REVIVECON21 Day 4: School of Prayer With Pastor Marcus Tankard!

all right well good morning good to see all of you alright he said it's good to be seen well praise the lord 9 31 we're going to go ahead and jump into this um i want to um i haven't um you know said a whole whole lot about the products in the back but um and i probably should have said this earlier in the week just to kind of um encourage you to go back there and get some things but the lord had put on my heart for this week i haven't even told you this but the lord put it on my heart this week that everything that comes in from my book table is to go to the fishers and so i want y'all to make sure y'all go back there and i don't want to take anything home so if you already bought stuff go back and buy it again because you're investing in your own prayer life and then we're also being a blessing uh to them and the and the work that they're doing love them so much pray for them often and we we want to send them away blessed amen all right well um i'm not going to flounder around like i did the last session that i talked um i need to show you at least that i can teach a little bit and then we're gonna then we're gonna do some praying um this is revive right around con 21 and so it's very important to me that when we are in prayer sessions prayer conferences in prayer meetings that the prayer or the impartation of prayer outlives that moment and the only way that that happens is by the word it's the only way that that happens i mean anything outside of that you find yourself back at home trying to recreate an experience it's not about trying to recreate an experience in your flesh no it's about following the word because the holy spirit will land on the word you know if you'll pray the word the way we pray the word in these sessions the same spirit of truth the same spirit of prayer will manifest himself to you and take you places okay he takes you places not because you know you got the music just right or because you have the prayer candle or the prayer shirt and the prayer journal and the prayer mat and the prayer music it's not about that no and no shade to anybody that does that i'm not that person but if that works for you if that helps you find action praise the lord but but the holy spirit engages not those methods not those antics he engages the word so if i'm going to empower you to pray beyond these sessions the best thing that i can give you is the word right um so i want to help you to pray out a little further you know what i mean when i say that pray out a little further many of us we know the word many of us speak in tongues but when it there's a gap between being word based and being a tongue talker and then taking adventures with the holy spirit in prayer there's a gap there i know plenty of people that know the word and they speak in tongues but but but they don't they don't go on adventures with the holy spirit in prayer and so your success in following the spirit in prayer is directly tied to your ability to recognize his leading in prayer if you don't recognize when he's leading you to pray you won't follow the leading could drop right in your lap and you'll dismiss it as oh well i thought that was just me you know i didn't want it to just be me and there's your cue you know and so following the spirit ins and seeing what some of the seemingly smaller things will move you over into more pronounced leadings of the spirit but if you dismiss the smaller and seemingly not as sensational things okay you won't really step over into the into the river of prayer um the other thing that i find i haven't planned to say this but i'll say this sometimes praying with the holy spirit is like um a well so i grew up in alabama and uh my grandmother grew up in a little city called shortersville alabama and um and he had no stoplight you know and um we go back up to the uh mother house as she called it and out back way out back was a well and there was a bucket with a rope tied connected on the side right and so you take that bucket and you drop it it will go and it go and it'll go and after a while you'd hear and you know it hit the water okay and so you had to let it fill up and then you had to draw it back up right well sometimes prayer is like that and what we'll do we'll pray until we sense the anointing until we sense the presence of god we hear the splash we sense his presence and then we stop praying we'll quote unquote pray through we'll pray through we'll pray out of our flesh and over into the spirit then we stop praying okay well prayer is not a destination prayer is a flow and just because you discern or you can sense the anointing doesn't mean that prayer is finished no it's just started now you have to train yourself on how to look or what to look for and so you can follow am i making sense um so this would mean then that i have to give my mind an assignment like sometimes we think that when we pray in the spirit you know because our mind is unfruitful okay that our mind is inactive you know this is when a man prays in an unknown tongue his mind is unfruitful says that in first corinthians chapter 14 right well just because my mind is unfruitful doesn't mean that my mind you know is not active in that time of prayer now my mind is active my mind doesn't check out and like start making a grocery list or start planning the day you know while my mouth is moving that's actually very irreverent to the holy spirit you want me to be honest with you now you have to give your mind an assignment meaning that i'm going to tell my mind what to look for well what is my mind looking for what my mind is watching for the leading of the spirit i'm watching to see what he will say that i should say if