How to Pray: Private Prayer for Spiritual Revival

But spiritual, I would argue, it is truly spiritual warfare when you're praying for spiritual needs. Why? Because Satan doesn't want us praying for lost people to be saved. He wants that 100 plus names on the back of that prayer guide to be multiplied up to 200 to 300 to a thousand to 10,000. He doesn't wanna see people saved. Do you know what happens when people are saved? He's lost the war. Because right now, he has their soul, and he's dragging them to hell. [00:49:38] (40 seconds)  #SpiritualWarfarePrayer

Because they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by people. Now if you're interested in your prayer life to be seen by people, then you need to come to the altar now and begin to confess. Because you're already getting your reward, you're just not getting one from the lord. That's what he tells us here in Matthew six five. Oh, look how spiritual he is or she is. I mean, she they use all this big theological language. And god says, doesn't mean anything to me. They're just showing off. [00:59:16] (33 seconds)  #PrayerNotPerformance

God's people, us, when's the last time we prayed for that? I argue the spiritual need should take priority over the physical need. Once again, please don't misunderstand me. Please don't leave this church. Don't start texting to all your buddies. The preacher doesn't want us to pray for surgeries. I didn't say that at all. That's important. We should pray for physical needs. But if you really evaluate your personal prayer life, our church's prayer life, your Sunday school's prayer life, which one do we pray more for? Physical needs or spiritual? [00:45:34] (40 seconds)  #PrioritizeSpiritualNeeds

We don't need the 50¢ vocabulary words. Matter of fact, you don't have to pray deep theological words. You say, well, preacher, I don't know any of those. That's great. That's probably even better. So how should you pray? What's on your heart? What's on the back of that prayer list? What's on that prayer list you got in Sunday school today? What's on the prayer list in our bulletin? We provide you that as well. You got prayer needs right there. Well, what I do then? Start talking to the Lord. [01:06:11] (40 seconds)  #PrayFromTheHeart

Would you at least consider praying during the sermon? Once again, I need it. I need that prayer. Charles Spurgeon, arguably the prince of preachers back in the day, London, England, and they would ask him at different times, why in the world do you see so many results? He's, well, let me tell you about it. It's called the boiler room. So under him while he was preaching, there were people praying that God would do only what he could do. Now there's a whole lot more to that story. Go Google it, research it, you'll be amazed. [00:55:33] (37 seconds)  #PrayDuringTheSermon

Number one, I think that we're so focused on the physical needs because results are visible. But we can see when God does things physically in someone's life. Things tangible can be used to assist in the physical, medications, medical professionals, someone that can just come help us do whatever we might need. We can see that. We can feel that. We can touch that. It's natural to pray for needs that we can see. It's natural because we wanna see results. Right? We are in a result oriented society. [00:48:48] (41 seconds)  #ResultOrientedPrayer

So Satan doesn't want us to have strong marriages, so therefore, doesn't want us have strong families. He doesn't wanna have a a man and a woman loving one another in a marriage and then loving their kids and shepherding their kids for the glory of God. Because if he doesn't have strong marriages and which results in strong families, then you're not gonna have strong churches. And Satan certainly doesn't want Birkmaat Baptist Church to be on fire for the Lord. That's the last thing he wants. And so if we don't have strong marriages, strong families, strong churches, then we are not gonna produce a strong nation. [00:51:00] (36 seconds)  #PrayForStrongFamilies

So how not to pray? Simple, don't show off. Don't pray to get attention because we're communicating, remember, to the Lord. Well, how to pray verse six, but when you pray, Jesus says, go into your private room, shut your door, and pray to your father who is in secret, and your father who sees in secret will reward you. So how not to pray is not about you, but now how to pray, it's all about the Lord and you're talking to the Lord. [00:59:50] (27 seconds)  #PrayerInSecret