Welcome to the official podcast of Rock Hill Baptist Church 2
where we are focused on glorifying God, spreading the
gospel, and making disciples of Jesus Christ right here in the
heart of Greenville, SC. Each week we bring you a life
changing word from our Senior Pastor, Pastor Matthew D Long
Junior, or one of our anointed guest speakers.
We pray this message strengthens your faith, deepens your
understanding, and empowers you to elevate in every area of your
life. Let's join the service already
in progress. Bless his name, Father, I thank
you now as I stand. I pray, Father, that you will
have your divine way, that you will use us truly for your
glory, that the words that proceed from my mouth will be
captured by ears open to heaven, that Lord, we will hear you in
the Spirit, and that we will see You and your mighty hand working
upon us and in us. We thank you, God, for your
presence that's already here. Thank you for showing up for us
because we invoked your presence.
We thank you for a leader who loves you so much that knows not
only how to teach, but God to bring the people into a place of
worship that you would see fit to show up and sit among us.
So God, we glorify you, we magnify you and we wait with
great expectation for what it is you desire to do tonight in
Jesus name, Amen and Amen. How many of you all have a
lifestyle of powerful prayer? Anybody have a lifestyle of
prayer? I know that's a hard question
because many of us don't know what that might mean, right?
We consider it that I find a moment, I find some time to
pray, but it's like Pastor Matt said earlier, it's more than an
act is a it's a posture of life for us.
And since you're here tonight, I pray that I'm able to give you
something that's going to help piggyback off what Pastor has
already shared, but that will take you a little bit deeper and
a little bit further. I'm honored to be able to stand
tonight and to be able to share on intercession.
That is truly the gift. Some I don't even know how to
put it, but that is where God moves in me most.
And it all started in intercessory prayer where He
began to open up to me that I could even hear His voice to
know what He desired of me to do.
And when I got it, Oh my God, things begin to change and they
begin to shift in my life and not only in my life, but for the
lives of others who were around me and that were in my presence.
So this is what God desires of us is to be able to understand
how deep of a relationship you have with him that you can meet
him and that he will meet you in that prayer room.
Amen. So tonight I want to use as my
base Scripture James chapter 516 B New King James Version says,
and that's James chapter 5 verse 16 B new King James version said
the effective what fervent prayer of a righteous man, what
avails much glory to God, You just take that scripture home
with you and you keep working on that because what he wants us to
know is that it prayer is more than an act.
How many of us just get into a moment or we get into a
situation, we get into a problem and we begin to then call on the
name of the Lord. But when things are going great
and we just moving about and God is blessing us and we seeing
blessings on the left and on the right, how many times do we
pray? Then it's usually when we get in
trouble or when we have a problem or when there is a pain
or when there is something going on.
Somebody's in trouble, somebody needs help and that's when we
begin to cry out. And most of the time when we cry
out, it's really not for somebody else, it's for
ourselves. But God wants us to know that
prayer is not just an act, but it is a lifestyle when you can
make prayer a part of your daily life.
I said it Wednesday night. Elder Nicole and I were sitting
on our time at the table Bible study.
And one of the things that he said is that, you know, we, we,
we don't know how to get into the presence of God or we don't
know how to do certain things until there's a problem.
It's the truth. It has to be a problem before we
enact something to go forward, right?
So many of us struggle with prayer because we view it as an
occasional practice, an occasional practice, rather than
a daily posture saying if you want something to happen.
You should be. Praying and you don't want
something to happen. Here and there, right?
Don't we look for the blessings of God every day?
Don't we look for the goodness of God every day when you get
up, it should not thank you, baby.
We should not you. She clapping her hands.
She just handled business. So we've got to learn that we
can't just wait until problems come and troubles come that it
should be a daily posture for us, right?
And that's an important it's a way of life.
How many of us do this daily? We could be honest with each
other because this is a lock in. Don't nobody out there know what
we talking about? So be honest.
Shay, it's so good to see you so.
