They've Been With Jesus: Week 3 - The Place of Change | Pastor Tyler Johnson | 06.07.26

When they came out, they didn't handle life the way they would have handled it before. They handled it the way Jesus would have. They loved when others would have lashed out. They forgave when others would have had held a grudge. They trusted when others would have panicked. They obeyed when others would have quit. Why? Because they had been with Jesus. The goal prayer is simply not just getting an answer from Jesus. The goal prayer is becoming more like Jesus. [01:00:40] (27 seconds)  #PrayToBecomeLikeJesus

They knew of the secret place, the place where they sat at the feet of Jesus, the place where they listened to the voice of Jesus, learned his heart, and experienced his presence. The disciples understood something we often forget. If you wanna live for Jesus publicly, you must spend time with Jesus privately. Before they preached to crowds, they spent time with Jesus. Before they turned the world upside down, they spent time with Jesus. Before they healed the sick, they spent time with Jesus. [00:41:38] (29 seconds)  #PrivateTimeWithJesus

thirty minutes, start the clock. I go in my backyard. I have a place where I pray. I'm gonna talk about it a second. I go in my backyard, and I just have a conversation with my father. And sometimes those moments, they're a lot longer than usual. And sometimes it's authentic and real, but it's shorter than usual. And I know he's pleased with both because he's looking for honest prayers. Now now that we know that he wants honest prayers, not only does want honest prayers, he wants you to have a place to pray. [00:55:26] (28 seconds)  #HonestPrayerTime

Mark one, it says this, not only did he teach them in Matthew six to have a place, not only did he teach them and say, go find a place, but he also modeled it over and over again in his ministry. Let me show you in Mark one. Very early in the morning while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house, and went off to a solitary place. Everybody say solitary place. Solitary. Where he prayed. Come on. He's he's modeling something for us today, church. Luke six, one of those days, just went up to the mountainside to pray and spent the night praying to God. When the morning came, he called his disciples together to choose the 12. So he's making a big decision the next day. He wanted to pray before his decision by himself. [00:55:54] (33 seconds)  #JesusModeledSolitude

Jesus gives us help in how to pray. Now the the disciples ask him how to pray, and it's the Lord's Prayer, and it's a template. It's a it's it's a way to help us. It's a road map on how to pray. And and I can't find the theologian that birthed this template that I'm gonna give you today, but it's been around for a long time. It's basically like a it's a full meal deal when it comes to prayer. It has it's called the ACTS prayer, adoration, confession, thankfulness, and supplication. [01:05:30] (25 seconds)  #ACTSPrayerTemplate

So this one's a a big one, and it's gonna be a little intense, but but just hear me real quick. Shame is one of the biggest stoppers of prayer. It's the origin in the garden where Adam and Eve, when they messed up, their shame made them hide, not go to Jesus. They didn't sin and then create a secret place. The sin actually birthed the running place, if you will. [01:10:10] (22 seconds)  #ShameBlocksPrayer

Now hear me. Jesus is not against public prayers. He's against showy prayers. He's saying these people already got the reward. They didn't come to impress me. They came to impress you. They didn't come to actually come out do something for me. They came to do something for a man to look at. And so he goes, hey. I am not against public prayers, but I am against showy prayers. I I get concerned sometimes for the person that when they pray for me, they pray and everything they pray rhymes. [00:48:11] (33 seconds)  #AuthenticNotShowyPrayer

He looked back at his life, said, I I preached a lot, but if I could actually redo this thing, the one thing that I would add more to my life, the one thing that I see in my spirit, wish I would have done more, is I wish I would have prayed and hung out with Jesus more. He would go on to say it this way I find fascinating. Love it. He goes, I spend more time in spiritual nurture. I'm just here to tell you, you need some nurturing. Yeah. You are neglecting some things in your soul that only Jesus can nurture in prayer. Yeah. You are neglecting some things that only Jesus can nurture in quiet time and in solitude. [00:46:48] (32 seconds)  #PrioritizeSpiritualNurture