David Gibbs - How to Get Your Prayers Answered - 10-11-2020 Sun PM

oh thank you for the honor of allowing us to be here thank you for all the great great music my soul if that doesn't stir you check and see if you're alive number one thank you choir thank you and those ladies how beautiful and thank you for all the great cooking your ladies have done while we're here miss amy and others here have just well i'm putting in for them to do the marriage supper of the lamb when we get to heaven they did just a phenomenal job and the kindness of your pastor and his family his precious wife now how many of you understand when god brought brother ingram here he brought you his best what a great man of god i love being with him i love his heart i love his spirit i pray for all pastors but some pastors have a little different heart a little different spirit i love your pastor's heart and spirit boy you get behind that you treasure that pray for that that's a great man of god i have with me a few of our folks off of staff this is attorney jonathan gibbs jonathan stand up so they know who you are this is my son he's one of the lawyers in our ministry with them is my grandson his son josiah josiah stand up josiah's looking for a wife so if any of you know anybody no oh boy did that get a frown he better not be looking for a wife he's only 13. and we're not in tennessee so you don't you dare do that okay and then my son-in-law dennis tennis stand up that's the hardest working man in our ministry he's just a great son-in-law great person on behalf of our ministry thank you for your grace and supporting us i know i said this yesterday and probably this morning please if you love america get active in your local church if you could listen to our phone calls one day if you could go to washington d.c with us for one afternoon you'd say what in the world the wheels are coming off please the only hope america has is not in washington it's not in your state capital the only hope america has is the gospel of jesus christ we don't need people converted to a political philosophy liberal or or conservative we need them to know jesus as their personal savior that will change everything and i'm not going to preach on it tonight but i was looking at all of your gospel tracts and the wonderful things that your church has for soul winning please be fervent in being assault winner now i hope this is not true of you but in our lawsuits they prowl that issue they always want to find out do you really believe you have a duty to go tell people about your faith and the bible is so clear every one of us is called to be a witness for jesus christ the command go ye into all the world wasn't just the pastors that was to every child of god and we have a duty to go and be a witness for jesus and yet here's what we find in our good fundamental bible-believing independent baptist churches less than six percent of the people ever witnessed less than six percent can you fathom we've never had better materials we've never had nicer looking tracks we've never had better tools and we've never used them less why there's a whole world out there that needs to know about jesus christ and you have the ability you say well i'm not good at it brother gibbs i have wonderful news for you i've read the bible carefully through many times nowhere in the bible are you commanded to be good at it you're commanded to be faithful at it and every one of you can faithfully hand a tract to somebody please in this covert time people are worried about dying and they should be this covet is highly contagious it's extremely deadly and please people know about the savior when i see that number 210 or 12 15 000 people have died in our land from the disease i always ask myself i wonder how many went to heaven i wonder how many are in the torments of hell right now because nobody told them about jesus christ that's our job so please go to your pastor get active in this great church i love this church i love your heart i love your spirit i'm glad you sang those old songs he's right i haven't heard some of those in an age and loved every minute of it but please please please start witnessing for christ if you don't have some tracks make sure you grab them on the way out the door so that you can share with somebody how to change their address for eternity turn in your bibles please to the book of james the book of james chapter 5. whenever i preach from james i always bring to mind remember this is the half-brother to the savior jesus christ james grew up in the home with jesus he would have known jesus as a young man can you imagine the sinless son of god as a teenager and james is in the home with him preacher i gotta believe that at some point mary his mother said why can't you be like your brother jesus he was perfect but now he's a follower of jesus and god uses him to write this incredible book and he addresses a subject that's the most powerful in all the world i've been preaching on this subject a great deal lately because our nation needs it so desperately i want to ask you this simple question how good are you at getting your prayers answered not good how good are you at praying how good are you at getting them answered if we had to have somebody tonight get a hold of the throne of god and get a prayer answered could you raise your hand and say i'm that man i'm that woman my prayers get answered now god wants it to be every one of us but the reason i started preaching on this subject was candidly i was dissatisfied with my prayer life it wasn't that i didn't pray in fact maybe compared to some i i prayed a lot i don't know but it didn't surprise me at all when my prayers didn't get answered and i'd say well i don't know maybe i didn't do it the right way or maybe i was asking for something and the answer was no i don't know but it didn't surprise me when my prayers went unanswered and i promise you god has promised to answer your prayers he said