well good afternoon everybody we're we're glad to be here on today here at the Divine Encounter Church uh this is a uh our first time meeting in this particular room but we're just glad to be here because we're here in Jesus name yes we're here in Jesus name it's about him uh it's about his glory it's about giving him honor and it's about his praise so we're we're just glad for this opportunity what a blessing it is to be in the house of the Lord we're going to go ahead and move forward and have a scripture reading my son is Gonna Come amen Benjamin Foster let us receive him Acts 20 verse 32 and it reads and now Brethren I commend you to God into the word of his grace which is able to build you up and to give you an inheritance among all them which are Sanctified I have coveted no man silver or gold or apparel ye yourselves know that these hands have ministered unto my necessities and to them that were with me I have shed you all things how that so laboring ye ought to support the we week and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus how he said it is more blessed to give than to receive praise God for the reading of his word praise God and at this time at this time my wife is going to come and we'll have her to open us up with a word of prayer evangelist Mary Foster let us receive her at this time amen thank you Pastor Ben let us all stand as we are in the presence of the Lord let us go boldly before the Lord father in the name of Jesus we just come lifting you up this day Lord we come holding you up Lord God blessing Your Name Lord because you are worthy God oh God we just thank you Lord God for all things Lord God because you've given us the opportunity to gather you've given us the opportunity to come together Lord God to work worship you to honor you to bless your name to glorify you and we lord God want to say thank you Lord our hearts are filled with gratitude oh God we are grateful to you oh God because you've given us life Lord God and it's through our faith in your son Jesus Christ that we have life Everlasting thank you oh God for everlasting life thank you oh God for eternal life thank you oh oh God for the fullness of life that comes through our faith in Christ Jesus thank you oh god oh we magnify you and glorify you Lord we exalt Your Name Lord God we uplift you in this place uh we make your name great in this place today Lord it is an honor Lord God and a privilege to worship you it's an honor and a privilege Lord God to be able to come and to gather with other believers and we thank you oh God God oh we thank you Lord our hearts are filled with gratefulness we're grateful to you oh God your many Rich blessings you've given us we're grateful oh god oh we are just so ever thankful as well Lord God we're thankful to you oh god oh Father God bless us in this place oh god oh Lord God fill each Heart Lord God with your love your joy and your peace Lord God fill us Lord God again and again Lord God with your spirit Lord God for we need the infilling of your spirit Lord God that we'll be empowered Lord God to do the work Lord God of the Kingdom oh let our minds be focused Lord God on the work of the Kingdom that will'll do the works of him that has sent us oh god oh Father we pray your blessing on us Lord God as we listen to the word of God minister today let our hearts be filled oh Father we pray in the name of Jesus that you'll Minister and meet every need Lord God oh as the word is ministered let our hunger for you grow let our thirst grow for you Lord God let our desire and our Passion For You Lord God increase the more in the mighty name of Jesus Oh in the mighty name of Jesus we pray amen amen Pastor Ben praise God what a blessing uh to have some time and uh to call upon the name of the Lord amen amen when you call upon his name there's Deliverance there are blessings and there is a abundance of Grace available to you so we love uh to have the opportunity to pray and that's what I want to talk to you about today concerning is I want to talk to you about the issue of prayer and so we're going to deal with prayer today and gather some wisdom and insight from God's word we're going to go to Ephesians today chapter six and we're going to read a few verses unto the glory of the Lord Ephesians chapter 6 and we will start at verse 10 praise God Ephesians chapter 6 starting at verse 10 where it reads finally my brethren be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the Ws of the devil for we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities against Powers against the rulers of the darkness of this world against spiritual wickedness in high places praise God uh wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God that you may be able to withstand in the evil day and having done all to stand stand there for having your loins Girt about with truth and having on the breastplate of righteousness and your feet shot with the preparation of the gospel of peace above all taking the shield of faith wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked and take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the spirit which is the word of God praying always with all prayer and supplication in the spirit and watching there unto with all perseverance and supplication for All Saints praise God may the Lord have a blessing to the reading and the hearing of his word amen and what I want to talk today about is this topic don't underestimate your prayer life don't underestimate your prayer life amen uh one of the great lessons that I learned from my mother by observing my late mother uh observing her in her life and her behavior her conduct there's a lot you can learn from just observing people