Participants: Hal Steenson
Series Code: FC
Program Code: FC000395
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00:31 Welcome to the Faith Chapel.
00:32 My name is Hal Steenson and I'm just privileged 00:34 to share with you today. We're gonna preach 00:38 I believe a message that will help you concerning 00:42 your prayer life and hindrances to 00:44 unanswered prayer. But before we get into 00:46 the word of God, lets get in the God, 00:49 lets get in to him through prayer okay. 00:51 Join with me today. 00:52 Father, oh! Father, what would we do without you, 00:56 we ask you today Lord in humility God, 01:00 because of the God that you are to be with us. 01:02 And Lord, we also ask you Father with boldness 01:06 that we can come into your presence here 01:07 today because we are your children 01:09 and you our Father. Lord, be with us here today 01:12 and Lord, let your love abound, 01:14 your grace Lord be multiplied and 01:17 we thank you for it, in Jesus name amen. 01:21 You know there is lot of people that come to him 01:23 and they say how, what's the deal you know 01:26 I pray, I hear other people praying, 01:28 their prayers are answered and I pray 01:29 and I don't get my prayers answered. 01:31 But see the word of God says all God's answers 01:35 are yea and amen. But its according to the line 01:37 with the word of God. So what I want to share 01:38 with you today is some reasons while 01:41 there might be unanswered prayers 01:43 in your life and what you have to do is you have 01:44 to give yourself a checkup from the neck up. 01:47 And look, take a look and make sure that 01:49 you're not in your head and that you're in 01:50 your heart okay. I want to share with you this, 01:53 so best way to praise to pray the word of God, 01:54 the BIBLE. 1 John 5:14 says. 01:57 And this is the confidence that we have in him, 01:59 that, if we ask anything according to his will, 02:01 and his will is his word, then he hears us. 02:05 1 John 5:15 says: And if we know that he hear us, 02:08 whatsoever we ask, we know that we have 02:10 the petitions that we desire of him. 02:14 Pastor, how do I pray the word of God? 02:16 Well, 2 Corinthians 2:20 says: 02:18 For all the promises of God in him are yea and amen, 02:23 unto the glory of God by us. What about times 02:27 when I pray and I just don't just get an answer. 02:31 Glad you asked, 2 Corinthians 13:5 says: 02:35 Let a man examine himself, in other wards 02:37 examine yourselves, whether you be 02:39 in the faith; prove your own self. 02:40 Know ye not your own selves, 02:42 how that Jesus Christ is in you, 02:44 except ye be reprobates? 02:47 If you reprobate he is not there working in you. 02:50 Acts 10:34 says, Then Peter opened his mouth, 02:53 and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no 02:56 respecter of persons. Let me share this with 03:00 you okay, God is not a respecter of persons. 03:03 However he is a respecter of circumstance, 03:07 remember, if you're having problems getting 03:08 your prayers unanswered the problem 03:10 is never with God, what did I say? 03:12 I said if you're having problems getting 03:14 your prayers unanswered don't blame it on God 03:18 because the problem is never with God. 03:20 Well, let's look at some possible reasons 03:22 why your prayers may go unanswered? 03:25 First, this is the biggie, I don't want to spend 03:29 a great deal of time just on this but it's very 03:32 important that you hear this okay. 03:33 First is unconfessed known sin will hinder 03:37 your prayers. 1 John 1:9 says If we confess 03:41 our sins, God is faithful and just to forgive us 03:44 our sins, and to cleanse us from some of our 03:45 unrighteousness, no, from all our unrighteousness. 03:48 See here's what we failed to see, 03:50 comprehend and realize is that not only 03:53 Will God forgive us of our sins. 03:56 But also he will cleanse us of our sins. 03:59 I mean one time I'd asked Molly to go out 04:02 and do something and get something out 04:03 of the car at Church and it was raining and, 04:04 and she started, she said, 04:07 baby it's raining outside, I said, but honey 04:08 it won't take long, I'm just trying out there 04:09 and get and then the Lord got in my case he said, 04:13 no and I said, Molly, forgive me 04:16 I am so sorry, I will go get that 04:17 and so I ran out there in ran got it 04:19 and then Lord back the Lord said you need 04:21 to repent. And I said okay forgive me Father 04:25 He said sure I will now repent and I said what? 04:28 I just did He said no you asked forgiveness, 04:30 forgiveness and repentance are two 04:31 different things. Forgiveness is when you 04:33 ask Forgiveness, repentance is when you 04:35 turned around and go the other direction. 