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Ephesians 6:18 -Dependence Upon God- Pastor Rick Beaudry 2026-06-21

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Ephesians chapter six verse 18. Would you please stand with me as we read God's holy word together? And, again, happy Father's Day. Alright. Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the spirit, watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints. Father, thank you for your holy word. Thank you for the privilege of prayer, heavenly father, that we can boldly come before your throne of grace to find help, to find mercy in our time of need, Lord. Thank you, Lord, that there's only one mediator between man and God, the man Christ Jesus, That Lord, we can pray to the father in the name of the son and the power of the holy spirit. And Lord, we have access. The veil of the temple is rent in two. And Lord, you spoiled all principalities and powers overcoming them. You washed us in your precious blood. Lord, we're sanctified. We're set apart. We're the saints. And, Lord, we we can pick the phone up, and we can call you. We can call upon you at any moment, any time, privately, silently, publicly, in many ways, Lord. And, Lord, we thank you for the relationship we have with you, that your ear is open, your ear is attentive, and, Father, that it's not just a monologue, but a dialogue. You give us ears to hear what the spirit's saying to the churches, saying to those living on the last days that are saints, that are believers, that are part of your church, the bride. So we thank you, Lord, once again, that we can communicate with you, that we can fellowship with you, that we can experience this oneness with you through the privilege of prayer. So bless now. Teach us, Lord. Be our teacher. Help us to avail ourselves, Lord, of this access, this beautiful, beautiful relationship that we have with you. In Jesus' name, amen. Would you please be seated? Some trust in chariots, some in horses, but we will remember the name of the Lord, our God. You can purchase the best shoes, the very, very best shoes, and run-in the New York Marathon, and yet blisters can cause you to not finish the race. You can work real hard saving and investing to secure your financial future and still go bankrupt. You can put your shiny armor on in preparation for battle as we've been talking about the spiritual battle, and you've you've got the belt of truth on, the breastplate of righteousness, the the helmet of salvation. You've got the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God. You get your feet shot with the preparation of gospel of peace, and and, what else did I forget? There you go. And all of it, you put it on, and now you're gonna pray. Above all these things, you now you need to pray. You can have all that armor on, all that everything, you know, right there, and you're looking all shiny and good. Look at me. I'm a warrior. You know? But have you ever engaged? Have you ever been in a fight? Do you know what it is to fight? Do you know what it is to fight the good fight? And nobody wants to go out and battle, you know, without prayer. Hopefully, you don't go out and battle without prayer. Hopefully, a victory that you have at AI with Joshua and the and the boys, you don't presumptuously think that you can go up to AI without praying, without asking God, should we go or not? You know? And they were discomfited. They were sorely, you know, defeated by those. And Achan had taken some of the Babylonius garment, the spoil, and hid it under his tent. So they were defiled. They were unfit to move forward. And, and so all that shiny armament, all that everything that you got all over you, and, you can still be defeated. King Saul's armor couldn't save David. David was unfit for that armor. Nor could Goliath's armor save Goliath. And so they're in a battle, and David knows what to do. Nobody seemed to know what to do. They're all just just, what do we do? What do we do? Who's gonna fight this giant? Who's gonna fight Goliath? And this little shepherd boy named David, the the striping, you know, the son of Jesse, his older brothers are there, and Saul and his army's there, and this nine foot six tall uncircumcised Philistine there with all of his ugliness, and he's defying the God of Israel and all the people and all. David David knows what to do. Pray. Let's pray. And so why prayer? David knew through prayer in first Samuel seventeen forty seven, and all this assembly shall know that the Lord saveth not with sword and spear for the battle is the Lord's, and he will give you into our hands. How did David know that? Through prayer. He wasn't trusting in horses or chariots or how big the military was and their technology and their AI centers and their, you know, direct energy weapons and nukes and all the other. He wasn't trusting any of that. He was trusting in the true living God. And he knew that Goliath was no match for the true living God. There's just no way these Philistines were any match, and they were defying God. They were sticking their their noses, sticking their finger in his eye and all, and, defying the God of heaven. And David, a man whom God used to, you know, save the sheep, protect the sheep by slaying a lion previously and a bear, He knew what it was to depend upon God through prayer. He that he was unfit for battle. He was unfit for what God had called him to do if he suffered the sin of prayerlessness, of being presumptuous, assuming simply because he was victorious in the past that he could put it on cruise control for the future. The devil will get you and you'll be discomfited. You'll be reminded of your dependency upon God. And so prayer speaks of our dependency upon God. Number one, the frequency of prayer. How often should we pray? Should I pray seven times a day, 10 times a day? Should I face Mecca and and pray three times a day? Should I pray facing Jerusalem? You know? If you're a Calvaryite, a Calvary person, should you face Costa Mecca? Calvary Chapel, Costa Mecca, and pray three times a day? Should you pray in Chuck Smith's name, Billy Graham's name? Whose name are you gonna pray in? How are you gonna get there? Trump's name? Is that gonna get you there? Should you pray in Mary's name? The mother of Jesus? Is that gonna give you access, greater greater access to God the father on this Father's Day? Jesus taught his disciples how to pray. They asked him how to pray. Our father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our debts as we forgive those who sin against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil or the evil one. For thine in Matthew six, for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen. Jesus didn't teach his disciples to pray through Mary, nor to pray through anybody else. Go directly. You have direct access because the veil of the temple was written to. How often should you pray? Pray without ceasing. Pray always. You can be at work and you're still praying under your breath. Your mind is fixed on the things of the Lord. You're praying. Prayer is simply communication with God. I'm out in the yard yesterday, and I'm I'm walking. I'm doing some things, and and I, you know, I pray constantly. I lost my phone. I couldn't find my phone. And and I realized that, alright. I better have Kathy call it because maybe then I can find it now. Where did I put it? And then I realized my shirt pocket had a hole in it, and I'm like, I'm gonna go retrace my steps. So I immediately start praying. Lord, help me find that phone that barely out of my mouth, and there it is on the on the trail. It's right there. You know? I'm working on things. I'm always praying. Lord, give me wisdom. Help me figure this out. Lord, what should I do here? What should I do there? Just constantly asking the Lord, you know, to help. If you're if you're getting older I'm not getting older yet. But if if you're on the ground, ask the Lord to help you get back up. You know? It's a it takes prayer to get back up sometimes. You know? How am I gonna get back up? Who's gonna help me? Who's gonna lift my hand? Especially physically, you know, our need, our dependence upon God. And some of us were so dependent upon God that we were depends. You know, we we we know we're dependent upon God. We're at that point where we start out with diapers, we end in diapers, you know. And, it's a it's a huge it's a huge moniker, a huge revelation that you're not getting out of this life alive, you know. And your incontinence, your inability to be in control is illustrated and you don't have control anymore, you know. And so young people, for the most part, we think somehow, you hear that? We think. We think somehow that we're in control. We think that we can do it. That we are smart enough, big enough, strong enough, you know, agile enough, we can beat the enemy and all that. But David, he's a young shepherd boy, and he's not gonna go into battle presumptuously. He's gonna rely upon the Lord. He's gonna continue to seek the mind of the Lord, and he wants he wants perfect, unhindered fellowship and communication with the true and living God, lest he try to do it in the arm of the flesh. Saul's armor is inadequate for David. It it can't serve him. He hadn't practiced with that kind of armor and all. And so we we pray, and it's, been said that every every soldier's a believer in a foxhole. You know? We're all asking the Lord to spare our life. Don't let that bullet hit us. You know? Let me get back home. And I remember, a dear brother Fred in our in our fellowship who's down in down in Arizona. You know, Fred and Ronnie. He's on a submarine. That submarine's sinking. It's going down. Everyone's gonna be lost on that submarine. And Fred's praying. And he's telling the Lord, you know, Lord, if you help me figure this out and get this ballast to fill with air and to get this submarine going back up, you know, I'm gonna serve you all the days of my life. And it worked. God spared the entire ship, and Fred was true