The Purpose Of Prevailing Prayer - Pastor J.D. Howell 6-28-2026

Again.

We're going to be looking at Mark chapter number one,

verse number thirty five as our golden text. Brother Nathaniel,

you'll be reading James chapter number five, verses number seventeen

and eighteen as our first co text, and Brother Jesse

Daniel chapter number six and verse number ten. Brother Nathaniel,

would you read that, my brother James, chapter number five,

Verses number seventeen and eighteen. Elias was a man subject

to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly

that it might not rain. And it rained not on

the earth by the space of three years and six months.

And he prayed again, and the heavens gave rain, and

the earth brought forth her fruit. A mortal man prayed,

and it ceased to rain. A mortal man prayed, and

it began to reign again, because a mortal prayed to

an immortal heavenly father, a mortal being communicated with an

immortal being, Brother Jesse Daniel, chapter number six, Verse number ten,

My brother.

Now, when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he

went into his house, and his windows being opened in

his chamber, toward Jerusalem. He kneeled upon his knees three

times a day and prayed and gave thanks before his

God as he did afore time.

Amen, I want to preach a message the Holy Ghost

titled The Purpose of Prevailing Prayer The Purpose of Prevailing Prayer.

Years ago, I read a book that Charles Fenny wrote

on prevailing prayer. I have not read that book in

probably twenty years. I know it's been at least eighteen

and a half years since I read that book. I

can't tell you anything that was written in that book

other than this statement Charles Finny said, prevailing prayer is

effectual prayer. That is prayer which attains the blessing that

it seeks. It is that prayer which effectually moves God Again.

Between eighteen and a half and twenty years ago, I

read a book written by Charles Finny on the subject

of prevailing prayer, and I believe way back then I

gained an understanding of the importance of prevailing prayer. I

thought nothing of that book until last night, and I

know no other words of that book than what I

just read to you now. But I know that the

Holy Ghost of Heaven spoke to me to preach to

this people the purpose of prevailing prayer and there's no

doubt Charles, Grants and Finny understood the purpose of prevailing prayer.

May we stand for the reading of our golden texts.

Mark chapter number one and verse number thirty five. If

you haven't say amen. The Bible says that in the morning,

rising up a great while before day, he went out

and departed into a solitary place, and their prayed. And

in the morning, rising up a great while before day,

he went out and departed into a solitary place, and

their pray and their prayed. Let's look at the latter

three words of that verse. And their prayed, and their prayed,

he went into a solitary place, and their prayed. Let's pray.

Heavenly Father, we love him, We praise you. We thank

you for the opportunity to come into your house this morning.

I thank you for this people of light, precious faith God,

these people that have a purpose for prevailing prayer. Lord,

these people that have a purpose for gathering today, for

assembling together in this place that is designated.

For prayer and praise. We pray Lord.

That you would anoint this people and set a guard

at their ears and help them to hear what the

spirit of God says or to the church, God, set

a guard at my mouth, and help me to say

the things you would have me to say. Nothing more

or less. We pray God that we would hear and

heed the word that is spoken unto us by your spirit.

Today we'll give you praise, honor, and glory. And may

we depart this place joyfully and not sorrowfully. In Jesus' name.

In the church said amen again, looking at our golden

text Mark chapter number one and verse number thirty five.

And in the morning, rising up a great while before day,

he went out and departed into a solitary place, and

their prayed. Our text is found in a New Testament

book of the Holy Bible. The Book of Mark was

written by John Mark to summon this building. The man

John Mark means nothing, while to others in this building,

the very name of John Mark sparks hope in your heart,

because the Bible students and the Bible readers in this

building today will recognize this man as a child of

God who, for a small space of time in his life,

was as unstable as water. And the reason for this

instability was because this man did not develop a prayer life. Now,

the Bible does not altogether state that. But after studying

this topic this morning and looking at the scriptures, I

was able to determine that this man lacked something in

his life at one time. At some time, this man

lacked power with Jesus Christ.

To withstand the enemy.

At some time in this man's life he was unable

to endure hardness as a good soldier. Well, we know

that prayer warriors are able to endure hardness as good soldiers.

So what was it that was wrong in this very

special man's life. Again, this man is the author of

the Second Gospel, Saint Mark's Gospel. Now I want you

to think of the significance of that that this man

is used mightily by the Lord later on in his life.

What allowed him.

To be the candidate to put pen to parchment and

to give us this second Gospel? I believe the man

learned a lesson that his mother had prayed earnestly that

he might learn. And I've heard some preaching over the

last couple of nights that let me know that there's

people that are listening but are not learning. And I've

heard some preaching that has indicated that there are people

that are queerly developing, meaning they are not developing properly,

they are developing abnormally. We heard tongues in interpretation as

it indicated to us that there was more than one

or two in that condition or in that state of mind.

I'm not surprised when you get between seventy five and

eighty people together. There is no doubt in my mind

there is a handful of people that are not praying.

There's no doubt in my mind that there's a full

of people that are not giving it. They're all every

day of their life. There's no doubt in my mind

that there's not that there's people in the building whom

are not interested at all in worshiping and praising the

Lord with their brothers and sisters of light precious faith.

In that very moment, they're just warm bodies sitting on

a pew. So was John Mark at some point in

his life. In fact, because of the connection that his

praying mother had with the Apostles, john Mark received an

invitation to accompany the Great Apostle Paul and Barnabas during

their first missionary journey.

There's no doubt.

The record is clear that this man was able to

accompany the Great the upgreat the Great Apostle Paul. Now,

I can't imagine how that would be for somebody to

attach themselves to the ministry of the Apostle Paul, and

for the Book of Acts to let us know that

this man was in fact present on this missionary journey.

But because this man was not where he needed to be,

he was unable to complete the mission trip.

And it is save for us to assume the life.

Of a missionary or a companion to the Great Apostle

Paul wasn't exactly what John Mark expected it to be,

and something caused him to go home. Was it the

opposition that the missionaries faced? Was it the verbal and

physical persecution that caused him to turn tail and run?

If so, why was he unable to endure hardness as

a good soldier as Paul and Barnabas were doing. There

is no doubt in our mind whatsoever that the Holy

Ghost enabled and equipped the Apostle Paul and Barnabas to

finish that which God had told them to start.

And so I propose he a prayer life.

Perhaps he muttered a prayer here and there, but did

he really communicate with the Lord Jesus the way he

needed to. I don't believe this man had an active

and a daily prayer life.

Paul and Barnabas were mortals.

They were men of flesh and blood and bone, just

as he was. But there was no doubt in my

mind as I looked through the Gospels and looked through

the Book of Acts and consider the life of John Mark,

that these men were different than him.

These men were prayer warriors.

And I feel like John Mark was not a prayer warrior,

just like several in this building this morning are not

prayer warriors. One of the leaders of the Early Church,

in his epistle, he penned these words, and they're found

in James chapter number five, verses number seventeen and eighteen.

