Participants: Pr. Richard Daly (Host), Pr. John Lomacang
Series Code: 16LON
Program Code: 16LON000006A
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00:10 I heard the voice of the Lord saying,
00:13 "Whom shall I send and who will go for us." 00:16 Then I said, "Here am I. Send me." 00:34 Three Angels Broadcasting network 00:36 and the South England Conference, 00:38 present London 2016. 00:46 Once again, we welcome you all tonight 00:50 for your faithfulness in coming out to the meetings 00:53 and just allowing God to speak to our hearts 00:56 and to reveal a message that we need to hear. 01:00 We continue through out this weekend 01:03 as we hear more Bible based, Christ centered messages, 01:09 and I know that as we go for this weekend, 01:12 we're going to truly be inspired 01:14 from the Word of God. 01:16 We've been having listeners 01:18 and those who have been watching around the world 01:20 and I'd like to just mention someone 01:24 who's written in and to send his greetings, 01:27 his name is Peter and Iris Fanstone, 01:30 they've been watching every night, 01:31 they're from the Cotswolds in the West Country of England 01:35 and they have said 01:37 that we've watched all the programs up to now 01:41 and we have been blessed with the messages. 01:45 It is good to hear the gospel being preached 01:48 and people coming to Jesus Christ. 01:51 So if you're listening 01:52 and you're listening from various parts of the world 01:54 and we invite you 01:56 to send a few words of welcome and greetings, 01:59 so I shall be happy to read them out 02:01 and to mention where you're from. 02:04 Tonight's topic is "Can you hear me now?" 02:08 Can you hear me? 02:10 Can you hear me now? 02:12 And so let us allow the spirit of God 02:15 to truly open our hearts and our minds 02:17 to be receptive to that message this evening 02:21 but before our speaker, Pastor John Lomacang comes, 02:24 we are happy to have with us 02:26 for the first time in tonight Reggie and Ladye Love. 02:29 We welcome you this evening and may you bless us 02:33 as we prepare for the Word of God. 03:00 Suspended above 03:04 The world that He made 03:07 And below 03:09 His home in the sky 03:16 God in flesh came down to men 03:23 And man raised Him up to die 03:31 And there on a tree 03:34 The destiny 03:38 Of every fallen man 03:46 Was held by nails 03:50 Driven through 03:53 His sinless feet and hands 04:01 Somewhere between 04:04 Heaven and Earth 04:07 Stood a symbol of grace 04:11 Not based on our world 04:15 It was there He endured 04:19 What we deserved 04:24 For a cross held the hope of the world 04:29 Somewhere between 04:32 Heaven and Earth 04:38 Somewhere 04:39 Between time and space 04:45 Somewhere between judgment and grace 04:51 He became the sin 04:55 He'd never known 05:00 And as the skies turned black 05:04 His Father turned His back 05:08 And for that moment 05:10 He was left alone Alone 05:14 He was left alone 05:20 Somewhere between 05:23 Heaven and Earth 05:27 Stood a symbol of grace 05:30 Not based on our world 05:34 It was there He endured 05:38 What we deserved 05:43 For a cross held the hope of the world 05:49 Somewhere between 05:51 Heaven and Earth 06:00 Stood a symbol of grace 06:04 Not based on our world 06:08 It was there He endured 06:12 What we deserved 06:16 For a cross held the hope of the world 06:23 For a cross held the hope 06:27 Of the world 06:29 Yes, the cross held the hope 06:33 Of the world 06:39 Somewhere 06:42 Between 06:44 Heaven 06:50 And Earth 06:56 Suspended above 06:59 The world that He made 07:03 And below is home 07:07 In the sky 07:18 Amen. 07:27 Can you say that again? Amen. 07:30 Wow, so glad to have Reggie and Ladye Love with us. 07:36 They are very much a part of our 3ABN family. 07:39 We enjoy praising God together, traveling together, 07:42 singing to the glory of God together 07:45 and anytime they sing that song, 07:48 I'm suspended somewhere between heaven and earth. 07:52 It's a fitting song because between heaven and earth 07:57 is a constant connection with humanity between prayer. 08:02 Somewhere between heaven and earth, 08:05 and I thought of a very interesting topic 08:08 entitled, "Can you hear me now?" 08:09 which, in fact, if you've spent anytime 08:12 in the United States at all, it used to be a slogan 08:15 used by one of the telephone companies. 08:18 Whenever they had difficulty getting through, 08:21 they would shake up the phone and say, 08:23 "Can you hear me, now?" 08:26 But tonight we're gonna consider 08:27 the importance of prayer in the life of the Christian. 08:31 How that unbroking thread between heaven and earth 08:33 is very imperatively necessary for our growth 08:37 and for our success as Christians. 08:39 So tonight, bow your heads with me 08:41 as we go to the Lord in prayer. 08:44 Loving Father in heaven, this is your opportunity 08:46 to connect between heaven and earth. 08:50 We pray that we open our ears and hearts 08:53 to hear what the Spirit says to the Church, 08:56 in Jesus name. 08:58 Amen. 09:03 September 11th was a turning point in the world. 09:07 My wife and I happened to be in London on that day. 09:12 She was born in Derby, 09:13 we were here visiting her family members 09:15 that are dispersed through out either the city 09:17 or Palmers Green or here in London 09:20 or in Derbyshire and I decided, 09:22 I said, "Honey, when do you wanna go back home?" 09:24 She said, "Let's go back home on September 11th." 09:28 That was 2001, we entered the plane 09:31 with one kind of a world we exited to the plane 09:35 with a completely different world all together. 09:38 This title is synonymous or very instrumental 09:41 in what happened that day 09:43 because my wife was a Sprint phone customer. 09:47 She had a Sprint phone, I had a Verizon phone 09:52 and our experience in California at the time was, 09:55 I would have much more service coverage than she did 09:59 and so when we were rerouted to Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 10:03 I was so anxious, I could not wait 10:05 when I heard the terrible news in New York city 10:07 about the World Trade Centre in Washington DC, 10:10 my mind was instantly transported to the fact 10:13 that my sister worked for the fire department 10:16 and in such an emergency, 10:18 she would be at the World Trade Centre. 10:19 Well, I said to my wife, "I cannot wait to land 10:22 so that I can call my sister." 10:25 And I jokingly reminded her about the fact 10:28 that, well, her phone never gets any signal anyhow, 10:31 so she could use my phone when we get to Canada. 10:35 Well, the plane landed, 10:36 we are one of the first ones to land in Canada 10:38 on United Airlines 955. 