Participants: Shelley Quinn
Series Code: 09HC
Program Code: 09HC000009
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00:24 Welcome to 3ABN's Fall Camp Meeting, Homecoming 2009.
00:32 Featuring inspired messages from your 3ABN Family. 00:39 Along with uplifting Christian music all to prepare 00:42 your heart for the coming of the Lord. 01:01 Cradled in my arms I held you 01:08 and I loved you more with each day passing by, 01:16 Sharing joy, sharing pain, through 01:20 the sunshine and the rain. 01:25 I can't believe it's time to say goodbye 01:33 I don't know what the future brings you 01:40 But, I hope that you'll keep heaven as your goal 01:46 Listen to this point, For I taught you how to pray 01:51 and made sure you knew the way 01:56 So, remember my request before you go. 02:03 Just be there When we finally make it 02:10 home and when we stand before the throne. 02:15 Just be there. So, when I turn around to see 02:24 if you will be standing next to me. Just be there 02:49 It's not an easy road you're traveling but every 02:56 place that you go Jesus has been. 03:03 So, when you find you made a turn, 03:08 forgetting what you've learned, 03:13 you may have to start all over again. 03:21 It's not an easy load you're bearing 03:28 but the trials of your faith. Will make you strong. 03:35 Facing danger unaware, He won't allow 03:41 what we can't bear. So, my prayer is that your 03:47 faith will lead you home. Just be there. 03:55 When we finally make it home and when we stand 04:01 before the throne. Just be there 04:07 So, when I turn around to see if you will be standing 04:16 next to me, Just be there. Will you be standing 04:31 next to me. Just be there. Just be there. Amen. 04:56 This has been a musical Sabbath, hasn't it. Amen. 05:01 And we've got an exciting story to hear right now. 05:07 Do you know that there are over 200 stations, some 05:12 that we actually own some affiliates 05:14 that are now carrying 3ABN radio. Can you say 05:18 Amen to that. Over 200, I signed four affiliate 05:22 agreements yesterday for New Zealand. 05:28 All over the world these are coming in. 05:31 And I'm going to invite Jay Christian to come and 05:33 join us and Jay bring us up-to-date with some of 05:37 these fantastic things, would you. 05:39 Okay Jim. Thank you very much. Thank you. 05:44 Boy, what a bunch of nice smiley faces. 05:48 Looks good to see you all. Thank you so much 05:52 for coming out. We have so many things happening 05:53 in radio and by the way when Jim and I were 05:55 talking back stage before it was time to come out. 05:59 He reminded me of something that I forgot 06:02 about and so I'm glad he reminded me of that, 06:04 so I can tell you and that is that every where that 06:09 the regular over the year TV downlinks for 3ABN 06:13 television. As they change to digital, you'll 06:17 also be able to listen to 3ABN radio from your 06:20 television. Now anybody who has satellite can do 06:24 that right now. You just go to the right channel 06:26 and you either get 3ABN English and Latino or 06:29 whatever and you move on to the radio channels 06:31 and you can listen to us, but that has not been 06:34 possible for the TV stations up until now. 06:37 And so as your local TV station, that's 3ABN 06:41 owned, as it changes to digital, then go to channel 06:44 3, I believe it is that's what it is on our 06:48 downlink here in Southern Illinois. 06:51 So we would like to encourage you to do that 06:52 and listen to us occasionally. We hope you will do that. 06:57 There are some things that probably are happening 07:00 in radio, you may not be aware of and so what I'm 07:03 going to do is just give you some of the exciting 07:05 information time is limited, if it was up to the 07:10 3ABN radio staff. I know that we would have a lot 07:13 of information between all of us to pass along to you. 07:17 But, this is skimming the top, so to speak. 07:21 But, we do have our first Internet radio affiliate. 07:25 Now most of ours have been over the air radio 07:29 stations, but somebody contacted us a while ago 07:32 and said you know I've an Internet radio station and 07:36 we would like to reach out to kids. We'd like to 07:38 carry a lot of your programming on our 07:40 Internet radio station as well. And we said sure, 07:43 why not. And so we welcomed into our family 07:46 www.pathfinderradio.com. Lot of great kids programs. 07:54 Now, hopefully you're reading 3ABN world as it comes. 07:59 Raise your hands as it comes in the mail. 08:00 You're reading 3ABN world. Well we've added, 08:04 we try to keep you updated in 3ABN world 08:06 as much as we can. Mickey Anderson writes 08:08 the articles mostly for the 3ABN world as far as 08:12 what happens in radio. And if you've been 08:14 reading that lately you've noticed that we have had 08:17 a lot of activity in Australia and New Zealand. 08:21 Well, recently somebody contacted us and they felt 08:24 the Lord's leading and they said, you know we 08:29 think that we want, the Lord wants, the Lord 08:31 wants us to start the radio station here. 08:34 And so they started, the application started doing 08:36 things and guess what? Satan attack. 08:40 Is that a new story? No, so they thought they were 08:44 going to lose their license or they construction 08:47 permit actually. And they thought they weren't 08:50 going to get it, but, guess what? 08:53 God is more powerful than Satan. 08:56 They got three radio stations, three full power 09:00 radio stations. So praise God for that. 09:05 In Australia, we have new full power stations in 09:09 Condingup Western Australia; Hopetoun, 09:11 Western Australia; Ravensthorpe, oh, I need 09:14 to tell you the frequencies, Condingup is 88 on FM, 09:18 Hopetoun is 97.3, Ravensthorpe, Western 09:22 Australia 93.1 FM and some low power stations 09:28 in Australia Esperance, Western Australia 87.8; 09:32 Gympie, Queensland 87.8; Mt. Beauty, 09:37 Victoria 87.6; Orange, New South Wales 87.8; 09:43 Pink Lake, Washington. I knew I was going to do 09:46 that because it's WA. grew up in Washington state. 