Thursday, January 4th | Praying in the New Year (pt. 1)

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We're going to leave a link in the description so you can do just that. The verse of the day today comes from Hebrews chapter one, verse three. Who being the brightness of His glory, and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the majesty on high. My goodness.

Somebody get this man a stinking pullet surprise, dude. That hits. Hebrews hits every time. Someone tell me Paul didn't write Hebrews.

Like, just look me in the face and tell me this is not Paul's writing. The imagery that he uses, the brightness of His glory, upholding all things by the word of His power, sitting down at the right hand of the majesty on high, it just gets me hyped. It gets me hyped to think about how great and how excellent and how majestic Jesus is. And that's one of those moments where it's its own form of worship, just getting excited about the truth of Jesus Christ and who He is in relation to the Father. I love that it also says when He had by Himself purged our sins, there was no outside influence.

There was nothing that we brought to the table. It was Christ alone who purged our sins and gave us His righteousness and then as a result sat down at the right hand of the majesty on high. Christ is alive and He is reigning in heaven right as we speak. This isn't like something that happened way in the past. This is Jesus in heaven on the throne now. Because He's God.

It wasn't like some homeless Jewish rabbi felt really nice and just paid for our sins and just died a sinner's death on the cross. This is God Himself coming down. Man, that gets me hyped every time, speaking of getting hyped. Speaking of getting hyped, we have our Thursday segment for you today, Advice No One Needed. Advice No One Needed. You didn't need it. I didn't need it.

You didn't need it. But here we are. I got some great advice for y'all called Trash Mug. Oh no, not this. No, no, no.

All right, let's wind the clock backs a couple of years. We used to have a show called Carpe Manana and we had Advice No One Needed as a segment on that show. Dr. Shah's daughter, Rebecca, oldest daughter, good friend, close personal friend, she had a segment on her Advice No One Needed on her week called Trash Mug. About the Trash Mug. Here's Trash Mug. Here's what Trash Mug is. Trash Mug is a mug that you put on your table and you put all your trash in. You're eating a little candy wrapper.

Mmm, that's sweet. You're not going to get up and go to the trash. You're going to put it in the little mug on the table.

No. You're going to have like a little, you got to wipe your hands or you wipe your baby's hands. Oh, I got a little wipe here. I don't want to get up right now and put it in the trash can. I'll put it in the mug. Mug gets full, you get up, go to bed, dump Trash Mug in the table. Here's the folly of my mistake. I made fun of Trash Mug. If you go back to the Carpet Manana show and you listen, I was one of the dissenters.

I was, I was a voice from the darkness casting her down, her wisdom. I have adopted Trash Mug. No, no. And I'm saying to you people, it's good to have a mug to put your trash in.

I've got one right here in the Clearview Today studio. Here's my problem with this. Here's my problem with this. They have a concept for this already. It's called a wastebasket. Just get you a little tiny trash can and put it in the living room with you. All you got to do is, Oh, right there in the trash can. I would love to discuss that further.

I just need a little bit of clarification. You said wastebasket? A wastebasket. And so I get lots of them and put them at all my potential sitting spots? Sure.

I don't think so. Why? Because I have a little mug in the center of the table and you can add, look, this one's Spider-Man. This is a little Spider-Man mug. Let's see what I got in this. Don't put your trash in dishes. So I got a pen, right? Not trash.

I've got this Bluetooth clicker that actually, this has to go to Egypt with Dr. Sean. Also not trash. I got some tape. Also not trash.

I got some electrical tape. So this is not a trash mug. This is a storage mug.

One second. Let's see what's in here. I got this little cord that lets us make phone calls on the Clearview Today show. Not trash. I got an SD card that I actually yelled at Adam for not putting this back. Interesting that it's in the trash mug.

And I've got some little microphone accessories. None of which is trash. Yeah.

There's like glue just keeping this thing together. I still would push for trash mug. I think trash mug is a convenience thing. You don't want to have to keep getting up. Because when I put trash on the table, oh, that's an argument.

Ellie doesn't like that. Right. So I hear you.

You don't want to have to keep getting up. Love that for you. That's fantastic. Get a wastebasket. My son eats trash out of the wastebaskets.

What makes you think he's not going to get a trash mug and be like, oh, look, a cup. I'm going to pour water in here. Oops.

Now this is soggy trash. Hmm. Hmm.

That's a good point. Absolutely. See, no. David, what are your thoughts on trash mug? No trash mug. You're one of the trashiest people I know. No trash mug.

Just go with the wastebasket. What do you think about trash mug? Hold on. Wait a minute. Trashiest people you know?

