Discover the Power of Prayer: The Key to Finding Peace in Life's Challenges | Pastor Robert Morris

and we have tension and disunity like we've never probably never had in our nation and we know the answer we're the people of God the answer is not a a an elephant or a donkey it's a lamb it's a lamb named Jesus Christ we're in this season where I believe what we need to do is pray and as I prayed about the message this weekend I was reminded of a time about 10 years ago when I felt like that the enemy was attacking more that's the the phrase I was using I feel like the enemy is attacking more and I don't know if you if you thought that if you thought the the attacks of the enemy are increasing uh and so I was in uh with a friend of mine Dr Jim Morocco uh and I I go places to minister and when you're called by God you have to go everywhere that God calls you to minister he passed her skin Maui Hawaii and so Debbie and I when we go we normally suffer for Jesus for at least a week uh there uh but you just have to it's it's the call of God in your life you have to suffer wherever you go so anyway so but uh I was speaking for him and I was telling him I feel like that the attacks of the enemy are increasing and um he said something to me that changed my life he said I think you're giving Satan too much credit and I thought wow what a what a what a statement and he said to me Robert if you're going to blame Satan when things are bad then you're going to thank him when things are good I mean which one is it I got thinking about that I got to think that well so if I feel like then I'm in a season where he's not attacking as much you know should I send him a gift basket or you know like thanks for decreasing your attacks so we're not in a season where Satan is attacking more we're in a season where Satan is attacking and it's been since the garden he's always attacking but what might be happening is that many of his attacks are landing more and the only reason that happens is because the people of God are praying less so I want you to think about this we need to pray and things change when we pray God has given us the power of Prayer so so I want to talk to you I only have two points today but it will not shorten the message so don't get excited but only two points today uh here's number one take it seriously you need to take it seriously what's happening in our country and around the world right now you need to always take spiritual warfare seriously you need to take prayer seriously so I want to start in Ephesians 6 and only look at one verse but just to remind you about the war that we're in Ephesians 6 verse 12 for we do not wrestle against Republicans thank you Or democrats we don't wrestle against people we don't wrestle against flesh and blood but against principalities now underline that word because we're going to come back to it and talk about it I just want you to also notice that all that we're wrestling against here all of these words are plural so it's not just Satan it's demonic forces forces plural watch the plurality maybe you've never seen plurality in in verse 12 but watch it principalities against powers against the rulers plural of the darkness of this age against spiritual hosts plural of wickedness in the Heavenly places now it says principalities of a a principality comes from two words a palate means a city so a principality is a prince over a city you've heard another word similar municipality a palate is a city Muni is very similar from the Latin to our word many so it means many over a city and by the way it's not city council it's the citizens in other words it's ruled by the citizens who elect leaders which is like our nation our nation is a democracy it is a Democratic Republic it is ruled by constitutional law by leaders that we elect that's a democracy and a republic a Democratic Republic okay so a principality is a prince over a city is this now we got it right there in Ephesians 6 but is this all through scripture yes do you remember when Daniel was praying and fasting 21 days and by the way January 1st we want to fast again we do it every year 21 days and I want you to fast however God tells you okay so if God tells you to fast desserts it's great some of you would think the Lord would I see a one guy shakes the Lord would never if you look at Jesus no that's not what God's telling me I'm on a fast broccoli pastor so so what whatever God God tells you okay so whatever the Lord I'm just having fun with you so whatever the Lord tells you just fast something so that it reminds you to pray so we're going to do that for 21 days by the way think about this we do this every year and every four years January 20th is Inauguration Day and here we're we're taking and fasting the first 21 days of the year so Daniel was on a 21 day fast and let me show you what the the an angel comes to him in answer to his fast and in his prayer and this is what he says then he said to me Daniel 10 12 do not fear Daniel for from the first day so this is on the 21st day fourth from the on the first day from the first day you set your heart to understand another word to be that pray and to humble yourself before your God your words were heard your prayers were heard and I've come because of your words because of your prayers but the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me 21 days and behold Michael one of the chief princess now we're understanding what a prince says and I'll explain to you in a moment because we know what Michael is came to help me for I had been left alone there with the kings of Persia their only princes they're kings there are there's a hierarchy among the Demonic forces and you say well boy you