Day 3, evening session
*The revelation of God you have determines the manifestation of God you see. If you see God as a tough God, you will have a headmaster relationship, if you see God as one that is good and kind, that’s what you will see.
Praise the Lord!
It’s so great to be here this evening, I hope you came with expectations and faith because something is going to happen to you, you will be struck by the power of the Holy Spirit. No one either watching online or offline will return back the same way they came, in Jesus name.This evening, I’m going to take time to teach and after I finish teaching, I’m going tobtake time to pray.
Luke 11: 1
THE PRINCIPLES AND THE ACTS OF RESULT-ORIENTED PRAYERS.
Prayer is not learnt by reading, prayer is learnt by practice, but effective prayer takes more than practice, it takes knowledge or principles. Luke 11: 1. Question: We’re the disciples not praying before this time? If you know Bible stories or you know the Bible history, you know that the disciples were praying before thus time, but why were they asking him to teach them to pray? Because they saw how they pray, and they saw the results of their prayers,and the result of their prayers was not wanted, so, they saw how he prayed and they saw the results of his prayer, and the result of his prayer was what they wanted. And, many times I would get frustrated, even up to when I was coming this evening, I was telling Yele, one of our pastors in the simgles ministry in the Lekki church, I was telling him, ‘Look at this message. Someone sent me a message and he said, ‘I’ve been praying, praying, I’m tired, I’m exhausted’. And many times, what you see is that a lot of people are praying a lot but do not have the attending result to show for their prayer. When I say people, I’m talking about new Christians, old Christians, pastoral Christians, prophetic Christians, Catholic Christians, white Christians, black Christians, makes no difference. So, when they pray a long time and there is no result from their prayer, they end up on two ways:
Number One: They give up on praying. So, you will look up to a lady and say, ‘We’ve not seen you in church’, she’ll say ‘I’ve been praying for 10 years to get a husband, doesn’t God know I need a husband. If He’s there, why is He looking at me? Abeg, once He settles me, I will come back. And once, it gets to a place where they totally abandon their faith, and there are some others that would not abandon their faith, they will keep on coming to church but when you say there’s a program like this, let’s fast, let’s pray, they will say, ‘What is the use of fasting? Last year crossover service, you declared, it’s my year, 2 years ago, you declared, the Lord will do it for you, 5 years ago, same thing, every year, they’ve been declaring. What has happened to me? Listen to me, I will do what I can do, I cannot come and kill myself’.
So, those people, they come to church and they just find it really difficult to believe, they have no expectation.And, maybe you are here, and maybe you are a business man, you’ve spent a lot of time believing that these deals will come through, you’ve been praying that you will scale from doing 40 million naira business annually to doing 200 million naira business annually, but you’ve prayed for such a long time and you’ve not seen it, and you’ve practically come to an end of yourself, or maybe you are like a woman that is believing for a child, you’ve done everything medically possible to have a child yet you don’t have a child, and the most annoying thing is that you are the Sister Mary that got married as a virgin, you never messed around, and all of a sudden your friends that slept with everybody when they were in school had given birth to twins as if they were producing diapers, and you get frustrated and say, ‘Where is God?’.
And the disciples came to him and said, ‘Teach us to pray’. That shows these: One, not all prayers are effective, because if their prayers were effective,they would not have asked to be taught to pray. Jesus Christ said the Pharisees loved to pray but had no result to show for their prayer. So, what would happen to you from this evening is this, you will learn the practical guides of effective praying and as you begin to pray, your prayer will not just be answered, you are going to gradually become a reference point of answered prayers in your neighbourhood.
Seven Principles that will Guide your Prayer.
James 5: 16 (AMP)
- The prayer that produces result is heart-felt: True prayer burns in the heart but is emitted with the mouth. Its not about shouting, it’s about, is it heartfelt or not? The prayer that cannot move you, cannot move God, the prayer that cannot touch you, cannot touch a mountain. It’s not about volume, volume comes because of the intensity of the things going on the inside, there are people that don’t shout in prayer but when you move towards them, you can tell that there is a second fence of intensity that they’ve created through their prayer. The question is this – When you pray is it heart-felt or mouth-full? Some people ask the question, ‘Why are you so expreive?’. Listen, we don’t intend to be that expressive, but when the amplitude of the spiritual operation on the inside take a hold of our bodies, then our bodies would come under the influence of the operation on the inside. Intact, when prayer wants to work, it starts by changing you first, before it changes somebody else. Sometimes, what you need is not a miracle but a change of perspective and the wonderful thing is that in the place of prayer, perspective are altered, God begins to show you how you must do things.
