7 Jul 2024

Jesus Prays — July 7, 2024

Josephus Oluwatoyin Thomas Preached: July 7, 2024

Introduction

Please find attached a summary of the sermon that was preached last Sunday – on July 7, 2024.

No man can come unless the Holy Spirit chooses to bring him: You cannot come to true salvation unless the Lord Jesus, in the form of the Holy Spirit, draws you to Himself. And those that came finally, not really called by the Holy Spirit, and will never do anything with the Holy Spirit, you find them falling away into something else, into the great systems upon the earth.

So, true worshippers must worship in spirit, in truth. That means, get into the spirit, heart of it. Get your heart, get your soul in it. Get involved in your praying with God, because He said God is a Spirit, and they who worship Him must worship Him in spirit. That means, you may mumble out a few prayers, but when you praise the Lord, and you worship the Lord, and right at that moment, you’ve accepted the power of God in your heart, you’re praying in your heart. First thing you know, He takes over, your prayers are answered.

The Lord Jesus unites His own through His word: These are the people that believe in His words of miracles, those that do the acts and wonders of the Book of Acts, and the wonders and signs of the Lord, glorifying His name, believing just exactly as it’s spoken in the Bible, believing in the glories, believing in the wonders of God, in all the creation and power of God, they’ll believe it to the letter.

What is the name of God? He also glorifies the very name of God in front of all. He tells them the name of God on earth when He came there.

Isaiah 9: 6 tells us “The mighty God” would be born as a child. In Matthew 1: 21, we are told that the name of “The mighty God” is “JESUS”. In Luke 1: 26 – 35, we are again told that His name is “JESUS”. Luke 2: 11 describes Him as “Christ the Lord.” His name is Jesus, the Lord Jesus Christ.

What I have spoken about my name is true! It is I the Lord Jesus which has spoken unto my people the Bride! And unto them who will take my name will become my Bride. And unto her is given my Kingdom to rule with Me! For she has spiritually married me and has taken my name the Lord Jesus Christ, for she is My own, the very handy work of my spirit! For even now the time must shortly come when I will take her to My palace.

The Lord Jesus will come again and receive us unto Himself, that where He is, we may be there also (John 14: 3). He gives us His Kingdom to rule with Him. We will sit with Him in His throne (Revelation 3: 21). We will share with Him in the glory.

The children of God are called the sons of Thunder: They will believe the word of God. There, He will bring those together, they are called the sons of Thunder, they come out of the Thunders, and they come together in such a powerful movement, it shakes the graves, and they opened, with them, and they go up. That is power. Now, that’s what’s coming.

The unity of the true children of God all over the world: All of the strength of the Holy Spirit will come into that church, and the unity of that church, all over the world, in patches, wherever it’s at. The complete power that God has promised to send, then will begin to be like a great flame. You have not lived, no one, neither eye nor ear entered in, what God will even do then, and afterwards in heaven. But right then, what He will do to prepare their bodies to change. See, you are going through a great, supernatural, dimensional change. You’re going to watch your whole bone begin to light up inside, and everything change about you. And your eyes can see right through walls, and so forth like that. You’ll see glories that you’ve never seen before, all around you. That change, the unity of the believers, is going to bring a dynamic, a powerful, change.

It means, when you begin to see your whole bone begin to light up inside, when your eyes start to see right through walls, when you start to see glories that you’ve never seen before, all around you, the Lord is affirming to you that you will be going up with Him in the translation and that it will be taking place shortly thereafter.

What a blessedness to have the certainty of going up with Him in the translation and to be with Him for eternity, “and so shall we ever be with the Lord” (1 Thessalonians 4: 18).

We thank our eternal God, our Lord Jesus Christ, with all of our hearts.

You will be blessed.
Josephus Oluwatoyin Thomas

Summary of the Sermon

We listened to a sermon titled “Jesus Prays”, CD # 1077, preached by Brother Neal Frisby.

In the sermon, Brother Frisby said:

Many people, they don’t, really, look at the prayers of Jesus. Like in the garden of Gethsemane, they read about the praying in there. You say, Does God pray? Well, it was for an example, in the flesh, as He prayed. When He come, the Holy Spirit rested in Him bodily, the name is the Lord Jesus Christ.

Somebody said, I get it now. The Father’s name is Lord Jesus Christ, the Son, Lord Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, Lord Jesus Christ. So, all three of them got the same name. No, I said all one of them got the same name. They are all three of those manifestations wrapped up in one name when He’s in the body upon the earth, the Bible proves that out. Even though He prayed by the Holy Spirit, He gives an example, He turns right back around and He shows exactly in the first chapter of John, before it gets finished, what name that He is carrying and who He is. He tells them all about that, hided it from the Jews because they wouldn’t believe, no matter what He said, because of blindness come upon Israel at that time. But He did reach on into some disciples and so forth, and then get the Gentiles. It was really wisdom.

