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Taking-In In Prayer, Part Two | Noel Ramos | Prayer Conference 2022 | World Harvest Church | Murrieta, CA
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Hi, I'm Nancy Dufresne. Welcome to our podcast channel. We know you'll be blessed by today's message. Father, we just worship you this morning. We thank you, dear Heavenly Father. Thank you, Father. Lord Jesus, thank you, Father. Thank you for giving us our Lord Jesus. Thank you, Lord Jesus, for obeying the Father and that now we have youe divine nature, that the appointed them. Time came that you came to this earth. Give youe life for us. And we thank youk. You took that old man that has no life and give us yous own life, that eternal life, Lord Jesus. And thank youk, dear Heavenly Father. Not only you gave your own begotten Son to us to be our Lord and our Savior. Because we became your children, we became unitedly, vitally connected with Him. Thank you. You sent the Holy Ghost into our hearts whereby we cry Abba Father. Amen this morning as we sing to you. Father, is that because the Holy Ghost that is in our heart, bear witness with our spirit that we are your children. And thank you. Thank you for faith, Father. Holy Ghost, we thank you so much that you left Heaven and live and abide in us forever. We are so thankful that you look upon us your creation. If you totally given everything you have for us, we cannot thank you enough for what you have done for us. Father. I thank you, Father. Thank you for faith. Holy Ghost. Thank you. We might not see you. We are so thankful for faith that faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Father, thank you for that faith that you have put in our heart. That we can see the Holy Ghost through your word and by faith we say and honor him, his presence within us. If we approach your word and in prayer, we know the Holy Ghost is in us. Lord Jesus, we are with you forever. Your Word, your life is in us. We cannot see eternal life with our naked eye. But we thank God for faith that we can believe even though we cannot see. And we thank you for faith. And now we worship you by faith. We worship you in spirit and in truth. We worship you because your word said that the Holy Ghost left heaven so we can call you our Father. And every time we say Father, oh, the Holy Ghost bears witness with our spirit that we are your children. Thank you. Thank you so much. And not only that you took everything you have that our Lord Jesus Christ inherited. And because of his blood, we inherited all the good things that you have. So not only we can live good things in heaven, but you give good things to us here on this earth. You want Us to live life heaven on this earth. So you put your heaven in us all the good things. O my Father, we cannot thank you enough for your power, your healing. For you have given not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, authority, your love and a sound mind. Thank you. We have peace in our mind. We have a sound mind. Thank you, Father. I don't have to live a mind that is disturbed every day. I just shield my faith to the inheritance you have for us. Because the blood of Jesus was shed for that. So we can inherit. We can inherit all the supply that we're going to need in life on this earth. But best of all, Father, we inherited the plan. We inherited your plan, your purpose and pursuit. You have given those three words to that Hagin as he prayed in the spirit back in 1987. We thank you for your plan, your purpose and the pursuit of that plan at this moment of time. And we just yield to that plan, Father. We don't have to make up our own plan. Thank God for the Holy Ghost will lead us. We're gonna have a light. We're gonna live in the light. We're gonna live in the leading of the spirit. For the leading of the Spirit is light to our spirit. He make light the word. Hallelujah. Thank you this morning as I minister your word. I'm so honored and grateful to be a vessel for you. Praise the Lord. So we give you all the praise and the glory and Father, we mean it because. Hallelujah. It bears witness with our spirit. Hallelujah. We give you all the praise. We give you all the praise. We give you all the praise. We give you all the praise and glory in Jesus name. Amen. Praise the Lord. You can all be seated. Thank you so much. Takesheba. Yeah. Thank you, Father. Amen. So honored to be with you all this morning. Thank you, Pastor. Thank you again for having me minister alongside with you. Praise God. Hallelujah. When I first being around them and they will have me minister, I get so nervous until God told me I called you. I mean you have to love that call, son. Just relax. Why do you get scared about my plan? Okay, Lord. Praise God. Hallelujah. So let's go back again to John chapter 15. And I'm just going to say this because the Lord has taught me. I learned a lot of course from this church. I remember there's two things that reminded me of about how to receive, you know, and I learned because I didn't know, you know, when got in line here getting partition and dad said Quit giving out. Quit speaking in tongues so you can receive. Okay, I thought I get more when I speak in tongues while they're laying hands on me. I learned something. How to receive. Yeah, right. I learned something. Try to give out. It doesn't know how to take in. Amen. It's important how we learn how to in prayer is more of taking in. And let's look at some scripture here. Praise God. In John, chapter 15. I'm just gonna go look at that again. And we talk about, talks about Jesus talks about that he is the true vine and I am the true vine. And my father is the husbandman. And we know a husbandman. I should say one word. He's the farmer. And the farmer the one that sows seed on the ground, right? We know that. It talks about the greatest parable that he said, if you don't