The Power of Powerful Prayer

Welcome to the official podcast of Rock Hill Baptist Church 2

where we are focused on glorifying God, spreading the

gospel, and making disciples of Jesus Christ right here in the

heart of Greenville, SC. Each week we bring you a life

changing word from our Senior Pastor, Pastor Matthew D Long

Junior, or one of our anointed guest speakers.

We pray this message strengthens your faith, deepens your

understanding, and empowers you to elevate in every area of your

life. Let's join the service already

in progress. Bless his name, Father, I thank

you now as I stand. I pray, Father, that you will

have your divine way, that you will use us truly for your

glory, that the words that proceed from my mouth will be

captured by ears open to heaven, that Lord, we will hear you in

the Spirit, and that we will see You and your mighty hand working

upon us and in us. We thank you, God, for your

presence that's already here. Thank you for showing up for us

because we invoked your presence.

We thank you for a leader who loves you so much that knows not

only how to teach, but God to bring the people into a place of

worship that you would see fit to show up and sit among us.

So God, we glorify you, we magnify you and we wait with

great expectation for what it is you desire to do tonight in

Jesus name, Amen and Amen. How many of you all have a

lifestyle of powerful prayer? Anybody have a lifestyle of

prayer? I know that's a hard question

because many of us don't know what that might mean, right?

We consider it that I find a moment, I find some time to

pray, but it's like Pastor Matt said earlier, it's more than an

act is a it's a posture of life for us.

And since you're here tonight, I pray that I'm able to give you

something that's going to help piggyback off what Pastor has

already shared, but that will take you a little bit deeper and

a little bit further. I'm honored to be able to stand

tonight and to be able to share on intercession.

That is truly the gift. Some I don't even know how to

put it, but that is where God moves in me most.

And it all started in intercessory prayer where He

began to open up to me that I could even hear His voice to

know what He desired of me to do.

And when I got it, Oh my God, things begin to change and they

begin to shift in my life and not only in my life, but for the

lives of others who were around me and that were in my presence.

So this is what God desires of us is to be able to understand

how deep of a relationship you have with him that you can meet

him and that he will meet you in that prayer room.

Amen. So tonight I want to use as my

base Scripture James chapter 516 B New King James Version says,

and that's James chapter 5 verse 16 B new King James version said

James 5:16

the effective what fervent prayer of a righteous man, what

avails much glory to God, You just take that scripture home

with you and you keep working on that because what he wants us to

know is that it prayer is more than an act.

How many of us just get into a moment or we get into a

situation, we get into a problem and we begin to then call on the

name of the Lord. But when things are going great

and we just moving about and God is blessing us and we seeing

blessings on the left and on the right, how many times do we

pray? Then it's usually when we get in

trouble or when we have a problem or when there is a pain

or when there is something going on.

Somebody's in trouble, somebody needs help and that's when we

begin to cry out. And most of the time when we cry

out, it's really not for somebody else, it's for

ourselves. But God wants us to know that

prayer is not just an act, but it is a lifestyle when you can

make prayer a part of your daily life.

I said it Wednesday night. Elder Nicole and I were sitting

on our time at the table Bible study.

And one of the things that he said is that, you know, we, we,

we don't know how to get into the presence of God or we don't

know how to do certain things until there's a problem.

It's the truth. It has to be a problem before we

enact something to go forward, right?

So many of us struggle with prayer because we view it as an

occasional practice, an occasional practice, rather than

a daily posture saying if you want something to happen.

You should be. Praying and you don't want

something to happen. Here and there, right?

Don't we look for the blessings of God every day?

Don't we look for the goodness of God every day when you get

up, it should not thank you, baby.

We should not you. She clapping her hands.

She just handled business. So we've got to learn that we

can't just wait until problems come and troubles come that it

should be a daily posture for us, right?

And that's an important it's a way of life.

How many of us do this daily? We could be honest with each

other because this is a lock in. Don't nobody out there know what

we talking about? So be honest.

