HOW TO MASTER THE ACT OF PRAYING EVERYDAY

We give you all the glory. We give you all the glory in Jesus' precious name. Halleluish praise God. Let's begin tonight from Luke, chapter eighteen, from verse one. There are two scriptures that whenever I read them. Or I get to read, I get a bit fascinated. Sometimes I break into laughter because of the interpretation that the Holy. Gooes give me. And this scripture is one of them. The Bible said, he spec a paribu onto them, and he said in that parable look eighteen from verse one, he spake a parable onto them. To this wise, he said, men ought or louis to pray and not to faint. Men ought always to pray and not to faint. Three key words ought always and fainting a mean's prayer. It's not a decision you have the liberty to make or not to make. Is the most men ought. So it is not something that is that you have the logs in it to choose. You cannot but choose it if you are a man. And that's why it fascinates me, because it's down on me that the way men are defined in the spirit's not the way they are defined biologically. They are two times Jesus made this kind of statement. The first time he made this statement was a look chapter four. You find the same in matter chapter he said man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. And then here he said men ought always to pray, so they what makes you a man. It's not that you are breathing. It's either that you are feeding on the world or that. You are praying. So if you are not feeding on the world and you are not praying in the spirit, you can be called a donkey. And that's why there are many people when they go to sleep, which has come to write them, because as they are not praying, and as they are not studying the world, they can become anything. In the spirit. That's why you find many people. Their destinies are marginalized, and which sits somewhere, and chance incantations cast some spares, and a great and mighty destiny is wasted because the man is not watching in prayer. And so make you live your. Life and fulfill your destiny as a boy. This is one of the secret he said, if you're a man, you ought to pray. And the second key word there is not just. That you should pray, because if you only said pray, then you would have prayed when it's convenient. But in this same scripture he makes us understand prayer is not something you do at your convenience. He said, men ought all the ways to pray because that gap you see, it's from praying. A lot can happen. And it is one of such that God Savant reveal to us that somebody else who killed his own child can lay claim on that which is yours. Now a child is not just one that you give better. Biologically, your destiny can become your child, and somebody else who wasted his destiny can come and take yours because you are not watching. Have you seen young men for very gifted? They are just walking home and somebody said he's wrong, and he rides into them and shuts down a great destiny because. He said he was strong. Have you seen young men before that are just in a more and a fool just comes into that more, removes a gun and shoots people. And you hear that he lepton died who have died. If you prayed, you will not be there because your destiny would have been secured. It can take a whisper, don't enter that more now and will wait for five seconds. That five seconds will become the difference between life and death. But the reason you entered and you were shot is because you are not praying. And so your destiny, that is your child, can be hijacked by somebody else who takes the excuse of being an alcoholic. And at the end of the day he's trying to cut but another man. Has gone to the grief. And so he said, if you don't pray, somebody can kill his own child and come to take yours. And also if you don't pray, he said, your field, which is your destiny, can become the ground where the devil come to. So tak amongst the with. Because all of the plantings of the devil are don't when men are sleeping. So Jesus knows, and so he says that one day that you cease to pray can be the day the devil comes with visitation. But those who understand how life is lived, they never give the devil a chance, poor said, giving no place to the devil. And the way you resist the devil is by prayer. Except putting on the whole armor of God, you will resist him by. Praying all kinds of prayer. And so there are times when you are praying prayers of thanksgiving, there are times when you are praying prayers of intercession. There are times when you are. Praying prayers in tongues because you have exhausted all the human syllables, but you know it's not enough. So when you are done exhausting human syllables, you enter the language of angels and you start praying the prayers that are deeper than you understand it. Because by all means, men ought always to pray. And the talking Jesus said is that if you don't pray, you will find so the opposite of fainting is pray homelessness. So when you find men that a women with. Life and destiny, that weakness is a product of prayerlessness. And so prayer is not something you are weak not to do because your strength actually comes from prayer. So when you feel. Weak, that's why you should pray, because that's where your strength comes from. You don't say you are weak, you stop praying when you are weak. It's a good excuse to pray, because it's in prayer that strength we come. This is Jesus talking, and so it's not something you take for granted. If you are a man who wants to fulfill destiny. He said, prayer must be the most art not should not if they desire. It is required that men should pray, and they should not just pray, They should pray always. And if they don't pray always, he said, they will faint. And trust me, you don't want to faint, because the devil is praying as allowing lion looking for whom he will the var If he finds you weak in the spirit, he will capitalize on your weakness and he will plunder you. Tonight, we want to look at seven reasons why men pray, so that we will pray in this video. Wait