talked about princes and that bothered me now you're talking about they're kings in the Demonic world don't let that bother you because we know the king of kings so don't get bothered by that so a prince is an angel and the Prince of Persia in this instance that's withstanding prayer would be a fallen angel because we know Michael it says Michael the chief Prince we know he's a he's an angel and he's one of the three archangels named in the Bible so he's an archangel he's a ruling Angel so there's an angel that came to Daniel whose dream trying to trying to bring to answer to his prayer and he left Heaven on the first day he prayed on the first day because he says this this I've been fighting this Angel 21 days first day you prayed God sent me with your answer and I've been fighting the prince over this city to try to get through to you just is that not amazing right there in your Bible and he says but you know what happened Michael showed up and beat the snot out of him the Archangel Michael showed up I mean I I was wrestling 21 days I thought you know you could have come 20 days ago but he shows up then he goes on down look at verse 20. then he said do you know why I've come to you because he's explained in other words you understand what I've told you and now I must return to fight with the Prince of Persia a prince over a city a principality and when I've gone forth indeed the prince of Greece will come I got two suckers I gotta fight now but I will tell you what is noted in the scripture of Truth this is what's noted in the scripture of Truth no one upholds me against these except Michael watch this carefully your prince think about that he's talking to Daniel who's a representative of the children of Israel the people of God and he said let me tell you what the scripture says no one upholds me no one helps me against these except your prince you have a prince by the way they if you think well that's exciting Michael's our Prince oh listen let me tell you something more exciting than that we know the Prince of Peace you want to talk about a prince fighting for us the only begotten of the father fights for us he's our Prince so he's fighting so let me show you another example of demonic forces over a city okay this is Mark chapter 5 in Mark chapter 5 the we call it the Deliverance of the gatherine demoniac the reason we call him the Gathering demoniac is because he was from gadera so he was gathering all right he was from gadera gadarius one of the ten Greek cities at the time of Christ it's referred to in scripture as the decapolis paulus again refers to City Deca is 10 in Greek so the it's ten cities and so Goda is one of these 10 cities so Jesus goes over and there's a demonic man there and he's setting him free but he talks to the demon in this man and watch what this demonic spirit says Jesus said to him Mark 5 verse 8 for he Capital H Jesus said to him come out of the man unclean Spirit then he asked him what is your name and he answered saying my name is Legion let me just I'll just stop and go and clarify that Legion uh was a Roman word that meant six thousand soldiers so he said my my name is Legion and it means six thousand now some will say four to six thousand but most historical documents will always say it's six thousand six thousand my name is Legion for we are many also he begged him this is what many people Miss from this passage earnestly that he Jesus watched would not send them out of the country why I'm telling you so many people miss this right there in Scripture Legion this this ruler of demons a prince over six thousand demons Jesus is going to cast him out of a man and he begs him earnestly don't send this out of this country out of this region out of this city why because they had strongholds in that country they had been building up strongholds this is very important to understand Satan has been building strongholds in America for years for years but we as Believers can come against those strongholds in prayer God can reveal those strongholds to us when God called us to to South Lake to plant and I'm not trying to say something negative about the city but God showed me two strongholds in this area and they were Pride and greed and isn't it amazing that Gateway Church came in with the spirit of humility and generosity the opposite spirits and God broke that stronghold so there can be a struggle now I want to just take one stronghold that Satan has been working on in America because America was founded and then you can look it up William Bradford stood on Plymouth Rock and said we found this nation for the propagation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ is it a perfect Nation by far no no way absolutely not no way okay but it was founded where all were created equal that's what they put all are created equal by their creator and endowed with certain innateable rights by their creator life liberty which should be freedom and the pursuit of happiness now obviously we've done been a long road in that area I understand that but America was founded for the right purpose and it's the longest running government in the history of the world most governments have an average of 15 to 20 years and we're over 240 now so it's incredible because it was founded not not perfectly please don't hear me say that not perfectly very imperfectly by imperfect humans but the principles were right so Satan has been trying to tear down because this is freedom of speech freedom of the press freedom of religion and freedom of assembly that's the First Amendment First Amendment freedom of speech freedom of the press freedom of religion and freedom of assembly to assemble so Satan's been trying to tear down Freedom