Speaker 1: I am so glad to be here. Now, let me
Speaker 1: see again, how many of you been to Turlock? Well,
Speaker 1: let me see over here. Oh my gosh, that's incredible.
Speaker 1: I hope to see you again soon. It nice to just,
Speaker 1: you know, be able to go back and forth. My
Speaker 1: notes just went off. I hate that when that happens.
Speaker 1: I'm all ready to preach of my notes. There it is,
Speaker 1: they're back, thank god. A couple of things I could
Speaker 1: tell about this church, just because my husband and I
Speaker 1: have been in ministry for.
Speaker 2: Close to thirty years now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, same place too, so we're just putting it, put
Speaker 1: down roots and we just expand out. It's been our
Speaker 1: m But one of these I could tell about this
Speaker 1: church and your pestors is I know a place where
Speaker 1: there's things that I'm noticing in the body price now
Speaker 1: is there's pastors that have been in ministry now for
Speaker 1: a long time and they have done well. And your
Speaker 1: pastors are reflecting longevity that you need to pay attention to,
Speaker 1: longevity of relationship, longevity of ministry and just being solid.
Speaker 1: And that is like you don't realize what it's like
Speaker 1: to either lose your pastor or not have a church
Speaker 1: to go to because there really isn't a good solid
Speaker 1: leader in the area. So you need to like like
Speaker 1: double triple, quadruple your honor for your pastor's pastor Joanne
Speaker 1: and Joel in the house. And I can also tell
Speaker 1: there's prayer here, and I can tell there's a generous
Speaker 1: spirit here.
Speaker 2: And those are just.
Speaker 1: Little things that I can tell because longevity has qualifications.
Speaker 1: So there's qualifiers on the longevity and the staying power
Speaker 1: of certain people, and they will always have certain characteristics
Speaker 1: and so I just want to acknowledge that. And I'm
Speaker 1: enjoying a handful of friends now that they're just like
Speaker 1: your pastors there. They're just been in ministry for a
Speaker 1: long time. So trust me, this is not normal. It
Speaker 1: is not like the going story out there.
Speaker 2: But I believe God has has UH.
Speaker 1: He's creating something that we that we can look to
Speaker 1: and and learn from because we want to be finishers
Speaker 1: and we want to finish well.
Speaker 2: Amen.
Speaker 1: Amen, all right, I have a few books that I'd
Speaker 1: like to give out to you. I noticed this cause
Speaker 1: a little different, so I picked up some different books.
Speaker 1: This is about the UH, the gift of decerning spirits.
Speaker 1: I was so honored to be able to break open
Speaker 1: language for this because when it came on my life,
Speaker 1: it came on a super strong and nobody could really
Speaker 1: tell me much about it back then, and so I
Speaker 1: had to. I had to hammer out language, plain language
Speaker 1: for people who were feeling things, seeing things, hearing things,
Speaker 1: tasting things. Because a gift from God should not operate
Speaker 1: through your senses, it should operate through your mind. Nope,
Speaker 1: that's not how this one works. It operates your senses.
Speaker 1: You get information about what spirit is behind pretty much
Speaker 1: anything by what you feel, see, taste, a sense.
Speaker 2: And it's a very unusual gift.
Speaker 1: And if you don't know you have it, you think
Speaker 1: you're going crazy because you were normal until you stepped
Speaker 1: into that room, and then all of a sudden you're
Speaker 1: losing it.
Speaker 2: And then you leave that room and you're back to
Speaker 2: yourself again. What was that? The gift of descerning the spirits?
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit gave you information for the purpose of prayer
Speaker 1: and ministry and all of that. If you have this
Speaker 1: gift and you're struggling with it, raise your hand. I
Speaker 1: want to give this book to you right here, ma'am. Okay,
Speaker 1: she's right there. Okay, thank you so much. Okay, and
Speaker 1: I'll shorten up my little commercial here Awaken the Dreamscape.
Speaker 1: There's just a whole big history of how this book
Speaker 1: was birth. It was birth out of Australia actually, and
Speaker 1: the indigenous Aboriginals there they are dreamers like crazy. It's
Speaker 1: like a whole dream visionary realm out there. Sadly, ancient
Speaker 1: deities got into that realm and took possession of those
Speaker 1: tribes and they worshiped deities from that realm. But I
Speaker 1: believe God's kicking them out and that He's taken back
Speaker 1: the dreamscape. Anyway, this is the book about dreams, supernatural dreams.
Speaker 1: It has some instruction on how to interpret your dreams.
Speaker 1: If you're a dreamer, you don't know what to do
Speaker 1: with it. Who would like this book?
Speaker 2: Right, do we hear? Yes?
Speaker 1: You?
Speaker 2: Yes? Right?
Speaker 1: Yeah, come on and get the book or somebody's got
Speaker 1: to give it to her because I'm not going down there.
Speaker 1: All right, all right, thank you? Okay, let's see here
Speaker 1: we're I was going. Well, let me start. Is there
Speaker 1: a few names here? Since I get names of people
Speaker 1: and I want to check make sure am I hearing God?
