1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:04,880 That God honors that Amen going to be turning to Exodus chapter 2 00:00:04,880 --> 00:00:14,600 #8 Exodus chapter #8 and I concur and encourage system. 3 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:17,600 He already said please come and participate for a revival media 4 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:21,040 fast again. I mean, we, we set aside like 5 5 00:00:21,040 --> 00:00:24,280 days, like consecrated effort. You know, there's some that's 6 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:27,200 already done 21 days. You know, I'm, I'm not putting 7 00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:29,760 the comparison game out there. I'm saying surely we can just 8 00:00:29,760 --> 00:00:32,720 succumb for a concentrated effort of five days. 9 00:00:33,240 --> 00:00:35,440 Amen. Talk to the Lord collectively as 10 00:00:35,440 --> 00:00:39,720 a body. Exodus chapter #8 And man, I got 11 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:43,640 some more new readers, folks. I'm telling you what went to 12 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:46,160 Aldi's and Vincents, and they had three in a pack. 13 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:49,600 So I'm, I'm just going to lay them around everywhere. 14 00:00:50,560 --> 00:00:52,400 There's going to be readers everywhere. 15 00:00:53,160 --> 00:00:56,720 They had more variety too. Stay away from that cheetah 16 00:00:56,720 --> 00:01:02,760 stuff. Exodus chapter #8 verse #8 the 17 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:05,560 Bible says. Then Pharaoh called for Moses 18 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:11,360 and Aaron and said, entreat the Lord that he may take away the 19 00:01:11,360 --> 00:01:14,160 frogs. So yes, we're right here in the 20 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:18,080 middle of the plagues from me and from my people, and I will 21 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:22,640 let the people go, that they may do sacrifice and to the Lord. 22 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:27,960 And Moses said unto Pharaoh, glory over me, when shall I 23 00:01:27,960 --> 00:01:31,360 entreat for thee, for thy servants, and for thy people, to 24 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:36,160 destroy the frogs from thee, thy houses, that they may remain in 25 00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:39,920 the river only. And he said, tomorrow, that's 26 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:44,840 not my subject today, but that's always just crazy, like we got a 27 00:01:44,840 --> 00:01:46,320 frog problem. I want you to handle it 28 00:01:46,320 --> 00:01:50,080 tomorrow, though. And he said, Be it according to 29 00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:53,960 thy word, that thou mayest know that there is none like unto the 30 00:01:53,960 --> 00:01:57,240 Lord our God. And the frog shall depart from 31 00:01:57,240 --> 00:01:59,880 thee, and from thy house, and from thy servants, and from thy 32 00:01:59,880 --> 00:02:02,080 people. They shall remain in the river 33 00:02:02,080 --> 00:02:04,640 only. Verse 12 And Moses and Aaron 34 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:10,160 went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried unto the Lord because of 35 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:13,040 the frogs which he had brought against Pharaoh. 36 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:16,560 And the Lord did according to the word of Moses. 37 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:19,360 And the frogs died out of the houses, out of the villages, and 38 00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:24,560 out of the fields. Real focus today is that Moses 39 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:28,200 asked, when do you want this to happen? 40 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:33,480 He says tomorrow. The Bible says, though, when 41 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:38,520 Moses and Aaron left him in that same day, that's when Moses 42 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:44,080 started crying out to the Lord about it, not the next day, but 43 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:47,040 in the same day. And so with the mindset of 44 00:02:47,040 --> 00:02:50,080 prayer revival coming this week, I want to speak to you simply 45 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:57,920 this, intercede today. Intercede today. 46 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:00,120 All right, let's go to the Lord and prayer. 47 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:02,800 God, we're so grateful today for another opportunity. 48 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:06,080 God, we are blessed, the Lord to have been here. 49 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:10,120 We're thankful, Lord, for the health, the mobility, God, even 50 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:13,000 to get here today. Lord bless you people, God 51 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:15,600 inspire us, instruct us. Let your word be everything that 52 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:19,440 it can Lord be to us in our lives that will not fail to 53 00:03:19,440 --> 00:03:23,480 thank you for the lovely name of Jesus Christ that I pray Amen 54 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:25,920 and Amen. You may be seated this morning 55 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:34,030 in Jesus name. So this is a very significant 56 00:03:34,030 --> 00:03:39,310 moment in Exodus chapter #8 for a few reasons. 57 00:03:39,310 --> 00:03:42,350 Again, the kind of set the background of where we are. 58 00:03:43,430 --> 00:03:48,960 The children of Israel has faced 400 years of bondage in Egypt. 59 00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:56,440 Moses and Aaron were sent as deliverers of God's people and 60 00:03:56,440 --> 00:04:00,040 the king of Egypt. Pharaoh has refused to allow 61 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:05,920 God's people to be let go and instead he he even worsens the 62 00:04:05,920 --> 00:04:08,760 situation that they are under because Moses is Aaron has come 63 00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:12,040 and made their plea to the children of Israel. 64 00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:15,960 And so Pharaoh's seen that as though he was taking them away 65 00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:20,120 from their duties and their jobs and obligations from their work 66 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:23,520 of building his cities. And as a result of that, then he 67 00:04:23,520 --> 00:04:27,040 puts a hard thumb up on them with the beatings of the 68 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:31,120 leadership, so on and so forth and the hard taskmasters. 69 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:33,880 And he wanted them to produce the same number of bricks 70 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:37,000 required for them to have straw in order for there to be as a 71 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:40,880 binding agent to make bricks. And so he he wanted them to 72 00:04:40,880 --> 00:04:43,600 still make bricks without him providing the straw. 73 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:47,200 And so the same number. But the Pharaoh that we're 74 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:51,840 Speaking of in Exodus chapter #8 is not the same Pharaoh that 75 00:04:51,840 --> 00:04:57,480 Jace Joseph dealt with whenever he served as second command over 76 00:04:57,480 --> 00:05:00,560 Egypt. The Pharaohs were expected to 77 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:05,760 live or and work in their office of being the king of Egypt for 78 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:09,600 their entire lives. And so it was no doubt not the 79 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:11,800 same Pharaoh. As a matter of fact, Exodus 80 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:16,080 tells us in Exodus one and eight that there arose up a new king 81 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:19,160 over Egypt which knew not, which knew not Joseph. 82 00:05:19,520 --> 00:05:24,080 And so no doubt the Pharaoh that was in Joseph's lifetime had a 83 00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:28,400 loose familiarity with the God of Israel. 84 00:05:29,040 --> 00:05:32,360 It was Joseph's character and his wisdom and how he handled 85 00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:36,600 himself that drove a deeper appreciation, no doubt of 86 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:41,000 Pharaoh for Joseph's God. It was Joseph that came before 87 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:44,840 Pharaoh when he called all of his magicians and soothsayers to 88 00:05:44,840 --> 00:05:48,120 try to interpret the the two dreams that he had and none 89 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:52,840 could that Joseph came and Joseph let let Pharaoh know 90 00:05:52,840 --> 00:05:55,240 emphatically that I can't necessarily tell you the 91 00:05:55,240 --> 00:05:57,520 interpretation. The interpretation belongs into 92 00:05:57,520 --> 00:06:01,240 the Lord and that God would be the one that would give this 93 00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:03,840 interpretation. And as a result, all of that he 94 00:06:03,920 --> 00:06:08,080 he even told him what he must do during the years of of famine in 95 00:06:08,080 --> 00:06:11,400 order or plenty in order to have food during the years of famine. 96 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:14,480 And he told him the plan that he should do If you can find a 97 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:18,640 person to initialize this and favor was like he talked to 98 00:06:18,640 --> 00:06:21,040 those leaders around him. He says, I don't know of a 99 00:06:21,280 --> 00:06:24,400 another person in whom the Spirit of God is like you, 100 00:06:24,400 --> 00:06:28,480 Joseph, that could that could, you know, do this and handle 101 00:06:28,480 --> 00:06:30,920 this for us. And so all everything that 102 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:35,040 Joseph did, people came wanting grain and they would give money. 