so I just want to say one stronghold and you need to understand because some of you might tend toward saying we need to be a little more this way but I want to just beg you plead with you to study it and here's a stronghold that Satan has been working on our nation and that's socialism 30 percent [Music] 30 percent of Americans under the age of 35 say they're in favor of socialism 98 of those that say they're in favor could not Define it could not Define it and their definition was wrong whatever they said the number one tenet of socialism just study it simple number 110 it is no private property no private property the the the young people who are saying they're in favor of it are talking on their cell phones no no private property none and and this is what they feel like that it stands for this is what their number one answer free education and free medical uh help free education free medicine let me tell you why that's a lie it's not free it's not free most socialist countries tax rate 57 percent I don't know what you make just do it in your head but just do 50 to make it easy math if you make fifty thousand do you want to pay twenty five thousand in taxes that's called free education that's called free medical it's free by the way this free education socialist countries the government tells you how far you can be educated by testing you so if you don't test high enough they can say no you don't get to go to college you're going to be a factory worker that's socialism socialism has never worked in any nation in the world there are a few Nations now that say they're still under a socialistic government but what they did listen to what they did they allowed individuals to own property and to have business that's called capitalism Capital this comes from the word capitalism comes from the word Capital it means property it's the only way it works anywhere in the world so it's not socialism there are so many lies about it I'm not going to preach the whole message on it but just so you know the only countries in the world that have experienced genocide or communist Nations the only ones and every communist nation in the world has had genocide if you don't know what genocide is it's the killing of people who are dis different from you different race different religion or disagree with you ideologically that's what genocide is in a hundred years in four communist Nations that killed conservative estimates over 100 million people and here's what's bothering me 50 years ago I'm I'm 59 50 years ago when I was nine years old we could pray in our schools we started every morning saying we believe in one nation under God and we did not allow abortions now not only do people not believe that life begins at conception now if you read it or you'll just read it they believe that it not doesn't even begin at Birth it begins when the doctor certifies you so if a baby is born with a physical or mental defect they could say we can terminate this life so that's happened in the last 50 years what's going to happen in the next 50. and here's the here's the amazing thing please hear me a lot of people are feeling like well it's not going to happen for a long time the most descriptive verse in the Bible of selfishness is in Isaiah 39 it's when Isaiah goes to Hezekiah and pronounces judgment and he says here's what's going to happen your children and grandchildren are going to go into bondage and hezekiah's response was well at least there will be peace in my days that's sad when Christians say well I know what's going to happen to my grandchildren but I'm not going to do anything about it we've got to stand up and we've got to do something about it and the number one thing we can do is pray that's the number one thing we can pray so Point number one don't take it too Point number one is take it seriously Point number two is don't take it too seriously you say we just talked about communism okay now hang on I'm not invalidating point one here's what I'm saying don't get stressed out about it because we do know even though there are princes at work we know the key so you don't get too stressed out I can remember a time when I slacked off in my prayer life and I told her I said the Lord Lord why why have I slacked off my prayer life you know what he said because these problems that you're in your life right now you don't want to think about them out of sight out of mind so you don't even want to pray about him because then you have to think about him but then he said to me son I did not design prayer to put a burden on you I designed prayer to take a burden off of you so you're not going to get more stressed out When you pray about stuff you're going to get more stressed out when you don't pray about stuff because you're still carrying the burden you can only carry a burden as a Believer to Jesus feet that's as far as you can carry it and I've told you this before but it Bears repeating we're sheep sheep are not burden bearing animals you've never heard anyone say I'm going on a safari I need to rent some packed sheep we weren't designed for that look look at um look at this verse I don't even know where I am okay here it is Philippians 4 6 be anxious for nothing but in everything by prayer and supplication with Thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God okay be anxious for nothing have anxiety don't have them say don't have anxiety over a worldwide pandemic that's what he just said be anxious for nothing have no anxiety how are you going to have no anxiety pray so be anxious for nothing how are we going to do that God pray about everything be anxious for no thing out pray about everything you just pray about everything and you'll be anxious