Latest / The BLAZE (Bible Study) / The Power of Prayer II [Morning Devo]
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- 0:02Want a good morning, Family of God. Welcome back to the morning evil.
- 0:06I was gonna say good morning, Good morning Father God. Amen.
- 0:09But that's good too, because we're gonna be talking about prayer, the power
- 0:13of prayer. This is part two. All week, we're gonna be praying
- 0:16because this is the week. I really feel in my spirit that some people
- 0:21are afraid to pray, or don't know how to pray, or or are
- 0:26intimidated by prayer, or some people don't think prayer works. And I'm here
- 0:30to tell you to testify that prayer does work. Amen. I believe with
- 0:34all my heart that I was born again by prayer. In other words,
- 0:39I was brought into the Kingdom of God through somebody praying. There's other explanation
- 0:45other than God himself his sovereignty, of course. But me, we want
- 0:50thing to live the way I'm living now, or want thing Jesus, or
- 0:53want thing God to be in control of my life. Amen. And submitting
- 0:58myself to God was not even a thought. It was an afterthought when I
- 1:03was younger. Amen. But somebody was praying for me. Somebody was praying
- 1:07for me when I was surrounded by gangs. Somebody was praying for me when
- 1:10I could have been catching all kinds of diseases because I was buck wild,
- 1:15sexually active. Somebody's praying for me when I was not wanting to be here
- 1:22anymore. Somebody was praying for me when I was contemplating to do some things
- 1:26that would have landed me either in jail or dead. Somebody was praying.
- 1:30Amen. And the power prayer is something that I hold dear to my heart
- 1:33because I know prayer works. So this is the power Prayer. I'm doing
- 1:37a series, and this is part two Amen of the prayer. I would
- 1:42say a challenge, Amen, because challenge you're thinking. The challenge is my
- 1:46thinking. When I look at the scriptures about the Power Prayer, I'm like,
- 1:49yes, Amen, this is something that I could look forward to,
- 1:53something I could trust, something and someone that could rely on as the Lord
- 1:57Jesus. Amen. And the our prayer part two? Are you only using
- 2:02prayer for emergencies because a lot of people I know, including myself a men,
- 2:07have a tendency to only pray or when it's needed, like dire,
- 2:12like something I try everything else. All we could do right now is pray
- 2:17or hope is almost gone. All we could do is pray, and it's
- 2:23a nine to one one prayer, shotgun prayer, I call it. Amen.
- 2:27But should we should we only be praying when there's an emergency, or
- 2:30should we be praying like the Bible says, without ceasing, pray for all
- 2:35things. If you have time to worry, you have time to pray.
- 2:37If you have time to be unforgiving, you have time to pray. If
- 2:39you have time to be angry, you have time to pray. Amen.
- 2:43So let's continue to pray from one another, for each other, Amen,
- 2:46for ourselves, for our children, for our spouses, for our boyfriend girlfriend,
- 2:53Amen, for our families, for our enemies. Amen. That's what
- 2:57the Bible wants us to do. We should be praying always. And the
- 3:00disciples of the Lord Jesus, when Jesus was on his earthly ministry, they
- 3:04ask Jesus, then, how should we pray? And Jesus answered, And
- 3:07we're gonna be looking at that answer in Matthew chapter six, verses nine through
- 3:10thirteen. We're going to see how Jesus offered the framework of praying, how
- 3:16he demonstrated the framework of prayer. Amen. And if we do it according
- 3:22to how Jesus explained to the Disciples of how to Pray. I think we're
- 3:27going to be in a winning situation. Amen. Well everything happened according to
- 3:32the way we pray? Absolutely not. But everything will happen according to the
- 3:38way God wants it to happen, according to God's plan and God's word and
- 3:42God's promises over your life and of my life. It might not happen the
- 3:46way we want it to happen exactly, Like from oh this is supposed to
- 3:51happen, then this is gonna happen. But something will happen. That's why
- 3:53I like that acronym push pray until something happens, because something's gonna happen when
- 3:59you're praying to an almighty, all loving, all graceful, all merciful God,
- 4:04a God who responds, not a guy who just listens, but a
- 4:09guy who listens and responds to our prayer requests. Amen. But like I
- 4:13said, it's up to God how he wants to handle a situation, how
- 4:16he wants to handle our prayer requests. As a matter of fact, God
- 4:20is God, Amen. He doesn't really have to do anything for us.