09:49 So, whenever I see WA I'm imagining 09:51 Washington state. Pink Lake, Western Australia 09:54 at 88 FM. Also we've got some new agreements as well 09:59 in New Zealand, Stewart Island in Southland 106.7, 10:07 South Invercargill, South of New Zealand 88.4; 10:12 North Invercargill Southland at 106.7. 10:16 Bluff in Southland at 106.7. And the reason we're 10:20 giving all these frequencies right now is for our 10:23 listeners and viewers in that area that maybe 10:27 hearing this for the first time, so you know where 10:29 to change your radio station to. Also this is one 10:34 of our, this is our first praise report from that area. 10:38 A woman took her car into the garage to have it 10:41 fixed and when she left her radio was tuned to 10:46 3ABN radio she never heard of it before. 10:49 So praise God for that. In Alaska, full power 10:53 projects and micro transmitters that we've 10:55 told you about a lot. Homer, Alaska full power 10:58 station also Juneau and Sitka have full power 11:02 construction permits. So, we're going there as well 11:06 with full power as soon as they 11:07 get those stations built. In Africa we have an 11:12 affiliate in Kisii, Kenya it's referred to as 3ABN 11:16 Kisima 89.7 FM. They've had over 300 Baptisms 11:22 since they've gotten started. And now we have another 11:26 radio station in the same area as well. 11:29 In Jinja, Uganda, they're at 104.7 and their signals 11:35 are real close so you can maybe traveling from one 11:38 going toward the other one be listening to the 11:40 same programming. So, that's excellent to hear of 11:43 as well. So now we are reaching out in Africa and 11:46 so please give them your prayers. Again remember 11:49 over 300 Baptisms on that, one that was on the 11:51 air was the longest, so praise God for that. 11:54 We had a young couple and their 13 year old 11:56 daughter along with both of their mothers. 12:00 They were baptized after listening to the undiluted 12:04 three angels' message in Barre, Vermont, there at 12:09 92.1 FM and so quite a family affair and we 12:15 asked for their prayer, prayers for them as well. 12:18 And we also heard from a lady who works in a 12:22 church, and she got to thinking you know we 12:25 don't have a radio station here that has 3ABN. 12:28 But, I wonder if I can listen on the Internet. 12:30 I think I heard them talking about that one 12:32 time so she found us on the Internet, found our 12:35 signal and so she listens to 3ABN radio as she works. 12:39 So, the final thing I wanna mention to you 12:42 something that I've talking to you about for a 12:44 while, but it's something that's strong on my heart 12:47 and that is listening 3ABN radio through your 12:50 cell phone. And you've heard me talk about that 12:53 before and things progressed, right now for 12:55 our regular streamers and for people with smart 12:59 phones they can listen to us in addition to 13:01 Windows audio media. They can listen to us 13:05 through Quicktime Real audio and Winamp. 13:09 And so those are also available, so sometimes 13:12 somebody has a media player that does not play 13:14 Windows media. Well, you should be able to 13:16 listen to us now with no excuses. And also the 3G 13:20 streams for regular cell phones coming up very soon. 13:23 Keep checking our website 3ABN.org for the 13:28 debut of that. We will let you know so just check 13:30 this out so the regular cell phones can get us as well. 13:34 So, there you go, that's our report and we thank you 13:37 very much. Amen, thank you Jay. 13:40 Appreciate that. Shelley Quinn is going to be 13:46 speaking to us in a little bit. One of the things that 13:49 many of you do not recognize is that everyone 13:52 that you see here carries other duties other than 13:55 being a speaker. Shelley you see her on the screen 13:59 but she is our program development manager. 14:04 You see C. A. but he has also our production 14:08 manger. These people work 40 plus hours every 14:12 week at their jobs and then ministry is strictly on 14:19 the side you might say, same as true with Molly 14:22 and Hal and with all of us. And these are heavy 14:26 duties that each one carries and we appreciate 14:30 the ministry of every single of these people and 14:34 especially the ministry of Shelley Quinn. 14:37 She travels on the weekends she and J.D. 14:40 travel all over this country presenting 14:44 seminars and reaching out to the lost and we know 14:49 that God is blessing their ministry. And before 14:53 Shelley comes, Tammy Chance another person 14:58 who carries a full time job as well as the music 15:01 ministry is going to sing for us and Tammy is 15:05 going to sing "Here we are," thank you Tammy. 15:22 Here we are in your presence. Lifting holy hands to 15:45 you. Here we are praising Jesus. 15:56 For the things He's brought us through. 16:07 I don't have the words to tell you how I feel, 16:18 I don't know just what to say, 16:29 Well I'm not worthy to speak your Holy Name, 16:41 And yet you tell me you love me just the same. 16:52 Here we are in your presence. Lifting holy hands to 17:14 you. Here we are praising Jesus. 17:25 For the things He's brought us through. 17:36 I never thought that it could be this way, 17:47 I never thought I'd be the one, 17:59 But, you found me dying in my sin. 18:10 And You looked at we with love and took me in. 18:21 Here we are in Your presence. 18:32 Lifting holy hands to You. 18:43 Here we are praising Jesus. 18:54 For the things He's brought us through. 19:05 For the things He's brought us through. 19:32 You know this is the year of prayer at 3ABN and so 19:37 I've got another message that I would like to bring 19:39 to you about for there is two things that the Lord 19:42 has taught me in recent years that were life changing. 