"Season Of Prayer" - Pastor Happy Khosa - Jul. 3. 2024

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Podcast: Promise of Life Church Podcasts
Episode: "Season Of Prayer" - Pastor Happy Khosa
Date: July 3, 2024
Speaker: Pastor Happy Khosa

In this episode, Pastor Happy Khosa explores the critical importance of a persistent and consistent prayer life for every believer. Drawing from recent teachings at Promise of Life Church and biblical parables, Pastor Happy emphasizes that prayer is not just an occasional activity or a spiritual option but a non-negotiable, vital covenant responsibility for Christians. He shares practical insights, scriptural foundations, and personal testimonies to inspire the church toward deeper, more disciplined prayer lives capable of unlocking the full potential God has prepared.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Shift to Prayer: Season of Prayer

• Pastoral Vision: Pastor Craig (lead pastor) recently shifted teaching emphasis towards prayer, marking this as a critical season for the church.
• Prophetic Confirmation: Guest minister Randy Greer—“a prophet of God, accurate and constant guide to Pastor Craig”—spent 75% of his messages on prayer, underlining this as divine timing, not coincidence.
  (03:24) "It’s a destiny that he is here. And he came. And the same day he came, God spoke to him few days before..." – Pastor Happy

2. Persistent Prayer—Not Just Prayer, but a Lifestyle

• Central Scripture: Luke 18, Parable of the Persistent Widow—the focus is her relentless pursuit, not just an occasional request.
• Key Takeaway: “Not a prayer life, a persistent prayer life… is what is a necessity for a believer.” (01:56)
• Observation: Many believers neglect persistent prayer, treating it as another checklist item rather than a continual pursuit.

3. Practical Examples: Building Persistent Prayer

• Testimony: An Indian minister who hasn’t missed nightly prayer (10pm–2am) for 19-20 years irrespective of circumstances.
  (14:55) “He said, I never ever, I don’t care. I’m on vacation... My those hours are my hours with God.”
• Result: Consistent deep fellowship yields a powerful, fruitful ministry—“word of knowledge, word of wisdom, gifts of the Spirit, they work in a level... that I have not seen in this part of the world.” (15:50)
• Point: “It’s not the anointing alone, but persistent prayer life that has blessed him.” (16:22)

4. Persistent Prayer Brings Personal Revelation

• Direct Hearing from God: God desires personal, direct communication with each believer—not just through pastors or prophets.
• Limitation of Sporadic Prayer: Without persistence, you only grasp a “portion” (30-40%) of what God has for you.
• Quote: “God will not show your pastor all things about your life… He wants to show to you directly. But unless you have a persistent prayer life, you will never be able to see all the picture.” (10:37)

5. Natural Life Influences Spiritual Life

• Attitude Matters: Natural tendencies—such as easily giving up or being easily offended—bleed into spiritual disciplines.
• Discipline: Just as we cultivate habits in sleep, meals, or work, prayer must become a scheduled, non-negotiable part of life.
• Quote: “Unless you don’t keep in your mind that you have to pray, you will never find time to make pray.” (12:34)
• Cultural Observation: Life in the West runs on the clock—use that for prayer as you do for every other priority (22:18).

6. New Testament Foundations

• Scriptural Support:
  • 1 Thessalonians 5:17 (“Be unceasing in prayer”)
  • Romans 12:12 (“Be constant in prayer”)
  • Colossians 4:2 (“Be earnest and steadfast in your prayer life”)
• Model: Early church prioritized continual prayer—Acts 1:14, 6:4.
• Quote: “Prayer opens the power gate, and if you don’t have prayer life, power will not be in your life.” (19:44)

7. Prayer vs. Prayer Life

• Distinction: There’s a difference between “prayer” (occasional) and “prayer life” (habitual, continual).
  • “When you hear in the Bible they say they continually pray, it means they have prayer life.” (26:46)
• Consistency: Only consistency brings results—miracles, revelation, transformation.

8. Responsibility & Opportunity

• No Substitute: Prayer is not an option—everyone is called; it is “a vital covenant responsibility.” (27:18)
• Opportunity: God gives seasons, not guarantees—our response determines fruitfulness.
  • “Opportunity has come before Promise of Life... Now the ball is in our court.” (38:00)
• Personal Accountability: It’s not enough to be in a great church; your personal persistent prayer life is essential.

9. Purpose—What God Can Do Through You

• Prayer Fuels Purpose:
  • “God can do a lot of things through you only if you have that prayer life... Ask God: give us the revelation of that prayer life.” (29:41)
• Beyond Needs: Don’t just seek revelation for personal benefit (finances, identity), but for how God wants to work through you.

10. Access to Power, Hearing & Transformation

• Consistent Prayer Yields:
  • Continual hearing from God (43:30)
  • Authority and assurance
  • Revelation and transformation
  • Power to affect circumstances, family, and reach others
• Warning: When prayer becomes a drag, it’s a sign the spirit is “slumped or drooping.”
  • “When your prayer life begins to drag, it shows your spirit-man is already slump bent, bow or sink. Because you’re getting further and further away from God.” (45:03)

