1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:03,480 Prayer Is there a right way or a wrong? 2 00:00:03,480 --> 00:00:06,440 Way part of prayer is not to pray the perfect prayer, but 3 00:00:06,440 --> 00:00:10,560 just to open our ears and our heart to God, and God actually 4 00:00:10,680 --> 00:00:13,640 speaks through prayer. He speaks through his Word. 5 00:00:13,960 --> 00:00:17,040 He speaks through worship. He speaks through creation. 6 00:00:17,080 --> 00:00:22,400 Prayer is a privilege. You and I have access to the 7 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:25,800 throne room of God. I feel like the enemy has 8 00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:29,920 intimidated, intimidated, intimidated and we need to 9 00:00:30,040 --> 00:00:34,080 actually find our voice back and begin to speak the word of God 10 00:00:34,080 --> 00:00:36,760 with confidence. Are you ready to pray so that 11 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:43,760 you are heard Welcome to today's podcast. 12 00:00:43,760 --> 00:00:46,440 I'm so excited. We are going to be talking about 13 00:00:46,680 --> 00:00:50,880 praying with confidence. So many of you said we're not 14 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:53,240 sure how to pray. We're not sure if we're allowed 15 00:00:53,240 --> 00:00:56,440 to pray this. We're not sure if we can 16 00:00:56,440 --> 00:00:59,800 actually pray and ask God for something boldly. 17 00:00:59,800 --> 00:01:03,120 Do we need to be meek with it? Do we need to go low on it And 18 00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:06,440 Christian, one of the things I discovered preparing for this is 19 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:10,400 prayer is a privilege. It's a privilege. 20 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:15,440 You and I have access to the throne room of God. 21 00:01:15,440 --> 00:01:17,240 You know, there's a lot of people so excited right now 22 00:01:17,240 --> 00:01:21,040 about I went into the White House or I was in the Congress 23 00:01:21,040 --> 00:01:26,040 or I was in the Senate, but we actually go into the throne room 24 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:29,080 of the King of the Kings and Lord of Lords. 25 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:34,280 That is the place that we automatically go when we pray. 26 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:35,880 So there's many different ones that we're going to. 27 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:39,320 I'm going to list some of them, but we're going to highlight two 28 00:01:39,320 --> 00:01:41,960 specifically. Number one, there is the prayer 29 00:01:41,960 --> 00:01:45,320 of intercession. Intercession means I'm going to 30 00:01:45,320 --> 00:01:47,480 stand in the gap for somebody else. 31 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:49,560 I'm going to be crying out for the nation's, I'm going to cry 32 00:01:49,560 --> 00:01:51,320 out for my nation. I'm going to cry out for the 33 00:01:51,320 --> 00:01:55,040 leaders. Intercession is when we stand 34 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:59,920 between, we stand between life and death, judgment and blessing 35 00:01:59,920 --> 00:02:02,840 and we cry out for God's mercy intercession. 36 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:04,520 Then there's the prayer of petition. 37 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:07,960 Petition is where we say, OK, God, this is this is a situation 38 00:02:07,960 --> 00:02:11,160 here. I need your wisdom, I need your 39 00:02:11,160 --> 00:02:15,720 provision, I need your insight, I need your direction. 40 00:02:15,880 --> 00:02:19,200 A prayer petition is we are like God, please get involved. 41 00:02:19,320 --> 00:02:21,320 Please get involved because if you're not involved in this, 42 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:24,360 we're going to have a problem. And I always love, I believe it 43 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:29,040 was Hezekiah that laid out the threats of the enemy before the 44 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:31,520 Lord and said, do you hear what they're saying? 45 00:02:31,920 --> 00:02:34,880 God, do you hear what they hear? I'm I'm not going to answer 46 00:02:34,880 --> 00:02:37,400 them. I'm going to bring their threats 47 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:40,480 to you and I'm going to invite your involvement. 48 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:44,480 That is the prayer petition, prayer of consecration and 49 00:02:44,480 --> 00:02:46,520 surrender. Now, this is more of a personal 50 00:02:46,520 --> 00:02:49,080 prayer, but it can become a corporate prayer. 51 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:52,000 Whenever Israel had sinned, there would be so many times the 52 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:54,600 priest would say, OK, you know what, we're all going to gather. 53 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:57,080 We're going to put away our foreign gods and idols, and 54 00:02:57,080 --> 00:02:59,200 we're going to consecrate ourselves. 55 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:02,040 We're going to seek God. It's when we say, you know what, 56 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:05,560 we've been living this way. We're turning about face and 57 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:08,840 we're going to consecrate ourselves to the God high. 58 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:13,040 That's a consecration prayer. It is a separation and it is a 59 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:15,520 prayer of surrender. We're like God, we've been going 60 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:18,600 our way. We surrender to your ways. 61 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:21,280 Then there is the prayer protection, which a lot of us 62 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:24,240 have been praying right now. God protect us from the crazy 63 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:27,480 viruses, protect us from the stuff in the air, protect us 64 00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:30,720 from the food. Oh my goodness, Christian, I was 65 00:03:30,720 --> 00:03:32,720 just reading you. You probably have read this. 66 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:37,240 I saw this random article just today where they're saying girls 67 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:42,640 in their 30s are going through perimenopause, that they are 68 00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:48,040 being thrown into early onset menopause and they can't get 69 00:03:48,040 --> 00:03:54,200 pregnant because of all the ridiculous toxins in the air and 70 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:56,840 in the environment. I believe that I was with people 71 00:03:56,840 --> 00:03:59,280 earlier today that were saying I haven't been able to get 72 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:01,480 pregnant because they're saying I have this, this and this. 73 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:03,520 I need to do this cleanse, this detox. 74 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:06,600 So prayer needs to be added to that list, I guess. 75 00:04:06,680 --> 00:04:07,800 Cleanse it. Lord, Yeah. 76 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:10,760 And you know, and I just want to say that on the very front end, 77 00:04:10,760 --> 00:04:14,840 I believe, and here's when we need God in this situation, 78 00:04:15,160 --> 00:04:20,000 there's promises where it says if we eat or drink anything 79 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:23,960 deadly, it will not harm us. And there's a generation out 80 00:04:23,960 --> 00:04:25,960 there that feels like, hey, there's no hope. 81 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:27,360 I mean, we're going to be barren. 82 00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:30,200 We can't buy our houses. We, you know, and if we do buy a 83 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:34,440 house, then we can't reproduce. I believe that God has 84 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:36,600 provision. I believe that whatever that is. 85 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:40,600 I mean, they're saying you take in, take in a entire credit 86 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:43,880 card, a plastic every single week. 87 00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:46,720 I'm, I'm on every airplane. I'm like, do I drink water? 88 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:48,920 I don't know. It's do I, am I on a credit card 89 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:52,680 level? But the truth is we can pray and 90 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:55,680 God can actually rightly divide what comes into our body. 91 00:04:56,200 --> 00:04:58,920 And I just don't want to. I don't, I mean, he is the Lord 92 00:04:58,920 --> 00:05:02,600 our God that heals us. And I have to believe in a time 93 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:06,560 where everything's coming against us, that God can be the 94 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:09,440 one who protects us. And then there is the meditative 95 00:05:09,440 --> 00:05:13,120 prayer, the prayer of just kind of pausing and pondering. 