- 4:25He doesn't have to prove anything, Amen. Or because he's a loving God
- 4:29and part of his character is love. His essence is love, because God
- 4:32is love. Because of his love, he will do things and respond accordingly.
- 4:38Amen to our prayer requests. So are you only using prayer for emergencies?
- 4:43Think about it, Amen. That's a private personal question between you and
- 4:46the Lord. Amen. But you can answer it on a live chat if
- 4:48you want. If you have any questions, comments, concerns, or any
- 4:51prayer requests. No hesitate to leave it on a live chat. That's what
- 4:55we're here for. And I apologize the streaming them is giving me a hard
- 5:01time. I got for my tech team that Meta has changed some things when
- 5:06it comes to live streaming. So we're gonna be at the mercy right now
- 5:13whatever Meta changed, Amen. But God is faithful, He's good, and
- 5:16if he's going to do a powerful thing and make a move and the hearts
- 5:20and minds today, Amen, I truly believe that. And regardless of how
- 5:27right, regardless of how he's going to do it through the live stream,
- 5:31it's still gonna happen. Amen. I'm believing God that whatever we have to
- 5:35do, Amen, we will do it and get it done. Right Now,
- 5:38I'm going to try one ditch effort to do it the old school way,
- 5:42Amen, how I used to do it, which is a workaround,
- 5:46and it's a little tedious, Amen, And but it's worth it. Let's
- 5:50see, so I can get my friends over to the stream if possible.
- 5:58Amen. So I'll do it. I'll do my best. Amen. I'll
- 6:02challenge myself here and try to get it on as well. Let's see if
- 6:09I could do this like this, Amen. Things you have to do when
- 6:16you're live. Amen, it's worth it. Though I'm not a lie,
- 6:20is worth it. Thank you for your patience. Amen. You guys are
- 6:26amazing. You know, I don't get a lot of complaints about when I'm
- 6:30doing stuff like this, but I know it is could be distracting. I
- 6:33understand that I get distracted easily myself, So I understand about the distractions.
- 6:40But let's see, let's see if this works. If it works, Amen,
- 6:44then I could get the notifications out to other people who are consistent that
- 6:48listen and watch consistently through social media platforms because that's where they feel most comfortable.
- 6:55Amen. And that's all right, It's all right evn. So let's
- 6:59go before it see if this will happen. See it, I see the
- 7:04light I'll see the other side of this. It will pick it up.
- 7:12Amen. It doesn't look like it is, but see it the old school
- 7:18way of doing it. But like I said, Amen, I think it's
- 7:23worth it, So let's go for it. Questions, comments, concerns,
- 7:26prayer requests. I should be live on my profile page on meta Facebook.
- 7:30Amen. Now if not, you have what I shared on the page as
- 7:35well. So wherever you want to place your comment, I feel free to
- 7:40praise your comment. If you're listening, are so much is with a z
- 7:42dot org right down? That's the safest way to do it. By audio
- 7:46only, amen. And to me, audio is more powerful than video anyway.
- 7:49Who wants to see a moving talking head. A lot of people like
- 7:55to look at videos, But if you're busy like me, I don't have
- 7:58a lot of time to watch you videos live, but I have some time
- 8:01to listen while I'm doing something else. Hey man, And to me,
- 8:07that's more more powerful anyway. So, Father God, thank you for the
- 8:11power prayer. You're an amazing god. Father God, thank you so much
- 8:16for the opportunities that you give us daily to come together on whether it's through
- 8:20audio only or video stream or both. I thank you, Lo God,
- 8:24for the power of technology that you have created for us to leverage and to
- 8:28get this message out to as many people as possible. Thank you, Lo
- 8:31God, that you are in control of all circumstances, all things. Thank
- 8:35you, Lo God for loving us, guiding us, protecting us, forgiving
- 8:39us, saving us, rescuing us, giving us a new mind and a
- 8:43new heart. Thank you, Lo God that one of the disciples, and
- 8:46we are your disciples, that we're born again right. Thank you for allowing
- 8:50us to ask questions and you answer them according to your word, according to
- 8:54your love, according to your grace, according to your guid kindness. And
- 8:58I thank you, Lo God for that. I pray peace over every single
- 9:01situation, over every single person right now that's listening and watching, and myself
- 9:05and my family, my whole entire bloodline, from the very youngest family member
- 9:09to the very oldest and everyone in between. I come against that demonic influence
- 9:13that's trying to infiltrate my family members by the power of the blood of Jesus.