ask in faith believing and ye shall receive not that you might receive not that there's a high probability of you receiving he says you shall receive i was in a third world country and a young lady came up to me and she said it must be hard for you to pray in america because you don't have desperate needs i said what do you mean she says would you understand if we don't pray and god don't answer we don't eat god's got to answer our prayers she said i don't think you have that in your land do you and i said no ma'am if we had to have our prayers answered and we do could we count on you tonight i want you to write four simple rules down for answered prayer prayer is the most powerful thing in the universe there's nothing even close to being as powerful as prayer is it moves the arm of the almighty it moves the arm of god and at some point you're going to need for god to answer your prayer let's read the passage of scripture that gives instruction tonight james chapter 5 verse 17. the bible says elijah was a man subject to light passings as we are and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months and he prayed again and the heaven gave rain and the earth brought forth her fruit one man's prayer unsinked the weather of the universe it did not rain for three and a half years because of his prayer and then he prayed again and god took the sinking let's pray father help us tonight oh we want our prayers for your honor and glory to be answered help us jesus i pray to be men and women of prayer hear our cry in jesus name amen write these four rules down here's rule number one you want god to answer your prayers you got to pray you say brother gibbs that's too simple no it's not it's right there in the verse elijah was a man subject to like passions as we are and he prayed how good are you at asking in the scripture where it says ask and ye shall receive the word ask and it's found in the chapter just ahead of this it's the word for asking with specificity when the bible says you have not because you ask not you never got specific with god what are you asking for what are you praying for specifically oh it makes all the difference in the world i found that i don't know anybody with a great prayer life who doesn't have a great prayer list show me your prayer list and i'll be able to tell you volumes about your prayer life now here's the problem for me without a prayer list i can pray for 10 maybe 15 minutes but there are these broad sweeping general prayers oh god please touch america help us god please god be with our pastor and our church and god please my family watch over them and the missionaries but what are you asking for specifically what's on your prayer list that you are asking in detail for as i mentioned this morning my wife and i have been married now 55 years i have a prayer list for her i pray every day there are 62 things on that list there's 62 things i ask for her every single day now there's nothing on that list peculiar to us i've shared that list many many hundreds of times if you would read down my list for my wife you would say i want that for my mate i want that i want that i want that you'd say i want that 62 times the only problem is you're not asking oh you should be asking god says i'm commanding you to ask and you shall receive but you've got to get specific with god what would it take for you to start truly asking we have a wonderful song in our hymn books i imagine you have it here sweet hour of prayer sweet hour of prayer draws me from a world of care be honest when's the last time you spent an hour in prayer now i promise you when you start getting specific with god an hour won't come close to handling everything you're asking for your children each and every one of them uniquely different your grandchildren what specifically do you want god to do you want power and prayer you have to ask i was in a trial with lester roloff and i went to his motel room and there were papers everywhere they were on both beds they were on the floor they were on a table they were on the dresser and i said brother roloff are these papers for the trial he said no no no no i said what are all these papers for he said this is my prayer list i said this is your prayer list he said david i'm asking god for a lot how did you get comfortable how did i get comfortable asking god for so pitiful little and what would it take for you to say i believe my god answers prayer i believe my god wants to answer my prayers but i have to ask i know when we get to heaven preacher the lord's gonna reprimand me and say david you asked for so pitiful little why didn't you ask now it's not in the bible what i'm about to say it's not it would be wonderful if it were but it's not it would be wonderful if the bible said as a child of god you get 12 miracle asks you can ask god for 12 miraculous things not 13 12. so be careful choose carefully that's not in the bible do you know what the number is in the bible it's unlimited it's only limited by you asking whoa what's on your miracle prayer list what are you asking god to do that's ridiculously impossible it's only impossible with man it's never impossible with god what would it take to get you asking i was so sad to hear that your men had a prayer meeting here this morning that we didn't know about if we had known they were praying preacher we'd have been here i promise you nothing is more powerful than prayer nothing but you hold the trigger key you have to ask my granddaughter the other day came in and hopped on my lap and she's a precious little girl and she's real easy to carry on a conversation with because if you'll just about every five minutes say how about that she'll go another five minutes she's just a little chatty child wonderful kid but she walked in and she said papa that's what they call me she said i know you have a list just for me don't you i said i do she said could you put this on it i said you bet do your kids know