understanding seven reasons why men pray, Because if you don't know why men pray, you may think prayer is a religious activity. If you don't know why men pray, you may think prayer is for those who are preachers. The believer requires prayer much more than the preacher. And you will see why when you go. When you find tyrants or bullies who oppress people, do they oppress those words strong. It is those who look. Weak and vulnerable that they pick on, even the young bullies in primary and kindergarten. They have enough knowledge and sense that you don't attempt to bully a man who is poly strong. So bullies always for the week. And so if you think prayer is for their persons their profits, they DeFore already knows that they are sitting in an office. God has empowered them to fulfill minutes. It is the. Ordinary believer who doesn't know his left from his life right. And this feed it that the devil comes from. That's why you cannot make the mistake of lowering your God when he has to do with prayer. Many are deceived waiting for orders to pray for them. And there are many prophets who want to take money from people. And they can call you around to amy the morning and tell you, don't worry, I'm on the mountain praying for you, sir. No body can pray enough for you. You are the first prophet of your life. If you want your destiny to count, you have to wake up, burst your author, knee down there and pray for yourself, if only your biological parents. I'm praying not for. The devil is not resting, He's prowling like a rolling Lidel. If the people who were working with Jesus, the devil came for them and God to do that. He got to do that. And when Jesus looked at him, the Bible said, certain entered his hat. He got do that. And as if that was not enough, he came for bitter auntie. Jesus said, Simon, Simon, certain desires to have you to sift. You like wheat. So when the man is not praying, he's like wheat. He's tough before the devil. You can't say I'm with Jesus. The presence of God is with me. I have Christ. If you don't pray, he said, certain, we sift you like wheat. The reason you have wait not to be sifted by the devil is because there is samina in the place of prayer. He was working with Jesus for three years, but with that prayer he was like wheat. Certain desires to have you to sift you with the only reason to stand. Is that prayer will be injected into your foundation. And so if men who work with Jesus were at risk or being shifted, is it a pastor or a personal or a prophet you are working with that you're not wake up in prayer, and you go and sleep and say, my pastor is pray for me. Do you know how many prayers they passed on need for himself once in a why moved by the spirit, he can remember your name in prayer. But if you think there's any pastor who carries your name to the utter every day and said Natania must prosper, you are joking. You are joking when it comes to church and makes a declaration. If your met can catch it, you have got it. But I tell you the really insurance for your destiny is your traveil on the ort for yourself. And so you must learn how to pray, and you must pray prayers if you're with a few destiny. This is the battle for every believer. And that's why Jesus did not say a person's must pray. He did not say prophets most pray. Say man ought all loys to pray. And not to faith. I'm not saying first, I not praying for you. What I'm saying to forfid destiny, you must pray for yourself. Before I enter this subject, let me show you something like I've been cheering yesterday. Jesus has spled the prize to exonerators from every force that. On the minds of our existence. Jesus has also supplied every thing we require for. Life and godliness. And so the quality of our life now is not God's responsibility, is our responsibility. When Jesus died on the cross, amongst other things, three things happened. Number One, the old nature was crucified. The Bible said, we were crucified with Christ. The nature of crucified with Christ. The significance of the cross is that that's surpentine nature that God hates was crucified on the cross. So when we believe in the death of Jesus, it's not a religious cliche. It's a spiritual transaction because when he was nailed on the cross, he became seen that we might become righteousless. So the old nature of Sein hung on that cross. That's why Paul said, I am crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, I live both the life and now live in the flesh. I live by the faith of the son of God that gave himself for me galicians to twenty. So the old nature was crucified. Number two. The second thing that happened was that every devil that the. Authority over you was publicly disgraced and stripped of his power, and. Elosans two fourteen and fifteen, he said, have been spoiled principalities and powers. He made a public show of them, triumphing over them by the cross. So when he was on the. Cross, what he was doing was bull in every demon that wants to oppress you, and so not devil anywhere on the heavel has the authority to oppress you anymore. Legally speaking, the right the devil has over you was withdrawn, just the way we are sitting here now. If anybody comes here and slaps you, you have the right to prosecute that person because it doesn't have the authority to slap you. In fact, it can be jailed for attempting that. So any demon that tries to molest you is doing it as an illegal entity, carrying out an illegal operation. Because the authority he had was stripped of him on the cross, and Jesus did not do it in hiding. The Bible said he. Made a public show of them, so he triumphed over them by the cross by stripping them of their powers. The third thing Jesus did on the cross was that he restored our relationship with God, because when we sinned, we were separated from God. We no longer had the relationship. Remember when Edam Saint and the Angel came into the garden, the Bible said he drove him out of the presence of God, and a sword was placed at the gate, swinging on every side, preventing the