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A Righteous Man’s Prayer | Joel Siegel | Georgetown, TX | Thursday AM | Miracle Crusade 2023
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Hi, I'm Nancy Dufresne. Welcome to our podcast channel. We know you'll be blessed by today's message.
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Man, we so value the ministry we've been a part of this week. I'm honored to have been in these services this week. Every. Every night service has been just so outstanding. And, you know, the day services hadn't been that bad, have they? I mean, they've been all right. God's our helper. Hallelujah. And I'm still saying what I said at the beginning of these meetings, and that's, I'm getting all that I came for. We're getting all we came for. Amen. How many know that we don't fizzle out? God doesn't fizzle out. Amen. We don't wear out. We don't fizzle out. We go from strength to strength, glory to glory, faith to faith, grace to grace. Amen. We get it all. We get it all. We are a greedy bunch when it comes to spiritual things, and that's okay. It's okay to be greedy. But remember what was said yesterday about, if you can remember yesterday, how many can remember that far back with all that's happened, you know? But how many remember some things were said about posture, how, spiritually speaking, you want to maintain an edge of your seat posture, right? My wife used the illustration of, you know, coming up. She went to music school, she went to college and got a degree, a vocal performance degree or no education degree, but as a vocalist, and learned all this stuff. But I'm simpler than that. I think of the catcher in baseball. How many know that that catcher's not sitting there checking his hair, right? Not scratching and picking or nothing like that? What's he doing? Huh? He's ready. We talk about the tennis player ready position. So how many are ready today for all that God has for us? Come on. I am ready.
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Yeah, we want to encourage you. Stay. Stay with it. Like he said, God doesn't fizzle out, right? He's progressing from glory to glory. We should be moving with him. And all of these meetings, they're training ground for us. They're training sessions teaching us how to. To learn and respond to him, to his flow. And if we can learn to connect in places like this, when we have morning and night and morning and night and morning and night to. To immerse in him and we'll start to be able to recognize when we're on our own and we're in times of prayer and we're just reading the word and praying in Other tongues and receiving from him. We'll be able to recognize the flow, we'll be able to discern the river that he has us going. And my husband was saying just the other day, all the days are kind of running together at this point. But you know, I like big pictures. I love to do like jigsaw puzzles. Not that I get time to do those, but I do enjoy that. But when you're doing a jigsaw puzzle, right, You've got what, a thousand pieces sitting there, right? You need a big picture. And you, you're constantly referring back to that picture. What is this supposed to look like? And that helps you pick out the next piece and figure out where that needs to go. And so many times people, they come into the things of God, they get hooked up with a church and that's what you're supposed to do. But that's kind of as far as they go. And you know, God works as much as he can in their lives. But when we are taught to look at the big picture and see things from God's perspective, well, then when we get in services and we have this puzzle piece, but we know what that big picture is, we're able to say, oh, this is where it goes, okay? And then this is where it goes. And we're all bringing our pieces and we're able to fit together where we need to fit. This is God's design. We are the body, the body of Christ. So for me, I love the big picture. I love to start what happens Sunday night and then what was said Monday morning and then Monday night and Tuesday. I like to weave all of that together and pull the string and see what, what are we, why, you know, what, what are we learning here? What's my big picture? And if we could say this, we're. We're wanting to mature and grow up in him. Not just individually, we're supposed to, right? But we're wanting to move away from these carnal things, as my husband mentioned. Get away from being flesh ruled and just constantly living naturally. We need to pull away from that and start to become more mature and spirit minded, spiritual, become the spiritual man that we need to be. Why? Why? Just so we can live better. That's a result, right? Didn't we hear a masterful sermon last night? Oh my goodness. Masterful. Just do verse one. Do verse one. Delight yourself. Obey his word. Right? Right. And so there's reasons why they benefit our lives. When we learn to do these things, right, when we learn to delight ourselves in the Lord, when we Learn to obey his commandments when we learn to be tender hearted, not hard hearted, as was said the other night. And you back up to another night where we learn about, you know, we need to, well, there's the soil of our heart she was talking about at one point. And then we want to look at all of these things. Why are they being said to us? And we might think, well, and I've thought it before, you think, well, I know that, but then why are they being said? Evidently some of us, myself included, need to be reminded of these