but I observed my mother over the years growing up and one thing that I learned from my mother that is very vital and important is I learned about the power of consistent prayer that's one thing that I can say uh was a big part of her Legacy that she left behind is the power of consistent prayer yeah uh my mother and my father they had 15 children and I'm the 14th of 15 children and uh my father passed away when I was not even two years old wasn't even two years old yet so I don't even remember my father uh and myself as well as my younger brother uh we don't remember our father Our Father passed away and my mother was left with the Monumental task of trying to raise that family on her own she had to raise us I believe there was maybe two uh of the 15 that were grown maybe two were grown at that point but the rest of us still needed raising and my mother had to learn uh to pray she had to learn the power of prayer and that's exactly what she did I observed her over the years her conduct of life and how she behaved and what I noticed was that every day it was she was very consistent every day in the morning if you wanted to know where she was at before she started her day going to her room and she's there on her knees she started each day in prayer and she was very very consistent in her prayer life very persistent in her prayers and she just that's what she did every day she started her day in prayer and then at the end of her day before she went to bed I knew exactly where she was gonna be okay I knew exactly where she would be at and where where would she be she would be on her knees at her bedside praying so if you knock on her door late at night before she went to bed you knew where she was going to be she was there praying and it wasn't just short prayers she would pray for a while okay she didn't just pray a quick oh Lord As I Lay myself down to sleep prayer nope she didn't do that she would be there for a while praying and seeking God calling on his name Hallelujah and she realized that the only way she was going to make it the only way she was going to raise that family up properly was if she prayed and she gave herself to prayer and she was just a sweet woman uh very very uh loving mother very loving gentle wise and I can honestly say that her conduct and her behavior was part of the reason that I came to the Lord it was her conduct she was just consistent yeah she was consistent and you knew what to expect every time you dealt with her okay she wasn't the type of person that had a uh was Moody and on some days you deal with her oh she's going to be moody and angry no she wasn't like that she was consistent okay she was she was a woman that was very serious about her walk with the Lord she was very serious about holy living and righteous living and she taught us in those principles but she was a woman of consistent prayer hallelujah hallelujah that's the key to success is consistent prayer and so that's what I learned that was a big lesson that I learned from my mother but you see sometimes we just don't see the value of prayer that's we think it's just something uh that's just a minor thing we think it's something that we can hit here and hit there and uh it's not all that important that we do it every day sometimes we fall into that trap and we get to a into a situation sometimes where we say you know what I'm in a bad situation I'm in a horrible uh situation I'm got I got trouble facing me and therefore you know what all I can do I can't do nothing else all I can do is pray all I can do is pray is what we say sometimes I got nothing else I can rely upon I got nothing else that I can do in this situation so well guess all I can do is pray and we talk about prayer as though it's something that's minor and it doesn't have much power we talk about it as such oh it's just something minor it doesn't have much of an impact we may not be meaning to talk about it that way but that's what we're suggesting okay that's what we're suggesting by the way that we say that well all I can do is pray but you got to realize that your prayer is powerful you got to realize that your prayer has uh Mountain Moving power you got to realize that your prayer has the power to transform and change people's lives you got to realize that your prayer has the power to cause Sinners to turn from unrighteousness into righteousness you got to realize that your prayer has the power to turn the circumstances of your life around don't underestimate your prayer life Hallelujah so we we get into the if we're not careful we can get into the habit of saying well all I can do is pray hallelujah it's time to wake up people saints of God it's time to wake up and realize that prayer is a powerful powerful tool one thing that you got to realize is that your prayer life is a seed of authority is what it is your prayer life is a seat of authority in the very courts of Heaven that's what it is it gives you a place of authority where that you can sit with your creator every time you bow the knee to pray every time you turn your heart to pray you have an audience with God that made you you have an audience with your creator you can stand before him Hallelujah and you can make your case known Hallelujah you can you can make your case before God you can tell God what you need God is the creator of all things Hallelujah without him was not anything made that was made if you go to God and you speak to God you can count on him uh for your time of need you can count on him uh when you're facing trouble so we've got to make sure that we don't underestimate our prayer life okay it's a seed of authority amen okay it gives you a position where that you can sit uh and have an