I Asked For It - It's a Gift For You - LightHouse Church Sunday Service Sermon

the Rhema campus pastor lighthouse out I want to welcome you this morning because we have an awesome service prepared for you listen if you can hear me then you are a survivor because the Bible say something that weeping may endure for a night me it's not even certain it's not a certainty it's not guaranteed but joy comes in the morning I don't know what happened last night last week last month but I know what is about to happen this week and this Sunday and today because joy is about to come to your home now I want you to do me a favor this service is our gift to you that we want you to be part of this service and serve with us and I want you to spread this word go on social media startup watch parties on Facebook share this on YouTube and let's get ready for an empowering word from our pastor pastor Qian Henderson the service is in session I can't wait to get in and you know what happens when you serve God he always lifts tips for you good measure pressed down shaken together and running over I can't wait to see you out the back door we want to welcome you in on this Sunday with all the gift guide our very best because he's worthy of praise honor and glory I want you to know one thing listen that God is spirit and we bless him for why don't you just give up my head praise right [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] you are [Applause] come why yes you are [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] let's show our [Music] [Music] [Music] with you [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] and Monica and you told him Utica ha the class today that's the partnership we handle [Music] and the gun on we will weep check out my wick giveaway we will sleep no space we will screech yo sang track number and official such on Prancer the body of fries let your glory fall like this we detail we each our ontology we need and your platonic plan [Music] [Music] welcome eyes [Applause] [Applause] [Music] we bless you dog we give you all the glory we give you all the honor you are a keeper you are the healer you are the miracle walk a lot we bless you we give you all the French for your the same yesterday and you're the same today and you're the same forever we want to bless your holy name for you are a miracle Walker you have done it before and you can do it again we give you all the praise and at this moment we have fellowship with you not because of what we have done but because of who you are we give you all the friends that not you're not looking for our scenes to judge us but you are looking for your plots of lessers thank you Lord that you are in us glorified and we are in you justified and nothing can ever separate us from your law of law we thank you for your word the word that says in Matthew chapter 16 verse 19 that you have given us the keys to the kingdom and what so everything is we're behind on the death is found in Heaven whatsoever things we lose on earth is loosed in heaven we give you all the praise because right now at this moment we have the keys we have the keys the key is in our possession the key of favor is in our possession the key of long life and breakthrough is in our possession that Lord what use is the key in our possession if the he is not in our confession so Lord we elevate this ski right now I don't begin to confess we begin a bind I won't begin to lose we begin to bind sickness and we'll lose healing we bind every spirit of condemnation and we release your righteousness we're buying every spirit of pain and I will release your power we begin to decree and declare that Satan the blood of Jesus is against you with little blood over our marriages we plead applaud over our finances we plead the blood over everything connected to us because the Bible says whosoever the Son of man has set free is free indeed we give you all the praise for you are a miracle worker in the minor name of Jesus with your boss [Music] [Applause] one more time [Applause] Hey [Music] [Applause] that's what we want to meet you with today [Music] [Applause] [Music] I could stand on the promises of God [Music] I'm standing on your promise sand and all your problems [Music] [Applause] and I like this right now I get to onion I like it and you love it Tonio [Music] our God is a miracle worker the Bible says that we ought to put on the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness let me tell you everybody's talking about on the news about the death toll and how many people have caught the virus and how many people have died from the virus or how many people have died with the virus but I've got a testimony for you to let you know that our God is able I know a pastor in Detroit his mother is 92 she had double pneumonia and coronavirus his wife had double pneumonia and coronavirus he had open-heart surgery and he was the one who took his mother to the hospital and he was exposed to coronavirus his sister Pat coronavirus his brother-in-law had coronavirus but I tell you today that all of them are healed in the name of Jesus because our God is still in the miracle working business yes and I want you to know that our God is able to do exceedingly and abundantly above all you could ever ask our thing and I know you're not in the sanctuary right now but let me tell you in the Old Testament anytime the people of God will give God thanks they will build an altar first and you know what you can build that altar in the living room you can build that altar in the kitchen but I want you to spend the next 15 seconds thanking God that it wasn't as bad as it could have been I don't know that's for I don't know where you are but it could have been worse and I thank God that he has spared you that he has kept you here covered you so I want you to praise them where you are praise them in your private sanctuary raise a million vehicles praise them at your job wherever you are here's what the scripture says let everything that has breath praise the Lord we give honor to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ who is able to do anything but fail I pray that God has been blessing you and your family and your loved ones and I pray that no weapon that has been formed against you has been able to prosper afraid that depression is leaving your house I pray that the cabin fever won't get the best of your emotions because when this is over we shall come forth like pure gold I want to let you know that your giving has helped us to be a tremendous blessing to so many people and week after week you've heard me talk about the grab and gold meals well we feed about a thousand to 1500 families every Monday but we did a little something extra