The Prayer of Faith

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disobey you can bow your head and just close one eye and see what your friend's gonna do you know and and when tears come down their face and a hand goes up because they're receiving jesus you're gonna say it's your favorite service everett highlands so i would love for you to take advantage of that it's going to be spectacular all right uh we are in week number nine and the conclusion of the book of james we're just going verse by verse have you guys enjoyed this verse by verse study i loved it yeah and so me too so we're planning some more book studies for you next year but the reason why we chose this particular one is because james is probably considered to be the most practical book of the new testament just practical easy to apply but everyday wisdom type of instructions specifically written for a church that was meeting online so to speak they were scattered um in fact the first verse says james the servant of god and of the lord jesus christ through the 12 tribes scattered among the nations and he writes these practical things that i think happen when we're not only physically scattered but also emotionally scattered and we have issues in our life and it's been spectacular i think every week has given us a wisdom truth uh something to apply to our everyday lives but there's a twist in the end so really everything up to this point it's one of those deals where you can learn it and say okay god i want to do better there and i think i can i think i can do that but i think i can tame my tongue i think i can treat people without favoritism and so we can work on some things and improve our lives but he ends in a unique way it's it no longer is practical he actually ends very very spiritual and he says it this way this is right where we left off last week he says is anyone among you in trouble when i read that by the way y'all excuse me i have a sense of humor i'm in my office by myself and i read is anybody in trouble and i just doubled overlapping like james everybody's in trouble right now you know this is it's not a good season you know and because everything bad is up and that's not funny i mean suicide's up addiction's up abuse is up um divorce is up everything bad is up right now and it's what happens when you live in a crisis type season that we've been in but notice his answer is is anyone you guys in trouble because i think you ought to go back and read no no he didn't do that he said let them pray to which some people go all right well there you go so that's what you're going to give us because like i've tried that and that is so christian cliche and yeah i'm just going to pray but i want you to lean in with fresh ears today five times he uses that word let them pray is anyone happy let them sing songs of praise is anyone among you sick let them call for the elders of the church too and there's the word again like you can pray in that situation and and pray and anoint them with oil in the name of the lord which by the way if you ever would like one of our elders to pray over you anoint you with oil believe god for a miracle in your life we do that every sunday in fact there's even ways for us to pray with you for those of you that are watching online like a person or person prayer time we'll offer it at every campus because we believe in this so much and the prayer third time he mentioned it prayer in fact he says it this way the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well and the lord will raise them up so we tried everything else in the first five chapters but sometimes you just need god to insert himself into that situation and if they've sinned they will be forgiven therefore confess your sins to each other and and there's that word again pray for each other that you might be healed and then he finishes it this way and the prayer of the righteous person is powerful and effective now why the focus on prayer here's here's what you've got you got to catch this because there are some things that we can learn in scripture and apply and we can all get better and by the way god intends us to work out our salvation philippians says like we can try like i can make some decisions and control my tongue i can do that but all of us also face things that in all my attempts it simply isn't enough and that's why we pray my definition is prayer is the difference between the best that i can do and the best that god can do there are some times where i simply am not enough am i preaching to anybody here today at church i'm telling you we all face those in fact that's this church was built on really a principle of prayer and um if anything we've done right over these almost 20 years by the way we'll be celebrating our 20th anniversary in february we're actually making plans for those how about happy birthday highlands come on somebody it's kind of fun but years ago if you know the story i mean in 1999 i was an associate pastor at my home church in baton rouge louisiana which is called bethany world prayer center i have a praying pastor he's still my pastor been my pastor since i was 15 years old larry stockstill and man the man's a praying man he spends a lot of time with the lord way more than me but i've learned prayer from him i've learned how to lead a church in prayer in fact when i was on staff at bethany back in the day he used to show up at church on a sunday morning at 4 00 a.m to pray three hours before the first service that started eight o'clock and um and i didn't know what a person does for three hours like i run out of material in 15 minutes come on somebody anybody else out there like and so i like what are you doing so i would sneak