Participants: Pr. Andrea Trusty-King
Series Code: HG
Program Code: HG000007
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00:43 I love the Lord
00:52 He heard 00:55 My cries 01:01 And pitied every 01:11 Groan 01:17 Long as I live 01:25 When troubles rise 01:34 Oh, I'll hasten to 01:48 His throne 01:55 Oh 01:58 I love the Lord 02:02 I so do so do you love Lord 02:07 He heard 02:11 Heard My cries 02:15 And He pitied every groan 02:20 Pitied every groan 02:24 Every groan 02:30 Long as I live 02:33 Long as I live 02:40 When troubles rise 02:46 Oh, I'll hasten 02:54 Hasten to 03:04 His throne 03:09 Oh, I'll hasten to His throne 03:16 Oh, I know I can go I know I can go 03:20 I'll hasten to His throne 03:26 Oh, I know I can go I know can go 03:30 I'll hasten to His throne 03:34 His throne 03:36 Oh, yeah I know I can go 03:40 I'll hasten to 03:42 When I know I don't have anybody else 03:45 I'll go to His throne 03:46 Oh 03:49 I'll hasten 03:51 To His throne 03:58 Oh, I know I will 04:04 My name is victory 04:06 What's your name What's your name 04:08 It's victory 04:09 Come on let's do a little better now 04:10 What's your name Victory 04:11 Halleluiah Come on 04:12 Who came to Praising this morning 04:14 Would you put hands together 04:17 Here we go 04:23 I've got evidence 04:24 I've got evidence I've got confidence 04:29 I'm a conquer I'm a conquer 04:32 I know that I'll win I know that I'll win 04:35 I know who I am I know who I am 04:39 God wrote it 04:41 God wrote it in his plan for me 04:48 Ooh, oh oh ohooo my name 04:54 My name is victory 04:57 I think you know it Come on say it again. 04:59 Ooh Oh oh ohooo 05:04 My name My name is victory 05:07 All right Lets it from the top again 05:08 "I've got evidence" let's sing it. 05:10 I've got confidence I've got confidence 05:15 I'm a conquer I'm a conquer 05:18 I know that I'll win I know that I'll win 05:20 I know who I am I know who I am 05:25 What did you do God wrote in his plan 05:27 God wrote in his plan 05:32 Ooh, oh oh ohooo 05:38 What's your name My name is victory 05:41 Nice to meet Come on let's say it again 05:43 Ooh, oh oh ohooo 05:49 My name My name is victory 05:52 Ooh, oh oh ohooo come on 05:55 God gave me authority 05:58 To conquer the enemy 06:00 He wrote it my destiny 06:03 Said my name is victory 06:05 He said that I've overcome 06:08 I know I've already won 06:11 He wrote it in my destiny 06:13 That my name is victory 06:16 I know who I am 06:21 God wrote it in his plan 06:22 God wrote it in his plan for me 06:30 Ooh, oh oh ohooo 06:34 What's your name My name is victory 06:37 There we go come on 06:39 Ooh, oh oh ohooo 06:44 My name My name is victory 06:47 Come and say it again 06:49 Ooh, oh oh ohooo God gave me authority 06:53 To conquer the enemy 06:56 He come on my destiny 06:58 And my name is victory 07:01 He said that I've overcome 07:04 I know I've already won 07:06 He wrote it my destiny 07:09 That my name is victory 07:12 I know who I am 07:16 God wrote it in his plan 07:18 God wrote it in his plan for me 07:25 Ooh, oh oh ohooo 07:30 My name My name is victory 07:33 It goes one more time 07:35 Ooh, oh oh ohooo 07:40 My name My name is victory 07:43 I know my identity 07:47 Come on man 07:48 My name is victory 07:52 Come on Say it again 07:54 I know my identity 07:59 Because my name is victory say it 08:04 I know my identity 08:09 My name My name say it victory 08:13 To the my Lord I know my identity 08:19 Oh, my name My name is say victory 08:24 I know I know my identity 08:30 My name My name is victory 08:34 Victory 08:37 Victory That's my name 08:42 Victory I know I know who I am 08:47 Victory Victory 08:49 Say that's my name 08:51 My name victory Say victory 08:55 I know I know who I am 09:00 I know I know who I am 09:05 I know I know who I am 09:09 I know I know who I am 09:15 Say I know I know who I am 09:21 Halleluiah-- 09:22 Halleluiah, Halleluiah 09:25 My name is victory Yeah 09:28 And I know who I am 09:30 I'm a child of the living God 09:32 Halleluiah 09:33 Alpha and omega 09:35 The beginning and the end 09:37 I sense a presence in this place right now. 09:41 And there's a sweet presence because God is here. 09:45 How many of you all believe that 09:46 God is on this place, right now? 09:50 It's a simple song, everybody knows it. 09:52 I want you all to sing along. 09:57 It says, "The God is here, 10:00 He's here in this place and He's here in our hearts." 10:04 Let's give God the glory. 