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Tips For Prayer Uproar
Gbile Akanni
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Gbile Akanni

Tips For Prayer Uproar

Gbile Akanni · 20:19

Gbile Akanni teaches that prayer is essential to restore and strengthen marriages as divine institutions designed for God's kingdom purpose.
In this powerful sermon, Gbile Akanni emphasizes the critical role of prayer in restoring and strengthening marriages. He reveals how marriage is a divine institution designed for God's kingdom agenda and how spiritual neglect can lead to broken homes. Gbile calls believers to cry out to God for revival in their families, encouraging husbands and wives to stand firm in faith and prayer. This message inspires listeners to reclaim their homes as strongholds of faith prepared for the coming revival.

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I pray for myself and for every wife this morning, is that our walk with God also will be answerer herself. We will be able to stand on our own two feet in relating with God. We will not be wheelbarrowed by our husbands with the burdens carried by them.

But we will be correct helps as we also hear and receive from God. Thank you very much, Brother Simeon from Malawi. May the Lord bless you in Jesus' name.

Now we are going to go on to intercede and pray in our different centres. We are going to pray for our marriages, pray for our homes. We are going to take time to seriously pray and intercede for marriages.

But before we go on in our different centres, we are going to have one of our sisters, Sister Esther Shitu from Ghana, bringing in the tips, bringing in the burden that we are going to be praying for. So that by the time we go back to our different centres, there will not be any need again. We will just pick each one of those tips and burdens that have been raised for us in the presence of God to intercede.

The Lord will help us to pray, release the spirit of prayer upon each and every one of us this morning as we intercede. Sister Esther Shitu from Ghana will be bringing us the burden and the tips for the prayer opera this morning. You are welcome, Ma.

Thank you very much. We thank God for the way he has led us this morning. Issues of prayer is here with us already.

If we are not going to be turned to a vegetable as women, as wives, we need to have a stand with God like Sarah. And as men, husbands, if we are going to lose our focus, we need to maintain our personal orders. As we maintain and stand and build our personal orders, that is how our families will be built.

We pray that God will help us today to cry to God as a result of a broken altar that might have occurred in one way or the other in our families. Let's pray together. Our Father and our God, we are praying this morning that you will come, come into our midst, because there is something you want to achieve with our marriage.

There is something you are yearning for, and we are trusting you that this morning you will strengthen us to pray that the spirit of prayer will come upon every one of us as husbands and wives. Lord, we beg you today. We beg you, O God, that you will come, you will come in your fullness and power, and you will cause us to pray.

Thank you, Father, for hearing us. In Jesus' mighty name we are praying. Amen.

We thank God for that morning's devotion, and we are trusting God that what God has said he will bring to pass. Already, God told us yesterday that this is the beginning of our miracle in him. We are trusting God for that.

I just wanted to add more to what my brother has said. Already we are seeing that God has a purpose for our marriage. God wants to achieve something, even from where we started yesterday.

We discovered that husband and wife, God brought us together for a divine purpose. One of the purposes that we have seen from our program, when we were reading through the program yesterday, I discovered that God brought the husband and his wife for the kingdom agenda to establish the purpose of God on earth. Not only that, the Lord is preparing Christian Hope for Revival.

Mighty Revival is coming. God wants our families, our homes, to be built, to be prepared for this Revival. You will understand with me that the purpose of God for this coming Revival is that Christian homes will yield, and will be thoroughly prepared and equipped to become fortresses of truth and strongholds of faith, to be able to pull down the kingdom of darkness, and pleading with us that God will help us to pray.

God will come upon us today with the spirit of prayer to pray and call upon him, so that the purpose of this marriage will really be fulfilled. Let's look at, just for us to take our bearing, Genesis chapter 2, verse 23. And Adam said, this is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh.

She shall be called woman because she was taken out of me, out of man. That is the recognition of Adam, is recognizing the help that God brought to him. He appreciated that the woman is a help to him.

But I want us to look at what happened in that Genesis chapter 3, verse 12. And the man said, the woman whom thou gavest to me to be with me, she gave me out of the tree and I did eat. The language has changed.

There is a sharp difference between Adam recognizing the help that God brought to him. He discovered that this woman is part of him. This woman is him himself.

They are one. But when you go further, you discover that something has taken place. There is an hijacker.