things because these are the things that will move us from carnal. Remember that? Meat, meat, meat, head. From just thinking naturally to moving over into this spiritual realm where we can learn and recognize and discern. This is what God has. This is what God has for me this moment. This is what God has for me this month. This is what God has for us as a local body. This is what God has for us as the universal body of Christ. And this is the movement in which we need to be directed. So these things that are ministered to us, we need to, to take notes. We need to understand. But you know, I don't always take a lot of notes in a service. Sometimes I'll go back and listen to those things. But we need to connect the dots, as Pastor Nancy will say. We need to look at the big picture on the puzzle and see why are we receiving this instruction, what's being said? Well, my husband ministered Monday morning, something that God wants to do, and that's a healing rampage. And he wants to be given an opportunity to move on the earth in this flow of healing. Will, all these other instructions we have had will help us fulfill what God has in giving him opportunity. Praise the Lord. We're all awake today, right? We're all here. We're not letting things just fall out. I believe there are some things we need to recognize today. So if you would turn with me to James chapter five. Sometimes, if we're not careful as the body of Christ, there's whole groups in the body of Christ that think that God is just going to do what God wants to do when he wants to do it. And we really have nothing. We have no part in that. It's just. And they'll use this Word, he's sovereign. Well, we've been taught differently because the Word teaches differently in that we do have a part. But sometimes even that when we know we have a part, we don't necessarily recognize or understand all our part is. And that's why this whole week it's been, we've got to come up, we've got to be spiritually mature, we've got to tweak this. We've got to watch our heart, we've got to watch the soil of our heart. We've got to watch what we say, not complaining, not griping, but agreeing and delighting in the plan, the full plan of God for our lives and for the body. We've got to make these tweaks because it will bless our lives. Yes, and that is a byproduct, a very good byproduct of obeying the Word. But because every single person in this room, every single believer that's listening via livestream, every single one of us has a part to play. This isn't just about who's in the pulpit. This isn't just about the five fold ministry. This isn't just about a worship team. It's about every one of us fulfilling our peace, bringing our part. And one of the things we as the body are supposed to know, recognize and be able to do is to pray. And so sometimes we think, well, when a man of God gets up and proclaims the word that he's heard from the Lord, we just think, oh, that's cool, that's awesome, thank you God. And we leave it at the door. And we might not think this because we've been taught well, we won't think, well, he's sovereign, he'll just do it. But by leaving it where we heard it and just walking out. You know, I grew up in the Northeast, it gets cold up there. And if you went out to a show to, you know, to a symphony hall, or if you were going to say a wedding or something in a ballroom of a hotel, when you got there in the middle of the winter, you might have a really pretty outfit on underneath, but you were bundled up, you had a coat, you might have had a hat, gloves, whatever. So they will have, in these nicer venues, they will have a coat check, right? And so you'll take off all the outerwear and you'll check it at the door so you don't have to haul around all your luggage, you know, all your baggage with you while you go into the venue. And when we come to meetings like this, oftentimes that's what we do. We might have a lot of stuff that we have to deal with at home and when we come here, we check it at the door and we spend some time just basking in him and enjoying the services and receiving. But often when we leave we pick up all the baggage that we had come with, all the problems, all the issues, and we just go back to our regular life. That's not the purpose of the meetings. It's not the purpose of the miracle Crusades. It's not the purpose for any time that God calls people apart. And if you're here, he dealt with you to be here, right? And it's for a purpose. And it's to leave that natural stuff at the door and go home with a purpose in mind. This is my part of the body. And so when, when we have men of God standing in the pulpit and proclaiming and telling us things, we need to connect those dots. We need to take these messages, weave them together in our spirit, and realize we need to come up for a reason. So in James, chapter five, Verse 17, well, verse 16, we have to start in verse 16. It says, Confess your faults one to another and pray for one another that you may be healed. Amazing verse. It's connected some verses before that. We're not going to get to that part today. But this is what we want to look at. The effectual fervent prayer. A what righteous man avails much. We know this verse. We've looked at it before in miracle Crusades. The righteous man. Well, we've all been made righteous by the blood of Jesus, but not all of the body is walking in the knowledge of their righteousness. All week long we've been given more knowledge, more encouragement to come up in our righteousness of who we are in