1 00:00:08,760 --> 00:00:11,480 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Love Quest International 2 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:14,600 Church Podcast, where we seek to love all nations, equip the 3 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:17,560 church, mobilize the equipped, and serve all. 4 00:00:17,880 --> 00:00:21,080 We're super glad you're joining us from whenever and wherever 5 00:00:21,080 --> 00:00:23,800 you're at in the world. Welcome to the family to get 6 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:26,480 your Bibles ready, get some water, get some coffee, maybe 7 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:28,680 some tea and get ready to receive. 8 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:39,160 Let's get into. It glad to be here today. 9 00:00:39,160 --> 00:00:40,880 I'm excited about what God has to share. 10 00:00:40,880 --> 00:00:42,880 We're going to be building on the theme. 11 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:47,480 I love the one God does that builds on the theme, and I think 12 00:00:47,480 --> 00:00:50,000 it's going to be something very encouraging with you and for 13 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:52,840 you. I do want to thank our pastors 14 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:54,920 for the opportunity to share the Word of God. 15 00:00:56,640 --> 00:01:00,440 I really appreciate it helps me grow, but also helps grow our 16 00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:03,040 community. God is in the activating 17 00:01:03,040 --> 00:01:09,120 business, and my hope is that in God activating me, there's 18 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:12,200 someone out there that sees that God can activate them too 19 00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:16,320 because we need everyone activated based on what God is 20 00:01:16,320 --> 00:01:19,760 doing. Amen, Amen. 21 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:23,200 Let me on a set one thing up here. 22 00:01:23,640 --> 00:01:34,320 Can you put this? So we're going to be talking 23 00:01:34,320 --> 00:01:36,800 about praying through today, picking up that thing. 24 00:01:37,320 --> 00:01:41,520 Hey, man, you can put the title slide up praying through through 25 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:46,280 just one more hour right now. Now, this is not all this part 26 00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:49,000 isn't on my slides, but I thought it fitting to to share 27 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:50,800 this. What does it mean to pray 28 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:53,440 through? Sometimes people throw around 29 00:01:53,440 --> 00:01:57,200 terms or, or say things and, and, and, and you're like, what 30 00:01:57,200 --> 00:01:59,880 does it mean? What what does that relate to? 31 00:01:59,920 --> 00:02:03,000 It was important to understand and, and get to that. 32 00:02:03,560 --> 00:02:07,520 OK, And what praying through means? 33 00:02:11,920 --> 00:02:13,560 It means praying until it's done. 34 00:02:15,480 --> 00:02:19,440 OK, Sometimes that means until you see it. 35 00:02:20,320 --> 00:02:23,200 But sometimes it doesn't mean till you see it. 36 00:02:23,480 --> 00:02:28,600 It means till it's done. OK, the same God that pulls you 37 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:33,360 and calls you to prayer is the same God that tells you we're 38 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:36,720 done. Sometimes that means you see it, 39 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:40,920 but sometimes you're not. Sometimes you see it in 40 00:02:40,920 --> 00:02:46,080 different forms than you expect. So for example, there was Anna, 41 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:49,640 a prophetess from the New Testament. 42 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:52,600 She was serving God with praise and fastings day and night. 43 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:55,160 There was a word that came to what sent me into there's a word 44 00:02:55,160 --> 00:02:57,480 that came to them. They would see the Savior when 45 00:02:57,480 --> 00:03:02,960 Mary and Joseph brought Jesus to the temple as it was a custom at 46 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:09,160 8 days, she saw the Savior. He wasn't the crucified Savior. 47 00:03:09,160 --> 00:03:12,280 He wasn't the risen Savior yet, but he was the Savior. 48 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:14,880 She prayed through until she saw it. 49 00:03:14,880 --> 00:03:18,120 Even though the form she saw it, it may be indifferent than what 50 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:21,320 we expected. Praying through means praying 51 00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:25,200 until you get a release from God in your spirit that that's it. 52 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:28,400 It's taken care of. There are times where I've had 53 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:31,200 to pray for things and pray for things and I pray for things and 54 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:32,680 I felt the Lord's like, thank you. 55 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:36,480 It's done now. It is as it is. 56 00:03:36,480 --> 00:03:41,080 If you never pray for for again, it is as sure as ever. 57 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:42,600 But this is really important why? 58 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:47,320 Because when you get that relief from the Lord that is done and 59 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:52,160 you're still trying to pray, why are you afraid? 60 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:54,240 Are you scared because you don't see it yet? 61 00:03:56,520 --> 00:04:00,320 Make sense? Sometimes praying when God is 62 00:04:00,320 --> 00:04:04,600 saying it's finished is getting into disobedience. 63 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:08,480 All of our prayers based on God leading. 64 00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:12,520 It's not based on our seeing. That's why the prayer is is 65 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:13,960 effective. That's how you pray through. 66 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:16,320 When you're praying based on your seeing, you're 67 00:04:16,320 --> 00:04:18,040 automatically limiting your prayer. 68 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:23,120 Praying through is based on God's leading because he knows 69 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:26,840 exactly what's required to finish this thing and to get 70 00:04:26,840 --> 00:04:28,200 through. Amen. 71 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:30,680 So we have to be willing. There's nothing wrong with 72 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:33,160 checking God. There's anything else you want 73 00:04:33,160 --> 00:04:35,800 me to pray about that I know you told me it was finished. 74 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:38,240 I got a release. I got a peace in my spirit that 75 00:04:38,240 --> 00:04:40,920 it was done, but I'm just checking this week. 76 00:04:40,920 --> 00:04:45,120 We still good, Still good. Month pass. 77 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:47,360 God, we still good. Don't you pray about that? 78 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:48,920 No, it's good. It's good, It's good. 79 00:04:49,480 --> 00:04:51,280 Two months pass. God, we need to pray about that. 80 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:52,320 Yeah. There's something else I want 81 00:04:52,320 --> 00:04:55,920 you to pick up on that now. Was it not finished? 82 00:04:55,920 --> 00:04:57,720 No, it may have been finished. Maybe God's like. 83 00:04:57,720 --> 00:05:01,680 I'm adding an addendum to it based on how other people have 84 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:03,240 been responding. I'm going to add this to it now 85 00:05:03,240 --> 00:05:05,320 and tack that onto it. Amen. 86 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:07,840 So that's what it means to pray through. 87 00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:12,520 It does mean you're praying sometimes until you see it, OK, 88 00:05:12,640 --> 00:05:15,440 But it doesn't always mean you're praying until you see it. 89 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:19,920 And I think that's an important distinction to make, but that's 90 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:21,280 the way. But you'll know the difference 91 00:05:21,280 --> 00:05:22,920 by the time you spend with the Lord. 92 00:05:23,520 --> 00:05:26,280 OK, everyone got that. Was that helpful? 93 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:30,920 Helpful. OK, I remember my Mama praying. 94 00:05:30,920 --> 00:05:32,640 Give example. My Mama, my mom praying. 95 00:05:32,640 --> 00:05:35,040 She was praying. I like to say my Mama, my Mama 96 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:38,400 praying, you know, I remember praying one time she's telling 97 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:40,440 me about she was praying one time she's praying, she's 98 00:05:40,440 --> 00:05:45,960 praying. Then she went all right and went 99 00:05:45,960 --> 00:05:47,760 to go cook or something, you know, something just like we 100 00:05:47,760 --> 00:05:50,000 were like, ain't no 90° ain't going out. 101 00:05:50,320 --> 00:05:55,880 She's like, oh Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord, Oh Lord, let's go to 102 00:05:55,880 --> 00:05:58,360 the mall now. It was like that. 103 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:00,720 You know, I'm like, what's going on with you said no, it's, it's 104 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:03,280 done. God is blowing witness in my 105 00:06:03,280 --> 00:06:06,360 spirit that we're done with that now we, we're good, right? 106 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:08,560 So again, that's important to recognize. 107 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:11,360 We're going to give you some tips about praying through 108 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:14,360 praying through everyone say praying through praying through 109 00:06:14,360 --> 00:06:16,320 praying through means all the way to the finish, not to the 110 00:06:16,320 --> 00:06:17,520 finish line, but through the finish. 111 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:20,440 All of my track stars and my track coach up in I got a track 112 00:06:20,440 --> 00:06:21,960 coach helps me learn, helps me preach. 