CeCe Winans Presents...Generations: The Power of Prayer

[Music] can we just go and maybe start from the beginning back to [Music] welcome back to generations we are so glad to be back and we are excited about this show right after that it's a really very important topic man the topic is the power of prayer the power of prayer now you need to stay tuned throughout this whole show you need to call people right now um your family your friends everybody you know because even though ashley this is like the most important topic it's one of the less popular topics right probably the least popular topic yeah unfortunately unfortunately unfortunately but today is gonna change your life i guarantee you it's gonna change your life it's gonna change the way you think change the way you live and and really whatever you need today you can receive it you're going to learn how to receive what god has for you um god's best for your life and so we just cannot stress enough how important this topic is and how incredible this show is gonna be and uh you know what ashley just as powerful as this topic are the people that are gonna be here very powerful guests that we have we're so excited so much we've been a blessing to our family have been a blessing to our lives and we have seen them operate in this gift of prayer in such a way that man it it how has it impacted you no better person to talk about this topic than these two people um no i just think it's so important that because it's easy to say i'm praying for you but to know these are people that actually take out time and pray yeah and prioritize that time and just the discipline that they that they have is really inspiring and i'm just excited for the wisdom that they're gonna get to share with all of you guys so yes tune in go ahead and introduce them so uh our audience don't have to wait any longer okay great welcome the incomparable uh elder berry and sister kathy tolls yeah come on out you guys welcome to the kitchen we're so glad welcome to the kitchen i love that welcome to the kitchen elderberry and sister kathy we love you so much now we i have been knowing you guys for years yes yes so many years well we moved here actually we heard we moved to nashville in 89 the end of 89 and that's when i started visiting born again church and uh wow and i met you guys then so i've been knowing you guys since 89. way back because when we moved here what you were alvin was five and you were three two or three years old so it's been a long it's been a long time yes and the born-again church has been such a blessing to us in our lives and so we want to honor bishop hockett yes and mr kitty and everybody there but we met you guys there and even then you know when we hung out you alvin and i when we were hanging out with you all and you told us how you met and elderberry was consecrated [Laughter] holy holy holy but we're here to talk about prayer and and you guys have modeled this you've been such a blessing whenever we there's been times ashley you know elderberry will call alvin sometime and and alvin will pick up the phone elderberry won't even say hello he'll just go right into yeah he's praying in the spirit and god has this for you and he begins to declare and pray over us and it means so much to know like ashley said it's not you're just not people who say we're going to pray but we know you're praying we know you're praying and you'll come and pray all night yes righteous accountability fervently all night but uh let me share a scripture then we're going to get right into talking about this topic because i know it's going to be a blessing to everyone who's watching so please take notes and get ready all right uh the scripture i want to share is first john 5 and 14. it says this is the confidence we have in approaching god that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us amen he hears us so ashley okay so let's talk about prayer how do you define prayer prayer in its simplest form is communing with god and conversating with him you know the bible says the love of the lord your god with all your heart so mind and strength well god wants to reciprocate that back to us so when we are talking to him we are changing our love for him and his love for us and in the process of that sometimes that includes other people so we end up talking to him about others interceding and praying different things like that awesome awesome what are what are some of the benefits of prayer cathy well some of the benefits of prayer is um you have it gives you power um it it gives you guidance um the scripture says acknowledge me in all of your ways yeah and he will direct our path yeah the scripture also says pray without ceasing so it causes you to walk in a place of victory and not defeat when you pray it positions i really believe that it positions you to receive what he has for you and because the scriptures say that my people which are called by my name right will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from our ways then he would heal our land so it brings there's so many benefits to prayer um you get to walk in victory you actually um get to allow god's compassion to flow through your heart where you can feel the brokenness of others that you come around because what happens with prayer it places you in a place of humility and you're able to have the same compassion that the father god had and when you can reach out to people and it causes you to be so sensitive in a good way right to what god is saying and what he has for you to do i mean how many times have we gone somewhere or made decisions and prayer was not a part right when i go back and look at the results of decisions that i've made and and and i look at the victory that came from those decisions and i look at the effects that the my decisions had that prayer was not a part then i think i want to stay with praying right so that's like builds intimacy yes with with the lord absolutely i want to say one of the biggest benefits too i think is the presence of god you know when you pray god comes on the scene you have he said draw close to me and i'll draw