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  IT'S TIME, AGAIN, TO PRAY!
  by Carter Conlon
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Summary: The sermon emphasizes the power of prayer and the need for
believers to pray fervently. It highlights the story of Mary, the mother
of Jesus, prophesying in Luke chapter 1, and delves into the origins of
sin and the redemptive plan of God from the Garden of Eden. The speaker
urges the congregation to pray for spiritual awakening, freedom from
captivity, and victory over the forces of darkness through prayer. The
importance of praying for societal issues, such as school shootings and
the influence of false religion, is emphasized, calling for a return to
fervent prayer and faith in God's power.

Topics: "Power of Prayer", "Spiritual Awakening"
Scripture References: Luke 1:46, Genesis 3:14, 2 Corinthians 10:4, Acts 12:5, James 5:16, 2 Chronicles 7:14, Ephesians 6:12, Mark 11:24

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The sermon emphasizes the power of prayer and the need for believers to
pray fervently. It highlights the story of Mary, the mother of Jesus,
prophesying in Luke chapter 1, and delves into the origins of sin and
the redemptive plan of God from the Garden of Eden. The speaker urges
the congregation to pray for spiritual awakening, freedom from
captivity, and victory over the forces of darkness through prayer. The
importance of praying for societal issues, such as school shootings and
the influence of false religion, is emphasized, calling for a return to
fervent prayer and faith in God's power.

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My message today is entitled It's time again to pray It's time again to
pray Luke chapter 1 if you turn there, please in your Bibles Luke
chapter 1 It's time again to pray father. I thank you with all of my
heart God for the leading of your Holy Spirit The anointing of your
spirit the mercy God of your kingdom That takes us in our frailty and
you empower us with your Holy Spirit and you give us incredible Promises
that by these we might become partakers of the new nature. That is our
promise in Christ Jesus So I thank you for the anointing to speak this
word I thank you God for the anointing and every heart to be able to
hear it Lord move us from knowledge to action We ask this in your
precious name Amen It's time again to pray Luke chapter 1 Beginning at
verse 46.

This is Mary the mother of Jesus when she visited the home of Zechariah
and Elizabeth and She began to speak to prophesy actually and Mary said
my soul magnifies the Lord and My spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior
For he has regarded the lowly state of his maidservant for behold
henceforth all generations will call me blessed For he was mighty has
done great things for me and holy is his name and his mercy is on those
who fear him from generation to generation He has shown strength with
his arm. He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts
He has put down the mighty from their thrones and exalted the lowly He
has filled the hungry with good things and the rich he has sent away
empty He has helped his servant Israel in remembrance of his mercy as he
spoke to our fathers to Abraham and to his seed forever When Sin entered
the human race when Satan came down into the Garden of Eden with a livid
hatred in his heart for a man and a woman created in the image of God a
despising man put it this way in his heart for God himself a despising
that Translated itself into trying to bring ruin into that was which was
the closest to the heart of God Which from the dust had been created in
the image of God breathed upon and given life by God When Satan came
down into the Garden of Eden He sowed something into the human race that
was going to bring the humankind into its own destruction the thought
the theology as as it is that Without God and without the borders of God
and without heeding the Word of God We can become as God is in
ourselves, that's the sin That was sown that was the nature of the devil
himself that was sown into humanity. We don't need God We can do this
our own way We can come up with our own standards of right and wrong and
somehow through it all still reach some kind of a utopian end That is
the sin of humankind Jesus or God said Jesus, of course was there
because God cannot be separated from himself is eternally Existent in
three persons the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost, but here's what God
said to Satan in Genesis 3 14 and 15 So the Lord God said to the serpent
Because you've done this you are cursed more than all cattle and more
than every beast of the field On your belly you shall go and you shall
eat dust all the days of your life And I will put enmity between you and
the woman between your seed and her seed He shall bruise your head and
you shall bruise his heel.