understand the parable of the sower, you won't understand all the parables. So the sower soweth the word. So we can see here that in verse seven. But anyway, let's read it. He said, every branch in me that beareth not fruit. So we can be a branch. And all of us, when born again, we become a branch, we become a soil. But we can be also not fruitful. If the Father will plant something in our heart. He plant the word, right? He plant the Word. He plant the Word. And every morning we have to let him plant the Word in us. You know, that's really prayer. But the thing is, I'm the same way. I have to learn all this. And I'm still learning as I'm teaching you, I'm learning more. This is one of my favorite scripture with regards to prayer. When I first started out, you know, and I didn't know that Hagin also when he ministers, prayer is along this line too. He minister along this line about John, chapter 15. And I learned from. For him saying that prayer fruit, you know, it talks about prayer fruit. But the more I listen to it, I read it, the more I see I have to take in more before my prayer will have will bear fruit the word that he put in me. That is the fruit that. That will bear fruit. And he'll give me more if I learn how to take in, you know. And he said here, it's very interesting, he said here, verse three, now you are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. Amen. And you know, I remember the Lord Jesus Christ was saying, you know, when a man is cleaned, right? And the devil came out of him, right? And then Babel will go to dry places and he'll try always come back. He remembered that used to be my home. Yes. And we don't put anything in our heart. He said he's gonna call some more spirit. And the life of that person is worse than before. Boy, I relate to that. I said, oh, my God, my life is worse than before. You know, I remember when I first came here, United States. I thought United States is the answer to my poverty. I didn't know poverty, you know, I have a teaching, but I didn't pay attention much. And I don't read much. I'm just a casual Christian, you know. A casual Christian, he will grab the Bible, let's go to church. Sometimes he cannot even find where the Bible he put it last. Dash it off a little bit, you know? Right. That's who I am, you know, And I don't even pray much, praise God. But you know, it's really a bad habit, right? And I wonder why our life is like that. But in 1995, I decided I'm gonna pray. And I know God is good. I said, I know, Father, you're a good God. Thank God I still have that right thinking. And because I still have that one right thinking about him, he was able to help me. Some blame God. They didn't know. They got caught up. We're not praying because he's talking about here. If we don't fellowship with God, we didn't even know that our life is already cut off because we're not producing anything. That's what it says here. Very simple, right? Very simple. So it said here, verse four, abide in me and I in you as the branch. Cannot, cannot, cannot, cannot, cannot. Even when I was in the ministry, man, I'm busy preaching. I thought, I'm bearing fruit. I don't have much time with him anymore. And I realized that's not what he said. Amen, you know, Abide in me. See, the thing is, I was looking at that and one time I asked the Lord, because I hear, you know, when you are new pastor, you want your church to grow numerically. You know, the more numbers, the more you have money. When I first started, I thought, my faith is in the Word. My faith is numbers. When I have numbers, I have money. Because I hear, being around minister, man, we have this. So many people. We have this money in the bank. Oh, my God. It might be a lot. I have to have a lot of people. You know, I thought when I have money, and before I read about that rich man, that all he has is his stuff. And it became a weight to him. Cannot even follow Jesus because he has a lot of plenty of money. He didn't know that Jesus has more for him. He already had that gift. He already knows how to do, how to make money. Amen. But he doesn't know everything. Yeah, but Jesus has more for him. But hey, I'll stay. What I know. I will not leave my business to follow God. I will not leave it. I will not put anything aside. Well, you know, I got a big ministry. I can't go to those meetings or sometimes I don't have the money to go to those meetings. I keep my money instead of going. I just watch livestream. Well, there's nothing wrong with that. But if you have in your heart to go, you got to follow that. If not, it got cut off. No more leading. You know, we can lose a lot of things. Praise God, but thank God for the Word. It's very simple. Amen. See, what's important to God is our fellowship with him because he can download words to us. I thank God for that word. Download now, right? Praise God. You cannot use your computer without anything downloaded to it, right? You delete everything, you won't see anything. I don't care what brand you have, Apple or strawberry, whatever, whatever you have. I'm not a computer savvy, but I thank God for my son in law. He's an it. I t. I just say if I have problem. Mark, what's. Yeah, I'll take care of my dad, but no, no, no, no. Okay, you're good. He can even control some of the lights in the home from Las Vegas. He can control our refrigerator, he can control all this technology thing can control our stove. I mean, dad, didn't you know? Okay, no, just keep it to you. If I need it, I'll call you. Praise God. And I like this, right? I am the vine, you are the branches. He that abideth in me and I in him the same bringeth forth much fruit. For without me, you can do nothing. So let's look at that word, some scripture here. And I'm gonna read about what Jesus said about this. And let's start with John the Baptist in John, chapter three. And let's look at that scripture because we're in John. And