Conversations With God - Kingdom Prayer

In Matthew. Chapter, 14 verse 23.

Look to your neighbor and say I am going to receive the secret

to life and power. Amen.

Now once you receive it is time for you to act on it, can I get

an amen? Because sometimes we can find an

answer but not act on that answer and we need to act on the

answer, you know, a lot of people have already She heard

that Jesus died on the cross and Rose from the grave.

So they already have the answer but they're not acting on it.

And if you don't act on it, then you don't have the benefits that

come with it, okay? In Matthew Chapter 14 verse 23.

Matthew 14:23

It says that this way after he had sent the crowds away, he

went up On the mountain by himself to pray and when it was

evening, he was there alone, another scripture that I use

often. When I start messages is out of

Matthew chapter 15 verse 3. I'm just going to quote it for

Matthew 15:3

you because it Bears repeating as we enter into this context

that we want to grow in and that is Jesus said to some religious

people, very religious people. He said, why do you Ends grass

the Commandment of God for the sake of your tradition, in

essence, they had this knowledge about God and they have formed

that knowledge about God around how they wanted to express him.

And they were saying this expression of how we formed God

around our idea. Our opinion is how you actually

worship God, and Jesus says, that's not how it is.

In fact, you're not doing what What God said, you're actually

doing your man made God ideas and he's talking to religious

people. Now when I say religious people,

I'm not talking about religious, people that are of a different

religion, he wasn't talking to Buddhists, he wasn't talking to

hinduist, he wasn't talking to whatever other religion that we

could quote from this platform today.

He's talking to those who had the law of Moses, the what the

very word that God the Father spoke to Jesus himself and to

other prophets. So, they actually had scripture

that Jesus himself would quote, but Jesus quoted it in the right

context, where they would quote it in a wrong context.

I'm Jesus would challenge their thinking he would say things

like this. You've heard it's a of old.

Thou shalt not commit murder. right, then he would go on and

say, but I say unto you if you hate your brother, this is a

problem. Amen.

I'm paraphrasing. I can go to the next one.

He said, you've heard it say of all Dow shalt, not commit

adultery, but I say unto you, if you lust after a woman in your

heart, you've committed the sin of adultery already.

Now, this was shocking to the religious that were teaching.

Thou shalt not commit adultery because they knew the penalty

for adultery is you would be stoned and in essence, the Lord

saying if you lustin for someone in your heart, Art but you

didn't act on it by physically being with them, you still have

the penalty of that. You should be stoned and this

mess them up, it messed them up so much that if you follow the

gospels, they talk to Jesus about marriage divorce, more and

adultery on more than one occasion, so much, so that they

drugged a woman caught in adultery.

That lets us know these priests these Pharisees and Sadducees

were having a little lust problem because they're trying

to justify their you can look but not touch, theology.

I said, you can look but not touch theology.

Now, that's not back in that day.

That's today, I've been around some denominational people in my

past people that went to church people that, you know, went to

church on Sunday, but will tell me at the workplace, you know,

you know, it's okay. You can look as long as you

don't touch. Well, that's not the scripture.

Like all of a sudden, you've done some holy because you with

frame from actually touching even though you want to No,

Jesus called that on the carpet. Amen.

So look to your neighbor today and say, I don't know.

What I think, I know. Could there be that potentially

what you think? You know, maybe you don't know.

Now, I'm not saying abandon what you do know is truth and you can

substantiate it with scripture, but could there be something you

think, you know, only to find out you really don't know

because it may be a little more traditional than it is the

command of God. Now, the difference between

tradition in the command of God is the command of God gets

results, When God commanded something, it happened.

Okay, let me go over here. Amen.

I mean it's I even said what I've ministered on today and

it's already quiet. All right, come on.

Do I got some double Dippers in here?

First service people who come on, get with me.

All right, okay, so here, when God said it, it happened.

So when God commanded nothing, resisted it.

Okay. But when you're doing a

tradition, the tradition will invalidate, the word, it will

cause it to not work. Jesus said this, he says you,

and that you make the word void because of your traditions

because of how you choose to believe God's power can actually

show up and demonstrate what he really meant because you hold to

something that is not actually how God.

Did you to know it and live it and walk in it?

Amen. So today I want to talk about a

passion that Jesus had and so before I release it, I'm let's

see. Some scripture calls, you know,

for the sake of time, I just want to get some scripture under

our belt. The Bible says that everything

be confirmed by two or three Witnesses.

So, let me give you 45 that way we leave.

No doubt say it's going to be no doubt.

So we saw Matthew 14:23 and he sent the crowds.

Matthew 14:23

It's away and went up to the mountain by himself to pray.

And when he was when it was evening he was there alone in

Mark. Chapter 1 verse 35.

Mark 1:35

It says in the morning rising up rising up a great while before

day he went out and departed into a solitary place and there

prayed, Mark 6:46 after bidding them, farewell, he left for the

Mark 6:46

mountain to pray, Luke 5:16, but Jesus himself would often slip

Luke 5:16

away to the Wilderness and pray. Luke chapter 6 and verse 12.

Luke 6 · chapter mention

It was at this time that he went off to the mountain to pray and

he spent the whole night in prayer to God.

So in these five passages of scripture, there's a theme if

you've not caught it yet, the theme is Jesus prayed.

I said, Jesus prayed. Now we need to understand that

this is Jesus is most important Ministry.

This is his most important Ministry, in fact, if he didn't

have this ministry, he could have done nothing else in

Ministry. Now, how do I know is that

important? Don't because Jesus is still

doing this ministry today. The Bible tells us that Jesus is

seated at the right hand of the father interceding for the

Saints, Pastor, Mike find where that scripture is so I can quote

it, okay? So he says, Jesus is seated at

the right hand of the father interceding, for the Saints, for

who for who for who for who for who for the Saints.

