Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Love Quest International
Church podcast, where we seek to love all nations, equip the
church, mobilize the equipped, and serve all.
We're super glad you're joining us from whenever and wherever
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Let's get into it. Some folks might be like, man,
why do we can't we area get to the word not to know you don't
understand. Maybe maybe this moment was some
for was for some people who didn't think they'll make it
this far. Maybe it was for some people who
didn't think they'll have some joy again, but for me, one of
the reasons I praise is to put the devil back in his place.
Yes, I'm praising my God, but it's something about a room full
of people who have a revel. See, here's the thing,
everybody, they've been through something, but not everybody got
a revelation that they've been brought out of something.
So I love getting around people who are unashamed, like any like
like like like like, like, I don't know, I don't know where
you grew up. I don't know none of that.
OK. But man, there are you need some
friends that whenever you hit them up and say it's time to
ride, you need you need some friends that when you say, when
you when you hashtag time to ride, they know what's up,
right? I don't, I don't got no time to
explain what I'm going through, but you know, it's time to ride.
All right, listen, listen, listen.
No, no, no, no, no, no. I'm telling you it's good.
It's good. It's good.
See, here's here's what I do know is that the enemy, the
enemy does not want a church like this.
I'm going to just say it. I know this is a cuss word for
some people, but does not want a church like this to to grow.
Can you imagine that moment? This is why I say some of y'all
be on YouTube watching these moments.
But in the United States though, Yeah, yeah, right.
Because they they they're they're aware man, man, I'm
telling you I'm from that soil. They they not just aware, they
just they they're they're they're aware that if it had not
been for God, I'd be in prison. Woo.
So when you in a room where ain't nobody looking at you
funny because you praising God, No, no, no, no.
When you in a room where you look down the road and somebody
is you just like, Yep, I feel you.
She getting her praise on. I don't even need to know what's
going on. But when I look in the audience,
I see somebody crying with tears of joy.
I'm like, yeah, yeah, they they get it.
God has brought them through and they're grateful right now when
I see people that's dancing and they ain't ain't worried about
what you think. And I'm like, man, they've been
through something, right? And that's why the world
gravitate to the world, because the world is real about what
they're going through. We supposed to be the people who
say we going through, but we also got a way out.
The world got more people following it because people are
looking for somebody to say, man, you understand where I'm
going? Do you understand what I've been
through? We come in church and we act
like we made it, but we're going through what they going through.
We just trying to act like, no, that's just not the Bible I read
guys. A lot of our loud are quiet, our
charisma, our non charisma, whatever you want to call it,
it's all cultural. It's not Bible.
So don't act like you're quiet. Is is is theology, just like we
can't act like our our loud is theology.
But I will tell you, you're going to see more of us crazy
people in the Bible then you will see put together and and
calm and collected, right? We talking about people, the
people God made made sure we heard about was calling down
rain. What we talking about people who
had lions licking on their face and they just sitting there in
peace, right? We talking about a different
kind of people pull up some characters in the Bible and
don't, don't, don't tell me you don't see more folks that are
outward with their faith. So this region does not have a
church issue, but I do believe certain churches are planted for
certain principalities. You see it in sports.
They have matchups. You see it in the ocean.
You don't go in the ocean fishing with with bait and and
tell me on fish, tell me lures that you do in the river.
It's match ups. So what make you think any
church can penetrate every level of darkness?
It can't. That's why God's like it's time
to ride and what watch this. I have come to the point where I
only want to ride with those that want to ride.
So if you don't want to ride, sit at the bus stop.
But this bus is going so, so so tonight we are going to have a
special night. It's it's coming to me more and
more this morning. I announced we had a special
message tonight and we're going to be talking about friends
matter. This is going to be revival type
of message. You like what is what is friends
got to do with revival? Everything.
That's why you're not experiencing it because you're
friends watch this the people you listen to some of y'all
friends with people that ain't friends with you.
Hallelujah. Somebody say help me Jesus.
Yeah, you out here calling somebody a friend and they not
calling you friend. Watch this.
You out here following people on Instagram that they don't even
know you, don't care about you and ain't followed you back, but
they got a voice in your life. Watch this.
We're called to love everybody. Not everybody gets access.
I said it this morning, one of the biggest leadership regrets I
have in my life is I gave too many people access to my heart.
That is not Bible. God, Jesus, angels didn't ask me
to do that. And that is a biblical pattern
shown to us by our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ to show us
how to be human. Only three got heart revelation.
Not everybody's supposed to know what you're going through, why
you're going through it. Not everybody even deserve your
testimony. And you got people out here got
10 friends. How you got 10 friends and even
and it ain't a basketball team. Hey, this is not even a sports
team that you friends with 10 people, but you just you just
hang. You got that many people And
then when somebody don't want to hang out, you got another
friend. I promise you, not all of them
are friends. Watch this.
This is what I learned the other day.
Gossip a messy person, even if it's your friend is messy.
Watch this. It's just not your turn yet.
But if you see them messy about other people, it's only a matter
of time. They're going to be messy about
you it watch this if they betray other friends, promise you it's
all it's just not your turn yet. So you got to identify who's in
your life for what some people watch some of your heartbreak
would not happen if you knew they was only in your life for a
job opportunity or you would. The people here you got some
friends, you trying to make your friends and they were called to
be your mentor. So you want your mentor to be
your friend and your friend to be your mentor.
And you wonder why it don't work.
You don't want your pastor to cover you.
You want your friend to cover you because they're a little
older than you. And watch this.
