09-08-21 "Effective Praying" -Jason Dillon

[Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] praise the lord parkway can we stand all across this place on a wednesday night can you just lift your hands lift your hearts in this place we're gonna go into a time of prayer and lifting up the name of jesus in this house preparing the atmosphere for his word to go forth in this house i wonder if you can just lift your hands and higher than your hands can you just lift your voice all across this place god we love you jesus we thank you for your presence that we feel in this house we thank you for your love we thank you for your word and your promises lord we say yes to your will god we say yes to your way in this place we want you to have your way in this house jesus come on church i wonder if we can push a little bit into the spirit tonight can we just reach out and touch heaven tonight god we magnify you god we glorify you in this house we give you praise and honor and glory in this place hallelujah jesus hallelujah jesus though we magnify you in this place [Music] is working for [Music] will is your name oh yes i will sing for joy when my heart is heavy [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] me [Music] is [Music] is [Music] [Music] oh yes i will if i choose to glorify is [Music] and nothing can't stand against [Music] [Music] oh [Music] come on somebody lift up that name in this house somebody say yes to jesus in this place but we say yes yes somebody give him some praise in this place lord we magnify you come on he's worthy of the praise in this house i wonder if you can just clap your hands and lift him up in this house you ought to be a shot of praise go across this congregation tonight for he is worthy he's worthy of the praise i to choose glorify the name of all names and nothing can said i'm too surprised to glorify [Music] glorify glory by you have a choice [Music] [Music] glory by [Music] yes i will bless your [Music] oh yes [Music] oh yes i [Music] would you glorify him with your heart with your soul with your mind and with your strength right now jesus i love you jesus i magnify you hallelujah to the living god hallelujah to the living god hallelujah there is a depth of god in this house tonight would you just lift your hands and love him would you literally let your mouth utter forth the praises of god right now i bless the name of jesus i worship the name of jesus hallelujah to the living god hallelujah lord who is rich and real and mercy and grace hallelujah jesus amen amen thank you so much for being in church on wednesday night you may be seated i am excited and very thankful for this great congregation of people being here tonight by way of announcements we do have some very pertinent announcements that i need to let you know about the first one is our mississippi district ladies conference is this thursday friday and saturday at the campgrounds in raymond registration is available at the door my very own my wife sister christine will be speaking in the friday morning session and i'm thankful for that and i encourage all of our ladies to do your very best your utmost amen to be in attendance at this conference it's going to be very good also we have charity gail will be with us sunday september the 19th for a night of endless worship the general admission tickets are 20 and you will be able to purchase those in the atrium before and after service on this coming sunday so my appeal to this great congregation is that you would be in attendance for that sunday night that will be september the 19th for that concert it's going to be great and i believe you will be blessed by that also there is an initiative that came out of one of our collaborative meetings as we met as a staff on how can we bless our local community especially close to the church and what came out of that was a little phraseology oh taste and testify everybody say oh taste and testify now the bible says so taste and see that the lord is good so what we wanted to encourage our church members in the month of september to try to make it by at least three different restaurants or one of the three as you so choose that would be caribe mexican restaurant or fusion which is across town across 55 over near the mcdonald's and sal and mookies now what you would do as a church when we go in to patronize these businesses is we would tell them we're from parkway church and we're so thankful that you are in our community now here's the reality you don't have to go to these restaurants but most people in a month's time you're going to go out to eat at least one time or maybe two times so as you are able it's completely up to you as how you want to do that your choice if you want mexican if you want um an italian flavor if you want fusion which is thai and japanese here's the goal is to not only bless these restaurants who are local in the community but connect your presence back to this church is praying for you and what we're going to do is i'm going to be taking a a little certificate if you will by there to let them know in the month of september we're wanting to patronize their business and be a blessing to them so what it is is simply an initiative to try to bless a local restaurant in this area more closely connected to parkway so i thank you for understanding you'll hear more about that on this coming sunday can somebody say amen praise god we're going to stand and we're going to offer our decree tonight believing that god is faithful believing that god is able and how many of you know that when you have spoken this decree not only has god heard it but he has moved on your behalf and blessed your finances can you say amen thou shalt also decree a thing and it shall be established unto thee and the light shall shine upon thy ways upon the authority of your word god i have given and it shall be given to me pressed down shaken together and running over i am a tither i bring my tithe today into your storehouse for the enemy is rebuked the curse is broken i live under an open heaven you pour out upon me such a blessing that there is not room enough to receive it we receive jobs and better jobs raises and