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Pray With Purpose Pt.6

Let's go ahead and turn to II Kings. We'll pick up where we left off this morning, as we were talking about coming to the realization that the ministry of prayer is, as expressed in the Scriptures, is not just that, that alleviates us of our problems, anxieties, and enemies. It doesn't just bless us and heal us and deliver us, but there's a reason for it; in that, God intervenes through the power of prayer as a testimony onto the onlookers that He's alive, and that He's working in our lives, and that He is a loving heavenly Father that's soliciting all back into fellowship with Himself. It's an exciting thing. We went up on Mount Carmel, and we saw the challenge of the great prophet to that affect and said, "How long are you going to halt between these two opinions? If the Lord is God, then serve Him." It's very interesting that as that ministry evidenced itself in the eighteenth chapter, and the admonition of the prophet for those to seek the presence of God and not to be in any way fearful of their pursuit because of His righteousness, His holiness, because the Scripture says it's His desire to reconcile the people. In the midst of all of that, we find ourselves over in this nineteenth chapter of II Kings and the story of Hezekiah and the onslaught that was being experienced in the ministry at that time.

Hezekiah's experiencing that at this particular juncture in own life. We know that the siege was on the city at this particular time, the boasting against the righteousness of God and the people of God. We need to see that as part of what we're facing many times in our lives when the trials that we're experiencing are by the enemy of our souls. Then we have to understand that, that opposition and the boasting of the evil one against God is taken personally by the Lord. If we'll endure and stand up, God will glorify His name; and in the process, He will deliver you because we're not what it's all about. It's the spiritual warfare that we find ourselves caught in the midst that affects our lives so many times. Your prayer life can be encouraged if you just understand that principle in and of itself. Just encourage you to stand and to pray for wisdom as the Apostle told us. When the temptation's there, pray for wisdom; and the Lord will give us the discerning and know why the trial's upon us and what the source of deliverance is. Hezekiah hears the ridicule of the enemy, the boasting of Satan that none would stand. In the midst of all of this, you'll see that he admonished the people, chapter 18, verse 36, to hold your peace. Don't answer a word to the accusations of the evil one, but wait and see what God's going to do. Now, if you realize what's going on, Sennacherib, the king of Assyria, here is boasting of all of the nations that he had defeated. The Scripture says in chapter 18, verse 16, that Hezekiah having robbed the glory of God and tried to buy off the enemy put himself in an area of vulnerability and trusted in the arm of the flesh. Because of that, he gave place to the enemy to mock and doubt the presence and the power of God. We talked about how important it was this morning that our kids realize that God is the source and our only hope. Don't ever let it be done that you rob the glory of God and try to hire help from without and try to have someone buy off your enemies, but trust in the Lord. Make your boast in the Lord. Let your children know that you're going to live or die by the presence and the power of God, but you'll never trust the arm of the flesh.

You go back into these preceding verses. I like what's said back in chapter 18, verse 22, "But if you say unto me, We trust in the Lord God, is not that He, whose high places and whose altars [that] Hezekiah has taken away . . . " Who is God is the question here again? Who are you going to trust in? Which lord is it, verse 25 says. " . . . The Lord said to me, Go up against this [the] land, and destroy it." Which Lord? There's confusion here. We're tearing down these altars. We're trying to buy ourselves out of trouble. Who are you going to believe? Rabshakeh comes, the messenger, with the ridicule of God, and he says in verse 29, "Let not Hezekiah deceive you." He's talking to the people. For He's not going to be able to deliver you out of the hand of the king. Look at verse 30. "[Don't let] Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord."

All of these years, beloved, we've had one desire in this fellowship. You know, we've had these accusations made against us in many different ways. If you summarize all of these years and what we've tried to do in this fellowship and the course that we've set, it's to try to encourage a people to trust only in the Lord. Just trust in God. Just do it God's way. Oh, so many times it seems harsh, and so many times it seems to be the way that would, in many ways, choose the hard way instead of the evil way, the disciplines of the flesh, the disciplines and regimens of the pursuit of holiness, but trying to mold a people that would trust in God and not in themselves and not in the religious system. Rabshakeh comes and says, you guys are being duped, man. Everybody else is serving these other gods in the mountains and the other idols, and they're prospering. In fact, every other country's been overcome. What makes you think you're different? Nobody else has been able to do it that way. Everybody else has compromised. Don't let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord and cause you to say the Lord will surely deliver us. "Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria [verse 31], Make an agreement with me by a present . . ."