10:08 There is-- 10:09 There is a sweet anointing 10:16 In the sanctuary 10:20 There is a stillness 10:25 In the atmosphere 10:32 Oh, Come and lay down 10:36 The burdens you have carried 10:42 For in this sanctuary 10:48 God is here 10:52 Say it again there is a sweet 10:54 There is a sweet 10:57 There is a sweet anointing 11:02 In the sanctuary 11:06 There is a stillness 11:11 In the atmosphere 11:16 Come and lay down 11:22 The burdens you have carried 11:27 For in this sanctuary 11:33 God is here 11:36 Now say it to the top of your voice that 11:38 "He is here." 11:40 He is here, He is here 11:45 He is here, He is here 11:49 To break the yoke 11:52 To break the yoke 11:54 And lift the heavy burden 11:59 Oh, He is here say 12:01 He is here 12:04 I know He is here 12:07 He is here 12:10 To heal the hopeless heart 12:13 To heal the hopeless heart 12:17 And bless the broken 12:21 Oh, Come Oh, Come and lay down 12:27 The burdens you have carried 12:32 For in this sanctuary 12:38 God is here 12:41 I want you to say it one more time, 12:42 say, "God is here," say it 12:45 He is here He is here 12:47 To break the yoke 12:49 He is here, He is here 12:54 To break the yoke To break the yoke 12:59 And lift the heavy burden 13:04 Oh, He is here say He is here 13:09 My Lord is here 13:11 He is here 13:15 To heal the hopeless hearts 13:17 To heal the hopeless heart 13:21 And bless the broken 13:26 Oh, Come and lay down 13:31 The burdens you have carried 13:36 For in this sanctuary 13:43 God is here 13:47 Give Lord and thanks to the Lord 14:02 Oh, oh give thanks to the Lord for He is good 14:05 Oh, oh give thanks to the Lord for He is good 14:08 For His mercy Endureth forever and ever 14:12 Oh, oh give thanks to the Lord for He is good 14:15 Oh, oh give thanks to the Lord for He is good 14:18 Oh, oh give thanks to the Lord for He is good 14:21 For His mercy Endureth forever and ever 14:25 Oh, oh give thanks to the Lord for He is good 14:28 And now we sing Hallelujah, oh, give thanks 14:29 We sing Hallelujah, oh, give thanks 14:31 We sing Hallelujah, oh, give thanks 14:32 Oh, oh give thanks, to the Lord He is good 14:34 And now we sing Hallelujah, oh, give thanks 14:36 We sing Hallelujah, oh, give thanks 14:37 We sing Hallelujah, oh, give thanks 14:39 Oh, oh give thanks, to the Lord He is good 14:41 Oh, oh give thanks 14:42 To the Lord He is good 14:44 Oh, oh give thanks, to the Lord He is good 14:47 His mercy endureth forever and ever 14:50 Oh, oh, give thanks, to the Lord He is good 14:53 And now we sing Hallelujah, oh give thanks 14:55 We sing Hallelujah, oh give thanks 14:57 We sing Hallelujah, oh give thanks 14:58 Oh, oh give thanks, to the Lord For He is good 15:00 And now we sing Hallelujah, oh give thanks 15:02 We sing Hallelujah, oh give thanks 15:03 We sing Hallelujah, oh give thanks 15:04 Oh, oh give thanks, to the Lord He is good 15:06 He is good He is good 15:08 He is good He is good He is good He is good 15:11 He is good He is good He is good He is good 15:14 He is good He is good 15:16 Oh, oh give thanks, to the Lord for He is good 15:19 He is good He is good He is good He is good 15:22 He is good He is good 15:24 He is good He is good He is good He is good 15:27 He is good He is good 15:30 Oh, oh give thanks 15:31 Oh, oh give thanks Oh, oh give thanks 15:34 Oh, oh give thanks 15:35 Oh, oh give thanks 15:37 Hallelujah, Hallelujah. 15:47 Our gracious Heavenly Father, 15:49 Lord we bless You in this place. 15:51 Father we give you glory and we give You honor, 15:54 and Lord we ask that You would give something, 15:57 give us ears that we may hear 15:58 what the spirit is saying to the church. 16:01 Father in the name of Jesus 16:02 we ask all God that You would fill this place 16:05 with Your presence, oh, God. 16:07 It is our plea and desire that we would be free. 16:11 Father I pray that you would 16:13 set our hearts a blaze with passion for You. 16:16 And Father when all is said and done, 16:18 we promise that we will give You 16:20 all the praise, honor and glory, 16:22 in the name of Jesus, we pray. 16:24 Amen. Amen. 16:25 And amen. 16:27 Now I have a question for you, and the question is 16:31 how often does God answer prayer? 16:37 May be even a better person would be 16:39 how often does God answer your prayer? 16:43 5 to 10%? 25%? 16:47 Any 50% out there? 16:50 Or may be there is a cup-- I see a couple hands, 16:53 and there may be I've heard some prayer warriors 16:56 they say that God has answered 100% 16:59 every single one of their prayers. 17:03 And to this I say to God be the glory. 17:07 Now I must admit that God has not answered 17:10 all of my prayers. 17:11 I'm just go put that out there for the beginning, 17:14 god has not answered all of my prayers. 17:17 Now for some of that I say thank you Jesus 17:20 'cause I pray some crazy prayers. 17:24 And I'm so glad that God's answers 17:26 were greater than my prayers, 17:28 He knew that had I been in my right mind, 17:31 I would have put my hand over my mouth like Joe 17:33 and just let it go. 17:35 And so I'm happy that God didn't answer 17:37 all of my prayers, but I pray some good prayers, 17:41 you know, James says that, 17:43 at sometimes we have not because we ask not. 17:46 Because we gonna use them, 17:49 we ask a mess that we may satisfy our own pleasures, 17:52 I'm not talking about those kind of prayers, 17:54 I'm talking about good godly prayers. 17:57 Prayers God I want to You to heal this person 18:00 or God I need You to save this person. 18:03 Good godly prayers. 