good morning my friends i'm pastor
stephen brooks welcome today
to our midweek bible study called
morning glory
i'm so happy that you're here today and
i believe that god's word will
strengthen you
to be the person he has called you to be
and also which is very important
to do the things that he has called you
to do
and i know that you certainly have some
things to do
today we're going to be in the book of
philippians chapter 4. why don't you
meet me over there
and we will pray heavenly father we open
up in prayer
and we asked it as we jump into your
word
that illumination revelation knowledge
from the scriptures
would jump forth we thank you father let
this message be food for our spirit
let it be our daily bread now we thank
you for the anointing
of your spirit and that your word is a
living word
and father we give you all of the praise
in jesus name
we agree and pray amen praise god
we'll believe we'll be in philippians
chapter four
let me share a little information before
we jump into
the teaching today i hold here in my
hand the itinerary
for our next tour to israel
and the dates are may 16
through the 26 20 22
praise the lord again the dates are
may 16 through the 26th
2022 and my friends
as uh pastor kelly and i uh worked on
the itinerary
and worked with the travel company this
is going to be the most extraordinary
tour to israel
we have ever done it's going to be
absolutely amazing
again the dates will be may 16th through
the 26th
2022 2022 so you have
you have plenty of time to get
registered and you want to get
registered quickly because we're not
going to take
hundreds and hundreds of people we're
going to take a smaller group
this is what i would call
the 10 days in israel luxury tour
and the cost is 46.49
and that price of 46.49
it includes uh let me see here
all of your hotels and let me just tell
you right now
there's no two-star three-star hotels
on this list every place that you will
be staying at
is luxury it's first class it's
absolutely beautiful praise the lord
we're also going at the most beautiful
time
of the year in israel hallelujah now
the price of 4649 covers all of your
hotels
it covers all of your breakfast and the
breakfast are
off the chart you can eat all you want
and there's a lot to choose from
it also includes your your dinner and
dinner is always
just exquisite it's fantastic and it
also
includes one fish lunch at the galilee
now the other times we always stop and
eat for lunch
uh but it could be a different lunch
spot every day
and it's always good but it includes
everything basically but
your lunch the price includes the guides
the tips and the taxes the drivers and
your round-trip
airfare and the airfare that would be
the
international portion of the airfare
we'll be flying out of new york
flying into tel aviv and the travel
company
would be happy to work with you to get
you your connecting flight
from wherever you're at to new york city
now if you're in another country
then you would just get your connecting
flight from your country
straight to tel aviv and our travel
company
which is in my opinion the greatest
travel agency the greatest christian
israeli travel company
in the world is the one that we are
working with
praise the lord now registration is
going to open
in just three days i want you to get
ready
and when we open up the registration i
want you to get registered it only cost
three hundred dollars to get registered
that cost goes towards
the overall uh trip price and my friends
there are times in life when you need to
treat yourself right
yes you need to honor the lord you need
to be a blessing to the jewish people
and we do that through our
our tourism and going there and uh
shopping in their land and just
traveling there staying in their hotels
but let me say this also you need to be
treated nice
and you there's times where you just you
need to say you know what i need some
refreshing
i need a break and if you're a married
couple
and you've been going through all the
processes of the business of life with
children and all the work and stuff
look this could be a tremendous marriage
blessing for you and your spouse
to come on this trip but regardless of
whatever your situation would be
this trip is going to be so refreshing
it's going to be so much fun
and it will be just highlighted by the
anointing of the holy spirit
yes of course i'm going pastor kelly is
going and i will be ministering at
many of the very special sites there in
the land of israel
so we're going to have a tremendous time
and i want to invite you to come along
with us
praise the lord now this trip is going
to
fill up quickly so don't lose your spot
get registered as soon as that
registration opens in about two or three
days
i want you to get registered and make
your plans to go
um some of the areas
that we will be going to are caesarea by
the sea
which is beautiful a lot of people
aren't that familiar with how
uh pretty the mediterranean sea is
right there on the coast of israel and
we're going to go to caesarea by the sea
we will go to stella marist church with
the cave of elijah
on mount carmel so this time we're going
to go to the cave where he lived at
we're going to go on to megiddo and then