into this 6 000 seat auditorium because go kind of sneak into the very top area of the of a bleacher type section like we have here and just man what is the man doing i watched him pray over every chair just slow down and just think of the people that would be sitting in those chairs which by the way we've done that for the chair you're sitting in right now and we and and just praying for for for their lives and then i watch them go sit in the front row and spend time with god hearing him pray through his message we had an old school pulpit on the stage and he would go behind that pulpit and kneel and just pray and i learned this kind of devotion to god and and i want to thank god for that and but i found myself in 1999 uh enter 99 2000 and probably the darkest place i've ever been in to date um very absolutely depressed with no reason to be everything on paper looked good but inside just miserable didn't know what was going on i i've become convinced that it was that it was biological and that i needed medical help i had i had made plans to go uh check into a facility and have a doctor check me out i knew something chemically was out of whack or something was going on and uh in our church in the in 2000 would always start the year off with 21 days of prayer and then our pastor would encourage us to fast but it was your own to do whatever type and i'd always fasted you know some things like broccoli and cauliflower you know stuff like that and never really took it that seriously and uh that was the first time in 2000 that i did a total water only fast which is by the way not as hard as you think it is and um and on day 17 i had an open vision the bible talks about open visions that's where you can see things that are not there but you can see them and i saw what i'm looking at right now from the vantage point that i'm standing in right this moment i saw you i saw this this room i saw this many chairs i saw i saw the auditorium field i didn't know which city it was in and then i even saw the lord show me the outside of the building almost as if i was looking down on it and i saw it near an interstate i saw it and in that that vision alone that open vision fire jumped up inside of me and i got hope and life again literally my depression left just with just with an assignment from god come on somebody there's a whole another message in that and i share with my pastor i said i think god's got spoken to me to to come here and tammy and i in on december 26 2000 moved here just weeks before we were to launch a church didn't know a soul didn't didn't have any team didn't know how to plant a church and didn't have any money other than that we was ready to go y'all anyway and come on look what the lord has done 20 years later and and i take none of the credit i'm telling you i know who i am better than you know who i am and you'd really be praising god if you knew what i knew this is a miracle of god god makes up the difference between what man can do and what he can do and that's why we still pray and i think it's the most important ministry of our church can i hear a really good amen everybody and that's why we'll be praying and fasting again in january 21 days of prayer i believe in this topic that i'm trying to teach you today is what i'm trying to say and james comes along after he told you every practical thing he could give you and he said look you're in trouble still pray in fact he gives us three truths that i'd love for you to write down if you're a note taker and that is that prayer puts my unknown future in the hands of an all-knowing god now one of the worst things about a problem he says is any among you in trouble you have a problem the problem with the problem isn't even the problem it's where is this problem going is it getting ready to get even worse i mean there's one thing about a pandemic and like we're trying to handle the pandemic but where are we headed with this it's another thing like here's my marriage and i got this issue in my marriage but where are we headed with this the the fear of the unknown can stir you and that's why james comes along and says look if you're in trouble god is probably not going to tell you how he's going to do it but he's at work and you just need to know that and a lot of people honestly look at my eyes and hear this don't have the confidence that god is actually at work in something you know nothing about but we serve a god who's an all-knowing god who by the way is not pacing the floor of heaven right now i've been pacing the floor since march come on somebody right like jesus what are you going to do god's like i don't know why you're nervous he got the whole world you believe that do you really believe that and that's why jesus came along with the audacity to say don't worry this is for somebody here today don't worry about what you're gonna eat or drink or where or go or sleep your pagans do that people who don't have a god that's what they do your father your heavenly father knows that you need these things so seek him pray to him and i'm here to stir prayer like practically speaking stir prayer in fact i've got this habit i've started since i've been studying this for a few weeks now because because i had other speakers stepping in and i and i've so i've had extra time to prepare for this but when i prepare for a message i'm going to share with you one of the things i do so i can bring it to you really fresh is like apply it myself and i have found myself just recently just lately when people i get problems every day y'all just the idea i don't mind it that's what i signed up for but i have my own personal ones and then i have kids can i get an amen to anybody right okay got that