because God has been good to us the first thing we did is we went over and we sponsored a local hospital and we purchased one thousand meals to make sure that every frontline worker in that hospital could have something to eat so when they change their shift they didn't have to figure out what they were going to eat we were able to buy up the entire restaurant and make sure that we were able to feed them we fed nurses and doctors and frontline workers and emergency technicians all because there is meat in the house and when you consider to give today understand that as long as you keep giving I will not rest until I find a way to bless somebody with it thank you so much for your contributions many of you twenty point five million of you have lost your job that means that one out of every working person in America right now doesn't have a job I know there's some testimony they say how is it that I don't have a job and I'm still not hungry how is it that I don't have a job and I'm still I'm still stable you know why because when you bless God in all season he'll bless you in due season and I want you to know right now you get ready to reap what you sow and God is gonna make sure that he sustains you in the meantime and so I thank you that you've been faithful and I pray that God will continue to fill your barrels with oil and that it will continue to bless you that you will live and overflow as you give today I want you to know first of all let me say to Mildred young and to Ericka Wiley I want to give some love to Minneapolis Minnesota today I want to thank you so much that you've been giving to us via gibla Phi and making sure that you bless our ministry all the way from Minnesota I prayed that God will give you double reward for what you have sold into the kingdom for those of you all who are here I want you to know watching that three ways you can give number one you can text to give and I want you to consider locking our number into your phone and letting us share some of that space that number is eight three two nine two four zero four four three again that's eight three two nine two four zero four four three you can text a gift there number two please consider downloading our app please consider downloading our app it's TL HC in your respective devices and then you can give at our website at l h houston dot Church and I want to thank all of y'all especially who have gotten your vehicles and have driven here to the church in person at any one of our locations and dropped off your tithes and offering if you go to the other places nobody will be there coming to the humble location somebody's always here and you've been doing that every week so I want you to get your gift out right now whether it's your cell phone your iPad whatever it is you're gonna do and I want you to make this declaration with me you may actually said why do we do this confession every week because faith comes by hearing and so when you speak to yourself you actually get what you want see this is the same thing that the woman with the issue of blood practice she needed to get to Jesus and the Bible said she said it to herself and so I want you to say this to yourself and I want you to say it like you mean it I want you to say as I move towards greater I will accept all divine ideas thoughts and concepts that will connect me to my destiny I believe that what Jesus Christ has done for me is bigger than what anyone has can and will do to me and because of his full gift I will lend to many nations but will borrow from none if you believe that right in your house put a praise on it [Music] as we prepare today to do what we call an depends on what Reformation you from some call it the Lord's Supper some call it communion the truth is is that Jesus Christ left us two things to make sure that the church could always be in good standing with him the Bible says that he says in an upper room on the second floor of a small place with all of his friends around the table he says to them guys this is it I'm getting ready to go to another place and don't worry about it because they're where I am there ye may be also but what I'm going to do is I'm going to leave a couple of implements in the earth the first thing I'm gonna do is I'm gonna leave you bread which represents my body and I'm gonna give it to you in pieces because I was wounded and I was bruised and I was broken for your transgressions and the chest iseman of your peace was placed upon me and by my wounds you are healed the second thing I'm going to leave you in the earth is wine well that represents my blood and the reason why I give you that blood is because while most blood stains my blood is the only blood that can wash you right as slow and this blood it can reach to the highest mountain and it can flow to the lowest Valley he's not talking geography he's talking spirituality he's saying that there is no place in the earth you can go that my blood cannot cover you if you count if you climb up to Mount Everest my blood can cover you there if you're down in the Sahara Desert my blood can cover you there take it spiritually no matter if your mountaintop experience or if you're the valley low the blood can cover your emotions it can cover your money it can cover your family if you have it right now and I would recommend you if you have some sort of cracker or something in the house if you don't have this anything that doesn't have leaven in it nothing soft something that doesn't have leaven because Solomon said that a little leaven leaveneth the whole that word leaven is a synonym for sin so we don't put a yeast in our bread when we take the communion because yeast makes bread puff up and sin puffs a person up so he says leave out the yeast if you got a cracker or something you can get that some kind of grape juice you can drink it because what we're doing is saying God thank you for covering our sins thank you eat the bread if you have that wine or that juice I want you to hold cover to hold it above your head because what we say is that we're covered by the blood of Jesus he says to the disciples and I say to you drink he all of it [Music] be glorified be glorified [Music] be glorified be Laurie fine we all have machining you glorified [Music] greed [Music] big lorry everything in my [Music] [Music] you can't blow me you can't the play I just want to say you get the glow you get brave you take the [Music] you get the loan you get the break you [Music] [Applause] [Music] you [Music] you like say thank you [Applause] thank you they are right I just wanna thank you for healing [Applause] to say my kill [Music] [Applause] my back like you lie [Applause] right here your hands and say my life be Chloe Chloe Chloe [Music] [Applause] and everything bad we we want you we want you to get me close one more time [Music] my oh yeah everybody see we glory we Chloe Lord we give you the honor we give you the glory and we give you the trades in fact scripture tells us all glory already belongs to you all honor already belongs to you and you deserve all the praise who calls today to thank you for being magnificent for being awesome for being a wave maker a miracle worker a promise keeper and a light in the darkness we thank you God that if we make our bed and hailed out there that if we are sent to the mountains of top now aren't there that you're good whether we are based or whether we are bound whether we are correct or whether we are wrong we thank you that you change not thank you for being our Father in Jesus name we pray everybody who loves the Lord say a man god bless you today we thank you so much for allowing us to come into your homes yet again to make sure that we get an opportunity to share the Word of God with you and we counted a privilege and an honor that week after week thousands of you want to hear what the Spirit has to say to the church through our ministry we're grateful for your time your effort your energy we pray that in some way we are able to continue to uplift you to keep you focused and steadfast and unmovable and i prayed that the words of our mouth and the meditation of our hearts are acceptable in your sight i want you to go with us we've got two passages of scripture that i want to share with you go to First Samuel chapter 1 verse number 11 and I'm going to read it in the message Bible for this dispensation and then after that we will go over to Ephesians six and 18 so let's look at first samuel chapter 1 verse 11 first and then we'll go to Ephesians so Hana 8 then she pulled herself together and I don't know who that's for but the Lord told me to tell you to pull yourself together pull yourself together she slipped away quietly and entered the sanctuary the priest Eli was on duty at the entrance to God's temple in the customary seat crushed in soul crushed and soul Hannah prayed she pulled herself together crushed in soul can you imagine Hannah prayed to God and cried and cried inconsolably then she made a vow and I want to I want to really really hone in on this portion of the scripture and you'll you'll know why in a minute but she's obviously distraught because she has to pull herself together she's she's she's isolated because she slipped away quietly she's worshiping cuz she enters the sanctuary she's in the presence of the priest because Eli was the priests on duty at the temple she was crushed in spirit but she still prayed and not only did she pray she cried and it must have been the cry and the tear that nobody can help her with because the scripture says she was inconsolable and with all of that drama she still makes a vow O God of the Angel armies if you'll take a good hard look at my pain if you just put it in whatever you want they're old God of heaven if you'll just take a good look at my circumstance if you'll just quit neglecting me and go into action for me this is what she's saying to the Lord of Hosts I want to talk on the subject and I hope it helps you I want to talk on this stop I asked for it that's that's what I want you to know I want you to know that there are some things that don't come until you ask for just just begin to speak something in your atmosphere now and just say I asked for it I asked for it so we know this young lady named Hannah we know her we know her she is she's a very well-known character in the Bible because I want to get right to the point I want you to know that Hannah had an issue and her issue was that she could not have a baby the Bible says that she was barren now we'll get to Ephesians 6 and 18 in a minute because it'll make sense but the Bible says that she is barren she cannot have a child and by not being able to have a child one person may look at that and say oh my god that's a terrible thing but it it really puts Hannah in great company because there are great women in the Bible who could not produce and when they did produce what they produced was extraordinary let's look at Sarah she was able to give birth in her 90s maybe a hundred to a young man named Isaac who was the promised seed from God and not Ishmael who was born by Hagar we'll get into that later there was a woman named Elizabeth who was barren into her 80s and 90s but she was able to have a baby and his name was John the Baptist look look at all of these women who who couldn't have babies in the timeframe where a woman would like to have a baby and yet all of these bear and women were able to produce litany of Scripture of women who went through this inability to conceive but his name reminds us of something and here's what the Bible says his his name is a reminder of us in history of how he was conceived because when he was born his mother said I am going to name him Samuel and that's important because Samuel means because I asked God for him so she says I'm going to make sure that everybody knows that the only way I got Samuel is because I asked for it I didn't get it because of sexual intercourse because my husband and I as she is saying have been involved in that activity for years and nothing happened I didn't get it because I was lucky I didn't get it because I was healthy she simply got the baby because she asked for it and I want you to read this scripture when you get an opportunity because the Bible says that she was inconsolable that she prayed and that she cried she prayed and she cried now Sammy was already in in good standings because he is born into the earth and I don't know how much money his mother had and I don't know how much land his father owned I don't know the aristocracy of his family I don't know those things but I do know that this boy was born with a silver spoon in his mouth not because they lived in the mansion not because his mother had money in the bank ours father had land and cattle he was born blessed because he was born to a woman who knew how to pray yeah his mother was a praying mother and I want to say this to anybody who is listening right now anybody who has a mother who knows how to pray has an advantage in this world let me tell you something is nothing like a woman who knows how to pray he was born to a mother who knew how to get down on her knees and beseech God until she got an answer and if you got a praying mother you need to thank God you did not survive because you made all of the right decisions you hear because while you were out there acting crazy your mother was saying all night and all day Lord keep angels over him you're walking around here with your head