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well god bless you it’s so wonderful to
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if he is jehovah jireh your provider
come on let the whole world know right
now
can we just take a moment and praise
jehovah jireh we’re alive right now we
have weathered the famine come on
somebody we
we have weathered a storm we have
weathered the threat of extinction but
we’re still here
because god is faithful and he always
provides so let’s just give a shout out
right now
let’s just praise god in your own way
can we just put it right there in the
comments
god we bless you for being a faithful
provider we love you
so very very much we thank god for you
and all that you’re doing and i thank
god for you
for those of you watching the live
stream today you know i’m excited
to get into this word today if you
weren’t here last week first of all
you need to put write it in your your
to-do list right now to go back
and listen to the first week in the
series and we’re doing this series now
called the basics of spirituality
and the lord impressed it upon my heart
to do a
series now because this year has been
crazy
we’ve been tossed to and fro this year
with pandemics
and and economic issues and social
unrest and and hateful events that have
taken place in our
our nation and our world we’ve got
election coming up and there’s a lot of
vitriol out there we’ve just been
man this has been one for the books it’s
been unprecedented in every way
and a lot of times not a lot of times
when that happens every time that
happens we get shaken up a little bit
and uh and sometimes we get shaken up
more than a little bit and the lord put
it in my heart and he just said tell my
children
that it’s time to go back to the
foundations right we
we’ve all been tossed a little bit and
we’ve all gone through what we’ve gone
through some of us have gone through
loss
some of us have gone through pain and
turmoil and and that is sad
but i hear god saying that in order to
be ready
for what god’s going to do and as i
prophesied before i believe that
september we’re going to see something
really powerful
super powerful for the people of god a
major breakthrough
but in order to be ready for that we
have to realign ourselves we have to
reposition ourselves
and and so i started this series last
week called the basis
basics of spirituality and we talked
about worship last week again if you did
not hear that
get the podcast download it watch the
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get it in your life because it was a
move of god
and it’s going to bless you and prepare
you for what god has for you
and today we’re going to go further in
that series last week we talked about
worship this week we’re going to talk
about prayer and so i’m excited to bring
it to you and
i want to draw your attention uh to
first timothy the second chapter the
first two verses it’s not an unfamiliar
passage of scripture but i want to read
these verses to you and
and then we’re going to pray and we’re
going to talk about prayer in a
fresh way because we’re going to get
back to the basis of our spirituality
we’re going to understand prayer better
we’re going to understand you know what
it is we’re going to understand how to
do it
and we’re going to understand what we
can expect as a result because i believe
that god is rebuilding some of you i
believe with all of my heart
this this year for some of you has kind
of has tried to tear you
apart has tried to literally dismember
you
and i believe that god is getting ready
to put you back together again
stronger more solid than you’ve ever
been before
i believe that your roots are going to
go deeper than they’ve ever been before
and as you bear root downward you’re
going to begin to bear fruit upwards as
you
take root downward you’re going to bear
fruit upward i believe i’m going to
prophesy this over you right now
i believe that this is going to be ella
michelle this is god
the most fruitful seas i almost can’t
even get it out
the most fruitful season of your life
is upon you and that’s why i’m trying to
get your roots deep i’m trying to get
you
established rooted and grounded because
a fruitfulness that is beyond what you
can imagine
is coming to you in jesus name if you
receive that put it right there in the
comments right now i received that pt
i received that pt fruitfulness
fruitfulness fruitfulness fruitfulness
fruitfulness crazy fruitfulness
fruitfulness like you’ve never seen
before fruitful is like your family’s
never seen before
fruitfulness fruit just fruit everywhere
fruit everywhere john 15
says those who bear fruit he prunes
so that they might bear more fruit
that’s what you’re coming into you were
fruitful but you ain’t seen nothing yet
and you thought that pruning was taking
you back and i’m telling you right now
that pruning is not taking you back that
pruning is setting you up
for the most fruitful season of your
life you know what don’t just move past
that
take a minute and worship god if that’s
your word take a minute and worship god
if that’s your word
i didn’t plan it i didn’t know that
coming in it’s coming as i’m tapping
into the spirit of god because you
are watching you are watching you are
listening to this podcast yes
yes you yes you yes
you who me yes you and in case you’re
wondering who
you receive it say that’s me pt
so that’s me pt that’s me it’s true it’s
true
it’s true and god is getting you ready
to feel the spirit
god is getting you ready family he loves
you so much he loves you
so much that he’s not finished with you
and he hasn’t forgotten about you when
he’s for you and he’s on your side and
he’s
cheering you on and not only him but the
great cloud of witnesses that the bible
talks about in hebrews 12
you’re being cheered for right now you
thought you were by yourself for some of
you this has been the loneliest
season of your life and you thought you
were by yourself but you’re not by
yourself
we’re rooting for you we’re cheering for
you you were never by yourself you were
never alone
a great cloud of witnesses those who
trusted in god those who didn’t give up
those who kept fighting
all of them their testimony right now is
pointed in your direction because it’s
you it’s your season
sure season first timothy chapter two
verse one and two reads like this this
is not unfamiliar you’ve heard it before
this is the apostle paul talking to his
young protege as paul is beginning to
make his way as he understands
that pretty soon he’s not going to be
there any longer
and he is pouring into his protege who
is now
a young leader who’s charged with taking
