In Matthew. Chapter, 14 verse 23.
Look to your neighbor and say I am going to receive the secret
to life and power. Amen.
Now once you receive it is time for you to act on it, can I get
an amen? Because sometimes we can find an
answer but not act on that answer and we need to act on the
answer, you know, a lot of people have already She heard
that Jesus died on the cross and Rose from the grave.
So they already have the answer but they're not acting on it.
And if you don't act on it, then you don't have the benefits that
come with it, okay? In Matthew Chapter 14 verse 23.
It says that this way after he had sent the crowds away, he
went up On the mountain by himself to pray and when it was
evening, he was there alone, another scripture that I use
often. When I start messages is out of
Matthew chapter 15 verse 3. I'm just going to quote it for
you because it Bears repeating as we enter into this context
that we want to grow in and that is Jesus said to some religious
people, very religious people. He said, why do you Ends grass
the Commandment of God for the sake of your tradition, in
essence, they had this knowledge about God and they have formed
that knowledge about God around how they wanted to express him.
And they were saying this expression of how we formed God
around our idea. Our opinion is how you actually
worship God, and Jesus says, that's not how it is.
In fact, you're not doing what What God said, you're actually
doing your man made God ideas and he's talking to religious
people. Now when I say religious people,
I'm not talking about religious, people that are of a different
religion, he wasn't talking to Buddhists, he wasn't talking to
hinduist, he wasn't talking to whatever other religion that we
could quote from this platform today.
He's talking to those who had the law of Moses, the what the
very word that God the Father spoke to Jesus himself and to
other prophets. So, they actually had scripture
that Jesus himself would quote, but Jesus quoted it in the right
context, where they would quote it in a wrong context.
I'm Jesus would challenge their thinking he would say things
like this. You've heard it's a of old.
Thou shalt not commit murder. right, then he would go on and
say, but I say unto you if you hate your brother, this is a
problem. Amen.
I'm paraphrasing. I can go to the next one.
He said, you've heard it say of all Dow shalt, not commit
adultery, but I say unto you, if you lust after a woman in your
heart, you've committed the sin of adultery already.
Now, this was shocking to the religious that were teaching.
Thou shalt not commit adultery because they knew the penalty
for adultery is you would be stoned and in essence, the Lord
saying if you lustin for someone in your heart, Art but you
didn't act on it by physically being with them, you still have
the penalty of that. You should be stoned and this
mess them up, it messed them up so much that if you follow the
gospels, they talk to Jesus about marriage divorce, more and
adultery on more than one occasion, so much, so that they
drugged a woman caught in adultery.
That lets us know these priests these Pharisees and Sadducees
were having a little lust problem because they're trying
to justify their you can look but not touch, theology.
I said, you can look but not touch theology.
Now, that's not back in that day.
That's today, I've been around some denominational people in my
past people that went to church people that, you know, went to
church on Sunday, but will tell me at the workplace, you know,
you know, it's okay. You can look as long as you
don't touch. Well, that's not the scripture.
Like all of a sudden, you've done some holy because you with
frame from actually touching even though you want to No,
Jesus called that on the carpet. Amen.
So look to your neighbor today and say, I don't know.
What I think, I know. Could there be that potentially
what you think? You know, maybe you don't know.
Now, I'm not saying abandon what you do know is truth and you can
substantiate it with scripture, but could there be something you
think, you know, only to find out you really don't know
because it may be a little more traditional than it is the
command of God. Now, the difference between
tradition in the command of God is the command of God gets
results, When God commanded something, it happened.
Okay, let me go over here. Amen.
I mean it's I even said what I've ministered on today and
it's already quiet. All right, come on.
Do I got some double Dippers in here?
First service people who come on, get with me.
All right, okay, so here, when God said it, it happened.
So when God commanded nothing, resisted it.
Okay. But when you're doing a
tradition, the tradition will invalidate, the word, it will
cause it to not work. Jesus said this, he says you,
and that you make the word void because of your traditions
because of how you choose to believe God's power can actually
show up and demonstrate what he really meant because you hold to
something that is not actually how God.
Did you to know it and live it and walk in it?
Amen. So today I want to talk about a
passion that Jesus had and so before I release it, I'm let's
see. Some scripture calls, you know,
for the sake of time, I just want to get some scripture under
our belt. The Bible says that everything
be confirmed by two or three Witnesses.
So, let me give you 45 that way we leave.
No doubt say it's going to be no doubt.
So we saw Matthew 14:23 and he sent the crowds.
It's away and went up to the mountain by himself to pray.
And when he was when it was evening he was there alone in
Mark. Chapter 1 verse 35.
It says in the morning rising up rising up a great while before
day he went out and departed into a solitary place and there
prayed, Mark 6:46 after bidding them, farewell, he left for the
mountain to pray, Luke 5:16, but Jesus himself would often slip
away to the Wilderness and pray. Luke chapter 6 and verse 12.
It was at this time that he went off to the mountain to pray and
he spent the whole night in prayer to God.
So in these five passages of scripture, there's a theme if
you've not caught it yet, the theme is Jesus prayed.
I said, Jesus prayed. Now we need to understand that
this is Jesus is most important Ministry.
This is his most important Ministry, in fact, if he didn't
have this ministry, he could have done nothing else in
Ministry. Now, how do I know is that
important? Don't because Jesus is still
doing this ministry today. The Bible tells us that Jesus is
seated at the right hand of the father interceding for the
Saints, Pastor, Mike find where that scripture is so I can quote
it, okay? So he says, Jesus is seated at
the right hand of the father interceding, for the Saints, for
who for who for who for who for who for the Saints.