He's interceding for the Saints. I'm stalling as my guide, when I

was in Israel, I'm smoothing right now, but I wait for Pastor

Mike to find that scripture, so that I can say where it's

literally at. Okay, you there Hebrews.

Anybody got it. Hebrews Hebrews 7:25, Hebrews

Hebrews 7:25 Hebrews 7:25

7:25 will put my eyes on it. It's worth it, man, because God

just gave me something while I'm here.

And my wife, she's already blurted it out because we're

connected were once less. I love it.

Hebrews chapter 7, amen. In verse 25, it says this

Hebrews 7 · chapter mention

wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost and

come come unto God by him seeing that he liveth to make

intercession for them. Are you with me?

So he is making intercession. He is making intercession.

He is also able to save to the uttermost.

Those who come to God through him, who's come to God through

them. They're called the Saints.

Since he always lives to make intercession for them.

So Jesus is seated in heaven. Next to the father, not praying

for the world. Okay, are you ready?

Now listen, I'm going to make some statements I already know

it's going to mess you up a little bit but stay with me.

Okay. Because the reality is you hear

stuff all the time? You're like, what?

And you don't always abandon it, okay?

I mean let's follow a process through and again like I said

and first service, you know, we video our second services and

they're out online and I'm seeing a trend that when we

start a particular series man, people are viewing it.

But then when I get too weak to it, starts to tell all Off,

meaning that not the same amount of views in the first time we

Minister on something, it goes to the second week, so that

tells me I've lost people already.

Now, why would I have lost people?

I can tell you why I lose because I say something like,

but I ain't right. Well, they say that because

their tradition says that, but they don't actually study the

scripture to determine it because their denomination don't

believe it and they've never studied the word to determine if

their denomination is even right.

So as a result of that they quit because you know they've heard

their denomination say to them, you know what, there's a lot of

false teachers false prophets and all that and there are.

But again how do you find out whether they are false or not?

You actually studied the scripture yourself to determine

if it is not because I'm telling you there are those people, you

go ahead, study the scripture yourself, everything I'm going

to say to you. You write it down.

You read over yourself. You are obligated to leave this

building and go read it for yourself and pray and say God

show me whether this is. So And if more people did that

more people would realize that a lot of things were saying.

In fact, the majority are right in line with scripture and you

would have to start a band in your tradition.

Amen. Now, have I had kicked back at

Toms and but Ministry. Absolutely, I've said some stuff

people like, no way, I say well, let's meet about it.

Amen. Let's meet about it.

And I've had meetings next thing, you know, they're like

well, I'm like, yeah, I know. Right, I mean I was shocked

myself. When I first saw it and read it

and studied it out. It's different in it.

Yep, that's it. Well, thank god.

He's growing uh Sidney. Amen.

He's growing us. So Jesus is all a lives to make

intercession for them. He's not interceding for the

world. Jesus has already provided for

the world. It's done.

He's got to finish work. Jesus is not doing anything else

for the world. So let me tell you what Jesus is

not doing. Jesus is not saying, Even people

today, I know that's shocking but we'll get to it.

He's not healing people today. He's not delivering people

today. Because Jesus has already done

that again in this Sanctuary right now.

I don't know. All of you.

Some of you are first-time guests, some, you've been guests

for a little while, and haven't yet committed to the vision.

Not sure, whether this is your fit or not.

Some of you've been around for a long time.

I know you stuff, I know what you've come through, I'll take

you to war with me because you have fought the good fight of

Faith, man. And we can do some things

together you have endured But with that being said, I look out

here and I know that there are different people, which means,

if you know, anything just Elementary principal about

scripture, you know that Jesus died once and for all for all

sin, that his blood, his death, burial, Resurrection was enough

that one event was enough to save.

Anybody was tells me then, again, Jesus isn't saving people

today because over 2,000 years ago when he died was raised from

the The dead by the power of the Holy Ghost, took his blood to

The Mercy Seat, in heaven and poured it out.

He saved all of humanity. The question is, are they

believing in the Salvation already provided?

So again, when you walk around say Jesus saves today, no, he

does. He's safe 2000 years ago.

The people being saved today are actually just receiving

something that's already been paid for over 2,000 years ago.

Anybody getting healed today in being here.

Healed by Jesus today but are being healed because over 2,000

years ago by his stripes. You were healed.

So now you are, you're finally getting into something that's

already been taken care of but what is Jesus literally doing

today? He's praying.

For the Saints. Now, why is he praying for us?

Because he needs us to get what he had a revelation of Prayer.

See, we drag way too much world into our new creation reality in

essence. We sorry.

No, good. We he then we separated from

God. We are destitute, we are ruined.

We are to be eternally. Just, we are to be eternally,

separated, there's nothing we do.

That's right with God, it can't be right?

Even if we think it's right, it isn't right.

The standard of our living can never compare to the the

Holiness of God. And we come to this reality that

Jesus Christ. It is the only way to have a

relationship with a father. We couldn't have done it.

He actually did it all. So, we receive his gift by faith

through prayer. We pray to get born again.

And the minute we do, then we receive this free gift.

We become a new creature in Christ.

The old passes away, behold All Things become new, the Holy

Spirit comes and lives on the inside of us Bears.

Witness with our spirit and does the assignment of beginning to

instruct us and teach us in this new life that we're in.

But too often because we could talk to God effectively outside.

Meaning there's only a few things we could say or would say

that he would do for us per se to try to let us know he exists.

Then we still walk around as if God.

Is a mystery yet, God can be known, he can be known.

Now again I love those who quote the Old Testament.

You know, Old Testament has an application.

There's a lot we can learn from that but you have to interpret

it in light of the New Covenant where I am because we're in a

New Covenant with better promises.

