 I want to talk to you tonight about the power of praying the scriptures. Once you grasp this truth of coming into agreement with what the word of God says, your prayer life will be transformed and enriched. Now, this is not hyperbole. This is not a gimmick. There's a reason why praying the scriptures works. There's a reason why there is power added when we speak, what we see written in the word of God. When we pray the word, we are praying God's will. God's will is like a river. It has a fixed direction, a fixed location, a fixed flow. Many believers, when they pray, they get it in their minds that their goal is to move the direction of that river. To try to reroute the flow of God's will. They imagine that perhaps God is in heaven with his arms folded and that the more they pray, the more he reluctantly says, okay, well, gee, golly, maybe I'll do what you're asking me to do. Or they imagine that he's being irritated by the many petitions that are being thrown his way and he says, you know, I've just had enough. I don't want to hear it anymore. Fine, I'll do what you're bugging me to do. That's not it at all. The will of God, like I said, is that mighty river. Many Christians want to cup their hand, take a sip. Very few believers are willing to dive in. The difference between just drinking from that river and diving into that river is simple. The difference is who is in control. And many times when we pray, we use prayer as a tool to implement our own wills. Or so we imagine, that's what we're doing. Or to worry out loud. Many believers confuse worry for prayer as if God doesn't already know what's happening. Others think that they are trying to gain their desires. They have things that they want, goals that they want to accomplish. And there's nothing wrong with having goals. There's nothing wrong with having desires that are not sinful. There's nothing wrong with exercising your own will. But prayer is not the means of exercising your own will. Prayer is the means by which we cause earth to come into alignment with the heavenly realm. That's what you and I are called to do. Now imagine you get pulled over and a police officer asks you license and registration, please. You would, of course, provide license and registration. But let's say they come to your house at midnight. You've committed no violations. You've broken no laws. They knock on the door, say license and registration, please. And to add to it, they're not even wearing their uniform. What would you do? You probably would be suspicious. You probably would not provide license and registration. You probably would call other cops. Now, what's happening there? In that scenario, that officer would be acting outside of their authority. We get it in our minds and you've heard it said that our words have creative power. Life and death are in the power of the tongue. How many times have you heard that quoted and then we misapply it? Oh, you know, I'm not feeling too well. Ah, life and death are in the tongue. Don't say it. You'll end up in the hospital. You know, my tire has been flat for a couple of days. I hope it doesn't deflate or pop up. Life and death are in the power of the tongue. Don't you dare say it? OK, but we're acknowledging something very practical. Faith doesn't deny reality. That's delusion. And a lot of believers confuse delusion for faith. No, I'm not sick. I'm not sick. I prayed for a woman one time. She comes up to the altar. She's standing in front of me and says, I want you to pray for me. I said, what's wrong? She says, pray for my eyes. I said, what's wrong with your eyes? She says, nothing is wrong with my eyes. I was so confused and I kid you not. It was like 20 minutes of this and I'm I'm trying to work with them. And I'm I admit I was losing my patience. And so it escalated to me saying, lady, listen. Do you want me to pray for your eyes? Yes, pray for my eyes. What do you want me to pray for? Pray that I can see. OK, what's wrong with them? Nothing is wrong with my eyes. That's delusion. That's not faith. And we have these Christian, why old wives tale. These Christian superstitions. These strange beliefs that we kind of adapt in church culture. Don't speak that life and death are in the power of the tongue. I didn't study for this test. I'm probably not going to pass. Don't speak that life and death are in the power of the tongue. It would probably do you better to study than it would be to speak. In that instance, do we all agree with that? So I'm not saying our words don't have power, but we have to understand why our words have power. Our words don't have power because we can call things into existence and just create things. That's not even biblical. I mean, imagine the chaos that would result if every single one of us could just speak things into existence. I mean, there'd be a lot more Ferraris in the parking lot. There'd be a lot more zeros on your bank account. You would speak things. And what what happens then if, for example, two people on opposite sides of the teams are rooting for their own football team, one speaking the championship for their team and the other is speaking the championship for theirs? I mean, I don't know what would result from that. So this idea that we speak things into existence, it's misunderstood in how that actually works. You and I, when we speak, have power in our words because, A, they can affect the mindset of the people who are listening to what we're saying. So if you get around someone who's constantly speaking ungodly realities or worldly philosophies, what happens is the mind becomes programmed to think according to what's being heard. It's not as though you can have one conversation with an atheist and then live with the doubt for