The Mystery of Prevailing prayer Part 1 Koinonia Abuja with Apostle

MHMS a place of encounter with the Polish spiritless and transformation by the principles of God's kinds. Allelujah, Praise the name of the Lord. There is a way that we arise in this kingdom. Please listen carefully, there is a way that we acceend in this kingdom. The protocol for spiritual growth for advancement was given by Jesus himself, and the Bible says that he mentored and builded people over a span of three and a half years, and he turned them into science and wonders. By the time we get to the Book of Art, the Bible says, these are they that turned the world upside down. Press the name of the Lord. So I wanted to know that every aspect of this service was designed intentionally to achieve something spiritual. In our lives. A way together now this we are following an exact spiritual formula that if you will submit yourself to the foolishness of spiritual things, you will marvel and you will wonder at what your life becomes. These are not the opinions of men. These are ancient principles that were followed by many and produce tremendous wonders in their lives. Allelujah prays the name of the Lord. We see that shortly, but I would just pray. While I was sitting there, I saw that there were a group of people that God was releasing the grace for prayer and supplication. This is what I began to see, was like coal. Oil was being poured on the coal and it was catching fire. This is what I was seeing in the spirit. And now I'm praying because there are individuals. Some of you are ministers. Some of you your prayer life has gone down. This is coinonia. I stretched my hands by the spirit of grace as many inside the balcony, the overflows following from whatever nation, as many as the Spirit of God will initiate into this dimension of spiritual reality. Take that grace right now in the name of Jesus Christ. Some of you are ministers, some of you are being raised to be prophets and apostles. Let that and grace him for prayer rest upon you in the name of Jesus Christ. Help there, please, in the name of Jesus Christ, have told Sally shuld like a too pria. And everything sitting upon your prayer life, to insist that you will not rise. In the name of Jesus, and by the spirit of the Greek Christ, I played out of your life. I cried out of your destiny in the name of Jesus Christ. The Lord is showing me a door in the spirit. And this door has been closed for a long time, refusing to open. This is what I'm saying. I truly believe that God is speaking about someone, a family. In the name that is above all names, says he shaatas Yata, I call upon him that holds the key of David, and I speak over every closed door, no matter how ancient, no matter how long that has refused to open, over your life, your ministry. In the name of Jesus, we command that door open now. We command that door open now. We command that door open now. We command that door open. Now. Take back. The open now, in the name of Jesus. Open up hither and Tita, they open now. Allelujah. The night is a very serious night. The Lord is opening my eyes in a vision. I'm seeing people standing, but I'm seeing their faces covered. This is what the Lord is showing me. Please, I wanted to pay attention. Pay attention. The Lord brought us here to build us. You see, when the face of a man is covered in the realm of the spirit. Number one, there can never be visibility for. Such a person. Number two, the doors of favor would be close over that person. I'm going to minister the power of God and I wanted to bring those people out. Those have overflows can just come to the projectors, and we need to fear of that fails. Now I stretch my hands whether by the power of witchcraft, all activities of ancestry, everything calita parotos subata, that is responsible, bring them out. That is causing your face that you will not be seen, is is affecting your visibility in ministry. There are people in ministry here. You have integrity, you are working in grace, but there is a fail over your face. They are a businessman, that are captains of industry. Right now, by the power of the Holy Ghost, in the name of Jesus Christ, I declare for such people in this auditorial manner outside, please bring them right now. Made the fire of the. Holy Spirit turn those fails right now, bound those fales right now. Let akata turn it into a prayer, every fail covering the glory of all upon my life. It's that butt down, all lord, I just shealed from me. You are my glory, he call him. The lift ter off from my head. Break them out, everyone whose glory has been covered for no matter how long you are in man in the anointment of the Holy caaust And he wants to keep away. Now I can't. You came to us, He rais is a round of God. Lift the voice and break her. Take up second time, Back back up, you old lord, I just shift from me. You want my glory, you want my glory, you want my glory. The lift off off my head, the lift off of my death. He he. Hell looking Madonna, Hello, hellos, will pray jeremy ext God did not send me if there is anyone under the sound of my voice, there is any kind of York Man tas peper And then crack. What if I don't life? What if I don't minister? You done by the rod of the proscolley. I'm done by the rod of the prophect. I declared judgment on friendly shortsmen, on foundation shortsmen. He's on your propac he purely there is an end. He sly, there is an end, Sly, there is an end. The love the cart cat oh, I decree again in the realm of the spirit, let God's people go. I profess high an extrodos over your life from every realm of captivity. I'm staying by the spirit. I declare the power that do not let you go. Most, let you go. This night, Parika take bring them out. The four will not let you go. He leaves his poinonia. He loves fo I will not let you go. I come by the God of Heaven, the God of and right the point of wings of the way. I declared, most, let you go. Now. The Bible says, where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liperty. The holy goss disministering to me. There are people in business here. Every time good things are about to happen, there are forties familiar supity to shot thought. I'm praying for business people. I stand by the unction of Jesus, and I declare, anyone here in the business, whatever power I pref you to, let you advance in the name of Jesus. And the count of tree comes on that fire, one, two three go. So so when listen your destiny release in the name of treasons, it says, pay on to go. How terrible are tw in your ways? It is through the greatness of thy power that the enemies submit themselves the last prayer point and will sit down every long standing infamity in your body that will not let you go. Dear me, I don't care what it is called. Blood disease, should not type issued recurrent things eat in your finances, destroying the destiny of your family. At the counter three you will shout treasons, and there will be a miracle of killing right now, all kinds of supirit that at the back of mysterious informity? Are you ready now? At the count of three South, that name that is a probably of the name one. Two three South, season. Be heal, be heal, blod condition be healed, get the break, take up and condition be heal, he break the high pray he. Sat me heal. All kinds of body lam in a man about time. Let me pray one more prayer. Whoever is sitting on what is yours between now and the end of this month. I stand by the God of Heaven and by the spirit of prophecy. Please hear what I'm saying again. I repeat whoever is sitting exchanging your destiny. By the God of Heaven. I declare my God will of rout them, my God will of rutstem, my God will of rute them. For all of you in front here, I decree and declare, standing for yourself and your families, the spirits behind the mysterious tragedies of your life. I speak as one sent Let. Them go now, Let them go now, Let go now, release their destinies. Now they came to the house of God. Let them go now, by the power of the Holy Ghost. Hallelujah. Who is this man? Come? What do you do? Sir? So I was into a business, but not in this movie. If you were into business, I want to pray for you. I'm not a prophet of doom. This is the house of God. I'm looking at you and I'm seeing snakes from head to toe. This is what I'm seeing all around you, the Bible. This is the house of God. If we cannot solve problems supernaturally, we're wasting our time here, sir. I'm saying it to you in the open by prophecy. The same way you are standing here, this is the same way you will stand here your life will. Change in the way that your plans. I washed my hand tag that grace in the name of Jesus, that it opened you to new dimensions. In the name of Jesus, every legal basis upon which the devil is oppressing you and your business. I come by the blood of Jesus, and I declined its offer right now. Allelujah. Who is Regina? Who is Regina? I'm hearing a name, Regina. You're wearing a yellow dress. Regina. Is there someone like that? Regina? Who is that? What's your name? Where are you coming from? I'm coming from from where you believe in Jesus. Yes, your family is about to experience the very strange miracles. Stando, listen. Let me tell you this. Believe me when I tell you, people of God, there are people who are sent. There are people who are sent with an unction and sent with their grace. It is not the anointing that is available that blesses you. It's the anointing sent to you. Can I pray for you in the name of Jesus Christ, for you and for your family members right now, every power that will not let you go here in the house of God. I declare, by the spirit of God, a new chapter opens for your family. A new chapter opens for your family. Love, Allelujah, don't be embarrassed. Will sit down shortly, But I will tell you why the Lord directed that we first today a. Mecca. You're a businessman? Where are you a mecca? You're a business man? You are told, gentle man, a mecca. Who is there? Is there someone like that? Come? What's your name? Ah? Mea? What do you do? I do business where your doors have been closed, But the Lord wants to open those doors. Come. Let me tell you this. Look at me. It takes more than the ability to provide value and to provide solutions. In as much as that is. The basis of your reward, there will have to be a prophetic dimension that give acceleration to the works of your hands. Allelujah. You believe in Jesus, So Father, I pray you have brought this. Gentleman, you are a mecca. Come. What is says to one, it says to all in the name of Jesus Christ, I stretch my hands, go and prosper now and release the grace upon you. In the name of Jesus Christ. For you, my friend, I pray for you. God is the helper of men. I pray that you will enjoy his help by the power of the Holy Spirit, in the name of Jesus Christ. One last prayer. The Lord is ministering to me, and he's showing me a family here. You didn't come alone, but this has been one two, three, four five miscarriages. One two, three four five. Please wish that person five miscarriages. And the Lord wants me to minister to that person and will go straight to the ministry of the world. While that is happening, there is a gentleman, not a lady. A gentleman. The power of God will come upon him, and you will shout on that you're anointing loud to the hearing of everybody. Please bring that gentleman out, My dear, look at me, you're the one. It's your husband here. Husband, where are you? Why did you leave your wife to come alone? The world is. Let's celebrate the husband as he comes to stand. Don't be ashamed. The Lord himself is visiting that family. My