- 9:18I pray that and cast that out in the name of Jesus. And
- 9:22I do the same for every single person on the other side of this screen.
- 9:24On the other side of this mic, that whatever demonic influence is trying
- 9:28to captivate their thinking and trying to cause distraction and disruption and cause chaos in
- 9:35their families and then their own lives and in their own personal lives. I
- 9:39pray against that in the powerful name of Jesus, So our father God,
- 9:43I thank you for the power prayer. I thank you for being with us,
- 9:46working through us, working in us, and working for us. And
- 9:48I pray to God that you will get the glory, the honor, the
- 9:50worship and praise every single time we open up your word or you will get
- 9:56that because we are relying and trusting in the power of prayer, because of
- 10:01your word, and your word says to pray. We're gonna pray not as
- 10:05the last ditch effort, but as the first and priority of our day.
- 10:09In Jesus' name, I prayed. It's by faith, and all those who
- 10:11agree we say, amen and Amen. Let's take sixty seconds to share this
- 10:15sign. When we come back, we'll get right into today's morning devo.
- 10:18And the scripture is Matthew chapter six, verses nine to thirteen. We're gonna
- 10:24hear a quote straight from the mouth of our Lord and Savior, the Lord
- 10:28Jesus. I'll be right back. He member back, We're back. There's
- 12:09a group that I just shared on I think it's a cool name, Friends
- 12:13of the Holy Spirit. I like that, Amen, as a group name
- 12:16for anything. Friends of the Holy Spirit. It makes a statement there,
- 12:20Amen, because I know I'm a friend of God. According to what the
- 12:24Word says, I am a friend of God. Amen. He calls me
- 12:28friend, and he calls you friend if you're born again and a believer.
- 12:31Listen. I heard a comment by a popular preacher, Amen. And he
- 12:37was preaching, and actually he wasn't preaching. And I take it back.
- 12:41He's not really a preacher. He's an gospel artist, a man, and
- 12:45he preachers to preachers too. I'm not sure if he's a pastor or not.
- 12:50Amen. But he was saying that everybody is a child of God,
- 12:54and according to the scripture, that's not true. It sounds cute, and
- 12:56it sounds loving, and it sounds sincere, but it's just not the truth.
- 13:03The Bible says that Jesus Christ is the only one who gives us the
- 13:05right to be called children of God. So therefore I can't say that all
- 13:09of us, the whole entire world are children of God and cannot I also
- 13:13can't say that we're all created in the image of God. I know a
- 13:16lot of people. I've said it before, But if you take a little
- 13:18dive into the scripture, you realize that after the Fall, Man was created
- 13:24after the own image of man in sin before the fall got created Adam and
- 13:28Eve right, and they were not in sin until they sent, until they
- 13:33disobeyed God. So just one of those things that when you look at the
- 13:35Word, it clears some things up in your mind, in your heart,
- 13:39and you start realizing that a lot of things we hear and a lot of
- 13:43things we say is because we heard it somewhere else, and it's not necessarily
- 13:48facts. Hemn. Just just saying. I'm just saying. So that's all
- 13:54I'm saying. Let's go for let's see what the Word has for us today,
- 13:58this is this whole week, and let's let's get into some prayer,
- 14:01and let's talk about prayer, what it means. It's so powerful. First
- 14:05and foremost prayer works. It's powerful. Amen, as long as you're praying
- 14:09to the living, Holy, righteous, loving God. Amen, not an
- 14:15idol, not a mad of God, not a God of you know Greek
- 14:20mythology, not a false God, as long as you're praying to the right
- 14:24God. As a matter of fact, if you're seeking, and you're searching,
- 14:28and you're digitally diligently seeking God, you will find on the Bible says
- 14:33And whether or not you call upon the name of the Lord Jesus. I
- 14:37know this is going to sound sacrilegious, but according to my testimony, I
- 14:41didn't call on the Lord Jesus to be saved. I call on God to
- 14:43save me. And God knew who I was calling, because He knows my
- 14:48heart. He knows your heart. Amen. So you might not get the
- 14:50name right. You might not say his name in Hebrew, you might not
- 14:54say his name in Greek. You might not say it. You might say
- 14:56the English. You might say in the Spanish or another another language. He
- 15:01knows when someone's calling his name. God knows your heart. Amen. So
- 15:07it was a heart cry when I called out to God. It was a
- 15:09heart cried and He heard the cry of my hearts. Thank you Jesus,
- 15:13Amen for rescuing me and saving me and having grace upon my life. Amen.
