WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:08.420 I just want to echo what Matt said a few weeks ago about coming up here and doing prayer. 00:09.420 --> 00:13.860 It's something that I don't think he took lightly or nor am I. 00:19.950 --> 00:21.690 His presence is strong this morning. 00:30.970 --> 00:39.830 I'm reminded in Psalms 23, I make a place, a table for you in the midst of your enemies. 00:40.870 --> 00:42.150 We're at the table today. 00:43.930 --> 00:49.250 There's darkness all around in the world. 00:50.930 --> 00:53.030 We're at his table today. 00:53.030 --> 01:00.050 And it doesn't matter what's going on on the outside because we're with him. 01:01.370 --> 01:08.010 He spoke to me, I don't know, a while ago. 01:08.310 --> 01:10.510 He's been speaking to me about some things. 01:13.690 --> 01:20.850 Part of me misses the West because I love the atmosphere, the community. 01:20.850 --> 01:23.410 They love God out there. 01:25.430 --> 01:28.490 It's the total opposite of what it's like in this region. 01:29.590 --> 01:31.110 And the part of me misses that. 01:32.050 --> 01:37.150 But I would not trade what God is doing here for anything out there. 01:38.110 --> 01:41.910 Because you can't find what God is doing here in many places. 01:42.710 --> 01:50.050 My wife and I would always be like, when we were out West, if we would stop doing what we're doing, where would we go out here? 01:50.050 --> 01:51.850 And we'd always look there's nothing. 01:52.890 --> 01:58.430 We went to many different places and there's just not the atmosphere of God's presence like there is here. 01:59.330 --> 02:06.190 So this morning I just want to reverence his presence, honor his presence, think for his presence. 02:06.530 --> 02:09.770 Because it's not a small thing to come into his presence. 02:10.890 --> 02:13.610 Without his presence, I would not be here. 02:15.990 --> 02:16.330 Amen. 02:18.870 --> 02:23.390 So let's start on what God placed on my heart when I was asked to come up and do prayer. 02:27.470 --> 02:28.690 He gave me a word. 02:30.730 --> 02:37.090 And it's going to sound like, when I'm going through this, how this sounds like a rebuke or a hard lesson. 02:37.970 --> 02:38.550 But it's not. 02:39.010 --> 02:42.710 What he's saying, it's a reminder of not getting into complacency. 02:42.710 --> 02:48.130 Or just in the sense of expecting that we don't have to do anything. 02:48.250 --> 02:49.350 God's just going to take care of it. 02:49.390 --> 02:50.870 We still have a part in it. 02:51.270 --> 02:55.190 And he gave me this word. He said, ask in prayer. 02:57.750 --> 03:02.810 Sometimes we can get so used to God just performing the miracles, doing the things that he does. 03:03.270 --> 03:06.030 That sometimes we just expect him to do it. 03:06.150 --> 03:11.650 Which is, it's a good thing, but it can be a bad thing because God wants us to ask him. 03:12.290 --> 03:14.650 And he gave me this analogy. I have teenagers. 03:16.770 --> 03:19.550 Well, two teenagers. The others are in their 20s now. 03:21.070 --> 03:24.710 But when they would come and ask me for something, like, let's say they wanted to borrow the car. 03:24.770 --> 03:25.690 I'm going to say yes. 03:26.930 --> 03:29.730 But I don't want them to come up, hey dad, give me the keys. I'm taking the car. 03:31.710 --> 03:33.230 Hey dad, I'm going out tonight. 03:33.990 --> 03:35.630 I'll be back around 10. 03:36.450 --> 03:37.470 No, ask me. 03:39.970 --> 03:42.890 There's a reverence and an honor that just ask me. 03:43.110 --> 03:45.150 I'll give you, but just ask me. 03:46.390 --> 03:48.810 It's not that he's not going to answer the prayer. 03:49.030 --> 03:51.430 Just ask because it's an honor and a reverence. 03:51.550 --> 03:54.030 And it goes along with what Pastor Igor has been talking about. 03:54.450 --> 03:57.330 It brings the lowliest of mind. It brings the humility into it. 03:57.690 --> 03:59.810 You are in the authority. You are the Father. 04:00.170 --> 04:05.270 I come and I ask you, Father, may I? 04:05.790 --> 04:07.410 Yes, my son. Yes, my daughter. 04:08.530 --> 04:10.370 But he brought me to James chapter 4. 04:10.470 --> 04:13.330 Now, if you read the Bible, especially in the New Testament, 04:13.810 --> 04:15.850 there's a lot of good scriptures about ask. 04:16.570 --> 04:19.530 Ask and they'll be given to you. Seek and you'll find. 04:20.270 --> 04:23.150 Keep knocking and the door will be open. 04:23.790 --> 04:25.770 Whatever you ask in my name will be done for you. 04:25.970 --> 04:28.590 These are great Bible verses, but no, he brings me to James 4. 04:31.770 --> 04:33.310 Chapter 4, verse 2. 04:35.510 --> 04:39.670 If you back up to let's go to 1 and get a run and start, he says, 04:40.510 --> 04:42.350 Where do wars and fights come from among you? 04:43.130 --> 04:47.010 Do they not come from your desires, pleasures that were in your members? 04:51.760 --> 04:55.500 Verse 2, You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. 04:55.880 --> 04:58.000 You fight and war. Second part of verse 2. 04:58.000 --> 05:01.100 Yet you do not have because you do not ask. 05:01.400 --> 05:02.980 And that's the one he impressed on my heart. 