19:46 One was taking his promises, confessing 19:48 them over my life and praying them back to 19:51 him, but the other was when he taught me how 19:55 him, but the other was when he taught me how 19:56 to pray for an hour and I want to share that with you. 19:59 What happened after God taught me about praying 20:02 his promises back to him. I've done that for two 20:05 years and as I confessed his word over my and 20:09 prayed those words back to him. He was changing me; 20:14 he was developing the mind of Christ in me. 20:17 And then I got a job that was as a consultant some 20:22 distance away from home I was traveling all the 20:25 time and I abandoned that practice. And after about 20:29 18 months of abandoning that practice I was back in 20:32 home, we lived in Coleman, Texas. 20:34 I was on the way to Sam's, which was 60 20:38 miles and as I'm driving down the road. 20:41 How many of you pray in the car? Yeah, you should 20:45 see me praying in the car, I'm going down the road 20:48 and I'm praying and I'm talking to the Lord and 20:50 every now and then I'll raise my hand and I know 20:52 people pass me by and think what's that woman 20:54 doing? But, here I was praying in the car all the 20:57 way to Sam's for 60 miles. Just pouring my heart 21:00 out to the Lord saying Father what's wrong with me. 21:04 How is that I can walk close to you sometimes. 21:07 That I sense your heartbeat and then I can 21:10 find myself in such a backslidden condition. 21:13 And so I'm praying all the way to Sam's, parked the 21:16 car, I hop out go into Sam's and do my shopping, 21:19 get back in the car and I've got 60 minutes to go home. 21:23 And I'm praying all the way back just pouring, 21:25 I was crying going down the road and just about 15 21:31 minutes out of Coleman, suddenly the still small voice 21:36 of the Lord broke through. How many of you know that 21:39 you know that you know. That God has spoken to 21:42 you before. He's impressed his thoughts 21:45 upon your mind. And I'm crying out saying Lord, 21:49 how can I keep from backsliding. 21:52 This is 1999 and I said how can I keep from backsliding. 21:57 And what I heard was this not an audible voice, 22:00 but in mind what I heard was, child if you come 22:04 and spent the first hour of each day with me in 22:08 prayer I promise you'll never backslide again. 22:11 Amen. Well, I thought about that for while and though 22:14 well of course I wouldn't backslide. 22:16 If, even if I backslide by the end of the day if I'm 22:19 starting off the next day an hour in prayer with the 22:22 Lord. Of course we wouldn't backslide. 22:23 And then I'm thinking I'm just speechless, 22:26 I'm going and that's rare for me. 22:28 I'm going down the road and I'm thinking Lord, 22:32 I don't trust myself, I'm not a 22:34 very disciplined person. So, how can I promise you 22:38 that I'm gonna pray for an hour a day. 22:40 Lord it would have to be you and as soon as that 22:43 thought, those words actually I'm praying out 22:46 loud came out in my mind, it was like one of 22:50 those aha movements. It's what the teenagers say. 22:52 You know how they say well duh! Of course it 22:56 would have to be God. It's not up us it's up to God. 23:00 We surrendered to God. So, the next morning, 23:03 I said Lord okay I will get up and I'll pray an hour 23:05 tomorrow. If it's gonna have to be you. 23:07 You're gonna have to work through me. 23:10 And I got up the next morning, I'm an early riser. 23:13 Oh, I decided well I'll breakfast so that I won't 23:16 have a growling stomach and be distracted while 23:18 I'm praying then oh well, I'll clean up the dishes 23:21 'cause I hate a mess and oh, I'll go ahead and take 23:23 my shower so that I'll really be awake to pray. 23:26 And it was nearly 8'o clock by the time I sat 23:29 down to pray. And then I thought Lord what do I do. 23:32 Well the Lord impressed upon me to journal my prayers. 23:37 And I thought well I've never done that. 23:39 You know just to write out like you're writing a 23:40 love letter to the Lord. And I thought okay, 23:43 so I grabbed my Bible, I grabbed a pad then 23:45 I thought Lord if I'm writing when I write fast 23:49 I can't read my own writing. So, times I'll write grocery 23:52 notes and then you know you look at them and you 23:53 think you get to the grocery store and think 23:55 what on earth was I wanting. And so I said Lord do you 24:00 mind I can type really fast. I type over 100 words 24:03 a minute. Is it okay if I do this at my computer. 24:05 Than I can read the prayers. What do you think the 24:07 Lord said. No Shelley, you can't type, you can't 24:09 pray to me on a computer. God doesn't care how 24:12 we're praying as long as we are praying, right. 24:15 So, I went to the computer now it is 8 O'clock. 24:18 And I decided I covered up the clock, covered up 24:20 the little clock on the computer, 'cause I didn't 24:22 want be aware of the time. And I sat there and I said 24:25 Lord teach me how to pray? And first of all 24:28 I want to say, what I'm going to share with you 24:30 today is a two hour teaching and I've got 24:32 about 30 minutes. So, we are going to get, I'm just 24:36 gonna give you the outline of this because the outline 24:38 will suffice, I don't believe in formula 24:41 prayers, but there are components to prayer, 24:43 would you agree, and I'm just gonna share six 24:46 components that the Lord gave to me. 24:48 And the interesting thing is, is that as I was doing 24:52 this the Lord taught me how to press into his presence. 24:56 And as I was doing this being the type of person 25:00 that I'm when the Lord impressed me to pray at a 25:03 certain way of certain component. 25:04 I labeled it and the label I'm gonna go ahead and 25:08 share with you it came out and it was P or praise 25:13 and in the next section was Repentance. 25:16 The next section was affirmation. 25:19 The following section was Intersession and then 25:23 supplication and then exalting the Lord. 25:28 I'm gonna hold off and not tell you how yet but, 25:32 all of the sudden after about two weeks of this 25:34 I looked and I realized. Praise, repentance, 25:37 affirmation, intersession, supplication and the E for 25:41 exalting. PRAISE, what does that spell praise, 25:45 so I called it the Praise prayer. And I do wanna 25:49 say that for me journaling really 25:52 increased the intimacy. I found that as I wrote to 25:58 the Lord, usually when I'm praying and I try to 26:00 pray for more than 15 minutes here is how it goes. 26:03 You're on your knees and you praying and I'm just 26:05 praying along and thinking, oh, I forgot to 26:07 pick up the cleaning. Praying along and 26:09 thinking, oh, I've got to do such and such tomorrow. 