Live from Charlotte | Street Preachers Podcast Tour | Philip Anthony Mitchell and Tim Timberlake

Summary

Street Preachers Podcast – Live from Charlotte

Hosts: Philip Anthony Mitchell & Tim Timberlake
Episode: Street Preachers Podcast Tour – Charlotte (Nov 25, 2025)

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Episode Overview

From a spirited live session in Charlotte, NC, Tim Timberlake and Philip Anthony Mitchell dive deep into the theme of intimacy with God through prayer. With their signature unfiltered honesty and biblical grounding, the pastors strip down misconceptions about prayer, address obstacles like pride and shame, and share personal daily routines designed to foster divine connection and revival. The episode isn’t just about teaching on prayer – it's a passionate call to make intimacy with God the wellspring of every area of life.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

The Father’s Attentive Ear

(00:19 – 03:30)

• Tim opens with Psalm 116, emphasizing God's attentiveness—“The Holy Spirit will arrest whatever is trying to arrest you… The Father listens with great intention.”
• Tim Timberlake:

  "When we read this word 'inclined', it paints a picture as a father with a child on his lap, leaning in to hear every word that that child is speaking..." (02:00)

Prayer in the Midst of Human Struggle

(03:30 – 06:51)

• Philip underscores life’s inevitability of problems—“Life is a conveyor belt of problems and challenges... You will be good in one season. And a battle is around the corner.”
• The tendency to turn to everything but God:

  “We run to all these other places other than God—he’s last on the list. We make prayer the last resort instead of the first resort.” – Philip Anthony Mitchell (05:34)

• The awe of divine attentiveness despite our brokenness.

Turning Worry into Prayer

(06:51 – 10:47)

• Tim encourages using every negative emotion as fuel for communion with God:

  "I've trained myself to do, and I want to encourage you to do, is every time you face a problem in life... carry it to the presence of God.” (07:56)

• Highlights idols (social media, people, substances) that distract from prayer.
• Memorable advice:

  “Make prayer your new vice.” (09:29)

Obstacles to Intimacy: Pride, Shame, Success, and Talent

(10:47 – 15:18)

• Pride and shame keep us from seeking God:

  "We don't take things to God that we think we can answer ourselves… instead of developing a relationship of intimacy, we develop a transactional relationship." – Philip Anthony Mitchell (11:14)

• Tim expands: shame makes us undervalue the blood of Jesus; insecurities convince us we're unworthy.
• The unique danger for the “talented and gifted” to become self-reliant and prayerless.

Personal Routines of Prayer

(15:18 – 22:00)

• Both pastors describe their “secret place” and prayer habits:
  • Tim: 4am prayer in his basement, envisioning Christ present, using music and stillness, pouring out emotions, interceding for others, and just being with God.

    "For me, it’s a room in the basement… I anticipate to meet him there. Sometimes I go in there and it’s hard for me to come out." (16:01 – 17:42)

  • Philip: Prayer and communion at his dinner table, enacting spiritual “blood transfusion” for renewal after giving to others all day.

    "When I take of his body, I exchange this earthen vessel… And then I take of the cup, every night... it is my time to get poured back into." (22:13 – 24:29)

Struggling with Sin and the Purpose of Suffering

(25:37 – 32:07)

• Tim addresses feelings of unworthiness, reminding listeners that even Paul struggled:

  "The thing I don’t want to do, I do… The worst place to be is when you can sin and sleep." (26:52 – 27:54)

• Discusses the Western prosperity gospel’s false promise of pain-free living; real gospel expects suffering, which “untethers us from this life and makes us long for heaven.”

Ongoing, Intimate Dialogue

(32:07 – 37:42)

• Prayer isn’t just a morning ritual—it’s “like breathing” (Tim):

  “Prayer should be like breathing. It should be this ongoing dialogue we’re having with God all the time.” (33:20)

• Continuous intimacy transforms all aspects of life: marriage, parenting, leadership, and discernment.

The Transformative Power of Intimacy

(37:42 – 41:55)

• Intimacy with God is the source for every relationship and decision.
• It increases discernment, sensitivity, courage, and grace:

  "When you have intimacy with God, it will increase your discernment…" (39:49)

Notable Audience Engagements and Memorable Metaphors

• The pastors frequently ask for audience participation—raising hands, standing, agreeing together—as a tangible step toward deeper connection.
• Powerful, memorable lines:
  • "Carry it back to his feet." (43:26)
  • "Make prayer your new vice." (09:29)
  • "If Paul wrote we should pray without ceasing, then prayer should be like breathing." (33:20)
• The "altar" metaphor—doing nothing of consequence in life without first coming to God.

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Notable Quotes & Timestamps

• Tim Timberlake:

  “God will never create for you a life that makes him unnecessary.” (03:57)

• Philip Anthony Mitchell:

  “When I take of his body, I exchange this earthen vessel for the one person that can renew it and breathe into it.” (22:55)

• Tim Timberlake:

  "Sometimes the prayer is not, Lord, get me out. But what are you teaching me while I'm here?" (32:50)

• Philip Anthony Mitchell:

  "The most dangerous leader is an empty one." (24:36)

• Tim Timberlake:

  "Intimacy with God… It’ll change your ministry. Change your health." (40:53)

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Important Segment Timestamps

• Opening and context/prayer theme: 00:19 – 03:30
• Obstacles to prayer and how to overcome: 10:47 – 15:18
• Personal prayer routines: 15:18 – 22:00 (Tim at 16:01, Philip at 21:55)
• Struggle with sin, suffering’s purpose: 25:37 – 32:07
• Ongoing dialogue/“praying without ceasing”: 32:07 – 37:42
• Transformation through intimacy/altar metaphor: 37:42 – 41:55
• Ministry moment and closing prayer: 44:56 – 47:52

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Episode Tone and Language

The conversation is raw, genuine, and full of passionate “preaching”—equal parts pastoral wisdom and confessional vulnerability. Both hosts use vivid word pictures (e.g., spiritual blood transfusion, breaking alabaster boxes), encourage honest self-reflection, and address the listener directly as part of their “street team,” reinforcing intimacy and community.

