Anatomy of a Prayer is the most important video I have produced. Those with an ear to hear and a mind to learn. It will help through the coming difficult times. I have divided the Anatomy of a Prayer into sections. If this video is too long for you, just visit my Channels and they'll be in the library in the link in the description if you wish to download them. He shall call upon me and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him and honor him.
The most basic definition of prayer is talking to God. Prayer is not meditation or passive reflection. It is direct address to God. It is the communication of the human soul with the Lord who created the soul. Prayer is the primary way for the believer in Jesus Christ to communicate his emotions and desires with God and to fellowship with God. Unbelievers postulate that the Scriptures are only theory or even worse, a fable.
But when we study and learn what are we asked to do in school, we have labs where we practice what is written in the school texts. People who struggle understanding the scriptures today don't do the lab work and therefore they wrongfully believe the scriptures can be ignored. This video will be an in depth look into prayer and it will have examples along with a prayer collection free for download in the library. Link in the description of this video. Ask and it will be given to you.
Seek and you will find Knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives, he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks, the door will be opened. When you pray, the goal is to receive that prayer or get what you pray for. One of the most heinous acts against God is the redefining of Him by the occultists. That's actually how the occultists take over the minds of the masses. They redefine words, redefine
concepts. This enables them to take control of subject matter and from that foundation build off of that incorrect teaching. Even more, since Copernicus, occultists have begun tearing down the biblical teachings one topic to the next. For prayer. The occultists came up with the vengeful God of the Old Testament versus the loving God of the New Testament. To pray properly, it is important to know who you are praying to. And God has never changed.
He never will. His wrath has only come because of man succumbing to great evil. God is just, and that means that your prayers must be just too. What does that mean? Prayers must be in the realm of God's plan. This is called reverent submission. Not as I will, but as you will. Your will be done. It consists of renouncing your own will and embracing the will of God. If a prayer goes against God's
plan, it is a satanic prayer. Remember in Matthew 16 when Jesus is telling the disciples of his death and Peter rebuked the plan, how did Jesus respond? He said get behind me Satan, you are a hindrance to me, for you are not setting your mind on the things of God but on the things of man. Praying for Jesus to live sounds good, but it would have destroyed God's plan and our salvation. Another example, just praying for millions of dollars like the prosperity gospel would not work.
What if in your current relationship with God, becoming a millionaire would falsely cause you to believe you don't require God's help anymore? Even just subconsciously, you would start to fall away. Would it be wise for God to grant your prayer? Of course not. God will not lead your charge towards your own destruction. So when we pray for anything, we need to begin by asking ourselves, am I praying for this because I want it or because God wants it? It makes a great deal of
difference. If it is because I want it, my prayers may not be answered, but if it is because God wants it, then my prayers will be answered. Praying is an intimate relationship building practice and because of this, praying in private is not only important but necessary. And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray, standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly, I tell you, they have received the reward in full.
But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like the pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him. Now obviously this is not talking about praying together as a group.
That is a different matter. But in a prayer group you also do that privately in a home or designated building or location, even if it is a street corner. Have you ever wondered why some wear cloth over their heads when they pray? Not only because of First Corinthians 11 where a cloth can represent a woman's hair, thus showing obedience to God as long hair is a natural covering, it's also a makeshift closet for a
man and woman to use. God loves your presence, so just be with Him. So seek Him when you pray, even if you only have 10% of faith. Or the faith, the. Size of a mustard seed for God. It's a start and something he can work with. That 10% faith will have what is required to grow and learn that 10% faith in prayer and scripture reading is exponentially better than to have no faith when you pray but read scriptures. Having 0 faith is denying God and if you have denied God, God
will deny you. But whoever denies me before men, I will also deny him before my Father in heaven. Seeking out God literally brings him closer to you, so that 10% of faith will grow to 15%, then 20%, and so on. The presence of God through the Holy Spirit will teach you and prepare you. Your wisdom will rise and your discernment will grow. When you pray, it is important to remove your guilt that you have in everyday life. Approach God with confidence and not condemnation.
Remove that guilt through prayer. We know that God will forgive us when we repent of our sins. So this admittance and repentance is what allows us to be washed of the sin as if we never committed that sin. So do not dwell and condemn for that is the work of the demonic. Just repent and if needed request help from Jesus. Jesus, take this thought from me, for I cannot bear it.
The thought can be anything leading to sin. 2 Scriptures from the book of Hebrews tells us why we should approach God with confidence. Here is the first. Therefore, let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. We are praying to someone who is on a throne. A throne indicates a king.
This is not merely a king, but the king, the King of all kings, the Lord of all Lords, the supreme ruler of the universe, the one who said all authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. We are praying to someone who has both the authority and the power to do what we ask. Let's lift our eyes from ourselves and our own needs and problems and look up to that glorious throne.
Then it is a throne of grace. Grace is one of the keywords in the New Testament. It always stands for something that goes beyond anything we can earn or achieve by our own efforts. Because it is a throne of grace, we are not limited to what we deserve or what we can achieve, or what our own efforts can accomplish for us. One awareness I have always had in my Christian life is that I stand in need of the mercy of God.
This scripture encourages me to believe that if I ever come for mercy, mercy is what I'll receive. The reason some people do not receive mercy is simply that they never see their need of it and come in faith to receive it. Secondly, therefore, brethren, since we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus, let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith.
Confidence, full assurance. Everything suggests boldness, boldness based upon the fact that the blood of Jesus has been shed and has been sprinkled in the very presence of God. The blood is now speaking on our behalf even when we do not know how to pray. The positive side of coming to God boldly is to come with confidence. The other side is that we come without condemnation. Several passages of Scripture speak about the need to be free from condemnation. Here's one from the Psalms.
If I regard wickedness in my heart, the Lord will not hear. To regard iniquity in my heart means that I am conscious of something that condemns me. Every time I approach God with faith, Satan reminds me of this flaw that is not right, that has not been dealt with. It might be a sin that has not been confessed, or if it has been confessed, I have not claimed or received God's forgiveness. If I am conscious of this flaw in my heart, I will not receive
that which I pray for. I must remove the consciousness of sin from within my heart and come boldly before His throne. Basically this is done by. Faith. Because if we confess our sin, God is faithful and just to forgive our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Once we confess, repent, and trust God for the forgiveness and the cleansing that He has promised, we must not go on
worrying about our sins. If we do, if we remain sin conscious as we pray, God will not hear our prayers. If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me. But do you know what the psalmist goes on to say? The Lord has heard me. In other words, he rose above Satan's attempt to condemn him. John expressed the same thought. Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God and whatever we ask
we receive from him. We have to get rid of any attitude that suggests some kind of righteousness in ourselves. We have no righteousness of our own. We must come to a place where we are trusting in God's faithfulness and that produces confidence. Forgiveness is imperative. In the Sermon on the Mount, one of the things Jesus taught us to say, as I suppose we all know, is this. Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. Forgive us as we forgive others.
What we might not realize is that this is an important condition for receiving answers to prayer. Jesus also said, And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive Him. Now that does not leave out anything or anybody. When you pray, forgive that. Your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses. But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your trespasses.
This is absolutely clear and it is spoken to believers, those who have God as their heavenly Father before you. And I pray we must forgive. It will do no good to try to approach God in prayer with unforgiveness in our hearts against anybody about anything. Ask God according to God's Word.
This is intimately related to the previous condition being directed by the Holy Spirit. You see, the great issue in prayer is the will of God. If I am praying according to the will of God, then as we have seen in Scripture, I know that God hears me. And if I know that God hears me, I know that I have the petition that I ask, how do I know the will of God? Where is the will of God revealed? The answer is in His word. The great revelation of the will of God is the Word of God.
And the Word of God is packed from the beginning to end with divine promises. The apostle Peter calls them exceedingly great and precious promises. And do you know what those promises are? The promises of God. Are the will of God. Thus, when you find a promise that relates to your situation and meets your need, that promise is God's will for you. God never promised anything that was not His will. Anything else would be inconsistent.
Suppose you came to him and said, Lord, you promised he would not say, yes, I promise, but I don't want to do it. This is the great secret that clinches our life of prayer. We pray according to God's will as revealed in His Word. So David came and relaxed before Almighty God and said something on this order. God, you have been so good to me. I want to take a little time and appreciate you and thank you for your goodness.