10:40 Far from the terminal, I turned on my phone, 10:45 she turned on her phone, I could not get a signal, 10:49 my wife turned on her phone and she got a tremendous signal 10:53 and she turned to me and said, "Can you hear me now?" 10:57 And I learned, in a very cool, cool way that as one says, 11:01 "Those who laughed last, laugh best." 11:05 But something tragic happened in New York 11:07 because I couldn't get through, communication was down, 11:10 the towers of the World Trade Centre 11:11 that furnished phone signal for much of Manhattan was down, 11:16 I could not get through at all and I thought to myself, 11:18 "What would happen 11:21 if communication between earth and heaven 11:24 were severed for 24 hours? 11:29 What would happen on this planet 11:32 if heaven went dark for 24 to 48 hours?" 11:36 We could not get a prayer through. 11:42 I would suggest to you that it'll be far worse 11:45 than September 11th but I'm so glad to know tonight 11:49 that we can call heaven anytime, 11:51 any day, come on, somebody say, amen. 11:53 Amen. 11:54 We don't get a phone call, I mean, we don't get a bill, 11:57 we don't get a busy signal, 11:59 the Lord does not put us on hold, 12:01 there is an unbroken line between heaven and earth, 12:04 24 hours a day. 12:05 Can the church say amen. Amen. 12:07 That's why Matthew 7:7-8 are so instrumental, 12:10 the Bible says, let's read this together. 12:13 Are you ready? Here we go. 12:15 "Ask, and it will be given to you, 12:17 seek, and you will find, 12:19 knock, and it will be opened to you..." 12:23 For how many? 12:24 "Everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks..." 12:28 What else? 12:29 "Finds, and to him who knocks it..." 12:31 What? 12:32 "It will," not might. "It will be opened." 12:35 Hallelujah to that. 12:38 God promises to answer the prayers 12:41 of everyone whose heart is turned towards Him 12:44 in sincerity. 12:46 So what can be more powerful than transforming, 12:48 than talking to God and knowing that He hears us? 12:53 What can be more life changing 12:55 than knowing that our prayers are the joy of the Lord 12:59 and that the prayers of our hearts are received 13:02 and responded to from heaven? 13:06 The answer is nothing. 13:09 More than joy and power in our hearts, 13:11 throughout our lives as husband and wife, 13:15 there have been so many instances, 13:17 where we have knelt on our knees and prayed 13:20 and had we not known that God was there, 13:23 we know that our prayer life 13:25 would be an exercise of futility 13:26 but it was also always so good to know 13:28 that whenever we gotten on our knees 13:30 and prayed to our Heavenly Father, 13:32 He was there waiting, He was there with open arms 13:34 and open ears listening to the voice of His children. 13:40 But tonight I'm gonna begin with a very unusual statement. 13:42 I want you to listen very carefully, you see, 13:44 in spite of all the ways 13:46 that our prayers have been answered, 13:48 I don't believe in prayer. 13:54 I don't believe that prayer works. 13:58 I don't believe in prayer 13:59 and I don't believe that prayer works. 14:05 I believe in God and I believe that God works, 14:09 you can breathe. 14:13 It is not belief in prayer that makes a difference, 14:18 it is belief in God that makes a difference. 14:22 I mean, why call someone 14:24 whom you don't believe is there? 14:27 Why pick up your cell phone, why pick up your home phone, 14:32 why send a message either by text or by email 14:36 to someone you really are not convinced is really there? 14:39 That's why the only thing worse than praying, 14:42 is praying to a God 14:43 that you really don't actually believe exist. 14:46 I remember the story of Elijah on Mount Carmel. 14:49 He gave those who worshipped, a false god, 14:51 he gave them all day long to pray to their god, 14:56 their idols, 400 prophets at Baal, 15:00 450 apostatized prophets of Israel. 15:04 All day long, they beseeched their god, 15:08 they whipped themselves, they danced, they shouted, 15:11 they yelled and then Elijah said, 15:14 "Pray a little loud and maybe, he is resting somewhere. 15:18 Maybe he's on a long journey and maybe he's not back yet. 15:23 Just continue praying." 15:24 And they prayed, and they prayed 15:26 and they prayed. 15:27 They prayed to brass, they prayed to wood, 15:31 they prayed to stone. 15:32 Whenever you pray to anything and anybody but God, 15:36 you're praying to brass, and wood and stone. 15:39 Amen, somebody. 15:41 I don't wanna belittle anyone but I wanna just say, 15:43 as I profess this statement, 15:45 that 99 percent of my family is Catholic 15:48 and whenever I go home to the Virgin Islands, 15:53 I try to find some ways 15:55 to communicate the beauty of praying to a living God, 15:58 not to a dead Mary. 16:01 And I say that with utmost respect 16:02 because I believe that God does accept the sincerity 16:06 of those who don't know better but when you talk to Jesus, 16:11 because the Bible says, 16:12 "There is only one man between God and man 16:15 and that is the man, Christ Jesus. 16:17 No man comes to the Father..." 16:19 Except how? 16:20 "Through me." 16:22 That's why belief in an existing God 16:23 makes a difference. 16:25 We had a chance yesterday, 16:27 my wife and I walked 8.2 miles yesterday 16:32 which means I would rather be sitting down, 16:34 preaching tonight than standing up. 16:37 When we got back to the hotel last night, 16:38 she said, "Honey, I don't know but my legs are tired." 16:42 I didn't understand what she meant 16:44 until we went out again today and took a short walk 16:46 and I said, "Honey, you're right. 16:47 My legs are tired." 16:49 But in our journey, 16:50 we stopped at one of the local churches 16:53 and we heard people reciting their prayers. 16:55 We saw someone stand in front of a statue of Peter 16:58 and hold on to his foot and prayed to Peter and I said, 17:00 "That's bronze, that's brass, he doesn't hear you." 17:05 Then I heard the holy Mary, mother of God, 17:07 pray for sinners now and at the hour of their death 17:09 and I said, "Lord Jesus, please find a way 17:12 to get to the hearts of these sincere people, 17:13 they know no other way." 17:16 You see the Lord finds us where we are but praise God, 17:18 He never leaves us where He finds us. 17:21 Believing in a living God is imperative 17:25 to getting our prayers through. 17:27 Hebrews 11:6, notice what the Bible says, 17:31 it says, "But without faith..." 