Isn't it interesting how there's always that price? What's the price? At what point can you be bought off and pay the ransom, refusing to believe that it's already been paid for us? Make an agreement with me. Come out and let's strike a deal. If you do, I'll let you then alone, and you can enjoy your own prosperity and your ease; and every man will eat of his own vine and every man of his own fig tree. You'll drink of the waters of your own cistern. Then there'll be a time when I'm going to come, and I'll take you away into a land. It's like your own. Don't worry. It's a good land, and it's not the Promised Land. It's not God's perfect will, but it will be acceptable; and you'll adapt. Now, I know God said that He called you to this land, but I have a better place for you. There's a better way. It's a land of corn and wine and prosperity and ease. You'll live there, and you won't die; but if you hearken unto Hezekiah, when he persuades you saying, The Lord will deliver us, I'll destroy you. The enemy's trying to tell you today, if you'll compromise, He'll make life easy on you. He'll let you enjoy the abundance that you've been praying and believing God for, but if you try to do it God's way, you're going to die. You won't make it. God will forsake you. You can't trust Him.

Now, we're talking about the spirit behind prayer. The spirit of knowing that God, before we even ask, hears us; and that He knows what things we have need of, and it's His good pleasure to give us the Kingdom. He gives us exceeding abundant above anything we could ask or even think. The enemy's continually coming to our minds and bombarding us with the fact that God may not answer this time. You better have some kind of contingency plan. You just never know when God's not going to come through. Oh sure, He's delivered you in the past, but it's this time He's not going to. Anybody ever heard that voice? It's the thing that robs us of the prayer of faith, and it's only the prayer of faith that saves the sick. It's only the prayer of faith that causes the dead to rise and demons to be cast out because the Scripture says, What things soever you desire when you pray, you've got to believe that you receive them, and then you'll have them. Are we praying out of rote? Are we just praying because we're admonished to pray, or do we believe we're going to receive it? Do we really believe that God is a rewarder of those that diligently seek Him? This is the admonition here, and the enemy's lying against the truth, lying against the prophet of God. He throws up some evidence in verse 33. Look at it. Have any of the gods of the nations been able to deliver the people? There hasn't been one victorious yet against the king of Assyria - Beelzebub, the prince of darkness. Where are the gods of the region, verse 34 says. None have delivered out of my hand. Who are they, verse 35, among all the gods of the countries? None have delivered out of my hand. What makes you think the Lord will deliver Jerusalem out of my hand? Then the people held their peace. I think this is important, beloved. Here's a great principle for you to grab a hold of.

So many of us are so quick to speak, and we just want to be able to get everything out there. There's a time when you need to examine your heart, and before you speak know what God's saying, and be convinced of it, where you're not going to back off and bring a reproach on the Kingdom, to where all of these accusations aren't going to cause a fear and smite your heart. There's such a confidence that you can say like the servant, whatever's in your heart, do it. I'll go with you, man. Peradventure, the Lord might deliver them into our hands. Let's go for it, man. We don't have any hope other than trusting God. The people held their peace and answered not a word for the king's commandment said, don't say anything. Don't try to answer when the enemy lies against the Word of God. What do you do when a fool speaks? Scripture says that you don't argue with them. You don't correct a fool. Leave them to the folly.

Then we come into chapter 19, and the people are waiting to see what the servant of the Lord's going to do. I think it's important for us if we're going to be priests in our home and show our families the power of God, that we take this spirit upon us. So many times as leaders, you know, the parents, the husbands; we want to have the answers. We want to stand confidently and say, don't worry, it's all been provided for. The insurance's are paid, and we have this much in savings; and the cabinets or the cupboards are stocked and all of these different things. Nothing wrong with being prepared but let me show you what we need more than that. When Hezekiah hears the accusations being made and the railing against God, it says, He rent his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth and went into the house of the Lord. Whatever you do, men, take the eyes of your wife and your children off of you and let it be on God. Let them see you going to the house of the Lord. Don't allow yourself to be anything except transparent to where, yes, you can trust in me - you can trust in me to look to God. You can trust in me to obey God. You can trust in me to follow God, but I can't save us in my own strength. We begin to point to the Lord. This spirit of humility is so important in the power of prayer. You see, Jesus continually humbled himself and never gave the impression that He was the source. It was only Father. That's the spirit that we have to move in if we're going to be successful.

