1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:04,240 Welcome to the official podcast of Rock Hill Baptist Church 2 2 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:07,480 where we are focused on glorifying God, spreading the 3 00:00:07,480 --> 00:00:11,840 gospel, and making disciples of Jesus Christ right here in the 4 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:16,520 heart of Greenville, SC. Each week we bring you a life 5 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:20,600 changing word from our Senior Pastor, Pastor Matthew D Long 6 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:23,760 Junior, or one of our anointed guest speakers. 7 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:27,920 We pray this message strengthens your faith, deepens your 8 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:32,479 understanding, and empowers you to elevate in every area of your 9 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:35,840 life. Let's join the service already 10 00:00:35,840 --> 00:00:45,400 in progress. Bless his name, Father, I thank 11 00:00:45,400 --> 00:00:51,080 you now as I stand. I pray, Father, that you will 12 00:00:51,080 --> 00:00:56,040 have your divine way, that you will use us truly for your 13 00:00:56,040 --> 00:01:02,760 glory, that the words that proceed from my mouth will be 14 00:01:02,840 --> 00:01:08,800 captured by ears open to heaven, that Lord, we will hear you in 15 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:14,440 the Spirit, and that we will see You and your mighty hand working 16 00:01:14,440 --> 00:01:18,320 upon us and in us. We thank you, God, for your 17 00:01:18,320 --> 00:01:23,800 presence that's already here. Thank you for showing up for us 18 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:25,920 because we invoked your presence. 19 00:01:27,160 --> 00:01:32,000 We thank you for a leader who loves you so much that knows not 20 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:36,840 only how to teach, but God to bring the people into a place of 21 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:42,920 worship that you would see fit to show up and sit among us. 22 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:48,840 So God, we glorify you, we magnify you and we wait with 23 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:53,760 great expectation for what it is you desire to do tonight in 24 00:01:53,880 --> 00:01:59,080 Jesus name, Amen and Amen. How many of you all have a 25 00:01:59,080 --> 00:02:03,000 lifestyle of powerful prayer? Anybody have a lifestyle of 26 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:05,160 prayer? I know that's a hard question 27 00:02:05,160 --> 00:02:09,080 because many of us don't know what that might mean, right? 28 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:14,280 We consider it that I find a moment, I find some time to 29 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:17,600 pray, but it's like Pastor Matt said earlier, it's more than an 30 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:21,120 act is a it's a posture of life for us. 31 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:24,560 And since you're here tonight, I pray that I'm able to give you 32 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:28,320 something that's going to help piggyback off what Pastor has 33 00:02:28,320 --> 00:02:32,520 already shared, but that will take you a little bit deeper and 34 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:35,600 a little bit further. I'm honored to be able to stand 35 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:40,240 tonight and to be able to share on intercession. 36 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:45,760 That is truly the gift. Some I don't even know how to 37 00:02:45,760 --> 00:02:49,680 put it, but that is where God moves in me most. 38 00:02:50,040 --> 00:02:53,720 And it all started in intercessory prayer where He 39 00:02:53,720 --> 00:02:58,200 began to open up to me that I could even hear His voice to 40 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:01,680 know what He desired of me to do. 41 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:07,360 And when I got it, Oh my God, things begin to change and they 42 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:11,760 begin to shift in my life and not only in my life, but for the 43 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:16,040 lives of others who were around me and that were in my presence. 44 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:21,800 So this is what God desires of us is to be able to understand 45 00:03:22,040 --> 00:03:26,960 how deep of a relationship you have with him that you can meet 46 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:30,560 him and that he will meet you in that prayer room. 47 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:33,280 Amen. So tonight I want to use as my 48 00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:40,000 base Scripture James chapter 516 B New King James Version says, 49 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:44,800 and that's James chapter 5 verse 16 B new King James version said 50 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:50,680 the effective what fervent prayer of a righteous man, what 51 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:55,880 avails much glory to God, You just take that scripture home 52 00:03:55,880 --> 00:03:58,920 with you and you keep working on that because what he wants us to 53 00:03:58,920 --> 00:04:01,440 know is that it prayer is more than an act. 54 00:04:01,600 --> 00:04:04,240 How many of us just get into a moment or we get into a 55 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:07,800 situation, we get into a problem and we begin to then call on the 56 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:10,800 name of the Lord. But when things are going great 57 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:13,640 and we just moving about and God is blessing us and we seeing 58 00:04:13,640 --> 00:04:16,600 blessings on the left and on the right, how many times do we 59 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:19,880 pray? Then it's usually when we get in 60 00:04:19,880 --> 00:04:24,080 trouble or when we have a problem or when there is a pain 61 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:26,320 or when there is something going on. 62 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:29,320 Somebody's in trouble, somebody needs help and that's when we 63 00:04:29,320 --> 00:04:33,200 begin to cry out. And most of the time when we cry 64 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:35,440 out, it's really not for somebody else, it's for 65 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:38,000 ourselves. But God wants us to know that 66 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:43,000 prayer is not just an act, but it is a lifestyle when you can 67 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:45,600 make prayer a part of your daily life. 68 00:04:46,280 --> 00:04:49,400 I said it Wednesday night. Elder Nicole and I were sitting 69 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:51,960 on our time at the table Bible study. 70 00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:54,800 And one of the things that he said is that, you know, we, we, 71 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:58,200 we don't know how to get into the presence of God or we don't 72 00:04:58,200 --> 00:05:00,840 know how to do certain things until there's a problem. 73 00:05:03,200 --> 00:05:06,160 It's the truth. It has to be a problem before we 74 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:09,080 enact something to go forward, right? 75 00:05:09,200 --> 00:05:12,760 So many of us struggle with prayer because we view it as an 76 00:05:12,800 --> 00:05:19,320 occasional practice, an occasional practice, rather than 77 00:05:19,320 --> 00:05:26,280 a daily posture saying if you want something to happen. 78 00:05:26,760 --> 00:05:30,040 You should be. Praying and you don't want 79 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:32,680 something to happen. Here and there, right? 80 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:35,440 Don't we look for the blessings of God every day? 81 00:05:35,640 --> 00:05:39,760 Don't we look for the goodness of God every day when you get 82 00:05:39,760 --> 00:05:41,240 up, it should not thank you, baby. 83 00:05:41,440 --> 00:05:43,840 We should not you. She clapping her hands. 84 00:05:45,160 --> 00:05:51,560 She just handled business. So we've got to learn that we 85 00:05:51,560 --> 00:05:55,440 can't just wait until problems come and troubles come that it 86 00:05:55,440 --> 00:05:57,960 should be a daily posture for us, right? 87 00:05:58,440 --> 00:06:01,120 And that's an important it's a way of life. 88 00:06:02,200 --> 00:06:05,840 How many of us do this daily? We could be honest with each 89 00:06:05,840 --> 00:06:08,200 other because this is a lock in. Don't nobody out there know what 90 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:10,680 we talking about? So be honest. 