It says Elijah was a man subt like passions as

we are, and he prayed earnestly that.

It might not rain, And it rained not on.

The earth by the space of three years and six months.

And he prayed again, and the heavens gave rain again,

and the earth brought forth her fruit. In other words,

Elijah had been a mortal man, just as John Mark

was at the time of his desertion. But the Bible

clearly states that Elias or Elijah was a praying man.

It's evident some people in this building today feel that

prayer is important, while others feel it not to be

very important. But the great Man of God, the Prophet

of Fire some call him Elijah, believed the fervent and

fiery prayer of the righteous man to be an effectual

or prevailing prayer, and he believed it needed to be

offered by a righteous person. We know the Bible is

accurate and clear stating that God hereth not the prayer

of sinners.

And so John Mark was not a sinner.

But John was not one that was busy about the

father's business, as it appeared he was. You see, John

Mark would have known the power of prevailing prayer, but

he was unwilling to participate in prevailing prayer.

There's no doubt about it.

In Acts chapter number twelve, we read the record of

a prayer meeting which was being held at the home

of his mother. Again, a prayer meeting that was being

held at the home of John Mark's mother, and verse

number five of that chapter tells us the purpose of

the prayer meeting, the purpose for the prevailing prayer. Acts

chapter number twelve and verse number five. Like this, Peter

therefore was kept in prison, but prayer was made without

ceasing of the church unto God for him.

The purpose of the prevailing.

Prayer was because their precious Peter was in prison. Again,

the purpose of their prevailing prayer was because their precious

Peter was in prison. But because of the other believers gathering.

And how many of you know it is the will

of God that we forsake, not the assembling of ourselves together.

The manner of some is as it was back then,

to not gather.

But they gathered together in something called a prayer meeting. Well,

in every service that I come to at the Methal

Holiness Church, we have a prayer meeting of sorts, and

we have a praise and worship service. And so here

at this gathering, there was a prayer meeting, and their

prayers prompted the Lord to release an angelic being on

the place of Peter's imprisonment. And in spite of the fetters,

the shackles and the chains and the security detail, Peter

was liberated.

In an impossible situation.

These people received a miracle because they were praying.

People.

Notice again that prayer was made without ceasing. We know

that the Apostle Paul and Jesus Christ himself encouraged us

to pray continually. We know that they expected us to

pray without ceasing, meaning that our minds should be meditating

upon the Lord, and that our spirits should be musing

upon the Lord, and that words should be spoken out

of our mouth addressing our heavenly Father. When I look

at this word the purpose, I see the meaning of

the fundamental reason why something is done. Do you have

a purpose for that prayer this morning? It's their purpose

behind your prayer. I remember years ago telling this group

and body of believers that we must be specific when

we pray. This generation has forgot the purpose of being

specific when they pray. The blind man he spoke to

the Lord and said, Lord, I'm being specific here. I

need to receive my sight. Lord, I'm being specific here.

I need to receive my sight. And there's some people

in this building this morning who need to be very

specific with the Lord.

God.

I am a scallywag and a scoundrel, and I need

you to save my soul. While there's others who need

need to say God, I'm not a sanctified vessel.

Holy in your side.

I am not a vessel meet or sufficient for your use.

And I prayed that you.

Would sanctify this vessel that is supposed to be the

temple of the Holy Ghost. And then there needs to

be some that would be specific and pray with purpose

and say, God, I need to be filled with the

baptism of the Holy Ghost. I need the end dwelling

of the Holy Ghost inside of me. I remember when

sister Howel and I received the awful news that our

baby boy Philip had cancer. We prayed specifically for his

healing of cancer. There was not a day that went

by that we did not praise specifically that our baby boy,

our youngest son, would be healed of cancer. Amen, So

do you have a purpose for that prayer? What is

the fundamental reason for why you are doing what you're doing?

Hey man?

So Jesus had a prayer life, and so should every

person in this building. A couple of knights ago, brother

Nathaniel pushed us into our prayer cause and let us

know that if our spiritual tree is going to grow,

if it's going to be watered properly and end up

bearing fruit, then we must be a praying people. But

there's some people in this building this morning, like so

many others who lived in the Bible times, who live

even in our day and hour, they think that prayer

is just a brief or long period of meditation. We

see this practiced in churches. A lot of times. People

move towards the front of the church, which is the

altar area. And when they get their sister woot and

they enter seemingly a period of meditation, they look above

and they can tell you how many ceiling.

Towels there are on the ceiling.

They look below near their feet, and they can tell

you the pattern on the carpet here at the church,

and they have entered a brief period of meditation. Cannot

tell you that prayer is not only a brief period

of meditation. And prayer is not only a time of reflecting.

It is a time of speaking directly to God. It

is a time of addressing your heavenly Father. The disciples

were amazed at the desire that Jesus had to communicate

with the heavenly Father. Again, I want to say, Jesus

had a prayer life, and Jesus had a purpose for

prevailing prayer. And the disciples said Lord teach us how

to pray, and Jesus didn't tell them go off over

yall and figure it out for yourself.

Jesus gave them a pattern for prayer.

He said, communicate and talk to your God and address

him as such, our father, our heavenly father. And there's

people in this building today who are failing to address

him as heaven live father. Because the Bible said if

a son would petition or address and ask a father

for some bread, the father would not give him a stone.

If the son would ask the father for a fish,

the father would not give that son a serpent. And

so I want you to know here this morning that

God has heard your prayer, and God is speaking to

you this morning telling you how to get your petitions

answered and how to get your prayer through. You must

have a place of prayer, you must have a position

of prayer, and you must have a purpose a prayer

and a pattern of prayer. The purpose of prevailing prayer

is so that you can get something done that needs

to be done, or receive an answer that you need

to receive from the Lord. I see a lot of

people today that are contenting to go through life having

not heard from the Lord. Years ago, it was a

common thing for people to hear in church somebody would

stand up and they would say, you've got to pray

until you pray it too. That would be directed at

a mother that did not understand why her child.

Was terminally ill.

That would be directed at a pastor that did not

understand why the church was not experiencing growth. That might

have been directed at somebody that did not understand why

they were not receiving the whole ghost. And I want

to tell you here today the same thing that the

elders of yesteryear told us.

You have to have a purpose, a prevailing.

Prayer, and you have to be persistent in that prevailing prayer.

So I propose that you need a prayer life, and

the same way John Markham needed a prayer life. And

I know that there's no doubt John Marka was an

attendance at a lot of them prayer meetings that his

mother was hosting. There's no doubt he was a warm

body in the building. But I wonder was his voice heard.

I wonder if there was any plea in that petition.

I wonder if there was any passion behind that petition.

I wonder if there was any strong desire. That's what

was said by James. The effectual, fervent prayer of the

righteous man of vail as much this means the strong,

or the loud, or the passionate, the fiery prayer abaileth

much everybody that I've ever written used get the Holy

ghost them They got to business with the Lord, and

they meant every word that they were speaking to the Lord.