held high as if your intelligence has kept you in the game but let me tell you something the devil had a plan coming and you didn't know nothing about it but because your mother was in the Holy Ghost speaking in tongues walking around the house tearing and put in the oil on the doorknobs in and putting oil on your forehead while you asleep as an infinite as a baby and praying over you there are some of you right now who are walking in grace because your mama prayed for you if it wasn't for Mary Jesus would have been in trouble but Mary was praying for her son and he was the Messiah Elizabeth was praying for her son and he was the forerunner of Jesus I need everybody who's listening to me today and I know Mother's Day was last week but can we just pause for two weeks in a row and thank God for a praying mother I know for a fact that I wouldn't be standing here today if my momma didn't know how to get into the presence of the Holy Ghost somebody ought to thank God for a praying mother if you have a praying mother you have an advantage in this life at the time of Hannah's prayer though you must understand that Israel is in what's called listen the period of the judges read judges 21 we get an opportunity here's what happens in the period of the judges now this is a little Bible study lesson and we'll get through it real quickly the period of the judges is the place where Israel had come through all of its kings and its priests remember they acts for Saul and then God gave them David they come through all of that and now they are in what's called the period of the judges here is what happens they need somebody to judge the people and the Bible says that every time God would give them a judge they would sin and and and create what's called apostasy and turn away from God and turn back to their wicked ways and every time they did that the Bible says that God sent a famine in the land and I want you to listen to me because this is very important the Bible says that there were 13 judges in Israel in the period of the judges what you think about that they have 13 judges now I want you to go read that same Bible and you'll find out that the children of Israel had 13 femen's now let's think about this 13 judges 13 femen's 13 times the water didn't flow 13 times the crops didn't grow 13 times they had mass unemployment 13 times they went through foreclosure 13 times the car was repossessed 13 times they over drew on their credit card I'm trying to put it in vernacular that you can understand why because every time they turned away from God God sent to judge a judge would judge them they would get back on track and make God a promise and as soon as God gave them the promise they would turn back away from God and go back to the same thing that they were doing that caused them to need the judge and you can always trace your famines back to the moment you turned away from God every time they turned away from God there was a famine but God being so good he was sent a deliverer they will be delivered they would get the blessing and then they would turn away from God and the Bible says in the period of the judges according to judges 21 every man did what he thought was right to his own mind but there were two prayer warriors in the land there were two people who are not convicted are are infected by their environment there were two people in the land who made sure that they held right to the blood-stained will of God and that was a man and a woman the first one was a man named Boaz and the second one was a woman named Hannah and Boaz was womanless and Hannah was childless and they both needed something from God and God blessed Boaz with Ruth and now we've got Hannah who is at the worship center saying god I need you to bless me with the son I need you to bless me I know my wound is barren but I need you to bless me with the son I know I have been able to produce but I need you to bless me with a son I know that my husband and I have been ineffective and I am infertile but I need you to bless me with the son now let me give you a little more background before I give you the message Hannah isn't a very difficult marriage she's in the difficult marriage because she's married to a man named Al Connor who has two lives her and another woman named pnina now pnina is two Elkanah what Hagar was to Abraham he did not marry pnina because he loved her the Bible lessons know that henna was his preferred wife but because Hannah was barren he skipped over Hannah got pnina pregnant and started to produce his children through pnina but gave his love to to Hannah I want you to understand that that you're not the blessed one because you get the gifts you're the blessed one who gets the person don't you miss what I just said don't miss it because some people would settle for what you could give them and some people would settle for what you could buy them but there's some people nervous say you can have that stuff but just give me you count yourself blessed when you get the person and not the gifts pnina ladies and gentlemen is producing babies but Hannah is producing heart and the Bible says very specifically that they are in a difficult situation Hannah cannot have a baby through sex but she can't have a baby through prayer she can't have a baby through prayer so she goes to church and she says lord I need you to bless me I'm infertile and not only am i infertile but I am constantly irritated by this woman now I'm ready to preach because my question is this woman is barren and according to Jewish folklore any woman who was barren was barren because of some sin that she had created so that means that God didn't love her everybody would look at her she couldn't have a baby and they would say what's wrong with her what private sin does she have going on in her life she can't have a baby so she must be doing something wrong so she has no baby she is ostracized she has no reputation people are looking down on her nobody respects her and I cannot figure out why in the world would a woman pnina who's already married to a successful man who already has children of her own why would she be down why would she be talking about why would she be ostracized woman who has nothing why would she be interested in the barren woman she has nothing she can produce nothing so why is she the focus of your objectivity and then the Lord spoke to me he says because everybody knew Hana to be barren but pnina knew that Hana wasn't empty I'm gonna preach to you today she knew Hannah had something inside of her that she hadn't seen yet she couldn't put a finger on it but she knew she wasn't empty and let me tell you something Berenice means you cannot produce it empty means you haven't done it yet