Speaker 2: Am I not? Sometimes I'm wrong?
Speaker 1: Is there a stacy or and or a Nadine here.
Speaker 2: Stacy, or a Nadine Stacy?
Speaker 1: Is there a Nadine here Nadine n A D I
Speaker 1: N E. Is that like your mom or something? Nadine? Okay, Stacy,
Speaker 1: all right, your name dropped in my heart this morning
Speaker 1: and I was like, it's not the first service I
Speaker 1: knew that. Okay, would you mind coming forward since there's
Speaker 1: since there's a camera on us, would it bother you
Speaker 1: too much to come up here?
Speaker 2: Because the only.
Speaker 1: Reason there's a camera and I'm not going to make
Speaker 1: a big show. Don't worry. One of the things I
Speaker 1: feel that God wants to assure you of that his
Speaker 1: plans and purposes are not going to be thwarted in
Speaker 1: your life. That everything He designed for you and intended
Speaker 1: for you to do with Him in partnership with Him
Speaker 1: in the earth, that this is going to come to pass.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter if someone betrays you. It doesn't matter
Speaker 1: if someone leaves you. It doesn't matter if somebody doesn't
Speaker 1: agree with you. It doesn't matter if somebody persecutes you.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter if a whole army persecutes you, a
Speaker 1: whole group of people persecute you, and doesn't.
Speaker 2: Go with it.
Speaker 1: But there is a clear cut assignment just for you
Speaker 1: on your life. There's beauty all over it, and there's
Speaker 1: a clear cut assignment. Your voice is going to go
Speaker 1: into places and you're gonna speak into subjects and topics,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna give truth and you're gonna say this
Speaker 1: is what needs to happen here and there is no
Speaker 1: other way. And you're gonna stand your ground against opposition.
Speaker 1: And God's got your back. The angels have been a sign,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna accomplish everything he has designed for you
Speaker 1: to do in Jesus name.
Speaker 2: Amen, A mad God bless you.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm not going to read the whole thing, but
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you just a short summary of it
Speaker 1: because I need to go a few different areas in
Speaker 1: this service. So I've been talking about Matthew chapter six,
Speaker 1: and this is when the disciples they approached Jesus and said,
Speaker 1: teach us how to pray. And what we believe the
Speaker 1: reason behind that was because Jesus was walking in power.
Speaker 2: How many say, Jesus.
Speaker 1: Was walking in power, Amen, And it was power they
Speaker 1: had not seen in front of their own eyes before,
Speaker 1: and it mesmerized them. They caught their attention, and they
Speaker 1: took note that Jesus, even though he was fully God,
Speaker 1: but he laid that down so he can walk amongst
Speaker 1: us as an example, an anointed man of God. But
Speaker 1: he was fully God. But nevertheless, he still prayed. He
Speaker 1: was one who prayed, and he prayed a lot. And
Speaker 1: there was there's hints in the book of Hebrews of
Speaker 1: the sound of prayer that would come out of him.
Speaker 1: And he would, I mean, he would shout. There were
Speaker 1: shrieks coming out of him. He was an intercessor. Okay,
Speaker 1: he ever lives to make intercession for us. He's praying
Speaker 1: for us now. And if and if you're ever one, okay,
Speaker 1: if you are prayed for. I can't tell you how
Speaker 1: many times I've woken up in the night knowing I'm
Speaker 1: praying for somebody. I don't even know who they are,
Speaker 1: all right, And I think He's got us covered. That's
Speaker 1: basically what I'm trying to get to you. And so
Speaker 1: they took notice of his prayer and his intercession and
Speaker 1: his communion with God the Father and his heavenly Father,
Speaker 1: and they said, teach us how to pray. And this
Speaker 1: is where we begin to unfold the Lord's prayer. You
Speaker 1: know our father, who are in heaven. Hell will be
Speaker 1: your name.
Speaker 2: You know it.
Speaker 1: Your kingdom, calm, you will be done on earth as
Speaker 1: it is in heaven. Do you know this word? Give
Speaker 1: us this day our daily bread. Forgive us our deaths.
Speaker 1: Let's say it together, as we forgive our debtors. Do
Speaker 1: not lead us into temptation. Deliver us from the evil
Speaker 1: one for yours as a kingdom and the power and
Speaker 1: the glory forever.
Speaker 2: Amen. Now many of us we recite that.
Speaker 1: We use it as communion in our personal time of prayer,
Speaker 1: and we say it from A to Z. It's all good,
Speaker 1: it's great, it's it's a beautiful piece of meditative peace
Speaker 1: that we utilize. Nevertheless, each little line in here is
Speaker 1: a teaching point, you know, if you can actually break
Speaker 1: it down, and it is a full on teaching point.
Speaker 1: Let me give you an example, verse ten, Your Kingdom Come,
Speaker 1: you will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Well,
Speaker 1: when we read that, you know we love the concept
Speaker 1: on earth as it is in heaven. But what is
Speaker 1: Jesus telling them saying, this is what you need to pray.
