John Osteen's Prayer That Will Change Your World (early 1980s)

in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth with words if you could get the Word of God and find out what he said in this Bible I want you to know that he'll still and he's saying if you make us like head and not the tail above holy today from Houston's oasis of love John Osteen shares on prayer that will change your world ladies and gentlemen stay tuned for John Osteen go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature this is John Osteen a ministry fulfilling the Great Commission from Houston John Osteen has established an international outreach of compassion for suffering people all over the world his thrust is to our mission to reach the country the multitudes that need the good news of Jesus Christ ladies and gentlemen John Osteen as they own this is the bagel artist named Bo Johnson together a trusted Jesus of Elkin we welcome you to the big game today hallelujah it's good the hug of joy of the Lord thank you very much you may be seated and we want to welcome you the great city of Houston Texas and the metropolitan area here oh I love this city how I'm concerned about its throbbing multitudes I believe God's going to meet every one of your needs today and not only here in Houston but wherever this program reaches across America and into Europe into Africa and wherever you hear and view this we believe God is going to meet your need and we're so glad you come to be with us today well we're going to study the Word of God in the book of Acts chapter 3 there's a miracle the great miracle of God occurred in a man's body and the religious world was greatly stirred they arrested the Apostles and after they let them go they had a great prayer meeting I'm going to talk about prayer that will change your world I don't know what kind of a world you have around you your own personal world but I know this that if sickness is there if sorrow is there if there's no hope there if there's trouble there I'm telling you your world can change prayer that will change your world that will be our subject today I invite you to turn in the book of Acts chapter 4 we're going to begin to read with verse 23 and being let go they went to their own company and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said unto them and when they heard that they lifted up their voice see they prayed together they lifted up their voice to God with one Accord and said notice how they talked about God they reminded themselves of who God was Lord our God who made the heaven and the and the earth and the sea and all that in there is who by the mouth of your servant David has said yes see look up here moment God has made he's God and he made the heavens and the earth and he said some things you know many people pray they don't have any idea what God said they're praying old God helped me in my family situation they don't know word god said about the saving their whole household many people are praying about their finances and oh god I pray that you'll get me out of this financial mess oh god I pray that you're you and you'll help me pay my bills but do they know God has said anything I want to tell you folks out there that God has said some things do you know anything God has said about finances do you know anything God has said about your children do you know anything God has said about your family situation do you know anything God has said about your situation do you know anything God has said about your body and about your healing Lord you have made heaven and earth and you have said oh I'll wait with these little old namby-pamby little weakly weak prayers of people that don't know they don't amount to a hill of beans you know just mouthing words when you come in to God say Lord your God Lord your God I'm telling you there's a devil but there's a God Lord your God Lord your God everybody say Lord your God and you have made heaven and earth and the sea and all that in them is do you see when you realize God's a great creator great creator when you pray recognize God the Lord is God and recognize that he's a creator he made he made heaven and earth I was in the hospital in 1974 awaiting open-heart surgery as most of you here in the Lakewood Church know and many of you people out there do not know and they said you got clogged arteries you're going to have to have open-heart surgery and and you're going to have to you're going to have to go through this and let me other you know and I said well you know let me pray about it you know I'm not gonna rush you in right this minute so I spent five days in the hospital and I i I never turned on the television I never turned on the radio I'm not against that but I just stayed in my Bible I read my Bible I meditated in the Word of God I prayed in tongues I didn't know that they could hear you through the wall you know I didn't know you know that you're bugged in a hospital room you know you're bugged I mean they can hear what goes on in there and I heard about a little boy that was in the hospital and and you know he was all alone he did Morty's mother to leave him but see that you'll be all right you know and and so he was in that dark room in the hospital and and he was afraid indirectly the nurse you know called to the intercom on the wall there you know says Johnny are you all right oh he scooted down in the covers and she said Johnny are you all right and he scooted down and began to shake and directly we said what do you want wall what do you want ball well I didn't realize the ball was listening you know I just pray in tongues and pray in tongues and they're not change and pray another kind of language you know it I'd intercede and Doug that's all locked in there's my room I was playing part the doors closed I figured I can do what I won't do I mean if the price you paid today for a hospital room you have a perfect right to do anything in there amen well well I just praying up a storm you know just praying night and day you know waking up early and and so forth and finally one day my doctor came by the nurse's station and they said doctor what nationality is that man in there he said what do you mean he said she said we've been listening to the wall we've been listening and he talks one language and then he have talked another kind of language and then he'll talk another kind of a language and there's nobody in there you know they might have thought I should have been on the psycho ward but if I'm crazy leave me alone I'm having a good time and I'm going to a beautiful insane asylum hallelujah thank God for the joy of freedom until now I was in there free and the doctor said oh he'll be all right he'll be all right he didn't tell him any more he didn't tell him he spoke in tongues - oh he'll be all right but now one day i was i was reading the Psalms and meditating on the Psalms and God revealed himself as the Creator to me he revealed himself you it