friend and Ladi are anointed me. The Bible says, the shouts of joy and victory shall not depart from the tent of the righteous. Therefore I speak to you everything that has stolen away your joy and your testimony as a family. I commanded to let you go. Now in the name of Jesus. Let me pray. Miscarriage, I want to pray. Don't worry. I'll pray for you. Wherefore God had so highly exalted him and given him a name. Something is coming on your wife. It's over now. Now, two of you offer Now. I'm seeing a spirit that is back of from is carried. I challenge you by the God of Heaven, let her go now. Let me pray for you. Father. I stretched my hands. Ah, I'm seeing fire leaving my hands and just coming on you. Every thing that will not let you be fruitful is a command. Whatever I will want you to disobey that command. Takata kata, I open up your wounds in the name of Jesus, and according to the time of life. I decree and declare return with your miracle children. Regardless than medical report. We stand by the God of Heaven and we declare oppression in the area of fruitfulness come to end now in the name of Jesus Christ. Please return back rejoicing. My God will surprise you. It will surprise you. In the name of Jesus Christ. One prayer while you are standing, Father, my portion for this night. If I receive it by faith, it will not elude me. Please lift your voice and prayer. Don't be tired of prayer. Will be seen a showing my portion. God is a God of portions. Are you praying? Allelujah? Please presiit that if you can, God bless you. Tonight. We're going to be brief in this place. But I believe with my heart, all my heart, that the testimonies that will come out from tonight's meeting will truly bring glory to the name of Jesus. Pastor Israel, I'm seeing oil. Being poured on your head in the name of Jesus Christ, he last superandigate barota sate a last cabran ducatouche. I stretched my hands. The grace for signs and wonders in the name of Jesus. May that chrace come upon you, May that Christ come upon you. Let it distinguish your ministry. In the name of Jesus, you will walk in tremendous dimensions of science and wonders in the mighty name of Jesus. Amen and Amen Blachi Chapter two and verse two. Well seated, I want us to take a minute or two to just thank the Lord for his matherless hand. I cannot begin to tell you the great and all inspiring things that the Lord cant used to do in and through our lives across the nations of the earth. Please give us that scripture Malachi, chapter two and verse two. If you will not hear, and you will not lay to heart to give glory onto my name, say the Lord of host it says, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will cost your blessings. Yeah, I have cost them already because you will not lay to heart. There is something about God's desire to be glorified that, when we experienced his manifest presence, his miracles, his signs, and his wonders, we must be very intensional about giving him glory. Whilst you are seated, in one minute, can you say thank you Jesus. For that which you. Continue to do in my life, for that which you continue to do in this ministry. You have so. Lavishly honored this ministry within the time that we have been in this city. You have shown yourself mighty and all across the globe. Salvation's healings tremendous miracles, transformation by the power of your world. We lay to heart to give you praise. This is the Lord's doing, cannot be the doing of a man. And we thank you, We thank you. Don't be tired. Thank you for the numerous promotions advances in the spirit, equipping you with sufficient spiritual knowledge and understanding, helping you to stand strong preservation. We thank you, We thank you. We lay to heart to give you glory in the name of Jesus Christ, in the name of Jesus Christ, in My God. Chapter For when you begin to read from verse one, the Bible, speaking true prophet Micah is said, in the last days, it shall come to pass that the mountain of the House of the Lord shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the heels, and the Bible says people or nations shall flow to it. Verse two is my point of interest. It says many nations, not a few, many nations will come and say, come, let us go up to Cooinonia, the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob. The Bible says he will teach us his ways. So the end time manifestation of the House of God is a place of light, a place of spiritual illumination. Please listen carefully. You have to make a covenant with yourself and your destiny, that you are going to submit to the war word of God and place irreplaceable. Value on the word of God. It says, I commend you to God, and then to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up, and then to give you an inheritance. Among them that are sententified, we must place premium on the word of God. It is God's instrument for transformation. It is God's instrument for signs and one that's haber Cook chapter three. When you read from verse three and four, Verse four amplified says in that light is the hiding place of his power. The power of God is hidden in his light. John chapter one and verse five. And the light shine it in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not. Paul was mentoring the church in Colossay chapter one and verse nine Colossians one, verse nine, and he prayed, bowing his knees to the father of a Lord, Jesus Christ, that they be. Filled number one with the knowledge of his will. Number two, that they be filled with all wisdom, and then number three spiritual understanding. There is no hope for the believer who does not contend for illumination. Illumination to the degree to which you are able to drive away every. Darkness around your life. You know, when you get born again, you are introduced to the ministry of the Holy Spirit, the Bible says, and among the many things that the Holy Spirit does is to guide you into all truth. Are weay together now? And when He, the Spirit of Truth, is come, the Bible says, he will guide you. He will guide you, He will reveal to you the precepts the ways of God. So every time with tabannacle, week after. Week, this is not just a convergence of Christians honoring a spiritual activity. It's more than that. Every opportunity that we have to be exposed to His power, his grace, our hearts must be intentional, because it is the entrance of His word that gives light. And then the Bible declares that it is understanding. Onto the symbol. Your stamina and your dominion in this kingdom is predicated upon spiritual illumination. Light. As Atati three says, wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your time. You have to know the ways of God. The ways of God define the modus operandi of the Kingdom. God has a method. God has how he lives. God has how he restores. God has how he blesses. God has how he keeps the saints in victory. He says, now, thanks be onto God, which causes. Us all ways to triumph. So our assignment as ministers of the Gospel is to expose the body of Christ. And those who have been given. And are planted under our spiritual jurisdiction, to provide the requisite level of spiritual intelligence, the requisite level of knowledge that number one helps you to know the Lord, and then number two equips you with the keys it takes to work in victory experientially away together. That means that after a while of exposing yourself to the truth of God's word, you must come to a point where you are strengthened, you are equipped equipped. Efficients Chapter four, when you read from verse nine down to eleven, the Bible says it's for this reason that he gave on to some apostles and prophets and evangelists, pastors and teach us. Why for the equipping some versions equipping all the same maturing perfecting of the saints. We have all kinds of professionals in our mix. We have doctors, we have business people, we have politicians, and so on and so forth. You are not equipped by just giving every and any tool. You are equipped by giving the tools that. You will need to excel. Imagine with me, for instance, that a farmer goes to the farm, and the equipments that you give him is a syringe, it's an injection away together now a bandage. Those are usefulments, but not for farming. So the Bible says in Collosure, chapter three, from verse sixteen, it says, let the world of Christ dwell in you richly. Then it says, in all wisdom the world of Christ can dwell in you richly, but not in wisdom. The wisdom part is that you are equipped methodically. You are equipped in a way and manner that supplies the spiritual arsenals such that you not only have these truths, but you know how to use them if and when occasions demand are way together. The end of knowledge is to be able to solve problems. To provide solutions with the information that you have, any information that is not able to solve your problem is almost useless away together. So this is not an advocacy just to communicate random truth. There is an intentional project to equip you with the requisite body of knowledge. Listen carefully, Please listen carefully. When it has to do. With the knowledge of God, exploring the person of God, it will take eternity. We will never exhaust him. Even in heaven. There is room to come up hither. We will continue to know Him as his glory on folds. But as far as our excelling in this kingdom is consigned, please listen. There is a finite body of spiritual information that we need. You can handle the truth that makes for your victory here and now. The narrative that the truth we need to excel in life are so many an infinite it's not an accurate narrative. You can understand the principles that make for speed, for restoration, for favor, for increase, just like a student continues to learn even after graduation. But there is an exact body of truth that is response for awarding him a degree in a field, and he can exhaust it and hold a degree as a testament that I have faithfully exhausted this body of light. So our advocacy is to bring us to a point of accuracy spiritually, that you know what keys are responsible for what outcomes. This is the whole idea of victory. You know I said it at the first service, the inaugural service, that. Many believers have truth. It is like a house. How many of you know that a house has many rooms and not all keys open every door. Is that true? If you are in that house and the only door that is opened is the door to your living room. If what you need to do is just to relax, that's fine. But if you need to use the restroom and you do not have the key that opens the restroom, you're in trouble. If you need to go to the kitchen and you do not have the key that opens the kitchen, you are in that house, but. You will still be frustrated. So the Bible says, and I will give you the keys of the kingdom. These keys control favor, they control speed, they control your prayer life. Week after week, God begins to hand these keys to us. So, after a. While of immersing yourself in this truth, you stand surrounded by mysteries like chariots and you can take on life with confidence. You are not shadow boxing, you are not hoping. Listen, the laws of the kingdom are so powerful they are protected by God's own jealousy away together. The Bible says, how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall the preacher. Go accept he be sent except he be sent. So please do not take likely and do not take casual. Every opportunity you have to learn the ways of God. God is taking away from our lives the religiousity around information that cannot produce results. I know something about prayer, I know something