Prayer - Joining Forces With God 2

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Let's say this together Say heavenly Father, thank you for your presence here today.

I'm so eager to hear what applies to me.

I know you have a destiny.

That means I have a destination.

I'm continuing on the way to it by the Word and by the Spirit, and I will be instructed on those things where I need help.

I've come to the right place.

My faith is growing.

My results are increasing.

In Jesus' name, amen, you can be seated.

Let's turn in our bibles to a couple of places the first John, chapter one, please, and also James, chapter five, and I'm going to continue on a series that I'm doing on prayer and joining forces with God.

Prayer is joining forces with God.

First John one and verse three.

John is writing to the church.

He was an apostle.

He had lots of churches.

We know he had the churches in Asia Minor because Jesus told him to write letters to the pastors of those churches.

In revelations, chapter two and three, but this we don't know which of the churches he's writing to here.

In first John, chapter one, verse three, that which we have seen and heard, declare we unto you that you also may have fellowship with us and truly, our fellowship is with the Father and with his son, jesus Christ.

And these things write we unto you that your joy may be full.

Verse seven but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship there's that word again one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin.

And then in James, chapter five, verse 16, and I'm going to read out of the amplified, the second part of verse 16, the effectual.

Well, I'll read it in the King James the effectual vermin.

Prayer of the righteous avails much, but I like to amplify the earnest, heartfelt, continued prayer of a righteous man or a righteous person makes tremendous power available, dynamic in its working, so joining forces with God.

Now we covered some quite a bit of material last week.

I won't go over all of it, but just a quick recap.

That prayer basically is fellowship with God and it must be based on Koinonia.

The Greek word for fellowship there in first John is Koinonia, and Koinonia fellowship just doesn't do it.

Fellowship is just an English translation and that's what you have to find.

That's why I urged you to consult your concordance and I tell you you ought to invest in a little linguistic key to the Greek New Testament.

Most of us are not Greek scholars I'm not, I haven't studied Greek but I read a book where the guys are and they break these words down.

They break up throughout the word fellowship, and it's the Greek word Koinonia.

It means partnership, communication, participation, contribution, distribution.

This is a given, a take, and so you can rightly see that if we're going to join forces of God and have a prayer life, we it all starts with our fellowship with God have to have that, that vertical fellowship.

But then John talks about a fellowship that you have to have with the preacher, and then, of course, he talks about the fellowship that we need to have with one another.

And so those three kinds of Koinonia that are necessary if we're going to really join forces with God and accomplish things that are bigger than ourselves.

You know, you can do a few things by yourself and you know, I see, I see some people sometimes they they're kind of on alone, they're not hooked up with anybody else and they're doing some things.

But oh, that's not God's plan.

God's plan is for us to be in an outfit.

I mean, we're in the army of God and we're supposed to report to duty at a local church, have a pastor.

We're going to be getting into more of that in our Discovery Series coming up here in September for those of you that are interested in investigating whether this is a church you belong in or not.

You know we're not for everybody but we're for the ones that belong here.

Amen, we want the ones that belong here.

But Jesus restored man's lost fellowship.

We talked about Adam, how he walked with God in the cool of the day, or the Ruach, the spirit, and when he sinned he fell from that Koinonia.

He did not have any longer Koinonia, and in the Old Testament they had no Koinonia.

Why?

Because they didn't have the spirit of God living on the inside.

All they had was an approach to God that had to be over a bleeding sacrifice of an animal.

They had to shed the blood of bulls and goats and they had imputed righteousness if they would do that.

Thank God, we have a better covenant found upon better promises.

The minute we got saved, the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Godhead, came and took up a residence on the inside of us, so that every believer then has the opportunity to have fellowship with the Father, fellowship with the Son and fellowship with the Holy God.

So, then, it's not enough, though, just to have that.

We need fellowship with each other and we need fellowship with our pastor.

Why?

Because what I have seen and what I have heard and what I have experienced over 42 years of being a Christian, 35 years of being in the ministry, 28 years full time pastoring glorious way church that I declare unto you, if you could get it all on your own, you wouldn't need a pastor.

But God gave gifts unto men.

Hallelujah, I got something I didn't earn.

I got something I didn't ask for.

It was a sign to me.

But once it was a sign to me, then that's when all the preparation had to take place.

And so it's so important.

And we talked about John, chapter 15, where Jesus said I am the vine, you are the branches, and my Father is the husbandman or the vine dresser.

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And so he said as the vine cannot bear fruit of itself, neither can the branches bear fruit of themselves unless what they're attached to the vine.

That's a powerful statement.

We read right past it.

In other words, jesus can't do without us.

I mean, we're fond of saying oh, I can't do anything without Jesus.

Guess what?

He can't do anything without us.

Can you imagine, then, all these praying and I'm trying to move the church out of this silly kind of Old Testament praying?

I just got an email the other day inviting me to a big prayer meeting.

You know, right here in town they're going to pray Second Chronicles 714,.

If my people here, called by name, will humble themselves in prayer, I will hear their prayer, I will heal their land.

Baloney feathers that's not for the church to pray.

That's the Old Testament had to do with Israel.

It had to do with their disobedience and the despacia that dispersed all over the world, and so it has nothing to do with the land of our land.

If America is ever going to be healed, it's going to be a work of the church getting involved and losing churchy entity and false teaching and laziness.

Amen.

We're going to have to rise up and take over.

This land was founded in the church.

It was the church pastors that decided that it was right to rebel against King George.

They didn't go around saying oh, we need to pray for King George, let's pray that he gets saved.

Oh, let's pray, let's pray.

We need to pray for King George saved.

We didn't pray for his salvation.

They said, hey, it's okay, he's a desperate and it's time to separate ourselves from these people.

Oh, praise God for the church.