we will go to cana
and yes we will go to nazareth the lord
jesus's hometown
we will go to mount precipice where they
tried to push him off the cliff
and then we will continue on to tiberius
and uh so many good things are planned
we're going to go
to the mount of beatitudes we'll go to
the jordan valley to jericho
and yes we'll go to the ancient
baptismal site near
kumaran and we will go to uh
in getty i always like in getty a lot if
you like the national parks
and that's the national park of israel
you like the outdoors you will love in
getty
and how about this one saint george's
monastery
that's not always on uh too many
itineraries but we've got it
bethany and also of course we will be
spending multiple days
in jerusalem going to the mount of
olives to
the ascension site to the garden of
gethsemane
mount zion the upper room and some other
special things we have planned for you
and it is going to be literally my
friends over the top
it's going to be so much fun we're going
to go to the
birthplace of john the baptist there in
ein karim
outside of jerusalem and i didn't care
is where
uh many israelis would just love to
retire if you could ask them hey where
would you like to retire
and stay they would say ein karem it's
just such a beautiful place
we're going to go there we're going to
go to beersheba
and also to the valley of ilah and as
well the pool of bethesda the western
wall the garden tomb
and just just uh all of the major sites
we're going to catch them
as well as i believe we'll also catch
some special things
so my friends i want you to just mark
that on your calendar
and as soon as registration opens we'll
have more information about that
very soon within just two or three days
i want you to get registered as quickly
as possible again the dates are may 16.
through the 26th
2022 praise the lord i'm just i'm
looking right now at some of the hotels
i'm not going to tell you what they are
but they're all
they're they're hand selected they're
beautiful it is going to be
so much fun i want to see you there
please pray about that and come with us
and get registered it's going to be a
glorious time
now i would also like to say thank you
for all of those that sowed
special passover seeds into the ministry
and also the passover seed uh basically
it's about to get real which is what
took place with peter
when he experienced angelic deliverance
i just want you to know
i have held um the papers
that shows me every single person who is
given
uh into that offering your name how much
you gave and i'm praying
i'm praying over everybody that's sown
into that and while
i'm believing god to do a great
harvest in your life i also want us to
stay focused
on a project that we need to be faithful
with and that is the completion
of the parking lot project now the good
news is
is that we are right in the low 17 000
area right now we're moving and we're
moving quick praise the lord
let's close this out i would like to ask
you to sow your best
seed into the parking lot project
and we're going to have the entire
parking lot resurfaced it's going to
look
brand new because it will be brand new
and as you know
with the ministry property we're taking
it through another
phase of beautification and we want this
property
to represent christ with beauty praise
the lord
thank you thank you thank you and may a
harvest of beauty
come back so that your whole life is
beautiful in every
facet so i i would just like to ask you
to prayerfully
consider sowing something special so
that i can get on the phone
and call the pavers and say come on
praise the lord whew
praise god amen they're good christian
paving company so thank you for
sewing into that and we are going to get
that completed
together praise god father bless your
people as they sow
bless your people as their sowing seed
let their lives be beautiful
in every facet of their walk with you of
their relationships
every every aspect of their life let it
reflect quality and excellence
thank you father in jesus name we pray
amen hallelujah happy i feel like
praying a lot today
all right now we're gonna go to
philippians chapter four
and let me jump into this by saying some
years back
i was hanging out with a very dear
friend of mine dr wade taylor
and dr taylor he's in heaven now he
lived his life out
had a very fruitful a very effective
ministry
and wade had a very funny sense of holy
spirit humor it would be more of like a
dry type humor but it was still anointed
of the holy spirit
and it would always make you laugh and
he had a lot of these little catch
phrases that
that were unique to him and one time we
had got finished uh
eating like at a minister's dinner
ministers conference or something like
that and so the dinner's over
and uh we were walking away from the
table and i said
wait are you full is there anything else
that you want do you need dessert or
anything else
he said no he said stephen i'm all fed
up
he said i am fed up
and it kind of had a dual meaning yes he
had enough to eat
but there also can be uh these
areas where you can sense
that something is causing you to be a
little bit
frustrated and there are solutions
spiritual solutions to dealing with that
and uh wait a
way to always have these funny