to his word. He he didn't make that promise and then, you know, walk away and forget what God had done. He continues to serve the Lord to this very day and to tell people that story of how God intervened and how God, gave him wisdom and how God directed his hand, and and that's dependence upon God. You've exhausted all your means as a human being. There's no way, you know, it can be done except God intervenes. And, Lord, help the doctors. Lord, help the engineers. Help those that are have to deal with this. You've trained them. You've given them the equipment and all. But, Lord, without you without you, Lord, we're dust. We're nothing. There's no way we're gonna be able to implement this and make this work. And it's interesting when when, the nations of Russia and the coalition of nations, Ezekiel thirty eight thirty nine, when they come against Israel, that God is is, gonna use hail bombs. He's gonna use nature. He's gonna use cataclysmic events from from heaven to stop this invading, coalition of forces that are wanting to take the spoil and to wipe out the nation of Israel. God will intervene. And he'll intervene, and he'll he'll, cause the technology of man to come to nothing. When Jesus returns, he destroys the globalists and all of their technology. They're so in love with their technology, their AI data centers and all. And I read an article this week where in with Iran, they hit three civilian Amazon centers, information centers, where Amazon with these big warehouses where they distribute goods to people, like we have one over here in Belfair, huge building with all of the stuff that we buy on Amazon, it's distributed. Well, Iran knew enough that those servers that were in these Amazon buildings, these data centers, that they were they are used for civilian use, but they're also used for military use. So with Palantir, with Peter Thiel, with Stargate, they're able to identify targets. So at each of these countries, they're able to identify targets to target Iran, to with surgical precision to hit these, leaders, a captain or a general or or any of them as they're watching everything that's going on, and then used directed energy weapons and drones and missiles and to hit the target, you know, to hit it precisely. And Iran knew enough to knock those centers out because under the cover of civilian and you always hear people talking about, well, you know, they're hiding in hospitals. They're hiding here. They're hiding there. Well, we do the same thing, don't we? We're hiding in data centers. And these data centers, which are supposed to be for distribution of goods, you know, getting rid of Walmart, getting rid of Sears, and all of the shopping malls, everything's coming through these data centers. Right? Well, those servers that need lots of water and lots of energy, they're also used to track and trace so that ICE can find who they're looking for here in America. They're used by the government. They're used by by these, these entities. And during that Ezekiel thirty thirty nine war, all the technology that man has, again, the Lord's gonna cause these 100 bound hail bombs to fall out of the sky and to decimate this invading force. And so too, when Jesus returns, he's gonna destroy the globalist with the sword of his mouth and the brightness, the kind of glory of God. Think of an EMP, just, you know, just all that electronics gone in a second, in a fraction of a second with the brightness of his coming rendered helpless, and the the antichrist and the false prophet just wasted right there in the area of Petra Bazra and the nation of Israel crying out, blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord. And they're dependent upon the Lord, the nation of Israel. Their back is to the wall. There's nothing more that can save them. There's nothing in their arsenal that can save them from this invading force. And finally, finally, finally, when they have no one else to depend upon, this one third remnant cries out, blessed is he. That's a prayer. Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord and the Lord Jesus in hearing this return. So pray always. Be in communication with headquarters at all times, especially when you know that he's omniscient, that you're God's omniscient, that he knows all things, that he's all knowing. He knows everything. So why would you want to consult a man or some sort of AI or some sort of image, you know, for information when they only have a limited amount of help, a limited amount of information and all? And much of what they have are lies. They're inconsistent. So, go directly to the source. Go directly to God's heart and mind. That's what David did. Lord, what would you have me do? And, the Lord let him know that he's gonna give him the victory in just a few minutes here. In Luke eighteen one, Jesus said, men ought always to pray. How often should you pray? The frequency of prayer? Men ought always to pray. Some have said when we get to heaven, the angels are gonna come up to us and say, why didn't you pray more? Why didn't you guys take advantage of this access that you have of an immediate audience with the true and living God? I hear a lot of pastors on through the YouTube and all, and they're all they're all like to say, yeah. I've been to Mar A Lago. Yeah. I I've been to Mar A Lago. I was invited there. I've been to the White House. Have you been before God's throne? Do you have access to God's throne? God's no respecter of persons. You have access no matter who you are. Whether you have a Trump bible or not, you have access to the throne of God. God's no respecter of persons. You're special to God. You're not a loser. You're a winner. Jesus won. Before before the cross, the priest, once a year, would go into the holy of holies, and he'd have to prepare himself for Yom Kippur, the great day of atonement. The priest, the high priest didn't have access to the throne of God. They had to prepare themselves and and confess the sins of the people and to sprinkle the blood upon the mercy seat within the within the the holy of holies. And tradition says, historically, they would put a rope on the high priest's ankle with pomegranate bells on his robe because if he hadn't prepared himself properly, they would hear a thud. And that thud meant that he's dead and pull that old boy out because nobody else could go in there to grab his body. Because God is holy, and you don't have access unto a holy God, but you do now. Because of Jesus, his work at the cross of Calvary, he spoiled all principalities and powers, and he's given us the Holy Spirit. And with the Holy Spirit living and dwelling within us, that veil of the temple was rent in two signifying you have access. If you're a believer in Jesus Christ, you have access. Unbelievers know. Unbelievers don't have access. Unbelievers, their prayers hit the ceiling and fall right back down. Not until they cry out, God, be merciful to me, a sinner. God, come into my heart and life. They don't have access. No matter who they say they know, well, I prayed with Billy Graham, or I prayed with Donald Trump, I prayed with this guy, that guy, the other. You know? Even Mary can't get you in there, the mother of Jesus. She she she's praying the same way you pray, to the father through the son. Same as you. She she's she has no privileged access because she's the mother of Jesus. And yet whole religion system of prayer are built around mother Mary full of grace. The Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women. This whole this whole spiel, this whole thing through Mary, the queen of heaven, and it gets so perverted, and obviously, she's a very revered and blessed woman in Christendom. Right? But when you elevate her to a coredemptress or somebody that, you know, has a you know, has the ear of God, and then I can go through her, you know, you've been lied to. Don't fall for it. Our father who art in heaven, hallowed. Go direct. Hallowed. He is holy. Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Go direct. Go direct to him. Communicate. Always ought meant to pray and to not faint. Prayer is hard. Prayer is a discipline. You can start to pray and you fall asleep. You can be in the Garden Of Gethsemane and Jesus has warned you and told you, hey, you know, you guys watch and pray with me, lest you fall into temptation. And Peter and the boys are there and they're trying to pray and they're falling asleep. Their eyes are heavy. And Jesus comes and he says, can't you pray just one hour? Just one hour, you know? I'm about ready to be crucified. Can't you guys pray with me? And then he said, the spirit is willing, the flesh is weak. Sleep on, you know? And Judas is there leading this band of soldiers and people there with Malchus whose ear is gonna get cut off. Peter finally awake, and in the flesh, he tries to cut off Malchus' head. And Malchus turns his turns his head like Trump, and the bullet just hits the tip right there, you know, and took his ear off, you know. Woo. Woo. And Jesus takes the ear and puts it back on. Peter's trying to do it in the flesh. He hadn't prepared. He hadn't prepared himself for the spiritual battle. And Jesus told Peter, don't you know that I can call down, you know, 12 legions of angels if I want to? You know, Peter, no man takes my life from me. I'm gonna willingly lay it down. But if you want to be successful, if you wanna be victorious in this battle, you need to understand it's a spiritual battle. And all the gumption, all the self will, all the strength that you have in the natural Peter's gonna be inadequate when you face demons, when you face the power of darkness. But I've given you a comforter. I've given you the holy spirit I'm gonna give to you. It's expedient that I go because the father will send the comforter, the holy spirit, to live and dwell within you. And the holy spirit's gonna help us to pray. The holy spirit's gonna intercede for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. Peter, let it be a natural part of your life like