Hey there and welcome back to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope. Today Rick continues in his series called

Connecting with God, the Lord's Prayer. In this series, Rick shows us what it means to be truly

spiritually connected to God and to each other through the power of God's love and God's word.

And now here's Pastor Rick with part one of a message called the Prayer of Cleansing.

In January, we had a vacuum cleaner that died.

I gave it a decent funeral, but I went down to a vacuum cleaner store to buy a new

vacuum. And I went in and I said, I want your best vacuum. Top of the line, give me your best sucker.

The most powerful sucker you've got.

And give me the Cadillac.

And they said, oh, we've got a great one over here.

It's from Germany.

It's got a motor on it.

You don't even have to hardly push it.

It kind of pulls itself along.

And I thought, this is great.

So I bought this top-of-the-line vacuum cleaner.

This last week, Kay had to go over to Phoenix to speak to a business leader's group.

And while she was gone, I thought, you know, I'm going to vacuum the living room and everything.

So it'll all look nice when she gets back home.

I do this all the time, you guys. And so I get out the vacuum

and I'm vacuuming and really it is. It's kind of pulling me along. It's kind of like, man,

this is like easy. You don't have to push it or anything. And I'm vacuuming and all of a sudden

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