11. Calling—A House of Prayer

• Matthew 21: Jesus calls God's people “a house of prayer” (not just a physical building).
• Individual Responsibility: Each believer is the house of God—cultivate, protect, and prioritize your personal prayer life.
• Distraction Management: Remove anything or anyone that steals your time with God.
  • “God will not kick them out of your life... God is waiting for you.” (50:00)
• Analogy: Believers must fight for their place in the spirit like people guard their chairs or desks—no one else can claim it.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On the importance of prayer:
  • “Prayer is one of the greatest assets of the redeemed. It is the greatest asset.” (03:02)
• On persistence:
  • “Nothing will happen in life unless you become persistent and go on into it.” (08:36)
• Personalization:
  • “He wants to show to you directly, but unless you have a persistent prayer life, you will never be able to see all the picture.” (10:37)
• On habits and discipline:
  • “Just like there are more clocks than people, you need a clock in your mind for time with God.” (22:18)
• On spiritual fruit:
  • “People see fruit, not your time at home... The fruit is visible. Trees are recognized by the fruit.” (35:36)
• Warning:
  • “Mountains laugh at people who don’t have a persistent prayer life...” (54:56)
• On the believer's identity:
  • “God lives in you... he said, this house is a house of prayer. I call everyone house of prayer.” (55:15)

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Important Timestamps

• 00:00–06:00: Introduction; focus on prayer, church context, emphasizing persistent prayer
• 06:00–13:00: Deep dive into the parable of the persistent widow, persistency as the central issue
• 14:00–18:00: Testimonies and examples—ministers with rigid, disciplined prayer lives
• 18:00–23:00: Linking consistent prayer with early church power and scriptural mandates
• 26:30–30:00: Difference between doing prayer and living a prayer life; practical discipline
• 33:30–36:49: NT scriptures on continual prayer; evidence in Paul’s ministry
• 38:00–40:00: Responsiveness—Opportunity in this season for the church and individual
• 43:31–46:12: Hearing from God dependent on continual prayer; warning signs of spiritual decline
• 50:00–56:00: Jesus: "A house of prayer"; individual and corporate responsibility; prioritizing devotion

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Final Exhortation

Pastor Happy closes with a passionate prayer:
"Let us also make decisions based on the prayer life that we make. Cut out everything that needs to be cut out from our life… distractions which Satan has brought… [so] we have a time for a prayer life. Father, we thank you because you want to do certain things in our life, personal, in our families, through our families, in this church, through this church. But that will only come to pass if we have a proper, vibrant, vigorous prayer life." (56:27)

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Key Takeaway

Persistent, disciplined prayer is the foundation of all spiritual fruitfulness, power, and personal revelation. God is giving this season as an opportunity; it is up to each believer to make prayer a continual, vital habit—thus becoming truly a house of prayer and unlocking all God desires to do in and through them.

