this week we're going to talk about something that
is really the secret sauce to my life
this week's message is about pray
some of the things in your life
they're only going to change with prayer
and prayer the simplest definition is talking to god
now i know for a lot of people you may be weirded out
by that it's like is...
God talking to me in an audible voice or what's happening today...
I'm going to explain to you what prayer is and how powerful prayer is i'm a young man i'm 32 years old and god has allowed me to travel the world i've been able to see some amazing things i've been able to meet some amazing people i've been able to do some crazy stuff but i'm telling you the one thing i do every day is pray and it's because that's my connection to
(01:38) god let me help illustrate this how many of you have a smartphone okay and some of y'all still have flip phones sorry but but but if you have a smartphone the crazy thing about this phone right here um iphone best phone anyway um if you're an android user we'll pray for you after the service but the thing about this phone is that no matter how much i can do with this phone when this phone is not connected to a power source it's worthless see see when i when i come to this phone i can find out all types of facts i can
(02:14) connect with people on the other side of the world i can be able to do all kinds of stuff but if this phone is not plugged into a power source it is useless may i submit to you that your life is a lot like this cell phone that if you don't daily connect to a power source the things that we do in our life are useless and the crazy thing about it is most of us with our prayer life especially as young people we pray whenever we need something we don't have a routine or a discipline of prayer and so what happens is let me
(02:49) ask you this question how often do you charge your phone all the time some of y'all got a charger right now in your back pocket coming from your back to the phone why at least you're charging it every day because you know you will not be able to make it through the day connecting with everything else if you have not plugged into the source what i'm telling you is that your life and the connection to god is through everybody say prayer and so i want to talk to you because i want you to all have this passion to
(03:22) pray with fire to know that your prayers make a difference to know that when you speak something out into the atmosphere that it actually changes something the bible tells us that the affectionate fervent prayers of righteous people not perfect people but people who have been made right with god through the blood of jesus christ that's most of us in this room it says that our prayers everybody say work like your prayer is not just oh god please help me like oh god if you could just if you you had a little time on your schedule like
(03:55) help me like that is not what prayer is your prayer changes things you can walk into a situation that is chaos and you can speak father in the name of jesus i thank you that your peace is in this room right now and you can you don't got to be loud with it you can be like father in the name of jesus i thank you that your peace is in this room right now power doesn't come in volume it comes in who's supporting you and my bible tells me if god be for me who can be against me and so i want you to go to a scripture
(04:28) that i really feel like all of us need to commit to memory so that we can be able to pray with fire and it's going to take something of you look at second chronicles chapter 7 verse 14. it says then if my people who were called by my name would humble themselves and pray everybody say pray like for you to pray you're gonna have to humble yourself and i know you the best i know you to bum i know your makeup is popping i know but when you come to god he doesn't care about your crown see when you come to god you got to put
(05:06) your crown down well well personal mike you don't even know like i got 3 000 instagram followers god don't care nothing about that he doesn't care that you're the jock on the basketball team he doesn't care that your parents are rich he doesn't care what he said when you come to me you put your crown down you're gonna have to humble your self and when you humble yourself then you come to god in a spirit like god i don't care about all of that other stuff this doesn't this doesn't matter god thank
(05:35) you for using me but without all of that you've been good and i want to come to you and i want to come i want to connect to you and it says you humble yourselves and pray and then it says and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways that means you're going to have to do a couple things you're going to have to humble yourself then you're going to have to seek now i didn't say look i said seek if you lost your keys you wouldn't just go yeah i don't know what keys are you would start moving things
(06:07) turning stuff over stay until you found them god's saying i want you to have a passion after me that is not like i prayed nothing happened y'all know how we do like like pray about that i just did nothing happened no you gotta seek everybody say seek so the first thing we have to do is humble ourselves and then we have to pray and then we have to seek and this is the crazy thing and this is the thing nobody wants to do because this is the thing that's not popular it says you have to turn from your wicked ways
(06:40) that implies that all of us have some type of wicked way even if other people don't know it and the biblical word for this is we need to repent and and it's not deep all repent means is if i'm going this way repent means to turn that's all repent me god's saying i need you to turn from the things that keep me away like sin is a thing that keeps me away like when you involuntarily sin and you you keep putting me out he was like i'm here for you but i need you to not turn to sin i need you to turn to me
