Rock Church - "Man Night" with Pastor Miles McPherson

Reserve what's up what's happening y'all y'all bless tonight sit again then some this on this on this so hey it is a blessing to be here thanks for coming out Tuesday night do we have any guys here from the military if y'all come from a military can we have you all stand up real quick amen let's go to my hair amen amen let me tell you let me see turn two we're gonna be a while living before I get there when I got turned anything yet let me pray for us let me pray for us Lord Jesus I thank you for tonight and I thank you for these men and I thank you for the men who've been praying Lord you say you want to do exceedingly abundantly more than we can ask or imagine and you called us to do something in your name here in San Diego and beyond we thank you for the privilege of the responsibility of serving you we thank you for the privilege of being called father like you son like you dad like you Lord you gave us that title and you gave us a responsibility with that title we also know that the devil hates that title he hates us he has a plan to destroy us destroy our families our relationships with our wives our children our relationships with our community with each other so in the name of Jesus Christ the Lord and Savior died and rose from the dead we ask you to have mercy on us tonight Lord we ask you that you would bless us and bless the man in this room who needs your mercy bless the marriages that are on the brink of destruction bless the men who addicted to pornography and alcohol and drugs bless the men who are depressed suicidal they feel like failures Lord we pray that you would affirm your love for us tonight your unconditional agape love for us tonight and that you would set men free from the bondage of the lies in their life Lord thank you for setting me free thank you for the millionth chance you've given me today thank you for the millionth chance you've given all of us today and Lord we pray in your name that you would have mercy on us and then we can fulfill what you cause to fulfill that we could be faithful men before a Living God and we pray this in Jesus name Amen let's give it a lot of hands getting a lot of hand a few months ago I talked about and met and challenged you to pray for one hour a day how many of you guys can honestly say you've been flying away flying away amen amen if you are visitor we've been challenging the church to pray for an hour day and a night over the last month I've been challenging guys to come here tonight and and tonight was about two things it was about vision I'm going to share about 10 minutes about vision specifically what we're doing here in the church so if your visitor please bear with us and then I'm gonna talk about prayer because my heart for tonight is that you will leave here not only with a clear vision of what we're gonna do but more importantly you will leave here with a commitment that you're gonna pray we can talk about trying to reach standing we can talk about reaching the world and all kind of stuff but if we don't pray we're just talking and we can talk about you getting off addiction you reconciling with your wife some of y'all got issues secret issues we can talk about God wants to help you but if you don't pray we're just talking and so we're gonna talk about praying tonight my prayer is that you will leave here with a little clear vision of how you should spend your hour and yes sir our is 60 minutes give or take that you would spend an hour God every day if you if you haven't been here I've been talking about that every week an hour and I know a lot of y'all are busy I'll put my busy schedule for against yours any day like I do our got to do our Sunday morning I gotta get extra early and come and do an hour so I and I can honestly tell you don't you don't need my testimony your Bible it clearly says that God will do incredible things in your life and so I assume you want incredible things matter of fact I will tell you need incredible things you need how many y'all need a miracle in your life you need it you need it let's let's try this how many you need twenty miracles in your life we need it and I'm gonna tell you I want the one of the reasons I and I get to him a little more later that God has challenged me still he's challenging me still okay I want more and he's challenging me and here's what he's saying to me and God talks trash you know that it's not trash because he backs it up but he talks trash when history says nothing's impossible that's talking trash to me he says what you want nothing's impossible you can take that mound and move it over there do you believe me no it did so so that's why I mean when I talk trash he's not like he can't do it but he's like I can do exceedingly abundantly morning you can ask or imagine just imagine it you think a little key talks as a little kid and they go what do you want bu grub well I wanna be a football player I won't be a basketball player I will be a doctor I wanna go to the moon I want to be a president okay whatever kid God says no no I could do that that we pray because we want God to do something we can and so if you're gonna pray you want to ask God to do something you can but something you feel he wants you to do okay and so here's operate we're gonna do it to put these quick slides up here I wanna get get through this because we gave you a brochure I want you to read the brochure and and deal with it later but what we want to do is establish pervasive hope in San Diego pervasive hope for every way someone can be lost we want to provide a way they can be found in the very place they have ended up it's very simple every Street every person everyone say every Street say every person now again I'm gonna say I'm