Speaker 1: You need to pray the things of the Kingdom, the
Speaker 1: will of God. You need to pray it and pray
Speaker 1: for it to come and for God's will to be done.
Speaker 1: Because the inference is if you don't pray it in,
Speaker 1: it doesn't happen. That's a hard truth for us. If
Speaker 1: you don't pray it in, it doesn't happen. And why
Speaker 1: is that a hard truthless because we don't think that
Speaker 1: God even pays attention to us. We don't consider ourselves
Speaker 1: of any value, any worth that He would actually hear
Speaker 1: our voice. And that is absolutely not true. First of all,
Speaker 1: you have been made in the image of God. You've
Speaker 1: been created in the image of God. This is why
Speaker 1: the devil hates you. That's the only reason he hates you,
Speaker 1: because when he sees you, he sees a reflection of
Speaker 1: the one that's gonna take him out, all right, And
Speaker 1: so you've been made in the image of God.
Speaker 2: Furthermore, in the Book of Revelation.
Speaker 1: Not only were you created in the image of God,
Speaker 1: you were also created to be a king and a priest.
Speaker 1: Talk about authority, friends, You've been made these things.
Speaker 2: And then he's saying, this is how you pray.
Speaker 1: Because there is a heaven to Earth's connection with a
Speaker 1: voice of one who looks like God is created in
Speaker 1: his image, being made a king and a priest, beings
Speaker 1: to call forth the will of God on earth. Then
Speaker 1: he partners, he partners with our voice, okay, to release
Speaker 1: the things of the kingdom into this earth.
Speaker 2: It all goes back to who did he give this
Speaker 2: earth to you and I in Jesus' name?
Speaker 1: And so this whole thing where I'm just you know,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna rely on the grace of God. I
Speaker 1: don't need to pray, and I don't ever need to pray. It,
Speaker 1: don't ever need to give my voice to God. Jesus
Speaker 1: prayed if you're gonna be praying too, And so I
Speaker 1: want to encourage you first and foremost personally that you
Speaker 1: need to have a rhythm of prayer.
Speaker 2: What is your rhythm of prayer? Now?
Speaker 1: I would recommend that you have a set time each
Speaker 1: and every morning, no matter what happens, you have that
Speaker 1: set time. If you are a new mom and you
Speaker 1: got babies, little babies, okay, you're gonna have windows of times.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have pockets, but use those pockets, all right.
Speaker 1: But that's usually the season where you have to make
Speaker 1: an adjustment but outside of that, have that set time.
Speaker 1: I know, for myself, I travel all over the globe.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter what's going on in my life. There
Speaker 1: is a set time and prayer in my household. In
Speaker 1: my household, my husband's getting up, I'm getting up. Our
Speaker 1: eyes are blinking, and you know, we're doing this and
Speaker 1: we're getting our coffee and you know, and we're getting
Speaker 1: and we're starting to pray. Our children have watched us
Speaker 1: pray every single morning, every single day, and so we
Speaker 1: want to have a personal rhythm of prayer. I woke
Speaker 1: up on January first, twenty five out of a dream,
Speaker 1: one of those dreams. It's real, you know, it has
Speaker 1: that realistic quality to it. And I was in a
Speaker 1: prayer meeting in that dream. It's not like me to
Speaker 1: have a dream about a prayer meeting, but I was
Speaker 1: in a prayer meeting. And I woke up out of
Speaker 1: the dream with the spirit of prayer on me, spirit
Speaker 1: of intercession on me.
Speaker 2: I said, what's going on this year? Lord? You know?
Speaker 1: And I have just felt a call to deepen my
Speaker 1: prayer life. And it's not because I was doing something wrong.
Speaker 1: It was just there's a call for greater communion. There's
Speaker 1: a call for depth, there's a call to change my routine,
Speaker 1: and so I made some decisions to to you know,
Speaker 1: add in some more windows of time during the week
Speaker 1: per se. And then I'm also just taking some time
Speaker 1: when I can to have some.
Speaker 2: A personal prayer retreat. It's like overnight.
Speaker 1: Okay, I go to this what's called the Home of
Speaker 1: Peace in Oakland, California. That is a healing home from
Speaker 1: the a century ago and all the all the great
Speaker 1: healers used to stay there. It's a mansion and if
Speaker 1: you're a minister or a missionary, they'll give you a room.
Speaker 1: And you can get a room there. Okay, So it's
Speaker 1: like going to your great grandma's house and so so anyway,
Speaker 1: and it's in Oakland, California, and it's a beautiful ground.
Speaker 1: You go two blocks over. Sadly, everybody gives you the
Speaker 1: side eye, but you go back into the Home of
Speaker 1: Peace and His peace.
Speaker 2: Amen. All right. Oakland's notorious.
Speaker 1: All the a lot of great preachers preached there, but
Speaker 1: they all crush. There's many that Christian burned there. So
Speaker 1: this house is like a statement of longevity. We're still here.
Speaker 1: The healing home is still here amen, all right. So
Speaker 1: what I wanted to get to you is they wanted
Speaker 1: to get to Second Kings, Chapter twenty, verse one to five.
Speaker 2: And this is about Heekiah.
