John Osteen's Prayer When the Enemy Surrounds (1996)

throughout his life one thing that made most to Jesus for people he sacrificed everything to lead them to his father and to love him no matter what Jesus loved everyone that was what made him so different and so necessary to our lives I'm John Osteen pastor of Lakewood Church in Houston Texas through many years of ministry we've discovered that there's no greater joy than loving and caring for God's people that means you no matter your denomination grace a walk of life your dreams and desires are important to God and that makes them important to us we've dedicated our lives to bring in the compassion of Jesus to everyone by building faith in God through the teaching and preaching of his word Lakewood helps those who have been overcome to be overcomers we're interested in God's better best for you so please just as you are join the people of Lakewood for the next hour as we open God's Word together at judge where your boy I wanted to tell you a little bit about something that happened last night we we went to Central Baptist Church in Baytown where we pastored when we first married John was there for six years and they would pastor two years after we married he was there four years before we married and the church was full it was their 75th anniversary and a lot of the former pastors were there it was the most wonderful thing we we saw people that we haven't seen some in 40 years or longer than that and they were wonderful the church was full because everybody had come to see their favorite pastor they said the pastor who is presently pastor there said nobody preaches like coasting to the congregation they all will a pastor will come in and they'll say well he's good but he's not like Osteen and that was a great compliment to us so many of them watch us on TV and of course they know that we are different from what they are but they love us so much and John preached the Sermon that was a masterpiece about when Jesus took that when the lady took the alabaster box of perfume and put it on Jesus head and all and that people criticized him and said why did you waste the money we could have given that to the poor and Jesus said just leave her alone and he mentioned in his sermon that this aroma that that lady did for him went to the Garden of Gethsemane with him it went to the cross with him wherever Jesus went the aroma of that perfume wind and he compared it to himself he said years ago when I was so hurting I'd had a tragedy in my life I thought I may never preach again he said you people with the alabaster box you poured perfume on my head you didn't criticize me you loved me you had mercy on me and he said anything that I have done in this world any way I have succeeded it's because of the people at Central Baptist Church the aroma of me going to India to the to the dusty streets in India the aroma of the people at Central Baptist Church stays with me because you loved me and you didn't cast me out and you didn't cause my ministry to not be anymore and they gave him a standing ovation it was one of the most touching moments of our life when they gave him a standing ovation it was one of the sweetest things I just wish everyone you could have been there it was beautiful you would have been so proud of him and they love him they love him dearly they still think that there is no pastor like John Osteen and the pastor the present pastor said back in nineteen forty 54 I think it was he said they had a big Sunday School Drive and we had between five and six hundred people in this church in Sunday school never has it been that way before because of Osteen and then he went on and said now they have around 200 sometimes 140 but you would have been so proud of your pastor and I felt like that we ought to give honor to whom honor was due I think the people there loved him and I think it was a tremendous message and I think Jesus were blessed him and we use that to help them to heal if there's any healing needs to be done there between the people it was wonderful this was late the church you've never seen kids until you've seen like which kids in our exciting Children's Center your children will be taught the principles of God's Word in an atmosphere of love and respect Lakewood Church really is here for you we're so glad you're viewing we believe that our telecasts are a blessing to you are you in trouble today have you ever faced trouble you believe God is a God that can answer prayer I want you to stay tuned today because you're going to find out what a wonderful good prayer answering God you have could I have an amen I thought you'd like the scripture I think it'll apply to so many people it's in proverbs 14 and it's the Living Bible reverence for God gives a a man deep strength his children have a place of refuge and security did you know that if a man or a woman if you have to be a single parent and you reverence God you love him you fear Him not in the wrong sense but you want to please him then you'll have deep strength and when your children feel that deep strength they will feel that they are secure so I want to encourage you if you don't go to church if you don't love God change because if you may ruin your life not only your life but your children's life and be a strong person get Jesus in your heart and be a man of deep strength and then your children will have a refuge they'll come to you and say dad I need prayer mom I need prayer because they'll feel that you have dig deep strength and they'll feel secure and all the people said amen Thank You Dodie that's good let's hold up our Bibles and let's make our confession together everybody's saying like you've never said it before this is my Bible and what it says I what it says I had I can do what it says I can do we'll be taught the word of God oh they confess man dis alert art is receptive we'll never be the same I'm about to receive the incorruptible indestructible everliving C of the Word of God we will never be the same we'll be the same in Jesus name Amen you may be seated and and for you uh viewing we're reading from second