Prayer is Serious Business
chapter 5 verse 16 to 18 james chapter 5 verse 16 to 18 the bible says confess your trespass one to another and pray for one another that you may be healed some say prayer has effect pray that you may be healed prayer is not uh an adventure of just to make yourself feel good prayer is an adventure that leaves a tangible effect for one another that you may be healed the effective fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much elijah was a man with a nature like us and he prayed endlessly that it would not rain and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months because he what because he prayed and he prayed again and the heaven gave rain and the art produced is fruit used is fruit automatically this scripture makes us know that the instrument of prayer is so powerful the instruments of prayer has capacity to affect the heaven and the earth isn't it he prayed and there was no rain and he prayed again and the heaven gave rain and the heart produced his fruit so when prayer is properly offered there will be an effect in the evidence and ultimately on the earth are we together are we here so when we say something is a business a business is something that a person is principally or seriously concerned about something that you are principally or seriously concerned about so when we say prayer is pretty serious business we are encouraging us tonight to be seriously and principally concerned with prayer because prayer is so much powerful and ingrained for the manifestation of god's kingdom that we must we must give a principle place to eat in our activities there is power in strategy there is power in thinking through but there is more much more power in the prayer of a righteous man hallelujah hallelujah when you are serious about something it means you are showing it's something that's characterized by deep thoughts so prayer is something that must be done with deep thoughts are we together and with serious concern and why must we do it with deep thoughts and serious concern because it affects the heavens and impacts the earth glory to god if you really have an instrument that you know at one time can move both the heaven and the earth the question i want to ask you tonight is what will you do with that instrument first peter chapter four verse seven first peter chapter four verse seven but the end of all things is at hand therefore be what serious and worthful in your prayers tell your neighbour it's time to be strategic with prayers the end of all things like time therefore be serious there are too many of us that are carrying a mighty weapon in our hands but we are carrying it with without any without understanding the essence of it so a prosecutor has to tell us when you are praying you must be serious and you must be watchful why must you be serious and watchful because it will touch the heavens and turn the earth glory to god so the bible jesus is teaching us about prayer again in the book of luke chapter 18 verse 1 to 8 luke chapter 18 verse 1-8 he said men always ought to pray and not to faith jesus said i should tell you that prayer is not something you do occasionally prayer is not something you do casually pray is something you do always did you know what i said prayer is what we do always and we must do it seriously and we must do it what fully glory to god he said a man ought to always pray another failure and he gave us a story of a woman that went to an unjust church and there was george george would always tell the woman to come back tomorrow ju to give him to give her the due judgment but the woman never got tired the woman kept coming back until the unjust judge was forced to do what the woman wanted which means prayer can make things that seem not to be apparent to happen to always happen eventually things that do not look like they are in the atmosphere can happen when there is persistence in prayer prayer can make the atmosphere change and can make a season that looks totally unwilling become so cooperative for what god wants to do glory to god i thought you would say amen it's a powerful instrument in ii chronicles chapter 7 i read from verse 12 to 17 solomon god was speaking to him about the temple that he had dedicated which was principally ii chronicles chapter 7 from verse 12 which was principally a house of prayer the bible said the lord appeared to solomon by night and said i have had your prayer i have chosen this place for myself as a house of sacrifice continue when i shot up heaven and there is no rain or command the locust to devote the land and send pestilence among the people if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and watch and pray and seek my face don't just wish about peace pray about them hallelujah the things you are trusting god to do this year don't just wish about them don't just strategize about them pray about them the bible says if my people who are caught by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways then i will hear from heaven and i will forgive their sin and heal their land glory to god continue now my eyes will open my ears will be attentive to the prayer made in this place for i have chosen and sandify this house that my name shall be there forever my eyes and my heart will be there perpetually verse 17 as for you if you walk before me as your father david walk and do according to all that commanded you if you keep my statutes and my judgment okay so in verse 16 god already told him my eyes and my ears will be opened to that place if you got just one chapter behind in second chronicles chapter 6 from verse 18 to 42 i will just rush through solomon gave many instances where prayer needed to be prayed he began to speak to god when he had built the temple he said but with god indeed dwell on earth behold the heaven and the earth cannot contain you how much more how much less system which are built verse 19 yet regard the prayer of your servant solomon began to say god the truth of the mother is what abuse can't contain you but there is the gap what i'm going to do to make up for this gap is what i call prayer so i began to pray and he prayed like at about one two three almost one two three four five six seven eight nine ten he raised about ten intercessions in that place and i want you to look at the intersection in verse 19 to 21 he prayed about the temple itself he said lord regard the prayer of your servant and his suffocation oh lord listen to my cry and the prayer with your servant is praying before you that your eyes be opened towards this temple the first prayer he prayed was the prayer of certification