breathing that you pray without ceasing. Because Peter, when you when when you're bewildered, when you're so discouraged because they grab hold of me and and they're gonna put me through six different trials this evening before as I stand before, Annas and then Caiaphas and then before the Sanhedrin, then before Pilate, then before Herod, then back to Pilate. They're gonna condemn me, Peter. And And you're gonna be out there warming yourself with the fires of of my enemies. Warming yourself out of fellowship, kinda watching what's going on. You're gonna be so messed up in the head. You're you're gonna be so filled with fear that you 're gonna resort to even cursing that you even knew me, and that's the failure of the flesh. But Peter, when you're converted, strengthen your brethren. I'm gonna I'm I'm gonna be there for you, Peter. I'm gonna meet you at the Sea Of Galilee. I'm gonna show myself to you, know, resurrected. And you're gonna regain your confidence in me, not in yourself. You're gonna learn to depend upon me. And as Paul said, I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. And Jesus said, without me, you can do nothing. Don't ever go into battle. Don't ever face a day. No ever face a even when it seems like it's a it's a holiday, pray. Keep praying. I pray while I'm driving all the time. I'm going through an intersection. I'm praying, Lord, don't let that knucklehead run that red. You know? Lord, speed me up. Let me get past them. Give me wisdom. So many times I could have taken out cars, and I I'm like, I'm going left. I'm gonna I'm gonna get in this lane there. And the Lord prompts me to check my blind spot, and there's a car there. So many times. And in California, it's even harder because you check your blind spot, and there's nobody there. And by the time you put the blinker on and start to go, there's somebody there. That fast. And, man, you gotta be careful. You know? And they're there. You know? But so many times the Lord has spared me as I'm driving, and I just thank the Lord. So many times we get to heaven, how many times we're gonna hear our angels, our guardian angels say, you know, you know how many times I turned that steering wheel? You know how many times I caused you to hit the brakes? You know how many times we we we protected you? Because people were praying for you. You had a prayer covering of saints that even though you didn't pray, they kept praying. They never stopped praying for you because they knew what a knucklehead you are. They knew you needed prayer and lots of it. I qualify for that. Don't ever stop praying for me. Kathy would say, yeah. Yeah. Men ought always to pray and not to faint. In acts chapter one verse 14, the 120, Jesus had resurrected himself, and he told him to wait for the promise of the father. They've seen him for forty days. Now there's ten more days for Pentecost, the fiftieth day. And so they're to wait for the promise of the father, the resurrection, the outpouring or already the resurrection, but the outpouring of the holy spirit. And, and these all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication with the women and Mary, the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren. So the family, the they had multitudes of people following Jesus, and then after the crucifixion, people spread out. The shepherd was smitten, the sheep scattered. And then he appeared to, his disciples, and he appeared to over 500 people, Paul says in first Corinthians 15, and you've got it whittled down to a 120 people. A 120 people in a prayer meeting, waiting upon the Lord with prayer and supplication. The women are there, the mother of Jesus, his brothers are there, and his brothers didn't believe in him until after the resurrection. They didn't believe in him. They thought he was mad. They thought he was beside himself. And then James becomes a pillar within the church, the brother of our lord Jesus. And Jude, who wrote the book of Jude, he too, a strong believer. In Acts chapter six verse four, it says, the apostles gave themselves continually to prayer. And so there was a consternation about the distribution of goods, distribution of food, and clothing, and stuff because there was, persecution that was coming against the early church. And they raised up Stephen and Philip, and they raised up some deacons to help with the distribution, and the apostles prioritized, and they said, we're gonna give ourselves continually to the word of God in prayer. That is so incredibly important. You don't just wake up, you know, at 09:30 in the morning, then roll in here and get into the pulpit and think that you're gonna have anything to say without preparing your heart all through the week in the word of God and prayer, hearing from the Lord. You have to first hear before you can give, and it's through prayer and the study of his word. And they prioritized, and they said, we're gonna give ourselves to the word of God continually in prayer. The enemy wants to cut you off. He wants to isolate you and keep you from prayer and the fellowship with that prayer meeting that was there with a 120. In Acts chapter 10, Peter found out that the house of Cornelius, they prayed to God always. The Holy Spirit was gonna move upon not just the Samaritans, the half breeds in chapter eight, but, Paul in chapter nine, he's he's breathing out threatenings all the way to Damascus to take these Christians. And, the Lord arrested Paul, and Paul comes to faith. But in chapter 10, it's Peter that's at the house of Cornelius, a Gentile, and it says that Cornelius prayed continually, and the Holy Spirit house of Cornelius came to believe in the Lord and receive the holy spirit just as the Jew just did, but he prayed always was the commentary with him. Colossians four two says, continue in prayer. First Thessalonians five seventeen, pray without ceasing. Pray unto God without ceasing. And so most of us have a job, an occupation, something we're doing, whether you're walking, taking your morning walk, or or whatever you're doing, you can pray under your breath. You can be connected. You can multitask. You can be in prayer with the Lord, and you can do your task. You can do your work. You can do what you're doing and include the Lord in it. Working on the car, working on something, you know, we're always praying. Cooking, cleaning, whatever we're doing, walking with the grandkids. You can live with a with a connection to God that's unceasing, never ends. He's praying. She's praying. She's a prayer warrior. She continues in prayer. Prayer speaks of our dependence upon God, the frequency of prayer. Secondly, the form of prayer. He says, with all prayer and supplication. Prayer speaks of a general request, maybe for those that are persecuted. Supplication, what kind of prayer is that? The form of prayer. It's a specific petition or request. Please heal Carl. Lord, please heal. That's supplication. We're supplicating the Lord. Lord, please heal Carl of his heart attack, the effects of that heart attack. Intercessory prayer is someone else. You're praying for someone else. You're standing in the gap. You're an intercessor. You're a warrior. You recognize the battle, as Paul said here in chapter six, the battle's a spiritual battle. We fight not against flesh and blood, but against spirits and principalities of the air, and you stand in the gap. I've had people in my life that are tremendous prayer warriors, and they have ministry of intercessory prayer. And they remind me all the time, pastor, we're praying for you. We're praying for your family. And I so covet your prayers because it is a spiritual battle. The devil wants to take me and my wife and my family down, and I believe we're still breathing. We're still operative because of the prayers of the saints. Now when you have people in your life like this, they're very, very special. And some of them are praying for you, and you don't even know who they are. They've committed themselves to praying for you and your ministry and your family. They hear of the problems you're having with your kids or at work or health, and they put you on their prayer list, and their anonymous ministry that you don't see but God sees is they're standing in the gap. They're praying for you. And my dad went home to be with the Lord a little over a year ago, and he was a huge prayer support for me. Bill and Marlene went to be with the Lord several years ago. People like that, people in your life that truly, truly love you, they worry about you, they're concerned about you, And they express that love and concern by lifting you and your family before the throne of God. They're intercessory prayer warriors. And when they die, you feel it. That prayer covering that was there, it's noticeable. It's noticeable that, oh, something there's a breach in the wall. What happened? And you may not realize the effect of their prayers until until they're gone, till they're not there anymore. And nobody goes alone. We all need help, and you become a target of the wicked one. The more you step out in faith, the more truth that you preach, the more truth that you stand for, the less you compromise, the bigger target you're gonna become. And you're only gonna be successful on your knees through prayer. Supplication, intercession, then confession. Confessing prayers, agreeing with the holy spirit. The holy spirit prompts our heart. The holy spirit shows us he convicts us of sin maybe here in the room. God's speaking to you quietly, and you quietly within your heart agree with the Holy Spirit. Father, forgive me. Sorry I've been acting like that. Sorry I've been I'm guilty, father, of prayerlessness. I haven't prayed in a long time. Or father, I prayed in a wrong way. I've prayed simply selfishly for myself. I haven't been an intercessor. I haven't listened to the conviction of the holy spirit, you trying to correct me and help me and keep me on that straight and narrow. I've been ignoring you. And so now I'm the publican lord. I won't so much as