91 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:13,560 Shay, it's so good to see you so. 92 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:18,360 We have to make it a priority to be a part of our daily life and 93 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:21,800 we should understand the posture in which we are to be called to 94 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:24,440 pray, right? We it should be a daily thing 95 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:27,720 for us. This it transforms not only our 96 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:31,240 lives, but you think about how it transforms the lives around 97 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:33,440 you. I remember when I started an 98 00:06:33,440 --> 00:06:36,160 intercessory prayer, there were people that would come. 99 00:06:37,080 --> 00:06:38,720 Here and there and things would change. 100 00:06:38,720 --> 00:06:40,120 They would come and get what they need. 101 00:06:40,280 --> 00:06:43,800 But I can stand as a testament today that Elder Nicole has been 102 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:46,960 with me at the ministry. We were at Saint Luke together 103 00:06:46,960 --> 00:06:49,240 under our great pastor, Doctor Roy C Jeffco. 104 00:06:49,520 --> 00:06:53,480 And then she followed me and we've been together for 16 105 00:06:53,480 --> 00:06:55,920 years. But it all started in the 106 00:06:55,920 --> 00:07:00,880 intercessory prayer room, and now she's one of my leading the 107 00:07:00,920 --> 00:07:03,280 the leading intercessor in the ministry. 108 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:08,440 That's because what God did in me had to transform those around 109 00:07:08,440 --> 00:07:12,480 me so that we can reach more than what we're doing right? 110 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:15,200 So our prayers are not just for ourselves. 111 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:18,960 And I'm talking this because I want to hone in on intercession 112 00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:22,360 tonight. If you're willing to do it and 113 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:25,480 pray for someone else, God, go bounce. 114 00:07:25,920 --> 00:07:28,720 They're bouncing sound. It's going to come back for you. 115 00:07:29,640 --> 00:07:33,560 What? Who what you make happen for 116 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:36,440 someone else, God will make happen for you. 117 00:07:37,320 --> 00:07:40,880 Bless his name, somebody. So it transformed not only our 118 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:43,200 personal walk but the lives of those around us. 119 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:47,840 God is looking for intercessors. That's a great call. 120 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:51,680 It's a deep. Call and it's not meant. 121 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:55,760 For everybody, but everybody should aspire to be. 122 00:07:57,080 --> 00:08:00,680 Amen. So we got to fill in some gaps. 123 00:08:00,680 --> 00:08:03,360 God wants us to be able to fill in the gaps while there's 124 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:06,560 somebody or stand in the gap for somebody while they're out there 125 00:08:06,560 --> 00:08:08,280 crying. You're somewhere praying 126 00:08:11,560 --> 00:08:16,120 somebody's worried, and you're somewhere praying somebody's 127 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:19,040 real concerned, but you're praying because you're believing 128 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:21,280 God. So we got to develop this 129 00:08:21,280 --> 00:08:24,440 powerful prayer life and we're at stages, different stages of 130 00:08:24,440 --> 00:08:26,160 our life. I heard him say there's babies 131 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:28,920 in the house, there's seniors in the house, there's baby boomers 132 00:08:28,920 --> 00:08:33,559 in the house, there's every age in the house, every generation I 133 00:08:33,559 --> 00:08:37,320 believe is represented. So if that's the case, then what 134 00:08:37,320 --> 00:08:40,960 God is desiring of us to is to have this powerful prayer life, 135 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:44,159 no matter what stage of life you're in. 136 00:08:45,280 --> 00:08:48,200 Come on, somebody. We got to learn how to cry out 137 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:51,320 on behalf of others so that God will show up. 138 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:56,600 So we create. We have to create this divine 139 00:08:56,600 --> 00:09:02,480 atmosphere for God to show up. It happened after teaching and 140 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:06,240 Pastor Matt started praying. The musicians were praying, 141 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:09,560 playing. They were going hand in hand and 142 00:09:09,560 --> 00:09:14,320 I could not sit down on it. That's the type of atmosphere 143 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:17,320 that you're supposed to be setting as a prayer warrior. 144 00:09:17,960 --> 00:09:21,680 Come on with Saints of God, you want stuff to happen, Then we 145 00:09:21,680 --> 00:09:24,640 got to make some things happen. Oh my God. 146 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:29,120 The atmosphere where God shows up and not just show up, but 147 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:33,720 speaks. He said that he speaks, and then 148 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:35,880 what? Something else he said moves 149 00:09:35,880 --> 00:09:39,920 supernaturally. We need a. 150 00:09:39,920 --> 00:09:42,240 God, that could come in when it looks. 151 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:45,640 Like this to us in the natural. He could flip it just like that 152 00:09:46,600 --> 00:09:48,440 and your prayers can take you there. 153 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:52,280 Come on Saints. So I want to talk about 3 154 00:09:52,280 --> 00:09:55,120 different things tonight. First of all, we're talking 155 00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:58,440 about when I said this divine atmosphere, setting this divine 156 00:09:58,440 --> 00:10:01,760 atmosphere, one of the first things we got to do is commit to 157 00:10:01,760 --> 00:10:06,480 the secret place. Commit to the secret place, 158 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:10,120 glory to God. So secret place where God meets 159 00:10:10,120 --> 00:10:11,080 us. Have mercy. 160 00:10:11,080 --> 00:10:17,200 Somebody making prayer a daily priority requires you to commit 161 00:10:17,240 --> 00:10:23,600 to a secret place. Wednesday night, Jesus, I said 162 00:10:23,600 --> 00:10:27,120 Wednesday night, one of the things that was said is and and 163 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:29,560 I was trying to get back to it. That secret place. 164 00:10:29,720 --> 00:10:34,960 We should not be factoring or putting a placeholder. 165 00:10:34,960 --> 00:10:39,080 Well, I'll put God here. How many of us get up every 166 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:41,080 single day and we already got the day journey. 167 00:10:41,400 --> 00:10:42,600 We already know what we got to do. 168 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:44,240 We got to go to work, we got to get this ready. 169 00:10:44,240 --> 00:10:45,960 We got to get kids ready. We got to get on the move. 170 00:10:45,960 --> 00:10:48,800 We got to do that. Where was God in the plan? 171 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:51,480 You got to work, you started working, you started dealing 172 00:10:51,480 --> 00:10:53,760 with people. Then you finally got you're on 173 00:10:53,760 --> 00:10:55,880 your way home and then you got to think about what's for 174 00:10:55,880 --> 00:10:57,920 dinner, what am I going to do? What are we going to do this and 175 00:10:57,920 --> 00:11:00,600 how are we going to do that? Where did God fit into the 176 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:03,680 equation? Did we consider that He would be 177 00:11:03,680 --> 00:11:07,400 the first thing? Did we commit to the secret 178 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:10,560 place? The timing that says when you 179 00:11:10,560 --> 00:11:13,280 commit to the secret place, Matthew 6 and six, what does it 180 00:11:13,280 --> 00:11:16,560 say? Matthew 6:00 and 6:00 But you 181 00:11:16,840 --> 00:11:21,680 when you pray, go into your room and when you have shut the door 182 00:11:22,480 --> 00:11:28,320 prayer, pray to your Father who is in the secret place. 183 00:11:29,760 --> 00:11:33,600 God will meet you where you set up a place for Him to meet you. 184 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:38,280 Where is your altar? What are you doing? 185 00:11:39,320 --> 00:11:40,640 Glory to God. Thank you, deep. 186 00:11:40,640 --> 00:11:44,040 Thank you deep. So the foundation of a powerful 187 00:11:44,040 --> 00:11:49,840 prayer life begins in a secret place, a place that you know 188 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:53,160 that you can be in without distraction. 