Then David said this. And now, O Lord, the word which you have spoken concerning your servant and concerning his house, let it be established forever, and do as you have said. Those 5 short words of one syllable each contain the essence of effective praying. Do as you have said, Lord, you said it, please do it. If God has said He will do it, and you ask Him to do it, you can know He is going to do it. His promises are the revelation of His will. If you were just starting out in
prayer, how do you start? You start from a contrite or remorseful heart, and you start with repentance and a request for the Holy Spirit or ruah ha kodesh. That is what salvation requires. Let's start with the Salvation prayer from bridemovement.com. In order to be saved, we must not only believe that Jesus died, but that he was resurrected on the third day. The victory wasn't in the death, but in the resurrection of Jesus Christ when he arose, having all
power in heaven and on earth. He later ascended to heaven and sat down at the right hand of the Father, where he remains to this day, continually making intercession for us. This is the God that I serve. This is the God of love. This is the gospel of Jesus Christ. The Bible says that if we confess the Lord Jesus Christ with our mouth and believe that God has raised him from the dead
in our heart, we will be saved. If you believe this testimony of Jesus Christ in your heart, then you can confess this prayer with your mouth and you will be saved. Jesus, I come before you and acknowledge that I am a Sinner. I repent, I call upon your name, and I ask you to cleanse me with your blood. Forgive me of my sins. I invite you into my heart. Jesus Christ, I believe that you were born a virgin, died, and were resurrected on the third day that I might have eternal life.
I open my life to you and I ask you to come in and be my Lord and Savior. Thank you for saving me. In Jesus name I pray, Amen. Let us take the Sermon on the Mount and the Lord's Prayer in Matthew. 6. This prayer is a template given to us on how we should pray. Jesus starts by saying in this manner, pray our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your Kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
If you've been paying attention, you'll hear the points laid out for you previously in this video. First of all, we address God as Father, our Father in heaven. That makes all the difference. We are not praying to a remote or unknown deity or some impersonal force. We are praying to a person who has made himself our Father through Jesus Christ. The next phrase, hallowed be your name, expresses an attitude of reverence of worship.
After we have acknowledged God as Father, we need to adopt an attitude of reverence. Next we come to the two petitions. Your Kingdom come and then your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Notice that we do not begin by praying for what we need. That follows. Give us this day Our Daily Bread and forgive us our trespasses. But that is not where we start. We start with God's purposes. What is important to God? When done genuinely, it sheds our natural conceit and reveals
our humility. Now we need to have a little clarity about the way the Kingdom is established. Paul defined the Kingdom in its essential nature. The Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. Righteousness comes first. Without true righteousness, there will never be true peace. The world today talks a great deal about peace. Many sections of the church are
praying for peace. That is a good prayer, but bear in mind that without righteousness, peace will never come. God says twice through the prophet Isaiah that there is no. Peace for the wicked. The Kingdom can come invisibly, both in the individual hearts of believers and in fellowship of the true Church. But that is not the ultimate. The ultimate is the visible establishment of God's Kingdom. And just as the invisible Kingdom requires a king, so does the visible Kingdom.
Only when the king himself has returned visibly and in person can the true Kingdom of God be established on earth. Then Jesus said this in his prayer. Your will be done on Earth. As it is in heaven.
I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service, and do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. For I say.
Through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith. For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function, so we being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another. Having then gifts, deferring according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them.
If prophecy, let us prophecy in proportion to our faith or ministry, let us use it in our ministry. He who teaches in teaching, He who exhorts in exhortation, He who gives with liberality, He who leads with diligence, He who shows mercy with cheerfulness, this is what God's will be done means. This does not mean everything is perfect on earth, but it means that in any given situation, God's purpose and solution can be perfectly worked out.
Do you believe that? You see, you will pray differently if you convince yourself that it's true. Once you have successfully and righteously begun your prayer, you may enter into the next stage where you ask for bread and forgiveness of sin, as you have forgiven others who sinned against you. Then for strength against temptation of the flesh, because God is the Kingdom and the power and deserves all the glory for all time. To understand spiritual warfare, we need to understand what we
are fighting against. Scripture reveals that at the present time, Satan's headquarters are in the heavenlies or second heaven. Paul gives us a clear picture of this in his letter to the Ephesians. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. The King James Version, while quite familiar, does not give us
the most accurate translation. Let's break this verse down into a more literal understanding. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers. In Ephesians and other passages, the words principalities and powers are often joined closely together. The word principalities derived directly from the Greek word for ruler. The word power, is the word for
authority. So to say that our wrestling match as believers is not against flesh and blood, not against human beings, but against rulerships in the realms of their authority. It is also against rulers of the darkness of this world. A more literal wording of this would be against the world rulers of the present darkness. The darkness of this present age has a world headquarters from
which it is ruled. The headquarters is the mid heaven and the ruler is Satan. In Ephesians 22, Satan is called the Prince of the power of the air. He is then the ruler of the realm of authority that is defined by the air. Many people picture Satan living down in the bowels of the earth. He's not there. He's in the heavenlies. Obviously he is not in the heaven that is God's dwelling. He was cast down from that, but
neither is he on earth. Revelation 12/9 tells us that a time is coming when he will be cast down out of the heavenlies onto earth. Then it says he is going to make all the trouble he can in the short time that is left to him. But in the meanwhile, up to the fulfillment of that passage in Revelation 12, his headquarters are in the mid heaven. We also wrestle against spiritual wickedness in high places. The King James wording high places here is completely misleading.
The same Greek word is used numerous times in Ephesians, and in each of these places it is correctly translated heavenly. Now let's view our more literal translation of Ephesians 612. Our wrestling match is not against flesh and blood, but against rulerships and the realms of their authority, against the world rulers of the present darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly. This is our spiritual conflict in the book of Daniel.
The Bible gives us a vivid picture of this battle in progress. Let's turn there. Daniel, taken from Israel to Babylon as a youth, remained a fervent student of the literature of his people. As such, he was aware that the prophetic timeline of the Babylonian captivity was coming to a close in the first year of
his reign. I Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years specified by the word of the Lord through Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish 70 years in the desolations of Jerusalem. Daniel began to pray for this approaching eventuality with the time of fasting. In those days I Daniel, was mourning 3 full weeks. I ate no pleasant food, no meat or wine came to my mouth, nor did I anoint myself at all till three whole weeks were fulfilled.
Daniel saw what God had committed himself to do and responded with this attitude. God, I'm in this with you. Count me in. I'll give myself to prayer and fasting as I never have done before until I see the fulfillment of your promise and experience. We will explore the theme of fasting as a powerful component to our prayers, particularly as regards to the church in the last days. For now, we note that fasting is
a kind of spiritual mourning. Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount. Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. Let me note that we must be very sensitive to the Holy Spirit about this. We should not try to mourn when the Holy Spirit is comforting us, and we should not try to work up excitement and thrill when the Holy Spirit is calling us to mourning. Daniel spent 21 days mourning, praying, and waiting upon God.
He did not fast completely, but he abstained from all except the most basic forms of food and drink. At the end of three weeks, the Archangel Gabriel was sent to Daniel with revelation of God's purpose for Israel in the last days. The rest of chapter 10 and the next two chapters of Daniel describe the advent of the Angel, his appearance, and the revelation that he brought. For our purposes of understanding spiritual warfare, let's look at the timeline of the angels appearing.
Then he said to me, Do not fear Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart to understand and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard, and I have come because of your words. Daniel's prayer was heard the first day that he started to pray, but the Angel did not arrive till three weeks later. What happened in the meanwhile? The next verse tells us this. But the Prince of the Kingdom of
Persia withstood me 21 days. And behold, Michael, one of the chief Princess, came to help me, for I had been left alone there with the kings of Persia. When the Archangel Gabriel spoke about the Prince of the Kingdom of Persia, he was not talking about a human being, he was talking about one of the dark angels in the mid heaven. Gabriel started on his journey the first day that Daniel started to pray. Angelic warfare in the heavenlies withheld his arrival.
The good holy angels were opposed and resisted by Satan's angels, the angels of darkness. But notice it was Daniel's prayer on earth that got the Archangel through. Do you see how important our prayers are? The Archangel depended on Daniel and his prayer to get through. Notice also that the initiative is with earth, not heaven. Daniel started the whole thing moving. And I venture to say in certain respects this remains true
today. We are not waiting for God, God is waiting for us. When we move, heaven will move. Then we'll come conflict and our prayers on earth will settle it. We who are believers and know how to pray are much more important than most of us have the faintest idea. This is the basic picture of spiritual conflict as it is unfolded in Scripture. When the Angel left Daniel, he
gave this further insight. And now I must return to fight with the Prince of Persia. And when I have gone forth, indeed the Prince of Greece will come. The Prince of Persia was a satanic Angel that dominated the Kingdom of Persia. This was of particular importance to Daniel because Persia was ruling over God's people, Israel. When the Persian Empire was defeated, the Empire of Greece followed.
