If you're not going to be determined in your heart to get what you're asked for, forget it. Don't even start praying. You're not only wasting your time, but you're also fooling yourself. You're lying to yourself. God is waiting for you to learn how to pray through. He's waiting for you to be so ever vocal, devoted, demanding of your heart to possess success, that you stick to it.
Luke 18:7-8 And shall not God avenge His own elect, which cry day and night to Him, though He bear long with them? 8 I tell you that He will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of man comes, shall He find faith on the earth?
I'm not talking about this faith that has no results. I'm talking faith that has the results of Jesus Christ being the same today as He was yesterday.
I'm not mad at you. I'm angry with that self-deceit. Believers set their own hearts to pray and pray and pray but they're so spasmodic, sporadic in their praying life and relationship that they never get out of their self-lives and they never get into the spirit, where the Rhema can quicken in them so that the Logos can create the thing that they need or the things that they've said.
I have to hold myself down so I don't scold you too much. Everywhere I go, people of God have been rebuked and rebuked and maimed and crippled and halt. There are devastated Christians everywhere. Some, by their own carelessness, looseness, some in ignorance, or as a body of Christ bleeding and bruised and broken and maimed.
Today, I need to come back and just hold a series of meetings, a seminar on praying techniques, praying habits, praying ways. I also need to hold a seminar on the gifts of the Spirit. You shouldn't ever listen to somebody teach on the gifts of the Spirit unless they themselves are capable, and enabled to manifest the gifts of the Spirit. Otherwise, it's just theory just something that they've been educated and learn in but someone who manifests Him, the Lord God will confirm it, and you believe and you'll increase and you'll grow in reality because of it.
My gracious beloved believers, stop going after these theoretical preachers. Remember, Mark 16:20 And they went forth and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word (Logos) with signs following. Amen. Not only should the preachers that you're listening to have manifestations of signs following, but you yourself as a believer that grew up out of your babyhood, of your immaturity, of your sterility, you yourself should be one that daily or weekly has manifestations and confirmations of God confirming your life, your actions, your faith, so that in the wake of your life, there is a deposit of divine results from all of you say and all that you do.
I'm going to advise you to stop giving your money to these preachers who are always hounding you for your money. Playing on your emotions. Oh, sure, they've got big programs. But if they need to learn the secrets of Watchman Nee, they need to learn the secrets of George Muller. That man never told anybody his need. He told God and he prayed millions, I mean millions, into existence because he had a relationship with God in the Spirit. He had what he asked for, he got what he asked, or he had what he said.
All these pleas for money on television and circulation, and all those gimmicks for you to give, giving away Bibles for you to give to support their programs, God's not in it. That's all flesh. You'll go ahead and do what you want, you can be sucked in by that flesh because your flesh or you can’t see it for what it really is that it's not God.
You need and you can get a hold of God and start establishing a habitual daily intimacy, where your praying life becomes the result of God in you as you pray and as you speak or decree the words. I am very appreciative of how you've given towards this ministry here while I've been here with these weeks but I'm not really that much interested in the money that you give.
I want you for Jesus Christ. I want you walking in the Spirit. I want you to have a committed daily intimacy with Jesus Christ by which you pray the prayers of faith, you get the answers. You have a relationship that is vital and living and real.
I want all of you, every bit of that you are, spirit, soul, and body yielded to God so that you're a fruitful vine, creative faith, a creative expression of Jesus Christ. So He can be the same today as He was yesterday in you in a very personal way.
Finances that you're giving are merely an avenue to help me to go on and speak the words, manifest the gifts, do the will of God that He's called me to do. I'd like to think that even if you didn't give me a cent to come here to preach, but somebody will provide the funds for me to come. And yet, the workman is worthy of his hire. You certainly had been wonderful people the way that you have given. And I commend you to the Lord and thank God for you.
If you want to learn more about praying ways, techniques, habits, I would encourage you to get a hold of my tape message which is entitled, “Prevailing Unrelenting Persistence Guarantees You The Answer.”
Come on Beloved. Grow up time. I guarantee you the more quality, undivided, undistracted time and attention and focus, that you give the Father, the Lord Jesus Christ, the more answers that are going to become really your experience, the more effortlessly your life will be supernaturally created without any expenditure of your own energy.
In Isaiah 40:31 But they that wait on the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
People just don't know how to wait upon the Lord. They're not committed or dedicated to denying themselves and their self-interests and self-gratifications to learn that technique and those ways and those habits and those commitments.