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Summary Takeaway

This episode is a powerful call to return to the feet of Jesus, turning every trouble and triumph into an opportunity for prayer and intimacy with God. The hosts’ vulnerable sharing, theological depth, and practical advice create space for listeners to reevaluate their own walk—challenging pride, shame, and self-reliance in favor of an all-consuming, everyday relationship with God. The message: Don’t just pray—become prayerful. Let intimacy fuel everything.

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Transcript

[Tim Timberlake]

You're listening to the Street Preachers Podcast with Tim Timberlake and Philip Anthony Mitchell.

[Philip Anthony Mitchell]

This episode is powered by Overflow Co and the Museum of the Bible. Want to welcome everybody that's tuning in Right now. We're in Charlotte, North Carolina, and I.

[Tim Timberlake]

Wonder, is our Charlotte street team.

[Audience Member / Host Interaction]

Make some noise, Charlotte.

[Philip Anthony Mitchell]

Make some noise. I, I, I can't even explain what God is doing in this moment, in this place. And I believe that God is going to do something in a moment in your life, no matter where you may be watching from, listening from. I believe that the anointing knows no boundaries, it knows no ends, and it travels. And the Holy Spirit will arrest whatever is trying to arrest you. And so, in this moment, we want to unpack some scripture. Me and my brother, Pastor Philip Anthony Mitchell, we've been praying, we've been wrestling, we've been talking through what prayer means to us, what prayer means for us, how we are supposed to pray. We believe that we are in a season of supernatural consecration and prayer. And so I want to begin with a scripture, and I want us to lean into Psalms chapter 116. Before we started recording, Pastor Philip was talking about the Psalms, and the Holy Spirit brought this scripture to my attention. Psalms, chapter 1:16. It says, I love the Lord because he hears my voice and my pleasure because he has inclined his ear to me. Therefore I will call upon him as long as I live. The context of this scripture from a Hebraic perspective. When we read this word inclined, it paints a picture as a father with a child on his lap, leaning in to hear every word that that child is speaking, every word that that child speaks, and every word in prayer that you speak. The Father listens with great intention. And I want to point something out to you. It says, I love the Lord because he hears. Now, I want you to think about this for a moment. Because our God is not singular present. He is omnipresent. And with everything going on in creation, the Lord hears you. I want you to make this personal for a moment, because with all of the billions of people, with all of the creation crying out to the Father, the Father hears you. And Scripture says that he inclines his ear to you. Phil, when you think about the Father's ear being inclined to you, what do you process? What do you think about what comes to mind?

[Tim Timberlake]

Well, I think about all of the troubles that are in this room. I think about all the hardships that that are in this room. I think about all the needs that are in this room. I think about all the people in the room who are searching for answers, There is something in their life that they really want God to step into that space. And I think about all the time, all of us who, as human beings, we are dealing with a myriad of problems and challenges and circumstances. Let me just remind you, everybody, I just want to say this to you right now, okay? I just want to disrupt some of your theology, okay? God will never create for you a life that makes him unnecessary. So it does not matter if you climb the corporate ladder or if you get the husband that you want or the job that you want or whatever. What God will do is leave a little bit of suffering in your life or inside of you or around you, because he's not going to create utopia for us down here.

[Audience Member / Host Interaction]

And I say that to you tonight because we all know this by experience, that life is a conveyor belt of problems and challenges and disappointments and heartbreaks and issues and battles. You will be good in one season. And a battle is around the corner. And we know this anecdotally, we know this experientially. There is no one in this room who cannot testify to grappling with the problems of life. I would take a survey right now that if you're in the room right now and there is something in your life, in your family moving around you.

[Tim Timberlake]

That is bothering you or agitating you, some area you want God to step in, just lift your hands right now and notice it doesn't matter what color we are, our socioeconomic status, the room is filled with problems. And so I want to use that, Tim, as a foil to create a backdrop to say that when this is happening in the lives of human beings, we have a tendency to run every other place other than the presence of God. We run to our education, we run to people, we run to social media. We have things blowing up in our life. And we run to all these other places other than God is like he's last on the list. So we make prayer the last resort instead of the first resort. So when, when, when I think about this and the problems you have and the problems I have, man, I am deeply grateful that me as a sinful, fallen human being, that a divine, holy sovereign will take the time to actually listen to anything that I have to say, right? And I think when we think about that more, we will stop taking prayer for granted. We will stop seeing it as obligatory. We will stop seeing it as something we just fire off five minutes on the way to work. There is a holy being in heaven.

[Philip Anthony Mitchell]

Watch.

[Tim Timberlake]

Who knows the end from the beginning.

[Audience Member / Host Interaction]

He knows the answer you need for your circumstance.