05:04.440 --> 05:06.220 You don't have because you don't ask. 05:07.100 --> 05:12.260 Sometimes we get so used to God being in our lives that we forget just to ask. 05:15.100 --> 05:17.260 I have notes. I don't know if I'm going to go on doing. 05:24.050 --> 05:25.630 He wants us to ask him. 05:29.010 --> 05:32.190 And then he brings me out of the second part of verse... 05:32.990 --> 05:34.230 He goes into verse 3. 05:35.030 --> 05:36.670 Then you ask, but you ask amiss. 05:38.770 --> 05:40.430 You ask with the wrong motives. 05:40.770 --> 05:42.350 So here's what's going on in the church. 05:45.730 --> 05:49.250 Is there trying to accomplish God's will in the flesh? 05:49.950 --> 05:52.470 And they're starting to fight and they're starting to quarrel. 05:52.570 --> 05:54.310 They're starting to have these things rise up. 05:54.550 --> 05:56.130 And James is telling them, stop it. 05:56.130 --> 05:59.030 You need to ask and then you need to ask with the right motives. 05:59.050 --> 06:00.530 Because some of their motives were wrong. 06:00.850 --> 06:03.570 And even our motives can be wrong. We could think it's good. 06:03.950 --> 06:07.610 Like Lord, we ask for this building, but it's the motive right for this building. 06:08.210 --> 06:14.410 Is it the motive of God give us this building so that we can prove to everybody how good we are and how spiritual we are. 06:14.690 --> 06:20.130 Or are we building this building because we need a place to put the babies which God asked many years ago. 06:20.390 --> 06:23.670 He's preparing this body, but he needs the physical church. 06:26.890 --> 06:29.110 He asks us, where am I going to put the babies? 06:29.250 --> 06:31.950 That's not just preparing us, which we're walking through now. 06:37.020 --> 06:42.740 But we need an actual physical place that they can come and they can rest in the presence like we rest here. 06:43.800 --> 06:48.220 Now we can do that anywhere, but there's something about coming together in this setting. 06:48.960 --> 06:53.020 Leaning on one another, encouraging one another. 06:53.020 --> 06:57.620 I get so much encouragement coming here and seeing people in just the smiley faces. 06:58.600 --> 07:06.040 I mean, I'm looking at them now and I didn't have this for 13 years that I have it here. 07:07.140 --> 07:10.840 Can't take it lightly. Lord, we ask, but we ask with the right motive. 07:11.220 --> 07:12.500 We need to check our heart. 07:17.080 --> 07:19.480 So why do prayers go unanswered? 07:21.740 --> 07:24.640 The first one I covered, we just don't ask. 07:28.290 --> 07:30.350 Secondly, the lack of faith or doubt. 07:31.690 --> 07:35.710 We continue into James chapter, if we go back to James chapter one verse six, seven, it says, 07:35.910 --> 07:41.350 but let him ask in faith with no doubting for who who doubts is like a wave of the sea. 07:42.230 --> 07:45.670 Let not that man suppose he will receive anything from the Lord. 07:46.590 --> 07:52.450 If we have doubt, if we question, if we are tossed to and throw, because one day you may be asking 07:52.450 --> 07:57.070 and if you're not in faith, circumstances may change, circumstances might come up 07:57.070 --> 08:00.770 and now you're tossed to the other side and you're like, well, God, I don't know if this is going to work. 08:01.130 --> 08:03.910 You're doubting and God says that prayer will not be answered. 08:04.450 --> 08:07.990 So we have to be firm in the faith that what we ask for God will do. 08:13.070 --> 08:14.570 Don't doubt, have faith. 08:15.350 --> 08:20.350 Prayers of unbelief will be hindered. That's obvious because the promises come by faith. 08:26.730 --> 08:30.570 We are called to trust God's character and promises when we pray. 08:31.310 --> 08:35.130 Whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them and you will have them. 08:35.470 --> 08:40.250 A heart of faith honors God, whereas persistent unbelief hinders our prayers and hinders God. 08:40.590 --> 08:44.870 It ties his hands. Just believe, just step into it. 08:44.870 --> 08:49.330 And if you don't see the answer, there's a timing to God's promises. 08:53.630 --> 08:55.370 I'm going to give a testimony on that. 08:56.550 --> 09:05.530 I was 24 years old, 23, 24 years old, and I asked God for a child. 09:07.150 --> 09:12.730 We prayed and prayed and prayed. We fasted and fasted. We believed. We done things. 09:12.730 --> 09:16.190 We were doing what God was asking us to do, but the promise wasn't coming. 09:17.970 --> 09:20.870 And see, we could have gotten into doubt. We could have gotten into unbelief. 09:21.850 --> 09:26.570 And we would have never got the promise, but his timing, and I'm going to tell you why he probably tarried. 09:27.270 --> 09:31.370 Because I see it now. I didn't see it then, but I see it now because of... 09:31.370 --> 09:33.030 I said it's 2020, right? 09:33.990 --> 09:36.750 I see it now because I want to have my other son. 09:38.570 --> 09:39.750 I want to have my daughter. 09:41.630 --> 09:44.550 Because I would have had my biological kid. 09:45.550 --> 09:48.570 And I would want to protect that. I probably would have never done the foster care. 09:49.290 --> 09:52.370 I would have never took... because we took the hardest of hard kids because God asked, 09:52.710 --> 09:54.970 these are the kids that nobody wants. Will you take them? 09:55.410 --> 09:56.170 Yeah, I suppose. 