gonna talk big picture and then we're gonna come back to where it starts with me and Ukraine every Street every person if you were here Sunday you heard me say we can just have Church we got a big church we just sit on that and go yeah we were there that is not the point the point is they a whole lot of people whose lives is jacked up starting in this room in this place we want to help each other but there's a whole lot of people out there that God says I want to help and I've given all y'all resource to help namely the Holy Spirit namely the Word of God namely our relationship with God and God wants to do anime things through us first he's gonna love you and he's gonna love through you just like when you put your hand through a sleeve in his shirt so you're right right here my little straight here's the sleeve you put your hand to like that that's what God wants to do through your body he wants just reach through your body and touch somebody else okay so every way someone can be lost what a product by the way they can be found in the very place they've ended up so I might challenge you as God okay you saved my soul I'm struggling but how do you want to use me somebody out there has to be helped by your life I want to see the movie Act of Valor last night how many y'all helped me all saw that movie how many of you have not seen that movie shut your mouth shut your mouth okay here's the deal I was sitting there how many y'all know what the movie is how many you do not know what the movie is okay okay okay here's the deal active hours about these Navy SEALs and in actual real Navy SEALs real Navy SEALs and it's you know it's a movie but there's real Navy SEALs in the movie doing what they do and I saw the preview maybe a month ago a movie with my son watching something else and that free view came on and I turned to them I'm loud in the movies till I forget I'm in the movie and I turned he was like four seats down to my wife and his fiancee I said I want to see that movie five times in one day that's how good the preview was so we went last night via here I go movies on Monday night when no one's there and you're on the way in line and it was the bomb but I saw that movie and you see war and what these guys do together to win a war we're in a war the devil has waged war against your family and against you you have to pray you cannot win the war without praying you will lose you've already lost you've already lost matter of fact in the movie one of the things they say well let me think if I can remember it it was something like if you are not committed to given everything in the battle you've already lost it was something like that I was like wanting to write it down but my phone was off like I got to write this down if you are not ready to give up everything and this guy walked out of this house and say goodbye to his pregnant wife and I did a I did a funeral for a Navy SEAL last year whose wife was pregnant at the funeral with that their child they gave everything they give her everything pervasive hopes gonna cost us it's cost us times and of course this money's gonna talk to cost this effort but we got to go for it we have to because we can we have to ease you can now how are we gonna do that for four initiatives very quickly one is we got small groups multiple campuses we want to put multiple campuses all over San Diego why we have people all over San Diego and then one reason people start coming here cuz they it was too far we want to put a church in their neighborhood and then mobilize them to serve some of y'all live in those neighborhoods we're gonna deploy you God's gonna call you God's gonna call you can't send you there but God's gonna call you but I want you to be thinking about your neighborhood I want you to be thinking about I'm praying about your neighborhood number 224 online Church we're gonna be go online well online now we're gonna beef it up goal just Church every day different languages they're the technology where you could speak and it comes out in Arabic comes out in Chinese and get the glass to it can you imagine I'm talking about a lot yeah that's what that is I don't know global evangelism strategy we want to train other churches to also mobilize their people to reach their community matter of fact are there any pastors here from other churches if you can stand that we want to pray for you right now anybody passes here from other churches and we got one there anybody else one what was the other one someone over can y'all just if you a man stand up if you around those guys can y'all can y'all really hands on those guys real quick can y'all lay hands on those guys these are our brothers these are our brothers Lord we pray for these pastors and we pray you encourage them we pray you give them vision we pray you give them encouragement you pray you give them hope you give them resources people leaders give them the resources that you have that they need to do what you call them to do and renew their spirits tonight may they mount up like Eagles throw on the wind of the Holy Ghost and may you surround them with men who are faithful who will loved and encourage them in Jesus name give them a miracle they've been praying for they've been praying for a miracle I pray Lord we pray you released that miracle today on their life and on their ministry in Jesus name and no matter hey soos Amen let's get him a hand Amen god bless y'all god bless y'all and the last I think it was one more up there less debt we have a second mortgage gonna pay off and so we're gonna paint it off and save a whole lot of money if we if we refinance two key dates want to give you real quick two key dates March 25th is commitment Sunday we're going to take pledges three-year pledges it's all in the bulletin