Prayer

God wants your prayer to reach the heaven of all heavens. The only way for your prayer to become effective, to reach the heaven of all heavens, He will put a heavy load on your shoulders. And when you are heavy burdened, what are you gonna do? You're gonna say, God, please come to my rescue.

Whatever you want, I'll do. Just get me out of this trouble. Anything for you God.

Ah, now you're talking, my child. How come you were not talking this kind of a language before? Because before, I had it easy. Before, it was happening my way.

So my prayer to God, it was according to the way I wanted it. God says, it's a no-go. Therefore, I'm gonna break this silence, where I'm gonna put you through some sort of an obstacle.

I'll put an obstacle in your life, where you're gonna feel the pressure and the pain, and now you're gonna be coming, not running, but creepy crawling, on your knees, brother, bowing before your Lord, worshipping the Lord. Now your prayer became alive. Now when I pray, I feel every word, every letter, I live it, not just say it.

Before it was just a lip service, now it's coming from the depth of my heart, when you're heavy burdened. So sometimes, the Lord Jesus will put a heavy load on you. It's not always from Satan.

Because He wants you to pray better. He wants you to improve in your prayer life. He wants you to be effective in your prayer.

Not say a million words. He wants you to pray using your heart, not your head, not your lips. He wants the heartbeat to be the prayer.

That's breaking the silence. You know, when I was healthy, I didn't care much. I could have easily spoken about anyone and everyone.

I could have judged them, I could have abused them, told them off, and I wouldn't even give two pennies about it. But when I got sick, Lord, everyone is a saint, I'm the only sinner. Lord, they're all beautiful.

I forgive everyone. And I'm asking for everyone to forgive me. Just heal me, Lord.

Please, I want you to get me out of this bed. Anything for you, Lord. This is gonna be shut from now on.

I'm not gonna talk about anyone. I'm not gonna gossip about no one. I'm not gonna go and tit-tit-tit-tit-tit-tit-tit text message.

And did you know, did you know, did you know? No more of that, I'm dropping it, Lord. Actually, I'm cancelling the Facebook. Just heal me.

Please. Have your Lord. Breaks the silence.

Another ask in Greek. Dia-ima. Dia-ima means to beg God.

To beg Him. him. Now, when we look at begging God, we say I need to keep on going and calling him all the time and knocking at his door all the time and being consistent and persistent with my request.

Please, God, I want to marry Rachel. Please, Lord Jesus, I want to marry Rachel. If you're not going to give me Rachel, I'm not going to take Elizabeth.

That's it. That's the end of me. I'm going to hang myself.

I'm going to commit suicide. Well, go ahead. Love it.

Just do it. You want the rope? I'll give you the rope. Or I want this job or I want that.

And if you don't give me this, that's it. This is the end of me. I don't want to live anymore.

You got to give me this. I want it now. I'm not going to wait.

I'm not going to give you no more. Right now, I want it. This is not the way you beg God.

God answers our prayers, not in the place where we are at now, but God answers our prayers in the place where we are going to end up being. I'll say it again. When you pray and things don't move, when you pray and beg God from the core of your heart and things did not happen right there and then, you know why? It's not that God did not answer you, but God will not answer your prayer where you are now.

He will answer that prayer when you are going to be in the place that He wants you to be. I'll give you an example. An eagle, when he sees a fish swimming hundreds and hundreds of yards away, he watches that fish swimming.

When he takes off to go and catch the fish, he does not go where he saw the fish at. He goes where he calculated for the fish to be. So it's a few hundred yards away.

It's going to take me a few seconds to get there. In these few seconds, this fish would have swum a hundred yards. Therefore, I'm going to go that way to get to the fish.

If I go where the fish is now, I'm going to miss the fish. When you're praying now, God will not give you your prayer right now, because He will miss you. Because you're going to move.

You're going to continue going. So God will give you your request at the destiny where He has placed you at. So your present prayer will be given in the future.

So when you beg God, beg Him to give it to you where you're going to end up being, not where you are now. Are you with me? So next time you say, Lord, can you do this for me now? And nothing happens. But it's going to happen a year later, from the time you pray.

Because God was going to give you your prayer at the place where He wanted you to be. Because He loves you. He wants to elevate you.

He wants you to move forward, not be stagnant and stay where you are. Another ask, pon thadamai. Whoa, I hope it's right.

Pon thadamai is to question God. You see, one ask is what? To break the silence with a heavy load. The other one is to beg God, but to trust and wait on His reply in the future.

He will not answer you right now. But your prayer will be answered in the future, where it is most effective, my beloved, where it's most effective. Number three, pon thadamai is to question God.

How do we question God in our prayers? We question God in our prayers. Sometimes when we pray, we say, Lord, I've been working in your church for the past 10 years. You know who I am.

So please, can you do me a favor? Lord, I've been reading the Bible all my life. So you better do something about this. I've been working hard, Lord.

You know, Mr. So-and-so. Hello, Amir. Lord, I'm the president of the youth group committee.

I run the church choir. I am the bishop in this beautiful church. So Lord Jesus, I'm coming to you.

And it's Bishop Murray talking here, Lord. So can you do me a favor? You know, my beard has gone white like Santa Claus. So I love you so much.

And I've worked very hard for you. So I'm sure when I pray to you, you're going to just go like that. And it's done deal.

You don't do God any favor, no matter who you are, or what you are, what you've done, and what do you what do you have not done? God will not be moved by who you are. Don't go there with favoritism. The only way to question God is when you go to him totally empty.

That's the only time you can question him. When you go to him totally empty. Meaning, I'm going to you and I'm nothing God.

Lord Jesus have mercy on me either sinner. I'm blind. I am an idiot.

I'm empty. I am good for nothing Lord. I'm asking you to help me.

All glory is to your holy name. Whatever I've done, whatever I'm going to do in the future. It is absolutely nothing compared to what you have done for me on the cross on Calvary.

All I've done Lord is I gave you the crown of thorns. I am the cause for your crucifixion. I nailed you on the cross.

I am Judah, and I'm I've sold you and I've denied you. We are all Simon and we are all Judah. There is no difference my beloved.

When you go to him, say Lord I am nothing. I came to you empty because I trust that you will fill me up. Now when you question God in this instance, wow, he is all ease.

He's all ease. So when Fadimeh is to question God, to say that you go to him with being absolutely empty-handed. And sometimes God will answer us by not answering us.

This is a way of answering us by not answering us. If you got a problem with that. You see if you go to him being someone or something big and if he doesn't answer you, you get upset.

You get offended. You say all these years I've given my life for you and this is the way you treat me back. Thank you very much.

No more church. No more Jesus. I prayed and I asked you to heal me.

You didn't. I prayed and I asked you to open the door and you didn't. You know what? I'm not gonna work for you.

Why should I bother? Then you'll start getting upset and angry with God. But if you go to him being nothing, even if you get nothing from him, no hard feelings. I went nothing.

I came back nothing. What's different? Nothing. I'm not gonna get offended because sometimes God will answer us by not answering us.