Shay, it's so good to see you so.

We have to make it a priority to be a part of our daily life and

we should understand the posture in which we are to be called to

pray, right? We it should be a daily thing

for us. This it transforms not only our

lives, but you think about how it transforms the lives around

you. I remember when I started an

intercessory prayer, there were people that would come.

Here and there and things would change.

They would come and get what they need.

But I can stand as a testament today that Elder Nicole has been

with me at the ministry. We were at Saint Luke together

under our great pastor, Doctor Roy C Jeffco.

And then she followed me and we've been together for 16

years. But it all started in the

intercessory prayer room, and now she's one of my leading the

the leading intercessor in the ministry.

That's because what God did in me had to transform those around

me so that we can reach more than what we're doing right?

So our prayers are not just for ourselves.

And I'm talking this because I want to hone in on intercession

tonight. If you're willing to do it and

pray for someone else, God, go bounce.

They're bouncing sound. It's going to come back for you.

What? Who what you make happen for

someone else, God will make happen for you.

Bless his name, somebody. So it transformed not only our

personal walk but the lives of those around us.

God is looking for intercessors. That's a great call.

It's a deep. Call and it's not meant.

For everybody, but everybody should aspire to be.

Amen. So we got to fill in some gaps.

God wants us to be able to fill in the gaps while there's

somebody or stand in the gap for somebody while they're out there

crying. You're somewhere praying

somebody's worried, and you're somewhere praying somebody's

real concerned, but you're praying because you're believing

God. So we got to develop this

powerful prayer life and we're at stages, different stages of

our life. I heard him say there's babies

in the house, there's seniors in the house, there's baby boomers

in the house, there's every age in the house, every generation I

believe is represented. So if that's the case, then what

God is desiring of us to is to have this powerful prayer life,

no matter what stage of life you're in.

Come on, somebody. We got to learn how to cry out

on behalf of others so that God will show up.

So we create. We have to create this divine

atmosphere for God to show up. It happened after teaching and

Pastor Matt started praying. The musicians were praying,

playing. They were going hand in hand and

I could not sit down on it. That's the type of atmosphere

that you're supposed to be setting as a prayer warrior.

Come on with Saints of God, you want stuff to happen, Then we

got to make some things happen. Oh my God.

The atmosphere where God shows up and not just show up, but

speaks. He said that he speaks, and then

what? Something else he said moves

supernaturally. We need a.

God, that could come in when it looks.

Like this to us in the natural. He could flip it just like that

and your prayers can take you there.

Come on Saints. So I want to talk about 3

different things tonight. First of all, we're talking

about when I said this divine atmosphere, setting this divine

atmosphere, one of the first things we got to do is commit to

the secret place. Commit to the secret place,

glory to God. So secret place where God meets

us. Have mercy.

Somebody making prayer a daily priority requires you to commit

to a secret place. Wednesday night, Jesus, I said

Wednesday night, one of the things that was said is and and

I was trying to get back to it. That secret place.

We should not be factoring or putting a placeholder.

Well, I'll put God here. How many of us get up every

single day and we already got the day journey.

We already know what we got to do.

We got to go to work, we got to get this ready.

We got to get kids ready. We got to get on the move.

We got to do that. Where was God in the plan?

You got to work, you started working, you started dealing

with people. Then you finally got you're on

your way home and then you got to think about what's for

dinner, what am I going to do? What are we going to do this and

how are we going to do that? Where did God fit into the

equation? Did we consider that He would be

the first thing? Did we commit to the secret

place? The timing that says when you

commit to the secret place, Matthew 6 and six, what does it

say? Matthew 6:00 and 6:00 But you

when you pray, go into your room and when you have shut the door

prayer, pray to your Father who is in the secret place.

God will meet you where you set up a place for Him to meet you.

Where is your altar? What are you doing?

Glory to God. Thank you, deep.

Thank you deep. So the foundation of a powerful

prayer life begins in a secret place, a place that you know

that you can be in without distraction.

