Hear From Heaven - Kingdom Prayer

If you have your Bibles, turn over to Jude.

We're going to be in, we're going to start out in Jude.

There's only 1 chapter in Jude and we'll go to the verse 20.

And so once you get there, if you would stand for the reading

of the word, again, we're not doing this out of a tradition.

We're doing it because we're trying to have an

acknowledgement that in heaven our Father sits on the throne,

right? And that his Son Jesus is seated

at the right hand. And you know, the word of God is

God speaking to us. And so we're just showing some

reverence because we want the atmosphere where we're saying,

Lord, we acknowledge you, you're in the room, and that we need

you and we want to receive your instruction.

Amen. And so it says in Jude 120, it

says, but you beloved, building yourself up in your most holy

faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, you can be seated.

Aren't you glad you can pray in the Holy Spirit?

I see. It's interesting here in this

passive scripture, which I love, he says building yourself up on

your most holy faith. Now we know faith comes by

hearing and hearing from the word of God.

And it's very important that in order for us to have access to

faith, we have to be able to hear God's Word.

And as you study God's Word, you keep God's Word in front of you.

Then it it has the ability to build your faith itself.

It has this context to where your faith can grow, right?

And again, it's not just hearing alone, but it's becoming a doer

of that word. Yet praying in the Spirit will

help build that as well. And that's really powerful

because there is this element that you can continue to

strengthen faith in you so that it it energizes you to to

continue to be firmly persuaded by praying in the Holy Spirit.

I'm thankful that when I pray in the Holy Ghost, it reminds me

I'm not just a natural man, that our life on this earth is not

just natural. We're not just natural people.

We're in a natural body for sure, but we are supernatural

beings. We have been purchased with the

blood of Jesus. We're now the spirit that's been

placed in US is in Christ Jesus. The Holy Spirit comes in and

bears witness with our spirit. We're children of God, and then

when He comes upon us and dues us with power, we can pray in

the language of the Kingdom. And it is a powerful tool to

help build us because in the natural world, there's going to

be a lot of things that we can look at, see, hear stuff, you

know? And those things can be really

discouraging. However, when we begin to pray

in the Spirit man, it's does something not only to you

personally, but it does something to your faith, right?

Acts chapter one, verse 14. I want to show a couple examples

real quick of how prayer activated some things.

Because you know, we have said this in the past and it's

obvious that it's, there's a level of this that when it comes

to corporate prayer, it doesn't technically have the same

attendance as just coming to service.

And you know what, coming to service, what's, what are people

here and they're hearing the preaching of the word, right?

They're participating in that. They're singing songs unto the

Lord, right? And so having those, that kind

of interaction, you know, it's pretty easy for us to do those

things. But then when we get into

prayer, sometimes you know, it's not as well attended, right?

And it's, it can either be won because we, we don't know how to

pray, right? Maybe we've had some

disappointments, particularly maybe in prayer.

But we're going to show here in a few examples of how prayer

activated some things. Reading the word, being under

the teaching of the word is absolutely necessary.

Praising the Lord is absolutely necessary.

But you know what? God can do some really amazing

things and does some really amazing things in your time of

prayer. And you, you want to be able to

say, you know, I don't want to miss any aspect of God because

I'm limiting my prayer time or that I'm not putting as much

emphasis on prayer because there's some very powerful

things God can do in prayer. In Acts chapter one verse 14, it

says these now this is after the death, burial, resurrection of

Jesus. Jesus is letting them know, you

know, that he's leaving and they just happened to see him ascend

to heaven. He said, now you're going to

receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, right?

And he said, then you're going to be my witnesses and they've

witnessed this event. And it says these all with one

mind. What were they one mind were

what? Continually devoting themselves

to prayer along with the women and the Mary, the mother of

Jesus and with his brothers. So they developed this custom

because Jesus, when I say custom, this routine that Jesus

said, now the Spirit's coming, the promise of the Father's

coming, and don't go anywhere till you receive it.