man from coming. Into God's presence. Now, when Jesus was on the cross, the Bible said to with God was in Christ second Correnians five nineteen, reconciling the world to himself, not imputing their trespasses upon them, but he granted them access to reconciliation. So on the cross, Jesus connected us back to God. So the nature, the old nature, was crucified, the power of the devil was taking away, and we were reconciled. Back to God. Because of these three things that happened on the cross, every Christian and every believer in Christ has the potential of living exactly like Jesus. Nothing have been the authority to hinder him anymore. However, these spirits are rebellious beings. Don't care that you have liberty. They don't care that you have the right to live a glorious life. They will come to check whether you know so. The devil knows that right. Now you have authority over him. The devil knows that right down your relationship with God is restored. The devil knows that right now there is no contamination against you, for he doesn't know you know. So what we do is that they will come with sickness. Hey, we come with oppression. He will come with every force to check whether you know who you are. Because of you in the UK off you know that sometimes the police wants to check whether you know you're right. And so when they stop you, they said get down from the car, and you say why. The moment you say why, they said, God, this one knows something. And if they press for that, you say, I know my right. I won't step down. Why do you want to search my car? They say, they will not change the direction of the conversation. You know what they know. You know, But if you don't know, ah, you are in trouble. You may end up in jail for not knowing. That is how devils and demons operate. When the devil comes, he puts a pain on your chest. And then when that pain comes, you are saying what's happening here? What is going on? Why am I feeling this pain? Hey? Could this be cancer? Could this be this the devil? This person is not aware that sickness has been taking away the next day it will becoming lomp And as you are contemplating and working in fear. The next day you go, they will say they are finding a trace of cancer. But let's do a cities can. We want to be sure what we are seeing. And because you are not aware, you open the gate and that thing can become anything. But you see, one of the reasons we pray is that we want to let the devil know that we know that the price has been paid. And so when you find a Christian who is not praying, is registering, is ignorant in this trail. But when you find a Christian who prays, that prayer is a testament that he knows the transaction that took place. On the cross. So the first reason we pray is that we are responding in knowledge that we know who we are. We are responding in knowledge that we know what was done for us. And so prayer is a legislative activity in the spirit realm. And so when you find a Christian praying, he's not praying because he's a religious man. He is making demand of his height. Have you gone to the court before. When a lawyer is in court, his petition before the job is god prayer. He's fighting for a right because rights are not gifted, they are taking. And there are many Christians. Although they have power with God, they are not manifesting it. Although they have liberty with God, they are not manifesting it. So when Christians gotter, you find the sick, You find they are pressed, you find the frustrated. Sometimes it looks as if those who are not even Christians are doing better because they know they don't have God, so they use other means to secure their rights. But the Christian that has God is complasant even though he has God. And so prayer is a resistance that we raise against the devil. Prayer is a warfare that we wagh against the devil because we are telling him you cannot trespass. We know our rights. The first reason for prayer is to enact and to enforce your right in Christ Jesus. If you are not praying, your right to be taken away. This is why although many the flesh has been charged they are helpless thing see because they. Are not praying. When you start praying, you will notice that the. Nature of Christ in you, we rise up and shut down the voice of the flesh. That is why many are sick although the prize has been paid, because they did not present any resistance, And they are not presenting resistance because they don't know what they have. The moment you know what you have in Christ. You cannot but pray because every day of your life you and because you cannot keep. Quiet, you will respond with prayer. Because you cannot keep quiet, you will respond by prayer. Because you cannot keep quiet, your resistence will become prayer. This is why you find Christians. They're always fighting in the spirit. Sometimes you wake up there is pain on your head. What you would have done naturally is to go to investigate. But before you check, you're saying the name of Jesus, you devil of infirmity. You have no placed in my life. The name of Jesus, the change of pain. I'm broken right now, you are already praying. Sometimes you discover that you have all the qualifications, but things are not working. You have the contacts, you have the papers, you have the document but. Somehow things are not working. When you get tired, you go to your room and you're saying the name of Jesus, I command the doors to open. In the name of Jesus, I command the gates to open. Every first resisting me, every first stopping me, I come against you. By the power of the Holy gooes. I command the doors open. Right now, and not too long. You will see that things will begin to s in the spirit, because you know that because you're in Christ, you should prosper The Bible said rich as it was he became poor, that you might become ride. But the last time you checked your life, nothing around you look like riches. And so you get tired and you say, come on, I need to enforce this provision. In the name of Jesus. I step into prosperity. In