113 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:24,280 What they say is you got to run through the tape, not to the 114 00:06:24,280 --> 00:06:26,400 tape. Gentlemen, y'all remember the 115 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:27,640 Olympics? Last Olympics. 116 00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:29,840 Not Olympics. Olympics. 117 00:06:29,840 --> 00:06:32,960 The last Olympics. Last Olympics. 118 00:06:33,720 --> 00:06:36,800 Guy who won 100 meters. What's his name? 119 00:06:38,080 --> 00:06:38,600 Leah. No. 120 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:39,520 No allow. No allows. 121 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:41,240 This is my dog over there. My dingo. 122 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:42,520 He's Australia. He's my dingo. 123 00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:43,320 I'm his dog. I'm. 124 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:46,040 I'm your anyway. OK? 125 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:48,640 No, no. No allows. 126 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:49,560 No allows. Right. 127 00:06:50,080 --> 00:06:52,160 He won by how he pressed through the tape. 128 00:06:53,280 --> 00:06:55,480 One guy leaned through the tape with his head. 129 00:06:55,920 --> 00:06:58,560 Noah leaned with his chest. His chest caught it. 130 00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:01,160 It's about how your chest, not your head, the chest caught him, 131 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:04,120 right? Praying through means knowing 132 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:07,960 how to finish all the way. One of the ways you pray through 133 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:10,760 is understanding this. I'm not if you are, if you 134 00:07:10,760 --> 00:07:14,520 running 100m race, I don't train to run 100 meters. 135 00:07:14,920 --> 00:07:18,760 I train to run 200 meters. So that way at the end of my 100 136 00:07:18,760 --> 00:07:21,800 meters, I am as strong at the end as I was at the beginning. 137 00:07:22,640 --> 00:07:25,600 Praying through means you got to be willing to pray beyond what 138 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:29,360 you perceive, beyond the capacity, beyond what you think 139 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:31,760 it might take. You're not training to get 140 00:07:31,760 --> 00:07:34,440 things done. You're training to be as strong 141 00:07:34,440 --> 00:07:37,040 and as graceful and as full and connected with God as it's 142 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:40,560 possible to be. I got a couple things for you 143 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:42,240 here. Number one is this. 144 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:46,400 Don't expect your prayer to change things if your prayer 145 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:50,360 hasn't changed you. If you want a prayer that 146 00:07:50,360 --> 00:07:54,520 prevails, changing things, don't expect to have prayer that 147 00:07:54,520 --> 00:07:56,480 prevails. If you don't have a prayer 148 00:07:56,480 --> 00:08:03,000 that's changed you, you, you can't pray to a space that you 149 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:07,000 have not gone in your own life. It's difficult to do that now. 150 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:10,080 There's a grace that can come on you to do that. 151 00:08:10,760 --> 00:08:12,320 That's some of the gifts of the Spirit. 152 00:08:12,320 --> 00:08:15,280 The gift of faith sometimes will come on to someone to take them 153 00:08:15,280 --> 00:08:17,880 someplace or have them pray something beyond their lived 154 00:08:17,880 --> 00:08:19,920 experience. But if your prayer ain't 155 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:21,880 changing you, why do you think it's going to change 156 00:08:21,880 --> 00:08:24,960 circumstance? Where would you get that 157 00:08:24,960 --> 00:08:28,120 understanding from? Because if your prayers changing 158 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:32,280 you now, you got confidence that the same God who's changed you 159 00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:34,320 is that God's going to change that. 160 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:39,240 But if you believe you're stuck, but that's God to unstuck 161 00:08:39,240 --> 00:08:43,760 something that's difficult, the internal confidence in you will 162 00:08:43,760 --> 00:08:47,600 be distorted because you don't even believe it's, it's big 163 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:51,600 enough for you and you know you, you don't know all the 164 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:53,160 circumstances of what you're praying for. 165 00:08:53,520 --> 00:08:57,280 Don't expect your prayer to change things if your prayer 166 00:08:57,280 --> 00:09:00,800 hasn't changed you. So then one of the first tips 167 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:04,240 then in prevailing prayer is to have prayer that changes you 168 00:09:04,240 --> 00:09:07,600 first. God change me to follow you, 169 00:09:07,920 --> 00:09:10,880 change me to obey you change me to honor you. 170 00:09:11,080 --> 00:09:13,960 God transform me. Give me your eyes to see who you 171 00:09:13,960 --> 00:09:16,520 are in this. Let me be changed. 172 00:09:16,520 --> 00:09:20,760 God first on the process as I'm praying for change in other 173 00:09:20,760 --> 00:09:23,480 places. If you're praying for people to 174 00:09:23,480 --> 00:09:26,480 be healed and you're trying to breakthrough, yes, you pray for 175 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:28,480 healing, but you also pray for peace. 176 00:09:29,480 --> 00:09:32,920 That's just a little side tip. Pray for peace, but you just 177 00:09:32,920 --> 00:09:36,080 what you also pray about. God help me to see that you're a 178 00:09:36,080 --> 00:09:40,400 healer in this situation. Change my vision, change my 179 00:09:40,400 --> 00:09:44,560 understanding to believe that you can and you will change me 180 00:09:44,720 --> 00:09:48,240 and my relationship with you and my relationship to you. 181 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:54,680 Genesis 3226 through 28, I got another one up there. 182 00:09:54,680 --> 00:09:58,480 I didn't give you it's job 42 five, not right now, but it's 183 00:09:58,480 --> 00:09:59,880 going to come into that in this section. 184 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:05,720 Genesis 3226 to 28 says this got it up there. 185 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:13,680 The man said, now this is Jacob wrestling, OK, the man wrestling 186 00:10:13,760 --> 00:10:15,920 quote UN quote. The man, the man said let me go 187 00:10:15,920 --> 00:10:18,640 for his day break. But Jacob replied, I will not 188 00:10:18,640 --> 00:10:23,600 let you go until you bless me. I would not go until I ain't 189 00:10:23,600 --> 00:10:27,040 changed. Being blessed doesn't mean just 190 00:10:27,040 --> 00:10:28,840 giving something. I heard someone preach this for 191 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:30,480 a good friend of mine. You said this. 192 00:10:32,840 --> 00:10:35,040 Most folks, a lot of folks preach that I will not let you 193 00:10:35,040 --> 00:10:39,120 go until you bless me, until you bless me. 194 00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:42,640 She says she was praying that she was seeking God and God 195 00:10:42,640 --> 00:10:44,480 revealed to her. And I think this is probably 196 00:10:44,480 --> 00:10:47,320 more accurate. It says I won't let you go until 197 00:10:47,320 --> 00:10:51,120 you bless me. Jacob had been blessing himself 198 00:10:51,120 --> 00:10:53,000 his whole life. He was a trickster. 199 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:54,880 He was a huckster. He was a manipulator. 200 00:10:54,880 --> 00:10:56,320 He knew how to get in on the end. 201 00:10:56,360 --> 00:10:57,840 He knew the game and how it worked. 202 00:10:58,000 --> 00:10:59,920 He said I know how to bless myself. 203 00:11:00,520 --> 00:11:02,600 I need a blessing that only comes from God. 204 00:11:02,760 --> 00:11:06,920 I need you to transform me. I can't trick my life in the way 205 00:11:06,920 --> 00:11:10,680 it needs to be anymore, right? I need to be changed. 206 00:11:10,680 --> 00:11:14,320 My prayer needs to change me first, above all else. 207 00:11:15,160 --> 00:11:19,640 St. Corinthians 85 says this, that 208 00:11:19,640 --> 00:11:26,280 in giving before giving an offering, people gave themselves 209 00:11:26,280 --> 00:11:29,440 1st and they exceeded our expectations. 210 00:11:29,640 --> 00:11:33,800 They gave themselves first of all to the Lord, and then by the 211 00:11:33,800 --> 00:11:35,320 will of God they finished their giving. 212 00:11:36,160 --> 00:11:41,760 They first said, change me, let me be changed, Let me give 213 00:11:41,760 --> 00:11:45,960 myself first to the Lord. Let me put myself in a place 214 00:11:45,960 --> 00:11:49,400 where God prevails in my life first as I'm seeking to have God 215 00:11:49,400 --> 00:11:52,440 prevail through my prayers in the lives of others. 216 00:11:52,680 --> 00:11:57,040 Amen. Acts 19, verse 15 and 16. 217 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:04,160 This is something, this is a verse we all know seven sons of 218 00:12:04,160 --> 00:12:08,840 Sceva, right? They're trying to get trying to 219 00:12:08,840 --> 00:12:13,400 get over and trying to do what the people of God we're doing. 220 00:12:14,040 --> 00:12:17,880 And this evil spirit that was operating said this Jesus I know 221 00:12:17,880 --> 00:12:21,160 and Paul I know, but who are you? 222 00:12:21,160 --> 00:12:23,920 You ain't no different than the person that I know who you to 223 00:12:23,920 --> 00:12:26,040 be. I don't see no change in you. 224 00:12:26,480 --> 00:12:29,120 You're trying to operate a prayer that you haven't used to 225 00:12:29,120 --> 00:12:31,840 change your life. Now you notice it doesn't say 226 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:35,320 Saul. I know it says Paul. 227 00:12:35,320 --> 00:12:40,560 I know Paul is the chainsaw. I see the human changed by 228 00:12:40,560 --> 00:12:42,480 prayer. I see you believe it. 229 00:12:42,480 --> 00:12:44,680 I know Paul. Paul believes he changes. 230 00:12:44,840 --> 00:12:47,000 Paul's changed through himself, through prayer. 231 00:12:47,440 --> 00:12:48,240 He know. Yeah. 232 00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:50,960 OK, now I'll respond accordingly. 