of that house itself god hear me let your eyes be opened to this house and when you get to verse 22 to 23 he said if people make oats and sin against one another he said if anyone sins against his neighbor and is forced to take a note and comes and takes a note before the altar in this temple then hear from heaven so he said prayer as a way of of use prayer to speak to bring god's attention upon that house then he told god that when people begin to make oats and stand before him that he should hear from heaven whatever they do in that house are we together church are we together in verse 24 it gave another instance where prayer is needed he said or if your people are defeated before an enemy one of the times you need to pray is when you are going through seasons of defeat and every christian at one point or the other there are seasons in your life where you things that you used to and you are just beating you back if your people are defeated before the enemy if they've sinned against you because many times every most of our defeats are attached to our sins people don't just fall people don't just lose many times we lose because we are not sensitive to certain things god has been pointing to us if they sin against you and return and confess your name and pray and make supplication before you in this temple he said then hear from heaven so prayer he spoke about prayer in dedicating the temple he spoke about prayer in conflict resolutions of quotes before people he spoke about prayer when people are going through a sense of defeat in verse 26 and 27 is if the heavens are shot up and there's no rain because they have sinned against you when they pray towards this place it began to show us please that prayer can change prayer can change even at an atmospheric condition if the heavens are short for no reason he said if people come and pray so prayer can affect when you are going through a season of defeat defeat prayer can affect when the heavens just seems to be what to be shot are we still here in verse 27 to 29 he said then here in heaven and forgive the sins of your people that you may teach them to walk in a good way and send rain on your land which are given to your inheritance verse 28 when there is farming in the land pestilence blight or mute the locals or glass supper when the enemies beseech them in the land of their cities whatever plague or whatever sickness there is whatever prayer whatever supplication is made so prayer is made during the seasons of pestilence like during the seasons of continuously mutating kovid 19. somebody told me this morning they said there is another variant cue or something like that so i said okay when israel is defeated when heavens are shot when there is famine and pestilence farming and pestilence automatically means there is economic depression when you interview the president of the country after several years and the only answer i can give to you is go back to the land you need to pray because there means there's no plan did you hear what i just said he said they said when you kill me dollar was 197 he's over 400 he said that's what i'm saying people need to go back to the land to the farm i'm still trying [Music] to understand and you are laughing you need to pray if these are the people thinking about our future and the future of our children how we are laughing and they are planning to perpetuate another type of theirs glory to god okay so if i'm the only one that is still taking that one as a body in verse 29 to 32 he said whatever prayer supplication is made by anyone or by other people when each one knows his own body that is personal supplication one of the reasons why we pray is we pray concerning persons we pray when heavens are shocked we pray when we are defeated but sometimes we we pray to consanities that are personal to us they are personal griefs and burdens give me that verse 29 again let me see what is there he said when each one knows his own body and his own grief and spread his hand towards this temple no matter how corporate our life is there is something about your life that is only you that understand the meaning of that thing there's a part of your journey there's a part of our journey that is corporate but does not stop our individuality in one of the expressions of paul paul said you are all together the body of christ but yet you are members individually god does not just say i have answered your church so i've forgotten you god will answer your church then it will cascade down to you to your personal body your personal griefs are we together prayer is a serious business prayer can i'm showing you the scope of it in fact by the time you get to verse 32 and verse 33 of this same place he said moreover concerning a foreigner even if a foreigner somebody that is outside of the covenant becomes towards this place was out of your faith and come towards this place and stretch his hand and pray he said god here and i was asking how does god hear a foreigner until i remembered in acts chapter 10 verse 1 to 4 that an angel of the lord appeared to cornelius who was a foreigner and his bible says he was a man that served god and gave much arms and prayed he was a foreigner but he prayed and god responded because god saw a heart that was planting towards him and god had to show him i said go call for a man called simon he's in the house of simon the turner he will show you what you must do god responded to for cornelius hands and prayer you send them how many of you have a sentimentality that is easy to be sent but when god sends you god always sends you something that is bigger than you whenever god sent them and when they pray because immediately you receive a sense of being sent one of the priests that will consequently follow it is a deep sense of prayer because prayer will bring you dependence because what god sends you to do is going to be gathering you god taught israel when you are entering the promised land i'm sending you against ten bigger and mighty and stronger nations than you god never told them that the nations were meeting are lower than them god made them to know from the beginning that those nations were mightier speaking in the flesh there is no strength in the natural but we are sent towards these things that we don't have natural strength for so the gap what makes up for our lack of strength to fight what is bigger than us is the place of prayer am i making sense and finally in that same chapter he gave us another reason why people pray that's what 10 reasons i've given you if you are followed in verse 36 to 40 he spoke about when your p when they