Stop Being a Spiritual Weenie - A Call to Dangerous Prayer Ep. 9

Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction and Channel Updates
• 3:23 Allowing Mistakes in Faith and Life
• 10:44 Why We Should Pray Dangerously
• 18:03 The Epidemic of Cultural Christianity
• 21:38 Radical Surrender and Transformation
• 27:30 Practical Ways to Pray Dangerously
• 36:29 The Power of Testimony and Challenge

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

Hey, what's up? Thank you so much for joining me again on another episode of Faith and Failure. So this episode is going to be a little more relaxed. I may put the scriptures as I cite them on your screen. I'm not going to do the normal where I share my screen with you. For those of you who follow me, first of all, thank you for I think we passed 11,000 subscribers on YouTube and a few more thousand across the social media platforms. Thank you so much for following along and being faithful.

Speaker 1: 0:33

I have in recent, the last couple months, I've been extremely busy at work, so I have reduced my stress level. I have cause. I don't make money doing the podcast, but I do value the fact that you show up and you listen, and most of you were, week after week, um, responding, liking, sharing, and I really I do appreciate that. But, um, I have a family to support so I have to work and I do a couple of full-time jobs. So the thing that falls to the wayside or on the back burner is the thing that doesn't pay or doesn't pay as much. So just want to let you know I really do appreciate you being here, but on the first Monday of every month. So, as the uh, as this one comes out, it will be the 7th, not the first day, but the first Monday of every month. So that may fall a little different. You know it won't be always on the first part of the week, but just to let you know that's how things are falling right now.

Speaker 1: 1:39

But I do want to put valuable content out. I want to put valuable content out, I want to put encouraging words out, I want to get all up in your business and I want you to understand that conviction from the Lord is not something to be devalued or overlooked, and what I mean by that is this God cares enough for you to not let you sit and consume, but to challenge you to contribute, and one of those things that we often overlook. It's not necessarily a physical like giving them my money, but the way that we pray will oftentimes shape the outcome of someone's situation, our situation, our season. Like, I believe God allows, god lets bad things happen. I think now the Bible clearly says God does not tempt, but I believe that God does allow bad things to happen. You're like well, how can a good God allow bad things to happen? Why would he? Why would he do this. Why would he be absent from this situation? If he really cared and loved and he's supposed to be loved why doesn't he show up?

Speaker 1: 2:58

The same reason, if you've ever had children, that you allow them after you tell them no, you try to stop them. You allow them to fall. You allow them to scrape their knee. You allow them after you tell them no, you try to stop them. You allow them to fall. You allow them to scrape their knee. You allow them to burn their hand. You allow them to mess up when they get a little older.

Speaker 1: 3:13

I got a actually today, of recording this on the 4th. I have a 17 month old in the house and a 16 year old in the house. Pray for me. But, that being said, there's kind of different lessons that you have to teach them in these two drastically different times of life. But also, at the same time, a lot of it overlaps, like as my 17 month old does things and she's trying to figure out her facial expressions, she'll make all kinds of funny stuff, she'll go, she'll just like, wow, everything is cool.

Speaker 1: 3:50

And my teenager? He's learning to drive, he's getting his driver's license, he's looking for a job, like all these things that come with going into adulthood, but I'm letting him make mistakes. It's one of the hardest things, as my child gets older, for me to actually allow him to make those mistakes, because I want to grab him by the neck and say why don't you just listen to me? But I don't enable him to have bad behavior, but I do allow him to make uh, wrong decisions. If he forgets something and some people may disagree with me on this, but if he forgets something, I don't run to school and give him stuff Like I sometimes. Sometimes I do, sometimes my wife does, or we can, we. She stays at home full time, so it's possible, sometimes it can happen, but a lot of times I let him suffer for a short period of time. He forgets something or he forgot this, he forgot that. I let him receive the outcome that he has earned by making a bad decision, by forgetting. That's how he will remember to remember, or that's how he will next time sidestep a decision and make a better decision.