bonuses sales and commissions benefits and settlements estates and inheritances interested income rebates and returns checks in the mail gifts and surprises bills paid off debts demolished royalties received my whole family saved and walking with god perfect health and abundance to walk in divine favor and blessing i am blessed going in i am blessed going out all that i do will prosper in jesus name somebody say amen you are free to give you can text to give bring your gifts to the lord god bless you tonight in jesus [Music] sounds [Music] [Music] fear has no place [Music] it has to leave [Music] are is and lifted up [Applause] [Music] great please [Applause] [Music] jesus [Music] [Applause] the world will praise your grace [Music] is [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Applause] is [Music] is [Music] [Music] jesus [Music] with hands lifted all across this the place will praise [Music] greatest you're crazy [Music] [Music] [Music] is right here [Music] oh [Music] [Music] my come on if he's been anything to you in this life i wonder if you could just give him some praise if he's kept every promise and he's promised you hey jesus [Music] all the world will praise your great name [Music] somebody lift up the name of jesus in this house for that is the one name given among men under heaven whereby we must be saved hallelujah jesus you're worthy of jesus hallelujah won't you clap your hands to the only one worthy in his name it is jesus hallelujah god i give you great praise i give you adoration and thanksgiving hallelujah what a joy to be in god's house i honor the people of god tonight i bless you in the name of jesus and if you have your bibles you can begin turning to james chapter number 5 verse 13. what a privilege to open god's word what a privilege to talk about the beautiful word of god the precepts of god the practices that he desires for us his people to engage in and i am so thankful to stand before this congregation to preach the word of god and before we before we actually talk about the subject tonight we're going to practice that uh there are there are several and i could say many that are sick that you know of maybe that we don't all know of i only mention this because recently it's just brought to my attention today this afternoon that brother bowie is being taken to the hospital he needs a miracle would you help me pray i know he's not the only one brother joe johnson's brother robert needs a miracle in his body would you lift your hands father in the name of jesus i pray god today that you would work a miracle god you are able god i pray in the name of jesus release virtue o god to go to these precious people oh god i pray that you would raise them up i pray god that you would lift them o god up out of the sickness that they are in that you would heal them because you are our healer oh god you're our redeemer you are our healer you are lord god almighty and i pray tonight that you would work miraculously o god i bless your name because it is worthy to be praised in the name of jesus would somebody say amen hallelujah in james chapter 5 verse 13 it says is anyone among you suffering this is the english standard version let him pray is anyone cheerful let him sing praise is anyone among you sick let him call for the elders of the church and let them pray over him anointing him with oil in the name of the lord and the prayer of faith will save the sick the one who is sick and the lord if i say the lord will raise him up and if he has committed sins he will be forgiven therefore confess your sins to one another and pray for one another that you may be healed the prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working elijah was a man with a nature like you and i and he prayed fervently everybody say fervently that it might not rain and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth then he prayed again and heaven gave rain and the earth bore its fruit by the help of the holy ghost i want to communicate tonight and talk tonight about effective praying but i don't want to just talk about it when we get toward the end of this message or as god leads i want us to do effective praying how many of you believe prayer is effective god is going to help us to be a church who not only talks about it but we're going to be actively engaged at every moment of the day ineffective praying by the grace of god would you lift your hands father i open my spirit to receive from you i pray god that through this vessel you would allow your spirit to flow i pray let it flow unhindered i pray let it flow pure according to the desire of god according to the design of god let nothing human oh god dear lord be spoken let nothing human oh god come out but only let the holy ghost let the power of god be revealed and we will be certain to give you praise in jesus name somebody say amen you may be seated thank you for standing amen two men were talking together the first one challenged the other and said if you're so religious let's hear you quote the lord's prayer he said in fact i bet you ten dollars you can't the second one responded he said i bet i can he said now lay me down to sleep i pray the lord my soul to keep and if i should die before i wake i pray the lord my soul to take the first one looked over and pulled out his wallet and got a ten dollar bill and said i didn't think you could do it now if you know anything about what i just said what the man quoted was not the lord's prayer it was a bedtime prayer it was a prayer you pray with your kids when they're going to bed and maybe they're worried maybe they're afraid of the boogeyman in the closet and you bring comfort by directing their attention to the one who is taking care of them and that is god so an effective prayer is a prayer that is pointed in the right direction and is filled with earnest desire what draws men to pray what causes us to stop what we're doing and spend time with god i wish i could say it was purely desire for god and his presence i wish i could say it was just a a magnitude of love for god that says i love him so much i've got to take time to be in his presence the music team did such a