 And all the time, amen, it is good to see every single person on this wonderful Sunday morning. I just had the opportunity yesterday to return from a city very close to Canada on the border. And we had a chance to be there with few guys of ours, to minister to a group of young people who've been coming to our conference. Also had the privilege of meeting people who they've been prayed for by their church for a long time. And they got, I guess, kind of like invited to our conference and their life got changed here at the conference. And now they go to church and now they're saved. And just was really inspired by the fact that a lot of young people from outside of this mountain on the other side that really look to our ministry, they get really inspired and listen to our podcast and just get really, really blessed by what God is doing in your life and what God is doing in our life in Jesus' name. Let's put our hands together for Jesus Christ for that. We want to remind you that in three Sundays, so not next Sunday, but Sunday after that, it's going to be something special, something new that is happening in our church. We've never had this before. We will have about 12 to 15 interns that are coming into tri-cities that will be staying with us for three weeks. And so we are really excited for that. Let's give Jesus a round of applause for that as well. And so we're going to have just not just more people, but it's going to be a school that we're having and we are really, really pumped about that. And there's actually three people from that church that is moving here. And so it's really exciting time. How many of you guys, we saw the prophecy clip by Shepard Bushiri. We're going to have to get used to using those words. Major. We were driving with Ivan yesterday, so we were practicing the, Papa, Professor, Godipa, Godipa. So Eric and Ivan, they will be taking the microphone. But the awesome news is this week, Prophet Shepard Bushiri confirmed that he is coming to our conference in the fall. Yeah. Come on. Let's put our hands together for Jesus Christ. So brushing up your major one, Godipa Papa, of a Cavalry because it's going to be an awesome, awesome time. We are really, really excited and stuff. And so I know it's a different culture, but the gospel of Jesus Christ is power. And even if it's not our culture, we embrace the power and the love and the glory of Jesus Christ. Amen. Somebody asked me this week, they wrote to me, one person wrote, like, what's wrong with you guys? Why are you so obsessed with all these black preachers? And I said, why are you so racist? I don't see color. And not because I'm color blind, but because when we are cut, we all bleed red. Amen. And so for us, it's not about African preachers, Ukrainian preachers, you know, South Korean. It's about the men of God. Well, why are you all obsessed about the Jewish preachers? All the guys who wrote the Bible were Jewish, you know? So this is not about Jewish, African, Asian, Russian, American, Canadian, Latino. This is about the power and the glory of Jesus Christ. Somebody say yes! Hallelujah. We want to remind every single person today, and that's what I want to speak to us briefly. God has a plan and a purpose for our church. God has a vision for our church. We declare that our income today will become our tithe tomorrow. We declare that what we see today, tomorrow this is going to be a group of just a home group leaders. We declare today the meeting that we had at the track, or the meeting that we will have at Toyota Center next year for the Race to Deliver Conference. That's going to be our normal, average Sunday morning service. In Jesus' mighty name. Somebody say amen. Even if you look, okay, since only half of us were clapping, the rest of you just borrow faith from us. Put your hands together for Jesus Christ. That's our vision. That's our goal. If perverted people, if twisted psychopaths, if people who have no contribution to the community, if people who gather in the large stadiums only to run around this piece of cloth, which doesn't have gold inside, just air, and which we're going to be most of us watching. God bless Steph Curry in Jesus' name. But the finals that are going on, if people are gathered by thousands and 20 thousands just to see a ball being hit in the hoops, and God bless the sports. Sports are awesome. We need to do sports, love sports and everything. But we cannot lower the standard of the power of Jesus Christ to just small little barn meetings while the larger stadiums belong just for people to run with the ball. Those people who are running with the ball, they're just borrowing those meetings and those places because those places were designated to the one who created the very soil those places are built on. The creator of heaven and the earth. Can somebody say amen? Hallelujah! But for that to happen, we as Christians must understand everything starts with the vision and for us everything starts with the prayer. The size of our vision has to indicate the size of our prayer. The reason why our prayer has to be bigger, deeper, stronger, more consistent, the reason why it happens at 9.15 on Sunday, at five in the morning on Monday through Friday and the evening on Friday night. The reason why prayers happen even after lunch, you come here and there are people praying and we want to see a 24 hour an army rising up at home and a church praying. Why? Because the vision that we have, it demands a different kind of prayer. There are churches that don't pray and honestly they don't have a reason to because if the vision is to just keep your salvation and have your children not to drug, smoke and get high, then that vision doesn't require too much prayer. But if your vision is to see thousands locally, millions globally, people be healed, people be delivered and not just be saved, but save others, that