We've got to wrap up, so I just want to know what you think about trash mug. Quickfire answers only. I'm not quite ready. Yeah.

Because you said something that was false. Sure. We're sitting at like six minutes, though, so we've got to go to an ad really quick. Just yes or no trash mug. Here we go.

Three, two, one. I refuse. You refuse to answer. I refuse to answer. I don't want to let us know your thoughts on the trash mug.

I don't want to halt the progress of the show, but you said something kind of crazy. Go ahead and wrap up. Write in and let us know your thoughts on the trash mug.

2-5-2-5-8-2-5-0-2-8. Tell us why it's a bad idea and you should just get a wastebasket. I agree with you.

Also, visit us online at clearviewtodayshow.com. I really want to get Dr. Shaw's input on here because I'm confident he's going to be on my side. I bet Dr. Shaw puts his immediate trash. You think he just slips it in his pocket?

Maybe. Or just get a small trash can. Accomplishes the same thing as a trash mug. Guarantee you he doesn't have wastebaskets because I know already he struggles to get Nicholas and Thomas to take the trash out. Guarantee you there's no wastebaskets at the house.

That might be true. Let's see what he says. Write in and let us know or visit us online today at clearviewtodayshow.com. Make sure you stay tuned.

We'll be back after this. Elizabeth, my darling bride, what would you say is the most beneficial thing you could do for yourself in the morning? Probably drink an entire pot of coffee when sitting.

I'd say that's a close second. The best thing you can do for yourself is to start every morning with a daily devotional. Only being one to talk about.

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If you have any questions or suggestions for new topics, send us a text at 252-582-5028. Did you just gesture with the trash mug? I just saw that on the corner of my eye and you were like, no, absolutely not.

Peter Parker himself. No. We are here through my intro wall. Your trash mug threw me off.

You scared me. We're here in the Clearview Today studio with Dr. Abaddon Shaw, who is a PhD and New Testament textual criticism professor at Carolina University, author, full-time pastor, host of today's show, and who I guarantee does not use waste baskets at his house. Dr. Shaw, waste baskets just around the house.

Do you have them? I mean like trash, like trash cans? So a trash can, but a little small trash can that later goes into the big trash can. Like if I'm in the living room, a little trash can. Like a smaller trash can that you would then take out and maybe empty into the larger kitchen. Like in the living room? Right.

I mean, just to be honest, I mean, but there's none in there. No, of course not, because most people use trash mug. You remember trash mug. No. Now I know where this is going. Back in the day, you hosted a show called Carpe Mañana, and I believe your oldest daughter gave some advice that I'm not going to lie, that I didn't take to heart.

I was young. As you should not have, because the trash mug should not make an appearance. Now trash mug has really changed my life. It's like he's a hero of sorts.

No. Now this technically, Dr. Shaw, is not a trash mug. This is just, these are actually critical pieces of technology we have in here. But I still say it stands. If you're sitting at the table and you've got a little piece of trash, you just put it in the mug and then dump the mug out later. It's better than having a waste basket in every room. Would you put a trash can on your table?

No. So why would you put a trash mug on the table? Because I do put a mug on the table. It doesn't matter what's in it. I put a mug on the table.

It doesn't matter what's in it? I wouldn't put an empty trash can on my table. This is ludicrous. That's silly, Ryan. This is ludicrous.

You would keep trash on your table. Listen, yesterday we talked about growing up. And I feel, I feel that maybe you didn't take that to heart. So maybe we should talk about it a little bit again today. Dr. Shaw, how do you, I mean, I don't- This is so much to me, and I would love to segue out of this quickly.

Why don't you go ahead and segue? I'm going to put trash mug back in its spot. Okay.

So we're talking today about the importance of growing up, especially as we enter into the new year. Yes. You know, maybe you've been entertaining things like trash mugs and you've been stuck in that realm of thinking, but we want to mature past that, not just in the realm of how we dispose of litter in our lives, but in our spiritual lives as well. Well, I feel like in our weakness, right, in our spiritual weakness, there's always the spirit to help us.

Right. Well, I don't know, Dr. Shaw, what is your take on that? I don't know how to get out of this one. I feel like I'm inside the trash mug right now, waiting for somebody to come pick it up, dump it in the trash can. I'm uncomfortable with the energy we've created in the trash mug today. Energy we've created in the trash mug. Oh my goodness.

Well, let's see. So Romans chapter eight, when all else fails, go to Romans. It is a beautiful chapter that helps us grow deeper in the Christian life. That's right.