sin against you for there is no one who does not sin one of the powers of prayer prayer helps us to be able to transact in humility when we are when we are wrong are you following me that's why not all prayers are aligned they are prayers of lord have mercy on me when they sit against you and there is no one who does not say and you become angry with them and deliver them to the enemy and take them captive to a land far or near yet when they come put themselves in the land where they are captive and repent and make supplication to you in the land of their captives we have seen we have done wrong we have committed wickedness and when they return to you with all their art and without their soul someone said without their hearts without their soul now whatsoever is going to engage all your heart and all your soul is a serious business one of the reasons why we don't have so much impact and prayer is because it doesn't it doesn't engulf everything we do sometimes it's just something we just do sometimes people are just praying but in their heart they know other things they want to do when you want to really get the god to move you need to return to god with all your heart there are moments you need to set aside before god because except god speaks nothing else is valid nothing else doesn't matter what anybody say it doesn't matter the promise anybody gave you say when they return with all the other on their soul from the land of the captain when they have been captive and pray towards their land which will give their fathers and the city which you have chosen towards the temple which are built for your name hear from heaven that statement is consistent somebody say hear from heaven may your cry resound in heaven in the name of jesus christ prayer he prayed towards the dedication of the temple prayed concerning sin and oath prayed concerning israel's defeat prayed concerning when heavens are short prayed when there is fame and peace when there is famine and pestilence prayer concerning personal supplications he talked about the prayer of a foreigner he spoke about when the people go out to battle and he spoke about when the people repent and find redirection in god glory to god none of these issues are tribal issues look at the last one they said they said when they already carried into captivity you don't get when you're already carried into captivity and the enemy has already gripped you you don't you're not playing game you need help isn't it have you ever entered a face in your life where you really feel trapped it doesn't matter what you know there are situations that happen to you and they defeat knowledge what knowledge can help joseph in potiphar's wife's room he was already played they caught him in a hard place scripture told us there was no servant there any anything they say about him who was there to verify he went to prison for what he did not do because it was a hard place that he cannot even use his five senses and his original skills to get out of there are situations in your life that your orientation skills can't deliver you from are you following me the situations in your life that even your your certificate can't take you out of there are tight places but god has a way of bringing us out of it i thought you say amen i'll speak about different posters of prayer in the book of fourth samuel chapter 1 verse 9 to 18 we saw somebody pray some deaths of prayer that person was called hannah the bible says she rose up after she had finished eating she began to pray to god from the bitterness of her heart she was pouring her heart the way she was praying was so deep that the bible said she was speaking in her heart but our mouth was just you know she was ambitious of soap we prayed to the lord and wept in anguish verse 11 she made a vow verse 12 it happened as she continued praying before the lord that a lie washed her mouth hannah spoke in her heart only our lips move there was no vocalization because many a times the reason why most of our prayers are not deep is because we just want men to know we are praying so there's little preparation in the heart but there's more preparation in the mouth so when i say let's pray anybody and nothing is speaking in their heart hannah i would rather now i will show you another posture prayer where your voice needs to speak out but i would rather have a heart that is talking to god without the leaves moving than having noise that is you know have a voice that is making noise when my heart is not there because that one will make me win with men but i will have no weight before god that's a posture of prayer that we learned from hannah someone that they didn't understand that they felt she was drunk and you know even eli accused of being drunk but she said i'm not drunk i'm just pouring out my soul to god and eli said where the lord hands her your cry and you know god will hear us what is in the heart answer and give a child praise god in in isaiah 38 verse 1 and 2 i'll show you another poster of prayer i saw that one in ezekiel isaiah 38 verse 1 and 2. in those days this guy was sick and near death isaiah the prophet the son of amos went to him and said to him thus says the lord set your house in order for you shall die and not leave verse 2. and hezekiah turned his face towards the wall what does that mean and pray to god hezekiah blunt doubt from people he turned his serious business as a crier turned his face towards what the wall every cut here that came every visitor that came everybody that greeted him your excellency he did not respond to anybody today may god help us when we are praying our facebook does come we go check it as do that comment can answer your desire if facebook comments could change your status you will not be here if phone calls could change our level change and bring us answers to our question who will be billionaires this man just turned his face to the wall what are you talking to dear not none of your business i'm not talking to me i'm talking to god glory to god i hope we pray seriously like that help our prayers have that level of what see let me tell you the truth prayer does not have to be elongated but if you really open your heart sincerely and allow a true connection to happen between god god hears from heaven are we together are we together prayer is so serious that sometimes he's done with fasting that's not that's not that's no joke esther taught us that in esther chapter 4 verse 13 to 17 esther said you know anybody that goes to the king without being invited is going to be killed and except the king straightforward is set up to the person he said