Speaker 1: It says, in those days Isekiah was sick and near death,
Speaker 1: and Isaiah the prophet, Now Isaiah, we respect.
Speaker 2: Isaiah right like Isaiya. He's he's the guy.
Speaker 1: Isaiah the Prophet went to him and said, thus says
Speaker 1: the Lord set your house in order, you shall die
Speaker 1: and not live. There's nothing like getting a word from
Speaker 1: the prophet, from God, your dad go, you know, get
Speaker 1: it together, because this.
Speaker 2: Is it, all right?
Speaker 1: So this is what is here are the paradox here
Speaker 1: like this is you know, Bible's reality here.
Speaker 2: And this is what he said.
Speaker 1: And then it says, then Hezekiah turned his face toward
Speaker 1: the wall and prayed to the Lord, saying, remember, now, Lord,
Speaker 1: I pray, how I walk before you in truth with
Speaker 1: a loyal heart, and have done what was good in
Speaker 1: your sight. And Hezekiah wept bitterly. And it happened before
Speaker 1: Isaiah had gone out in the middle court, that the
Speaker 1: word of the Lord Kingdom, saying, return and tell Hezekiah,
Speaker 1: the leader of my people. Thus says the Lord, God
Speaker 1: father of David, your father.
Speaker 2: I've heard your prayer, I've seen your tears. Surely I'll
Speaker 2: heal you.
Speaker 1: And on the third day you'll go to the house
Speaker 1: of the Lord. So Hezekiah gets gets a word. You're
Speaker 1: gonna die. He says this, you know, he begins to
Speaker 1: cry out to God and then the same the same
Speaker 1: prophet goes back to him. Okay, we're changing course here.
Speaker 1: Why because he prayed a lot of times. We accept
Speaker 1: that bad report. Okay, then, and what's the challenging is
Speaker 1: this bad report came from God. You're coming home and
Speaker 1: this guy's like, I don't want to.
Speaker 2: I'm not ready to.
Speaker 1: I said, got life to live, And God's like, okay,
Speaker 1: fifteen years.
Speaker 2: What are you accepting in your life that you need
Speaker 2: to do.
Speaker 1: You need to turn your face to the wall and
Speaker 1: cry out to God and shed some tears.
Speaker 2: Okay, because he has a he has another word for you. Okay.
Speaker 2: I really believe.
Speaker 1: There's many in this room this morning that God has
Speaker 1: has a new word for you. Somebody may have come
Speaker 1: to you and said, this is the Lord. It's awful,
Speaker 1: it's terrible, gloom, doom, all of that, all right?
Speaker 2: But but go to the wall and cry out, because
Speaker 2: God's gonna turn it around, all right.
Speaker 1: And so so Second Corinthians two fourteen says, now, thanks
Speaker 1: be to God who always leads us in triumph in
Speaker 1: Christ and threw us diffuse the fragrance of his knowledge
Speaker 1: in every place. Boy, winning smells good, Winny smells good. All.
Speaker 1: I remember, you know when when my husband and I
Speaker 1: we weren't married yet, we were attending Old Roberts University,
Speaker 1: finishing our last leg of education, and the Lord began
Speaker 1: to speak to us supernaturally. You're gonna go back to
Speaker 1: a church in Turlock. The church you were at that
Speaker 1: and it was the one that I did not like.
Speaker 1: And we were at this church, and he says, you're
Speaker 1: gonna go back to that church, and you're gonna pastor.
Speaker 1: Now keep in mind we were not married yet. Keep
Speaker 1: in mind I didn't like that church, all right, And
Speaker 1: and the Lord was like, like, you're both going back
Speaker 1: and you're gonna pastor that church.
Speaker 2: And so this is.
Speaker 1: The church that everybody said was the pastor's graveyard. The
Speaker 1: pastor's graveyard. Now I had a great history. Amy simple
Speaker 1: Macpherson came to Turlock. Can you believe that she did
Speaker 1: an evangelistic meeting there, and out of that meeting was
Speaker 1: birth the prayer meeting. And out of that prayer meeting
Speaker 1: was birth the church. Okay, the Pentecostal mission. And out
Speaker 1: of that Pentacot submission was birthed our church.
Speaker 2: And that was over like by the time when.
Speaker 1: We got there's about eighty years of history. And that
Speaker 1: church had massive revivals in the past. I mean David
Speaker 1: Yankee Choe, Paul Young GEcho, whatever his name is, well
Speaker 1: he preached there til Osborne and his wife Daisy preached it.
Speaker 1: They actually got married in our not married, they got
Speaker 1: engaged in our balcony. Okay, we had massive revivals and
Speaker 1: and so.
Speaker 2: This you know.
Speaker 1: But we got the church when it was on the downcline.