233 00:12:50,960 --> 00:12:53,440 So even the enemy's trying to see whether you let your prayer 234 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:56,000 change you. Because if you ain't changed, 235 00:12:56,440 --> 00:13:00,960 boom, you're going to run. You got to let your prayer 236 00:13:00,960 --> 00:13:03,240 change you. If you want to prevail in prayer 237 00:13:03,520 --> 00:13:06,880 for others, you got to prevail in prayer for you to be 238 00:13:06,880 --> 00:13:13,000 transformed into the person that God's called you to be first 239 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:18,480 John chapter 3 verses 2324. Again, this section is what you 240 00:13:18,480 --> 00:13:19,760 got to let your prayer change you. 241 00:13:22,440 --> 00:13:26,480 First John 3 verses chapter 3 verses 2324 says this. 242 00:13:26,800 --> 00:13:30,760 Whenever our hearts in tormenting self accusation make 243 00:13:30,760 --> 00:13:34,920 us feel guilty and condemn us, we are in God's hands. 244 00:13:35,360 --> 00:13:38,320 It talks about this. You expect if you want to 245 00:13:38,320 --> 00:13:41,360 receive something from God. Understand the thing that will 246 00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:44,400 keep you from receiving is feeling condemned in your heart. 247 00:13:45,360 --> 00:13:50,280 If your heart is condemning you, you won't be able to receive if 248 00:13:50,280 --> 00:13:54,160 you have not let prayer change your heart from a heart of a 249 00:13:54,160 --> 00:13:57,920 condemnation to a heart of being free from guilt, a heart of 250 00:13:57,920 --> 00:14:02,000 walking in the things of God. You will then be undermined in 251 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:05,800 your prevailing of prayer for others because your heart, who 252 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:07,280 are you to who are you to keep praying? 253 00:14:07,280 --> 00:14:12,400 This prevailing prayer suggests that there's a time or stand 254 00:14:12,400 --> 00:14:16,800 required, right? So the idea is this enemy come 255 00:14:16,800 --> 00:14:19,800 at you and say, listen, see if he's holy enough. 256 00:14:19,800 --> 00:14:24,240 It would have been done by now. If God had really forgiven you 257 00:14:24,240 --> 00:14:26,720 for that sin you committed, it would have broken through by 258 00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:28,120 now. It's because you still ain't 259 00:14:28,120 --> 00:14:29,600 worthy. See, that's what it is. 260 00:14:29,840 --> 00:14:33,880 That's what's causing it to be quote UN quote delayed, right? 261 00:14:34,960 --> 00:14:38,720 If you have an unworthy heart, you're going to have problems 262 00:14:38,720 --> 00:14:41,680 and prevailing in prayer. That's why you got to let your 263 00:14:41,680 --> 00:14:46,680 prayer work on you and get the condemnation out of you so that 264 00:14:46,680 --> 00:14:50,960 way you can be able to prevail. And Joe 42 five says this. 265 00:14:52,480 --> 00:14:57,800 My eyes had heard of you, but now my eyes have seen you. 266 00:15:00,640 --> 00:15:02,920 My ears, my, I think it's in my ears I heard of you, right? 267 00:15:02,920 --> 00:15:05,520 Not my eyes. My ears have. 268 00:15:05,560 --> 00:15:08,600 I had heard of you only by the hearing of the ear. 269 00:15:08,800 --> 00:15:13,320 But now I see you. Now I see you. 270 00:15:13,440 --> 00:15:16,200 See, Joe was doing a bunch of things out of fear. 271 00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:20,240 Many times he was making sacrifice for his kids in case 272 00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:23,160 the weekend came and they got a little turned up too much and 273 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:25,840 and they got caught up to his sacrifice in fear. 274 00:15:26,160 --> 00:15:29,480 He knew God in a way, but there was a level of fear that was 275 00:15:29,480 --> 00:15:31,000 governing his relationship with God. 276 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:35,400 And it came to this point after all of the things he'd been 277 00:15:35,400 --> 00:15:40,600 through, he said, you know, I heard of you, but now I see you. 278 00:15:41,520 --> 00:15:45,120 I've been changed. I thought I knew you, but I've 279 00:15:45,120 --> 00:15:49,160 been changed to really know you now, I thought I understood. 280 00:15:49,160 --> 00:15:51,120 I thought the hearing of you was enough. 281 00:15:51,640 --> 00:15:54,320 But I understand now. I got to be able to see who you 282 00:15:54,320 --> 00:15:57,960 are, not just hear who you are. I got to know for myself, not 283 00:15:57,960 --> 00:16:02,120 just what, for what you tell me. That's when transformation comes 284 00:16:02,600 --> 00:16:05,520 and prevailing prayer comes. If you know anything about Job 285 00:16:05,520 --> 00:16:11,000 after this, it was after this point they got restored. 286 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:13,680 After this, he prayed for his friends and they got restored 287 00:16:13,840 --> 00:16:18,080 after this. His prayer changed him. 288 00:16:19,080 --> 00:16:21,760 First. Don't expect your prayer to 289 00:16:21,760 --> 00:16:24,760 change things if your prayer hasn't changed you. 290 00:16:25,160 --> 00:16:28,040 How much have you let your prayers change you? 291 00:16:28,440 --> 00:16:32,040 How much have you use your prayers to examine your heart, 292 00:16:32,200 --> 00:16:36,440 your pride, your issues, where you are, your fears, your 293 00:16:36,440 --> 00:16:39,160 concerns? How much have you let your 294 00:16:39,160 --> 00:16:41,240 prayers do that? Do you have to be perfect in 295 00:16:41,240 --> 00:16:43,960 doing that? No, but when you have a heart 296 00:16:43,960 --> 00:16:46,600 that's willing to allow your prayers to examine yourself 297 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:48,640 first, it creates a space of grace. 298 00:16:48,640 --> 00:16:53,320 Then for your prayers to be more effective for others #2 boom, 299 00:16:53,680 --> 00:16:57,320 boom, boom. Come on Danny, I thought you was 300 00:16:57,320 --> 00:17:02,920 with me. Anyway, the next thing for 301 00:17:02,920 --> 00:17:07,000 prevailing prayer is this. You got to have mind fixing, 302 00:17:07,240 --> 00:17:11,440 mind blowing, mind cementing decisions. 303 00:17:14,440 --> 00:17:20,760 You got to have mind fixing, mind blowing, mind cementing 304 00:17:20,960 --> 00:17:23,800 decisions. I'm going to say it one more 305 00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:27,079 time. You got to have mind fixing, 306 00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:31,720 mind blowing, mind cementing decisions. 307 00:17:32,840 --> 00:17:36,680 Your prevailing begins with your decision before you start. 308 00:17:40,760 --> 00:17:44,200 This is a lot of the work right here, a lot of the work of the 309 00:17:44,200 --> 00:17:48,240 believers that get you to this point of having a mind made-up a 310 00:17:48,240 --> 00:17:52,520 mind fixed, a mind blowing. What do I mean by mind blowing? 311 00:17:52,520 --> 00:17:54,400 I mean like man, it don't matter. 312 00:17:55,560 --> 00:17:57,360 Here's here's a mind blowing decision. 313 00:17:58,040 --> 00:18:02,080 Abraham got a son. God said go kill your son 314 00:18:02,160 --> 00:18:04,040 Abraham. Fine, I'm going to go kill him. 315 00:18:05,520 --> 00:18:09,360 He go off the worship to kill him and God has to say Abraham, 316 00:18:09,360 --> 00:18:11,680 Abraham God don't often repeat himself like that. 317 00:18:12,160 --> 00:18:14,800 Apparently Abraham was like I'm killing him because you told me 318 00:18:14,800 --> 00:18:18,320 I'm killing him because you told me Abraham, Abraham. 319 00:18:18,320 --> 00:18:25,240 Oh, OK, Abraham's mind was fit, was so set. 320 00:18:25,760 --> 00:18:29,200 He was like whether the boy live or die don't matter to me. 321 00:18:29,560 --> 00:18:31,840 If he did, he must be going to raise him up. 322 00:18:31,880 --> 00:18:35,480 I don't care. Mind blowing decisions. 323 00:18:35,800 --> 00:18:38,960 His mind was made-up through life or through death. 324 00:18:39,720 --> 00:18:42,920 Another mind blowing decision. Three Hebrew boys. 325 00:18:43,480 --> 00:18:47,560 OK, we would bow down to you if it didn't go against our God. 326 00:18:48,920 --> 00:18:52,840 But we can't do that. We believe our God will deliver 327 00:18:52,840 --> 00:18:54,640 us from this furnace, from this fire. 328 00:18:55,200 --> 00:18:58,120 But even if he doesn't, we still not worship him. 329 00:19:01,240 --> 00:19:03,080 It don't matter life or death, man. 330 00:19:03,080 --> 00:19:06,040 I'm not concerned about it. I'm not concerned about the 331 00:19:06,040 --> 00:19:07,800 outcome. I made-up my mind. 332 00:19:08,680 --> 00:19:13,200 I made-up my mind. Quick testimony, my wife who's 333 00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:18,880 having delivery of this child here and she was in delivery and 334 00:19:18,880 --> 00:19:22,720 was having some difficulties that was going on and, and I and 335 00:19:22,720 --> 00:19:24,920 I was mad at God because it was supposed to be easier. 336 00:19:24,920 --> 00:19:26,520 I was mad at God because I prayed. 337 00:19:26,680 --> 00:19:29,040 I was mad at God. I was struggling because God, I, 338 00:19:29,280 --> 00:19:31,120 I did everything. I saw my men walk around the 339 00:19:31,120 --> 00:19:33,280 block and pray and God go all come down there. 340 00:19:33,440 --> 00:19:36,400 I was doing all of that and she was still, it was difficult. 341 00:19:37,520 --> 00:19:40,760 A lot of stuff was going on and I had a moment where I felt the 342 00:19:40,760 --> 00:19:43,520 enemy and I'd never say I've heard the devil speak to me. 343 00:19:43,520 --> 00:19:46,640 I ain't saying that, but something said to me this Why 344 00:19:46,640 --> 00:19:49,640 don't you just curse God and die, not die. 345 00:19:49,640 --> 00:19:52,080 Why don't you just curse God? That's that was Job's. 346 00:19:52,200 --> 00:19:55,240 Why don't you just curse God? He has forgotten you. 347 00:19:55,240 --> 00:19:57,840 Look at your wife laid up there. He has forgotten you and 348 00:19:57,840 --> 00:19:59,920 forsaken you. Why don't you just curse God? 349 00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:12,280 And in that moment, tears on my face, I said, Lord, I don't 350 00:20:12,280 --> 00:20:17,880 care. My words, whether the baby lives 351 00:20:17,880 --> 00:20:25,760 or dies, I don't care whether my wife lives or dies, I'm still 352 00:20:25,760 --> 00:20:29,360 going to worship you. It's not that I didn't care 353 00:20:29,360 --> 00:20:32,080 whether he died, but I'm saying whether no matter what happens, 354 00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:36,680 I'm going to worship you. My decision is not based on an 355 00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:40,200 outcome. My decision is based on God. 356 00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:43,360 Whatever the outcome and whatever the outcome is, he'll 357 00:20:43,360 --> 00:20:46,680 transform and He'll change it. He'll do something to deal with 358 00:20:46,680 --> 00:20:48,480 it. My job is not to dictate the 359 00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:50,520 outcome. My job is to have a made-up 360 00:20:50,520 --> 00:20:56,160 mind. Mind cementing decisions Once 361 00:20:56,160 --> 00:20:59,800 you make that decision, I have decided who God is. 362 00:20:59,920 --> 00:21:03,560 I have decided that I'm healed. I have decided that he will. 363 00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:07,080 I have decided I'm a tither. I have decided my family shall 364 00:21:07,080 --> 00:21:09,960 be saved. I have decided my my kids will 365 00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:11,880 know the Lord. I have decided. 