We have to make it a priority to be a part of our daily life and
we should understand the posture in which we are to be called to
pray, right? We it should be a daily thing
for us. This it transforms not only our
lives, but you think about how it transforms the lives around
you. I remember when I started an
intercessory prayer, there were people that would come.
Here and there and things would change.
They would come and get what they need.
But I can stand as a testament today that Elder Nicole has been
with me at the ministry. We were at Saint Luke together
under our great pastor, Doctor Roy C Jeffco.
And then she followed me and we've been together for 16
years. But it all started in the
intercessory prayer room, and now she's one of my leading the
the leading intercessor in the ministry.
That's because what God did in me had to transform those around
me so that we can reach more than what we're doing right?
So our prayers are not just for ourselves.
And I'm talking this because I want to hone in on intercession
tonight. If you're willing to do it and
pray for someone else, God, go bounce.
They're bouncing sound. It's going to come back for you.
What? Who what you make happen for
someone else, God will make happen for you.
Bless his name, somebody. So it transformed not only our
personal walk but the lives of those around us.
God is looking for intercessors. That's a great call.
It's a deep. Call and it's not meant.
For everybody, but everybody should aspire to be.
Amen. So we got to fill in some gaps.
God wants us to be able to fill in the gaps while there's
somebody or stand in the gap for somebody while they're out there
crying. You're somewhere praying
somebody's worried, and you're somewhere praying somebody's
real concerned, but you're praying because you're believing
God. So we got to develop this
powerful prayer life and we're at stages, different stages of
our life. I heard him say there's babies
in the house, there's seniors in the house, there's baby boomers
in the house, there's every age in the house, every generation I
believe is represented. So if that's the case, then what
God is desiring of us to is to have this powerful prayer life,
no matter what stage of life you're in.
Come on, somebody. We got to learn how to cry out
on behalf of others so that God will show up.
So we create. We have to create this divine
atmosphere for God to show up. It happened after teaching and
Pastor Matt started praying. The musicians were praying,
playing. They were going hand in hand and
I could not sit down on it. That's the type of atmosphere
that you're supposed to be setting as a prayer warrior.
Come on with Saints of God, you want stuff to happen, Then we
got to make some things happen. Oh my God.
The atmosphere where God shows up and not just show up, but
speaks. He said that he speaks, and then
what? Something else he said moves
supernaturally. We need a.
God, that could come in when it looks.
Like this to us in the natural. He could flip it just like that
and your prayers can take you there.
Come on Saints. So I want to talk about 3
different things tonight. First of all, we're talking
about when I said this divine atmosphere, setting this divine
atmosphere, one of the first things we got to do is commit to
the secret place. Commit to the secret place,
glory to God. So secret place where God meets
us. Have mercy.
Somebody making prayer a daily priority requires you to commit
to a secret place. Wednesday night, Jesus, I said
Wednesday night, one of the things that was said is and and
I was trying to get back to it. That secret place.
We should not be factoring or putting a placeholder.
Well, I'll put God here. How many of us get up every
single day and we already got the day journey.
We already know what we got to do.
We got to go to work, we got to get this ready.
We got to get kids ready. We got to get on the move.
We got to do that. Where was God in the plan?
You got to work, you started working, you started dealing
with people. Then you finally got you're on
your way home and then you got to think about what's for
dinner, what am I going to do? What are we going to do this and
how are we going to do that? Where did God fit into the
equation? Did we consider that He would be
the first thing? Did we commit to the secret
place? The timing that says when you
commit to the secret place, Matthew 6 and six, what does it
say? Matthew 6:00 and 6:00 But you
when you pray, go into your room and when you have shut the door
prayer, pray to your Father who is in the secret place.
God will meet you where you set up a place for Him to meet you.
Where is your altar? What are you doing?
Glory to God. Thank you, deep.
Thank you deep. So the foundation of a powerful
prayer life begins in a secret place, a place that you know
that you can be in without distraction.