So here's the very first Time in the Bible that we see the redemptive
plan of God God was not if you study scripture you begin to understand
God was not caught by surprise in the Garden of Eden He foreknew what
was going to happen for the Bible tells us that before the foundation of
the world Christ was ordained to go to the cross He knew that Humankind
it was that humankind would be created in the image of God and would
subsequently fail and would have to be redeemed I don't fully understand
all of that. But what does give me Somewhat of an understanding is one
verse of Scripture God so loved the world That he gave his only begotten
Son whoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life
God was telling Satan you're going to live to conquer and devour those
created from the dust Those who are created in the image of God all the
days of your life. That's what you're going to do You're gonna crawl on
your belly and you're going to eat dust All the days of your life and I
will put enmity that means an Active opposition between you and the
woman between your seed and her seed In other words, I'm going to raise
up from the seed of a woman He who will actively Oppose you and defeat
you.

This was a prophecy that God gave to the devil in the Garden of Eden I'm
going to raise up an active opposition to you He from the seed of the
woman somebody that he refers to as he we know it's Christ today You
will bruise his heel now the original Hebrews uses the word strike as a
serpent you will strike his heel. He will be on a journey You will
strike him. It will be virtually a fatal strike as the bite of a snake
is You will you will strike his heel and you will stop his journey.

You will cause him pain You will even cause him death and you will
bruise his heel, but he will in turn bruise your head It's amazing. He
he will come back as it is. We know the story today He will be raised
from the dead and he will tread upon your imagination That you have the
right to control the creation of God That humankind is now fully within
your grasp and you have the right to dictate It's coming in and it's
going out and you have the right to captivate Those have been created in
the image of God for not just time but for all of eternity Lest you
should exalt yourself.

God was saying to the devil himself. I have a plan Satan so blinded by
his ambition so blinded by his hatred of God couldn't really fully
Understand what this was saying, but he knew there was a plan to defeat
him He knew it was going to come through a seed That would be born of a
woman This is why we see people who are demonically inspired or led to
the devil always going after the children The devil has always gone
after the children when the people of God were in Captivity in Egypt the
very first one of their signs that the devil was behind their capitalism
He started casting their firstborn into the river. You remember Herod
when he realized that maybe this promise now That's it's it's satanic.

It's it's move it's the devil himself moving through humankind that he
has control over and We see Herod himself going into Bethlehem and
killing all the children under two years of age To try to stop this plan
from happening Not only will he bruise your head But we know through the
testimony of Scripture that he would have a seed. He would also have a
people Born into the kingdom of God because of him who would have access
to the throne of God and by petition or prayer would push back the
thought of the devil that he Could possess fully the earth its direction
its future We are that people by the grace of God that have access to
the throne of God I hope you realize the power that God has put into the
hands of you and I as believers in Jesus Christ We are not just
bystanders Watching the devil destroy a whole generation. We have access
to the throne of God It's not in might it's not in power that this
battle is going to be won But it is won by the Spirit of God.