about fasting, I know something about night vigil, I know something about communion, I know something about the. Name of Jesus. And we have little. Dimensions of cat tach spiritual truth that are not seen. Agis to produce victory in our lives. So our Christian experience becomes one that is full of fear because we do not know the. Arsenals that were designed to command what level of victory. There is a random pursuit. Listen, the faith life can be an interesting adventure. When you are equipped with knowledge, You're no longer ignorant. You know you know what it. Takes to bring favor you know what it takes to open closed doors. The goal is never for a man of God to stand and become king of kings and lord of lords over your life. Ah. The goal is that by the election of grace, you are immersed under this atmosphere of knowledge, and that you are equipped to the point where you now become a savior yourself on the strength of the truth that you know, and you have results after results. It now begins to strengthen your confidence. You get to a point where you are no longer doubting, you are not hoping. Does this work? Does this not work? You know is that I know whom I have believed, and I am persuaded. Allelujah, Are you blessed? The saints are built in this kingdom through the communication of the world. More specifically, the exegesis of doctrine. Doctrine is the name given to the cost content, the cost curriculum that builds the believer to a point of stature and maturity in the spirit, so more than the miracles and the manifestations, inasmuch as those things are very important, but we must submit ourselves to the methodical approach of spiritual growth, where we not only know the Lord but we understand his ways. They are called the mysteries of the Kingdom. Jesus said, I am the Way. I'm not only a person, I am God authorized method. You can study Jesus the Way as the pathway to victory. Please run away from. That Christian narrative that continues to endorse and justify failure in your life, provided you are knowing the Lord. It downplaces the place of excelling in life and makes it look like there is no need you believe that narrative. No matter how well in intention, you will use your lifetime being the price for it. I am calm, he said John chapter ten Undus ten. He says the chief comment not but for to still to kill and to destroy. Then it says, I am calm. That he may have life that is a level, then it says, and then to have it more abundantly. So there is life, and there is abundant life. Life, the peace that you have with God based on the impartation of eternal life. More abundant life is eternal life in your spirit alongside a victorious. Life on earth. That is abondant life. I made up my man years ago that I will never lead the people who excel in their spirit, walk, prayer, fellowship with God, and then become failures in life, and their lives become. A reproach to the victory that was won. When Jesus said it is finished, he did not only mean the same problem was finished. He also meant dominion had been restored. Are we together? Now? You have to believe the whole counsel of God. Many times, some of these erroneous doctrines come out of a combination of pride and frustration. Pride because we do not open ourselves to learn more. Frustration because we exhaust the body of knowledge we know, and so we are not able to. Command other levels of results. In frustration, we now build a theology around our failure to explain away the possibility of complete victory. A believer can have complete victory. You can love the Lord and grow in passion, while your finances also grow, while your influence grows, while you enjoy longevity and have peace with your children. This is a bondant life. Are we together? If it is true that the Gospel and the Kingdom life was designed to be useful to everyone, then it means it must capture within itself the ability to solve every problem we find on earth. I believe in the whole counsel of God, and by the grace of God, I will not fail to bring to us spiritual truth after spiritual truth. My assignment is to livel with the Spirit. And in partnership with other vessels across the body of Christ, to see and peace together the working knowledge of the world, the spiritual principles that are assigned first for our knowledge of God in experience, and then for our excelling in life. And to savage so passionately and diligently to whoever is interested that if and when you embrace the truth and you believe. Them and apply them. You know, many times we say one word from the Lord can change your life. That's not exactly true. One word from the Lord that is accurately taught, understood, and engaged with understanding. That is the word that produces you. Read your Bible. The Bible says that the souler came and sow the word Satan himself came and of root, and the seat Satan is not afraid of the world. He is afraid of the union of the world with the believer who understands it. Remember that his assignment his office in heaven was the light peerer. He was a custodian of the mysteries of the Kingdom. He's not afraid of the world. What Satan is afraid of is your understanding the world, and you're engaging it because the power of God is released at the instance of your understanding and applying, not just receiving. Are we together prays the name of the Lord? So let me just use a few minutes to touch on a topic that I believe would help to accelerate our growth Psalm sixty five, verse two, The Mystery of prevailing Prayer. The mystery of prevailing prayer. I want to teach you something about prayer to add to your spiritual assents that will command victory after victory in your life. The Bible says a dow that herees prayer. This immediately tells you not everybody. Can hear prayer or dou that heares prayer. It says, onto the shall all flesh come. This statement is both an acknowledgment and a recommendation. The writer is recommending that among the many people who claim to be able to hear an answer prayer, through my research, I have found out that there is only a single individual whose sustens the ability to hear prayer. And my recommendation is all flesh. If you really need your prayer answer, there is one who hears prayer. It says, onto. Tea, shall all flesh come. The subject of prayer is a very interesting one because every religion, regardless what they believe, they believe in prayer as the medium of communicating with the divine. Almost every religion believe that there is a reality beyond the three dimensional realm. They have all kinds. Of propositions that have been strengthened by their experiences, but altogether they believe that there is some force or some deity above and beyond the realm of science that can come into partnership with men here and now I'm produce by men of victory that is not given. To ordinary men. So the subject of prayer is not new. Across religions, across all kinds of faith practices. But then the challenge many times has been that believers become frustrated because after dissipating hours and energy in what we no one call to be prayer, it looks to me and to many of us in our experience, that the amount of energy, even physical and emotional energy that is being exerted into this activity we call prayer, doesn't seem commensory. To the results that follow are in agreement. So in week out we have the House of God across this city, across this nation, filled with professing believers who are praying in some way. Many adding with fast things. But when you compare the level of energy, the level of zest and zeal and emotional strain that we go through in that activity we call prayer fascist the result that comes from it, it doesn't seem to add up. And yet the Bible tells us that God is love. The Bible tells us God is abpa, that he is more willing if he did not spare his son Jesus, he's more willing to give us all things. Are we together look Chapter eleven, the disciples began to study. The life and the ministry of Jesus. Now, until Jesus came, John the prophet, who we call the Baptist, had his disciples. Some of them later became the. Disciples of Jesus theologically speaking, and they saw him pray, They saw him do a lot of things, and he also taught them. He also gave them a few lectures about the ministry of prayer praise the name of the Lord. But in a to that they saw the crimes and the Pharisees pray. Did you know that even till today in Israel, when you travel to Israel, you see that the order of the day all across Israel is prayer. They are all. Kinds of the average. Now I'm saying it respectfully. I know that there are people following from all over the world, but the average Israeli is a prayerful person. Is that true? They have all kinds of enchantments and all kinds of spiritual activity that they do that represent prayer. So the disciples were not in ignorance. But something was wrong with their prayer lives. They noticed that every time Jesus prayed, it produced tremendeous results. They had observed there was something about his approach to prayer. There was something about. The character of his own prayer that was not captured in their own experience. Look eleven, so we're not dealing here with the issue of pray, pray and lessness. They were not prayer less people. They were prayer for people. But they were frustrated because they didn't seem to capture in their experience the real formula that made prayer prevail. It came to pass. The Bible says that as he was praying in a certain place, when he was done praying. One of the disciples now reached out and said, Lord, teach us to pray. I've done several teachings across this, so prayer. You really know how to pray where you are taught to pray. You don't just know how to pray by praying. No, the disciples said, teach us, we're tired of shadow boxing. There is something about your understanding that we need as. We approach the subject of prayer. As John taught his disciples, are way together. Verse two is very interesting. Jesus did not say, guys, you are already praying. Don't worry. It's just because the holigos has not come upon you know. He acknowledged that they didn't know how to pray, and he said, unto them, when ye pray, there are certain things that. You need to understand. Will leave that fore, not that it's a series that we're going to be taken. Are we together? Jeremiah, Chapter thirty three and verse three Jeremiah thirty three, Verse three. Call on to me, the Bible says, and I will answer, and I will show you great and mighty things which thou know as not. This is a promise that if you know how to call on to me, there is an assurance that I will answer. Many believers, dear people of God, please listen to me. I submit to you that many believers in the Body of Christ do. Not know how to pray. They pray, but they do not know how to pray. The same way many people try to drive, but they do not know how to drive. You are not taught how to drive just by sitting in front of the steering and taking responsibility and assuming what you know. The chances of casualty are very high if you take it that way. Is that true? So there is an authorized body. The government has many provisions to help people who desire to learn to drive. There are driving schools. When you go there, you submit yourself. You do not argue with the lecturer. The lecturer has a track record, and so you sit down and you learn, and with childlike humility you begin to get the story until you yourself now become. A professional driver. And then you teach others listen prayer, even though it is a mystery. When I use the word mystery is a generic name given to the body of truth