My husband always tells me, and I share this all the time, is
that he said, what's the tractor trailer turning in your head?
What you thinking about? Because he's like, I'm thinking
about 50 million things at one time.
But you got to find a place where there is no distraction
and you tell your mind to shut up.
I'm focused on my God right now. I need to hear something from
him. So what he says is if you go
into that secret place, you will meet him there because he's in
the secret place. So foundation is a powerful
thing. When we pray in secret places,
Jesus often withdrew from the crowds, did he not?
That's. Right.
And as Christians, we are Christ like, have mercy God.
So we too have to withdraw from the crowds.
And so God spend some time with the Father.
Isn't it refreshing when you know, you might be tired, but
you go ahead and you spend that time?
Or how about now that you're used to doing it, you look
forward to it? Many people ought to be looking
forward to prayer time because they know something.
Is going to happen, huh? Jesus withdrew from the crowd so
he could hear and be alone with his Father.
So if you want to become an intercessor who shakes heaven,
glory to God. You can't get by on an
occasional prayer. You got to be rooted and
grounded and be in this thing. That's when things start to
change in the church. That's when things start to
change in the house. That's when things start to
change in your neighborhood. We need to be praying as a
church for the nation secret place to get it done.
So he says that if we're going to become these intercessors and
and even if you don't feel that you're the intercessor, you are
still supposed to be a prayer warrior.
Because if I. I can't get my mouth to open and
I have to wave my hand. You ought to know something
going on. Let me go pray for sis.
While I was over here in the corner and you were praying,
Pastor Matt, I was trying to get myself together because our pain
hit me up the right side of my head.
And usually when pain strikes me somewhere, it's somebody else
I'm feeling. I don't know what it is, who it
is, where they are, but I begin to pray as I touched my head.
I was interceding for somebody, somewhere.
You got to know when God is doing, having unctions on you,
when you're moving, have mercy. So to become an innocent, you
got to be able to shake heaven, my God.
We must make it personal and intimate time with God.
That's when things begin to shift in your life.
My God, you said some people been praying for 24 days and so
many years for something and then you want to give up.
Intercession is praying without stopping.
That's right. I don't care how long it is.
And I got stories to tell of how long I prayed.
But God has shown up over and over again.
So how do you develop this strong secret place?
Glory to God. Have mercy.
Y'all remember Daniel, right? Daniel 6 and 10.
I don't have it up to read, but I made a note of it because this
is all I want to say is you got a set specific time for daily
prayer. That's right, Ellen, Nicole is
on 7:00 AM. It's set and everybody's
looking. If they're not looking, if she's
not on at 7:00, they want to know where she is, what's going
on. That's for public, but imagine
your private time. Your secret place that you got a
set time to meet with God. Daniel showed up at Daniel 6 and
10 and what was he doing? He prayed 3 times a day no
matter what they said. He opened up the window, faced
you and he prayed. He had a set time and God knew
where he was going to be. Have mercy, Lord.
So when God knows when you going to be there, He's already
waiting to let you know some stuff.
He's already waiting to speak to you.
He's already waiting to give you what you need.
You got to get in and set that daily time.
I dare you this week or over the next however many days of Linton
season we got left and we just getting started.
Set a time, I challenge you. Set a time, sis.
Set a time, my sister, set a time and stick to it.
And you watch how God is there waiting for you when you get
there. Watch how God starts to show up
and speak to you when you get there.
So what you got to do when you get there though, is eliminate
the distractions. What I like about Daniel is
Daniel didn't worry about what the king said.
He didn't worry about how they were out there talking and
trying to set him up. He was committed to God.
When you're committed, you'll do what you need to do.
Have mercy, Lloyd. When you're committed, you'll
hang in there no matter what is going on, glory to God.
So eliminate the structure. So you need to make sure that
that secret place is a quiet place where you can, what, hear
from God. There is no need of us believing
that we're praying and spending time with God and.
He's not going to speak back to you.