vision demands your prayer life, not just to be Lord God bless this salad and bless my family, but has to be deeper and it has to be more. Somebody say amen. Let's put a hands together for Jesus Christ. We live in a nation today that, it goes over one week everybody debates about the Trump, another week everybody talks about Hillary's emails, another week everybody talks about the bathroom issues and then last week, the whole week everybody talked about the gorilla. Our world lives about just shaking gorillas and bathrooms and that's what our world lives in. And a lot of us Christians, especially Christians in America who believe we want to see our nation being impacted by God, a lot of Christians, they rise up and they say we need to put prayer back into our schools. You know the government removed prayer from our schools, but the reason why prayer was removed from schools because it was long gone from the churches and from people's homes. Why fight to bring prayer into schools when you don't even pray at home? Why fight to bring prayer into the government where you don't even come to morning prayer? What we want to raise, God didn't say a government is a house of prayer. God says a church is a house of prayer. God didn't say for the school to be a house of prayer. God says for your house to be a house of prayer. And listen, the government can remove prayer from school. That's what they do, but you shouldn't ever remove prayer out of your own closet and out of your own house. Can somebody say amen? And there's nothing wrong with petitioning the government and making your voices heard. We need to do that, but not at the expense of having a prayerlessness in our home so we can have prayer in the schools. In Jesus' name, amen. I'm just gonna throw a few quotes and then we go read in the Word of God. Daniel would rather spend a night with the lions than miss a day without prayer. Daniel would rather spend a night with the lions than to miss a day without prayer as the devil rose against prayer during that time and Daniel didn't bend into that. Today the devil will not threaten you to stop praying. He'll just make you busy. He'll just make you lazy. He'll just make you feel like, you know what? It's not your personality to pray. You just don't have a calling of an intercessor and all of that is nothing but pathetic lies from the pit of hell. You are a child of God. You were called to pray. You know, when John Shee was here, how many people came up to me and even now writing and they say, do you have John Shee's number? I need to talk to John Shee and people would get angry. People would get passionate. And of course I won't give them a John Shee's number. And I said, that's not gonna happen. You're not gonna talk to John Shee. John Shee is too busy. But I need to talk to John Shee and I'm thinking John Shee doesn't want to talk to you. But there is a God that John Shee talks to that is asking you, talk to me. There is a God. In Jeremiah 33.3 he said, call on me. He says, my number is available and how many times, you know, we would rather beg and seek to get a contact from someone when there is a God who that person depends on every day back on us. He says, come, come, come. And we said, no, no, no, no, but I want to talk to him. Then he would rather spend a day a night with the lions than a day without prayer. For 40 years, someone said, the sun did not rise on China. That God did not find a missionary, Hudson Taylor, on his knees. For 40 years, a missionary, Hudson Taylor, rose up. When the day would get longer, he would wake up earlier and he said this, for 40 years of his life, never once the sun came up without him first being on his knees, praying for China. I believe the same thing will be happening in our city. Before the sun rises, we're already going to be on our knees, pleading for our city, pleading for revival, believing for the best to come in Jesus' name. Can somebody say amen? In 1722, account Nicholas established a community in Germany for exiles of Moravia. He called it under the Lord's watch. In August 27th, 1777, 24 men and 24 women have entered into a covenant to create a chain of prayer that will not be broken. They started a prayer movement in Germany 24 hours a day. 24 men and women in the beginning and then others were added to it. This prayer lasted for 100 years without being broken. That movement became a missionary movement which eventually affected Charles and John Wesley and others. That movement created missionaries that were so radical for the gospel. The one time they wanted to reach Indies islands and there was no way to go into those islands but as slaves. These two guys from this prayer group went on a slaves market, sold themselves as slaves, went into the Indies islands to preach the gospel and no one ever heard back from them because when we are a praying church we will never be a straying church. It will be a powerful church. It will be a passionate church. We will be a radical church and most importantly we will see the power of God in Jesus mighty name. Can somebody say amen? Put your hands together for Jesus Christ. Someone said, water flourishes in the space prayerlessness creates. Prayer delights God's ear. It melts his heart. It opens his hand. God cannot deny a praying soul. I like what someone says. Pray when you feel like. It is sin to neglect such an opportunity. Pray when you don't feel like for it is dangerous to remain in such a condition. Somebody say amen. Chinti neighbors say you gotta pray more. Billy Graham said to get our nation on its feet, you have to get down on our knees first. To get our city on its feet you have to get down on your knees. To get your home on its feet you have to get down on your knees. To get your business on its feet you have to get down on your knees. To get your health on its feet you have to get down on your knees. Richard