if you hear is a financial pledge over three years over and above so we can pay down the debt and do all this stuff and then April 6th of the day we're going to give a first offering on that so that's it that's all in your bulletin you got it that's enough for that turn to second chronicles chapter 7:14 second Chronicles 7:14 and as you turn there let me encourage those other pastors may God bless you all and if we could ever do anything to help you we want to help you weren't actually gonna have a summit a mini mini conference may 24 30 a four churches call it do something Church summit so you stay in touch you'll be on our website verse 7 second Chronicles 7:14 if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face key turn from their wicked way I will hear from heaven forgive their sin and heal then let me read it again if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways I will hear from heaven and forgive their sin and heal their land a mark chapter 1 verse 35 Jesus it says now in the morning having risen long before daylight he went out to a departed and departed to a solitary place and there he prayed and once they prayed Luke chapter 6 verse 12 it came to pass in those days that he went out to the mountain to pray and once a pray and he continued all night in prayer on earth all night all night all night in a physical sense I know on all y'all life time you have at some point worked out I would assume and I would assume and hope that if you especially working out at some point you said let me see how long I can run let me see how much I can lift let me see how flexible I can get and you challenged yourself I did the same thing for many years and I would say let's see if I can do this and that fact one one training camp we had a run 40 10 40-yard dashes and we had a start each 40-yard dash 30 seconds after the previous one so every for every 30 seconds we will start another one we run them all within four tenths of our fastest one that we timed the day before whatever early that day and so I was like I want to do this and so we trained I was swimming I can't swim I mean I can swim but I can't lap swim I could just kind of survive in the water right so I went down my swim gonna cross train and I got in the water and I was like BAM beating up the water and I went well you know a lap is down and back I went down that was it rode the bike did also I said I want to see how in shape I can get god here's my challenge to you that you would see how much prayer power you can have I mean let's see what God can do let's let's see God so much that we're going to test God to see how deep into the spiritual we could get I'm not talking about 10 minutes oh yeah you know okay okay so put my time in know where you and God meet and you and and you meet so much so that throughout the day you could sense his presence in your life right in the midst of all this drama and you have peace and you have vision and you have encouragement and the impossible things you couldn't do addictions that you had all of a sudden you don't need them anymore you have no desire you have no desire now is that your marriage that was like this all sons like this God can do all of that stuff that's what God can do and so my challenges that you would that you least want that just want that Jesus Christ had to pray all night long you know why Jesus miracles were so easy because he was prayed up all the time matter fact he was so prayed up he would walking down the street a lady came behind she had a period for 12 years straight she played for 12 years straight every day and he just she she came up and touched his clothes he didn't even like look around go let me pray for you see she just came up and he had so much power who's them and went wow healed them for real so I'm he was just touched me BAM been here I mean there's no time to do a half-hour try if the counseling session praying tongue praying toes framing fingers he and have all the time he was ago boom bada boom bada boom bada boom bada boom of the boom because he was already prayed up who's already prayed up yeah and I don't want you to think well that's the power that's the man of gods deal or the prophets deal no no that's your deal that's your deal and the only reason you don't got it is because you ain't working for it that's it Gossett is available to everybody it's fully available there's no discrimination you rich black rich black rich rich for in the middle black and white in the middle all the brownies in the middle okay you no matter what you always liked it so anybody could have it anybody have it you know you go to a third world country and I would make a generalization and it's gonna be true you go outside this country where people have less they got more spiritual power why cuz I'm so distracted we're distracted with stuff you go to a place where they got nothing and they sit around and pray and they got miracles happening so my challenge news is that you would say god I want that if you don't want it then you ain't gonna get it the only one a little bit I don't know why you would want to only live it I want it all say I want it all very good so when you know it's real quick we can talk about how you can spend your outer one hour when we get to this root do this real quick you've seen this acronym before or super se or super if you want to pray for an hour or all you got to do is do 10 minutes in each letter this is one one thing you can do because there's so many things you can do for that hour we're just gonna cover one tonight but you can go on the bookstore and get devotionals you can read you can read your Bible you can see you do all kind of stuff but I just wanna give you a basic framework on how you can spend your hour of God hey the letter