From the series: 7 Decisions That Determine Your Destiny, Vol 2. Sermon 2 of 4 Find out why Pastor Hagee says that a prayerless Christian is a powerless Christian. From an early age, Pastor’s mother taught him to seek God’s face by saying, “Some prayer, some power; more prayer, more power; much prayer much power.” The real question is…how much of God’s power do you really want in your life?
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what is prayer prayer is conversation
with God you don’t have to talk to God
in the King James you don’t have to
speak in a foreign language or make it
I am expend ammeter some of the best
prayers I’ve ever prayed sounded like
this help and that’s a fact
prayer is not sending God to run on your
errands a Christian must get on his
knees before he gets on his feet prayer
is not getting preppers God prayer is
not getting God prepared to do your will
prayer is getting you ready to do God’s
will the Lord’s Prayer say this not my
will but thine be done say that with me
not my will but thine be done
prayer is the only way to release the
supernatural power doubt in your life in
your marriage in your business to show
you great and mighty things but the
question is as powerful as God is God
cannot answer prayer until you pray you
often hear or I often hear people say
well I wonder when God is going to do
something the initiative rests with you
not God God says when you pray I will
answer when you bind up when you watch
you bind on earth I’ll bind in heaven
what you loose on earth I will loose in
heaven but the initiative rest of you
God’s not sitting there wondering what
you want he wants you to tell him
because if you tell him in faith
believing you will receive it give the
Lord praise in the house
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as powerful as God is he cannot answer
prayer until you pray it prayer is the
key that unlocks the gates of heaven and
closes the gates of Hell I saw the power
prayer all of my life in my mother when
she got on her author-it ik knees and
started whispering the name of the Lord
every demon in Harris County started
running for Louisiana prayer has the
power to cure sickness and disease my
older brother was healed of epilepsy
because of my mother’s prayer medical
science couldn’t touch it but God
Almighty healed non brother prayer can
shatter the shackles of misery and
habits that enslave you the torments of
your son the thing that’s destroying
your daughter your husband your wife
prayer can change that prayer does not
need proof prayer needs practice
intellectuals in America or jabbering
about God being so distant and God being
so far off he’s a cosmic being doting
grandfather sitting benignly in the
heavens totally unaware and out of
control listen up dummy goddess is close
it’s your next prayer he can move heaven
and earth he’s waiting on people of
Prayer to simply prevail in the
authority of Jesus name prayer is the
weapon that God has given to his
children to wage war in the heavenlies
when we say we bind and loose what are
we talking about Paul said we’re talking
about powers and principalities in the
heavenlies there are supernatural beings
that have structure in order who are
under the command of the Prince of
Darkness that would be the devil and if
you really get in a heavyweight fight
you’re going to meet these people and
the way that you meet them is in the
authority of Jesus
you bind them in your family you bind
them from your children you bind them
from your business you bind them from
your future and you do so in the
authority of Jesus name and it happens
Church of Jesus Christ stop complaining
about the attacks on your life by the
Prince of Darkness attack him bind him
curse him in the authority of Jesus name
put your foot on the head of the devil
and watch him squirm the victory is ours
through Christ the Lord Satan is a
defeated foe think like it talk like it
act like it
pray like it the victory is ours
hallelujah to the lamb of God is your
marriage under attack pray is your child
being tormented by the Prince of
Darkness pray is your business failing
pray are you fighting the dreaded
disease pray are you lost and without
God pray is your life empty pray is your
life meaningless and hopeless pray pray
pray God answers prayer hallelujah to
the lamb of God the tragedy of our day
is not an answered prayer but uh naw
fir’d prayer prayer will either make you
leave off sinning or sin will make you
leave off praying you will either
embarrass sin or sin will embarrass you
why pray because unordered prayer raises
above the need level
dear God water the grass and take care
of the post-nasal drip of my parrot
that’s not spiritual warfare an oriented
prayer rises above the need level
consider st. Paul
Paul was stoned and left for dead that
means the bones and his body were broken
he was whipped with a cat Roman cat of
nine tails three times that means he had
almost a hundred and twenty series of
scars on his body he did not ask the
church to pray for his broken bones or
the author itis caused by those broken
bones or the fact that he was in jail
again or the fact that the Romans had
whipped him again or the fact that his
name was in the fake news again as being
a religious fanatic he said pray for me
that I may speak the Lord with more
boldness what that’s what got you put in
prison boldness boldness is what got him
in jail he wanted boldness boldness are
you listening pastors of America we need
boldness to come back to the American
pulpit
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there are spiritual cowards in the
pulpit who are who have produced an
environment where a moral corruption in
our government is acceptable it’s not
acceptable abortion is not acceptable
the defiance of the moral laws of God is
