Best advice for a major life Change

I want all of you to listen to me right now. I am about to tell you something that will change your life forever. There is one item that stands at the heights of the world that if you would take this and implement this into your life, your life would change forever. I mean, it would be completely unrecognizable. And the thing that I will to discuss with you today is prayer. Let's talk about it. Hey everybody, welcome back to the Nisin Black Show. It's like amazing for me right now. I am in Punta Cana right now. I don't know if you know where that is, in the Caribbean Islands, very, very beautiful place. And I just couldn't help myself that I wanted to speak with all of you. I'm supposed to be on tour. I have a few other dates that I'm supposed to be in other places, but I couldn't stop. I had to come talk to you right now because what I'm telling you right now is going to change your life forever. About prayer, about talking to God. it sounds like it's a very, very uh trivial thing. Like, "Oh yeah, people pray. I talk to God. I know about this already." But the real truth of it is is that do you really? And the reason why I'm bringing it up like that is because I had a very, very recent encounter with a friend. I was discussing something with a friend who had mentioned to me that they had something in their life that was really, really bothering them. And of course, my response is as it is most times with a lot of my friends is, "Did you pray about it? Did you talk And the answer I got was, "Oh, did I pray about it? I prayed about it. For sure, I prayed about it. Absolute I mean, you don't want to know how much I prayed about it." And then I stopped and I said, "But did you really pray about it?" And the reason why I'm saying that is because there's one thing where a person can think that something is very, very much so in need of prayer, needs that type of attention. Um and then there's another thing where it's like my life and everything I have is hanging in the balance right now and I have nothing else except for you Hashem. And there's a difference. And so I went on to tell this friend I said, "No, listen. I mean, did you really pray?" And I related my own circumstances that I was in many years ago at a very very tough time uh in my life at the time. And what I was going through was so deep and so disruptive I would say in my life that I had nothing else to do except for to go to the grave of one of the righteous people in Safed, uh that's in northern northern Israel. And I remember being at the grave of the Arizal and I told that friend I was there for 17 hours straight. I didn't move. I didn't open up a single book. There were people that came through, you know, we needed prayer quorum of of 10 men. Uh and so I would join when they when they were there and then I went back to what I was doing. But I did not talk to another human being for 17 hours except for Hashem. I only talked to Hashem. That was all I did for the 17 hours that I was there crying, begging, pleading for what it was. And ultimately I saw the salvation that I was praying for. And that's only one time. But this has happened to me many many different times in my life and I think that what people misunderstand is that there's a difference between praying and there is another thing with living with Hashem. That means that wherever I go and anytime I'm in any place and no matter what the circumstances, whether I'm happy, whether I'm sad, I'm praying to God. I'm talking to God. I'm checking in with him. I'm letting them know how I feel. Letting them know my dreams, my goals, my aspirations, all the things that I want to accomplish. There's a difference like I said from just oh, yeah, I prayed about it and the difference still when a person is actually engrossed and lives in a certain way that prayer is a part of that person's life. And that's what we're discussing today. That's the type of prayer that is going to change your life forever. Hey guys, what's going on? I want to tell you really quickly about an organization here in Ramat Beit Shemesh named Colel Koren. Colel Koren is an organization that provides essential support to kids with dyslexia and other learning disabilities. They do everything from making sure that they have personalized lesson plans all the way to advocacy, which is very important. A lot of these kids have fallen through the cracks in the regular system and a lot of them are misdiagnosed. But Colel Koren through their assessment has found that most of the time it's just learning disabilities. Unfortunately, because of the war, people have reallocated their funds to different war efforts and misplaced families, rightfully so. But unfortunately, what it's led to is a lot of these kids falling through the cracks. And now this wonderful organization is at the brink of turning kids away. I would never advocate for something unless I was able to personally tell you how amazing the organization is. I want everybody that can, please go to colelkoren.org and make a donation. We must keep this organization open and running and being able to service all the families that they service. For a long time when it comes to organizations, many people have asked me, but unless I know personally that I'm dealing with real people, I would never ask my audience. So again, please make a donation today to Colel Koren. That's k o l k o