There is a thief. There is something that has broken down this very particular statement. Adam came and said, Lord, God, you are the one, the woman that you gave to me to be with me.

You see that this language has changed. Between that Genesis chapter 2, verse 23, with Genesis chapter 3, verse 12. The woman you gave to be with me.

The woman you gave to be with me. You gave me the woman. I didn't choose the woman myself.

Can you see what has happened now? Look at what she has done. I don't know what has happened to your life. I don't know what has happened to your marriage.

And one of the issues that have come to us in the devotional church is that, are you broken? Are you away? Are you absent from your personal altar? Have you become a stranger in God's presence? You can see that Adam himself, when he recognizes the help that God brought to him. I don't know where he went. Whether he was not, he was no longer with his wife.

And there was a gap between two of them. And the devil came in. Something happened that his language changed.

He discovered that this woman is no longer my wife. She is the woman that God gave to be with me. Now, things have started happening.

I don't know what has happened in your marriage. I don't know whether the harmony, the sweetness, the presence of God, the altars that you have been building together has been broken down. And no, the devil did not waste time.

He hijacked. He's an hijacker. He's stepping in fullness.

Marriage is the first base that the devil attacked. Because he knew that there is something God wants to achieve with our marriage. He wants us to stand as husband and wife.

To agree together. To bring heaven on earth. That we will be part and we are part and parcel of the homes that God is yearning for.

So that as he's going to pour out revival on earth, we will become containers. We will become unbeatable team. Our home will be a strong base that God will be moving as vehicles to achieve his purpose on earth.

We are going to pray this morning. Lord, don't pass my home by. Don't pass me by as husband that I supposed to be a head to lead my family and bring my family to this very particular outburst.

As a woman, that Lord, you will help me to stand as your church stood in the book of Ephesians. Where Jesus was standing and leading and standing as a head of the church. And the church also is submitting Christ as we as wife will be submitting to our own husband.

There's something hijack this very particular relationship. You can see with me today that the devil has entered into the family because he knew that the family, they are going, they are stronger first. The strongest force on earth that is going to start as fortresses to also pull down the kingdom of darkness on earth.

And God also is going to visit our families. He's coming down in this meeting on an unusual way. He's going to bring forth his presence upon our families.

He's going to open our eyes to see the need why we need to cry. The need why he brought us as husband and wife. He is not bringing us just for us to relate as husband and wife.

There is something in the heart of God that he wants to achieve. There is something he want to pass on into the world on earth through the families. Just like John, John the Baptist, he went into the wilderness to prepare a way for the Lord.

And one of the ways to be prepared, this revival is the family, our home, our marriages. For us to bear this revival that is coming on us. Can you see with me today that the rate of divorce is rampant? It's everywhere.

The husband break away from the wife and remarry. The children are in the middle. The wife also break away and remarry.

And these children are there. There are innocent children suffering here and there. And you can see today that we have a lot of children who cannot go and stay at home.

Who are on the street begging. Who are on the street wayward. Darkness has entered.

And today I want you to pray. Could it be that the devil has ravaged your family? Could it be that the devil has reduced your relationship? Your marriage has become a wilderness. Has become a battlefield.

This is a home that God has made. For us to rejoice and to be happy in him. To carry out the purpose of God in our life.

It has become a battlefield. It has become a wilderness. We need to pray that the devil has hijacked.

That God will come down in his power and his might. And that this wilderness will become a fruitful field. Will become a base.

Like an army base where we will launch out an armory. An attack to the kingdom of darkness. And that God will restore back our family.

Restore back the harmony. Restore back that openness. That joy of transparency that is no longer there.

That God himself will do something that is beyond us today. We need to cry. We need to beg God.

We need to beg God. That God please don't pass me by. Don't pass my family by.

Don't pass me by as a wife. Don't pass me by as a husband. Lord come to me in mercy.

Oh my home is becoming a battlefield. My home is becoming a wilderness. We need to cry to God.

We need to beg God. That God almighty. Come Lord Jesus.

Come and visit my home. Don't pass me by. This is the agenda of God for us.

Our marriage is for a divine purpose that God wants to achieve. Our marriage is God instituted this marriage. God himself is the one, is the owner of our marriage.

And we need to respond to him. You can see today again that even between husband and wife we are hiding from one another. We are no longer truthful to one another.

