- Heavenly greetings in Jesus' mighty name.
Yes, thank you for joining us once again
on this podcast here on the University of God.
And today we want to discuss about something
which is close to the heart of everyone.
Yes, I believe at one point in our lives,
the question has gone through our heart,
is God aware of my situation?
Many of us don't voice that question out,
but the question can be very loud in our heart.
And remember, it's our heart that God hears,
yes, our thoughts are louder than our words in Heaven.
So we want to talk about that today.
Is God aware of our problem?
And if God's aware, how then should we pray?
What should we ask for when we pray? So let's get into it.
Racine, what can you say about this?
- Thank you.
So this programme was inspired
by what we read through the hundreds of hundreds of emails
we received from partners, from viewers
introducing their prayer request to us.
So we pay attention to it before the presence of God.
But we realize that many believers,
many, many, so many, so many,
by the terms of their requests, we can see clearly
they are not conscious that God is aware of their problem.
Many of them express themselves,
they talk or are about to take decisions as if God is not aware.
In their marriages, in their business and everything,
we can see that people have no hope for an answer.
As if God was silent to their prayers,
as if God was blind and deaf and dumb.
God is not.
Our attitude towards God is very important
in our prayer life.
So we have been asking, what is the cause of all this?
Why believers today, in the midst of circumstances,
adverse situations, sometime the response of our heart,
our attitude seem to contradict our belief.
We need to understand that God honours faith
more than anything.
Of all the graces we have from God,
only faith honours Jesus the most.
What is faith? A heart that believe God in?
- Every single circumstance.
- How do we know that somebody has faith?
If I say, "Okay, I trust you, I have faith in you,"
it can be my word of mouth.
How will you know that really, I put my trust in you? How?
- Your attitude during hard times.
- If in your mind, you want to check the genuineness.
Okay, somebody can say, "Oh, I love you, I love you."
How can you check the genuineness of that love?
When people come to God in Matthew chapter 15 verse 8,
God said, they come to me with their lips-
- But their hearts are far from me.
Why do you think God is saying that?
Why?
- Because He's looking at their heart.
- Yes, good, but why?
Why God does not listen to the words in my mouth,
but in my heart?
That's the question.
When we come to God to worship, to pray,
whatever way we come, God first looks at our heart.
Why? You said it before that.
Today thousands of prayers are offered, but perhaps-
- With almost no faith.
How can this be?
We just believe the expression of faith is to pray.
Everybody prays. Everybody knows how to send petitions.
The question is, which petition goes above the ceiling
or which petition will not go beyond my lips?
- I think many times you see it in the attitude of people
or the attitude of us let's say after prayer.
Many times after praying, we continue to complain
and be worried and anxious as if we've never prayed at all.
It's as if maybe we've eaten a huge meal
and we still complain that we're hungry.
That means that that food did not actually go anywhere.
That food did not reach where it needed to reach.
So I think that's a picture of our faith life today.
If we pray those prayers and we don't pray them in faith,
it's as if we too, we know that the prayer,
the words are only entertaining people,
they're not reaching God.
So the question is how do we pray then for God to hear?
- We need to understand that faith
is not a panic button to press, like 911.
How do you call it, 911?
Faith is a lifestyle of trusting in God,
not a panic pattern.
God looks at our heart to see where there is faith.
What is faith? How do we know we trust God?
How do we believe? That's the question.
We don't believe God with our heads.
We don't believe in God with our mouth, but with our heart.
So when we come to God,
God looks at our heart to see the genuineness.
Why are we asking?
Are we led by faith or we are led by our circumstances?
Remember, faith is centred on God.
Faith arises in my heart out of the trust
that the other party is reliable.
Do you believe God as reliable? Is God reliable?
Is He dependable, trustworthy in the midst of circumstances?
If I say I love you, well you say, "Huh, he loves me."
But when adverse situation comes,
the attitude of the person reveals the true person
of love of faith in his heart, our attitude.
That's why sometimes God allows adverse situations
to come to test our heart, the condition of our heart.
I want you to understand this biblical truth.
When we pray, God hears and responds
according to the condition of our heart.