there is a formula for prayer it is you take the scriptures but brother hagin said this he said find scriptures right that tell you you have a right to what you're asking for find those scriptures read those scriptures stand your ground we heard that hundreds of times right well you take those scriptures and you pray out those scriptures you pray them out before the lord reminding him of what you said god your word said this god your word said that god in your word says this i believe that i'm giving you your word back then there are many of these things that we pray about that we've heard directly from the lord you know if you're praying for your church you know you take the scriptures that the script that the bible says i'm talking about the local church you know you pray that but then you pray the vision of the church the things that god has said about that church you pray that not what you think the church ought to be no you pray what the lord said the church will be get out here praying stuff that i'm not going to get into that but you you you take the things that god has said take the prophetic you can dis and work over a marriage if god has spoken some things to you about you and your family we did this concerning our our move to houston you know we didn't know a whole lot and so we we took what the word of god said you know i'll give you houses that you didn't build that's how that was my word because i did not want to uh build a home i didn't want to build a home our realtor was trying to get us to do new construction stuff i said nope that's not what i want to do the promise is houses i didn't build that's the promise no that was my word i said no that's not what the word no the word to me is i'm gonna get houses that i didn't build okay so i took that you know i prayed the word okay and then and then there were some specific things that the lord had dealt with us about concerning a certain area of houston that we were to live in so i prayed the scripture then i prayed what he said to us then then i would begin to pray in other tongues about it and as i'm praying in other tongues i'm watching in my heart to see what he will say to me that i need to say that i need to announce it making sense this is watching and praying that's really what it is it's watching and praying not watching here or watching you know watching hear watching in your heart to see what he will say that you should say um uh habakkuk chapter one i'm gonna look at this real quick light y'all don't have to turn there y'all can you know stay hooked up and just listen if you like habakkuk chapter 1 chapter 2 and verse 1 and in the king james it says i will stand upon my watch and i will set me upon the tower and i will watch to see what he will say unto me and what i shall answer when i am reproved now the amplified version says it this way he says i will in my thinking i will in my thinking stand upon my post of observation and station myself on the tower and i will watch to see what he will say within me i will watch to see what he will say within me okay now what am i watching for well let's go over to john now you can turn here john chapter 16 we'll look at verse 13. giving your mind and assignments you can pray out a little further you understand what i'm saying you can pray out a little further for the nation you can pray out a little further for your business for your church for your family for the plan for your life john chapter 16 and let's look at verse 13. i quote this a lot but we can um go ahead and put our eyes on it jesus is talking and he says how be it when he the spirit the truth is come he will guide you into all truth for he will not speak of himself but whatever he shall hear that shall he speak and he will show you things to come right he'll show you things to come whether you're a prophet or not so i don't have to go find a prophet to see the future just spend time with the one that's already there right right um and so let's see where do i want to hop down to do do do do do let's look at listen the amplified yeah verse 13 yeah here we go but when he the spirit of truth the truth giving spirit i like that the truth giving spirit the truth giving spirit that will filter out a lot of goofy stuff in prayer and people do things and blame the holy ghost for it you know the holy spirit gives you truth if it's not truth it didn't come from the holy spirit because he's the truth giving spirit right he will guide you into all truth the whole truth the full truth and nothing but the truth we will not speak his own message on his own authority but he will tell you whatever he hears from the father he will give the message that's been given to him and he will announce and declare to you the things that are to come look at verse 14 verse 14 in the amplified says he will honor and glorify me because he will see he will receive draw upon what is mine and he will reveal declare disclose and transmit it to you reveal declare disclose and transmit it to you declare that means he he will declare things to your spirit he will declare things to your spirit as you're watching now as you're watching he will declare things to your spirit and if you'll connect your lips to your spirit you'll find yourself saying things you hadn't planned to say that he's declaring there he'll declare things to your spirit you know you're single and you're praying for a spouse you know you want to be married you know you find somebody at the revive con 21 and you know you say before i say hello you know too many times let me go and get in prayer about it hallelujah it's a good idea and uh so you get into prayer and you know you pray in the scriptures lord is he the one or shall we look for another anyway you