17:32 Without what? 17:34 "Without faith it is impossible to please Him..." 17:38 Why? 17:39 "For he who comes to God must believe that..." 17:43 What? 17:44 "He is, 17:46 and that He is a rewarder of those who..." 17:48 What? 17:49 "Diligently seek Him." 17:51 Don't seek God as though He is busy 17:54 or doesn't have time for you. 17:57 That's why when people say to me, 17:59 "Well, I can't really help you, all I can do is pray." 18:02 If all you can do is talk to my almighty heavenly Father, 18:05 amen to that, 'cause I know nobody else 18:09 that I would rather you talk to about my situation than God. 18:13 You may talk to people 18:15 that don't have the finances to help me 18:17 or don't have the time to help me 18:20 but the Bible says, 18:21 "He is our ever present help in," what? 18:24 "In time of need." 18:25 God is never too busy for His children. 18:31 But why pray if you doubt that God exists? 18:34 If you doubt that God exists, 18:36 you need to enquire where there is no doubt. 18:40 Listen to the words of David in Psalms, in Psalms 19:1-3. 18:45 Psalms 19:1-3, the Bible says, 18:49 this is where there is no doubt. 18:51 The Bible says, "The heavens declare the," what? 18:54 "The glory of God, 18:55 and the firmament shows His handiwork. 18:58 Day unto day utters speech..." 19:03 If you doubt, let the heavens talk to you. 19:06 "And night unto night reveals knowledge..." 19:08 And I love verse three. 19:09 "There is," what? 19:11 "No speech nor language 19:13 where their voice is not heard." 19:16 My wife and I, when we lived in Northern California 19:18 in the mountains, far away from the cities, 19:22 I never forgot, one evening 19:24 as we were traveling from one town back to our town 19:26 and we climbed through the mountains. 19:29 These mountains had no guard rails, 6,000 feet, 19:33 if you made the wrong turn, 19:35 hope you had everything right between you and Jesus 19:38 but we cautiously pulled off the side of the road, 19:41 got out of our vehicle, parked it 19:44 and we climbed on the hood of our SUV 19:47 and leaned back on the windshield 19:49 and just laid there in the dark of night 19:51 and waited for a few minutes to pass by 19:54 and all of a sudden, sister. 19:57 The heavens started talking to us. 20:00 We saw God's handiwork, 20:02 our eyes began to adjust to the darkness of the night 20:05 and the beauty of the heavens, this verse began to jump out, 20:09 "There is no speech nor language 20:11 where their voice is not heard." 20:14 The same stars seen by Adam and Eve, 20:16 the same stars seen by Elijah and Noah and Abraham, 20:20 the same stars that guided the wise men 20:23 to the place where Jesus was born, 20:25 the same stars that ignited the night 20:27 when the shepherds waited 20:28 for the good news of the birth of our Savior. 20:30 Somebody ought to say, amen. Amen. 20:32 These same stars set in place by God, 20:35 charged the course of humanity 20:37 and let's us know when we doubt, 20:40 to take that moment and look up to the heavens and say, 20:43 "Convince me that God exists." 20:44 You cannot tell me that somebody coincidentally 20:48 or accidentally or any kind of evolutionary explosion 20:51 could do something so wonderfully. 20:55 That's why the oldest book in the Bible 20:56 reveals a conversation between God and Job, 20:59 this detailed account answers the questions 21:02 to those that doubt. 21:03 Job 38:4 and 5, listen to the conversation, 21:09 very profound scripture, 21:10 it's laying the foundation for something I read 21:12 that is going to really open your mind tonight, 21:15 to help you understand 21:16 the beauty of the power of the prayer. 21:18 After Job complained about his circumstances, 21:21 never blaming God 21:23 but looking at the adversity of a circumstances, 21:25 God step forward and said to Job, 21:27 "It's my turn." 21:29 And God said to him in verse 4 and 5, 21:33 "Where were you 21:34 when I laid the foundations of the earth? 21:36 Tell me, if you have understanding..." 21:40 Can you imagine God backing you up? 21:42 God said, "Job, well, it's my turn now." 21:44 "Tell me where you were 21:46 when I laid the foundations of the earth. 21:48 Tell me, if you know so much, tell me, 21:52 who determined its measurements? 21:54 Surely you know!" 21:56 I mean, you're Job, big and bad Job, 21:59 the man with a lot of possessions, Job. 22:01 "Tell me, you know so much, where were you, 22:04 who stretched the lines upon it?" 22:08 And these questions laid the foundation 22:11 and became the focus of a research 22:14 that blew my mind away, I share this with you now. 22:17 In this research, these questions were answered. 22:22 An article entitled, "Reasons to believe 22:24 in the existence of God and His word?" 22:28 A lady outlined a number of reasons 22:30 why she believes in the existence of God 22:33 and the veracity 22:36 and the authenticity of His word. 22:38 Listen to the first reason, she said, 22:40 "The complexity of our planets and its points..." 22:44 She said, "The complexity of our planet 22:47 is connected to a deliberate designer 22:50 who not only created our universe 22:52 but also sustains it." 22:54 What do you say? 22:55 When you look at the heavens at night, 22:57 my wife and I reguage often where we are, 23:00 we look up at the things that we understand, 23:01 we look at the Milky Way, the Big Dipper, 23:04 Orion and depending on the time of the air, 23:07 whenever we are in Australia, and we feel home sick, 23:11 we say, "Honey, there's the Big Dipper, 23:13 right out front of our house 23:14 when we get back to Thompsonville, 23:16 that's the same Big Dipper." 23:18 And when we're here in London, 23:20 if we see the Milky Way, we say, 23:21 "That's the same Milky Way we see in Thompsonville..." 23:25 And it hasn't moved. It hasn't moved a fraction. 23:30 It's still used to guide and become a compass 23:34 and a reliable one at that. 23:36 She also pointed out the earth in its size. 23:39 She said the earth is perfect in its size. 23:43 This research scientist says and I quote, 23:46 "The earth's size in corresponding gravity 23:49 holds a thin layer of mostly nitrogen and oxygen gases, 23:54 only extending about 50 miles above the earth's surface." 23:59 And she says, "If earth was smaller 24:01 like the planet Mercury, 24:02 an atmosphere would be impossible. 24:05 If earth was larger like Jupiter, 24:07 its atmosphere would contain free hydrogen." 24:10 And then she concluded, 24:11 "Earth is the only known planet equipped with an atmosphere 24:16 of the right mixture of gases to sustain plant, 24:20 animal and human life." 24:22 And she end by saying, "Where did it come from?" 24:26 But let me continue, fascinating article, 24:30 the other reason she gave was, water. 