fantastic job on sunday leading us in worship and one of the songs they sang was in the presence of jehovah how many of you love that song because it seems to pull you into the presence and comfort you with the words if i can just get in the presence of jehovah troubles vanishing hearts are mended and all things are taken care of if i can get in the presence of god sadly it is not always desire that pulls us close to god but confusion and disruptions to our daily way of life and all of us have felt the discomfort of disruptions in some way or another i really feel like that's that's the the sand in this walk of life is that the little things that get in the way of what we want to be normal and they get in the way and they rub against us and they great against us and our life is or our lifestyle is disrupted and this all causes us to get on our knees in fact i believe god is using the day and the times we're living in as well as the pressures of this hour to mold us and to transform us into the people he wants us to be the demands of the day are pushing us to our knees and that's not a bad place to be i'm going to say it again because i really feel like it needs to be branded into your spirit the way it was branded into my spirit anything that makes you pray can't be all that bad because if it drives you to your knees amen it causes you to realize i am not independent but i am rather dependent upon god and if we're going to make it we must exemplify and live a life of dependence upon god and prayer is literally that verbal confession of i cannot do anything except god help me in this moment in the text james the pastor at jerusalem asks some questions and gives some answers to those reading his letter he asks is anyone sick or anyone among you suffering he must pray is anyone joyful he is to sing praises to god now look at that two vastly different scenarios one is suffering another is joyful has anybody ever been in a situation where you saw that firsthand whether that was you and you were suffering and you looked over and somebody was as chipper as they could be and they were so excited and you were just like would they please just shut up why in the world are they so excited why are they so filled with optimism can't they see that i'm suffering understand that whenever you're facing something your response has got to be appropriate and james said is there anybody among you suffering he must pray i want to draw attention to this because i've lived long enough that i've had people who have been suffering and they come to me and they say the words that i don't oppose but i'm not always the source of the answer they say i need you to pray for me to which i say are you praying well no not really well i can pray all i can but the true answer to your relief is when you recognize you have got to get a hold of god for yourself you have got to allow the suffering in your life to drive you to a place where you say i need god and i will not get up until i've gotten a hold of the horns of the altar and then he said is anybody joyful he is to sing praises to god if god's done good things for you amen don't necessarily boast about it or brag about it you sing praises to god amen you make sure that god receives all of the accolades for what he's done that word afflicted it means to undergo hardship to be afflicted to endure afflictions or hardness to suffer trouble the suffering of evil is anybody has anybody suffered some some hardship in the year 2020 even into 2021 anybody so the truth is you could say i've been afflicted well if you're afflicted the answer is you got to pray why because that is the source of easing affliction then he said is any sick among you the word sick means to be feeble feeble in any sense to be diseased or impotent to be sick or made weak by something it goes on to be further defined as strengthness i just don't have any strength i feel wore out we know the scripture that the bible talks about the devil in the end time of which we live he will seek to wear out the saints but they that wait upon the lord shall renew their strength they shall mount up with wings like eagles they shall run and not be weary they shall walk and they shall not faint it is in prayer that god restores our strength and this is what i want to press to this people is we must make prayer a priority amen we cannot let it be our last defense it's got to be our first choice it's got to be your go-to and i believe god is stirring us up god loves us enough he's not going to let us live in comfort amen to the point of missing his will how many of you love your kids so much you'll do anything to help them and sometimes you have to stir them up and sometimes you've got to change variables especially if they're living in your house well god in his great love for us he says i love you so much i'm not going to let you miss what i want to do so i will allow some things we could talk about the circumstances we could talk about it all but the truth is if it makes us pray it can't be all that bad because the the darker the night the brighter the light and the worse the conditions the greater opportunity god has to show himself strong amen i'm not gonna curse the darkness i'm gonna light a candle amen i said i'm not gonna curse the darkness i'm gonna light a candle i'm gonna pray i'm gonna talk to god i'm gonna do my best to be sensitive to the holy ghost and i believe that you and i are in the kingdom for such a time as this and we are not left defenseless but we are filled with the potential and the power to overcome but it's not in it missing the prayer room it actually comes out of the prayer room it comes out of your devotional life to god it comes out of your prayer when you say i'm going to make time to pray and i'm going to take time to pray and i may cut something else out but i'm not going to cut prayer out amen so james is saying is there any sick among you the word sick feeble strength he then says let him call that word call means to call towards oneself to summon to invite i want to preach this with all humility but if for some reason there's a sickness in your life and you want someone to know about it yes