Is there a desire in you to not just attend revival but live in revival?
Welcome to the revival lifestyle podcast. I'm your host Isaiah Seldivar
I've been in revival for the last 10 years as well as traveling and being a part of many revivals throughout the United States
I'm going to be sharing with you how to live a radical lifestyle of revival on a daily basis
Okay, ladies and gentlemen the stream is working. I don't want to say it too much
But this is the first stream of the week. We've gotten to work right away. So welcome to the broadcast
I apologize there. They are I apologize for the confusion
I posted accidentally because we were at lunch today or breakfast and I posted that prayer was at six
And you guys were like yay, and then I forgot it's actually at one o'clock
So we have prayer at one o'clock right now. I know I don't go live one o'clock on Fridays
It is what it is and then tonight we have our podcast with Paul and Morgan who are here in the studio
Hey, it's gonna be an amazing time tonight. You guys don't want to miss it. You get two streams today
But here's the deal this is important stream because we are doing one of the most important things you can do in your life
More important than preaching more important than podcasting as we are praying and I have my good friend Jared back with me
He was here Tuesday. Hello friends. Yeah, we're excited to be here. It's gonna be amazing. Yeah, it's gonna be amazing
We're gonna be praying with you guys the goal of this week is to get you guys excited about prayer to get you developing a prayer life
Let me just say it this way you will not survive in 2024 or any year
I hate being the one who's like in 2024 you're not gonna survive any year as a Christian without a prayer life
So you need to develop a prayer life
Think about how long a marriage would last if you never talk to your wife
Or you only talk to your wife on Sunday
Some of you are like I only talked to God on Sunday and I ask him for things
I mean imagine me marrying my wife and then saying honey
The only time I want to talk to you is an hour and a half on Sunday and when we talk
I'm just gonna be begging you to do things for me. It wouldn't be a good relationship
That is the same way we are when we don't have a prayer life. We need to develop a prayer life specifically
Getting along with God in the secret place for whatever reason
It's so easy Jerry to scroll for eight hours on tiktok to watch Netflix series to sit there on Hulu and watch show after show after show
The moment we get in prayer our mind wanders
We struggle and so I really believe that God's gonna develop some of you in your prayer life
And we're praying that God will move today. It's supernatural and you get excited about prayer
What are your thoughts on what I'm saying and I couldn't agree more? I think in Ezekiel one
He opens up with having the Bible says the heavens were open and he saw visions of God
How many times did you have visions of anything when you're scrolling for eight hours when you're watching a 3d movie?
The Bible says after he got done he sat astonished for seven days
This is what prayers all about it's for us to get catapulted up into heaven to go higher with him and to hear his voice
Not just what somebody else has said, but what is your father saying to you?
Bible says in Isaiah 50 verse 4 says open my ears to hear like one being taught
So we believe today you're actually gonna have your ears open to hear the voice of God
So that when you read scriptures and you read stories in the Bible and there's interaction
You could you don't have to read and go oh, I wish that was me. You could actually be in that place
You can be in that seat. You could say hey coach put me in I want to play
I don't want to sit on the sidelines anymore and just be a spectator
I want to be a participator absolutely
And I think when people look at spiritual encounters in the Bible which they're all through the Bible if you guys didn't know people always are
Encountering God we always want the encounters these people had but we don't want to pay the price in the secret place
So for me
I've had encounters with God and almost all of them have been in the time of prayer and every time I pray and experience God
Whether it's his presence whether he whisper something to me whether and guys when we say encounters
We mean also sometimes God says hey go to the scripture open up the word and you open the word and something jumps off the pages
Do you I every time I have these encounters? I always have the same thought why don't I pray more like why is it every time?
I pray my life is transformed. I experienced something with God and it changes my life forever
But then I go weak without getting in the secret place
I go a week without praying and we want to have an addiction to prayer
We used to be addicted to video games addicted to drinking hello somebody addicted to drugs and real harding
Yeah, when's the last time you met a Christian that's like I'm addicted to prayer. I'm addicted to the Bible
I'm addicted to the word of God and here's the thing if Jesus made prayer a priority
This is fully God made prayer priority. How much more should we make prayer priority?
I love that and I think Isaiah that when you spend time in the presence of God
What actually takes place is the peace of God begins to rest on you all of your cares
Come on all of your anxieties all of the hundred things that are on your mind all of a sudden bows down
Why because somebody's greater than that right the greater than your cares greater than your addiction greater than your problems
He comes and all of a sudden you have peace that surpasses all understanding and it's addictive
But here's the problem the enemy knows that too. And so he pushes us away
That's right and he distracts us so there's two tables every single morning. They're prepared for you
There's the table
That's the presence of the Lord that he's welcoming you to come and sit then there's the table of distraction
Come on of emails. It's full of Instagram tick tock social media
text messages
Notifications and it's vying for your attention
But if you will stop and bypass the table distraction pull up a chair to the table of the Lord
You will have these fresh encounters every morning
So some of you you need to like set some guidelines on your phone
So you can't even get on certain apps until a certain time so that you're not tempted
Listen, I do that I delete things because I realized that there is an enemy trying to pull me away
To have a connection with the Lord Jesus did this. What did he do? He spent a lot of time in ministry
He spent a lot of time teaching he spent a lot of time delivering people
But he would always withdraw to a quiet place and spend time with his father
He knew which table to sit at and some of you right now
I'm gonna pray that we're supposed to be praying to you right now
So let's let's pray that let's pray that God would remove and the distractions and let me just add this
I think sometimes we pray God remove distractions and God's like or you can just do it
You know I'm saying like Lord take away my distraction
God's like or just don't go on Instagram for four hours
So let's pray that God would show us areas in our life and I'm by the way when we're praying
I'm just as guilty as y'all. I'm like Lord. I'm distracted. I'm not in prayer like I should
I'm just being carnal lukewarm. So we're not preaching at you guys acting like you're the only one struggling
We also struggle with distraction
We also struggle with getting on Instagram for too long Netflix game whatever it is we pickleball
Hello, no Lord not the pickleball. We get distracted and the Lord wants to point his finger on those distractions
David prayed this he said Lord search my heart
This is what he said and point out anything in my life that offends you reach
David prayed that the finger of God would point out areas of his life that offended God and that prevented him from having that relationship
So I'm praying today Lord
Search my heart God is there any idols in my life? Is there anything in the way?
Is there anything distracting me from the place of prayer from having a relationship in Luke 11?
The disciples asked Jesus to teach them one thing. This is the only thing the disciples asked Jesus to teach them
It wasn't teach us to preach. It wasn't teach us to cast out demons
It wasn't teach us to feed this people or teach us to do miracles
They said teach us to pray because they understood there's something different about Jesus right that we're not doing and that
Connection to prayer will lead to good preaching casting out demons healing the sick and everything else you guys are wanting to do
It starts in prayer. I wish I can get on here and give you guys a shortcut
I wish I can say all you have to do is this or all I have to do is that there's no shortcut to developing a prayer life
Father we pray today Lord that we would develop a prayer life
God we pray that you'd remove every distraction
I pray right now for every person watching the stream you would remove and put your finger on the
Distractions God what are the areas in our life that are stopping us from the place of prayer?
I pray God that we would smash our idols instead of worshiping them
I hear the Lord saying some of you need to stop worshiping your idols and smash your idols
You need to break your idols you need to break your compromise you need to get rid of Jesus said if your eye
Causes you to sin
Gauge it out. It's better to enter heaven with one eye than hell with two eyes
So what is it that God wants to gouge out?
What is it that God wants to remove and it's time for you to remove it?
