The Solution Is In The Spirit

Mark chapter 16, open your Bibles there to Mark chapter 16, and meet me at verse 17 and 18.

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Mark chapter 16, 17, and 18. These are the words of the Lord Jesus Christ.

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He says, and these signs will follow those who believe.

In my name or in my authority, they will cast out demons.

They will speak with new tongues.

Verse 18 says, they will take up serpents, and if they drink anything deadly,

it will by no means hurt them.

They will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.

Over the last few weeks, we've been talking about our ability to speak in tongues.

Jesus said that new believers will speak with new tongues.

Tongues just simply means languages.

There are over 7,000 known languages in the earth.

And there are more unknown languages in the earth, actually countless and innumerable

amount of unknown languages in the earth.

And Jesus said that we as believers would speak in a language that is unknown to humanity,

a language that only us as the speaker and God would understand.

And that language is called tongues. And Jesus said here that believers will speak with tongues.

It is an important aspect of our development and our cultivation as believers

in order to fulfill the call and the mission that he's placed upon our life.

We're going to have to go deeper.

If you're tired of your routine and your mundane relationship,

it's time to go deeper. It's time to tap into a unlimited reservoir of life-giving water.

And that happens when you begin to yield your members and begin to get outside

of your understanding and begin to speak with tongues.

And Jesus said new believers would do that. They would speak with tongues.

I believe that every believer can have a prayer language.

Everybody, not just some, every believer can. And we found out a couple of weeks

ago, there are three different baptisms in scripture.

The first baptism is the Holy Spirit baptizing you in the body of Christ. That is salvation.

Sinners become or are made righteous through salvation. The Holy Spirit convicts

our heart that we are sinners and we give our life to Jesus, right?

And he baptizes us into the body of Christ. That's salvation.

The second baptism is water baptism. That water baptism is an identification

with the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus. I believe it's a literal

cutting away of our sinful nature.

When we are dipped, fully immersed in the water, we died with him.

We're buried with him when we're under the water.

And when we come up, we're raised to new life with him.

And so water baptism, any disciple can baptize somebody.

You don't have to wait for me as a pastor. I believe you as disciples could

baptize people, give them the gospel, and then baptize them. Amen.

Now, I love baptizing you, okay? Bring everybody you want. I'll baptize you. But you can do it, too.

Don't wait. Well, when's baptismal serve? I need to wait until the... No, no, no.

Get you a swimming pool, a tub, and dip them in that water.

Amen. man, anybody could water baptize. And then the third baptism is the baptism

with or in the Holy Spirit.

Jesus will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.

And every gospel, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John talks about that.

The books of Acts talk about being baptized with the Holy Spirit as well.

And when you are baptized with the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit no longer is

in you. He becomes on you.

He's in you for you, but he's on you for others.

Scripture says that he comes down and will reign upon you. He will rest upon you.

Upon means up on you. And when he's up on you, it's for power purposes. It's for fire.

It's to rearrange and to change things.

And one of the ways that the Holy Spirit comes upon us is he allows us to begin

to speak in a new language, which is called tongues.

We see here in Ephesians chapter 6, verse 18, Ephesians chapter 6,

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verse 18, the Apostle Paul says, praying always, watch this,

with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit. Somebody say in the Spirit.

This is important, praying in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all

perseverance and supplication for all the saints. I want you to notice that

he says we can pray always with all prayer.

There are different varieties and types of prayer. You know,

you have the prayer of agreement.

You have the prayer of faith. You have the prayer of healing.

You have intercessory prayer, prayer of sanctification, and you also have praying in the spirit.

That's the type of prayer is part of your arsenal and your weaponry.

If you're a cook, it's a good utensil in the kitchen for you that you can use

whatever you need. Praise God.

My wife's a cook and she has these all unique types of utensils in the drawer that she uses.

Why? Because it's an arsenal. It's for us. It's beneficial for us.

And so we can pray all type of prayers in the Spirit. Somebody say, in the Spirit.

Now, this is important because we find out in 1 Corinthians chapter 14, verse 2,

1 Corinthians 14:2

1 Corinthians chapter 14, verse 2, the Apostle Paul says, For he who speaks

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in a tongue, that's a heavenly language, does not speak to men, but to God.

