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 --> 00:00:38,080 Let's get into it. So today we're going to continue 9 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:41,600 on a message that began last week with Pastor Terence sharing 10 00:00:41,720 --> 00:00:48,040 on through through just one more hour. 11 00:00:49,680 --> 00:00:53,640 And it used the text from Matthew chapter 26 and verse 40. 12 00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:56,240 And it said, and he came, this is Jesus. 13 00:00:56,400 --> 00:01:00,040 And he came to the disciples and found them sleeping and said to 14 00:01:00,040 --> 00:01:04,280 Peter, so you men could not stay awake and keep watch with me for 15 00:01:04,280 --> 00:01:09,640 one hour, just one hour, just one hour. 16 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:19,680 We learned that many times we prayed to and not through, but 17 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:22,120 we are being challenged and called to pray through. 18 00:01:24,240 --> 00:01:26,880 Have I got some people who are ready to pray through the 19 00:01:26,880 --> 00:01:32,080 situation? We're called to pray through, 20 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:35,880 right? Amen. 21 00:01:37,320 --> 00:01:39,840 For those who are online, the baby was agreeing with me. 22 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:47,240 I take all of it, all of it. We are also being called to new 23 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:50,360 dimension, and a new dimension requires new posture. 24 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:56,160 For those who were here last week, remember Pastor Terence 25 00:01:56,160 --> 00:01:59,600 had the chair here and he was comparing postures. 26 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:06,000 If I'm leaning back and my posture is relaxed, that gives a 27 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:09,360 certain body language compared to being sitting on the edge of 28 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:12,160 the seat about ready to go, right? 29 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:17,760 If I'm sitting here and I'm just relaxing is different than this 30 00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:20,200 pose, which is OK, come on. Right. 31 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:23,280 And a new dimension requires a new posture. 32 00:02:24,320 --> 00:02:27,440 It's something to think about as we're engaging in a new a new 33 00:02:27,440 --> 00:02:31,000 idea of what God wants to do. We have to consider the posture 34 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:37,320 that he's calling us to. And last week pastor has talked 35 00:02:37,320 --> 00:02:41,200 about remembrance is fuel to your prayer life. 36 00:02:43,960 --> 00:02:48,760 Remember, remember, remember what God has said. 37 00:02:48,760 --> 00:02:52,360 Remember what God has done. Remember the stories from your 38 00:02:52,360 --> 00:02:55,600 family we got has moved. Remember the stories that your 39 00:02:55,760 --> 00:02:59,080 friend, your colleague, your your the other believer in 40 00:02:59,080 --> 00:03:01,120 Christ has shared. Remember. 41 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:02,920 And that's fuel for your prayer life. 42 00:03:02,920 --> 00:03:05,320 Why? Because when we remember well, 43 00:03:06,600 --> 00:03:12,600 when we remember well, we're actually fueling the faith that 44 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:16,240 God can, he will, He's more than able. 45 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:21,400 His word is true. I'm fueling and now I'm going to 46 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:27,760 pray with a different effect because my prayer life is fueled 47 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:31,360 by my remembrance. My prayer life is fueled by that 48 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:37,080 word, that Scripture, maybe that story when God moved. 49 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:39,760 And yes, you can do it for me. He's the same God today. 50 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:45,520 And so I have some questions for you. 51 00:03:49,920 --> 00:03:54,400 What have you become comfortable with that is slowly squeezing 52 00:03:54,400 --> 00:04:01,880 hope out of you? I got this one because I I woke 53 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:06,160 up from a dream this morning about a boa constrictor. 54 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:09,760 Yeah. I'm not a big snake fan myself 55 00:04:09,760 --> 00:04:12,240 personally. You know, those like snakes. 56 00:04:12,760 --> 00:04:16,880 You're welcome. But I had this, this, this, 57 00:04:17,519 --> 00:04:18,440 this. Squeezing. 58 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:20,560 The squeezing. There's a squeezing that's 59 00:04:21,120 --> 00:04:27,160 slowly taking life, But have we become comfortable in that 60 00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:32,200 space? What quiet addiction has 61 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:35,080 silently been draining the power in your life? 62 00:04:37,960 --> 00:04:43,400 Can also say what quiet sin has silently been draining the power 63 00:04:43,520 --> 00:04:48,920 in your life? Which family and friends seem 64 00:04:49,280 --> 00:04:54,920 too far away for a God to move? Have you made an assessment on 65 00:04:54,920 --> 00:05:09,560 that and adjusted your prayer? The next one, what thing or 66 00:05:09,560 --> 00:05:21,400 situation has become manageable? Oh, that's a tough one. 67 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:27,120 What area of your life have you said, well, I got this far, do I 68 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:33,600 have to go all the way? I'm comfortable, I can manage 69 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:40,160 it. I can manage that discomfort. 70 00:05:43,240 --> 00:05:46,960 Elder Stacey's parents would have often had a saying about 71 00:05:49,080 --> 00:05:55,800 the dog who sits on a rusty nail Will stay there if it's more 72 00:05:55,800 --> 00:05:58,080 comfortable to remain than to go, right? 73 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:01,520 That's the gist of it. I think I butchered it a little 74 00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:05,880 bit, but the gist of it is how? Why are you comfortable sitting 75 00:06:05,880 --> 00:06:10,320 on a rusty nail even though it's digging in? 76 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:14,120 What have you become comfortable with? 77 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:21,800 What have you become OK handling? 78 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:31,840 Well, today it's time to get on our knees and fight. 79 00:06:34,120 --> 00:06:44,800 Time to fight, time to fight. We're in the time where we're 80 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:46,280 speaking about prevailing prayer. 