04:37 So, we need to confess our sins before God 04:40 and you know if you're in sin, it's not something 04:42 that you've say oh! Let me search myself 04:44 what it knows it's not that, that's not it 04:47 if you're in sin, you know you're in sin. 04:49 And it's those cherished sins, let me use this as 04:52 an illustration at what speed limit does 04:54 the 65 mile an hour speed limit in Illinois 04:57 go into effect now what speed? 04:59 Now some of you will say, 05:00 well it goes into effect its 66 miles an hour, 05:03 no it doesn't, it's in effect when you sitting 05:06 at home, when your on couch, it's the law 05:09 and it's in effect whether you are even 05:11 in the car or your home on the couch, 05:13 this is where we failed to realize that God 05:15 sin limit is zero. And so when we have 05:18 unconfessed known sin in our life, 05:21 we are exceeding the sin limit of God, 05:23 we can't do that what we have to do 05:25 what we must do, what we must realize 05:28 is that God's sin limit is zero. 05:32 Thank God that we haven't advocate 05:34 with the father, that if we do exceed God's 05:36 sin limit then we can ask for forgiveness. 05:40 If we do miss it and sin and any of you 05:41 ever miss it. You know I am sure you are 05:43 raising your hand there at home. 05:44 If you've ever missed it then you know 05:47 I miss it sometimes as big as a country mile, 05:50 and that's not always easy to admit. 05:53 It's just not, but we miss it and 05:55 we don't just miss it. So much of the time 05:57 we miss it and we sin. 1 John 3:4 says 06:00 whosoever committed sin transgresseth, 06:01 means exceeds the sin limit, 06:03 also the law: for sin is the transgression 06:06 of the law. So when you exceed the sin 06:09 limit of God. Verse 17 says: 06:11 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, 06:14 and doeth it not, to him it's sin. 06:16 Now say here's where we really need to take 06:19 a good look at what's we're doing 06:20 and what we're saying. Is because what might be 06:23 to use, see I don't, I don't play cards. 06:26 Before I got born again I play cards for money, 06:28 my brother and I, Lowell and I used to go 06:30 to Huntsville and just we play Bridge, 06:33 didn't play poker, played Bridge, 06:34 it's just. It was just a big time gambling, 06:37 made lots of money. But God conducted me of it, 06:40 you see I can't stand here and tell you that 06:43 if you pick up a deck of old maid cards 06:45 or you play bridge that you're sinning 06:47 your life no. When a man knoweth to do good, 06:49 and doeth it's not sin unto him. 06:50 It's not sin unto you, It's not sin unto God. 06:52 It's not sin unto me. And I'm living with it what 06:54 I need to do is, I need to turn and loose of it. 06:57 If you hold on to unconfessed known 06:59 sinning life that sin will eventually become 07:01 a cherished sin and it will breed other sins 07:03 to enhance itself. Did you hear that? 07:05 Sin breeds sin, especially cherished sin. 07:07 The life source of sin is the nourishment 07:10 of more sin. Never, never, never, never, 07:14 never allow Satan to convince you that 07:17 it's okay to hold on to cherished sins, 07:19 because eventually you will be cleansed 07:20 from that sin. Cherished sins appeared to be 07:23 sleeping volcanoes; however they will 07:26 eventually explode and destroy everything 07:29 in their path including you. 07:32 Well, this is why I have heard so many people 07:34 to tell me, Pastor what about, 07:37 what about Isaiah 1:18 , this is I have, 07:40 I have heard this so much it just 07:41 almost a joke. What about Isaiah 1:18, 07:44 I tell people that's the scapegoat loophole 07:48 scripture for sin, but it's not because 07:50 people have misused this. Isaiah 1:18 says: 07:53 Come now, and let us reason together, 07:55 saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, 07:57 they shall be as white as snow; 07:59 though they be red like crimson, 08:00 they shall be white or shall be as wool, 08:03 isn't that wonderful. No, because this, 08:06 see this scripture is misquoted and misused. 08:11 You know, I've been to other countries 08:13 I have seen leprosy, those of you that have 08:15 not seen leprosy, not familiar with it. 08:17 It is a devastating thing; it's a horrible 08:20 thing to look on. The early stages of leprosy 08:23 get this, the early stages of leprosy, 08:25 your skin is red, its blotchy, its scarlet, 08:31 does this ring a bell concerning Isaiah 1:18. 