Speaker 1: 5:10

This is called maturing. Some of us adults need to get on that wagon. So I want to read a scripture and I want to talk a little bit about something that as we grow, as we mature I just mentioned my 17-month-old and my 16-year-old Something I've noticed with my son being the one growing up and he's a teenager now as he gets older, so his prayers mature. Does that make sense? So, for instance, when on a Sunday morning the worship team at 10.20, which we start at 10.30 at church we go and we go into the kitchen and we pray before every service, we get in a circle, we hold hands, about 10 of us, and we pray, and what I do as the pastor is I will randomly select, with no heads up at all, people to pray. Sometimes I will do it myself or I'll pick, like the same person, somebody who I know is more mature and can really pray for the service and get the juices flowing and get our mindset right. And then sometimes I will randomly pick a person who has never done it before. And it's not because I'm trying to make them feel awkward or like put them in an uncomfortable situation, but oftentimes it's not until we get out of our comfort zone that we actually begin to produce mature fruit, good fruit that not only we can partake of but other people can partake of. So, if you will, let's read this scripture If you have your Bible, since I may not put it on the screen, depending on how much time I have, I probably won't. I'm just letting you know. But Joshua, chapter 10. Now here it says this, verse 12 through 14.

Speaker 1: 7:06

We see one of the most, in my personal opinion, one of the most daring prayers prayed in the Bible and this is right here by Joshua, starting at verse 12. On the day the Lord gave the Israelites victory over the Amorites, joshua. So it starts it off by saying on the day they got the victory. Here's why Joshua prayed to the Lord in front of all the people of Israel. He said stand still over Gibeon and the moon over the valley of Elijam, ejelum, jelun. All these names are available for your future babies. So the sun stood still and the moon stayed in place until the nation of Israel had defeated its enemies. Is this not recorded in the book of Jassar? The sun stayed in the middle of the sky and it did not set as on a normal day. The sun stayed in the middle of the sky and it did not set as a normal day. There has never been a day like this one before or since. There has never been a day like this before or since when the Lord answered such a prayer. Surely the Lord fought for Israel that day. Have you ever prayed a prayer that was dangerous?

Speaker 1: 8:58

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Speaker 1: 9:52

Now, joshua's request was what we would call audacious, but God answered in an unprecedented way. This event is a vivid reminder that there is power in praying, dangerously, trusting that God can do more than we can actually even imagine. Now I like to go, especially when I'm preaching, in a lot of these episodes, either pull from your questions, which, by the way, if you ever have a question, please comment down below and I will make one specifically on your request, or you can email faithandfailures at gmail. I check that sometimes. So why should we pray dangerously? I like to have points, I like to split this stuff up so that you can take it in smaller bites. So if you have pen and paper or, like on my desk over there, post-it notes whatever you have available write this down. Maybe you're watching your phone? Pause it for a second, go into your notes, make a note.

Speaker 1: 10:57

But this is why we should pray dangerously, because it transforms lives by us living out the gospel. So let's see what this says Romans, chapter 12, 1 and 2. And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all he has done for you. Let them be a living and holy Sacrifice. Don't copy the behaviors and customs of this world, but let God transform you Into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn To know God's will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect. So why should we pray dangerously? It transforms our lives and changes the way we live. We are literally living the gospel of Jesus Christ by living for God.

Speaker 1: 12:02

See, I call it an epidemic because I really think that it is especially. I can't. I can't say for the rest of the world, I can't say for the rest of the nation, I can't say for any other state or any other part of the state, but here in East Texas and I have a feeling because it's human nature, it's the same in almost every other place is that there are people that call themselves Christians but their mouths sound just like the world, their attitudes act out just like the world, their responses are like the world's. There are no peacemakers, but only prideful saints that you can't tell to correct anything. And here's my frustration with that. If you can't allow another brother or sister to tell you the truth when you're not acting right, or you won't even adhere, let's go even deeper if you won't even adhere to what scriptures say of how we're supposed to speak, how we're supposed to think, how we're supposed to live our lives daily, here in East Texas we have an epidemic of people who go to church when they are supposed to be the church church when they are supposed to be the church.

Speaker 1: 13:30

Good church people are the reason. People who don't know God don't want anything to do with God. A lot of times we try to frame it up as like God allows bad things to happen, this and that, but I'm telling you a majority of probably why people don't come to church is because people in the church look just like them. They have nothing that we have, nothing they want so there's no difference. So we need to intentionally, as believers, as professing believers, to live out what the Word says. Not a preference, not a like, not what we've done for hundreds of years.