that the saints holds to be victorious. Matthew thirteen and verse eleven. Jesus was speaking in an extension of his lecture that we call the Beatitude. The Bible says, he said, on to them, because it has been given unto you to know the mysteries of the Kingdom, a compendium of the body of light spiritual knowledge that helps the saints to represent the Christ and to excel in this kingdom. They are called mysteries. A mystery is a hidden code of operation. It's not a code of operation that is obvious to everyone, nos. Privy to only a group of people. This is why they are called mysteries. They are not called mysteries because God intends for them to be hidden. They are mysteries because they require the agency. Of the spirit. And then they require a regenerated believer to really understand how it works. Because the natural man, the Bible says, does not understand the things of the spirit. Why, because they are spiritually discerned. Some of the things that you are hearing. If someone comes just from a philosophical standpoint, it may not make a lot of sense because it requires being spiritual. Are we blessed? So we're dealing with the subject of prayer. The Bible is full of instances where God mandated and encourage men to pray. The Bible is full of instances where believers prayed. In fact, the Bible is full of instances where unbelievers prayed. And the Bible is also full of instances where God answered. And you know what, the Bible goes as far as giving us details on how God answers prayer. The miracles, the signs. The wonders that we experience in scripture where largely products of prayer. Believer us, if you understand the mystery of prevailing prayer, your life will be a sign and a wonder. You do not know how cheap set. Is until you understand the dynamics of prevailing prayer. I believe in the power of prayer. I'm a product of prayer. This ministry is a product of prayer. But I made up my mind that I would fade away every kind of ignorance that. Is in the prayer ministry. Just because your eyes are closed, and just because you are shouting. Just because you are calling in Jesus name and your prayer, and just because you are adding prayer points does not mean you are praying. Can I tell you this about God. God is a loving and merciful God, but he has chosen to exalt his word above his name. The meaning of that is that even as well meaning and well intentioned as you are, if you violate the protocol of prevailing prayer, God is touched with the feelings of your infirmity, but you will not get results. Are we together? Many years ago I used to pray and not get so many results, and it was very frustrated. Did you know that in the body of Christ, I think for many churches we have a number of pastors here. You will observe, maybe until recently, that the least attended programs in many churches are prayer meetings. Do you know why? Because there is a track record that the people seem like they're wasting their time there. They come and they pray, they pray, they pray, and then we say it is none and nothing happens. So the people kept documenting their frustrations and over a long period of time they came to a conclusion that this. Prayer does not work. Most of what we call prayer. Is just a communication of lamentation. Let me tell you how many believers pray God? Is this how you're going to be watching. Me from heaven? And then we introduce all kinds of white sayings. And while we are communicating those things were even crying. And then at the end of it, just we just wrap up everything and say Jesus' name. That's not how to pray. Ask the average believer to come and hold this mic and say, lead us into an intelligent prayer. From the standpoint of one who has grown in the spirit. We will wonder at the versions of prayer. It will look like we're praying to many people, and yes, we're praying to the same person. Away together. Prayer walks, prayer walks. Prayer is an advantage that was given to the believer to tap into. A realm that is higher than the realm of men. Ordinary people in partnership. With the realm of the spirit through the medium of prayer have done wonderful things here on earth. Listen to me. Every situation that stands before you now only looks strong because of how your ignorance has magnified it. When knowledge comes, it deflates challenges. Listen to what I'm telling you. Ignorance is a magnifier of trouble. Ignorance is a magnifier of evil. It makes the devil to seem so strong. When Jesus walked upon the. Earth, Jesus began to talk about prayer. He spoke extensively about the ministry of prayer, and he prayed himself, in fact, in Matthew, chapter twenty one, please turn their Matthew, chapter twenty one, I believe, verse thirteen. Matthew twenty one, please give it to us, verse thirteen. Remember one time Jesus entered the temple and he saw that the people were so frustrated because of the extent of prayerlessness. They said, instead of wasting our time here praying, at least, let's turn it into a commercial place so that we don't lose. Do you know what it means to turn the house of God into a place of business? That means what we expected prayer to do. We found out it does not do. Let's use our intelligence. And so Jesus, in anger, made a weep, and when he had flogged them, turned the exchange tables upside down. Here's what he had to say. Thirteen. He said, it is. Written my house, my house shall be called the house of prayer. But you have made it a then of thieves. Wow. So there is something about the ministry of thieves that can happen in God's house. God's house there does not just mean the assembly. It also means you as the temple of the Holy goods. That if something is bankrupt, as first prayer is concerned, the ministry of the thief can prevail anywhere prayer is law or dead. Listen carefully, My house there does not just mean the assembly of God. You as the house of God, that if something is wrong, if your life is not called the house of prayer, the exchangers will come. They will come and pitch a table in your destiny and begin to exchange possibilities in your life. What happened in the house of God was an adomination of what happens in the realm of the spirit in life and destinies that do not pray or do not pray accurately. My house, the body, and then the believer. If you want to do away with exchanges, that come to trade parts of your body and your. Life and your destiny for business. The cure for it is to turn that body into a house of prayer. It's God's speaking to someone here. Are you seeing the reason why thieves have come to pitch a tent. They exchange your glory and your destiny and play games around you because your body, your house has. Refused to be called a house of prayer. Second instance. And then I build a few things and will pray. Jesus himself casted out the demon, and he was teaching in one of his mentorship sessions. And here's what he said. He said, when a spirit leaves a man, Jesus is teaching now, when a spirit leaves a man, that that's it goes through dry regions looking for a place of refuge. Why is that so? There's no time to explain it to you? You see, God, spirit beings have spirit bodies. There is something called the law of territory. You are only at ease in a territory when you are made up of the same material with that territory. Are we together now? That means, if you are in heaven, you. Will never be at peace. Until you are made with the material of that atmosphere. Are we together now? These embodied spirits. You see, when they left their original estates. You know what that means, because angels and these spirit beings can translate into different states. Not just like men that we're here always human. Now to perform certain assignments, they would have to translate, downgrade themselves to certain levels. They did that in rebellion, and when. They tried to return back to their original estate, they were hijacked. So till today, all these embodied spirits are in a state of restlessness because they are not in heaven and they are roaming around the earth and in the heath head. They're violating a law of territory because they do not have the material body for their spirits to find rest. Are you understanding it now? So constantly these embodied spirits are in a strait, loitering across the length and the breadth of the earth. And the way God created the human body is that there is a possibility of multiple spirits coexisting in the same body. It is not only one spirit that can coexist. One man had a legion, you remember in the Bible. That's to tell you howcast accommodation is for these demons. That a legion can make do with one body to find rest. So don't play games with your body. That's to tell you bodies are serious real estate issues in the realm. Of the spirit. Oh yes, when demons see bodies that are available, they don't play games with it. No, a body has done prepared for me. So when these spirits find expression in a body, they find some level of rest. They can occupy animals like they enter the swine. Is that true? But the most comfortable body it is the human body. Why Because humans are the senate of God's creation and their level of complexity can allow. The demons to find expression. The presence of will, emotion, and intellect can allow them to find expression. They may not have that level of liberty with animals. So there is a constant such for bodies. But here's where I'm going. The Bible says when a demon leaves a human body, it gets back into that state of restlessness away together. It goes around dry regions. I'm not finding a place. Here's what the demons will say. Like the prodigal song, the demon will say, I will arise and. Go back and go back to my house. The demon is still calling the place he. Left my house. That is in his mind. There is still a possibility of returning. And then the Bible says, when it comes, it will find that body swept, it will find that body clean. But it finds it, and and the demon is kind enough to invite all that demons higher than itself to build fortification to return to that individual, so that the latter part of that individual is worse. Than the beginning. Here in lies the mystery behind people who get free momentarily and then it looks like their situation multiply because they did not know what to do with the House of God. My house shall be called the house of prayer. There are six reasons I've written here why all believers must pray. There are six reasons I've written here. Would take that for tonight and pray. If you do not understand, do you know? Please look up? Do you know? The average believer praise largely to ease the guilt of looking like an unsirious Christian. They are not really interested in the results. Subconsciously, there seems to if you are a believer and you are living among other believers, you. Know prayer has a way of intimidating you. Someone is praying seriously and that prayer is judging your own seriousness. You keep looking at yourself, and in response to that sense of judgment, you find a way of conforming to that religious activity as an act of appeas ole. You're not interested in the results. The reason is because most of our prayer is not motivated by understanding. We have not been taught what prayer does. So we just do it because Jesus did it. We just do it because it makes us feel spiritual. But let me show you six biblical reasons why believers most pray ready number one the first reason, and those of you who are following from your homes from every nation, please do well to write it down so that you can teach others to We need to mature the body by helping. Them understand what prayer does. The