Mike Bickle emphasizes the significance of intercession in releasing God's power, explaining that it can occur in everyday moments, not just during formal prayer meetings. He highlights that speaking God's Word in faith aligns us with His will, allowing His power to manifest in our lives and the world around us. Bickle illustrates the connection between worship and intercession, asserting that both are essential for developing a relationship with God and for the release of His divine authority. He encourages believers to engage in intercessory prayer as a means of partnership with God, emphasizing that even the simplest prayers can have profound effects. Ultimately, Bickle calls for a lifestyle of prayer that transforms individuals and communities through the power of God.

And tonight we're going to talk about releasing God's power through intercession. Now you don't only engage in intercession at an intercessory prayer meeting. You can engage in intercession and release the power of God when you're driving your car, when you're taking a walk, when you're having a family time, when you're with friends. Anytime we speak the Word of God in the will of God and we speak it with faith, it releases the power of God, whether we can measure that power or not. Sometimes we can measure it. It's observable right there. But it's, John said, 1 John 5, this is the confidence we have that if we're speaking in the will of God, a prayer, He hears us. We have that confidence. In other words, there's a response. There's an approval from heaven. And over time and sometimes instantly, we see that response of God manifest. Paragraph A, intercessory worship is the primary means, not the only, but the primary means that God has chosen to release His power into the earthly realm. That's a big statement. Intercessory worship. Now, I'm putting the two together because some people focus on worship and some people focus on intercession. But in reality, they ascend before God as one big reality together. We'll look at that in a moment. But it's the primary means to release the power of God in the earthly realm. That's a huge statement because we all love the power of God and we want to experience it more. And the scripture says, well, here's the way. John chapter 4, Jesus said, let me tell you something about my father that I know that you don't know. I know my father well, he could have said. He's seeking for worshipers. God's not looking for adoration because he feels rejected. That's not what Jesus was saying. God's not lonely. God's not needy. God doesn't feel rejected if we don't worship Him. What he's looking for is people that will live in agreement with his heart. Because worship, one significant element of worship like intercession, it's agreement with God's heart. And the reason one reason God cares about agreement with his heart, because when we live in agreement with his heart, it develops the relationship. The father is a God of relationship saying, I'm not lonely. That's not why I need your worship. When you worship me, you position yourself to receive impartation from me and my power to flow through you because this is what I'm looking for. I'm looking for people that will interact with me because I'm a father. I'm a God of relationship. I'm not lonely or rejected or needy. That's not why I'm looking for worship. I want interaction. I want partnership. I want my children to receive from me and me to flow through them. That's what he's saying here. In worship, we agree with who God is. You are holy. You are good. You are filled with mercy. When we worship, we're declaring agreement with who he is. When we intercede or pray, it's the same thing. We're agreeing with what he promised to do. Some people are more into intercession. Lord send revival. You said you'd send revival. So it's good. I'll do it. Others are into I love you. I love you. You are amazing. You're beautiful. God says that's good. Whether you're agreeing with who he is, worship, or agreeing with what he said he'll do, intercession, agreement is what he's after. Because we're not telling him anything he doesn't know. He's not looking for information. He's looking for interaction at the heart level. Paragraph one. Worship and prayer around the throne, they flow together. Around the throne, the prayers of the saints are flowing, and they're being stored up and received. Around the throne, there's worship. Around the throne, there's declarations of God's glory about who he is and declarations of his promises of what he said he would do. Paragraph two. Psalm 149. David captured this. The great warrior king of Israel. You know, the great warrior king of Israel was a lovesick worshiper. And David understood the combination, or the, or not the combination, but the relationship of worship and warfare in a very unique and clear way. He saw worship and warfare as flowing as one river from God's throne. David, the great warrior king and the great lovesick worshiper, said, let high praises flow out of your mouth, and it will release the judgment of God on the enemies of God. That's pretty intense. The judgment of God is to stop everything that hinders love. That's the point of judgment, to stop everything that hinders love. And of course, Psalm 149 has its greatest