What is the condition of our heart before God?
God looks at the condition of our heart.
We're going to take an example.
Before, I want to take the proof text of our message today,
which Ruth is going to guide us today
in the book of Matthew chapter 6.
Let's listen to the very words of Jesus Christ,
our Lord, our Saviour, and the foundation of our faith.
Let's listen to Him.
- Matthew 6 from verse 30.
"Now if God so clothed the grass of the field,
which today is and tomorrow is thrown into the oven,
will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
Therefore do not worry saying, 'What shall we eat?'
or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?'
for after all these things the Gentiles seek,
for your heavenly Father knows
that you need all these things,
but seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness
and all these things shall be added to you."
- You hear what Jesus said?
Jesus is warning us that we shouldn't worry
about what to eat, what to wear, what tomorrow will be.
Why did He say that?
He says the Gentiles are the ones doing those things.
Why? Because they don't know God.
Because they don't know His ways.
We are supposed to know a God in whom we believe,
we are supposed to know His ways
for His ways are not the ways of man.
When God delivered His people in suffering
in the land of Egypt, God took them out of the land.
But God choose a way that no man will choose.
God took them by the way of the Red Sea.
God allowed circumstances to come against them,
an army to come, threatening army,
life-threatening situation
and God took them to a way which was blocked by the sea.
And we see the attitude of people.
Let us just compare the attitude of Moses
with the attitude of the people.
The people, they began to cry, to lament
and speak against God.
They were ready to go back to Egypt.
They began to compare God with the situation they faced.
'You see, we were better off
when we were in this bondage in Egypt.'
That's what they said.
They were overwhelmed by this situation.
Overwhelmed. Fear.
No, they forgot all the miracles God did
to bring them out of Egypt.
They forgot it all because of their circumstances,
disfocused.
But there was one man, Moses,
who came to the presence of God.
When they saw the situation,
Moses turned his heart to God and God spoke to him.
He said "Raise your staff and split the Red Sea."
We want to tell you that God is aware of every situation,
every condition we have on earth.
Whether you are a believer or not, God is aware.
When you are alone in your room in the dark,
God Almighty is aware.
He's not blind.
He understand the language of your thoughts.
You don't even got to utter any words,
God is aware of your situation.
The question is, why do we lose faith
when circumstances become difficult?
That's my question.
What can you say Ruth about that?
Why are we so overwhelmed
when situations seem to be contrary
to our expectation in Christ, we forget God?
Why?
- Because we're focused so much
on the situation that we're in.
We are looking at the temporary situation
that we're passing through and our focus is on that
more than God.
- But we say we should focus on God not our problem.
If you focus on God Almighty,
He will give you the peace of heart.
That's what God wants. Our situation is not like others.
Your situation is an extraordinary situation.
Whatever happens, whatever you might be going through today,
run to God, don't stop praying.
Move closer to God.
Our situation brings us closer to God.
For the man of faith, as I said, how do you put it?
Nothing is lacking why?
- Everything is necessary.
- Now God purposely took them by the way of the Red Sea
to show His grace is sufficient.
God's grace is sufficient.
He gives us the promise of enough grace
for whatever we face in life,
whatever we face on this earth,
God has made enough provision to those who believe.
That's what Jesus says.
Blessed are those who believe and do not see.
The question we have today,
we are so overwhelmed by our situation
because we fail to understand that God's standard of faith,
Christ's standard of faith is not based on the blessings,
it's not based on the healing we're seeking,
it's not based on things in the natural.
It is based on God Almighty.
Have faith in God.
Now, God, when we come to Him, God looks at our heart.
Are you coming by faith?
What motivates you to come before God?
When we ask before God,
what's the motivation behind our asking?
That's what God said.
Sometimes we ask things that Are contrary to His will.
Sometimes God allows us to go through the dark
for a purpose known to Him alone.
So what should be our attitude?
If for if we are believers,
nothing out of God's control can happen to us.
Nothing happens by chance, so why is it we behave
as if God has forsaken us?
We go desperate. We take alternatives.
And some say, "I'm no longer in the faith." We read it.