81 00:06:46,280 --> 00:06:52,360 Prevailing prayer is ready to fight, to have an urgency, to 82 00:06:52,360 --> 00:06:57,080 have something on the inside that says no longer enough is 83 00:06:57,120 --> 00:07:00,760 enough. I have a holy discontent. 84 00:07:00,880 --> 00:07:03,720 I'm no longer going to be satisfied with the status quo, 85 00:07:03,920 --> 00:07:07,800 no longer satisfied with those things that have held me back, 86 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:11,160 No longer satisfied just to manage it. 87 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:18,480 No longer satisfied to sit back and hope something might happen. 88 00:07:19,720 --> 00:07:22,680 No longer satisfied I got fights. 89 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:31,040 A fight that pushes the presses back, that comes to the gates of 90 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:36,160 hell and says I'm coming in. A fight that's on the offense, 91 00:07:36,160 --> 00:07:44,840 No longer defense. A fight, a prayer that fights, 92 00:07:45,800 --> 00:07:55,280 that presses through, that goes and will not stop until it's 93 00:07:55,280 --> 00:08:00,160 done. Fight. 94 00:08:02,200 --> 00:08:05,920 Ephesians chapter 6 and verse 12 says, For we are not wrestling 95 00:08:05,920 --> 00:08:10,520 with flesh and blood contending only with physical opponents, 96 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:16,160 but against the despotisms, against the powers, against the 97 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:20,480 masters, master spirits who are the world rulers of this present 98 00:08:20,480 --> 00:08:24,320 darkness and against the whole spirit forces of wickedness in 99 00:08:24,320 --> 00:08:31,280 the heavenly sphere as the idea of wrestling, the idea of 100 00:08:31,280 --> 00:08:35,640 wrestling. Have you ever seen wrestlers and 101 00:08:35,640 --> 00:08:37,440 they they, they get in their pose. 102 00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:39,880 Has anyone here ever wrestled wrestled any wrestlers? 103 00:08:39,919 --> 00:08:42,080 Oh yeah, a couple of guys with wrestled. 104 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:43,600 OK all right. And so. 105 00:08:43,799 --> 00:08:46,560 So when I'm wrestling, there's usually this first position in 106 00:08:46,560 --> 00:08:49,720 the Greco Roman, right. I'm like here and you tussle, 107 00:08:49,760 --> 00:08:52,800 you got hands and then you're trying to get a grip and tell me 108 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:57,240 if I'm doing it wrong. But you're, you're wrestling. 109 00:08:57,240 --> 00:09:02,240 There's there's contact, there's engagement and you're each 110 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:05,600 opponent is seeking to dominate the other person, to put them in 111 00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:13,760 a position to pin them. There's this wrestle, this 112 00:09:13,760 --> 00:09:16,760 fight. It's interesting. 113 00:09:16,760 --> 00:09:20,800 We've come out of family matters and and we on the Wednesdays had 114 00:09:21,760 --> 00:09:25,720 faith foes and family. And sometimes we realize we were 115 00:09:25,720 --> 00:09:29,160 actually misdirected in who the fight was with. 116 00:09:32,240 --> 00:09:36,720 And in this verse, it's telling us the fight is against 117 00:09:36,720 --> 00:09:40,800 principalities and powers and darkness against them. 118 00:09:42,680 --> 00:09:46,040 But it's a wrestle now. It's a wrestle that we have the 119 00:09:46,040 --> 00:09:51,680 authority and power to win. It's not a it's not an equal 120 00:09:51,680 --> 00:10:01,920 fight, but it does require stepping into the wrestle to 121 00:10:01,920 --> 00:10:08,040 finish the work. Wrestle is from the word Palais, 122 00:10:09,760 --> 00:10:11,280 at least that's how I pronounce it. 123 00:10:12,440 --> 00:10:16,040 And it is a contest between two in which each endeavours to 124 00:10:16,040 --> 00:10:19,360 throw the other, and which is decided when the victor is able 125 00:10:19,360 --> 00:10:29,840 to pin the opponent. But you wrestle to win, right? 126 00:10:30,640 --> 00:10:34,440 In fact, in wrestling in their terms, you can actually get in 127 00:10:34,440 --> 00:10:38,880 trouble for being too passive. You can get deductions of points 128 00:10:39,400 --> 00:10:41,960 or points given to the other person if you're too passive. 129 00:10:41,960 --> 00:10:48,280 But when you're sitting back and you're not getting into the 130 00:10:48,280 --> 00:10:55,360 fight, but he's saying we're cold to the fight, we're cold to 131 00:10:55,360 --> 00:10:58,400 that fight, we're actually equipped for the fight. 132 00:10:59,920 --> 00:11:03,720 We're equipped to be able to get in and engage the opponent. 133 00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:07,880 We're actually equipped and purposed for it. 134 00:11:09,200 --> 00:11:13,320 James 5 verse 16 says the effective fervent prayer of a 135 00:11:13,320 --> 00:11:17,720 righteous man avails much. Elijah was a man with a nature 136 00:11:17,720 --> 00:11:20,920 like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not 137 00:11:20,920 --> 00:11:24,800 rain, and it did not rain on the land for three years and six 138 00:11:24,800 --> 00:11:27,400 months. And he prayed again, and the 139 00:11:27,400 --> 00:11:31,560 heaven gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit. 140 00:11:33,280 --> 00:11:35,760 I says it's the effective fervent. 141 00:11:37,120 --> 00:11:39,520 You know, what do you fervent about? 142 00:11:40,680 --> 00:11:44,200 What do you got passion for? What do you got zeal for? 143 00:11:44,560 --> 00:11:48,320 What do you have something that says, I, I've got to have this. 144 00:11:51,840 --> 00:11:56,200 Perhaps, you know, if you're a soccer fan, you have zeal and 145 00:11:56,200 --> 00:12:02,400 passion for your team. Go Man United or Chelsea or, OK, 146 00:12:02,680 --> 00:12:04,280 someone's going to boot for each other. 147 00:12:05,640 --> 00:12:07,760 Vancouver Whitecaps, yes, there you go. 148 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:13,240 Come on. But there's a zeal. 149 00:12:13,720 --> 00:12:17,040 Have you ever met some of these people who are passionate about 150 00:12:17,240 --> 00:12:22,200 that sport? OK, I was, I was working at an 151 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:26,480 office. This is probably now 20, oh, 15 152 00:12:26,480 --> 00:12:30,560 years ago, 15 years ago. And the FIFA World Cup was on 153 00:12:30,960 --> 00:12:35,840 and there was a, a match between Brazil and another country. 154 00:12:35,840 --> 00:12:39,160 I can't remember who it was. And Brazil got beaten pretty 155 00:12:39,160 --> 00:12:42,400 thoroughly. And one of the ladies there 156 00:12:42,960 --> 00:12:46,320 would was a fan like, like Brazilian. 157 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:48,440 I said, oh, man, that's crazy. How was that? 158 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:50,880 You know, yeah, that's pretty tough. 