Is it video games? Are you sitting there for six seven hours a day dropping in on Call of Duty?
But not dropping in the secret place are you sitting there worshiping fortnight instead of worshiping Yahweh a lot of you grown men?
Let me talk to the grown men go there spending hours and hours playing children's video games and there's no prayer life
There's no passion for God and then you have the nerve to come to our services and say oh
I'm not really into that whole worship thing. I'm not into that whole prayer thing. You are into worship
You're just into worshiping Xbox playstation 5 and fortnight. You're not into worshiping God
So we need to get delivered from extended Corey Russell says this I'm gonna steal it from him because he watches us
I gotta give him credit. We are living in extended adolescence
We're now 30 and 40 year old men are acting like they're 16 in their mom's basement playing video games all day
And the Lord honestly wants to deliver you from that addiction. It's an addiction your wife's frustrated
Your kids don't know why you don't play with them or hang out with them
Dads with his head set on again
You spend more time with your head set on than hearing the voice of God and God wants to pull you out of that video game room
Well, Corey also calls it the stupid room pull you out of that room of video games entertainment and escapism
And now God says I want to be your escape
I want to be the one that you run to for pleasure and run to for satisfaction and run to for peace
So I'm praying and this is just a word of knowledge. Okay, I didn't have written down go against video games
All right
I'm just saying this is one area where I see guys are
Failing at by spending hours and hours a day living lazy living lazy
And there's no room for lazy in the kingdom of God
Jesus said you have to lay everything down and you have to seek me and so we really want to develop a prayer life
I want every distraction removed father. I pray right now
God remove every distraction out of my heart God anything in the way even if it's YouTube God
I pray remove anything in my life. That's a distraction to getting in prayer
Now if you guys are praying and you have a relationship with God praise the Lord go do all the stuff
You're doing have fun do the entertainment do all the fun stuff
But it's a problem when our prayer life is starving when we don't spend time with God
You know we're spending time with everything else. So that's the issue the issue is not the video games
No, the issue is the video games have become our God and have become our idol. Yeah, it sounds like my husband
No, and I was also gonna say too is that in the book of Exodus
Joshua is getting ready to step into this transition of leading the children of Israel
The Bible says that he lingers a little longer in the presence of God
Let that be a word for some of you men women in here that you just need to stay a little longer
2024 maybe it's the year that you extend your prayer time
Extend your time in the word just a little longer because what God is going to do in your life
You're gonna need that extra anointing you're gonna need that extra oil
You're gonna need to know his voice in such a supernatural way
Isaiah you're just reading my mail and I'm just here to confess that I had an addiction to social media
And the Lord was speaking to me in the secret place in 2019. He said give it up in
2020 he said give it up and I kept making excuses. I'm like I need this. I need this for my ministry
I need this for everything I'm doing finally in 2021. I laid down social media
I took a year and a half break and guess what happened Isaiah
I got more intimate with the Lord his voice was amplified and no longer was I doing things for the approval of men
No longer was I doing anything for likes and comments all of a sudden the only affirmation
I was receiving was from my father in heaven and oh how that became everything that I needed
Maybe that's for some of you. Maybe some of you it's a it's an app
Maybe some of you you just need to take a break the start of January is the most did you know this Isaiah?
I just I'm gonna make something up go ahead that January is the most
Sacred month for people being disciplined in the whole entire year. You didn't make that. That's actually a true statement
They fast they go to the gym. They go on a strict diet
But then what happens February comes around chocolate shows up on the shelves in Valentine's Day
And then they fall off the wagon again
Maybe you don't have to fall off the wagon in your prayer life
Maybe the answer to everything that you're going through is staying a little longer
Deleting the distractions and so father
I just pray for everyone watching right now in Jesus name that they would be obedient to your voice
God it's so easy to make
Excuses Lord excuses are all over the place and the enemy is filling our head even now as I'm praying for you the excuses
Well, you need this you can't have without it your life's gonna be not be the same
But the Lord is saying this if you really want my voice if you really want my word his presence is what you need more than anything
There's a reason why Joshua lingered a little longer
He knew where God was taking him in the next season. He was gonna have to have this place of intimacy
So father I pray you're speaking to men right now
You're speaking to women right now. You've been saying to them for a long time cut it off
gouge it out
Delete it and they keep struggling why why why it's because God wants to send you into the next season
Come on. He's preparing you but he's looking for obedience. He's looking for radical
Transitional obedience and will you do it? Will you say yes stop making excuses? You need to do it even right now as I'm praying
I saw somebody say I just deleted Facebook. I just uninstalled the app. It's working. Yeah, especially Facebook
That's for all people. All right, so father. I thank you for it
I thank you for the courage now to step into what you have for them
And I pray Lord as they start to meet with you Lord
I pray that you would speak to them in a way that they can receive
Powerfully from you Lord. I pray just like Samuel who was awakened in your presence
I pray for a great awakening right now Lord in Jesus name that all of a sudden their ears would be open in Jesus name
Yes, and I want to say this for all of you men. I know I'm going hard against the men
I'm a guy so I'm going for it. It's time to stop letting your wife carry your family in prayer
It's time to stop. Why is it every prayer meeting we do a church? You know that it's all the ladies
It's all the women. Oh my husband didn't want to come. He's too tired. He's to this
It's time for some of y'all men to man up
It's time to man up and to start fighting for your family in prayer
None of us men right now that are real men come on help me what allow a burglar or a robber to break into our house and
Attack our family yet. Why is it when it comes to prayer? We allow the enemy into our homes
We allow the enemy into our televisions and we don't defend our family in prayer
You are called to be the prayer shield of your home. So you are called to be the priest of your home
So yes real men pray real men get on their knees this battle we're fighting is
Happening on our knees so father. I pray let the men rise up let men pray for their children
Let men pray for their wife stops telling your wife. Oh, you can go pray for the kids at night every one of you men
I'm telling you right now should be laying hands on your kids
Every single night as they go to sleep you should be praying for them that the Lord would protect them guard them guide them
I pray over my kids and I'm not trying to be self-righteous and virtue signal
I pray over my kids every night since they were babies even when they were in there my wife's stomach
I pray Lord fill them with the Holy Spirit every single night you can ask my kids
I pray that they would be filled with the Holy Spirit that God would guard them guide them and protect them that no plan
Of the enemy would pass in their life and that they would serve the Lord all the days of their life men
I'm just saying something happens when you
Start praying for your kids and they go oh I see dad some statistic that I'm about to butcher
Something like 90 plus percent of men that go to church the kids go to church and like less than 10 percent of only women
That go to church the kids go to church men have a refining influence and
Just power over their kids and so use that power in a good way
Influence your kids for God stop sitting around vaping cussing and drinking around them and what if they see dad praying?
What if they see you open up your Bible for the first time father?
I just pray right now you'd raise up godly men that would be positive
Spiritual examples in their home God. I pray they'd be spiritual leaders and not spiritual losers
I pray God these men out here God are warriors for you help them God develop a prayer life
Help them get radical help us help me and Jared
God be the men you've called us to be help us walk in obedience and humility and grace and
Kindness towards our wife towards our kids God help us to fight the battle come on
Some of you men right now. I see you in the chat say Lord do it in me God. I'm tired of being a wimp
I don't want to be a wimp. I want to be a warrior. I'm tired of being lazy
Spiritually I'm tired of being lazy God help me father. We just pray touch the men right now
Let me give you guys this verse. This is the pivotal verse for the secret place Matthew 6x says but when you pray
So Jared it doesn't say if you pray
Meaning Jesus expects all of us to pray he says but when you pray go into your room
And when you have shut your door and then he says this pray to your father
Who is in the secret place and the all that followed me?