18:05 That were according to His will and His word. 18:09 And God did not answer those prayers yet. 18:16 Now has anybody ever wondered why? 18:20 Now I'm not gonna profess to know why God does, 18:25 what He does? 18:26 But I do believe 18:28 and there could be lots of answers. 18:30 But I do believe-- 18:32 we are gonna talk about at least one of those today. 18:38 We give up too soon, 18:43 I have a little boy and he is five. 18:46 And he like to play around on the piano, 18:48 and so we decided we're gonna put our children 18:51 in piano lessons, 18:53 and my daughter sword with the-- 18:55 she played her notes, she learned her theory 18:58 and she is now in her junior handbook. 19:02 But my son not too much. 19:05 I mean we were work with him and work with him 19:07 and he just refused to know the notes. 19:09 He probably got as far as C, D, E that's what it, 19:15 I means, so would I what notice this-- 19:17 I don't Q and so we're going and we are trying 19:21 and my husband took him to lesson, 19:24 and he will going too well and he comes back, he is like, 19:26 I think we are wasting our money here. 19:28 And then I tried to-- to work with him a little bit 19:32 because the teacher was getting on him 19:34 and so I tried to work with him 19:37 and after that session I'm like you know what? 19:39 I think you are right, may be we need to just, 19:42 you know, let this thing go. 19:44 And so we talked to my son and we ask him, 19:47 you know, do you want to keep the one Piano lessons? 19:50 and he is like, no, not really. 19:53 And it shows, where he gets to his lessons, 19:55 so he gets to his lesson 19:57 and the teacher is given on him for not knowing his notes. 19:59 He said that okay, I'm taking different lessons 20:02 from now on, and so I'm thinking, 20:04 oh, no, why do he tell the teacher this? 20:07 and so this-- this was on Thursday, Friday, 20:11 we are getting ready for the Sabbath, 20:12 we're doing all this up and my husband plays piano 20:15 the best out of all us, 20:16 he is taken years and years of piano. 20:20 My husband was working on his sermon 20:22 and all of a sudden from the living room 20:23 I hear all of this beautiful harmonious music, 20:27 and I'm like baby you know, you have a sermon right, 20:29 why are playing on the piano? 20:31 He is like, that not me, 20:34 and my daughter was in the kitchen with me, 20:37 and I look and it was little five year old 20:40 who we were pulling out of piano lessons, the-- 20:43 just yesterday, just the day before 20:46 and he is just playing and playing 20:48 and brought tears to my eyes, I call out our grandparents, 20:51 I was like, listen to this. 20:54 And the thing that rebuked me so much 20:57 is that we were just about to give up on him at piano. 21:01 We just said we were going to pull him out, 21:05 we were giving up too soon. 21:10 And I wonder how many times do we do that in our own lives. 21:16 Turn with me to 2 Kings 13. 21:20 2 Kings 13. 21:22 And we are gonna look at the story that begins 21:25 in verse 14-21, 21:30 here we find Elisha on his deathbed. 21:35 And King Joash is overtaking with greed 21:39 because this mighty prophet was such a blessing to him. 21:44 He couldn't imagine having to run the country 21:47 without having a prophet 21:49 who would be able to tell him what to do. 21:52 I mean they would go back 21:53 and forth fitting with the Syrians 21:56 and Elisha would tell them 21:58 exactly what the Syrians were planning. 22:01 And so if the Syrians were gonna be over here 22:03 Elisha would give word to the king 22:05 and then they would-- 22:07 the Israelites would go over here. 22:08 And then the Syrians plan to ambush over there, 22:11 then some kind of way Elisha would give word to them 22:15 and they would be over there, 22:17 oh, Joash love the fact that he had a man of God 22:21 who could tell him what was going on. 22:23 And now Elisha as on his deathbed, 22:28 Joash is thinking what is going to be come up us? 22:31 What is going to happen? 22:33 And so he comes to Elisha, and he begins weeping, 22:37 and yelling, my father, my father, 22:39 he begins yelling about the army. 22:43 And Elisha gets up... 22:47 and he says, take out a bow and some arrows, 22:52 tells him to open the window and the two of them 22:55 put both of their hands on the arrows, 22:59 and then we find in verse 17 23:03 "And he said, 'Open the east window' 23:05 and he opened it. 23:06 And Elisha said, 'Shoot' and he shot. 23:09 And he said, 'The arrow of the Lord's deliverance 23:11 and the arrow of deliverance from Syria, 23:14 for you must strike the Syrians at Aphek 23:17 till you have destroyed them.' 23:20 Then he said, 'Take the arrows' 23:21 so he took them. 23:22 And he said to the king of Israel, 'Strike the ground' 23:25 so he struck three times, and stopped." 