Ep. 33 - Extended Prayer (feat. Taylor Fish)

that's when we decided that night that time liit there was gonna be a time limit on some people now if it's like brother Morgan take five hours if you went like but bro he is such a beast man oh he is so awesome I went to his house two days ago and in SF yeah and he was just like like you could tell like he was weary because of all his hell stuff but bro up here he was just like with it popping bro he's like I've had a lot of time to study he just started hitting me I'm like he's funny say kill are are you guys down to go eat afterwards bro I mean that depends on when we get done you know okay don't feel pressure but if you had time you got to work tomorrow take you out yeah but later on so I can s okay don't feel pressure I'm just here with cuz like cuz we we would like to treat you to dinner nothing fancy y'all don't have to treat us man okay well we we want to but it'd be cool to hang out cuz I remember we tried to treat brother Morgan and we tried to pay and you like no he paid like bro like you literally came over here but okay he drove from San Francisco yeah but he was and you didn't pay no no no no he was that mess he was getting he was getting paid by CC he was getting he was preaching that next morning FC yeah he was no he was in Stockton okay all right we'll pray intro talk and then we'll get to the point sound good this is going be a fun podcast okay every other podcasts that I've done like you know like biblow the restoration and stuff like that I gotta be like official I'm an evangelist you know I got to be a but I see this dude driving cars in a Ravine and stuff so I'm just like man here we go that was so sad okay oh well that's how the mini died what I killed it by water what's wrong with it I mean it's messed up right now I drove it through two huge like things of water and it killed it so what are you going to do Uber I don't I've been borrowing people I'm borrowing Gabby's car right now been borrowing people's cars man so the Lord will provide in the name of Jesus I give you the glory and praise in Jesus name okay this is episode 33 of out of the boat and today we have tayor fish somebody somebody keeps telling me I've had like three people tell me it's Tyler definitely Taylor okay that's what I thought it's Taylor fish um man that mini conversation would have been a great that what oh that mini how I killed my mini well why don't you just go ahead and share that with the crow the mini that you saw out there that was so nice everybody can learn what not to do not run your car through two big bodies of water this is the third or fourth car that I've killed by water um the you know it's stick shift it was so fun it's like a little go-kart you need to get on on the phone with an insurance supervisor I tried it's not going to work work um so how long are you out here I have been here uh since I've been in California since the third week of um since the third week of January oh wow you've been here for a while preaching in Alam um few few other places here but a head back south on the 19th to soal no no I mean like South South Texas yeah oh okay okay okay yeah headed back back to Texas so you were here during Landmark but you I was here during landmark in like 2021 it's I me like but this year yeah yeah I was but I didn't make it over you didn't make pit stop no I didn't I was I was preaching in North Carolina that week so I flew out and came back so oh okay okay okay sounds good so you and your whole family's out here yeah my wife and my four children the school of fish you know I've got school ofish he seven um he loves Legos um then we've got Abigail she is four and she loves dolls and purses and heels and everything girly she is the perfect uh girly girl and then I've got Elias who is two and uh we have a newborn named Anna so we've got the whole fish fam out here and we travel you United States in a big old van and oh really you guys don't fly you've been driving well you know we try to stay together 95% of the time so that's cool that's the plan you know I may I may do like a a youth deal or something like a one night deal and I fly out but um I had someone call me the other day about doing a youth camp and he said man we can't wait to have you we're going to fly you and I said well I said bro you know we uh we're five plane ticket so if you fly me out you'll have to cancel one of your speakers and uh change locations because we're so expensive to fly out so um anyway we typically drive everywhere we go just you know we do have such a big family and uh we really do try to stay together so that's that's good that's what we do do you do you like California yeah I love California I really like the food um man y you guys have some of the best Asian food in the world here you know really I was say really I've never thought you were G to bring up Mexican well I've never eaten really here in Stockton but oh San Francisco area I'm just eating you haven't taken him to get Mexico well this is my this is my first time in Stockton in a long time so well Stockton's not really known for the Mexican food but yeah you know the LA there's some good here but you haven't taken them any oh I think the last meal that I remember here in Stockton is when we came in like it was like 20 um I say 21 it was before that um that was a while back and we were staying in this like rundown linga in and we had the breakfast and it was really bad so that's the last that's the last meal that I remember um here in Stockton but good who knows maybe we'll find some good Mexican food or something there there is a good Mexican place that if it's open we'll still we'll go because they're open to like I think 130 or something the Bay Area is really known for its Asian food and it's Indian food like a lot of different eth bro is he on the podcast right now basically I guess kind of they can hear him in the back we got to like get him in I know for real bring the chair in very extra mic do we I don't know where it is it's kind it's kind of light now right I know darn you should have spoke up sooner you looking at me I know I'm like like you're gonna speak uper um okay well that's good maybe we'll go to some Mexican afterwards um so today Taylor is going to bring the topic of extended prayer hey and before I get into that I want to just encourage everybody to go follow this guy's Instagram profile this is this is my favorite Instagram follow that I have I cannot tell you how many times I cannot tell you how many times I've just you know we we get done with a service or whatever we're driving home whatever we're just winding down and I and I see him post just some abs absolutely crazy thing like I don't know hanging from a skyscraper or you know driving a vehicle into a ravine I feel like so why don't you just like share your go ahead and share your handle so we'll we'll know was it honey slicer what it's honey slicer yeah and I actually you know I I just found out why it you know honey cut I literally I told my wife I said you know honey slicer just asked me to to be on on his podcast she's like you should do it she said okay well I'll do it you know and my wife is like a super podcaster she listen all podcast she has her own podcast all that stuff but anyway listening her podcast at his feet with Cindy fish oh wow at his feet with Cindy fish that sounds cool it's really like a ladies podcast but either way uh but honey cut honey slicer it just clicked today a lot of people don't realize that it just clicked today so I was a little slow I don't know three or four years slow on that but here we are so yeah we can talk about extended um if you want to whatever you feel to start you can do yeah so um thank you for you know I I've been on several podcasts and it turns out you know it's usually interviews and um asking questions about my story or different things but you kind of allowed me to bring a topic yeah and um I kind of preached this morning on this in Alam and uh I really think it's I really think it's something I think it's a subject that many of us need to to get a hold of you know this is such a um man this is such a a visually driven generation you know um it's always about what you see and Instagram and social social media and being seen and being known that's really that's kind of the Trap that I I guess this generation has fallen into uh but I wanted I wanted to bring the subject of uh of extended prayer time and um you know I do believe in consistent prayer you know