My husband always tells me, and I share this all the time, is

that he said, what's the tractor trailer turning in your head?

What you thinking about? Because he's like, I'm thinking

about 50 million things at one time.

But you got to find a place where there is no distraction

and you tell your mind to shut up.

I'm focused on my God right now. I need to hear something from

him. So what he says is if you go

into that secret place, you will meet him there because he's in

the secret place. So foundation is a powerful

thing. When we pray in secret places,

Jesus often withdrew from the crowds, did he not?

That's. Right.

And as Christians, we are Christ like, have mercy God.

So we too have to withdraw from the crowds.

And so God spend some time with the Father.

Isn't it refreshing when you know, you might be tired, but

you go ahead and you spend that time?

Or how about now that you're used to doing it, you look

forward to it? Many people ought to be looking

forward to prayer time because they know something.

Is going to happen, huh? Jesus withdrew from the crowd so

he could hear and be alone with his Father.

So if you want to become an intercessor who shakes heaven,

glory to God. You can't get by on an

occasional prayer. You got to be rooted and

grounded and be in this thing. That's when things start to

change in the church. That's when things start to

change in the house. That's when things start to

change in your neighborhood. We need to be praying as a

church for the nation secret place to get it done.

So he says that if we're going to become these intercessors and

and even if you don't feel that you're the intercessor, you are

still supposed to be a prayer warrior.

Because if I. I can't get my mouth to open and

I have to wave my hand. You ought to know something

going on. Let me go pray for sis.

While I was over here in the corner and you were praying,

Pastor Matt, I was trying to get myself together because our pain

hit me up the right side of my head.

And usually when pain strikes me somewhere, it's somebody else

I'm feeling. I don't know what it is, who it

is, where they are, but I begin to pray as I touched my head.

I was interceding for somebody, somewhere.

You got to know when God is doing, having unctions on you,

when you're moving, have mercy. So to become an innocent, you

got to be able to shake heaven, my God.

We must make it personal and intimate time with God.

That's when things begin to shift in your life.

My God, you said some people been praying for 24 days and so

many years for something and then you want to give up.

Intercession is praying without stopping.

That's right. I don't care how long it is.

And I got stories to tell of how long I prayed.

But God has shown up over and over again.

So how do you develop this strong secret place?

Glory to God. Have mercy.

Y'all remember Daniel, right? Daniel 6 and 10.

I don't have it up to read, but I made a note of it because this

is all I want to say is you got a set specific time for daily

prayer. That's right, Ellen, Nicole is

on 7:00 AM. It's set and everybody's

looking. If they're not looking, if she's

not on at 7:00, they want to know where she is, what's going

on. That's for public, but imagine

your private time. Your secret place that you got a

set time to meet with God. Daniel showed up at Daniel 6 and

10 and what was he doing? He prayed 3 times a day no

matter what they said. He opened up the window, faced

you and he prayed. He had a set time and God knew

where he was going to be. Have mercy, Lord.

So when God knows when you going to be there, He's already

waiting to let you know some stuff.

He's already waiting to speak to you.

He's already waiting to give you what you need.

You got to get in and set that daily time.

I dare you this week or over the next however many days of Linton

season we got left and we just getting started.

Set a time, I challenge you. Set a time, sis.

Set a time, my sister, set a time and stick to it.

And you watch how God is there waiting for you when you get

there. Watch how God starts to show up

and speak to you when you get there.

So what you got to do when you get there though, is eliminate

the distractions. What I like about Daniel is

Daniel didn't worry about what the king said.

He didn't worry about how they were out there talking and

trying to set him up. He was committed to God.

When you're committed, you'll do what you need to do.

Have mercy, Lloyd. When you're committed, you'll

hang in there no matter what is going on, glory to God.

So eliminate the structure. So you need to make sure that

that secret place is a quiet place where you can, what, hear

from God. There is no need of us believing

that we're praying and spending time with God and.

He's not going to speak back to you.

I expect to hear something, even if it's only through a function

of the Holy Spirit. He ain't got to say a word.