r e h dot org. And I can honestly say that you will be changing lives. Okay, back to the show. So what I did to get today was I compiled a list of seven things that I wanted to talk to you about. Uh seven tips, you could call them seven pieces of advice about prayer of how to structure these things in your life. This is very, very important. This will be a practical guide. That's what I'm going to go. A practical guide and spiritual uh guide for anyone, regardless of what your background is. No matter where you came from, no matter how strong you are in your faith, because when it comes to prayer, which is ultimately the one thing that helps us to cultivate and build our relationship with God, it it's it's it's it doesn't matter where person is standing at that point in their life. The only thing that matters at this point is where they're at at that moment. And God is going to see the person right there in that moment. So, let's discuss these few things. So, the first tip that I want to give you is starting with gratitude and with praise. You have to start with gratitude and praise because so many times in our life we're going through a lot we don't even realize how many blessings that God has already given us. We We talk about life, our fingers, our hands, our eyes, being able to use the bathroom in a normal way, and and not not having to have a catheter or anything like that inside a person's body that is invasive and stopping them from being able to eat. I'm talking about how many blessings do we have day and night that all of us have, are experiencing them all the time, and we never even stop to say, "Thank you." How important it is. So, number one really is gratitude and praise. Giving uh uh words of honor and glory to God. Now, the truth is this, King David said it himself, how can we be sufficient in our praise of God? God is so great and so big, we don't have words to really put in to uh uh uh uh into praise for God because he's so much bigger than anything that there possibly can be, anything that we could be descriptive about. So, God is beyond anything that we've ever seen before, anything that we ever experienced before. So, how can we actually put it in words? Nevertheless, we should praise him. We should give with all that we have to praise him and affirm his kingship over our lives and with a great great gratitude. We don't understand that gratitude itself is one thing that another person sleep sleeps on when it comes to pray. Even if they'll pray about other things, when it comes to gratitude, a lot of us sometimes we're we're very very stingy. And we don't understand that gratitude itself There's a few different items but gratitude is one of those things that when a person implements this into their life you will literally see how much closer you become to Hashem. Because think about it, if you do something for somebody, right? And they thank you and they're always giving you praise and thank you so much and even for you it could have been a small thing but you see how appreciative is is a person for what do you want to do? You want to give more and you want to give more and you want to be more involved with the person and you want to be more involved in the person's life. So this is what gratitude does for us that a lot of other things that people you know spend their time on actually won't help them as much as gratitude would. Sometimes we don't even have to pray for the thing that we want God will see in our heart and give to us just in the just because a person is grateful. So we don't understand how important it is but I'm telling you right now start with gratitude. Begin your prayers with gratitude. Number two. Be honest and be vulnerable. Jews say every single day in the prayer called the Ashrei God is close to all who call upon him in truth. A lot of people like to quote this and they'll say God is close to all who call upon him but they forget to say in truth meaning that God wants to know exactly where you are what it is that you're experiencing exactly what it is that you feel. It makes no sense for you and we all know that God is omniscient God is all powerful God is all sovereign, right? He already knows what it is that we need before we even say it. So why is it that a person would set aside time and go through all the busyness of of their life and go through all the different loopholes of whatever it is that they have to do in order to make this time with them and Hashem and then get there and say things that are not really true. You're not being vulnerable. God wants for us to open up. God is a loving father. He loves us. He cares about us. He cherishes us, and we mean everything to him. So, why should we ever think that we shouldn't be vulnerable with him? You have to be vulnerable, and you have to be honest. God is close to all who call upon him in truth. In truth. So, say your truth. Don't go tell God that you, you know, you want to, you know, be the most righteous person in the world when that's really not a concern for you. Your concern is, you know, making it through your day-to-day, making it through your bills, making it through being able to educate your children proper way. These are the things that are really bothering you. So, let's not talk to God about how much charity you want to give. You don't care about charity right now. You want to be able to earn money. You want to be able to earn a