If you have your Bibles, turn over to Jude.
We're going to be in, we're going to start out in Jude.
There's only 1 chapter in Jude and we'll go to the verse 20.
And so once you get there, if you would stand for the reading
of the word, again, we're not doing this out of a tradition.
We're doing it because we're trying to have an
acknowledgement that in heaven our Father sits on the throne,
right? And that his Son Jesus is seated
at the right hand. And you know, the word of God is
God speaking to us. And so we're just showing some
reverence because we want the atmosphere where we're saying,
Lord, we acknowledge you, you're in the room, and that we need
you and we want to receive your instruction.
Amen. And so it says in Jude 120, it
says, but you beloved, building yourself up in your most holy
faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, you can be seated.
Aren't you glad you can pray in the Holy Spirit?
I see. It's interesting here in this
passive scripture, which I love, he says building yourself up on
your most holy faith. Now we know faith comes by
hearing and hearing from the word of God.
And it's very important that in order for us to have access to
faith, we have to be able to hear God's Word.
And as you study God's Word, you keep God's Word in front of you.
Then it it has the ability to build your faith itself.
It has this context to where your faith can grow, right?
And again, it's not just hearing alone, but it's becoming a doer
of that word. Yet praying in the Spirit will
help build that as well. And that's really powerful
because there is this element that you can continue to
strengthen faith in you so that it it energizes you to to
continue to be firmly persuaded by praying in the Holy Spirit.
I'm thankful that when I pray in the Holy Ghost, it reminds me
I'm not just a natural man, that our life on this earth is not
just natural. We're not just natural people.
We're in a natural body for sure, but we are supernatural
beings. We have been purchased with the
blood of Jesus. We're now the spirit that's been
placed in US is in Christ Jesus. The Holy Spirit comes in and
bears witness with our spirit. We're children of God, and then
when He comes upon us and dues us with power, we can pray in
the language of the Kingdom. And it is a powerful tool to
help build us because in the natural world, there's going to
be a lot of things that we can look at, see, hear stuff, you
know? And those things can be really
discouraging. However, when we begin to pray
in the Spirit man, it's does something not only to you
personally, but it does something to your faith, right?
Acts chapter one, verse 14. I want to show a couple examples
real quick of how prayer activated some things.
Because you know, we have said this in the past and it's
obvious that it's, there's a level of this that when it comes
to corporate prayer, it doesn't technically have the same
attendance as just coming to service.
And you know what, coming to service, what's, what are people
here and they're hearing the preaching of the word, right?
They're participating in that. They're singing songs unto the
Lord, right? And so having those, that kind
of interaction, you know, it's pretty easy for us to do those
things. But then when we get into
prayer, sometimes you know, it's not as well attended, right?
And it's, it can either be won because we, we don't know how to
pray, right? Maybe we've had some
disappointments, particularly maybe in prayer.
But we're going to show here in a few examples of how prayer
activated some things. Reading the word, being under
the teaching of the word is absolutely necessary.
Praising the Lord is absolutely necessary.
But you know what? God can do some really amazing
things and does some really amazing things in your time of
prayer. And you, you want to be able to
say, you know, I don't want to miss any aspect of God because
I'm limiting my prayer time or that I'm not putting as much
emphasis on prayer because there's some very powerful
things God can do in prayer. In Acts chapter one verse 14, it
says these now this is after the death, burial, resurrection of
Jesus. Jesus is letting them know, you
know, that he's leaving and they just happened to see him ascend
to heaven. He said, now you're going to
receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, right?
And he said, then you're going to be my witnesses and they've
witnessed this event. And it says these all with one
mind. What were they one mind were
what? Continually devoting themselves
to prayer along with the women and the Mary, the mother of
Jesus and with his brothers. So they developed this custom
because Jesus, when I say custom, this routine that Jesus
said, now the Spirit's coming, the promise of the Father's
coming, and don't go anywhere till you receive it.