the rest of your life. It would have to be years and years of being around people and allowing those thoughts to influence you without countering them with the truth. So thoughts, words have power not in a magic form of way. Words have power because what we speak can affect the way people think. Words are the programming of the mind. And as you speak the words, it's like a computer. It's like a software being loaded. And the more you hear something, the more likely you are to believe it. The more often you hear something repeated, the more likely you are to accept it. So that's where the power of our words come from. Or even in speaking something encouraging or discouraging. I can encourage someone and saying, hey, you're doing an excellent job. You're very much appreciated. What does that do? Emotionally, it uplifts them. In their heart, they're uplifted. Why? Because you're speaking what we would say life. But it's not like you could say to the same person, you know, I don't like you. I wish you would drop dead and then they drop dead on the floor. That's not how it works. Thank God it's not because many of us would lack a lot of friends and relatives who probably wouldn't be here today. Because in the heat of the moment, we might say something and cause it to happen immaturally, instantaneously. So what power does the believer have? The believer's authority comes from God's authority. Just like that officer acting outside of the law and acting outside of the uniform would be ignored so the enemy can ignore you when you try to speak your own will by God's authority. Now this is very key here because when God gives us his will, he's giving us the authority to implement that. In other words, we are not the source of the light, we are reflections of the light. Our prayers are not the voice, our prayers are the echoes of his voice. This is why when Moses, for example, would confront the Lord and intercede on behalf of the children of Israel, God would relent or God would change his mind. So it seemed, the scripture says, it seems to be this way but what's actually happening is Moses is repeating back God's word, Moses is speaking back his covenant. And God is not having his mind changed, he's partnering with Moses to bring forth that reality in the earth. Now some might say, well it's not worded that way, well again, these are spiritual dynamics we don't have time to go into that specific study but that's what's happening there. And so when the scriptures are spoken, you're speaking in alignment with God's will. So God when he speaks causes things to come into existence. When you and I speak, we call things into order. God's words cause our words cultivate. God's words start our words steward. We do not have the power to just call things out. This is why I don't really fret when somebody tells me I'm putting a curse on you. Do you know that witchcraft's only power is your belief in it? I was talking to a pastor friend of mine who had a falling out with his pastor and his pastor began to curse him. You leave this church and you won't fulfill God's will. You leave this church and you're gonna suffer financial ruin. You leave this church, I'm gonna make sure everyone knows you were rebellious. Manipulation is what that is. Bible says we're called to bless, not to curse when you read the teachings of scripture. And so this pastor comes to me just fretting, fretting, fretting, just worried and it was robbing him of sleep. It was robbing him of peace. It affected the way he preached. It started seeping into his sermons and there was no fresh oil on the sermons. It was just speaking out of fear and defensiveness and worry. So it began to affect his ministry. We sat down and the moment we had our conversation, the moment he realized that those words could do nothing to him, suddenly that burden was lifted. Why? Because witchcraft's only power is your belief in it. Christians fretting, what do I do, brother David? My mother-in-law is putting a curse on me. You'd be surprised how many mother-in-laws put curses on their in-laws. Are there daughter-in-laws and son-in-laws? I get messages like that all the time. My mother-in-law is putting a curse on me. Why are you worried about that? What could they possibly, you think when they speak, they cause things, not outside of God's authority they can. And really the fear, Andy, and the angst that comes with things like this is based entirely on our belief in what they have said. That's faith in what the curse says. Faith is what activates declarations. Now, this is where the power is. The power is in delegated authority. God has given to you and I the responsibility of bringing order to his creation. Well, what did Jesus say? How did he tell us to pray? Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Okay, so what is he telling us there? He's saying you pray that the will of God be done in the earth as it is in heaven. Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. Why would Jesus tell us to pray for God's will to be done in the earth if those prayers accomplish nothing? The very fact that he tells us to pray for God's will to be done in the earth is proof that when we pray, our prayers bring forth the will of God. We are terraforming the earth. Think about the fact that Elon Musk wants to take rockets and go to Mars. I think that's really cool. He wants to go and terraform. Terraform means change the atmosphere and change the settings of that ecosystem. Yeah, the ecosystem, he wants to change everything about it so that we can live there. You know, future generations, I'm not going. They're going to send future generations there. That's their plan anyway, and what do they have to do to make that possible? They have to terraform it so that plant life can survive, so that people can survive, so that the weather doesn't kill us in future generations. Well, that's what believers are doing. The Bible says we're citizens of heaven, not of earth. And so our father who art in heaven, my father, that's acknowledging who he is and who I am at the same time. To call God my father is to acknowledge his identity and mine at the same time, because it acknowledges him as the source, and it acknowledges myself as the child of God, our father who art in heaven. So that is our stance. We're praying from heavenly places. The scripture tells us that we're seated in heavenly places with him. So then we are terraforming the earth. We're bringing about heavenly atmospheres. Not through some mystical, magical pronunciation of our words, remember, that doesn't cause anything. That would be to have too much power. God does not give us creative power in our words, in that sense. He gives us cultivating power. He gives us authority to do certain things. And so when we pray this way, we come into alignment. Alignment accesses authority. The moment you step out of alignment, think of that police officer, takes off the badge, takes off the uniform, tries to enforce his will outside of the law. You don't have to listen to that guy. Why? Because he stepped out of alignment. When you are in alignment, you have access to authority. Alignment accesses authority. This is why Jesus tells us to pray in his name. In his name, meaning in the power of, in the authority of, as representation. So when I rebuke a demon in the name of Jesus, it's as if Jesus himself is telling it to go. That's authority. Now, the Bible says, John 15.7, I gave you a lot of scripture references, but I wanna read something now. John 15.7, these are the words of Christ. Watch this now. Watch the way he words this. But if you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you may ask for anything you want, say anything, and it will be granted. Wow. What a promise. I don't think we realize the weight of that promise. You can ask me for anything you want, and it will be granted. That's a promise. Now, does this mean I can go asking for, like when I was seven, asking for a set of wings that I can use to fly? You know, the child's prayers. They ask for certain things. Probably not gonna happen. Why? Because to ask that would mean his word is not in you. You're not asking according to his word. You're asking according to your own will. Remember, that river doesn't change course. You can either stand outside the river or jump into the river, and that's the partnership of prayer. Now, let me be clear. God does not need our partnership. God is God. God can do anything he wants, any time he wants, according to his will. What then is the purpose of prayer? Prayer is proof that God is looking for partners. Think about it. Prayer is proof that God is looking for partners. Why would prayer exist if God was just going to do what he wanted, when he wanted in the earth at any time, despite what we prayed or didn't pray? Now, could he do that? Absolutely. He's God. He's sovereign. He doesn't need us. But he chooses to work through the prayers of his children. He chooses to work through his servants. He chooses to work through you and I. Why? Because he's teaching us what it is to cultivate, to steward, to partner with him. Why did God create Adam and Eve? Their responsibility was to what? Have dominion over the earth. Now, this is where it gets a little dangerous because some people will go as far as saying, you know, we're a bunch of little gods. No. And even the people who've used wording like that, they'll even admit to you that probably the wording was a little bit sensational. And they were just maybe trying to shock people, but really what they're communicating is simply that we're just representatives. Remember, not the source of light, the reflections. We are not little gods. There's only one God, but we have the responsibility of representation. And that is where prayer comes in. Prayer is that representation in action. And so when we are praying, we being given dominion and authority in the earth and having that restored when we stand in Christ, we are pooling creation into the river of God's will. You're not fighting God, you're not persuading him. He's that river. You are pooling creation into alignment with that. You say, why doesn't God just do it? Well, A, he doesn't wanna violate free will. And B, look through scripture, this is what he chooses to do. He chooses to involve us in the proliferation of his kingdom within the earth. Now verse seven again, let's read it again. Verse John 15, seven. But if you remain in me, that's a condition one, and my words remain in you, that's condition two, you may ask for anything you want and it will be granted. What does Jesus mean by remain in me or abide in me? This is important because he's giving us the conditions to 100% answers in prayer. He's saying, look, you do these two things. You remain in me and my words remain in you, anything you want, it's yours. You've come now into alignment to access authority. Let's look at first John 3, 24. First John 3, 24. Whoever keeps his commandments remains in God and God in him, wow, it tells us straight out right there. And by this we know that he remains in us by the spirit he has given us. So whoever keeps his commandments remains in God. You know how to stay in alignment with his authority? Obedience to his word. Remember this, please. Only those who live by the word can use the authority of the word. Only those who live by the word can use the authority of the word. Now God anoints his word, there's always miracles to back it so hypocrites can move in