WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:01.820 We're going to jump right in today. 00:06.860 --> 00:12.920 Today we're actually going to try to figure out where I want to start. 00:14.240 --> 00:17.200 The whole point of prayer in the morning is to pray, correct? 00:18.580 --> 00:21.720 For a while we don't know how to pray, we need to be taught how to pray. 00:22.720 --> 00:25.940 So it's good for things to be spoken out to give you intention, 00:26.440 --> 00:28.600 to give you wisdom, to give you direction. 00:29.180 --> 00:32.660 Because sometimes we learn how to pray, but now we don't know what to pray about. 00:33.280 --> 00:36.500 And the beauty of this local body is before service starts, 00:36.640 --> 00:41.020 we can come together in agreement for a leadership of direction in prayer. 00:42.320 --> 00:48.700 So last Sunday I talked about a recap of what happened for open heavens. 00:49.540 --> 00:53.680 And praise the Lord, He's so faithful, He gave me material to speak out. 00:53.680 --> 00:58.120 But we didn't do what was intended to do, to pray. 00:59.040 --> 01:05.040 And so today I really want to focus on praying about what I spoke about last Sunday. 01:06.180 --> 01:11.440 And so I wanted to ask how your homework went. 01:12.820 --> 01:16.840 Because last Sunday I spoke about things that you probably should do this year. 01:17.400 --> 01:20.420 The Lord is looking and seeing who He's going to find faithful, 01:20.420 --> 01:24.880 who He can trust with His presence when the babes do come. 01:26.760 --> 01:30.640 And not even just for His will, but who can He trust Himself to? 01:31.600 --> 01:33.760 Who can He find rest in? 01:36.480 --> 01:39.180 So I hope you guys started your homework this week. 01:39.580 --> 01:41.820 And if not, you have grace for another week. 01:42.420 --> 01:46.180 Because February is... today is the first February. Wow. 01:48.740 --> 01:52.740 Okay, so I'm just going to do a recap of what we're going to pray about. 01:53.400 --> 01:56.480 Hopefully it will be longer than 10 minutes and we're going to jump right into prayer. 01:58.600 --> 02:02.420 Now, prayer is a muscle that you have to learn and you have to work out. 02:02.900 --> 02:07.500 The first time you pray, it's like a toddler starting to talk or to walk. 02:07.980 --> 02:12.700 It's stumbly, they don't know what they're doing, but they're trying to move forward. 02:12.700 --> 02:16.800 And the more you work on that muscle, the stronger it'll be. 02:17.240 --> 02:23.020 So not only do you know the strength of your muscle, but you also know when something is off. 02:23.740 --> 02:25.120 You know, like, yeah, that's not what it's supposed to be. 02:25.240 --> 02:30.060 So when we work on praying to the Lord in different facets of prayer, 02:30.280 --> 02:32.140 because there's different categories of prayer, 02:33.020 --> 02:39.380 when we work on that, we get a better understanding of the power that we have through that prayer. 02:39.920 --> 02:45.840 But also, we have a direction and an understanding of like, okay, something is off here. 02:46.180 --> 02:47.660 We got to reevaluate. 02:49.020 --> 02:56.640 So, like I said last week, Open Heavens is an outline that God has given us to put into practice for 2026. 02:57.640 --> 02:59.900 It's his expectation for us. 03:00.260 --> 03:03.140 It's like a test that he's already given us the answers to 03:03.140 --> 03:06.780 and he's wondering if we're going to actually fulfill this test. 03:07.640 --> 03:12.280 So he's testing us to see if he can trust us for the years ahead, 03:12.500 --> 03:14.940 to see where he can put us in the future. 03:16.320 --> 03:21.240 And so the other thing with this is I don't want to do a recap, just to do a recap, 03:21.900 --> 03:24.920 because Pastor Vernerity did that. That was one of the services. 03:25.380 --> 03:27.400 He recapped everything that was spoken. 03:29.060 --> 03:32.720 I'm recapping in the same way of understanding of how to pray it out now. 03:33.840 --> 03:36.840 Because with prayer, there's prayer and the word. 03:38.180 --> 03:40.580 So will you be faithful to him this year? 03:40.840 --> 03:45.960 Like I said last time, we are going to see in December 2026, 03:46.500 --> 03:51.000 who actually fulfilled what was spoken in Open Heavens 2026. 