the name of Jesus, I step into open doors. In the name of Jesus, I actievent everything that is available, because you are. A lawyer over your own life. You see why Jesus said men ought to pray, because if they don't pray, although it's available, they can't take it. And there are many Christians. Healing is available. They can't take it because they are not praying. There are many Christians. Wealth is available, they can't take it. There are many Christians. Righteousness is available, they can't take it. There are many Christians. Everything that is available in christ they already are in position of it in the spirit, but they cannot materialize it in the natural reason because prayer is lucky. So when we pray, we are not doing a religious activity. Prayer is spiritual legality. When we pray, we are enforcing things in the spirit. This is you cannot afford to pray absent mindedly. No, no lawyer accusing God absent mindedly unless you don't know what you are doing. You can't be fighting for your right and you are careless. Doz enough yearning and then you work out working. No, that's not how they do this thing, my brother. It is warfare. When you are in God, you are deliberating, you are arguing, you are counting your enemies your position, you are looking for their weakness, and then you are drawing out your strong reasons. Prayer it's not something you can do carelessly. If you know what it is, My God, I look into the spirit. What Jesus made available to me is a glorious life. I check my life, I cannot see it, and then I'm casual. No, I cannot be casual and say, I know the thoughts that I think towards you, they are thoughts of good, they're not of evil, to give you a hope and the future. But when I checked, there was no future. I have to create that on the autar. So it's not something I do asid mindedly. I go to the. Autara, I call a catuna. I say today what I continue to play anti. I start seeing some visions Auntie, I start seeing some movements. In the spirit. Because I am not about to beg in this life. I know he made me a king, and kings don't beg. He said, where the one of the thing is there is power who can't say unto him? What doors now? But the last time I checked, before I hit, I begged, Before I got the promotion, I beg. And so I come back to myself like the prodigal song, I say, enough is enough, no more begging. I am a king. I will function in my status. But the only way I can function that way is to go back to the altar. And so, because I don't want to beg, I return to the altar in cakura and reggae, go sad wash back the acto Paa saga saga oh nacka to the on spiritual. It may look foolish, but you know what you are doing. You are commanding the lines to far for you in place and places, and not too long that person that you give you the contract will suddenly appear. Not too long that person that you grant you the faivor were suddenly appear. Even there we not know how they showed up. You are that their steps in prayer, your first time to appear. Your commanded them to show that's up. This thing work. I'm telling you this is how the spiritum is designed. The wise men know that prayer make things happle, so they pray. I grew up in a village Carsinola and beneverestit. There's no way, as you cross many borders to be here talking to you. If I was waiting for luck and chance, it would have taken ten lifetimes. If I was waiting for human sympathy, it would have taken ten lifetimes. But I discovered that there was a way, there was a way of entering into what was written concerning you, and so I took my destiny. In my own hands. And I went to author and I said, other Father, you say you are not a god that favors one over the order. God does not favorite one over the order. He has blessed all of us equally. I refuse to work like a beggar. It's an abomination under the song that princes are treking white beggars are riding on horses. I stepped into my ordination. And as I was playing, Oh my God, I was praying. I was praying. Not any things began to happen in this village. Susuins began to change, things began to change. You are not ordinary, the Bible said. The mystery of the age is that Christ, you is the hope of glory. That means your life should manifest nothing less than glory. Because everyone of us sitting here Gods on our inside. God the fullness of God to words on our inside. How we became mediocres. How come we became helpless and hopeless in this life, as if we have no God. God forbid. That's why you go to the author, because you have discovered that only glory is good enough for you, and so you will not stop until glory manifest. And when Glory manifest, it doesn't matter your gender, it doesn't matter your age, it doesn't matter your race, it doesn't matter your class, because Glory has no regard racial barriers. Glory has no regard for gender difference. When Gloody shop. He appears. Prayer men ought always to pray because everything God That's made available to us is the messy of our prayers, and so we don't stop. I don't want to go to heaven to discover anything God made me. I'm supposed to discover all of them on earth and leave all of them on it. I won't go to heaven and discover that I am a man of power. I won't go to heaven and discover that I may being of glory. I won't go to heaven and discover that I'm a man of wealth because all of that I would. Need it in heaven. It is here on earth. I need it. And so when I'm praying, I'm a vetting everything God That's made available. And every time you see me, it's from glory to glory. Because if you met me yesterday, I have already met I'm first. If you're met to me today, I'm already met I'm of firsting, and by the time you come tomorrow you see a more glorious version, because the part of the trust man is as a shining shines righter and brighter onto the perfect day. All of us are equally blessed in Christ. But the degree of manifestation is a function of a prayer, because prayer is spiritual legislation. And I tell you the devil is running around something to know those who know. He