159 00:12:51,040 --> 00:12:55,640 And and she just like, didn't talk to me at all. 160 00:12:56,440 --> 00:13:00,240 And then I went by and there was this guy who I knew who was from 161 00:13:00,240 --> 00:13:02,560 the Netherlands. And he's like, if you did that 162 00:13:02,560 --> 00:13:05,240 to me, I'd punch you. I said, I I didn't do anything. 163 00:13:05,240 --> 00:13:11,360 I didn't do anything. But that was wildly passionate. 164 00:13:12,480 --> 00:13:20,520 Like off the charts passionate about this round ball on a grass 165 00:13:20,520 --> 00:13:23,720 field that goes into a twine net. 166 00:13:24,800 --> 00:13:28,720 And their lives could literally be up or down depending on the 167 00:13:28,720 --> 00:13:32,000 result of that game. They can literally go into 168 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:37,720 depression for the next three months if their team gets taken 169 00:13:37,720 --> 00:13:40,960 out before the round of 16 or whatever. 170 00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:49,240 That passionate, that zealous, that excited, that given over, 171 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:52,640 that bought in, bought in, bought in. 172 00:13:54,920 --> 00:13:59,600 What are you bought into? What's so passionate for you 173 00:14:01,400 --> 00:14:07,400 that's outside of this world? In the Spirit of God, what are 174 00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:11,200 you so passionate about? Then you've given over to it 175 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:17,200 that you've got a zeal for a fervency for? 176 00:14:18,960 --> 00:14:20,520 Yeah. The term fan comes from 177 00:14:20,520 --> 00:14:22,800 fanatics. I'm a fanatic about it. 178 00:14:22,800 --> 00:14:25,920 What are you a fanatic about? In God, what are you a fanatic 179 00:14:25,920 --> 00:14:27,320 about? In prayer, what are you a 180 00:14:27,320 --> 00:14:30,840 fanatic about? What is it that that is so 181 00:14:30,840 --> 00:14:35,320 consuming you? Or is there nothing yet that 182 00:14:35,560 --> 00:14:40,840 comes to that level? What are you passionate for? 183 00:14:45,720 --> 00:14:49,720 Can it be said of you that the effective, fervent, passionate 184 00:14:49,760 --> 00:14:57,520 prayer of Derek avails much of Tosin, avails much of chastity, 185 00:14:57,520 --> 00:14:59,800 avails much of Caleb avails much? 186 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:04,640 So fervent in prayer, so passionate in prayer. 187 00:15:04,720 --> 00:15:07,240 So given over to prayer. So given over to the things of 188 00:15:07,240 --> 00:15:09,600 God. So given over to the the the 189 00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:13,160 desire to see God move. So given over to the belief that 190 00:15:13,160 --> 00:15:17,200 God can so given over to this understanding and belief that He 191 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:24,600 is more than able or passions like that only kept to sports or 192 00:15:24,640 --> 00:15:33,440 fashion or music. Says the effective fervent 193 00:15:33,440 --> 00:15:38,800 prayer of a righteous man avails much, and he prayed earnestly. 194 00:15:41,080 --> 00:15:43,120 Let's see that story in first Kings 18. 195 00:15:44,680 --> 00:15:48,000 Now, Elijah said to Ahab, go up, eat and drink, for there is the 196 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:50,040 sound of the roar of an abundance of rain. 197 00:15:50,040 --> 00:15:52,480 I want to give you a quick perspective of what's happening 198 00:15:52,480 --> 00:15:56,720 here, Elijah. There had been 3 1/2 years of 199 00:15:56,720 --> 00:16:00,320 drought. Elijah goes to Ahab and says, 200 00:16:00,440 --> 00:16:02,360 OK, it's time for us to have a match. 201 00:16:03,080 --> 00:16:06,320 All of the the prophets of Baal bring your guys. 202 00:16:06,480 --> 00:16:09,360 I'll come up and we'll build an altar. 203 00:16:09,360 --> 00:16:13,120 And whoever's God brings down fire to consume it, you know, 204 00:16:13,120 --> 00:16:15,600 that's that's who God is. And you guys get to make a 205 00:16:15,600 --> 00:16:17,080 decision about what you're going to do. 206 00:16:17,760 --> 00:16:21,560 So prophets of Baal, all day, they're cutting themselves and 207 00:16:21,560 --> 00:16:24,320 doing all these rituals to try and get something to happen. 208 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:28,080 And this is one of the funniest parts in the Bible where you 209 00:16:28,080 --> 00:16:32,920 have Elijah going, maybe he's on the toilet, maybe he's sleeping. 210 00:16:33,080 --> 00:16:34,880 Anyway, it's great. Go back and read it. 211 00:16:36,520 --> 00:16:40,440 And then he builds his altar and then pours water over it and a 212 00:16:40,440 --> 00:16:44,080 trench of water around it. And then the law brings fire to 213 00:16:44,080 --> 00:16:48,560 consume the sacrifice to prove that God is God. 214 00:16:49,560 --> 00:16:53,400 And then at the end of this, Elijah says to Ahab, go up, eat 215 00:16:53,400 --> 00:16:56,720 and drink for it. There is the sound of the roar 216 00:16:56,880 --> 00:17:02,040 of an abundance of rain. OK, quick point. 217 00:17:03,040 --> 00:17:08,319 There was no rain yet. That's interesting. 218 00:17:09,359 --> 00:17:12,040 So what is he saying prophetically? 219 00:17:12,480 --> 00:17:15,319 There was a sound of the roar of abundance of rain. 220 00:17:16,040 --> 00:17:18,960 Prophetically, the Lord had revealed that rain was on the 221 00:17:18,960 --> 00:17:24,560 way, and so he declared the prophetic in the ears of Ahab, 222 00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:29,320 and then he went to pray. So Ahab went up to eat and 223 00:17:29,320 --> 00:17:33,520 drink, and Elijah went up to the top of Carmel, and he crouched 224 00:17:33,520 --> 00:17:38,200 down to the earth and put his face between his knees. 225 00:17:38,200 --> 00:17:41,560 Now this is an interesting position, OK? 226 00:17:42,400 --> 00:17:46,000 He put his face between his knees. 227 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:55,520 And he's praying. Lord God, you declared, Lord 228 00:17:55,520 --> 00:17:58,840 God, Lord your, you said, there's rain coming. 229 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:01,880 Lord, you said rain. Lord, it's your word. 230 00:18:02,160 --> 00:18:04,000 Lord, I'm praying in your. Word. 231 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:06,920 Your word says rain, Lord, there's rain coming. 232 00:18:07,440 --> 00:18:10,360 Lord rain is on its way. Lord, bring the. 233 00:18:10,360 --> 00:18:12,080 Rain. Thank you, Lord, you declared. 234 00:18:12,080 --> 00:18:14,480 There's rain. See. 235 00:18:14,960 --> 00:18:20,680 And then he says his servant up and says, OK, go, see, go, see. 236 00:18:21,960 --> 00:18:23,080 Go. Look towards the sea. 237 00:18:23,080 --> 00:18:24,840 Is there anything there? And he came back and he said 238 00:18:24,840 --> 00:18:29,320 there's nothing. And Elijah said back to it, back 239 00:18:29,320 --> 00:18:32,200 to prayer, back to pressing, back to prevailing. 240 00:18:33,640 --> 00:18:36,760 He says again, go up, go back, go and go and check. 