OK? Now they didn't know when.
So you know when they're coming together.
First of all, they don't even know what that is, right?
They don't understand that technical experience.
This is about to be poured out for the, you know, the Holy
Spirit coming upon them and and has it done this event in the
earth up to this particular juncture right now, Adam
obviously had the Holy Spirit. Jesus had the Holy Spirit
without measure. But now that man is born of God
into the spirits in him bearing witness.
They're fixing to receive something that man that
humanity's not had. Now that doesn't mean the Holy
Spirit didn't come upon the prophet, the priest, the king,
but it left they're fixing to have some him come upon them and
he doesn't go anywhere. Hallelujah.
And so here they are coming together with no, like, let's do
it for a couple days. There was this idea he's coming,
he's coming, right? He's coming.
And since he's coming, you know, let's be.
But there was a devotion they had, you know, and I, I, it
doesn't say that they were pulling out, you know, you know,
scrolls from the prophets or from the law and reading those
things. And I'm not saying they didn't.
It just doesn't say that. But we do know they were
actively doing this praying. And at this point they're
praying based upon what they know in the natural.
There are things they're saying because at this point the Holy
Ghost hasn't come. Jump over to chapter 2, verse
one, and it says this. It says and when on the day of
Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place.
Aren't you glad they were together in one place?
And it went on to say, and suddenly there came from heaven.
Came from where? Where did it come from?
Came from heaven. So prayer activates heaven.
You know, a lot of times people say, well, I want to hear from
God. Well, prayer will activate
heaven. And it says suddenly there came
from heaven a noise like a violent rushing wind, and it
filled the whole house where they were sitting.
Man, that had to be something, right?
And there appeared to them as of fire distributing themselves,
and they rested on each one of them, and they were all what
filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other
tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.
Now Jesus had breathed on his disciples and John and said,
receive the Holy Ghost. So there was already the new
birth experience with these individuals.
However, here the Spirit of God now has come upon them and it
gives them a language, not only a language that their mind
doesn't understand, but also it gave them access to languages
known within the earth, earth, although they did not go to
language school to learn it, right?
Like O Rain and his wife Simone, they're currently taking some
Spanish lessons, right? So they're, you know, I'm sure
they like Holy Ghost. Just give me the language.
Wouldn't that be amazing? Because then, you know, you
wouldn't have to study. You just bam, here you go and we
can speak Spanish. I, you know, honestly, as long
as we've been in Nicaragua, kind of wish the Lord would do that
for me, right? I like, let me just show up at
Nicaragua or Anchor Bay churches and then, you know, you know,
and here we go. We're we're just tearing it up.
Espiritu Santo, right? No, we're not doing it.
It could happen. It hasn't.
Now, I will say this, there have been times when I've prayed in
the spirit that I began to pray. And all of a sudden it seemed to
me that what is it wasn't my unknown tongue.
It wasn't that prayer language. I'm, you know, accustomed.
It moved over and I'm like, I, I sense I'm speaking in some kind
of Asian language and I still didn't understand it because,
you know, you can speak Spanish to me and I've been in the
country and won't understand everything you're saying.
But I just had a sense I, I, if I was in front of this person,
this, this nation right now, they would know what I'm saying.
Now. I didn't need to know because
the Lord wanted me to say it. He was releasing whatever that
was, which was God's perfect will in the earth concerning
that. And you know what?
When I got a release, then it left and I didn't have that
language, whatever it was anymore.
And so here they are. They're filled with the Holy
Ghost and they're filled with the Holy Ghost.
This encounter of the outpour in the spirit came because they
were in a prayer meeting. And what I love about this is,
you know, there's a lot of church planting strategies, but
the church that Jesus first launched, you know, when he
said, I'm going to build my church, his first church plant
came out of a prayer meeting. And it was powerful.
