 It's great to have you. You know, you're one of my favorites. I love the ministry. I love not just your preaching, teaching, the way you fill in the spirits. As I was mentioning earlier, just that you're a man of character and integrity and you're a really good friend too. So I just want everyone to know I love and I honor the life and ministry of Matt Cruz. And Matt, I don't even wanna take any more of your time, my friend. Just minister to God's people as the Holy Spirit leads. Thank you so much, Diga. You know, I love you. I'm so grateful for your voice, man. The way God connected us was so divine and it's always a privilege and an honor to connect and do ministry together. I know that this is a lifelong friendship. So, and your whole team, I honor the encounter TV network, everybody behind the scenes, they're crushing it. Everyone who's watching right now and you're connected with Spirit Church and with David, Diga, Hernandez ministries, stay connected. This is good soil, this is good ground, this is a solid ministry. God's hand is on this ministry. So I honor them so much and I'm excited to be on tonight. But listen, I've got a word that I believe God has placed in my heart for you. I'm gonna go right into this thing. I want you to type into the comments. This is the title of my message tonight. It is called, let your arrows soar. Come on, I want you to write that down in the comment section right now. Listen, as I'm ministering, it requires participation, all right? So if something blesses you, write it down, shot me down in the comments. I can see the live chat right here. If you see me looking down, it's cause I got my notes, my iPad, praise God. And I'm ready to go. So tonight I really wanna encourage you in the Lord. I want to fan the flame in your heart. When it comes to your prayer life, I think prayer is so important. And it should not be a monologue. It should be a dialogue with God. And I'm gonna be teaching out of Second Kings chapter 13. So if you've got your Bibles with you, turn with me there. Many of you are already using your phone. If you have the Bible app, that's all right. You can just follow along with me as I read it. But I'm gonna be teaching out of this passage of scripture. And I believe as you read along with me, as you hear me preach it, it is going to bless you. God's gonna stir something within you tonight. He's gonna stir within you the desire for greater intimacy with him. He's going to release a fresh grace and hunger tonight for prayer. Listen to me friend, prayer is so important. Our privacy with God. Oftentimes people tell me, Matt, I wanna flow in miracle signs and wonders. Many people hear me say it all the time. If you learn how to host his presence in private, you can carry his power. You can flow in his power in public. Diga says it best. People say, if I can just get more of God, man, I can flow in his power. The key is how much he has of you. And tonight I wanna teach you how you can live a surrendered life in private, all right? So second Kings chapter 13 verse 14 through 19, I'm gonna start reading right now. So if you're on here, if you just joined, welcome. Share this with somebody. It's gonna be a great night tonight. All right, verse 14 says, Elisha had become sick with the illness of which he would die. Then Joash, the king of Israel, came down to him and wept over his face and said, oh, my father, my father, the chariots of Israel and their horsemen. And Elisha said to him, take a bow and some arrows. So he took himself a bow and some arrows. Verse 16 says, then he said to the king of Israel, put your hand on the bow. So he put his hand on it and Elisha put his hands on the king's hands. Verse 17 says, and he said, open the east window and he opened it. Then Elisha said, shoot and he shot. And he said, then the arrow of the Lord's deliverance and the arrow of deliverance from Syria for you must strike the Syrians at Apep till you have destroyed them. Verse 18 says, then he said, take the arrows. So he took them and he said to the king of Israel, strike the ground. So he struck three times and stopped. Verse 19 says, and the man of God was angry with him and said, you should have struck five or six times. Then you would have struck Syria till you have destroyed it. But now you would strike Syria only three times. Friends, I wanna tell you that the real victory in this scene was not one on the battlefield, it was one behind the scenes. Similarly, real victory is one in our private lives in the bed chamber of our prayer life. Somebody write down the comments, the bed chamber of our prayer life. In this passage of scripture, Elisha was aging and he was ill and so Joash came to him in his bed chamber. And Elisha told Joash these words. He said, take a bow and arrows. So the Bible says that Joash took them privately, which is the same way we take our weapons of prayer every time we pray in private. What we do with our weapons in our private time is very important. Some of you watch right now, you've put down your weapons and you left it there for so long. And I believe God is saying today, it's time to pick back up those weapons. Prayer is our weapon. Worship is our weapon. In fact, some of you need to hear this right now. Worship and prayer is the password to your miracle. Come on somebody, you've got to connect with God, connect with the power source through prayer. So what we do privately determines what God does publicly in our lives and in the lives of those for whom we are praying for and our families and our businesses and our careers and our churches. I want you to write this down tonight. What happens publicly merely manifests what has taken place privately in prayer. I want to say that one more time. What happens publicly merely manifests what has taken place privately in prayer. What are you saying, Matt? Well, Matthew chapter six verse six says these words, when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your father who is unseen. Then your father who sees what is done in secret will reward you. Come on, you've got to take up your weapons in prayer. Elisha had the king pick up his weapon, even though he was only in Elisha's room and not on the battlefield fighting against Syria. God does exactly the same with you and I. He asked us to take up our weapons in private prayer where no one is watching. Come on, where the enemy seems miles away, unaffected. It's just us and God. Come on, this is where the real transaction occurs. Spiritually, this is where the final outcome is determined. And in fact, this is the place where our weapons are to be first engaged. God wants to do something in you when you are alone in private. Are you with me so far? Joash picked up his bow and arrow, the Bible says, and shot once out the window as Elisha had told him to do. See, in this passage of scripture, I believe during that time, the devil would have loved for Elisha to dismiss it all as foolishness, as an embarrassing waste of time, but instead, Joash did as Elisha instructed. So he opened his eyes, he focused outside the window and he shot an arrow out into the open air. And I want to tell you tonight, the Holy Spirit asks us to pray and believe God for things that are as invisible and the natural as the enemy was outside Elisha's bed chamber window. And it seems as if though sometimes we're shooting arrows into thin air, but let me tell you something. God directs those arrows. When you're praying, what are the arrows, Matt? It is the word spoken in authority in prayer. Come on now. God directs them where they should go. When you pray, something begins to shift in the spirit realm. Come on. How many believe that? So I believe Matt has had a connection error on his side, which we're gonna get fixed right now. My goodness, this word so far, I was actually gonna interject anyway, so it's perfect timing. But this right here, what Matt is talking about is so key and I'm looking at the comments and I'm seeing that many are being so stirred and encouraged by this word that's being delivered right now, so we're getting ahold of Matt as we speak. My team is contacting him and they're gonna bring him back in. I don't know what's going on. By the way, I don't know if you noticed, but on Matt's studio, there are pictures of the generals, the greats, some of God's great servants that were used mightily throughout all of history. And as he's talking about prayer and revival and these stirrings of the spirit that take place deep within, I can't help but think of this phrase. There is no limit to what God can do with the life surrendered to the Holy Spirit. Well, people ask, well, how do you surrender? How do you come to that place of yielding to where the Holy Spirit can anoint your life afresh every day? That comes as we see in Matthew 6-6. That comes as we see modeled in the prayer life of Jesus through that intimacy found in the place of prayer. A single moment spent in the life or spent in the presence of the Holy Spirit can transform your life. But a life spent in the presence of the Holy Spirit can transform the nations. Think about that. What I mean to say is that when you begin to surrender yourself in prayer in that way, God begins to add his grace. God begins to add his power. Surrendering to the Holy Spirit is as simple as being yielded in prayer and obedience. And so as we talk about prayer and as I'm looking at God's mighty generals on Matt's background there, I noted something about each one. Each one of those generals, mightily used of God, each one of those lives that heavily impacted nations, they all had radical commitments to daily, frequent and consistent prayer. Matt, I believe we got you back. Continue with that word if you're here. Because he wants to use you mightily. Come on, there's