189 00:11:54,040 --> 00:11:56,800 My husband always tells me, and I share this all the time, is 190 00:11:56,800 --> 00:11:58,840 that he said, what's the tractor trailer turning in your head? 191 00:11:58,840 --> 00:12:00,640 What you thinking about? Because he's like, I'm thinking 192 00:12:00,640 --> 00:12:02,720 about 50 million things at one time. 193 00:12:03,240 --> 00:12:06,680 But you got to find a place where there is no distraction 194 00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:09,080 and you tell your mind to shut up. 195 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:15,280 I'm focused on my God right now. I need to hear something from 196 00:12:15,280 --> 00:12:17,600 him. So what he says is if you go 197 00:12:17,600 --> 00:12:20,640 into that secret place, you will meet him there because he's in 198 00:12:20,640 --> 00:12:24,640 the secret place. So foundation is a powerful 199 00:12:24,640 --> 00:12:27,880 thing. When we pray in secret places, 200 00:12:29,080 --> 00:12:32,040 Jesus often withdrew from the crowds, did he not? 201 00:12:32,040 --> 00:12:32,320 That's. Right. 202 00:12:33,080 --> 00:12:37,520 And as Christians, we are Christ like, have mercy God. 203 00:12:37,720 --> 00:12:40,520 So we too have to withdraw from the crowds. 204 00:12:42,520 --> 00:12:46,280 And so God spend some time with the Father. 205 00:12:47,520 --> 00:12:53,240 Isn't it refreshing when you know, you might be tired, but 206 00:12:53,240 --> 00:12:54,880 you go ahead and you spend that time? 207 00:12:55,400 --> 00:12:59,560 Or how about now that you're used to doing it, you look 208 00:12:59,560 --> 00:13:03,520 forward to it? Many people ought to be looking 209 00:13:03,520 --> 00:13:06,840 forward to prayer time because they know something. 210 00:13:06,840 --> 00:13:11,840 Is going to happen, huh? Jesus withdrew from the crowd so 211 00:13:11,840 --> 00:13:14,920 he could hear and be alone with his Father. 212 00:13:15,480 --> 00:13:19,480 So if you want to become an intercessor who shakes heaven, 213 00:13:20,200 --> 00:13:22,680 glory to God. You can't get by on an 214 00:13:22,680 --> 00:13:25,080 occasional prayer. You got to be rooted and 215 00:13:25,080 --> 00:13:29,400 grounded and be in this thing. That's when things start to 216 00:13:29,400 --> 00:13:31,680 change in the church. That's when things start to 217 00:13:31,680 --> 00:13:33,880 change in the house. That's when things start to 218 00:13:33,880 --> 00:13:39,280 change in your neighborhood. We need to be praying as a 219 00:13:39,280 --> 00:13:45,360 church for the nation secret place to get it done. 220 00:13:45,840 --> 00:13:48,840 So he says that if we're going to become these intercessors and 221 00:13:48,960 --> 00:13:51,480 and even if you don't feel that you're the intercessor, you are 222 00:13:51,480 --> 00:13:53,880 still supposed to be a prayer warrior. 223 00:13:54,360 --> 00:13:57,800 Because if I. I can't get my mouth to open and 224 00:13:57,800 --> 00:13:59,520 I have to wave my hand. You ought to know something 225 00:13:59,520 --> 00:14:01,160 going on. Let me go pray for sis. 226 00:14:04,680 --> 00:14:08,240 While I was over here in the corner and you were praying, 227 00:14:08,240 --> 00:14:11,480 Pastor Matt, I was trying to get myself together because our pain 228 00:14:11,480 --> 00:14:13,800 hit me up the right side of my head. 229 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:17,200 And usually when pain strikes me somewhere, it's somebody else 230 00:14:17,200 --> 00:14:19,760 I'm feeling. I don't know what it is, who it 231 00:14:19,760 --> 00:14:23,920 is, where they are, but I begin to pray as I touched my head. 232 00:14:24,520 --> 00:14:27,760 I was interceding for somebody, somewhere. 233 00:14:28,480 --> 00:14:31,600 You got to know when God is doing, having unctions on you, 234 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:36,600 when you're moving, have mercy. So to become an innocent, you 235 00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:39,160 got to be able to shake heaven, my God. 236 00:14:39,720 --> 00:14:45,080 We must make it personal and intimate time with God. 237 00:14:45,640 --> 00:14:47,840 That's when things begin to shift in your life. 238 00:14:47,840 --> 00:14:52,120 My God, you said some people been praying for 24 days and so 239 00:14:52,120 --> 00:14:56,080 many years for something and then you want to give up. 240 00:14:57,240 --> 00:14:59,480 Intercession is praying without stopping. 241 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:02,160 That's right. I don't care how long it is. 242 00:15:02,160 --> 00:15:06,440 And I got stories to tell of how long I prayed. 243 00:15:06,680 --> 00:15:10,680 But God has shown up over and over again. 244 00:15:11,320 --> 00:15:14,600 So how do you develop this strong secret place? 245 00:15:14,800 --> 00:15:17,520 Glory to God. Have mercy. 246 00:15:17,640 --> 00:15:21,040 Y'all remember Daniel, right? Daniel 6 and 10. 247 00:15:21,040 --> 00:15:23,880 I don't have it up to read, but I made a note of it because this 248 00:15:23,880 --> 00:15:28,320 is all I want to say is you got a set specific time for daily 249 00:15:28,320 --> 00:15:31,360 prayer. That's right, Ellen, Nicole is 250 00:15:31,360 --> 00:15:34,760 on 7:00 AM. It's set and everybody's 251 00:15:34,760 --> 00:15:36,880 looking. If they're not looking, if she's 252 00:15:36,880 --> 00:15:41,240 not on at 7:00, they want to know where she is, what's going 253 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:43,840 on. That's for public, but imagine 254 00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:47,760 your private time. Your secret place that you got a 255 00:15:47,760 --> 00:15:53,040 set time to meet with God. Daniel showed up at Daniel 6 and 256 00:15:53,040 --> 00:15:57,040 10 and what was he doing? He prayed 3 times a day no 257 00:15:57,040 --> 00:16:00,880 matter what they said. He opened up the window, faced 258 00:16:00,880 --> 00:16:07,160 you and he prayed. He had a set time and God knew 259 00:16:07,160 --> 00:16:09,640 where he was going to be. Have mercy, Lord. 260 00:16:09,840 --> 00:16:12,840 So when God knows when you going to be there, He's already 261 00:16:12,840 --> 00:16:14,240 waiting to let you know some stuff. 262 00:16:14,320 --> 00:16:16,000 He's already waiting to speak to you. 263 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:18,480 He's already waiting to give you what you need. 264 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:24,080 You got to get in and set that daily time. 265 00:16:24,720 --> 00:16:30,280 I dare you this week or over the next however many days of Linton 266 00:16:30,280 --> 00:16:33,720 season we got left and we just getting started. 267 00:16:35,080 --> 00:16:39,320 Set a time, I challenge you. Set a time, sis. 268 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:44,040 Set a time, my sister, set a time and stick to it. 269 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:47,560 And you watch how God is there waiting for you when you get 270 00:16:47,560 --> 00:16:50,400 there. Watch how God starts to show up 271 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:52,320 and speak to you when you get there. 272 00:16:52,480 --> 00:16:56,000 So what you got to do when you get there though, is eliminate 273 00:16:56,160 --> 00:16:59,240 the distractions. What I like about Daniel is 274 00:16:59,240 --> 00:17:01,960 Daniel didn't worry about what the king said. 275 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:05,280 He didn't worry about how they were out there talking and 276 00:17:05,280 --> 00:17:08,560 trying to set him up. He was committed to God. 277 00:17:11,079 --> 00:17:13,839 When you're committed, you'll do what you need to do. 278 00:17:14,680 --> 00:17:18,480 Have mercy, Lloyd. When you're committed, you'll 279 00:17:18,480 --> 00:17:23,440 hang in there no matter what is going on, glory to God. 280 00:17:23,720 --> 00:17:26,240 So eliminate the structure. So you need to make sure that 281 00:17:26,240 --> 00:17:31,960 that secret place is a quiet place where you can, what, hear 282 00:17:31,960 --> 00:17:35,640 from God. There is no need of us believing 283 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:37,840 that we're praying and spending time with God and. 284 00:17:37,840 --> 00:17:39,400 He's not going to speak back to you. 285 00:17:40,120 --> 00:17:43,840 I expect to hear something, even if it's only through a function 286 00:17:43,840 --> 00:17:45,760 of the Holy Spirit. He ain't got to say a word. 287 00:17:45,760 --> 00:17:52,000 But when I feel it, have mercy, God, when I feel it, I know He's 288 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:54,080 shown up and this is what you need me to do. 289 00:17:54,280 --> 00:17:57,240 He'll give you an unction of where to go and what to do and 290 00:17:57,240 --> 00:18:01,680 how to move. Oh my God. 291 00:18:02,760 --> 00:18:07,680 Then pray the word. Pray the word. 292 00:18:08,320 --> 00:18:12,840 Use the word in your prayers. Scripture still works. 293 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:16,920 As some of us said, the word still works and some people say 294 00:18:16,920 --> 00:18:19,760 prayers still work. Listen, the word is always 295 00:18:19,760 --> 00:18:23,680 working for us if you need. If you got to find the 296 00:18:23,680 --> 00:18:26,000 situation. How many y'all Google a word. 297 00:18:26,560 --> 00:18:31,240 I know this one dude. If we need something, Lord, 298 00:18:31,360 --> 00:18:32,920 where can I find this in the text? 299 00:18:32,960 --> 00:18:34,440 We're going to find this in the scripture. 300 00:18:34,520 --> 00:18:36,320 Where can I find healing scriptures? 301 00:18:36,400 --> 00:18:39,480 We're going to find this type of scripture and it'll pull up a 302 00:18:39,480 --> 00:18:41,320 bunch of them for you to just go through. 