power to a certain degree. But to step into full alignment with that you have to live by the word. This is why you look and you see the disciples unable to drive demons out of that little boy. And what is the, well he gets upset, he calls them faithless. The issue, hear me now. The issue is never stubborn demons, just faithless men and women. There's a whole lot in just that alone. It's not that the authority of God works sometimes and not other times. Demons have to obey authority. It's that believers sometimes do not step into that authority because of the way they live. And so this is talking about alignment. And that's not just to do with casting out devils, it's to do with miracles. It's to do with favor. It's to do with everything that would align us to God's word. Now before we go any further, let me say this. Jesus never promised us a perfect life. He said, in this world you will have tribulation. What a promise, how many are claiming that one? In this world you're gonna have tribulation. But be of good cheer, I have overcome the world. Think of Paul the apostle, shipwrecked three times, beaten, imprisoned, rejected, despised. He was in the will of God, wasn't he? Yet it brought chaos to him. Many of us would have called that a curse. Paul didn't. He called it his Christian responsibility. To suffer for the sake of the gospel was his privilege. So the flesh, whenever it hears teachings like this, the flesh begins to reach for, ooh, is that the key to getting what I want? And that right there is to think in terms of more humanism than faith. Humanism is selfish. And you might as well just go follow manifestation. Manifest what you want then. What I'm talking about is alignment with God's will. And sometimes when you align with God's will, you'll find that his will includes things that you don't want in there. Lord, anything you want to do as long as I'm okay with it. Well, that's not your will. That's God's. Lord, Lord, Lord, I submit myself, I surrender 100% so long as you don't, so long as you don't require, so long as you don't ask, so long as you don't touch this area of my life, 100% yours. And so the flesh will look at these truths and say, aha, now I can get what I want. And when I pray this way, no, no, no, no, no. See, here's the thing. When you begin to submit to God's will like this, the desires of the flesh begin to die. And so then God can trust you with the authority to pray. Whoever keeps his commandments remains in God. It's more pointed here. Go to 1 John 3. I'm gonna read verses 21 and 22 out of the King James version. I love the way it's so pointed here. 1 John 3, 21 and 22. Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, in other words, if our conscience is clean, then we have confidence toward God. By the way, by the way, look up at me for a second, let's break that down just for a second. 1 John 3, 21, I wasn't gonna mention this, but it's important. Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then we have confidence toward God. Do you realize that when your conscience is dirty, you have trouble approaching God? It's not that God won't hear you, it's that you're so filled with shame that you won't even approach him. That's what it's saying here. If our heart condemn us not, then we have confidence. This is another way that sin will wreak havoc on your prayer life, because you can't pray because you're too busy feeling guilty and shameful for the things that you think disqualify you from talking to God. That's why when you live holy, you approach God with a clean conscience. Not to say you don't make mistakes, but at least you know that you're rightly connected, not that that connection even ever dies, but your doubt of that connection can grow when you begin to walk in disobedience. Watch this now, and whatsoever we ask, we receive of him. Notice, that doesn't say from him, it says of him. You receive something from me, you're taking it out of my hand. You receive something of me, I'm going with you. So we receive of him, why? Because we keep his commandments and do those things that are pleasing in his sight. Well, the Bible tells us straight out there. Whatever we ask, we receive of him, why? Because we keep his commandments. Here's a crazy thought, especially for this day and age. You know, God holds even believers responsible for the decisions that they make. What a crazy thought that God would keep people accountable, huh? Not only that, there will be consequences to the decisions that you make. I have a teaching coming out in a few weeks, probably a couple months, I think. I'm gonna be talking about the consequences of sin in the life of the believer. Because far too many think that, oh, it's covered under the blood, under the blood, under the blood. Well, yeah, we may be righteous before him and justify, but there's still our consequences that we will face the wrongdoing. He absorbed the curse of the law, he absorbed the punishment of the law, the penalty that was required, but not every consequence was absorbed. Just the wrath of God. I mean, if you go out and murder someone tonight, and you get locked up in jail, you can't say, I plead the blood of Jesus, free me from this prison. You go to jail, why? Because you're bearing the consequence of a decision you made. But here the Bible says, we receive of him whatever we ask why, because we keep his commandments. Look at this here in Proverbs 28,9. Wow, wow, wow, this one's gonna, this one will wake you up spiritually. Proverbs 28,9, look what it says, he that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be an abomination. How many of that just cut deep right there? He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be an abomination. Now, of course, we