and I speak to every person who was watching on the internet right now don't you say to yourself that just because you haven't done it yet you cannot do it i prophesy to you you are not barren you are just empty when you are barren you can't do it when you're empty it means you haven't done it yet and I speak life into every bear and situation of your experience I speak life to every empty place I speak life to every empty heart I speak life to every empty mind I want you to say to yourself I'm not barren because if I was barren it means I couldn't do it I'm not barren I'm empty but God is about to fill you up in your empty places God is about to put rivers in your desert God is about to put blessings next to your sorrow I want you to speak over yourself I'm just empty I'm empty but God is about to fill me up until I overflow I speak overflow in your life the reason why Hannah was being irritated by pnina is because pnina didn't have the courage to admit that she was insecure and let me tell you something you are going through what you're going through right now and people are saying that you can't do this and you're not this kind of person and you'll never do this but let me tell you dogs don't bark at parked cars the only reason why pnina was after Hannah is because pnina knew something about Hannah that Hannah didn't know about Hannah and that was Hannah was saying I am barren and here pnina understands girl if you knew who you were you'll be jealous of you like I am you don't hear me today if you really knew who you were you would understand why people don't like you if you knew who you were you would understand why people overlook you if you knew who you you would understand why nobody in the family gave you any attention why because they knew if you ever found out who you were you were recognized you were better than them and I speak to you today that you are full of potential that you are full of opportunity that God is gonna leverage you to make sure that you can produce what you've asked for the reason why you don't have it because you have an axe the Bible says you have not because you ask not I want to give you about 30 seconds to just start asking for it fast for it you need some money X for it you need a new house X for it you need God to bless you X for it a closed mouth don't get fed open up your mouth to just begin to ask for God I want a million dollars I want ten million dollars you have not because you actually not God I want a spouse god I want this I want a job I want to come out of this pandemic with a business you have not because you ask not I want to put an asking anointing on your life I want you to be bold enough to ask for stuff that you know you can't afford that people will look at you and say how did you get that I don't want you to say I work for it I don't want you to say they gave it to me when they say how did you get it I want you to say it's because I asked for it I want you to begin to ask for it I want you to begin to ask for it she asked for a baby she asked for this baby and the Bible says that her in a husband went down to the sanctuary and they worshiped and then they went home and they worship now you would get that on your way home they went to the sanctuary and they worshiped and then they went home and the Bible says that she says the husband I need you to remember me not what do you think she's talking about you think the east she saying I don't want you to forget me no in Scripture when she says remember me she's actually saying this is the time in O'Connor this is the one I'm telling you right now I feel something something's going on on the inside of me I'm ovulating this is the moment get yourself together it's time to go and the Bible says that he went into her but watch this Panetta's in the same house she's in the same house maybe this was her weekend you don't understand that sometimes God will change time with you you missing what I'm saying this was her time to be with her husband but because God was doing some on the inside of her he switched her time and made it her time and I'm telling you right now that somebody else's time is about to become your time somebody else's season is about to become your season somebody else's opportunity is about to be your opportunity why because God is about to do something in you right now you are blessed and you are highly favored she says now is the time and she looks at pnina she says put in have you been messing with me all this time but I don't have no respect for you I'm not even gonna respond to you you've been irritating me but God just told me it's my time listen to me are you listening cuz I'm getting ready to help you every time before this I can imagine Hannah says to pnina you get on my nerve you always got something to say you're always negative not this weekend this weekend she said nothing at all and look at this when she closes her mouth God opens her womb I wonder how many wounds in your life are closed because your mouth is still open talking at the wrong time speaking at the wrong time responding to the wrong people responding to people who are beneath you responding to people who don't respect you I want to call you up to another level of response every time somebody say something you you don't have to respond every time somebody does something to you you don't have to respond every time the enemy comes after you you don't have to respond when you keep your mouth closed gotta open up your womb I'm telling you today there God says if you'll keep your mouth closed I'll open up the opportunity you don't have any idea what I open up for you if you can control your mouth most people are losing because they can't control what they say they can't control when they say it every time somebody says something to them it draws out of reaction but do you have control of your mouth the Bible says that the tongue is like the rudder to a ship he says it's like to sail to a boat if you can control your mouth you can control your destiny if you can control your mouth you can change your trajectory Hannah got the baby because she knew when to keep her mouth closed she said this is my opportunity and I'm not gonna waste it talking to somebody she says listen I'm irritated I'm irritated I'm irritated but God is saying and I thank you Holy Spirit cuz he just gave this to me he says Hannah the reason why you were irritated on the level is because I'm gonna bless you on that level anytime you were irritated high is because God's gonna take you high any time any time the devil bothers you on the next level it's a signal that you're on your way to the next level anytime the devil is bothering you with your money it's a sign that God wants to give