303 00:18:42,840 --> 00:18:46,480 Have mercy. So that means that while I'm 304 00:18:46,520 --> 00:18:50,720 trying to get my help coming, then I'm looking for a word 305 00:18:50,720 --> 00:18:53,600 that's going to address exactly what my need is. 306 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:58,680 So when I'm praying all to know enough of what I'm praying, I 307 00:18:58,680 --> 00:19:03,120 ought to have a word to pray it on God. 308 00:19:04,400 --> 00:19:06,680 Come on y'all? Y'all know how many of you been 309 00:19:06,680 --> 00:19:10,080 in trouble? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 310 00:19:11,600 --> 00:19:12,960 All y'all ain't going to tell the truth. 311 00:19:15,960 --> 00:19:18,360 I know more than me been in trouble. 312 00:19:19,120 --> 00:19:20,760 Look at the babies they in trouble. 313 00:19:22,320 --> 00:19:24,160 I love y'all because y'all honest. 314 00:19:25,360 --> 00:19:28,280 You going to find some help in this word? 315 00:19:28,440 --> 00:19:30,600 You know, when people get in trouble, man, they become as 316 00:19:30,760 --> 00:19:33,080 saintly as they want to am I right? 317 00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:38,680 You'll find them in church when they're going through but. 318 00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:45,720 When they come out, they go out. God is saying there is a word 319 00:19:45,720 --> 00:19:48,720 for you to play over every situation in your life. 320 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:52,080 So when you, when you start getting it, start holding on to 321 00:19:52,080 --> 00:19:53,600 it. When you're reading the word, 322 00:19:53,680 --> 00:19:57,080 you don't know why you're reading this, but somehow God 323 00:19:57,080 --> 00:20:00,440 will recall it. He'll bring it up in your spirit 324 00:20:00,440 --> 00:20:04,520 at the right time for you to pray glory to God. 325 00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:08,800 So commit to the secret place and let God see. 326 00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:12,080 I'm telling y'all, when we consistently meet with God in 327 00:20:12,080 --> 00:20:15,480 the secret place, that's when He begins to reveal his heart to 328 00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:22,320 us, y'all. How many of y'all really want to 329 00:20:22,320 --> 00:20:26,320 know the heart of God? You want him to express himself 330 00:20:26,320 --> 00:20:27,640 to you. You want. 331 00:20:27,640 --> 00:20:31,320 You want him to let you know what he desires and what he's 332 00:20:31,320 --> 00:20:34,800 got for you and how He wants you to live, breathe, and move. 333 00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:40,560 That is being in consistent meeting place with the Lord, He 334 00:20:41,040 --> 00:20:45,120 reveals his heart to you. And so if that's the case, when 335 00:20:45,120 --> 00:20:49,520 he reveals his heart to you, then your prayers begin to carry 336 00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:51,720 more authority. You said something about it 337 00:20:51,720 --> 00:20:56,400 earlier, your your prayers carry weight because now you know the 338 00:20:56,400 --> 00:20:59,560 heart of God and you can start praying the heart of God and 339 00:20:59,560 --> 00:21:02,960 then you'll start seeing what it looks like in the natural. 340 00:21:05,800 --> 00:21:08,200 Yeah. Glory. 341 00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:11,360 He'll give you something, He'll give you a vision, He'll give 342 00:21:11,360 --> 00:21:14,520 you what you need to see. Have mercy, Lord. 343 00:21:15,120 --> 00:21:18,080 So now you got the secret place. How many y'all got a place 344 00:21:18,080 --> 00:21:21,280 established within your home? We know that the altar is on the 345 00:21:21,360 --> 00:21:23,440 on our heart. We do realize that that wherever 346 00:21:23,440 --> 00:21:25,560 we are, we can pray. We can call in the name of the 347 00:21:25,560 --> 00:21:29,200 Lord because we belong to him. But how many of us have a 348 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:34,160 designated space? It may not be a room. 349 00:21:34,320 --> 00:21:38,240 It may not be a closet. It may just be a corner in your 350 00:21:38,240 --> 00:21:41,000 bedroom. It might be the place that you 351 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:44,520 know, this is where I can go. This is my comfortable place. 352 00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:47,320 Since you said you got a space at the designated space where 353 00:21:47,320 --> 00:21:49,880 you go and meet God, it's working for you. 354 00:21:50,520 --> 00:21:51,920 It works. Yes, Lord. 355 00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:53,880 Anybody else got a designated place? 356 00:21:54,080 --> 00:21:54,800 If. Thank you. 357 00:21:54,960 --> 00:21:56,680 Thank you. If you don't have a designated 358 00:21:56,680 --> 00:21:59,600 place, I might ask you again to challenge you to do this. 359 00:21:59,760 --> 00:22:05,240 Find one corner, one space in your house that is you and God 360 00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:11,480 it's in my house. It's just me and my husband now, 361 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:19,840 but it is sports 24/7 because he's retired and he is a lady 362 00:22:19,840 --> 00:22:22,120 game conference. So y'all know March Madness. 363 00:22:22,120 --> 00:22:25,640 The basketball has been going 24/7 at my house. 364 00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:33,000 My play yours, my place of refuge is my bedroom in the 365 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:35,880 sitting area. So if I can get there, I can get 366 00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:37,920 comfortable. Like a it's not even my office 367 00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:40,760 because it used to be. I go in there now, books 368 00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:43,160 everywhere, all my work everywhere. 369 00:22:43,160 --> 00:22:45,800 It's just too much. So I have to go to a quiet 370 00:22:45,800 --> 00:22:49,640 place, a clean space because my office ain't clean. 371 00:22:50,840 --> 00:22:55,440 But you need to have that, that you are able to meet with God in 372 00:22:55,440 --> 00:22:57,840 a space that means something to you. 373 00:22:58,360 --> 00:23:00,840 And guess what? When He sees you going to that 374 00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:02,200 little area, He know it's coming. 375 00:23:03,040 --> 00:23:06,280 Think about it, He knows what's on the way when you start making 376 00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:08,800 your move to that space, he said Here she come. 377 00:23:09,360 --> 00:23:12,280 That's what you want God to say, am I right? 378 00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:16,000 Come on, we getting ready to have a time because she coming 379 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:18,480 in, that's what you need to be doing. 380 00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:23,880 Second thing, be bold. Don't just don't just commit to 381 00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:25,520 the set. You got to commit to a secret 382 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:29,080 place, find you a car, a place. But the second thing you have to 383 00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:32,800 do in your prayer and especially in intercession is you got to be 384 00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:37,240 bold. Standing in the gap for others 385 00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:42,480 requires some strength, especially if you're one of 386 00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:46,760 those ones can take on pain or take on the whatever it is that 387 00:23:46,760 --> 00:23:49,920 God does within you when you're interceding for others. 388 00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:54,080 You got to be bold enough and struggling to stand in the gap. 389 00:23:56,320 --> 00:24:00,520 The problem today is that we can't hardly find intercessors 390 00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:03,880 anymore. Word of the Lord. 391 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:10,560 Ezekiel chapter 22, verse 2030. Ezekiel chapter 22, verse 30. 392 00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:14,080 So the Lord says this. So I sought. 393 00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:18,600 For a man among them who would make a wall and stand in the gap 394 00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:26,080 before me, and on behalf of the land that I should not destroy 395 00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:30,160 it. But I found no one. 396 00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:34,320 That's scary. Y'all hear what I'm saying? 397 00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:40,200 This is what God said. I sought for a man that could do 398 00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:43,520 this, that could build the wall and then stand in the gap 399 00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:52,360 between me and them, and he couldn't find nobody, he said. 400 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:56,440 And he was set to destroy the land because they were 401 00:24:56,440 --> 00:25:01,960 outlandishly out of order and there was no one interceding. 402 00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:05,040 There was not one among them that he could call upon to 403 00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:10,200 intercede, that could stand on the wall for the people. 