filter the wisdom of Proverbs through the new covenant. This is not to say that God ignores you. What this is saying is that even your prayers are sinful when you don't follow God's laws. Why? Because you pray out of ungodly desire. Now watch this, Psalm by contrast, Psalm 37,4 says this, go there now, Psalm 37,4. Delight thyself also in the Lord. And he shall what? Give you the desires of thine heart. Delight thyself also in the Lord and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. So are you seeing here where the Bible is making it clear that when we align with heaven, when we pray the scriptures, we have to first live by them. And so by living by God's word, we align ourselves under God's will and authority. Delight thyself also in the Lord and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. Now this is amazing because what's actually happening here is that as you delight yourself in him, you begin to crave spiritual things. Let me ask you something. Have you ever experienced the presence of God in your own personal prayer life to the point where you didn't even want to leave the prayer room? Let me see your hand if that's you. You watching online. Let me know in the comments section if that's you. Okay, you've prayed and there's such a sweetness to the atmosphere. There's such a tangible manifestation of power on that room. You don't want to go anywhere. You want nothing else. Someone can knock on the door and say, hey, we're going to go grab lunch. Nope, I don't even, don't even break me away from this right now. Nothing could pull you out of that moment. Why? Because what's happening? You're seeing the Lord and you're beginning to delight in him. You're beginning to focus on his person, on his power, on his nature and you're so captivated by who he is that he becomes the desire of your heart. When you delight in the Lord, who's your desire? When you delight in the Lord, who's your desire? The Lord. And when you delight in the Lord and he becomes your desire, what are you going to start praying for him? His will for more of him. Not that he hasn't fully committed himself to you. But when I say you pray for more of him, you want to be more aware of him. You want to be more surrendered to him. You want to fall in love with him more. It's the giving of yourself away. To where now I'm not praying, bless me, bless me, bless me, bless me. Nothing wrong with that. Paul said I learned how to obey sand to a bound. So it's possible God's will is to materially bless you this week. It's possible that he's going to say, hey, I want to develop your character a little more. So let's hold off on that. See, if you put the material and the monetary at the center of prayer, well, now you're just praying in the flesh. Nothing wrong with praying for finances. I did for the studio that we just built. But what are the motives? What are you aligning yourself with his will? What is his will? Because it's gonna happen. If God wills it and you pray it, it happens every time, 100% of the time. And so as we begin to delight ourselves in him, we're not worried about the car payment that was passed to you. We're not necessarily for that moment obsessed with whatever may be going wrong in a certain relationship or with a certain family dynamic. What becomes the desire? Him. You begin to focus on him as the treasure. The all in all. Lord, you are more precious than silver. Lord, you are more costly than gold. That's a hymn that I heard in school. I went to a private Baptist school. And that was a hymn that I heard almost every Wednesday. Lord, you are more precious than silver. Lord, you are more costly than gold. And nothing I desire compares to you. That's where you need to be when you're praying. Delight yourself also in the Lord. He'll give you the desires of your heart. Why? Because now your desires have changed. You can't delight yourself in the Lord and still pray, Lord, kill my enemy. You can't delight yourself in the Lord and pray for things that are not aligned with his will. You can't delight yourself in the Lord and pray for revenge and vengeance. You can't delight yourself in the Lord and fight him on what he desires for your life. No, when you delight yourself in him, suddenly the will of the old nature begins to die. It's Jesus in the garden. Lord, if it's possible, let this cup pass from me. Nevertheless, not my will. Your will be done. And then we see here how prayer begins to transform the individual. Matthew 9, 35, please, Matthew 9, 35. Jesus traveled through all the towns and villages of that area, teaching in the synagogues and announcing the good news about the kingdom. And he healed every kind of disease and illness. When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them because they were confused and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. He said to his disciples, the harvest is great, but the workers are few. So pray to the Lord, who is in charge of the harvest, ask him to send more workers into his fields. So now we see the disciples looking upon a need. There were many people that Jesus was looking at, individuals who needed healing, who needed the gospel, who needed deliverance, who needed connection with God. And he sees these individuals, his heart is filled with compassion, and he says, guys, the harvest is ready. It's time now, there are souls waiting, waiting to come into the kingdom. They just need the gospel. And he's looking on these masses of people and he's saying within himself, the harvest is ready, the harvest is ready. And he says this to his disciples, the harvest is ready. You pray, pray to the Lord of harvest that he would send forth workers. Now watch what happens. These disciples take Jesus' instructions