close to you you know so when we pray we are inviting the god of the universe to be in our audience in our presence and we are experiencing his presence so when you have the presence of god yeah it and just like light overtakes darkness like if you write a match in in darkness his presence drives away everything that's evil everything that shouldn't be in our lives and it but it brings in the love of god god is love yeah peace of god so so so there are so many benefits from his own character from his own nature yeah that comes to us when we pray yeah so do you think when it comes to like encountering the presence of god is that something i think some people struggle with that because maybe it takes a certain amount of time like a pressing in to where you get to that point where you actually like can feel and experience because i think at least my generation i think we're really big on like i got to feel something or it's hard for me to really feel like the presence of god is here so is it is it mostly just having the faith of knowing like okay when i pray god's presence is here or is it something at least that you can say you've experienced when you actually take out time to pray do you always tangibly feel the presence of god or are there times where you don't necessarily feel it but just because of what you know the scripture says you can still get those same benefits if that makes sense quite honestly quite honestly the most times i don't actually feel his presence especially when i start out yeah praying you know because um it's a you believe that god is hearing you yeah you believe he's listening so the moment i start praying i believe now while i'm praying you know anytime you talk to somebody long enough they're gonna really show up yeah that's right you know and so you're gonna feel his presence right you know uh because you have taken time yes you know and giving attention to so if i talk to you you know and if we are looking at each other eye and i'm looking in your eyes you're looking up so you know you're going to begin i'm going to begin to pick up what's on your heart and you're going to pick up on my heart yeah and we're going to exchange so it's not only god us talking to god yeah but him talking back to us yeah and so i think that's that's great that you asked that question ashley because it is by faith everything we do is by faith and even the scripture i talked about when we ask when we approach god and we pray according to his will then we know that he hears us it doesn't say we're going to feel it all the time so you won't feel it but we pray because it's a commandment but also we know that he hears us because his word tells us that and so we can pray by faith but i love what you said as well as far as you know it's when you take out time you know we're not talking about being legalistic but time matters when you're in a relationship that's right right and we know that in the natural but when we really carve out time to pray like you said you might not feel it right away but the more you stay in his presence you're going to be more sensitive like kathy said to his presence right and you're going to be able to see and not just a lot of times we pray and we and we'll talk about that later but we pray and we just give god our list and we don't hear nothing from him and then leave he said prayer is a conversation he's communing with god and so it's just not about our list but what is god telling you in prayer prayer is communion it's both ways right both ways right okay so what about how do you compare just the one-on-one personal time and prayer and corporate prayer is corporate prayer important is it you know is there a priority like what do you what can you share about the difference between the two and the benefits of both well a personal prayer uh we need that because that's our dna specific prayer for our personal lives so god is speaking to us revealing to us things that we need to do personally on a daily basis corporate prayer is bringing the bible says we are the body of christ members in particular so just like a symphony the bible says if any two on earth agree that word agree that means make a symphony so in a symphony you've got all these different instruments that are playing to one sound the holy spirit is the uh the one that's orchestrated yeah the prayer and so when we are praying as a corporate body we're bringing all those different gifts together and each gift is supplying something that we all need because i don't have it all in myself i'm incomplete without the body of christ i can pray at home and all day long and i can get god to move but when i come together the bible says want to put a thousand two put ten thousand he says any two on earth agree it's touching anything so he would be in the midst so god genuinely has chosen to show up in the when if i lose this finger and you know cut it off over in the corner yeah it'll die but i can sew this hand back up but the rest of the body will live this finger needs that body that's true yes you know and so when we come together and pray we are inviting and you see in the book of acts when they came on one accord yeah yes yes how all of heaven invaded earth yeah and so god needs the church he needs the body of christ to recognize i need you you need me we need one another he says i cannot say to the hand i have no need of you so when we come together and pray and make this symphony god he says he commands a blessing yeah on the unity on the one side yeah amen so there's like another level when we come together corporately is that kind of what you're saying definitely another level about delivering power so so for everybody who's watching go to the prayer meeting go to those prayer services at church it's like we want to end we want to go to the service and we miss the prayer yes and and we're missing a lot and and also we're missing you because like you said everybody's valuable your prayer is valuable when we come together in agreement then we see god move in ways that we wouldn't normally see by ourselves and so instead of that being the less attended service yes