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SPEAKER_02: Second Corinthians chapter 1.
SPEAKER_02: Verse 11.
SPEAKER_02: Says you also helping together by prayer for us.
SPEAKER_02: Helping together by prayer for us.
SPEAKER_02: That for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons, thanks may be given by many on our behalf.
SPEAKER_02: Notice he said that through the prayers of someone else.
SPEAKER_02: There was going to be a change effected.
SPEAKER_02: A breakthrough.
SPEAKER_02: A deliverance.
SPEAKER_02: It's God's deliverance.
SPEAKER_02: Verse 10 is talking about how God delivers.
SPEAKER_02: He's delivered us in the past.
SPEAKER_02: He's delivering us now.
SPEAKER_00: And he will yet in the future deliver us as we need his help.
SPEAKER_02: But this he says in verse 11 helps us to understand how that help of God.
SPEAKER_02: And you know that was the hand of God.
SPEAKER_02: Did God just do that?
SPEAKER_02: Or did something open the door for his power to flow?
SPEAKER_02: Is it just at God's whim?
SPEAKER_02: Whatever is seems good to him at the moment.
SPEAKER_02: Or is it that someone has positioned the power of God?
SPEAKER_02: Activated the power of God.
SPEAKER_02: There are so many things in our lives in nuestra vida that are easier when prayer is involved.
SPEAKER_02: When we not only personally know how to pray, and bring a prayer supply to our situation.
SPEAKER_00: A church family who believe the same way walk in the same light.
SPEAKER_00: Live in the same power.
SPEAKER_02: Exercise the same authority.
SPEAKER_02: And so not only can one put a thousand to flight.
SPEAKER_02: But two can get together.
SPEAKER_00: Join their faith together and put ten thousand to flight.
SPEAKER_02: This verse said, helping together by prayer for us.
SPEAKER_00: The Apostle Paul Pablo Testament inspired by the Holy Spirit in every word that he wrote depended on the prayers of other people.
SPEAKER_02: Recognized how effective his ministry was because of their praying.
SPEAKER_02: It's not the only time we see it in the New Testament.
SPEAKER_02: Can you search one for me from back there on your computer?
SPEAKER_02: Search strive together with me.
SPEAKER_02: Just that phrase.
SPEAKER_02: Technology's gonna work on our our behalf tonight.
SPEAKER_02: When you write down the wrong scripture note notes, you can always just bounce over there and search it.
SPEAKER_02: Strive together with me.
SPEAKER_02: 30.
SPEAKER_02: I was so I had a three in there.
SPEAKER_02: Romans 15, 30, not 13.
SPEAKER_02: I was in the right chapter.
SPEAKER_02: Praise God.
SPEAKER_02: Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake and for the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me.
SPEAKER_02: Strive together with me.
SPEAKER_02: The center column reference says uh laboring.
SPEAKER_02: When we see this word striving, we would think of a wrestling match.
SPEAKER_00: But in prayer, we're resisting, aren't we?
SPEAKER_02: Ephesians chapter six talks about face to face.
SPEAKER_02: It talks about the fact that we are against principalities.
SPEAKER_02: Against, and he uses it five times in one verse, against.
SPEAKER_00: And we're not intimidated because we're well dressed.
SPEAKER_02: We're dressed in the armor of God.
SPEAKER_02: We stand against.
SPEAKER_02: If I don't yield it to him, if I don't give him place, he doesn't have one.
SPEAKER_02: You are the one who is authorized.
SPEAKER_02: You are the one who is already crowned the conquering one.
SPEAKER_02: In Christ, you've already won.
SPEAKER_02: The enemy has no power over you.
SPEAKER_00: You can resist him.
SPEAKER_02: You can exercise authority in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_02: So we're not intimidated.
SPEAKER_02: But we need to take this authority.
SPEAKER_02: And stand against.
SPEAKER_02: And that's what Paul's referring to.
SPEAKER_02: And notice he says, I beseech you.
SPEAKER_02: The word beseech is a word that describes such a serious petition.
SPEAKER_02: That it's as if the petitioner is down on their knees.
SPEAKER_00: Looking that person, taking that person's handolas and saying, please listen to me.
SPEAKER_02: This is from my heart.
SPEAKER_00: I beseech you.
SPEAKER_02: What is he beseeching them about?
SPEAKER_00: That they would strive together with him in prayers to God for him.
SPEAKER_02: Paul.
SPEAKER_02: This great man of God.
SPEAKER_02: This great man of power and revelation.