You want your pastor to be your friend and you wonder why it's
don't work. You wonder why you got holes in
your soul. Tonight we going this is going
to be revival tonight. Watch this because most of our
wounds is from so-called friends or family.
So we dealt with family matters tonight.
I got to give you friends matter.
Watch this. Watch this closeness.
Here's the hook. close does not mean covenant.
And how do I discern the people I'm family with because some of
y'all feel obligated to family members who God freed you from.
Here's Jesus, says my Mama, Mama, somebody say Mama, you
only got how many Mamas One my Mama and my brother and my
sister are only those who do my father's will.
And some of y'all letting people who don't do the Father's will
come in between you and the person God is calling you to.
Who do does the Father's will? You getting wisdom from people
who don't do the Father's will running from the wisdom from the
people who do do the Father's will.
You all jacked up. Somebody look at your neighbors,
say you all jacked up, but I'm praying for you.
Come on, you sat by me so I can tell you you jacked up.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no where.
Watch this, watch this. What if I told you there are
certain things that can't be released in your life because of
who you're associated with? Watch this, watch this.
Abraham was not supposed to bring Lot right?
Some the the people who didn't say nothing, they like Lot.
Who is lot? Read your Bible, Read your
Bible. Who is lot?
Lot brought Jesus. I mean Lot brought Abraham or
what? Lot of problems right right
right right right right is Abraham is looking and God gave
him a promise y'all going to get pregnant Like OK they get
impatient you start looking around OK she like you can go
ahead and sleep with the maiden. Nowhere in the Bible does it say
Abraham said. Are you sure Abe was like don't
mind if I do Amen. Hallelujah mighty woman of God,
look at you. Listen, who you around in this
season? For some of you it's a matter of
life or death. Some of you can't heal because
you still around certain voices tonight.
I'm the other part of tonight and it's going to start prayer
starts at 6:00. If you wasn't here this morning,
I'm going to get into a little bit but God is God is is he is
looking for some people he could set on fire for prayer and I
started with myself because I realized as much as I pray to
God, I I I'm available to God. I am a man of faith.
I don't necessarily carry watch this.
I don't carry a now, now, now, I don't know if this is OK for a
pastor to say, but I also understand that this role up
here is does not define that I've made it, I've perfected it,
nor with my weaknesses. I'm really weak.
So I'm not going to let people's double standards right you you
can act up. I can't, right?
You can. You can live, you, You could
drink. But if I walked out here with a
bottle of Hennessy, you'll be looking at me like I'm crazy.
But I realized if I'm honest with you, and I have to do this
because he's doing something new in me so I can leave the past
behind, that's what I'm doing by telling you this.
I'm leaving the past behind. I didn't necessarily carry a
burden to pray. And I would say most of you in
here don't either. For some of you, most of your
prayer life consists of asking God for something or you in some
trouble or you need God to change something.
What I do know is God is not correcting me for not praying
because I do feel like the pray without ceasing is something I
do and that word pray without ceasing.
You get this the other day if you go research it.
This ongoing form of prayer is is like a prompting.
It's like I heard this great example of it.
It's like when you you ever heard somebody say, man, I've
been coughing all day. Was you like?
I'm about to pass out just doing that.
You just like you go on, drink some water, watch this.
And then you feel the cough prompting you pray without
ceasing. It's being ready to return to
cough again. Some of our prayer lives is like
if you felt a cough and you went, you ever see somebody
trying to save a sneeze? Like don't sneeze, man, just
sneeze. If you ever did that, it hurt.
It actually hurts your heart. Stop for real.
For real. That one right there, huh, man?
The Holy Spirit is here to help us pray.
So when he, you, you at work, you're like, oh, I'm at work.
He didn't ask you to pray out loud.
He just asked you for that moment.
He moves up on you and you walk and you in a meeting.
He didn't ask you to say, excuse me, guys, the Spirit of the Lord
is up on me. He didn't ask you to even leave
the meeting. He comes to prompt you.
He's like, thank you, Jesus, Hallelujah, right?
He didn't ask you to involve somebody else in your prayer.
So tonight we're going to get that message.
I don't know, I got a few more minutes.
Let me get to get get this second-half to you guys real
quick. And we're going to come back
tonight and we're going to worship and we're going to pray.
Now perfected is normally for equipping our leaders who's who
decide to serve, who are deciding to serve.
We are going to be having perfected until we get in this
building. We are going to make sure those
that are serving are on the same page in vision and mission and
in spirit. So perfected is a a time to
contend for unity around mission and vision.
Tonight, I just feel this prompting that we need to use
this night for those who are coming to perfect it, but also
open it up to the church. Your pastor is asking you to
come out. Yep.
Sacrifice. Absolutely next level that that
you read the Bible. That's all it is, is that's what
it's about. And I promise you, if you read
your Bible, there's worse stuff than coming to church at 6:00
PM. OK, won't, won't be no lions
here tonight. Won't, won't be no fiery furnace
here tonight. Wait a minute, it might be a
fiery furnace in here tonight, some prayer furnace up in here
tonight. But for me personally, as your
pastor, I am. If I, I am, I am I, I realize
that there's been some resistance against me.
And I'm not talking about people.
I'm not talking. I'm talking about it seems like
the enemy knows something that you are not really aware of.
At some point you got to pay attention and wait a minute.
I'm being faithful, I'm showing up, I'm a good person, I'm
sewing, I'm doing these, I'm doing the things I pray.
But this just seemed like a different level.
The worst thing is to not detect when the enemy turns up the fire
to not detect you're. So you're saying it's like the
frog in the you, you just so content because you've gotten
settled in to not having or to having that you're willing to
leave all kinds of promises on the table.