statements like that so i remember one
time i was talking with him
and i was i was this time i was being
kind of serious and i said wade
you know i've heard a lot of ministers
say that they've met you and they
they consider you to be a very very
humble man
he said yes he said i'm very proud about
that
so he had a way of cancelling things out
in a very non-dramatic way but sometimes
a very silly and funny way
and uh a great man great man in the lord
now this thing sometimes feeling
fed up the way that you deal with that
is that you must
climb up if you ever have
inner frustration and and you know it's
there something is maybe
uh it's not moving the way that you
think it should
or it's being delayed and you you don't
understand why
or it's it's just not going the way that
you would prefer it to go
and so there can come these feelings of
maybe we could call it frustration
maybe even it can even lead into anxiety
or anxiousness
we have means
to cancel that out and
let's talk about it today because when
you ever
are fed up you need to learn to
climb up and when you do that if you do
that
then you will find your happy spot
praise the lord
now philippians chapter 4 verse
6 be anxious for nothing
but in everything by prayer and
supplication supplication is basically
making requests to god that's all
supplication is
i think it's i think it's funny because
sometimes in the church
we have a mindset that if we if we're
ever going to have a prayer meeting
together
for some reason we all think that we
have to label the media or
the meeting like an intercessory prayer
meeting
but i have found that there are times
when the holy spirit leads the meeting
and there are times there's not that
much interceding
sometimes it's more supplicating it's
more asking
so i think we really need to just let
the holy spirit lead the prayer meetings
and there certainly will be times where
you intercede
but there's other times when you are
making supplication and that's basically
bringing requests
before the lord and they could be
requests that you have upon your heart
or or that of others and maybe you're
joining together
uh to pull for a person or then and then
that then the team pulls for another
person
so that's what supplication is it's
making requests to god
be anxious for nothing but in everything
by prayer and supplication
with thanksgiving let your requests
be made known to god so you have to make
them
known to god now there are those that
are young in the faith
that uh you know they'll kind of uh but
they'll
they think and it's an it's an
intellectual way of thinking
they think well if god knows everything
which he does then why do i need to make
my request known to him if he already
knows what they are well
first of all god made the rules of
prayer and
if we want to have prayers answered we
have to present
prayers to him so we just walk this out
the way god set it up
and also as i know
so many of you are aware of it's not
just about getting
a prayer answered although that's why
we're praying
but it's also the process that you go
through of spending time with god
of the fellowship of learning his ways
of learning the guidance and the leading
of the holy spirit
that in some ways has just as much
value if not more than the actual prayer
being answered it's what takes place
while you're there with him
praying so that's one of the reasons why
we are instructed to
make them known to god because in that
process of making them known
we actually get to know him
praise the lord and that is something
that is always
wonderful now we could ask the question
uh when it says be anxious for nothing
we could ask the question
what causes anxiety and it could be
answered different ways it could be
maybe something's delayed again things
aren't going the way that we think they
should
or there could just be a sense of
frustration because maybe you can't even
quite put your finger on what it is
but you know that it's not the way
it you want it to be in other words
you're not happy with
it and when you have that sense of
i i actually call it being fed up then
what you need to do is you need to
learn to climb up let me talk about that
just for a moment
when we go and pray we are dealing with
our anxieties
our cares and our concerns
from a spiritual position of ascending
that's what happens when we start to
pray now you may not feel like that when
you first start praying
you may even feel like you're squirming
around and nothing really is happening
but something is and what's really
taking place is that
you are climbing up through the cloud
coverage
and it's just like an airplane on a
cloudy day
that you can take off in a city that's
totally covered with clouds maybe even
drizzly or raining or something like
that but you know what
in about 20 minutes you're going to be
taught you're going to be on top of
all of that cloud layer and up above it
there's nothing but
sunshine there's no higher you go
there's no clouds
yes clouds can go pretty high but they
can only go so high
and you can climb above them praise the
lord and so that's what's going on
as you begin to pray and you begin to
present these things
to the lord as you start ascending you
start going