him, right? Why? Because that person, the spiritually mature person, can make power available in prayer. And so these, these words that are proclaimed by our prophets, by our apostles in the body of Christ. We have a whole book of words that have been proclaimed through prophets, right? They are the reason they are spoken, the reason we have apostles and prophets in the body of Christ. They're standing in a place, they're seeing what God wants and they're proclaiming that word to the body. It's for a purpose. And we can't just think, oh, isn't that cool? What a great word. We have a part. We have a part in these words that are delivered to the body. The words that we have in this book, the sure word of prophecy, right? We have a part in receiving these words, in believing these words, and we have a part in our prayer life to sustain and maintain and uphold these words. Verse 17, the end of 16 said, the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. Verse 17 says, this Elias or Elijah, Was a man, not a prophet. Here, he doesn't bring out that he was a prophet. He was a man subject to like passions as we are. And he prayed earnestly that it might not rain. And it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. That's a long time. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain and the earth brought forth her fruit. Now, I want to look at this in First Kings, chapter 17. Glory to God. First kings, chapter 17, verse 1. Well, we have to back up to 16. Let's look at verse 29. It says, in the 30 and 8th year of ASA, king of Judah, began Ahab the son of Omri to reign over Israel. And Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel and Samaria 20 and two years. Ahab did evil in the sight of the Lord above all. Sure don't want that said about me, huh? Above all that were before him. And it came to pass as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nabat that he took to wife Jezebel, the daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Zidonians, and went and served BAAL and worshiped him. And he reared up an altar for BAAL in the house of BAAL and he built in Samaria. And he did all kinds of stuff to provoke the Lord. It says he put up different altars for different types of gods. And he just did everything you could think of to anger the Lord and to push against what God had for the people of Israel. Now, BAAL was a. They called him the God of. Well, the God of thunder, the God of weather. It was a very agricultural society, and he was supposed to control the wind, the rain. He was supposed to be over all that. And when they needed good crops, they'd pray to baal. So God. The God. The God of Israel comes in verse one of chapter 17 and says. And it says. And Elisha the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, as the Lord God of Israel lives before whom I stand, there shall not be dew or rain these years. But according to my word. Now, this is Elijah, right? Elijah's saying this. And if we just look at this account without seeing James, chapter five, we would think that he's just coming up with something because he got mad at Ahab and said, okay, because you're doing this. You're working against God. You know, I'm just gonna say, you're not gonna see rain but in James chapter five, we see a different part of the story. We see Elijah praying fervently as a man, not just a prophet. So apparently it's not just the word of the prophet. There needs to be some cooperation to that word in prayer. That's our part. That's our part of the puzzle. That's exciting, isn't it? We have a part to play in fulfilling prayer. The plan of God. The word of God for the earth. Wow. Elijah prayed fervently that it might not rain. And it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.
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So I don't know about you. I want to know, how do you do that? So we see in chapter 17 here, obviously Elijah heard a word from God to speak. He speaks it to Ahab. You just gotta love God, right? You know, okay, you're gonna worship a so called God of the rain and the storms. Let me show you who is the God. And we're just gonna stop that for three and a half years. And God deals with Elijah. We know the story. I hope you know the story. God deals with Elijah to get to the brook, right? He has ravens bringing him food. And every morning, every night, he's got fresh bread and he's got meat. I don't know about. I think about these things. Where'd that come from? It's a drought. Not too many people are eating. Well, as time goes by, I think those birds went by Ahab's place, picked up the fresh bread that was sitting in the window, cooling off, picked it up. And they're like every day, these birds. So Elijah delivers this word, strong word. And then he's out at the brook by himself. He's got some time on his hands, right? What do you think he's doing? Father, thank you. Your word is true. You are the God of Israel. Thank you that your word is sustaining your plan. And no rain falls on the earth. That's what he's doing, guys. As a man now he's out of the prophet's office right now. He's just, every day he's waking up, waiting for the birds to deliver breakfast. That's not a bad thing, is it? Oh, well, being stuck by yourself for however long he was there wouldn't necessarily be fun. But we delight in his plan. So Elijah's there. Then we know he goes to the widow there at Zarephath. He's fulfilling the plan piece by piece. But every day he's in this plan, he's thanking the father. Thank you, Lord. You sustain your word, you