great men who are on the earth. So here we'd seen in verse one. SPEAKER D Already of chapter seven, that God had given him rest from his enemies. So God now says, this is what I've done. SPEAKER C I've taken you were a shepherd boy. SPEAKER D I've made you a ruler over my people, and I've cut off your enemies before you. I've made your name great. Matter of fact, it is as great. SPEAKER C As the greatest men who are on the earth. And then it says, moreover, I will appoint a place for my people Israel. SPEAKER D And I will plant them, and they. SPEAKER C May dwell in a place of their own and move no more, nor shall the sons of wickedness oppress them anymore as previously. Now, what's interesting here is God says. SPEAKER D I will do this, I will do this. SPEAKER F Interesting. SPEAKER D And of course, we know as we've studied through this program, that the simple thing that is called righteousness is to believe God and expect God to do exactly what he said he would do. So here David is hearing all these. SPEAKER C Things that God will do. SPEAKER D And then we go on. In verse eleven, it says, since the time that I commanded judges to be. SPEAKER C Over my people Israel, and have caused you to rest from all your enemies, also the Lord tells you that he will make you a house. SPEAKER F This is so interesting. SPEAKER C It is, isn't it? SPEAKER D So here David is saying, I'm going. SPEAKER C To build a house because the ark. SPEAKER D Is in this tent which is now dilapidated. And then God says, hang on a minute, I know you want to build this house. SPEAKER C I've not asked for one. SPEAKER D Since the time Know took the children of Israel out of Egypt and I. SPEAKER C Was in this tent I've not asked for any house. But let me do something special for you. I've done all these things for you already. SPEAKER D From taking you from a shepherd boy, to making you king, to giving your great name on the earth, to giving. SPEAKER C You rest from all your enemies. I'm going to do something better. You think you're going to build me a house? SPEAKER F I'll make you a house. SPEAKER D I'm going to make you a house. SPEAKER F This is so interesting because I think. SPEAKER E God makes very clear that when he came and visited the children of Israel. SPEAKER F In Egypt to save them, it wasn't because God needed someone to do something for him. SPEAKER E Yeah, he's the God of the universe. SPEAKER F He doesn't need something from says, you. SPEAKER E Know, all the way through, I've been there to do things for you. I've come to help you, I've come to save you, I've come to deliver. SPEAKER F You, I've come to protect you. SPEAKER E He says, I'll build you a house. SPEAKER F God makes this amazing promise that he's going to do something for know David first is like, I'll do something for. SPEAKER E No, no, that's okay. SPEAKER F I've got heaven. I'm the creator of the universe. SPEAKER D That's right. SPEAKER F It's neither here nor there. Where if I have a tent or whatever down here, that's okay. I've got big plans for you, David. SPEAKER E And David has a whole shift. God actually wants to make him a house. SPEAKER D That is just incredible. So he wants to bless the Lord and he wants to promote the cause of God and he wants to show his respect and honor towards God. And God comes he has already honored David, but because he's put that in his heart, because David's got that in his heart, he says, look, I will honor you even further. I will make you a house. SPEAKER C Now, what does it mean when God. SPEAKER D Says he wants to make him a house? SPEAKER E Well, if we continue on, in verse. SPEAKER F Twelve, it says, when your days are. SPEAKER E Fulfilled and you rest with your fathers, I will set up your seed after you, who will come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom. SPEAKER D Okay? So it's through David's seed, so his descendant that he will establish his kingdom. SPEAKER C So that's part of the I will. SPEAKER D Make you a house is establishing of his kingdom. SPEAKER C Okay? SPEAKER E It says, he shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. SPEAKER F So we get this combination of like this concept of building a house and building a kingdom. He goes on to say, verse 14, I will be his father and he shall be my son. SPEAKER E If he commits iniquity, I will chasten. SPEAKER F Him with the rod of men and. SPEAKER E With the blows of the sons of men. But my mercy shall not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I removed from before you, and your house and your kingdom shall be established forever before you. Your throne shall be established forever according to all these words and according to all this vision. So Nathan spoke to David, right? SPEAKER D Okay, so when God says, I will. SPEAKER C Build you, I will make you a. SPEAKER D House, and included