is checking to find out those who are aware and those who are not just aware, but who are willing to defend it. Many who died are healing in their spirits. Many who ended up poor have wealth in has feeded. They were blessed, but they didn't contend. But the generation is sitting before me tonight. That is saying, way, we not stop where we are everything God has died for us to be. We will manifest everything God has made available. We will manifest in the name of the jesus. Ah. How can they say you are the head and not the tea, And then everything about you is like tee and there you are quiet, you are sleeping. No way, I won't rest on tee. Everything about me indicative of a head because that's what it costs me. I will not leave this one until I become everything he has called me, everything he has called me. And so when you go to. The prayer order, that is your journey to become. Everything he has called you. Sit down for a moment. Why do we pray? Not one? We pray to enforce everything Christ died and ruse for us to become. If you don't pray, you will never become. Then will read it and a point will come you with doubt if it's true, because they will show you that the glory of God. Is on your inside. They will show you that you are glorified. But when you check your life, you will not see the glory. Jesus said, the glory that you have given to me, I've given to them. He said him that. If on you he predestinated him, that he predestinated, he called him that he called he justified him, that he justified. He didn't say he will glorify. He said he glorified. So it is already in the past tense. But when you check your life sometimes you will hardly see the glory. And so if you know what to do, you will go to your prayer prayer closet and say everything God said. I know God cannot lie, and so I will not make it lie in my own life. I will then force it by prayer. And as you start praying that violent, explosive and aggressive prayer, not too long, you will see that changes will begin to happen, because that is what prayer was designed for. It is not a religious activity. It's a weapon of war in the spath. Why do we pray Number two h Prayer triggers transfiguration. It does not only open what Christ has made you, It transfigures you into. The image of the Christ. The Bible say, we all with open faces beholding us in the glass the glory of the Lord. We are changed. And so God is not only expecting that we have what Christ has given. God is also expecting that you'll become the reflection of Christ to your world. What you see, what the devil we do, is that we plant corruption in your soul so that you never become like Christ. And so when men meet you, there will be bitterness, there will be anger, there will be fear, there will be pains, and so your heart will be filled with all forms of garbage. Whereas you are supposed to pour out reverse like Christ. And so when you start praying, they will notice that. The second thing prayer does for you is that prayer begins to change your molecular structure. And so a point comes when people touch you, they have toucht God. This is what the apostles knew, and this is what they did, and they landed from Jesus. Paul said in First Coarentials. Eleven, verse one, he said, be a follow us of me, as I'm the follower of Christ. What has happened to Paul that it has become so much like Christ? That is said, if you see him, you have seen Christ. John said, as he is, so are we in this world. So their apostles did not just have power because God gave them power. They did not just have riches because God give them riches. They did not just have favor because God give them favor. They literally start tap changing to become like the God that blessed them. So when you see them, they were not just blessed with the things of God. They were becoming like the very God that blessed them. And Pas said, the technology is to keep beholding, But how do you behold? One of the words to behold is in the place of prayer. And we saw that in Matchew seventeen beers two. The Bible said, as Jesus began to pray, he said, the fashion of his countenance was alltered. He said, ray ment began to blister. And so every time a man prays. Glory comes out of him, because the glory is already on your inside. But you don't need the glory inside you. You need the glory. Outside you, because it is the glory that is seen on you. That affects your generation. But you see the way God did it is that he planted the glory inside of you, so that as you traveil in the spirit, the glory will start flowing out of you. Can I tell you something what men celebrate It is not your face. Is the glory of God on your life. They see and celebrate. You find men who carries so much of glory. People are blessed that they spoke to them. People are blessed that they shook them. Men go to a lot of inconveniences to relate with men who carry glory. Even these men think they love those people, they don't love them. Is their glory on their life that there interacting with and The reason will become so relevant in our world is that when they see us, they no longer see us. After they flesh, they see the dimensional Christ in us that has manifested. But the way Christ can flesh out of you is by prayer. There is no prayer. You pray that is a waste. Every time you prayed, glory came out of you. Every time you prayed, glory increased on your life. Jesus taught us, and Stevin also did it. They surrounded him and they wanted to kill him. And the Bible said, he looked into heaven, and he said he saw the Son of Man's standing by the right hand of God, and immediately began to commune with the Father. And the Bible said, his face began to glow like the face of an ajail. How do you think you billy Christian can be rejected? How do you think you billy Christian can be on the mind. The only basis for that to happen is because you only went with your fists. You went with a good hair coat, you went with a good dress. What your greatest garment, It's not a suit, it's glory. Because what endam war in Eden was glory