[Tim Timberlake]

And yet we be going through problems in life, and we don't run into that secret place to talk to him. So when I think about the troubles that I deal with, the troubles you deal with, when I think about that he's willing to listen, I feel inclined to keep running back to his feet and keep breaking my alabaster box over his feet, breaking my box of tears, breaking my box of petition, breaking my box of intercession, breaking my box saying, lord, it's me again, talking to you about this problem again. Sometimes, even when I don't have words to him, I would just go sit in his presence and just cry because I know that he can answer my tears. And sometimes when we have nothing to say, I just sit in his presence. But what I've trained myself to do, what I want to encourage you to do, is every time you face a problem in life, every problem I face, every time my heart is heavy, I take that heavy heart and I carry it to the presence of God, right? And oftentimes we don't do that because we have vices that we take the heart to. They're in the room. And then we have idols that we take the heart to. So some of us, we worship men more than God, so we always get advice, but we never pray.

[Audience Member / Host Interaction]

We worship social media more than God, so we always scroll, but we don't pray, right? Right. We worship some of these things more.

[Tim Timberlake]

Than God, so we run to all.

[Audience Member / Host Interaction]

These other things, right?

[Tim Timberlake]

More than God. And I know what it is to be in trouble and go run to a bottle or run to something to calm me down or whatever the case. And this is not to condemn anybody, but you know what I'm about to tell you is true, right?

[Philip Anthony Mitchell]

We.

[Tim Timberlake]

When it comes down and when the stupor comes down and when the high comes down, right? Like you're still unfulfilled, you're still. Your heart is still not satisfied. Because all these other things we keep running after, you know what they do? They betray us, Tim. They be. They betray us. And then at some point in time, you realize what your soul is really longing for is a touch from almighty God. So one of the things I've trained myself to do, and we talked about this when we was in the last city. We was in where we was at, Tim. We was in the RDU area in Creedmoor. I want to encourage as many of you as possible while Tim and I just. We're just freestyling, talking about prayer. Make Prayer your new vice.

[Philip Anthony Mitchell]

Right?

[Tim Timberlake]

Make prayer your new vice. And then turn every worry into a prayer. Everything that bothers your heart, turn it into a prayer.

[Audience Member / Host Interaction]

Everything that creates anxiety, turn it into a prayer. Everything that creates worry, turn it into a prayer. Every need that arises in your life, turn it into a prayer. And if you start taking all of your problems, all of your worries, all of your anxiety, all of your fear, all of your concerns, all of your issues, all of your challenges, all of your battles, if you start taking all of it to prayer, you will find in that place, help, strength, encouragement, answers. And over time, what you look up is that your neediness and your brokenness actually works to create intimacy with God because it keeps carrying him back to his feet. Like, my prayer life is ferocious. Like, people may know me for preaching all around the country, but that's not the strongest part of my ministry. The strongest part of my ministry is not my preaching. The strongest part of my ministry is my prayer life. And I'm not super disciplined in prayer because I'm a beast when it comes to discipline.

[Tim Timberlake]

My prayer life is ferocious because I am broken. And it's my brokenness. I keep running back to his presence. It's like, I need you, Lord. Right? And so if he. If he loves us. Right, Tim? Like, and he hears, why would I not keep going back there? But what keeps us from going to his presence, Tim? What are the things that keeps people from running to his presence? Pride. Pride.

[Philip Anthony Mitchell]

I think we don't take things to God that we think we can answer ourselves. We don't understand true biblical intimacy. And so instead of developing a relationship of intimacy, we develop a transactional relationship where we ask God for things, but we don't give him the time enough to respond to what it is he desires to speak to us and what prayer is. Prayer is an invitation to intimacy. And sometimes prayer is saying nothing. We have gotten into a habit of believing prayer is us telling God what it is that we want rather than hearing what it is that God needs from us. Yes. And I think that when we look at biblical prayer and what the word of God says, it is not us just reaching for God. Prayer according to Psalm chapter 116, is also God leaning in to you.

[Tim Timberlake]

And, you know, I think in addition to pride, because it's in the room, there are other things that keep us from running to God's presence. Shame. I know it's in the room. I can feel it in my spirit. You feel that your sin is stronger than the blood. And, like, there's not room at the cross for when you feel ashamed. There's some of us, we feel so ashamed. You think if you go and talk to him, he won't listen? Like you don't treat your child that way. Yeah.

[Philip Anthony Mitchell]

Right.

[Tim Timberlake]

And how is it we think we have more love for our own children than God has for you?

[Philip Anthony Mitchell]

Come on.

[Tim Timberlake]

Some of us, it's insecurities keep us from running there. Yeah. We feel like God would not listen to a person like me or he won't step into this problem. Do you know God cares about everything that you care about? That's why he says, cast all your cares upon him. Right. And so it. Pride, shame, insecurities.

[Philip Anthony Mitchell]

Let me.

[Tim Timberlake]

Failure.

[Philip Anthony Mitchell]

Failure. Let me throw this one in there. Provision.

[Tim Timberlake]

Provision. We're just too comfortable. We're too comfortable, too blessed.

[Philip Anthony Mitchell]

We don't take to God the things that we believe we're already successful in.

[Tim Timberlake]

Yeah.

[Philip Anthony Mitchell]

And so. We look at certain areas of my life, we look at certain aspects of our life and we think we got. And we think we. We've arrived.

[Tim Timberlake]

So it's like we put it on autopilot.

[Philip Anthony Mitchell]

We. We are at the pinnacle.

[Tim Timberlake]

Yeah.

[Philip Anthony Mitchell]

This is. This is it.

[Tim Timberlake]

Yeah.

[Philip Anthony Mitchell]

And surely this must be God because this area is provided for.

[Tim Timberlake]

Not. Not only. Not only that, Tim, but I also think there is a temptation to not go to God also to whom we're very talented.