Behind the empire of Greece was another Satanic Angel called the Prince of Greece. This shows us that Earth's empires have their counterpart in Satan's empire. In other words, Satan seeks to control the empires of Earth through its rulers in order to make its leaders and governments instruments of his will. We must pray against this. The decisive factor in this Great War with Satan is just one thing. Praying believers. We are the ones who tip the scale for victory on God's side,
on earth, in our dominion. This is an astonishing fact, but Scripture makes it clear that this is so. Our prayers are not unimportant. They are not secondary. They are the decisive issue in the entire spiritual conflict. True believers are the most powerful weapon. This is why God removes the tares from the wheat and why there is a great falling away. The true believers prayers will be in concentrate form. This is also why the true believers are haunted down and murdered.
Welcome to revelation. If we are involved in spiritual warfare against a spiritual enemy, it is obvious that we must have spiritual weapons. Carnal weapons are of no use whatever for spiritual warfare. You're not going to get God a demon with a GAT. You can't blast a fallen messenger with infrared homing missiles built by Stark Enterprises. This is what Paul said. For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the
flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds. Strongholds are the altars built to worship the demonic realm and the fallen messengers in whatever terminology they are representing themselves as such, but not limited to the Egyptian Sumerian, the Greek, Canaanite,
Roman Norris gods and demigods. These altars hosted human and animal sacrifices, blood drinking, sex, magic, and rituals, all designed to break down the veil and allow entities behind the veil to roam freely in our domain. Whose business is it to pull them down?
Ours. And we have been given the weapons, the weapons of our warfare, cast down arguments at every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God. The great high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God is. Satan's Kingdom. In the heavenlies, we have been given the weapons to cast Satan's Kingdom down. We are the ones who are going to do it. The weapons have been placed in our hands rather than the hands of the angels, though the angels have their weapons.
God has provided us three main spiritual weapons, the Word of God, the name of Jesus, and the blood of Jesus. We launch these weapons by these means, prayer, praise, preaching, and testimony. Let's look at these briefly. In Ephesians, Paul lists the spiritual armor that the Christian soldiers need for spiritual conflict.
The first five items of armor are all defensive, girding our waist with truth, putting on the breastplate of righteousness, seeing that our feet are shot with the preparation of the gospel of peace, taking up the shield of faith and the helmet of salvation. These protect the believer. There is no weapon of offense or attack until we come to the 6th item, which is the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God. Here is the great weapon of
attack. If you do not use the Word of God, you may be able to protect yourself, but you have nothing
to attack Satan with. If you want to put Satan to flight, if you want to get him out of your way, out of your home, out of your family, out of your business, if you do not want just to tolerate him and hold him off, the weapon you must use is the weapon of attack, the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God. Note too, that it is the sword of the Holy Spirit. We can take God's Word in our mouths, but it only achieves its full effect when it is the Holy
Spirit within us. Who actually wields it? The perfect pattern of how to use the sword of the Spirit is provided by Jesus's encounter with Satan at the time of his temptation in the wilderness. Three times Satan approached Jesus with a temptation, and each time Jesus drove him back with the same phrase it is written. Jesus used no other weapon but the spoken word of the Lord. God has made the same weapon available to each Christian. It is important, however, to bear two things in mind.
First, Jesus had already been filled with the Holy Spirit. It was the Holy Spirit in Jesus who directed him in the use of the sword. And 2nd, Jesus, like every Jewish boy of his day, had memorized long passages of Scripture. When Satan confronted him, he did not need to consult the concordance or go to a library. He had already stored up the Scriptures in his memory. Surely we today need to do that just as much as Jesus did. Another powerful weapon for us to use is the name of Jesus.
These two verses in Psalms 8 gives us a unique understanding. O Lord our Lord, how excellent is Your name in all the earth, who have set Your glory above the heavens, out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants. You have ordained strength because of your enemies, that you may silence the enemy and the Avenger. The enemy and the Avenger is Satan, and God has given us the means to silence him. I hope you have connected the name of the Avenger with the satanic institution. Marvel.
Your children are marveling over The Avengers, the ones who come to earth to corrupt and destroy you. So take up your weapon. What is the weapon? It is the name of the Lord. O Lord our Lord, how excellent is your name in all the earth. The channel that launches the name is the human mouth, out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants. Spiritual things find expression out of the mouth. This is true for both good and evil. Look at Revelation 16 verse 13,
for instance. John saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. Why does the psalmist refer to the mouth of babes as nursing infants? To show that we do not have to be spiritual giants. God has chosen the weak, the foolish, the things that are despised to bring to not all Satan's Kingdom in the heavenlies.
The devil is so busy trying to keep you from praising the Lord when you effectively perfectly with your whole heart in unison. With one accord, praise the name of Jesus. It shuts the devil's mouth and if ever there was a thing he does not like, it is to have his mouth shut. He will do everything he can, religious pressure, social pressure, fear of man to keep you from turning loose in your prayers and praising the name of Jesus. The land and air around us can be purified through perfect
praise. The blood of Jesus. Revelation 12, verse 11. They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony. Who is they? The believers on earth. Who is him? Satan. What I want to emphasize is that the final victory comes not to God's angels, but to the believers. This passage describes war in heaven. Michael and his angels are fighting. Satan and his angels are fighting. But the believers overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by
the word of their testimony. When you want to praise Jesus or utter the word of God, or testify to what the Lord has done for you, Satan will put a barrier in front of your lips. Why? Because you are casting down a stronghold. The blood of Jesus is the ultimate weapon. The whole issue of our battle against evil centers in one thing, righteousness. Because of Jesus's righteousness, God has made it possible that the devil will have nothing to bring against us
in heaven. God made Jesus, who knew no sin, to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in him. You can proffer the best Baptist lifestyle, you have the best Methodist principles, the best Roman Catholic piety, and he can tear it to shreds. But when you bring in the righteousness of Jesus Christ, he is silent. He has nothing more to say.
You will find that you can almost measure your spiritual progress by the extent to which you accept and appropriate by faith the righteousness of Jesus Christ on your own behalf. This is the great lesson that we have to learn as children of God. We are accepted in the Beloved not for what we are, but for what Jesus is. The words of Jesus in Matthew 633 are often misunderstood. Seek first the heaven of God and his righteousness, in other words, not your own righteousness.
In Romans 10/3, Paul wrote that the Jewish nation was attempting to establish its own righteousness. They had not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God by faith in Jesus Christ. It takes humility to accept Jesus righteousness because it means first of all we have renounced every shred of our old self righteousness. All our righteousness are like filthy rags. Notice not our sins, but our righteousness are nothing more
than filthy rags in God's sight. As long as we flaunt the filthy rags of our church membership, our good. Deeds. Our godly living, the devil will tear us to shreds in the presence of God, but when we come to the place where we are relying on nothing but the blood of Jesus Christ and His righteousness, there is nothing in us that the devil can put his finger on and bring up by way of accusation before God. You might want to commit these verses to memory. Forgiven in Christ.
Ephesians 17 tells us two things that we have when we are in Christ. In Christ we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of His grace. Remember when we are outside of Christ, the blood does not avail. Redemption means bought back by a ransom price that had to be paid. Psalm one O 7 verse 2. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom He has redeemed from
the hand of the enemy. This, by the way, is one of the most powerful scriptures for teaching us the value of testimony. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so means to take the Word and use it. Here then is my testimony on the basis of Ephesians 17. Through the blood of Jesus, I am redeemed out of the hand of the devil. This same scripture tells me that all my sins are forgiven. So my next testimony is this, through the blood of Jesus all my sins are forgiven.
Next is first John chapter one, verse 7. If we walk in the light as Jesus is in the light, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanses us from all sin. These verbs are all continuing present tenses indicating an ongoing process. If we walk in the light continuously, we will have fellowship continuously and the blood will cleanse us continuously. The cleansing by the blood of Jesus is not a single isolated experience.
It is ever present. This is why we pray without ceasing that fellowship and prayer keeps us cleansed. If I am meeting the conditions, if I am walking in the light, if I am in fellowship with my fellow believers, then my testimony is this. The blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, continually cleanses me from all sin. Romans 59 tells us that we are justified by His blood. The word justified is not understood by many present day
believers. Just and righteousness are interchangeable terms both in Hebrew and in Greek, in the Old Testament and in the New. So to be justified means to be made righteous. Here is our next testimony. Through the blood of Jesus I am justified, made righteous, just as if I'd never sinned. Hebrews 1312 tells us that through the blood of Jesus we are sanctified, that He might sanctify the people with his own blood suffered outside the gate.
The word sanctify is similar in form to the word justify. To justify means to make just or righteous. To sanctify means to make saintly or holy. Here is our next testimony. Through the blood of Jesus, I am sanctified, made holy, set apart to God. The climax of our testimony is found in First Corinthians chapter 6, verse 19 and 20. I want to look first, however, at two other verses from this chapter in First Corinthians.
