September 10, 2025 • 42 mins
Build a powerful altar of prayer: learn simple steps to pray effectively, grow closer to God, and invite His presence into your life.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
This is Hungry Gen podcast, and I just want to
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
We hope you enjoyed this week's message.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Today, I want to talk to us about building an
alter of prayer. Somebody say, building an alter of prayer.
Somebody say, I will build an alter of prayer. I
want us to take a look at at the life
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of two people in the Bible. Their names are Abraham
and Law. Somebody say, Abraham and Law. The Bible costs
both of them righteous. The Bible costs both of them righteous,
not in the Old Testament, but in the New Testament.
So means this applies to us also, Abraham and Law.
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Abraham he built his life around God. He sought first
the Kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all things
were added to Abraham. Lot built his life around stuff,
hoping that God will somehow be added to him. Abraham
prioritized God first. He built altars in pitched tents. You
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see in the life of Abraham, he built altars in
pitch tents. Relationship with God, prayer, obedience to God was
the highest to do list for Abraham. Amen. Now if
you look in the Bible, nowhere you see in the
Bible that Law build an altar, or Lot put God first,
or Law had a prayer life. It doesn't say that,
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only says that Law was a righteous man. Okay. Lot
chose to put stuff first and somehow hope that God
will be added to him. Lot chose to live and
position his family next to Sodom because of all the
green benefits that could make his earthly life prosperous. He
chose to pitch his tent near Sodom. How can I
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be close to that place of blessing but not be
sucked in? But later a couple of chapters we see
in the story of the Bible that Law gets sucked in.
He has a house in Sodom. He has a position
at the gate, and Law lost his stuff that he pursued.
Lot lost his life. Lot loss his family and the
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two daughters that God graciously allowed him to escape Sodom.
They got him drunk and they were impregnated by him,
and they had children Moab and Amin, future enemies of God.
Now ask yourself a question, what legacy do I want
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to leave? Do I want to be an Abraham that
builds an altar pitches a tent? Or do I want
to be a law that chooses the material stuff first?
And somehow God, You're going to be added to my
life because Law has a sad legacy. But Abraham his legacy.
He was blessed. The Bible says God blessed him in everything.
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He died in a good old age full of years.
Jesus came through Abraham. I mean, Abraham influenced so many people.
Even if you go to the Middle East and the
name Abraham gets brought up, there'd be a high reverence
and honor towards him. Amen. So what would have happened
if law, if righteous law, because that's what the Bible
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calls him. What would have happened if law had a
prayer life? If law would have built an altar, If
law would have made God first, because the Bible says
seek first, what and his righteousness and everything else will
be added to you? What would have happened if he
would have been like Abraham because he started with him,
but he didn't build an altar. Maybe it would have
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been different for him, for his family, for his wife
or his kids, for his future. Amen. You know too often.
We do things like this. When I feel like praying,
I will pray. Amen. Well, we don't do this with
our phones. We don't say. Well, if I feel like
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charging my phone, I will charge it. No, we make
sure that we plug our phones in. Why because shooter
or later. If we don't plug our phones, we know
we will not be able to use it. Amen. We
don't do it with our cars. If I feel like
I'm gonna put some gas in the car, I'm gonna
put some gas in the car. No, we make sure
we stop by the gas station fill it up, because
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we know, shooner or later, if I don't put gas
in my car, my car will stop. We don't do
it with our bodies. If I feel like eating, I'm
gonna eat. No, no, no. We feed our bodies, some
of us three times a day, snacks in between, more less.
But we make sure that we take care of our bodies.
Why because if we don't feed our body, our bodies
are going to scream at us. Feed me. Amen. So
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why do we do it with prayer? Because we are
temples of what holy Spirit. The Bible says, may the
fire on our altars not go out. We are three
parts where spirit, soul, and body. Now we do a
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great job taking care of our physical bodies, but we
neglect our spirits and we neglect prayer. Amen, Prayer is
like breathing the oxygen of heaven in this corrupt generation.
And one man of God said this. People fail Number one,
they don't pray, and number two, no one is praying
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for them. Now what am I telling God when I
don't pray? What am I telling God? What What am
I communicating to God when I don't pray? Number one,
we tell God I don't need you, because prayer is dependence.
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Prayer is dependence. We tell him things like I can
handle life on my own. But John fifteen five says,
apart from me, you can do nothing. Jesus says, I
am the true vine. You are a branch. Me and
you people of God. We are not the source. We
are just a branch. We must be connected to the
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life source. That's why Jesus says, apart from me, you
can do nothing. Church. Prayer is not optional. Prayer is
not optional. Number two, I don't trust you. We're telling
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God I don't trust you. When we don't pray, we're
telling him I don't trust you. Refusing to bring our hearts, cares, needs, fears,
or desires tells God that he won't listen, he won't act,
or he doesn't care. But Philippians chapter four, verse six says,
don't be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by
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prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your request to God.
So that's saying that God is waiting to hear his
people pray. God is looking for someone that is going
to bring petitions to him because he is a good God. Amen.
Number three, it tells God that I am too busy
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for you. Skipping prayer communicates that other priorities matter more
than time with God. It says that my schedule is
more important than your presence. Come on, somebody. Number four
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it communicates to God that says I can live without
your presence. You see, prayer is not just asking, its fellowship,
its relationship. Neglecting prayer tells God that friendship is optional.
But look what Jeremiah chapter two, verse thirteen says. It says,
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my people have committed two sins. They have forsaken me
the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns,
broken cisterns that cannot hold water, David says in Psalms
twenty seven eight. He says, my heart says of you
seek his face, your face, Lord, I will seek. Let
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me tell you something. Yesterday there was a big lotto,
the power Ball, one point eight billion of dollars, and
there's millions of people eagerly desiring to win so they
can become really, really wealthy, really really wich. Well, let
me tell you. You can have all the money in
the world, but if you don't have his presence, you
are empty, David says in the In the Bible, he says,
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I am poor and needy. Let me tell you something.
David had stock piles of gold. It wasn't that he
was poor in money. He was poor because he was
hungry for God. The Bible says, Blessed are the poor
in spirit, for they shall be what satisfied. Blessed are
those that hunger and thirst for what, so they shall
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be what feeled. David was hungry for fellowship with God.
So prayer is not just asking God for stuff, is
having his presence. What else are we communicating when we
say when we say that when we don't pray Number five,
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we say that your will is not important to me
because prayer is what aligns us with the plans and
purposes of God. In prayer, Jesus submitted his will to
God's will. He says, not my will, but your will
be done. And at that moment Jesus prayed three times
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because he came to his disciples, he says, could you
not watch one hour? Amen? It's very interesting that the
disciples were able to fish all night they didn't catch anything,
But when Jesus asked him, hey, can you not watch
one hour and pray? They couldn't. Somebody say, the devil
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is a liar. Come on, somebody, all them excuses that
we're saying that we can't pray, let me tell you
will do you want to do. If you are passionate
or you are wanting something, you're gonna find a way
to get it. Amen. Come on, that devil is a liar.