Speaker 1: 14:08

But what does the Word of the living God say? What does the Holy Spirit lead us to do? The Holy Spirit is supposed to lead us into all truth, but he can't do that if we're consistently worried about our preference instead of truth. So we look like the world, we sound like the world, but what we are supposed to do when we surrender fully to God which is what a saved person, a saved church person, should be, should look like, should act like is we should be reflecting God's holiness, god's love, god's conviction. People in the church don't like this, because that means we've got to change and do something different. But God still convicts people today. It's just we don't want to be around that conviction. We want to go to a church that makes us feel good about how we're already living, instead of a church that actually says what the word of God says. And this is the epidemic of the Christian culture today, of the church culture. But when we surrender fully to God, we become a living testimony of the gospel, the true gospel, testimony of the gospel, the true gospel, not the culture gospel, not the churchy gospel, but the actual gospel of Jesus Christ. What does the word say? What does God say a Christian should look like? What does the Bible say a Christian should look like?

Speaker 1: 15:39

The Bible says if you do not pick up your cross and kill your flesh daily, why does it have to be a daily thing? Because we are flesh, we are evil, we have a propensity to do the wrong thing. Even Paul said I do what I don't want to do and I can't do what I want to do. He's talking about living right and doing righteous things and good things. And yet today we have lulled ourselves to sleep with cultural Christianity and in reality we're suffocating our spirits. We're trying to suffocate the Spirit from doing anything in our services. We just want to be checked off and we want to have a thumbs up from our pastors and the leaders in the church saying good job, thank you for paying your tithes here. Now go and do what you want.

Speaker 1: 16:41

I've told the people in my church if you don't know, I'm a lead pastor of a church and I don't want their money, and I actually tell them. If you think we're about your money and that's what we're here for, then give your tithes and offering somewhere else for three months and watch the principle that God set out. The one place in the Bible that God said test him is in the giving. So watch God test, be true to his word. And if you don't believe that, if you don't believe God will be true to his word, when you test him in a way that he tells you to test him and you're so stingy and so controlling of your own money, then God won't bless you.

Speaker 1: 17:18

And I'm not talking about just finances, I'm talking about in health. Like me, I was talking to my wife today or yesterday. I talk to her every day, but about this specific topic that talk to her every day, but about this specific topic that I'm not on any medications or anything I'm about to. This year I'll be 40 years old. I'm on nothing and I thank God for that, because if I, it would be tough if I was on all these things and it controlled my life and you feel funny and all it.

Speaker 1: 17:48

Everything has side effects and it's like, my goodness, half of the commercial for all the med stuff is like side effects of all the things that's going to make you now. Now you're going to have achy joints. Now you're going to have muscle, uh, where everything gets weak. But you, you won't have this anymore. This will take care of this, but you have 15 other problems. Now it's like dude.

Speaker 1: 18:11

Here's the fact. The world, if someone doesn't know God, which here? Everybody goes to church. In East Texas there's almost nobody that doesn't go, everybody does, whether it's to please somebody else or they think they're getting out of hell because they go to church once a week. But here's the facts. It doesn't matter where you go to church once a week. But here's the facts. It doesn't matter where you go to church, doesn't matter who your pastor is, doesn't matter what clothes you wear when you go, it doesn't matter what title you have at the church If you don't know Jesus and your life does not belong to him. I don't care what you preach every Sunday, you're not going to heaven. You will be called a false teacher, false gospel, false prophet. Label it however you want. But if you're doing it for the money, if you're doing it to be some sort of celebrity, or you're going to church because that's the church your parents grew up in, so that's just where you have to go and you're spiritually suffering and dying inside, or you go there so that you feel like you're doing something right in God's eyes, but yet your life says nothing different from the world, then you will not enter the kingdom. Jesus did not pull punches at all about who is going to go and who is not going to go. It's a very dangerous game to pretend that God is the Lord of your life. I'll give you a very quick story. I know we're getting off topic, but it's all right.

Speaker 1: 19:39

Ananias and Sapphira in Acts it wasn't the amount of money that they gave or didn't give. The reason God struck them down and killed them was because they were lying to the Holy Spirit. They were bearing false witness, and so this should open our eyes for a greater application than just finances, like we people hone so in on the financial thing. That's because we're lovers of money and it's called greed. But like you got to understand that it's. It's a principle that spans across the entire life of a Christian. Like, don't pretend, don't lie and say Lord, I want you to be Lord over my life in this little area that I try to put you in. Then you're lying. You're not saying you want him Lord of your life. You want him only when it's convenient for you and in the proper place that's convenient for you. And that is a dangerous game, as Ananias and Sapphira showed us. As Ananias and Sapphira showed us.