people that you need to intercede for. There's nations that you need to intercede for. God is calling you. He's extending an invitation to you. And my question to you tonight is, will you respond to his invitation? Hallelujah. You know, my car, I ran over like a nail and I don't have a flat tire currently, but every week I'm like finding myself just at the gas station, even though I'm driving an electric car and I go there for air, like to put air in my tires and not gas. So every week my tire pressure, the PSI numbers goes down. It should be at around 42 to 45 PSI and it keeps dropping to like 33. It's even orange, which lets me know that it's too low and I need to fill it up, but it keeps going down a weekly and I'm getting frustrated because I'm like, okay, something must have punctured my tire. And I've been so busy, I haven't had the time to take my car in to get fixed to see where that thing is, identify what the problem is, if there's a nail on it to find where the nail is and pull it out and patch it up. So I don't no longer have to keep going to get air in it every week. And I felt the Holy Spirit minister to me. I said, that's the same way that a lot of us believers are. We constantly go to things that are just temporary fixes. We keep going to things. We know that there's a problem but we have yet to really take the time to identify that. So we're constantly trying to fix it, trying to, you know, like I'm stopping every week just to fill it up, just to last me enough time till it starts going low again. But I believe God is saying, identify the patterns in your life that need to be dealt with so that you can deal with them once and for all. What does God need to pull out of you? What is keeping revival out of you? What needs to be trampled out of you? Don't settle for temporary pleasure, temporary fix. Get it dealt with once and for all. Cut that thing from the root. Come on, God wants you to be free and to stay free. Somebody shout, amen. But listen, it is my responsibility to get my tire fixed. Otherwise I'm gonna keep filling it up every single week until that thing gets dealt with. It is my responsibility. And see, notice also that Elijah could not do any of this for Joash. It was a responsibility that God entrusted to Joash and the prophet Elijah in the same way. God is entrusted to you through the revelation of scripture and the enabling of his Holy Spirit, a responsibility and instruction to discharge your weapons in private prayer. He has not asked your pastor to do it for you, not your spouse, not your Bible study leader or accountability partner. Come on now, not the prayer team at church or the leaders who seem so much more qualified and capable than you. The Lord is asking you to release your arrows through private worship, through private confession, through private prayer. Listen friends, hear me very loud and clear. When we return from the place of prayer, we radiate power. Come on now. And the proof that we are praying in the presence of God is that we become carriers of his presence. Liga wrote a book about this. See, our consistency in prayer can be measured by the level of the presence and power of God that we carry. Listen to me. The enemy attacks the prayer life of individual believers like you and I. He attacks the prayer life of churches because he does not want us to have access to God's supernatural power and grace. Listen, every time you pray, you have access to the power of God. Prayer is what generates power. Come on. Generation, I believe, lacks the spiritual depth that a life of prayer produces. Preachers, if you're watching this right now and you're a preacher, you're a minister of the gospel of Jesus Christ, you've got to pray at the same level that you want your preaching to attain. Listen, in other words, the depth of our prayer life would determine the depth of our message. Come on, somebody needs to hear me tonight. Give great importance to time of prayer. I've learned in my life, being in full-time ministry for the last six, seven years now, the time used to preach can never be more important than the time spent in prayer because prayer generates the spiritual activity that you are to release to God's people. I always tell everyone that I interact with, I say, listen, until I'm with him, I cannot say that I know him. Come on, when I'm with him, I'll always have something to give. When I'm with him, I'll never lack any good thing. Are you guys with me? Come on, when you're with Jesus, that thing will begin to flow out of you in the public place. The Bible says that when Jesus was led into the wilderness and when he left the wilderness, the power of God was upon him. His ministry actually started when he came from out of the wilderness. There was such supernatural power flowing through Jesus. Why, because he knew when to commune with the Father. The more that you commune with God, the more the spirit will make you like him. Now, you're hearing me tonight. See, to produce a supernatural power. Can I interject for a second? Yes. Can you touch more on what you just said? I don't mean to disrupt the message, but I really do sense a flow of the spirit here. You just talked about that communion causing you to be more like him. Can you touch on that just a little more? Yeah, see the closer you get to God, the further you'll get from your sinful ways. Dig you say best like this, what strengthens your spirit weakens your flesh. When you spend time with God, he begins to develop within you character that reflects Jesus' character. Come on, when you spend time with God, you commune with God, you will have a consistent manifestation of Jesus in your life. And that is actually the definition of character in the believer. That is a consistent manifestation of the Lord in your life. You have this fresh hunger for his word where the word becomes the compass that you rely on for direction. You have this hatred for sin, this love for the things of God. When you commune with him, your spirit begins to burn with the things of God. See, when a person's spirit is empty, which means you're not spending time, you're not communing with him, you produce empty words. But hear me, when a person's spirit is burning with the Holy Spirit, you begin to release God's power through anointed words and you begin to generate spiritual activity. When you commune with God, that is the place where you submit to the Lordship of Christ. Come on, that is a place where you surrender your will to God so that he can accomplish his will in you. Man, I feel the Lord so strong right now. Some of you need to hear this tonight. Jesus wants to stir within you the desire of purity, the desire of holiness. Again, I'm shouting you out so much with your one-liners and your quotes. He says it best this way. The power of God on your life is directly proportionate to the purity in your life. How can you live pure by being in communion with the Holy Spirit? Come on, he wants to be in fellowship with you. I heard a man of God once say, to be in relationship with Jesus is to know his actions. But to be in fellowship is to know his emotions. Come on, do you wanna move the heart of God? Do you wanna experience his emotions? Come on, you gotta let your arrows soar in prayer. We've gotta let them soar out of us, sending them in the direction God instructs. Hear me tonight, we need to start praying victory. When we're staring down the barrel of defeat, we've gotta start lifting up our voice and saying, God, I'm going to speak life. I'm gonna speak words of life and wisdom in peace over my situation. See, you've got to know that God sometimes tests us, okay? He's either gonna stir within you something while you're going through a storm. Listen, you gotta know this tonight. You're either gonna go through, you're either about to be in a storm, you either just got out of a storm or I think it's those two, I forgot the third one, but you've either got out of a storm or you're about to be in a storm, all right? And whether it's one of those two, there's always something to learn, okay? God sometimes tests us to see how we're going to respond to the trials of life. Proverbs tells us be faithful in prayer, be joyful in hope, be patient in affliction. Come on, that's why we have to remain the place of prayer. Because when we're in that place, God does something in us. There's like this crushing, and that's where the anointing comes from, the crushing. Are you hearing me tonight? God wants to accomplish his will in you and he wants to pull some things out of you, but it's not gonna happen until you're with him. Come on, sometimes it's when you're with him that you begin to hear him clear as day and that he experiences grace which sustains you in your walk with him, in ministry, in your life. It's his grace that is sufficient. And friend, if you wanna experience that the power of his grace, you've got to make time to be with him in private. Amen. All right here. We need to start laboring in prayer and expecting the salvation of loved ones who are on their way to hell. We need to pray through to the point. Listen, prayer may not always be your way out, but it will always be your way through. Come on, we've gotta start praying through to the point of victory for the complacency of the church, for the complacency, the apathy in our own lives. We need to begin exercising our authority in prayer and listen and doing so with perseverance. You need to do this with perseverance. Again, your arrows are the words of authority spoken in prayer. John wrote in chapter one, John 112. But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in his name. Listen, the word right in the Greek is the Greek word for authority, which is delegated power. See friend, a person in authority