prayer needs to be the most attended service so the next time you see prayer happening before service show up to prayer yes you know because it's an opportunity it's an opportunity is not drudgery it's not a burden but we want you to understand that prayer is a great opportunity to come together and see the supernatural move on our behalf okay so we're coming back for more it's gonna be so good yes stay tuned stay tuned see you in a minute we're gonna take a break [Music] it's going to be an amazing women's conference that you don't want to miss you out here watching everybody else do their thing how much longer you gonna wait to do yo you're asking too often for permission but god says to tell you you're made in his image just go and be powerful you have this picture of god who is your parent who is your father going you can do it there is a level beyond the level [Music] go get your tickets right now and we'll see you there welcome back welcome back to generations and we are having an incredible conversation about the power of prayer now during the break i know we had stopped we were talking about the difference between personal prayer and corporate prayer and you wanted to add something to that yes a lot of times people when they come to the corporate prayer they haven't had their personal prayer so they're leading prayer and they're praying out of their heart all of what they need the corporate prayer it's time for uh you to pray for the church and the corporate needs so you need to have exhausted you know it'd be good it doesn't always happen but you need to have exhausted your personal prayer in your private time so that when you come together to pray for the church and for the body and for the world you can target that because most times we don't even get to those issues right we have dealt with we're still dealing with the person or what you what you should have had in your personal time at all so the order is the personal time should come first and then go to the beginning yes yeah awesome awesome that yeah that that makes a lot of sense and i believe that will make a difference in the time that we come together so that we are really conquering those things that we need to conquer in prayer that's corporally as the church as the body of christ because really the church really has the power to do what needs to be done in our world which takes us to our next question with what's happening in the world today why is it so critical why is it a critical time for the people of god to pray uh well without god we cannot without us he will not so so god needs us to come in agreement with heaven and the world is right now in from the pandemic to ukraine to violence in the street they're needing the sons of the bible says the whole world is waiting for the manifestation of the sons of god children of god are spirit-filled the sons of god are spirit-led so sons of god when they pray they come in agreement with god and begin to tackle see the lord told me a long time ago i never told you to just describe the mountain i said whosoever shall say to this mountain and so we we need uh we need the body of christ we need the people of god speaking to them to the mountain the bible says in isaiah 52 awake awake put on strength put on your beautiful garments put on the whole army put on the garments of praise put on the roads of righteousness the clothing of humility so when we awake and we become sensitive to what's happening in our world then what we are doing is becoming uh atmosphere changes yeah so all of the the bible promises in the last days we're gonna have perilous times and all those things right but the bible also promises in the last days i will pour out my spirit upon all flesh and my sons and daughters will prophesy and and so what happens is that because sons of god they see promises orphans see problems wow though we have problems in our world as a son of god you're going to see from his perspective you're going to pray from his perspective and therefore change happens to like you were saying earlier we don't realize how much power we have as sons of god we don't realize that my prayer matters this one pastor one time was things were happening in his congregation when he didn't pray he thought that was just uh arbitrarily happening so he intentionally one day didn't pray and something happened and then he prayed the next day and covered the congregation things didn't happen and so he did that a couple and the lord told him says you don't understand the significance of your prayer if you understood what happens when you pray you would be the first to pray and that's what happens a lot of times uh young and old you have even some people say i don't want to bother god i don't want i don't want i don't want to bother him he has so much going on this is not even necessary but no he if it matters to you it matters to him god and so he wants he wants to be involved in everything element of our lives see the bible says the kingdom of god is not in word only but in power a lot of people teach about prayer they have books about prayer yeah but do they pray are we doing it are they do they actually engage do they take the time some people spend you know this is you know i'm all into recreation and having fun yeah but some people will spend 10 hours on the golf course and maybe 30 minutes with a gun they'll spend five hours watching their favorite show with tech talks and what are their instagrams and whatever right and they spend 15 minutes all right and they wonder why their life is powerless you know the bibles are the first sexual fervent prayers of the righteous avail much it produces power yeah you know the reason why the church sometimes is feeble and weak is because they haven't been in the presence of the one who's almighty right whatever we gaze upon we become so if i'm gazing up on power if i'm gazing upon life i'm gazing upon peace guess what i am we are humans yeah we are human beings not human doings right prayer is not not so much of doing this so you're breathing and living that's what is what is on his heart yeah so when i pray for you