know you get in you know you pray about it and you get over in other tongues praying you know and you begin to pray lord is this the one i hold this individual before you this connection what is this no it's a book no no no no no well i think he's saying something there buckets hit the water you've got your answer don't want to do that you know you're praying about your finances you know and you're just praying in the holy ghost you know and you're watching to see what he will say watching to see what he will say watching for creativity innovative ideas strategies blueprints you're watching you're watching and you hear this blow up real big on the inside the lord is my shepherd i shall not want i will not want for food i will not want for opportunity and i will not want for money and you think that's a scripture i think well it is and he didn't give that to you just so you can have nice warm fuzzy feelings in that moment no he gave that to you come on as a weapon of word to hurl at the mountain and so you've got to reach into your spirit just like you would reach into your pocket and get your keys you got to reach into your spirit pull those words out and now speak that out of your mouth right because the holy spirit was put on the inside to be followed yes this next word here is disclose we're going to pray but i need to teach you something for a minute here i want you to go home with something next word is disclosed you're out of a non-disclosure agreement you know that means that the details of that agreement are not to be disclosed to parties that are not in the agreement right and so i used the example y'all pick on me because i throw my wife under the bus but she is the troublemaker it's not me she is the one okay okay okay okay okay okay i live with it so i know [Laughter] and so you know my wife has most wives had lots of shoes lots of shoes wife has lots of shoes i love that my wife has lots of shoes she looks wonderful in all the shoes that she has and uh and so you know i get up in the middle of the night and um i have to use the bathroom you know and so it's dark and um but you know i know my house right i know my house i know my room i'm in there every day i know the room so i'm a faith my way to the bathroom and i make my way out of the bed make my way around the end of the bed i'm coming through and i know that now there's a dresser right here and the door is here for the bathroom and i'm almost there almost in one of those stilettos my god you ever have a heel not like not the bottom of the foot but that little back part of the heel right there jesus here to bring a language out of you i'm telling you you have to yield to god and you know in a field of rage i just turned the light on jesus help me just turn the light on and you know when i turned the light on everything that was hidden from my understanding comes into view i can see the shoes i can see the toys i can i can see all of it right well that's the way it is in prayer sometimes you begin to pray about a particular situation maybe you're praying about your children you know you prayed the scriptures prayed all the scriptures and you get over in other tongues and now you're just watching you're watching to see how the spirit of god will lead you and in one instance you have no idea what is going on you have no idea what to do but you let the bucket hit the water you pray out until the bucket hits the water and almost like like night and day the light cuts on and you can clearly see oh that's what's going on with them oh that's the relationship i need to bring some distance there between them and that individual or oh i just need to spend some time with them one on one we started very early we said that we would never you know refer to the kids as the kids or the children we endeavor to refer to them individually so we take them out on individual dates like we just don't take them out the chuck e cheese all together we do that but we're very careful to have movie dates with them individually you know ice cream dates individually micah says it's mommy and mommy and micah day you know you know mommy and kai today or whatever you know what i mean but you you run up on that by way of revelation you just you just know it's not necessarily a scripture you just know you know what i'm saying um the last one here transmit transmit transmit transmit works kind of like this and anyone ever um like you know maybe you have two different bank accounts and so you move money from one account to the next account you know i like it when i can do that you know within the same bank like we have the same bank because the transaction is immediate when it's a different rank sometimes it takes days for that money to move over okay but if i want to move some money from my account over to my wife's account which happens a lot so i want to move money from mine over to her like she gets it in seconds you know sometimes the leading of the spirit in prayer is just like that you're going along praying and just in a matter of a moment boom somebody's face is there you go oh i hadn't thought about that person in 20 years get a clue get a clue if you weren't thinking about that and it just arrived in your spirit that's a prayer cue don't just have warm fuzzies about it no give yourself to prayer am i helping you a bit in the moments that i have left and i got to hurry up we're going to pray i promise um recognizing the spirit of prayer how do you recognize when he wants to move you over into prayer okay recognizing the spirit of prayer well first of all a desire to pray i can be sure that i can be sure positive that the devil is not giving you a desire to pray just having a desire to pray that's the holy spirit wooing you