103 00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:37,960 And when they ran out of money, then they would give of their 104 00:06:37,960 --> 00:06:40,440 land in exchange. And when they ran out of land, 105 00:06:40,440 --> 00:06:42,960 they were willing to give of themselves and their wife and 106 00:06:42,960 --> 00:06:46,280 their children for exchange. And so the Egyptian empire 107 00:06:46,280 --> 00:06:49,120 really came into be out of all this. 108 00:06:49,120 --> 00:06:52,400 Here is now a man that has all the money of his land and then 109 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:55,200 the land and the people and so and so forth. 110 00:06:55,200 --> 00:06:57,240 So Pharaoh became a greater king. 111 00:06:57,240 --> 00:07:01,040 Egypt became a greater empire. But the Pharaoh of Exodus 112 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:05,400 chapter #8 is different, a different pharaoh because 113 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:10,120 whenever Moses and Aaron first approached him about releasing 114 00:07:10,120 --> 00:07:13,920 the, the, the Hebrews, the children of Israel, this pharaoh 115 00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:18,720 of of Exodus 8 said in Exodus five and two, he said, you're 116 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:23,800 saying that the Lord God of Israel wants me to let his 117 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:27,680 people go? His response was who is the Lord 118 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:32,160 who is the Lord I I know not the Lord. 119 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:34,840 He he doesn't know the Lord and therefore he's not going to 120 00:07:34,840 --> 00:07:36,360 acknowledge the Lord. He's not going to acknowledge 121 00:07:36,360 --> 00:07:39,840 something he doesn't know. And so he he looks at this, we 122 00:07:39,840 --> 00:07:43,080 understand Hebrews even tells us that those that come to God must 123 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:46,000 believe that he is. And so in order for there to be 124 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:48,440 acknowledgement that there's some type of knowledge or at 125 00:07:48,440 --> 00:07:51,720 least belief in that he exists and he's there. 126 00:07:51,960 --> 00:07:56,880 And so this very initial inquiry a man that he had concerning who 127 00:07:56,880 --> 00:07:59,440 is the Lord. I don't know the Lord and what's 128 00:07:59,440 --> 00:08:01,560 going to happen through the plagues until the children of 129 00:08:01,560 --> 00:08:04,040 Israel is released from the Egyptian bondage. 130 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:07,600 All of that is going to better equate the modern day Pharaoh 131 00:08:07,960 --> 00:08:11,280 with the Lord. God even told Moses, he said 132 00:08:11,280 --> 00:08:14,520 Moses, he said, when all of this is all over, when the dust has 133 00:08:14,520 --> 00:08:18,320 settled and, and the final frog has made its place back in the 134 00:08:18,320 --> 00:08:21,680 river and, and they're grieving the death of their first born 135 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:24,840 and all of that has happened. He said the Egyptians, which 136 00:08:24,840 --> 00:08:28,920 includes Pharaoh, the Egyptians are going to know that I am the 137 00:08:28,920 --> 00:08:32,000 Lord whenever, whenever Israel is walking out of here with a 138 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:34,880 high hand and its deliverance and they have spoiled the 139 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:37,360 Egyptians. So they're going to know then I 140 00:08:37,360 --> 00:08:40,559 am the Lord. So up to this point where we're 141 00:08:40,559 --> 00:08:44,080 at in scripture again, just for a little bit of setting what has 142 00:08:44,080 --> 00:08:46,920 already happened. Aaron has thrown down his rod 143 00:08:46,920 --> 00:08:49,520 and it's turned into a snake, right. 144 00:08:49,680 --> 00:08:52,360 The magicians have come in and thrown down their rods and 145 00:08:52,360 --> 00:08:56,760 they've become snakes as well. But Aaron's rod slash snake has 146 00:08:56,920 --> 00:09:00,560 swallowed up all the others. He's there's already been the 147 00:09:00,560 --> 00:09:04,280 turning of the Nile River or the water in the land there into 148 00:09:04,360 --> 00:09:07,520 blood. A man by Aaron The Egyptian 149 00:09:07,520 --> 00:09:12,400 magicians have come and done the same and now an Exodus 8 is the 150 00:09:12,400 --> 00:09:16,440 second plague. It is the plague of frogs. 151 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:18,920 Hey, man, you can't say that without smiling. 152 00:09:19,160 --> 00:09:23,560 The plague of frogs. Frogs have come upon the land. 153 00:09:23,560 --> 00:09:25,960 They are everywhere. You read the Scripture. 154 00:09:25,960 --> 00:09:29,240 They are in their houses. They are in their bedrooms. 155 00:09:29,240 --> 00:09:32,640 They are in their beds. They are in their kneading 156 00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:34,960 troughs. The Bible says they are in their 157 00:09:34,960 --> 00:09:37,000 ovens. I mean, imagine, Sister Sheila, 158 00:09:37,240 --> 00:09:38,920 open in your oven and here's a frog. 159 00:09:38,920 --> 00:09:40,280 There's a frog everywhere Is a frog. 160 00:09:40,280 --> 00:09:42,200 Frog. Oh, McDonald's, you know, 161 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:45,400 there's frogs everywhere that's in these places. 162 00:09:45,560 --> 00:09:49,240 And so this this impact, though, encompasses Pharaoh, right? 163 00:09:49,360 --> 00:09:51,960 This isn't just every other Egyptian except Pharaoh. 164 00:09:52,120 --> 00:09:55,160 No, this is Pharaoh. His servants, all of Egypt is 165 00:09:55,160 --> 00:09:58,560 being impacted by these frogs. And guess what? 166 00:09:58,800 --> 00:10:02,080 The Egyptian magician show up and say, OK, we, I don't know 167 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:04,560 why you would want to do this, but we're going to put frogs on 168 00:10:04,560 --> 00:10:06,280 the land too. We can do this. 169 00:10:06,600 --> 00:10:09,320 But the thing of the plague of the frogs, it's not like, you 170 00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:11,680 know, the frogs are going to harm everybody and we're all go 171 00:10:11,680 --> 00:10:12,720 away for wars. I don't know. 172 00:10:12,720 --> 00:10:15,920 But nonetheless, it's just a nuisance, right? 173 00:10:16,240 --> 00:10:19,640 That amount one of frogs around is just a nuisance and and like 174 00:10:19,640 --> 00:10:23,680 every other plague in the plagues of of that were given of 175 00:10:23,680 --> 00:10:29,560 the 10, it kind of pinpointed a God that the the Egyptians 176 00:10:29,560 --> 00:10:33,480 revered, right? The the the frogs were seen as a 177 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:38,360 God or they had a goddess in Egypt that was half woman in a 178 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:40,800 frog head. So what that meant, Brother 179 00:10:40,800 --> 00:10:43,480 Reese, was is that the Egyptian couldn't go around and start 180 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:48,160 killing frogs because to do so would be a disrespect to one of 181 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:50,480 their gods. You look at all the other 182 00:10:50,480 --> 00:10:54,240 plagues at pinpoints of really a, a, a God that the Egyptians 183 00:10:54,240 --> 00:10:57,880 serve, which is why it was such ironic for them and, and, and 184 00:10:57,880 --> 00:11:00,360 difficult for them. And so the magicians could bring 185 00:11:00,360 --> 00:11:03,920 more frogs up on the land, but they were powerless to remove 186 00:11:03,920 --> 00:11:06,640 the frogs from the land. They couldn't kill them. 187 00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:09,000 They're gods. They couldn't get no relief for 188 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:10,680 their people. It's just something that was 189 00:11:10,680 --> 00:11:16,040 taking place but no doubt serving all these a pantheon, if 190 00:11:16,040 --> 00:11:19,120 you will, all these various numerous multitude gods in 191 00:11:19,120 --> 00:11:21,280 Egypt. They did have a sense of 192 00:11:21,280 --> 00:11:24,680 religion to them. All right, a sense of religion. 193 00:11:24,680 --> 00:11:27,000 Just welcome me here today. I'm really in teaching mode 194 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:29,360 learning thing that if you see this ever on my ear, that's you 195 00:11:29,360 --> 00:11:33,040 the why. All right, Matthew Alper in a 196 00:11:33,080 --> 00:11:36,880 book called The God Part of the Brain said this and I quote, he 197 00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:42,000 said, I remember the position held by the sciences that if a 198 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:47,640 behavior was universal to any given species or in the case of 199 00:11:47,640 --> 00:11:52,960 humans to all cultures, it is most likely represents an 200 00:11:52,960 --> 00:11:55,720 inherited characteristic of that species. 201 00:11:56,240 --> 00:11:59,720 That is a genetically inherited trait. 202 00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:03,480 And as surely as all human cultures have spoken a language 203 00:12:03,480 --> 00:12:07,000 or engaged in sexual reproduction, all cultures have 204 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:10,760 practiced religion in conjunction with a belief in 205 00:12:10,760 --> 00:12:13,400 some form of a spiritual reality. 206 00:12:13,680 --> 00:12:16,000 In other words, what he's saying is this. 207 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:20,080 He says since all cultures have spoken language and involved in 208 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:23,480 sexual reproduction, that those two things must be a part of the 209 00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:26,760 genetic mechanism of humanity, all humanity. 