Part Ten: Hope
Pastor Aaron Batchelor Preached on 7/30/2026
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Summary
Pastor Aaron Batchelor explores Psalm 130 to demonstrate that the journey of faith begins with a desperate cry from the depths and ends with a people anchored in plenteous redemption. He challenges believers to become 'prisoners of hope,' chained to the unchanging promises of God rather than the circumstances of life.
Key points
- •Hope is not wishful thinking but a confident expectation based on God's character that allows believers to keep climbing regardless of how deep they have fallen.
- •The climb of hope begins with a desperate cry; God does not require you to get your life together before you cry out to Him.
- •God responds to earnest, fervent seekers who pray from the 'depths' of their need rather than offering casual or religious prayers.
- •Believers should identify as 'prisoners of hope,' choosing to be chained to God's promises and the Word rather than to their past, addictions, or fears.
- •Prophetic encouragement: The church is entering a new season that requires shifting into a higher 'gear' of prayer, fasting, and reliance on the Holy Spirit.
Scripture
Hope
Prayer
Faith
Spiritual Growth
Restoration
Life application
This week, identify one area where you feel you are in 'the depths' and replace casual prayer with a desperate, fervent cry to God. Refuse to listen to negative reports about the economy or culture, and instead vocalize a specific promise from Scripture as a 'prisoner of hope.'
Reflection questions
- What 'depths' are you currently facing, and how has your prayer life reflected that reality?
- Are you waiting to 'get it all together' before approaching God, or are you willing to cry out from where you are?
- What does it mean to you personally to be a 'prisoner of hope' instead of a prisoner of fear or pride?
- In what area of your spiritual life (prayer, fasting, faith) is God calling you to shift into a 'next gear'?
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0:00Nothing's
0:00Hallelujah.
0:01[music]
0:07>> Well, look what the Lord has done.
0:09Praise God. He's healed our body. He's
0:11touched us. He saved us. So much to
0:14thank the Lord for tonight. Amen. Thank
0:16you for being here tonight. Tonight
0:19starts our first night below your feet.
0:23If you feel that wonderful energy and
0:25vibration, it's because vacation Bible
0:28school has started right now. It has
0:31commenceed. And so the energy and the
0:33vibe and uh the Lord is meeting with
0:36them. I love it. And our children are
0:38going to learn over and over again how
0:40much God loves them and what he's got
0:43planned for them and how special they
0:45are to Jesus. And so I'm so thankful for
0:48all of our teachers and leaders, the
0:50Turnbulls, and all of those that are
0:52helping. Could we just direct some
0:55prayers right now to the fellowship
0:58hall, the classrooms, to their entire
1:00space, y'all to go down and just see it.
1:02It's been just redecorated. It's
1:04beautiful. It's going to be a lot of
1:05fun. But tonight, tomorrow morning,
1:08Friday morning, Saturday, and then
1:09Sunday, revival is going to happen among
1:12our children. Could we just direct some
1:14prayers to them right now? Could we do
1:16that together? Heavenly Father, thank
1:18you so much for a church that loves
1:20children's ministry. Thank you for every
1:22teacher, every leader. Thank you, God,
1:24for every parent, every grandparent,
1:26Lord, that has brought their kids to
1:28this house. I pray in the name of Jesus
1:30that for the next little while that
1:32these children would feel your presence
1:34in a wonderful powerful way. That you'd
1:36just draw them closer to you. Fill every
1:39one of them full of your love, full of
1:40your peace, full of your spirit. I pray
1:43they would leave tonight encouraged,
1:44knowing that you love them, knowing that
1:46you care for them, and knowing God that
1:49they've got a purpose in their life. I
1:51thank you so much, Lord, for what you're
1:53going to do this week in the lives of
1:55our children. Let your spirit just be
1:57poured out service after service through
1:59the activities, Lord, through everything
2:01that happens, God. And we'll give you
2:02all the glory in Jesus' name we pray.
2:06Hallelujah. And everybody said, "Amen."
2:08Praise God. Amen. Well, take your Bibles
2:11if you will, and let's go to Psalm 130.
2:15Praise God. Psalm 130. We're in the
2:19Psalms of Ascent. The Psalms of Ascent.
2:21[music]
2:22And that's been where we've we've stuck
2:25around here for a little bit and this is
2:28a wonderful part. This is our 11th part
2:31of this series [music] and looking
2:33forward to getting to chapter 134. But
2:35tonight we're in 130. I believe it's one
2:37of the most emotionally powerful, if you
2:40will, uh, Psalms of Asense because it
2:42traces the entire journey of faith just
2:44in this brief passage. begins with a man
2:47that's drowning and it ends with a
2:50people that's hoping. And so we're going
2:52to go to the word of the Lord in Psalm
2:55130. Amen. Out of the depths have I
2:57cried unto thee, oh Lord. Lord, hear my
3:00voice. Let thine ears be attentive to
3:03the voice of my supplic supplications.
3:06If thou, Lord, shouldest mark
3:08iniquities, oh Lord, who shall stand?
3:11But there is forgiveness with thee, that
3:15thou mayest be feared. I wait for the
3:18Lord. My soul doth wait. And what do we
3:21do while we're waiting? The psalmist
3:23said, in his word do I hope. My soul
3:26waiteth for the Lord. More than they
3:28that watch for the morning. I say, more
3:31than they that watch for the morning.
3:33Let Israel hope in the Lord, for with
3:36the Lord there's mercy. with him is
3:39plenteous redemption and he shall redeem
3:42Israel from all his iniquities. The word
3:45tonight that I want to focus on from
3:47Psalm 130 is hope. Somebody say hope.
3:51It's one of the big three that Paul
3:53talked about. He said now about it at
3:54these three. [music] Faith, hope, and
3:56love. Hope it's not wishful thinking.
3:59Hope is the confident expectation that
4:02because of who God is that I can keep
4:06climbing no matter how deep I've fallen
4:08because God is going to come through.
4:11For as the psalmist said, "With the Lord
4:13there is mercy and with him is plenteous
4:18redemption." Aren't you thankful you
4:19serve a God like that tonight? Oh, I am.
4:22Hallelujah. Why don't we just thank the
4:24Lord tonight? Let's ask God to speak to
4:26us through his word. Heavenly Father,
4:28thank you for the beautiful presence in
4:29this place tonight. Thank you for the
4:31love of your people, for each other, for
4:33you. And now we turn our attention to
4:35your word. We ask that you would speak
4:37to us, oh God. Let your word that is
4:39forever settled in heaven be mixed in
4:42faith with them that hear it so that it
4:43may be profitable, that will be fruitful
4:46in our lives, and that one day, oh God,
4:48we'll see it come to pass exactly as you
4:51have spoken. We thank you tonight, Lord.
4:53We give you all the praise in Jesus'
4:55name we pray. And everybody said,
4:57"Amen." Praise God. God bless you. You
5:00may be seated in the name of the Lord.
5:03President Jimmy Carter, the late
5:06President Jimmy Carter, his wife Rosalyn
5:08began volunteering with Habitat for
5:11Humanity in 1984.
5:13And over the next four decades, they
5:16personally helped build, renovate, and
5:19repair more than 4,000 homes in 14
5:22countries. Uh Carter also taught, if you
5:27don't know, he taught Sunday school for
5:2940 years. And uh in the May of 2019, I
5:33think we've got a picture for it. If the
5:34media team would help me out there, he
5:36uh he broke his hip. He was 94 years
5:38old, broke his hip, and after a fall, he
5:41underwent hip replacement surgery, and
5:43he recovered and returned to what he
5:45loved doing, teaching by uh Sunday
5:47school and uh the Habitat for Humanity
5:50service. Then on October 6 of that same
5:53year, 2019, he just turned 95 years old.