23:34 When he did this Elisha was vexed, 23:38 he was upset with him the next verse it reads 23:42 "And the man of God was angry with him, 23:45 and said, 'You should have struck five or six times, 23:49 then you would have struck Syria 23:51 till you had destroyed it! 23:53 But now you will strike Syria only three times.'" 23:58 He was upset 23:59 because the king gave up too soon. 24:05 Perhaps the king thought well, I'm really want to be fighting 24:08 for more than three battles so I'm hopping that 24:11 God could fit all of His power and deliverance in three hit-- 24:14 God the three times, 24:16 whatever it was he gave up too soon. 24:21 What does this have to do with our prayers, 24:23 what does this have to do with me? 24:25 Because a lot of times we pray 24:28 and we give it to God and then we're done with it. 24:33 We go on with our lies, 24:34 we say, heavenly father please be with my husband. 24:38 Lord, help me to get through this, keep me sane 24:42 until the divorce is final, amen. 24:48 And they rely what Pastor are prayed about it. 24:51 Surely if God want to do something, 24:53 He would have done something already. 24:55 We talk about our can't, we talk about sicknesses, 24:59 we have these things going on in our lives, 25:02 and we say a two sentence prayer 25:04 and then we're done with it. 25:06 And there we got peace with God 25:08 because God didn't do the miraculous. 25:14 But the Bible says, 25:15 that we are to pray without ceasing. 25:20 The Bible says that we are to continue to pray, 25:24 and let us not be weary, and well doing for into season 25:29 we shall read, and we don't give up. 25:33 Amen. 25:34 You are not the cheetah, 25:36 the cheetah is a wonderful creature made my God, 25:40 the cheetah can run 70 miles an hour, 25:44 and so if the cheetah wants up it 25:46 all he has to do is run it down. 25:50 He begins to chase it, 25:52 but what the cheetah has in speed it lacks in heart. 25:57 The cheetah has a disproportionately 26:00 small heart-- heart 26:02 and so the cheetah can go fast, but the cheetah can't go long. 26:07 And so if that-- that pray, 26:10 if it can run just a little faster, 26:14 if it has a little more heart 26:16 than cheetah will have to give it up. 26:20 And I'm afraid that many of us in today 26:22 should have a cheetah anointing. 26:27 We want to quick, fast and in a hurry way, 26:30 and we can't get it quick and fast, 26:32 we loose heart 26:34 that we don't want to bother with it anymore, we can, 26:37 we don't understand, why that has a move? 26:39 I did my part, I gave Him a good five minutes. 26:47 And a lot of times, we thing if God is in control, 26:51 why is it He moving in this Situation? 26:54 Can I share something with you all? 26:57 Turn your Bibles to Genesis 1 27:01 because the Bible says that God made man 27:06 in his own image, amen? 27:07 Amen. 27:09 God made man in his own image, 27:11 verse-- chapter 1 verse 27" 27:14 So God created man in His own image, 27:16 and in the image of God He created him, 27:19 male and female He created them. 27:21 Then God blessed them, and God said to them, 27:24 'Be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and subdue it, 27:28 have dominion over the fish of the sea, 27:30 over the birds of the air, 27:32 over every living thing that moves on the earth.'" 27:35 So from the very first chapter. 27:39 The Bible says that God gave controls to man, 27:43 He gave dominion to man. 27:46 Are you all still there? 27:47 Yeah. 27:50 From the very beginning 27:53 and so now things are starting to make sense 27:55 when where God decided that 27:57 He was going to destroy Shannon, 27:59 He went to talk to Abraham first. 28:01 And Abraham said, well, hold on God, 28:04 what happens if you 550? 28:06 Righteousness vote, you simply tear them up. 28:08 God said, no, no, not if I 550 28:10 well, I mean I hate to keep going back and forth, 28:13 but what about 45? 28:14 What about 30? 28:15 I'm just saying, it might be 25 God. 28:18 What about 20? 28:19 I hate to keep bothering you but may be 15? 28:23 Can you imagine the great God of the universe going back 28:27 and forth with a mare mortal? 28:30 All the way down to 10, 28:33 and the great God almighty said, 28:36 okay, if there is 10 I will not destroy it. 28:41 Now things are beginning to make sense 28:44 when Emma says in chapter 3 verse 7 28:47 surely God will not do anything 28:51 without first revealing it to his prophets. 28:54 God is saying that He wants us 28:58 to release His power in the earth. 29:01 There are lot of time that God's will is not done, 29:06 simply because God's people have not pray for it. 29:11 When Jesus was praying in Luke 11, 29:16 the disciples walked to Him and said, 29:18 Jesus, Lord can you teach us how to pray? 29:21 And he says, sure when you pray, 29:24 pray like this, our father, 29:26 which are in heaven, how would be that name, 29:28 and then he says-- what does he say next? 29:33 Thy kingdom come, thy will be done-- 29:37 why would Jesus teach his disciples to pray 29:41 for God's will to be done if it's already gonna be done? 29:47 Hello? 