Transcript

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I've titled today about prayer because if anything, we have picked up from the few days which has been. Ministers have been coming and speaking, especially Pastor Craig, whom God gave the vision about this church, whom God has spoken about things happening at the end of last year, 31 December, about the time, the season we are in, repairing the altar, building the new altar, all those things. And he has been preaching, he has been doing things faithfully to us. And now from the last one or two weeks, he has changed his shift. He has done something, and he's speaking about a prayer life, about a prayer. You should be saying amen when I say prayer life. Because whenever, every time I say prayer life, you say shout Amen. We all have social life. We all have every single thing in our life. We have practiced and put like certain things in our place in our life that we call and we focus on that. But prayer life, prayer life, persistent prayer life. Thank you, Mr. John, for paying attention. But a persistent prayer life, that's okay. Well done, guys. Is what is a necessity for a believer, not a prayer life, a persistent prayer life. So I just said season of prayer because I don't know what else to say about the title, but let's talk about some of the things which we should be doing to put that into action. Somebody said. I'm quoting somebody, one of the great ministers, he said, prayer is one of the greatest assets of the redeemed. It is the greatest assets of the redeemed. Who is the redeemed? We all who are sitting here. It's the greatest assets. It's a weapon. So in order for you to utilize that weapon, you need to know how to act in that weapon. You need to understand that weapon. So prayer, we say it's a communication with God. We say it's our time with God. It's not just communication with God. It's just not only one way of God that we need God to intervene our life, intervene our affairs and communicate. It's much more bigger than what we have learned of that now. So Randy Greer comes now around Randy greer, all the four services he preached. Four or five. Four, right? Four. Sunday night, Monday night, Tuesday night, four out of all 75% he preached on was prayer. 75%. Over 75% he preached on prayer majority. He's a prophet of God. He's the one who is accurate one. He's the one who sees things. He's the one whom God has used previously in this ministry, in this church, and who's dear to Pastor Craig. And he's the one who, who has been constant guide Pastor Craig, in some of the things of the ministry. He came at the right time. Yes. He was supposed to come in May. We changed the things because of Pastor Nancy. And although he came in June and it was not coincidence that there was only time, Pastor Craig said, it's a destiny that he is here. And he came. And the same day he came, God spoke to him few days before when we were coming back from Africa. He said, I want you to do Sunday morning. And in Sunday morning, Pastor Keg, whatever Pastor said, that's the same thing. Sunday night, Monday night, Tuesday, Wednesday night. He has been doing that. So we cannot just ignore that and say, oh, good sermons, Pastor. Good. Let's do something new. Let's listen something other that we want to. We have so many things to hear. Let's chew on what we heard, let's digest that, let's act on that. So prayer, prayer life. Let's go on Luke 18. See, when I come on Wednesdays to preach, I see so many smiles, especially from staff. They know. They know that when we go out, sun will still be there. When the service is over, sun is still beaming outside, we are still light. We will go home and the light is still there. So I'll let Pastor Greg know about that. That, sir, they like me on wetnesses because we get out of this at 8:55 or 9 before 9 o'. Clock. So he will keep you guys next Wednesday watch 9:35, 9:45. I let him know. He'll maintain he's watching. He's calculating the time when I finish and when Randy Greer finished. And that's why he was saying, brother, come on, come on, do it, do it. And he's watching, calculating the time. Next week he'll add it up. Sorry, sir. Luke 18. That's what I said, right? Yes. Okay. Oh, I put Matthew 18. Sorry, my bad. Luke 18. Jesus talks about a parable here. Jesus told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not to turn back, faint, lose heart or give up. He said to them, in a certain city there was a judge who neither reverenced or feared God, nor respected or considered a man. And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him saying, protect and defend and give me justice against my adversary. And for a while, for a time he would not. But later on he said to himself, though I have neither reverence or fear for God, nor respect or consideration for man in yet, because this widow continues to bother me, I Will defend and protect and avenge her, lest she give me intolerable annoyance and wear me out by her continual coming, at coming or at the last or at the last she come and rail on me or assault me or strangle me. She. Then the Lord said, listen to what the unjust judge says. Will not our just God defend and protect and avenge and his elect chosen ones who cry to him day and night? Will he defer them and delay help on their behalf? This is a story you can take in a lot of ways. But if you take one thing out of this story and apply towards prayer life is her persistency. Her continually going, her continually knocking, her continually pressuring him. Her continually going towards him and saying, no, no, I will not settle until I get my justice. The problem with people is they have not made their life of prayer as persistent as God has designed or as God has asked them to. They pray here and there, then they forget, then they pray for five days, then we leave it up. Then that's what he said. It's not for the faint or to give up. It's for somebody who is persistent. Prayer, we cannot take it as just like, okay, it's another thing that we have to do for four days a week. Like we work for five days a week. We do prayer for four days a week, and then there's a weekend for two days. And I'm not doing prayer either, because I'm not working either. Prayer is not a work, though. You can take it as a work of God. That's how and where the church in this part of the world has failed in. We don't take prayer as serious as God has intended it to be because we don't persist in it. We don't take it seriously. The things you take seriously, you will do anything and everything to continue in it. But because we think prayer is just because God, my life is okay. My life is going on. I have a house, I have everything. I don't need much because my husband is working, I'm working, things are settling, we'll be okay. That's fine. We don't press in, press in, press in. That's the issue with us. Because we think, okay, that's okay. One day it will happen. Nothing will happen in life unless you become persistent and go on into it. The lady said, I need justice. The lady said, I need something from God that this judge. I don't care about what kind of this judge is. I've heard a lot of things about this judge. And this judge is never, never, never in helpful towards people. But you, who cares? I'll keep on doing what I have learned. She was persistent. She said I don't care what the people have said. I don't care what others have said. I don't care what maybe my neighbor or my family member have experienced from the same judge. But I will make my own experience known to people. And her persistency, her going after him made an experience which we are talking today. Persistency continually going before him made him soften him, soften his heart, change his heart. Now God is not a God that you have to change. God is not God that you have to change. Your prayers will not change your prayers. You are going before God. You are being persistent in prayer. Your way of life, making life as a prayer life will help you learn certain things about God and about your situation which God will show to you only when you have a continuous prayer life. God will not show to your pastor all things about your life. He will show to you because he's your personal savior. He will not show all things to other prophets. He will show certain things to him but majority to you because he is your Lord. He is your Savior. You prayed with him, he came into your heart. He wants to show to you directly. But unless you have a persistent prayer life, you will never be able to see all the picture. You may be able to see 40%, 30%. But are you happy with 30% of your life success when God has prepared 100% success for us? When God has made all things desirable, what your life needs or you need is prepared. But only our giving up attitude will take us out. And can I say our natural life attitude matter a lot. If you are a natural person who gives up too easily in things, who gives up too easily in life, in certain positions, in certain things, the attitude will drop into your spirit man. And then you will always be always looking out other options and drawing out dropping off from things. You will never be persistent. That's why natural life and spiritual life always. There is nothing called just one spiritual life. You have to balance it out with a natural life. You have to have in certain things in your attitudes, in your personality that will help you in spirit life.

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Hallelujah.

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If you are a person always being offended at little things, being very very picky and always like that will affect your prayer life. You will never have a constant prayer life. You will have a persistent prayer life. Why? Because God, you will. If you are, if you are persistent pray life, you can never be offended. I can bet you I can write you down. You will Never be offended. If you're offended, if you are prickly, if you are very touchy, if you are very, then you don't have a constraint of prayer life. You may pray four days a week, but seven days and four days is totally different.

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Hallelujah.

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The Bible doesn't say that she went three days a week. The Bible doesn't say four days a week. He said constantly, consistently. Every time, every time she got the opportunity, she knocked. Every time she had a time, she went to him, she was working. Every time she had time off, she went to him. She is doing natural life things. She had time, she went to him because she. The thing is, people think prayer is spiritual. Prayer is spiritual, but it works with natural. Unless you don't keep in your mind that you have to pray, you will never find time to make pray. You will always say, oh, when God will lead me. God will not lead you to pray, man. People say, God leads me into prayer. God will lead you only when you have a persistent prayer life. Unless you will keep on missing his. His. His clues of his. Of his leading. God will not lead you to always. Okay, God woke me up that I. Okay, let me ask you how many times you pray? I don't pray very often. I pray here and there. And God wokes you up? No, no, God will not wake you up. God will not tell you to pray for certain person. Those who have persistent prayer life, those who are continuously going before him, those who have place themselves in a position to go before him all the time, every time. And they are persistent. God knows how to use them. God knows how to talk to them. God knows they will hear my voice at a certain time.

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Hallelujah.