sustain your word. You're the God of Israel. And you alone declare when it rains and when it doesn't, you alone are the God of these people. And so every day he's sustaining, he's agreeing, he's agreeing with what God has said. Until there's a day that comes in chapter 18, when the Lord speaks to Elijah again and says, we need to talk to Ahab now. So verse one it says, and it came to pass after many days that the word of the Lord came to Elijah in the third year, saying, go show yourself unto Ahab, and I will send, I will send. I God will send rain on the earth. Elijah's not doing God's part. God is not doing Elijah's part. Man has a part, God has a part. And it's the cooperation of us working together that gets the job done. So go show yourself to Ahab. I'll send rain upon the earth. And Elijah went to show himself unto Ahab. And there was a sore famine in Samaria, you can imagine. So, right, so Ahab, he gets his way to Ahab. It takes a little bit, right? And in verse 17, it says, it came to pass when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, art thou he that troubleth Israel? Aren't people amazing? Blaming the preacher. That's right, Blaming the prophet. You had to say this. You had to do this. You're the man troubling Israel. Never mind the fact that I'm the one that brought in the so called weather God. People don't always think right, do they? So Ahab tries to get him the what for, you know, Elijah calls everybody together, right? He brings up the priests of baal, he has this big showdown, right? He's gonna say, the God who answers by fire, he's God. And so we have this giant showdown. God is God of Israel. And he leaves the altar of God. The fire comes down, everything's licked up, everything's gone. It even burns up all the dust that's there, right? And it leaves the people of Israel going, the Lord, he is God. The Lord, he is God. The Lord, he is God. And after this big showdown, Elijah in verse 41 says to Ahab, get thee up, eat and drink. For there is, I love this, a sound of an abundance of rain. Get thee out. So God told Elijah in verse 1 of 18, go talk to Ahab. It's time, it's time for the rain. He gets this big showdown. He has God answer by fire. He has. Now all the people of Israel decreeing the correct thing, Right? Okay. We got it right. That Baal's not God. No way. Couldn't do anything. Hasn't helped us for three and a half years. The God of Israel, He's God, Jehovah, Yahweh, whatever name they were giving him at that point. He's God. He's God. And so he tells Ahab, you better get moving. Go eat and drink. Because there is a sound of an abundance of rain. Prophets can hear things. Prophets can see things. Why are we talking about prophets? Because we've heard from them this week. And. And why are we here? Why are we hearing from them? Yes, to benefit our own lives, but there's a greater purpose. Body of Christ. We have a part to play. And it's not to go to the back after the services are over tonight, pick up all the baggage we came with, and go home the same way. It's to grab our assignments as Pastor Nancy tells us, our homework. Right. And to get this job done. So Elijah hears a sound of the abundance of rain. Ahab leaves. And Elijah, verse 42, he didn't leave right away. It says he went up to the top of Carmel and he cast himself down upon the earth and put his face between his knees. What's he doing? Well, in James 5, it tells us he was praying earnestly. He was praying earnestly. He prayed earnestly that it might not rain. And then he prayed again. When the word came time for rain, as a prophet, he heard the sound of an abundance of rain, but he didn't stop there. He didn't just say something or hear something. The next thing he did, he was on his knees. Now, Elijah was by himself. He had to do both parts of this equation himself. He did get the people of Israel at least steered back in the right direction, the right place, and decree, praise the Lord, that the Lord is God. So Elijah speaks the word, he hears the rain, but he still has to do something else. He gets on his knees and he starts to say, now listen. Many of us, myself included, have heard the word of the Lord spoken by the prophet my husband mentioned yesterday. We've heard many things that Brother Hagin would declare or Dr. Dufresne would declare, and it didn't seem to ever come to pass. It wasn't the prophet's fault. We have a part to play in the words that come forth. And Elijah is demonstrating for us both sides of this. What is the prophet's part and what is our part? So after the word is spoken, there's an abundance of rain. Get ready. He gets on his knees. But many of us have done this part wrong. We get on our knees and say, oh, God, please send the rain. Please send the rain. Please send the rain. Please send the rain. That's not what God said. God said, it's time for rain. The rain's now. The prophet said, I hear it. I hear it. You don't hear rain if it's not there. So he was hearing in the spirit realm what God meant for the natural. In prayer, we take what the prophet has said, what the prophet has heard, what the prophet has seen, what the prophets have heard, seen. In years past, in times past, in decades and millennia past. We take what they've seen, and we don't beg for it. We thank him for it. The prophets heard this. Praise God. That means it's here. That means. That means we're in it now. So, Father, thank you. Elijah gets on his knees and says, thank you for the rain. Thank you. Thank you for. Thank you for the rain. Thank you for the rain. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Oh, glory to God for the rain. Thank you. It's been so long without the rain. We're so thankful for the rain. In verse 43. Then he says to his servant, go up now. Look, look, look. Look toward the sea. And the servant goes out and looks. Now, if you were the servant. If I was the servant, I'd be like, oh, boy, there's nothing there. What am I supposed to say, Mr. Elijah, there's nothing there. Does that bother Elijah? Does Elijah rip into a servant? What does he say? Go again, look again. Go look. Go look again. Listen, when we get home in our prayer times, if we don't see it ourselves, what do we do? Just go look again, Father, thank you. You said it's time for rain. It's rain. Rain, rain. That was the word, rain. No other word but rain. So I'm here to look again. Praise God and thank you for the rain. The servant goes seven times. Elijah was not bothered by this. It didn't bother him that there was a little bit of time before things in the natural realm aligned with what was already in the spirit realm. Because the word of the Lord is the word of the Lord. He's true. He cannot lie. It does come to pass if we will cooperate and agree. Elijah, just go again, go again, go again. So thank goodness, the servant, after seven times, you know, he gets up there, he goes, okay, I've got a little cloud. Something I can give him. Something other than there's nothing there. A little cloud. If It's a little cloud. We'll take it. Right, we'll take it. But recognize it as what it is. Don't come back apologizing. All I see is a little cloud. We come back going, haha, there's a little cloud. There's a little cloud. We've got clouds. Glory to God. And so he comes back. In verse 44, it says it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, behold, behold, look. Oh, glory to God. There arises a little cloud out of the sea like a man's hand. Now, this is not a big storm cloud. This is not, you know, thunder clouds. You know, this is not the big wall cloud that blows through the tornad cloud kind of thing. This is not that. What is it? It's a little cloud the size of a man's hand. But Elijah goes, that's it, that's it, that's it, that's it. What we saw in the Spirit. Ha. Here we go, here we go. Get ready. He said, go tell Ahab. You better hurry up. You better get in your chariot. You better get going. Come on, let's. Let's wrap this thing up. Let's get moving because we are about to be overtaken. Why? Because Elijah knew that the word spoken still had to be maintained, upheld. James tells us the effectual fervent prayer of a person who knows his standing in God. The righteous person makes power available. Power available. We are not God. We are not bring. We are not doing what God's part. We are not making it rain. Right? Elijah didn't make it rain. What he heard the time was now speak it. And he spoke it as a prophet of God, declaring it to be in the earth. But then, as a man, like as we are, he got on his knees and upheld that word until the first sights of it were in the natural.
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Glory to God. Glory to God. So that was Elijah. And that was, for a certain period of time, a certain group of people. But what about other prophets? What about Daniel? Daniel was just reading the Word one day. He was reading the prophet Jeremiah, and they were in captivity. And they had been in captivity all of, really all of Daniel's life, pretty much. And he saw in Jeremiah where it said, After 70 years, the people will leave captivity and they'll go back to their homeland. Daniel didn't leave it there and just say, huh, isn't that interesting? I wonder when God will just bring that to pass. He didn't do that. What did he do? He set himself. He set himself. He set time aside. He actually Fasted. He actually pulled himself back from natural activities for a while. And he talked to God. God, what about this word? What about this? Your Word's true. He wasn't begging God. He wasn't crying and whining that it hadn't. We're not seeing it. He was simply upholding God's word. Word in prayer. We don't have time to look at that story today, but go read it sometime in Daniel. It's amazing. It's amazing. There was angelic activity, there was demonic activity. There was a lot of movement going on in the spirit, but none of it started until Daniel set himself in prayer to talk to God about this, the man of God, Jeremiah, he said this. What about this? Why aren't we seeing? This is it now. If it is, we thank you for it. Thank you for moving. Like I said, we've got to think right about these things. Because some of us, in times past that. You know how many prophecies are in this book about the birth of the Messiah, the coming of the Messiah, and yet it took people not just reading it and saying, oh, well, we sure hope he comes this year. Luke takes time to record two people in particular who did more than just hope that the Messiah would come. They got on their knees. Luke, chapter two. Let's look there. I hope this is helping us this morning. Luke, chapter 2, verse 25. It says, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. And the same man was just and devout, waiting. In the Old Testament, we might use that word, watching. What? Not just waiting, like waiting for a bus to arrive. Waiting in the spirit realm, praying, waiting for the consolation of Israel. And the Holy Ghost was upon him. Do you know how fun that is when you can't even be born again, but you get to walk around with a Holy Ghost upon you.