(07:11) and so he's saying all i need you to do is humble yourself i need you to pray i need you to seek me i need you to turn from your wicked ways and then look at the promise this is a crazy deal look what god promises all of us he says then i will hear you from heaven and i'll forgive your sins how many people need their sins forgiven everybody if your hand ain't put your hand up you need your sins forgiven and then this is the beautiful things this translation says i will restore your land another translation says i will
(07:44) hear heal your land god says if you do these four things you humble yourself you pray you seek me you turn from your wicked ways he said i'll hear you and i'll heal you like like this is the power and so when you get that confidence like okay i can do that and listen this is the thing you got to know you have to do it every day like every day you wake up oh i don't feel like praying but i'm a humble myself all right god i'm gonna give you these first three minutes instead of instagram these first three minutes
(08:18) because some of us wake up and y'all know the first thing we do do i have any more followers and god says but i thought you were my followers oh that was nasty i had to walk away and stink over there all i'm saying to you is like i thought you were my follower and i thought you were you were checking what was on my feed today because i have a plan for you a plan to prosper you a plan to give you a hope and a future something that was planned before you were even in your mother's womb and so i'm a humble myself and then i'm
(08:54) gonna do what pray i'ma humble myself and then do what i'm gonna humble myself and then do what and and when i do that then that starts my seek for the day see see i heard um smith wiggleworth say this and this really helped me because my mom's a woman of prayer and i would wake up in the morning she'd be praying like for hours and hours and hours i was like lord i'd be sleep if i had to pray that long that's like four hours of prayer like but she's very passionate and she prays with power but then i heard this
(09:26) quote that helped me smith wiggler said he said i never pray more than 20 minutes but i never go 20 minutes without praying like think about a life that is talking to god consistently like i'm in class and i'm talking to god like i'm i'm at lunch and i'm still talking to god i'm walking past people and i'm praying for people i'm talking to god on behalf of somebody else i'm interceding for them instead of laughing at their problem i'm saying father god heal their insecurity let them not be able to do
(10:00) that anymore matter of fact i'm going to be loving hands and feet i'm gonna listen because god doesn't want prayer to be a monologue where you're just talking he wants it to be a dialogue so when i'm praying and i'm going throughout my day and i'm and i see that girl and she's feeling low and doing something that that maybe exposes her insecurities and i'm praying and i'm saying god please help her not do that and then god whispers back to me and i get a strong impression on my
(10:27) heart go over there and talk to her uh oh no that that would that would require me putting myself out there and what if and we go through all this other stuff and god's saying hey this is not a monologue in prayer this is a dialogue in prayer i want you to know that when you prayed for it i'm not sending an answer another way you may be the answer see so many of us want god to provide an answer besides us and so we'll pray something like god please help that family have a great christmas he said give him your
(11:04) christmas money no no no that's not what i was saying god what i was saying is could you please provide somebody else you better be careful what you pray because god doesn't want us to just be ones who pray he wants us to be answers to prayer this is part of praying with fire it's knowing that sometimes you'll be the answer and what ends up happening is most of us need to see this and this is probably one of the main points i want you to see is that god's people pray out of love we don't we don't pray
(11:40) in lust like like like most of the things that i used to pray for was things that i lusted for like like lord please could you please make a way for me to get them new shoes lord and i was desiring something instead of someone see the end result of prayer should be god being closer to you not something god could provide what if you had a relationship was that was only based on what you could give the person like what if they came up to you all the time and they were like hey what's going on becky i love you you look cute um can
(12:15) i have your hat can i have your could you provide for me this could you provide that wouldn't be a real friendship that would just be a business partner and that would be transactional and when you needed to call somebody you wouldn't call them because all they wanted you for is what you had i wonder how god feels when people the only time they talk to him is when they need him to save them [Music] how many of y'all come on let's be real let's be hot humble open and transparent how many of you have prayed a prayer
(12:46) like this god if you get me out of this situation i promise i'll oh come on everybody in the room lift your hands because many times the only time we talk to god is because we've lusted for something or maybe gotten ourselves in a wrong situation or maybe hooked up with the wrong people or maybe did something we weren't supposed to or maybe didn't study for the test and we want god to somehow transfer all the information into our heads or whatever the thing is like like maybe we're doing that and all
(13:16) we want god for is what he could produce and i'm just saying the power of prayer is talking to god because of who he is and and and what i'm saying is when you communicate with god daily when you humble yourself when you turn from your wicked ways and god starts to hear you then he starts to heal you and then you start to turn the conversation from a monologue into a dialogue and then you become a person of prayer and i can tell you something that there are things that i'm not qualified for that god has allowed me to do because i