24:32 She says, "Water is a necessity, 24:34 water is colorless, odorless and without taste 24:37 and yet no living thing can survive without it." 24:40 Do you know that to be a fact? 24:42 You ever get thirsty, soda can't quench your thirst, 24:46 ginger beer can't quench your thirst, 24:48 Mauby can't quench your thirst, 24:50 no matter what West Indian drink you have, 24:52 nothing can quench our thirst like water, amen, 24:55 because that's God's design. 24:58 She continues, she says, 24:59 "Plants, animals and human beings 25:03 consist mostly of water, 25:05 about two thirds of the human body is water." 25:09 But then she breaks it down, she says, 25:11 "Water is a temperature regulator, 25:14 water allows us to live in an environment 25:16 of fluctuating temperature changes 25:19 while keeping our bodies at a steady 98.6 degrees." 25:23 That's what water does, that's why we need water. 25:26 She also says, "Water is a universal solvent, 25:31 this property of water means that these various chemicals, 25:34 minerals and nutrients can be carried throughout our bodies 25:39 into the smallest blood vessels 25:41 by something as simple as water." 25:45 We need water, 25:46 for the nutrients to penetrate our blood vessels. 25:49 Without water, our blood will become sticky 25:52 and hard to move, almost somehow, coagulated. 25:58 We need water everyday, for our bodies to function 26:01 and she says, amazingly enough, "This colorless, odorless, 26:06 combination of chemicals 26:08 has the perfect chemistry compound 26:12 to furnish our vessels with the oxygen 26:15 and the nutrients that it needs." 26:17 She also says, "Water has a unique surface tension." 26:20 This was an amazing thing. 26:22 She says, "Water and plants, can therefore, 26:25 flow upward against gravity." 26:27 Nothing else, flows upward against gravity but water. 26:33 Furnishing nourishment to the tallest trees 26:36 on the earth and then she says, "Water is transformative, 26:41 97 percent of the earth's surface is water 26:44 but on our earth there is a system design 26:47 which removes salt from the water 26:49 and then distributes that water throughout the globe, 26:53 it is called evaporation." 26:55 She says, "Somehow, somebody put in place a system 26:59 that causes salt water to evaporate 27:02 and cause fresh water from the salt water 27:05 to fall up on the earth, the planet and the streams." 27:08 She says, "Who could possibly put something 27:11 of such complexity in place?" 27:14 But then she says, "The human brain, 27:16 the human brain simultaneously processes 27:19 an amazing amount of information." 27:20 And then she says, "The human brain processes more 27:23 than a million messages a second." 27:25 Somebody ought to say amen to that, 27:27 a million messages but even more than that, 27:29 she says, "The brain weighs the importance of that data 27:33 and filters out those things 27:35 that the brain considers relatively unimportant." 27:39 So you might see something as you walk through Harrods 27:43 or you're on the bus or you're on the isle 27:46 or you're walking through London 27:47 or you're on your way to work and you just glance it 27:49 and five years down the road, you remember what you saw 27:53 because the brain, with the help of the eye, 27:55 captured that and held it. 27:57 Matter of fact, I need to say, 27:59 there are things I have seen when I was child 28:01 that I still remember today, 28:04 because the brain put it where I could not forget it 28:07 but there are also some things that I saw, 28:09 I wish I have never seen. 28:12 Because the brain stores it 28:15 until something activates that thought. 28:18 Then she went on little deeper, she says, 28:20 "The human eye distinguishes among seven million colors. 28:25 The eye has automatic focusing 28:28 and handles an astounding 1.5 million messages 28:31 simultaneously per second." 28:37 And the reason why she's listing these things 28:39 is because she ended into a research project 28:42 trying to figure out how is that possible, 28:45 then she pointed to our universe, 28:47 quoting astrophysicist Robert Jastrow who says, 28:52 "The seed of everything that has happened in the universe 28:54 was planted in that first instant. 28:57 Every star, every planet 29:00 and every living creature in the universe 29:02 came into being as the result of events 29:06 that were set in motion 29:07 in the moment of this cosmic explosion..." 29:10 And then he says, 29:12 "The universe flashed into being 29:14 and we cannot find out what caused that to happen." 29:18 I can tell you what? He's speaking it was done. 29:20 Somebody say, amen. He commanded and it what? 29:23 It stood fast. 29:26 She also says, the Nobel Peace Prize winner, 29:29 by Richard Feynman, he says, speaking about the universe, 29:32 she says, the universe, 29:33 he says, the universe is mathematical 29:36 and as this physicist triesto figure out 29:38 where the mathematics came from, he says, 29:41 there is a fact that everything in our universe, 29:44 everything in our solar system works on a mathematical basis, 29:48 and he says, how is that possible 29:50 unless somebody put these mathematical formulas in place 29:54 and continues to keep them mathematically true? 30:01 But what's even more amazing than the findings 30:03 is the forward about the author, 30:06 listen very carefully. 30:08 Marilyn Adamson wrote this article and she says, 30:12 based on what I've shared with you, 30:14 just a portion of her article, she says, 30:17 "I was an atheist at one time and like many atheists, 30:24 the issue of people believing in God bothered me greatly". 30:29 She says, "What is it about atheists 30:31 that we should spend so much time, attention and energy, 30:35 refuting something 30:36 that we don't really believe exists." 30:40 But even more than that, 30:41 the thing that set her emotion was this, 30:44 she said, "I found it difficult 30:46 to refute the continuously answered prayers 30:51 of a good friend of mine." 30:53 It was the answered prayers in the life of her friend 30:58 that caused her to begin to research 31:00 how can these prayers get answered, 31:04 if there was not somebody existing 31:06 that would answer those prayers, 31:08 so it catapulted her into a one year research 31:11 and at the end of that one year, 31:13 she says these words. 31:16 She says, "I've responded to the God 31:19 who offered that came into my life 31:20 and I have found faith in Him 31:22 to be the constant sustaining grace 31:25 and the one that continues to reward me." 31:27 This former atheist, through prayer, found God, 31:30 can you say amen? 31:32 Marilyn did what God invites every one of us to do. 31:35 Jeremiah 29:13, this is what she did, 31:38 the Bible says, "And you will together..." 