Where did it go?

What happened to the church?

Well, it's coming back, all right.

So getting back to prayer, see it is, it's absolutely is joining forces with God Almighty, omnipotent God.

We're in covenant with him, and so this, this communication, partnership, participation, contribution, distribution.

A lot of people don't hear from God because they don't contribute anything.

They don't contribute any prayer, they don't go into the prayer closet.

You show me somebody's going through lots of trouble and not getting any results, year after year and just getting worse and worse.

I'll show you an empty prayer closet.

They're not praying.

If you pray, god will.

God will start showing you something, and once he starts showing you some things, you know, then now the light turns on.

Now faith can begin, because faith begins where the will of God is known and you find that out where in your prayer closet.

You don't pray for faith, but you pray, and because of your prayer or your coin in the yuh, then faith is born and results start to happen.

Praise God, maybe not overnight, you didn't get in the trouble you're in overnight.

You're probably not going to get out overnight.

I don't say this to discourage people, but I went through something because I missed God one time, I didn't spend enough time in my prayer closet and I didn't obey the witness of the Holy Ghost and a business decision, and I went down a 10 year trial, 10 years, and it ended.

When, when we started this church oh praise God it ended I said it ended.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Amen, that's not in the Bible, but it's a kind of a kind of applies right here.

All right, so joining forces with the Father, joining forces with each other, joining forces with your pastor, I mean, you know, there's certain that you can do by yourself, but not very much.

God's design is the local church period, end of story.

And you know well, I'm involved in a pair of church now.

I'm involved with this.

Well, if you're not involved in the local church, though, you're missing a great blessing.

Thank God for the pair of church ministers.

I was, I'm, a lifetime member of the Full Gospel Businessmen's Fellowship International.

Boy, that's a mouthful, isn't it?

You can tell a bunch of old businessmen came up with that name Full Gospel Businessmen Fellowship International, anyway.

But it's a very effective organization, especially back when it was started in.

You know, back in the 50s.

There weren't any independent churches, they were all denominational Pentecostal and Baptist, evangelical and disciples.

Like he had all these denominations and the reason that Demons Chakarian started that organization was so that businessmen could do the believer's ministry.

They weren't being taught in their denominational churches to do the believer's ministry and they weren't being taught how to receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost.

And so the concept was have a businessman get up and share his Christian testimony how he got saved.

It's so effective and I spent a lot of time in that.

I gave my testimony in a lot of places and I was president of the chapter in Conroe for a while and so forth and so on.

But there came a day back in the 80s back it was 1988.

And I had been invited to go again to give my testimony and it was hard to get the scheduling.

You know, it's always a Saturday night and I got Sunday morning.

I'm dedicated Sunday.

I mean I'm at church almost all day on Sunday.

Back then at Lakewood I was, you know, had a job to do and I had to show up.

And here it's gonna be this travel thing.

Sunday night, I'm not gonna get home till late and I'm praying about it.

And God said I'm through with you and the full gospel business man.

Turn them down, don't do any more with it, withdraw from it.

Say, what did he do?

He pruned me.

See.

We talked about pruning last week.

Why did he prune me?

Cause he's through with full gospel.

No, he's pruning me so I can bring forth more fruit.

He's got something else for me to do.

The full gospel business man is a para church organization.

The need for them in America is not as great now.

Because of why?

Because of churches like this right here, we're gonna train you to do the believers ministry.

What is the believers ministry?

It's to preach the gospel, lay your hands on the sick, cast out devils.

You don't bring people to church to get that done.

You do it.

Well, I'm gonna bring so and so for you to pray.

No, you pray for them, your believer.

You lay your hands on your friends.

You lay your hands on your family.

You're able Now we're glad to do it.

If you bring somebody, a visitor, that's fine.

But listen, get in the habit of doing it yourself.

Everybody say believers ministry.

Well, that believers ministry is born out of a prayer life.

When you get in your prayer closet, god is able to communicate with you.

Why?

Because you're bringing a contribution now.

Now he'll distribute something to you to do.

Come on, let's lift our hands.

Thank God for the Holy Ghost.

I mean he's able to communicate.

Quit trying to find a voice, quit trying to listen for a voice.

Listen, he can communicate with you a lot of ways.

Amen, all right.

So everybody say I'm joining forces.

All right.

Today I wanted to look at Romans, chapter eight, and let's turn over there.

We're gonna get into more of the more, of the more of the more of the believers ministry and how important our prayer life is.

I said this last week and I say it again this week it's time for the church to get up into a higher level of prayer.

We've got to get away from this baby hood, kindergarten kind of prayer.

We got to get, we got to.

We got to be people of prayer.

John Wesley said it seems as if God is can do nothing in the earth unless somebody prays.

And he's right.

Why?

Because we're joining forces with him.

He's not.

He already sent Jesus and we're the light of the world.

We're the salt of the earth.

We're the ones that bear the fruit, and we found out last week, john 15 fruit is prayer fruit, or in other words, whatever we say comes to pass, that's fruit.

That's the way every disciple glorifies.

God is causing those kinds of things to happen.

When you get involved in somebody's life, when you lay your hands on a sick person and they recover, that's fruit.

When you speak to somebody and you give them information they didn't know I'll talk about something that happened in my life one time Well, that's fruit.

And where does it come from?

It comes from having an active, mature prayer life instead of this twinkle, twinkle little star kind of business.

Twiddle, twiddle, twiddle our thumbs and oh God, please complain to God have a laundry list of everything under the sun.

Are you with me?

Now?

Let's graduate into the.

We never graduate, but let's go up.

Let's promote ourselves into a better, higher level of prayer, so that we can we're living in the last days, amen.

It's time for the church to know that.

All right.

Roman chapter eight did you find it?

Verse 31,.