and when Jesus came, he restored us into the economy of glory. And so when you meet Christians, Christians are supposed to manifest glory to their generation. Peter was speaking in first Bitter to now they say, you are choosing generation a royal priesthood, God's own special people. God fought to showcase, to showcase, to manifest the glory, the praise, the excellency of God. And so God wants a generation to know him. But it's no longer appearing in the cloud like the days of Muski. The way God appears to a generation now is true men who are able to manifest His glory. But to see what we cause the glory of God to. Come out of you. It's as you're travel in the place of prayer. Every time you pray, something wosi out of you. It is called glory. And trust me, you will need that glory in your business, because when three of you appear and you are all equally qualified, what will make you stand out will be more than the certificate you God from Oxford. When three of you are competing in a football match, or in an athletic competition, or you are competing for a job and all your credentials are equal. The reason they will pick you out of the orders is because, in addition to natural a credentials, you came with glory. Because nobody can reject glory. Even though who wanted to kill Stevin when they saw glory on his life, they were. Tattooed, who is this? What does he carry? Because glory is an element of God, and so anybody who carries it becomes like a god to his generation. That was what Moses brought before Pharaoh, and Pharaoh could not kill him. Pharaoh was called this song God. You don't challenge him, you die instantly. But Moses came with a weight of glory, and Moses challenged Pharaoh ten times. And Pharaoh couldn't stop him. In fact, the last time Moses confronted Pherauh, he told him, you will not see me again. That means it's an honor for me to stand before you. You will not see me again, And true to his world, Pharaoh never saw him again. The man came with toward glory, that is shut down the strongest civilization of his generation. I know life may be difficult here. Everything is system at tires and he looks very rigid and complex carry glory, and you'll. Be shocked how the system will bow. There isn't the system is rigid. It is because they have not seen the glorified man. When you're working with glory, protocolts are suspended. Jesus carried so much of it that even the law of gravity was suspended. He has sent that bodily into heaven because of the measure of glory he carries. Who told you that the policies the devil is writing, who told you that the first is the devil is. Advancing can stop the Church? When God raised us as a people, he raised us with glory. And because he raised us with glory, there's no human policy that can stop us. There is no advancement of darkness that can stop us. He said, the Church, we keep matching, and the gates of hell shall not prevail. There is the gate of heir shall not prevail. Is because when we show up, we will show up as a congregation. When we show up, will we show up as an army of glorified men. And so when the seals they cannot gain, said, they cannot deny what we carry because it's a force coming. From Heathor why do we pray. Number two. The reason we pray is because prayer courses the glory of God on our inside. To find the expression. May you not be known only after your natural abilities? It will be a great limitation because that natural ability you have. In your lifetime you will find many that are better than you. The reason you will stand out and keep standing out is because the element of glory that is ascribed to you is unique to you, and if you allow it find expression, you will always be different in your generation. But it is prayer that will excavate it. Why do we pray? Number three? Prayer has the power to change seasons. Do you know the way the devil fights men? One of the ways the devil fights men is that he manipulates their seasons and it eats their times of opportunity. That's why Joe chapter two, the Bible said, the years that they can ker warm, that's eating, so can kawarms. Don't eat plants, palma worms, the caterpillar warms. They don't eat grapes, They eat years. So you find a man who at the age of twenty six is supposed to be a prime minister. At twenty six, it is struggling with his education, and then you are wanting what happened? Those years have been eating, and if nothing is done about it, there will be fifty and it will still be frustrated, because one of the ways the devil fights is that. He eats your years. He eats your opportunities, and so you keep walking through life and it will look like negative coincidence. Yet nothing will be walking. It's either you just missed it or it never happened. And then you are wondering, what is happening. Your ceisons have been manipulated, Your ceisons have been eating off. And the insurance system of the speed it for recalibrating season his prayer, have you not seen the man that was at the pull of Betester in John chapter five for thirty eight years? The guy was there. The people they brought before him had gone. There was they brought after him. They were also delivered and left. But there was something about this man. They said, when the water is dead, before he gets in, somebody else we enter. So there was something happening. When the water is not dead, he's sober. When the water is not dead, he's strategically positioned. But the moment he turns away, that's when the water is dead because something was happening to his seasy, and for thirty eight years he was dead. If not for Messy that Jesus kame, you would have died there. And instead of. Him praying, he was there lamenting so much so that even when Jesus came would not be made whole. He went back narrating his odal to tell you why he was where he was, because he didn't know what to do with his mouth. Your mouth is not given to you for lamentation and memory. Your mouth is giving to you to shape your destiny through prayer and priest to. Why do you pray? Number three? Prayer