A Deeper Kind of Prayer

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If you only fast and not pray, it's called a diet.

Sometimes the enemy has got what you need and you

have to knock. That door has to open, and you

have to tell the devil gives me what is mine.

When you really want to see a breakthrough, you don't

worry about the knob. Fast, Really, ladies and gentlemen, brothers

and sisters, is a kind of prayer. When you read

the Bible, especially in the Old Testament, they don't often

say fast and pray. We use it now because we

want to make sure all of us get it that

we don't just fast, we pray because if you only

fast and not pray, it's called a diet. So in

the Old Desctament, as soon as a person say fast,

they mean pray, because fast is a form of prayer.

In fact, it is the highest form. It's the is

the kind of prayer that is really deep. When God

sees a person fast, he knows you mean business, I

said earlier. He knows you are serious. Because people will

simply fast if they don't need to. I assu you

with me because life carries on, especially.

Here in Malaysia.

How to fast, ladies and gentlemen, How too fast you wakened?

You know?

To tell you seriously, wherever I travel in the world,

I want to come back to Malaysia.

I tell you where. We'll provide you.

Road China at seven am, you know, and chuck it

out at eight you know, and.

Whatever you know. I mean, this country is so blessed.

You know.

The day I left Melbourne was the day this few

days ago, was the day they declare that Melbourne the

most livable city.

Well I left. I want to announce to you.

I left the most livable city to come to what

I believe is the most livapool.

Come on, come on, somebody with convictions. Amen, Praise the Lord. Yeah,

I'm hearing claps. Good good. We must be proud of

what God is given us. Amen. God is so good. Hallelujah.

So But to fast in Malaysia not easy. The sacrifice

is higher. God knows so fast when you fast. When

you fast, it's prayer. The deeper kind of prayer is

the key in the as k Do you know what

Ask and you shall receive, Seek and you shall find,

Knock and it shall be open to you. I believe

that us is just God. Please help me ask see

if you know you go seeking for the answer. But

knock is where you're desperate because it's not coming. You

don't know when it's coming. You know, last time when

I was prepregnice message, you know what picture the lot

gave my mind? And maybe if you're from overseas or

you're so young here, you've never seen a wedding, especially

a Chinese wedding here in Malaysia.

Let me try to explain something to you.

Now. When I was married thirty one years ago, I

didn't do it. I didn't do it. I thought it

was just very my fun and my fun in translation

just means very inconvenient to go to your girlfriend's house

soon to be your wife, to go and receive her,

to go and collect collect her. So have you been

in this kind of an event before.

It's called cheap suddenly long.

Oh you thought we didn't speak in tongues here, right.

Cheap suddenly long means you go and receive, You go

and bring your woman to yourself, You go and collector

you go and receive it. Okay, So you understand that

you've got to go to the house where she stays.

Usually it is her parents' house. Yes, how many of

you have done?

She suddenly, long before coming limits your hands confess Now, yeah,

it is fun.

It's fun. I love to see it. I don't love

to do it because it's torture for the guy.

Torture, you know. And so the guy goes to the house.

Have you done it? And your your your husband? Did

he do it for you? You? When did you come? Noah?

Or you're the maxalit meet you at the chapel.

Hey, okay, so we're going.

We're going. The guy is going.

Okay, and and and the whole team rogers, I know,

and the whole team of guys, right guys, guy friends.

They call him Hintai means buddy, the best buddy all

following the delegation, and they're horning and become a real

nuisance to.

The whole communit. But we are very forgiving, you.

Know, because we know that you only get married once,

hopefully and and uh, and you're holding The guy is

excited right that he gets to the house and he's

horning more more morning and he's.

Screaming, Ah, you know, we're here to get the bride.

We're here to get the bride, okay, and then they

park in front of the house. And then as the

guys have hinged eyes, which is best buddy guys, the

women have got Giemi, which is best buddy girls. And

the best buddy girls exist just to torture the guys.

That's just their purpose for that day. And so the

guys come with the first a ask can you open?

I want to get my wife to be and they

have to do a series of things like it's sand.

But you know, just go to go through challenges.