living. You want to pay a light bill. Whatever it is, a person has to be honest with God. Be honest and be vulnerable with God. That's number two. And number three is the power of silence. This one is really really underrated. We have a lot that we go through in our lives. We have a lot that we are experiencing on a day-to-day. Any person that's a human just deals with stuff. And And this is just our life. We have to deal with things. And And no person lives without some type of struggle, some type of something going on inside of their life that ultimately, um, you know, disrupts them. And one of the biggest things and the biggest temptations that we have when it comes to prayer is that you know, maybe when a person is more seasoned, but I think we all have this at some point is that we're just really ready to rush out everything that's we're going through right now. We do want to be honest. We want to be vulnerable, and we want to talk God's head off and and to really really say everything that we have in our mind. But the real truth is it's very very important for us to have that moment of silence when we're talking to God, to speak to him and and it's a two-way conversation. A person needs to really understand that the silence allows for a person to hear the divine Hashem. The more and more that a person I you may not hear anything audibly and you know, anything audible, but the truth is is that a person's heart is connected to Hashem. Hashem created us. He formed us. He he he he he he's given us life. He's directing our life. Regardless of how much you include him in your life, God is directing our life. God is with us. So, when a person goes to speak to God and you are setting aside this time, it's very important to have this silence because God knows how to speak to you. And that's another thing about love languages, right? God knows the love language of every single person. So, a person has their own personal experience, yeah? And there ask, oh, how do you know that this is what God wants from you? How do you know I would have an answer. It's very hard to say to somebody, oh, well, I just kind of felt it in my heart. Well, the truth is that these type of things do happen. I mean, God would never probably tell you to do something that's, you know, anti-biblical anti-Bible anti-Torah. However, when God does speak to a person, it requires a certain amount of silence, of quiet. Even if a person does have a lot of things to say with God, it's a very very important period of time where a person should be silent to sift through the heart and the mind, especially after getting from that place of of gratitude and being honest and being vulnerable with God because one of the principal rules that we have with God is something called measure connected measure, right? The way that we are with him is the way that he he is with us. So, the more and more that you involve God into your life and the more and more that he becomes a priority for you, the more and more that you will experience him. The more and more you're going to have what we call divine providence. Um and so the the the when it comes to tefillah at least, when it comes to prayer and the silence, by you taking these first two steps before you get to the silence, you've already begun to break away all of those things all of those things that have been attached to you that have sort of separated you from being able to actually hear what God has been saying to you all along. God is speaking to a every single one of us at uh you know, all throughout the day trying to give us hints and and signs and and and nuggets and trying to, you know, direct us in the proper path. But if a person doesn't have a place of silence and the person is wrapped up all the time and they're busy with this world, then it's very very easy for us to not hear what God is saying to us. So it's very important to have the moments of silence in our prayer to where there's nothing else except for listening very very closely to the word and to what Hashem is trying to say to us. So number four, pray with Torah. I mean, if you learn something, this is one of the biggest things. You go to a very nice lecture. You go and hear somebody speak or you listen to the podcast, obviously. Thank you. Um but you hear things that are inspiring you. Things that I don't care if it was a short clip. I don't care if you're watching, you know, a motivational thing, whatever the case is or you're actually reading the Torah, you're reading the Bible, you're reading scripture. I don't care. Whatever it is. A person has to take this thing and to be able to run with it. Now, it's very easy to get inspired by something very very quickly. You hear very nice lecture from your favorite rabbi and all of a sudden it's like, "Wow." And then, you know, 10 minutes after it, you don't even remember what was said. So it's very very important that you you should do this. I had this myself. I used to go to a lecture uh every single Sunday that my rabbi would give. And it was a beautiful, beautiful class, but we were really dealing with deep things that if a person is at least, you know, a little bit in tune spiritually, you will want to acquire the things that we talked about. We talked about character traits and and and, you know, certain ethics and and the way to live and the way to cultivate and build ourselves in our relationship with God, you know, avoiding