changes your ceason. For those of us too understand prayer, even the things that are supposed to happen in ten years, we can draw them close. I wish you understood what I'm saying. You know what prayer does. When you start praying, sometimes your actual season we change. And I will show you from scripture if you study Luke chapter four and match chapter four from verse one. The Bible said they speiredit drove Jesus to the wilderness to be ten ten of the devil. So that season was supposed to be a season of temptation, a season of trier. But Jesus did something. The Bible said, before the devil came, he fasted and prayed for forty days and forty nine, and so that season was no longer just a season of temptation. It became a this is more manifestation. So Jesus used prayer and fasting to alter that season. And when Jesus was coming down from that mountain, because he had had that prayer and first for forty days, the Bible said, the land of Zebulu, the land of Natali, by the way of the sea beyond Jordan, gandiving of the gentile. The people that sat in darkness have seen the great light. And instantly the Bible said, his fame went abroad. Immediately Jesus entered the synagogue and said, the spirit of the Lord is upon me. He has anointed me to put the glad tidings to the poor. Immediately he started operating in the announting of the Holy Spirit. He knew something that instant me. Just to go to be tempted and come back for God say, well done, you pass the test. There is something I can do to match that season with another season. And so the season of temptation became the season of power, and it became the season of manifestation. His fame went abroad because he explored the ortar in prayer. And so two ways that prayer changes your season is that prayer can. Draw your possible ability is closer to you. So what should have happened in ten years, you can make it happen in two weeks when you start praying. What should have happened. In five years, you can make it happen in three months when you start praying. Because what prayer will do is that prayer will cause the rems to begin to align to you. You know, the Bible said the lines have fallen onto you in pleasant places. That means the lines were not designed to be in pleasing places, but something happened that made the lines to fall in please and places. That's how ceaisons are regulated. When you start praying, you can alter and selectively rearrange your season for your season to fit for you. And if your ceasing does not change, you will now change. You know what will happen when you start praying. The Bible said, the hand of God came upon Elijah and outran the chariots of airp onto jesree. So it's either your ceasing trust close or prayer ats feed to you. And so you meet your season because the step you are taking currently will take you ten years to get there. The step you are currently will it take you five years to get there. But when you start praying there he said technology that is a Tibetan. He said, the hand of God with dissent. And in first Kings eighteen that's forty six. He said, the hand of God came upon Elijah. It was not designed for. The hand of God to come upon him, but he provoked it in prayer. The Bible said seven times, and Elijah prayed. He put his head in between his tie and he was praying. He said, go and check. Elijah checked six times. Not he happened. He kept praying because he was money pulating the atmosphere. It was not time for rain. But the guy knew how to change seasons. He knew that now ray cannot fall. Imagine it had not rained for three and a half years. So if you are waiting for rainy season, three and a half years have passed. The season has not come. So what can change the season was prayer and the guy was praying, said check, he was praying. He said check, he was praying. He said check. Now on the seventh time, when he. Checked, he said, saw something that looked like the fist of a man. He said, doesn't love What was looking for was his sign. What you have seen there is a sound of an abundance of ray. I have all had the season. I have changed three years of dright seism into an instant training season on the altar. And as if that is not enough, when he ordered the season, something else happened. The Bible said, the hand of God came upon Elijah, and he outruned the chariot. In those days, the chariot of the king is the fastest chariot. But you know what, when you have prayed, even the king can no longer match you. You become faster than the king. So Elijah outrun the chariot of the king and enter the gate of Jesue. You find certain Christian their life look like a snail movement. They received one need to help five years ago, the next help is five years later. Something's wrong with your prayer, author, something is wrong. You can neither cause the rain to come, or you can outrun the chariots be health, but it. Will take prayer. And you know that kind of prayer is not the count of prayer. When James was. Talking about it, he carded the effectual, favent prayer of a righteous man. It is effectual, it is father. What does it mean to be fectual? It is deadly breaking the Lord. It is not an absent minded kind of prayer. It's a prayer with a lot of focus for a specific target. And what does it mean to be fatheriled? It is hat felt. Your heart is in that prayer, praying and laboring, pumping energies of the spirit, pumping vibrations of the spirit, pumping tounger of the spirit. And as you are dleaning there a tai awhi. Even if you are not rained for ten years, the cloud will up here. This is some men change their stories. They change their stories through prayer. There are many Christians who are waiting for things to happen. It will never happen. Did you not read at sixteen Paul and Bannabas and Sinnas the Bible said they threw them into prison. In fact, they threw the key away. They were not they were not planning to release them. Be there rot in jail, but they knew something The Bible said at midnight. I wish I had time to talk to you about midnight. The midnight hour