96 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:17,040 It's that say law in the middle of the Psalms where like, hey, 97 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:20,080 maybe you just need to pause and think about this. 98 00:05:20,240 --> 00:05:22,680 Then there's a prayer of adoration where we praise God. 99 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:26,440 We thank him for who he is because of his greatness and his 100 00:05:26,440 --> 00:05:28,480 goodness. And then there's a prayer, 101 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:33,000 praise and Thanksgiving where we are like, God, you have been so 102 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:35,960 faithful. And I do feel like our prayers 103 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:37,440 need to actually start out that way. 104 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:40,560 We remember, we remember the goodness of God. 105 00:05:40,840 --> 00:05:42,240 And then there's a prayer of confession. 106 00:05:42,240 --> 00:05:44,280 This is the one I have to do a lot where you're like, God, I'm 107 00:05:44,280 --> 00:05:47,120 so sorry. I was so snarky in that 108 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:49,880 situation. I was so frustrated with that or 109 00:05:49,880 --> 00:05:53,600 I got just caved to fear. That kind of prayer is a prayer 110 00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:58,280 of confession, which I believe we had a, we had a, we had a 111 00:05:58,280 --> 00:06:03,400 little experience with a friend who said that his Catholic 112 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:07,360 priest said that 100 confessions are more powerful than one 113 00:06:07,360 --> 00:06:09,920 exorcism. So confession, just keeping your 114 00:06:09,920 --> 00:06:13,360 heart clear, does a whole lot of damage to the Kingdom of 115 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:15,400 darkness. And then supplication, that's 116 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:18,320 when we humbly ask God for something. 117 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:23,560 But what I want to do is I want you to know that prayer 118 00:06:23,720 --> 00:06:29,640 glorifies God. Jesus actually asked us to ask 119 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:32,360 and I think we forget about that. 120 00:06:32,360 --> 00:06:33,560 We're like, oh, I don't want to ask. 121 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:37,280 If you're enjoying this podcast, I want to challenge you about 122 00:06:37,280 --> 00:06:40,840 partnering with us. We are so excited about a 123 00:06:40,840 --> 00:06:43,640 partnership program. We're going to be bringing you 124 00:06:43,880 --> 00:06:46,280 exclusive content. So you want to get in on the 125 00:06:46,280 --> 00:06:49,280 ground floor, Go ahead and click the link below. 126 00:06:50,120 --> 00:06:52,440 You know, so like one of the, some of the feedback you were 127 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:53,840 getting Christian was like, what? 128 00:06:54,040 --> 00:06:55,960 Because I mean, you were sharing them with me as well. 129 00:06:55,960 --> 00:06:58,280 That's that's surprising. Well, you're setting it up. 130 00:06:58,280 --> 00:07:01,400 Well, if there's all these types of ways to pray and there's all 131 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:03,680 these things, which could be a little maybe daunting for 132 00:07:03,680 --> 00:07:07,280 someone or some people were saying, well, how do I know what 133 00:07:07,280 --> 00:07:10,880 I'm allowed to pray for? Like, who am I to say, OK, God, 134 00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:13,080 I want this to happen. Will you grant it? 135 00:07:13,440 --> 00:07:15,000 And so people are even wondering, like, what are you 136 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:17,680 allowed to pray? Are you allowed to knock and ask 137 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:20,880 God for specific things? Does it need to be general? 138 00:07:21,080 --> 00:07:23,920 Like how do you approach prayer? Maybe if you are a baby 139 00:07:23,920 --> 00:07:27,080 Christian. Or even even if you're just 140 00:07:27,080 --> 00:07:30,880 confused by feeling like you're not getting answers that you 141 00:07:30,880 --> 00:07:32,760 want. OK, so first and foremost, let's 142 00:07:32,760 --> 00:07:36,440 just do the establishing. John 15 verse 7 through 9 says, 143 00:07:36,680 --> 00:07:38,760 if you abide in me, OK, that's Jesus. 144 00:07:38,760 --> 00:07:43,200 He's like, if you're in Christ and my words abide in you and 145 00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:46,640 then abide means it doesn't just mean to kind of live, it means 146 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:49,840 to endure. So if we endure in him and if 147 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:54,280 his word endures in us, he says, ask whatever you wish and it 148 00:07:54,280 --> 00:07:57,920 will be done for you. By this my Father is glorified 149 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:04,000 that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples. 150 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:09,680 So fruit proves disciples is I mean, that's amazing. 151 00:08:09,960 --> 00:08:12,000 As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you. 152 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:14,920 Abide in my love. So he's like, Hey, I love you, I 153 00:08:14,920 --> 00:08:18,840 love you, abide in my word. But here's the thing, I'm going 154 00:08:18,840 --> 00:08:23,000 to always have questions. If I don't know what the word of 155 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:25,720 God says, I'm going to be like, can I pray for that? 156 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:31,200 Can it, you know, is this my desire or is this God's desire? 157 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:34,520 You know, the Bible says that, well, God will give you the 158 00:08:34,520 --> 00:08:37,679 desires of your heart. And then people are like, but my 159 00:08:37,679 --> 00:08:39,440 heart is wicked, my heart's wicked. 160 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:41,840 I don't know if I can have the desires of my heart because my 161 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:45,240 heart's so wicked. Well, I'm going to actually try 162 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:47,840 to unpack a little bit about this. 163 00:08:47,840 --> 00:08:53,240 First of all, I want you to know that if you are seeking your 164 00:08:53,240 --> 00:08:57,000 Father, I believe that you can't mess up. 165 00:08:57,480 --> 00:09:00,160 I I really believe this because Christian here's the thing. 166 00:09:00,520 --> 00:09:06,400 Even if you ask for the wrong thing, he's going to actually 167 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:09,560 work it out for your good. The book of James chapter 4 168 00:09:09,560 --> 00:09:15,440 verse 3 says you ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly 169 00:09:15,720 --> 00:09:19,400 to spend it on your own passion. So, you know, as he comes over 170 00:09:19,400 --> 00:09:25,920 to my house and is like, hey, D Mama, I want chocolate is mango. 171 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:28,760 But, you know, if I know he's getting ready to eat dinner, 172 00:09:29,680 --> 00:09:33,600 even though I love him and I want to give him good things, 173 00:09:34,640 --> 00:09:37,240 the right thing at the wrong time becomes the wrong thing. 174 00:09:37,640 --> 00:09:41,560 And I think a lot of times, you know, we don't understand that 175 00:09:41,560 --> 00:09:46,040 if my grandkids or my children are asking for something that 176 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:51,200 ultimately is not for their good because I do love them, I'm 177 00:09:51,200 --> 00:09:53,920 going to say no. And so, but can you talk the 178 00:09:53,920 --> 00:09:56,120 confidence? Can you talk on the relationship 179 00:09:56,120 --> 00:09:58,040 factor there? Because I love that my son can 180 00:09:58,040 --> 00:10:00,120 come over and knows, hey, I can ask them. 181 00:10:00,120 --> 00:10:02,080 I trust them to give me good things. 182 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:04,880 I think some people are scared to pray because if you get a no, 183 00:10:04,880 --> 00:10:07,160 it's almost like, well, God doesn't love me. 184 00:10:07,360 --> 00:10:08,880 He doesn't have good things for me. 185 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:11,720 But there is that redirection and that care that you're 186 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:14,440 speaking on of because you love your grandchildren. 187 00:10:14,680 --> 00:10:17,200 You'll say, no, we're not going to have chocolate before dinner, 188 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:19,960 but I will give you good meat and pasta. 