But when I feel it, have mercy, God, when I feel it, I know He's

shown up and this is what you need me to do.

He'll give you an unction of where to go and what to do and

how to move. Oh my God.

Then pray the word. Pray the word.

Use the word in your prayers. Scripture still works.

As some of us said, the word still works and some people say

prayers still work. Listen, the word is always

working for us if you need. If you got to find the

situation. How many y'all Google a word.

I know this one dude. If we need something, Lord,

where can I find this in the text?

We're going to find this in the scripture.

Where can I find healing scriptures?

We're going to find this type of scripture and it'll pull up a

bunch of them for you to just go through.

Have mercy. So that means that while I'm

trying to get my help coming, then I'm looking for a word

that's going to address exactly what my need is.

So when I'm praying all to know enough of what I'm praying, I

ought to have a word to pray it on God.

Come on y'all? Y'all know how many of you been

in trouble? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

All y'all ain't going to tell the truth.

I know more than me been in trouble.

Look at the babies they in trouble.

I love y'all because y'all honest.

You going to find some help in this word?

You know, when people get in trouble, man, they become as

saintly as they want to am I right?

You'll find them in church when they're going through but.

When they come out, they go out. God is saying there is a word

for you to play over every situation in your life.

So when you, when you start getting it, start holding on to

it. When you're reading the word,

you don't know why you're reading this, but somehow God

will recall it. He'll bring it up in your spirit

at the right time for you to pray glory to God.

So commit to the secret place and let God see.

I'm telling y'all, when we consistently meet with God in

the secret place, that's when He begins to reveal his heart to

us, y'all. How many of y'all really want to

know the heart of God? You want him to express himself

to you. You want.

You want him to let you know what he desires and what he's

got for you and how He wants you to live, breathe, and move.

That is being in consistent meeting place with the Lord, He

reveals his heart to you. And so if that's the case, when

he reveals his heart to you, then your prayers begin to carry

more authority. You said something about it

earlier, your your prayers carry weight because now you know the

heart of God and you can start praying the heart of God and

then you'll start seeing what it looks like in the natural.

Yeah. Glory.

He'll give you something, He'll give you a vision, He'll give

you what you need to see. Have mercy, Lord.

So now you got the secret place. How many y'all got a place

established within your home? We know that the altar is on the

on our heart. We do realize that that wherever

we are, we can pray. We can call in the name of the

Lord because we belong to him. But how many of us have a

designated space? It may not be a room.

It may not be a closet. It may just be a corner in your

bedroom. It might be the place that you

know, this is where I can go. This is my comfortable place.

Since you said you got a space at the designated space where

you go and meet God, it's working for you.

It works. Yes, Lord.

Anybody else got a designated place?

If. Thank you.

Thank you. If you don't have a designated

place, I might ask you again to challenge you to do this.

Find one corner, one space in your house that is you and God

it's in my house. It's just me and my husband now,

but it is sports 24/7 because he's retired and he is a lady

game conference. So y'all know March Madness.

The basketball has been going 24/7 at my house.

My play yours, my place of refuge is my bedroom in the

sitting area. So if I can get there, I can get

comfortable. Like a it's not even my office

because it used to be. I go in there now, books

everywhere, all my work everywhere.

It's just too much. So I have to go to a quiet

place, a clean space because my office ain't clean.

But you need to have that, that you are able to meet with God in

a space that means something to you.

And guess what? When He sees you going to that

little area, He know it's coming.

Think about it, He knows what's on the way when you start making

your move to that space, he said Here she come.

That's what you want God to say, am I right?

Come on, we getting ready to have a time because she coming

in, that's what you need to be doing.

Second thing, be bold. Don't just don't just commit to

the set. You got to commit to a secret

place, find you a car, a place. But the second thing you have to

do in your prayer and especially in intercession is you got to be

bold. Standing in the gap for others

requires some strength, especially if you're one of

those ones can take on pain or take on the whatever it is that

God does within you when you're interceding for others.