I expect to hear something, even if it's only through a function
of the Holy Spirit. He ain't got to say a word.
But when I feel it, have mercy, God, when I feel it, I know He's
shown up and this is what you need me to do.
He'll give you an unction of where to go and what to do and
how to move. Oh my God.
Then pray the word. Pray the word.
Use the word in your prayers. Scripture still works.
As some of us said, the word still works and some people say
prayers still work. Listen, the word is always
working for us if you need. If you got to find the
situation. How many y'all Google a word.
I know this one dude. If we need something, Lord,
where can I find this in the text?
We're going to find this in the scripture.
Where can I find healing scriptures?
We're going to find this type of scripture and it'll pull up a
bunch of them for you to just go through.
Have mercy. So that means that while I'm
trying to get my help coming, then I'm looking for a word
that's going to address exactly what my need is.
So when I'm praying all to know enough of what I'm praying, I
ought to have a word to pray it on God.
Come on y'all? Y'all know how many of you been
in trouble? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
All y'all ain't going to tell the truth.
I know more than me been in trouble.
Look at the babies they in trouble.
I love y'all because y'all honest.
You going to find some help in this word?
You know, when people get in trouble, man, they become as
saintly as they want to am I right?
You'll find them in church when they're going through but.
When they come out, they go out. God is saying there is a word
for you to play over every situation in your life.
So when you, when you start getting it, start holding on to
it. When you're reading the word,
you don't know why you're reading this, but somehow God
will recall it. He'll bring it up in your spirit
at the right time for you to pray glory to God.
So commit to the secret place and let God see.
I'm telling y'all, when we consistently meet with God in
the secret place, that's when He begins to reveal his heart to
us, y'all. How many of y'all really want to
know the heart of God? You want him to express himself
to you. You want.
You want him to let you know what he desires and what he's
got for you and how He wants you to live, breathe, and move.
That is being in consistent meeting place with the Lord, He
reveals his heart to you. And so if that's the case, when
he reveals his heart to you, then your prayers begin to carry
more authority. You said something about it
earlier, your your prayers carry weight because now you know the
heart of God and you can start praying the heart of God and
then you'll start seeing what it looks like in the natural.
Yeah. Glory.
He'll give you something, He'll give you a vision, He'll give
you what you need to see. Have mercy, Lord.
So now you got the secret place. How many y'all got a place
established within your home? We know that the altar is on the
on our heart. We do realize that that wherever
we are, we can pray. We can call in the name of the
Lord because we belong to him. But how many of us have a
designated space? It may not be a room.
It may not be a closet. It may just be a corner in your
bedroom. It might be the place that you
know, this is where I can go. This is my comfortable place.
Since you said you got a space at the designated space where
you go and meet God, it's working for you.
It works. Yes, Lord.
Anybody else got a designated place?
If. Thank you.
If you don't have a designated
place, I might ask you again to challenge you to do this.
Find one corner, one space in your house that is you and God
it's in my house. It's just me and my husband now,
but it is sports 24/7 because he's retired and he is a lady
game conference. So y'all know March Madness.
The basketball has been going 24/7 at my house.
My play yours, my place of refuge is my bedroom in the
sitting area. So if I can get there, I can get
comfortable. Like a it's not even my office
because it used to be. I go in there now, books
everywhere, all my work everywhere.
It's just too much. So I have to go to a quiet
place, a clean space because my office ain't clean.
But you need to have that, that you are able to meet with God in
a space that means something to you.
And guess what? When He sees you going to that
little area, He know it's coming.
Think about it, He knows what's on the way when you start making
your move to that space, he said Here she come.
That's what you want God to say, am I right?
Come on, we getting ready to have a time because she coming
in, that's what you need to be doing.
Second thing, be bold. Don't just don't just commit to
the set. You got to commit to a secret
place, find you a car, a place. But the second thing you have to
do in your prayer and especially in intercession is you got to be
bold. Standing in the gap for others
requires some strength, especially if you're one of
those ones can take on pain or take on the whatever it is that
God does within you when you're interceding for others.