And that prayer, because of whatever that time frame that
they were devoting themselves to prayer before the day of
Pentecost, it created such an atmosphere that once they got
baptized in the Holy Ghost, all of a sudden they began to speak
in such a way that those that were there said, what must we
do? What must we do?
And it said 3000 souls came into the Kingdom that day.
That's amazing. I mean, we would never think
that you could get 3000 people born again just simply by
praying. But prayer activated that, you
know, again, I do think, you know, as we continue to want to
grow and expand, we have to continue to increase our prayer
time because there's things that God wants to do that he's
releasing in prayer. There are things he speaks to us
in his word. Thank God for that.
He gives us revelation, illumination, right?
He does that. We're like, wow, I just heard
God, you know, I'll read the page.
I'm like, wow, the Lord's speaking to me about that.
That's really amazing, right? And that's awesome.
But that's not the only time God speaks, and it's not the only
time he reveals stuff. And could there be things that
we haven't yet tapped in from heaven?
Because God's release of that comes through his avenue of
prayer. So I receive stuff through the
written word and studying the word by the Spirit of God
revealing those truths to me. I also experienced things when I
begin to sing unto the Lord, right?
Because there's things he releases, But you know what?
Then there's things that he's releasing through prayer.
And sometimes the one of the most powerful aspects of the
church is being the least used right now.
We need to get in the habit of prayer is not just a corporate
prayer meeting because God is not just calling us to corporate
prayer, although that's, you know, as a church, we should do
that. He's actually calling us to
prayer that is on a continual basis.
And we'll see that here in a minute.
Let's get another example here now.
This one's in Acts chapter 10. Man, these are really cool,
awesome examples that God has left for us, these little
Nuggets that shows us that, man, when you have this communion
with God, and I love how Apostle Marcy ministers, you know, it's
in the cool of the day. It's just having communion with
God. When we're having communion with
God, not only can he speak to us, speak to our heart, give us
direction or whatever, but he can do some really supernatural
things in prayer. And so here in Acts Chapter 10,
I'm intentionally going a little bit later in the chapter, and
we'll bounce back up a little earlier here in a second.
But because Cornelius kind of gives us a really at the end of
this chapter, what had occurred earlier in the chapter.
And he says, and Cornelius said four days ago to this hour, I
was what? He was praying OK, in my house
during the 9th hour. And behold, a man stood before
me in shining garments. So what happened in Cornelius's
prayer time? An Angel showed up.
And here's the kicker, Cornelius is not yet born of God.
This is what right And it says in Cornelius.
And he said, Cornelius, your prayer has been heard and your
alms have been remembered before the Lord.
His what's been remembered? His prayers have been heard, and
what his what now that's giving. So God knows your giving, all
right. God knows your giving, and God
knows your heart towards your giving.
And it has made such an impression in heaven that here's
someone who's not born of God yet, but is going towards the
God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, right?
And as a result of that, God's, like, I'm hearing some stuff.
Then he gives him instruction through this Angel, right?
And you know, obviously Corneas's spirit is not alive
unto God. So there's no wonder why the
Angel showed up and said, hey, I need to talk to you, right?
Because again, his spirit's yet alive.
So he comes and says, therefore send to Joppa and invite Simon,
who is also called Peter to come to you.
He is staying at the House of Simon, the Tanner of the cement.
This is very specific information.
This is like modern day GPS. OK.
And he says and so I sit for you immediately and you have been
kind enough to come. Now then we are all present
before God to hear all that you have been commanded by the Lord.
This is what he tells Peter. Now if you go back up to I
believe to the 9th verse, it says on the next day.
Now on the next day is the day after Cornelius had prayed where
he was. So Cornelius, this little
encounter, this this this context we just read, he was
talking about these things on the next day, which he
immediately sent someone to go find Peter.
By the time Peter arrives it's been 4 days but on the next day
which means he said y'all go. And so the next day Peter's
praying while these people are in route.