One of the reasons we don't pray is because maybe
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we don't have a revelation or understanding why prayer is
so important. Let me tell you Jesus, the son of God.
If anyoney didn't need to pray, it should have been Jesus.
But you see Jesus praying so much in the mornings
at night before making decisions. Jesus even prayed on the cross.
Jesus prayed after the resurrection, and Jesus right now is
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in heaven praying interceding for us. If we look at
the life of Jesus, it will obliterate the excuse that
prayers is optional for me, because if someone that didn't
need to pray, it should have been Jesus. Amen. How
much more we that mess up, they make, they make
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bad decisions. How much more we need to pray? Amen?
So when we don't pray, we tell God your will
is not important to me. Number six, we tell God
you are not my essential. It speaks that we rely
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more on other things like money, people, ourselves, more than
we rely on God. But Matthew six thirty three says,
but seek versus kingdom and his rights, and all these
things will be added to you. Let me just say
it like this. Don't be a lot, don't fall into
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the trap of because we live in this material world,
and right now, why do people go to colleges and
because they want to make more money, because they want
to get a better job, because what they can provide
for their family, and all that has a place and
it's good. But let me tell you something. Outside of God,
it's empty. And you can be careful that that you
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can get all this stuff, but you can lose what's important.
The Bible says, what good for a man to gain
the whole world and lose his soul? And see, when
we don't pray, we are prone to make God our
spare tire that we keep in the trunk and when
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we hit a bump in the road or when our
tire pops, God, where are you?
Speaker 1 (13:28):
I need you?
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Come on somebody. He is not in the driver's seat
of our car, and we use him when we get
into trouble. Now, don't get me wrong. I have two children.
I have a two year old she loves ice cream,
and I have a four year lorld that loves pap patrols.
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And to them, they love when I give them stuff,
when we bless them with stuff. And God knows that
in our immaturity, it's okay. Understand that we ask him
for things. And that's a great place to start. And
that's okay. And let me tell you something. But if
my two year old and my four year old grow
up to be eighteen twenty twenty five and they still
come to me for stuff and don't want to be
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with me. There's a problem. Amen. So when we don't
spend time with God, when we don't pray, in reality
we are prideful, self willed. We tell God I got this,
and we can end up using God then yielding our
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hearts for the plans and purposes of God. Amen. The
Bible says he who wills.
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To do my will, you see you gotta yield you willed,
ben your will if you want to do God's will
or else it's going to be you doing your will,
not God's will.
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Amen. And so in prayer is a place that we
position our will to goe God's will. Amen. People of God,
A lack of prayer doesn't mean oops, I forgot Hello.
First Sectuary, Second Sanctuary people online? Are you with me?
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Our prayer life is really a mirror of our heart's
posture to God. Our prayer life is really a mirror
of our heart's posture to God. Now why pray? We
need to understand that the world that we live in
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is more spiritual than we think, and we are more
spiritual than we think. There is such a thing as
demons and angels and curses, and the spiritual forces. We
need God more than we think. And when we stop praying,
you know what happens. We get out of tune with God.
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It's not God. It's not that God is distant or
he's far, It's just we are out of tune with
His spirit. And then what happens is when you go
back into prayer and you go back into spending time
with God, your spirit tunes up with God and you're like, God,
You're so close. It's not God that he left, it's
just you got out of tune. You stop praying. Yeah,
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prayer changes us. Somebody say, prayer changes me. God often
uses prayer to shape us, not just our circumstances. Transformation
of the heart happens when we prayed. You know, there
was a time that Jesus prayed. Jesus prayed and he
was His face started to change. Revelation comes when we pray. Sometimes,
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renewing of our mind comes when we pray. Prayer aligns
us with God's will. Prayer doesn't bend God to us,
it bends us to him. It shifts us from being
self centered to God centered. And how many guys know
we all need it because we are born selfish each
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one of us. Prayer connects us to a relational God.
Prayer is is a conversation with the living God, not
just words into the air. Jeremiah thirty three three says,
call to me, and I will answer you. Prayer is
not a one way communication. It's a two way That
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means God wants to speak. It says, I will answer you.
Prayer also shows dependence. Prayer is humility and action. When
we pray, we admit I can't, but you can. Amen.
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Prayer also invites God's power James Chapter five, verse sixteen.
It says the prayer of a righteous person is powerful
and effective, and prayer is the channel through which God
chooses to release his authority, healing, provision, and breakthrough. When
we pray, we invite God into our space, into our world. Amen.
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You know, if I had a house that I rented
out and the people that were renting my house, I
do not tell them where to put their furniture or
where they need to put their stuff, but if they
call upon me. But if they call upon me, I
will come and help them. Same thing with our Lord.
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He doesn't tell us how we should live our life,
but we when we call upon him. Yes, he suggests
in the Word of God. But when we call upon
upon it, he comes with his help and assist us
in our world. Because let me tell you something, our
world needs help. And and Jesus included in the Lord's
prayer prayer as it is in heaven. Let it be
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on earth meeting. Invite God into this earth. Amen. Prayer
builds intimacy. Relationships die without communication. How many of you
you've grown apart from your friends that you stop talking with?
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Why because you stopped talking with them. And it's same
thing with God. When we stop talking to God, we
grow distant. We grow distant. So how do you get
back into him? Start talking again? Amen? Prayer is not
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about getting more things from God. It's about getting the
mind of Christ about things. Amen. And it's a privilege
to be connect to God as our life short. It's
a privilege to hear him speak, it's a privilege to
abide to him. Don't look at it as a chore.
It's a privilege. Amen. And you know what's interesting that
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in the Old Testament, Daniel, he prayed three times a day.
You know, we eat three times a day, breakfast, lunch, dinner.
What would happen if we would spend time with God
three times a day. Now, Daniel in the Old Testament
he prayed three times a day. He would rather be
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thrown into a lions than than miss his time with God.
And throughout four different kingdoms, because one kingdom and kingdoms,
Daniel rose to the top. You know, Daniel, he was
sending substance up so that something would come down. Right,
you know the clouds that form rain, Something goes up
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before something comes down. And do you know that in
the Book of Revelation, the Bible says there's a ball
in heaven. It's called the prayer of the Saints where God,
where it gets filled up and an angel takes something
from that jar. And there's lightning, thunderings and earthquakes. Meaning
something happens with the prayers of the saints. Amen. So
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how to build an altar of prayer? Because I believe
that all of us we don't want to be lots.
We want to be like Abraham. Abraham builds an altar
and pitched a tent, but Lot he chose the stuff,
and the Bible does not say that he build an altar.
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So how do we build an altar of prayer number one,
Set a time and a place to pray. Set a
time and a place to pray. Adam had a time
and a place where he taught with God. Do you
remember the time when Adam was hiding. He knew that
God's going to show up because throughout the cool of
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the day they had a relationship together. Don't take prayer casually. Well,
if God wants to bless me, he knows where I live.