31:40 And you will what? 31:42 "Seek me," and you will what? 31:43 "Find me," when you do what? 31:45 "Search for me," with how much? 31:47 "All your heart." 31:50 When you pray, 31:51 you got to pray like somebody's there. 31:56 I see young people sometimes in church, 31:58 they can't even put their phone down, 31:59 you know why? 32:00 Because somebody's on the other end. 32:03 In our bulletin, in our church, we say, 32:04 "Please turn off your cell phones." 32:06 And some people listen to it, some people don't, 32:10 but you might know, friends, 32:11 that to just continually texting, 32:13 they say, children today 32:15 are getting Carpal tunnel syndrome 32:16 at an earlier age 32:18 because they are continually communicating. 32:19 Can you imagine what would happen, 32:21 can you imagine what would happen 32:23 if all of a sudden tomorrow, 32:25 all cell service was discontinued in London 32:28 for the next 10 years? 32:31 There would be a pandemic of a crisis 32:34 among the young people. 32:35 They wouldn't know what to do with their time. 32:38 Can you imagine if the internet was disconnected 32:39 from now on, in London? 32:42 If there was some kind of an electronic pulse 32:45 that knocked out all possibility 32:47 of communicating for the next 10 years, 32:49 what would young people do? 32:50 You know what they'll do? They'll discover God. 32:56 My niece, who left the Virgin Islands 33:01 and went on a journey somewhere, 33:02 when she left, she left her phone in the Virgin Islands 33:05 and I couldn't help and I tried to get in touch with her 33:07 and my brother said, "Well, she doesn't have her phone, 33:09 it's here." 33:11 She lived in that phone. 33:14 Could you pass me that phone right there, real quickly? 33:16 Just throw it, I promise not to drop it. 33:23 A phone that's falling apart, 33:25 hopefully, belongs to a person who isn't. 33:28 Somebody once said, "If you wanna know 33:31 how important the phone is..." 33:32 They said, "All you've got to do 33:33 is turn your phone off 33:35 to discover who's really important." 33:42 If you look in the phone when it's off, 33:43 you'll find out who really is important to you. 33:46 When your phone is on, 33:48 it takes you out of the picture, 33:49 don't drop it. 33:52 She put on Facebook, she said, 33:55 "I never thought that I could live without my phone 33:57 but I can honestly say, a 22-years-old, 34:01 I don't need my phone." 34:04 Come on, amen, young people. 34:06 I don't need my phone, young people say, "I'm bored, 34:11 don't have anything to do." 34:12 I had two young people sitting on my couch in my office 34:14 said, "Church." 34:15 Sitting right next to each other 34:19 and I overheard one of them say, "Did you get that?" 34:22 And I looked up, I thought they were talking to me 34:24 but they were talking to each other 34:26 and then she said, "No, I didn't get that." 34:29 She said, "You didn't get that?" 34:31 And I said, "Get what?" 34:32 I had to break into that, get what? 34:33 She said, "I just sent her a text." 34:35 I said, "Turn around and talk to her. 34:38 Put the phone down." 34:42 Now a days, when you send your child to their room 34:44 and say, "You are grounded for one week." 34:47 They are happy. 34:50 "I got my phone, I got my internet, 34:53 got my laptop, 34:54 ground me for two weeks, I'll be glad." 34:56 Because they don't wanna talk to you anyhow. 34:59 They wanna talk to their friends, 35:00 am I telling the truth? 35:02 That's why I like the song, 35:03 "What a friend we have in Jesus." 35:05 We got to find joy in talking to our God, 35:08 seeking God as this text said, 35:10 "Seeking God is one of the most urgent instructions 35:13 in the Bible that has been interrupted by modern society." 35:18 We were in Chicago Square, we also went down to... 35:24 Right in that area where you see 35:25 all the big bright signs, what are they called as? 35:29 Pickadaily circus. 35:30 When you're down there, 35:32 your mind is challenged to think about God, 35:36 when you're in Times Square in New York city, 35:38 there's so much media coming at you 35:40 from so many different directions, 35:41 to think about God is a great tremendous exercise 35:45 because our minds are being bombarded. 35:48 That's why the Lord says, "When you pray, 35:50 go into your closet, shut the world down, 35:54 talk to me and the God that you talk to in secret 35:58 will reward you openly." 36:00 Amen. 36:03 Isaiah 55:6 is the prayer that this generation needs, 36:09 together, "Seek the Lord while He," what? 36:11 "May be found, call upon Him while He is," what? 36:14 "Near." 36:15 But then this also comes with an instruction 36:17 that is also a caveat. 36:21 to God blessing us when we pray. 36:23 Verse 57 or verse 7 of Isaiah 55, 36:26 "Let the wicked," do what? 36:28 "Forsake his way, And the unrighteous man his," what? 36:31 "Thoughts, Let him," do what? 36:33 "Return to the Lord, And He will have mercy on him; 36:37 And to our God, For He will," what? 36:40 "Abundantly pardon." 36:43 You know, some people think that prayer's powerful, 36:45 prayer's not powerful, God is powerful. 36:48 Amen. 36:50 I've seen people in Northern California 36:51 pray to trees, they pray to rocks. 36:55 My wife and I were recently, we were in Colorado. 36:59 Now where was it? 37:00 In Arizona, somewhere in Arizona, 37:01 we were going to the Grand Canyon. 37:03 We stopped in a small quaint town, 37:05 all about 5,000 feet on our way above sea level, 37:09 beautiful little town and I quickly noticed 37:11 because I studied the occult, 37:13 I said, "Honey, this town is replete with witch craft. 37:17 I can see it everywhere." 37:20 So we went into a store with a prayer crystals, 37:25 the prayer rocks, the purple rocks, 37:28 the red rocks, all these prayer icons 37:31 and they had numerous books on prayer. 37:35 They even had a book called, "The second coming of Jesus," 37:39 and I thought, "Ho, praise the Lord. 37:40 There's some Christian material..." 37:42 until I looked a little closer, 37:44 the second coming of Jesus is a conscious internal reality 37:48 to those who pray to some unusual God. 37:51 The user name to the second coming of Jesus 37:53 but everything in the store was designed 37:55 to lead you into a direction of prayer 37:57 that will bring you to the same place 38:00 that all those false prophets on Mount Carmel got to, 38:03 praying to idols with eyes that cannot see, 38:06 ears that cannot hear, hands that cannot touch, 38:09 they cannot lift your burdens, 38:11 only God can reach down and touch 38:14 and inhabit the lives of His children, 38:16 when we pray to a living God. 38:19 I John 3:22, 38:22 the Lord has conditions to answer prayers, 38:24 He says, "And whatsoever we ask, we receive from Him..." 38:28 But that's not where the text stands, 38:30 "Because we," what? 38:31 "Keep His commandments and," what else? 38:34 "Do those things that are," what? 38:36 "Pleasing in His sight." 