you more money anytime that the devil is messing with your child it's because God has a plan for your child anything the devil comes after he comes after because he knows God wants to use it so pnina comes after her womb because she knows that god wants to use it and because she kept her mouth closed all of a sudden gestation begins to take place and this womb that has been bearing all of her life formation begins to happen inside of her and I speak formation into you I speak that things are forming in you I speak I speak new ideas are forming inside of you I speak business ideas are forming inside of you you know there's some people who look at you and they think oh I heard why him they don't deserve it I don't deserve it but he picked me let me tell you something right now you don't have to explain why he picked you all you got to know is that you asked for it you win it yet assault God and you Daxton for an idea and he gave it to you you ask God for an opportunity and he gave it to you you asked God for a mentor and he gave that to you you asked him for a chance and he gave it to you I want you to begin to speak those things that are not as though they were and I want you to spend the next 15 seconds asking God for stuff you can't afford asking God for stuff and you don't even know where it's gonna come from asking God for things that don't make sense I promise you this is the season I ask for it she says God give me a son give me a son she goes down on her knees and she says Lord give me a son now I want you to remember that because Ephesians 6 and 18 says praying always with all prayer and supplication in the spirit and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for All Saints now this is important because that were prayer is the same word translated that we read in our first text first 71 and 11 where it said vow now you got to get this because this is revelation everybody say vow at home say vow because what she's praying she's actually making a vow now that word now this is going to help you when you get to the crossroads that compound word when the Bible says that she says she says always with prayer and supplication that word is a compound word and the prefix of the word is price P ro s we would say pros in our English language but it is Pross and and it means listen listen it means to go towards it means to get close it means to get close now if you've ever read John 1 in 1 you've also saw this word in the beginning was the word and the Word was with God see that word with is also the WordPress now you got the word prayer you got the word vow and you got the word with in English none of that makes sense but in Hebrew and Greek they're all the same word now watch this it means to be face to face 1 right have said this when he translated John 1 and 1 in the beginning was the word and the Word was with God the word with is the same word Pross so when he wrote it he says in the beginning was the word and the word was face to face with god and the word was face to face with God in other words prayer listen does it bring you what you pray for prayer brings you closer to God did you hear what I'm saying so you think that praying is about the rent you think that praying is about your health you think that praying is about saving your relationship God says I don't care nothing about that I gave you prayer because it's the only thing that'll keep you in my face and God says if I gotta cause a lack in one area to cause prayer in another area I don't care if you get a raise on your job I don't care if your body gets healed I'll do that if it's my will but the only reason why i afflicted you is so you can get in my face and I'm telling you right now there ought to be somebody on the internet dishonest and say when I'm going through I pray harder when I am struggling I pray harder and God says this exactly where I want you to be I don't care about giving you a couple extra dollars I can take care of you without money I can keep you alive you don't have to have health insurance I can keep you healthy but the one thing I cannot make you do is get in my face and God says I want you to seek after me I want you in my face and if I gotta cause a relationship issue to get you to draw nigh to me I'll cause that issue if I got I've caused you to go through bankruptcy to drawn out of me I'll cause it if I gotta allow sickness to afflict your child so you'll fall down on your knees and say father I stretched my hand to thee I'll do anything to get you into my face and I want somebody to seek God I want you to seek Him even when you can't see him I want you to trust him even when you can't trace him I want you to wake up in the morning call it on his name I want you to call him in the noon day I want you to call him at midnight I called on the Lord in he answered I want you to know the Bible says that man should pray and always pray and never cease I want you to begin to pray right now and there's an old song my granddaddy used to sing he says if I couldn't say a word I just waved my hand because even when you don't know what to say my god understands the language of a grown up you don't have to be eloquent of speech you don't have to have a lot to say all you have to do is what Peter said when he was walking on the foot on the water he said lord save me he did not have eloquence he did not xog to test he just said Lord come and get me I dare you to say Lord come and get me and when you come out of it they gonna say how you get out of that mess you gonna say because I asked him to do it let me tell you right now the Lord is seeking to do that which you are asking him to do and if you would just ask him for it God would do it come on and open up your mouth and begin Acts for Laura touch my child and that may be a child that's unborn Lord touch my relationship Lord touch my money Lord touch my health how am I gonna get it I'm gonna ask for I'm gonna pray for it I'm gonna fast for because God is able to do exceedingly and abundantly above all you could ever ask or think you know to have the money you just got to have a prayer life you don't have to have connections downtown you just got to have to have a prayer life none of your family liked you when my family and my friends forsake me and this I do know that if I've got God on my side I cannot have everything else and still make it because he's waiting on you to ask for it henna said Lord I want you to bless me with a son that word process if you go to Ephesians chapter 6 verse 12 it gives the connection watch this don't miss this because you'll see it of an unseen demonic spirit that has been systematized against you do you not know that you are not empty and the devil knows it and so he'll