08:34 Its scarlet, but then the later stages of it, 08:38 in the death rows of leprosy. 08:41 When your fingers, and your ears 08:43 and your nose and your toes start falling off, 08:48 you are as white as wool. God is desiring 08:52 in this scripture to put a new heart in us 08:55 and what He is saying in this scripture is: 08:56 though your sins be scarlet, sweetheart 08:58 darling if you don't do something about it, 09:00 then there were going to be as white as wool, 09:03 you are gonna be leopard as well. 09:05 Pastor, where do you get that? 09:08 I am glad you asked, because here's 09:10 where I get it. Numbers the 12th chapter 09:12 and 10th verse says: And the cloud departed 09:14 off the tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam became 09:17 Leprous, white as snow: and Aaron looked 09:23 upon Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous. 09:28 If you've got cherished sins, 09:30 you better turned over to God. 09:34 If you've got cherished sins in your life, 09:36 they might be hide in the drawer 09:37 or somewhere, they might be locked up 09:39 somewhere in the storage building that 09:40 you have whatever it is. 09:41 They that might be just be in your heart. 09:44 But what you better do is, you better deal 09:46 with those cherished sins and turned over to God. 09:49 You know, the greatest weapon that enemy 09:50 has against you is secrecy. 09:51 He will cut you up, he will eat you up, 09:54 he will chew you up and he will spit you out 09:56 as long as you keep something a secret. 09:59 Tell somebody, well who can I tell? 10:00 Tell your best friend. If you're married, 10:02 it's your wife, if you're married, a woman, 10:04 it's your husband, that's the first one 10:06 you should tell. Somebody said 10:07 if you really had problem who would you tell first, 10:09 your wife, your best friend? 10:10 I said my wife is my best friend. 10:13 That's the way it should be, 10:14 we should honor that covenant that we have. 10:17 The second reason for unanswered prayer is fear, 10:20 it is fear that is opposite of faith, 10:22 it's not down unbelief I have people tell me what? 10:25 Reason why you're not moving any face, 10:26 you're down unbelief; down unbelief is not the 10:28 opposite of faith, fear is the opposite of faith. 10:31 Galatians, let's just look at this, 10:33 how faith really truly works. 10:35 Galatians 5:6 says: For in Jesus Christ neither 10:37 circumcision availeth any thing, or uncircumcision; 10:41 but faith which worketh by love. 10:44 Boy this is a key, now I'm gonna speaking 10:46 to your life, those who have ears to hear 10:47 let him hear. Faith works by love, 10:50 well how does faith work by love? 10:52 The love of God will dispel fear 10:54 and release your faith. First John 4:18 says: 10:57 There is no fear in love; now we get this, 11:01 fear is the opposite of faith, 11:04 it's not down unbelief, but faith worketh 11:07 by love, and perfect love cast out all fear 11:11 because fear hath torment. 11:12 He that feareth is not made perfect in love. 11:18 Now, see here's what will happen? 11:20 When fear is removed from your life 11:22 and prayers, faith always work, 11:25 fear activate saying the way that faith 11:27 activates God. So, what you have to do is, 11:30 you have to confess any known sins 11:33 and then what you have to do is, 11:34 you have to get out of fear. 11:36 Whenever you move, start moving in fear 11:38 you know what you should do, 11:39 you should put you some worship music on, 11:41 you should start praising God all over your house 11:44 you should turn it up and let it flow through. 11:46 And you should demonstrate love first 11:49 and foremost by worshiping God. 11:52 And where love abounds, grace does not much 11:55 more abound okay. But we walk by faith, 11:58 not by sight, this is 2 Corinthians 5:7. 12:02 If we don't walk by sight then we, 12:04 which is our most powerful sense, 12:06 then we can't walk by any of our other senses. 12:09 We must be led by God's word not by what we see, 12:13 hear, touch, taste or smell, listen to this. 12:15 We don't walk by sight, we don't go by what 12:17 we see, hear, touch, taste or smell. 12:20 Here are the keys to releasing your faith. 12:22 If you got a pencil or pen write them down okay. 12:24 Highlight them in your Bible Mark 11th chapter, 12:26 powerful chapter. Here are the keys 12:28 to releasing your faith and seeing you 12:30 prayers answered. Okay reasons for 12:33 unanswered prayer, this is how you get your 12:35 prayers answered. Mark 11:23 says: 12:38 For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall 12:40 say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, 12:43 and be thou cast into the sea; 12:44 and shall not doubt in his heart, 12:48 but shall believe in his heart, that those things 12:52 which he saith shall come to pass; 12:54 he shall have whatsoever he saith. 