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Active Prayer Neal Frisby’s Sermon CD# 1091 2-9-86 (AM)
Glory! Bible’s on, isn’t it? Praise the Lord. Well, It’s great, isn’t it? Well, all of you got prayed for nearly. You feel it? Still feel it, still feel the power? Amen. Services are great, music, the singing, and the power of God’s with us here. You ought to be just healed right where you are standing. Amen. I am going to pray for you all together, and then we will have a message tonight. We will be praying for the sick, no matter what’s wrong with you, you’ll be here, the Lord will meet you. If you have a little faith, you are going to see a miracle in your life. Lord, we are united together in the spirit of prayer. We believe in our heart that you are going to guide and lead us. And those that came to this crusade, Lord, you are going to make a move in their life, and you are going to guide them, Lord, anointing them as the hours are closing out. And the more and the closer it gets to closing out, the closer you will draw with thy power to us, and that’s what I believe in my heart. Great things are ahead and wonderful things for thy people. Amen. Now touch the bodies. Take away the stress, any anxiety, Lord, and the burdens, for we are to worship you in a happy spirit and a joyful tone. Amen. Give Him a hand clap! Praise the Lord Jesus! Amen. God is great. Go ahead and be seated. Now, this morning, listen closely. be here tonight. God will bless your heart. No telling what will happen at the end of the age. We see all kinds of things early in the ministry, we will see more, more, and more.
1.Now, Active Prayer is living faith. How many of you know that? Active Prayer, the prayer of faith, is living faith. Prayer will invigorate your whole life. Prayer will invigorate your body, God’s treasure house of prayer. Did you know the great revival that will come at the end of the age will be because of people knowing how to pray when God moves on them and how the Holy Spirit will move on them? You remember one time in the Bible, a man hardly knew anything, but he was a good prayer warrior, according to the scriptures, Cornelius. And he began to pray, he was one that prayed all the time to God, he wanted to find out about all that God had for him. And, you know, during prayer that Cornelius was praying, at that hour, an angel of God appeared to him in bright clothing, the bible said, because he was in active prayer and daily in prayer. And he did his alms and prayers before God and the Lord said, “Thy prayers have been heard.” Amen. How many of you believe that? And right there, because of those prayers and a prayer warrior, and he was praying, is where the revival began to ignite to the Gentiles through the Apostle Peter. He came over to Peter and told him about the trance and vision that he was taken in and how the Lord had appeared to him, and right there was a great outbreak to the Gentiles. Later, Paul was to take it to the Gentiles also. So, we see the connection of the great revival that came to the Gentiles was through Cornelius when he was praying there. And then he went over to Peter. And, of course, then he started taking the gospel to the Gentiles because Cornelius was an Italian man, he was a centurion, is what he was, that God moved upon there.
2.And some people say, “You know, I pray and I don’t ….” Don’t worry about that. Your prayers are doing some good if you don’t think that way. You may not get an answer every time you pray because you are not gifted maybe or something, and sometimes it may not be in the will of God. And sometimes it’s that the Lord wants you to do something first. There’s many things involved in prayer, but your prayer that you pray, your prayer is never lost. No matter what happens, that prayer is good. And I also believe this, when I pray for somebody on this platform, regardless of… and most of them are healed, but regardless of what takes place, that prayer is still ringing somewhere in eternity because faith is on it. It is still ringing out there. First prayer that I prayed for you, if some of you are not healed, it’s still ringing in faith for you out there if you want it. Amen. That’s the way God moves. So, we find out how important it is. And prayer changed the world; at the time of the apostles, the whole world was changed. And Christ came and set it in motion, the spiritual power of God. And he said, “Lord, teach us to pray.” And the Lord began to teach them valuable lessons in prayer at that time. The bible said, and the men said, “Aren’t these the men….?” The apostle Paul had turned upside down the world. How many of you believe that? Now at the end of the age, visions and power of the Lord coming for His people, there will be a united prayer worldwide because incidents are going to take place. Notice the film last night; all of those Jews, the Lord said He’d bring them back with a sword, and after that war was over, they went home. How many of you can praise the Lord? He allowed it to take place like that, and they learned how to pray again, even if it was the Old Testament time. Many of them learned how to pray in the Messiahship too. God learns people how to pray one way or another.