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Because he recognized things in the scripture that were supposed to come to pass, that hadn't come to pass yet. And because the Holy Ghost was upon him, because he was yielding to that, he could sense, oh, this is time. And it says, and he came. Oh, excuse me. Verse 26. It was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost that he should not see death before he had seen the Lord's Christ. Well, that's a promise right there, huh? You can get up every day saying, lord, I'm getting older. You said, you said, you said, you said, I'm gonna see him. So I thank you. I thank you, Father. I thank you that he's here. That he's here. You said I'd see him. I know how old I am. He'd say, right, Praise God. And verse 27, he came by the Spirit into the temple. And when the parents brought in the child Jesus to do for him after the custom of the law, then Simeon took him up in his arms and blessed God and said, lord, now let your servant depart in peace according to your word. For my eyes have seen the salvation which you have prepared before the face of all people. A light to lighten the Gentiles and the glory of your people Israel. How did he know all of that? He was a man with the Spirit upon him who kept studying the Scriptures and said, it's time. It's time you told me I'd see him. And when he showed up in infant form, he recognized. People of prayer will recognize things in the natural that other people don't recognize to other people in the temple that day, it was just another baby. Isn't he cute? All babies are cute. Simeon said, oh, no, give me this one. Oh, glory to God. This is it. This is it, what we've been calling for. That infant was like a cloud, size of a man's hand. He wasn't preaching. He wasn't declaring scripture. He was a baby, probably crying, probably might have not even smelled that great baby. Baby didn't have a halo over his head. Sorry, didn't, Didn't. Didn't have the little woo. But Simeon still recognized him. And so Mary and Joseph were like, whoa, this is different. And then in walks anna. In verse 36, there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel of the tribe of Asher. She was of great age. Thank you Bible, for pointing that out. Verse 37 says, she wouldn't depart from the temple, but she served God with what? Fastings and prayers, night and day. And she was coming in that instant and gave thanks likewise unto the Lord and spake of the Messiah to all them that looked for redemption in Jerusalem. Wow. What are we saying? We have record at least, of two.
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Who saw something in the Word and got in the Spirit and wouldn't let go of it until they were holding it in their hand. In infancy form, it hadn't been totally fulfilled yet, right? But it was a cloud the size of a man's hand. It had begun. And that was good for them. They're like, yes, we've got it, we've got it. We've got it, we've got it. Glory to God. What are we saying? We, as the body of Christ, we are to take these things that are decreed and declared by our prophets by the voices that God is raising in the body for this era and this day. And we are to uphold them in the spirit, not by begging for them now. Lord, I wish we. We would see miracles. I want to see those miracles. No, Father. You said you're on a healing rampage. You said it's for all you said. Just give you the opportunity. So we thank you for it. We thank you every day. Every day. This is our part. Glory to God. An expectancy of his goodness and expectancy of his movement. But Jesus didn't just come once. He's on the schedule. For a return. What's our part? Body, what's our part? Be an Anna, Be a Simeon. Be a Daniel, Be an Elijah. Be the men and women that see it in the Word and every day in the Spirit. Thank you, Father. Thank you, Father. Doesn't Revelations tell us the last chapter of the book? The Spirit and the bride say, Come.
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This organ. This organ has keys. Couple sets of keys on top, right? He's gonna laugh at me. Say again. Manuals. That can play some beautiful melodies. But it also has foot pedals. Those foot pedals provide the low notes. The bottom end. They sustain. Mmm. They sustain things that support the melody. The prophet's voice is like the melody that goes out. Our prayers sustain it. Uphold it. You might not like music. My dad, he's a construction guy. He taught woodworking in high school. He taught high school. Excuse me. He taught woodworking to high schoolers for many, many years. He has a whole shop in his basement. He has all kinds of equipment. He has this big air compressor. My husband has an air compressor. Air compressor at home. But it's little. It's little. My dad has a big one. That air compressor, when you turn it on, it makes a serious amount of noise. What? It's building up pressure. It's building up pressure so that when you go to press that nozzle, you've got power. You've got power to do what you need to do. Blow up a tire, do whatever. He does all kinds of stuff with that air compressor. Well, my dad, when he would get in certain projects, he would just leave that air compressor on, sometimes for days. And that pressure would build up. You'd hear that motor, run it, rumble the whole house. But then it would stop. Why? Because it had filled its tank and it was just waiting for somebody to be able to use it. But if he didn't get to use it that day or in those few hours, every once in a while, that compressor would kick back on. Why because that pressure needed to be rebooted. Stirred. Stirred. It needed to be maintained so that it was ready for the use. Our prayer life maintains that power, that pressure. It's all right to get up and say, thank you, Lord Jesus, for your return. You're coming again soon. The Spirit says, come. I say, come. Glory to God. We're gonna get this job wrapped up and done, and your healing power flows. And we're in this last day revival, and we're gonna have all that you said we're gonna have. What are we doing? We are priming. We're stirring that compression. We're adding pressure. So when God needs to do his part, everything is in place. James 5 tells us the earnest, heartfelt, continued prayer of a righteous man makes tremendous power. That's not me, I hope. Tremendous power, available, dynamic in its working. The wuest says a prayer of a righteous person is able to do much as it operates. The prayer, the prayer. Elijah was, yes, a prophet. But in James, he points out he was a man like as we are. And he prayed earnestly that it might not rain. And it did not rain for three and a half years. And then he prayed again. Why? Because the word of the Lord said, it's time now. And he got on his knees. He didn't go down with Ahab. He got on his knees until the sign. Tremendous power available. Tremendous power available. The righteous person is able to do much. That prayer is able to do much as it operates. Our prayer life is an operation. It is a movement with God. It is a stirring of the container. It's a bass pedal sustaining God's word until all comes to pass, until all comes together. That's our prayer life. And when we come together in united prayer. Listen, guys, this is not just for somebody that's like age 50 and up. This is not just somebody who's been in the body of Christ for 20 years. If you're 20 years old, I need you to be praying and learn how to do this. If you're 30 years old, get in the game. You better come. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. Yes, ma'. Am.