189 00:10:19,960 --> 00:10:23,080 I will actually make you full. So how do you how would you 190 00:10:23,080 --> 00:10:26,120 encourage someone that's like, I feel a little timid going to 191 00:10:26,120 --> 00:10:28,440 God? I've gotten a no before. 192 00:10:28,920 --> 00:10:31,240 Would you encourage them on the relational aspect? 193 00:10:31,320 --> 00:10:33,360 And it actually might be for their benefit that they get no 194 00:10:33,360 --> 00:10:34,520 sometimes. Absolutely. 195 00:10:34,520 --> 00:10:37,440 And I've gotten some no on some things that I really wanted and 196 00:10:37,440 --> 00:10:41,160 God, God was like, you are looking for the wrong thing in 197 00:10:41,160 --> 00:10:44,640 the wrong season. And and God knows that that 198 00:10:44,640 --> 00:10:48,680 thing is it. What I think I want is actually 199 00:10:48,680 --> 00:10:50,840 going to hurt me. I like, for example, I I can 200 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:55,680 just talk about with me. When we moved to Colorado, I had 201 00:10:55,680 --> 00:10:59,880 moved from Florida, you know, I was just so immersed. 202 00:11:00,920 --> 00:11:04,680 I was so immersed in mother, mother world, you know, and, and 203 00:11:04,680 --> 00:11:05,920 all my friends were mother world. 204 00:11:06,120 --> 00:11:07,960 So I didn't really have any female friendships. 205 00:11:07,960 --> 00:11:10,560 And I was starting to come out of that. 206 00:11:10,720 --> 00:11:15,040 That season, Arden was 4, you know, so her husband was 4 at 207 00:11:15,040 --> 00:11:16,520 one time. He was 4. 208 00:11:16,520 --> 00:11:18,560 And so now I wanted some female friends. 209 00:11:18,560 --> 00:11:20,520 And I was like, God, these are my friends. 210 00:11:20,520 --> 00:11:24,120 And God said no. And I was like, wait a minute, 211 00:11:24,880 --> 00:11:29,600 I, I want these as my friends. These are Christian friends. 212 00:11:29,840 --> 00:11:33,800 And God said, I need you to let go of this. 213 00:11:33,960 --> 00:11:37,240 And I was like, wait, no, no, just tell me how to do it right. 214 00:11:37,240 --> 00:11:39,440 Tell me how to do things. Yeah, these are. 215 00:11:39,440 --> 00:11:44,840 And God was like, right now these people are going to lead 216 00:11:44,840 --> 00:11:47,920 you in the wrong direction. And, and it wasn't that they 217 00:11:47,920 --> 00:11:51,160 were evil. It was that God was saying I 218 00:11:51,160 --> 00:11:54,560 have something in and on your life and other prayers you've 219 00:11:54,560 --> 00:11:57,560 prayed will actually go unanswered. 220 00:11:58,080 --> 00:12:02,600 If if I answer this one, you prayed certain things, you said, 221 00:12:02,600 --> 00:12:06,920 God, I only want those relationships that actually draw 222 00:12:06,920 --> 00:12:12,000 me higher, that build my marriage and and these, and I'm 223 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:14,960 not being hateful, but these women, I would go out with them 224 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:18,600 and it was always about talking bad about their husbands. 225 00:12:19,320 --> 00:12:23,000 And we'd be at the dinner table and it was like, Oh, men are 226 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:24,800 this. And then somebody else would be 227 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:28,160 like, well, my husband did that. And and then you sit there and 228 00:12:28,160 --> 00:12:31,080 you're like, I need to, I need to be part of this. 229 00:12:31,360 --> 00:12:35,400 Or maybe maybe I wouldn't, but I'd come home and John might be 230 00:12:35,400 --> 00:12:39,760 asleep and I'd be like all men. And I was like you, you left 231 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:41,520 happy and you're coming home angry. 232 00:12:41,760 --> 00:12:44,160 So they weren't iron sharpening iron for me. 233 00:12:44,160 --> 00:12:47,640 They were people that were dulling me in the spirit And and 234 00:12:47,640 --> 00:12:51,320 I remember I just kept pushing against it and saying no, God, 235 00:12:51,320 --> 00:12:52,880 let me just let me just have this. 236 00:12:52,880 --> 00:12:55,160 I'm so tired of being lonely. I'm so tired. 237 00:12:55,480 --> 00:13:01,800 And because I did not listen to him, I ended up going through a 238 00:13:01,800 --> 00:13:05,600 crisis. And so instead of walking away, 239 00:13:06,080 --> 00:13:10,720 I got cut off and I was like, OK, God, I've learned from that. 240 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:14,240 But but one of and again, that was not their fault. 241 00:13:14,560 --> 00:13:18,440 That was my poor choices. And so, you know, again, there's 242 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:21,600 a lot of young girls out there and they're saying I want to get 243 00:13:21,600 --> 00:13:24,280 married and I've been praying and I want like, I want to get 244 00:13:24,280 --> 00:13:25,800 married. You, you hear from them all the 245 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:27,640 time. There's people out there that 246 00:13:27,640 --> 00:13:32,000 say, you know, I want direction. These are not evil things. 247 00:13:32,040 --> 00:13:37,080 These are not evil things. And I want you to know that God 248 00:13:37,320 --> 00:13:41,640 puts longings in your heart, and some of those longings will be 249 00:13:41,640 --> 00:13:44,840 met in this life, and some of those longings will be met in 250 00:13:44,840 --> 00:13:48,800 the next life. But what I have found is if we 251 00:13:48,800 --> 00:13:52,720 can put him at the highest space and if we can say God, I would 252 00:13:52,720 --> 00:13:58,800 really like this, But you know me even better than I know 253 00:13:58,800 --> 00:14:01,560 myself. And if I'm pursuing something 254 00:14:01,800 --> 00:14:04,680 that's going to come between you and I, I don't want it. 255 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:07,800 I'm going to pull away from it. So we have to actually surrender 256 00:14:08,280 --> 00:14:11,360 even when we're going to God with our desires. 257 00:14:11,560 --> 00:14:15,120 And again, I feel like a lot of times people don't understand 258 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:17,360 there is there's a guardrail for us. 259 00:14:18,080 --> 00:14:19,960 I love this court by George Mueller. 260 00:14:19,960 --> 00:14:24,040 George Mueller said if we don't know what the will of God is, if 261 00:14:24,040 --> 00:14:26,800 we don't know it, because usually, I mean, I remember when 262 00:14:26,800 --> 00:14:32,120 John they were dating, we prayed that I thank you God for my 263 00:14:32,120 --> 00:14:33,680 husband. If it's Jean Bevier, that'd be 264 00:14:33,680 --> 00:14:35,280 great. But if it's not John, it's OK. 265 00:14:35,480 --> 00:14:38,840 I mean, like we were so careful about we didn't want to 266 00:14:38,840 --> 00:14:41,360 witchcraft prayers. We didn't want to insert 267 00:14:41,360 --> 00:14:44,640 somebody's names, but but I would say I can pray for John 268 00:14:44,640 --> 00:14:46,560 regardless. And I would say God, I just 269 00:14:46,560 --> 00:14:50,000 thank you that you give John that wife that will love him. 270 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:53,040 Well, that will speak truth to him, you know, and I would just 271 00:14:53,040 --> 00:14:56,120 wrap it around, but I think it there's a problem when we're so 272 00:14:56,120 --> 00:15:01,480 specific that that we get confused if God answers us in a 273 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:04,240 different way. Yeah, I think sometimes we go in 274 00:15:04,360 --> 00:15:07,400 thinking we know the answer or we know the lay of the land and 275 00:15:07,400 --> 00:15:09,440 we have to pray in a certain way. 276 00:15:09,440 --> 00:15:11,560 But prayer is such a conversation. 277 00:15:11,560 --> 00:15:13,000 And you were alluded to this earlier. 278 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:16,000 I want to ask about it, but don't you feel like part of 279 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:19,400 prayer is not to pray the perfect prayer, but just to open 280 00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:22,960 our ears and our heart to God, and God actually speaks through 281 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:25,160 prayer. Can we still say that God still? 282 00:15:25,240 --> 00:15:27,480 Speaks, speaks or else we're all in trouble. 283 00:15:28,280 --> 00:15:31,040 So I mean, I know there's people out there and again, I'm not 284 00:15:31,040 --> 00:15:33,600 trying to make fun of you. There's a lot of people that 285 00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:37,280 somehow they feel like the day the Bible got printed, God was 286 00:15:37,280 --> 00:15:39,440 just like, we don't need to hear from you anymore. 287 00:15:39,960 --> 00:15:41,120 I'm going to tell you, God speaks. 288 00:15:41,120 --> 00:15:44,720 He speaks for other people. He speaks through his word, He 289 00:15:44,720 --> 00:15:47,760 speaks through worship, He speaks through creation, the 290 00:15:47,760 --> 00:15:51,080 stars, the the sun, the mountains, the ocean. 291 00:15:51,080 --> 00:15:54,640 He is constantly speaking. We just have to attune ourselves 292 00:15:54,640 --> 00:15:56,760 to hear. And going back to what I was 293 00:15:56,760 --> 00:15:58,200 going to say is kind of my gauge. 