praise God. It's chapter three verse. Verse 25. Amen. Yes. Yes, Lord. Okay, I will do that. Amen. Okay, Lord. Yes, Father. Amen. Amen. Praise God. Yes, lord. Then verse 25, it says here, this is John the Baptist. Then there arose a Question between some of John's disciples and the Jews about purifying. And they came unto John. They want to whisper in the ears of the man of God. Right. You see, it's that light. It said here they're concerned, you know. And they came unto John and said unto him, rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou bearest witness, behold, the same baptizeth. And all men come to him. All men. So he's having a crowd now. I forgot my. I got to continue on with about the story I have about. About that word in John chapter 15. And I said, lord, how do you grow a church? I hear all these kinds of things. It doesn't bear witness with me how to grow a church. We do this, we do that. We have all these natural things, you know? And I don't know, but you know, I said, how do you grow a church? I was thinking of numbers, right? He said, you grow first, you grow first. Oh, man, you know, okay, Lord, I was talking to him. I was praying and it's pruning my prayer life. He said, you grow first and the church will grow. So he's not thinking about just numbers. You can have thousands of people and no fruit. Well, how do you know you bear fruit? Because you bear fruit yourself. And I remember. I think it's dad Hagin was asked a question about how do you get to people? Pray. If I remember right, correct me if I'm wrong. He said, you pray and the people will. Okay, praise the Lord. Yeah, we demand them to do the word. We don't do it ourselves. But anyway, let's move on here. Yeah. Like sometimes we preach about love and we don't love ourselves. And the greater. I'm learning more and more now as we approach the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God has become stronger and stronger because love will cast out fear. And fear is really big right now. This Covid is not just symptom, it's fear. You fear on it, it'll get on you that quick. Amen. But anyway, I don't want to, you know, praise the Lord. But if you're full of the word and you're full of the spirit, there's no place for fear. Amen. Praise God. So verse 27, John answered and said, a man can receive nothing. Said here, a man can receive nothing except it be given him from heaven. Praise God. So what I'm saying here, these disciples is talking about is almost like competition here. He has more people than you. Now used to be people come to you now they're coming to him, right? And that's his answer. Praise God. And that was a great answer. But as you notice, John the Baptist lost the revelation of who Jesus Christ is before he got beheaded. He's almost close to being that upper room. Almost. It's almost there. But he still miss it, right? It seems like he got offended in the latter part of his life. If we read the story right. The only thing I can think of, he has revelation because he's always praying in the wilderness. You know, he cried. That cry is not feeling sorry for himself that he doesn't have a home and he haven't taken a shower for a while, whatever. You know, you live in the wilderness. You know, maybe there's a place there, there's a brook, I don't know. But that's the way I think of the Word. I just imagine, you know, I just imagine what the word situ. But I mean, it takes faith to live in the wilderness. I mean, no grocery store, no offering in your ministry. He didn't call anybody to come to him. People come to him. That anointing in him. But you have to understand that he prepared a way for Jesus. There are mountains that Jesus supposed to face, but he brought it low. He prepared a highway in his prayer life for a man of God that was given to him. He won't even admit the Bible said. He won't even not admit. He won't even consider him a prophet. When John was so when he was approached, are you a prophet? Are you this? He said, no, I am. He found himself in the word, right? He found himself. The Bible doesn't say John the Baptist, but he found himself. I am the one that cried on the wilderness. Praise God. Jesus our Lord. Jesus cannot come without us. We are waiting for his coming back, but he's waiting for us. He cannot just come back here with his own accord. He need a body. Amen. That's why I'm being taught how to pray. Lay hold of some things. Praise God. Hallelujah. Amen. So again, that's John the Baptist. Well, Jesus also has something to say about it in John chapter 5. Amen. I'm just saying here in John chapter 5, in verse 30, let's look at this. It says, this is Jesus this time. Wow. But you remember Jesus put on humanity. Amen. He has a body. He cannot just legally come into this earth and just bless us. Amen. God cannot save us from heaven. God cannot take away our sins from heaven. He has to put on this body. Amen. Can he do it. I believe he can because there's nothing too hard for him. But it's not legal for him to do it. He has to abide by his word. He swear to his word. Praise the Lord. He has to give up his son because the Bible said that he was laying before the foundation of the world. He was slain. Praise God. So he. Amen. In John, chapter five, verse 30. Are you there? Okay, let's read that scripture. It said here, I can of mine own self do nothing. This is Jesus saying. Earlier it was John the Baptist. Now it's Jesus is saying. And Jesus is saying In John, chapter 15, well, without me you can do nothing until it's given to you. And a lot of prayers are our gathering of our problem. No word. Now, there's nothing wrong because it's legit. Our situation sometimes is legit. But he said, you put my word first. Seek it first. Amen. Seek you first. Things will be added to you. Amen. So I learned every time I see situation, I spend time so I can hear the word. You know, if there's a word that I know with regards to that situation, I'll go there. Lord, you said amen. You said Lord. Amen. You said Lord. Because I learned my lesson. Because I used to gather a lot of checklists in my head. You know, sometimes we write things down. You know, we have a long list. Then I do the same thing. I learned he pruned my prayer life. And I said, father, glory to God. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. Now, Father, in the name of Jesus, right? We spend more on the list of the problem. We gathered around situations. I'm telling you right now, there's a lot of people preaching about Ukraine and Russia. They gather all this problem in the world. We are not of this world. Yeah, right. I got corrected so many times in my prayer. Amen. But praise the Lord forevermore. Right? And we got some pruning last night what to preach in the pulpit, right? Because the gospel will bring his return, not the problem of the world. When we look at the world, he said, do not be troubled what the world. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. Father, I thank you for I have, I have, I have a supply. Because you just passed that gas station. It used to be 350. Now it's 550. I have a supply, Lord. Praise the Lord. You know what I'm saying? We all do, right? Yeah. Praise God. Using tongues in the wrong way. It's okay. We got a lot of pruning to do. But it's good, right? So Jesus said, I can of mine, verse 30, own self do nothing. I, as I hear, I judge and my judgment is just. Because I seek not in mine own will, but the will of the Father which had sent me. Wow. Even Jesus Christ himself. You know, when you talk about the will, it talks about your soul, your mind and your emotion. It's connected to your prayer life, connected to our prayer life. Praise the Lord. You know, if I just not in my will, I won't drive pastor and my wife around. But that's. I got to know the will of God. It's not just driving. And I'm not bragging. I learned that being around dad. God told me you go with him, but my throat got cut. I'm not supposed to say that. Some other things, right? Hallelujah. But. And I did. Oh, praise the Lord. But anyway, I will go to a scripture this morning that really stand up to me this morning and praise God wrote it down here in Luke chapter 10. Amen. Luke chapter 10. And you, you know, a lot of things in the Word when we're reading is connected to our prayer life. Now In Luke chapter 10, let's look at it. Because it's Luke, you know, Praise God. Luke. Amen. We better know where to look. In his chapter 10, it said 38. Oh, I'm just enjoying myself. I'm enjoying the will of God. And now in verse 38. Now it came to pass as they went that he entered into a certain village and a certain woman named what Martha receive him into her house. You know, a lot of miracles that the Lord Jesus Christ did is in the house. It's in your house. This is the house of God. We gather together. But after this, you're going home. Not the hotel you're living in, you're just temporary there. If not, you're going to pay a lot of bills next if you stay there longer. Amen. But it's unnecessary. Praise God. And there's a lot of things, Even Matthew, chapter 8, the fulfillment of that word, verse 17. It happened to the house of Peter when he ministered and lay hands on a high fever. Might be Covid, I don't know. She can't get up, man. And Jesus is hungry. I need food. But there's no cook. Cook is very important. Yeah, right. She cannot stand that. That fever is really strong. Yeah, but just one touch, one touch from our Lord Jesus Christ took everything away. And right away strength came. Remember that it happened to a house of Peter. So there's so many things that Will happen to your house. Instead of the devil. Hallelujah. Praise God. Pretty soon, just me and my wife in that house. Amen. Well, Lord keep blessing our kids, you know. Hallelujah. We cannot wake up in the morning. Come on, mom. Who's the boss today? My wife will just look at me. Gotta fix our bed. Okay, I'm the boss. If you say so. You know, we're just like that. We have to have fun together, only two of us. Yeah, praise God. But that pastor. I know she's not, but a miracle happened this morning. Miracle happens every day. I was sitting down and, you know, before we slept last night, she said, I'm your helper. I'm here to help you. Yes, ma'. Am. Yeah, yeah, she came here. This is what Pato said tonight. Listen to it again. Okay, ma'. Am. You know. Yes, ma'. Am. You understand what she said? Yes, yes, yes, ma'. Am. Yes, I'm your helper. Yes, ma', am. I understand. And praise God. You know, that's the way you do it. Yeah. So anyway, praise God. Well, the miracle this morning is I'm meditating on the Word. And she came in, she went outside, she came in with a coffee in her hand without a smile, and she said, come on, mom, smile a little bit. No, we're just kidding. And she smiled. Okay, you know, praise God. You know, in the natural world, if you're a waitress or a waiter, if you don't have a smile there, you don't get a good tip. Publicly. Lord. Okay. Yes, lord. I started it. Okay, I'll do it. Oh, dear. Well, that's what the father said. Kiss your wife. Give her a good tip. I said, I want. Lord, you started it. The father, you know. You know the father, he's like that. Amen. But let's go back to the word, get into the spirit. We're already in the spirit. Thank you, mom, for that good coffee. It tastes real good. I finished it, too. That's a miracle. Because normally that's my job. But she said, remember? You know my story, right, hon? You make me copy, I got to answer back. Answer it. You know the answer book. Okay. Please. I better preach. Preach the word. Preach the word. Yes, ma'. Am. Told you. That's my helper. Okay, Let me preach the word. You hear that? Yeah. Praise God. Yes, ma'. Am. Oppo. Aha. Praise God. So, okay, so we'll look at this. Luke, chapter 10, verse 38. Let's