whole set going on there and but then i have you and then i pastor pastors and and lately what i've been doing as soon as they bring it up i said you know what hang on a second let's just pray they're like why i ain't finished telling you how this is not going to work out say that's why we need to pray i'm serious and what happens is i have seen i'm not i'm not floating your boat i'm telling you the truth here i have seen a calm come over a situation i spoke to somebody yesterday that was really had been antagonistic toward me we had figured out a way to finally get on the phone together i mean they were hot under the collar and i got on the phone with them and and just and i said and i just gotta just just show the love of god and i said can i would you mind if i just pause for a second and just pray and i watched how people lay down there i got this i got to figure this out and say you know what god's got this do not worry if you'll seek his kingdom he takes care of those things as well so therefore he repeats himself don't worry about tomorrow tomorrow have enough worries for its own that we just come to god and say i don't know what you're going to do but honestly i don't have to know your kingdom come your will be done come on say amen right there i'm serious by the way if you'll allow me i'll fire you up today now if you want like i don't know you're gonna have to work a little harder than that i'm telling you if you'll make a little room in your heart you can leave here with a new confidence i'm serious i have i'm i'm on a mission today to put in inside of you a brand new accomplished here's the second thing so he says okay if you're in trouble pray but also he said if you're sick pray and that reminds us that prayer puts my hopeless situation in the hands of an all-powerful god so we know we have an old knowing god that's working in ways i don't even know how he's going to do it but now it says even things that don't seem like there's any way to fix it i actually have a problem right now that i can't tell you about i'm going to tell you the story soon i'm sure but it's hopeless it feels hopeless and it's it's it's it's driving me crazy honestly it's like my god this is a it's it's hopeless now i wonder if any of you guys have an issue maybe in your health your marriage your emotions your finances like it's like like chris i needed this two years ago it's too late hey hey you're too late and and i know this will sound like preaching this is not preaching this is it's not preaching this is the truth it ain't ever too late for a god who can raise the dead that's what i want to tell you it's never too late for the god who can raise the dead and i reread and i've been rereading this that even when abraham when there was no reason for hope abraham come on say the next two words abraham kept y'all want to try that again i'll give you another chance to believe it this time abraham kept yeah you just i'm sorry i'm just going to keep on hoping believing that he would become the father of many nations that's what god told him was going to happen god told him you're going to have a bunch of children and grandchildren and a lot more after that but abraham was facing the fact that his body he's 100 years old his reproductive ability was gone and sarah was 90 and her wounded womb had been shut up for years and and but what happened abraham never wavered in believing god's promise in fact his faith grew stronger and in this he brought glory to god because he was saying it out loud he was fully convinced i'm standing before you today with a hopeless situation and i stand in your situation today and i am fully i'm not partially convinced i'm fully convinced and if you don't have faith for that borrow it from me today i'm here to say god can work in your situation i know it i know it had a friend of mine that you might know he works in on our college staff we've been friends since i was 15 years old when i got saved when i got saved i asked my parents to take me out of public school put me in a private school christian school because i thought that's where christians were anyway so um had a little rev there but anyway but uh but i got to meet tim spurlock who was my math teacher for my junior and senior year and was also he was the coach for the sports uh at this small christian school and he became a mentor right away and we came very close so even after graduation we became like best friends even though we're nine years apart and and uh tim in fact was a groomsman in my wedding that's how close we were we've been knowing each other forever and of course about uh years ago when we started highlands college he's in the uh education profession came over and helped us with that he has an older brother who is today 74 years old the only member of their family that's not a christian never wanted to be a christian refused to be and tim's a witness her like he shares his faith every time he's around his family and his brother his brother's like not only anything to do with that in fact he sells liquor as a profession just like man that's not what i want to do and tim tried everything tim has had in his pocket a lifesaver that we pass out every january half since the beginning of the church a little piece of candy that represents someone who needs a lifeline thrown to them we're to attach a name to it we have it as a piece of candy in our pocket for two reasons one is to remember to pray for them just keep it somewhere where you can like every time oh yeah i'm praying for my brother or whatever but also let to serve as a celebration that if that person ever receives jesus you are to open it up eat the candy in celebration and then email me and tell me