He can just drop off the packages of my house. No,
set a time, set a place that you meet with God.
Why because when you set a time and a place,
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you are more likely to show up and to do it. Amen,
I pray in my car. My wife thinks I'm weird,
but you know, when I grow up and when I
gave my life to Jesus at the age of sixteen
and seventeen, I lived with my parents and apartments, and
you know, the Bible says go into your closet and
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close the door. I've tried going into my closet and
closing the door. My mom was like, what are you
doing in here? So you know what I did. I
prayed in my car. My car was the place where
I prayed. Why you can roll up your windows. Nice
thing about a car. You can be as loud as
you want, and it isolates the noise really well. So
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even to this day, I would go in my car
in the garage and I would pray. I would spend
time with God. This is the time and the place
where I feel comfortable with God. Find your time where
what is your time? You maybe like to take walks.
My wife she loves to take walks and pray, Amen,
praise God. But you gotta find your time and your
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place where you spend time with God. Where you build
an altar? Number two. Remove distractions. Now, this right here
is a weapon of mass distractions right here. Come on
this right here. It affects the twenty first century like
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no other because there's so much distraction, you know, the
way the algorithms of all the videos and YouTube, Instagram
and Facebook, and we're so distracted. And put this thing
on airplane mode. Why because you're going some places with God.
Remove distractions. Find a place where there's no distraction. Jesus
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left to a lonely or a solitary place where he
can spend time with God. You know, some of us,
we have kids, we have life. Things get busy, but
find somewhere where you're not distracted. Amen. Number three, Start
where you are. You know a lot of us we
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don't build a prayer alter because we're like, well, I'm
I'm just not a strong prayer warrior. I'm not like
this person. Well, start where you are. Don't wait for
a perfect moment or a perfect feeling. Start talking to God.
Now open your heart and start telling him. You know,
it's very hard to guide a park car. When you
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start mov it's easier to guide. The Holy Spirit will
help you with the details. And the best way to
develop a prayer life is to start praying. Amen. Number four,
develop consistency. Consistency not every time you and I that
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not every time you and I will feel like. Don't
base it on feelings. Feelings are not our masters. They
need to be our servants. Come on, somebody. Prayer is
like working for the telephone company. Some days you will
feel like you're digging holes. Some days you will feel
like you're setting poles. But praise God for the day
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where the wire is connected and you got a strong connection. Amen,
So don't base it on feelings. Keep praying. There's times
you will feel it and there's times that you will
and remember we are not people. We're not called people
are feeling. We're called people of faith. Set your phone
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reminders on your phone to help develop consistency. You know.
I like how Pastor Rickard once said. He says, when
we hit a low moment in our life, we don't
rise to the to the occasion, we actually default to
our to our patterns of default. So meaning, if you
haven't developed strong habits, you know, like things like prayer,
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things like that. You you you you process things with God.
And when life hits you, what are you gonna do.
Are you gonna go to the bottle? Are you gonna
go to other stuff? Are you gonna medicate yourself with Netflix?
What are you gonna do? But if you have developed
a strong prayer life, You're gonna process it with God. Amen,
develop consistency. Number five, Pray scripture. This will help align
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your prayer with God's will and you can never go
wrong praying scripture. God's will is in God's word. Pray
God's word back to God. You don't know how to pray,
find something in the Bible that hits your heart and
start praying the through Amen. Pray different three pray different prayers.
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Number six, pray different prayers, Adoration, confession, thanksgiving, supplication, intercession,
pray in the Holy Spirit. Adoration is acknowledging who God is,
worshiping God. Confession is repenting and be honest, be real,
be raw. Thanksgiving is thanking God for the small things
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in the big things. Supplication is telling God our needs.
Praying for yourself and for others. Intercession is standing in
the gap. And pray in the Holy Spirit will get
into bit a little bit later. So pray different kind
of prayers. Number seven. Listen, somebody say listen, and this
is something that we all need to practice. Why because
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prayer is not just one person talking. It's not just
one way conversation. Our God is relation known, He does speak.
Be ready to listen, take time to be silent to
hear what he says. And let me tell you something.
Our heart is the contact point we meet God. It's
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right here, not your physical heart, but that's the place
where you meet God. Number eight. Pray well. When you
see other people work out, it motivates It helps motivate
you to work out. Also, so pray with others. And
I want to let you know that our church is
open Monday through Friday for morning prayer at five am.
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You are welcome to come to this place and build
an alter of prayer in this place. We also have
corporate prayer on Wednesday at six am, and we want
to encourage every single person come pray with us corporately.
You know, we pray for things like the building, and
we pray for the lost souls. We have plat cards
and so Wednesday is open at eight am for corporate prayer. Amen.
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We want to also let you know that we have
an intercession team for those of you that you feel
like you have a calling to pray, because there's people
that they're called to pray. Amen. We have an intercession
team that right now in that room, there's probably people
praying for us today and those that are watching us online. Amen.
So join a team pray with others. And number nine,
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Holy Spirit is my prayer partner. Your greatest prayer partner
is Holy Spirit. And let me tell you something. Your
greatest prayer partner lives inside of you. And if you
don't know how to pray, lean upon Holy Spirit. Holy
Spirit is given to help us, to guide us, to
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help pray through us. We don't need to have everything
figured out to pray. Roman chapter eight, verse twenty six says,
in the same way, the Spirit comes to us and
helps us in our weakness. We do not know what
prayer to offer or how to offer it as we should.
But the Spirit himself knows our need and at the
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right time intercedes on our behalf with signs and with
size and groanings too deep for words. So Holy Spirit
is our prayer partner and number ten last one, Pray
in tongues. Pray in tongues. If you haven't received your
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heavenly language, your heavenly prayer language, I want to encourage
you receive your heavenly language. You know, Apostle Paul says,
I thank God, I speak in tongues more than you all. Yes,
And here he says, tenth thousand words of tongues ain't
gonna do you any good because you need instructions. But
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that person might be edified. But you, guys, you wouldn't
get anything if I would say ten thousand words in tongues.
But the Bible says, when one prays in tongue, his
spirit prays. You know, Apostle aposse, he said, I thank God,
I speak in tongues more than you all. And you
know that him being an apostle, he never physically walked
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with Jesus like Peter, James, and John and the rest
of the apostles that walked with Jesus. In the flesh.
He received so much revelation that a thorn in the
flesh was given to him to keep him humble, and
most likely is because he prayed so much in tongues. Amen,
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receive your heaven and language. June chapter one, verse twenty says,
but you beloved, building yourself up in your most holy
faith praying in the Holy Spirit. You know God wants
to give us a prayer language where we can connect
to Him not in the level of our mind, but
in the level of our spirit. And so if you
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don't know how to pray or what to pray, lean
upon Holy Spirit. Receive your heaven language. I want to
share with you this. If I spend one hour in prayer,
I will take at least half an hour to pray
in my heaven and language. This I am allowing Holy
Spirit to pray the perfect will of God for my life.