Lewis he was one of the guys who was working with our first president in the United States He sneaked on George Washington and he've noticed that every morning at 4 o'clock in the morning George Washington would escape into a public library, get his Bible, read his Bible, get on knees, on his knees and begin to pray to God and this is the habit that our first president cultivated throughout his life there are stories circulating of bullets being shot at him and nothing ever hitting him there are stories circulating where supernaturally God birthed the nation because the general who wasn't a pastor was not a home group leader but he depended upon the king of all kings and the Lord of all lords if he was busy and could find time to meet with God at 4 a.m. my friend you're not a general you're not a president okay some of some of us we have a lot of free time we just need to kick the laziness in the curve wake up a little bit earlier close yourself in your room and spend time with the Holy Spirit if mornings are not good for you after work lock yourself in the room for 30 for 40 for an hour whatever God leads you to to spend time with the Holy Spirit can somebody say a man Jim Kavisa one of my favorite actors in Hollywood he says if I don't pray I have no gratitude and no appreciation if I lose these two things gratitude and appreciation I have no zeal for life that's why prayer is so important what would because what the world thinks of me is far less important than what God thinks of me the world at its best can only like you that's it the world does not produce love love only comes from God so you can choose to either be liked by many or loved by one if a Hollywood actor and I've studied a little bit about his personal life also would wake up very early to go exercise and then go spend time with God how much more you and I are challenged to really make prayer our lifestyle Martin Luther said it's possible it's more possible to be alive without breathing than to be a Christian without praying if you have your Bible I will read one verse from the scripture look chapter 9 and verse 29 this is the story of Jesus going up on the mountain the scriptures is the following as he prayed on the mountain the appearance of his face was altered and his robe became white and glistening his face begins to change I want to share with you three benefits of living a life of prayer if you can take your notes and let's take some notes out three benefits of living a life of prayer and I'm not talking about prayer that people pray when someone gets sick I'm not talking about prayer when you are driving and the police officers there and you found yourself without updated license tabs I'm not talking about prayer when you are running late to work God let every light be green I'm not talking about prayer when it's your time to date and you know you're so scared and shy and you're about to go ask the girl for a number and your heart is beating so much faster and your God I'm declaring fast in prayer I'm not talking about prayer when you didn't study for your math and your chemistry and the test is due and you're praying so that your teacher will get sick I'm not talking about that prayer and I'm not talking about prayer when your sister who has no cooking experience cooks a meal and you're so hungry and you know you will get poisoned you're like God your word says everything I drink that is poisoned I will not be I will not be sick not that kind of prayer I'm talking about a life of prayer where you are living a lifestyle of prayer can somebody say amen it's not like that prayer when a pastor one morning he decided to skip church and he went into the woods into just to relax just to have fun and as he was there relaxing and having fun he didn't notice there was a bear just going at him really fast and the pastor quickly you know he got on his knees and he said God make this bear Christian so he doesn't attack me and the bear came close to the pastor and the bear got on his knees also he said God bless this food as I partake it in Jesus name not that kind of prayer but a prayer that is a lifestyle somebody say a lifestyle in Jesus name so the first benefit of prayer I want you to write down is personal transformation personal transformation the Bible says when Jesus prayed his face was transfigured and not that he got a plastic surgery not that his face changed but it started to shine the first thing that prayer begins to do when you live a life of prayer is that it changes your character it changes you on the inside it makes you better person it makes your face shine it actually even changes your clothes meaning he begins to change your career it begins to change your attitude it begins to change your mood it begins to give you this cleanness inside as though you just took a shower or you just had just had deep cleansing inside of you prayer first changes you you might even start praying to change someone else you may go into prayer to change your husband you may go into prayer to change your boss or to change your situation but you will always come out of prayer being changed first there was a time when Jesus gathered multitudes and he preached the gospel to them and he healed them and then they were really hungry so he fed them the service lasted very very very long and the scripture says Jesus dismissed the crowd he said everybody now you ate now you get healed now you heard the sermon go home his disciples came Jesus told them I want you to get in the boat and I want you to all go home also and the Bible says and Jesus went up the mountain to pray if you ever done a service or a conference for a whole day you know one thing after that conference you want to disappear you want to like a bear go underground for six months but the last thing that you want to do is number one go to the mountain and number two to pray