No, no, no. When are you going here?
To give you example, Jasmine, I was thinking about, so I told
you our tents fell and I was like, no, no, no, no, I'm not OK
with being in these tents another year.
I don't care. Look, look, I don't care if this
is your first month in the tent. I'm tired of the tent, right?
But by faith and being grateful, we like, let's do it.
But but I don't want another tent to fall.
I, I don't want to mop water. I'm grateful for like, like,
like, like, that's not God's plan, but you can be.
You can be so thankful and so in God's rest.
That you lose your edge in prayer because you have you have
settled with what he promised just may not show up.
And I'm watch this and I'm OK with it.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no no no no.
Me and my wife, me and my me and mom was about a week ago or some
we was in Calgary. We had a little moment when you
married, you have moments, OK, if you married for 23 years, you
got moments and you get what I'm saying.
Somebody say moments and and and me and her I forget what it was,
but we went to bed not talking right.
She had a little little attitude or something and PJ get attitude
sometime. OK, OK.
And I do too. Ladies like I hear the ladies
like I bet you do too. Like whatever, like Jesus.
But it was I forget what it was and the next day and I forget I
was I was I was being like stubborn, funny though, Like it
was funny. I was I was playing on the
situation and she was like Terrance, how long it was about
like she like, look, my wife are sick.
We were coming to the end of our season in Calgary.
OK. And so there was some cleaning
up and I came out to do my part. And sometime when you marry, you
really think you do more than the other person.
You just do different stuff. OK?
What? Watch this.
There is no such thing as 5050 in a marriage, OK?
Stop it. It's over.
Ain't no such thing. And that's the problem.
You when you got married to go half.
Ain't no such thing as half. OK, OK, thank you.
So so we were we we it was something like she she works
hard. She was cleaning it up and I
noticed. Look, look, look.
Yo boy. I came downstairs.
She was kind of in the mood. I know she was tired.
I walked up. I was like, babe, you need
something. You could she's like, no, I was
like, OK, that's fine. I went and washed the dishes.
I went and did. I was like you then you, you
good, you good, OK. And then later or whatever,
something happened and she said something.
You know, sometimes you'll say something.
You didn't mean to say it that way, but the way it came out, I
can't help but to hear it that way.
Then it was what it was. We talked it through.
And then she I was like, you know what?
I'm I'm, I'm over it. She was over it.
And watch this. We swept it under the rug family
matters. We swept it under the rug next
day. Watch this.
We both good how she was raised how I was raised, which could be
a problem. We all we talked about
everything like everything. OK, so we we balance each other
out in that way. It's always something in the day
happened. And I was like, baby, you need
me to do anything. And she said, OK, Terrence, when
you're going to stop or whatever it was.
It was, it was a cute moment. And then I took like 10 minutes
and I said, look, this is what was going on.
And I know how you work. I know how I work.
But I want to work through this because we should never go to
bed like this. We should never go to bed like
that. Here's how we should
communicate. She asked the valid question.
So when is it? When is it over?
When is it resolved? And then we talked about it and
then it was over and we moved on Here.
Here's what it here. Here's where you tie this in.
I we, we are contending for the marriage God promised what the
little bickers that go unchecked add up The the, the how you talk
to me, but I'm cool. I brushed it off.
You're developing A hardness to deal.
Now you're changing versus speaking up and saying no,
that's not allowed in our house. We can't talk to each other like
that. My bad.
How can I, how can I get this from you and how can I
communicate in a way where you don't?
You don't sound like this. We're contending for what God
promised and what I'm saying for some of you, you're not checking
the pattern, you're not checking the enemy.
Some stuff ain't the devil in 2026.
It is the pattern the devil set in 19 O 6 Devil been done with
your family. He just put you on cycle and
nobody in your family is breaking it.
We're just making excuses of who fault it is.
What I'm telling you is the same thing in prayer.
When are you going to get a umph about not another day with the
frogs? Not another day in my house, not
another day with my find it, not another day with my marriage,
not another day, not another day It's it's it's got to stop.
So then I was just like no and God watch this.
God will allow you to walk in circles until you mad about
walking in circles. Watch this.
The truth of the matter is the children of Israel got
comfortable wandering. Some of y'all don't mind
wandering. I will tell you, those that have
ears to hear your Nets will only be reached through this next
dimension of prayer that we're pressing into today.
No, no, no, no, he won't change. They, they, they not coming
home. God is looking in the earth for
somebody that will intercede, stand in the gap.
He said, can you not watch with me for one hour?
He didn't say can you watch with me for a lifetime?
Can you watch with me for a month?
He didn't say, can you watch with me for a day?
He didn't even say, can you watch with me all day?
He said one hour. And I think a lot of you in here
pray to the hour. You don't pray through the hour.
And that's why we're talking today.
Through it, pray through it. This is what Jacob said.
I'm not letting go until you bless me.
He said, I'm praying through it. Somebody say through it.
Luke 11 One, they see him praying, the disciples see him
praying. And they say, teach us how to
pray. Somebody say teach us how to
pray. They're they're, they're a part
of Jewish customs. Watch this guys.
Watch this. They prayed.
So they weren't asking teach me how to pray because we don't
pray. Teach me how to pray so I can
live in power. They saw Jesus got results.
They saw when Jesus stepped on the scene, peace also stepped on
the scene. Some of y'all pray but when you
step on the scene chaos show up. Lord teach us how to pray so
that we are not overshadowed by anxiety.
What what is overshadowing you? Whatever overshadows you, you
will release. They said Jesus you, you getting
results, blind eyes open when you pray and watch this.
