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Don’t Give Up! | Axl Tizon

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  1. Tonight, I have an urgent plea.

  2. I desperately urge us now to pray.

  3. I believe on my own, the holy cry of God's heart tonight is to

  4. give us eternal urgency to pray, pray, and pray in the midst of

  5. this dying world and dying generation in light of the

  6. world's events. No internationally, nationally,

  7. locally, even in our community here, Sagdao, as we are living

  8. in the last days even and times we're near the return of our

  9. Lord and Savior. Who would agree with that?

  10. I believe as disciples, my son, as the Church of Christ, we got

  11. to pray now more than ever before.

  12. We got to pray now more than ever before.

  13. And the the holy burden in my heart is that after this word of

  14. exhortation, you and I would resolve to give our lives as a

  15. prayer to God. We would resolve to give our

  16. lives as a prayer to God, as Kit Green sang us.

  17. Make my life a prayer to you. For prayer is my son, number

  18. one, God's command. Who would agree with that?

  19. Prayer is God's command #2 prayer is God's call to every

  20. disciple of Jesus Christ. So if you are here tonight and

  21. you believe you are a child of God, you are called to pray.

  22. Do you agree with that third thing?

  23. Prayer is God's gift, God's gift of communication.

  24. Prayer is our mode of two way communication with the God of

  25. all creation. Hallelujah.

  26. Now God loves to communicate through His word, His word.

  27. He is the God who speaks in the beginning was the word, no, the

  28. word of God and is still speaking right now tonight, no.

  29. Those who have ears to hear Kunaga de Lungan, hear the voice

  30. of the Spirit for you tonight, Amen.

  31. Now I want to quote EM bounds anashanga.

  32. Air is not more necessary to the lungs than prayer is to the

  33. child of God. At one lungs need to hang in

  34. Tama in the same way to the child of God.

  35. Prayer is like the air that we breathe so on.

  36. Now my question to you is, are you breathing right now the air

  37. of prayer or second, are you suffocating right now?

  38. Because prayer is our spiritual thermometer.

  39. Now that is our basis of intimacy.

  40. Now my question to you is, what's your temperature right

  41. now? Once a bimong temperature,

  42. Caroto bangan saguino. Now let's hear the word of the

  43. Lord DKO McDougal. I can ask you about the short

  44. long Downey. No so open with me in Luke

    Luke 18 chapter mention

  45. chapter 18, the parable of the persistent widow.

  46. And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought

  47. always to pray and not lose heart.

  48. He said in a certain city there was a judge who neither feared

  49. God nor respected man. And there was a widow in that

  50. city who kept coming to him and saying, Give me justice against

  51. my adversary. For a while he refused, but

  52. afterward he said to himself, Though I I neither fear God nor

  53. respect man, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will

  54. give her justice so that she will not beat me down by her

  55. continual coming. And the Lord said, Hear what the

  56. unrighteous judge says, and will not give.

  57. Will not God give justice to his elect, who cried to him day and

  58. night? Will he delay long over them?

  59. I tell you He will give justice to them speedily.

  60. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on

  61. earth, not on hima hima young man like son?

  62. He told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to

  63. pray and not lose heart. OK, other translation.

  64. It says not give up, or even in NLT it says never give up.

  65. In Emma Goba, never give up, keep praying, and so on.

  66. Now that makes sense now. Sultan, Apostle Paul, IBA, who

  67. remembers pray without ceasing, pray at all times in the Spirit,

  68. OK, praise the Lord, pray at all times, pray and pray and pray.

  69. It makes sense now because Jesus tells us here in the first verse

  70. that we always ought to pray and not lose heart.

  71. The Gantam of picturing zone. The widow here represents

  72. desperation. The widow here represents great

  73. need. My question to you is, how much

  74. do you need the Lord tonight? How desperate are you for the

  75. glory of God to come down tonight?

  76. For a while He refused. So not a picture during a widow.

  77. Siggy Balik Balik's a judge. Siggy Shahog hang you and man.

  78. This widow knows she had nothing.

  79. She had nothing in and through herself.

  80. That's why Bhaga Nagar Shagnamudo also judge in that

  81. mode of desperation because she had nothing.