(13:48) have an open line of communication with the father he speaks to me things that i'm supposed to do that i don't even know how to do i have six months of high quality tulsa community college education high quality do you hear what i'm saying to you supreme that's it but god allows me to run a a large corporation he allows me to speak on stages to thousands of people how do you do that it's because i'm always talking to the one who created everything how do i walk in rooms with ceos and bank presidents and able to give them
(14:25) wisdom because i'm connected to the one with all wisdom how oh y'all better help me how am i able how am i able to be sensitive in a situation i've never been in before because the bible tells us that jesus he walked through everything we had to walk through so he knows everything what we've gone through and when i'm connected to him and i'm talking to him he'll give me wisdoms and situations that i've never been in before but i have to always everybody say pray so i'm gonna give you three things that
(14:58) that helped me because i always like to know why why do we pray why do we do anything why do we do anything i'm gonna give you three things the first reason we pray is to invite god in like like god's a gentleman he's not going to invade your life you're going to have to let him in the bible says it like this um in in revelations 3 20 it says look i stand at the door and i knock if you hear my voice and open the door i will come in and we will share a meal together as friends what we want god to do is be
(15:32) like boom i am the holy one of israel here to clean and change everything in your life hey it's me hey i was wondering today could i could i come into your house and clean up some stuff and help you oh no no no you're too busy oh you got a new boyfriend okay cool i'll be back tomorrow hey yes me again jc um just wanted to see today i i heard some whimpering some crying some things that aren't settled in your life hey i could come in and and help you well no i have things that aren't fixed yet
(16:13) that's why i'm here because because i'm a carpenter i rebuild things rebuild lives a matter of fact i come with the cleaning clue called the holy spirit and we'll come in and you don't even have to worry you all you have to do is let us in and god is standing at the door of your life every day and he's knocking and he's knocking and he's knocking and he's saying when you pray you invite him in so when you pray about your family when you pray about your school when you pray about what college you're supposed to go
(16:44) to you're not just going to a college because all your friends are going there that may be the very worst place that you could be but when you say god i need your direction i need you to help me i need you to give me peace about where i'm supposed to go what you're doing is you're inviting god in and this is the thing a lot of people invite god in for their salvation for eternity but they don't invite god in daily so what happens is you have a lot of people who get saved but then they that was the first and
(17:17) last time they had a communication with god and they try to live their life without having daily communication with god god wants to be your gps he wants to give you turn-by-turn instructions he wants to be able to talk with you do y'all know that's how it all started adam was in the garden of eden and the bible says and he walked and talked with god all through the day like that was the plan from the beginning it's for you never be disconnected from god and so we pray so that we can invite god in i heard this
(17:52) quote and it really messed me up it said a day without prayer is a boast without god a boast to god what this means is when you don't pray you're basically saying god i don't need you like you're literally saying to him hey i didn't pray about i didn't invite you in to my family because we don't need you in our family like i i didn't i didn't invite you into my sexuality because i don't need you there but when you pray about it you're saying god hey you can come into any area of my life
(18:20) and i don't know about you but i need god in every how many people need god in every area of your life okay and and so let me give you the second reason why we pray okay the second reason why we pray is to communicate with god personally so so we invite him in but then he wants to have like one-on-one time with just you i said it before but prayer is not a monologue prayer is a dialogue like i speak god speaks the problem is you have to wait for him to speak and most of us are doing drive-by prayers and so when he starts to speak
(18:57) we're already gone come on let's make it let's let's be honest like lord bless today like lord please show me if this is the relationship i'm supposed to be in and we don't stay still enough we don't we don't meditate we do not have a devotion life where we've set out time for him and this is the craziest thing about our lives we set out time for things that take from us and we don't set out time for the thing that died for us and so all i'm saying to you is maybe in
(19:29) a 24-hour day god just have 24 minutes like 24 we do a thing at our church called the thirsty 30 where we're trying to develop an appetite for people to spend time with god like how many people get thirsty every day everybody gets to see every because our body needs water your spirit needs god and some of you ate last week at switch and you haven't eaten in a whole week spiritually what would you look like if you hadn't put any food in your body in seven days some people like that's what i need