is the hour of warfare, the hour of government. They waited until midnight because they knew something about the midnight one men were sleeping. That's when they started walking and said. As they prayed, suddenly and eje descended, shut out the foundation of the prison, and the gates opened on their owner call. So their deliverance would have tarried for many months. But they changed that season because of prayer. I don't know what you are going through, but. As your prayer tonight, something will change those papers you are waiting for. And they told you this day can take only three years. It can take two weeks. If your prayer enough, you can't change the season. Why did they say we take two years because somebody is there who is insisting, Because there's the policy that is there. What if they change that person overnight. Anything is possible. To the man that believes in praise. Prayer is not a joke. Is the weapon of the believer. Oh with prayer, be war with prayer. When you want to find the warrior in. The spirit don't look at his suit, look at the strength of his legislation. In the prayer, enemies devils can go up against you. It means nothing. All your challenges can become a platform of manifestation if you know what to do in prayer. Your platform is not an inn eveted spot like this one. No, your platform are the challenges that swallow other men. Because when men are cast down, you come, you say there's a lifting of the Bible didn't say if you come, there will be a lifting of you too are supposed to be cast down. It is your hotlance that change your own story. It is that when you come, you say, that's prayer, there's a lifting of and so what destroyed other men becomes the platform for yourwn manifestation. You can change. Anything by prayer, and anything can become anything if you we pray. This is why the devil will let you do everything but prayer. You can do anything you want to do but pray. So long as you don't pray, the devil is okay because knows that the moment to start praying, his kingdom is in trouble. The vibrations of God, the powers of God, the anointing of the Holy goal, and threeteen begins to navigate in your direction and you will rise up as it previos. Prayer, Let's breath, that's good enough, I've wroken. Let's bring this three. That said, if you're engaging tonight, somebody's story can change. Can we pray a little? Or do I add one more? Do I add one more? Mae taka barakaya starf frting. Why do we pray number four? Because prayer moves mountains. There are many ways the devil fights. If the devil can or tie your season away, plant a mountain, mountain in front of you. What is a mountain? Their spiritual forces designed to slow you down or to bring absolute hind ranks to your progress, and so it stops in front of you, your campuss no matter how you try. Imagine if you were to climb to Mount. Everest before you arrive your destination, a mountain that is six thousand feet tall, So if you climb it, that's six thousand, you climb down, that's twelve thousand before you make your journey, how can you arrive? And what the devil does is that elitas mountains in front of men. And Jesus said the kill to mountains is to put your faith to walk, he said. But the way you put your faith to walk is by training. He said, if there's a mountain, before you address that mountain, don't doubt in your house at and he said that mountain shall be removed and invest twenty four of maki level. He said, whatsoever year desire, the only time you can have it inclusively removing the mountain is when you pray. That means your zaias will never come until you pray. The mountains will never go until you pray. So that thing that is ahead of you is there because you have not addressed it. And so when we go to the place of. Prayer, we are removing and uprooting mountains. That's why some of you where you pray, you're sweat as though they are pouring buckets of What are you? It is the level of libor you are engaging. Somebody else may have removed these mountains so he can pocket his. Hand and pray because the mountains are no more. His only fellowship is with God because that's also one of the reasons we pray, and you can see him. Man Dara Active Frekistory Artists, Legro Bandra, Dadiga after a leiga ragab amonger. He's a enjoying fellowship because he has removed this mountain. But you you have twenty mountains ahead of you. You cannot afford to pocket your hand. And save my reader a co leader a curse. No when you are praying is Ego gorico mananas susu a zachaiawater Rea, because you will need prophecy to come out. You will need standing at a party because some of those mountains. It's why you pray to HP that the prophecy that will remove it will come out of. Your spirit, and so you can't pray casually. Your prayer, Auntie, prophecy is come out because. You are praying to remove a mountain. And trust me, your luck will not count much until you remove those mountains. The devil knows, Jesus itself knows that the mountains will slow you down. What if you do at the age of thirty, you kind of do it at seventeen, you can do it at eighty, and you will not do enough of it anymore because you would have wasted all your energy before you move started. There's nothing wrong in achieving it late. It shows dog godness, it shows discipline. It shows passion, but it's better when you find it early. That's why you cannot allow. What should happen today happen tomorrow because there's a mountain stopping you. I don't know if you want to pray from me? I want to play little? Can we pray the Holy Ghost for just ten minutes? For ten minutes? I don't know what to appressing. I don't know what to atimilies. Yeah, I'm trusting God. Chance to go, Raso, come come fire. I don't know how you pray in Glasgow, but where I came from, we pray like what if? Must we pray? Depend some where by ice we've been I'm so pry. I turn. I can't call here, come by. Open quiet? Why he rook the right there. Enough? I can't do this right. He right there? 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