Speaker 1: 20:50

So we should want to live a life of obedience to Christ, live a life out of obedience to Christ. This speaks louder than words and often will open doors to being able to share the gospel even further with those that don't believe. We need to pray dangerously, because it is only through radical surrender that true transformation happens. Some people will come to Christ. They'll raise their hand in the service. They'll even come up to the altar and they're like I want to give my life to Christ. They'll raise their hand in the service. They'll even come up to the altar and they're like I want to give my life to Christ, like that's great, but what is it that happens after that?

Speaker 1: 21:36

It's not a one-time event, it is an ongoing, every single day, dedication of your life, that you are continuously being transformed. We call this sanctification and ongoing every single day. That every day becomes less of you and what you want and what you desire and more of God. And this is a beautiful thing. Like I, I tell God, I tell the Holy Spirit. So if you read in the New Testament, there is specific places where it actually, if you read it, he talks about praying for the gifts. Paul's writing in the Church of Corinth and he says that pray to the Holy Spirit, not to Mary, not to any other saint that people come up with. That's idolatry or necromancy, whichever one. It's all evil and you have to petition the Holy Spirit. So actually pray to the Holy Spirit, have conversations with the Holy Spirit. And so when I realized that that was, it wasn't just praying to God, it wasn't just relationship with Jesus, but it was actually communication with the Holy Spirit. It changed the way I did my day, it changed the way I interacted every morning, for instance.

Speaker 1: 22:55

I have tried to I'm trying to fold myself back to when I first got off drugs and got out of jail and I started going to church and I gave my life to God again. I'm trying to find that sensitivity, that raw spiritual awareness that I had in a very simple thing. I had no money. I was doing odd jobs for like 10 bucks an hour, cash under the table, and I was in Walmart. I had some things in my cart, not a lot, maybe five, six, seven, maybe ten things. And this was after I started. I got out of the town I used to live in where I was doing drugs. I made a new life, moved in with my cousin and his family and I was like so raw and sensitive to God, so raw and sensitive to God that he Like I heard him tell me Put those things back and I took specific things out of my cart. I knew what they were Probably what I didn't need is what I knew and I put them back on the shelf and I went and checked out and it was almost to the dime Of what I had in my wallet, all the money I had for those things.

Speaker 1: 24:12

My point is we get busy, we get desensitized, we get distant from the Holy Spirit and the movement and the conversation and the reality of the Holy Spirit is that he wants to be actually involved in everyday life Like he wants to. We get so anxious and depressed. And what is the Holy Spirit called that he wants to be actually involved in everyday life Like he wants to. We, we, we get so anxious and depressed. And and what is the Holy? What is the Holy Spirit called? In the Bible, jesus labels him directly as one of his things, being the comforter. And I think we don't find that comfort, that peace, that joy bubbling out of us like we should, because we're not allowing the Comforter to do what he actually desires to do. Because we're so busy, we'll medicate, we'll try to do a bunch of other different things, except we'll come to who would actually know what to do and how to do the job properly, and that is the Holy Spirit. We live a life of obedience.

Speaker 1: 25:23

This will open doors for other people to look at us and ask us why did you do that? That way? It spurs, it rises up conversations of people who don't know God. This is why I'm not talking about membership of a church. I'm talking about becoming an actual part of the body, an actual piece to the body of Christ. What will draw people to that place is servants and people that truly love and have a handle on attitudes. This will draw because the world has all that other stuff. It has the attitudes, it has the drinking, it has the smoking. It has all the things the world has to offer.

Speaker 1: 25:59

So the biggest question we should ask ourselves, if we're calling ourselves Christians, is what is it that we have that they don't have? And if we look exactly like them, then we're not reflecting Christ, we're reflecting culture, and there should be a difference. There should be a massive difference. The more we mature in Christ, the closer we get to God. The closer we get to the Holy Spirit, the more we allow ourselves to be used by the Holy Spirit, the more we will reflect God, clearer, more clearly. It will be more evident. But it has to happen through radical surrender, and through radical surrender becomes radical transformation. When the world looks at us, they shouldn't see us, they shouldn't see themselves, they should see Christ. So we also need to reflect Christ to the world.

Speaker 1: 26:52

John 13, 34 and 35. So now I'm giving you a new commandment Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other. Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples. This love, which is a sacrificial and radical love, is the key to the world, is a key to the world knowing who Christ is. It is the key for the world seeing Christ as the love we portray, not only for each other but to them.