A the letter A is at my god ever say it my god by the way when you pray it is good to pray God's Word because God's Word or his promises to you now I can't lie so when you pray God's Word he's what you saying to God God you said this is what you said so you're gonna go back on your word Bible says in Hebrews 6:18 it's impossible for God the line so if God said he can't lie so pray his word don't pray your emotions don't pray you're complaining pray his word so you know there's a whole bunch of verses on it Maya but the a and Allsop I'm gonna say all CIPA there a is Lord we want to lift you up and say thank you you can thank God it should be able to thank God your whole Drive home even if you live in Yuma I don't know where you driving home at tonight where he's driving to LA you should be able to thank our out of the whole way lord thank you that I have a woman how many y'all got a woman ok how many y'all ain't got you ain't got a woman listen to me how many hit honey you don't have a woman ok we'll pray for y'all you should be thanking God for that let me clarify because I know there's a woman watching online right there you're gonna go home and tell you why there's a mouse that he's glad all right yeah go ahead go ahead the reason y'all should be thankful you don't have a woman because you're probably not ready yet you don't want to move until you're ready trust me be by yourself look at yourself in the mirror kiss yourself do anything just you don't want to get a woman until you're ready and you don't want a woman that's too much woman for you good there's some tires out there if you're a little puppy you don't want to grab this tiger you don't say oh my goodness and let me say this if you if God gives you a woman you love that woman if God gives you a woman you love that woman to death God did not give you that woman to serve you she did not give that woman to make you happy she gave that woman to make you holy now people say of course you're gonna be happy you should be happy but she's not there to make you happy you're there to bless her that's all you should be focused on are you blessing her you can't out bless a woman unless you got a she-devil which there are very few she-devils I mean most of the time woman's go women's well y'all got me speakers all kind of messed up English here tonight and myung this is bad anyway yeah the most of the time and I mean most of the time I see psycho women is because some guy drove a psycho so if your woman's psycho it's probably you if God gives you a woman you love that woman but here's a point we want to thank God oh thank you for my woman thank you for my health thank you that I could pray to you thank you that I'm alive thank you have a chance today to be better today tomorrow than it was today you want to lift God up then you never want to have God as you appear because he's not you want to lift God up and once you have it lifts God up and you put yourself in a proper relationship to God now you can start to pray properly but God's got to go first it ain't about dear God here's what I want no he ain't your servant dear God thank you and I'm gonna tell you something prayer is a supernatural engagement in connection to God you will always be blessed more than what you put in it you have to trust that praying and doing whatever you can do will reap benefits far beyond your effort so if you just put God our Father who art in heaven hallowed be thy name first thing Jesus teaches us to do is gaana that's what he's telling he's not saying say those words he's saying do this first hallo be thy name holy is your name okay so a I'm gonna say admirer say wait this is the hardest thing to do in the world is be still and know that I am God clear your mind hmm oh it's hard I think I got a call today a buddy of mine he's he was playing it and I felt ly hurt his back can't he was just told he'll never play again his fiancee gave him hurt the ring back his his his grandmother is sick and this is a guy he's a defensive back he's 6-3 225 just big old ginormous dude and he's telling me on the phone I was crying like like a little kid like my mother just woke me and he loves God just do loves God yes I do I said don't do nothing just it's like pain is flown by in the river just let it float don't do anything you can't fix this you can't make her take the ring can't make you want it you want to fix all the stuff it's not for you to fix just wait sometimes the best thing to do is wait keep your mouth shut say my god just spent five minutes telling God thank you spent five minutes waiting on God then see say confess very simple very simple if you confess your sin he's faithful and just to forgive you and cleanse you if you spend five minutes confessing sin I think y'all got more than five minutes of sin of confessed gonna get any man it is cleansing to tell God God I lied yesterday I was thinking things about that woman I shouldn't thought about I was greedy I was selfish I was prideful I was self Senate I was egotistical it was all about me I was reading this reading this devotional book and it was it had like 60 chapters this is like three page chapters and one of the chapters it was probably the best chapter of the book and it talked about humility and he said don't ever think about this now fellas don't ever start or say things in a conversation with the intent of facilitating a compliment home saying again you know you know hey uh how was the service yesterday oh it's good it passed you know I'm hypothetical I hope identifies it me saying this hey how's the service yeah service oh yeah you a good pastor oh that don't don't do that miles don't do that don't do it hey you asking hey um you you ask a question at your job to your employees because you know they're