lift up my eyes to heaven, and I beat my breasts since I just simply say, God, be merciful to me, a sinner. The mercies of the Lord are new every morning. And then thanksgiving. Thanksgiving type prayer, praising God for something. Adoration, you're lifting your heart in adoration unto God. You can sing. You can pray with your prayer language in tongues if you have a prayer language. And you you pray and you may not understand what you're saying intellectually, but he that speaks an unknown tongue speaks unto God, not unto men. And he that speaks an unknown tongue edifies himself. You're being edified by faith as you exercise this praise unto God, this adoration unto God in a language you don't even know, and yet you're edified. You're built up spiritually. And it's not to show off to people. It's simply a blessing that God's bestowed upon you to exercise in faith as you pray without ceasing. With the language of angels, with an angel, with a language that is not your foreign tongue, but a gift that God's given you, a means by which you express your adoration and love toward him. Just as on the day of Pentecost, people were adoring God, praying. Tongues broke out in adoration and praise unto God in 16 or 19 different dialects, and people are hearing the wonderful things of God that knew those languages. Fascinating. Incredible. The life of the spirit. Prayer speaks of our dependence upon God, the frequency of prayer, the form of prayer. Thirdly, the fellowship of prayer. Notice it says, in the spirit. So you're in fellowship with God. Is the heart of God moved when you pray? Are the demons afraid when you start praying? Do you have such incredible access to God, such incredible insight, such incredible intimacy with God that the demons will do anything they can to keep you distracted, keep your phone going off? This problem, this fire, this thing, that thing. Because if you are focused, if you focus, and you remove all the distractions and you start to pray, do the demons hate when you're in that mode, we're in that place? Are you a threat to the kingdom of darkness because of your access unto God and your fellowship with God? Is God leading and answering your prayers? Is it the flesh or the spirit, your prayers? In James four three, James says, you ask and receive not because you ask amiss that you might consume it upon your own lust. Well, that's the name it and claim it, the blab it and grab it. That's the prosperity doctrine. That's the your best life now group. They think that Jesus is a genie. And if I rub Jesus a certain way, he's gonna pop out and give me three wishes. Nothing wrong with praying, give me this day my daily bread. Nothing wrong with praying for your material needs and things you want. Nothing wrong with praying for a house, for your family, a better job, health, all these things. But the Lord knows when you're just seeking him for the loaves and the fishes. He wants you to seek him for him. And the byproduct, the blessing that comes forth from his heart is by grace, not by because you prayed a formula or you prayed a certain way or you did seven things for him, and then now he owes you. You know, you've made God your debtor. God will never be your debtor. But God, as a heavenly father, he wants to bless you. He wants to pour out his blessings upon you. And you delight yourself in the Lord, and he gives you the desires of your heart. He's putting his desires within your heart for you to pray according to. Nothing wrong with material things. Nothing wrong with, you know, with health and and wealth. If riches increase, just set not your heart on it. Don't let it become an idol in your heart and life. Don't let it become what you depend upon. And you now you suffer prayerlessness because you don't need God anymore. You're in the church of lukewarm. You're in the church of Laodicea. We're rich and increased with goods and in need of nothing, but you're naked, poor, blind, and miserable. You're delusional. You don't have fellowship with God. You make him sick. You're lukewarm. He's gonna spit you out of his mouth. No dependency upon God. But when you were king Asa and you were small in your sight, you prayed to God. You sought God. But when you're a big deal now, you're successful, you won't pray to God and ask him to heal your feet or minister unto you. You're gonna put a liaison. You're gonna put an alliance with a foreign king, and you're gonna take from the glory of God that he's wanting to do. Why won't you just humble yourself and pray? Why won't you pray like Hezekiah did where he put his face toward the wall and just cried out to God, and and the prophet comes back and says, alright. Put a little fig, you know, balm on the on the boil that you have and you'll be healed, you know, the fig balm and the paste and all that. God using a medicinal means, but also the Lord's seeing Hezekiah, I'm gonna give you fifteen more years. Hezekiah brought to the end of himself. Get your house in order, Hezekiah. The sickness is unto death. The doctor says that. This sickness is unto death. It's lethal. You're gonna die. And now you've exhausted all the doctors, which we love the doctors. We thank the Lord for the doctors that are helping Carl right now. Don't misunderstand me when I say pharmaceuticals are one of the litmus tests because they are. They can be used for good or evil. So too, doctors can be used for good or evil. Remdesivir and breathing machines can be used for evil. But a little bit of fentanyl that sedate you, a little bit used in the right way can be good. But we're living in a time of great great great deception, and the devil's mode is to depopulate, to kill people. But when you have the hand of God upon you and he's using the nurses and the doctors and the pharmaceutical miracle drugs all for saving your life, praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. We thank the Lord for that. But they are not at the expense of our dependency upon God. We ask God to anoint. We ask God to give them insights, and but we don't boast and say, don't need God anymore. If I'm Jared Kushner, I'm gonna live to a 140 years old. It's technology that's gonna bring me there. It's appointed unto all men once to die, then the judgment. You're gonna find out, Jared. You and your generation are gonna find out. Boastful on this side of it, but you know, God's gonna give the whole world over to a strong delusion. That delusion, because you reject the truth, you put your confidence in sorcery, your confidence in pharmakia, your confidence in drugs and man's technology, you've gone too far. God can use that technology for good, or it can be used to deceive you, to come at you where you don't need God. You don't need to trust God. You can trust in the government. The government will take care of you from womb to the tomb, and you are gonna succumb to the seduction of the wicked one who tells you, you will not die. That's the lie that the world is going to believe during the tribulation period. The one within the garden perpetrated by the serpent unto Adam and Eve, you shall not die. You're gonna live forever. Take the mark of the beast and you'll live forever. Worship the image of the beast, you'll live forever. Worship the devil, you'll live forever. That's a bold faced lie, isn't it? But people are gonna give into it. And so we thank the Lord for how we can use in the material realm that for good, But we also know it's not a substitute. The life of the spirit is far superior. And we're gonna trust in the Lord. We've exhausted every means of healing, Lord. We've prayed the whole time, the whole way. We never stopped praying. And Lord, now, we surrender to your sovereignty. You're the great physician. You've chose not to heal. You've chose to heal in heaven. You chose a new body for my beloved. And Lord, we humbly surrender to your sovereignty. We didn't pray wrong. We didn't lack prayer. We didn't lack hope. We didn't lack love. We sought you with a whole heart. We sought you as a desperate man. A man dying on death row. But nevertheless, not our will, but your will be done. God, we worship you when you say no. When you say yes to heaven. Paul said, he learned that God's grace is sufficient for his strength perfected in weakness. God answered Paul's prayer for healing. God answered Paul's prayer when Paul was praying concerning this messenger of Satan that was buffeting him, beaten on him, a tent stake in his head in the Greek. And the Lord said, no. No. No. My grace, my unmerited favor is sufficient for you for my strength's perfected in weakness. In your weakness, Paul, you're gonna seek me with a greater intensity. In the sickness that you're gonna suffer with that I won't heal you from, you're going to seek me like you've never sought me before. You're gonna need me every moment of every day because you're gonna be in such pain. How could a God of love isn't he supposed to give me what I want? Nevertheless, Lord, not my will. Jesus taught us, but thy will be done. That's huge faith. Huge faith that glorifies God in surrender to his sovereignty in my life. Doesn't mean I didn't pray enough. I got my answer to prayer. He said, no. It's God's will that I and you fill in the blank. Doesn't mean he doesn't love you less. But the way that he's wanting to use you, Paul, he's gonna show you such great revelation. You're gonna be caught up to the third heaven, and you're gonna see things that nobody that you know has ever seen, that are unlawful, inexpressible, you can't even describe it, what you're gonna see. And to keep you grounded, to keep you usable, lest you be exalted above measure, I'm gonna take that kite that's flying to soar into the heavenlies, and I'm a weight it. Its tail with a weight of sickness, of suffering, so that you remain usable and dependent upon me. And you'll lose your mind. You lose your mind. You lose your peace. You'd be overwhelmed with anxiety if you don't pray. If you don't spend that time with me in the word and allow me to calm your