- 15:16So the power prayer, let me get it on the screen for those
- 15:20who are just listening, No worries, no problem, you already know that
- 15:22I'm going to read the word for word as we see it on the screen.
- 15:26Amen, the power of prayer. Let me get rid of this cursor
- 15:31real quick because it could be distracting. Amen. So Matthew Chapter six,
- 15:37verses nine to thirteen. This is our Lord and our Savior speaking. This
- 15:41is a quote directly from him, the disciples that asks Jesus, right,
- 15:46how should we pray? So Jesus answered, pray then like this, our
- 15:52father in heaven hollowed, be your name, your kingdom. Come, Your
- 15:58will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day
- 16:06our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven
- 16:11our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
- 16:18Other versions say from the evil one. So pray like this. Listen.
- 16:25You won't lose anything by praying this prayer. Amen. As a matter
- 16:29of fact, you'll be actually praying the word back to the Lord. Amen,
- 16:33because this is what he said. This is his eternal word, his
- 16:37eternal format, his eternal prayer, His eternal word will never return void.
- 16:44So when you speak the word while you're praying the word, Amen, powerful
- 16:49a man, get ready, something's going to happen. So first and foremost
- 16:52we acknowledge that we have a father who is in heaven. A lot of
- 16:56us don't have our fathers any longer on earth. My father was taken away
- 17:00from me when I was young, fifteen years old, my dad had passed,
- 17:06and that's when I became so angry, and I blamed the God,
- 17:10who I didn't serve, who I didn't believe in, who I didn't really
- 17:14know, died from me at that moment. From fifteen all the way to
- 17:18thirty years old, I was angry at this God for taking my dad from
- 17:23me at such a young age, because how many people know, especially you
- 17:27young men, we need a father figure in our lives to figure out how
- 17:32to become a man. I didn't have that, so I kind of figured
- 17:36it out on my own. Figured it out by trying to imitate what my
- 17:41older brother did. Figured it out by trying to imitate what the other older
- 17:44guys did. So therefore I hung out were guys older than me all the
- 17:48time, always surrounded by many many guys, was surrounded by them, learning
- 17:52from them. I was in a hip hop culture, the original hip hop
- 17:56culture grew up, you know, pop locking, breakdancing and uprocking and all
- 18:00that stuff that went on in the streets of New York. And also that
- 18:04led me into a path of other things that I should not have been doing
- 18:08at such a young age. But I started doing it anyway because I was
- 18:12being influenced by these father figures, kind of right brother figures that were leading
- 18:18me in the wrong direction because they were led in the wrong direction. So
- 18:22thank God that we have a father who is in heaven that will not God
- 18:26us will lead us into temptation, but will God us into the truth,
- 18:30will love us, will listen to us, will hear our Christ, Amen,
- 18:36and he will respond to us because he's our heavenly Father. So when
- 18:40you pray, pray like this our Father in Heaven, acknowledge that he's holy,
- 18:44his name is holy, He's holy. We're approaching a holy God.
- 18:48But we have access to this holy God by way of the torn veil.
- 18:55When Jesus was crucified all the cross, the Bible says the veil was torn.
