Prioritizing Our Relationship with God for Spiritual Vitality

Do you know a man once said to me Keith, you're a preacher you can spend the day in prayer you want to come and get in my boots there's no possibility of praying like that I'm a businessman and I've got to run I can't pray like it I said you're a liar you're a liar he got such a shock he began to weep I said you know what's the tragedy of you is you're lying to yourself that's a lie there's no such a thing as no time for God and sell your business or change your job sir if you have no time for God you're not in the will of God God will give you a better job but don't you dare neglect God for work or many business or money. [00:05:45]

I started being ruthless and put aside things that didn't matter that didn't matter that I thought did matter and there was so much that didn't matter that I found all that time I needed for God on Earth and now for the first time in life I'm walking with God don't lie to yourself and say to be ruthless you don't need people like you need God be ruthless you're not neglecting your wife if you're not always with her I'll tell you what don't neglect God in a little bit of time you give your wife she'll treasure for all eternity but neglect God and give your wife all the time you think she needs she'll curse you in your heart so will your children and your work won't be blessed. [00:51:04]

Abide in me as the branze cannot bear fruit of itself except it abide in the vine no more can ye except you abide in me don't do that now but you've got to do one thing trust while anything comes in you whatever comes but do this one thing only every day of life this is your one priority of life don't eat but do this you have more chance of survival not eating food they're not doing this don't doubt that abiding in me abiding in me this is the one thing you do to survive and out of it will come fruit no matter what comes upon you that God allows will just be fruit and fruit and fruit and fruit and fruit. [03:17:08]

He that saith he abideth in him he that saith he does the one thing Christ cried out you have to do for anything of any value to happen in Christianity without this you have no ability nothing can can never happen in your life of any value unless you do this and this is your part he that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk even as he walked abide in Jesus and you become like Jesus you have to God will make sure of that he that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk even as he walked. [06:05:27]

There's no Victory in Jesus apart from abiding in him you want Victory young man you want Victory young girl you've got to learn the one thing you can come out in meetings a thousand times and bow down for every single thing the Holiness movement or any other movement can bring about being filled with the spirit and the Victory you can come out to the day you die but until you get up from your knees and I don't despise any encounter with God or meeting or absolute surrender that Andrew marce say is so vital to be filled with the spirit and control by the spirit but let me tell you whatever you come out unless you determine from that moment to the day you die you will always lose ground you will always unless you determined to do this as the greatest priority in life abiding in Christ that's your part this is a discipline it is the gracest discipline in life of communing with God there's nothing that matters more than communing with God don't doubt that. [07:17:09]

If the quiet time is not Inta you're a grief to God you're as real as your quiet time no matter who you are on earth you're not as real as your testimony was 20 years ago one week ago you are as real as your quiet time you want to know 5 10 things what it is what's vital reality nothing just one thing the quiet time the 10 things are the result of the quiet time take away the quiet thing take away the communion take away the abiding in Christ and you're left with nothing that God can do for you nothing though you're the greatest or on Earth suddenly you standing in the pulit without God and I fear nothing more in life than to stand in the Pulpit without God preacher don't get in the Pulpit until you soaked yourself in prayer until you're sure you're abiding with him come with him from the presence of God don't come at all don't dare. [09:13:06]

My daddy we looked at him we trembled I shook I trembled I wept at my daddy's life what made him so Godly that our our nation still hasn't recovered from what God did in his life my daddy was one of the holiest men of God that ever lived on earth don't doubt that and I worshiped God I have the right to say it but what made him what made him that as he walked men just trembled and wept sometimes their scores just standing Weeping at the Holiness of this man why one thing he never neglected the quiet from the day he was saved till the day he died Daddy was consumed with prayer his quiet time this this the seeking God this communing with God consumed his life he consumed his life and everything in life to centered on being alone with Jesus when he walked away from that men wept men wept. [10:31:59]

If I don't go now I won't be able to spend so much time with God and if I don't spend that much of time I won't be able to sleep my conscious and if I don't go to sleep by this time I won't be able to get up at this time if I don't get up at this time to spend this much time with God I can't walk with God through the day I won't be able to walk with God I'll fail God I know how much time and for the reason that I can walk with God and not be a grief to God and man forgive me I have to go to God now and he escaped everyone wept you know my mother nearly died of fright and what he did to the we have to bring her water you know what he did to the guests but mommy mommy didn't die of Shame after that we noticed the next time he had to do it not many people ever dared do it from then onwards but some of the world's greatest preachers have been in my home I don't know why God ever honored us so much but no matter who it was Daddy would get up and leave with the same words sometimes L always battling to have to say it people kept him from God and he had to excuse himself people stood you know and they wept and said I've never known a man on Earth that no one keeps him from God nothing keeps him from Jesus Christ nothing makes a Miss are you like that nothing nothing will make you misot. [12:16:32]

If I miss this time if I hurry this time I can't be to you what you would want to the father you'll start weeping because of my I can take you to children who whose fathers are preachers across the world my boys whose children weep those children weep because of the ungodliness of that man he can preach he can impress the crowds but he can't live it in the home and as you're real as you are in your home so if it doesn't work out there it works out nowhere I can take you my boys to wives across who have some of the greatest preachers names in the world that impress men and their wives do nothing but weep because of the UN Christ like this the end your mother will soon weep through my life if I miss if I miss it just once boys it might give me the opportunity and the chance to miss it again I've never missed God I've never hurried God no matter who's waiting no matter what's happening I can't don't make me miss once your mother will start weeping the only reason I can be to her what you would want me to be to her and make her happy is this time boys they never ever knocked on the door again but I noticed my boys started never missing God midnight after their studies still and I say listen boy you're tired you've studied too much God doesn't expect this of you get to bed and get some sleep and he said Daddy if I miss just once it might mean I miss again and I don't want to do it daddy do you think I was too cruel to them no thank God they'll never miss God you're as real as your quiet time you're as safe as your quiet time. [14:11:17]

You neglected God this could never have happened the devil cannot touch you he cannot touch you if you don't neglect God you became such a mighty man of God because you was consumed in prayer and communing with God and the Bible that was your life that was your source of everything that happened but I guarantee you there came a day you neglected God probably for the work of God and the work of God became your sin that woman isn't your sin you had a greater sin that woman would have never have happened if you didn't have a greater sin your great sin is you neglected God for the work of God I guarantee you the devil watched you he watched you through the years and he said I can't touch this man I can't do anything I cannot touch him because you just met with God I know that if you had enough to ask it but I guarantee you there came a day the devil sat up and looked at you as you began to neglect God for the work of God and you thought you could get away then the devil sat and I guarantee you he said now I'm going to get him and he got you. [17:47:52]

I want every one of you that neglect God to say God forgive me for the sins that have resulted but for the greater sin that caused these other sins that are in my life now and before I'm destroyed God I'm not going another step God I come for mercy and cleansing the blood from this grief I've been to thee by neglecting God himself for other things I come for cleansing in the blood but I come also with everything in my being to ask the for the the grace the grace Lord that from this day till the day I die I will never neglect God again I will never neglect God for anything not even for the work of God no matter who it is standing there over me God will deal with him but I have to seek God. [20:09:28]