wooing you into the place of of prayer um restlessness restlessness or the inability to settle when you should be settling you know like you get in bed at night and you just can't seem to just just settle don't let your knees your reaction be to grab the phone or or like when you wake up in the middle of the night you know and you can't seem to get back to sleep you know and sometimes we'll make our way to the refrigerator know what you're doing you're pacifying the wrong hunger you know what a pacifier is designed to do it it's designed to pass the time and sometimes you'll endeavor to pacify the the leading of the spirit to pray with potato chips i can see i'm not alone in that you know don't do that don't do that prophetic revelation when god says something to you i say it all the time the prophecy that you receive that does not turn into a prayer assignment is the prophecy that you have not really received you get a prophetic word from the lord he spoke that thing to you personally or he gave it to you through a reputable prophet and you're like yes that's god's word to me yes i believe that that is right that is spot on and you leave it right there and it doesn't affect your prayer patterns it doesn't affect your prayer routines you put it on the shelf as if you're not sure it came from god well look either it came from god or it didn't and if it did then you need to process that in prayer don't just leave it there if it doesn't turn into a press timer you didn't really receive it when god says something to you when god says something to you now he's commissioning you to pray about it because you're not going to have what god says about you you're going to have what you say about you not so important what god said no it's more important what you have to say about what god said that making sense praise the lord so you got to pray it out you know the prophetic revelation is an invitation to process the plan of god in prayer it's what it is it's an invitation hallelujah then the next one here heaviness heaviness you know you're just you're just heavy you know and you don't understand why and the enemy will try to get you to misinterpret that and have you thinking no i'm depressed or i'm this no if you'll take that over in prayer if you'll pull that over into prayer you'll find the leading of the spirit taking you somewhere and it's for somebody else now the discipline is to take it over into prayer and leave it there and don't come out looking weird you know oh i'm so heavy oh i'm so heavy oh i just been praying i'm just so heavy heavy heavy like no no no bring your mind back to the word no matter how heavy you are jesus said my yoke is easy and my burden is light so if you're walking around all bend over oh i'm an intercessor and i'm so heavy i'm sorry stop that stop that today okay hallelujah let's try to bring a little balance you know praying people can do some strange things you know hallelujah um scripture scripture when the holy spirit brings scripture to your mind you know don't just meditate on that lift it up in prayer lift that up and pray how just by praying in the holy ghost and holding that scripture in your heart because the spirit of god wants to say something to you about i think we said this yesterday it's one thing for you to speak the scripture it's another thing when the scripture talks back okay and as as you hold that up before the lord he'll begin to talk to you about that scripture concerning you or it will evolve into a prayer assignment amen random thoughts i've already talked about this a bit but random thoughts about a person about a place about a situation give that up to the lord in prayer you know a nation just comes up in your heart and you think i don't even know why i'm thinking about that hey pray pray even if it's not a leading you know you waste no time and you're not going to lose anything by just spending a few minutes to pray about it and just see and if he doesn't lead you anywhere you haven't lost anything but a little bit of breath and spit right then the last one here a question a question a question that comes up in your heart a question about the nation lord what what is that what about that what about that i just i don't understand that what is it a question about the plan of god for your life lord i don't know what to do what what what next what now i don't know what to do about this you know the only other option available to you is to get over into reasoning and let the wheels in your head just spin out of control this is exceptionally good for single saints i promise i'm not picking on you all this morning you know you know but but but singleness will will have many questions coming up because because your the marriage covenant affects so many things it affects you know business it affects ministry it affects money lord knows it affects money make money okay so there are lots of things that go it's not just you meeting a person it's bigger than that you know there's seven well almost eight billion people on the planet i'm sure you can find somebody but we're talking about lives colliding no you know what i mean i mean we're talking about two people who have their own way their own perspective their own culture their way of doing things and their lives are going to collide i mean it's a miracle that it takes place they don't kill each other i heard that heard this i heard this preacher one time say he said he said my marriage is about i don't think i would have said this publicly but he said my marriage is a balancing act between which we oh i love you i want to spend the rest of my days with you and why are you here i don't know that i would have said that you know and and so and so because of these varying