The old Covenant says, his ways are higher than our ways and his

thoughts are higher than our thoughts.

That's true. But then we get over to the New

Covenant, Paul writes and says we have the mind of Christ.

Now, Christ could tap into God's will.

Jesus could tap in to his ways and his thinking.

And he tapped in through prayer. Now, not prayer Lon because

Jesus was raised with Holy Scripture.

So it's a combination of the written word of God, who

studying the word of God, because the word of God is God

speaking to us, it is a dialogue, he's talking to us

through his scripture. He will also talk to us by

Spirit. There's one renowned Minister, I

won't say who it is, but our Washington faculty and staff

went to a particular conference. And this renowned Minister who's

written many books and even have a Bible translation.

Stood up in front of this whole organization is says, I've never

heard the voice of God. It was shocking.

And yet they're discipling. Well, you're not doing a good

job if you can't hear God. No, Jesus died rose from the

dead, not just to get you out of hell.

That's not his purpose. His purpose was to get Christ

in. You the hope of glory.

It was the put God in you so that you can live and move and

have your being that you could actually talk with the Lord that

you can hear him. Speak to you.

Now, the written word allows us to keep the The Voice we're

hearing on the inside accurate. So we're not saying well, the

Lord said, my wife's older now and I should throw who to the

side and find a younger one. No, you're not gonna find that

in scripture. So as a result of that, that

wasn't God. Amen.

So I'm praying for a new wife. Well, you're not praying, right?

You're like everybody else that has false gods and they pray to

nothing that here's because God can't hear that are you with me?

The devil. Hear it.

And the devil is send, somebody your way and tell you.

This is the new one. Hallelujah.

So Jesus pray. Well, when did he pray?

He preyed on him out. He prayed in the garden.

He prayed by himself. He prayed early in the morning

blown before it was day, he prayed late at night, in fact,

one time he prayed all night. Let me ask this question.

When's the last time you prayed all night?

I'm not actually raise your hand.

I come to find out this thought process is just as grevious to

the Saints as talking about Finance.

Now, I know why Finance is a problem because it's a god.

Jesus said you can't serve both God and Mammon or wealth because

you'll love one and hate the other.

You'll despise one and be devoted to the other.

Now, if you'll serve, God, you'll have wealth, but if you

serve well, God doesn't come with a picture.

Even though you may claim him as giving you the stuff, but let me

tell you something, you're not getting all that God would have

for you if you're not praying. Because you can acquire without

him. What good is it a man to gain

the whole world and forfeit his soul?

Right. There's a way that seems right

to a man and Indian lies death but what seems right about it.

I'm prospering. I'm doing good.

My business is doing good. You know.

And as a result of that my life's good.

I got a nice house. Nice whole a good retirement.

Got all this. I'm set up, man.

I'm living better than my family.

You know. Praise God.

But yeah, you never told him about any of it.

What if you stood before him one day and he says, I never called

you in any of that. But how would, you know, unless

you have a conversation? See, but when we think that

God's number one Ministry is the win the Lost.

Then you think the only thing God is concerned about is

getting you in the family. No, geez, number one Ministry

was to pray because if the loss is going to come to the Lord, we

need to pray. Okay, let me go over here.

Jesus said the Harvest is great, but the laborers are few.

They're like, what do we do? He said, look up for your eyes,

your eyes for the fields, are white for Harvest.

They're like, what do we do? Lord, you don't need it.

He didn't say, this is what we're gonna do.

I got a 12-step program on how to win the lost and what you're

going to do is you're going to go here and you're going to say

the Romans road and you're going to do this even though the

Romans road wasn't written down, but you understand, I'm saying,

you're gonna do this and you're gonna say this, you're going to

get this track and you're going to hand down this thing and

you're gonna invite them to church.

Church. And you're going to do this,

we're going to do a big service event and we're really going to

blow it out, right? Just for the Lost.

I'm not saying people are getting born again by those

things, but that's not what Jesus said.

Jesus said, pray. To the lord of the Harvest that

he would send forth. Meaning he knows when the fields

ripe for Pickin and there's a lot of Believers that are going

into Publix and saying, where would you go if you died, you

know if you died right now but I geez you go to hell Eternal

judgment. You'd be burning in Hell

brother. Right now, we could pray and get

that, right? And that feel didn't even ready

to be Harvest yet and you are raping the Vaughn.

And they're like, okay, yeah, I'll pray because you're a nut,

and I want to go. What do you need me to say?

Just say this brother. Dear Jesus.

Dear, Jesus, I believe, I believe that you died on the

cross. He died on the cross.

He rose from the grave brother, okay.

And today, today I Repent of my sin.

I Repent of my sin. Come into my heart.

Come on my heart and save me, and I'm born again, brother.

You're born again now. When you die you go to heaven.

Praise God. Aren't you excited?

All right, you go to the next. WoW.

And they go to church. I got somebody putting in a

public where they at I don't know, but when they die, they

will go to heaven. That's called malpractice in the

kingdom of God. Because when someone gets born

again, they become a babe in Christ.

Am I my sixth grandchild on the front row right now and the last

time that I checked a month ago, when my daughter gave birth to

our youngest granddaughter, she didn't go, Hallelujah.

We had a girl. This is awesome.

We've given birth. She's in the world.

We've given her life and then went home and stayed with their

dogs, and we're like, where's your daughter?

I guess he's at the hospital. We did our part. because, you

know, right right now that child has everything in her to grow up

without them Some other nurse could have said.

Well, I'll raise them because they were abandoned by their

parents. Oh, I'm preaching way better

than your a minute right now. I get it, I understand.