that you believe in prayer and that you love them enough to have a list for them oh i promise you when you start putting that list together it'll never stop growing never you'll have hundreds of things for each child you'll have hundreds of things for this precious man of god and his family you'll have hundreds of things for america you'll have hundreds of things for what you want god to do in your own life now don't write the next three points down if you're not going to ask because you have not this is in the chapter just ahead because you ask not it's not the devil who's timing my prayers it's me when i don't ask wow i was traveling cross country the other day and i was listening to a preacher on a christian radio station i don't know his name because i couldn't get it in the beginning and it faded out before the end but he started saying some stuff and i thought how do i not have that on my prayer list and immediately i started adding things you'll never stop growing that list once you realize by the grace of god you have the power to ask now i know you love your kids your grandkids you love your mate but you love them enough to pray pray specifically to get right down to the key that dear lady in that foreign land is right we don't have to pray for food the food's just here but boy if you got taken to the hospital tonight and you had a pain in your chest and the doctor said this looks very bad trust me you'd want everybody to pray and you wouldn't want them to pray generally you'd want them to get specific i'm begging you get that list get started with it because you have to pray look at the second key number one you gotta ask here's the second key number two you got to do it earnestly elijah was a man subject to like passions as we are and by the way elijah's just like you and me this wasn't his friends saying this about him this is god saying he's like us all of the uncertainties that we had he had he was a man subject to like passions as we are and he prayed earnestly earnestly when's the last time you prayed earnestly and look at what it says in the verse ahead the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much when's the last time you got fervent when's the last time you got earnest you know what most prayers i hear are not fervent and they're not earnest in fact most of the prayers that i hear often in church are just sort of almost robotic oh god help us tonight be with us bless the preaching and there was no heart in it god says i want you to get your heart in this remember you're standing in the throne room of heaven when you pray and your god the all-powerful god with whom nothing is impossible says come talk to me but i want you to realize who you're talking to get earnest now i find sometimes it helps me to get earnest to get fervent when i pray out loud when is the last time you prayed out loud fervently between you and god you say well i'm i'm just not an out loud kind of person you don't have to be remember hannah when she went to the temple to pray for a child to get to get samuel listen to what the bible says about her she prayed without saying a word so fervently they thought she was drunk she prayed so fervently they thought she was inemiated and they came to her and rebuked her for coming into the church drunk and she said no i'm not drunk i'm just fervent in prayer god wants you to get fervent i was in a motel room and i was talking on my earbud my phone buds and i'm looking out the window in a very serious matter and the lady knocked on the door could she come in and clean the room and i went like this sure but i'm looking out and she doesn't realize i'm on the phone and all of a sudden i started talking about this case to the people on the phone i said this is terrible this is bad boy we got to get active on this immediately this is just terrible terrible and she thought i was talking to her you know what that chambermaid did she got on her knees on the floor and started praying she said god i don't know what this is about but he says it's bad and you're my god and you're the one who answers prayer and god right now i'm asking you answer this man's prayers i turned around i thought what is she doing for 15 minutes she knelt on the floor in front of me with their eyes closed and her hands lifted up praying to god fervently if we needed fervent prayer tonight how good would you be at it when is the last time you got fervent earnest with the lord i was traveling from ohio to texas through the night we're going to do a trial in texas and i had a wonderful pastor friend of mine in the car with me and as we're traveling along it got to be about 2 a.m and he said david i got a wonderful idea how to spend tonight i said sure what he said you take the next two hours and pray fervently out loud and then i'll take the next two hours after that and i'll pray fervently let's be fervent in prayer now that's a command i said two hours he said yeah i said preacher that's a long time he said well have you ever prayed fervently for two hours david i said no have you ever prayed fervently for two hours boy you don't have any trouble being fervent in front of a tv set when your ball team's playing but fervent in front of god he said have you ever prayed fervently for an hour i said no he said okay well i'll go first i said that's a good idea you go first that man started praying i'm going down interstate 55. i'm driving he's in the front seat praying away ten percent of the time i'm watching the road ninety percent of the time i'm watching him the man is praying like he's standing in front of god it's like god is in the car with us and that's where he is when you're praying he's there you say did he pray two hours no he prayed about two hours and 40 minutes and it went by like that how fervent are you men have your wives ever seen you fervent in prayer mom and dad have the kids seen you fervent in prayer are they going to be able to say you should hear my mom