When We Pray
Rev. Ehi Giwa Preached on 10/11/2026
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Summary
Rev. Ehi Giwa explores the vital role of prayer as the mechanism through which God acts on earth, urging believers to reject the enemy's lies of disqualification and embrace their authority to pull the Kingdom of Heaven into their daily lives.
Key points
- •God has ordained that He will not supersede human dominion on earth; He acts when He finds an 'earth partner' to pray His will into existence.
- •The enemy attacks the believer's mind to make them feel disqualified by past sins, aiming to silence the one thing that changes the atmosphere: prayer.
- •Prayer is not just a religious duty but a creative act of reaching into the spiritual realm and pulling the Kingdom of Heaven into the physical earth.
- •True spiritual authority comes from a renewed mind that understands identity in Christ rather than being conformed to the world's patterns.
- •The Lord's Prayer reveals that God's goodness leads to repentance; by starting in the 'Holy of Holies' (recognizing God's holiness), we are naturally drawn to lay down every weight and sin.
Scripture
Prayer
Authority
Spiritual Warfare
Repentance
Purpose
Life application
Commit to a consistent time of prayer this week, refusing to let feelings of inadequacy or past failures keep you from your 'post' as an earth partner with God. When you pray, specifically ask for God's Kingdom and will to be done in your home and workplace as it is in heaven.
Reflection questions
- In what ways have you felt 'disqualified' from praying effectively, and how does the message of God's goodness challenge that feeling?
- How does the concept of 'dominion' change the way you view your responsibility to pray for your family and community?
- What 'spiritual realm' realities (peace, joy, healing) do you need to pull into your physical circumstances right now?
- When you look at the pattern of the Tabernacle and the Lord's Prayer, how does focusing on God's holiness first change your approach to repentance?
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Full transcript
0:00putting action behind our words and we
0:00trust you, Jesus. [music]
0:00>> Hallelujah.
0:01I wonder if we could just shake the
0:03house with a little bit of praise in the
0:05house.
0:07I wonder if he's [music] been that good
0:09to anybody here. Anybody sought the Lord
0:12before and you thought you were all
0:14alone, but you turn around and there's
0:17something of ancient, something powerful
0:19that answered right on time. Anybody
0:23been in the midnight hour when nobody
0:26else had the answer? The doctor didn't
0:28have the answer. Theology didn't have
0:30the answer. But a word from God, the
0:33moving of the Holy Spirit, this Jesus
0:36had an answer. I wonder if you could
0:37throw your hands up all over this house.
0:41[music]
0:48Hallelujah.
0:51Hallelujah. [music]
0:59[music]
1:03Hallelujah.
1:11>> Hallelujah.
1:19>> Hallelujah.
1:26There's something powerful and alive
1:29here.
1:50>> [cheering and applause]
1:52>> Hallelujah Jesus. Hallelujah.
1:55[cheering and applause]
2:00I want to
2:02I want to give honor to
2:05the pastor here, your ministering staff.
2:09You guys are in amazing. I'm starting to
2:12lose my voice. Someone must been
2:13shouting all weekend. I don't know.
2:18Um, I want to give honor to the
2:20leadership team and uh ministering and
2:25pastor and your first lady.
2:27Man, you guys have
2:31you guys have been blessed.
2:33>> You've been blessed here. See, I I I I
2:37actually heard of your I heard about
2:40your pastor
2:43back in the day when he was just in he
2:45was in Bible college.
2:48See, some people are are special like
2:50this. He goes,
2:53"There are some people when they get a
2:55microphone, they get a crowd,
2:58all of a sudden they're more excited and
3:01they're preaching more passionate.
3:07From the earliest I heard of your
3:08pastor, nobody knew his name.
3:13He's known now.
3:16But the one that you see now is the same
3:20one 20 years ago
3:24in a small church. Nobody would ever
3:26hear, no one know. Everybody else wants
3:28to go play volleyball and he's packing
3:30up his Bible getting walking out. people
3:32making fun of. Oh, preacher, where you
3:34going preacher?
3:37>> See, what you feel here
3:40is a movement of something authentic.
3:48>> Hallelujah.
3:50>> I believe that God wants to do a work
3:52here today. I I um I actually really
3:56feel excited today. And uh sometimes you
3:59go and you feel pressure, you know, you
4:01feel like, man, you got to you got to
4:02preach good cuz I don't know if they're
4:04going to hear another message. You guys
4:06get the best preaching in the planet
4:07right here.
4:12[applause]
4:16>> So I feel that liberty to share to you,
4:18to try to transmit to you what I think
4:20God wants to do. And I don't know how
4:22long we'll go here. Not very long.
4:23That's that's dangerous, right? That's
4:25not But if you could if you could just
4:27stay with me. Is is that okay? We can
4:29we'll just we're just going to do this
4:31thing together. My brother Andrea
4:35give honor to my wife too. My wonderful
4:38wife Camianne. If you don't know her,
4:40y'all got to meet her, y'all. I I
4:42married way up. I tell I was I was I was
4:45like jumping. I was like, "Give me some
4:46of that Jesus." Hallelujah.
4:52>> Hallelujah.
4:55the
4:57the Bible.
4:59I'm going to first we're going to go for
5:01those that need to put your thumb in
5:02there or go to your your [music]
5:04digital apps. We're going to go to
5:06Romans chapter 12 first.
5:10I have been um I've been blessed to
5:14blessed highly blessed.
5:17I am now approaching,
5:20which is wild to say,
5:24four decades,
5:28of having this amazing gift of the Holy
5:30Spirit and walking among it's it's crazy
5:33to me,
5:37but I have I have seen some things in
5:40those times. And I believe what God
5:41wants to do here, he wants to transform
5:44some thinking. He wants to expose some
5:46of the attacks of the enemy that the
5:47enemy has tried to slow us down. See, it
5:50used to be it used to be his attack was
5:53doctrine.