[Philip Anthony Mitchell]

Come on.

[Tim Timberlake]

I think some of the most talented people are also some of the most prayerless people.

[Philip Anthony Mitchell]

Yes.

[Tim Timberlake]

Because when you are very talented and when people are very gifted, there is a temptation to minister, to work, to labor, and not feel like you need God to step into that space. And sometimes when people are very creative and very anointed and very gifted and very talented, sometimes they are the most prayerless because there is a temptation to not go seek God. So they walk onto platforms and have not prayed, and they'll preach sermons and have not prayed and sing songs and have not prayed and try to build businesses that have not prayed. Because sometimes talented people are the most tempted to not lean on God.

[Philip Anthony Mitchell]

Come on.

[Tim Timberlake]

It creates a sense of self reliance. This is why we need to seek God on mountaintops and seek God on valleys. Come on. Right.

[Audience Member / Host Interaction]

We need to be talking to him when things are peaceful and talking to him when things are chaotic. We should be talking to him in.

[Tim Timberlake]

Areas where we are strong and talking to him in areas where we are weak. Even if the prayer is, lord, thank you for where I'm strong and help me where I'm weak. But we're always talking to him about everything. Because we have self reliance upon God.

[Philip Anthony Mitchell]

Right. Let's talk about this for a second. I was thinking about this as we were driving up. Since we've known each other, we haven't even processed that we have times where we pray and we watch that cover the full spectrum of our day.

[Tim Timberlake]

Yeah.

[Philip Anthony Mitchell]

My prayer time.

[Tim Timberlake]

Yeah.

[Philip Anthony Mitchell]

Is from 12am to 3am and there aren't many nights where we're not texting where I'm about to go to sleep for my prayer time. Y and he's waking up to go into his prayer time.

[Tim Timberlake]

Mine start at 4am 4am 4am can.

[Philip Anthony Mitchell]

You talk through what that prayer time looks like for you? Yeah.

[Tim Timberlake]

So for me, I'm up at 4am in the morning and I've created a place in my home where I meet God in that place regularly. And the habit of going into that place and meet him creates this sense of anticipation. I know when I open that door and I step into that room, I anticipate to meet him there. Yeah. Is why he teaches us in the Sermon on the Mount Jesus did is that we should have a secret place. A place that we carve out where we go meet with Him. It can be a bathroom, a closet, a room, a basement. For my wife, it's the park, a walk, wherever you feel comfortable. Like you have to tailor your prayers. No one size fits all. It's not like everybody's going to fit into this Jays that I got on. So you tailor your prayer for what works for you. If you are walker, then you go walk. And that's your secret place. For me, it's a room in the basement. And I go in there and I take out my Bible and I lay it on the floor and I put on my nightlight. You've seen me post this before. And I might post a pic with me. The nightlight to encourage anybody who's up to pray. And then I'll put my blanket over my head. I'll turn on some William Augusto and I'll just sit there in the presence of God. And what I'm doing. We never talked about this. And what I'm doing now. I'm envisioning him sitting across from me there. Right. And. And. And I'm. I'm thinking about. So I'm thinking about things that I've read about him. Like his eyes are like a blazing fire. And. And as I'm sitting there in my mind to Him, I'm imagining the Lord sitting across from me. And I'm not saying anything. I'm Just getting him in my heart, I'm just. I'm setting my affections on him, right? And then once I feel I have.

[Philip Anthony Mitchell]

I have.

[Tim Timberlake]

I have gotten close to his heart, then whatever is in my heart, I just empty whatever's in my heart. If that takes 20 minutes or two hours or four hours, I'm going to empty everything in my heart. And then I'm going to sit still and just let him minister back to me. And, and, and it becomes this, this back and forth of just a depth of intimacy. And, and I could feel his warmth and I could feel his comfort. And there's times when I go in there and I feel guilty because of sin and I can feel his forgiveness. And there's times when I go in there and I'm tired and I'm weary, but I could feel his strength. There's times when I go in there, I just feel burdened, but I can feel him taking things off. And there's times when I go in there, I feel ashamed. I can feel him rubbing my back. There's times I go in there, I don't know what to say. And I could feel him catching my tears. It's just this beautiful thing we have going on. And I love it there, And I love it there. And sometimes it's hard to come out of there because I would rather be there than here. I would rather be there than on this platform. And sometimes I go in there and it's hard for me to come out of there. And then especially like when you love people, right, and you think about, like the way he taught us to pray, your kingdom come, you will be done. And I'm thinking about the brokenness I see on social media. I'm thinking about the brokenness I see in America. I'm thinking about the fact, like this clock that's on us that time is running out and that people are playing church and they don't know that God is preparing the world for the return of the Son. So I'm thinking about the fact we're living in the end times. We're living in the final days of the church age. I'm looking at the rise of Islam and I'm looking at all the things that's happening globally. And they're about to make a chip in Great Britain to put in people's hands and forehead. And I'm looking and then, and then.

[Audience Member / Host Interaction]

I just start crying out for the nations and I'm crying out for the church and I'm crying out for my.

[Tim Timberlake]

Wife and I'm crying out for my kids. And I will be in there balling my eyes. I'll keep rolls of toilet paper in my room, and I'll be going through them. And that carpet in there, that carpet can. That carpet has tears. Like, it can testify. And I'm bro. And. And I am ringing out my heart. I'm ringing out my sin. I'm telling God about my needs. I'm telling him about my brokenness. I'm being needy, like. And I'm just going to stay there until I'm empty, bro. And that's what it is for me. And I can't live without that. Me personally. Me personally. I need that time from him. And now that, to me, doesn't feel obligatory. It feels like I'm ready to go meet with him.