pray you should hear dad pray you should hear grandma and grandpa pray the first key is you want to answer the prayer you got to pray you got to ask the second key is you got to get fervent well brother gibbs i'm just a little emotionally hung up on this because i've never done it before and i i just honestly don't know kind of how to get started uh let me tell you the best way to get started do it do it god will help you do what he's commanded you to do and he says the effectual a prayer that works fervent prayer the first thing you've got to do is ask the second thing you've got to do is be earnest fervent write the third key down number one i gotta pray number two i gotta be fervent earnest and here's number three i gotta be clean righteous remember the verse just ahead the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much now listen we're almost done when is the last time with god you got clean not cleaner clean there's a huge difference hundreds of times brother ingram i've gone to the altar god spoke to my heart but i didn't go to the altar to get clean i went to get cleaner i was convicted about something and boy i wanted to take care of that sin in my life but when is the last time you said god i don't want to be cleaner i want to be clean now remember what he says first john 1 9 if we confess our sins he's faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from what's the next word all unrighteousness if you walk out of here tonight not clean it's because you chose if i walk out not clean it's because i chose the great evangelist d.l moody used to close almost all of his services by saying do not walk out of here unclean because you're going nowhere with god when is the last time you said lord clean me you've promised from all my sin i mentioned being in a trial with brother roloff that same trial was going terrible the other side had 12 lawyers unlimited money we had next to no money just me the judge disliked the preacher it was a terrible trial brother roloff called me he had a terrible habit he would call it three four o'clock in the morning and he'd always say i didn't wake you up did i and i'd say no i was just sitting here praying waiting for you to call i'd always lie about it he said get down here we're going to change this we're going to get god in that courtroom when's the last time you had to have god in something i went down to his motel room little tiny room i mentioned it already and he said david we're getting cleaned he said the jury doesn't like us that judge hates me and these lawyers are just doing everything they can to make life miserable but we're going to change it we're going to pray he said our god is all-powerful now would you listen to me the bible doesn't say that your god has some power it doesn't say he has great power the bible says your god has all power all power in heaven and earth is given unto him he said we're going to pray but he said it's not going to do any good to pray if we're not clean turning bibles over just into first peter i want you to read a verse here i want you to turn to first peter chapter 3 verse 12. the bible says for the eyes of the lord are over the righteous and his ears are open unto their prayers but look at what then he then says but the face of the lord this is written to christians is against them that do evil this was written to god's people do you understand if you're not clean you got a tourniquet on your prayer line now no one in their right might what's that but god says i want you to get clean he said david before we go in that courtroom here's what we're going to do you get in that corner and i'll get in this corner little motel room and he said don't come out till you're clean no one had ever said anything like that to me when's the last time you said god clean me when is the last time you wanted to be clean or are you just comfortable with a whole bag full of secret sins that only you and god know about and those secret sins have got your prayer line shut down he said now go on get in the corner i got in the corner it's about 3 30 in the morning and brother ingram here's the thing i said god i don't know how to do this i've never done this but god i know one thing i'm not coming out of my corner until he comes out of his corner because if i come out first it won't look good do you understand that's the sin of pride whoa all of a sudden he starts confessing sins i mean i'm listening to it and i'm like whoa listen to that finally he yelled over at me he said i don't hear you confessing nothing don't you laugh at me you can fool me nobody fools god i wonder when did you get clean i said lord i don't know how to do this but i want to be clean do you want a prayer life that works or the devil's whispering in your ear right now you're making it you're okay you don't need a prayer life that works just stay comfortable with those sins but your god says don't do it i said lord i want to be clean the lord started bringing sins up in my memory that i'd long forgotten about we're all good at forgetting things that we just don't want to think on finally after two hours he said are you ready to pray now remember this is a key to answered prayer number one you gotta pray number two you gotta be fervent and number three you gotta be clean i said to the best of my ability i am clean and by the way that's not something you do once first john 1 9 was written in the continuum it means it's something you do and keep on doing it confess our sins never forget his prayer he said okay let's pray he said god number one this judge hates me and i need you to remove this judge i want you to take this judge out of the picture and boy my eyes flew up and i said whoa whoa you're not asking god to kill the judge are you he said no no no of course not he said if god killed the judge that man goes straight to hell no no no i just want him to have to leave the courtroom i want him to have to go get some medical attention