Introduction: Summary of Sermon preached on Sunday, March 24, 2024 The disciples asked the Lord to teach them how to pray, and He said Hallowed be Thy name (Matthew 6: 9). Without respecting the very name of the Lord Jesus, you can receive nothing. Respect that name, and that’s the number one. Isaiah 9: 6: “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.” Matthew 1: 21 gave us His name: “thou shalt call his name JESUS”. When you are praying, you are talking to the Lord Jesus, for He is “The mighty God”, He is “The everlasting Father”; realize that His name is hallowed; His name is holy. Jesus told the Jews that He has been in existence before Abraham. John 8: 56 – 58: “Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad. Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham? Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.” Praying is worshipping God, praying is building up the spiritual man. It’s building up the inner man to withstand the foe or anything, darts of the devil. It builds up a shield, saith the Lord; a presence, an energy, a light like a candle that lights up, let your light shines. So, when you pray, you are asking a request. By that, you stop, and you accept in your heart what you have asked for, you believe that you have it. You believe that you receive it because God said so. You hold onto that. Then, if you want to continue praying and worshipping the Lord, and praising the Lord, the anointing will grow more stronger to even back up what you’ve just said. When you are praying, remember that the Lord dwells in eternity, where He already knows all that is in the future. Isaiah 57: 15: “For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy”. Psalm 90: 4: “For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.” The reason why any promise that the Lord makes will come to pass is because, as far as He is concerned, it has already come to pass; it is as yesterday when it is past. He is looking right now at that promise being fulfilled, even though it is still in the future to us. Philippians 4: 19: “But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.” In Matthew 6: 25 – 33, the Lord Jesus states, “Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on”. He also states, “for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things”. It means, as far as the Lord is concerned, He has already supplied every need you will have. He has foreseen the future and knows what you will need and when, and has already gone ahead and provided it to you, for it is as yesterday when it is past. Isaiah 65: 24: “And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer”. 1 John 5: 14 – 15: “And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.” Therefore, when you pray, you are not saying anything new to the Lord. He already knew your request, and if it is according to His will, you have the answer to your prayer, even before you prayed. That is faith, accepting as done in your heart what you are asking the Lord to do, because as far as He is concerned, it is already in the past. Psalm 100: 4: “Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.” God hears this kind of prayer, this kind of prayer reaches God, the one that opens with worship and ends with worship, added to praise and thanksgiving, that reaches God. That is the kind of prayer. Prayer that opens worshipping the Lord, and prayer that ends worshipping the Lord, added to faith and thanksgiving, that reaches God. You will be blessed.

Josephus Oluwatoyin Thomas

Summary of Sermon preached on Sunday, March 24, 2024 We listened to a sermon titled “Effective Prayer”, CD # 1031B, preached by Brother Neal Frisby. In the sermon, Brother Frisby said: Sometimes, people, they don’t pray because they think somebody else is praying; then nobody is praying. But, the Lord will always have people praying, regardless. More than anything in the history of the world, prayer is needed because of the closeness of time and the Bible predicted, and the Bible said, it was the hour of travailing, the very hour of prayer, like no other time in history because we are closing out, judgment wrath upon the earth and the great battles of men, war and so forth and it’s time to pray as never before. The disciples said, Lord, teach us to pray. They would look at the wonderful works that He was doing, creating, miracles and things that He performed in front of their very eyes. They knew no man could do these kinds of miracles and they said, Lord, teach us to pray. What was the secret of such great power that they saw? For a while, it was a mystery to them, they couldn’t understand how that was performed. Yet, God came down in the form of man and performed it as an example. And all things are possible to those that believe, He told them. Allow your faith to work and you can have whatsoever you saith. And He began to teach them how to pray and teach them about this and it wasn’t long till they begin to understand and they also learned the very secrets in power to prayer, in the proper way to approach God. God’s power is released through human faith into supernatural answers. You say how does God’s power work? It works through human, that way, He can work any other way He wants to, human faith that goes into supernatural, that brings supernatural answers back there. The first thing He said, Lord teach us to pray, He said, Hallowed be Thy name. Without respecting the very name of the Lord Jesus, you can receive nothing. Respect that name, and that’s the number one. Hallowed be Thy name, worship it and worship that, and you’ll bring a miracles. How