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The Need for Prayer || Pastor Diego Mesa
May 12, 2024 · 49 min
Dive into the transformative power of prayer with insights from the biblical parable of the persistent widow. Discover how steadfast prayers can move mountains, even amidst modern challenges like COVID-19. This episode celebrates the profound influence of a mother's prayers and the unwavering faith that carries us through life's hardest trials. 🙏 What You'll Learn: The significance of establishing a personal prayer space for spiritual growth. Effective strategies for developing a prayer routine to navigate through spiritual weariness and societal challenges. Approaching God with confidence and belief, and the analogy of prayer as a legal appeal to the ultimate judge. Real-life stories and tips for nurturing a strong and persistent prayer life, fostering resilience and hope.
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Adam Mesa is Lead Pastor of Patria Church and speaks to a congregation of 12,000 about how the gospel of Jesus Christ brings purpose to every life. Patria
May 12, 2024 · 49 min · Patria Sermons
Dive into the transformative power of prayer with insights from the biblical parable of the persistent widow. Discover how steadfast prayers can move mountains, even amidst modern challenges like COVID-19. This episode celebrates the profound influence of a mother's prayers and the unwavering faith that carries us through life's hardest trials. 🙏 What You'll Learn: The significance of establishing a personal prayer space for spiritual growth. Effective strategies for developing a prayer routine to navigate through spiritual weariness and societal challenges. Approaching God with confidence and belief, and the analogy of prayer as a legal appeal to the ultimate judge. Real-life stories and tips for nurturing a strong and persistent prayer life, fostering resilience and hope. ...more Show the full description Show less Dive into the transformative power of prayer with insights from the biblical parable of the persistent widow. Discover how steadfast prayers can move mountains, even amidst modern challenges like COVID-19. This episode celebrates the profound influence of a mother's prayers and the unwavering faith that carries us through life's hardest trials. 🙏 What You'll Learn: The significance of establishing a personal prayer space for spiritual growth. Effective strategies for developing a prayer routine to navigate through spiritual weariness and societal challenges. Approaching God with confidence and belief, and the analogy of prayer as a legal appeal to the ultimate judge. Real-life stories and tips for nurturing a strong and persistent prayer life, fostering resilience and hope.
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In this video 0:00 The Power of Persistent Prayer
The Power of Persistent Prayer 0:00 The series that we've been on that pastor Adam launched last week was you asked for it. And he talked a lot which was wonderful. I listened to it, the beginning of it which dealt with, anxiety, and people0:12 going through a lot of stresses, and depressions and discouragement. And this will kind of piggyback on it because the bible talks about about worry about nothing but pray about everything. And0:23 when you and I are in a state of worry, the answer and the antidote is we need to pray some more. And so this will fit into that. But I wanted to choose a story about a woman in honoring mother's day today.0:35 And the subject that you guys asked for was you wanted to know more about the subject of prayer being challenged and inspired. So God, thank you for these next few moments that we can dive into your word. May we prepare0:46 our hearts that we're not hearing the lectures nor the philosophy nor the opinion of man. We're about ready to hear Jesus by the Holy Spirit through the word of God speak to us right where we live so that when we0:58 leave this place, we can apply it in our everyday life. In Jesus name, amen. Would you stand on your feet for the reading of God's word today? And I want you to1:11 remember all to the best of your ability what we're going to read because I will come back and highlight some of these things that we're going to be taught. Now, Jesus, he told them a parable on the need1:22 for them to pray. Always. Why There was a judge. He gives a story. There was a judge in a certain town who didn't fear God or respect1:34
1:46 opposed her, harassed her, did not like her. It goes on and says, for a while he was unwilling. He ignored her. He despised her. But later he said to himself, even though I don't
1:57 fear God and I don't respect people, yet because this widow keeps pestering me, I will give her second time he says the word justice. So that she doesn't wear me
2:09 out by her persistent coming. The Lord said, listen to what the unjust says. Will not God Here's the lesson for prayer. Here's what you need to know. Will not God
2:21 grant third time justice to his elect who cry out to him, that's pray day and night. For will he delay helping them? I tell you that he will swiftly grant
2:33 them justice. Nevertheless, when the son of man comes, will he find faith on the earth? You may be seated.