(20:03) pastor i need to lose this weight but others of you you know you would be malnourished if you lived your life like that some of your physical bodies are in better condition than your spirit because you won't communicate with god and so what i'm asking you to do this thirsty 30 thing is so simple you spend 10 minutes in prayer talking to god and listening to him waiting for him to talk about pastor mike is he saying something audibly a lot of times it's an impression in your heart a lot of times he speaks first through his word a lot
(20:36) of times he speaks to other people that's why he says you have to humble yourself because it may be your crazy cousin that says something like i ain't listening to you but it may be god speaking through them that's why you gotta humble yourself and then spend 10 minutes in prayer 10 minutes in the word and 10 minutes worshiping god not for what he's done but for who he is and what it does is it creates a devotion life and this is one of the things that changed my life somebody told me he said your devotion won't start off as
(21:08) devotion devotion starts off as a discipline like you do it just because you have to do it i hate working out let me go on record i really hate working out but what happens is when i make a plan to go work out it's a discipline i'm there i'm gonna do it it doesn't matter but after a while of doing the discipline the discipline turns into of a desire and the day you missed you'd be like man i didn't work out today i need to go work out today and what you're what you have to know is that spending time with
(21:45) god in prayer spending time with him in worship it may start out as a discipline i'm going to set this 24 minutes every day or this 30 minutes or this 10 minutes wherever you need to start but what it get what begins to happen is it turns into a desire and just like when you get a good drink like a good drink like like one that you gulp in y'all know those gulp drinks you don't want to stop because it's quenching something on the inside what i'm telling you is when you pray with fire it quenches something on the inside of
(22:20) you i pray because it invites god into my life i pray because me and him got get to not just have a monologue but a dialogue and the last reason i pray is because prayer is my weapon prayer is the thing that can go into situations and change things when i can't change them the bible says it like this that he's given you all authority you i know i know i know i know but he's given you with all your flaws with all your messages he's given you all authority over every spirit that's not like him and he said you have this secret weapon
(23:00) that in prayer you can loose and bind things through your prayer and those words mean something very simple when you lose something it means you allow it when you bind something that means you disallow it and the bible says as believers in jesus christ we can walk around and we can say in the name of jesus i bind all confusion that means i disallow confusion in here and god says all of heaven backs that up and some of you need to take out your weapon your weapon has been put down for too long you've only been using prayer
(23:36) to maybe get a a gimme from god and he said no no you put down your weapon you're so frustrated about what's going on in your family you need to walk in there and loosen buying some stuff tonight you need to walk in there say in the name of jesus everybody say in the name of jesus because at that name every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that jesus christ is lord it says in the name of jesus i bind the spirit of division that have tried to come in our household and i loose the spirit of peace i allow god's love to
(24:07) move in here i bind the spirit when you're going through sexual thoughts and perversion i bind the spirit of lust i i i tie it up and i loose the spirit of purity and i loose love and i lose consistency some of us have been thinking of prayer as a as a wish list and it's your weapon if you want to pray with fire you don't do this once a week once a month once a year you do it every single day because just like this cell phone if it's not connected to the power source it's just the paperweight
(24:48) and many of you been living your life powerless but connect to the source of jesus christ through prayer and i want to do it for you right now if you're in this room and you know your prayer life like you want to pray with fire and you want to go to another level just lift your hands all over the building come on right now i want to pray for you father you see your children father they're saying we need another level of your spirit in us and discipline and desire so god i thank you that you would meet us right here i
(25:21) thank you father that this group of people who is listening to this message will pray with fire when they pray it changes situations when they pray it moves mountains when they pray it stops storms because father that's what you have placed on the inside of us i thank you that never again will we think of prayer as a second option but we will pray first and we will use it as our weapon in jesus name and right now with everybody's head still bowed and eyes closed i want you to examine like where are you at with jesus right
(25:52) now because the thing that changed my life while prayer is my secret sauce is because not that i'm praying it's who i'm praying to it's the god who changed everything it's the god who took me from being a liar somebody who was addicted to pornography somebody who was a manipulator it took me and and when i accepted jesus into my life in a situation similar to this it changed everything in me and today god wants to give you that exact same opportunity if you're in this room and you want to accept jesus christ as your
(26:23) personal lord and savior on the count of three i want you to do something bold i want you to stop caring about who you came with and who you're trying to impress and i want you to know that the god of the universe is ready you got to invite him in though he's ready to change your situation if you want to make jesus christ your personal lord and savior i want you to raise your hand one two three
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