And so, all of a sudden, somebody don't even know God

starts raising our granddaughter and shows them a whole nother

way to live. Jesus said, I'll never leave you

nor forsake. You which means this, if you're

going to be a laborer for Jesus, if you're getting people in the

Kingdom, you should be, like, I'll pick you up on Sunday,

because the only reason you're in this kingdom, is to be with

the family and the family. He's at the church.

So when we pray this prayer, I want you to understand that this

means you commit to a life of living for God while you're on

the earth. And listen, if you're not ready

to come to church all the time, you're not ready to be born

again. But what it what if they die?

God didn't scare us. He said it's love that.

Draws men to repentance not fear.

It is a scare them into the kingdom, will you are loving

them by telling them, they need Jesus.

Yes. If you're actually going with

the spirit to tell them that, when the lord of the Harvest sit

you, which means, if you're not conversing or having a

conversation with god, how do you know what you're supposed to

say? See, we're using prayer as a get

mechanism. I need to get healed, I need to

get blessed. I need to get prosperous.

I need to get a job. I need to get a promotion, I

need to get a wife, I need to get a husband, I need to get a

new car, that's not. What prayers designed for prayer

was designed to have a conversation with the creator of

Heaven and Earth. So that the father could affect

the world through you and he wants to do something but he

knows what he wants to do. He's not here to do what you

want him to do. And Lord, I'm going to Publix

today. And I don't know if anybody's in

there today that you feel is ripe for Harvest.

I know today is the day of salvation.

Why do I know that? Because you've already paid the

price, anybody can get born again any time because it's

already settled, but the question is, are they ready to

make the confession of faith? Has there been enough planting

and watering maybe your assignment is not to bring them

into the kingdom but just to share the love of Jesus.

Oh, can I get that for you? Hold on.

Yeah, here you go. Jesus loves.

You just want you to know that and then you walk away.

Well, you left. And what?

If they die and go to died on the way across the parking lot,

seriously? Like God knows when they're

going, you're going to live your whole life on a what if somebody

dies immediately? Why don't you actually talk to

God? Because God actually knows when

they go go? Since he knows everything.

Let's ask that question. Because he's like, that's all I

need you to say. Cause two weeks from now, I will

have somebody else come by and mention my name and I'm all for

now, have somebody else actually sit down, because they're going

to go through a tragedy because their life is on the wrong side

and I'm going to send another labor, it's going to start

talking about my love and really two years from now because of

what you just did here is that going to I'm going to cause it

to come to their remembrance and show them how I have been

talking. To them all this time.

And they'll come in. But because we don't understand

the ministry of Jesus. We just do things, we see in the

Bible instead of talking to the one.

I said, that's the last service is very it Bears repeating I'm

talk basketball cause wearing basketball season right now and

so if you were to watch Kevin Durant, give an interview right

after a game, you know? Because if you watch the games,

I'll sit down and have a little conversation, the, the mic and

people are asking questions, which means there's people in

the room with Kevin Durant, and they're talking saying, what did

you say about this? What do you say?

And so, he'll answer and that maybe one question they would

ask what? I've heard these ass before to

athletes. What did you do to prepare for

this game? Well, and then, they would begin

to talk about the strategy and I did this, and I did this, and

you may be an athlete that aspires to something.

So, you know what, I'm going to do that, I'm going to change.

I'm gonna do it. Actually what that person was

doing to be able to have the endurance To Be A Champion.

So then you take something, they said and begin to apply that

principle. And guess what?

You get the result of it. But that doesn't mean you had a

conversation with Kevin Durant. So what the church unfortunately

is turning into is what happened on the mountain when Moses

delivered the Israelites. Moses said, everybody consecrate

yourself. The Lord is coming down, he

wants to talk with you. He had been up there talking

with the Lord. Moses talked to God

face-to-face. Had a conversation came down

said, listen sanctify yourself because God wants to come down

on the mountain and talk to you, don't touch them out now.

The Lord came down and smoke and thunder.

It was it was amazing sight to be seen no doubt.

And what did the people say it? They trembled at the presence of

God. So they turn to Moses and say

you talk to him and then you tell us what he said and we'll

do it. So, you don't have to pray

because I'll pray. I can show you principles in the

word of God. You can apply those principles

but you didn't get them from God directly.

You got them because I got it from him directly.

Prayer is a conversation with god, not taking a principled

when he's not in play. And now you have a relationship

with him. Amen.

I'll never forget the day, the Lord spoke to me these words in

my spirit now audibly. But in my spirit, the Lord said

to me, I've been married to my wife just a few years and prayer

was not a priority. Honestly, it was never

demonstrated as a priority in my life, nor in the church that the

denominational church I was in. And if they had prayer meetings,

basically like any church, even this one to some degree.

They were scarcely attended. So prayer wasn't a high priority

prayers. Only when you're in trouble,

when you're in trouble, you pray.

When there's Devastation is time to what it's time to pray, and

should you pray during those times?

Yes, but it's not the only time to pray Because Jesus prayed all

the time, but he wasn't always in Calamity.

Well, Peter, cut his foot. Off the floor.

What am I going to do, right. No, he wasn't in turmoil, and

that's the only reason he prayed.

He would talk, just go upside down.

I just came to talk with him. I came to converse with you.

I love you so much, it's just so great to be with you.

So great to be with you. So the Lord said this to me, he

said I started praying, just a little bit.

You know, she's trying to exit on the Lord said, son.

If you spend as much time with your wife, as you do with me,

you wouldn't be married very long. because I didn't really

spend time with him and I go to church, but didn't spend time

with him. And that's a difference.

See, most of the time we are saying we pray because what do

we do? We're going to get food here at

lunch here. If I let you go to lunch and

you'll you're going to sit down and you're going to do your

blessing. So I'll say, did anybody pray

today? Yeah, I pray.

That is a prayer. That is a prayer.

Sure. But that's not the only prayer,

you should pray. Pray over your food and when

problems come So we're going to learn how to pray.

