This Truth Will Change Your Prayer Life

you know what praying from the physical body is called desperation i'm gonna really come against some mindsets right now we've created a culture of desperation in the church because we don't understand our oneness with god shout a little louder jump a little higher maybe god will hear you get a little as if god is in heaven going ah had you just jumped one more time i would have been able to pour out my spirit on you servants beg strangers beg sons come boldly i don't want to pray from the flesh i don't want to pray from my my emotions from the from the body or the soul now what am i saying is it ever wrong to dance around no i love watching stephen montezuma get up here and worship i love that steve shouts and jumps and dances i love that you shout and jump and dance and the bible says to do that but we don't do that because we're trying to work up a connection with god we do that because we're celebrating the fact that we've already been connected with god [Applause] imagine how much time you'd save in prayer if instead of begging god to hear you you simply believe that he already does i don't pray to connect with god i pray from connection with god so i'm not praying from the physical body yelling shouting that's that's that's an expression of what happens on the inside if what's happening on the inside overflows to that let's do it but if i'm doing that to try to get something to happen in my spirit it's praying in the flesh i get phone calls i prefer texting now it's just much much easier unless i need an answer right away then i call but sometimes i'll get a call and i like to go visit um south orange county and i drive down there to the the spectrum if you're there on a thursday you'll find me and steve just drive out there and just we we meet there we go over notes we tape thursday nights so thursdays we go to the spectrum and we just writing notes and scriptures and he works on his music and we're just talking about what we're going to do that night for the for the filming but as i go through orange county sometimes i go through those spots where the the signal starts to drop and i'll get these phone calls from people and and invariably sometimes the calls will cut out and they just talk sound like that and and when they start doing that please don't tell this to anybody i know just don't tell anybody but i'll just hang up on them and i'll let them think the call drop because i'm not going to deal with the whole back and forth but what happened what happens is what happens is they start yelling so they go from sounding like to they yeah so they just go from quiet gibberish to loud gibberish you see they're trying to make up for what they lack in connection with volume you know where i'm going with this you see in my spirit is where i'm connected do you know why at the worship events and at the conferences they tell you to be desperate because it makes the worship team look good i'm just gonna be real with you because if you don't respond loud enough to their gift they're offended i told you i'm going to preach truth tonight do you know why churches will build a culture of desperation because they want to be able to brag at the atmosphere because they want to be able to point to the hype and say look how god is moving so they make you feel like you have to work for it [Music] oh i'm preaching this thing right now exposing religious spirits the problem is they're trying to make up for in the flesh what's lacking in the spirit because when the spirit starts moving you don't need to force them you don't need to coach them you don't need to make them feel guilty for not making you look like you know how to lead a worship set that's why i thank god for the worship ministry of stephen you just get out here you have a good time but you see and and it's not just worship leaders it's pastors too preach a whole sermon on shouting so that they can show a two-minute clip of everybody shouting and show off how wonderful they responded to their sermon guys i'm exposing some real things here see these are things that are deep now and the problem is it's all from the flesh it's from the flesh and they create that culture because they want to create hype they want to create hype because they're lacking the move of god so you're not you're not desperate enough you need to shout shame you for not responding to their gift oh my gosh i can put the bible i can put the word away now i preach this thing and the problem is we do it too to ourselves we exhaust ourselves because we love that we love to work ourselves in a frenzy the problem is that's why you don't like to pray you don't like to pray you don't like to read the word because you think that when you come you're going to have to work to connect with god how discouraging is that jesus said when you pray say our father he didn't say god do you hear me i imagine the conversation goes something like this god do you hear me yes i hear you lord please listen i'm listening god do you see me i see you god i need you i'm here [Applause] our pleading church church church [Applause] our pleading is too loud you're so worked up about having an encounter with god that you're preventing yourself from having an encounter with god [Applause] praying from the flesh worshiping from the flesh trying to create something that's not there instead instead 8 26 romans 8 26 he pleads he prays he pushes with groanings that cannot be uttered first corinthians 14 14 when i pray in the spirit when i pray in tongues i'm praying in the spirit when i pray in tongues i'm praying with the spirit first corinthians 6 17 he that is joined to the lord is one spirit with him what is that what does that mean what does that mean it means that when i pray in tongues the holy spirit is praying for me through me the holy spirit is praying for me through me now let me be clear because i don't want to get get you confused now if if if we're up here saying come on shout unto god with the voice of triumph that's good shout first saying come on let's dance dance if we say pray in the holy ghost go for it i'm talking about the mindset that says that's needed in order to connect with god thank you for watching encounter tv don't forget to subscribe and click the notification bell also help us spread the gospel of jesus christ in the power of the holy spirit make a one-time donation or become a monthly supporter by clicking on the donate link now

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Length: 8min 0sec (480 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 22 2020