important is prayer? Without it, you will not be able to escape the tribulation or to stand before the Son of man (Luke 21: 36). Because through prayer, faith begins to work. But to believe, one must accept by faith. Praying and thanksgiving is working into the evidence or working into the reality of what you want. The evidence of things not seen, that’s what faith is, a substance there. You can pray all you want to, for the anointing. When you pray, you can pray in a worship of prayer, and in that anointing of prayer, you pray and the anointing begins to come upon you, and the power of the Holy Spirit. Here, you are filling your cup up; here, you are being anointed, and you pray and the Holy Spirit, and the anointing grows stronger. The other way that you can pray is when you are asking the Lord for something and you want an answer from the Lord. That is faith, then you believe. You’ve already done your praying most of the time. And Jesus said, He didn’t say pray to this mountain. He already prayed. He didn’t say that, because very early every morning, He get up and prayed; but He found time to pray. He didn’t say pray to this mountain. He said, say to this mountain, command this mountain, and it shall be moved (Matthew 17: 20). So, when you are asking God to do something for you, that’s the prayer of faith; not just a prayer, but a prayer of faith shall raise him up and the Lord shall deliver him and if there is any sins, it shall be forgiven him (James 5: 15). So, when you pray, you are asking a request. By that, you stop, and you accept in your heart what you have asked for, you believe that you have it. You believe that you receive it because God said so. You hold onto that. Then, if you want to continue praying and worshipping the Lord, and praising the Lord, the anointing will grow more stronger to even back up what you’ve just said. You’ve already said it, now you are praying and reaching on out. Prayer, just for a request at the time. Praying is worshipping God, praying is building up the spiritual man. It’s building up the inner man to withstand the foe or anything, darts of the devil. It builds up a shield, saith the Lord; a presence, an energy, a light like a candle that lights up, let your light shines. You have to be active and you have to believe in your heart as you pray, and as you begin to praise the Lord. So we find out, two ways to pray: one is asking and accepting by faith in God, and the other praying is that you are praying as the anointing moves upon you. And the anointing and the shield of power, you are praying in the Spirit, going into the Spirit of the Lord, building up yourself inside for more faith and more power. Praying and thanksgiving then works into the evidence, the praying is over with. The early church prayed constant prayers. Paul prayed daily for the church, for his friends, for his enemies. He prayed constantly without ceasing. He prayed for us on the day that we live in. And he prayed often without ceasing, in the mind and in the soul. Sometimes, it wasn’t outward praying, it wasn’t loud praying. It was in the soul, it was in his mind, it was in his thoughts when he went to sleep, it was in his thoughts when he woke up. When he was resting, it was in his thoughts. The power of prayer. Elijah was like that. He had so much power one time, even after he felt the defeat come upon him, he laid down and he had so much unconscious power and faith that he already worked for, that when he woke up, an angel was cooking a meal for him (1 Kings 19: 5 – 8). See, it gets into the soul, it stays there too, it’s a substance. Then you have fasting prayer, is the ultimate in power (Matthew 17: 18 – 21). That’s when the devil walks on lightning and flees. When you drop into that dimension, you’re going where Satan don’t want to tread. You can get a lot of things done from God just by praying much, praising the Lord; being around a strong anointing is a short cut for many people because it’s already been done. The disciples were around Jesus. So much was happening through the ministry. They sought the Lord for themselves too later. But nevertheless, the ultimate in power is when you change and there’s a fasting. How much? You have to see how the Lord moves upon you, and so forth. But that connected, then it says in the Bible, because one time they could not do some miracles and Jesus Himself said, this kind, when you are going in there, where there’s demon powers and where Satan’s at, this kind can come forth, He told His disciples, and they had worked many miracles, by fasting only, is what He told them (Mark 9: 29). And as we know, Jesus went in the wilderness and He was in the wilderness about 40 days and nights in there, and when He come out, the lunatic and the demons and the devil, they knew exactly who He was. That is the ultimate now, when you reach on into there. Very few people will reach on up in there. Most of the prophets, now you go back to the Old Testament and you’ll see every major prophet, even though they were a prophet, He called them in deep sessions of that. From Elijah to Moses to Ezekiel to Daniel the prophet, they had deep sessions, although they were born prophets. Jeremiah was born to do that, yet God had that in them to prove, when He come, He was no different than one of the prophets Himself. He was the God of the prophets, and a prophet Himself, the God one. He was the One to come, the Alpha and Omega prophet. John on the isle of Patmos, now when you get into the ultimate prayer, you’re reaching on out. Ministries that are involved in the supernatural