29:49 I mean he already in his sermon on the mount says, 29:51 the father knows that You have Me, 29:53 before you even ask, 29:55 but yet and still the next part of the verse says, 29:58 give us this day, our daily pray. 30:02 James tells us that, 30:03 "God does not want to tempt us into evil 30:06 and it's not His will that we fall and falter." 30:09 As a matter of fact, 30:10 every time a enemy comes with a temptation, 30:14 the building call that the temptation declares 30:17 that it must have a way of escape, 30:20 it must have a way of out. 30:22 But yet and still, God commanded His disciples 30:26 when they pray say, "Lead us not in to temptation, 30:30 deliver us from evil." 30:34 Bibles says that 30:35 "God is not willing that any should parish 30:39 but that all should come to repentance." 30:41 It is not God's will that any should die in a crisis grave. 30:47 Yes, some do. 30:51 And why is that? 30:53 Part of the reason is, instead of going like God told us to. 30:57 We try to get Him to come-- 31:00 They just come to the crusade. 31:05 God said, "No." 31:08 Is this thing on, I can't hear nobody, pray? 31:13 And even in 2 Thessalonians 3:1 31:19 a lot of times we think we're just preaching, 31:21 and just tell Him the truth 31:23 and surely that's all they need. 31:27 But in 2 Thessalonians 3:1 he says 31:29 "Finally, brethren, pray for us, 31:32 that the word of the Lord may run swiftly and be glorified, 31:37 just as it is was with you." 31:40 A lot of times we preach but don't pray. 31:45 And the Word is saying, 31:47 "We have got to pray these things through, 31:51 we want to see great 31:53 and marvelous things in our lives, 31:55 we want to see great 31:56 and marvelous things in our churches." 31:58 The Bible says, "Call on to me, 32:02 and I will show you great and marvelous things, 32:05 which you do not know." 32:08 Yeah. 32:09 There are things that God is waiting to pour into your life. 32:16 Many times, we think that we're waiting on God, 32:19 and God is waiting on us. 32:25 Now, I must confess, that just because I had a microphone, 32:30 that mean I have the victory. 32:34 I'm just keeping it real, 32:36 I got on the plane on yesterday 32:38 and got a call from one of my members, 32:42 she said "Pastor, they are releasing my son, 32:45 the doctors have thrown up their hands, 32:47 they say, 'That his cancer is inoperable 32:50 and all they can do is give him painkillers.'" 32:53 When I heard this, it hit me deep in my gut 32:57 because I knew I was coming to preach this to you all, 33:00 and I know that we had been here before. 33:04 A couple of months ago, they said the exact same thing, 33:07 except it was much worse. 33:09 He had infections up the wazoo, 33:11 they couldn't figure out what was wrong, 33:13 they refused to operate on the cancer, they said, 33:16 "he had just a short time to live." 33:18 And we prayed and prayed, God knows we prayed, 33:21 we stop service and we prayed, in prayer meeting we prayed, 33:25 in small groups on a conference call, 33:28 we prayed and miraculously the infections were gone, 33:33 the cancer was dissipating. 33:35 They were like, "Oh, you are improving" 33:37 and then they put him into treatments 33:39 and they wanted to move on the scene. 33:43 We got the testimony and we marked it off our list. 33:50 We are like, "Oh, God is on it now. 33:54 He is doing bad thing, He's backing chemo 33:57 and all of these kinds of things 33:59 we marked it up our list and quit praying." 34:05 Now don't look at me like 34:06 we're the only ones in the whole wide world 34:08 that has done that. 34:10 You guys never did that before? 34:14 You hear a little something good and like, 34:16 "Whoa, God got it now, I can stop worrying." 34:20 And you move on to the next scene. 34:24 But often times, we give up to soon 34:31 and sometimes not only do we give up too soon, 34:36 the devil tries to mess with us. 34:39 So that when we start to pray all hell breaks loose, 34:45 and we think-- well, let me stop praying 34:49 because it's just too, it's getting worse. 34:52 I'm doing Bible studies with this lady 34:55 and she said, "Pastor, you know, 34:56 I really want to come to Christ a long time ago. 34:59 I got this Bible and I know its gonna sound crazy. 35:03 But I opened the Bible 35:06 and the canvas started opening and closing, 35:08 the table started shaking, 35:10 everything in that house went crazy." 35:13 She said, "As soon as I closed the Bible, it was peace." 35:19 So she's like "Pastor, you know, 35:21 I wanted to learn about God, 35:23 but I made a peace in my house." 35:32 Y'all better act like y'all know 35:33 what I'm talking about. 35:36 I mean I could talk about her or I could talk about me? 35:39 Because when I first got married, 35:42 bless the Lord, they don't tell you 35:43 but everybody talk honeymoon stage, 35:45 but they're the other stages in the first year of marriage. 35:49 Hello, somebody? Amen. 35:52 And even though we were both in seminary 35:54 and wanted to know, Jesus. 