Here is one. Now the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. And then we read, Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are gods. The Lord wants you for Himself. He has paid the price of His
precious blood. If you want to hold on to your own life, you can. But remember, in that case you have not been bought. You cannot have it both ways. If you belong to God, you do not belong to yourself. If you belong to yourself, you do not belong to God. This is our next testimony. My body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, redeemed, cleansed, sanctified by the blood of Jesus. Therefore, Satan has no place in me, no power over me through the blood of Jesus.
Here then, is our testimony by which we apply the blood to our lives. The references precede each confession. Through the blood of Jesus, I am redeemed out of the hand of the devil. Through the blood of Jesus, all my sins are forgiven. The blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanses me continually from all sin. Through the blood of Jesus, I am justified, made righteous, just as if I'd never sinned. Through the blood of Jesus I am sanctified, made holy and set
apart. My body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, redeemed, cleansed, sanctified by the blood of Jesus. Therefore, Satan has no place in me, no power over me through the blood of Jesus. If you really believe those words, the next. Thing to do is. Praise the Lord for it. Here is a word of praise that you might use. Thank you God, for the precious blood of Jesus. Thank you for the redemptive blood of Christ.
Thank you for the justifying, sanctifying, precious blood of the Lamb of God. Blessed be the name of the Lord. I praise you, Jesus, for you paid the price of my redemption. You shed your precious blood on the cross. You are the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. And now, Lord, I have taken the blood from the basin and transferred it to my own personal needs by the word of my testimony. Amen.
Let me direct. Your attention to one more passage of Scripture that is relevant to this type of prayer. Speaking about Jesus, the Word says this. This is he who came by the water and blood, Jesus Christ, not only by water, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who bears witness, because the Spirit is truth. There are three that bear witness on earth, the Spirit, the water and the blood, and
these three agree as one. There is nothing in the Christian life that is just a set of rules. Salvation is not a technique. Healing is not a technique. Deliverance from evil spirits is not a technique. Anybody who tries to reduce any of these things to a set of rules misses the point. The purpose of it all is this. When we use the water of the Word, when we use the blood in our testimony, and when the Spirit bears witness, then heaven's floor drops out and heaven comes to earth.
Wherever God's people fast and come together and praise, there always will be prophetic revelation. Prophetic ministry comes out of the fellowship of God's people earnestly seeking Him. No religious games, no parlor tricks, no spiritual cocktail parties, just desperate hearts before God. You minister to the Lord. He ministers to your problems. If God's people could only see this. Our weapons are mighty through God. We reach up to God and we split that mid heaven of darkness between us.
God reaches down and touches whatever problems we face as nations and individuals when we use the spiritual weapons that God has given us. God will be just as faithful to us today. Matthew chapter 18 verse 19 and 20. Again I say to you that if 2 of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I
am there in the midst of them. There are twelve types of prayer, praise and Thanksgiving, Worship, petition, intercession, supplication, command, commitment, dedication, persistence, blessing, imprecatory or cursing, praise and Thanksgiving. It is a good habit to start your prayers with praise and Thanksgiving. Praise is offered to God for who He is and what He does in
general. Thanksgiving is offered to God for what He has done for us. In particular, Psalms 48 verse one tells us great is the Lord and greatly to be praised. Praise is vocal, it is uttered. Praise should be offered in proportion to God's own person. He is great. Great in wisdom, great in power, great in His creative works, great in His redemptive acts, great in His dealings with us. Everything that God is and does is great. He should therefore be greatly praised.
We never waste time when we are praising the Lord. Most of us do it far too little. Thanksgiving is also vocal. It takes all the greatness that is universal about God and makes it specific to our particular cases. Listen to what Paul said. Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with Thanksgiving. Let your requests be made known to God. Thanksgiving and praise gives us direct access to God. Psalm 100, verse 4 gives these familiar words.
Enter His gates with Thanksgiving and His courts with praise. Give thanks to Him. Bless His name. The gate leads into the courts. The courts lead into His presence. You get through the gates with Thanksgiving and through the courts with praise. Then you are there. The true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. Worship. Worship is not singing hymns or choruses. Worship is not a declaration of God's.
Attributes. Vocal expression has to do with praise and Thanksgiving. Worship has to do with attitude. In the 6th chapter of Isaiah, the prophet described a vision of the throne of God. Above it he saw the seraphim, the burning, fiery creatures that surround God's throne. He saw that each had six wings, and he saw how they used them. With one pair of wings, a seraphim covered their faces, With the second pair they covered their feet.
With the third pair, they flew. We understand from this picture that two pairs of wings are given to worship, indicating by covering their faces and feet, the third pair to service indicating by flying. This tells us that worship comes before service, and also that worship is twice as important as service. Worship, in a sense, is covering your face and your body. It is bowing low, bending the head. Of course, this does not have to be solely a description of a physical body.
We are talking about something in the spirit, the approach of our spirits to God. This is represented in the Lord's Prayer. In this manner, therefore, pray our Father in heaven. After we have first addressed God, the next thing we say is hallowed. Be your name. Your name is holy. It is a privilege even to use your name. We do it with reverence. We do it in lowliness. We do it in awe and wonder and honor. That is worship, a heart bowed low in God's presence.
Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him. Petition is the most used prayer asking for physical and material needs to be met. But remember, praying is not just thinking of anything we want and asking for it.
Praying is discovering God's revealed purpose in Scripture and then praying for the outworking of that purpose. It is not just asking that is important, but asking and receiving. I have seen this many times. God touches someone with a healing touch, but the person does not receive it. One way not to receive an answer to a petition is to go on praying for it. Some people pray themselves into faith and then pray themselves
out of faith. Jesus was speaking about this very matter of petition when He said this. Therefore, I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it and it will be yours. Notice this. Though. Receiving is not the same as having. Receiving is settling. It Having is the experience that follows the actual experience of having. What we have prayed for may have to wait, but by faith we receive
what we pray for when we pray. Say you have a financial need, you pray you are in touch with God. You say God we need $2000 by Thursday. Then you say thank you, God, you have received it. Nothing has changed in the circumstances, but you have received it. You will have it. For example, if you have made a petition regarding physical healing, for instance, you say Thank you, Lord, you touched me. Your power is at work in my body.
Every time you feel a twinge of pain or you see a symptom, you say, Thank you Lord, Your supernatural power is at work in my body, and as you respond that way, the healing is completed. Hebrews 10 tells us that we have need of endurance so that after we have done the will of God, we may receive the promise. In the gap between doing the will of God and receiving the promise, you can do two things. You can keep the plug in or pull the plug out if you pull the plug out.
You get nothing. If you keep the plug in, you get everything. Something that can help us in this process of keeping the plug in is learning to make the right confession, that is declaring our faith boldly with our lips. I have found that there are certain ways to express your faith that have tremendous power. They release the power of God and they encourage us and strengthen us. Very often when I'm praying in the morning or at the end of the day, I make these simple
confessions. Here, for instance, is a statement that concerns the body that I say several times a week. My body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, redeemed, cleansed, and sanctified by the blood of Jesus. My members are instruments of righteousness, yielded to God for His service and for His glory.
The devil has no place in me, no power over me, no unsettled claims against me. All has been settled by the blood of Jesus. I overcome Satan by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of my testimony. Intercession. Intercession is one of the highest prayer skills for a Christian. It requires a lot of practice, skill, and maturity. To intercede means literally to come in between. The intercessor is one who comes in between God and those for whom he is praying. The Bible gives us examples of
some extreme cases. One was the time that Abraham stood between the Lord and the wicked city of Sodom. Genesis 18 tells the story of the Lord and his two angels visiting Abraham's home, a remarkable picture of hospitality. Abraham offered them water to wash their feet. He killed a calf for their meal. He chatted with them in the shade of the terebinth trees. Then the Lord began to unfold to Abraham His purpose in being
there. He was going down to the wicked cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to investigate the situation and take appropriate action. Now this concerned Abraham quite a bit because his nephew Lot, who was in a backslidden condition, was living in Sodom. Abraham knew that if judgement came upon Sodom, Lot and his family would. Be part of that. Judgement.
At that point the men, meaning the two angels, turned away from there and went towards Sodom, but Abraham still stood before the Lord. That is the position of the intercessor. Abraham stood in front of the Lord and said, Lord, hold on a moment, don't just go yet. I have something to say to you. In a sense, he held the Lord back and then began a time of bargaining.
Abraham asked if the Lord would spare the cities if he could find 50 righteous people, then 40, and so on until the Lord agreed to spare Sodom for the sake of 10 righteous persons. When someone's sin has caused a breach, the intercessor stands before God and says, Lord, I'm stopping the gap. Your blow can't fall upon him unless it first falls upon me.