You got to be bold enough and struggling to stand in the gap.

The problem today is that we can't hardly find intercessors

anymore. Word of the Lord.

Ezekiel chapter 22, verse 2030. Ezekiel chapter 22, verse 30.

Ezekiel 22 · chapter mention Ezekiel 22:30

So the Lord says this. So I sought.

For a man among them who would make a wall and stand in the gap

before me, and on behalf of the land that I should not destroy

it. But I found no one.

That's scary. Y'all hear what I'm saying?

This is what God said. I sought for a man that could do

this, that could build the wall and then stand in the gap

between me and them, and he couldn't find nobody, he said.

And he was set to destroy the land because they were

outlandishly out of order and there was no one interceding.

There was not one among them that he could call upon to

intercede, that could stand on the wall for the people.

That's not who. We're supposed to be that living

sacrifice thing is real. I went to the doctor today for

one thing, had to have a procedure while I was there.

But look at me standing now. I I remember calling and she

said do you need a pill that they give you any medicine?

I said no, she didn't give me nothing and I'll get something

later because I didn't want to be out of it.

I'll take some tonight and go to bed.

But you got to be a living sacrifice and still willing to

do what God has assigned you to do because He'll give you

strength. He'll make you able.

So when God is looking for someone, can He say I got here?

Can He say I got him? Can he say I got her?

There is one that will stand on the wall.

There is one that will stand in the gap.

He just want to know now. Ain't nobody calling you for

prayer. You ain't the one yet.

I know. That's a little rough.

That wasn't nice, was it? But you might be a private

prayer warrior and they don't know it.

I'm a fix it. Fix it.

All I know is when your phone is ringing out the hood, pastor,

Bishop, elder, I need a prayer. I need you to get a prayer

through. I had a dream.

I need you to interpret the dream.

Somebody's always calling because they know the anointing

that's on your life. That's it.

And so somebody, yes, shout glory because if you get in the

calls, God has placed something on you.

He'll put a little extra extra oil in there.

Intercession is the actor praying on behalf of others that

thing is standing in the gap and bringing their needs before God

when they can't do it. You're contending for their

breakthrough. Contend your fate.

You're fighting y'all in the. Description is a Jew contending

for the faith. Faith.

That's right. But you're contending on behalf

of somebody else. You're contending for their

breakthrough. And then when somebody gets

their break, but don't you feel good when you done your part?

Come on, say to God, because somebody did it for us.

We were rich, undone, yes, Lord, but somebody stood in the gap

for us. Some of us, Lord Jesus, some

really, some of US has caused some of the greatest moves of

God to happen For others. That's what happens with

intercession. You caused the biggest

breakthroughs to happen. You caused God to move in such a

mighty way. And it's all throughout the

history of the Bible. Through intercession, things

happened. My God, I did a prayer.

CDI didn't think about it until today and it was I think Tyler

was intercession, the prayer that won't.

Stop or the prayer. And that's what he's saying.

You can't just stop at one time. And I know people say, well, why

they keep going to the altar, They know what they're doing

because they need a breakthrough.

And until they get it, don't complain about them because if

you were praying with them half the time, they might have

already gotten the breakthrough. Keys to effective woo Lord Jesus

intercession pray with faith. Ain't nothing worse than you

praying and not believing that God will answer Mark Chapter 11

Mark 11:24

verse 24. It's right there.

Remember when you read in that in that sector, it's where

section, that's where the disciples, they're getting ready

to walk back out of town and they walked past the fig tree

and the fig tree had dried up. And the disciple says to the

Lord, you know, hey, this was the tree that you cursed

yesterday. And So what the Lord said to him

was basically, you got to believe what you speak.

I cursed the tree, so I knew it was going to be dead today.

You should have expected it to be dead really, is what it's

saying. If I cursed it, it was supposed

to be dead, so he was increasing.

Believe what you're praying. God wants you to believe.

You got to believe that God will answer what you speak in prayer.