They were not addressing the pastor, they were not addressing leacate,

they were not addressing the elders of the church.

And you could tell that.

They set their affection on things above and they looked

into the handle of their master to receive the answer.

You see, John.

Marka ebedently had not understood that every great man of

God from Elijah to Daniel, has to have a prayer

to life.

And it's evident.

But the Nathaniel, after hearing your message, that some people

feel that prayer has not imported for them. And that's

why there's no spiritual development.

That's why there's no growth.

That's why they can't even stand up in the church

and say I'm saved. I mean, forget about saying I'm

saft to pided and holy girls field, and they're unable

to stand up in churching with the joy of the

Lord as their strengthen and say I'm saved. And you

know why because they have not even yet made a

sinner's prayer, and unto God, they have not yet honestly

spoke to the Lord and said, God, I see myself

as unholy. I see myself as unrighteous, and I see

myself as unworthy. I don't even see myself as your child.

Then if you would, are you getting to this the

plea of the prodigal. It's the plea of the prodigal.

It's the petition of the prodigal, It's the prayer of

the proticol. It's the purpose of prevailing prayer, that I

must be restored to good standing with my father. And

when you become your father's son or your father's daughter,

you will unashamedly approach and address him as such, and

you will know that you have whatever you desire before

you even ask come. But he requires it, even though

he knows, And even though you know you'll have it

before you ask her, you still have her to approach him.

You still have to address him. If you're gonna find

if you're gonna attain.

If you're gonna let.

Hold up, you have to ask. For those that ask

not to receive not. For those that pray not, they

do not have their answer when they get done pretending

to prayer, they pretending to pray.

Amen.

This may be more of a teaching this morning than

it is a preaching. But until you figure out that

us mortals must pray, you will not have your petitions

granted and your prayers answered.

We must pray.

I've never known anybody to be miraculously cured of cancer

without prayer being involved.

I've never known the dead to.

Be raised without prayer being involved. In fact, when Mary

and Martha were facing an awful situation concerning the demise

of their brother Lazarus, they knew that they had to

get the word to the Master, and that the Master

had to tend to the situation that there was going

to be a reser. You've got to look above this poolpit.

You've got to look above the person in the pulpit.

And your prayer cannot be directed to the person in

the pul pit, and your petition cannot be addressed to

the person.

In the pul pit.

You have to look over the shoulders in the head

of your pastor or the evangelist, or the preacher or

the teacher, and you have to get your eyes home. Jesus,

I'm telling you, you've got to take this subject matter

to the higher power. You've got to take it to

higher authority if you're going to have your prayers answered.

Elijah had been a mortal man, and John Mark was

a mortal man. And because John Mark was not praying

as his mother would do, his mother that would receive miracles,

his mother that would receive a knocker on the door,

and the damnse tending the door. In other words, the

damsel that was not praying, the damsel that was not

in the spirit, the damsel that was looking around, the

mother that that prayer me wouldn't praying, the mother that

was distracted. Come on, now, are you listening to me?

The damsel that heard the door knocking, that heard the

knock on the door, that damsel that heard everything.

But what really mattered, that damsel.

That's all everything happened, But what mattered Her eyes should

have been or Mary, the mother of John Mark. Her

ears should have been tuned in and she should have

been asking the Lord teach me how to pray. Teach

me how to pray like John Mark's mother Mary. I

want you to know it's not gonna get you to heaven.

Now you knowing.

He's praying and who's not, it's not gonna get to

the heaven.

How you looking around.

And knowing who's sincere and who's insincere. What matters is

do you have a prayer life?

Do you have power with God? And man? Amen?

How can you ever get a shout out of a

message on prayer, especially the people of this generation who

simply do not desire it all to have a prayer life.

I'll tell you who is responsible for robbing you of

your prayer life and your prayer time. The developers of

technology has distracted people from their prayer causes, and it

has pulled them out of their places of prayer, and

it has changed their position of prayer. I know there's

disabled people in this building this morning, and I know

people that can't get down on their knees and pray.

But if you'll study the Bible, you will see that

there is a posture for prayer, there is a position

for prayer. There is a place for prayer. And John

Mark knew my mama's got an altar. My mama's gonna

have a prayer meeting, and it is a place a

prevailing prayer and acts chapter number twelve and verse number five. Again,

you see that mama is praying for a man that

has learned how to pray. Jesus had spoke to Peter

early on, and he said, when you're converted, strengthen your brethren.

I have prayed for you, Peter, that your faith fell

not because satans want to sift you, Satans wanting to

have you, Satans wanting to try you. I'm sure echoed

in Peter's soul that to Jesus had gone on to glory.

Peter, I have prayed for you, Peter, I have prayed

for you. Are you getting this?

If our young people are gonna make it, if your

children are gonna make it, if our church is gonna

make it, somebody's gotta pray for us. Somebody's gotta pray

over us, somebody's gotta pray with us.

I know that great.

Man of God seemingly doesn't need any prayer, but if

there's gonna be victory in his life at times, there's

gotta be somebody who's not even related to him, not

even a blood relative, not even a near kinsman, get

stirred up by the spirit and host a prayer meeting

of purpose and say, I be love it Peter, who's

in prison, and we've got to pray.

I know it's an impossible situation.

I know the outlook is breaker or we've got to pray.

You wanna work out they come.

Pray about it. You want a new tribe, pray about it.

You want spirit just to leave. It goes not porter

but my prayer and fasting. You gotta pray if you

escape hell, you gotta pray if you experience me, because

you'll have to pray. Peter therefore was kept in prison,

but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto

God for him, there wasn't only one serious prayer warrior

in this prayer meeting.

There wasn't only two. There wasn't only three.

The place was packed full of praying people of prevailing prayer.

And it was because of their prevailing prayer that Peter

was liberated. Prayer was made without ceasing. It wasn't a

five sentence prayer. This day it can be at times

you could just call on the name of the Lord

and be delivered. Peter could tell you he cried and said,

Lord save me. If I'm not mistaken, that was the

text for a recent message. But if you talk to

Jacob of Old, he will tell you it took an

all night prayer meeting, wrestling with the Angel of the Lord.

And I tell you this, this little moment of reflection,

and this is a little period of time of meditation,

and is staring at the ceiling tiles and a pattern

on the carpet on the floor, and just staring into

the corner of the church. That is not getting it done.