not acceptable take a stand against this
hottub Christianity that’s preaching to
be comfortable at all cost including the
exclusion of the Word of God proverbs 14
9 says fools make a mock of sin and
America has made a mockery of sin and we
have become sodom and gomorrah
because the people of america can
identify sin because of the moral
cowards in america’s pulpits
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God is sitting in heaven saying pray to
me ask me for great things
ask me to pull down strongholds ask me
to break Satan’s grip over your job over
your family elevates your prayer Lea
from now I lay me down to sleep to
spiritual warfare go to war go to war in
the authority of Jesus name call those
corrupt politicians by name and pray the
wrath of God down on them you have that
kind of power use it
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ask him to send revival to America
asking for a righteous revolution asking
for righteousness that exalts a nation
but sin is a reproach to any people can
I get a witness here this morning when
you pray ask out for big things ask out
for big things nothing is impossible
when that gets really in your brain
nothing is impossible with God ask him
to defeat the Giants in your life when
you have a big need ask big ask him to
send fire from heaven ask him to walk
you through the fiery furnace ask him
he’s the God who cannot fail and he’s
just waiting to shown you his awesome
power you need to turn that power loose
in the authority of Jesus name give the
Lord praise in this house
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something if you eat reasons God doesn’t
answer prayer one asking you shall
receive you do not visualize prayer you
ask God outloud you don’t visualize the
prayer you say a prayer you do not stare
into a crystal
that’s idolatry as powerful as God is
he’s not going to answer you until you
ask him in the authority of Jesus name
secondly ask in faith believing mark
11:22 for verily I say unto you
whosoever shall not doubt in his heart
best shout but shall believe that those
things which he says shall come to pass
he shall have whatsoever he said not
thinketh sad sit with me sad God
Almighty gave you the ability to speak
so you could pray now so you could have
a telephone ministry but pray God is not
a statue of stone or wood he speaks he
talks he thinks he feels your
infirmities he answers our prayer he’s
alive he is in this place jehova sholom
the Lord our peace is in this place the
victory is ours through Christ the Lord
give him praise in the health of God
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when did the day of miracle start in
Genesis 1 in the beginning God created
that were created as the Hebrew word
bara which means to make from nothing he
didn’t come here and recreate something
that was floating around in space he
created this magnificent world from
nothing that’s a miracle the Bible says
that God said and it happened and God
said and it happened and God said and it
happened and God created man in the
image of God and man said and then God
created Eve and she said and she said
and she said and she continued to say
God gets excited when you get down on
your knees look angels here they come
let’s see what they’re going to ask for
get ready to go to get to get ready to
go to earth and answer this and then you
get down and asked him to water the
grass
when you pray ask big say that with me
ask big ask according to his infinite
power years ago in the early nineteen
1990s we had gone to Los Angeles John
Hagee ministries and conducted a major
crusade there and it was a lot more
expensive than we calculated because of
those unions that are out there we came
home and the chief financial officer
said we we’re we’re paper thin and our
television account so what I did it like
a brave man I’d call mama I said mother
here’s my situation
and my mother’s a very direct
plain-spoken woman she did not waste
words she said well what did you do with
the money God gave you I said I spent it
having the crusade she said what
happened I said more than 1500 people
came to Christ in two nights she said
well that’s God’s bill you were doing
God’s work and that’s God’s bill we’re
gonna ask God to pay it and she prayed a
prayer and she said let’s pray and I
said okay you pray she prayed and two
days later I get one of the strangest
calls I’ve ever gotten in 60 plus years
of ministry as a man on the phone or not
secretary hooked me up and he said are
you John Hagee I said yes he said first
I want to tell you I’m not a Christian –
I’m gonna tell you I don’t like
preachers and three I really don’t like
TV preachers know such a warm greeting
and I thought I was getting ready to get
my ear chewed on he said but I saw you
preaching on TV the other night and
America needs to hear what you’ve got to
say and I’m gonna send you some help
I thought Strunk
I said okay thank you very much I said
what’s a little help sound like that’s
mother talking he said I’m gonna send
you a million dollars
he is really drunk I thanked him
profusely and hung up forgot it and you
know didn’t he didn’t think about the
reality two days later but get a little
invoke belt that long personal envelope
pulled it out check for 1 million bucks
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begin to happy too quick I called the
bank I said I know you can’t tell me
about this person about this but is this
cheque good signed by X she said many
multiples over that’s a small check for
him put that Hummer in the bank and then
we said thank you Jesus
I’ve learned from that I’ve never
forgotten when you ask God for something
ask for more than you need get it out
the fourth reason God doesn’t answer
prayer as we don’t pray in the name of
Jesus John 14:14 if you ask anything in
my name I will do it that’s the name and