2:48 Level of your prayer life will be an indicator of how much faith you are walking in. Faith is not something that you get 1 time and you never refill upon. Faith can be lost
3:00 just that quick. It could be depleted. Not that you don't believe in Jesus Christ, but you're not trusting God. The worry, the the the anxiety, the challenges, they're
3:12 getting the best of you because your faith is not willing to trust God in those areas. So you get experience now and I get experience to an amazing story that deals with the realm
3:24 of prayer. The need to pray. When I was
3:36 a little boy, excuse me, a teenager, in high school, I did not wake up to go to school to an alarm clock. I did not wake up to someone shaking my body to tell me to wake up. I did not
3:47 wake up to a barking dog or an ambulance going by. Praying mama down the hall who was behind the door of her room. And I'll never forget. That's
3:59 how loud it was. I mean, how many of you know Kids Sleep Sound? So the prayer has to be very, very loud to wake you up.
4:12 Because it would go from this extreme emotion of crying, and I can hear her crying and weeping, to this emotion of shouting and screaming, to the emotion of aggression like she
4:24 was fighting against someone. And that that that is what I woke up to. I woke up to a praying mom. And now here's what I know. Many of you would not be here today if you did not have a praying mom or praying grandmother.
4:40 Many of you today are here today for the first time on on your mother's day where your mom may not be around. But I want you to know her prayers are still being heard by God. They're seated in
4:52 the ground. And so you want to know, many of you already know that or don't go to church or just visiting today. You know what your mom was praying for you about. You know what your mom was
5:03 believing God for you about. And I believe with all my heart that God will honor if you yield. God will honor to those those prayer requests. And you're gonna be where your mom wanted you to pray to be
5:15 1 day. So here's the reality that I want you to look at. When we talk about the subject of prayer, for many people, if they be honest, it's very uncomfortable for them to pray. Sometimes very
5:27 hard, it's sometimes very tiring. It's very uncomfortable. It's very unfamiliar. It's very tough. Even though they know they need to pray more, there seems to be this blockade
5:39 that stops us from You know, we think we're looking at the clock, and that clock just seems to slow down when we pray.
5:51 Phone, we're looking at our email, the kids are crying, we get easily distracted. We say, tomorrow morning for sure, I'm gonna get up and I'm gonna pray. And then something happens and then we feel really
6:03 guilty and we say, why should I even pray because I always fail? Or I prayed about something and it was never answered, so what's the use of pray?
6:14 Or how long should I pray? Or what should I pray? I don't even know what to pray for. And all these things can kind of overwhelm us sometimes. For sure, when I was a little
6:26 boy, I want you young people to recognize my generation did not have all kinds of jeans or companies or brands to choose from. Usually, I had 1 pair of
6:38 jeans. They were Levi 5 0 1 jeans. And once you put them on, it took about 6 months to break them in. Because they they would go up your crotch, they you bleed through
6:50 your crotch. They were I'm serious. They were tough, they were stiff, they were rigid. But once you broke them in, they were just stuck to your body. I mean, they were so pliable now. And that's the way
7:02 it is with prayer. When you start off, it's just so rough and it's so tough. But you've gotta break it in. You've gotta you gotta stay with it, and break it in, and keep doing it. And then it's
7:14 just 1 with you and it flows with you and you'll see the rewards. And you'll see the benefits. I like to look at prayer like this with this quote
7:31 In prayer, God is not looking for perfection or performance. He's just looking for the practice of you being with him and having a conversation.