210 00:12:27,080 --> 00:12:30,600 But he says likewise all cultures seem to practice also 211 00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:32,880 religion. It's having some type of 212 00:12:32,880 --> 00:12:35,480 spiritual reality. So he's saying that maybe there 213 00:12:35,480 --> 00:12:39,440 is this God part that's inside of humanity because since it's 214 00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:42,720 across all cultures, maybe it's something that's genetically 215 00:12:42,720 --> 00:12:46,000 embedded, this want for something beyond ourselves, 216 00:12:46,400 --> 00:12:50,160 something for a higher power, something beyond the the just 217 00:12:50,160 --> 00:12:53,560 external of our own lives, a religious component, if you 218 00:12:53,560 --> 00:12:58,400 will, to mankind, regardless of how it appears from culture to 219 00:12:58,400 --> 00:13:01,600 culture, place to place. He's arguing that there may be a 220 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:04,120 genetically thing that's a part of our design. 221 00:13:04,440 --> 00:13:08,000 And whenever I read that before, several years ago, I thought 222 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:11,600 about Solomon in the book of Ecclesiastes, because in 223 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:16,960 Ecclesiastes 3 and 11, he says he and he's Speaking of God have 224 00:13:16,960 --> 00:13:22,480 set the world, which is also translated as eternity in their 225 00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:24,280 heart. The word heart in the Old 226 00:13:24,280 --> 00:13:27,800 Testament many times is is translated heart or mind or so 227 00:13:27,960 --> 00:13:33,880 that God, God had set eternity in their heart, if you'll allow 228 00:13:33,880 --> 00:13:36,000 me and you got the amplified up there. 229 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:38,760 Read it from here. He has made everything beautiful 230 00:13:38,760 --> 00:13:41,520 in his time. He also has planted eternity in 231 00:13:41,520 --> 00:13:45,440 men's hearts and minds. A divinely implanted sense of a 232 00:13:45,440 --> 00:13:48,560 purpose, working through the ages, which nothing under the 233 00:13:48,560 --> 00:13:54,200 sun but God alone can satisfy yet so that men cannot find out 234 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:57,760 what God has done from the beginning to the end. 235 00:13:58,040 --> 00:14:01,800 God, even Solomon, says God has placed inside of humanity 236 00:14:02,080 --> 00:14:06,760 something that's beyond the here and now, a desire, a drawing for 237 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:08,880 the eternal. If I could say like this, God 238 00:14:08,880 --> 00:14:13,080 has made it a part of our genetic makeup to, to want a 239 00:14:13,080 --> 00:14:16,800 higher being, to want to serve a greater purpose. 240 00:14:16,800 --> 00:14:20,520 That is in part why the Egyptians are grappling with all 241 00:14:20,520 --> 00:14:24,000 their various gods. They're on the journey trying to 242 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:28,280 find, Hey, man, what God has created in mankind, that longing 243 00:14:28,480 --> 00:14:31,920 that if you will, that God void that they really need filled 244 00:14:32,080 --> 00:14:34,640 people fill it with all type of stuff, right? 245 00:14:34,840 --> 00:14:38,680 They, they, they, they try to, to, to satisfy with all type of 246 00:14:38,680 --> 00:14:43,000 stuff, but only the creator that created them is really able to 247 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:46,040 satisfy that right? And so they're on the journey. 248 00:14:46,040 --> 00:14:50,160 It's what fuels us this morning for our search for the God of 249 00:14:50,160 --> 00:14:53,000 the Bible that we're pulling toward that we we want to be 250 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:55,600 more like him. And The thing is, if he set 251 00:14:55,640 --> 00:14:59,960 eternity in our lives, then only the eternal can satisfy that 252 00:14:59,960 --> 00:15:02,480 loaning. Only the eternal can satisfy 253 00:15:02,480 --> 00:15:04,440 that longing. That's the reason why for 254 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:08,720 various other groups in the world today, Confucius fails in 255 00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:14,280 that regard, Haira Krishna fails in that regard, Muhammad fails, 256 00:15:14,440 --> 00:15:16,480 Joseph Smith fails. Why? 257 00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:19,840 None of these are eternal leaders or eternal beings. 258 00:15:20,160 --> 00:15:21,880 Amen. Only your God. 259 00:15:22,240 --> 00:15:27,040 Amen is the eternal one. Timothy said now unto the king, 260 00:15:27,160 --> 00:15:32,560 eternal, immortal, invisible, the only, only wise God be honor 261 00:15:32,560 --> 00:15:37,160 and glory forever and ever. And so only a eternal king can 262 00:15:37,160 --> 00:15:40,000 satisfy the eternity longing, Amen. 263 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:42,800 That's inside of the heart of mankind. 264 00:15:42,800 --> 00:15:47,920 Nothing else compares, Amen. But since cultures have this, 265 00:15:47,920 --> 00:15:51,840 this, this, this desire, right, this longing, however it is, 266 00:15:51,840 --> 00:15:54,880 they fulfill it or try to feel it, it's there. 267 00:15:55,040 --> 00:15:57,720 It is also known fact. This is not my fact, this is 268 00:15:57,720 --> 00:16:03,160 studies fact that every every religion in the world encourages 269 00:16:03,240 --> 00:16:08,200 daily prayer. Doesn't matter what your flavor 270 00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:13,560 is, Every religion in the world encourages daily prayer. 271 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:18,200 With that enters Pharaoh in our story. 272 00:16:20,040 --> 00:16:23,800 He's an Egyptian king, but if I if I can, he's not unlike the 273 00:16:23,800 --> 00:16:29,240 rest of humanity that has a pool towards some religious reality, 274 00:16:29,480 --> 00:16:34,440 spiritual fact of eternity, right and being in their 275 00:16:34,440 --> 00:16:38,800 religion again, there is a prayer orientation to them all 276 00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:40,840 right. He understands all of this. 277 00:16:41,640 --> 00:16:48,240 But here they are powerless to change their dilemma of these 278 00:16:48,240 --> 00:16:52,680 frogs in the oven, in the bed, roll over to kiss your wife at 279 00:16:52,680 --> 00:16:58,360 night and frog. It's powerless to do this. 280 00:16:58,600 --> 00:17:01,560 Magicians can put more on it, but they can't eliminate this 281 00:17:01,560 --> 00:17:06,280 so-called God or goddess that they serve because to mistreat 282 00:17:06,280 --> 00:17:08,480 the frog again would be disrespect their God. 283 00:17:08,880 --> 00:17:11,599 So whenever Pharaoh enters into this picture, this whole 284 00:17:11,599 --> 00:17:16,000 dynamic, Please note that Pharaoh doesn't ask his 285 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:18,400 magicians to try to remove the frogs. 286 00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:22,119 He doesn't say to them, hey guys, will you remove the frogs? 287 00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:26,079 He doesn't come really to Moses and Aaron themselves as 288 00:17:26,079 --> 00:17:30,480 individuals and are asking them as mere other humans to remove 289 00:17:30,720 --> 00:17:32,760 the frogs. He doesn't ask that. 290 00:17:33,040 --> 00:17:36,640 Whenever he comes to them, he is asking them. 291 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:43,360 He said, entreat, entreat the Lord and treat the Lord for us, 292 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:48,120 and treat the Lord for me. That word entreat means to pray. 293 00:17:48,120 --> 00:17:51,960 It means to intercede. Moses and Aaron intercede and 294 00:17:51,960 --> 00:17:53,840 pray on my behalf. Amen. 295 00:17:53,840 --> 00:17:55,880 That this thing would just go away. 296 00:17:56,320 --> 00:17:57,680 You got to get this in your mind. 297 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:01,480 This man is the highest power in Egypt. 298 00:18:02,200 --> 00:18:06,000 He is the man with the greatest clout in Egypt, the most 299 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:09,400 powerful king of that time and of one of the greatest empires 300 00:18:09,680 --> 00:18:12,480 of that time. He's acquired all the money of 301 00:18:12,480 --> 00:18:16,160 the land, all the land, all the people, the slaves, the souls, 302 00:18:16,160 --> 00:18:17,760 if you will, during the years of famine. 303 00:18:17,960 --> 00:18:21,400 He had everything that he wanted, dare I say even needed. 304 00:18:21,640 --> 00:18:26,960 But at this moment, he realized I need a interceding Hebrew to 305 00:18:26,960 --> 00:18:30,960 arrest heaven for me, a man, so that this situation that we're 306 00:18:30,960 --> 00:18:33,720 presently living in just might change. 307 00:18:34,960 --> 00:18:37,720 Someone came in. Not only that, here's something 308 00:18:37,720 --> 00:18:39,480 important I think, for us to grasp. 309 00:18:39,720 --> 00:18:46,400 Pharaoh understood the dynamics of what it was, was needed in 310 00:18:46,400 --> 00:18:51,400 order to reverse this thing. He, he, he, it wasn't his money, 311 00:18:51,680 --> 00:18:55,600 It wasn't all of his, his real estate. 312 00:18:55,760 --> 00:18:59,400 That's not what he needed. He needed, if you will, some 313 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:01,400 prayer. He needed some prayer. 314 00:19:01,480 --> 00:19:05,440 He understood what it took to access a God. 315 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:08,680 Even in their own religion, they knew if I'm going to have access 316 00:19:08,680 --> 00:19:12,040 to God, commune with God, have have, if you will, any sway with 317 00:19:12,040 --> 00:19:14,160 God, I'm going to have to talk to God. 318 00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:18,120 I'm going to have to pray. He knew what was necessary in 319 00:19:18,120 --> 00:19:22,680 order to have access even to the God of Israel, and that came 320 00:19:22,680 --> 00:19:24,880 through the power of prayer, Amen. 321 00:19:24,880 --> 00:19:28,680 It happened by prayer. Someone had to commune with that 322 00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:33,280 God, tap into his power and his influence and see what would 323 00:19:33,280 --> 00:19:35,480 happen. And so in essence, Pharaoh was 324 00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:39,480 calling Moses and Aaron, he's asking for them to go to 325 00:19:39,480 --> 00:19:42,680 intercessory prayer. Amen. 326 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:47,280 Because to intercede means to stand in the gap for somebody or 327 00:19:47,280 --> 00:19:51,320 a situation, right? It may even accompany travail. 