12+1 Core Values : Prayer-Powered | Elder Mabel Atkinson

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Okay, now I'm going to go into the world. We

are doing the sixth core value, which is prayer powered. Okay,

uh no slider, okay, Okay. The last time I was here,

the last time I was here, the last time I

was here, I spoke about heart postures. As Christians, there

are certain postures that we take, you know, to show

the Lord. Lord, I'm serious in my walk with you.

And the two posture that I spoke about was prayer

and integrity. But I didn't go really deep into prayer

and integrity. I touched on different heart postures, and today

I was very surprised as I was preparing it. Two

of the hard posture that I spoke about the last

time I was here at XBU cropped up again. It's

sprayed integrity. Remember I told you about integrity and how

God said integrity. He spoke to me and he said integrity.

I heard his voice and I said, Oh, Lord, where

am I going wrong? Why is God telling me integrity?

So I took Lord, I checked myself, make sure I'm

you know, on the right track, and then a few

days passed and he said integrity again. I heard his voice.

He said nothing, He just said integrity. And some of

you heard it, except for Passus Steven. He was sharing

an XPG. He wasn't here, So for his sake, I'll

tell it again. And then the third time, integrity again.

And I showed you the picture. It came where my daughter,

she's working in Kazakhstan. She sent me a picture and

she is in education and she was she was atturning

to this child and she had a white board behind her,

and on the whiteboard was a big word integrity. So

that was the content nation. God wants a church that

has integrity. You and me, okay, so we'll talk a

little bit more about integrity. So the gift of prayer,

A lot of people run from prayer, right, I'm one

of them. You're not the only one. Every time I

hear the last time, when we were in DVCC at

level two, there was a few people that used to

pray before the service. All the older ones. I don't

know why the younger ones never joined. It was all

the older ones. And they always say all the people

will come and join. I say, yeah, yeah, I'm coming.

But I'm running here, I'm doing this, I'm doing that.

So I would always you know, once in a while ago,

but I was never there all the time. Guess what

I'm doing now. I am leading intercessory prayer at ten

am every Sunday, at nine am. I'm the one leading it,

so I know that the Lord. You know, you may

not be ready, but if the Lord is telling you,

because I know at that time, God was always telling

me maybe I need you to go and pray. I

need you to go and pray, and I will always

run away. So today we're talking about pray. So if

you have your books, you can take it out. And

I'm coming from a very different expect on prayer. This

morning I heard my husband preach on prayer at ex

PJ and I was swallowing so hot, Oh my goodness.

He was so good, and I was saying, Lord, mine

is so different from what she shed. And he shared

from cover to cover, he completed everything was racing through

because he had to bring me here on time. We

didn't want to be lady was racing through, but every

word was a jewel. It was so good, and I

was just learning from him, and I was asking the

Lord it's so different. That's when he said, remember when

I told you take up your five fence when you

didn't want to preach. God told me to take up

your five hands, I mean your five fence, your hand,

and look at your five fingers. And then every finger

is different. And I was thinking, Lord, what are you

trying to teach me? Is it? Every finger is different?

If one doesn't work, you won't be able to hold

a cup. If one finger doesn't work, Say you hurt

your little finger, you won't be able to write properly.

You won't be able to For Indians, we eat with

our hands, you won't be able to eat properly. So

all of us have a function, the five fingers. All

of us have a function. So in the Kingdom of God,

maybe I'm the little finger and I have a little function.

So I'm gonna deliver the message to you the way

the Lord the Holy Spirit ministered to me. Okay, the

gift of prayer live it tickers twenty six to twelve.

I will walk among you and be your God, and

you will be my people. And how the Holy Spirit

minister to me was very very strange where prayer is concerned.

He actually took me back to Genesis, and in Genesis

chapter twelve, Chapter one, verse two, I want to read

this to you. The earth was without form and void,

and darkness was on the face of the deep, and

the spirit of God was hovering over the face of

the waters. Then God said, let there be light. And

there was light. When he had completed, when he had

completed creating the world a beautiful home the garden. At

that time he created men. On the sixth day, you know,

when Adam fell from you know, into sin people. You know,

if you don't dig into the world, you will think that, oh,

the Trinity, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit

must have gone into a panic. Oh dear, what happens now?