Jesus prays: It’s an example to all.

Some of His prayers, many of them’s already been answered. Some of them partly coming on the way, the rest’s going to wrap it up there. Others are worldwide importance, that are yet to take place, that He prayed. They will take place, especially to the believer; His promises to the believer.

He also glorifies the very name of God in front of all.

He tells them the name of God on earth when He came there.

Sometimes, Jesus, to show who He was, He didn’t pray at all. He just spoke it and exploded in there and it took place as He spoke. Other times, He taught people how to pray. He was an example.

The Son prays that He will be glorified. We find out that He was resurrected and glorified. You find out all in John 17, will tell you all about it in there.

He also prayed for His restoration of eternal glory, back into glory that He had in the beginning in the Holy Spirit.

He prayed for the safety of the believers from the world, of the evil that is in the world, the crimes that are in the world, and all of the things that will attack the Christians in the world, diseases, and so forth like that.

Somebody said, where did He pray for His name? John 17, it says, I have manifested Thy name unto all of them, and those that came onto me. I have manifested Thy name to all of those that the Holy Spirit gave them.

Now, to the Jews, it wasn’t manifested. But unto those that God, the Holy Spirit, draws, no man can come unto, the Holy Spirit must draw you.

Nobody can come to the Lord Jesus unless that Spirit of the Holy Spirit draw them. Someone say, I came of my own free will. You might not last very long if you do. But the Holy Spirit, when He calls, and sometimes, people get a little early call, they get a little dip of it, they just kind of dip around a little while. Pretty soon, the Holy Spirit moves, they jump right on in. Other times, it is immediately their heart is changed. And all of a sudden, it is just like the thief on the cross. Suddenly, they are a new creation of God when He comes like that.

So, He said I have manifested Thy name. What’s the name of God? Lord Jesus. He said, I have manifested Thy name among the people.

Before He closed the chapter, to make no mistake about it, He said, I’ve prayed for them, and I’ve prayed not for the world. But in another place, He said, that the world might believe. But He said, I’ve prayed not for the world, but for them which Thou hast given me, so they are thine. Those I pray for. He is praying for each of us that are called by the Holy Spirit. You don’t call yourself.

No man can come unless the Holy Spirit chooses to bring him. And those that came finally, not really called by the Holy Spirit, and will never do anything with the Holy Spirit, you find them falling away into something else, into the great systems upon the earth. He has a place prepared. And then others that had went into there, with salvation in the beginning, when they did have God, and then turn aback around, to hold the people in a trap so they could not believe in dynamic power, power of faith to set free and the power over all demon forces there. And so, they taught the doctrines of men to them.

It says in the Bible, all that have come unto Him, all that have come unto the Lord Jesus that the Holy Spirit has drawn, He said, I will not lose a one of them. You say, well, somebody may have backslid, He’ll get them. He’s married to the backslider. Somebody said, well, they are not coming to church. At the end of the age, many that thought they were going right on into the Kingdom of God will jump off the boat and take off, jump out of the Kingdom of God, swept away into lukewarmness, unbelief and whatever goes long with it in the system, for popularity and so forth like that.

I preach in a dimension that is not in the mainstream of what is popular today among the Pentecostal movements. He told me that. In that dimension, they’ll have to come into that pretty soon, because it is different. Everything about it is different. It drops into something. We’re moving into the hour that when you drop into it completely, they’re going away in that translation, because there’s a dimensional change. What is on me than what’s out there that’s being preached out there. And you see it yourself. Some of them are even healed by the power of God, cannot face that anointing because at the end of the world, it’s predicted, it’s prophesied, there’ll be a great separation on the earth.

Jesus’ prayers, restored in His glory, into the eternal glory that He had before, and that the name of God will be manifested and be glorified. It thundered upon the earth at that time, and His name was manifested.

And then He prayed for the safety of the believer, everyone upon this earth.

Now, the Holy Spirit was sent back in His name, we know that, it’s in John too. The Spirit of truth came back, in His name, to intercede and to do all of these things.

So, He prayed for the safety, that not a one will be lost. Some may backslide, some may be gone for years, but He will hold each of those that are of the real seed.

Some will fall out, sure, fall away forever, but, according to the Scriptures, they went out from us, they never were of us to begin with.