38:38 Can you imagine your child, your unruly, 38:41 disobedient child 38:43 coming to you with an attitude and say, 38:45 "Give me the car keys, I need to go out." 38:49 And you just fought him over, would you do that? 38:52 Now, if you're a West Indian and you won't. 38:55 I won't tell you what you will do 38:57 'cause I don't wanna promote child abuse 39:00 but I was raised in a home where I'd tell you, 39:05 put it this way, I learned how to sit and stand 39:09 and I learnt what else my bottom was used for, 39:14 but unruly children will come and say to their parents, 39:16 "Give me this, give me that, I want the car keys, 39:19 give me some money." 39:24 If a parent wouldn't do that, 39:26 why would God grant the request 39:29 of a child who does not do 39:31 that which is pleasing in His sight. 39:35 "Whatever you ask," He says, 39:36 "You'll get it but you have to keep my commandments 39:39 and do those things that are pleasing in my sight." 39:44 And is there any place that God doesn't see us, 39:47 there's no place that we can be hidden from God. 39:49 Some people pray as though they're praying to a paper God, 39:52 but look at Jeremiah 32:27, 39:54 the reason why we need to believe 39:56 when we pray to God and talk to Him, 39:58 this text is replete 40:00 with the beauty of the kind of God we serve, 40:02 he says, "Behold, I am the Lord, 40:05 the God of," how much? 40:06 "All flesh." And let's read this together. 40:09 "Is there anything too hard for me?" 40:12 And the answer is what? Absolutely not. 40:15 My wife and I began to pray 30 years ago, 40:18 we were living in Orlando, Florida. 40:20 We just got back from traveling to 19 countries 40:23 with a Heritage Singers 40:25 and I sat at my desk in my office there, 40:27 my wife and I worked at many companies together, 40:29 we worked in New York together before we got married, 40:31 at the same company. 40:32 We worked at two different companies after that, 40:34 we traveled every day on the same bus, 40:36 every moment of everyday 40:38 we were just inches from each other. 40:40 How many husbands could handle that? 40:43 Don't answer. 40:45 But here we were sitting at the same company, 40:47 she was the receptionist 40:49 and I was one of the accountants 40:50 in the building and she walked past my office 40:52 and I had a very discontent look on my face 40:55 and she said, "John, what's wrong?" 40:57 I said, "Honey, I just got through, 40:59 traveling ready to 19 countries in two years 41:03 and all of a sudden I'm having to sit in the same place, 41:06 two days in a row." 41:08 And I said, "Honey." She said, "What?" 41:10 I said, "There's got to be more to life than this, 41:13 I wanna be in the ministry." 41:16 So we committed that to God, 41:19 "Commit your ways unto the Lord 41:20 and He will give you the desires of your heart, 41:23 if it is in harmony with His will." 41:25 So we began to pray, we prayed, we prayed, we prayed, 41:28 we prayed and then the prayer, the answers began to come, 41:31 I received phone calls, somebody said, 41:33 "We'd like you to go and be a pastor, 41:35 start your ministry in Nebraska." 41:37 And I prayed, I said, "I'm from New York, 41:39 I don't know anything about Nebraska." 41:42 They tell me it's a cow town, I am not going to fit. 41:46 So I turned it down, after praying, 41:48 then I got a call to go to Virgin Islands. 41:50 Who wouldn't wanna pastor in the Virgin Islands. 41:54 Beautiful clear water but I prayed and God said, 41:56 "That's not it." 41:58 But I made a mistake, I said, 41:59 "Lord, we will go anywhere except California, 42:06 'cause we just came back from California. 42:08 Too far from family." 42:10 What we did not know was sometimes God gotta take you 42:13 from people that know you, 42:14 so that you can get to know Him. 42:16 We continue praying and we saw friends in the mall 42:18 and one of them said, "No matter what we do, 42:20 we just cannot get in touch with you." 42:22 And I wanna say that was before cell phones existed, 42:25 back in 19...yes, '86. 42:31 I don't know if they had cell phones 42:32 but we didn't have one. 42:35 So we bought an answering machine, 42:37 remember that, 42:39 that used to stay in one place at one time 42:42 and so we bought the answering machine, 42:44 put that answering machine in, 42:45 went to work on Monday and when we got back, 42:48 the very first message on that phone was 42:50 from the Northern California Conference president, 42:53 a man we never met, did not know, 42:57 had no clue about Northern California, 43:00 3,120 miles away from Central Florida. 43:05 The message was, "There's an opening in evangelism, 43:08 are you interested? 43:09 Give us a call if you are." 43:11 Nobody could have made that connection but God. 43:15 But what preceded that 43:19 is the most important thing. 43:22 For one week straight, we prayed, 43:24 we prayed like the Muslims pray with their face to the ground, 43:28 we knelt on our bed, 43:30 we only had one bed in our apartment 43:32 and one recliner, 43:34 we had no furniture in our apartment, anywhere. 43:37 God would not let us get furniture. 43:40 They turned us down for a loan to get furniture, 43:43 they said, "You've traveled too many places to be stable, 43:46 you don't have the kind of credit standing 43:47 to get furniture." 43:49 But God knows what we don't know, 43:50 come on, somebody. 43:52 He knew that we didn't need furniture, 43:55 so we prayed for one week straight 43:57 and we said, our prayers changed. 43:59 We said, "God, we will go anywhere including California." 44:04 And that's where the phone call came from, 44:06 that's where we began our ministry. 44:08 Until we give God complete control of our lives, 44:11 we will discover that there is nothing too hard for God. 44:15 Pastor Doug Batchelor and I began a ministry in 1987. 44:18 1987, we began our pastoral ministry together 44:21 in evangelism and that's now going on X amount of years. 44:24 29 years later, God has opened the doors 44:27 for us to continue giving Him the glory, 44:29 that's why Matthew 21-22 says it this way, 44:33 "And whatever things you ask in prayer," 44:35 what is the next condition? 44:37 "Believing, you will receive." 44:40 But let me even go a step further, 44:42 we don't believe in what we're asking for, 44:45 we believe in whom we're asking. 44:48 It's all about Jesus. 