you can put it on facebook but the problem is facebook is not the most reliable if you want somebody dial their number and call them somebody say pick up a phone and call them why because they've got to know you've got to let somebody know about it hallelujah if you're if they're sick amen it says he must call for the elders the spiritual leaders of the church and there to pray over him anointing him with oil in the name of the lord and we do that and i believe in that and i think that sometimes this is a practice that is biblical that's gone the way amen it's just a bygone tradition but we need to bring it back i said we need to bring prayer for the sick and anointing with oil back why because it's biblical and it works we've got oil here if you need us to pray we will anoint with oil and god will honor his word if the devil can do anything he'll get us to forsake the tradition that is biblical he'll get us to forsake what works and that is to call for those that are spiritual in the church to pray over him or her anointing with oil in the name of the lord and i preach this amen out of great love that that we don't want it and i've seen it i know i laughed at them whatever the the memes that came up that they had the the water gun said the new praying with oil we're going to shoot you with a water gun or we're going to take a a can of pam we're going to spray you with oil i understand our world there's a lot of changes but we are going to follow this by the grace of god that if you're sick we're going to anoint you with oil and god's going to heal your body how many of you know there's no sickness that god cannot heal there's no mountain god show me a mountain god cannot move show me waters god cannot part i want to preach faith into your spirit god is able to heal to the uttermost whether that's cancer or covet well no matter if it's a headache or a heart murmur god can heal our bodies god made our bodies and god can heal our bodies and i'm going to tell you i stand uh numbered among all of us where this pandemic we've been through has assaulted our faith it really has assaulted our faith i'm not condemning anybody i'm telling you we have all suffered we have all withered under the uh the oppression of uh the the covet and all of this stuff and i'm not please understand amen you can get offended so easily in these days but i'm not preaching offense i'm preaching an attack against the faith of the saints of god who can say there is nothing that has nothing can take my life unless god wants it to take my life and nothing is greater than the power of the name of jesus if anything i'm fighting for my faith not just your faith i'm fighting for my faith and that's what james said earnest lincoln or jude earnestly contend for the faith he's saying you're gonna have to fight some devils you're gonna to fight some spirits that want you to sit down and stop but here's what i'm believing i believe in that god has raised this church up to be a praying church and we're going to pray and we're going to seek god and by the grace of god we're not going to be a carnal church we're going to be a spirit-led church if you would would you lift your hands to the lord and would you yield to god right now god i give you praise i give you worship and adoration right now our hope is in the name of jesus christ and we yield to you hallelujah amen let him call for the elders of the church and the prayer of faith will restore the one who is sick and the lord will raise him up and if he has committed sins he will be forgiven i love this because in the context of praying for the sick god deals with the the invisible part of man we're not just dealing with the outward part amen whatever they brought the man to jesus said and he was sick of the palsy the lord said son thy sins be forgiven thee to which i can imagine one of the disciples and said lord it ain't his sins that need a dress and he can't walk you may not have seen that but he's on a stretcher kind of being facetious stating the obvious but here's what god understands god would rather us go to heaven maimed and go to hell whole i said god would rather us go to heaven maimed than to go to hell made whole so god deals with the invisible part of us when you pray we typically pray for what we can see but in the context of prayer god says we're going to deal with what you can't see and that's that sin inside of you that's got to be repented of i feel the holy ghost right now would somebody begin to seek the lord and say god if there's any secret sin god would you cleanse me and would you make me whole today god hallelujah look at your neighbor say boy i feel the holy ghost i feel at times i feel a little resistance but boy i feel the power of god the glory of god so god in the context of talking about praying for what is visible what is known they're sick he said i also want to deal with what is not known if he's committed sins he will be forgiven we serve a god that's not looking for an opportunity or a reason to send you to hell he's looking for a chance to save you i'm going to tell you i feel the holy ghost in that we serve a god who's not marking iniquity he's not checking it off saying yeah that was 1022. you do that about five more times and you're out of here buddy god's saying i've got mercy and grace that is greater than you can imagine and i'm looking for a chance to forgive somebody i'm looking for a chance to save somebody as long as you're breathing there's hope hallelujah said as long as you're breathing there is hope verse 16 therefore confess your sins to one another your false steps your offenses and pray for one another this is the beautiful thing in the context of loving god we are to pray for one another when we know somebody has messed up we are to pray for that person that they may be healed and restored that's speaking literally of their spiritual health and their spiritual restoration god's not just into healing the physical man he wants to heal the inner soul of man i feel my god i know i've said it but i feel the holy ghost right now would you lift your hands and thank god that god cares about you mind body soul and spirit he doesn't