When Moses had to come down the mountain and discover the molten calf, I want you to notice that God would not act against His people in this manner unless Moses complied. He said, Moses, get out of my way and let me deal with these people. You see Moses, I can wipe them out and still keep my promise to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I will simply establish you as the one whom I rebuild this great nation. Moses could have said, Yes, God,
blot out the people. After all, they have been nothing but a burden on me since I LED them out of Egypt. Start again with me. I'll be a great ancestor of this people. Could you imagine being in that conversation? That's not what Moses did. He showed maturity. Moses besought the Lord his God and said, Lord, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou has brought forth out of the land of Egypt? In other words, Lord, they're not mine, they're yours.
I can't handle them. You are the one to deal with them. Then this humble man of prayer went to work. He stated first that his supreme concern was for God's glory. He argued that since God had brought these people out of Egypt, the Egyptians would say that he had evil intentions against them all along. Next he reminded God of his promise and his covenant.
Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel thy servants, to whom thou swearest by thine own self, and settest unto them I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven. And all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it forever. And the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people. Having stayed the Lord's hand, Moses went down to the bottom of the mountain, dealt with the
people, then came up again. Moses returned to the Lord, and said, O, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold. Yet now if thou wilt forgive their sin, and if not, blot me, I pray thee out of thy book which thou hast written. In this exchange, we see Moses's heart of fervent prayer, supplication, and intercession. God, these people have sinned grievously. They deserve your stroke. I ask that you have mercy on
them. But if not, Lord, let their judgement come upon me. Psalm One, O 6, gives a divine commentary on this incident. They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image. Thus they change their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.
They forgot God their Savior, which had done great things in Egypt, wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the Red Sea. Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses, his chosen, stood before him in the breach to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them. When someone's sin has caused a breach, the intercessor stands before God and says, Lord, I'm stopping the gap. Your blow can't fall upon him unless it first falls upon me.
This is not the only form of intercession, but it is the Supreme. The intercessor is God centered. He is not problem focused. He is not focused on what man can or cannot do. He has a vision of what God can do when no intercessor can be found among God's people. It is the supreme mark of failure in our responsibility to God and to our fellow man. Supplication. Supplication is a complicated word for some people. When you are supplicating, you are a supplicant.
There is only one thing you ask for, mercy. It is often tied to intercession. Let's look at two passages that describe this. Zechariah 12 verse 10 is a prophecy directed at Israel. The Lord was speaking and he said, I will pour on the House of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and supplication. Notice the order. First grace, then supplication. If you say God, I want to come
before you in supplication. God will say, if I don't give you the grace, you can't do it. Actually, no prayer of any value can be offered to God without His grace. If it does not initiate in the grace of God, it is worthless. The next part of that verse in Zechariah 12 reads. Then they will look on me whom they pierced. Yes, they will mourn for him as one mourns for his only Son, and grieve for him as one grieves for a first born.
This verse describes the turning point of God's dealings with Israel. It is the point at which they come to repentance and acknowledgement of the Messiah, and it is brought about by the spirit of grace and supplication. Hebrews 4 gives another beautiful picture of supplication, one we have already viewed. Hebrews, of course, was written to Jewish believers. Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to
help in time of need. God sits upon a throne, but it is a throne of grace. And what do we come for? To obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. If you tend to feel overwhelmed by a particularly serious situation and think that there is nothing left to do, then hear what God says. The time of need is the time to come. The only people who fail to receive mercy and grace are the people who do not come to the throne. We do not see our own need.
We are blinded by self righteousness and religiosity. But if we could earn God's mercy, we would not need it. Command speaks with aggression and authority. Joshua 10 is a good place to start. This scripture describes a scene in the middle of a battle. The Israelites were defeating their enemies, but it was getting dark. If night fell, they would not be able to finish the job. Off.
Verses 12 through 14 when Joshua spoke to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel sun stands still over Gibeon and moon in the valley of Ajalon. So the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, till the people had revenge upon their enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of the heaven, and did not hasten to go down for about a
whole day. And there has been no day like that before or after it, that the Lord heeded the voice of a man. That is the prayer of command addressed to the Lord. We can tell situations and circumstances how to behave, but we will not have results unless we have first contacted the Lord and 2nd received the anointing, the release for such a prayer. The New Testament example is the incident of the fig tree that Jesus cursed. There are two gospel accounts of this story.
Here's the first. Now in the morning as he returned to the city, he was hungry, and seeing a fig tree by the road, he came to it and found nothing on it but leaves. And he said to it, Let no fruit grow on you ever again. Immediately the fig tree withered away, and when the disciples saw it, they marvelled, saying, How did the fig tree wither away so soon? So Jesus answered and said to
them, assuredly. I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but also if you say to this mountain be removed and be cast into the sea, it will be done. And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive notice. There are two ways of using words of command that are brought out there. One way is toward things on behalf of God. The other way is toward God on behalf of things. Jesus did not pray about the fig tree.
He also did not pray to the fig tree, which would have been idolatry. He spoke to the fig tree on behalf of God. This was not prayer. He simply told the fig tree what to do, and the fig tree did it according to the leading of the Holy Spirit. Then we may either speak to the thing on behalf of God, as Jesus did to the fig tree, or speak to God on behalf of a thing which
is what we normally call prayer. The same incident is recorded in Mark 11. But there is one further truth revealed by Jesus which really is key into understanding it all. Now in the morning as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots, and Peter remembering, said to him, Rabbi, look, the fig tree which you cursed has withered away. So Jesus answered and said to them, Have faith in God. The literal translation is have the faith of God. The prayer of command is God's
faith expressed in utterances. Thus it is just as authoritative as if God Himself had spoken them. In a certain sense, because these words are being breathed forth by the Spirit of God, they are God-given utterances. Scripture affirms that this word of command is for us to employ today. The effective, fervent prayer of
a righteous man avails much. Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit. In other words, through fervent prayer, you and I can do the same. That same power is available to us. This instrument of prayer is particularly appropriate to use when we follow Jesus directive to cast out demons. Commitment.
As with the prayer of petition, where we ask for something in prayer, in commitment. The way to pray about a thing is to stop praying about it. I am sure that statement was as clear as mud so. Let's dive into it. Here is a prayer of commitment. You will recognize that the first part of this verse from the Psalms was quoted by Jesus on the cross. Into your hand I commit. My spirit. You have redeemed to me.
O Lord God of Truth, there are times when our best decision is to commit our situations to the Lord and simply take our hands off. A modern commitment phrase you may have heard is. Jesus, take the wheel. Basically, there is nothing you can do and you feel like the situation is hopeless. Commit your way to the Lord, trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to.
Pass. The Hebrew actually says roll your way on the Lord. When your way becomes too heavy for you and you can no longer handle it, just roll it off onto the Lord and He will take care of it. Commitment is an act and once you commit you should not go back and see if it's working. You trust. So if you commit something to the Lord, leave it. Dedication. Dedication is similar to commitment. In both cases we give the object of our prayer to the Lord, but in dedication the thing we are
offering is ourselves. In a prayer of dedication we set ourselves apart, choosing to consecrate or sanctify ourselves for the particular work or calling that God has placed on our lives. John 17 verse 19, which is part of what we call the High priestly prayer of Jesus. He was speaking about his relationship to his disciples and to the Father. He said for their sakes, I sanctify myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth.
Like Jesus, if we choose to set ourselves apart to God, then we belong to God. We are in His hands and are not allowed to do what we want. Jesus said in John 10 verse 36 that the Father had sanctified him and sent him into the world. How did the Father sanctify Jesus? He did not make him holy, of course, because he was already holy. Rather, He set him apart to a work that no one else could do. So Jesus at this point was
saying, I sanctify myself. I set myself apart to the work for which God has already set me apart, Always with sanctification. The initiative is with God. You cannot sanctify yourself for something for which God has not sanctified you. You have to find out what God has set you apart for, and then you set yourself apart to do it, responding with your own will. God has set us apart, but it does not become effective until we set ourselves apart.
You do not have to do this. This is voluntary, but remember that the Bible does not give you permission to make a vow and then ask to change it back. Persistence. Jesus taught his disciples to take up the prayer instrument of persistence. Luke 11 verse 5 through 8. And he said to them, Which of you shall have a friend, and go to him at midnight, and say to him, Friend, lend ME3 loaves.
For a friend of mine has come to me on his journey, and I have nothing to set before him, and he will answer from within, and say, Do not trouble me. The door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I cannot rise and give it to you. I say to you, though he will not rise and give to him, because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence he will rise and give him as many as he needs.
In other words, you keep on knocking, letting your friend know he is not going to get any sleep that night until he gets up and gives you the bread. Jesus commanded that kind of persistence. So I say to you, ask and it will be given to you, seek and you will find, knock and it will be open to you, for everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.