5:55It was in the 80s, 90s. We now now we
6:00got some of the best theologians. We got
6:02you can go anywhere. You can get some of
6:04the deepest teaching, some of the it
6:06wasn't always like that. And so the
6:08enemy would try to come in and and slow
6:10the church down with bad doctrine that
6:13couldn't be backed. There wasn't the
6:14great debate. They were there. You had
6:16the Welches down in in in the floor of
6:17the panhandle. You had you had but they
6:19were sporadic and 90% of the church
6:21would never be exposed to them. And so
6:23they were they were they were
6:24susceptible to to deception or not
6:27knowing what they had a hold of really.
6:33Now
6:35I believe we face another attack
6:39that I want to I I want to bring out to
6:41you.
6:44Because what God wants to do in this
6:46region, through this church,
6:49will only come through what I what I'm
6:50going to talk about right now, and it's
6:53this word
6:55prayer.
6:58>> See,
7:02the enemy is not too concerned about our
7:04worship.
7:08He's not too concerned about that. He
7:11fears it. It drives him out.
7:15But see, he understands
7:17if we don't understand what happens when
7:20we pray,
7:23>> if we are passive, if we just come into
7:27prayer, come out of prayer a little bit,
7:29however, and and take a passive
7:31approach. See, the enemy understands if
7:33he can stop us at the moment of our
7:36prayer, if he can get into your mind in
7:39two ways. If he can get into your mind
7:41to where you don't understand the power
7:43and the authority that you have in
7:45prayer, or if he can get into your mind
7:47to think that your past and your sins
7:49and your your struggles have voided the
7:52power of your prayer. If he can do those
7:54things, he can slow us down.
7:57[cheering]
8:00>> Won't you look at somebody and say,
8:02"He's got another thing coming today."
8:06>> Look at somebody else. Say, "He's got
8:07another thing coming today.
8:11in Romans Romans chapter 12.
8:16>> I want you to hear this. Paul writes and
8:19he says, "I appeal to you therefore,
8:21brothers." This don't don't go too fast.
8:24He's he there there's there's passion
8:26here. Okay? There's there's urgency.
8:29He's not just saying, "I appeal." No,
8:30he's he's calling I I appeal to you. I I
8:33appeal to you therefore, brethren, and
8:35by the by the mercies of God to present
8:38your bodies a living sacrifice, holy and
8:40acceptable to God, which is your
8:42spiritual worship. And then he gets to
8:45it right here. What the enemy is trying
8:47to get into the church, he gets into it
8:49right away. He says this, he's watching
8:50this. He says, "Do not be conformed to
8:54this world." Right.
8:57>> See, if the enemy gets your identity,
9:00>> if he gets who he who you believe that
9:03you are, if if he gets the if he can get
9:06in between these thick ears of mine and
9:08get into this gray matter inside of my
9:10brain, I will lose I will lose my
9:13authority not from God, but in my heart.
9:16And so God is coming and and Paul is
9:18right and he said, "I beseech you here.
9:20I appeal to you." He said, "You've got
9:23to be transformed in the way that you
9:26think. You need to have a renewing of
9:29your mind." Because if we ever renew our
9:31mind, everything else that we do will
9:35There are prayers that you have prayed
9:36that will start coming to fruition.
9:42>> I wonder if you'd set your Bibles down
9:44for a moment and lift your hands up.
9:53I just want you to begin to pray for a
9:54moment that God would speak directly to
9:58your heart. That he would give
10:00illumination in ways that we may not
10:02have gotten illumination before. I I I
10:05wonder if you would just lift your voice
10:07and ask God, let the Holy Spirit speak
10:09to me. Jesus, right now, we take a
10:12moment, Father, and we ask that you
10:14would speak to us, God. Do what only
10:16your Holy Spirit can do. words and and
10:19and and and ideologies will never do
10:22what your spirit can do. Father God, we
10:24open our minds to you right now. We open
10:28our hearts to you right now, Jesus. We
10:31believe that you will transform us for
10:34the work that you have called us to do.
10:36We believe, Jesus, that you will change
10:38us by the renewing of our minds.
10:42>> Hallelujah.
10:44I wonder if you'd clap your hands unto
10:46the Lord one more time and lift his
10:49name. [applause]
10:52>> Hallelujah.
10:54Hallelujah.
10:57[applause]
10:58>> You you you may be you may be seated.
11:03in the book of Genesis. See, I want to
11:06before before we go far, in the book of
11:10Genesis where God steps out and he he
11:12creates the heavens and the earth and he
11:14by the blast of his nostrils, he makes
11:16universes, galaxies. It's amazing. But
11:19then he gets man together. Matter of
11:22fact, you you two guys come come help
11:23me. Come come come come these look at
11:25these two strapping young men. Let's
11:26hear it for them. [cheering]
11:29He he makes man in and the Bible says in
11:33in Genesis 1:26-27 that space for the
11:36sake of time please hear me he he says
11:39he says we're going to make man in our
11:41own image
11:43and but then there's a colon there and
11:45after that colon he tell he explains
11:48what he's talking about and his
11:50explanation is this dominion
11:54look at someone and say dominion
11:56>> dominion And I want to I want to I want
11:59to show this to you in and grab it. If
12:01if you if you come stand right over
12:02here, my friend and you got to stay over
12:05here, my brother. And see what what
12:08happens here is God makes man. He
12:09breathes into his breast the into his
12:11into his into his nostrils the breath of
12:13life. And God makes man to be watch this
12:17wholly connected. Stay with [music] me.
12:19In a second the train is going to take
12:21off and I want you I want you to be with
12:22us. He said we he we he made man to be
12:26totally connected to him and it was
12:28beautiful. Man was part of this thing
12:30called the kingdom of heaven. Say
12:31kingdom of heaven.
12:32>> Kingdom of heaven.