up through the cloud coverage now
you have to keep going through the cloud
coverage until you break
into the open blue skies
praise the lord in other words keep
praying
until you have made your request
known you just need to lay it all out
there before the lord
and if something is bugging you and
you're just like lord this is not right
this is not the way this is supposed to
be i thought this was going to turn out
differently
then you need to keep praying keep
presenting
the way you want it to be before the
lord and don't rush because you can't
rush it
because if you try to rush you may
realize the cloud
coverage is denser than what you thought
so just settled in
and keep climbing because eventually you
are
going to get through your prayer your
prayers
are like the the jet engines they're
creating thrust
but just keep them on and keep climbing
and you're going to pop through
and into the clear praise the lord now
keep praying until your requests are
fully
made known to the lord and then when you
have done that fully
and you can't you can't uh
put a time on that it could be different
sometimes you're through the clouds in
five minutes and sometimes you're
you're 40 minutes and you're still like
whoo glory i mean you're still
trying to just get any sense of the
lord's presence or any sense of breaking
through
but just keep going every day is
different every every prayer session is
going to be different
but my friends when you pop through the
clouds
you pop into verse 7 which says
and the peace of god which surpasses or
goes beyond
all understanding will guard your hearts
and minds through christ jesus
so we have verse six
the time of praying of supplicating
making our request
known to the lord and you stay with that
and then
eventually you move into verse seven and
you sense
you finally sense the peace rush in and
sometimes it can sneak up on you
and you realize i have no anxiety
anymore
i'm happy now i'm not frustrated about
anything anymore
so sometimes you can sneak in and you
don't even notice when that actually
took place
but there are other times when you like
oh it just it just shifted wow
well when it shifts don't leave stay
there
and go further into the presence of the
lord enjoy
the lord and he will offer
insights that will bring clarity to you
now i have found
that this piece that is mentioned in
verse 7
that goes beyond all understanding
this piece is often released by gaining
a clearer understanding really of what
it is we really want
we can make requests to the lord and we
can actually be
moving in the right direction
but sometimes those requests although we
may think so
they're actually not refined enough and
while we think they're on target
they could be shooting in the right area
but they're not hitting the bull's-eye
that's also why we sometimes have this
inner frustration
because we're targeting something and
it's actually the right type of target
but it's it's still it's still not
hitting that red dot
praise god now when you climb up in
prayer
when you ascend in prayer and you have
that shift
and you move into verse seven you now
are in a different direction it's the
same direction
but it's a direction that's different in
the sense that it is now
becoming refined and this is
this piece ties in so often
with a clearer understanding and it's
that understanding
that releases peace i want to see if i
can
open this up a little bit more to your
understanding
by showing you another scripture in the
same vein the same flow
proverbs chapter 10
proverbs 10 verse 23
to do evil is like sport
to a fool have you ever had somebody do
something
really stupid and you thought it was
real then they tell you oh it's just a
joke i was just joking
and you're like that's that's not funny
uh
that could have caused an injury
somebody could have got hurt
but yet you have people like that to do
evil is like sport
to a fool they do crazy things they take
unnecessary risk
and they think it's a joke but it could
hurt them it could hurt somebody else
so those would be foolish type of people
but a man of understanding
has wisdom i know today i'm talking to
those who have understanding
who have wisdom and you value it
and you want to increase it but a man of
understanding has wisdom
the fear of the wicked will come upon
him and that is going to happen to the
wicked
but it says here in the latter part of
verse 24
and the desire of the righteous
will be granted the desire
of the righteous your desire
will be granted praise the lord now
let's talk again about removing the
inner frustration by going up
in prayer and presented it again to the
lord
and the lord brings clearer
understanding he brings refinement
ah that releases peace and you begin to
see that the desire
of the righteous will be granted see
god's not saying no
god's not saying no but you have to
climb up
and you have to stay see you have to
build your faith up
but so often when you build your faith
up and your faith
begins to reach that point you know what
happens
this has happened many times to many
mature prayer warriors
when you actually get your faith up for
it and you
actually climb up on to that level where
you know you can take it
you know what happens so often you