Neither is you getting it done. Whenever you just cry

out because somebody else is getting in and say Lord

save me. I'm telling you, somebody better get a routine,

somebody better develop their prayer life. Somebody better grow in

grace and in this knowledge that we have to pray

when you kneel down. I've seen new converts just the routing,

and I've figured out they do not to even know

how to pray. And my words of counsel have been

like this. You talk to the Lord just like he's

your best friend. You talk to the Lord just like

a he would be your child. You talk to the

Lord just like a it's one of your passor just

talk to him, have a conversation with him, communicate with him,

tell him how you're feeling. But the devil, it's so

interesting to me how the devil will convince people that

they can come to the altar, whether they're kneeling, whatever

their position or posture is, whether they're kneeling or standing,

that they can come down there and just stand there

and open their eyes or close their eyes, look around

or don't look around, and for some reason they feel

like it because they're present, that they're prevailing with power

in prayer. I want you to know your presence, have

the prayer meeting does not indicate that you're prevailing in prayer.

I'm telling you the damnsel act to door. What's not

praying the way? See, you gotta be praying, Oh thank

God here tonight. You don't have to be a messenger

to the saints. You need to be a messenger that

carries a message to God. The damsel. What's happy telling

her shoying march Mother Mary, there's somebody at the door.

She'd have been better off telling Jesus.

Her burdens prayer with the church about Peter's imprisonment.

Amen.

Now I'm a pushing against the grind this morning, because

there's no harder topic to preach on than prayer. And

this church age is not one to practice prayer.

They are the.

Three word prayer warriors. Oh Lord God, that's about it.

And their prayers stops there, our Heavenly Father, and the

mind rifts there, My Lord God, and the mind wanders there.

Oh he yes said that.

Prayer was made without ceasing, meaning if they don't unlock

the church an hour early, I'll be over there in

forest praying an hour and a half before church, meaning.

Church starts at six.

But I've been out there without anybody, no one, praying

from four point thirty to fire fifty seven. How there

in fire forest talking to my master? Hey, where nobody

knows I have a prayer? Calls it a place of privacy,

a place of secrecy, a place where I can prevail

in prayer and where evidence will be manifested publicly. Hey,

come on, now, you can pray in corporate prayer. You

can pray in private, you can pray in public, you

can pray in private. You gotta pray, You gotta pray.

If you look at our Golden text. It says that

and in the morning, rising up a great while before day,

he went. But he went out and departed into a

solitary place, and their prayed since the wood and I

fell it during the night.

Some will go to fire forest so that others.

Will see their vehicle parked outside the gate.

Some will get early to church.

Get to church early and go to the altar and

pray for about fifteen minutes, so that people will feel

like they are participating in that prayer meeting. But if

it is not passionate, you don't have to get loud.

You can be like Hen of old. You can get

into the altar, and you can just mourn in the spirit,

not murmur and not mutter, hey, come on now, but

mourn and pray and take it to Jesus. Take your

burdens there and leave with tear, and warm tears can

flow down your face, not crocodile tears, but prevailing tears.

You can make intercession, You can make supprecation. You can

pray and ask God to intercede. You can pray for others.

You can pray for yourself. You can pray for your church,

you can pray for your nation. You can pray for

them that use you. You can pray for them that

abuse you. And you come to church or you go

to your private places of prayer, and you wonder, what

are you supposed to pray about? When I've just named

about ten things that the Bible tells you you ought

to pray about.

Pray that you in or not into temptation.

Pray without season, Pray in faith believing. If you're dealing

with disbelief for unbelief, you pray. You say, Lord, I

believe to the best of my ability. But if it's

not enough, help thou my unbelief. I believe God, But

if you feel like I'm not measuring up, help thou

my unbelief. But there's people in this meeting that will

go away and say, well, evidently I don't believe. Well,

that's why you're supposed to say, Well, God, teach me

to pray, streath them my faith, Give me a voice

to pray with, give me a desire to pray. Draw me,

I'll draw out of you. Pull me, and I'll pull

myself closer. They look at people they have power with God,

and they wonder how did they get this power with God?

How did they become the person that they have became.

How but nobody wants to thank you about all of

the prayer.

Jesus prayed so many times. Right now, Holy guess, would

you just help me? Jesus prayed in the garden. Jesus

prayed before he was executed. Jesus prayed as he was

being beaten. Jesus prayed as he was being crucified. Jesus

prayed in the garden. Jesus prayed in Gossemone. Jesus prayed

before he selected his disciples. Jesus prayed before he performed miracles.

Jesus prayed before he walked on the water. Jesus prayed.

And you think you don't have to pray, You need salvation.

That's why you gotta do like Peter did. O, Lord

save me, O, Lord save me. I'd be crying out,

Old God, save me in my house. I'd be crying out,

Old God, save me.

In my truck.

I'd be crying out in the altar to church. Hold

God save me. Use your own words. Can't you communicate?

Can't your communicate? Can God give you a mouth? Didn

God give you a tone in that mouth? Don't you

know how to pronounce words hurts you know, phonics hurt you.

No pronunciation. Have you to know how to address your

heaven and Father? You know why you don't address him

because he's not your heavenly father. So then enough, just say.

God, I need a heaven and father.

Would you be my heavenly father? Get personal with the Lord?

Get personal with the Lord. The god Man woke up early,

and he did just lay there and pray.

The god Man woke up early, and to avoid distractions,

he walked out of the room. He walked out of

the tenor wherever he was a great while before day

that he went to pray because he wanted to make

contact with the heavenly Father. It is true that the

son of Joseph, the Comfroner, was one to communicate.

With his earthly father.

But Jesus didn't rise up a great while before day

to call Joseph and tell Joseph about his troubles, his worries,

or his worries. He walked outside, went to prayer, found

a place of prayer, got imposture, got in position, and

he prevailed. I'm telling you the effectual further prayer. Hold

a righteous man. Hey, let's watch. You need salvation, then

your crowd and say.

God save me. I perish.

When I first got saved, the independent put Acostal holdness,

people loved to sing a song and the lyrics went

like this, I'm standing down here by the river.

Lord, won't you come and help me?

Because if you don't come to my rescue, I will

be lost.

Now.

Just a month ago, Sister how and I revisited the

healing of our son, saying, Eamuel Howell. Only a month

ago we revisited that. We were on a family vacation,

and God got to dealing with me and said, you

know you've testified about the miracle. There's even a testimony

on spreaker that Brother Jeremiah uploaded where I gave the

testimony of what God did for Brother Samuel. But God

he let me know there's more into it. And so

me being who I am, I started calculating his body

weight and then I was able to determine how much

blood should be flowing through a child that has that

body weight system, how much should be pumped and circulated

through that system. And I come up to a certain

amount of blood and I double and triple checked it.

And Brother Nathaniel, after I was sure how much blood

should be circulating through a toddler's at that age in

that bodyweight system. I began to consider how many pints

of blood that Samuel Howell had lost. And I begin

to reflect upon this red solo cups, one which was full,

one it was three quarters full, and then other things.