5:56Carter fell at his home in Plains,
5:58Georgia. He strike struck his head. Uh
6:01he received 14 stitches above his left
6:03eyebrow, which is the cause of that very
6:06painful looking wound you see on the
6:07picture there, leaving him with that
6:09very noticeable black eye. And the very
6:11next day, the very next day, this
6:1495year-old young man, instead of
6:17cancelling, he traveled to Nashville for
6:20the annual Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter
6:23Habitat for Humanity work project. And
6:26before beginning construction, he
6:27stopped everybody and he began to lead
6:30them in a devotion for all the
6:31volunteers. One of the most amazing
6:34stories though about late President
6:36Carter was that just weeks after this
6:39injury in this picture you see right
6:41here, just weeks after the habitat
6:43incident had occurred, he suffered
6:45another fall that fractured his pelvis
6:49and less than two weeks later at 95
6:52years old, he returned to teach Sunday
6:55school. Anyway,
6:57somebody say keep climbing. I'm telling
7:00you what, this dude, I'm telling you, I
7:02receive that. Keep climbing. Say it
7:03again. Say, keep climbing. I'm not even
7:06there quite near there yet. I'm not even
7:08halfway to 95 yet. We just got to keep
7:11climbing. No matter what life throws at
7:13us, we got to keep walking. We've got to
7:15keep persevering. We've got to keep
7:16trusting God. Got to keep holding on to
7:19his unchanging hand, doing what we can
7:21do. Even if what you can do isn't what
7:23you used to do, but you got to keep
7:25climbing. Somebody say, "Keep climbing."
7:27So, the whole point of this whole series
7:29is that as we take steps to that new
7:32city of Jerusalem, and as we're waiting
7:33for the hope and the redemption of the
7:35Lord Jesus Christ, that we keep walking,
7:38we keep faithfully talking to one
7:39another, encouraging one another in the
7:41Lord, and we keep climbing. Say it
7:43again. Say, "Keep climbing."
7:45>> But the Psalmist begins the Psalms and
7:48says, "Out of the depths." The depths.
7:52The depths. You've been in the depths.
7:55I've been in the depths.
7:57I've been in the depths. Some in the
7:58depths of failure. Some in the depths of
8:01depression.
8:03Some in the depths of addiction.
8:05Some in the depths of grief, anxiety,
8:09shame. Some in the depths of unanswered
8:11prayer, financial pressure, family pain.
8:16Psalms has talked about the depths
8:19before. Psalm 71 talked about the depths
8:23of the earth. Psalm 86 talks about the
8:26depths of the grave. But this particular
8:29depth that the Jewish pilgrims cried
8:31from is the depth of the awareness and
8:34the guilt of how they have fallen
8:37spiritually.
8:39Many have spiritually drowned in these
8:43depths. And my prayer for you throughout
8:45this series and every day for you church
8:48is that you will not drown in the
8:51depths. that you will not stay in the
8:54low point that each and every one of us
8:56have found oursself at one time or
8:58another. And if you're not in a low
8:59point, just hold on. You'll get there
9:01sooner or later.
9:04>> Cuz we don't just live on mountain tops
9:06and we don't just live on wonderful good
9:08experiences where the glory is. We got
9:11to come down and we meet some devils and
9:13we meet ourselves and we meet all of
9:15these things that seemingly come against
9:17us. But my hope for you is that you will
9:20keep climbing.
9:22>> But I want you to notice David doesn't
9:25pretend like he's not in the depths. He
9:28doesn't deny it. He doesn't numb it. He
9:31prays from it. I think there's an answer
9:35here that we can see something
9:37wonderful, spiritual, and that God could
9:40reveal to us out of the Psalms. He said,
9:42"Out of the depths have I cried unto
9:46thee, oh Lord." What I love about THIS
9:49IS THAT GOD HAS never required us to
9:52climb out before we cry out.
9:56God has never expected you to get your
9:58whole life together before you have an
10:00audience with him. God's never expected
10:03for you to get all your emotions under
10:05control, for you to have everything laid
10:07out perfectly and in order before you
10:10come to him. You can come to him just as
10:13you are. You can come to him in your
10:15pain, in your misery. You can come to
10:17him with your doubt and your
10:19frustrations and your anger. You can
10:21come to him with your tears and your
10:23problems. You can come to God. He does
10:26not resist you. He opens up the doors
10:29and invites you to COME AND CAST ALL OF
10:33OUR CARES UPON HIM because he cares for
10:37you.
10:39If we're going to keep on climbing and
10:40climbing, the climb of hope, then the
10:43first thing I want to remind you of
10:44tonight is the climb of hope begins with
10:47a desperate cry. Somebody say, a
10:49desperate cry.
10:52>> Psalm 130, out of the depths have I
10:55cried. The Hebrew intention here is
10:59intense. It's not casual praying. It's
11:02not timid. It's not religious praying
11:04and simply going through the motions.
11:06The visual, if you will, is somebody
11:09grabbing hold that's drowning. They're
11:12grabbing hold of a life preserver. It's
11:15a deep, intense crying out to God from
11:20the depths. I would say that some of our
11:23prayers, mine included, sometimes are
11:26not as desperate or as intense as they
11:29could have been for one reason or
11:31another. Sometimes our prayer are well
11:33Lord if you've got the time
11:36Lord like that father prayed for his son
11:39if you can do anything.
11:43Psalm 130 though is a much different
11:45prayer. Psalm 130 is a different cry.
11:48And as believers we got to learn to
11:50trust God to cry out in times whenever
11:53we're in the depths. Whenever Psalm 130
11:57is written, the psalmist is saying,
11:59"God, I NEED YOU RIGHT NOW." IT'S a
12:03desperate cry. It is a desperate faith.
12:07It is an earnest prayer. And I want to
12:10remind the church something I've been
12:11feeling in my spirit for a little while
12:13now is that God responds to earnest
12:17seekers. The scripture tells us in the
12:20New Testament that the effectual fervent
12:23prayer, somebody say fervent prayer, the
12:26effectual fervent prayer, the Greek
12:29there is energ. Yeah, that's right.
12:31Sounds like energy because that's where
12:33we get our word energy from. Energio in
12:36the Greek, it's fervent prayer. It is a
12:39prayer that cries. It is a prayer that's
12:42intense. It's a prayer that comes up
12:45from the depths. IT'S GOT VOLUME with it
12:47if you will. It's got desperation if you
12:50will. In fact, the Lord spoke through
12:52the prophet Jeremiah and said, "You
12:55shall seek me and find me when you
12:58search FOR ME WITH ALL [screaming] YOUR
13:02HEART." I believe the scripture is clear
13:05to us that God is not interested in
13:07half-hearted praise. He's not interested
13:10in half-hearted prayers. He is not
13:12interested in half-hearted faith. It's
13:14all in or nothing. IT IS ALL CRY. IT'S
13:17ALL DESPERATION. That's what gets God's
13:20attention. When somebody CAN CRY FROM
13:23THE DEPTHS and say, "I'm hurting and I'm
13:25broken and I need you right now. I
13:29cannot wait another moment. I can't wait
13:31another day. I'm going to press my way
13:33through. I don't care the stairs of the
13:36people. I don't care who GETS IN MY WAY.
13:38I NEED YOU RIGHT NOW. I'M TALKING ABOUT
13:41A FERVENT PRAYER. HALLELUJAH.
13:45>> Romans 8 tells us when you're FILLED
13:47WITH THE HOLY Ghost that EVEN THE HOLY
13:49SPIRIT intercedes with groanings
13:54which cannot even be uttered in our
13:56languages that we know all of our
13:58vocabulary and words. When you've got
14:00the Holy Ghost, there's something that
14:03wells up within you when there's pain,
14:05when there's problems and depths that
14:07you're in and you don't even have the
14:09words. You don't even know what to say.
14:11BUT OH [screaming]
14:13GOD.
14:15Oh
14:18God. I know it may annoy some people. I
14:20know they they may say, "Come on, just
14:22calm down a little bit. Quiet down a
14:24little bit." But there's something about
14:26a a Barnameus cry THAT SAYS, "LORD,
14:30THOU SON OF DAVID, have mercy upon me."
14:33There's something that gets God's ears.
14:35I can't explain it. I can't really
14:37define it for you. I don't understand it
14:39all myself, but there's something ABOUT
14:41THE HEART OF GOD THAT GETS PULLED
14:43whenever he HEARS A CHILD [screaming]
14:46GROWN. And the Bible says even when you
14:48don't know the words and you can't even
14:50pray in particular the way that you want
14:52to pray, let the Holy Ghost come up
14:54THROUGH YOU. DON'T YOU LET THAT HOLY
14:56GHOST be wasted on the inside of you.