these pitfalls and the things and whatever it was. It was very, very inspiring every single Sunday. So, I I didn't want to forget what it was and I didn't want to forget the inspiration. So, not only did I record all the lectures, I I put a lot of online. Not only did I record all the lectures, I would literally go out after every single class and I would go pray to God on what it was that I just learned. And I'm telling you, this if you would take on this practice, it has changed my life even till today. That not only do I have um, not only do I remember what it was, but the I'm able to have a time capsule. It's the most beautiful thing about making prayer part of your life. I'm able to have these this moment to where I look back on those times. And not only do I remember what the lectures were about and major key points of what those lectures were on is because I live with them. I took them outside of just where I was and I live with them. I went on with them. But the other thing I acquired from that was these beautiful time capsules of of things and places I could always go back to. I can always go back to that in my head and in my mind where I was, you know, outside by by that lake in that place. I would go out into nature and and pray to God, you know, at least at each time it was at least for hour. Most of the time I was spending 2 hours talking to God. But the more and more you develop that relationship, you don't want to let you don't want to let God go. And you have to take these things and live with with in order for you to implement implement them. The furthest distance that I say just say between uh the furthest dis- distance in the world to say just say is between a person's mind and their heart. In order to get something from up here today, I'm meaning that uh you may know something intellectually, but it doesn't mean that you actually put them into practice. In order for you to actually bring them there is to live with that thing. How do we live with it? Through prayer. We take these things to God. And Rabbi Nachman actually writes in the uh in the book of Likutei Amarim in the first chapter, over there he talks about it and he says that when a person does this practice of taking Torah and turning this into prayer before God, it actually gives the prayer more favor. It has more chein. It has more glow to God because think about it. A person who goes and says that they want to accomplish X, Y, and Z, right? And the X, Y, and Z that they just went to go pray to God was because they're not well-versed in understanding these things from a Torah perspective. When they go and actually pray these things to God, they could be praying for things that are against God's will because they actually don't know. But if God has given us an instruction, he's given us a way that he wants for us to live, and we actually go and take what he says in the Torah, what he says inside of the Bible, and we go and turn that into prayers, how would he not be overjoyed to deliver for us what it is that we prayed for because now the words have favor in we've shown him that we made him. It says in the book of Psalms in the 37th chapter of the book of Psalms, it says that for those who uh 37? Yeah, 37. Got to remember my my my geography, biblical geography, you know. I know it's not geography, guys. Don't don't don't try to slug me up for that one. But it says in the 37th chapter, it says that those who uh God those who delight in God, he will give them the desires of their heart. What does it mean to make God your delight? Meaning that I made myself like King David. King David was a person who was after God's own heart. He wanted what God wanted. When God was hurt, he wanted to hurt. When God was happy, he wanted to be happy. He wanted to reward what he rewarded and punish whatever it was that he punished. He wanted to be completely intrinsically bound up with God. And this is what God desires from all of us, that we should all want the same thing. So, when a person finds themselves delighting in God, meaning that I'm making you God my my ultimate delight. I'm going to spend as much time with you and your Torah, your words are going to be become, you know, my my very breath. Then God has no problem giving a person like that whatever it is that their heart desires because they their their desires are always going to be in line with God because they make God a delight. So, it's a very very interesting way to look at it. So, it's very very important to take Torah and to make prayers out of this Torah. It's very very important. All right. So, moving on to number five. And it's so funny cuz I want to tell you every single time that I get to another point that this point is the most important point that you need to have in and whatever the case is. But, number five is consistency. Consistency. A lot of people in the beginning, they don't even know how to pray to God. They don't even know what words to say. How do I start to and begin with words to God? Now, here's the truth. Those are the first words you say to God. Is that God, I I don't even know what I'm doing. Sometimes I have doubts. Remember what we said, talk to God with your truth, with your truth. And if you're struggling with your belief in God, if you're struggling with if God is listening to you or not, those are your those are your beginning words of prayer. As a God, I struggle with the fact