For no one understands him. Watch this. However, there it is, in the Spirit.

In the Spirit. Say, in the Spirit. In the Spirit. He speaks mysteries.

So we notice Paul is saying when he mentions in the spirit, he's talking about

praying in tongues He's talking about praying in the spirit and you can be sure

that when you're praying in the spirit You are praying to God,

You're not you are not talking some devil language You're not making something up.

It's not jibber-jab And you may ask well, how do I know if it's jibber-jab or not?

You know, how do I know it just feels like I'm just stuttering or making sounds

and syllables? What's the difference? The difference is faith.

I am not trying to talk jibber jab. I'm trying to talk to God in a language

that I'm unfamiliar with, but he is very familiar with.

So I want my spirit to communicate with his spirit.

And then he will begin to download what he said here in first Corinthians mysteries.

Those mysteries are divine secrets, coded information that you do not know.

And when you're praying in the spirit, last week we talked about you're building

yourself up, you're charging yourself, you're uplifting yourself,

you're erecting like a building, an edifice in yourself.

You're getting stronger because life is difficult.

Life is hard. Life drains you. Life can cause you to have a weak spirit.

And so in order to strengthen your spirit, you're going to have to pray in the spirit.

And not just pray in the spirit, you're going to have to pray in English as

well. Matter of fact, you're just going to have to pray.

You're going to have to pray. MC Hammond said we need to pray what? Just to make it today.

There's a lot of truth in that. We're going to have to pray.

And you know they say that most people pray less than seven minutes a day.

And here's what's alarming. They said most pastors pray the same amount of time,

less than seven minutes a day.

So there have been times when I heard that that I set my watch for seven minutes.

I'm going to hit at least the bottom half. Right. And then I'm going to go more than that. Praise God.

And so we're going to have to pray in the spirit.

You're going to have to open up your mouth. yield your members to sounds and

syllables that come from the spirit that you're unfamiliar with and as you get

going you will begin to sense that the Holy Spirit will help you.

As you get started he's never going to open up your mouth and make you do or

say something you don't want to say. He's not the devil.

He's the Holy Spirit. And so you're going to have to yield. You're going to have to relax.

You're going to have to trust and you're going to have to open up your mouth

and allow him to speak mysteries through you.

And as you're praying in the spirit, I believe that God is also talking to you

as you are talking to him.

He's talking to you. You know, you can do more than one thing at a time.

I know I feel like this is me. I can't watch more than one show at a time.

Sacha's like, well, watch this show. I'm like, well, I'm already watching this other show.

Well, watch this one. I can't watch both of them at the same time.

I know that's silly, but that's just me.

I don't know why I feel like I can't watch two shows. I can't read two books at the same time.

I've got to finish one, and I've got to start. I just, I can't do,

but you know what? You actually can.

You can do more than you think you can do, and you can receive,

you have the capacity to receive from him more than you think you can.

And as you pray in the spirit, one more time, guys, put 1 Corinthians 14, 2 back up there.

As you pray in the spirit, he says, if you speak in a tongue or pray in the

spirit, you're not talking to men, but to God. You're talking to God.

Amen. When you're in the shower, pray in the Holy Ghost and talk to God.

When you're driving the car, pray in the Holy Ghost and talk to God.

When you're sitting on the porch, praying, when you're walking around Walmart

or Target, under your breath, don't go into Target, no, no, no,

no. That's not beneficial for anybody.

That's just crazy and wacky. Just under your breath, pray in the Holy Ghost.

I do it all the time, just under my breath. When someone is praying and you're

in a prayer setting, someone's praying, pray in the Holy Ghost.

Pray in the Holy Ghost. When someone's up here worshiping and singing.

Pray, sing in the Holy Ghost under your breath, but just sing in the Holy Ghost.

If you get loud, just don't be a distraction because we don't know what you're saying.

Amen. And so out loud edifies out loud is not beneficial to others.

Praying is beneficial to you when you do it in a private setting.

Say amen to that. It says that you will speak mystery.

Somebody say mysteries.