- 19:00We now have access into the throne womb of grace. We now have
- 19:04access to God, because if we receive his forgiveness, if we receive him
- 19:10being our Lord and our savior, if we go to Jesus and ask him
- 19:14to forgive us, he will forgive us our trespasses, and he will allow
- 19:18us into his throne room of grace. This is a will of God.
- 19:23Amen, that we have this opportunity to respond. Brother Orlando, God bless
- 19:27you. I'll see you good morning, my friend, and my brother's good
- 19:30to see you in the morning. Devo. Amen. So this is exciting
- 19:34to me because I'm like man Jesus is laying down. How we should pray
- 19:38them? We should pray like this our father in heaven, Holy, is
- 19:42your name hollowed? Be your name your kingdom? Come? Whose kingdom are
- 19:47you in? Are you serve? Are you part of? Some people are
- 19:51in the kingdom of darkness right now. Others are in the Kingdom of lfe
- 19:55praise the Lord. Some people are in the Kingdom of the dead. Some
- 19:59people are in the Kingdom of life. We're born again, we have life,
- 20:02Praise God. So we need to be praying to our father, whose
- 20:06name is Holy Jesus, the Lord Yesha were Hamashiakh Jesus, Jesus the Christ
- 20:11Alpha and Omega, a man pray in the name of Jesus that his kingdom
- 20:18will come, that his will will be done on earth as it is in
- 20:22heaven. Amen. And even though I can't change how Jesus said this,
- 20:26but I could possibly add on something to on earth as it is in heaven,
- 20:33in my life, as it is in his life, in my circumstance,
- 20:38as it is in his circumstance, in my situation, as it is
- 20:42in his situation. So I'm asking God that I'll be kingdom minded. So
- 20:48that way how he thinks, I will start thinking how he lives, I
- 20:52would start living how he speaks. I would start speaking how he believes.
- 20:56I would start believing who he serves. Ours thought, you know what I
- 20:59mean. So your Kingdom, come, Come into my heart, Come into
- 21:03my life, Come into my situation, Come into my room, Come into
- 21:07my home, Come into my studio, Come into my school, Come into
- 21:10my marriage, Come into my relationships, Come into my finances. This is
- 21:15a powerful prayer, Your Kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as
- 21:19it is in heaven. Because I don't know about you, but if you
- 21:22look at the description of heaven, there's no crying in heaven. No dying
- 21:26in heaven, no lack in heaven. A man, It's all good in
- 21:29heaven. So I want heaven on earth. This won't be my best life
- 21:33yet a man, but my best life is honest way, my best life.
- 21:37I could bring heaven into my situation right now. You could bring heaven
- 21:41into your situation right now. It reminds you of people ask me, what
- 21:47about drinking, and a Christian drink. Yeah, you could drink. Will
- 21:49I go to Hell? No? And I always tell people, you're not
- 21:52bringing hell when you smoke marijuana. You're not going to hell for smoking marijuana.
- 21:56You're not going to hell for drinking alcohol. But you're actually bringing hell
- 22:00to you, and you're bringing health. You're drinking and bringing hell to you.
- 22:04You're smoking and bringing hell to you. When the Bible says that we
- 22:08want the Kingdom of God, heaven to come to us, not Hell to
- 22:14come to us. Hell has its own plan and its own kingdom, and
- 22:18we're not part of that kingdom anymore. If you're born again, if it's
- 22:22still outside of the kingdom, looking in and looking and watching at what I'm
- 22:25doing and what churches are doing, and what other influencers are doing, and
- 22:27what pastors are doing, Preachers are doing, apostles are doing, prophets are
- 22:32doing, evangelists are doing, and just watching your outside. There's no way
- 22:36you're gonna be able to find out what kingdom is until you get into the
- 22:41kingdom yourself. By way of the Lord Jesus, give us this day,
- 22:45our daily what, our daily bread, our we need. We need substance
- 22:51every day. We need money, we need health, we need family,
- 22:56we need God, we need holy spirit. We have an abi that's a
- 23:00sign to us if we love God and obey his commandments every day. Give
- 23:06us this day our daily bread a man food. God knows we need food.