the mantle and running on and
and paul is telling something he’s
basically giving him the keys of the
kingdom
he’s giving him the tools he’s giving
him the jewels he’s giving him nuggets
that if he would employ he would never
be fruitless
right and so he says therefore i exhort
first of all that supplications
prayers intercessions
and giving of thanks be made for all men
for kings and all who are in authority
that we may lead a quiet
and peaceable life in all godliness
and reverence we’ll talk about that in a
moment let’s pray together
god almighty we thank you for this
moment that you have blessed us with
what we might
worship you and enter into your courts
and your presence and
and hear from you and receive from you
and dine
and be satisfied completely because of
the words that are coming out of your
mouth
we’re so grateful god and so god we ask
that you would feed us
speak to us minister to us
heal us empower us edify us and god by
the time that we are finished
we pray lord that we will be new
creations
new creatures stronger than we’ve ever
been before
clearer than we’ve been in a long time
with fresh energy fresh strength
fresh insight we believe you for these
things
in jesus name amen
amen hallelujah if you receive that say
i received that prayer pt
oh god god bless you well listen when
you when you start thinking about the
basics
of spirituality i’m sure there are a lot
of things come to mind and i think that
that maybe most people
would believe that we should start a
series like that with prayer
because after all you know is in prayer
the most spiritual thing you can do
you know and it is an extremely
spiritual thing
that you can do but i i felt led for us
to start in worship
and one of the reasons why i did so is
because
and if you’re taking notes write this
thought down worship
sets the stage for an effective prayer
experience
say that again worship sets the stage
for an effective prayer experience
i don’t like to just run into prayer
time
i i don’t i don’t like to just rush in
and just just just get down and just
start talking
the most effective prayer time the most
effective prayer experiences i’ve ever
had
have been when it was on the heels of a
moment or two
or a time of worship because and again
if you weren’t here last week you’ve got
to go back and understand worship trust
me it’s so much more than what you think
it is
much deeper much more powerful much more
effective and
quite frankly much more inviting than
you might think
the reason why i did worship first is
because
true powerful and effective prayer
is born from the place of worship so
much so that jesus and his model
prayer if you study it there’s an
account of it in matthew and another
account of it in luke when
the disciples asked jesus to teach him
teach them how to pray
he says pray like this our father who
art in heaven
holy be your name he starts the prayer
off
as he’s teaching them with worship
because he understands that worship
prepares the soil of your heart and your
mind
for prayers that get results are you
tracking with me
and so that’s why i started with worship
first worship lays the foundation for
effective prayer
if you’re taking this if you’re taking
notes and i shouldn’t say if you’re
taking notes i believe that everyone
ought to take notes particularly if god
speaks to you because you’re going to
have to memorialize those moments
because they become alters i talked
about that recently you have to
memorialize the things that god said to
you so that you can go back and revisit
them in moments when you forget
because we all struggle with amnesia
because we have an enemy
to our prosperity to our destiny that
is is is hell-bent literally on
distracting
us and causing us to forget what god
said so not if you’re taking notes since
you’re taking notes write this thought
down
a vibrant a vibrant prayer life
will produce a powerful and vibrant
outer life
let’s start right there a vibrant prayer
life
will produce a powerful and vibrant
outer life in other words what you do
in secret god will bless you for
openly what you do spiritually
god will bless you in naturally oh i
feel the spirit of god
in fact i’ve come to a place right now
where i don’t
trust a blessing that was not birthed in
prayer
there’s a a great woman of god and she
had a very interesting her name escapes
me but a great woman of god and
and really shame on me for not uh
recalling her name maybe it will come to
mind later on
but uh patricia something patricia
something her name escapes but anyway
a great woman of god pastor patricia
right and she said
that anything that is not birthed in
prayer is illegal
i’m like whoa what what a thought
you know like like in other words like
like
if you didn’t pray it into being
can you fully trust it but what i’ve
come to trust what i’ve come to trust
is that thing that i prayed about that
thing that i labored and prayed that
thing that i asked out for and we’re
going to talk about
the four different types of prayer in
just a moment but the thing that i
trust the most not is the thing that
just fell into my lap
but it’s the thing that i called on god
after a time of worship and god began to
reveal to me who i am and what i can
have and i prayed it and when that thing
shows up oh man that’s a different thing
that’s a different thing and so so your
your your outer life is connected
to how vibrant your prayer life is
there’s a passage of scripture that says
you have not because you ask not
isn’t that interesting that’s god
essentially saying that there might be
some things that you don’t have in your
life
simply because you haven’t prayed it
through there’s something
about an effective prayer life that
qualifies you for everything that god
has for you
are you tracking with me so let’s talk
about this a little bit let
let’s let’s get into this let me define
prayer for you
in as simple a statement as i can and
i’ll unpack this statement
if you’re not if since you’re taking
notes write this down
prayer is invoking
the power of god
heaven’s resources into an earthly
situation
let me say it again because i think i
wrote this down i wrote this down
i want to say it in a way that you
remember it prayer is invoking the power
of god
into an earthly situation prayer
is inviting heaven’s resources
into your earthly circumstance now let
me tell you why that is so encouraging
because if you ever found yourself in a
situation in an earthly situation
where no human or earthly resource can
get you the breakthrough that you need
so what prayer does is prayer ensures
that even when you’re stuck you’re not
stuck
it is the invoking of god’s power
into your finite situation where are you