I've heard me say this a million times my favorite verse who is in the secret place and your father who sees in the secret place
Will reward you openly so Jesus tells us the geographical location of God the father on the earth for those you like
I just can't connect with God. Have you been to the secret place? God is in the secret place
Waiting for you. He doesn't go there once you get there. He's already in there
So he's waiting for you to enter in shut the door now, of course
Let me be clear Jesus is talking about a physical door, but I also think this is my thought on it
There's also a spiritual door in our mind because what happens when you pray your mind gets flooded with what am I gonna eat?
What am I gonna do tomorrow? Where do I have to go? I have to pay this bill
I forgot the kids have to go here our minds flooded and Jesus says of course shut the physical door
But I always say shut the door of your mind the door of distraction
That wants to pull you out of prayer and then he says pray and your father is in secret
So don't be mad that you're not experiencing God if you're not in the secret place
I don't know why I just haven't experienced God lately
How much time have you spent in the secret place and I'm not preaching at you? I'm preaching with you
I'm I'm also saying like man. I need to get in the secret place more the days. I preach
I spend several hours in the secret place, but what about the days? I don't preach. What about the time I have off?
What about the days where I'm not working? I'm not streaming. Am I getting in the secret place as much as I should?
No, am I spending time with God like I should maybe instead of when I drive home from taking my kids to school
Maybe instead of listening to hip-hop music Christian hip-hop music by the way
I should listen to worship music and get in the secret place
Some of you commute an hour and a half make your car your secret place make your laundry room
I gotta do laundry again make that the secret place and start it's not religious guys
We're not doing some religious thing get alone with God and you'll develop time in the secret place
Jared share with us a little bit about the secret place and you met somebody that had a secret place
You didn't have one much. I put you over last year
That's true
But John screen jerk didn't have one, but he met someone and he realized this guy has a secret place and I don't tell us a
Little bit about that. Yeah, so years ago
I was going on a fishing trip and I hop in a car two buddies and
We're about 30 minutes from the river and I was like, hey, I'm so excited to go fishing
We're gonna catch all these fish because they actually asked me to go and help kind of guide
They didn't know this part of the river out here in Sacramento
And so I started telling them all of a sudden he like says hey, hey, hey calm down a little bit
Before we get there
We're just gonna spend time in the presence of the Lord and just worship and I was like, oh, okay
And so all of a sudden he cranks up the worship music and begins to sing and as he began to sing
The glory like a man. I'll get I'll get emotional thinking about the radio
radiating radiating presence of God filled that car and I just began to weep for the next 25 minutes and
I was like, I don't have this in my life
But I want this I need this and we pull up to the fishing spot and we're getting out
And I just sat there frozen in the truck going this is what I need in my life
Like if anything this relationship is not about fishing it's about I just got permission that there's a deeper place in God
That I need to go to I just had somebody a forerunner go before me that says hey
This is how you can do this and so I spent in the next two and a half years
Making excuses to hang out with this guy because I wanted to get what he had on his life
He had developed a secret life of prayer that when he opened his mouth
There was this divine connection that he had fought for and it was every single day. It was so consistent
It wasn't just the days that he was a pastor. He wasn't just the days he ministered even he shares his story
Isaiah that one day some friends showed up to pick him up to take him snowboarding for his birthday
They show up to his house is surprising him and his wife's like hey, so excited. Yes
And he goes hey, why don't you guys go get some Starbucks and then come back and pick me up?
They're like, oh, no, we'll just hop in the car. We can just go on the way and he goes no
No, no, no, I'm gonna spend some time with the Lord before we go Wow, and they all kind of like
Okay, so they go get Starbucks come back like 30 minutes later and
He's you know his eyes are bloodshot from crying and he gets in the car
He's just like man guys the Lord just loves you so much. Thank you so much
And he just starts speaking to them they all start weeping and they're like we didn't know that you did this every single day
We thought you just you know once in a while. We had no idea and he's like how else am I gonna survive you guys
He's all that I got like what else am I gonna do with my life?
And so for some of you men you just don't have somebody like that that's probably shown you that you've probably grown up
Maybe in a religious environment and so I just want to give you permission. I saw my own dad
I woke up at 5 a.m. I was 8 years old and I heard a noise in the living room my own father was laying on the floor praying
Praying for our family praying for for work to come praying in the spirit
I saw the secret of my dad's strength and it was he was a man of prayer
He would go into the secret place and shut the door
He had no other distractions and I could hear him crying out to the Lord. I remember it so vividly
I'm like that's what I want to do. That's what I want to be when I grow up
That's what I want to be a man of prayer and for you men that are watching this right now
Maybe even somebody sent this to you because they they're like hey, you need some help with this
It's okay. However, you are watching this right now. This is for you
I want to give you courage right now to just to go close the door
You can even do this right now go sit in your car go sit in the garage go find a closet
Yeah, bury yourself turn on some worship music and just begin to edify and just tell the Lord how much you love him
Isaiah I've had three different men over the last month reach out to me and say I don't know how to worship the Lord
I don't know how to get into his presence. I see other people are doing it. How come I can't so this is this is for you
This is the time that we have to do it right now
And for some of you you've been asking questions and you've been looking for the world for answer like Rick Warren a Christian pastor
He wrote a book 32 million copies called
Purpose driven life. It was the cry of a generation, but you know what we need. We need a presence driven life
We need to be driven by the presence of God and if we were driven by the presence of God
We'll get everything that we need Moses was on the mountain for 40 days 40 nights
And what did he receive he received the pattern for the tabernacle you will receive the pattern for your life
The more that you're in the presence of God so father
I just released right now a hunger and a desire for more of you God
We just we just asked you for an awakening in their appetite an awakening for real pleasure an awakening God to know you
Lord, I just pray that Lord you would right now just reveal as Isaiah prayed earlier
Search their hearts God reveal to them and I ask you for radical instant obedience
Lord, I pray that they wouldn't delay it because when we're in your presence
We hear so clearly we have to be obedient because what happens we step out of your presence
We get back to real life real responsibility and all of a sudden the distractions flood us and we go
Oh, I don't really need to delete that app. I don't really need to set my alarm an hour early
I really don't need to do those things so the Lord saying do it now be radical with your faith be just like when you were born again
How radical were you you were had this childlike faith and you didn't care what people thought you didn't care what people would think about you
You would share your faith you would pray for the sick you would do things and you're like oh
This is the joy of my life. Why because Jesus taught us a secret
He said I have food that you don't know about disciples
My food is to do the will of the one who sent me so father
I pray that they would start hungering and thirsting for being obedient to you and that you would spiritually nourish them
You would spiritually fulfill them and that God they would get everything that they need for this year of their life
God, it's not an accident that they turn on this podcast. It's not an accident that they tune into the stream Lord
This is divine destiny that you have an appointment for them because you've been knocking on their hard store saying come let me in
I am desiring to meet with you
Why because when you step into what God has been preparing for you
It's gonna solve so many other things in your life so much of your marriage intimacy issues is gonna be solved when you get in
The secret place that your children and their rebellious spirit is gonna be solved when you get in the secret place and you hear from the Lord the
Pattern and how to get keys to their heart every child is wired differently
And you need to hear from the Lord yourself how to minister to every child how to speak to every child how to correct every child and
How to love every child so father?