  82. Yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her

  83. justice. OK, Give a big Yanch as a judge

  84. unjust the judge so that she will not beat me down by her

  85. continual coming. Here's the bomb like drop the

  86. Lord, hear what the unrighteous judge says on verse 6.

  87. And will not God give justice to his elect who cried to him day

  88. and night? Will he delay long over them?

  89. I tell you he will give justice to them speedily.

  90. As I said earlier, justice is mine, said the Lord.

  91. I say with Abraham right now, shall not the judge of all the

  92. earth do right? With all the evil, with all the

  93. suffering going on? Satwan communities, Adabao

  94. cities, the Philippines, Israel, the America, the Iran, the

  95. nations? I say with Abraham, shall not

  96. the judge of all the earth do right?

  97. Unjust judge young people began a widow Jesus tells us he will

  98. avenge speedily. But here's the thing, when I saw

  99. Nani monial I would consider the second most tragic statement in

  100. Jesus throughout the Bible. I tell you he will.

  101. And nevertheless, when the Son of man comes, will he find faith

  102. on earth. As you can see, this parable

  103. like a sandwich Nisha, by prayer and faith.

  104. It starts with prayer, it ends with faith because they go hand

  105. in hand together. And when we pray with faith or

  106. by faith, God operates. Do you agree with that?

  107. Now I have three simple points #1 prayer is a humble expression

  108. of our absolute need for God. That's why humbling on prayer

  109. because it is showing that you need God.

  110. Kumu preika meaning in a pakita animala kinahaglantika Lord.

  111. So I will give you something here.

  112. That's why how much you pray shows how much you need God.

  113. When you pray much, meaning you need much of God.

  114. Tama congrabi ka MO meaning kinahaglante animosi Lord.

  115. Conversely or inversely, when you don't pray much, you don't

  116. need much of God. As simple as that.

  117. That's why prayer is our spiritual thermometer.

  118. Because again, when you pray much, you need much of God.

  119. You are telling God that. Now here's the thing.

  120. That's why, like the widow Sam, as a widow, we need to be

  121. persistent in prayer to show God how much we need Him.

  122. Did you hear that the persistent widow Naka Abut Gutsa say Young

  123. Justice Naginapangita? Now when we persist in prayer,

  124. we are saying God, we need you, you are all we need.

  125. Now in return he reveals himself.

  126. Who wants to know God tonight? Not about God, but the God of

  127. the world, Because the generation that knows the God of

  128. the world will never bow down to the gods of this world.

  129. Now who wants to know God tonight?

  130. Lord, reveal yourself. That's our cry.

  131. Now who wants to see God's mighty work in our midst?

  132. When we pray by faith, He shows his mighty work #2 Prayer is the

  133. mightiest agent to advance God's work.

  134. Now the Great Commission go and make disciples paired with

  135. unceasing prayer. The 1st Thessalonians 517

  136. Prayer, No, it releases God's power for his Kingdom to come

  137. and will to be done in heaven on earth, on Maranatha Family

  138. Church in Agdao, in Dabao, in Philippines, in Israel, the

  139. nations, His Kingdom come and his will be done on my heart.

  140. That's my prayer tonight. Let that be our prayer tonight.

  141. That's why when Jesus taught his disciples to pray in Matthew 6,

  142. Your Kingdom come, your will be done.

  143. OK #3 prayer is the application. So Sultani, Nerabin, Helena, key

  144. of faith that fits every luck to God's supernatural work.

  145. Now when we pray, we are like Kunkanasagawas, Imohanangi,

  146. Sousian and Portahan. But everyone, you will see my

  147. God's mighty work. Now who wants to see that?

  148. That's why I said I have said earlier, prayer and faith go

  149. hand in hand. Dil ISIL, a pretty Bullock, my

  150. son, because these two produces obedience that releases God's

  151. power. Do you want to see the power of

  152. God in your life? Pray by faith, pray with faith,

  153. pray through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

  154. And when we obey God operates kumu obeita exon mulihuksi Lord.

  155. The secret of revivalist obedience.

  156. Eternal perspective, quoting again.

  157. Rabin hill. And as a prayer grasp eternity.

  158. Now prayer goes beyond time. It goes beyond time that this is

  159. the this is the thing among a Tao.

