Living on a Prayer Pt 2 • Ps Craig Clark

And so I said, mate, this is amazing. This is so kind. This is so generous. But if that gift is gonna fit, the gift can't go in last. The gift has to go in first. And this moment I said that, I felt like the holy spirit did like that to me in the sense of saying, Craig, it's the same. The gifts I have given you, the gifts I have given my church, they will never fit last. But placed first, they enable everything else to fit. [00:03:48] (37 seconds)  #GiftsFitFirst

if it doesn't make us go, hang on a second. This isn't just a ritual. This isn't some sort of obligation we have. No. This is like a relational exchange, is the most special thing in all the world. We get to pray to the one who hears. We get to pray to the one who is able. We get to pray to the one who desires us and that our heart would desire him. Jeremiah twenty nine twelve says, then you will call on me and come to pray, Mubi, and I will listen to you. What an incredible thing that we have a God who listens to us. Let's not take that for granted. [00:15:32] (30 seconds)  #PrayerIsRelational

I enjoy sleep like anyone else, but there's something about coming out of a prayer closet that does far more than any extra hour of sleep has ever done in my life. I'm not trying to be heavy. I'm not trying to be harsh. But if it's gonna be first, right, and then all of a sudden, we realized this thing that used to block what God was doing. Oh, hang on. All because it was first. And when it's first, he helps make everything else fit. [00:41:26] (41 seconds)  #PrayerBeforeSleep

And rather than being the people who like to just take God wherever they wanna go, let's now live from a place where he's first, in his word, in his ways, in his will, and let him lead us to where he wants us to go so we can get to the destination that he has always designed for us to get to. But we gotta yield. We gotta have times where we just yield. God answers prayer. So don't worry. Pray. Don't be anxious. Pray. Don't retract what he's leading in your life. Pray. Don't turn. Pray. Don't whine. Pray. Don't fear. Pray. Don't compare. Pray. [00:42:32] (56 seconds)  #LetGodLead

Man, how could we deny the very one who changed our lives? How can we deny the one who died and rose again? How can we deny the one whose his name, every knee must bow and every tongue confess? I can tell us, can I encourage us, let's not get familiar with the name of Jesus? Let's not get flippant with the power of Jesus, and let's not stop praying in the name of Jesus. Come on. We we I know that. I I don't wanna be rude. I don't wanna be this is not bad. I'm not trying to be, like, negative or anything like that, but sometimes we got, like, god, lord, lord, father god, god, father, father, god, lord, lord. And that's awesome. But I say sometimes we just need it in the name of Jesus. [00:19:09] (38 seconds)  #PrayInJesusName

He opens prison doors. He parts oceans. He opens blind eyes. He raises the dead. He delivers the demonic. He sets the captive free. He he he can he can make the sun stand still. He can lead people by a pillar of fire at night. He can make rain come, and he can make rain stop. He he can he can stop plagues, and he can cause plagues. He gives wisdom to those without. He reveals mysteries when things are confusing. His holy spirit can do things. Why? Because we prayed. Ask big prayers. [00:37:31] (32 seconds)  #PrayForMiracles

We're the only faith in the world that has a God that actually hears. Millions around the world, billions are offering prayers and sacrifices, hoping they'll somehow appease a God. No. No. Small g. He's not real. He's an idol. He's false. He's fake. It's the devil in disguise, but we have a good god. Come on. Whose heart is towards us? Who's he's able to hear us and able to respond and and if we just didn't think that was amazing enough, he counts every little here. He's intricate and so in inside of so so interested in every detail. [00:16:01] (38 seconds)  #GodHearsUs

I was thinking about it. Prayer is the starting point of our walk with God, but it was never meant to be the point where it stopped. It was the starting point, but it was never meant to be the point that it stopped. Prayer, I would say, is a gift. [00:01:25] (16 seconds)  #MakePrayerFirst

I've still got that reality of I'll do it at the end of the night, but then you get to the end of the night, you just wanna fall asleep. We all have that, but there's this reality is that we actually need a constant consistent time of prayer. And if we don't place it first, it will never fit last. Has anyone found that in their own life? [00:06:55] (19 seconds)  #GiftsCantFitLast