26:13 Anybody identify with that am I the only one that 26:15 this happens to. You know what when you're 26:18 journaling your prayers, it keeps you so focused and 26:22 it increases the intimacy. Now you don't have to 26:26 journal to add these components to your 26:29 prayer 'cause you're gonna see these are 26:30 components a lot of us have. But, because I know 26:34 if I told J.D. Quinn that he had to journal his 26:36 prayers he would never pray again and this isn't 26:39 the only way that I pray. But, I also want to say that 26:43 one time I was sharing from Matthew 26 and 26:46 verse 40. When Jesus told his sleeping disciples in 26:50 Gethsemane he said what, could you not tarry with 26:53 me an hour? And I was sharing on the air about 26:56 praying for an hour every morning actually I did 26:59 this every morning for eight years. 27:02 And as I shared that somebody then later 27:06 either wrote or called Molly and they said that 27:09 Shelley Quinn, she is just trying to 27:10 make us feel guilty. Saying that she prays for 27:13 an hour everyday. But, you know what 27:16 unfortunately Shelley Quinn hasn't been praying 27:19 for an hour everyday. Not likely I got so busy, 27:24 I quit doing it, prayed all through the day, not 27:27 saying that I wasn't praying constantly, 27:30 but the intimacy of my relationship changed. 27:34 When I quit this, and I started it back up a few 27:39 weeks ago and I can really sense the increased 27:43 intimacy with God. There is no commandment that 27:46 says you have to pray for an hour every day, but if 27:49 you want a more intimate relationship with the Lord. 27:52 I suggest you try this, so here I'm sitting at my 27:55 computer and I said Lord, how do 27:58 you I pray for an hour. And the first thing that he 28:02 brought to me was Psalms 100 verse 4 through 5 28:06 that says, enter into his gates with thanksgiving 28:11 and into his courts with praise; be thankful to him 28:16 and bless his name for the Lord is good, his mercy is 28:20 everlasting and he is truth endures for all 28:23 generations. In the sanctuary they entered 28:27 into the courts with praise and as we are 28:30 approaching our heavenly Father in 28:33 the heavenly sanctuary. We should enter his 28:36 courts with praise. And you know, do you think 28:40 I mean God actually commands us to praise him. 28:43 He says that we were created to declare his praises. 28:46 In Hebrews 13:15, it says let us continually offer up 28:50 the sacrifice of praise to God. The fruit of our lips 28:54 that is our thanks giving thanks to his name. 28:57 But, why does God want us to praise him, does 29:00 praise change God, who does praise 29:04 change, it changes us. And when we are coming 29:09 before the Lord, maybe our soul is downcast like 29:14 David was. In Psalm 42 and 11 and he says why 29:19 are you cast down, O my soul? Why are you 29:23 disquieted within me? Hope in God, for I shall 29:27 yet praise him. The help of my countenance and my God. 29:34 When we start praising the Lord, we will find that 29:38 no matter what's going on in our life our 29:41 circumstances look different. In Psalm 103 verses 1 29:45 through 5 he writes - Bless the Lord, with all my soul; 29:50 all that is in within me. Bless his holy name. 29:54 Bless the Lord, with all my soul, and forget not 29:57 all of his benefits. Don't we do that, don't we 30:01 forget God's benefits. He says who forgives all of 30:06 your iniquities, who heals all of your diseases, who 30:09 redeems your life from the destruction, 30:11 who crowns you with loving kindness and 30:14 tender mercies, who satisfies your mouth with 30:19 good things so that your youth is 30:22 renewed like the eagles. My favorite is Psalm 63 30:28 when David says Oh, my God my soul thirsts for 30:32 you in a dry and weary land where there is no water. 30:38 He says early in the morning will I come to 30:41 you because your love is better than life he says 30:46 I've seen you in the sanctuary 30:49 and Lord I need you. So I believe God wants us 30:52 to start off the morning with praise. I think as we 30:56 enter before him. Enter into his gates praising 30:59 him, it gives you an attitude that's gonna be 31:03 different the whole day long and God inhabits the 31:06 praises of his people. Does he not? Psalm 22:3 31:10 says that but that's what it says in the King James, 31:13 in the New King James it says he is enthroned on 31:17 your praises. C.A. teases me sometimes because 31:21 something good will happen. And I say praise the Lord, 31:25 and he says you are always saying praise God. 31:28 Well, I used to have a neighbor that's what she 31:30 would say and I thought that woman is nuts. 31:33 I really did I thought she was a religious fanatic 31:35 because she went around all the time saying praise 31:37 the Lord, but it's getting to me to be with me that 31:41 when I hear a good report I know 31:45 who should be praised. And I know that the glory 31:50 is due his name, so that's what you'll usually here 31:53 me say is praise the Lord or glory to God. 31:57 Praise magnifies in our own mind. The authority 32:01 that God has in our life and his power, his power 32:06 to be the master of our destiny. Listen to this, 32:10 I love this, First Chronicles 29:10-13, 32:14 therefore David blessed the Lord before all of the 32:17 assembly, and David said blessed are you Lord, 32:21 God our Father forever and ever. Yours, O Lord, 32:26 is the greatness the power and the glory, the victory 32:31 and the majesty; for all that is in heaven and earth 32:34 is yours; yours is the kingdom, O Lord, 32:36 you're exalted as head over all. Both riches and 32:41 honor come from you, and you reign over all; 32:45 in your hand is power and might; and in your hand it 32:49 is to make great, and to give strength to all. 32:53 Now therefore, our God, we thank you, and praise 32:57 your glorious name. I'm gonna take one minute on 33:00 praise because I wanted to share something. 