Now, I saw this in First Corinthians chapter two. Go there and we're going to

read several verses in First Corinthians chapter two.

The Apostle Paul wrote First Corinthians. I want to say something real quick about the scriptures.

This Bible was written over 1,500 years ago.

Praise God. 1,500 years ago, 66 books,

1,500 year span, over 40 authors in three languages across three continents,

and there has never been a correction.

In this Bible, there has never been anything that any of the 40 authors over

1,500 years disagreed on.

They all agreed over a large span of time.

No contradictions in the scripture.

This Bible can be trusted. It can be trusted. This is incorruptible seed.

This is what we're preaching today, the Holy Bible, the best-selling book in

the world, the oldest book in the world, amen?

And I've been hearing that more and more, that Bibles are selling like crazy now.

Glory to God, people are getting hungry for the things of God.

Now watch this, 1 Corinthians chapter 2, meet me at verse 4.

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Apostle Paul says here, And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive

words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the spirit and of power.

So he's saying, I didn't come to give you articulate, sort of enticing,

sort of embellished type of preaching to get you going a little bit. I didn't come to do that.

I came to give you the demonstration of the spirit and of power that your faith

should not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

Today, a lot of our faith is in the wisdom of men.

Whoever is the best preacher, whoever has the most extensive vocabulary.

Whoever can make the words rhyme and tingle and tickle and all type of stuff,

we just follow that person because boy, they can preach.

They preached the house down and didn't tell you nothing, but they shown up preach the house down.

That's following the wisdom of men. We need to be looking at people that have

the power of God in operation in their life. Amen?

Someone that's operating in the

spirit and the power that's preaching the word of God in the same vein.

And this is what Paul said I came to do. I didn't come to rock the house.

I came that your faith should be not being the wisdom of men but the power of God.

Look at verse 6. However, we speak wisdom,

Among those who are mature, this is what I want to get to.

He says, we speak wisdom among those who are spiritually mature,

not the wisdom of this age or this world, nor the rulers of this world who are coming to nothing.

But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery.

So Paul told us in 1 Corinthians 14, 2 That praying in the spirit Speaking in

the spirit We're speaking mysteries Now he's saying here that we're speaking The wisdom of God.

So we're not just talking to God, we're speaking the wisdom of God in a mystery.

I like this, the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the ages for our glory,

for which none of these rulers of the age knew, for had they known,

they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

But as it is written, eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into

the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love him.

How many people love him today?

Yes. But God has revealed them. Watch this. Verse 10.

He's revealed them to us through his spirit. There it is again.

He's revealing things to us through his spirit for the spirit searches all things.

Yes, the deep things of God. I want you to go deeper in God.

This is one of the things I think Ron and I were talking about this that I really want you to do.

I want you to go deeper in your

relationship with God going into 2026 go

deeper with him and here he's saying the spirit is going to reveal the deep

things of God for what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of man

which is in him even so no one knows the things of God except the spirit of

God look at verse 12 now we have received somebody say I have received,

Say it again. I have received.

Say it one more time. I have received not the spirit of the world,

but the spirit who is from God that we may know the things that have been freely given to us by God.

Remember, they're hidden in a mystery.

Look at verse 13. These things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches.

So we're not talking about speaking English. Are you listening to me today?

Not in words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches.

Comparing spiritual things with spiritual, but the natural man does not receive

the things of the Spirit of God.

Why? For they are foolishness to him. Nor can he know them because they are

spiritually discerned.

And so notice Paul is alluding to, I believe, speaking and praying in the spirit.

Mysteries, hidden wisdom that is for the mature.

That the hidden wisdom is not in what humanity is teaching us.

We're not going to a person to get some wisdom.

No, no, no. We're talking to the Holy Spirit who knows everything about everything.

How many of you want wisdom from me or do you want wisdom from the Holy Spirit?

I mean, he knows way more than I know.

Now, you should come to me as a pastor and that sort of thing for some confirmation advice, etc.

But the Holy Spirit, you don't have to wait on an appointment with me.

At any moment, you can talk to the Holy Spirit.