audience with God and you can talk with him about whatever it is you want to talk with him about he gives you that kind of a position and you know in the there's this there's a passage where that Jacob wrestled with an angel he wrestled with that angel all night long and uh the angel touched him on his thigh and his hipbone came out of joint okay and Jacob was in excruciating pain and he was dealing with uh the fact that uh his hip was out of joint he was in a real situation okay a real situation a real dilemma he was in Hip out of joint he was in pain but he got a blessing in that situation and the blessing that Jacob got in that situation is that God said to him you know what you're not going to only you're not going to be called Jacob anymore you're going to have a new name you're going to be called Israel okay I'm giving you a new name okay why am I giving you this new name Jacob because you prevailed in prayer you prevailed in this toiling you wouldn't give up yes you made a decision I'm not giving up Hallelujah you wouldn't give up and you kept on pushing toiling sweating travailing that's a picture of your prayer life life that's a picture of what it's like when you pray and you seek God he toiled and toiled through the night and he wrestled through the night and cried uh basically uh through his action he made it known that he wanted a blessing from God hallelujah through his action he was saying God I want a blessing Hallelujah I want you to bless me I'm not letting you go is what he told the angel and tell you bless me Hallelujah I wish somebody would get that kind of an attitude today and say I'm not letting you go in prayer dear father until you bless me I'm not letting you go until you revolutionize my life I'm not letting you go until you touch my unsaved children I'm not letting you go until you give me a breakthrough on my job I'm not letting you go until you change my life Hallelujah so Jacob got a breakthrough the key to his breakthrough was his persistence he just wouldn't give up he just wouldn't give up his persistence was the key Hallelujah and so Jacob's name was changed to Israel and Israel of course means Prince with God okay Prince with God that's what he became he became like a prince with God in other words he had with God hallelujah if you want more power in your life if you want a greater level of God's power greater level of God's anointing a greater level of God's holy spirit in your life Hallelujah the key is your prayer life Hallelujah the key is your prayer life if you want Power with God you've got to toil in prayer if you want Power with God you got to pay the price on your knees if you want power and anointing and the grace of God to go higher you got to humble yourself in prayer and so uh Jacob got a seat of authority is what happened with Jacob he obtained a seat of authority and God makes it available to us today through our prayer life he makes that seat of authority that Jacob found available to us too you too can be a prince with God hallelujah you too can walk with power before God hallelujah God is no respector of persons Hallelujah he didn't do it because Jacob was Jacob but he did it because Jacob did what he needed to do Hallelujah he de pers he persevered with God glory to God and so uh what you got to realize is that prayer is a spiritual weapon in our spiritual warfare okay we're in a battle as saints of God you're in a battle every day whether you realize it whether you feel it or not you're in a battle okay we are in a battle this spiritual warfare uh that we are involved in uh the Bible says for we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities against Powers against the rulers of the darkness of this world and against spiritual wickedness in the heavenlies in the Heavenly places okay we don't wrestle with flesh and blood okay that's a hard that's that's hard to understand sometimes because it seems like people are the ones that give you problems seems like people are the ones that give you issues if you got a neighbor that's giving you problems neighbors causing trouble for you it's very easy for you to look at that neighbor and think he's the one that's doing this it's very easy for you to get uh sidetracked and focus on your neighbor rather than focusing on the fact that there's demonic forces that are influencing him or her okay it's very easy for you to forget that if you're having issues on your job uh you got a mean boss a boss that's being totally unreasonable towards you totally unfair towards you it's very easy for you to forget that your your battle is not with that boss your you're having issues with you having issues with your children your children uh are causing you troubles children are causing you heartaches it's very easy for you to think and say you know what what it's just my children and rather than realizing that you're battling with demons but the word of God let us know that uh we've got to realize at all times that we're not wrestling with flesh and blood that's not where the battle really is hallelujah that's not where it really is it's not flesh and blood it's not a physical thing no it's not your battle is spiritual it's a spiritual battle is spiritually uh won or is spiritually lost the battle that we are are are waging and and engaged in is a battle with demons that's who you're wrestling with is demons okay demonic forces Satan and his demons that's who you are wrestling with I don't care what the situation is you got to always realize it's Satan and his demons yeah they're the ones that's stirring people up they're the ones that's causing uh the disagreement they're the ones that's causing the issues it's a spiritual thing that