12:58 First, when you pray, pray the solution, 13:02 never pray the problem. 13:04 It doesn't say oh mountain you are so big, 13:05 I don't know what I am gonna do 13:07 and you're just stand so tall 13:08 and I don't have a bulldozer 13:09 and I need a shovel, no. 13:11 You don't pray the problem, when you really 13:14 and truly moving in faith, you don't pray 13:16 the problem, you pray the solution. 13:17 He says be thou removed and be thou 13:20 cast into the sea. And don't waste your time, 13:23 listen, you don't remove anything else 13:25 I say today. Hear this, don't waste your time 13:28 by giving God all the intricate details, 13:31 you know you gonna tell Him, 13:33 hey, O God I hate to tell you this, 13:35 but I having a problem with lust. 13:36 And He goes Uh. In such a great hand bust 13:39 you know off the inner state, 13:40 I don't think so. You're not gonna surprise 13:42 God when you tell Him that you've got a problem 13:45 with sin. You're not gonna surprise God 13:47 when you tell Him something this in your life 13:49 that you think nobody else knows. 13:50 Because if you are child of God, He lives 13:53 and dwells with in you, He abides there; 13:55 He takes every step you take 13:58 and every breath that you take. 14:00 He already knows every intricate neat detail. 14:03 What you need to do? Is you just need to pray 14:06 the answer. That's the first think you do, 14:07 pray the solution, and second don't doubt 14:10 in your heart. It says you shall doubt 14:11 in his heart, if you don't hear anything else 14:14 as I say today. Please hear this 14:15 There is a a difference in doubting in your 14:17 carnal mind and doubting in your heart. 14:19 Twelve inches between your head and your heart, 14:21 I call it the foot that defeats Twelve inches 14:23 one foot will defeat you if you began to move 14:25 in your head instead of moving in your heart. 14:28 Your carnal mind is an enemy against God 14:30 always will be, it will never embrace 14:32 the concept of faith of God. 14:34 Your carnal mind will tell you numerous reasons 14:37 why your prayers won't be answered; 14:38 however your born again heart mind will never 14:42 questioned the faith of God that extended 14:45 toward you and toward your prayers. 14:47 I've often wondered, I've often wondered 14:50 maybe you're seating there and thinking 14:52 my prayers won't answered, not thought 14:53 I was so close. I've often wondered how many 14:55 prayers that may have been answered 14:57 if a person praying had realize their doubts 14:59 were coming from their carnal mind 15:02 not their hearts. You see faith is a heart thing; 15:07 it's not a head thing. Several years ago, 15:12 I was watching a weightlifting competition; 15:14 this was a female weightlifting competition. 15:16 And they had some big stout ladies that came out 15:19 and they were lifting these weights 15:21 and it was cling and jerk put it up over 15:22 their head. Two ladies came out in a row 15:25 and they looked down at the weight, 15:28 they looked up at the camera and they looked 15:29 down at the weight and they looked back up 15:31 the camera and they looked down 15:32 at the weight, they do some like three times 15:33 and they're rosining up their hands. 15:35 And they got it up, they about here 15:36 and they dropped it, big ladies. 15:39 And then I saw these little red headed ladies 15:42 I mean about half the size of these other 15:44 two women. I know she was muscled up, 15:45 but she came out there, she never looked down 15:48 at the weight and she got the rosin 15:49 and she rosined up her hands. 15:51 She looks straight into the camera 15:52 and she said easy, she leaned down there 15:57 and grabbed up that weight and 15:58 threw that weight up over her head. 16:00 And let me tell you something okay. 16:01 She didn't just lift that weight with her head 16:03 and her body; I believe she lifted 16:05 that weight with her heart faith knowing 16:09 that she could do it if she had faith that 16:11 she could do it. The third thing that 16:13 you got to do, you must believe it in your heart 16:15 to confess it with your mouth. 16:17 Listen, confession is not a bad thing, 16:19 when I confess something, I confess what the word 16:21 says I am, the word says I can be and the word 16:24 says I have the ability to become. 