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Because the Spirit of God knows the will of God
for my life. I don't know I might be praying
for a new card, thinking I'm praying for a holy spirit,
might be praying for me to treat my wife better,
or maybe for me to say sorry to my wife.
And we all need that and holy spirit praise the
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will of God for our life. So I want to
conclude it with this prayer is not optional. You can
be a lot or you can be an Abraham. Choose
who do you want to be? What do you want
to leave for your children? Your children don't just need
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more money. Your children don't just need more stuff that
is good and that has all its place. Your children
need the spirit of God. Your children needs the direction
of God. Your children need God himself. And Abraham, because
he built an altar, he left a legacy for his
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children and for his children's children. And because of Abraham,
his children are blessed, and he had a relationship with God.
And he prayed. Do you know that Abraham rescued a
lot out of Sodom twice? First time you rescued him
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when they were captured, he sent his trained men to
rescue him. And the second time he prayed for them
that God would spare soldom. But there wasn't ten righteous men.
So God had mercy on the lot and rescue it.
But it wasn't because of a lot, It was because
of Abraham. So who do you want to be? Do
you want to be a lot? Just? Hey, God's got me.
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I don't need to pray. I don't need to build
a life. You know, if God wants to do anything
in my life, he can just drop it in my
front door. Don't leave your life for a chance. Pray
things through, Pray your future, through, Pray your children, through,
pray your family through, build an altar, receive revelation from God,
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so that God can lead you by his spirit, because
the Bible says these are the sons of God that
are led by his spirit, not that are led by
the flesh. And one of the ways we can be
spiritual people is if we pray. Ay man, I want
you to stand on your feet. Yeah, we need to
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make a decision now, how we're gonna build our life
and we're gonna be Abraham's or we're gonna be lots.
We're gonna build altars, or we're gonna chase stuff. Life
is too precious, our children are too precious. We can't
just leave it for chance. God desires each one of
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us to build a strong relationship with him, to pray
and to pray everything through. And we have to make
a decision and get rid of all the excuses. Well,
I'm too busy, it's too hard, I don't feel like praying.
We need to limit it all these excuses because prayer
is not for the spiritual people. It's for every single person,
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including me, including you. And there's so much at stake,
and you need to make a decision now, not later.
And then so right now, we're gonna come to God.
And if if you you're coming to God and you're saying, God,
help me build an altar, help me make build an altar.
I want you to lift your hands up. I'm not
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gonna invite you to the front. I want to pray
for you that Holy Spirit would help you to build
an alter of prayer, that you can send substance into Heaven,
that one day it will start raining in your life,
raining in the spirit of God, reigning with the goodness
of God, reigning with the wisdom, the counsel of God
that you need in your family needs, so that you
can be an Abraham and not a lot. If that
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is you just lift up your hands, lift up your hands.
Thank you. I see your hands from the front and
the back in the first and second sanctuary. Those that
are watching online. Just just right I need help to pray,
and right now I want to pray for your Father
in the mighty name of Jesus. Right now, I lift
up every single person that has their hands lifted up. God,
I pray that you would help them with their prayer life,
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that you would help them to build in all to
a prayer. Father, I pray that you would demolish every excuse. Father,
I pray that you remove anything that is not of you,
that is those excuses, all those things that we put
that says that we can't build an alter. Father, help
us to pray in Jesus might help us to send
substance into heaven. In the mighty name of Jesus, Father,
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I pray we want to be like Abraham's and not
like lots. In Jesus, Mighty Father, I lift up every
single person in this room in the first and second Sanctuary,
and those that are watching us online. Help them, Holy Spirit,
Help them Holy Spirit, to develop intimacy with you. Help
them Holy Spirit to spend time with you. Help them
Holy spirit to find a place and a time to
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meet with you in Jesus Mighty name. Father, we don't
want to leave it to chance. Help us, O, God,
help us to pray. Father, every single person, I lift
them up to your throne and I pray God that
he would locate them by the spirit of God. Draw
them to you, Draw them to your heart. God, stir
up their spirit or God in Jesus my name, tune
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them up to the heart of God. Align them with
the will of God. In Jesus Mighty name. If I
pray that you will locate every case in Jesus' precious
mighty name. And right now, every hand lifted down. I
want to give an opportunity for those that you haven't
given your life to Jesus. You know, building a relationship
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with God first starts with giving your life to Jesus,
surrendering your will to Jesus, surrendering your life. If you
have never given your life, or you maybe have stepped away,
you're not in the place where you are needed to
be with God. If you're in the first second sanctuary,
or you're watching us online and you need to give
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your life to Christ. I'm gonna count to three If
that's you, lift up your hand high, and I want
to pray for you. I want to pray that God
would meet you and that today would be a day
where relationships arts for you. Amen. If that is you,
just lift up your hand high. One, two three. If
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that is you, come on, I see your hand. Anybody
else in the first and second sanctuary, lift it up,
lift it up, lifted up to the Lord. Amen. If
those are watching us online, you need to give your
life to Christ. Right. I want to give my life
to Christ. And we're gonna pray for you. Now, those
in the first and the second sanctuary that have your
hands lifted up, or you wanted to lift up your hands,
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come take a bold step and come to the front.
I want to pray for you. We celebrate you. We
celebrate you, We celebrate you. Come on, come, come, come,
take come First and second Sanctuary. You are welcome here.
We want to pray for you. We want to pray
that today is the day that Jesus Christ makes all
things new. We welcome you, We welcome you. God, bless you,
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God bless you. Come on, we celebrate, we celebrate every
single person. Today is the day. That's what the Bible says,
today is the day of salvation. Amen, we welcome every
single person. This is why we have church. Now, those
of you that are watching online and you desire to
give your life to Christ, why don't you take your
hand and place it on your heart. In those here
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in the front, just put it on your heart. The
Bible says, if we believe in our heart and confess
with our mouth that Jesus is Lord, we shall be saved.
We are saved not because of our righteousness, but because
of what Jesus Christ has done. And remember, allow your
lips to engage in your heart to speak. And we're
gonna invite Jesus and we're gonna ask him to wash
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them with his precious blood. Now repeat this after me.
I want to help you. Repeat after me. Church, help
them out, say Jesus, right now, I come to you
just as I am, and I ask you wash me
with your precious blood. Right now, I open the door
of my heart and I ask you come inside, save me,
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heal me, deliver me rank every generational curse. Be the
Lord of my life. I give my life to you
from this day on. I am yours so Holy Spirit.
Teach me, fill me, lead me I want to build
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a relationship with you in Jesus' name. Not sure to
stretch your handsword that treach your hands with your father.
In the mighty name of Jesus. We cover each person
here with the blood of the Lamb and the fight
of the Holy Spirit. And I pray God that you
would make all things new in their life, sanctify and
wash them, teach him, fill them the Holy Spirit. We
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release our faith over each one of them. Holy Spirit,
come locate them in Jesus Mighty name.