And get downloaded wisdom, and then you talk to me, and I'll confirm it or not,

praise God, because we can miss it.

Did you know that? Did you know you could miss it? I don't know if you knew that. You can miss it.

You can miss it. And so there was one particular time I have a good friend.

He'll probably listen to this message. And I came up with some theory.

This long time ago, and I was in Bible school and I came up with some theory

that God didn't know everything.

Forgive me. I know I came up. I had this theory going to if he'd have known,

he would not have let Eve eat of it and convince Adam to eat. if he'd have known.

And I had this whole theory. I hadn't preached it, but it was coming up.

And I was digging into it. God don't know everything. And I shared it with one

of my friends. He looked at me and said, dude, all of that's wrong.

He's like, all of it. Just stop right now. All of it's wrong.

It's not right. God knows everything. And I thought, you're right. I don't know.

If you can go down the path and begin to miss it, and thinking you're hearing

from God and you hear it from a deceiving spirit that's trying to manipulate

you in the form of an angel of light.

Trying to sound like God, but it's not God at all. And so you can miss it.

That's why it's good to have each other.

Amen. The body of Christ will help one another.

You should have four, you know, not many, but two to four good friends.

And you can say, let me bounce this off. And they tell you that's wrong.

You know, that's not right. You know, you should have that because we all want

to get it right. and the Spirit will help us get it right when we begin to pray in the Spirit.

First, we're just going to have to pray and then cross over into praying in tongues.

I encourage you, every time you charge your phone, we said that in our last

message, man, I'm going to pray in tongues for just a few minutes right now.

Every time you get in the car, I'm going to pray in the Spirit.

Just a few minutes right now. You're going to get so addicted to this because

you're going to start getting solutions and answers and wisdom from God that

you're going to want to pray even more.

I mean, wisdom is the greatest wealth.

It's money is not the greatest wealth. Influence is not the greatest wealth.

Who you're connected with is not the greatest wealth.

Wisdom is the greatest wealth. You get wisdom. You get everything else that you need.

I like when the Lord went to Solomon.

Y'all know the story and said, I want to give you anything you ask for.

And Solomon, you know, could have said, you know, I need a Nintendo switch.

You know, I need I need something, all this stuff.

But what he did say was I need wisdom.

And God said, because you ask for wisdom, I'm going to give you everything. He has glory to God.

Amen. Wisdom is a great as well. We need solutions.

We need answers.

We've got to know what to do when we don't know what to do.

And this is what praying in the spirit does You are downloading In real time

answers And solutions that will be revealed Later,

Not all the time do you get the answer solution In that moment because you have to walk by faith,

And without faith And patience you're not going to inherit the promise And so

God's going to always require Right that you walk by faith And not by Sight

and so wisdom When you lack clarity, get wisdom.

Let me say it again. When you lack clarity, get wisdom and get wisdom from above.

Over this season of us looking for a new location, I've been praying in the

spirit more than I've ever prayed before because I need clarity.

I need wisdom. I need discernment. I need to hear from him. He's leading.

He's guiding. He's directing.

And I got to hear from him. I got to know what to do when the time is right

and we're not talking you know five ten dollars these are million dollar conversations.

That we're having, I got to know what to do. So I need his wisdom.

I'm listening to him. I'm praying in his spirit. And let me tell you this footnote.

Let me say it this way. When you don't know what to do, sometimes you pray, you get his wisdom.

But then there are times you got to make some decisions.

Yeah, I mean, I just ain't heard clearly, but I got to make a decision like

right now because I didn't hear clearly.

Don't think in terms of right and wrong.

The right decision or the wrong decision Because we all are scared of the wrong

decision That's why we're indecisive a lot Because we don't want to make the

wrong decision It could set us back, right?

Think in terms of wise and foolish.

Don't think in terms of right and wrong. Think in terms of wise and foolish.

What do I mean? So here it is.

OK, is that foolish? Yeah, that that's pretty foolish. I should I should probably not do that.

Wisdom is the opposite of foolishness. Right. And that's what that's how I live

my life. If I don't really know what to do, I'm praying.

I'm seeking clarity. I'm praying in tongues. I haven't gotten the exact direction, instruction.