you're dealing with Hallelujah this world is very much so uh under the influence and the power of beings in the spirit realm okay we have on the one hand we got God's Kingdom all right okay God's kingdom is the very Kingdom of Light okay God is a god of righteousness Holiness Purity truth Integrity he's trustworthy okay and what God does is he seeks to influence mankind that's what he does he doesn't manipulate you like the devil does he doesn't lie to you like the devil does but what God does is he seeks to influence you you he seeks to nudge you touch you okay convict You by his spirit let you know on the inside that something needs to change okay that's what God does that's his his way of dealing with us as human beings he's uh seeking to lead us okay towards himself okay and the Bible says with loving kindness have I drawn thee okay God will actually draw you to himself through his loving kindness okay you see God's loving kindness you see his mercy and your eyes become open to it and you'll say you know what I want to change I want to serve this being this God this creator that is so kind to me that's so loving to me that's showing so much uh kindness in my life I want I want to serve him and I want to change my course of life so God isn't in that that's how God deals with us he's very fair okay in his dealings with man he gives us a choice he gives us a choice you can choose if you're going to serve God or if you're gonna Serve Yourself you can make a decision okay you have a the right as a human being given to you by God to choose because God Gave You Free Will okay and God doesn't tie our hands and he doesn't Force us and say You Gotta Serve me he don't do that to you he'll wrestle with you he'll try to wake you up he'll do all he can to get your attention but he's not in the business of forcing anybody to serve him it's not what that's not his the way he does things he draws us okay Jesus said if I be lifted up I will draw all men unto me okay so uh God is into drawing people he's into leading people he's into touching people's hearts but the devil in his kingdom they're in the business of Deceit lying manipulation coercing forcing people to follow their lead that's the way the devil Works he uses things that put people in Chains okay he puts people in Chains through deception and what's interesting is that everything the devil offers he makes people think that it's freedom for for them to go out and do it when people are tempted to go out and get in get involved with drugs they think oh that's freedom I can go out and try these different drugs and get a high and enjoy myself and do what I want to do when people get into involved with alcohol and alcoholism uh they get deceived because they think you know what alcohol is the solution alcohol is going to give me genuine Freedom genuine Joy when I got issues and I got problems I can turn to my alcohol my alcohol make me feel better okay they trust in their alcohol then people chase after uh women or women chase after men vice versa okay why do they do it they think there's freedom in it they think this is genuine Freedom okay it's interesting that uh here in America we think uh many people in America think that the greatest time of Freedom was during Woodstock yeah they think that during that ridiculous f esal of heathenism heathenism people were just taking drugs and acting crazy and doing all kinds of ludd Acts they think that that was genuine Freedom they think this is where it's at I'm free I'm free I got a good I can do what I want to do but the devil what he does is he deceives people by making them think that freedom is available to them outside of Jesus Christ they think that there's genuine Freedom outside of Jesus and and then they go out and partake in those things and then what does he do he entraps them he binds them they're bound with a drug addiction they're bound with an alcohol addiction they're bound with a pornography addiction see this is the way that he works he tells you his freedom but then when you get out there he puts the handcuffs on you says you got to do this you got to go in this direction this is the direction you must go okay he B people and there's many people uh that I found that want uh change in their life they want to be free but they don't know how to get free they want to be free from their drugs and their alcohol but they don't know how to get there I met I ran into so many inmates in a 13-year Ministry at uh at a jail pre jails prisons and things like that I ran into many people who would tell you they would say you know what I I I do want to be free from this addic I got an addiction and I want to be free from it they would tell you that okay many of them they they desired that but they just didn't know what to do they didn't have enough understanding the devil had basically trapped them because of their ignorance because they thought there was freedom in in that thing that they were pursuing and they went out and got involved in it and found themselves in Chains found that they couldn't get free so they thought they were going to have freedom okay and so bondage this is what the devil does he traps people he lies to people he dece deceives people and holds them captive yes holds them captive so they cannot do what is right that's the way it works so we got to wake up to the reality that people are going to need our prayers people need the saints of God to intercede for them that's what's going to set them free it's going to take us to intered for them because they don't know how to get free on their own it's G to take us giving them the word of God because Jesus said and you will know the truth and the truth will make you free