not only his house, but his kingdom and also his throne. So this will be an everlasting house. So his house would stay forever. And the way he was going to do it is through his descendants. But ultimately we know that for David to possess an everlasting possession, an everlasting house, he'll have to be raised from the dead. SPEAKER F That's interesting. SPEAKER D So actually the promise of the resurrection. SPEAKER C Is included in this whole process, the same as it was with Abraham in. SPEAKER D A previous program that we did, because. SPEAKER C Abraham was told that not only his. SPEAKER D Descendants, but he also would inherit the land as an everlasting possession. Now the covenant that was made with. SPEAKER C Abraham now is renewed here with David. Abraham's covenant was one for all the common people. SPEAKER D But here we see this is a kingly covenant that is made now, and ultimately Christ is the fulfillment of both covenants. Well, they're the same covenant. They're just renewed with another person. SPEAKER C And Christ here will sit on that throne. SPEAKER D He will sit on the throne of his father David, because he is a descendant of David. SPEAKER C Romans, chapter one, verse three, says that. SPEAKER D Jesus was born of the seed of David according to the flesh. SPEAKER C So here we see that ultimately within this promise is the promise of the. SPEAKER D Messiah, who would sit on David's throne and therefore establish this everlasting covenant and this everlasting kingdom, which is what you. SPEAKER C See in all the prophecies. Daniel, chapter two. Nebuchadnezzar, who's also a king, has a dream, and he dreams about all these successive kingdoms after Babylon, mute to Persia, then Greece, then Rome, then the dividing of Romes. And during that division of the Roman Empire in the west, god will set. SPEAKER D Up an everlasting kingdom which will not be destroyed. And that kingdom was actually the one that he promises here in Samuel two. Samuel, chapter seven, that everlasting kingdom comes through Christ. SPEAKER F And that's so interesting. David, he's super sincere. He's got a great passion. He wants to help God out and. SPEAKER E Make him a house. SPEAKER F It's interesting. SPEAKER E The reason why he would have done. SPEAKER F That is because the tent obviously is getting quite old and getting quite dilapidated. There's nothing that he could make that would last forever. Every building that human beings make comes to an end. SPEAKER D That's right. SPEAKER F But here we have God saying, I'm going to make you something that will last forever. SPEAKER D It's enduring. SPEAKER F It's enduring. SPEAKER A Yeah. SPEAKER D Like the ages. SPEAKER C Yeah. SPEAKER F And so now we're going to with eight, verse 18, we have a transition. SPEAKER E We have David's response to God's promise. SPEAKER C God's promises. That's right. SPEAKER E This is a huge promise. SPEAKER F I'm going to set up your kingdom forever. I'm going to be like a father to your son. I'm going to do all these different things. SPEAKER E I'm going to build you a house. SPEAKER F It's going to last forever. And now David responds. SPEAKER E He responds with a response of faith. SPEAKER F The only appropriate response. When God says he's going to do something, we say, okay, yeah, we let God do it. SPEAKER C Well, God has spoken to him now through his prophet. The prophet speaks for God. God and vision has told Nathan. SPEAKER D And we read in verse 17, just. SPEAKER C As we get into verse 18, the bridge there says, according to all these words and according to all this vision, so Nathan spoke to David. So now God is being spoken to. SPEAKER D By David after he hears what Nathan had to say, what God has said through the prophet Nathan, and it says. SPEAKER C Then King David went in and sat before the Lord and he said, who am I, O Lord God? What is my house that you have. SPEAKER D Brought me this far? Wow. So he's showing humility there. SPEAKER C He's just blown away. God has already blessed him and prospered him. SPEAKER D He's now no longer having to fight. SPEAKER C Those battles and those wars. SPEAKER D And now that he's free, he wants to do something special for God. But he's just recalling all that God. SPEAKER F Has done for him and the house of his fathers and stuff like that. SPEAKER E They weren't very honorable, as in like. SPEAKER F They didn't have much honor in society, big fame and fortune or whatever. Jesse was a humble person. And was it great? Grandparents was Boaz and Ruther, she was a gentile. This wasn't the most famous stock that he's come from. And God takes this humble shepherd from the sheepfold and makes his name, makes. SPEAKER E His house great and makes him a. SPEAKER F King and makes this amazing promise for the future as well. SPEAKER C Now we're talking about obviously