I think in terms of wise and foolish.

Is that a wise decision or is that a foolish decision?

And I usually know wise and foolish answers way quicker than I know right and

wrong answers. Say amen to that.

Wise and foolish. Think in terms of is that wise or is that foolish?

And as you are praying in the spirit, God's downloading wisdom unto you so that

you'll know what to do. You have clarity.

Even when you don't know what to do, you'll know what to do.

And when somebody asks you, what do we do?

Don't say, I don't know. Say, I always know what to do. And I'll tell you when I know.

I'll tell you when it's discovered. But I always know what to do because God

is leading and he's guiding. Somebody say amen.

And so prayer in the spirit is downloading mysteries, secrets, and wisdom.

Wisdom. Wisdom is the principal thing Proverbs 4 said. So we got to get wisdom.

Wisdom. Proverbs 8 talks about by wisdom we can gain all these things.

How many of you want to know answers and solutions to maybe things going on

in your body, things going on in your finances, things going on in your children,

things going on with your relationship with your parents and your aunts and

uncles and things going on at work. You got to have these solutions.

They're found in praying in the spirit.

There are heavy decisions that really need to be made.

If you even take a look at our country, major decisions that need to be made.

In our localities, major decisions.

Somebody needs to be praying in the spirit to get these answers from heaven

because there are solutions to every problem that we've ever faced.

And we get that when we pray in the spirit. I want to encourage you.

Every believer can. To take a step To pray in the spirit Open up your mouth

and begin to declare things By yourself.

Not at work By yourself Quietly, you can do it at work But make sure it's quiet

And you just begin to pray in the spirit You know, somebody telling you something

you don't understand Just,

Just pray in the spirit under your breath. I got to get this.

I got to get this because I don't understand. How do I respond?

There was one particular time I was playing pickup basketball.

I used to play a lot of pickup basketball.

I don't play that much anymore because I got hurt one time and it took like a year for me to heal.

I mean, a normal ankle sprain used to a couple. Man, I used to be back out there

the next day in my early 20s.

Right, man, that thing was hurt for like a year.

I retired. I said, I don't play pick up ball anymore. So I don't play.

People ask me want to play.

No, I don't. I don't have time to rehabilitate if I get hurt.

I just don't have the time. And so we were playing one time and this one particular

guy was whispering to another guy and we were playing pick up ball.

And I walked up and I saw him whispering and I said, what are y'all whispering

about? Because we're about to get on the court and play next.

And the guy turned to me. And he said, Devon, I smoke, I drink, I sin.

That's what he said to me. I was like, whoa, I thought we were about to fight.

That's how forceful it was.

We're about to play basketball and you turn to me and you smoke, you drink, and you sin.

And I turned and I didn't know in the natural. What do you say to that in the natural?

I don't know. but I was praying in the spirit earlier

consistently and the

Holy Spirit say to him I didn't I just it came out of my mouth I said what if

nobody's in hell for smoking and drinking and sinning and he said what I said

yeah what if nobody's in hell for smoking and drinking and sinning.

He said, well, why would they be in hell? I said, because they rejected Jesus,

the Savior, the one that can take them from a sinner and make them righteous.

He was like, what? He said, I need to talk to you after the game.

I said, yeah, yeah, we need to talk.

We do need to talk because I thought we was going to fight. Now we got to talk, you know.

So afterwards of the game, we ended up talking a little bit,

and I led him to the Lord right there on that basketball court. Praise God.

In the natural, you don't know what to say to that kind of stuff,

but when you pray in the Spirit consistently, God will give you answers in real time.

Real time, you'll get these answers when you just consistently pray in the Spirit.

Now, let's go to Romans chapter 8 and meet me at verse 26.

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And we'll read through the verse 28. Are y'all getting something out of today?

Let me ask you, are you getting something out of today? There we go.

And the Holy Spirit helps in our weakness. In the living translation, new living.

For example, we don't know what God wants us to pray for.

But the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words. Look at verse 27.

And the Father who knows all hearts knows what the Spirit is saying.

For the Spirit pleads with us, for us believers in harmony with God's own will. Verse 28.