And because Cornelius heard from heaven and acted on The Voice,
God then said something in Peter's prayer, which then you
could conclude if Cornelius had not sent anyone, then maybe this
prayer Peter has doesn't come. This conversation with God may
not have occurred. But because Cornelius acted in
prayer to what the Lord has said through the Angel, God now is
speaking to another man. Now, this is not the first time
this is, I mean, this one's before Paul or Saul of Tarsus,
because that same kind of context took place.
Now, Paul obviously wasn't praying.
He was going to try to, you know, get people in Damascus and
throw them in prison. And the Lord stop the process.
And once that happened, then he started talking to God, right?
And he goes, who are you? And I'm Jesus, the one, you know
why you kick against the goat? Well, because of that
experience. And he called him Lord.
Now the Lord says, OK, I need to go talk to another man.
And because of Paul's yielding to Jesus and becoming born of
God, it caused God to talk to another man in order to come and
see Paul, pray for him and cause the scales to come off his his
eyes. So prayer has connection with
other people's what I'm saying. And sometimes you're acting on a
certain prayer may release God to be able to speak to somebody
else on your behalf. Now the Lord, the Angel tells
Cornelius to go get Peter the day he tells him this in prayer.
Peter has not gotten this memo. He is unaware that this is going
to to happen. In fact, what's about to occur
is is kind of controversial to Peter because the ninth verse it
says this and on the next day as they were on their way and
approaching the city, Peter went up on the housetop about the 6th
hour to what? Just going to praise, commune
with God, spend time with him. He has no idea what God's going
to say to him that day, but man does God say something.
All of a sudden he has a open vision and he sees four corners
of this, you know, sheet come down.
And all of a sudden there's all these animals that according to
the law that God wrote through Moses of animals not to eat.
The Lord says Peter, get up, kill and eat.
And he's like, no way not doing it.
I've not eaten anything unclean. But it was a a message from God
saying you think the Gentiles are unclean, but I'm coming to
save them too. Glory to God, Hallelujah.
Which reminds me of Steak and Shake.
Steak and Shake years ago. What year was that?
Randy, do you remember? Oh wait, in 2008, Reverend Randy
came from Tulsa up to us probably why were you visiting
or we doing a king of first business Alliance?
No, that that was before the Kingdom.
OK, Yeah, we were coming for an anniversary service and so
obviously we went to Steak and Shake.
I ate that back then. And, and so we went there after
service and we were all kind of hanging out and talking and, and
stuff. His son Joshua had already moved
here. And so, you know, we were just
conversing and there was, you know, a bit of a discourse.
And so I said, excuse me, I need to go use the restroom.
And so I went to the restroom and while I was in there, while
I went to the restroom, not to go, but because God spoke to me
at the table when I was sitting across from And he says, tell
him what you will have him do if he'll move.
And I was like, what? Tell him what you'll have him do
if he'll move. Now, up to this point, I have
never talked to anyone. Whoever moved to come to Anchor
Faith Church, what we would do. That's like not even on the
table because you want people to come because they've heard God
and that's kind of stand up And now you're I don't even want to
talk to this guy. If this guy can't hear from
heaven on his own to come, you know, that's his problem.
Not my problem. But yet the Holy Spirit is
telling me this. So I said, excuse me, I went to
the bathroom, not to go to the bathroom, but to look in the
mirror and have a conversation with God, right, Because I'm
like, Lord, what are we saying? I mean, and I talked with him in
the bathroom. Thank God no one came in.
I'm like, I, I've not done this ever.
And Lord, I don't want to say something to seem like, you
know, I'm pulling or anything. And, and he just kept an
impression. Go tell him what he will do,
what you, what he can do here. If he'll move, Well, you know
I'm going to obey God. So I showed up, right and I sat
down the table and I'm like, if you move, the Lord told me.
And I just said, this man, his face got all crazy, right?
What I didn't know is that he had had a conversation with the
Lord in prayer. He was already kind of wrestling
with this, no, this, this pool of the spirit to move.