241 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:41,320 OK, that's one time. OK, OK, back to prayer. 242 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:42,840 Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. 243 00:18:42,840 --> 00:18:44,960 The promise is given. The promise is given. 244 00:18:45,240 --> 00:18:47,680 The promise is given. OK, go back. 245 00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:50,680 Again, two times not there. OK. 246 00:18:51,080 --> 00:18:52,840 Thank you. Lord, the promise is given. 247 00:18:53,120 --> 00:18:55,560 The promise is given. Thank you, Lord, you said rain, 248 00:18:55,560 --> 00:18:57,200 You said rain. You will not. 249 00:18:57,200 --> 00:18:59,320 Leave your servant embarrassed. This is your. 250 00:18:59,320 --> 00:19:07,840 Word #3 #4 #5 number 60, Lord. Thank you, God. 251 00:19:08,080 --> 00:19:09,640 Thank you, Lord. You said rain. 252 00:19:09,640 --> 00:19:12,520 You said rain. You said rain, You said it. 253 00:19:12,520 --> 00:19:15,280 Lord, you said it. You said it, You said it. 254 00:19:15,440 --> 00:19:23,680 You said it. Hey, 7th time go and at the 7th 255 00:19:23,680 --> 00:19:33,520 time, at the 7th time, the servant said a cloud as small as 256 00:19:33,520 --> 00:19:35,360 a man's hand is coming up from the sea. 257 00:19:37,680 --> 00:19:40,080 That's all I need, That's all I need. 258 00:19:40,480 --> 00:19:42,720 That's all I need. That's all I need. 259 00:19:45,240 --> 00:19:48,720 All I need is a cloud the size of a man's hand. 260 00:19:49,360 --> 00:19:50,720 All right, It's coming. I'm gone. 261 00:19:55,120 --> 00:20:01,160 And I just said go up, say to Ahab, prepare chariot and go 262 00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:03,960 down so that the rain shower does not stop you. 263 00:20:04,280 --> 00:20:09,000 What had he seen? A cloud the size of a man's 264 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:11,040 hand. Oh, don't worry. 265 00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:15,080 There's abundance in rain there. There's abundance of rain there. 266 00:20:15,640 --> 00:20:20,960 There's abundance of rain in a little while the sky grew dark 267 00:20:20,960 --> 00:20:25,240 with clouds and wind and there were heavy showers. 268 00:20:29,880 --> 00:20:34,600 What was Elijah doing at the beginning of the the verse 1 of 269 00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:37,800 this chapter? First Kings 18 one the Lord says 270 00:20:37,880 --> 00:20:40,120 I'm bringing rain. Now go see Ahab. 271 00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:46,680 So when he was praying, all he was doing is laying a hold of 272 00:20:46,680 --> 00:20:54,640 that which God had already said, but he would not give up now. 273 00:20:54,760 --> 00:20:56,440 Now here's the other thing he could have done. 274 00:20:57,440 --> 00:20:59,680 How many times he done this? Well, Lord, you said it. 275 00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:01,720 OK, I'll just wait till it happens. 276 00:21:03,720 --> 00:21:05,600 I can't lean on anything. There's nothing to lean on but 277 00:21:06,760 --> 00:21:11,240 wait till it happens. But that's not what happened. 278 00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:14,200 He went to prayer. He went to prayer. 279 00:21:15,280 --> 00:21:23,160 And you know, Daniel a few 100 years later and he reads 280 00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:26,000 Jeremiah. And in Jeremiah it says 70 years 281 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:28,120 you'll be in captivity. And he knew that was coming up. 282 00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:29,600 And he didn't say, oh, well, that's nice. 283 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:30,960 OK, we'll just wait for it to come past. 284 00:21:30,960 --> 00:21:33,400 No, he said, I went to prayer and fasting. 285 00:21:35,160 --> 00:21:41,240 I went to secure it, to secure the promise to possess it. 286 00:21:45,640 --> 00:21:50,440 Prevailing prayer presses. It presses in. 287 00:21:52,840 --> 00:21:59,120 In Mark chapter 5, we see an example of pressing and Jesus 288 00:21:59,120 --> 00:22:03,040 went with him that he's talking about Jairus, and a large crowd 289 00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:06,800 followed him and pressed in around him from all sides. 290 00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:12,400 So what he's saying is that his people all around Jesus, there's 291 00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:16,520 people all around him trying to to see him and talk to him and 292 00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:19,240 engage with him. A woman in the crowd had 293 00:22:19,240 --> 00:22:23,280 suffered from a haemorrhage for 12 years and had endured much 294 00:22:23,280 --> 00:22:25,520 suffering at the hands of many physicians. 295 00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:30,520 She had spent all that she had and was not helped at all, but 296 00:22:30,520 --> 00:22:36,720 instead had become worse. So here she is in her health 12 297 00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:42,880 years, fighting, fighting, fighting, putting resource into 298 00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:48,360 it, spending all she had to get this this thing under control so 299 00:22:48,360 --> 00:22:57,880 she can live to get life. Passionate, fervent, zealous, 300 00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:07,440 desiring this to come to pass. Can you imagine after 12 years, 301 00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:17,280 disappointment, discouragement, all the people who said they had 302 00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:21,000 an answer and all they did was take your money? 303 00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:27,360 12 years of this, 12 years of wondering why? 304 00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:35,600 12 years of saying where's the end of this road? 305 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:45,160 But she had heard reports about Jesus. 306 00:23:51,290 --> 00:23:59,170 She heard about this Jesus, heard about this Jesus and hear 307 00:23:59,170 --> 00:24:00,370 it. It sounds so simple. 308 00:24:00,370 --> 00:24:03,650 She came up behind him in the crowd, but in the crowd she 309 00:24:03,650 --> 00:24:08,770 pressed through the crowd. She had to get remember, it says 310 00:24:08,770 --> 00:24:14,130 there are people all around him and she had to find a way. 311 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:18,400 Perhaps she got knocked down in the crowd. 