gonna have to compliment you as a result it was about humility and I found myself such a mom god I instigate a compliment I'm sorry I forgive me God that you would be honest with God from the depth of your soul here's the thing God already knows and when you tell him if he cleans it out saying my god say wait say confess now say intercede now I'm praying for you now you're praying for somebody else you're praying for your wife you're praying for others and by the way the people you pray for the people you pray with you become intimate with the people you pray for you become intimate with and the God you pray to you become intimate with start praying for other people by name start praying for your enemies by name start praying for the people talk behind your back by name you know what God is gonna do he's gonna knit your heart with them and he's gonna show you how you can love them because a lot of the people if not most of the people who have something against you it's really they got an issue a god they got an issue of God if you are standing on solid rock with God there's very few things that could bother you but if you got issues with people is because you and God ain't right yet so I'm praying for other people so first you're gonna you're gonna spend five minutes talking praying to God praise the God for who he is you gonna spend five minutes being quiet you're gonna spend five minutes saying God please forgive me from my sin by the way you haven't asked for anything yet you haven't got a asking for your Mercedes asking for your girl or asking for a house or asking for raise you haven't gotten to that yet and he's been five minutes praying for somebody else and now after you do all that and by the way will you pray for other people think about the people who are doing way worse than you in their life and if yeah if you can't think of any drive south 40 minutes and go over the border and don't assume that the people who live on the other side of the border or any less than you you just got lucky that you weren't born into a family that lives in a dump you got lucky that's it you could have been anywhere Lord I pray for my neighbor whose wife just cheated on them I pray for my neighbor who got cancer or his wife got cancer you can do that all day long you are blessed you got nothing nothing to complain about so first we're gonna add my God say oh my god then we're gonna wait say wait then we're gonna confess sin Lord forgive me say confess then we're intercede say intercede and then we're gonna petition now we can ask for ourselves petition and here's the thing about it after you lift God up and talk about how good he is after you acknowledge what a dirtbag you are after you acknowledge how hurt and everybody else is you know what happens when you get to this point you say god I'm good I'm good I don't deserve anything I'm just thankful that I could pray for other people trust me your heart will be where you'll say God I'm good my broke down car Lord man thanks for that challenge my nagging wife Lord thanks for the training and I'm not my wife don't nag I'm telling a hypothetical for a couple years I did I just say I'm just giving the example for a few Yahoo will got nagging wives I don't know who you are but I'm just making myself okay I'm not saying all wife nag but the point is you get the point Lord Lord I'm scared of women okay I'm scared of it lord I got so much stuff in my life I got so many other people that I need to look out for that I'm just glad I could be alive today now if you decide to ask for something you know you're probably gonna ask for one this is okay you're gonna say lord I really would like to get out but whatever you decide I really would like to get a wife for a few young but whatever you decide I really would like that promotion but whatever you decide and when you can get to that point who is right you are free you are free you are free and now you can pray for your enemies because you know what when your enemy is blessed it doesn't minimize you at all and when people who you may be a little jealous of or bless it has nothing to do with make it doesn't make you any less of a person it doesn't make you any any less love someone how are we getting our constant we got pulled people down so we could feel good God has plenty a blessing to go around and God gives seed to the soul what does that mean that the more you sow blessing the more blessing come to you because God can trust your gonna so it it ain't about you so everyone say oh my god say wait say confess say in the Steve say petition it's right then you know it's what's the last thing we're gonna do Lord thank you thank you again okay so here's my challenge you before we go to so our texture my challenge to you is every day once a day one hour god everyone say one hour god and here's my challenge to you fellas is that you take that one hour God and you say and and this was invested gonna be about that I am doing praying this hour anticipating supernatural answer if God does not answer prayer we don't pray and what does that mean the answer can just be simply what's the most powerful thing is his presence it's not that he's going to give you what you asked for he's just gonna answer his answer could be no his answer could be like ain't seen in a long time his answer could be wait his answer could be that's all you asking for you don't have any faith for more than that his hands that could be hey you need to pray for this his answer could be I love you when Solomon built the temple and when Moses built the tabernacle both times the presence of the Lord filled both those places so much they couldn't do any religious service the priests couldn't even go in there you know I got what God was trying to communicate