It is won by the strength of God. It is won by the power of God The plan
of God and part of that plan is you and I approaching his throne and
Petitioning him to move his hand on behalf of those who have nobody to
call out for them in the earth Paul says in 2nd Corinthians 10 verses 4
& 5 for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal not natural not made
by human hands Not enacted by human strategy the weapons of our warfare
are not carnal But mighty in God for pulling down strongholds casting
down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the
knowledge of God and Bringing every thought into captivity to the
obedience of Christ would be to God We could understand our position in
the church of Jesus Christ again Would be to God we would find again the
source of our power Would be to God that we would have the courage to
put away all of our powerless programs and powerless strategies
Powerless services and we would go back into the prayer closet where the
true source of our power really is We have been invited by God to come
before his throne to find grace to help in time of need and At that
throne the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but they are mighty in
God pulling down Ideas that the devil sows in society pulling down this
demonic onslaught That wants to call evil good and good evil That wants
to marginalize and oppress and captivate the testimony of God from
generation to generation But I remind you that all throughout biblical
history when there has been somebody who called up to God a Marvelous
deliverance came into those generations those towns of cities of
societies Paul says to the church of Ephesus that the God of our Lord
Jesus Christ the father of glory may give to you the spirit of wisdom
and Revelation in the knowledge of him that you may fully understand
Paul is saying who he is what he has done and What our part is in the
overthrow of the evil that wants to swallow every generation The eyes of
your understanding being enlightened that you may know What is the hope
of his calling and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance
in the Saints? And what is the exceeding greatness of his power towards
us who believe according to the working of his mighty power Which he
worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his
right hand in the heavenly places far above all Principality power and
might and Dominion and every name that is named not only in this age But
also in that which is to come and he's put all things where under his
feet Remember the prophecy in the Garden of Eden He's put all things
under his feet and gave him to behead over all things to the church
Which is his body the fullness of him who fills all in all in Christ
captivity was taken captive a victory was won over the devil himself and
a weight of freedom was made and Not only the deceit of the woman Christ
himself crushed this head of the devil as it is But he has a church in
the earth that he gave power to He sits at the right hand of God with
all power all dominion all authority over every name that is named Not
only now but in the ages to come He is the head and we are his body Upon
the earth we are invited into the throne of God and There's an exceeding
great power that is available to the Church of Jesus Christ not in human
effort Not in human strategy not in painting signs and picketing in our
streets Do you understand me the power of the Church of Jesus Christ is
found in the prayer meeting and nowhere else That's where the power of
God is Listen to what Mary prophesied He being God has shown strength
with his arm. He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their
hearts he has put down the mighty from their thrones and the rich Those
who feel that by their own strategies their own resources their own
ingenuity Can go out and conquer he sent them away empty scattered put
down Sent away.

This is the inheritance of the enemies of God When the church begins to
pray When we rediscover again who we are When we begin to realize that
we are not relegated to the sidelines of History while this march of
hell goes through our streets threatening to devour Everything in its
path and destroy everything that we know is true and godly and good
We're not relegated to the sidelines. We have much more power than they
do. Do you understand that? but our power Yes, thank God for those who
maybe Exercise Some initiative in the political arena in the civic arena
in government arenas Thank God for all of that But the true source of
our power is in prayer it always has been it always will be I want to
suggest it's time again to pray There's incredible power when God's
people begin to pray You see examples of this all throughout Scripture
in 2nd Kings chapter 6 We see an enemy of the people of God attempting
to conquer a city When we pray we have power to bring the enemies of God
When they attempt to conquer our cities to an awareness of God's power
and to a moment of conscience The king of Syria surrounded the city
where the people of God were Suddenly in the morning.

There was a mighty army To the point where a servant of the man of God
Elisha got up and looked over the wall of the city And said, oh my
goodness, what are we going to do? We don't have the resources inside
the city to fight with this There's more of them than there are of us
and they're mightier in the natural than we are and that's always the
initial response of many Oh God, what are we going to do? There seems to
be such an organized assault against godliness in this generation So
what power do we have in? Contrast to this which comes against us It was
going to be one praying man in that city. Just one praying man that was
going to make the difference just one Just one man who knew the power of
God just one man who had spiritual vision Was going to make the
difference and secure a victory that can't be won in the natural. It can
only be won by God Elisha first prayed and he said Lord, I pray open his
eyes that he may see.

Oh God, would you give vision back to your church again? Would you give
vision back to your people to understand that it's not by might nor by
power But by your spirit Oh God, would you help us to see again? Christ
in absolute victory at the right hand of God with all power all dominion
all authority Would you would you help your people to see? Again that
we're not constantly just looking in the natural at our resources their
resources our strength their strength God, would you deliver us from
this kind of spiritual blindness and open our eyes to what is really?
Going on around us then the Lord opened the eyes of the young man and he
saw and the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around
Elisha When the Syrians came down to him Elisha prayed to the Lord and
said strike this people. I pray with blindness in other words Bring
these enemies of God Confuse them Let them not see or be able to obtain
their objectives Take away their vision take away the unity take away
their strength smite them with blindness Don't let them accomplish their
purpose. We can pray that again in this generation.