312 00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:23,040 And there's this stretch, this moment, I see the the fringe of 313 00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:24,520 his garment. I'm going to touch it. 314 00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:37,720 Pressing in, holding on, she touched his outer robe. 315 00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:43,600 For she thought, if I just touch his clothing, I will get well. 316 00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:51,360 Immediately her flow of blood was dried up and she felt in her 317 00:24:51,360 --> 00:24:58,120 body and you without any doubt as she was healed of her 318 00:24:58,120 --> 00:25:05,420 suffering. You see, there's, there's 319 00:25:05,420 --> 00:25:10,580 examples of this pressing, this passion, this zeal, this 320 00:25:11,020 --> 00:25:18,220 breakthrough. So we get to take that and apply 321 00:25:18,220 --> 00:25:25,160 it to us. What is it we're reaching for in 322 00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:33,000 God that He desires to give you? But He's looking for that reach, 323 00:25:33,360 --> 00:25:38,920 that press, the prevailing prayer that presses through not 324 00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:42,320 up to the moment. She didn't get to His robe. 325 00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:44,600 She reached out and touched His robe. 326 00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:53,760 Elijah didn't pray once to say, Oh, that should be good enough. 327 00:25:54,680 --> 00:26:00,960 He pressed until the moment he knew he had a knowing. 328 00:26:08,940 --> 00:26:17,460 You see, there's a knowing that God is calling us to, a knowing 329 00:26:17,540 --> 00:26:25,960 that he is able, a knowing God's calling us to pray to that 330 00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:30,720 moment of knowing that gets us through the ribbon. 331 00:26:34,120 --> 00:26:38,000 Stories told of a man who a bird of prayer came on him and he 332 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:42,000 prayed in the Spirit for 45 minutes, just praying, pressing, 333 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:44,520 not knowing what he's praying for, but it's pressing. 334 00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:53,520 And a 45 minute time was up. It was about noon that day, and 335 00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:55,400 he knew whatever it was had been broken. 336 00:26:57,200 --> 00:27:03,040 That night, he received a call from someone saying, hey, this 337 00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:06,400 person that you know has been in a terrible accident. 338 00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:08,880 They're actually, they don't know where the bodies are. 339 00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:10,720 They don't know where where they are. 340 00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:15,960 And as soon as it was said and reported to him, he said, oh, 341 00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:20,760 good, we're good. Then you just got told bad news. 342 00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:23,480 How can you say it's good? Well, because he had a a 343 00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:26,760 conviction in the Spirit that that was the one he'd been 344 00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:30,760 praying for and that the breakthrough had already come at 345 00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:33,880 1:00 in the morning. All the people that thought were 346 00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:48,690 dead were all safe. But in that moment, he could 347 00:27:48,690 --> 00:27:51,370 pray. And when the release came from 348 00:27:51,370 --> 00:27:55,930 the Spirit of God, it was done. It was completed. 349 00:27:55,930 --> 00:27:58,690 Though they hadn't found them, the work was completed. 350 00:28:03,120 --> 00:28:06,800 We're called to prevailing prayers, spirit, soul and body. 351 00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:14,680 When we look back at the story of the woman who had the 352 00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:20,040 bleeding for 12 years, she was had heard of Jesus. 353 00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:23,400 The Spirit of God had reminded her about this Jesus. 354 00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:29,120 And then she thought to herself, your soul in her soul, she 355 00:28:29,120 --> 00:28:34,320 thought to herself, if only I could touch the edge of his 356 00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:39,840 robe, I will, I will be healed. And then in her body she had to 357 00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:45,400 activate by pressing in engaging. 358 00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:48,960 And so prevailing prayer is actually taking a spirit, soul 359 00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:53,720 and body to the fulfillment of what God has called us to. 360 00:28:56,440 --> 00:29:00,440 There are times where prevailing prayer is going to call on you 361 00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:02,680 to fast. Not just waiting for the church 362 00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:09,160 to fast, but the Lord will tell you, come on, you won't 363 00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:11,640 breakthrough this area. I'm calling you to fast for 364 00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:15,920 three days. Oh well, I'll just wait till the 365 00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:25,640 next one comes around. No, come on now, we, we, we got 366 00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:32,320 to be responsive to the Spirit of God moving John 15 seven 367 00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:37,360 says, if you live in me, abide vitally united to me and my 368 00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:40,880 words remain in you and continue to live in your hearts. 369 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:43,880 Ask whatever you will and it shall be done. 370 00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:47,160 And people love to ask whatever you will that shall be done for 371 00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:48,960 you, right? I love that bit. 372 00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:54,000 OK, let's get to the first part. OK, It's conditional if you live 373 00:29:54,000 --> 00:30:03,360 in me, if you're abiding in me, when He abides in us, when He is 374 00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:07,640 living in us, when He's alive in us, that actually our thoughts 375 00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:10,400 and motivation are the thoughts and motivation from Him. 376 00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:15,680 It comes from Him and my words remain in you. 377 00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:19,960 What does God said about your situation? 378 00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:23,080 What does God said about your healing? 379 00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:26,800 What does God said about your family members? 