  160. We are so bound in time and we serve an eternal God, Sultani

  161. Moses, Psalm 90 from everlasting to everlasting.

  162. You are God, you are our dwelling place, but us for the

  163. meantime, bound as a time. OK, but here's the argument.

  164. Prayer grasps eternity, meaning when you pray tonight, Pediga

  165. Gamitoni Lord, among prayer, 20 years from now because you

  166. prayed for someone, and 20 years from now, Gamitoni Lord, in a

  167. prayer and praise the Lord that you prayed, that you obeyed,

  168. because that soul will be saved forever.

  169. Mon among hearts a era saum. When we pray, I tell them let's

  170. pray in light of eternity. The language can pray, pray like

  171. 5 minutes prayer. OK Lord we, we ask for

  172. supplication of our needs in Jesus name, Amen.

  173. No, we pray like this. Lord give us UM or give us

  174. nothing. Lord give us revival or give us

  175. nothing. God is looking now like Son for

  176. holy men and women, fully sold out to Jesus Christ.

  177. Are you sold out to Jesus tonight?

  178. Will you pray in that heart that Lord, I love you, I love you, I

  179. love you, and because I love you I will pray.

  180. Filled by the Holy Spirit who resolved to give their lives to

  181. prayer. These are the people who will

  182. turn the world upside down. If you see in the book of Acts,

  183. they turned the world upside down because they were praying

  184. men and women. Now to be much for God, we need

  185. to have much of God and prayer gets us much of God again.

  186. The more you pray the more you will have God because prayer is

  187. like grabbing a hold of God. Lord help us like that widow

  188. grabbing a persistent the guy called justice grabbing a it's

  189. amazing to me in the morning gambit in the Lord illustration

  190. now therefore, I desperately urge us now Maranatha family

  191. Church to pray pray and pray by persistent prayer through faith.

  192. Let there be an outpouring of God's spirit tonight revealing

  193. God's power, exalting nothing and no one else but Jesus Christ

  194. with this question, why did Jesus pray so much?

  195. You see like like wander Baba, don't grab him like a praise

  196. Jesus throughout throughout his earthly ministry.

  197. No, the simple answer to that question is this.

  198. He prayed so much simply because he loved his father Sabonago.

  199. He prayed so much simply because he loved his father.

  200. My question to you tonight is this do you love God tonight?

  201. We see it in John 17 favorite chapter Nikki Armand Carono, the

  202. ministry report. I would call this the greatest

  203. prayer ever recorded in the Bible.

  204. No, he always prays Jesus Mona Nagasian disciple.

  205. Lord, teach us to pray. Albert the gunman The gunman

  206. skills and talents Albert. Edit instrument drums, drums or

  207. KGG. My point is this because that's

  208. the very thing the very frequenting and Master he was

  209. praying John 17 the prayer before he got crucified.

  210. Do you you remember Gethsemane, the prayer that's so intense.

  211. Now the Bible tells us young young sweat or young young

  212. Singh. OK, it's like blood Nabut

  213. Nabatana prayer the the blood sweat on Gethsemane.

  214. Now my personal definition is of prayer is this prayer is the

  215. highest form of expressing my love to my Lord.

  216. When I pray, I tell God how much I love him.

  217. When I obey, I show God how much I love him again when I pray.

  218. So Lord, Lord, this is how much I love you and it is never

  219. enough, but but when I obey, I show God, Lord, I'm here to

  220. share your word because I love you.

  221. Just tell me you love me. Jolan, the Kosiki Armand, the

  222. Kosiki Armand guys, that's our that's our pastor.

  223. Now praise God for the great man of God that he is Now my

  224. challenge. I'm near the end.