366 00:21:12,080 --> 00:21:15,720 Once you have decided it, man, it is over. 367 00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:20,480 Once you make that kind of decision and at the moment you 368 00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:25,320 make that decision, here's what is how in my mind's imagination. 369 00:21:25,680 --> 00:21:27,560 Welcome to my imagination. No charge. 370 00:21:27,880 --> 00:21:30,800 It's an E ticket ride. Here's the express pass right 371 00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:35,040 into no anyway. Welcome to my imagination. 372 00:21:35,040 --> 00:21:38,040 Right in my imagination. It's like once you decide that 373 00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:43,000 it's like God says all right, move the entire world into line 374 00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:47,560 to agree with that decision. It's not I decide that I got to 375 00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:51,360 make it happen in my mind. It's like once you make that 376 00:21:51,360 --> 00:21:55,800 decision, they've decided that their family will know the Lord. 377 00:21:55,800 --> 00:21:58,560 All right, cue the change in this country. 378 00:21:58,680 --> 00:22:01,520 Cue the change on that job. Send other people around because 379 00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:04,600 their decision, I'm going to back their decision. 380 00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:06,640 I'm going to back what they said. 381 00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:09,400 They're standing in a place. So I'm going to use all my 382 00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:11,840 power, my authority to move everything. 383 00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:14,840 It's aligned with that. So their decision is true. 384 00:22:17,840 --> 00:22:21,800 I'll give, I'll give you a, a, a picture, father and son picture 385 00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:24,360 for me, it's father and son. I, I except for my daughter too. 386 00:22:24,360 --> 00:22:27,080 But this is the one I'm thinking about my kids in the park before 387 00:22:27,080 --> 00:22:31,360 church. Kids learn how to throw and the 388 00:22:31,360 --> 00:22:35,560 kid is like little kid too dramatic sometimes. 389 00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:39,960 But you know, little kid and little kids trying to throw. 390 00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:45,640 OK, little kid is thrown right there, Little kids throwing 391 00:22:45,640 --> 00:22:49,920 right there. And I'm like, all right, throw 392 00:22:49,920 --> 00:22:51,960 it to me. Throw it to me. 393 00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:56,840 And the kid winds up throwing it like, like over here. 394 00:22:57,960 --> 00:22:59,320 OK, I'm going to give myself a little more room. 395 00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:04,520 I'm like, throw it to me now throw me the ball. 396 00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:08,000 And the kid winds up throwing it over here. 397 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:10,880 You know what kids throw like that, right? 398 00:23:10,880 --> 00:23:16,600 You know, over here, right? OK, say throw it to me. 399 00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:20,400 And he throws over here who moves? 400 00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:27,440 Dad moves to make it a catch. And then after Dad moves to make 401 00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:28,680 it a catch. Know what he says? 402 00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:30,600 Good job. Just try it again. 403 00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:34,600 You don't say what you're doing, man. 404 00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:36,560 That's crazy, man. Make me run all this far. 405 00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:40,080 No, because you decided to engage. 406 00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:44,560 Everything else begins to move the lineup to ensure that what 407 00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:47,920 you've decided has come to pass. Man, that sounds like 408 00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:49,760 witchcraft. That sounds like pridefulness. 409 00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:53,400 Not when you've decided based on what God has already said. 410 00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:57,920 When you've decided based on His word, all you doing is standing 411 00:23:57,920 --> 00:24:00,160 on what He's already said you can stand on. 412 00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:02,920 Now, if you're trying to decide some stuff that God ain't had no 413 00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:06,160 input on and it's not according to His Word, then you need to 414 00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:08,480 check that. OK? 415 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:13,480 But if you've decided based on what God has said and this and 416 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:16,200 this, this is the real thing with relationship and prayer. 417 00:24:16,520 --> 00:24:18,720 Prayer is not this automaton. Yes, I'm a prayer. 418 00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:20,080 Yes, I'm a pray. Yes, I'm a pray. 419 00:24:20,360 --> 00:24:23,720 Thank you very much. I practice those right. 420 00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:26,760 It's not that kind of it's relational. 421 00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:31,000 Lord, listen, I want to make up my mind decide on this. 422 00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:35,320 Lord is that can I do that Lord, would that go against with 423 00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:38,640 something in your word if I decided this like this before 424 00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:40,640 I'm making my decision, I'm consulting the Lord. 425 00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:42,560 Well, I'm ready to get fixed on this. 426 00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:45,480 Lord, I got one verse that helps me, helps me. 427 00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:48,240 Is there any other verses that you think would be helpful for 428 00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:51,640 me that once I make this decision, I can look to those 429 00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:56,680 verses that help guide me? Now you get all of that and then 430 00:24:56,680 --> 00:24:59,640 you say, OK, Lord, you're giving me permission to decide on this 431 00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:04,320 based on your word. So now it's fixed and I'm not 432 00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:07,600 moving. I'm not moving. 433 00:25:09,120 --> 00:25:12,320 A mind fixing, mind blowing, mind cementing decisions. 434 00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:18,200 It's important now that Next up I'm going to 1st Corinthians 435 00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:20,800 1558. I'd like to give you scriptures 436 00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:24,000 to show you not just making, it's not just air, it's not just 437 00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:26,520 you know. And when I give you scriptures, 438 00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:29,440 when anyone gives scriptures on the platform, we're not trying 439 00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:31,120 to find a scripture that fits us. 440 00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:35,680 We're trying to take a scripture that's in context, representing 441 00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:37,520 exactly the context we're talking about. 442 00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:42,280 Makes sense. So therefore, my beloved 443 00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:48,000 brethren, be firm, steadfast, immovable, always a bounty in 444 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:52,240 the work of the Lord. Be steadfast, be immovable, have 445 00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:57,200 a made-up mind, have a made-up decision, just have your mind 446 00:25:57,200 --> 00:25:59,440 fixed. Why am I harping on this? 447 00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:02,240 Because this is where people lose out in prayer. 448 00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:08,280 They make up their mind to see if they make up their mind to 449 00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:11,280 try. They don't make up their mind on 450 00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:12,480 the matter. Period. 451 00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:14,400 Regardless of circumstance or outcome. 452 00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:20,400 That's the difference. The absolutes of God next for 453 00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:22,800 prevailing prayer. So 1 you got to let your prayer 454 00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:26,880 change you #2 you got to have a made-up mind and #3 you need to 455 00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:30,320 get into the absolutes of God. The more you deal with the 456 00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:33,200 absolutes of God, the more you will have prevailing prayer. 457 00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:36,880 Why? Because all of your force will 458 00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:42,520 be going towards what you praying about absolutes of God 459 00:26:42,520 --> 00:26:45,080 and this generation absolutes are not looked upon very 460 00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:48,760 favorably. People will say watch out, don't 461 00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:50,920 be dogmatic. Watch out. 462 00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:52,400 You can't have absolutes. Watch out. 463 00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:54,400 No, you got to have some absence if you want to prevail in 464 00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:57,360 prayer. Here's some absolutes, John 17 465 00:26:57,360 --> 00:27:00,480 three. Here's an absolute. 