is conspiring to destroy you before you get to destiny do you understand that everybody knows that you've been chosen except for you Piniella knows it Hannah doesn't know it Hannah says Lord if you're blessing me with a son God says I'm gonna bless you with a son but I want you to know all hell is against you producing all hell is against you reaching your destiny she said but God here it is I'm getting rid of helping I'm done she says god I know I know I know I've tried to have a baby and I've been praying and it hasn't happened but watch what she says oh she says the Lord I make a vow that changes the game because that word vow is the second part of the compound Greek word which means watch this she says if you give it to me listen I vow to give you my answer back she says Lord if you answer my prayer I want you to answer my prayer so bad that I've vowed to you that whatever you give me as a result of prayer I'll give it back to you after you answer see you're missing it because most people if God gives them what they ask for they hold on to the thing that God gave them missing out on the God who gave it to him Hennis says lord if you gave it to me once you could give it to me again so I'm going to ask you for Samuel and then I'm gonna turn around and give Samuel back to you because I'm not gonna get connected to the gift I'm gonna get connected to the gift er I'm not going to become beholden to the blessing I'm gonna be beholding to the bless or don't you allow the stuff to make you turn your back on the one who gave it to you she says Lord I'm going to be just like Abraham if you give me Isaac I will take him up to Mount Sinai and I will sacrifice it back to you here's what God is wanting me to tell you listen anything you're willing to give back to him he'll give you immediately everything that you've been praying for that has taken a long time to come it's because God knows that if he gives it to you you will turn your back on the one who gave it to you that if he gives you a mansion will you skip Church and sleep over on Sundays that if he gives you a $200,000 car will you drive right past the church if he gives you millions of dollars that income will all of a sudden you become so arrogant that you forgot that the good Lord gives and the good Lord takes away he says I want to make sure that if I do give you Samuel that you understand that there was a contract between you and I and the Bible says Hannah agrees her and her husband began to have this baby but not without doing something first they have the baby but the Bible says they went to the sanctuary and they worshiped and after they left the sanctuary then they went back home and they proceeded to produce now watch this Hannah is always being irritated by a lady named pnina and the Bible says that when Hannah went up to worship pnina began to irritate her I couldn't figure out why you would wait until somebody went public before you spoke you live with her Penina you live with henna why wouldn't you address her at home why would you wait until she went to the sanctuary because the devil always wants to disturb your worship he always wants to disturb your worship he wants to make sure that when you get to church that you have other things on your mind he wants to make sure that when you get to church that you're downtrodden he wants to make sure that when you get to church that you're judging the environment he wants to make sure that's why he'll put people in church that'll keep you your attention on them and that's why anytime you're praying you are reading the Bible you'll get sleepier that's why anytime you get into the things of God then the baby starts crying and you get distracted because he understands that if he can distract the time between you and God it'll keep you from doing the kind of praying that produces but I speak against every distraction in your life I speak against everything that is disturbing your worship I speak against everything that's disturbing your sleep I speak against everything that is giving you anxiety I speak against everything that makes you feel rejected I want you to bring all of your focus to the altar of God and I want you to begin to acts for come on right now in the name of Jesus I want you to begin to ask for right here on this broadcast right here while I'm talking to you I don't want you to check your bank account I don't want you to check your purse I don't want you to check to see if a check is in the mail forget all of that don't look at your stock options I just want you to get down on your knees right now and begin to ask for God make sure that my entire family does not contract this disease acts for God makes sure that why everybody else has focused on Cova at 19 that my family doesn't contract something that they're not even paying attention to right now ask for God protect us when we're in the car because they're drunk drivers all around us make sure that we get home accident free acts for God our family has a history of high blood pressure but God let it skip over a couple of generations ask for our family has a history of brain tumors but we speak up against it right now x4 I don't know what you need but I know that whenever you're praying to God you're talking to whatever you need I want you to ask for it I want you to ask for it and I want to leave you with this final thought listen to me worship got it in her prayer got it out of her she worshiped at the deathless at the temple and then she went home and she says all right god I I'm ready I'm ready to do this I want to be a mother but I don't want to be a mother if you're not gonna be the father I don't want to do this if you're not gonna walk with me in fact God if you give me Samuel I'll bring him right back to the church and I'll give him over to Eli who's the high priest at the moment I don't I don't want I want I want my answer so bad that I'll give my answer back to you I want I want the prayer answer so bad that i will donate back to you what you gave me see people ask God for money but they won't give it back to him when he gives it to him that's why they run out but anything that you keep connected to God continues to flow samuel grows up and you know samuel is in a tough situation samuel is the one that anointed David Samuel is the one that anointed Saul can you imagine how many people after Saul had led Israel down into degradation if they were in 2020 Sammy would have gotten all kind of death threats if Samuel made that mistake in 2020 he'd be all over social media he be means everybody would be talking about Sammy could you imagine the mistake of picking the wrong King but do you know why Samuel is regarded as one of the greatest prophets to ever live