demonstrates his power through words, through commands, through requests, through messages, et cetera. As Christians, we need to use our God-given authority in the war that we're in. Come on, you may feel that you're not as spiritual on a spiritual battlefield, that it's only for the more spiritual people around you that prayers just for those who are more qualified than you. Listen here, your mere presence in the kingdom of the God of this age is to stand on the word of God. Your presence on this earth right now is to stand on the word of God, to know Jesus and to make him know. And if you're walking on this earth, there will always be a battle for your soul. Come on, if you're living in this world where the devil is the God of this world, the Bible says that the God of this world is blinding the minds of those who don't believe. If you're living on this earth, then the God of this age is gonna try to blind you. He's gonna try to hit you with so many different things. Why, again, there's a battle for your soul and you've gotta stand firm in prayer. Are you guys with me tonight? Amen. Hallelujah. I always tell people that the kingdom of God is not gonna be advanced by our churches, by our conferences, by our gatherings, being filled with people, but rather the people in our churches, in our conferences, being filled with God. When you are filled with him, you have a desire to be with him. And when you're with him, things change. Come on, your mind is transformed, your heart is transformed. You begin to be changed from the inside out by the power of the Holy Spirit. We've got to take up our weapons, our words of authority, and let them fly out of our mouth. Matt, what needs to come out of my mouth? I'm glad you asked. A few things. The word of truth, Ephesians 6, 17 says, put on salvation as your helmet and take the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. Come on, the word of your praise. Psalm 96 verse one through four. It says, sing a new song to the Lord. Let the whole earth sing to the Lord. Sing to the Lord, praise his name. Each day proclaim the good news that he saves. Publish his glorious deeds among the nations. Tell everyone about how amazing God is, about the amazing things he does. Great is the Lord, he is most worthy to be praised. He is to be feared above all gods. Come on, you've got to let the name and blood of the Lord Jesus come out of your mouth. John 14, 13 through 14 says these words, you can ask for anything in my name and I will do it so that the Son can bring glory to the Father. Yes, ask me for anything in my name and I will do it. Come on, Philippians 2, 9, 10 says, therefore God elevated him to the place of highest honor and gave him the name above every other name that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow and heaven and on earth and under the earth. You've got to let the word of your testimony come out of your mouth. Come on now. Jesus said to his disciples, have faith in God. I'll tell you the truth. You can say to this mountain, may you be lifted up and thrown into the sea and it will happen. But you must really believe it and it will happen. Have no doubt in your heart. I tell you, you can pray for anything and if you believe that you received it, it will be yours. Come on now. You've got to let these words fly out of your mouth. Words of life, words of victory, words of breakthrough, words of peace. Come on, God wants you to experience breakthrough. Why? Because he's a God of breakthrough. Why does he want you to experience healing? Because he's a God of healing. Why does he want you to experience victory? Come on, because he's a God who's already won the victory. Jesus already paid the price. You are not your own. You've been bought with the price. Come on, which brings me to my next point here. You got to strike the ground until victory is obtained. After the king shot an arrow, Elisha told him to take the rest of his arrows and start striking the ground. Listen to this. The previous phrase is enlightening. Listen to what it says. Joash was instructed to strike the Syrians at Apec till you have destroyed them. Hear me. In other words, don't stop until total victory is obtained. Come on now. Perseverance will be necessary in order for you to achieve victory. Why am I saying perseverance? Because you got to pray with passion. You got to pray with fire. You got to pray with power. You got to pray with courage. Come on, you got to pray. You got to stir yourself up in your most holy faith. Praying in the language of the spirit. Come on now. Take up your arrows tonight, friends, and take the kingdom of heaven by violence today. God wants you to be a person full of his glory, full of his power. Come on, I believe you Smith Wigglesworth who said two things happen when you get baptized in the Holy Ghost and fire. Number one, you possess the spirit. And number two, the spirit possesses you. Hallelujah. How much of you does the Holy Spirit possess and control? Versus in the lies instructed King Joash to strike the ground. The word till means up to the time of. Until, to fight till death. Don't stop, friends, till you pray through, so to speak, so the matter is settled. Don't keep praying, keep pushing through until you see something happen. Come on, believe God. This is a faith walk, not a sight walk. It might not happen overnight, but baby listen, the word of God would never fail. Come on, the grass withers, the flowers faded, but the word of our God stands forever. He's not a man that shall lie, nor a son of man that shall repent. He is who he says he is. He's unchangeable and without shadow of turn. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. And you can be assured that if he's spoken to you through prayer, come on, if you prayed, God hears you and you've got to stand on the promises of God. There are yes and amen. Leonard Ravenhill said these words right here. If the Holy Spirit is power, we need to learn how to operate the throttle. And if the Holy Spirit is a person and he is, then we really need to learn how to let him operate us. Come on now. I admit to being receivable when some soul uninstructed in the Spirit suddenly closes a prayer meeting. This is what he said, that very obviously the Spirit has in control. How can shrinking flesh be so stupid? We cannot turn the Holy Spirit on and off with the lights of the sanctuary. I feel deeply that we trifle with the Holy Ghost even in prayer. In prayer we need holy men, for holy men are bold reaching out in the Spirit and feeling the tug of divine yearnings. Like their master, holy men also know strong crying and tears. Satan fears prayer and offsets it at every angle and every opportunity he stalls the impulse to take part in it. For he has felt the smart of men who pray in the Holy Ghost. Again and again hell has shuttered because of the onslaughts of men who have taken the kingdom of heaven by violence. My God, this is a general of the faith. Is he somewhere in here? I don't know. I don't think so, but Leonard Ravenhill, powerful man of God, powerful man. He's the one who said that a praying man will stop sinning and a sinning man will stop praying. Hallelujah. He is so, he is, I'm telling you, this man felt the fire of God. He was so filled with the Holy Spirit. He was in communion daily with the Holy Ghost and look how mightily God used him. Talk about a mighty prayer warrior. Listen, I believe that the type of ministry that changes individuals' lives, that changes families, that changes cities, that changes the world is this. Holy Ghost ministry in Holy Ghost power ministered by sincere believers who has incorporated into their own lives the things that they preach to others. I've been telling people, I said, look, this is my new motto. I heard somebody say it. Do not practice what you preach. Preach what you practice. Come on, I wanna preach to you what I practice in my own life. I wanna be so disciplined in prayer that I can have a grace to teach it, that I can flow in such a place where, this is where I live in my daily devotion with Christ. Come on, write this down. A saved person's life demonstrates his salvation. Hallelujah. A saved person's life demonstrates their salvation. People are not looking for mere talk. Come on, they want a gospel that is proven to be of God by the indisputable evidence of the power of God. This is why Paul says in 1 Corinthians chapter two verse four through five, he says, my message in my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, with just intellectuals, sermons, but with a demonstration of the spirit power. Wise so that your faith might not rest on men's wisdom, but on God's power. If you're watching today, you've got to renounce your old ways for God's ways. You gotta develop a habit of choosing the things that move you forward over the things that hold you back. I'm gonna say that one more time. You've gotta develop such a habit where you start choosing the things that move you forward over the things that hold you back. What does that mean? Let's get practical. Come on. If you know that you've got about two hours of free time and you wanna watch some Netflix, you wanna watch YouTube, you wanna watch unless you're watching David D. Hernandez Ministries Praise God. Unless you're on Facebook, scrolling through social media on Instagram. Come on, one of my friends said the Lord told them this generation is not giving their life away, they're scrolling their life away. Come on, thank God for the Holy Spirit's channel like this where you can receive revelation of God's word where you can receive the fire of Almighty God, the fire of heaven. Listen, you've got to get to a place where you say if I've got this time before I've gotta be at this place, I'm gonna be in communion with the