404 00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:16,040 That's not who. We're supposed to be that living 405 00:25:16,040 --> 00:25:19,960 sacrifice thing is real. I went to the doctor today for 406 00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:22,640 one thing, had to have a procedure while I was there. 407 00:25:23,120 --> 00:25:27,560 But look at me standing now. I I remember calling and she 408 00:25:27,560 --> 00:25:29,720 said do you need a pill that they give you any medicine? 409 00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:33,600 I said no, she didn't give me nothing and I'll get something 410 00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:35,240 later because I didn't want to be out of it. 411 00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:39,320 I'll take some tonight and go to bed. 412 00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:43,680 But you got to be a living sacrifice and still willing to 413 00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:47,760 do what God has assigned you to do because He'll give you 414 00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:51,320 strength. He'll make you able. 415 00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:56,400 So when God is looking for someone, can He say I got here? 416 00:25:57,320 --> 00:26:00,840 Can He say I got him? Can he say I got her? 417 00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:04,000 There is one that will stand on the wall. 418 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:06,200 There is one that will stand in the gap. 419 00:26:07,120 --> 00:26:10,440 He just want to know now. Ain't nobody calling you for 420 00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:13,160 prayer. You ain't the one yet. 421 00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:16,200 I know. That's a little rough. 422 00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:22,080 That wasn't nice, was it? But you might be a private 423 00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:23,920 prayer warrior and they don't know it. 424 00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:29,240 I'm a fix it. Fix it. 425 00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:34,640 All I know is when your phone is ringing out the hood, pastor, 426 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:38,640 Bishop, elder, I need a prayer. I need you to get a prayer 427 00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:39,880 through. I had a dream. 428 00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:41,160 I need you to interpret the dream. 429 00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:46,880 Somebody's always calling because they know the anointing 430 00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:49,320 that's on your life. That's it. 431 00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:53,520 And so somebody, yes, shout glory because if you get in the 432 00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:56,880 calls, God has placed something on you. 433 00:26:57,760 --> 00:27:02,280 He'll put a little extra extra oil in there. 434 00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:08,640 Intercession is the actor praying on behalf of others that 435 00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:14,000 thing is standing in the gap and bringing their needs before God 436 00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:20,720 when they can't do it. You're contending for their 437 00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:23,560 breakthrough. Contend your fate. 438 00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:27,560 You're fighting y'all in the. Description is a Jew contending 439 00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:28,080 for the faith. Faith. 440 00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:31,760 That's right. But you're contending on behalf 441 00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:33,960 of somebody else. You're contending for their 442 00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:36,560 breakthrough. And then when somebody gets 443 00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:39,960 their break, but don't you feel good when you done your part? 444 00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:44,840 Come on, say to God, because somebody did it for us. 445 00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:51,760 We were rich, undone, yes, Lord, but somebody stood in the gap 446 00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:55,800 for us. Some of us, Lord Jesus, some 447 00:27:56,080 --> 00:28:00,360 really, some of US has caused some of the greatest moves of 448 00:28:00,360 --> 00:28:03,560 God to happen For others. That's what happens with 449 00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:06,480 intercession. You caused the biggest 450 00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:10,280 breakthroughs to happen. You caused God to move in such a 451 00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:12,640 mighty way. And it's all throughout the 452 00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:15,480 history of the Bible. Through intercession, things 453 00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:21,160 happened. My God, I did a prayer. 454 00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:26,560 CDI didn't think about it until today and it was I think Tyler 455 00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:28,400 was intercession, the prayer that won't. 456 00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:30,440 Stop or the prayer. And that's what he's saying. 457 00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:34,400 You can't just stop at one time. And I know people say, well, why 458 00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:36,640 they keep going to the altar, They know what they're doing 459 00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:39,240 because they need a breakthrough. 460 00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:44,320 And until they get it, don't complain about them because if 461 00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:47,480 you were praying with them half the time, they might have 462 00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:54,280 already gotten the breakthrough. Keys to effective woo Lord Jesus 463 00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:59,680 intercession pray with faith. Ain't nothing worse than you 464 00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:04,120 praying and not believing that God will answer Mark Chapter 11 465 00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:05,800 verse 24. It's right there. 466 00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:10,520 Remember when you read in that in that sector, it's where 467 00:29:10,520 --> 00:29:13,640 section, that's where the disciples, they're getting ready 468 00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:16,480 to walk back out of town and they walked past the fig tree 469 00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:22,160 and the fig tree had dried up. And the disciple says to the 470 00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:25,360 Lord, you know, hey, this was the tree that you cursed 471 00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:29,120 yesterday. And So what the Lord said to him 472 00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:33,920 was basically, you got to believe what you speak. 473 00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:38,600 I cursed the tree, so I knew it was going to be dead today. 474 00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:42,480 You should have expected it to be dead really, is what it's 475 00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:45,160 saying. If I cursed it, it was supposed 476 00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:47,640 to be dead, so he was increasing. 477 00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:51,480 Believe what you're praying. God wants you to believe. 478 00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:56,320 You got to believe that God will answer what you speak in prayer. 479 00:29:58,080 --> 00:30:01,680 If you don't believe it ain't no need to pray in glory to God. 480 00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:07,000 So he says I need you to pray and I need you to believe. 481 00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:12,240 I always say that I pray expecting God to answer. 482 00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:16,600 If you don't have that mentality, then you got to shift 483 00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:18,880 it tonight. You got to change that, because 484 00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:21,560 if you go pray, you got to believe God for every word that 485 00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:22,960 you're praying. And that you? 486 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:24,960 In it lines up with the will of God. 487 00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:28,320 But listen, even if it wasn't the will of God, I'm still 488 00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:31,160 believing He going to answer my prayers, even if it was crazy. 