getting that from pastor
well again if we look at that that model
prayer we call it the lord’s prayer but
it’s really a model prayer
it says our father who art in heaven
hallowed be your name then it says thy
kingdom come
thy kingdom it’s an invoking of god’s
kingdom thy will be done and then it
says
in earth as it is in heaven did you see
it
so when when we’re asked when we ask
jesus to teach us how to pray
jesus says pray like this pray that the
kingdom of god that’s heaven’s resources
god’s resources
god’s power pray that the kingdom of god
will be done
in earth as it is in heaven so i don’t
have to have
all of the earth i feel the spirit of
god
i don’t have to have all of the earthly
answers
or all of the earthly resources all the
earthly confirmation
i don’t need that if i needed that what
would i need to pray for
prayer is god giving you access to
heaven’s resources
inviting those resources down into your
earthly circumstances
literally splitting the realm and
causing what you need
to show up in this realm because it
originated from that realm are you
tracking with me
just tell just tap it right there in the
comments i’ve got access to heaven’s
resources i’ve got access to heaven’s
resources i feel the spirit of god
this is why prayer is so valuable
and you hear it said all the time and i
always talk about it one thing that
always baffles me
is when people say well there’s nothing
left to do now but pray
it drives me crazy because what that
says
is to me my question to that is what
have you been doing the entire time
and maybe just maybe that’s the reason
why you don’t have what you’re
after prayer is not a last resort
prayer is not defensive prayer is
offensive
ah i don’t want something
that prayer didn’t give me prayer you
know
and and seeing that model prayer jesus
says pray it daily
so prayer is not something that you pull
out when you have a need or when you
have a difficulty or when there’s a
problem you can’t solve
no no prayer is supposed to be so
ingrained
into the fabric of who we are as
believers that it just comes out
daily i feel that for some of you some
of you are getting ready to get a
revelation
about your prayer life and your prayer
is going to send things
it’s going to clear oh i feel it how is
it going to happen
i hear god saying it’s going to happen
by your prayer life
it’s going to happen by your renewed
focus to prayer
over little things you know one of the
things that i love about jewish culture
and about jewish cust customs is that
they have a blessing for everything
you know we we might give it up for
dinner we don’t bless our breakfast
come on somebody yeah we we don’t bless
our breakfast we don’t bless our lunch
every once in a while we’ll get
spiritual and we’ll bless our dinner one
of the things i love about our jewish
brothers and sisters is they will bless
anything
they will bless a piece a biscuit in the
morning everything they have all these
prayers and various things
and i love that because what we’re
talking about is a
lifestyle of prayer i feel that for some
of you
some of you have left one of the most
potent
powerful tools for the believer on the
shelf
because your prayer life is not where
god wants it to be but that’s getting
ready to change
you are getting ready to be a praying
fool you’re going to start praying
every single day and you’re going to see
watch this you’re going to see
acceleration take place in your life
because i hear god saying i’ve been
waiting for you to ask me
oh i feel god i don’t know who that’s
for i’ve been waiting for you to ask me
you have been trying to do it in your
own strength you have been counting on
luck you have been counting on the
resources and the influence of man
i’m telling you if you would turn your
prayer life up
a notch a two i will start moving in
your life in a way that you have never
seen before if you received that word
put it right there in the comments i
receive it
i receive it i’ll receive it
there’s an old song oh what needless
pain we bear
all because we don’t take things to god
in prayer let me tell you something
the reason why it doesn’t happen for me
will not be because i didn’t pray about
it
and you have to pray relentlessly
you don’t just pray one time and stop
now you pray one time and you believe
that it’s coming
but the wise person continues to pray so
that watch this you can be connected to
what’s on its way to you
see see what happens oftentimes is we
pray one time and we don’t pray anymore
and what takes place
oftentimes is doubt creeps in and we
won’t say it
you know because we’re too spiritual to
say it but that’s what’s happened doubt
keeps in watches and what doubt does is
doubt separates you from the thing you
ask for
so when you keep on asking right ask
and you shall receive seek and you shall
find knocking that shall be open unto
you look at that rhythm it’s a cycle
it’s a cycle ask and you shall receive
the moment that you ask it’s on its way
to you you shall receive because you ask
but then it says seek because just
because it’s on its way to you if you
allow doubt to get in you will stop
seeking it if you stop seeking
you won’t find so it’s one thing to ask
you set it in motion
but but faith the continuum of that
faith
makes you start seeking what you asked
for for the holy ghost
so maybe you did the right thing and you
asked but you did not seek
because it took too long and you stopped
seeking because you didn’t want to be
disappointed you thought that if i seek
i might come up empty so i won’t seek
i’ll just say it asking he says no
ask and you shall receive it’s on his
way seek and you shall find it’s coming
to you
knocking it shall be over because
sometimes when you find it
you’ve got to knock that door down one
of the things that i’ve learned
is right before that thing is getting
ready to be delivered into your hands
is where there is a battle i feel that
for some of you some of you are at the
door of what god promised you and i hear
god saying you need to start
knocking on that door let that door know
that you are there
don’t just stand at the door in silence
oh my god i feel the holy ghost don’t
just stand the door and say
knock on that door i’m here
my 10 year old she’s 11 now mckenzie
god bless mackenzie mckenzie will let us
know
that she’s at that door if she wants
something one things i love about my
baby girl
is first she’ll knocks off and we don’t
answer on purpose
if you’re watching kenzie mommy and
daddy love you we don’t answer on
purpose because
the door is closed for a reason we like
some privacy we got six kids we need
privacy
okay but she she she don’t go for that