This is quite different from the prayer of petition, which receives the thing being prayed for, even though it often requires perseverance to keep the plug in. In that case, you pray, you receive, you say thank you, Lord. That is it. In this kind of persistent prayer, you go on knocking, knocking, knocking, knocking. Continue to ask for the thing you desire until the doors open. Acts 12 gives us an example of persistent prayer by the early church.
King Herod had the apostle James, the brother of John, executed. Then he proceeded to arrest Peter and hold him for execution immediately after the Passover. At this point the church in Jerusalem betook themselves to earnest, persistent prayer on Peter's behalf. Sometimes God will not work merely through a prayer of an individual. It takes the corporate prayer of a group of committed believers praying together. So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was earnestly praying
to God for him. Notice that word. But that butt changed the course of events. the United corporate prayer of the church opened the way for the intervention of an Angel who came from God and delivered Peter out of the prison. In this way the prayers of the Church for Peter were answered, but it still remained for God to deal with King Herod. In the closing verses of Acts 12, Luke described Herod, arrayed in his royal apparel, making a speech to the people of Tahrir and Saddam.
At the end of his oration, the people applauded, shouting. This is the voice of God, not of a man puffed up with conceit at his own achievement. Herod accepted the applause. The record concludes that immediately an Angel of the Lord struck Herod down because he did not give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and died. See again the outworking of the
persistent prayer of the church. Everything that had been resisting the Word and the purpose of God was overthrown, and Herod died a miserable, agonizing, and shameful death. Notice that it was the intervention of an Angel that terminated the career of Herod. What brought the intervention of the Angel? Twice in this story? The prayer of the church. So we ask ourselves in the light of all that, who was really ruling?
Was it Herod or the Church? The answer is Herod sat on the throne, but the Church ruled by, in this case, persistent prayer. If you really believe you are going to get it, you will not stop. The only way you can lose is by giving up. Since many prayers of persistence and petition as well involve the need for some aspect of healing, I want to mention here the difference between the working out of miracles and healings, for the two are distinct. Miracles actually go beyond
healings. Miracles are often instantaneous and often visible, whereas healings are often invisible and gradual. Some people come to get healed and if they do not get a miracle, they think nothing has happened, but it may be that they are receiving a healing. This is very important to understand because if you're receiving a healing, a lot will depend on how you respond.
Blessing. Here is a biblical prayer of blessing that will likely be familiar to you #623 to 26 Speak to Aaron and his son, saying, this is the way you shall bless the children of Israel. Say to them, the Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make his face shine upon you and be gracious. To you. The Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace. Here are 6 blessings that you can pray for someone you want to
bless. The Lord bless you, keep you, make His face shine upon you, Be gracious to lift up His countenance upon you and give you peace. So they shall put my name on the children of Israel, and I will bless. Them. Putting His name on them makes them complete. This is how you can bless your children. You can put the name of the Lord upon them every day when they go to school or about their various activities and He will keep them imprecatory or cursing. The other side of blessing is
cursing. Most Christians are not aware that we are also charged to curse. But let me say initially that this is not a license to bring destruction wherever you choose. Let's return to the story in Matthew 21 of Jesus walking past the fig tree that had no fruit on it, only leaves. A lot of. Plans and programs and other things we see today look as though they might have fruit, but there is none when you look closer. Jesus was not indifferent about this. He did not say, well, nothing
there. He said, let no one ever eat fruit from you again. The next morning, as we have noted, when they passed by the fig tree, it was withered from the roots. The disciples were impressed and this is what Jesus said to them. So Jesus answered and said to them, assuredly I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree. But also. If you say to this mountain be removed and be cast into the sea, it will be done.
Now we all focus on removing the mountain, but Jesus said we can also do what was done to the fig tree. It was cursed. But if the Spirit of God prompts you to use this kind of prayer, it can further the purpose of God. Jesus was never indifferent, He was never neutral. He was either for or against and he expected everybody. To be like him, let's put these twelve types of prayers into practice. The goal is to open your thoughts in a new way that the organized churches does not teach.
Prayers first activate the spirit realm before they come into our realm. So while these prayers may seem fantastical in the spirit realm, they are heat seeking weapons. Unlock your belief and know that what you pray for terrifies the enemy. What you pray for brings light into the darkness. Here is a prayer for repentance and confession of sins. Father God, I come to you in the name of Jesus, asking for forgiveness of my sins.
I'm repenting for Call out all the sins that you know you are currently participating in. I ask you to wash me clean from these sins. Guide me by your Holy Spirit to doing the things that are pleasing to you. Cleanse my mind so that I will have pure thoughts. Cleanse my tongue so that my speech may be pleasing to you. Cleanse my ears so that I will listen to only what you want me to hear. Wash my hands so I will only
touch what you want me to touch. Wash my feet so that I will travel only where you would have me go and forgive me for moving towards evil. I accept the completed work of Jesus who died on the cross for all my sins.
I consider myself clean in the eyes of the spiritual beings that are around me. I am a new creation and old things have passed away and there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. When they look at me, they see me clothed in the righteousness of Christ in Jesus name, Amen. This next prayer is called the Evening Prayer and is found in Dan Duvall's book, Prayers that Shake Heaven and Earth, Book one of Three. It's also found on his website,
bridemovement.com. Dan has also cited the scriptures that are used in the prayer. Father, I come before you in prayer. I enter into your gates with Thanksgiving and enter into your courts with praise. I praise you because you are worthy, holy, righteous and just. I plead the blood of Jesus over myself, my dwelling place, my spouse, my children, my car, my bank accounts, and everything
under my stewardship. I pray that your heavenly hosts, your angels would guard this dwelling place roundabout both above and below and against every dimensional access point in Jesus name. I will see of the Lord that you are my refuge and my fortress. My God, in you will I trust. I thank You that you set a hedge of protection round about me, that no plague will come near my dwelling.
I thank you in advance that every curse, hex, spell, incantation, voodoo, sorcery, form of witchcraft, dark art, or other form of weaponized demonic activity sent against me would be reversed upon the heads of the center sevenfold, that they would know that Jesus is Lord. Moreover, I pray that every human spirit, fallen angelic spirit, or otherwise malevolent spirit attempting to come against me or my household would be apprehended by our heavenly hosts such that they cannot so
much as set foot upon this property. I pray that they would be escorted out to wherever the Lord Jesus sends them Pierce through with many arrows, discomforted by the lightning in the process, that they would know that Jesus is Lord. Furthermore, I cancel and render powerless all attempts at mind to mind communication, dream manipulation, and all other forms of psychic and telepathic intrusion in the name of Jesus. I thank You that all of my dreams are inspired by Your Holy Spirit.
I declare that my sleep will be sweet, uninterrupted, and that upon waking I will be well rested. I also put on the armor of light. I take up the helmet of salvation, the breastplate of righteousness, the belt of truth. I declare that my feet are shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace, and I take up the shield of faith to quench every fiery dart of the wicked one and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. I pray all of this in the mighty name of Jesus. Amen.
Father, I come before you in prayer. I enter into your gates with Thanksgiving, and enter into your courts with praise. Enter into His gates with Thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise. Be thankful unto Him and bless His name. As I praise you because you are worthy, holy, righteous, and just, I plead the blood of Jesus over myself, my dwelling place, my spouse, my children, my car, my bank accounts, and everything
under my stewardship. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony, And they loved not their lives unto death. Revelation 12 verse. 10. I pray that your heavenly hosts, your angels, would guard this dwelling place round about both above and below and against every dimensional access point in Jesus name. And Elijah prayed and said, Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw.
And behold, the mountain was full of horses and Chariots of fire round about Elijah. Second Kings, chapter 6, verse 17. I will see of the Lord that you are my refuge and my fortress. My God, in you will I trust. I will say of the Lord, he is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in him will I trust. Psalms, chapter 91. Verse 2. I thank you that you set a hedge of protection round about me, that no plague will come near my
dwelling. There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. Psalm chapter 91, verse 10. I thank you in advance that every curse, hex, spell, incantation, voodoo, sorcery, form of witchcraft, dark art, or other form of weaponized demonic activity sent against me would be reversed upon the heads of the sender sevenfold that they would know that Jesus is Lord. The Lord shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face.
They shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways. Deuteronomy chapter 28, verse 7. Moreover, I pray that every human spirit, fallen angelic spirit, or otherwise malevolent spirit attempting to come against me or my household would be apprehended by our heavenly hosts such that they cannot so much as set foot upon this property. Demons are not the only spirits lurking around. The devil also has human agents that do much of their work out of body.