Boy, that scripture alone is nothing but victory upon victory, overwhelming success. That's an overcoming scripture. Fulfilling that scripture in your experience will make you an overcomer of all things. It will give you the inheritance of not only overcoming but sitting down literally with Jesus Christ in His throne, just as He overcame, just as He established that intimacy with the Father in prayer that I mentioned in the chapters of the book of Luke earlier.
Come on. A little prayer here, a little prayer there won't do it. Because most of the time, it has only its origins out of self, out of the soul, out of the mind.
Jesus said in John 5:34, But I receive not testimony from man.
The testimony of man is a testimony of soul, the testimony of self, the testimony of mind. He doesn't receive that.
The only thing that the Father receives is a testimony of His Son in you when you're in union with His Son, when you're abiding in Him, when you commingle with Him, actively alive in your spirit.
The testimony of His Son is only in your spirit, then you can ask anything in His nature, and His name and His authority and His likeness. And the Heavenly Father will do it.
You may not believe this. But I know of a woman who began to pray, began to seek God in prayer, every spare moment that she could find. And she got so desperate and she began to make time that she did not find until her life become one praying habit, one unrelenting, unbroken, unremitting praying life.
And she like Enoch was taken and was not. I have no way of proving this because there's not enough documentation by enough people to validate it. But I've done all kinds of research as I know how to start you off to find her and she was not.
I believe that she equaled the experience of Enoch and I believe that there has been a minute, minute, minute, handful of believers that have probably done this in every century or every generation. But you don't hear about it because they're so rare. And even if you hear about it, whoa, the magnitude of skepticism and unbelief that I run into when I tell about it.
Maybe I believe it because I want to believe it. Because I choose to believe because I believe that it is possible. The faith of Enoch, who did not even have a promise from God, walked with God by faith. All of a sudden, he was not because he had this testimony that he pleased God.
What did Enoch do that you and I, on this side of the cross have not done? On this side of the cross, we have better promises, better covenant, better blood, better surety, everything is better. Because Jesus Christ finished defeat, He finished failure, He finished the disease of praying and never getting an answer. He made available all success, made available in your spirits, the substance to every request, the provision to all need. Because all things are yours, but it's in the spirit.
But because we've related to God out of the origins of our mind, we've been a constant failure, and we've died in faith and not received the promises. And God has never intended that we die in faith and not receive the promises. It has been promised that we live our life unto life and not live our life into death. Your eyes, my eyes have not seen the glory that God has prepared for us that we live in.
The Scripture says, “See that no man deceive himself (1 Corinthians 3:18) because we know nothing yet as we ought to know (1 Corinthians 8:2).”
We've accepted failure. We've accepted death as the will of God.
Jesus said in John 10:10, The thief has come to steal and destroy and to kill, that I've come that you might have life and have it abundantly.
We've settled for the thief to come and steal and destroy and to kill our lives. We've never learned the way, the techniques, the patterns or habits, the ways, the principles, the realities. Jesus said, “If you abide in Me and My word reign supreme in you, you should decree what you will, it shall happen to you.” (John 15:7).
John 10:10 after He said the thief has come to steal and destroy and to kill that I've come that you might have life.
That word is Zoe. It's infinite substance. It's spiritual life in the present tense. It's available possession in the absolute. It is alienated from the consequence of the fall, that you might have that and that you might have it abundantly.
That word “abundantly” is perissos. That means superabundant in quality and quantity. It means beyond measure and unstintingly plentiful. It means overflowing and fully sufficient. It means bountiful with overplus. It means to have a life that is openly wealthy and unusually copious. It means to have the life of Jesus Christ so excessively supreme, profuse in supply that you have need of nothing. And you know no failures. You know anybody that got that kind of life?
He said, “I've come that you might have this kind of life.”
We've settled for unanswered prayers because of our unbelief. Because our self-life wanted to be gratified with blessings. We haven't wanted to lose or deny our self-life and its strength and its demand.
Come on, beloved. Let’s repent.
Jesus, may everyone who hears this word that I've spoken be motivated to seek Thy face unrelentingly. May they be committed and dedicated to expand and extend and to create and establish an intimacy on a habitual daily pattern, by which they learn to pray in all ways and all forms of praying until they're in such union with You, such abiding with You, until the word is so abiding in them so quick and so remain in them that they should speak Logos as they will, and it shall leap into existence. I believe this is possible. I believe this is possible.
May the enemy not rob this word from our hearts and minds. May we be disturbed night and day until we learn to seek Thy face. That we learn to pray the prayer of faith and have a constant supply of abundant life to our lives.
Oh, how I love You Father. Let this word be quickened. Let this word be confirmed. Let not this word return void but let it accomplish where You've sent on to these people this day and to those that have heard this message. Thank you, Father. Thank you for the word. Hallelujah. Bless Your name.
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