SPEAKER_02: He knew it's not dependent upon my power.
SPEAKER_02: Or my revelation.
SPEAKER_02: It's the power of God.
SPEAKER_02: And God's power is made effective.
SPEAKER_00: Brought on the scene in prayer.
SPEAKER_02: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_02: Colossians 4.
SPEAKER_00: Colosenses 4.
SPEAKER_02: Verse 12.
SPEAKER_02: We're still in the New Testament.
SPEAKER_02: This belongs to you.
SPEAKER_02: And it also works for you.
SPEAKER_00: Verse 12 of Colossians 4.
SPEAKER_02: Always laboring or striving fervently for you in prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.
SPEAKER_02: How many of those believers in Colossae?
SPEAKER_02: And came to know how successful their Christian walk was.
SPEAKER_02: Because of the prayers of Ephaphras.
SPEAKER_02: That because of his prayers.
SPEAKER_02: They made it through some things.
SPEAKER_02: They didn't know he was praying.
SPEAKER_02: Every time that he prayed.
SPEAKER_00: If Paul hadn't have told them, they might have been clueless.
SPEAKER_02: But I'm sure that when they reached glory.
SPEAKER_02: And it came to their understanding.
SPEAKER_02: The bigger picture.
SPEAKER_02: Of what they made it through.
SPEAKER_02: How they got the victory.
SPEAKER_02: How they discovered the complete and perfect will of God.
SPEAKER_02: When they saw how many times this man had prayed for them.
SPEAKER_02: Because this should not be a singular event in the body of Christ timeline.
SPEAKER_02: This should be a daily occurrence.
SPEAKER_02: You and I praying for each other.
SPEAKER_02: Making supply available.
SPEAKER_02: One time I went into a grocery store.
SPEAKER_02: I was gonna hurry up.
SPEAKER_02: Because I thought they're about to close the store.
SPEAKER_02: I'm sure all these people want to go home.
SPEAKER_02: They're wanting to turn the lights out and lock the doors.
SPEAKER_02: But I walked in, and there were workers clocking in.
SPEAKER_00: They were pulling carts out into the aisles.
SPEAKER_02: And I recognized what they were doing.
SPEAKER_02: They were restocking.
SPEAKER_02: They were pulling out supply to put it out on the shelf.
SPEAKER_02: So that when all the morning shoppers came in in the next day.
SPEAKER_02: They had a full supply.
SPEAKER_00: That's what your prayers do for other people.
SPEAKER_02: When those other people come to a place where they need wisdom.
SPEAKER_02: They need strength.
SPEAKER_02: They don't have to go get it off the back stock shelves themselves.
SPEAKER_02: Somebody's already stocked the shelves.
SPEAKER_02: You can stock the shelves for your children.
SPEAKER_02: Especially those who aren't interested in the things of God.
SPEAKER_00: There will come a time when they turn to him when we don't want empty shelves.
SPEAKER_02: We want answers on the shelves.
SPEAKER_02: We want comfort on the shelves.
SPEAKER_02: How's it going to get there?
SPEAKER_02: We've been putting it there.
SPEAKER_02: We've been keeping a supply available.
SPEAKER_02: We don't want our pastor to have to stock his own shelves.
SPEAKER_02: When we can bring a prayer supply to his life.
SPEAKER_02: When people are going through difficult seasons in their life.
SPEAKER_02: In that prayer closet.
SPEAKER_02: Father, be with them today.
SPEAKER_02: Help them to know that you are their ever-present help in time of time.
SPEAKER_02: That heavy burden.
SPEAKER_02: There are things that we can recognize the enemy wants to do through that difficult situation.
SPEAKER_02: And we can step in in prayer.
SPEAKER_02: And we can pray against that deception.
SPEAKER_02: We can pray against that bitterness.
SPEAKER_02: And we can ask God to send laborers across their path.
SPEAKER_02: It says that this man was laboring fervently in prayer.
SPEAKER_02: Notice what he was praying for them.
SPEAKER_02: That they would stand complete in the will of God.
SPEAKER_02: Perfect.
SPEAKER_00: Perfect in the will of God.
SPEAKER_02: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_02: What a thing you could pray for your fellow believer.
SPEAKER_02: For your family members.
SPEAKER_02: These are our scriptural prayers.
SPEAKER_02: Like an eternal screwdriver that always gets the job done.
SPEAKER_02: What if all of us got up every day and prayed that one for another?
SPEAKER_02: How much easier would some things be?