He's interceding for the Saints. I'm stalling as my guide, when I
was in Israel, I'm smoothing right now, but I wait for Pastor
Mike to find that scripture, so that I can say where it's
literally at. Okay, you there Hebrews.
Anybody got it. Hebrews Hebrews 7:25, Hebrews
7:25 will put my eyes on it. It's worth it, man, because God
just gave me something while I'm here.
And my wife, she's already blurted it out because we're
connected were once less. I love it.
Hebrews chapter 7, amen. In verse 25, it says this
wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost and
come come unto God by him seeing that he liveth to make
intercession for them. Are you with me?
So he is making intercession. He is making intercession.
He is also able to save to the uttermost.
Those who come to God through him, who's come to God through
them. They're called the Saints.
Since he always lives to make intercession for them.
So Jesus is seated in heaven. Next to the father, not praying
for the world. Okay, are you ready?
Now listen, I'm going to make some statements I already know
it's going to mess you up a little bit but stay with me.
Okay. Because the reality is you hear
stuff all the time? You're like, what?
And you don't always abandon it, okay?
I mean let's follow a process through and again like I said
and first service, you know, we video our second services and
they're out online and I'm seeing a trend that when we
start a particular series man, people are viewing it.
But then when I get too weak to it, starts to tell all Off,
meaning that not the same amount of views in the first time we
Minister on something, it goes to the second week, so that
tells me I've lost people already.
Now, why would I have lost people?
I can tell you why I lose because I say something like,
but I ain't right. Well, they say that because
their tradition says that, but they don't actually study the
scripture to determine it because their denomination don't
believe it and they've never studied the word to determine if
their denomination is even right.
So as a result of that they quit because you know they've heard
their denomination say to them, you know what, there's a lot of
false teachers false prophets and all that and there are.
But again how do you find out whether they are false or not?
You actually studied the scripture yourself to determine
if it is not because I'm telling you there are those people, you
go ahead, study the scripture yourself, everything I'm going
to say to you. You write it down.
You read over yourself. You are obligated to leave this
building and go read it for yourself and pray and say God
show me whether this is. So And if more people did that
more people would realize that a lot of things were saying.
In fact, the majority are right in line with scripture and you
would have to start a band in your tradition.
Amen. Now, have I had kicked back at
Toms and but Ministry. Absolutely, I've said some stuff
people like, no way, I say well, let's meet about it.
Amen. Let's meet about it.
And I've had meetings next thing, you know, they're like
well, I'm like, yeah, I know. Right, I mean I was shocked
myself. When I first saw it and read it
and studied it out. It's different in it.
Yep, that's it. Well, thank god.
He's growing uh Sidney. Amen.
He's growing us. So Jesus is all a lives to make
intercession for them. He's not interceding for the
world. Jesus has already provided for
the world. It's done.
He's got to finish work. Jesus is not doing anything else
for the world. So let me tell you what Jesus is
not doing. Jesus is not saying, Even people
today, I know that's shocking but we'll get to it.
He's not healing people today. He's not delivering people
today. Because Jesus has already done
that again in this Sanctuary right now.
I don't know. All of you.
Some of you are first-time guests, some, you've been guests
for a little while, and haven't yet committed to the vision.
Not sure, whether this is your fit or not.
Some of you've been around for a long time.
I know you stuff, I know what you've come through, I'll take
you to war with me because you have fought the good fight of
Faith, man. And we can do some things
together you have endured But with that being said, I look out
here and I know that there are different people, which means,
if you know, anything just Elementary principal about
scripture, you know that Jesus died once and for all for all
sin, that his blood, his death, burial, Resurrection was enough
that one event was enough to save.
Anybody was tells me then, again, Jesus isn't saving people
today because over 2,000 years ago when he died was raised from
the The dead by the power of the Holy Ghost, took his blood to
The Mercy Seat, in heaven and poured it out.
He saved all of humanity. The question is, are they
believing in the Salvation already provided?
So again, when you walk around say Jesus saves today, no, he
does. He's safe 2000 years ago.
The people being saved today are actually just receiving
something that's already been paid for over 2,000 years ago.
Anybody getting healed today in being here.
Healed by Jesus today but are being healed because over 2,000
years ago by his stripes. You were healed.
So now you are, you're finally getting into something that's
already been taken care of but what is Jesus literally doing
today? He's praying.
For the Saints. Now, why is he praying for us?
Because he needs us to get what he had a revelation of Prayer.
See, we drag way too much world into our new creation reality in
essence. We sorry.
No, good. We he then we separated from
God. We are destitute, we are ruined.
We are to be eternally. Just, we are to be eternally,
separated, there's nothing we do.
That's right with God, it can't be right?
Even if we think it's right, it isn't right.
The standard of our living can never compare to the the
Holiness of God. And we come to this reality that
Jesus Christ. It is the only way to have a
relationship with a father. We couldn't have done it.
He actually did it all. So, we receive his gift by faith
through prayer. We pray to get born again.
And the minute we do, then we receive this free gift.
We become a new creature in Christ.
The old passes away, behold All Things become new, the Holy
Spirit comes and lives on the inside of us Bears.
Witness with our spirit and does the assignment of beginning to
instruct us and teach us in this new life that we're in.
But too often because we could talk to God effectively outside.
Meaning there's only a few things we could say or would say
that he would do for us per se to try to let us know he exists.
Then we still walk around as if God.
Is a mystery yet, God can be known, he can be known.
Now again I love those who quote the Old Testament.
You know, Old Testament has an application.
There's a lot we can learn from that but you have to interpret
it in light of the New Covenant where I am because we're in a
New Covenant with better promises.
The old Covenant says, his ways are higher than our ways and his
thoughts are higher than our thoughts.
That's true. But then we get over to the New
Covenant, Paul writes and says we have the mind of Christ.