um there are some things you're you're only going to get by being consistent but um outside of that now now I don't want to I don't want to get I don't want to trade one for the other right I don't want to trade extended prayer time for for consistent prayer time or consistent prayer time for extended prayer time we need both you know but there are times um that really we need to recognize the call of prayer and clear the schedule yeah recognize the the call to prayer clear the schedule and say God I'm not putting a time limit on this I'm just going to lock in with you as as long as it takes to to get you know what I you know to to get where I want to get what I want um you know you you hear I've had the opportunity to preach for a lot of Elders and I've heard a lot of those old stories about the prayer meetings that that went on for hours and hours and the visions and the dreams that came and the angel that walked in the room for for that you know from that uh we've got to we've got to graduate Beyond just pre-service prayer you know we've got to graduate Beyond just you know 10minute prayer but we got to learn what it means to get lost in that place of prayer and really that's a subject that I want to bring today yeah I when you talk about this um I know before I came to CLC uh I don't know about you Jonathan but before I came here uh I thought you know I could pray could pray pretty long I was like I could pray a good 10 20 minutes something like that and I thought you know you know that was me travailing like I thought that was intercessory and so when I came here I remember one of the things that I want to do was like I want a deeper relationship with God I want a deeper prayer life and I they had a student body prayer night and people were yelling up the wall they were on the floor they were on the chair like everywhere and it was like okay like I can do this I sat down two minutes go by and I'm like oh my gosh like there's no music in here what are these people doing it went long story short went off for like 4 hours and I was miserable I was like this is horrible but then I was like but this is what I want like I I want this type of prayer life that's why I came here so I love the topic of extended prayer yeah so I kind of I kind of explain um you know there's there's a lot of people that get frustrated in their prayer life um I I think about in Luke five where um you need the Bible says that that Jesus walks up to a to a lake and there's there's two ships that are on the lake and he's teaching all the he he gets up and starts teaching all the boats and then he looks at he looks at Simon Peter and these fishermen that are just you know they've got tore up nets you know that the Bible says they are washing their Nets but if you look at other translations it said they were mending their Nets they're putting their Nets back together uh he looks at them he says Thrust out a little from the land and then we see again just a few verses later he before he's done teaching he looks and he says launch out into the deep how many messages have we heard it's time to launch out into the deep you know well I think there's something here that that that we can we can see and that is that the these fishermen they're mending their nets for a reason and that reason is because uh you know they have been they've been fishing in the shallow and their Nets have been dragging bottom Jesus tells them twice if you're going to get what you really want to get and you're going to you're going to get rid of this frustration that you keep having of dirty empty broken nets is you're going to have to go out to the Deep places where your nets do not drag bottom I think prayers I think prayer is the same way because um you kind of talked about first getting here and you know we've all we've all been in that rut of Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus holy holy holy holy worthy worthy worthy worthy mighty mighty mighty mighty you know U but at you know at the end of the day um at some point you got to realize the shallow does not work for me yeah you know the shallow is not going to get me what I want and the Bible says that when Jesus tells Simon the second time to really told him the same thing just a little bit different wording you know um he said Thrust out from the land and then secondly he said launch out into the deep really the same thing get out of the shallow and go go out there you know the Bible says that Peter looks at him and says Master we have told all night and taken nothing so let me put that in English for you Simon looks at him and says Jesus I really don't think there's one fish in this entire Lake you want to know why because shallow prayer shallow convictions a shallow walk with God will convince you there's really nothing else here for me wow I've fished all night I've tried this before it's just not it's not working but Jesus was saying you've got to go further than you've than you've ever been you've got to you've got to launch out there and and truthfully um until you until you try this until until you press yourself push yourself to get to this point uh of deep prayer um there's always going to be a frustration there David said David said that he gave himself to prayer but I will give myself to prayer um he didn't say I'm going to casually pray but he said I'm going to give myself to the flow of prayer there is a place that we can all go in prayer where time limits are not a challenge words are not a challenge but you reach a FL and uh I I've kind of explained it like this uh kind of you know talking about talking about Jesus telling the disciples you know at the lake to go a little further and obviously when they when they go out to the to the center of the when they go out to the center of the lake they have such a catch you know and I understand I know the miraculous was involved in that but it happened in the Deep places not in the shallow places yeah you know uh how many times do we we walk in on Sunday and say God God you see my dirty broken empty net Will You Mend it and then he puts it back together and here comes Monday Tuesday and we're just shallow living again yeah and come Wednesday we're convinced there's nothing out there for us and and we can't we can't catch anything and there really all this calling thing you know I guess it's not for me and the gifts of the Spirit yeah that's for some gray-haired people in my church but I guess it's not for me you know uh truthfully there's an intensity there there's an intensity that we can all tap into there's another version of oursel that we all have a 2.0 right we all have a a 2.0 we all have a version of our s that is on fire that's prayed up that can get in that place of prayer and stay as long as it takes for God to download and in that place of intercession is as long as it takes to to break whatever barrier in your city you need to that needs to be broken some things only come through extended prayer uh extended prayer time you know I I I look at I I I look back at my life and you know y'all have y'all have pretty beaches here in California u i gu I guess you've been down to Galveston oh the flesh eating Beach yeah galvaston Texas I'm like I'm like an hour I don't know like an hour north of galvaston an hour from the Gulf down there and it's just man ugly beaches man it looks like you're I don't know it looks like you're swimming in chocolate milk or something but um man I remember as a kid that my mother would always tell me she would say uh she would say Taylor you know be careful when you go out you know be careful when you go out to the beach we'd go out we'd wait out and she'd be like don't go too far because there's a you know there's a there's a drop off out there and she you know she told me the she told me the stories of all the kids that got taken away and they never saw them again right you know and U I know stuff like that has happened but um I I remember what it was like to to get out there and the waves being pushing against me you know the waves hitting me and it's almost a challenge to get out that far you know but once you once your feet reach that drop off if you were to step off the exact opposite effect happens and you are pulled in the opposite direction prayer is the exact same way you know prayer is the exact same way um we've got to learn how to deal with the struggle of prayer we got to learn how to invite and embrace that struggle of prayer because there's a side of me and a side of you and a