And we're going to learn why we have to and why Jesus right now

is only doing that for us. So we'll get revelation of

praying. Everybody in the church wants to

see miracles signs, and wonders start praying.

No! Great Revival ever hit a

community until prayer started, but once the Revival hit, they

quit. You pray for a job.

You give the job. You stop praying.

You're sick, you pray to get healed, you get healed, you stop

praying. Oh, it's quiet in here.

That matter that we're charismatic Pentecostal rum,

when the worships going dance and Shout the matter, if your

tongue talker doesn't matter. You start talking about prayer,

everybody gets like a morgue. Don't know why.

I mean, if you had revelation of prey be like, teach me this

thing. Talk to me about this thing,

man. I got to have this thing in my

life, because of Jesus. That's what he did while he was

here and got the result. He got that, I need to have that

goes again. You need the Holy Ghost.

But the Holy Ghost is going to teach you how to pray and he's

not going to violate and do things different than the way he

did it with Jesus. Let's go on.

I gave you five that Jesus prayed alone.

Let me give you some more in Luke chapter 22 verse 41.

Luke 22:41

And he withdrew from them about a stone's throw and he knelt

down and began to pray. So there in his presence, he

just happened to be over here, while they're over there, about

a stone's, throw away. So, Jesus didn't pray isolated

by himself entirely. Sometimes he prayed where people

were around. Now, that doesn't mean he was

praying with them. Exactly.

But he was praying along, but he was within their facility in

Matthew chapter 26, verse 33, the said Jesus.

Matthew 26:33

Jesus came to them to a place called Gethsemane.

I was there. I was at this garden and he said

to his disciples sit here, sit here while I go over there.

And when I came in the gate to the Garden, which is that wall?

By the time I got to the end of the gate, which is this wall is

basically the garden is inside the sanctuary.

So Jesus could only EB. As far as Ricky is from Seth

over there in distance in prayer.

Hey man. And what did he expect them to

do? While he was Remember he walked

up and he says Seth, I mean couldn't you pray for one hour

man? Why are you sleeping over here?

I mean come on man. Uh-huh.

The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.

Pray that ye enter not into temptation, I let me go back

over here and pray. Seth, please wake up son.

I mean, can't you pray for one hour?

So again, Jesus wasn't trying to play alone.

He wanted to be in a corporate prayer.

See people, they take scripture just to validate tradition

instead of studying it from Genesis to Revelation, when

Jesus said don't be like the Pharisees, that's what he meant.

Don't be like the Pharisees. That's the issue.

It's not praying out in a street corners.

The problem don't be like the Pharisees because when they pray

they prayed to be recognized. That's the best the morale of

the prayer. They're not that pray.

Saying publicly is wrong. Well, Pastor.

I just don't believe in that corporate prayer because you

know what? Jesus said, go into your closet.

Nobody knows and you pray, and you pray in private in God are

rewarded openly. That's what the Bible says.

Well, that's what fits your tradition because yes, there is

a intimate private prayer, no doubt and you should because

when I'm intimate with my wife, I don't want nobody else in the

room. So there are times, I just want

to be with the Lord and nobody else in the room.

Amen. But there's other times that the

Lord wants others to pray. Jesus Took people to the Garden

because he didn't want to pray alone although he had to pray

alone. And did he take them when it was

convenient for them? Now listen, I don't want to go

late, so let's do 9:00 y'all. Go over, not 10, let's do 10,

10, 10 a.m. All right, we'll go to

breakfast. We'll get a cup of coffee and

then we're going to go to the garden and pray because I'm

about to die. You understand?

And so I need to make sure you pray with me and I need you

awake. No, he took them when he needed

to do it because he knows tonight's the night.

And they coming for me, and I don't get another day.

It's now God's. Will you come and pray with me?

I'm gonna go over here. I was there.

And this is one thing I saw that I never seen before because I

never been there. The one Jesus is praying,

whether he's looking this way, you know, whether he was looking

this way, whether he was looking this way or whether it was

looking this way, but to his West, which is the East wall of

Jerusalem when he looked into when he looked towards Jerusalem

from the garden from the place, he prayed he saw gate and that

gate is called the mercy Great Gate.

So every time he prayed that father, there's any way for this

come to pass, let it pass, but not my will, your will be done

because and now, when he looked at Jerusalem, he says, I see

your mercy. But the mercy Gates, not just

the mercy gate. It's got another name.

And he'll pray the second time. Father.

If there's any other way for this cup to pass, let it pass.

Now, you understand in between these prairies like Peter, Seth,

can you pray for me, please? I mean, please wake up, son,

okay. And so he goes to second time,

I'm praying. He looks at that gate.

Again, look into Jerusalem and the second name, the gates

called the triumphant gate. Because if he'll do what God

says and demonstrate Mercy to Mankind and lay down his life,

then he'll have complete and total victory.

And when he returns the second time, he's going to walk through

the triumphant gate. But there's a third name for the

gate. He prays again, Lord, if there's

any other way for this cup to pass, let it pass.

But not my will, your will be done the third time.

He looks at it, maybe he thought of the third name of the gate,

it's called the Golden Gate. Why is it the Golden Gate?

Why? Cause he's the king of kings and

the Lord of lords, Hallelujah is of gets a gate.

Befitting of a king that he'll walk through and will all Bow

Down and Worship Him. And all the nations of the world

will come to him. At his Reign.

Hallelujah. So he had something set before

him, but he still wanted others that had been with him ones that

he had pulled aside ones that had been and seen Miracles that

others didn't see when they had experienced things that others

had this three guys praying man. I love you.

You know, sometimes we got, we need to pray corporately, why?

Because you are not the church by yourself.

So get rid of that deception. Well, I'm the church.

No, you're not, you're a finger. The church is a body.