7:44 Take all that ritualistic, ceremonialist, King James conversation out of you that over spiritualizes everything,
8:06 being with God and having a conversation. Sometimes it helps, and this may help you, if you just wherever your prayer place is, that you put a chair there, an empty chair, and you turn it toward that chair. And
8:18 you just simply pray and have the conversation. We've got God. I really don't know what to pray about, but I'm on my way to work today, and I got a boss who just mistreats me. So can can
8:30 you make that thing better? And God, my wife is going through a little bit of sickness right now. Would you just kind of help her and heal her? And I got a kid who's got autism, God,
8:42 and he's really struggling. Can you help heal him or work out something in his life? And home for 10 years, and I
8:54 I I just inflation keeps going up, and I don't know that Could you could you just kinda Can you kinda help me with that, God? And I I see this thing between Biden and Trump going on, can I just hold that? I don't know
9:05 the craziness of that, and over there there's war in the middle. You're just What am I doing? That's all you're doing. You're just looking at the world, you're looking at your life,
9:17 and you're talking to God. So let's go back here, and oh, yeah, God, I forgot something. You know what, God, I kinda drink too much.
9:29 Can you help me with that? I don't know why I drink too much. I I I don't know why. Could you could you help me with God, and, oh, yeah. I get angry too quickly.
9:50 Much. I'm kind of either addicted to it, and this 1 I'm kind of either addicted to it in this 1 site, well, you know.
10:04 God's not looking for perfection. He's not looking for a performance. Every 1 of us can do just what I did right now. There's a story told of a, African
10:16 tribe, and they were known as a praying tribe. 1 of the ways they were known as a praying tribe is that they were surrounded by a jungle around their village. And each person would go into that
10:28 village and pray. And through years of praying, they wore their own individual path out.
10:41 Right and they see that the rubbish or the brush was beginning to grow back, they go to their brother and sister and just say, you haven't been praying much. Have you? I wish there was a path in our
10:53 lives that could tell us whether we're praying enough or not praying enough. But that's the reality.
11:09 Give to you is this is what Jesus said in the story. He says there is a need to pray. Everybody needs to pray. Now notice what he did say. I suggest that you pray.
11:21 He didn't say, I know you want to pray. I know, you have an interest in prayer. See, you'll never pray if you don't see it as a need in your life. If you see it as
11:33 a wish, an attempt, a try, an interest, and a want, it'll be put on the back shelf, and everything else will be a priority. But if you move it up to say, wait a minute. Is bathing a need?
11:45 Is brushing my teeth a need? Is eat eating a need? Then why can't I put prayer in that in that place in my heart a priority that says prayer needs to be an absolute need in my life?
11:58 How many of you know some people need medication? Don't raise your hand. How many of you know some people need medication? How many of you know some people need therapy?
12:10 Your therapy.
12:22 So what happens when you don't pray? You start acting real crazy. We all have a flesh. We live in a fallen world. And I don't care how much you love
12:33 Jesus, and are already gonna be going to heaven when you die. We have a flesh, and you and I have to keep that flesh every day under subjection. You gotta die to self every day, and surrender
12:45 to the will of God, and that is done through prayer. So there's a need to pray. And then he says, the need for them. The them is you. See, you could set tell somebody
12:57 else to pray. You can ask somebody else to pray for you. But there comes a point when there's no proxy in prayer. It has got to be you coming before God and praying for yourself. It's you
13:09 and God. There's no threesomes in this relationship. It's just you and God coming, the need for you to It's so easy to say, I want you to pray for me. I want You know what? My wife prays for the household.
13:26 You don't have to pray. Sometimes they cry and they scream and they're emotional. And if you're not wired that way, God just says, just talk to me about and pray over your family. And it's amazing
13:38 what God will do when he finds a man. And it's amazing how the devil trembles when a man opens his mouth and prays for his family. The statistics tell you that if a married couple
13:50 prays together, they're less likely to get a divorce. The statistics tell you that when a Christian prays, they're more emotionally healthy and anxiety doesn't get the best of him. It's proven out.