though i am queen i have not been called for the past 30 days because sometimes people that you think don't have challenges have deep ones that more than the ones that you have the people that are outside are sharing the same body with the person in the palace and esther said but if we keep waiting something will go wrong he said so tell the jews to fast i think we fast for three days and i'll go to the king anything that will make you break your food and it's not sickness it must be something serious isn't it talk to me this is where you are looking i know you like food now so why are you making it look like i like food apparently partner particularly that is i don't eat much some of you don't eat much but you eat five five minutes you know those type of eating salad i just take one small thing but if you check between money and evening now you have eaten five times but you don't eat much you like food now the day you set aside food to look at god it will it will take a posture of something more serious and peter said the end of all this is at hand be serious therefore onto prayers and be watchful praise god i thought you say amen the church in acts chapter 4 verse 23 to 31 acts chapter 4 23 we saw another dimension another poster of prayer being let god they went to their own companions reported to the chief priests and the elders what the chief priests and the others had said to them verse 24 and when they add that they reached what before you say oh and that attitude of prayer is the accurate one she was just speaking in her heart read your bible holistically there is a part of prayer that even everybody around you we know you are praying paul and silas prayed and signed praise and the prisoners had done if what is laid on your heart as a body is something to vocalize out don't try to pray honest prayer are you following me they read their voice with one accord that was that was a seriousness that was on prayer if you go further in acts chapter 12 verse 1 to 18 aaron killed james and when he saw that he pleased the jews what did he do again he arrested peter the church the bible said and constant prayer were offered by the church constant prayer they say what can we do we cannot do anything they began to bombard heaven they bombarded me with so much seriousness the bible said they gathered in one place and they were praying 2022 is a year of purposeful promotion when you engage it prayerfully enough of hearing words that don't come to pass in your life constant prayer i hope some of you have not started getting into the also ambassador of the year it's just january it was today's date six god has started taking the backside then by june you begin to complain he has not been faithful have you been it's becoming hard for most christians to even talk to god for one hour very hard they are business doing what look at jesus i've shown you anna hezekiah esther i've shown you the church even our lord jesus christ in hebrews chapter 5 verse 7 the bible told us jesus poster of prayer for you to know how serious prayer was who in the days of his flesh when he had offered up what prayers and supplication with what meant cries say very much cry see the way some of you are cross crossing your leg you need to be shouting at and tears i mean how can i have a nation that doesn't have plans for me i would rather go and be crying before god shall not speak to the emotion one bad left for me left for me i know my will god god is not angry with your tears with vermin christ and tears to him who is able to save him we are living in a nation where nobody can give you security nobody can give you water nobody can give you like money is not that you are walking it's not even sure that you will be paid you better cry to the one who is able to save and don't do as if you have everybody does as if dangote takes their cause uh father lord bless me here brocco scary motion father lord i thank you no scary machine i don't talk about that then you get to master complain then your husband can't sleep where you need to shout you didn't shout who cannot help you it's basically you're gonna be disturbed then you become rachel don't you give me children yes i died jacob answered am i god that there could be some rules he didn't talk to god as your husband jesus jesus took prayer so serious that in mark chapter 1 verse 35 to 39 mark chapter 1 verse 35 to 39 the bible told us that long while before day jesus rose up a long while before daylight he went out and departed to a solitary place and there he prayed long while before daylight whatever will make you cut short your sleep must be something serious prayer can make you cut your sleep cut short cut a little of your food amen because if god moves one thing down your beard is more than 10 million people trying to help you may god help you this year a long while before daylight to a solitary place there's some prayer you live even jesus he will carry three people to get simon when he gets there he will say pray then he will go one step away some of us the only time we pray is congregational prayer immediately you are solitude you are sleepy because to you you don't know that prayer is serious business terrible prayer is serious business something to preoccupy your mind with in luke 22 39-43 i need to show you jesus coming out he went to the mount of olives as it was a custom and his disciples also followed him and when he came to that place he said to them pray that you enter not into temptation that's one of the greatest motivations to pray is i prepare you to handle the devil and it was withdrawn from them about a stone through so after he had told them what to do he too that took the posture and went away from there he never um what and prayed say father if it is your will take this cup away from me nevertheless not my way but yours be done and an angel appeared to him from heaven strengthening him continuing and being in agony he prayed more honestly then his sweat became like great drops of blood that's a let's pray that's typical when jesus saw the contention for his the will of god over his life the bible say he prayed his sweat go to davos 44. it was like great dogs about falling to the ground the more he feels a god in his heart the more honestly being in agony he prayed more endlessly that's the response because if he didn't pray the agony will overtake him are you following me you remember hannah there was another person in luke chapter 2 verse 36 to 38 the bible said she was a daughter of a dwell of the tribe of usher she was of great age she lived with her husband seven years from her virginity