466 00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:04,840 Everyone say absolute good job, good job, good job. 467 00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:11,440 John 17, three, this is Jesus praying and this is eternal 468 00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:15,080 life. It means to know, to perceive, 469 00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:18,320 to recognize, to become equated with and understanding you the 470 00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:21,760 only true and real God. And likewise to know him, Jesus 471 00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:24,800 Christ whom you've sent. You have to have an absolute 472 00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:29,440 understanding of That's what life is. 473 00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:36,760 There is no life except that there is no eternal life. 474 00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:38,920 I'll go far and say there is no life. 475 00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:41,800 This is life. Money is not life. 476 00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:44,240 Family is not life. Marriage is not life. 477 00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:46,760 Ministry is not life. This is life. 478 00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:53,040 When that becomes an absolute in your life, knowing Him is life. 479 00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:55,920 Everything in my desire is to know Him. 480 00:27:56,080 --> 00:27:58,000 Everything I'm doing is to know Him. 481 00:27:58,120 --> 00:27:59,880 Everything I'm believing is to know Him. 482 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:01,880 I get up to go to work to know Him. 483 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:05,400 I amend marriage to know Him. I serve to know Him because 484 00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:08,800 knowing Him is life. There is no life apart from 485 00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:11,480 knowing Him. Once you have that as an 486 00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:15,520 absolute, then only abundant life flows out of your life. 487 00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:20,360 There's nothing else that you're using to manipulate or to try to 488 00:28:20,360 --> 00:28:26,920 get life from. John 15, five. 489 00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:34,200 Now here's one. I am the vine as Jesus talking, 490 00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:38,160 I am the vine. You are the branches. 491 00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:42,360 Whoever lives in me and I and Him bears much abundant fruit. 492 00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:47,000 However, apart from me, you can do nothing. 493 00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:52,720 How many people really believe that? 494 00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:56,800 Not, not not coming. Now, you know, we all raise our 495 00:28:56,800 --> 00:28:57,600 hand. That's no problem. 496 00:28:57,600 --> 00:28:59,600 I get it. I'll probably raise my hand too. 497 00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:04,320 Troy, can you get up for me, please? 498 00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:07,960 Now, Detroit, get up. When they spin his Spirit going 499 00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:09,920 apart from you. Jesus, I cannot even get up. 500 00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:13,120 Did you? Did you in your heart, having 501 00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:16,320 made a apart from the Lord? I cannot thank you, Troy. 502 00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:18,800 I cannot dress myself apart from the Lord. 503 00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:20,840 I cannot sit here apart from the Lord. 504 00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:24,640 I can't even breathe. Then I apart from him, I can do 505 00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:29,040 nothing, absolutely nothing. There is nothing I can do. 506 00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:32,840 Well, sure man, I can go out of here, get in my car, drive to 507 00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:36,160 like, you know, Big Mac place, get me a Big Mac and come back. 508 00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:40,680 I don't need God to do that. If that's your mindset, then you 509 00:29:40,720 --> 00:29:45,920 won't prevail in prayer because when you understand this, that 510 00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:49,320 though you don't say you need him for that, the truth is apart 511 00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:52,600 from him you couldn't do that. When you understand apart from 512 00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:56,200 God I could do nothing, then all of your prayers birthed and 513 00:29:56,200 --> 00:30:00,800 breathing on dependence. God, you are the only one who 514 00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:04,040 can do this. You are the only one that can 515 00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:08,720 accomplish this apart from you. God, it cannot be done. 516 00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:13,120 And that's why I trust in you and look to you and believe in 517 00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:16,680 you and expect you to do God, things that other people can't 518 00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:21,200 do apart from you. God, it's not going to happen. 519 00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:29,320 And this is the real challenge of the mindset of North America. 520 00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:32,240 With comfort and ease. God has blessed us to know how 521 00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:36,480 to do a lot of stuff. And because God has given us 522 00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:40,280 wisdom how to do stuff, we think our wisdom is what what serves 523 00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:46,560 US versus apart from God. We can do nothing apart from 524 00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:48,000 God. I don't eat apart from God. 525 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:50,240 I don't live apart from God. I don't stand here. 526 00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:53,680 I'm not talking about metaphorically, I'm talking 527 00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:58,360 about truly apart from Him. I don't stand here. 528 00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:04,680 That absolute has me wholly dependent on Him. 529 00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:09,080 So when I come to prevail in prayer, if I'm not apart from 530 00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:12,440 Him in anything, then what am I in? 531 00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:16,680 Him and everything, depending in Him and everything, abiding Him 532 00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:18,760 and everything. And if I'm depending on 533 00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:22,680 depending in and abiding Him and everything, then it's He's 534 00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:25,080 interested in what I'm praying about as I am. 535 00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:28,840 He's going to want to see it come to pass as much as I am 536 00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:31,520 apart from Him, I can do nothing. 537 00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:38,200 And for a lot of people, the decision and this kinds of 538 00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:41,080 absolutes. The people you see have God 539 00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:43,880 working on life in amazing ways. They've crossed this threshold. 540 00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:47,640 Now I'm going to tell you sometimes and too often, people 541 00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:49,520 rely on tragedy to get them here. 542 00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:53,040 You don't have to rely on tragedy. 543 00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:56,320 You don't have to rely on you've gotten to the point where all 544 00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:59,520 natural hope seems lost. You can matter of fact. 545 00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:02,920 It's better that you choose it without tragedy, because if you 546 00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:06,080 choose it based on tragedy, then tragedy will have to motivate 547 00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:08,400 all your prayer life. You won't prevail in prayer 548 00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:12,000 unless tragedy exists. But when you choose it for 549 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:15,080 yourself, you say, God, I'm making a willing sacrifice. 550 00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:16,800 Here's the prayer. I don't know. 551 00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:19,160 I don't know if I believe this. God heard what he said. 552 00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:23,840 I think he's doing too much. But your worry says apart from 553 00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:26,240 you, I can do nothing. God, help me understand how to 554 00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:27,920 live that. Put that in my heart. 555 00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:30,640 God, transform me. God, I can't say that I'm right 556 00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:33,120 there right now. So even in your prayer, you're 557 00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:36,360 asking God to take you to a place where you can come to a 558 00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:39,480 realization that apart from you, Jesus, I can do nothing. 559 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:42,320 He doesn't have to take everything out of your life to 560 00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:46,840 come to here. He can reveal it to you in his 561 00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:49,200 love. Everyone's absolutes. 562 00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:53,440 Reasonable responses will wreck prevailing prayer. 