When God Builds You a Prayer Room | Nathan Thornton by Nathan Thornton First Apostolic Church of Maryville (Maryville, TN) Kind: sermon Scripture: Matthew 6:6, Ezekiel 13, Acts 4:12, Acts 4:13 Source: https://acts238.life/repository/sermons/nathan-thornton--when-god-builds-you-a-prayer-room Published by Acts 2:38 Life from the sermon transcript on that page. Free to copy and share with attribution. ------------------------------------------------------------ My God have mercy. Sister Roberts wasn't just singing, she was preaching. What a absolutely incredible My God. I feel something strong in this place right now. Y'all feel that? Come on. You feel that? Oh, sweet God. Somebody shout hallelujah. Hallelujah. You can go to your seats tonight. Just remain standing. I know you're going to help me preach today. It is an incredible honor to be here today. And uh I certainly take it a great honor that someone would allow us to use their platform to preach this gospel. Bishop, when I was younger, I probably didn't really understand the significance of someone doing that. But but tonight, I can promise you I do. And uh this this this platform, this this local church has created a lot of culture and a lot of churches. And uh I know you've had one or two, you know, naysayers. Just probably one or two, but you've got a lot more fans of this church that have tuned in. And I can I can tell you from this pull pit I tune in quite often from this pull pit it preaches to hungry people. And u you I I can feel I can feel the hunger here tonight. And uh Bishop Sister Carpenter, thank you for allowing me to be here. And uh Brother Ericson, Sister Ericson, I Brother Ericson, I know he don't look this old, but he introduced me to Shell, which is my wife. And uh she's probably not nearly as thankful as I am, but uh I was in his wedding. He was in my wedding. And I know y'all see him up here singing and uh meant preaching, floating around all over the country doing the things for God. But I remember when brother Bishop Cardner used to work him like a Hebrew slave. And uh brother, am I telling the truth? I you can say it now. I'm telling you that man right there is not that's he's not afraid of work. And uh I remember spending a night at his house and he was waking up 6:00 in the morning to go to work and I was waking up to go to prayer and uh I love the Ericsons and Pastor Nolan and his wife and I what about these Hammonds? How many you love brother and sister Hammond? Amen. His father's here, his mother's here. Icons and uh he's man, you you don't age, brother Hammond, at all. And uh he's such an incredible man of God, a revivalist. And uh I don't know if there's a better preacher on the planet than Brother Hammond. Good to be here. to see Brother Garnett and all these fine folks. I'm It's just incredible to be here today and I feel like I'm I'm at the right place at the right time and then get to preach to some of the greatest the five talent generation. This is the double portion group right here. Y'all going to help me, ain't you? This is a double portion group right here. Five talent. I'm a one talent preacher. I sung my first revival and the pastor said, "Son, you you did pretty good preaching, but you're awful singing. Stop it." And uh that's the truth. And uh now I do like to sing. I just can't remember the words, but I'm glad I'm here today. Amen. This local church, the Strong Tower team, music, media, food, everybody. Thank you so much. It's absolutely been incredible. Do you have time for me just to preach for just a little while tonight? Amen. Now, Brother Woodward was absolutely incredible. And uh and I'm going to tell you, he's 63. Y'all remember that? And I'm 23. And uh he took us My goodness, I I if id had a pen, I'd had cramps in my hand. Good things he'll give you those notes if you ask for them. and uh he was unbelievable. Then that forum today was with the Grizzles and Pastor Hammond. I haven't met the Grizzles but a few times and uh there's celebrities in our movement and uh I'll tell you why they are because they're real people dealing with real issues and I thank God for the anointing of God that's on them. Amen. And then to one of my favorite people on the planet is David Jennins. What an incredible singer, preacher. Better person than he is a singer and a and a and a preacher. And to my family, I give you honor. Matthew chapter 6. My beautiful wife and my three kids that are here today, this great church family that's with me today. Thank you for being here. Matthew chapter 6, just one verse. Verse 6. But thou when everybody say when when God has an expectation when thou prayest enter into thy closet and when thou hast shut the door somebody say shut thy door. He said, "When you pray, I want you to get in a closet and when you shut the door, pray to thy father which is in secret. And thy father which seeth in secret shall everybody say reward thee openly." I want to preach from this thought tonight. When God builds you a prayer room. When God builds you a prayer room. Would you lift your hands and your voices with me and let's ask the Lord to help us in this place today. Father, I'm thankful for what I feel in this house today. I'm thankful for the anointing of the Lord that has moved in this place with such great power. Miracles have already happened. deliverances have already taken place. God, you're going to do something in this place that's going to change us. Go into the depths of our heart. We bind every spirit of doubt and fear and