And when I got done running them numbers in the calculations,

I was able to determine that brother Samuel Howell had

lost a half of his life's blood in less than

forty five minutes. And I remember when he came in

that house after that severe abdominal injury. I remember seeing

him turn pale. I remember seeing the lethargy come upon him,

and his mother was busy. He vomited all over the floor,

trying not to be too long in this, And I

remember saying, Charity, Samuel's in trouble, and her trying to

be positive, right, her trying to be positive like some

of you. It's no big deal, really, you know, there's

really nothing to it. She looked at it. She said, well,

it's been a hot day. She wouldn't doubt me, she said,

well it's been a hot day. I just said all

I'd said was charity. Samuel's in trouble. What's been a

hot day, You know how he is. He gets hot,

he gets sick. He likes to drink, and that's just

probably root beer, one of whose root beery he's been

drinking on and her just talking. You know, there's no

way she knew, There's no way she had facts. I'm

the one that watched the spew out of his mouth.

I'm the one that watched it gush and spray all

over the carpet. So I understood in this situation, this

is ignorant speaking. This is somebody that doesn't really know.

And that's what happens in our life when we talk

to the wrong people and consult with the wrong people,

and we counsel with the wrong people, and they tell

us it's really not that urgent, it's really not that bad.

You're really not a terrible person. Hey, you are saved.

You got saved fifteen years ago. You still cuss like

a sailor, But God knows your heart. You still ate

up with this and that, But God knows your heart.

You go and start talking with your spouse and talking

with friends and family members and relative and people like that,

and they get you all twisted and turned around. And

I wasn't one to be easily twisted or turned around,

and I said, no, that is not root beer.

That is blooding.

About that time, he vomited again, and I'm gonna tell

you her counting has changed. And I saw a spirit

of fear come on her for about five seconds, and

I remember her beginning to clean up that mess. I said, honey,

you ain't got no time to clean up that mess,

and if you're going to try to clean him up,

you better get it done. And lessen ten seconds, she

went tearing off into the bedroom and she got him

a change of clothes. I called somebody that lived nearby.

I said, you better get to my house now. When

you're coming to the door, I will be going out.

There will be no conversation, there will be no how

are you doing? Just make yourself at home? The banana

putting us in the fridge, there won't be none of that.

I'm going out the door. I'll probably be in the

car with a car running before you get to my

front door.

Come on now. But after I hung up that phone,

I hit my knees.

I said, I hit my knees A place a prevailing prayer.

I hit a corner in my living room where I

had made an altar as a young husband, as a

young father. I didn't go to the other end of

the couch. I didn't go to the rocking chair. I

didn't go over here to the other recliner. I didn't

go to the kitchen table. I went to that place

where I prayed when sister Howell went to bed.

And she went in that bedroom and.

Made her own prayer place, made her own altar. I

fell my place of prayer and begin to talk to

the Lord. And I want you to know I had

three words, Oh God Help.

Oh God Help.

And I remember feeling the helper come by, and there

was a faith that was built in my heart that

it might be okay. We got about an hour, now

about it, about two minutes down the road, a little

over a mile down the road, and by the Samuel

was about to leave this world as stepp into eternity.

Her sister how You will remember, I didn't ask you

about it. There was no conversation, There was no what

are you thinking? What are you thinking? What are you thinking?

That's what a lot of you would do. I remember

staring at the yellow line staring at the white line

and then staring at Brother Samuel, and then staring at

the lines again and staring at Brother Samuel.

And I realized, my boy is about to meet Jesus.

And I asked, a two year old boy, are you

ready to meet Jesus?

And he looked at me.

Because he had been raised in church, he knew what

that meant. He knew what that meant, and he said,

you there. I said, well, you're about to meet him.

And I looked at Charity for the first time, and

I looked right in her eyes.

Hey, she want my wife?

Then she wasn't my girlfriend there, She wasn't a member

of my church dead. She was my Pharoh partner in prayer,

my prayer partner, my Paroh prayer warrior. And I said, Charity,

if we better got a hold of God, we better

get a hold of him now. And I want you

to know in less than two minutes because we're prayed.

I said, we opened our mouths and we're prayed. While

driving down the road, and the Holy Ghost of Heaven

cable he in not vehic call. Two hours later, he's

still I saw a doctor because of confusion. He should

have been bled out. I said he should have been.

Bled out, but he wasn't because God.

Stopped her the bleeding. You cussing out to EMTs won't

get it done. You cussing out the nine one one

operator won't get it done. You arguing with them, You

telling them what a great person you are, You telling

them what a great kid he is, ain't gonna get

it done.

Hey, man, come on now.

That day's sister, Teresa Wallace died in here and was

gone for about fifteen minutes. You didn't see your pastor

standing at the door wanting the e MT to get

here because I knew at this point it's beyond their

pay grade. I appreciate them. I've taken my grandkids there.

I've told my adult kids to go down to their station.

I've seen what they can do. It's amazing what they

can do. But I have found where power is limited.

I have found they don't always care to hear my petition.

I've found they don't always feel my plea. But there's

never been a time that I have pled to God

or gave him a petition that God has not understood.

I'm telling you.

There'll be a time when your pastor doesn't really realize

just how bad you need a healing.

There'll be a time in your life when the first.

Lady don't really realize how bad you need the Holy Ghost.

You've got to tell Jesus about some of these things.

You've got to start talking to Jesus, for he knows

all about it, and only he can do something about it.

The god Man went to a garden to pray. The

god Man went to Kyosemite to pray. The god Man

hung on the cross and prayed. The god Man prayed,

and rising a great while before day, she went and

departed into a back room and prayed until she was

in due with power from on high that could be

your testimony.

And rising in the morning.

A great while before day, she went into a back

room and prayed that God would deliver her son of devils.

And he was delivered of demons. First number thirty six

said in Simon. And they that were with him followed

after him. They went out there, but you don't see where.

They just went out there and prayed with him. The

god Man needed to pray, But brother Sterity wasn't gonna

be enough to call Joseph. It wasn't gonna be enough

to call Daddy. He wasn't gonna be enough. And I'm

gonna tell you something. The preaching around here has it

been lacking the preacher. The preacher has not missed it.

The preaching of these preachers has been wonderful. I'm telling

you every message has been heaven sent. It's just been

God sent, God ordained the powate. God has been present.

But it's not getting a job done. And last night

I pled and I cried on your behalf and I said, God,

why are they not getting saved. I'm just talking about

two to four of you. I said, why are they

not getting delivered? Why are they not getting changed? Bethel's

a revival church. I'm telling you the power of God's

in his place. About seventy five of you shouted this morning,

but for two to four of you, You're not gonna

receive anything from your heavenly Father, no matter how bad

we want you to have it, until you address him properly.

Sir and ma'am.

Making contact with the Father multiple times a day was

a practice of Jesus' but also of Daniel, whom God

promoted in Babylon. He knew how to thrive in Babylon.

You know how Daniel thrived in Babylon by praying one

time of day wasn't enough. Evidently twice a day wasn't enough.

Evidently he made contact with a father multiple times a day.