14:59Come on, you hear me? DON'T YOU LET THE
15:00HOLY GHOST JUST BE FOR PRAYING in
15:02tongues IN THE ALTAR. THERE OUGHT TO BE
15:04SOMETHING INSIDE OF YOU THAT LETS THE
15:05HOLY GHOST DO SOME OF the work.
15:08I SAID, "LET THE HOLY GHOST DO SOME OF
15:10THE WORK. YOU DON'T HAVE TO CARRY THAT
15:11BURDEN ALL YOURSELF." THAT'S WHAT THE
15:13HOLY GHOST IS THERE FOR. AND SOMETIMES
15:15YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY. YOU DON'T
15:16KNOW WHAT TO DO OR HOW TO EXPRESS IT.
15:18BUT THE
15:23>> Oh yeah. Some of us are too timid. We're
15:25too quiet. We're too shallow with our
15:27prayers and for whatever reason,
15:29intimidation, doubt, fear, or apathy.
15:32But we got to let something out. We got
15:34to let it come from the depths. We got
15:36to just let everything go. We got to
15:38break down every fear. We just got to
15:40break through our own flesh and mindset
15:42sometimes THAT TELLS OURSEL TO KEEP
15:44QUIET. THAT TELLS OURSELF THAT GOD
15:46DOESN'T CARE. BUT SOMETHING FROM THE
15:48WITHIN US HAS GOT TO CRY OUT FROM THE
15:51DEPTHS.
15:56>> God responds to earnest prayers.
16:02Jesus God manifested in the flesh
16:06ON FULL DISPLAY. YOU watch when people
16:09cried out in desperation to him. He
16:11didn't pass them by.
16:13>> He didn't pass. Even when he came to the
16:15children of Israel only, he said, "I've
16:17just come for the children of Israel.
16:18That's who I've come for." And this
16:20little woman, this little woman says,
16:21"I'm not part of the children of Israel.
16:23I know I'm an outsider." He said, "It's
16:25not meat for the master to cast the
16:26bread to the dogs. That's just not how
16:28it's done around here." But she kept
16:30pressing. Oh. Oh, she got a hold of
16:33something of God's heart. She got a hold
16:35of something of God's heart that even
16:36those children of Israel didn't
16:38understand. They were too prideful. They
16:40thought they had it all together to cry
16:41out. But this woman said, "Even the dogs
16:44eat from the crumbs. I don't care what
16:45you got to throw me, but throw me
16:46something. Throw me a bone. Throw me a
16:48crumb. I'll take anything." But she
16:50didn't let Jesus's words and the staires
16:52of the disciples and anybody else just
16:54because she wasn't from the right tribe
16:56and she didn't have the right people
16:57around her. She didn't let anybody stop
16:59her, but she cried OUT AND SHE SAID,
17:01"OH, EVEN THE DOGS EAT FROM THE THE
17:04CRUMBS THAT FALL FROM THE MASTER'S
17:06TABLE." AND Jesus said, "I've never seen
17:08such great faith in all of Israel. I've
17:10never seen somebody that believes so
17:12much. I've never seen SOMEBODY THAT'S SO
17:15DESPERATE that they won't give up that
17:16says, "I don't even need the whole loaf.
17:18I don't even need you to give me the
17:19full miracle. I'll just take a little
17:21bit of WHATEVER YOU GOT. I'LL TAKE a
17:23little crumb, a little touch. THAT'S A
17:25LITTLE DAB WILL DO ME. THAT'S ALL I
17:27NEED. A LITTLE OIL IN MY LIFE IS ALL I
17:29NEED FROM YOU. AND IF YOU'LL DO THAT,
17:31THAT'LL BE ENOUGH FOR MY MIRACLE.
17:34[cheering]
17:37>> Oh yeah. God responds to earnest
17:40prayers. Earnest prayers. New life.
17:42God's going to respond to earnest
17:43prayers. Come on. Not this play cake,
17:46this patty cake and play around little
17:49prayers just because we think we got
17:51some market on God because we're
17:52apostolic Pentecostal. He He responds to
17:55desperate prayers. I don't care what the
17:56label is over your church or what the
17:58title is or your pedigree or background
18:00or how much money you got in the bank.
18:02God doesn't respond to that, but he does
18:04respond to faith. He that cometh to God
18:06must believe that he is and that he's A
18:08REWARDER OF THEM THAT diligently seek
18:12him diligent. I'm after him. I'm after
18:14him. I can't stop today. I DIDN'T GET IT
18:17YESTERDAY, but I'm not going to stop
18:19today and I'M NOT GOING TO STOP
18:20TOMORROW. I'M GOING to keep coming. I'm
18:22going to keep knocking. I'm going to
18:23keep asking. I'm going to keep SEEKING
18:25CUZ I KNOW MY father loves me. I know
18:27that he's for me. I DON'T UNDERSTAND HIS
18:29TIMING. HE'S FOUR DAYS LATE AND HADN'T
18:31SHOWN UP YET, BUT I'M GOING TO CRY OUT
18:33ANYHOW CUZ I KNOW THAT ONCE HE GETS
18:35HERE, if he'll just give me A WORD, IF
18:37HE'LL JUST TOUCH ME, THEN WHATEVER FEARS
18:40WILL BE SUBSIDED BY THE LOVE THAT HE HAS
18:43FOR ME AND WHATEVER DOUBTS WILL HAVE TO
18:45GO AWAY CUZ HIS WORD WILL NOT RETURN
18:48VOID. IT WILL ACCOMPLISH UH WHAT HE SENT
18:51IT FOR TO DO. [cheering]
18:54HALLELUJAH.
18:55>> So I got to cry out. Somebody say cry
18:57out.
18:59>> Cry out from the depths.
19:02Cry out from the depths.
19:05Difference between saying prayers and
19:08crying unto God. Hannah came to that
19:11entrance of the tabernacle and 1st
19:13Samuel 1 says Hannah was in deep anguish
19:18crying bitterly. That's what the
19:19scripture says. That's what the Bible
19:21says. crying bitterly as she prayed to
19:23the Lord. That priest, Eli, came along
19:27and thought she was drunk and was going
19:29to rebuke her for being drunk. You know
19:31why I think he thought she was drunk? Is
19:32because his two sons, worldly, ungodly
19:35sons, have been bringing women to the
19:37temple or to the tabernacle. And they
19:39had probably been bringing drunk women.
19:40They had probably been bringing some
19:42flucy looseies. They probably been
19:43bringing those type of women around.
19:46That's right. That's a contemporary
19:47term. That's not an old term. [snorts]
19:50bringing about those women in front. And
19:52when Eli saw that, he probably thought
19:54she's just another woman, just like my
19:56my my sons, my ignorant sons been
19:58bringing around. That's probably just
19:59what who that is. Came over to rebuke
20:01her from being at the tabernacle drunk.
20:03And whenever he did, oh, I I just
20:05envisioned whenever Hannah looked up
20:08with swollen eyes from the tears she'd
20:10been crying and the trembling lips that
20:12something was within her, [laughter]
20:14that something in that man of God struck
20:16him and said, "You know what? There's
20:18something real and authentic here. There
20:20is something here that that that I've
20:22not seen in Israel for a long time.
20:24There's a desperate cry here of faith.
20:26Something triggered in that man of God.
20:28And a prophetic word came up out of him
20:30because of a woman that was willing to
20:32be desperate for God and [laughter] not
20:35give up and come to the door and say,
20:36"God, I don't understand why I haven't
20:38seen it yet. And I don't know why I
20:40haven't got a child yet. And I've got
20:41this other woman that's looking at me
20:43and despising me and picking on me. I
20:46don't get it why I'm the one that's
20:47barren and here I am trying to seek you.