cuz the God wants the vulnerability. He wants you to be vulnerable with him. But the main thing is is that through all of this is that you pray consistently. Even if you have no words, even if you have nothing that actually comes to your mind, you should make it a habit to set aside time for you and God. And that And that time, nobody is is allowed to interrupt. Either your phone is off, whatever it is. And what I tell a lot of people is to um is to make a space. You You have to make a space for you and God because there is there is so much going on in the world. There's so many different distractions, right? If a person doesn't give God the quality time, then it's going to be very very hard for a person over time to build that relationship. I'm stating the obvious. Come on. So, it's it The consistency builds a habit and it strengthens your relationship with that. This is how you strengthen the relationship is that I'm constantly showing up every single day. God, I'm showing up with you every single day. Making it a a point. If you know you got a busy day a- ahead of you, then okay, I'm willing to sacrifice because why am I here? What's the most important reason that I'm here in this world? Why am I here? After everything that I could possibly think of, what is the reason that God put me here? One thing that I know for sure, and that is to connect myself to God, to be as close to him as possible, to give myself over to him with every single thing that I have, and to be able to live and have a thriving a real relationship with God, to know him. This is why we're here. So, that's most important. So, okay, you got a busy day. Set aside time, set a place for you and God that you're going to go meet with him every single day. Make him room of meeting. And and and Breslov in the particular group of Hasidahs that I I I affiliate with, Rebbe Nachman said that a person should set a room in the house that's only for that time of you you speaking with God. It's sort of like the tent of meeting. Since that Moses was always very busy to go meet and talk with God in this tent of meeting. I mean since that each and every one of us should have one of those in our own homes. We should have one in our own homes that were even if we have no words that just go sit in that place which is that tent of meeting between you and God. You set aside this place that you go there but you do it every single day. Consistency is the name of the game. This is how we build. This is how we connect ourselves and ultimately build that thriving and real relationship with God as by doing it every single day. The consistency I I can't stress stress this enough. Hey, sorry to stop you. I just want to remind you to make sure you like and subscribe to the channel. Hit the notification bell so anytime a new podcast, any new content, anytime it drops on this channel, you are going to be informed and you're going to know. And also, on top of that, let me know how you're feeling. Let me know what you think of this podcast. Let me know what you want more of. Leave comments in the comment section and I will try my best to respond to you. But make sure that you stay up on everything new that happens on this channel. Okay, back to the show. I've seen the biggest gains in my life spiritually uh on a material level um in anything that I want to accomplish and the main thing was consistency. I will tell you I even feel like sometimes there's a lot of prayers where I feel very very inspired to talk to God. I feel overly inspired to talk to God. I'm like super ecstatic. And I hope you guys are enjoying this. For everybody who's listening to it in the audio, you know. I don't know if you can hear all the raindrops and everything. We went from this beautiful sunny day to to raindrops over here. But that consistency that I built with God came like there were days where I felt super inspired and the prayers lifted me up. I'd be running out because of the inspiration that I got from spending that time alone there with God. And then there were other days where I felt like man, it's so hard for me to speak. It's so hard for me to get the words out. It's so hard for me to pray right now. And a lot of times I saw bigger results from the days that I was just doing it because I wanted to be consistent that I was literally fighting to be able to have that time with me and God. I was literally fighting for it. And in those times I seen amazing things and and miracles and things happen in my life just from the consistency. Saying to myself that I'm not willing to give up, that I'm going to go and pray to him no matter what. So, the consistency is so important because this is exactly how most things are built. The how most relationships are built is through that consistency. So, number six. Another important thing is to pray with intention. As much as you can. To pray with intention, you know, is a very hard thing to do, especially if a person is accustomed to praying um uh you know, from a prayer book or from other things like that. But, all the prayer that I'm talking about, I just want to say this also to for disclaimer, the prayer that I'm talking about today is praying to God from your own words, from your own heart. Uh no prayer books. I'm you know, it's very important to pray from from a prayer book. It's very important to pray if you can um using the words of Psalms to Him to pray to God. But, the prayer