to heart, they begin to pray, Lord send workers, Lord send workers, Lord send workers, and then the very next chapter, verse one, Jesus called his 12 disciples together and gave them authority to cast out evil spirits and to heal every kind of disease and illness. They became God's response for which they were praying. Prayer, more than it will change anyone or anything else. Will change the one who prays. You see, people often ask for power because they want praise, but it's the one who asks for power to fulfill God's purpose that truly is given the backing of heaven. They didn't say, Lord, give us the power to heal the sick and we'll do something with it. They were praying, Lord, you will be done, you will be done, you will be done, you will be done and God says, I'm gonna send you now and here's the power to accomplish it. Aligning yourself with God's will will often make you an instrument of God's will. Lord, bless them, bless them, bless them. Okay, you bless them. Lord, help them, help them, help them, help them. Okay, I'm sending you. I have friends who prayed for the homeless in Southern California, help them, help them, help them. And the Lord said, okay, I'm an only human, I'm sending you, they have homeless ministries now. I have friends who've prayed for children, Lord, house them, house them, house them, and he's given them orphanages. But people say, Lord, souls, souls, souls, and he's made them evangelists. When you begin to pray for something, God will often position you to become his response in the earth. This takes obedience, steps of faith. You see, we wanna pray for God's will to be done so long as it's benefiting and not sacrificial. When we pray God's will, the only time it carries any real power is when we pray with the acceptance of the fact that God could very well require everything from us to bring that prayer to pass. Romans 10, 17 says, so faith comes from hearing that is hearing the good news about Christ. Now, Romans chapter 10 is talking about the preaching of the gospel. And specifically verse 17 is telling us that when people hear the gospel, they are given faith to believe the gospel. So that's the specific application that we see as directed by the context of Romans chapter 10. But the spiritual truth that we can glean from this, the principle that has application to any other parts of our lives, is the fact that the word produces faith for what it promises. The word produces faith for what it promises. If you see a promise in God's word, suddenly there's faith produced to believe for it. So here's why praying the scriptures is so powerful. It's not because there's magic in the King James language. It does sound beautiful. It sounds like it would have some type of effect to it, but it's just the old way of talking. It's not that the words are arranged in such a way that the phonetics, the pronunciation of these syllables is somehow gonna carry some type of weight to them. I mean, cult leaders quote the scripture. Atheists quote the scripture. Historians quote the scripture. Many times without any real power behind what they're saying. The truth has the power, but there's no manifestation. Why? Because they're merely speaking words. They're speaking in their minds at least, what they simply see as mentions, or as historical facts, or as an arrangement of ideas. But when we speak the word, and we've aligned ourselves with that word, and we've aligned our lives with God's will, it produces power because it's the will of God. If you want to know the will of God, you have to know the word of God. If you want to pray the will of God, you have to pray the word of God. Now I'm not saying that you have to have chapter and verse for everything that you're asking. What I am saying is there has to be a biblical promise behind what you're declaring. So it's not that, as we talked about at the beginning, don't say that there's life and death in the power of the tongue. It's that we're speaking by God's authority according to God's will with our lives lived according to God's will. Whatever God promised, you can pray. If God has not promised it, at least in principle. For example, you don't see the healing of cancer in scripture, but you do see the principle of healing. You don't see any mention of schizophrenia in scripture, but you do see mention of deliverance. You don't see your loved one's first, middle, and last name in scripture, but you do see the principle of praying for the loss. You understand? This is just principle. Now, you can pray. Here are just a few things. You can pray to war in the spirit. That's Ephesians chapter six, verses 10 through 12. That means I can speak against the powers of darkness using the truth of God's word. That means if something tries to touch my family, I can speak not because I desire it, not because I will it, because that's the establishment of God's kingdom and the earth. And if I'm living right and I'm praying God's will and God has ordained for that to take place, it happens every single time. You can pray for the safety of your loved ones. You can see an example of this in 2 Corinthians chapter one, verse 11. You can pray for the salvation of your unsaved loved ones, Romans chapter 10, verse one. You can pray for the well-being of cities. Jeremiah 29, 7. You can pray, I love this one. You can pray for the faith of others to be strengthened. Luke chapter 22, verse 32. So if you have a faltering brother or sister, your prayers will actually make impact on them when you pray for them. That's in the scripture. You can pray for leaders and people in positions of authority. 