3.Prayer is the thing that we need today. Paul, the great intercessor. Listen to this, Paul’s life had a fruitful ministry in seed work. He laid the seed that reached across even to where we are at today. There was a blank there; Paul took it on a missionary trip and brought the gospel into Europe that had never been there by missionary program. So, he had a fruitful ministry, a seed ministry. He was rejected in many places. Every prophet will go through that if he is a real prophet. And many times they are tied to the weather, erratic patterns in the bible. If you go back to the scriptures and the weather patterns. At the end of the age, just look at the erratic weather patterns of the prophets and other prophets somewhere. How many of you believe that? See, we are at the end of the age. Because he was a man of prayer, it’s why he was so fruitful in his ministry to this day that it [has] done more than it did at the time that he was there. And he prayed for his companions in the gospel daily. He brought the needs and those of his converts, those on his list, those of his converts before the throne of God. To the Ephesians, which he came and turned, he said this, Wherefore, I “cease not, [he told them], to give thanks for you, [after salvation, you see], making mention of you in my prayers” (Ephesians 1:16). I cease not making mention of you before the Lord. Now, young converts today ought to be mentioned before the Lord. And I will say another thing, when you are a young convert, you should instantly be in prayer, automatically and then, church people, you should have a regular time of prayer, no matter when it is, with the Lord. Those prayers are heard whether you see anything or feel anything around you, it makes no difference. And mostly you will, if you pray right, but it doesn’t matter that prayer is of value. It’s a treasure house. It’s exactly right.
4.Prayer is very important. Because people had a few failures, you know, they just kind of give up, you know, and they sit around. The very fact that you don’t feel like praying, it is the point that you need to pray. Amen. You say, “Well, oh, I would really pray. I would really pray. I would really pray, but you know, I just don’t feel like praying. That is a sign that you need to pray. Once you learn it and pray and seek God, then you have something that moves on you in activation, and then it just comes easier and easier. How many of you believe it? Amen. I cease not to give thanks for you in Ephesians 1:16. To the Philippians, he wrote, “And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all judgment” (Philippians 1:9). Meaning understanding and all judgment, making decisions, and what kind of decisions? We see right there that Paul saw that what he had done was a powerful, wonderful work, but yet he ceased not to pray for them that they would have the knowledge and knowledge of judgment and understanding. They needed judgment, and that was they needed to pray. Amen. And today, if you do not have the proper judgment sometimes in the understanding, it is because your life is short of prayer. Now, remember, through prayer and seeking the Lord, the anointing, you may be praying for other things, but that anointing comes through prayer, too, as you stir up the Holy Ghost that’s within you. And when you are beginning to pray, then it will help you later to have understanding and make the proper judgments and to make the right decisions. Boy, He is coming on here! What good is a revival, saith the Lord, if you teach not the people how to hold it and to go with it? Amen. It’s exactly right.
5.Lord, they said, “Teach us to pray.” After they’ve seen all of that, and He told them the proper way, He started off with worship and ended that way as an example to them what to do there. And to the Thessalonians, He declared, “Wherefore also we pray always,” the other one [Ephesians] ceased not, see? The other one [Philippians] for wisdom and understanding and knowledge and so forth like that and proper judgment and decision. Now to the Thessalonians, He declared, “Wherefore also we pray always for you that our God would count you worthy of this calling and fulfill the good pleasure of his goodness and the work of faith and of power” (2 Thessalonians 1:11). Each one of those churches, you can tell that he’s sitting there with prayer. He started off in the Philippians and the Ephesians and the Thessalonians and right on down proper, and he’d come right on down with his prayer into each one of those groups. He set them up; he prayed the fruit remained. He would stand in behind them. And to this day, his works follow him. It wasn’t just work, saith the Lord. There was prayer behind his work and it will last forever. Glory, Hallelujah! Exactly right.