confusion and every spirit that would exalt itself above your knowledge. We take authority over it right now. We loose you to do what only you can do. Move in this place. Be exalted. Be glorified. Let a spirit of deliverance hit this house. Let miracles, signs, and wonders be in this place tonight. Let the gifts of the spirit operate. But God, above all else, let us touch your glory. Let us touch your glory. Let us have an encounter that'll change the rest of our lives. And we'll give you all the praise and the glory in Jesus name. Somebody shout in Jesus name. Would you clap your hands like the devil's heads in between them? Come on now. Would you lift up your voice a little bit higher than that hand clap? Come on. All over the house tonight. Somebody shout hallelujah. Amen. I want you to get on board with me right off the bat. You can be seated in Jesus name. I believe the church, the people of God are the most powerful thing that is on the earth today. I truly believe that God has called us to go into all the world and thank God that we are seeing the gospel preached all over the world. I thank God for every median. I thank God for every platform. I thank God for every opportunity to get the word out. Every podcast, every Bible study, every meeting in a coffee shop, every post that exalts the name of Jesus. I thank God that we can affect millions at one time. Come on. Does anybody want to go into the world with the gospel? He said, "We're to preach the gospel to every creature." And he said, "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved, but he that believeth not shall be damned, and these signs shall what? Follow them that believe. In my name shall they cast out devils. They shall speak with new tongues. They shall take up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them. They shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover. He said, "So then, after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, set on the right hand of God, and they went forth." Everybody say, "They went forth, and they preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, confirming the word with signs following." I'm thankful we're not by ourself in this fight tonight. Come on. It'll get better here in a minute, but I got to get you ready. I'm thankful somebody is working with me. Come on. I want you to understand today if it's working against you, it's the devil. But God works for people. And I'm thankful tonight that God is working for me to see the greatest revival in myself, in my family, in my school, in my community. When Jesus prayed, he said, "I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but thou should us keep them from evil." He said, "We are in this world, but we are not of this world." And I'm telling you, when the world seems bad, greater is he that is in us than he that is in this world. We got something wanting to break out in us and through us. I want you to understand today, listen to what I'm trying to tell you. The Bible teaches us that this God's above all Amen. What's the next? Through all. In you all. To me, that doesn't make sense. Shouldn't it be above all? In you all. Through you all. But you got to understand something. God does not simply abide in something that there's not a flow out of. He's above all, through all. And then he'll be in you if there is a flow that's out of you. Can I tell you if we believe as the scripture has said out of our bellies shelf flow really I'm telling you there's a flow of anointing in this place. Oh yeah. Yeah. Some of you you've walked through no telling what to get in this place today. But I'm telling you there's some other students. There's some other young people that are in this placeh that have come through some things. But I'm telling you, God's going to flow through us this week. God's already been flowing through us. I believe I believe that this God wants to flow through all of us. And the gospel ought to be preached everywhere. And I'm thankful for every call that God has given us. I'm thankful for the call. I got my call. really I was preaching but when I went out full-time to evangelize I got that call at the old church first apostolic church I somewhere down here and I was under about 7:00 in the morning under pew on this side of their of their church in revival God told me to step out this place is this this this this thing is real and I'm thankful for these calls that we get I'm thankful I'm thankful that God's calling pastors and evangelists and missionaries Aries and I'm thankful God's calling doctors and lawyers and teachers and I'm thankful God's calling entrepreneurs. I'm thankful for the call of God that's going out amongst this generation. Can I tell you this generation's got a supernatural anointing because you are willing to walk away from things and go after the things of God. Come on. There's a hunger in this place for true apostolic ministry. You're not just going to see what I've seen. You're going to see greater things than I've ever seen. Come on. One day. One day. Today might be that day. Today is going to be that day. We're going to see everything God has promised. I'm thankful. I'm thankful manners can fall. I believe everything we preach. Yes, sir. I do believe there's one valuable thing that we're missing. One valuable thing that that the generation that hadn't been raised around all these great things that God has given us. I believe there's one call that some of us have got to lean into tonight. It's the call of prayer. It's not