dynamics in a marriage there is much that needs to be prayed out so that everything reconciles the way it's supposed to so that those so that that so that there aren't things that are compromised that need to be non-negotiables like we don't negotiate about the plan of god and we're not doing that we're not going to negotiate about the word you know um that's the final authority well those things have to be prayed out y'all you got to pray that out and so that means you have to spend more time praying and processing the plan as a single person than you do as an avid user on e-harmony and all these other things and i'm not opposed to online dating i'm not opposed to online dating i chased my wife on myspace for days before we ever met is that when myspace was a thing thank god for tom you know you know tom you know don't even know where tom is today but we bless god for tom and his ministry he helped me and those of you that don't know who tommy is don't worry about it don't worry about it everybody was tom's read but anyway and so you pray it out y'all you pray it out you pray it out you pray it out and as a single person because you pray when that person arrives in your life you recognize them now you may not recognize them as a spouse but because you have been handling them in prayer for months and years when they arrive in your life you go oh i think i'd like to get to know that person you know that was tisha's assertion of me she said oh i think i want to get to know that person when i saw her i said yep i'mma marry her i was praying more than she was so i knew a little bit more than i was just playing i'm just playing i was just like y'all go ahead stand to your feet did you learn something this morning praise the lord well we're going to follow the assignment that we've had all week and we're going to pray for the nation and we're going to pray for the body of christ actually the lord spoke this to me this morning while i was getting ready you know just meditating on the word for a bit and he said this to me he said i'm not trying to muzzle the prophets so he said and i'm not trying to muzzle the prophets he said i just want clean speech i just want cleanness i'm not trying to muzzle the prophets you know you know the the scripture that that kind of jumped out at me when he said that was the scripture over in first uh corinthians chapter 14 where he said let the prophet speak let the prophets speak i just finished a women's school a mini school on ministry and i called it let the women speak let the women speak just spent you know six weeks empowering about 50 women in ministry helping them to overcome bias and overcome overcome insecurity so they can be in their place and speak as they ought to speak you know but it came out of that scripture let the prophets speak allow the prophets to give room get make space not trying to muzzle them but it must be clean speaking clean speaking that the judges of a generation would rise and tell the people what they ought to do in times of chaos in times of chaos and war so we may land on that i'm not sure but we're going to start praying a few scriptures here and then we'll follow the spirit and we'll we'll just see where he's going to take us here the next 13 minutes is that good hallelujah well let's pray father we just want to thank you for your word thank you that your word is the truth your word is not a lie thank you that you are faithful to your word thank you father that you're faithful to watch over your word to perform it thank you lord that you do what you say thank you that you are faithful to your word you always do what you say and so with that confidence with the great confidence that we have in you and the great confidence that we have in your word we approach you with that truth acting on your word doing what you told us to do offering prayers intercessions supplications and giving of thanks for all men specifically for kings and for all those that are in authority lord you said in your word ii thessalonians chapter 3. paul was telling the thessalonians lord to pray that the gospel would have free cars free cars uninhibited that the opposition would not work that the agendas and the various weapons would not work that the gospel would have free course that the church would be delivered from wicked and unreasonable men wicked and unreasonable unreasonable man and with their wicked and unreasonable policies and so we lift that up over america we lift that up for over america that the gospel of the lord jesus christ would have three cars in this nation in california in washington state in montana in utah in oregon in the dakotas all in the midwest over into new york over into massachusetts over into the carolinas all the way down into florida and the islands may the gospel have free course free course free course and in the government maybe we do baby we may we we will be delivered from wicked and unreasonable man wicked and unreasonable policies even in your church may the gospel have free course and we be delivered from wicked and unreasonable men wicked policies wicked procedures false doctrines may the words of christ dwell in this nation richly ritually richly may the word dwell in this nation richly may there be songs in hymns and spiritual songs that enveloped this nation songs of deliverance songs of praise songs of hope songs of revelation songs that open portals portals of healings portals of creativity portals of innovation songs songs from the spirit songs springing from the presence of your very own self [Music] oh hallelujah and now holy ghost we trust you to do what you do best and give us utterance to pray in an unknown tongue and an unknown tongue spirit words escaping our lips hitting those