Now, Christ could tap into God's will.
Jesus could tap in to his ways and his thinking.
And he tapped in through prayer. Now, not prayer Lon because
Jesus was raised with Holy Scripture.
So it's a combination of the written word of God, who
studying the word of God, because the word of God is God
speaking to us, it is a dialogue, he's talking to us
through his scripture. He will also talk to us by
Spirit. There's one renowned Minister, I
won't say who it is, but our Washington faculty and staff
went to a particular conference. And this renowned Minister who's
written many books and even have a Bible translation.
Stood up in front of this whole organization is says, I've never
heard the voice of God. It was shocking.
And yet they're discipling. Well, you're not doing a good
job if you can't hear God. No, Jesus died rose from the
dead, not just to get you out of hell.
That's not his purpose. His purpose was to get Christ
in. You the hope of glory.
It was the put God in you so that you can live and move and
have your being that you could actually talk with the Lord that
you can hear him. Speak to you.
Now, the written word allows us to keep the The Voice we're
hearing on the inside accurate. So we're not saying well, the
Lord said, my wife's older now and I should throw who to the
side and find a younger one. No, you're not gonna find that
in scripture. So as a result of that, that
wasn't God. Amen.
So I'm praying for a new wife. Well, you're not praying, right?
You're like everybody else that has false gods and they pray to
nothing that here's because God can't hear that are you with me?
The devil. Hear it.
And the devil is send, somebody your way and tell you.
This is the new one. Hallelujah.
So Jesus pray. Well, when did he pray?
He preyed on him out. He prayed in the garden.
He prayed by himself. He prayed early in the morning
blown before it was day, he prayed late at night, in fact,
one time he prayed all night. Let me ask this question.
When's the last time you prayed all night?
I'm not actually raise your hand.
I come to find out this thought process is just as grevious to
the Saints as talking about Finance.
Now, I know why Finance is a problem because it's a god.
Jesus said you can't serve both God and Mammon or wealth because
you'll love one and hate the other.
You'll despise one and be devoted to the other.
Now, if you'll serve, God, you'll have wealth, but if you
serve well, God doesn't come with a picture.
Even though you may claim him as giving you the stuff, but let me
tell you something, you're not getting all that God would have
for you if you're not praying. Because you can acquire without
him. What good is it a man to gain
the whole world and forfeit his soul?
Right. There's a way that seems right
to a man and Indian lies death but what seems right about it.
I'm prospering. I'm doing good.
My business is doing good. You know.
And as a result of that my life's good.
I got a nice house. Nice whole a good retirement.
Got all this. I'm set up, man.
I'm living better than my family.
You know. Praise God.
But yeah, you never told him about any of it.
What if you stood before him one day and he says, I never called
you in any of that. But how would, you know, unless
you have a conversation? See, but when we think that
God's number one Ministry is the win the Lost.
Then you think the only thing God is concerned about is
getting you in the family. No, geez, number one Ministry
was to pray because if the loss is going to come to the Lord, we
need to pray. Okay, let me go over here.
Jesus said the Harvest is great, but the laborers are few.
They're like, what do we do? He said, look up for your eyes,
your eyes for the fields, are white for Harvest.
They're like, what do we do? Lord, you don't need it.
He didn't say, this is what we're gonna do.
I got a 12-step program on how to win the lost and what you're
going to do is you're going to go here and you're going to say
the Romans road and you're going to do this even though the
Romans road wasn't written down, but you understand, I'm saying,
you're gonna do this and you're gonna say this, you're going to
get this track and you're going to hand down this thing and
you're gonna invite them to church.
Church. And you're going to do this,
we're going to do a big service event and we're really going to
blow it out, right? Just for the Lost.
I'm not saying people are getting born again by those
things, but that's not what Jesus said.
Jesus said, pray. To the lord of the Harvest that
he would send forth. Meaning he knows when the fields
ripe for Pickin and there's a lot of Believers that are going
into Publix and saying, where would you go if you died, you
know if you died right now but I geez you go to hell Eternal
judgment. You'd be burning in Hell
brother. Right now, we could pray and get
that, right? And that feel didn't even ready
to be Harvest yet and you are raping the Vaughn.
And they're like, okay, yeah, I'll pray because you're a nut,
and I want to go. What do you need me to say?
Just say this brother. Dear Jesus.
Dear, Jesus, I believe, I believe that you died on the
cross. He died on the cross.
He rose from the grave brother, okay.
And today, today I Repent of my sin.
I Repent of my sin. Come into my heart.
Come on my heart and save me, and I'm born again, brother.
You're born again now. When you die you go to heaven.
Praise God. Aren't you excited?
All right, you go to the next. WoW.
And they go to church. I got somebody putting in a
public where they at I don't know, but when they die, they
will go to heaven. That's called malpractice in the
kingdom of God. Because when someone gets born
again, they become a babe in Christ.
Am I my sixth grandchild on the front row right now and the last
time that I checked a month ago, when my daughter gave birth to
our youngest granddaughter, she didn't go, Hallelujah.
We had a girl. This is awesome.
We've given birth. She's in the world.
We've given her life and then went home and stayed with their
dogs, and we're like, where's your daughter?
I guess he's at the hospital. We did our part. because, you
know, right right now that child has everything in her to grow up
without them Some other nurse could have said.
Well, I'll raise them because they were abandoned by their
parents. Oh, I'm preaching way better
than your a minute right now. I get it, I understand.
And so, all of a sudden, somebody don't even know God
starts raising our granddaughter and shows them a whole nother
way to live. Jesus said, I'll never leave you
nor forsake. You which means this, if you're
going to be a laborer for Jesus, if you're getting people in the
Kingdom, you should be, like, I'll pick you up on Sunday,
because the only reason you're in this kingdom, is to be with
the family and the family. He's at the church.