first reason why we pray is that God commanded that we pray. It is a command. Two scriptures LOK Chapter eighteen and verse one, Popular Scripture. I use it a lord when teaching, especially around the subject of prayer. This was a parable Now in his earthwork, Jesus used a lot of parables why because his listeners were not spiritual people. They were not regenerated their organs of interacting with the realm of the spirit had not been developed through the ministry of the world and prayer, so he had to employ parables to help them explain how the kingdom works, and his fake a parable to this end. The morale of the parable is that men everybody say men. Men here doesn't just mean the male gender, men humans. That humans ought always to pray and not to faint, So it's a command. The whole idea of the story is to bring us to a point where we understand the power and the excellency of prayer. The Bible says, there was a city verse two. Look eighteen and verse two, there was a city in a city a George. May you never meet this kind of George in your life. In Jesus' name, my apologists to those who are those of us who are Georges and magistrates, am your friend. There was in a city a George. Look at the description of this kind of man. The Bible says, which feared not God. That means it's difficult for God to speak to him. Number two, in neither regarded man. You couldn't bribe him, you couldn't come and back. What sort of a man is this? So this is scene one, and then saying two, the Bible says there was a widow. A widow is saying this, supposedly a defenseless woman. Her source of security and defense has been taken away from her. He's teaching you the power of prayer. And then the Bible says, she came to sheep that man avenge. Me of my adversary. Verse four, the Bible says he would not for a while, but afterwards he said within himself, my God. That means there's something prayer does, even to be the most hardened situation. If you pray with time, there is an energy that prayer exacts that begins to change even the most impossible situations. It says, do I fear not God? So the man is aware. He's aware of his condition. It's not just that the writer is telling lies. The man is aware. He's testifying here now that even do I do not hear God nor regard man. Verse five, it says, yet, because this will do trouple let me. So there is something that prayer does to situations and circumstances. I will avenge her less by her opportunity, or the Bible says, have continual coming, she weary or weakened me. This is an illustration to show you what prayer does in the realm of the spirit, that no matter how weak and defenseless you are, if you can engage prayer consistently, that it can do something in the face of situations and circumstances. Prayer is a. Command once you are a man, If you are an angel, and you are a spirit, you don't need to pray. But provided you are wearing this material body. The Bible man dates that we pray first the Salonians five and verse seventeen, Second Scripture. For that point, let's hurry up. First the Salonians five and verse seventeen Apostle Pauly speaking to the church in Thessalonika, and he says, pray without season. The word pray without season does not mean pray from morning till night every day. You do that, you'll become an irresponsible man. You will not be able to to fulfill other things. The idea here is be consistent. The power of prayer is not just in the activity, but the consistency. Pray without season. Number two, why should we pray? According to First Corinthians, Chapter fourteen and verse two, the Bible recommends prayer as one of the strategies for fellowship with God and fellowship with Heaven. The Bible says, in this case, speaking about praying in an unknown tongue, it says, for he that speaketh in an unknown tongue, speaketh not onto men, but onto God. Now there's no time to contrast. This with what the Bible calls diverse kinds of tongues. There are two different experiences. When we come to the series on the Holy Spirit, then we touch the gifts of the Spirit. Then I will teach you this. The Bible. Creates a dichotomy between what it calls the gift of diverse kinds of tongues and the prayer language that was given to all believers. This has been an age long controversy in the Body of Christ as to whether it is all men that pray in tongues like all the other nine gifts. The gift of diverse kinds of tongues is not given. To everyone, but the prayer language. It says, for this promise is unto you and to your children, and to your children's children, as many as are far of, even as many as the Lord will call. When you read all through the books of Acts. Every time the Holy ghost gave it came on all of them, no reservation. They were all filled your Holy spirit. They began to speak tongues. Whether it's Acts chapter two, whether it's Acts Chapter six to eight, whether it's Acts chapter nineteen. The most classic sign or the most classic defense of the baptism of the. Holy Spirit with the dents of speaking. In terms, is found in at chapter nineteen. Maybe we just look at that very quickly, just to clear the air. On that. Verse one, the Bible says, Paul haven't passed through the upper coast. The Bible says that he came to Ephesos, and then he found certain disciples. Follow the discourse. Verse two, He said on to them, have you received the holygost since you believed? And they said onto him, we have not so much heard whether there be any holy ghosts. They were disciples. So you see there was something about their teacher. Their teacher was not teaching them something. They said in our lecture, we've not received this. We don't even know that there's anything called the Holy spirit. Surprise. Now, he said onto what then were you baptized? And they said, onto John's baptism. Now the lecture begins verse four, he said John's baptism verily, verily, John baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe on him who should come after him, that is on Christ. Verse five. When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus the miracle. Now, and when Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy goos came on them, and they spoke with tongues and prophesied. The Bible tells us their number. Verse seven. The Bible says, and all the men were about twelve. And they all received. So I just thought to bring this in. We have a separate series where we deal with that praise the name of the Lord. But just for you to know that when we talk about the prayer language of tongues, we're not talking about the gift of the diverse kinds of tongues. Are we together fellowship with God? When you begin to pray in the spirit, it brings fellowship. In fact, the Bible says, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God. It says the fellowship. That's where we get the word coin on her the sharing together the participation of the spirit. It says, let it abide with you, let it remain with you, let it be with you. When you fellowship with God, your fellowship with the Spirit, there is a divide deposit that comes from God into you, a transmission of power, wisdom, grace. Every spiritual virtue that makes for your excelling fellowship is very important. Are we together? It is one of the tools for fellowship. Number three, Why does the Bible man date that we pray? Prayer is one of the authorized platforms for growth. And for transformation. Prayer is one of the authorized platforms for growth and transformation. First Corethians. Fourteen and verse four, just two verses after what we just were. We just read First Coritians fourteen and verse four. The Bible says, he that's peaks in an unknown tongue at defied, at defied. The word at defy is an architectural term. You build yourself, You build capacity in the spirit. Remember, the Bible says, if you turn aside in. The day of battle, it is that your strength capacity is small. So you build capacity in the spirit when you pray. He that prays at defies himself. Look Chapter nine. Look Chapter nine, probably one of the most classic representations of the transforming power of prayer. Look Chapter nine, verse twenty eight and twenty nine. Look chapter nine, the Bible says, And it came to pass about and eight days after these sayings, he took Peter, John and James and went up to the mountain to pray. Verse eighty nine. The Bible says, And as he prayed, watch transformation. Two things happen. One the fashion of his countenance was altered, and his raiment became white and glissery. There is a dimension of beauty and glory you evolve. It's like it's like a transformation into superior dimensions of yourself when you pray. I am telling you this works. You can pray your way to higher. Dimensions of yourself. Growth and transformation bring for me a weak believer they made completely ignorant, but with the heart that is bent on prayer, I show you a sign and a wonder. Just a few months and a few years later, Let. One become one week, become one month, become one year, become three years, become five years. And I show you a sign and a wonder. Was it not Paul himself that says, I thank my God. I pray in terms more than ye all away together. I hope God is blessing or say amen. It's very important that we pray. Growth and transformation is impossible. For a believer if you do not pray. Now you see, for many believers, prayer is simply a tool for petitions and for receiving. Not transformation. The primary assignment of prayer. I'll be teaching as we proceed in the series. The primary assignment of prayer, believe me, is not for breakthroughs, for miracles, etc. No, most of the breakthroughs that we need we even meet. Them in the first place because of ignorance of the principles of the Kingdom. Remember, the Bible says, when you are praying, pray that your kingdom come, because when His Kingdom comes, there are many things you will not need to ask for again because of the presence of the Kingdom. Most of the miracles that we seek today are acts of. God's messive correcting our ignorance. So if you understand the Kingdom and the ways of God, your prayers will. Largely be that of fellowship and growth, not just. Petitions, because the accuracy of your understanding will bring triophs after trialmphs, results after results in your life? Is that true? God's desire is not for us to live in the realm of what we know to be miracles, science, and wonders. They are supposed to be a thing. Of wonder to unbelievers largely, But we who are in the Kingdom, miracles help to escort us to the place. Where we get to maturity and accuracy in the spirit. Now we begin to live by the mysteries of. The kingdom, growth and transformation. Show me a believer who engages in prayer, for many of us are prayer. It's not systemic, it's not methodical, it's haphazard. If you are fortunate to wake up any of the morning good for God and good for you that day, you can at least steal out thirty minutes quickly and feel spiritual, and then backslide in a very very bad way until after one month or when situations wake you up. Then you quickly catch up, You ask for forgiveness, you repent, and then you start again. Do you know that even in the secular mass, tree is gained through consistency, As anybody who leads his field in the secular you do not become a professional in anything by just free lancing and shadow boxing and getting your way. You have to invest your time, your energy, your resources in ever increasing dimensions to attend mystery, consistency, growth, and transformation. You must get to a point where you see the relevance of prayer. You discipline yourself. You get up in the morning. This is the day the Lord has made