Some say, "I'm not Christian.
Some say, "I'll go to other means other than God."
They have exposed what is in their heart.
That's why sometimes God allow us to go to the dark,
to check the condition of our heart.
He knows who believes, He knows who does not believe.
We have so many cases today in the world of people
who were closer to God
and find themselves in sickness, in disease, in lack, in want.
Ruth, what can you say about that?
We have so many people in the whole world
who today, like Job, who was rich before,
but all of a sudden, circumstances came
and they lost everything.
Some people honoured God in their trouble.
Some say, "God, why me this trouble?
Why me all this trouble?"
We begin to complain. We begin to murmur.
We begin to lament as if God does not exist.
In the wildness we saw how they were afraid
and forgot God's presence was just on top of their head.
So many of these prayer requests we received
compelled us to have this programme with you,
to know that God is aware.
God has no problem.
We are the ones that have a problem
because our focus has been broken.
If we are conscious of our faith,
we'll know that God is aware.
What can you say about that?
- No, it's true.
I think many people actually give up praying
because they've lost hope for an answer.
- Hmm. Why?
- Because the answer they're expecting doesn't come.
And I think many times we set ourselves up for disappointment
because we don't actually understand the heart of God.
That can be maybe through misunderstanding of the scripture,
misunderstanding of different teachings.
If we truly know the heart of Jesus,
we will know what He wants for us
and then we'll pray according to His will.
I think many times we forget the purpose of life.
The purpose of life is to glorify God in every situation.
But if our focus is mostly on pleasing us,
not on pleasing God, then when things happen
that are difficult for us to go through,
we find it difficult to praise God.
And that's actually what pleases God,
when we praise Him in the midst of that pain.
So whatever pain we are going through,
we should not stop that.
We should not allow it to stop our worshiping God,
our praising God.
I think many times we can pretend to be different things,
but in the hard times, that's when the truth
of what's actually in our heart comes out.
And that's why in this podcast we really want to discuss
and address the real truth
of why people feel like giving up praying.
Because maybe they actually feel
they're asking for the wrong thing.
- And you mentioned one word, expectation,
and you say it pleases God.
And we know only faith pleases God.
God allow us to go through difficult situations
sometimes to check the genuineness of our faith
because our faith should be on Him.
If I recognise God as my source,
if I believe in God's sufficiency,
I will not be afraid to go through difficult circumstances
when I know I'm going with God.
Jesus spoke to the disciples three times
that He was going to the cross.
In Matthew chapter 16, in Matthew chapter 17 and 22,
he said, "I'm going to Jerusalem. They will betray me.
They will harass me, they will kill me."
- They didn't want to hear it. They didn't understand.
- They didn't understand.
And they were the closest to Jesus.
Peter, of all of them was closer to him.
But he said, "No God, this will never happen to you."
And Jesus said, "Get behind me satan
because you think like man, not as God thinks."
And that is the issue.
That is the problem we have.
The greatest problem our faith has,
we are still ruled by our senses.
We're actually ruled by our feelings.
We are ruled by our emotions.
So when satan takes advantage of that,
that's what he tried to do in the life of Job.
When situation happens, he says hey,
he begins to bombard your mind
with thoughts of negative thoughts
that God is not reliable,
to distrust in your God and he's happy.
But when you're conscious of your faith,
when you know that God is your source
and your faith is based on God's ability
and you recognise whatever you have comes from Him by grace,
you'll never doubt His sufficiency.
Jesus never doubted.
He knew that in going to the cross, He will rise again.
Jesus knew when He came to the tomb of Lazarus,
By speaking the word of Faith, Lazarus would come back to life.
He knew that. But God gives us a promise today.
Jesus said, "We should not worry about tomorrow."
So why are we worrying?
Jesus said, "Don't worry about what to eat
for your Father in heaven knows that you need them."
So why are we worrying? This is the question.
Is it because we have no faith?
Or because our faith is weak.
Why?
We shouldn't worry if the Word of Jesus
is true for our lives.
The apostles all knew it and they never doubted.
Now the question.
You have helped so many people,
so many people came to you when you were in SCOAN.
