 Praying too much is not a sign of faith. It's a sign of unbelief. There's a belief that's out there that's been out there for some time now. It's kind of more of a charismatic feel that tells people that you should not pray too much. It sounds odd, but what they mean is that if you pray once, you should have the faith and then just believe and receive. If you don't receive, then that must be because you didn't have enough faith. And if you keep going back to pray, then that means you still don't have enough faith. Is that true? Well, I submit to you that that is not only not true, it is the opposite of what's biblical. People will say those things who simply do not understand one, what prayer is, but two, do not have a strong foothold in the word. One such person is Dr. Prophet, Lovi Elias. I have been asking for someone to give a defense of this particular person. People say, this man is a true man of God, but every time you turn on YouTube, where you listen to one of his sermons or someone sends me a clip, I notice something that he takes out of context, that he distorts things that are just outright heretical. And that's not even including his false prophecies. Yeah, you know the ones where he'll say something is going to happen at an indebted or they're ultra vague or stories about a family member being able to have the gift of disappearing, that very same person. The same person who says that he was taken to heaven, he met Jesus and had a personal angel body guard from the time that he was six. Yeah, that same person, the very same person who was married and got divorced, but still had a closer walk with Jesus and an angel than anyone else, that very same person. So that person, I've been asking for someone to kind of give a defense, not just to make a blanket statement to say that this person is a man of God, you don't have the spirit, that's easy to throw out. You don't have the spirit, he has a spirit. Well, we know who has a spirit by that person being able to read and to understand and to preach exactly what the spirit gave us, the very same word of God. If you've got the spirit, then what you say will not go counter or contrary to the word of God. Who gave us the word of God? The Holy Spirit did. And so I want to play this clip. You tell me if you think that he's wrong or he's right. Praying too much is not a sign of faith. It's a sign of unbelief. Some people didn't like what I just said. Praying too much. Praying too much is not a sign of faith. It's a sign of unbelief. Somebody will cut this and post it and say, he said, don't pray too much. Now I'm not going to cut it and post it and say that he says, don't pray too much. But the truth of the matter is you literally just said that, Lovi. That's literally what you just said. And then when you try to fix it up, you're going to go back and say the exact same thing again. And so no one's going to be taking out of context, but we'll let it finish playing. But the other thing I want you to notice is the people in the audience who are clapping and cheering clearly are not paying attention to the scripture. We're going to look at the scripture in a second and see if what he's saying makes sense. I know where he's coming from. I know what he's trying to say. He's trying to impugn people who will want to keep praying about a matter or coming to God about a matter as though they don't have faith. Well, the truth of the matter is if that's the case, why pray at all since he already knows what we need before we even ask? But that would go against scripture. But let's finish listening to him. I'm going to say it again. Praying too much is not a sign of faith. It can be more of a sign of unbelief based on what God has revealed. If the Lord has come to you when you had no food, he puts food on your table. You are hungry, he's feeding you. You can't afford rent he produced for you. But every month you are kneeling down. Father, my rent is approaching. Father, you are my provider. You just showed God that you don't believe is more than enough. He knows what you need. That was his word and it was completely at least in my estimation on biblical. Think about the implication. Paul, who we would say probably, I don't know if how many people are followers and devotees of Lovia lies, but even they would probably say that Paul ranks a little bit higher than Lovia. Hopefully they would say that. Well, Paul, who has written almost half of the New Testament, Paul had an issue that Paul prayed for three times. This is the very same Paul who has seen God take him and deliver him and do mighty, wonderful things in him and in others. And so clearly Paul trusts God. Paul knows the power of God. Paul knows the power of faith. Paul knows that and preaches it. But here we have Paul asking for the Lord three times to remove this thorn in the flesh. Well, does that mean that Paul didn't have faith? Does that mean Paul was really showing unbelief? No, that would be a ridiculous statement to say so, wouldn't it? Remember, this is the very same Paul who also said pray without ceasing. And we see all throughout the Bible, everybody who has had a supernatural or a magnificent or an awesome encounter