[Audience Member / Host Interaction]

Right?

[Tim Timberlake]

And I want that for them.

[Audience Member / Host Interaction]

Can I just.

[Tim Timberlake]

Something right here in the middle of the podcast. I just pray right now, in this moment, a spirit of hunger and desperation for the presence of God. I want to drop this right here for the one who feels prayerless, the one who feels far away from God, the one who feels like I can't get past five minutes in prayer. I pray right now by faith. A spirit of hunger, a spirit of desperation, a spirit of neediness, clinginess. A spirit of love and desire. Come upon you, you who want this. Let it come upon you right now. Let it activate in your heart. Let it drive you to his presence tomorrow morning or to a walk in a park. I pray that for the hungry person in the room. Receive that now in Jesus mighty name. Yeah, that's. But what is it like for you? Because you're up when I'm sleeping, and I'm getting up when you're taking. That's for me. What is that prayer time like for you?

[Philip Anthony Mitchell]

My. My secret place is my dinner table.

[Tim Timberlake]

Dinner table.

[Philip Anthony Mitchell]

And I'll sit down.

[Tim Timberlake]

Yo, why we never talked about this before?

[Philip Anthony Mitchell]

Because we'd be supreme.

[Tim Timberlake]

And so your dinner table.

[Philip Anthony Mitchell]

My dinner table.

[Tim Timberlake]

Okay. It's tailored, right?

[Audience Member / Host Interaction]

That's tailored for you.

[Philip Anthony Mitchell]

That's right.

[Tim Timberlake]

All right, go ahead.

[Philip Anthony Mitchell]

And I'll get communion, and I'll take communion at the table. And I'll envision Jesus sitting. And when I take of his body, I ask him to heal mine. Because. This body has endured pain. This body, it gets weary.

[Tim Timberlake]

This body gets tired.

[Philip Anthony Mitchell]

This body that struggles with doubt. And when I take of his body, I exchange this earthen vessel. For the one person that can take this flesh. And renew it and breathe into it. And then I take of the cup every night. And I drink of his blood. And just like a patient who is badly injured and bleeds out that is in dire need of a blood transfusion at the end of my day, after pouring out all day, after giving all day, it is my time to get poured back into. And I ask him every single night, wash me, Cleanse me, restore unto me the joy of my salvation.

[Tim Timberlake]

Because.

[Philip Anthony Mitchell]

The days are long and the years are quick, and we look out every single day. And if he does not fill me, I will pour from an empty well. And the most dangerous leader is an empty one. And I ask God to show me what you see of yourself in me. So that I don't see me. I see you. We talked about this last night, but I'm reminded of Paul. And he says in Romans, oh, wretched man that I am, Who can deliver me?

[Tim Timberlake]

But can we back up just a little bit?

[Philip Anthony Mitchell]

We can rewind.

[Tim Timberlake]

I want to help somebody in the room. Can we help somebody, Tim?

[Philip Anthony Mitchell]

Let's help.

[Tim Timberlake]

I know there are people in this room. You worship Paul. You see Paul as a God. I'll give you that for right now. Since you worship him, you read about the apostle Paul and you forget that he was a man like you.

[Philip Anthony Mitchell]

Yeah, right.

[Tim Timberlake]

And I thank you, Holy Spirit. Right. And there are people in this room, Tim, who feel that, you know, I'm messing up too much. I got too much sin in my life. God is not going to listen to me when I pray. And. And. And I feel like there's people here who just feel like, man, I'm just a mess before God. You know, before Tim quoted that scripture, there's some scriptures that came before that. The man you worship, Paul, right. You. For. You think he's an angel. He did say something like, the thing I don't want to do, I do. I do. And the thing that I should be doing, I don't. I don't do. And when I want to do the thing that I should be doing, I find myself not doing that. And the thing that I don't want.

[Audience Member / Host Interaction]

To do, I always find myself doing that. And he describes this wrestle Paul has with sin, and he does not name the sin, but Paul is wrestling with sin. Because God is not afraid of your wrestle. The issue is not struggle. The issue is yielding. If you're struggling, you're in a good place. If it's bothering you, you're in a good place. If it's frustrating you, you're in a good place. If you get mad at yourself, like, dang it. While I keep having these thoughts you're in a good place. If you say, why am I having these battles in me? You're in a good place. If you turn on the pornography and shut it off with a broken heart, you're in a good place. If you grab yourself and feel grieved, you're in a good place. Every time you feel convicted with your sin, you're still in a good. The worst place to be is when you can sin and sleep. The worst place to be is when you can sin and sleep.

[Tim Timberlake]

But when it's bothering you, you're in a good place.

[Audience Member / Host Interaction]

And Paul says, man, back and forth, this wrestle he's having with sin and he's looking for help. Where does he find that in his struggle with sin and hardship in his own heart? Where does Paul find that help? Thanks be to God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Which brings me to something else. We could probably just. I know we're talking about prayer, but I just gotta slide this in here. I mean, it's our show, so I could do this.

[Tim Timberlake]

Right?

[Audience Member / Host Interaction]

Let me just slide this in here. Right, right.

[Tim Timberlake]

Earlier today was on the tour bus. Now, tour manager, shout out to our tour manager, Dinora Pina. She's in the room. She's the best tour manager.

[Audience Member / Host Interaction]

And I don't know where she is.

[Tim Timberlake]

But shout out to her.

[Audience Member / Host Interaction]

And we was on the.