heart. Allow me to give you a peace that surpasses all understanding, that guards your hearts and mind through Christ Jesus. We can support ourselves. We can put all sorts of things into our life that we rely upon and depend upon. And when the Lord takes that house of cards and pulls it down, now we come back to square one. Our dependence upon God as a small child, crying out to our Abba Father, God be merciful to me a sinner. God help me. Help me get through this divorce, Lord. Help me get through this loss of a loved one. Help me get through this loss of my job. Lord, what am I gonna do? How am I gonna raise these kids? Lord, where are you? How am I gonna find a a suitable wife, a suitable husband? How am I gonna go through life single? How do I do it, Lord? What am I gonna do? The government says, we'll take care of you. Universal basic income. And we've got a pill for every emotion. Careful. Careful. That's that pharmaceutical thing to be careful of. What did the early church rely upon? Did they go down to the local pharmacy and say, hey. These Romans are really, really giving me a headache. Do you have something for this headache? Did they not pray? Did they not seek the Lord? Did they not grow deeper in their walk and relationship with the Lord? In many cases, were they not denied deliverance from the affliction? But they grew deeper in their walking relationship with Jesus. So they lost out on the one hand, but they gained on the other. They gained a greater intimacy with Jesus. How was it fostered? How was it born into their life? Suffering? The cross? Taking their cross up daily? This isn't a message that sells. And that's why sermons on prayer are not there because we're gonna rely upon counselors. We're gonna rely upon format and programs and things that work in a time of financial prosperity, but fail when reality strikes one day. When you're stripped of everything you've been relying upon. El, when we add Jesus to the equation, he he's just there in case everything I'm trying doesn't work. I'm gonna make phone calls to everybody I know to help me through this problem. Last resort, I'm gonna pray because it didn't pan out. It didn't work. Why don't we train ourselves and learn to start with prayer and teach our kids to start with prayer and never stop praying? And then if the Lord brings that person alongside you to help, great. But don't negate God's sovereignty in your life and and his authority and control of your life by giving over that and dependent upon man. Be in prayer. Ask the Lord to direct your steps. Ask the Lord to guide. Ask the Lord to help. Ask the Lord to give wisdom. If any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God who freely gives. Lord, give me wisdom. God will purposely bring things into your life that are bigger than you, bigger than your ability to fix so that you will learn to pray and depend upon him. Jesus said, except you become as a child, you'll no wise enter the kingdom of God. We get big for our britches. We become teenage Christians. We can do it all. And then the reality of life bites. It bites so hard. And then now we realize, mom and dad weren't so bad. I thought I was smarter than them. The same things that bit them, the grind that they went through, I'm now going through. I'm raising kids. I'm going through the divorce. I'm going through the heartache of loss of a son or a daughter stolen by the wicked one, stolen by the devil, taken captive by the devil, how am I gonna get that precious, precious child back to where they need to be? I can't go steal them. I can't kidnap them. I can't put them in a in a in a palace or a house or a room and lock the door to keep them from the drugs, the alcohol, the influences, and such. What am I gonna do? How how is that stronghold gonna be broken? How are we gonna break that stronghold? Lord, set them free. Lord, they've been taken captive in this war. Yeah. And you're not alone. There's a lot of parents out there. A lot of fathers today on Father's Day that wish they'd get a call from their estranged son or daughter that's in the foreign land as a prodigal. Lord, save them. Lord, protect them. Lord, keep your hedge of protection about them, Lord. Jesus said in Matthew seven, ask and it shall be given you. Seek and ye shall find knock, and it shall be opened unto you. He said, which of you fathers, Father's Day, if your son asked for bread, would you give him a stone? If your son asked for, you know, an egg, would you give him a scorpion? Is that what you'd give him? Is if he asked for fish, you know, what would you give him? If you then being evil, know how to give good things unto your children, how much more shall your heavenly father give the holy spirit to them that ask him? He asked for fish, you're not gonna give him a serpent. He asked for an egg, you're not gonna give him a scorpion. He asked for bread, you're not gonna give him a stone. If you then be an evil and you know how to give good things onto your kids, why wouldn't you pray and ask your heavenly father to give you the holy spirit? Continually asking and seeking and asking the Lord to fill me, Lord. Fill me to overflowing today. Not a one time thing. Asking, seeking, knocking. The continual knocking on the door, continuing to prayer. Never stop praying. Praying without ceasing. I'm knocking. I'm knocking. I'm knocking. I'm not gonna give up. Lord, I'm not gonna settle for second best. I'm not gonna settle for this world. Lord, I need you. I need you, Lord. I need your holy spirit. You're not gonna deny me the spirit. I don't need to pray like David. Take not thy holy spirit from me. You're never gonna take your holy spirit from me. But, Lord, I need the outpouring of your holy spirit. I need the refilling, be being filled with the holy spirit. Lord, I'm dry on parts. Lord, I've walked away. Lord, restore unto me the joy of my salvation. Fill me to overflowing with yourself, Lord. Jesus, you're my portion forever. Forgive me for being covetous. Forgive me for being greedy. Forgive me for being in love with this world. Lord, you've instructed me to love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. The lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, the pride of life is not of the father, but of the world. And the world perishes, and the lust thereof, but he that doeth the will of God abides forever. Friendship with the world is enmity with God. You can't have both. You can't serve God and mammon. It's one or the other. And we know that God gives us leaders after our own hearts. God shows us who we are in the leadership we have. Republican and Democrat, that's who we are. Do we wanna continue down that road? Do you wanna find another one and vote harder? Do you wanna vote for Jesus, trust in Jesus, and not settle for the deception? Not settle for second best. Our love for gold, our love for the material, our love for the pleasure, epitomized by the Trumpster. This is who you are, America. This is who you are. Side deals, insider training, trading, seeking greater and greater wealth, manipulating in the stock market, whole family, cryptocurrency, the reset, Epstein Island, this is who you are America. This is your man. This is the king that you've chosen. And we in our pragmatism, hey, if it works, if we get what we want, we made the right decision. At what cost? At what level of greater corruption? The real issue is, are we worshiping Jesus? Do you wanna Christianize the Trumpster? Do you wanna follow the Trumpster? To make America great, Christian nationalism, the n a r new apostolic reformation, you're gonna usher in the messianic kingdom with the help of the trumpster? Would Nebby? Really? Haven't you learned anything yet? The beast system being built. People didn't resist. They didn't pray. They didn't they didn't say, hey. All they all they imbecilicly said was, he's better than Harris. Will it ever occur to you that Harris was presented simply to point you in the direction of the Trumpster who works for the bankers and that you and I, evangelicals, would readily receive the building of the b system, we wouldn't say a peep against it. But if Harris was trying or Biden trying, the evangelicals say, no way. That's the b system, man. But with the Trumpster, we get a Christian b system. This is for our good. This technology is really good. We're gonna make lots of money. It's gonna be great. Even even the democrat Clinton could could do his Monica Lewinsky and to be reelected, all he need to do is look up at the wall. It's the economy, stupid. The American people care nothing about morality anymore or the glory of God. If they can Christianize what they're doing, great. But really, the root of America is the mammon, the money. If the economy is good in these midterm elections, if we don't have this war with Iran and inflation's brought down, hey, we're gonna get a bunch of Republicans re reelected. Right? What about voter fraud? Voter fraud comes in there. What are we gonna do about voter fraud? Christ directed solution. I know a biometric ID, and it's your idea. It's your idea because we we just can't live with all of this illegal immigration that's flooded our country. We gotta have a solution because we can't have elections anymore because they're stolen. Crisis reaction solution. You were led to the slaughter. You believed. You took the lie. You took the bait. And an angel of light, a minister of righteousness, presented he didn't force you. He presented the problem in in working with the Democrat. Where's the Republicans with any kind of voter reform? Where's the Republicans to get rid of the voting debold machines? Nowhere. Because the objective is a biometric ID to tie you in with the banking systems, the old ultimate goal. Your health care, everything tied with a digital, which the bible says is gonna happen. Imagine that, the beast system. But when we pray, we pray, Lord, give me what I want. We want you to make Trump make it all go away. Fix everything. And he says he's a Christian, and