side of you and you that does not want to pray there's a side of us that you know Paul Paul taught Paul told the Corinthians in church he said he said you know I bring my body into subjection yeah let me put that in English for you there's a part of me that does not want to pray you know there's a part of me that wants to you know wants to do everything else that pray but but pray there's a part of me that wants to PR to play Xbox for three hours there's a there's a part of me that wants to you know scroll Instagram for 3 hours there's a part of me that you know wants to you know just hang out with friends friends till till midnight what whatever you know um but Paul made it very clear he said I bring it in subjection yeah purposely he said I'm wrapping my arms I'm wrapping my arms around my life and I'm getting myself to an altar I'm getting myself to that place of prayer and U you know if you will I've learned that if you will push past the waves you know if you'll push past the frustration there's going to get a point in your prayer where you reach the drop off there's going to become there's going to be a point in your prayer where you go from you know all the distractions and everything hitting you and pushing you back there's going to be a PO a point in your prayer where you get carried away you know people look and you see somebody get carried away and pray just oh man they just got carried away you see people praying for a long periods man they just must be carried away there is a point point that you can that you get where words are not a are not a challenge you reach that flow you begin to pray in the spirit you begin to pray in the Holy Ghost and it begins to it begins to carry you away and you know I I challenge every listener that you have to to do their best to to get to that drop off in prayer and again um I don't want extended prayer over uh consistent prayer I don't want consistent prayer overextended prayer there are sometimes that I'm going to you know I'm going to need to wake up in the morning get to that place of repentance and pray Lord lead me for my day who do I who who do you want me to lead who do you want to lead me to you know um but then there are other times when there are other times when the call of prayer so real and God is saying I want you to lock in with me for a while there's some you know we're living in a world that we're living in a world that is begging for overtime yeah you know and in in Major League be in Major League Baseball it's Extra Innings that man people love Extra Innings you know and in in the NFL people they you know they they scream for overtime take it to overtime you know U you know and and and World in music you know they they scream for Encore one more song a little bit longer yeah but it seems like in in this generation we can be so fast-paced um we can you you know we can be so accessible to everyone else that we miss that extended time that extended prayer time yeah with with God and I I'll tell you there's some things that God has only put in me because I've been with him you know we you you see um you see in Acts chapter you know Acts chapter number four after the miracle of the man at the gate called Beautiful the lame man where you know we know that that Peter says Silver and Gold Have I None such as I have give out thee in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk you know he stands before he stands before the counsil there's all these powerful men and you know they can't argue with the miracle that was happening that happened and um it looked and it said you know they basically they take they took note of him because of them because they they had seen they knew that they had been with Jesus yeah can you say that can can can someone say that about my Ministry Can someone say that about your ministry you know of course we're Apostolic of course we believe that but have we been with him you know yes we've been buried in his name but have we been with him have we spent time with him and um I really think that that's a that is such a for this fastpaced generation there's a call to slow down and locking with God yeah what would be I know this might sound like Elementary but for those of who don't like have a a consistent prayer life or a long I guess like long time in prayer it's like five minutes like that's just it that's long for them as 10 minutes and stuff what would you say to that person to build up to the extended prayer cuz I know even for me I'm so distracted so easily yeah yeah well I mean I think the first thing would be I'd say what are you distracted by right that phone needs to go on airplane mode point you know at the you know when you're trying to lock in with God for extended time you need to put that phone on airplane mode yeah you know when I get on a airplane they're like you need to put that you put your phone on airplane mode I never do that well what I they're like before we take off before we get to 30,000 ft that's what you got to do well it's kind of like and I'm not saying I always do there there are times that you know I have it on there but and somebody comes to my heart you know and I'll text them and say hey I'm praying for you you know yeah but I I will say that just like that airplane going you know breaking through the clouds and going to that next level sometimes we got to do the same thing to get to that next level of prayer you know yeah um but you know obviously before you I mean God would God would rather you pray pray 20 minutes a day every day than he would you pray for five hours one day yeah you know so um consistent again like I said I don't want one over the other but um one thing that I would say is I think it's important that we learn to pray in the spirit yeah that's kind of a old school term you know um there's several times that you know I I preached on praying in the spirit at a youth camp not long ago and I'm telling you God just took that service to another level because for whatever reason this it's it's either not being taught or it's just old lingo but um you know people are uh if we would learn to pray in the spirit and get to that place where words are not a challenge you know when you're praying in the Holy Ghost um the Bible says he that speaketh an unknown tongue speaketh not unto man but unto God when when you're speaking in that unknown tongue it's a direct connection between you and God you know um he that speaketh an unknown tongue speaketh Mysteries is what the the scripture says you know um so there is that place in prayer that you can get where you know so many times I get to that place of prayer and I do run out of words we've all been there that's a good indicator you know what it's time to quit speaking English yeah and it's time to pray in the Holy Ghost it's trying it's time to let that let that tongue speak it's time to let God stand up and pray through you and speak through you and um bro I I I remember when I was when I was very young 15 years old praying in a prayer closet that I learned what it meant to pray in the Holy Ghost I doubled and tripled my prayer time praying in the Holy Ghost you know and still to this day um just kind of practical things out you know sometimes I Pace sometimes I lay in my face there's there's a lot of I mean I don't think we have a problem with the posture of prayer some people sit some people kneel you know people do different things but I I feel like a lot of times people have not quite found their voice in prayer yet you know maybe they don't project maybe they don't lift their voice you know um you know your passion is found in that place of prayer you know you got I've heard all these I've heard all these young preachers they're like man I I just I need to I need a preacher voice you know I need a preacher voice well I tell them you can find your preacher voice in prayer yeah you know I I I preach the same that with the same passion that I pray with you pray with you know yeah um I find that flow I found that flow through prayer extending time with God and man it doesn't take long for you know you praying in praying in English for for five minutes and the next thing you know something tap in TAPS in and you feel that flow and you praying the Holy Ghost for the next 10 minutes now you're at 15 minutes and then yeah then you pray you know five you pray five more minutes maybe maybe you're calling out you know calling out names people you're praying for and here comes another flow and here goes another 10 minutes and