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The Secrets of Prayer: What Happens When we Pray by Apostle Joshua Selman · Selah Media House

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  Let me tell you something I've learnt about prayer.
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  The first assignment of prayer is not to deliver results.
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  You will be disappointed many times if what leads you to
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  consistent prayer is a problem you want to solve.
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  God can answer a prayer request somewhere in church.
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  But when you submit yourself to prayer, the first thing that
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  happens is not results. The first thing that happens is
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  death. Are we together now?
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  That prayer begins to do something within you, and God
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  found something in men that He uses.
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  The moment God sees that the delay in answer is keeping you
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  prayerful, He will prolong it intentionally.
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  That is the only way He can trap you.
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  I know you won't believe what I'm saying, but it is true.
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  Listen, look at me, look at me. Let me teach you this.
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  Let me teach you something about God.
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  You see, bar God does not reason like men.
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  Are we together now? Everything in the economy of God
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  is with respect to his will and his program.
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  And if God sees that there is a situation in your life, he's not
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  hurting you. Anything that can help you
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  become is a tool he can use. So there are many of you here.
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  Your convenience led to your prayerlessness.
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  And when God found you in a situation that trapped you, that
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  trap was producing hunger that there was nothing else that
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  could come. The lack of the rent, the lack
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  of the situation. You never would have woken up to
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  pray by yourself. You never would have been able
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  to fast by yourself. But when you had one medical
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  report, that was not exactly the best.
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  Now it's not God that is causing that.
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  And if it is God at the end of it is glory.
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  But there are times that God prolongs a little because he has
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  found prophet. That's what it means to call
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  light out of darkness. Hallelujah.
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  Do you know how God lures men in the Kingdom?
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  He gives you a taste of what can become your reality.
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  Then He hides it back. If you don't know this about
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  God, you have a very long journey to go.
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  Listen to me. I'm not teaching you cunningly
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  devised fables. Are we together now as a man of
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  God? One day you will go for a
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  meeting. You know, you just went there
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  sincerely hoping, and God will do mighty things in that meeting
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  and you will go back. And you honestly cannot tell
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  what law you engaged to have seen that kind of power.
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  God withdraws it. He walked it through your hands
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  and He withdrew it so that your hunger will drive you back to
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  the secret to say, Lord, I have tasted of this, don't deprive me
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  of this joy again. And it will.
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  It will cost you to stay until it becomes your experience.
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  Are we together? So there are many times it looks
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  like God is not interested in answering prayers.
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  No, He has found something within that condition that
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  profits his program in your life.
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  Are we together now? Yeah, it's true.
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  This is what it means for death to walk in a man.
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  When you submit yourself to prayer, if God cannot draw you
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  to the place of prayer willingly and because of the kind of
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  destiny you have, if he discerns the sincerity in your heart,
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  that is not rebellion. Listen, once it is not rebellion
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  stopping you, God himself will use any opportunity available to
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  draw you to the place of prayer. Where God will leave you in
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  peace is when he's aware that yours is not.
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  Laziness is not weakness, is an act of your will.
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  You have chosen to reject efficiency.
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  He will respect you, but once he finds hunger there are we
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  together now? So the day you hear that you've
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  lost your job and you have five children to feed and there is
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  absolutely nothing God did not 'cause the loss of the job.
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  But when you come to him and say, Lord, I will not leave you
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  till you tell me where I'll feed my children.
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  He says finally there is a there is a burning Bush.
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  Something has drawn you there. If it is the God of the Bible, I
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  assure you it's not the next day of that prayer you will get the
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  answer. You will stay there.
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  There is an advantage he has found.
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  There is something you never would have had him say.
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  You will not even believe it. There is a level of pride.
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  There is a level of arrogance. He needed to deal with So many
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  of the things that you think are evil are working good in you
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  because they drew you to the place of prayer.
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  And God will not be in a hurry to answer them until the spirit
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  of prayer and supplication rests upon you.
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  He now knows that even if He's answered, you can't stop praying
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  again. Then He can bring the answer.
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  Who is learning tonight? You think you will go to pray
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  for it? Three days fast all to get power
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  that runs the remaining part of your life.
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  God is not that stupid. Let me tell you the truth.
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  Three days prayer and fasting cannot kill flesh and lost.
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  You are joking. It would take many years of slow
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  dealings by the Spirit. Are we together now?
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  God knows we're a politician until you repent.
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  So when you get there, Father, I love you.
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  You see all these souls who have given me.
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  God says they are my souls, so stay.
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  Lord, I'm fasting because of this conference.
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  The next level of my ministry depends on it.
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  And God will keep quiet like He's not hearing you while you
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  pray and pray. The truth is that you were
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  fasting that three days fasting because you have seen that
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  destiny. Help us to be gathered there,
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  and you will see the sincerity of your heart.
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  But God is looking beyond that program.
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  He wants to make a sign and a wonder.
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  He may honor you for that program, but He will lead you.
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  He will still leave that hunger in you until you get to a point
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  where it's no longer about you, no longer about a program, no
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  longer about an anointing you give yourself continually.
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  A level of death begins to walk there.