Unlocking God's Presence Through Prayer and Thanksgiving

Devotional

Sermon Summary

Bible Study Guide

Sermon Clips

Jesus tells us in Matthew 18 and 3, become like a child. You know what that means? You have to humble yourself, you have to trust, and you have to forgive. You can't go to God holding on to things. Somebody say, I've got to humble myself, I've got to trust, and I've got to forgive. Listen, I can give one of my, especially the two youngest ones, I can give them a spanking right now, just as quick as I'm done spanking, and they'll come and hug on me and kiss me. They're not going to hold the grudge. That's how God wants us to be. God wants you to be childlike when you come to him. [00:08:32] (45 seconds)  #ChildlikeFaith

The first thing that you need to do, uh -oh. Listen, I'm about to take you out to a whole other level. You ain't going to find this. Y 'all ready? The first thing you need to do, and Jesus said it right there. He said, watch this. He says, our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. In other words, what he's saying is give him thanks. Your first responsibility when you have your mind right is to go to God giving him thanks before you even petition him. Before you even ask anything, you thank him. Thank him for everything you have and everything you don't have. [00:13:24] (55 seconds)  #GratefulInDiscipline

You have to begin to thank God until the reality of God moving on your behalf becomes real. That's how faith works. Yeah. You need God to move into certain situations. Start thanking him that he already provided for that situation until it becomes real. Once it becomes real, then you got it. Because the Bible says that faith is the essence of things or the moral excellence of the thing that you hope for. It's the physical thing that you hope for. It goes from the celestial, the spirit, into the natural. It is the thing. It becomes real. That's when the faith is activated. [00:27:28] (43 seconds)  #HumbleBeforeTheThrone

Worship will get you to the place to where God will reveal himself to you. See, when I had my encounter, when I saw Jesus, no, you just saw an angel. No, you just had an angelic encounter. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. If Moses was able to see his hind parts and Jesus had not died for us on the cross yet, how much more are we supposed to see into today's time now that Jesus has died for us? Is this making sense? But worship removes veils. There are some of us that can't receive from God because there's veils that's being hidden from us, that's keeping God from us. You know what these veils are? Pride, unforgiveness. Watch this, this is the biggest one. Offenses. You so easily offended. Yeah, these are things that keep God from really coming to us. This is why he said you got to come humble as a child. [00:32:06] (65 seconds)  #FriendshipUnlocksAccess

The key revelation to this right here, to this third level, is that the courts of heaven are the legal settings where God is judge and Jesus is our advocator and the Holy Spirit is our counselor. And the enemy, Satan, is the accuser. Now, victory here comes from a legal stance. The Bible makes it very clear that the enemy is in heaven bringing accusations against every last one of us 24 hours a day. And this is what a lot of us don't understand, is that we're not getting things done because the enemy has found legal legality against us. [00:58:36] (57 seconds)  #RepentanceEmpowersAdvocate

The verdict that will be released is breakthrough. Daniel 7, verse 22. God will begin to judge in your favor. Somebody say, God is judging in my favor because I stated the evidence. I brought the evidence. Jesus is advocating on your behalf. You ever had an attorney fighting for you and you give him nothing to fight with? Even though Jesus died for you, you got to give him something to fight with. This is why you have to repent. This is why you have to repent. You have to walk humble, not prideful. You have to because he's trying to advocate on your behalf and you're not giving him ground. [01:08:45] (78 seconds)  #SolitudeInPrayer

Ask a question about this sermon