You got to be bold enough and struggling to stand in the gap.
The problem today is that we can't hardly find intercessors
anymore. Word of the Lord.
Ezekiel chapter 22, verse 2030. Ezekiel chapter 22, verse 30.
So the Lord says this. So I sought.
For a man among them who would make a wall and stand in the gap
before me, and on behalf of the land that I should not destroy
it. But I found no one.
That's scary. Y'all hear what I'm saying?
This is what God said. I sought for a man that could do
this, that could build the wall and then stand in the gap
between me and them, and he couldn't find nobody, he said.
And he was set to destroy the land because they were
outlandishly out of order and there was no one interceding.
There was not one among them that he could call upon to
intercede, that could stand on the wall for the people.
That's not who. We're supposed to be that living
sacrifice thing is real. I went to the doctor today for
one thing, had to have a procedure while I was there.
But look at me standing now. I I remember calling and she
said do you need a pill that they give you any medicine?
I said no, she didn't give me nothing and I'll get something
later because I didn't want to be out of it.
I'll take some tonight and go to bed.
But you got to be a living sacrifice and still willing to
do what God has assigned you to do because He'll give you
strength. He'll make you able.
So when God is looking for someone, can He say I got here?
Can He say I got him? Can he say I got her?
There is one that will stand on the wall.
There is one that will stand in the gap.
He just want to know now. Ain't nobody calling you for
prayer. You ain't the one yet.
I know. That's a little rough.
That wasn't nice, was it? But you might be a private
prayer warrior and they don't know it.
I'm a fix it. Fix it.
All I know is when your phone is ringing out the hood, pastor,
Bishop, elder, I need a prayer. I need you to get a prayer
through. I had a dream.
I need you to interpret the dream.
Somebody's always calling because they know the anointing
that's on your life. That's it.
And so somebody, yes, shout glory because if you get in the
calls, God has placed something on you.
He'll put a little extra extra oil in there.
Intercession is the actor praying on behalf of others that
thing is standing in the gap and bringing their needs before God
when they can't do it. You're contending for their
breakthrough. Contend your fate.
You're fighting y'all in the. Description is a Jew contending
for the faith. Faith.
That's right. But you're contending on behalf
of somebody else. You're contending for their
breakthrough. And then when somebody gets
their break, but don't you feel good when you done your part?
Come on, say to God, because somebody did it for us.
We were rich, undone, yes, Lord, but somebody stood in the gap
for us. Some of us, Lord Jesus, some
really, some of US has caused some of the greatest moves of
God to happen For others. That's what happens with
intercession. You caused the biggest
breakthroughs to happen. You caused God to move in such a
mighty way. And it's all throughout the
history of the Bible. Through intercession, things
happened. My God, I did a prayer.
CDI didn't think about it until today and it was I think Tyler
was intercession, the prayer that won't.
Stop or the prayer. And that's what he's saying.
You can't just stop at one time. And I know people say, well, why
they keep going to the altar, They know what they're doing
because they need a breakthrough.
And until they get it, don't complain about them because if
you were praying with them half the time, they might have
already gotten the breakthrough. Keys to effective woo Lord Jesus
intercession pray with faith. Ain't nothing worse than you
praying and not believing that God will answer Mark Chapter 11
verse 24. It's right there.
Remember when you read in that in that sector, it's where
section, that's where the disciples, they're getting ready
to walk back out of town and they walked past the fig tree
and the fig tree had dried up. And the disciple says to the
Lord, you know, hey, this was the tree that you cursed
yesterday. And So what the Lord said to him
was basically, you got to believe what you speak.
I cursed the tree, so I knew it was going to be dead today.
You should have expected it to be dead really, is what it's
saying. If I cursed it, it was supposed
to be dead, so he was increasing.
Believe what you're praying. God wants you to believe.
You got to believe that God will answer what you speak in prayer.