He says what shall we say then to these things?

Now, what things is he talking about?

Well, he's talking about everything he's written here up to now.

What do we say to these things?

If God be for us, who can be against us?

He that spared not this is one of my most favorite verses in the whole Bible.

It spared not his own son, but delivered him up for us all.

How shall he not with him?

Also, freely give us 49.8%.

Freely, give us all things Now, all things that mean everything you can think of.

No, it means the things that you get distributed because of Cornelia.

Are you with me now?

I mean when God distributes something to you and lets you know that it's yours.

I'm telling you right now.

Now it's yours, but it hadn't shown up yet.

That's what your faith is for.

And then they start.

You start praying and you start getting some more information from God about how to attack it, how to approach it.

Are you with me now?

How should they not?

Also, he didn't spare his own son.

If he didn't spare Jesus, you think he's gonna spare you anything you need to accomplish your destiny, especially when you're hooked up horizontally and vertically and also with your pastor.

No, he won't hold anything back from him.

So when you you know Romans, chapter eight is one of the most powerful chapters in the whole Bible.

It's the chapter where it says you know, as many as are led by the spirit of God, they're the sons of God.

I mean that one verse right there just changed my life because I always turned it around and say as many years are led by the spirit of God, they're the sons of God, and as many years are sons of God, they're led by the spirit of God.

So if you're a son of God, you are led by the spirit of God.

The question is not whether you're led, is whether you're following the leading.

You can't follow the leading without what.

Cornania and Cornania and Cornania, are y'all catching on now?

I'm just talking about joining forces with God in this.

Prayer is so important.

We've got to get well, pastor, I just.

I go to work early, I come home late.

I understand all of that.

I do.

I've lived it.

You know there was times in my life when I had a.

I drove about 300 miles a day.

I took off in the morning at five o'clock and got home at seven or eight o'clock at night.

I drove 300 miles all over six counties and I did that for the period of time right before we started the church.

You know what I mean I learned to have.

I had to redeem the time.

I mean I didn't have time, I had to sleep a little bit but I'd get up at four and I'd do some praying for a left now, but I prayed all day long and I got to where I would drive across those country roads, you know, between, let's say, when I drive leave Humboldt to go to Crosby or something like that, I'm driving across those country roads and I just lift my hands and steer with my knees.

Don't try that, you know, unless you're a professional driver like I am.

All our law enforcement please close your.

Well, you guess statutes of limitations ran out?

Great shit, great shit.

No, we need.

We all have 24 hours a day and we need to figure out a way to give God the first of our time.

Now, brother Hagan was a night person.

He was not a morning person.

He's always been that way, and so he just it, it.

It stemmed, I think, from him being weak in his younger days and he spent a lot of time in bed.

You know, he was paralyzed and for a period of time when he was a teenager, and so he just got in the habit of praying at night because he was afraid to go to sleep and afraid that he would die.

So it it was out of fear.

At first, when he was a teenager, you know, he didn't know any better, he wasn't taught anything in church His pastor tried to get his family to accept the fact that he was going to die.

Well, he didn't want to die.

He's 14 years old.

Something told him, and it was the Holy ghost in him.

Something told him that that wasn't God's best and that wasn't God's will.

And he kept on and kept on and kept on until he got the revelation and he got his healing.

But he had the habit of praying at night.

He would pray, and a lot of times he'd pray until late at night and he'd fall asleep praying, you know, two o'clock in the morning.

Well, I'm not like that, I'm more of a morning person.

I mean, if you're a night person, well, don't fight it.

Go ahead and be a night person.

Pray at night.

I'm not saying what you have to do, I'm not saying some people, real religious, you've got to pray first thing in the morning.

Well, man, you can pray last thing at night.

If that's what you just pray.

That's the thing.

Pray, don't get hung up, pray, don't try to do what somebody else does.

Do what you can do and make time for God.

So the culmination of the first eight chapters is this if he spared, not his own son, but delivered him up first, all, how shall he and I also with him, freely give us all things?

Well, what a blank check.

I said, what a blank check.

I'm so tired of these people saying well, you know, sometimes when we pray, god's answer is no.

The only time God's answer is no is when you prayed wrong.

Hello, you prayed wrong.

You prayed wrong.

You prayed a miss.

You asked for the wrong thing.

You didn't spend enough time in Cornania to find out what God wanted for you.

You went off half cocked and claimed something that didn't belong to you.

Ah, faster, I don't know.

That goes against everything I've heard.

Well, you heard a bunch of theory, that's all.

It is churchianity.

I'm gonna give you what the word says.

How shall he not, also with him, freely give us all things?

Now, it doesn't mean everything you dream up.

It means everything he's assigned to you, and you find that out in your Cornania, you find that out in your time of prayer.

Amen, all right.

So we've all joined forces with God to carry out his plan of redemption for the world.

I mean, he has a task for us.

He said going to all the world, preach the gospel to every creature.

He that believe us and his baptized shall be saved.

He that believe it not shall be damned.

And these signs shall follow them that believe In my name.

They shall cast out demons.

They shall speak with new tongues.

If they drink any deadly thing and a lot harm them, they shall, you know, lay hands on the sick and they shall recover.

And the Bible says and they went everywhere preaching the gospel.

And the Bible says the Lord working with them.

See, there it is.

There's that participation, that Cornania is not just one way, it's two ways.

God comes down.

That's what hit me this morning when I was out praying in the Holy Ghost, praying in tongues.

I know my patio, just bright daylight.

This morning, praying in the Holy Ghost, I want to make sure I deliver something to you that will stick with you, that will move you from where you are to where you need to be, because there's always a gap, there's always a groom for growth, we can always grow.

We repainted a couple of years ago and covered up all the grandkids growth pattern.