read it again. You know, Luke, chapter 10, verse 38. Now, it came to pass as they went that he entered into a certain village and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house. And she had a sister called Mary. They all start with M, their names, you know, which also sat at Jesus feet and heard his word. Heard his word. But Martha was cumbered about much serving right seems legit, right? And came to him and said, lord, do thou not care that my sister had let me to serve alone? Bid her therefore, that she helped me. She's telling Jesus what to do, what to say. And Jesus answered and said unto her, martha, Martha. When he said the word twice to you, better listen. Thou art careful and troubled about many things. Sounds like a prayer life. We are telling Jesus about all the trouble, all about the cares. It may be legit, but Mary sat with Jesus quietly. A lot of times in our prayer life is we get quiet so he can download, so we can receive. He can put in in our heart and listen instead of listening, instead of telling Jesus, this is my trouble. I got a lot of things to tell you, Jesus. That gas, gasoline used to be 350, now it's 550. Can you do something about that gas? You know, all kinds of things. You know, I'm behind in my payment. All our mind is cluttered with a lot of natural things. It is legit, yes, it is a need. And we come in prayer with all these collective items, collective circumstances, what the devil is doing, and it's the wrong place. And Mary, Mary, you know Jesus never changed. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. If you want Jesus to leave your house real quick, talk to him about your problem. He doesn't want to hear that. If we listen to him in our prayer time, you will hear the word. He will. Let me read on. I'm not finished yet. I'm not finished yet. Ha ha. Noel, Noel. Oh, Martha, Martha, Thou art careful and troubled about many things. Verse 42. But one thing is needful. And Mary had chosen that good part. We shall not be taken away from her. You know, the devil come to steal, kill and destroy. But there are things that Jesus said to us. He cannot take it away from us. And I remember I could have left that so much pressure when I started traveling with him. You know, the devil hit every area of our life. You can ask my wife, and I'm still not skilled about pressure on the mind, how to answer it. I learned how to be skillful and praise God, that's pressure. Financially pressure, pressure, pressure. But one day I don't know what to answer. The devil at the time is putting all kinds of things in my mind. And there are vile thoughts that come to me against that. He is pressuring me to leave him. Many, many people don't know this, but only my wife. But one day I stand up against him because I remembered the Holy Ghost said to me in 2002, you go stay close to him and your pastor. She added, Pastor NANCY but of course, at that time, I was close to that. He said, praise God, stay with him, very close. I didn't know I'm going to travel with him. And he said to me, stay close, praise God, you're going to make it to the end. And he talked to me about the law of impartation. I listened to that in my prayer life. Jesus was talking to. He said, son, I have anointed you for the call that I have for you in your life. You have the anointing right now because I called you in the ministry. But he said to get into the phases of ministry. Amen. As he said that, he said in you, Abraham, the nations will be blessed. See the blessing. I put it in the man of God named Abraham. But, son, Abraham is not here anymore. But that blessings in your spiritual father, there's not many of them have that same anointing. Your father has that there's a blessing in your life connected to a man of God. That's your spiritual father. And to go to those spaces of ministry, you have to go through the law of impartation. I myself has to go to the River Jordan. I was not there to repent anything, praise God. And I have to have a man of God, which is John the Baptist, to lay hands on me. And John the Baptist will not even do it. He was just quoting to me. He was just talking to me in prayer about the Lord teaching me about the law of impartation. Am I a new kid in the block and I'm getting all this revelation? You know why? Because I was talking to him. And really I'm not talking to them to him about that. I'm just talking to him, Lord, what do you want me to preach tonight? You know, so because I got into the spirit, he started talking to me, downloading to me, and he said to me that the blessing. I don't know why I'm saying this, but I got to say, to tell you this, this is part of your fairy life. He is downloading. I was kind of like Mary sitting. And I'm hearing, praise God, I'm hearing this right, taking in what he was saying to me. And that helped me down the Road that what I heard that day cannot be taken away from me. And that's what the devil wanted to take away from me. And he cannot. I didn't know that will be the answer in the future. He said to go to the faces of ministry, you have to go through the law of impartation. I learned so much here. How to receive. He said if your body is tired, you can't yield to that anointing. You can't receive. And dad Hagin God corrected him. You know that you don't try to pray in the afternoon when you're ministering at night. I mean sleep, rest, rest your body, you know. And I learned it from here. You cannot have a body movement and receive because your body get tired. And sometimes some of us you work. It takes a toll in your body. Nobody can tell you when you talk to God because we are all doing different things. Some of us entails are out of mind in the work we do. You got to be skillful, how to close that. Amen. Praise the Lord. You got to be careful. And how to shut up that mind so we can hear him talking to us. And I learned from the Word that if you're praying in the spirit, your mind is unfruitful. And that's one of the ways I learned how to quiet my mind. I just pray in the Holy Ghost and focus on my spirit. My mind is focused on my spirit. Not focusing all these things, ministry or whatever, it may be legit, but it's not the important thing. Wow. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. Right. And many if we're not careful, if we are not skillful and we don't spend time with Him. Amen. And fellowship with him the moment we have issue. And I did the same way. But you just have to be skillful right away. We go to this because we learn how to gather stuff in prayer and we wonder the prayer is not fruitful. And because God is a merciful Father, He's a good Father, he can bless us limitedly. Right? But if we want heaven on this earth, we got to learn how to sit down and listen and let him download. Let him take. Let him take in his word in us. I guarantee you. Because he is not trying to withhold it from us. He is telling us to draw from the vine, draw from him, draw life from him in that time of prayer, which many of us neglect. I'll be honest with you. You coming to this prayer conference, that's the purpose of learning how to be. Amen. How to listen to him. Right? Prayer Even Isaiah. Isaiah can even say they that wait upon the Lord, right? Remember that when you're waiting, you're just waiting, right? You're just waiting. You're waiting. Praise God. Hallelujah. Praise God. You're waiting in faith because you need to hear. Knowledge is important. We cannot act in faith, we cannot speak in faith until we hear. Prayer seems like an avenue for us to hear the word of God. Because faith doesn't come by prayer, but prayer will bring us in to hear from him. And now we have faith. So God said, amen. Jesus said to me, he said, I have to have a man of God to lay hands on me before I do my ministry. And he doesn't heal anybody. He never preached the Word, anybody. He never preached the spirit of the Lord is upon me. Which Isaiah 61, Isaiah prophesied, he cannot fulfill that until he get into that Jordan and let a man of God lay hands on him for impartation. And after that, it seems like the ministry of John the Baptist is like finished. It could have not been. He could have just hang around him, pray for him. Because that's really his life to pray for a man of God. He could have only. I'm just. I'm just. I'm just meditating on the Word, you know what I'm saying? If I leave my pastor, I'd be just like John the Batik. I just know it by the spirit. I'm not trying to say because. Because that's what I heard from God after Dad went home to be with the Lord. Amen. Praise the Lord. You got to know who you divinely connected to. We are not meant to leave ourselves. We need impartation. The reason why I said this, because Jesus said, son, I was there to be an example to all my ministers. That's what he told me, right? I have to get an impartation to a man of God. And at that time, Amen. The voice is John the Baptist. He's now entering into his life to be the voice, right? He was given a voice to the body of Christ. That's what John the Baptist was saying. There's nothing I can do. I think it's given to me. Praise the Lord. He paid the way for Jesus. He brought law every mountain. He straightened up things for Jesus to walk. Yeah, there is. There is opposition. But that opposition is already brought low in the prayer of a man of God named John the Baptist. You read his story, right? Hallelujah. There is a prayer that a man of God and a woman of God that will bring an open door for them to just walk. Even Jesus has to have a man. He was raised up before he was ahead of Jesus in ministry. To prepare a way for a man of God. That is the most important part of the ministry of John the Baptist. And he fulfilled it. And he was so joyful to see that for him, for him, for John the Baptist, I'm successful. I made it. I obey the plan of God. The crowd started leaving him. It seems like his meeting, but he said his disciples kind of whispered to his ears. He has more people than you. Be careful what you whisper in the ears of your pastor. A man of God. And I made some mistake, but I always say, lord, I thank youk. You give me words to say to my spiritual father. Because, you know, I'm a novice and sometimes I talk too much. Amen. I know some of you are. Most of you are quiet, but. But I learned being around Dad. I made it. I didn't quit. The reason I didn't quit, I got something that day. That's before I, you know, stay with him. Stay with your spiritual father, your pastor, and you will make it to the end. I'm not saying I'm gonna die, but meaning to say, I'm gonna finish. I'm gonna finish what God called me. Amen. I got slapped in the head so many times, I still got corrected. I thank God for my pastor. I pray for him that she will have boldness to speak to me, to correct me. You know that feeling sometimes. Yeah. I said, yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. I mean, praise the Lord. Hallelujah. I have to get my. The fruit of the spirit moving in me than my emotion. Because you will. Right? But what he's saying here, what God is saying here, I got that in prayer. So when that vile thought comes to really separate, he gets stronger and stronger and stronger. And I don't know how to say, to keep him quiet. I know it's of the devil. I cannot even think that I'll be honest with you. When you connected to a woman of God like amen, and he's your divine connection. You have to be careful what you're thinking. Well, they didn't lay hands on me, didn't prophesy to me or whatever, all kinds of wrong thinking. You understand me now? He didn't know I'm called in the ministry. Yeah. If you're the only one that knows, You don't have to try to be called. If God called you from the mouth of two or three witnesses, the word of God will be established. If you're not called in