You know, even I I was like you know, as

I I think one of the reasons why God asked

me to come here and share the word is he

wanted to take me deeper. He wanted to take me

deeper into the world to find out his heart. He's

hard for you and me, and why he wanted us

so badly, I would say, so badly in the garden.

When he had completed everything, he created men, and he

was looking forward to the fellowship with men. Okay, he

was looking forward to being there talking to them, taking

care of them. But do you know he completed The

earth was so ugly, no form, darkness. Can you imagine,

can't see anything? There was no form, There was nothing

but the spirit of God. You know he was there

from the very beginning. Hear some no oh, ex kids,

Okay he You know God, when he puts us in

a place, he doesn't just throw us in any place.

He made it so beautiful before he created men, he

was looking forward to fellowship with Adam, and then Adam sinned.

So the Trinity didn't go into a panic and say, okay,

now we got to you know, what do we do?

What do we do? We wanted that fellowship with men,

but now men has fallen, So how do we do this?

But when I was reading the Word, it says God's

plan of redemption was already established before creation. I was like, yes, O, Lord,

I didn't know that. I thought y'all planned when Adam fell?

He said, no, it was in three different areas in

the Bible. He says that God had already planned. So

God already knew that Adam is going to disobey and fall.

Can you imagine? But yet he created us. Yet he

knew until today we will hurt him. He still wanted

that relationship with us. Why I will tie everything together. Okay.

The cross was never his backup plan. We always thought that,

oh Jesus has to die, it was a last minute plan. No,

it was never a backup plan. It was never a

last minute plan. It was always his eternal plan revealed

in his perfect timing, perfect timing. So when Jesus was

that perfect sacrifice, right, because Adam fell and God and

sin just cannot He cannot have sinned. God is so holy,

so mighty, so beautiful, so awesome. Sin is not something

that he can you know, he cannot. So a price

has to be paid. He they have already discussed. Jesus

will come. He will be that perfect land. He will

die on the cross for us. He will be that

perfect sacrifice. You know, I want to share with you something.

When Jesus was hanging on the wall, ah sorry, on

the cross and the curtain, you know, when he said

it is finished, the curtain tore from the top to

the bottom. So people don't you know, people don't have

to you know, now people look at the Bible, the

Word and say, hey, this is not right, this is manrituren.

This is but this curtain is sixty feet high. Sixty

feet imagine sixty feet is how many blocks you think

in a building? Sixty feet may five to six stories high.

The temple had this whale. Right, no one can go

into the Holy of Holies. You can't go in because

I seen the priests have to prepare himself before he

goes into the Holy of Holies. Behind the curtain where

the ark of the Lord is, that is where the

Holy of Holies is. No one can enter into the

Holy of Holies. So the curtain was made sixty feet high.

My husband tells me five to six, five to six

some stories high, sixty feet high, thirty feet with the

width is thirty feet from this side to this side

is thirty feet with. You know how thick is the

is that curtain? Look at your coat and touch your coat,

your clothes, touch your clothes. It's so thin, right, how

many cm? Maybe two three am? The curtain was three

to four inches stick. That was how thick the curtain was.

From sixty feet thirty feet across and about four inches stick,

the curtain tore from the top. Do you know God

was waiting to tear the curtain so he can have

fellowship with us, tore it from top to bottom. Okay,

today we walk boldly into the throne of God. What

a privilege. You and I have a privilege to walk

into the presence of God and speak boldly. Okay, let's

not take that for granted. It did not come lightly.

