How is it possible to truly become a partner with God in prayer? In this sermon clip, Bill Johnson teaches us that prayer plays a vital role in seeing transformation in the world around us. John Wesley said “God does nothing in the affairs of man, except in response to prayer”. Partnering with God in prayer is the key to breakthrough in every circumstance.
learn to pray out of abiding
learn to pray out of the presence learn
to touch to tap into the heart of god
express that in prayer and decree and
let’s do what we’re supposed to do make
a difference in the earth
it’s from our knees that we have the
greatest effect on the world around us
it’s from our knees it’s from our place
of
prayer
of intercession
that we become actual partners with god
god’s not looking for people who know
how to stay busy he’s looking for people
who know how to represent his heart
and i’m not going to represent in action
what i’ve not found in prayer
it’s the connection with the heart of
god
that gives me the authority
to represent him with absolute
confidence
in action
prayer without action is incomplete
in the same way that faith without works
is dead
we’ve been called to a lifestyle of
prayer and i hope and pray that everyone
listening everybody who uh is here
uh
can feel the
that particular stream deepening in your
own soul as i i believe the lord is is
is to to be honest is trying to get us
to repent our way back into a place of
righteous influence that god has called
us to and that is from the place of
prayer
he says if
my people
the ones i gave my name to
will humble themselves chris one of the
first words we had in the beginning of
this
unusual season
uh chris broad and and he made a
statement i think it was something like
this the way forward
humility is the way forward
humility is the way forward
perfect and timely word humility is the
way forward
at a time when it’s easy to be hurt and
offended and angry and zealous and
withdraw and do all the stupid things
that we as humans know how to do
um humility is the way forward and so
the lord said if my people the ones that
i gave my name to those are the ones who
have actual responsibility
i think it was john wesley who said
that god does nothing in the affairs of
man except in response to prayer
that’s something that i have actually
believed and tried to live aware of
as that statement for the last 40 some
years is that god
looks for partnership
without him we can’t without us he won’t
as another statement that i’ve heard
through the years
without
him we can’t without us he won’t and so
that place of prayer is a place of
coming into a place of agreement
with the heart and the mind of god to
exercise his authority in the earth so
that his will is done here as it is in
heaven
there is the prayer there it is the the
contract the
the the request that is made
um i i itself also made a statement uh
this a couple weeks ago that it really
moved me
he said that something like this
the key to answer
answers to prayer he says 98 of answers
to prayer
is from abiding in christ
it’s living in the conscious presence of
the almighty god that is the strength of
the answers to prayer it’s the two or
three gathered in my name i’m there
so the whole issue of the breakthroughs
in the earth come out of living in that
awareness
that awareness of the presence of god
with me and upon me to make a difference
in the world around me that is the
connection for answers to prayer and so
he says if my people who are called by
my name will humble themselves and pray
and pray
it’s foolish to be given
such a transformational tool
such as prayer and not use it
it’s foolish to face an impossible
situation
everybody knows how to
lift up a panic prayer
i’m not opposed to that
i’m glad he sometimes answers those
but transformational praying
is more like giving birth
paul actually talked about that he used
the he used the concept of giving birth
to illustrate prayer he was referring to
one of his associates and he said
he is praying he is laboring in prayer
the word labor as physical labor of a
woman laboring in prayer until christ is
formed in you was the phrase you used
it’s it’s a different kind of a praying
it’s it’s it’s digging in i know the
heart of god i know the will of god and
i know there’s opposition i don’t know
necessarily what the problem is i just
know i have nothing better to do with my
life
than to abide in him until the presence
of god his own faith becomes my faith
and i learn in prayer to petition god
but also to represent him as i make
decrees to standing opposition
sometimes i think
people avoid
times of prayer
because they think it will take hours
and you know sometimes i’ve been in
moments of prayer where you just lose
track of time
those are
glorious glorious moments
but history has been shaped
by people who prayed
simple prayers but they were all in
all in
the history of our nation we’re
celebrating independence
weekend
history of our nation has been shaped by
the prayers of
a general
in an army
where it looked like they would
certainly lose
and they just took the knee and they
prayed a simple prayer
and everything changed
simple prayer
a president
a governor
different ones who just simply take the
knee and pray acknowledge the almighty
god
this is something that we have the
privilege of doing
throughout the day
it’s not just the two hour block of time
is the five minutes of surrender here
is the 10 minutes of praise and exalting
him there it’s it’s that riddle
throughout my day i never want to escape
the fact i carry his name and i carry it
for a reason
i’m here to make a difference
and in the abiding presence of god i’ve
been finding that
that the prayer meeting never stops
and never stops it started while i was
sleeping i found myself praying if my
people were called by my name i would
wake up bring that bread get up in the
morning i would grab my bible sit out on
my deck it would continue it continued
throughout the day it just it doesn’t
stop because the abiding presence of the
almighty god is upon me
as a testimony to me
that you hear son to make a difference
learn to pray out of abiding
learn to pray out of the presence learn
to touch to tap into the heart of god
express that in prayer and decree and
let’s do what we’re supposed to do make
a difference in the earth
this is what we are assigned to do
this is who we are
we’re people
that have been given this name