Give me twenty push ups, you know, and sometimes you

know the bright groom, uh, you know is spared from

doing it sometimes and then his best buddies, his hing

ties have got to do it. You know they're doing that.

Okay.

Now you know jam over fire, now you know, uh,

kiss the dog. You know, they just rogers. What was

your worst one? What was your Just tell me? I know,

I'm sure they did.

Something to you. Let's card you for life.

Rogers dancing, right, so they forced you to dance to

how can music?

Okay? All right? Jaho is it now? Hock can music? Okay?

Okay, okay, So anyone can tell me of the experiences

one more or two more, let's make it fun.

What's the worst you have ever heard? Anyway?

One now you are still thinking, Oh, I'm so embarrassed.

You don't want to say.

But one of my friends got married, right They asked

him to drink the father. The father asked him to

drink whiskey or brandy neat on an empty stomach, right

early in the morning. Had to finish a whole glass,

not a little bit, the whole glass he drank and

almost couldn't make it for his wedding. Serious, if we

had bring the nurse and all the other You look

at all his suit, his tie, his shirt because they

had to sponge him down.

Crazy sometimes this crazy. You know.

Anyway, ask and you shall receive. But you know you

now have to go into the house and seek. Do

you know that the answer was always in the house,

So you ask. The front gate is open. Now you

have to go in and seek. Do you know that

when God wants to answer you, but he causes you

to seek, it's not because he hasn't answered you.

It's already there. The answer has always been there.

The woman that you're seeking for in that house, he's

always been in her room. But Finally, as you seek

and get to her room, you have a door you

have to knock because the answer is right behind that door.

Sometimes the enemy has got what you need and you

have to knock. That door has to open, and you

have to tell the devil give me what is mine,

let it go. Amen, You've got to You've got to

tell the enemy.

Okay.

Now I'm not saying that the woman behind the door

is the devil.

She's your wife.

Okay, all right, So this is fast thing? Is the

key is the knock?

You with me?

And when you knock, you know, the Bible says, right,

even if the king it was a wicked king, he will.

Still get up.

Even if it's a wicked king, he will still get

up because you're knocking incessantly, a non stop knocking is

causing him to not be able to sleep. But our

King Jesus is not wicked. He is good, and that

door will be open. Can I hear good?

Amen? Is the kind fast thing?

Is the kind of prayer, the kind that skips the norm,

just to focus on the need.

What is the norm? Eating is the norm?

You know you're focused so focused on the need, skipping

the norm becomes the norm. You're so focused on the

need as you're praying. You know, when you're focused on studying,

you forget to eat. Sometimes when you're focusing on repairing something,

you forget to eat because you want to get it done.

You're focusing on the deadline. You're so focused on the need,

the norm passes by. Let me tell you a little

bit more about Passandra's illness. The last four days so

because she was in pain, I mean every five seconds

she was moaning.

Oh.

And as a husband, I just couldn't take it. The

last thing a husband wants to see his wife go

through is pain. So I prayed for her, prayed for

her again, pray for her again, pay for her again.

And then she said, I can't sleep on the bed.

The pain is too much. I can't breathe. So the

whole night she slept on the chair in the hotel.

So I tried to prop her feet up. I put

a chair there. I said, you prop your feet up.

She was having chills, so you know, you try to

cover her up, But how do you sleep on the chair?

You know, for the whole night she had to but

she was in such pain. And the next tilve hours

is going to be crucial. The doctor already said, if

you are worse tomorrow morning, we got to admit you.

Right.

We both wanted to come back so badly. So I

tell you what happened. Prayed for her. Seven thirty pray

for it, eightyy pray for it, ninetyty pray for it,

t toty pray for her.

And then she didn't eat because she had no appetite.

So I knew that sometime in the morning, early morning,

should be awake, and I cannot afford her to not

eat when she's hungry, because then the guests could be worse.

So I stayed up right from Yeah, seven thirty eighty

d is not no problem.

Ten thirty no problem.

I mean most of you stay up quite late. Cholf

thirty I saw her closing her eyes and going uh.