guess what now you're you're praying in the Holy Ghost again speaking in tongues and now you're at the 30 minute Mark you know it's kind of an alternating alternating deal there you know so this this sounds horrible but I feel like maybe I have forgotten the importance of praying in tongues and praying in the spirit because there'll be a lot of times yeah I'm praying and I'm I'm speaking English and stuff and then if I don't have like anything to say or I'm ending a thought or something like I'm like okay now like God you pray about it and like I I'll pray in the spirit for a little bit for literally like maybe a minute yeah and then after that like okay like I move on to my next topic that I talk about and I feel like I've lost I guess the importance of or the meaning of it is to pray in the spirit well let me let me say this and I I think oh man I'm I'm so glad you brought that up because um I believe praying in the spirit is the greatest weapon we have as the church period it's the greatest weapon for intercession it's the greatest weapon to push back Darkness uh you know I mean who's felt the burden in the middle of the night for someone all of us you know how how many times do a name came to you or a city came to you or a nation came to you and you know I've got to pray right now but you didn't know what to pray about yeah you know you you maybe you had the name but you said man I got to pray for Jonathan I don't know if I need to pray for you know his job is his family or his love life I don't know I don't know what I don't I don't know what I need to Target I don't know what I need to Target here but I want to read this um Romans 8 and 26 the same Paul that that wrote in 1 Corinthians 14 he that speaketh an unknown tongue speaketh not unto man but unto God God but but by the spirit he speaketh Mysteries what benefit is it to you or I to speak Mysteries why would we want to speak Mysteries you know I hate mystery novels I don't read mystery novels for anybody that's out there that reads mystery novels I'll give you a tip just read like the last two chapters and you got the mystery you know just start out that way but why would you or I want to you know speak Mysteries well Roman Romans 826 likewise the spirit ALS also helpeth our infirmities one translation there speaks of weakness helpeth our infirmities infirmities that's weakness we have a weakness what is our weakness our weakness is we are not all knowing sometimes we don't know here it goes for we know not what we should pray for as we ought I got a burden in the middle of the night but I don't know what to pray for I got a burn God God shook me in the middle of the night and says man pray for Jonathan right now man pray for pray for my grandfather right now pray for whoever right now and it says for we know not what what we should pray for as we ought but the spirit capital S what is that that's the Holy Ghost but the spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered okay I I want to read this in the Amplified version do y'all like the Amplified version I reference it occasionally oh I I usually uh if I really don't understand something I hate to say it I'll I might look at the message version Hey listen forget the message easy to read version is actually really good what is called easy to read RV easy to read e RV I'm telling you everybody check it out but check this out Amplified version it says in the same way the spirit comes to us and helps us in our weakness watch this we do not know what prayer to offer or how to offer it as we should but the spirit himself knows our need and at the right time intercedes on our behalf with sigh and groanings Too Deep for words well launch out into the deep go into the deep places there's a place that I can go in prayer where words are not a challenge and I don't even have to know what I'm praying for but if I will get you know praying in the spirit how do you pray in the spirit just very simple if if I'm if Chris if I if I'm praying for you I would I would close my eyes I would focus my mind on on Chris and I'd be like I begin to pray Lord I pray that you would move in his life I pray that you would touch him God you see everything that's going on until I reach that flow and then I would focus my mind on you and to speak in that unknown tongue and what happens well let's let's read let's read the next verse the Bible says and he that searches the searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the spirit watch this because he maketh intercession for the Saints according to the will of God so here it is when I'm praying in the spirit I'm praying the will of God every time how do I pray and never miss how do I pray pray and just be a sharpshooter every time how do I pray and pray the exact will of God I pray in the Holy Ghost That's The Power of praying in the Holy Ghost verse 28 wait a minute this is this is a t-shirt scripture this is a Bel this is a billboard scripture and we know that all things work together for good to them that love God to them who are the the called according to his purpose who knew that that scripture was located on the tail end of Paul speaking about praying in the holy ghost things begin to work together when we pray in the Holy Ghost wow things begin to connect when we pray in the holy ghost things begin to connect when we get lost and we we lose track of time and we say God I'm going to stay here and pray in the Holy Ghost as long as it takes there is is a call to praying in the Holy Ghost there is a call to Extended time with God wow so I feel like my best prayer meetings have happened in a car and I remember I was dropping up a friend at the airport and there was traffic coming back so it's was going to be like an hour and a half coming back to campus and after I dropped them off of the airport like I made up in my mind like I'm going to pray the whole way and go deeper and for like 20 minutes I couldn't hit anything like I felt discouraged I felt like I was talking to a wall had no Goosebumps no emotions like it was just dry but I kept on pushing pushing pushing and I finally got to a place where boom something broke it's the drop off I was groing in the spirit literally this is dangerous not that I say that a lot but I was crying and I'm driving to this traffic I'm crying my eyes are closed there's a time where maybe like 10 minutes go by and I open my eyes I'm like oh shoot like where am I you know I recommend driving with your eyes open no yeah but like literally like I was just FL something broke so my question for you is if you could just not really a question but if you have any stories where you hit a wall and once you pass that wall like something broke like well you know man truthfully um I try to man you know when when Paul said pray without ceasing right that obviously that does not mean to pray 24 hours a day 365 like yeah pray without never quit praying I mean we'd be praying right now right that's what that meant but really I I think what you know what Paul was talking about is to never leave that that Spirit of prayer like I guess it'd be like there's always going to be a time that you have to pray like there's going to be a call that comes there's going to be an emergency like man I have a family full of backsliders or or people far away from God you know I'm the I I've got four of the brothers and you know I'm the only one living living for God uh and and my I had a brother that ran away and never came back like really just a crazy crazy home life but uh you know today it's like I I mean I'm the family prayer Warrior you know like my brother's a preacher so I need to call him because something's went you know there's always going to be an emergency I think when we look at praying without ceasing what does it mean well when the Call Comes how long does it take you to tap into to that flow you know there's always going to be a time that we have to pray and the moment we have to pray is not to say oh God I need you to cleanse me forgive me of all my sin that's not the time to repent right you better be in you better have a a close enough walk with God and a you better be in a good enough flow of prayer that that you can tap into what God is was doing now hey for instance you know we see in we see in back to acts three uh we're going to wear acts three out tonight but back to acts three the Bible says that you know uh Peter and John are are on their way to the they're on their way to the temple The Hour of Prayer and there's the man