489 00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:32,680 That's right. That's. 490 00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:34,760 Right. You got to have that kind of 491 00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:37,600 faith in your Father. That's right. 492 00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:42,280 So he said believe, pray and believe that I'm going to 493 00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:44,560 answer. Then you got to pray with 494 00:30:44,560 --> 00:30:46,360 authority. Somebody look at John chapter 495 00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:54,360 14, John chapter 14, verses 13 and 14, John 14, chapter 13 and 496 00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:56,480 14. Nicole, you ought to know this 497 00:30:56,480 --> 00:30:58,200 one because this was your initial sermon. 498 00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:00,480 I didn't think about it till I was writing it down greater 499 00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:05,720 works. So somebody will just read that 500 00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:08,640 for me. John chapter 14, verse 13 and 501 00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:15,040 14. Uh huh and whatever. 502 00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:23,810 You ask? Anything in my name? 503 00:31:24,330 --> 00:31:27,370 Uh huh, there it is. That's a prayer with authority 504 00:31:27,370 --> 00:31:29,650 because you're putting Jesus name on it. 505 00:31:30,170 --> 00:31:34,130 His name has got to be on the prayer in order for these things 506 00:31:34,130 --> 00:31:37,690 he said because he goes to the Father, He now has the right for 507 00:31:37,690 --> 00:31:41,890 you to pray in his name and it and he will answer you. 508 00:31:42,130 --> 00:31:45,210 So you have authority in the name of Jesus. 509 00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:49,480 Authority. So pray in faith and pray with 510 00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:52,000 authority. That's a part of being bold. 511 00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:58,560 Then pray with persistence. Never give up till you see this 512 00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:03,200 thing. Listen, there's some things in 513 00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:07,600 our lives that we want God to move on and we are believing God 514 00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:10,960 to move on. Until you see it, you got to be 515 00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:14,680 persistent and praying it. So please don't give up. 516 00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:18,680 If there was somebody close to you, my husband was in the 517 00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:21,560 hospital and they had no idea what was wrong with him. 518 00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:25,560 No idea. And then they they said, well, 519 00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:27,680 they started doing primitive medicine on him. 520 00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:31,360 They were like tapping his back with these things and trying to 521 00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:33,320 figure out where the fluid was coming from. 522 00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:35,880 Wasn't in his lungs, but it was around his lungs. 523 00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:40,040 And it came out of nowhere and they couldn't figure it out. 524 00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:43,560 So in the midst of them doing this, a lot of problems 525 00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:45,560 occurred. They couldn't think. 526 00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:47,280 They wanted to know, had he been out of the country? 527 00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:49,200 Had he been working on a ship? Had he done? 528 00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:51,800 I mean, the list of things that they kept coming up was just 529 00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:56,160 crazy. In the midst of all of that, he 530 00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:58,960 was struggling so bad that I remember. 531 00:32:58,960 --> 00:32:59,800 Just. Praying. 532 00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:02,480 He lost 40 lbs in less than a month. 533 00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:06,480 In a month he lost 40 lbs. You have. 534 00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:12,400 I have never prayed like I prayed then so desperate times 535 00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:16,240 you'll go into some desperate measures and pray harder, but 536 00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:20,560 what God is requiring us is to be persistent in our prayers. 537 00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:23,240 Don't stop when you don't see the end of it. 538 00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:29,840 Keep praying you keep praying until listen my my nephew Chris 539 00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:34,680 Levy Johnson. He says until you, you prayed 540 00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:37,120 Lazarus back from the dead because they had seen my 541 00:33:37,120 --> 00:33:39,320 husband. And saw his condition. 542 00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:43,880 And he sure said he said until you don't pray Lazarus back from 543 00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:48,880 the dead, you. Tried to call my Lazarus, but it 544 00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:51,960 was that type of prayer and I wasn't alone. 545 00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:55,000 I had an army of people praying with me for him. 546 00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:59,000 That's why you can't just depend on pastor to pray. 547 00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:02,360 We got to be praying together in this church. 548 00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:06,200 We got to be praying together in this community for things to 549 00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:10,920 change. Y'all 140 years old about to be 550 00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:13,440 140. It's a whole lot of stuff done 551 00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:15,920 going down the problem in this community and in this church. 552 00:34:16,639 --> 00:34:21,679 But imagine what's going to happen when you all praying on 553 00:34:21,679 --> 00:34:25,600 one accord and the things the visions that are being seen, the 554 00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:28,960 things that you can do. Y'all got a great community 555 00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:31,960 here. So many lives that you can 556 00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:34,920 touch. Keep praying if you want to fill 557 00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:37,719 the. House keep praying if you want 558 00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:41,440 to see change in the community, but God said pray with 559 00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:44,400 persistence. Luke chapter 18 verse one 560 00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:47,520 through 8 y'all can look at it. It's the it's the parable of 561 00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:51,120 persistent widow. So basically don't lose heart. 562 00:34:51,960 --> 00:34:54,679 That's what he's saying in the Ted don't lose heart. 563 00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:58,760 Trust and believe in me and I will come to your rescue. 564 00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:01,520 God is looking for people to intercede. 565 00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:04,480 For families, for churches, like I just said, cities, your 566 00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:10,600 communities, all even the nations and we will see change 567 00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:13,720 when we learn how to pray according to God, Lord 3rd and 568 00:35:13,720 --> 00:35:16,760 final thing, I don't know how long I've been third and final 569 00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:25,720 thing, expect God to do something, expectations of God 570 00:35:25,720 --> 00:35:30,400 to speak and move. You don't want to just hear him 571 00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:31,800 and then you don't see no action. 572 00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:37,960 You have to expect God to speak and to make moves. 573 00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:42,160 So that's your third invite. Expect God to do something. 574 00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:48,320 Jeremiah 33 and three says, call to me and what I will answer you 575 00:35:48,560 --> 00:35:53,280 and show you great and mighty things, which you what do not 576 00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:57,040 know. Glory to God, if God is saying 577 00:35:57,040 --> 00:36:01,720 to you, call to me and I will answer you. 578 00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:05,680 Why are we keeping our mouths shut? 579 00:36:06,240 --> 00:36:10,120 Because that's what Satan wants. Is that not Satan's language? 