Hallelujah if people knew God's word they would walk in Freedom if they knew God's word and knew it on the at the Heart level they would break free from those ad addictions and never go back Hallelujah the TR trouble is they just don't know the truth all right and so uh it's not a battle with flesh and blood that's not where our battle really is but it's with Spirits it's a spiritual battle that we're involved in and the weapon that God has given us at least one of the weapons is your prayer life your prayer life is what what God has given you to overcome and to walk in victory in the spiritual battles that you deal with and he's given you this weapon if you learn to pray if you learn to call on the Lord learn to have faith in him in every situation in life you can walk in Victory you can you can win by the grace of God you can win if you'll learn to pray Hallelujah you can win if you'll learn to pray okay and so uh we've got to live our lives uh to have a Maximum Impact for Jesus Christ that's that should be our goal as Believers Maximum Impact for Jesus Christ we don't want to just do something for Jesus but we want to do the have the Maximum Impact that we can have that is POS possible in this world Maximum Impact and the way that we can have Maximum Impact is through our level of focus and devotion yes okay you got to take your level of focus and devotion higher okay it has to go higher day by day you got to go higher week by week you got to stretch push press to go higher Hallelujah Paul said I press toward the mark for the prize of the High Calling of God in Christ Jesus I press Hallelujah in other words what was he saying it's not gonna be easy don't think it's just gonna be you're just gonna strut and oh I'm I'm a giant a spiritual giant overnight no you're gonna have to push there's gonna be resistance that's GNA come your way there's going to be demonic spirits that are going to try to hold you back there's going to be situations in life that you're going to encounter and you the only way you're going to overcome is through your faith Hallelujah the only way you're going to overcome us through your faith and so uh we've got to have a focus to have a huge impact for Jesus having a huge impact for Jesus what does that mean that means we want to see as many people uh that were lost end up being saved as possible we want to see as many people who the devil has lied to and deceived mixed up set free as possible we want to see as many people in our family Circle in our friend Circle and everywhere we go we want to see as many people as possible what set free hallelujah hallelujah and the way you can do it is you got to be devoted in prayer one thing that you've got to realize is this your actions are only going to have real power you want real power behind your actions they're only gonna have real power power when they're driven by prayer okay your actions that's when they have real Powers when they're driven by prayer when you're given to prayer your actions that's when your actions can impact people that's when people can be touched and delivered and set free Hallelujah and so uh mark 11:24 gives us a principle concerning prayer that's very important a crucial principle concerning prayer and that is the principle that you've got to be a person that really trust God When you pray let's look at what Mark uh says in mark 11:24 let's look at what Jesus says this is red so this is what Jesus has to say mark 11:24 where it reads therefore I say unto you what things soever ye desire When you pray believe that you receive them and you shall have them okay what things soever you desire When you pray believe that you receive them and you should have them what does that mean that means one when you pray you've got to and in that moment when you're praying you got to make it your Habit to believe that you're receiving what you need yes sir okay in other words don't say you know what I'm waiting uh for two years down the line to believe don't say that I'm waiting for uh to see a manifest to believe no believe when you pray is what this verse says hallelujah what things soever you desire When you pray that's the time to believe that's the time to trust God is when you pray okay believe that you receive them okay so you pray you ask God for what it is that you need but then you believe that God gives you what you need believe that he grants it to you believe that he has released it when you pray Hallelujah believe that he has released the blessing and so uh Faith uh prayer that is driven by faith will end on this wise thank you for the blessing thank you for granting it to me thank you for answered prayer hallelujah thank you that I it's already done I'm not waiting to to see it but I believe it's already done hallelujah that's what we got to do we gotta we we gotta trust that it's already done we got to call it already done we got to call those things that be not as though they were Hallelujah we got to get beyond the realm of just waiting for a visible sign yeah we got to get into the realm of faith faith is not based on visible signs we walk by faith and not by sight Hallelujah and so what else you're gonna need to do every time that you pray uh believe that what you prayed for is granted to you but then you got to pray about the same subject repeatedly pray about it over time pray about the same subject repeatedly until you see results okay in other words pray until something happens Hallelujah don't get discouraged because you know what I prayed about that subject for the last uh week and I don't see a change yet or I prayed about that subject for the last month and I don't see a real change I prayed about that subject for the