1 Timothy 2, 2 through 3. So you can pray for God's will to be done. Sometimes you pray God empower them. Other times you have to pray God remove them. That's okay to pray too. But whatever the scripture has promised, we can pray. And if it aligns with God's word, then it aligns with God's will. And so long as we are walking in that authority, then our prayers have that backing. Would you lift your hands and begin praying out loud in the Holy Spirit, please, all across this room. You watching online, I want you to begin to write in the comment section. Just prayer requests. And I want you to write scriptures of the promises of God right there in the comment section. Let other people see that and be encouraged to pray for those things. Everyone in this room, lift your hands, pray out loud, come on, loudly and boldly now. Pray, pray, pray, pray, pray. Father, we thank you, we thank you, we thank you. Jesus, we honor you, we bless your name. Thank you, Lord, that your word backs, your word backs your will. Help us, Father. Jesus' name, help us. I can sense the presence of the Holy Spirit so strong right now. Just receive that now. You watching online, receive that now. Father, we thank you for your word. And I pray, Lord, that we would begin to align our lives with your word. That we might pray your will in the earth. Thank you, Lord, for every life being transformed now. Healing and delivering powers flowing right through this camera right now. I'm talking to you watching right now. I don't care if you're watching the replay or you're watching live, it does not matter. The tangible touch of the Holy Spirit's power is on this broadcast and people are being set free right now. I want you all to begin to intercede for your loved ones. Begin to intercede for those watching. You watching, begin to intercede for each other. Father, we thank you for making us agents of your kingdom, representatives in the earth. Help us, Lord, to establish the culture of heaven in our own lives. Help us, Lord, to embrace your truth. Not just in what we speak, but in how we live. Thank you for your mercy and your grace toward us. Thank you for your patience. And now, Father, we ask that you would give us the faith to believe your promises for all your promises are yes and amen. Lord, we thank you that when you speak a word, it retains its power, its weight, its authority for all eternity. And now we, your church, declare that healing power is flowing in the name of Jesus. We, your church, declare that delivering power is flowing in the name of Jesus. There's a young man watching you're being delivered from a porn addiction right now. I give you the, pray right now, church. Pray, pray, pray, pray, pray. A young man watching being delivered from a porn addiction. I give you the glory, Lord. Jesus, we honor you. There's a young girl watching. There was a piercing on one of your ears and it got infected. The Lord is healing you right now. I give you the glory and the honor. We bless your name, Jesus. There's a mother watching, praying for your daughter who needs healing. She has dark, curly hair. There's healing virtue flowing right now. I give you the honor. There's something happening here, church. You in the comment section, I want you writing your prayer requests right now so others can see, write the promises of God. And everyone in this room, I want you praying loudly, boldly, loudly, boldly, loudly, boldly, Lord, we thank you. Come on, church, begin to step into that authority now. Father, we thank you that your power is flowing. We thank you that healing virtue is streaming right now all around the world. And I pray, Father, that deliverance would happen. We break every drug addiction in the mighty name of Jesus. We break every alcohol addiction in the mighty name of Jesus. Lord, we pray for healing of mental illness and diseases of all kinds. We thank you, Lord, that you are the healer. You are the deliverer. We honor and we bless you, Lord. Jesus, we love you. Now I'm beginning to read some of the comments here. People are praying for their families. People are praying for sicknesses and deliverance and all sorts of things. God's doing it. God's doing it. Hands lift the churches as we sing. Glorify thy name. Come out, come glorify thy name. Jesus, we honor you. One more time as we declare it, your children are being set free. Your loved ones are being set free in the mighty name of Jesus. Glorifying his name even now. He's standing by his word. The word has his full backing. His full backing. His desire, his power is found in his word. God is not just willing to help you and God is not just able to help you. God is both willing and able to help you. And he is doing it now for many of you watching all around the world. He's doing it right now. And he's doing it for many of you in this room. And as I'm looking at the comments now, I see testimonies, I see prayer requests, I see scriptures. The Lord's power is moving. His power is moving. Can we take just another moment and say thank you, Jesus? For everything you've done, Jesus, we honor you. Now, before we conclude tonight, I wanna invite those of you sitting here in this room and those of you watching online to stand behind our ministry financially. We just took probably the biggest step of faith we have ever taken as a ministry. And this step was taken in response to the voice of the Holy Spirit. God gave us a mandate to spread the gospel. Jesus Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit, all around the world through events and through media. Now, God uses people like you to support this work. God uses his children. He speaks to his children and his children hear his voice. His children are like him. It's like you. You're generous. You love souls. You love the gospel. You love the Lord. You love ministry. And you have a heart for the gospel. I