328 00:19:51,480 --> 00:19:55,240 It may accompany some deep spiritual intensity, Amen. 329 00:19:55,240 --> 00:19:58,640 When they might even not not not be able to pray for themselves, 330 00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:01,840 it's stepping into that place. I've noticed this morning I am 331 00:20:01,840 --> 00:20:05,600 talking intercede today. I've noticed that that 332 00:20:06,560 --> 00:20:10,640 intercession many times comes spontaneously. 333 00:20:12,480 --> 00:20:16,960 Spontaneously, there have been times, and I'm just telling you 334 00:20:16,960 --> 00:20:18,360 this so you'd be sensitive to it. 335 00:20:18,560 --> 00:20:22,920 There are times in your normal, just everyday prayer that a 336 00:20:22,920 --> 00:20:25,960 person's name can come to your mind that you wasn't praying 337 00:20:25,960 --> 00:20:29,200 about at that moment. But a person's name comes to 338 00:20:29,200 --> 00:20:32,280 your mind and you're deeply impressed upon your heart and 339 00:20:32,280 --> 00:20:34,040 your spirit for them in that moment. 340 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:39,880 That is a call and a draw for interceding or praying on behalf 341 00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:44,360 of that individual, particularly in that moment, particularly in 342 00:20:44,360 --> 00:20:46,440 that moment. And so that's driven me. 343 00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:50,040 Sometimes that's happened and I've switched gears and I just 344 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:53,120 follow what I'm feeling that moment, praying over that 345 00:20:53,120 --> 00:20:55,400 individual. And there are many times that I 346 00:20:55,400 --> 00:20:58,760 reach out to them after all of that said and done and just let 347 00:20:58,760 --> 00:21:02,000 them know, hey, you was on my mind today, been praying for 348 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:03,960 you. And they might turn back around 349 00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:07,920 and say exactly why they needed prayer in that moment or today. 350 00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:11,840 Or they just might as well say things not doing that, you know, 351 00:21:11,840 --> 00:21:13,360 and there might not be anything going on. 352 00:21:13,360 --> 00:21:14,800 And I just told him I've been praying for them. 353 00:21:15,040 --> 00:21:17,040 Well, what's embarrassing about that? 354 00:21:18,480 --> 00:21:21,480 I mean, seriously rather sure What what's, what's embarrassing 355 00:21:21,480 --> 00:21:24,280 about just letting someone know I prayed for you today. 356 00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:26,400 Amen. But it could be that it was a 357 00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:29,320 divine intersection. There's other times that you 358 00:21:29,320 --> 00:21:32,360 might pray over people's circumstances or situations, 359 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:35,720 right, that that that may be overwhelming them and, and you 360 00:21:35,720 --> 00:21:40,160 start to feel in your prayer, there's a very deep empathy, 361 00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:42,480 right? It's almost as though you're 362 00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:46,120 almost starting to feel perhaps what they may be feeling about 363 00:21:46,120 --> 00:21:50,880 what they are going through. And so you start to pray almost 364 00:21:50,880 --> 00:21:53,440 as though it happened to you, right? 365 00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:56,040 And you begin to pray. And so you're taking them and 366 00:21:56,040 --> 00:21:58,280 their needs to God in fervent prayer. 367 00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:01,640 And it's in these moments you got to allow yourself and, and 368 00:22:01,720 --> 00:22:04,960 the only thing way I can describe it, allow yourself just 369 00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:08,320 to get lost in prayer. I have noticed that during times 370 00:22:08,320 --> 00:22:12,480 whenever God wants me to intercede, man, everything else 371 00:22:12,520 --> 00:22:15,000 doesn't matter, right? What's going around me. 372 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:18,200 I don't even, I don't really take inventory of where I'm at, 373 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:22,200 what's going on, what the time of day is because I'm just in a 374 00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:24,360 mode right now. Somebody needs something or a 375 00:22:24,360 --> 00:22:26,720 situation needs something. And So what? 376 00:22:26,840 --> 00:22:29,520 I'm going to intercede now. I'm going to intercede today. 377 00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:31,800 I'm going to intercede in the moment. 378 00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:34,160 Amen. Until I feel that that lift of 379 00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:40,160 God off of my life in 2023, just case in point, in 2023, Brother 380 00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:42,680 Mason was experiencing one of his very, very he was 381 00:22:42,800 --> 00:22:46,960 experiencing a very bad mode of his manears and Vertigo in, in 382 00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:50,160 the the spring or end of winter if you will type of session. 383 00:22:50,560 --> 00:22:54,360 And all of this was going on and I was praying one morning at the 384 00:22:54,360 --> 00:22:59,600 house and I was praying and it was his need, that whole need. 385 00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:03,160 I prayed for him, you know, each day for that. 386 00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:06,440 But this was different, you know, when it's different. 387 00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:13,720 And then his knee just overtook me and I, I begin to cry out to 388 00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:15,920 God and I begin to speak in tongues. 389 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:17,640 And I'm going to talk about that here in just a little bit. 390 00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:21,040 I begin to speak in tongues and I begin to petition heaven and 391 00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:25,440 man I, I, I'm not him, but man, I begin just to feel some things 392 00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:28,600 that that that that just I hadn't felt before. 393 00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:31,320 I could only feel as though maybe I was feeling what he was 394 00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:33,560 feeling. And I begin to cry out to God 395 00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:37,280 for his health and such and pray for him. 396 00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:39,600 And I later then text Sister Mason. 397 00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:42,680 She's can hear me back there and she probably may still have the 398 00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:45,960 text, but I told her, I said, Roberta, I said, and it didn't 399 00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:47,760 just happen. Then I got up all through my 400 00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:50,480 day, different moments. It would just sweep in and feel 401 00:23:50,480 --> 00:23:53,840 like I was being overtaken by the moment and begin praying 402 00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:55,520 again. Sideswipe me. 403 00:23:55,920 --> 00:23:57,960 And I told Roberta, I said there's been different times 404 00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:00,240 today. I said Jerry man, it's just been 405 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:02,760 hitting me left and right been interceding for him. 406 00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:05,760 I said every time that that wave would come. 407 00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:09,160 I said I felt the spirit of the Lord saying this to me for I am 408 00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:12,480 the Lord that healeth thee, for I am the Lord that healeth thee, 409 00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:14,120 for I am the Lord that heareth thee. 410 00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:17,320 And she responded back to me. She says Jerry said today that 411 00:24:17,320 --> 00:24:20,120 he's 90% better than he was last night. 412 00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:23,480 What is that, that someone standing in the gap, that 413 00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:27,440 someone making up the hedge that's interceding today? 414 00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:33,160 Amen. Watch, if you will, the 415 00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:36,960 progression of Acts chapter #8 Acts 8, verse 8. 416 00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:39,720 Pharaoh, He says, entreat the Lord. 417 00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:44,520 Verse #9 And I'm just going to walk through just a little bit 418 00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:45,880 there, brother, alone if you want to throw them up. 419 00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:50,280 Verse #9 Moses says, When shall I entreat for thee? 420 00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:57,760 Verse 10 Pharaoh says, tomorrow. Moses says, Be it according to 421 00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:02,800 thy word. Verse 12 Moses cries into the 422 00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:05,360 Lord after he and Aaron had went out from Pharaoh. 