They've Been With Jesus: Prayer - 30 Days | Pastor Tyler Johnson | 05.31.26

You'll change the word of God, or it will change you. The word of God will cut you, or you will cut it. God cannot be kind of right, and that's kind of right. Either God will be true and every man a liar, or man will be true and God found a liar. To quote Paul from first Corinthians again, if Christ has not been raised, then none of this matters. But if Christ has been raised, then all of this stuff matters. Yeah. Every gift, every prayer, every time you serve, every time you show up to church, every time you tithe, every time you lift your hands in prayer, if he did raise, all of that matters. [00:42:48] (39 seconds)  #WordTransformsLives

Let's pray that it becomes more famous for God than it does for tech. Let me let me let me read you something real quick. Years ago, someone looked at the Pittsburgh and said, let's pray that Pittsburgh will one day become famous for God as it was for steel. Mission church, let's play the same thing for the Bay Area. Let's pray that it's more famous for revival than it is for venture capital, more famous for prayer than it is for innovation, more famous for churches being planted than companies being launched, and more famous for the presence of God than the wealth of man. Let's pray that Bay Area will be famous for God and not for tech. It's an audacious prayer. [01:12:29] (41 seconds)  #BayAreaForGod

Hear me. The enemy is not gonna counterfeit $1 bills. It's a lot of energy. Counterfeits the big things. You don't need prayer. Put confidence in the flesh. You don't need the Word of God, you got enough wisdom. You don't need community, you got podcasts. And so he'll counterfeit the real things. And I'm here to tell you, epistle after epistle, fancy word from letters to the church in the Bible. If you read them, you'll see this. Paul is always tearing down empty philosophy. He's saying you're putting confidence in the wrong things. [00:37:06] (33 seconds)  #ChoosePrayerNotPhilosophy

He's saying, like, when's the last time you prayed this? May my life be made and used for your glory. May may you use my life to make your name great, not my name, but your name great. When you look at the Old Testament, you what you'll see is you'll see the the brokenness of humanity. You'll see humanity trying to build things in their own strength for their own glory, and they try to do it over and over again, and they fail. And I'm here to tell you, a lot of people move here to make their name great. That's when the spirits of the Bay Area. But you come to church, start following Jesus, you realize it's all about making one name great, and his name is Jesus. [00:45:18] (38 seconds)  #ForJesusName

But if it's not an if. If you call me your shepherd and you're about to go live this week without the power of God and without prayer, starting every day and finishing and and just bathing stop. Don't you dare live this week without Jesus. Don't you dare live without the power of God, the presence of God, the wisdom of God. Don't you dare just pray a little bit this week. You better pray a lot. Do not put any confidence in the flesh. Don't pick the flesh this week. Pick the presence of God. Prioritize God. And so Paul is tearing down an empty philosophy. [00:39:43] (42 seconds)  #PrioritizeHisPresence

And so for two weeks, he's praying every day about the things that Sam wrote down for him to pray about. And by week three, he gets called into his his boss's office, and his boss says, Sam, what happened? You're different. You've changed. And they they he tells them what he's been doing and and they have this reconciled conversation, and and Don starts to realize he comes to Sam. He goes, the whole time I was praying for my boss to change, it was actually changing me. He's like, you tricked me, Sam. He's like, yes, I did. Don gives his life to the Lord, and he becomes a follower of Jesus and actually ends up being a minister of Jesus. [01:03:38] (42 seconds)  #PrayAndTransform

Don James was an ex marine. He was a man who had no faith in God. He was angry at the world. He had a saying all his friends would say that he would say all the time, if I can't eat it, drink it, or sleep with it, I'm not interested. This is a man who was far from God. Comes to church one day, and Sam Shoemaker is teaching on prayer and the power of prayer and talks about the thirty day thing. And in the middle of the sermon, Don James says, this is bull poo. [01:02:17] (27 seconds)  #ThirtyDaysOfPrayer

And Don and Sam get coffee that week, and Don goes on to tell him the reason why he's so angry at God is he hates his life, hates his boss, hates his job. And and Sam knew that Don was a marine, so he he dared him like a marine. He goes, I dare you, marine, for thirty days to pray about the big things in your life and to pray for your boss and see what happens. Because Don was one of those people, he couldn't say no to a dare. He said, you're on. And he started to prove him wrong that it wouldn't do anything to him. [01:03:11] (28 seconds)  #WitnessRevival