09:58.110 --> 10:01.270 You know you're going to go through abuse, right? Yeah, I'll take them. 10:01.850 --> 10:06.090 I will love them the way you love them more because you'll give me the grace to do it. 10:07.950 --> 10:11.510 And because I was faithful in what he said, he gave me my son. 10:11.610 --> 10:13.250 We never doubted for one minute. 10:14.230 --> 10:18.070 We questioned if we... we did question, are we doing the right things for God? 10:18.150 --> 10:19.790 We never doubted, God can't answer. 10:23.730 --> 10:26.150 And as for the building, the right motive for the building, 10:26.250 --> 10:28.090 I want to say this because God brought this up to me. 10:30.270 --> 10:33.310 When we were... just so you know a little bit of history, 10:33.430 --> 10:35.770 before we came to Word of Life, me and my wife lost everything. 10:35.770 --> 10:39.150 We lost our house, we lost our cars, we lost our jobs. We had nothing. 10:40.210 --> 10:43.630 We came to Word of Life, we learned about tithing, we learned about all this stuff. 10:43.790 --> 10:47.530 And God began to just lift us out of that hole. 10:48.810 --> 10:50.250 Sent us to Idaho with nothing. 10:50.930 --> 10:53.670 No money, no place to live, nobody... we didn't know a single person. 10:54.390 --> 10:55.870 He blessed us with a house. 10:56.190 --> 10:58.290 Then we began to do his work of the foster care. 10:58.610 --> 11:02.190 We had a 1500 square foot house. We can only take so many kids. 11:02.430 --> 11:03.730 We can only take two at a time. 11:03.730 --> 11:04.910 We want more. 11:05.910 --> 11:07.830 So he blessed us and we built a bigger house. 11:07.950 --> 11:10.070 And when we built this house, we built it with the idea, 11:10.390 --> 11:12.830 this is not our house. This is a tool of ministry 11:13.310 --> 11:16.070 so that we can have more kids so we can minister to more 11:16.070 --> 11:18.210 and bring more out of the darkness into the kingdom of light. 11:18.550 --> 11:19.630 Same thing with the building. 11:20.390 --> 11:22.970 We're not building this because we just want a bigger building to look good. 11:23.250 --> 11:25.970 We want this building, the motive for this building 11:25.970 --> 11:27.670 is so that we can put people in this 11:27.670 --> 11:31.070 that can encounter the Spirit of God and have changed lives. 11:31.510 --> 11:32.970 Not just a wimpy prayer. 11:33.410 --> 11:34.950 Not just a wimpy, you know, like, 11:35.150 --> 11:36.570 I accept Jesus for insurance, 11:36.750 --> 11:40.370 but they are radically encountered with the Lord and Savior of the universe. 11:41.970 --> 11:43.270 That they are changed forever. 11:44.470 --> 11:46.510 That's why we're doing it. That's our motive. 11:46.690 --> 11:47.550 That is our heart. 11:53.120 --> 11:54.560 Another thing that he pressed on me, 11:54.620 --> 11:57.620 why we have unanswered prayer is our cherished sin. 11:58.680 --> 12:00.300 Well, that sounds like, yeah, I was out smoking. 12:00.560 --> 12:02.780 I was out drugging. I was out doing things I shouldn't have been doing. 12:02.780 --> 12:05.020 But it goes deeper than that. 12:06.860 --> 12:09.480 What he pressed upon me is the seers that we are going through, 12:09.580 --> 12:10.480 of lowliness of mind. 12:10.800 --> 12:12.920 There is a conviction going through this body of Christ 12:12.920 --> 12:15.440 to change us into the more image of Christ 12:15.440 --> 12:17.320 so we can receive those that who need us. 12:17.800 --> 12:19.920 And if we refuse to listen to that conviction 12:21.300 --> 12:22.880 and obey what he is saying, 12:23.200 --> 12:25.000 we are entering into sin and rebellion. 12:25.760 --> 12:27.580 And that will hinder the prayers of God. 12:28.140 --> 12:29.860 If we want this house to move forward, 12:30.140 --> 12:32.100 we have to embrace the conviction 12:32.100 --> 12:33.680 and we have to walk it out and say, 12:33.780 --> 12:36.520 yes, Lord, even though it is uncomfortable and it may hurt 12:36.520 --> 12:38.900 and it humbles us, we need to do it. 12:39.220 --> 12:41.860 Or else the prayers will be unanswered. 12:43.500 --> 12:44.340 Does that make sense? 12:49.850 --> 12:51.510 Isaiah 59-2 says, 12:51.670 --> 12:53.630 our sins have hidden his face from you 12:54.630 --> 12:56.070 so you will not hear. 12:57.470 --> 12:58.390 That scares me. 12:59.230 --> 13:00.810 It puts me in the fear of the Lord 13:00.810 --> 13:03.930 because if I am in sin, my prayers will not be answered. 13:03.930 --> 13:06.030 If I am in rebellion towards God 13:06.030 --> 13:07.970 towards the conviction that he has given me, 13:08.290 --> 13:10.510 my prayers won't be answered. 13:12.050 --> 13:15.970 And my prayers are for the souls of the next generation. 13:16.570 --> 13:18.490 My heart is to see them encountered 13:18.490 --> 13:20.430 and saved and radically just declare 13:20.430 --> 13:22.950 in boldness the Word of God is standing for truth. 13:28.550 --> 13:32.130 So, Lord, search my heart like David said. 13:32.510 --> 13:34.390 If there is anything in my heart 13:34.390 --> 13:35.670 because the heart is deceitful. 13:36.190 --> 13:38.350 If there is anything in me, show me 13:38.350 --> 13:39.850 so that I can change it. 13:48.200 --> 13:49.960 If we go on to James, 13:51.020 --> 13:51.700 I love James. 