it ain't about that it's about me his presence and if you can get to a way you're just praying and you just glad to have God's presence that's your answer God I just want your presence I believe you're there and I believe you're gonna respond somehow okay I'm a fact looking you notice there's a few things about answered prayer answered answers to prayer what makes prayer real and of course we're doing without answers there will be no need to pray if nothing's going to happen then God's not listening he's not responding the most real aspect of prayer is the answer and when I meant when I say answer the connection with God the connection with God God gave us prayer so we can connect with him communicate by the way community prayer is not you crying out to God it's you communicating with God he has a whole lot more to say to you than you have to say to him and what he has to say to you is a whole lot more important than what you have to say to him and when he have to say to you you don't know what he's gonna say he knows everything you gonna say you ain't telling him anything new he's gonna yes I got that yes I got that I'm glad you acknowledged that boom boom boom now can I talk and a lot of times at that moment we say Amen walked off to the races he's like you haven't listened to me so prayer is two-way that's the answer is the response is the connection prayer the answers give our prayers focus Lord we are praying for America were praying for pervasive folk we're praying for healed marriages were praying for a freedom from addiction a praying for peace we're praying for hunger and thirst for righteousness we're praying that you would be the spiritual leader of your house getting your family to church on time every week and serving somewhere and giving faithfully and doing everything the Bible says then you can do that and God can bless you the Bible says godliness with contentment is great gain I'm working on a strategic plan for my personal self I have one I'm taking it to the next level with this guy who's and actually it's gonna be a one guy now to several guys in a few in a little while thattaway smarter than me and the whole question is what does God want to do with my life and everybody should figure that question out make a long story short I said you know what I really just want to focus not 100% but the vast majority of my life right here in San Diego I don't need to go to Africa I mean I go but I don't need to go to Africa I don't need to go to China I don't need to go to Australia I don't need to be traveling the world I like it right here real simple now I'm gonna travel a little somewhat but I have a friends that they just do that all the time and the reason I'm telling you this story is that God can make your life very simple I'm gonna love my family i'ma be the spiritual leader my family that could be simple as that and if you could just Lord you could just pray Lord I just want you to show me what my non-negotiables in life are and I want you to bless that and don't let the gift devil get you distracted we're trying to do all these things that are gonna stress you out and force you to abandon God simplify godliness with contentment now in this story we're gonna read we're gonna turn to first Kings I'm gonna look at three things about answered prayer why is it important and understand that God wants to answer your prayer because it will motivate you to pray and by the way when you pray here's the challenge is that you look for Supernatural nough signore life I heard I think it was Charles Stanley say one day that if you are praying person your life will be unexplainable yeah this is listen to what he said and it's true if you are a praying person and you're walking with God your life will be unexplainable people will look at your life and go ah I don't know how that works how did they get some y'all you never see these goofy dudes he's he's like me me me these goofy dudes with these fine women can I get amen any I pray every day that's how it is okay okay pee-wee Herman I get it okay how many y'all want to have an unexplainable life oh my goodness you want to have unexplainable life where your stuff just where you wake up and this stuff happens to you like ah God ha God in this story Elijah his on Mount Carmel and it's 450 prophets a bale and a foreign other prophets of Jezebel she devil and Israel is being unfaithful to God and Elijah is all by himself and he says we're gonna have a church service and I'm gonna have all you false prophets you build an altar you put your bull on the altar and you crowd your God I'll build the altar I'll put my ball on the altar cut it up and I'll cry oh my god and whoever's God answers by fire out of heaven that's God ha ha ha whoa if your God answers by fire out of heaven then I'll bow out of your God but if my God answers by fire now when have you ever seen fire come out of heaven then you answer my god so there's a read a story this is the bone one guy against a whole bunch of people and it says the verse verse 20 verse 19 first Kings 1819 therefore sent and gather all Israel to me on Mount Carmel 450 prophets of Bale and the four hundred prophets of Asherah who eat at Jezebel's table verse 20 they have sent for all the children of Israel and they gathered together the prophets on Mount Carmel Elijah came to all the people saying how long will you fall to between two opinions if the Lord is God follow him but if bale is God follow him but the people answered not a word they were Punk's they couldn't decide who they were going to follow Elijah said to the people I alone and left the prophet of the Lord but bales prophets of 450 therefore let them give them two bulls let them choose one Bowl for themselves cut it in pieces and laid on the wood