generally have to deal into that. But when you do, you reach on out, and that’s where the glory can appear, that’s where God’s presence will usher in with that kind of praying that Jesus did and the disciples and the prophets and glory will come many times. We’ve seen in the Bible upon the mountain, in the Temple and everywhere like that. It’s also done by providence, but it is done, but you are reaching into a real dimension of power. Some people, it just seems they cannot mix it up with that. And I don’t force anybody to do anything they don’t want to do, but I’m just telling you what the Bible says, because some characters are not like other characters. But, you can’t do that, stick to a fervent prayer, a steady prayer, a consecutive prayer, a systematic prayer, where it’s done in the morning, in the evening and you’ll build up like a pyramid and then you’ll have reserve, you’ll have a substance, you’ll have power and you speak, something will take place. What do we pray for? Ask for the Holy Spirit, right off. God, it says, will not give you any different, but He will bless you (Luke 11: 13). Pray for them which despitefully use you or any other ways (Matthew 5: 44). Pray, let’s you backslide or enter into something you can’t get yourself out of, a trap or snare or something like that. Pray that laborers be sent into the harvest (Matthew 9: 37 – 38). He said pray to the Lord of the harvest, which is the Lord Jesus, that workers will be sent. There’s plenty out there doing this, doing that, but there’s not enough of the real ones like the disciples, and there’s not enough of those that can deliver the people and that can take away the oppression, possession or whatever is wrong with them, create what they need, power to deliver, to give the miracle, to heal those cancers, those tumors out there and the arthritis and the pain and command them to leave in the name of the Lord. That’s the one we want to send into the labors of the harvest, an evidence. Let us send an evidence to them, a witness, and these signs shall follow, this is the witness, to those that believe. The sick shall be healed and so forth like that. So pray that laborers be sent into the harvest, that will do some good, even bringing strong, with the salvation, all that’s good enough, but that will reach on out into deliverance, where the people’s needs are met, as they believe with you. At the end of the age, there need to be more workers in the harvest, not workers that are not doing the right things, but the real reality. The real workers is what you pray for, for God to send them among the people. Pray that you be counted worthy to stand before the Son of man and escape all these things that I spoke about that come upon the world at the great tribulation (Luke 21: 36). Pray that you escape them, He said, and stand before the Son of man. So, what’s the last end of the age church? It is a praying church, it is a believing church, it is a worshipping church, it is a church of faith and power that they can stand before the Son of man. They’ll be around the anointing and power. The presence of the Lord is valuable, it is wonderful. Without prayer, you are not going to escape anything and stand before the Son of man. So, when you pray, and forgiveness is also associated to prayer. If you have anything, just say Lord, forgive me. You might have something against a person; that’s the way you move mountain, it said. And forgiveness is associated to prayer. If you think something is out of whack, or something is out of tune, or you said something or you didn’t do just right, just forgive me, then go on with your prayer with the Lord. He will bless your heart. Effective prayer went into the ultimate. And there is deeper, things and walks and places that God will give those that are chosen, those that will seek special ministries. Not everyone is called to a certain type of prophet ministries or apostle ministries or like the Old Testament or New Testament, those are chosen by God. But the people themselves can have great and wonderful ministries and laymanship, they can do spectacular wonders. Before the end of this age, this anointing gets loose, and the power of God gets loose, there’s no telling what will happen on our streets or anywhere else we go, how God is going to move before the age closes out. Who prayed, nobody, because they thought somebody else was. Each of us is personally responsible for God’s work. You can’t leave it to somebody else. If you feel it’s your time to pray or you feel it’s your time to do something or to witness or to testify, then do it, because somebody else can’t do it for you. Let’s work till Jesus comes. The Lord is a refuge for those that pray and seek Him. You must pray, you must believe in your heart. Your part, what you feel in your heart that God wants you to do, and whatever you do for Him, don’t ever leave it to somebody else, do it. Don’t leave the praying to somebody else, the fasting or whatever it is, or whatever God will call you to do, but be faithful. One of the qualities to those that escape, one of the qualities to those that are translated and accounted as an overcomer, is the ones that have the faithful quality to them. It is not hard, it can be a habit to be faithful. God hears this kind of prayer, this kind of prayer reaches God, the one that opens with worship and ends with worship, added to praise and thanksgiving, that reaches God. That is the kind of prayer. Prayer that opens worshipping the Lord, and prayer that ends worshipping the Lord, added to faith and thanksgiving, that reaches God.