wouldn't mean anything to you at all but when God quickens the scripture and makes it alive it becomes a Rhema to you the spoken word of God I was reading down David said thy hands have made in fashion me and suddenly God illuminated that and I could say with him Lord our God who made heaven and earth you're the Great Creator and I began to realize that God was a creator and and God just simply said with into my spirit I am the one that created you why should you feel I made your body I made your brain I made your feet are made your legs a major your circulatory system I made your heart I am God I made you I am God I'm not only made heaven and earth but I made you and I want you to know I didn't have to have that operation I just got up and when they they came in there that night to prep me you know and get me ready that whole band of doctors but to get me ready for that operation the next morning I said to them doctor I just don't believe I'm going to have the operation all he said why I said well I've just heard from God and I just believe if I just go home and trust myself to him I'm not against doctors I'm not against medicine I appreciate you all but I'm just going to go home and take care of my body as God directs me and I I'm just not gonna have it and you know he bowed his head and all the little in terms about hiding him bowed their heads you know and and finally he looked up and in the kindest way he said he said pastor I believe you've made the right decision thank God well you may that was in 1974 and this is 1984 when I'm I'm preaching this message and I want you to know you're looking at a healthy man I walk about six miles of day I'll tell you here's five foot seven of pure dynamite hallelu oh my god but you see but you see oh I'm talking to you people here in who's in the Lakewood Church but I'm talking to the great Houston area I'm talking to the to this this city writhing under the forces of darkness to you who are in trouble and sarra in the storms of life and you need to pray but don't pray some little weak a prayer that doesn't amount to a hill of beans rise up you have a great God go to him and say Lord you are God you're the creator you made heaven and earth by your great power and stretched out arm and nothing is too hard for you thank God he's the Lord thank God he's God thank God he made the heaven you have made heaven and earth by your great power you made heaven and earth and the sea and all that in them is and third thou has saved thou has said thank God he's still created with words he's still creating with words if you could get the Word of God and find out what he said in this Bible I want you to know that he'll still create what you need if you can get in your heart what he's saying those creative words that created the worlds are recorded here in the Bible and they'll create for you they'll create for you but if you don't know what he's saying then you don't have any creative words who Lord you have said and they begin to quote what he's said in their situation you see now what is he saying he said in Isaiah surely he hath borne our sicknesses and carried our pains the chastisement of our peace was upon him and by His stripes we are healed that's what the Bible said Lord you are God who made heaven and earth here I am sick but you have said that Jesus bore my sicknesses and he bore my diseases and by His stripes I'm healed so if I'm here I might as well get and start walking and acting like I'm here amen they say everybody said God has said oh I want to talk about finances because you see we all are interested in paying our bills how many of you'd like to have ever built paint say Amen well has he said anything about finances but my God shall supply all your needs according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus neither says that he made the people in the Old Testament under the Old Covenant if they'd live for him the head and not the tail above only and not Benny how many of you have ever felt like the tail for naturally how many of you have ever felt like underneath financially heaven have you've ever gotten to the bottom of the barrel say Amen how many of you ever got the barrel on top of you say Amen oh my how how foolish we are in the area finances I remember I used to think as a just an ordinary Baptist preacher out there that that money was something that I was too holy to touch and handle and you know I had this false humility about money you know starving to death couldn't even pay my bills I owed everybody in the country living on a hundred and seventeen dollars a week I mean trying to raise a family with that and yet feeling well you know I wouldn't want to have too much after all you know Jesus didn't have a place to lay his head after all you know humility is shown by how poor you are I mean how dumb can you get and I remember what time I was keeping the Evangelist in our in our home and one of my deacons had far more sense than I did and he knew I was out money by keeping that men so standing in the vestibule of our church he handed me a $50 check now the treasure was there beside us and here we were in the best of you and he said pastor you've been out money and back in those days $50 was a lot of money still a lot of money but anyway was a whole lot of money there and so he handed me this pen job sector I want you to have this personally because you've been a you know a lot and so you know being holy you know and being sanctified and being so you know not wanting to be money minded I took it by the corner just by the corner like this and and as though I didn't want to touch it so the treasure would take well of me and I took it like this I said oh no oh no I wouldn't think of accepting how foolish can you be oh no oh no I wouldn't think of accepting anything please please please put it in the treasure party and I dropped it I remember how how empty I felt when it went down but I wanted to give the impression of being very very consecrated and holy because I you see I I couldn't dare accept any extra money you say brother Osteen do you still feel that way try me I'm believing that God will give me enough money millions and millions of dollars to hook up satellite and television and reach our generation with the gospel and tell the good news around the world Lord your God he made heaven and earth by your great power it made heaven and earth and all that in them is and you have said he said I'll supply all your needs he said I'll make it a hit not the 10 do you know Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law being made a curse for us did you know that Christ has redeemed you from the curse of the law the courser than our spiritual death it's poverty it's sickness is disease it's misery it's suppressant and Jesus has delivered you Galatians 3:13 says Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law and we're under the blessing of Abraham we have a right to be free from