580 00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:11,920 That's what the man of God said tonight. 581 00:36:12,120 --> 00:36:16,960 Silence is Satan's language, but God is saying to us, call out to 582 00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:21,120 me and I will. Glory to God, Come on, answer 583 00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:22,760 you. I will answer you. 584 00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:29,080 Have mercy, Jesus. Prayer is two way conversation. 585 00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:31,880 If you praying and doing all the talking, I'm going to use this 586 00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:36,960 as an example. You know, Danita, Danita talk, 587 00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:39,680 talk, talk, talk, talk, talk. And every time I have a 588 00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:43,560 conversation with a Shay, I, I was talking to the Lord and such 589 00:36:43,560 --> 00:36:45,840 and such and such. Every time I talked to Danita, I 590 00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:48,560 was talking to the Lord and I said, well, did he get the talk 591 00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:51,920 back to you? Danita talks so much. 592 00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:56,760 And she constantly praying, but I know she don't give him time 593 00:36:56,760 --> 00:37:00,320 to answer. I shouldn't have to tell you 594 00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:02,720 everything because if you'd have talked to God that much, he 595 00:37:02,720 --> 00:37:04,120 should have unanswered something. 596 00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:07,880 So what he said give me a chance to answer you. 597 00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:12,360 Glory to God. It's a two way conversation. 598 00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:15,440 In other words, listen, talk and then listen. 599 00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:19,040 Pray and listen. Pray, watch and pray. 600 00:37:20,200 --> 00:37:23,600 There you go. Many people pray and never 601 00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:28,600 expect God to speak. I got to go back there. 602 00:37:28,680 --> 00:37:33,120 I'm coming back there because most of the time we are praying 603 00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:37,880 amiss because we don't listen or believe God's going to talk back 604 00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:42,680 to us. We have not been trained for an 605 00:37:42,720 --> 00:37:44,600 ear. We have not believed. 606 00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:48,920 We have not held on to the faith in knowing that if we talk to 607 00:37:48,920 --> 00:37:52,000 God, we're praying that we ought to expect. 608 00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:56,120 Him to talk back to us. You may hear it audibly. 609 00:37:56,960 --> 00:37:59,000 You may get an unction in the Spirit. 610 00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:02,520 Like I said earlier, something's going to move on you that you're 611 00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:06,040 going to know God is working and that He's moving on your behalf. 612 00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:08,320 He may do it even through the Word. 613 00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:10,280 He'll send you to the Word somewhere. 614 00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:13,200 You'll be praying something. All of a sudden that Word come 615 00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:15,960 up and out of you, and then you'll spend some time in it. 616 00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:21,320 Come on y'all God, we need to expect him to respond. 617 00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:25,440 So we ought to cultivate a lifestyle of prayer where we 618 00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:28,320 develop this spiritual sensitivity. 619 00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:32,400 A lot of us like to pray and be out right? 620 00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:36,360 It's usually a 5 minute prayer, you know, and you think that's a 621 00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:40,960 long time for some people. Some people say how y'all pray 622 00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:49,040 that long cultivated time and relationship with God will cause 623 00:38:49,040 --> 00:38:52,520 you to just pray and pray. And then from prayer there's 624 00:38:52,520 --> 00:38:55,240 going to be some prophecy, there's going to be some praise, 625 00:38:55,240 --> 00:38:58,640 there's going to be something that comes out of your time of 626 00:38:58,640 --> 00:39:02,560 prayer and what he's saying. Cultivate a sensitivity that you 627 00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:05,920 know when God is moving and when he's speaking. 628 00:39:06,320 --> 00:39:09,600 Like I said earlier, what my headache, I know the pain I 629 00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:12,080 felt. And so I begin to pray in the 630 00:39:12,080 --> 00:39:15,080 Spirit. And it was all led by the man of 631 00:39:15,080 --> 00:39:20,560 God taking us into a place. You got to set an atmosphere. 632 00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:23,520 That's why I couldn't sit down on it. 633 00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:26,680 Something too many of us sit down when God is moving. 634 00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:29,800 If you start moving and working it out, got to start working it 635 00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:31,800 out with you. My God, that's right. 636 00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:34,520 So let Him speak to you through His Word. 637 00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:38,840 The Bible is a primary source that we need to use through the 638 00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:41,120 Holy Spirit. Like I said, they may give you 639 00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:43,520 some impression, maybe an unction of Holy Spirit. 640 00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:45,520 It'll be a prompting and a pushing. 641 00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:50,080 I'm going to say this because I know Shay and I know Pastor Matt 642 00:39:50,240 --> 00:39:53,400 and Elder Nicole know this situation with y'all might not 643 00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:55,760 have been there, but I'm going to tell you what happened to me 644 00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:59,200 one Sunday when the Lord started working with me after 645 00:39:59,200 --> 00:40:01,240 intercession and I started feeling and getting these 646 00:40:01,240 --> 00:40:03,480 unctions I ain't quite know what to do with. 647 00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:07,840 I was sitting down in the church and see I was in the church 648 00:40:07,840 --> 00:40:11,920 where we would get called out if we made the wrong move. 649 00:40:12,720 --> 00:40:16,040 This particular Sunday Pastor Jeffcoate wasn't there, but I 650 00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:18,520 said I know he going to get the word and I'm going to be in 651 00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:22,720 trouble. I was standing up, I was sitting 652 00:40:22,720 --> 00:40:25,120 down, and then we were standing up in worship. 653 00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:30,680 May feel our musician at the time was playing the organ and 654 00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:32,720 this is what the Holy Spirit will do for you because you 655 00:40:32,720 --> 00:40:34,920 don't know. I was trying to make it about me 656 00:40:34,920 --> 00:40:36,320 now. Oh God, I ain't going up there. 657 00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:39,280 That's going to be out of order and I'm going to get in trouble. 658 00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:43,080 And I'm telling you, it was just like I felt like pushed me out 659 00:40:43,080 --> 00:40:45,640 of the Pew. I said this ain't right, God, I 660 00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:48,640 can't go. I kept saying it, but it's what 661 00:40:48,640 --> 00:40:51,200 the unction and the impression of the Holy Spirit will do for 662 00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:53,720 you. I get up and I don't think I'd 663 00:40:53,720 --> 00:40:55,960 ever been on the choir stand at that point. 664 00:40:56,440 --> 00:41:01,680 I get up and I walk around and I go up and I take a seat next to 665 00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:07,800 the musician on the organ and all I'm able to do is sit there 666 00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:11,320 and I'm praying. I did not know why God did that 667 00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:15,160 to me and I was so scared. I was like, all I knew is I was 668 00:41:15,160 --> 00:41:21,240 going to get in trouble because our pastor did not play I. 669 00:41:21,240 --> 00:41:26,880 Could not move though God made me sit and all of a sudden he 670 00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:29,280 began to play like angels were playing. 