if she knows we’re in there
she’ll start off soft not that i’m not
the cute little knock keep little let me
oh no no no no no
and then by the time she’s finished
she’s knocking like a grown man like a
wrestler
like dwayne johnson or somebody’s at the
door i love that about her
because sometimes you cannot just ask
sometimes you cannot just seek
you have got to get to that door god
brings you to the door
but you got to be bold enough and bad
enough and have faith enough to knock on
that door
like you know what god promised you is
behind you if you’re going to knock on
the door
put it in the comments knock knock
knock knock baby knock knock
hallelujah knock knock and that’s what
your prayer life is about
you got to keep on praying i want to
talk to you about prayer a little bit
are you tracking with me say if you
track it with me
if you track it let me just put it in
there put it in there put it in here
yeah yeah so in the text
we see four types of prayer in the text
one doesn’t look like prayer but it can
be included in prayer
the four types are these it is
the prayer of giving thanks it is the
prayer
of supplication it is the prayer
that here is called prayers but we’ll
talk about that
it’s it’s conversations with god it’s a
type of prayer
and then the last one is intercession
now that’s not quite in the order i
think the order is
supplications prayer intercessions and
giving of thanks those four type but i
want to talk about those in this order
so you probably didn’t even think about
giving of thanks being
prayer but it is sometimes let’s be
honest with you some people right now
and god has been so good to you that you
can just your whole
time of prayer can literally just be
giving thanks
oh god i feel the holy ghost like like
you you may not be where you want to be
there may be things that you still
desire and promises are yet still to be
manifest
but if you look back over your life
and you think about how good god has
been to you
there’s there’s some moments where i go
to god
with the requests which we’ll talk about
in a second and by the time i start
worshiping
and by the time i start getting into the
presence of god
and start thinking about the goodness of
god
i can’t even fix my mouth to ask him for
anything
all i do is say god i thank you because
it could have been me
oh if you knew my testimony oh if you
knew my song
oh if you knew what god kept you from
that you didn’t even seek
i feel god the fact that you’re alive
right now
is because he’s been good and you’ve got
to get to a point
god if you didn’t do anything else for
me ah
god i feel the spirit lord if you didn’t
do one more thing
if you didn’t give me one more book deal
if you didn’t give me one more
television show
if you didn’t give me one more real
estate property if you didn’t give me
one more deal
if you didn’t give me one more thing if
you
stop right here and right now
my song would be the same it will remain
thank you lord it has been
good doing business with you if that’s
your testimony
say i thank him right now i thank him
right now
that’s a worthy prayer let me tell you
something if you come out of your prayer
closet and all you got to say was thank
you lord let me tell you something
that is a worthy prayer because he is
good just for his mercy
he’s good hallelujah come on put it in
the comments
thank you lord thank you lord if you
didn’t do one more thing
you’ve been good and that’s what the
giving of thanks is it literally it’s a
greek word
and that greek word literally means
grateful language
grateful language every time you pray
there ought to be grateful language in
there i know it’s difficult
and i know that sometimes we have to go
to god in tough situations and difficult
situations and challenging situations
but i’m telling you right now gratitude
will always be appropriate i may not
thank you for what’s happening but i
thank you for who you are
i may be crying over what’s happening
but i thank you that i can call on you
in the midst of what is happening i may
not like the fact that i lost that
person but i thank you that you can give
me peace that passes all
understanding god you are always worthy
of thank you and that is why the giving
of thanks
and grateful language will always be
an appropriate form of prayer are you
tracking with me
i want to talk about some of the other
forms of prayer that are
that are spoken here
supplications is there what are
supplications
supplications are literally petitions
this is when you actually
ask god for something asking god for
things
is not off limits god is not a god who
is offended or
or deems us selfish when we ask him for
things when we have petitions in fact
in one of the prophets i believe is
jeremiah god invites us he says call on
to me
and i will answer you and show you
wonderful
and awesome things i want you to
petition me there’s another place
where he says ask of me and i’ll give
you the nations
for your inheritance and
i have petitions often you know one of
the things
about being a friend of god which i
believe should be the highest
i believe that the highest honor
in life the highest pursuit and passion
in life
is not simply to be god’s servant but to
be god’s friend
fulfill the holy spirit that that is
available to you it is a fascinating
thing and there’s
there’s uh one person in particular in
scripture where it is
emphatically clear that he was a friend
of god and this is
abraham i think the same can be said
about moses they had a really intimate
relationship
and david as well david god said of
david he’s a man after all of my heart
which would do all of my will but
specifically he called abraham a friend
and and abraham proved his friendship
so powerfully through just trusting him
and being willing to sacrifice anything
for the the to be obedient to god but
one of the things that i think is really
cool
about being god’s friend is the
confidence that it gives you
when you have a petition like there are
some things that i’ve asked god
straight up based on our relationship
like
like stuff that god didn’t have to do
some of those things didn’t even have to
do with me
they were for other people but on the
strength of my relationship with you god
please do this i’ve seen even recently
just to be fully transparent
you know a young man that i knew and he
got into some legal trouble
and uh and ended up going to jail and
the evidence was i mean the evidence was
the evidence you know
he was guilty you know and and and it
wasn’t looking good for him
and and i called my friend and no i’m
not talking about the district attorney
no i’m not talking about you know the
judge
you know if i had their numbers i