13:52.800 --> 13:54.620 Chapter four, we keep reading 13:54.620 --> 13:56.320 he addresses that situation. 13:58.300 --> 13:59.460 And verse six, 14:00.040 --> 14:01.440 but he gives more and more grace 14:01.980 --> 14:03.760 through the power of the Holy Spirit 14:03.760 --> 14:05.960 to defy and live obedient life 14:05.960 --> 14:07.900 that reflects both our faith 14:07.900 --> 14:09.700 our gratitude for salvation. 14:09.900 --> 14:12.780 Therefore, it says, God is opposed to the proud. 14:13.200 --> 14:16.080 If we're not willing to listen 14:16.080 --> 14:18.380 and embrace the conviction of the Holy Spirit, 14:18.560 --> 14:19.900 we are standing in pride. 14:20.280 --> 14:22.280 I know better. I can do it. 14:23.840 --> 14:25.280 This isn't a big deal. 14:26.020 --> 14:28.460 He may be asking you to put your phone down. 14:28.580 --> 14:30.180 He may be asking you to shut off the TV. 14:30.420 --> 14:32.340 He may be asking you to come to prayer 14:32.340 --> 14:33.260 on Friday nights. 14:33.900 --> 14:35.700 You know, it was hard for me and my wife 14:35.700 --> 14:36.920 to get to prayer this last Friday. 14:37.160 --> 14:39.480 The conviction of the Holy Spirit says, you need to be there. 14:40.460 --> 14:42.600 You know, on Friday, by the time I get to Friday, 14:42.800 --> 14:43.580 I'm dog tired. 14:45.060 --> 14:46.460 I work hard during the week. 14:47.380 --> 14:49.580 I got groups that I got to prepare for. 14:49.840 --> 14:51.460 There's many things that go on. 14:52.060 --> 14:54.000 Friday night comes, I just want to rest. 14:55.160 --> 14:57.460 But the Holy Spirit said, no, you need to come 14:57.980 --> 14:58.680 and pray. 14:58.880 --> 15:01.120 So I have to sacrifice my flesh, 15:01.120 --> 15:02.780 I sacrifice the thing that I want 15:02.780 --> 15:04.460 and say, yes, Lord, I will. 15:06.760 --> 15:08.800 Because if I don't, I'm in disobedience. 15:09.280 --> 15:10.940 And then he begins to resist 15:10.940 --> 15:13.240 the things that I'm trying to do. 15:19.060 --> 15:20.900 As opposed to the proud and the haughty, 15:20.960 --> 15:22.860 but continually gives the gift of grace 15:22.860 --> 15:25.760 to the humble who turn away from self-righteousness. 15:26.480 --> 15:28.240 So submit to the authority of God, 15:28.380 --> 15:30.280 resist the devil, stand firm against him, 15:30.300 --> 15:31.380 and he will flee from you. 15:31.740 --> 15:33.860 Come close to God with a contrite heart. 15:33.860 --> 15:35.000 I'm reading on the Amplified. 15:35.780 --> 15:37.040 And he will come close to you. 15:37.580 --> 15:39.300 Wash your hands, your sinners, and purify 15:39.300 --> 15:41.160 your unfaithful hearts, you double-minded. 15:42.880 --> 15:44.180 We have to get to the point 15:44.180 --> 15:45.900 where we don't want the sin in our life 15:45.900 --> 15:47.540 because the sin hinders the prayers 15:47.540 --> 15:49.900 that God is trying to accomplish in this region. 15:59.380 --> 16:01.680 Another thing that hinders the prayer 16:01.680 --> 16:03.940 is broken relationships and unforgiveness. 16:04.380 --> 16:06.940 We've been talking about things of 16:06.940 --> 16:07.500 offense. 16:08.920 --> 16:10.400 When God is moving, 16:10.740 --> 16:12.320 offense rises every single day. 16:12.760 --> 16:14.640 There is opportunity for me to be offended 16:14.640 --> 16:17.040 and it's over little, minute things 16:17.040 --> 16:19.200 that don't even matter to the kingdom of God. 16:21.540 --> 16:22.740 And I daily have to say, 16:22.820 --> 16:24.980 I will not be offended. 16:25.580 --> 16:26.700 And if you get into... 16:26.700 --> 16:28.760 and here's the thing, something might be said 16:28.760 --> 16:30.560 that offends you, but you misheard 16:30.560 --> 16:32.560 what was spoken, and so then you begin 16:32.560 --> 16:34.240 to dwell on it, feast on it, 16:34.240 --> 16:36.060 and then it turns into this big, huge thing. 16:36.460 --> 16:38.060 If you would just go to the person and say, 16:38.160 --> 16:40.520 hey, I want to clarify something 16:40.520 --> 16:42.060 so the devil doesn't lie to me. 16:42.480 --> 16:44.660 This is the way I heard it. This is the way you meant it. 16:45.000 --> 16:46.040 And you're probably going to find out, 16:46.160 --> 16:48.000 no, and the offense is over. 16:48.560 --> 16:50.640 But we carry that. We don't take the time 16:50.640 --> 16:51.780 to go up to the person and say, 16:52.140 --> 16:54.560 I need some clarification on what you said. 16:55.900 --> 16:57.360 And so then we carry around the offense 16:57.360 --> 16:59.160 and then there's division, strife, 16:59.360 --> 17:02.220 and the prayers that we pray are now hindered. 17:08.290 --> 17:10.610 I like what Pastor Igor said the other day, 17:11.070 --> 17:11.730 last week. 17:12.230 --> 17:13.450 We are not in competition. 17:15.630 --> 17:17.290 We are not in competition. 17:19.790 --> 17:21.950 We're here for one another. We're here to work 17:21.950 --> 17:23.870 with one another. We're here to lift 17:23.870 --> 17:25.530 and encourage one another up. 17:30.610 --> 17:31.830 We're in this together. 17:32.450 --> 17:33.530 We're in the fight together. 