35:57 I will have my devotions, I come, I done my worship, 36:03 and then me and my husband, we get in a fight. 36:06 The next morning, I had my devotions, 36:10 I come out to worship, 36:11 and then me and my husband will get into a fight. 36:15 Now, I was a thinking woman, and I said, 36:20 "Is something funny about this?" 36:23 I wonder, I just wonder, 36:26 if I don't have devotion will we not get into a fight. 36:32 Now I love you God, I just want to see something. 36:39 So then that I'm keeping it real, 36:42 y'all pray for me and don't give up. 36:45 Y'all stay on your knees still I get to where I need to be. 36:50 So I wakeup the next morning, 36:53 skip the devotion, no argument. 36:59 I said, "I just want to try it one more time 37:03 to see this is a coincidence." 37:06 Skip the devotion again, 37:10 skip the prayer, no argument. 37:16 I know, I can't be the only one 37:18 that the Devil tried to pull this on, 37:24 when you-- you already on the edge 37:28 and then you are like, "Okay, I'm pray about this guy, 37:33 I need a big intervention." 37:35 And it seems like when you get on your knees, 37:39 it unleashes the powers of hell. 37:41 So you jump up real and quit like. 37:46 But the Bible says that, 37:50 "We are to pray without ceasing." 37:53 Do you all remember Daniel? 37:55 And Daniel chapter 10, Daniel begins praying, 38:00 he needed a word from the Lord, 38:03 he not only began praying 38:05 but he began praying and fasting, 38:07 and he was weak, 38:08 and he was little confused about why God hadn't moved? 38:13 And then the angel comes, three weeks later and said, 38:20 turn to it, turn to it. 38:21 Daniel 10:21, 38:26 I want you all to think I'm just making stuff up. 38:37 Not 21, 12. 38:41 Daniel 10:12 "Then he said to me, 38:46 'Do not fear, Daniel, for from the first day 38:51 that you set your heart to understand, 38:54 and to humble yourself before your God, 38:56 your words were heard, 38:59 and I have come because of your words.'" 39:04 But if you read to next verse, it says 39:06 "But the Prince of the kingdom of Persia 39:08 withstood me for 21 days." 39:10 This is a satanic force. 39:13 Not only did your prayers unleash me 39:17 to bring blessing from heaven 39:20 so other stuff God unleash to, 39:23 to keep the blessing from getting to you. 39:27 But, Daniel didn't give up, he prayed 39:31 but then "Oh, God is not here yet," 39:34 well, let me-- he began to pray and fast 39:38 and see God's face so much 39:41 so that not only did his answer part 39:45 but as an added bonus the devil got beaten down. 39:50 Hello? Amen. 39:52 And so, it went-- When the devil start acting up, 39:56 that's what I told you pastor. 39:58 Pastor's car broke down yesterday 39:59 coming to get me from the airport, not-- 40:03 And he was apologetic, my car broke down too, this week. 40:07 We were about to go out to a cruise 40:08 and we-- in our church we're been praying and fasting. 40:11 All kind of crazy stuff has been happening, 40:13 that's why I said, "I'm not worried, 40:16 I've seen all kind of crazy stuff happened this week. 40:18 But I have also seeing the miracles of God." 40:23 My car won't start and we were late in one night 40:26 and it was a day that was fastened 40:28 and I said, "I know this is none 40:29 but the devil and so in the name of Jesus 40:31 I command this car to start, 40:34 I don't receive any of His foolishness 40:36 that devil is trying to discourage and what not 40:39 and I will go on about my business." 40:41 My husband comes home to try to fix the car, 40:43 to see what's going on. 40:45 He turns around and he's like "I don't understand, 40:47 there is nothing wrong with this car." 40:48 It didn't start, when I tried earlier, 40:51 as an added bonus 40:53 when the devil get in your stuff, 40:55 you get a chance to beat the devil down. 40:57 Yeah. 40:58 So when you see him show up in your stuff 41:03 don't get up, don't step back, 41:06 move forward because the Bible says that 41:09 "Greater is he that is in us than he that is in the world." 41:13 The Bible declares that "We are not just conquerors 41:16 but we are more than conquerors." 41:19 The Bible declares 41:20 that "He'll always causes us to try on." 41:24 Yeah, yeah. 41:25 So we cannot give up. Yeah, yeah. 41:30 One day, George Muller decided 41:34 that he was going to pray for his five friends 41:37 and he began praying and praying 41:40 and after a couple of weeks, two of them came to Christ. 41:45 After many months another one came 41:48 and after ten years, two others came. 41:51 But there was one last one 41:54 who had still not giving his life to Christ. 41:59 This is what Gorge Muller saying 42:02 "He is not saved yet, but he will be. 42:07 How can it be otherwise? I'm praying. 42:11 Amen. 42:12 He said, "I have been praying for 63 years and 8 months. 42:19 He will be saved because I'm praying." 42:27 George Muller prayed until he died 42:33 and it was at the graveside service, 42:37 as they lowered Muller's body in that grave, 42:43 that the last friend gave his life to Christ. 