chronicles chapter 20 a wonderful chapter that will bless you in a came to pass after this also that the children of Moab and the children of Ammon and with them others beside the ammonites came against Jehoshaphat to battle then there came something that told Jehoshaphat saying there cometh a great multitude against you from beyond Jordan in verse 3 and Jehoshaphat feared and sent himself to seek the Lord and proclaim to pass throughout all Judah and Judah gathered themselves together to ask help of the Lord even out of all the cities of Judah they came to seek the Lord now I'm talking to you about prayer prayer that moves the Holy Ghost to act and we've sent ourselves right here in Lakewood Church to give ourselves to prayer as never before and we encourage all who view my television to listen carefully today because of things that are impossible with men are possible with God and the Bible says you have not because you ask not we won't encourage you to pray to call on God and we have set our own staff here to pray an hour the first day of their work about the work day from 9:00 to 10:00 we do know them to pray intercede then sometimes we take a week off like we did last time and we stop on the hour as David said I praise the Lord seven times a day so we just praise God that we have victory seven times a day we'll say you say don't you worked in your step work yeah they work they were better when the brain they get more work done but not only so but we are calling the church and by the church I mean this local church but as well also the church that's out there give yourself over to prayer we're believing for we almost say up 1,000 homes that are open to prayer for what our every week to gather people together to pray we believe that God can be touched and and you know I preached last Wednesday night on the prayer that brings got down and you know over there God said I chef surely seen the affliction of my people now prayer causes God to see he said I've heard their cry was because they prayed and he said I've come down I've come down oh when he heard his real cry out and pray God said Gabriel it's not enough to send you Michael it's not enough to send you I'm coming off of my throne I'm going down to answer the cry myself and I believe that God is waiting for a people who will cry out to where the angel will not be enough God will say they won't be so bad the need is so great I am stepping off and coming down to earth to meet their needs could I have a name oh thank God God is a prayer answering God we're believing these 1,000 homes will offer a prayer to God that God can be touched with the feelings of our infirmities you know the Bible says called unto thee and I will answer thee and show you great and mighty things which you know not the Living Bible said I'll show you remarkable secrets God said callin to be know the three things he said look unto me and be you saved audience of the year and and then he said come unto me all ye the labor and her heavy laden but he also said call unto me call unto me Jesus said whatever you ask the Father in my name he'll give it you listen when then the situation looks bleak and dark don't forget you have a God that answers prayer I can remember send up please don't eat darling and I just want to say this again never get tired of saying it I can remember when I sat in that little office with a doctor in 1981 and he looked across the table and said pastor you wife has metastatic cancer the liver we cannot find the primary tumor we cannot t treat her she has to die pastor she'll be dead within a few weeks within a few weeks and then he said not much you understand me not much a few weeks I said doctor we believe in prayer we believe in miracles we believe in God unless he said when you're going to have to have one Thank You Dodie I want you to know in that hour we remembered that there was a God who could hear our cry just because the doctor they give you up and God bless ever enough too many over here just because the world says there's no answer don't forget God God is alive he is a prayer answering God and we have not because we ask not and listen the things that are impossible with men are possible with God amen and you know we're dreaming big dreams here I want you to be there dream big dreams I'll tell you there's nothing happening in your family there's nothing happening in the lives of your children there's nothing happening in your finances there's nothing happening in your little world you live in that God cannot change he is a God who will get off of his throne and come down and walk in the midst of his people here we will pray I believe if we'll pray God will save our families I believe if we pray God will heal our bodies I believe if we pray God will bless our businesses I believe if we pray God will bless us financially because it says God takes pleasure in the prosperity of his people I believe if we pray God will touch our city of Houston and your city wherever you are I believe it will pray God will spare this nation I believe before pray God said he was so angry with the priests and the prophets and the princes he said they've all deceived they've all gone astray over there in the book of ezekiel and and he said the princes have done this and and the priests have done this and and the prophets they've lied about what they saw i didn't show them that and he said i'm going to destroy them and i sought for a man or a woman to stand before me and make up the gap god is saying I'm going to have to destroy them but if I can find one man or woman somewhere who will pray who stand before me and bring my promises to me house fare the profits and the princes and the priests but he said I sought for a man and found none found none therefore judgment has to come but what I what I want to say is that when God sees sin and iniquity and the work of the devil the first thing he looks for is there anybody who will pray is there anybody who will take their stand is there anybody who knows the promises of God is there anybody who will stand in the gap the eyes of the Lord go to and fro throughout the whole