i'm picking up when i call you all the pray i have been in prayer and when i call you to pray i'm praying with sensitive what matters to you yeah not what matters to me and what matters to him about you that's right because he loves his children yes he loves the world he loves every person and he wants people to be touched by that love you want people to experience that love and that happens through our praying that's right i'm praying i got excited no no i want you to keep going i want you to keep going but you said something especially in that scripture because i want people to walk away uh equipped yes right equipped to conquer equipped to because we're a lot is going on like you said we've been through a lot we're dealing with a lot right now and and it's so important that we understand like you said our prayers matter but what you said was it's not just we can't pray according to the way we want to pray and expect it to be effective yeah you said the effectual fervent prayers of the righteous availeth much yeah which are heartfelt prayers sometimes we pray for our head you know it's just hit knowledge right because we live in the information age and we know all of what to say and all of what to do you know you know i remember heidi baker who who did not hide the bakery yes she said when she came to america she said she was jerking and jerking she said i don't jerk in africa she said why and she asked a little while he said because in america we like to be in control so so so so the holy spirit wants to be in control yes the holy spirit wants to take control the bible says that how be it when the holy spirit comes he will lead and guide us into all truth he will not speak of his own but what he hears he'll speak the holy spirit would sit quiet on us if we don't invite him in we don't know anybody because he's a gentleman but he wants to take hold of our spirit the bible says we don't know what to pray for as we should but the holy spirit he takes hold of our spirit he make intercession for the saints and of people and family and members according to the will of god so when when we yield ourselves to him yeah you know somebody asked me he said well why is it that people don't like to pray as much it does require you yielding your flesh yeah you're yielding your will to his will and so when we yield to him the beauty though that comes behind that yeah it's the benefit it's so wonderful and you come out free you come out full of life you some people used to ask me when i used to work in advertising why are you so happy all the time and i would go to the party and they'd be smelling my drink they said you're just so happy why are you so happy they thought you were drinking alcohol but i would have been with the lord and i would bring the lord to the parties and they would take me around the corner and they say can you pray for my wife are you afraid you know they were looking embarrassed for me to pray in public but we went around the corner i love it and what you said is so encouraging because i think sometimes people can feel kind of like helpless and there's so much going on surely my prayer is not going to make a difference but i think how like how important is it to understand the the part that authority plays in prayer because i think if we're coming to god and just kind of like begging and wishing and hoping as opposed to knowing our our authority then i think a we're not going to get the same results and it's probably going to cause discouragement and think well i tried to pray and it didn't work so what do you say to that to somebody who maybe has been discouraged and you know i pray for this to happen it didn't work um and i don't want to like jump ahead because i know we're going to get more into like you know what is is there a formula for prayer but like when it comes to authority as opposed to approaching god not understanding your authority like what's the difference there i think the major difference in understanding authority is that you understand that you are a son and not an orphan you know so when you when when when your son approaches you he is unrestrained when your grandson approaches you yeah yeah you know you have a whole different mindset when you understand your identity that you are a son the the first thing that satan did to jesus when he was tempted uh uh in the garden yeah he said if you are the son of god then because he had heard god just say this is my brother that's right in whom i will please now god said that to jesus not because of jesus jesus hadn't hadn't done one he had he had not done one miracle heal one person right he because i used to wonder what was jesus doing those 30 right 30 years when he was 12 i believe he was in the presence of his father yes and and so when he stepped on the scene he said this is my beloved son yeah not because of what he did yeah just because of who he is and so as as a child of god we are his son we're his daughter so when we approach him we understand we have authority we have authority satan has power but he doesn't have authority authority comes when we yield the more yielded we are the more authority we walk in satan is the author of rebellion he's the art of stubbornness so but the the reason you want to yield the reason why we need to yield is because we're gonna experience experience see ephesians one through five talk people want to jump to ephesians six and do the war right there yeah yeah one talks about your identity that talks about your saved by grace three talks about you know you and strengthened and you're going to have an experience four talks about the equipping the church the pastors teachers five talks about a lifestyle and then you get to the warfare yeah we don't want to jump to the warfare yeah but that's a relationship it's a relationship it's a relationship so you said the more yielded the more authority authority comes from your your yieldedness you're how submitted you are and understanding your identity and understanding your identity who you are like who you belong to that's really wow that's really really great okay okay prayer prayer prayer tell