your prayer. She Lacker poles. Theatter you understand actification. You begin to deposed prayer our beiteaching us as a series. Proceed That prayer is one of the mysteries. That is not bound by time. That means you can send it to your tomorrow to wait for you. Prayer is powerful, Yes, sir, your prayer can be like an usher, like a protocol. You send it into your tomorrow to VERI five that the road is clear before you arrive. If for any reason it goes there and find demons attempting to go ahead. You know what the woman's prayer did to that George. That's exactly what will be happening while you come. Try young and clean. S dangerous to step into a rem that prayer did not usher you into. It's risky because the whole world lies in wickedness. Away together, Let's hurry up, we have to pray. Jude one. Jude has only one chapter, verse twenty. The bubble again talks about prayer. It says, but you beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith. Praying in the holygoes so prayer builds up. There are many ways that prayer builds up. It builds up by activatdy or organs. Of interaction with the realm of the spirit. So when you begin to pray, what happens to you is that your discernment and sensitivity is activated. You can know. Then you come into dimensions where people like Papa Hagen now begin to talk about the knowing of the spirit. When you can't know things. Even though your eyes and not see angels, but you can know they are here. And at first when you start in the school of prayer, it will look like you are lying. But the accuracy and the predictability of your results will convince you eventually that that faculty of perception is not a lie. You will know, you will perceive danger. Prayer is powerful. It brings you to a point where you are able. To interact that duality of realms you are human, yet you are spiritual. You can be a place and yet perceive spiritual realities. Number four, The fourth reason why we pray in this kingdom is. As an instrument for warfare and intercession. Yes, sir, warfare and intercession. Ladies and gentlemen. Demons are real, Spirits are real. Wickedness is real. The devil is as determined as ever to see that he towards the purposes of God over our lives and all that concerns us. Meaning, if you fail your hands and let him be, he will spread your life and destroy. Your family and everything that pertains onto you. But there is a provision in our dealing with God where believers can take advantage of the forces of the spirit that we're all brought as a result of the finished work of Christ. And through this mystery we call warfare and intercession, we can engage and establish these realities in our lives here and now. Warfare and intercession is very powerful. James, Chapter five and verse thirty apposed to James, now is teaching us James five and the starting the Bible says, is any among you afflicted buffeted, It's any among you. In a situation that is unpleasant. It's many among you seeing the handwriting of Satan over your children, your life, your career, your business. Don't explain it away using science or sociology. It says, the moment to find affliction, the solution is let him pray. We do every other thing but prayer. We discuss with people who do not have the maturity nor the might to help us out of that situation, and yet we do not pray. Is any among you afflicted? It says, let him pray for time save We may not read on, but when you read down to eighteen, it uses Elijah. It personalifies an individual called Elijah, that he was a man of like passions, but he took the tool of prayer and literally top rate physical. Not a parable over a territory. Let me tell you this. Elijah was not the only one who believed in the God of the Bible. And I'm sure there were people who said, God don't mind him. We command rain to come, and yet rain did not come. Because a man had authority to prayer, and God respected his authority. Regardless what you were saying that day, you would keep talking. If Elijah did not speak, rain would not come. May God give us that kind. Of authority. That you can stand and speak over your family, and said, this year, you all rise and go to bed. It doesn't matter who is talking after you. He spoke too late. You have declared, let all the enchantments and all the divinations speak, not the one that you prayer. And then you were lied and said, what are they saying now? No, Elijah's authority. When he declared it, he said, I know God. He went to bed. There were other prophets under the custody of Obediah. I'm sure someone would have been I know it and said, what an arrow, gaunt man. God, bring rain to show this man he's not the only one. And God said, no, it doesn't. Work like that. When you're a extending this spirit and you have authority, you will do one that's with it. He prayed for a space of three. And a half years there was no rain, and then to show you it was not luck, he went again and did. The same thing, and rain came. Allelujah, warfare and intercession. It was on the strength of prayer. In Acts chapter twelve, when you read from verse one to seventeen, the Bible says. Peter was bound. Hand and fit in chains, they were preparing to kill him. But the Bible says verse five that Peter was kept in prison, but prayer was made without season. That's Paul's encouragement now of the church onto God for him. Believe me when I tell you prayer is powerful. They began to engage the realm of the spirit. Suddenly, the Bible tells us that an angel came. The angel was always available. Peter would have died without that. Angel coming, and yet the Angel was available somewhere. This series will talk about the ministry of angels, because most believers do not know anything about the ministry of angels. The Bible says their assignment is to work in partnership with the only Spirit, to see that the world of God is never called a lie in your life. That's the assignment of angels. They are enforce us. Hey, man, I can't do theater. That means when there is nothing happening from your end, they keep loitering around. Did you know that one of the ways that Satan knows God is doing something with you is through the activity of angels in the realm of the spirit. If prayer less believer does not have jelic activities, what. Are they doing. When Setan begins to sense on usual angelic activities, he was once there, so he knows. Ah, these angels don't come for nothing. They are coming in response. When Jacob slept in chapter twenty eight of Genesis, when he slept, the Bible lets us know that he saw a ladder connecting to the heavens, and angels were ascending and descending. The Bible never said they were coming to him. He only saw them walking. They were going to those who were calling their ministry. That was why he said the Lord was here. These angels were passing me, and they didn't do anything to me. There's no record of any angel bringing anything to him, Yet they were ascending and descending. Angels can be in your compound. They can be your vicinity. They can be your office, ascending and descending, bringing testimonies for those who are praying. Do not make the mistake of ji come. Jacob said, the Lord was in this place. I had a challenge for my lifting. I had a chance for my rising. But according to the law of the wheel, it would be scripturally incorrect for the angels to come and do anything you didn't answer them to do. I want to show you why many of you can have dreams and see a lot of angelic activities and yet nothing ever happens. Angels don't come because you're in Christian They come because there is a demand. Jesus kept speaking. He sent prayer to his future. After three days, I would rise. It was not an information. After three days I would rise. When it was the God day. God said you had the prayer, an angel came, rolled the stone and sat on it. Let me tell you, if Jesus kept quiet, I never said anything, he would have been surprised. What would happen after three days? The body will not decay, but you will not come out either. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, believe what I'm teaching you. It's why many people do not rise. They come on the strong influence of angelic activities, but they are silent. Do you not know that this is how the spirit of depression works. The assignment of the spirit of depression is to use offstacles to reduce you to a point of silence. Balam God, these people, I'm baalam said, I try, but there is the shout of the King in the midst of them. These are the mysteries that give us power and dominion in this kingdom. When you pray there are tools of warfare. You don't fight, You only activate the laws that make warfare to. Be a reality. So what we call warfare is not you fighting. What we call warfare is you authorizing the host of heaven, angel armies, my brothers and my sisters. You do not one angel, two angels use halstone. Is it in your Bible? When an angel's tones you will you be alive? Look at the Bible. These things were not parables. They actually happened. The angel appeared and told Joshua. Joshua removed his sword. Do you know why he removed his sword? Because God gave him a word, No man will be able to stand against you. So when the angel came, he said who are you? And the angel had to answer because the one of God was in on him. If that angel kept quiet, he would have been surprised. It was not. The knife said God told. Me something, who are you? And the angels said no, no, no, hold on it. It is true. Believe what I'm telling you. Don't play with what God has told you. You can take you to battle. Oh, he told me that in twenty twenty one, I am victorious. Oh, yes, I believe it. This is not some pentecosta dagon. It is true. Listen down, What then, is the basis of our confidence? If this is not true? Before Satan attacks you, let me tell you what happens. Satan is every other thing, what a fool? Before he attacks you, he will research what you know and what. You don't know. He will bring it together and build a strategy to attack you. He does not attack randomly examines what. Do you know about prayer? What do you know about agreement? What do you know about prophetic connection? Oh? He doesn't know so much? Here, what do you know about giving? So he brings it? What strategy can we devel? Look? What are the loopholes in his spiritual life? That becomes the basis for the strategy. Is why Satan is almost accurate when he strikes, because he does not shadow box. He uses your knowledge and your ignorance. Puts them together and build the strategy for your attack. If you are certain, will you like me? Verse five? Oh, number five? Number five? We have to finish rules at Cantus at. Time Luke, Chapter two two from these thirty Why does the Bible mandate. That we pray? Prayer is now the platform to make our requests, our requests, our petitions known. Oh no, let's I made a mistake. That's point six. Let's go to five. It's a strategy to keep your faith alive. The fifth point, please correct it. Prayer is a strategy. For leaving faith. When you want your faith to be alive and living. Look twenty two two versus quickly, verse thirty and thirty two. Prop look twenty two. From the starty to thirty two, that he may eat and drink at my table in the kingdom and sit on thrones judging the twelfth tripes of Israel. That one, and the Lord said, now watch this. Remember the first time Satan came to Jesus after the temptation in Matthew chapter four, he came to him, it is written. It is written, Satan left for a season. The next time he would come, he did not come directly again. He came to Peter. Are we together now? And he used Peter's compassion to try to say something