with the there's the lame man you know it's The Hour of Prayer they're on their way to it there's a miracle opportunity silver and gold Have I None such as I have give I Thee in the name of Jesus Christ Nazareth rise up and walk all of a sudden his feet and ankle bones gain strength he grabs him by the hand and God you know God heals him but he I guess I guess this is my point they were on their way to The Hour of Prayer like they a they haven't prayed yet right they're on their way to prayer but they had enough in the bank from yesterday gotta they had they had been praying enough to where while they're on their their way to The Hour of Prayer God does God does the miracle God still honors it it doesn't it doesn't take long for them to tap in they've got they're full of the Holy Ghost they're full of Faith yeah you know so I said all of that to answer your question say um there I mean I can't count the instances where you know I woke up and you know or I was and I was tired and I had to press through or I was late I I I I was at the church late at night and the first 10 minutes I I didn't even feel A tingle you know the first and I'm just crying out to God you know I think you know and obviously we we want to feel God we want to hear the voice of God and you get to that place of extended prayer yes God's going to I believe man God will give you visions and dreams and God will reveal things to you and um man I mean them things happen in in the Deep places of God but I mean you don't just start out praying in the Deep places of God I guess that's what I what my point is is that I mean I mean some days it's it's easier than others you know sometimes there's been times that I was so consistent in prayer at the same time I remember a a a season specifically where I was preaching Revival closer to home and I was actually able to pray in my house in my office area that I had and you know I I was praying at 5:00 a.m. every morning I'm really a late night prayer that's really what I am but I had felt God challenged me in this season when I was close to home to pray you know to pray early in the mornings and um man I I'll never forget one day that you know I had i' had prayed like three or four days consistently that early and really that was a major feat for me because I'm not a morning person at all like don't talk to me in the morning or I'll punch you in the face but but anyway that I remember like that that fifth day um I I went to that place of prayer and I knelt down I went to open my mouth and before I could even pray he was there and his presence was there and he began to talk to me first and it was just it was so amazing that consistent you know that that consistent day after day same time same place you know the Bible says that Daniel went to the window same time every day you know that three times a day but um anyway you know sometimes it's it's it's easier than it's easier to tap in than uh than others but at the same time um yes I pray because the Lord is my friend and yes I pray because I want to hear his voice and yes I want to pray I pray because I know it's effective but also I respect the place of prayer enough to know I don't have to feel something to keep going yeah does that make sense like I have to keep pressing regardless because there is something that that's going to break through and there are times that that it's happened to me that God pulls back and says all right how you you have I've just been downloading and you've been filling all kinds of Holy Ghost and my voice has been speaking and there's been revelation but I'm going how bad do you want me I'm going to pull back it's going to take you a little bit more and I've got a you know sometimes it's Thanksgiving you know verbal Bean verbal bean and and his book prayer I don't know if y'all read that's absolutely unbelievable but he talks about the different channels of prayer that God wants different things sometimes God wants supplication sometimes God wants Thanksgiving sometimes God wants you to start an intercession and you kind of just got to go visit the different channels of prayer and see what it is that God is wanting maybe he just wants maybe he just wants you to worship him maybe he there's times that I start praying I get to asking asking God for things I I just realized like I'm not getting through today like I need to change my Approach because I haven't even said I love you yet you know so um prayer I mean the i i prayer is not just something thing you do prayer is a place you go you know prayer is uh prayer is a place you go it's prayer is a place somewhere between Heaven and Earth you can't find it on the map you know we have a place of prayer but you go to that you go to that place of prayer and it's a place in the spirit yeah so earlier you had talked about praying in the spirit I told you this going to be a two-hour podcast it's fine I how far we I actually have no idea but I know that you had said something something about um praying in the spirit for the things that we do not know pray for we not know what we should pray for as we ought it do you think okay say I have a family member that's sick yeah or say they have a broken leg oh yeah okay I pray for them in English is there a point that sounds dumb I don't want to sound dumb but is there a point in praying for them in the spirit like it's just a broken leg I know what it is in Jesus name heal the broken leg do you know what I mean or is there like let's say in are you asking which one's more powerful okay if there's a point praying in the Holy Ghost yeah let me let me use a more real example well let let me let me say this I I I think it's so I mean I think it go it flows together so much like truthfully man when I'm Pray when I'm praying there's typically not a time that I'm not praying in the spirit somewhere like you know um I I mean I pray in the spirit every day yeah you you know um so when I'm praying when I'm praying for my when I'm praying for my dad I I you know I'll talk in English and then I then I I know there's some things that I I don't know how God's going to do it and I don't know everything that's going on there and I don't know all the details but when I pray in the Holy Ghost I pray the details does that make sense yeah and I can't tell you how many times that we've had like a healing service or something and we got people all over and people are like pray for my leg you know I blew my knee out or whatever you know and you're praying for them and you know but then someone comes up and you don't even know the need and you lay hands on them and said Lord you know I speak a miracle into this body you begin to speak in tongues and pray in the Holy Ghost and God somehow as you praying the Holy Ghost ministered to that need directly and that that person gets healed completely and you didn't even know what you were praying for that's what said don't know the prayer to pray you know you see we have a man we have a knowing problem we just want to know right we want to know you know oh pray for this pray for this person you they got this going on AK you just gossiped is what you did that happens oh bro that happens all the time but uh anyway I I what what I was what I'm saying is I think it just goes hand in hand and you know I think pray for uh you know pray the details you know and don't stress over the details you don't know and you know pray in the Holy Ghost and God makes up the difference I mean I mean we get the choice either we can pray and with with not really knowing and just we can just guess and say Lord touch their family touch their finances touch their car touch the you know or we can pray in the Holy Ghost and pray the direct will of God yeah whatever it may be I don't know if this is off topic but I I think it's kind of on topic um talking about going deeper and I know some people and I've had some friends where um they have the Holy Ghost but they feel like them speaking in tongues is just so I guess I would call it the early stages of like um the Holy Ghost I guess you would say yeah and they've been like you know they've been having questions like shouldn't my tongue like mature like you know go deeper or something like that and you're talking about going deeper in the spirit do you think once you get into that deeper extended prayer and you go on that drop off that their tongue can change bro oh absolutely so let let me let me say this so you know Titus spoke about a renewing of the Holy Ghost right um Jesus you know he said