Holy Ghost. I'm gonna be in fellowship with God. I'm going to spend time with Him. Galatians 2.20. I've been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live but Christ who lives in me. In the life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me. I want to tell you today that the new Thessalonian Christians had committed themselves deeply to their new walk with God. Are you committed deeply in your devotion to the Lord? When ministry is done in Holy Ghost power, it would truly capture a person's heart. And I want to tell you when that person's heart is captured, they begin to respond with a zeal that is equivalent to the impact of the ministry that led them to the Lord in the first place. You've got to know today that God is reaching out and He's drawing you unto Himself. You did not choose Him, He chose you. He thought about you long, hear me, I'm looking right at you. He thought about you long before you ever thought about Him. You've been predestined before the foundations of the world. He knew you before you and your mother's womb and your mother's belly and He's got a call and a purpose on your life. And one of those purposes is to be a strong prayer warrior, is to be disciplined in the place of prayer. Don't choose just to serve God, be committed to Him. And choose to serve Him and be committed to Him, not just passively believe in Him. We've got so many people that passively just believe in God. See, that was me growing up in the church. I was halfway and halfway out. I was saved, but Jesus was at Lord of my life. Many of you have heard my testimony before. I was a church girl, I wasn't a disciple of Jesus Christ. And you've got to make Him Lord. I heard a man of God say this, that when Jesus is your savior, you have Him, but when He is Lord, He has you. Come on, is He Lord of every area in your life? Come on, some of you only have Jesus as Lord in three areas and two in one, but He wants to be Lord over every area. A lot of us want Him to be Lord in our finances of course. So Lord, please help me. I don't want to be poor, but is He Lord in your health? Is He Lord in every other area? Come on, make Jesus Lord of every area. Let Him sit on the throne of your heart, hallelujah. Now Matt, write this down. God always makes history with those who have history with Him, hallelujah. That's a word right there. Are you able to hear me Matt? God always, yes, yes. Before you get into that next point, you were talking about Lordship. I want to add this thought, and this is something I had mentioned earlier, and I really do sense such a strong anointing when you're talking about that Lordship being demonstrated through the surrendered life. And this is something I believe many believers come to at a point in prayer and that's the barrier right there. That's where it becomes difficult for many is that trade that they make every single day. That trade that they make between what entertains them, between what satisfies the flesh and what satisfies and stirs the spirit. And as you're talking about Lordship, as you're talking about commitment, as you're talking about sacrificing those things, I can't help but wonder how many believers are exchanging the material for the supernatural, the holy for the mundane. And this is the mark of the life that desires to go deeper with God. This is what sets you apart. This is what sets you, dear viewer, apart from the others who otherwise would not experience these depths of the Holy Spirit's power, it comes down to the prayer life. And this is what we exchange when we choose the things of this world rather than the things of the Spirit. So, Matt, you're hitting it right on there and I really do sense by the Spirit, there's someone watching in ministry that this has been a struggle. So continue at that point, but I just had to say that as I was led by the Spirit to interject that there. Absolutely, that was so good. You know, I've learned, Diga, that if we live crucified, we will live sanctified. And Jesus died as us so that we would live as him. He took on our identity so that we would take on his identity. And we've got to understand, see, when you really understand what Jesus did for you, you would live every second of your life for him. When you truly understand what he went through, you'd wanna just, Lord, here's my life back to you. I wanna serve you, I wanna be with you. You know, the other day, it's been a crazy busy schedule for me. And sometimes I gotta pray on the go. I'm praying in tongues constantly all the time. And I wanna get into just a few moments, the benefits of praying in the Holy Spirit just give you a few points that I've written down here. But I was in, I spent quality time with the Lord. There's a few days ago when I really, like I closed my door, I got on my pillow on my ground, I had my little lights on, I put on some pad music. And I just felt the pleasure of the Lord. I felt the Holy Spirit. Like he missed me in that place of like quality time with him, where I'm alone. Yes, he can speak to you throughout the whole day in your vehicle and don't get me wrong. Sometimes he can do more in 10 minutes than you think he can in an hour. I believe that. But there's nothing like spending quality time with the Lord. Where you shut off the autopilot of your life and you get into the place where you say, Lord, I just wanna be with you. Not just going into prayer, just to get something, just to ask for something, just to receive something, a healing breakthrough, whatever it may be, a miracle. God will meet your needs because he is the Lord who healeth thee. He is the God of all things. He's the all in all. But when you're with him, just to be with him. And you begin to minister to him and also leave time for him to minister to you to speak to you. There's something that happens and I believe that God longs for that more than you desire that. Hear me, somebody needs to catch that. He longs for that more than you might long for that. And that's where your faith remains strong. That's where you are encouraged and the Lord in confidence is infused within your spirit. And don't get me wrong. See, the question is not if we have faith. Everybody has faith. An atheist has faith that his rational reasoning has removed the possibility of God. He has faith in his intellectual ability. Others have faith in their skills, their connections, their friends, their family, themselves. Everyone has faith, but listen, the question is, where is your faith anchored? When you live a life of prayer and communion with the Holy Spirit, your faith begins to be anchored in him. It begins to be anchored in the things of God, in the word of God. Why? Because sooner or later, hear me, the storms of life will begin to blow and the real question becomes, will the anchor of faith hold? And if you're not spending quality time with Jesus, will that anchor hold when the storms come, when the trials come, when somebody gets under your skin? When you're in prayer, that's when you can begin walking by the Spirit. So you don't gratify the desires of your flesh. When you're in fellowship with God and deep fellowship with him, then you can learn how to not make provision for the lust of your flesh. Another translation says, you won't even think about how to gratify, how to please, how to make provision for what your flesh desires. I've learned this. When you are in such deep prayer with the Lord, these desires of your flesh begin to weaken and whatever you've been struggling with, you starve it out through prayer. It begins to just, something happens, it dries up, you're closing those doors of opportunity for the devil to come in. And I believe that our faith needs to be anchored in God and that can happen when we are in fellowship with God. Are you guys with me right now? Come on, don't be casual. Casual believers do not produce power. Those who are with him produce power. Prayer generates power. And I believe, Diga, that there is a source of Holy Ghost power from on high that too many Christians have either overlooked or rejected to their own loss. And it's time to become doers of the word, not just hears. You become doers by releasing the power of God everywhere you go. And we could tie this into, see, in prayer, man, I wanna cover this first and then go into the benefits that I was saying of praying in the Holy Spirit, things that happen when you pray in the Spirit and then we'll wrap it up here. But when you pray in tongues, that takes your prayer life to the next level. Again, Diga has a book on this. He's has multiple teachings on this. He's got a video on YouTube. If you look up about praying, how to pray in tongues, millions of views, literally thousands of people, the comments you can scroll through and watch. So many people have prayed in tongues for the first time. If you're not baptized in the Holy Ghost and fire, hear me, it is something that you need to pursue. It is a free gift. It is a promise of the Father. Acts 18 says that when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, you will receive power. And this is how you can let your arrow soar by praying in the Spirit. You begin praying what God wants to do on the earth. Your spirit becomes in unity with God's purposes. Come on, you begin, I mean, something happens. You're stirring yourself up in your most holy faith when you're praying in the tongues. That's why Paul says, thank God, I pray in tongues more than all of you. Something happens. So I wanna cover this very briefly and I wanna go into the benefits here of what happens when you pray in the Spirit. Dig it, cut me off at any moment if you wanna say anything concerning this. I'm just enjoying you, my friend. You got some solid, I'm taking notes too. So please continue. Hallelujah. Come on, we're