So when we pray this prayer, I want you to understand that this
means you commit to a life of living for God while you're on
the earth. And listen, if you're not ready
to come to church all the time, you're not ready to be born
again. But what it what if they die?
God didn't scare us. He said it's love that.
Draws men to repentance not fear.
It is a scare them into the kingdom, will you are loving
them by telling them, they need Jesus.
Yes. If you're actually going with
the spirit to tell them that, when the lord of the Harvest sit
you, which means, if you're not conversing or having a
conversation with god, how do you know what you're supposed to
say? See, we're using prayer as a get
mechanism. I need to get healed, I need to
get blessed. I need to get prosperous.
I need to get a job. I need to get a promotion, I
need to get a wife, I need to get a husband, I need to get a
new car, that's not. What prayers designed for prayer
was designed to have a conversation with the creator of
Heaven and Earth. So that the father could affect
the world through you and he wants to do something but he
knows what he wants to do. He's not here to do what you
want him to do. And Lord, I'm going to Publix
today. And I don't know if anybody's in
there today that you feel is ripe for Harvest.
I know today is the day of salvation.
Why do I know that? Because you've already paid the
price, anybody can get born again any time because it's
already settled, but the question is, are they ready to
make the confession of faith? Has there been enough planting
and watering maybe your assignment is not to bring them
into the kingdom but just to share the love of Jesus.
Oh, can I get that for you? Hold on.
Yeah, here you go. Jesus loves.
You just want you to know that and then you walk away.
Well, you left. And what?
If they die and go to died on the way across the parking lot,
seriously? Like God knows when they're
going, you're going to live your whole life on a what if somebody
dies immediately? Why don't you actually talk to
God? Because God actually knows when
they go go? Since he knows everything.
Let's ask that question. Because he's like, that's all I
need you to say. Cause two weeks from now, I will
have somebody else come by and mention my name and I'm all for
now, have somebody else actually sit down, because they're going
to go through a tragedy because their life is on the wrong side
and I'm going to send another labor, it's going to start
talking about my love and really two years from now because of
what you just did here is that going to I'm going to cause it
to come to their remembrance and show them how I have been
talking. To them all this time.
And they'll come in. But because we don't understand
the ministry of Jesus. We just do things, we see in the
Bible instead of talking to the one.
I said, that's the last service is very it Bears repeating I'm
talk basketball cause wearing basketball season right now and
so if you were to watch Kevin Durant, give an interview right
after a game, you know? Because if you watch the games,
I'll sit down and have a little conversation, the, the mic and
people are asking questions, which means there's people in
the room with Kevin Durant, and they're talking saying, what did
you say about this? What do you say?
And so, he'll answer and that maybe one question they would
ask what? I've heard these ass before to
athletes. What did you do to prepare for
this game? Well, and then, they would begin
to talk about the strategy and I did this, and I did this, and
you may be an athlete that aspires to something.
So, you know what, I'm going to do that, I'm going to change.
I'm gonna do it. Actually what that person was
doing to be able to have the endurance To Be A Champion.
So then you take something, they said and begin to apply that
principle. And guess what?
You get the result of it. But that doesn't mean you had a
conversation with Kevin Durant. So what the church unfortunately
is turning into is what happened on the mountain when Moses
delivered the Israelites. Moses said, everybody consecrate
yourself. The Lord is coming down, he
wants to talk with you. He had been up there talking
with the Lord. Moses talked to God
face-to-face. Had a conversation came down
said, listen sanctify yourself because God wants to come down
on the mountain and talk to you, don't touch them out now.
The Lord came down and smoke and thunder.
It was it was amazing sight to be seen no doubt.
And what did the people say it? They trembled at the presence of
God. So they turn to Moses and say
you talk to him and then you tell us what he said and we'll
do it. So, you don't have to pray
because I'll pray. I can show you principles in the
word of God. You can apply those principles
but you didn't get them from God directly.
You got them because I got it from him directly.
Prayer is a conversation with god, not taking a principled
when he's not in play. And now you have a relationship
with him. Amen.
I'll never forget the day, the Lord spoke to me these words in
my spirit now audibly. But in my spirit, the Lord said
to me, I've been married to my wife just a few years and prayer
was not a priority. Honestly, it was never
demonstrated as a priority in my life, nor in the church that the
denominational church I was in. And if they had prayer meetings,
basically like any church, even this one to some degree.
They were scarcely attended. So prayer wasn't a high priority
prayers. Only when you're in trouble,
when you're in trouble, you pray.
When there's Devastation is time to what it's time to pray, and
should you pray during those times?
Yes, but it's not the only time to pray Because Jesus prayed all
the time, but he wasn't always in Calamity.
Well, Peter, cut his foot. Off the floor.
What am I going to do, right. No, he wasn't in turmoil, and
that's the only reason he prayed.
He would talk, just go upside down.
I just came to talk with him. I came to converse with you.
I love you so much, it's just so great to be with you.
So great to be with you. So the Lord said this to me, he
said I started praying, just a little bit.
You know, she's trying to exit on the Lord said, son.
If you spend as much time with your wife, as you do with me,
you wouldn't be married very long. because I didn't really
spend time with him and I go to church, but didn't spend time
with him. And that's a difference.
See, most of the time we are saying we pray because what do
we do? We're going to get food here at
lunch here. If I let you go to lunch and
you'll you're going to sit down and you're going to do your
blessing. So I'll say, did anybody pray
today? Yeah, I pray.
That is a prayer. That is a prayer.
Sure. But that's not the only prayer,
you should pray. Pray over your food and when
problems come So we're going to learn how to pray.