  225. My question to you, Mike's own tonight is this.

  226. How much do you love Jesus? Namanti spiritual thermometer

  227. assess yourself right now. How much do you love him?

  228. How desperate are you for his presence?

  229. How much do you spend time with him?

  230. 5 minutes in prayer, six hours in TikTok, 10 minutes in prayer,

  231. six hours scrolling, scrolling, scrolling with what's going on

  232. with the world. And you will tell me you love

  233. Jesus. Do you see your great need for

  234. Christ like that Widowbanga? Can you say, Lord, I have

  235. nothing, I am nothing apart from you, I have no good.

  236. Monikrani Davidna, apart from you I have no good.

  237. Do you believe that God is good? Everything in your life that's

  238. good is because of who God is in and through your life.

  239. Now let us examine ourselves, my friends.

  240. God our Father is calling us back tonight to the place of

  241. prayer where we grab a hold of him and never let him go.

  242. He's a by excited the Mugunitsaguino tonight, grabbing

  243. a hold of him and never letting him go.

  244. See lastly, lastly, I have such a holy burden for this

  245. generation. Listen to this Mike's own.

  246. I believe the generation that knows the God of the word

  247. Sultana Koniganina will never bow down to the gods of this

  248. world. I believe the generation that

  249. knows God is a praying generation.

  250. Sadly, that's not our generation.

  251. Our greatest tragedy is that's not our generation.

  252. I tremble to know that I am living in an idolatrous,

  253. adulterous, rebellious, sexually immoral, lawless, wicked, weak

  254. and dying generation. Because we don't know the God of

  255. the world. Because we don't know God.

  256. That's why we do not fear God. That's why Because we don't fear

  257. God, That's why we don't obey God.

  258. Because we don't know the God of the Word.

  259. Mona, tragedy, tragedy. I want you to catch that

  260. tragedy, that burden, holy burden.

  261. No, we are so sunk and look at us spiritually, morally.

  262. That's why we desperately need God to come down and breathe for

  263. this generation to live. Parama, Bohemian generation.

  264. So we need God to come down and breathe.

  265. That's why we need to pray. Is this making sense?

  266. Do you see the need now to pray the prayer that grasp eternity?

  267. Do you agree with that? The only hope of our generation

  268. is Jesus Christ, the living Word of God.

  269. Here, this burden Tragic. Here's the hope.

  270. God is more concerned and compassionate over our

  271. generation than we could ever be.

  272. What am I trying to say? John 316 is still for God.

  273. So love the world for God. So love the church for God.

  274. So love me. He gave himself for me, for you

  275. and I Mona concerned gehapunchi Lord Compassionate Gehapuncha,

  276. as He always is to our generation.

  277. Pillaka generationally Aghi Pillaka century God is ever

  278. concerned. You know why You want to know

  279. why? Because He is the same

  280. yesterday, today and forever. Do you agree with that?

  281. Now what's my evidence? He literally sent his son to die

  282. on the cross to save us. Praise the Lord, praise the

  283. Lord, Oh my soul. That's why an appetite like Son,

  284. because Jesus Christ is still ruling and reigning throughout

  285. the heavens and the earth. Give up the Lord, He has divine

  286. authority and He will never give it up.

  287. Hopefully that will encourage you when you are living in this

  288. broken world. Jesus Christ still rule and

  289. reigns forever in the heavens and on earth.

  290. The Bible tells us be still and know that He is God.

  291. That Word is still alive for us tonight.

  292. Do you agree with that? It's still alive, very much

  293. alive. He is still interceding for His

  294. church. Can you tell someone right now

  295. Jesus Christ is interceding for you?

  296. That's why in Luke 18 Jesus tells us never gave up because

  297. our High Priest is still at the face of God the Father

  298. interceding in our behalf. Then we can all enter in

  299. tonight. We can all enter into the Holy

  300. of Holies because of what Christ has done for us 2000 years ago.