You helped so many people who were desperate.
Every day you see people coming, have sickness,
have trouble, have issues.
You spoke to the faith in their heart and they got revived.
So when difficult situations happen
And we tend to forget God,
the only answer is to get our mind refreshed,
renewed by what God says on the matter,
not what your circumstance says.
Because we are so much concentrated on what we are feeling,
how we are doing, how we are treated.
If you believe in God, if you trust in God,
you live today and leave all your worry to God.
- It just reminds me of the Israelites
when they were going through the wilderness.
They didn't realize the purpose
of their going through the wilderness.
You know, God actually took them through the desert
in order to test their heart,
to know what was in their heart,
to know if they would actually observe
the commandment that He'd given them.
And we have to understand
that we're on a journey through life
and our destination is heaven, to be with Jesus forever.
Many times I think that we live our life
as if we don't know where our final destination will be.
As a believer, we know that our final destination
is to be with Jesus forever.
So if we know that our final destination
is to be with Him forever,
why don't we spend time with Him now to get to know Him?
And anything that happens in our journey of life,
see it as an opportunity to glorify Him
and to make His Word the standard for our life.
That's why I was reminded about the Israelites.
They spent so long in the wilderness
and yet it seems that they didn't really understand
the purpose of that wilderness experience.
It was necessary for them in order to learn God's Word
and obey God's Word and depend on God alone
and unfortunately they didn't learn those lessons.
So that's why we can see
what happened in the Promised Land afterwards.
And all these things are in the Bible for us to learn from.
- Thank you for saying that. And that's what Paul said.
All these happened to them in the wilderness
so we can learn from them.
It is true that when you read the Bible,
everything is a lesson of life.
So we have so many people that were desperate.
The man at the Pool of Bethesda was desperate. 38 years.
But Jesus walked directly towards that man one day
and the man began to walk.
Zacchaeus.
Nobody knew what was in his heart,
but he climbed a tree to look for Jesus.
But Jesus came to Jericho
just because of him, meaning God was aware.
- Because he wanted salvation to come to his house,
his heart. - Absolutely.
In Genesis chapter 21, the case of Hagar.
Hagar was in the wildness with her son Ishmael.
And she didn't want to see her son die in front of her.
She sat opposite, began to cry, but God located her
and the angel came, opened her eyes to see a world
and said, "Ah, atta El Roi, you are the God who sees me."
Jesus cares because Jesus sees
and because He sees, He cares for you.
He's not blind. His hand is not short.
So where you are now, Jesus said something to me,
and you listen to all of us, when you pray,
he say, "Go to the secret place.
Lock your door."
When you lock your door, no man will come and help you.
Who will see you in the secret?
Your father who sees in the secret.
Will He watch you?
God sees your pain.
He knows the motivation of your actions indeed.
He knows what you're going through.
But God, if you remain faithful,
God will reveal Himself to your life.
All of us, Christians, all of us,
we went through our wilderness at some time.
Why are we alive today?
The enemy of our soul wanted all of us to die.
But we are alive today.
Why satan did not manage to destroy our lives? Why?
Because God is aware.
The question is, we need to know that He's aware.
We need to know. We need to be aware that God is aware.
The only way to know that God is aware
is to have consciousness of our faith.
When we have consciousness of our faith,
we remember that God is the author,
the perfecter of our faith,
that His promises never fall to the ground.
Let's go to 1 Corinthians chapter 10 verse 13.
"We are not speaking just words of encouragement,
we are speaking words of faith.
We know your belief when your belief is tested
by opposite situations."
Yes.
- "No temptation has overtaken you
except such as is common to man:
But God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted
beyond what you are able,
but with the temptation will also make the way of escape
that you may be able to bear it."
- You will make a way of- - Escape.
- Just as he did at the Red Sea.
Just as he did for the man at the brink of hopelessness
at the Pool of Bethesda.
Just as He did for me on my fateful day,
He did for you, for every one of us.
The Bible says God will make a way
where there seems to be no way if you put your trust in Him.
The lesson we learned today,
God is faithful to those who are faithful to Him.