not because he didn't make any mistakes God rebuked him in Samuel 16 and said how long are you gonna mourn over this King I've got another one going knowing David he made plenty of mistakes but do you know why he was able to come out because his momma prayed for his mama that covered him and now samuel is our example of how to be a prophet and he was born to a mother who couldn't have children and then picks the king that's in the lineage of Jesus and through him comes the Messiah I want to speak to every barren man every barren woman who's wondering can God do anything through me I want to tell you he can can God do anything with me I'm not that good at anything Oh God says I only need you as a vessel I'll do the work I'll do the work you you don't have to be proficient you don't have to be sufficient you don't have to be great I'll do that I'll take care all I need you to do is be a willing participant God brings a prophet to a barren woman and you know Heather would have wanted to have a baby and not only half a baby would have a son because every woman who had a baby at that time wanted a boy because she wanted to give birth to the Messiah for years it looked like Hannah wouldn't be in that number but look at God why everybody else is looking at all of these people is that baby going to be the Messiah maybe that baby is gonna he he can read that one maybe he's gonna be the next Jesus or he oh maybe maybe it's gonna be maybe it'll be John because John is already leaping in the womb maybe maybe it'll be they thought all of these other people would be the Messiah and they looked at all of that and they counted Hannah out they counted Hannah out date her womb was unproductive they counted her out and many of you have been counted out and let me give you a word before I pray for you you may not produce Jesus but Samuel anoints David David is the lineage of Jesus what would have happened if Samuel would have picked wrong you may not always have it but God can surely use you to pick it you may not always be number one but God can use your life to support a number one and there is honor and being connected to the future whoever you are I want you to overcome every negative comment that has ever been said over your life I want you to think back to when you were in middle school high school elementary and people say things to you that's stuck with you you'll never produce you'll never make it you're not good enough God says I can work with you a few acts for it I speak that God is getting ready to fill every empty place I speak that God is getting ready to fill every empty place I feel that in the name of the Spirit that God is getting ready to heal you where it hurts I want you to open up your mouth ask and it shall be given seek and you shall find knock and the door shall be open ask seek knock ask seek knock ask seek knock ask a seek s.k knock you still gotta ask ask him for whatever it is that you won't and I decree and declare that God is about to fill your empty place I've been through too much he's about to fill your empty places not to worship Him prayer got it in worship got it out of us but the Bible says they rose early in the morning I don't know who I'm talking to but it's coming in the morning it's coming in the morning get ready when you wake up some all things would be different [Music] not to worship him come on and help us holding overalls we need you right now come on I've been through too much [Music] got to work the worship said again I've been through too much I've been through too much [Music] so worshipping foolish I've been down a bit up a bit in and out [Music] look out right now the name of Jesus we pray that there are people listening right now who want to be disciple who won't accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior I pray God that you would that you would attack their mind and infiltrate their spirit with the desire to want to be closer to you to be face-to-face with you in the beginning was the word and the word was face-to-face with God God we seek your face today I want you to text eight four five seven six I want you to do it I want you to text LH a nation two eight four five seven six put discipleship in the queue and I want you to say that so that way our people can get in contact with you so that you can get this relationship with God because you can't ask anybody for something that you don't know the first thing before you ask him for health before you ask them for strength before you ask him for money can you ask him for salvation can you say Lord come into my heart coming to my mind I want you to be my lord and I want you to be my Savior if you said that God will come right into your heart he will pick you up as the old church said and dust you off place your feet on solid ground I pray that this is a new day in your life I pray this is a new season in your life I pray that you will come forth with boldness and that you begin to ask God for all of the things that you need and remember how I started you have not because you ask not as we get ready to leave in praise I pray that God will give you overflow that you will always have more than enough and then your season of lack is over and that God is gonna do exceedingly and abundantly above all you could ever ask a thing get ready for God to blow your mind if you get the courage to hacks for come on let's worship Him that's works with him [Music] to us [Music] [Music] oh my god what an awesome ss5 pastor Qian Henderson on I Axford I don't know about you where you blessed I was blessed so you can always reward is message you can go back on YouTube Andhra watch this message but there a couple of things I just want to highlight you you we can still give right now you can still given there multiple ways to give it's all the information you need is at the bottom of the screen and you can actually join Elliott's nation you can join the Lighthouse Church and just text l-h nation to eight four five seven six to be part of what we are doing here this is not just a moment in history we are creating a movement that will last forever amen and before I leave I just want to share what of Prayer with you I believe that we can connect and agree and all things are possible if we believe lord I just want to thank you for everyone under the sound of my voice everyone seen me hearing me right now I begin to decree on the Clara this is going to be a great week for them like never before you're going to release miracles signs and wonders in their family and anything connected to them and the mighty name of Jesus we pray amen god bless you you

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Length: 73min 33sec (4413 seconds)

Published: Sun May 17 2020