the call of purpose. It's not the call of ministry. It's a call of relationship with God. And I'm telling you, this generation, the voice of God is trying to preach in every medium that you have. And if I I I people preaching against chat, GT, whatever the hawk it is. Oh, I know. I say that in West Monroe. I y'all went from brother Woodward, Dr. Woodward to lowly redneck come out of the woods falcon villain preacher. I'm telling you, I I'm not scared of chat now. I get everything can be evil. That's right. Everything can be evil, but if you turn it the right way, I do appreciate I ain't got to open up all those commentary. Y'all don't want to help me today. But I'm telling you, if we get in the right posture, we can redeem some things that Hollywood and this world has tried to take over. We'll redeem the network of influencers. We'll redeem podcast. We'll redeem Bible studies online. We'll redeem worship services. Now, I do know you ain't just going to get God just sitting behind a screen watching. You if you just want to have a virtual relationship with God, you're missing it. You need to come here and get some virtue. There's something powerful about when people come together. But I'm telling you, if we will get in the right posture and God is trying to awaken this generation that I want to take you a little bit deeper. I want to get you past muscle memory. I want to get you past the pressure. I want to teach you how to carry the load, how to walk with a burden. Come on. Would you lift your hands and magnify him today? There's something powerful when students get the power of prayer in their life. Come on. In that verse, I I didn't ask you to stand. I'm not going to ask you to be seated. But I'm telling you, the spirit of prayer wants to break loose. And the Bible said when thou prayest, I want you to know today that God has an expectation that you're going to pray. Somebody tell God, "Make me a prayer warrior." Why would we cheapen this gospel just to make it to make it to heaven? I'm telling you, my Bible teaches me that he came to seek and save that which was lost. God's trying to restore relationship with you. God's trying to get a part of your life. I want you to realize tonight that God wants to talk to you. God wants to have fellowship with you. He's got expectation that you're going to pray. Somebody say, "Make me a prayer warrior." Make me a prayer warrior. You want to be a worshshiper, be a prayer warrior. You want the gifts of God to come out of you, be a prayer warrior. He said, I got expectation. When thou prayest, he said, enter thy closet. Now, this is not just somebody saying, "Well, I don't know if my mom's going to let me go in the closet." We trying to get people out of them. Well, glory. I don't get out much. Enter thy closet, a private place, a secluded place, anywhere you can be alone. Jesus, right before his greatest accomplishment, it was to die. He went to pray and he left a group of them at one place and the Bible said he went a little bit further with three of them. But he got to that place and he had to go a little bit further because it's private prayer that breaks your will. And I can tell you, James teaches us about people that pray a miss because they pray to consume it out of their own lust. Ezekiel 13 teaches us about a people that prophesied from their own heart. Can I tell you, we got to be very careful when we start believing God's just going to give us the desires of our heart when we've not been in relationship with him and we've not been submitted to him and we're not trying to die out to him. There's some things that only lonely prayers going to get you. Holy prayer that you pray by yourself only getting in a secret place with God. If you want your will broke, you're not going to break it down here shouting. You're going to have to break it down here in a private prayer meeting. Somebody say, "It's private prayer meeting. We got to get into these private places." Come on. How private does it need to be? Yeah. He said, "When you go," he said, "When you go into this closet, I want you to shut the door. I don't want anything in there with you. I know you take your cell phone to your bath, to the bathroom, but you don't need to take it to your prayer room." Boy, I got a good denominational head knob on that one. I said, I know you take it to your bathroom probably. You can't even get out of your bed, walk to the table. You can't get out of your car. You going to take it wherever you want to go. Well, I'm telling you, let's leave it out of our prayer room. Why? Cuz we got to shut the door on some things. Can I obey God? Let me tell you something. We got a generation that every door in the world is open. And everybody's praying if God open the door. If God would open a door, if God would open a door. But we got people looking for open doors that don't know how to shut the door. And I can tell you, if you don't know how to shut the door, you're going to walk through the wrong open door. Come on. I'm not looking for a better gig. I'm not looking for God to promote me. I'm getting in a secret place where God can flow out of me. I'm going to a place of no distraction. I'm going to a place where there's no devil. I'm going to I'm going to shut the door. Look at your neighbor and say, "Shut the door." Come on, shut the door. Young people, shut the door. Let me tell you something. When I got in church, my grand my my parents backslid. I can't remember. They backslid several times, but I wasn't raised in church. And