I just bless these men right now God and I know what it's like God
I know what's like to not have those people in your life so father
I pray that you they would be able to find somebody find somebody to lock arms and run after you together
And I just bless them in Jesus name amen and Lord I pray that they would start prayer meetings
There's nothing stopping you guys from starting a prayer meeting in your home inviting friends over inviting family over and
Asking them to pray with you God. I pray that prayer meetings would rise up. I pray families. I see families together praying
I see some of you in the chat
You're gonna start bringing your friends over bringing your family over and making your home a sanctuary for God
Making your house and altar for God to show up change. What else do you have but God?
What else do we have in this life? We've given everything Jesus said if anyone wants to come after me
He must lay his life down so you're already dead Romans 12 your body belongs to God now
Is the moment to say all of my life is all about God people is there anything else you talk about by but God?
What else matters in life? God is the most important thing of my life having a relationship with him is the most important thing in my life
Do I struggle do I not pray enough do I not absolutely?
But the Lord says don't be condemned some of you stop being condemned today's a new day now
Is the day of salvation if you feel like I failed at my prayer life?
Guess what today's a new day his grace is new every single day you can get up and say Lord
I failed you but I know your mercy is new God is not hitting you over the head with a lightning bolt today
God is not mad at you. He's madly in love with you
He's not sitting here waiting to smack you up and tell you you're not doing enough God is saying come to me
I've been waiting I always use this illustration
It's like you know the guy at the restaurant and some I don't even know what Hallmark movie where the waiter says is the girl ever
Gonna show up
He's like she'll be here any minute and he waits hours and hours and hours with a glass of water
This is how God is in the secret place waiting for you and you keep blowing God off you keep treating God like he's just some
weekend thing just some
Friends with benefits and God says no I want relationship stop leaving me
Waiting in the secret place and I want you to come here. I'm not mad at you. I want to spend time with you
How do I become more like God? You become like the people you hang out with if you hang out with somebody you start becoming like
Them I was just telling Paul and Morgan
I started hanging out with Jared again and we've known each other for ten years and Jared told me two things
I do with my kids because I saw how amazing Jared's kids are I said, what are you doing with these kids?
I want I need my kids to be like this. He said I have no TV or iPads Monday to Friday
They're allowed to get it on the weekend or watch something or play a game on their iPad
No iPads or TV throughout the week and every single morning. I have Bible study and prayer with my kids
So guess what I started doing? We started taking the kids iPads away and TV away all week long and we noticed within days a
dramatic difference and
Starting this year. I'm getting up 30 minutes early with my kids and we do 30 minute Bible study every morning
I got around someone that's doing things for God and I becoming like
Jared the things he does I'm starting to do now. You have to get alone with God start hanging out with God
Imagine if you hung out with God you become like him
You need to get in your prayer closet and say I'm not leaving this prayer closet till I become a better husband
I'm not leaving this prayer closet until this pride breaks off of me. I'm not leaving
I am not leaving this prayer closet with a porn addiction. I'm tired of going into prayer addicted and then coming out addicted
I am getting breakthrough. I'm gonna wrestle with God
There's a principle of knocking until he opens seeking until you find him and asking until he answers now
The question is how long do I search for God and the answer is how long do you look for your car keys?
If you've lost your car keys in the chat, let me know
How long you looked for your car keys when you lost them and the answer is gonna be until you found them
You don't say oh, I guess I didn't find my car keys. I'm not gonna work today
You keep looking until you find it
So if you can look for your car keys until you find them you can look for God until you find him
God desires you to pursue him when I play hide and seek with my kids
I don't go hide up in my attic and say alright. I'm gonna make it hard for them to find me
No, I hide somewhere easy. I hide behind the couch with my legs sticking out so my three-year-old
It has joy when she finds me I didn't hide hard
But it's so joyful to see my three-year-old look for me and pursue me and then when she finds me she laughs
She's excited God hides like that when God hides he hides behind the couch with his legs sticking out and says
I'm not making myself hard to find but I want you to pursue me
Yes, I want you to seek after me so we pray until we ask until and we search until we don't stop and some of you
I really feel with Jared said earlier in your prayers
You stop minutes before breakthrough you stop moments before breakthrough and all God is saying is just I want you to
Seek me a little bit. I see you seeking a new job
I see you seeking that girl and that's all fine and great praise the Lord, but I want to see you seek me as well
I want to see you make me a priority. The Bible says this seek first
This is very important first the kingdom of God and all these other things will be added
So God is like I actually don't want you to seek me second
I actually don't want you to seek me third some of you seek God at the end of the week
You give him a little hungover leftover worship on Sunday and God's like actually I don't really want your leftovers leftovers aren't really that good
I want fresh I want now I want you to make me number one
So in the morning, I'm gonna seek God before anything else even if it's a few minutes even if it's a five minute prayer in the morning Lord
I love you. I honor you. I acknowledge you. I'm aware of you. I give you my day Lord use me today
Give me divine appointments open up doors. I consecrate today to you that took me 20 seconds to pray and God's like okay
You take me serious. I'll take you serious. You give me everything. I'll give you everything you
Acknowledge me. I'll acknowledge you you honor me. I'll honor you you make me a priority or make you a priority
Many of you in the chat
You want God to make you a priority when you make him an option and God says I want you to make me a
Priority in your life wake up in the morning seek the Lord and just say God today is all about you. I honor you father
So I pray Lord
People in this chat would have relationship with you. God. We don't want religion. We don't want some religious duty
We're not like Pharisees babbling the same thing over and over God. We want to be relational
So father I pray over every single person watching that they would develop a intimate deep
Relationship with you that God we know prayer is the access point to knowing you it's the place
Jesus said God is looking for worshipers in spirit and in truth
We know that God is spirit and we must engage with him in prayer
So father, I just pray right now that you'd release prayer warriors intercessors. Give us a hunger for prayer
I know you're in the chat saying Isaiah. I'm struggling join the club. We're all struggling out here the struggles real
We're all trying to pray more. We're all busy. We all have 168 hours in the week
We all have 24 hours in the day
None of us have more less time than the other Paul said I pray constantly if Paul can do it
You can do it Lord. I just pray right now raise up the prayer warriors spark a fire in someone today God
Yes, I don't know. I'm tired of these like Lord give me fire. Give me fire and we don't even do anything
I'm like, we're not even what do we need fire for we're not praying. We're not reading
We're not evangelizing like Lord send us send us to people use us God and just help us develop a prayer life
I'm gonna have Jared share something and pray and then we're gonna do something. We've never done on these broadcasts
I do this in my personal life, but I've never done it on stream and I want to spend a little bit of time
Praying the scriptures. We have about 30 minutes left. So maybe you've never prayed the scripture
We're gonna teach you how to pray the scripture and we're gonna do it together and the scriptures
We're going to pray ding ding ding our scriptures on prayer
Okay, so we're praying scriptures about prayer to help develop a better prayer life so we could become prayer warriors
How many times I just say prayer there? All right, so that's what we're gonna do, but Jared
I feel you got something for you want to say yeah, so you said it a couple times and
Everyone especially the church world talks about having a divine appointment, right?
Well, he's talked about oh and then God entered the conversation and he took over and he spoke through me or
Somebody that you met read your mail. I was like man. This was such a divine appointment
But did you know that every single morning you have the greatest appointment of your day reserved with the Trinity with all of
Divinity like Jesus the father the spirit all waiting for you every single morning
What if the CEO of the business that you work for was telling you hey, I'm coming into town and I want to spend time with you
What would you do? You would clear your schedule?
You would make sure you're dressed appropriately
You would make sure you showed up early to that meeting and you would you would make sure you tell your wife and kids
Hey, listen, I don't want to be stressed out. I don't want to have all this stuff going on like I've got to be focused
I'm getting ready to meet with the king with the king the boss the one that's like
Running all this calling all the shots and then what happens?