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Today, I want to talk to us about building an
alter of prayer. Somebody say, building an alter of prayer.
Somebody say, I will build an alter of prayer. I
want us to take a look at at the life
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of two people in the Bible. Their names are Abraham
and Law. Somebody say, Abraham and Law. The Bible costs
both of them righteous. The Bible costs both of them righteous,
not in the Old Testament, but in the New Testament.
So means this applies to us also, Abraham and Law.
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Abraham he built his life around God. He sought first
the Kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all things
were added to Abraham. Lot built his life around stuff,
hoping that God will somehow be added to him. Abraham
prioritized God first. He built altars in pitched tents. You
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see in the life of Abraham, he built altars in
pitch tents. Relationship with God, prayer, obedience to God was
the highest to do list for Abraham. Amen. Now if
you look in the Bible, nowhere you see in the
Bible that Law build an altar, or Lot put God first,
or Law had a prayer life. It doesn't say that,
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only says that Law was a righteous man. Okay. Lot
chose to put stuff first and somehow hope that God
will be added to him. Lot chose to live and
position his family next to Sodom because of all the
green benefits that could make his earthly life prosperous. He
chose to pitch his tent near Sodom. How can I
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be close to that place of blessing but not be
sucked in? But later a couple of chapters we see
in the story of the Bible that Law gets sucked in.
He has a house in Sodom. He has a position
at the gate, and Law lost his stuff that he pursued.
Lot lost his life. Lot loss his family and the
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two daughters that God graciously allowed him to escape Sodom.
They got him drunk and they were impregnated by him,
and they had children Moab and Amin, future enemies of God.
Now ask yourself a question, what legacy do I want
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to leave? Do I want to be an Abraham that
builds an altar pitches a tent? Or do I want
to be a law that chooses the material stuff first?
And somehow God, You're going to be added to my
life because Law has a sad legacy. But Abraham his legacy.
He was blessed. The Bible says God blessed him in everything.
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He died in a good old age full of years.
Jesus came through Abraham. I mean, Abraham influenced so many people.
Even if you go to the Middle East and the
name Abraham gets brought up, there'd be a high reverence
and honor towards him. Amen. So what would have happened
if law, if righteous law, because that's what the Bible
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calls him. What would have happened if law had a
prayer life? If law would have built an altar, If
law would have made God first, because the Bible says
seek first, what and his righteousness and everything else will
be added to you? What would have happened if he
would have been like Abraham because he started with him,
but he didn't build an altar. Maybe it would have
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been different for him, for his family, for his wife
or his kids, for his future. Amen. You know too often.
We do things like this. When I feel like praying,
I will pray. Amen. Well, we don't do this with
our phones. We don't say. Well, if I feel like
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charging my phone, I will charge it. No, we make
sure that we plug our phones in. Why because shooter
or later. If we don't plug our phones, we know
we will not be able to use it. Amen. We
don't do it with our cars. If I feel like
I'm gonna put some gas in the car, I'm gonna
put some gas in the car. No, we make sure
we stop by the gas station fill it up, because
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we know, shooner or later, if I don't put gas
in my car, my car will stop. We don't do
it with our bodies. If I feel like eating, I'm
gonna eat. No, no, no. We feed our bodies, some
of us three times a day, snacks in between, more less.
But we make sure that we take care of our bodies.
Why because if we don't feed our body, our bodies
are going to scream at us. Feed me. Amen. So
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why do we do it with prayer? Because we are
temples of what holy Spirit. The Bible says, may the
fire on our altars not go out. We are three
parts where spirit, soul, and body. Now we do a
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great job taking care of our physical bodies, but we
neglect our spirits and we neglect prayer. Amen, Prayer is
like breathing the oxygen of heaven in this corrupt generation.
And one man of God said this. People fail Number one,
they don't pray, and number two, no one is praying
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for them. Now what am I telling God when I
don't pray? What am I telling God? What What am
I communicating to God when I don't pray? Number one,
we tell God I don't need you, because prayer is dependence.
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Prayer is dependence. We tell him things like I can
handle life on my own. But John fifteen five says,
apart from me, you can do nothing. Jesus says, I
am the true vine. You are a branch. Me and
you people of God. We are not the source. We
are just a branch. We must be connected to the
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life source. That's why Jesus says, apart from me, you
can do nothing. Church. Prayer is not optional. Prayer is
not optional. Number two, I don't trust you. We're telling
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God I don't trust you. When we don't pray, we're
telling him I don't trust you. Refusing to bring our hearts, cares, needs, fears,
or desires tells God that he won't listen, he won't act,
or he doesn't care. But Philippians chapter four, verse six says,
don't be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by
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prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your request to God.
So that's saying that God is waiting to hear his
people pray. God is looking for someone that is going
to bring petitions to him because he is a good God. Amen.
Number three, it tells God that I am too busy
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for you. Skipping prayer communicates that other priorities matter more
than time with God. It says that my schedule is
more important than your presence. Come on, somebody. Number four
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it communicates to God that says I can live without
your presence. You see, prayer is not just asking, its fellowship,
its relationship. Neglecting prayer tells God that friendship is optional.
But look what Jeremiah chapter two, verse thirteen says. It says,
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my people have committed two sins. They have forsaken me
the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns,
broken cisterns that cannot hold water, David says in Psalms
twenty seven eight. He says, my heart says of you
seek his face, your face, Lord, I will seek. Let
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me tell you something. Yesterday there was a big lotto,
the power Ball, one point eight billion of dollars, and
there's millions of people eagerly desiring to win so they
can become really, really wealthy, really really wich. Well, let
me tell you. You can have all the money in
the world, but if you don't have his presence, you
are empty, David says in the In the Bible, he says,
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I am poor and needy. Let me tell you something.
David had stock piles of gold. It wasn't that he
was poor in money. He was poor because he was
hungry for God. The Bible says, Blessed are the poor
in spirit, for they shall be what satisfied. Blessed are
those that hunger and thirst for what, so they shall
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be what feeled. David was hungry for fellowship with God.
So prayer is not just asking God for stuff, is
having his presence. What else are we communicating when we
say when we say that when we don't pray Number five,
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we say that your will is not important to me
because prayer is what aligns us with the plans and
purposes of God. In prayer, Jesus submitted his will to
God's will. He says, not my will, but your will
be done. And at that moment Jesus prayed three times
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because he came to his disciples, he says, could you
not watch one hour? Amen? It's very interesting that the
disciples were able to fish all night they didn't catch anything,
But when Jesus asked him, hey, can you not watch
one hour and pray? They couldn't. Somebody say, the devil
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is a liar. Come on, somebody, all them excuses that
we're saying that we can't pray, let me tell you
will do you want to do. If you are passionate
or you are wanting something, you're gonna find a way
to get it. Amen. Come on, that devil is a liar.