the story well tim came to me this week and said his 74 year old brother gave his heart to jesus and he ate his lifesaver this week that he's been praying for for 25 years he said chris you wouldn't believe it this guy who is so didn't want to have anything with god is so on fire for god and i said tim did he finally listen to you no did he watch one of my messages no that hurt my feelings but he said he read a book he read a book that just reached him and tim with tears down his face ate his lifesaver he said chris i was almost ready to completely give up but god i'm telling you it's never too late and james wants you to know that that there is no impossible situation in fact the last one is is that prayer also puts my broken life in the hands of an all-forgiving god because then he says if you've sinned you can be forgiven if you'll confess your sins to each other and pray there's that word again the the prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective which begs the question if that's the kind of prayers that god listens to is the righteous person who's righteous you ready for this nobody in fact there's a verse that says there is none righteous no not one that's kind of a bummer can since that's the kind of prayers they got answers but here's the good news and that is you can become a righteous person do you know what a righteous person is is someone who's all their wrongs god's made right that's what right just means like how do you get all your wrongs right that's a great question and the answer is you get that in christ god put the wrong on him who never did anything wrong so that we could be made right with god and i want you to know that that's available for you today like this might be the most important prayer you prayed thank god he knows my future thank god he can handle my impossible situations but the best part of our god james says is that you can come with your broken life and he can make you right like it can be right everyone everyone who calls from the name of the lord can be saved like i hope some of you make that decision today like i hope you joined the church but that's not my goal i want you to join jesus i want you to be made right years ago some of you know this story i have permission to tell this story by the way and i never tell stories like this without permission but uh coach pat sullivan he's famous in our state won the heisman trophy got quarterback for auburn uh went on to coach at tcu and uh was finished his career here at stanford university was was recovering from the the effects of cancer he was he was cancer free but the treatment was was literally killing him um and and about 10 years or so ago somebody in the church says hey i want you to meet coach sullivan like man i'd love to meet you coach because i'm going to take you play golf like listen i'd love to play golf you know and so we'll invite you as a guest over at birmingham country club like man that'd be awesome and so i got to meet coach subbing we played golf i beat all of them everybody anyway so i just thought i'd throw that in there but but as we're walking off the course coach sullivan said he said um he said i'd like to talk to you sometime and i thought he meant later i said yeah sure coach anytime we can do that he was like i need to now so when gotten his little suv out in the parking lot of that hot summer sun and he cranked the engine turned on the air condition tears come down his face and he says you think your god could could ever love a guy like me i'm like coach yeah absolutely he goes i need to be made right there's a lot of things with my life that people don't know that were just so wrong and he was raised catholic so he started you know confessing to them like like i was like like i was a priest you know like like boy beast you know you know i don't know just so we did uh you know like no and so he just he wanted to talk he needed to get off his shoulders so i sat there and just and um and i said god can absolutely make all everything wrong right in one heartfelt prayer and he put his hand i'll never forget this he put his his hand out on that console between us and we joined hands and he gave his life to jesus i had the privilege of leading this great man to the lord yeah praise god for that and he became a member of our church and and uh and we were together a lot of fact we were together a week before he went to heaven he went to heaven last year on december 1st 2019 i had the honor of doing his funeral bo jackson sitting right here on the front row steve spurrier were right over here all these heisman guys came and of course all these people came and i told them the same story i had permission i asked him before he went to went to heaven i said can i tell the story of the day you get you were made right he goes please tell the story because i want everybody to be made right i'm telling you god is an all forgiving god there's no brokenness in your life that god cannot make right come on say amen right there if you believe that it's really important and james teaches us these prayers and then he does this interesting thing he tells the story of a guy named elijah so this is the next verse it goes like this it's elijah who's the who's considered to be the greatest prophet ever to live like he's this revered person of the old testament there's really two moses and elijah elijah was a human being just like you to which everybody went i don't think so now watch what he's doing it makes total sense because james is saying i know what you're thinking you're thinking oh yeah pray but that works for the elijahs that works for upc but that doesn't work god doesn't listen to me i'm i'm me but yeah good preaching