We had a wall upstairs where we marked their height, you know, from when they were little, you know, and Gladys was so mad at me because we just rolled right over it with paint.

But upstairs, one of the bedrooms, you know we would mark their progress and it was kind of.

But that's what God wants to do.

He wants to mark your progress.

You know we're progressing.

He's looking for progress, he's looking for growth and my job is to make sure that you grow.

And so, anyway, I just that verse that I opened the service with, james 1.17,.

You know, every good gift and every perfect gift comes down from above, from the Father of lights, in whom there is no verbalness nor shadow of turning.

And I started meditating on that.

I said we're the lights he's the Father of.

He calls me light.

I'm the light of the world, I'm the salt of the earth.

If I don't shine, then the earth is going to remain in darkness.

If I don't release the salt, if the salt has lost its flavor, then what's going to happen?

Salt is a preservative.

In Bible days, in Jesus' day, salt is how you preserved meat and if it wasn't salted it would rot.

We've got a lot of rot in our society because the church ceased to be light in salt.

Well, we're going to have to turn up the lumens, we're going to have to turn up the LEDs, you know, and get the light shining and start letting the salt come out of our mouth.

Amen, are you with me now?

So we have this absolute oneness with the Father.

And he said let's keep reading here.

He says you know who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect?

It's God that justifies verse 33.

Who is he that condemned?

It's Christ that died.

Yeah, rather, if it's risen again, who's even at the right hand of God?

Who also makes intercession for us?

You can't get better than Christ.

He's interceding for you.

I just don't have anybody to pray with.

Christ is praying for you.

A lot of this victimhood would leave you if you'd get into the word and see what God's doing for you right now.

Jesus, I preach a whole message, a series of messages on what the present day ministry of Jesus Christ, what he's doing right now.

This is one of the things he's doing right now making intercession for you.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?

Shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine, or nakedness or peril, or sword, or Biden, or the Democrats, the FBI, the DOJ, the CDC, who shall separate us from the love of Christ?

As it is written, for thy sake, we are killed all the day long.

We're a candidate's sheep for the slaughter.

No, no, in all these things we are what More than conquerors?

Through him, who loved us, hallelujah.

But it depends on us having some coinea, otherwise we get squashed like a bug, because we're no match for the world without our coinea, without the word and the spirit, amen.

When we attack things in the flesh, then we're in the arena, the wrong arena for victory, we're not in the arena of faith, we're not in the arena of the spirit and we're going to be defeated every time.

But on the contrary, we're in that arena of faith, we're in that arena of the spirit, amen.

For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present or things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus, our Lord.

So coinea is where you become so fully persuaded about his love for you that it fills the voids in your life where you've been hurt, where you've been bruised and beaten up, taken advantage of.

You know all of this stuff that all of us, many of us maybe not every one of us, but all of us have gone through things.

Some of you have had a terrible childhood.

Maybe you've had a terrible marriage history.

There could be any number of things you've gone through.

I know I talk to people sometimes have been abused right in church.

I mean, they've been sucked dry.

They've been, they've been abused in the church.

Whatever the hurts are, the more time you spend in prayer you get downloaded with the love of God until it just fills up.

All of that drives it all out.

Glory to God.

Where now you can, you can be of use in helping restore those folks.

There's just a whole world full of people that are hurting and all these things were more than conquerors.

So let's look at second Corinthians, chapter three.

I want to get more about this partnership, this Coinonea Several here.

Several verses here in Corinthian.

Second Corinthians three, verse six.

Uh, let's do verse five.

Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything is of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God, who has also made us able ministers of the new Testament or the new covenant, not of the letter but of the spirit, for the letter kill it, but the spirit give us life.

Our sufficiency is of God.

It's not.

Our sufficiency is not of our uh, where we went to school or didn't go to school, whether we went to Bible school or not.

A lot of people think they had to, had to have gone to Bible school.

No, a believer's minister had nothing to do with Bible school, thank God.

If you went to Bible school, that's just fine, but that's not what's necessary.

I've never been to Bible school.

I've never been to Divinity school.

Or did you get it?

I had in churches, like you, I had cornered Neil with John Osteen.

I had cornered Neil with believers on either side of me Amen, I had.

Mainly, I had cornered Neil with Jesus Christ and with his father and with the Holy Ghost.

That's where I got it.

And then, over a period of time, it just you know things.

I just kept growing, god just kept adding to me and I just kept growing, I kept growing, I kept growing.

And whether or not you ever are a five-fold minister, that's a different story, but we're all believers and there's a ministry for believers.

So he says here, my sufficiency is I'm not sufficient of myself to think anything of myself, but my sufficiency is of God and what God gave me.

He was a gift to the, but he was an apostle.

He started out as a teacher and then he became a prophet and then he became an apostle in that order.

He didn't just go print cards.

God added to him and added to him and added to him just like he did me.

Are you with me now, just like he will you?

My sufficiency is of God.

Who's made us able?

Ministers, I've had to preach this to me, to myself, on the way to a meeting.

You know, all over the world, when I go to preach to a group of people you know, I don't know how many.

You know, in the Philippines, 1500 full-time pastors and leaders are sitting out there ready for me to, for me to minister to them.

In India, with brother Osteen, a hundred thousand people were sitting there waiting, waiting for me to open my mouth and say some things and sing.

I mean I had to, I had to think.

You know my sufficiency of God.

He's made me enable, minister of the new covenant.

I mean, I feel if I went by how I felt, I would have had to turn around and say, brother Osteen, would you please, please?

You just never lived till you looked out on a field of a hundred thousand people and they're all looking at you.

Well, my sufficiency was not of John Griner.

I had to get out of John Griner.

I just leaned on the one who was on the inside of me.

That gift, that's a good gift, and every perfect gift comes down from above, from the father of lights.