Speaker 1: 27:28

So why should we pray dangerously? Because praying dangerously fuels the kind of love that changes the world. It's through prayer that we are empowered to live out Christ's love in a way that impacts those around us. It's dangerous to love others as Jesus did. It costs us our comfort. I'm not here to try to sell you on. Living for Jesus is a just a rainbows and butterflies type situation. It's tough, and to actually stick to that and not do what everybody else is doing can also make it very lonely. But the Bible even carves out this topic as well, as the road to the path to heaven is narrow, but the path to hell is wide and ready to receive anybody. But it takes a certain kind of dedication and that's what is required of the believer.

Speaker 1: 28:23

James 5.16 Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous man and woman and person has great power and produces wonderful results. Prayer is the engine behind godly living. However, the prayers that truly align with God's will and invite His power into our lives are often bold and dangerous, like that scripture. We read at the very beginning that Joshua prayed for a sun-set-still moment, to give them a little longer, so they would not be in the dark and they could see, to win the fight. And it happened. Not only the sun, but the moon Ephesians 3, but the moon Ephesians 3, 20 and 21. Now, all the glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think. Glory to him in the church and in Christ Jesus through all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

Speaker 1: 29:32

Praying dangerously means asking God to do what only he can do. It's about trusting in His sovereignty and boldly asking for His intervention in ways that will bring glory to His name and further His kingdom, in ways that will bring glory to His name and further His kingdom. So what are some practical ways that we could pray out of our comfort zone and pray dangerously? The first one would be pray for God's will, not just your, comfort. Jesus prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane. So, if you remember, he knew it was about to be. He said this is the hour. It's appearing, it's coming, it's about to happen. They be on their way. But Jesus prayed this as his last prayer before he was taken. Not my will, but yours.

Speaker 1: 30:33

Now I don't know if you grasp the magnitude of this prayer from Jesus. To me it's very encouraging and kind of sad at the same time, because he's crying out Lord if there's another way. He's crying out Lord if there's another way. But if you live long enough in life you know usually there's not another way. It's got to happen the way it's supposed to happen and we have to be okay with that, being children of God. So pray for bold opportunities to serve and witness. So pray for God's will, not your, comfort. Pray for bold opportunities to do the work of the Lord.

Speaker 1: 31:22

Praying dangerously means asking God for opportunities that push us out of our comfort zone. You see a repeating theme, whether it's sharing the gospel with someone who needs to hear it or serving in a way that stretches us. Now, a rubber band is pointless until it is stretched. Write that down, put it on your mirror, on your refrigerator. Now, talking about your Thanksgiving stretchy pants I'm talking about. It doesn't help you grow, it doesn't help you actually feel fulfilled, until God stretches you and moves you and helps you grow into a place to where you're expanding the kingdom of God, which is the purpose of this whole thing. You should not become a Christian just so. It's all about you. Well, now I'm out of trouble. Now God's not going to get me. Now I'm not going to. I ain't going to stay here behind with these heathens. Sometimes we make salvation about us too. So another is pray expectantly and persistently. So pray for God's will not just your comfort, pray for bold opportunities to serve and to witness. And when you pray, expect something to happen and expect all the time. Luke 18, 1-8.

Speaker 1: 32:36

One day Jesus told his disciples a story to show that they should always pray and never give up. There was a judge in a certain city, he said, who neither feared God nor cared about people. A widow of that city came to him repeatedly saying Give me justice in this dispute with my enemy. The judge ignored her for a while but finally said to himself I don't fear God or care about people, but this woman is driving me crazy. I'm going to see that she gets justice because she is wearing me out with her persistent requests. A dangerous prayer, doesn't give up. It keeps knocking, it keeps trusting God will answer according to His will.

Speaker 1: 33:27

Another is pray for the miraculous. We see from cover to cover in the Bible God answering prayers for the miraculous to happen. This is very encouraging for us today. I think sometimes we forget about. We know God is love, god cares this and that, but we often forget that he also does miracles and he answers big prayers, them forget that he also does miracles and he answers big prayers. When we pray dangerously and live according to the word, people also notice and this will draw people to Christ. They see the fruit of the spirit in our lives. So let's go Galatians, chapter 5, 22 and 23, and list out the fruit of the spirit. But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. I think there's a big, big, big intention here that it starts with love and it bookends with self-control. I believe it kind of wraps up all the others.