that will stop Jesus from going to the cross. And Jesus deciding, he said, Simon, Simon. Behold, Satan had desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat thirty two, what was a remedy? But I have prayed for you that your fate failed not, he says. And when you are converted, anytime. You see people doubting what God has said, Suddenly on Sunday you were believing, But on Tuesdays, like you're saying, flow. This thing is like wisdom is profited to direct, he said, use this same formula to convert them. Tell them an attack is happening. What suddenly happened that last week? You are full of faith, But right now it looks like you're just saying when one day go better, The wise saying that the devil uses to deceive us. When your faith fails, your convictions begin to dwindle. The classic character of faith is found in Romance chapter four. When you read it uses Abraham and Sarah as a portrait that he wavered not at his faith to unbelieve. He counted God faithful. When you pray in. The spirit, it truly keeps your faith alive, because how many of you have gone to a place of prayer. You went doubting, and you kept praying, and suddenly it's like a generator. All of a sudden courage. You know that this is doable. You even ask God forgive me for the kind of un belief I used to come to pray. Now my heart is alive again. And then numbers, and we're rapital for tonight. Why does the Bible man date that we pray? Prayer is a platform. To make requests and petitions? Are you saying that for most believers this is the only one we know requests and petitions? And yet that is just number six. Mark eleven and verse twenty three and twenty four Mark eleven, twenty three, twenty four. Jesus cost the fit tree. The next date was cost and the disciples were surprised. And use your opportunity to teach them something about faith. Verily, verily, I say unto you, whatsoever shall say to dismounting be removed and cast into the sea, shall not doubt in his heart, but shall. Believe that those things which is saith shall come to pass. The Bible says he shall have whatsoever he says the law is say in verse twenty four. Therefore I say unto you, what things soever ye desire, he says, when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you shall have them. It is in the place of prayer we receive, and you can never have what you have not received. There are two different things. Receiving and having is different. Receiving his spiritual having is the manifestation. If you have not received it in the realm of the spirit, you will never have it physically. And that happens in the place of prayer. Philippians Chapter four and use six a platform to table our requests and our petitions. The Bible says, being careful. King James says careful, but it's not an accurate translation. The real translation there the root word there is anxiety. Be anxious, it says for nothing, right, it says, but in everything, so there is nothing. There is no aspect of your life. But prayer cannot be involved in It says, be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving. Here's the instruction. Let your requests be made known. Don't as you God knows it. It says, make your request none. King James says, make your request known, and how do you know God has answered that? Prayer? Verse seven Alelujah and the peace of God. If you have truly made your request known, you can know that your request has reached heaven, because suddenly the peace of God in a way that surpasses all understanding, will keep the word keep here is garrison. It will pure the. Defense around your heart so that all the troubles. That come and make your faith to vacillate the peace of God like a strong wall. Allelujah, Wed's day, you sing that your song again. Just prepare, very beautiful, powerful song, prays the name of the Lord, as we prepare to wrap up final scripture for tonight James four. From verse two and three James four, the Bible says, in fact, let's start from verse one to three James four. It says, from when's comment wars and fighting? Oh dear, I wish I had time to work this apostle. James is a very intelligent apostle. He's tracing the root of many people's problems. He's saying, from when's comes wars and fighting among you? Do they not come because of disappointed expectations? There are secret desires that you have. You want to rise, you. Want to be successful, you want to make progress. You want your ministry to blossom, you want business to move forward. And it is human. It says that the loss that war in your members. First two, it says he lost that means you have even an ungodly desire and affinity and you have not. You even go to the extent of killing all desiring to have and you cannot obtain You cost quarrel and fight and war, yet you have not and the simple reason not knowing that everyone can have a great destiny in Christ. Are you seeing what James is tressing now? James is trasing for us the root of bitterness and hate, tred among family members, maybe respectfully speaking among ministers, in our society, among politicians, is saying, if you know what prayer can do, you will never envy anybody because everything you ever see there is a way of getting it to another person's testimony. Is not why you are suffering. This is what James is trying to correct. Same ply because you don't know how to ask. Look at the side effect of not being equipped with level of knowledge. And then pase three, He says, he ask and you receive, not because. You ask and miss. Are you saying now, so he's not talking about prayerlessness. He's talking about inaccuracy in understanding how. To ask and receive. That he may consume it upon your lost petitions can be made. Listen, God did not leave us in this kingdom defenseless. This our world is a weakened world. And if God were to leave us to ourselves defenseless, we may not be. Able to rise. Only God knows the kind of attacks per day, per season that come upon families, that come upon men of. God, some of your politicians. If God opens your eyes to see the number of people who try to invoke spirits day and night, that you go down, there are families just because God is helping you, you do not know how many people. Is fallacy to believe that everyone is clapping for you, and yet the Bible says. Share of fine comfort. You can still excel in this world because you are not alone. Heaven has a way. Of coming into partnership with you to make you invisible and to make your life a sign and a wonder that when all the stakes are down, you are still standing in that family And they say by what means. Your grandfather could not stand? And you tell them, I learned that prayer is partnership with Heaven. I can draw strength I do not have. I can draw wisdom I do not have. Let me wrap up tonight by teaching you something. The highest proof of humility is prayer. Prayerlessness is not just see it is pride. When you do not pray. It is proof that you are sufficient in yourself. Prayer Lessness is a statement you are making to God that I have vetted you, Oh God. And I have not found anything in you that I do not have. I don't need you. When we pray, it is proof of humility. It is an acknowledgement that we are limited in ourselves, and we. Call for support, and we call for help. Even the military, when they go for war, they have a system of asking for reinforcement. When it looks like the battle is raging, then they have a way of calling, and the command releases more soldiers. I have stood face to face with situations in my life that I knew that only prayer could come in. Many of you have. Stood face to face with situations, legal situations, political situations, health situations. When you stand before lives, challenges and situations, sometimes you may need to drop your inellet. Sometimes you may need to drop studies and call. With all humility. Even Jesus, at the height of his pain at the Cross, he did not keep quiet, Elloy, Elloy Lamarck Sabatanay. Father, if you're not turn your face from me, then I know that I'm truly defenseless. And the Father turned it away because he was looking at man. The Lord is nigh them that call upon him. Listen to me. You can use the instrument of prayer to bring God down to your life, and He stands by. You like a mighty terrible one. You may be weak right now. See that here, listen to me. Some of you are in ministry and you. Are asking a postle, where will I get church land? Where will I even get the money for it? Some of you are father's already plunging into depression because the pandemic brought so much debt. You are in a situation when you go to pray, you just sit down and cry. I bring you words of comfort. God is not evil to leave you alone. It is our pride that. Keeps driving the help of God away from us. My Bible says, I will lift up my eyes onto the heels. Then he asks the question, he said, from whence comment my health? I don't know about you, but my help my assistance. Ah. I may look weak or warm, Jacob as weak as you are, as defenseless as you. Are, But let the jealousy of God. Be introduced to your life, and you will watch your life rise in a way that will first surprise you the recipient of that kindness. The hymn writer says, how did he put it? Now? It says, all what needless pain will be? He says, all because we could not carry everything. You know. I thank God for the honor of the privilege that He's given me to work in miracles, science and wonders. And sometimes when I have the opportunity to minister to people, I almost tempted to ask them, why. Did you allow it to get this long? Did you not know that God is that mighty? Did you not know that God is able to lift? Why did you allow the issue of your house threads to go so bad? Why did you allow your health to deteriorate? Why did you run to God? The prodigal's son kept being proud, No, I won't go to my father. I don't want shame. And the more he stayed there doing bold face, the more he kept going down. Until he became like one of the pigs. But one day he came to himself, he said, how many higed servants. That's the voice of humility. You know, many times we want to take credit for everything in our lives. Joshua Selman is a doer, and God says, in. This kingdom born as a rebels, if you can step back and say, Lord, you made me further over this family, but the bills are killing me. I step back and I allow Abbah to take his face this political office. I'm tired of the persecutions that come here, and if I leave it. To myself, one day they will kill me for nothing. Someone can give you a cup of tea that is full of poison, and I know you think you are avoided, but your memory can failure. One day. Hunger and test will make you finish drinking it first. But you can still find comfort. It is not only when you avoid evil that you are free. There are times that the fire has no power over you. The three Hebrew boys men who the fire have no power. It is not only avoidance that brings victory. There are times you can walk through the fire as I have forty three and verse one and two. Fear not, it says, I am with you. I have redeemed you, I have called you by name. You are mine. And then it says verse two, when thou. Passest through water, I will be with you, And through the rivers they shall not overflowed you. It says when thou walke at. Through fire, you shall not be burned. Neither shall the flame kindle upon you. Business people, hear me. I know that many of you here veterans of business. I don't mean to insult your pedigree, but you have done so much just with human connection. Why don't you resort with humility to invite divine assistems that in addition to this, some of you are professionals