How's it Mark 16:16 he that believeth in is baptized shall be saved he that believeth not shall be down these signs shall follow them that believe in my name shall they cast out Devils they shall speak with new tongues it's not referring to the new yeah oh yeah new tongues he spoke of a tongue that never got old you know so this is what I say I have there's I mean there's been times that I mean it's happened since I was a young boy I received the Holy Ghost when I was eight years old and there were several times that while praying that you know it was like another level came and a whole new whole new baptism of the Holy Ghost came a whole new anointing and I begin to speak a completely different tongue you know I had I had not spoken before you know I yeah and it was almost like the old tongue and the new tongue kind of combined and then that happened again it was almost like it sounds funny but it's almost like your Holy Ghost vocabulary is just growing you but uh you know yeah yeah man I mean I I've seen the I've seen the new convert it's almost like I mean I've heard them praying and it's like that same that same tongue over and over and over and over and it's you know can almost I mean if you're in prayer meeting they their next year almost be annoying because it's the same same thing right but I've also seen those same ones who was committed to prayer and committed to Extended time become the ones that that flow and and you know are some of the greatest prayer warriors that that that that church had ever known because they just kept pressing it and at at first it just see it just seemed like a little nothing but it just grew and grew and grew you know and uh hope that answers your question it does but also now I have another one on top of that do you think that that person that everyone should mature and speak in different tongue or is it fine if they just like that for the rest of their life man I I I think think you know I think you've got to get a fresh dose of the Holy Ghost you know it's kind of like it's kind of like you know my car out there you know um I mean you you put gas in it one time I can't drive from here to Texas you know I've got to get it re I got to get refilled you know I got to keep keep pursuing the gas station right it's kind of the same way um just keep pursuing God and being getting full of the Holy Ghost stay keep getting that you know that Holy Ghost fuel I guess you would say and uh bro I I'm just I'll just tell you this man I'm under the you know the opinion that if you are committed to prayer and you're committed to you know espe you know extended prayer and praying every day until you reach that breakthrough moment and it's going to happen it's just going to happen I won't say naturally cu the Holy Ghost is not natural but it'll just happen supernaturally you know what I'm saying that you will grow it's going to happen you're going to grow gotcha gotcha so that answers my question the only other question that I had was about Moses and Joshua so when Moses and Joshua you mean Aaron no it's it's Joshua okay okay what Joshua um in Exodus 3311 it says no start at 10 and all the people saw the Cloudy pillar stand at the Tabernacle door and all the people rose up and worshiped every man in his tent door and the Lord spake unto Moses face to face as a man speaketh unto his friend and he turned again into the camp but his servant Joshua the son of nun a young man departed not out of the Tabernacle why do you think Joshua stayed in the tent man yeah so it's cool that you ask this because um I've got a message that I've never preached before that I'm I'm actually working on from this verse see I've got it underlining everything and uh I think I'm going to call it teach me to T okay you know the Bible says that that Joshua departed not out of the Tabernacle so let's let's start at the beginning and the Lord spake unto Moses face to face as a man speaketh unto his friend you know Moses has such a unique powerful relationship with God that all of us just desire right you know the Lord spoke to him face to face as as a friend you know it was friendship with God you know we see or we we see earlier in the scripture that the Bible says that um that God tells Moses he says Moses there is a place by me well we look in Isaiah 43 I think it is and he says beside me there is no savior you know and then Isaiah 44 he says you know beside me there is no God there is no other God beside me well but then you know we we see in Exodus where he looks at at Moses and he says there's a place by me so let's put that in English there's a seat beside me and it's not reserved for a savior it's not reserved for some other God but it's reserved for my friend there is a place beside me for my friend there's a place that you can get close to me and I I can talk to you and you can talk to me it was communion it was it was communion it was um it was not just a one-way conversation he spoke as his friend so here it highlights that that the Lord spoke unto Moses face to face as a man speaking on his friend then the Bible says that Joshua departs not out of the Tabernacle I think it's like this so Joshua he's the young man and he sees you know Joshua sees the Elder generation MH he looks at the Elder generation he said man I've heard all the stories you know I mean at this point you know we're at the point I mean Moses is a bad dude at this point everybody knows man this is the dude that walked up into Pharaoh's Court you know this is the dude I mean I'm you know Moses he's hold he's holding his staff right and Joshua's just looking at him like that joker dip that you know he dipped that staff into the Waters of Egypt and it turned to blood all the water Waters that's a bad dude right there you know he took that staff and he stretched it over the Red Sea and it parted you know he's heard all of the stories and you know that we we we see this Joshua who obviously you know he's gon to he's going to go to he's going to March around the walls of Jericho and he's going to see one of the greatest he's going to see one of the greatest victories that you know he's going to see one of the greatest victories that the people of God have ever known you know the walls fall but we're not there yet we're at the young stage of of Joshua you know we're at the young stage of Joshua and and Joshua's like man I've heard the victories and I've heard these I've heard these burning bush experiences that you know that Moses had and I I heard how Moses hid in the Cliff of The Rock and you know God showed him his hinder Parts aka the first few books of the Bible you know that he wrote and I've got a have something like that yeah I'm not leaving till I get my moment you know I've got to have a God moment I cannot leave that I can't you know I know everybody else is leaving but there was there was a hunger on the inside of Joshua that says I want my own stories I want my own voice I want my own connection with God I've heard about the old man talking face to face but I want to I I know that God calls him friend but I I want to be a friend and really bro at the end of the day I think that's where all of this starts cuz Joshua was in extended prayer time yeah you know it starts with Hunger it starts with saying I'm so sick and tired of just being me yeah I'm so sick and tired of just being normal I'm so you know I'm so sick and tired of feeling called and not really doing anything with that I'm So Tired of Dreaming you know dreams become reality when you lock in with God and you say I'm not leaving but yeah man that's such a that's such a powerful story but to me it shows you know this generation here this younger generation you know even myself who have you know we've looked at I mean I mean look at you know we're here in Stockton look at the hany look at all the you know all the the hair her itage and but I mean where is the Joshua Among Us that is going to say okay I'm going to T I refuse to leave until I have an encounter yeah that was the I mean that was the the Jacob moment you know uh what is it it's it's Genesis Genesis 32 and Jacob was left alone and their rest a man with him under the breaking of day this is Genesis 3224 let's back up the Bible says he rose up that night he took his two wives and his two woman servants and his 11 sons and passed over the Ford javic and he took them and sent them over the brook and sent over that he had okay so we see him send every relationship he has over the brook cuz he Longs for for one