Our Guest Felix Halpern
FELIX: Thankfulness, gratitude, pleasure, everything you see begins to take on a different look. And I tell people that 80% of their prayer life should be in the glory psalms or the glory of magnifying God and 20% should be in need-based prayer.
SID: So you take selected psalms having to do with the glory of God and worship of God and you just substitute your normal, whatever you did normally for prayer with this.
FELIX: The Lord said when I get up in the morning and I’m praying every time I began to fall back into the default model of asking, he had me stop. He said, “You are not to ask. You are now to glorify me.”
SID: Give me an example. I want you to take a psalm right now and just, I’m putting you in your room, in your house, in your secret place. What are you doing? And do it. More than what are you doing, just do it.
FELIX: Oh Lord. The heavens are telling of the glory of God. The expanse of heaven cannot be measured, but it declares the work of your hands that are immeasurable, that are incomprehensible. You, Father are glorious and mighty. Day after day, you pour forth speech.
Night after night, you reveal knowledge.
There is no speech, nor are there words from even the stars in the sky that you, oh Lord, have placed there by your sovereign will, by your sovereign design. Their voice cannot be heard. Yet, they give evidence that has gone throughout all the earth. I need to only look, Lord, to the night sky and see Father, your glory. For Father, you are the bridegroom that is coming and I am the bride that’s waiting for you. Those are the types of meditations that began to form my morning time with the Lord.
SID: And I can tell you as a fact, I’ve started doing that. I believe that I’m going to have more of my prayers answered by worshiping God and glorifying God and living in the glory than if I spend all my time praying those prayers.
FELIX: Sid, that’s what happened. My prayers have been being answered by the Lord as I continue to remain in exaltation and giving him glory. Because the truth of the matter is earth is difficult. Heaven is easy. Earth by its design, by its fallen nature, you would agree is a need based environment.
Will you and I or all those listening ever be without needs? No. If our prayers are answered today, it just makes room for new prayers tomorrow. Could be my children, my grandchildren, the ministry, life, the country. On and on and on. There’s always prayers because by nature, we are needy because we’re fallen.
We live in a corruptible state. So father, we are weak. The Lord says, “Who is man, that you are mindful of him?” We are as vulnerable as a little ant. I walk on the earth sometimes, I walk outside quite frankly, and I stop. And you know what? I feel like an ant on the globe under the majesty of God.