Speaker 1: It was on the downcline, and the pastors were not
Speaker 1: making it. Actually the pastor that we were under as
Speaker 1: associates on the the powers that be inside of the congregation,
Speaker 1: you know, the the demonized power mafia people individuals in
Speaker 1: there all right. So they actually put him in the
Speaker 1: hospital so many times with like stress, stress breakdowns. And
Speaker 1: then finally I remember when he left to go to
Speaker 1: Vegas and to the church that he had planted. He
Speaker 1: went there, and and then he gives us a phone
Speaker 1: call because he wasn't planning on coming back. And my
Speaker 1: husband and I ever ever told anybody that God had
Speaker 1: told us that we're gonna be the senior pastors there.
Speaker 2: But that's not how it's supposed to go.
Speaker 1: Okay, So we're entering into the pastor's graveyard at the
Speaker 1: word of the Lord, right at the word of the Lord. Okay,
Speaker 1: the rumor, the you know, the powers that be, the
Speaker 1: prayer people that make the decrease, you know, because they
Speaker 1: look and they observe what is and they call it
Speaker 1: a prophetic word.
Speaker 2: That's not a prophetic word. And so so.
Speaker 1: It's a pastor's graveyard, you know, And and nobody makes
Speaker 1: it here. And yet God had called us, and so
Speaker 1: we got we turned our face to the wall, and
Speaker 1: we begin to cry out, and God began to speak.
Speaker 1: He began to speak to us. You know, Jesus said,
Speaker 1: I only do what I see my father doing.
Speaker 2: What was that about?
Speaker 1: What that was about was he was praying, he was
Speaker 1: getting visions and what he's supposed to do that day,
Speaker 1: all right, and.
Speaker 2: Then back to the Lord's prayer. If we kept going.
Speaker 2: Versus eleven says, you know.
Speaker 1: Jesus said, prayed that I would give you a pray
Speaker 1: that I would give you your daily bread.
Speaker 2: Okay, and what is that about.
Speaker 1: It's not just bread, you know, provision for food and
Speaker 1: sustenance and all that. You know. I mean it is,
Speaker 1: but it has another layer of meaning that we are
Speaker 1: to pray for God to give us that bread, that
Speaker 1: word that leads us to provision. Right, And so we
Speaker 1: turned our face to the wall. We begin to cry
Speaker 1: out to God, and he began to speak to us, No,
Speaker 1: this is a life giving place.
Speaker 2: No, my power is gonna fall here, no, you know.
Speaker 1: And he began to tell us the exact opposite of
Speaker 1: what all the you know, the spiritual people were telling us.
Speaker 1: And so we had to begin to agree with God
Speaker 1: for his kingdom to come and his will to be
Speaker 1: done on earth as in heaven. But we would have
Speaker 1: ever even heard those things that God was saying. It
Speaker 1: was exact opposite of our situation. We would not have
Speaker 1: even heard those things if we had not had a
Speaker 1: prayer rhythm, if we didn't have our time of prayer.
Speaker 1: All right, so what is your prayer practice?
Speaker 2: What is your prayer habit. We need to have a
Speaker 2: habit of prayer. Maybe you have.
Speaker 1: One, but it's time to do something a little different
Speaker 1: out of the routine.
Speaker 2: I read a book called Lead with Prayer.
Speaker 1: It's a prayer book for leaders, and it gives all
Speaker 1: sorts of ways you can just you can just change
Speaker 1: the routine and begin to hear God from a different angle.
Speaker 2: You know, we're used to hearing them from one angle. Well,
Speaker 2: let's like turn over here.
Speaker 1: Maybe we're gonna hear them like a little differently, you know,
Speaker 1: or maybe we're getting a different posture, or maybe we
Speaker 1: can just change it up a little bit. You know,
Speaker 1: relationships go stale when you do the same thing all
Speaker 1: the time. So Hezekiah got a word from God. You're dead,
Speaker 1: he prays. God says you're gonna live.
Speaker 2: You've got it. It's such a crazy, crazy thing.
Speaker 1: And then and then I'll land with uh, just a
Speaker 1: summary of Second the second Second Samuel, No First Samuel,
Speaker 1: chapter one, and it's the story of Hannah. I love
Speaker 1: that story so much. And this is Hannah who can't
Speaker 1: have a baby, and why can't she have a baby?
Speaker 1: And it says right there, and you know, you can't
Speaker 1: argue the Bible, and this is not like for everybody,
Speaker 1: but this is what it says right there, and says
Speaker 1: that the Lord closed her womb, And so instantly Hannah
Speaker 1: is having a problem with God. Instantly an opportunity to
Speaker 1: be offended at the Lord because it's not happening in
Speaker 1: the way it should happen. God's the one who closed
Speaker 1: her womb. It's just it says it right there. You
Speaker 1: can't deny that. Then the second thing is she's got
Speaker 1: a sister wife that you know, just giving her a
Speaker 1: fist because the sister wife is is having babies all
Speaker 1: the time and not she's not having any. And so
Speaker 1: so anyway, so she has opportunity now to be mad
Speaker 1: at God and to be mad at family, disappointed at
Speaker 1: God and disappointed with the family because she's mean to me.
Speaker 2: This lady's mean to me every single day.
Speaker 1: And I got to look at her her face every day,
Speaker 1: and I'm tired of looking at her face and listen
Speaker 1: to her words.