[Tim Timberlake]

We was on the tour bus having a whole Bible study on First Peter and talking about suffering. And this comes right back to Romans, chapter seven. Listen to me. Sometimes I. I know. I know there are things that make you cry and things that make you hurt. And I'm. I know I'm not the only one. Sometimes I be just frustrated sometimes with the trials of life, like some of this stuff feels too heavy and like there's an arrow coming all the time. And a new video about me all the time. And a battle in the office all the time. And this challenge all the time. And now my dog is crippled and we trying to nurse it. It's always some. Some kind of. Y' all pray for chance. My dog had a spinal injury, and we nursing him back to health like he's a senior citizen.

[Audience Member / Host Interaction]

And we changing his diapers and we.

[Tim Timberlake]

Talk like it's always. And. And. And the Lord ain't lifting all. He's not going to remove us from.

[Audience Member / Host Interaction]

Sufferings in this life.

[Tim Timberlake]

I want to help some of you who have a low theology to think that you're going to pray your way.

[Audience Member / Host Interaction]

Out of suffering in this life. It's never going to happen. I want to. I want to Set you up well, because some of us have bought into a western gospel that says, you heard preachers come to Jesus and he will make everything perfect. You'll get everything you want. So we listen to that, the prosperity speech and make, if you come to Christ, you make him a genie. And then we have an unrealistic expectation of God that if we serve him, we will have no problems. And if we're, and we're faithful, we have no problems. And if we're consistent, we have no problems. And let me tell you, you will never be exonerated from suffering and from problems and trials. Jesus said, said, in this life you will have.

[Tim Timberlake]

Watch.

[Audience Member / Host Interaction]

And why am I telling you this? I'm telling you this to untether you from being so attached to this life. See, we so attached to this life. We don't long for what Jesus said. I have gone to prepare a place for you that where I am, there you will be also. But you know one of the things he helps us to long for? Heaven, pain. You know what else helps us long for glory?

[Tim Timberlake]

Suffering.

[Audience Member / Host Interaction]

You know what else help us long for glory? Trials, tribulations, hardships. Like, Lord, I'm doing everything I know to do and I'm dealing with all.

[Tim Timberlake]

Of this brokenness and hell and troubles.

[Audience Member / Host Interaction]

Yes. And it is not going to stop.

[Tim Timberlake]

Because he don't want you to be so attached to now that you don't have a hope for. When he wrote in Revelation through John.

[Audience Member / Host Interaction]

For a day is coming where he will make all things new and I will wipe away every tear from their eye, and there will be no more pain, and there will be no more suffering and there will be no more trials and no more tribulations for the fourth things have passed away. And so pain, part of its purpose is to create a longing in our hearts.

[Tim Timberlake]

For what he went to prepare a place where we never suffer again. Come on. Right? And so sometimes even in prayer, it's me just connecting my heart to eternity and sometimes saying in prayer, lord, I got to remind myself for the sufferings of these present time, they're not worthy to be compared. I'm talking like this in prayer to the glory that shall be revealed. And see, some of us, Western Christians, American, we don't think about eternity. You're only thinking about next week. Right? And part of the hell he allows us to go through is to help us not be so attached to right now that we actually have a desire to for what he went to create. And sometimes prayer is just saying, like sometimes it's not even asking it's like. It's like, lord, I. I know where you are, and I know where I will be. Give me strength to just keep going, grace to get through this. And sometimes the prayer is not, lord, get me out. But what are you teaching me while I'm here? What are you trying to shape in me while I'm here? What. What thing are you doing in me while I'm here? Sometimes God will use pain to shape character, develop faith, like fix your eyes to bring you back to him. So sometimes for me, it's not always pray to get out. Lord, what are you doing while I'm here? Right? And I think there's an eternal thing that also is happening in faith. Like, this is the highest activity a human being can engage in, and that is talking to a heavenly being. And thank you, Holy Spirit. I want to say this to somebody in the room. If Paul wrote we should pray without ceasing, then prayer should be like breathing. It should be like this ongoing dialogue we're having with God all the time. So we're just in the car and we're talking to him, and we're at the job, walking to the thing. We're thinking about Him. We're in the shower and we're singing songs. It's like, it's this arm. So I don't always have to wait until I get to my prayer room at 4am I could be taking my trash bin down to the corner.

[Audience Member / Host Interaction]

And on the way back, I'm looking up at the sky and thanking God for my house. And I'm about to go back in there and I got a loving wife. And I'm about to go watch movies.

[Tim Timberlake]

Because it's Friday, and I'm walking back towards the house like, lord, just thank you for my wife and for my children.

[Audience Member / Host Interaction]

Like, we just have this ongoing dialogue.

[Tim Timberlake]

Where we're just talking to him all.

[Audience Member / Host Interaction]

The time about everything.

[Tim Timberlake]

And sometimes when we have nothing to say, it's like, lord, I just thank you and it'll transform your whole life. Can I. Can I read Psalm 34 to somebody? And Psalm 34, the writer says, I will bless the Lord at all times, and his praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul makes his boast in the Lord. Let the humble hear and be glad. Oh, magnify the Lord with me and let us exalt his name together. Here it is, verse 4. I sought the Lord. I love this part. Gosh, man, it's so powerful. It reminds us that he's not deaf. And he answered me, and look what he has the power to do. And he delivered me from all of my fears. That means you might still have trouble, but he'll give you the courage to go through it. And I like this part. Those who look to him, they are radiant. Like, why does Tim Timberlake shine like that? Well, he looks to him. And Philip Anthony Mitchell, he's real dark, but he's radiant. Like, I know I'm real black. I ain't. I ain't got beautiful skin like Tim Timberlake. Like, I'm. I'm real dark.