It came with a cause, with God giving his life

for you and me. Jesus gave his life, and he

didn't go to the cross just you know, hanging there

pretty but he suffered, you know the tor men. Sometimes

people tell me, you know, the stripes that Jesus took,

the thirty ninth strike that he took on his body

was the healers from then to now to tomorrow. That mess,

it's everlasting. Jesus is not going to come again because

you are sick. So when someone says I'm waiting for

my healing, that's not right. Actually, when I tell the Lord, Lord,

heal me, there's total silence. He never says anything. I've

been a Christian for a long time and I recognize

his voice. Total silence. He never says anything. I say, Lord,

I really need this healing. I really need you to

heal me, I'm really not well. Total silence, And then

the Holy Spirit whispered to me, you already healed two

thousand years ago. More than two thousand years ago. Jesus

healed you when he took that whipping. And the Book

of Isaiah says Jesus didn't look like a man anymore

when they were finished with him. He didn't look like

a man anymore. His flesh probably was hanging, you know,

his his skin was hanging, his nose probably tall. Because

it was a whip. It's not a tiny, pretty whip

with one you know, it had They say, it's a

it's a whip cat with nine or seven uh, you know,

different things that come up from that whip. And each

whip had nails on it, maybe blades on it, and

glass on it. Who knows what this fellers put on

that whip. And when it went around the Lord, and

when they pulled it, all these seven things went tightly

wrapped around his body. And when they pulled it. Can

you imagine this is just flash guys. I mean, we

get a paper cut. The other day. My husband took

out a bag and he had a paper cut. He went, oh,

that's the worst. That's the worst. He was jumping. You know,

that's the worst. I was like, Ah, be a man,

be a man, It's only a paper cut. The Lord

Jesus took that whipping thirty nine times. Today, let's not

say Lord heal me, just say received. I've received my healing.

I'm healed. You know. Yes, your body will tell you no,

you're still sick. The flesh will tell you no, you're

still aching, they're still pain, still there. But as far

as your concern, I'm healed. And I remember my my

sister in law, she had cancer until her dying day.

She stood firm. She never she never cursed God. And

she told my husband Terrence, I don't know what to do.

I've done everything I need to do, you know. And

my husband said to her, you have done everything you

need you needed to do. You didn't curse God. You're

still believing. And she's with a lot today, you know.

So don't be afraid of what your body is going

to tell you, because Jesus paid the price and you

are healed. Okay, hallelujah. So why did why did God

send Jesus to do that, to to have that fellowship

with us? Why did the curtain break to have that

fellowship with us. Why did he tear from the top

to the bottom. God probably ripped it and say, now

I have access to my children. So that's why we

cannot take prayer so so lightly. We cannot take prayer

and say everything I have prayed for. Okay, let's say

you're not like that. I'm like that. Okay. Most of

the time we pray when everything is exhausted. You know,

we've tried everything. We've done this, we've done that, We've

done everything to try and work it out. It didn't work.

Then I say, okay, it looks like I have to

go and disturb the Lord and pray. But don't be

like me. Pray in everything. The Bible says, rejoice forever more.

This is the will of God. Pray without ceasing, don't

stop praying. Never stop praying without ceasing, he said, without stopping.

And in everything give thanks. So this is the three

things concerning you in Christ Jesus. Okay, So don't go

to the Lord when everything doesn't work. And then you say, okay,

I will go to the Lord like me. Okay, don't

do that. See, I'm very very open to you. I

tell you, even though I'm a leader. I make mistakes,

too many mistakes. We all learn from one another. Okay,

you learn from me. I learned from you. I know

Pastor came and when Pastor shares, he always says, let's

keep this real. We are real people living in a

real world. We will fall, we will make mistakes, but

we will learn from one another. I learn a lot

from Pasta Steven. It's my favorite. Right every time I

go everywhere, I say they are my favorite, but they

are all my favorite. They're all my favorite. Always be

in prayer mode. My husband was telling he conversed with

God in everything he does, all the ideas that God

gives him, because he continuously conversed, continuously converse. If you're

in school, continuously talk to the Lord. Lord. I can't

understand the subject. What are you doing? Because he wants

do you know that the extent he went reading the

world and then creating men, and then Adam falls, and

then since a prayer and God goes, oh no, back again,

and then Jesus came. He suffered a terrible death in

or to say, so that we can we can have

the righteousness. We stand the righteousness. We take the righteousness

of God, and we stand straight, we go boldly. All

that was done so that God can have fellowship, because

what is fellowship, It's that prayer when we talk to him,

converse with him on anything subject bgr boy, girl, relationship, school, work, parents,

how to bring up my children? No parents go to

parents school. There is no parent school. There is no marriage.

You know when you get married. Now our pastor is

going to get married, Sharon. You know it's going to

be a white You know. There is no school, you know,

no school. Worse at least now they have pre marriage

counseling and posts. When my husband and I got married,

there was none. We just got married and we just lived.

Let's se But today there's teaching. Appreciate everything that the

church is doing for you because it's for you, Okay. Integrity,

integrity or integrity very very important. Do you know you

and I are laborers and then the Bible says that

the laborers are few, right, the harvest is plenty, but

the laborers, you and I are laborers. If we don't

have integrity, God cannot use this. If we are one

thing in church and something else outside, God cannot use

us because God cannot trust us. So have integrity in prayer.