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So she's saying she was persistent. So what is basically a persistent. What is basically going before him all the time? If you, if you. There's a minister in India who said, I love about him certain things. He's our camp. That's why I don't listen to other people. But he's our camp person and I don't listen to him much. But he comes here and there to Canada and does his crusades and I go here and there when he comes. He said he has never missed his prayer time with God in the last 1920 years. He has never missed. He said he was single when he started. He married, he had two kids. His daughter and son is like 10 or 8 or 8 or 12 years old. He said they know that 10, he has a time. 10 to 2 in the nighttime is daddy's time with God. They don't talk to him. His wife doesn't ask him anything. His children never come close to him. Nobody calls him. His phone is off, his everything is off. Because his four hours are with God. He said, I never ever, I don't care. I'm on vacation. He said, I don't care whether I'm out of the country on a crusade. I don't care where I am. My those hours are my hours with God. And they are dedicated, they are persistent and I never miss them. I can tell you he speaks from here to a kilometer away. A person hears when he speaks. He speaks. And the word of knowledge, the word of wisdom, the gifts of the Spirit, they work in a level, in a different level which I have not seen in this part of the world. It is not that gifts of the Spirit only work. But why? Because he is so close to God. He knows heart of God so closely that God can use him in a way that he's positioned himself accordingly. Why? Because his persistency, his persistency, his things in life, personal life, he said they are lined up, lined up, lined up that he doesn't need to that, oh Lord, why is not happening to me. I've seen a lot of ministers that their personal life goes off when their ministry but his is completely perfect in here. Perfect. Why? He said the key to my success is not prayer life. A persistent prayer life. Persistent, he said, never missing. So if that minister, it's not because of the anointing of God upon him, he's blessed. It's the persistent prayer life that has blessed him. So that doesn't mean that you're a minister that needs, you need to be minister. But in your personal life, if you can get that quality of your never giving up or always going on and let make a schedule of I, this is my time with God, I don't care no gym life, no nothing. Life will take that time away from me, then that's called percent. It may not happen in one day, it may not happen in a month because you are not so disciplined yourself accordingly. But if you give up fully in that, you will develop that habit. And that's the habit. That's a habit. Basically, Bible talks about Jesus has a custom. What is custom? Habit. He had a habit of what? Going to church. Not only going to church changed his life, but going before God every day changed his life.

[B]

Hallelujah.

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So those persistent qualities we have to acquire in us, we have to be persistent in that. Because believe me, prayer is a breath of the regenerated spirit. Basically your prayer is a breath of the regenerative spirit. You are a regenerator spirit. Your prayer is a breath. If we don't utilize that, we won't be able to have the effect that God want us to have in our lives.

[B]

Hallelujah.

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So she said I'm persistent. We can understand that persistency always changes situations without being, without being that anointed. There's nothing, no talking about anointed. There's no talking about God, but only about her persistency. So we have to learn this persistent, constant, constant, constant prayer life. Because we can say season of prayer life. Because seasons of prayer we have said before also they come and pass by. But if you don't set yourself to be persistent, you we won't be able to see what God wants us to see. In the early church. If you see early church starts at in Acts chapter one, right? And they talk about the Acts 1:14, that they were continually in prayer before the Spirit of God fell. The Bible talks about they were continually in prayer. The Spirit of God comes upon them. The miracles start happening, the church starts growing. Acts chapter six and again then that they are still in prayer. They are still in prayer. And the people are fighting among. Because church from five has grown up to thousands of people. And that started fighting, started happening things in the church. And he said, I don't care what's happening in the church. My job is not to handle that. My job is to continue. In prayer basically means steadfast in prayer basically means be persistent and be completely given into prayer. Because those apostles found the key that prayer is the key for the power of God. And the power of God changes people's lives. We want power of God. But power never comes before prayer. Prayer opens the power gate. And if you don't have the prayer life, power will not be in your life. And it will be seen by anyone and everyone. Why things are not working in your life.

[B]

Hallelujah.

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They showed the people that we have to be persistent in prayer, that we have to give ourselves completely to prayer. I know there are needs, I know there are things that need our attention, but no, no, no. This is more important. This we have to give up our life is for this. You handle that. I'm giving for this. And when they did that, they think those things also settle. And this church started growing. Why the power keep coming? Power kept coming. Power kept coming, coming.

[B]

Hallelujah.