in your place of work. Why don't you employ the hand of God. I am very. Quick to step back and say, Lord, if you leave me to myself, how many. Things do I know? Don't leave me at the messy of my ignorance. I am learning slowly, but the demands are faster at my rate of learning. Can you come and stand by me as. A mighty terrible god? Bow your heads in prayer. In one minute, everyone will praying. We just have five minutes and we're done for tonight's service. Please be patient, don't be distracted. Everyone. All the overflows outside following online whiles speaking. The Holy Ghost is speaking to you and. Telling you you need to lay aside that burden. You are carrying loads. Pleasus said, my yoke is easy. This family burden will chill you for nothing. Exam this political burden may frustrate you to a point that it may injure you. The demands on your business. You are probably owing millions and billions in corporate debts. It would take more than just finding solutions by the. Arm of flesh. Some of you are dealing with loved ones with terminal diseases. Some of you are in ministry. You have exhausted all you know. As far as church prot is concerned, we were not left defenseless. Everyone talked to the Lord, your maker. The Bible says to come boldly before him. It's time for us to work in victory. And you are not just praying this for yourself alone. You are praying for others two because through you like they be damn sad. That God can flow through you to bless others. Everyone, please pray. We have just two minutes and we're done. Who are you praying? Quickly? Whatever you want to do, Lord, you can do through me. Someone is praying, Oh I am well able. I am well able. I am not the weak believer. On that situation and circumstances, his stands might be as a mighty terrible one to change. You can change things through prayer. That family should not remain like that. That's financial situation does not have to remain like that. Man of God, your strength is limited. You can outfost intelligence. You can outfrost power from a direction that is not human business people, Gord, you can change. What you want. Tray tray, Let the song inspire. You aren't free and change the power of prayer. Thy Kingdom, call fasitations for my family, new levels. In the spirit, not in say. Whoever you want to touch, Lord, you can touch through me. Whatever you want. To bring, Lord, you can breed th me. Whatever you want to. Be, Lord, you can beild for me. Whoever you want to lift, Lord, you can live true me. Whoever you want to lessen, Lord, you can bless through me. Whoever you want to he. Lord, you can hear true me. Wherever you want to change, Lord, you can change. Prayer can change your husband, Madam, I assure you. Prayer can change your wife. Prayer can't change your children. You may have taken them to rehab. Why don't you try the power of prayer, call upon the God of Heaven, who is able to change. We have one more minute. Someone talk to God about your job. Someone talk to God about your position. Talk to God about that which stops you from sleeping. The key part of Israel, the Bible says, he does not sleep nor slumber. Listen, let's look at me. We're out of time. We have to end for tonight. But as always, we are committed to the global harvest. There are people that the Lord brought here tonight, many who are following from the US, UK, Asia, the Caribbeans. Whilst under the influence of this world. The spirit of the Lord is speaking to you, many of you. You are here seated the balconies, all of the overflows right down to the basement outside, and the Holy Spirit is speaking to you. That is time to make it right with Jesus. Such an honor to be used by Him to save. As we sing, I like you to leave your seat very quickly. Their honors were saying. An apostle standing here, I'm hearing the word of the Lord. It is time for me to be a serious Christian. I'm tired of playing games with my destiny. As I leave this song singing, I wanted to run and come stand here. All of you are at the overflows. Just you would just run to your projector screens and stand here. Those online you would connect by faith and pray the prayer. Whoever you want to save, Lord, you can't say through me, keep coming whoever you want to change, Lord, you. Can't change through whoever you want to leave. Lord, you can leave through. Whoever you want to Lord. Yes, I'm counting five. Run to Jesus. Don't sit back thinking, apostle, I want to combat. I'm member. Asked I want to combat. I'm not sure. I came with my family members. How do I come? I'm shy. No, this is not a funeral service. The greatest gift that you can be given is the gift of Jesus. This is not religion, This is not charge. This is an experience to start a Johnny with God that gives you peace with God that your children and your children's children will benefit from. Don't be so selfish that you sit back and allow those connected to you to suffer because you have refused to give up on your pride. Are you coming? Keep coming? Whoever you want to change, Lord, you. Can't share to me. Who whatever you want to live? Lord, Yet. Some of you are crying. Don't be ashamed of your tears. Listen to me. The call to Jesus is not from all that call for wicked people to come. Understand it takes a lot of courage. That you are standing here is proof that you are strong. That you are standing year is proof that you are selfless. Because salvation is not just for you alone. Come to Jesus. Our time is gone, but come to Jesus. We're not playing religion. Here. Jesus is a big. Deal for your life after now and the excelling of your destiny here right now. God bless you, God bless you. Now. Look at me. Some of you who are standing here, I salute you. Thank you so much for the courage. Some of you are crying. I salute you for the courage to stand. The Bible says. Whoever will come to him, he will in no wise cast away. Everybody who means business with God will most at a point in. His life, answer this call. Refusing this call is pride. Don't run away from an opportunity to come to Jesus. Who else can help you? I'm going to lead you to pray this prayer. Number of you are reddicating your lives. Some of you are making this decision for the first time. It doesn't matter what category. I like it to lift your right hand in surrender and total submission to Jesus, who is here in our needs more than Joshuaselm and beyond him, the Christ of God is here. And I like you to say tell me, say it sincerely, acknowledging that Jesus is here. Say Lord Jesus one more time. Say Lord Jesus, I love you with all my heart. Those falling online join the prayer tonight. I have heard your word. I declare that I am unable to help myself. So I come to you, the author. And the finisher of my faith. I receive forgiveness of sin. I receive eternal life into my spirit. I also receive the abundance of grace, the gift of righteousness. I declare that from today, the power of sin, the power of Satan, the power of the grave is broken over my life. I begin a new journey with the Lord Jesus Christ. No condemnation, no voice speaks against me. I am a new person. From today, I go forward ever and backward never. Amen, keep your hands lifted Jesus. As always, we present to you the ones you died for. Thank you for giving them the boldness and the courage by the Spirit to publicly make this decision. But the authority of Scripture, I declare your sins forgiving, and I declare that you start. A new journey with God. I commend you all to the ministry of the world and the ministry of the Spirit. And I pray that step after step he will kild you to be signs and wonders. In the name of Jesus Christ. Everything that stands against your liberty in Christ, I come against it. Right now. I declare that you walk free of every guilt and every condemnation. The peace of God that surpasses all understanding. Let it garys in your mind in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen and Amen. Now look at me, my dear brothers and sisters. Thank you for making this great decision. There's someone waving the placard there, one of the counselors. Please, all of you just follow them just. A few minutes. They'll have your details, pray with you, and you'll be back to your seat. Please Let's celebrate them. Everyone, don't be tired. Let's celebrate them. Allelujah, Praise the name of the Lord. Now just two things, very quickly, apologize, we have to. We have to wrap up. But let me have the honor and the privilege of acknowledging the head of service of the Federation and her family. Please, let's honor them. Madam, thank you. Can you just wave your hands towards man. Thank you, thank you so so so much. It's an honor. Thank you. We never take it for granted. And then quite a surprise, my brother I was preaching in the heat of the salmon. I just potted him, a consultant gynecologist all the way from my degree, Dr Joseph, you know, saying thank you, sir, God bless you, thank you, thank you, Please blesited, sir, thank you. Such an honor one for every one of you, and love and honor you who sincerely celebrate you. In the name of Jesus Christ, Praise the name of the Lord. Now, the last Sunday of this month, that would be our first miracle service. For those of you who have not tasted of what the miracle service looks like, you are welcome to experience something that you will not recover from in a lifetime. Please, when we invite people is not to increase the church. Of a man of God. It is proof of love that we know that there are people in of the power, the glory and the grace of God. And by the grace of God. Past Nathan, your bassy will be with us. And be a wonderful time in the spirit. Prais the Lord. There are other guest artists coming up before him. But just to let you know that God is doing a great thing. Please do not come to church alone, pay the price to come with as many. And for your loved ones who listen. Please for your loved ones who are not domiciled in a bulga here and may not make it physically, I like you to do well to inform them they can connect the online. That media space has given us an opportunity. There's no excuse as fast connecting to grow and to be built His concerned. Have you been blessed to night the Lord bless you place, rise up on your feet, Allelujah, praise the name of the Lord. I decrayer over your life. This week beginning is a week called victory for you in the mighty name of Jesus. May your spiritual life receive such an acceleration this week. Your hunger and your passion for the things of the spirit will never go down. And because you have believed, I pray for you all through this week, from Monday till Sunday, experience the miraculous every day. In the name of Jesus Christ. Every source of pain, every source of stress, I declare that it rolls out of your life like smoke before the way. In the name of Jesus Christ. You will not have to tell people you came for Coinonia. The mark of Christ upon your life and the testament of the hand of God will be evidence that you met. With the King. May the Lord bless you, May the Lord increase you. In the name of Jesus Christ. God bless you and see you next Sunday. We believe you are mightily blessed. And connect with the ministry and get more from our possibution for seven. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter at Quinnia p and I to stream Quinia nine goal. Ks Ala dot com, forward slash coinoniar hyphen Radio, and download the teachings on Coinnia downloads dot org. For questions and inquiries call All eight one four seven two one four four four four or All nine oh seven seven seven seven seven eights five th. We love and celebrate you.