or something where he can't be the judge i said okay well make sure you tell god don't kill him just get him out of there never forget he said god brother gibbs is just really uneasy about this don't kill him but get him out of there he said now these 12 lawyers on the other side god i want you to make it where they turn on each other make it where they stop turning on me and make them turn on each other just like in the old testament when the kings rallied against israel finally he said that's my prayer you got anything to add i said one more time tell god don't kill the judge he said okay eight o'clock we're in the courtroom all rise judge walked in he said mr gibbs you're ready to proceed i said yes your honor he turned to the lawyer for the other side he said you men ready they said no judge we got a problem the judge said what's the problem he said last night we were in complete agreement on everything and this morning we can't agree on anything one of the lawyers that was there jumped up and said this lawsuit should never have been brought it was just brought to harass this church in this pastor we should withdraw this lawsuit and they started arguing the judge's eyes got to be the size of saucers he said are you men crazy the jury's in the box listening to this that judge didn't know what to say those lawyers on the other side were arguing with each other and finally the lead lawyer said i don't know something happened i don't know something happened we can't agree on anything brother roloff tugged on my sleeve he said you want me to tell him what happened that's what he said i said no because then you're going to tell the judge he better be going to emerging care because he's probably on a short string of fuse here an hour later they withdrew that lawsuit they paid all the expenses and wrote a letter of an apology to that pastor when we walked out of that courtroom brother ingram people walked up to me and said you were brilliant what a great job you did i said with all due respect you don't know what you're talking about i didn't do that god did that can i ask you a question when are you going to get tired of seeing what you can do when we get tired of seeing what i can do and we're going to see what god can do the all powerful god number one you gotta ask number two you gotta do it fervently earnestly number three you gotta get clean righteous write number four down and i'm done you gotta persist you gotta persist it's in the story let's go back to james again and read it he prayed and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months verse 18 and he prayed again and the heaven gave rain and the earth brought forth her fruit wow but unless you go to the book of first kings chapter 18 and 19 you don't realize what happened here they're on mount carmel with the prophets of baal and you know the story they're going to worship the god that answers by fire and boy heath prayed and stopped the rain and then he prayed and fire came down now he's going to pray and bring the reign back but an amazing thing happens the bible says that he prayed and nothing happened he set his servant out he said go see if there's any rain and the servant went out and looked around came back said i don't know how to tell you this there's no rain whoa wait a minute i thought you were the one prayer wonder one prayer shut the rain off one prayer brought the fire down now you just prayed and nothing happened but he didn't stop he prayed again and he sent the prophet to help her back out and he came back and said elijah there's no rain so he prayed again his helper came back said there's no rain what if he'd acquit what if he'd have stopped but he didn't he prayed a third time and he prayed a fourth time and a fifth time in a sixth time and he prayed his seventh time and on the seventh time when he sent the helper out the helper came back said there's a cloud about the size of a man's hand and elijah said you ready to get out of here it's going to rain like nothing you've ever seen in your life how good are you at persisting in prayer of being faithful in prayer what have you stopped praying for god's promise to answer but by the grace of god you got to stay praying whoa i was in a church in lebanon pennsylvania on a sunday night like this and a man walked in that church that looked terrible he was all tattooed up all beat up he just looked awful and he sat down over here and when we gave the altar called he came forward and got saved and when he got saved that church came unhinged they started shouting and praising the lord and crying and i turned to the pastor and i said was this guy a a bad man he's all the worst we've ever dealt with he said brother gibbs for 20 years we've gone out there to witness to him he shoots at you we've got bullet holes in our vehicles where he shot our cars up and i said wow no wonder you're excited here he is getting saved he said that's not what we're excited about he said you see the woman over here in the fourth row who's crying i said yeah he said that lady is his mother brother gibbs for 20 years she's not missed one service sobbing at the altar for her boy to get saved and i told her lucy you you don't need to keep doing that but she said no sir no sir the devil's not going to get him the devil's not going to get him what have you given up praying for you got to persist in prayer god's going to answer he's promised but he wants you to take him at his word and it amazing we got more faith in amazon than we do god we order something and amazon says we'll get it right out you know what you do the next day you go check to see where is it and if it's not there you say that's okay it'll be here tomorrow amazon's reputable it'll be here i know they'll deliver and it's not there the next day you say it's coming let me tell you something amazon's nothing compared to your god your god has promised to answer those prayers but you got to ask specifically by