OK? Now they didn't know when.

So you know when they're coming together.

First of all, they don't even know what that is, right?

They don't understand that technical experience.

This is about to be poured out for the, you know, the Holy

Spirit coming upon them and and has it done this event in the

earth up to this particular juncture right now, Adam

obviously had the Holy Spirit. Jesus had the Holy Spirit

without measure. But now that man is born of God

into the spirits in him bearing witness.

They're fixing to receive something that man that

humanity's not had. Now that doesn't mean the Holy

Spirit didn't come upon the prophet, the priest, the king,

but it left they're fixing to have some him come upon them and

he doesn't go anywhere. Hallelujah.

And so here they are coming together with no, like, let's do

it for a couple days. There was this idea he's coming,

he's coming, right? He's coming.

And since he's coming, you know, let's be.

But there was a devotion they had, you know, and I, I, it

doesn't say that they were pulling out, you know, you know,

scrolls from the prophets or from the law and reading those

things. And I'm not saying they didn't.

It just doesn't say that. But we do know they were

actively doing this praying. And at this point they're

praying based upon what they know in the natural.

There are things they're saying because at this point the Holy

Ghost hasn't come. Jump over to chapter 2, verse

one, and it says this. It says and when on the day of

Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place.

Aren't you glad they were together in one place?

And it went on to say, and suddenly there came from heaven.

Came from where? Where did it come from?

Came from heaven. So prayer activates heaven.

You know, a lot of times people say, well, I want to hear from

God. Well, prayer will activate

heaven. And it says suddenly there came

from heaven a noise like a violent rushing wind, and it

filled the whole house where they were sitting.

Man, that had to be something, right?

And there appeared to them as of fire distributing themselves,

and they rested on each one of them, and they were all what

filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other

tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.

Now Jesus had breathed on his disciples and John and said,

receive the Holy Ghost. So there was already the new

birth experience with these individuals.

However, here the Spirit of God now has come upon them and it

gives them a language, not only a language that their mind

doesn't understand, but also it gave them access to languages

known within the earth, earth, although they did not go to

language school to learn it, right?

Like O Rain and his wife Simone, they're currently taking some

Spanish lessons, right? So they're, you know, I'm sure

they like Holy Ghost. Just give me the language.

Wouldn't that be amazing? Because then, you know, you

wouldn't have to study. You just bam, here you go and we

can speak Spanish. I, you know, honestly, as long

as we've been in Nicaragua, kind of wish the Lord would do that

for me, right? I like, let me just show up at

Nicaragua or Anchor Bay churches and then, you know, you know,

and here we go. We're we're just tearing it up.

Espiritu Santo, right? No, we're not doing it.

It could happen. It hasn't.

Now, I will say this, there have been times when I've prayed in

the spirit that I began to pray. And all of a sudden it seemed to

me that what is it wasn't my unknown tongue.

It wasn't that prayer language. I'm, you know, accustomed.

It moved over and I'm like, I, I sense I'm speaking in some kind

of Asian language and I still didn't understand it because,

you know, you can speak Spanish to me and I've been in the

country and won't understand everything you're saying.

But I just had a sense I, I, if I was in front of this person,

this, this nation right now, they would know what I'm saying.

Now. I didn't need to know because

the Lord wanted me to say it. He was releasing whatever that

was, which was God's perfect will in the earth concerning

that. And you know what?

When I got a release, then it left and I didn't have that

language, whatever it was anymore.

And so here they are. They're filled with the Holy

Ghost and they're filled with the Holy Ghost.

This encounter of the outpour in the spirit came because they

were in a prayer meeting. And what I love about this is,

you know, there's a lot of church planting strategies, but

the church that Jesus first launched, you know, when he

said, I'm going to build my church, his first church plant

came out of a prayer meeting. And it was powerful.