294 00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:03,160 George Mueller wrote the Spirit and the word must be combined 295 00:16:03,320 --> 00:16:05,120 because there's a lot of parts of the body. 296 00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:07,960 They're all like the Spirit. The Spirit I felt like the 297 00:16:07,960 --> 00:16:10,320 Spirit said. And then there's other parts are 298 00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:14,000 like, no, it's only the word. It's not the Spirit anymore. 299 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:16,400 It's just the Word. But George Mueller said the 300 00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:20,560 Spirit and the Word and he said, if I look to the Spirit alone 301 00:16:20,840 --> 00:16:26,360 without the Word, I lay myself open to great delusions. 302 00:16:26,880 --> 00:16:29,120 And I feel like that's kind of happened. 303 00:16:29,480 --> 00:16:33,600 If the Holy Spirit or the Holy Ghost, he wrote, guides us at 304 00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:38,920 all, he will do it according to the scriptures and never 305 00:16:38,920 --> 00:16:42,080 contrary to them. So it's in the, it's in the 306 00:16:42,160 --> 00:16:44,960 spirit of the Scripture, not the letter. 307 00:16:44,960 --> 00:16:49,240 Because you can't go into scripture and find, hey, exactly 308 00:16:49,240 --> 00:16:51,200 who you're supposed to marry or find. 309 00:16:51,400 --> 00:16:54,040 Do I take this job or do I not take this job? 310 00:16:54,320 --> 00:16:59,000 But you can pray and for me, Christian, I think the first 311 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:03,840 time I discovered any of this is I was working in accounting, 312 00:17:03,960 --> 00:17:07,280 which is so hilarious, I know. So you just laughed as you 313 00:17:07,280 --> 00:17:10,160 should. I was working in accounting at a 314 00:17:10,160 --> 00:17:12,079 church office and I thought I am a Christian. 315 00:17:12,079 --> 00:17:16,599 Now I am working in a church office and I, I was so stressed 316 00:17:16,599 --> 00:17:20,200 out because anytime you left the room, they would gossip about 317 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:22,200 you. So I was scared. 318 00:17:22,359 --> 00:17:25,400 I was, there was an older lady who was just so miserable that 319 00:17:25,400 --> 00:17:27,480 she would just tear anybody apart that left the room. 320 00:17:27,760 --> 00:17:31,520 So I was scared I would come home every single day stressed 321 00:17:31,520 --> 00:17:33,440 out. And John said, why don't you 322 00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:36,600 pray about whether you're supposed to be in this job or 323 00:17:36,600 --> 00:17:40,160 not. And so I said, all right, you 324 00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:41,680 know what? I'm going to, I'm going to spend 325 00:17:41,680 --> 00:17:45,960 some prayer time on Saturday. And so I sat down with my King 326 00:17:45,960 --> 00:17:49,680 James Bible that had tabs, which I missed tabs, it had tabs. 327 00:17:49,880 --> 00:17:53,320 And I sat there and I said, God, I need an answer. 328 00:17:53,440 --> 00:17:58,120 Do I stay in my job or do I go These are the options for you, 329 00:17:58,120 --> 00:18:01,880 God. And I had no idea how limiting I 330 00:18:01,880 --> 00:18:03,680 was being in that moment. Here I am. 331 00:18:03,680 --> 00:18:06,680 I have this audience with the creator of the universe and I'm 332 00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:08,840 giving him a multiple choice quiz. 333 00:18:08,960 --> 00:18:12,280 Stay or go. Which one stay do I feel stay do 334 00:18:12,280 --> 00:18:15,760 I feel go, stay, go. Well, I was only reading the New 335 00:18:15,760 --> 00:18:17,880 Testament back then and maybe I might do. 336 00:18:17,960 --> 00:18:21,920 I did Psalms, Proverbs, little bit of the stories and and I 337 00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:25,800 visited Isaiah, but I had never gone into the book of Jeremiah 338 00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:27,320 because I'd heard he's the weeping prophet. 339 00:18:27,320 --> 00:18:29,080 I'm like, stay out of Jeremiah. It's not time. 340 00:18:29,080 --> 00:18:32,320 It's not time for Jeremiah been say for a year and a half and I 341 00:18:32,320 --> 00:18:38,880 heard in my spirit, I heard Jeremiah 29 verse 11 and 12 and 342 00:18:38,880 --> 00:18:41,440 I thought, Oh, I don't even know if there's 29. 343 00:18:41,720 --> 00:18:44,640 So I so I went to the I was like, oh, there's more than 29 344 00:18:44,920 --> 00:18:46,120 and how? Long is he weeping. 345 00:18:46,840 --> 00:18:49,280 I know he was sad. There was a lot of there was a 346 00:18:49,280 --> 00:18:51,600 lot of emotional hostage with Jeremiah. 347 00:18:51,920 --> 00:18:58,840 But I go to Jeremiah 2911 and it says if you call upon me, I will 348 00:18:58,840 --> 00:19:02,360 answer you. I'm like, OK, Yeah. 349 00:19:02,360 --> 00:19:05,720 And he's like and and he says, I know the plans I have for you. 350 00:19:05,720 --> 00:19:10,440 Plans of hope to give you a hope in the future, plan to do good 351 00:19:10,440 --> 00:19:12,000 and not to harm. And I was like, OK, what's the 352 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:14,440 plan? And he just kept showing me the 353 00:19:14,440 --> 00:19:19,240 scripture and I realized, wait, he has a plan and I have a brain 354 00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:23,400 and I am in a toxic work environment and I am a brand new 355 00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:26,680 baby Christian. I don't need to be in a toxic 356 00:19:26,680 --> 00:19:29,720 work environment. I don't need to be afraid to 357 00:19:29,720 --> 00:19:33,800 leave. And God has a plan that's bigger 358 00:19:34,200 --> 00:19:37,000 than this moment. And so I remember instead of 359 00:19:37,200 --> 00:19:40,120 making a decision out of fear or making a decision out of 360 00:19:40,120 --> 00:19:43,560 confusion or even being bitter, me like y'all are toxic. 361 00:19:43,840 --> 00:19:46,840 I came in and I said, you know, I just, I'm turning in my 362 00:19:46,840 --> 00:19:49,440 resignation. I just really feel like God is 363 00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:52,880 saying I want you to pursue me for the next step, which was 364 00:19:52,880 --> 00:19:55,360 really scary because I didn't have another job. 365 00:19:55,360 --> 00:19:56,560 So you know what I did Christian? 366 00:19:57,240 --> 00:20:02,400 I sat down with a pen and a piece of paper. 367 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:05,680 And I said, God, I need you to speak to me. 368 00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:10,960 I need you to speak to me. God, I don't, I don't know what 369 00:20:11,040 --> 00:20:15,240 I my way forward, but you do. And I really had such a sense. 370 00:20:15,240 --> 00:20:17,400 He was like, I want you to write some things out. 371 00:20:18,280 --> 00:20:24,800 And I wrote out all the things I've ever desired to do in my 372 00:20:24,800 --> 00:20:27,360 life. And that was a very scary thing 373 00:20:27,360 --> 00:20:31,520 because most people will find that they can, they will try to 374 00:20:31,520 --> 00:20:33,760 disqualify themselves. They'll be like, oh, you're not 375 00:20:33,760 --> 00:20:35,640 smart enough to do that. Oh, you have no experience. 376 00:20:35,840 --> 00:20:38,040 Oh, you don't have any money. Oh, you don't know anybody that 377 00:20:38,040 --> 00:20:39,920 did that. But I wrote, I want to travel. 378 00:20:40,520 --> 00:20:42,520 And of course, as soon as I wrote that, I heard the enemy 379 00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:45,840 say, who would send you? Who would ask you what? 380 00:20:46,040 --> 00:20:48,120 Why would you? Why would you want to travel? 381 00:20:48,320 --> 00:20:49,520 What? What good would you be 382 00:20:49,640 --> 00:20:53,400 traveling? And then I want I want to I want 383 00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:56,320 to speak life to women. You don't even like women. 384 00:20:56,320 --> 00:21:00,320 What I mean, like every single thought I wrote down, but I 385 00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:03,680 decided I would write it and then I surrendered it all to 386 00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:06,360 God. Like I wrote it all out and in 387 00:21:06,360 --> 00:21:10,120 it created a pathway. And then like I consecrated that 388 00:21:10,120 --> 00:21:14,040 and say, God, I ask you, you said you have a plan. 389 00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:18,200 I'm going to, I'm going to lay down the desires of my heart. 390 00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:22,000 You sort out what's actually you and what's actually flesh. 391 00:21:22,480 --> 00:21:25,080 And he did that for me, and he started opening doors that were 392 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:28,800 astounding. That is so powerful too, and I 393 00:21:28,800 --> 00:21:30,400 love that. Reminds me what you said earlier 394 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:33,320 of maybe you're praying for the one thing, but we forget in that 395 00:21:33,320 --> 00:21:35,880 moment when we're praying with our full heart, hey, you've also 396 00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:38,480 prayed these other things. And sometimes God's alignment 397 00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:42,560 isn't unweaving that if we focus in so much of I have to have the 398 00:21:42,560 --> 00:21:44,200 answer right now, it's a yes or a no. 399 00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:47,840 We can forget that he's already doing some other things at work. 400 00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:51,200 But that brings up a question that other people ask of OK, 401 00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:53,560 Lisa, that's awesome. God heard your prayer. 