And he was like, no, I'm not doing that.
I'm not doing that. And so as you know, when God
starts to talk to us about a few things, we are like Moses, we
give some excuses, right? We're like, hey, Nah, This is
why what I think I'm hearing can't be what I'm hearing.
And so he began to tell the Lord.
He said, Lord, he don't need me. He's got plenty of people around
him that are doing stuff. There's all kind of people that
he has. He doesn't need me.
I'm not necessary. And the Lord's talking to him
and he and the Lord said a few things to him and he said, well
now Lord, if he says to me. So I'm trying to say, I'm not
saying that. What I don't know is that he has
struck a deal with the Lord, and the Lord's OK with this deal.
And so now I have to come in. But again, his prayer life
activated something in mind which took the course and
direction of his life. Wow, are you hearing me?
It's amazing. So a lot of times, you know, if
we don't watch out because it's easier for us to just sit in the
word or, you know, listen to the word, right?
Like, you know, your favorite person to hear preach, you know,
and stuff. And you Amen and all that.
And yes, we can learn from that. And you're seeking God When I
say seeking in your mind, you're like, man, we need this, I need
this. I wish God would answer this.
I need God to answer me here. You know, what am I going to do
about this? You know, you're having those
internal conversation. How am I going to do this?
What am I going to do here? Where do I go here?
All this, yet you're really not praying to the Lord.
You're just rolling in your mind things.
So you know, you, you, you, you hear the worship songs, you're
going to scripture and at the end of the day, you're like, I'm
I'm trying to hear God. But there's an aspect that God
releases thing in and it's prayer and a lot of times we
don't spend enough time there, right?
And because of that, you know, we can miss out on some things
God is saying. We just want to make sure we
keep that in our arsenal. Say keep it in your arsenal.
Acts chapter 16 verse 25 and it said this, but about midnight
Paul and Silas were what praying and singing hymns of praise to
God and the prisoners were listening to them.
Now you know, this is not the most comfortable time to be
exercising what Paul and Silas are exercising.
You know, as you know this context of Scripture and Paul
man, he is very proficient in the word.
I mean, the man is eloquent in in his understanding and
revelation. In fact, he's pinned the
majority of the new covenant pages that we have today.
And so here he is in prison, he's been beaten, they are in
stocks, and now he is praying and out of his prayers, it
causes him to move into some singing.
And you understand in a Jewish tradition, a lot of times their
songs were wrapped around the word.
There were a lot of songs they sang.
I mean, the whole book of Psalms is inspired Word of God to song.
And it tells of the goodness of God and the things that God has
done and how he's delivered one of his.
See, one of the praises he could have sang as a hymn was, you
know, the Lord delivers me out of all my trouble.
I mean, they could have been singing that right while praying
and not just praying. I'm sure they were praying in
the Holy Ghost, right? Because he doesn't feel like it
doesn't feel like it. I mean, his body is telling him
all kinds of stuff, but yet, And in this passage it tells us from
prayer and praise that the Holy Ghost showed up at the prison,
shook the whole building like an earthquake, opened up all the
prison doors and all the chains of the prisoners fell off.
But here's what's so amazing about that passage of Scripture
is you would think if you are a prisoner in stocks or in chains
and they fell off you and a door open, what do you think's the
first thought you're going to have run.
That's kind of easy, right? I'm out of here, right?
I mean, that's pretty simple process.
But you know, the power of God through their prayer life kept
them in the places they were confined.
Although free, they would much rather be in the place that
they've been confined in the presence of God, then run from
it. Wow, that's amazing.
I said that's amazing. And so prayer really unlocks all
kinds of things in our life. And again, I want to just
encourage you man. We need to make sure we are
functioning in prayer as the Bible has instructed us.
So let's read a few more passive scriptures before we close
tonight. In Romans chapter 8 verse 26 to
27, it says this. In the same way the Spirit also
helps our our what weaknesses? For we do not know how to pray
as we should Hallelujah. But the Spirit himself
intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words, right?