this woman was a widow of 84 years so she did not depart from the temple but served god with what with first peace and prayer is one of the ways of serving god she served god with fastings and prayer night and day now which of these things have i described that look like somebody's playing even if you are praying the silent prayer of anna he's so engaging that it was like she was drunk i follow him and if we are praying the prayers of jesus is so engaging that his sweat was like blood there was no place where it was described casually even if you want to pray for five minutes pray that five minutes as if you really know you want to let your voice be heard in heaven glory to god so in the scripture have shown us instances of why they pray in the old testament posters of different personalities as they pray i'll show us attitudes that the bible encourages us to pray with number one he told us to pray without ceasing first thessalonians 5 16 pray without seizing rejoice always verse 17 pray without what it's not s-e-a-s-o-n that's what we pray with us pray with us don't come into cessation prayer is a permanent future prayer is not for when you are poor so that when you are rich you cannot relax pray without ceasing prayer is not for when you are single until you are married prayer has no cessation point is always a valid because it's a serious issue if it can determine your life plan or not let me be as serious as that it can determine whether you live or die because if there is pestilence in the land and you don't pray pestilence will carry you but if my people who are called by my name shall humble themselves and pray i will hear from everyone heal their land and that automatically means i will elongate their days pray without ceasing number two pray in understanding first corinthians 14 15. first corinthians 14 15.
what is the conclusion then i will pray with the spirit i will pray with what talk to me i will pray with what one of the challenges we have in pentecostal churches is that most believers today cannot pray in the understanding every five five minutes calm down don't mask your anger talk to god about it don't mask your frustration sometimes when i tell god you know i'm angry i'm actually angry no you have immediately you can voice out to god how you feel many times you have given you have gotten 50 percent of the solution because you are not lying to yourself god this woman has gotten me angry this woman that you gave me has gotten me and i'm not talking about mama i'm talking about you i'm talking about you you know but and you know i cannot do anything stupid so i just spoke only suffering and that girl said you look at jonah then god will come to you do you have any right to be hungry jonah wanted to die but he didn't have right to kill himself so he said god kill me did you read eh elijah i wanted to die but why didn't he take sword he said god kill me no matter how frustrated you are when you turn it to god it will help you to maneuver to go through that experience properly because when elijah said god kill me do you know what god did god gave him food do you know what when jonah said god kill me god made the plan to groove his head he said you you are just frustrated because many times when you are talking so bad you are just frustrated of a meaning and you don't understand that your that that your presence what did paul put it our present light affliction many times our affliction is light but because it's in the present it looks so big because it's with us we cannot see his weight because it's as if he's controlling everything we are doing at that moment so when god wants to answer your elijah when you say give him food when he sleeps again wake him up tell him dude same jonah perhaps when the plant grew uncovered you know jonah was happy jonah suddenly forgot he has spoken to god i want to die suddenly jonah knows i do the people that wanted to die now they are flying first class and if there is always is just little turbulence they say father lord i find it so when they thought they were about to die they were just frustrated but when god changed their story they don't want to die again they now go assist this month's medical check-up i thought they said that and those days were already thinking a lot of those songs life is vanity single collage you are just frustrated and that can change that you're feeling like the advantage of you now begin to you become ecclesias preacher the simple things somebody said no to you go to share gun gun there and sometimes when you go to the hospital they say you have headaches they see that they diagnose exactly what is wrong because your problem is not a dick your problem is that you are not sleepy the headache is a symptom and sometimes we react to the symptoms without ever getting what exactly is wrong with us are we together with understanding number three prayer in trunks this what is the conclusion that i pray with what with the spirit what is prayer with the spirit if a man prays in an unknown tongue it's a spirit man that is praying there are some prayers can i tell you the true truth that you cannot have any word to explain i said something in december and if i didn't say anything that would make so much meaning to me when i was teaching you about thanksgiving from pauline and pieces paul said i thank my god i pray in tongues more than you all me i don't know how people do it but i thank god for tongues ah because we it's not this is a distracted world there are many times when you want to concentrate everything is just pulling you but do you know that place they cannot enter yeah you are seated even in your office under your breath i will pray with my spirit glory to god it should be done without season it should be done in understanding should be done in tongues and in the spirit it should be done with persistence that's what luke chapter 18 taught us it should be done with knowledge isaiah chapter 45 verse 11 45 11. thus says the lord the holy one of israel and his maker ask of me things to come concerning my sons ask don't just blab and concerning the work of my hands command me now you can't command what god when you don't know his mind it should be done with thanksgiving philippians 4 verse 6 and 7. philippians 4 verse 6 and 7. he said be anxious for nothing but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to god and the peace of god we shall personally sun we guard your heart and mind through christ jesus it should be done with persistence it should be done with knowledge it should be done with thanksgiving it should be done with faith please when you