targets as you see fit hallelujah now help me pray solomon yeah i hear you out there in the colossal happenings colossal happenings colossal happenings colossal happenings oh yeah that the church will be put at an advantage the church would be at an advantage we'll be out ahead at an advantage position properly placed yeah to bring refreshing to the populace offering a stream of answers stream of answers a stream of answers a stream of answers of the truth a truth the truth the truth the truth the truth the truth is [Music] oh the council of god and the wisdom of god concerning the economies concerning the economies yeah and all of those currencies there is a provision even in the imbalance there is a provision yeah i see that lord there is a provision even in the imbalance yeah because you have not changed you have not changed you're still able to do yeah exceedingly abundantly above all we could ask or think is [Music] [Music] yeah and we'll be all right because you'll provide will be all right because you'll provide you'll provide from your endless supply is [Music] you will teach your people to prosper and you will teach your people to prosper you will teach your people well how to prosper how to prosper how to prosper in the work of the lord how to prosper doing the plan how to prosper doing just what you said how to prosper it is thank you holy spirit that you illuminate that you illuminate that you illuminate and the money will come and the money will come and the favor will come and the opportunity will come and the opportunity will come opportunity large opportunities large opportunities large opportunities for the church and the church will walk right on through the church will walk right on through and the church will walk right on through and the church will be used and the church will walk right on through is tactics tactics tactics tactics tactics strategies and tactics so many ways so many ways so many ways yeah for the nation for this nation there are so many ways oh yeah yeah so many ways for this nation so many ways so many ways to reach this nation there's so many ways so many ways this means and so father i thank you for eyes that see and here's to here a heart to understand that which you desire to do yeah yeah yeah that the church would have the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of you that the eyes of their understanding would be flooded with light concerning what it is you called them to do that each and every one would be filled with the spirit of revelation in the knowledge of you filled with the knowledge of your will and all spiritual wisdom and understanding fully pleasing you and desiring to please you in all things and all things [Music] all plans plans plans plans all the plans plans yeah yeah yeah yeah thank you that you grant you grant you grant the plan you give the plan you give the plan yeah and we see it and we eat it you grant the plan we see it and we eat it yes we swallow it we and we it's a yes it's a yes it is it is a yes it is a yes it is a yes to that plan it is a yes to the turn it is a it's a yes it's a yes it is it's a yes it's [Music] [Music] consecrated to the way of the lord to the way of the lord yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah saying yes to the hard thing and to the easy thing as well hallelujah yeah yeah rebecca father we thank you for manifestations and interpretations we release holy ghost faith to see those things come to pass hallelujah glory to god let me say this you know sometimes we struggle to hear from god because we've already decided to disagree with him sometimes we struggle to agree with god because we've already made up in our minds that we're going to disagree how does that happen we say i'll do anything but that god knows not to ask me to do that because i'm i'm not doing that i'm not doing that i will not go back home after all i'm not going back home we would move back home no i'm not i absolutely will not go to buffalo i will not go to buffalo so he knows i'm not going to buffalo he'll not even bring up green don't talk don't talk to me about it i ain't going you know we say things like that and what you're doing is that you're sowing hostility in your heart you're sowing hostility even if he's not going to ask you to go to buffalo you're sowing hostility and rebellion just by saying that and it's not that he wants you to go to buffalo he wants you to be willing to go to buffalo you know what i'm saying but sometimes you know we say oh i'm not going to do this i'm not going to do that and sometimes that's the sometimes sometimes that's the very thing he wants you to do you know you're not writing this story you know he's the author and the finisher you're just an actor in this story your responsibility is know your part know your lines and act that's it be backstage arguing with the playwright no do what it's on the paper it's on the paper you just follow the paper you just follow the paper you'll be fine conditioning your heart to be easily entreated makes it easy to be led so can we just in the next few seconds here it don't take long can we just surrender the disagreement just surrender that just lord okay yes i don't even quite know what i'm saying yes to but i'm surrendering all of this hostility and rebellion to you i don't want to muddy things in my heart and make it hard for me to see where i'm supposed to start hallelujah hallelujah well thank you for praying with me this morning can we all stand to our feet we've done some real good praying this week went a lot of places and it was all word-based praise the lord well thank you for being here this morning i'm surrendering my time pastor

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