know you do. I think sometimes the only reason we hesitate, it's probably two-fold. I think we hesitate because A, we wonder, is the money really going where they say it's going? And B, we hesitate because we sometimes wonder, if we give, does that cause calamity to come on us? Or if we give, will we lack? Well, first of all, number one, many of you have been partnered with our ministry for years and you can just look at everything that this ministry is doing. You can see the excellence and the quality. You see the events that we do around the world. You see the studio being built. It's happening. And secondly, God has not given us a spirit of fear but of power and love and a sound mind. The only way you overcome fear is to act in the opposite way that it instructs you. And so I wanna challenge many of you to do a couple of things. First of all, I wanna challenge you if you haven't done so already to become a monthly ministry supporter. Those of you here as well, it's really the monthly support that helps us to plan for the future. Now, if you have a streaming platform like Netflix or Hulu or Disney Plus, you have those and you're saying, well, I don't know if I can support the gospel. Think about what you're doing there or maybe a gaming membership or a gym membership. We know we do a lot of things monthly. Everything's subscription based these days. Think of all the subscriptions you have. Think of all of the things you're a member of and ask yourself, if I'm really strapped so tight that I can't support the gospel. Shouldn't one of these things go? So I'm asking you if you absolutely need to replace one of those streaming platforms. Replace one of those things of this world. Now I'm not saying you can't have these things. I'm saying don't let these things have you. There's some watching. You're saying, I don't have to cancel it. To partner, great. And I'm asking you to partner with this ministry. But to the one who's saying, I don't know if things are tight. I'm saying, look at all the other areas you spend your money and see if one of those can't go. I have no issue challenging the people of God who are seriously committed to the gospel. I have no issue challenging you to stand with us for souls because I know you won't regret it. And so I'm asking you now, partner with us on a monthly basis. Some of you can do 30. Some of you can do more. Some of you can do less. But all of your partnerships count. I'm also asking you to consider a one-time gift. You can do all of this by going to davidhernanisministries.com slash partner. That's on the screen now. There you can give your partnership and you can also go to davidhernanisministries.com slash donate to give a one-time gift. But whatever you do, large or small, one time or monthly, I'm asking you to do it now. You've been blessed by this ministry. You've been helped by this ministry and you can see how this ministry is impacting others. Look, we're just getting started. I should say, God is just getting started with his ministry. This is only the beginning. This is only the beginning. This ministry is going and it's growing strong. So be a part of it. Join the thousands of believers around the world who support this. Again, davidhernanisministries.com slash donate to give your one-time gift. davidhernanisministries.com slash partner to become a monthly supporter. Now, if you're watching and you're from a different nation, you may find that the giving form doesn't work for you. It should adjust to your currency and to your location. But if it doesn't, you can give to YouTube or Facebook. But I'm asking you, please first try the giving form and then if you absolutely have to use YouTube and Facebook giving as a last resort because Facebook and YouTube take their cuts as well. But I'm asking everyone to do that now and I can see they've passed out the envelopes. Thank you for doing that. Those of you who passed that out and I'm asking those of you here, consider what you're giving today. Some of you consider this your weekly gathering, your home church. I'm asking you to pay tithes and offerings as you would to any other church if this is your home church and you watching the line, give as the Lord leads. Give as the Lord leads. All of it counts. Don't say oh, someone else will do it. Everything counts and it really only takes a couple of minutes and you can join with us. Everybody does what the Spirit is leading them to do. This ministry will continue to grow. So I want you all to lift your hands. Father in the name of Jesus, I pray for each and every giver tonight. I pray for those online. I pray for those present. I pray for those who are giving when they watch the replay. You would bless your people Lord. Bring in resources from unexpected places. Prosper them. They might be a blessing to your kingdom. Father, I pray you give our ministry wisdom in using these resources to further your gospel in your kingdom. In the mighty name of Jesus, we pray. And the church said, and the church said, and the church said, amen. Well, thank you to those of you who've joined us online. Hey, if you haven't done so already, make sure you subscribe to my channel and when you do, click that notification bell so that you can receive notices when we put out new content and we release content quite regularly. I put out teachings on the Holy Spirit, prayers, spiritual warfare, these deeper realities of God and these deeper realities of scripture. We do this in a biblically balanced way. You'll also see footage of the power of the Holy Spirit in action from all around the world. So subscribe today and again, click that notification bell when you do. Thank you for watching. And until next time, remember, nothing is impossible with God.