12:33>> And what would happen is God would speak
12:36into mankind. Act like you're whispering
12:37my ear. Yeah, it's a little weird. Okay,
12:40let's not do that again.
12:42>> So we he we asked him he he would speak
12:45into to the mankind and mankind who had
12:48say dominion
12:50>> over the earth. He would hear from God.
12:53He would commune with God. And God puts
12:55him in the garden. He says, "Take care
12:57of it. Tame it. Have dominion." He would
12:59hear the voice of God. And he would take
13:01the beauty and the love, the compassion,
13:03the good things of God. And he would
13:06take those things and he would push them
13:07into the earth. And he'd push them into
13:09the garden. And the garden would bloom
13:11and bring forth life. And the world
13:13would be filled with the goodness of
13:14God. And all that would be taken into
13:17God's into into man's hands. He would
13:19eat of the fruit. And he'd come back and
13:20give that glory to God and God would be
13:23exalted and he would commune with God.
13:24Are you seeing how this is
13:26orchestrating? And there was dominion
13:28over the earth and there was sovereignty
13:30of God.
13:36And then Adam and Eve start making
13:37smoothies.
13:40The
13:41>> the fall happens. You guys still with
13:43me?
13:44>> The fall happens and there's something
13:47happens inside of man. First Colossians
13:49calls it the kingdom of darkness. And
13:51what happens is mankind that was created
13:54like this breaks apart from his
13:58spiritual alignment, his spiritual
14:00sovereignty
14:02and he connects to something called the
14:04kingdom of darkness. Read first
14:06Colossians. Always always check. Write
14:09it down. Go back.
14:11It's because someone says something with
14:13passion. Always check it in the word of
14:14God.
14:17and and and air. And what happens? He
14:20he's God. So
14:25you can play good basketball though,
14:26right? Ride on that for a little bit.
14:30Well, mankind, watch this. now becomes,
14:34watch this, connected
14:37to the kingdom of darkness in which
14:40there is hate, killing, murder, rage,
14:44jealousies contentions divisions and
14:47watch what happens. So now what does man
14:50do? Does he still have sovereign over
14:52the earth? Yes or no?
14:54>> So now man takes hatred,
14:57bitterness. You ever hear that question?
14:59If there's a God, why is there all this
15:01killing? If there's a God, why is all
15:03there hating? I'm showing I'm talking to
15:05you right now. Why? Man still has
15:07dominion over the earth, but he's
15:09connected to the wrong source. And so
15:12now the source of darkness comes into
15:14man. Man pushes that into the earth. And
15:17here we are. But thanks be to Jesus.
15:20Thanks be to God that he says he has
15:23sent his beloved son to come and pull us
15:26out of the kingdom of darkness and into
15:29the kingdom of his beloved son. Why why
15:32is this important? Watch this you guys.
15:35Thank you. Let's let's hear it from him.
15:36You guys did awesome.
15:38[applause]
15:41See
15:43when when we separated ourselves from
15:46God,
15:48God did not change.
15:52>> Not because he was stubborn, because he
15:54cannot change.
15:56>> That's right.
15:56>> Please understand, God is outside of
15:58time. He he there to to do anything, for
16:02me to move, for me to plant an apple
16:04seed in the ground, and for it to grow
16:05up, it takes time.
16:08So when God looks over humanity, he
16:10says, "I am the Lord your God and I
16:12change not." That is not some some some
16:15some stubborn stance. He's talking about
16:19his nature.
16:21Okay, here we go.
16:24And when you understand what I just
16:25said, you will begin to understand why
16:29prayer is so important.
16:31Bring up Amos. Bring up Amos 3.
16:37I want you to see this. This never
16:39changed.
16:42Hear this word that the Lord has spoken
16:44against you, oh children of Israel, the
16:47family that I brought out. Next verse.
16:51You know all the families of the earth.
16:54Therefore, I will punish you for all
16:56your iniquities. Someone say, "Oh my."
16:58>> Oh my.
17:01>> Let's jump to verse seven. Now verse 7
17:04says this. Surely,
17:07don't miss this.
17:09Surely the Lord God
17:13will do nothing.
17:17>> But he revealth his secrets unto the
17:20servants of the prophets.
17:23Hear this. God will do nothing. And
17:27search this out. He will do nothing in
17:29the earth until he finds a man or a
17:33woman. Until he finds an earth partner.
17:37Hear this. He will not. He will not
17:41supersede what he started in the garden.
17:43He will not step into a circumstance. He
17:46will not have a disaster. He will do
17:48nothing until first he finds a man. He
17:51finds a woman. Check out the text. He's
17:53going to flood the earth. He goes finds
17:54a Noah.
17:56>> He's going to He's going to make a
17:57creation. He's going to make a covenant
17:59he finds in Abraham.
18:01>> All through scripture, you'll find this
18:02pattern over and over. God will do
18:04nothing in the earth. He will not
18:06supersede his own word. He will not
18:09supersede what he started. He will do
18:11nothing in the earth until he finds
18:13someone that says, "Yes, God. I I will
18:16seek your face. I will hear your word
18:18and I will find a place and I will pray
18:21your will into the earth."
18:24[applause]
18:25Okay, here we go. See, this is why the
18:28enemy is after your prayer,
18:32>> young man. This is why the enemy This is
18:35why the enemy wants you to stop praying
18:38>> cuz he understands this concept. He
18:40knows that if God wants to work,
18:48>> if God wants to save your loved ones,
18:52>> if God wants to change your atmosphere,
18:55>> if God want to come from a good book,
18:58it's not going to come from a good
18:59message. It's going to come when my
19:02people that are called by my name humble
19:05them. [cheering]
19:08>> [applause]
19:09>> Listen, hear me.
19:12If we don't pray,
19:17>> if we don't pray,
19:23>> we bind the hands of God.