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There was a minister one time, he just started praying and God showed him a face. God showed him a face. And what he when he saw a face, he Started praying and he just prayed for five minutes and the phone rang and he answered the phone and somebody said something on the phone so he had to run out of the home. So he went out of the home, went whole day out and came back at nighttime. And in the evening or early morning next day, somebody called again and he answered the phone and he said hello. And they were talking and one of the congregation members said to him that so and so person. He said, yeah, they said they died, he died. That was the same person that came up to his face before him and whom he had started just praying. Urgent phone call took away the important task God has given him through prayer. An urgent phone. What was that? Maybe he has to go somebody's home and visit somebody. But important life of a person was gone. Why he was not persistent there, staying there. Why? Because his prayer life was not at that level where it should have been. Because once you're persistent prayer life, you will not care about phone call. You will not care about the natural cause, you will not care about anything that is going around you, your children or anything. You will say no, this is my time with God. I don't care what's happening around me, around my home. I don't want to give this 1 hour, 2 hour, 5 or 10 or whatever that is every day. This is mine with God. Nobody takes it, Nobody phone call, nobody who is dying in the hospital. God will heal him there. Mine is here. And when he did it, when he didn't do it, that same person God showed him died. Why? Urgent, urgent things took away the important thing God placed in his hand. We have to train ourselves that to be persistent you have to shun the things of the natural. You have to shun certain things that have loud voice in your ear. Because Satan knows and he doesn't want you to have this persistency in prayer life. He will not disturb you. You see, people have social life, people have gym life, people have like times for everything. Certain people, they don't don't change their eating time. It's 6 o' clock dinner time. It's 6 o'clock dinner time. No matter what is going on, I'm stopping at anywhere where I am because I'm out of home, because, oh, I'll stop through a drive because it's six o', clock, my stomach needs it. Yeah, that's good. You have a habit. Good habit. But why about not prayer? Why don't we have a certain time for prayer? We have a time to sleep. No, no, nine o' clock, don't call me. I grew up in a home, had rules and regulations and my father never let me stay up after 9. 9:30, 9:40 and because we have to wake up early in the morning to go to school. No matter it's 31st December, doesn't matter it's Saturday evening, doesn't matter it's birthday, doesn't matter what's going in the world. 9:30 you drink your milk or whatever thing you have. 9:35 the lights are off dad, India is playing. I don't care, you will watch tomorrow morning. Dad, this is the best game they are in final. I'll tell you tomorrow morning when the newspaper comes. And it happened so many times to me and I was under his roof and under his regulations that I have to sleep at certain time. And my mom used to wake up in the morning 5, 5:30. That why? Because you have to study before go to school. So wake up son, no matter I'm sleepy. Drink your tea and get up. That was the rule I grew up in. So people have certain natural rules. People. You cannot live life just unrestrained and going whatever you want to do, whatever time you want to do. You have boundaries in place and especially in this country. This country is not run by money, this country is run by time. By the way, anything go out, you stop by time, it's by time, believe me or not go to work, go anywhere, they'll see just clock, clock, clock. I just say man, I tell my wife to send to my mom, I say there are more clocks than people in this country man. And people are run on clock here because anyways seriously this country is run by clock and that's good. And this country has certain things which other third world countries don't have. We enjoy better life certain other countries, right. But same way you have to have a clock in your mind that this certain hour, this certain time is mine with God. Otherwise you will never have a prayer. Life guarantee you will never have it if you don't put an effort to it. If you just say oh I'll flow through life and I'll pray and I'll say oh it is not prayer by the way because Pastor Nancy and Brother Hagin has said in his book that you can pray in tongues and be in your mind. And by the way if you are praying in tongues and your mind is not quite, you're not anyways have success in your prayer as of now and you will not be able to quiet your mind if you're out always and praying if you don't settle at one place and sit down and pray. So that's what we are lacking. That's what we are saying. Oh, the prayer time, the prayer time. We have to make it as a consistent that if it's, if it's, let's say you say Daniel, I want to pray every day, 6 to 7:30 in the morning. That's my best time. I know I have certain things in my life, but 6 to 7:30. Now let that 6 to 7:30 be every day. Monday to Saturday, Monday to Sunday, every day. Then let that be every day. Because once consistency happens in your life, watch, watch, watch what God can do through that. The problem with us is we pray. I'm not saying we don't pray, but we don't have a prayer life. There's a difference between prayer and prayer life.

[B]

Hallelujah.

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When you hear in Bible they say they continually pray means they have prayer life. When you see in Bible that she knocked, knock, knocked, that means it's called continually persistent. That's what brings results in life.

[B]

Hallelujah.

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So that's why you have to understand that the prayer is. You have to make it happen. You have to make it happen.

[B]

Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

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I know I'm not following my notes at all. And by the way, prayer, if people think it's an optional, I don't care who you are. The last one, first one, it doesn't matter. Prayer is not an option for a believer. It's not an option. That. Okay, choosing from four options, coming to church is good. I can vacuum floor. That's good. Pray. That's not my part, that's Ms. Lorraine's part. Okay, that's fine. No, no, no. Prayer is for everyone. Prayer life is everyone's why you have a life. That life, God wants to work in that life. You want God to work in that life. And for that God to work in that life, you have to have a prayer life. So it's for everyone. It's not an option. Don't treat as an option. Prayer is not an option for believers. It's our vital covenant responsibility to have a prayer life. It's our covenant responsibility to have a prayer life. And only you can make your prayer life. Not pastor, not any of your friends. You have to make your own prayer life.

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Hallelujah.

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Pastor Craig says about Pastor Jenny now from the last few years that she used to pray before. But in the last few years she has picked up what does that mean? She has made prayer into a prayer life now where she doesn't Skip a day. Remember, he says sometimes from the pulpit that she doesn't skip a day. Even now. Sometimes he says, anit, that's fine. She doesn't skip. Why when you start doing that, then there is a. The taste you get of it. The taste, basically you get out of that relationship or that fellowship you don't want to exchange with any. Anything in the natural. That's why for that man to say that I have never missed in 19 years that prayer life, It's a man. Wow. Doesn't matter what your son's birthday? No, I didn't miss it. Like, doesn't matter. There was a family function. I didn't miss it. Like, doesn't matter. You went on a vacation with your family. I didn't miss it means he found something in that prayer life that he. Others have not touched that.

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Hallelujah.

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We have to do that. We have to do that. We, we people. Sometimes we pray. We pray for other things. We God, I want the revelation of who we are in Christ. Great. We need that revelation. God, I want the revelation what I have in Christ. Great. We need the revelation. Because without knowing what you have, you will never possess what you have. Without knowing who you are in Christ, you will never walk on earth the way God has created you. But what about what God can do through you? And God can do only through those who has a prayer life.

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Hallelujah.

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What God can through you, it's not just in church, outside church, in your personal life, in your family life, God can do a lot of things through you only if you have that prayer life. But prayer life, why don't we ask God, give us the revelation of that prayer life? We ask the revelation of finances. We ask the revelation of our covenant. We ask the revelation of things like we need because we think that is the most important things we need in life. But no, no, no, no. Prayer life will bring everything you need in your life. Because if prayer life brings a power of God into the scene, that power will bring anything that you need in your life. But for that power to come, only prayer life, persistence, consistency in that will bring that. Ask people in the Old Testament, ask people in the New Testament, ask. Look at their lifestyles. They modeled themselves. They fashioned their lives, their daily living accordingly. That they have time for God. They have time for sitting in his presence and sitting consistently. They model themselves. I know we live in a society that is different. I know we have so many things in our lives which Elijah didn't have. Right? Elijah didn't have. But we have so Many other things, but here it is. That. That's why Pastor Giggs was saying you have to manage whatever time you have accordingly, that you put prayer ahead.