In fact, Daniel six and ten we read now, when

Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into

his house, and his windows being open in his chamber

toward Jerusalem, he knelt upon his knees three times a

day and prayed and give thanks before his God, as

he did afore time. Do you know the Pagans They

have a better position, place, and posture for prayer than

we do as Christians, And that's pitiful. They kneel before

giant buddhas and weird looking idols, morphed creatures half gazelle,

half elephant, half rat, braisen bronze, golden, silver plated gods

that can't hear, gods that can't speak. But they'll get

in their proper places. I just did some what he

calls jewelry. I just did some fancy ornamental handrail for

a being there.

I guess he is. He owns a hunter companies.

Huh. He has a prayer room in that big mansion.

I've been in there. I've seen the sacrificial plates, I've

seen the offering tables, I've seen the altar, I've seen

the incense table, I've seen the laver, I've seen the

wash basin. I walked in there and I felt the

skin on my body move, and I said, there's demonic

powers in this place. I've been on the back porch.

It overlooks one of the bays, one of the best

pieces of property available in that area. He owns it.

A pagan if you would, I mean, he's an idolatry,

big statue of Buddha, protecting his assets, protecting his businesses,

making him wealthy, making him prosper. And him and his

wife said, the most important thing in this house is

that we have a prayer room. And sister how that's

my emphasis. It was important to some that we pray

for Peter. Now, if your pastor ends up tonight in

the er and then ends up in intensive care and

the doctor says he ain't gonna make it more than

likely because of that professional opinion, he ain't gonna make it,

it's acrick, and it'll be important that somebody says, you

know what I'm calling in the work in the morning,

and if this group of believers come in here, nobody's

got to worry about anybody looking over the shoulder at

somebody and not paying attention and play. We're gonna pray

until our precious person has been delivered, because I'm telling

you a sister, how and I had a guide on

the phone within laws and parents and friends and preachers said,

our boys are dying. Our boys are dying, Our boys

are dying, and fed attention devils and just wanted attention

and wanted a thread going out throughout the holdingness movement,

pray for our son Samuel.

And took time to dictate.

To somebody, send us out, get a prayer chain going,

so we could get ten minutes of fame. Our boy

would be dead. Are y'all listening to me? How important

is a prayer life? Very important? It's necessary. It's a

necessity for the child of God. If we're gonna overcome obstacles,

if we're gonna get over hindrances, if we're gonna get

past troubles and trials, and to be victorious, we have

to have a prayer life, a prayer life.

That's why Jesus said, could you not watch with me?

One hour.

Could you not watch with me one hour? So he said,

the most important room in this house is our prayer room.

And immediately I felt condemned for a lot of professor

holiness and Pentecostal Christians. I thought, I wonder where their

prayer alter is. I wonder whether they're play prairias. I

wonder which room their altars in. I wonder which tree

in the backyard their altars in front of.

I wonder.

It's been said for years, the old Saints of God,

they've only been dead about twenty years. It used to

be a common thing to hear up until the early

two thousands, of old Saints of God that had well

worn pass the barns had well worn paths. Hey, the bedrooms,

you can see the carpet where it was war out,

had well worn paths. Are y'all listening to me? There

were places in the floor, in the carpet and the

barn floor, in the bedroom floor, where them saints of

God had knelt for so long that the threads of

the carpet had wore thin.

Some of you know what I'm talking about.

Some of us are very familiar with being unable to

keep a pair of dress pants. I'm telling you what

you talked to Sister Howe, not boasting her bragging, but

early on in our marriage, the first ten years, she

had to put patches in my dress pants. You could

hold them up in front of a light bulb and

see through them. Because the knees were wore threadbear the

tips of the shoes, brand new shoes were destroyed. Because

when you start praying that effectual, fervent prayer, you're not

worried about floor shim or Johnston Murphy or Tommy Hill.

Figure.

You know what, if you got lucky back then, I

got a thirty five dollars pair of shoes. When you

got done praying, they were worth about five dollars. We're

riding on somebody else's coketail. And that's what I'm telling you.

John Mark was unable to finish the Great Apostle Paul's

first missionary trip because he didn't have a prayer life.

And there's some of you you're now Mama's and you're

ba he gets a fever and you can't honestly say,

I've held that little baby to my shoulder and prayed

to our heavenly Father that that fever leave that is scary.

That is scary again. That man told me the most

important room in this house. It's not my bedroom, it's

not the master's bedroom, it's not this fancy kitchen.

It's right back there. Go look at it.

And I'm going to tell you I've never been the same.

I said, God, they treat they're hn do prayer room.

But then we treat this right here, and this is

an altar of the Almighty God. So we say, Elijah

mocked them gods that were unable to hear that we're

unable to talk. Elijah mocked the gods. But those people

were willing to show up. Those people were passionate. They

were willing to pray.

All day and all night long till they wore themselves out.

Even though the prophet was criticizing, even though the prophet

was skeptical, they tried and they kept praying.

And we're in a move of God.

And after ten or fifteen minutes, in a move of God,

you're done seeking the Holy Ghost. I don't understand that.

I never will understand that. And I tell you this,

I know that, I know that I know that you

don't really want whatever you're asking for when you're done

praying after fifteen minutes, because we can go back thirty

years ago by personal experience and tell you of times

that the entire church walked out and it was just

sister how and I praying for a couple of hours,

asking God to refeel and to visit our family. This

isn't gonna get the shout. It's not going to get

to shout. Daniel had been in.

That place before.

There was a place of prevailing prayer Acts chapter number

eighteen and verse number one. And he Jesus spake a

parable one to them to this end that men always

to pray and not to faint. So, John Mark, why

did you faint in the day of adversity? Because your

strength was small?

Well? How come your strength was small?

Because he did not build up his most holy faith

praying in the Holy Ghost, because the Holy Ghost will

make you strong. And if you're incessantly weak, you're weak

without ceasing. You're not praying without ceasing. If a person

prays the effectual, fervent prayer, they prevail. If a person

chooses to refuse to pray, they fell. They come out

of the revival saying I didn't receive the Holy Ghost.

I didn't receive my healing. I know that there's times

that God allows us, you know, to go through things

and suffer. I live with rheumatory authoritis. I live with scoliosis.

I suffer most nights. Most mornings, I wake up unable

to fill both arms and ascruciating pain. It says though

ice picks are shoved through my biceps. I go to

bed and terrible pain, refusing to take any medication. The

last four nights, I've suffered beyond what you could imagine,

as let somebody had a torch in my stomach right here.

But you know what, Brother Samuel, I haven't given up praying,

and I haven't given up praying.

For healing, for you, for me, for my family.

I'm not condemning anybody I said at the beginning this message.

I am commending the prayer warriors and encouraging you and

telling you thank you, because there is a purpose for

prevailing prayer. But without concentration, you won't make contact. Without concentration,

you won't make contact. These men focused and concentrated on

why they were talking to the Lord. Sister Molly, you're

a new convert. You're new to this. You weren't raised

in the Christian Church per se. Your parents didn't teach

you how to pray. Your parents didn't show you the way, plainly.