you're gonna be on that level and you're
gonna get something but it's not the one
that you thought
why because god has
he has something that actually would fit
you better and he's trying to
unveil that to you because he's
interested in
what you desire
well now pastor stephen in my house i i
need to buy a new toilet and i'm going
to
have to go to the to the home
improvement store and i'm going to have
to really pray about which toilet god
wants me to have
well honestly uh like since when does
god need to use the toilet
right i mean is god the father in heaven
saying you know what
uh jesus hold down the throne angels
make sure nobody comes up here and takes
my throne
i've got to go i've got to go to the
bathroom and use the toilet right
i mean god's not interested in toilets
but but hey
if you want a new toilet get the one you
want because god's not going to sit on
it
now look again the desire
of the righteous will be
granted and these desires
can have a sense of frustration
until you ascend into a place
of prayer where you begin to see
ah my desire is in the right direction
but i didn't refine it enough
but when that refinement comes it brings
refreshment
and it takes pressure off of you it
takes burden off of you
and then you get locked on to what is
god's best for you and it will make you
happy
see god's he's very considerate about
what makes
you happy
the desire of the righteous will be
granted
will be granted to who to you the thing
that you
desire praise the lord
now the clearer you can define your
desire
the sooner it will be manifested
well now pastor stephen i've i've been
in a lot of prayer lately and i've told
god that i want a car i want i'm ready
to get another car and i'm just waiting
for god to tell me what kind of car he
thinks i should get
well now when's the last time god drove
in a car this does god need to need a
car
now jesus i want you to get the father
says jesus now jesus i need you to get
some things done now go over there and
bar
borrow the car from the angel gabriel
and drive the car around go get it done
no they don't they don't need cars god
doesn't need a car
you need a car though and guess what
god's not going to drive
it either so since you're going to drive
it you it's going to be yours
you need to be the one that likes it
you need to be the one that likes it
and so when you ascend
in prayer and spend time with the lord
and present
your request to the lord
the holy spirit will come so often as he
does
and he'll bring further revelation of
how to refine that
so that you're in your happy spot
look the last thing that you actually
want
is something that you don't want
and you take it as a substitute
or you take it as like a secondary
condolence type prize or something like
that because you just couldn't get what
you wanted
the reason sometimes people take a
second best is because
they don't even really know what they
want for number one best
they have never really prayed through to
a point
they can see it in the spirit
you have to be able to see it
the evangelist benny hinn said that when
he was 20
years old now think about this he's 20
years old
he said he would see in his mind's eye
he would see himself in a white suit
preaching before millions of people and
he's
you know he he's only 20 years old he's
none of this has even started ministry
hasn't started or anything like that
so at one time he told the older
minister he said you know
he said so often i have these ideas that
it's not even ideas like a dream
or like an imagination and i see myself
in a white suit preaching before
millions of people
and he said that man told him you know
be careful because you know
that's that's not god that's you know
you could you lose your mind thinking
crazy things like that
but you know what god put that in him
and he was picking
up on that and as you pray these things
they get crystallized and the more you
pray on it and present your request
particularly if there's frustration
about lord why is it not happening
or or you know so often people ask
beyond
what they should be asking for and
that's why there's also a frustration
because they're wanting to carry
something
that the faith level is actually not
there to carry
and that can also create an inner
frustration and you just want to get fed
up with it and say i'm done with all of
it
no go back in prayer bring it back
before the lord and just say lord um
i i'm i'm somewhat frustrated with this
uh it's touching also the area of
anxious
and i i want to deal with this i want to
bring it before you and the lord will
help you to refine it
and you will reach a point you will
reach a point where
it gets so refined you'll actually see
it
you'll see it in the spirit and the
peace of god
will rush into you and you'll walk out
of your prayer time
after it's all complete and you'll say
it's going to happen
i absolutely know it is going to happen
and that's a piece that guards you
that protects you praise the lord you
think about joseph
and the glimpse of the future that he
saw with his own parents
one day would bow down to him and all of
his brothers
would bow down to him and he shared the
dream
that he had and they thought oh that's
the craziest thing we've ever heard