402 00:21:53,560 --> 00:21:56,160 He answered you. He's made things come about. 403 00:21:56,160 --> 00:21:58,840 But does God hear everyone's prayers? 404 00:21:59,320 --> 00:22:02,320 Yes, God hears everyone's prayers. 405 00:22:02,480 --> 00:22:04,560 Does he answer everyone's prayers? 406 00:22:04,560 --> 00:22:08,240 Not usually the way we think he's going to answer and never 407 00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:11,200 in the timing. I mean, I shouldn't say never, 408 00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:13,120 but it feels like it's never in the timing. 409 00:22:13,280 --> 00:22:17,160 So God hears every prayer. But but it's it's interesting. 410 00:22:17,840 --> 00:22:23,000 There are things that position us that God hears faith, you 411 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:27,240 know, So I mean, we can, we can go through a hard season and 412 00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:30,960 pray the words of Psalm. We can, we can echo David's 413 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:34,480 words, but we need to echo all of it because David's like it's 414 00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:36,640 so dark. Everybody hates me. 415 00:22:36,800 --> 00:22:39,520 They're all going to kill me. It's so bad. 416 00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:42,400 I'm depressed. There's nothing but weeping on 417 00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:44,640 my bed. But then he flips it. 418 00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:47,920 He always flips it and says, but you owe God. 419 00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:50,760 So we can pour out our soul to God. 420 00:22:51,040 --> 00:22:53,760 But then we've got to be able to flip it back to who is our 421 00:22:53,760 --> 00:22:57,160 source and who is our answer. And a lot of times people just 422 00:22:57,160 --> 00:23:00,200 make themselves the source. You know, I was in the dentist 423 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:03,600 office yesterday and I, I rare, very rarely listen to 424 00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:08,280 contemporary Christian music. But I was listening and so much 425 00:23:08,280 --> 00:23:13,120 of the focus of contemporary Christian music is self. 426 00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:19,240 It's me, myself, my needs. The enemy's after me. 427 00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:22,200 He's shaming me. He's hindering me. 428 00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:27,360 I'm like, you've got to, you've got to turn this back to the one 429 00:23:27,360 --> 00:23:31,880 who is our answer. And and again, God wants to 430 00:23:31,880 --> 00:23:35,760 answer everybody, but we do need to come to him in faith and 431 00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:38,560 faith is actually believing that God #1 is. 432 00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:43,480 So he is and that he is a rewarder of those who diligently 433 00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:46,400 seek them, seek him. So if we believe that God is, 434 00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:49,920 but we don't believe he'll hear or listen, which really goes to 435 00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:51,920 a factor of goodness. If we don't believe that God is 436 00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:56,360 good, or we believe that God is good for Christian but not for 437 00:23:56,360 --> 00:23:59,520 Lisa, or we believe that God is good for Christian and Lisa but 438 00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:04,120 not for you, then you need to adjust how you see God. 439 00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:09,200 See, God actually wants you. Again, He wants you to ask, but 440 00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:13,920 He also wants you to understand that He is good. 441 00:24:14,120 --> 00:24:19,280 He is not trying to punish you, but He will allow circumstances 442 00:24:19,280 --> 00:24:22,480 sometimes to take you out so that you cry out. 443 00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:26,920 You know, one of my favorite, not favorite scriptures is in 444 00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:29,640 the book of James book of James chapter one. 445 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:32,480 I'm going to read it out of the message paraphrase because it's 446 00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:36,120 it's actually kind of funny. It opens up with in verse 2 447 00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:40,000 considered a sheer gift. Friends, when tests and 448 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:44,680 challenges come at you from all sides, who thinks that's a gift? 449 00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:48,920 I'm picturing dodgeball like you're just trying to stay 450 00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:51,840 alive. All sides, not just one side, 451 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:53,200 all sides. God's like. 452 00:24:53,280 --> 00:24:58,040 It's a gift when you are in a spiritual ambush. 453 00:24:58,040 --> 00:25:01,280 I'm like, that doesn't feel like a gift because he goes on to 454 00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:05,520 say, you know that under pressure your faith life is 455 00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:09,840 forced into the open and shows it's true colors. 456 00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:14,080 So Christian, when we find ourselves in a situation where 457 00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:20,040 we are surrounded by the enemy, what we turn to reveals what we 458 00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:22,800 trust in. And there there are so many 459 00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:27,080 people that turn to social media, turn to food, turn to, 460 00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:30,320 you know, turn against friends or whatever it is, turn to 461 00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:33,760 criticism when God is saying turn to me. 462 00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:38,760 So God sees ambushes without any means of escape to be an 463 00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:41,320 opportunity to show himself strong. 464 00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:44,600 I mean, when we see the children of Israel, all of a sudden 465 00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:48,480 they've escaped the Egyptian God's like, I'm going to harden 466 00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:52,720 Pharaoh's heart one more time. And they find themselves between 467 00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:58,000 the Egyptian army and the Red Sea and God's like, I got this 468 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:02,320 one, be still and know I'm God, I'm going to do something. 469 00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:04,920 And so you're in a situation where you're like, God, better 470 00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:07,840 do something. Well, I want you just to 471 00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:10,440 understand this is an opportunity for you to actually 472 00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:14,840 assess your faith life. And then it goes on to say, so 473 00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:17,720 don't try to get out of anything prematurely. 474 00:26:18,120 --> 00:26:21,400 Let it do its work so you can become mature and well 475 00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:23,680 developed, not deficient in any way. 476 00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:27,680 So when we're in a situation that seems overwhelming, we say, 477 00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:30,600 God, what, what are you doing in this month? 478 00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:32,280 Like you just had, you just had a baby. 479 00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:35,520 And I noticed you just posted, you just posted some of your 480 00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:40,920 childbirth pictures. And sometimes those babies, 481 00:26:42,120 --> 00:26:44,640 yeah, sometimes those babies don't come out as fast as we'd 482 00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:49,280 like them to. But what we forget is when 483 00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:53,560 they're going through the pressure of birth, God is 484 00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:55,680 actually clearing out their lungs of fluid. 