6.You can have all kinds of work. Some things may look this way, some things may look spectacular, some works may look wonderful like that, but without prayer, see, abiding there, it doesn’t amount to much. How many of you believe that? Look at the organizations. They may even today say kind of long prayers, different prayers, but it’s not the proper way to pray and some of them, they don’t even pray at all. And so then you see, because of lack of prayer, you see organization today, we see the troubles and problems that it is. Any church that’s active in prayer, living faith will begin to move in their body. It will invigorate the whole body. Amen. And when you learn to pray, sometimes it doesn’t take long, but you always want to have a length of anointing prayer, a prayer of praise, a prayer of worship to the Lord. And this last revival is coming, just like Cornelius out of heaven, it is coming, and it is coming with great force and with great power, so that they would not fail in their calling, in other words, to do the will of God by the work of faith and of power. We have 2 Thessalonians 1:11; then he says, of Israel, he wrote, “My heart’s desire in prayer is that Israel may be saved” (Romans 10:1). In fact, in one place he said, I’d give up my own self if Israel would come into God, in the bible. Did you know what? Looking down now in the corridors of time, and later Paul wrote too, we look through the corridors of time down where we live, and he said, I pray that Israel be saved. Real Israel is coming in, the bible said. Later John on the Isles of Patmos wrote, we find it out in Revelation chapter 7, and here they were sealed by the power of God. “I pray in my heart’s desire, I give up my own self to bring them on in there, my fellow countrymen that has rejected me.” Oh, it’s really great! Prayer, only a man of prayer could stand up like that in the power of God!
7.Listen to this right here. Last night, I had some of these notes down on this last night. Somewhere early this morning, I just kind of felt led, and it just kept on, so I got up, and the bed got uncomfortable. So I got up, and I said, well, I got up out of that sermon. And I thought to myself, well, just after I was sitting there, and I wasn’t thinking about it in the sermon, I was going to go back and lay down in a moment there, you know, and it’s kind of strengthening, I believe it was. And I was just sitting there and praying some, you know, and everything, and it’s the closing day of the meeting, and God’s power is moving. And all of a sudden, in this prayer that I had yesterday, I had worked on something, in this prayer, it came to me, and it was left out. And why it slipped, I guess, is because the night before, I spent so much time, and your mind gets off in those healings and miracles, we pray for so many people and everything. But this one thing, and God brought it back to me and listened to this right here, and if He is not the Capstone of prayer, you try to find somebody else who is. He will outdo Paul or anybody else in the bible, Elijah, Moses, and all of them. And the Lord said this, the first thing that Jesus did was go into the wilderness and pray before He entered His ministry. How many of you believe that? And then He told me the last thing I did on the cross, I was praying. Now, He started in prayer, and because that He was dying, that didn’t stop Him from praying. Amen? He said, Lord, forgive them. He said, forgive them for what they do. How many of you believe that? The first thing that Jesus did when He started was go away in that wilderness in prayer and I mean He stayed in there as an example, He was. And the last thing that He did on the cross in His last moments of breath was a prayer for you and for I and me. How many of you believe that? There was an in-between, up early in the morning, out to prayer, later in the night, they’d lose Him, not find out where He was at. He was showing them an example and finally, they said, “Lord, teach us to pray.” If they had watched more closely, they’d have found out how to pray. Amen? But nevertheless, Jesus taught [them]. So Jesus, all the way through, the first thing He was in prayer and the last thing, He was in prayer at the last hour, that teaches us how important. Now, if prayer is not that important, He’d have been doing something else. That’s exactly right, but that’s how important, if the Master, through an example, started in prayer and ended in prayer, then we start our Christian life in prayer and we end it in prayer. Amen? How many of you believe that? So, those words and I forgot, there was something else that He put in here, possibly we will get to it in a moment here, but that’s what He’d come in after the message. He put the capstone on there with Him, right in there like that. No doubt during the message, if I hadn’t done it, He’d have brought that out probably too, but I got it written down, and we have it now.