that's that's
that's ludicrous i mean his brothers are
really against it and jealous and stuff
like that and
even his dad was like whoa whoa now
you've really uh
you've gone too far joseph on this one
although his father
thought hmm he knew there was probably
something to it but he couldn't
couldn't get a hold of it because it was
out there
but my friends i'm telling you god puts
these desires in you
but you have to refine them and you have
to
literally hit it right on the mark or it
can cause
a frustration a frustration
the desire of the righteous will be
granted
and the further you can refine that
desire
not what god wants now we know it should
be pleasing to the lord it should never
displease the lord
but it's not god's desire is the desire
he put in
you well pastor stephen i i i shouldn't
want this
no hold on a minute you should want it
because god put it in you
but you have to refine it because it
could be
ten different variations of it it could
be a hundred different variations and so
you're
you're moving towards it but you have
all of these different options
variations and
different you know different levels of
it so you have to get it just right
and the holy spirit the holy spirit is
the one
that as you pray he will help you find
your happy spot and when you finally
find your happy spot peace
there's there's the most super natural
peace
so some of you have been a little bit
frustrated you've been like my friend
wade was i knew why he was fed up there
was something that he was fed up about
it was it was a thing that he couldn't
get the answer on
and he wanted it really bad and i said
i i actually i actually said like when i
saw him a couple weeks after that
i said hey i said the lord's going to
give you this
and when i said that he said that's it
he said that's the thing
that has been like frustrating him or
causing like an anxiety because he
wanted it because he was trying to
he was trying to hit it but i could
somehow see that that
fit him really really good that was the
holy spirit helping me to do that
and it made him really really happy
and let me tell you when you see it
clearly that desire that god has placed
in you
and it's not general it's specific
and it's refined oh you're hot
you're hot hot hot on the trail
glory to god and you're going to get it
just like the scripture says you will
and the desire of the righteous will be
granted
listen to me today god's not a trickster
god's not some kind of a you know
strange person that likes to get your
hopes up and then
dash them and think that's some kind of
a joke no that's what the foolish do
to do evil is like sport to a fool god
doesn't
play games he has he has humor and he
has joy
holy spirit i i'm i'm amazed sometimes
at the humor of the holy spirit i've had
the holy spirit tell me some of the
funniest things i've
ever heard in my life there's no
comedian who can touch you
but he's god so you keep the reverence
there but you don't
you don't fear god god loves you and the
holy spirit reveals
jesus to you and i but my goodness the
holy spirit he is so for you
he so loves you and he's with you all
the time and he can
he can i've had him say to me some of
the funniest things i've ever heard
anybody say
hallelujah and it'll always lift you and
it'll always make you love the lord more
when he speaks now the desire of the
righteous
will be granted it's going to happen
it's going to come to pass in your life
but the more you can get it refined
until you know
until you can see it and not just see it
see it clearly
and that has a lot to do with what you
want
but you've got to get it right if it's
if you're under shooting
you won't feel right if you're
overshooting it's going to feel
stressful that's no cool that's not cool
for sure so it's got to
be right it's going to fit your faith
number one it's going to fit your faith
your faith is like i can take that now
yes it's something i haven't come into
yet but this is not crazy stuff
this is something i can reach my faith
can reach this so what are you doing
you're sending
you're coming up and you're climbing and
you're like i can get this
i'm not that far away i can take this
praise the lord
glory to god and when it
when it fits you in the sense yes
i like that i like it actually the more
you look at it
the more you like it the more you start
thinking about it you're like
yeah that's it the other stuff was good
but that wasn't the bull's-eye
and so what happens when you're in that
happy place peace
peace praise the lord be anxious for
nothing
but in everything by prayer and
supplication that's making requests
with thanksgiving let your request be
made known
to god you need to spend time in prayer
with the lord
spend time in prayer i mean put it all
out there
do your part do your part and the peace
of god
see then you get into verse seven but
you have to do verse six first
verse seven and the peace of god
stop and think about that just for a
moment the very peace that god has
that's what's released to you it's the
peace
that he has the peace that he
experiences of total tranquility
that is what begins to touch you when
you have prayed
and brought it all before the lord and
it's beyond anything that the earth the
natural world knows