One of the reasons we don't pray is because maybe
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we don't have a revelation or understanding why prayer is
so important. Let me tell you Jesus, the son of God.
If anyoney didn't need to pray, it should have been Jesus.
But you see Jesus praying so much in the mornings
at night before making decisions. Jesus even prayed on the cross.
Jesus prayed after the resurrection, and Jesus right now is
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in heaven praying interceding for us. If we look at
the life of Jesus, it will obliterate the excuse that
prayers is optional for me, because if someone that didn't
need to pray, it should have been Jesus. Amen. How
much more we that mess up, they make, they make
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bad decisions. How much more we need to pray? Amen?
So when we don't pray, we tell God your will
is not important to me. Number six, we tell God
you are not my essential. It speaks that we rely
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more on other things like money, people, ourselves, more than
we rely on God. But Matthew six thirty three says,
but seek versus kingdom and his rights, and all these
things will be added to you. Let me just say
it like this. Don't be a lot, don't fall into
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the trap of because we live in this material world,
and right now, why do people go to colleges and
because they want to make more money, because they want
to get a better job, because what they can provide
for their family, and all that has a place and
it's good. But let me tell you something. Outside of God,
it's empty. And you can be careful that that you
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can get all this stuff, but you can lose what's important.
The Bible says, what good for a man to gain
the whole world and lose his soul? And see, when
we don't pray, we are prone to make God our
spare tire that we keep in the trunk and when
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we hit a bump in the road or when our
tire pops, God, where are you?
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I need you?
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Come on somebody. He is not in the driver's seat
of our car, and we use him when we get
into trouble. Now, don't get me wrong. I have two children.
I have a two year old she loves ice cream,
and I have a four year lorld that loves pap patrols.
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And to them, they love when I give them stuff,
when we bless them with stuff. And God knows that
in our immaturity, it's okay. Understand that we ask him
for things. And that's a great place to start. And
that's okay. And let me tell you something. But if
my two year old and my four year old grow
up to be eighteen twenty twenty five and they still
come to me for stuff and don't want to be
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with me. There's a problem. Amen. So when we don't
spend time with God, when we don't pray, in reality
we are prideful, self willed. We tell God I got this,
and we can end up using God then yielding our
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hearts for the plans and purposes of God. Amen. The
Bible says he who wills.
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To do my will, you see you gotta yield you willed,
ben your will if you want to do God's will
or else it's going to be you doing your will,
not God's will.
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Amen. And so in prayer is a place that we
position our will to goe God's will. Amen. People of God,
A lack of prayer doesn't mean oops, I forgot Hello.
First Sectuary, Second Sanctuary people online? Are you with me?
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Our prayer life is really a mirror of our heart's
posture to God. Our prayer life is really a mirror
of our heart's posture to God. Now why pray? We
need to understand that the world that we live in
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is more spiritual than we think, and we are more
spiritual than we think. There is such a thing as
demons and angels and curses, and the spiritual forces. We
need God more than we think. And when we stop praying,
you know what happens. We get out of tune with God.
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It's not God. It's not that God is distant or
he's far, It's just we are out of tune with
His spirit. And then what happens is when you go
back into prayer and you go back into spending time
with God, your spirit tunes up with God and you're like, God,
You're so close. It's not God that he left, it's
just you got out of tune. You stop praying. Yeah,
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prayer changes us. Somebody say, prayer changes me. God often
uses prayer to shape us, not just our circumstances. Transformation
of the heart happens when we prayed. You know, there
was a time that Jesus prayed. Jesus prayed and he
was His face started to change. Revelation comes when we pray. Sometimes,
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renewing of our mind comes when we pray. Prayer aligns
us with God's will. Prayer doesn't bend God to us,
it bends us to him. It shifts us from being
self centered to God centered. And how many guys know
we all need it because we are born selfish each
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one of us. Prayer connects us to a relational God.
Prayer is is a conversation with the living God, not
just words into the air. Jeremiah thirty three three says,
call to me, and I will answer you. Prayer is
not a one way communication. It's a two way That
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means God wants to speak. It says, I will answer you.
Prayer also shows dependence. Prayer is humility and action. When
we pray, we admit I can't, but you can. Amen.
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Prayer also invites God's power James Chapter five, verse sixteen.
It says the prayer of a righteous person is powerful
and effective, and prayer is the channel through which God
chooses to release his authority, healing, provision, and breakthrough. When
we pray, we invite God into our space, into our world. Amen.
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You know, if I had a house that I rented
out and the people that were renting my house, I
do not tell them where to put their furniture or
where they need to put their stuff, but if they
call upon me. But if they call upon me, I
will come and help them. Same thing with our Lord.
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He doesn't tell us how we should live our life,
but we when we call upon him. Yes, he suggests
in the Word of God. But when we call upon
upon it, he comes with his help and assist us
in our world. Because let me tell you something, our
world needs help. And and Jesus included in the Lord's
prayer prayer as it is in heaven. Let it be
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on earth meeting. Invite God into this earth. Amen. Prayer
builds intimacy. Relationships die without communication. How many of you
you've grown apart from your friends that you stop talking with?
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Why because you stopped talking with them. And it's same
thing with God. When we stop talking to God, we
grow distant. We grow distant. So how do you get
back into him? Start talking again? Amen? Prayer is not
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about getting more things from God. It's about getting the
mind of Christ about things. Amen. And it's a privilege
to be connect to God as our life short. It's
a privilege to hear him speak, it's a privilege to
abide to him. Don't look at it as a chore.
It's a privilege. Amen. And you know what's interesting that
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in the Old Testament, Daniel, he prayed three times a day.
You know, we eat three times a day, breakfast, lunch, dinner.
What would happen if we would spend time with God
three times a day. Now, Daniel in the Old Testament
he prayed three times a day. He would rather be
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thrown into a lions than than miss his time with God.
And throughout four different kingdoms, because one kingdom and kingdoms,
Daniel rose to the top. You know, Daniel, he was
sending substance up so that something would come down. Right,
you know the clouds that form rain, Something goes up
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before something comes down. And do you know that in
the Book of Revelation, the Bible says there's a ball
in heaven. It's called the prayer of the Saints where God,
where it gets filled up and an angel takes something
from that jar. And there's lightning, thunderings and earthquakes. Meaning
something happens with the prayers of the saints. Amen. So
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how to build an altar of prayer? Because I believe
that all of us we don't want to be lots.
We want to be like Abraham. Abraham builds an altar
and pitched a tent, but Lot he chose the stuff,
and the Bible does not say that he build an altar.
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So how do we build an altar of prayer number one,
Set a time and a place to pray. Set a
time and a place to pray. Adam had a time
and a place where he taught with God. Do you
remember the time when Adam was hiding. He knew that
God's going to show up because throughout the cool of
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the day they had a relationship together. Don't take prayer casually. Well,
if God wants to bless me, he knows where I live.