just want to touch you in one area he wants to make you whole in every area he wants to make you complete lacking nothing hallelujah amen therefore confess your sins to one another your fault steps your offenses and pray for one another the truth is when you get to praying amen a good prayer meeting will make you love everybody how do you hate somebody you're praying for how do you not like somebody you're interceding for how can you say i just don't like them oh god bless them i just hate their goods you just can't do it when you get into a good prayer meeting and the holy ghost is moving on you and through you and you begin to pray for somebody you begin to say things like god i forgive them and god i release them god of all guilt that they have that i might have held against them why because even jesus said when you pray forgive those who have trespassed against you the truth is if we can't forgive other people then how can god look down and say i'll forgive you if we're marking iniquity god says i got a better pin than you got if we're gonna start counting offenses god says i can count better than you can and i don't never miss an offense unless he chooses to say i pardon that iniquity and i will remember it no more so i'm preaching to precious people amen that we are seeking for the restoration the healing not just of the physical man but of the invisible man the heartfelt goes on to say and persistent prayer of a righteous man a believer is able to accomplish much when put into action and made effective by god it is dynamic and can have tremendous power your prayer i really believe we underestimate our prayer and let me just tell you what came to me as god was downloading this in my spirit we look at our visible world what we can see and we believe it's greater than the invisible world from which everything visible came from everything you can see came from the invisible world for god made everything from nothing but we look at the invisible world and we say you can't really help me in this visible sense i'm going to turn to human hands to help me but the truth is the invisible can greatly impact the visible if you'll put trust in god and when i pray i'm looking at the invisible and saying god you're able to impact my visible i'm looking at god saying lord i may not concede how you're working but through my prayer i believe you are working you shall told reap my shaykh whoa i feel the power of god right now when somebody begin to call on god you may not know how he's working even when i cannot see it you're working even when i can't feel it you're working you never stop working hallelujah amen the heartfelt and persistent prayer everybody say of a righteous man again when you enter into prayer you begin to talk to god god's going to make sure everything in here is right he's going to deal with you how many of you will be honest that when you have went to pray and you wanted to pray to god and have a good prayer meeting the first thing god did was have you repent of your sins and you begin to say god i can't go any further i need to ask you to forgive me god cleanse me lord wash me god deal with me god that's because god wants us to be made righteous by him and we can't be made righteous by him without coming to him and saying god i confess all of my wrongdoing john lavender retells a story about norman vincent peale when peel was a boy he found a big part of a cigar unsmoked and he slipped into an alley and lit it up it didn't taste particularly good but it made him feel pretty grown up till he saw his daddy coming quickly put it behind his back and tried to be casual desperate to divert his father's attention norman pointed to a billboard advertising the circus with his other hand amen can i go dad please let me go when it comes to town his father's reply taught norman a lesson he'll never forget he never forgot son he answered quietly but firmly never make a petition while at the same time trying to hide a smoldering disobedience never make a petition while at the same time trying to hide a smoldering disobedience the smoke of disobedience interferes with the the smoke of your incense or your praise in other words when we come to god god's going to deal with what's not right in our life before we can move forward to petitioning god about the things we desire does that resonate with somebody aren't you thankful god loves us enough he's going to make us right first and foremost hallelujah you see the bible says especially the amplified the heartfelt persistent prayer of a righteous man of believers able to accomplish much when put into action and made effective by god you have to put prayer into action it is dynamic and can have tremendous power here's what i want to give to you is that there's no place in god's kingdom for an unspoken prayer request how many of you have ever been to a place i got a special unspoken now i only say this not to diminish your desire not to to accost your faith but the bible never talks about a special unspoken request it talks about people opening their mouth it talks about people activating their faith and getting to god the woman who came in behind in the press and touched the helm of his garment she was made whole we have in scripture in philippians 4 verse 4 rejoice in the lord always delight take pleasure in him again i will say rejoice let your gentle spirit your graciousness unselfishness your mercy tolerance and patience be known to all people the lord is near do not be anxious or worried about anything but in everything every circumstance and situation by prayer and petition with thanksgiving continue to make your specific request known to god you gotta open your mouth the bible never talks about thinking of prayer it does talk about speak to the mountain you say to the mountain i'm not trying to diminish anybody's faith in god but if you're going to be biblically accurate you've got to open your mouth in prayer i say this to precious people our timidity is often because there's something there maybe it's not sin but it's a belief that i cannot be boisterous yet in a situation maybe in a supermarket if somebody grabs your kid you're gonna that's