If you don't believe it ain't no need to pray in glory to God.

So he says I need you to pray and I need you to believe.

I always say that I pray expecting God to answer.

If you don't have that mentality, then you got to shift

it tonight. You got to change that, because

if you go pray, you got to believe God for every word that

you're praying. And that you?

In it lines up with the will of God.

But listen, even if it wasn't the will of God, I'm still

believing He going to answer my prayers, even if it was crazy.

That's right. That's.

Right. You got to have that kind of

faith in your Father. That's right.

So he said believe, pray and believe that I'm going to

answer. Then you got to pray with

authority. Somebody look at John chapter

John 14 · chapter mention

14, John chapter 14, verses 13 and 14, John 14, chapter 13 and

John 14:13

14. Nicole, you ought to know this

one because this was your initial sermon.

I didn't think about it till I was writing it down greater

works. So somebody will just read that

for me. John chapter 14, verse 13 and

John 14:13

14. Uh huh and whatever.

You ask? Anything in my name?

Uh huh, there it is. That's a prayer with authority

because you're putting Jesus name on it.

His name has got to be on the prayer in order for these things

he said because he goes to the Father, He now has the right for

you to pray in his name and it and he will answer you.

So you have authority in the name of Jesus.

Authority. So pray in faith and pray with

authority. That's a part of being bold.

Then pray with persistence. Never give up till you see this

thing. Listen, there's some things in

our lives that we want God to move on and we are believing God

to move on. Until you see it, you got to be

persistent and praying it. So please don't give up.

If there was somebody close to you, my husband was in the

hospital and they had no idea what was wrong with him.

No idea. And then they they said, well,

they started doing primitive medicine on him.

They were like tapping his back with these things and trying to

figure out where the fluid was coming from.

Wasn't in his lungs, but it was around his lungs.

And it came out of nowhere and they couldn't figure it out.

So in the midst of them doing this, a lot of problems

occurred. They couldn't think.

They wanted to know, had he been out of the country?

Had he been working on a ship? Had he done?

I mean, the list of things that they kept coming up was just

crazy. In the midst of all of that, he

was struggling so bad that I remember.

Just. Praying.

He lost 40 lbs in less than a month.

In a month he lost 40 lbs. You have.

I have never prayed like I prayed then so desperate times

you'll go into some desperate measures and pray harder, but

what God is requiring us is to be persistent in our prayers.

Don't stop when you don't see the end of it.

Keep praying you keep praying until listen my my nephew Chris

Levy Johnson. He says until you, you prayed

Lazarus back from the dead because they had seen my

husband. And saw his condition.

And he sure said he said until you don't pray Lazarus back from

the dead, you. Tried to call my Lazarus, but it

was that type of prayer and I wasn't alone.

I had an army of people praying with me for him.

That's why you can't just depend on pastor to pray.

We got to be praying together in this church.

We got to be praying together in this community for things to

change. Y'all 140 years old about to be

140. It's a whole lot of stuff done

going down the problem in this community and in this church.

But imagine what's going to happen when you all praying on

one accord and the things the visions that are being seen, the

things that you can do. Y'all got a great community

here. So many lives that you can

touch. Keep praying if you want to fill

the. House keep praying if you want

to see change in the community, but God said pray with

persistence. Luke chapter 18 verse one

Luke 18 · chapter mention

through 8 y'all can look at it. It's the it's the parable of

persistent widow. So basically don't lose heart.

That's what he's saying in the Ted don't lose heart.

Trust and believe in me and I will come to your rescue.

God is looking for people to intercede.

For families, for churches, like I just said, cities, your

communities, all even the nations and we will see change

when we learn how to pray according to God, Lord 3rd and

final thing, I don't know how long I've been third and final

thing, expect God to do something, expectations of God

to speak and move. You don't want to just hear him

and then you don't see no action.

You have to expect God to speak and to make moves.

So that's your third invite. Expect God to do something.