423 00:25:05,360 --> 00:25:10,040 They cried in the same day that it was asked in verse 13 the 424 00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:14,040 Bible says, And the Lord did according to the word of Moses. 425 00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:16,880 Folks, this little passage of scriptures that drove me nuts 426 00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:20,680 because I've read it 1000 times. I've read what other people's 427 00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:23,600 thought about it and I know there's sermons people have 428 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:25,840 preached out there one more night with the frogs on so 429 00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:28,680 forth. And so some argue that it indeed 430 00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:31,600 happened the next day because Moses said according to your 431 00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:34,760 word and then God did it according to Moses's word is 432 00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:38,120 what the scripture says though. But what's so interesting to me 433 00:25:38,120 --> 00:25:40,560 is that he asked for tomorrow, but Moses started praying the 434 00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:43,200 day and almost the the line in the Scripture as though 435 00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:45,040 deliverance came in the same day. 436 00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:48,320 So I don't know where it is. I could probably have a good 437 00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:49,920 argument with someone over it right now. 438 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:55,120 But the fact that the matter is Pharaoh's asking for tomorrow. 439 00:25:55,120 --> 00:25:57,640 But Moses started the prayer today. 440 00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:02,640 And so as I look at all that Brother Bishop, I, I, I look at 441 00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:04,440 it and I concentrate on and it was, it was making me 442 00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:07,000 aggravated, tell you the truth, as I was trying to figure out 443 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:10,040 the conundrum of did it happen today or did it happen then 444 00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:13,120 tomorrow? As I looked at it and I studied 445 00:26:13,120 --> 00:26:16,200 a little bit more, I realize this. 446 00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:20,560 Regardless of when the frogs died, whether it was the next 447 00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:24,800 day or whether it was the same day, Moses still entreated the 448 00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:28,840 Lord, not the next day, but he did today. 449 00:26:29,120 --> 00:26:31,680 And so the message then became more clear to me. 450 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:36,560 Despite the circumstances and despite the request, you always 451 00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:45,440 intercede today. You know someone, I say, 452 00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:48,480 Remember Me, blah, blah, blah. And it's some future. 453 00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:53,400 You intercede today. You can do it that day too. 454 00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:57,040 But folks, there are some things in this life that we don't have 455 00:26:57,040 --> 00:26:59,920 time to wait. We don't have time to do our 456 00:26:59,920 --> 00:27:03,520 thumbs around as though we're just, no, we need to pray, we 457 00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:05,400 need to intercede. We need to touch heaven. 458 00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:08,520 We need to stand in the gap today. 459 00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:15,120 We got to intercede today. Pharaoh asked for this 460 00:27:15,120 --> 00:27:17,080 intercession, but again it plays out. 461 00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:19,560 Moses cried. Look how it plays out. 462 00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:22,160 He says, I asked, He said I asked for tomorrow. 463 00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:24,440 But Moses, the Bible said, cried out. 464 00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:28,600 And to the Lord that word cry means that he cried out or he 465 00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:31,920 summoned. That word cried means it refers 466 00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:38,840 to a shouting, a pleading of relief or justice, a calling for 467 00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:40,960 help. As a matter of fact, over half 468 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:45,160 of the usages of this word that's used in the Bible is half 469 00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:48,280 of them are always directed to God. 470 00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:53,080 It's the cry that a man would use in a moment of a despairing 471 00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:57,320 crisis. Moses's prayer, his cry, his 472 00:27:57,320 --> 00:28:00,520 call was a cry and a call for deliverance. 473 00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:06,160 It was a lament cry, a loud cry. The the definition says it's a 474 00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:09,880 loud cry that's driven with emotion that's coupled with 475 00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:16,240 other physical responses. And it says that the loudness 476 00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:18,480 isn't for the sake of wanting to be heard. 477 00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:22,360 It's for the sake of just the emotion of the urgency of the 478 00:28:22,360 --> 00:28:26,520 need. Now I found I found something 479 00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:29,880 interesting and and and maybe others will as well. 480 00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:33,160 And if you've never played a part intercessory heard this is 481 00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:36,920 what this is about this morning. I am promoting, I am encouraging 482 00:28:37,360 --> 00:28:41,160 Amen to give yourself over to the sensitivity of of that in 483 00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:44,640 those times. I have found this is not 484 00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:47,840 something I read this something I know I experience. 485 00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:52,720 I have found that intercessory prayer is often accompanied by 486 00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:59,560 praying in the Holy Ghost. New Testament scripture talks 487 00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:04,800 about praying in the Holy Ghost. All right, if you've been born 488 00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:07,480 again in the water of the Spirit and the Spirit of God dwells in 489 00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:11,560 you, you can pray in the Holy Ghost. 490 00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:13,680 Now this is not hocus pocus guys. 491 00:29:14,280 --> 00:29:19,400 This is this is Bible when you pray and that you've heard me 492 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:22,640 say this, I'll say it again. When you pray in the Holy Ghost, 493 00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:28,800 you might be praying things that you do not understand what 494 00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:33,520 you're praying, but God understands. 495 00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:37,800 Let's go to Scripture, 1st Corinthians 14, verse 14 and 15, 496 00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:42,680 the apostle Paul said to the Church of Corinth, for if I pray 497 00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:50,200 in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is 498 00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:53,320 unfruitful. Verse 15, what is it? 499 00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:58,040 Then I will pray with the Spirit, and I will pray with the 500 00:29:58,040 --> 00:30:01,200 understanding. Also, I will sing with the 501 00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:02,720 Spirit. We don't talk about this a lot, 502 00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:04,960 do we? Now let me tell you, my grandma 503 00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:12,440 Weisenberger, pray. She's sang in tongues, he says. 504 00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:14,800 I'll sing with the Spirit and I will sing with the 505 00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:17,680 understanding. Also, whenever you pray in an 506 00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:22,160 unknown tongue. And 1st Corinthians 13 tells us 507 00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:27,520 that we speak with tongues of men or of angels, right? 508 00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:29,920 He says, though I speak with tongues of men or angels and 509 00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:32,280 have not charity, I'm as a sounding brass and a tinkling 510 00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:34,920 symbol, but speaking with tongues of men or angels. 511 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:37,560 Whenever someone receives a gift that the Holy Ghost, they may 512 00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:40,440 speak with tongues of men. It may be another language that 513 00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:43,520 is not their mother tongue that they speak in or they might 514 00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:46,520 speak with the tongue of an Angel that is not known to any 515 00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:51,960 society here upon the earth, but it is a known tongue, Amen, that 516 00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:55,280 is being spoken. And so Speaking of tongues of 517 00:30:55,280 --> 00:30:58,040 men or angels, he says, I'm praying in the spirit. 