How do we treat the king of the universe the one that laid his life down for us the one that his spirit is filling us on a
Continual basis, how do we treat him? We treat him like he's just something ordinary. We just treat him like he's you know
Breakfast, no, I got a check a box. What if we had that same reverence for him?
What if you went into your calendar right now and blocked an hour out in the morning and said my time with God and
Nothing touches that that becomes sacred space for you instead of Isaiah just like everybody else
Well, I just don't know where I'm gonna fit him in. I've got so much responsibility
Oh, I talked to him sometimes in the shower or sometimes on my drive to work wherever I can fit him in
But if we're followers of Christ and disciples, we do everything that he says and we hang on every word that he says
So we have this divine appointment every single morning if we would create the space for him
And I can tell you Isaiah the Bible says if we draw near to him, he'll draw near us
If you make it a priority, he will show up powerfully the last thing I want to share before we start praying scripture is this
Some of you just need to just need to know what to do. I will tell you what I do right now
This will take me 60 seconds. I wake up early. I grab a cup of coffee. I go and sit in my car
Why because there's so many distractions in my house, okay?
I I could look at everything I need to clean yes kids. Yes everything I need to organize
And so I go sit in my car sometimes I drive a couple blocks away or sit in my driveway
I turn on worship music and I begin to worship the Lord and I begin to sing to him
I begin to tell him how much I love him and I do not open the scriptures Isaiah until I feel his presence
And when I feel his presence and I begin to read it's like every single thing is jumping off the pages at me
And I don't read a ton
I just read until he speaks and when I hear his voice or he where the Holy Spirit illuminates something then when I read that
I start to pray that scripture
I start to write notes about that scripture how it applies to my life and then all of a sudden the spirit is
Illuminating and reminding me of other scriptures and I go on this wild goose hunt
And I start chasing down things and these thoughts are flooding my mind and all of a sudden I am having the most entertaining
Time with God and when I get done with that and I walk into my house
My countenance is different. I feel the peace of God
I feel his presence resting on me and when I go into the home before I'm gonna go and sit with my kids and do that
Bible study I have some fresh
Manna from heaven and Lord just spoke to me and I'm going hey kids
This is what God wants to remind us of how important forgiveness is and let me tell you how many
People I didn't forgive until I got saved and then once I got saved
Unforgiveness was like this was the spiritual
Growth stunting me and I could not grow past my level of forgiveness
And once I started forgiving people and I walk my kids through that so Isaiah. Let's let's thank you Lord
Yeah, we're gonna pray the scriptures guys
So we're gonna say the scripture and then we're going to we don't have like prayers written down, you know
We're not a we're not a Catholic out here. Let's just say that way. We're just gonna be led
I was probably uncalled for it's okay
We're gonna be led by the Holy Spirit and we're just gonna let the spirit lead us in our prayers
Some of them will be short prayers long prayers, but these all these scriptures
I just randomly put down our scriptures that have to do with prayer
So mark 1124 if you guys are taking notes you can write these down in your notepad and pray these later
It says therefore I tell you whatever you ask in prayer
Believe that you've received it and it'll be yours. So this is about I want that one
Yeah, I know I get to start this one
This is about praying and praying believing God's gonna actually do what we're praying
There's no point in praying James says I shouldn't be quoting more scriptures, but hey
Yeah, James says if you pray and you are double-minded
He says this is what you're gonna receive from God nothing
That's what you get if you pray and you don't believe your prayer expect to receive nothing
So I'm gonna pray father
I ask you Lord that you would help us to believe what we pray God
I pray Lord that every one of us would start praying prayers that we believe even before we've received them
Let us believe them God. Maybe it's your loved one. Maybe it's your kid. You're like my kid would never be saved
I can't even believe he'd be saved. I want you to start praying for your son. Maybe he's addicted to drugs
Maybe he's confused about his sexuality. Maybe she's confused about life. I don't know
But I want you to start believing that God's gonna save them and say God
I believe it even before I see it even before I see my son who's a drug addict worshiping at the altar
I'm gonna I'm gonna see it. I'm gonna believe it God. I believe you can save my kid
I believe you can save my marriage. No to divorce this divorce will not happen. I believe God is gonna restore my marriage
I believe God is gonna save my marriage. So father. I'm asking you give us faith like Jacob had give us faith like Noah had
Give us faith like Ezekiel had like Jeremiah had like Paul had like Peter had God
These are men that believe their prayers
The Bible says the world wasn't even worthy of these men that they shut the mouth of lions
God I pray give us that type of prayer that Daniel had where they said Daniel if you keep praying
We're gonna kill you and Daniel prayed three times a day. That's good
He believed his prayers God help us to believe father forgive me for my unbelief
How many times have I prayed a prayer for someone and then God answers and I'm shocked me being shocked is my
Unbelief God's like why are you shocked? You didn't even believe your prayer?
So I'm asking the Lord for every one of us watching there's thousands of you watching that God would help us to believe our prayers
I guys I'm tired of praying prayers. I don't believe I'm tired of playing praying these roulette prayers where I'm like
I hope it lands on red today. I hope it lands on black
We just we just pray prayers like their slot machines like if it all lines up if all the sevens line up
Maybe God will answer and God's like that's not prayer prayer is relational prayers commitment prayers conversational prayers not random
We're not buying a lottery ticket every time we pray. We got to actually start believing our prayers. It's no wonder
I can't take this long in every verse. I'm being a bad example here. I'm done right here
It's no wonder people that don't believe in healing don't get healed
It's no wonder people that don't believe in deliverance. I don't know why God hasn't delivered me
I don't believe in it like of course you don't you don't believe in it
How are you gonna say you don't believe in it?
But you don't know why God hasn't done it a lot of guys that preach against speaking in tongues
They just don't believe they say we don't believe in tongues. I'm like, well, yeah, that's why you would never speak in it
You don't even believe in it. So this is about let's believe our prayers and let's just ask the Holy Spirit to help us believe in Jesus name
Okay, we have like 70 verses. We just got through one and five minutes. So I'm sorry Jared. Go ahead, bro
Go ahead. You might have to do five right now
All right, I will use self-control Romans 826 says this likewise the spirit helps us in our weakness. Oh
If you've been feeling weak, this is your scripture for we do not know what to pray for how many of you have not known
What to pray for I'm guilty as we ought but the Spirit himself
Intercedes with for us with groanings too deep for words when you don't know what to pray the Spirit will intercede through you and
Another thing that I do when I read the scripture is I'm reminded that I need to pray in the Spirit and the Holy Spirit is gonna bring
Back remembrance of everything God's done in my life
He's gonna put people in my mind of people that need prayer
How many times have I been praying in the Spirit just praying in tongues and all of a sudden like oh, I need a I need to text him right now
Oh, I need a message Isaiah
I need to text Joe right now all of a sudden the Spirit himself because we're weak because we're fleshly
Because we have so many distractions the Spirit will like override our thoughts and give us a direct connection to the Father
And all of a sudden we're like this is what you need to do. This is what you need to pray
This is what you need to say yes to this is what you need to say no to and then he himself will start to
Grown within you so father right now in Jesus name. I just pray for everyone watching we just pray God Lord
We're weak. Yeah, but the Spirit makes us strong. We need to pray in the Spirit
We sometimes our prayer list is like five things Lord help me get rich
Help me find the right mate help my kids to serve you help me to not go back to the addiction
And then I'm like what else do I need?