33:03 The first few weeks I was doing as I thought, 33:05 O Lord I'm so limited in my ability to praise you. 33:10 I read back through my prayer journal and I 33:12 thought it's like I'm saying the same thing everyday. 33:16 Little bit differently maybe, but I thought 33:18 Lord teach me how to praise. And God impressed me to 33:21 go the Psalms and what I would do is I take a 33:24 Psalm sometimes two or three, I would go through 33:27 and I would find something special in that 33:29 Psalm. That really spoke to me. And I would 33:31 rewrite the Psalms in my own words and let it be 33:36 my praise to the Lord. You know the Psalms are 33:39 really David's prayer journal. Aren't they? 33:42 And they were later set to music it was him praying 33:45 and let me read this one to you, I just give you an 33:47 example, I brought this out of my prayer journal 33:50 it says I'll read the Psalm then I read what I've said. 33:53 Psalm 1 if you want to follow along, this is the 33:57 Psalm, First Psalm, verse 1 Blessed is the man who 34:01 walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands 34:04 in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat 34:07 of the scornful. But, his delight is in the law of the 34:10 Lord; and in his law he meditates day and night. 34:13 And here is what I wrote in my prayer journal. 34:16 Oh, Father of God I thank you for Godly council. 34:19 I thanking you, I thank you for blessing me, 34:22 as I follow your council. I thank that you are making 34:25 your law of love my delight. Give me an unquenchable 34:30 desire for your word my Lord. Cause me to mediate on it 34:34 day and night for your word is inexhaustible. 34:38 Thank you Lord for making it my habit to live 34:41 in your word. Psalm 1:3 says He shall be like a 34:45 tree planted by the rivers of water, and I said Father 34:49 God I praise you for planting me by your grace, 34:53 I'm stead fast, precious Lord I praise you and 34:57 thank you for your rivers of water I'm spiritually 35:00 refreshed by your living water. The Psalms goes 35:04 and says that brings forth fruit in it season; 35:07 and I said Lord I thank you righteous Father that, 35:10 you caused me to bare fruit in your timing. 35:14 Oh, Lord cause me to remember that by your 35:16 word and by your spirit you are doing a work in 35:19 my heart that you have promise to complete. 35:22 The Psalms goes on it says whose leaf also shall 35:25 not wither; and I said most gracious Lord 35:27 I thank you that my vitality and courage shall 35:30 not fade. And then the Psalms says whatever he 35:33 does shall prosper. And I wrote how I praise you, 35:37 for your plan for my life, in you and by your grace 35:41 my purpose is ever blooming and growing. 35:44 Glory to your Holy name. Isn't that beautiful. 35:47 Amen! And you know what, it's not me, 35:50 it's because I was pressing into the presence 35:52 of the Lord and he was giving, 35:54 my sister is doing this. And I will tell you 35:57 she is not a poetic person anymore than 35:59 I'm a poetic person. But, what she writes is so 36:03 inspired, it's gorgeous. Okay so let's look at 36:07 repentance, we got the praise, repentance. 36:10 What does it mean to repent, come on what 36:12 does it mean to repent? It means about faith. 36:16 Change your mind, think differently, 36:18 change your conduct. The Bible tells us that 36:23 sin hinders prayer. And if you think about as you 36:27 went into the court room at the tabernacle. 36:30 What you entered into the courts what was one of 36:34 the first things you saw right there 36:35 in the outer court. You saw the altar of sacrifice. 36:40 So, we need to come and make this repentance 36:42 while we're still in the outer courts so that we 36:44 can come and present to the presence of the Lord. 36:48 And the Bible tells us in Psalm 22, 3 and 4, who 36:51 may ascend the hill of the Lord or who may stand in 36:55 his Holy place. Only he who has what? 36:58 Clean hands and what? A pure heart. 37:03 David said in Psalm 66 verses 16 to 20, 37:06 if I cherished sin in my heart the Lord would not 37:09 have listened. If we are cherishing sin in our heart 37:13 we can't go before Holy God and expect him to 37:17 answer our prayer. It's when we come before 37:19 him in the attitude that we need to confess our sin, 37:23 that we need to repent. David goes on says God 37:27 has surely listened and heard my voice and 37:30 prayer. Praise be to God, who has not rejected my 37:33 prayer or withheld his love from me. 37:36 In Psalm 32 he said when I kept silence my bones 37:40 were wasting away, but then he acknowledged 37:43 God, he acknowledged his iniquity before God 37:47 and then God, when he confessed his 37:50 transgressions to the Lord. He was new, he was forgiven. 37:55 And then he ends up in Psalm 32:6 saying for this 37:58 forgiveness let everyone who is Godly pray. 38:02 Pray to you in a time when you maybe found. 38:07 That's what we need to do. Now there is one part 38:11 that I want to talk to you about confession, 38:13 repentance all of this forgiveness. 38:17 It's something that we don't always think about, 38:19 but in Mark 11, 25 and 26 these are words that aren't 38:23 read in your Bible. These are Jesus' words. 