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Praying Out of the Tabernacle | Senior Pastor Kenneth Carpenter
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Praying Out of the Tabernacle
- For the rest of the year the church will hear two things: prayer and soul winning — and prayer comes first, because we are not effective soul winners if we are not praying.
- The title of the lesson is simply praying out of the tabernacle: many books teach praying through the tabernacle, from the gate inward, but Jesus begins the prayer inside the holy of holies — Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
- Hallowed be thy name carries his honor, his authority and his character; the name of Jesus means Jehovah is salvation — first from our sins, then from our sickness; he is our salvation, period.
- God does not want a religion or a set of rules; he wants a relationship — the highest approach to him is not the Jehovah titles but Father, and prayer should not begin with pleading our unworthiness.
Scriptures: Matthew 6:9-10
The Pattern Shown in the Mount
- It has always been God's burning desire to dwell among his redeemed: sin drove man out of the garden, but it did not drive man from God's heart.
- God showed Moses the sanctuary in heaven and charged him: look that you make them after the pattern which was shown you in the mount — the tabernacle on earth was a copy of where God lives.
- We have such a high priest, set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, a minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.
- Jesus was not of the tribe of Levi; he was made a priest after the order of Melchizedek, a priesthood with no ending, and he offered himself once and for all.
- The first covenant had a worldly sanctuary; the things in it — altar, altar of incense, throne, lamps, water, cherubim — are the same things John saw in heaven.
Scriptures: Exodus 25:40; Hebrews 8:1-5; Hebrews 9:1
Where God Puts His Name
- God chose a place out of all the tribes to put his name there — not at the gate, not at the altar, not at the laver or the table of showbread, but in the holy of holies.
- You shall put the mercy seat above the ark, and in the ark the testimony; and there I will meet with you and commune with you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim.
- Inside the ark lay the law of God, and the commandments cover three relationships: how we treat God, how we treat our family, and how we treat one another.
- Every dimension of the mercy seat is given except its thickness: it typifies God's mercy, which cannot be measured, exhausted or depleted — and we have put his mercy through a lot.
Scriptures: Deuteronomy 12:5; Exodus 25:21-22
The Pot of Manna
- Before the ark lay three things; the first is the pot of manna: fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations, that they may see the bread wherewith I fed you in the wilderness.
- Egypt was not enough, the wilderness was just enough, and the promised land is more than enough: when the loaves and fishes had filled everyone, the fragments gathered filled baskets.
- But my God shall supply all your need, according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus — and the one need is God himself: if everybody walks off and leaves me, the one who said I will never leave you is the one I have to have.
- The cancer survivors standing in the house are pots of manna — reminders that God can see you through — and so are the parents whose prodigal children have been prayed back into the church: God's going to do it again.
- He closes in prayer: let the first thought in the morning be, Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
Scriptures: Exodus 16:32-34; Philippians 4:19
Scripture index: Matthew 6:9-10; Exodus 25:40; Hebrews 8:1-5; Hebrews 9:1; Deuteronomy 12:5; Exodus 25:21-22; Exodus 16:32-34; Philippians 4:19.
Transcript
I guess I could just say to all the kids quest students come hungry have your Bibles tonight and return with me to Matthew chapter 6 verse number 9 Matthew chapter 6 and verse number nine to all of our guests that are here at church with us tonight thank you so much for being with us and although she's not a guest she belongs to us it's so good to see Arie Malone uh here with us tonight and to have her here and I just love and appreciate area and she's trying to get under the Pew back there area and a Tina just a whole roll of young ladies back there that I got to great it's so good to see you all here in the house of the Lord tonight I'll tell you when brother Malone when he had his heart surgery Arie was certainly there and Aaron her mother just pampered brother Malone I think they spoiled him and of course the brothers we can take that out of him can't we we can we can help that we can help that out if I say praise the Lord 39 years I've been pastoring this church and for 39 years I cannot recall I cannot recall here we are in early early August early August I can never recall when I had what I was going to be ministering on on Wednesday night from here to the rest of the year okay from right now tonight to the rest of the year you're going to hear basically two things prayer and soul winning prayer and so winning and I'm not going to start with soul winning tonight because I don't think we're very effective as Soul winners if we're not praying so let's don't get the cart before the horse so the two things that I want to see if you're listening to me tonight what are the two things I'm going to be ministering on for the rest of the year oh there you go Matthew chapter 6 verse number nine Jesus said after this manner therefore pray ye Our Father which art in heaven Hallowed be thy name thy kingdom come thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven for a title for this prayer it's simply