Do you understand? Lord God, let not the enemies of righteousness go
forward any farthers Let their agenda Drift away from them. Let them not
see take away Lord what their objective is and The Lord reached out and
struck them with blindness according to the word of Elisha It didn't
mean they couldn't naturally see it just meant so they weren't seeing
what they had seen before And Elisha said to them. This is not the way
nor is this the city follow me and I'll bring you to the man Whom you
seek but he led them to Samaria and so it was when they came to Samaria
though Elisha said Lord open the eyes of these men that they may see and
the Lord opened their eyes and they saw and now they Were inside Samaria
they were brought by the power of prayer to an awareness of God's power
and to a moment of conscience This is what we need to pray for in this
generation.

We're not praying for harm to come to any person That is not the way of
God. We're saying God blind the godless To What their objective is and
open their eyes to the fact that they have already been taken captive by
powers of darkness and They are in a place Where their conscience needs
to be opened again to understand who they are and what they're doing
What we're talking about is a spiritual awakening in a nation We're
talking about a sudden awareness that can come into the heart of any
society Any town any city any block any borough Any place to anybody
just a sudden awareness of sin a sudden awareness of what am I doing a
snap of the fingers? As it is What have I been pursuing? What is in my
heart? Why am I suddenly thinking about God? Why is it suddenly
occurring to me that what I'm doing might be wrong and there's a right
way to go It's called spiritual awakening, this is what you and I need
to pray for now in our generation God send an awakening God send an
awakening into the nation God show this country what we are becoming So
the people what we have embraced help them Oh God to understand who is
behind this evil agenda and professing freedom Let them know that
they're already captured Let them know there's a power that is greater
than the power that has embraced their hearts and embraced their minds
and is Leading them on this hell-inspired journey God help the people
When is the last time you prayed that way? When's the last time you were
in a prayer meeting with your friends and instead of praying for the
destruction of the enemies of God? You said God have mercy on them and
open their eyes Blind their eyes to their objective but open their eyes
to what they are and where they're going in God This is exactly what
Elisha did he fed them and sent them home and the scripture says they
came no more Into that part of Israel. They didn't come back because
they had a moment of conscience and they began to realize There's a
power greater than us There's a power that only emanates and only comes
from God When we begin to pray We have power to free those who are
captivated by deceptive and powerless religion One of the things that
the devil will do To captivate a generation and he will offer an
alternative To Christ and it's called religion in the Garden of Eden
When God came down after Satan had sown his nature into humankind and
God came down into the Garden of Eden Encountered Adam and Eve covered
in fig leaves and this is exactly What happens when darkness comes into
a society? They will attempt in human strength to cover themselves to
cover their shame to cover their failure to cover their sin They will
claim that you remember the sin nature of humankind is to be as God is
and so They attempt to cover themselves with human effort When only God
can forgive sin only God can give a covering only God can produce fruit
From a life that is yielded to him.

And so as Jesus walks up to Jerusalem He sees a fig tree the fig tree
Gives an appearance of fruitfulness and as he walks up to the fig tree
in my mind, I really feel that he's Revisiting that moment in the garden
when he walked up to Adam Adam has imbibed this lie of the devil that in
himself he can become as God is and So he goes up to the fig tree and
it's only a disguise this this covering is only a disguise There's no
fruit in it and he curses the fig tree and says no man eat fruit of you
from this day and forever The next day as they are entering again into
Jerusalem one of the disciples Peter He says look the fig tree which you
cursed is withered away And it was at this point that Jesus said to them
have faith in God For surely I say to you whoever says to this mountain
now that the only mountain in the whole vicinity was Jerusalem you had
to walk up to go into Jerusalem and Jerusalem had Crafted this fig tree
religion may I call it that Self-made man-made coverings of human effort
fruitless Haters of God in the long run a False covering the false
relationship with God offering no life bearing no fruit and having no
power Now he says to his disciples have faith in God for surely I say to
you whoever says to this mountain Be removed and cast into the sea and
does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will
be done He will have whatsoever. He says therefore I say to you whatever
things you ask when you pray believe that you will receive them and you
will have them Now we take those verses and we we use it for all kinds
of things today But in reality, he's talking about casting away this
false covering that the devil offers humanity To tell them you're back
in right relationship with God when in reality, they're not in right
relationship with God We have power in prayer to set free those who are
captivated by the deceptive power of religion We have power in prayer
power in New York City power to say God fill every church With every
name on the door. We don't care what names on the door invade that place
Oh God with life and with truth and Remove the deceptive covering of
religion that offers no eternal life.