SPEAKER_02: Philippians chapter one.
SPEAKER_00: Philippenses capitolo one.
SPEAKER_02: Let's look at verse 19.
SPEAKER_02: For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ.
SPEAKER_02: What was going to turn it?
SPEAKER_02: Their prayers.
SPEAKER_02: Their prayers turn things.
SPEAKER_02: Prayers change situations.
SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_02: He said I know this is gonna turn.
SPEAKER_02: I know that victory will come.
SPEAKER_00: Why?
SPEAKER_00: Because you're praying.
SPEAKER_02: This is the confidence that we have.
SPEAKER_00: If we ask anything, according to
SPEAKER_02: To his will.
SPEAKER_00: He hears us.
SPEAKER_00: And if he hears us, we know we have it.
SPEAKER_00: If he hears us, we know we have it.
SPEAKER_00: If he hears us, we know.
SPEAKER_00: We have it.
SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: So if you're praying, things are changing.
SPEAKER_00: Lights are coming on.
SPEAKER_00: Powers made available.
SPEAKER_00: James chapter 5.
SPEAKER_02: He said the effectual, fervent prayer of a righteous man makes tremendous power available.
SPEAKER_02: Stocking the shelves.
SPEAKER_02: Making sure that all of the outlets are connected.
SPEAKER_02: How is power made available?
SPEAKER_02: When God's people pray.
SPEAKER_02: He gave an example in James chapter 5, didn't he?
SPEAKER_02: He said, The prophet.
SPEAKER_02: He prayed.
SPEAKER_02: And the heavens were shut up for three and a half years.
SPEAKER_02: And it was because he was such a great man of God.
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SPEAKER_02: It says he was a man with like passions.
SPEAKER_02: It wasn't his office that he stood in.
SPEAKER_02: It wasn't the anointing that he had been anointed with for that office.
SPEAKER_02: It was the fact that he asked God.
SPEAKER_02: He invited God into the scene.
SPEAKER_02: He provided an invitation.
SPEAKER_02: It was the will of God.
SPEAKER_02: Because God told him he wanted it to happen.
SPEAKER_02: And he still prayed.
SPEAKER_00: And when God came to him, you go tell Ahab that it's going to rain now.
SPEAKER_02: And what did the man of God do?
SPEAKER_00: He went and prayed.
SPEAKER_02: Why?
SPEAKER_02: Because the prayer makes power available.
SPEAKER_02: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_02: Glory to God.
SPEAKER_00: Gloria Dios.
SPEAKER_02: He said, I know this is going to turn.
SPEAKER_02: It's going to turn because you're praying.
SPEAKER_02: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_02: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: When you look at examples in the word of God, when God responded.
SPEAKER_02: According to their faith.
SPEAKER_02: When in Acts chapter 4, they were threatened.
SPEAKER_02: Don't preach anymore.
SPEAKER_02: In that name.
SPEAKER_02: They went to their own company.
SPEAKER_02: And they lifted up their voices.
SPEAKER_02: And it says in verse 24.
SPEAKER_02: They lifted up their voice to God with one accord.
SPEAKER_02: So they're lifting up their voice.
SPEAKER_02: And they're not praying a repeated prayer necessarily.
SPEAKER_02: But it says they're praying in one accord.
SPEAKER_02: They're in agreement.
SPEAKER_02: That's what I referred to earlier.
SPEAKER_02: We believe the same.
SPEAKER_02: We know God.
SPEAKER_02: We know God is good.
SPEAKER_02: We know God's faithful.
SPEAKER_02: We know the authority we have in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_02: So we can come together and we can agree.
SPEAKER_00: And so they came back and they said we've been threatened not to preach anymore.
SPEAKER_02: In that name of Jesus.
SPEAKER_02: So this is what we're going to ask God for.
SPEAKER_02: Give us boldness.
SPEAKER_02: And stretch forth your hand to heal.
SPEAKER_02: Okay, everybody got it?
SPEAKER_02: That's what we're going to pray.
SPEAKER_02: Now, three, two, one, go.
SPEAKER_00: And they all lifted up their voice.
SPEAKER_00: And in their own words.
SPEAKER_00: In their own way.
SPEAKER_02: But they're all in agreement for the same thing.
SPEAKER_02: And Jesus said wherever two or more shall agree is touching anything.
SPEAKER_00: Whatever they ask.
SPEAKER_02: So for us to be in agreement with Matthew 18.
SPEAKER_02: We both need to be asking.
SPEAKER_02: But he says that agreement.