If you're faithful to the very end,
you will see the faithfulness of God.
He will never, never, never allow the situation
to destroy your life.
He will never allow you.
You can be stressed physically, in lack,
you can have depression, pain,
but He will never allow your faith,
your heart to be destroyed.
He prayed for Simon Peter
because he knew that Peter is going to face the situation.
And Jesus told him, "I pray for you.
The devil wants to sift you like wheat.
I pray that your faith will not fail."
- And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.
- Thank you very much. That's what we're doing today.
We know there are many people who are somewhere watching us.
- So this shows we want to encourage you
that we have turned back.
That's why we want to strengthen you.
Meaning that we have gone through difficulties, trials,
and we know there are many more to come
on this journey of life.
But yes, that knowledge that God is aware
makes all the difference.
That's what happened to Apostle Paul
when he had that thorn in his flesh.
We don't know what the thorn was,
yet he knew the reason for it,
to stop him from becoming conceited, full of pride
because pride separates us from God
and God didn't want that to happen.
So that's why He permitted Paul
to have a thorn in his flesh.
And that didn't stop him in the service of God,
it drew him closer to God.
And once he knew that, okay, God,
You are aware of this, Your grace is sufficient for me,
that was as good as an answer.
So that's why, what prayers are we praying?
What requests are we giving to God?
Because many times we can pray amiss,
but we can never praise amiss.
What do I mean?
We can say words that maybe are not in agreement
or in alignment with God's plan for our life,
but if you out of your heart, if you praise God,
that will always go to the heart of God.
You can never do that wrongly
if it comes spontaneously, naturally from your heart.
And remember, praise honours God most
when you're in a difficult situation.
Maybe you don't even have a word to say
but your heart, you find room in your heart to bless God
and that is what is pleasing to God.
And that's when God will give you what you've not asked for.
- That's why I said God will not give you what?
- What you ask.
- If you ask wrongly.
- He'll give you what you have not asked.
- Thank you.
Now if you're conscious of your faith,
if you honour God in your trial
and you begin to praise Him, to worship Him
instead of asking Him anything,
then He will give you what you have not asked.
Paul and Silas in the prison,
in the life threatening situation,
they never said, "God, send an earthquake
to destroy these people and set us free,
send an angel to kill everywhere."
No, they were worshiping and praising God.
They were praising God for whom He is,
they were honouring God for His faithfulness.
And the earthquake came,
an angel came and the door was opened and they were out.
So the question is,
before we open our lips to begin to complain and pray,
we need to find out what God says about our situation.
God says, "Seek first my kingdom and his righteousness
and everything else shall be given to you."
Meaning we should believe for salvation's sake.
We should put our faith in God, in Christ Jesus
for what He has done for you, for me
at the cross of Calvary.
When he instructing his disciples, he said don't carry money,
don't carry two bags.
Go with the grace of God and they never lacked.
Because God is aware. Where He guides, He provides.
How do you pray to God? We say, 'Our Father', am I right?
- Yes.
- You know how a father takes care of his child?
Look at Pearl. You give her food.
If you are crying, you take her,
you cuddle her, you feed her.
You know what it means? Sacrificial love.
That's God for you.
That's why He gave His son to die for us
at the cross of Calvary.
If God has given us the best,
the greatest posession He had in Heaven,
why should He withhold from us anything of less value?
Can you compare Jesus to the situation you're going through?
God gave you Christ. He gave you the Holy Spirit,
everlasting life and He give you the promise
that nothing out of God's control can happen to you.
He's aware of your situation. So what do we need to do now?
I'm speaking to everybody.
Some say, "My husband is this..., I'm going to separate.
I'm going to divorce," because of what? Situation.
We are ready to break relationship because of situation.
We are ready to renounce our faith because of situation.
The devil is happy. We should not make it easy for him.
Anytime we lament,
anytime we allow him to disfocus us from God,
you make things easy for him.
But anytime situation comes, anytime you face the Red Sea,
Jesus says speak to that mountain.
Begin to praise God.
Begin to declare the faithfulness of God in your life.
That I have God. God is my Father.
He knows what I'm going through.