hallelujah and the peace of god which
surpasses it goes beyond all
understanding any type of even mental
comprehension although it'll definitely
touch your mind but it's it's a
spiritual thing
that washes over every facet of your
being spirit soul body
and the peace of god which surpasses all
understanding we'll guard
your hearts and minds through
christ jesus praise god god
has not said no god's going to do it for
you
but you've got to get it zeroed in and
when you get
zeroed in so that there's no doubt
at all zero doubt i'm telling you
you're at the threshold all you're doing
after that you're just walking through
the door
my friends we need to be a praying
generation
um we need to be people that
that do these things praise god and
don't don't allow yourself to slip into
a life where you tolerate
like a perpetual frustration of not
coming into it
just stop and pray and bring it all
before the lord your frustrations
you're being fed up however you want to
word it or phrase it
bring it before the lord and you'll find
out that these frustrations or anxieties
are because
even if you're going to the right
direction you haven't you haven't got it
right you've got to get right on it
and you're going to lock on you're going
to lock on completely
praise god now father i pray for your
people today
that there be supernatural revealing
that will bring that peace so that they
know that they know
let them put the prayer time in
thank you father god these are things
that
are literal walking out the christian
life what we would call this is where
the rubber meets the road
we have to do our praying i pray father
that your people would not try to escape
verse 6 and somehow try to jump in verse
7 without having done verse 6.
so father we thank you that verse 6 is
the solution
verse 7 is the icing on the cake father
let your people seek your face because
you're
longing for them you're longing for your
sons your daughters to come before you
because you're for them 100 and all
heaven
is ready to back them up so father i
thank you
that the desire that you have placed in
their heart
it is going to be granted they have to
they have to have to have it right they
have to have it right
i thank you father i thank you father
god
that as they pray revelation is flowing
and peace is being released frustration
is being removed now father we give you
praise
in the name of jesus
amen now the holy spirit's going to do
some things to confirm
to you that you got it right that you
got it right oh you're gonna go
through the inward witness why because
you have found your happy spot you're
like that's it that's it that's it i was
close i was close i was warm but now
you're
you're blistering hot that's it that's
it that's it
when you get it right manifestations
of how can i say
witnesses um they will come they will
manifest
things will pop up through supernatural
witness that this
is the right path this is it now now
stay on it because it's going to happen
and so you will receive that's the word
i'm looking for confirmations
supernatural confirmations that are
delicious they're spiritual
they're spiritual things that you just
consume in your heart
confirmations he's going to do that are
so supernaturally silly
that you couldn't have you couldn't
fabricate it it's god doing it
to encourage you so father i thank you
as they get it right
you're going to confirm it father we
thank you in jesus name
amen and amen if you're watching today's
program for the first time
or maybe you've watched uh multiple
times
but you've never made christ the lord
of your life why don't you do the most
important thing
which is to have your life right with
god praise god
that my friends is where true happiness
begins if that's you pray this prayer
after me you can pray it out loud just
say lord jesus
come into my heart wash all of my sins
away
i give my life to you i turn away from
the sin of the world
and i look to you jesus
write my name in your book of life and
lead me
and guide me from this day forward
in your name i pray amen
and amen my friend welcome to
the family of god i'm so glad that you
have given your heart to christ
amen now all of us as a church family
let's take holy communion together and
if you've just given your life to jesus
you can do
uh that with us as well i would like to
invite you grab some unleavened bread
and grab some grape juice praise the
lord
and let's pray father we thank you for
the bread
and the juice we bless it
in the name of jesus father and we set
it apart as holy
this is now the body and the blood of
christ our savior
and father as we receive his body
we thank you for your precious promises
in your word and father
we thank you that as we receive the body
of christ we are mindful
that the holy spirit is going to help us
to
crystallize and see
the specific requests
so that our requests are right
on the mark thank you
thank you father we praise you
in jesus name we now receive father the
body of christ
let's partake together
you know when you see what it is
that god has put in you and you know it
for a fact
and you see it so clear what do you do
that's what you ask him for
that's the thing you ask him for
and i gave an example earlier of pastor