And that prayer, because of whatever that time frame that

they were devoting themselves to prayer before the day of

Pentecost, it created such an atmosphere that once they got

baptized in the Holy Ghost, all of a sudden they began to speak

in such a way that those that were there said, what must we

do? What must we do?

And it said 3000 souls came into the Kingdom that day.

That's amazing. I mean, we would never think

that you could get 3000 people born again just simply by

praying. But prayer activated that, you

know, again, I do think, you know, as we continue to want to

grow and expand, we have to continue to increase our prayer

time because there's things that God wants to do that he's

releasing in prayer. There are things he speaks to us

in his word. Thank God for that.

He gives us revelation, illumination, right?

He does that. We're like, wow, I just heard

God, you know, I'll read the page.

I'm like, wow, the Lord's speaking to me about that.

That's really amazing, right? And that's awesome.

But that's not the only time God speaks, and it's not the only

time he reveals stuff. And could there be things that

we haven't yet tapped in from heaven?

Because God's release of that comes through his avenue of

prayer. So I receive stuff through the

written word and studying the word by the Spirit of God

revealing those truths to me. I also experienced things when I

begin to sing unto the Lord, right?

Because there's things he releases, But you know what?

Then there's things that he's releasing through prayer.

And sometimes the one of the most powerful aspects of the

church is being the least used right now.

We need to get in the habit of prayer is not just a corporate

prayer meeting because God is not just calling us to corporate

prayer, although that's, you know, as a church, we should do

that. He's actually calling us to

prayer that is on a continual basis.

And we'll see that here in a minute.

Let's get another example here now.

This one's in Acts chapter 10. Man, these are really cool,

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awesome examples that God has left for us, these little

Nuggets that shows us that, man, when you have this communion

with God, and I love how Apostle Marcy ministers, you know, it's

in the cool of the day. It's just having communion with

God. When we're having communion with

God, not only can he speak to us, speak to our heart, give us

direction or whatever, but he can do some really supernatural

things in prayer. And so here in Acts Chapter 10,

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I'm intentionally going a little bit later in the chapter, and

we'll bounce back up a little earlier here in a second.

But because Cornelius kind of gives us a really at the end of

this chapter, what had occurred earlier in the chapter.

And he says, and Cornelius said four days ago to this hour, I

was what? He was praying OK, in my house

during the 9th hour. And behold, a man stood before

me in shining garments. So what happened in Cornelius's

prayer time? An Angel showed up.

And here's the kicker, Cornelius is not yet born of God.

This is what right And it says in Cornelius.

And he said, Cornelius, your prayer has been heard and your

alms have been remembered before the Lord.

His what's been remembered? His prayers have been heard, and

what his what now that's giving. So God knows your giving, all

right. God knows your giving, and God

knows your heart towards your giving.

And it has made such an impression in heaven that here's

someone who's not born of God yet, but is going towards the

God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, right?

And as a result of that, God's, like, I'm hearing some stuff.

Then he gives him instruction through this Angel, right?

And you know, obviously Corneas's spirit is not alive

unto God. So there's no wonder why the

Angel showed up and said, hey, I need to talk to you, right?

Because again, his spirit's yet alive.

So he comes and says, therefore send to Joppa and invite Simon,

who is also called Peter to come to you.

He is staying at the House of Simon, the Tanner of the cement.

This is very specific information.

This is like modern day GPS. OK.

And he says and so I sit for you immediately and you have been

kind enough to come. Now then we are all present

before God to hear all that you have been commanded by the Lord.

This is what he tells Peter. Now if you go back up to I

believe to the 9th verse, it says on the next day.

Now on the next day is the day after Cornelius had prayed where

he was. So Cornelius, this little

encounter, this this this context we just read, he was

talking about these things on the next day, which he

immediately sent someone to go find Peter.

By the time Peter arrives it's been 4 days but on the next day

which means he said y'all go. And so the next day Peter's

praying while these people are in route.