me how did prayer play a role in your singleness and how does it play a role in your marriage okay and my singleness prayer gave me vision purpose and life and it's those same attributes are still flowing in my married life one of my most favorite scriptures one in my singing is that i when i first became uh to the lord gave my life to the lord was jude 20 and it talks about building up yourself yeah on your most holy faith right praying in the holy ghost so it's almost considered you know how it is when your cell phone needs to be charged yeah and you say oh i'm out of power because we don't always want to wait until it gets out of power you want to keep it in charge you don't want to keep it so so the holy ghost is like a uh praying in the holy spirit it's like charging you up it builds you up and so it actually by me yielding myself in my singleness to a lifestyle of prayerfulness in my singleness it sustained me i i developed a very very very close walk with the lord i heard his voice i have so many testimonies where i heard the voice of god i was a soul winner i was sensitive to the brokenness of people all of that was birthed in prayer and even our we actually met at it all night for how many years oh yeah all night yeah of course they did right yeah man you heard a single true match made amen all night prayer and so you're not gonna find nobody cardinal at all night break not an all-night breath and so so if you want a spiritual man right then you need to know that all night and so literally i didn't know at the time of course but i was journaling at the time that he was living he was living in east uh he was living in knoxville okay he didn't want to live here so i remember praying like lord if he's not here bring him here come on so if you could hear me praying you can hear me praise like well i think she knows him but i actually hadn't met him yet but i saw him in the spirit oh wow and the lord said when you you're going to know you're going to know it's like how am i going to know he said because you've developed a relationship with me and the enemy would not be able to mimic my peace he said you're going to know and so we met of course and we dated for um a year and six months and and and of course our whole dating was prayer yes i was kind of like okay now we still gotta pray the lord's like yeah you still gotta pray pray without ceasing and little did i know because it wasn't always my decision to pray it was always history so i had to join in true leaders always remember that the stronger the someone is gonna pull the other yeah so thankfully he wanted to pray because i got a little bit tired of praying right now to be honest and so we uh we dated and so god revealed to me that during our courtship he was building a foundation and that same foundation has spilled over into our marriage and so we've been married with 34 years our vows yeah 30 years and we're so in love i mean nothing is perfect but it's good yeah it's good and it's god and all of that was birthed in prayer in prayer you know and and so prayer is basically our lifeline everything we have even the things that god has done through our children yeah beautiful kids it's all been birthed in prayer i remember my daughter was uh diagnosed as she had a speech impediment and so i remember in prayer in prayer the elder berry said go and grab her up and he laid his hands on her and he began to speak the word of god but that came in prayer in the word of god was this day i removed the stamp of forgotten from your forehead and i replace it with the word remembrance and she just graduated a couple of years ago yale university would duel major you know and just amazing and so all of that is we're no different than anyone else because god does not have a respective person right but we decided to take advantage of the power that's been given to us because let's remember that the hard work has been done yeah he's already done it at cavern he's given us the keys to the kingdom so we have to use them right and so prayer is a weapon and it works yeah we have so many testimonies of things that happen in prayer all the way down to let's pray about what we should eat yeah and then we go to eating like oh your meal is on us [Applause] let's pray again [Laughter] i love you i love you because that's what i want to ask you when you say that you prayed in your singleness then you pray during the courtship which is huge a lot of people want to ditch prayer during the courtship right no no no keep praying and then that laid the foundation for your marriage your prayer how does that look can you just tell me when you say it's a lifestyle you you you didn't say a hour or 15 you said it's a lifestyle yeah so what did that look like in your singleness when you said you built a relationship and it was through prayer what did that look like well what i i so what that looked like was i made decisions to uh not open up put myself in a position in harm's way for example i watched what i put before my eyes because i wanted to not put myself in a position to where i would fall to temptation yeah so i would go in prayer yeah no one wants to get up and do it the warfare is not the praying it's making the decision to do it and so i made a choice and a conscious decision to crucify my flesh which we all have flesh and and i'm like okay i'm gonna pray so i stayed active in my church i was a part of the choir i babysat i was sensitive to the needs of married couples i i gave up my time i was a part of the witnessing team and you know balance but that rooted caused me to be so rooted yeah and you know and so i made decisions to you know there were people getting getting married you know all around me and i rej the scripture says what rejoice with those that withdrew so i was able to do that but then also know that one of my most favorite scriptures is another one of my favorite scriptures is if we delight ourselves in him yeah he gives us the desires of our that's right so how do you delight and i remember in my singleness he said imagine imagine you daughter seeing my name jesus he said right now you're just in the