are praying expect god to hear are we together church i know this one i'm not shining left today i'm doing serious bible study today look at james 1 from verse five to eight james one from verse five to eight if anyone lacks wisdom let him ask of god who gives you only brilliant without reproach and it will be given to him but let him ask what in faith with without with no doubting for he would doubt just like a wave of the sea driven and touched by the wind let not that man's supposed to receive anything from the lord it's not you that you leave this place he said god has answered my prayer before juneteenth are going to happen then you get out everybody is talking despair you join them sometimes one does not understand the ways of this our god toss to our fruit let not that man suppose that we receive anything from god from the lord verse eight verse eight for he is a double-minded man unstable in all his ways glory to god this will be done with faith james chapter 5 verse 13 to 18 james chapter 5 thank you jesus are you blessed are you sure i know it's because it's praying if i'm declaring prophecy now says personal promotion you'll be shouting but this is the way to purposeful proportion you will pray until you get to in the midst of a crowd you to be like only you are god alone is there you are disconnected you are like is a guy who have turned your tongue to the wall you are not seeing any other person let people be observing you david was dancing before god micah was observing he said that he's not the king of israel he's close to us he was almost naked david said i i just didn't even know i was doing it before god who made me king instead of your father i would rather stand before the god who can change kings so that my generation can be perpetrated naked down to have a horn that will be taken away his own clothes were naked but his kingdom was preserved but in second sandwich chapter one he said the garment of saul is on the mount of gibra as do he was not anointed that was a related man he went to the mountain covered the stream of his armor hung his body to the wall of of the philistines they said let me let me just little nakedness pray now don't mind anybody there's nobody that does not know the power of answering prayer when god answers your prayer they will envy you whatever [Music] i know nobody is like micah here with everybody here for serious business god will bring you is anyone among you suffering let him pray is anyone cheerful let him sing psalms is anyone sick among you let him call for the others of the church and let them what we should expect that prayer has effect he didn't let him come for the others of the church let them surrender and sit around and say this way it is where let them provide anointing him with oil in the name of the lord look at verse 15. verse 15 now is there and the prayer of faith will save something will save so prayer can save he will save the sick at least in my life i know one person that should have died 30 years ago with her life by the prayer of faith everybody left it was over but by the prayer of faith now somebody's in common does not mean yesterday if god can get a couple of people who are who knows that prayer is serious business thank you jesus jesus if you want to pray ana's prayer please pray serious prayer that's all of you if you are dancing here you will dance with eddie they said let's pray you every immediately five minutes you sit down and you know you're out of heart you are not here if standing will make you concentrate stand you know vigils are the i'm preparing you for vegeta where i'm preaching now you know i just want to take one quiet moment i'm talking to god in my heart and then they knock you i negotiate you have slept pray with faith and the prayer of said we save the thick some of the amen prayer should be done without sin it's important our life before god it's not just a magic one in proverbs 15 verse 8 proverbs 15 8. proverbs 15 verse 8 glory to god 15 8.
the sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the lord but the prayer of the upright is what is his delight it's not all prayers that move god the prayer of the wicked is an abomination god who is this he can't shout whether he takes a poster of anna or takes the poster of shouting isaiah 59 verse 1 to 4 got ears and not heavy that he cannot hear his hands are not short that he cannot say it is your iniquity so prayer is something to do you have to even when you're approaching god in prayer you you you allow god to express your life you can't believe in permanent anger and betrayal and envy and now want god to answer your prayer not love unforgiveness is a pillar an alcohol in the name of jesus every single time you cannot continue in sin and let's say grace you are bound romans six verse one listen prayer is something that one of the advantages gives you is that it gives you opportunity to explore your life properly if truly you take it as a serious business are we together if truly you take it as you want god to hear you you will check every aspect you will make sure that you don't give the enemy a chance anywhere in your life prayer is so powerful sometimes that you cannot do it alone you have to do it in a company in matthew 18 verse 19 and 20 matthew 18 verse 19 and 20. i said to you that if two of you shall agree concerning anything that they ask it shall be done for them by my father in heaven as powerful i've showed you how jesus took people to get cement and withdrew from them and stayed alone there is a place for that but there is a place to for what for congregational prayer the apostles went back to their company and they raised their voice with one accord there are some prayers that are prayed in the community of faith and today one of the meetings you had these things people respond to most is prayer meetings if it's prophecy night everybody will come there is power generated in synergy when we raise our voice together and agree for wherever two or three are gathered together in my name i'm in their midst acts 4 23 and 24 they returned to their own company and lifted their voice acts 1 12 to 14 when they returned from mont olives when jesus was ascended the bible said they entered one room one upper room and continued they had entered they went to an opera room peter james and all of them mentioned in verse 14. what were they doing in the open verse 14 next verse who is there they continued with one according what in what in prayer and supplication and that what did that one do to them by the time you get to acts chapter two verse one of one to four acts chapter two the