Oh, come on, let's lift our hands right now.

Our sufficiency is of God.

He's made us able ministers.

His ability, not ours.

His ability, abel means his ability.

When I minister, I know it's not me, I know it's his ability through me.

His ability is going out.

I received it and it's just coming like this, and it's going out of me into you and then he gets glorified into a circle of glory.

The glory comes down and out, and in and up, and it just goes like that.

It's a circle of glory, just like Jesus.

Jesus came down, he lived his life, he went down and he came up, and he lived another 40 days and went up.

Circle of glory.

Every time you step out and talk about Jesus with somebody or help somebody, that circle is going around and God is getting glorified.

That's the fruit that disciples should bring forth.

Are you with me now?

We have God's ability.

We're not limited, we're joined to the omnipotent one.

Look at 2 Corinthians 6.

Everybody said I've got God's ability working in me.

Chapter 6, verse 1,.

We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that you've received not the grace of God in vain.

So we, as workers together with him.

Now, who was he preaching both of these things to the Corinthian church?

The Corinthian church, I mean they had a lot of problems.

I mean, in the first chapter he said you know, y'all are immature.

You got factions, you've got favorites, you've got sin in the camp.

You've got a guy that's coming to church and he's having an affair with his stepmother.

You haven't done a thing about it.

You let this go on.

How dare you?

How dare you let that go on in your church?

They were carnal.

You know, the Corinthian church came out of the occult.

They were all kinds of excess sexual sin in that area and idolatry and witchcraft, and that was the church they had.

They came out of that.

And so you any, any place where you are, that that residue can be in the church, that background, and it can rise up.

Wow, because the devil, when he's cast out of a person, he'll leave, but then he wants to come back.

Sometimes he does come back and people kind of give in to what where they came out of.

And so that's what's going on in the Corinthian church.

Even yet he's telling them they're able ministers of the new covenant.

He's telling them that God is working with them.

Quit letting the devil exclude you and say you're not capable of this.

You are, yes, you are, glory to God.

All right, let's first Corinthians.

First Corinthians three.

You getting anything out of this?

I want to encourage you because we're church has got to step up.

Verse nine, first, corinthians three nine.

For we are laborers together with God.

There it is again.

Notice with God.

See, not, I mean, we're wanting God to do everything.

God do this.

God heal our land.

God do this.

God do the other.

God heal this.

You know we're not going to do anything.

God heal our land.

God do this.

God do the other.

God heal this.

You know, no, we're workers together with God.

You are God's husbandry.

There's that word again.

It's the same as vine dresser Paul is telling them again.

Jesus told them in John 15, we got that last week.

You are God's husbandry.

Or in my margin it says you're God's tillage, you're God's ranch, you're God's farm, you're His garden.

You're His garden, you're the tomato plant.

You know you ever had tomatoes.

You don't have them for long if you don't learn to pick the caterpillars off of there.

Big old green tomatoes, man, they're gross, you know, even for me.

I mean, I have a hard time handling those things.

But you got to go out there and look at the tomatoes and you got to pull those things off because they're going to bore into your tomatoes and ruin them.

And the next thing, you know, you go out there and your tomatoes are all rotten looking and nasty looking because those whatever they're called those green, slimy caterpillars have done eight your tomatoes.

Are you with me now?

You know God knows how to do that.

God.

That's why God sets you in a church, because you know there's just supernatural pesticide here that will cause demons to leave you.

Not all demons have to be cast out up here at the altar, I mean.

A lot of times demons can get knocked off of you just like that.

Just a preaching of the Word of God Talking about the love of God, how much he loves you.

Amen.

We're laborers together with God.

We're God's husbandry, you're God's building.

So the end of these is that we're we're able to do valiantly.

We tread them under.

That rise up against us.

Psalm 108, 13 we don't have to worry about this world, we don't have to worry about this, this political climate we're in, or this economic climate that we're in.

We are hooked up With Almighty God, the omnipotent.

We knows everything.

He knows where all the hidden treasures are buried.

Do yourself a favor today and read Isaiah 45, 1 through 3.

Thus saith the Lord, the Cyrus mine anointed, who was not a Jewish, he was the Persian king.

Thus saith the Lord, the Cyrus mine anointed, his right hand.

I have strengthened the subdued nations before him and I will go before they and make the crooked places straight.

I will break in pieces the gates of brass.

I will cut us under the bars of our.

I will give you the treasures of darkness, the hidden riches of secret places, so that you may know that I, the Lord, which call thee by thy name, and the God of Israel, and he's a and he's the king of Persia.

And that was that was pronounced over that king 500 years before he showed up, isaiah.

Isaiah prophesied that 500 years before Cyrus showed up.

Well, I claimed that for me years ago, 1988.

I got straight in one of my Bibles.

I got it, I've got it.

You know, god spoke that to me one day when I was reading that Bible.

Let's say the Lord of John Griner.

He's gone before me and he's made the crooked places straight.

He cut us under the bars of iron.

He broken pieces the gates of brass.

He's given me, he's loose, the loins of kings to open before me the two-leaved gates, and the gates Shall not be shut.

He's given me the treasures of darkness, the hidden riches of secret places.

Do yourself a favor and read that and apply it to yourself.

Oh, I can't do the.

Yeah, you can.

It's all for you.

This is the God we're hooked up with.

Joining forces with God, we're able, ministers.

Okay, we're able because he's able in us.

Amen, all right, three things that we're able ministers.

Number one for the lost.

That's our main job.

Go into all the world, the lost.

There's a whole lot of lost people, have you noticed?

And?

And?

And not all of them are going to hell.

We're gonna get a, we're gonna get a harvest out of that number of people.

I Can't impress upon you.

We're gonna get a harvest.

It's not over, god's not through.