So, he goes to the house of the Lord and begins to seek the Lord. He sends in for Eliakim and the elders and the priests. They came and they prepared themselves in sackcloth and repentance. Oh, beloved, how many times we need to have this spirit of humility and repentance in the presence of God. So many times we come almost with an attitude of, we have rights, and I deserve this. God owes me one. The spirit of these men was a spirit of humility and brokenness, repentance. As they humbled themselves, it says he sent them to the prophet, Isaiah, the son of Amoz. As they returned, they say to the king, after having encountered the prophet, God's going to deliver us. Before they could get a message that was one of victory and deliverance, listen to what the king said to the messengers. It's a day of trouble. We're in a day of rebuke and blasphemy for the children are come to birth, and there's not enough strength to bring it forth. I think it's one of the greatest pictures of the average Christian today, unable to give birth in prayer. We're in the midst of trials, we found ourselves because of apathy and a lack of commitment and a lack of foresight into the eternal realm so short-sighted and so caught up with all of the temporal things that we've lost sight of the eternal. In the midst of all of this, we're weak and now stand and see the power of God, there isn't sufficient strength to deliver. The Scripture makes it very clear that if we endure to the end, we will be saved. We don't have the strength. We've used all of our spiritual strength up. The trial has gone longer than we thought. The trial was more intense than we thought. My prayer life isn't sufficient to birth the promises of God. Go to the prophet and see what he says. It may be that the Lord God will hear, now watch, not our petitions but the railings of the enemy. It may be that the Lord God heard the words of Rabshakeh, the one who blasphemed, the one who mocked His name. There's some great principles here, some great insight into God's moving from the eternal perspective. What wisdom, Hezekiah speaking here, we don't have the ability to bring birth to this thing. It's not in us. We sure can't call on God because of our righteousness. We don't have any rights. We've been living lives contrary. We've been caught up in all of these other vices and all of these other self-serving purposes, and we find ourselves under this persecution. We're unable to bring forth the fruit necessary, but maybe God has heard the words of the enemy that was spoken.

Look, if you would, over at the end of verse 4, as a reproach to the living God, and peradventure he will reprove the words which the Lord God has heard. Watch, beautiful passage: " . . . wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that are left." So we see that God's willing to move on behalf of the remnant, and the Lord's ears are open, the Scripture says, to the cry of the righteous. God's hearing the reproach against His name. The words of the enemy that are railing against the Word of God that you and I are trying to stand on. As the majority mocks and laughs at our dependence on God and our stupidity for saying we're not going to do it the world's way; we're believing God. I'd rather believe God and die than serve other gods. He'll hear the prayers and bring deliverance to the remnant, verse 4 says. The servants then approach Isaiah. As they come into the prophet's presence, Isaiah speaks and he says something very interesting here. Go tell your master. It's a very interesting phrase there. The man whose total trust is in God speaks this way, not arrogant. It's not an elitist perspective. It's just natural to him. You notice he didn't say go tell our master, go tell our king? This is a man who communed with God. This is a man who knew what his source was. This is a man who knew he was separate and lived in another kingdom than most lived in. He speaks and says go tell your master. "Thus saith the Lord, Be not afraid of the words which thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumor, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land." Not only in his own land but also by the hand of his own seed.

You'll notice that one of the ways that God continually delivers his people is by turning the enemy upon themselves. Those that are opposing you and uniting against you, it's not because they love one another. It's because they hate God, and God easily turns them upon one another for their own selfishness and their own lack of commitment. Each man living for himself. Those that come against us in one way, the Scripture says, will flee in seven. He says I'll send a blast against them. I'll bring confusion into their camp. I'll turn them on each other. I'll strike their hearts with fear by supernatural visitation. God many times uses the plague. Sometimes He uses other means of spiritual messengers, the angels, and strikes fear into the hearts of the enemy, confounds them, and causes them to flee in those seven that we spoke of, as God stands unified.