but the Lord Jesus Christ having all of the grace on his life goes up to pray after the most exhausting and the biggest meeting of his life and the Bible says he spends day to there to the fourth watch and the fourth watch was about from sick from three in the morning till six so right about four o'clock in the morning he's still spending time in prayer and the Bible says he comes down from the mountain and guess what happens this is where we meet Jesus walking on water after prayer that came at a high price sometimes you know we have a long day so we say you know what tomorrow I'm gonna skip on prayer you're missing your greatest miracle because some of the greatest miracles they follow deepest prayers some of the greatest changes that happens in you when you begin to spend time in prayer but you feel like tired you feel exhausted you feel like you had a long day you feel like you know what I'll just rather sleep in for next 30 minutes and see Jesus knew he was tired but when he went up the mountain when he was the hardest to pray after that prayer he no longer used the boat he started to walk I declared that over your life when you start to pray even when it's not comfortable to you that you will no longer just get drowned in your problems you will walk above your problems you will walk above that situation you will walk above that problem in Jesus mighty name can somebody say amen say I'm a water walker say I'm a water walker in Jesus name because we pray number two is we have divine revelation when Jesus was on the mountain not only his face was changed but the Bible says Elijah and Moses appeared now they appeared in the Bible they were on the pages of the Bible but in here they were no longer on the pages they were real what happens in prayer is not only you get changed but in prayer God begins to make Moses your Moses I mean your healing Elijah I mean your prosperity the promise here that you have it memorized becomes real it becomes alive the Bible says the word becomes flesh means that which you believe that which you read becomes alive inside of you becomes alive in front of you God gives direction God gives guidance God gives his instruction and God makes things come alive in your life as you pray people who pray and don't let the word of God be a part of their prayer will very soon find prayer dry will find prayer not interesting or boring let me address something for those of us in here who feel like but I've been praying and it's boring or I've been praying but it's become a routine I've been praying but I seem to not getting much out of it typically what people do is they say this I am burned out I've been praying every day I am tired so guess what I'm doing I'm taking a break it's kind of like when a marriage is sour and you're saying I'm so tired of my spouse just gonna leave them so the things will get better with me and her the mistake new beginners make is they always retreat from prayer where the champions advance into it when your prayer is a routine don't stop praying pray more when prayer has become boring once a week at fasting when prayer has become just not getting anything just once a month go from 11 o'clock till 6 in the morning I promise you it will literally jump your prayer life to another level do not have this victim mentality where oh I just prayed is just so just not getting anything out of it oh I just need to take a break I need to take a break no no no no maybe you to take a break from Netflix but not prayer you might need to take a break from Starbucks but not prayer you might need to trim your three out workout but listen but instead of cutting prayer you might need to add prayer and that's where breakthrough begins to happen in Jesus name I remember even in the early days when I would feel the same challenges it never will be in my mind to cancel prayer we were taught by our pastor we were taught by our mentors if you hit a dry spell fast for three days so we never hit dry spells we're like oh no my dry spell is wonderful why cuz I don't want to fast if your prayers really struggling great on Friday we finish at 12 you finish at 4 no I'm doing great my Friday prayer is doing wonderful because after that when your mind is like that you begin to put in your best but when you have this week no I just can't I'll just have to the devil is gonna wipe you out like this if you would have been in the days of Daniel would they put a lot of fidget to the lions you're like man God is not calling me to prayer no more God is calling me to take a break the devil is a liar do not retreat advance somebody said events in Jesus name and the last thing the prayer benefits us there's many but this one I believe is important is demonic elimination when because we pray demons and curses get eliminated we see Jesus coming down from the mountain and disciples were trying to cast out a demon out of a epileptic boy and Jesus sees that case and the Bible says he right away spoke to that case and he says you death and dumb spirit I commend you to go out and the demon left the boy the boy was free and Jesus performed the miracle when you live a life of prayer not just once in a while you will notice this thing in your life consistently a victory over demons and over the devil the devil is responsible and he is the cause of a lot of evil in our life and many of us who do not pray we don't deal with the devil because you have to have power of God to deal with the devil and we don't have the feeling of that power no more when we don't pray so what we do is we deal with the evil that devil brings instead of with the devil that brings the evil so we try to fix a husband if there's a generational curse marriage will do very little if there's a curse of divorce on the family counseling will do very little and so what people do is they will spend money they will spend efforts why because