Speaker 1: 34:32

If you can get those two down, the rest will fall in line. There's no law against these things. They witness the power of God moving through us and working in us. Our bold prayers and obedient lives testify to God's transformative power. People are more likely to believe in the power of prayer when they see it working in our lives. I got to see it, to believe it. Well, if we're not presenting it in a way that it's truth, why would anybody ever believe that God actually answers prayer If we don't?

Speaker 1: 35:05

In Revelation I believe it's chapter four there's a little thing that says that we are overcomers by the blood of the lamb and the word of our testimony. So what does that mean? Jesus paid for all of our sin, which is where we get our testimony from. He covers everything. So His blood is the key for us to be overcomers and our testimony of what that blood has done. It solidifies and it verifies that Christ is who he says he was. So we're literally repeating the gospel to other people by our testimony. By telling other people what God has done, we are saying listen, this is what the Bible says and this is what I have experienced. You've got to see what this is about, because it will change your life. So the way we testify, the way we talk about what God has done, the way we share the good news, the way we share the goodness in our life that's happening from obeying God. There's not a whole lot of people that talk about well, I obeyed God and look what God did. It's usually we just talk about the miracle. We talk about this and that, but we don't often pinpoint or relate what it was that got me to that place. So I want to leave you with this.

Speaker 1: 36:31

Our bold prayers and obedient lives testify of God's transformative power.

Speaker 1: 36:34

People are more likely to believe in the power of prayer.

Speaker 1: 36:38

Our bold prayers and obedient lives testify of God's transformative power.

Speaker 1: 36:39

People are more likely to believe in the power of prayer when they see it being done and God working in our lives.

Speaker 1: 36:42

When we pray boldly, we invite others to experience the same, the same life-changing power that we have encountered through Christ. Praying dangerously is not just about asking God to move in a big way. It's about aligning our hearts with His will surrounding our lives, surrendering our lives to His purpose and stepping out in faith. Everything God asks for us, everything God, the principles that God puts out in the Bible. It requires action. You can't just read it, you've got to do it. You can't just pray it, you've got to live it out. You can't just read it, you got to do it. You can't just pray it, you got to live it out. You can't just, oh Lord, I hope you do this. Like how little of faith does that sound when you're like, oh, I just, I'm, I'm hoping God does this.

Speaker 1: 37:26

Quit acting like a weenie, start start praying and speaking in faith. What did Jesus say over and over and over again to those he healed? Your faith has made you whole. He even didn't go to a place, he said, because they have no faith. Faith without works is dead. As we pray with boldness, we experience God's power and are transformed into living testimonies of his love. These dangerous prayers filled with trust and faith will lead to a personal transformation and draw others to Christ. When we pray dangerously, we are inviting God to work in ways that are beyond our human understanding and we are trusting Him To display His glory Through our lives.

Speaker 1: 38:30

So now let me challenge you. You know I end up Every video. I end up shutting it down with a little bit of a challenge. So I want to challenge you with this. As a believer, have you been praying dangerously or have your prayers been safe? And you may ask like well, how do I get to praying dangerously, like, how do I start with big prayers? Very simple. You may ask how do I get to praying dangerously? How do I start with big prayers? Very simple you don't.

Speaker 1: 38:59

When you pray over the little things and you believe God over the little things and yes, include Him in what you buy for groceries. Include Him in stretching your money so that you can buy more groceries, ask for things. God enjoys that. It's like when you have your kids come up. If you have kids and they come up to you or a niece and nephew, whatever, and they ask for something and you give it to them out of the goodness of your heart, you give a good gift to them and it makes them excited and they want to be around you more. You're fun, you're loving, you actually care that they had a need and you took care of it and now you're the favorite aunt or the favorite uncle and you can get them to do anything. God desires for us to bring our issues, our problems, our heart's desire to him. That's what he loves. He designed us to be in relationship with him. I'm not saying he's a slot machine, but what I am saying is he is challenging us, as the believers, to pray in faith for big things to happen. So are you praying big?

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Do you believe if you lay hands on someone that is sick or has cancer or whatever the ailment may be in their body or they have a growth or they have, they have sinus issues or they have a psoriasis or they have an autoimmune disease, whatever Do you believe if you lay hands on them that they will be healed? I have seen time after time after time not well learned, not studied up on the scriptures. They didn't go to a certain Bible study or a prayer team or anything like that. They just knew what the word said and they were just foolish enough to believe it and God showed up. Now you may ask yourself what about the times God doesn't heal?

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