20:49But if you'll bless me, if you'll give
20:51me a child, I'll dedicate it to you all
20:53the days of his life. But Lord, I got to
20:55have a child. And something within that
20:57man of God saw that desperate woman and
21:00said, "I've seen a look like that
21:01before. I've heard a prayer like that
21:03before." And he thought, "If I ever know
21:05something about God, it's that God will
21:06answer a prayer like that." And that
21:08prophet, he raised up and he spoke to
21:10her and said, "GOD, LET GOD DO IT for
21:12you. God's going to bless you. God's
21:14going to do it for you. And the Lord
21:16remembered her cry. The Lord remembered
21:19that. There's some things, oh God, help
21:21us, that gets stuck in God's memory that
21:23can't get out. Whenever you've been
21:25crying and you've been praying and
21:26you've been SEEKING AFTER GOD, SOMETIMES
21:28THERE'S THINGS THAT GET STUCK IN GOD'S
21:29MIND AND HE SAYS, "I CAN'T FORGET MY
21:32CHILD. I REMEMBER how they cried. I
21:34remember how they believed me when
21:35everything WAS AGAINST THEM. I REMEMBER
21:37when they WERE THEY WERE IN THE DEPTHS
21:39OF DESPAIR AND YET THEY CRIED OUT TO ME.
21:41THE BIBLE SAYS GOD REMEMBERED HER. HE
21:43TURNED around and SAID, "I GOT TO DO
21:45something for Hannah. I got to give her
21:46A CHILD." CUZ THAT GIRL WASN'T WILLING
21:49TO GIVE UP on me. And that woman WAS
21:51WILLING TO CRY AND pray and look foolish
21:53CUZ THERE WAS A DESPERATE CRY. I KNOW
21:54IT'S LOUD ON A WEDNESDAY NIGHT. I KNOW
21:57IT IS. BUT I'M TRYING TO STIR the church
21:58up WITH FAITH TO LET YOU KNOW THAT AN
22:01EARNEST prayer and a fervent PRAYER AND
22:03A DEEP ANGUISH AND A CRY WILL GET THE
22:06MASTER'S ATTENTION MORE THAN ANYTHING
22:08ELSE IN THIS WORLD. NOT THE WAY YOU
22:10DRESS, NOT THE CHURCH YOU GO TO, BUT
22:12SOMETHING THAT'S DEEP WITHIN THAT SAYS,
22:14"GOD [screaming]
22:17[cheering]
22:19I got to have you." You know what Jesus
22:22said? He said there was that unjust
22:24judge, a wicked judge. He didn't do what
22:26was right. And that woman came bothering
22:28him, said, "Please avenge me of my
22:29enemy. Please avenge me of my every
22:31day." He kept bothering that judge. And
22:33that judge wouldn't give her anything
22:35any time of day. But she he said that
22:37woman just kept coming to that unjust
22:39judge and said, "Hey, I need you to
22:41avenge me of my enemy. I need you to do
22:43something. I need you to do something
22:45right for once in your life, judge. I
22:47need you to do something right." And he
22:48just kept coming back. She just kept
22:50coming back. She just kept coming back
22:52until Jesus said that unjust Jed said,
22:54"I'm tired of this woman. I'm just going
22:56to give her what she wants. I'm just
22:58going to go ahead and do it for her."
22:59And he said, "How much more?"
23:03He didn't say, "I'll do it equal as the
23:05unjust judge." He didn't say, "I'll just
23:07do it just enough." He said, "How much
23:10more will YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER GIVE THE
23:13HOLY Spirit to them that ask him?" To
23:15those that are important to those that
23:18are desperate, TO THOSE THAT SAY, "I
23:19WILL NOT GIVE UP AND I WILL NOT DIE IN
23:22THIS DILEMMA AND I WILL NOT LET IT GO
23:24UNTIL YOU BLESS ME." JESUS SAID, "HOW
23:28MUCH MORE WILL YOU GET the father's
23:30attention?
23:33Oh God, I feel a prophetic spirit on me
23:36right now. But I'm here to prophesy to
23:38somebody and say that you're at the
23:40threshold right now of an answer to your
23:42prayer you've been praying for a long
23:44time. You're on a threshold right now of
23:46A MIRACLE THAT GOD IS ABOUT TO TURN THE
23:48CHAPTER IN YOUR LIFE AND OPEN. OH, I'm
23:50speaking in THE HOLY GHOST. HE'S about
23:51to open up a brand new door for you. And
23:53if the enemy can do anything, he'll try
23:55to GET YOU TO STOP at the threshold of
23:57your miracle. BUT IF YOU'LL SAY ONE MORE
23:59PRAYER, IF YOU'LL STEP IN ONE MORE
24:01PRAYER SERVICE, if you'll just walk ONE
24:03MORE DAY, IF YOU'LL BELIEVE GOD JUST ONE
24:05MORE MOMENT, IF YOU'LL JUST LIFT UP YOUR
24:07VOICE WITH ONE MORE DESPERATE CRY,
24:11something's about to happen. Something's
24:13about to get God's attention.
24:14SOMETHING'S ABOUT TO TURN his ear and
24:16his heart to the face of his PEOPLE AND
24:18SAY, "I'M HERE. I'M WILLING. I'M GOING
24:20TO ANSWER." DON'T YOU GIVE UP IN THIS
24:23DON'T YOU GIVE UP IN THIS FIGHT. DON'T
24:25GROW WEARY AND WELLOING FOR IN DUE
24:27SEASON IN DUE SEASON YOU'RE GOING TO
24:30REAP UH IF YOU FAKE not
24:34[cheering and applause]
24:39[cheering]
24:41>> I wish you'd just open up your mouth for
24:42a moment right now. I wish you'd just go
24:45ahead and begin to cry OUT TO GOD. I
24:47wish you'd just go ahead and bless his
24:48name right now.
24:55>> [cheering]
24:58[laughter]
25:00[cheering]
25:05>> Oh God. Oh God.
25:10OH GOD. AND HOW MUCH MORE WILL GOD NOT
25:13JUST do it FOR YOU, BUT HE'LL DO IT FOR
25:14SOMEBODY YOU'RE CRYING OUT FOR? HOW MUCH
25:16MORE WILL HE DO IT FOR a son and a
25:19daughter and a [laughter] brother and a
25:21sister whenever you begin to intercede
25:23AND SAY, "GOD, IT AIN'T ABOUT ME
25:24ANYMORE. IT AIN'T ABOUT YOU COMING AND
25:26ANSWERING ALL OF MY PRAYERS. UH I KNOW
25:28YOU GOT THAT IN YOUR HANDS, but I'm
25:30coming to you for a brother. I'm coming
25:32to you for a sister. I'm coming to you
25:34for my community. I'm coming to you FOR
25:36A NEIGHBOR. HOW MUCH MORE WOULD GOD STEP
25:38IN ON TIME? UH FOR SOMEBODY THAT WILL
25:40INTERCEDE THAT'LL GET THE HEART OF GOD
25:43AND SAY, "IT AIN'T ABOUT ME. IT'S ABOUT
25:46YOU.
25:52>> Lift your eyes. Come on. Jesus said,
25:53"Lift your eyes. Lift your eyes.
25:55[laughter]
25:56Look at the harvest field." Lift your
25:57eyes, new life, and lift your eye. Lift
25:59your eyes and look at the harvest field
26:01and begin to cry out for the harvest.
26:03Begin to cry out for laborers. Begin to
26:05see the people like God sees them as
26:07sheep having no shepherd. Begin to look
26:09at people that are hurting and drowning.
26:11And lift your eyes and look beyond your
26:14own issue. Look beyond your own problem.
26:16Look at the interest of others. Look at
26:18the needs of others. And you begin to
26:20lift your voice for that. I promise you,
26:22faith will begin to arise in you and
26:24say, "You know what? I do believe God is
26:26about to work a miracle. I DO BELIEVE
26:28GOD'S ABOUT TO DO SOMETHING. I DO
26:30BELIEVE HE'S done it before. HE'LL DO IT
26:32AGAIN. HE'S THE SAME YESTERDAY, TODAY,
26:34and forever. It's okay to keep God to
26:37his promises." I said it's OKAY TO KEEP
26:40GOD ACCORDING TO HIS PROMISES. YOU QUOTE
26:43THE WORD AND REMIND HIM OF WHAT HE SAID.
26:45YOU QUOTE THE WORD AND SAY, "I TRUST
26:47YOU. I BELIEVE YOU. I SPEAK IT INTO THE
26:49ATMOSPHERE. I WON'T LET IT go
26:53till you bless mel.
27:00Oh, I wish you lift your hands right now
27:02all over this place.