the ministry. Do something. What God called you to do, every one of us is important. You understand me now? Hallelujah. So he said to John the Baptist, let's do this for righteousness sake. And the Lord Jesus Christ said, son, if I have to do it, you have to do it. Stay with him. So when that devil bombardment me with thoughts in my mind, I got all this downloading in my heart about prayer. He put that what Jesus Christ was saying about Mary. Nobody can take it away from her. When that thought so much, suddenly God reminded me. That's what the Holy Ghost does. He will remind you of the Word. He spoke to you through a spiritual father to somebody speaks to your life and through the Word. Whatever avenue. Holy Ghost reminded me of that Word right about him as my spiritual father. I said, that's the will of God for my life. So I stand against the devil. Devil, you and your thoughts and your cohorts. I will not live my spiritual father. I will not live Dr. Dufresne. Doctor. I will not live him because it's the will of God. He is the will of God for my life because I heard it from the Spirit. From that day on, he never come back with all those thoughts he tried. But why he cannot take away what I have. When that rubber meets the road, what's in me became my weapon. Praise the Lord and I have no regrets. I did my best to go with the man of God like that. And nobody knows what we encounter. I have to buy a ticket before we even pay our bills. And God took care of it. Now today, our life. There are things in our life we never ask. You just tell him ask for you, son. I never asked for a house. We're living in now. And there's much more coming now. I understand. Seek ye first the Kingdom of God. Download first take in first the Word. Because the kingdom of God is the Word. The Word of God. What we take in and the righteousness of that Word. Don't gather problem and then talk to him. He even said in Philippians chapter 4 through Paul, do not be anxious about anything. Anything. Do not be anxious. How can you not be anxious if you have issue? Go to the Word and what the Word said about that issue and talk the Word to God. Done that issue. Your Word said Father. Your Word said Father. Not arrogantly, but boldly, like Pastor Nancy said. Not under condemnation. You talk to him about your problem. You have problem before you pray problem in the middle of your prayer. You are mad at your life. You made the wrong decision you made. And you're mad at people, you're mad at yourself. And then after you pray, you're still mad because of all the collections. And God cannot get into you. He cannot speak you. Praying always, always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit. And I, like Dot Hagin said, in the Spirit means, you know, being led by the Spirit. You know how I learned how to be sensitive to the leading of the Spirit? I learned it myself through my prayer life. He led me through my prayer life. He said, watching, watching. I read every details of that word. But the Holy Ghost said to me, but, son, you cannot see all this. You cannot pray. You cannot be led by my Spirit until you do the first word, the first two words, praying always. This way you will have this result if you have those two first. If you don't pray always, you won't see anything. He taught me about prayer. He said, praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit. It's not gathering up the problem. The Holy Ghost is not here to talk to you about your problem. He's here to talk to you about who you are in Christ. He revealed the truth to you. Yeah, it may be legit. It may be a fact, because that's how we pray before I do the same. I don't know about you, but I gathered all the facts, not the truth and pray, the facts. Amen. So he said, watching, watching also. Okay, Lord, watching. See, son, I will. You'll see things in your spirit when you're praying. I'm leading you, and your heart is like a TV screen. I will show you words because you're watching. You'll see it in your spirit. Oh, praise the Lord. Hallelujah. And I have to practice that to be of help to my pastor. Amen. And that's why I just have confidence in him that if I'm cold, I got something. My spirit. I'll see, watching, watching. Thereunto with all perseverance and supplications for all saints. And I have to practice that in my prayer life. And I'm not trying to get something, just fellowshipping with him in that time of prayer. And I will see in my spirit. I just don't pray in tongues to just give out. I pray in tongues to receive. Have you noticed Pastor was sitting here last night and God is downloading her the word for us. And you know, and she will. And then, then she's watching. Amen. She's saying something and she will call us. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. Right you see that? See, praying in tongues is not just continue to give out. Praying in tongues is to receive. Amen. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Most prayers listed in the Bible is taken in once you get it in you, just like Mary did. Amen. She just sit on Jesus and her sister looks like she's accomplishing something. And she wanted Mary to do what she's doing. And she didn't know that Mary. That's what the Lord Jesus Christ said most important. And many of our things that we live, we do in our life, some of us work, do business, it's all legit. But that's not all we do. That's not all the important thing, the most important thing is we sit down and listen to what Jesus Christ is saying to us that he can download. I cannot tell you when you do that, but many times we are tired all day working. Praise the Lord. Right? Some of you get into traffic, but spend that traffic not getting mad at that person in front of you. You're slow. Look at that motorcycle guy. You can spend your time, you're done working. Quiet your mind. Forget about the day. It takes skill. I learned it