You can't be the church by yourself.

Well, I am the church. I pray know, you are part of the

body. So you're part of the church are

not the church itself. So again, when we go over to

James and we hit read about Elijah.

I was there on Mount Carmel where Elijah called out the

prophets of Baal. Why did he call him out?

Because he's Latin to know what you been doing for the last

three and a half years. You've been praying hat, you and

the prophets of Baal said yeah. We've been praying who you've

been praying to bail? What's Bell represent?

He represents rain? Well, has he been listening to

you? Because I've been praying to the

Creator for the last three and a half years.

And I've prayed that no rain show up here and that's why you

and a drought. But since you are of the nation

of Israel, like I am and you've chosen not to follow God, but a

false god. Let's go ahead and let the rest

of the tribes figure out whom they gonna serve today and whom

they going to, listen to go ahead and build you an altar and

I'll build my and we'll see which one actually listens

since. I'm pretty convinced mind us

since it hasn't had any rain for three and a half years and you

rain. God has brought any So we go

over to James. It says, the fervent prayer of a

righteous man availeth much. It makes power available Dynamic

and it's working. It did cause Elijah lived in a

dispensation where the church was not but today we live in the

dispensation called the church and the church is called to pray

because at the head of the church, which is Jesus Christ

and we are his body. If he is up in heaven praying,

then what should we be doing? Then why is it the least

attended Tom's? Now again, pray at the house.

Great, no problem. But when you say, man, we need

to come together and pray. The reason why things are

happening in the Earth today is not because the world's just

Wicked and bad. It's because the church isn't

praying about it. And you praying by yourself is

not good enough to make Global change.

That's why the church is here. Luke chapter 9 verse 18 says

Luke 9:18

this and it came to pass when he was alone praying, his disciples

were with him and he asked him saying, whom do people say that

I am drop down to verse 28, of the same chapter.

Some eight days after these sayings he took along Peter,

John and James and went up to the mountain to pray.

So again, Jesus prayed alone. But he also prayed with people

and again, this prayer time was so significant and so obvious to

his disciples, that Luke 11:1 gives us some insight on how

Luke 11:1

what they saw about prayer that they could be around it, but

they didn't know what was going on.

Was tells us this, you can't just come and hear someone pray

and get prayer, Pastor Mars. He just got this little nugget

in prayer time between services today.

It happened that while Jesus was praying in a certain place after

he had finished one of his disciples said to him, Lord

teach us to pray. Just as John also, taught his

disciples which tells us this, you can't pray without being

taught Well, I prayed all my life.

Have you been taught to pray that someone gave you some

training? Have you had some equipping

through the fivefold ministry because if you haven't, I would

scarcely. Say I'm not real sure how great

your prayers are now. That's offensive to people.

I get that because again I'm doing the best I can to talk to

God. That's not good enough guys.

It's not good enough for God because God's laying out.

I'm going to show you how to talk to me.

And when you talk to me, I'll hear you every time yet we can

to settle for just talking. I understand this there's a lot

of husband-wife relationships that are like this, the wife

don't hear anything. The husband says, just tells

them what they should do and this is how it's going to be and

there's no real conversation. But you think we converse

because I told you what I think I'm not listening to what you

say, what you just said that was stupid, we're not doing that and

guess what? It's one-sided and we do this in

prayer with God. Husbands the same way, tell

their wives exactly what to do this.

How it is like they have no voice in the matter.

Can't say anything about it. We have a relationship.

That's not a relationship. That's a dictatorship.

But with the Lord, we get to talk to him.

But when we talked to him a lot of times my Lord, I need this.

And why would you do this? And Lord.

Bless this Lord. Jesus!

Thank you in Jesus name. Amen!

And you walk off and the doors like Great, not talking with you

and your and then you go around and say, you know, I prayed to

God that just didn't happen. The Lord's life.

I really have something to say but you didn't let me talk.

So, again, content, pray without ceasing and you praying without

ceasing all the time. And guys, like, hey, have you

been around a person that talks all the time?

You like want to say something? You know, you just breathe.

Please breathe, man. So, I can get something in right

now. Right?

You've been around those people, they talked all boom boom and he

and then they leave and they feel great and you're like what

happened? And I know my Father in Heaven,

says, this about some of his kids, what just happened?

What was that called down there that they call that a prayer

meeting because, according to my word, that was nothing of a

prayer meeting. That's what Jesus said about the

Pharisees and the Sadducees. He said they don't have prayer

meetings so don't pray like them.

Hallelujah. John Wesley said this.

It seems God is limited by our prayer life.

That he can do nothing for Humanity.

Unless someone asks him. This would be a this is a

shocking statement fact. So shocking that brother Hagin.

Kenneth E Hagin himself. He's gone on to be with the Lord

in his book, called The Art of prayer, wrestled with this

thought, process, some self to the point that he's like, I'm

gonna find out why John said this.

John Wesley started. The Methodist Church.

Okay, now, the Methodist church today is not how John Wesley

started. It just going to let you know

because I give you another quote of what he said.

Concerning the church about the move and power of the Holy

Ghost. If it is not there, then the

church would just become a religious order and have no

profound effect. And he prayed, may it never be

to this group. Now, I'm not saying that every

Methodist Church doesn't have the spirit of God flowing in it

because I've never been to all of them, but I've been to a few

denominational churches, not to include that one that my

brother-in-law. I was raised in a Methodist

Church and never heard that he had to give his life to Jesus.

That didn't happen until he met my sister.

Because we were raising the domination of church, the

Baptist Church and that's all you heard is you better get born

again because you're gonna go to hell if you don't.

Are you with me again? I don't go to Every church.

So I don't know what everybody believes.

So, please don't get stereotypical.