The story goes on in verse 10 - I think it's important that we understand how the Father of lies works. When you begin to pray, and the enemy starts speaking, be assured of one thing. Whatever he's saying is a lie. When God is speaking to you and giving you the promise of His Word and the enemy starts talking about, it's not going to happen this time. God's forsaken you. You've gone too far. You can be assured of one thing, there's no truth in him. Speak to Hezekiah, the king of Judah, and say, " . . . Let not thy God in whom thou trustest deceive thee [look at this] saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria." The liar is speaking again. You've trusted in God. The word's come and said, you'll not be destroyed, but you will. I want to tell you something, there's no hope for you in God. The psalmist said, many shall say of my soul, there's no help for him in God. But, thou, Oh Lord, art a shield for me, my glory, and the lifter of my head. Amen? Many are they that rise up against me. Many are they that say of my soul, there is no help for him in God, but God is our very present help in trouble. Here's the enemy again lying and saying let not thy God whom thou trusteth deceive thee. There's no help for you. Isn't it interesting how Satan, the liar, is always accusing God of lying, that we can't trust in His Word, and we need to trust in the integrity of those counselors around us who are speaking contrary to the supernatural? Don't you understand that everyone else has been defeated? Don't you understand that the god of this world is the dominant force? You can't fight city hall. You can't oppose the principalities and powers. It's obvious that everyone's overcome by their flesh and by sin.

There's a remnant that the Bible says will not bow their knee. There's a people who believe that the power of sin has been destroyed, and that, henceforth, we no longer serve sin. The accusations come. Nothing new - God's not going to be able to deliver you. Nobody else has been freed from this. What makes you think you'll ever be free? You mean to tell me you think you're going to be free from that fear? You're going to be afraid the rest of your life. You think you're going to be free from that lust? You're going to be under the power of that lust the rest of your life. You think you're going to be free from covetous? There's no way. You're going to be dominated by that the rest of your life. Everybody else is, and there's no hope for you. There is deliverance, amen? We will not believe the lie of the enemy against the power of prayer and God's promise to deliver us. Other nations may not have been delivered, but we will.

Hezekiah received the letter, verse 14 says, and read it, and Hezekiah went up into the house of the Lord and spread it before the Lord. Go before God and say, Look, here's what every thing's saying. Here's what the enemy's saying. Here's what I've even said, and I don't see any hope and any deliverance. I can't see a way out. This is where I am, Lord. This is what the facts seem to be. Hezekiah prayed and said, Lord, thou " . . .which dwellest between the cherubims, thou art God, even thou alone . . ." Very innocent little phrase there - thou alone. Let me ask you something tonight. Are you trusting in God alone? Are you trusting in God alone? How many contingencies do you have for God's failure? Now, we're not talking about God being presumptuous. Oh, you want to show you have faith, Jump off the wall. It's written that He's given His angels charge over you, lest you dash your foot against a stone. It's also written, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. God's not asking us to be stupid. God's not asking us to somehow make life difficult, so that we can prove that He's there to deliver us. I already believe He's there to deliver me. Even if He doesn't, the believer said, we're not going to serve your gods. I'm not bowing, king. My God is able to deliver me, and even if He doesn't, I'm not bowing my knee - Him alone.

So do you think there's a place then for us to have to answer this question, especially in the hour that you and I are living in, those of us that I've talked about that have all kinds of insurance policies and savings accounts and contingency plans? We've laid up in store, and is that wrong? No. You can find Biblical counsel for that can't you? There's wisdom that tells us to provide and to save and to plan. The question that we're asking tonight is this - in who are you trusting? As we said this morning, what is supernatural is whatever has God as the source. You naturally drank from the brook, but God sent you to the brook. Can I ask you something? Who ordered your steps in all of these other areas? Who did you trust? Is there a fear if those things are not in their place or a peace that now we've gone from drinking of the brook to having to believe to drink water from the rock? We rejoice in it and delight in it because our God's well able. Oh, beloved, if we're going to move into the supernatural, you're going to have to deal with these things right now. If you're going to move into the supernatural realm of trusting God, we're going to have to get away from the presumptuous things. We're going to have to get away from foolish testing and trying to somehow put out fleeces and all this. I'm talking about a daily reliance on the supernatural, in seeing that it can be supernatural without being spectacular; but you have to trust in God alone, the Scripture says.

That's what Hezekiah's doing. He's wrestling with this internally just like each of us does. He comes to this conclusion. You're the one who's made heaven and earth. Lord, bow down your ear and hear me. Open your eyes and look on the dilemma that we find ourselves in. Hear the words of Sennacherib who reproaches your name. I like verse 17. Credit's given to the devil here; I like to give credit where credit's due. Of a truth, lord, no one's been able to stand. The guy's not lying. He's taken everybody out, and you know what? I think he can whip me. How many of you believe the devil can whip you one on one. I guarantee you he can without the presence of the Lord, but greater is He that's in you than He that's in the world. Amen? If God's for me, who can be against me? I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me, but I want to tell you something. I acknowledge that mightier than me have fallen. I also acknowledge that if the time wasn't shortened, even the very elect won't stand.