And that deeper is not necessarily doing more Bible study or more worship or more evangelism. Although all those things are wonderful, it's focuses on prayer. The thing that changes the most as we begin to grow in the Christian life or as Christians is how we pray. That's right.

That's right. It's one of those things that I think we take for granted because prayer is always going to be there in the Christian life. It's something that if I'm doing it right, I'm doing it every day, but I don't think about that my prayers can grow, you know what I'm saying? I can quote unquote get better at praying. You've said this, Dr. Shabbat, the way you pray reflects what you believe about God. So naturally, as you grow in your understanding of God, your prayers should deepen. There should be a greater maturity to your prayers rather than, now I lay me down to sleep or thank you for this food or, you know, they should go further than that. So you know, I'm raising two boys and one of them's only a year old, but Gavin is doing his prayers. And that's kind of our thing that now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord getting the rudimentary, rudimentary prayers, just getting him to understand we're talking to God. Right. Yeah. But imagine like if I were, if I was like, all right, Ellie, you ready? Let's pray. Now I lay me.

And then she goes, now I lay me down to sleep, down to sleep. Like at 30 years old, people would be like, you should be well beyond that. Yeah. For how you pray is a good indicator of your relationship with God. Just like in any other relationship, the way you started dating your spouse now.

How was it? You were simply making small talk or joking or funny stories, very surface level stuff just to entertain. But then as you begin to grow, you should deepen in your conversation. Yeah. Like imagine how long have you and Nicole been married? Coming up on 27 years. Like imagine if like today, like y'all's conversation, she's like, so what's your favorite movie?

Like, what's your favorite food? Yeah. Yeah. It's like, you should.

We should be well past that now. That's right. You know, the funny thing is my mom said about you that, you know, she is like over the moon about you. And, and, and I can imagine Nicole just looking at me going, your mom, she's known me a long time. Why today is that conversation coming up?

She's just really happy I found a girl of your account. Like, what? That's right. Yeah. I mean, when it comes to prayer with God, when, when it comes to our spiritual life, the longer we are saved, the longer we've been walking with God, the deeper our conversation should become. But unfortunately, have you noticed some people's prayers are exactly the same as they were 10 years ago, 20 years ago, 30 years ago?

I mean, exact same prayer. Yeah. I mean, do you talk with people the same way, exact same way you've done like 30 years? Not if you have a relationship with them.

No. You have no like no kind of acquaintance on a surface level. You would just be like, yeah. Hey, how's your family? Good to see you. Man, the weather's crazy. But if you like a dear friend that you've grown up with or a spouse, you, I would not look at my wife and say, how's your family doing?

Hey, the weather outside is great. No, we have a much deeper relationship. Well, I almost think about like people that you interact with in the business world where you almost, you're not being fake, but you just have to be on your best. You have to, Hey, how are you, sir? Yes. Good. Good to see you.

And I think a lot of us do come to God with that, with almost that false brightness or that false, Father God, I'm doing great and I'm so glad that you dropped on by to see me today. It's a mask. Yeah. Yeah.

It is a mask. A hundred percent. So you've heard that old adage, adages are old. You've heard the old statement or the adage, you are what you eat. You are what you pray.

That's a good point. Or how you pray. If your prayer is weak, your Christian life is weak. If your prayer is scattered is because your Christian life is scattered. And so if your prayer is intact, then you are intact. If your prayer is sound, then you are sound. So I hope today we can discuss something about what it means to pray in the spirit. And it's not what people have made it out to be. It's not what denominations have made it out to be. Let's go biblical. Yeah, absolutely. Let's stay in the context of what scripture says about praying in the spirit. Right.

I feel like that's such a great time for us to talk about this too, especially as we're like still right in the beginning of the new year. Yes. For a lot of people, maybe your resolution was like, I want to spend more time with God or I want to be more diligent in my quiet times or I want to grow in my prayer life, my understanding. Hey, here's a great way for you to do that right here on the Clear Read Today show.

That's right. So in Romans chapter eight, Paul tells us three things about praying in the spirit. The first thing he tells us is that the Holy Spirit knows our weaknesses. So here's Romans eight twenty six, likewise, the spirit also helps us in our weaknesses. So when you think about the word weakness, what are we talking about?

Well, let's think about physical weakness. Our blood pressure goes up and down based on our sugar. If our sugar goes up and our sugar goes down, I mean, those things can impact our physical well-being or our demeanor. When we become anemic or dehydrated or get sick, I mean, the list can go on and on. God knows our sicknesses. God knows what we're struggling with. And I mean, all of us have something that we are waiting to see the doctor or waiting for a prescription or waiting for a test result.