I'm talking about that I find that will be the most effective because these are own your own words, nobody else's words. If you talking to God as you praying in your own words. So, what I'm talking about praying with intent. Number six, praying with intention. Is that you are directing your prayers that you don't understand how much God honors the prayers that are actually coming from a person's heart. They mean everything to him. And just like it would for anybody else. I mean, imagine that you have somebody that, you know, you love with all of your heart and all your might. Uh and every time you decided to go and talk to them, say a spouse even, you know, say imagine I don't want to say me cuz I I wouldn't do this. I probably wouldn't either. But, you take your your your your loved one, your spouse, and instead of actually talking directly to them and telling them how you feel, say you like, you know, even wrote down all the time for yourself even what it is that it was. Are you Are you seeing what somebody else said to their wife and you wrote it down? And your your your wife or your or your husband, whatever spouse will come to you and talk to you maybe even want to go deeper with you. And you say, "Hold on 1 second." And you And you dig in your pocket and you pull out this paper and you start reading it over to the person. Yes, you know, "Yes, I really love you." I mean, you know, come on. With intention, with heart, and with passion. With passion and with your whole entire heart, giving your whole entire heart over to God with every single morsel, every single fiber of your being to pray to him and to be honest with him and to be vulnerable with him. And all of these things with complete and real full intention. Giving yourself over to him. This is what we're talking about here. We don't understand how much it means to Hashem, just like it would to any spouse. The difference between that and reading off of a paper, what it what it is when you say to that person, "I love you. I care about you. I don't want to ever live in this world without you. I don't want to have a life where you're not a part of that life. And any life that doesn't include you ain't a life. You are my everything. You mean everything to me. You are precious to me. And I want to do for you. I want to give to you. I'm going to give all of what I can. I'm here for you. Tell me there's if there's anything that you need from me. You know. So, using words that deeply come from that place in the heart are even if you're telling them, you know, I I you know, I'm I'm hurting right now. Uh things are are not going well for me. I'm in a lot of pain. I don't know which direction to go. And I really need your support. I really need you to be there for me. I'm saying obviously to a spouse. When we say these things to God, we don't understand the power of tefillah and prayer with intention, being able to talk to God with our whole entire heart. These things I'm telling you are game-changers. Will literally change your life. You'll be living a completely different life if you were to implement this. Number seven. Which is hard for me because number seven is like Number seven is uh is very very very important. I wanted to push it off a little bit, but I think that is very very important for all of us to uh to implement this because we don't understand this. And there's a very very awesome principle that our sages bring down. And this is praying for others, praying for other people. There's a principle brought down in the Talmud that if you would pray for someone else, then God answers you first. If you take something that you need, uh say you are um struggling. You have a a certain illness that you're trying to get over, God forbid. Or whatever it is, or you know, whatever. It could be a common cold. I don't And you know somebody else has said, "Instead of praying for yourself, pray for the other person." And make it intentional. Now, we just said earlier that God wants us to be honest, he wants us to be vulnerable, he wants us to, you know, speak our truth to him. So, a person may ask, "How could it be that you ask me to do all of those things and I really care about myself more than I care about the other person, right?" So, there's a little bit of a trick that once you have the same issue as someone else, you know what it feels like. And if a person uses, like we said over here in number three, in the silent, and they're able to contemplate, put yourself in the other person's shoes. Allow yourself to feel what they're feeling and you take the same pain and the same limitations that you have because of whatever it is that you're struggling with. It doesn't have to be something that you're physically going through, it could be something financial, whatever it is, that you would set aside your own feelings about your situation and put yourself in the other person's shoes and it would be the most honest prayers that you ever prayed for someone else before in your life. A lot of us, you know, now we're seeing, you know, hostages returning back to the family. A lot of us have been able to put ourselves in the shoes of parents who have loved ones that are behind enemy lines and we're able to identify, we're able to feel that pain. And if a person instead of just feeling that pain turns those into prayers for another person, ultimately that helps you, that helps your children never