Some of y'all in here think that miracles are done because that's
what Jesus did. Well he said those that believe
they shall cast out demons lay hands on the sick and the sick
shall what recover. Why we don't see that today?
How many times you've been at a family dinner and you left a
family member sick? Watch this.
I'm talking about the level of
prayer that it grieves you to see somebody that need prayer
and you can't leave without praying for them.
OK, OK, OK, OK. OK.
How how, how, how did you sit there with your auntie?
How did you sit there with your uncle?
How did you sit there with your Mama?
How did you go out to dinner with that friend knowing they
sick, knowing they need prayer and you didn't pray for them?
Don't tell me you pray, because the burden of prayer is for
everywhere and everybody that need prayer, right Prayer, the
burden of prayer is like a high end restaurant that won't let
your cup touch empty. I'm not I'm not talking about
the little broke restaurants where your cup you like where
they at? I need some water.
No, I'm talking about a a nice restaurant where your cup get
down and they they right there, they right there, they they,
they right there. That's what prayer is.
You're not going to come around me and stay the same.
At bare minimum, your insides going to start shifting.
So they like teach us how to pray because watch this, watch
this. I'm about to ask you a very
sobering question. When are you going to be tired
of being a powerless Christian? When you're going to be tired of
not being able to overcome that? Some of you overcome stuff
because it passed things. Passing is not you overcoming
it. It just passed and some of y'all
waiting for it to pass versus conquering.
Bible says I'm more than a conqueror.
Conquerors don't wait for it to pass.
They take it by force. You ask if I asked us to pray if
I asked us to pray right now and you notice sometimes we're going
to be like pray for two minutes and then ten nine because then
some people shows me like praise God, we almost done.
I just said two minutes and you excited about the watch this you
excited about the countdown and willing to leave without the
results. Yeah.
I, I, I get to see it y'all y'all just y'all look at
everybody head. I look at everybody face.
We ask people to pray and within 60 seconds folks is done.
That don't burden you that you actually don't know how to talk
to God. Wait a minute.
You gave your life to a savior you don't even know how to talk
to where we at today? That don't bother you that that
don't bother you That you are a part of a religion.
You don't even know the leader. So what you what you a partner?
At least some of these other religions, they man, they 5:00
watch this whenever Ramadan come around, watch this.
I see people walking around, walking.
Man, that place is packed. Watch this.
No, no, no condemnation, just conviction.
We call for prayer and you get the same 25 people show up.
Where you at? Where you at?
And you like I'm believing for this, but I paid this price.
You, you don't want to have to party.
That's jealous of everybody who paid for VIP tickets.
Watch this. You, the person trying to get a
deal. You can't get a deal on a
miracle. It costs.
When you forget, you fall asleep.
Remembrance fuels a vibrant prayer life and I said I'm tired
of settling for crumbs when God promised me the whole loaf.
I'm not settling for sprinkles when He promised me showers.
I'm not settling for healing when He promised me wholeness.
I'm not settling for manna when He promised the land that flows
with milk and honey. I'm not settling because the
truth is I'm fed up and it's OK to get to that place.
No, I thought I was going to be further along.
We'll do something about it. Watch this.
It ain't apply for another job. It ain't worth more hours.
The answer ain't a diploma. What if the answer was prayer?
A diploma? Not going to fix it.
A husband ain't going to fix it. We trying?
We like the woman with the issue of blood.
She tried everything, none better until she tried the one.
I am here to challenge every person in here today.
We all probably got a prayer issue.
This next hour is going to require us to dig like never
before. You can have a prayer life and
still not have a powerful life. And I don't know about you.
I'm too competitive to not live with some power in my life.
I'm too competitive to let the devil just keep on getting over
on me or getting over on my family.
No, I'm too competitive to watch a cousin who on their way to
hell and I'm not going to fast for him.
What? Watch this, watch this.
I asked the question a minute ago is how long you going to go
live in a powerless Christian life?
Watch this. How long you going to go not
doing something about your family members going to hell.
I'm sorry. You can't just let them die and
be like, I gotta gotta gotta balance it out.
No, no, no, no. It's clear there's a hell and
there's a heaven and some of y'all got family on the way and
you OK with it? Watch this.
And you say you love them. I'm here to let you know it's
not God's love. It's a form of love.
It's not God's love. You don't get high with your
cousins and pray for them. You don't hope God save them,
but you get high with them. That's not love.
That's not God's love. Tonight I'm praying for the
burden to pray to where I just can't help it.
Like like, like, no, no, I'm talking about and I'm not
talking about no little, no little Jesus wet prayer.
Now, a lot of words don't mean you're being effective in
prayer. Not going to talk about that
right now, but he he warned us about many words.
Watch this. This is why you got a heavenly
prayer language. And This is why you got the
Bible, because there comes a point when you run out of your
words. You pray the Word, you put your
emotions in the Word. Some of us only got 10 minute
prayer life because we're done talking ourselves.
Jesus gives us structure and then tells us about a woman in
Luke 18 who kept bugging and bothering an unjust judge who
had no honor for God or man. But he said if I don't stop and
bless her, then she going to keep bugging me.
And that's the standard of prayer is we do not let up.
We lock jaws in our prayer and we do not let go until we see
the result we are believing for. Watch this.
We're not talking about begging, see, because even when I talk
about passionate prayer, fervent prayer, resilient prayer,
diligence and prayer, you almost got a wild imagination.
Like that's just wild. Watch this.
You also got, when I say prayer warrior, you also got a type of
people who are prayer warriors. Like you think Elder John and
Elder Roseanne, like around that age, around like that people,
those are prayer warriors. So you going to wait until they
age to lock? Lock in?