42:48 Amen. 42:50 We worried about our kids, are we praying for our kids? 42:55 Even when it seemed like the devil 42:57 getting all up in there, you keep praying. 43:01 Amen. 43:03 We're wondering if we stay another day 43:06 and some of the marriages we've vowed ourselves in, 43:11 you keep praying. 43:15 If the great God Almighty 43:18 with resurrection power in His hand, could resurrect. 43:23 All kind of dance stuff, surely, surely, 43:30 He can resurrect dead love, dead feelings, 43:33 and dead marriage. 43:37 Surely, He can resurrect dead cells, 43:42 dead pots, dead whatever. 43:45 Yeah, yeah. God can do it. 43:50 Ellen White wanted to know why are we seeing 43:57 Power, more faith in power so she has asks. 44:03 Early Writings 73, it says, 44:06 He said, "Ye let go of the arm of the Lord too soon." 44:13 Give up too soon. 44:16 He said, "Press your petitions to the throne, 44:19 and hold on by strong faith. 44:21 The promises are sure. 44:24 Believe ye receive the things you ask for, 44:27 and you shall have them." 44:31 I was then pointed to Elijah, 44:33 he was subject to like passions as we are 44:36 and he prayed earnestly. 44:37 His faith endured the trial. 44:41 Let's go to Elijah, 44:44 turn with me to 1 Kings 18. 44:52 Perhaps some of you have heard this story 44:54 before Israel had lost their plumb-lines, 45:01 they decided that they were going to worship Baal. 45:05 As a matter of fact, 45:07 not only were they involved in demon worship, 45:10 they tried to kill everybody 45:15 who worshiped God 45:18 and so finally Elijah told them, 45:24 "It's not even going to rain" 45:26 because see that the thing about it was, 45:29 Baal was the one, who was the fertility guy 45:33 and they were in hard economic times, 45:37 and so they were thinking "Well, we tried God, God, 45:43 and I still got laid off. 45:45 I tried God, God, and ain't still forecloses on my house." 45:50 I mean "I tried to keep the Sabbath 45:54 but I still got fired from my job. 45:57 So maybe I need to make other arrangements." 46:02 So then they began serving Baal. 46:06 Because Baal was suppose to give fertility 46:08 make all of their crops grow what not, so God said, 46:12 "Oh, you think, Baal running this? 46:16 So I'm eternal of the Flossie, for the rain, 46:21 and I'm gonna let your boy Baal hook you up, 46:23 and let me know how that work out?" 46:29 So there was no rain, for three and half years, 46:33 no crops, they thought there were in bad times 46:37 before when they turn their back on God, 46:43 they had no idea. 46:46 So, God wanted His people back and Elijah comes and he said, 46:53 "Let's settle this once it for all 46:55 and see if God is God, 46:58 then He will show Himself strong." 47:02 So they did all of this 47:05 and God brought fire from heaven 47:09 and Baal did nothing. 47:13 And so now everybody realizes 47:17 that they have been worshiping and focusing on the wrong guy. 47:22 So now God wants to turn back the Flossie of blessing. 47:27 Because now they realized who their source is, 47:29 they realized that their employer was not their source, 47:33 they realized that the unemployment office 47:35 was not their source, 47:36 they realized that the mortgage company was not their source, 47:40 they realized their community service 47:42 at the churches not their source, 47:44 they realized now that God is the only one. 47:48 Amen. 47:51 So now, God tells us in-- 47:54 if we are beginning of chapter 18:1 it says, 48:01 "Go, present yourself to Ahab, 48:03 and I will send rain to the earth." 48:07 So God says that "He is about to send rain to the earth." 48:12 Now if we would have gotten that word, 48:13 we would have praise God, brought an umbrella, 48:18 and just been hanging out waiting 48:20 for God to do His thing, right? 48:24 Like I said it that settles it, but what the Elijah do? 48:30 Verse 41, 48:32 we find Elijah telling Ahab 48:39 that "The abundance of rain is coming." 48:42 Verse 42 it says that, "He went to the top of Carmel, 48:46 and he bow down to the ground, 48:48 put his face between his knees." 48:51 The verse that we read in James tells us what he was doing. 48:54 He was praying, he was praying, earnestly for something 48:59 that God already told him was going to happen. 49:03 He praised and He tells the servant, 49:06 verse 43 "Go up, look toward the sea." 49:10 So he went and looked, he said, "There is nothing." 49:14 Now we would've been like "I can't believe that God, 49:19 to answer my prayer." 49:23 But what did Elijah do? 49:26 It says that "He continued to pray." 49:29 He continue to send his servant, 49:31 when he didn't see anything that did not communicate to him 49:34 that God wasn't doing anything, 49:37 that communicated to him that he won't finish praying, 49:41 it communicated to him that it wasn't time to give up yet, 49:44 that communicated to him 49:46 that he was to still pray with out ceasing. 