But if you get into the Spirit the Spirit will open up the windows of heaven and all of a sudden you're praying for all these things
Maybe in your city you've never even prayed for your city before but you've complained about city council
Maybe you'll start praying for the government and start cursing, you know, I'm believing that our government here in California
We're gonna see a revival. I'm believing he's get like Daniel prayed for those that are in authority
I'm believing that God's gonna visit them in the night. God's gonna send them dreams
So we're just praying but that Spirit himself will intercede through you. He will remind you of things
He'll remind you of God's faithfulness last thing is this I said I'm running into your anointing is
Is when I was going through a real hard time and Isaiah knows about this
I shared with this with him personally this summer I mean my wife were going through one of the most intense warfare's we it was 30 days of
non-stop barrage and I remember laying in a hotel room at 2 a.m.
And I was just sitting there praying in the Spirit and I'm like I don't know what to do
I feel like running I feel like abandoning I feel like quitting I had all these emotions and I open up the Bible and the Holy Spirit says
Right here and I read the scripture about how how Jacob wrestled with God and then he says this
I'm not letting you go until you speak to me until you bless me and I said God
I am not letting you go until you speak to me and then the Lord spoke to me a word and guess what the Holy Spirit illuminated it and
It gave me everything I needed for the rest of that season
But guess what that would have never happened unless I was praying this morning and he was helping me in my time of
Weakness so good. Thank you Lord. Here's Philippians 4 6 says do not be anxious about anything
So is there anything in my life? I should have anxiety about the Bible says be anxious about nothing
But in everything by prayer and supplication with Thanksgiving let your request be known to God
So if you're struggling with anxiety, hello somebody amen praise the Lord help me Lord if you're struggling with being anxious about things in life
We're gonna pray right now that you would instead of being anxious
So what do I do because when I'm anxious God's not God's not like well you're in sin because you you're anxious when I'm anxious
Instead of being anxious. I start praying about whatever I'm anxious about so instead of anxiety prayer
What do I do when I'm anxious pray about everything? What do I pray about everything? Well is anything not I shouldn't be praying about no pray
About everything so I pray Father help us when we're anxious to choose prayer over anxiety
Lord let us choose get praying about something instead of worrying about something
That's good. We pray God that you would break the power of anxiety off our lives
We pray God you'd remove the power of anxiety some of you have anxiety attacks
I used to get anxiety attacks and when I got saved I got delivered God healed me of anxiety attacks
I used to get where my heart would be racing and I feel like I was gonna throw up
I feel like I was gonna pass out for literally no reason like it was always the same time every day and made no sense
It was so dumb and no reason and when I got saved and I got delivered the Lord remove those from my life
I've never had an anxiety attack since I got on stage before preached to 10,000 people and didn't have an anxiety attack wasn't anxious
Why because I prayed about it. I started seeking the Lord and God delivered me from anxiety
So if God can do it for me, I'm not special
I was an atheist if God can deliver me and save me God can do it in you
So I'm just praying God that you deliver us from anxiety from fear from worry from dread and instead of being anxious
I want you every time you're anxious to just pray about what you're anxious about
Oh, I'm anxious because I have an interview. Oh, I'm anxious because I have to go here
I'm anxious because I'm I'm having a baby on the way I'm anxious because I can't afford the baby
I'm anxious because my house payment every time you're anxious start praying about that Lord
I know that you're gonna give me a healthy baby Lord. I know the payments gonna come through Lord
I know you're gonna open that door at work God
You didn't bring me all this way to leave me here if you feed the birds you're gonna feed my family God
I'm not gonna be anxious about this interview. I'm not gonna be anxious about this case. I'm working whatever it is
Everything in your life you can pray about everything you can pray about so we're gonna remove anxiety and replace it with prayer
God, I pray you'd help us right now. Yes remove anxiety
I'm preaching to myself right now and replace it with prayer in Jesus name. Let us pray and just seek you
Thank you Lord and Matthew 6 7 says this and when you pray
Do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do where they think that they'll be heard for their many words
You probably don't know how to pray professionally. That's a good thing. I've been around a lot of professional prayers
I don't even know if that's a word but then what they would do is they would they would
Say all these big phrases and I felt so
Yes, I declare in Jesus name that I bind every spirit from South Carolina
North Carolina East and West South and North I go to the North Pole and I grab you know, they would do these things
I'm being funny, but it's true
I grabbed Rudolph buys red. No one says and say command it to
Okay, but we're having a great time
But here's the thing the when I when I first started getting mentored by somebody that knew how to pray and my friend Paul
We pray every Tuesday morning together. Here's what he taught me. He says Jared pray short phrases
But then listen to what the Lord is saying because I was being raised and people that'd be like shut up out of Honda
Yes, Jesus Lord, hallelujah, praise Jesus. Yes, and when people were praying you couldn't hear anything
You were being definite, you know, like deafening in your ear. All of a sudden we would stop and pray small phrases. We'd say father. Thank you
Thank you for what you're doing in our life. Lord. Thank you for my marriage
Thank you for my children and you would actually just be kind of calm and present and actually just not attack prayer
Like you were shooting a machine gun at somebody but just listening and engaging like you would have a normal conversation
If I talk to Isaiah, I go I say I just want to tell you something
I don't even know what's going on in my life right now, but I just want to say thank you
That's gone out. I talk all the time
Yeah, total 100%
So we need to not be like the Pharisees the Gentiles that tried to make it feel like they were super spiritual
Professional prayer warriors. We just need to be down to earth people and that's the way that Jesus taught his disciples to pray
He didn't give them this long lengthy prayer. He just said hey, you come to him say father
Yeah, who aren't heaven, hallowed be your name whatever translation you want to you want to read but listen
You just come to him like a child Jesus said that you want to enter the kingdom. You got to become like a child
Yes, children don't have fancy prayers children have short powerful prayers and we've heard each other's children pray before and they're just short phrases
And when my kids pray for me, I remember one time
I was getting ready to preach at this summer camp and I grabbed my son Judah who was about 13 at the time
I said son will you pray for me and this is what he said
Spirit come that's all he said and man the presence of the Holy Spirit hit me so hard and
Immediately, I'm like man son. That was one of the most powerful prayers and that that service
So many words of knowledge so many people were healed and delivered so many people were set free
I came back to my son that evening. I said son. That's because God answered your prayer. I didn't need a
30-minute should about a Honda prayer
I needed the faith of a child pray something so sincere and so real and that's how God wants you to come to him
He doesn't want all the professional prayers the ones that you buy the 1099 prayer cards
He just wants the real prayers from your heart. Come on
I remember I was praying in those a bunch of famous ministers and they're like we pray and I started I literally started
I decree a Joshua generation. I declare the fire of the seven altars of the seven tribes of
I'm like wait a minute. Is there even seven tribes? I did making up all these elaborate prayers
I kid you not bro as I'm praying and they're all like oh, this is real fire. This is good
I heard the Lord say stop the Lord
Lucy as I pray the Lord's like and this we said I know you I was like you know me
He's like you don't pray that way. That's not how you pray at home
That's not you pray in this seat and then I stopped and humbled myself
But the point was the Lord's like you're just babbling on random empty phrases just like the Gentiles do because you think the more
Nice words you have and you heard so-and-so the more I hear you and the Lord's like dude stop. That's not you
That's not how you pray. I'm looking for relationship. I'm looking for conversation
Relationship with you talk to God. He knows you the Bible says before you even pray
He knows what you're gonna you're gonna ask but he still wants you to ask