Speaker 2: I'm tired of it, all right. And then the.
Speaker 1: Third thing is she goes she's she's still praying, She's
Speaker 1: still you know, she knows that her problem is with God.
Speaker 2: She's got a problem with God.
Speaker 1: There's a gap there, and she's still praying, and she
Speaker 1: goes to the temple. They go up once a year,
Speaker 1: the family does. She goes up once a year. And
Speaker 1: the problem is the priests of that temple. Back then,
Speaker 1: he was very corrupt. He had two corrupt sons that
Speaker 1: were just you know, just you know, off the charts corrupt,
Speaker 1: and he wasn't dealing with them, wasn't doing anything.
Speaker 2: And so he's corrupt, okay.
Speaker 1: And so she's there and she's at the temple and
Speaker 1: she's just praying her heart out. I mean, she's just
Speaker 1: like like, I don't know what to do. I'm not
Speaker 1: my last leg, you know, if you don't change this thing,
Speaker 1: I just can't go on. You know those you know,
Speaker 1: those do or die prayers. And so she's at that
Speaker 1: place and she's just muttering, muttering, muttering and talking, you
Speaker 1: know and whatever. And Eli's watching her and he's looking
Speaker 1: at her and he's like, why are you here drunk?
Speaker 2: Why are you here drunk? You want to know why?
Speaker 2: Because he's corrupt. Corrupt. People can't see purity.
Speaker 1: They can't okay, they will always put their lens on you.
Speaker 1: And so so anyway, he accuses her, and even then,
Speaker 1: even then, she still holds onto the prayer and she says,
Speaker 1: I'm not drunk, you know. And she tells him, I
Speaker 1: am praying for a child, and Eli says, oh, okay, well,
Speaker 1: this time next year he will come.
Speaker 2: The corrupt priest had the word of the Lord.
Speaker 1: I've seen it so many times actually in real life,
Speaker 1: and I'm just like, I have no idea how they
Speaker 1: called that out because they're in total sin.
Speaker 2: So I don't know what to say anyway.
Speaker 1: So so she h she had opportunity to shut it
Speaker 1: all down, you know. And I look at the story
Speaker 1: of Hezekiah, I look at the story of Hannah, and
Speaker 1: and then I look at some of the people who
Speaker 1: it's like the easiest little thing throws them off and
Speaker 1: they just stop. They stop going to church, they stop,
Speaker 1: you know, praying, They get disappointed in God.
Speaker 2: Okay, I mean little things, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And they don't realize that that what's behind their breakthrough
Speaker 1: is way more global and way more significant than they
Speaker 1: can imagine. You cannot run away from a challenge in
Speaker 1: your life and stop going after it. It's in your
Speaker 1: heart for a reason. The doors have shut for a reason. Okay,
Speaker 1: we don't recognize it when we're going after after it
Speaker 1: in prayer again and again and again and again, that
Speaker 1: the anointing and the the the power of God is
Speaker 1: building up more and more and more in our life.
Speaker 1: I know that I have six best selling books out there.
Speaker 1: Every single one of them came from came from stories
Speaker 1: and situations where things are not going well, every single
Speaker 1: one of them. How do you get a book, a
Speaker 1: book on prayer, the Intercession's town back. How do you
Speaker 1: get a book that's sold? You know, over ninety thousand copies.
Speaker 1: It's about ready to go into his fourth language from Turlock, California.
Speaker 2: It smells like cows. How does that happen? Because what
Speaker 2: you do in secret, God will reward you openly. Hear me, now,
Speaker 2: hear me, now, hear me now.
Speaker 1: Okay, so many of you you're calculating, And I understand
Speaker 1: this because I'm a very I'm I'm very how to
Speaker 1: explain it? Uh, Like, I see and I desern and
Speaker 1: all this stuff. I have a lot of that going
Speaker 1: on a lot of the time. At the same time,
Speaker 1: I'm like super rational and super calculating, So I fight
Speaker 1: internally with myself all the time.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm feeling.
Speaker 1: Something and then like my calculator goes up and I'm like,
Speaker 1: this doesn't make sense.
Speaker 2: I'm like, but it's the Lord, but I can't figure
Speaker 2: it out. But it's God, okay.
Speaker 1: And a constant battle in myself like that. And and
Speaker 1: so you know when I when I just look at
Speaker 1: the journey of where that that book it just got
Speaker 1: birth from breakthrough in a church that was a pastor's graveyard.
Speaker 1: And we figured out that the Ephesian six is real.
Speaker 1: Powers principalities might demanding that it's real. And we have
Speaker 1: to learn to hear the word of the Lord giving
Speaker 1: me this day my daily bread. I have to hear
Speaker 1: that word for the day, and which means I have
Speaker 1: to pray daily. I have to hear that word for
Speaker 1: the day and say and agree with what God is
Speaker 1: saying and let.
Speaker 2: It come out my mouth.
Speaker 1: And those simple little principles, simple little principles that are
Speaker 1: leading you to tremendous breakthrough. And here's where I want
Speaker 1: to stir the pot here in this room. Leading you
Speaker 1: to a tremendous breakthrough. You do not know what's on
Speaker 1: the other side of that breakthrough. You have no idea,
Speaker 1: what book is it is it going to go into.