8.Listen to this right here. You know, in prayer, it sets in motion the spiritual forces that produce salvation. It is the key to winning souls. That’s exactly right. When you put the motion of prayer and you begin to pray in power, you watch how these souls come to God when people really get to praying, when people really get to believing in their heart and really get to praying. Now watch, Paul was a great intercessor. Abraham was a great intercessor. Now there’s the beginning of the seed there. And the words, this is right, written by the Holy Ghost, each one has something written behind them. Many other things that God did for Abraham in miracles, but this is what He wanted right here. Abraham was a great intercessor, the word “richly blessed” was put here. How many of you know? None could touch him. Not only in miracles that he had at that time in God, but in wealth. How many of you know that? So, it says richly blessed there. Listen to this right here, and many other things that Abraham did, and God made the seed as the stars of the heavens and so forth. Daniel made it a business to pray. Why? He got in such a prayer that it looked like a business. He set up shop. Amen. That made him mad, the devil got mad because it [prayer] was all business to him [Daniel]. And the king could call him, and all the rest of magistrates could call him and even the Hebrew children, they wanted to get a hold of him, but they’d find him down at that window looking towards Israel. He made a business of prayer. And what happened to him? Let’s read it in the Bible. Israel got to go home because of his prayers. Amen. He received ruling power with a monarch. How many of you believe that? He saved their lives several times through prayer. Daniel received visions of world empires, the present at the time and the future that should come in 2,500 years. He went through time and witnessed some of the greatest visions of all time. And if an angel was looking for him, he’d find him on his knees praying. Gabriel found him there and Michael found him there. Amen. Angels get busy around prayer. Amen, amen.
9.Activity, its living faith begins to move through prayer. It is really important. And the reason the Lord wants us to bring it, at the end of the age; it’s going to be one of the most important tools that a Christian can have with the Lord. Because through your prayer and with this anointing, and the power that God has put in the building, and the way that the Lord has moved in the miraculous, why? In your prayers intermingled with this, it just should be like lightning and electrical forces of power all around you. It’s exactly right because you are coming right into the wheels of God. That’s your faith, Never be discouraged no matter what prayer you pray, leave that prayer with God. You may not understand all of that prayer until you stand before Him at the throne and see the works of that prayer. They are in vials, your work. Now many of your prayers will surprise you just like sometimes miracles will surprise you or conversions will surprise you about other people. When you get to heaven since you were a little child and you were praying, you are going to say, “How in the world with all this that God has created and the billions of people, how does He know those prayers that I prayed and I long forgot and even thought they weren’t answered?” And when you stand before God [the God stone], you are going to see that many of those prayers that you prayed were fruitful and you don’t even know it. But you pray for people you know, for God to move in their life. You pray for people that you don’t even know. You pray for missionaries and you pray for people around the world. You watch and see what’s going to happen. Family members that passed on that you don’t know if they had God or not or what happened in the last moment, wait and see. Nothing is lost in prayer when you believe God. That’s exactly right. The great Daniel, visions, power, wisdom, and all of that.
10.Joseph, he was given visions and knowledge. And I put down here through prayer and power, he saved a whole nation, Israel, that would have been destroyed in the famine. All of the Gentile kingdom of great Egypt would have been wiped out. There would have been nothing but dust blowing past those pyramids and skeletons strung from one end to the other because the famine was so severe. There was no way possible. When it came, they didn’t know it at the time, but Joseph went up there and told them. There was no way possible that they would have survived the great famine that had come upon the land. But the man of prayer, separated from his brethren, was different, was a dreamer in visions and seeing things that they didn’t even understand. He was seeing things that were going to save their own hide [he delivered them from danger], and they didn’t even know it. In fact, they went against him and it was to save their own hide. How many of you believe all of this? A man of prayer, a man that stood there and prayed and believed God and he made a way for him. And you know, the devil got mad at him because he was an intercessor, a great one and powerful. He tried to put him in jail, he tried to throw him in a pit, he turned his brethren upon him. He did everything that he could, but the little fella [Joseph] could stand up, couldn’t he, with that power? He knew in whom he believed, saith the Lord. And that seed is planted in our heart. God will come back at the end of the age and activate those people. They will be activated. His people are going to learn to trust him with all of their heart so, when you pray, saith the Lord, I have heard you. Amen. Great!