19:28[snorts]
19:31Lift your hands up all over this place
19:32for a moment.
19:35Cuz
19:40see, there's an intercessor and you've
19:42been you've been getting weary and
19:43welloing, but the Holy Ghost is trying
19:45to reach out to you. He's trying to say,
19:47"No, no, no, no, no. Don't you stop
19:49praying. Don't you stop praying. Don't
19:51you stop praying. Don't you stop
19:53praying. When you pray, something
19:55happens. When you pray, something moves.
19:58Things change.
20:13Oh, there's a young person. There's a
20:15young person. I want to talk to you. I
20:17want to talk to you.
20:19[snorts]
20:21Nothing fancy is coming this sermon.
20:23Come back next week. It's going to be
20:24amazing.
20:26But can I tell you something?
20:29When you pray,
20:31>> you want to know why? You want to know
20:34why there's so much distractions?
20:37>> You want to know why there's so much
20:40confusions?
20:44You want to know why you get down to
20:45pray and everything in their uncle comes
20:47into your brain and you're like, man,
20:49it's not working after four or five
20:50minutes. You want to know why the enemy
20:52is coming after you like that?
20:55Because young or old, you were created
20:58in the image of God. You were created in
21:01his image, his likeness, and his power.
21:04And when you pray, when you bow your
21:07knees and you say, "God, I don't know
21:09how to say all the right words. I don't
21:12know how to get it all together, but I'm
21:14here. If you will put something in my
21:16heart, you can trust me to speak it."
21:18And you begin to have that, I promise
21:21you, things will begin to happen. You
21:23may not see it today. You may not see it
21:25in the next second, but don't you stop
21:27praying. Your parents may Oh my
21:29goodness. You may not understand it, but
21:31God does. You may not know what's going
21:33on, but God, [screaming] does somebody
21:35hear me? What I'm trying to give to you
21:37right now. When you pray, things change.
21:45>> Don't stop praying. [applause]
22:01>> [snorts]
22:02>> If what I'm going to tell you next,
22:05if this wasn't written in the scripture,
22:09I wouldn't believe it.
22:12I wouldn't believe it.
22:16I'd say, "Go away. You don't know what
22:19you're talking about.
22:22But as apostolics, we're submitted to
22:23the word of God.
22:25>> It is our supreme [music] authority.
22:29>> And I want you I want you to see this.
22:31Hear this. [snorts]
22:34A little backstory.
22:36Saul has re has has rejected God and an
22:39evil spirit has come to torment him and
22:42he is now at the end of his life and
22:45David is long gone. the the the
22:47instruments, the playing, the oh my
22:50word.
22:51Okay,
22:54please understand
22:57singers worshippers
22:59the power, the power that you have
23:05when you begin to sing
23:07>> or you begin to play.
23:10>> That's why I asked my brother to stay
23:11here.
23:13Saul was tormented with the evil spirit.
23:15Hear me. He was tormented with an evil
23:17spirit.
23:19David came. David didn't speak a word of
23:22faith. David didn't shake them and like
23:24we used to do, pile up on them and put
23:26them in headlocks and pull their hair.
23:28He He didn't do any of that.
23:33He got his instrument out.
23:37And under the anointing, he played.
23:41Listen. and demons were pushed out of
23:45the building.
23:50[applause]
23:52>> Singer, don't underestimate the power of
23:55your singing.
23:56>> A singer that understands prayer and the
23:59God the first time he hears from us is
24:02not Sunday morning before service when
24:04through the week we've been finding a
24:05place of prayer. Understand you will
24:08push spirits out of this place. So when
24:10the pastor gets up here and begins to
24:13preach the word, there are hearts that
24:15can actually hear. The torment is gone.
24:17They don't they can't put their finger
24:19on it. They say, "Man, I just feel such
24:21peace. I just feel something." Singers,
24:23don't underestimate the power of your
24:25worship. drummer, don't underestimate
24:28the power of
24:34[snorts]
24:34>> So Saul, he's at the end of his life and
24:37he calls he calls for a witch
24:41cuz he needs a word from God. I'm going
24:44to pray here in a second. He call he he
24:47needs a word from God and there there's
24:49no one to Samuel's dead and he calls
24:51this witch.
24:53We're going to go to 1 Samuel in a
24:55moment.
24:56>> [snorts]
24:56>> He calls this witch and he asked her
25:00to bring up to me Samuel. This is the
25:03part that I would say not possible.
25:05Didn't happen. Go away
25:08until I read it. Bring up 1st Samuel 28.
25:12We're going to start in 11. We're going
25:15to move into 15.
25:18Hallelujah.
25:26And it came to pass in those days that
25:28the Philistines gathered their armies
25:29together. We'll jump to verse 15 just
25:32for the sake of time.
25:37And Samuel said, actually, let's go back
25:39to 14. I'm sorry. Don't don't don't mute
25:41my mic. Don't don't mute it.
25:49Let's go back to verse 13.
25:59Oh man, I'm not You can't You can't make
26:01this up, guys. Let's go back to verse
26:0412.
26:11This witch, watch this, by divination,
26:16the Bible says she pulls up the spirit
26:21of s of of Samuel. And watch this. And
26:24when the woman saw Samuel, she cried out
26:28with a loud voice. And the woman spoke
26:30to Saul and says, Why hast thou deceived
26:33me? For thou art Saul. Now we'll go to
26:36verse 13. And the king said unto her,
26:39"Don't be afraid." And the woman said,
26:41"Saul, I saw gods ascending out of the
26:44earth."
26:47And he said unto her, "What form is he
26:49of?" And she said, "An old man cometh
26:52up. He is covered with a mantle." And
26:54Saul perceived it was Samuel. He stooped
26:56his face to the ground and bowed
26:58himself. But listen to what Samuel says
27:00next. And Samuel said to Saul, "Why hast
27:04thou disqued me?"