17:33.690 --> 17:35.490 We're brothers and sisters in arms 17:35.490 --> 17:37.350 in the army of God. 17:38.390 --> 17:40.370 And now what has happened, 17:40.770 --> 17:41.550 how much more? 17:42.990 --> 17:44.130 How much more 17:44.130 --> 17:45.970 with the recent events that just happened? 17:47.170 --> 17:49.570 Do we need to lean and encourage one another 17:49.570 --> 17:50.850 to be bold to speak 17:52.150 --> 17:53.610 and not to shrink back 17:53.610 --> 17:55.690 but to move forward even stronger? 17:58.170 --> 18:00.050 I know he's going to talk about Charlie Kirk, 18:00.150 --> 18:01.130 but I just want to say this. 18:01.370 --> 18:02.990 He reminds me of Stephen in Acts 18:04.010 --> 18:04.610 because 18:04.610 --> 18:06.930 Stephen's persecution, the gospel 18:06.930 --> 18:07.430 spread. 18:08.710 --> 18:10.630 Because of the persecution, the gospel 18:10.630 --> 18:11.470 will spread. 18:17.210 --> 18:17.810 Lastly, 18:21.170 --> 18:22.450 not aligning our will 18:22.450 --> 18:24.250 with God's will. We have to make sure 18:24.250 --> 18:25.510 we hear what he is saying 18:26.990 --> 18:28.210 and align ourselves 18:28.210 --> 18:29.090 with his will, 18:34.610 --> 18:35.530 his desires 18:35.530 --> 18:36.890 and how do we do that? 18:38.490 --> 18:39.510 We must 18:39.510 --> 18:40.350 abide 18:41.570 --> 18:42.630 in the Savior. 18:44.030 --> 18:44.910 We must 18:44.910 --> 18:46.830 abide in the Word. 18:48.590 --> 18:49.250 As we 18:49.250 --> 18:50.670 abide in Him, 18:50.990 --> 18:53.370 He begins to pour Himself into us. 18:53.430 --> 18:55.590 He begins to pour His desires into us, 18:55.670 --> 18:57.070 which then become our desires 18:57.070 --> 18:58.730 and then we begin to pray those out 18:58.730 --> 19:00.430 and He will answer those prayers. 19:15.930 --> 19:17.610 So He started with the word 19:17.610 --> 19:18.170 ask 19:20.310 --> 19:21.490 and that's what 19:22.750 --> 19:24.290 the Bible verse He gave me. 19:24.730 --> 19:25.350 There's plenty. 19:26.230 --> 19:28.450 I mean, if I really wanted to go deep 19:28.450 --> 19:30.310 we could spend weeks and years 19:31.450 --> 19:32.190 on this. 19:33.670 --> 19:34.690 But then He said, 19:34.910 --> 19:36.810 we need to come in unity in our prayers 19:36.810 --> 19:38.490 that we are praying for the same thing 19:38.490 --> 19:39.490 that we are on the same page 19:39.490 --> 19:40.250 and we are praying for the same thing 19:41.430 --> 19:41.830 and so 19:41.830 --> 19:43.430 Abby mentioned this at prayer on Friday 19:43.430 --> 19:45.950 that to write the vision down plainly on a tablet 19:45.950 --> 19:48.070 so that all who can see it will run with it. 19:48.530 --> 19:49.070 A paraphrase. 19:50.570 --> 19:52.010 And so God gave me 19:53.890 --> 19:54.290 basically 19:54.290 --> 19:55.350 said it to me but 19:57.510 --> 19:58.430 as a faith aid 19:58.430 --> 19:59.850 but more of a vision directive. 20:01.550 --> 20:02.650 And so I went to pastor 20:02.650 --> 20:04.350 and I said, hey, this is what God is showing me 20:04.350 --> 20:06.290 telling me what is the exact 20:06.290 --> 20:07.610 vision for word of life 20:08.350 --> 20:09.990 because God is going to give him the vision 20:09.990 --> 20:12.030 and pass it on to us that we may run with it. 20:12.750 --> 20:12.970 Right? 20:13.610 --> 20:15.830 So I go to him and I said, what is the vision? 20:16.030 --> 20:17.350 Send it to him. He sends it back. 20:17.890 --> 20:20.050 Great. Let me take it down. Let me break it down. 20:21.830 --> 20:22.890 I wrote something out. 20:25.290 --> 20:26.450 They have a little back and forth 20:26.450 --> 20:27.690 and tweaked it and 20:29.750 --> 20:30.970 ushers. Can I get a couple ushers? 20:31.550 --> 20:33.250 What I want to do is hand out one to everybody. 20:33.450 --> 20:35.070 Take it home every day. Look at it. 20:35.070 --> 20:36.750 Pray it out. And what we are going to do here today 20:36.750 --> 20:37.990 is we are going to begin to pray this out. 20:38.050 --> 20:39.010 And we are going to ask God. 20:44.900 --> 20:46.000 When we went to Idaho 20:51.260 --> 20:54.100 the Holy Spirit spoke a lot of things to me. 20:54.500 --> 20:55.300 He is just bringing them up 20:55.300 --> 20:57.920 because what is odd and strange about it 20:57.920 --> 20:59.700 the things that he said weeks before 20:59.700 --> 21:01.380 we left are actually pertaining 21:01.380 --> 21:03.440 to today. I thought they were for 21:04.480 --> 21:05.360 us going out to Idaho. 21:05.500 --> 21:06.720 They weren't. They were actually for us 21:06.720 --> 21:08.840 for me today, which I am finding out. 21:08.840 --> 21:10.540 He is revealing. I told you this for today. 21:13.400 --> 21:15.280 But this is a good principle to live by. 21:16.760 --> 21:17.860 He told me 21:19.480 --> 21:21.180 that everything that you do 21:21.180 --> 21:22.560 must be birthed out of prayer. 21:26.530 --> 21:28.730 It is prayer that moves the heart of God. 21:28.850 --> 21:30.930 It is prayer that puts action to God's hands. 21:32.290 --> 21:34.070 It puts action on us 21:36.410 --> 21:38.350 to come in agreement with the Spirit. 