The greatest threat to your prayer life is not the devil.
It's discouragement, deferred hope and distraction.
Because if the enemy can't stop God from answering the prayer,
He will try to stop you from asking.
Can I help somebody? He will try to stop you from
asking. Watch this.
And we're asking for stuff that we actually really don't care
about instead of asking for the things that will change
generations forever. No, no, no.
I need to war for this building. Watch this.
The war is either going to get us in or the war is going to get
God to say Nah. Watch this.
Abraham. I provided A sacrifice.
Thank you. Now I know, but to sit back and
just be like man, no, we going no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
I'm not going to see another fall in these tents.
Now watch this. We're doing everything.
Watch this. We are doing everything that we
are supposed to do. Watch this.
What I do believe in God is showing us is this building, if
you understood the history of this building, the history of
this community, this is a community and a building that
the devil and all of hell does not want to see happen now.
Now the wait is worth it because we're discovering a lot of stuff
and we're getting things right to go through the ribbon.
So the the the weight. And delay is not like, oh, we
need we don't got no money or oh, you guys did something that
no, no, no, this is we are discovering some things so that
we can build God's house, right. But I'm like, you can sit back
and just be like God gonna do it.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no to get through the ribbon when
you cramping you in a race and you cramping you ever see them
inspirational. You know about this able a
little bit and you know, I mean you, you would like superstar,
though you don't cramp you just like you just walk through the
finish line like this, right. But folks like that kind.
That's what prayer looks like when you see them people, you
know they didn't do this. Oh, forget that.
Yeah, I need those people that that watch this that we going to
get through the ribbon before I get you some water.
You notice they didn't pick them up while they it's going to be
OK. You only got a few more miles
now to let me know if you don't want to get up and finish.
We don't got to finish while cramping.
Pick me up and carry me through. Watch this.
What's crazy? Same thing happened to Jesus.
Jesus didn't say you know what? You, you go to the cross for me.
So through it, through it. Prayer means to pray through the
silence when you don't hear God. Pray through the delay, pray
through the frustration, pray through disappointment, pray
through fatigue, and pray through confusion.
Pray through it. Some things do not break when
you pray. Once they break when you refuse
to stop. Where is it that you feel
resistance and where is it that you feel hope slipping?
Where did you forget? God promised that you were
supposed to get that? Where did you forget or get
weary or stop praying that God promised you that that family
member was going to get sober? Where did you stop praying and
being intense about the moment about your family or your Co
worker that God said he was going to heal?
Where did you just let up? Hope has deferred.
You do not get quiet. You do not stop.
Somebody say God I will not stop.
We need to pray without ceasing. You're going to have to write
fast. I'm equipping you.
We have to pray without ceasing. That word without ceasing means
continual, reoccurring and rhythmic return.
There is a rhythm in your responding to God.
You do not pray when you're in trouble alone.
Prayer without ceasing is not constant words.
Hear it, please. It is constant return #2 We need
effective fervent prayer. Yes, it's in the Bible.
Effective fervent prayer, The effective fervent prayer of a
righteous man or woman. Avails.
Must somebody say avails? Watch this.
This is the same word. Effective fervent means energy.
Oh, it means active, operative working, energized and producing
effect prayer. Like I'm not just quiet around
here. I'm not just sitting here trying
to be cute. The enemy got my child.
The enemy got my spouse. The enemy got my fine.
The enemy. Come on.
No, Like when you going to have a generational grip on what you
what you believe in for a generational grip on what you
believe in for realizing if you don't pray, your children is
going to have to deal with some stuff.
Lord, man, I was in the back. I I am asking Lord if there's
ever a way and I believe it's a prayer in my heart and I'm
praying it right now. Lord, I want the same man of
prayer my grandmama had. There it is.
Watch this. The prayer mantle ain't far from
you. My, my, my, my grandma be up at
3:00 in the morning on her knees 3 in the morning.
I'm gonna pray, but I'm be in the bed on my back.
We laughing, but but that posture got her son off crack
cocaine. That that posture got a
daughter. My mom, my Mama got kicked out
my mom. Even if you watching, it's a
testimony, mom, it's a testimony and more young or more women,
young people need to hear this testimony.
My Mama got kicked out of school.
She was a fighter. My Mama used to throw them
things all the time. My Mama, my Mama, you know, but
I look back, you know, my my mom used to throw them things.
My mom, my mom would be she, she's a fighter.
And what I realized is, Grandma, you don't have somebody like
that's praying like that. Where's Uncle Willy if Grandma
don't pray like that? Watch this.
Here's what y'all don't get. Where am I if Uncle Willy don't
get off crack? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Uncle Willy got me here. So if Uncle Willy don't get
sober, I I don't get here. Watch.
It's easy to be well, God. God is God, so he could do
whatever. No, no, no.
That's where you mistake it. If, if that they don't try to
take the special out of God. God's moving.
No, no, no. If Uncle Willie didn't make it,
I wouldn't have got here. Uncle Willie had to get sober
and Grandma had to intercede for Uncle Willie and Uncle Willie
had to go 1st and I had to come visit Uncle Willie and in order
to get on this land and for in order for God to talk to me and
here we are, somebody had to get saved in order to minister to
Billy Graham. Do you see how this work?
You got to get where you are to get because somebody is going to
be at that bus stop if you show up or not.
Active results and somebody say avails much.
This is the key. Can you be honest with yourself?
How often have you seen your prayers avail much?
Be honest, Watch this. Some of y'all ain't never prayed
for a sick person. And the healer lives in you and
all he's asking you asking you for is your faith in your
persistence avails much means to be strong, to prevail, to have
force and to overcome resistance.