The power's real. The enemy's real. The battle is real. We've got to learn to trust in God alone. I want to tell you, beloved, all of these little cares and these residual things that we trust in and all of these other things that captivate our mind and our energy are robbing us from that simple faith and that dependence in God alone. I'll tell you what. Everybody else has gone down. All of the other nations have fallen under his power, and there are no exceptions except the kingdom of light. Don't you trust in this nation! Don't you trust in your savings accounts! Don't you trust in your little numbers in the market! Don't you trust in the gold that you have squirreled away. He has the letter spread out, and he says, here's the facts. It's all out war against us. Of a truth, everyone else has been destroyed, but I come to you and you alone. My eyes are upon you. " . . . I beseech thee [verse 19], save thou us out of his [the] hand [of the evil one], that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the Lord God, even thou only." There it is. There's our victory right there. When we come in prayer, and we say, Man, it's very obvious to everybody that's looking; I'm going down. There's no hope. There's no help. The difference is, we say there's no hope in the natural, there's no hope in our own strength. What they say is, Psalm 3, there's no help for him in God. Many are saying of our souls, there's no help. You can't trust God. God doesn't answer prayer today. God moves through doctors. God moves through insurance companies. God moves through communal efforts. There's no help in God. We just pray because religious people are supposed to pray. Surely we're not to expect God to do something.

I think it's time, beloved, that we get before Him and spread these letters out and deal with the accusations that are being made against us, the fear that's in our hearts, the trust that we have in the natural, in the flesh, and come to grips with them and say, yeah, that's a truth. It's time for me to fall on the rock and be broken. It's time for me to stir up the gift that's in me. It's time for me to go back and put the armor of God on and know how to pray effectually, or I won't stand. What's the purpose? That all that look might know that thou art God, thou alone. If we're going to make this kind of a stand, beloved, it's not made to show how righteous we are and how spiritual we are and how disciplined we are. Yeah, maybe the rest of you will fall, but not me. Lord, though everybody else forsakes you, don't worry about me. You better watch out with that kind of an attitude. Let him that thinks he stand take heed lest he fall. Without Him we can do nothing. So we have that kind of an attitude when we come into prayer and the power of God prepares to manifest itself. Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sends to Hezekiah and says, thus says the Lord; I've heard your prayer. Now, here's what the Lord's spoken. " . . . The virgin daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn." Laugh at the devil. It's time to rejoice. It's time to laugh at the circumstances. Let's not be like Sarah and laugh at God. Verse 22 - I want you to know that you'll be laughed to scorn, and you're going to see the manifestation of the power of Him that you've mocked, the Holy One of Israel, verse 22 says.

Then we end with this for tonight in verse 25 - stir it up. Bring to remembrance the memorials. Rehearse the Word of God, speaking to one another the promises. "Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? Now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay [laid to] waste [the] fenced cities into ruinous heaps. Therefore their inhabitants were of small power . . ." I've raised up the enemy, Pharaoh, Sennacherib, whoever it is that's opposing you, to bring them down to show my power. They trusted in the arm of the flesh. I allowed them to be strong that I might make them weak in your presence for my glory. Whatever you're facing today, beloved, begin to put your confidence in the glory of God, in His promise to deliver. Begin to pray and say, Father, they didn't take this power to themselves. You gave it to them, and they vaunted themselves; and they boasted against you, and they tormented me, but your purpose was to bring them down that in my weakness your strength could be made perfect. Thank you, Father, for once again allowing me to be a vessel unto honor, an earthen vessel that the glory and the excellency might be of you and not of us. When you can pray in that humility and understand that we are just vessels put into these places of becoming needy, that God could deliver and show Himself mighty; and we boast in that, we become candidates for the supernatural. Father, make it real in our hearts, we ask in Jesus name.