benny hen
but another example in his life is
coming to me when he talked about the
time
that he was just barely beginning
his ministry and he had a vision
and in the vision he saw a great cloud
of witnesses
those who were in heaven the saints in
heaven
and he saw this great cloud of witnesses
and they were all
saying ask the lord for
a international ministry and he thought
well
you know should i do that why why would
i do that and they were cheering him on
ask the lord for an international
ministry
and he did aren't you glad he did aren't
you glad he didn't just say lord you
know let me just minister around town
that's enough
no he asked the lord for an
international ministry and the lord gave
it to him
now another well-known minister said
that he had just gotten saved this is
when he was
just starting off he he was a brand new
christian
and he said while he was sitting in
church the holy spirit spoke to him
and said go to the front this is jesse
duplantis by the way
the holy spirit spoke to jesse duplantis
and said go to the front
uh up by the altar and kneel down and
ask ask god for an international
ministry and so he sat there in his
chair and said oh
you know i i don't know if i want to do
that lord i don't want to go up there
and
and do that and uh so he overrode the
holy spirit he didn't do it
but sometime later i think it was about
nine months later nine months or a year
later
uh the holy spirit moved upon him again
and the word of the lord came to him
go up to the front of the church and
this is during you know uh
the service go up to the front and kneel
down
and ask for an international ministry
and uh
he did that time he did and aren't you
glad
that he did that as well by the way uh
the lord told him later that he wasn't
upset
about his delaying and not responding
the first time that happened
so jesse said that after he did that and
had asked the lord for
an international ministry he said
nothing happened for months and months
and months
and he said lord how come you're not
doing anything how why is it taking you
so long
the lord just said well that's i just
want you to know what it's like
uh when i'm denied when i want is told
no
or not responded to i just want you to
know how that felt
i said oh lord i'm sorry i'll never
delay ever again on anything that you
tell me to do
praise god i thought that's pretty cool
and by the way perhaps you've noticed
my ministry name stephen brooks
international
notice it's not stephen brooks local
it's stephen brooks
international why because i had this
thing inside of me be when the ministry
was just getting incorporated you know
over 20 years ago
when i was just incorporating the
ministry um
i think that was 23 years ago
i knew in my heart before i had ever
even gone to other nations i knew in my
heart
that this is supposed to be to the
nations so i said lord
give me an international ministry and
i'm going to name it
uh with an international identification
praise god
and i'm sure glad that i didn't call it
stephen brooks local
praise god stephen brooks carolina
ministry
no it's an international ministry and
the gospel is being presented
to the nations so you have to go with
what he's put
in you and if that's what he put in you
then that's what you're going to have to
crystallize
identify and go after that that's your
happy spot
praise the lord hallelujah glory to god
father thank you for the blood of jesus
thank you father that as we receive the
blood of jesus we thank you that
we know that we are righteous because
our righteousness
is in him so father as we receive the
blood of christ
we we thank you that you're working
these things out
in our life that it's going to bring
it's going to bring a great testimony
and it's going to touch
the lives of many many people
thank you father i ask that you would
lift your people up and strengthen them
father god
to stay with it because they're going to
see your goodness
and they're going to see your glory and
it's going to be worth it now we give
you all the praise father we thank you
for the blood of jesus
in the lord's name we pray in jesus name
amen let's receive
praise god it's because of the blood of
christ
that we are in the family of god because
of our
receiving christ as our lord and savior
and identifying with what he did for us
at calvary
death burial resurrection ascension
we are in christ because we're in him
his
righteousness has been imparted to us
praise the lord
my friends get up get your blessing
praise the lord the lord's going to do
it for you don't be discouraged
again we are reminded in proverbs
chapter 10
verse 24 the desire of the righteous
that desire that god has put in you will
be granted now clearly
identify it with laser precision
and be in prayer and you're going to get
a supernatural confirmation
that you're on track thanks for watching
and also thank you for your support of
the ministry thank you for helping us to
complete
the parking lot project it's going to be
beautiful when it's done
and it's because of you making it
beautiful
i really appreciate you pastor kelly and
i and the whole team here
we love you and we greatly appreciate
you and we're praying for you
i'll see you back next time bye bye