27:10>> [laughter]
27:14[gasps]
27:15>> Desperate, desperate, desperate. Out of
27:18the depths, I cried out of my deep, dark
27:22dungeon. I cried [laughter]
27:24out of my pity. I've cried out of my
27:27pain. I got to cry out of my emotions
27:30that are out of whack. I got to cry. I
27:32got to lift my voice. I got to shout. I
27:35got to get some volume in my soul, in my
27:37spirit, cuz the DEVIL'S BEEN TALKING IN
27:40MY EAR. I CAN'T listen to his lies
27:42anymore. I can't listen to this
27:44deception anymore. I got to lift my
27:46voice of faith. I got to lift my voice
27:48of faith.
27:50CUZ IF GOD IS FOR ME, WHO can't be
27:54against me?
28:00Oh
28:01God,
28:11[laughter]
28:14[screaming]
28:15God.
28:17Come on. That's it. Where the mourers
28:18at? Where those that are willing to wait
28:21on God at? Where are those willing to
28:23show and teach other people around you?
28:25This is how we pray. This is how we moan
28:28in the spirit. Uh this is how we believe
28:30God in the depths of despair. THIS IS
28:33HOW WE CRY OUT, BABY, WHEN EVERYTHING
28:35ELSE IS FIGHTING AGAINST US. AND WE GOT
28:37TO CRY OUT FROM THE DEPTHS. THIS IS HOW
28:39WE DO IT. I REMEMBER HEARING
28:40GRANDMOTHERS PRAY LIKE THAT. I remember
28:43hearing dads and grandpas PRAY LIKE
28:44THAT. I REMEMBER HEARING THOSE OLD
28:46SAINTS OF GOD CRY OUT
28:50and just wellow UP FROM THEIR SOUL AND
28:53CRY OUT, "WHERE ARE THE CRIERS? WHERE
28:56ARE THE DESPERATE PRAYERS?
28:59[cheering]
29:02[snorts] Come on. Your strength is in
29:04his presence. Come on. I hear you now. I
29:06know. I've been there. I've been weak.
29:08I've been tired. I've been worn out.
29:10Didn't want to get up. Didn't want to go
29:11to throw the covers off, but your
29:13strength is found in his presence. Your
29:15strength is found in his presence. Cuz
29:18in his presence, there's joy. At his
29:20right hand are pleasures forever more.
29:23If I can get into his presence, UH MY
29:25BODY MAY BE TIRED. MY MIND MAY BE WORN
29:28OUT. UH but his SPIRIT WILL REVIVE ME.
29:31HIS spirit will give me strength for
29:33this journey. HIS SPIRIT IS MY HELP. HIS
29:37SPIRIT IS MY DEFENSE. HIS SPIRIT
29:40[screaming]
29:41IS MY INTERCESSOR right now.
29:46Oh God.
29:49Come on. That's why they sang shut in
29:51with God [laughter] in a secret placeh.
29:54I get shut in with God just me and him
29:57and something changes. Something gets
29:59worked out. I got to wrestle with him
30:02sometimes. Sometimes I got to get a hold
30:04OF HIM AND WORK THROUGH MY emotions and
30:06work through who I am and work through
30:08my sin and [snorts] all of the my
30:09unbelief. I got to work through those
30:11things and wrestle with him. But one
30:12thing I know is he's not going to let me
30:14go. ONE THING I KNOW IS THAT AS THE
30:17PSALMIST SAID, forgiveness is with him.
30:19UH IF I'VE FALLEN, IF I'VE MADE
30:22MISTAKES, if I've not done everything
30:24right, I can lean on the everlasting
30:27arms of God, I CAN FIND MERCY NEW every
30:30morning because his compassions fail
30:32not. If I don't GET MY WORDS RIGHT, IF I
30:35DON'T GET MY ACTIONS RIGHT, IF I DON'T
30:37EVEN LIVE RIGHT, BUT I GET INTO HIS
30:39PRESENCE in a humble state, I can rely
30:42on the mercy of Jesus.
30:48[sighs]
30:49Your life doesn't have to be perfect and
30:50your prayers don't have to be perfect.
30:52You just got to have some faith.
30:54Got to have some faith. A little grain
30:56of mustard seed faith. Just a little bit
30:58of faith that says, "God, I'm not giving
31:00up. Young people can do it. old people
31:02can do it and everybody in between can
31:04do it. It doesn't matter. All you got to
31:06have is a little bit of faith.
31:07[laughter]
31:14[laughter]
31:16Oh, let's just wait on the Lord just a
31:18moment. He's here right now. Just wait
31:21on the Lord right now. He's in this
31:23room.
31:25[gasps]
31:26Oh.
31:28[snorts]
31:29Oh Lord.
31:33>> [sighs]
31:36[laughter]
31:43>> Oh Jesus.
31:49Oh Jesus. Oh Jesus.
31:53[snorts]
31:54Oh.
31:56If thou Lord should have marked
31:57iniquities, oh Lord, who would stand?
31:59Who would even stand if you were to just
32:00hold us to the sins that we have? Thank
32:03God he doesn't deal with us according to
32:04our sins. There's marvelous forgiveness
32:07because he said, "But there is
32:08forgiveness with thee that thou mayest
32:09be feared. That thou mayest be feared.
32:13His goodness leads me to repentance."
32:15That's that's that's the that's the
32:18that's the struggle right there in that
32:19verse right there. But his forgiveness
32:21leads me to fear him. I don't want to go
32:23back into sin. I don't want to go back
32:24and do the things that I [snorts] used
32:26to do because whenever he forgives me, I
32:28I honor him now. I love him too much.
32:31How could I do that against somebody
32:33who's been so good to me, somebody who
32:35has forgiven me? That's the fear of the
32:36Lord. The fear of the Lord isn't some
32:38dread that comes upon you. It's not some
32:40terror, but it's whenever you see the
32:42goodness of God, the mercy of God on
32:43your life, and suddenly you're like,
32:45"Lord, you've been too good to me. How
32:47could I I don't want to do that. I don't
32:48want to participate in that anymore. I
32:50don't want to drink that anymore, go
32:51there anymore. I don't want to do that
32:53anymore because you're you've been so
32:55good to me. And and the psalmist says, I
32:57I wait for the Lord. I wait for the
33:00Lord. My soul my soul doth wait. My soul
33:05doth wait. I I got to have this
33:07scripture. Could you throw up Zechariah
33:089:12? I know I'm not anywhere on my
33:10notes right now, but my soul wait for
33:12the Lord. In his word do I hope. Can you
33:15throw up uh Zechariah chapter 9 and
33:18verse 12 for me, please? One of my
33:19verses here tonight of Zechariah chapter
33:219 and verse 12.
33:25Turn you to the stronghold.
33:28Oh, I love this phrase, you prisoners of
33:32hope.
33:35I've had things keep me in prison
33:37before.
33:38I've been a prisoner of fear. I've been
33:41a prisoner of pride. I've been a
33:43prisoner of lust. But let me tell you
33:44what Jesus did for me. He turned me to a
33:47prisoner of hope.
33:51I may not be exactly where I want to be
33:53in my life right now like the children
33:54of Israel having to live in Babylon
33:56captivity for 70 years didn't want to be
33:58there. But he said, "Listen, you
34:00prisoners of hope." He said, "You got to
34:01turn to the stronghold. You got to keep
34:04hope in me whenever your surroundings
34:05isn't exactly the way that you want it
34:07to be and the way that you want it to
34:09look. And although you're not in life
34:10where you'd like to be in life, you got
34:12to call yourself a prisoner of hope cuz
34:14I'm with you. You got to keep on
34:15believing in my word. It's going to come
34:17to pass. It may take some time, but you
34:19keep on hoping. You're a prisoner of
34:21hope. Even today, the Lord said to his
34:23people, "Then I will render double unto
34:27thee." God always outdoes himself. He
34:30always does more than our minds could
34:32even imagine. He does more than our
34:35mouths can even ask for. He does more
34:37than we could have ever dreamt if we'll
34:39just keep holding on to hope as an
34:42anchor of the soul. And the New
34:44Testament tells us that this hope of God
34:46doesn't make us ashamed. No, it does not
34:48make us ashamed because the hope turns
34:50into a reality. As we trust in God, we
34:53begin to see him making a way where
34:55there was no way. We begin to see him
34:57opening up doors that once were shut. We
34:59begin to see him working IN LIVES THAT
35:01WE THOUGHT WERE bitter and disappointed
35:03could never turn. But God begins to work
35:05on them. When you become a prisoner of
35:07hope, you begin to look like the angels
35:09in Isaiah did. when they look all around
35:11and say, "The whole earth is full of the
35:13glory of God." Everywhere I look, it's
35:15the glory OF GOD. AND GOD IS GOING TO
35:17GET the glory out of this. I don't care
35:18what the nations do. I don't care what
35:20the government does. I don't care what
35:22my next door neighbor is all about. But
35:24God's going to get the glory out of all
35:26of this. Come on, church. We either
35:28believe it or we don't believe it. But
35:30at the end of the day, GOD'S GOING TO
35:31get the glory out of all of this. He is
35:33working everything together for the good
35:35to those that love him and are called
35:37according to his purpose. You got to be
35:39a prisoner of hope. You say, "Chain me
35:41to the altar. KEEP ME TO THE BIBLE. KEEP
35:44ME TO THE WORD. I'M NOT LETTING IT GO.