And because Cornelius heard from heaven and acted on The Voice,

God then said something in Peter's prayer, which then you

could conclude if Cornelius had not sent anyone, then maybe this

prayer Peter has doesn't come. This conversation with God may

not have occurred. But because Cornelius acted in

prayer to what the Lord has said through the Angel, God now is

speaking to another man. Now, this is not the first time

this is, I mean, this one's before Paul or Saul of Tarsus,

because that same kind of context took place.

Now, Paul obviously wasn't praying.

He was going to try to, you know, get people in Damascus and

throw them in prison. And the Lord stop the process.

And once that happened, then he started talking to God, right?

And he goes, who are you? And I'm Jesus, the one, you know

why you kick against the goat? Well, because of that

experience. And he called him Lord.

Now the Lord says, OK, I need to go talk to another man.

And because of Paul's yielding to Jesus and becoming born of

God, it caused God to talk to another man in order to come and

see Paul, pray for him and cause the scales to come off his his

eyes. So prayer has connection with

other people's what I'm saying. And sometimes you're acting on a

certain prayer may release God to be able to speak to somebody

else on your behalf. Now the Lord, the Angel tells

Cornelius to go get Peter the day he tells him this in prayer.

Peter has not gotten this memo. He is unaware that this is going

to to happen. In fact, what's about to occur

is is kind of controversial to Peter because the ninth verse it

says this and on the next day as they were on their way and

approaching the city, Peter went up on the housetop about the 6th

hour to what? Just going to praise, commune

with God, spend time with him. He has no idea what God's going

to say to him that day, but man does God say something.

All of a sudden he has a open vision and he sees four corners

of this, you know, sheet come down.

And all of a sudden there's all these animals that according to

the law that God wrote through Moses of animals not to eat.

The Lord says Peter, get up, kill and eat.

And he's like, no way not doing it.

I've not eaten anything unclean. But it was a a message from God

saying you think the Gentiles are unclean, but I'm coming to

save them too. Glory to God, Hallelujah.

Which reminds me of Steak and Shake.

Steak and Shake years ago. What year was that?

Randy, do you remember? Oh wait, in 2008, Reverend Randy

came from Tulsa up to us probably why were you visiting

or we doing a king of first business Alliance?

No, that that was before the Kingdom.

OK, Yeah, we were coming for an anniversary service and so

obviously we went to Steak and Shake.

I ate that back then. And, and so we went there after

service and we were all kind of hanging out and talking and, and

stuff. His son Joshua had already moved

here. And so, you know, we were just

conversing and there was, you know, a bit of a discourse.

And so I said, excuse me, I need to go use the restroom.

And so I went to the restroom and while I was in there, while

I went to the restroom, not to go, but because God spoke to me

at the table when I was sitting across from And he says, tell

him what you will have him do if he'll move.

And I was like, what? Tell him what you'll have him do

if he'll move. Now, up to this point, I have

never talked to anyone. Whoever moved to come to Anchor

Faith Church, what we would do. That's like not even on the

table because you want people to come because they've heard God

and that's kind of stand up And now you're I don't even want to

talk to this guy. If this guy can't hear from

heaven on his own to come, you know, that's his problem.

Not my problem. But yet the Holy Spirit is

telling me this. So I said, excuse me, I went to

the bathroom, not to go to the bathroom, but to look in the

mirror and have a conversation with God, right, Because I'm

like, Lord, what are we saying? I mean, and I talked with him in

the bathroom. Thank God no one came in.

I'm like, I, I've not done this ever.

And Lord, I don't want to say something to seem like, you

know, I'm pulling or anything. And, and he just kept an

impression. Go tell him what he will do,

what you, what he can do here. If he'll move, Well, you know

I'm going to obey God. So I showed up, right and I sat

down the table and I'm like, if you move, the Lord told me.

And I just said, this man, his face got all crazy, right?

What I didn't know is that he had had a conversation with the

Lord in prayer. He was already kind of wrestling

with this, no, this, this pool of the spirit to move.

And he was like, no, I'm not doing that.