last year I don't see a change I prayed about it for the last five years I don't see a change I prayed about even for the last 10 years I don't see a change you can't focus on how long you've been praying about the subject you've got to Simply say I believe Hallelujah and keep on being persistent the Bible says men ought always to pray and not to faint what does that mean that means that when you're praying about a given subject you shouldn't give up give up that's if you know it's in God's word if God has prom you a blessing don't give up don't give up you just keep praying about it your part is to believe your part is not to make it happen your part is to do the believing your part is to do the trusting yes sir that's your part as a saint of God you just trust God you just believe him and keep going okay pray the same prayer consistently until change happens you see that's where uh faith is really demonstrated you want to demonstrate faith faith is demonstrated by your persistence Hallelujah that's how you determine if somebody really had Faith or not did they endure you see people that don't endure you can know for certain they didn't have faith they gave up they gave up the person says you know what I put my faith in Jesus Christ and I'm going to follow him the rest rest of my days then a couple weeks later you see them they've given up they've gone back to their old lifestyle they're they're out drinking partying and acting crazy and you go and talk to them and say what's going on well you know what uh it was too hard man it was too hard to live that life I could I couldn't handled it was too hard okay what happened uh they didn't have genuine strong faith Hallelujah when you got when you get genuine strong faith you you're not going to give up you're going to hold on and you're going to endure Hallelujah you will endure if you get if you get the right kind of Faith the right kind of Faith the faith that God is looking for endures Hallelujah it endures it's it keeps going and it doesn't faint yeah Hallelujah don't be discouraged and faint and give up yeah keep pushing keep praying keep believing keep trusting God hallelujah don't let don't let anybody discourage you and cause you to give up and to be fearful Keep On Believing Hallelujah you got to learn about the power of persistence in prayer my mother demonstrated persistence because she would pray daily okay for years okay for years and years for her children daily she prayed night and day start her day in prayer end her day in prayer consistently she just kept doing it kept doing it kept doing it for years and years and one by one each of her children came to faith in Christ each of her children got saved each of her children said I'm going to serve the Lord I'm going to do what's right Hallelujah why she persisted with her faith hallelujah it's through faith and patience that we inherit the promises of God what does that verse mean when it says faith and patience it means perseverance that's what that word patience is really dealing with faith on the one hand but faith has to be coupled with perseverance okay in endure with your faith don't allow somebody to dissuade you don't allow the enemy to dissuade you don't allow people to dissuade you you got to hold on and keep believing Hallelujah I'm sure my mother saw many days in which it didn't seem like her prayers were being heard me and my brother I remember me and my younger brother we were always arguing and bickering and things like that and uh constantly uh uh you know as we grew up we just always at odds with each other I'm sure if she had looked at it in the natural she would have said man am I prayers really being heard you know I'm sure that if she looked at things in the natural the different situations that were arising in her household she could have got discouraged she didn't go by how things appeared she went by her faith hallelujah thank and so genuine faith will cause you to be pers persistent it'll cause you to have a persistence and a determination that says you know what I'm just not giving up Hallelujah you look at Abraham in the Bible how did Abraham get the blessing of having Isaac okay his promised child how did you get it he had to endure he had to endure it wasn't easy okay he went for years it was over 20 years I do believe before that blessing finally came 20 years of Abraham following God and believing God and just trusting God before finally Isaac emerged Isaac was born Hallelujah Abraham had to persevere with his faith Hallelujah and so we've got to remember these principles persevere don't give up Hallelujah you got to have the attitude that you know what I'm never giving up that's the kind of attitude you got to have when you get that kind of an attitude that I'm never giving up that's a demonstration that's powerful evidence that you genuinely believe Hallelujah so let's be encouraged Hallelujah let's develop our prayer lives develop grow in your prayer life go higher in prayer higher uh in seeking after God go higher and follow the example of Jacob who learned to just hold on that's what Jacob learned he just he learned to just hold on he learned to just uh keep the faith Hallelujah and he learned to persevere so persevere with your faith Hallelujah and don't underestimate don't underestimate the power of your prayer life amen as we all stand hallelujah thank you thank you praise God we are grateful for the word on today and we just I believe that God just wants us to learn to be Mighty Warriors in prayer amen if you're a saint of God if you living for the Lord uh you have a calling on your life I give you one calling that all people of God have all of us have a calling to pray all