and put no fire under it and I will prepare the other Bowl and laying on the wood and put fire no fire under you call the name of your gods and I will call in the name of the and the guy who answers by fire he is God this is what you called trash-talking we're gonna see if your God is real and it says so all the people answered said it is well verse 25 Elijah said to the prophets of Balaam choose one both for yourselves and prepared the first you go first for you are many and call in the name of your God and put no fire under so they took the bowl which was given to them they prepared it called on the name of bale from morning until noon saying old Bale here is old Bale here but there was no voice no one answered they'll eat the mountain around the altar and so it was noon Elijah mocked them said cry aloud for he is a god maybe he's going to the bathroom maybe he's sleeping maybe he's busy maybe he's on a journey maybe he's maybe you got to wake him up so they cried aloud to cut themselves as was their customs until blood gushed out of them and it was midday past the prophet they prophesied until the time of the offering the Eden sacrifice but there was no voice no one answered no one paid attention Elijah said to the people y'all come over here and watch this so all the people came near him he prepared the altar that was broken down Elijah took 12 stones according to the number two tribes of Israel verse 32 and this with the stones he built an altar in the name of the Lord and he and he made a trench around the altar large enough to hold two seeds of seed and he put wood in order cut the bull in pieces later on the wood and said fill for water pots with water and poured on the sacrifice they then he said do it a second time and do it a third time so what he did is he poured water all over the all over he says I don't want you to be saying I had a little methane gas thing under there some Wolf's matchup Duraflame it's real wet and then it says in verse 35 the water ran all around the altar and he filled the trench with water and it came to pass at the time of the offering the eating sacrifice that Elisha the prophet came then said Lord God Abraham Isaac and Jacob let it be known this day that you are God in Israel and I am your servant and then I have done all these things at your word hear me o Lord hear me that this people may know that you are the Lord God and that you turn their hearts back to you and then when he prayed that prayer 60 some words fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt sacrifice the wood the stones and the dust and it licked up the water that was in the trench and all the people saw it they fell on their face they said the Lord God He is God the Lord is God and Elijah said sees the prophets of Bel do not let one of them escape and they seized them Elijah brought them down to the brook and executed them number one of your notes answered prayer glorifies God when God answers prayer it makes him look good when you pray what God tells you to pray and God leaves you hanging and God doesn't respond and it don't look good but when you pray what God tells you to pray and you a fable to pray what God tells you to pray and God answers your prayer more than you can ask or imagine guess what people say praise God and if they say praise you you better tell himself pray praise God that wasn't me that was God but God does stuff that only God can do you no one can take credit my momma the doctor that delivered my three kids he did he delivered thousands of babies and he says every single time every single time he gets his mind blown why because God says every single time watch this you can't do that John 14:13 if you're taking notes you can write down mattify I think you put it in your notes whatever you ask in my name that I will do that the father may be glorified in the son God wants to answer your prayer when you spend that our God is trying so hard I should say he's trying so hard he's trying to get you to pray the things that he wants to answer because he wants to answer he wants to do something in your life he wants to do something through your life this should motivate you this is exciting number two in your notes answered prayer nurtures non-believers faith in God when people when these guys said saw what God did they said the Lord is God we're talking we're talking about Jonah on Sunday and when they do Jonah in the water the pagans said that Jonah's God is God because I see when when we wake on they said whoever's gods that do this that's the God we want to serve when they threw Shadrach Meshach and Abednego in the fire and they came out and fire guess what they said you are servants of the Most High God and we're going to serve your God God wants to answer your prayer so little thing I'm just putting in my time and it's not going to happen no something's got to happen you got to go expecting something to happen but don't expect this little thing to happen don't say okay God you know can you please give me a good night's sleep you sleep fine without God I know some people have trouble sleeping I mean I have gone through that trouble sleeping don't pray for a job pray for a career don't pray for a woman pray for a godly woman don't pray for a bus pass pray for the bus it was a guy it was two kids walking on his two kids walking on a beach and one kid sent to the other kid he said hey man you see that house holding off and I held was a big house on the hill overlooking the ocean he said that's my daddy's house the other kid said man I've been living in apartment on my life he said you see that boat out there that yacht that's my daddy's job I never been in the boat he said you see that plane my daddy owns the airline that's how I got the boat in that in the house