And we're going to learn why we have to and why Jesus right now
is only doing that for us. So we'll get revelation of
praying. Everybody in the church wants to
see miracles signs, and wonders start praying.
No! Great Revival ever hit a
community until prayer started, but once the Revival hit, they
quit. You pray for a job.
You give the job. You stop praying.
You're sick, you pray to get healed, you get healed, you stop
praying. Oh, it's quiet in here.
That matter that we're charismatic Pentecostal rum,
when the worships going dance and Shout the matter, if your
tongue talker doesn't matter. You start talking about prayer,
everybody gets like a morgue. Don't know why.
I mean, if you had revelation of prey be like, teach me this
thing. Talk to me about this thing,
man. I got to have this thing in my
life, because of Jesus. That's what he did while he was
here and got the result. He got that, I need to have that
goes again. You need the Holy Ghost.
But the Holy Ghost is going to teach you how to pray and he's
not going to violate and do things different than the way he
did it with Jesus. Let's go on.
I gave you five that Jesus prayed alone.
Let me give you some more in Luke chapter 22 verse 41.
And he withdrew from them about a stone's throw and he knelt
down and began to pray. So there in his presence, he
just happened to be over here, while they're over there, about
a stone's, throw away. So, Jesus didn't pray isolated
by himself entirely. Sometimes he prayed where people
were around. Now, that doesn't mean he was
praying with them. Exactly.
But he was praying along, but he was within their facility in
Matthew chapter 26, verse 33, the said Jesus.
Jesus came to them to a place called Gethsemane.
I was there. I was at this garden and he said
to his disciples sit here, sit here while I go over there.
And when I came in the gate to the Garden, which is that wall?
By the time I got to the end of the gate, which is this wall is
basically the garden is inside the sanctuary.
So Jesus could only EB. As far as Ricky is from Seth
over there in distance in prayer.
Hey man. And what did he expect them to
do? While he was Remember he walked
up and he says Seth, I mean couldn't you pray for one hour
man? Why are you sleeping over here?
I mean come on man. Uh-huh.
The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.
Pray that ye enter not into temptation, I let me go back
over here and pray. Seth, please wake up son.
I mean, can't you pray for one hour?
So again, Jesus wasn't trying to play alone.
He wanted to be in a corporate prayer.
See people, they take scripture just to validate tradition
instead of studying it from Genesis to Revelation, when
Jesus said don't be like the Pharisees, that's what he meant.
Don't be like the Pharisees. That's the issue.
It's not praying out in a street corners.
The problem don't be like the Pharisees because when they pray
they prayed to be recognized. That's the best the morale of
the prayer. They're not that pray.
Saying publicly is wrong. Well, Pastor.
I just don't believe in that corporate prayer because you
know what? Jesus said, go into your closet.
Nobody knows and you pray, and you pray in private in God are
rewarded openly. That's what the Bible says.
Well, that's what fits your tradition because yes, there is
a intimate private prayer, no doubt and you should because
when I'm intimate with my wife, I don't want nobody else in the
room. So there are times, I just want
to be with the Lord and nobody else in the room.
Amen. But there's other times that the
Lord wants others to pray. Jesus Took people to the Garden
because he didn't want to pray alone although he had to pray
alone. And did he take them when it was
convenient for them? Now listen, I don't want to go
late, so let's do 9:00 y'all. Go over, not 10, let's do 10,
10, 10 a.m. All right, we'll go to
breakfast. We'll get a cup of coffee and
then we're going to go to the garden and pray because I'm
about to die. You understand?
And so I need to make sure you pray with me and I need you
awake. No, he took them when he needed
to do it because he knows tonight's the night.
And they coming for me, and I don't get another day.
It's now God's. Will you come and pray with me?
I'm gonna go over here. I was there.
And this is one thing I saw that I never seen before because I
never been there. The one Jesus is praying,
whether he's looking this way, you know, whether he was looking
this way, whether he was looking this way or whether it was
looking this way, but to his West, which is the East wall of
Jerusalem when he looked into when he looked towards Jerusalem
from the garden from the place, he prayed he saw gate and that
gate is called the mercy Great Gate.
So every time he prayed that father, there's any way for this
come to pass, let it pass, but not my will, your will be done
because and now, when he looked at Jerusalem, he says, I see
your mercy. But the mercy Gates, not just
the mercy gate. It's got another name.
And he'll pray the second time. Father.
If there's any other way for this cup to pass, let it pass.
Now, you understand in between these prairies like Peter, Seth,
can you pray for me, please? I mean, please wake up, son,
okay. And so he goes to second time,
I'm praying. He looks at that gate.
Again, look into Jerusalem and the second name, the gates
called the triumphant gate. Because if he'll do what God
says and demonstrate Mercy to Mankind and lay down his life,
then he'll have complete and total victory.
And when he returns the second time, he's going to walk through
the triumphant gate. But there's a third name for the
gate. He prays again, Lord, if there's
any other way for this cup to pass, let it pass.
But not my will, your will be done the third time.
He looks at it, maybe he thought of the third name of the gate,
it's called the Golden Gate. Why is it the Golden Gate?
Why? Cause he's the king of kings and
the Lord of lords, Hallelujah is of gets a gate.
Befitting of a king that he'll walk through and will all Bow
Down and Worship Him. And all the nations of the world
will come to him. At his Reign.
Hallelujah. So he had something set before
him, but he still wanted others that had been with him ones that
he had pulled aside ones that had been and seen Miracles that
others didn't see when they had experienced things that others
had this three guys praying man. I love you.
You know, sometimes we got, we need to pray corporately, why?
Because you are not the church by yourself.
So get rid of that deception. Well, I'm the church.
No, you're not, you're a finger. The church is a body.