my baby you're to scream to high heavens did i just shock some of y'all i'm so glad i did thank god because you know what that's the way that's the way we need to pray that's the way and i say this with love i say this with compassion this oh jesus oh god well lord if it's your will i heard brother jeff arnold say he said quit saying that regarding healing he said if it's your will it's always god's will to heal watch this if you're taking medicine quit if it's god's will for you to be sick stop it quit taking your medicine you're actively fighting the will of god but if you take medicine by deduction you believe it's god's desire for you to be healed then therefore pray according to that desire amen can i tell somebody we are to always pray for god to heal we are always to pray for god to resurrect to raise up amen to restore a situation why because that's the nature of god and so i preach to precious people right now that we're not to pray silent quiet prayers i know there's time for talking to god quietly but whenever you've got a desperate situation you need to lift your voice and pray like you're trying to get god's attention on the other side of eternity hey god i'm trying to get your attention because i am earnest in prayer amen listen to what the word says elijah was a man with the nature like yours and ours with the same physical mental and spiritual limitations and shortcomings and he prayed intensely intense prayer for it not to rain and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months the king james says he prayed earnestly he was serious in intention purpose or effort he was showing depth and sincerity of feeling let me just pause to tell you what i'm not what i'm not saying i'm not saying that motion gets god's attention or volume gets god's attention rather the intensity of your desire gets god's attention and oftentimes it's hard to be intense and quiet at the same time can somebody say amen it's hard to be fervent and zealous and be passive and timid at the same time those emotions are hard to pair together and so whenever you're facing a dire situation whether that's somebody that's about to die or that's a backslidden loved one amen your prayer has got to match the desperation of the situation your prayer your voice has got to be lifted in prayer and i say this advocating for us to never be bashful or ashamed when we're in church or when we're out anywhere to pray and to pray out loud not to draw attention to us you know the difference when you pray to get people to look at you but you also know whenever you're unashamed and you're saying god i'm doing what i'm doing for you jesus you'll know the difference when your flesh tries to take credit and glory in that situation the other day i was i was called to go to the hospital and when i came out i was on the phone with a pastor friend and and again i don't think i was talking loud i probably was talking loud amen and i say this humorously because there's times i'll be on the phone and my wife says do you have to holler i said i didn't think i was hollering but again my voice was pretty loud but i walked out and i had people looking at because i was like in jesus name yeah i'm praying yes oh god in the name of jesus heal that baby and i had people looking like what's he doing i mean you'd almost think i would have been i would have been fit in better if i was just cussing or something they wouldn't have paid me no mind but when you begin to mention jesus and you begin to verbalize out loud not trying to gain attention not trying to attract attention to you but just verbalizing your dependence upon god please hear the passion of my spirit that i'm trying to preach to precious people that there is a spirit in our world that wants us to be timid and wants us to be shy there is a devil that says just quiet down you ain't got to be that loud well while i know you don't have to be that loud i want to be that loud so i my passion wants to vocalize my dependence upon god and again not to draw attention to me but i want people to know if you don't trust in jesus it's all downhill from here but if you trust in god god can resurrect any situation would you lift your heart to god right now would you lift your hands to god right now would you vocalize your dependence upon the living god who is worthy to be praised who is worthy to be worshipped oh god calls us to be a praying church calls us oh god not to be timid or bashful but god to be open in our expression of god and our dependence upon god would you lift your voice right now would you would you begin to tell god how much you love him how much you appreciate him i need you every day oh god i need you every hour i pray today lord god let me become so dependent upon you that i cannot do one thing or nothing without your help in the name of jesus hallelujah hallelujah god i give you praise god i give you worship and i give you thanksgiving hallelujah to the living god how many of you can remember and i'm i'm done but how many can remember a specific instance where maybe a doctor came in maybe it was a side of a road accident or or some place where i mean things were just bad and there was really no hope of anything getting better and something maybe you weren't even prepared for it but it came up out of your spirit a desire maybe it was intense maybe it was loud has anybody had an experience like that or something happened amen i remember whenever we were this is a powerful story thank you lord for reminding me about this story when my wife and i we lived in flora on third street and we had tile floors well we had little jared he was about maybe two years old or so and we had him in one of those high chairs that you put and you strap it to the back of the chair so it it literally the only connection to the chair was it was strapped to the the straight back part of the chair and so my wife had taken off the uh the the lid part of it to put it over here to wipe it and when she did he was so excited and he did this and the chair was rocking it rocked up and he has no ability to extend his hands and brace braces fall so he falls head first foul onto the towel floor my wife