49:50 Even though, he had a word from the Lord, 49:53 even though he had a promise, even though God already said, 49:56 "He was gonna do it." 49:58 He continued to pray seven times, 50:06 it was seven times. 50:08 Verse 43, it says, 50:12 "Seven times he said, 'Go again.' 50:14 Then it came to pass at the seventh time, 50:17 that he said, ''There is a cloud, 50:18 as small as a man's hand, rising out of the sea!' 50:23 So he said, 'Go up, say to Ahab, 50:25 Prepare your chariot, go down before the rain stops you.'" 50:32 There are some promises that God has given us, 50:37 that we have been wondering, where they were coming from. 50:42 We are wondering why is God taking so long? 50:46 And God's word to you today 50:49 is you have got to pray that thing through. 50:54 Let us not be weary and well doing, 50:57 for in due season you shall reap 51:01 if you faint not." 51:07 1 Samuel 12:23, Samuel says this, 51:11 "Moreover, as for me, far be it from me 51:14 that I should sin against the Lord 51:19 in ceasing to pray for you." 51:25 Samuel said, "Let it be far from me 51:28 that I should sin by stop praying for you." 51:36 Mercy, now I know where commandment keeping people, 51:41 God commanded that we pray and not cease. 51:45 God commanded 51:48 so we got to start following those too, hello? 51:51 Amen. 51:53 God wants to unleash magnificent things 51:57 in each of our lives. 51:59 God is going to release 52:02 magnificent things into our lives. 52:05 We are going to see the promises of God fulfill, 52:10 we are going to see our children safe, 52:13 we are going to see our marriages 52:15 coming back together, 52:17 we are going to see 52:18 the blessing of God on our lives, 52:21 we are going to see to the sick heal, 52:24 we are going to see it. 52:27 Amen, amen. 52:30 As we obey, God 52:33 and pray without ceasing. 52:38 As the musicians began to play 52:42 there was a young couple who wanted to find gold, 52:49 and so they were looking everywhere for gold. 52:54 They couldn't find it 52:55 and they needed to sell some more stuff, 52:58 so they sold their farm, 53:00 so that they can continue to find gold. 53:03 This was during the gold rush. 53:09 They gave up on where they were 53:11 and they tried to go somewhere else. 53:13 They ended up bankrupt in England 53:17 and finally they made it back to the States. 53:21 They had nothing, 53:24 they wanted to get back to that old farmhouse 53:28 where they first started out and as they went, 53:34 they noticed there were soldiers 53:36 stationed all around their farm. 53:40 They didn't know what was going on? 53:43 And so they asked, "What is going on here?" 53:51 And they said, "Don't you know? 53:55 This is the second largest gold reserve in the nation" 54:02 Sutter's Mill, they sold it, to find gold, 54:10 and that one of the largest reserves was in their backyard, 54:18 they gave up too soon. 54:23 Oh, God let that not be our portion. 54:26 Amen. 54:28 There are wonderful things that God has for each of us, 54:32 let us not give up too soon. 54:38 Don't just do like I did 54:40 and pray till something happens, 54:44 pray until it is finished. 54:49 Amen. 54:55 God wants to do something miraculous 54:59 in the lives of His children. 55:01 God wants to do something miraculous in Dallas, Texas. 55:05 God is going to do something miraculous in City Temple, 55:12 if we fake not, 55:16 if we fake not. 55:20 I just wonder, if there's anybody 55:23 under the sound of my voice, 55:24 you got some situations going on in your life 55:28 and you thought about giving up, 55:30 and you wonder where God was, 55:33 but you understand that you were not waiting on God, 55:36 God is waiting on you. 55:40 And you are committing for this situation 55:44 or to that the God has brought to your mind right now. 55:47 You are committing that you are gonna pray 55:50 that thing through. 55:53 If you have to use your dying breath, 55:56 if you have to pray for the rest of your life, 56:01 you are committed to praying 56:05 that thing through you are committing-- 56:07 you're not gonna give up too soon. 56:10 You're not gonna stop until you see God has moved. 56:17 If that's your desire, I just want you to stand with me. 56:26 There may be somebody under the sound of my voice, 56:30 who has not accepted, Jesus as their Lord and Savior. 56:36 You too know what it's like to want to give up 56:42 and you wonder if this God thing 56:45 is anything that can help you. 56:48 You wonder if God really has the power to change 56:55 and move in your situation. 56:58 Well, I came by to tell you that He does, He is ready, 57:02 and He is willing and able. 57:06 He is willing to save you, He is willing change you, 57:09 and make you new. 57:13 And if you want to accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior, 57:16 wherever you are I want you to get out of your seat 57:18 and join me down front. 57:20 I have a very special prayer. 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