I'm not doing that. And so as you know, when God

starts to talk to us about a few things, we are like Moses, we

give some excuses, right? We're like, hey, Nah, This is

why what I think I'm hearing can't be what I'm hearing.

And so he began to tell the Lord.

He said, Lord, he don't need me. He's got plenty of people around

him that are doing stuff. There's all kind of people that

he has. He doesn't need me.

I'm not necessary. And the Lord's talking to him

and he and the Lord said a few things to him and he said, well

now Lord, if he says to me. So I'm trying to say, I'm not

saying that. What I don't know is that he has

struck a deal with the Lord, and the Lord's OK with this deal.

And so now I have to come in. But again, his prayer life

activated something in mind which took the course and

direction of his life. Wow, are you hearing me?

It's amazing. So a lot of times, you know, if

we don't watch out because it's easier for us to just sit in the

word or, you know, listen to the word, right?

Like, you know, your favorite person to hear preach, you know,

and stuff. And you Amen and all that.

And yes, we can learn from that. And you're seeking God When I

say seeking in your mind, you're like, man, we need this, I need

this. I wish God would answer this.

I need God to answer me here. You know, what am I going to do

about this? You know, you're having those

internal conversation. How am I going to do this?

What am I going to do here? Where do I go here?

All this, yet you're really not praying to the Lord.

You're just rolling in your mind things.

So you know, you, you, you, you hear the worship songs, you're

going to scripture and at the end of the day, you're like, I'm

I'm trying to hear God. But there's an aspect that God

releases thing in and it's prayer and a lot of times we

don't spend enough time there, right?

And because of that, you know, we can miss out on some things

God is saying. We just want to make sure we

keep that in our arsenal. Say keep it in your arsenal.

Acts chapter 16 verse 25 and it said this, but about midnight

Acts 16:25

Paul and Silas were what praying and singing hymns of praise to

God and the prisoners were listening to them.

Now you know, this is not the most comfortable time to be

exercising what Paul and Silas are exercising.

You know, as you know this context of Scripture and Paul

man, he is very proficient in the word.

I mean, the man is eloquent in in his understanding and

revelation. In fact, he's pinned the

majority of the new covenant pages that we have today.

And so here he is in prison, he's been beaten, they are in

stocks, and now he is praying and out of his prayers, it

causes him to move into some singing.

And you understand in a Jewish tradition, a lot of times their

songs were wrapped around the word.

There were a lot of songs they sang.

I mean, the whole book of Psalms is inspired Word of God to song.

And it tells of the goodness of God and the things that God has

done and how he's delivered one of his.

See, one of the praises he could have sang as a hymn was, you

know, the Lord delivers me out of all my trouble.

I mean, they could have been singing that right while praying

and not just praying. I'm sure they were praying in

the Holy Ghost, right? Because he doesn't feel like it

doesn't feel like it. I mean, his body is telling him

all kinds of stuff, but yet, And in this passage it tells us from

prayer and praise that the Holy Ghost showed up at the prison,

shook the whole building like an earthquake, opened up all the

prison doors and all the chains of the prisoners fell off.

But here's what's so amazing about that passage of Scripture

is you would think if you are a prisoner in stocks or in chains

and they fell off you and a door open, what do you think's the

first thought you're going to have run.

That's kind of easy, right? I'm out of here, right?

I mean, that's pretty simple process.

But you know, the power of God through their prayer life kept

them in the places they were confined.

Although free, they would much rather be in the place that

they've been confined in the presence of God, then run from

it. Wow, that's amazing.

I said that's amazing. And so prayer really unlocks all

kinds of things in our life. And again, I want to just

encourage you man. We need to make sure we are

functioning in prayer as the Bible has instructed us.

So let's read a few more passive scriptures before we close

tonight. In Romans chapter 8 verse 26 to

Romans 8:26–27

27, it says this. In the same way the Spirit also

helps our our what weaknesses? For we do not know how to pray

as we should Hallelujah. But the Spirit himself

intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words, right?