I started the sermon: The disciples asked the Lord to teach them how to pray, and He said Hallowed be Thy name (Matthew 6: 9). Without respecting the very name of the Lord Jesus, you can receive nothing. Respect that name, and that’s the number one. Isaiah 9: 6: “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.” Matthew 1: 21 gave us His name: “thou shalt call his name JESUS”. When you are praying, you are talking to the Lord Jesus, for He is “The mighty God”, He is “The everlasting Father”; realize that His name is hallowed; His name is holy. Jesus told the Jews that He has been in existence before Abraham. John 8: 56 – 58: “Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad. Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham? Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.” When you pray, you can pray in a worship of prayer, and in that anointing of prayer, you pray and the anointing begins to come upon you, and the power of the Holy Spirit. Here, you are filling your cup up; here, you are being anointed, and you pray and the Holy Spirit, and the anointing grows stronger. Praying is worshipping God, praying is building up the spiritual man. It’s building up the inner man to withstand the foe or anything, darts of the devil. It builds up a shield, saith the Lord; a presence, an energy, a light like a candle that lights up, let your light shines. And the anointing and the shield of power, you are praying in the Spirit, going into the Spirit of the Lord, building up yourself inside for more faith and more power. Romans 8: 26: “Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.” Jude 1: 20: “But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost”. 1 Corinthians 14: 15: “What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.” The Lord can also lead you to pray in tongues. Our prayer should be for the Lord to send those laborers into the harvest (Matthew 9: 37 – 38) who truly understand the gospel, who truly know that the Lord Jesus is “The mighty God” (Isaiah 9: 6), who the Lord can use to deliver the people and that can take away the oppression, possession or whatever is wrong with them, create what they need, power to deliver, to give the miracle, to heal those cancers, those tumors out there and the arthritis and the pain and command them to leave in the name of the Lord. Paul prayed daily for the church, for his friends, for his enemies. He prayed constantly without ceasing. He prayed for us on the day that we live in. And he prayed often without ceasing, in the mind and in the soul. Sometimes, it wasn’t outward praying, it wasn’t loud praying. It was in the soul, it was in his mind, it was in his thoughts when he went to sleep, it was in his thoughts when he woke up. When he was resting, it was in his thoughts. When you pray in your thoughts, it is as effective, and has the same value, as if you had prayed outwardly. Then you have fasting prayer, is the ultimate in power (Matthew 17: 18 – 21). That’s when the devil walks on lightning and flees. How much? You have to see how the Lord moves upon you, and so forth. Let the Lord lead you on when to fast and for how long. But if you are not able to fast, stick to a fervent prayer, a steady prayer, a consecutive prayer, a systematic prayer, where it’s done in the morning, in the evening and you’ll build up like a pyramid and then you’ll have reserve, you’ll have a substance, you’ll have power and you speak, something will take place. So, when you pray, you are asking a request. By that, you stop, and you accept in your heart what you have asked for, you believe that you have it. You believe that you receive it because God said so. You hold onto that. Then, if you want to continue praying and worshipping the Lord, and praising the Lord, the anointing will grow more stronger to even back up what you’ve just said. When you are praying, remember that the Lord dwells in eternity, where He already knows all that is in the future. Isaiah 57: 15: “For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy”.

I read from Scroll # 23, Part II: TIME AND ETERNITY – (The Past, Present and Future) They are all the same to God (He created time when He created death) What is time? There is no such thing as time with God. (It is eternal) Time was created when God announced death on Adam and Eve. If they or people did not have to die there would be no such thing as time! It would be eternal. Dying produces a “Time Limit” – to God there is no past or future. Everything is past to Him, “He already knows all that is future.” That makes it all past tense! The fourth or all dimensions are only normal to Him, (but future to us) There is no beginning or ending with God. So there is no time for Him, only man has a time limit (cycle) and it is about finished!

I continued with the Sermon: “Everything is past to Him”. “He already knows all that is future”. Numbers 23: 19: “God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?” Psalm 90: 4: “For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.” The reason why any promise that the Lord makes will come to pass is because, as far as He is concerned, it has already come to pass; it is as yesterday when it is past. He is looking right now at that promise being fulfilled, even though it is still in the future to us. 1 Thessalonians 4: 16 – 18: “For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.” Colossians 3: 4: “When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.” It means in the sight of the Lord, we have already been glorified and the translation has already taken place, for it is as yesterday when it is past. John said I “saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven”; “the tabernacle of God is with men” (Revelation 21: 2 – 3). As far as the Lord is concerned, we are already dwelling with Him in the beautiful holy city, our eternal home, for it is as yesterday when it is past. Philippians 4: 19: “But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.” In Matthew 6: 25 – 33, the Lord Jesus states, “Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on”. He also states, “for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things”. It means, as far as the Lord is concerned, He has already supplied every need you will have. He has foreseen the future and knows what you will need and when, and has already gone ahead and provided it to you, for it is as yesterday when it is past. Isaiah 65: 24: “And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer”. 1 John 5: 14 – 15: “And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.” Therefore, when you pray, you are not saying anything new to the Lord. He already knew your request, and if it is according to His will, you have the answer to your prayer, even before you prayed. That is faith, accepting as done in your heart what you are asking the Lord to do, because as far as He is concerned, it is already in the past. Psalm 100: 4: “Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.” God hears this kind of prayer, this kind of prayer reaches God, the one that opens with worship and ends with worship, added to praise and thanksgiving, that reaches God. That is the kind of prayer. Prayer that opens worshipping the Lord, and prayer that ends worshipping the Lord, added to faith and thanksgiving, that reaches God.

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