probably would have called them too but
that’s not what i’m talking about
i caught god and i said god
this is a good kid and he got some
trouble and
and and you know fair enough wrong is
wrong i’m not i’m not refuting whether
or not what he did was wrong
i said but god but i know you’re good
and i know you’re merciful
and this is my friend i didn’t stand
anything to gain personally
you know but but i said god on the
strength watch this on the strength
of my integrity on the strength of our
relationship god
please i’m i’m asking you to be merciful
to this young man
underneath the trouble that he got into
he’s a good kid and i know it
i prayed that right
seven months later and he should have
been in prison for
a long time in fact it wasn’t seven
months from the prayer
it was probably more like five months
from the prayer i had to do the math
but the long and short of it they let
him out
they let him out of jail
now you can say oh that’s just a
coincidence no no no no because there
are a lot of people
that are still in jail right now i
petitioned god
i petitioned him i said god this young
man is a good man
i mean he’s a good kid you know he’s
struggling you know and i said god if i
you need me to be in his life more i’ll
be
in his life more and i saw him come out
i’m telling you petitions work you can
ask god for stuff
there’s so many things i’ve asked god
for so many things that are straight
like that watch this and these things
are not even needs
they’re just wants i asked god recently
4-1
and boom i don’t know where it happened
and
sometimes it’s even let me tell you this
story it’s kind of funny enough i need
to move on but
but um you know i’m riding motorcycles
now and
and uh my wife hopped on one of my
motorcycles
right after i had written it and uh
the pipes were still hot and and she
didn’t know that and she didn’t have
jeans you know you’re getting a
motorcycle
you need to have jeans and a boot and
all that kind of stuff on and so
it seared her leg a little bit
and it scarred up and i just man first
of all i love my wife like crazy like
like i don’t care if she gets a scratch
i’m upset
you know what i mean i’m trying to find
what scratched her and you know
anyway and uh and it it it was looking
like it was scarring up
and like it wasn’t going to go away and
i was frustrated i saw it i’m like baby
it’s not going away weeks passed by
you know she’s like nah i’m like oh man
i was frustrated days
passed by still not there no and it’s
getting dark and i’m like wow
and i asked god i said god i don’t want
this scar to be on her leg
and if you if you know anything about
burns they’re supposed to kind of
stick around particularly they’re deep
enough
i asked god i prayed i said god i just
i don’t want this you know on the
strength of our relationship
i want that i want that scar to be
healed and
two days ago she’s like baby look and
the scar
is healing it’s like it’s like peeling
off and
new growth of skin the the exact color
of her skin
is beginning to emerge from there
coincidence oh bt that says coincidence
you can call it whatever you want to i’m
saying
that there are things that i have asked
god on the strength of my covenant with
god
that i have petitioned god that i have
supplicated with god about
and they have come to pass are you
tracking with me some of you
need to understand how much god loves
you and how much god values
who you are in his world and his kingdom
and in his plan
and you believe and you need to start
petitioning god because it works are you
tracking with me
and so and so so we’ve talked about
giving of thanks we’re talking about
different types of prayers i want you to
understand
first of all the nature of god i want
you to understand acceptable prayers
paul is telling timothy right now these
types of prayers need to happen
all the time and for everybody not just
four kings and those in authority for
everybody especially those who are in
authority and not just praying for them
but the prayer is that those who are in
authority pray because we always take
that and we say that’s we should pray
for our politicians
and that is applicable but that’s not
really fully what it means it means that
i think that everybody needs to pray
because if everybody prays then we will
lead a quiet
and peaceable life in all godliness
that’s a whole nother thing but let’s
keep going
so we talked about the giving of thanks
which is grateful language that’s always
appropriate we talked about
supplications and this is where god
invites us to petition things sometimes
god will just
do it for the smile on your face
there’s some things that i do for my
kids that that that just i just want to
see
i want to see how
that act moves them they really want it
and it’s not ridiculous and it’s in my
my ability to provide for them and just
for just for what i know it will make
them feel
and god knows that that i love him all
the more i come out at prayer time
about my wife’s leg and i look up and
it’s healing right in front of my eyes i
come out of my prayer
closet about this young man who for all
the sense of purposes should be up the
river
in prison and all of a sudden he’s out
of jail come on somebody
god is real and supplications are a big
part of prayer don’t forget to petition
god
for the thing that you want and you have
to value yourself enough to know that
god
values you also because sometimes if you
don’t believe that you are worth
things you won’t pray for things
sometimes your
your prayer life or your lack thereof
has to do with you not feeling worthy of
the thing you’re asking god for
i’m trying to pivot i’m trying to move
away from that but i think that that’s
for
somebody oftentimes we only ask
according to how we see ourselves or how
we feel about ourselves god if you just
do this down here
but but what if god wants to do
something up here and what if you’re
only asking down here whether that’s a
certain relation some people are so
desperate for a relationship they’ll
take a relationship way down here
not realizing if you ask right and if
you wait and you trust and you believe
god he’ll bring you a relationship
that’s worthy of who you truly are
you’re tracking with me
and so oftentimes our prayer life is
based on or is predicated by how we see
ourselves
and i’ll tell you right now and as we
talked about last week in worship you’ve
got to get to the place of worship so
you can see yourself the way god sees
you so that you can set your standards
so much higher
than perhaps they are at this moment and
so we’re talking about we talked about
giving of thanks grateful language we
talked about supplications those are
petitions and then he talks about
