 Today, I'm excited to be with you and I'm going to share something That pastor has been effinicized in the past couple weeks and he wants us to talk about it and bring this issue to importance So that our church Will run according to the vision and this is an issue and a subject of prayer So I want you to turn with me to Matthew 6 verse 6 and we're gonna talk a little bit about prayer Six six, but when you pray go away by yourself shut the door behind you and pray to your father in private then your father Who sees everything will reward will reward you prayer prayer is necessary in order for God to move God doesn't do a small or a big thing in our life without prayer the only thing that God does He is he the only thing he does is he answers the prayer of the Saints the prayer of his people God has already done everything for us. He's given his son. He's given us the Holy Spirit and There's nothing more above that he can give us besides only answer the prayers that we pray The prayers that we don't pray aren't the prayers that will never get answered Supernatural it comes on a platform of natural What I mean by that Supernatural answers come as a result of the thing that we just read six six when we naturally submit and We go and do it like what God says is to go pray and see God's face When we do our part God comes up and he does his part The problem is many times We don't do a part or we begin to pray and We don't pray it through until we see the answer we give up Halfway So in our church, we believe in and asking God that God will do supernatural things things like saving people healing people delivering people Things like bringing breakthrough in people's lives But those things do not come just on our wishful thinking But they come on church praise and praise firmly and so therefore We have Friday night prayers Everybody everybody in our church everybody needs to be there. Everybody needs to pray. It's at 10 p.m. So Sunday at 9 p.m. One hour before church adults pray in one room youth and the rest of you get those that speak English They speak We pray here in a sanctuary The prayer needs to become Like a bread and water Jesus said that my house shall be called the house of prayer He didn't say house of worship house of preaching house of the word of God, but he said a house of prayer There is a reason why Jesus put so much emphasis on prayer There is a reason why Jesus have modeled a Lifestyle of prayer. We read everywhere. He prayed in the morning He went into the desert place to play He went to the mountain and prayed and we read many many many places in the Bible where Jesus was alone Praying to the father. No wonder we see the results that we see in Jesus's life The results of healing deliverance and salvations and repentance and breakthrough in people's lives in Luke 2 37 Well starting from verse 25 to 37. I'm just gonna read verse 36 37 Says an Anna a prophet was also there in a temple. She was a daughter of Faneel from the tribe of Arshur She was very old her husband died when she when they had been married only seven years Then she lived as a widow to that age of 84 She never left the temple, but she stayed there day and night worshiping God fasting in prayer This is a story. It comes when Jesus came into the temple. I Heard something this this week that I didn't think about it and this preacher said that even Jesus himself could not come on earth but through prayer That is the prayer of Anna and earlier if you read from verse 25 and down and the prayers of Simeon That's for all these years. Imagine. She was 84. We assume they she got married young and From they live she lived together for seven years with her husband and then from that time She stayed as a widow and every day she prayed and fasted and worshipped in the temple This paved the way for Jesus to come our prayers They paved the way for Jesus to come into our life and to the lives of other people We just watch the testimony. I mean what a powerful testimony when God can take such a broken person such a person that's been hurt and and and and broken and shattered into pieces and can restore and can bring life bring hope and put her in a position of You know in a place of where she leads other people now into the presence of God, but it didn't start from nowhere It started with the person with people in their home group praying for that soul Praying for ten days when she was locked up in a mental institution when she came out They continue to pray and pray and until the moment where God really touched her and changed her life the miracle the supernatural paved the way I Mean the prayer that the natural things that they were doing paved the way for supernatural for the miracle to come into her life So with this I want to strongly encourage each and one of us Let's engage in a lifestyle of prayer in our home groups Let's not be afraid to pray for people with our home groups. We have the list that we're praying for the people Maybe it's a relative. Maybe it's your friend. Maybe it's your husband your wife Maybe it's your kids. Whatever it is. Don't give up praying. You say how long should I pray you play pray until you get an answer That's how long we pray. So in our home groups our home group leaders are People that go to your home groups. We have the list of people that we pray Let's pray that God will touch them prayers work God answers prayers and if we pray for people people will get saved if we pray for For people's lives to be changed they will be changed if we pray that people will get healed delivered and be blessed They will be blessed if we pray for people to be saved. They will be saved Jesus modeled a lifestyle of prayer If we want to be like Jesus and this is our ultimate goal as a Christians to be like Jesus Then we must devote ourselves to prayer. So I encourage each and one of us Let's commit to a prayer on Sunday morning Don't come at 10 15 10 20 when the worships halfway through come at 9 o'clock 9 15 when we start the prayer engage in your prayer Engage in prayer with us engage in believing with us that Jesus will come prayer paves a way for Jesus to come in the mighty name of Jesus. Amen. Do you do you agree church? Amen, amen, amen. So Sunday Sunday Friday nights at 10 a.m. For Friday night vigil come out and pray with us let's stand in the gap for the city Jesus has said God is looking for people that will stand in a gap and Sunday mornings at 9 and in our home groups and in our personal life when we pray Let's remember the names of the people. Let's pray and we believe that God's gonna bring forth a great great great mighty revival in our church and in our city and if you believe it