SPEAKER_02: You know the Old Testament.
SPEAKER_02: I love the Old Testament examples of lone prayers.
SPEAKER_02: Daniel.
SPEAKER_02: I love the example.
SPEAKER_02: Of how he prayed for the will of God that time.
SPEAKER_02: It was behind time.
SPEAKER_02: It was off track.
SPEAKER_02: This which is God's will.
SPEAKER_02: Should be in manifestation.
SPEAKER_02: But nobody had been praying for the will.
SPEAKER_02: So he lifted up his voice.
SPEAKER_00: And God said the moment that you started praying.
SPEAKER_00: The answer came.
SPEAKER_02: An angel showed up.
SPEAKER_02: And said God heard you the moment you started praying.
SPEAKER_02: We have so many examples of singular people praying and producing power.
SPEAKER_02: Fire on the altar.
SPEAKER_02: And soaked up all the water.
SPEAKER_02: But the New Testament emphasizes the group coming together and praying.
SPEAKER_02: Glory to God.
SPEAKER_02: That's praying for one another.
SPEAKER_02: How many times in the New Testament are we told, pray ye one for another?
SPEAKER_02: That you may be healed.
SPEAKER_02: So in other words, you pray for somebody else.
SPEAKER_02: And you get a harvest back off your own faith.
SPEAKER_02: Glory to God.
SPEAKER_00: If we'll discipline ourselves to pray for others.
SPEAKER_02: Not just ourselves.
SPEAKER_00: Not just our family.
SPEAKER_02: But let's start praying outside of that four and no more.
SPEAKER_02: Let's pray for others.
SPEAKER_02: And watch how God brings that back.
SPEAKER_02: It says in verse 31.
SPEAKER_02: When they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together.
SPEAKER_02: And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost.
SPEAKER_02: And they spoke the word of God with boldness.
SPEAKER_02: Immediately, God responded to their petition.
SPEAKER_02: And it continued in the next chapter.
SPEAKER_02: As God did signs and wonders.
SPEAKER_02: Exactly what they asked for.
SPEAKER_02: That's what they got.
SPEAKER_02: Glory to God.
SPEAKER_00: The more we know, the more we'll pray.
SPEAKER_02: The more we know belongs to us.
SPEAKER_02: The more we have confidence in this ability, the more we'll put it into practice.
SPEAKER_02: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_02: Acts chapter 12.
SPEAKER_00: In Etchos capitulous.
SPEAKER_02: We see that Herod, King Herod, he killed James, the brother of John.
SPEAKER_02: A leader in the church.
SPEAKER_00: One of the disciples lost his life.
SPEAKER_02: And when this king saw that it pleased certain of the religious Jews.
SPEAKER_00: He said, Well, let's do that again.
SPEAKER_02: I got some points with that.
SPEAKER_02: We'll do that again.
SPEAKER_02: Go get Peter.
SPEAKER_02: And they brought Peter into prison and prepared to kill him.
SPEAKER_02: But there was a difference.
SPEAKER_02: That took place.
SPEAKER_02: Something different happened.
SPEAKER_02: It says that prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him.
SPEAKER_02: Verse 5.
SPEAKER_02: The only difference we see between what happened to James and what happens to Peter is that the church didn't gather together and make prayer for James.
SPEAKER_02: Maybe it happened before they could think of that.
SPEAKER_02: Maybe they just thought, well, if God wants God got it.
SPEAKER_02: There's something we've got to understand.
SPEAKER_02: There is a religious deception.
SPEAKER_02: That the devil has propagated.
SPEAKER_02: And it's this.
SPEAKER_02: God is in control.
SPEAKER_02: If you can look at this world and buy that lie, there's a lot more light needed in your life.
SPEAKER_02: If God was in control, nothing would be acting the way they're acting.
SPEAKER_02: And people doing what they're doing.
SPEAKER_02: That's a lie.
SPEAKER_02: God delegated authority to man.
SPEAKER_02: Mankind submitted his authority to Satan.
SPEAKER_02: Satan is referred to in the Bible.
SPEAKER_02: 2 Corinthians chapter 4, verse 4.
SPEAKER_02: As the God of this world.
SPEAKER_02: Little G.
SPEAKER_00: Con G minúscula.
SPEAKER_02: He is the one who is overseeing.
SPEAKER_00: In this world system.
SPEAKER_02: You and I are here.
SPEAKER_02: But our citizenship is from heaven.
SPEAKER_02: We are seated together at the right hand of the Father.