671 00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:32,840 It was a different sound that happened and then that same 672 00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:36,600 suddenly somebody said they saw look like angels bouncing at the 673 00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:40,880 ceiling. I don't know what God was doing 674 00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:44,400 and who He was doing it for, but I know He was using me and 675 00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:47,680 getting my mind right and my spirit right, but at the same 676 00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:49,320 time He was doing something else. 677 00:41:50,080 --> 00:41:55,080 You got to be willing to be obedient to the Spirit of God. 678 00:41:55,640 --> 00:41:59,480 When you're in prayer, do what God tells you to do. 679 00:42:01,160 --> 00:42:04,400 Don't just say yes, Lord, and then you don't move. 680 00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:08,480 Too many of us have done that. Then you don't You hate. 681 00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:10,840 Well, Lord, I wish I had done that when I was supposed to do 682 00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:11,920 it. Yeah. 683 00:42:11,960 --> 00:42:16,280 Yeah. Another example, Holy Spirit 684 00:42:16,280 --> 00:42:18,680 Pastor Jeffco was preaching at a church in Spartanburg. 685 00:42:19,840 --> 00:42:22,840 There might have been about 75 people in the congregation 686 00:42:23,240 --> 00:42:25,000 because the church has split her gone. 687 00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:28,240 Now they're over probably 1000 people at that church. 688 00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:32,600 They've come back. Pastor Jeffco was preaching and 689 00:42:32,600 --> 00:42:35,200 I'm sitting and this was so new to me. 690 00:42:35,200 --> 00:42:37,760 That's why I'm just want to share these examples with you of 691 00:42:37,760 --> 00:42:40,720 how. God will use you if you just be. 692 00:42:40,720 --> 00:42:43,960 Obedient and let him use you. I am standing up. 693 00:42:44,120 --> 00:42:47,200 Everybody's standing up. And all of a sudden he turns 694 00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:50,200 around because everybody's moving and there's one person 695 00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:53,560 sitting in the pulpit and she was sitting and would not move 696 00:42:54,680 --> 00:42:57,080 upon the spirit that was moving in the house. 697 00:42:57,520 --> 00:42:59,320 And I remember him turning around. 698 00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:07,000 Sister, you need a revival. I felt a clip at my knees. 699 00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:10,640 It was like somebody clipped me and I had to sit in the pews. 700 00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:13,440 And God say pray. I started praying because I 701 00:43:13,440 --> 00:43:19,040 didn't that was intercession for him, because that whatever the 702 00:43:19,040 --> 00:43:21,320 Spirit was did not want her to move. 703 00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:25,840 And so God calls me to go into intercession at that moment. 704 00:43:25,960 --> 00:43:27,480 You just got to be willing, y'all. 705 00:43:27,960 --> 00:43:31,920 To do what God is showing you, speaking to you, sharing with 706 00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:35,840 you, to do that. That really is the lifestyle of 707 00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:40,080 being an intercessor, being willing to go into the trenches 708 00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:44,600 and do what is not normal to eyesight, but do those things 709 00:43:44,600 --> 00:43:49,600 which are abnormal to man. But God supernaturally fixes for 710 00:43:49,600 --> 00:43:53,760 you when you're obedient like that, when you listen to the 711 00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:57,520 instructions and obey what He reveals to you. 712 00:43:58,120 --> 00:44:03,160 Is going to be mind blowing and it will carry you and give you 713 00:44:03,160 --> 00:44:08,120 strength to keep on going. I pray that you don't give up in 714 00:44:08,120 --> 00:44:12,320 this time of the season of your fasting and then what you're 715 00:44:12,320 --> 00:44:15,000 doing now. I want you to keep on pressing 716 00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:18,280 and I want you to keep going forward and I want you to if you 717 00:44:18,360 --> 00:44:22,640 you considering prayer, please do some of these things and 718 00:44:22,640 --> 00:44:26,920 let's watch the change who and the shift. 719 00:44:29,480 --> 00:44:37,360 Let's watch God change it. I don't I just believe God can 720 00:44:37,360 --> 00:44:41,840 do anything. I'm believing that, and I don't 721 00:44:41,840 --> 00:44:44,840 believe like I believe like Pastor Matt. 722 00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:48,200 It is not. By happenstance that you are 723 00:44:48,200 --> 00:44:54,360 here tonight, I believe that the right people are definitely in 724 00:44:54,360 --> 00:44:58,720 the room. No matter how you decided to 725 00:44:58,720 --> 00:45:06,840 come, why you decided to come, God has plans for you. 726 00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:12,520 Thank you Lord Father, we come before you. 727 00:45:12,520 --> 00:45:18,480 Once again, Truly thankful Father, for the opportunity to 728 00:45:18,480 --> 00:45:24,200 share how you desire for us to be men and women on the wall. 729 00:45:25,240 --> 00:45:29,840 We thank you, Lord, that you caused us to be a mighty army, 730 00:45:30,800 --> 00:45:36,640 one that knows your voice, one that knows your moves, God, one 731 00:45:36,640 --> 00:45:40,720 who knows how you move in us. So Father, we thank you for 732 00:45:40,720 --> 00:45:44,360 right now God maturing our prayer life. 733 00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:50,040 I hear the Lord say it's this. It's a necessity that he matures 734 00:45:50,040 --> 00:45:54,200 us quickly in our prayer lives. And when God, we thank you that 735 00:45:54,200 --> 00:45:57,120 when you say this, there's something to come. 736 00:45:57,880 --> 00:46:02,600 So Father, we bless you right now that as you touch each one 737 00:46:02,840 --> 00:46:09,080 that is here tonight, man, woman, boy and girl, I'm praying 738 00:46:09,560 --> 00:46:14,840 God that you fall fresh. Fall fresh upon each one of us 739 00:46:15,880 --> 00:46:20,520 that what our desires is begin to turn and look like yours, 740 00:46:20,520 --> 00:46:23,920 God. That what you show us, we 741 00:46:23,920 --> 00:46:28,440 desire. What you show us we go for. 742 00:46:29,640 --> 00:46:34,640 Father, we thank you for every intercessor in this house, God, 743 00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:37,880 For every prayer warrior in this house, God. 744 00:46:38,600 --> 00:46:42,440 That whatever you desire of us right now, O God, we say, we 745 00:46:42,440 --> 00:46:47,800 yield our bodies as living sacrifice unto you. 746 00:46:48,640 --> 00:47:03,320 That as you touch us, God. Transfer your power, fall fresh 747 00:47:03,320 --> 00:47:07,760 upon us. Anoint every part of our 748 00:47:07,760 --> 00:47:10,760 spiritual being that you need to use. 749 00:47:13,880 --> 00:47:18,600 Strengthen our physical bodies that we might not give up that 750 00:47:18,600 --> 00:47:24,800 we're willing to stand God when all else fails we bless you 751 00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:29,920 father God, for your faithfulness toward us now we 752 00:47:29,920 --> 00:47:32,800 just ask God that you turn our. Hearts. 753 00:47:33,720 --> 00:47:39,200 In the direction of you, O God, that all we'll see, and all 754 00:47:39,200 --> 00:47:41,400 we'll feel. God whole. 755 00:47:41,400 --> 00:47:44,400 Glory to God is what you give us. 756 00:47:45,440 --> 00:47:50,960 Hallelujah, rest upon the table of our heart. 757 00:47:52,360 --> 00:47:57,640 Purify our hearts that there will be no malice, no jealousy. 758 00:47:57,640 --> 00:48:02,000 No envy, and no. Deceit that you desire pure. 759 00:48:02,120 --> 00:48:05,040 Thank you for tuning in to the Rock Hill Baptist Church 2 760 00:48:05,040 --> 00:48:08,280 Podcast. We pray today's message planted 761 00:48:08,280 --> 00:48:10,840 something in your spirit and gave you the strength to keep 762 00:48:10,840 --> 00:48:14,320 growing here at the Rock Hill Baptist Church 2. 763 00:48:14,400 --> 00:48:17,800 We're a growing church, and growth starts with one step. 764 00:48:18,240 --> 00:48:21,080 If you're ready to go deeper, visit us online at 765 00:48:21,080 --> 00:48:27,680 www.myrockhill2.org and click Next Steps to get connected, 766 00:48:27,920 --> 00:48:31,120 join a ministry, or give your life to Christ. 767 00:48:31,760 --> 00:48:35,560 Be sure to follow the podcast so you never miss a message and 768 00:48:35,560 --> 00:48:38,640 share this episode with someone you know is ready to grow too. 769 00:48:38,960 --> 00:48:42,320 And remember, no matter what comes your way, you were built 770 00:48:42,320 --> 00:48:45,680 to elevate. Until next time, walk in 771 00:48:45,680 --> 00:48:49,120 purpose, live in power, and grow in grace.