screamed and i rushed in there and she's picking him up and his face is dented in i know it's i know it's it's kind of horrible i'm not trying to over dramatize it but i'm trying to give you the seriousness of it his face is caved in backwards not outward amen and and because of the the force of that because he just he was so excited he pitched forward and he came down like that and she grabbed him and i grabbed my keys and we raced to jump in the vehicle as i'm trying to dial the phone to 9-1-1 or something and and actually to be honest as we raced i i remember calling a lady that god connected me to a long time back kathy wellman and so i called and i said sister kathy pray and christine's over there said wake up baby wake up baby wake up baby stay awake jared stay awake stay awake baby please stay awake please stay awake trying to shake him and i'm crying and i call sister kathy and i say pray please pray right now and i just tell her the situation and i hang up because i need to call the hospital and i can't remember all of the how it happened but once we get to the hospital the doctor checks him out about an hour hour and a half later he goes ma'am sir your baby's gonna be fine thank god he said they they're resilient i'm going resilient how do you go from a face that's this way to a face that's back normal because of the impact and i called sister kathy and she told me this she said i got to tell you this jason she said this morning i have a prayer partner in another city but we always get up and call on the way to prayer early morning prayer she said when she walked into the church this morning she felt very led to go to the nursery and she she interceded for two hours in the nursery and she interceded and wept and cried and prayed in the nursery and she said i believe she was praying for jared because jared was okay ladies and gentlemen prayer works but we got to put it into practice you can't leave it lying around and just say well i'll get to it later you've got to say i want to know how to pray when it's good and i want to know how to pray when it's bad would you stand to lift your hands and lift your voice to god and i pray that something i've preached tonight has pulled at you and drawn you to a desire that i want to be a man or a woman of prayer and i want to know how to pray i don't want to wait till things are going downhill and in a disastrous situation i'm opening an altar and i would to god that every saint of god able to walk would make your way down here right now and say god teach me how to pray and lead me and direct me god and don't let me neglect prayer but let me make it a vital part of my day come on somebody would you lift your voice would you lift your voice to god would you begin to pray god teach me god lead me god help me god i want to be a prayer i want to be a man earnest in prayer [Music] i want to be a man earnest in prayer i want to be a man earnest oh god in prayer the prayer of a righteous man it avails much it's dynamic and if can have tremendous power but we've got to pray we've got to pray i love your god i need you god i desire you god i want you god i pray god make us a praying church god make us a people of prayer god stir us up god if for some reason we've fallen back god oh god pull us to the lord to a place of dedication would you lift your voice would you lift your voice as you feel led would you pray in the holy ghost as you feel led would you pray and intercede that god would save god i pray heal our people i pray god healed your lord men and women oh god connected to this church that have asked us to pray in the name of jesus would you heal their bodies oh god calls us to pray effective prayers in the name of jesus [Music] [Music] would you lift your voice as god leads you would you lift your heart to god as god leads you would you lift your soul to god [Music] oh god let the invisible affect the visible that's it that's it guys that's it that's it saint of god let your voice out that's it precious saint of god would you let your voice out [Applause] [Music] i desire you god oh god make a way where there seems to be no way oh god show mercy oh god when others believe mercy is gone i pray god healed to the uttermost i pray god oh god touch our saints today god raise them up god i cursed cancer i cursed cove and god calls them to live and not die and declare the glory of god that's it church would you lift your voice [Music] i love you jesus i love you jesus i said would you find someone to pray with as you feel led would you find someone a husband with a wife but or maybe a sister to a sister amen feel free to move [Music] amen men pray with other men hallelujah [Music] to serve this people of god i want to be a praying man i want to be a fasting man i want to be a man hungry for the things of god [Music] let your voice out god's gonna help us god's gonna help us god's working in us [Music] [Applause] [Music] i want us right now i want us to begin to pray pray for our young people that are at school they are a sale we're going to pray intensely and fervently and earnestly for our young people because in my opinion and my understanding at school they are assailed with doctrines of evolution and they have to they're having to contend with the issue of transgenderism where a boy's bathroom is now open in some places for girls to go there and girls bathroom is open for boys to go there and they're having to deal with things that amen we didn't have to deal with back whenever we were going to school so would you help me pray that god will protect our young people and our kids your kids would you lift up your voice would you pray oh god i pray a hedge of protection around our babies i pray ahead your protection around precious little boys and precious little girls i pray god you would keep them pure in the love of god that you would keep them holy that you would keep them separate and undefiled oh god i pray god that you would let angels go with them to school i pray that god you would fill them with the holy ghost i pray god that you would fill them with your spirit i pray god that you would protect him o god oh god protect their innocence oh god