If you don't believe it ain't no need to pray in glory to God.
So he says I need you to pray and I need you to believe.
I always say that I pray expecting God to answer.
If you don't have that mentality, then you got to shift
it tonight. You got to change that, because
if you go pray, you got to believe God for every word that
you're praying. And that you?
In it lines up with the will of God.
But listen, even if it wasn't the will of God, I'm still
believing He going to answer my prayers, even if it was crazy.
That's right. That's.
Right. You got to have that kind of
faith in your Father. That's right.
So he said believe, pray and believe that I'm going to
answer. Then you got to pray with
authority. Somebody look at John chapter
14, John chapter 14, verses 13 and 14, John 14, chapter 13 and
14. Nicole, you ought to know this
one because this was your initial sermon.
I didn't think about it till I was writing it down greater
works. So somebody will just read that
for me. John chapter 14, verse 13 and
14. Uh huh and whatever.
You ask? Anything in my name?
Uh huh, there it is. That's a prayer with authority
because you're putting Jesus name on it.
His name has got to be on the prayer in order for these things
he said because he goes to the Father, He now has the right for
you to pray in his name and it and he will answer you.
So you have authority in the name of Jesus.
Authority. So pray in faith and pray with
authority. That's a part of being bold.
Then pray with persistence. Never give up till you see this
thing. Listen, there's some things in
our lives that we want God to move on and we are believing God
to move on. Until you see it, you got to be
persistent and praying it. So please don't give up.
If there was somebody close to you, my husband was in the
hospital and they had no idea what was wrong with him.
No idea. And then they they said, well,
they started doing primitive medicine on him.
They were like tapping his back with these things and trying to
figure out where the fluid was coming from.
Wasn't in his lungs, but it was around his lungs.
And it came out of nowhere and they couldn't figure it out.
So in the midst of them doing this, a lot of problems
occurred. They couldn't think.
They wanted to know, had he been out of the country?
Had he been working on a ship? Had he done?
I mean, the list of things that they kept coming up was just
crazy. In the midst of all of that, he
was struggling so bad that I remember.
Just. Praying.
He lost 40 lbs in less than a month.
In a month he lost 40 lbs. You have.
I have never prayed like I prayed then so desperate times
you'll go into some desperate measures and pray harder, but
what God is requiring us is to be persistent in our prayers.
Don't stop when you don't see the end of it.
Keep praying you keep praying until listen my my nephew Chris
Levy Johnson. He says until you, you prayed
Lazarus back from the dead because they had seen my
husband. And saw his condition.
And he sure said he said until you don't pray Lazarus back from
the dead, you. Tried to call my Lazarus, but it
was that type of prayer and I wasn't alone.
I had an army of people praying with me for him.
That's why you can't just depend on pastor to pray.
We got to be praying together in this church.
We got to be praying together in this community for things to
change. Y'all 140 years old about to be
140. It's a whole lot of stuff done
going down the problem in this community and in this church.
But imagine what's going to happen when you all praying on
one accord and the things the visions that are being seen, the
things that you can do. Y'all got a great community
here. So many lives that you can
touch. Keep praying if you want to fill
the. House keep praying if you want
to see change in the community, but God said pray with
persistence. Luke chapter 18 verse one
through 8 y'all can look at it. It's the it's the parable of
persistent widow. So basically don't lose heart.
That's what he's saying in the Ted don't lose heart.
Trust and believe in me and I will come to your rescue.
God is looking for people to intercede.
For families, for churches, like I just said, cities, your
communities, all even the nations and we will see change
when we learn how to pray according to God, Lord 3rd and
final thing, I don't know how long I've been third and final
thing, expect God to do something, expectations of God
to speak and move. You don't want to just hear him
and then you don't see no action.
You have to expect God to speak and to make moves.
So that's your third invite. Expect God to do something.
Jeremiah 33 and three says, call to me and what I will answer you
and show you great and mighty things, which you what do not
know. Glory to God, if God is saying
to you, call to me and I will answer you.