03:51.960 --> 03:54.020 And we will see evidences of that. 03:55.100 --> 03:59.720 So we talked about the laborious, Holy Spirit-driven fervent, 03:59.720 --> 04:01.560 travailing deeper realm of prayer. 04:02.500 --> 04:07.280 We talked about the leadership on Monday, leadership-given congregants 04:07.280 --> 04:12.920 that are fueled by a choice made in your heart for deep passion for Jesus. 04:14.120 --> 04:17.660 And one of the things about that, I talked about knowing your identity in him. 04:18.360 --> 04:27.120 And on the last Sunday, I gave to you an example of how my identity as a married woman is. 04:27.120 --> 04:30.740 Now, I wanted to give more clarification on that, 04:31.560 --> 04:37.800 because I know from the Slavic standpoint, there's this expectation of a woman is lesser than 04:37.800 --> 04:43.340 that the husband is the main and it's all about him and the woman can do all the labor, 04:43.500 --> 04:46.020 but the husband is the one in charge. 04:47.000 --> 04:49.540 And that's not how the Lord established a marriage. 04:50.400 --> 04:54.840 And so I wanted to bring clarification because when I brought that example, 04:54.840 --> 04:58.600 it's not that Tanya doesn't exist and it's all about Pastor Igor. 04:59.640 --> 05:05.200 I was just showing an example of how I died to my flesh for my spouse, 05:05.940 --> 05:09.380 because that's what the Bible says, my body is no longer my own. 05:09.820 --> 05:12.020 It is now my spouse's body and vice versa. 05:13.160 --> 05:18.740 So the whole point of that example was not that, oh, Igor has to do everything. 05:19.140 --> 05:24.120 I can just sit back because he's going to answer to God for our family and for me. 05:24.120 --> 05:28.860 But that's not the point. The point is we all are going to answer before the Father. 05:33.880 --> 05:36.040 And he is not going to be all at fault. 05:36.160 --> 05:41.480 We can't blame the spouse of like, oh, well, he's supposed to be, you know, he's a chosen one. 05:41.660 --> 05:43.540 I'm just the wife. I'm lesser than. 05:44.240 --> 05:45.340 And that's not what it is. 05:45.760 --> 05:49.540 This is the beauty of the Lord is that everyone has a calling. 05:50.200 --> 05:55.140 Pastor Igor has a calling that is separate from my calling that the Lord has placed on me. 05:55.640 --> 06:01.740 But the beauty of that is they both complement each other and they both will benefit each other and work for each other. 06:02.680 --> 06:07.980 Like for an example, when Igor and I got married, I had a Bible study. 06:09.180 --> 06:13.480 And in that Bible study, I had a lot of girls that would come from my previous church, 06:13.480 --> 06:17.900 because I was already going to Pastor Igor's church after we got married. 06:18.860 --> 06:23.800 And that was the basis of these girls coming because they were hungry for the Lord. 06:24.480 --> 06:30.100 That kind of overflowed into forerunners because the forerunners, when it started, 06:30.300 --> 06:33.780 it started off with a lot of the Bible study girls that would come to my Bible study 06:34.280 --> 06:36.840 because they were hungry for more than just Bible study. 06:36.940 --> 06:40.040 So that when we do and we did invite them over and we went into prayer, 06:41.600 --> 06:46.820 that filled those seats and then they started bringing other people to come and so on and so forth. 06:46.820 --> 06:51.840 So my calling was Bible study. Igor's calling was this forerunner thing 06:51.840 --> 06:58.980 that is placed over a family that I'm included in, but my calling complemented that direction. 06:59.780 --> 07:06.340 So I just wanted to bring the... give that clarity to that analogy that I put 07:06.340 --> 07:12.540 where your wife's identity is in the husband and the wife is nothing. 07:13.260 --> 07:16.220 That's not where I was getting to. I was getting to death to self. 07:18.300 --> 07:22.320 Tuesday, turning a Leo to see and filled hard into a love sick 07:22.320 --> 07:27.820 and anchored with intimacy, building a foundation in Jesus alone, 07:28.000 --> 07:31.860 which will be refined in the fire. That was Jennifer Cannon, Pastor Jennifer Cannon. 07:33.980 --> 07:39.040 Wednesday, Amanda Hill, Prophet Amanda Hill, she talked about how it's a decade to declare 07:39.040 --> 07:42.900 and then she specifically talked about what's this year about, 07:43.140 --> 07:44.880 what the Lord revealed to her this year is about. 07:46.180 --> 07:51.560 I also wanted to give clarification too when I was talking about communion. 