jail so i want you to get so lost in me by spending time with me by praying by consecrating yourself and denying yourself in order to follow him we must deny ourselves to take up his cross that's good and that's the part a lot of people obviously don't want to do and it's so it's so rewarding yeah like he's saying earlier it's worth it it's it's not always what you feel like doing but when you deny yourself in exchange for what god has has for you it's always better yes it's always better and it's in some of those same trials and and and tests or temptations that i endured and my singleness i'm able to share those with my children yeah or other members of the body of christ that hey you could do this yeah you know we did it yeah and you can do it and it's it's well worth the wait well it's awesome that's great that's great you want to go with the next question yes okay what do you think are the major hindrances to effective prayer and why are we not sometimes getting the results that we desire i do i do want to mention uh one other thing about marriage in prayer okay yeah i do a lot of marriage premarital counseling and marital counseling okay one of the most untapped resources available to couples is praying together yeah most couples they have their own private devotion and their prayers right you know on their own right but they don't come together the bible says want to put a thousand two tenths you become ten thousand times more powerful that's why satan does not want to encourage american couples to pray together he doesn't want i'm even careful about who i pray with you know over a long period of time because right when you pray your spirit you know in marriage sex combine us physically conversation abundance emotionless spirit soul and body but prayer binds us spiritually so when we when we are praying together we we know what each other is thinking what each other's feeling without even saying anything we're connected there's a in a spiritual intimacy that comes so now when we pray like we used to everything we even we would write down a list of what we want okay in detail the prayer petition that you talked about the scripture you opened we were lists and god would like even you know i'm not gonna get in all the details but i'll tell you a couple long time write your list down write the list out that you can't do right if you can do it it's not god anyways i want you to put down stuff that only he can do and when you come together and pray you watch god move it yeah i love that practical so write that list down write the list down let your request be hey man made known agreement because how can two walk together except they agree right like you there has to be agreement in order for it to work yeah so yeah it's good that's good that's good okay so i'll say that that last question yeah no that's good i'm glad yeah and they objected to that please don't obey me there's so much we might have to do a part two there's so much to pack into this episode okay what are some major hindrances to effective prayer why are we sometimes not getting the results that we desire or we feel like are god's will okay i think the number one hindrance wherever jesus taught on prayer he taught on forgiveness amen he sure did faith works by love so satan is very strategic in making us he wounds us by the persons that are closest to us because he he understand the power of faith and love and so so because of woundedness you have people leaving churches because you have people having marriages yeah you have uh children and parents and and sometimes they the person that wounded you didn't intend to no but they don't know that they've been pushed by the enemy he's an accuser he accuses us daily he's speaking in this person's hearing that person and so now this person is wounded and they're hurt and then when you try to go pray all you can think about is your pain and all you can think about is what you need and so so now you're living a life of defeat and so you're praying and you say well ain't nothing happening this is not shifting why because that it requires that love god is the god of love you know and he's the god of faith that's right and those two work together work together and so when we uh when we forgive somebody crossed me over in the road wrong oh i forgive that driver cause nothing's gonna get in the way that's the right answer that's right you don't want your prayers to be hindered you know somebody said something to me i said that was hurtful but i forgive you i don't wait you don't wait i know that's right don't let that thing forget you be quiet and forgive yeah be quick to forgive because the in the bible talks about a root of bitterness springing up and defiling many yes you know and he tells us to you know uh that root of bitterness actually brings infirmity a weakness so when we are told to be strong in the lord and in the power of his mind we're not strong yeah we're not strong because we're not full of who god really is it's love you know i have to share this testimony real quickly my mother was such a praying woman she would roll out of the bed on her face every morning just come right out come right out and lay on her face now i don't do all that but i do get up and and i have my things yeah and she's close to it but the thing is is that the thing is is that my mother um experienced a whole lot of pain throughout her life and i'm not going to get into all the details of that but the women that that you know she was able to that was with her husband she could throw her arms around that wow she led them all to christ wow most people want to smack that woman what i thought i knew how to walk in love till i walked around here always make sure lord let there be nothing in my heart praise god i want to make sure i forgive everybody wow and it's that that moves god god says he said we love those who love us what we ward we have these are the sinners in public everybody can every god he said but love those that persecute you and say all men of evil against you yeah so when when you're able to take a you know i say a lot of people can't take a blow