God's not through with America, he's not through with the church, the church, the church is waking up.

We're, we're having revival in the church so we can have reformation in the world, and then God's coming back for the church and he's gonna have a big harvest.

He knows how to grow a crop.

He grew you and he wants some more in his garden.

He wants some more little seedlings.

Are you with me now?

The Bible says in 2 Corinthians 4 again, that if our gospel be hid, it's hid to them that are lost, in whom the God of this world or the God of this age have blinded the minds of them Lest they receive the glorious gospel of Christ.

People are not saved because they've been blinded by the God of this age.

Here's where you need a linguistic key to the Greek New Testament, because when you look up the word God of this age, it's the devil.

We could say that, but it's not really the Greek.

The Greek means all of that floating mass of ideas, theories, speculations, maxims, sayings, speculations, speculations, hopes, aspirations that are at any time current in the world.

Floating around white supremacy, wokeism, gender, affirming care.

Yeah, american Medical Association is woke.

Our medical, our whole medical Institution has been stolen.

We've got a lot of work to do, folks.

God's gonna have to get really busy.

Through us, our medical folks are gonna have to.

They're gonna have to do a lot.

I mean, you know We've had a couple of great court decisions recently that that have overturned the Marines.

A judge found in their favor that the vaccine that they fired 3000 Marines are about to kick them out of the service.

They can't do it.

They got an injunction against that.

Yeah.

And one other, united Airlines, got a huge setback.

The Fifth Circuit Rebut United Airlines.

You should have read the judges condemnation and I mean they're looking for cover now.

They're a bunch of weenies.

If you work for United, well, I'm sorry, I'm not just Keep on praying, oh, but they, you know, again, they fired a bunch of people.

That's why they fly out.

All the flights are being canceled, all that.

They've lost so many employees, which I think is wonderful that people just said look, I, you're not gonna give me this thing.

It's made out of fetal tissue and I'm not gonna take the jab.

You can just forget it.

I'm not gonna compromise my faith To work here.

And so there's so many millions of people in this country that that did that, that they are just back there, just they're suffering for it.

Praise God, hallelujah, all right.

So for the lost?

You know.

So I want to tell you you've got great bonus for for the lost, especially your, your family, people that you love, your friends, your family, your, your extended family, listen, be bold, and how to pray for the lost.

Well, you break the power of the spirit of this world, the God of this age that's blinded their minds.

It's just very simple.

In the name of Jesus, I break that spirit that's blinded the minds of Sally or whoever, whatever their name is, paul, their name, and In the name of Jesus, I loose Laborers to go in, the proper laborers that will give them the good news.

And, father, I ask you to open their heart to receive your glorious gospel and I thank you for it.

Right now, I call them saved.

Right now, I see them say and what do you do after that?

Keep saying the same thing.

No, you say that once and then, from then on, you praise God for their salvation.

Now Let me say this After that, you might be prompted in your prayer time to pray in the Holy Ghost for them.

Why would you do that?

Well, because that's helping.

The Holy Ghost will take hold and help you Intercede for them in this time where the laborer is going to show up and they're gonna.

You know, you don't have to have to speak English, you can just pray in the Holy Ghost, pray in tongues, but mainly praise God for their salvation.

Quit worrying about it.

Quit sweating drops of blood over your children.

Quit, listen, I'm telling you God is gonna.

He's got this thing in hand.

You've got great boldness to pray for your loved ones and your friends, people that you love.

That's the connection right there.

You love them with a love of God, and so you can boldly pray for them.

But this is how you pray, you don't.

You don't pray like well, you know God is saved my kids.

No, that's not the way to pray.

You're an able minister, the new, and also be careful about preaching to your kids and preaching to your friends.

I mean, be careful about turning the fire hose on and blowing them away and giving them all kind of books.

Sometimes you just got to learn to read body language when people shut you down.

Just back up a little bit.

Be yourself, you know.

If you you yourself.

You know you'll sometimes you'll say, well, hallelujah, well, praise the Lord.

Well, don't stop doing that, just be yourself.

But don't just try to beat them up with with when are you gonna come to church with me?

Well, probably never.

You keep it up.

No, you're probably not the laborer that God's gonna use to get your Child's say.

Then there's a generation gap.

A lot of times you know it's this one generation to another.

Sometimes it just not the best.

Now, in my case, I mean I got everybody in my I mean almost everybody in my family got saved because we went.

I went to my brother's house six weeks after I got saved and filled with the Holy Ghost and got his he and his wife and their three daughters, all of them saved and filled with the Holy Ghost.

And one weekend, I mean, the Holy Ghost hit my family like a ton of bricks.

I didn't know.

I mean we were so lost one minute and the next thing you were all saying but that's unusual, most of the time it takes a while.

So be patient, praise the Lord a lot for their salvation and you'll see it happen, learning how to pray.

And you know, sometimes God will use praying in the Holy Ghost.

I like what Paul said in Galatians 419, my little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you.

And so sometimes you have a concern about a friend or a child or a relative that you've been praying for and you've already claimed their salvation, but you'll get a heaviness that come over you.

Well, just go ahead and pray that out, because sometimes that's giving birth to something.

I know you're looking at me crazy, but that's part of prayer.

Prayer is giving birth.

You get implanted with something from heaven and you give birth to it in the Spirit.

Are you waiting for that?

One time I was at a full gospel business men's retreat, mole ranch in the hill country in the Guadalupe River.

It was early before daylight, we were going to have a morning meeting and I got up real early and was out walking along the river there and all of a sudden I was just praying in the Holy Ghost, you know, walking along, praying in the Holy Ghost, praying in the Holy Ghost, and suddenly I just felt so heavy and so sad and like lost and I hit my knees and I began to try to pray and I couldn't and I just began to cry and began to weep and just you know, just racks of tears, just like I lost my best friend and I had that verse came to me and I'm still kind of a I hadn't been saved, but maybe a year, thank God I come across that verse.