16:27 Now listen to this okay. 16:28 We believe it in our heart, we confess it 16:30 with our mouth and we do according 16:32 to the word of God, what did I say? 16:33 I said according to the word of God. 16:36 You see I tell people, I believe that 16:38 I am Boeing 747. I can go over the 16:40 Marianna Airport, I go to the St Louis Lambert Field 16:42 run up down the runways and spread 16:44 my arms out yield I am Boeing 747, 16:46 I am Boeing 747, won't you know something. 16:48 I've never get off the ground why not? 16:52 Because it's not according to the word of God, 16:56 what we have to do is believed what 16:58 so many people say, "God said it, I believe it 17:00 that settles it!" But let me share something 17:01 with you okay, I love you with all my heart. 17:04 But God said it that settles it, 17:06 whether we believe it or not. 17:09 The next reason for unanswered prayer, 17:10 oh I must start needling. 17:14 The next reason for unanswered prayers 17:15 is unforgiveness, I ministered several 17:19 years ago along these lines and I had to 17:20 met gentleman to come up to me afterwards 17:23 and tell me he said I'm gonna call my brother 17:24 when I get home tonight, we haven't spoken 17:26 in ten years. He told me the next day that 17:29 he called his brother, he broke down and wept, 17:31 wept like a baby, that he have been wanting 17:33 to call him and thinking about him that very day, 17:35 unforgiveness. I told my mother, 17:39 I said what I want you to do? 17:40 Is I want you to sell everything you got, 17:42 get all of your money and go around the world 17:44 that way none of the kids will have to fight 17:46 over it. God help us that families are divided 17:49 over things like that. Mark 11:25 says: 17:53 When you stand praying, forgive, 17:54 if you have ought against any: 17:55 that your Father also which is in heaven may 17:57 forgive your trespasses. But if you do not forgive, 18:01 neither will your Father which is in heaven 18:03 forgive you of your trespasses. 18:07 I have heard people say, 18:09 well I've forgiven it, but I haven't forgotten it 18:12 and I want you to know that if you haven't 18:13 forgotten it then you haven't really 18:15 forgiven it. I am not saying you shouldn't 18:18 learn from your experience, 18:19 I am saying don't let what happened to you 18:21 consume every walking moment, 18:24 just give it to God, don't let it eat you up, 18:27 don't rehash it. Every time you hear 18:29 this person's name, every time you see that 18:31 person don't, don't rehash it. 18:34 You know you need to learn from the experiences 18:36 every time you came over my house 18:37 you kicked my dog, and I found out that just 18:39 coming over I've put my dog up, 18:41 I might still let you come over. 18:42 But there was, in the Lion King, 18:44 Disney movie The Lion king. 18:46 The young lion told to the monkey he said 18:48 I just can't get over my past; I can't get over 18:50 my past. And the monkey says smack 18:52 and hit him in the head with the stick, 18:54 and the lion said why did you do that? 18:57 He's what difference does it make, 18:59 its in the past you can't do anything about it 19:02 and the young lion says, oh and then the 19:04 monkey swung at him and again and the young lion 19:06 ducked and the monkey missed him. 19:07 And the monkey said see you can't get over 19:11 your past or you can't live in the past, 19:15 but you can learn from the past. 19:18 And that's the lesson to be learned, 19:20 so if I start over your house 19:21 and I kick your dog, put your dog up 19:22 and let me still come over okay. 19:24 You must go before God; we can give him 19:26 every hurt, every pain, every heartache 19:28 and every disappointment to him 19:29 or you will end up with your prayers unanswered 19:32 and possibly living in sin. Jeremiah 31:34 says: 19:38 And they shall teach no more every man 19:39 his neighbor, and every man his brother, 19:40 saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, 19:43 from the least of them unto the greatest of them, 19:46 saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, 19:48 and I will remember their sin no more. 19:51 Now this is amazing, you know that God 19:53 doesn't have a memory. because He doesn't 19:55 forget anything, He doesn't have to turn to 19:57 Gabriel and say you know Gabriel what was, 19:59 what was the name of the sea that we parted 20:01 from Moses to get over, He doesn't forget anything 20:03 God's omniscient, He's all knowing, 20:05 He's all wise, how can He forget something 20:08 the way He forgets it. Is