they don't have the power necessary to begin to deal with the devil that brings the evil so they waste their energy dealing with the evil that the devil brings Jesus said if you're if someone causes one of the little ones to sin it will be better to him to throw a millstone around his neck and drown him and then he said this if your hand causes you to sin it's better for you to cut it off it's interesting he's not saying it's better to cut off the sin your hand is doing think about it he's not saying to cut off the computer that your eye is looking at he's saying to cut off the eye that is doing the looking what most of us do is we deal with the computer Jesus says deal with the root when you spend the time in prayer you begin to deal with the cause for the sin not with the sin that is caused by the sin God will put a millstone on the devil's neck at the end and drown him in the lake of fire but that doesn't change my life today devil who is the cause of humanity sin will have a millstone around his neck at the end of times but today that doesn't change my life what changes my life is when I take responsibility and I cut the cause which is the devil and the demons who bring the evil who bring the sin and I cut them off in my own life that helps me to enter into life Jesus said can somebody say amen you know if you are in a basement and your basement is flooded how many of you know it is the wise thing first of all to find the leak and close the leak instead of getting all of your family members to come and help you mop the floor you can mop the floor until your face turns blue and the water will be keep coming until you deal with the faucet that is broken or a pipe that is cracked I had people sometimes who make fun of us and they directed at me as well they said oh these people believe that you know deliverance fixes everything you don't need deliverance you just need discipline it's true we need discipline but discipline is mapping the floor no fool even people who are not really wise are not gonna mop the floor if the faucet is broken the demon is the broken faucet the devil is the broken faucet and when you break the grip of the devil then you can deal with the evil in your life but without life of prayer you don't deal with the devil the devil deals with you without life of prayer the devil deals with us he punishes us and we go on this goose chase of constantly fixing the symptoms instead of dealing with the roots you heard today the testimony what a lady had constant diseases and sicknesses from one doctor to another what was behind that it was a curse when that was broken then diseases left instead of praying for healing we have to bind and we have to cancel and break the grip of the devil in Jesus mighty name because somebody say amen when I was younger and I was introduced to pornography by one of my friends in Ukraine I was very young probably about 10 or 11 years of age very young and then when we came to United States I got introduced once again and it started a spiral effect of demons of pornography that got a grip on my life for a few years I've confessed it to the pastor I prayed different prayers I've put different things in my life to try to control that but I still couldn't get that devil out one particular trip it was around September time I went to Spokane and I fell it was somebody else's house I fell into sin it was about over a decade ago and I got so fed up I got so sick and tired of being a young man that has this leprosy this has this this problem in his life that I came home and I declared a seven-day fast for myself where seven days are faster and I prayed and in did in that seven days I didn't just ask God to forgive me because I pray those prayers million times in those prayers I started to attack the demon and trust me I wasn't very educated but I knew one thing that this wasn't my will because I didn't want to do that but something constantly kept pushing me I was disciplined man as the best I could but when I start declare the war I started to in that prayer to cut off the cause of evil on Saturday my fast ended I felt something new coming and that weekend was the last weekend which was probably over a decade now that the devil had the opportunity to hold to hold the upper hand over my life in the area of purity Jesus said this kind comes only by prayer and fasting there are demons in your life will never leave until you get off of your bed and start praying there are curses that will never be broken until you get up from your blessed assurance Jesus is mine and actually stop praying and I just pray few times but you pray regularly like that Chinese people when they torture people that one drop and after fifth 40th drop at the same speed at the same time and the criminal begins to feel like a hammer that's hitting his skull when you begin to consistently pray you feel it or not but you pray something happens it breaks the grip of the devil over your life in Jesus name because somebody say man I want to challenge each one of us to pray more I want to challenge those of us in your who don't pray at all to start praying for those of you who are able to come to morning prayers and you don't live very far to come to morning prayers for those of you who have allowed that room where you used to pray to collect dust I ask you that today you repent and tomorrow God will see you in that room for those of you who prayed in the evenings and that has already been long gone for that to change today forgot to be into back in you into prayer you don't need to come to church to pray but if you are able to it's highly encouraged you can pray at home you don't have to pray only in the mornings you can pray whenever it's available to you but you have to pray you have to pray personal transformation divine revelation and removing demons and curses out of our life in Jesus mighty name