You can't be the church by yourself.
Well, I am the church. I pray know, you are part of the
body. So you're part of the church are
not the church itself. So again, when we go over to
James and we hit read about Elijah.
I was there on Mount Carmel where Elijah called out the
prophets of Baal. Why did he call him out?
Because he's Latin to know what you been doing for the last
three and a half years. You've been praying hat, you and
the prophets of Baal said yeah. We've been praying who you've
been praying to bail? What's Bell represent?
He represents rain? Well, has he been listening to
you? Because I've been praying to the
Creator for the last three and a half years.
And I've prayed that no rain show up here and that's why you
and a drought. But since you are of the nation
of Israel, like I am and you've chosen not to follow God, but a
false god. Let's go ahead and let the rest
of the tribes figure out whom they gonna serve today and whom
they going to, listen to go ahead and build you an altar and
I'll build my and we'll see which one actually listens
since. I'm pretty convinced mind us
since it hasn't had any rain for three and a half years and you
rain. God has brought any So we go
over to James. It says, the fervent prayer of a
righteous man availeth much. It makes power available Dynamic
and it's working. It did cause Elijah lived in a
dispensation where the church was not but today we live in the
dispensation called the church and the church is called to pray
because at the head of the church, which is Jesus Christ
and we are his body. If he is up in heaven praying,
then what should we be doing? Then why is it the least
attended Tom's? Now again, pray at the house.
Great, no problem. But when you say, man, we need
to come together and pray. The reason why things are
happening in the Earth today is not because the world's just
Wicked and bad. It's because the church isn't
praying about it. And you praying by yourself is
not good enough to make Global change.
That's why the church is here. Luke chapter 9 verse 18 says
this and it came to pass when he was alone praying, his disciples
were with him and he asked him saying, whom do people say that
I am drop down to verse 28, of the same chapter.
Some eight days after these sayings he took along Peter,
John and James and went up to the mountain to pray.
So again, Jesus prayed alone. But he also prayed with people
and again, this prayer time was so significant and so obvious to
his disciples, that Luke 11:1 gives us some insight on how
what they saw about prayer that they could be around it, but
they didn't know what was going on.
Was tells us this, you can't just come and hear someone pray
and get prayer, Pastor Mars. He just got this little nugget
in prayer time between services today.
It happened that while Jesus was praying in a certain place after
he had finished one of his disciples said to him, Lord
teach us to pray. Just as John also, taught his
disciples which tells us this, you can't pray without being
taught Well, I prayed all my life.
Have you been taught to pray that someone gave you some
training? Have you had some equipping
through the fivefold ministry because if you haven't, I would
scarcely. Say I'm not real sure how great
your prayers are now. That's offensive to people.
I get that because again I'm doing the best I can to talk to
God. That's not good enough guys.
It's not good enough for God because God's laying out.
I'm going to show you how to talk to me.
And when you talk to me, I'll hear you every time yet we can
to settle for just talking. I understand this there's a lot
of husband-wife relationships that are like this, the wife
don't hear anything. The husband says, just tells
them what they should do and this is how it's going to be and
there's no real conversation. But you think we converse
because I told you what I think I'm not listening to what you
say, what you just said that was stupid, we're not doing that and
guess what? It's one-sided and we do this in
prayer with God. Husbands the same way, tell
their wives exactly what to do this.
How it is like they have no voice in the matter.
Can't say anything about it. We have a relationship.
That's not a relationship. That's a dictatorship.
But with the Lord, we get to talk to him.
But when we talked to him a lot of times my Lord, I need this.
And why would you do this? And Lord.
Bless this Lord. Jesus!
Thank you in Jesus name. Amen!
And you walk off and the doors like Great, not talking with you
and your and then you go around and say, you know, I prayed to
God that just didn't happen. The Lord's life.
I really have something to say but you didn't let me talk.
So, again, content, pray without ceasing and you praying without
ceasing all the time. And guys, like, hey, have you
been around a person that talks all the time?
You like want to say something? You know, you just breathe.
Please breathe, man. So, I can get something in right
now. Right?
You've been around those people, they talked all boom boom and he
and then they leave and they feel great and you're like what
happened? And I know my Father in Heaven,
says, this about some of his kids, what just happened?
What was that called down there that they call that a prayer
meeting because, according to my word, that was nothing of a
prayer meeting. That's what Jesus said about the
Pharisees and the Sadducees. He said they don't have prayer
meetings so don't pray like them.
Hallelujah. John Wesley said this.
It seems God is limited by our prayer life.
That he can do nothing for Humanity.
Unless someone asks him. This would be a this is a
shocking statement fact. So shocking that brother Hagin.
Kenneth E Hagin himself. He's gone on to be with the Lord
in his book, called The Art of prayer, wrestled with this
thought, process, some self to the point that he's like, I'm
gonna find out why John said this.
John Wesley started. The Methodist Church.
Okay, now, the Methodist church today is not how John Wesley
started. It just going to let you know
because I give you another quote of what he said.
Concerning the church about the move and power of the Holy
Ghost. If it is not there, then the
church would just become a religious order and have no
profound effect. And he prayed, may it never be
to this group. Now, I'm not saying that every
Methodist Church doesn't have the spirit of God flowing in it
because I've never been to all of them, but I've been to a few
denominational churches, not to include that one that my
brother-in-law. I was raised in a Methodist
Church and never heard that he had to give his life to Jesus.
That didn't happen until he met my sister.
Because we were raising the domination of church, the
Baptist Church and that's all you heard is you better get born
again because you're gonna go to hell if you don't.
Are you with me again? I don't go to Every church.
So I don't know what everybody believes.
So, please don't get stereotypical.