We're talking about Elder John, a people that avail in prayer
that do not do not give up when encountering resistance.
The actively working prayer of a righteous person has great power
and prevails. Somebody say great power.
Power is not in prayer, you say. It is in prayer that is working.
So you could pray, but what does
your actions look like? Are you you praying for healing?
But has your diet lined up with the healing you believe in for
you praying for your spouse, but have you started talking to them
differently? The kindness of God brings men
to repentance. Power is not in prayer, you say,
It's in prayer that is working. I'll leave you right here.
James ties this thought into Elijah.
He prayed and it didn't rain. He prayed and it did rain.
That's a bad boy right there. James 5/17/18 Bible says Elijah
was a man with a nature like ours and he prayed earnestly
that it would not rain. Do you know how bad you got to
want it to not rain and pray and it don't rain?
See. See, this is the part we don't
understand. Danny is back then rain and not
rain was everything. Not rain leads to drought and
famine, which mean unemployment and starvation.
And it did not rain. And he prayed.
Somebody say again. And the heaven gave rain.
Elijah didn't just pray once, he stayed in it.
It wasn't a moment of prayer, it was a posture of persistence.
Effectual fervent prayer is through it, prayer through it,
prayer through it. Prayer because it keeps working.
It keeps pressing, and it keeps engaging.
If your prayer is not working, it's because you stopped before
it did. Write this down Gates of hell,
gates of hell gates. Now I'm looking for some people
going to finish this real strong.
I got I got about 5 people that's ready to finish this real
strong case Gates, gates, gates. Somebody say gates.
Gates represents places of authority, places of counsel,
and places of decision making. OK, we're we're we're, we're
ripping from the Scripture. And the gates of hell shall not
prevail against them. Who is them?
The ecclesia. Who is the ecclesia?
The church? Who's the church?
Us, you. The gates of hell shall not
prevail. So watch this if I'm
experiencing resistance, Troy, it is not for me to pray the
devil off because this is not what the scripture says.
The gates of hell shall not prevail, which means the the
gates of hell is trying to keep me out.
But I've got the power to get in.
And God said it is a call to go in more than it is for the devil
to let go. Gates are not weapons.
Gates are defensive structures. You with me?
Somebody say gates, Somebody say hell.
It is the realm of death, domain of darkness, the system opposed
to God's Kingdom, the gates of hell.
Whatever is resisting what God has promised in your life,
whatever is resisting what God is trying to get through your
life, whatever is resisting whatever God is trying to get to
your life. So this is everything the
authority, the gates of hell means the authority structures
of darkness. Watch this, the authority
structures. Here's how the devil gets us,
Laura. He has built been building
structures in our bloodline. So you not about to just pray
the devil away. He been gone.
His structure is still in the bloodline, so This is why all he
banks on is keep the structure. They'll inherit behavior and
then that behavior automatically gives access to the structure.
So it's no way I can overcome without being transformed
because his structures are designed for inherited patterns
and behavior. So, Yep, grew up with alcohol in
my house. Yep, I didn't.
But Yep, somebody in here did. Yep.
And you like, nothing wrong with it.
I got a job. I'm a good person.
OK, well, guess what you do got to your bloodline, still
structures. And so you good.
But your kids or your grandkids, guess what?
Because the structure's still in the bloodline, Yosef becomes
their addiction. I'm just saying, who in the
bloodline going to carry that cross for the bloodline?
Who who going to put The Who going to put the weed down?
Who going, who going, who going to do this and close it?
And you know what? I, I, I'm not good for computers
because every time I get a computer, I got to deal with the
temptation that I don't need to deal with.
So for the next year I'm fasting from computers.
But how am I going to live without a computer?
How did they live without computers?
So here we go, prevail. This is what we want to get to
prevail. Somebody say prevail.
The gates of hell shall not prevail, meaning overpower
dominate to withstand successfully.
So here's how it reads. The authority structures of
darkness will not overpower, withstand or stop our church.
Your family, your bloodline. Yeah.
I declare this is not the church's surviving attacks.
Hey, Elder John. I'm tired of surviving attacks.
OK, Watch this. Watch this.
This is not prevailing. Is not a surviving attacks.
Here it is. The church is advancing and hell
is trying to hold ground. Hell is not advancing on the
church. The church is advancing on hell.
Yeah. I'm coming to get my cousin
back. I'm coming to get my Mama back.
I'm coming to get my sanity back.
I'm coming to get my strength back.
I I'm coming to get my joy back. I'm coming.
I'm coming.
I'm coming to get it back. Prayer is how the church applies
pressure to the gates. The gates of hell are not
chasing you, they are resisting you.
Watch this. The devil ain't really messing
with your family, he's actually resisting you.
Hell is not trying to attack your life randomly, it is trying
to hold territory that belongs to you.
Troy that belongs to you, Jasmine, that belongs to UC on.
And prayer is how we push back darkness until it cannot hold
its ground any longer. Hell doesn't fear attendance, it
fears authority. The church doesn't win by
gathering, it wins by governing. If the gates are still standing,
it's not because God is weak, it's because the church stopped
pushing. Breakthrough is not God
deciding, it's the church advancing.
What if I told you God has nothing else to decide about
your life? What?
Watch this. God's not thinking about your
future. He planned it.
What are you talking about there?
There's nothing for him to think of.
He's not worried about your future.
There's an expected end. If you don't reach somewhere
He's called you to reach, That's on you, not him.
Watch this. That's on you, not the devil.