Speaker 1: You have no idea what authority you are going to
Speaker 1: be granted because you took that excursion at the word
Speaker 1: of the Lord. I'll share a story of a friend
Speaker 1: of mine who lives in Texas and she and her
Speaker 1: husband pastoring like my husband and myself about the same length,
Speaker 1: and so she went to She said the Lord would
Speaker 1: give her these dreams and she needed to go to Europe.
Speaker 1: And she was She's one of those people that the
Speaker 1: Lord will tell her to go somewhere just to pray,
Speaker 1: like foreign countries. It's not vacation, and he would give
Speaker 1: her a word and to go over there and intercede
Speaker 1: and pray and all of that. And so she felt
Speaker 1: like she needed to go to Europe and go to
Speaker 1: a few countries, but specific specifically Italy. And when they went,
Speaker 1: it just happened to be when there was a present
Speaker 1: at the Colosseum of the deity Mullok and it was
Speaker 1: just right when she and her team were coming in Mullk.
Speaker 1: Some of you were like, what is Mulloch. Well, it's
Speaker 1: an ancient deity that was worshiped in that area and
Speaker 1: beyond and it's it's basically like the horns are coming
Speaker 1: out of the head and the arms were usually stretched out,
Speaker 1: and there was a hole here in the big statue
Speaker 1: of the Mullak god, so that you can give your
Speaker 1: babies into the fire in the stomach.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's Mullak right.
Speaker 1: And so this this deity, there's gonna be a Colosseum
Speaker 1: presentation of this deity. And she's like, we are going
Speaker 1: to the colisseum, told a prayer team, and they were
Speaker 1: gonna pray, and so she went there and just to
Speaker 1: just as condense the story, they went there. They weren't
Speaker 1: able to get in, but they were to They were
Speaker 1: able to find the approximate location of where the statue was,
Speaker 1: and so her and her team went outside of that
Speaker 1: little area and then they begin to pray all pray
Speaker 1: down all things Mullock. Okay, all child sacrifice, anything with
Speaker 1: baby sacrifice, anything with children.
Speaker 2: And they begin to pray down all things Mullock.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: Her team was completely.
Speaker 1: Sick on the way into that prayer. I mean people
Speaker 1: stopped walking, they stopped, they started getting sick and nauseous
Speaker 1: and all of this stuff. It was crazy, but they
Speaker 1: finished and completed their intercession, and then they left Italy
Speaker 1: three days before COVID. She goes back to Lubbock, and
Speaker 1: this is on record. She goes back to Lubbock, Texas
Speaker 1: where they are pastoring, and a conversation begins to happen
Speaker 1: in the area. Can we be a sanctuary city for
Speaker 1: the unborn? Can we be a sanctuary city for the unborn?
Speaker 1: A conversation began to happen, and so the conversation began
Speaker 1: to get volume and begin to get traction, and by
Speaker 1: the time it was all said and done, there was
Speaker 1: a vote that took place, and it became the first
Speaker 1: city that actually had a planned parenthood, first city to
Speaker 1: become a sanctuary for the on board. Therefore, Planned Parenthood
Speaker 1: could not do abortions in her city anymore. Sometimes we
Speaker 1: don't know what is on the other side of it.
Speaker 1: She went to Italy at the word of the Lord,
Speaker 1: pretty big stuff. Just prayed about a statue. Okay, prayed
Speaker 1: about a statue. God says, you know, this is what
Speaker 1: you're doing. Pray about a statue, gained authority and took
Speaker 1: it back home and kicked it out of her city.
Speaker 1: You don't know what's on the other side of it.
Speaker 1: Don't be such a whimp and get offended and stop praying.
Speaker 1: Get some get some internal muscle, get you get your
Speaker 1: life muscles, and and even if somebody comes after you
Speaker 1: who says, well, it's God. God did this to you. Hezekiah,
Speaker 1: that's that's what his word was. And he just went
Speaker 1: back to God and said, this is not going. This
Speaker 1: is not where we're going to be going.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: Hannah was like, I know the Lord closed my one,
Speaker 1: but you know what, I'm just gonna keep after him
Speaker 1: until he gives me what I want. If it's in
Speaker 1: the book, it's yours. This is turn around prayer. This
Speaker 1: is turned around prayer. I my message from in the
Speaker 1: morning is completely different than than with you. I think
Speaker 1: that's very interesting. I can I invite you to stand.
Speaker 1: I'm like going, I have a flight. Yeah, we're no,
Speaker 1: we're good. We're all good. I've done this before, flown
Speaker 1: out of the country. All right, let's get some let's
Speaker 1: get some music up here. A man, I want to
Speaker 1: there's people in here, and I know as being sassy
Speaker 1: and I was pushing your buttons and stuff, but I
Speaker 1: do have compassion, and I know that the reason we
Speaker 1: stop praying for certain these is because we're just.
Speaker 2: Like burnt up or hurt.