21:41.290 --> 21:42.110 You are the one. 21:47.000 --> 21:48.600 What I want to do is I want to start 21:49.760 --> 21:50.700 praying this out. 21:58.420 --> 21:59.920 And as I pray this out 22:11.890 --> 22:14.190 coming to agreement. So if you would like to stand 22:14.190 --> 22:15.890 sit however you want to do come 22:15.890 --> 22:17.890 and join me in a prayer 22:18.910 --> 22:20.930 for the vision directive of word of life 22:20.930 --> 22:22.690 TBO and Red Lake 22:22.690 --> 22:23.870 in this region. 22:26.350 --> 22:28.610 First and foremost, God, we come and we just 22:28.610 --> 22:30.750 give you the honor that you 22:30.750 --> 22:31.750 are due here today. 22:32.370 --> 22:34.650 We recognize your presence in this place 22:34.650 --> 22:36.410 and we thank you, Lord, that your presence 22:36.770 --> 22:38.710 is here. Lord, if your presence 22:38.710 --> 22:40.910 is not here, I do not want to be here. 22:41.850 --> 22:42.750 Where your presence 22:42.750 --> 22:44.490 goes, that's where I want to be. 22:45.350 --> 22:46.810 Lord, I give you honor and I give 22:46.810 --> 22:49.050 you praise and I thank you so much 22:49.050 --> 22:51.370 for being here and seeing us. 22:54.890 --> 22:56.850 So Lord, we ask as a church 22:56.850 --> 22:58.530 and we call for the blessing of God 22:58.530 --> 22:59.990 to come upon every person 23:00.590 --> 23:02.110 to come upon the house 23:02.730 --> 23:04.810 this house TBO 23:07.050 --> 23:09.130 and Red Lake. We call the blessing 23:09.130 --> 23:10.870 on every human being that comes 23:10.870 --> 23:12.970 into agreement here today. We call 23:12.970 --> 23:14.530 the blessing upon them all. 23:14.870 --> 23:16.990 We call the blessing upon the region, 23:16.990 --> 23:18.930 Lord, that everybody will be 23:18.930 --> 23:20.690 blessed and empowered to prosper 23:20.690 --> 23:23.150 down the road. There will be no hindrance. 23:23.530 --> 23:25.190 We ask you, Lord, for the blessing 23:25.190 --> 23:26.990 to come upon this church in the name 23:26.990 --> 23:29.090 of Jesus. We ask you with a humble 23:29.090 --> 23:30.070 heart, Lord. 23:30.810 --> 23:33.010 We call that blessing. Lord, we ask 23:33.010 --> 23:34.350 and we call in the salvation 23:34.990 --> 23:36.730 of today. We call in 23:36.730 --> 23:38.430 salvation for the next generation. 23:38.770 --> 23:40.590 Lord, just not some wimpy salvation 23:40.590 --> 23:42.590 for an insurance card that I get to go ahead 23:42.590 --> 23:44.830 but an encounter with you, Lord. 23:44.830 --> 23:46.890 We ask for true encounters 23:46.890 --> 23:48.330 with you, Lord Jesus Christ. 23:48.530 --> 23:50.870 That will change hearts and minds 23:50.870 --> 23:52.910 forever for your glory. 23:53.350 --> 23:54.650 For your glory. 23:54.910 --> 23:56.910 For the glory of the Father, the Most 23:56.910 --> 23:57.570 High God. 23:58.890 --> 24:00.310 We call in and ask for salvation. 24:00.590 --> 24:02.290 We ask for miracle signs and wonders 24:02.290 --> 24:04.450 that will glorify the name of Jesus Christ. 24:04.910 --> 24:06.230 Lord, I pray that none of us 24:06.230 --> 24:07.990 will siphon off your glory 24:07.990 --> 24:09.350 but we'll 24:10.150 --> 24:11.930 give it back to you. 24:14.830 --> 24:15.150 Thank you. 24:18.310 --> 24:20.730 Lord, we ask and we call for the blessing 24:20.730 --> 24:21.390 of unity. 24:23.270 --> 24:24.650 We will be a house 24:24.650 --> 24:25.310 unified. 24:26.230 --> 24:28.570 Lord, we ask for the unity to come into 24:28.570 --> 24:30.670 the spirit of unity to be in this place 24:30.670 --> 24:32.610 always. Lord, that any 24:32.610 --> 24:34.330 lie that tries to come into our ears, 24:34.470 --> 24:36.750 we reject it and we push it 24:36.750 --> 24:37.990 out in the name of Jesus. 24:38.830 --> 24:40.830 We don't receive the lies of the enemy. 24:40.970 --> 24:42.410 We don't receive negative 24:42.410 --> 24:44.430 talk of other people. We don't receive 24:44.430 --> 24:46.590 things that are not of your kingdom 24:46.590 --> 24:48.370 into our ears. We reject 24:48.370 --> 24:49.470 them in the name of Jesus. 24:50.170 --> 24:52.010 So Lord, we ask for unity. 24:52.990 --> 24:54.250 We ask for unity 24:54.790 --> 24:56.530 that there will be no strife and 24:56.530 --> 24:58.250 no division. It does not 24:58.250 --> 24:59.790 have a place here. 25:00.110 --> 25:02.330 We do not accept it. We do not allow it. 25:07.340 --> 25:08.960 We ask and we declare that 25:08.960 --> 25:10.680 this house will major on the majors 25:10.680 --> 25:12.000 and minor on the minors. 25:12.460 --> 25:13.500 We will not make 25:14.400 --> 25:15.940 more hills out of ant hills. 25:16.800 --> 25:18.240 We will not take the little 25:18.240 --> 25:19.800 things that make them big, but we'll take 25:19.800 --> 25:21.660 the big things and we'll magnify them 25:21.660 --> 25:23.760 because they will glorify the name 25:23.760 --> 25:25.420 of the Lord Jesus Christ. 25:25.740 --> 25:27.840 They will glorify the Father in heaven. 