518 00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:00,720 And so when we talk about this, the the modern day lingo out 519 00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:02,080 there today is this listen to me. 520 00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:04,600 People talk about their prayer language. 521 00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:08,320 People talk about their prayer language. 522 00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:11,000 Let me say this and I'm going to get this thing all wrapped up. 523 00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:13,600 My prayer language is my birth language. 524 00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:15,280 And I'm not talking about my natural birth. 525 00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:19,000 Can you hear me? My prayer language is my birth 526 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:22,600 language, my born again language, my born again 527 00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:23,800 language. All right. 528 00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:26,760 I, I got a native tongue when I was naturally born, but whenever 529 00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:29,440 I was born with the water and the spirit, I got a language 530 00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:31,440 then as well. Amen. 531 00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:34,760 And so I'm talking about my born again experience in Acts 2 and 532 00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:36,120 four. And it, it's up there this 533 00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:37,640 morning. And they were all filled with 534 00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:42,320 the Holy Ghost and begin to speak with other tongues as the 535 00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:47,360 Spirit gave them utterance. And so whenever I pray in 536 00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:52,160 tongues or I'm using my prayer language so to speak, that same 537 00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:56,280 spirit that we were filled with initially now is interceding 538 00:31:56,280 --> 00:31:59,560 through you. It's interceding through you. 539 00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:02,680 And as Corinthians tells us, we don't understand. 540 00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:04,440 He says whenever I pray in the Spirit, he said, I don't 541 00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:06,160 understand. Amen. 542 00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:10,160 Well, yeah, you don't, but God does. 543 00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:13,760 And to pray with your understanding then is to pray in 544 00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:16,800 the language like I'm talking right now and I go, I pray to 545 00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:19,360 God a lot. My native tongue that I was born 546 00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:22,240 here with English, the English language, I talked to God. 547 00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:24,800 But but Paul put the emphasis on it here. 548 00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:27,600 He says don't, don't leave one or the other out. 549 00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:31,520 You need to pray in the Spirit and you also need to pray, if 550 00:32:31,520 --> 00:32:35,000 you will, as as a man in your native given tongue that you 551 00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:38,160 were born and reared in. You need to do both. 552 00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:40,600 Can I emphasize that? You did. 553 00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:44,240 The scripture says praying in the Holy Ghost, building up your 554 00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:48,640 most holy faith. You need to do both. 555 00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:50,680 Why? Because whenever I pray to God 556 00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:53,360 right here, I'm talking to God. Everything I have knowledge of 557 00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:55,320 and know about and things I'm aware of. 558 00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:57,880 But whenever I get into the Spirit, begin to pray in the 559 00:32:57,880 --> 00:33:00,960 Holy Ghost, He's there. That Spirit begins to pray 560 00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:04,720 through me about things my natural mind has No, I don't 561 00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:07,000 have any idea. I'm praying about stuff. 562 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:09,920 I don't know what's going on in somebody's life, but the Spirit 563 00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:14,360 who knows who is omnipotent and omnipresent, Amen, who knows all 564 00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:18,480 those things is doing it through me for a circumstance I don't 565 00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:22,280 know about, for a situation or even maybe the name of a person 566 00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:27,360 that I've never met. That's how God uses his body. 567 00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:29,320 We're the church. We're the body of Christ. 568 00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:35,200 And so whenever this happens, man, this, this is absolutely 569 00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:37,960 important. Look, if you will at Romans 570 00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:41,280 chapter #8 and verse #26 and I'm trying to move along here. 571 00:33:41,640 --> 00:33:46,360 Likewise. Likewise, the Spirit also help 572 00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:49,920 with our infirmities. For we know not what we should 573 00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:53,160 pray for as we ought. You ever been there, didn't 574 00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:57,200 really know how to pray about something or a situation, or we 575 00:33:57,200 --> 00:34:00,480 know not what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit 576 00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:06,800 itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot 577 00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:09,600 be uttered. And he that searches the hearts 578 00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:12,920 knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh 579 00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:16,400 intercession for the Saints according to the will of God. 580 00:34:16,639 --> 00:34:20,159 The Spirit helpeth our infirmities, The Spirit, the 581 00:34:20,159 --> 00:34:23,600 Holy Spirit, the Holy Ghost, Christ in you, the hope of glory 582 00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:27,920 helps or supports you in carrying your burdens, your 583 00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:30,280 weaknesses, other people's burdens, other people's 584 00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:32,880 weaknesses. And as an individual, again, I 585 00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:34,639 don't always know what to pray about man. 586 00:34:34,639 --> 00:34:36,600 There's, there's things that happen in life. 587 00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:39,199 Sometimes it leaves me scratching my head as a man. 588 00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:43,239 But Brother Fred, if in my prayer I can get out of that 589 00:34:43,239 --> 00:34:48,199 form and get into to the Spirit, the Spirit knows how to pray 590 00:34:48,199 --> 00:34:51,560 about it when I don't. Amen. 591 00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:55,120 I don't know the best way maybe to pray about your needs and 592 00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:57,480 what you're going through. It's just so overwhelming to my 593 00:34:57,480 --> 00:35:00,440 mind as an individual. But if I can get in the Spirit, 594 00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:02,640 he has a way of handling all those things. 595 00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:06,200 And the Spirit, the Holy Ghost, which I received, the Bible says 596 00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:09,280 it makes intercession. It, it may be making 597 00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:12,720 intercession on my behalf. It may be making intercession on 598 00:35:12,720 --> 00:35:15,800 the behalf of somebody else. It may be making intercession on 599 00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:17,760 the behalf of someone else's circumstance. 600 00:35:18,040 --> 00:35:20,520 And, and the Bible, look what the Scripture even says, maketh 601 00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:23,040 intercession with groanings which cannot be uttered. 602 00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:29,320 Oh, brother McGee, listen to me. There are some things that are 603 00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:32,400 just so just out there. Sometimes even as a real human, 604 00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:37,760 I don't have words sufficient. I don't have words sufficient to 605 00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:40,200 describe or at that moment to even help. 606 00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:45,720 He says sometimes the spirit, it, it is sometimes unspeakable. 607 00:35:45,720 --> 00:35:47,840 It's not as though there's an utterance, but there's just a 608 00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:49,560 connection in the realm of the Spirit. 