27:10Samuel had no had no intention of being
27:13pulled up. I told you this is weird.
27:20He has no intention of being pulled up.
27:24But this witch
27:28who understood something about her
27:31creative order
27:33through demonic powers,
27:36watch this. Reached into the spiritual
27:39realm
27:41and pulled the spiritual realm into the
27:44physical.
27:51Let me ask you,
27:53if some witch that doesn't have the
27:56power of the Holy Ghost, who doesn't
27:58understand Jesus, who doesn't understand
28:00what it is we understand, can reach into
28:03the spiritual realm and through their
28:05words and through their connection can
28:08pull the spiritual realm into the earth.
28:11How much more a bloodbought child of
28:14God, a king, a daughter of the king, a
28:18daughter of the a man that was created
28:21that understands who you are can reach
28:24into the heavenlies and say, "Oh, my
28:27father which art in heaven, hallowed be
28:30thy name. [screaming] Thy kingdom come,
28:34[cheering]
28:35thy will be done in the earth as it is
28:39in heaven." Are you hearing what I'm
28:41saying?
28:45>> Do you understand what you have when you
28:47pray?
28:50[applause]
28:54>> Lift your hands all over this place
28:55again.
28:59>> Does somebody want to pray?
29:05Does someone want to step into the place
29:07of their anointing, their calling to get
29:10ready for the harvest that's coming?
29:16>> The effectual fervent prayer of the
29:17righteous still availth much.
29:32>> [snorts]
29:33>> We can't lie to ourselves anymore,
29:35church. I get some people are in a hard
29:37season of life. Don't believe the lie of
29:40the enemy that says it's a hard season.
29:42You can stop your praying. Don't you
29:44believe that lie. I've spoken that to
29:46people. I had to go and repent and say,
29:48"No, no, no, no, no. Don't you stop
29:50praying. Don't you stop praying.
29:56>> Be a little late to
29:58Be a little brain frog. Drink some more
30:01extra caffeine, but don't you stop
30:03praying.
30:08Oh, let your voice out, somebody.
30:12God's calling someone. He's looking in
30:15the earth. He's looking in the earth.
30:17He's saying, "Is there somebody that
30:18will pray? Is there somebody that will
30:20pray? Is there someone You've got
30:22doctrine. You've got it. We We've got
30:24it. We've got it. We've got worship. You
30:26got it. You got it. But is there someone
30:28that will pray when it hurts?
30:44Oh Jesus.
30:47Oh father.
30:56Oh Jesus.
31:11>> We're going to end with this here and
31:13then we're just going to find a place to
31:15pray. And things are going to happen.
31:19Things are going to happen.
31:27I was at a I was at a coffee with some
31:31ministers and it was all in good spirit
31:34and kindness and love and
31:38the topic of the tabernacle praying the
31:41tabernacle plan came up. In the
31:44tabernacle plan you you you come to the
31:46gates and you worship. Then you go to
31:48the brazen altar. And after the brace
31:50and altar of repentance and and
31:52sacrifice, you didn't move to the to to
31:54the to to the to the uh the labor and
31:57you'd wash yourself and you'd go inside
31:59of the the the labor and you'd pray all
32:00these steps and you go and then there's
32:02the shoe bread and you you would eat of
32:04the bread of life and the word of God
32:06and then there'd be the lampstand and
32:08there'd be the oil which was signified
32:09the Holy Spirit and and then there'd be
32:11the incense which is worship unto God
32:13and you get to the veil of the holies of
32:15holies and you would pray and then you
32:17would enter into the holy place of God
32:19you and you would face the mercy seat
32:21where sins were remitted and they were
32:23atoned for and it was just so powerful
32:26all these things and I remember growing
32:27up and we we'd pray through this and at
32:29the table they begin to we there's a
32:32discussion about well in in the New
32:33Testament
32:35in the New Testament Jesus says the
32:37disciples says teach us to pray
32:40and
32:41Jesus teaches them a pattern of prayer
32:45and the the the love in the spirit was
32:50like, "What? Which one is it?" And I
32:52listened. I didn't say anything. I I
32:53just listened and back and forth and I
32:55was like, "Huh?"
32:57At that time, I was actually in the
32:58middle of an extended fast. I said,
33:00"God, which is it?" And guys, I tell
33:02you, I tried everything I could to make
33:05those two things line up with each
33:07other.
33:08I stretched the scripture so far.
33:12I was like, "Well, you know, if uh
33:16if the repentance portion is the brazen
33:19altar and but but then Jesus has that at
33:22the at the end." And I I was I was
33:25killing myself.
33:27Just for for those that want to know the
33:28end of the story, just pray, okay? Just
33:30pray. Just pray.
33:34But I [snorts] I was I said, "You know
33:36what? I'm going to take the next two
33:37days and I'm just going to pray the
33:38tabernacle prayer." And I prayed the
33:39tabernacle prayer uh multiple times each
33:42day was just praying and man it was so
33:44powerful. God moved. His anointing
33:46showed up because when you pray things
33:48happen [snorts]
33:51like man this must be it. And and next
33:53couple days I switched to the Lord's
33:54prayer. Prayed the Lord's prayer. Our
33:56father start in heaven. Used as the
33:57template and I prayed all the way
33:59through that. And it was like man and
34:00God showed up. It was amazing. It was
34:02powerful. I was like man this is this is
34:04awesome God. I remember feeling
34:06frustrated. And I was down in the
34:07basement in my my church and I was
34:09walking back and forth. I was like, I'm
34:11which is it, God? I I was I was wanting
34:13to know.
34:16What I felt in my heart is what I told
34:17you a second ago. Pray, kid.
34:23But then I felt something else.
34:28He said, but don't miss the revelation
34:32of the Lord's Prayer.
34:37I was confused.
34:41I had nothing. Absolutely nothing.
34:45And then I just felt a prompting in my
34:46spirit.