And from then I decided I will not sleep. So

I went on my bed, I looked at her, and

I just prayed in tongues.

Charles. The ty became one thirty, one day became two thirty,

two thirty, giving three thirty.

And I don't know why, but I could stay awake

no one time be my eyes closed because I really

needed to see a breakthrough in her life. And then

once or twice she broke into a snore because to

tan one. And after I heard her hear her snore,

it was the best noise I could hear. Because when

you want your wife to sleep, I say, Lord, let

her snow. Please louder even better, because that means she's sleeping,

and I'm praying. I'm saying, God, have mercy on my wife.

Three thirty, she woke up and her eyes were opened.

My eyes were really opened, right, so I look anything.

She said, I'm hungry. I got up and made her

some instant noodles, not the healthiest thing at a hotel.

We don't have a pantry, you know, So I just

made her instant noodles.

And fed her.

She could only eat like maybe five spoons or five

chop chopsticks full because every timer I said, no, you've

got to put something in.

And then she ate.

Then she fell asleep again, and then I decided because

the ugh, the morning, ugh, it has gone. The pain

is gone, and so she fell asleep, and then I

stayed up for another hour, so only by four thirty,

when I knew that the worst has passed, I then

fell asleep, only to wait, only to wake up again

at six thirty, you know, to do my quiet time.

But it was a tough night.

But I'm telling you right now, when you really want

to see somebody breakthrough, when there is a real need,

the norm passes by. You understand, When you really want

to see a breakthrough, you don't worry about the norm.

And eating is a norm, and social media is a norm,

and just picking up your phone and playing with it

is a norm. But you just so focused. And I

was so focused in getting my wife well. She had

to break through that morning. And break through she did,

praise the Lord. Fever left her, or that left her okay.

She still had the pain the next twelve hours because

again the gastric didn't fully get healed.

But she was past the worst.

And now both of us knew that we would make

that flight on Thursday afternoon.

I'll tell you what.

It was a supernatural strength, because I by myself cannot

stay up so long for four or five six hours,

just praying pray. I said to the Lord, I say, Lord,

thank you that when you want to help us get

things done, you help us get things done. And if

we just go by the natural, we will say it

cannot be done. But God is not just natural, He

is super natural. Sometimes fasting is known as intercession. That's

what I did actually that morning, I interceded for her.

What does interced mean? And you know the Bible speaks

about it. Inter Seed just means standing in the gap.

And you know when you stand in the gap, like

there's a gap and a person is trying to walk across,

but there's a gap. She can't get across, he can't

get across. But you stand in that gap. You know

what happens. You know when standing the gap ends. It

ends only when that person you're praying for crosses over.

And that early morning, my wife cross over from a

place of terrible pain to a place of bearable pain.

She crossed over. She was not going to be worse.

The next morning, and so therefore didn't need to be

admitted to the hospital.

She crossed over.

But someone has to stand in the gap. And the

person who's crossing over me had to step on you.

But that's what interced means. Let your intercession continue until

she passes to where she needs to go, the crossover. Everybody, okay.

Fasting is often known as the intercessory kind of prayer.

It's the kind that is reserved for the big things,

says the next life. The goliaths in our lives.

You don't simply do it. You don't do it any

time and every time. No no, no, no, no, no,

no no. We reserve it for the goliaths.

There are big things in our lives, big ticket items

that need us to fast. So let's look at this

quote that God gave me some years ago and is

found in my book Transpiration. And this is the quote,

I fast because I'm hungry. It sounds like such an opposite,

because people fast right when you're full. You eat when

you're hungry. But when I talk about hunger here, I'm

not talking just about physical hunger. I'm talking about a

hunger where there is a tinge of desperation, a level

of like, I can't do it, God, if you don't

come through, I can achieve this.

I can overcome this God by my own strength. I

need you. I need you.

And so you're hungry in your heart, in your soul,

in your mind and your spirit. You're hungry for something

that you know that no one else can fulfill, no

one else can feel, no one else can.

Do but God.

And if God does not move it will not be done.

So I fast because I'm hungry, and that's why people

get fast, because they are spread for something in their

lives or in the lives of their loved ones.

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