today oh my gosh you know reminds me when you said your your mom's testimony it reminds me of a mother and we're gonna a mother who was um you know mother boyd who who prayed for us and who prayed over us and and you you're making me think of this memory i went to see her before she passed and you know i love the lord i love the lord and i know the lord loves me and i believe in being saved and being filled with the holy spirit i am not ashamed of the gospel of jesus christ um but before she passed i remember her telling me that her first husband cheated on her and i just cheated on her but brought the woman to the house right and this was a praying woman this was a praying women woman and i remember telling me this story and she said you know one time he brought it to the house and she was on her way to prayer she was going somewhere and she actually made them food she prepared a meal made breakfast or something and left out and said god uh um she said i'm going to i'm going to service and and i looked at her and i said wait wait wait wait wait wait wait i said weren't you hurt weren't you angry weren't you frustrated and guys she looked at me as if i had said a curse word almost she looked at me and her response was she was like i was i lived at another whole level that she had such a relationship with god that it didn't even affect her and that's when i i was like well lord am i even saying right she didn't slip anything into that mess it was actually a edible no rap point but god the god thought on her behalf that's how that's how grounded she was in the lord and it let me know that you know talking about the power of prayer and like you were saying having that lifestyle you really can live in a zone that is so much higher you know and it reminds me every time i get on the plane it's like it can be raining and storming but but when you take off in that plane it's like you rise you rise above and you get to the place it's like wait a minute it's sunshine yeah sun is all sunshine but but the rain is still going don't let me run through this kitchen the storm is still happening the storm has not moved but you are able to go up yes and that's what the power of prayer will do for you yeah yeah amen that's so good right yes yes do we have an organ in here anywhere right i want to just jump on that come on jump on it because this morning i was praying and motherboard came up in my spirit wow and your connection with her my god and your family's connection with her there is such a prayer mental on you there is such a prayer and it's transferred to you amen in the next generation what you there was an exchange that took place back then yesterday i saw your roots everybody wondered why you've been able to stand and be sustained 10 20 30 40 years but you got some roots that you're way back that were birthed in prayer you know and so so god has placed on you that motherboard but it's like you said it used to be a time where that would scare me you know what i'm saying but god is so good i could weep the what you have to give up and when we deny our flesh to really have a life of prayer and intimacy with the lord it is so worth it yes it is so worth it yes eyes haven't seen ears haven't heard his his love is so it's so real and and and so i embrace that i embrace that i want all that god has for us i want all that he has for me i want those who are watching to get everything that god has because there's so much going on and people are not making it these days they're not making it and so if we're going to be people of prayer we have to be people of prayer for real yes so that we can see results people are dying and they're hurting and and it's because we don't understand the goodness of god and the love of god and like you said it's from generation to generation to generation i want my grandson to know how to pray because we understand that prayer really does change things but we have to do it god's way yes amen we have to do it his way and and so i am so grateful for you too i am so grateful for seeing how you guys model a life of prayer yeah and it's been there it's so consistent and it's so beautiful it is so beautiful and that's what we want people to receive that's what we want people to receive i'm gonna find some tissue and you've got some in your life i thought i did but it failed so so i just i just want to allow the holy spirit to to move and to do what he wants to do today because i know people are dying people are dying as we speak you know not in ukraine and around the world but but dying inside you know because i don't know it's a lot of fake stuff going on yeah right it's a lot of deceitfulness and fake stuff the church of jesus christ is alive and well yes yes he is a lot of love you know and god has a remnant of people who are praying and and he's moving in the earth you know and so i just want to allow you guys to minister however the lord leads you to pray and you can look at that camera and just share whatever you want to share on your heart because we want people to leave here equipped knowing that they can boldly approach the throne yeah you know so go for it elderberry yeah uh before i do that um i just sense that you gotta pray oh okay and you pray that friend and then we're gonna come behind you okay okay father god in the name of jesus lord we come before you lord and we cry out on behalf of your people lord we pray lord that you would anoint this show to to teach people lord how to pray anoint this show where uh yolks are being broken right now father god and healing is happening right now father god because you said the effectual fervent prayers of the righteous availeth much and lord we are righteous because of the blood of jesus not because of anything we've done on our own but we're righteous because of the blood of jesus so god we pray for healing right now we pray for deliverance right now lord we pray lord that your will will be done on earth as it is in heaven in the name of jesus we pray for our children to be saved father god we pray for our loved ones our family members to come to know who you are those who don't know