the grace of god you got to be earnest fervent by god's glory you got to get clean he's promised to do it for you but you got to be willing and then you got to persist in prayer i promise you we've only just seen the tip of the iceberg as to what god could do if we got serious with prayer there is nothing more powerful in this universe than prayer and now it's in your hands now it's in mind do you want god to answer your prayers bow your heads father prayer was not man's idea you created it you're the one who said ask and we shall receive you're the one who said we don't get it because we don't ask but god we want to be a people who by your grace by your power have power and prayer heads are about how many of you say brother gibbs god spoke to my heart tonight i want my prayers answered and i'm going to get specific in asking specific and by the grace of god i'm going to get fervent earnest and by god's grace i'm going to get clean i don't want to leave here cleaner i want to leave here clean and i know god's going to answer he's promised but by god's grace what i'm going to do is persist in prayer he's promised i know it's coming heads are about how many of you say god spoke to my heart tonight and i want my prayer life fixed brother gibbs if that's true hold your hand up right now hold your hand high father you see the hands more importantly you see the heart that's attached to each hand god by your grace we've got to see our prayers answered you raised your hand said god spoke to my heart i want you to get up out of your seat and come to this altar right now don't hesitate don't delay this service is going to be over in mere seconds i promise you what you do right now can move heaven and earth god wants every one of us to be a great prayer warrior that's why he gives you and me all the commands elijah was a man subject to like passions as we are every doubt every uncertainty we've ever had he had but he prayed earnestly and he was clean and he stayed persistent father i don't know what all the prayer needs are god most of us got prayer needs that we're not aware of ourselves but right now we're gonna start we're gonna start getting specific in asking in detail ask and you shall receive ask in faith believing and ye shall receive god we do believe god right now we don't want to leave this auditorium merely cleaner we want to be clean forgive me forgive us may we leave here tonight touched by the power of your word god if all the people got tonight was david gibbs they didn't get anything but by your grace by your power we can leave here touched by your word and we can be men and women of great prayer that's what your command is hear the cry of each heart i pray in the name of jesus i ask it and all god's children together said amen amen [Music] so nothing more powerful in the whole universe than prayer preacher nothing it moves the arm of the almighty but we got to pray fervently and for some of you it's you got such a history of not praying fervently it almost strikes you strange that's just the devil trying to stumble you up don't let him do it just open your heart before god and i don't know what's on your list that needs to be there again that you stopped praying for put it back and start persisting in prayer your god wants to answer i'm convinced that america's in real trouble if god's people don't get desperate in prayer not desperate in politics desperate in prayer we need to see what god can do what the lord can do how many of you thankful our god's all-powerful all powerful wow you realize he says is there anything too hard for me to do and i want you to do me this favor tonight when you go home write on your prayer list a few things that are ridiculously impossible that you'd like to see god do remember it's only impossible with man it's never impossible with god when i was eight years old my mother contracted polio she was our church pianist but at five in the morning she was fixing breakfast and she said to me run get your dad i think i'm real sick and poliospinal meningitis had come to our house my mom walked over to the couch and never walked again her body and writhing agony started constricting she couldn't breathe she was shaking violently the medics came i remember standing there while they punched a hole in her throat to help her breathe the size of a 50 cent piece i remember them saying to my dad i don't know that she'll make it to the hospital but we'll try and i'm an atro and i thought what do you mean you don't know what's going on here when they took my mom out the door i didn't realize i wouldn't see her for two and a half years that she'd live in an iron lung fighting for breath every day and all we did was wait for the report did she make it through the night did she make it through the morning and i kept thinking god i know people that don't go to church they don't have any of this what's going on finally after two and a half years they brought my mother home strapped in a wheelchair couldn't sit up couldn't feed herself couldn't dress herself but she came home and my dad said let's have family devotions before we put mom in bed and if i live to be a thousand i won't forget her prayers she said number one i want to thank you for everything you're doing remember in everything give thanks for this is the will of god in christ jesus concerning you when's the last time you gave thanks for what you weren't thankful for she said i want to thank you and then she prayed this prayer she said my music's all gone i can't dress myself i can't move but god give me something to do for you please i thought what how in the world we've been down that path and here we are and now you're asking this impossible prayer for god to do something our pastor came over and he said mrs gibbs the church took a vote we don't want you folks to return we're afraid and my mom said i understand how deadly polio is but she said pastor would you please pray god and give me something