485 00:26:56,200 --> 00:27:01,280 It's actually waking them up. It's actually preparing them for 486 00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:04,600 birth. And so there is a preparation 487 00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:07,800 process where God is like stop trying to get out of it 488 00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:10,720 prematurely. Let it do its work. 489 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:14,400 God is asking us to mature and, and that process between the 490 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:18,000 time we pray and the time we see the answer to prayer is an 491 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:21,840 opportunity for maturing. And then it says, if you don't 492 00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:24,320 know what you're doing, half the time I don't even know where I 493 00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:28,040 am, let alone what I'm doing is this, Pray to the Father. 494 00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:31,720 He loves to help. You'll get his help and won't be 495 00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:33,960 condescended to when you ask for it. 496 00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:36,800 So God is like, hey, if you don't know what you're doing, 497 00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:40,680 ask me. He wants to be involved in our 498 00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:42,200 lives. If you're like, I got teenagers 499 00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:47,160 and I don't know what I'm doing, ask God don't always look to 500 00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:49,920 people. So there's so many people that 501 00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:54,040 they're not asking God, they're asking an expert or an 502 00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:59,640 influencer or this counselor. And those are those are those 503 00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:02,880 are wise people that might have some tools, but God understands 504 00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:07,840 the specifics of your situation. We need to have some lean into 505 00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:10,680 the Holy Spirit moments. We need to have some people that 506 00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:13,960 have supernatural insight. We need some words of wisdom and 507 00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:18,080 words of knowledge when it comes to parenting our children or 508 00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:21,760 loving our husbands or living just with other people or 509 00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:24,040 disappointment. And then this is the part that 510 00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:28,720 you and I love. Ask boldly, as boldly see you 511 00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:33,840 and I have been granted an audience that we can come into 512 00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:39,400 God's throne room confident that we will find mercy and grace in 513 00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:43,200 our time of need. So we can come there knowing 514 00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:47,920 that there is provision even if we don't see it yet. 515 00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:51,200 And I think that's the in between time that a lot of 516 00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:54,760 people are in. And when you get so acquainted 517 00:28:56,400 --> 00:29:00,240 with disappointment in the season of waiting, too many 518 00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:02,280 people castaway their confidence. 519 00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:04,640 They just say it isn't happening yet. 520 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:06,520 It's probably not going to happen at all. 521 00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:11,800 And then they they leave behind often the very answers to the 522 00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:14,920 prayers they're longing for. And that's when we turn to that 523 00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:17,480 numbing, as you were saying, which I get it. 524 00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:20,840 No, no discrediting anyone that's there because it's so 525 00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:23,720 available when an answer feels so far away. 526 00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:27,320 But I love the verses that say suffer with him and we've been 527 00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:29,960 crucified with Christ. I don't initially love them when 528 00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:32,520 I read them, but I love them when I'm in that season because 529 00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:34,920 I remember, oh, this is doing something. 530 00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:37,320 And you talked about intercessory prayer. 531 00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:40,760 I feel like when you go through those seasons, it awakens 532 00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:42,760 something. You can pray those bold prayers. 533 00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:45,640 You can cry out for people because you know what it's been 534 00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:47,160 like? You know what it's like for God 535 00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:51,680 to show up, and it's almost great to have the stripping away 536 00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:53,320 of. Nothing else can satisfy this 537 00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:55,040 desire. Nothing can heal my broken heart 538 00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:58,040 like God. So how did you start interceding 539 00:29:58,360 --> 00:30:01,280 for your family? Or maybe let me ask this, what 540 00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:03,840 in your life shaped the way that you interceded? 541 00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:09,800 Yeah, I would say the word of God is what shaped my life and 542 00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:15,080 and seeing seeing God be very faithful to watch over his word 543 00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:18,960 to perform it. So not so much intercession as 544 00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:24,200 it is I thank you Father God, that your word says my children 545 00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:26,680 will be disciples taught of the Lord and great will be their 546 00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:30,680 peace and undisturbed composure, which right now that needs to be 547 00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:34,040 a promise from the book of Isaiah for every single parent 548 00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:36,640 that's constantly being sent the messaging. 549 00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:38,680 Your children are going to be anxious, they're going to be 550 00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:41,640 overcome with anxiety or you're going to be anxious. 551 00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:44,760 You are going to be a slave to anxiety and a spirit of fear for 552 00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:46,640 the rest of your life. Oh wait. 553 00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:50,240 God has not given me a spirit of fear, but of love, power, and a 554 00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:54,000 sound mind. But again, what I'm quoting is 555 00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:58,720 scripture and it's not, it's not a Word of Faith thing to quote 556 00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:03,040 scripture. God actually says He wants us to 557 00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:06,440 speak His word. He wants us to speak His word to 558 00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:09,000 Him because He says it will not return unto Him void. 559 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:14,320 So that means I have to say it like He releases it and then I 560 00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:19,400 echo it and my echo of his divine will means he's going to 561 00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:22,400 watch over to perform it, not the way I want him to perform it 562 00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:25,560 the way he sees it needs to be performed. 563 00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:28,600 So for my children, I didn't say and I thank you one will be a 564 00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:30,840 doctor and I think you one will be an attorney. 