He can just drop off the packages of my house. No,
set a time, set a place that you meet with God.
Why because when you set a time and a place,
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you are more likely to show up and to do it. Amen,
I pray in my car. My wife thinks I'm weird,
but you know, when I grow up and when I
gave my life to Jesus at the age of sixteen
and seventeen, I lived with my parents and apartments, and
you know, the Bible says go into your closet and
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close the door. I've tried going into my closet and
closing the door. My mom was like, what are you
doing in here? So you know what I did. I
prayed in my car. My car was the place where
I prayed. Why you can roll up your windows. Nice
thing about a car. You can be as loud as
you want, and it isolates the noise really well. So
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even to this day, I would go in my car
in the garage and I would pray. I would spend
time with God. This is the time and the place
where I feel comfortable with God. Find your time where
what is your time? You maybe like to take walks.
My wife she loves to take walks and pray, Amen,
praise God. But you gotta find your time and your
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place where you spend time with God. Where you build
an altar? Number two. Remove distractions. Now, this right here
is a weapon of mass distractions right here. Come on
this right here. It affects the twenty first century like
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no other because there's so much distraction, you know, the
way the algorithms of all the videos and YouTube, Instagram
and Facebook, and we're so distracted. And put this thing
on airplane mode. Why because you're going some places with God.
Remove distractions. Find a place where there's no distraction. Jesus
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left to a lonely or a solitary place where he
can spend time with God. You know, some of us,
we have kids, we have life. Things get busy, but
find somewhere where you're not distracted. Amen. Number three, Start
where you are. You know a lot of us we
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don't build a prayer alter because we're like, well, I'm
I'm just not a strong prayer warrior. I'm not like
this person. Well, start where you are. Don't wait for
a perfect moment or a perfect feeling. Start talking to God.
Now open your heart and start telling him. You know,
it's very hard to guide a park car. When you
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start mov it's easier to guide. The Holy Spirit will
help you with the details. And the best way to
develop a prayer life is to start praying. Amen. Number four,
develop consistency. Consistency not every time you and I that
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not every time you and I will feel like. Don't
base it on feelings. Feelings are not our masters. They
need to be our servants. Come on, somebody. Prayer is
like working for the telephone company. Some days you will
feel like you're digging holes. Some days you will feel
like you're setting poles. But praise God for the day
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where the wire is connected and you got a strong connection. Amen,
So don't base it on feelings. Keep praying. There's times
you will feel it and there's times that you will
and remember we are not people. We're not called people
are feeling. We're called people of faith. Set your phone
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reminders on your phone to help develop consistency. You know.
I like how Pastor Rickard once said. He says, when
we hit a low moment in our life, we don't
rise to the to the occasion, we actually default to
our to our patterns of default. So meaning, if you
haven't developed strong habits, you know, like things like prayer,
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things like that. You you you you process things with God.
And when life hits you, what are you gonna do.
Are you gonna go to the bottle? Are you gonna
go to other stuff? Are you gonna medicate yourself with Netflix?
What are you gonna do? But if you have developed
a strong prayer life, You're gonna process it with God. Amen,
develop consistency. Number five, Pray scripture. This will help align
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your prayer with God's will and you can never go
wrong praying scripture. God's will is in God's word. Pray
God's word back to God. You don't know how to pray,
find something in the Bible that hits your heart and
start praying the through Amen. Pray different three pray different prayers.
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Number six, pray different prayers, Adoration, confession, thanksgiving, supplication, intercession,
pray in the Holy Spirit. Adoration is acknowledging who God is,
worshiping God. Confession is repenting and be honest, be real,
be raw. Thanksgiving is thanking God for the small things
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in the big things. Supplication is telling God our needs.
Praying for yourself and for others. Intercession is standing in
the gap. And pray in the Holy Spirit will get
into bit a little bit later. So pray different kind
of prayers. Number seven. Listen, somebody say listen, and this
is something that we all need to practice. Why because
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prayer is not just one person talking. It's not just
one way conversation. Our God is relation known, He does speak.
Be ready to listen, take time to be silent to
hear what he says. And let me tell you something.
Our heart is the contact point we meet God. It's
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right here, not your physical heart, but that's the place
where you meet God. Number eight. Pray well. When you
see other people work out, it motivates It helps motivate
you to work out. Also, so pray with others. And
I want to let you know that our church is
open Monday through Friday for morning prayer at five am.
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You are welcome to come to this place and build
an alter of prayer in this place. We also have
corporate prayer on Wednesday at six am, and we want
to encourage every single person come pray with us corporately.
You know, we pray for things like the building, and
we pray for the lost souls. We have plat cards
and so Wednesday is open at eight am for corporate prayer. Amen.
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We want to also let you know that we have
an intercession team for those of you that you feel
like you have a calling to pray, because there's people
that they're called to pray. Amen. We have an intercession
team that right now in that room, there's probably people
praying for us today and those that are watching us online. Amen.
So join a team pray with others. And number nine,
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Holy Spirit is my prayer partner. Your greatest prayer partner
is Holy Spirit. And let me tell you something. Your
greatest prayer partner lives inside of you. And if you
don't know how to pray, lean upon Holy Spirit. Holy
Spirit is given to help us, to guide us, to
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help pray through us. We don't need to have everything
figured out to pray. Roman chapter eight, verse twenty six says,
in the same way, the Spirit comes to us and
helps us in our weakness. We do not know what
prayer to offer or how to offer it as we should.
But the Spirit himself knows our need and at the
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right time intercedes on our behalf with signs and with
size and groanings too deep for words. So Holy Spirit
is our prayer partner and number ten last one, Pray
in tongues. Pray in tongues. If you haven't received your
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heavenly language, your heavenly prayer language, I want to encourage
you receive your heavenly language. You know, Apostle Paul says,
I thank God, I speak in tongues more than you all. Yes,
And here he says, tenth thousand words of tongues ain't
gonna do you any good because you need instructions. But
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that person might be edified. But you, guys, you wouldn't
get anything if I would say ten thousand words in tongues.
But the Bible says, when one prays in tongue, his
spirit prays. You know, Apostle aposse, he said, I thank God,
I speak in tongues more than you all. And you
know that him being an apostle, he never physically walked
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with Jesus like Peter, James, and John and the rest
of the apostles that walked with Jesus. In the flesh.
He received so much revelation that a thorn in the
flesh was given to him to keep him humble, and
most likely is because he prayed so much in tongues. Amen,
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receive your heaven and language. June chapter one, verse twenty says,
but you beloved, building yourself up in your most holy
faith praying in the Holy Spirit. You know God wants
to give us a prayer language where we can connect
to Him not in the level of our mind, but
in the level of our spirit. And so if you
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don't know how to pray or what to pray, lean
upon Holy Spirit. Receive your heaven language. I want to
share with you this. If I spend one hour in prayer,
I will take at least half an hour to pray
in my heaven and language. This I am allowing Holy
Spirit to pray the perfect will of God for my life.