But come on. When it comes to the gift of his church, it can't fit last. When it comes to the gift of his word, it can't fit last. When it comes to the gift of serving, it can't fit last. I'll see what I got left at the end of the week to serve. It's not gonna fit. When it comes to the gift of tithes and offerings, it doesn't fit last. I'll see what I got, I've got 10% at the end. We ain't got 10% at the end. When it comes to the gift of prayer, it doesn't fit last. [00:04:39] (35 seconds)  #HolySpiritMoves

Maybe we do wanna sometimes feel like we can control God, but I can tell you, we gotta give God total control. We gotta give him total control. Total control of our hearts, total control of our minds, total control of our lives, total control of our purpose, total control of our families, total control of our marriages, total control of our desires and the things that we don't like. The total control. We're gonna give them total control. And can I remind us that we are in a church that's not about our control? [00:22:29] (30 seconds)  #PrayForRevival

For about a month as I know this has been coming up I've just sort of said holy spirit what are you wanting to share and I just felt like, you know, I'm going break it into two parts this next sort of twenty minutes but I felt like God say you know when we pray we're praying to God through Jesus in the Holy Spirit. [00:14:21] (17 seconds)  #JesusIsMediator

Like, what a wonderful thing. So when we pray, our access to God, right, is made possible through and because of Jesus, because of his work on the cross and now his ongoing intercession. For one Timothy two five says, there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus. [00:17:10] (20 seconds)  #YieldAndListen

And as we've been praising and as we've been repenting and as we've been asking, the truth is we've been yapping. That's not bad. There comes a point where in all our talking, it's good to stop. Just yield. And it's amazing that as we yield, God starts to he starts to work. He takes all the things that are going on and all the things that are happening, and he starts to reposition things. [00:38:31] (26 seconds)  #AskBigPrayers

What does Matthew seven say? Well, one of the you have not because you ask not. Can I encourage us? Let's ask big questions. Well, let's ask big prayers, not big questions. Let's you can ask big questions. Gosh. Just tumbled over myself, didn't I? Answered your prayers, would the world change or just your world change? That doesn't mean I can't ask for things and and take things to him that are in my heart, that are in my family, that are in our world. But at the same time, I've gotta I've gotta ask big prayers. [00:36:47] (44 seconds)  #WalkingTowardsJesus

That's my goal. And you say, well, why would you ex why would you expose this, Craig? Why would you talk about this so openly? You surely should try and look like you have everything together because we are not here to try and make it look like we have it all together. We are here all walking towards Jesus taking step at a step at a step and the seasons change and the dynamics shift and what last end of last year looked like looks different to this year and if I don't go, God, what's my constant? [00:12:10] (29 seconds)  #PRAYFramework

that's really helped me that I heard many many many many years ago by a man by the name of Bayless Connolly. He gave an acronym to prayer, which when I was a new believer, has really helped my prayer time. And I just want to share it with you because if it helps one person, then I think it's a good thing. But the the prayer acronym and no doubt there's probably many of them, but the one that I've known and that has really worked for me is is p which means praise, r which is repent, a which is ask, and y which is yield. [00:31:29] (33 seconds)  #DailyRepentance

Every day, this was a prayer Jesus encouraged them to pray. Come on. There's stuff that gets on the inside of us that sometimes we don't even know until it's so big it becomes detrimental. What if every day, father forgive me. Father, is there anything me like David? Lord, search my heart. Lord, is there anything that's got mucky in there? And all of the workplace that I've been around on the construction site with all of that swearing and all of that joking and all of that merrily, all of that stuff. Has any of that got in? Father, I pray just wash it off. Lord, just take it away. [00:34:16] (32 seconds)  #SpeakJesusName

Our sovereign lord, Jeremiah 32 says, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and your arms. Nothing is too hard to use. Come on. When we pray, just realize who we're praying to. Come on. We're not we're not praying to just another character. We're not just praying to another thing. No. We're praying to God. The wonderful thing is we pray through Jesus. We pray through Jesus. The New Testament constantly presents the fact that Jesus is the mediator between God and humanity. [00:16:39] (31 seconds)  #PrayInTheSpirit

This Christmas, one of my children, I was packing the car and who knows, it's a it's a man's job to pack a car well. But you almost need everything out in front of you so you can put that Tetris together. Because if you're like our family, packing light isn't quite how it works. Nadia just buys a bigger suitcase and just says, I've still only got one, but it is as big as a car. And so ever checked your own luggage into oversize every time? Anyway, and so one of the children one of the children comes out and goes, dad, the gift won't fit. [00:02:37] (34 seconds)  #AdaptYourPrayerRhythm