380 00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:30,640 What does God say? What word are you taking and 381 00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:35,120 laying a hold of and anchoring to and not letting go of until 382 00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:40,160 it comes to pass? You're praying with someone the 383 00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:44,960 other day and I LED with the word I said, Lord, you said 384 00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:52,200 you're the healer. Exodus 1526, You say you're the 385 00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:54,720 healer. That's not from me, that's from 386 00:30:54,720 --> 00:31:00,880 you, Lord. Your word says when we pray, the 387 00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:03,120 prayer of faith will save the sick and the Lord will raise him 388 00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:04,440 up. You said that. 389 00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:08,320 You said it, Lord. You said it in your word. 390 00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:13,520 We're just reminding the Lord what He said, and then we're 391 00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:16,760 holding it. We're prevailing in it, we're 392 00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:22,360 moving on, we're engaging in it, and we're believing it. 393 00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:30,120 You see, we must believe the Word of God is not a rabbit's 394 00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:31,840 foot. It's not lucky. 395 00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:34,920 So it's something to just put out there, right? 396 00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:38,280 Prayer is not a a lucky rabbit's foot that we just put out there. 397 00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:45,040 No, it's something we work, we hold onto, we press into the 398 00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:48,520 Word of God, applied and put in practice. 399 00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:55,040 If you live in me, we come into His presence. 400 00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:58,120 We live our lives submitted and surrendered to Him. 401 00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:03,520 And my words remain in you and continue to live in your hearts. 402 00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:08,760 The words alive and powerful. Let the word live. 403 00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:11,760 Let the word transform you. You know when you pray, you're 404 00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:15,360 being transformed. When you're praying the Word, 405 00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:21,560 you're being transformed. The words moving on you to build 406 00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:27,080 up your holy faith, to press you into faith, to shape you into 407 00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:33,040 the image of Christ. We let his word remain and we we 408 00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:38,600 press in. So prevailing prayer presses. 409 00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:41,320 Wow, don't say that too fast. Prevailing prayer presses and 410 00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:43,600 then prevailing prayer is Spirit LED. 411 00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:54,000 Ephesians 618 Like using my Bible on this. 412 00:32:59,710 --> 00:33:06,350 Pray at all times, on every occasion, in every season, in 413 00:33:06,350 --> 00:33:11,750 the Spirit, with all manner of prayer and entreaty to that end. 414 00:33:11,750 --> 00:33:16,510 Keep alert and watch with strong purpose and perseverance 415 00:33:16,630 --> 00:33:20,470 interceding in behalf of all the Saints. 416 00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:26,400 So we pray at all times, every season. 417 00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:31,080 Have you ever got to season where I'm praying because I got 418 00:33:31,080 --> 00:33:35,720 my problem. I got I got my my prayer on 419 00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:41,920 because my problems bounced up or my urgency in prayer all of a 420 00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:44,880 sudden rose up because I got my problems right. 421 00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:48,640 Oh, that's OK. We can entreat the law for your 422 00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:50,800 problems, but stop, don't stop praying. 423 00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:54,560 Don't stop praying into your situation. 424 00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:58,240 Don't stop praying when the problem's solved, press in even 425 00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:00,240 more. You see, the same one who gives 426 00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:05,400 life to that problem is the one who wants to give life to you in 427 00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:10,400 all your life. Pray at all times in the Spirit. 428 00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:15,920 Be spirit LED, let the holy man. That means, yes, we pray in the, 429 00:34:16,199 --> 00:34:19,199 in the, in the Spirit, pray in other tongues and we pray in the 430 00:34:19,199 --> 00:34:20,920 Spirit because we're led by the Spirit. 431 00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:24,239 You might start praying for someone. 432 00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:28,000 You have no idea why. Lord, this person's name come to 433 00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:29,320 me. I don't know why, but Lord, I'm 434 00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:31,000 going to pray for them that you protect them, You keep them. 435 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:33,159 And as you start to pray, all of a sudden these things drop in 436 00:34:33,159 --> 00:34:35,239 your heart because the Holy Spirit's speaking to you. 437 00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:42,040 Your prayer is spirit LED also. I didn't even know that whatever 438 00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:47,159 all I can see is this protection in their car protection in this 439 00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:50,719 protection in that or, or in this situation they're going 440 00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:55,080 into, but you're led by the Spirit, praying in the Spirit 441 00:34:55,080 --> 00:35:00,120 praying led by the the Spirit and we're engaging hearts. 