14:02 All of us need to pray. The third thing he acknowledges is he says, we need to pray always. Not sometimes, not seldom, not hit and miss.
14:14 Always is everywhere, all the time as much as possible in every place. Now, he God understands you gotta work, and you have interest, and you have pleasures. But it's it's a mindset that
14:26 I am willing to pray any I'll pray in my shower, I'll pray in my car, I'll pray as I'm walking to my car, I'll pray when a need comes before me, I'm watching television, I may slip out a prayer right then for something
14:37 I'm seeing. I go by an ambulance and I see somebody got in a crack. I wanna pray at that time. It may also be this carved out time. Yeah. See, the reason why struggle people struggle with prayer
14:49 is because they don't have a place in which they pray with regularity. Jesus had regular places that he prayed. The Garden of Gethsemane was a very familiar
15:01 place to him. The mountain was a certain place for him. The sea of Galilee was a certain place for him. And if you don't have this certain place, it's kind of between me and God appointment time, whether it is your lazy
15:13 boy, whether it's your living room, whether it's your backyard, you're probably gonna have this hit and miss relationship. Figure out a place where you are undisturbed, and make that your place with God. Kind of like a,
15:25 you know, a sanctuary so to speak. The second thing that helps you is you gotta figure out the time. What is the consistent time? If not, it's gonna be a hit and miss. So what is
15:36 that? Is that 4 to 4 30 in the morning? Is that 6 to 6 15 in the morning? Is that 10 o'clock till 10 15 at night? If you if you have this hidden miss, it's never gonna be consistent.
15:49 The last thing is, is the agenda. Figuring out the agenda again of what I'm gonna pray for. And again, you pray into you everything you want. You pray out of you
16:01 everything you want. So here's if I go to any 1 of you and say, what do you want God to do for you? I'm sure you're gonna be able to tell. If I say, what do you want God to change in you? I'm sure you're gonna be able to
16:13 tell me. And so you begin to create the agenda. Now, you may you may need something to write on that creates that. My family, name out your kids, name out your job, name out
16:25 the leadership, name out government, name you may need that as a template for you. And then last of all, you just simply ask the Holy Spirit to come and help you. Because we get weary
16:36 sometimes and we get tired sometimes. And the last point here is sharing that. He says, a need to pray so that you don't give up. We are a giving up generation.
16:48 We have no endurance. We give up on our relationships. We give up on our marriages. We give up on our faith. We have no stamina in our lives. And the
17:00 Bible says for you not to grow faint, weary, tired, slow down and stop. It's an indication of your prayer life. Natural inconsistencies
17:12 that we need to do are often a reflection of inconsistencies within our spiritual life when it comes to prayer. So if you're an individual that doesn't seem to be able to follow through with your
17:23 commitments, raise your prayer game. If you're about ready to give up on something and walk out on something, raise your prayer game. And the Bible is telling us, you will not be so faint
17:35 hearted that every time a storm comes your way, a difficult what comes your way, you'll not you'll not quit and give up, and all of a sudden get in worry and anxiety and fear. All of that is a reflection of your
17:47 prayer life. But here's the last 1, and this is huge.
18:00 Because how many of you know when Jesus talked, he did not talk in chapter form? He didn't say, I love you, chapter 18 now. And let me
18:12 The writers just simply put that for us to understand it a little bit more and and and and and to make it more simplified. So before he was talking about prayer, this was the last words he
18:24 said before he said men not always to pray and not faint. This is what he said. Where the where the lord where they asked they asked him. He said to them, where the corpses, there also will the
18:36 vultures be gathered. And that's why he said, this is why you ought to pray. So what was he saying to tell us the importance of praying? So when he talks
18:47 about the corpses, corpses are places of death, deadness, and dying. He's saying, if you in your life are experiencing corpses, deaths, deadness,
18:59 and dying, then you will be experiencing vultures in your life. Vultures bring destruction, devastation. Vultures are demonic activity
19:11 and darkness working. So he's saying, because if you see vultures in this world, this world is full of death, dyingness, deadness, and dying, which is simply the absence of
19:23 the presence of God. If you look into this world, and you see the absence of the presence of God, then here's what Jesus say, I guarantee you'll find vultures there. Demonic activity. And where you see the
19:35 absence of God, you'll see demonic activity, and that's why all of you ought to faint, not pray, and not faint. That's what he was telling us. And we look
19:47 into this world and we fill the world, and we say, oh there's nothing we can do. And Jesus said, there's a whole lot you can do. The man stands tallest when he's on his bended knees.