And he who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the

Spirit is because he intercedes for the Saints according to the

will of God. You can just imagine that Paul,

in a lot of his, you know, travels, found himself praying

in the Holy Ghost because this is what he knows.

I know Scripture, I know what God has revealed to me, but yet

there's some things I still don't know.

And the Spirit knows. So you know what?

I'm going to pray by the Spirit because the Spirit knows the

mind of the Spirit, right? Knows the heart of God, knows

the will of God. And even though I haven't

studied out scripture to exactly know some missing piece per se,

man, I can pray in the Spirit. If, if, if I'm in a situation

or, or needing a answer or something, and you know, I've

gone to the word and I've given Thanksgiving to God and I'm

praising him, you know, yet I still, you know what?

I have something we can activate and it's praying in the spirit

so that it draws in that answer to us.

How powerful is that? Aren't you glad you're a new

believer? So in First Corinthians chapter

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14, Paul said this. First Corinthians 14 verses 14

1 Corinthians 14:14–15

to 15, he says this. For if I pray in a tongue, my

spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful, you know, and a lot

of times people get locked up about, you know, praying in

other tongues because I don't understand what I'm saying.

Well, the Bible tells you you're not going to understand what

you're saying. Don't get locked up.

It's OK. And you know, I always, that's

why I like to say it's the language of the Kingdom because

no one really has a problem when we talk about Spanish being the

language of Latin America, you know, or of countries that speak

Spanish, right? No one technically has an issue

when we say, you know, a person that's from Germany, they speak

German. You know, no one typically has

an issue. And many of you could.

We are in Florida and there's a lot of international travel,

especially if you go down to Central Florida.

I mean, you'll hear all kinds of languages and they'll be in

Walmart, you know, or you'll be in Publix or whatever.

And people are talking and you're kind of saying, I wish I

knew what they were saying right now, you know, now a lot of

people end up knowing our language, but most of us don't

know their language. And that's right.

In fact, I got a couple that can.

A few people can speak Albanian in this room right now, which

means if they started talking, we'd all be going, huh?

But you know what we wouldn't do?

We wouldn't run out of the room and say it's of the devil.

We wouldn't do that. You know, people don't run out

of stores because someone's talking in a language they do

not understand. So for whatever reason,

somewhere along the line, somebody decided that when a

believer speaks in an unknown tongue, it is of the devil.

You know, honestly, that's just not reality.

And I'm glad I wasn't taught that growing up.

So I never had to rewind that, even though I was within, you

know, denominations that technically didn't minister

along these lines. And I'm thankful that they

didn't because obviously they didn't know enough about it, so

they didn't say something wrong about it.

Right. So but here Paul is saying, if I

pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is

unfruitful. He says then what is the

outcome? He says I will pray with the

Spirit and I'll pray with the mind also.

So here's the thing. If you pray only in the natural,

you're missing 50% of prayers power.

If you only pray in your understanding, you're only

releasing 50% of the power of prayer, only 50%.

And you know, if you were taking a test and got a 50%, that's

called failure, right? And maybe sometimes we're not

hearing, we're failing to hear from God because we're only

activating 50% of our prayer life.

So he goes on and says, I'll pray with the Spirit.

I'll pray with the mind. Also, I'll sing with the Spirit,

which means there are spiritual songs and I'll sing with the

mind also. But what I love about this

chapter when you jump down to verse 18, Paul, who wrote over

half of the New Testament because of the churches he

planted, he says this I thank God I speak in tongues more than

you all Paul was he he had he did not apologize because he was

praying in the spirit. He did not apologize.

In fact, he said, I pray in the spirit, which tells me that Paul

got into was in a lot of situations that put him in this

place where he didn't know how he ought to pray because it

gives when you don't know how you ought to pray.

What do we do? So you know, a lot of times

people are like, man, I don't know how to pray.