Safety of the believers, sanctification of the believers: For the spiritual unity of the believers, Jesus prayed. Now, that prayer, even in the disciples’ time, was only partially fulfilled.

In the church ages’ time, it was only unity for a while, partially fulfilled in all seven church ages since He left.

Now, at the end of the age, that prayer is going forth, the spiritual unity of the believer, not the make believer, not those lukewarm systems.

Now, they’ve read that prayer, and they said, here, Jesus’ praying, you know that all of us should be one, universal, Babylon, church, and they are working at it, fiercely, and strong, to unite all systems, including Pentecostal organizations. They are working on every one of them to unite, to bring them together, in kind of ecclesiastical movement, ecumenicism, they call it, and bring them all together in what they call a super, master, church, a super church upon the earth. Revelation 17 says they do for a while bring them together, and different Scriptures say they bring them together for a while, all systems upon the earth. Those that disagree are finally, they get a rid of them and run them off.

But Jesus’ prayer was prayed to those that were kin to Him, a kin. Those signs should follow them that believe. They will glorify, saith the Lord, the name of God. Then, if you glorify the name of God, then what do you call it, Lord Jesus, because that’s what He said.

He said, I have came in my Father’s name, which is the Holy Spirit. I have came in His name, Lord Jesus, and you believe me not. Another one, the Antichrist, will come in his own name and you’ll flee after him, and he’ll sit right in your temple that’s restored and rebuilt at the end of the age, and rule over the earth.

So, He prays for the spiritual unity of the believers, that’s John 17: 21.

Spiritual unity of the believer: As Satan, he’s not praying, but moving his into unity of all the worldly things, Revelation chapter 17, Revelation 13, and rides upon that great beast upon the earth, and persecutes the earth, the cup in her hand, wrath, is in her hand, the blood of the martyrs, so forth like that, rides across the earth, and they really believe, when they get all of these people together, that that is the prayer that Jesus prayed, that He’ll bring peace, through all the unitation, of all the churches into a super, master, church, and sit upon the beast, the woman. And that they’ve solved all the problems of the earth; that that was Jesus’ prayer, spiritual unity.

Well, His is done gone by that time. He’s going to translate that unity. Once the spiritual unity of those that believe in His words of miracles, those that do the acts and wonders of the Book of Acts, and the wonders and signs of the Lord, glorifying His name, believing just exactly as it’s spoken in the Bible, believing in the glories, believing in the wonders of God, in all the creation and power of God, they’ll believe it to the letter.

All of the Book of Revelations, they’ll believe every word in the Book of Revelations, every word in the Book of Daniel that some people don’t understand, they’ll believe it anyway in their heart. They will believe the word of God. There, He will bring those together, they are called the sons of Thunder, they come out of the Thunders, and they come together in such a powerful movement, it shakes the graves, and they opened, with them, and they go up. That is power. Now, that’s what’s coming. And it will come just like a storm upon God’s people. And that’s the unity, and when He does, there’ll be different events in the world now.

That prayer will be answered because His prayers, and not one of those prayers, saith the Lord, will ever fail. They were answered even before the Lord Jesus came, wrote down to be fulfilled, He just carried on out. So, that means there’s coming a unity of the real believer, now that’s the real believer.

At the end, the unity of the real believer will come together, and it won’t be in the great system. That’s the wrong way to do it, and that will be proven out, saith the Lord, to my people.

He wants to reveal to His people, He doesn’t want them to rely upon the systems of billions, and hundreds of million. There’ll be millions, I believe, in the translation. I really believe there’ll be millions of people in heaven for 6,000 years too. But at the end of the age, He doesn’t want them to rely upon the billions, and hundreds of millions, of that great system, but He wants to teach them to rely upon Him in the face of all circumstances, just like He is, and just by His word. But look, out of the hundreds of millions of Christians, when He narrows right that down to what I’m talking about right now, saith the Lord, right now, when He narrows that down, that He prayed for, the unity of the true believer, that’s going to bring on down to unity.

All of the strength of the Holy Spirit will come into that church, and the unity of that church, all over the world, in patches, wherever it’s at. The complete power that God has promised to send, then will begin to be like a great flame. You have not lived, no one, neither eye nor ear entered in, what God will even do then, and afterwards in heaven. But right then, what He will do to prepare their bodies to change. See, you are going through a great, supernatural, dimensional change. You’re going to watch your whole bone begin to light up inside, and everything change about you. And your eyes can see right through walls, and so forth like that. You’ll see glories that you’ve never seen before, all around you. That change, the unity of the believers, is going to bring a dynamic, a powerful, change.