He still wants to be invited in to what you're going through so that's such a great word
All right, let me give you Jeremiah. I know guys. We're going along. Who cares Jeremiah 33 3
Says call to me and I will answer you and I will show you great and hidden things that you have not known
So this is all about calling unto God and God answering God is not gonna answer a call that you didn't make
We get mad. What did you answer the prayer and God's like you didn't even pray that prayer
What do you mean? You're mad. I didn't save your dad when's awesome even prayed for your dad
I always get mad sometimes at God going why isn't so and so saved and God's like
I don't remember last time we prayed for that person. I'm like, oh, yeah, I don't pray for them
So I'm mad at God for not answering prayers. I don't pray so Jeremiah God saying call to me
You got a call to me. So father
I pray according to Jeremiah 33 3 that we would start calling you Lord
I pray we would start calling unto you and in that you'll answer and you'll show us things that we have not known
We'll have encounters with God. We'll have spiritual experiences. I pray God help us to call upon you God
We call so many other things for help. We have no problem calling someone we get a flat tire
We have no problem calling insurance when we wreck our car. Let's start calling on the Lord when we wreck our lives
Let's start calling on the Lord when we make poor decisions
Let's start calling on the Lord before we make poor decisions
I got I don't know why my life's not blessing God's like because you don't even call upon me
You don't ask me for help the Lord wants you to call him. So father
Help us to call upon you help us to seek your face
Help us to seek your word and you will show us things that we do not know in Jesus name. Thank you Lord
Go for it Jared. All right, quick. Oh, I see you weren't even ready. I was expecting a 45 minute sermon
All right, I got one from my phone that wasn't on our list here
Oh, no, this is John 11 and
This is Jesus getting ready to raise Lazarus from the dead and we just get to peer into his personal prayer life
And it says this so Jesus looks up to heaven John 1141 and says this father
Thank you for hearing me. You always hear me
It's good and I just want to release this right now that he always hears you
No matter what your prayers sound like no matter if they're loud if they're short if they're quiet
Whatever it is you have to understand that no prayer falls on deaf ears
Good
There is nothing the Bible says that his arm is not too short to save nor his ear too dull to hear
So you have somebody that is attentive to your prayer and when Jesus looks up to heaven
He shares one of the most powerful statements ever about his connection of the father. He says listen
Thank you for hearing me. You always hear me. He's listening to you right now
Some of you are in the chat saying I want to be a better at prayer. I want to experience
His presence in a new way. I want to do all these things listen. He is going to answer those prayers
He is not going to just push you away and say no you're in timeout because you were too distracted
I'm not going to show up. No, he is going to answer those prayers. He is listening. He is attentive to your cry
He is a father loves you and guess what we're gonna pray right now. So father
I just pray for this for this
anticipation yes for this
Expectation that Lord as they look up to heaven like Jesus did that they know you are gonna answer them right now
So God, I just thank you that you're hearing their prayers
I pray that you would even give them a sign today Lord that you are listening for those that have been crying out day and night Lord for
Family members to come back home for relationships to be restored. We just pray right now Lord
You said that right before you raised the dead nothing is impossible for you
We believe that you will answer so God we just pray that this would be the day Lord that they hear from you in Jesus name
Yes, Matthew
2641 and those of you saying well you guys recap all these scriptures
I'm just gonna kindly ask you to rewind the video after because we're skipping all around and I don't even know what verses
We've gone over now through 2641 says watch and pray so you don't enter into temptation
The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak
So your flesh doesn't want to pray and this is what Jesus talking to the disciples when they're falling asleep
He said can you not pray for an hour and you guys are falling asleep over here?
And so what he's saying to them is listen your spirit wants to pray your spirit wants to worship there
This is what I was tell people there's a yes in you when I'm tired and weary and like I don't really want to pray
I always go no no there's a yes in me my spirit wants to pray my spirit wants to read and worship
But my flesh is weak my flesh doesn't want to my flesh doesn't want to pray doesn't want to read so how do we stop from entering into
Temptation we have to watch and pray so I'm praying Lord right now for every person struggling with temptation
Help them to watch and pray God help them not enter into temptation
God help their spirit to be strong God help us to feed our spirit more than our flesh
It's no wonder our flesh wins our flesh is way stronger than our spirit because we feed it more but no more today
We are choosing to feed our spirit and to starve our flesh
Typed in the chat
I'm gonna feed my spirit and starve my flesh so that my flesh will be weak and not speak to me not talk to me not
Tell me what to do some of you need to tell your flesh to shut up your sinful nature
If you didn't know what the flesh is the flesh is your sinful nature. It's not your skin and your bones
It's the sinful nature. We all have tell your flesh to shut up and say no my spirit is willing
There's a yes in me. We're gonna pray
I blocked out an hour a day on my calendar because if I don't do it that way
I wanted to doing it and guess what during that hour nobody's calling me nobody's texting me the flesh is gonna shut up
My spirit is gonna pray and we're gonna break through and we're no longer gonna enter into temptation if you are on the computer
I'm just gonna give you a spoiler alert at midnight. You're probably gonna fall into temptation
So get off the computer at midnight and get in the place of prayer if you're like me like I'm a night owl
I just don't like the mornings guess what at midnight then you should be praying you should not be browsing the internet at midnight
You should not be watching you shouldn't watch get in prayer and stay out of temptation
It's very hard to be tempted and prayer and be in prayer at the same time
It's very hard to be in prayer and watch pornography at the same time the more you pray the harder
It is to sin and the more you sin the harder it is to pray so the way you get out of temptation is develop prayer
Life's good and be watchful in Jesus name Lord help us name. Thank you Lord. We got about five more minutes
Okay, no pressure. No pressure
Psalms 145 18 says this the Lord is near to all who call on him and to all who call on him in truth
So the Lord is near right now. Yes, we know that he's close to you
The Bible says this also in Psalms that he's close to the broken hearted and saves those that are crushed in spirit
We know that when we call on him. Yes, Jeremiah 33 3 says this call on me
And I'll answer you and show you things that you don't know about
I said we prayed that scripture, but listen when you call on the Lord
He will always answer but there's another call. It's got to be in truth
The Bible says it's got to be in truth
So when you're calling on him and you're asking for things not according to his will not according to truth
He doesn't answer those prayers some of the best prayers are the ones that are not answered. Yeah other ones that I
Shouldn't have gotten with that girl. Yeah, I've seen some of the girls that I was dating in high school
And I've seen them 21 years. I was like, oh, Lord, he's a Lord you Lord you did not answer that prayer
Help us, but hey, I just want to encourage you right now. He's near you. He's gonna respond to you
He's gonna answer when you call on him in truth
That's so good and I wanted to add this last thing because I was I'm so glad you brought that up when you go to your parents and
Ask them for something that's gonna harm you and you're you say mom. I want this and she says no
Yeah, is no an answer to that request. Yes, it is
So when God some of you are praying prayers over and over and God's like it's not my will no no
You're asking me to bless a mess. You're asking me to bless something broken
So if God tells you no in prayer don't keep wasting your time asking him
Some of you are getting a no in prayer and you keep praying thinking that God's gonna change his mind and God's like I'm not changing
My mind I'm saying no no is no if you're asking God to give you a new husband because your husband is not godly enough
I'll tell you right now the answer is no, okay?
That's not the way God works and we pray prayers that violate the word of God and we're like we don't know why I
Literally had a lady. I've had I have so many stories. She came to me said I'm really praying to have a child and the Lord keeps telling me
No, no, no, I don't know why he's telling me no and I was like, okay. Well, you know, what is your husband think?