starting here. We need the fire of God. All right, we need the fire of God. We need to let the Holy Spirit of God move upon us and within us and give us strength and energy and desire to be an ambassador and witness for Christ. If you wanna impregnate every atmosphere with hope because you're an ambassador of hope, you've got to be so filled with God that you're stirred up. Like when you, man, I love this topic because something happens when you pray in tongues. I mean, we had a guy, I just came out from a softball game. I'm in a softball league. He's a lot of us guys from our church home and there's one young guy named Jake. He's over the cameras in the media ministry at our church. He like runs the big crane with the camera on it. And this past Sunday, Pentecost Sunday, I mean, the altar was flooded with people and my pastor, he preached on Pentecost. He preached on the baptism of the Holy Spirit of fire. And at the altar, when he said, be filled now, be back. I've never seen nothing like it. People were like, it was like this wind blew them to their seats and immediately started speaking in tongues and Jake, this young guy got baptized in the Holy Spirit of fire for the first time and got baptized that Sunday. And I saw, it's like the countenance of his face is different. He's on the softball field smiling, you know, it's like a new man, something happens when you begin to get empowered by God himself. We need the fire of God. And why is the Holy Ghost in fire so important, Matt? Listen, because the Holy Ghost is, write this down, the supernatural power of God filling the human vessel in order for us to establish and advance the kingdom of God in the earth. The Holy Spirit is the supernatural equipment for us to fulfill the great commission to carry on the ministry of Jesus. I don't know if you guys know this, but you and I are called to be continuators of the ministry of Jesus. What was the ministry of Jesus? Three quick things. Number one, he came to seek and save that which was lost. Number two, he came to establish the kingdom of God in the earth. And number three, he came to destroy the works of the devil. Baptism with the Holy Spirit is an empowering experience that equips the spirit-filled believer for witness and ministry. You're enabled now to be the hands in the feet of Jesus. The anointing of God comes upon you and enables you to minister for the Lord beyond your natural capabilities. Now I wanna cover this very briefly, then we're gonna go into the benefits of praying in tongues. After spending three and a half years with Jesus, Peter denied the Lord three times. The third time the Bible says he went so far is to call down curses on himself. And he swore to them, I don't know this man you're talking about, that's in Mark 14. Now if you fast forward about seven weeks, we see the same Peter preaching an anointed message to a crowd of thousands in Jerusalem. Now the crowds were filled with many of those who seven weeks earlier had been screaming in the direction of Jesus, crucify him, crucify him. But now we see Peter, the former Christ-denier, preaching boldly and openly about the crucified and now resurrected Savior hear me. And this anointed sermon that he was preaching, the Bible says led to the conversion of 3,000 souls that day. That's in Acts chapter two, verse 41. What made the difference? The answer is simple and it's right there in scripture for us to see. Between his denial of Christ at Passover and his mighty soul-winning sermon less than two months later, Peter experienced the baptism of the Holy Ghost and fire. Peter experienced the first New Testament day of Pentecost. Peter was among the 120 who had received this heaven-sent baptism in the Holy Spirit. Listen, it was so vitally important to Jesus that his disciples be full of the Holy Spirit. In fact, just before his ascension back to heaven, he forbade the disciples from going forward to minister until they had received this Holy Ghost power from on high. Let's read Luke 24 through 47. It says repentance and forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations beginning at Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things. I'm going to send you what my father has promised, but stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high. Verse 51 says, and Jesus was taken up in heaven, then they worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy. Listen to the last line here. And they stayed continually at the temple, praising God. Now just think of it. Peter, James and John and the other disciples that just finished three and a half years of intensive daily training by Jesus himself. They had been with this man 24 seven. Listen to this. He gave them, Jesus gave them on the job training, ministry assignments, debrief them afterwards. He explained the word of God to them. He modeled godly behavior and effective ministry. Surely no man on earth before or since had been better trained yet to the same men, Jesus said, and I'm just going to paraphrase it. Don't go out yet to minister. Stay in Jerusalem. You are not fully ready yet for New Testament ministry. You still need something for effective ministry that you now lack. And that is Holy spirit power from on high. Don't get me wrong. You could talk about Jesus, preach about Jesus, be a ministry doesn't mean you're not saved. But listen, if you want to be effective in ministry, come on. If you want to have this passion, this fire, this courage, this holy boldness, you've got to get baptized in the Holy ghost and fire. I am so grieved in my spirit with churches who don't even believe this is for today. People just, you just babble and say things. It's not scriptural. It's not for today and all this stuff. And I'm like, are you kidding me? 85% of my prayer life is tongues. Right. And I'm glad you said that. What's your prayer in the spirit? Because one of the comments that I was reading earlier, I believe it was by somebody named Jenny. There's been hundreds of comments since then. And Tim, you keep us both on the screen because this will be more of a discussion here. I'm glad you mentioned this about tongues because one of the questions that appeared on the comment section was somebody asking about, well, if I don't have enough things to pray, how do I pray for extended periods of time? And this is actually one of the issues that believers have. They hear these stories from me, from you, from other preachers that they listen to about how certain individuals would pray for two, three, four hours. And I remember when I began to pray and I first began to establish a prayer life that I would ask myself, how are they praying for such extended periods of time? What specifically are they saying during these moments? And so one of those fillers, if you will, and I hesitate to use that word fillers because I'm not saying that it's unimportant or that it's less powerful, that it's just to fill the time. But one of the reasons why individuals can commit to prayer for extended periods of time as we're discussing is because they understand the power of praying in tongues. Now, we could talk about various things. I mean, I know you mentioned Matt. Matt disappeared from camera. Oh, there he is. I know you may, you're still on camera just for your notice there, just in case. So if you wanna do like a commercial for whatever water company that is, that's fine too. But when it comes to the gift of tongues, we hear people saying things all the time. Like you just said, that the spiritual gifts have ceased. This is one issue that I think that people can overcome with just reading the scripture. So we'll address that another time. I did write an article on why I reject cessationism, which is the rejection of the spiritual gifts. But you know, when it comes to praying in tongues, this is for every believer. I mean, people talk about, for instance, in 1 Corinthians 12, where Paul the apostle writes, do all have gifts of tongues. And they fail to recognize that he's mentioning this spiritual gift along with various other spiritual gifts that are for public use, such as the gift of healing, the gift of faith, the gift of miracles, the gift of discernment, and so forth. He lists nine there. And what people don't recognize is that in 1 Corinthians 12, Paul the apostle is talking about the public expression of the gift of tongues. We know this because 1 Corinthians 12 verse seven tells us that each of us has given a spiritual gift to benefit the other individual. And in doing this, you are affecting the rest of the church. So the spiritual gifts listed in 1 Corinthians 12 is not in reference to the personal edification. That's particular benefit of the gift of speaking in tongues, which we see in 1 Corinthians chapter 14 verses two and four, and verse 14 as well. So there is a difference between the expression of the gift of tongues used for people and the edification of the local body of believers, and then self edification, which the scripture says no one understands. So that is for every believer, especially as you referenced in the book of Acts. I mean, Peter, when he stands up on the day of Pentecost, Matt, he stands up there and he says, what you see and hear, what were they seeing? They were seeing the power of the Holy Ghost. They were hearing the gift of speaking in tongues. He says, what you see and what you hear, that is for you and for every generation and for everyone who will believe. In other words, this particular manifestation of the power of the Holy Ghost is for every believer. And so it's something that every believer can exercise and it's something that actually adds, like you said, these wonderful benefits that ultimately empower your prayer life. And people get these confused, but it is something