to do and our pastor said mrs gibbs i think god's through with you i got furious i thought i'm gonna rearrange your front teeth i was so i thought you may be right but you're not talking to my mom that way my mom had me sit down i was halfway across the room to hit him she said pastor you're wrong god's never through with anybody by the way you'll know when god's through with you you'll be looking at him and until you're looking at him god's got something he wants you to do another pastor came just a young man starting a church in our town who heard of us and my mom said would you pray that god would give me something to do i don't care and here's what she said i'm very damaged goods i know that but god you're all powerful what happened next amazed me this pastor said now we haven't started our church so we don't have a sunday school but when we do would you like to be the head of the sunday school i thought how do you have a sunday school when you don't even have a church and my mom said i'd love to she said you see baby god's answered in prayer i said mom he doesn't even have a church yet she said that's okay it's going to be a great sunday school i thought boy i'm doomed my mom told them we got two kids my son and my daughter i thought i'm gonna go to church the rest of my life with my sister this is no good my mom started that sunday school just a handful of kids strapped in a wheelchair taking two hours just to get dressed somebody to help her but the kids loved her they loved her wheelchair and then she said i know what we gotta do we're gonna go get a man to give us some buses to get kids to come i said mom we don't have the money she said my god i'll take care of that an amazing thing happened we went to see that man and he said if i give you some buses who will drive them you and she said you're right i forgot i need buses and drivers i need you to give them to me that man gave her a bus that started with one then two then three and pretty soon it was 35 to 50 every week the sunday school run by a lady in a wheelchair who couldn't walk couldn't dress or feed herself within six years time never had less than 5 000 kids in it because somebody prayed people would say how did you do this miss gibbs she'd say i didn't god did do you understand how powerful prayer is ask and ye shall receive ask when my mom went home to be with the lord that church sent her a letter and they said out of your sunday school there are 78 pastors and 260 missionaries on the field all in a sunday school run by a lady who couldn't do anything but she could pray she said those nights in that iron lung struggling to breathe i spent them praying and god answered my prayers i don't know what you need but my god does and i promise you the devil doesn't fear us he's terrified of you with prayer by the grace of god ask in faith believing and ye shall receive turn to your neighbor right now and tell your neighbor prayer is amazing tell them prayer is amazing oh my and now tell your neighbor god helping me i'm going to get some amazing prayers going here god helping me amen the books are still in the back one nation under god and the one on the constitution please that those would be a blessing get them and again we've given thousands of books away through the decades this is our 50th year if you don't have money permit me to give it to you all i ask you to do is promise me you'll read it i want you to have it and if you don't get our newsletter many of you signed up this morning the newsletter is free we send it out every month asking you to simply pray for the lawsuits ushers come on forward right now how many of you say brother gibbs i didn't sign up this morning i don't get your newsletter but i would like to get that free newsletter and all i'm asking you to do is give me one minute of prayer a month a minute a month i'll give you that if you didn't sign up this morning but you'll do that hold your hand up would you hold your hand up so we can get this into your hands as the ushers walk back so many of you so graciously did it this morning please please please i want you to if you would thank you my friend fill that out and give it to them at the book table we want to get that in your hands please pray for our ministry without prayer the christian law association can't survive it's just that simple i can't make it happen it's got to have god's blessing tonight as we close i want to ask you for a very special prayer request i want you to pray for pastor and his wife and their family would you tonight before you pillow your head and sleep pray for your preacher his precious wife their precious kids now i'm asking for something very different here you go and you get a quarter pounder with cheese at mcdonald's which i love and you say lord be with our pastor there's nothing wrong with that prayer except that's not what i'm asking i'm asking before you pillow your head would you get on your knees and go to the throne room and say god bless our preacher protect him keep a hedge of protection about him god we need for him to have a greater anointing than ever before how many of you will join my wife and i are going to be there how many of you will join my wife and i at the throne room tonight praying for your pastor and his family if you'll do that hold your hand up god bless you now if you raised your hand you just made an appointment with god and you blow off an appointment with me that's no big deal but don't you dare blow off an appointment with god how many of you say i'm going to keep that appointment i'll see you in the throne room for our preacher brother gibbs hold your hand up once more god bless you church we'll see you in the throne room it has been just a particular delight for us to have the privilege to be here thank you thank you thank you and remember nothing is more powerful than prayer god bless you church

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Published: Mon Oct 12 2020