563 00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:56,840 Good enough will keep you from prevailing. 564 00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:02,320 Reasonable responses will wreck prevailing prayer. 565 00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:09,600 Well, it's better. Mighty woman of God. 566 00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:11,000 I know. I was talking to the other day. 567 00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:13,480 She was saying it's about that. She's talking about somebody she 568 00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:16,080 prayed for and she encouraged this person. 569 00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:19,200 The Bible says that by the stripes of Jesus you are healed, 570 00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:25,520 not better, and you not not partially healed. 571 00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:28,960 By the stripes of Jesus you are healed and made whole. 572 00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:33,280 Reasonable responses will wreck prevailing prayer. 573 00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:36,400 When you really be steady for the settle for the reasonable, 574 00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:43,280 you'll give up the prevailing. As to me and my house, we shall 575 00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:47,120 all serve the Lord I'm not selling at. 576 00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:50,760 Well you know most of my cousins love the Lord. 577 00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:55,760 Well, you know my 5 love the Lord, even know that my other 578 00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:59,800 relatives don't. God, you said, As for me and my 579 00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:01,520 household, we shall serve the Lord. 580 00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:05,160 You said that I shall be saved and my entire household shall be 581 00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:08,000 saved. My household includes my family. 582 00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:09,960 My household includes my servants. 583 00:34:10,120 --> 00:34:12,199 My household includes the people I work with. 584 00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:14,679 My household includes ready my city. 585 00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:16,480 My household includes my country. 586 00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:19,120 God, me and my God, you promised. 587 00:34:19,639 --> 00:34:22,760 And Lord, I'm going to tell you in all reverence, when I cross 588 00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:25,880 this threshold and look you in face to face, I'm going to ask 589 00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:27,760 you, Lord, I'm going to stand before you, Lord. 590 00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:32,800 And I said you promised me and my household, and I believe you 591 00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:36,480 going to tell me this, John, look at how I kept my word. 592 00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:43,440 Here's your household. Now. 593 00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:46,679 I don't want to say gossip. People have free will. 594 00:34:48,960 --> 00:34:51,199 People have free will. Everyone say free will. 595 00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:54,600 God's not going to force anybody in my family to give their lives 596 00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:56,560 to him. He's not. 597 00:34:57,600 --> 00:34:59,920 But God got a secret weapon. Say secret weapon. 598 00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:02,560 No, seek it. And I can't say secret, secret, 599 00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:06,360 secret weapon. You know what a secret weapon 600 00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:08,080 is? His goodness. 601 00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:14,320 God's goodness will cause every man to change their mind. 602 00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:17,960 The issue is, have you got a big enough revelation of his 603 00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:23,400 goodness? OK, what does that mean? 604 00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:26,000 God, my, my uncle, he just tried not to follow Jesus. 605 00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:27,240 He really did. Dug it hard. 606 00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:28,920 How's that going to work? You promised me, me and my 607 00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:30,000 household. How's it work? 608 00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:32,440 Don't worry. Send send £10,000 of goodness 609 00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:34,920 towards him. Turn up the goodness to full 610 00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:37,600 blast. Reveal to him how good I am to 611 00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:39,160 Him. Let him see how good I am to 612 00:35:39,160 --> 00:35:40,560 him. I'm going to open his eyes to 613 00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:43,240 see how good I am to him. I'm going to show him how good I 614 00:35:43,240 --> 00:35:46,360 am to him every day, every week and times pass. 615 00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:48,560 And the times we thought I wasn't with him, I'm going to 616 00:35:48,560 --> 00:35:52,920 cause him to know how good I am. And it's the goodness of God 617 00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:59,480 that will cause people to say, I see who you are and I accept who 618 00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:05,160 you are. Reasonable responses will wreck 619 00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:08,800 prevailing prayer. Last couple sections here, 620 00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:11,880 worthy, unworthy. You got to deal with the worthy, 621 00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:13,400 unworthy thing. It's kind of part of the 622 00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:16,440 decision and and an absolute worthy unworthy. 623 00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:20,280 Are you worthy, not worthy. I already talked about the heart 624 00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:22,080 condemning you. Are you worthy not unworthy? 625 00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:25,400 You got to decide. You can't be prevailing in 626 00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:27,480 prayer but feeling unworthy on the inside. 627 00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:30,840 You can't. It's not going to work that way. 628 00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:34,120 The enemy going to check you if you want to send a word, send a 629 00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:36,000 message, send something worthy or onward. 630 00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:41,480 You got to decide now how you make this decision. 631 00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:45,440 If you make it based on your actions, you always going to 632 00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:49,000 decide unworthy because you not cannot act perfectly. 633 00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:51,680 No one can. You know what worth is 634 00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:56,880 determined by the person who, who's who's paying the price? 635 00:36:56,880 --> 00:37:03,960 Who's buying it. This tile, someone was come and 636 00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:06,320 pay me $500 million for this tile. 637 00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:10,480 You know how much this tile is worth now, $500 million. 638 00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:16,040 Why they set the price? Yeah. 639 00:37:16,040 --> 00:37:20,600 You know, I'm going. You got to decide you're worth 640 00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:23,080 it because the because your father said a price. 641 00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:26,280 He bought you with a price. He bought you with his son. 642 00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:31,320 He said you were worthy. He said you were worthy with the 643 00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:33,680 price he paid. He said you were worthy. 644 00:37:35,640 --> 00:37:36,960 Here's another thing about worth. 645 00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:40,600 Worth is decided by the giver, not the receiver. 646 00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:44,920 If I give choice something I'm already just telling him and 647 00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:47,720 giving it man that you worth receiving this you worth it. 648 00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:49,680 He don't determine whether he worth it or not. 649 00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:52,320 It's my gift. I'm the one that gives it. 650 00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:57,160 The giver determines the worth, not the receiver. 651 00:37:57,320 --> 00:38:00,400 He can be in the worst situation of his life and I can give him a 652 00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:04,160 gift that's that seems to be exceedingly above his situation. 653 00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:07,560 It's not based on how qualified he is for the gift. 654 00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:10,960 It's based on my generosity and my graciousness and giving. 655 00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:18,960 James 18. Now I'm going to go to John. 656 00:38:19,120 --> 00:38:23,960 John, John 1723. John 1723 double minded man is 657 00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:25,960 unstable in all his ways. That's what we're trying to deal 658 00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:31,440 with. But John 1723 says this, this is 659 00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:34,120 Jesus praying again. John 17 second reference I and 660 00:38:34,120 --> 00:38:37,440 them and you and me in order that they may become one and 661 00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:41,000 perfectly united that the world may know and definitely 662 00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:46,400 recognize that you sent me to the praying for unity so the 663 00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:47,920 world can know that Jesus was sent. 664 00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:49,960 You want to get your talent saved. 