565 00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:35,400 And I thank you that the I've tried to pray the word of God 566 00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:39,640 and createspace for them, but not specifics. 567 00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:44,200 And so I feel like right now, too many of us, we pray, we pray 568 00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:50,960 small and God's like pray big, pray, pray a wide open space and 569 00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:55,000 not so much specifics unless God has told you to specifically 570 00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:59,760 pray for a specific area of your life or your marriage or 571 00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:03,080 whatever is going on. But but I do feel like right now 572 00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:06,480 there needs to be bold prayers. I feel like the enemy has 573 00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:10,640 intimidated, intimidated, intimidated, and we need to 574 00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:14,760 actually find our voice back and begin to speak the word of God 575 00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:18,080 with confidence. You don't have to question God's 576 00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:20,760 will if you know His word. So what's a bold prayer? 577 00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:22,480 Can you give an example? Because I heard you say 578 00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:23,840 beginning. It doesn't mean you're shouting 579 00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:26,200 from the rooftops. No, it's, it's, it's not, it's 580 00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:29,400 not about, it's not about volume, it's about authority. 581 00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:32,400 So I mean, we'll just go with the our Father. 582 00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:35,920 You know, when it says our Father who art in heaven, 583 00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:40,240 hallowed or holy is your name, then it says thy Kingdom come. 584 00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:43,960 That's pretty bold. Thy will be done on earth as it 585 00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:45,960 is in heaven. Then we're like, OK, so we've 586 00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:52,440 just now established that we want God to invade earth with 587 00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:54,920 heaven. And then he says, give us this 588 00:32:54,960 --> 00:33:00,640 day, Our Daily Bread and forgive us our debts as we forgive our 589 00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:03,680 debtors are forgive us our sins as we forgive the sins of 590 00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:05,600 others. That right there is another 591 00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:09,320 like, whoa, whoa, how am I? How am I forgiving other people? 592 00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:12,560 Because that's the measure that's going to be used with me. 593 00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:14,520 And then, you know, so we've got this part. 594 00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:17,880 And then he says, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver 595 00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:21,640 us from evil. And then some versions go on to 596 00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:25,200 say, for thine is the Kingdom and the power and the glory now 597 00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:28,560 and forever. So we've got this sandwiching of 598 00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:32,800 a holy God with never ending dominion. 599 00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:38,000 And that to me is one of the most bold invasion prayers that 600 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:41,200 we are saying God, we want a divine echo between heaven and 601 00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:45,360 earth, earth and heaven. We want to walk that out in our 602 00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:46,400 life. And and. 603 00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:49,360 It doesn't have specifics, but it certainly creates space. 604 00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:53,200 I love when you said in one of your books, when you pray 605 00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:56,800 radical prayers, you get practical answers and don't pray 606 00:33:56,800 --> 00:33:59,640 for lighter burdens, pray for stronger backs. 607 00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:03,520 And I'm picturing right now maybe the single mother that 608 00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:06,640 says I want to intercede for my children, but I don't feel like 609 00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:09,920 a prayer warrior. I actually feel burdened down. 610 00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:13,719 How would you just start to begin to cultivate powerful 611 00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:17,679 prayers if you're in a season of you feel broken or you're just 612 00:34:17,679 --> 00:34:19,400 starting to pray? Yes. 613 00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:22,000 Yes, please answer that one for me. 614 00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:25,080 Well, I mean, I I do want to say there was seasons in my life 615 00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:28,840 Christian that the only time I prayed really that I would say 616 00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:32,199 were official. I mean, there was a prayer of 617 00:34:32,199 --> 00:34:35,040 God, just help me get the kids to bed, help me get the kids 618 00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:36,880 down. For the only time I prayed 619 00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:40,199 prayers that were structured and out loud was when I put my kids 620 00:34:40,199 --> 00:34:42,560 to bed. And when I would lay in the bed 621 00:34:42,560 --> 00:34:45,080 first thing in the morning, I'd be like, oh God, let me be slow 622 00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:47,000 to speak quick, listen slow to wrath. 623 00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:49,320 God, just help me, help me to be patient. 624 00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:52,000 Let patience have. It's perfect work in me today 625 00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:54,400 before I even climbed out of the bed. 626 00:34:54,840 --> 00:35:01,240 But there was a season that just praying over the sweetness of my 627 00:35:01,240 --> 00:35:04,680 children was basically all I did. 628 00:35:05,720 --> 00:35:08,520 But then that season has something added to it. 629 00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:11,600 And what if you don't want to get trapped in one season? 630 00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:14,720 You take the strength of that season and you layer it with the 631 00:35:14,720 --> 00:35:16,920 next season. And then there started to be a 632 00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:19,400 husband who traveled who would call me and say, I'm in a hotel 633 00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:21,160 room. I'm really feeling discouraged. 634 00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:24,040 Will you pray for me? And and so then I'm like, OK, 635 00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:26,400 what would that feel like? And I'm over the phone and I'm 636 00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:30,240 saying, all right, you know, I'm just believing that the Spirit 637 00:35:30,240 --> 00:35:33,000 of divine courage is going to come over you, that that God is 638 00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:35,200 going to speak through you, that you're going to go into that 639 00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:37,040 meeting. And even if the enemy makes you 640 00:35:37,040 --> 00:35:39,920 feel small right now, the Holy Spirit's going to show up big. 641 00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:44,240 And I would begin to pray fierce, radical prayers. 642 00:35:44,440 --> 00:35:46,680 And I didn't pray what I saw in the natural. 643 00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:49,760 I prayed what I saw in my spirit. 644 00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:53,520 And too many people pray according to their circumstances 645 00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:58,880 instead of according to God's will or their hope. 646 00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:02,120 You know, I, I think, I feel like, and just to the mom, young 647 00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:04,920 mom out there, listen, you cannot pray in response to 648 00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:07,320 culture. You know, if you look at all of 649 00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:10,600 the magazines, all the things you're seeing on social media, 650 00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:12,320 you're like, there's no hope for my kids. 651 00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:13,480 There's no hope. There's no hope. 652 00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:16,320 I mean, I'm just I. Don't eat anything, go anywhere. 