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Hallelujah.

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Because if you don't do it, your time will be robbed. And if your time is robbed, you won't be able. Why? Because you have to sleep. Why? Because you have to do certain things. You have to go to work. You have to go to work. You cannot stay without work. You cannot go without sleeping. You cannot go. Certain things you cannot quit in your life, but certain things which are extra, you can cut those things to make it, but certain things you cannot. So what you do, you have to carve out time from your schedule to make it happen. Otherwise, if you say, oh, it will automatically have. Nothing happens automatically in kingdom of God. Nothing happens automatically in kingdom of God. You have to carve it out, you have to take it out. You have to make it your own. And then you have to run with it. Then you have to persistent with it, and then watch. God will increase that time into greater time.

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Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

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She was so persistent. She was so persistent that he has to change. The man has to change. The man had to change. Majority Christians, we don't. We don't. We don't. We are not that in this world today. We give up too easily. We ask things from God. It doesn't come to pass in a week, doesn't come to pass in a few months. We say, oh, maybe it's not will of God. Why we are not persistent. You find something for you from God. That is, God wants you to have means he wants you to have. And for that to happen, it's not now God's responsibility. It's my responsibility to make it that happen in my life.

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Hallelujah.

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If I take you few scriptures, I know time is far spent already, man. First Thessalonians 5:17.

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Hallelujah.

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1St Thessalonians 5:17. Be unceasing in prayer, praying preservingly. Huh? Romans 12:12. Just giving you a few scriptures because you say it is not in the Bible. It is in the Bible. Rejoice and exult in hope. Romans 12, verse 12. And be steadfast and patient in suffering and tribulation. Tribulation, however you say. And be constant in prayer. Be continual in prayer. Be steadfast in prayer. Colossians 4:2. I'm reading from Amplified Classic. Be earnest and unwearied, wearied and steadfast in your prayer life. Every single word has said, steadfast, constant, continual in your prayer. Life. This is the New Testament. This Bible talks about in the New Testament. And as Paul wrote all these. Paul wrote in Romans, Paul wrote in everything, Colossians and Thessalonians. He said that. Why? Because he was a man who had a prayer life. He had a. He was a man of prayer life. Why do you think he had all the revelations in the world that God wanted him to have? Why? Because he had a prayer life, that's why. For him to boast in this, that I pray for more than all of you put together a certain thing. Nobody can boast like that. But because he said that means he had it.

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Hallelujah.

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You cannot just say, I have something. You have to have a proof of it. You want to have a fruit of it. Because people see fruit, they don't see your time. They don't see you, what you do inside the home. They see the fruit. The fruit is visible. That's why Jesus said trees are recognized by the fruit. They will see the fruit. And we see Paul's life and his fruit that he has been used in a way no other man. And he had a revelation that no other man apart from Jesus himself had that he had that revelation. He walked in the authority. He walked in a way on earth that no others walked ever. Why? Because of his prayer life. Because of his prayer life.

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Hallelujah.

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Without prayer life, we cannot achieve what God has for us. We cannot achieve it. We don't have anything natural strength in us. For us to achieve what God has for us, for us to achieve what God has prepared for us, we need to have what God wants for us. He wants a constant, a continuous, a steadfast, devoted, persistent prayer life. If we want to put together.

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Hallelujah.

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Matthew 21.

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Hallelujah.

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I'm just giving you my few points I had written today about prayer because it's important that Pastor God said to him about this church, about the year, about everything, and we are in the second part of the year. And he said to God, said to him, first six months will be changes you have to make. And he was faithful into it to make those changes. And he did it. And then God said to him, the next part will be different. And then that's why he preached that sermon about prayer about the Sunday of 23rd. You can go back and listen to it. And then brother Randy comes and he talks about prayer, prayer, prayer, pray, prayer.

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Hallelujah.

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So means, we are in a season, we are in a time, we are in a place. Let that not be wasted, because listen, God gives opportunities God doesn't make. God doesn't say, oh, you will succeed. God says, I'll give you opportunity. I present before you. You choose what you want to do. So it's opportunity has come before promise of life. Opportunity has come before all of us. Opportunity has come to us. It's our responsibility now what we do with that opportunity. We receive it or we let it pass by us.

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Hallelujah.

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Opportunity of Menkel was given to a lot of churches. Pastor Craig has preached about Mental. He has spoken out in 2017. And all those years he has been saying that mental was an opportunity basically given to other churches. And what they did, they, some they didn't honor, some they didn't care, some they let it pass by. But what he did was he recognized the opportunity. He revered it, he had a reverence for it. He preached about it, he taught about it, he learned about it. Then what God said, oh, I found you faithful in it. God gives you opportunities. God doesn't make you like, oh, you are success. Miss. No, no, no. It's up to her to become a success or not. It's God who presents opportunity before her for it. Us opportunity has come. We are in that season now. It is our now the ball is in our court. What we do with our prayer life will show, will manifest what God wants us for us to have.

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Hallelujah.

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So for that, we need to be persistent. We need to have prayer lives in our personal lives. It is not just pastor who needs to have a prayer life. He have to have prayer. If he doesn't have prayer life, his life will suffer. If he doesn't have prayer life, his ministry will suffer. But you need your life to be success. You need to have a persistence in that.

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Hallelujah.