And we know that God causes everything to work together for good of those who

love God and are called according to his purpose for them.

Now, let's dissect this. Let's take a time, the time and really go through this.

Excuse me. In verse 26 says the Holy Spirit helps in our weaknesses.

The King James says the Holy Spirit helps in our infirmities.

Infirmities simply mean weaknesses and we all have weaknesses. But here's one of them.

We don't know what God wants us to pray for or we don't always know how to pray.

That's one of our weaknesses. We don't know what to pray, and we don't always

know what God wants us to pray.

But the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words.

That literally means the Holy Spirit, when you begin to pray in the Spirit,

the Holy Spirit will pray with you and begin to express things in inarticulate speech.

We don't understand the speech So it's not expressed in words that we understand,

It's in words that only the spirit understands Now you guys can take that verse

down But I want you to notice this where it says That he helps in our weaknesses.

We don't always know what to pray for But he helps The term he helps in our

infirmities in the King James means that he will hold tightly together with against.

Hold tightly together with, against.

Okay, so what does that mean? When you pray in the Spirit,

one of the things the Holy Spirit will do is he will hold tightly together with

you against any obstacle, any hindrance, any weakness,

any not knowing what to do.

He's going to hold together against you with, against.

Let me give an example. Let's take these steps for example,

I can't pick these steps up by myself So I can say hey I need a couple of guys

To come help me pick up these steps We're going to carry these steps off Well

what are we doing We are actually coming together tightly,

With one another.

Against the weight Of those steps So that we can carry it together,

And take care of what God wants us to take care of Amen Do you see that illustration

He's going to help us hold together with us against any hindrance,

any obstacle, or any not knowing what to do or how to pray.

And so he's saying there, and when you pray, he's going to speak to you in words

that are not expressed in articulate way in a way that we understand.

He's going to talk to us in a heavenly language. which we're going to open up

our mouth, we're going to yield, and he's going to help us pray.

And in verse 27, let's put that on the screen, verse 27. And the Father who

knows all hearts knows what the Spirit is saying.

Glory to God, for the Spirit pleads

for us believers in harmony with God's will. What is he saying there?

We can be sure we're praying the will of God when we pray in the Spirit,

Because he's going to help us and look at verse 28,

It says here and we know that God causes everything to work together for the

good of those who love God and are called according.

For them. In the King James, we know that verse is, all things work together

for good to those who love God. How many of you love God?

So all things are going to work together for your good. But can I submit this to you?

Is it possible that Romans 8.28, that everybody quotes, is actually talking

about praying in the Spirit?

That when you pray in the Spirit, all things are going to work together for

the good are those who are called according to his purpose.

I mean, we just see in verse 26, he's talking about praying in the spirit.

Verse 27, praying in spirit.

Verse 28, is it possible that he's also talking about praying in the spirit?

All things working together for good when you just pray in the spirit.

A few years ago, normal night, get in the bed, 1030, usually I get in the bed

around 1030 or so, laid down.

Now, I'm one of those guys that believe in spending money on a bed.

Let me I just you spend a third of your life in bed.

Might as well just get you a nice bed.

Go on, spend a little extra money And get you a nice bed Because a third of

your life is spent in bed So when I heard that one time Somebody told me that

several years ago I said, we ain't skipping on no beds no more I used to skip on the bed Oh,

just give me that hand-me-down And nothing wrong with hand-me-downs Don't get

me wrong, nothing wrong with hand-me-downs But I said, it's time for me to spend

some money on the bed So I got a nice bed, okay Darren It's comfortable,

And I got me a nice pillow.

This pillow is, what is that called? where you put your head and your head go down in it.

Yeah, y'all know what I'm talking about. I got a memory foam.

Our bed is memory foam, praise God. And our pillow, memory foam.

I just spent a little extra money, put it, and I just, they got,

the kids got it for my birthday, and I love this new pillow I got.

I mean, it's perfect for my head.

When I get in the bed, I'm in the bed, okay? I'm not getting out the bed.

You know, the kids holler or something, stop it, And you know,

I'm not getting out checking on get back in the bed.