have to be in these type of situations or yourself ever having to be in these type of situations. So, this is this is of the utmost importance is praying for others. Another thing is is that when you pray for other people, you gain favor in the other person's eyes, even if they don't know that you're praying for them because there's a certain connection, certain spiritual law that by praying for other people it gives you khane, it gives you favor in the eyes of the other people, it connects you to the other person. And ultimately connecting you in the right way, connecting you to the to the ultimate source. Praying for another person's well-being. God wants more than anything else is that we love one another, that we cherish one another, that we're looking out for one another, that you know, if any person listening to me is a parent that has, you know, more than one child there's nothing worse sometimes than when you see one or all of your kids fighting with one another, uh not getting along, not sharing, not giving to one another, not looking out for the other person. I have seven kids, so I know how sometimes, you know, kids and and that's just the way that kids are in general, they're pretty self-centered. But uh it gets very hard sometimes for them to get along. God wants for all of us to get along. Love thy neighbor as thyself. God is is is all about unity and the unification of us with our brothers and our sisters and and all of our loved ones and and and it means so much to him when we pray for other people. So much so that the sages revealed to us that if you pray for another person that God answers you first. He answers you first. So prayer is the one thing that stands at the heights of everything and so many people overlook it. They don't even think about it. You have a struggle, you have something going on in your life, you need immediate something to happen very very quickly, and the first thing that we do is we start thinking that we're the ones in control, that we can go and fix the problem. We can go do that. Oh, I have I don't have enough money right now, also maybe maybe I'll get another job. I'll I'll start some other business. I need I need more things going on. And a lot of times when there are there's a lacking of something, it usually indicates that there's a lacking between you and Hashem. Not that God always wants you to be running after some other thing that you need to be doing. Oh, there's another thing that you need to be doing. So, I think about this. I just want you to think about this. If we said if the Bible reveals to us and lets us know that our main purpose in life is to know God and to be in a relationship with God and to be connected with him, why would he want you distracted with more things? Why would it really be that God wants you doing so many different things that you become busy, more and more busy that you don't actually have time to spend with him, that you don't have time to to build the relationship that you want, and you don't have a time to know him? And I want to give you a bonus. The bonus tip that I want to give you is trusting that God hears your prayers. And this all goes back to trust in general that you have to trust that God wants to help you. A part of our belief in God isn't enough to, you know, there's some people that will say like, "Yeah, I believe in God. I believe he hates me. Look at my life. Look at everything that's going on in my life or whatever." That's not called complete belief in God. It's a It's a little bit of a belief and it's you know, I don't know how much of it's commendable. But the real truth is is that believing in God and trusting in God goes with trusting and knowing that he wants the absolute best for you and he wants to give to you because we're all humans and we know what it's like. Some of us who are parents or our children or I have loved ones and people that we love in our life and nieces, nephews, whatever it is, that people that were close to. And honestly, we want to give. We want to give to them. We want for other people to be happy. Sometimes it's friends that you know they've been going through a tough time. And you're just like, "Man, if I really had the opportunity, I would give this person this. I would I would help them out in this way. And I I I would do that." All of that desire to give is a part of the fact that we were created in God's image. And that's one of the entrance, it's one of the fingerprints that we get from God himself is that he wants to give to us. He wants to do good for us. He wants us to experience him and to experience complete goodness in our life. We have to trust that God wants to do for us. We have to trust that God hears us and that he's listening to us. And there's nothing more that brings prayers about than being confident in the belief that God actually hears you. He actually wants to do these things for you. He actually wants to help you. He wants to give you that promotion. He wants for your kids to be successful. He wants for you to have peace, marital peace with your with your with your spouse. Wants for you to be successful, to be able to pay your bills on time. He wants for you to have complete goodness in your life. God wants to do this for you. And this is a part of our belief and our trusting in him. And once we trust and we believe, our prayers have more potency. The relationship that we built with God