that you ought to use. The other thing to do when you don't know what to pray is wait and by waiting, Psalm 80, 18, it says, quicken us and we'll call unto you. You cannot call upon the Lord until his Holy Spirit quickens you. Now that doesn't mean that you can't approach him at any moment that you desire, but the very fact that you desire to approach him is proof that he's quickened you. And so that quickening that comes from the Holy Spirit is that unction to pray, that desire to pray. Do you realize, people of God, that the desire to pray is itself an invitation to prayer. That mere desire, which was born of the Spirit, is that drawing of the Holy Spirit to the deep places of prayer, to that secret place, to that getaway, if you will. And so you wait. The other is worship. When you don't know what to pray, just worship. Matt, a powerful man of God taught me that if you have an hour to pray and you don't know what to pray, worship for 45 minutes. So out of that whole hour, you worship for 45 minutes. And there's something about the worship of God and worship is not hyping myself up. Worship is not my soul and being encouraged by the words that I speak, though that can be part of praise and that can be part of prayer. But worship is the adoration of God. Worship is the intensity of attention. Worship is the power of that focus on the one who is glorious. And when you begin to worship God in this way, that ultimately brings transformation. So when you don't know what to pray, pray in tongues. When you don't know what to pray, wait. When you don't know what to pray, worship. And I know you had other things to add there too. So I'd love to hear your thoughts on that. That was so powerful, bro. Honestly, I need to go back and write those down. That's so good. We've got a whole studio audience here tonight too. They're all so blessed by that. Man, that was powerful. Guys, there's so much power in praying in the Holy Ghost. And be encouraged. Like Diego's saying, it is for everyone. What access is for all who are a far off. For your brothers, for your sister, everybody. You don't need, it's not for the special elite. It's for you and I. Jesus wants us to experience this. Listen to just a few benefits of speaking in tongues. This is by Dr. Glenn R. Koyan. I saw this here and I literally have it all in my notes and I go over this all the time. I'm gonna write these down as you go, Matt. Yeah, this blessed me. I know it's gonna bless you. Tongues is the entrance into the supernatural. Tongues is the prayer in the New Testament. It is a direct line to talking to God. It is the believer's direct access to the throne room. Hallelujah. You access the Lord's mind. You're speaking divine mysteries, divine coded secrets. Praying in tongues is drawing secrets to life's complicated issues. It's prophesying your God ordained future. Tongues is praying out God's plan for your life. It's knowledge, counsel, and secrets withheld from the wicked. Hallelujah. That'll preach right there. The devil don't even understand what you're saying. Come on, somebody. Tongues is the entrance into the realm of the spirit, the miraculous zone. Tongues is strengthening your inner man with might. It keeps you spiritually fit. Tongues is praying things that have been concealed to be revealed. Tongues is decringing the ramas of God. Tongues pulls you from the past into the future. Tongues is home improvement and a source of spiritual edification. Tongues is building a strong premise to carry the anointing. Tongues builds and stimulates your faith. Tongues gives you unstoppable progress that your enemies cannot deny. Tongues is giving praise and thanksgiving well unto God. Tongues aligns you up with the divine will of God. Hallelujah. Tongues is speaking the language and will of God. It's help with your ultimate weakness. Tongues is the ultimate assistance to prayer like Diga just said. Tongues qualifies all things to work for your good. It renders you to be God inside-minded. Tongues makes you miracle-minded. I know you're gonna like that one, Diga. Tongues magnifies God. It enlarges your perspective of God's potency in your life. It gives spiritual refreshing and rest. It hones your sharpness and accuracy in the anointing. Tongues facilitates the entrance into the gifts of the spirit. It equips you for the wonders of God. It is fine-tuning and sensitizing your spirit man to the voice of God. It is assistance to bring your natural tongue under subjection, hallelujah. It develops intimacy with the Holy Ghost. It is your private conversation with God. It is deep calling unto deep. It accesses revelation, knowledge. It taps into the mind of God. It opens the scriptures to you from a divine perspective rather than an intellectual standpoint, hallelujah. You like that, Jay? Tongues is part of the armor of God, the lance that will shoot down the enemy. Tongues helps you to develop your prayer life. It synchronizes you with the timing of God. It is alignment with the assignment of God. Wow. Tongues is a door of utterance and boldness. It is the Holy Spirit searching your heart and praying through you the perfect will of God. It is pulling treasures out of you. Come on, you got something to say? Well, no, I was just saying, amen, what you touched on right there, just when you said that, I'd had a flurry of thoughts go through my mind. I mean, when you said that it's the Holy Spirit praying for you in the perfect will of God, it brought to remembrance the fact that a lot of people dismiss, and are very dismissive, I should say, of Romans chapter eight, verse 26, when it comes to the topic of speaking in tongues. Now they do say, rightfully so, that Romans eight, 26, isn't specifically talking about the gift of speaking in tongues. That's true. Rather, it's talking about a very deep spiritual reality that ultimately is what I would call the wellspring of the gift of speaking in tongues. In Romans chapter eight, verse 26, the scripture tells us that the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words. And he's actually, as it says in the original language, he's praying for us in harmony with God's own will, which is interesting because the Holy Spirit is causing our hearts to be inclined toward God's will, God's word, God's ways. So when the Holy Spirit prays, he prays with force. He prays with emphasis. He prays with passion and with love. When the Holy Spirit prays for you, he prays with more passion for you than a parent would pray for a child. Think about that. And then with that passion, with that power, with that purpose, the Holy Spirit is pooling you into alignment with the will of God through his prayers for you. Now watch this. So Romans 8, 26 talks about the Holy Spirit's prayers. 1 Corinthians 14, 14 tells us that when I pray in tongues, my spirit is praying. Well, does not the scripture say that he that is joined to the Lord is one spirit with him? Therefore, when I pray in tongues, the Holy Spirit is praying for me through me. When I pray in tongues, the Holy Spirit is praying that perfect will. When I pray in tongues, I'm allowing the Holy Spirit to have a voice. It's as if the Holy Spirit is saying, I will pray for you myself if you give me a voice. I'll lay hands on you myself if you give me your hands. I will fill that which you surrender. The problem is many of us are so full of our own intention, so full of ourselves, so full of our will, so full of our desires and our dreams that we don't leave this room for the Holy Spirit to do what he does through that beautiful gift of speaking in tongues you talked about. The mystery is being revealed. Well, why wouldn't they be revealed? For 1 Corinthians chapter two, verses 10 through 12 tells us that the Holy Spirit searches them. You got me all stirred. When you start talking about the Holy Spirit, nothing stirs me like that, Matt. 1 Corinthians 2, 10 through 12 tells us that when the Holy Spirit searches the mind of God, he then reveals that to our spirit. So then, watch this now. Revelation is not me receiving revelation. Revelation is not me receiving new knowledge. Rather, revelation is when that which I already know in my spirit is understood in my intellect by the Holy Ghost. Deep within, I already have that connection. Deep within, I already know God. Deep within, I am the righteousness of Christ. By the spirit, I am these things. And so when we commune with the Holy Spirit, that which is within us begins to flood us without. That's why Jesus said in John chapter seven, verse 38, out of your innermost being. Well, what does he mean by innermost being? Verse Thessalonians 5, 23 tells us we're a body, a soul, and a spirit. So then that which is of my spirit flows from deep within affecting my soul, my body. The Holy Spirit works from the inside out through this beautiful gift of speaking in tongues. He is praying as I said for you through you. So anyway, that's what I thought of when you said that and it just was like a, I'm sorry, it was like an instant download. I'm telling you, Matt, if you wanna get me talking, talk about the Holy Spirit. That's how you get me talking right there. I love it. Thanks for sharing that was so good. I feel this, dig. I really do. It's really when we pray, it's pulling treasures out of us. And then I wanna share just a few more here and then we can see what a whole spirit is. And I'm still writing these down, by the way, as you go. All right, I'm gonna keep going. Y'all want the rest of the 50 here? I'll go quickly. Even if they don't, I do, keep going. Let's do it. Tongues is leaning upon God. Tongues is blowing the ram's horn for battle. Wow. Tongues is the rallying sound of victory. Tongues is releasing angels on heavenly assignments to change earthly situations. Tongues is a brainstorming