God knows I trust in Him. All is well.
That's what the Shunammite woman did.
- Yeah, she said, "It is well."
- It is well.
the boy was dead,
but she said to the husband, "It is well"
and it was well indeed.
Now today, we are here to pray for you.
We are here to revive your faith, that God is faithful.
Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever.
What we ask you to do, open your heart
and begin to praise Him.
If you don't see any reason to praise God
and you praise Him,
you will see the hand of God in your life.
If you remember God's track record in your life before,
you will see reason to say thank you Jesus, that He's aware.
When you know that God is aware, you'll not be afraid.
Joshua and Caleb - this was their attitude.
They knew that God was aware of the situation.
They never allowed fear or circumstances
to cause them to doubt the goodness of God.
All those who doubted and murmured,
they fell in the wilderness.
Why?
God said, 'they saw my miracle and they have no trust in God.'
Faith is a heart-
- that believes God in every single circumstance.
- Absolutely. You see, every single circumstance.
What is circumstance?
Trouble, sickness,
disease, poverty, debt, adverse situation.
But your heart still believe in the goodness of the Father.
He's aware.
Jesus never doubted the Father's grace
to raise Him from the dead.
He knew that absolute faith in God.
Such should be our attitude towards God today.
We should not allow our situation
to dictate the direction of our prayers
and allow us to be disfocused.
So whatever you are facing today,
what takes us to the brink of hopelessness,
open your heart to God to pray
and begin to give thanks to God.
We are going to pray together.
Our prayer is not, give them money,
Lord heal them. My prayer -
Lord, open their eyes. You can see Your glory.
You remember?
Maybe you should take us to Gehazi and Elisha,
2 Kings chapter 6 verse 15.
We are going to pray
for God to open the eyes of your understanding
so you can see that God is aware.
Today you know God is aware, that He will give you strength
to endure whatever comes your way.
- "And when the servant to the man of God arose early
and went out, there was an army surrounding the city
with horses and chariots.
And his servant said to him, 'Alas, my master,
what shall we do?'
So he answered, 'Do not fear,
for those who are with us are more
than those who are with them.'
- Hallelujah. - "And Elisha prayed
and said, 'Lord, I pray. Open his eyes that he may see.'
Then the Lord opened the eyes of the young man
and he saw and behold, the mountain was full of horses
and chariots of fire all around Elisha."
- This is our prayer today.
Your eyes of faith to be opened
so you can see clearly that God is aware of your situation.
The opening of the eyes of our faith is-
- The silencing of our fears.
- Why? The clearer sight.
- We have. - Of what?
The sovereignty and power of God,
the less we shall fear the calamities of this earth.
What you need today, 2 Corinthians chapter 4 verse 18.
We look, not at those things that are temporary.
We look at what is eternal.
- I think because many times we don't even know the battles
that Jesus is fighting for us on a daily basis.
I always remember there was one message,
Where Prophet T.B. Joshua talked about our mediator
and that was a message that really changed my life.
If you haven't watched that message,
I encourage you to do that.
And he talked about how Jesus' ministry of intercession
is little appreciated by believers.
That the fact that Jesus is interceding for us
in every moment, we don't know the battles
that He's fighting in the Spirit for us
and that is why we continue to complain.
But if the eyes of our faith are opened
and we can see what Jesus has done for us,
what Jesus is doing for us,
then we will appreciate Him so much more
and we will see our need of Him so much more in our lives.
Without a mediator, we cannot approach God.
- You mentioned the mediator.
What is the promise Jesus gives us?
I want you to say because he's a mediator, true.
He made one promise to us.
- The Holy Spirit.
- Yes, but about the world. What did he say?
John chapter 16 verse 33.
- He said take heart. - Take heart.
- I have overcome. - I have overcome for you.
- I have overcome the world for you.
- This means the battle is the Lord. It's not your battle.
The battle is a past tense victory.
If you recognise the victory has been done,
you will fear no more, you'll worry no more.
If God opens the eyes of your faith
to see where He's taking you,
you will begin to give thanks to God.
If He would open your eyes to see who is with you,
the Bible says, "If God is for me, who is against us?"