I didn't understand it, but I lived it.

That morning it was weird.

I mean, you know I wasn't sad about anything that I knew of, but Mary was crying about something and then finally it lifted off of me and I got up, ride my face Later that morning, before the meeting.

The meeting is going to start at 8.30.

It's probably about eight o'clock, 7.30, eight o'clock, and I was walking back toward my, my bunk, and I saw this guy and we started talking and I introduced myself.

He introduced himself and I said where are you from?

He said I'm from Utopia.

I said Utopia, my brother's from Vanderpool.

Yeah, we know about Utopia.

Yeah.

He said, yeah, I just moved back there.

I was in Houston.

I said, oh, you moved back to Utopia from Houston.

Yeah, he said I was in the carpet cleaning business.

He said, yeah, my carpet cleaning truck, all my tools and my truck, everything was sitting out in front of my house and we had a thunderstorm.

God sent a thunderstorm, oil and lightning struck my truck and God burned my truck up.

Well, you know, that's just like he spit in my face.

You know, I just, and I could hardly stand it.

I mean, I could hardly just, you know, keep functioning there.

I'm, I'm kind of young, I didn't know how to handle it exactly, so I handled it.

Somebody called me blunt the other last Sunday I think, somebody told me I was kind of blunt.

I am kind of blunt, I guess.

Blunt object bludgeon people.

And so I said I looked at him, I said God didn't.

God didn't burn your truck up, he didn't steal your business.

The devil did that, just like that.

The devil did that, looked at him.

I said the devil did that.

And when I said that it like I hit him in the face.

It's just like I rared back and hit him right in the mouth and he went like that, blinked a couple of times and he looked away like this.

And then he looked back at me and he had this look on his face like I'm fixing the duck and I'm going to be sad if it's an uppercut because he's a taller than I am, and if he does an uppercut I'm done.

I'm hoping it's an overhand, right that I can duck under, but anyway.

And he got, oh, you're right.

I said oh, praise God.

And that morning he went down the aisle and got saved.

And that night I laid hands on him, he got baptism of the Holy Ghost.

I mean he spoke in tongues like a chitlin, I mean he was, he was saying all kind of I mean he sounded like he just came off the long boat from China.

Anyway, praise God, are y'all getting anything out of this?

Have great boldness for the lost.

Where does it come from?

It comes from your corn in the air.

God prepares you.

Sometimes he will communicate with you, but yet sometimes he just he just prepares you for what is ahead in your schedule or you're going about your daily business.

Number two we're able, ministers for the sick and for the oppressed, be bold to lay hands on people.

You don't have to make a big thing of it, you don't have to just go.

You know like that.

You know, just touch a hand with a finger.

If you're a man, I would suggest not doing that with a woman and this day and time you just have to be, have enough sense to know that you certain things you can do, some things you can't do but lay hands and ask people.

You know when they, when they start sharing their pain with you.

So you know, I know Jesus is a healer.

Would you mind if I prayed for you?

Most people will say, well, thank you, thank you.

I had a waitress one time and it was a girl and I'm sitting in a crowded restaurant and I laid hands on her, but I just I had to put your hand down on the table and I just put my index finger right on top of her, top of her hand, it doesn't matter, just contact.

It doesn't have to be like your hands on either side of the face or something like that, but people are appreciative.

They, they and and and what I've done that nothing happened.

How do you know?

Nothing happened.

The Bible doesn't say they're instantly healed.

It says they that they recover.

What I'm talking about is being obedient to what Jesus said to do.

That's what he said.

These signs shall follow them that believe.

Are you a believer?

The believers ministry, then, is one that gets itself.

Where you've been praying for things, then then be the instrument of someone else's prayer.

Maybe someone else prayed for their relative to get healed and now God's going to use you as the instrument.

Every good and every perfect gift comes down from the father of lights.

Amen, you're that gift.

He's working with you.

I said he's working with you, hallelujah.

And again, the idea of praying in tongues for people after you know, like if you know somebody here in the church that they're fighting a battle, they're going to the doctor.

Let's just say that someone you know is undergoing chemotherapy and they're going through and and we've already prayed, we've already believed, we're calling them healed already.

We're not going to keep asking God to heal somebody that they're already healed.

No, they're healed now.

Doesn't matter what they're going through.

It doesn't matter whether they're going for chemo or whatever radiation.

They're still healed, they're going through the treatments.

But on your side, if you get a burden for them, pray in the Holy Ghost.

What does that do?

Well, you're going to lift their arms up.

They need your prayer support.

You don't know how to pray.

Let's look at Romans eight again, real quick, talking about able ministers of the new covenant, romans, chapter eight, verse 26.

Likewise, the spirit, that is the Holy Spirit, also help with our infirmities.

He help us, our infirmities.

The word help there means to take hold together with against.

So let's just say you're praying for someone that's going through chemo, the Holy Ghost, and if the Holy Ghost put that on your heart to do, then he will help you.

He will take hold together with you against the infirmity.

You don't know what that is, but the word infirmity means frailty of mind and or body.

It means weakness.

A lot of times people have all kinds of after effects.

We don't have to know it, we don't have to have a report of it.

We just get in support of them and we let the Holy Ghost take hold together with us against that situation.

Maybe they have a battle of the mind, maybe they're battling thoughts.

Whatever they're battling, maybe they're having financial difficulties.

Listen, we don't need to know about the Holy Ghost.

He knows all about it.

All we are is just we're helping.

He's using our voice to pray through for someone down here.

Why didn't the Holy Ghost just do it by himself?

Because we've got cornonea.

Anything down here has got to involve us.