Don't say loosely. I have prayed to justify our actions

most of the time. He said, if we want to

do something, the password is Christian always says, is I

have prayed to leave me alone. But there is three

things then the Holy Spirit in mind. Actually there's one more. Okay,

there is praying. Yes, you're seeking the Lord. Okay, Lord,

shall I marry this man? We do pre marriage counseling

and we asked one couple, did you pray? And then

they looked at each other and said no, we didn't pray.

House Like, I almost fell off my chair, almost fell

off my chair. I was like thinking, oh, dear, okay,

never mind, it's not too late. Pray. It's not too

late to go and seek the Lord and ask. Because

marriage it's not easy. It's not a walk in the park.

It's not those of you are married. You know, it's

not a walk in the park. You really need the Lord.

And without a shadow of doubt, I know this is

my husband. Elder Terance is man for me. You know,

I didn't want to marry him. I fought God for

three and a half years. I didn't want him. I

ran away, I prayed, I tried and I begged the Lord.

I say, God, you know, can you change your mind?

You know, I will marry anybody on him. I don't want,

you know, why not not because he wasn't handsome. He

was very handsome, but Alertenans was always from young until now.

He's very serious. And I am the naughty one. I'm

you know, always mischief, always cannot call into the pastor's

office to be ticked off, always because I'm always doing something,

some nonsense somewhere, you know, doing this and doing that.

And he is by the book, he's very If I

marry this guy, I'm gone because there will be no

more fun. He will just want to do everything by

the book. And where is that fun when you do

everything by the book. So I always no, I say no,

God cannot discern this guy cannot. So after three and

a half years, when God said, okay, actually, I asked God, actually,

I told God, God, can you find me a man?

Because my dad and mom was bad, bad, bad bad.

I didn't want to be in a place where I

didn't want to see. I didn't want my life to

be what I saw in my parents. Oh boy, it

was so bad. My mom's crying all the time, and

I didn't wonder that. I say, God, you pick a

guy for me. Be careful what you pray, because God

listens to you. I was, you know, because I always

converse with the Lord, right. I just came to the

Lord at iime, you know, maybe a few years in

the Lord I was always called. I was in a

crowded bus. You know when I prayed that prayer, Lord,

you pick a guy for me, I was praying for

nothing else to do, so crowded. I was holding on

to my life because he's a minibus. Now minibusses are

My daughter went to museum. The minibusses are put into

the museum and put the minibusses. Do you know I

used to take that minibusses. It's so funny when I

saw when she showed me the picture and I saw

the minibus in the museum, Oh my goodness. I was

in the minibus when I prayed. I say, God, you choose,

you choose for me? And God heard it, and God answered,

and he chose the guy for me. And when he

chose the guy for me, I didn't want it. So

God said, it's okay, you don't have to marry him.

You can any Christian it's okay, but I said no,

I will marry him, and this gift feelings no feelings

as well. There was no feelings. First day, no feelings,

second day, no feeling. I have to marry this guy.

You tell me how God has a sense of humor. Right,

God has a sense of humor. So praying there's also listening.

That's just not praying. There's also listening. There's also obeying.

God will tell you something. You want to pick somebody,

you want somebody, you want to marry, something, you want

to change your job, you want to go to another church.

There's always praying, seeking the Lord, tearing before the Lord.

Nobody likes waiting on the Lord. But you wait on

the lot until it gives you an answer. You wait

on the Lord, and then you listen. What is the

Lord telling? Sometimes he doesn't tell you, like he didn't

tell me a lot. When I said heal me, he

was very quiet. That means something there is not right.

And then the Holy Spirit told me, you are already healed.

You don't have to wait, you don't have to decide.

You don't have to say, heal me, heal me, heal me,

heal me. You don't have to. You're already done. So

done this Jesus not gonna come back again. Go to

the cross. He can die again, suffer again so you

can be healed. No, it's done, it's completed. The work

is finished. So receive your healing. And then obeying. The

third thing is obeying. You know, you the Lord tells

you something. Will you obey? The Lord tells you, no,

don't move, don't get out of that job. Now, don't

do this cost now, don't marry that girl, don't marry

that boy. Will you obey? God told me marry Terrence.