session with God. Tongues taps into the creativity of Elohim. Tongues overrules and overturns death assignments against your life. Tongues reverses demonic assignments against your well-being. Tongues removes you from the limitations of the flesh to God's abundant supply of the spirit. Tongues is making demands upon the power of God. Wow, that's good. Tongues enables a closer walk with God. It's speaking the hidden wisdom of God. It is the beginning of being led by the Holy Spirit. It is living supernaturally in a natural world. Tongues opens the heavens and charges the atmosphere. Tongues is the release of the Shekinah glory. Tongues is getting drunk on the new wine of the Holy Ghost. Come on, somebody. Tongues is pouring in the oil and wine of the Holy Ghost. It is light-filled words, faithful words, and anointing-filled words. Tongues lights the fire of God in your life. Tongues delivers you from the scourge of the tongue. Tongues is unlocking every closed prison door in your life. Tongues is the beginning and the maintaining of partnership with the Holy Spirit. That's good. Tongues is releasing the winds of God to blow in your life. It is the wind in your sail. It is the wind beneath your wings. It unleashes the winds of revival and refreshing in your life. Tongues is refilling empty vessels. Tongues is spirit to spirit communication. Tongues helps the living effectively. It is the ignition key to walking in the power of God. Tongues is being endued with power from on high, of course. Tongues is rivers of living water flowing out of you. Tongues is drinking from the river and reservoir of God. Tongues is serving God from your spirit. That's so good. Tongues enables you to perform your priestly duties. It is building your image of God in you and confidence. Tongues is expressing and forcing and declaring the will of God in your life and the earth. Almost through here just a few more. Tongues is extracting answers from the indwelling spirit to solve life's problems. Tongues is praying from your spirit, is giving your spirit ascendancy and power over your flesh. Tongues aids you to modify the deeds and evil cravings of the flesh. It connects the intercession of the Holy Spirit with your great high priest, Jesus. Tongues is the highest form of the prayer of agreement. Hallelujah. Tongues is the divine agreement of the prayers of our earthly and heavenly intercessor with the plans of God. Tongues is the three-fold core that will not be broken. Tongues is ministering to yourself, to the Lord, and to others. Four more here. Tongues, five more. Tongues is worshiping the Father in spirit and in truth. Tongues charges your spiritual battery. Tongues makes you God-friendly rather than seeker-friendly. Confuses the enemy and eclipses you for the wonders of God. Tongues is a well-springing up into the God kind of life. I'm through, that's it. That's a hundred benefits right there of praying in the Holy Ghost. You guys are gonna have to watch the replay to get this. So I'm gonna steal that list from you too, Matt. You said just right now, Tongues makes you God-friendly rather than seeker-friendly. That one, that one's good for some ministries right there because it's true. I mean, you can tell who lacks a prayer life by who lacks truth. You can tell who lacks that prayer life by who lacks boldness. The scripture says the righteous are as bold as lions, but the wicked flee when no one pursues them. This is just some powerful. So Matt, we're gonna pray right now. And then I wanna, there's something else you're gonna talk to our viewer about. But you know, I really believe that there's such a powerful message of revival on you. And can I just say, Matt, please, please, you are such a gift to the body of Christ. Please keep preaching revival and holiness like you do. You're a gift to the body of Christ. I really believe, and I wanna say this on public record, I truly believe, Matt, the ministry that God has given you is crucial for our generation. I truly believe that God is gonna raise you to heights that are just going to, it's gonna cause you to be astounded. I truly believe that. And so I believe in the ministry that God has given to you. And so just, I say this on behalf of anyone else who would agree, we so honor that gift on you. And please keep preaching revival, boldly like that holiness as you do. There's just a pure, beautiful, simple, biblically balanced message. I've seen so many, Matt. And you know, I don't say this as like a spiritual father, just as someone who's maybe just been in this just a little bit longer than you. And I've seen it, Matt, where people will get off message, off the message of revival, off the message of holiness, and they lose something. They lose something on their ministry and they don't even see it. And I've seen it happen again and again and again. So that's my prayer. Can we all pray for Matt that God would continue to preserve this, not just preserve, just this powerful, let there be a powerful favor on this ministry. So let's pray for Matt. And then Matt, I'm gonna ask you to pray for the viewer. Come on, viewers, let's pray for Matt. Whether you're watching live or replay, type your prayers in right now for this man of God. Father, in the name of Jesus. Yes, Lord, yes. I pray, Father, that you would continue to favor, anoint, bless, and use your servant, Matt Cruz. Father, anoint him mightily as you have. And Father, we pray that every attack of the enemy, every attack of discouragement, that all the plans of the enemy would be canceled against his life. We pray favor. We pray open doors for ministry opportunities. Lord, I pray you would cause his ministry to explode in a good way. I pray, Lord, that you would take his voice, not just to this nation, but to the nations of the world. Father, we ask it in the name of Jesus. Now, guys, don't go anywhere. Matt's gonna pray with you, then he's gonna talk with you. Go ahead, Matt, pray with the viewer. Yeah, Father, in the name of Jesus. Lord, I thank you for every viewer watching live right now, which is a few thousand people and those watching on the replay. If you're watching this, it's not by accident. It is not a coincidence. This is a moment where it's a divine appointment between you and the presence of God. Lord, I pray for every viewer and I pray God that you would release this grace and release this hunger for prayer. Jesus, I pray you stir within them the desire for intimacy with you. May they walk in greater intimacy, which will lead to greater boldness as they minister for you. God, I pray today that you would infuse within them confidence to get into the place of prayer and not let them hide from you because of what they've done in their shortcomings. Lord, I thank you that you say a righteous man falls seven times, but they get back up. God, I pray that they would have the courage to go to you in prayer rather than skip it because they had a shortcoming and missed them all. God, I pray right now that you would let a fire in their soul that they can not contain or they can control. Set their hearts ablaze, Jesus. Ignite a holy fire in them to where your voice will become the loudest when they hear and the one they're most sensitive to. Let them have a sensitivity to your Holy Spirit and those who lost that sensitivity and awareness may I come back tonight, Jesus. Have your way in them, God. Stir within them the desire for also purity and holiness, God. Lord, I pray today that you would give us eyes to see and ears to hear. God, I pray for the spirit of wisdom and revelation to fall fresh upon them today. God, let the fire of prayer and intercession fall upon them tonight in the mighty name of Jesus. I stretch my hands. I speak life over you right now. I say, be baptized in the Holy Spirit in fire. Come on, some of you are crying and shaking under the power of God. I feel it in the spirit right now. God, I pray you release your fire, release your anointing and Jesus' mighty name from the top of their head to the soles of their feet. Let them experience your wonder-working power and fire in the name of Jesus. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Well, now Matt is gonna share with you a simple word and Tim, the anointing is still very strong right now. So let's keep that reverence there, that flow. Matt's gonna share with you a word. Now, this is usually the point in the stream where people want to click away, they click off because all the sermon's done and be on my way. I challenge you, stick around just for a few minutes because Matt's gonna share something with you regarding our ministry and ways you can help. And I know you'll be blessed by this, encouraged by this and inspired unto action. So Matt, take it away. Yeah, if you guys are watching, I wanna, man, I feel the anointing so strong. I feel the presence of the Lord here. If you're watching, I want you to stay tuned in. This is probably one of the most important parts of this live stream. I wanna encourage you and the Lord tonight to sow into this, sow into this move of the spirit, sow into this word tonight so that this can continue going on. It takes finances for ministry to function and I wanna take the next few moments to really adore the Lord and to worship Him through our giving. This is a holy moment. So if you're watching right now and you're saying, oh, I'm gonna click out. This is a serious moment. And I have a few things that wrote down here that I wanna share to you, but giving is one way that we can worship God and honor Him as our provider. And as you give tonight, I believe that God is going to use your giving to prove His giving. Are you with me tonight? Some people get uncomfortable when preachers talk about money, but listen, we've gotta talk about money because