[Audience Member / Host Interaction]

He said, what?

[Tim Timberlake]

I'm still beautiful, right? I'm still radiant like you see it. But why are we radiant? Our faces. Why? They shine. They never shine. Why? Because we just keep looking to him. Verse 6. This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, saved him out of his troubles. And like, what are we trying to tell you tonight? You know what Tim and I are fighting for tonight in you deeper intimacy with God. Like not doing ministry out of the overflow of strength, not doing marriage out of the overflow of strength, not doing friendships out of the overflow of your own personal strength, but doing everything in our life from the overflow of just intimacy with God. It'll make you a better parent. It'll make you a better husband.

[Philip Anthony Mitchell]

We.

[Tim Timberlake]

We land in the plane. Listen to me.

[Audience Member / Host Interaction]

This ain't.

[Tim Timberlake]

This ain't just an episode right here, just about prayer. What Tim and I are trying to talk to you tonight about is about a depth of intimacy with God in which. Watch this. Everything you do flows out of intimacy with God. And when we do that, when he is your.

[Audience Member / Host Interaction]

Well, it will make you a better man. It'll make you a better woman. Right? Come on, sisters.

[Tim Timberlake]

Come on.

[Audience Member / Host Interaction]

All my ladies. Where all my ladies at.

[Philip Anthony Mitchell]

The.

[Audience Member / Host Interaction]

It'll make you a better husband because you won't. You won't. Oh, I.

[Tim Timberlake]

Fellas. See? See?

[Audience Member / Host Interaction]

Because even intimacy will help a tough marriage. It's like you will have to wait for your spouse to come tell you, say, sorry you have such a depth of intimacy with God. He go touch you like you need to go back and apologize. It'll make you a better husband. It'll make you a better wife. It'll make you a better leader in your church. It'll make you a more astute businessman. It'll make you a better athlete. It'll make you a better child, teenager, son, daughter. It'll make you a better entrepreneur. And it'll make you a better preacher, a better singer. Too many singers, not enough altars. Too many sermons, not enough altars. Too many ministers, not enough altars. Too many people doing marriage in their own strength, not enough altars. Too many of us trying to parent without altars trying to do business without altars signing contracts without altars moving, without altars making life decisions without altars. Entering into relationships with people that don't even have your best interests at heart, without altars answering dms, without altars. Be my mentor. Let me pray about that first.

[Tim Timberlake]

Might say, I want Pastor Philip to be my mentor. No, you don't. You want who God has for you.

[Audience Member / Host Interaction]

You come on searching for coaches without.

[Tim Timberlake]

Altars, looking for mentors without altars running after people for the wrong things. Without altars walking in. Listen, when you. When you have intimacy with God, it would increase your discernment.

[Audience Member / Host Interaction]

You'll walk into rooms and discern in the room. You'll shake somebody's hand and be like.

[Tim Timberlake]

This person ain't right.

[Audience Member / Host Interaction]

You'll be sitting in a meeting and be like, the Holy Spirit said, now don't sign up that contract. The Holy Spirit. Like, just wait, there's a better house around the corner. Like, it'll increase your discernment. It'll increase your sensitivity to the Holy Spirit, and it increase your ability to hear God more clearly. You keep finding strength. You'll find courage. You'll find grace, you'll find mercy. You find forgiveness. You find answers. Man, who am I talking to in this place? This is what we talking about tonight. Intimacy with God. Intimacy. It'll change your ministry, Change your health. For some of you, the Lord will.

[Tim Timberlake]

Say, cut out that gluten for a little while.

[Audience Member / Host Interaction]

Don't eat that for a little while.

[Tim Timberlake]

It'll change your health. You'll walk into places. The Holy Spirit said, oh, wait, you'll be. Listen, you about to date, you'll be dating somebody. Red flags start coming up in spirit.

[Philip Anthony Mitchell]

Like.

[Tim Timberlake]

Because, I mean. I mean, you need the Holy Spirit. Some of you, like, you'll be, oh, he handsome.

[Audience Member / Host Interaction]

Her body dope pipe getting tight.

[Tim Timberlake]

And the Holy Spirit tell you, no, we'd be so confused. One of the greatest gifts you will.

[Audience Member / Host Interaction]

Ever give yourself.

[Tim Timberlake]

Intimacy with God. Not. Not a little haphazard fire off, a little prayer here and there. Just this constant talking to him all the time, running to him all the time and crying out to him all the time, and being with him all the time. You will develop this depth of intimacy with God. Like, my staff be asking me, how do you hear so clearly from God? Because I'm with Him all the time.

[Audience Member / Host Interaction]

If you gave me a phone number right now. And I called you, and you're like, yo, who is this? You don't recognize that number because we don't talk enough. But if I called you every day for the next six months, I'll call you eight months from now. You'll be like, yo, Phillip, what's good? You won't even have to save my name.

[Tim Timberlake]

You'll memorize my number, because the more we keep tapping in. I guess so, Tim, we should listen. Tim, I want you to pray over these people.

[Philip Anthony Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Tim Timberlake]

Our brothers and our sisters, because I don't think we need to say no more.

[Philip Anthony Mitchell]

No.

[Tim Timberlake]

And then do I need to close out the podcast first and then minister.

[Philip Anthony Mitchell]

Let's pray for him, and then we can close it out.

[Tim Timberlake]

Pray first.

[Philip Anthony Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Tim Timberlake]

And then we close out.