It offers no power It has nothing but deception in it. God Almighty God
Almighty we pray that very often on Tuesday night Churches all over the
city invade them with the power of your Holy Spirit God Set the people
free from that which has captivated them that which is Generated by
human effort that which in regard folks I know this is a strong
statement, but much of it agrees with the devil and you can say well How
can you possibly say that they killed the Son of God when he came to
them? That's why I can say it they despise the truth the challenge their
spiritual bankruptcy They were infuriated that even the Son of God Would
say this fig leaf religion that you've created and covered yourself with
is worthless it bears No fruit you are within full of dead men's bones
and then when they heard it they plotted to kill him That's what false
religion will always do When we pray We have power to bring those who
want to serve God out of captivity This is what we're praying much for
on Tuesday night Many many of God's people are coming in and they want
to serve God They want to serve him with all of their heart But they
themselves have been taken captive by some of the forces of this world
in Acts chapter 12 The Apostle Peter was arrested. He was put in prison
and he was delivered to four squads of soldiers to keep him and They
intended to bring him out before the people after Passover And so the
authorities that existed at that time were saying we have the power We
have the power to corral the church.

We have the power to bring the church into submission to our will we
have the power to imprison the people of God if we think that will suit
our purposes and We the people are going to judge those who claim that
our religion is faulty that our society is off track We're going to
bring them out before the people But it says in chapter 12 of Acts verse
5 Peter was kept in prison, but constant prayer was offered to God for
him by the church constant prayer They prayed God Bring your servant out
of captivity Set him free Now they prayed and as they were praying The
scripture tells us in Acts chapter 12 that miracles began to happen a
whole other realm That we are called to fight and remember casting down
imaginations Bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of
Christ the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty God opened
the eyes of his servants that they may see Blind those that are given to
evil to their objectives. You see it all happening Everything I've been
talking about happens in this one passage of scripture Peter is bound
between two guards bound with two chains and the guards were before the
door keeping the prison The angel of the Lord stood by him and a light
shone in the prison And he raised him up saying arise quickly and the
chains fell off his hands The angel said gird yourself and tie on your
sandals. And so he did put on your garments and follow me and He went
out and followed him and when they were past the first and the second
guard post they came to the iron gate that leads to the city which
opened to them of its own accord and They went out and went down one
Street and immediately the angel departed from him Phenomenal miracles
everything that I've spoken about this morning happens in this passage
of scripture Captivity is taken captive the soldiers a blindness to
their objective comes upon them I have no doubt they're wide awake.

They don't even see Peter and the angel go by they don't even see it
They don't even hear it when they come to the city the gate Opens of its
own accord You understand God is in control of everything. He's in
charge of everything There is nothing man-made or devil-inspired That
can stop him nothing in this society can stop the hand of God Nothing as
Mary said I'm gonna say it again. He has shown his strength with his arm
He's scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts He's put
down the mighty from their thrones and those who travel by their own
resource.

He sent them away empty When Peter came to the door where many were
praying again in chapter 12 verse 12 and he knocked on the door and
Peter continued knocking verse 16 and when they opened the door and saw
him they were astonished They were astonished But motioning to them with
his hand to keep silent He declared to them how the Lord had brought him
out of the prison And he said go tell these things to James and to the
brethren and he departed and went to another place I Think it's time to
get astonished again, don't you? I Think it's time to let God be God and
let him do what he wants to do and let him do it his way I think it's
time for you and I to believe God the people were praying for Let us be
astonished again as they were in their generation. That means they they
didn't fully expect God to answer the way he did they probably were
formulating ways that it was going to happen in their minds and When he
actually shows up at the door They're astonished But we ought not to be
they didn't have necessarily the testimony that we have today but today
we know how powerful God is we know what God is able to do and Peter
Said to them How the Lord had brought him out of prison and he said go
tell these things to James and to the brethren Go tell them these things
the captivity has been taken captive by the power of God through a
praying church Go and tell the brethren these things So I'm telling you
today The captivity has been taken captive by the power of God through a
praying church I Have to believe as I read this passage of scripture had
they not gathered to pray History would be different And if we choose
not to pray in our generation, I dare say history will be different We
have as I've told you before a very short window ahead of us of mercy We
have been called to pray God is calling the whole church across the
country to pray now his people If my people are called by my name will
humble themselves and pray Seek my face and turn from their wicked ways.
I Will hear from heaven forgive their sin and I will heal their land
There's a cry now going on across the nation Go and tell the brethren
these things May God help us.