And he who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the
Spirit is because he intercedes for the Saints according to the
will of God. You can just imagine that Paul,
in a lot of his, you know, travels, found himself praying
in the Holy Ghost because this is what he knows.
I know Scripture, I know what God has revealed to me, but yet
there's some things I still don't know.
And the Spirit knows. So you know what?
I'm going to pray by the Spirit because the Spirit knows the
mind of the Spirit, right? Knows the heart of God, knows
the will of God. And even though I haven't
studied out scripture to exactly know some missing piece per se,
man, I can pray in the Spirit. If, if, if I'm in a situation
or, or needing a answer or something, and you know, I've
gone to the word and I've given Thanksgiving to God and I'm
praising him, you know, yet I still, you know what?
I have something we can activate and it's praying in the spirit
so that it draws in that answer to us.
How powerful is that? Aren't you glad you're a new
believer? So in First Corinthians chapter
14, Paul said this. First Corinthians 14 verses 14
to 15, he says this. For if I pray in a tongue, my
spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful, you know, and a lot
of times people get locked up about, you know, praying in
other tongues because I don't understand what I'm saying.
Well, the Bible tells you you're not going to understand what
you're saying. Don't get locked up.
It's OK. And you know, I always, that's
why I like to say it's the language of the Kingdom because
no one really has a problem when we talk about Spanish being the
language of Latin America, you know, or of countries that speak
Spanish, right? No one technically has an issue
when we say, you know, a person that's from Germany, they speak
German. You know, no one typically has
an issue. And many of you could.
We are in Florida and there's a lot of international travel,
especially if you go down to Central Florida.
I mean, you'll hear all kinds of languages and they'll be in
Walmart, you know, or you'll be in Publix or whatever.
And people are talking and you're kind of saying, I wish I
knew what they were saying right now, you know, now a lot of
people end up knowing our language, but most of us don't
know their language. And that's right.
In fact, I got a couple that can.
A few people can speak Albanian in this room right now, which
means if they started talking, we'd all be going, huh?
But you know what we wouldn't do?
We wouldn't run out of the room and say it's of the devil.
We wouldn't do that. You know, people don't run out
of stores because someone's talking in a language they do
not understand. So for whatever reason,
somewhere along the line, somebody decided that when a
believer speaks in an unknown tongue, it is of the devil.
You know, honestly, that's just not reality.
And I'm glad I wasn't taught that growing up.
So I never had to rewind that, even though I was within, you
know, denominations that technically didn't minister
along these lines. And I'm thankful that they
didn't because obviously they didn't know enough about it, so
they didn't say something wrong about it.
Right. So but here Paul is saying, if I
pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is
unfruitful. He says then what is the
outcome? He says I will pray with the
Spirit and I'll pray with the mind also.
So here's the thing. If you pray only in the natural,
you're missing 50% of prayers power.
If you only pray in your understanding, you're only
releasing 50% of the power of prayer, only 50%.
And you know, if you were taking a test and got a 50%, that's
called failure, right? And maybe sometimes we're not
hearing, we're failing to hear from God because we're only
activating 50% of our prayer life.
So he goes on and says, I'll pray with the Spirit.
I'll pray with the mind. Also, I'll sing with the Spirit,
which means there are spiritual songs and I'll sing with the
mind also. But what I love about this
chapter when you jump down to verse 18, Paul, who wrote over
half of the New Testament because of the churches he
planted, he says this I thank God I speak in tongues more than
you all Paul was he he had he did not apologize because he was
praying in the spirit. He did not apologize.
In fact, he said, I pray in the spirit, which tells me that Paul
got into was in a lot of situations that put him in this
place where he didn't know how he ought to pray because it
gives when you don't know how you ought to pray.
What do we do? So you know, a lot of times
people are like, man, I don't know how to pray.