when I got in church, oh God, I was so confused because I was I was feeling something at the church and I was going home and I wasn't feeling the same thing. And my precious grandmother, she said, "Nathan, you got to understand something about God." She said, "You got to get along with God." And she taught me how to meet him somewhere. Are you hearing me today? And I'm going to tell you that meeting place was a place that took care and covered me. I heard the voice of God in those times that it was stronger than the feelings of depression and fear and the chaos I was living in. My parents was going through a divorce. I didn't know where to turn. I felt like if I loved one, I didn't love the other. I didn't know what to do. But I could go to that secret place. Are you hearing me today? I could shut the voice of the world off. I could get to a place where I could find the peace of God. I didn't have to understand it. I found the peace of God. Come on. Is there anybody in this place that says, "I want to shut the door. That widow husband died. She don't know. She needs a miracle." God said, "Get your sons. The creditors come to get your sons. Get your sons. Get every vessel. bring them in the house. And then what he says, "Shut the door." And when they shut the door, God filled up the vessel. Yes, sir. Reason why you're half empty on Monday is because you ain't got a place that you can shut the door. Come on. Come on. Can I tell you? You want to know what God does through shut doors? God deals with you. God prepares your mind. God prepares your spirit. Throw Acts 12, I mean Acts 4 and 12, I think it is. Throw it on the screen. I'm sorry I didn't get it to you. Isn't this media team unbelievable? I swear neither is there salvation. Anybody believe that? And any other. For there is none other name under heaven given among men. Come on. Whereby we what? Hey, if you can't shout over that, don't be shouting over no music. That right there will save you. Go. 13. Neither salvation salvation any other. For there is none other name. Come on. There is none other name given under heaven among men whereby we must be saved. Come on. Verse 13. Now when they saw the boldness, everybody say boldness. When they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they had they marveled. They took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus. Now, let me set the deal. They're mad at them because they're preaching about Jesus. They're mad because they're preaching about a miracle, God, a healing God. I'm going to tell you, we don't need just any kind of boldness in the apostolic movement. We need apostolic boldness. You're not hearing me. Anybody, anybody can post something to try to shake somebody or get their attention online. But I'm going to tell you something about apostolic boldness. It's wrapped with humility. It's wrapped in the love of God. It come on. They looked at them and said, "Man, these are unlearned men. They don't walk in wisdom. They don't have a bunch of knowledge. But this thing that we know, they've been with Jesus. And I'm telling you, when you get in the secret place, God will reveal to people that there's something about you. Come on, anybody say, "God, do it in my friend group. Do it in my neighborhood. Do it." How many of you got a a a parent that's not in church? Raise your hand. How many you got got a parent that's not in church? Look around this meeting. You got a you got you got a mom or dad that's not in church. I'm going to tell you right now. I had them. My mom's prayed back through. My dad hadn't, but he's on his way. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. I don't You ain't hear me today. Yeah. Yeah. I walked in, my eyes swollen, done prayed through to the Holy Ghost. And when I walked in that house to tell them I was going to eat. I drove all the way home to tell them I got the Holy Ghost to go eat with the kids from our church, they cried. You want to know why? Because they knew. They knew what I had gotten. They had it before. Come on. I'm Listen to me, young people. Listen to me. Students, listen to me. College and career. Make up in your mind in this place. I'm going to be bold, but it's going to be because I've been in a secret place. It's going to be apostolic boldness. We're not going to listen to people that's naysaying, talking about us, laughing at us. We're going to pray through the hungry. We're going to lift. I'm almost free. You want to know what happens here? You want to know what happens here when you build this secret place? When you build this place, you know what God does? He builds us prayer rooms. See, what some of you don't even know is your circumstance that you're in right now, that's a prayer room God built for you. You think it's nothing but fear, turmoil, and doubt. No, no, no, no. God made you just for that room. All right, here. I'm gonna tell you, listen to me, brother Rodriguez. One of the worst things, one, one of the one of the one of the things that people don't take in account is when God shows you where you're going, he just says, "Let's go to this side over here." But he don't tell you all the pain and the trouble. Woo! Nobody wants to help me today. Everybody wants a book of Acts, but they want it in a coffee shop with an Instagram photo. But what made the book of Acts was when they come out of secret prayer. You ain't want to help me. How do you think the day of Pentecost happened? They come out of a prayer meeting. When they come out of that upper room, people were