25:31.930 --> 25:32.690 Number two. 25:34.810 --> 25:36.570 We pray for the fear of the Lord. 25:37.550 --> 25:38.350 Lord, we ask 25:41.470 --> 25:41.950 for the fear of the Lord. 25:41.950 --> 25:42.270 Give us 25:42.270 --> 25:43.830 the fear of the Lord. 25:44.790 --> 25:47.030 Show us what the fear of the Lord is. 25:47.030 --> 25:48.530 Give us, Lord, we ask 25:48.530 --> 25:50.370 that we have the fear of the Lord 25:50.370 --> 25:50.950 in us. 25:53.670 --> 25:54.450 We ask 25:54.450 --> 25:56.250 for the fear of the Lord to fall on every 25:56.250 --> 25:58.130 heart, every single heart 25:58.130 --> 25:59.430 in this body right now. 26:00.170 --> 26:02.450 Lord, we ask for it. Holy Spirit 26:02.450 --> 26:04.490 come and give us the fear of the Lord. 26:05.630 --> 26:06.590 We ask and pray 26:06.590 --> 26:07.970 that the reverence for this 26:08.590 --> 26:10.410 holiness we ask, Lord 26:10.410 --> 26:12.310 that your holiness will be 26:12.310 --> 26:14.290 repentance to the nations, 26:14.610 --> 26:16.870 be repentance to this generation, 26:17.090 --> 26:18.770 be repentance to this region, 26:19.050 --> 26:20.650 be repentance to this state, 26:21.090 --> 26:22.530 bring repentance to this county 26:22.530 --> 26:24.570 and to this town, Your holiness 26:24.570 --> 26:26.070 will be repentance, Lord. 26:26.410 --> 26:28.270 We ask for your holiness to shine 26:28.270 --> 26:29.950 bright and to bring repentance 26:30.310 --> 26:32.470 across this land, across this nation, 26:32.570 --> 26:33.570 across this world. 26:40.360 --> 26:43.080 Because the reverence of your holiness will bring obedience and transformation. 26:45.300 --> 26:51.100 We declare we will be a people who will not bow to the devil. 26:51.760 --> 26:56.920 We will not be a people who bow to demonic forces or to the deception of the evil that 26:56.920 --> 27:00.020 is pressing against the culture and the church. 27:01.100 --> 27:02.320 You know, I did this. 27:02.740 --> 27:04.880 We wrote this before the events of this last week. 27:06.760 --> 27:09.860 We will be a church that stands against darkness. 27:10.320 --> 27:11.300 We will be Lord. 27:11.440 --> 27:12.500 We ask for the courage. 27:12.760 --> 27:14.080 We ask for the strength. 27:14.300 --> 27:21.780 We ask for the boldness to be able to stand against the evil and the darkness that is pressing against this generation and the pressing against this culture. 27:23.000 --> 27:25.680 Gives us the courage to do so, Lord. 27:30.710 --> 27:38.250 We pray that we are part of the last day's bride church that is pure, holy, and ready for the coming king. 27:40.170 --> 27:41.030 Number three. 27:47.040 --> 27:50.300 But we call for the hovering and the brooding of the spirit. 27:50.840 --> 27:56.380 We ask and call for the Holy Spirit to hover and brood over the people, over the city, and over the region. 27:56.380 --> 28:01.240 We will embrace the spirit's role to prepare. 28:01.600 --> 28:09.880 God has put this on my heart heavy this morning that we will embrace the role of the spirit to prepare us for what is coming. 28:10.240 --> 28:11.360 We embrace it. 28:11.660 --> 28:15.400 Lord God, we embrace what you are giving us right now in the name of Jesus. 28:15.540 --> 28:16.840 We embrace the conviction. 28:17.060 --> 28:18.100 We embrace the correction. 28:18.420 --> 28:21.800 We embrace the change that you want us to do. 28:22.080 --> 28:23.860 We embrace the process, Lord. 28:28.710 --> 28:35.390 We embrace the spirit's role in the preparation to birth and bring forth the will of God in this generation. 28:36.930 --> 28:40.030 We need to embrace it for the generations, people. 28:40.510 --> 28:42.410 We embrace it for the generations. 28:42.930 --> 28:47.270 It is not just for us, but we embrace this role that the Holy Spirit has for us. 28:47.550 --> 28:51.990 We embrace the preparation for the next generation. 28:55.980 --> 29:07.720 We ask you to declare that the atmosphere here at Word of Life TBO and Chief Cornerstone will be saturated with His presence where revival fire is kindled and sustained. 29:08.640 --> 29:11.220 Lord, we ask for a sustaining fire. 29:11.780 --> 29:13.880 We ask for a fire that will not go out. 29:14.080 --> 29:18.500 We ask for a fire that will burn up all the chaff and leave the purity of your bride. 29:18.860 --> 29:21.500 We ask God in the name of Jesus Christ right now. 29:21.500 --> 29:26.220 We ask for chukorahinanamayabrasonnuryati. 29:28.180 --> 29:38.540 And we welcome the Holy Spirit to move in freedom, to convict, to heal, and to deliver, and to empower us in the Holy Spirit. 29:38.740 --> 29:44.000 We, we, kurya risai rocipani androca. 29:46.220 --> 29:47.680 We welcome it. 29:51.570 --> 29:52.450 Number four. 30:01.400 --> 30:03.880 We pray for the hand of the Lord to move. 30:09.140 --> 30:13.040 We ask and pray that the mighty hand of the Lord to move in signs and wonders. 30:13.260 --> 30:19.540 We ask and pray for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit that will mark this generation. 30:20.100 --> 30:25.880 Lord, we ask that the outpouring of the Holy Spirit will mark this generation. 30:25.880 --> 30:30.080 In the name of Jesus, they will be sealed by the Holy Spirit. 30:41.400 --> 30:44.800 We ask and we pray for your outpouring. 30:45.520 --> 30:49.180 Outpour, pour your spirit out upon this generation. 30:49.560 --> 30:51.680 Mark them, Jesus. Mark them. 30:56.380 --> 31:02.040 We ask and pray that God hands guides us through the generational and spiritual shift with boldness and faith. 31:07.540 --> 31:09.720 God gave me a picture this morning on this one. 31:15.860 --> 31:19.140 Everybody who's 50 and above, can you remain standing? Everybody else sit down. 31:27.700 --> 31:32.040 I want to thank you and honor all of you. 31:35.100 --> 31:36.500 Every single one of you. 31:40.000 --> 31:47.060 For the prayers and the labor that you have done so that we can stand here today. 