bible say in those days when pentecost are come they were all with one accord prayer meeting is not for prayer band in fact if there is any subgroup that should not have members in church that every believer should be a member his prayer yeah today i have a great job two types of in discipline one the people who don't want to join them say those are the people using prayer to walk to the people who are there saying bad bro whether they are there or the people that are not there both of them are wrong because it's the life of a believer let me ask anybody is there anybody here that knew how to pray may they give out you go burn again who knows how to talk today they give back to you start talking the gay they give back to you naturally i talk but how did you suddenly become so fluent in talking what happened you interacted you went to school you were taught you learned you saw your prayer before long it became normal that's how prayer is i remember when i first got born again i didn't know song so this one that when i come to when i come and put it here and i sometimes i just think from my spirit by the time i'm singing the song i just discovered the song is in tandem with my message i don't have songs here it comes from my spirit sometimes i don't i don't even know why i'm singing the song but when i was gone it was not like that the first songs i learned were a cappella song because i did i didn't know before faith hey pray escape we listen we'll add faith praise you don't defeat a priest was the one that now recorded prince worship songs in case sets they were selling that time but those days when i wake up in the morning i don't know which song to say we have seen his glory [Music] we have seen his glory i don't know that song to say god was not angry i didn't know god [Music] you were shenzhen for some of you it's only in church you think it too don't do as if glory to god one accord in daniel chapter 2 verse 16 to 19 when daniel was to be killed with the wise man of babylon the bible said he went to the king and asked for a few days then he went to his brethren shadrach meshach and abednego then let us pray or else we all die and the bible says god revealed it to danny and then i told the king it's not because i'm wiser than any other person for you to know that daniel knows the value of company by that daniel chapter 2 verse 48 and 49 after the king had exalted daniel because daniel gave him the interpretation of verse 14 49 daniel the bible says the king promoted and i gave him gift i made him chieftain when we have been blessed with the company we make it look like it was our own ranking some of you are only just blessed because by one reason or the other that you cannot explain god just positioned in a good place with good in a good church it's not because you are wiser than people this evening when i was coming back to the best sharing some very ridiculous things certain believers are calling revival for with me people who thought they don't have eternal life that they have eternal life but they are still present to everlasting life people who say the doctrine of christ cannot deliver then that is the doctrine of christ we were just laughing but why are we laughing we most of us here i know somebody that when the person came here she was defending that doctrine for three years but father look at it that is tending towards psychiatric crisis that's what we happen there because that's what we happen something just pulled you and please so that other i know you are seeing me but there are people people raised us people poured into us people surrounded us glory to god prayer should be done with humility if my people who are called by my name shall ombud themselves one of the major traps of many prayer movements is that it becomes a platform for pride because it makes people think that it makes them think that they are the one that moved the hand of god we just went six hours that time was just my sisters just he said what's it happening in this country give us three days say you people don't have stature in the spirit we have started you know why you think you have statue god hurt you if god did not hear you you just have noise if my people woke up and my name shall all put themselves please go god give a grace to the humble because by the way they said the first time he prayed for td days it was on cloud nine it came out there's a way you pray the whole world will look like hands before you you'll be looking for the devil where are you then he said pick the book the first page he read in the book he read about a man that prayed for 30 days he just closed his pride and the day was preaching her heart before him he said i know my friends who can pray more than me he said whatsoever i have i am by the grace of god he was preaching it in ui he prays god is a mysterious god i've seen god answer certain prayers soon that people the world just my father in jesus name now receive it and people will just tell me walk if we might be after not like that it's just grace so it positions us to be humble glory to god things that prayer must never become to you it must never become issue matthew 6 verse 5 telling everybody must never becoming sure when you pray you shall not be like the hypocrites for they love to pray standing in synagogue and on corners of the street have you ever seen prayer people the way they will be walking say today say where there are several of us that are prophets that god has put this country in our heart that they may be seen by men i should i say to you they have their reward continue but when you pray into your room when you have shot your door pray to your father which is in secret and your father was in secret reward in the open now this does not mean you cannot pray in the congregation of men this is actually teaching principally the attitude doesn't mean you can't play public place but when you pray go into your room and the father who sees the secret will roger openly yes and when you pray do not use vain repetitions as the eden do for the thing that will be hard for many words do not be like therefore your father knows the things you need before you ask him so he began to tell us how to pray number two he must not become a platform for pretense because most people when they now they want people to just perceive that they are doing something if they are not even doing anything luke 20 verse 45 luke 20 verse 45 is that let me check it properly look okay then he said in the hearing of other people then in the hearing of what the people said to his disciples beware of the scribes who desire to go around