He chooses to forget it 20:11 and this is what we have to do? 20:12 Sure somebody came on you, up to you, 20:15 they might have thrown up all over you 20:16 and they did, maybe trying to do something 20:18 right and did it wrong or maybe they deliberately 20:20 hurt you. But see they're just walking around out 20:22 there and just like a little just happy camper 20:25 and you're being consumed with it don't, 20:27 don't let the enemy do this to you. 20:29 Forgive and forget and there is two sides, 20:33 two perspectives to forgiveness, 20:35 it's his side, his side or her side the truth 20:39 is usually what I say. But here's the truth, 20:43 perspectives that are diametrically opposed. 20:46 The choir director came to the pastor said, 20:47 you got to get rid of John. 20:48 John's ruining the choir, he can't sing. 20:51 Its terrible, he is off key, he can't carry a tune, 20:53 but he got, get rid of them 20:55 and the pastor said I handle it, 20:56 don't worry about it. So the pastor called 20:58 John in and said John you're doing a great job, 21:00 you're just such a people person, 21:02 we want you to be an usher and John said, 21:03 no I can't be in usher I can't sing in the choir 21:05 if I'm an usher. He said we really want you 21:07 to be an usher. He said look pastor 21:08 I am not gonna sing in the choir I mean 21:11 be an usher I want to sing in the choir. 21:13 And the pastor say well look John, 21:15 the truth is you can't sing. 21:16 He said who told you that. He said ten people 21:18 in the choir says you can't sing, 21:19 he's a pastor. Hundred people in the Church 21:21 says you can't preach won't you be in usher. 21:24 You see there's different perspectives on thing, 21:26 and the perspective on forgiveness is this. 21:29 Here's our prospective on forgiveness. 21:31 Mark 11:24 says: Therefore I say unto you, 21:33 what things so ever you desire, 21:34 when you pray, believe that you receive them, 21:36 and you shall have them. 21:37 However this is God's perspective, 21:40 Mark 11:25 and 26 says: And when you stand praying, 21:43 forgive, if ye have ought against any that 21:45 your Father who also which is in heaven 21:47 may forgive you your trespasses. 21:49 But if you do not forgive, 21:50 neither will your Father which is in heaven 21:53 forgive you your trespasses. 21:59 Forgive and forget, the next reason for 22:02 unanswered prayer maybe a lack of consistency 22:05 in your prayer life. John 5:16, 22:07 an Amplified Bible says here, 22:09 "The earnest, heartfelt, continued prayer 22:11 of a righteous man makes tremendous power 22:13 available dynamic in its working." 22:16 Luke 18:1: Also Jesus told them a parable 22:19 to the effect that they ought always to pray 22:21 and not to turn coward, faint, lose heart 22:24 and give up. I hear people say, 22:27 I am consistent, I am consistent at Church, 22:30 I consistently go to church. 22:31 Yes but let me ask this okay, 22:33 I want you to know once again I love you okay. 22:36 But are you consistently late, 22:38 are you consistently late many times 22:40 on many occasions. I would rather be an hour 22:43 early for something then to be one minute 22:46 late for it, but that's just me, 22:48 that should be all of us. 22:50 Romans 12:12 says: Rejoicing in hope; 22:52 patient in tribulation; continuing instant 22:55 in prayer. That word instant means 22:57 consistent in prayer, I personally believe, 22:59 I am telling you personally. 23:01 I believe that the way you conduct 23:03 your prayer life, is better reflection 23:05 of how you will conduct your daily life. 23:07 Through the years Molly and I have seen many 23:09 people that would have made great Church leaders. 23:13 However they were inconsistent 23:15 in their commitment to the local Church 23:18 and the God which suggested that 23:20 they were inconsistent in their prayer life. 23:23 Now listen to this statement, 23:24 I feel like God really gave this to me, 23:27 your spiritual life will cultivate your daily life. 23:31 It is not and never will be the other way around, 23:35 your daily life will not cultivate 23:37 your spiritual prayer life, your spiritual prayer 23:40 life will cultivate your daily life. 23:42 Now, I want to speak to the man here for just 23:44 a second, I have a man that comes up 23:48 to me if I share this sometime, 23:49 they come up to me and they will say Pastor Hal, 23:52 I've trouble getting my wife going 23:55 and getting the children going 23:56 and everything and what I do now whenever 23:59 I meet a minister along these lines 24:00 concerning prayer. I just ask him don't, 24:02 don't come to me and tell me that because 24:04 if you do what I will have to say to you is brother, 24:09 we need to go before God, or you need to go 24:11 before God. And we need to pray really pray, 24:15 because your house is not in order. 