relationship he sends he sends all his sons all his wives all his servants over the brook in verse 24 the most powerful verse of Jacob's life and Jacob was left alone let me let me tell you man I mean we're living in a generation that doesn't want to be left alone MH yeah I'm lonely I want to I want to go hang out with my friends you know I need my friends you know but I mean if you're going the Bible says he he wrestles with a man until the breaking of day you know I I've heard people say I mean there's people that say that that was an angel you know there's people say a lot of lot of things but to me I mean we look and we in verse 30 it says and Jacob called the name of the place panil for I have seen God face to face and my life is preserved who did he say he wrestled with he said he wrestled with God he said he wrestled with he would not let go of God he prayed all night long he wrestled all night long until he walked out with a blessing everybody wants to be changed from Jacob to Israel but some people just won't won't pray that long yeah everybody wants to be everybody wants to be changed from Jacob to Israel and everybody wants to have that you know that that moment where where God sets you up and God anoints you and God gives you a new name and God gives you a you know a a a new name and a fresh anointing but that does not come until you send all your other relationships over the brook and you say you know what God I've got to lock in with with you by myself alone you know man I there there's such a call in today's world I got to find the scripture go ahead and say something where I find the Scripture A lot of times when I think about um that extended prayer like praying all night long I'm like oh God like I feel like the Lord is uh if I say those words I'm not leaving here till I get something I know that he's going to make me stay there for like 12 hours so because of that I feel like I discourage myself I'm like no I'll give it an hour or two and then I don't like I hate saying this but like how do I find well I guess well I guess I say this I mean I mean I don't ever say okay I'm praying 12 hours you know it's more like I'm going to pray till the job's done you know I'm going to pray and until I reach till I know that that God's told me everything he's going to tell me you know um talking about being alone man God has just been nailing me with this scripture this it's the last two weeks John 1224 John 12:24 verily verily I say unto you except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die it abideth alone but if it die it bringeth forth much fruit so picture you know picture that for that farmer who plants his field you know you see this this corn of wheat it goes into the ground and it's covered up no one sees it it's covered up because it's covered up because it's alone it's by itself here comes the water it comes down Roots begin to grow and it a sprout of but here's the deal there would have never been any fruit it would have never grown it would have never you know I mean what it was supposed to be would never come to pass and without it going into that place of hiding yeah we don't know how to go into the place of hiding in 20124 we are so visible but the corn of wheat that falls into the ground is covered up Lord hide me in your presence Lord I'm not I'm putting everything on airplane mode I'm going to do the social media fast and the food in water fast yeah not just a social media fast there's something that's going to die in me and bro it's it's in the moments when you get along with God that he can really yeah bring something out of you but who's willing to you know who who's willing to to get to those places of being alone with God when you get alone with when you get alone with God that's when God does his best work you see Moses you see Adam you see Adam in the garden see Adam in the Garden of Eden you know God puts him to sleep and the first surgery happens he opens him up pulls a rib out of him and you you know creates woman Adam wakes up and says wo man so right yeah but really my point is I mean that was surgery but Adam was alone Adam was alone it was just him and God and God pulled things out of him that he didn't even know was there yeah God things begin to create be created out of him because of his moment of being alone with God and him yielding to the hands of the Creator I mean God could have said all right it's time to go to sleep Moses or Adam I keep saying Moses you got me messed up it's time to go to sleep Adam and Adam's like no God man I you know you told me to to dress and keep this Garden I've got to I've got to go work over here yeah God God's like no no like come come on get along with me no no no no I've got to go fix this over here but there's something that God's wanting to bring out of him that's you know that's about to change his life forever wow you know and um anyway that that them alone moments that extended time with God is what God is calling us to wow so basically if you don't ever get in those alone moments and get in deeper with God you're just not much is going to happen well truthfully man I mean we've got to you know and you know they took note of them that they had been with Jesus you know um the the most effective messages that are preached are not because they've got three great points that blow people's minds but it's because there's an an anointing that that they've been soaking in when nobody else saw you know it was uh not what they did on the stage but what what they did when no one saw that set the stage for what would happen when they got on the stage yeah and um you know I I'll tell this story and I don't know how long we went but I and I just want to encourage somebody to to lock in to to your place of prayer and be willing to um be willing to get get to that place of prayer and pray 10 minutes and not feel anything but keep going yeah keep pushing you know pushing past your flesh um pushing past that barrier until something breaks and you reach that drop off but I'll never forget it was several years ago I was um I was youth pastoring at my home church and I was evangelizing on the weekends and I was really kind of pulled between you know Youth pastoring and evangelizing I was trying to figure out God should I let go of Youth pastoring to evangelize should I let go of evangelizing so I can just continue youth pastor I didn't I was really pulled in multiple directions I was you know I was working a I was working a full-time job at that time and I I was just stretched man yeah which truly I believe there's a me and me and Clayton were talking about this but I believe there's a time in in every young Minister's life where you're just going to be stretched to the Max and God's going to say let's see what they're made of and see if they really want it well that's where I was you know and I was praying um for whatever reason I happen to be home in my home church between services on a Sunday uh you know between a Sunday morning and Sunday night and I was in the balcony of our church and I was you know I was the only one there I I didn't go to lunch I just H I just hung back and I'm going to lock in I'm going to talk to God until church and U man I was praying up in the balcony and my prayer was this I was asking God lord where is my place Lord where is my place God are is my place only evangelist field is my place youth pastoring these kids do you know I've been here for at that point it was like five and a half years or something Youth pastoring and I was saying God just make it clear to me I I want your will you know whatever it is you want me to do that's what I'll do and uh I kept saying I kept praying the the the phrase Lord what's my place where where is my place where is my place God reveal to me the pl the place that you have for me and bro I will never forget it I wrote this in my Bible and it just shook me so greatly because I was I was just really looking for answers you know and my my question was Lord what is my place and God spoke to me so clearly and he spoke to me and said the most neglected place in my kingdom is the secret place place and I stopped for a minute because that's not the answer I wanted you know I want to I want to know wait a minute God I'm looking for direction and God's like no make the secret place what it's supposed to be quit getting your eyes on on the road or our opportunities make the secret place what it's supposed to be and the rest is about to work out for you wow the most neglected