I tried. I tried, and I tried, but I was

always with the Lord. I didn't run away. I was

always with the Lord, praying and seeking the Lord. You

know how, Lord, I got no feelings for this guy.

How is it going to be? You know, just waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting,

and then in the end I just obeyed. I said, no,

I'm just going to go and marry this guy. It'll

be like this, you know, this mixed marry. You know

sometimes the Indians allay. What they do is they have

these fixed marriages. You know, suddenly you see this guy

and you got to marry this guy and you, oh,

my goodness, is very frightening. Anyway, pray is always powered

when we have the knowledge of His will and his word.

It's very important that you know God's will and God's word.

If you do not know his will, and if you

do not know his word, the enemy will play with you.

He will tell you things, he will make you go

in circles, and you will not know what happened. So

you must you must read the word. It's the manual.

I hate reading manuals. I hate reading manuals. And you

can ask my husband. Every time he buys electronic, something electronic,

he will tell me, you have to read. And the

books are not thin, they are so fat. Who's going

to read it? But this is the book of life.

If you don't read your Bible, you don't know what

is written about you. Because everything here is concerning you.

It's concerning you. And the devil knows the word, and

he can twist and turn the word. He twists and

turned the word where Adam and Eve was concerned. Do

you want to fall into that pray again? Spend time

with the word, Spend time with the Lord. He went

through all this to have fellowship with you is prayer.

Prayer is very in another To describe prayer in another

word is intimacy. It is intimate. You know. Sometimes there

are things you know passes. Even and Sharon are going

to get married soon. There are things that they cannot

share with one another, but they can go to the

father we call In the Book of Romans, he says

Abave Father. We call him Abah Father, Abbah. Such loving,

such closeness. When I wake up in the morning and

God wakes me up in the morning to pray, there's

this closeness that's this tight. You know, I don't things

that I cannot share with my husband, but I can

share with my father. He knows me. He knows me.

And sometimes I just don't even have to open my

mouth and he knows me. Have that kind of a

prayer life. I remember when I first became a Christian,

just coming to know the Lord. God would wake me

up every morning, you know how he wakes me up

on the door at four a m. In the morning.

He will knock on the door. Then I will wake up. Oh,

then I look at the time, it's full Oh, time

to preak. He'll knock. Sometimes you call my name, Mabel.

You only calls my name once. I'll wake up. Oh

I look at the time. I know it's time with

the Lord. One day I had him standing in front

of my bed and he was telling me abide in me,

and I will abide with you, for there's nothing you

can do on your own if you don't abide in me.

Stay with me, stay close to me, says comes with prayer.

He paid a lot to have fellowship with us. Okay,

prayer is powered when we had the knowledge of his

will and his word. So you have to know the will.

What is God's will? You know? Jesus said to his

disciples after the Last Supper, there's three Okay, you can

go to the next slide. Okay, Jesus said, these are

the three things. Do you know that? This is just

after he had suffered with his disciples and he was

talking to them in the Book of John. This is

each chapter, you know. This is chapter fourteen, chapter fifteen,

chapter sixteen, all the same things. Do you see what's

common there? I have put it in red whatever whatever

anything whatever again up there, I didn't put it in red,

whatever whatever, whatever in Jesus name. So let's read and

I will do whatever you ask in my name, so

that the Father may be glorified in the son. You

may ask me anything in my name, and I will

do it. Anything, whatever, anything, And then he pauses for

a while, and then he says it again in John fifteen.

It's all in the same time before they caught him

and took him to be crucified. This is all just

after Judas has left to go and betray Jesus, and

this God was talking to his eleven disciples, and he

says it again, if you remain in me, just Jesus

told me that once. You know, if you abide in me,

if you remain in me and my words, what is

his words, his will, His words is the Bible. If

you remain in my words and my words, remain in you,

ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for

you John fifteen seven. And then he goes on again

in chapter sixteen and he you know, and he says

it again, My Father will give you whatever you ask

in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your

joy will be complete. John sixteen, twenty three, twenty four.

There's so many things going on, you know, at the

wedding plans will this happened, will that happened. Just ask

whatever you want, but enjoy yourself even if he doesn't

go according to plan. Enjoy yourself because it's the greatest day.