God knows it. So the spirit also helps us in our physical weaknesses. And it's important to remember that because we tend to disassociate our spiritual.

Our physical life from ours. Exactly. Yes. Yes. We tend to think that this is my physical world.

I'm just here to focus on the spiritual. And God doesn't care about my physical life. Yes, he does. That's right. Yeah. Sometimes he uses. In fact, many times he uses our physical weaknesses to help us grow spiritually. It does not, for a single moment, does it mean that he doesn't care about our physical world? Right.

Our physical life. Last month? Yeah.

Last month, I think you made a good point that God became flesh for a reason. Yes. Yes.

Jesus was born in the flesh. Yeah. That's right. And one day we will be resurrected. The redemption will be complete when the flesh is resurrected.

That's right. Very much so. The second thing that the spirit helps or the weakness is our emotional weakness. We get emotionally drained. We get emotionally confused or lose our temper. Sometimes we feel unloved. Sometimes we feel insecure. We feel depressed. And the list goes on and on. God cares about our emotional weakness.

Right. Especially now as we're coming out of the holidays, a lot of that stress is being lifted. But I can think of a couple of times in the last few weeks where many of us were emotionally drained or emotionally stressed out, or especially if you're the one in charge of making all the Christmas preparations happen. Guarantee, you probably snapped at somebody once or twice.

We probably went off on at least our kids. This could be the time of the year when emotions run high. Maybe because you're in close proximity with your family or because this is a holiday. It's a difficult time for some people. Maybe you don't have a loved one here to celebrate like you have in holidays past. And that's a painful reminder. Holidays, we tend to focus on the good times, but for some people, that's a very low point emotionally. Right.

Right. And then there's, of course, the spiritual weakness or weaknesses. Here we're talking about struggling with old sins, old habits, selfish nature, our past.

All these things take a toll on us. We don't know how to love others. We don't know how to let go of the past. We don't know what the future holds.

We don't know what is the best road to take in our personal lives. We don't know what God's will is for our lives. So all these things are part of the spiritual weaknesses.

And the good part is we don't have to come and bring God up to speed. He knows it. He knows, I know you're struggling with your sugar levels, or I know that you're struggling with cancer, and I know you're struggling with this depression. People go through depression. By the way, depression does not mean sin. Sometimes it's just the makeup of people.

They go through, they're prone to depression. Sometimes it is our spiritual weaknesses, and God knows that as well. So all of these things are part of who we are, what God understands. And I love what you said, too, that it takes a toll. We tend to think that, and I know I've fallen into this trap many, many times, where our spiritual weaknesses, if I disregard them, I can always pick up where I left off. But you don't realize, and I haven't realized in the past, that neglecting your spiritual life is costly.

It's very costly. Just like if I neglect my exercise or I neglect my emotional well-being, that's going to cost me. Spiritual weakness, same thing. Are you neglecting your physical life?

It's getting better. Yeah, Romans chapter 8. But the high priest, not the Holy Spirit, in Hebrews chapter 4.15, for we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses.

Same word as in Romans 8.26. But it was on all points tempted as we are, yet without sin, let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. So folks, those who are listening, those who are watching, if you're facing a physical weakness, it does not mean that that's off limits, God doesn't care about that.

You figure that out. But spiritual things, you better get to God. No, physical things, you can come to God and say, God, I am struggling with this.

Mental issues, emotional struggles, and definitely spiritual needs, you can come to God. He knows your weaknesses. The Holy Spirit knows. That's what He's doing. Helping you understand. He gets it. I love that reminder, too, because it's not like, I mean, just like you said, we don't have to catch God up.

Like, hey, let me fill you in on what's been going on. No, God knows, because He's there with you every step of the way. And yet He still wants you to come to Him and bring those concerns to Him through the Holy Spirit. I remember one time we were talking in our Converge classroom, our Sunday night Bible study, and it was one of your daughters, your youngest daughter, and she said, you know, I need a car. I'm just so ashamed to pray for a car. And you said something that even to this day, that was years ago. I think she wasn't even driving yet.

She might have been 16. But yeah, you said something that to this day, still, I remember you said the Holy Spirit knows what you should pray for. Even if you don't, if you're embarrassed to pray for that, the Holy Spirit knows what you ought to be praying for. And it's biblical, because in Romans 8 26, it says, for we do not know what we should pray for as we ought. One mark of growth in the Christian life is not knowing how to pray.