place in the Kingdom of God is the secret place think about it when you know how how many people that do you know that say I feel I'm called to missions that's my place you know I feel I'm called to Pastor that's my place I feel like I'm called to to SoCal that's my place you know I feel like I'm called to youth pastor that's my place how many people do you know that say I feel like God's calling me to the secret place zero it's the most neglected PL we're we're trying to figure out what where you know what platform am I going to be on for music director what you know what nation am I supposed to go to aim what city am I supposed to go to assist that's you know that's that's really the the focus but God is saying there's a neglected place in the Kingdom you know the Bible says wondered why there was no intercessor you know it's the secret place it's the most neglected place in the kingdom of God and there is such a call in today's world to the secret place wow such a call and we've got to remove distractions um I I talked today and I don't know how long we're going but we're shooting for two hours here but um I talked today from I preach today from Matthew 26 and you know we we see this is this is Jesus he he's in the Garden of Gethsemane he tells us he you know he tells some of his disciples to hang back he brings Peter and scripture you know the two sons of zebede with him and this is you know this is like one this is probably the biggest prayer meeting in the Bible you know the the Flesh of Jesus is at war with the spirit you know and the you know the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak and Jesus is about to get in alignment with his you know with his purpose and his passion to take on the cross and he looks at I mean this is like the this is like the most critical moment in Jesus's life I mean without the Garden of Gethsemane without this prayer meeting the cross does not happen mhm you know um and he looks at Peter and he looks at the the two other disciples and he says you know uh he says Terry ye and and watch with me so basically he says stay awake let's t a while you know it's time for an extended prayer meeting is basically what he says yeah he goes and he prays and he's struggling man I mean it's spirit and it's flesh it's it's just there's just a war going on and he goes back and he finds them sleeping and he asks him he says can you not you know can you not pray with me one hour you know an hour you know that's that's an extended period of time he said such a critical moment in the spirit right now can you not pray with me one hour you know he go then he goes and he prays in he comes back and they're sleeping again and you know he gives them a little tidbit then he goes again he comes back and they're sleeping again and you know that that last time he just says you know what just go ahead and sleep on it's really it's one of the saddest scriptures that that I can find because he says you just missed your opportunity to pray with me wow you know yeah go ahead and sleep on you missed your opportunity to to pray with me and um you know there's always going to be distractions that hit us in The Hour of Prayer and here's the here's the truth um the truth is is that God will not take away your distractions only we can take away our distractions God's not going to remove our distractions from us we have to uh you know we have to choose there are some things that are leaving my life during this time of prayer you know and check this out man this is a this is a crazy scripture the Bible says that you know he tells them don't even worry about praying guys I got it basically you know in verse 50 it says and Jesus oh oh wait a minute back up um okay verse 48 now he that betrayed him gave them a sign this is Judas saying whomsoever I shall kiss that same is he hold hold him fast and for will he came to Jesus and said hell master and kissed him and Jesus said unto him friend wherefore art thou come you know he calls Judas friend but Judas really ain't a friend at this point really he's an old friend because he's you know he used to pray yeah in that place with Jesus if we look in John 18 the Bible says that Judas knew the place where Jesus prayed that's that's why you know Judas knew that Jesus would be praying in that Garden because Judas had been in that garden with him yeah and prayed with him so so here's the message in that you know you you your betrayal happens in the place of prayer explain that absolutely when I'm Pray when when I'm praying I'm his friend when I'm not I'm bet betraying w wow betrayal happens in the place of prayer Judas Judas knew that place of prayer Judas knew you know this he's going to be praying today but Judas he wasn't praying he knew that's the place of prayer and that's where I find him and the Bible says that after Judas Jesus Judas kisses him after Jesus calls calls him friend says they then came they and laid Hands On Jesus and took him there's something that's after your Jesus there's something that's wanting to pull pull you and pull your Jesus yeah together out of that place of prayer wow you know there's such a there's such a call to the place of to that place of prayer and I I pray that somebody that's listening to this podcast can hear it and you know we've got to it's time to schedule some prayer times you know it's time to schedule some extended prayer times some extended fast days it's time to to answer that call to prayer because man there's a war going on we're in the last days if you know we got to quit dreaming about doing things for God we got to step out and do that yeah yeah it's only going to happen when we're prayed up when we're fasted up when we're anointed we've been in that secret place yeah I got one last question it's it's going to be a quick one I feel like as a single college student I have all the time in the world to pray you're married you have kids you have a whole Ministry you have more distractions how can someone in your shoes once someone who's married has a family a job all that how do they get time to pray you've heard that phrase I don't have time to pray you I'm too busy I just go off of work I'm wearing you just have to carve it out man you know whether you're early morning prayer or late night prayer um and obviously I I spoke on pray without praying without ceasing throughout the day I you know throughout throughout the day I will I will pray I'm always you know reflecting on the word or I kind of you know as an evangelist I'm always in this state of preparation you know for the next you know the next message or whatever I just try to stay in that that place of prayer but you just carve it out I guess you would to answer that question question it'd be the same as any other person and that is you do it on purpose like no one prays on accident yeah oops it don't happen that way you know you've got to carve it out yeah nobody prays on accident you know well this has been revelatory for me and put a fire under me well man thank you for having me thank you for being can't wait to see some more videos of you you know driving your car off a bridge or whatever it man that's if the Lord allow me to have another car I'm so thankful that you were able to come that honestly I felt like it was such a God thing because randomly I'm sitting in a coffee shop with one of my friends yes yesterday and I opened Instagram to post something or look at something and I saw your story there and I was like H wonder if you'd ever be down to be on a podcast and I message is like hey bro like you know if you're ever in California or ar I thought you were in Arkansas so if I'm ever in Arkansas then you know it'd be cool to do podcast you're like I'm actually here I'm like what what the Yeah was one one hour away man I know I was like that's wild I'm like well let's do it so I think this is like a God thing man what a cool setup y'all have man y'all done a great job with this thank you I haven't listened to one of your podcasts but I need to most of our guests haven't so it's fine well I I'll start I'll start listening you know I I'll catch up on some of your you you could disregard the early ones those were the Kinks that we were working out now it's not so bad well I I saw you had brother Aaron bounds on here I'm really forward to looking at that one so he's really cool I love him a lot well this has been episode 33 three out of the boat wow thank you

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Published: Fri Feb 16 2024