The devil's not that powerful to keep you out of God's promised
land. We read it over and over in the
Bible how much the enemy tried. He tried to stop the Angel from
delivering to Daniel and that. And the Angel comes and says,
Daniel, I'm glad you did not stop.
What praying? I heard you on the first day,
but you kept praying. You did not stop heard you on
the first day, but there was some principalities that was in
the way warring because the enemy knows that when the
blessing comes, it changes everything.
I just need a few people. You know what here's here's we
going to show our hunger tonight.
Church is over. It's over.
We're going to show our hunger tonight.
Yeah. Why you end like that?
Ain't you supposed to end on top and excited and lead the people?
What? We're going to finish tonight.
There's a call tonight for those that really want their prayer
life to push through to the next dimension.
And you know, you know, you need prayer.
You know, you need to know how to pray.
Learn how to pray. You know, you need power in your
life. There's a call tonight.
We're going to pray. We're going to worship.
Watch this. I believe the message about
friends goes well together with prayer activation.
Some of y'all don't pray because you got friends that don't pray
watch this. Some of y'all don't pray because
you got a spouse that don't pray.
When I, when I see my wife walking around, are you like
she'll, she'll, she'll take, she'll, she'll take Malachi to
work up to school at 6:00 in the morning, 5:30 in the morning.
And she's like, that's my prayer time on the drive.
And then she'll come or she'll come sometime and put her head
on the back hand on the back of my head.
And she'll be no, no, no, no, no, no.
She'll be praying in the middle of the night.
She'll be praying. Or if she can't sleep or if I
can't sleep, she'll put her hand on my back.
She'll be praying, she'll turn on some worship music.
Ain't nothing like having a spouse that got a prayer life.
Yeah, some of y'all don't pray because your your spouse don't
pray. And if you and your spouse don't
pray, guess who else don't pray? Your kids.
I love it. My Mama called Micah the other
day. She said where my prayer partner
at? Because when she was here and
Micah prayed with her, she's like, that's my prayer partner
right there. And they promised to pray
together at least once a month. She's still waiting on him to
call her, but that's OK now. But she did, she did.
And they talked the other day. And you know, I, I, I believe, I
believe, I believe you bring your kids too, because I believe
kids can start watch this. They, they prayers might get to
heaven quicker than yours. You got to teach your kids how
to pray. They're going to keep it pure.
They're going to keep it simple, straight to the point.
If family matters, then prayer has to matter.
And for me, I even repent because my grandmother had
family prayer all the time. And my family and I, we pray a
lot to get, we pray randomly like this is not a matter, I
hope you hear me clearly. I'm not saying our family, we
pray a lot together, but it's just, I just feel there's a
difference between we pray because we should versus we got
a burden to pray. There can't be real authentic
fervor without authentic burden, because he's not asking us to
pray an emotional prayer. And This is why we worship is
because we're stirring up our faith and we're praying from a
stirred up self. This is why your heavenly prayer
language is so powerful. Because before you pray one word
in your language, you pray in your heavenly prayer language.
Stir yourself up, and then you pray in the Spirit.
Watch this. And praying in the Spirit is not
just praying in tongues. Praying in the spirit is giving
your tongue to what the what heaven is saying in the spirit
realm. So tonight we start in prayer at
six. We're going to pray, we're going
to worship, we're going to pray, get his word.
Watch this. And I believe some people have
been in some some bad relationships.
I don't know about you, but you've been in some bad
relationships. Watch this guy's domestic
biological workspace. You've been you've been hurt,
you've been abused, you've been mistreated.
You've been overlooked, and I believe God wants to heal us
from relational scars, but first we got to identify and repent
for where we've allowed and been sloppy with the management of
our soul. And so tonight at 6:00, we'll be
here. Everybody ever heard that you
can give at church? Like give finances at church,
OK, Amen. If you want to give, you can
give us an opportunity for you. We're not going to compel you.
We're not going to beg you. We, we, we, we, we, we giving
this for all of us. It's an opportunity.
It's more better to give than it is to receive.
And God takes pride in a cheerful giver.
Anybody know that your church does things sometime, right?
Anybody know your church got an Instagram page or we got a
homecoming? We got a little booth back there
and people talk at the booth. OK.
If you want to know what's happening that's coming up, if
you really care, go to our Instagram, go to the booth and
ask how many people. Ever heard of Easter?
We we going to have an Easter serve.
We don't need to come on Easter's.
We going to have Good Friday, too.
OK, Good Friday is yeah. Good Friday is happening at 11
AM, 11 AM, OK. And then you get it over with
and then go on about your day, OK.
It's going to be a good time we have planned for you, but I just
want to own fire church. We're going to give you
announcements. We going, we going, we going, we
going to do some things, but you might see some things that we we
we have traditionally done. You might see them pause for a
minute because I'm feeling the Lord challenging me to lay the
ark down at Obed Edom's house until he gives us further
instructions. There's some stuff nowhere we
get in the habit of doing and it's like, why are we still
doing? They don't even they don't even
like the first time attendee song.
No more like the people be singing it and then and it's
just like you just so familiar. OK, people don't want to come to
prayer. Well, let's stop offering prayer
like people are serving you and God is extending opportunities
for you and like the woman with the issue of blood, you try
everything else except what your church home is offering you.
You're not just coming to prayer to learn how to pray for the
church. You coming to prayer to learn
how to pray for your own house. So tonight, what time what we
going to start off doing Hallelujah and I'm going to
leave on this babe my wife. Hey, hey, anybody that didn't
know I got a wife and my wife is here and the Calgary season.
You come up for a second like people don't understand I was
explaining this mighty, I was explaining this earlier.