SPEAKER_02: But we're positioned here on the earth.
SPEAKER_02: Our seat refers to our authority.
SPEAKER_02: We are in Christ.
SPEAKER_00: He's the head of the church.
SPEAKER_02: We're the body.
SPEAKER_02: And he left us in charge.
SPEAKER_02: But we've got to exercise that authority.
SPEAKER_02: For whatever reason.
SPEAKER_02: The church didn't pray for James.
SPEAKER_02: But they got it together.
SPEAKER_02: In time to pray for Peter.
SPEAKER_00: And supernatural.
SPEAKER_00: Intervention.
SPEAKER_00: The shelves were stocked for Peter.
SPEAKER_02: He had angelic help.
SPEAKER_00: Supernatural help.
SPEAKER_02: God opened the gate.
SPEAKER_02: The gate opened all by itself, they said.
SPEAKER_02: That was God.
SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: What brought the angelic help?
SPEAKER_00: The church prayed.
SPEAKER_02: I'm going to hit fast forward because I'm only on my first point and I had five.
SPEAKER_02: And my hour of power.
SPEAKER_02: So here's what I want us to do.
SPEAKER_02: I want us to ask two questions.
SPEAKER_02: What should I pray?
SPEAKER_02: Because you know, when you're learning how to pray.
SPEAKER_02: You learn how to pray for your needs.
SPEAKER_02: What should I pray for other people?
SPEAKER_02: Like brother Charles Caps used a phrase.
SPEAKER_02: He said, I prayed around the world.
SPEAKER_02: Lord bless all the missionaries in China.
SPEAKER_02: Bless all the missionaries in India.
SPEAKER_02: He said, I would just do these blanket prayers.
SPEAKER_02: They weren't really any any prayers that had a target.
SPEAKER_00: If you shoot with a shotgun, it's got a scatterload.
SPEAKER_02: No, with a a shotgun?
SPEAKER_02: You could get a scatterload.
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
SPEAKER_02: But there's it's not gonna hit the target.
SPEAKER_02: We don't want to pray those prayers that just scatter out.
SPEAKER_02: We've got to learn how to pray on target.
SPEAKER_00: So I'm gonna give you some notes.
SPEAKER_02: Ephesians 1.
SPEAKER_00: Ephesians 1.
SPEAKER_02: 17 through 20.
SPEAKER_02: That's a prayer.
SPEAKER_02: That the apostle Paul said the Holy Spirit, well, we know the Holy Spirit authored it.
SPEAKER_02: Because it's scripture.
SPEAKER_02: But Paul said, this is what I pray for you.
SPEAKER_02: You can pray this for yourself.
SPEAKER_02: Pray this for your spouse.
SPEAKER_02: Pray this for your whole church family.
SPEAKER_02: Let me tell you what benefits.
SPEAKER_02: If as your church family matures in the spirit, God can say things in the service.
SPEAKER_02: At a whole nother level.
SPEAKER_02: Do you remember in 1 Corinthians 3?
SPEAKER_02: He said, I couldn't talk to you.
SPEAKER_02: As as adults, I had to talk to you as children.
SPEAKER_02: There were things I wanted to tell you about the order of Melchizedek.
SPEAKER_00: Don't you wish they'd been at a place to know?
SPEAKER_02: We might have more insight.
SPEAKER_02: About the order of Melchizedek.
SPEAKER_02: Which is the order we're ordained in.
SPEAKER_02: The kings and priests.
SPEAKER_02: He said, I want I would tell you more.
SPEAKER_02: But you can't bear it.
SPEAKER_02: Jesus told his disciples.
SPEAKER_02: There's revelation you need.
SPEAKER_02: But you can't bear it.
SPEAKER_02: So the Holy Spirit's going to have to reveal to you.
SPEAKER_02: So as you pray for your church family.
SPEAKER_02: And they grow and mature.
SPEAKER_02: The whole church family receives at a greater capacity.
SPEAKER_02: All of us will benefit.
SPEAKER_02: Ephesians 3.
SPEAKER_02: 16 through 19.
SPEAKER_02: Philippians 1.
SPEAKER_00: Philippenses 1.
SPEAKER_02: 9 through 11.
SPEAKER_02: Colossians 1.
SPEAKER_02: 9 through 11.
SPEAKER_02: I've taught on these before.
SPEAKER_02: But I want you to write them down because I want you to take them out and pray them.
SPEAKER_02: And I'm going to show you an example.
SPEAKER_02: Because I pray these for you.