Don't think that all because they don't have nothing, don't

say that, okay? Until you go and sit in the

service and see how they're moving and see what's going on.

Can you make a determination of whether Gods they're not?

Okay, brother Hagin said this. He said I examine God's word for

Y, for the, why behind John Wesley statement?

I saw a truth that I never seen before though.

I've been in Ministry for Years. This is what I love about

Kenneth E Hagin, is that he was always teachable.

Always that even though he had preached priests priests and

ministers, he realized man there's still some things I

could learn. He says I asked the Lord about

it. He said to me, go back to the

book of Beginnings which means god actually talk to a spirit

man about a book in the Bible. That means he heard God in his

Spirit. He said, I knew he meant the

Book of Genesis, so I reread it. I had read it many times, I'd

heard it taught in Sunday school as a Sunday school boy.

I saw it in a different light for the first time.

Said I saw that God had made the world in the fullness thereof

and he made his man. Adam then he said, Adam, I give

you dominion over all the work of my hands.

What do we find this from? Genesis chapter one.

You've heard us preach this before but let's look at it.

Genesis 1:26 and 27. Then God said let us make man in

Genesis 1:26

our image, according to our likeness, and let them let them,

let them, let them, let them rule over the fish of the sea

over, the birds of the sky, over the cattle over all the Earth

and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth verse

27, then God. Created man, God created, man in

his own image and his likeness. He created both male and female

he created them. Psalms chapter, 8, verses 4.

And 8 says this, most people say this is Jesus, but it's not

Jesus, it's us. Although Jesus fits it in one

context because Jesus, the son of God dropped himself into a

flesh suit and told people he was the son of man and the

reason he had to do this is because what God had given man

originally What is man that you take thought of him, the son of

man that you care for him. Look at this.

Yet, you have made him a little lower than God.

Adam was made a little lower than God.

Adam was made like God in a skin suit but he wasn't God.

He was like God in nature. You crowned him with glory and

Majesty. What was his glory?

He had dominion over the Earth. First six, you made him to rule

over him. Little H over the works of your

hands, you have put all things under his feet.

So God when he created this Earth realm said man which is my

Camp crowning creation. I am going to give him the rule

down there. I'll rule here and I'll instruct

him on how to rule there as we converse.

Well, the Bible says that God walked or came in the cool of

the day and he would have a conversation.

With his creation. So, Adam had Dominion.

So, Kenneth Hagin goes on a says, God did not say I'm going

to dominate through you. He said I give you dominion over

all the works of my hands there for Adam had to mean upon this

Earth and in this world he was originally in a sense God of

this world come on to you and me now again I need you stay with

me just a few more minutes and we're going to conclude because

I'm telling you right now I'm giving you the secret to life.

And you're not going to get it any other way.

And anything you're actually getting from God is because

somebody knows this. Somebody knows this.

What is it that they know is that they have a legal

responsibility to speak God's word into the Earth in order for

God to do something. He said, but Satan came to lie

to Adam Adam committed. High treason is sold out to

Satan. Then Satan became the God of

this world. We know second Corinthians 4:4

2 Corinthians 4:4

literally says that calls him the God of this world.

So he has a lease meaning he has received this ability to rein in

the earth, he got it from Adam, the first Adam, but Jesus is the

last Adam, he's stripped the devil of the power to be able to

keep control or dominion over every person.

He's offered a way of Escape. Meaning, if you would repent and

ask Jesus to be Lord of your life, you'll be transferred from

the domain of Darkness into the kingdom of his Ovid son.

And God then through Jesus Christ gives you power back in

the earth to bring Heaven here. Through your words.

So, God cannot legally and justly move in and take away the

Dominion from the devil. Meaning, he's already stripped

him of the power, over your life, but the devil still here.

Now, next week I don't have time today but I'm setting you up and

I'm leaving you a little cliffhanger.

Get rid of the false theology that God is in control.

I will tell you what he does control.

But he's not in control of everything.

He's not. And when you, if you will accept

that truth. Then you'll prayer life will

work. because as long as you think, God's in control, Then

you'll never have the prayer life God intended.

Because you will let go and let doubt unbelief and you'll

release faith. You'll quit with faith and say,

well, God's in control. And the devil will win in that

area your life. Hallelujah, this would be

popular. I know they'll love this

teaching. This is such a great teaching,

is such a, such a powerful teaching.

I mean, I'll be encouraged myself in the Lord right now.

I'd say I stir myself up right now, I tell you right now, I'm

gonna go do a prayer. Walk after this thing, I'm ready

to pray. I'm ready to pray.

I'm ready to pray. I'm ready to pray.

I'm ready to pray. I want to pray.

I want to have a conversation with god.

I want to take a whole group of people and me that desire to

actually converse with him and not.

Quit and quick. Getting statistics of him,

getting a little quick, Bible verses and quick little daily

bread and have this little distant relationship and act.

Like they're actually living a relationship with God.

I'm looking for people that are designing that I'm going to do

the same Ministry. Jesus did, and my more pray.

And when I pray, it's going to be like Jesus, because Jesus,

man, in one of his prayer times he showed up at Lazarus Gray.

Rate in John chapter 11 verses 41 and 42.

John 11:41

And it says Jesus raised his eyes and said, father, I thank

you that you have heard me, that tells us that the Creator hears

and he is separating himself from every other religion

because all your man-made idols and man-made fables and men may

theologies they don't hear Jack but Dad hears, then he goes on

in the next Person says this man.

He says I know knew that you always hear me but because of

the people standing around, I said it so that they may believe

that you sent me now what was the position Jesus Took at this

moment, John tells us the type of prayer position that Jesus

had because he was a guy who prayed so we love the miracles

signs and wonders. We love to casting out the

devil's. When we read it we love the

healing of the lame. In the sick and the raising of

the dead, but none of that would happen if Jesus hadn't prayed.