20:01 We pray. We pray. So Jesus challenged us with this thought that we don't have to be casualties. We don't have to be victims. We
20:12 don't have to be fatalities. And we don't have to be powerless. We have an answer. And that answer is prayer. You know, has anybody ever told you,
20:25 hey, when you go over there, tell them I sent you. Use my name. And have you ever gone somewhere and you said, you know what? Diego sent me. And they, I don't know, Diego.
20:38 They told me mention your name and they'll give me a discount. I don't know that, but you ain't getting no deal. You're paying full price. And how many of you ever been like felt jacked up, stood up, like ripped off?
20:49 Dude, you don't you ain't got no authority.
21:04 It's about what the Bible challenged us to do in the in the realm of prayer. Now we go into the the the symbolisms in this story about what the the the symbolisms in this story about prayer. Now, remember this
21:16 word because I'll come back and visit it in a few moments. If you have the understanding of reading the Bible as a logistical book, Let's say that you're a lawyer. You're an
21:28 attorney. You are familiar with verdicts, words like verdicts. You're familiar with a judge. You're familiar with a prosecuting attorney, a
21:39 defense attorney. Right? You're familiar with rulings. Okay? You're you're familiar with them quoting, quoting a case.
21:51 Brown versus Brown in 19 75, judge. This is what was done, and based upon that, I asked for vindication from my clients. Why am I saying that? Because
22:03 the Bible is full. How many times have you read in the Bible the word commandment, Statues, precepts, judgments. Those are all logistical words. Why does the Bible say when it comes to
22:15 prayer, let us all come before the throne room of grace, that we might obtain mercy and find grace to help in the time of need. Because there is actually a throne. Where does Jesus sit
22:27 right now? At the right hand of the father. He is in the throne room of God. And he's looking for you as a believer to bring your case before the
22:39 righteous judge that he may give a favorable verse. See, we don't have this level of understanding. And because of that, that hinders us sometimes from knowing and understanding how God answers
22:50 prayers. What role the devil plays in in this thing. The Bible says this in Revelations, the enemy is an accuser. That's a legal term.
23:04 He is a prosecuting attorney that when you go before God in prayer, he's saying don't grant it to them. They're a sinner. Don't you know what they did on Friday? Let them die. They can't be healed.
23:16 They have no grounds to be healed. See as with the devil, he's gone before the righteous judge. They have no grounds to be. Their marriage is destroyed. Their children are destroyed. Let them live under a curse.
23:30 Say with me. If I can't prove it to you, just shut me down. So here's the first thing you get as a symbolism, the widow. You get the symbolism of the
23:42 widow. Story, she's at a place of disadvantage. She has no husband to represent her. She has She's poor. She's living in poverty.
23:54 She's hopeless and helpless. It's not that way today, but back then in that culture, it existed. There were orphans and there were widows. You were the bottom of the scale.
24:06 And the reality was your income was determined by your husband. And when he's dead, you have no income. Your property, your inheritance, your ownership, you are subject to whomever. So she's
24:18 a widow who's poor. The second thing we recognize is the fact that she is in a place of desperation. She has no representation, and she cannot afford a a
24:29 a a defense attorney. She she can't call Larry h Parker, Jacobian Meyer, or sweet James to represent her. All she has is herself.
24:42 Come on, identify. Because the Bible is asking you to identify with this widow. Have you ever felt defenseless? Have you ever felt poor? Have you ever felt hopeless? Have you ever felt helpless? Have you ever
24:54 never had the finances for someone to defend you? He's saying then that then that you need to identify. And the last thing is she's defenseless. The story bible tells
25:06 us that she has an adversary. So somebody is troubling her. Someone is opposing her. Someone is harassing her. Someone is getting the best of her. And
25:17 someone is making her life very, very difficult. And I don't know if anybody identifies. But now we move to the unjust or the unrighteous
25:29 judge, symbolism of the enemy, of the enemy. So here's what the Bible says. It gives us a picture that he is corrupt.
25:42 He doesn't care about you, or he doesn't care about this widow. He is also callous. He ignores what this widow says, and he doesn't want anything to do with her.
25:54 And he is just condescending toward him. And that's the way the enemy is. He could be very condescending toward us, and he could be very, very mean spirit. He wants to steal, kill,
26:06 and destroy. Some of us today are dealing with unrighteous bosses, unrighteous supervisors, some unrighteous managers, some unrighteous employer, some unrighteous men and women in our
26:18 lives. So maybe you're living with an unrighteous and unjust husband, or an unjust wife, or unjust children that are grown today. We can all identify with this story.
26:30 And he's saying, sometimes we're dealing with unrighteous and unjust things. Where I'm just asking that I might see my grandchildren. Nope. You'll never see your grandchildren again.
26:42 Nope. You're never gonna get a raise, and you'll always be in this position. You're dealing with something in your life. I'm not asking you to raise your hand. Have you ever dealt with something in your life that needed
26:54 justice, but you're not getting justice, and you're getting the run of the deal, and no 1 will listen to your case, and nothing is moving forward? That's the story of the Bible that he wants
27:06 to tell you about. That some of us are put in that predicament sometimes. Or Yeah. I've heard We've heard this. Sorry. Nothing I can do about it. I know
27:18 you want an extension, ain't gonna be no extension. I'm sorry. There's a late fee. I could care less if you got lost in the mail. Please. I'm
27:30 a widow. My husband died. My wife died. Please. Not not not nothing we can do. Nobody identifies with this, I know. Nobody identifies with this. What do you do?
27:42 When you're asking for mercy on something, mercy to a judge, the court system, your children are about ready to go to jail. Lawsuit right now on your job. What do
27:54 you do? How do you fix this? How do you resolve this situation? Several years ago, was the first and the last luxury car that I've ever.
28:08 Most prestigious, luxury car dealership and bought it in Pasadena. They sell Rolls Royces there, Mercedes Benz, and Jaguars, I think, Range Rovers and and Bentleys. I can't tell you who they are, but they
28:21 Can't tell you who they are, but they're in Pasadena. And I bought a Jaguar, pure white. It had a camel leather in it. I'd only owned the car 3 weeks
28:33 and it broke down. Diego. I put the car in reverse and I couldn't get it back into park or drive. And I'm in traffic. I don't
28:45 know what to do. Till finally it released after after me and Cindy panic and Cindy was yelling in my ears, fix it, fix it. How many of you know that's the way a wife is?
28:57 I We didn't fix it. That's the way wives are. Fix it, fix it, figure like. You think I'm MacGyver and I got a tool belt here and I could
29:09 just fix everything in this world? How many of your husbands identify with what I just said? Come on. I know it's mother's day, say amen. Leave leave your guest
29:21 pastor hanging today. Come on. So that So they take it, and they got it there for about 6 weeks. Finally get it back. It happens
29:33 again. They take it. It's there back there for a month. I get it back. And I'm driving it not more than a few weeks and it's electrical problem. I push the button, it won't start. So it's down
29:45 there for another I I just I went to I called the owner or the dealer and I said, hey, listen. I'm not asking for my money back. Can you just give me another Jaguar? Because I got a lemon here.
29:57 Would you give me nothing I could do for you, sir. Nothing I could do for you. You have to call Jaguar Incorporation and take it up with them. You know, how do you think that made me feel? The same way it makes
30:09 you feel. Yeah. Yeah. What do we do when we feel like a widow, and we're dealing with unjust circumstances that we can't change? It's what this lady did. So now we get
30:21 into the third part of this message. We get into the third part of the message. And here's what she did. So here's here's what I need to show you. Would you please give them an image of what I wanna now launch
30:32 into. Just give them an image of the of the courtroom, the image of the courtroom. So I want you to just if this helps you to understand see
30:45 this. Okay? God is the judge up there, okay? And you are the 1 in the middle, okay? And then again, next to you is your defense attorney and the next is the enemy, the pro the
30:56 prosecuting attorney. Okay? Now you can take that take that away. There are many ways that we relate to God in prayer. The Bible tells us. The Lord's Prayer, he says, pray in this
31:08 manner, our father who art in heaven. So sometimes you appeal to God as your father, who art in heaven. So sometimes you appeal to God as your father. When you appeal to God as your father, that is dealing with your own
31:18 personal needs, your asked and your petitions. God, I need you to help me with my marriage. I need you to help me with my children. I need you to help me with my finances. I need you to help me with my temptations. So
31:29 you're you're going to God in prayer as a father. In Genesis, Abraham Abraham intercedes for Sodom and Gomorrah and he's called the friend of God or he relates to God
31:41 as a friend. So God in prayer is relatable as a father when I need to pray for myself sometimes. He's relatable as a friend and I pray to that friend when I need to pray
31:53 for someone else. Pray for the government. I pray for my boss. I pray for my wife and children. I'm praying for someone else. But then there's this other realm that he's teaching us
32:05 now that you appeal to God in prayer as a judge. Judge. Here's what you see the woman did. Here's the story of prayer here
32:17 that you see that she First, she makes her approach. She's gonna approach the bench. She's gonna approach the judge. Okay? And notice with the
32:29 Bible calls, sir, will God not answer the prayer request of the elect? God says, stop seeing yourself as the poor defenseless victim
32:41 widow. If you're a child of mine, you are the elect of God. Come boldly to the throne of grace. Know that you have authority and that you have not rights. You're anointed. You're called. You're favored
32:53 of God. Don't just come squealing into my presence as though you're a nobody. You've accepted my son Jesus Christ. He has become the mediation and he gives you the right. You are the elect of God. The
33:05 devil wants you to suffer from a self esteem that you don't know how to approach a righteous God, cause Cause you look at yourself as a sinner and think that you're unworthy. And you're not unworthy. The
33:17 blood of Jesus Christ has cleansed you and made you righteous. See yourself being answered through prayer because you are and I am the elect of God. I have rights.
33:31 And the devil's trying to rob, is trying to rob us of that. Jesus Christ. That's why we we beg, please, please. God says, shut up. So disrespecting
33:43 me when you beg. Do you know who I am? Be like your children. Please, please, please give me a bed to sleep in. Please give me some food to drink. Please let me
33:55 take a bath. Shut up. Don't you disrespect me like that? If you wanna eat, go eat. I don't know. A little too much emotion there.
34:10 But we fail from a low self esteem as Christians. We think we're unworthy. We don't know who we are in Christ, and the devil's trying to keep you at that level.
34:22 Trying to keep you at that level. When we're doing this transition for the last 7 years with my son, Pastor Adam. There was a time when he
34:34 was very, very timid about approaching me with suggestions or new thoughts or new thoughts or or new thoughts or vision. Because he wasn't sure how I
34:46 react to that. But but I made sure that I gave him the right to approach me, the liberty to approach me, and said, I know where you're headed for. I know what
34:58 we're working on. I know where we're gonna take it. So don't beat around the bush. He was trying to respect me, but he wasn't sure how I'd react to him. So how many of you know what that means like? When your children
35:09 are beaten around the You know they have something to ask you, but they're not asking you. Doggone it, ask me. And God's saying stop beating around the bush.