653 00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:18,920 Yeah, exactly. There's plastics. 654 00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:20,040 They're putting stuff in the air. 655 00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:22,960 Whatever is going on, you will be overwhelmed. 656 00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:28,000 Do not allow culture to form your prayers. 657 00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:32,440 Allow scripture to form your prayers. 658 00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:35,760 Again, that's what I had to do with my children. 659 00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:39,040 I didn't have anybody model it for me. 660 00:36:39,240 --> 00:36:42,640 But here's the thing, you can actually, there's so many 661 00:36:42,640 --> 00:36:47,320 opportunities right now to find scriptures to pray over your 662 00:36:47,320 --> 00:36:51,680 children. For me Isaiah 54 was such a huge 663 00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:55,040 testimony that my children would be disciples taught of the Lord 664 00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:57,760 not to taught of their mom taught of the Lord and great 665 00:36:57,760 --> 00:37:01,520 would be their peace that any failure on my part would if they 666 00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:06,000 would find framework in God's word that God spirit would make 667 00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:10,480 up every single gap. Do not pray according to the 668 00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:13,720 cultural fears Lift up your voice. 669 00:37:13,720 --> 00:37:17,840 Believe believe that God has something bigger for your kids. 670 00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:21,520 I believe, I believe we're in a season of crossing over from the 671 00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:24,400 oppression of people to the promises of God. 672 00:37:24,560 --> 00:37:27,320 And whenever you're in that transition, you're going to have 673 00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:30,000 the naysayers that are going to say, oh, the giants in the land 674 00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:32,720 are too big. They're going to overcome our 675 00:37:32,720 --> 00:37:34,080 children. They're going to consume our 676 00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:36,520 families. I'm going to tell you right now, 677 00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:39,920 I believe that fear is a horrible counselor. 678 00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:44,920 And you can pray radical big prayers over yourself, over your 679 00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:48,720 life, over your marriage, over your children, over your 680 00:37:48,720 --> 00:37:51,320 finances. You know, it's, it's even if 681 00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:54,200 that's even a shock to me because they're like, oh, people 682 00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:56,280 aren't getting married because you just can't afford anything. 683 00:37:56,280 --> 00:38:00,360 Listen, God is the God who gives ideas. 684 00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:03,680 He is the one that gives you the power to create wealth that he 685 00:38:03,680 --> 00:38:06,880 can establish his covenant with you. 686 00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:10,160 So you can be like, I'm not the culture is not giving me the 687 00:38:10,160 --> 00:38:13,760 power to create wealth. God is giving me the power to 688 00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:17,520 create wealth so I can establish his covenant in my life and be 689 00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:22,200 generous to the lives of others. So I want you to pray fierce, 690 00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:25,240 wild prayers. I want you to stop praying 691 00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:28,440 scared prayers. I want you to pray the kind of 692 00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:31,040 prayers that are so bold that when they come out of your 693 00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:32,880 mouth, you're like, who said that? 694 00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:35,120 Who said that? But you're going to have to get 695 00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:38,080 into the word of God and you're going to take the word of God 696 00:38:38,080 --> 00:38:41,400 and the things that God impresses on your spirit. 697 00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:46,600 I want you to allow those things to be alive in you and then come 698 00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:49,360 out your mouth with boldness and strength. 699 00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:51,920 And I'm Christian. I want, I want to pray right now 700 00:38:52,240 --> 00:38:55,840 for these young girls that feel like they can't get pregnant. 701 00:38:57,720 --> 00:39:03,720 So, Father, you said that children are your inheritance. 702 00:39:03,720 --> 00:39:07,560 I don't care what the enemy tries to do. 703 00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:09,800 You are the God of the supernatural. 704 00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:12,280 You make 75 year old woman get pregnant. 705 00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:15,000 Surely you can do this with 25 year olds. 706 00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:18,760 God, I thank you that you are the one that opens wombs. 707 00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:20,320 You are the one that closes them. 708 00:39:20,560 --> 00:39:26,600 And so I come against the enemy scheme to rob generations of 709 00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:31,440 legacy, to rob disciples. I speak to wombs. 710 00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:35,680 I speak to the seed and man. I speak to the wombs of women 711 00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:40,120 that they will be fertiles that they'll be disciples raised up 712 00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:43,880 for signs and wonders and miracles and that every single 713 00:39:43,880 --> 00:39:46,920 child that is given to these parents. 714 00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:51,080 They will know that that child is a testimony to the 715 00:39:51,080 --> 00:39:54,680 faithfulness of God in Jesus name, Amen. 716 00:39:55,040 --> 00:39:56,680 Well, I hope this is encourage you. 717 00:39:56,680 --> 00:40:00,680 We we believe in radical prayer. We want to hear from you. 718 00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:05,280 We want you to dive into the word of God and I I just hope 719 00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:09,360 your faith is stirred right now and if you're in a circumstance 720 00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:12,960 that feels overwhelming. I want you to know you can speak 721 00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:16,720 to that storm and you can use the word of God and say peace be 722 00:40:16,720 --> 00:40:19,560 still and God, whatever you want to get through my life through 723 00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:22,120 this. Do it, but I am not going to 724 00:40:22,120 --> 00:40:25,040 allow the devil to have his way in my life. 725 00:40:25,520 --> 00:40:27,760 So good and we'd love to hear from you if you are someone 726 00:40:27,760 --> 00:40:30,480 that's praying for something, if you're affected by that prayer 727 00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:34,160 and you do become pregnant because we hear from Lo USUA 728 00:40:34,160 --> 00:40:36,760 2416. She said thank you for teaching 729 00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:38,560 the word. This is truly not a time to 730 00:40:38,560 --> 00:40:41,560 wring our hands, but to hit our knees and contend. 731 00:40:41,560 --> 00:40:43,400 So thank you for sharing these prayers. 732 00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:48,000 We hope that they mobilize you and let us know if and how they 733 00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:50,320 do. So if this podcast has spoken to 734 00:40:50,320 --> 00:40:53,040 you, we want to hear from you and we want to invite you to 735 00:40:53,040 --> 00:40:55,080 subscribe. When you subscribe, it actually 736 00:40:55,080 --> 00:40:59,440 really helps us get it out there further and we have some special 737 00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:02,240 things coming up that you're not going to want to miss. 738 00:41:02,640 --> 00:41:03,720 So subscribe now.