We want God to do that in our life but not talk to him.

We want the law save without conversing with the lord of the

Harvest. We want this Supernatural move.

We can't do anything anyway. You're in control and sit back,

and wait on a move of God. I'm telling you, if you're in a

move of God's, because somebody's been in a closet or a

group of people been praying somewhere and brought it to

pass. What would it look like if this

church did this amen? Hallelujah.

Well, the position is first, John 5:4?

John 5:4

In 15. It says, this is the confidence

that we have before him. That if he, if we ask anything

according to his, will he hears us now Jesus said, father, I

thank you that you always hear me.

So, this is where Jesus was at. He was confident verse 15 and if

we know that he hears us to Jesus know that yes and whatever

we ask, we know that we have the request, which we've asked of

him. So in today's Christians, I'm

closing with this and you determine where you're at.

How does your prayer sound? Does it sound like this Jesus

shows up Martha's like Jesus. Jesus, if you'd only been here

four days ago, you could have healed him Jesus said he's going

to live again. Yeah, I know in the

resurrection, Jesus said I am the resurrection and the life

and he wept he wasn't weeping because Lazarus died.

He was weeping because they ain't got it yet.

I don't know who they are. Still.

So he stands there verse 41, the 11th chapter of Luke and he says

roll the stone away and malted like, whoa, wait a minute,

Jesus. He's been in there for days,

it's going to stink. Listen.

What we're preaching right now. We'll do more than your paycheck

could ever do and you'll work a 40-hour week for a paycheck, but

in less than two hours, I'm going to unlock the universe for

you. But now, if you cut out, then

you'll miss the key and you'll live for your 40 hour week and

your paycheck instead of unlocking Heaven at your

disposal. Tis the roll, the stone away and

I don't do it. Jesus then says Lazarus, come

forth. Where is he?

I don't know. Now again gotta get context,

he's bound. He's laid on a shelf.

He's got to get off. Nobody went in to help him out.

So he's doing this to get out. We don't know the time frame

that it took him to show off in the entrance before Jesus said,

now go on loose him and let him go.

So there's a time frame at that point, a lot of people when

something's moving in the darkness that you don't see what

did we do. Well Martha, I tried, I tried.

I mean, I guess, I guess, you know, he will be resurrected

with me later on, you know, I thought that I would be at a

call him out but it didn't happen.

No. It's just I guess it was I guess

the father knew what's best that he just wanted to take him home

be as little angel. God does not change human beings

into angels that doesn't happen. So, that's false theology.

Anyway. No, Jesus was confident that

when I call his name, he's going to hear me.

I'll pull him up out of the ditch.

Out of the Grave. He's gonna get back in that skin

suit. He's going to come out and

nothing else. Other than that will take place.

Do you pray that way? Jesus is away from the moment

and they come and say hey Gia Lazarus is sick to the point.

It can you come jiejie sister? It's not a sickness unto death

and he stayed two more days which means when he got along

depraved and what am I supposed to like?

He's like, don't worry about it son, I'll have you.

Raising because son, I want you to know that if I can pull a man

out of the grave in four days, son, I'll get you in three.

So don't worry about two days passed, he said we got to go

Lazarus. You know?

He's asleep. It's obvious says, what?

If you sleep you wake up? He said no he's dead.

He died. Let's go.

So he shows up then integrate for days.

And it's Jesus prayer. O Lord if it's your will God

Almighty, if it's all-wheel Heavenly Father up above you're

so high and mighty and you ain't control of all things and I just

pray a see Chabad you today that would you please at the mercy of

who you are fries? Please, please, please.

Oh dear, God. Please raised Lazarus from the

dead and restore him. Kindly to his wonderful family.

Lackey did even pray to God. He just said, Dad, I think you

always hear me. So, in essence, he didn't pray

Lazarus on the great. He had already settled that in

prayer before he showed up. He gave the command of his dad,

dad? I thank you that you always hear

me. I know you hear me.

I'm only saying this because they don't know.

I got this in prayer already. That's why I'm saying this

Lazarus come forth. This is the confidence that we

have. This is the confidence that we

have before him. That if we ask anything

according to his will he hears us our prayer always works when

you know the will of God quit staying in the Old Testament,

his ways are higher than our ways.

They are get over to the New Covenant.

I have the mind of Christ. The Holy Ghost lives in me.

He's listening to Jesus. Jesus is seated at the right

hand of the father. He's talking to the Holy Ghost,

he's in me. He's telling me, it's actually

what Dad wants. And I'll prove to you next week,

maybe or the week after that, Jesus is up to this time.

You've not asked to Father am be anything in my name, but when

you ask the father in my name, he will do it.

And if your prayer life is not, he will do it and he does it

every top. Then you still don't know how to

break. And that's not arrogance.

That's confidence that God's word can't fail.

And I'm not giving God a pass to not do his word, nor has he

given us a pass not to enact his work.

So what God says I am I am. Well, God says I can do, I can

do what God tells me to pray. I can pray, you get it done

because it shall come to pass. It's time for the church church

to rise up in prayer and do the Ministry.

Jesus is doing right now who's interceding for us, you know

what he's praying. He's like get it Saints.

Get this prayer, like get this prayer life, dismissed rare,

like, talk to me. Would you please have a

conversation with me? And I'll Enlighten you, I will

open up your heart. I will reveal things in your

mind and you can release what I say and it will always come to

pass. church to rise up in prayer and do the Ministry.

Jesus is doing right now who's interceding for us, you know

what he's praying. He's like get it Saints.

Get this prayer, like get this prayer life, dismissed rare,

like, talk to me. Would you please have a

conversation with me? And I'll Enlighten you, I will

open up your heart. I will reveal things in your

mind and you can release what I say and it will always come to

pass.