1st 442 00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:03,400 Corinthians 2 I love this, I love this verse, love this 443 00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:05,560 verse. Now we have received not the 444 00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:10,080 Spirit of the world, but the Holy Spirit who is from God, so 445 00:35:10,080 --> 00:35:13,400 that we may know and understand the wonderful things really 446 00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:16,280 given to us by God. You're given the Holy Spirit, so 447 00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:20,240 you might know. You might know what to pray for, 448 00:35:20,240 --> 00:35:24,720 when to pray for. Maybe something's been revealed 449 00:35:24,720 --> 00:35:30,160 and exposed, but that exposure was actually to save you and 450 00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:34,760 rescue you. The Spirit led and you didn't 451 00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:36,120 even know the Spirit was leading. 452 00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:42,040 You didn't even know, but the Holy Spirit, who's from God, 453 00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:47,880 came that you might know, know for sure, Know with assurance to 454 00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:53,720 know him, to know his power so we may know and understand the 455 00:35:53,720 --> 00:35:55,760 wonderful things freely given to us by God. 456 00:35:55,880 --> 00:36:00,080 You want to know, man, get in the Holy Spirit. 457 00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:04,600 You want to know. Get into a time of prayer that 458 00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:08,040 presses in. It goes beyond. 459 00:36:10,720 --> 00:36:18,320 If we want to know and believe, we need to press. 460 00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:28,990 So we're going to go beyond problems to possession, beyond 461 00:36:28,990 --> 00:36:32,950 problems to possess that thing God has promised for you. 462 00:36:35,750 --> 00:36:40,800 Don't get me wrong, God says in his Word, give me your problems. 463 00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:47,120 He says in his word, give him supplication. 464 00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:49,720 That means to to ask him for things. 465 00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:55,960 Supplication is part of prayer. But prayer also goes beyond your 466 00:36:55,960 --> 00:36:59,960 problem, beyond that to possession of what has been 467 00:36:59,960 --> 00:37:04,840 promised. When the, the, the people of 468 00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:07,760 Israel got to the edge of the promised land, they weren't 469 00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:10,240 given it for free. They had to go and possess it. 470 00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:13,240 They actually had to go in and fight for it. 471 00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:16,000 They actually had to go in and do something about it. 472 00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:21,960 They had to engage. They had to go beyond the 473 00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:29,400 problem to their possession, beyond problems to position. 474 00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:38,920 Romans 517 It's not on there. It's not on the slides. 475 00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:49,960 Romans 5 and verse 17 out of the Amplified Classic. 476 00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:56,040 And it says this for it. Because of one man's trespass, 477 00:37:56,320 --> 00:38:01,920 death reigned through that one. Much more surely, much more 478 00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:07,960 surely will those who receive God's overflowing grace, 479 00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:12,880 unmerited favour and the free gift of righteousness, putting 480 00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:18,400 them into right standing with himself, reign as kings in life 481 00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:20,960 through the one man, Jesus Christ. 482 00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:24,560 Who is He talking about? You who believe? 483 00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:36,200 You who believe we'll now get to reign in life as kings, you, you 484 00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:43,920 beyond problem to position. Our prevailing prayer is going 485 00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:47,680 to get us to the position where we realize who we are. 486 00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:52,880 We take the Word of God and we say, yes, that is ours. 487 00:38:53,200 --> 00:39:00,840 The enemy is a liar and the biggest thing he lies about is 488 00:39:00,840 --> 00:39:05,800 who you are. And I tell you now, when you get 489 00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:11,760 your identity fixed in Jesus, you realize what that position 490 00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:15,240 is. There is a breakthrough for you 491 00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:21,400 and your prayer now will start to shake nations. 492 00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:24,160 Your prayer will shake your city. 493 00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:38,080 Beyond problems to presence, Lord, may we have prevailing 494 00:39:38,080 --> 00:39:41,280 prayer just to come into your presence. 495 00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:45,640 Yes, Lord, you know the problems. 496 00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:48,240 Yes, Lord. You know, Lord, you said in 497 00:39:48,240 --> 00:39:52,000 Matthew 6, you know we need clothing, you know we need food, 498 00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:55,480 you know we need shelter. You know these things, but our 499 00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:58,480 responsibility is to seek first the Kingdom of God and His 500 00:39:58,480 --> 00:40:05,440 righteousness. Lord, may we pursue your 501 00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:21,760 presence, pursue you, pursue your word, pursue knowing your 502 00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:26,360 ways. Come into the presence of 503 00:40:26,360 --> 00:40:33,200 Almighty God. May we have a zeal, A fervency, 504 00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:44,240 a passion of heart that is pursuing you, Lord. 505 00:40:44,240 --> 00:40:49,360 May we come like the woman with the issue of blood. 506 00:40:51,760 --> 00:40:58,720 The presses through, not satisfied to stay back because 507 00:40:58,720 --> 00:41:03,720 of the obstacle. Not say that's too much, I can't 508 00:41:03,720 --> 00:41:11,480 get in there. Not to say, well, that would 509 00:41:11,480 --> 00:41:17,560 have been nice. We're done with nice. 510 00:41:18,080 --> 00:41:29,680 We're on the offence, we're pressing, we're pursuing Lord, 511 00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:32,200 we're pursuing what you have already said. 512 00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:38,280 Just like Elijah when you told him it's going to rain and he 513 00:41:38,280 --> 00:41:49,100 went to prayer, he appropriated, he possessed the promise of God. 514 00:41:53,620 --> 00:41:58,460 He called on heaven for the rain because the promise had been 515 00:41:58,460 --> 00:42:05,320 given a father. I just pray for each one here. 516 00:42:08,880 --> 00:42:12,280 The Lord, we will have a resolve. 