laughing at them, talking about them. They were saying, "My God, these people are drunk." But before long, they were saying, "What in the world meanth this?" I'm telling you, we've got something that's greater than anything in this world. We've got some I want to what mean at this moment? I want somebody say, "What do I need to do to be saved?" You need to repent of your sins. You need to be baptized in Jes. I tell you, when you build one, God will overflow into the streets. Oh, pastor, I don't know if I need to go to pre-ervice prayer. Yeah, we're building prayer rooms. Why? Because we want God to build us one. Daniel, what are you doing? Oh, I'm praying. How the enemy said, "How are we going to get Daniel?" Only way we're going to get Daniel is we if we come against the covenant of his God. Daniel was so good with secret prayer that the only way they felt like they could get him. Come on was to make laws against his covenant with God. And Daniel said, "I don't care. I'm going to my secret place." And prayer opens windows. I know that window was open, but I can tell you I ain't met nobody could shut a window when people prayed. I Come on. Y'all ain't hearing me. I had a man walk in my church. I had a man walk in walk in my church New Year's Eve walked in my office real bold slam open the door. If he's watching, I love you. God bless you. Come back. He walked in there. He said, "Hey, I wanted you to know uh I'm not coming back." I was like, "Well, at least you come here. Tell me." That's great. you know, I said, "Man, did did I do something?" "Well, yeah." Yeah. I listened to him. I was like, "Well, you know, I'm so sorry. I didn't I didn't, you know, I didn't mean, you know, to hurt your feelings or here I am trying to trying to help." He took this took this envelope and he slid across that table and he said, "You're probably going to be missing that. You you probably going to be missing that." And you know, I didn't know what to say. I was young and dumb. When you're young and dumb, better thing, best thing to do is not talk. And I had enough wisdom about to say nothing. I didn't say nothing. I just said, "Man, I love you." I said, "Where you going?" He told him, I said, "Please don't go there." Tears start coming down. I said, "Would you please go to an apostolic church?" I said, "I know you feel divided from this church, but why would that make you divide the God in?" Okay. Come on. He walked out, went and Lord got me good. And I was sitting there fussing, complaining. I said, "I ain't even going to cash this check." But sometimes wisdom, wisdom outweighs ignorance. I was like, "Yeah, I'm going to put this check in the bank one more time in Jesus name." Y'all hear me? And God started working me over. He said, "Son, pray." And I started praying. He said, "Son, it's not your job to save them." I put you here for a purpose. And he said, "I'm telling you, you can pray and I'll continue to deal with that man. And I'll continue to reach for his family." Oh, yeah. You want to know why? Because if we'll let God turn something into a prayer meeting, we'll see revival. People that walked away from it, we'll see. Are you hearing me today? Those those and I'm I'm hurrying. Musicians, come on. I'm going to try to I'm going to try to get this rock in here right now. I'm going to tell you something. These these apostles were so powerful because they allow God to lead them. They got out of private prayer and they went to where they were supposed to go. And I'm going to tell you something about God. Listen to me students. When you build a private prayer room, God will put you in places. Oh, Paul and Silas, all they were doing was preaching. Huh? Son, I preached I'm talking about I preached a hum dinger a couple weeks ago. I'm telling you, it wasn't it wasn't no Bishop Carpenter or Brother Grizzle or Brother Hammond. It wasn't none of these great preachers, Brother Rodriguez, all these great preachers around me today. But I'm telling you, when I walked out of there, I mean, I got to my office, I went, filing that one back. That's a good one. I'm sitting in my chair. Knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock I'm like and you tell when somebody's knocking on the door where's the voice of blessing and they come in there and they say I can't believe you'd say this and went down there and I was like well I did say that I was thinking in my mind now if they're watching they probably didn't know I was thinking this but I was thinking in my mind maybe that thing wasn't that good. Maybe the goosebumps outweighed the substance. They started telling me, you know, I didn't like this. I didn't like that. I didn't like this. I shut that door and I started praying. I said, "Oh, God, what in the world? I man, I felt it. God, these ain't bad people. What's going on? I don't understand it." The next morning they call and I was like oh great. I said hello. You know you tried to sound like you've been praying. Hello. Actually I had prayed. I said hello. He said pastor I just wanted to call you and tell you why I told you what I told you. And I'm thinking you don't need to. He said, "I told you that because you were preaching right to me and my wife kept telling me." And he said, "It made me mad." He said, "But you know, I got up this morning and I went to a little room that I hadn't been to in months to pray." And he said, "God started telling me that I wasn't that bad of a man and that I still had something inside of me. You ain't hearing me. Come on. When