There's a lot of people in this building with that

same testimony. But sister Molly, I see you're learning. I

see you're developing. I see already you're learning how to

pray for your daughter. I saw you a Wednesday is

Sunday night ago, holding your daughter's head and praying for her.

I saw you really praying and pleading to God to

help your mother in law, and I realized, the spirit

of God is leading and guiding her. That's what will happen.

He will lead and guide you into all truth. He'll

lead and guide you into those places of prayer. The

spirit of God will call you to them places of prayer.

John Mark's mother, Mary said, Hey, let's come have prayer

meeting Bethel Hole in his church. And our beginning, Sister

Wood will remember this, we had something called a prayer clock.

And there's some of you. You'll push me to do this,

but we can't depend on you like we could the

handful we had when we got started. But we had

something called a prayer clock at least once or twice

a year, and even these kids. I told him, if

we're gonna do this, you're gonna do it. And I said,

we're gonna pray around the clock, and it ain't gonna

be nobody go a minute too soon or a minute

too late. When you commit to that three in the

morning hour at a four am, you gonna be praying

at three am or four am, not going to stay

up on your phone untill twelve thirty and then sleep

through it and say, oh, I forgot in hours an hour.

I said, no, we need prayer without ceasing, and in

our early days and we still do it now. But

the problem is, I don't know really who would really

do it like we did it. And I remember Brother

Wooton saying, Pastor, I'll take the hardest hour. I said,

that's the three am to the four am, and I

believed him. I believe that that man would be praying

from three am to four am. And in our early days,

I think it was Sister how and I and Sister

we had to take two hours because we didn't have

everybody volunteer. In the part where are you John Mark?

If you fell and fainted? To David Versity, John Mark,

Paul and Barnabas is with you, but beyond that, the

Holy Ghost of Heaven is we you. Why are you

deserting and abandon the work in the ministry. Why the desertion,

Why the preaching, why the exhortations, why the admonishments? Because

you're not on bended knee. That's what the Bible said.

And Daniel got all bended knee. And if you study

the prayer life of Elijah and Elisha them men would

get on bended knee and their head would touch the ground. Now,

I watch Brother Aaron Wood's daddy. I don't know how

old the man is. How old is the man eighty

three years old? To this day? That man can get

down on his knees. I watch him when he visits

this church and put his head down on the ground

just like this. Now, that's indicative of somebody that's not

only praying, Somebody that's the fastest, somebody that has took

care of themselves. Somebody's been very active. For that man

at eighty three. It was just two years ago. I

watched sister Wood and I don't know how she did it,

just flat hand the ground and picked something up. Are

y'all feeling the Holy Ghost, like I'm feeling the Holy Ghost.

And Daniel could have opened the window. A prince of

the palace, he could have petitioned the Emperor. He could

have petitioned the dictator and say, hey, hey, I'm somebody

in your court.

Let's reconsider this. Hey.

But when he saw it, Hey, this has got to

go to a higher power. This has got to go

to a higher power. Sister Molly, I know that night

that the spirit of God puts you in the floor.

You had been saved long.

And I'm telling your brother Jesse this at least once

a week, she tells her husband, and I I remember

that night the Holy Ghost put me in the floor.

She said.

I don't know how long I was there, she said,

but I was lost in what Dylan explains as the spirit.

I don't know how long I was there. Well, I'll

tell you, sister Molly, it was a pretty good while.

It might have been fifteen or twenty minutes. But she said,

I love what I felt.

I loved what.

I felt, and I still love it, and I want

to feel it again.

And you know what.

At nine one one this morning, nine eleven am this morning,

she text her husband and I brother Dylan Wallace, you'll

remember this. And she said, Pastor, I had a dream

last night and I heard these words. We better get

the Holy Ghost while we can. That's a young woman

that wasn't raised in church. That's a young woman who

likes Sister Howell, wasn't exactly raised in a healthy situation.

Are y'all listening to me? Oh God?

And she said, Pastor, it's been echoing in my mind

since I woke up.

We better get the Holy Ghost while we can.

I felt this dream was very important for me and others,

and she didn't know what I was gonna preach on.

It is important, Sister Molly, to keep taking on it,

keep praying about those words until that prayer in need,

he's as imported as Peter's prayer in need worse when

he began to seek to.

A watery grave.

Oh Lord save me, he called upon the Lord, and

immediately the Lord stress forth, his hand has saved him.

I believe sister Molly's need is getting that's imported to

us Jacob's words when he wrests over the Angel of.

The Lord all night long. I tell you what I feel.

God has already pulling himself, pulling her unto himself, expecting her.

To receive of his hand. I feel like.

Her, if she will draw out of God as he

draws out of her, it will not be very low

until she received leve the holy gost. That she's so

desperate that needs. She said, I felt like this dream

was very important for me and others.

Do you feel like that dream is important for you?

I do. Do you feel like salvation is very important

for you?

I tell you about five seconds in hell with them,

same them, same them, same unhealthy and unholy desires. You know,

that's one of the horrible things about hell. There is

no deliverance. There is no liberty, there is no peace,

there is no joy, there is no help, there is

no hope. The attict still has his craven. He can't

get whatever it was he used to get to satisfy

his craving temporarily. There is no satisfaction. There is no

guarantee of satisfaction. There's nothing he can buy, there's nothing

he can partake of. There's nothing he can consume. There's

nothing he can end us. There's nothing he can view.

There's nothing she can view, there's nothing she could consume

her in just come on now, that would satisfy that

appetite of that craven where the worm dieth, not with

us weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth. Peter woud

crying out, Lord saved me from hell. Lord, you told

me Satan desired to have me. You being removed from

your family would be all the devil needs to do

to destroy Megan and them girls. Lord save me, because

I'm supposed to be. He didn't know this, but he

knew he had a will to live.

Son. Just look at Ada and it'll drive you to

your prayer. Causet.

I didn't try to put no spirit of fear and

you last night. I hope I did. But I remember

telling Sister Elizabeth, you look at that newly wet husband,

and you better get in this battle, because this one's

yours the fight. And when you're sitting down there by

the river and you look at that black headed girl

that looks just like you and acts just like you,

and just as smart as you are, there better be

a warrior inside, brother Sterey that says, you know what,

sayting you ain't gonna kill me because you ain't gonna

kill her. Y'all don't know the scripture for that the

scriptural basis for that is Apostle Paul said, you know what,

for me, it's better that I depart, But for you,

it's more needful that I stay here. The winds are tempestuous,

and they're stirring up the sea.

Peter's got all the faith in the world.

He's willing to get out of the boat. He's willing

to make contact with Jesus. He's willing to have continuity

with Jesus, connection with Jesus.

He's willing to capture Jesus. He's getting out of the boat.