for you billy graham maybe yeah i see and james says no no no it can work for you too he's just a human being like us he prayed earnestly that it would not rain and it didn't rain on the land for three and a half years and then again he prayed and the heavens gave up the rain and the earth produces crops like this happened which made me go back to the story because what elijah what james is trying to teach us through the story of elijah is how not only to pray but to have faith that actually works and we learn it from this story so like i want you to pray when you leave here today i want you to take every situation you have and i want you to pray i want you to get up in the morning and pray i would love for that to be what your life looks like from now on that we we pray first we pray first but you're going to need faith to make it work and that's what is going to help you right now watch the story so it happens in first kings 17 elijah the tishbite from tishbe i'm sorry that's just funny he was a tishbite why because he's from tish b um you'll enjoy the bible more if you'll just find a little humor from time to time okay and he said to ahab as lord as the lord the god of israel lives whom i serve there will neither be dew nor rain in the next few years except at my word now this is when the three and a half years of no rain began but it began just because the light just said so he had a he had a word god had spoken to him that it would not rain so he was carrying around something that god had told him and i'm here to tell you that's how your faith works that faith begins with a word well how do you get a word you get a word in the word like if you want your faith to grow grab this if you want your faith to grow you're going to need a word and you get a word you get a word from god by being in god's word and i'm saying this because i want to ask you a question it's going to be a little in your face just forgive me if it offends you just like this is my job is to care for your spiritual life are you reading your bible and if you're not you're not going to have faith and if you don't have faith your prayers aren't going to work and if your prayers don't work it's all up to you but if you don't want it to be all up to you you want some god's help you're gonna need to pray but when you pray you're gonna need faith and if you need faith you're gonna find it in god's word i need you to read your bible like read your bible faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of god that's how it happens and so i find myself in some of the same i mean not as much maybe more i don't know but i find myself in some of the same desperate situations and the first thing i do is get a word for that situation i am praying for my family my kids all my kids by the way are doing very very well but they are working me to death right now right i thought when they when they all got out of the house and got in their 20s and started their own lives it'd be easier it's been harder than ever before these kids drive me crazy all right this is sorry i got a few on the front row that's just the truth all right here we go and from time to time i get concerned are they going to be okay is this going to work out is that going to be is there is this going but then i go to the word that says my family will serve the lord i have joshua 24 15 as a promise oh what about the pandemic man this is everywhere yeah but i have a word out of psalm 91 that says that he alone god is my refuge and my place of safety he's my god and i trust him he will rescue me from every trap protect me from every deadly disease somebody say amen i mean it's just then i'll worry about my lost my job but my god will supply all of my needs according i'm not kidding like get a word get a word get a word yeah but what about the election y'all didn't think i was gonna go there today did you yeah according to statistics 62 and a half percent of you are not happy and 37.5 are happy all right i got a word for you i will look up to the mountains and capitol hill i inserted that longing for god's help because surely it comes from there but then i realize that our true help and protection comes only from the lord our creator who made the heavens and the earth he will guard guide and never let me stumble or fall [Applause] you got to get a word get a word get a word good word let's finish the story come on somebody come play so i'll finish sooner okay and make all this sound really more spiritual okay come on and elijah said ahab watch this now this is so cool elijah said ahab go eat and drink for there's the sound of heavy rain on a bluebird day so three and a half years have passed no rain and on a bluebird day not a cloud in the sky elijah said i hear the sound of a heavy rain so ahab went off to eat and drink but elijah climbed to the top of mount caramel wow because it was a bluebird day and he was believing god for rain on a bluebird day and he bent down to the ground and put his face between his knees and by the way that's the posture some of you need to take instead of texting somebody and worrying yourself to death and driving yourself nuts you might want to just go find a place where you can and what is elijah teaching us that on a bluebird day when you know there's supposed to be rain coming because god told your rain was coming that faith builds if you just won't give up like we give up too quickly and by the way i'm here to tell somebody i don't care if it's for one but i know i heard god in my study time this week tell me to tell somebody to not give up like you're you're close to giving up but don't give up because watch what elijah does he tells his servant hey go out over there to