from my wife. I mean, she used to work before she went full time in the ministry. And man, she brings a lot of money on the table. She makes. My God, that woman, God bless her. I mean, money is easy for her really, but she has. She work in the. What they call that mortgage and entails a lot of thinking. And I watch her. She go home and she'll learn how to forget all that stuff, put it behind her and be with me at home. She's just skillful how to do that. She has to teach me. She learned. I don't know how you do it, but she forget those things. It's a skill to forget a lot of that stuff. Amen. And be with Jesus in ministry. I tell you folks, it's not going to slow down. It's just very few of us that knows how to draw from God and speak to the crowd most. A lot of things are in the flesh that doesn't amount to anything that doesn't bear any fruit. Right? You cannot do your ministry your own. You got to hear from Jesus. Praise God. Hallelujah. Our worship has to be in the truth, not in the facts. Amen. Hallelujah. Well, praise the Lord. Praise God. So when you're worshiping, any prayer you take in, Father, I worship you and bless you. Even the word Thanksgiving in the book of First Thessalonians, I believe. Thank God forevermore because when you're thinking you're receiving, right? When you're thinking you're receiving. I was just reading this scripture and God took me to the scripture. He said, tell that to my people. They need to know what's important, right? Hallelujah. They need to sit with me. Amen. And son, have you noticed I did a lot of miracles in the house? Amen. A lot of people saved. He did meeting. Of course. He has this wonderful, great meeting, right? But many. Amen. He will enter. He got into the village and enter into a house that will receive him. Will he receive him? Will you receive him in your home? Or you're just busy, busy, busy. Have no time with him, which is more important than anything we do in life. How about a prayer life? Is it involved with a lot of problems? We have things that we need to pay. Remember that? And he gave me that one word in that Cardenas grocery store. He said, you cast that care to me, Lord. You cast that care to me, son. That's the Father talking to me. Amen. And I will take care of it. Whoa. He stayed still taking care of business up to today. Things we never asked. He gave it to us. We didn't even know. We didn't even know. Amen. And things began to accelerate. Because he's taking care of it. He's just letting us know so we can use our faith, right? I mean, miracles upon miracles. Because miracles. Understand this. Miracles are spiritual law. It is not automatic. Miracles doesn't happen without us knowing it. He will. Hallelujah. Amen. What he promised to me years ago to restore things, he restored it just like that. We are in the time of acceleration. But in this time of acceleration, we have to know exactly how to take in. We have to know exactly how to sit in the feet of Jesus. We have to know exactly what's important. What's important. What's important to him. We do it. And what's important to you. He'll take care of it. It's legit. It doesn't seem like Martha is not thinking about the problem. But Jesus Christ, you are troubled with many things. You think it's not a trouble to be busy, busy, busy. Many cannot let go of their finances. Many cannot let go of things. That is a weight to them. They cannot run the race because it's a weight. That man has a lot of money, that rich man. But it's that man. That money is a weight to him. Fulfilling the calling of God. It seems to me an apostleship call, just like he called the other ones. He missed it. At the time they're saying he's Barnabas or I don't know, maybe. But still, Barnabas. Miss it. Praise God. Hallelujah. You know how they got into that apostle? They hear from God during the time of prayer. As they ministered unto the Lord, the Holy Ghost said, as they ministered unto the Lord, the Holy Ghost said, Amen. Praise the Lord. Well, that's my. That's what's in my heart to share to you this morning. But still, what's in my heart is to take in. Prayer is taken in. Taken in. Taken in. Prayer is the time of taking in. Taking in prayer is not gathering all the facts. Prayer is gathering the two through truth. Truth. Amen. Hallelujah. Truth. Praise God. Don't worry about the prices. It has to keep going up. That's just the way it is. But we have a supply. That's the truth, right? Hallelujah. The glory in the church will be greater and greater and greater because that's where our supply comes. We look at the glory of God. Hallelujah. But you won't see the glory until you hear. Oh, praise the Lord. Hallelujah. So let's pray. Father, we are just so thankful for your word this morning. We thank you for what you have given to us tonight. Father, we thank you for the utterance you will give. Pastor, is the utterance for us, Lord? Oh, yes, Lord. Ah, yes, Lord. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We receive everything you have for us, Father. And thank you for the word you have given to us this morning. Amen. We give you all the praise and the glory for what transpired this morning to our spirit. Thank you, Lord. Ha ha. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Oh, yes, Lord. Yeah. Thank you, Lord. Amen. Thank you for the utterance. Yes, Lord. And Pastor Nancy. Boldness to speak that word. You continue to stretch forth your hand to heal. Signs, wonders, and miracles shall be done in the name of thy holy child, Jesus. Oh, my God. Lord. Yes, Lord. Yeah. Yeah. Yes, Lord. Amen. Amen. Jesus name. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah, Pastor. Praise God. Thank you. We trust you've enjoyed this message. Visit us@DefrainMinistries.org to learn of our upcoming meetings, share your testimony, become a partner, or visit our online store. 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