- 23:11God knows we need clothing. God knows we need shelter. God knows
- 23:14we need a financial breakthrough. God knows we need relationships that are healthy and
- 23:18marriages that are healthy, and the bodies that are healthy. God knows all
- 23:22of this. So we could ask God to give us this day, today,
- 23:26right now, our daily bread, and forgive us our debts. If
- 23:30you owe somebody anything, or listen to me clearly, all I owe you
- 23:34right now, the listener or the viewer is my love, my kindness,
- 23:38amen, my prayers, Amen, my respect. You deserve respect. You
- 23:42are made right, You're an image bearer of God. Amen. You're made
- 23:48in the image of God. If you are born again, Amen. But
- 23:52we're also made in the image of our parents. And when we were made
- 23:56by in the image of our parents. Amen. Listen to this. We
- 23:59were born into sin, but when you're made in the image of Christ Jesus,
- 24:03he takes the sin away. That's why you can't just be born once.
- 24:07You have to be born again. Amen, Johnathan, God bless me.
- 24:11Bro Amen, God bless you. Welcome to the morning. Devils,
- 24:14good to see you, and forgive us our debts, as we also have
- 24:18forgiven our debtors. A man, when you ask for forgiveness, hopefully you
- 24:25already forgive they forgive me, give me for what I did to you.
- 24:30In your heart, you should already have forgiven them. Now. We can't
- 24:34control the response of people, Amen, but we can control our response.
- 24:40We can't control the other person's response, We control our response. So if
- 24:45I'm asking you to forgive me, and my heart already forgive you, but
- 24:48you don't got to know all of that, Amen, I'm just letting you
- 24:52know and lead us not into what temptation but deliver us from evil. God
- 24:56is not leading anybody to into temptation. A lot of people think that,
- 25:02well, God has tempted me. God will never tempt you, nor can
- 25:04he be tempted. What about when he, Jesus was tempted, you said,
- 25:07Jesus, God, he was tempted by the devil. What was tempted
- 25:11by the devil his deity or his humanity? Look at the scriptures for yourself.
- 25:15When you read that account of the temptation that the devil tried with Jesus,
- 25:22you're gonna noticed that everything the devil tried was for power, It was
- 25:26for authority, respect. It was hey, jump off this cliff, and
- 25:30the angels will save you, and this, that and the third right.
- 25:36But he could not tempt the deity to God, because if he could,
- 25:40then he would have won that battle. But what did Jesus do? He
- 25:42says the word, the word, and the word the word says, the
- 25:45word says, and the word says. So when the deity showed up,
- 25:49the devil was defeated, humanity was tested, and the deity was victorious over
- 25:56the devil's try. Nice tried, devil at our lord's worst, And it's
- 26:04time of fast thing. It's for the days without food and all this other
- 26:08stuff. You still can win. You will never win, and devil,
- 26:11you're a liar. You won't win over my family. You won't win over
- 26:14my friend's family. You won't win over us when we're the weakest. Because
- 26:18when we're weak, God makes us strong. He shows his strength to us.
- 26:22But deliver us from evil, so we have what we need when it
- 26:26comes to this prayer life. Man, don't let anybody try to tell you
- 26:30that prayer doesn't work. It challenges that all day every day. I challenge
- 26:34that all day every day. The double liar, he doesn't speak truth.
- 26:38He doesn't know what truth is. Amen. He knows who the truth is,
- 26:42but he himself doesn't know how to operate in truth because he's lives been
- 26:47lying since the beginning. That's what the scripture says. That's that's what's going
- 26:51on here. Amen. I'm out of time. I just noticed that.
- 26:55I went over time. I went in. Amen. But wow, anyway,
- 27:00we got some more parts left. We got more parts left, Amen,
- 27:04Thank you so much. I went in on that scripture. Praise God.
- 27:07Amen. It's a powerful scripture. I think it's because the Lord spoke
- 27:12in himself directly from the mouth of Jesus, so I'm out of here.
- 27:17Thank you so much for hanging out with me. I want to really send
- 27:21you a blessing. God bless you, got keep you and remember always that
- 27:25God is good. Peace.