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I just want to tag on because she was talking about that Elijah every day. Why every day? You have to know this. The devil is not all knowing. Don't treat him. Don't give him that kind of credibility. He is not all knowing. He's in the spirit realm. So when he sees movement in the spirit realm, he moves. He sees movement. So he starts moving. He takes his cues from seeing movement. He'll see angels moving at Words. God's words, our words. So he's not all knowing. He just reads the realm. He reads the realm. So we don't give him credit that that's not due him. You could do the same thing. I mean, there are kids that. They don't know what's going on on that tag football thing. They're playing. They just see a guy running over here, and they just go over where the movement is. They don't know the rules. They're just going where all the running is going. Don't give the devil credit. All he's doing is running where things are moving. But we know the Bible says. And dad Hagen talks this about the experience of going to hell. Hell from beneath. Hell is beneath. Hell is beneath. But there are prints of the powers of the air. Hell is not set up in the air. It's beneath. But they work in the air. Why do you have to do it every day? Because Satan tries to interfere in the air to snatch that word from fulfillment. He goes after fulfillment. And so that's why we continue. Not because we're trying to talk God into something. Not because we're trying to coerce. We're getting it past interference. Now, see, that's. If you understand that then continuing is not just a thing about dealing with your flesh. You, You. It's not just about your flesh. I just got to continue because I'm to continue. We're continuing so that something that is spoken sees fulfillment before, and it's not snatched out before it's fulfilled. That's Satan's intent to abort it before fulfillment. That's why we go at it every day. That's why we say every day. Amen. Because the devil comes to steal. He's stealing things that the preacher has preached. The prophets have said. He's stealing that he'll snatch it out of midair, so to speak, before fulfillment, once it's fulfilled. So as we are continuing and more are continuing, he cannot stop all that movement. There's so much movement, right, because there's more with us than there are with him. Because when we. When we continue, the angels working with the body continue, they're continuing. Well, do we have scripture for that? Well, she. She. She went to that point and talking about Daniel. But then Daniel, when that angel appeared to Daniel, he said, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words. Well, if God's angels come for the words, Satan's angels come for the words. Why? Because Satan is an imitator of how God works. And the angel said to Daniel. But the prince of the kingdom of persia withstood me one and 20 days. So what is it that caused fulfillment to where the angel could come and show Daniel the future. About the fulfilling of these words is because Daniel outlasted demons. Every day. He just kept at it. And in outlasting them, angels were assisting. And the angels, they're fueling our continuation. Fuels the angels continuation.
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Why?