That's right, folks, you heard it correctly. One mark of growth in the Christian life is not knowing how to pray. Not knowing.

Someone's other instant question mark. Yeah, it's like, wait, I thought growth means you know how to pray. No, we think we know how to pray. And the more we walk with God, the more we realize, God, I don't know how to pray for this situation. You have a child who is going off the deep end or doing things that are not right. You don't know how to pray.

You have a friend or a family member who is estranged from you. You don't know how to pray. All these things are part of the growing Christian life. Just like children, children always know what to ask for. They ask whatever they want and expect whatever they ask. I'm hungry. Can I have ice cream? You do not know what to ask for.

That is my life right now, 24-7. I want milk. I want bluey. Dad, I need a good, nourishing meal. Can I have candy?

Yes, golly. But Paul says, we do not know what we should pray for as we ought. Sometimes we don't know what's best for us. In matters of relationships, career, financial decisions, the answers are not that simple. Life is much more complicated.

We don't know what's best for us. We don't know what to ask for in prayer, and sometimes the more something means to us, the harder it is to pray for. So God will help you understand that. I like to say Garth Brooks, the great theologian, of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.

It's good to know. We don't get it. Sometimes we don't realize what is best for other people. What we pray for affects other people. I can say, God, stop this rain so we can have a great, great gathering. And the farmer over there is praying. Please, Lord.

Lord, please. Since the rain, conflicting prayers. We don't think about that.

We don't know what other people need. Warren Wiersbe said it this way, more people have quit praying because of disappointments in prayer more than anything else. That's why we need the Holy Spirit to pray for us. He knows the mind of God. He knows our past. He can see our future. He knows what is best for us, and He knows what will bring the best for everyone involved. He knows what will grow God's kingdom. And so we have to say, I don't get it.

Please help. That's a good point. That's a really great point that as we grow, we understand that we can't just pray in isolation. Our prayers intersect with each other.

They interact. That's just a mark of maturity to understand that. It makes me think of, I mean, this is not at all a biblically accurate movie, but it makes me think of the movie Bruce Almighty. When Jim Carrey's character, you know, he's God for a day, essentially, and he's answering all these prayers that come in, but then he gets to a point where he's like, there's too many.

There's too many of y'all. Just yes to everyone. But then the whole world starts to fall apart because this person prays for this, but it conflicts with this, and then everything intersects.

One woman comes up, she's like, I lost 25 pounds on the Krispy Kreme diet. And that's a silly example, but it reminds us that God is in control, and it is a good thing that he's in control because he knows when to say no. That's right. And then finally, the Holy Spirit intercedes for us. Amen.

Right? Weaknesses. We don't know how to pray. The Holy Spirit knows how to pray, but then he also intercedes for us. It says here, for we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. Now sometimes people have said groanings that cannot be uttered, that is speaking in tongues.

Now I want you to read that again. The Spirit himself makes intercession for us means you're not doing it, the Spirit is doing it. Right. Right.

So people are like, that's right. I know I'm speaking in tongues, and that's the Spirit doing that. Read it again, with groanings which cannot be uttered. So I can't speak it, it can't be spoken.

There's no speech coming from me. Wordless groaning. Yeah.

So unless you're sitting there going, but I don't think that's what really is happening. The word groanings in the Greek is stenagmois, which means deep sighs. You know, when do we sigh? When I'm frustrated. Yeah. Tired. Worried.

It's just too much, just too heavy. You go. You sigh from a burden. Right. Yeah. The Holy Spirit does that for us.

He knows and senses how we're feeling, and he carries those feelings into the Trinity. Amen. Wow.

Right? That's deep. Yeah.

Yeah. We made it out into something completely different, and that's not what's happening here. So in this wordless groaning, you and I cannot even hear the sighs or the words. The conversation is actually taking place within the Trinity. It may not even reach our consciousness, but it reaches the ear of the Father, or the ears of the Father.

And it's all thanks to the Spirit that he's doing that for us. It says, now he who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because he makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God. And then comes verse 28, which we love. What is that verse?

Somebody read it. And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to his purpose. Yes.

So there you have it. The Holy Spirit helps us in all these things. So he helps us because he knows our weaknesses, he helps us because he knows what we should pray for, and then he intercedes for us with groanings that cannot be uttered according to the will of God, and God works everything together for good. That's praying in the Spirit.

And that's how you pray in the Spirit. Yeah. Wow. That's it, man.

So good. So helpful for us, especially if your resolution is to get closer to God or to grow in your prayer life. This is helpful. I mean, I would be taking notes on this episode.

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