Speaker 1: It just you know, like's there's just a reason or
Speaker 1: we got disappointed and we haven't been able to reconcile it.
Speaker 1: But I feel the invitation for you today to come
Speaker 1: back into the arena of prayer over that thing. Okay,
Speaker 1: come back into it. And we said, what do I
Speaker 1: have to do? You need to actually get before God
Speaker 1: and confess your disappointment, your offense, whatever it is, and
Speaker 1: get before God and begin to talk to him and say, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm here, based on Matthew six says come to you
Speaker 1: and ask you to give me my daily bread, and
Speaker 1: I'm here for my daily bread?
Speaker 2: What do you have to say about it?
Speaker 1: And begin to get that word back, begin to get
Speaker 1: that word to come to him again. It's okay to
Speaker 1: tell God you're disappointed. We just don't want to stay there, right,
Speaker 1: We want to out of that. So I feel for
Speaker 1: this service that we want to make this space more
Speaker 1: of an alter I know you have a prayer team
Speaker 1: and they could support how they think they should, but
Speaker 1: make this more of an altar and where we we
Speaker 1: just begin to to to get back, where we begin
Speaker 1: to get unstuck where we have been stuck in that area.
Speaker 1: So if that's you're gonna invite you just to come
Speaker 1: make an alter, make a space here. I think it's
Speaker 1: good to get out of your seat. You're basically kind
Speaker 1: of you're making a statement. You're just like, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna I'm not gonna stay there. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: stay in this situation. I'm gonna stay I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: have my heart like this anymore. I'm not gonna do
Speaker 1: that anymore. I'm just gonna get honest with God about it.
Speaker 2: And you can.
Speaker 1: You can get on your knees, you can stand up,
Speaker 1: you can whatever.
Speaker 2: You know. This is you and God, whatever you want
Speaker 2: to do. But I'm gonna invite you.
Speaker 1: If that is you, If that is you, some of you,
Speaker 1: you've given up on your children. Never give up on
Speaker 1: the child. Never ever ever give up on a child. Okay,
Speaker 1: even if they're acting horrible. Okay, you're like their last intercessor.
Speaker 2: Trust me.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Jesus, thank you, Jesus, Thank you, Lauren, thank you, Jesus.
Speaker 2: Your thing, thank you, Jesus. It's somebody else, it's anybody else.
Speaker 1: If there's a prayer team, that you're available and you're
Speaker 1: not down here doing business with God. If you want
Speaker 1: to come behind him and support any of them, that
Speaker 1: would be fantastic.
Speaker 2: That'd be fabulous. But Lord, I just bring every person
Speaker 2: here to you.
Speaker 1: And Lord, today is a day of taking that prayer
Speaker 1: back and picking it back up again. We confess or
Speaker 1: disapp appointment. We confess our offense. And Lord, we ask
Speaker 1: you today for this word, give us this day our
Speaker 1: daily bread, that word that we can begin to proclaim, declare, decree.
Speaker 2: Prophesy, that word.
Speaker 1: That brings your kingdom and causes your kingdom to come.
Speaker 2: On earth as it is in heaven.
Speaker 1: We thank you, Heavenly Father, that you are God of
Speaker 1: the impossible, and that there is a whole other level
Speaker 1: of faith coming into this house for the impossible.
Speaker 2: What can this city be known for? What can this
Speaker 2: region be known for?
Speaker 1: What breakthrough is going to be in this city that's
Speaker 1: going to impact the earth? What breakthrough is going to
Speaker 1: be in our lives as a church, as a people
Speaker 1: of God that's going to shout a breakthrough into the earth.
Speaker 1: What are we going to release into the atmosphere that
Speaker 1: God can use to bring breakthrough into other houses of
Speaker 1: worship what's gonna happen. Don't count yourself out, because God
Speaker 1: just needs one to change a nation.
Speaker 2: Amen. Lord, we just thank you, we praise you, we
Speaker 2: magnify you this morning. You are good. You are good. Lord,
Speaker 2: you are good.
Speaker 1: And this is gonna be my final thing before I
Speaker 1: turn it over. If you are here today and you
Speaker 1: have not yet given your life to Jesus, my story
Speaker 1: is just like yours.
Speaker 2: I'm in a church.
Speaker 1: I don't know why I am there, and they invite
Speaker 1: me to give my life to Christ and I say yes.
Speaker 2: If that's you today, on.
Speaker 1: The count of three, I'm gonna invite you to lift
Speaker 1: your hand.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to embarrass you.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna call you out, but I am gonna
Speaker 1: pray with you. And if that's you and you want
Speaker 1: to give your life to Jesus, don't wait on this.
Speaker 2: You may not have another day. Just give your life
Speaker 2: to Him now.
Speaker 1: On the count of three, one, two, three, just raise
Speaker 1: your hand and say I want to give my life
Speaker 1: to Jesus.
Speaker 2: Yes, I want to get Yes, I want to give
Speaker 2: my life to Jesus. I see people in this room
Speaker 2: giving their life to Him. Amen. Amen, come on, let's
Speaker 2: give Jesus praise, Amen,