eternal life and eternal interest. But if you go to Israel now, they still have the tomb of David there. He's still revered. SPEAKER D They've got his face and they've got statues and monuments of him all through Israel. SPEAKER C So I mean, that enduring aspect of. SPEAKER D It is even in a temporal sense, still there in Israel. SPEAKER F So interesting, isn't it? SPEAKER D Yeah, he's still remembered and revered in many respects. SPEAKER E So where are we up to here? SPEAKER C We're in verse 19, I think, and. SPEAKER F Yet this was a small thing in. SPEAKER E Your sight, O Lord, o Lord God. And you have also spoken of Your servant's house for a great while to come. Is this the manner of man, O Lord God? Now what more can David say to you? For You, Lord God, know your servant for Your word's sake and according to your own heart. You have done all these great things to make Your servant know them, therefore. SPEAKER F You are great, O Lord God, for. SPEAKER E There is none like you, nor is there any God besides you, according to. SPEAKER F All that we have heard with our ears. SPEAKER E Yes. And who is like your people, like Israel, the one nation on the earth whom God has redeemed for Himself as a people to make Himself a name and to do for yourself great and awesome deeds for your land before your people, whom you redeemed for yourself from Egypt, the nations and their gods. SPEAKER F For you have made your people, Israel. SPEAKER E Your very own people forever. And you, Lord, have become their god. SPEAKER D Incredible. Now, in other parts of the scripture, and we don't have time to go there today, god says through Moses, god. SPEAKER C Has not called you because you were. SPEAKER D More righteous than the other people. He hasn't called you because you were a greater nation, but because of his mercy and because of his covenant with Abraham, because of the promises he made to Abraham. And through his seed, god has done these things for you. So here, it's not because of our own righteousness, it's because of God's goodness, his love and his grace. SPEAKER C And here David is actually talking to. SPEAKER D God and telling God, I know these things about your character. You're such an awesome God, there's no one like you, there's no other God that exists. And you've done these beautiful things for Israel, redeemed them out of Egypt, and. SPEAKER C You'D call them so you can make. SPEAKER D A name for yourself. Now, it's not that God wants to have fame and fortune. It's not that kind of name. What he means by name is he. SPEAKER C Wants Israel to represent his character to the world. And this is the character Benevolence, that. SPEAKER D David has just been talking about. But of course, we know that Israel fail more often than they succeed. SPEAKER F What a shameful tale. SPEAKER D True. SPEAKER C But what I like now is now we're getting into verse 25. So this is actually a prayer that David is uttering. He's speaking to God and that we. SPEAKER D Can speak to God. We can have access to God, just like David did. We can also go before God in prayer and by faith, and we can pray to Him. And verse 25 says now. SPEAKER C So we're in two Samuel, chapter seven, verse 25. Now, O Lord God, the word which you have spoken, so here we are. SPEAKER D Referring back to the word that came through Nathan the Prophet to David. SPEAKER C The word which you have spoken concerning your servant and concerning his house, establish it forever and do as you have said. SPEAKER F That is so interesting. SPEAKER C It is. Now, if God had said he's going to do it, why doesn't just David. SPEAKER D Leave God to do it? SPEAKER C Why does he have to pray and say, lord, as you have said, please. SPEAKER D Do what you've said? SPEAKER F It's interesting. If we just stop here for a second. Why doesn't everything that God wants, why. SPEAKER E Isn'T God's will always accomplished? He could do it. SPEAKER F Yes. SPEAKER E An all powerful God. What restrains an all powerful God from. SPEAKER F Accomplishing what he wants? SPEAKER D Well, there's only one thing that I know of in the Bible, and that is free will. SPEAKER F That's exactly right. SPEAKER E Yeah. And so God has god expresses his will, god expresses his desire in the form of promises. He says, I will do this. SPEAKER F Yes. SPEAKER E And what God is banking on is human beings being overwhelmed with his kindness and his goodness and responding with a faith response. Basically, here we have God, who has this grand vision for the future of saving humanity, bringing the Messiah to the. SPEAKER F Throne of Israel and saving the entire world. And David goes, you know what? Do that. Yes. God, can you do that? SPEAKER E So basically, he knows God's desire, he. SPEAKER F Knows God's will and he says, God, can you please do that? And here now we have a human. SPEAKER