People don't understand the day that my wife and I had to
separate and so you know, I'm not, she's not up here because
we got remarried. Like we didn't break up or
nothing like this, but separate houses because she was in
Calgary with our son Malachi. And that was almost 2 years.
I was 2024. We've traveled more than we ever
have. We've had to be without each
other more than we ever have. And a lot of people did not
understand that. The time that we did that, that
was your time to start praying for us, not criticizing what the
enemy was trying to do. Because you'll never understand
when a marriage is asked to go this way for God's purposes, how
vulnerable that season is. But we counted the cost and
understood what it would be like for her not to be here.
Watch this, guys. It is as important for her to be
here as it is for me to be here. Yeah.
So because she'll tell you in a minute, she didn't ask for all
this. She did.
She did not ask for all this. But she loved y'all and she wore
for y'all and you got anything you what we up here for is
because we not going back what we will.
But Calgary, the assignment is done.
Thank you. I was telling the worship team
in the back in the first service, if you guys were here,
you guys all got to see me cry, boohoo, crying everywhere.
I even snorted, which was super cute, but whatever.
So I was ugly crying on stage, but I was just saying what I was
telling the team in the back was I wasn't.
I wanted to tell everyone I wasn't crying out of sadness
that all day I've been super weepy.
And here I go again, super weepy and super thankful because it's
over. Like it's finished and you know,
you have to power through certain seasons and you just do
it. Like whatever you have to do,
you just do it. Well, some people do, some
people complain the whole time. But for me, how I was raised as
you just make it happen. And so we made it happen and it
was a super fruitful, amazing, incredible season in Calgary.
And actually everything that we went to accomplish there, we
accomplished and we left Calgary better.
So I'm super, super thankful. I'm thankful for the
opportunity. I'm thankful for your prayers.
But it's over now and I just feel myself just releasing that.
And I'm thankful to be back in the house.
And I'm thankful to see all of your beautiful faces.
And I'm thankful every opportunity I get to be here in
person because that does matter. And it's, and now it's another
new season. And so I'm super thankful and
grateful to be back in the house.
And I'm glad I don't have to overeat as much.
It was an expensive season. So This is why I tell you guys,
you, you don't when you come here saying I don't have
capacity to do this and do that. You got capacity for everything
God's calling you to do. You just got to make sure is
what he's called you to do And and, and for for Malachi.
I don't I don't know for a young man to uproot like our kids
really love y'all and for them to uproot a lot of great lessons
there. And now he's in Calgary and
we're going to go see him in Toronto Wednesday as we are
going. We need three games to win a
national championship and we lost in the championship last
year's and we stayed because we want to get back.
And all you guys support Emerson, Maya, JT, all you guys
that have played a part in our children's life, like we're
super grateful. This is not an easy thing.
I think you forget because we're such a loving family.
You forget we're not from here. We're not permanent resident.
We're not like we're, this is not our home in that way, but it
is our home. And so everybody's contribution
has, has really blessed us. And I hate that we haven't been
around as much. We've been present, we've been
here, but we have never thought about traveling as much as we
have. And being on the road has caused
questions and things within because when I'm with them, I'm
like, God, am I supposed to be here?
And when I'm here, I'm like, God, am I supposed to be there?
And then God's just like, man, I got it all.
Release it. And so we're going to go finish.
I am letting you know this. I thought about it that I need
to tell you this. I will not be here for Easter,
OK? This is to be the first Easter I
have ever missed in my life. Weird, but it was just two weeks
ago we found out that our son through your prayers, your
contribution, Emerson, JT, anybody that's been cheering,
coming to a Love Quest game, that our son out of 24 hundreds
of players, 24 was picked to be on the all Canadian basketball
team. So there's been some discipline
there and and what you don't understand is this mom out there
cooking them meals and he think he the Prince out there.
He like where are my eggs and my ground beef and my rice at and
where did and it's funny because when I go out there and visit,
he happy I'm there JT but he looking at me like, bro, this is
my crib and then now I'm there PJ, you know she she serves me
food and he's sitting there like where I'm like, bro, when I'm
here it's different like she I'm I'm 1st and so we pray for us as
we go. I will be leaving you in good
hands with the game is sorry. I'm not just missing Easter
because of the all the Canadian game.
It's a big, big deal, like it's a big deal.
It's it's a big deal. The game is on Easter.
So do I be here for Easter or do I be a part of this one in a
lifetime opportunity? I don't care if you didn't
agree, I'm going now. I'm just playing up this way.
I'll just way, but that's why I'm letting you know and I I
feel like it's important that I communicate that I don't, I
don't have to tell you every time I'm not going to be here,
but I feel like that's important.
Elder Brett, I'm giving y'all assignments now.
Elder Brett and Elder John will split the messages between 9:00
and 12:00 on the Easter. And I know you guys are holding
down. Here's your title.
What a friend we have in Jesus. That's your Easter message
title. And then tonight, we're going to
talk about friends. And so you'll get a little,
little something, something, something.
OK. Yeah.
And then Good Friday, we have a powerful time of testimonies and
reflecting. And Elder Brett will be bringing
a little message there. Not little, but you get what I'm
saying. All right, stand to your feet.
I'm not going to close. I just challenge you to stay in
the posture of gratitude and prayer today as we go eat and
rest and then we'll get back here at 6:00, man, you know, you
know what this song reminding me of?
Can I just sing? Sing not can I?
Can we sing? What?
What key is this? Give it to me in Zed.
Give me to me in Zed. Our God is the lion, the lion of
children. He's roaring with power and
fighting on that. Thank you so much for tuning
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