May God help us to understand who we are again May God help us to pray
again May God help us to come to his throne Not for ourselves, but for
the sake of others May God help us to fight for our children May God
help us to stand for our high schoolers May God help us to fight for
those in our colleges May God help us as his people To say enough is
enough. We know where the power of God is. We know what the answer is to
the violence in our schools We know who God is we know what God can do
and we know how he has chosen throughout history to do it And so we
choose now not to stand by the sidelines any longer We choose to pray
let the devil laugh at our prayers if he wants But we know where the
power of God is We are of that seed We are of that seed of Christ He may
try to bruise our heel, but we will step upon his head and cast down his
imaginations Whereby he thinks he can control deceive and destroy a
whole generation and a whole nation Now we choose to stand now we choose
to fight not everybody's going to get into this battle.

Not everybody wants to hear this Many many of God's own people only come
to church for what they can get for themselves And when the gold mine is
not open to them, they get up and they leave because they're not here to
fight the fight I'm okay with that. I'd rather I'd rather that division
than mixture But for those who can hear For those who can hear if you
can hear his voice in this hour, don't harden your heart This is a
moment to stand. It's a moment to fight.

It's a moment to pray like we've never prayed before It's a moment to
believe God. It's a moment to cry out Lord. Give me vision.

Give me spiritual understanding It's a moment to cry out for tenacity
Help me God to be one of those who in our weakness come before your
throne and We see you do what only you can do help me to pray for my
family that they'd be delivered from religious bondage Help me God to
pray and believe that you can give this generation a moment of
conscience where they can turn from their sin and Acknowledge one more
time that you are God Help me Lord Jesus Christ to believe for freedom
Not only for myself but for those I pray for Help me to believe God that
you once again in our generation as you did in the days of the Prophet
Ezekiel will breathe upon The slain that seemed to be around their
altars everywhere and raise up your church again God open the prison
doors give sight to the blind heal the wounded and hard Give courage and
strength to the weak Call us again to your throne and give us the power
to pray. Oh God give us the power to pray Give us the will to pray. Give
us the desire to pray.

Give us the fight to pray God lift us out of mediocrity and bring us
back into the battle again Captivity has been taken captive Now I know
there's some here today that say I want to serve God but I find myself
captivated I Myself I'm laying on a prison bed between two soldiers and
chained And I seem to be at the will of the one who you say is defeated
But I'm telling you that as we pray I Fully believe God will set you
free. I Fully believe just as he did with Peter He will do for you free
from the pain of the past free from present practice free from a
loathing of yourself free from a sense of hopelessness about the future
just Suddenly set free finding the gates of the city wide open and the
power of God coming into your life You'll find yourself like Peter going
to where people are and encouraging them by saying Let me tell you what
God just did for me through the power of prayer Let me tell you what God
just did for my life You'll be taken out of cowardice You'll be given a
love for people that will cause your mouth to open in all the places
that God sends you to Whether they mock it doesn't matter. They ridicule
you.

It doesn't matter whether they threaten you It doesn't matter you and I
are the church of the Living God. We are sent into this world As an
extension of the victory of Christ Bringing people around us to freedom
and I fully believe that God Intends to send an awakening to this nation
Awakening to this city. All he requires now is Somebody somewhere that
knows how to pray and says God if I even if you don't you say Lord teach
me how to pray again Bring me into your presence God and put faith in my
heart If it's not there put it there God for I am willing to pray and
willing to believe you Go tell the brethren these things This is the
origin of the church God through us shows strength with his arm.