38:27 And here is what he said, whenever you stand 38:29 praying, if you have anything against anyone, 38:31 what are we supposed to do, forgive him, that your 38:35 Father in heaven, now let's look at this Jesus 38:38 says forgive him that your Father in heaven may also 38:43 forgive you your trespasses. And then he says in verse 38:47 26, if you do not forgive what's gonna happen, 38:52 neither will your Father in heaven forgive 38:55 your trespasses. Wow! How many times have we 38:59 gone before the Lord after we have been grumbling 39:02 and murmuring and complaining about 39:04 somebody the day before or maybe earlier in the 39:06 day and we are holding something in our heart, 39:09 that we're not forgiving him for. 39:12 You know in Colossians 3:13 it says that we must 39:16 bear with one another, and forgive one another 39:19 and that if we have a complaint to against 39:20 anyone else that we've got to forgive him even as 39:24 Christ forgave us. And the way Paul says is 39:28 even as Christ forgave us you must also do. 39:32 Let me share a quick story, J. D. and I before 39:36 we married we were in business in international 39:39 finance. We had a partner and it's a long story, but 39:43 the short, short end of it is this. We got the short end. 39:47 We ended up $250,000 in debt because of something 39:50 this partner did. And he was an international 39:53 figure and it's a long story, but I was the one 39:58 who uncovered his little scheme. I was in, I have 40:02 been in London, I have been in Geneva, I have 40:05 been all over and I was sitting in Luxembourg at 40:08 this time, when I get the notification. That he has 40:12 put a hit contract out on my life. I'm in Luxembourg, 40:18 they don't speak English in Luxembourg. 40:19 They speak German in the, I mean yeah German, 40:22 French. They speak German and French. 40:24 That's what they speak, I speak just a little bit of 40:27 German and little bit of French. So, you know 40:29 I was kind of like a schizophrenic as I was 40:31 trying to carry on a conversation with people, 40:33 but I was there visiting a man who was an 40:35 Egyptian who spoke English and I asked him 40:38 the does he really have that ability, he said well 40:40 of course he does. Well now, I have to go back to 40:43 London, I'm looking over my shoulder for the next 40:45 eight weeks while I'm out of the country. 40:47 I had never hated anybody in my life 40:50 up until this point. And I hated this man; 40:52 he put us $250,000 in debt and he is threatening 40:55 to kill me. Hated him, I went home, I'm back in 40:58 United States and I am praying and as I am 41:01 praying and asking God to forgive me of my sins 41:04 I kept hearing him say you must forgive him. 41:07 I don't want to forgive him Father. I don't know 41:10 how to forgive him. And so the Lord would say 41:14 you must forgive him if you want me to forgive 41:16 you and I said Lord I don't want to forgive him. 41:19 And finally God just came kept after me day 41:21 after day until the point that one day he impressed 41:25 upon me I'm saying Lord how do I forgive? 41:27 He said pray for his salvation and I said 41:29 I don't want him to be saved, let him rot in hell. 41:33 And I meant it, I didn't want this man to be saved 41:37 and there is no use. I mean I could sit there and 41:39 say well okay God but God knows my heart 41:41 doesn't he. He knows our hearts, so I just talked to 41:44 him like I talk to you with a little more respect 41:46 maybe. But, and I am saying Lord I don't want 41:50 him to be saved. So, the Lord had me start praying 41:55 for his salvation. Here is an illustration that God 41:58 showed me and I want to share it with you because 42:00 its so powerful when, I think some of you are 42:04 here from Colorado. Sheryl in Colorado, there 42:07 is mountain streams coming down, lets say 42:10 that there is a little stream about this wide and its 42:13 coming down from the mountain and I take a 42:15 wire and I anchor the wire right here on this 42:19 side of the stream and I anchored the wire on the 42:21 other side of the stream somebody doesn't know 42:23 the help message. They're upstream, they've been 42:25 eating at McDonald's and they throw the wrappers 42:28 into the stream. Here they come floating down what 42:31 are they gonna do when they get to this wire. 42:33 They catch on it pretty soon somebody else 42:35 throws more trash it comes floating down the 42:37 stream. What does it do? Catch on this wire and 42:41 after a while bit by bit a piece of trash at a time 42:45 and another piece of trash begin to build up just like 42:48 a beaver would build a dam step by step, trash by 42:53 trash, pretty soon that stream is blocked off. 42:57 That wire represents unforgiveness in your heart. 43:01 When we have unforgiveness in our heart the trash 43:05 of the world comes and begins to collect around 43:09 that and pretty soon bitterness, resentment are 43:14 building up in our heart and what happens the 43:17 flow of the living water cannot get through. 43:20 The Holy Spirit can't break through. 43:23 We've got to go before the Lord and say Father 43:25 help me to forgive. Repentance is a gift from 43:30 God, when I confess my sins we know he says in 43:35 First John 1:9 if you confess your sins he 43:38 what, faithful and just to forgive your sins and 43:42 what else does he do. Cleanes us from all 43:45 unrighteousness but he tells us in Acts 5:31 that 43:49 Jesus has been exalted to the right hand of the 43:51 throne of the Father to be Prince and savior, 43:54 to grant forgiveness, to give forgiveness of sins. 43:59 So, repentance is really a gift, Godly sorrow leads 44:04 to repentance that leads to salvation, right. 44:09 Worldly sorrow leads to death. So, what we need to do 44:14 is recognize the long suffering of God as 44:18 Romans 2:4 says that the goodness of God leads us 44:22 to repentance. When you confess your sins, ask 44:25 him to grant you repentance. Say Lord I know I am 44:28 sinning but I feel powerless to turn away 44:31 from this. I know I've been gossiping, oh I 44:35 shouldn't be. But, Lord and you know I used that 44:38 all the time because I don't care how holy you are. 44:40 I know what gossips you are. I have heard you. 44:44 We don't, we isn't that a human thing that we like 44:47 to talk about other people. It's a sad situation but 44:51 it's the truth. We all talk about other people. 44:55 And so that's a good one, do you say Lord I know 44:59 I am not supposed to gossip. I am not supposed to even 45:02 to listen to gossip. Help me Lord not to find it too 45:05 liking, help me to turn away from that and grant 45:10 me repentance Lord God. Now let's look at affirmations. 