fulfillment in the generation the Lord returns, when the Antichrist, a real man, is on the earth with an evil influence around the earth, where the saints are praising and releasing the judgments of God, the power of God against him. And worship will be a very essential element of warfare. Notice in verse 9, this ability to worship and release the power of God against evil is the honor of all the saints. Beloved, that's something we'll do in this age and in the age to come. Well, I love to use the phrase, I've used it for years, the majesty and mystery of intercession. The majesty of intercession. Well, it's majestic because God chose it to release His power. That's one reason why it's majestic, because God said, if humans will agree with me, the supernatural power of God will enter the earth realm. That makes intercession a whole other level of importance in terms of activity. It crowns worship and intercession in its own category of importance, of dignified, significant activity. And the reason we care about that, if it's that important, we want to excel in it. We don't want to just be a part of a prayer room and just kind of put a few hours in and go about our business. We want to excel in this, in the grace of God, if this is really true. Well, it's majestic, mostly, even more than the fact that it releases God's power, because Jesus does it forever. Can you imagine that Jesus, who's fully God and fully man, that forever He makes intercession? I mean, He is as much God as the Father is. Jesus is the uncreated God, like the Father. One God, three persons. They have different functions. They relate together in the fullness of love, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. But it's one God in three persons, the great mystery of the Trinity. It's remarkable that part of the Godhead, the second person, the Son, He asked the Father to release His power. Like, well, you're God. Why do you have to do that? That's the relationship. That's the interaction between the Father and the Son. This makes intercession majestic. I mean, it's amazing that Jesus, even a million years from now, I mean, now, even with His resurrected body at the right hand of the Father, He's interceding as a man, but He's fully God as well. Well, the Father's right there. He's at His right hand. Jesus says, yes, but I know the power and the value of intercession in my Father's plans. That verse right there, He always lives to make intercession. A number of translations put the word, He forever lives to make intercession. I like the word forever. I mean, always means the same thing, but that word forever kind of lets us know that it's forever. Okay. Look at Psalm 2. David, again, that great warrior king, that lovesick worshiper, the worshiping warrior, David, he catches this by the Spirit. He's listening to a interaction, a dialogue between the Father and the Son. I mean, what a privilege. And Jesus stands before the Father in verse 7, I will declare the Father's decrees. That's what He's saying. Jesus said, this is my response, because He's, all the nations, the kings of the earth are resisting God and resisting Jesus. Jesus says, here's how I will respond. I will decree, declare my Father's decrees. Somebody might say, why? Well, Jesus, I mean, David answers, the Father said to me, Jesus could say if He was standing right here in the flesh, my Father told me to do this. He told me, ask of me and I'll release the nations. Well, Jesus, you already rose from the dead. The nations are yours. You paid the price on the cross. You rose from the dead. You ascended. Jesus said, yeah, but my Father told me to ask. Well, isn't it enough that you went to the cross, rose from the dead and ascended? My Father said, ask, and I'm going to ask. That's amazing to me. That the Father releases the full possession of the nations to Jesus in context to Jesus' intercession. And of course, that intercession is Jesus, the bridegroom king, we're His eternal companion, the bride of Christ. He wants us together with Him in intercession. He could ask without us, but He goes, no, I want you at my side, seated in heavenly places, asking the things I ask, partnering with my heart. Now, Jesus is already King of the nations, but it's not enough that He has authority over the nations. He wants that authority to be openly displayed in the natural realm for every eye to see forever and forever. That's what He's after. That's what He means, I'll possess the nations. Every single sphere of life in every city of every nation of the earth will be fully obedient to Jesus. Well, that's after He returns, but we're going to get more of that happening in this age, but it's going to happen in fullness after He returns. But even then, it's through Jesus asking. Again, Jesus, you rose from the dead. Why do you have to ask? My Father said to me, ask. That's why I ask. It's my Father's plan. Paragraph C, the mystery of intercession. Here's the mystery. It's how simple it is. We simply tell God what He tells us to tell Him. Anybody can do it. You don't need an education. You don't need to have money. You don't need position. You don't need favor. You don't need beauty. You don't need popularity. You don't need anything. All you need is a human spirit, and you say what God