44:50 It's not about asking for money 44:52 because you know what the Bible says, 44:53 "My God shall supply..." 44:55 How much of your need? "All of your need." 44:56 But sometimes God, you might ask God for something 44:58 He knows you don't need it, like I did. 45:02 I asked my father 45:03 when the Honda Accord first came out, 45:05 back in 1976, I was fresh out of high school. 45:08 I just told you my age. 45:11 Fresh out of high school, 45:13 I was so enamored by this new Honda Accord, 45:15 I said to my dad, "I need a Honda Accord." 45:18 He was from Barbados. 45:21 Me, get a Honda Accord from a man from Barbados, what? 45:27 He was so tight, when he sent me to the store, 45:29 he gave me a dollar and he would lick his finger 45:34 to make sure two of them weren't stuck together 45:36 and I had the nerve to ask him to buy me a car, 45:39 a brand new Honda Accord. 45:41 You know what he said to me, 45:42 you don't need a Honda, he said, "Furthermore, 45:43 I don't like Japanese cars anyway." 45:47 So I changed my tune, 45:48 "I want a Deuce-and-a-Quarte, Electric 225. 45:54 I need a Buick." 45:56 He said, "For what?" 45:57 I said to drive you wherever you wanna go. 46:01 It still didn't work. 46:04 And he said to me, "You live in New York, 46:05 you don't need a car in New York." 46:12 But less than a year later, 46:14 he called me downstairs to his room 46:17 and he said with that West Indian accent, "Junior?" 46:20 I said, "Papa." 46:22 He said, "Here's a $1,000, 46:25 take it and put it on whatever you want." 46:27 Amen, somebody. 46:29 $1,000, I didn't disappoint him. 46:32 I got a Japanese car 46:36 and that car worked well for us, 46:39 that car had cancer when I bought it, 46:41 the fenders were rotten, 46:43 the tail pipe fell off 46:44 the first time I took him for a drive 46:46 but I'm gonna tell you, 46:48 that car took my wife and I from New York to Florida, 46:52 from Florida all the way to California 46:54 through the desert in the heat of the summer 46:56 with no air conditioning, 46:58 brought us back, 46:59 that car served us until the day that it did not die. 47:09 God can take a broken down life, 47:11 come on, somebody, and keep it together 47:14 when He knows that you trust in His sufficiency 47:18 and His ability to provide. 47:21 There's so many answers to prayer, I could just tell, 47:23 I could just stop right here 47:24 and just use the rest of the sermon 47:25 in answered prayer. 47:27 We were in Northern California, I got to add this one in. 47:30 Here we are, 47:31 answered the call to go to Northern California. 47:34 "Lord, I'm gonna testify and nod 47:36 about your goodness." 47:38 We answered the call to go to Northern California 47:40 and they said, "You got to get here how you can." 47:42 Well, I wanna tell you, what that meant was, 47:45 I told you we could not afford, 47:47 they would not give us a loan, sister, to get furniture. 47:50 The people in the furniture store said, 47:52 "You don't have enough stability to get furniture. 47:55 You've been moving around too much." 47:57 How're we gonna get to California? 47:59 We didn't have furniture either and what we discovered is that 48:02 when we got the call to Northern California, 48:05 the only thing that we could take 48:06 was the bed we own, 48:08 we couldn't even take that $25 recliner 48:12 that we bought at a used yard sale. 48:15 That's why God did not want us to get furniture 48:19 but God in His mighty providence towards us, 48:22 when we could not afford, 48:23 when we couldn't get a loan for bed room furniture, 48:27 the Lord allowed us to get a loan 48:28 for a brand new Toyota 4Runner. 48:31 Amen. 48:32 Now you might think it's all about the car, 48:34 it ain't about the car 48:36 because after being in California for 11 months, 48:38 Pastor Doug Batchelor came to me and said, "John, 48:40 what're you gonna do for the rest of the time?" 48:42 I said, "Well, you know, 48:43 my wife and I have been praying, 48:45 this evangelism is keeping me on the road too much, 48:47 I'm praying that God could get us a church 48:50 so that we could pastor together and work together. 48:52 I don't wanna be apart from my wife so much." 48:54 He said to me, "John, 48:56 if you think that you're gonna be in the ministry 48:59 for less than a year without a degree 49:03 and get a church in 11 months, 49:08 you got another thing coming." 49:10 I looked at my good friend, Doug Batchelor and I said, 49:12 "God found you in a cave." 49:19 He and I always tell stories about each other, 49:22 I hear him tell stories about us 49:23 and we tell stories about him, two weeks later, 49:26 the conference secretary called me and said, 49:28 "We're gonna give you a church up 49:29 in the mountains of California." 49:31 Little tiny Church, 49:33 that's the church I told you about, that was so empty, 49:35 I could shoot in this church, not hit anybody. 49:37 We had two ages, very old, very young. 49:41 Those who needed their diet, well, 49:43 I wanna be kind, let me leave that alone. 49:46 We had a very old and a very young church. 49:48 When we got there, it was empty, 49:50 when we left, it was packed. 49:51 Amen. 49:53 But to show you how God was working 49:54 and answering prayers, our car, that Toyota I bought, 49:57 couldn't really go any further, so somebody said, 50:02 "Go ahead and get yourself a new car." 50:03 That company we worked for said, 50:05 "We'll go ahead and give you the money to get the car loan." 50:08 And I said, "Okay." 50:11 The company owner said, "We'll give you the loan, 50:14 whatever money you need to get that car, 50:15 we'll give you the down payment." 50:17 My wife and I took that by faith, 50:19 when we got ourselves a brand new Toyota 4Runner, 50:22 put on a $2,500 deposit, 50:24 we didn't have a penny 50:25 but the company said it will give us a down payment, 50:27 we went ahead and did that, 50:29 went to work the very next day with our brand new car, 50:31 excited about everything and pulled up 50:33 to the company and the company's daughter, 50:35 the company owner came out, her daughter, 50:37 his daughter said to us, 50:39 "You know, I talked to my dad last night, 50:41 we are sorry. 50:42 We can't give you the money right now." 50:45 The car is sitting right there, So what do we do? 50:49 My wife said, "What do we do?" I said, "Honey, we pray." 50:52 We do what? Pray. 50:54 'Cause we prayed two things. 50:56 Lord, if you want us to have this vehicle, 50:58 let the loan go through. 51:02 "So, honey, let's pray. 51:03 If we get the call from Toyota that the loan went through, 51:07 God wants us to have this vehicle." 51:09 About an hour and a half later, the call came through, 51:12 they said, "The loan is approved. 