of us have a calling uh to seek God In Prayer that's a calling for every believer that is not something that's just for the prayer warriors an elect group no that's for all believers we're all called to be people of prayer and by the grace of God we've got to push we've got to push and break through into higher levels of prayer we got to go higher there's a world out there that needs the Gospel of Jesus Christ there's a world out there that the devil is holding in Chains of darkness and the only way they're going to be free is through US God's dependent on us we are his instruments in the Earth We're his vessels God does the saving but he uses us as his vessels we can't save a single soul ourselves but with God's power yes with his grace and his Spirit we can see many people changed transformed yes and delivered Hallelujah we can see it if we'll pray so uh if you're here today and you say I want to go higher in prayer and I want uh God's grace I want a higher level of Grace I just want to go higher uh I just want you to pray with me we're gonna pray about this right now just agree in your heart that God will take you higher yes okay we're just going to pray a prayer of agreement we're going to trust God for a higher place in prayer Hallelujah we got to go higher Hallelujah we've got to go higher we can't rest content we can't sit back uh and and rest on the fact that we had victories in our past we can't rest the fact that we had breakthroughs in our past we've got to push for the new blessings the new breakthroughs the greater things that God has for us and so let's pray today dear heavenly father in Jesus name touch us oh God we need oh God there's a oh God oh God people are lost oh God people are going the wrong way making the wrong decisions people are bound in Chains of Darkness oh God help us today help us to be a light help us to be a witness oh oh God in Jesus name oh God let the anointing and the power the power of the Holy Spirit grow in us oh God power to reach people oh in the name of Jesus take us higher in your power higher oh God in the anointing to pray higher oh God oh God we want to go higher higher in prayer Hallelujah oh God cause our prayer lives Lord God to grow yes oh God and to be all that you envision them being yes all that you want them to be let our prayer lives Lord God oh God be a powerful demonstration oh God a powerful demonstration oh God that you are real oh in the name of Jesus oh God cause our prayer lives to soar oh in the name of Jesus Christ cause our prayer lives to go higher oh God we've got to go higher we've got to go higher for the sake of the world for the sake of Sinners we've got to go higher oh God push us stimulate us teach us the way of prayer give us oh God to hate what is sinful and to love what is righteous oh oh God cause us to grow grow oh oh God to grow Lord God in you oh God that we would have oh God a greater dimension of Faith cause our faith to grow in the name of Jesus that our faith would be stronger in the name of Jesus Christ a stronger stronger Faith oh God hallelujah stronger in the knowledge of the word hallelujah stronger oh God in spiritual things change us Lord touch us Lord in the name of Jesus cause us Lord God to just uh to soar oh God on Eagle wings to soar oh God in in spiritual matters to soar oh God touch us show us the way Hallelujah show us the way we need you today and oh God we just Look to You Lord God our trust we we putting our trust in you Lord God oh God that uh you would teach us Lord God the way of prayer oh God and keep us keep us oh God keep us in your Everlasting will in Jesus name Hallelujah we believe that we receive these blessings right now amen praise God Amen you may be seated and for those that are viewing via the Internet I want to offer this prayer for you and even if there's just happens to be one here today that needs to pray this prayer your first step in the right direction your first step is that you need to receive Jesus Christ as your lord and savior you need to be born again Jesus said except a man is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God you must be born again the Bible says for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life Hallelujah so you you have the opportunity today today is the day of salvation and so I want to pray a prayer for anyone who needs to receive Christ pray this prayer with me uh and mean it from the bottom of your heart dear Lord Jesus I ask you to come into my heart and to save me I believe in your death bual and Resurrection I believe that you were bodily risen from the grave and that your death atoned from my sins and so I put my trust in you today and I turn from what is sinful in simple faith I turn from what is wrong and I choose to follow you the rest of my days in Jesus name amen praise God if you pray that prayer today uh that is the first step in the right direction that's you being born again and now now you're going to need to follow up you're going to need to do the things that are necessary to continue in the faith as the scripture says if ye continue in my words then are you my disciples indeed and ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free you're gonna have to get into God's word get you a Bible start with the New Testament begin to read through it and begin to develop your life of prayer and the Lord will bless you and give you understanding praise God so at this time what we want to do is I'm going to have my son Benjamin go and get this offering basket and give an opportunity for those who have come if they want to give we want to give them that opportunity at this time Hallelujah as we uh sign off on the viewing audience may God bless you