is a unbreakable bond. We have we're going to always have times where we feel distant. This is just a part of the relationship. There's there will be times where God so to speaks will will he will he will hide himself in a sense. And and create the feeling that it's not really there, but it will create the feeling of distance. And the reason for that is is that there's sort of a game of hide and go seek that he wants you to go look for him. He wants for you to go find him. He wants for you to seek them out and seek him out. So, when we're discussing prayer today, we're talking about living with God, living with prayer, implementing it to our life in such a way that we're not going a day without praying with God. We're not going a moment without even thinking about him, without trying to find some type of way to include him in whatever else is going on in our lives. Seeing him and believing and trusting that he hears our prayers. And we need to believe in the potency of our prayers. I want to share with you one story. I I have recently started to share this story again uh publicly. For a long time I didn't because, you know, when a person doesn't live with prayer and they're and they're not very strong with their faith, when people are not, it's very very hard for them to believe in the supernatural. It's hard to believe that uh God actually is moving today as he always has. So, I wanted to tell you this story. I was working in property management years ago. And I was working for a particular company. And I wanted to uh move in the next step with my relationship with Hashem. I was actually going to convert to Judaism at the time, uh me and my wife. And we decided that, you know, we wanted to find a place in the Jewish neighborhood so that we can get acclimated with the community. It was one of the things the rabbi wanted us to do. So, we finally found a place and we ended up moving out of our apartment. It was a three-bedroom apartment. There was one lady who needed to move out of her two-bedroom apartment because she was living on assistant housing uh with the Section 8. And she she um I don't know what the problem was. I think she had too many people living in the house and so the voucher uh got got raised to a three-bedroom voucher and she needed to move. And on the property, 476 units, there was no other three-bedroom available except for the one that I had just moved out of. There was a major problem with this for her. It was on the ground floor. Now, this woman really needed uh a a apartment and so she thought that was on the third or fourth floor. Unfortunately, she had been violated before. Her house had been broken into when she was, you know, somewhere living on the ground floor and so she had the biggest phobia of living on the ground floor. She came into the office, she met with the manager, and you can hear her from the other room screaming and crying frantically. Uh nobody at the time knew what was going on. It wasn't until after she left that we able to know and be made aware of the story and as sympathetic as we wanted to be for her, there was just no other place available. Only apartment available was my three-bedroom apartment. So, she finally moves in and I want to say it was maybe a week or so in to her living inside this apartment. She comes in walking into the main lobby where offices was and she walks straight up to me. And I seen a tear roll down her cheek, but she looked so content and so happy. She had like a cup and a little gift for me. As she proceeds to give me the gift and I'm looking at her and I'm saying, "I don't understand why Why are you giving me this gift? I don't I don't I don't understand." She says, "I'll tell you." She said, "I had the biggest fear to move in to your apartment because it was on the ground floor." She said, "I've been violated before." She let me know the whole entire story. She had a phobia from living on the first floor and just thought she can never do it. She moves into the apartment, she says, and she said, "I have never felt the presence of God like I have inside of this apartment." She said, "I've never felt more safe than I ever have before in this apartment." And she says, "I'm no fool. I know it's because you prayed in this place." And when she said this to me, I had goosebumps because she had no idea how much I actually prayed in that place. I prayed in that place unlike any other time I'd ever prayed before. I saw so much of the hand divine providence of God in my life from the prayers that I prayed inside of that apartment. I'm talking about hours. I was doing 3-days fasting with no food and praying and cutting myself off from the rest of the world inside of that apartment. Me, my wife, my brother-in-law, my sister-in-law, that house in itself was literally a place of prayer because we had made it into a place of prayer. And even after that, she moved in and she felt the prayer. We have to trust and we have to believe in our prayer. We have to believe in our power of prayer and that God hears us. Please, all of you, I want you to let me know that you're implementing these steps. If you're implementing these steps, are they working for you? Please let me know. Write me comments. You're more than welcome to email me on the website. I want to make sure that this is a value to you. So, please let me know. Thank you so much for listening. I'll see you guys in the next show.