Why are we keeping our mouths shut?
Because that's what Satan wants. Is that not Satan's language?
That's what the man of God said tonight.
Silence is Satan's language, but God is saying to us, call out to
me and I will. Glory to God, Come on, answer
you. I will answer you.
Have mercy, Jesus. Prayer is two way conversation.
If you praying and doing all the talking, I'm going to use this
as an example. You know, Danita, Danita talk,
talk, talk, talk, talk, talk. And every time I have a
conversation with a Shay, I, I was talking to the Lord and such
and such and such. Every time I talked to Danita, I
was talking to the Lord and I said, well, did he get the talk
back to you? Danita talks so much.
And she constantly praying, but I know she don't give him time
to answer. I shouldn't have to tell you
everything because if you'd have talked to God that much, he
should have unanswered something.
So what he said give me a chance to answer you.
Glory to God. It's a two way conversation.
In other words, listen, talk and then listen.
Pray and listen. Pray, watch and pray.
There you go. Many people pray and never
expect God to speak. I got to go back there.
I'm coming back there because most of the time we are praying
amiss because we don't listen or believe God's going to talk back
to us. We have not been trained for an
ear. We have not believed.
We have not held on to the faith in knowing that if we talk to
God, we're praying that we ought to expect.
Him to talk back to us. You may hear it audibly.
You may get an unction in the Spirit.
Like I said earlier, something's going to move on you that you're
going to know God is working and that He's moving on your behalf.
He may do it even through the Word.
He'll send you to the Word somewhere.
You'll be praying something. All of a sudden that Word come
up and out of you, and then you'll spend some time in it.
Come on y'all God, we need to expect him to respond.
So we ought to cultivate a lifestyle of prayer where we
develop this spiritual sensitivity.
A lot of us like to pray and be out right?
It's usually a 5 minute prayer, you know, and you think that's a
long time for some people. Some people say how y'all pray
that long cultivated time and relationship with God will cause
you to just pray and pray. And then from prayer there's
going to be some prophecy, there's going to be some praise,
there's going to be something that comes out of your time of
prayer and what he's saying. Cultivate a sensitivity that you
know when God is moving and when he's speaking.
Like I said earlier, what my headache, I know the pain I
felt. And so I begin to pray in the
Spirit. And it was all led by the man of
God taking us into a place. You got to set an atmosphere.
That's why I couldn't sit down on it.
Something too many of us sit down when God is moving.
If you start moving and working it out, got to start working it
out with you. My God, that's right.
So let Him speak to you through His Word.
The Bible is a primary source that we need to use through the
Holy Spirit. Like I said, they may give you
some impression, maybe an unction of Holy Spirit.
It'll be a prompting and a pushing.
I'm going to say this because I know Shay and I know Pastor Matt
and Elder Nicole know this situation with y'all might not
have been there, but I'm going to tell you what happened to me
one Sunday when the Lord started working with me after
intercession and I started feeling and getting these
unctions I ain't quite know what to do with.
I was sitting down in the church and see I was in the church
where we would get called out if we made the wrong move.
This particular Sunday Pastor Jeffcoate wasn't there, but I
said I know he going to get the word and I'm going to be in
trouble. I was standing up, I was sitting
down, and then we were standing up in worship.
May feel our musician at the time was playing the organ and
this is what the Holy Spirit will do for you because you
don't know. I was trying to make it about me
now. Oh God, I ain't going up there.
That's going to be out of order and I'm going to get in trouble.
And I'm telling you, it was just like I felt like pushed me out
of the Pew. I said this ain't right, God, I
can't go. I kept saying it, but it's what
the unction and the impression of the Holy Spirit will do for
you. I get up and I don't think I'd
ever been on the choir stand at that point.
I get up and I walk around and I go up and I take a seat next to
the musician on the organ and all I'm able to do is sit there
and I'm praying. I did not know why God did that
to me and I was so scared. I was like, all I knew is I was
going to get in trouble because our pastor did not play I.