609 00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:55,960 I'm just check me off as crazy, but there's sometimes in prayer 610 00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:59,880 I can't do anything. But just like you understand 611 00:35:59,880 --> 00:36:01,640 what I'm saying. I don't know. 612 00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:05,560 There's no utterance, but there is a connection. 613 00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:09,840 There's just some type of feeling that is there. 614 00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:12,000 Amen. And look what the Bible told us 615 00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:15,800 there in Romans. It tells us that he that Spirit 616 00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:19,360 searches the hearts and know of what is the mind of the Spirit? 617 00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:22,040 Jeremiah 1710 tells us the saying. 618 00:36:22,240 --> 00:36:24,400 It tells us that God searches the hearts. 619 00:36:24,720 --> 00:36:26,560 God knows the mind of the Spirit. 620 00:36:27,720 --> 00:36:29,680 God knows the mind of the Spirit. 621 00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:33,800 And even if it is a unspeakable connection, God knows the mind 622 00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:37,880 of the Spirit. He knows the mind of the Spirit. 623 00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:40,040 God knows what the Spirit's getting at. 624 00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:45,200 God knows what the Spirit is directing God, and it that 625 00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:50,120 Spirit then makes intercession. Watch this according to the will 626 00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:54,520 of God, according to the will of God. 627 00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:59,080 That's important because when we just approach prayer, we are a 628 00:36:59,080 --> 00:37:01,400 monster scripture. We should approach prayer and 629 00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:06,960 pray according to God's will. And the Bible says if we do 630 00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:09,200 that, we will have what we request. 631 00:37:09,720 --> 00:37:13,040 But the caveat is this, right? Going to God, praying his will. 632 00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:19,080 We're praying what McGee wants. Because see, I see a situation 633 00:37:19,080 --> 00:37:21,480 in this situation, I believe this is what should happen. 634 00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:25,480 And McGee says, I'm going to pray according to this outcome. 635 00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:28,800 And as much as that might be what God may want to do is 636 00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:31,160 contradictory to what we think should be done. 637 00:37:31,520 --> 00:37:34,200 We got to pray according to God's will, Huh? 638 00:37:34,720 --> 00:37:36,000 We got to pray according to God's will. 639 00:37:36,240 --> 00:37:39,320 And so we come frustrated sometimes what we frustrate and 640 00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:41,200 we're praying and all these things. 641 00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:43,840 But even Jesus, whenever he taught his disciples what we 642 00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:47,160 call the Lord's Prayer, which is really the disciples prayer, but 643 00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:49,800 what we call the Lord's Prayer, He taught them what he teach 644 00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:52,760 them. He said when you pray thy 645 00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:58,000 Kingdom come this way, you pray guys, Thy will be done in earth 646 00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:01,680 as it is in heaven. Run with me if you will. 647 00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:03,920 First John chapter #5 verse 14 and 15. 648 00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:08,920 And this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask 649 00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:12,200 anything according to His will, He heareth us. 650 00:38:12,720 --> 00:38:18,000 And if we know that He heareth us whatsoever we ask, we know 651 00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:22,000 that we have the petitions that we desired of Him. 652 00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:26,440 Listen, Pastor Mcgee's not up here telling you to turn your 653 00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:28,960 prayer into a blab it and grab it. 654 00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:35,160 Say it and have it type of prayer session. 655 00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:39,520 But prayers the Bible said prayers according to his will 656 00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:46,760 are heard and will be answered. So if I want to remove the 657 00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:51,160 possibility of Paul McGee not praying according to his will, 658 00:38:51,680 --> 00:38:56,400 you know a good good guarantee to not to get that wrong. 659 00:38:57,120 --> 00:39:01,360 Pray in the Spirit because Romans says that it prays 660 00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:09,920 according to God's will. If I want to remove the human 661 00:39:09,920 --> 00:39:13,960 factor of the air possibility there, then just slip over into 662 00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:17,440 praying in the Spirit because the Spirit will always pray 663 00:39:17,840 --> 00:39:24,040 according to God's will. And I'm feeling the Holy Ghost 664 00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:27,080 here right now. First John 2 and verse one the 665 00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:30,880 Bible says, my little children, these things write I unto you 666 00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:33,440 that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have 667 00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:37,600 everybody say an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, the 668 00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:40,720 the righteous. The word advocate is 669 00:39:40,720 --> 00:39:43,840 pericolitos. If you want to brush up on your 670 00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:47,320 Greek, all right, but it means an intercessor. 671 00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:52,160 We have an intercessor. It means consoler. 672 00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:55,360 It means comforter. That's those things that we have 673 00:39:55,360 --> 00:39:57,680 known even from John 14 and I have Scripture up there, 674 00:39:57,680 --> 00:40:00,960 brethren, whenever Jesus said I'm going to go away, but I'm 675 00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:03,480 not going to leave you comfortless, I'm going to send a 676 00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:05,840 comforter, which is the Holy Ghost. 677 00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:10,520 What are you saying? Comforter, consoler, intercessor 678 00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:13,720 you speak with all those things in which the Holy Ghost would be 679 00:40:13,720 --> 00:40:15,760 to us. And that Holy Ghost, mind you, 680 00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:18,320 you look in the Scriptures like in Romans 8. 681 00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:22,440 It is both called the Spirit of God and the Spirit of Christ. 682 00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:28,240 Amen said it will. It will intercede. 683 00:40:28,440 --> 00:40:31,560 It will intercede for you if you send it, whatever it is that has 684 00:40:31,560 --> 00:40:33,000 happened. You have an advocate, You have 685 00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:36,160 an intercessor, Amen, with the Father. 686 00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:40,240 That that, that Paraclete or that comforter is one who is 687 00:40:40,240 --> 00:40:45,440 called to one side as an aide, one who pleads the cause of 688 00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:48,160 another, a defense counsel, if you will. 689 00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:51,000 In the very broadest of sense, it's just a helper. 690 00:40:51,080 --> 00:40:53,200 It's assistant. You have an intercessor. 691 00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:57,880 So if all that being said, folks, this week, at least five 692 00:40:57,880 --> 00:41:01,040 days here at the church, there might be times as we're 693 00:41:01,040 --> 00:41:05,480 collectively here together that God would move into this place 694 00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:10,240 and cause you to start interceding for situations or 695 00:41:10,240 --> 00:41:13,680 maybe another St. or maybe a Sinner. 696 00:41:15,080 --> 00:41:19,400 Here we go or maybe your enemy. What? 697 00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:24,400 Let's look at the let's look at the relationship here, really 698 00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:31,360 with Moses and Pharaoh, Moses and Pharaoh, Pharaoh pleads with 699 00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:35,640 Moses intercede for me. I understand Old Testament. 700 00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:38,080 New Testament, the picture of intercession looks a little 701 00:41:38,080 --> 00:41:42,320 different because in the Old Testament the Spirit has not yet 702 00:41:42,320 --> 00:41:45,880 been given, because Christ has not yet been glorified. 703 00:41:46,520 --> 00:41:49,280 And so the best that the Old Testament could have is the 704 00:41:49,280 --> 00:41:53,200 Spirit of the Lord moving on them or upon them. 705 00:41:53,560 --> 00:41:55,680 New Testament, it gets more intimate. 706 00:41:55,880 --> 00:42:00,200 The Spirit of God can move inside of a person, all right. 