She said oh, no, I don't I'm not married. It's my boyfriend. I don't know why I got okay
So if you're if you're if you're going to God saying Lord, I want a child and you're not even married and God's saying no
Don't keep praying. She wanted me to pray for her that God would give her a child. I was like honey
That's called fornication. God's not gonna bless fornication if you're married
Then you pray for a child and the Lord might and she's like oh, I didn't know that okay
So I'm not gonna judge her but you're backwards
You need to get married then have a kid and my point
It's a drastic example of many people pray amiss because they pray for things selfishly and the Bible talks about that
If you pray selfishly you pray amiss because you want your prayer answered prayer to be about you and the Bible literally says
God does not answer those prayers. So no is an answer to prayer. Some of you are praying and God is saying no
What an amazing time of prayer that we had today. We're used to doing two and a half hour streams
So these one hour streams feel like our intro
Yeah, but we're trying to keep them on an hour so that you guys are praying with us
I think an hour a day is a sweet spot
Actually, one of the first things God ever told me the night at the altar when I got saved was pray an hour a day
So when you said an hour today, I was like, ooh, that's I need to go back to that because that was how I originally started was an
Hour day of prayer Jesus told the disciples. Can you not just pray for an hour? There's something special about and I'm not gonna
60 minutes is the prophetic. I'm not giving you guys a prophetic word here
Okay, an hour is just an even amount of time to pray and I promise you
Literally, I promise you if you spend the next seven days and you on your calendar like you said that block out an hour day
I don't care if it's midnight. I don't care if it's two in the morning
I don't care if it's 9 a.m. You block out an hour for seven days
I'm telling you commit to this if you want your life to change. I
Promise you your life will change you will start seeing not only supernatural things happening around you
You'll start seeing prayers answered
You'll start feeling lighter and better and more joy and more peace
You're gonna feel physically better
Some of you go to the gym and say man
I feel so good after the gym go to the spiritual gym and I'm telling you your spirit man is gonna be grateful
So I'm not gonna call you to make an oath right now and make a covenant that you're gonna pray an hour a day
If you want to do it do it make a commitment say I'm gonna try seven days
And I guarantee you if you're mad after seven days the devil will give you back your anxiety
He'll give you back your fear. He'll give you back your hour
Full refund, but if you commit seven days to God, it'll change your life
I used to when I was a youth pastor every time we would go to a camp we would
Do like a seven-day challenge after they went to camp and
Seriously, it's just like all right for seven days. I provided a worship music
We used to have these things called CDs and so I guess yes, so it was a compact disc. I burn it
I would I didn't even know it's a CD stand. Yeah, I'm too young
We won't tell you how Jared is yes
So CDs and then I would give them the scriptures to read and then I would put my phone number on there
Which I would never do now, but I would say text me after you've done this and we asked them to set their you know alarm
Clock an hour before they went back to school. This was a springtime a
Retreat and so first day they would I man my phone's blowing up, you know 40 50
Hey, I spent an hour at the Lord. This is what he said
This is how it's changing my life when I went to school today
I actually had compassion for my enemies just like Jesus taught us is to love our enemies and pray for those that
Persecute us all this stuff and then slowly the taper begin to happen and it went from 50 kids
The 30 to 20 and by the sixth and seventh day there was one kid
Yeah, absolutely one kid left that kept praying kept praying and I'll never forget two weeks later
I'm in my office and all of a sudden this mom knocks on my door and says hey, can I talk to you?
And I'm like sure and she says this so you gave the kids a challenge and I'm like yes
And she says the seven-day challenge and I'm like yes
She goes well, I want to tell you that my daughter took it for for for serious. I said yeah
I know she she was texting me she goes and it's not just my daughter
It's all of my children now her two little sisters have been getting up at 5 a.m
They locked the door and I can hear them crying out and praying praying for Uncle Bob
That's not say praying for cousin Jill to come back to the Lord and you gave him a CD and I was like yes
You're my joy. Yeah, that's why I kept thinking she goes well
I'm here to ask you for our own copy of that
Because me and my husband are feeling very guilty right now that our kids are seeking the Lord more than we are
I was like here here's three here's four take as much as you like and that brought about a revival because they turn their little
bedroom into a sanctuary and the effects of them calling out to the Lord and praying for an hour a day
Spilled over into the whole family
So I agree with Isaiah's challenge if you took seven days and just consecrated that time to the Lord no matter where it was at
In the day you will feel different why because Isaiah said it earlier you become who you hang around
All of a sudden you'll be having the mind of Christ synced with your thoughts and all of a sudden
You'll see through just the the fruit issues in people's life. You'll be able to see into the root
You're like you're really upset right now. Probably it's not what you're yelling at me about
There's probably a deeper rooted issue right now and all of a sudden
God will start giving you the things that you need to minister to people how to navigate family decisions man
I'm getting in the right now. So I just want to encourage you right now. I'm breaking after the
Who's next all right, but anyways encourage you set the the reason we put on a calendar is if in my life
If it's not on my calendar, it doesn't happen. I have to prioritize his presence
I have to prioritize. He's the king of the universe that wants to meet with you put it on your calendar
So good so guys this year
We're gonna make prayer major priority one of things that we're changing is if you're a monthly partner on YouTube or on my website
We are praying with you guys on zoom every single week Thursday afternoon after my Thursday morning or not morning
My Thursday noon stream
I will do a 1 p.m. Prayer meeting and pray with you guys and those prayer meetings will go on
I'll leave it to you guys to moderate and all that but I'll be in there praying
So again if you're a YouTube member or monthly partner, thank you
You'll be getting a prayer link
It won't be this next week because I need to break some doing 10 streams in nine days
But then after this marathon stream marathon on I will be the week after sending you guys a static zoom link
So my point of it is this prayer is gonna become a major thing this year if you don't like prayer
You're probably not gonna like this channel
So you might as well just unsubscribe now if you don't like prayer
You're probably not gonna like heaven because we're gonna be there talking to God for a long time
But no seriously guys prayer is amazing tonight at six o'clock. We have a podcast with Paul and Morgan. You don't want to miss that
It's gonna be amazing powerful
It's gonna be juicy. We're gonna talk about all of it. We're gonna ask him all the questions
We're gonna have a good time and it's gonna be great. They're in studio with us
So it's in person and we're gonna talk about their new project
I can't talk about it yet because I want to save it for them to talk about but we are doing a very exciting project together
That's coming soon. We'll announce that tonight. I need every one of you
Listen to me clearly here back at six o'clock tonight. This is your homework duty. This is your youth pastor speaking
We need you back in the gymnasium get some deodorant on at six o'clock
We need you back in the gymnasium for the podcast and then tomorrow six o'clock
We have worship Jared's wife is gonna be leading us in worship from my living room
So that's gonna be interesting
We're gonna set that all up and all my kids will be there his kids will be there
We're gonna have a huge tribe tomorrow of children worship being in praising so get your kids
I know stadium filled. Yeah, I know I know a lot of my content is not kid friendly
So tomorrow is gonna be kid friendly bring your kids to wherever you guys are out watching with us
Don't bring them to my house
But bring them wherever you're at watching for six o'clock worship and then we will end it Sunday night at six and then Monday
I'll have my regular teaching and then I want to take the week off because I'm tired y'all we've been doing a lot
I pinched a nerve in my back yesterday. Thank you for praying for me and I'm getting better and we're powering through it
So keep praying for me. Thank you guys. Yes, I still believe in healing even though my back is hurting right now
We're still believing in praying for healing and I'll be with you guys tonight for the podcast. Okay. I think that's everything
I'm gonna get off here. No ending stream. No dancing bird
We'll do that later. I love you guys appreciate you guys
You guys let's see some ones in the chat if you're gonna be back someone said Isaiah will open up a barber shop in New Jerusalem
Okay, cool. Yes. Amen
We'll see we'll see you guys there. All right
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