protect their innocence god protect their innocence god eatiolo oh god i pray you with topple oh god topple the demon of homosexuality i pray god you would cut him down with the sword of the spirit god i pray you would help us god hilo maria catana in the name of jesus i pray and said church would you pray as god leads you will you pray love our hope is in you jesus christ our hope is in you jesus christ our hope is in you savior of our soul i pray god help us today [Music] i feel the holy ghost so deeply and i don't want to belabor the point in any way but would you just wait on god for a little bit would you just wait on god just yield to the holy ghost just let's not be in a hurry understanding that it is a midweek but as you can give time would you just talk to god tell him how much you love him tell him how much you appreciate him i love you jesus i love you jesus help us god bless our homes bless our marriages god i pray for strong marriages i pray god for the marriage conference coming up in october god october the eighth and the ninth i pray god that there'd be enough and a lot of people god that would register for it god god that would go ahead and do and take that step i pray god that you would heal marriages and that you would cause faithfulness to abound o god and you would cause mendo god to be faithful to their wives and wives to be faithful to their husband in the name of jesus i pray god bless the people of god today bless the people of god today for we are the sheep of your pastor and you love us so god with an abounding love you love us with an abounding love and [Music] i'm not trying to belabor the point but i feel almost like maybe the very people of god in paul's day there's their spirits you can almost feel the spiritual warfare anybody felt spiritual warfare just paul said without our wolves wolves what do they they seek to do they seek to isolate and destroy and the demons of hell just biting and devouring wanting to devour saints of the living god this is why i appeal to you we have to be a people of prayer because there are things in this hour that are absolutely unprecedented and we got to stay prayed up and full of the holy ghost i'm not trying to over dramatize this i'm just telling you that you you got you got to stay full of the holy ghost it ain't a time to backslide it's not a time to leave the church it's not a time to stop praying and start just watching movies and vegging out on ungodly things and i'm not against technology but i know the flesh i live in it every day you got to say no to the flesh you got to say yes to god you got to turn off every distraction you got to say god get me back to the word of god there are people in this church who have made a pledge and i i only say this to encourage not to compare our people but they said when i get up in the morning i'm not going to look at my phone i'm not going to check news the first thing i'm going to do is open my bible i say that to encourage us as a people to put god first and to say i want god i need god i want to pray and seek god i love this great people oh how god loves us oh how god cares about us we're done but would you lift your hands and just thank god for what he's doing he loves us enough to talk to us he loves us enough to pull us with cords of loving kindness and draw us with cords of tender mercies because he doesn't want anybody to be lost he doesn't even want anybody to be left behind hello satania [Music] god in the name of we need to pray right now for our brother brother junior williamson this is uh sister gloria williamson's husband he's struggling to breathe and i know i know there's many i don't mean to to mention him at the exclusion of others but would you lift your hands and would you speak life right now to junior williamson i pray god dear lord for otis rayburn god i speak life to otis rayburn and god to junior williamson god i pray i say unto you junior live and not die and declare the glory of the lord i say unto you live and not die i say until you live and not die i say unto you live and not die i say unto you live and not die i say unto you live junior williamson and not die in the name of jesus i say unto you live wait buoy and not die in the name of jesus i say unto you live i say unto you live get up off that hospital bed breathe in jesus name breathe in jesus name breathe breathe in jesus name breathe let the breath of god oh god be poured into their body right now let the breath of god be poured into junior's body that the breath of god be poured in the way through his body in the name of the lord come on church i feel something stirring i feel god moving right now i rejoice god you're gonna heal them god you're gonna raise them up god for your name's sake for your glory's sake because you're able god you're hated [Music] hallelujah let's pray for our linemen in louisiana pastors that have lost church buildings would you lift them up right now we've been helping with hurricane relief but would you pray for all of our linemen trying to get power restored god i pray for all of our lyme and brother great pancreatics and others god i pray god you would bless them keep them safe oh god let angels protect him no god never let them get electrocuted oh god i pray in the name of jesus that you would protect him right now i pray god for the pastors in louisiana that have lost their buildings and the people that have lost their houses i pray god you would sustain them and help them i pray god that you would oh god minister comfort to them and help us as a church to reach out to them show us what to do tell us what to do and how to do it in the name of jesus in the name of jesus i pray god for our precious people lord god hallelujah i encourage you we're done let brotherly love continue love the brethren love the sisters love the family of god greet one another amen hug one another thank god for one another i bless you all in jesus name i bless you may you go with the sufficiency of jesus in the name of the lord [Music] [Music] you

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Length: 80min 18sec (4818 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 09 2021