E Being who's made many mistakes and he's. SPEAKER F Just calling out to God and saying, god, I want what you want. SPEAKER E My will is your will. Yes. And in that moment, you've just got. SPEAKER F A human being calling out saying, I want God's will to be done. SPEAKER E Which is so significant, because human beings. SPEAKER F By nature don't want God's will to be done. SPEAKER D That's right. SPEAKER E But here we have faith just shown so clearly. SPEAKER F God makes a promise and David says, let's do that. God, let's stick with that plan. That's a good plan. SPEAKER C Let your will be done. SPEAKER E Let your will be and he prays. SPEAKER C According to the will of God because God has revealed his will to him already. And then verse 26, he talks, let your name be magnified forever. This prayer of David is not to. SPEAKER D Magnify himself, but it's for God's name to be magnified. And then he says, the Lord of Hosts is the God over Israel, and let the house of your servant David. SPEAKER C Be established before you. Verse 27 for you, O Lord of Hosts, God of Israel, have revealed. So this is revealed through the prophet nathan revealed this to your servant, saying, I will build you a house, therefore. SPEAKER D So everything that preceded this is now saying, therefore, this is now summarizing that. And this is the conclusion. SPEAKER C Therefore, your servant has found it in his heart to pray this prayer to you. David would not have prayed this prayer if the word of God hadn't come. SPEAKER D To him through Nathan the prophet, saying, this is what I'm going to do for you. I'm going to build you a house. SPEAKER E David's faith, his confidence, his passion, it. SPEAKER F Was a response to a promise that God had made. If God had not made that promise, he would not have prayed that prayer. SPEAKER D That's right. It is incredible. And in verse 28, it goes on to say as well and now, O. SPEAKER C Lord God, you are God, your words are true. So here it refers to the word of God again and you have promised. So he believes the promises, this goodness to your servant. Now therefore, did it please you to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue before you forever. For you, O Lord God, have spoken it. SPEAKER D So if God. SPEAKER C Has spoken it. If we see it in the word of God, we can then know the. SPEAKER D Will of God and we can pray. SPEAKER C According to his will. And what was the promise? SPEAKER D If we ask anything according to his. SPEAKER C Will, he hears us. He hears us and not only hears us, we can have a confidence that whatever we've asked according to his will, he will give us. SPEAKER E David could pray so confidently for the. SPEAKER F Fulfillment of this, because God had actually. SPEAKER E Said I'm going to do this for you. SPEAKER F How important then for us to spend more and more time in God's Word. SPEAKER E To know what he says? Because as we see God's word, as we hear God's word, faith awakens in. SPEAKER F Our heart and we are willing to trust Him and pray accordingly. SPEAKER D Absolutely. And also that promise there in John chapter 717, if anybody wills to do. SPEAKER C Or to know God's will, he shall know concerning the doctrine. SPEAKER D And then who's speaking as well? SPEAKER C Is it under the authority of God. SPEAKER D Or is it the authority of man? SPEAKER C And here David's clearly heard the will of God. It's God's plan. It's God's authority. And he can pray this prayer of faith based on the word of God only. SPEAKER D Because now we mentioned before in Romans chapter ten, verse 17, that faith comes. SPEAKER C By hearing and hearing the word of God. So where there is no word of. SPEAKER D God, there can be no faith. SPEAKER C That's right. To dear listener, we pray that God has blessed you in our study today. This fascinating story of David found in two Samuel chapter seven, where David wants to build God a house. SPEAKER D And God says no, I'm going to. SPEAKER C Build you a house, I'm going to establish your kingdom, I'm going to establish your throne forever. And this obviously was a promise of the Messiah to come. And then when David hears the word of God, he takes the word of God as God's will for him and his kingdom. SPEAKER D And he prays a prayer according to God's will, having full confidence that what. SPEAKER C God has promised and what God has. SPEAKER D Said he will fulfill to him. SPEAKER C We look forward to catching with you next time. SPEAKER D Until then, God bless you. SPEAKER B Thank you for joining us on Faith. To Faith. If you would like more information about today's program or if you have any questions, please contact 3ABN Australia Radio by Phoning. 02 4973 3456. Or you can send an email to [email protected] You can also contact us on our 3ABN Australia radio Facebook page. We'd love to hear from you.