prayers
now this word prayer
has the idea of communing with god it
has the idea of
of talking to god and which is
interesting because a lot of times the
idea of prayer is
you talking well god it’s me again
and this is what’s going on with my life
and so and so and so forth
and if you would and that’s awesome but
the most powerful potent in my opinion
one of the most
potent and and really wonderful prayer
experiences
are the prayer experiences that that
that this
particular word is describing where it
is
a conversing with god where it’s a
a communing with god it has the idea of
of worship
in it you know one of the things i love
about worship is is
and then praying from the place of
worship is because of the dialogue the
interaction you know
god speaks to me i i say whatever i need
to say and god speaks back to me
sometimes god corrects me and sometimes
says
he says you’re seeing it wrong so i like
this sort of prayer it’s a two-way
conversation and then the question came
up the other day
to me and the question one of my
staff people who’s like spiritual
daughter to me
says how do you know when you’re
conversing with god
the difference between it being your
voice and god’s voice like how do you
know that it’s not you
you know and i said oh baby that’s
that’s easy i said
if i picked up the phone right now and
called you on the phone
and i didn’t say my name you picked the
phone you said hello i said hey
you would know immediately that is me i
said now
now you know seven years ago when we
first met
you you may have had to say who is this
and i would say it’s pt and then after a
while after you
continue to experience my voice
then you would become familiar it’s the
same thing
with god how do you know god’s voice you
know god’s voice because you know god’s
voice
you learn that god’s voice and
oftentimes it happens
through trial and error right when you
first start walking with god and you
first
get into a relationship with god and god
will introduce himself and by the way
god wants to be known god
is not trying to be this ambiguous
figure is this me is this me could this
be me
that’s not god he does he’s not playing
those type of mind games with us
god desires to be known it’s natural for
god to be known by his children
it is unnatural for god to be a stranger
right that’s why jesus came
to rip the veil to to destroy the line
of separation the line of demarcation
between us and god
so it is natural and normal in god’s
perspective for his children to
respond how can you obey who you cannot
perceive you follow what i’m saying
and so and so and so um
and so it is through trial and error
when you first start
yeah you know you wait god was that you
and then you don’t do what that
instruction told you to do and you
suffer the consequence and you say oh
god that was you
you know and then other times you know
you’re wondering if that’s
if that’s god and you take a step of
faith out on that instruction
and you step into favor and blessing and
progress
and so over time you begin to
discern the voice of god and watch this
and then at the same time you also begin
to discern your own voice
you know when it’s you there are moments
where i’m saying something and i’ll stop
at mid sentence because
that’s me that’s pt right there that’s
not the hole it goes
and i know it and the way you’re looking
at me i can tell you know it
so let me just pivot into you follow
what i’m saying so so you become
self-aware and you also become god aware
over time right i want you to study when
you get a chance
uh first samuel chapter three and it’s
the story of
samuel and eli and in particular it’s
the story where
where samuel begins to discern the voice
of god for the first time
now it’s interesting because watch this
is important
god starts calling samuel samuel was
called to be a prophet he didn’t know it
god starts calling samuel and
god basically says samuel samuel and
watch this and
he heard he knew it was a voice of
authority
and so the only authority that he really
understood was eli
so he goes to eli and he says hey eli
you called me and eli’s like nah i
didn’t call you
right so what did he recognize he
recognized that there was something
about the voice that was powerful and
authoritative
but he only had the only point of
reference that he had personally
was eli so he goes to eli so watch this
error trial and error that’s error he
goes to eli that’s an
error and eli says no i didn’t call you
go back and lay down so he goes back
he lays down god calls him again
samuel samuel he’s like it’s got to be
eli you know because i i
you know and so he goes back to eli now
eli
says i didn’t call you and now eli
perceives oh this must be god calling
him
and so so he says go back and lay down
he says and
if that voice that particular voice
calls you again
you say speak lord for your servant
hears
he goes back and he lays down it’s a
fascinating story he goes back and he
lays down
god speaks to him and then he says
speak lord for your servant hears
and then the door of revelation
and this this communal conversational
relationship with god ensues and he
becomes one of the most
powerful prophets of his time literally
prophesying and anointing king
david and you know the rest was history
the messiah
would come out of the lineage of king
david
so how do you know it’s through trial
and error but the more
that you worship and the more that you
get into this
this time of prayer where you’re not
just rambling
but your posture to listen and to hear
the voice of the lord will become
clearer to you
and you’ll be able to experience this
two-way conversation
which is a very very significant part of
prayer are you tracking with me
and so we’ve got prayer that is simply a
giving of thanks we’ve got
prayer which is supplications which is
which have to do with petitions
we have prayer which is about communing
and conversating with god where god
speaks to you and god builds you up and
god gives you insight and he gives you
instruction and he gives you revelation
and you come out of that
having commune with god and being
enlightened and then
the last one which i think is really
powerful is
the prayer discipline of intercession
and this intercession word
is really deep because it literally
means the greek word and it literally
means
to chance upon to chance upon
to chance upon to happen upon
and it’s actually the model that jesus
jesus taught us when he said pray that
your will would be done
and obviously all of us don’t fully
understand what the will of the lord is
and here is the truth and this is really
really
significant and you need to pay
attention to this part