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Because the Spirit of God knows the will of God
for my life. I don't know I might be praying
for a new card, thinking I'm praying for a holy spirit,
might be praying for me to treat my wife better,
or maybe for me to say sorry to my wife.
And we all need that and holy spirit praise the
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will of God for our life. So I want to
conclude it with this prayer is not optional. You can
be a lot or you can be an Abraham. Choose
who do you want to be? What do you want
to leave for your children? Your children don't just need
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more money. Your children don't just need more stuff that
is good and that has all its place. Your children
need the spirit of God. Your children needs the direction
of God. Your children need God himself. And Abraham, because
he built an altar, he left a legacy for his
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children and for his children's children. And because of Abraham,
his children are blessed, and he had a relationship with God.
And he prayed. Do you know that Abraham rescued a
lot out of Sodom twice? First time you rescued him
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when they were captured, he sent his trained men to
rescue him. And the second time he prayed for them
that God would spare soldom. But there wasn't ten righteous men.
So God had mercy on the lot and rescue it.
But it wasn't because of a lot, It was because
of Abraham. So who do you want to be? Do
you want to be a lot? Just? Hey, God's got me.
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I don't need to pray. I don't need to build
a life. You know, if God wants to do anything
in my life, he can just drop it in my
front door. Don't leave your life for a chance. Pray
things through, Pray your future, through, Pray your children, through,
pray your family through, build an altar, receive revelation from God,
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so that God can lead you by his spirit, because
the Bible says these are the sons of God that
are led by his spirit, not that are led by
the flesh. And one of the ways we can be
spiritual people is if we pray. Ay man, I want
you to stand on your feet. Yeah, we need to
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make a decision now, how we're gonna build our life
and we're gonna be Abraham's or we're gonna be lots.
We're gonna build altars, or we're gonna chase stuff. Life
is too precious, our children are too precious. We can't
just leave it for chance. God desires each one of
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us to build a strong relationship with him, to pray
and to pray everything through. And we have to make
a decision and get rid of all the excuses. Well,
I'm too busy, it's too hard, I don't feel like praying.
We need to limit it all these excuses because prayer
is not for the spiritual people. It's for every single person,
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including me, including you. And there's so much at stake,
and you need to make a decision now, not later.
And then so right now, we're gonna come to God.
And if if you you're coming to God and you're saying, God,
help me build an altar, help me make build an altar.
I want you to lift your hands up. I'm not
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gonna invite you to the front. I want to pray
for you that Holy Spirit would help you to build
an alter of prayer, that you can send substance into Heaven,
that one day it will start raining in your life,
raining in the spirit of God, reigning with the goodness
of God, reigning with the wisdom, the counsel of God
that you need in your family needs, so that you
can be an Abraham and not a lot. If that
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is you just lift up your hands, lift up your hands.
Thank you. I see your hands from the front and
the back in the first and second sanctuary. Those that
are watching online. Just just right I need help to pray,
and right now I want to pray for your Father
in the mighty name of Jesus. Right now, I lift
up every single person that has their hands lifted up. God,
I pray that you would help them with their prayer life,
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that you would help them to build in all to
a prayer. Father, I pray that you would demolish every excuse. Father,
I pray that you remove anything that is not of you,
that is those excuses, all those things that we put
that says that we can't build an alter. Father, help
us to pray in Jesus might help us to send
substance into heaven. In the mighty name of Jesus, Father,
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I pray we want to be like Abraham's and not
like lots. In Jesus, Mighty Father, I lift up every
single person in this room in the first and second Sanctuary,
and those that are watching us online. Help them, Holy Spirit,
Help them Holy Spirit, to develop intimacy with you. Help
them Holy Spirit to spend time with you. Help them
Holy spirit to find a place and a time to
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meet with you in Jesus Mighty name. Father, we don't
want to leave it to chance. Help us, O, God,
help us to pray. Father, every single person, I lift
them up to your throne and I pray God that
he would locate them by the spirit of God. Draw
them to you, Draw them to your heart. God, stir
up their spirit or God in Jesus my name, tune
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them up to the heart of God. Align them with
the will of God. In Jesus Mighty name. If I
pray that you will locate every case in Jesus' precious
mighty name. And right now, every hand lifted down. I
want to give an opportunity for those that you haven't
given your life to Jesus. You know, building a relationship
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with God first starts with giving your life to Jesus,
surrendering your will to Jesus, surrendering your life. If you
have never given your life, or you maybe have stepped away,
you're not in the place where you are needed to
be with God. If you're in the first second sanctuary,
or you're watching us online and you need to give
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your life to Christ. I'm gonna count to three If
that's you, lift up your hand high, and I want
to pray for you. I want to pray that God
would meet you and that today would be a day
where relationships arts for you. Amen. If that is you,
just lift up your hand high. One, two three. If
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that is you, come on, I see your hand. Anybody
else in the first and second sanctuary, lift it up,
lift it up, lifted up to the Lord. Amen. If
those are watching us online, you need to give your
life to Christ. Right. I want to give my life
to Christ. And we're gonna pray for you. Now, those
in the first and the second sanctuary that have your
hands lifted up, or you wanted to lift up your hands,
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come take a bold step and come to the front.
I want to pray for you. We celebrate you. We
celebrate you, We celebrate you. Come on, come, come, come,
take come First and second Sanctuary. You are welcome here.
We want to pray for you. We want to pray
that today is the day that Jesus Christ makes all
things new. We welcome you, We welcome you. God, bless you,
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God bless you. Come on, we celebrate, we celebrate every
single person. Today is the day. That's what the Bible says,
today is the day of salvation. Amen, we welcome every
single person. This is why we have church. Now, those
of you that are watching online and you desire to
give your life to Christ, why don't you take your
hand and place it on your heart. In those here
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in the front, just put it on your heart. The
Bible says, if we believe in our heart and confess
with our mouth that Jesus is Lord, we shall be saved.
We are saved not because of our righteousness, but because
of what Jesus Christ has done. And remember, allow your
lips to engage in your heart to speak. And we're
gonna invite Jesus and we're gonna ask him to wash
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them with his precious blood. Now repeat this after me.
I want to help you. Repeat after me. Church, help
them out, say Jesus, right now, I come to you
just as I am, and I ask you wash me
with your precious blood. Right now, I open the door
of my heart and I ask you come inside, save me,
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heal me, deliver me rank every generational curse. Be the
Lord of my life. I give my life to you
from this day on. I am yours so Holy Spirit.
Teach me, fill me, lead me I want to build
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a relationship with you in Jesus' name. Not sure to
stretch your handsword that treach your hands with your father.
In the mighty name of Jesus. We cover each person
here with the blood of the Lamb and the fight
of the Holy Spirit. And I pray God that you
would make all things new in their life, sanctify and
wash them, teach him, fill them the Holy Spirit. We
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release our faith over each one of them. Holy Spirit,
come locate them in Jesus Mighty name.
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