707 00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:02,560 And so I understand there may be a little difference, but 708 00:42:02,560 --> 00:42:06,320 nonetheless, here's Moses to the best of his ability, He is 709 00:42:06,320 --> 00:42:11,240 interceding, Amen, for Pharaoh, for Pharaoh's servants, for the 710 00:42:11,280 --> 00:42:15,440 Egyptian nation, Amen to the utmost possibility that his 711 00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:19,680 disposition, his dispensation, and his heir, Amen, would, would 712 00:42:19,680 --> 00:42:22,000 provide. And so he's crying out loudly. 713 00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:25,280 He's crying for deliverance. It's an emotional plea with 714 00:42:25,280 --> 00:42:27,240 physical responses, all this stuff. 715 00:42:27,480 --> 00:42:31,600 And by all standards, Pharaoh was a Sinner. 716 00:42:32,880 --> 00:42:38,760 By all standards, Pharaoh was the enemy of God and of Moses. 717 00:42:40,640 --> 00:42:50,640 Pharaoh was lost, but Moses interceded, interceded for him. 718 00:42:50,680 --> 00:42:52,720 I'm running. I'm so sorry, folks. 719 00:42:54,160 --> 00:42:57,120 Matthew 544. Jesus says, but I say, and do 720 00:42:57,120 --> 00:43:00,600 you love your enemies, bless them that curse you do good to 721 00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:04,800 them that hate you, pray for them, which despitefully use you 722 00:43:04,800 --> 00:43:07,160 and persecute you. What pray for them? 723 00:43:07,560 --> 00:43:11,680 What pray because the context started here talking about the 724 00:43:11,680 --> 00:43:13,520 enemies. Those are just kind of given 725 00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:18,800 other if you will, explanations and and and causations of why 726 00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:20,400 that person might be your enemy, right. 727 00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:23,600 They they they despitefully using you persecuting you just 728 00:43:23,600 --> 00:43:25,200 pray. Pray then for them. 729 00:43:26,560 --> 00:43:30,000 The word for in Matthew 5 where it says pray for them. 730 00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:33,320 The word for is a word that doesn't just mean over, it means 731 00:43:33,320 --> 00:43:35,160 over. So pray over them, right? 732 00:43:35,160 --> 00:43:36,440 You've had that happen for your life. 733 00:43:37,080 --> 00:43:41,520 But it also means pray and behalf of them for the sake of 734 00:43:41,520 --> 00:43:44,000 them on the part. What's it talking about? 735 00:43:44,520 --> 00:43:49,840 Intercede for them. I don't just pray over my 736 00:43:49,840 --> 00:43:54,080 enemies. I pray on their behalf. 737 00:43:55,240 --> 00:43:59,360 I'm not just saying God help so and so I'm doing a gap standing 738 00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:01,800 prayer. I'm pleading. 739 00:44:04,040 --> 00:44:07,040 I'm pleading with the Lord. You can stand with me today. 740 00:44:07,040 --> 00:44:13,040 I'll close up, intercede today, intercede today. 741 00:44:14,720 --> 00:44:17,440 So it's important that intercession is not just some 742 00:44:17,440 --> 00:44:20,160 past thing regulated for the Old Testaments in the New Testament 743 00:44:20,160 --> 00:44:23,920 as well. Equally as much it is present 744 00:44:23,920 --> 00:44:29,360 day practice as well. Pharaoh may not knew the Lord 745 00:44:29,640 --> 00:44:33,320 like Moses knew the Lord, but he did recognize the power of 746 00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:37,200 prayer. You tell, listen to me folks. 747 00:44:37,560 --> 00:44:40,640 Is that not the case? How many people do you know that 748 00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:43,880 may not know the Lord on a level of relationship that you know 749 00:44:43,880 --> 00:44:47,080 the Lord, but they know the power of prayer and what do they 750 00:44:47,080 --> 00:44:49,800 do? They'll call your number or 751 00:44:49,800 --> 00:44:54,040 they'll see you and they'll say, will you please pray? 752 00:44:58,040 --> 00:45:02,400 Now we give the Oh yeah, I'll pray for you and whether we ever 753 00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:03,680 do, I'll leave that in your court. 754 00:45:03,680 --> 00:45:09,200 But nonetheless, so if a Pagan king understood the necessity of 755 00:45:09,200 --> 00:45:13,120 someone standing in the gap for him, then Brother Fred, I'm 756 00:45:13,120 --> 00:45:19,080 asking myself, how much more should I as a child of God, then 757 00:45:19,080 --> 00:45:24,520 stand in that gap? And Moses didn't delay Sister 758 00:45:24,520 --> 00:45:28,120 McGee. He cried out that very day and 759 00:45:28,120 --> 00:45:31,800 God responded. And So what I'm asking us here 760 00:45:32,120 --> 00:45:36,960 today, this week, continuing onward, is that we intercede 761 00:45:36,960 --> 00:45:41,680 without delay because there's people in your families, there's 762 00:45:41,680 --> 00:45:45,360 people in our churches, there's people in our communities who 763 00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:49,440 are overwhelmed with life and burdens and situations that they 764 00:45:49,440 --> 00:45:54,720 cannot remove. And some of them don't even 765 00:45:54,720 --> 00:45:56,840 know, it seems like, how to reach out to God. 766 00:45:57,080 --> 00:46:03,920 But you do, You do. Hey man, so we need to cry out 767 00:46:03,920 --> 00:46:07,200 to God, plead, stand in the gap. Hey man, we need to take it up 768 00:46:07,200 --> 00:46:08,760 on our responsibility. Folks. 769 00:46:08,760 --> 00:46:11,480 It would not hurt me one bit if I came in this church and I was 770 00:46:11,480 --> 00:46:14,640 praying and all of a sudden it's like, man, am I in the first 771 00:46:14,640 --> 00:46:17,000 Apostolic Church? I don't hear 1 lick of English 772 00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:23,720 going on around here. That doesn't bother me. 773 00:46:23,880 --> 00:46:26,040 It would not hurt my feelings if I hurt someone over in the 774 00:46:26,040 --> 00:46:28,880 corner. Like what's going on? 775 00:46:29,040 --> 00:46:32,400 It's unspeakable. It's grown and can't be uttered. 776 00:46:32,400 --> 00:46:36,080 But I guarantee you in that woo something is happening. 777 00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:46,160 But Hattano Boshaya, I've I've been exposed to too much. 778 00:46:47,680 --> 00:46:51,120 Cut my teeth on the back of the Pew whenever some little old 779 00:46:51,120 --> 00:46:55,400 lady somewhere is going. The hair of your neck stands up 780 00:46:55,400 --> 00:46:59,120 on the back of your neck. Because that's not showmanship. 781 00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:04,200 That's not artificial. That's somebody that's plugged 782 00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:07,640 into something and something's going on in that moment. 783 00:47:17,040 --> 00:47:22,320 If we bow our heads across this place, I'm asking us this week, 784 00:47:22,320 --> 00:47:24,200 will we be found like Moses this week? 785 00:47:25,600 --> 00:47:29,200 Someone be fervent. New Testament says the effectual 786 00:47:29,200 --> 00:47:31,360 fervent prayer of a righteous man developed much. 787 00:47:31,360 --> 00:47:34,120 Will someone be fervent? Will someone be immediate? 788 00:47:34,120 --> 00:47:37,640 Will someone be unwavering in our prayers? 789 00:47:39,800 --> 00:47:43,480 Because God may be wanting to intercede with His Spirit 790 00:47:43,480 --> 00:47:48,880 through you, someone needs to maybe give a cry of deliverance 791 00:47:48,880 --> 00:47:52,920 on behalf of someone this week, a cry of healing on behalf of 792 00:47:52,920 --> 00:47:57,920 someone this week, a cry of salvation on behalf of someone 793 00:47:57,920 --> 00:48:00,760 this week. What you saying, Pastor? 794 00:48:00,760 --> 00:48:03,960 I'm saying pray, intercede today. 795 00:48:04,720 --> 00:48:06,480 And when we do, we can trust that. 796 00:48:06,680 --> 00:48:11,000 We can trust that that just as he did for Moses, the Lord will 797 00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:17,400 respond to our prayers. Don't wait till tomorrow, do it 798 00:48:17,400 --> 00:48:26,640 today. Hallelujah, Jesus, these altars 799 00:48:26,640 --> 00:48:29,200 are open this morning. This would be a really good 800 00:48:29,200 --> 00:48:33,400 response time today for us to go on and just move into a place of 801 00:48:33,400 --> 00:48:36,400 prayer right now where they're in your Pew at the altar, 802 00:48:36,400 --> 00:48:38,800 standing, kneeling. I don't care what your position 803 00:48:38,800 --> 00:48:41,440 is, but move into a place of prayer right now and have a 804 00:48:41,440 --> 00:48:45,080 conversation with God saying God, I'm hearing today. 805 00:48:45,320 --> 00:48:48,200 I know there's a society all around me and some are saying 806 00:48:48,520 --> 00:48:52,040 Lord, deliverance tomorrow or next week or maybe someday, but 807 00:48:52,040 --> 00:48:54,880 God, I'm not waiting for the someday to start praying. 808 00:48:54,880 --> 00:48:57,720 I'm going to pray today. I'm going to intercede today. 809 00:48:57,720 --> 00:48:59,400 I'm going to petition heaven today. 810 00:48:59,680 --> 00:49:03,280 God, I'm going to cry out to you, God, if you want to use me 811 00:49:03,280 --> 00:49:06,760 as a vestal Lord on behalf of somebody else, help me, Lord, to 812 00:49:06,760 --> 00:49:10,760 be sensitive to that Lord and to operate Lord Jesus in that. 813 00:49:10,920 --> 00:49:14,720 Somebody's in need today. Somebody needs healing today. 814 00:49:14,920 --> 00:49:18,200 Somebody has circumstances beyond their capability today. 815 00:49:18,440 --> 00:49:22,000 Somebody needs salvation today. Somebody needs the light of the 816 00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:24,600 glorious gospel to shine into their light today. 817 00:49:24,800 --> 00:49:30,080 Somebody intercede today, Hennessy today. 818 00:49:31,040 --> 00:49:35,800 Hello, Shamda Lavinio Bo Sataye. Pray with your understanding. 819 00:49:35,800 --> 00:49:38,520 Pray in the spirit, Hennessy today. 820 00:49:38,720 --> 00:49:41,600 We're not sitting around trying to hear what someone else says. 821 00:49:41,800 --> 00:49:43,920 We're just trying to hear what heaven is saying. 822 00:49:44,120 --> 00:49:46,720 We're just trying to hear what the unction of the Almighty is 823 00:49:46,720 --> 00:49:49,560 directing. Hallelujah, Jesus.