praying out of the Tabernacle praying out of the Tabernacle father in the name of Jesus I come before you I thank you Lord for your love and your mercy and I thank you for God for your burning desire to dwell Among Us Lord tonight anoint my lips of clay God that your anointing would capture our attention and that Lord we would dedicate Lord Our Lives to prayer and to communicating and to receiving your power Lord if you'll anoint me tonight I will give you all the praise and all the glory and all the honor in Jesus name I do pray amen and amen God bless you you may be seated tonight praying out of the Tabernacle now there have been many wonderful books written there's been many wonderful articles written that would be entitled praying through the Tabernacle but I'm wanting to present a different slant on praying and that is praying out of the Tabernacle and I'll connect all the Dots here in just a few moments it has always been God's burning desire it has always been God's burning desire to dwell among his redeemed it is God's burning desire to dwell among his redeemed is not long after Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden as they were as they were driven the Bible says from the Garden of Eden but yet that hand that would drive them from the Garden of Eden that hand was connected to a heart and although God's hand may have driven them from the garden sin did not drive man from God's heart man was in the heart of God we find as we study the scriptures we find as we study the scriptures that God would begin to speak to men as a matter of fact we find God speaking to a man named Noah and telling Noah about the end and how the flood was coming and how to build a boat we go a few chapters later and we find God speaking to a man by the name of Abram who would later be known by the name of Abraham and it was at this time that God began to show in the heavens and stars and Sands of the sea and it was there that God made a promise God made a promise because once again because of sin God's hand drove man out of the garden but sin did not drive Man From The Heart Of God loves Humanity for God so loved the world God loves and his burning desire is to dwell among his redeemed shortly after Abraham would be given the promise that all the families of the Earth would be blessed his same loving God would appear to a man named Moses on the backside of the desert in a burning bush the plan would be to go down and get my people from Egypt to let my people go it would be sometime later when those people those Israelites had been delivered from 430 some odd years of bondage that God would say to this same man Moses I want to give you a vision I want to show you something that is in heaven I want to show you what heaven looks like I want to show you a tabernacle I want to show you my dwelling place I want to show you where I live and the reason that God gave Moses this Vision or allowed Moses to see this plan was that God was going to instruct Moses to a re to erect a similar a similar Sanctuary or a similar dwelling place on Earth God had that original Sanctuary that original Tabernacle that was in heaven that Tabernacle that God pitched that the Lord pitched but now he looks down upon man and he says I want to live among you I want to dwell among you and so God gives Moses the blueprints of the Tabernacle let me show you a couple things in Exodus chapter 25 and verse number 40. verse number 40 God verse number 40 God had showed Moses the Tabernacle plan God had showed Moses it's very important God had showed Moses the sanctuary that was in heaven God had showed him where he lives in heaven and then he said these words Moses and look that they'll make them after their pattern which was showed thee in the mount in other words do it build it on the earth build it on the earth just like you saw the the pattern that was in heaven in Hebrews chapter 8 verse number one Paul is going to address what Moses saw in reference to what was in heaven in reference to where Christ was at in Hebrews chapter 8 and verse number one Paul says now of the things which we have spoken this is the son we have such a high priest who is set on the right hand of the Throne of the Majesty's Majesty in heav in the heavens a minister of the sanctuary of the true Tabernacle now follow that now he says of the true Tabernacle of the true Tabernacle now what he's making reference to there is that they were having a difficult time letting go of the Tabernacle that was on the earth they were they were having they were this is the reason we have Hebrews they were having a difficult time letting go of that Tabernacle that was on Earth with the Lambs of the Altar and Etc they were having a hard time and so Paul it says that we have a high priest not like the high priest down here on Earth we have a high priest who has set on the right hand of the Throne of the Majesty in the heavens a minister of the sanctuary verse 2 and of the true Tabernacle which the Lord pitched and not man the Tabernacle in heaven God pitched that Tabernacle the Tabernacle on Earth man pitched that on the earth verse 3. for every high priest is ordained is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer for if he were on Earth he should not be a priest seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law now what this is saying Jesus Christ was not made of the levitical priesthood Jesus Christ was not made of that priesthood that all the priests came from the tribe of Levi Jesus was not of the tribe of Levi because the tribe of Levi was a tribe of priests that were going to die they were going to minister and they were going to die they would be replaced by another priest but Jesus was made a priest after the order of Melchizedek there is a man in the Old Testament who was not only