SPEAKER_02: These are the scriptures that you've been getting.
SPEAKER_02: In your life.
SPEAKER_02: Whether you know it or not.
SPEAKER_02: So let me read the Ephesians chapter 1.
SPEAKER_02: So you could say, Father.
SPEAKER_02: I pray for myself and for all the people in my church family.
SPEAKER_02: That you, the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of Glory would give unto us the spirit of wisdom and revelation.
SPEAKER_02: In the knowledge of you, the eyes of our understanding.
SPEAKER_00: Be enlightened.
SPEAKER_02: That we may know what's the hope of your calling.
SPEAKER_02: The riches of the glory of your inheritance in the saints.
SPEAKER_02: And what is the exceeding greatness of your power towards us who believe?
SPEAKER_02: And then you've released it not only for yourself, but for all of your brothers and sisters in the church family.
SPEAKER_02: So what should I pray?
SPEAKER_02: This is an example.
SPEAKER_02: Ephesians 1, Ephesians 3, Philippians 1, Colossians 1.
SPEAKER_00: Take those prayers and use them like tools.
SPEAKER_02: You know, when I wrote the book Intervention Prayers.
SPEAKER_02: If I had to put anything a screw, I could do it with the butter knife.
SPEAKER_02: But it took a longer time.
SPEAKER_02: And one time I'm trying to hang curtains.
SPEAKER_02: And I'm trying to, you know, put the curtain hanger thing up there.
SPEAKER_02: And my husband walked in.
SPEAKER_02: With this look on his face.
SPEAKER_00: What are you doing?
SPEAKER_00: And I got my butter knife.
SPEAKER_00: And I'm trying to screw the screwing.
SPEAKER_02: Stop.
SPEAKER_02: And he went to the toolbox.
SPEAKER_00: And he got a drill.
SPEAKER_02: And in a matter of moments, he had done what was taking me a lot of work.
SPEAKER_02: You need your tools.
SPEAKER_02: If you're praying without the word, you're missing your moment.
SPEAKER_02: Take God's word in your prayer closet.
SPEAKER_00: You pray the word, or in lap, you're praying the will.
SPEAKER_02: Oh my goodness.
SPEAKER_02: Question number two.
SPEAKER_02: Who should I pray for?
SPEAKER_02: Well, we know that the Bible tells us to pray for our leaders.
SPEAKER_02: First Timothy chapter two.
SPEAKER_02: I'm not going to read it all.
SPEAKER_02: But he says in verses one through four.
SPEAKER_02: That if we'll pray for those who are in authority, we will lead a quiet and peaceable life.
SPEAKER_02: That doesn't just mean the people who are currently in authority.
SPEAKER_02: Asking God to raise up people who will honor his word in the laws that are being made.
SPEAKER_02: Stir up people who will honor you.
SPEAKER_02: Who will make laws that honor you.
SPEAKER_02: That's who I want in the governor's office.
SPEAKER_02: That's who I want in the president's office.
SPEAKER_02: I want the laws in my state to honor God.
SPEAKER_02: I want people in leadership who are going to honor the nation of Israel.
SPEAKER_00: If we don't ask for that, we're not stuck in the shelf.
SPEAKER_02: So there are prayers that we are responsible to pray.
SPEAKER_02: The cries of the righteous.
SPEAKER_02: That's not automatic.
SPEAKER_00: Just because someone's called to pastor past doesn't mean they ever develop in that office.
SPEAKER_00: But when they do, what a difference.
SPEAKER_02: They can say the same thing.
SPEAKER_02: As someone else.
SPEAKER_02: But it lands with power.
SPEAKER_02: Because they're speaking out of that supernaturally equipped office.
SPEAKER_02: When Pastor Calwell says something.
SPEAKER_02: And it has some effect.
SPEAKER_02: But when it comes from his depth, it lands different.
SPEAKER_00: What if we were praying for every prophet?
SPEAKER_02: What if every evangelist was operating at 100% potential of their office?
SPEAKER_00: Hey!
SPEAKER_02: That's power.
SPEAKER_02: What if every prophet?
SPEAKER_02: Every pastor, every teacher, was operating at the full potential of the office that was available to them.
SPEAKER_02: Brother Hagen prayed that.
SPEAKER_02: It was something that he prayed often.
SPEAKER_02: Praise God.
SPEAKER_02: So we need to pray not only for government leaders.
SPEAKER_02: But pray for those who are leading in the body of Christ.
SPEAKER_02: That was an hour of power plus ten.
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