it's apostolic boldness, come on. It'll take It'll take It'll soften the blow. I'm telling you, church. We got the We don't need to apologize. We just need to keep on preaching to hungry people. I'm telling you, this word can make people that are not hungry hungry again. I close it. I'm going to tell you something. I'm g tell you something. God God will do do good things. Come here, Brother Hammond. Would you sit right here? Just sit down right there. He's always using everybody else for illustrations. I think I'll help the church out tonight. Paul and Silas, they get into a prison cell. But you know what private prayer room, private prayer does? It turns prison cells into prayer rooms. Come on. Yes, sir. The pastor prayer can have a praise party anywhere it's at. Come on. I was preaching in West Virginia for Gary Johnson. There was a young man that needed a liver transplant and and the they called brother Johnson said he ain't going to make it. And the doctors told him if he didn't get one in four hours he was gone. So, Brother Johnson's listening to him and he said, he said, "Well, what are the odds of him getting a liver?" They said, "It's a million to one." The next thing they know, they hear horns blowing. Brother Johnson pulled over on the other on the side of the interstate and all they can hear him screaming and talking in tongues and he's running around his vehicle and he ran around his vehicle a few times, got back in the car and said, "I'm so excited because I know the one." Hey, we're not moved by the news. We're moved by prayer. Some of you saying, "My mom and dad are never going to pray through." But I got news for you. The posture of prayer and turn a prison into a prayer room. They got beat up. They were scarred. They were sitting and they didn't start saying, "Look, look at little old me. I'm in jail. I can't believe I'm in jail. What in the world have they done?" Come here. I need a silence, too. Come on. Can you sing? Yes. No. No. That's too easy. Chad's going to be Jesus. He said, "Here they are. They're sitting in there. They're like they're comparing scars and wounds. Look at this. That dude." Yeah. Y'all do it. Help me. Now, this is how you do it right here, guys. When they're using you at your church, it's how you do it. They're looking I can't and and all of a sudden they said, "You know what we need to do? We might be in a prison. Nobody wants Jesus in a prison." You want to know why everybody wants Jesus in a prison? Because Paul and Silas started it. They they they get to talking and they say, "Man, why don't we turn this thing into a prayer meeting?" and they start praying. But I'm gonna tell you right now, you don't need to. Somebody say, "Just pray five minutes." I'm going to tell you, don't stop praying until you start singing. You got to pray until a song gets in your heart. You got to pray until your hands get loose and your feet get loose. Somebody say, "I'm about to pray." You got to pray until a song gets in your soul. Can't nobody can't nobody. Somebody say, "I'm going to pray." But that's not the greatest part. They start praying. They start singing. All of a sudden, the prison start shaking. Doors are open. Criminals are running. But God's people are too lost in the Holy Ghost to even notice anything else is happening. Listen to me. The charismatics, they mock our worship songs. They mock meeting God at sorrow. But I'm going to tell you one thing. They'll never mock. They'll never mock the praises and the shouting of victory. It's got a unique sound to it. It don't need music. It's got a song by myself. Yeah. Yeah. You know what happened? You know what happened? You want to know why we can't we you want to know why we can't keep pray keep from praying and praising? Because you want to know why we don't have miracles in church. Now, this is I'm I'm going to tell you. Come on now. I'm I'm 49 years old and I can tell you everything's wrong with church. I'm kidding. You want to know why we're not having miracles? Because you're going to find out there's some things that are connected to one another. Why do you think God said go when he healed somebody go on thy sins are forgiven. Cuz healing and harvest is connected. Y'all don't want to help me. Everybody else is abandoned. This jailer saying, "Oh God, they're going to behead me. They're going to kill me." And all Paul, there's no lights. There's nothing on. Paul said, "Don't worry. We're still here. Everybody else been shook loose, but not us. Cuz we know how to pray and praise. You couldn't take me out of this church, devil, if you wanted to. Why? Cuz I know how to pray and praise. Hey, he said, "Don't do yourself no harm. We're here." You know what Paul and Silas did? They went to his house and they baptized in Jesus name. But that's not the end of the story. That man's family that had been baptized, they got some essential oils and some water. Come on. They got some healing, some bomb of Gilead, and they started mending the wounds of Paul and Silas. I'm going to tell you, some of this stuff you're going through, if you'll stay in the posture of prayer, God's going to bring a harvest to your family. Yeah. How you going to act when your mama pray through? How you going to act when your dad prays through? How you going to act? Come on. When your cousin, your brother, come on. I feel like shout tonight. I feel like shouting. Come on. Come on. I'm going to tell you, listen to me. I want you to reach over and I want you to find somebody. And I said, when we come