a priest but he was unique he was a priest of the most high God and he was the king of Salem and the Bible presents him as a mystery man without beginning without ending without without mother or father and and it goes in and it shrouds it in a mystery and it says he was made after the order of Melchizedek a priesthood that has no ending and Paul is talking about we have a high priest we can't see him because he has ascended up into the true Tabernacle and he offered himself once and for all it is the final sacrifice that's been offered verse 4 again for if he were on Earth he should not be a priest seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law who served now the priest here on the earth who serve unto the example and Shadow of heavenly things as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the Tabernacle for see saith he that thou make all things according to the pattern show to thee in the mount and again in chapter 9 of Hebrews in chapter 9 of Hebrews verse number one watch look at the comparison here then verily the first Covenant had also ordinances of divine service and a worldly Sanctuary now what he's just simply saying that first Covenant which is the Old Testament had a worldly or a flesh or not a fleshly a worldly Tabernacle a worldly Tabernacle on on the earth as you study Church The Book of Revelation it doesn't take much for you to find in the Book of Revelation the same things that were found in the Tabernacle in the wilderness and that is there was an altar there was an altar in the Tabernacle there was an altar in heaven John said I saw the souls under the altar there was an altar of incense on the earth in heaven is recorded an altar of incense there was in the Tabernacle in the in in on the earth there was there was a throne that God set upon this Throne was called The Mercy Seat in heaven John saw a throne John saw Elders in John Saul priest the same that we have that they had in the Old Testament John saw lamps the same they had in the Old Testament John saw water the same they had in the Old Testament John saw cherubims the same thing that they had in the Old Testament and so God was saying to Moses I want you to duplicate on the Earth where I live in heaven because I want to come down to earth and I want to live and dwell among my people now I I just want to tell us all tonight we ought to be very thankful that it's not us seeking after God it is God seeking after us because there's times that we don't seek God but there's not been times that God doesn't seek us there have been times we've turned every one of us to our own way and we've done what we wanted to do but praise be unto our loving God tonight when we didn't have him on our minds thank you Jesus you had us on your mind he said I'll go ahead just take a moment love God right now I I think we ought to just love God right now God I love you God I praise you God I magnify you tonight I I thank you tonight God I thank you tonight so when we begin to think about heaven we look at this Earthly Tabernacle and we understand that this Earthly Tabernacle was where God dwelt but now we are on this Earth the Tabernacle has been fulfilled the great God Of Heaven came robed in flesh and paid the sacrifice sin dead ascended up into heaven and this is where God dwells at this time yes he dwells Among Us and in us but as far as the fullness of the godhead is concerned God dwells in heaven it's interesting to note that Jesus said when you pray When you pray say our father Who Art in Heaven now I can't help but connect that not with the gate going into the Tabernacle I can't help but connect that not with the altar that was there after the gate or the labor that was there after the altar or the shoe bread that was there after the labor or the veil that was there after the shoe bread but I can't help but see in this prayer that when we begin to pray that we go immediately into the holy of holies a Father Who Art in Heaven Hallowed be thy name did you remember that in Matthew 6 and 9 Circle that in your Bible he said when you pray When you pray I want you to say Our Father Who Art in Heaven Hallowed be thy name Hallowed be thy name this name by implication simply means honor Authority and character honor Authority and character so as we enter into prayer as we enter into prayer we need to enter into his honor we need to enter into his authority and we need to enter into his character because I believe by the help of God if I can preach and teach to us what God is like I won't be able to keep you out of the prayer room I believe if I can present to you that he's not a God he is not a God that's hard to find he's not a God that's going to run away from you he's not even he's not a God that doesn't want a relationship he passionately burns with a relationship to get to know you and I believe if I can somehow by the help of God if I can somehow teach to the church how burning desire that he is to have a relationship with us that's his character that's his honor that's his authority he desires a relationship with you and with me tonight so when I go to God In Prayer when I go to God In Prayer I'm going to go with the full Assurance I am going to prayer to a god to a god whose name is befitting to his character the name of Jesus by definition is very simple it's very simple the name of Jesus by definition is very simple it simply means Church Jehovah is salvation Jehovah is salvation now you'll never appreciate salvation until you understand how lost you were if you don't understand how lost you were you'll never understand how blessed it is that Jehovah is our salvation but when you realize that we were all born with a cancer we were all born with a disease that if that disease was not taken care of that disease sentenced you and I to burn forever in a lake of fire without any hope of getting out without any hope of redemption but thank God man didn't have the Cure you couldn't save yourself you couldn't do anything about it but a great God Of Heaven that might have pushed him out of the garden but he didn't take it out of your heart and for God so loved the world God so loved the world amen I think I'm preaching up a storm tonight in this place God so loved the world God so loved the world that he would reach out to man is this name this name by by definition is simply Jehovah is salvation first and foremost Jehovah's salvation from our sins Jehovah's salvation from our sickness Jehovah is our Salvation period he is he is our Salvation he said what's so important about the name well let's go back to the Old Testament let's go back to the Tabernacle let's go to Deuteronomy chapter 12 and verse number 5. Deuteronomy chapter 12 and verse number 5 reads like this God says but under the place which the Lord your God shall choose emphasis on place which the Lord your God shall choose out of all the tribes to put his name there even unto his habitation that's where he lives shall ye seek and thither Thou shalt thither Thou shalt come so this is where God lives now please and I want to keep connecting the holy of holies the holy of holies to this I want you to watch this in Deuteronomy and excuse me Exodus chapter 25 and verse number verse number 21 Exodus chapter 25 verse 21. and thou shalt Put The Mercy Seat above the ark and in the ark Thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee and there I will meet with thee and I will commune with thee from Above The Mercy Seat from between the two cherubs which are upon the Ark of the testimony of all things which I give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel now watch God he said I'm going to put my name or I dwell I'm gonna put my name Deuteronomy 12 5. I'm going to put my name where I dwell where do you dwell God never said I dwell at the Gate of the Tabernacle he never said I will dwell and meet you at the gate of the Tabernacle he never said I'll meet you at the altar or I'll meet you at the labor or I'll meet you at the table of shoe bread he said where I'm going to meet with you and where I'm going to commune with you where I'm going to dwell I'm going to dwell above the mercy seat and there's those two cherubs that stretch and arch their wings and meet in the middle he said in that spot above the mercy seat and between the Cherub Wings he said right there is where I'm going to live that's where I'm going to be that's where I'm going to commune that's where my name is this is why this is why now please don't anyone misunderstand me and especially since we webcast I there's been a lot of great books written about praying through the Tabernacle and there's there's all kind of programs about starting at the Gate of the Tabernacle and coming inward but I simply as I studied the Bible on the subject of prayer Lord teach us to pray he they asked the Lord Jesus would you teach us to pray and he said said when you pray you say which I believe he was referring to another dispensation they were under the law he said when you pray I want you to start in the holy of holies and I want you to begin it by saying this our father and again I go back to the passion burning desire of God almighty God doesn't want to have a religion with you God doesn't want to have a set of rules with you God wants to have a relationship with you I love all the Jehovah's shamal and the Jehovah siskinu and Jehovah Nissi I love all of those Jehovah titles Jehovah siskanu and all this but can I tell you I believe the highest title besides the name of Jesus that we can go to him as we can say father he said I'm not after rules I'm not after religion I'm half after a relationship God wants a relationship with his people that go beyond a certain time of the day that go beyond a certain day of the week Wednesday or Sunday God wants a 24 7 relationship with his people and he said I want you to start your prayer by saying our father Who Art in Heaven Hallowed Be how it would be thy name he said I want you to begin in the holy of holies I want you to come to me I want you to come to me and understand that I'm your father now I'll be transparent if you'd be transparent tonight but how many of us for years anytime we go to prayer maybe there's still some of you that are still doing this I'm thankful that God gave me a revelation on this that when I would go to prayer the first thing I would bend down and say is God forgive me of my sins oh God would you please I'm an unretched unworthy and good for nothing I'm a good for nothing sinner saved by the grace of God there I am preaching on the Storm again I'm just nothing but maybe God's Amen in me tonight maybe maybe maybe maybe that's maybe that's it I'm just nothing God and I felt like if I could plead my unworthiness to God I could plead my unworthiness to God that after a few minutes of telling me I'll rot and low down lazy trifling that I am as a child of God then I can get into God I sure do need a job or God I sure do need this and God says stop that I don't want you coming to me like I don't want you coming to me like that way when you come to me I want you to know I am your father and you are my son or my daughter we're going to deal with sin a little later in the prayer but we're not going to deal with it now I want you to walk in the Revelation no come on I want you to walk in the Revelation knowledge that I am your father I want you to praise me I want you to talk to me I I want you to be in Fellowship because I want to be in fellowship with you because the more of you you give me the more of me I can give you the more we operate on this relationship oh I love him tonight I love