Don't think that all because they don't have nothing, don't
say that, okay? Until you go and sit in the
service and see how they're moving and see what's going on.
Can you make a determination of whether Gods they're not?
Okay, brother Hagin said this. He said I examine God's word for
Y, for the, why behind John Wesley statement?
I saw a truth that I never seen before though.
I've been in Ministry for Years. This is what I love about
Kenneth E Hagin, is that he was always teachable.
Always that even though he had preached priests priests and
ministers, he realized man there's still some things I
could learn. He says I asked the Lord about
it. He said to me, go back to the
book of Beginnings which means god actually talk to a spirit
man about a book in the Bible. That means he heard God in his
Spirit. He said, I knew he meant the
Book of Genesis, so I reread it. I had read it many times, I'd
heard it taught in Sunday school as a Sunday school boy.
I saw it in a different light for the first time.
Said I saw that God had made the world in the fullness thereof
and he made his man. Adam then he said, Adam, I give
you dominion over all the work of my hands.
What do we find this from? Genesis chapter one.
You've heard us preach this before but let's look at it.
Genesis 1:26 and 27. Then God said let us make man in
our image, according to our likeness, and let them let them,
let them, let them, let them rule over the fish of the sea
over, the birds of the sky, over the cattle over all the Earth
and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth verse
27, then God. Created man, God created, man in
his own image and his likeness. He created both male and female
he created them. Psalms chapter, 8, verses 4.
And 8 says this, most people say this is Jesus, but it's not
Jesus, it's us. Although Jesus fits it in one
context because Jesus, the son of God dropped himself into a
flesh suit and told people he was the son of man and the
reason he had to do this is because what God had given man
originally What is man that you take thought of him, the son of
man that you care for him. Look at this.
Yet, you have made him a little lower than God.
Adam was made a little lower than God.
Adam was made like God in a skin suit but he wasn't God.
He was like God in nature. You crowned him with glory and
Majesty. What was his glory?
He had dominion over the Earth. First six, you made him to rule
over him. Little H over the works of your
hands, you have put all things under his feet.
So God when he created this Earth realm said man which is my
Camp crowning creation. I am going to give him the rule
down there. I'll rule here and I'll instruct
him on how to rule there as we converse.
Well, the Bible says that God walked or came in the cool of
the day and he would have a conversation.
With his creation. So, Adam had Dominion.
So, Kenneth Hagin goes on a says, God did not say I'm going
to dominate through you. He said I give you dominion over
all the works of my hands there for Adam had to mean upon this
Earth and in this world he was originally in a sense God of
this world come on to you and me now again I need you stay with
me just a few more minutes and we're going to conclude because
I'm telling you right now I'm giving you the secret to life.
And you're not going to get it any other way.
And anything you're actually getting from God is because
somebody knows this. Somebody knows this.
What is it that they know is that they have a legal
responsibility to speak God's word into the Earth in order for
God to do something. He said, but Satan came to lie
to Adam Adam committed. High treason is sold out to
Satan. Then Satan became the God of
this world. We know second Corinthians 4:4
literally says that calls him the God of this world.
So he has a lease meaning he has received this ability to rein in
the earth, he got it from Adam, the first Adam, but Jesus is the
last Adam, he's stripped the devil of the power to be able to
keep control or dominion over every person.
He's offered a way of Escape. Meaning, if you would repent and
ask Jesus to be Lord of your life, you'll be transferred from
the domain of Darkness into the kingdom of his Ovid son.
And God then through Jesus Christ gives you power back in
the earth to bring Heaven here. Through your words.
So, God cannot legally and justly move in and take away the
Dominion from the devil. Meaning, he's already stripped
him of the power, over your life, but the devil still here.
Now, next week I don't have time today but I'm setting you up and
I'm leaving you a little cliffhanger.
Get rid of the false theology that God is in control.
I will tell you what he does control.
But he's not in control of everything.
He's not. And when you, if you will accept
that truth. Then you'll prayer life will
work. because as long as you think, God's in control, Then
you'll never have the prayer life God intended.
Because you will let go and let doubt unbelief and you'll
release faith. You'll quit with faith and say,
well, God's in control. And the devil will win in that
area your life. Hallelujah, this would be
popular. I know they'll love this
teaching. This is such a great teaching,
is such a, such a powerful teaching.
I mean, I'll be encouraged myself in the Lord right now.
I'd say I stir myself up right now, I tell you right now, I'm
gonna go do a prayer. Walk after this thing, I'm ready
to pray. I'm ready to pray.
I'm ready to pray.
I want to pray.
I want to have a conversation with god.
I want to take a whole group of people and me that desire to
actually converse with him and not.
Quit and quick. Getting statistics of him,
getting a little quick, Bible verses and quick little daily
bread and have this little distant relationship and act.
Like they're actually living a relationship with God.
I'm looking for people that are designing that I'm going to do
the same Ministry. Jesus did, and my more pray.
And when I pray, it's going to be like Jesus, because Jesus,
man, in one of his prayer times he showed up at Lazarus Gray.
Rate in John chapter 11 verses 41 and 42.
And it says Jesus raised his eyes and said, father, I thank
you that you have heard me, that tells us that the Creator hears
and he is separating himself from every other religion
because all your man-made idols and man-made fables and men may
theologies they don't hear Jack but Dad hears, then he goes on
in the next Person says this man.
He says I know knew that you always hear me but because of
the people standing around, I said it so that they may believe
that you sent me now what was the position Jesus Took at this
moment, John tells us the type of prayer position that Jesus
had because he was a guy who prayed so we love the miracles
signs and wonders. We love to casting out the
devil's. When we read it we love the
healing of the lame. In the sick and the raising of
the dead, but none of that would happen if Jesus hadn't prayed.