Well, let's get baptized in the Holy Ghost because that is your

kicker. Let's go ahead and get there.

Now, when you start praying in the Spirit, studying the Word,

then you know what? You're going to know the voice

of God. You're going to learn how to

pray in the natural. It itself will increase so that

you can pray naturally according to the Word.

Because again, if you ask anything in prayer according to

my will, He hears us, right? Well, one of His wills is

praying in the Spirit because the Spirit reveals the perfect

will of God. However, you can pray a

scripture which is God's will. Like by His stripes you were

healed. Well, I am healed, so I have

received the healthcare that comes with being a citizen in

God's Kingdom because of the stripes Jesus put on his back.

And by faith, I believe I am healed of God, his healing

powers working in me. And so I can release that in

prayer with Thanksgiving. Excuse me with Thanksgiving.

Yet if there's things that's not happening, I'm praying in the

spirit. I'm praying in the spirit, I'm

praying in the spirit. Can I get an Amen?

So Colossians chapter 4, verse 2 says it this way.

Colossians 4:2

Devote yourself to prayer. Devote yourself to prayer.

And I know in my life prayer has increased through the years.

Right now I've starting to move into the habit of getting up and

praying. Now that means I'm in the bed

and all of a sudden I wake up and I'm like, well, I'm going to

go pray. And I slip out and I begin to

pray now I don't know. It isn't the same time.

It's just whatever I feel and LED to do get moving.

And what I don't even look at the clock.

You just finish out and go back to bed, you know, because I I

have times of prayer. But now I'm like, OK, Lord, I

don't want to assume that if I'm waking up at night, it's just

because I woke up. Maybe you want to say something

and who am I to tell you? Don't come talk to me at 2:00 in

the morning right now again, because you're saying I'm

devoting myself. Now, the cool thing about

praying in the Spirit is, you know you can pray in a spirit

anywhere, right? I mean, you can be just kind of

whispering anywhere you're at. You can kind of keep your spirit

in, you know, connected with God anywhere.

So again, prayer is not just the corporate prayer meeting, though

that's important. However, it's also important

that even if you're out and about, you know, you're just

being sensitive and you're praying and you're listening and

you're talking to the Lord. And sometimes out of that is

going to be a natural prayer. Something come up and you're

like me and I'm gonna pray about this right now.

And then at other times you're just kind of praying in the

spirit. This is why I don't I now this

is me. You do what you want to do, but

This is why when I am driving you, I don't.

I'm not listening to music because it's becomes a prayer

time for me. You know, there's certain things

I just aren't doing. So it gives me another

opportunity. Now, do I listen to stuff

sometimes when I'm driving? Absolutely.

OK. But I'm just saying I've made it

a point that you know what, it's a little more quiet in my

vehicle because I take that as a time to pray and listen and

hear. And you know, I'm like, well, if

Paul that God, you know, and the things going on in his life

basically must have had some form of requirement.

That is, I mean, I pray in tongues more than y'all.

I don't want to be missing out because I'm not staying in

prayer, right? And, and I and God wants us to

be able to hear from heaven. All right.

So we want to be devoted, devote ourselves to prayer, but in it,

keep alert with it with an attitude of Thanksgiving when

you're praying, whether it's in the natural or with your mind or

whether you're praying in the Spirit, you want to have

thankfulness with it because you're praying the perfect will

of God and God does his word and you can be in confidence.

You know what, God's hearing me right now, just like he told

Cornelius, because if Cornelius was not yet in covenant with God

during that transition, this period of the Church age coming

into the the world and he was giving and he was reaching out

to God, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

The only way he knew based upon the covenant that was preceded

Jesus's death, burial and resurrection.

And here God has heard the prayers and seen the giving,

kept the recording of the giving.

Well, how much more of those that are alive to God does he

hear us? Ain't that amazing?

Which means that man, we can get excited.

That man. God's hearing me.

I know it. My attitude's there.

But I'm keeping alert because there may be some instruction,

there may be something he's saying.