And He’s prayed, that prayer of unity, that many overlook, has got to come at the end of the age. They are the sons of thunder, it’s the son of God, natures are travailing, the oceans are travailing, the heavens are travailing. All of these things are travailing. Nature, it says the whole earth, is travailing. And the weather patterns, earthquakes, and all of this uproar, and the Scriptures in Romans says, because the sons of God are coming forth. There’s the unity people, there’s the people of unity, and the people that love God.

And that the believer might share with Him in the glory, or will share with Him in His glory.

Those are the prayers of Jesus that He prayed.

And I have declared unto them Thy name, and will declare it. He’s not through yet, that the love wherewith Thou hast loveth me, see, that’s the Spirit loveth that body, loveth me, may be in them and I in them.

In that name, He connected the word love. I have declared Thy name, and will declare it. And He was resurrected, return into His glorified body, into glory. But, as the eternal glory, He’s waiting, intercession, for the last body to come in upon this earth. Will you make it in there, or will you be swept away in the great systems of man?

The confidence of the church is coming.

It’s impossible to please Him without faith. Unless you believe the word, you cannot have faith.

Now, He said, lip worship is vain. He said, these people draw nigh unto me with their mouth, and they honor me with their lips, but in their heart, they’re somewhere else. They worship, not me, but they worship the teaching of the doctrines, and the commandments, of men.

But I pray for the unity of the believer, not for the systems that’s mixed up and doubt their own word in their own doctrines, that is Matthew 15: 8, 9.

Worship not to be restricted into any locality: But you can pray at your home, on the mountain. Restricted to any locality? He told that woman, He said, No, any longer, wherever they are at, they can pray, no matter where they are at. You can pray in your home, you can pray on a boat, in the sea, you can pray on an aeroplane, you can pray on your job, you can pray shopping, you can pray wherever you are at, in your car, you are not restricted to just wait to come to church, pray anywhere and everywhere.

And I really believe, that all of the word of the Lord is declaring to the people in their heart, because before any great revival comes, a prayer burden will come on all of them and they begin to pray, that they’ll be praying no matter where they are at, because the events are closing in. They can feel coming on in now.

So, true worshippers must worship in spirit, in truth. Your true worshippers worship in spirit, in truth. Not in a form, not in any kind of dogma, or some kind of thing that man has, repeating over, over, something like that, as the heathens do, we find that in many churches, but He said, must worship in spirit, in truth. That means, get into the spirit, heart of it. Get your heart, get your soul in it. Get involved in your praying with God, because He said God is a Spirit, and they who worship Him must worship Him in spirit. That means, you may mumble out a few prayers, but when you praise the Lord, and you worship the Lord, and right at that moment, you’ve accepted the power of God in your heart, you’re praying in your heart. You get your heart in it, and I guarantee you, He’s right there, He’s right there all the time, but you begin to feel the power of God. Worship Him in the soul and heart, for He is a Spirit. Get into the rhythm of it. First thing you know, He takes over, your prayers are answered. So, true worshippers must worship in spirit, in truth. They have to have the truth in it.

God is a Spirit, they must worship Him in the spirit, so forth.

Jesus commands the enthusiastic worship of the people. He wants the enthusiastic worship. He wants the true Hallelujahs; He wants the true thanksgivings from your heart, not from just walking around with your head, but out of your soul, in your heart.

That love, you’ve got that love in your heart, and Jesus said with that name was the word love. And that will be in them, in me, and so forth like that. He said, all of us together. That will come in there, in such a way that it will go right back towards the Lord, and you will be worshipping Him in the Spirit of truth.

Enthusiastic worship, He commands and commends that.

He said, I tell you, they were really making some noise around Him. They were really shouting the victory around Him, and they try to stop them, and Jesus said, I tell you of a truth, if those should hold their peace, the stones will immediately cry out, Luke 19: 40. These stones, if they held their peace, at the moment that I’m at, there’s so much power on the Lord Jesus, that He said the stones will even cry out, that are upon the ground. That if the people did not worship Him at that point, for what had been done, if they didn’t cry out at that point, the stones will begin to leap for joy, and cry out.

Jesus commands the enthusiastic worship of the children. And He said, yea, have ye never read out of the mouths of babes and sucklings Thou hast perfected praise (Matthew 21: 16). Out of the little children, let them praise the Lord, the enthusiastic worship of children is accepted by the Lord, and He will really bless all of them. So, children, you are not left out. He didn’t leave anybody out, not even the ones on the breast. Let them say praise the Lord.

What to pray for:

Ask for the Holy Spirit.