11.See, people are easy. People, you know, something spectacular they pray about sometimes doesn’t happen. You know, they wonder if they’re being heard. Oh, your prayers, they are being heard. It’s very important so, when you pray, just believe it in all of your heart. It’s God’s treasure house there. So Joseph, by prayer saving all of those people, the Egyptian kingdom and the Jews that we knew that came to Israel, all of them would have been wiped out, but he knew in advance and stored up for it. Amen. And that’s what you do with your prayers right now. You store up the anointing. Store up through prayer. Store up that treasure house. And when they hit the earth and when things hit the earth like they do at the end of the age, pray that you escape these things. And when it does, you will be able to stand with that substance of power. And then, because of his prayers and because he reached out and believed God through his prayers, he not only saw visions through the word of knowledge and visions from God, but he was able to control an empire. He controlled the empire and Pharaoh sat down and Joseph was a ruler of Egypt. How many of you believe in prayer? That prayer worked for him up in there. It’s just like a drill. He just drilled his way right on up there. Nothing that he asked for, really, he was praying and when he got through, he was sitting right there with Pharaoh and before that, he was down there almost ready to be slaughtered. He was down in prison, the next thing you know, through prayer, he was sitting with Pharaoh and Pharaoh moved over and said, “Take it over, Joseph.” That is what prayer will do. And when he came in there, Pharaoh wasn’t a dummy at that time. No, he could see things, he could see God was in him. And when he came in there in that prayer, had Joseph been praying, he could feel that presence on that young man, and it just shook him [Pharaoh] in there. Praise God. And he told him exactly what his dreams were and told him exactly what he would do. God, in history, will have the proper servant. He will have the proper people at just exactly the proper time. And as this age closes out, how important He will have things fixed just exactly and the people that He is going to take away will be proper in it exactly like the Lord wants them in prayer. Do you believe that? Amen.
12.So we find Joseph there, and we are going through here. We can go to different intercessors in the bible there. Elijah the prophet, we can go to Moses and many more. Joel said at the end of the age, and Joel at the end of the age, so great prayer was going forth. There was a weeping. There was a prayer at the altar at the end of time. There was a great outpouring, God poured His Spirit upon all flesh. The Gentiles prayed with such great power. God translated them out, and it fell over, and great latter rain on to the Hebrews. I’ll tell you, there was prayer and power weeping in there. How many of you believe that? It’s exactly right. So we find out how important it is. But the rich man learned how to pray, but it was too late, saith the Lord. Remember when he came through there? And the rich man, and he told him. He said, well, all these things that I have, and he cared for nothing else. And his own soul, he didn’t care about that. He didn’t care about the beggar. He didn’t care about anybody. And we find out that the rich man lifted up his eyes, he could see, he could feel, he could taste, he was down there and, brother, he was ready to pray. How many of you realize that? It’s too late to pray. Now, saith the Lord, is the hour to pray. He brought that right in there. That was the second thing when I went down there and sat down. Are you ready to listen? I wrote that right over there. He brought that right in their sight, now is the time to pray. Do you believe that? Amen. There is a way.
13.Now you say, “Oh, you are trying to scare us.” No, no, no, no. See, this is to alert you. God is quickening you. A predestination of providence is going to come. He is going to get His people together. Don’t worry about it. If you love God in your heart, He is going to make a way for you. Do you believe that? You may not be exactly in a spot that you need to be right now. I feel some of you out here say, “Man, I’ve got to get in shape.” Yeah, that’s right. You believe. You love God. You believe in your heart against the face of anything that occurs in your life or whatever should happen to you in your life, anything, a test or a trial or whatever it is in your life. Some have family problems, some have this, some have that. You hold right on with that love of God, and you stay right in there like Paul, and you hang right to that. God will put you in the proper orbit, just like the stars that are in that orbit up there. He will put you in a precise place, and finally you will be sitting just where He wants in there, and you will be ready. That’s exactly right. God is going to do these things for His people. If I had to say that the churches all over the world, the elected church was already in the proper place completely, and that the church was as far as it’s going to do, and that the church was in good order, I would have to say, no. It is not in good order right now, and it’s not in the proper place, but it will come. And Jesus’ prayer was that they may become one in power and that is not talking about the world system, saith the Lord, in the organization, but that is talking about the body, my body, the body of the Lord Jesus Christ, right. See, they are wanting to all unite together out there. Now, see, that’s satan telling them out there. See, he’s mimicking what God says over here. Amen. Sure, he’s imitating, but it won’t work. The real people of God, why, they know the Word of the Lord, and so they shall stand. So, now is the time to pray. The bible said in one place, launch out into the deep when you pray, let down thy nets. That means what you want to do, and you will have a great catch, and you will catch men too. Amen. And you will be fishers, you will be [fishers] of souls, and witnessing to all of them out there. So right now, that church is getting ready. We are going to launch out, and we are going to believe God. Now, that’s not only here, but all over the world. We are going to launch out into the prayer. Launch on out, the Lord is bringing His people together in great prayer.