665 00:38:50,240 --> 00:38:54,760 Walk in unity with believers and that you have loved them as you 666 00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:58,960 have loved me. Do you really believe God loves 667 00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:04,520 you as much as he loves Jesus? There's no difference not one I 668 00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:06,800 order but Jesus was perfect doesn't matter. 669 00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:09,200 It's not based on perfection. It's based on the Father's 670 00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:12,960 deciding who to love. He loves you as much as he loves 671 00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:16,600 Jesus and if you believe he loves you as much as he loves 672 00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:18,520 Jesus. Do you think that his what did 673 00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:21,960 he do in his love for Jesus? If his love is the same, then 674 00:39:21,960 --> 00:39:23,880 his response is the Father is the same. 675 00:39:26,360 --> 00:39:30,560 If you really come to understand that God loves you as much as 676 00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:33,800 you love, but I'm sinful, God loves you as much as he loves 677 00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:36,200 Jesus, but you don't understand it don't matter. 678 00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:39,120 I love you as much as I love Jesus. 679 00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:43,040 Lifting of your worth will allow you to prevail in prayer. 680 00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:46,760 Because when I pray, it's like Jesus praying because God love 681 00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:49,080 him praying the same way he love me praying. 682 00:39:49,240 --> 00:39:51,720 He love me praying same way he love him praying. 683 00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:55,000 You're not looking at Jesus that big Papa prayer and me is purely 684 00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:56,800 prayer. He's saying God, you love me 685 00:39:56,800 --> 00:39:59,920 like you love him and you will answer a prayer in love for me 686 00:39:59,920 --> 00:40:01,920 like you answered a prayer in love for him. 687 00:40:02,840 --> 00:40:05,840 It's according to your love, not according to how perfectly I 688 00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:13,680 have lived. Romans 17 seven says this, 689 00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:23,040 remember, is that 17/7 at 16 seven? 690 00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:26,760 Look like I'm reading the side like that on the screen back 691 00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:29,160 there. Is that 17 seven? 692 00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:35,000 I think that's 16 seven. I'm going to take a little time 693 00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:43,000 with this one. Was on 16 chapters. 694 00:40:43,960 --> 00:40:46,760 Or maybe it's Romans 6-7. Maybe it's Romans 77. 695 00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:51,200 Yeah, probably looks more like a seven or eight. 696 00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:58,310 Try 7 or 87. What you're doing? 697 00:40:58,310 --> 00:40:59,950 I'm prevailing. Sometimes prevailing is just 698 00:40:59,950 --> 00:41:02,750 doing this. It's just not backing up. 699 00:41:04,030 --> 00:41:05,550 You know, prevailing prayer is OK. 700 00:41:05,550 --> 00:41:09,390 When you take a pause and rest, you still prevailing because 701 00:41:09,390 --> 00:41:12,590 you're not backing up. But what if it takes some time 702 00:41:12,590 --> 00:41:15,200 and you back up? You're still prevailing. 703 00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:17,240 Why? Because you can have another 704 00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:21,160 chance to run at it. Elder Brett, you can give me the 705 00:41:21,160 --> 00:41:22,440 verse so you can get it up there. 706 00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:24,960 Romans. Paul's talking about this. 707 00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:28,720 He's talking about doubt now that he's come to come to life 708 00:41:28,720 --> 00:41:32,720 in Christ. OK, He says. 709 00:41:32,720 --> 00:41:39,200 The sin you see operating, it ain't me, but it's sin working 710 00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:46,120 in me. Paul says this. 711 00:41:47,280 --> 00:41:53,480 It's not me. I've been born again, but it's 712 00:41:53,480 --> 00:42:01,720 sin working in me. 77 Romans 77 it's sin working in me. 713 00:42:02,880 --> 00:42:10,680 Come on now, it's not me. It's sin working in me. 714 00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:15,880 It's not me is sin working in me. 715 00:42:16,920 --> 00:42:24,720 You are not your sin. You are not your sin. 716 00:42:28,080 --> 00:42:34,040 Your sin doesn't make you unworthy, it just makes you have 717 00:42:34,040 --> 00:42:39,000 to deal with it. You. 718 00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:41,920 I'm not saying sin. It's OK to say I'm not saying 719 00:42:41,920 --> 00:42:44,120 that. What I'm saying is when you look 720 00:42:44,120 --> 00:42:47,760 at your identity as sin, you will always feel unworthy and 721 00:42:47,760 --> 00:42:49,840 God is saying you are not your sin. 722 00:42:50,080 --> 00:42:54,080 Put this way, my kid come in Adam snowboard and he snowed and 723 00:42:54,080 --> 00:42:56,960 there's snow all on him and he come up in the house and he'd be 724 00:42:56,960 --> 00:42:59,000 all slowed up. OK. 725 00:43:02,040 --> 00:43:09,600 The snow is not my son. Better picture, kids comes home, 726 00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:13,720 he kids dirty in the mud. Do I look at him and say you 727 00:43:13,720 --> 00:43:18,880 muddy dirty kid depart or do I say, no, no, that's my son, mud 728 00:43:18,880 --> 00:43:23,280 just on him. My son is still worthy. 729 00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:26,880 It's just mud is just on him. I'm going to love him even with 730 00:43:26,880 --> 00:43:29,280 the dirt on him because my son is still there. 731 00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:32,280 We'll get the mud cleaned up. We'll get the mud washed off. 732 00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:39,400 We'll we'll transform that situation understanding that I 733 00:43:39,400 --> 00:43:43,680 am not my sin allows you that if you have to go fall in a place 734 00:43:43,680 --> 00:43:46,200 or whatever you ask God for forgiveness and you stand before 735 00:43:46,200 --> 00:43:48,640 God and you can pray with prevailing prayer. 736 00:43:48,760 --> 00:43:50,240 Can you know when the enemy comes. 737 00:43:50,360 --> 00:43:52,520 Well, you know what you know that counsel you out. 738 00:43:52,520 --> 00:43:54,640 You know eight years ago. Well, you know, brother, I am 739 00:43:54,640 --> 00:43:56,520 not my sin that got to do with that. 740 00:43:56,640 --> 00:43:59,600 My prevailing prayer got to do with who I am and him and I can 741 00:43:59,600 --> 00:44:04,640 still prevail in prayer period. Now the problem with sin is that 742 00:44:04,640 --> 00:44:08,040 if you kept sneaky sin, your heart going to be condemned. 743 00:44:08,200 --> 00:44:09,400 You won't be condemning yourself. 744 00:44:09,600 --> 00:44:11,720 Who might be praying for them when I know I ain't checking 745 00:44:11,720 --> 00:44:15,200 myself, right? That's why you deal with sins 746 00:44:15,200 --> 00:44:17,840 and your heart can have confidence when you pray, but 747 00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:20,400 your sin has never kept you from prevailing from God's 748 00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:26,800 standpoint. He sees you through Jesus. 749 00:44:27,640 --> 00:44:31,480 The last one is importunity. It was an importunity. 750 00:44:32,600 --> 00:44:34,640 That's the King James Version, King James word. 751 00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:41,000 The subtitle is the Press of presence, The Press of presence. 752 00:44:42,880 --> 00:44:48,040 Luke 18, one through 7. Let's go. 753 00:44:48,040 --> 00:44:50,200 Let's go to verse 4. Let's go to verse 4, Luke 18, 754 00:44:50,520 --> 00:44:56,040 verse 4. You know what's really 755 00:44:56,040 --> 00:44:58,120 interesting? Learning how to prevail is not 756 00:44:58,120 --> 00:45:02,360 to hit him and quit him. It's not a tickle you and let 757 00:45:02,360 --> 00:45:05,240 you leave learning how to prevail. 758 00:45:05,240 --> 00:45:08,240 It take a time, it takes commitment, it takes 759 00:45:08,240 --> 00:45:11,840 understanding, it takes listening, it takes application, 760 00:45:12,720 --> 00:45:17,400 it takes focus and for a time he would not So this woman at 761 00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:20,000 Pastor Terence talked about this in this in this message, this 762 00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:21,680 widow's knocking said let me tell you about Jesus. 763 00:45:21,680 --> 00:45:23,680 Let me tell you about praying. You got the widow knocking, the 764 00:45:23,680 --> 00:45:28,400 widow's knocking, right? And he says for a time this 765 00:45:28,400 --> 00:45:31,640 unjust judge would not respond. But later he said to himself, 766 00:45:31,800 --> 00:45:35,360 though I have neither reverence or fear for God, nor respect or 767 00:45:35,520 --> 00:45:37,720 consideration for man, keep going. 768 00:45:39,520 --> 00:45:42,960 Yet because this widow continues to bother me, I will defend and 769 00:45:42,960 --> 00:45:47,160 protect and avenge her. The lesson is this, this woman's 770 00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:51,880 continual bothering. Hear me knocking continual 771 00:45:51,880 --> 00:45:55,920 bothering, we'll make it even an unjust judge give her justice. 772 00:45:56,600 --> 00:45:58,800 Don't quit. Pray without ceasing, don't quit 773 00:45:58,920 --> 00:46:01,640 because if an unjust judge is going to respond to that 774 00:46:01,640 --> 00:46:05,080 continuing, surely a just and good father's going to respond. 775 00:46:06,040 --> 00:46:09,000 OK, but I subtitled this section here. 776 00:46:09,200 --> 00:46:13,720 The Press of presents go back to that last break didn't say 777 00:46:13,720 --> 00:46:15,920 because this widow continues to knock. 778 00:46:17,080 --> 00:46:22,400 She continues to bother me. You know, something that really 779 00:46:22,400 --> 00:46:24,840 bothers me, I'm watching the football game as a critical 780 00:46:24,840 --> 00:46:26,960 point in time. And then someone who I know has 781 00:46:26,960 --> 00:46:32,040 got an interrupting spirit on them, they just come and sit in 782 00:46:32,040 --> 00:46:34,280 the room. They don't say nothing. 