Pray for them who despitefully use you.

Pray that you’ll make it on in and stand before the Son of man.

Pray that the laborers be sent into the harvest. Pray for more laborers to come into the harvest, Jesus said, at the end of the age, into the great harvest work.

And pray for the brethren, those that are helping, and those that are doing this, the missions and so forth like that, pray for the brethren there.

And pray that the Kingdom of God and His will in this great revival. He won’t ask to pray if it won’t be done. Pray that the Kingdom of God come and all that goes with it there.

Pray that you may be counted worthy, and stand before the Son of man. See, prayer is involved in you standing before the Son of man. Prayer is involved. So, its going to be a praying church, a real church today, at the end of the age, is going to be a praying church, and a believing church, and an acting church upon the prayers.

Pray that God’s will, will be done on the earth.

Pray for your daily bread. According to the Bible, give us this day our daily bread, that’s in the Bible. Pray for God to meet your needs. Cry out, say Lord, I need this. I want you to meet it, then go on to other things and He’ll meet you there.

Pray for forgiveness. Forgive us our debts and forgive our debtors. Pray for forgiveness for those that have mistreated you, pray for forgiveness yourself, whatever it is, pray.

Pray for the deliverance from disease, from evil, from sickness, from what Satan can put on you, and all of these things, pray.

Pray for your enemies.

Pray for the revivals.

You’ve got many things to pray for, and besides all these things to pray for, you have the needs of your own to pray for.

Each miracle that you see, each thing that God does, and each power of the Holy Spirit, proves through history, and what He did. He is indeed the Champion and the Conqueror of the earth. And He didn’t have to use Himself as God to do it. He done it through the form of a man, and whooped everyone of them, and left and turned back, and said Hallelujah. Took on the form of a man and beat the devil all up. That’s what you are supposed to do, saith the Lord.

As I have spoken in the very beginning, I have created you in my image, and my power, go for it, yea, I am with you.

Scripture Reading

No man can come unless the Holy Spirit chooses to bring him: You cannot come to true salvation unless the Lord Jesus, in the form of the Holy Spirit, draws you to Himself. But the Holy Spirit, when He calls, and sometimes, people get a little early call, they get a little dip of it, they just kind of dip around a little while. Pretty soon, the Holy Spirit moves, they jump right on in. Other times, it is immediately their heart is changed. And all of a sudden, it is just like the thief on the cross. Suddenly, they are a new creation of God when He comes like that.

And those that came finally, not really called by the Holy Spirit, and will never do anything with the Holy Spirit, you find them falling away into something else, into the great systems upon the earth.

It says in the Bible, all that have come unto Him, all that have come unto the Lord Jesus that the Holy Spirit has drawn, He said, I will not lose a one of them.

What is the name of God? He also glorifies the very name of God in front of all. He tells them the name of God on earth when He came there.

“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.”Isaiah 9: 6

“And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.”Matthew 1: 21

In Luke 1: 26 – 35, Mary was told by Angel Gabriel that “thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS.”

“For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.”Luke 2: 11

I read from Scroll # 35:

“What I have spoken about my name is true! It is I the Lord Jesus which has spoken unto my people the Bride! And unto them who will take my name will become my Bride. And unto her is given my Kingdom to rule with Me! For she has spiritually married me and has taken my name the Lord Jesus Christ, for she is My own, the very handy work of my spirit! For even now the time must shortly come when I will take her to My palace.

The Lord Jesus will come again, and receive us unto Himself, that where He is, we may be there also (John 14: 3). He gives unto us His Kingdom to rule with Him. We will sit with Him in His throne (Revelation 3: 21). We will share with Him in the glory.

“And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.”John 14: 3

“To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne”Revelation 3: 21

In that name, He connected the word love. That love, you’ve got that love in your heart, and Jesus said with that name was the word love. That will come in there, in such a way that it will go right back towards the Lord, and you will be worshipping Him in the Spirit of truth.

It means, when you begin to see your whole bone begin to light up inside, when your eyes start to see right through walls, when you start to see glories that you’ve never seen before, all around you, the Lord is affirming to you that you are going up with Him in the translation and that it will be taking place shortly thereafter.

What a blessedness to have the certainty of going up with Him in the translation and to be with Him for eternity, “and so shall we ever be with the Lord” (1 Thessalonians 4: 18).

We thank our eternal God, our Lord Jesus Christ, with all of our hearts.

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Josephus Oluwatoyin Thomas

Jesus Prays — July 7, 2024

Jesus Prays — July 7, 2024

Introduction

Summary of the Sermon

Scripture Reading

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