says back to Him. You can whisper it. Anybody can do the most majestic activity in the created order. Anybody can. That's remarkable. The most uneducated, the most ungifted, the most unpopular, the most un-everything person that's born again can do this. It's mystery is in its weakness, how weak it is. Meaning, and I put weakness in quote unquote meaning, tell God what God tells us to tell Him like it's in the Word. He says, pray that the spirit of wisdom will be released. Okay, spirit of wisdom be released. The Lord says, yeah, yeah, that's it. Well, anybody can do that. That's it. That's the mystery of it. The most powerful activity in the entire human race anybody can do. A three-year-old can do it. Literally, out of the mouths of babes. David wrote in Psalm 8, God would perfect praise out of their mouth because a three-year-old can say what God says. Lord, send revival. Lord, touch daddy. Lord, help mommy. The three-year-old can do that, and it works. What a brilliant strategy of God to involve the whole human race, whoever wants to be, whoever says yes to the grace of God. Top of page two. What we're going to continue with, I want you to see this principle of intercession. I mean, it's remarkable to me. The principle of intercession. Jesus created, He created the heavens and the earth by this principle. Look at Genesis chapter one. The earth, verse two, the earth was without form and void, but the Spirit was hovering over the waters. So the earth exists, but it doesn't have any of its form and its beauty, and all the landscape and all the intricacies of the beauty of creation were not yet in place. But the earth itself, the rock was there, and the water was on it. The remarkable thing is that the Father had already ordained the fullness of His glory on the earth. I mean, the trees, the animals, the human race, the Father ordained all of that. It was already approved. I talk about intercession as like, it's like a check that needs two signatures, and it's already, it needs to be cosigned, but God's already signed it. He already wrote it. All He's waiting for is a cosigner, and the check can be cashed. The Father's already approved of it. The Spirit is moving in power. Can you imagine the Spirit hovering? I mean, the Spirit hovering over the earth. We're talking power. God approved it. The Father said, yes, and the Spirit is present in power, but there's darkness everywhere. And then the Son, let there be, and then the Spirit releases it. And the Spirit doesn't release it until the Son says what the Father's thinking, the Father's plan. The Father could have said, let it be. It's clear in the New Testament that Jesus is the one acting in creation. But the fact that the Father had approved it, the Spirit was present, but the darkness continued until somebody said, the man, the one with authority said, let there be light, and then there's light 10 times. He says, let there be, let there be, let there be, and the Spirit moves when the Son speaks the Father's plan. Some folks say, well, the Father, I'll, you know, whatever God wants, He'll do. The Father could say, well, I wanted creation, but it wasn't going to be released until somebody relationship to me said it, and the Spirit released it. It's not enough to just say, whatever God wants, He'll do. The Lord says, whatever I want, I want you to agree with me in faith. God said it. I believe it. Therefore, I say it, and the Lord releases it. Not enough just to put it all there. He says, no, I want partnership. I want my people involved. Again, we're not talking only about a prayer meeting, praying for revival, or the stopping of abortion, or stopping human trafficking, which is so important. You can do this driving down the road in your car by yourself, walking around your block. You can do this in total, laying on your bed at night. You don't need to wait for a prayer meeting for this to work. Paragraph B, not only did Jesus create by speaking, He sustains and upholds the created order by speaking. While the heavens and the earth are created, all the nations, you know, the trees, and the vegetation, the mountains, the birds, the animals, the human race, but Jesus sustains and upholds it by speaking. What a remarkable thing. Hebrews 1, He upholds all things by speaking the word. I don't believe He's every minute of the day saying, Father, release your power, release your power, release your power, release your power, you know, for billions of years. I don't know how He does it, but there are moments, there are times, and this is beyond my understanding how it works, but there are times where Jesus, the second person in church, He says, Father, and He speaks, and there's this surge of power that keeps the created order sustained. If He quit speaking, the whole worlds would disintegrate. The universe would. It's upheld by a man speaking. Beloved, that's power. Colossians 1, Paul said everything consists in Him. Other translations say they hold together in Him. Everything holds together by Jesus. I love James chapter 1, verse 18. I just have the notes, but not the verse there. God brings us forth. He brings forth blessing by speaking the word of His power. He brings forth blessing in your life by speaking. He even, He continues to speak over you. He longs