him tonight I love him tonight you see in this Ark of the Covenant inside this Ark inside the ark was the law of God the law of God that was in the mind of God was inside of the Ark the law of God that has the answer boy if we could just let God help us with these three things the Ten Commandments covered three things our relationship with God our relationship with our family and our relationship with our fellow brother look at this look at how neat this is look at how powerful this is I'm just surprised everybody's not running the aisles tonight look at how this is the answer folks this is the answer think about it if we could be the in right relationship with God and treat God the way that God wants to be treated just don't have another God before him don't have anything in your life that you give more of your emotions your time your talents and your treasure more than him he don't mind that you have things just don't have things above him he don't mind if you have dreams but that's your biggest dream be about God and if we can treat God right that's what the Ten Commandments was all about three things number one treating God the way that God wants to be treated and then turning the number the second thing is is our family relationship he said if you'll treat me right then turn your attention to your family and and children obey your parents in the Lord and he goes into all he goes into family relationship and then the last thing he talked about how we treat one another folks you just realize that if we would obey God what a better world this would be what a better world this would be if we would just obey God and so inside the Ark of the Covenant was the law of God we couldn't keep it we couldn't keep it but it was in the it was inside it was inside of the Ark of the Covenant in the Holy place in the Holy place it was there the the the Commandments that was written that was written with the Finger of God now I got to ask you to go with me tonight in your mind in your mind go with me tonight we've begin prayer we've started prayer father hallowed would be your name and you know until you can you know he kind of gives us a little starter there but you don't necessarily have to say those words you can start off with something like this father I'm so thankful that you're my father you're the Everlasting father oh as a father pityth his children Lord I'm just so thankful that you're my father Jesus Jesus I just praise you you don't necessarily have to start off by saying Our Father Who Art in Heaven how to be thy name but I'm going to say to you this I'm going to tell you this until you can Master the structure maybe you do need to read the prayer to keep your mind structured in in the right in the in the right way so now go with me in your mind tonight go with me in your mind tonight we're in the holy of holies we're standing looking at the Ark of the Covenant it's made of two materials it's made of wood and it's overlaid with gold this speaks of God being both man human and deity he's got a mercy seat on it it's got a lid on it the lid is given the dimensions for how wide it is and how deep it is or how how narrow it is all the dimensions as far as how wide and and how narrow all the outward dimensions are given with the exception of one this Mercy Seat the thickness the thickness of The Mercy Seat is not specified you'll never find where it's two inches three inches five inches it's left out you know why it's left out it's left out because of what it typifies it typifies God's mercy God's compassion for Humanity and I'm glad to tell you that his mercy endureth forever man you you know it's true tonight you might as well say Amen to this but we sure have made Mercy endure a lot of things the Bible says goodness and Mercy shall follow me all the days I don't know about you but I can say it tonight I put God's mercy through a lot but I'm thankful that although I put his Mercy through a lot he said my mercy endureth forever you can never exhaust the mercy of God you can never deplete the mercy of God now friend that's not a license to go out and sin that's a privilege to stand in the house of God and say God thank you that you have been so thank you Lord that you have been so good to me thank you God come on now come on somebody's got to stand and give him praise right now Lord I put your mercy through a lot God I've not always been what I should be but you've always been the god of Mercy tender loving Mercies oh God I love you tonight we're standing there we're standing there looking at the ark we see the ark we see the staves we see the cherubims we see The Mercy Seat we see the dried sprinkle blood that's been sprinkled on The Mercy Seat brothers and sisters I want to draw your attention to something tonight that directly in front of the Ark laying on the floor beside the Ark of the Covenant or three things or three things there's three things that are laying there that God said I want it to be placed there I want it to be placed there Exodus chapter 16 verse number 32. here's the first thing laying on the floor and Moses said this is the thing which the Lord commandeth feel an Omer of it to be kept for your Generations that they may see the bread wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt and Moses said unto Aaron take a pot and put an Omer full of manna therein and lay it up before the Lord to be kept for Generations as the Lord commanded Moses so Aaron did so Aaron laid it up notice the wording Aaron laid it up before the testimony to be kept how were they fed through the wilderness how were they fed when they were on the move from Egypt to Canaan land the land that had Wells grapes Vineyards houses how were they fed it was a miraculous feeding it was a miraculous provision from God you see God would