This is sometimes called astral projection. I also assign angels to apprehend fallen angels and other malevolent spirits attempting to come against me. I pray that they would be escorted out to wherever the Lord Jesus sends them peers through with many arrows, discomforted by the lightning in the process, that they would know that Jesus is Lord. Yeah, he sent out his arrows and scattered them, and he shot out lightnings and discomfited them.
Psalm 18, verse 14. Furthermore, I cancel and render powerless all attempts at mind to mind communication, dream manipulation, and all other forms of psychic and telepathic intrusion in the name of Jesus. Psychic phenomena, telepathy, and other forms of mind to mind communication.
Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus. Christ first Peter, chapter one, verse 13. I thank you that all of my dreams are inspired by your Holy Spirit. God spoke on many occasions in the Bible through dreams.
For instance, he spoke to Jacob in a dream in Genesis 46 two, and he spoke to Daniel in a dream in Daniel 7, verse seven and seven verse 13. I declare that my sleep will be sweet, uninterrupted, and that upon waking I will be well rested. When thou liest down, you shall not be afraid. Yeah, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet. Proverbs 3, verse 24. I also put on the Armor of Light. The night is far spent, the day is at hand.
Let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. Romans 13, verse 12.
I take up the helmet of salvation, the breastplate of righteousness, the belt of truth, I declare that my feet are shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace, and I take up the shield of faith to punch every fiery dart of the wicked one, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all to stand.
Stand therefore having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness, and your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace, Above all taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked, and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God. Ephesians 613 to 17. I pray all of this in the mighty name of Jesus, Amen.
And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. John chapter 14 verse 13 Anointing oil. Use of the anointing oil is biblical. The oil was used to anoint kings. It is an offering to God commissioning someone into their calling. It is a symbol of imparting a blessing. If you see yourself being anointed in dreams or a vision, you know God is imparting a blessing. It is used for sanctification.
It can be used for deliverance and healing. It is used in worship anointing oil versus the holy anointing oil. Exodus 30, verse 22 to 33 The Lord spoke to Moses. Take choice spices, 12 1/2 lbs of free flowing myrrh, half that about 6 1/4 lbs of sweet smelling cinnamon, 6 1/4 lbs of sweet smelling cane, and 12 1/2 lbs of cassia. All weighed according to the sanctuary. Shekel and 4 quarts of olive oil. You are to make this into a sacred anointing oil, a perfumed compound, the work of the
perfumer. It will be sacred anointing oil. With it you are to anoint the tent of Meeting, the Ark of the Testimony, the table and all its utensils, the lampstand and its utensils, the altar of insects, the altar for the burnt offering, and all its utensils, and the Laver and its base. So you are to sanctify them, and they will be most holy. Anything that touches them will be holy. You are to anoint Aaron and his. Sons. And sanctify them so that they may minister.
As my priest, you are to tell the Israelites this is to be my sacred anointing oil throughout your generation. It must not be applied to people's bodies. And you must not. Make any like it with the same recipe. It is holy, and it must be holy to you. Whoever makes perfume like it and whoever puts any of it on someone not a priest, will be cut off from his people. Because I read this. You're going to go out and find these ingredients, aren't you?
But we are commanded not to make any like it for. Ourselves, these were used for the Tabernacle. Olive oil was the main oil used in anointing. So feel free to perfume your oil, but don't follow that recipe. Make your own oil, make it your own and this is how you will prepare and pray over the oil. Take a separate bottle of oil and call it unto the Holy Spirit and invite him into the room. Once you feel the presence, your
body will have a tingling. Then begin praying, Holy Spirit, and I know that all power comes from You. Every anointing comes from you. I ask that you would bless this anointing oil for use as I pray over myself, my family, my friends, my home, and of it. I pray that you would use it as an agent of Your love and mercy towards us. I'm doing this according to Your word in James chapter 5 verse 14, or you say that we should anoint with oil when we pray
over the sick. I also do this as a symbol of your protection over my home and my family. It is a representation of your blood Jesus, that covers. I know that this is completely powerless until you've rested on it and made it holy. So I'm asking you to rest upon it and make it holy. I'm setting it aside as consecrated and holy only for your work. Lord, I thank you for blessing it and enriching it with Your spirit. Speak to me whenever you need me
to use this oil. I pray that in the spirit realm it is seen as a symbol of Your presence in Jesus name. Amen. How to anoint your home and property. Here's what you do. Take the anointing oil and over every window and door to your house, just put the sign of the cross in the corner of it. You don't need to put it in the center from top to bottom or anything like that. Next thing you know, winter rolls around and your visitors are seeing a giant congealed oil
mark on your windows and doors. Truly, just take it easy. Putting it on the corner is fine. Today Jews are using a mezuzah at the door and it's not that big. Anyway, as you're putting this mark, you just need to pray a simple prayer as you make the sign of the cross. With the sign of the cross, I'm making a declaration that this house belongs to the Lord Jesus Christ, that no sickness, death, theft, evil or malevolent
technology can enter this home. This oil is a symbol of the blood of Jesus Christ. No weapons that are formed against us or this property shall prosper and any destruction must pass over us in Jesus name. We are safe and protected under the blood of Jesus. Next, anoint some wooden stakes for the purpose of marking your land. Go out unto your land and stake the land for Jesus, making the same declaration. Staking your land will create a border in the spirit realm and
in this realm. The prayer doesn't have to be exactly like this, but you get the idea. You can include some of the dimensional aspects like Dan Duvall has, but the point is that Jesus owns the house and the land and the oil is a symbol of his blood giving protection and covering to its occupants. Now I have to warn you, this is not a joke. Once you pray the prayer, don't be surprised that some people can no longer come to your house. Plans will just automatically
get cancelled. Keep your eyes open and don't force them to come to your house either. God is just revealing to you that there is something on them. Remember, you gave him the house. It is all in the spirit realm and our war is not against flesh and blood. They won't know why or even realize they can no longer come into your house. But you know because you prayed this prayer other uses for
anointing oil. So let's say you want to receive dreams and visions from God. You can anoint the temple side of your head and your forehead and pray, asking Him to give you dreams before you go to bed. Anoint your ears to help you hear God. You can also do the same things over your eyelids. If you are praying to see in the spirit realm to receive the gift of healing, you can anoint the palms of your hand. Or if you are being commissioned to write a book, you can anoint your hands as well.
Before you start writing, the idea is to anoint the area where you need the empowerment or impartation. Anoint your transportation. Anoint your children's transportation. The same applies if you're praying over someone who is sick. You can anoint that area if it is appropriate, of course. House cleaning prayer. Before you clean your house with prayer, you must first cleanse yourself spiritually by performing a prayer of repentance. Then you may begin cleaning the house.
These are the steps for the prayer. Put on the armor of God. You need to ask God for angelic assistance. You need to open your windows and doors and tell the spirits to leave. You need to close all the portals that the evil spirits are using to enter your own. You need to anoint all the windows and doors with oil. Father God, I come to you in Jesus name, putting on your full armor so that I can take my
stand against the devil schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of darkness in this world, and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. I put on the full armor of God, so that in this day of evil I may stand my ground, standing firm with the belt of truth buckled around my waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and with my feet fitted with the readiness that
comes from the gospel of peace. In addition to all this, I take up the shield of faith with which I can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one, take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God, and pray in the spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and bequests. God, I ask you to give me the gift of discerning of spirits so that I may remove all the evil
spirits from my home. The only spirit that can live here are the ones who are still in the land of the living and bow to the name of Jesus. I ask that Your Holy Spirit dwell here with me and my family and that You will lead and guide us through this process today. Please send angelic assistance to help with the removal of all of these evil spirits. Send the angels to war on my behalf and handle any demonic
powers that we cannot handle. Start opening all the windows and doors in your home, or at least one in each room. I command every evil spirit to leave this home now in the name of Jesus. You cannot stay here. You have no part in me. I renounce you and any other spirits that come with you. If the Holy Spirit specifically impresses upon you a particular spirit or spirits, make sure to
command them to leave by name. Example, spirit of infirmity, addiction, sexual immorality, poverty, suicide, anything that comes to mind. Call it by name and tell it to leave in the name of Jesus. Now you go room by room with the anointing oil, all the doors and windows at the top or corner with the sign of the cross over each door and window. You say this. I close this door or window in the spirit realm to any evil spirit. No longer shall you use this as an access point to gain entrance
into this home. Only angels assigned by the Commander of Heaven's armies are allowed to enter this home. I mark the sign of the cross as a reminder to you that this house is covered under the blood of Jesus and you shall Passover it and never enter into this house again. In Jesus name. Go through your entire house and
do this for everyone to endure. If you come across items as you're going through the house that give you a feeling that a spirit may be attached to it, you need to remove it from your home. Just as you have doors in the natural, there are doorways that spirits can use to go in and out of your house. This could be mirrors.