34:50Turn it around.
34:56And see, I had diagrammed it all out in
34:58my mind. I could see it in my brain. and
35:00and and sitting there in that prayer
35:02room, I took the Lord's prayer and I
35:04took the tabernacle's prayer and I took
35:06the tabernacle prayer and I turned it
35:09around in my mind's eye
35:12and I fell on my face weeping
35:17because it lines up exactly.
35:25The Lord dealt with my heart. Here's the
35:28revelation
35:30in the Lord's prayer.
35:38Sinful man
35:40starts
35:42in the holies of holies.
35:49And his goodness
35:53leads us
35:57to repentance.
36:01Because when you step into the holiness
36:03of God and you feel his righteousness
36:06come over you and you feel his purity
36:09come over you and you feel a love that
36:12is beyond understanding when he rent
36:15that veil from top to the bottom. When
36:17you come to God that way and he says
36:20when you step in and you say my heavenly
36:22father, our father which art in heaven,
36:25aba that's art in heaven, hallowed be
36:28your name, the holies of holies. When
36:31you understand your fallenness, when you
36:33understand your brokenness and you
36:35understand the love of God, what he did
36:38for you while you were yet sinners, long
36:40before you lifted a hand, long before
36:42you said, "God, help me." When you
36:44understand that, when you get that
36:46revelation, there is nothing in the
36:48world you will not lay down. There is no
36:51struggle that you won't come and work
36:52on. There is no pain that you will.
36:56This is what the writer said. His
36:58goodness will draw you to
37:01repentance.
37:05Let's all stand.
37:08Cuz see, the enemy has tried.
37:11The enemy has tried
37:14He has tried to convince many of you
37:17that because of your failures,
37:20because of what you've done wrong,
37:23because of your lack of righteousness,
37:26that the power of your prayer is
37:28diminished. And so, you come to church
37:32hoping someone else has prayed. You come
37:34to church hoping that someone will help
37:36you get the breakthrough. I've come to
37:38tell you, I've come to talk to you. The
37:40revival that's coming, it's going to
37:42require all hands on deck. The spirits
37:45that will come in here, the addictions
37:46that will be in here, the addictions
37:48that are here right now, hear me,
37:50they're broken by prayer, but the prayer
37:53comes from the righteous, but the
37:54righteousness comes from God. And when
37:57you understand it's his garment of
37:59righteousness, remember at the gate of
38:01the supper, he says, "Your spotted
38:03garments." Yeah, you have spotted
38:04garments, but there's someone standing
38:06at the door who's handing out white
38:08garments. Hear me, child of God.
38:22>> He's here. Go ahead and begin to let
38:24your voice out.
38:27>> You're not disqualified.
38:30Don't self- select out.
38:32These altars are open. Won't somebody
38:34come and find a place to play? If you
38:36can't find a place, find a place right
38:38where you're at. Begin to pray over your
38:40marriages. Begin to pray over your
38:41homes. Begin to pray over your families.
38:43Begin to pray over your schools.
38:56>> The effectual fervent prayer of the
38:57righteous still avaleth much. The
38:59effectual fervent prayer, it still
39:01availth much.
39:09prayer meeting should be one of the most
39:10heavily attended places.
39:13Prayer meeting. But but if the enemy has
39:15disguised, if the enemy has convinced
39:17you that your prayer no longer has an
39:19effect, if he's convinced you that your
39:21prayer isn't effective anymore, we'll
39:23self- select out of the one thing God is
39:25waiting for. I want to heal that
39:27addiction. I want to break that problem.
39:29I want to put together I want to bring
39:31back the lost one. I want to put
39:33together the church. I want to break
39:34down in unity. I want to break down
39:36cosmic. But will you pray?
39:49>> I wish everybody in this building could
39:51see what I see happening right now.
40:08That's it. That's it. There's some folks
40:11right now. That's your folks right now.
40:13You've disqualified yourself cuz your
40:15sin. You've disqualified yourself cuz
40:18your brokenness. I'm telling you right
40:19now, God's been waiting. His ears
40:21pressed against your mouth. Right now,
40:23he's waiting. Will you begin to pray?
40:25Will you bring it to me? Will you bring
40:27it to me? Taste and see that I'm good.
40:30Taste and see. Taste and see.
40:46This atmosphere is charged. If you've
40:48never received the Holy Spirit before
40:50and you've wanted it, lift your hands up
40:51right now. Don't try to speak a word of
40:53English. No one needs to lay a hand on
40:55you. God will fill you with the Holy
40:57Ghost right now as his people pray
41:09and night [singing and music] and day.
41:12Let it
41:17day and night
41:19and day.
41:22[singing]
41:25Day and night. Night and day. Is [music]
41:29it all right?
41:33>> Day and night. Night and day. [music]
41:36Is it all right? [singing]
41:41Day and [music] night, night and day.
41:48>> That's it. The power of God is here. God
41:50is calling. God is listening. God is
41:53listening. God is listening.
41:56[music]
41:56>> Day [singing] and night, night and day,
41:59let in.
42:04Day [singing] and night, night and day,
42:07let in [music] so
42:11day and night. Night and [singing] day,
42:15let in.
42:19[music] Day and night, night and day,
42:23let it incor. [music]
42:26>> [singing]
42:27>> Day and night, night and day, let in
42:32arise. [singing]
42:35Day and [music] night, night and day,
42:39let in.
42:42[singing]
42:43Day and [music] night, night and day,
42:46let incense [singing] arise.
42:51Day and [music] night, night and
42:53[singing] day, let it srise.
42:58Day and night, [music and singing]
43:00night and day, let it srise.
43:06Day [music and singing] and night, night
43:08and day.
43:11You're worthy of it all.
43:15[singing]
43:16[music] Yes, you are, Jesus. You're
43:19worthy of it all.