I believe him. But but Ricky's building a beast system. He's helping the antichrist. Why would a Christian do that? Why the first day in office would he spend $500,000,000,000 on the Stargate project, these data centers, the Genius Act? Do you know where we're going, church? We're going to Canada. Canada has enacted legislation so that you can you can't even have a bible in the park. You can't even pray. You can't even say you're against homosexuality or you're gonna be arrested. You can't say you're against pedophilia because somebody's feelings are gonna get hurt. And if you make their feelings hurt, that's a hate crime. Oh, you're making pedophiles feel bad. That's hate speech, Christians. Your bible's filled with hate. You don't have an exemption anymore for your conscience or your belief system. And all over Canada, people are being arrested and have been being arrested and The UK for what are termed as hate crimes because you have the audacity to speak biblically, to think biblically, to express yourself on social media biblically. And it's coming to The United States. More and more, we're gonna see that we as Christians are a threat to the kingdom of darkness. We as Christians, true believers who stand for truth, not those who compromise and give in to the I had a guy come up to me and say, hey. You need to wear that mask in the gym because it's loving your neighbor. Well, that's conditioning. That's treating you that you can violate your conscience. You can give in to evil. You can give in to a lie on the name of love. And that's what they did at the White House when they changed the definition of marriage between a man and a woman, and they made it where men with men, women with women, the Obama administration. Their quote was love wins. Evil is now love. It's love to do that. To deny these people marriage, a biblical marriage, is hatred, and their feelings are hurt. Does anyone ever ask how God feels? How's God feel about this? But what about me as a Christian? You offend me. You hurt my feelings. When you allow legislation to be such that you legalize pedophilia, and now my children and grandchildren are threatened by predators, you do more than hurt my feelings. You set off alarm bells in my head and my heart. But we're gonna go down this road with this pansy in the name of love, a false love, of acquiescence and giving into evil, calling evil good and good evil. And who's the target? Christians, because Christians will hold back the beast system. True Christians who speak the truth. The fellowship of prayer. What are we really asking God for? In first John five fourteen, this is the confidence that we have in him that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us, who whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petition that we desired of him. Psalm thirty seven four, delight thyself in the Lord, and he'll give you the desires of your heart. Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who is at work in you putting in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. So ultimately, when you're in fellowship with God, the prayers that you're praying are his desire he's putting within you. And he's wanting you to pray. He's wanting you to tap in to the his sovereignty, his plan, and his purpose for your life. God puts within your heart, your family wants a home. It's okay to pray for that home. God's putting that desire in your heart. You have a nesting influence of desire, but don't go past the desire and the asking to the point of demanding and insisting and trying to force and trying to work it and trying to manipulate God. Let it be his decision. Let it be a joyous blessing to enter in his plan and purpose for your life. The blessings of the Lord make it rich and he adds no sorrow to it. You're not holier because you're poor. The problem is when the riches become idols, the idolatry of the pleasure that we've had since World War two. That's where it becomes a problem. And we're represented by hedonist, golden dawn with the statues and everything gold like Nebuchadnezzar. Do you get it? Is it there yet? Do you see what we've done, how we turned our back upon God? Prayer speaks of our dependence upon God, the frequency of prayer, the form of prayer, the fellowship of prayer. Fourthly, the fight, the fight of prayer, and watching there unto. This means to be ready, to be alert, be sober, be vigilant because the your enemy, the devil goes about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. Be on guard. Stay awake. Don't fall asleep. Simon, sleepeth out? Could not thou watch one hour? Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter in temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. Trouble sleeping? You got insomnia? Start praying. You'll fall asleep. I can fall asleep at midday simply praying and reading my bible. It's so strange. I can sit there at midday and start to read and boom. You know, start to boom. You know, what is wrong with me? Give me a cookie and I'm wide awake. My flesh, hoo hoo. Give me a movie to watch, I never fall asleep. But man, there's something about us. Wow. I'm just so filled with peace, you know. Oh. You know? Oh, God's peace. And you fall asleep in church here, that's fine. I'm okay. It's a peaceful place to sleep. Nobody's gonna hurt you. We've got ushers with with tissues to wipe up the drool and all that. We'll we'll clean you up. There's a fight going on. There's a weapon that of prayer. Jesus said in Luke twenty one thirty six, watch ye therefore and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass and to stand before the son of man. Be a prayer warrior. Pray always. As you see the beast system approaching, as you see the tribulation period approaching, it's not doom and gloom. Watch and pray. Pray always that you'd kind of worthy to escape these things that are coming upon the planet. You know them to be true when the Revelation six seals are gonna be open, and it's not doom and gloom. You're looking for that blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and savior Jesus Christ. It's an indicator that these birth pangs, the sorrow of birth, this this birthing of that tribulation period as everything's coming into focus and being being put in place for the antichrist, we're not looking for the antichrist. We're looking for Jesus Christ, but a prelude to that is a pre trib rapture. The catching away of the church. And so he says, pray always that you'd be kind of worthy to stand before the son of man. Where's that? That's heaven. Jesus in heaven. And he said, I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go to prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you onto myself that where I am, there you may be also. So be watching. Be praying. Don't be in Luke 12 where you're rioting and drunken and going back into the world because where is the promise of his coming? I'm like I'm like Kirk so and so. I don't believe in a pre trib rapture anymore. I'm just gonna I'm just gonna live live now, you know. And that's why I think so many of the of the so called Christian leaders are pressing down so hard saying, if you don't vote for Donald Trump, I don't even know if you're a Christian. You know? They're wanting so much to hold on to the wealth that they have. They don't wanna lose it. And so they see a formula of voting. If we get the right guy in there and legislate just right, they're deceived. And they won't come out and say they're deceived. They were deceived with a warp speed jab, but they won't say nothing. They want another go, another round because of their love for things, their love for their power, and their money, and their enormously successful and wealthy, you know, million dollar salaries. Why would you wanna use that million dollar salary? And millions of dollars in your Christian bank account, Church Incorporated. You don't wanna lose it. You'll do anything to keep it. And you think you misconstrue that if you get the right guy in there, that you'll be able to keep it. But the whole system's being imploded. Imploded and engineered collapse to bring in the reset, to bring in the new one. Why don't you talk about that? Why don't you get people ready spiritually, get their eyes off of America, and get their eyes onto Jesus? He's coming again. Yeah. And he's coming for his bride, the church. Don't don't be wanting more time to fix this thing that is unfixable. There's perplexity coming. No way out of the problems that are being created for the tribulation period. From food and famine and pestilence and war and rumors of wars. These these things are the beginning of sorrows. And when you see these things, look up knowing that your redemption draws nigh. So watch therefore and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things. Where's my escape? I'm gonna vote Trump in a third term. No. That's not working. It's not working. You've been deceived and to stand before the son of man. The world's being divided into 10 regions, from Venezuela all the way up to Greenland. Don't you get it? The the military is being pulled back from Europe. The 120 or so military bases we have. We don't have the money when the dollar collapses to fund the global military that we've had. The pleasure of since World War two, the Bretton Woods agreement. We're going to a global system. Be a prayer warrior. Your eyes will be open. You'll be able to see. You'll be able to hear from the Lord. Pray always. And then, fifthly, the fervency of prayer. With all perseverance and supplication, don't quit. Keep asking, keep seeking, keep knocking. Don't quit for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but the mighty of God to the pulling down of strongholds. A UFC match at the White House, a ballroom at the White House is not gonna save America. Calling the nation to prayer like Nineveh, the Ninevites. Calling the nation to repentance might bring about a reprieve. Forty days and you're gonna perish, Nineveh. And they all repented from the king on down, and