I'm in the bed, right? I'm exaggerating. I'm sorry I do get up.

I get up if they get if they're acting crazy, but.

Nevertheless when I get in the bed I'm in the bed and I laid down and went to

sleep momentarily, but I couldn't really Get into a deep sleep.

I started tossing started turning and I had this urge Get out the bed and go pray.

So I said, let me just lay in the bed and pray. Forgive me, but I said,

I'm going to lay here, and I'm just going to lay here and pray.

Don't look at me like that. Y'all do the same thing.

I'm just going to lay here, and I was hoping I would just pray as I'm laying

there and just fall asleep. And I started praying, no sleep.

I'm tossing, I'm turning, and I hear this urge, get out the bed and go pray.

You know, at this point, it's 1 a.m., right? I'm laying there for three hours, tossing, turning.

Stacy looking at me like, why do you keep moving? I said, I got it.

I got to get them go pray. She goes, go do it then. Goodness, let me sleep.

And so I was like, OK, so it's about 1 a.m.

Okay, Lord. Now, here's my weakness. I don't know. I don't know why I'm praying.

Why am I? Well, I got to get out the bed and get up and go pray.

I wanted to stay in the bed.

And so I get I go to my office. I have no idea.

Why I'm in there, except the Holy Spirit said, get up and go pray.

So what do you do then? Do you just pray in English the whole time and make up things to pray about?

You don't have to cross over into into tongues.

You're going to have to cross because you don't know. And this is where the

Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness. So here's what I did.

I turned some worship music on really low because it was 1 a.m.

Or so in the morning. I had my Bible.

I started out in English, but I said, I'm going to cross over into praying in tongues.

And I crossed over into just praying in tongues. I have a chair in my office.

I sat in the chair and I had my Bible and I would read a little bit and I would pray in tongues.

I would sing a little bit. I would sing in tongues I would pray in English a

little bit I would read my Bible I would pray in tongues I would sing a little

bit Are you listening to me?

This is what you do when you have that urge And so I would just do that And

the next thing I know it's 3 in the morning,

Whatever popped in my mind I'm just, oh in English I pray for them in English

And whatever, whatever I didn't

know why I was up For about 2 hours I was just up And then about 3 a.m.

I felt good, felt woo, you know, started to rejoice a little bit.

This is how you know you've broken through when you start to rejoice.

I just started to get excited. OK, wow, I'm excited. Maybe I was excited to get back in the bed.

I don't know. But I was I was excited and I said, OK, all right, it's 3 a.m.

I'm going to go lay down and, you know, I had a busy day. The next day I go,

go, go lay down and get back, wake up and have my routine. At this point,

my routine was to go to the gym early.

And there was a class that I liked, and I went to the gym and worked out, it was great.

But on my way home from the gym, normal drive, a man runs the stop sign and

completely smashes into me.

And guys, put that on the screen, watch this video here.

I want you to see the context of my car.

So, man hits me.

Coming back from the gym, as you can see the pictures. That was Betsy,

by the way. Betsy was my car. I love Betsy.

I said it to my dad once. I said, I miss Betsy. And he said,

Betsy protected you when you needed it the most.

I said, hey, man, okay, Betsy, you came through for me, okay.

But the airbags deployed. I hit my head really, I mean, if it wasn't for the

angels and the airbags, I hit my head really hard. You saw that big old knot

I had on my head. I was angry.

I was frustrated because he just came out of nowhere and just ran to me.

I jumped out my car really upset.

OK, I was I was hot. And I go to his car and he's kind of, you know,

he can't even really get out.

He's kind of laying in and I look in and I open the door and he's he's just saying sorry, sorry.

Sorry. And I realized, I said, I think he has a concussion. Right.

And so the ambulances came and the fire department and so on and so forth.

And I'm calming down because, you know, I was I was hot. I was upset.

And when when that took place, I called Stacy to come pick me up.

And Stacy was like, I said, say, I got a little car accident and come get me.

Where are you at? Tell her I was.

She comes and she freaks out because of the devastation of the car and how I'm

looking. and what's going on.

And so we finally get things settled.

We go back home. I remember sitting on the couch and I was thinking, wow, man, my car's gone.