Could not move though God made me sit and all of a sudden he
began to play like angels were playing.
It was a different sound that happened and then that same
suddenly somebody said they saw look like angels bouncing at the
ceiling. I don't know what God was doing
and who He was doing it for, but I know He was using me and
getting my mind right and my spirit right, but at the same
time He was doing something else.
You got to be willing to be obedient to the Spirit of God.
When you're in prayer, do what God tells you to do.
Don't just say yes, Lord, and then you don't move.
Too many of us have done that. Then you don't You hate.
Well, Lord, I wish I had done that when I was supposed to do
it. Yeah.
Another example, Holy Spirit
Pastor Jeffco was preaching at a church in Spartanburg.
There might have been about 75 people in the congregation
because the church has split her gone.
Now they're over probably 1000 people at that church.
They've come back. Pastor Jeffco was preaching and
I'm sitting and this was so new to me.
That's why I'm just want to share these examples with you of
how. God will use you if you just be.
Obedient and let him use you. I am standing up.
Everybody's standing up. And all of a sudden he turns
around because everybody's moving and there's one person
sitting in the pulpit and she was sitting and would not move
upon the spirit that was moving in the house.
And I remember him turning around.
Sister, you need a revival. I felt a clip at my knees.
It was like somebody clipped me and I had to sit in the pews.
And God say pray. I started praying because I
didn't that was intercession for him, because that whatever the
Spirit was did not want her to move.
And so God calls me to go into intercession at that moment.
You just got to be willing, y'all.
To do what God is showing you, speaking to you, sharing with
you, to do that. That really is the lifestyle of
being an intercessor, being willing to go into the trenches
and do what is not normal to eyesight, but do those things
which are abnormal to man. But God supernaturally fixes for
you when you're obedient like that, when you listen to the
instructions and obey what He reveals to you.
Is going to be mind blowing and it will carry you and give you
strength to keep on going. I pray that you don't give up in
this time of the season of your fasting and then what you're
doing now. I want you to keep on pressing
and I want you to keep going forward and I want you to if you
you considering prayer, please do some of these things and
let's watch the change who and the shift.
Let's watch God change it. I don't I just believe God can
do anything. I'm believing that, and I don't
believe like I believe like Pastor Matt.
It is not. By happenstance that you are
here tonight, I believe that the right people are definitely in
the room. No matter how you decided to
come, why you decided to come, God has plans for you.
Thank you Lord Father, we come before you.
Once again, Truly thankful Father, for the opportunity to
share how you desire for us to be men and women on the wall.
We thank you, Lord, that you caused us to be a mighty army,
one that knows your voice, one that knows your moves, God, one
who knows how you move in us. So Father, we thank you for
right now God maturing our prayer life.
I hear the Lord say it's this. It's a necessity that he matures
us quickly in our prayer lives. And when God, we thank you that
when you say this, there's something to come.
So Father, we bless you right now that as you touch each one
that is here tonight, man, woman, boy and girl, I'm praying
God that you fall fresh. Fall fresh upon each one of us
that what our desires is begin to turn and look like yours,
God. That what you show us, we
desire. What you show us we go for.
Father, we thank you for every intercessor in this house, God,
For every prayer warrior in this house, God.
That whatever you desire of us right now, O God, we say, we
yield our bodies as living sacrifice unto you.
That as you touch us, God. Transfer your power, fall fresh
upon us. Anoint every part of our
spiritual being that you need to use.
Strengthen our physical bodies that we might not give up that
we're willing to stand God when all else fails we bless you
father God, for your faithfulness toward us now we
just ask God that you turn our. Hearts.
In the direction of you, O God, that all we'll see, and all
we'll feel. God whole.
Glory to God is what you give us.
Hallelujah, rest upon the table of our heart.
Purify our hearts that there will be no malice, no jealousy.
No envy, and no. Deceit that you desire pure.
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