517 00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:15,760 And as Elder John said in the 9:00 AM experience, make a 518 00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:18,840 decision. Make a decision. 519 00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:25,480 Resolve in your hearts today that you will not let go. 520 00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:35,120 Resolve, determine that this is now the way I'm pursuing. 521 00:42:35,920 --> 00:42:38,520 I'm not giving up. I'm not letting go because you 522 00:42:38,520 --> 00:42:41,400 promised Lord. You promised Lord, You called us 523 00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:54,820 Lord, spirit, soul, and body. I'm pressing in spirit, soul, 524 00:42:54,820 --> 00:42:56,980 and body. I'm yielded to God. 525 00:42:57,300 --> 00:43:00,820 Spirit, soul and body. I'm pushing into the promises of 526 00:43:00,820 --> 00:43:04,720 God. Lord, I thank you that we have 527 00:43:04,720 --> 00:43:16,200 grit, Lord, in that moment where it appears that, oh, maybe 528 00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:18,360 that's just, you know, not for me. 529 00:43:19,840 --> 00:43:23,360 In the areas that I've made manageable, in the areas that 530 00:43:23,360 --> 00:43:29,840 I've made attainable, Lord, that I'm pressing rather to what 531 00:43:29,840 --> 00:43:39,200 you've called me to. In those areas of quiet sin, 532 00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:46,400 quiet addiction that I've become complacent about. 533 00:43:47,920 --> 00:44:02,360 I'm going to get fierce with fierce, not letting go, Father, 534 00:44:02,360 --> 00:44:05,680 I thank you. Thank you, Lord, that we are a 535 00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:08,880 people who are led by the Spirit of God. 536 00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:14,120 I thank you, Lord, that each one will now take this decision, 537 00:44:15,120 --> 00:44:20,480 make a decision to resolve that. These areas I'm pursuing, maybe 538 00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:22,880 it's an area where there's family members who don't know 539 00:44:22,960 --> 00:44:24,560 Jesus. I'm not letting go. 540 00:44:27,560 --> 00:44:32,160 Perhaps it's an area of healing. I won't let go. 541 00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:33,720 Don't. You said it. 542 00:44:33,840 --> 00:44:36,080 You said the Lord. I didn't say it. 543 00:44:36,160 --> 00:44:38,440 I didn't write that bit. You said it. 544 00:44:39,760 --> 00:44:45,000 You said the Lord. Lord, it's your word. 545 00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:48,480 You declared it. I'm pursuing it and I won't let 546 00:44:48,480 --> 00:44:52,800 go. I'm pressing in. 547 00:44:52,800 --> 00:45:02,720 I won't let go. Lord, we're pressing, we're 548 00:45:02,720 --> 00:45:07,720 pressing, we're pressing, we're pressing, we're pressing into 549 00:45:07,720 --> 00:45:11,960 the grace of God. We're pressing in to pursue what 550 00:45:11,960 --> 00:45:14,280 you have for us. We're pressing. 551 00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:20,440 Thank you, Father. Thank you, Lord. 552 00:45:22,080 --> 00:45:25,760 Begin the press in prayer. Lay a hold of the promises of 553 00:45:25,760 --> 00:45:28,280 God. What's that scripture that 554 00:45:28,280 --> 00:45:32,080 you've there's a, there's some here who had a word from the 555 00:45:32,080 --> 00:45:34,360 Lord. There's a word from God. 556 00:45:34,360 --> 00:45:38,560 There's a there's a scripture that the Lord gave you and you 557 00:45:38,560 --> 00:45:41,600 set it down. It's time to pick that word up 558 00:45:41,600 --> 00:45:46,240 again. Pick it up, pick it up, pick up 559 00:45:46,240 --> 00:45:50,960 that word. There's, there's, there's a 560 00:45:51,120 --> 00:45:54,600 promise from God. You need to pick that up again. 561 00:45:59,280 --> 00:46:09,320 Remember the enemy's a liar. For some the enemy said you 562 00:46:09,320 --> 00:46:11,200 can't do that. Look what you did in these other 563 00:46:11,200 --> 00:46:17,280 parts of your life. Here, I'll give you a free one. 564 00:46:17,360 --> 00:46:21,640 Romans 81 For there is now no condemnation to those who are in 565 00:46:21,640 --> 00:46:26,600 Christ Jesus. No condemnation, no none, no 566 00:46:26,600 --> 00:46:32,520 condemnation. The devil is a liar. 567 00:46:33,880 --> 00:46:36,040 Jesus is the one who brings life. 568 00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:37,760 Jesus is the one who brings hope. 569 00:46:38,160 --> 00:46:41,320 Jesus is the one who brings you to the place of your fulfilment. 570 00:46:42,120 --> 00:46:48,280 Jesus is the one in him. We have have been raised up in 571 00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:50,560 him. We are redeemed in him. 572 00:46:50,560 --> 00:46:54,080 We are new creations in Him, in Him. 573 00:47:01,140 --> 00:47:04,940 Father, we thank you today, Lord. 574 00:47:04,940 --> 00:47:11,420 May this be a moment in time where we remember. 575 00:47:11,420 --> 00:47:15,700 I picked it back up. I picked up the promise. 576 00:47:17,100 --> 00:47:20,620 I picked up my prayer. I picked up my belief. 577 00:47:21,220 --> 00:47:24,820 I picked up my knowing. My knowing that He is more than 578 00:47:24,820 --> 00:47:28,320 able, I picked it up and I won't let go. 579 00:47:30,480 --> 00:47:32,640 I won't let the liar take it away from me. 580 00:47:35,120 --> 00:47:37,600 I won't let complacency take it away from me. 581 00:47:38,680 --> 00:47:40,600 I won't let time take it away from me. 582 00:47:41,400 --> 00:47:43,600 I won't let discouragement take it away from me. 583 00:47:45,080 --> 00:47:49,840 I'm holding on fiercely, fiercely, fiercely. 584 00:47:52,640 --> 00:47:55,840 Thank you, Father. Lord, we praise you today. 585 00:47:57,120 --> 00:47:59,240 Give them a shout of praise. Hallelujah. 586 00:48:00,120 --> 00:48:09,280 Amen. Thank you so much for tuning 587 00:48:09,280 --> 00:48:11,800 into this week's sermon. We pray you were challenged, 588 00:48:11,800 --> 00:48:15,400 equipped and encouraged. Make sure to follow us on all 589 00:48:15,400 --> 00:48:18,600 platforms. That's love Quest Intl church. 590 00:48:18,800 --> 00:48:21,040 We out here for real. We're really doing it. 591 00:48:21,040 --> 00:48:24,040 That's Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and TikTok. 592 00:48:24,360 --> 00:48:26,480 You can find us anywhere you need to find us. 593 00:48:26,640 --> 00:48:29,560 But until next time, you know the drill, you know the motto. 594 00:48:29,920 --> 00:48:32,400 Get your love fixed man and we'll see y'all real soon.