Jeremiah 33 and three says, call to me and what I will answer you

and show you great and mighty things, which you what do not

know. Glory to God, if God is saying

to you, call to me and I will answer you.

Why are we keeping our mouths shut?

Because that's what Satan wants. Is that not Satan's language?

That's what the man of God said tonight.

Silence is Satan's language, but God is saying to us, call out to

me and I will. Glory to God, Come on, answer

you. I will answer you.

Have mercy, Jesus. Prayer is two way conversation.

If you praying and doing all the talking, I'm going to use this

as an example. You know, Danita, Danita talk,

talk, talk, talk, talk, talk. And every time I have a

conversation with a Shay, I, I was talking to the Lord and such

and such and such. Every time I talked to Danita, I

was talking to the Lord and I said, well, did he get the talk

back to you? Danita talks so much.

And she constantly praying, but I know she don't give him time

to answer. I shouldn't have to tell you

everything because if you'd have talked to God that much, he

should have unanswered something.

So what he said give me a chance to answer you.

Glory to God. It's a two way conversation.

In other words, listen, talk and then listen.

Pray and listen. Pray, watch and pray.

There you go. Many people pray and never

expect God to speak. I got to go back there.

I'm coming back there because most of the time we are praying

amiss because we don't listen or believe God's going to talk back

to us. We have not been trained for an

ear. We have not believed.

We have not held on to the faith in knowing that if we talk to

God, we're praying that we ought to expect.

Him to talk back to us. You may hear it audibly.

You may get an unction in the Spirit.

Like I said earlier, something's going to move on you that you're

going to know God is working and that He's moving on your behalf.

He may do it even through the Word.

He'll send you to the Word somewhere.

You'll be praying something. All of a sudden that Word come

up and out of you, and then you'll spend some time in it.

Come on y'all God, we need to expect him to respond.

So we ought to cultivate a lifestyle of prayer where we

develop this spiritual sensitivity.

A lot of us like to pray and be out right?

It's usually a 5 minute prayer, you know, and you think that's a

long time for some people. Some people say how y'all pray

that long cultivated time and relationship with God will cause

you to just pray and pray. And then from prayer there's

going to be some prophecy, there's going to be some praise,

there's going to be something that comes out of your time of

prayer and what he's saying. Cultivate a sensitivity that you

know when God is moving and when he's speaking.

Like I said earlier, what my headache, I know the pain I

felt. And so I begin to pray in the

Spirit. And it was all led by the man of

God taking us into a place. You got to set an atmosphere.

That's why I couldn't sit down on it.

Something too many of us sit down when God is moving.

If you start moving and working it out, got to start working it

out with you. My God, that's right.

So let Him speak to you through His Word.

The Bible is a primary source that we need to use through the

Holy Spirit. Like I said, they may give you

some impression, maybe an unction of Holy Spirit.

It'll be a prompting and a pushing.

I'm going to say this because I know Shay and I know Pastor Matt

and Elder Nicole know this situation with y'all might not

have been there, but I'm going to tell you what happened to me

one Sunday when the Lord started working with me after

intercession and I started feeling and getting these

unctions I ain't quite know what to do with.

I was sitting down in the church and see I was in the church

where we would get called out if we made the wrong move.

This particular Sunday Pastor Jeffcoate wasn't there, but I

said I know he going to get the word and I'm going to be in

trouble. I was standing up, I was sitting

down, and then we were standing up in worship.

May feel our musician at the time was playing the organ and

this is what the Holy Spirit will do for you because you

don't know. I was trying to make it about me

now. Oh God, I ain't going up there.

That's going to be out of order and I'm going to get in trouble.

And I'm telling you, it was just like I felt like pushed me out

of the Pew. I said this ain't right, God, I

can't go. I kept saying it, but it's what

the unction and the impression of the Holy Spirit will do for

you. I get up and I don't think I'd

ever been on the choir stand at that point.

I get up and I walk around and I go up and I take a seat next to

the musician on the organ and all I'm able to do is sit there

and I'm praying. I did not know why God did that

to me and I was so scared. I was like, all I knew is I was

going to get in trouble because our pastor did not play I.