back here next year, some of these things we walked in wounded about, we're going to come back and we're going to be healed. Why? Cuz a harvest. Woo. a harvest. Are y'all there right now? Have I lost you? Y'all were doing good. Come on. Can you dance without it? I looked at somebody when Jennins B Jennins was up here. I said, "My God, when he when what he looks like when he's dancing is what I think I look like when I'm dancing." But you know what? I was being funny, but the truth is, Brother Jennings is a mighty powerful man, but you can't dance like me. That's right. Why? Cuz it's my dance. There ain't nothing like your dance. There's not anything that'll bring a loosen in the Holy Ghost like your dance. You ought to say, "I'm dancing for the harvest. I'm dancing for the harvest. I'm going to believe God's going to do it. My will crush s under my feet. Somebody revival somebody more I the under I got I got victory. I got victory. I got victory. I got victory. Victory. I got victory. I got victory. I got victory. I can't crush Satan under my feet. Everybody sing my I Victory. Somebody run. Somebody dance. Somebody glory. Yeah. Yeah. I got a reason. Everybody sing my dance. My will and I declare I sing my I got one more time. My god. I got it. I got I got I got I got victory. I got I got victory. I got victory. I got victory. It's my It's all over me. It's all over me. I got it. I got it. I got the victory. I got it. I got it. I got it. I got the victory. I got it. I got it. I got it. I got the victory. I got it. I got the heat. Heat. Heat. I got it. I got it. I I tell you something. I'm going to tell you something. If you want to be a soul winner, if you want to be a soul winner, Yeah. You got to know how to pray. Why? Because you won't be aware. You won't be awakened. You won't be nudged to the prayer room God's trying to build in somebody's life. I was sitting in geometry. I'd only had the Holy Ghost for a few months. And we were doing a discussion at round tables with different groups in the class. And I was sitting there and somebody was asking a question and I just I didn't know no Bible. I just and I told him I was like, "Man, I don't really know. I've only been in church a couple of months." I said, "But let me tell you what happened to me." And I started telling the story. And when I walked out of class, Misty grabbed me and she said, "Nathan, you think I come to church with you?" She came on a Sunday night. See, I know y'all think shouting's wasting time. I'm just kidding. I shouldn't say that cuz you shouting. But I know some people think, "My God, there ain't nothing to We had a service just like this." And about 35 minutes into dancing, anybody can dance the first vocal, the second vocal, but about 35 minutes into dancing, old mist got the Holy Ghost. And when I say she got the Holy Ghost, we didn't go out to eat that night. We were we were fanning her trying to get her to calm down. We had to call her mama to come pick her up. Her daddy took her, I'm telling the truth, picked her up, put her in her car, and his smoke was coming out of his ears. We wanted to meet Misty when her parents was dropping her off at school. And when they opened the door, brother J, she was still talking in tongues. The mama shut the door, drove off. They called my pastor and said, "We want a meeting with you right now." They walked in there to give give him a piece of her mind, saying, "What in the word have you done to my daughter?" But by the end of the meeting, we were checking out of school to go watch her parents go down in Jesus name. They baptized Misty, her mama, and her daddy. You want to know why? Because I'm telling you, God, God can turn it into a prayer room. Come on. You want to say, "God, I'm about to have a revival. I'm about Heat. Heat. Heat up here. Heat. My everybody sing my declaration. I never got I got victory. I got victory. I got victory. I got victory. I got it. I got it. I got it. I got it. I got the victory. I got the victory. I got the victory. I got the victory. I got the victory. I got the victory. Woo. Listen to me. I'm going to tell one more story and we're going to break into prayer one more time. How many you need the Lord to do something tonight? I feel like we're shouting around the whale right now. I feel like God's wanting to break it right here. Freshman, one of my best friends in middle school. He had he had leaned with the drug and rock and roll crowd when we got in eighth grade. And I'll never forget I was I went went to lunch and I got in trouble. I had the Holy Ghost still got in trouble. Imagine that. Got in trouble about something I can't remember. So I showed up late for lunch. When I got to my regular table, nobody no there was no seat. So, I started walking around to find a seat to set to eat lunch and there was Richard sitting over there by himself and I was like, "Man, I ain't talked to Richard." Richard Ryan. I ain't talked to him in a long time. I went over there to set the table with Richard. I started talking to Richard. Richard, I could tell he was zoned out, which I I didn't know anything about drugs or nothing. I thought he might have been just high or something. And I got to talking and man, the more I got to talking, the more I started feeling the Lord. I started talking to Richard. Tears started coming down Richard's face. We broke lunch. I said, "Richard, I'll meet you after school." And I met him in the parking lot after school. And we got to talking. We went to Dairy Queen. Got a blizzard. That's