that His people would interact with Him and join with Him more in the speaking, because it is the principle of intercession. Paragraph C, when Jesus articulates what the Father's thoughts are, His plans are, He functions as the living word. We all know the verse that Jesus is called the word of God. Why is He called the word of God? Well, one reason. He brings God's ideas, God the Father's plans into existence in the earthly realm by speaking. He's not just the word of God describes Him. He's the oracle. He's that spoken living oracle. Whatever the Father's thinking, the plans of the Father, Jesus speaks them in unity with His people under His authority, and those plans manifest in the natural realm. He is the word of God. He is that living word, that living oracle from the Father, fully God. Yes, the Bible does fully, I mean, represents His heart, His emotions. It reveals Him, but Jesus is the word in a way beyond that He's revealed by the word. He is that oracle that releases the power of God, that released creation, that sustains creation. He is the word. He acts and rules by speaking the word. Paragraph D, Matthew 4, you know the passage, but we need to imitate this passage. We're talking about the sinless, spotless Son of God. He's tempted. He speaks the word. When Satan tempts Him, He doesn't just like bristle up and please leave, please leave. I just feel depressed. Somebody pray for me. He said, it is written. He spoke the word back. My point being, how much more us, the enemy attacks us, we sometimes just kind of hang in there and just let the storm pass and just suffer and sweat and filled with fear and filled with temptation and yield. Holy Spirit says, speak the word right now. Speak the word. The sinless one did it. Even he needed to do it. How much more you? Let this depression leave and I'll just be okay in a week or two. Speak the word. I'll get someone to pray over me. You speak the word in the name of Jesus. It is written. Speak who you are in Christ. Speak the authority that you have. Beloved, the power is released by speaking the word paragraph eight. As you've noticed, I'm saying the same thing like over and over again, but there's so many verses on it that I have a lot of material. I've only said the same thing like 17 times in the last 21 minutes. I mean, I know you know it, but I wanted you to know that I knew it too. Ephesians six, the sword of the spirit. See, the word functions as the sword against the domain of Satan. The word of God when spoken functions like a sword that strikes the domain of darkness. When whether that domain of darkness is attacking us or attacking someone or someplace else, we speak the word and it goes forward like a sword. Isaiah 49, the father, this is Jesus speaking through Isaiah the prophet, the father made my mouth like a sword. What's that mean? Jesus releases the power of God by speaking. That's what that means. Isaiah 11, the Messiah shall strike the earth with his mouth, the rod of his mouth. He will use his commands to release judgment, but it goes forth by speaking. Paragraph F, Isaiah 59. It's talking about the new covenant now. It's talking about the covenant God has with his people forever and forever and forever. This is the new covenant. Look what it says, Isaiah 59, this is my covenant. My spirit who is upon you. My words I put in your mouth. This is the, this is core truth to the new covenant. We're new covenant believers, meaning we're born again by the Holy Spirit. We're in covenant with God. It's the, it's the new covenant. What's superior to the old covenant in the old testament, but here's how the covenant works. My spirit's on you. My word is in you. My spirit is on you. My word is in you. This sounds like Genesis one. The spirit is hovering over the earth, but the word of God needs to be spoken. That was in the mouth of Jesus and Jesus spoke it. And it says, I put my word in your mouth. My word shall not depart from your mouth. And this principle is good. And he went on to say later, the verse is a quite long verse. This is true of you, your descendants, their descendants forever and forever. Here's the My spirit's on you. Like in Genesis one, it's present the words in your mouth. You declare it. Don't ever have a time in your life where you're not declaring the word. The word should never stop departing from your mouth. I love it. That's a, this is intercession of worship. And again, I don't mean just a worship meeting. I worship meetings are important because God's really into corporate intercession of corporate worship, but it's not limited to that. The spirit's on me. The word is in me. It's the word of God. I don't mean I need a prophetic dream. I'm talking about the Bible. Prophetic dreams can, can, can bolster our faith, but it needs to tell us what the truth that's already in the book. So here's the covenant. My spirit's on you, my words in you, but here's how it's activated. Don't ever have a time where the word's not leaving your mouth. Sing it, say it, pray it, sing it, say it, pray it, pray it, sing it, say it never. Is there a time where the word should stop departing from your lips forever in the resurrection a million years from now, a billion years from now, spirit on you, word in your mouth, you'll be speaking