God's word talks about money. And God never took away the requirement for tithing because He always planned for His kingdom work to be carried on through the tithes of His people and through offerings. And God never took away the requirement of offering which we're talking about right now because He knew that there would always be needy people in our world. There will always be people needing physical help and most of all people needing spiritual help. And I believe that our giving is an obligation to God. Our giving is important to God. And if you're watching me, I want you to know that everything belongs to the Lord. He owns all that there is anyway. And tonight I'm gonna encourage you to sow into this ministry, sow into this message tonight. Again, it's not our money to begin with everything we have belongs to God. He just wants a small portion of what He's given to us so that this work can be carried on. The kingdom of God can be advanced and He does it through our giving. All right, and I want you to know this tonight. I don't want you to just spend this seed. I want you to invest this seed, invest it into the kingdom, invest it into this ministry. And I want you to think about it this way. God doesn't receive the blessing when you give. You do. Somebody needs to hear that tonight. God does not receive the blessing when you get. You do. Sometimes He wants to get something to us and He does it by getting something through us. And Jesus, I believe tonight, was glorified and exalted through this message. Now let's use our giving to prove His giving tonight. I believe God wants to prove His generosity. He wants to prove that He keeps His promises and He'll keep His promises about giving back to you as we sow into good ground. Our giving matters because it reflects again our adoration for the Lord. Jesus gave Himself for us in a way that no one else could. And He gave His all for us and we should give out of our love for Him. And I've learned in ministry that our seed connects us to our sword, source. Our seed is the bridge between our lack in God's supply. Our seed is very important. And some people say, Matt, I don't have something to give because I'm struggling and I don't have enough to even cover my own bills. Listen, I've learned this from my pastor. We've come from a church of very fertile soil and we've given away now over $1.3 million. We are a giving church every year for Yom Kippur. We have a service in October and the whole church gives the largest seed. Let me tell you something. So many things happen. Miraculous testimonies, financial testimonies of what happens after we give and after we sow and after we give a sacrifice to the Lord. Listen to this. People may say, you may be out here right now, I don't have enough to give deny. Well, listen, if what's in your hand is not enough to meet your need, use it for your seed. I'm gonna say it again tonight. If what's in your hand is not enough to meet your own need, use it for your seed and watch God breathe upon it. Watch Him multiply it. But simply tonight, I wanna encourage you to give into a ministry where God's hand is on it. I want you to know that when you give into good soil, something begins to happen so into the work of this ministry and God will not only bless you, but also the favor of God does rest upon our life as we give, all right? So I wanna share this briefly and I'm through. One time I was in Texas and I had a delayed flight or cancellation actually. So I had to stay in Texas the next day. And I remember the day before I was supposed to leave with a cancellation flight when it happened, I was in a vehicle. My friend, my friend's dad had picked up a friend of mine and myself, we were stranded somewhere. There was no, we couldn't get it Uber. So my friend, she called her dad and he came and picked us up and during the whole ride to our hotel, he was administering to us and it really blessed my soul. And the next day when my flight got canceled and I was stuck in Texas for another day, I texted my friend and said, hey, could you set up a time for me to have lunch with your dad? I was so blessed by him last night. So she set up this appointment with her dad and I met him at this place. I got an Uber to the restaurant and mind you, I came to Texas and I left a few, I came there from California and in California I left a pair of my shoes. I left some clothes there at my friend's house. I don't know what happened but I just left it there and I had like, I literally left my shoes down. I had just got those shoes, his nice pair of white shoes. I think I got it from my H&M or something. And I met with her dad and immediately when I sat down, he looked at me and by the way, the night before, I may actually add this in here, the night before I had to take an, after her dad dropped us off at the hotel, I had to take another taxi somewhere else and in that taxi because no Uber's were available in that area again and the taxi driver was arguing with me about what to pay and I'm like, you're charging me double than what the Uber's costing me and all this stuff. And I'm just like, no, this isn't what the Uber's paying him. The Lord had me give all the cash in my wallet to this taxi driver. And I remember, I never cared cash but I had like $200 on me. I gave that whole thing up to the taxi driver and I sat down with my friend's dad and he looks at me and says, the Holy Ghost told me to give you this and it was the exact amount I sold to that taxi driver the night before. And then he looks at me, he says, what size shoe are you? I said, I'm a nine, size nine. He says, the Holy Ghost told me to give you these. And it was the exact shoes. Like it looked exactly the same, same color, everything that I had bought in California. And he takes it off his feet and gives it to me. What, where am I going with this? He looks at me, I'm looking at him. I said, man of God, I can't take this from you. He looked me in my eyes and he says, don't you ever reject my blessing? He said, your seed has the phone number to your harvest. Hallelujah, somebody got to catch that right there. He said, your seed tells your harvest, come on over here. He says, your seed may leave your hand, but it will never leave your future. Woof. When that seed left my hand, that money left my hand to the taxi driver. Look, it didn't leave my future. It came right back because God honors when we give in which the measure we give it will be measured back to us. If you're so sparingly, you will reap sparingly. If you're so bountifully, you will reap bountifully. So tonight, I want you to ask the Holy Spirit on what to give to this ministry. Let him inspire you on what to give. We don't arm twist here, as my pastor says. We don't tell people like, Diego was saying, he said in the source before, we're not the ministry that tells you so $77 and you'll get 77 miracles. Yeah, no gimmicks, no gimmicks I say, huh? Gimmicks simply give to the work of the ministry because that's what it takes to advance the kingdom of God and the Lord is glorified because of it and he blesses us because of it. So how can they give? Well, they can go to davidhernanisministries.com slash donor and this is a challenge not just for the live viewer. This is also a challenge for the people watching by replay. I know sometimes it's tempting to say, well, the event passed, it's over, but look at long after this event happens, there will still be a need for support of the ministry. There'll still be needs that the ministry has. We'll still be doing events. If the Lord doesn't return, we'll still be doing these things, God willing. So it's tempting to kind of disconnect and say, well, that was during the live. No, the ministry is still functioning and if you were blessed by the message, if you're blessed by the content, this is a ministry that, it's a great place to sew and I can say that because it's not my ministry, it's the Lord's ministry. Now, this is a challenge to live viewers, replay viewers to give either a one-time gift, but to also become a monthly supporter of the ministry. I'm looking at the names right now of people giving. Many of you are signing up for monthly support and I wanna thank all of you, large or small, one-time and monthly. Thank you for your giving, Matt. Thank you so much, my friend. Can we all let Matt know in the comment section, live and replay, how much we enjoyed that message? We just so appreciate that, Matt, just a great, a solid word. And how can we get ahold of your ministry? I believe Tim has the YouTube, your YouTube channel information, is that so, Tim? Okay, let's throw that up on there for Matt. If you wanna know about Matt's ministry, he's got a lot of great content, a lot of great ministry, a lot of powerful things. Tim, let's go ahead and put that up there. So, there's a YouTube channel, right? How do they get ahold of that? Matt? Oh, I'm sorry, I thought you talked about Tim there. It's okay. You can just type in my name on YouTube, MattCruz, and it'll pop up there. You can subscribe that way, my website. For those of you wondering, Matt's not ignoring me. There's a slight delay here, so just bear with him. So, oh, it's right there. They put it up, youtube.com slash MattCruz96. What is the 96? So that's not, it's not your birth year, is it? That is my birth year. I just turned 26 years old, a few days ago. I'm only 33, and that makes me feel rather old. Well, anyway, you wanna get ahold of Matt's ministry? As I said, one of my favorites, MattCruz, powerfully in the name of God. And if you enjoyed this teaching, you're gonna love the teaching, how to minister healing to the sick, six keys. In that teaching, I give you six keys to ministering God's Holy Spirit's power to those who are in need of healing in their body.