As Gary comes, and we just spend a moment in the presence of the Lord, and the key verse (34a) of the 19^th chapter of Second Kings becomes real to us where the Lord says, "For I will defend this city to save it for my own sake...". He's going to defend you and deliver you for His own sake. He's got His blood invested in us. His name has been invested in us. We're called by His name. The Scripture says very clearly those that oppose you, oppose me. God takes it personal when the enemy opposes you and threatens you. I'm not just talking about principalities and powers. I'm talking about the agents that they use - the flesh. When people stand against you, they're defying the power of God; and you can expect Him to deliver you. Nobody can stand against me all the days of my life because as God was with Moses and Joshua, He's going to be with me. Do you believe that when you pray? Do you understand that it's not unique to you this situation that you're facing, but God's allowed you to come into it that He might deliver you and show Himself mighty on your behalf? Do you understand that He's given the enemy opportunity to take advantage of you that He might deliver you and be glorified in that victory? So that He could stand and cause us to mock and laugh at the enemy and say, He raised you up for this very reason, Pharaoh, to bring you down. He raised you up, Sennacherib, to bring you down. I'd rather humble myself that God might bring me up. Anybody who trusts in themselves, God brings them down. Humble yourself, and in due time God will exalt you. Prayer is effectual for the humble, the dependent, the seeker of the glory of God and not self. For that, Father, we thank you that it's working in us, that we might will and do your good pleasure. We thank you for that in Jesus' name. Amen. Let's stand before the Lord tonight.

As Gary plays for us, and we'll take a moment just to absorb that, which the Holy Spirit has spoken to us individually. There's a lot going on in the spirit realm. That's why we have to adorn ourselves in the prayer armor, watching and praying, the Scripture says, that we don't enter into temptation. Be very careful that our trust is in Him alone. You can't pray effectually, beloved, trusting in the arm of the flesh. For His ears are open to the cry of the righteous, but any other gods, anything else put on the equal plane with Him, He'll mock you in your calamity, He says. When you trust in yourself, He'll laugh at you in your torment, in your dilemma. I'd rather have Him laugh at the devil. I'd rather have Him laugh through me at the devil because I've been honest enough to say, you know, there's some truth in that. Everyone else around has been overcome. I can't stand without God's power. How am I different from the nations if I'm trusting in their gods? Am I wholly trusting in the Lord? If I am, I'm invincible. Not a weapon formed against me can prosper.

If I'm seeking His glory, His ears are open to my cry. If I seek Him early, not last, I'll find Him. When I seek Him with all of my heart, I'll find Him. He is a rewarder of those that diligently seek Him. We don't seek Him after we've tried everything else. We diligently seek Him. Systematically seek Him. Seek Him first. Seek Him early. It's on You alone, Lord that we trust. Possibly, You'll feed us with the ravens; maybe it'll be the cruse of oil that doesn't fail. Maybe we'll go in the power of what we did eat for forty days. Possibly for forty years, our shoes and our clothes won't wear out. We'll gather manna. We'll cast the branch into the water, and they'll be healed. The ax head will swim. The eyes of our enemies will be blinded, and we'll take them captive; and in Your mercy, You'll spare them and provide for them. Our eyes are on You. Lord, there's a remnant to be delivered, and the others are trusting in the gods of the nations. They're trusting in the arm of the flesh. We feign prayer, but we trust in our checkbooks, and in science. Oh, God, that our eyes would be upon You alone. As the enemy stands and mocks, it's because of our apathy, that nation who's stripped the gold from the temple to buy a peace treaty, unable to believe God. Stir our hearts again, Father, that we would become men and women of prayer. Break our hearts, Lord, as we've defiled your temple stripping it of its glory. For Your house shall be called a house of prayer. Make us a people who seek You early, that boldly say, My God shall deliver me. Oh, don't let Hezekiah make you believe in the Lord. There's other methods you know. None that are pleasing to God. None that are acceptable, for without Him we can do nothing. But, thou, Oh, Lord, art a shield for me. You're my glory, and the lifter of my head. I cried unto the Lord with my voice, and He heard me out of His holy hill. We thank You now, Lord, for Your Word. We ask that You'd make it live in us. He's ever present. He's here to deliver us in the time of need. Lord, I don't know what to do, but my eyes are upon You. Every promise is yeah and amen to the glory of God. We know that without faith, it's impossible to please You; and those that come to You must believe that You are, and that You're a rewarder of those that diligently seek You. Ah, that we would seek You early, Lord, that we would believe, stand and having done all, stand, that Your name might be glorified. I'd rather die trusting You, Lord, than live deserting You. Father, we thank You for the power of Your might. Show Yourself, Lord, in our lives. Let the fruit be seen that You might be glorified, we ask in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Well, praise God. Before you go, turn to somebody next to you and say, there's no other name. Amen. Go in peace, love of God go with you.

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