What are some of the tips and tools around using God's word to actually shape the prayers that we speak back to God?

Well, you can turn instructions into prayers.

So do not be anxious about anything.

Well, this is an obvious one, but in everything with prayer and supplication, make your request known to God.

Dear Heavenly Father, I'm often anxious and all sorts of worries come my way.

But please help me to trust you as a great, wise and gracious God and fill my life with thanksgiving and praise to you for who you are and what you've done.

Or I saw something in Daniel recently.

I'd love you to do that.

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You need this motor car.

You, you, you, you need this holiday.

You need...

You're, you're, you're lacking.

There's something really missing, a, a reason to be grumpy if you don't have this kitchen appliance, this wig.

I have been tempted by wigs, I must say.

Feed.

May God bless to us His word and help us to understand its message for us today.

Gracious and merciful God, speak to us through the scriptures that we might know you, thank you, praise you, and adore you with our lips and with our lives in your church and your world.

For Jesus' sake, amen.

Well, it's a great delight to be here.

Thank you so much, Willie, for your, uh, very kind invitation and, of course, a great privilege to, to preach.

I hope you have Psalm 100 open before you.

It's a short psalm, and a psalm which is not difficult to understand.

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Yeah, any thoughts on differences you've seen or things that have struck you in church life, nationally, just anything?

Yes.

Well, I guess it's a long perspective because I first came to the UK in 1972 and lived here for 10 years as well.

So I've got that prior knowledge.

I think that one thing which has struck me in my last few visits was is increasing despair about the country and the state of the nation, if I can put it that way.

Among people here or your despair or both? Not my despair, other people's despair about the country and what's happening to it.

And people mention various aspects or reasons for their despair.

Do you want to explain that for those who don't know what those words mean?