43:23[singing]
43:25>> For [music]
43:26you, Jesus, you are all
43:29>> and to you are [music and singing] all
43:35>> you deserve.
43:38You are the earth.
43:42>> You [singing and music] are the earth.
43:45>> Oh yes. Jesus, you're worthy [music]
43:51of Lord.
43:57For from you are all [music] things
44:01and to you are all things. [singing]
44:05You deserve [music] the glory.
44:09>> Say [singing] you're worthy of it all.
44:12>> Worthy [music] of it all. Worthy. You're
44:16worthy. Yes, you are. [singing]
44:19You're worthy [music] of it all.
44:27For [music and singing] from you are all
44:29things and to you are all things.
44:34[music]
44:35You deserve [singing] the glory.
44:44Day and [music and singing] night, night
44:47and day, let it srise. [singing]
44:52Day [music] and night, night and day,
44:55let [singing] it srise.
44:59Day and night, night and
45:02[music and singing] day. Let it
45:03incorrise.
45:07[music]
45:08[singing]
45:17[music]
45:19[singing]
45:22Day [music] and night, night and day.
45:26[singing]
45:27You're [music] worthy of it all.
45:34You're worthy [music and singing]
45:36of it all.
45:42For from you [music and singing]
45:44are all things
45:46and to you are all things. [music]
45:50You deserve the glory. [singing]
45:54and say, "You're worthy.
45:58>> You're worthy of it, Lord. [singing]
46:00[music]
46:01>> You're worthy, Jesus. You're worthy,
46:04Jesus. You're worthy [singing] of it
46:07all.
46:12For [music] from you are all things, and
46:16to you are [music and singing] all
46:18things.
46:20You deserve the glory.
46:25Pray God
46:29[music]
46:31of the Lord.
46:35In the presence [music and singing] of
46:37the Lord.
46:39That's where you'll find
46:42everything
46:44that you need.
46:50When we seek his face, [singing]
46:55he [music] will draw near to us
47:00in the presence of [singing]
47:03a holy
47:06God.
47:07[music]
47:10In the presence of [singing] the Lord.
47:16In the presence [music]
47:17of the Lord.
47:20That's where you'll find everything
47:23[singing]
47:25that you need.
47:31When we seek [music] his [singing] face,
47:36he will draw near to us
47:39[singing and music]
47:40in the presence of the holy [singing]
47:46God. [music]
47:49>> My soul
47:51[singing]
47:54longs for you.
47:58[music]
48:00Nothing
48:03compares [singing]
48:04[music] to you.
48:10I will [music]
48:11wait
48:13on you
48:15until I feel
48:20your presence [music]
48:22[singing] surround
48:24me
48:27in my soul. [singing]
48:29My soul
48:32longs [music] for you.
48:38Nothing [music and singing]
48:43to [music] you.
48:48I will wait
48:51on you
48:54until [singing] I [music]
48:56feel
48:58your presence [singing]
49:01surrounding [music]
49:03me. In the presence of the Lord. In the
49:08presence of the Lord. [singing]
49:13In the presence [music]
49:14of the Lord.
49:17That's where [singing] you'll find
49:19everything
49:21that you need.
49:27>> We seek his face. [singing]
49:31[music]
49:32He will draw
49:34to us
49:37in the [music and singing] presence of a
49:40holy
49:42God. In the presence [music] of the
49:46Lord.
49:49>> The Lord. [singing]
49:50>> Oh yes. [music]
49:56>> That's where you'll [music and singing]
49:57find everything
50:00that [music] should be.
50:06When we seek his [singing] face,
50:11he will draw near to [music and singing]
50:14us
50:15in the presence of the holy
50:19[singing and music]
50:21God.
50:22>> My soul,
50:26>> my soul [music]
50:28longs for you.
50:33Nothing. [music]
50:37>> [singing]
50:39>> to you.
50:44I will wait
50:47on you
50:50until [music and singing]
50:51I feel
50:54your presence
50:57surrounding [music]
50:59me. [singing]
51:01And my soul
51:05it longs and longs
51:08for you. There's nothing [music] Jesus
51:13nothing
51:15compares
51:17to you.
51:22I [music and singing] will wait
51:25on you
51:28till I [music] feel
51:32your presence [singing]
51:35surrounding [music]
51:37me.
51:41[music]
51:45Heat. Heat.
51:53[music]
52:20Day and night, night [music and singing]
52:23and day
52:25since
52:28[music]
52:29day and [singing] night. Night and
52:33dayless in srise.
52:38Day and [music and singing] night. Night
52:41and day in sor.
52:47Day [music] and [singing] night. Night
52:50and day.
52:53You worthy of it [singing] all.
52:58Yes.
53:02You're [music and singing] worthy of it
53:04all.
53:08For from you, [music] Jesus,
53:11for from you are [singing] all things,
53:15and to you are all things.
53:18[music and singing]
53:20You deserve the glory.
53:23[music and singing]
53:25Say you're worthy.
53:28You're worthy [music and singing] of it
53:31all.
53:35Oh yes, [singing and music]
53:37you're worthy of it all.
53:46For [music] from you are all things
53:50and to [singing] you [music] are all
53:53things.
53:55You deserve glory.
54:00Sing [music]
54:01it one more time. Say you're worthy of
54:05it all. [singing]
54:09Yes, you are. Yes, [music] you are.
54:12You're worthy of [singing] it all.
54:21For from [music] you are all [singing]
54:23things
54:25and to you are all things.
54:30You deserve the [music and singing]
54:32glory.
54:35>> Praise God. Let's lift our hands to the
54:37Lord right now and lift our voices to
54:39heaven. Would you stand all over this
54:40place? Hallelujah. Lord, we love you
54:43today. Thank you, Lord, for your
54:46goodness that leads us to repentance.
54:48Thank you for your grace that's so
54:51undeserving but is greater than our sin.