let me while I’m touching on this touch
on this I’ve heard people say dear God
there’s a pantheon of gods that’s why
the Lord’s Prayer says our Father which
art in heaven that’s the God we’re
talking to that’s why when we pray God
of Abraham Isaac and Jacob there’s only
one God that answers to that
behold o Israel the Lord your God is one
he is the only one therefore when you
pray to God say that God’s fifth
contention for answered prayer is asking
God to do the would ask according to the
will of God 1 John 5:14 and this is the
confidence that we have in him that if
we ask anything in his name he will he
will hear us some people think the will
of God is mysterious it’s not the book
of Isaiah said the way of the Lord is so
simple a fool cannot err therein God’s
will is consistent with his word you can
know the will of God by the word of God
the word and the will of God are exactly
the same when you pray and you pray the
Word of God you are using a nuclear bomb
in the supernatural God is light the
revelation of God is in the word God is
light that means he’s against darkness
he’s against witchcraft he’s against the
occult he’s against Satanism he’s
against fortune-telling he’s against
Harry Potter he’s against horoscopes
he’s against mind-control get away from
that that’s darkness that’s not light
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six gods six condition2 answered prayers
to pray in faith believing if you have
faith and doubt not the Bible says have
faith in God send it with me have faith
it doesn’t say try to have faith in God
it said have faith in God it takes faith
to believe in a car that only starts one
time out of four but God has never
failed you therefore it doesn’t take
great faith to believe in a great God
the Bible says have faith in God don’t
try to have faith you try broccoli you
try low-fat ice cream that’s where the
Bible verse comes was born I will spew
you out of my mouth right there God
seventh condition is to pray
specifically the Lord’s Prayer
give us that Sioux this day is when our
daily bread that’s what all in once in
us don’t pray to God in vague terms nail
it down so that when God answers you
know it was him God will not hear your
prayer with unconfessed sin in your life
eight psalm 66:18 if i regard iniquity
in my heart the Lord will not hear me
how do you get there repentance consider
the supernatural power of two to an
agreement can do more than two million
in discord Matthew 18 19 and 20 again I
say to you that if any two of you shall
agree is touching anything on this earth
you shall do it listen quickly Joshua
and Caleb whipped Giants that two
million people were free to attack Paul
and Silas demonstrated the power of two
they sang in the jail at Philippi the
foundations were shaken and they walked
out free two witnesses in the book of
Revelation 11 3 Elijah and Nina have the
power to make the governments of the
world do their bidding Jesus sent His
disciples out how to buy to authority to
bind and loose comes in the power of two
you have the power you have the
authority use it use it in closing how
much power do you have when you come
into agreement I’m going to give you two
illustrations quickly and stop this is
the declaration from President Abraham
Lincoln calling America to a day of
fasting and prayer to end the civil war
it’s a declaration by the US Senate
asking the citizens of America to take
that day off and go to their houses of
worship and ask God to end this horrible
war 600,000 Americans were killed in the
Civil War that’s more than everybody in
war one world war two Korea every war
we’ve had doesn’t even get close 600,000
America had this day of fasting and
prayer and a few weeks later that
horrible war came to a close the power
of fasting and prayer right here
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this is a true story one of our friends
Derek Prince was involved with this how
many of you know brother Prince
certainly one of the great scholars a
man of impeccable integrity Joseph
Stalin who murdered 30 million Russians
trying to bring godless communism to
Russia let it be known that he planned
to murder the Jewish people in Russia
the believers in England where brother
Derek Prince was heard that report and
they committed themselves to fasting in
prayer for the Jewish people of Russia
they bound the forces of the Prince of
Darkness in the authority of Jesus name
the forces of darkness that were
controlling Joseph Stalin three weeks
later three weeks later Joseph Stalin
had a brain hemorrhage sixteen gifted
surgeons worked on him for eight hours
and Joseph Stalin stepped into eternity
to meet the Son of God a Jewish guy from
Bethlehem what area of your life is
under attack finances health
relationships business marriage children
I want you to stand to your feet right
now I would like for you to make this
confession say pastor there’s an area in
my life that I need the supernatural
power of God to invade it and solvent
let me see your hand right where you are
100% of this congregation I want you to
find someone right now where two of you
can pray together
and I want you to take them by the hands
and right now in the authority of Jesus
name I want you to start praying about
that thing right now pray about it
let God solve the question for you that
God solved the question for you
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father hear our prayer in the name of
Jesus in faith believing we by the
Prince of Darkness that we may have
liberty peace and prosperity that a
spiritual awakening come to this nation
that corruption be exposed that Liars be
driven from public office let us
experience a starburst of the Amazing
Grace in light of the gospel in Jesus
name Amen
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