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Personal lives, you can be connected to the best low culture the world has and still be suffering, still be in lack, still be in issues, still be having marriage problems, still have issues with health. Why? Because it's not guaranteed. It's not like, okay, it's written in paper that as soon as you step on here, all things are done. That's it. You live a life of success. No, no, no, no. He brings you at the right place. And the church you are in is the best church for you. The church you are in is the best option for God has for you. And then you, when you keep planted and you learn and grow, then the things start becoming easy for you. It's not that you just coming. No. Your connection.

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Hallelujah.

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So that's how it's not just that I Have my personal life, it will automatically become everything. No, no, no. You have to have a persistence in your prayer life. God has things for us as a families. God has things for us as individuals. God has things for us through our families into this earth. It's not just, oh, he wants us to have a good life. He wants us to have a vacation. No, that's fun part. What about how many souls he wants to save through your life? How many souls he want to save through your family? Oh, but my son is not. No, no, no. How many? Why? Because you are not persistent in prayer. You want to put on your son. Now you be persistent. Watch what God can do through you, through your mouth, through your prayer, through your hand, through your being at work, God can touch many, many, many. You think some people all will come to church? No, people will not come to church. If it was the case, they would have already come. Majority won't. Because church has been portrayed very differently thanks to Hollywood, thanks to other words, they have portrayed church in a way that people, the worldly people don't want to come here. But we have to reach to them, we have to go to them. We have to be present in certain places to be mouth of God, to be hand of God, to be the life of God, to go into them. But if you don't have a prayer life, you will never have a, a proper hearing from God what to say. You will always go and say, oh, God loves you. He'll be like, okay, go away. I know that. Oh God loves you. Okay. I know that to have a perfect answer in your mouth, you need to have a prayer life in your life. Because it's not simple, only encouragement. God loves you. People have heard in different religions that God loves them. It's not something new you have brought, but if you have a continuous prayer life, God will bring a right answer at the right time. When you will say, oh, it's not God, but you may say, oh, how is your son? I have never seen him. How is your daughter? Maybe you are touching the place where they are hurting. That will never happen without, without. Without a consistent prayer life. People say, oh, I want to hear from God. You know how you hear from God? Hear. Hearing from God is you need a word life. Not just word. Word life means you are addicted to word. You have a prayer life. Not just pray. You have a prayer life. You are addicted to be with God every day. Then you have to have a clean life. You cannot dangle with sin and have everything in your life and think that God will Use you. No, no, no, no.

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Hallelujah.

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So we have to have that, we have to have that. And then when you have a continually having these things in your life, you will have a continual hearing from God.

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Hallelujah.

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Continual prayer produces continual hearing from God. And that success is a guarantee after that.

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Hallelujah.

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Amen.

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Hallelujah.

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Matthew 21st. I'm just encouraging you. Why different ways that what we need.

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Hallelujah.

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Because what we want to achieve here, it's great. Matthew 21st chapter. Yeah. What we want to achieve, it's great. But it won't come just because we want it. We have to put effort to it.

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Hallelujah.

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Amen. Somebody said consistent prayer life is the way to maintain high flying Christian life. You want a high fly Christian life, You want to have a high flying, you want to have that, then you have to have a consistent prayer life. Then you will be able to maintain that high Christian life which God promises. You know, pastors say, oh, I have everything, all those things. And when you see Pastor Nancy comes, she looks like glamorous, she looks like extravagant, she looks like all. Why she has a persistent prayer life. She has a persistent prayer life. She never misses the place God has created for her. She never misses that place before him. She goes every day there.

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Hallelujah.

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Amen. 21st Matthew verse. You can read everything at home. I don't know, I don't want to say that. But anyways, keep it open, don't worry. When your prayer life begins to drag, because I want to, I want to read this to you. When your prayer life begins to drag, it shows your spirit. Man is already slump bent, bow or sink. Because you're getting further and further away from God. Somebody said that when your prayer life begins to drag, it shows your spirit. Man is already drooping, is already slumped, is already sinking and you're getting away from God. But God said, draw close to me and I'll draw close to you. Draw near to me, I'll draw near to you. Basically that in one translation it says, I'll move my. Move your heart closer and closer to me and I will move closer and closer to you.

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Hallelujah.

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He said move closer. It's not time to draw back or further away from him, it's time to go close to him. How can you go close to him without a prayer life? You cannot go close to him without a prayer life. Not just prayer, prayer life. Prayer is if you pray two to three or four days a week. That's you have a prayer, you do prayer you do prayer, but it's not just you do prayers. If it is that you have a prayer life, Hallelujah. If you see some bodybuilders or some people who have achieved success in businesses or in their, in whatever way, you ask them, they don't miss a day. They don't miss a day, man. They don't. They don't care about birthdays, they don't care about things. They are so focused, they are so determined, they are so steel willed that oh, nothing can take us away from that destiny. Nothing can take us away from that end what we are seeing and why are we Christians? Why us? Any little thing takes us away. Oh, my friend called me today. They had a party today. I'm going in, man. I've been working five days a week. My time to relax going in all. You go there, you come late, you don't wake up on time, you are done next day, then you are tired the next following day because you were not able to rest previous day. Three days are gone. Oh Lord, it's a weekend. You know, we live in Canada and we don't have what persistency. And God is not saying that I, I don't want you to enjoy. I want you to enjoy. God is not a God of like a hard task. He said I want you to enjoy also. But don't quit my place which is important in your life. That you want that by ignoring this you should be saying, lord, I will never ignore this. And I'll make sure you will have a time around for these activities too. And that who made time man, he made clock. Time was made by God. He knows how to expand. The Bible talks in Daniel's times and seasons are in his hand. He knows how to expand. He knows how to give you the best in that little time even. How to give enjoyment in that time even. But it's up to you that you miss everything else just for God's time or you miss God's time for everything else. Then that depends. Your time will be expanded or shrinking.

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Hallelujah.