Car accident. Now watch this. I'm not even thinking about the Lord that spared

me or thank God that I got up and walked out of that.

Fine. Just with a little knot on my head. I'm not even thinking about that.

I'm just thinking about, oh man, we got to look for a new car. You know?

Oh man, we're going to do this and that. And the Holy Spirit,

it was either the Holy Spirit or Stacey, I can't remember, sometimes they sound

the same, but the Holy Spirit said.

To me, you were up last night, maybe it was Stacey, you were up last night praying.

Six hours after the prayer is when that happened.

Six hours. I went to bed at three and I would come back from the gym at nine.

Six hours after that. The Holy Spirit woke me up to get out of bed to pray because

there was an attack that was coming against me the very next day,

six hours later.

And so he said, you got to get out the bed and you got to pray.

And what I didn't know was he he came together with me against that demonic attack.

That's what praying in the spirit does. And so I said, oh, my goodness.

You're right. I was up last night. She said, that's what we that's what you

were praying against. I said, wow.

I mean, here we are at this point, a son, right?

A father, a husband, a pastor. The enemy wanted to take me out.

But when you pray in the spirit, what I'm talking about to you today is life and death.

I wish I can give you a Happy Meal message and get you going.

And you don't even know what I talked about when I left. And, oh, we had church today.

Boy, he preached. What did he talk about? I have no idea what he talked about. No, no, no, no, no.

I want you to know life and death.

You're going to have to pray in the tongues because there's an enemy that is

plotting against you at all times.

And you're going to cross over and speak in a language that he doesn't even understand.

He doesn't even know. And here we are coming in together, my spirit,

the Holy Spirit against that attack and praise God I'm here today.

Amen. Only one person happy I'm here today. Okay.

I know you're happy. I'm here today. Why? I believe praying in the spirit.

You're going to have to go deeper in your relationship. Stop trying to understand everything.

Stop trying to figure everything out. Stop trying to know everything.

And yield. In order for you to have peace that passes understanding,

you're going to have to give up your right to understand.

Think about that. In order to have peace that passes all understanding,

You're going to have to give up your right To understand.

Why are they doing that? I don't understand it But I got to operate in this

peace that passes understanding I can't believe my family's acting like that Why?

I don't know, but I've got to cross over Into this peace that passes All understanding,

and I'm going to have to Pray in the spirit,

Say this, close your eyes, say this, I will pray in the Spirit.

It's urgent. It's necessary that you pray in the Spirit.

And I challenged you a couple weeks ago, maybe it was a midweek boost, take two minutes today.

I mean, that's short. That's just to get you started.

And just pray in the Spirit, in tongues. Pray in a language that you understand.

Well, Pastor, it seems odd. It seems weird. It seems ridiculous.

Yeah, I agree. It does but cross over anyway Yield your members to them and

just begin to pray If you don't pray in the spirit and you are a believer My

question for you is why not?

Why do you not pray in the Spirit? Because I have biblical evidence that believers can pray in the Spirit.

They can pray in new tongues. Let's look at my last verse.

What is it? Luke chapter 11. We're going to read verse 9. Watch this. My last verse.

Luke 11 · chapter mention

Zayven, you can help me. So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you.

Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened to you.

For everyone who asks receives And he who seeks finds And to him who knocks

it will be opened If a son asks for a bread from any father among you Will he give him a stone?

That's a terrible father Or if he asks for a fish Will he give him a serpent instead of a fish?

Terrible Or if he asks for an egg Will he offer him a scorpion? No.

If you then being evil know how to give good gifts to your children,

how much more will your heavenly father give the Holy Spirit to those that ask him?

Praying in the spirit is simply.

The Holy Spirit and your spirit communicating you start.

He helps you cannot pray in the spirit without the Holy Spirit.

Can't pray in the Spirit without the Holy Spirit. So why don't you ask for him today?

Stand to your feet.

Close your eyes and just lift up your hands. And I want you to just say this after me.

Father God, send me the Holy Spirit.

I receive the Holy Spirit today. Right now, I can pray in the Spirit and bypass my understanding.

This is how you experience true life.