the beach on the west coast of our country where the clouds come in off the mediterranean sea and tell me what you see and he went and the servant came back and says um hate to tell you it's a bluebird day and it's nothing there and elijah didn't go well i guess i missed god no seven times elijah said go back the pc i've already been praying about this go back but i've been doing it for eight years tim did it for 25 years [Music] the seventh time the servant reported okay it's not great news but it's something i see a cloud and it's about as big as your hand probably can't hold but about 10 drops of rain but it's out there and elijah said that's all i need go tell ahab hitch up your chariot and go down before the rain there's getting ready to be a monsoon in a cloud the size of a man's hand now what is that what is that that's something you can have and it's called endurance persistence like we are people that we we just don't give up yeah but i've been praying yeah but don't give up but i mean i'm telling you but don't give up but he's already dead yeah god raises the dead don't give up don't give up if hebrews says it this way you need to persevere that's what you need to do so that when you've done the will of god you'll receive what he's promised for in just a little while and by the way that's god's little while that's the bad news okay a day of the lord's like a thousand years so sorry all right so that's just the truth but in a little while he who is coming will come and not delay but my righteous ones live by faith and he takes no pleasure in those who shrink back but we don't belong to those who shrink back and are destroyed but we are belong to those who have faith and are saved that's uh that's what we do don't give up meanwhile the sky grew from that little fist sized cloud grew black winds rose and a heavy rain came down on ahab and ahab rode off in his chariot to jezreel watch this and the power of the lord came on elijah and he tucked his cloak because it was long he didn't want to trip over it it's like all the way to the grounds and grabbed it put it in his belt and he ran ahead of a chariot well that's not physically possible like men don't run faster than horses like first of all rain doesn't come from from a bluebird day and a man can't outrun a horse but when you have faith faith also not just begins or builds it breaks through the natural into supernatural things but chris i'm telling you this can't happen yeah with man yeah i agree i'll agree with you with man but not with god and that's why i want you to pray and have faith and then he ends in the most unique way watch the ending this is so cool my brothers and sisters these are the last two verses we're almost done if one of you should wander from the truth and someone should bring that person back to the truth remember this whoever turns a sinner from the air of their way will save them from death and cover over a multitude of sins what is he saying he goes like i hope your impossible system situation works out and i hope your unknown future you get some confidence in and i even hope that you experience the supernatural power of god but even if you don't that's not even still the most important thing the most important thing is not that everything works out here on earth that every one of us end up in heaven and our friends as well turn centers back from the air of their way and that's why after we've learned all this and hopefully your life has been so much better we now step into at the movies where for three weeks i'm asking you not to make it about me and you let's make it about the thousands upon thousands in our cities and our friends and our co-workers and our neighbors and our family members who still don't know god and there's nothing more important than that and so father we close this series step into a brand new one with that eternal life focus because god we can tend to make all this about our trouble our sickness our situation and you do care but now god we say this is what matters most and i thank you god you're going to cover a multitude of sins in the process god bless at the movies i'm personally praying for a thousand people to come to faith in three weeks and i pray god you move and our friends and give us favor as we invite now keep your heads bowed your eyes closed if you're here today and you say chris look i'm the person i'm not right with god i need to be made right well you're one heartfelt prayer away in fact i want you to imagine my hand on that console and i'm just asking you to put your hand right there and say i'm ready i'm tired of things being wrong i'm tired of being separated from god and if that's you i will lead you in the same prayer that i prayed for coach sullivan almost a year ago or 10 years ago and if that's you close your eyes and whisper this and invite our campus pastors to join me on the stage so they can close the service and just say this say jesus things aren't right they're very wrong and i need to be made right i want to be the righteousness of god in christ jesus so today i put my faith in jesus i make him my lord i believe he's the true god the son of god the only way to heaven and today i give him my life thank you for making me right thank you for saving me in your name i pray amen and amen would you do me a favor and congratulate everybody here and online they just prayed that prayer come on

Channel: Church of the Highlands

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Keywords: Chris Hodges, Church of the Highlands, COTH, Alabama, Religion, Christianity

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Length: 40min 27sec (2427 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 09 2020