I mean, god does not do direct.

He needs us.

Are y'all getting this now?

It doesn't need to appear on a prayer report or a prayer request.

You know, if the church starts doing its job, I'm telling you we won't lose anybody, everybody will be helped.

Are you with me?

That's the value of cornonea this way.

If one hurts, we all hurt.

If one suffers, we all suffer.

If one has got victory, well, got the victory, is this helping anybody today?

And then, finally, able ministers for our nation and for the nation of Israel and we do a lot of praying over our nation.

We do not as much over Israel as we used to.

God told me a few years ago, if your nation's hair is on fire.

So I've been concentrating on America, and America needs help, amen.

And so we do have to pray and we do know how to pray, and the kind of praying we do around here is, you know, is well, we have to get make sure that we have our prayer armor on.

These are 619, or 611 rather, and we stand for righteousness, we rebuke evil, we hate evil, we cry against it and we pray for righteous candidates to get elected and we cry against unrighteous candidates that are doing evil.

We got lots of those.

So there's lots of praying that has to be done.

We do a lot of that.

I mentioned this last week and we will be announcing some Power Hour pluses coming up, probably in October, where we'll take a Sunday night service and pray over the election coming up, but what I wanted you to see is that there's great power is made available when we yield ourselves to pray for our government and for our nation and for Israel.

I mean Israel.

Israel had the same kind of go down as America because Netanyahu signed the Abraham Accords and participated with Giving Land for Peace.

That was a big mistake on Trump's part.

I love Trump.

I love a lot of what he did.

He's the best friend the church has had, and I don't know how long, maybe ever.

I think he was a great president.

I don't think there's any question about it.

He made a couple of mistakes.

There's nobody perfect.

We're not looking for a savior, we already have one.

We're not looking for God, we already have God.

But God does use man.

God uses people, and it's been my experience all the way back till I started learning about Israel.

Many of you don't know that much about Israel, but God's eyes are on Israel from the head of the year to the end of the year.

He's never, it's never changed.

And when men undertake to part his land Joel, chapter three just read it.

You'll find out that God does not like it, and every politician that presumes to try to make Israel sit down with her enemies.

Because, let me tell you, saudi Arabia is our enemy and they are Israel's enemy.

I don't care what you say, they're the enemy, they hate us, they hate Israel.

Nevermind, you can argue with God, go ahead and argue with him, but it's you know, over there in that part of the world, israel is the Saturday people, we're the Sunday people and they say this first comes Saturday, then comes Sunday.

That's right, israel is Satan and we're the great Satan.

That's what they say the Muslim world.

And so they're not our friends.

And so when you make Israel sit down with them to try to have some kind of false peace and there is no peace with the enemy there isn't any peace.

The Bible says there's not gonna be any peace until the Antichrist puts them together and it's gonna be a false peace and midway through the tribulation it's gonna be fractured.

I just go by the Bible.

I don't.

It's not a political thing, it's a Bible thing.

Then I know Trump had a good heart.

He wanted to see peace he's a do-gooder and he let his son-in-law get involved in it.

And guess what happened?

He lost the election.

Okay, we can argue about the election, okay fine, but he still lost.

He's not the president, and so did Netanyahu, and the people that took Netanyahu's place are terrible.

They're just as bad over there.

I mean, they've got a lot of problems in Israel, so we could pray for them too.

We do support Christians United for Israel, which mainly is an organization that supports Israel politically here in Congress, and make sure that we stay on the correct side.

John Hage, pastor John Hage, cornerstone Church excellent, and he's been hooked up with Israel since 1981.

And here's a guy that knows the landscape, so we're hooked in with that.

We give every month to CUFI, amen.

So let's join forces with God.

Let's make tremendous power available in our world.

Come on, lift your hands and receive the word today.

Glory to God.

I went a little long today, but there's a lot of.

You know prayer is important.

It's the cornerstone of everything that we have.

Let's hear this word from the Lord right now.

Word of prophecy Brother Dwayne's gonna deliver.

Oh, god is good, isn't he?

Woo hoo, I'll tell you what, woo.

Oh, okay, All right, let me try again here.

Woo, I'll tell you what his presence is strong.

I don't know if you feel it, for it's time to get back into the battle, sayeth the Lord.

For many of you have stepped out because you're frustrated and overwhelmed what's going on in your lives and what's in this nation.

But you can't fight if you're frustrated.

You can't fight if you're overwhelmed.

Oh, I need you, sayeth the Lord.

I need you.

Every front there's a battle.

Looking out there at you, everywhere you look, there's a battle.

How's that for you?

Well, get strong in me, stand strong with me.

You can do this.

I'm behind you, like what your passages spoke.

Get in that prayer, come in here and pray, stand with me.

Folks, there's some storms out there and I need your help.

Yes, I need you.

See, if you do what you gotta do, what you need to do, if you don't do your part, I can't do mine.

That's right.

See, I'll take care of the results.

But if you don't pray, you're in trouble.

I'll take care of the results.

You do your part, sayeth the Lord.

Oh, there's storms out there, looking everywhere.

So get tough.

Get back into the battle.

Get back into the battle, sayeth the Lord.

Get back into it.

Stand up and know.

Doesn't my word say that I'm gonna get you, bring you through this?

You already know.

You have a cheat sheet.

It says you're coming through, yes, so stand strong and know.

All this stuff is just going crazy, but I'm with God.

I got God.

Nothing can touch me.

No weapon for him against me shall prosper.

So get back into the battle, sayeth the Lord, and walk with me, for everything is gonna be all right, amen.

Hallelujah, hallelujah.

Let's lift our hands and receive that today.

Get back in the fight.

We gotta do our part so he can do his.

It's a partnership, contribution and distribution.

We're God and sons unlimited Hallelujah.