24:18 If you are the half priest of that household, 24:20 you should love your wife; 24:21 love your family into being consistent 24:25 in prayer, and in the word of God. 24:28 If your prayers will go on unanswered 24:29 if you are not proved to God financial loss. 24:33 If you're not paying taxes you're a robber; 24:35 however what you need to see is that 24:37 you aren't stealing from God, 24:38 you're stealing from yourself. 24:40 Malachi 3:8 I love it, I love it you, 24:42 you tell people to go to Malachi 3:8 24:44 and they say no, no. Malachi 3:8: 24:46 Will a man rob God? Do you think 24:49 you can hold up the conference of heaven 24:50 you can steal the pearly gates, 24:51 that's not what He's talking about. 24:53 You can't do that, what the scripture 24:55 referring to, it's not stealing the pearly gates 24:57 holding up the conference 24:58 it is robbing God of the chance to provide 25:01 all your needs according to His riches 25:03 and glory in Christ Jesus. He says bring all your 25:06 tithes and all the store house. 25:07 And see if I will not rebuke the devourer, 25:10 you won't have to, He will do it for you, 25:13 isn't this, isn't this awesome that God would 25:15 literally rebuke the devourer for us. 25:19 Let me ask you something, 25:20 how many of you, how many of you hear 25:22 lately your washing machines broke, 25:24 your water pump quench, air conditioner fell out 25:26 of the window, your roof's leaking, 25:29 do you know that when you bring tithes 25:31 and your offerings in the God. 25:32 God will rebuke the devour things last longer, 25:34 doesn't mean they want everywhere out 25:35 but then last longer then they normally do. 25:38 Pastor, where did you get that? 25:40 Oh out of Exodus, where they made the Exodus, 25:43 and remember the sandals on the children's 25:45 of Israel feet that didn't wear out for 25:47 forty years then God provided for them, 25:50 through the willingness. Well, pastor you don't 25:53 understand sometimes, I have to, I have to borrow 25:55 money from my tithes to pay my bills 25:57 you know what you should do? 25:58 If you got a recharge card and, 25:59 and I believe in plastic surgery, 26:01 I believe out cut them up. 26:02 But if you got recharge card, 26:03 you come out better to put that bill 26:05 on your recharge card, then you would 26:06 to take it from your tithes. 26:07 Because Leviticus 27:31 says: 26:09 When you do that its twenty percent 26:11 interest on it. Some you got recharge card 26:13 nine percent interest, don't borrow it 26:15 from your tithes, prove God, bring it in 26:17 and give it to God and prove God. 26:19 The last thing very quickly its you, 26:22 your prayers might go unanswered, 26:23 if you ignore God's physical laws especially 26:26 in the areas of health. Your body is a temple 26:28 of the Holy Spirit, you need to be aware 26:31 of that and keep it a temple of God, 26:35 the principles of health reformer founding 26:37 God's word according to medical ministry. 26:40 The Gospel of health is firmly linked with the 26:42 ministry of the word it is the Lord's designed 26:43 that the storing informs of health reforms 26:46 shall be apart of the last great effort to proclaim 26:48 the gospel message. I gave you six possible 26:53 reasons for unanswered prayers, 26:54 lets rehearse them quick, reason unconfessed known 26:57 sin will confess your sins, fear embrace Gods love, 27:00 unforgiveness forgive and choose to forget, 27:03 inconsistency in your life. 27:05 Stand fast which you like man, tithes. 27:07 Genesis 1:1: In the beginning God 27:12 in physical laws, don't roller skate 27:15 in a buffalo herd, realize that you are a temple 27:18 custodian and keep this temple for God, 27:22 realize that it is God that is waiting there, 27:24 He will chase you down to bless you 27:27 and to answer your prayers. 27:29 So if your prayers aren't being answered, 27:31 problem not with God, my prayers unanswered. 27:34 This old boy is so comfortable right here, 27:37 so if your prayers aren't answered, 27:39 examine yourself, because God is seating 27:41 there waiting on the edge of his throne say 27:42 come-on, come-on, come-on you can do it, 27:45 you can make it, you're right 27:47 in third place right now. 27:48 You're headed for home, 27:50 all you gotta do is commit yourself totally to God. |
Revised 2014-12-17