45:17 Affirmations and by the way if you want to learn 45:20 how to really repent go to Psalm 51. 45:24 Psalm 51 is David's repentance after Nathan 45:29 had to come to him and said you're the man. 45:33 You're the one who is guilty of stealing this one 45:37 little lamb from this man that that's all he had. 45:40 We know that little lamb was Bathsheba. 45:42 But, David said in that Psalm he said that O Lord 45:46 purge me with hyssop. Clean me and I shall be 45:50 clean. Did you know there was no hyssop in 45:52 Jerusalem which is where he was when he was 45:54 praying that. But, what did the hyssop represent. 45:58 He is looking back to the time of the Passover. 46:01 When the hyssop was dipped into the blood of lamb. 46:06 So, the way I pray that is O Lord, wash me in the 46:09 blood of Jesus. Wash me thoroughly and repeatedly 46:13 Lord. Restore to me the joy of my salvation. 46:17 Affirmations that was where the Lord led me 46:19 next because praise, repentance, affirmation, 46:22 that's just taking the promises of God and 46:25 what does Second Corinthians 1:20 say how 46:27 many of his promises are ours in Christ, all of his 46:32 promises. So, now, when you think of what 46:36 Hebrews 11:1 says faith is the assurance of things 46:41 hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. 46:44 In the Greek it's the title deed. When we stake our 46:48 deed, you know we're putting stake on those 46:50 promises and saying yes Lord, I believe all of your 46:53 promises are mine and now I am going to make 46:56 an affirmation of that. Its like during your prayer 47:00 time have your Bible open if you want to start. 47:03 Look at Ephesians chapter 1, I mean start in 47:05 Ephesians look at all of the promises of who God 47:08 says you are in Christ. And pray them back to 47:12 the Lord. First of all Isaiah 55:11 says 47:16 God says my word will not return word but will 47:19 accomplish every purpose for which I sent it. 47:22 And he says in Jeremiah 1:12, I am watching over 47:25 my word to perform it. So, now one thing that 47:30 helped me a whole lot was Romans 4:17 'cause 47:33 as God first started having me take these 47:36 affirmations, his promises and praying them back, 47:39 confessing him over my life, I found that who 47:43 I knew some of the things that I was saying God's 47:46 promises of who I was in Christ I knew I am 47:49 claiming this and I am thinking, boy Lord, 47:50 it's not true in my life yet. But, Romans 4:17 says 47:54 that God is a God who gives life to the dead and 47:57 calls things that are not as though they already were. 48:02 He knows the end from the beginning; he says 48:04 you are predestined to be conformed to the image 48:07 of Jesus. So you take these promises from God 48:10 and an affirmation goes just beyond claiming it, 48:14 its declaring as you confess it over your life 48:17 you declare that you agree with God. 48:20 And what it does is it confirms the authority 48:23 of his word. The authority of God in your life and it 48:27 causes his way of thinking to become your 48:31 way of thinking. One of my favorite scriptures 48:35 about the word and power of the word is Hebrews 48:38 1:3. And in Hebrews 1:3 it talks about Jesus being 48:43 the exact representation of the Lord God. 48:47 And then it goes on and it says that he upholds all 48:52 things by his mighty word of power. 48:56 The reason some of us are so powerless is because 48:59 we are not letting the Lord uphold us by his word. 49:01 But, I know when I, any time I quit doing 49:05 affirmations if I let life get too busy to dedicate 49:09 time to do this, it's like somebody unplug me 49:11 from my power source. And as soon as I start 49:14 doing this again its like they plug me back in, 49:17 but here's one of the best promises and it comes 49:19 from Second Peter 1:3-4 it says, now listen 49:24 because this is God talking to you, his divine 49:27 power has given to us all things, all things that 49:34 pertain to life in Godliness through the 49:36 knowledge of him who called us by his glory and 49:40 virtue, by which, by his glory and virtue have 49:45 been given to us exceedingly great and 49:49 precious promises so that through these, through 49:53 what through these promises you may 49:57 become partakers of the divine nature having 50:01 escaped the corruption that is in the world 50:04 through lust. You have to partake of his promises to 50:09 partake of his nature and you know the way I say 50:12 it is this. The Bible tells us that we are new, 50:16 we are in Christ we're new creations right, 50:18 Second Corinthians 5:17. We have a new identity in 50:23 Christ Jesus but some of us don't know what that 50:27 identity is? We have an identity crisis, that's not 50:31 psycho babble its truth. We just don't know who 50:35 we are in Christ, we don't spend enough time in the 50:37 word applying the promises I mean we read 50:41 the word we agree in our minds, but we don't really 50:45 get it into our heart but boy when you start 50:47 making this part of your prayer time confessing 50:50 them over your life, praying them back to God 50:53 you will find that you believe. Intersession, huh, 50:58 I did a whole hour seminar in intersession, 51:00 just yesterday so I don't think I need to spend a lot 51:03 of time but for those of you who maybe watching 51:05 by television who didn't get to see that, let me 51:08 share three scriptures that are very critical to know 51:11 why it's important to intercede. Ezekiel 22:30, 51:15 God says I saw for a man among them who would 51:17 make a wall and stand in the gap before me on 51:20 behalf of the lamb that I should not destroy it, 51:23 but I found no one and it goes on to say therefore 51:27 he poured out his wrath. God wants men to stand 51:31 in the gap, you were created in the image of 51:33 God and you are to be co-intercessors with Christ. 