14.Have confidence in yourself and have confidence strongly in the Lord Jesus that He knew exactly what He was talking about, and His prophets knew exactly what they were talking about, and it will happen exactly as He said it would happen. And when you have confidence in yourself, and strong confidence in what Jesus had said, you are going to set up shop with the Lord for good. Amen. It’s going to be a wonderful place to be there. So we find out, and when you do, and you have confidence, faith will bring you great rewards. Faith in prayer, prayer and faith, praying and seeking the Lord, God’s treasure house, prayer will bring you great rewards that you can’t even dream of. It hasn’t even entered into your heart. In fact, because of your prayers, when you stand before the throne, you have eternal life. Don’t tell me prayers are not important. The sinner has to say the prayer that gets him saved, and if that’s in order, and when he prays, then he is saved, how much more to continue in the thing that brought you eternal life? How many of you believe that this morning? It’s exactly right.
15.Somebody said, “Well, what else can I pray for?” Well, pray for the Holy Spirit. Ask for more of the Holy Spirit and His power. Pray for them that despitefully use you sometimes that you don’t understand, it says, pray for them along with your prayers in there. Pray that you don’t fall away from God’s power into some kind of a false doctrine or fall away from the Word. Pray that you stay with the Word and believe in the Word and pray and stay with the faith of the living God. See, all these prayers are what helps you when you do that. Pray that the laborers be sent into the harvest, that’s what the Lord [said], He was the Lord of the harvest. Now, He said, pray that laborers will be sent forth in the harvest. And at the end of the age, I really believe truly in my heart that through prayer we are going to have some go into the harvest work and great things are going to be done. So, these are things you pray for. Pray for the brethren. Remember Paul said, “I pray without ceasing for you in Thessalonians. I pray in Philippians. I pray without ceasing for every one of you in Ephesus there. I pray, I cease not to pray for you, every one of you.” Pray for the brethren. Amen. Now, all of this that we are talking about this morning, you put it in proper perspective, every one of you, and the energy of the Holy Spirit will begin to give you more faith. You will have more anointing. You will have more power. And while you are praying, things will happen that you never dreamed of once you learn how to do it. Amen. How many of you believe that? Amen. All right.
16.Pray that the will of the Lord will be done upon this earth. Not exactly your will or my will, but it said, pray that the will of the Lord be done. Today we see so many that they want just their will done upon the earth, just their system, just their work or so forth like that, but not so. Pray that the will of the Lord and His work be done upon the earth, the bible says, and it’s through prayers, and He will do that. Now, pray that you may be counted worthy to stand before the Son of Man. Pray; look at that, it said you have to. Yes, sir! Pray that you be accounted worthy to stand before the Son of Man. The bible said watch and pray, for upon the whole world it shall come as a snare and net the whole world. Pray that you escape all of these things, saith the Lord, and stand before me. How many of you have read that in Luke 21, 35:36? For it will come as a snare upon the whole world. But the words, the watch words, the key words, the words of wisdom and knowledge, it said watch and pray that you escape all of these things that shall come upon the world. And He just got through telling enough things to wipe them clear out. We are at the end of the age, and what we see around us, this is the hour of prayer and believing God with all of our hearts.
17.So prayer, the main topic of this sermon, is because I have seen it in my life too, and the people that write to me sometimes feel like their prayers are going nowhere. Well, part of the reason that I am here with the gift and the power of God and what He’s given me for the people is to reach out and touch them every once in a while and they can see that it’s real. Reach on out, a miracle takes place and then through the mail, how the Lord works through prayer that way. And how that when you send clothes out, how that God, you know, Paul has so much anointing and through praying and everything and fasting, seeking God, they would just tear clothes off, and they were healed all over. How many of you believe that? You just can’t tear off an empty cloth; he had anointing on that. There’s a light on those clothes. There’s a light on where the power of God is. It’s really real.