for no thing remember the word nothing combination two words no thing everything combinates two words everything some of you like ah that's good if you have any anxiety about what's going on in America right now and the world pray let me show you another verse very familiar first Peter 5 7 casting all your care upon him for he cares for you now this word casting in the Greek is actually two words the first word is throat to throw throw something but the second word is a burden say this what this verse saying throw your burdens on Jesus for he cares for you throw your burdens on him just throw your burdens on him let me show you an Old Testament verse I really like Psalm 55 22 cast your burden on the Lord there it is throw your burden on the Lord and He Shall sustain you he shall never permit the righteous to be moved okay now notice the only the people he sustains are the people who cast their burden on him cast your burden on him and he'll sustain you well what if you keep your burden cast your burden and God will say and then it says he will never permit the righteous to be moved this actually this verse and one other verse I think because it's so close similar um inspired an old hymn I shall I shall I shall not be moved remember that okay sorry I see the older people oh yeah I remember that I shall I shall I shall not be moved like a tree you remember that okay well if you want to hear the old he um the whole him just you can get uh hymns by Pastor Roberts in the bookstore so uh that'll never never happen by the way Okay so how can you I the the my email was I'm thinking about you concerned about you but I said we need to do two things hope in God and pray so how can you hope in God and pray I want to go back to Ephesians 6 and I want to show you something that's going to just absolutely blow your way it this is going to blow you away because I'm going to then combine it with the Colossians all right Ephesians 6 where we started for we do not wrestle against flesh and blood but against principalities against powers now we know that's referring to demonic forces all right we know that rulers of the darkness of the sage spiritual hosts of wickedness in the Heavenly places we know it's referring to and talks about having done all to stand stand there for and oh okay okay principalities and Powers principalities and Powers demonic forces now I'm going to ask you a question please do not answer out loud okay don't answer out loud just answering your in your mind okay principalities and powers are demonic forces who's the head of demonic forces now hold on don't answer out loud Prince fountains and powers can you can you say just say it please say principalities and Powers one more time principalities and Powers and those are demonic forces I'm going to read you two verses now that we know these verses and we say them but we don't read the second part of the second verse we don't say it we actually quote the first the first the first verse and the first part of zane verse but the second part now Prince baptism powers are demonic forces everyone remember that hello okay Colossians 2 verse 9 for in him that's Christ dwells all the fullness of the godhead bodily and you are complete in him who is the head of all principality and power I'm telling you he's the king of kings and the Lord of lords he's the head of all the whole universe everything Jesus and Satan are not fighting Satan is a created being and Jesus is still the Lord he's the Lord he's gone he is gone you don't have to be afraid of the devil okay what's your name all right just keep standing I had a closing illustration but it's not that good now it was good but now it's not that good huh right to note save this one for another message all right close your eyes will you ask the Holy Spirit like we do every week Lord what are you saying to me through this message just take a moment or what are you saying to me through this message there's there's fear in our nation right now and we have tension and disunity like we've never probably never had in our nation and we know the answer we're the people of God the answer is not a a an El an elephant or a donkey it's a lamb it's a lamb named Jesus Christ so we the people of God need to pray let's just go into a season of Prayer not anxiety as the people of God lord I want to tell you thank you we know there are principalities and powers in this world but we thank you that you are Lord you are still on the throne you are God and we come to you as the people of God and we pray for our nation God we pray for the unrest in our nation we pray for the strongholds that the enemy is trying to to put in our nation against freedom of religion freedom of a speech freedom of assembly God we pray God that you will bring a Revival that's the only thing that's going to help our nation is a Revival of the Holy Spirit and people coming to Christ and coming to Faith so Lord is the people of God I pray that you will take this message and light a fire under us that we will come to the throne room of God every day and we will pray thy will be done on Earth as it is in heaven thy kingdom come in Jesus name amen hey everyone I'm Pastor Robert and thank you so much for watching my YouTube channel be sure to share what God is teaching you in the comments below so that might encourage others and click the Subscribe button and then tap the Bell icon so that you'll be notified every time a new video is posted and don't forget you can watch full episodes anytime right here on my YouTube channel thanks again for watching

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Length: 30min 20sec (1820 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 25 2023