35:21 See yourself as the elect of God. See yourself as elect of God. Don't see yourself the way the devil wants you to see you. The second thing that he that he begins to say is make make your request your
35:33 appeal to God. Want him to do or what you're believing for. Next is the acknowledgement. The acknowledgement
35:45 of understanding who he is, That he is a judge. The judge has the How many how many have ever seen Judge Judy? Judge Mathis.
35:57 How many of you know the judge has the power to rule? The judge reigns over the law. The judge is the final authority in the matter. The judge
36:09 is the 1 that vindicates, brings restoration, or a verdict your way. God is saying, do you God said, do you see me that way? Do you see
36:21 that I can rule in your favor? Do you see that I can vindicate you? Do you see that I can restore you? And your failure to understand that hinders
36:33 us from being I mean our prayers answered. It's not based upon this woman crying, oh, I'm poor. I'm desperate. It's based upon her understanding the
36:44 law, the word of God, and the reputation of the judge. And when you recognize, God, your reputation is online right now God. And I'm gonna remind you of
36:56 your word. Not my word, your word that says put me in remembrance of my word. Your word says I hasten to perform my word. Your word says so shall my word
37:08 be that goeth forth from See God, I know your word and I bring your word before the courts of heaven today. And I know your reputation. You said, I am not a man that I should lie
37:20 nor the son God said, I love it. I love them. Oh my God. Devil you hear them? Hallelujah. They know their authority in
37:31 me. I don't care if you're an accuser. You have no right. Shut up. Now keep telling me what you're believing my reputation to be.
37:47 Begging me. I am I am controlled and influenced and governed by my word. See, we understand that. That's why we don't get answered prayers.
38:00 So we why why don't we get answered prayers sometimes? Watch this. I'm gonna give you some scripture here. The second batch of hobby of the scriptures. Just put them on if it were not
38:12 right. Yes, you're right. Look at what the Bible says. Submit your case, says the Lord. Present your arguments. What the heck? I just told you see the book as a
38:23 judicial book. And God uses judicial terminologies. He said, submit your case. What do you want from me? Well God, don't don't you know? Why don't you just do it? No. I'm governed by by my word,
38:35 and my word tells you to submit your case to me and present your arguments. Why am I why? Because you're putting faith in him when you do that.
38:47 Okay. Next. Next. The b part here. Remind me, let's argue the case together. Recount the facts so that you might be vindictive. Come on.
38:59 Shut your slap somebody right now. I'm about running ready to run around this church right now and preach. Look at what Jesus said. The word of God remind me. Do you know
39:11 what my word says? Then you don't have the right to ask me nothing. Because you don't know what blessings are yours. You don't know what rights you have. You don't know what privileges you have. Remind me. And let's
39:23 argue the case in front of the accuser of the brethren. And recount the facts. So that I can vindicate you. Okay.
39:35 Let's look at 1 more. In Genesis, the B part here, he says, you could not possibly do that. Won't the judge of the whole earth do what is just? He's
39:47 a judge. He's a judge. So I want you to see that what you get from this is the attention of persistence now. How persistent
39:59 this widow was. And that's what you and I have to be. Prayer is not answered the the very first time sometimes. It's like I have this promise, God,
40:11 Philippians 4 13 says, I could do all things through Christ who has created me. Philippians 4 13 says, that you meet all my needs according to your riches and glory. I plan it now, that word in my heart, this is my
40:22 heart. And now I'm gonna water it with prayer. Nothing's happening, it's taking a long time. What's wrong? I'm gonna stop praying. But if you just keep on
40:34 praying every day, then I want you to know this will turn into the oh man, it's working. It's working. You keep on praying, this will turn to this. It works. Persistence. YouShow more
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