He scatters the proud in the imagination of their hearts he puts down
the mighty from their thrones and He sends those who travel by their own
natural strength and resources away empty This is what I'm praying for
now for this generation How many school shootings is it going to take
before we pray? For our children Yes, we're reaping the foolishness of
putting God out of our school system of not teaching the biblical
Definition of right and wrong and talking about heaven and hell and
eternity But there's a time in the Church of Jesus Christ Where you and
I say enough is enough and we begin to cry out to God again for the sake
of our children Even Nehemiah when he came to rebuild the wall said
listen We're not fighting for ourselves fight for your sons fight for
your daughters fight for your children fight for your children for your
families And he's talking about a spiritual fight not a physical one a
spiritual fight The kind of a fight that so many in our generation have
lost touch with Kind of a fight that goes to the prayer meeting Lays a
hold of the hem of the garment of Christ and say I'm not letting you go
Until you answer my prayer the kind of a fight that knocks on the door
of heaven and says I know you have the bread And this is a dark time and
I need the resource that you have to feed the people that are gathered
around me that kind of a fight and It starts with getting up going
forward trusting God for a covering For our failings that he is more
than willing to give us trusting him for the power to be the people that
he's called us to be Trusting him for the miraculous in each of our
lives This is who we are in Christ. This is what God is calling us to in
this generation There might be some here this morning. You don't believe
me now, but give it three years you will You will if we don't take this
moment.

There's a darkness awaiting us on the other side of this open window.
That is fearful If we don't pray now we will pray then I Encourage you
with all of my heart I've heard something from the Lord folks. You
understand.

I'm not making this up. I've heard from God. We have a window We have a
window if we will pray Father I thank you Lord with all my heart for
this morning.

I Thank you Lord for your presence. I thank you for your calling that
you placed on this church. I Thank you for the touch of heaven Lord That
you placed in my soul.

I Ask you Lord Jesus Christ for your people God that you will open the
prison doors to those who want to serve you. You have set people free. I
Ask you father God in Jesus name That all false religious covering would
be cursed and cast into the sea and that we would come into a genuine
true Relationship with the Living God I Ask you Lord for spiritual
authority that we can stand against the powers of darkness that have
surrounded our society And are threatening to take us into captivity and
an unspeakable darkness For our home's sake for our family's sake for
our children's sake Oh God.

Oh God Help us again to pray Help us Lord Jesus Christ to put into
action what we know is true Give us an empowerment of the Holy Spirit
God I thank you with all of my heart this morning. Oh Lord Jesus Christ
stir your church Stir your church nationwide Stir your people Visit
those who don't fully know you yet Stop this society on its insane march
to hell God Almighty bring light to those who live in darkness and Give
strength to those Lord who don't yet know who they are as the Church of
Jesus Christ And I thank you for it with all my heart in Jesus name I'm
going to give an altar call this morning for people who want to pray You
might say I don't fully understand it, but I want to I see it in the
scriptures and I'm going to ask the Lord today To put a spirit of
boldness on me that I may begin to pray I'm going to ask for people who
need freedom today You're in a prison yourself and you need freedom I
believe I believe that God will set you free this morning I Do with all
my heart? The effects of Whatever it is that you have been associated
with or doing and whatever has captivated you and has you bound? I'm
going to believe that supernaturally Supernaturally, you don't need a
you don't need six years of counseling to get out of this thing
supernaturally God is going to set you free. I believe that with all my
heart It's time now to pray it's time to believe God And when we stand
if you're among those who want to pray or you're among those who say God
I would love to pray, but I myself have to get out of prison now.