The greatest joy for me is accepting the Lord Jesus

Christ in my life. I'm sixty five years old. The

greatest joy, if you say, what is the greatest joy?

Number one is saying, yes, Lord Jesus, I accept you

come into my life. The second greatest joy is saying

I do to my husband. That is my second So

never never, you know, look and this is not happening.

That is not happening. I don't. Just enjoy yourself and

have a great time everything. Jellah, never mind, You've already

done what you can and after that just leave it

to the Lord and God will give you a beautiful wedding.

So it's very very important we remember that Jesus wants

us to ask everything in his name, and you must

know the words so you can ask correctly. We need

the knowledge of His world will and his word. I

think the next slide, the prayer of a righteous person

is powerful and effective James five sixteen. Righteousness is given

through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe right,

we stand right before the Lord. So don't hesitate. Oh Lord,

I have sinned. Quickly go and say Lord, I'm sorry,

I have sin. Thank you for cleansing me. That's why

he went to the cross. He went to the cross

in his they nailed into the cross, and that blood

washes us clean as snow. Okay, white as snow. Righteousness

is given through faith. So remember, if you don't know

the word, and if you had fallen, say you did

something wrong, you won't be so bold to go to

the Lord. Right you will say, oh I have seen

No matter how big that sinness, go to the Lord,

because the devil will tell you. The enemy will tell

you no, no, no, no, you better go away. God

is angry with you. God is not angry with us.

Don't run away from God. Run to God. Pray in faith,

Mark eleven twenty. Well, this is one of my favorite

favorite verse. Therefore, I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer,

believe that you have received it and it will be yours.

This is another prayer that you can pray before the Lord.

If you know the word, you can tell the Lord.

Praying and aligning you know, you remind God, God your word,

says sir. Whatever I ask in prayer, if I believe,

then I receive it. So believe, believe the Lord to

receive what you want. But do you know to come

to a place to believe like that? Also, you need

to grow. You need to grow, You need to spend

time with the Lord. You need to You cannot be

a baby. See he shared this morning, and I agree

with him. When we come to the Lord. When we

just came to the Lord, we were babies, and everything

that we ask, the Lord will give it to us

very quickly. Everything that you ask, he will give you

very quickly. But as you grow and you become slightly

older and you know better, there are things that He

will check you. As parents, we do that to our

children too. We just don't give them ice cream, day night,

anytime can eat ice cream. No, we have to check.

We have to make sure they have the right vitamins,

they have the right proteins. We have to make sure

that they grow well. So we don't just give them

all the good stuff all the time. So God is

the same. He's always checking us you, always telling us okay,

this you can do, this you cannot do. And sometimes

we don't like to hear it, So you need to mature, Okay,

pray according to God's will. First John five, fourteen fifteen.

This is the confidence. This is another favorite scripture. So

all I got all my favorite scriptures here. This is

the confidence we have in approaching God that if we

ask everything anything, sorry, according to his will, he hears us.

So you need to know what is his will. Only

then can you pray in accordance to his word, to

his will. This is the confidence I am in approaching

God that if I ask anything according to his will,

what is it I wanted to tell you on this

according to his will? According to his will is also

about God. Is everything about people. Love God love people.

Love God love people. He's everything about people. He loves

these people. It also says, seeky first the Kingdom of God,

and all these things will be added to you. So

if you're praying according to his will, you're praying for

your parents. Don't give up on your parents or your

relatives or your friends who are who are not safe

yet pray because this is God's will for them to

come to know Him, to come into knowledge of the

Lord Jesus Christ. So when you are praying according to

God's will. Praying for people, helping someone who is in difficulty.

This is praying according whenever there is other people involved.

You know, God loves it when you're praying for someone else,

because this is actually God's will. His heart is for

his people. So don't be afraid to pray for others,

because the Word says, as you seek his kingdom, all

these things will be added to you. His word is

his will. Come only to God. I think we shared

a little bit on that. Why won't we come boldly?

I also shared that sometimes we don't come bodly because

the devil has said you have sinned, and God is

angry with you. God is never angry with us. Let

us then approach God's throne of grace with confidence, so

that we may receive mercy and find grace to help

us in our time of need. Okay, that is Hebrew

four sixteen ask seek knock Matthew seven seven to eight. Persistence.