783 00:46:34,280 --> 00:46:37,880 I'm like, they're just being there. 784 00:46:39,880 --> 00:46:44,880 They're just being there. What, What, what, what, what, 785 00:46:44,880 --> 00:46:46,680 what, what, what we going to do? I have to get back to the game. 786 00:46:46,680 --> 00:46:50,760 What we going to do right this knocking, this continuing the 787 00:46:50,760 --> 00:46:53,200 press is not just about what you vocally do. 788 00:46:54,080 --> 00:46:56,280 It's about your standing, your posture. 789 00:46:56,640 --> 00:47:00,120 It's about your being present. God, if I don't say nothing, I'm 790 00:47:00,120 --> 00:47:03,600 just going to rest here in in this in this prayer rest here in 791 00:47:03,600 --> 00:47:06,720 this prevailing right now. God, I'm going to keep my hands 792 00:47:06,720 --> 00:47:09,360 on you as I know that you're really doing the work. 793 00:47:10,320 --> 00:47:12,880 It's not about how much I'm always talking about what I'm 794 00:47:12,880 --> 00:47:14,800 asking for. It's not how much I'm always 795 00:47:14,880 --> 00:47:17,520 vocalizing. It's like God, I made-up my mind 796 00:47:17,520 --> 00:47:20,680 and my spirit God that I'm going to stand till I see it. 797 00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:23,600 So whenever you see me, I'm going to be present in that 798 00:47:23,600 --> 00:47:27,080 prayer with you. God, it's not just about what 799 00:47:27,080 --> 00:47:30,040 you say. Sometimes you think I can't 800 00:47:30,040 --> 00:47:32,240 prevail because my, my voice runs out. 801 00:47:33,040 --> 00:47:38,600 God knows that. Just be present in faith, in 802 00:47:38,600 --> 00:47:41,720 trust. You ever seen somebody would 803 00:47:41,720 --> 00:47:44,280 have made-up mine? You ever seen a picture this? 804 00:47:44,280 --> 00:47:47,240 I'm going to close with this. Thank you for your patience. 805 00:47:47,880 --> 00:47:50,880 This picture, right? Bull matadors I got, I'm not 806 00:47:50,880 --> 00:47:52,680 trying to talk about animal abuse or anything like that at 807 00:47:52,680 --> 00:47:54,600 all, but a picture of a cartoon I have when I was growing up as 808 00:47:54,600 --> 00:47:59,320 a kid. And when a bull did this, that 809 00:47:59,320 --> 00:48:02,520 means, oh, he's getting ready to charge, right? 810 00:48:03,120 --> 00:48:06,320 The bull didn't say nothing. The bull just postured himself 811 00:48:06,880 --> 00:48:08,320 and everybody knew they meant business. 812 00:48:09,320 --> 00:48:17,690 Give me a chair. I'm have Troy come and be the 813 00:48:17,690 --> 00:48:20,450 Lord. Stand up. 814 00:48:20,450 --> 00:48:23,770 Be the Lord. Yeah. 815 00:48:25,810 --> 00:48:28,210 Watch. This is importunity. 816 00:48:28,210 --> 00:48:30,330 This is pressing. This is not giving up. 817 00:48:39,590 --> 00:48:52,880 Now go ahead and move. You done my presence before him 818 00:48:53,720 --> 00:48:58,080 continually puts a press on him to the point where I say 819 00:48:58,080 --> 00:48:58,760 nothing. Like man. 820 00:48:58,760 --> 00:49:00,360 What you want? What can I do? 821 00:49:00,360 --> 00:49:01,680 How can I respond? Thank you. 822 00:49:02,120 --> 00:49:05,000 How can I respond? Be present. 823 00:49:05,000 --> 00:49:06,520 How do you be present? God, I love you. 824 00:49:07,360 --> 00:49:10,560 God, I worship you. God, I know you are faithful. 825 00:49:11,440 --> 00:49:14,840 God, I know you are faithful. I know you're good. 826 00:49:15,480 --> 00:49:18,800 I know you're always good. God, I trust you. 827 00:49:19,320 --> 00:49:22,200 God arrest in you. The circumstance is like, look 828 00:49:22,200 --> 00:49:23,600 at your cousin, he's still out there. 829 00:49:23,800 --> 00:49:26,960 God, I trust you. God, I know you're at work. 830 00:49:27,160 --> 00:49:29,960 God, I know you're doing it. God, I'm going to stand before 831 00:49:29,960 --> 00:49:33,760 you, God, and let you take care of that versus be focused on 832 00:49:33,760 --> 00:49:36,200 that and continue to bring that issue to you. 833 00:49:36,360 --> 00:49:38,560 We've talked about it. You know what you need to do. 834 00:49:38,840 --> 00:49:40,880 God, I just thank you. I'm going to continue to watch 835 00:49:40,880 --> 00:49:45,800 you even more than watching to see that change. 836 00:49:48,520 --> 00:49:53,880 You do that and you'll change. And in changing you, your 837 00:49:53,880 --> 00:49:57,480 perspective about your situation will change and then everything 838 00:49:57,480 --> 00:50:02,560 changes. If you want to prevail in 839 00:50:02,560 --> 00:50:06,160 prayer, you got to begin to let prayer change you. 840 00:50:07,400 --> 00:50:09,680 So I want to have us responding this way. 841 00:50:10,760 --> 00:50:16,240 You can come get this. Take some time to pray right 842 00:50:16,240 --> 00:50:17,640 now. I'd encourage you to. 843 00:50:17,880 --> 00:50:19,680 It's not a requirement. We don't force people to do 844 00:50:19,680 --> 00:50:22,200 stuff here. But I encourage you to take some 845 00:50:22,200 --> 00:50:25,440 time to pray right now and say, God change me. 846 00:50:26,520 --> 00:50:30,320 God, give me the kind of prayer life that changes how I see you. 847 00:50:32,680 --> 00:50:37,640 God, let me be mindful to pray in ways that changes how I see 848 00:50:37,640 --> 00:50:40,280 you. Change me, God, to see you for 849 00:50:40,280 --> 00:50:43,760 who you are. Change me God, to see me for how 850 00:50:43,760 --> 00:50:47,600 you really love me. Change me, God, to see how much 851 00:50:47,800 --> 00:50:51,640 you care for me. Change me, God, to see how you 852 00:50:51,640 --> 00:50:56,560 don't see me as my sin. You see me as your son, Jesus, 853 00:50:56,560 --> 00:50:59,400 taking care of my sin. Change me God. 854 00:51:02,600 --> 00:51:08,760 Change me, O Lord, to see I even when I do sin, Jesus is already 855 00:51:08,760 --> 00:51:11,320 forgiven and there's a blood that watches and cleanses 856 00:51:11,320 --> 00:51:14,400 through repentance and a full turn towards you God, and it's 857 00:51:14,400 --> 00:51:17,600 taken care of. Change me to see that even that 858 00:51:17,600 --> 00:51:23,280 won't get in the way. Change me God, to have a mate of 859 00:51:23,280 --> 00:51:25,440 mind. Change me, God, to really come 860 00:51:25,440 --> 00:51:28,280 to a place of knowing that apart from You, I can do nothing. 861 00:51:30,280 --> 00:51:34,160 God, I don't even know if that's possible, but because it says it 862 00:51:34,160 --> 00:51:37,960 in your scriptures, God changed me. 863 00:51:39,080 --> 00:51:41,840 God, I'm nervous for you to change me like that because it 864 00:51:41,840 --> 00:51:43,800 may require changes in my lifestyle. 865 00:51:44,600 --> 00:51:47,280 I may have to do different things, even good things. 866 00:51:48,320 --> 00:51:50,880 God, I've always talked about people getting too over the edge 867 00:51:50,880 --> 00:51:53,000 with you and I don't want to be one of them extreme people. 868 00:51:53,160 --> 00:51:55,960 I've had church hurt my parents with Christian folk that came 869 00:51:55,960 --> 00:51:58,800 home to argue and beat us and abused us. 870 00:51:59,160 --> 00:52:02,760 God, I'm confused about what it means to be apart from you. 871 00:52:02,760 --> 00:52:06,560 I can do nothing, but I'm willing to let you come in and 872 00:52:06,560 --> 00:52:11,440 change me to agree and line up with that if that's possible. 873 00:52:11,440 --> 00:52:13,800 I'm nervous, I'm scared. I don't know what it means. 874 00:52:14,040 --> 00:52:17,120 I don't know if I can. But you're not even asking me to 875 00:52:17,120 --> 00:52:20,440 do it in my ability, God. You're just asking me to be 876 00:52:20,440 --> 00:52:23,240 available and say God do it in me. 877 00:52:24,640 --> 00:52:29,840 God, I want to be able to prevail in prayer, not for just 878 00:52:29,840 --> 00:52:32,720 for things. I want to be a prevailing prayer 879 00:52:33,680 --> 00:52:35,840 for people that hurt you and they need you. 880 00:52:37,160 --> 00:52:40,640 I want to be a prevailing prayer for a city that's lost and don't 881 00:52:40,640 --> 00:52:44,440 know it's lost. I don't be able to prevail in 882 00:52:44,440 --> 00:52:48,880 prayer for people who've been hurt God and you're the only 883 00:52:48,880 --> 00:52:53,680 hope of healing for them. God, I want to prevail in prayer 884 00:52:54,040 --> 00:52:56,400 to see sons and daughters come home and get to know you. 885 00:52:56,400 --> 00:53:02,000 God, as a father, God, I want to be able to prevail in prayer so 886 00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:04,560 people can know what you've experienced. 887 00:53:04,560 --> 00:53:06,800 The same thing you've done in my life. 888 00:53:07,200 --> 00:53:16,640 God, I'm, you've saved my life. I want to be able to prevail in 889 00:53:16,640 --> 00:53:20,480 prayer so people can know you, so we can have joy in our city. 890 00:53:23,640 --> 00:53:26,240 I want to prevail in prayer for the kids who have no hope and 891 00:53:26,240 --> 00:53:29,320 bodies are broken and busted. I want to prevail in prayer for 892 00:53:29,320 --> 00:53:32,280 the churches that feel that come to church every week but they 893 00:53:32,280 --> 00:53:34,120 don't have a touch or a kiss from God. 894 00:53:34,920 --> 00:53:39,360 God, I want to be able to prevail in prayer, God, so when 895 00:53:39,360 --> 00:53:43,680 we come home to you, we bring a whole family with us. 896 00:53:47,680 --> 00:53:51,920 I want to be able to prevail in prayer, God, to see your Kingdom 897 00:53:51,920 --> 00:53:54,320 come in the earth and your will be done in the earth. 898 00:53:56,840 --> 00:54:00,760 So change me. Let my prayers change me first 899 00:54:02,800 --> 00:54:05,720 so I can then prevail in prayer for others to be changed the 900 00:54:05,720 --> 00:54:10,640 same way. And when God, that is my posture 901 00:54:10,640 --> 00:54:15,960 in prayer. Whenever I'm praying for others 902 00:54:16,120 --> 00:54:19,920 to, I know they will be changed first, even before they receive 903 00:54:19,920 --> 00:54:21,360 the answer to the prayer I'm praying. 904 00:54:22,360 --> 00:54:26,320 And at the end of the day, God, that's what's most important in 905 00:54:26,440 --> 00:54:40,190 Jesus name, Amen. Thank you so much for tuning 906 00:54:40,190 --> 00:54:42,710 into this week's sermon. We pray you were challenged, 907 00:54:42,710 --> 00:54:46,270 equipped and encouraged. Make sure to follow us on all 908 00:54:46,270 --> 00:54:49,470 platforms. That's love Quest Intl church. 909 00:54:49,710 --> 00:54:51,950 We out here for real. We're really doing it. 910 00:54:51,950 --> 00:54:54,950 That's Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and TikTok. 911 00:54:55,240 --> 00:54:57,360 You can find us anywhere you need to find us. 912 00:54:57,480 --> 00:55:00,440 But until next time, you know the drill, you know the motto. 913 00:55:00,720 --> 00:55:03,280 Get your love fixed man and we'll see y'all real soon.