  301. We have great hope because Jesus is alive.

  302. Jesus is Lord, and Jesus is alive.

  303. Therefore come to him now. Jesus is Lord, Jesus is Lord.

  304. LGBTQ, complete Catholic Muslim. That's why I tell this team, I

  305. tell my family. It's so relevant to say that

  306. Jesus is Lord and it will always be relevant.

  307. But in our context, I would still say that Jesus is Lord.

  308. Wherever my feet steps upon, I confess that Jesus is my Lord,

  309. my Savior. He is our living hope, and He

  310. shall soon return to redeem us. Praise the Lord, as Christians,

  311. we have our hope, our living hope.

  312. We are more than victorious through him who love us and gave

  313. himself for us. Are you victorious today?

  314. Do you want to be victorious tonight?

  315. You know, throughout the week, but I believe when you come to

  316. the throne of grace tonight, you will be refreshed and renewed in

  317. the presence of God when you come to him by faith.

  318. Speaking of victory testimony, Gapon, we had a great victory.

  319. Sahira, no serenade. Thank you so much picture, but

  320. thank you so much. Good.

  321. We thank this family antiboch church nakabak AB satua fully

  322. nakabak AB satua. That's why we are encouraged to

  323. keep going and going and going. Now Kuya Netan and church as a

  324. gospel happen very timely and very relevant because most of my

  325. unbelievers so they were like at least 70 to 80 people that

  326. happen know who heard the love of Jesus, who were serenaded by

  327. his love and now anonymous apartment.

  328. OK, it's time to disciple DBS Nata can goal is to serenade is

  329. preach the gospel and make disciples mogate on purpose.

  330. DBS Guinea Padolong Tanan Amen. DBS Nata In this dying world and

  331. generation, God is still absolutely in control inside a

  332. comfort. Anna, my God, my God is still in

  333. control. That's why we trust him.

  334. That's why we trust him and one, because he is still in control.

  335. Good news is still good news, because Jesus Christ is the same

  336. yesterday, today, and forever. Though the earth, though the

  337. heaven, though everything may fade away, the word of our God

  338. will stand forever. Mangahano Mantanktanan.

  339. If we were to be all faithless, unfaithful, the Lord will still

  340. be faithful, for He is faithful to His word, to every

  341. generation, forever and ever. That's why as a Christian, you

  342. have hope, Nah Tai paglaomic, so on.

  343. That's why I all give up double time takarun SA DBS, double time

  344. takarun to preach the gospel. Wherever you go, eat in graves

  345. in Maharna, whether you eat, whether you drink, whatever you

  346. do, you do it all for the glory of God.

  347. Naka unko. I'm doing it for the glory of my

  348. Lord. Naligo kuna pray nak bahi nak

  349. pray nak intercede. What I'm trying to tell you is

  350. this. Do it all for the glory of God.

  351. Whatever, whatever you doing soon.

  352. Now let's go back to God tonight, Can we?

  353. I believe, I really believe, the Lord will refresh and renew us

  354. tonight with His presence that changes everything it touches.

  355. When the presence of God touches you tonight, I want to tell you

  356. your life will change forever. All it takes, all it takes is

  357. the fringe of the garment, the presence, the glory of the Lord

  358. that will transform lives forever.

  359. He transformed my life. Praise the Lord, do you want to

  360. be refreshed and renewed tonight?

  361. Now let us go straight to God and believe He will meet us

  362. where we are right now. He desires intimacy with you

  363. more than you desire it. Mas gusto can the Lord quesa

  364. gusto nimosha. He loves you more than you love

  365. Him. He knows you more than you even

  366. know yourself. He knows me.

  367. Sultan David. Psalm 139.

  368. Kabaluka Kanosakamotindo Kanosakomo Lincode Kabaluka

  369. Asakomuato. Kabaluka salti before Panakonai

  370. salti. I want to tell you, God is

  371. beyond all of this. And this is the God that we are

  372. serving, my son. That's why.

  373. Get up. Get up Nagahulatnika generation,

  374. same obedience Ageno Imon workmate Imon classmate Naghulat

  375. Simon obedience his own. He died for you and he lived for

  376. you so that by faith in Jesus we can run to him and live with him

  377. forever and ever. Amazing God we serve to God be

  378. the glory. That's it, my soul.