[Philip Anthony Mitchell]

Absolutely.

[Tim Timberlake]

Watching us.

[Philip Anthony Mitchell]

Absolutely.

[Tim Timberlake]

All right.

[Philip Anthony Mitchell]

I think.

[Tim Timberlake]

All right. I feel. Does anybody want what we're talking about tonight?

[Audience Member / Host Interaction]

If you want intimacy, like, let me. Let me see. Like, does anybody want a deeper intimacy with God? Come on, stand to your feet if you really want that. Like, we doing too much stuff without.

[Philip Anthony Mitchell]

In.

[Audience Member / Host Interaction]

His feet.

[Tim Timberlake]

It's the best place you will ever live. And every time your heart is heavy, carry it back to his feet. And every time you got anxiety, carry it back to his feet.

[Audience Member / Host Interaction]

And every time you got a need.

[Tim Timberlake]

Carry it back to his feet.

[Audience Member / Host Interaction]

And every time you got a relational.

[Tim Timberlake]

Issue, carry it back to his feet.

[Audience Member / Host Interaction]

And every time you got to make.

[Tim Timberlake]

A tough decision, carry your heart back to his feet. I mean, every time you go for a walk, just you on the drive, dude, what's the highway here? I don't know. I. Whatever. It just. I'm on 45. Like, 45.

[Audience Member / Host Interaction]

485.

[Tim Timberlake]

I'm on 485. Like, Lord, is me and you in.

[Philip Anthony Mitchell]

This car.

[Tim Timberlake]

About to meet some crazy people at my job, showing me. Intimacy. Change your life.

[Philip Anthony Mitchell]

You want that.

[Tim Timberlake]

Something special is in this room tonight, Tim. I. I feel it in my heart. They will never be the same.

[Philip Anthony Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Tim Timberlake]

Pray, Tim. Minister.

[Philip Anthony Mitchell]

Tim, my prayer for you tonight is that you would be homesick. So homesick that you never stopped talking to your father. I remember there was a stretch of time I hadn't been home, and I would call my mom every single day just to get a sense of home. I pray that you would never make earth your home. I pray that you long to be with the father. I pray that you. You're so homesick that you want to hear his voice. You want to hear his affirmation. You want to hear. You want to hear. You want to hear. You Want to hear? You want to experience his presence? There's something powerful about being homesick. Me and Philip, we talk about this every single day. I cannot wait for the day.

[Tim Timberlake]

We.

[Philip Anthony Mitchell]

See him face to face and lay our crown at his feet. At his feet, separate from this flesh.

[Tim Timberlake]

Looking forward for that day. Yes.

[Philip Anthony Mitchell]

So right now, in the name of.

[Tim Timberlake]

Jesus, while Tim is praying, just turn your palms up.

[Philip Anthony Mitchell]

Like.

[Tim Timberlake]

Like. Just by an act of faith to receive. Like, you ain't got to lift your hands. Just turn your palms, thumbs up, like to receive.

[Philip Anthony Mitchell]

We pray.

[Tim Timberlake]

Yes.

[Philip Anthony Mitchell]

Hallelujah, Jesus, that you would dig out a deep well in us. Yes, we. Yes. Fill us with your spirit. May we not thirst for anything except for you. May we not have a hunger for anything except for you. Right now, in the name of Jesus, I ask that you would remove everything that is contrary to the plan you have for us and our relationship with you. We ask, God, that your voice would be the loudest in our lives, God. And another voice we will not entertain. And so right now, in the name of Jesus, draw us closer. Draw us into your presence. Draw us, God, into you. And may we never be the same, because our spirit. Spirits are tethered to yours.

[Tim Timberlake]

And we have a sense of belonging, knowing that we are a son and a daughter of the most high, God.

[Philip Anthony Mitchell]

And we don't belong here. We belong with you until right now, God. May we not be satisfied with anything except for your presence. May we not find fulfillment separate from you, God. Anything in our lives that you did not put there, allow it to be a prophecy that it will not last. In the name of Jesus, we pray.

[Audience Member / Host Interaction]

Hallelujah, God. Hey. Hallelujah, God.

[Philip Anthony Mitchell]

Jesus. Yes. Yes.

[Audience Member / Host Interaction]

Hallelujah.

[Tim Timberlake]

Hallelujah, God and the mighty.

[Audience Member / Host Interaction]

Hallelujah.

[Philip Anthony Mitchell]

The matchless name of Jesus.

[Tim Timberlake]

If you're watching this episode right now from wherever you are, we want to thank you for tuning into this special episode of the Street Preachers podcast, where we are recording live right now in Charlotte, North Carolina, with some awesome brothers, brothers and sisters in the room. And if. Oh, we love you, too. Yeah, we. We love you, too. And. And if this episode has been a blessing to you, let it be a blessing to somebody else first. Like, subscribe and then share it with somebody who just need to be drawn closer to God. They need to be reminded in their shame and in their insecurities and in their failures and in all of their humanity that they have a loving father who wants to be intimate with them. So if this was a blessing to you, share it with them. Pray for them. And we can't wait to see you on the next episode of the Street Preachers Podcast. We'll be coming to you live from the Northeast, from Philly and New York. We can't wait to see you there. Thank you for being part of our street team. We love you. We'll see you in the Northeast.

[Audience Member / Host Interaction]

Somebody give him praise in this place.

[Philip Anthony Mitchell]

We pray you are blessed by this content and this episode. We want to thank our street team for following us on this journey. When I ask that you continue to share, like, subscribe as we endeavor to continue to bring you the Word of God.