sickness and disease and misery and depression and poverty and he said that he had make us a head and not the tail above wholly and not beneath thank God we don't know anything in this church thank God we don't have any bills on top of our head thank God we own 40 acres and 40 buildings and we're evangelizing the world and last year we gave over a million 1/2 dollars to missions and we are believing God for millions upon millions upon millions there's no limit to our God our God is well able and what he'll do for this church he'll do for you here I'll tell you that God wants a new generation to arise that's not ashamed to handle money I'll tell you if you don't love money God will let you handle a lot of it if you don't love material things he'll let you handle a lot of it after all the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof the cattle Upon A Thousand Hills the gold and the silver and we're in the family heirs of God and joint heirs with Jesus Christ Lord your God you made the heaven and the earth and you said and I believe what he says I believe what he said well has he said anything about delivering you from the powers of uncleanness and the powers of demons and the powers of darkness has he said anything yes he said resists the devil and he will flee from you he said in my name you'll drive out demons I'm telling you folks hosts great hordes of demons have been unleashed on our generation all kind of demon powers have been unleashed and they're tormenting men and women and boys and girls we have these mass killings these mass murders we have these terrible tragedies in the world it's the untold hordes of demons numbered demons that have been unleashed upon the human race oh my God my God in heaven help us we religion as usual will not do sitting in a stained-glass Church will not do playing pretty things on the organ will not do beautiful music will not do it fancy preaching will not meet the need of this hour I'm telling you playing church will not do it living like the devil while you claim to be a Christian will not do it I'm telling you this world needs more than that I'll tell you there's one name that will drive the devil out now has given him a name that is above every name and at the name of Jesus and at the name of Jesus and at the name of Jesus every knee in three worlds were smile heaven and he'll must bow to the name of Jesus that has said now has said in my name hid my name you will cast out demons I'm telling you the name of Jesus on our lips were drive the devil away and calls the horrors to end the shuddering fear to go down through the corridors of Hell the name of Jesus is the highest name in this universe and we bear that name we bear that name we bear that name Jesus said in my name your drive out demons drive them out I want you to know today wherever you are you're not hopelessly locked in to an abnormal situation your personality warped doing things that you know down in you and just makes you not want to live you don't have to live that way he has saved whom the Sun sets free shall be free indeed I want you to know you can be free if you want to be free you can be free you can be free today oh I tell you Jesus is Lord over Houston I say Jesus is Lord over Houston the precious people who live here will hear the good news respond to the good news and this will be a shining city that will bring glory to the Lord Jesus Christ because Jesus is Lord over Houston saith Jesus is Lord over Houston give the Lord a hand Hey my hearing Lakewood Church we're going to pray we care about Houston I preached the gospel for many years I've been in the Houston area for over well over 30 35 years right here I love Houston I love the world out there that is in need of Jesus but I love Houston this is where God placed me and I think of the teeming masses in this area no I'm not interested in you join in our church or changing denominations or anything like that I just want to reach out in compassion and love and help you another gets jump for you and for your salvation and your freedom and the blessing of God to be upon your life today you've heard some encouraging words about your family situation about your own own situation about demon powers about finances and all of that God knows that you need help and and we want to help you jesus said I came that you might have life and have it more abundantly he want you to have that abundant life but you must believe what he says and we wanna we want to join our faith with yours and we're gonna believe God to sweep over this great Houston area and not only that but wherever this this message goes in other parts of the world you just rise up if your dad let make Jesus your Lord if you're there to be honest with him and asked for help he says as he said to the blind man he says to you what is it you want me to do what is it you want me to do well you see it was evident that blind men needed to be to receive His sight but yet Jesus required of him what is it you want me to do he asked you today what is it you want me to do do you want me to set you free from unclean spirits have normal situations in life do you want me to set you free from poverty and and the harassment of demon forces in the air of your family what is that you want him to do he'll do it he'll do it I'm going to pray a prayer these people here are going to join hands together and we're going to agree with each other that God's power will go forth into your life into your body into your personality I'm going to break the power of the devil over you and demon forces are going to have to father I lift up my voice as they did in the New Testament oh god I say you are God and you have made heaven and earth and the sea then all that in Emir's and you have said you have said whatever we ask or demand to be done in Jesus name it shall be done now father I come in behalf of these people trembling under the powers of darkness fearful in disease given up by doctors wayward in their personalities tormented in their homes Oh God I come in their behalf Satan I come against you not in my name not in the name of Lakewood Church I come against you demon forces and Satan in the name that is above every name I can negate against you in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth I command you demons of poverty and sickness and darkness and depression and despair I command you leave them now in the name of Jesus now be free be free in Jesus name be free give the Lord a hint how many of you many of you are right now free than the power of the devil and forces of darkness I want you to let us know I want you to just just dare to make your confession just to say hello Cena I tell you I'm free thank God the devil's power has broken over me thank God I'm normal thank God I'm free I want you to make make no your attention left to redeemed of the Lord say so

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Published: Thu Jul 17 2014