But when he sees the winds, when he sees the

when he loses focus, when he loses concentration. Have y'all

got the when you're into prayer, calls it and you

get distracted. When you're into prayer, calls it and you

forget about why you're there, and you take mama's text

and you take Daddy's text, and you start communicating, and

like Brother Nathaniel said, your secret place becomes a place

of secrets, and you're doing things in there, and everybody

else thinks you're praying, and you're doing things you ought

not to be doing.

You're dangerously distracted.

Let's all remember how it feels on Sunday afternoon to

know church starts in two or three hours. I don't

have to pray around that altar right now, but I

do need to go in there to the back room

and pray that the spirit.

Of God we.

Save a prodigal son. Pray that the spirit of God

we save a prodiica daughter. Pray that the spirit of

God would come inside or somebody in that building not.

Don't you all remember being obedient to the heaven of

calling and being drawn the prayer. Don't you remember dropping

the fork and say, rather than taking another bye, I'm

gonna go in there in my prayer calls, I'm gonna pray.

I'm gonna pray. What's a purpose for your prevailing prayer?

I know Christians still pray, and I know I'm preaching

to the choir. I know probably ninety percent of the

people in this church of practicing prayer warriors and pray

hours on end each day. I have no doubt about that.

And I'm thankful, Brother Nathaniel. I'm so thankful for the

ones that we do have that even right now on

a Sunday morning grind that is praying God This is

the key right here. This is the key to somebody's victory.

How they just pray address God appropriately, calling the God Lord,

that I be filled with thy power. Lord, did I

be saved? Lord, that my life be spared. It's important.

We need your pastor. Here's what John Mark's mother and

Mary would have been saying. We need Peter right now.

You're just being lucky. You're taking for granted that your

pastor be here Wednesday.

You know you are.

Go ahead and hang your head in shame. Knew you

taking it for granted. As your pastor be here, He said,

Smite the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered. That's

why sister how gets up and prays, God keep Daddy,

God keep my husband. God keep the father of my children.

God help him anoint him. Brother Jesse, I've always felt

like your mama's back to back in prayer with me.

I've never felt like I was at it alone. But

there was a time in my life when I was

alone in this, and I'll tell you this, I still

went to my heavenly Father. I don't use my phone

in church except to check on church members that are

having problems. But I want to do something is there

anybody else in this building with a cell phone. I

know a bunch of you guys are on call, so

you would have one in any of you, Brother Jesse

and Brother Philip. You guys are on call a lot

of times. Take your phone, Brother Jesse, would you stand

right over here, please. My brother Peter cried out a

few words. Lord saved me, and the Lord saved him.

Jacob cried out all night long. God helped me in

delivering me from the bad attitude and the plans of

my brother Esau. And God changed Jacob's name and blessed him.

And Jacob walked away with the blessing. But Jacob was saying,

I'm not gonna let go to you bless me. These

two men of God right here before you, right now,

are on call a lot of services. So is brother Gabriel.

I want to tell you that Daniel, Elijah, Jesus, Peter, John,

Mark's mother Mary, none of them called on the Lord

with an intention of hanging up on him. I want

you guys to turn your speaker volumes up. I want

brother Philip to call Brother Jesse, and I tell you

the inspiration for this morning's service sermon is this in

the middle of the night, I heard a phone ringing.

In the middle of the night, I heard a phone ringing,

and somebody would answer it and they'd say Hello God.

And then it would be like a one sided conversation

at to that point, and Sister Wooting, they would hang up,

and then God will call again. And I heard the

phone ring again and they would answer it. Cause this revival,

because this aut to service, because brother Nathaniel preach great,

because Brother Samuel preach great, because Brother Caleb preached great.

And at the Hello God, they'd hang up. That went

on about five times, and I realize they don't know

whose name they're calling on. They don't realize who they're

breaking the light of communication with. Because Jesus said, whatsoever

ye shall ask him my name?

That will I do.

And a child of God can get through to the

Father by Jesus, the effectual, fervent prayer, the righteous man

of aileth much taught of God. Pray with a heart

full of gratitude, praying faith, believing, pray that he will

pray according to his will, praying his name. Pray, Sister Molly,

maybe this morning, maybe tonight, maybe soon, you'll pray, and

you ask Heavenly Father, fill me with your sweet holy Ghost,

and he's going to do exactly that, because I feel

like when he calls us to Molly, she's not going

to just answer and say hello God, and then get

distracted and let things of this life be on her

mind and cause a disconnection between God.

Are y'all with me? You understand what I'm saying.

I've heard of old timers saying, I left the newspaper

in the other room. They didn't even want to deal

with a newspaper distracting them. That was before everybody had

cell phones. I left the c B radio in the

other room. I left the walkie talkie in the other room.

Jude says, But you beloved building up your holy faith

praying in the Holy Ghost right now, Sister how I've

seen Sister woot and pray this entire service, probably about

an hour and five minutes. And I've seen the ones

I'm preaching to just meditate on whatever just over my shoulder.

I've seen mamas be distracted. But you've heard it said

by elders of this church and the pastor of this church,

and the preachers of this church that said, when you

get determined that your answer is him. There's no one

or anything else that will satisfy you. I've heard preachers

and lay it in this church say I made up

my mind this was going to be my year. And

they said when they made up their mind, it was

going to be their year. Brother Aaron of incessant seeking

and praying un less than a week, they received him

because he knows if you're serious about that phone call,

Because there's nothing worse than for a son to call

a dad and while that dad's talking to that son,

to realize that son's not even paying attention, and that

son's adjusting a screw and a carburetor. It's like, why

did you call me anyway? What did you need anyway?

Did you really want to talk to me or not?

It's like, right now, you're looking for me to give

you an answer to something else. I just preached an

air in five minutes. Brother Nathaniel just preached an Aaron

ten fifteen minutes. Brother Samuel just preached about an hour

and five minutes. What else can be said? I'm telling

you plainly, you gotta pray. Our little booster band, our

childrens choir just sing a song I had never heard

in my life, and it just come to mind right now, pray, pray, pray.

And I can see right now little Maxon opening his

mouth real big and saying pray, pray, pray. I can

relive that experience right now, see a little Maxon sing

and say pray, pray, pray. And right now you're doing

exactly what I said in this message. And I hate

that people that will listen to this message later has

to hear me scold you. But right now you're meditating

and you're reflecting and just looking over my shoulder and

just staring at whatever is your idol. When you pray,

you've got to go beyond vain repetition. When you pray,

be not as the Pagans and the Heathens. When you pray,

know that you have a father in heaven that sees

and cares and hears and knows, and address him properly

and appropriately. Sister Molly, the Holy Ghost at nine to

eleven this morning gave you clarity. This is your purpose

for prevailing prayer. I need the Holy Ghost. I need

the Holy Ghost, the purpose, the fundamental reason why something

is done. I'm praying because I need salvation. I'm praying

because I need a healing. I'm praying because I need sanctification.

I'm praying because I need Holy Ghost baptism. Jesus had

to pray, so will we