how old I am. You ought to see my my married pictures look like we were, you know, back in them old steel days. Y'all get all them cool ones now. We were eating that that blizzard and man, I started talking to him about the Lord. Tears started running down. I took Richard to the church. When I got there, a couple of the ministers that were on staff were there and we prayed with him. He prayed through the Holy Ghost. Got the got got got the Holy Ghost. We baptized him in Jesus' name. Here's before you had to sign any letters. It a long time ago. And we had left Richard's car at the school. And when we drove up there to get his car, we got out his we could drive at 15. Can you believe 15 year old's license back then? We walked up to his mama was there. I didn't know Richard had left a note in his bedroom telling his mom and dad he would never be back home again. He never told me that. See, when you build private prayer rooms, God will take you to a place, but you got to be aware of the little nudge of the Holy Ghost. Sometimes you got to get the the the dirt loose in the whale so you can get the whale to come up. I feel a spirit of intercession here tonight. In the next few moments, I want you to just find one person. And I want in your mind, I want you to get some names of people that you know that need a touch from the Lord. Whether they're live here, live where you're from, wherever they might live. I you don't And in the next couple of days, I want you to text them and just say, "I've been praying for you. Now, go pray for them where you're not lying. I I want us to allow intercession to get a hold of us again. there. We are on we are setting at a time where the world is being moved. The world's being moved and the church is being stagnant. But this group right here is going to take us to another level. You're going to get something inside of you cuz everybody in this building wants to be a soul winner. I want you to get with somebody and we're fixing to pray in the Holy Ghost. If you don't have the Holy Ghost, you in Jesus' name, you're going to get it tonight. But we're about to pray in the spirit where angels are sent, conviction is sent, dreams are going to be given to people. Come on. I want you to call their names out. Come on. Call a student's name out. Call your mom and dad's name out. Call a sister or brother. Come on. Call your friend's name out. Come on. Let's let a whale flow. Come on. Let's let a whale flow up out of this place. We need a revival. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. That's it. Come on. Reach a little bit deeper. Reach a little bit deeper. Come on. Come on, mom and dad. Pray with them. Come on. Some of you, let's pray with them tonight. Preachers, pray with them. Lead me to it. I believe in the name of Jesus right now. Yeah. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Oh, something right now. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Yeah. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. It's breaking. It's breaking. It's breaking. It's breaking. It's breaking. It's breaking. Heat. Heat. Breakers breaking breaking. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Something has something. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. We decree it in the name of Jesus. We speak in the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus. Heat. Heat. It's breaking. It's breaking. It's breaking. It's breaking. It's breaking. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat up here. Heat up here. Heat. Heat. Jesus, Jesus. Every storm to fall down when we call the name of Jesus. Jesus. Yeah. Heat. Jesus down to fall down Jesus. Jesus. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat up here. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Yeah. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Yeah. Heat. Heat. Heat. Jesus. Jesus. Yeah. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat up here. Heat up here. Heat up here. Heat up here. Heat. Heat. Heat up here. Grab the hand of somebody next to you and lift it up right now. If you felt the presence of God at all, I wish you would just give him thanks. If God's done something in your life tonight, I wish you would give him thanks from the depth of your heart. Come on. The loudest praise you've given him all night. Come on. Can we bless him? Come on. That's it, young man. Come on. That's it, young lady. I thank you. God, I thank you. God, I thank you. God, I thank you, God. I God, I thank you. God, I thank you, I God. I thank you, God. I thank you, God. I thank you. Oh, holy God. Holy God. Holy God. Holy God. Jesus. We love you. If there's somebody next to you praying, I wish you just reach over. Come on, just look around you for just a moment. I don't feel like God's quite done. There's some praying for the Holy Ghost right now. If there's somebody next to you that's praying, that this become like a web down here. We're in one accord. Just reach over and grab a shoulder, grab a hand, and just pray, Lord. Touch them, Lord. Lord, if they need the Holy Ghost, fill them with it right now. Lord, if they need healing, touch them right now, Lord. If they in need encouragement, touch them right now in the name of Jesus, Lord. Fill him with the Holy Ghost, God. Fill him with the Holy Ghost, God. Fill him with the Holy Ghost, oh God. Come on. That's it. Nobody praying alone right now. Nobody praying alone right now. Jesus. Jesus. Heal in the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus.