 All right, good evening Pace family. How's everybody doing tonight? All right, let's stand and have a word of prayer Hallelujah who believes God hears and answers prayer this evening, and I know every one of us have a need tonight Amen, so let's go to the throne of grace right now father. We love you. We thank you for your goodness and mercy God we thank you that we can come boldly to your throne of grace and we can receive in our time of need Lord And I pray over all these people on the prayer request father that you would reach down that you would touch them God that you would meet The need that you would bring healing that you would bring deliverance God that you would bring your freedom that can only be found in Jesus God we thank you tonight for your faithfulness Lord, and we give you praise tonight for your goodness Amen, can we praise the Lord tonight give him praise for his goodness Step across the aisle shake hands with a friend as I greet our online guests if you're watching online tonight We're honored that you're here We welcome you Pace family. Let us know where you're watching from. We'd love to hear from you Amen, we're so grateful for this evening Hallelujah one more time. Let's give Jesus a hand clap of praise and you may be seated The Bible says that God loves a joyful giver Whose heart is in their giving. Do we have any joyful givers in the house? Come on. Do we have any? The experience is faithfulness You can give don't forget the offering buckets are in the rear You can also give online or via the text or you can also mail in a check to the to the main office here Amen, let's pray over the offering father We thank you for the opportunity to give into your kingdom the work that you're doing Bless the gift and the giver of life and we give you all the praise in Jesus name. Amen Praise the Lord glad to be here tonight Man so glad to have each and every one of you joining us here and those of you that are online Pray that God will displace your life for being in this Bible class I want you to take your Bibles and get ready to go into the Word of God and as you are doing that And this kind of a prerequisite Message for tomorrow's national day of prayer. I Don't have to tell you that America and the world needs praying for and if anybody is gonna do that that means the church is going to have to do That it is our assignment. It is our mandate. It's our call And so tonight I want to talk to you a little bit about prayer and then we're gonna do it Amen and Then tomorrow morning, I want you to join us here at the church will be out in the front on the On the grass out front at the Ten Commandments Monument at 10 a.m We'll start promptly at 10. We want you to make sure you're here If you want to bring your lawn chairs with you or umbrellas anything like that We'll be glad for you to do that so that you can be protected a little bit from the Sun It's been a little bit warm today and so you be sure to do that but join us in prayer here tomorrow and for those of you that can't But you you may be at work or wherever you may be and you can't do that Then you can log on to pace assembly org and we're gonna live stream our prayer event here From the church and all of you that are watching online wherever you're watching from you can join us at 10 a.m Central and we'll have that live streaming for you for our national day of prayer tomorrow We're gonna be praying for our country be praying for the church at large and for our church here for our community for our leaders and Each one of these are mandates that come from the word of God The Bible tells us clearly that we're to pray for those that are in places of authority and political leaders and all of that That is our engagement. That's what we need to do and that's what we must And I can assure you how many of you ever had a prayer answered before just curious Look at all those answered prayers Let me ask you this just in case I'm just polling you how many of you had more than one prayer answered before More than ten. All right. I'm y'all some of y'all are slipping. It means you ain't buried Because this I mean if you were two years old, I would understand you couldn't get ten in yet But you're old enough to get a few a man. I Just want to encourage you to be here tomorrow It's gonna be a wonderful time in the Lord and we want you to make sure that you're in attendance for that at 10 a.m Tomorrow and then this coming weekend. It's gonna be a great weekend. It's mission Sunday We'll be receiving communion together and I just encourage you to Make plans to join us and bring somebody with you to church And I believe God's gonna bless our lives if he tarries his coming just in case You may miss it You can go online if you if you if for some reason or other the mass of the church is not here sunday You can go back to last week and know what happened Jesus has come Is there anybody ready for that event to take place? Amen Praise god All right, so take your bibles this evening and let's go to the word of God And I want you to go over first that just as a point text to go to ax chapter number four Verse 31 ax chapter number four verse 31 And we're also going to be over in the book of daniel tonight, and I think that may be on your On your handout for those of you that are watching you can be sure to download the handout That's available for you there and as you heard a few moments ago You can be participating in giving as well And I also want to encourage you to share out this broadcast on your social media platform So that we can get the gospel out further than just these four walls and just your house So help us out there, and we thank you so much for helping us to do that and for those of you that haven't Been able to See it every tuesday every tuesday, and I believe we've settled that for a 7am central time release Prophecy files briefing this past week we dealt with some things that are happening in our world with With bible prophecy, and I would encourage you it's only about three minutes long a little over Three minutes. I know some of you don't believe that I can do it in three minutes, but I did But not this week. I think I was 26 seconds over or something like that Anyway, uh, it's just a little bit of information that's going on And as you heard today the rates were raised once again by the fed And there's a lot of things that are going to have repercussions to that And I just I I if we ever needed to pray and ask for god's discernment and the guidance of the holy spirit We certainly need to do that now And so uh, uh, that's the reason why we're teaching this lesson here tonight So in your bibles in the book of acts chapter number four verse 31 one of my favorite passages of scripture This happened after the day of pentecost Uh because and this is somewhat of a thematic Text That I may be picking up this coming weekend. We're just praying about what god wants and I'm just I've been feeling this in my spirit Because of the fullness of the of the spirit of god that is needed inside of our lives And it was evident by the time we get to acts chapter number four Um That the church needed a refilling I'm gonna say this to you The more intense the battle The more pressure you incur The more mental physical spiritual stress and warfare that you're in The more you need the filling of the holy spirit Uh, it just depends on how much you get involved in In any given day. So I won't say a daily in filling. You might have to go every hour Uh, I don't care what it takes The fullness of god is necessary and that happens through that time Of prayer and you're going to see that here tonight acts four and 31 says and when they had pray Here's three things in here and we're going to zero in Tonight toward the end of this message the place was shaken where they were assembled together And they were all filled with the holy ghost And they spoke the word of god with boldness Are you with me? The place was shaken They were filled again This isn't this isn't the same as acts two. This is acts four. They've been through persecution by now their leaders had been arrested and beaten and flogged and turned loose And persecution was hitting the church at this level right now on a on a level that they had not ever seen before But when they pray The place was shaken they were filled again and they turned around and opened their mouth and spoke the word of god with boldness That's the best thing that can happen. Amen Father open our minds our spirits rest us in the word of god tonight Help every person that is here those that are watching to find encouragement strength and comfort And the rejuvenation of the spirit of god in the word tonight. We give you praise in jesus name Everybody said a good. Amen The concept of prayer And we do a lot of preachers and teachers and all do a lot of teaching on prayer five ways to pray 10 ways to get a prayer through and this that and the other warfare prayer and praising prayer and you know all the different Hebrew names of prayer and all that but first of all you haven't prayed until you pray You can study a lot about it, but but You got to pray and the concept of prayer Is the interaction between humanity and divinity And I want to add this in here just a little bit. It's just a little bit of a rabbit trail that you are used to me God is in time Our rather god is in eternity we are in time And when we pray sometimes we feel like that god is supposed to answer us in time But god answers in eternity We were in eternity past We came from eternity into time that god created for humanity not for himself. He created it for us And that's a good thing I'm just going to show you right now If you were in eternity And you had a headache You would have an eternal headache But because he brought you into time You can say that was yesterday. I had a headache today. I'm okay Because god is so awesome that he took time and crunched it down to milliseconds and and beneath So that we can take time in small increments and measure it And and see something accomplished in time before we hit eternity again We came from eternity into time and we're going to go back into eternity And what we have right now And that doesn't mean that You know just because the bible says that i've got 70 years if you live beyond 70 years, you're good I just want you to know it made a difference some didn't make it to 70 Some made it past 70 some made it to 30 some made it to 20 some didn't make until they they were just teenagers So I don't know what my time is but I better be sure that I'm plugged into god's divinity In my prayer life so that I can know how to use the time he has given to me Before I hit eternity again Now that was a total different subject and I will preach on that at another time We're talking about prayer tonight prayer is the seeking Of the heart of god Prayer is not the ability to get god to see it your way I know some people who pray and they want to pray the scripture and god you said and I understand Repeating the word of god in your prayers But you're not going to twist god's arm to get him to do something that's outside of his will And prayer is to get our mind plugged into the mind of god so that we can be Prepared to to say yes to what god wants to his will Prayer is It is the ability for mankind to access god Now that may seem Just like a small statement, but do you understand i'm not talking about accessing The pastor or accessing the congressman or the president i'm talking about you have at any given time The ability to access god in prayer What does that mean That means that there are those right now that are seeking the lord some that are seeking the lord some that don't seek the lord some that don't pray All religions in some form will pray Those that are crisis prayers only pray when something is going wrong in their life And i'm telling you god is not looking for someone So that he can be your sugar daddy He's looking for a relationship out of us and that's what prayer does It creates a relationship. It's continued continuity between us and god and i want you to know you're not the only one speaking I want you to know in that conversation of prayer god has something to say Now there are whole groups of people that would say you know god doesn't speak today, but but i submit to you Not only has he speaking I don't believe he speaks as much as what people say God told me to get out of bed today and god told me to stop at the stop sign God told me to wear blue today and all that kind of stuff I don't believe god talks that much because he spoke to abraham and then it was 25 years later before he spoke again But i do believe that the holy spirit when we get in constant communion and prayer That he will impress upon our hearts and we can hear the voice of god through multiple ways through the word of god Through the teaching and preaching of the word of god I'm telling you i have heard the voice of god through a child And some people would pass that right on by but if you are if you're plugged in with god There are things that are going to happen in your daily life that are going to be indicators to you That god is speaking to my heart Are you with me? That's the reason why god is everybody's god The atheist said i don't believe in god and god said i don't believe in atheists Because the bible says in psalm 24 and 1 that the earth is the lords and the fullness thereof the world and all that dwell therein So i don't care what you label yourself what you call yourself what you identify as God is your god too whether you like it or not And this is important for us because when you're talking about talking to god in prayer You're not talking to a sub god A lesser god You're not having to ask permission through god's secretary to get to him Furthermore he has given to us the fullness of the holy spirit So that we can have direct access and More than that the holy spirit is actually going to help us get there in our prayer life Now i won't talk on this tonight, but i will tell you if you are baptized in the holy ghost and you speak In tongues you have a direct line of access according to romans chapter number eight that is uninterruptible on the party line There's an awful lot of people talking and the devil wants to cut into your conversation But if you pray in the spirit, it's from your heart straight to the heart of god And this is important for you to get a hold of because what you want in your prayer life is to be effective How many of you want to be effective in your life? Okay, so prayer is the means of that now we discount prayer because we think i prayed and and god has an answer because we regulate it to be The same thing is as the as the fast food line, but i want you to know god again does not answer in our time He answers in his time And he sees it through an eternal perspective. That's the reason why prayer is not God's not praying He's waiting to hear from us And if you really understood who you were talking to when you pray The god who doesn't sleep. He doesn't slumber I'm telling you right now wherever you are. That's the god that i'm talking about you can never get outside of his presence I'm hearing brother neff's voice over here saying amen to that I could guarantee you when he was driving down highway 71 and that heart attack was going on in the middle of there He was talking to god even though his mouth may not have even been moving Because god will hear your heart even before your words I got scripture on that He doesn't sleep. He doesn't slumber. He's in the car. He's in my mind. He's in my business How many of you want god in your business? You invite him in through prayer He's a busy god. Let me understand that He's a busy god and yet He affords us the privilege to be able to have an appointment with him at any second Only the human and this is important because we have such an elevation of the animal kingdom That people think that animals are the same as humans, but only the human species has the opportunity The animal kingdom does not pray You as a human being have been given a specific opportunity In prayer to communicate with god So god's busy But today there were millions of people calling upon him God is busy, but god will stop at any whisper of the human voice God is busy, but to the person who has found the secret place And set aside an appointment with god I can assure you something is going to happen when we pray So with that in mind, I want to just take as a backdrop and you can follow along on your sheet there with your With the scriptures that we're going to outline for you from the book of daniel because if there's anybody who understood prayer, it was daniel And I want to show you this because we sometimes think that because we've gone through You know things we have over the past few years and events and things that have been taking place It's somehow it's unique to this generation, but watch daniel daniel And for those of you that are not familiar with his story Daniel was taken as part of some of the young and brightest That came out of The southern kingdom into Babylonian captivity by Nebuchadnezzar And he brought these teenage boys into Babylon and Was going to convert them by the educational system by their food by multiple means And yet out of all of it and daniel is an incredible book to study Because it is both Relevant to the time that of course that he was in and showing us a picture of what was going on But daniel is a prophetic book that tells us not only how to conduct ourselves now But what's going to happen in the future with 100 accuracy? It is the mirror image of the book of revelation understanding the symbols and the signs So with that in mind daniel is taking captive along with many others and Daniel the bible says was a man of an excellent spirit And one of the things that was part of his excellent spirit not only integrity Not only being a person of great character daniel's character was was extremely above but in the face of the opposition of being a foreigner By captivity by arrest And all that was spinning around him in a Babylonian society Where that rejected the god of the jews daniel stood out As a as a portrait for us of a person of character and a powerful prayer life that affected change I'm saying this to you tonight because ladies and gentlemen, we can complain about it We can listen to the media on it All kinds of things that can be done, but but you'll find out if my people Will pray When you pray something is going to happen in the heavenly Let's look at daniel daniel prayed To be shown the king's dream and god answered daniel in daniel chapter 2 verse 17 and 18 daniel was thrown into the lion's den because He continually prayed to god. Can you imagine getting arrested for praying? I submit to you right now that there is an arrest that took place here recently That the person was standing on the sidewalk And because they weren't even moving their mouth, but they were praying in their spirit The thought police Came by and said what are you doing? You're not allowed to be here and they arrested them for praying It wasn't in america, but i can assure you it's coming So daniel prayed continually for god to spare him and in daniel six The story goes that he went into the lion's den and Layed his head down all night long because when he prayed it wasn't that god got him out Of the situation he prayed him through he prayed to god through the situation and came out victorious Bible says that daniel prayed for israel for forgiveness of their sins When the 70 years of captivity were nearing toward an end and it was god who revealed to him That at the 70th year that they were going to be rescued And that the the captivity would be over and god answered daniel's prayer daniel chapter number nine By sending gabriel to him the archangel gabriel Exactly and telling him exactly when messiah would come when the deliverer would come So the secret that daniels walked with god was actually his prayer life and that needs to be our call too The devil knew that that's why the devil was after daniel's life and that's the reason why he's after your life if you're a prayer Satan knows that if you ever get one prayer through the experience of the presence of god in that secret place in a closet of prayer Just might make you go back there and you make a habit out of it like daniel did And not care about what anybody says or what the law even said so Look at daniel's life being under political pressure A law passed that he could not pray Because there was a higher law of god he chose to obey the higher law of god And daniel never stopped praying and i'm not talking about just in a secret clause of the prayer the bible said He threw open the windows and prayed like he did as a normal thing And because of his boldness and because of his relationship with god god gave him visions Of what we are dealing with right now and beyond this time that are revealed in the book of daniel So here's a few things for you number one real prayer god hears immediately Sometimes we feel like and i want you to make sure you may write a few things down as the lord gives you inspiration here tonight But i'm just going to tell you many people don't pray because they don't believe that god hears them But i want to assure you tonight based upon the word of god and i don't have time to go through all the scripture to tell you this When you pray Real prayers and i'm talking about sincere from your heart god said i will hear you when you pray So i want you to put that out of your head forever That somehow god is not listening to me or he's not hearing me It is not dependent on whether you feel like god heard your prayer It is by faith that i'm praying to the god that i cannot see who said i will hear you when you pray This is important for you to get ahold of daniel chapter 10 verse number 12 The bible says then said he and to me fear not daniel watch this for from the first day Thou did set thy face to understand And to chase in thyself before thy god Thy words were heard and i am come for thy words. Did you hear that? Before he even opened his mouth to pray god said i saw the intent of your heart and already started the answer coming What does that mean 21 days passed? And no no word from god Well, what was going on there was a fight going on because daniel's prayer was heard in heaven God sent the answer and the bible says that the prince of persia came to intercept it I want you to hear me tonight when you pray real prayers god hears you from the time that your heart goes into that mode of prayer Here's what the bible says in jeremiah 33 and 3 call upon me and i will answer thee And show you great and mighty things which thou know us not anybody want to see some great and mighty things that you don't know That's what the bible said if you'll call upon him Here's what first john 5 14 and 15 says and this is the confidence that we have in him that if we ask Anything according to his will he heareth us And if we know that he hears us whatsoever we ask we know that we have the petitions that we desire of him You need some more scripture. I know Psalm 18 and 6 in my distress the psalmist said i called upon the lord and cried unto my god He heard my voice out of his temple and my cry came before him even unto his ears Psalm 34 and 4 i sought the lord and he heard me and delivered me from all of my fears. Are you getting the picture here? So i'm going to say to you tonight don't worry about how you feel Just go ahead and pray by faith and touch the throne of god He's listening for our cry the bible said Psalm 41 40 and verse number one waiting patiently for the lord and he inclined into me and heard my cry Now i don't have time to go into this tonight, but i'm going to tell you there's a different connotation in normal praying And crying out to god Crying out to god takes a whole different level of prayer. Have you ever cried out to god before? Now i'm not talking about just normal pray lord. I want to thank you for this day I'm talking about when your heart is overwhelmed the bible says leave me to a rock that is higher than i Crying out to god gets god's attention like nothing else didn't he do it when he stopped by and there was uh Uh the blind man the lame man the blind man that was there Blind born of maus the bible says son of to maus. That's all his name In connotation have but it it has a lot behind that And when he cried out to god the bible says the lord stopped the entire procession And healed him Even though the crowd didn't like him praying Even though he didn't see a healing until after until after the lord had touched him The bible said he cried out to god and it stopped the whole place I dare you to cry out to god so the bible says In song 40 verse number two he brought me up out of a horrible pit Out of a mirey clay and set my feet upon a rock and established my going he had put a new song Look what happened you pray He's put a new song in my heart even praise into our god many shall see it and fear and shall trust in the lord When you pray people see it And it says there must be a god in heaven because they pray That's important for us to get a hold of Because if he heard the blind man Then he hears the cries of the thief on the cross Then he's listening to every prayer that you pray and the bible said he bottles up the tears of the saints I want to say to somebody in this building god heard you last night when you prayed I want to say it again somebody didn't get it god heard you last night when you pray real prayers Invoke spiritual conflict Please do not think that you're going to get in prayer and talk to god without satan's interference to try to stop it from happening Well, I take pastor if the devil'd get off my back. I'd be a better prayer He's never going to get off your back. So you might well get in the game You might as well put the pads on and go to war You might as well pray like you've never prayed Bible says there in daniel chapter 10 verse 13 But the prince of the kingdom of persia withstood me This is a demon spirit over the persian kingdom And how long 21 days He fought against him. Is it because michael was weak or somehow they couldn't get through? I don't know what all the conflict was the bottom line is for 21 days daniel was waiting on an answer to prayer and it shows us the spiritual warfare that is more real than what's happening here on this earth There is spiritual warfare over your heads right now sometimes we feel like you know, I wonder why did I feel that what what is that? Why why don't we get into an argument? What what was happening? The devil is throwing all kinds of stuff To see what's going to stick So the so the Intensified warfare now think about it. Why why do you think that he was after daniel's prayer? Why don't you just leave this one man daniel alone? Because god was going to give him a vision of the future that was going to guide us into knowing more about what god has in store for us I'm talking about today So what's going on? There's a great spiritual conflict that takes place 21 days 21 days of distractions They've been distracted before I guess god didn't hear my prayer Have you ever felt like when you prayed and then there was this distance of time where you didn't feel nothing You didn't see nothing and you were just about ready to give up and then all of a sudden the email came That happened to me today I'm feeling but I'm not all the way there, but I'm telling you I took a step in the direction that I come on somebody What I'm telling you is don't give up on the prayers you pray Don't give up on what god has said if he said it you hold fast to it and keep in prayer Because it's the distractions of the enemy that want to it the attack that comes against your life Pastor i'm just trying to live a godly life. The devil knows that He knows you're trying to live a godly life. He's got to get your faith away from the cross in order to distract you So when you get down to pray You don't feel like praying I'm not going to ask everybody's answer to this But how many of you prayed and then you fell asleep right in the middle of your I didn't ask you to raise your hand y'all confessing I ain't the pope It went something like this our father which art in And you woke up and you forgot where you were Give us no forgive us Our father which art in heaven. I know you're laughing right now, but i'm just telling you I've done that And there is no sweet or sleep that you'll get if you'll pray yourself to sleep Come on somebody 21 days of distractions 21 days of attacks 21 days of delays and Resistance and doubt and all this stuff coming in Satan does not want you to get your prayer through But here's what the bible says And you see this spiritual warfare played out in ephesians chapter number six and also right here in these two verses of scripture In second Corinthians 10 verses four and five for the weapons of our warfare Are not carnal Pastor if I could just take him out the knees with the baseball bat. I'd feel better about it. Well, they're they're not carnal You can't use that and get insane. It was god. He'll god told me to hit you upside the head with a two by four No I'm amazed at the amount of people that want to attribute to god something he didn't say and yet they claim they're in prayer Because the first thing that prayer is going to do is make you get right with god yourself And before you can get anywhere around it, it's going to make you get right with one another I lost a few amens on that But let me just give you the scripture on that the bible says if you come to the altar and you're presenting your worship Your gift before god and you haven't made it right where it needs to be You can rest assured you need to leave your gift right here Go back and do what needs to be done and then when you come back. I'll receive your prayer Oh, let me throw another one on you all you men out there If you're in an argument with your wife, the bible says god didn't hear you when you pray Oh, I lost all the men right there. Praise the lord There'll be a men's fellowship for bandages right after this service What does he say in 2nd Corinthians 10 and 4 and 5? I love this scripture for the weapons of our warfare not carnal, but they're mighty through god Did you realize you have a mighty weapon of prayer in your hands? Quit trying to manipulate the situation and commit it to prayer God I've done everything I know how to do when you've done all that you know how to do. What does he say in Ephesians 6 stand Well, what am I supposed to do? No, not mumble griping complain. Just go ahead and pray now. I'm just going to tell you something Even though I know that god doesn't hear my mumbles griping and complaining and pity party and all that kind of stuff I pour it all out to him anyway. You know what? He's big enough to handle it Did you hear what I said? I just tell it all there's some things I can say in prayer in my secret closet of prayer About some of y'all that I can't say out in public I just can't do it and and I know you're laughing at me, but you can't either Hey brother glory to god Jesus if you just Right Or your spouse Praise the lord. Where you been for three hours? Oh walking around the block You have a mighty weapon of prayer to pulling down strongholds Things that are trying to hinder you from your walk with god casting down Imaginations the presumptuous imaginations of our minds Are so active that we feel like Somebody don't like us When they haven't even met us that pastor don't like me. He doesn't he don't like me. I'm just I'm just I don't even know you Furthermore, you don't know me Come on These are imaginations that the enemy uses to get in between one another in between us and god in between our spouses in between Our business associates whatever that it may be You know what god is saying you got to pull all those imaginations down because some of y'all are living in a country called imagine nation It's a whole nation You didn't hear what I said. It's a whole nation There's a whole nation of people just whoo And you know what causes that to be cast down prayer does Because prayer starts softening your heart and getting your mind right come on somebody Casting down imagination and what every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of god Every high thing every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of god. What is the bible? It's the knowledge of god So if your thoughts Well, I think it ought to be this way. Well, if your thoughts are above The knowledge of god then you're wrong and the bible's right What does that mean? I've got to take those high thoughts those things that are getting outside of the word of god and messing me up And i've got to bring them subject. What does he say every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of god and bring In into captivity arrested every thought to the obedience of christ That's what prayer does Prayer helps you get your mind right Pastor, I need a xanax. No, you need a prayer meeting. You don't like your brother. You need a prayer meeting Because it will remove out of your heart the things that you should be because you can't talk to god Who you can't see and hate your brother who you can't see I'm just going to say to all of you. You may not like me, but you better love me because you can't get to heaven without me And neither can I with you Casting down imagination every high thing that exalts itself Bringing to obedience the things under christ What was daniel doing in his prayer? Listen Time out they had outlawed prayer They wrote a law and said Don't pray anymore Now i have a question for you If they do that today What are you gonna do i got about 10 of this crap If they outlawed prayer tomorrow Because i'm telling you where this is this is the structure of of china right now where they're having to register on their phone For their religious persuasion and they put down who they are they're tracking it When you see those caps i've told you this in prophecy files several weeks ago They're wearing those caps there are sensors in there that is finding out what they're thinking And whatever your persuasion is They'll be ready to respond to that listen. We're on our way with ai For the implantation isn't it if you want man i see you brought this out I'm just blaming it all on y'all Because every time you see the leader of the world economic forum He's always talking about the implants of the brain that we're going to have in the not too distant future And every time he does that he always touches the frontal lobe Well for this is going to be a terrific thing because i've known people that have had strokes and all that kind of stuff And they're going to get in there and fix it up so you can walk again and that sounds wonderful Except when you read revelation 13 Where they're going to put a mark in your Forehead or in your hand and here's this guy touching his head in the same place every time What's up with that? All pastor you're such a conspiracy theorist Call me that five seconds after the rapture takes place and we'll talk about it then When we pray the enemy is alerted It's what they did with daniel Outlawed prayer said don't you pray? He said i don't care what you say i'm praying anyway Well, you've got to stop we're gonna fill you in the lines then that's all right The god who hears me here will hear me down there When we pray not if we pray when we pray the enemy is alerted He's called into action the spirits coming against him Against you What's takes place the prince of persia resisted? But god sent help in the archangel michael Bible said he came to help me I just want to say to somebody in this building somebody watching help is on the way When you pray help is on the way I need some preachers in this house look at your neighbor and point your little bony finger at him tell him when you pray Help is on the way And i'm just going to tell you satan will not fight you if there's not something to be won So the only reason why you're feeling the resistance and the attack that's going on is because the devil knows if you get that prayer through Something is going to change in the atmosphere something's going to happen somebody's going to get saved an answer to prayer is going to come Here's number three for you real quick Real prayer brings revelation daniel chapter 10 verse 14 Now i'm come to make the understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days for yet the vision is for many days What was going on pastor i'll tell you what was going on God was about to download into daniel things that you and i are going to be seeing now And according to the scripture will be seen in the days ahead even after the church is taken off of this earth daniel's receiving such a revelation in his prayer lifetime That we are still living it even today So here's what i want to say to you when you get down to pray expect your god to speak Our god is a speaking god He's going to open revelation up to you Did you hear what i said? I was reading the word of god the other day and just thinking about some things and messages and what the lord was Dealing with my heart and he started talking to me about wells and about thirst Too many times we he started talking to me in my spirit about wells Like the woman who went to the well there jacob's well in john four He said if you drink of this water this well water You're gonna thirst again But if you drink of the well That i offer to you the living water if you thirst And he started talking to me about the difference between the well and a thirsty person Some of you just had a well experience, but if you'll get thirsty He said those that hunger and thirst after righteousness shall be filled now. I'm just going to say this to you I'm just feeling this preach coming on I'm just telling you right now that you cannot operate in the kingdom of god in these last days without being filled And you're going to have to be filled again And prayer is that opportunity for you to be able to go into the filling station. Come on somebody And be filled and refill because god is going to speak And i'm going to say to you wait before you move And let the lord speak to you When you open your mouth and express what's going on from your heart to god god said let me express my heart back to you I would suggest to you to take your pen and pen whenever you pray Something you can record it on because god's going to speak God's going to say something to you pastor. I don't believe that he will then don't worry he won't Because your ear is not tuned and that's the reason why in the last days he said the problem is not going to be Problem is not going to be from the word coming forth. The famine is going to happen because of the people's lack of hearing Pastor, I don't know why I can't get victory. I can't get a praise out of my mouth because your hearing is off If your speech is wrong The doctor doesn't look at your tongue He puts you in a booth puts these headphones on you and checks your hearing Because if your hearing is right your speaking will be right Some of you are not speaking what god is saying because your hearing is messed up I went to the doctor the other day He looks in my ear I said doc I've been having a little swimmy something going on I don't know what's going on. Can you go in there and get whatever it is bug? I don't know cockroach I don't know. I don't know aliens whatever it is because ringing and all that kind of stuff going on He looked in and said well you go home and just wash it out because you got this And you need to get it out so you can hear Now I have no excuse When Rita says take your garbage out I can't say, huh Some of y'all been faking it for a while. I'm just telling you Satan seeks to stop the prayers of the righteous He's got to Now if the church stops praying God stops moving It's not because he can't It's because there's no desire on earth to see a change But I'm telling you tonight ladies and gentlemen prayer Prayer is the is the ability to affect change through a divine Interruption into humanity Get this Satan knows that a prayerless christian Is a powerless christian So what does the bible say in second chronicles chapter 7 verse 12? The bible says very clearly that and this is so important. I think this is prophetic And I know that it's for right now And the lord appeared to Solomon by night verse 12 and said unto him I have heard thy prayer and I've chosen this place to myself for a house of sacrifice Verse 13, this is powerful. We always go to 14 but listen to look at 13 If I shut up the heaven god said if I shut up the heaven Not the devil. I'm shutting up heaven and there'd be no rain Or if I command the locus god said i'm going to command locus And people want to complain and talk about today saying well god god doesn't do that god listen god answers by nature god speaks bug He says right here if I command the locus to devour the land or if I send pestilence disease among my people among my people Come on somebody not amongst the heathen among my own people Can you handle that? What if he gets tougher between now and the coming of the lord? What are you gonna do? What are you gonna do for your peace of mind in a world that has lost theirs? Come on somebody Prayer is the only way to keep the peace of god that passes all understanding You'll not do it by complaining. You'll not do it by talking. Oh, let's go out and have a coffee No, no, no, you don't need to talk to people before you talk to god every day Verse 14 he says if all these things transpire if my people what you're called by my name He's not even looking for the heathen. He's looking for his own people He's looking for us Will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways Then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land look at the promise There is no if ends or butts in there There's no, you know if you lay out for three days if you fall out You know if you he didn't even say fastly in prayer right there He's just saying I need some folks that will call upon me And when you do this is what i'm gonna do Now look at verse 15 Now my eyes shall be open and my ears attend to the prayer that is made in this place for now I have chosen look at this god said I have chosen and sanctified this house I want to declare that over pace assembly here tonight I have chosen and sanctified this house that my name may be there forever and my eyes and my heart Shall be there perpetually ladies and gentlemen if you've got the eyes on the heart of god Then the presence of god is going to be very near to heal save and deliver. Can you say amen to that? So what's the challenge the challenge is if But the bible says in acts chapter number four He said when the people prayed the place was shaken He said I want you to seek my face and then I want you to expect to hear from me when you do And he puts the burden of instigated prayer upon us Right now people don't know what to do Because of this uptick from the fed today. They're going to be people. They're going to be laid off by the thousands Did you hear what I said? There are companies right now that are laying people off by the thousands And yet the word that's coming into the ear of people is everything say okay. We're in good shape I Heard the fed chair say it just this week that it does they're getting ready to raise this that They had a subdued increase Of point one percent and expect the next quarter to be Also equally subdued at point zero or less Now I don't know about you And I am not an economics major and I didn't do real good in math I did know that when I was raised two plus two was four and not five You get some of this new common core or whatever it may be. It might be 12. Who knows But I don't have to be an expert to know that And I've owned my own business before I know that if my business is performing at point zero zero zero one In growth that is not subdued I am in foreclosure and going out of business fire sale tomorrow Now what is going to give you peace of mind in the middle of all of that? Your intimate fervent prayer life between you and god I want to say this to you. This is not a catholic church So you're not going to climb in a box and confess all of it and expect the priest to do all your praying for you You have an advocate with the father the son jesus christ And if we call upon him he said I will answer you and show you great and mighty things I challenge you if you have never taken time to pray before I asked you and challenge you this very night to begin a consistent regular prayer life pastor I don't know what to do. I don't know what decisions to make get in prayer and god will show you what to do He said when my people pray the place was shaking So right now People don't know what to do with their jobs or business the government the world terrorism I mean my lord according to what I read on the news and you saw it too The ukraine was supposed to have put an attempted assassination upon the president of russia mr. Putin and he's getting ready in his mind To launch nukes Now we've heard that so much that we're kind of numb to it But someday something stupid is going to happen How am I going to keep my peace of mind and my spirit right between now and then? Ladies and gentlemen the only the only place we can go is to god I'm telling you we're at a place right now. You know what i'm talking about Okay And I thank god for all of you who went out and bought chickens recently Because i've had members of the church saying hey, somebody told me just yesterday. Yeah My wife made me go out and buy three more chickens. He said we're getting eight eggs a day And i'm telling you a pentecostal church will survive if there's chickens that are somewhere around there We will survive We will survive chickens chickens I'm just telling you that god is waiting Let me let me just give you this scenario and and then we're going to pray Tomorrow is the national day of prayer People all around the united states and even around the world are going to gather together And they're going to pray expect something to move And don't let somebody else do your praying for you Because there's nothing worse than praying prayers and not seeing an answer Lord you know Tomorrow we're going to lead you in in a in a collective of a national repentance before god We're going to humble ourselves as god tells us to do and we're going to seek his face Because when he hears us from heaven Are you hearing me when he hears us from heaven? I expect someone to be forgiven their sin and I expect healing in the land I expect something to happen. I'm not listen. Come on somebody I let me ask you a question real quick when you go on your job this week. Are you expecting to get a paycheck? Are you just kind of doing it because it feels good? Come on somebody when you do the work you're expecting to get a paycheck I have no answer out here. Everybody's just doing it for free I just want to say to you volunteer the church tomorrow morning eight o'clock. We could use you around here Since you're going to do it for free No, no, you're waiting for friday Payday I'm just telling you if we'll pray there is a payday That god is waiting over our heads to answer if we'll call upon the lord He will show us great and mighty things and not only that But if you're willing to relocate in your prayer life God's going to do something Let me take you here very quickly The relocation of people in their prayer life made things happen moses If you're willing to come up on this mountain, I've got a place beside me Jacob if you're willing to seek my face come down here to bethel and I'll give your family a whole revival Daniel if you'll pray at your house, I'll elevate you in the palace or in the lion's den What does jesus say in matthew six and verse number six, but thou when thou prayest Enter into thy closet When thou shut the door and pray to thy father in secret and thy father would see it in secret Shall reward you openly. What is he saying? He's saying there's power in that secret place if you'll shut the door behind you now. What does that mean? Well, some folks have prayer rooms and that's wonderful I know one woman who went on to be with the lord sister marison who literally had a building out back of her house That was her prayer room and up on those walls were tacked pictures and names all the way around long before The movie came out About praying I can't remember the name but long before that ever took place She was already doing that All I had to do I didn't know her she I didn't know her but my wife's family did So when I came into the family she put my picture up on her wall and started praying Oh, don't you want somebody around you that knows how to do that? Shut the door physical room. That's great physical place That needs to happen there needs to be a place that you can get along with god You you follow me you need to have a place You need to have a chair. You need to have a you know a couch. You need to have a place But more importantly than that shut the door means on everything When you get in with me shut out the world shut out the devil shut out the noise Shut out the confusion shut out the distractions shut off the telephone Shut off your facebook shut off your friends and seek the lord Shut the door on the voices of discouragement and depression and all of that and talk to me Let's have a talk And this is what god said he said he said i want you to know i see you in that secret place I know you went in by yourself you thought but he was already in there waiting on you he sees More than just our physical being there he sees to the very depth of our soul He sees our hurts. He sees our pains. He sees our joys. He sees our sorrow. He sees our blessing All of that he sees into the soul in our innermost being he sees our sins and our loneliness Aren't you glad that we've got a god? Long before a superman ever showed up with x-ray vision God was already penetrating your soul and could tell you what you were thinking before you thought it Have you ever had god tell you what you were thinking before you try to express it? I have I just started the prayer and he said Excuse me before you pray anymore. Let's talk about this Have you ever got down to pray and somebody's face that you're fussing with went? And you tried to pray through it, but you couldn't because they just kept coming back just coming back Then you got mad in prayer, right? You try to pray harder or you got him left. I know I found the right place tonight Here's the one thing about a secret place You tell god anything in there Did you hear what I said? Have you got some things you need to tell god in a secret place that you don't need anybody else to hear? Man, I don't know. I'm just telling you right now folks be very diligent and and and very very On to your bank accounts and everything else because we just found out today once again that they've tried to They try to hit the church again with hacking and all that kind of stuff and what a hassle Ain't nothing but a devil We have folks that try to pay their ties to this church and they try to preempt that Thank god for our governor who signed the anti-esg law just this week and said we ain't gonna have that in state of florida, isn't that good? Why is that so important? Because when I get in that secret closet of prayer, I can tell god anything and everything And he knows and he's listening And he sees through us and nothing is hidden You can trust him because when you cry in there he understands every tear that drops Like god saw you in your mother's womb He's waiting in the secret place for you And here's what the bible says if you'll get in that secret place When god sees you in that secret place and he hears you in that secret place He's going to reward you openly now. I love this I love this because this is not just oh, I'm going to give you a secret blessing He said if you'll seek my face, I'm going to show people outside. What kind of god I am to you My present watch this don't look for it in gold and silver. It may come that way but but get this Here's something more important. He said my presence will be your reward My provision will be your reward. My power will be your reward my peace You could pile somebody up with a whole bunch of gold but But lord, if I just had peace of mind, I'd be all right. You keep all the gold Come on somebody Come on You'll find my real love in that secret place another this fakie stuff You'll find the love of god that will overwhelm your soul in a secret place. I'm challenging you here tonight. Are you hearing me? You need to make his glory. What's he going to do? He's going to make his glory known in your life when you come out of that secret place Glory filled Solomon's temple and everybody saw it a whole house was filled with glory book of acts The presence of god came in as they were seeking the face of god in the upper room in a secret place And the glory of god filled the whole place Here's a question for you as we conclude here tonight What would you ask for if you had an appointment with god? I haven't lost my place. I'm just giving you a chance to think Because some of your first reaction is I'd ask him for a million dollars Well, okay So what he's going to do is send you a million dollar problem Because otherwise, why do you need a million dollars? Hello somebody I love how you shout me down The early church understood the principle of prayer and getting results So what does that mean? I'm going to conclude right here to tell you that god responds to a praying church And I just want to drop this in your spirit here tonight And when they had prayed Three things took place The place was shaken where they were assembled together now ladies and gentlemen until that time until they prayed The place was not shaken But when they prayed the place was shaken Now it wasn't because they turned the temperature down and got colder Because it wasn't the people It was the place What happened god stepped in the room The presence of when they prayed god rewarded them with his presence Now there's an awful lot that comes with god's presence The bible says something like this In his presence is fullness of joy and at his right hand there's pleasure forever more You're depressed get in the presence of god and you'll get your joy back Get into prayer and find yourself in a place where the presence of god can give you back Your joy The presence of god there's healing in the presence The bible says that when jesus walked into the room into the house where all the place was filled with everything And all those four guys got up there ripped the roof off the bible says and the power of the lord was present To heal so with the presence of god there's healing that's in that secret clause of the prayer if you'll just pray There is an awful lot that comes With the place being shaken because that's a representation of the presence of god. Secondly Here's what happened god will never let you come into his presence that you don't leave full And he will not half feel you He's going to fill you to the word fill here overflowing So when I come into prayer and I And for some of you like me You may have your time of prayer and then you get on the road on highway 90 and you need to pray some more I did yesterday And the lord Didn't necessarily hear my prayer or maybe he did Because the person who was driving in front of me went slower the more I pray Is that ever happened to anybody? Six of us So i'm still trying to work that out. You pray for me. I'll hold out to the end but But the point is this when I pray god rewards me with fullness Nobody can fill me like jesus Can fill me Nobody can touch me like jesus can touch And that's all I need so so if i'm in my secret closet of prayer or whatever it is early in the morning Is when I like to get in there And and and i'll turn all the lights off and turn my song my music on and i'm down on my face And i'm gonna call on the lord Maybe I feel something maybe I don't Then i'm gonna get in the car And as i'm driving i'm gonna talk to god Maybe I feel something maybe I don't you know, there was one person and I conclude right here. We're gonna pray There was one person who who said that Every day that by the time he left the office and was on his way home He was carrying everything with him and all the pressure and everything like that by the time he got to the house It just it was just boiling because he was just thinking and processing So he stopped one day Got out of his car and painted a pole of certain color just a little mark About a mile away from his house And on the way home when he passed that pole every day he saw that mark on that pole He said from that point for the mile the last mile I started giving it all to god and by the time I got there my whole attitude was changed I don't care if you've got a mark poles I didn't say that FPL I don't care if you got a mark poles I don't care if you got to put a stop in the road I don't care if you got to put it on your watch or remind on your phone all that kind of stuff I'm just saying get yourself in a habit And if you miss one day don't make a law to yourself Don't condemn yourself because you miss something Because i'm just gonna tell you I can pray there or I can pray in the car or I can pray while i'm standing right here Come on somebody or I can pray when i'm on my way home tonight God is going to hear me wherever I am And he's going to reward me with fullness And then the bible says they got up and spoke the word with boldness Did you hear that they spoke the word with boldness When god fills you Then that means that something's got to come out of your mouth to affirm that to confirm that in the lives of other people Some of you are asking You know, I just wish I had more boldness to witness and so forth get in a play a place of prayer Be filled with the holy spirit and come out speaking the word of god Come on somebody Listen There's no telling what god has in store for you My wife said There's a today. She said there's a little barbecue food truck right over there Go over there and get us some barbecue It looks like it could be good So I did and uh I ordered The barbecue chicken and so forth the order barbecue chicken two sides and I said my wife needs a diet coke You got a diet coke in there He said i'm sorry sir. We don't have any diet coke. I said thank you Thank you very much I said because anybody who's going to eat this barbecue right here and all this stuff around here And you're going to drink a diet coke. Are you kidding me? Give me the real deal You know what I did for the first time in a long time. I reached in and found me a mountain do I drank that thing right on down They started laughing inside that truck and you know what when I got back to the church and opened up that little plastic container They not only put chicken in there, but they put me some beef brisket in there. I'm telling you god will reward you openly Here's my prayer on those three things Lord shake pace assembly with your presence Fill us all with the power of the holy spirit And help us all to be bold in speaking the word of god If that is your desire tonight, I want you to get up from where you are in the remaining moments We have and make your way all this altar. Would you do that right now? Come on all around this place? Come on Do it right now Do it right now. Come on. Just just don't even wait. Just don't go the other way go this way Come on. Come on Yeah, help me out right there There are many that are around the altar already praying I want to give you just a few moments and then we're going to lead in collective prayer I want you to call on the lord for your individual cells right now all around this building all of you That are watching online right now. You might want to get up and come to the altar where you are You might want to bow down where you are. I don't care what it is I'm saying right now. Let's call on the lord everybody around here call on the lord Everybody begin to call on the lord Everybody begin to call on the lord everybody begin to talk to god right now Thank you, jesus Come on. Just talk to him just like i'm talking to you right now Just talk to him Pastor you think he hears me when I When I pray oh, yes, he hears you Now open your mouth and let words come out ladies and gentlemen I know he can read your heart But if you'll open your mouth and begin to speak word bring the bible says bring words to him Bring words to him. Come on. Tell him who he is to you lord. I thank you right now I praise you that you're the god of heaven and earth You're the god who created all things you are the one true living god. There's no one like you Your spirit abides with me today god today even today your hand was over my life and I could see it Even through the trouble places of my day lord, you were still there. I just I just want to thank you I just want to praise you right now. I just want to glorify your name Come on. Let me lead you in this thing. Can you just glorify him the bible says bring him adoration Bring him adoration lord. We adore you. We glorify you. We magnify you Far above our circumstances. You are god and god alone I give you glory for it tonight I thank you that you hear me because you're the only one you're the only god who has ears to hear They're righteous when they pray Praise his name Now I want us to take the next step and let's confess our own individual sin before god lord search my heart right now I pray like david lord dig deep inside of my soul search my heart See if there be any wicked way in me in my mind my soul my spirit come on somebody I don't even know my own heart lord. So forgive me of my sin Cleanse me from all unrighteousness everything that's not like you lord Everything that's not like you Would you take your merciful hand and go in and remove it and lord Explunge from my mind the things That would hinder me From walking with you search me oh lord and try me and know my reign Know my inner thoughts Know me lord and lead me in a plain path Lord I call upon you you said lord that if we would Seek your face and seek after righteousness we shall be filled So I thank you right now come on believe him I thank you that my sins are washed in the precious blood of jesus. I come exclusively to the cross And I place my faith in the finished work of the cross now Now is the time to bring your supplication to him. Would you lay on the altar? What may be burning your heart right now? Would you lay those children those grandchildren spouse whoever it may be the situation you're dealing with your business your Whatever that it may be lord. I lay it down on this altar I pray that you would deal with my children's heart. It is your will that they are born again It is your will that my business prosper It is your will that I prosper in being good health and lord my health is suffering right now I pray that you would lay your hands upon my physical body Heal me god from the inside out come on church Don't be afraid to ask him ask him for big things Lord there's stuff that's out of my hands. There's things that I've been trying to fix and trying to work In my own way And lord I need to turn this thing over to you I need to turn this over to you because I am I'm at a place where I don't know what to do and and maybe that's where you want me to be come on somebody So I release Lord I forgive those Who have trespassed against me. I release them right now I ask you god to take away anything lord out of my heart That would hinder me And my prayers from being answered I thank you for it god Now lord strengthen my faith tonight I need the infusion of the holy spirit into my life come on ask him fill me come on now The place is shaken under the presence of god fill me holy spirit to overflowing I need no empty space in my mind in my soul and in my spirit I need every part of me filled to overflowing I cannot do it without you I cannot make it without you So fill me holy spirit fill me Fill me until there's nothing left to be filled And when you see me lord giving out and you see me Getting weak. I pray that you would fill me again Alert my spirit to the need of your presence I thank you for it right now And the bible says they spoke the word of god with boldness I want you to ask god to set you up So that you can speak the word of god when you leave out of this place going your job If the lord gives you a chance to live tomorrow, let's pray god give me an opportunity to speak your word Give me an opportunity to share jesus with somebody. I don't know how I don't know when But I pray right now holy spirit that you would bring up in my soul the boldness of the word of god So that whenever I come in contact that I won't just think it's just some moment But I will know this is a god moment for me This is a moment that I have the opportunity to give and deposit into somebody's life The only one who can heal the only one who can save the only one who can deliver That's the reason why I thank you jesus put words in my mouth Put words in my mouth when I stand before the magistrate Put words in my mouth And I give you glory for it I give you glory Now friends the best thing you can do Whenever you've prayed Is to ask god to make it happen for somebody else There's somebody standing beside you that needs your prayers and encouragement Would you just gently lay your hand on their shoulder? And would you just pray the prayer of faith in their behalf right now father in the name of jesus? For my friend that i'm praying for right now. I don't know what I don't know how I don't know what they may be dealing with but I know this You lord are the answer to whatever their question is So tonight give them peace of mind soul and spirit Settle their spirit in the very presence of god tonight Let your anointing run upon them like hot oil I pray god that they would have a god encounter with you That would settle their anxious spirit Settle their anxious spirit in the name of jesus I thank you god Because you said you hear me when I pray hallelujah Now before we leave out of this place tonight the only way you got into the tabernacle was to praise him enter into his gates With thanksgiving into his course with praise if you're going out the door you got to go out the same way So lift those hands before god everybody across this room everybody watching online Just lift those hands and give him glory for what he's doing right now I give you praise I give you glory lord Thank you jesus Thank you jesus. I don't know where you're working. I don't know when you're gonna do it But I commit it to you and I give you the glory for it You have it all under control I give you praise for it right now hallelujah You receive this Lift those hands for the blessing would you? Now the lord bless you And the lord keep you high of a hosiah The lord make his face to shine upon you The lord lift up his countenance upon you And the lord give you his peace Now and forevermore In the powerful and strong name of jesus Everybody that believes it shout a great big amen I want you to turn to somebody and encourage them in the lord Let them know how much you appreciate them if you don't know who they are introduce yourself I'll see you tomorrow for the national day of prayer at 10 a.m We'll be live streaming so you can join us And then sunday morning at 10 don't miss it. It's a great time in the lord. We'll see you then