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Because angels move at thy word. So the more our words are going, they can keep moving based on the words. So this is why we continue, not because we're just trying to stick with it. It's not just to stick with, you know, I'm a get er done type person. No, it's because the devil is trying to steal fulfillment in that atmosphere. There are things, they're moving and they're working to try to get that to come to pass. Amen. So it helps us to understand why we continue. It's not just because it's a good idea and it's good spiritual behavior. It is good spiritual behavior. But when we understand it's not coercing God, we don't continue because we're trying to talk God into something. Because this is what people kind of start joining, continuing with. We got to talk God into healing. So I gotta keep. No, we're not coercing. We are refusing to let this let Satan, who is the thief, steal from us by us stopping short. Amen. So I just wanted to add that part to it because it helps us to realize it's not just about a get her done attitude. It's just that we're getting it past that opposition of the air prince of the powers of the air. That's, that's what we're doing. That's we're, we're fueling heaven's movement through, through that. We're not dealing with them per se in the sense of God sends angels just like Daniel, that Michael was going through that. But when we continue, we give them permission to keep working. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. That is not just God do something about this earth. Its earth has to continue so heaven can continue. Where? How is God going to fulfill his will on earth as in heaven? Through us. Through us, through us, through us. Not apart from us, him coming in and taking over. And so this is part of his will being done on earth when we continue. Because our continuing gives permission, our faith gives permission for heaven to continue on its side as we continue on our side. Amen. Well, I just want to add that.
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Okay, now Go.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Praise the Lord. Man, my heart has been packed this morning with some just. I mean, the word is so good. The Word's fed me so much this morning. We're going to put this into practice today. I'm thinking about the verse that one of the verses we read there in James 5, where it says, and he prayed again, he prayed again, and the heavens gave forth the rain. How many know all of the spiritual things that we talk about in terms of healings and manifestations of God and all that he desires to do? You could all categorize that as part of what the Bible calls the latter rain, the rain of God's spirit. Amen. Signifying an outpouring. And so how many know if Elijah could pray and get natural rain, we can cooperate with God and receive his spiritual rain? And so how many ready to do that now? Yeah. I know you've been seated a while. You want to start, change your position, stand up, and then you're welcome to sit down once we get going here if you need to, but that'll just help you get flowing and help us go longer. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. And we'll just follow God, not go exceedingly long, whatever he says. Right? Father, thank you this morning. We come grateful. We come in awe of you. You're a good God. You're a great God. Your plan is impressive. Your plan is amazing. And so all of these aspects of your plan that we've heard about, we thank you for their fulfillment. We thank you, Father, for this time of not just miracles, but extraordinary miracles. Thank you to bring glory. Not to man. To bring glory to you. To demonstrate just how great your love is. We thank you. We call for these things. We call for these things. We thank you for the fullness of your outpouring. We thank you that we receive it. We thank you that it's now. We thank you that we are in this last days revival. We thank you that we're in the time of the latter rain. And we thank you that we have it. Glory to God. We see it by faith. We call it so. Glory to God. And make preparation. In agreement with it now, Father, we trust the Holy Spirit to help us as we continue to pray regarding details we wouldn't know, we wouldn't see. For the creative miracles. Yeah. The increase in creative miracles. Restoration, regeneration of hearts. Pagalis. Oh, my.
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God.
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Yes. The fire of God falls. The fire of God falls. In the nations. Ha ha ha. In south america. Central america. Glory to God. The u.s. canada. Thank you, father. Glory to God. In eastern europe. Western europe. We thank you that the fire falls in all the earth, Africa and asia. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you for the cabets. For the cabet. Sikragolba. Mama tsika to kobratic. Ye canseco yen kandansi ye cantaretz ye cantebat yekinvlasi le tunora Meleganzo Melase Meleke quiraci kindame kinsteca canstura pensiti Tichele Caofride Cambanze Quingano Gillesto Keraye Quenzene Kenzasto Kenzaki Galilea. Yes, yes, yes, yes. To the muslim nations. To the. Yeah. The gospel. To the muslim muslims. The gospel. To the muslims.
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Burning in the hearts of men.
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The last days. The last days. The last yeah. That which is reserved for the last days. Hahaha. The last days. Yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah. The last days. Bits.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Yes. We yeah. My my my my my my. Ha. Oh my my my my.
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Yes.
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We praise you, we praise you. We praise you. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Glory, glory, glory, glory. Glory. Glory, glory, glory. Oh, we're thankful. We're thankful. We're thankful. We're grateful. Thank you. Thank you for all you have. Hahaha. Glory, Glory.
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Yay.
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Come. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Glory, glory, glory, Glory. Well, the tank's been pressurized this morning. That when she was talking about that air compressor. Don't you sense that. That some power has been made available? Amen. But I tell you, as we were praying, one of the things that just kept exploding in me is just how global this whole kingdom is. Amen. We're not trying to reach, you know, just our little piece of the pie.
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The whole world, the whole earth.
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Whole world. The whole world. This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness to every nation. Then the end shall come. Praise the Lord. Good. Praise God. Pastor.
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