Well, let's get baptized in the Holy Ghost because that is your
kicker. Let's go ahead and get there.
Now, when you start praying in the Spirit, studying the Word,
then you know what? You're going to know the voice
of God. You're going to learn how to
pray in the natural. It itself will increase so that
you can pray naturally according to the Word.
Because again, if you ask anything in prayer according to
my will, He hears us, right? Well, one of His wills is
praying in the Spirit because the Spirit reveals the perfect
will of God. However, you can pray a
scripture which is God's will. Like by His stripes you were
healed. Well, I am healed, so I have
received the healthcare that comes with being a citizen in
God's Kingdom because of the stripes Jesus put on his back.
And by faith, I believe I am healed of God, his healing
powers working in me. And so I can release that in
prayer with Thanksgiving. Excuse me with Thanksgiving.
Yet if there's things that's not happening, I'm praying in the
spirit. I'm praying in the spirit, I'm
praying in the spirit. Can I get an Amen?
So Colossians chapter 4, verse 2 says it this way.
Devote yourself to prayer. Devote yourself to prayer.
And I know in my life prayer has increased through the years.
Right now I've starting to move into the habit of getting up and
praying. Now that means I'm in the bed
and all of a sudden I wake up and I'm like, well, I'm going to
go pray. And I slip out and I begin to
pray now I don't know. It isn't the same time.
It's just whatever I feel and LED to do get moving.
And what I don't even look at the clock.
You just finish out and go back to bed, you know, because I I
have times of prayer. But now I'm like, OK, Lord, I
don't want to assume that if I'm waking up at night, it's just
because I woke up. Maybe you want to say something
and who am I to tell you? Don't come talk to me at 2:00 in
the morning right now again, because you're saying I'm
devoting myself. Now, the cool thing about
praying in the Spirit is, you know you can pray in a spirit
anywhere, right? I mean, you can be just kind of
whispering anywhere you're at. You can kind of keep your spirit
in, you know, connected with God anywhere.
So again, prayer is not just the corporate prayer meeting, though
that's important. However, it's also important
that even if you're out and about, you know, you're just
being sensitive and you're praying and you're listening and
you're talking to the Lord. And sometimes out of that is
going to be a natural prayer. Something come up and you're
like me and I'm gonna pray about this right now.
And then at other times you're just kind of praying in the
spirit. This is why I don't I now this
is me. You do what you want to do, but
This is why when I am driving you, I don't.
I'm not listening to music because it's becomes a prayer
time for me. You know, there's certain things
I just aren't doing. So it gives me another
opportunity. Now, do I listen to stuff
sometimes when I'm driving? Absolutely.
OK. But I'm just saying I've made it
a point that you know what, it's a little more quiet in my
vehicle because I take that as a time to pray and listen and
hear. And you know, I'm like, well, if
Paul that God, you know, and the things going on in his life
basically must have had some form of requirement.
That is, I mean, I pray in tongues more than y'all.
I don't want to be missing out because I'm not staying in
prayer, right? And, and I and God wants us to
be able to hear from heaven. All right.
So we want to be devoted, devote ourselves to prayer, but in it,
keep alert with it with an attitude of Thanksgiving when
you're praying, whether it's in the natural or with your mind or
whether you're praying in the Spirit, you want to have
thankfulness with it because you're praying the perfect will
of God and God does his word and you can be in confidence.
You know what, God's hearing me right now, just like he told
Cornelius, because if Cornelius was not yet in covenant with God
during that transition, this period of the Church age coming
into the the world and he was giving and he was reaching out
to God, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
The only way he knew based upon the covenant that was preceded
Jesus's death, burial and resurrection.
And here God has heard the prayers and seen the giving,
kept the recording of the giving.
Well, how much more of those that are alive to God does he
hear us? Ain't that amazing?
Which means that man, we can get excited.
That man. God's hearing me.
I know it. My attitude's there.
But I'm keeping alert because there may be some instruction,
there may be something he's saying.