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  (SERMON CLIP) PRACTICING THE DISCIPLINE OF PRAYER ON EARTH
  by K.P. Yohannan
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Summary: This sermon emphasizes the importance of living as aliens and
strangers on earth, not conforming to worldly culture but focusing on
living for Christ. Practical recommendations are given, including
prioritizing prayer over Bible studies, dedicating more time to prayer
to deepen intimacy with God, and setting aside a day for fasting and
prayer. The power of fervent, secret prayers is highlighted through a
personal testimony, encouraging believers to prioritize their
relationship with God above all else.

Topics: "Living as Aliens and Strangers", "Prioritizing Prayer"
Scripture References: 1 Peter 2:11, James 4:4, Matthew 6:6, Matthew 17:21, Colossians 3:2, 1 Thessalonians 5:17, Luke 18:1, Matthew 6:18, Psalm 37:4

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This sermon emphasizes the importance of living as aliens and strangers
on earth, not conforming to worldly culture but focusing on living for
Christ. Practical recommendations are given, including prioritizing
prayer over Bible studies, dedicating more time to prayer to deepen
intimacy with God, and setting aside a day for fasting and prayer. The
power of fervent, secret prayers is highlighted through a personal
testimony, encouraging believers to prioritize their relationship with
God above all else.

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Just read that email and see some pictures from our missionaries that
left their homeland Burma and went to Laos and Cambodia, living there
for years and leading people to Christ, having planted several churches.
But I may never see those brothers in person, nor the believers, but I
know someday when I get to see Jesus, there will be multitudes that no
man can number around the throne. Why? Because today, wherever he may
be, the Lord placed you here.

Live the way the Lord would want you to live as aliens, strangers, and
pilgrims. Don't belong to this earth and the culture or whatever that is
destroying us from being like Christ. There are four recommendations I
will give, hopefully practical applications you can take and do
something with it.

One, I don't know about this church, but wherever I go, I recommend more
and more now, stop a lot of Bible studies, but convert that hour or hour
and a half for prayer. We cannot know the Lord intimately, nor can we be
used by him without understanding the meaning of time with God. Average
Christians spend less than eight minutes a day in prayer.

Can you imagine you spend eight minutes with your family a day and think
that you can know them? No one. How can you know God without spending
time with him? Add more time to your prayer life. Seek to take a day of
the week for fasting and prayer.

By the way, if you fast one day of the week and pray, you die, you
please let me know. I can assure you the Lord will give you the grace.
But the reason I'm saying this to you, you know, we are six boys in my
family that I grew up back in India.

My mother used to spend three, four hours a day, early morning hours
alone in prayer. And she never revealed this to anyone. One of her
prayers was that out of six boys, one of them will go and preach the
gospel.

Every Friday for three and a half years, she fasted and prayed
specifically for that one prayer request, although she never disclosed
that to me or anyone. And I'm the result of her prayer. You are
organizing for children, grandchildren, your family.

Counseling is very good. Books are good. But nothing is going to take
the place of being with God.

And get a world map. And we have world map.

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Video: https://sermonindex2.b-cdn.net/4BJ2xWKQXoQ.mp4
Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/kp-yohannan/sermon-clip-practicing-the-discipline-of-prayer-on-earth/
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