We want God to do that in our life but not talk to him.
We want the law save without conversing with the lord of the
Harvest. We want this Supernatural move.
We can't do anything anyway. You're in control and sit back,
and wait on a move of God. I'm telling you, if you're in a
move of God's, because somebody's been in a closet or a
group of people been praying somewhere and brought it to
pass. What would it look like if this
church did this amen? Hallelujah.
Well, the position is first, John 5:4?
In 15. It says, this is the confidence
that we have before him. That if he, if we ask anything
according to his, will he hears us now Jesus said, father, I
thank you that you always hear me.
So, this is where Jesus was at. He was confident verse 15 and if
we know that he hears us to Jesus know that yes and whatever
we ask, we know that we have the request, which we've asked of
him. So in today's Christians, I'm
closing with this and you determine where you're at.
How does your prayer sound? Does it sound like this Jesus
shows up Martha's like Jesus. Jesus, if you'd only been here
four days ago, you could have healed him Jesus said he's going
to live again. Yeah, I know in the
resurrection, Jesus said I am the resurrection and the life
and he wept he wasn't weeping because Lazarus died.
He was weeping because they ain't got it yet.
I don't know who they are. Still.
So he stands there verse 41, the 11th chapter of Luke and he says
roll the stone away and malted like, whoa, wait a minute,
Jesus. He's been in there for days,
it's going to stink. Listen.
What we're preaching right now. We'll do more than your paycheck
could ever do and you'll work a 40-hour week for a paycheck, but
in less than two hours, I'm going to unlock the universe for
you. But now, if you cut out, then
you'll miss the key and you'll live for your 40 hour week and
your paycheck instead of unlocking Heaven at your
disposal. Tis the roll, the stone away and
I don't do it. Jesus then says Lazarus, come
forth. Where is he?
I don't know. Now again gotta get context,
he's bound. He's laid on a shelf.
He's got to get off. Nobody went in to help him out.
So he's doing this to get out. We don't know the time frame
that it took him to show off in the entrance before Jesus said,
now go on loose him and let him go.
So there's a time frame at that point, a lot of people when
something's moving in the darkness that you don't see what
did we do. Well Martha, I tried, I tried.
I mean, I guess, I guess, you know, he will be resurrected
with me later on, you know, I thought that I would be at a
call him out but it didn't happen.
No. It's just I guess it was I guess
the father knew what's best that he just wanted to take him home
be as little angel. God does not change human beings
into angels that doesn't happen. So, that's false theology.
Anyway. No, Jesus was confident that
when I call his name, he's going to hear me.
I'll pull him up out of the ditch.
Out of the Grave. He's gonna get back in that skin
suit. He's going to come out and
nothing else. Other than that will take place.
Do you pray that way? Jesus is away from the moment
and they come and say hey Gia Lazarus is sick to the point.
It can you come jiejie sister? It's not a sickness unto death
and he stayed two more days which means when he got along
depraved and what am I supposed to like?
He's like, don't worry about it son, I'll have you.
Raising because son, I want you to know that if I can pull a man
out of the grave in four days, son, I'll get you in three.
So don't worry about two days passed, he said we got to go
Lazarus. You know?
He's asleep. It's obvious says, what?
If you sleep you wake up? He said no he's dead.
He died. Let's go.
So he shows up then integrate for days.
And it's Jesus prayer. O Lord if it's your will God
Almighty, if it's all-wheel Heavenly Father up above you're
so high and mighty and you ain't control of all things and I just
pray a see Chabad you today that would you please at the mercy of
who you are fries? Please, please, please.
Oh dear, God. Please raised Lazarus from the
dead and restore him. Kindly to his wonderful family.
Lackey did even pray to God. He just said, Dad, I think you
always hear me. So, in essence, he didn't pray
Lazarus on the great. He had already settled that in
prayer before he showed up. He gave the command of his dad,
dad? I thank you that you always hear
me. I know you hear me.
I'm only saying this because they don't know.
I got this in prayer already. That's why I'm saying this
Lazarus come forth. This is the confidence that we
have. This is the confidence that we
have before him. That if we ask anything
according to his will he hears us our prayer always works when
you know the will of God quit staying in the Old Testament,
his ways are higher than our ways.
They are get over to the New Covenant.
I have the mind of Christ. The Holy Ghost lives in me.
He's listening to Jesus. Jesus is seated at the right
hand of the father. He's talking to the Holy Ghost,
he's in me. He's telling me, it's actually
what Dad wants. And I'll prove to you next week,
maybe or the week after that, Jesus is up to this time.
You've not asked to Father am be anything in my name, but when
you ask the father in my name, he will do it.
And if your prayer life is not, he will do it and he does it
every top. Then you still don't know how to
break. And that's not arrogance.
That's confidence that God's word can't fail.
And I'm not giving God a pass to not do his word, nor has he
given us a pass not to enact his work.
So what God says I am I am. Well, God says I can do, I can
do what God tells me to pray. I can pray, you get it done
because it shall come to pass. It's time for the church church
to rise up in prayer and do the Ministry.
Jesus is doing right now who's interceding for us, you know
what he's praying. He's like get it Saints.
Get this prayer, like get this prayer life, dismissed rare,
like, talk to me. Would you please have a
conversation with me? And I'll Enlighten you, I will
open up your heart. I will reveal things in your
mind and you can release what I say and it will always come to
pass. church to rise up in prayer and do the Ministry.
Jesus is doing right now who's interceding for us, you know
what he's praying. He's like get it Saints.
Get this prayer, like get this prayer life, dismissed rare,
like, talk to me. Would you please have a
conversation with me? And I'll Enlighten you, I will
open up your heart. I will reveal things in your
mind and you can release what I say and it will always come to
pass.