I myself have to get out of a practice or relationship of self view
whatever it is It's got you a pain that you can't distance yourself from
whatever your situation is. I Have a feeling in my heart That God is
going to set you free this morning And we're gonna believe God for that
freedom and he's gonna show you the power of prayer show it to you this
morning If you have the courage to get out of your seat and come down
and meet me here at the front. I Want you to be free? Lord You get no
glory from a bound church You get no glory Lord when we are living in
prisons and our lives are no testimony to you And so father in Jesus
name as a people Lord we lift our hands to you As a people Lord we
confess again our need of you as a people Lord We're sorry Lord for our
neglect of you We're sorry Lord for the amount of unbelief God that has
gotten into our hearts We're sorry for the amount of false covering that
we have embraced We're sorry Lord that we've not fought the fight of
faith the way it's supposed to be fought that we've focused on ourselves
as a as a people and Many times not even been concerned about our
children But Lord this day this day Lord as you break the chains from
our hands as you heal our wounded hearts Lord as as You deliver us from
captivity We Stand before you as a people ready to fight the fight of
faith in the prayer room Where you call us to be Lord? And so God in
Jesus name.

I Come against every captivity in every life that's represented here
Addictions and pain relationships Self-loathing All of these things that
so many become addicted to and captivated by I Stand against it in Jesus
name And I declare to you that Christ has died to set you free. He took
your captivity captive And I thank you Lord. I thank you for the victory
of the cross The victory of the cross Lord we proclaim it we proclaim it
That Jesus you crossed the devil's head who thought he could dominate us
Dominate the church of Jesus Christ we stand in victory with our Savior
who put his foot upon the head of the devil God we thank you Lord.

I thank you for freedom and victory right now from practice freedom Lord
from captivity freedom freedom From every weapon of hell that has been
formed against us And God as a people Lord. We're not strong in
ourselves But we have confidence in you Lord, and we believe in your
covering We believe Lord God that you've called us to tread upon
Serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy and you told
us that nothing would by any means hurt us We believe you Lord when you
said that we could move mountains. We believe you God when you show us
in the scripture that whole Parades of hell can be stopped and people
can be brought to an awareness of their need of you Lord We believe it
God with all of our heart Lord we stand here as if people ready to pray
a People ready to call out to a people Given to the work of God.

Oh Lord give us a new heart for this Lord Give us a heart that looks
away from our own needs all the time and begins to focus on the needs of
others Give us a heart Lord not just always looking for our own safety
But the safety of our children God the safety of the society around us
Give us a heart of compassion as Elisha had for even his enemies He
showed compassion and fed them and said them sent them home to their own
master to consider their ways Give us that kind of a heart Deliver us
God from everything else Lord that would want to occupy our thoughts in
our time Help us to pray. I lift this church up to you Lord God. You've
given us a great Commission at this time And I ask Lord that we would be
honorable in it Oh God and do it according to your will Thank you Lord.

Thank you Jesus Christ for a free people. Thank you for a free people
Lord God we really are a captivated generation But Lord you rose from
the dead and took our captivity captive And we believe that and your
word says you gave gifts unto men so Lord I pray for giftings of the
Holy Spirit to be given right now as we pray right now Right now Lord as
we pray Right now give to faith Gifts of faith to be given to people
words of knowledge words of wisdom Giftings God to lay hands on the sick
and see them recovered gifts of strength that could only come from God
Lord just open our hearts to what you want to give us as Paul said that
our eyes might be open that we might have the understanding of who we
are as the body of Jesus Christ the Incredible power that's available to
us as we look to you, so Lord. Thank you.

God. Thank you I ask you at this altar Lord Did you raise up prayer
warriors from the from the weakest saints that are here at this already
there be prayer warriors mighty? mighty prayer warriors in God I Ask you
Lord for callings giftings of the spirit callings in the body of Christ
I ask you God to raise up mighty men and women of God Mighty men and
women of God just like you did in David's cave they came in distressed
and dead and discontent But they walked out mighty in God mighty in God
Able to do exploits in the name of the Lord. Oh God let nobody here
Consider their own weaknesses father for it's not in our strength that
victory is won.

It's in yours Let faith come into every heart every heart Lord let faith
literally swallow us. Oh God Give us courage and grace To face this
moment Lord God. I thank you.

Thank you with all of my heart. Thank you Lord Thank you, Jesus

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