It's very very important not to say once God, you

hurt me. God, you know my heart work. Why do

I need to pray? I already told you yesterday? You

know you remember. No, The word says pray without ceasing.

Somebody told me if you told God wants I don't

bother him again, no need to repeat your prayer. But

the Bible says differently. It says persistent, it says ceasingly.

That means that without stopping is asking the Lord Lord,

my husband Lord, he needs to come to know the

Lord Lord. I'm standing on the word Lord. I'm standing

that if I am safe, my family is safe, You're

gonna save my family. You're gonna save my husband. So

that is praying again and again. Okay, So don't get

tired of praying. Pray continually. See first their Salonians five

sixteen to eight, Rejoice always pray, continually give thanks in

all circumstances, no matter how difficult it is. Gif thanks,

Give thanks, no matter how difficult it is. Do not

be anxious. Philippines four six seven. Passa said this. Passa said,

you know, we have a word of fifteen church plants

today Passes seven fifteen, the latest being ex Surrikam balan Bahasa.

It's the fifteen church plant. They did not just one

day they were there one day. They know. It wasn't

like that. It was through prayer that each church was raised,

Each church was reist through prayer. Through believing the Lord

through waiting. So if you have something, if you need something,

be persistent, believing and make that happen because God wants

that for you. Do not be anxious about anything, but

in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present

your requests to God. We are children of the most

High God. There's nothing that God doesn't want us to have.

God wants you to have your heart's desires. That's why

in bird days we always say, right, this is the

famous thing that we all made. The Lord, you know,

answer all the desires of your heart. God wants to

give you. But sometimes God is just saying so remember, pray, listen, obey,

and sometimes you have to wait, you know, And there's

always something good in waiting upon the Lord. You know

you're telling God, God, I respect you. I wait on

you because I respect you. I don't take things on

my own and just go and do it because you

know I'm in a rush, but I'm waiting on you Lord.

That shows God that you're honoring him. You want his

answer in your life. And there's many things. You know.

We don't want to do it on our own because

we don't know our tomorrow. Who knows how tomorrow. Who's

the finishing of our faith? Who's the author and the

finishing of our faith. If it isn't the Lord, he

completes us, we cannot. That's why I was afraid when

I ran away from marrying my husband. I was afraid

that if I know, without a shadow of Doug, who

I am supposed to marry, and if I disobey, I'm

going to have a hard time. So whether I liked it,

I didn't like it. Whether I had feelings, I didn't

have feelings. If God told me the cup was black,

the cup is black. This is white. I'm seeing it white.

But God says it's black, I said, Lord, I agree

with you, it's black. If he says my mic stand

is white, I'll say God is white. Whatever the Lord

tells me, I will do whatever the Bible tells me.

I will do fear the Lord. One of the beautiful

thing is fear the Lord. Don't be so so brave,

so bold to do anything you want. Jesus paid the

price for you and I to be his own. He

wants to have that fellowship because he wants your life

not to go, you know, to do whatever you know

to be lost he wants to be there for you,

and he wants to give you a good life. And

the only way he's going to do that is if

you spend time with him and hear him, and don't

stop hearing from him. Talk to him. While I'm listening

to the message, I'm talking to the Lord. While I'm

listening to the word, I'm talking to the Lord. Been

in church for many years, heard many many sermons, many

many sermons, and every sermon, whether it was a child preaching,

whether it was an adult preaching, whether it was a

senior citizen preaching. I love the word why because it's

the word of God. It comes from the Book of Life.

So be interested in the word of God. Be interested

with the business of God church, helping your leaders, helping

your pastor, you know, be interested in everything. Come early,

arrange the chairs. You know. These are not in the notes.

I'm just telling you these are some things that I

hold very dearly to my heart. You know, honoring God

and fearing Him, but most importantly, always converse with the Lord. Always,

always talk to the Lord, whether it's buying clothes, cooking

a meal, sweeping the floor, doing your work in the office.

Always have a conversation so that you will hear the Lord,

you will recognize his voice. You will need something really

really important. If you do not know the voice, you

will think it's your voice, the devil talking to you.

You will think it's the Lord's voice. But if you

have that relationship with the Lord, you will recognize and

you'll be able to differentiate God's voice, your voice, and

the enemy's voice. Who is telling you what No one

can lie to you. So converse with the Lot in

everything that you do. Don't give up conversing with the Lot.

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