- The prayer that works is based on righteousness: This might be the most powerful thing you will hear tonight. The people that see answers to their prayers genuinely believe that God is good and kind to them. When they go to prayer, they don’t go like, ‘God is working a magic, I don’t like Him’. No, there is an assurance that they enter prayer with, that ‘Ah! All I have to do is pray’. The people that don’t have answers to their prayers, watch them, when they have conversations, ‘Let’s just try, we don’t know if this can work or not’. You know why? That consciousness of righteousness that God is good to me, God has nothing against me, there is no reason that God will not answer me. Some people ask the question, ‘But He has done it for many other people, why will He not do my own? Let me answer the question quickly, when Jesus Christ fed the 5000 multitudes with bread, did everybody eat? Did everybody come at the same time? The bread will come to you, it may not be in the turn it came to me, but you will eat, you will eat compulsorily. You know why? When you see bread on Row 4 and you don’t have bread, what you should say is, ‘It’s in the neighbourhood, he has started.
When you see that lady that you people used to talk about jobs and appointments, and she says, ‘Halleluyah, I’ve gotten my own. You should say ‘Halleluyah, that means my own is next, Jesus is in my neighbourhood’. Instead of people to do that, they say, ‘Jesus, and you are looking at me’. Hey, you just lost the opportunity for your faith to be stirred. The reason why you think your neighbour got bread and you will not get bread is because you have scarcity mentality, you think it’s going to finish, you don’t understand, it doesn’t finish with God. His name is Elshaddai, the more than sufficient one. God does not love us, He loves us individually. The revelation of God you have determines the manifestation of God you see. If you see God as a tough God, you will have a headmaster relationship, if you see God as one that is good and kind, that’s what you will see.
Someone says, ‘Oh, he prays a lot, it’s not about praying a lot,it’s just that He ridiculously loves me, before I say ‘Father’, He says, ‘Done’. In Jeremiah, He says, while you are yet asking…before you ask, I’ve answered. Luke 12:32, He says, ‘Do not fear’. It says it makes Him glad, God loves to know that you made your first one million dollars, He’s like ‘Wow, thas my boy’. God wants to boast about you like He boasted about Job.
One of the owners of a major oil company in this country had an heart attack, right there in his office, he collapsed. When he collapsed, they took him to the hospital, they said he had an heart attack, a pipe had bursted, they kindof did surgery and got medications. His wife called me, I was not around, I saw him as soo as I could get there, he said, ‘They’ve done something but I have to go to London because I don’t trust Nigerian doctors’. I said, ‘Thats okay, just sit back, I just want to put my right hand on your chest. So, I put my right hand on his chest and said, ‘In the name of the Lord Jesus, its the Father’s good pleasure for this heart to be restored, be healed in Jesus name, and he said ‘Amen’. He didn’t even feel anything, he didn’t fall under the power. Many of you think that you have to fall, you don’t need to fall if you have not received anything. And all of a sudden, he went to London, when he got to London, a cardiologist said, ‘What do you say brought you here?’, He explained. The doctor then said, ‘There’s something wrong with the doctor that referred you here, I can’t see anything, your heart is perfect’. Then he showed him the xray, he said, ‘The machines in these third-word countries usually have problems’. He showed him the drugs that were administerd to him, the cardiologist replied, ‘The person who gave you these drugs should be arrested because there is nothing about you that warrants this kind of drug’.
One lady in our church had colon cancer, they told her that the best thing she could do was to go to India where it can be managed, at least to add more years to her years. Her brother-in-law and sister brought her to me, so, we prayed. This person’s sister is a pathologist, someone that tests disease. When they went to the hospital for the first time, they delayed them, they didn’t check them in, she called her sister in Nigeria, the sister was like, ‘My God, my fear has happened, maybe the cancer has spread, that’s why they don’t want to admit you, they just want you to go home and die’. After several hours, they told them, ‘Come back the next day’s, they went back, they were told, ‘We have a big problem, we’ve done the test severally, you don’t have cancer,but the challenge is this, the part of your body that was cut out in Nigeria for a test, there is still cancer there. The specimen brought from your body has cancer, you that is sitting here, you don’t have cancer’. The lady said ‘Eh, I know what happened, when they prayed for me, they had removed that part, the anointing didn’t touch that part’.
Listen to me child of God, all the faith you need was given to you at the new birth. The major reason that Christians don’t have answered prayers is that we don’t really know that God is good and kind to me.
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