we don’t really know what
the boundaries of our authority
faith and prayer life can produce
we we don’t really know where
our limits are that’s why it is better
to move forward in life without the
consciousness
of limitations than to not
because we don’t know where they are and
so what intercession does
is it allows us to chance upon or to
happen upon what god had set in motion
for us
what god has established for us
that we didn’t quite yet know i need to
say that better
to make it plain and to make it very
specific to you you don’t know where
your boundaries are
td jakes did not know that td jakes was
inside of him
he knew thomas dexter jakes but he did
not know
the bounds of the grace that would be
upon his life
sarah the same thing me i had no idea
at all what was in me but what i did was
i kept praying and i kept reaching
and i kept going and i kept being
curious
about what was in me you ought to right
now be
curious about the limits that are on
your life you need to have an
insatiable curiosity about just
how far your life is meant to go
and that’s what intercession is
intercession watch this
is the guarantee of the fulfillment
of you reaching the bounds
that have been predetermined by god
my son when he was
five or six years old
someone at a party that i was having at
my house
threw him in the pool thought he could
swim he could not swim
uh the holy spirit
helped me not to beat the living
daylights
over the person who threw him in the
pool
in fact had i not been so preoccupied
with responding
to what i believe was my son’s despair i
may not be standing before you now
anyway back to the message
my son had within him
the ability to swim but did not know it
he did not know it i did not know it
his mama didn’t know it nobody around
knew it and we all panicked at the nose
it was like slow motion
i see the dude pick up my son and put
him pool and i’m like
no
and before i could get to him
his potential got to him and lifted him
up and he begins to swim
because he had an ability in him that he
was not
taught but it was in him
to do something that was beyond what i
thought he can do
beyond what he thought he can do beyond
what everybody else around him thought
he can do
and that’s what intercession is
intercession
is asking god for big things it is
asking god
for things that are bigger than your
ability is asking god for things
that are beyond your control and if you
never ever get a super-sized prayer
alive it is almost guaranteed
that you will not reach your potential i
want you to become an intercessor
i want you to start praying for your
life i want you to start praying for
your family
praying for your community praying for
your nation
because there is power in you to unlock
things
in the earth that are bigger than
anything you’ve ever seen before
if that’s you put it in the comments i’m
an intercessor
[Applause]
i’m an intercessor
i i i’m going to chance upon
what god has for me hallelujah i’m going
to chance upon in other words i don’t
know what’s out there
but i know something’s out there and i’m
not going to die
with potential on the inside of me when
i take
my last breath i’m taking my last breath
at the borders of my potential i’m not
gonna die
until i reach everything that god
saw when he dreamed me up i am god’s
dream
i’m gonna fulfill god’s dream with my
life so when i pray i’m saying god
i think that you can make me run this oh
i feel the holy spirit
god give me this industry god give me
this generation god
if you give me an anointing if you give
me a platform
if you give me five smooth stones and a
slingshot
i will bring down every devil and every
demon
standing against this generation come on
somebody
where are my intercessors at who dares
to believe
that there’s more to you than you think
[Music]
that’s what intercession is about that’s
what a new session is about
i can do this there’s more to me cccc
see god keeps the limits he doesn’t tell
you what the limits are
because he always wants you to be
reaching i don’t care how far
how blessed you get how influential you
are
how much money you make whatever
whatever you use to measure
your your greatness i don’t care there’s
more
and how do i know there’s more because
you’ve got this thing called breath
breath breath is the for the purpose of
progress i feel the holy ghost
breath is for the purpose of progress
where if you were finished progressing
god would
take back your breath because you
wouldn’t need it anymore you’re not here
just to be
here breath in you is so that you can
have dominion
an increasing domain i feel the holy
spirit of god
increasing to me can’t stop wanting
stuff
can’t stop won’t stop put it right there
in the comments
can’t stop won’t stop can’t stop won’t
stop
won’t stop praying won’t stop
interceding
won’t stop believing won’t stop going
after it
can’t stop won’t stop god wants to
release the spirit
of can’t stop won’t stop in this house
right now
if that’s you put it in the comments
can’t stop
won’t stop can’t stop won’t stop
can’t stop won’t stop can’t stop
won’t stop can’t stop won’t stop
can’t stop won’t stop can’t stop
won’t stop tribulation can’t stop won’t
stop people talking about can’t stop
won’t stop people not believe can’t stop
won’t stop
people fighting me can’t stop won’t stop
can’t stop
won’t stop can’t stop and you know what
you’re gonna do
you’re gonna walk into heaven can’t stop
won’t stop can’t stop you’re going to be
in the gates of heaven all the angels
gonna be looking at you saying you made
it and you still gonna be saying
stop won’t stop can’t stop won’t stop
can’t stop won’t stop k-stop won’t stop
can’t stop wanting stuff i don’t know
where the limits are
i don’t know i i want i don’t want to be
that guy with that one talent that
buried it
[Music]
can’t stop won’t stop can’t stop
won’t stop can’t stop won’t stop can’t
stop
won’t stop we’re honoring
great people we honor john lewis
recently
can’t stop won’t stop
40 years past the civil rights movement
recognizing that the struggle still goes
on
and can’t you see him saying can’t stop
won’t stop
can’t stop won’t stop
we don’t know where the limits are
so we got to keep going keep going
keep fighting keep pressing keep
believing i want to show you one last
passage of scripture
stop stop can’t stop won’t
stop can’t stop won’t stop we don’t know
where the lines are
[Music]
in psalm 16 5-6 it says oh lord
you are the portion of my inheritance in
my cup
you watch this you maintain my lot
you you you maintain
my lot my lot my boundaries my my
portion my inheritance you you maintain
it you giving
from you what you have for me
god is not a giver like that
god is a rewarder to those who