God gave them a reprieve. He didn't judge them. That's the only hope if you want more time as an American. But if you wanna your citizenship is heaven and go be with Jesus, then look up and know that your redemption draws nigh. There's no solution for what's happening because it's ordained of God in Revelation seventeen seventeen. God's put it in the hearts of these globalists to do according to his will. The stage is being set for Jesus to return, and we need to get people ready for the return of Jesus. In Daniel chapter 10, Daniel was praying. In verse 12, an angel came to him and said, fear not Daniel for from the very first day that thou did set thine heart to understand and chasten thyself before God, thy words were heard. And I am come for thy words, but the prince of the kingdom of Persia, which is Iran. Also, in Daniel 10, they mentioned the prince of Greece, which wasn't even on the scene yet. So there's principalities and powers that have geographical regions and Daniel's praying and there's an angel there in the heavenlies fighting in the spiritual realm with the prince of Iran, the prince of Persia, and they're battling for twenty one days. And then Michael, archangel comes along and assists this angel, which might have been Gabriel, but comes along to assist to prevail over the principalities and the powers, the demon stronghold. The weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty to God to pulling down strongholds. And Daniel's an intercessor, and he's interceding on behalf of the nation of Israel. And he's praying twenty one days. He's praying to get an answer from God to know what's going on. Lord, show me what's going on. And an angel comes to him to understand and to chasten thy heart before God. The words were heard, and I am come for thy words. But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days. But little Michael, one of the chief princes came to help me. Has Satan taken your son or daughter captive? Are you praying in the spiritual realm for God to intervene? Are you praying fervently? The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man, a righteous woman avails much. Don't discount the power of your prayers. The effectual fervent on hot, on fire prayers of a righteous man or woman avails much. Prayer speaks of our dependency upon God, the frequency of prayer for you note takers, number one. Number two, the form of prayer. Number three, his fellowship. Number four, the fight. Number five, the fervency. And sixthly and finally, the family. Who we praying for? For all the saints. Much of our prayer is for ourselves. Don't forget the family. Don't forget the saints. Don't forget the body of Christ all over the world. The Christians that are in Iran right now, the Christians in Nigeria. Pray for them. Pray that God intervene. In John 17, watch the pronouns. Watch how Jesus prays. This is we talk about our father who art in heaven, hallowed be the name, the Lord's prayer. This is the Lord's prayer in John 17. The Lord's prayer is a model prayer if you study that prayer. It's a model prayer of how to pray. You start with praise unto God. Our father who art in heaven, where's addressing who he is, the focus. He's our father in heaven. Hallowed be thy name. He's holy. He's a holy God you're addressing. Thy kingdom come, prophetically. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it in heaven. The sovereignty of God you're you're addressing. You're looking at his sovereignty. God's on the throne. He's in control. Now your petition. Give us this day our daily bread. Day by day, we did a podcast, Friday on Juneteenth. We did a podcast and we called it Crisis Reaction Solution. I think you should have it out tomorrow. But basically, I tried to convey Matthew six. I call it Matthew sixen. With this economy collapsing, presently collapsing, I want to try and teach people to depend upon God and to take this day their daily bread. To trust the Lord day by day is what I'm trying to teach you. Because you're gonna be betrayed. You're being betrayed. And in that betrayal, you're gonna be bewildered. When they grabbed hold of Jesus to crucify him, the disciples were bewildered. They didn't know which end was up. And that's gonna happen to so much of the church that has believed a lie, and we need that faith muscle to be energized and exercised to trust the Lord day by day. The unbelievers are consumed with what am I gonna eat? What am I gonna drink? What am I gonna wear? But you, Christians, seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these other things be added unto you. So give us this day our daily bread. Lead us not into temptation. Deliver us from evil. So the battle that's there, the evil one, protect us, Lord. Forgive us our sins, confessing our sins, keeping the fellowship stoked and going, and being a forgiving person. For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory. So you're finishing up with praise and worship once again just as you started, acknowledging his greatness, acknowledging his sovereignty, acknowledging his coming kingdom. That's a model prayer. But Jesus in John 17, he says, pray for them. Who's he praying for, family? He's praying for you. He's praying for me. I pray for them. I pray not for the world. Oh, that's weird. You're not praying for the world. But for them, aren't we all Christians? Aren't we all children of God? No. There's distinctions. I pray for them. I pray not for the world, but for them which thou has given me. Have you been given to Jesus? Has the father given you to Jesus? For they are thine. I have given them thy word. Oh, given me your word? Does that mean I'm gonna study this love letter? Does that mean I'm gonna read this love letter and get to know God's word? Get to know God through his word? Well, maybe I better check out Freud and Reud and all the latest things, the books that the world has to offer. Maybe the world has something new, something the bible didn't think of. And yet, Peter tells us we've been given everything we need for life and godliness is found in our relationship with Jesus. The manufacturer, the guy that made you, the engineer that made you, he made you with a God shaped hole in your heart. He's the only one that can fill that hole in your heart. And when you receive him in your heart and life, that thirst ceases. Your there's satisfaction. But not only that, in your fellowship with him, as you get to know him, there's even greater and greater peace and joy in the fruit of the spirit, which is love. God reveals himself to us. I've given them thy word and thy world hates them because they are not of the world. Does the world hate you? There's cause here because because you love the Lord. Because you're not of the world. Even as I am not of the world, I pray not that they should be taken take them out of the world, but that thou should keep them from the evil or the evil ones. So protect them. Jesus is praying for protection for us. Sanctify them, which makes them holy. Set them apart. Set them apart for your use. Sanctify them through thy truth. We need truth. Do you know the easiest way to prosper for me as a Christian is compromise? If as a pastor, if I were to compromise with the state and use the head start reading program in our day care, we'd still have our day care. We'd still have our equity. We'd still have the Roxy. We'd still have all that. But from day one in fact, this church here, the empty seats, if I just wouldn't pick on the Trumpster, there's a whole lot of people that'd still be here. They chose the Trumpster over truth. I will not pacify and foster or spread a lie. Amen. Just not gonna do it. And then it takes time. It takes time to be proven right. And even after you're proven right, they'll double down and still insist that they did the right thing. That's delusional. Just look at the facts, not what I'm saying. Just look at the facts. The beast system's being built. And I told you from here that I'll vote for him because he's gonna hasten the return of Jesus Christ because he's going to build the beast system. And the first day in office, he funded with Palantir, with Peter Thiel, and nobody vetted JD Vance. Nobody, none of these superstar Fox Christians vetted JD Vance. JD Vance is a product of Peter Thiel. That's who put him in there. The technocrats are the ones that put Trump along with the bankers in office to build the peace system because it's the end of the present order. But the Christians want to maintain the present order because we got so much money in the bank. Didn't you hear what Klaus said? You're gonna owe nothing and be happy. Didn't you hear what Larry Fink of BlackRock said? We're gonna use your retirement funds to build the data centers. You're being betrayed. It's mind blowing. It's mind blowing to have the blinders off and to see what's happening and to see so few people who understand what's happening. Not that thou should take them out of the world, but that thou should keep them from the evil ones. Sanctify them through thy truth. Thy word is truth. Set apart, make them holy. Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also. Here's you and I. Watch this. Neither pray for these alone, the ones his disciples, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word. We believe because the disciples did what they're supposed to, they went and made disciples. They taught the word. They preached. And we, down through history, we received the word of God, and now we believe. Jesus is praying for those who shall believe through the distribution of God's word. Now God could use angels to do a much better job, but God has privileged us to be his disciples, to be used of him. That they all may be one as thou father art to me and I in thee that they also may be one in us that the world may believe that thou has sent me. The world is so divided, but we're a family. And yet, so crazy how we can divide over political candidates. It's so divided, so bent out of shape. I hate him. Does it really reach that degree? Hatred? Barabbas or Jesus? Who do you choose? The people chose Barabbas. And then when Jesus was apprehended, the believers were bewildered. They didn't know which end was up. Why? Why? I'm gonna show you something. Because they thought we were going into the messianic age. They thought that Jesus would be a trumpster, and he would take them into the messianic age promised by the old testament prophets. They all thought they were fighting over who's gonna sit on the left hand, who's gonna sit on the right hand. No matter how many times he told them the truth and that he was gonna be crucified, they didn't hear it. They didn't hear it. Pete Peter even rebuked him for that. That's reality. That's where we're going, Peter. They couldn't hear it. All they could hear was all they thought they believed, all they thought they knew was Jesus was gonna defeat the Romans, them bad Democrats, and he's gonna give us the kingdom. And they didn't see prophetically that Messiah would be cut off, and he wept over the city because he could see in their unbelief the general population that they would be destroyed in seventy AD by general Titus, who would surround the city and destroy over 2,000,000 Jews. And the church age is sprung. The church age begins to move forward and the gospel goes out. And we prophetically at the end of that age, we're wanting to hold on to what? We're wanting to usher in kingdom now, dominion theology, replacement theology, the church replace Israel. Are we out of our minds at the end of the age? Everything's happening the way it's supposed to. Jesus is coming again. And let me give you a verse in John five. Jesus said, I come in my father's name and you receive me not. Another shall come in his own name and him you will receive. That's the antichrist. The world is getting ready to receive the antichrist because he's gonna promise them the world. And they want the world. That they all may be one father. They are to me and I indeed that they also may be one in us that the world may believe that thou has sent me. The world's incredibly divided but we're a family. We're one. When one of us hurts, we all hurt. In acts chapter 12, Peter's in prison. James, the brother of John, was killed in acts 12 by Herod. Herod saw that it pleased the Jews. They grabbed hold of Peter. They put Peter in prison. In John one twenty one, Jesus told Peter, Peter, when you're young, go wherever you want. But when you're old, another shrug grab hold of you and take you where you would not. And John signifies eventually Peter's gonna die. But Peter's a young man in Acts 12. He's invincible. He's not afraid anymore. He's got the holy spirit. He's seen the resurrected lord, and Peter's asleep. And what's the church doing? They're at the house of John Mark's mother. John Mark in Jerusalem. John Mark, the one that accompanied the apostle Paul in his missionary journey, and they're at a prayer meeting. And in this prayer meeting, they're praying for the release of Peter, fervently praying that he'd be released, that he wouldn't be destroyed as Herod was waiting till the Passover was over, and then he was gonna execute Peter to please the Jews. And Peter's there chilling, sleeping, got his sandals off, his outer robe off. He's he's laying down. There's a quaternion of soldiers guarding him. There's soldiers, two soldiers right there at the room, and he's in a he's in a cage. He's in a in a in a cell that's locked. And an angel comes into the room and nudges Peter, says on the side, get up. Get your clothes on. Get your sandals on. We're jailbreak. We're out of here. And the doors open on their own, and they go out. And then they the angel leads them into the city, and then the angel leaves, and then Peter is at the gate out in front of the house of John Mark Mary's house, and he's knocking on the door, and nobody's coming. And then Rhoda Rhoda comes out and sees that it's Peter, and she runs back in. They're at a prayer meeting, praying for Peter's release. You gotta pray in faith, don't you? You gotta pray believing. And they're saying, you're mad woman. You're mad woman. Kinda like Mary Magdalene and all those that saw the risen Lord. You you women are mad. You've been smoking too much pot, man. You got you guys are out of it. You're delusional. You're mad. You're mad, Rhoda. Rhoda. Rhoda. You're mad. And then he kept he kept knocking on that door. Finally, they realized it's Peter, and he's there with the prayer meeting. They prayed, and they learned to pray, and they continued to pray to battle as time went on over and over again that, hey. When the enemy comes in like a flood, the spirit of the Lord raised up a standard against him. Let's pray. Let's call a prayer meeting. Now if I said tonight, we're all gonna meet again and we're all gonna have pizza, free pizza, the place would be packed. If I said, hey, we're gonna meet again tonight to pray about America and the midterm elections and everything, Be a couple of you. Three or four of you. And you might come to the first prayer meeting. Might make a liar of me. But if we prayed every Sunday night because we're losing the building, we're losing everything, and we and we designated not Sunday morning to beg for money, but Sunday night, a night to pray, and our father who sees and seek and reward us all, you know, openly, fraction of people come every Sunday night to worship the lord, partake in communion, to pray. But food attracts people. The physical attracts. When churches gear themselves to the sensual, to the physical, to the material, that's where people are today for the most part. But the spiritual part of our being, that of prayer and warring in the spirit and being in the word and living according to God's word, In the last days, people won't endure sound doctrine anymore. And they'll heap to themselves teachers having itching ears, and they want those teachers to tell them smooth things, things that they want to hear. And that's why I'm not very popular, because I don't speak for popularity. I speak the truth. And a whole lot of people don't want to hear the truth. They choose guys like Donald Trump who represent them instead of the truth. And I won't give in to a lie to build a church. But they're praying for Peter, so we're not alone. Jesus ever lives to make intercession for us. He's our great high priest in heaven. The holy spirit intercedes with groanings. He make intercession for the saints according to the will of God. So you have the second and third person of the trinity interceding praying for you to the father on our behalf. Intercede in prayer for the family of saints. You'd be liberated from your own prison. The circumstances may not change, but you will by dependent upon God in prayer. Be clothed in his armor. Pray always continually without ceasing. Never turn the phone off. Keep texting him. Keep messaging him. Keep tweeting him. Keep emailing him. Jeremiah thirty three three, the Lord says, call unto me and I'll answer thee and show thee great and mighty things which thou knowest not. Is a line open? Is a line of communication open? If your sin has separated you from God and that line of communication is hindered, if we confess our sin, he's faithful and just to forgive us of our sin and to cleanse us of all unrighteousness. Just confess. Confess that you've sinned and that line of communication is open. Haven't lost your salvation, you've just lost the fellowship part of continual communion and fellowship with God because of unconfessed, unrepented sin in your life. And God wants that defilement, that filth to be washed away afresh in the blood of Jesus, that fellowship be restored. Continually walking in fellowship with him. Let's pray. Father, thank you. Lord, evermore, us about prayer. Not about not knowing about prayer, but teach us to pray. I want to learn to pray. I wanna be a prayer warrior, Lord. I wanna know what it is to be a terror to the kingdom of darkness, to prevail in prayer, to not wimp out, to not quit. Even prayers that I've prayed for twenty, thirty years, Lord, help me to keep praying, keep asking, keep seeking, keep knocking. Lord, should I give up? When should I give up on my daughter? How should a father pray? Lord, we're asking, we're seeking, we're knocking. We know by faith, Lord, that you're working, that the effectual fervent prayer of righteous men and women avail as much. Even though we can't see it, Lord, you're working to the hearts of the prodigal sons and daughters in the foreign land who've been taken captive. Lord, we're not giving up. Lord, we're gonna continue to stand in the gap. We're gonna continue to ask those that that love us and know us and know them to stand with us, to snatch them out of the fire. Lord, help. Please, we beg of you, Lord. We beg of you. Rescue, Lord. Deliver. Overcome the power of the wicked one, the power of deception, the power of the lies, and the and the and the things they've come to been subdued by. Lord, bind the strong man. Bind the wicked one. Set the captives free, Lord. Set them free. Let the scales come off their eyes. Let their ears open. Let them hear once again. Let them taste and see that you are good. Cause the things of the world, Lord, to be to to be putrid in their mouth. They learn to hate the things of the world, Lord. Bring them home, Lord. Bring them once again. Bring them home. Let us celebrate, Lord. They were dead, and now they're alive. They were lost, and now they're found. Father, please, we beg of you, Lord. You're the only one. You're the only one that can intervene and save them, Lord. In Jesus' name, amen.

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Calvary Chapel Bremerton - Sunday Service

Listen to Rick Beaudry, Pastor of Calvary Chapel Bremerton, teach the Word of God cover to cover, chapter by chapter, and verse by verse. Be edified and built up in your faith with solid Bible teaching. New episodes on Mondays in the Pacific Standard Timezone.

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