and releasing the power of God. That's the subject of our next session after the break. Top of page three, he told Jeremiah, same principle, just over and over, Jeremiah, I put my word in your mouth. Top of page three, Jeremiah one, I put my word in your mouth because that's how God releases his power. I set you over nations. How does God set a teenage prophet over nations? Jeremiah was a teenager. He was a boy. God set him over nations. It didn't mean that he put him on the throne in the eyes of men because the king threw Jeremiah in prison. The king of Israel, of Judah, threw him in prison. But God says, well, you may be in prison, but you're over the nation. You're over the king that put you in prison. Really? It doesn't feel like I'm over him. Oh, I trust you. You're over him. The Lord says, I put my word in your mouth. Speak it, speak it. You will build and plant. You will uproot the wrong things. You will establish the right things by speaking. We're talking a 16, 18 year old teenage prophet who ended up in prison several times, but he was uprooting nations by speaking in prayer. And he was establishing nations by speaking. Joshua, same thing. The Lord appears to Joshua in Joshua 1. The Lord is appearing to him right there, right in front of him. Joshua 1 says, Moses is dead. Here's the children of Israel about to enter into the promised land. Moses, the great father, the patriarch is now dead. Joshua's going, oh no, I'm the leader. How does this work? The Lord appears and says, here's the key, Joshua. The word of God shall never stop going forth from your lips. You speak my word. Never stop. Just like Isaiah 59, the verse we looked at. Meditate on it, but more speak it. The word of God shall not depart from your lips. Meaning there should never be a time where you cease to speak it. If you stop meditating on it, you'll stop speaking it. If you stop speaking it, you'll stop meditating on it. The rich get richer. If you meditate, you speak it more. If you speak it more, you meditate on it more. Both of them go together. But here's what the Lord said to him, standing right in front of Joshua, a brand new leader. He says, oh, by the way, you do this. You speak it and meditate, speak it and meditate, meditate, speak it. I'll make you prosperous and you'll succeed in everything in the will of God. You quit meditating and speaking, you won't prosper. You won't enter into all that I've ordained for you. This is just a simple exhortation to prayer is really what it is. It's more than that. But at the most simple, basic, boil it down. This is a message about intercession and worship. Again, worship, we agree with who he is. Intercession, we agree with what he said he would do. Roman numeral three, we know the passage. Jesus said, if you night and day, cry out night and day, I'll release justice. Jesus connects the release of justice in the earth to night and day agreement with him. If I could get people to agree with me night and day, I'll release justice. Justice is making wrong things right. Many, many different ways that justice is manifest. It's not just putting the criminals in jail. Justice is far more than that. It's making wrong things right. And Jesus connected his people agreeing with him night and day to releasing more justice. Jesus is the first social reformer that I know of anywhere in history that connected night and day prayer with the release of social justice. He said they're connected. He goes, because with night and day prayer, you deal with the source of injustice in the spirit. With night and day prayer, you deal with the demonic source of the injustice. And then you do the acts of justice and you do all these other things as well. Let's look at Roman numeral four, Roman numeral four, the middle of page three, the weakness and wisdom of intercession, the weakness and wisdom of saying what God says. Again, we could call it intercessory worship. We call it worship. You are good. You are glorious. I love you. I am yours. You are mine. That's worship. Intercession. Release your power. Cause the harvest to come in. Send revival. Open the eyes of the, of this person or that person. Release your healing power. Bring unity. Solve the division problem in our family. That's intercession. First Corinthians chapter one, Paul said, God has chosen the weak things. What he meant the so-called weak things, the things men call weak. They aren't actually weak, but men look at them and go, you're doing what? Yeah, I'm taking a lot of time every day. I'm telling God what he tells me to tell him. Yeah, it's really cool. Well, what else are you doing with your life? Well, I'm doing other things as well, but I'm really prioritizing and learning more about telling God what he tells me to tell it. Well, you got so much gifting and so much ability and opportunity. Are you really want to tell an invisible God who answers in a delayed response program? I mean, his delayed answers, he's invisible. You don't feel it most of the time when you tell him what he tells you to tell him. And he has a delayed answering system. The Lord said, Paul says, you call a week if you want, but I promise you this, it will put the shame what men call mighty. When you look back over the years, because you can't measure most prayer by days and weeks, measure it by years and decades. You look back, I mean, there are many prayers that are answered instantly and some that are answered, you know, in a few days, few weeks, but I'm talking about the prayers that shift nations and the prayers that set a family on a trajectory in God that has deepened things in God with heritage. Those prayers over decades, you look back and you say, God, you really did answer. Paul said, he'll put to shame what men call powerful by you embracing what men call weak. There's nothing weaker than prayer in my opinion. Again, you're talking to an invisible God. You don't feel it many times. Sometimes you do a lot of times you don't, but beloved, whether you feel it or not, God feels it even though you don't, we can't feel it. So we think he doesn't feel it or doesn't value it. So I'm saying that. Where'd you get that idea? Because you don't feel it. God doesn't hear it. God's words now wrong because you don't feel it. I don't know. You know, I don't feel anything. Well, God, the God of Genesis one said that first John 5, 14, this is the confidence. If you speak a prayer in the will of God, you can be absolutely sure God hears it. And the idea is he's answering it in his own timing and those increments of power being released according to his wisdom. Our prayers are often as offered in weakness, meaning we don't feel it is all I mean. And the human sense it's offered Lord, that was a pretty pathetic prayer meeting. We think if we feel a lot in the prayer meeting, the prayer meeting moved God more. You know, the music was really good and the people excited and everybody was standing and a few people jumping, man, God must've really heard that one. They're sitting depressed and groaning and dead tired on triple jet lag and debts. But you speak God's word back to him. Tell you, I tell you, it is the same. It is the same. It moves God when we speak in agreement with him, regardless what we feel. So we can offer it without in weakness, but I tell you, we can offer, we offer it without feeling power and weakness, but it ascends before him because the blood of Jesus and ascends in power, no matter what benefit. Number one, there's seven benefits we're gonna look at. Turn to bottom of page three. Well, these are so simple, but I just wanted you to get on one, two, three, four, you know, just seven. Number one, when we speak the word, I want you to focus here on number one. Don't go ahead just yet. This is very important one. When we speak the word, it internalizes the word. It does something in us. We can't measure while it's happening. Jesus said, my words are spirit. My words are life. When we speak God's words back to God, whether we feel it, whether we have the spiritual discernment, those words are spirited life, meaning they impart life. They have spiritual content. They have spiritual power. They have spiritual substance. They release life, the zoe life, the God kind of life. It's more than human, a physical life. They release spiritual life. Every time God's word goes forth, whether it's from God's mouth or your mouth, it is the word of God. It is the very essence of what life is, that spiritual quality to it, that spiritual power. It releases divine life. Every time you say it, God's in revival to this city. Lord, touch my family. Lord, heal this person. You say what God says every time. It marks your heart even a little bit. I really like the analogy. It's a weak analogy, but it's the best one I can think of. It's like a programmer rewriting lines of code on a, developing a new program. Every time we say, maybe this programmer is writing a million lines of code, hypothetically, million, one line at a time. It takes them however long. Every time you speak God's word, it's like a line of code being written on your inner man, one line at a time. Maybe there's a million lines before that program is ready. I don't know computers, so I don't really know how that works, but I know it's a lot. I tell you every single time, I'm just thinking of the prayer room. It's not limited to the microphones praying, Lord, release justice. Stop human trafficking. I whispered, Lord, release justice. Stop human trafficking. That's a line of code rewritten in your heart. That's why you don't want to just sit in the room and have it background music. You actually want to say stuff. You don't want to just have background music to do your email. You really want to say stuff. You know the worship leader singing, Lord, you are good. You are good. I love you. You are mine. I'm yours. You want to say some of those things. I didn't feel anything. Still didn't feel anything. You are mine. I am yours. Didn't feel anything again. Stay with it. You're rewriting lines of code. This renews our faith. It draws us into intimacy. It transforms us. It's time. Sometimes there's an instant breakthrough. Don't put off the instant breakthrough concept, but don't lose your way because you don't see the instant thing in the way we want. The instant thing comes suddenly when we least expect it sometimes. Boom, the breakthrough. There's a breakthrough, but I tell you, don't give up this lifestyle when you don't see the instant. It's renewing you. It's renewing you. It's renewing you. You know, I've been in, I'm not saying this is a boast problem. I say this as an illustration. I've been in daily prayer meetings. You know, I'm talking about a public prayer meeting, praying on a microphone, whatever I started May 1979. I don't even know how many years, that's 30 some years. I made a commitment. I was 23 years old. So I guess that's 35 years ago, something like that. So I'm going to do daily prayer meetings to meet the Lord. And by the grace of God, less traveling or on vacation, 98% of the time, 95, whatever the number is, I've been in daily prayer meetings. I've had people say, man, how'd you stay with it? I'll say, I'll tell you, I know the secret. That's amazing. You stay with that. I go, no, actually you're recharging the battery by doing it. It's the doing of it that enables you to keep doing it. I've had friends that say that are so remarkable. I go, not exactly. If you keep the battery plugged in, you actually could keep using it. And what they're really saying is how do you endure prayer meetings so long? Because they're going to prayer meetings without talking to God. They're sitting in the room. If you actually talk, something gets renewed. You charge the battery while you're using the phone. I don't know exactly how all that works, but if you actually talk to God, something happens and you stay with it. So I don't look at it and, you know, as different ones, I said, that's so amazing. I go, not exactly right. It's like, how does your phone keep, the battery keep working when you talk on it and it's plugged in? It keeps working. The key to prayer meetings is go to them. That's how you keep going to them. But it's not sitting in a room while other people pray. That's the key right there. Not like you got to be praying and, you know, fully engaged every minute, every time, but just as a rule, pray in prayer meetings. I know that sounds cute, but I mean it. And 10 years later, you'll still be in them. You'll still have the battery plugged in. It will renew you and there won't be any mystery. You're 23 now. When you're 59, using my story, you'll still be in prayer meetings. Now, maybe you don't have the same calling. You don't, maybe you won't be in them every day. That's not the point every day because, you know, the Lord told me that to do that. The point is you will be enabled and inspired to do that. If you just, you talk on the phone all day long, you keep it plugged in. I don't even talk on the phone. That's a horrible analogy. Anyway, page four. The reason I say a horrible analogy, because there may be, I may be saying it a little bit wrong, but who cares? Benefit two. Another benefit, you increase in revelation, increase in understanding. Paul prayed you'd increase in understanding, but if you pray, you'll increase in understanding. Even if you're not praying for understanding, you'll still get it. If you stay in that dialogue, whether it's worship or intercession or a little this, a little that, both and, either or, you'll grow in understanding. I promise you, you'll grow with the spirit of wisdom and revelation. Look here in Daniel chapter nine. It says, while I was praying, Gabriel appeared. It says the man Gabriel. It's clearly the angel Gabriel, but he appeared as a man to Daniel. He appeared to Daniel the second time and then Daniel, okay, I got what's going on here, but he appeared the first time in the form of a man. He said, oh, the man Gabriel, Daniel eight and then Daniel nine, he appears to him in his human form and he sees it. He knows who he is. In Daniel 10, he has more visions. So Daniel eight and Daniel nine, the man Gabriel appears to him in a human form and said to this, and here's what Daniel said. I mean, here's what Gabriel said to him. Verse 23, at the beginning of your supplication, supplication and prayer is the same thing. At the beginning of your, when you started praying, I came to you to give you understanding. And then he told him, oh, by the way, you're greatly beloved of God, but I came here to tell you the vision to give you understanding. You will stay in prayer. I mean, prayer for revival will create your understanding and the Bible will grow. Even if you're praying for revival and not that particular subject, you'll still grow in understanding of that spiritual truth. You get into that environment of talking to God, you'll grow in spiritual understanding, even if you're not focused entirely on the subject that you end up growing in your understanding. Paragraph benefit three, intercession releases the power of God. It changes the spiritual atmosphere, cities, towns, families, whatever city, family, nation you pray for, the spiritual atmosphere changes. Look again, Daniel chapter 10, Daniel's in 21 days of fasting and prayer. Look at Daniel 10 verse 12, the angel appears. He says, I came because of your words, because of your words, I came. He goes, a demon stopped me, but you kept praying. So Michael, the archangel came and we pushed that demon out of the way because you kept praying angels help me. And we drove back the demons and the spiritual atmosphere gets changed. Demons are dislodged. Angels are released and engaged and employed, related to the prayers of people on the earth. Remarkable. Paragraph eight, the fourth benefit, love and unity. Paul