32:02.410 --> 32:05.570 I have sent you to read for what you have not labored. 32:05.570 --> 32:08.910 Others have labored and you have entered into the labors. 32:11.950 --> 32:15.130 We will reap a harvest because of your labor. 32:16.110 --> 32:21.590 Because of your prayers and the seeds that you guys have planted, watered and cultivated. 32:25.070 --> 32:25.850 Thank you. 32:29.530 --> 32:33.250 Everybody who is from the age 30 to 50, please stand up and we'll sit down. 32:40.810 --> 32:42.470 We are the transition team. 32:44.230 --> 32:50.890 We take what that generation has given us and labored for and we give it to the next. 32:53.710 --> 33:00.610 It is our job to impart into them the things that the generation before us have done. 33:00.710 --> 33:05.770 The wisdom that they have done and the seeds that they have planted inside of us and have given us. 33:05.770 --> 33:09.190 It is now our job and our duty to carry this on. 33:10.310 --> 33:12.290 Their time is not done and don't get me wrong. 33:13.050 --> 33:14.310 We need them more than ever. 33:15.190 --> 33:16.610 And I am grateful for them. 33:19.330 --> 33:21.550 But God is placing a mantle upon us. 33:24.210 --> 33:25.730 Do not take it lightly. 33:34.110 --> 33:37.110 You guys can sit and everybody else has what's not called please stand. 33:38.490 --> 33:39.270 Young ones. 33:41.250 --> 33:42.930 Especially you guys back there. 34:02.240 --> 34:03.980 Your voice matters. 34:11.890 --> 34:18.270 I was praying for y'all this morning and God said your voice is not silenced. 34:18.390 --> 34:20.130 Your voice is not quiet. 34:20.290 --> 34:23.490 Your voice is loud. 34:24.690 --> 34:26.230 You have a voice. 34:27.010 --> 34:27.810 Hear me. 34:28.150 --> 34:29.310 I am prophesying to you. 34:29.310 --> 34:30.550 You have a voice. 34:31.290 --> 34:33.270 Rise up and speak it out. 34:33.790 --> 34:35.810 Take what these people have done for you. 34:36.550 --> 34:40.110 Embrace it and speak the truth of God everywhere you go. 34:44.600 --> 34:46.840 You are a force to be reckoned with. 34:51.060 --> 34:54.740 What God has planned for you is beyond our imagination. 34:54.740 --> 34:57.420 It is what pastors have said. 34:57.660 --> 34:58.740 Our floor is your ceiling. 34:58.860 --> 34:59.980 Whereas we have left off. 35:00.140 --> 35:01.360 You will take it further. 35:03.840 --> 35:07.080 But when I prayed for you this morning it hit me so hard. 35:09.580 --> 35:10.720 You have a voice. 35:12.200 --> 35:13.600 You have a voice. 35:15.740 --> 35:16.960 And I broke down. 35:17.660 --> 35:19.420 Because the spirit of God was on that. 35:19.920 --> 35:21.040 You have a voice. 35:26.520 --> 35:28.080 You can be seated or stand. 35:37.540 --> 35:38.420 Number five. 35:47.880 --> 35:51.780 Lord we ask and we pray for the radical salvation and transformation. 35:52.380 --> 35:56.540 We ask and declare that many will be radically saved and baptized in the Holy Spirit. 35:56.880 --> 36:02.840 Lord they will be empowered to move in the Holy Spirit to declare your word with boldness in the name of Jesus. 36:03.580 --> 36:12.580 We ask and declare that people will be transformed into obedient sons and daughters who will be disciples living in the fullness of what Jesus purchased. 36:14.260 --> 36:15.240 Number six. 36:15.720 --> 36:18.560 We ask and we pray for the provision of the physical building. 36:19.140 --> 36:22.600 Lord to gather those that you are going to save. 36:24.940 --> 36:30.340 To gather for future generations during the coming outpour of the Holy Spirit and revival. 36:31.300 --> 36:37.440 Lord we ask and we declare that all needs are supplied by the heavenly Father according to his riches and glory. 36:37.720 --> 36:45.580 And we believe that we are building the future of the church on the word, on the Holy Spirit and the supernatural vision. 36:46.400 --> 36:53.660 From this foundation we ask to be a spiritual building that is built for the generations to come. 36:54.280 --> 36:57.800 We will become a church ready for the outpour of the Holy Spirit. 36:57.800 --> 37:00.220 A church that will not compromise. 37:00.600 --> 37:02.880 We will be a people who will walk in unity. 37:03.240 --> 37:05.840 We will be a people who will walk in faith and power. 37:06.100 --> 37:09.160 We will embrace the call to be the church of the last days, 37:09.400 --> 37:19.500 anchored in the word, moving in the Holy Spirit and expecting the supernatural to operate in our everyday lives from moment to moment to moment. 37:29.320 --> 37:34.160 We bring these requests to you, Lord, and we ask of them in the name of Jesus Christ. 37:34.860 --> 37:36.900 Lord, we do not doubt in our hearts. 37:37.640 --> 37:43.680 And if there is anything that is sinful in us, Lord, show us, convict us that we may repent and change of it. 37:45.480 --> 37:47.360 Lord, let our prayers not be hindered. 37:47.360 --> 37:50.600 Let them go forth and accomplish what they were meant to do. 37:50.720 --> 37:57.500 Let them break through the darkness that is out there and into the life of the Holy Spirit.