That's why faith brings peace of heart and mind,
restfulness, when we know that God is truly aware
and He is with us.
- The knowledge that God is with us.
- Absolutely.
What we know today, we are going to pray for you.
All of you.
I can't give you faith, Jesus gives you faith.
Our role is to pray for you as Elisha prayed for Gehazi
and we trust the Holy Spirit.
We are going to commit every one of you,
every person who is blindfolded by situation.
You can't see beyond your event.
You are oppressed, you are depressed, you lost hope.
Your faith is shaken, we are going to pray for you.
- Because don't allow satan to have access to your soul.
That's what he wants.
He wants you to take your eyes off God
and put it on your situation.
And that is how you begin to be full of doubt
and fear and worry and that is his access to you.
Don't give him access to you. Continue to trust in Jesus.
Jesus is the author and finisher of our faith.
And that is why we're going pray together right now.
Because remember, Jesus cares because Jesus sees.
Jesus sees you in your problem.
He sees you in your loneliness. He sees you in your pain.
He sees you in your worry. He sees you in your sickness.
He sees you in your discomfort. Yes, He sees you.
And because He sees you, He cares about you
and He has sent His loving aid to strengthen you each day.
Everything that you need to live for God here and now,
Jesus has already given you.
You just need to realise it and to see it.
So let's pray together now.
- So we are going to ask you something.
When Job lost everything he had,
he never lost consciousness of his faith
because he knew that God was his source.
Indeed, God rewarded his faith more than ever before.
So today I stretch my hand and pray.
Anywhere you are, whoever you are,
I may not know the circumstances you're going through,
but Jesus Christ is aware.
Exodus chapter 3 verse 7 says, "Earth has no sorrow
that heaven doesn't feel."
I want you for a second, for a moment
to put the eyes of your faith
on the one who defeated satan for you
at the cross of Calvary.
I want you to put the eyes of your faith
as the Bible says in book of Hebrews chapter 12 verse 1-2
to focus, put the eyes of our faith in Christ as you pray.
Lord Jesus, we thank You.
Father, we thank You
for all that You permit to happen to us.
We know that You are aware
of every circumstance of our life.
First and foremost,
we thank You for every moment of Your attention.
We know today because You live, we live.
Because of You, we live today.
Lord, we commit every timid soul,
every weary soul
that is in bondage, overwhelmed by situation,
where they're abandoned by people, where they're helpless.
I pray, Lord, that You open the eyes of their faith.
Open the eyes of their faith to see the light.
There is light in darkness when Jesus is involved.
Father, I pray, visit them in these circumstances,
in the mighty name of Jesus.
As Elisha prayed, we pray.
Open the eyes of their faith.
Open the eyes of their heart
to see God's mighty hand in their lives.
Open their heart to the word of faith,
the response of a true believer.
Open their heart to the spirit of truth,
the Holy Spirit, the comforter.
Open their heart to faith, Lord, and to Your Spirit.
I pray, let the Spirit of Father descend,
descend upon them
and shift their eyes from the trouble to You
to see the goodness of God in their life.
Father, we pray, Jesus, you located Zacchaeus,
you located the man at the Pool of Bethesda.
You located Lydia, you located the Ethiopian eunuch.
Father, You are the same yesterday, today, and forever.
I pray that every soul, every soul
in bondage today receive Your resurrection power,
receive the gift of eyes that can see,
the gift of ears that can hear
what Jesus, what the Lord is saying
in these present circumstances.
Lord, we bring them to you, Lord.
I pray, let the peace of heart,
enter them in the name of Jesus.
Let the peace of Christ, which the world cannot give,
enter their consciousness, enter their mind.
Let their mind be renewed in the mighty name of Jesus.
Let their mind be renewed
to see Your goodness in their lives.
There is light.
There is light, there is hope,
there is healing, there is faith in Your presence.
Jesus, we pray, oh Lord, open their eyes.
Open the eyes of their faith. Open the eyes of their faith.
Manifest your strength to see, oh Lord,
there is a blessing in that situation
that the best is yet to come.
Father, release them. Release them from all bondage.