with God. And I mean, where it was demonstrated before the people, his supernatural hand being moved in their lives and lives of others, people who have witnessed that experience and lived that, they tend to keep coming back and praying, even though there is something going on. Ask Elijah. Ask Jeremiah. Ask Moses. Ask Abraham. How often did Jesus pray? But what I want to do is I want to go to one person in particular and you tell me if he should have stopped praying. In Daniel 10, verse four, let's read the beginnings on the 24th day of the first month while I was by the bank of the Great River. That is a Tigris. I lifted up my eyes and looked and behold, there was a certain man dressed in linen. Now, this man that he's speaking of is an angel. We want to see why this angel is there. What's happening? In verse 10, as we drop down, he says, then behold, a hand touched me and set me trembling on my hands and knees. He said to me, oh, Daniel, man of high esteem, understand now, he calls a man of high esteem. He says, understand the words that I'm about to tell you and stand up straight for I have now been sent to you. And when he had spoken this word to me, I stood up trembling. Then he said, do not be afraid, Daniel, for from the first day, look what he says from the first day that you set your heart on understanding this and on humbling yourself for your God. Your words were heard. Now, if we understand, Daniel has been praying. And he says, from the very first day that you started praying, your words have been heard. But the Prince of the Kingdom of Persia was withstanding me for 21 days. Then behold, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me for I had been left there with the King of Persia. Now, I have come to give you an understanding of what will happen to your people in the latter days for the vision pertains to the days yet future. We won't go into the whole point of the vision for the prayer and so forth and what the angel is going to tell him. But here we have Daniel praying, not just one time for an answer for resolution, not just one day, but for 21 days straight. And we are told by the angel that your words were heard from day one. He did not come back and say, Daniel, the more that you kept praying, that just demonstrated more unbelief. No, as a matter of fact, quite the contrary. The more you pray demonstrates belief. Why? The same reason that you would keep going to your employer to ask for a raise or ask for something. The same reason that you would keep going to, I don't know, a bank to keep asking for a loan. The same reason, if you're a child, that you would keep going to your parents to ask them for food, to ask them for clothes, to ask them for anything. The same reason that you would go to someone who you know can help you, that doesn't demonstrate that you don't have faith in them. That demonstrates that you do have faith in them. The reason why you keep going to them, that demonstrates that you know that they are the source, they are the power, they are the solution to whatever ails you, even if your answer is not what you're looking for. And so for someone to come back and say that to do so, or really to tell you, or to dissuade you from doing so, that is just a bad thing to do. That is really horrible. To tell someone to stop praying or to pray a little bit less, don't pray too much, you can never pray too much. Find the scripture and notice, he will not find the scripture. There is no such scripture. So what he's doing is he's playing on kind of his word of faith sort of thing that you have the power to make these things to be something because you said, because you believe it. Your faith is not that powerful. As a matter of fact, you are not faithful, but he is faithful. And like Paul said, as he's making this prayer, he says, when I'm weak, then I'm strong. How is he strong? Because he recognizes his weakness, and then he goes to the one who is strong. And in being in him, then you become stronger. And there's two things that we all have equal measure of. I've said before that the one thing that we have equal measure of is the word of God, the Bible. We have the exact same words, maybe in different translations, wherever we have the exact same message in the Bible. Many you have various translations. And so we all have the exact same word of God. One of the other thing that we have is we also have the ability to pray. Now we all have churches and friends that we can go to, but they may not say the same thing. They may give different advice. They may lead us differently. But prayer, us and God, that's the same thing. We all have access to the Father, and we all have access to his word. Those two things. And what he is doing is, one, he is distorting or not even going to the actual word of God, and then also telling you to nullify or just not even use the other thing that we have. That is a person that you need to stay away from. Anyone that tells you not to speak to the one who wants you to speak to him, that person should be marked and avoided. You should also let everyone else know whose listening to him do not listen to this person. The very definition of a false teacher. Amen.