35:46I'M A prisoner
35:49>> of hope.
35:51I refuse to be a prisoner to my
35:53addiction anymore. I refuse to be a
35:54prisoner to pride and fear anymore. I
35:57refuse to be a prisoner to the things of
35:59my past. I'm a prisoner of hope now. I
36:01am chained to a hope that will not let
36:03me go. I am chained to a confident word
36:05that says he is coming back for his
36:07bride. He's coming back for his church.
36:09I'm chained. I'm chained to a hope that
36:12he said, "I go to prepare a place for
36:13you that where I am, you may be also."
36:16I'm chained to that hope that says, "No
36:18weapon formed against me is going to
36:19prosper." I'm chained to that hope. I am
36:21chained to a hope that says, "The
36:22weapons of our warfare are not carnal,
36:24but they're mighty through God to the
36:26pulling down of every strong." I'm
36:27chained to that hope. I'm chained to the
36:29HOPE THAT SAYS, "THE JOY of the Lord IS
36:32MY STRENGTH." OH YEAH. I'M CHAINED TO
36:34THAT HOPE. I'M CHAINED TO A HOPE THAT
36:35SAYS HE'S THE SAME YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND
36:38FOREVER. I'm chained to that hope. I'm
36:40chained to the HOPE THAT SAYS MY GOD IS
36:42FOR ME UH AND NOT AGAINST ME. THAT I'M
36:44THE HEAD. I'M NOT THE T I'M CHAINED TO
36:47THAT KIND OF HOPE.
36:49Come on. Get yourself Get yourself
36:52chained to a hope. Get yourself a
36:54prisoner to the word and say, "God is
36:57going to keep me." That's why Paul and
36:58Silas said, "You can build whatever
37:01prison you want to. You can put whatever
37:03doors you want to put whatever chains
37:05you want us to be in. Uh but that's not
37:07we're held to. We're held to hope. And
37:10that hope opened up every door. That
37:12hope set every prisoner free. That hope
37:14loosed every chain. It was that hope
37:16that couldn't stop them FROM SINGING.
37:18THEY JUST KEPT on singing because they
37:20had hope. They just kept on praying
37:22because they had hope. Uh locked up,
37:24beaten, SORE, AND BRUISED. BUT THEY HAD
37:27HOPE. AND THAT HOPE LED THEM OUT OF
37:29THEIR PRISON. OH, IS ANYBODY GETTING THE
37:30WORD TONIGHT? THAT GOD IS ABOUT TO LEAD
37:33YOU OUT. GOD IS ABOUT TO TURN IT FOR
37:36GOOD AND GOD IS ABOUT TO ANSWER IT, BUT
37:39YOU CAN'T LET GO. YOU GOT TO HOLD ON TO
37:41HIS WORD. YOU GOT TO HOLD ON TO HIS
37:43UNCHANGING HAND. [cheering]
37:47HEY,
37:48HOLD ON TO GOD. UH GROAN IF YOU GOT TO
37:51GROAN. PRAY IF YOU GOT TO PRAY. SHOUT
37:54AND CRY IF YOU GOT TO SHOUT AND CRY. BUT
37:57HOLD ON TO THE WORD. [screaming]
38:00I'M HOLDING ON TO THE WORD. I AM THE GOD
38:03THAT HEALTH THEE. UH I AM THE GOD THAT
38:05HEALTH THEE. I AM THE GOD THAT FORGIVES
38:08YOU ALL OF YOUR SINS. HOLD ON TO THE
38:10WORD.
38:14>> Comforts the comfortless. Gives peace to
38:17the peaceless. Give strength to THE
38:19WEAK. HOLD ON TO THE WORD.
38:23Hold on to the word.
38:26Oh God. Oh God. Go God. [laughter] Come
38:31on. Pastors are going to change. Brother
38:33Romeg, you know that. You sat under
38:34enough of them here. Brother Cummings,
38:36you know that. You sat under a few of
38:37them here. Pastors may change. Buildings
38:40may change. People may change. God never
38:42changes. I said God never ch. I'm only
38:45speaking until every devil in hell gets
38:47off your back and stop lies to you
38:49tonight in the name of Jesus. God never
38:51changes. He's the same. HE LOVED BACK
38:54THEN. HE'S STILL loving now. HE CREATED
38:56BACK THEN. HE'S STILL creating now. HE
38:59DID MIRACLES BACK THEN. HE'S STILL DOING
39:01MIRACLES NOW. GOD
39:03cannot change.
39:06>> I'm the same. Oh, he's the same. Stand
39:09with me. Lift your hands all over this
39:11place. I'm done. If you will right now,
39:12come on. Just lift your hands all over
39:14this place. I don't know where you're
39:15at. I don't know what season of life
39:17you're in right now, but I feel the Holy
39:19Ghost with a promise, with a word of
39:21hope to somebody. Don't give up now.
39:23Come on, Israel. Come on, new life. Wait
39:25on the Lord. Trust in the Lord. Cry out
39:27from the depths of your soul. Cry out
39:29from the depths that you're in. GOD WILL
39:31NOT ignore you. God will not leave you.
39:34GOD IS IS IN LOVE WITH HIS PEOPLE. CRY
39:37OUT AND HOLD on you prisoners.
39:40Prisoners of hope. Come on. That's it.
39:43Lift your hands all over this place
39:44right now in the name of Jesus. I curse
39:47and bind every lie of the enemy that's
39:48deceived your people
39:52in the name of Jesus right now. Lord,
39:55your spirit of truth is in this house
39:57right now. Let your spirit of truth set
39:59every person free. Let every let it set
40:01every person free right now in Jesus
40:03name. Uh you shall know the truth and
40:05the truth shall make you free in the
40:07name of Jesus. If you want even a little
40:10part of God, if you just need a crumb
40:12from the master's table. If you need
40:13anything from Jesus tonight, this altar
40:16is open for you right now. This place is
40:18open for you on a Wednesday night Bible
40:20study. This altar is open for you. If
40:24you got to cry out, lay out, if you got
40:26to weep, if you got to just lift your
40:28voice, whatever you got to do, but this
40:30altar is open for anybody that has
40:32anything that you can't do on your own
40:35and you need God to fix. You need God to
40:38do an answer, this altar is open for you
40:40right now. I don't know how he's going
40:42to fix it. I don't know how he's going
40:43to do it. He's God. He works the
40:46miracles. It's his world. It's his time.
40:48We're his people. But I know that he
40:50will. I know that he will. And I know he
40:53can and I know he's about to do it for
40:55your life. If you want him, if you need
40:56the Holy Ghost tonight, if you need a
40:58renewing of the spirit, come up to the
41:00front of this place right now and say,
41:02"Jesus, fill me with that precious
41:04[music] Holy Ghost. Fill me up with that
41:06precious Holy Ghost. FILL ME UP WITH my
41:09spirit tonight, Lord, so that I'm never
41:12the same again." Come on. You got a son,
41:14you got a brother, you got a sister that
41:16YOU'RE PRAYING FOR, YOU GOT A COWORKER
41:18YOU'RE PRAYING FOR. Come on, bring their
41:20name up to this altar. bring their needs
41:22up to this altar right now. Cry out for
41:25them. If you don't want to cry OUT FOR
41:27YOURSELF, CRY OUT FOR THOSE that you're
41:29leading and those that you're
41:30ministering to. Cry out for them
41:32tonight. Let the Holy Ghost pray through
41:34you, sis. LET THE HOLY GHOST PRAY
41:37THROUGH YOU, MY BROTHER. LET IT CRY OUT
41:39FROM THE DEPTHS OF YOUR SOUL.
41:43Come on. Surely God is in this place
41:45right now. Come on. He's in this place
41:48right now. He responds to fervent
41:50prayers. He responds to desperate
41:52prayers. [music]
41:52He responds to people that won't give
41:54up. Uh he responds to somebody that'll
41:57believe him even when it's dark outside.
41:59Even when you can't see the light, he
42:01responds to people that'll just keep
42:03trusting him. People that'll keep
42:05believing in him. Uh people that'll keep
42:07loving him in spite of it all. Cuz he
42:10said when the son of man comes back on
42:12the earth, is he going to FIND FAITH? IS
42:15HE GOING TO FIND SOMEBODY BELIEVING? IS
42:17HE GOING TO FIND SOMEBODY ASKING AND
42:19KNOCKING? LET IT BE US TONIGHT, oh Lord.
42:22Let it be us tonight, oh God. We're
42:24going to keep praying in the name of
42:26Jesus. Come on, that's it. Lift your
42:28voice. Wherever you're at right now,
42:30young or old, uh, black or white, rich
42:32or poor, lift your voice right now in
42:34the name of Jesus. Find your place
42:36[music] of prayer. Find your altar right
42:39now. Find your altar. Find your altar
42:42and don't be cute with it. Find your
42:44altar and be desperate WITH IT. FIND
42:46YOUR ALTAR AND GET IN HIS presence and
42:48let his presence wash over you.
42:56Oh,
42:57I may be weary, [music] but you're my
42:59strength. Oh, yes, God. You're my
43:03strength, oh Lord. I may be tired, but
43:06you're my strength. You're my rest.
43:08You're my peace, Lord. I may be confused
43:11right now, but you're the author of
43:13peace. So [music] I receive peace right
43:15now.
43:20Yes Jesus.
43:24>> Oh yes, Jesus.
43:30Your joy will be my strength. Your joy
43:34[singing and music] will be my song. I
43:38see it breaking [singing]
43:41on the horizon.
43:45The dark of night giving way to the
43:49dawn.
43:52The [music] day is coming
43:56and hope is rising.
44:00Your joy will be my strength. Your joy
44:05will be my song. I see it breaking
44:11on [music and singing] the horizon.
44:15The dark of night giving [music] way to
44:19the dawn.
44:23The day [singing] is coming
44:26and hope is rising. [singing]
44:30Your [music] joy will be my strength.
44:33[singing]
44:34Your joy will be my [music] song. I see
44:39it [singing] raing
44:41on [music] the horizon.
44:45The [singing] dark of night, giving way
44:49[music] to the dawn.
44:53The day is [music and singing] coming
44:57and hope is rising.
45:00Your [music] joy will be my strength.
45:04Your joy will be my [music] song.
45:07[singing]
45:08I see it breaking
45:12on the horizon. [singing]
45:15The [music] dark of night giving
45:18[singing] way to the dark.
45:23The day is [singing] coming
45:27and hope is rising.
45:31Your joy will be my strength. Your joy
45:35will be my [music] song.
45:43You are [music and singing] working all
45:45[screaming]
45:46things for my good.
45:51You [music] are working all things for
45:55[singing] my good
45:58when I cannot see it. God, I still
46:04believe it. You are working all
46:08[music and singing]
46:09things for my good.
46:13You are [singing and music] working all
46:16things for my good.
46:21You are working all things for [singing]
46:25my good.
46:28When I cannot see it, God, I still
46:34believe it. You are [music and singing]
46:37working all things for my good.
46:43You are working all things for [singing]
46:48my [music]
46:49good.
46:51You are working your things for my good
46:58when I [music and singing] cannot see
47:01it. God, I still believe it. You [music]
47:06are working all [singing] things for my
47:11[music] good.
47:16Running out. It's running after me.
47:23Your goodness is running after.
47:25[music and singing]
47:26It's running after me.
47:29With my life laid down, I surrender
47:31[music]
47:32[singing] now. I give you everything.
47:38Your goodness is running after.
47:40[music and singing]
47:41It's running after me.
47:45Your [singing and music] goodness is
47:47running after. It's running after me.
47:52>> Your goodness
47:54is running [music] after. It's running
47:57after
47:59[singing]
48:00my life. Thank God. [music] I surrender
48:03now. I give you [singing] everything.
48:06[music]
48:08>> Your goodness is running out. It's
48:12running after [singing]
48:14your goodness.
48:16>> Your goodness is running
48:18[music and singing] after. It's running
48:20after me.
48:24Your goodness is running after. [music]
48:27It's running after [singing]
48:28me. With my life [music] laid down, I
48:32surrender now. [singing] I give you
48:35everything.
48:39Your goodness [music and singing]
48:40is running out. It's running after me.
48:46Your goodness [music] is running out.
48:49It's running after me. [singing]
48:54Your goodness is [music] running out.
48:57It's running after me. With my life laid
49:01down, I [music and singing] surrender
49:03now. I give you everything.
49:08>> Hallelujah.
49:09>> Your [singing] goodness [music] is
49:10running out. It's running out to me.
49:15>> Oh yes, Lord.
49:17>> Hallelujah. Let's lift our hands and
49:18thank the Lord tonight. [music] Thank
49:20you for hearing us. Thank you for loving
49:22us, oh God, when we didn't even love
49:25ourselves. But I thank you, Lord, that
49:27you came seeking after us. The lost, the
49:30broken, the hurting, the confused. She
49:33came running after us. Thank you, Lord,
49:35for that type of love. Thank you, Lord.
49:38Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord.
49:46Hallelujah.
49:50Hallelujah.
49:52Hallelujah. [snorts]
49:55Hallelujah.
49:56I don't I don't want to make it I'm not
49:58going to make any apologies tonight
49:59being a Wednesday night and uh coming on
50:02hot and heavy and strong, but I felt in
50:05my spirit so much for the church lately
50:07where New Life St. Louis is where God's
50:09getting ready to take us that it's going
50:11to take a fervent prayer. It's going to
50:13take another gear. And and you know,
50:15when we hear things like that, we look
50:17at ourselves and we think, man, I I
50:18ain't got another gear. Like, I'm
50:19running everything right now. And uh
50:22I've been there. You've been there like
50:23that before. You're like, "My God, I'm
50:25giving it everything I got. I got
50:26nothing else left, Sister Lex. Like, I'm
50:28I'm in What gear is there? There's, you
50:30know what gear, Sister Loren, am I
50:32supposed to be getting into? There's
50:34another gear here." But you're not going
50:35to get there on your own. And you're not
50:37going to get there in the power of your
50:38flesh. It's not by might, not by power,
50:40but it's by this my spirit, sayeth the
50:42Lord. Belie, you've lived it. You've
50:44seen it. You know what it's like to take
50:46a church, take yourself to the next
50:48level. The way that you got to do that
50:49is complete reliance on God, complete
50:51trust in God. And this is the time that
50:53we can't let up off the gas. This is the
50:55time we got to lean in heavy because
50:57I'll tell you right now, you and I both
50:59know right now where we're at in this
51:01season, in this church, in this, not
51:03even just in our church. We're talking
51:05all over right now. The enemy is not
51:07[music] playing fair.
51:10>> He's not waiting for you to catch your
51:12breath. He's not waiting for you to
51:13finally get your good job and get your
51:15good paycheck and get in your good
51:16season. The devil doesn't care about any
51:18of that. All he looks to is to steal, to
51:20kill, and destroy. and that's all he's
51:22after. And so you can't wait around
51:24until you finally get everything settled
51:26the way that you want. You got to kick
51:27it into gear right now. You got to say,
51:29"God, it's late and I want to work while
51:32it's yet day cuz the night comes when no
51:34man can work. I got to step into it, but
51:36I can't do it by myself. I don't have
51:38enough energy, enough strength, enough
51:39wisdom on my own. So I'm leaning on to
51:42you." And what I feel the Holy Ghost
51:43preaching through me tonight, and here I
51:45go again, is to stir the church up right
51:47now with a fervent prayer, with a
51:49passionate prayer. Lean not to your own
51:52understanding, but in all of your ways
51:54acknowledge HIM AND HE SHALL direct your
51:59path.
52:02>> He shall direct your path.
52:06So whether you feel like you got it or
52:07you don't, God's got it for you.
52:10>> I say God's got it for you. Don't you
52:12let Oh, God, help me right now. Don't
52:14you let the naysayers talking about how
52:17this never worked out and that never
52:19worked out. Don't let get you down. Come
52:21on. You hear that negative talk at work
52:22going on about how bad the economy is,
52:25how bad everything is, that can get in
52:27your head, get in your mind. Don't you
52:29let you get that down. You remember and
52:30feast your eyes. Fix your eyes on Jesus.
52:33Fix your eyes on him. Say, you know
52:35what? My hope didn't lie in the economy
52:37anyway, so it doesn't matter what it
52:38does. My hope didn't lie in the
52:40president of the United States anyway. I
52:41don't care who it is. My hope,
52:47>> come on. Where's your hope lie? I'm a
52:49prisoner of hope that's bound in the
52:51word of God and only in the word of God.
52:53I'm going to do what I can, but I need
52:55his help. I need the Holy Ghost to help
52:56me get over myself and get through every
52:59mindset, everything that's been holding
53:00me back. Are you ready, church? I said,
53:02"ARE YOU READY? COME ON. GOD'S ABOUT TO
53:04TAKE US." WE'VE HEARD it prophesied over
53:06and over again. WE'RE NOT WAITING ON
53:08GOD. GOD'S WAITING ON US. I SAID, "GOD'S
53:11WAITING ON US." COME ON. WE'RE GOING TO
53:12KICK IT into gear. We're going to TAKE
53:14OUR PRAYER LIFE to the next gear. WE'RE
53:16GOING TO TAKE OUR FASTING to the next
53:17gear. WE'RE GOING TO TAKE OUR FAITH to
53:19the next gear. I don't know how we're
53:21GOING TO DO IT BY OURSEL, BUT WE'RE
53:22GOING TO TRUST GOD TO WORK THE MIRACLE.
53:26>> God to work the miracle. If you believe
53:28it, raise your hand right now. Lord, I
53:30pray for a supernatural gift of faith. I
53:33release it right now in the name of
53:35Jesus.
53:37I take authority over every spirit of
53:39doubt and confusion, depression in the
53:42name of Jesus. I release the gift of
53:44faith in this house. Heavenly Father,
53:46you set me here as a pastor. I'm a
53:48nobody and a nothing coming from
53:50nowhere, but you set me here. And Lord,
53:52I step into that authority right now in
53:54the name of Jesus. I believe your word.
53:57We believe and we agree together. I
53:59release supernatural faith right now in
54:01the name of Jesus to believe what you
54:03have said, to believe everything that's
54:05been spoken, TO BELIEVE YOUR WORD is
54:08going to come to pass in Jesus name.
54:11>> Hallelujah. [crying]
54:12Somebody say in Jesus name.
54:15>> Come on, say it like YOU MEAN IT. IN
54:17JESUS NAME. In Jesus name.
54:20>> Every devil you got to back up in Jesus
54:22name. Every weapon formed against me you
54:25got to come down. I'm tearing you down
54:26right now in Jesus name.
54:45GET
55:10Why are you sokately
55:20listening to voices that speak
55:23falsehoods and untruely
55:33love
55:35I will love you much
55:38if you will follow after me. I will lead
55:41you in A DIRECTION YOU HAVE NOT GONE
55:43BEFORE. I will open doors you have not
55:47had open before. But you must seek me. I
55:52have ALREADY
56:01>> YES, GOD. HALLELUJAH.
56:04GOD,
56:07let's just respond right now to him.
56:09Let's seek him one more time. Can we do
56:11it together? Come on. Can we lift our
56:13voice together right now in the name of
56:15Jesus? Hallelujah. Forgive us, Lord, of
56:18everything else that we've sought after
56:19to be our answer, to be our strength
56:22that we've relied on, Lord, the riches
56:24of Egypt. Forgive us, oh God, if we
56:26relied on horses and chariots and things
56:28of this world. God, we're turning to you
56:30right now. We put our trust in your
56:31name. Oh, we seek after you, oh God.
56:35We're going to turn our faces. WE'RE
56:36GOING TO TURN OUR HEARTS TO YOU, LORD.
56:41OH YES GOD.
56:45OH YES GOD.
56:48[snorts]
56:49OH, YES, GOD. HALLELUJAH.
56:57HALLELUJAH.
56:58[snorts] HALLELUJAH.
57:00HALLELUJAH. That'll happen every time.
57:02It'll happen every time. We get
57:04desperate for God and we cry out to him
57:06as the body of Christ. Every time God
57:08will show up. He may not show up always
57:10the exact same way, but what we have
57:12seen here tonight, God will show up in
57:14prophecy. He'll show up in gifts. He'll
57:16show up with just presence that you need
57:18to comfort you, but he will always show
57:20up for you if you'll earnestly seek
57:22after him. God will not deny you
57:25himself.
57:26Hallelujah.
57:27>> He won't. He will not deny. If he does,
57:30you come back to me and we'll both go to
57:31God because God is keeping his word. He
57:34will not deny you himself. He has given
57:36everything that he has and opened up and
57:38made the way for us to get close to him.
57:40And every time, I'm telling you right
57:41now, in the name of Jesus, every time
57:43that you and I seek him and we pursue
57:45after him with everything we've got,
57:47there are going to be signs and wonders
57:49and miracles that follow them that
57:50believe. Is that what he said? Is that
57:53what he said? We're going to believe it
57:54in Jesus name. Let's conclude right now
57:56and let's praise him. Let's thank him
57:58right now. Let's let's agree together
58:00right now with our faith. Can we let our
58:02praise be the agreement right now of
58:04faith in the name of Jesus? Hallelujah.
58:07[applause]
58:07God, we believe every word. We're
58:10trusting you, oh God, that it will come
58:12to pass.
58:16[cheering and applause]
58:24>> [applause]
58:28[cheering]
58:35[applause and cheering]
58:38>> Yes Jesus
58:40agree together Lord in the name of
58:42Jesus.
58:46Hallelujah. In the name of Jesus. In the
58:49name of Jesus.
58:51>> Oh yes God. Bless your people tonight,
58:53Lord, as they return back home. I pray
58:55that their homes would be filled with
58:57faith and that they'd have the best rest
58:58of their year this this this night. I
59:01pray, oh God, that when they wake up in
59:03the morning, you give them boldness in
59:04the Holy Ghost. Let them walk, Lord.
59:06Help us to be lights. Help us, oh Lord,
59:08to be salt. Help us to be bold with the
59:11Holy Ghost. Oh Lord, I pray the weak
59:13among us might find strength. I pray,
59:15Lord, the sinners among us might find
59:17more grace. Let them find healing and
59:20restoration, Lord, for their soul. Let
59:22every believer, I pray, find the hope in
59:24you and never let it go. I pray in the
59:27name of Jesus that all of these things,
59:30oh Lord, would be done by the work of
59:31your spirit that you'd go with us
59:33tonight, oh God. And we'll give you all
59:35the praise and glory in Jesus name we
59:37pray. In Jesus name. And everybody said,
59:39"Amen." [snorts] Praise God. Don't you
59:41love the Lord? Praise God. Don't you
59:44love the Lord tonight? Amen. Hallelujah.
59:46He's so good. Well, praise God. Amen.
59:48Before you leave, show somebody that you
59:51love them, too. Okay? Show somebody that
59:53you love them, too. Maybe somebody you
59:54don't even know yet or you haven't
59:55talked to in a long time, but find
59:57somebody here tonight. Hug their neck,
59:58shake their hand, high five. Tell them
60:00how glad you are to see them, how much
60:02you love them, and you're glad to be a
60:03part of the same body of Christ. You're
60:04dismissed in the wonderful name of
60:06Jesus. God bless you tonight.
60:13Crazy.