you father god open up their eyes right now in the name of jesus open up the eyes of the blind right now lord and let them come into relationship with you and then lord we pray for the church those of us who know you father god we come against the spirit of lukewarmness in the name of jesus lord and let us pray you said that if we would pray if my people which are called by my name would humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways that you would hear from heaven and you would forgive our sins and you would heal our land lord forgive ourselves forgive our sins right now lord forgive our sins we plead the blood of jesus over our sins wash us and make us whole and lord then heal our land lord we pray for all of our leaders we bind the enemy we come against every lion spirit father god that might be motivating any of our leaders of any of our countries world lord we fight principalities we don't fight people father god but we come against demonic spirits in the name of jesus thank you for the power of prayer we pray for our leaders that they would have an ear to hear what the spirit is saying and a heart to obey father god we plead the blood over our president and those who are leading this country father god we pray that they would have godly counsel and they will submit to you father god in the name of jesus lord we thank you for this wonderful tool of prayer yes we thank you father god for your perfect will being done in our lives and in the lives of your people we thank you for the church coming together lord and praying with with with earnest and fervency father god so that your will will be done in our lives you said that uh uh you said unity demands a blessing oh yeah yeah it demands a blessing so we forgive one another yeah father god and we thank you for we lose love over everyone who's watching today we lose the spirit of love and the spirit of grace and we thank you father god for this in this this incredible opportunity father god to pray yes it is so it is so awesome yeah lord and we asked you and we thank you for all of these things in jesus name amen amen amen amen amen anything else you want to add i just want to say to you that are looking listening um god wants you to exchange put in that's what dying to self mean you exchange your weakness for his strength yes you exchanged your problem for his solutions you exchanged your sickness for his health yes you you exchanged your lack for his abundance and and god i i just feel the wave of glory coming into your room right where you are into your car wherever you are i i just sense the glory of god the god your father you are not an orphan you're a son some of you that are that are listening to this this message on prayer right now he is causing a cry to come out of your heart to him and and that cry is your father abba father is hearing that cry and he's coming and he's been ministering and he's manifesting to see about you he's breaking that thing off of you he's his sister he was praying pastor cece was praying he's destroying the yokes of the devil yeah we drive those demons right out of your room that's trying to make you commit suicide that's trying to torment you and make you sl sleepless we take authority over every final spirit that's trying to that's harassing your mind with uncleanness and perversion and all the works of wickedness we take dominion we don't ask you to go devil we command you to go we command you to take your hand off of all the people that are listening to this program not tomorrow but now in jesus name right now in jesus name we have authority over you yes and we command you to go and we receive the blessed holy spirit to come in and the angelic host to minister to you and the way you need it to most amen amen amen in jesus name hallelujah in jesus name hallelujah lord we thank you we thank you you know that this was our prayer today was that the holy spirit would have his way yes and so i just i am so grateful ash anything you want to say anything else no i'm just so full i'm just full and i appreciate you both so much like she said just for being consistent and continuing even to do the hard things and laying down your life yeah so we just want to honor you both and thank you for pouring into us and and pouring into our viewers so yeah we we have to have you guys back because there's so there's just so much more to unpack on this specific topic and i know we only have so much time yeah i'm just glad you guys got to be here yeah and before we go to um we always call him elderberry but his name is barry tolls and this is kathy tolls um you guys have such a great ministry and i just want to and encourage churches out there i don't know if they want to have a a prayer revival or be taught how to pray but you guys came to our church and actually taught um a eight it was a four-week course yes on prayer four weeks course on prayer and it was so powerful it was so powerful because like you said we could go on and on we could have i don't know how many shows on purpose yeah um because you really broke down the meaning of prayer and all the different prayers you have war war prayer warfare prayer um angelic prayer i mean we just went through everything it was amazing and so i want to encourage you to invite these incredible people to your church because i know it's going to be a blessing and to see men pray you know sister kathy it's great when we pray but to see men pray yes and this man can pray what a blessing so yeah yeah so i hope the information is on the screen that we could reach them people can reach them but thank you again for thank you guys and thank you all for joining us don't forget to subscribe and like and uh again thanks for joining us on generations i know you've been blessed and be praying yeah keep going if you're not straight with us yeah pray without ceasing because there's power and prayer god bless you yeah yeah yeah yeah can we just go back to the simple kind of living can we just go and maybe start from the beginning back to better days [Music] you

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Published: Thu Apr 14 2022