Let the veil upon their heart
be taken away in the name of Jesus.
Let the weight upon their soul be removed
in the name of Jesus.
Let the hardship...
When Moses came in Exodus chapter 6 verse 9
to proclaim Your deliverance to the people of Israel,
the Bible says because of hardship,
they were unable to attend to that word.
Lord Jesus, let Your uncommon peace visit them, Lord,
in the mighty name of Jesus.
Before they open their mouth to speak, locate them.
Locate them in Your mercy. Locate them in Your favor.
Locate them by Your spirit in the name of Jesus.
Let the veil be taken away in the mighty name of Jesus.
Let them experience your presence, your uncommon peace.
Oh Lord, we bring those souls to you
by interceding for our people today, Lord.
We put their problem, their burden into Your hand, Jesus.
Let Your peace enter the heart, enter their home.
Let them see the transformation of grace in their life,
in the mighty name of Jesus, in the mighty kingdom of Jesus.
Let there be light in their spirit.
Let there be light in their heart. Let there be light.
Let there be revival. Revival, revival, revival.
In the name of Jesus.
Lord, You intercede for us in Heaven.
Hebrews chapter 7 and chapter 8.
You are our mediator, Lord.
Jesus, we pray.
We bring every soul, every soul who is under bondage,
every believer whose faith has been shaken.
Oh Lord, I pray, let there be restoration,
visitation from the Holy Spirit in the name of Jesus.
In the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus.
Father, manifest your strength in their weaknesses we pray.
Give them strength. Give them strength.
Give them strength to endure
whatever you want them to endure.
Give them strength to go through the narrow way.
That's the narrow way the leads to life.
Lord Jesus, give the grace to be conscious of their faith.
Strengthen their faith to believe.
Give them joy to believe a man of faith can be happy
whereas there is nothing to be happy about on the outside.
A man can be poor and be a friend of God.
Oh Lord, visit them as you visited Job.
Visit them as you visited Job.
When everybody abandons them,
Lord, revive them in the name of Jesus.
Revive them in the name of Jesus. Revive their faith.
Revive their faith. Renew their faith.
Strengthen their faith. Strengthen them Lord.
Strengthen them Lord. In the mighty name of Jesus.
Father, as Elisha prayed, we pray.
Open the eyes of their heart to see the goodness of God.
Open their ears to harken to the inner voice
of the Holy Spirit.
Father, give them the gift of dreams to see,
oh Lord, beyond this situation,
what God's saying in that situation.
Strengthen their heart to come before You
with praise and worship.
Let the darkness disappear in the name of Jesus.
Let satan be defeated in the name of Jesus.
Every yoke of satan,
every doubt of the enemy, be crushed, be removed
in the name of Jesus.
Let there be faith. Let there be hope.
Let there be strength. Let there be revival.
In your heart, I speak to your heart.
Lift up to Jesus in the mighty name of Jesus.
Begin to praise the Lord.
Begin to worship God and see the mighty deliverance
the Lord we give You today.
Lift your voice to Him.
Begin to praise Him. Begin to honour Him.
Begin to worship Him.
As Moses said, today you will see the mighty deliverance
that God will give you today.
The Lord will provide.
Jehovah Jireh will provide for Himself.
God is faithful for those who are faithful to Him.
Lift up your voice. Ask Him.
Ask Him to revive your faith.
Begin to honour Him. Begin to praise Him.
Begin to give thanks to God
for the best which is yet to come in the name of Jesus,
in the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus,
in the mighty name of Jesus Christ.
Amen.
Thank you Jesus. Thank you Lord.
God is faithful to those who are faithful to Him.
Bring your heart to Him and begin to praise Him.
Begin to worship Him.
Begin to thank Him from the bottom of your heart.
If your situation crushes you so much
you cannot utter a word,
even the groans of your heart God knows.
Jesus is faithful and God is never late.
It is never too late as far as it is the will of God.
Someone is watching you. Someone is awaiting to you.
Just believe. Thank you Jesus.
- Amen.
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but Jesus loves you so much more.
- Stay in faith and rejoice. Jesus is aware.
Thank you.