earth searching for people whose hearts are perfect awarded him so he can show himself strong in their behalf I want to say that God is found to people here in Lakewood Church who will pray could I have an amen oh I tell you we're going to give ourselves to prayer now you this text that I have here Jehoshaphat you know all these three great armies were coming against him here there was no way this little band of people of Judah could ever stand against that and and you know that represents all the work of the devil and demon forces in the trouble of the sorrow and the heartache you may have coming against you today you know sometimes did you ever get up just face the day and everything go wrong you just feel like crawling back in bed get out on the other side am I the only one who ever felt that way oh no sometimes it seems like trouble comes in you know it but using and just seemed like everybody everybody's coming against you and Jehoshaphat was that way all these armies coming against you and today I'll tell you our children and young people have forces coming against them that US older people never had in all of our lives when we were young oh what a world had been attacked by the devil and demon forces a Bible says we wrestle not against flesh and blood but I guess spirits without bodies against the great evil satanic forces against the garrotte great evil spirit evil spirits had ruled the darkness of this world against a huge number of wicked spirits but devil knows that he has but a short time and he's doing his best but his best he is not enough hallelujah I know those forces do come against you sometimes your people want to commit suicide some people just want to give up some people want to give up on the marriage give up on their finances and all of that but I want you to know that I God is alive and it doesn't matter who comes against us no weapon formed against us shall prosper through this great army came against you now what did you do did you begin to have a pity party and say oh my I know we're done for now I might as well give up where's God God doesn't love us God let this come upon us look at all these armies coming against me see a lot of people a lot of people do that listen we got to be praying people got to be praying people got to be a pray people who in touch with God could I have an amen and notice what it says here all this great great great multitude and Joseph had feared and that doesn't mean reference that means he was a fraid all of us feel fear once in a while oh my the fear that comes when you find a lump in your body or the fear that comes when you think something else is happening and attaching yourself to the fear that comes when it looks like your home is going to break up or your children are gonna I never come back to God and the fear fear all people feel fear but we don't have to accept fear notice what he did he feared but it drove in into the presence of God thank God we have a good God we have a great God we have a mighty God what a mighty God be served amen and when you get in the presence of God in prayer you the first thing you want to say to him god I got a feeling everything's gonna be all right amen notice what he said I'm talking about calling yourself to prayer I'm talking about television audience I'm talking about you people out there who think just because man has said there's no hope that there's no I'm here to tend you at the things that are impossible with men are possible with God you have not because you ask not Trigon try God try God remember that story I just told you about giving the first phone mates you know and people call my home and I got that phone mate oh they got real mad real mad and I remember brother Hagin called me once I've got the phone mate and he screamed in that little box he said I don't want this idiot box I was a real idiot well people got a little upset because they got that answering service you know and I told you publicly I said well if you get an answering service when you call me try God he doesn't have an answering service he'll answer personally if you can't find me you might be pushed into the very presence of God John Osteen is not your answer God he is your answer notice here with all disheartened and they came and told him all disarming Jehoshaphat feared and notice what is it he said himself I like that he sent himself to seek the Lord and to proclaim a fast route all Judah and Judah gathered themselves together to ask help of the Lord even out of all the cities of Judah they came together to seek the Lord you see when this fear came on him his fear on you today when this trouble came on him his trouble coming against you today he said himself to seek the Lord and not only so it's the unity of all the other people they got all the children and the mothers and the daddies out in the open field and they they begin to pray there's something about unity it's not enough just for me to pray it's not enough just for Dodie to pray it's not enough just for one or two here to pray the church must come together to pray Oh in the kill James with the sword then it came to take Peter and to kill him also but the Bible says there in the book of Acts but the church got together and began to pray thank God when they begin to pray God sent an angel down got him out of prison I tell you the church needs to realize this is an hour when we need to be united in prayer as never before we're not going to let the devil have our families our finances our city and our nation we are going to see God answer prayer so he called on God called on God notice how I prayed here these seven things that he said number one he's in Lord your God that's a good thing to remember when you pray set number two do you not rule over all the kingdoms of the heathen number three is is there not power and might that none is able to assign you see that's good thing to remind God and then in verse seven it says the next one are you not to God to draw bath inhabitants of this land listen I want you when you pray remain yourself of answered prayer have you ever prayed in God answered shout Amen