in long robes love greetings and market places best seat in the synagogue and best places at the feasts would divorce with those houses and for a pretest make one encountered let me pray for you prayer can become a strong platform for pretense just to appear to men even if he's not making any connection with heaven with prayers they make long prayers they will receive greater condemnation glory to god but i've shown you so many things this evening this serious bible study showing you from pictures of why we need to pray to push us of people that pray to attitudes we should pray with to attitudes that must not be present when we pray but when you pray always know that god hears if your cloud is full of water they will empty themselves on the face of the earth 2022 will not be empty one of the ways it will not be empty is that prayer will become serious business in church at home with your friends alone please pray pray with intention pray with intensity glory to god jeremiah 33 verse 3 jeremiah 33 verse 3 call to me i will answer you i will show you great and mighty things which you do not know you don't know it i know it but the connection between the one who does not know and the one who knows is what call unto me call and i will show you your prayers will receive answers this year in the name of jesus jeremiah 29 verse 10 to 14. jeremiah 29 verse 10 to 14. thank you jeremiah 29 thus says the lord after 70 years i completed a babylon i visit and perform my good work towards you i will cause you to return to this place if i know the thoughts that i think to what she says a lot thoughts of peace are not of evil to give you a future and a hope and you will call upon me and go and pray to me god says one of the major signs of restoration that the captivity is broken is that you will call upon me and go and pray to me and i will listen to we are a people that the captivity has been broken over our lives we have been delivered from the grip of babylon and sin so that gives us the platform to go out pray to him and we won't listen and you will seek me and find me when you search for be with all your heart in other words you will seek me and find me when prayer becomes serious business to you you don't seek it is something that is important that is central to you that you seek with all your hearts you receive me you will find me when you seek me with all your heart verse 14 the last verse i will be found by you says the lord i'll bring you back from your captivity somebody say prayer has effect so when you is where you find him and he will begin to bring you back i will gather you from the nations and from all the places where i've given you says the lord i'll bring you to the place which have caused you to be carried away captain don't forget that when daniel understood by books that the day the time according to that so i want you to check into your life maybe there is something to nullify maybe there is something else to pick up but god must hear your voice i want you to begin to talk to god tonight i want you to talk to him elijah is a man of life person and he prayed that there should not be rain and there was no rain for three and a half years your prayer can affect your work space in your company can affect the work the policy of your of your family can affect it can affect your children it can affect your church it's some it's a serious business it's negotiating the destiny of nation it can affect the atmosphere of your nation deal with humility the end of all this time therefore be serious and watchful to prayer [Music] is there anything in doing your confidence before god put it under the blood tonight put it under the blood tonight put it under the blood tonight put it under the blood tonight let your confidence arise [Music] myself myself in the lord and oh i i will our eyes i'm oh let your grace of suffocation for jesus [Music] is without your help [Music] yes my father yes [Music] save your people respect still up your strength save your people save us in the life save your people see only is see my witness time oh so this is yes oh is [Music] spirit foreign foreign foreign [Music] as a mighty and terrible one [Music] stand in this environment as a mighty and terrible one show what your strength desire show for your strength in my life show about your strength lord you know my weakness let this group of satan be broken let this group of satan be broken we are returning for strength are you going to begin we must fulfill our mandate in 2022 we run towards it we run towards it we fulfill the plan of god he said [Music] in jesus name say call upon me and i will show you great and mighty things which you do not know lord everything we are wherever ignorance has allowed the devil to take advantage of me show me what i don't know open my eyes what i do not know lord teach me something new that will advance my capacity increase my capacity make my impact to increase i want you to call upon god and trust him to show you let him show you something you do not know something you have not worked in before something you have neglected something you have despised but that is important let them show you let me show you motherboard [Music] the pillars of which you are buildings don't let me label on things that will not stand show me the pillars oh for the pillars of the heart are in the hand of god show me the penis of the earth show me how to label that we stand i will not be wasted and we need to fulfill his purpose show me the penis of the earth [Music] in jesus name say father fill my heart with thanksgiving this year let my attitude be with thanksgiving the bible said be anxious for nothing but with prayer and thanksgiving make your requests known to god lord i receive a new comment of thanksgiving an attitude of thanksgiving to under god all i do in prayer this year talk to god and receive that comment receive that comment of thanksgiving lord everything i face i face with praise everything i win i thank with praise let praise be upon my lips let praise be in every situation i face praise for you will hear me for you will hear me for you have heard me from heaven i thank you lord for you are changing my heart you are shifting me correcting me correcting me changing everything [Music] he's changing everything [Music] you are the holy ghost [Music] i oh the seal of the edge changing everything in my life is the holy ghost [Music] he stops [Music] is forever [Music] is [Music] and your kingdom [Music] your power is forever [Music] jesus [Music] [Music] [Music] your kingdom [Music]
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