So you need to take oil, put it on your index finger and make the cross at the top of the mirror or in a corner of the mirror and say if this is a doorway in the spirit realm that evil spirits are using to enter this house, I close it in the name of Jesus. You can no longer use this as a doorway. This is a mirror, an inanimate object that will never be used as a spiritual portal again. I command it to be closed in Jesus name.
That's it. Once you've gone through all the rooms in your home, those spirits will be gone and you can start closing the windows and doors in your house. This is quite the process, but you will feel so much peace in your home after you do this and you should no longer have any spirits in your home. These are just some examples of prayers that you can use and pass on to your friends and
fellow brothers and sisters. If you require more prayers, I highly encourage you to seek out Derek Prince's books, missionariesofprayer.org, Dan Duvall's books, and feel free to visit the Telegram channel link in the description. I could keep reading prayers, but this video has given you a fantastic starting point. Thank you for taking the time to listen and I pray this has helped you bring yourself closer
to God in your prayer life. God bless you and your family in these very difficult times ahead. Ah, one more thing. I'll leave you with one last prayer. And I do suggest you participate. This is Derek Prince's deliverance prayer. Perform it multiple times and it will be in the library as well. God bless. All right, now I'm going to ask you to say this prayer. Lord Jesus Christ, I believe that you are the Son of God and the only way to God, that you died on the cross for my sins
and rose again from the dead. I now confess to you any sins of which you have made me conscious, all sins committed by my ancestors. Now just take a little while and be as thorough as you can. Confess anything specific that the Holy Spirit brings to your mind quietly. You don't have to tell anybody else. All right, now we're going on. The next thing is repentance. Lord, I repent of all sins I have ever committed. I hate them and I turn from them.
I turn to you, Lord Jesus, for mercy and forgiveness. If I have been involved with the account, I repent and I renounce it and I sever myself from it through the blood of Jesus. If I have occult objects in my possession, I commit myself to get rid of them. Now the next one is forgiving other people. Lord, I forgive any person who has ever harmed me or wronged me. I forgive them just as I want you to forgive me. Now take a little while and name the persons that you need to
forgive. And the name that's hardest is the one you most need to say. All right, we're going on. Lord, to the best of my ability, I've met your conditions and I now claim your promise. Whoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be delivered. I'm calling on you now in the name of the Lord Jesus. Deliver me from all evil spirits. I hate them. They are not my friends, they are my enemies.
And I command them to go for me now in the name of Jesus, now you let them go. I'll command them to go. Don't go on praying. Get rid of them now. In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, under the authority of the leadership of this conference, I come against every evil spirit that has been renounced in the name of Jesus the Commander, to come out. Release them. Go from them in the name of Jesus.
Let them go, Let them go. You've been defeated by the blood of Jesus. You have been defeated by the blood of Jesus. Jesus Christ is Lord over this gathering. You have to obey the word of God. You have to obey the servants of God. We stand against you, Satan, in the name of Jesus, all your demons, you have to go in Jesus name. Now I'm going to deal with specific categories. I'm going to start with the occult, with all forms of witchcraft. If it's not come out, let it go now.
Now in the name of Jesus, we come against all occult spirits, every form of witchcraft, sorcery, divination. Get out in the name of Jesus. Get out in the name of Jesus. Come out, Come out. Come out in Jesus name. You bow before the name of Jesus. Release these people. Come out. Come out in Jesus name. In the name of Jesus. That's right, that's right. You have to go. You have to go, you have to go. Jesus defeated you when he died and shed his blood and rose from the den.
Satan, you are subject to us in the name of Jesus. Every spirit of witchcraft, divination, sorcery, out in the name of Jesus. Go release these people. I will in a minute. Every spirit of false religion out in the name of Jesus. You have to go. You have to go in the name of Jesus. That's right. Then rebellion. There are many of you young people here tonight who have a spirit of rebellion. Come out. Go from there in Jesus name. That's right out. Amen. Now every spirit of fear say
this. God has not given me a spirit of fear. I renounce any spirit of fear, and I commanded to go. In the name of Jesus, let it go. Out. Out. In the name of Jesus. Out, out, out. That's right. Hate it. Hate it. I hate it. It's not your friend. Every spirit of grief out in the name of Jesus. Every spirit of loneliness, depression, rejection, come out. Every spirit of suicide come out. Now then, I want you to say, I shall not die, but live and declare the works of the Lord.
Are you there? I shall not die, but live and declare the works of the Lord. Now every spirit of death, come out, go from these people. Release them in the name of Jesus. Release them in the name of Jesus. Release them every spirit of death, Amen. Come out, come out, come out in Jesus name, in Jesus name, destruction, self destruction, out in the name of Jesus. Jesus, that's right, I'm out. You shall not destroy the people of God. They're God's property. You release them and go from
them. All right? Now we're going to deal with resentment and all the ones that go with that. Every spirit of resentment come out. Every spirit of resentment in the name of Jesus, release these people, go from them in Jesus name. Unforgiveness, anger, hatred, violence, and murder come out in the name of Jesus, the spirit of murder. Bow before the name of Jesus and come out. Go from them in the name of Jesus. Out, out, out.
Some of you need to say several times to yourself, I shall not die, but live and declare the works of the Lord. Say it for yourself. Be determined now, if there are any women here that have deliberately procured an abortion to be delivered, you have to confess it as murder, and you'll be delivered from the spirit of murder and of death if you'll just confess it to God. You don't have to confess it to us. You can be delivered now.
Lord, we come against the spirits of murder that have caused women to murder their own babies in Jesus name. You get out of this place, you go from this place. We don't entertain you. We give you no room. We offer you no mercy. You have to go, go, go in Jesus name. Now we're going to deal with the negative emotions. Disappointment. You any spirit of disappointment here we break your whole over
the people of God in Jesus name. Loneliness, misery, depression, self destruction out especially depression. Come out. Depression, loose them in the name of Jesus. Loose them in the name of Jesus. There's many spirits of depression here tonight. Out you go in Jesus name. You release the people of God. All right, we're going to deal with the ones that affect the mind. Lord, we come against those
spirits that torment the mind. Unbelief, doubt, compromise, forgetfulness, confusion, torment, and insanity. Insanity. You come out, out, out. Amen. In the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus, I'm going to come against insanity again. That's right. Every spirit of insanity, you come out Now. God has shown me there's a witch here tonight. I'm not going to point you out, but this is your last opportunity. If you don't renounce your trade as a witch tonight, you'll
perish forever in hell. Out. In the name of Jesus, Out. Out, out, out in the name of Jesus. Amen. Amen. All right, we're going to deal with the tongue. Every lying spirit come out, not only the ones that make you tell lies, but the ones that lie to you, tell you God doesn't love you, you can't be healed, there's no hope for you. There's a lying spirit. Renounce them in the name of Jesus.
Every spirit that counteth its sickness and tells healed people that they're still sick, you leave them in the name of Jesus. You'd release them, go from them in Jesus name, every spirit of cursing and blasphemy out in the name of Jesus and every church going spirit of gossip and criticism. Come out, humble yourself and the knowledge you're a gossip, you're a tale bearer. God hates tale bearing.
There's no place for you in heaven unless you renounce it and get delivered from it. God hates those who sow discord between brethren. You need to repent. You're very religious, but you're also very wicked. All right, We come to the area that no one ever talks about sex. All. Right we're we're going on with our program Amen, Amen. And first of all, we're going to start with masturbation. Every spirit of masturbation in the name of Jesus you go from
these people. Release them, release their fingers, release their hands, release their sexual organs. In the name of Jesus. Out, out. Don't be proud. Don't be proud. If it's in your fingers, shake it out, Let it go. That's right. In the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus. You've got to hate it. It's not your friend, it's your enemy. That's right. Get it out. Let it go. In the name of Jesus. Through the blood of Jesus, be determined.
Be absolutely determined. You are not going to tolerate it any longer. It has no place in you. Your body has been redeemed by the blood of Jesus. And then we come to the other sins, fornication, adultery, out the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus. There's no place in heaven for fornicators and adulterers. Every spirit of homosexuality, Yes. How? In the name of Jesus. Out in the name of Jesus. You go, you go, you go. Amen. Amen.
Every spirit of pornography. Now, there are several here tonight who are bound and enslaved by pornography. Renounce it. Let it go from you. What you do in secret, God sees. There are no secrets with God. Some of you are churchgoers, but you're pornography viewers out. Renounce it. Renounce it in the name of Jesus. Amen. What about taking a few moments to thank God for what he's done? Thank you, Lord, thank you. For. Victory. Thank you for victory.
Thank you for the victory. Thank you for the victory.