alright when you pray remind God you're the one I could go to God and say God you're the one that he only saw when she was born abnormal with brain damage and now she's alive and well many people have seen you Lisa stand up she's real alive and real well ahead and I remind God of that great nerve then notice miracle and other miracles in our family mind god of how he has answered prayer in the past he's the same God that'll do it today shout he'll do it today and then notice what he said he said in verse eight and they dwelt therein and a built a sanctuary there for your name saying when evil comes and famine comes and festival comes if we pray you will hear he brings the promises of God to God and then the last thing he says in verse 10 it says and now behold Lord the children of Ammon have come against us verse 11 behold I say how they reward us verse well we have no might against this great company it comes against us neither know we what to do but our eyes are upon you oh that thrills my soul when you stand before your great enemies and the great forces that come against you go ahead and say these forces are so great I don't know what to do Oh God I have no power in myself but my eyes are up oh my god and my god is able to say he is able to do exceeding abundantly above all ask or think according to the power that works in me shout it's working in me shut it again shout it again they prayed they prayed this prayer and and then the Bible says and this is the most wonderful scripture as they prayed now does God hear prayer I would ask you that can God hear your prayer if you pray in the name of Jesus he has promised to hear your prayer now they prayed according to the Old Covenant and as they produce how Scott gonna move what's God going to do is your going to send an invisible army which again you don't have to figure out how God's going to work out your problems I said you're not going to have to figure it out they prayed and then God did an unusual thing it says then in verse 14 then upon jahaziel came the Spirit of God whoa you can pray the Holy Ghost into action I'll tell you when we pray and pray in faith God moves by the Holy Ghost and jahaziel stood up by the power of God and and you know back then they had to have a prophet like that to speak for them now everybody can hear for themselves the Spirit of God can come upon you and tell you what to do and Jorge's l j AZ l gave them the answer and god said to them now notice this isn't repair and George Motz said unto them the Lord said be not afraid fear not neither be thou dismayed by reason of this great multitude of battle the battle is not yours but gods shut the battle is not mad but gods and then he says in verse evidence you shall not need to fight listen when you get in touch with God you don't have to worry about your strength you shall not need to fight in this battle stand ye still and see the salvation of the Lord now notice how people act when they hear from God and the Holy Ghost moves Joseph had said believe you the Lord believe in his prophets and so shall you prosper and you know what he did he said singers to praise the Lord right out in the open coming to face those mighty armies and the scripture that I like so much and when they begin to sing and to praise the Lord said ambushment against the enemy it's whenever we begin to sing and to praise God and to be filled with joy unspeakable and full of glory at the devil trembles and God defeats them for us this is going to be a happy church oh I'll tell you we ought to be filled with joy the answer to all of our prayer should be a praise and a shout to the Lord because we know that the work is done in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ I want to pronounce upon you that we are living in liquid church in the greatest hour we have come to this hour for such a time as this and we are going to break forth and give birth to what God has forests by prayer we're going to pray in the morning we're going to pray in the afternoon we're going to pray at night we're gonna print at the midnight hour we're going to get up and pray we're going to praise God seven times a day but we're going to pray we're gonna praise until the devil has a nervous breakdown everybody say nothing is too hard for God say it again God is a miracle worker I have not because I asked note gonna ass and I'm going to receive that my joy hallelujah my joy bill before lift your hands and praise the Lord - - in the name of Jesus everybody now be real still be very reverent and I want to say to you people out there many of you are hurting many of you help things coming against you that only God can get you out of but I want to tell you the things are impossible with men are possible with God try God followed your face fall on your knees lift up your voice cry out to God God will hear your cry and you'll answer he wants your joy to be full now you think about this one simple prayer can give you the greatest miracle than anybody could ever have while the audience here is there still lay your hand upon your heart if you're not ready to be God this bear second just laid your hand Appleyard if you'll cry out to God the greatest miracle the nuber salvation delivered from the devil will be yours God can break the power of drugs and alcohol promiscuity and pornography and all kind of incest anything else any hurts in your life not to change all of that and cleanse you and make you a new creature put your hand upon your heart you viewing right now just put your hand and pray this prayer God I believe you're a miracle working God I believe you hear my cry I believe you answer prayer I don't know much how afraid but I'm just asking you today god help me I need your help God come into my life Jesus be my Lord be my Savior I make you the Lord of my life deliver me from the power of the devil and Hell itself give me that eternal life and I want to thank you for it now because I ask and I receive and jesus is my lord

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Length: 29min 50sec (1790 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 13 2014