51:13 We're gonna deposit the check." 51:15 And my wife and I looked at each other and said, 51:17 "If they wanna open a dealership on the moon, 51:19 this'll be a good time." 51:21 Because that's about as high as that check is gonna bounce. 51:26 But she said, "What do we do?" I said, "Honey, let's pray." 51:29 Let's do what? 51:31 Let's pray, we prayed again 51:33 and I did something I've never done before, 51:35 I made two phone calls 51:36 and in a matter of ten minutes or less, 51:38 the Lord provided $2,500 for that down payment 51:41 but let me tell you why that's significant, 51:42 don't get enamored by the car or by the money, 51:44 there is a reason behind that's much greater. 51:47 That church that they gave us 51:48 in the Northern California mountains, 51:50 when we went to interview with that committee, 51:52 when we sat before them, 51:54 now 14 months later, long after we got this vehicle, 51:57 the very first question they asked us was, 52:01 "Do you have a four wheel drive vehicle?" 52:05 I don't know if you got that? 52:07 This 4Runner that we got in flat Florida, 52:11 where you don't need a four wheel drive vehicle, 52:13 the first question this church up in the mountains 52:15 of Northern California ask us, 52:17 "Do you have a four wheel drive vehicle? 52:20 Without one, you'll never be able to visit the members." 52:24 Prayer makes a difference. What do you say? 52:26 Amen. 52:27 So when we talk to God, James 1:6-7, 52:31 you got to be consistent in your prayers, 52:34 don't change your mind, 52:35 if you can't make up your mind about your need, 52:38 God cannot provide that need. 52:40 The Bible says in James 1:6-7, "But let him ask in faith, 52:43 with no doubting, 52:45 for he who doubts 52:46 is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. 52:49 For let not that man suppose that he will receive..." 52:53 What? "Anything from the Lord." 52:57 We prayed and God answered that prayer, 52:59 we prayed and God opened the door, 53:01 we prayed and God turned back 53:03 every obstacle to bless his children 53:06 and I'm gonna tell you tonight, 53:07 my wife and I have made it through, 53:09 going on 30 years of pastoral ministry 53:11 through storms, through earthquakes, 53:14 through attacks on our home and our marriage, 53:18 through outside forces that would have crushed us, 53:21 had we not found the need to get on our knees and pray. 53:27 I can give so many more scriptures about prayer. 53:30 But what I wanna do tonight is something quite different. 53:33 I wanna give you an opportunity tonight 53:36 to experience what it means to pray to the living God. 53:39 The God who sits high but looks low, 53:42 the God who knows absolutely no failure. 53:45 I'm gonna ask Tim to come to the piano, 53:48 when I was the young man, 53:50 I believe one of the reasons why I am where I am today 53:54 is because I was raised by a lady from Trinidad. 53:56 I was abandoned by my parents at three-months-old. 54:00 Left at baby sitter's, they never came back, 54:02 my dad wasn't around, 54:04 didn't know who he was until about 14 years later. 54:07 I met my mother for the first time 54:08 when I was almost 26 but here I was in the home, 54:12 I got abandoned in the home of an Adventist Christian, 54:15 come on, somebody. 54:16 God knew where I needed to be to get where I am today. 54:19 When Friday evening came in, we sat at the piano, 54:22 there I was barely able to even see, 54:25 couldn't reach the ground 54:27 but she would sit us at the piano 54:29 as the sun was setting. 54:37 And she would play, 'Sweet hour of prayer', 54:41 and when she played 'Sweet hour of prayer, 54:44 ' there was a connection made between me and God 54:47 that is not broken ever since. 54:51 When I was at the end of a gun point, 54:52 not just once but twice, 54:56 I know that my momma's prayers when she passed away 54:58 when I was 13 carried me through, 55:02 when I almost got run over on a Friday night 55:04 from drinking too much, partying, 55:05 when I know I shouldn't, 55:07 I knew that was momma's prayers 55:10 that kept me through that difficult moment. 55:14 When I couldn't find answers to the difficulties of life, 55:17 I turned and my wife said to me, 55:18 not too many years ago, 55:20 when I was working on my second CD 55:22 and I wrote a song called 'Momma's prayer,' she said, 55:24 "Don't use anybody else's song. 55:26 What can you think about your mother, 55:28 that stands out in your mind?" 55:30 And I said, "My mother, prayed. 55:33 She was a praying woman." 55:36 And I wrote a song called 'Momma's prayer' 55:38 but I wanna... I wanna have a just... 55:40 I'm gonna sing a little bit of this song tonight 55:43 because I wanna open the doors of the church tonight, 55:46 did this call has a multifaceted? 55:49 If you feel the need tonight, 55:52 to turn your life over to the God who never fails, 55:55 to the God who never knows, 55:59 who never knows what it means to not have. 56:03 To the God of all abundance, tonight as we sing this song, 56:06 'Sweet hour of prayer, 56:08 ' you maybe a person tonight that says I wanna come to God, 56:11 I wanna open my heart to this God tonight, 56:13 I wanna pray, 56:14 I want Him to know the issues of my heart, 56:16 I wanna come before Him and pray and bring those issues 56:21 before the God that I need to connect with, tonight, 56:23 as I sing this song 'Sweet hour of prayer' 56:25 and you have a need tonight 56:27 and you wanna know that that need will be supplied, 56:30 that God will hear you and God will answer that prayer 56:33 tonight wherever you might be, 56:34 I just wanna invite you to come up, 56:35 I wanna pray a special prayer tonight. 56:37 If there's a need in your life that you have, 56:39 if there's a burden that you wanna lay it down 56:41 at the foot of the cross, 56:43 if there's a God that you wanna connect to 56:45 that can bring you out of your darkness, 56:47 out of your despair 56:49 and you're saying, "Heavenly Father, 56:50 I want to know that my prayers are not only heard 56:53 but that my heart is right with you tonight." 56:56 I'm opening the doors of the church tonight, 56:58 if you wanna come down and pray with me, 56:59 I'm gonna pray, 57:01 I'm gonna talk to that God who has never failed me, 57:04 if you wanna join me in that prayer tonight 57:05 as I sing this song, 57:07 just simply come from wherever you're sitting, 57:08 we're gonna sing the song, 'Sweet hour of prayer, 57:10 ' and you wanna join with me to sing it together. 57:13 Sweet hour of prayer 57:18 Sweet hour of prayer 57:23 That calls me from a world of fear |
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