said, this is remarkable to me. Philippians, he said, this will turn out for my deliverance through your prayers. Here's this, his disciples, they're much younger believers, Philippi. He goes, you pray, I get delivered. Well, Paul, aren't you like the main apostle? Shouldn't you be able to get through this by your own prayer? Paul said, you pray, deliverance happens for me in a greater measure. There's something in the heart of God that he connects us together. It is an expression of love. I've had people say, well, you know, I don't know the prayer room. I'm more into loving people. I go, there's nothing you will do more loving than you spend a couple hours laboring in prayer. Throw a little fasting in for that family that you're praying for. I tell you, it's the love of God. You'll see it. If you ever do it, it will take, it will draw on your resources of love to stay with that prayer. I don't mean prayer is the only way to love, but prayer is one of the most dynamic expressions of love. I've just heard over the years of people say, I love people. I don't really do the prayer thing. I really do the love thing. And I think you obviously have never prayed for anybody for three straight hours. That will draw on love in you in a way that is, might be surprising. It is a dynamic expression of love. It's not the only one. There's many expressions. Here's what Paul said in second Corinthians one, you help me together in prayer. Beloved. He's telling the Corinthians, the Corinthians, that was the most carnal church in the book of Acts surpassed only by the Laodiceans a little bit later. I mean, Corinth, like they got so much sin going on. Paul said, yeah, I realize it, but there's a ceiling on me that I can't get past it unless you're praying for me. I love it. And you love who you pray for. Whoever you pray for, you pray for North Korea, you'll love North Korea. Like how I've prayed for Cairo over the years. I love Cairo. You pray for Jerusalem. You'll love Jerusalem. You'll pray for, you pray for orphans. We're doing that this morning. We do that a couple of times throughout the week. You'll love orphans. You pray for the lost. You'll love the lost. That's why you pray for the church. All the prayers of the new Testament, most of them are for the church. You think, why? You'll love the church instead of criticizing the church if you pray for the church. When I hear someone say, oh, no, blah, blah, blah, blah. I go, they don't really pray for the church. They pray for revival, but they're thinking of something else. You pray for the church, you'll love the church. You really will. Your whole attitude will change. You'll love whoever you pray for, even if you don't mean to, even your enemies. You'll end up being tender towards them, thinking, gee, what is that? Just hope God's kind to them. Like, where did that come from? Benefit five, multiplied blessing. You'll never outgive God. You give, this is talking about Luke six, and money will come back to you, but it's not limited to money. You give in prayer. You pray for North Korea. You pray for Jerusalem. You pray for Cairo. That prayer will come back on your family. God, I ask you for liberty for the saints of North Korea. That liberty will touch your children and grandchildren. Say, I don't have any children and grandchildren. I'm 20. Well, you may end up with children and grandchildren, because that prayer will outlast your life on the earth. That prayer will be alive thousands of years from now. Oh, really? Well, okay. Lord, release liberty in North Korea then. That prayer will come back on your family line and your life. Paragraph G's, long-term impact. We pray God touch a city, a person this age. Beloved, this is a big subject. Those prayers are still alive in God. You know, the prayers you're praying for Jerusalem, well, Jerusalem, Jesus will live there. Let's pick another city. That's so, such a dynamic, glorious concept. Again, let's, North Korea, Cairo, Egypt. I got a real burden to pray for Cairo. Those prayers will still be alive a million years from now in the new heavens and new earth. Those prayers will still be alive, because prayers are stored in the bowl. Prayers in the will of God, they don't die. They don't die out. They're stored in God's presence. Malachi 3 verse 16 talked about a book of remembrance. When the saints talk in the fear of God, God writes them, and they're remembered forever, is the idea. They're in God's book. They're in God's bowl. They don't die out. Then if it's seven, you get an inheritance. Whatever family, church, ministry you pray for, you have an inheritance in them. There is a, there is an investment. There is a blessing. There is a joy. There is an increase by their increase. Any group you pray for, you have an inheritance in that group. That's a big subject, but we're out of time. So look at the summary. In God's strategy, intercession is brilliant. We rule with him. While in the process, it renews our faith, transforms us, draws us in intimacy, increases our understanding, releases God's power, expresses love, leads to unity, multiplies blessing, has long-term impact, increases our inheritance. Why don't we want to pray? Amen. Let's stand. Let's do it. I don't mean just right now. I'm talking about as a lifestyle.