And this is taking place. You can see how Adam is hiding from his wife. Whatever has taken place in your life, in your marriage, you need to cry to God.

That God will have mercy on us. So I want you to lift up your voice to God in the place of prayer. I may not be able to download or to bring forth all that has happened in the world.

You can see that because the devil has hijacked marriage. You can see how gay movement has come in. Lesbialism has come in.

It is affecting the church. It is affecting the body of Christ. That a pastor who is born again has thrown away his wife.

He is embracing the world system. He is embracing that a man and a man can be husband and wife. That is not the Bible.

We can see that the devil is bringing so many things. And it is affecting our homes. It is affecting the husband and wife.

We are going to cry to God today. There are many many things that have happened. It has happened.

Even the issue that brother Simeon was raising this morning. Can you see? Because of this worldliness have entered into our relationship. That a wife no longer can pay attention to her personal altar.

She is busy here and there. And when the devil wants to make you spiritually useless. He will compare you physically.

To the extent that your altar, your personal altar where you will meet with God. To speak the truth to God. And God will focus upon your life to build you up.

Is no longer. Is no longer in appearance. So we are going to talk to God.

Even the husband also is absent from the presence of God. I really really want us to pray today. What is it the devil has taken out of your life? Has it taken away from you? And it has become a wilderness? Has it taken your family? And your families are scattered.

Your children are scattered all over the place. Some are here. Some are on the street.

No longer. Ah! I want us to pray. Your husband.

Your wife. Is no longer with you. And today.

He didn't touch you. And when God wants to bless us. And he wants to achieve his purpose.

Your family will be absent. Ah! I want us to cry to God. Father! My family must be present today.

Lord! Whatever it will take. Lord! Do it in my life. Show us mercy.

Thank you Jesus. Can we begin to pray? Can we begin to talk to God? Father! Don't jump my family over. Father! Come to me.

Come to me in mercy. Come to my family. Come to my home.

Visit my children. Visit my husband. Our joy is gone.

Our relationship is broken down. Father! Whatever it is that I don't know. Do something today in my life.

Visit me in the name of Jesus. Amen! Amen! Amen! Amen! Amen! Amen! Amen! Amen! Amen! Amen! Amen! Amen!

Sermon Outline

  1. I
    • The divine purpose of marriage in God's kingdom agenda
    • Marriage as a fortress against the kingdom of darkness
    • The need for personal and family altars of prayer
  2. II
    • The breakdown of marriage illustrated by Adam and Eve's changed relationship
    • The devil's hijacking of families and marriages
    • The impact of spiritual neglect on homes and relationships
  3. III
    • The call to cry out to God for restoration and revival in families
    • Prayer as a weapon to reclaim broken altars and restore harmony
    • The role of husbands and wives in standing firm spiritually
  4. IV
    • The societal challenges affecting Christian homes today
    • The importance of maintaining a personal walk with God
    • Expecting God's visitation and power to transform homes

Key Quotes

“Marriage is the first base that the devil attacked because he knew that there is something God wants to achieve with our marriage.” — Gbile Akanni
“Our home will be a strong base that God will be moving as vehicles to achieve his purpose on earth.” — Gbile Akanni
“If we are not going to be turned to a vegetable as women, as wives, we need to have a stand with God like Sarah.” — Gbile Akanni

Application Points

  • Commit to maintaining a personal altar of prayer to strengthen your relationship with God and your spouse.
  • Pray regularly as a couple to restore harmony and resist spiritual attacks on your marriage.
  • Seek God's intervention to transform your home into a stronghold of faith prepared for revival.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why is prayer important in marriage according to the sermon?
Prayer is vital because it restores broken altars, strengthens the marital bond, and aligns the family with God's divine purpose.
What does the speaker identify as the main enemy of marriage?
The devil is identified as the hijacker who attacks and breaks down marriages to prevent God's purpose from being fulfilled.
How should husbands and wives respond to spiritual challenges in their homes?
They should stand firm in their personal relationship with God, pray earnestly, and support one another to build a strong spiritual foundation.
What biblical example is used to illustrate the change in marriage relationships?
The relationship between Adam and Eve is used, showing the shift from unity to blame after the fall.
What is the ultimate goal of restoring marriages through prayer?
To prepare Christian homes as strongholds of faith that will support the coming revival and advance God's kingdom on earth.

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