54:53Thank you for a place to pray. [music]
54:55Thank you, Lord, that you've invited us
54:57in. Thank you for what you have done
55:00here today, for the word that you have
55:02spoken to us. We have recommitted
55:04ourselves to you, oh Lord, and to the
55:06secret place of the most high. We have
55:09recommitted ourselves to prayer, oh God.
55:12And we thank you that you will never
55:14leave us. You will never forsake us.
55:17Hallelujah.
55:18Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus.
55:21Hallelujah.
55:23Oh, I love you, Lord, today. I love you,
55:25Lord. Praise God. Praise God. [snorts]
55:30Thankful for you. I'm thankful for the
55:31presence of the Lord that we feel here
55:33today. And we have two that have decided
55:37to be baptized in the precious name of
55:39Jesus for the remission the remission of
55:43their sins.
55:46[applause]
55:47Praise God. And so I want to invite you
55:50to stay and celebrate with us [music] if
55:52you're able. And I'd also like to invite
55:54anyone else that has never been
55:56baptized. If you've repented of your
55:58sins and don't skip over that
56:00repentance, baptism is just the washing
56:02of the outside. It's not just a public
56:05confession of your faith. Repentance is
56:07for the or baptism is for the remission
56:09of your sins. Repentance is necessary.
56:12[music]
56:13That's the first step of coming turning
56:16towards God of dying to yourself. As
56:19Jesus died on the cross, we spiritually
56:22die to our sins when we repent of them.
56:25And I'm so thankful that he is faithful
56:27to forgive them. Has anybody besides
56:30pastor been forgiven of a whole lot of
56:32things? and you're thankful for the
56:34mercy of God in your life.
56:37>> Praise God. So, we're going to rejoice
56:40in the Lord today as we [music] baptize
56:42the two in the precious name of Jesus.
56:45And if the Lord has done something good
56:46in your life, why don't you turn to a
56:47few people around you, just hug their
56:49neck and thank them today for what the
56:51Lord has done in them in Jesus name.
56:54Thank you, Pastor Ahe for that wonderful
56:56word of God today. Sister Cammy, thank
56:59you for your ministry here this weekend.
57:01We love you. Praise God.
57:19>> [music]
57:33>> Amen. [music]
57:37That's not
57:50Praise [music] God. This is brother
57:52Liam. Liam's 11 years old, but he said
57:55today he's made up his mind for Jesus to
57:58come into his life and for his sins to
58:01be washed away today. We celebrate that.
58:03Help me to pray over this young man
58:05right now. And he'd never forget this
58:07moment of this decision in the name of
58:09Jesus. Heavenly Father, I thank you,
58:11Lord, for Liam's faith in you. I thank
58:13[music] you for his mother who has been
58:15faithful and an example. And I thank
58:17you, Lord, for Liam's decision today to
58:20be baptized in your name. And according
58:22to your word, his sins are going to be
58:24remitted. I thank you that even as he
58:26comes up out of this water, he's going
58:28to be made into a brand new young man.
58:30And your life, Lord, his life is never
58:33going to be the same. And we pray that
58:34he would never forget this moment of
58:36consecration and obedience to your word.
58:39We give you praise for it in Jesus' name
58:42we pray. Jesus name. Amen. Praise God.
58:46All right, brother Liam, based upon your
58:48profession of faith and the confession
58:50of all of your sins, it's my privilege
58:53to baptize you in the only saving name
58:55of Jesus for the remission of all your
58:58sins.
59:01Heat. [music]
59:02Heat.
59:21>> [music]
59:29>> Praise God.
59:31Praise God.
59:33Praise God.
59:40>> [music]
59:53[music]
59:53>> You know, it's like
59:58[music]
60:05>> [music]
60:20[music]
60:28>> Praise God. We are baptizing, if you can
60:31believe it, King David.
60:35That's right. He made it all the way to
60:36the New Testament in the 21st century.
60:39This is King David. This young man, he's
60:41the middle child. I said, I like that.
60:43I'm the middle child. God's [snorts] got
60:45big plans for these boys' lives. And I'm
60:46so thankful for their faith and
60:48obedience today. And this is mama up
60:50here today. Mama, what a day of
60:52celebration it is. Thank you for the
60:53faith that you have for the Lord being
60:57on these boys' lives. Help me to pray
60:59right now in the name of Jesus. Heavenly
61:01Father, I thank you for the word that's
61:03been preached in our children's church.
61:05I thank you, Lord, for our ministers in
61:08the children's ministry of New Life. And
61:10I especially thank you for King David's
61:12faith in you, Lord. I thank you that
61:13you've got your hand upon him and that
61:15you're going to do big things in his
61:17life. [music]
61:18Help him never to forget this moment,
61:20God, when he turned to you and he made
61:22[clears throat] you the God and Lord of
61:23his life. I thank you that his sins are
61:26going to be remitted and washed away
61:27today. And when he comes up out of this
61:29water, we celebrate, Lord, what you have
61:31done, that you still have all power to
61:33forgive sins. I thank you, God, that
61:36you're going to order his steps. You got
61:37great things in store for him. And we
61:39give you praise and glory today in Jesus
61:42name we pray. Amen. Praise God. All
61:45right. All right. Yep. Hold your nose
61:48down. Hold your nose.
61:53>> All right, King David. Based upon your
61:56profession of faith in the Lord Jesus
61:58Christ and confessing of all of your
61:59sins, it's my privilege to baptize you
62:02in the only saving name of [music] Jesus
62:04for the remission of all your sins.
62:10[music]
62:15>> [music]
62:21>> Stop.
62:28[music]
62:33Heat.
62:36[music]
62:37Heat.
62:51[music]
62:55Heat.
62:57[music]
63:01Heat. Heat.
63:15[music]
63:34>> [music]
63:42>> Heat. Heat.
63:53>> [music]
64:06>> Thank you.
64:12Hallelujah.