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We cannot be distracted from what we are called to do. You are not called to do just a job. You are called to do a prayer, have a prayer life. Make every effort you have to make to make that prayer life. To have that place in the spirit, to have that thing in the spirit realm that they recognize you, that that is yours. People fight for their death, man, in the work. People fight for their desk. And people fight for little things. Oh, this is my bottle. This is my place. Oh, I have to Sit. I have been sitting here three years. This is my seat. People fight for chairs, man. Seats in the church even sometimes. This is a natural building. This is a natural office. You even don't know next year you will be sitting in an office or not. Why don't you fight every single thing for a prayer life, For a place in the spirit which nobody can replace, which nobody can take away, which nobody, nobody in this world can take. Only you can. And that is specially designed for you. Nobody else. This seat. You are sitting here. Anybody can sit next to you. Pastor Jenny said seats will be taken away. Many we have seen already gone. But the place in the spirit, nobody can take it away. Strive every effort to have that place that is yours.

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Hallelujah.

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Oh man. Matthew 28 let's go. What Matthew says. Matthew will be mad. Matthew 21 I don't know what to say. Matthew 21 Matthew 21 Lord, the first eight verses. Go home and read because Jesus is entering. Guys, it's not boring. It's good. You read. Because Jesus is entering Jerusalem and the crowds are going bananas and saying hosanna, Hosanna. And all those things. But as he entered Jerusalem, all the city became agitated and trembling with excitement. Said, who is this? And the crowd said, this is the prophet Jesus from Nazareth of Galilee. And Jesus straight went into the temple, the whole temple and whole temple enclosure, and drove out all those, all who bought and sold in the sacred place. And he turned over the four footed tables of the money changers and the chairs of those who sold doves. He said to them, the scripture says, my house shall be called a house of prayer. And you have made it a den of robbers. Who is the house of God? Who is the house of God? Basically this building promise of life140Capital code we are the house of God and you are called a house of prayer. We are called house of prayer. Not any other house. A house of prayer. God lives in you. He doesn't live in 140 Capital Court. He comes to visit 140 Capitol Court. As soon as two or three get together, here he comes and visits. But he lives in each and every one of us. And in each and every one of us. He said, this house is a house of prayer. This house is a house of prayer. I call everyone house of prayer. And when they go out and pray and come together, the bigger manifestation happens. If we don't take responsibility of what he said to us, we'll never achieve what he wants for us. We just want things. You will only have things if you do what he is saying to you do. And he said, is my house is not called any other house. My house is called a house of prayer. I am his house. Means it's my responsibility to make everything, everything I have to. He said he drove people out. Kick people out of your life if you have to, who are taking more time what God has carved out for you. God will not kick them out of your life. God will not take the people out of your life. You say, oh, but God said divine connections will come. All connections are not divine, by the way. All things are not from God, by the way. Basically, if somebody is taking your time, your attention, your holiness, your devotion away from God. It's not from God. And it is not God who will kick them out. It is you who will kick them out of your life. You are waiting for God to kick them. No, no. God is waiting for you because he has given you the authority. He has given you the words. He has given you the power. He has given you basically everything in you to tell them, okay, you have been taking too much of my time. My time is important with God. So, okay, bye. Unless you change and come with me in that place. Bye, bye, bye. From far away, he said, every single. Every single distraction that was in the house. Because as soon as you enter, they are saying, oh, dove for 2 cents, dove for 5 cents. Come to me. I have a full dove. Two doves for 6 cents. And people are, instead of focusing on her, they're like, oh, give me that dove. Oh, by the way, honey, dove is good. But what about this thing? We'll take this at home. They are distracted entering the house of God. They are distracted entering where God wants them to be. In a holy place. They are all their minds are all over. Clustered things of natural have gone into them. And God said, no, no, no, you are coming to me. Come in a proper devotion. You are coming to me. Come in a full, full attention. You're coming to me. Come as only I exist. Nobody else exists. That's how we feel. That's why we are. We don't see certain things. Why? Because we see everything in our life. What? But not God. We want to give time to every single one, but not God. We want to have a life of everything this world has, but not prayer life. And we want things from God. When we say God, you said, have faith and move the mountains. Mountains don't move like that, man. Huh? It doesn't happen that way. Mountains laugh at people. Those who don't have a persistent prayer life, those who don't have that mountains laugh at them. They mock them. They mock them day and night. But once those who have, they are not distracted by the mountains. They walk and they crush the mountains. They crush it. Why? Because they know the place they have been with God every day. They know who is with them. They know who is around them. They don't need other people to confirm, oh, God is with you. They know who is with them, who is walking with them. They know that. And that only comes that assurity will only come when you have a proper prayer life.

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Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

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That's why he said you are called a prayer of house. House of prayer. Make every effort to be what I call you to. You want the revelation of who you are in Christ, get one. This is one that you are a house of prayer.

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Hallelujah.

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Be what God has called you to be and you will see what God wants you to see.

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Hallelujah.

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Father, we bless you. We thank you, Father. We thank you, Father. We thank you, Father. Lord, let this word settle in us, Father. That Father, that we don't just pray here and there, but we have a prayer life. Like those ministers of the old, like those people of the old. Father, they say we don't sin. Why? Because we have a prayer life. We don't go on wavered direction. Why we have a prayer life. So, Father, let us also make decisions based on the prayer life that we make. Cut out everything that needs to be cut out from our life. Distractions and all those which Satan has brought. And certain things we pick up in our own life that we make everything so that we have a time for a prayer life. Father, we thank you because you want to do certain things in our life, personal, in our families, through our families, in this church, through this church. But that will only come to pass if we have a proper, vibrant, vigorous prayer life. Father, in Jesus name we say amen.