51:37 First Samuel 12:23 Samuel says, O Lord far be it for 51:41 me that I should sin in ceasing to pray for you: 51:48 for my brothers, but here is the one that gets me the 51:51 most. And I am going rapidly through this one 51:54 because you can, if you didn't see the other one 51:56 you can go back and get that tape. 51:58 But, Isaiah 59:16 listen to this, he is speaking of 52:03 God, saw that there was no man and wondered, 52:08 wondered that there was no intercessor: why did 52:13 God wonder, why was he in such amazement that 52:17 there was no one to intercede on behalf of the 52:20 others, two reasons. He wondered that no one had 52:25 enough faith in him to believe that he was 52:27 powerful enough to deliver and he wondered 52:31 that no man loved the people enough to intercede. 52:33 See God wants us all to be intercessory 52:38 prayer warriors. And it's the highest calling to ministry 52:42 that there is, because Hebrews 7:25 says it is 52:45 the ministry of our risen and exalted savior. 52:49 It talks about Jesus being at the right hand of the 52:51 throne of the Father, who is able to save to the 52:54 outermost because be always lives to make 52:57 intercession for us. One thing the Lord did with 53:00 me is I was doing intercession was that he 53:05 had me interceding for the whole world first and 53:09 then I come down to the Christians then my 53:13 church, I mean in general, then my own 53:16 congregation, then my own family and I finally 53:18 ended up with J. D. and I thought this is interesting 53:20 Lord, why do you want me to do it this way. 53:22 I think it because it becomes increasingly 53:25 more intimate and he was preparing me so that I can 53:27 go on to supplication. So, let me tell you about 53:30 supplication. The Bible says in Hebrews 5:7, that 53:35 supplication is the area in which as I come to it I am 53:38 praying for myself now I'm making serious 53:42 supplication as Jesus did in the garden. 53:44 Hebrews 5:7 says in the days of his flesh he 53:47 offered a definite special petitions and 53:50 supplications was strong crying in tears to him 53:54 who was able to save him and he was heard because 53:58 of his reverence towards God. His Godly fear, his piety. 54:03 King Solomon in First Kings 8:59, as he was 54:07 praying he prayed he says I made supplication 54:11 before the Lord be near the Lord our God day and 54:15 night that he may maintain the cause of his 54:17 servant, and the cause of his people as each day 54:21 may require. Each day when I come in I pray 54:27 Philippians 4:6 and 7 says be anxious for nothing 54:30 but by prayer and supplication you know 54:33 we should lift everything before the Lord. 54:35 And what I believe is that the good steps or the 54:38 steps of the good man are ordered by God, so as I 54:41 come in to supplication what I am doing is I'm 54:44 now praying say O Lord I need you, I need your 54:48 Holy Spirit. O Lord help me to surrender to you, 54:52 help me to pick up my cross and die to self, 54:54 put to death the misdeeds of my flesh by the power 54:57 of your Holy Spirit and I just pour out my heart 55:00 Lord give me divine appointments today, 55:02 Lord be with me this is what I need to do today 55:06 and I just pour out my heart before the Lord. 55:09 Now the E, praise, repentance, affirmation, 55:13 intercession, supplication, exalting the Lord through 55:18 listening. The first day as I was praying in this way 55:23 I had sat down about 8 O' clock opened up a file on 55:25 my computer, I am journaling my prayer, 55:27 you don't have to. But, I am journaling my prayer 55:31 and I thought well, surely at least 40 minutes its 55:35 passed by now so I peaked at the clock that 55:37 I'd covered up. It was 10:15. I prayed for 55:42 2 hours and 15 minutes and I thought Lord that's 55:46 the most amazing thing that's ever happened. 55:48 Because I was pressing into the presence of the 55:51 Lord I just lost myself in prayer and then I was 55:58 getting ready to type in Jesus name. Amen. 55:59 When all of a sudden you know what I heard, 56:02 be still and know that I am God. That's that 56:06 still small voice so the Lord First Kings 19:12 56:10 and I believe the still small voice of the Lord 56:12 and any time it talks about the audible voice of 56:15 the Lord in the Bible. It talks about that it's like 56:19 the sound of many rushing rivers. I mean on 56:22 Mt. Sinai when they heard the audible voice of 56:25 the Lord coming from Mt. Sinai, what did the 56:27 people do, they quaked in fear but that still small 56:32 voice of the Lord I believe is when God uses 56:34 his Holy Spirit to impress his thoughts up on us. 56:37 And so I am really seriously taking what 56:41 God said about be still and know that I am Lord. 56:47 That's Psalm 46 verse 10 and I am, I have been 56:51 seeking his face and now he is breaking through. 56:56 Have you ever noticed in David's Psalms that 57:00 David is praying long and suddenly there would be a 57:02 word from the Lord? I only got a minute, here is 57:06 what the Lord said to me. When he started speaking 57:10 to me I was so nervous its just me or is it you, 57:13 but I knew he was calling me to full time ministry 57:16 and over a period of months I became 57:18 convinced he was calling me to full time ministry. 57:20 And when we received the call to full time 57:23 ministry, accepted it. The next day as I was praying 57:26 you know want the Lord said to me after I finished 57:28 my prayer always before you have put your hand to 57:32 the plough and you've turned back but not this 57:35 time, for I will cup my hand over yours. 57:39 That's all he said but those, that one little bit as 57:43 he taught me to sit and listen, he said my sheep 57:46 will know my voice. I am not special, God wants to 57:50 talk to all of us children. Can you imagine a loving 57:53 Father who wouldn't talk his children? So, if you 57:57 feel uncomfortable about that just make that part 58:00 more time he speaks to us number one from this word 58:03 and nothing it says will ever 58:04 not line up and agree with that. |
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