diligently seek him
he he maintains your lot
[Music]
here we go he he he maintains
his the portion that he is assigned to
you he maintains it
and he releases it according to your
diligence
look oh lord you are the portion of my
inheritance and my cup you maintain my
life
look at this the lines have fallen to me
in pleasant places yes
i have a good inheritance what is he
saying
that there’s boundaries assigned to me
the boundaries assigned to me and i do
not determine where they are
my feelings do not determine where they
are watch this my
failures do not determine where they are
my friends do not determine where they
are my finances do not determine where
they are
you do and so my intercession
[Music]
is is my prayer life saying god
i’m yours saying god
not my will but your will be does he my
will my will might be to stop here
i’m satisfied enough for me it’d be
farther than where my mother went for
his good
that’s wonderful that that’s number one
that but you don’t determine where your
lots you don’t determine what your lines
are
and if you’re breathing that means that
that your territory is wider
it’s bigger you haven’t reached the
fullness i don’t know who this is for
that means that you haven’t reached if
you’re breathing you haven’t reached the
fullness of your territory you still
have more land to conquer you still have
more things
you still have more things to
conquer more things to conquer
more things within you to conquer more
things outside of you to conquer you’re
not finished yet you’re not finished yet
and prayer prayer
is how you stay connected it’s how you
stay connected it’s how you keep things
moving
in intercession in particular
says god stretch me watch this
[Music]
don’t even let me be the limitation
that’s what i want to pray we’re done
that’s what i want to pray we’re done
for now we’re coming back next week
that’s all i want to pray i think that’s
your prayer lord
give me a vibrant prayer life
grateful language is praised and you
inhabit the praises
of your people you sit on
gratitude you enthrone yourself in the
midst of my praise
[Music]
and i’m gonna use gratitude as a weapon
when depression comes upon me
when i start feeling sorry for myself
i’m gonna pull out a dose of gratitude
i’m gonna loose my lips and i’m gonna
not allow my lips to complain
but i’m gonna allow my lips to utter
praise and thanksgiving for what you’ve
done
what you are doing and what you’re gonna
do i will
not be victimized by my own thoughts and
certainly not by my own mouth my mouth
is committed to life and thanksgiving
and god because i recognize you love me
and you for me and sometimes you do
things just because you want to
i’m going to bring my petitions in front
of you i’m going to ask you for things
that you don’t have to do but
but that you may just want to do
because we’re in relationships i’m going
to watch this i’m going to cash in on
the equity of our relationship from time
to time
yeah just like they do in business
every once in a while one business
person calls up another business person
and says hey
you owe me now god doesn’t owe us
anything but the principle is this
we have a relationship and i scratch
your back you scratch mine
and so god i’m going to cash in on hola
bashivara
i’m going to cash in on the equity of my
obedience i’m going to cash in on the
equity of my sacrifice
this is for somebody because believers
who mature in the things of god
and become friends of god have had to
lay things down
they’ve had to lay things down and if
you study genesis
chapter 22 abram the friend of god when
he had to lay down his son abraham
god came back to him and said oh
i’m about to bless you he said blessings
i will bless you and multiplying i will
multiply now that i know
that you won’t keep anything from me
and abram was blessed in every way and
in all things
sometimes when you have earned it
not that you can earn salvation that you
can earn blessing but i’m talking about
when you have given god a series of
those hard yeses and god knows that he
can trust you
and you will never make it about things
i dare you
if that’s you to ask god to petition god
for something
and you watch him show you that he’ll do
it just for you
supplications prayers that’s
conversation
god let’s talk it let’s talk it through
you’re my best friend
i don’t have a better counselor than you
an
intercession intercession
reaching through your prayer life
for the boundaries of your potential
for the inheritance that’s assigned to
you
i want to pray for you
i wanna pray for you
[Music]
and you might be saying god
i think my doubt might be the problem
i think the way i see myself might be
the problem
i think i’m limiting me that’s fine
that’s all right and my prayer for you
is that you will get out of the way and
trust god
some of you when god gives you a
compliment and sometimes even when
people give you a compliment
you resist it no no and you
you think it’s humility and it’s not
it’s a false humility
because there’s a part of you that can’t
see yourself the way god sees you
i want you to make up your mind
that you are who god says you are
whether you like it or not whether
people can get with it or not
when you are conversing with god and god
reveals to you who you are
let everything that will contradict that
get out of the way when god says he’s
going to do this for you
oh flaky
[Music]
don’t talk yourself out of it
don’t don’t oh and no if he says he’s
going to do it for you
just receive it and walk it out until it
comes to pass
receive it you cannot receive what you
don’t receive
i love you family i’m committed
we got so much more ground to cover next
week i’m talking about meditation
as we continue in this series called the
basis basics
of spirituality getting back to basics
you are gonna emerge
from this season that has been straight
out nerve-wracking
so much better so much stronger
so much clearer and with such
a grace for acceleration on your life
that if you don’t keep up your head’s
going to spin
at what god has in store for you i love
you
if you missed the first week go back and
get the first week
this is the type of message that you put
in your podcast repeat it again again
continue to renew your mind we’re
getting back to basics
so that when we step into this new that
god is bringing us into we know
that the biblical new year starts in
september
and there’s a new that’s coming to the
people of god but we’re going to step
into it
with a firm foundation so that we can
fully
maximize and take advantage of all the
things that i believe
that god’s going to be doing in and
through his people
god bless you i love you
stay tuned for this recap