07:53.120 --> 07:59.400 She said communion is a spiritual warfare weapon against spiritual warfare. 07:59.660 --> 08:05.240 Sorry, I mixed those two. Communion is the weapon for spiritual warfare that will happen in 2026. 08:05.900 --> 08:09.320 And there's beauty. And I talked about how beautiful communion is 08:09.320 --> 08:13.520 and how the Lord gave me that revelation of His Son through communion 08:14.480 --> 08:18.380 but I missed out honestly one of the key things and that's in faith. 08:19.580 --> 08:26.880 Because if we take communion without faith, then it's just a ritual. 08:27.380 --> 08:31.800 It's a legalistic thing to do. It's a tradition. It can turn pagan too. 08:32.520 --> 08:37.760 The beauty of communion is we take it in by faith. It is only by faith. 08:39.160 --> 08:42.580 So I wanted to give a little bit more understanding to that 08:42.580 --> 08:46.880 because that's the key component is the faith in communion. 08:50.980 --> 08:57.000 So she talked about that on Thursday, preparing for where he is going to take us. 08:57.800 --> 09:00.800 Amanda Hill gave an understanding of where he's going to take us 09:00.800 --> 09:02.480 and how we are to respond with that. 09:03.100 --> 09:08.560 Friday Vito said, talked about establishing prayer altars as living stones 09:08.560 --> 09:12.120 for intercessional prayers and generational success in the Lord. 09:12.940 --> 09:17.720 Saturday, again, Vito talked about David's Tabernacle, the continuous prayer and worship. 09:18.760 --> 09:23.700 And then on Sunday, Pastor Brad Breedy finished off Open Heavens 09:23.700 --> 09:27.540 and he spoke about fulfilling the sacred vision God has given 09:27.540 --> 09:30.040 with hard work, unity, submission, and obedience. 09:31.160 --> 09:34.920 And I know I gave some context between all of these last Sunday 09:35.680 --> 09:38.720 but the beauty about this Sunday is we can actually pray about them. 09:38.980 --> 09:42.640 We can give time to the Lord and break down each one of these sections 09:42.640 --> 09:44.340 and bring it before him. 09:46.100 --> 09:46.360 Amen? 09:47.120 --> 09:48.500 Are you guys ready to pray? 09:49.600 --> 09:53.260 Okay, good, because we have at least a little over 30 minutes 09:53.740 --> 09:55.080 and that's what we need to do. 09:55.240 --> 09:57.180 We need to exercise that muscle of prayer 09:57.180 --> 09:58.860 and we have to push. 09:59.400 --> 10:03.240 Sometimes we have to force our flesh to do things it doesn't want to do. 10:04.240 --> 10:04.760 Right? 10:06.400 --> 10:08.440 So, as we jump into prayer, 10:10.360 --> 10:13.120 I would say do what's most comfortable for you, 10:13.340 --> 10:15.440 but sometimes our flesh just wants to sit. 10:16.500 --> 10:20.320 Do whatever capacity that you can serve the Lord, 10:20.500 --> 10:23.440 whether that's standing, walking, laying, even sitting. 10:24.180 --> 10:29.200 I want you to get into a position that will focus your mind on the Lord. 10:29.700 --> 10:32.220 One of the things I teach the kids how to pray 10:32.220 --> 10:34.460 and it seems very ritualistic, 10:34.460 --> 10:36.420 but it's really not because they give him context. 10:36.660 --> 10:38.080 I say we close our hands 10:38.080 --> 10:41.360 so that our hands don't distract us from the Lord, from praying. 10:41.940 --> 10:46.060 And we close our eyes so that our eyes don't distract us before the Lord. 10:46.380 --> 10:48.520 And then we turn our minds on to him. 10:48.620 --> 10:49.940 We think about him when we're praying. 10:50.420 --> 10:52.400 So that doesn't matter if you're laying on the floor 10:52.400 --> 10:53.860 and that doesn't matter if you're sitting. 10:54.540 --> 10:57.760 The whole point of prayer is not because you close your eyes. 10:58.300 --> 11:00.700 The whole point of prayer is you're focusing on him 11:00.700 --> 11:03.900 and you're turning off the things that are distracting you from him. 11:05.120 --> 11:06.600 So we're going to go into prayer. 11:06.940 --> 11:10.200 I didn't ask you guys, but if you guys can turn on some music, that would be great. 11:11.500 --> 11:15.560 And just join me in prayer into agreement for this, for our local body, 11:16.300 --> 11:19.360 so that we can... the Lord can find us trustworthy. 11:20.540 --> 11:23.860 And at the end of the year, we can show the fruit of our labor, right?