18.And so we find out the most important thing that I want to bring out this morning, and you know this in your heart, each one of you that’s here, probably the little children might not know more about it, and they might. Sometimes little children are more in tune than you think. But you know in your own heart sometimes because you pray and you think, “Well, the Lord ought to move for me, now I deserve that or why didn’t God move? And I’ve been praying.” And then you say in your heart, “Well, it looks like I just don’t know what I am doing.” You know what you are doing all right. Amen. See, but satan will try to discourage you. And no matter what, no matter what, sometimes in my life if God’s got something for me to do, I will pray and I will hang on and I will pray and I will leave it with the Lord. It will be something that the Lord wants me to do in a ministry or something like that. But as long as I am true in that prayer, stay right there with that prayer, He will swing that right back around in a very dramatic and powerful way will He leave a blessing. And that’s the truth. I have seen some wonderful, so amazing things that’s happened in my ministry that you do not get to see on the platform, that happen in my own personal life going forth to the people and how God will move in such a way. And not only in miracles, but the way that He moves and the way that people come to God and what happens and many other things that He does for me. It is wonderful. Never seen anything like it. All because I believe when I pray, that it’s ringing in eternity when it’s said. Amen.
19.And that’s what you got to do. You got to believe that. So we find out active prayer is living faith. Prayer will invigorate and enhance your whole body, mind, soul, and spirit, saith the Lord. I believe that. How many of you believe that this morning? It’s exactly right. So besides, the lesson of prayer, it is that don’t sell your prayers short. If you think you are having it hard on one prayer, go to another one, continue on with the Lord. And Cornelius continued on, and he continued on, and he continued on, and he continued on, and he continued on, and about the ninth hour, a bright angel appeared. Amen. And Daniel, for 21 days, he continued on. He didn’t even have time to eat. He continued on. He continued on. He continued on, and he continued on and the Lord said, “I heard you the first time you prayed.” But strong, powerful forces, you see and then what happened? And he continued to pray and other things too. Gabriel comes down, there’s the angel of the Lord teaching us these things. Next thing you know, Michael came down. Men in white clothing came down, brilliant figures appeared in all kinds of manners to him, he didn’t even understand, vibrate the ground, earthquakes hit all around him in there. Stood by a river and one on one side and one on the other, just like in Revelation chapter 10. I am telling you there was activity there. Amen. The angel said, this looks like a business here. Amen. Let’s settle around here. That’s really right. Prayer will help you. You talk about businessmen, successful men that are Christians with God, that have done very well in the world and have done very well in bible times, they were men that were successful in praying also and acting upon their prayers. David, for one, was one of the most successful businessmen, king, teacher, prophet, angel with him, run the kingdom and rule the kingdom. He was successful because his prayers turned into praising the Lord. Amen. That meant that he had the victory and he had the victory and none of his prayers fell short. He was continuing on down into the days of the Messiah right on into our days and God said, I will sit on that man’s throne.
20.I want you all to get on your feet here today. Are you ready for tonight? How many of you are ready for tonight? Are you ready for a blessing? All right. You missed me a little bit in those films? Well, we came back here and caught up. Amen. Glory, Hallelujah! There is anointing everywhere that you look. And so if you need salvation, now remember you utter that salvation prayer, you accept Jesus in your heart by prayer and you continue in that. You come back and get on this platform as we pray for the sick tonight or whatever you need tonight and we are going to believe. And here is what I will do this morning here. We got some people from out of town too and people that are here and you have a prayer in your heart, I am going to ask the Lord to move, and we are going to pray. Just pray and worship God, just praise the Lord and whatever’s in your system, whatever’s in your heart, remember, sometimes you don’t know what you are praying. You don’t know what you are praying for or what. And it just kind of Paul said of praying in the Spirit, an utterance of the Holy Ghost going through you. And as you begin to pray in that manner, you don’t even know what you’re praying for. Sometimes God does remarkable things that way. And we will worship the Lord, and we will praise the Lord with all of our heart. Now get them up here in the air. Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord! You know, at the end of the day, you get a group of people that’s praying, it won’t take no time at all, you can’t find a seat in this place. Did you know that? Amen. God is great! Get them in the air. Begin to pray. Begin to praise God. We will hear those angels come right on past us. Hallelujah! I feel it now. My, Jesus! Here it comes. Here it comes, sir. My! Can’t you feel it now? I feel Him now. Here comes, my! Jesus! Jesus! It’s really great. It’s really great, sir. Thank you, Jesus, sir! Reach out here Lord, Jesus. Oh how great it is! Can’t you feel it? Oh, my! I feel Him now. Gonna bless, Gonna bless. Oh, Jesus! Thank you, Jesus. We are ready to praise the Lord. Can’t you feel it? Oh my! Come on now! Oh my!