Could not move though God made me sit and all of a sudden he

began to play like angels were playing.

It was a different sound that happened and then that same

suddenly somebody said they saw look like angels bouncing at the

ceiling. I don't know what God was doing

and who He was doing it for, but I know He was using me and

getting my mind right and my spirit right, but at the same

time He was doing something else.

You got to be willing to be obedient to the Spirit of God.

When you're in prayer, do what God tells you to do.

Don't just say yes, Lord, and then you don't move.

Too many of us have done that. Then you don't You hate.

Well, Lord, I wish I had done that when I was supposed to do

it. Yeah.

Yeah. Another example, Holy Spirit

Pastor Jeffco was preaching at a church in Spartanburg.

There might have been about 75 people in the congregation

because the church has split her gone.

Now they're over probably 1000 people at that church.

They've come back. Pastor Jeffco was preaching and

I'm sitting and this was so new to me.

That's why I'm just want to share these examples with you of

how. God will use you if you just be.

Obedient and let him use you. I am standing up.

Everybody's standing up. And all of a sudden he turns

around because everybody's moving and there's one person

sitting in the pulpit and she was sitting and would not move

upon the spirit that was moving in the house.

And I remember him turning around.

Sister, you need a revival. I felt a clip at my knees.

It was like somebody clipped me and I had to sit in the pews.

And God say pray. I started praying because I

didn't that was intercession for him, because that whatever the

Spirit was did not want her to move.

And so God calls me to go into intercession at that moment.

You just got to be willing, y'all.

To do what God is showing you, speaking to you, sharing with

you, to do that. That really is the lifestyle of

being an intercessor, being willing to go into the trenches

and do what is not normal to eyesight, but do those things

which are abnormal to man. But God supernaturally fixes for

you when you're obedient like that, when you listen to the

instructions and obey what He reveals to you.

Is going to be mind blowing and it will carry you and give you

strength to keep on going. I pray that you don't give up in

this time of the season of your fasting and then what you're

doing now. I want you to keep on pressing

and I want you to keep going forward and I want you to if you

you considering prayer, please do some of these things and

let's watch the change who and the shift.

Let's watch God change it. I don't I just believe God can

do anything. I'm believing that, and I don't

believe like I believe like Pastor Matt.

It is not. By happenstance that you are

here tonight, I believe that the right people are definitely in

the room. No matter how you decided to

come, why you decided to come, God has plans for you.

Thank you Lord Father, we come before you.

Once again, Truly thankful Father, for the opportunity to

share how you desire for us to be men and women on the wall.

We thank you, Lord, that you caused us to be a mighty army,

one that knows your voice, one that knows your moves, God, one

who knows how you move in us. So Father, we thank you for

right now God maturing our prayer life.

I hear the Lord say it's this. It's a necessity that he matures

us quickly in our prayer lives. And when God, we thank you that

when you say this, there's something to come.

So Father, we bless you right now that as you touch each one

that is here tonight, man, woman, boy and girl, I'm praying

God that you fall fresh. Fall fresh upon each one of us

that what our desires is begin to turn and look like yours,

God. That what you show us, we

desire. What you show us we go for.

Father, we thank you for every intercessor in this house, God,

For every prayer warrior in this house, God.

That whatever you desire of us right now, O God, we say, we

yield our bodies as living sacrifice unto you.

That as you touch us, God. Transfer your power, fall fresh

upon us. Anoint every part of our

spiritual being that you need to use.

Strengthen our physical bodies that we might not give up that

we're willing to stand God when all else fails we bless you

father God, for your faithfulness toward us now we

just ask God that you turn our. Hearts.

In the direction of you, O God, that all we'll see, and all

we'll feel. God whole.

Glory to God is what you give us.

Hallelujah, rest upon the table of our heart.

Purify our hearts that there will be no malice, no jealousy.

No envy, and no. Deceit that you desire pure.

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