there's never been at my my daddy's never even been on a plane he walked home discouraged he had nothing then he got seen got new daddy went out to the beach he said hey man you see the house up there he said yeah that's my daddy's house he said that he'll my daddy owns that he'll he says daddy's borrowed there my daddy owns the ocean my daddy makes the sky blue that's your daddy - your daddy so stop act like your daddy is poor cuz he ain't like he's weak because he's not John 1141 it says they took away the stone from the place where he the dead man was lying Jesus lift up his eyes and said father this is when they raised Lazarus from the dead father I thank you that you have heard me and I know that you always hear me but because of the people stand here I said this that they may believe you sent me raise Lazarus up so people know it was you God wants to answer your prayer it gives him glory to non-believers I can't tell you how many non religious organizations in San Diego are being witnessed to buy out people serving them hospitals and schools etc the government saying God and sometimes they'll say God is this in fact we have meetings with a lot of secular people organizations and they'll come in and they'll go okay we're gonna pray it's like and it's a very respectful Weaver they respect what God is doing through y'all and so usually when God does what he does you can't but say oh my god and number three answered prayer improves the faithfulness and believers remember well I just said Lord answer my prayer that you may turn these people's hearts back to you God wants your heart if he can get your heart everything else is done so here's one closing this there's some of you guys out here you're living like most guys with built testosterone strong we want to do it all so be strong you know I'm a macho that and that's how our sinful nature expresses itself and we have to fight against it every day the only problem is the devil use that to destroy us some of y'all addicted some of y'all in pornography some of you your marriages and your a secrets in you it's in the closet and God says I want it I want it I want you to give your life to me I want you to give you a time to me I want you to give everything you have to me and let me bless you stop holding back so in a minute we're gonna pray and then one have to all the time and I'm gonna tell you in advance this was gonna happen I'm gonna ask you to pray a prayer and it's gonna be a prayer of surrender dear Lord I'm surrendering my life to you whether you say to not save your surrender you like them because you want God to have all of who you are and then I'm gonna ask you to stand up as everybody's had heads about an articles and then I'm have you come forward and what the worship team I think is gonna come out here and we're gonna sing a song and then when love on you and then y'all gonna go home don't go out go home don't stop at the strip club down the street don't do that we have ladies that go to a strip club and they go to a strip club they went down into one of strip clubs here in San Diego they called JC's girls they went in the club and they said it they said at the table had the little pink basket to give the strippers and these guys in the club said who are y'all they said oh we're from The Rock Church and the guys heads drop the guys away from the Rock Church - they got two-for-one that day those girls stop going to a strip club those girls are somebody's daughter and they're the age of your daughter let's pray Lord we thank you that you love us I thank you for the men that are here I thank you for the work that you're doing in their life the work you're doing in their heart lord I thank you that you have sort fit to use fools like us we are fools but you have using the foolish to confound the wise so we will be fools for you as long as you want there are men in here who need to let go they need to surrender everything to you that junk their dreams their burdens their grip on the world and worldly things they need to let it go if you're ready to let go today pray this prayer with me in the privacy of your heart pray dear God I know you love me I know you know who I am Jesus and I know you have a plan for my life Jesus I surrender my life to you I surrender my burden to you I lay my life down at your feet set me free in Jesus name Amen eyes closed heads bowed if you prayed that prayer I'm gonna ask you right in a minute to stand up the Bible says Jesus said if you're ashamed of me before man I'm gonna be ashamed of you before my father standing up you are resurrecting like Lazarus and you are standing up resurrecting out of your old life into a new life so eyes closed heads bowed if you prayed that prayer I'm just gonna ask you to stand up and acknowledge God's forgiveness in your life renew god bless you very good stay standing god bless you God bless you God bless you God bless you God bless you god bless all of you good god bless you God bless you God bless you God bless you God bless you God bless you God bless you very good god bless you very good god bless all of you god bless you god bless you god bless you very good god bless you god bless you now I want to ask all you guys who are standing up in the minute I'm gonna ask you to come forward the rest of us guys we're not leaving yet we're not done but we're gonna make these guys feel like they made the best decision in their life so come out of your seat come on down sit all done let's give them a hand come on out god bless you god bless you god bless you God bless you God bless you god bless you Hey god bless amen amen amen amen amen

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Length: 54min 43sec (3283 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 08 2012