never bring you out of sin not to take you to heaven and so God not only have the power to bring them out of Egypt but he had the power to sustain them to sustain them on their Journey Through the Wilderness six days a week six days a week the children of Israel woke every morning to find that God had rained bread down from heaven the description of it is sweet and the description of it if I could liken it to anything I could liken it to a Krispy Kreme donut every month I got an amen coming out of here now I got your attention somebody's what'd he say it was sweet it was a wafer form and he said for six he said for six days every morning every every morning every morning every morning they woke up in this manna bread was on the ground and um God said that's how I fed you but says you're going to get over there in the Canaan land and you're going to be needed to be reminded that I have provided for you you're going to need to be reminded that I'm the same God that brought you through the Wilderness I'm saying God brought you out of Egypt I'm the same God that brought you through the Wilderness and he instructed Moses to take a a a certain container measurement fill it full of manna of which God would cause it to be preserved and said I want you to put that before the ark of the Covenant I want you to put that before the ark because I want my people to be reminded that I am God that can provide for you and I come tonight at this time in this Bible Lesson and tell you when we know the name nature character of our God can provide for you and I he may not come when you want him but he's right on time our God is more than enough Our God can supply our needs he is The Great I Am Our God and I'm talking about our God tonight when we go to God In Prayer we have to understand he's God look at the Miracles look at the Miracles look look look look at this God help me to remember this brother Elijah help me to remember this but in Egypt they didn't have enough they didn't have enough in Egypt they didn't have enough food in the wilderness God gave them just enough but in the promised land God gave them more than enough when God did Miracles with Fish and Loaves did he just you know what a miracle it would have been if somebody said I just ate my last piece of bread and I'm full wouldn't that have been a miracle for them to chatter I just ate the last fish and I'm full and everybody's full but they were they did all get filled but remember the Miracles remember the Miracles after they were filled what did he say go gather up the fragments that nothing be lost and they they gathered up baskets full I want you to see the character of God tonight that you're not living in Egypt where we don't have enough and we're not living in the wilderness where we just have enough come on Church we're living in the promised land of Salvation our God is more than enough when you go to God pray that way Our Father Who Art in Heaven Heller would be the I'm in the holy of the holies oh let me call your attention to Philippians chapter 4 verse number 19. somebody say praise the Lord Philippians chapter 4 verse number 19 somebody that believes this said praise the Lord but my god let's all read it together but my God wait a minute I stop there is he your God he can't be your God if you don't pray Our Father I'm glad tonight to know he's our father but I'm also glad to know Philippians 4 19 but my God but my God don't know about you he's my God he's my God please don't live your life saying man I'm gonna tell you that God's Got A Prayer life I got to get to him don't live your life that way you've got just as much opportunity to have a relationship with God as your pastor does I don't have the Monopoly on a prayer line I don't have the Monopoly I don't have a monopoly I don't have a monopoly on getting a prayer answered he's giving it to anybody that'll just learn his character if you'll just go into his room and say Our Father Who Art in Heaven look at the man of land right there God you brought the children of Israel out God you provided the manner for them and Lord if you did it for them but my God shall supply all now let me go let me go Zach Hammond on you for a minute how many of us have quoted the scripture but my God shall supply all your needs plural according to his riches and Glory by Christ Jesus how many knows we say it that way but just like brother Hammond brings out some things in the word that I have to go back and flip and says he right and I said man he's right and I wish I'd have said that amen he he's right but he said you got one need but my God shall supply all your one need you got one need and you know what that one need is that one need is the grace of God because he said but my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in Glory by Christ Jesus can I tell you everything will fall in place your marriage will fall in place your sanity will follow me get that right your sanity will fall in place your heart will fall in place your soul will fall in place your marriage will fall in place your family will fall in place your finances will fall in place your life will fall in place only when you know that God is my need I don't need a car I don't need houses and you don't either we live far beyond what we think we need let the power listen let the electricity go out in your house you still wake up in the morning you might be hot and sweaty at all that but you still woke up people live for hundreds of years without running water in their house they live for hundreds of years without cars or bicycles or airplanes or all of that we don't need all that thank God we have that but we don't have to have that but I'll tell you what we got to have I gotta have God in my life I just gotta have God in my life if everybody walks off and leaves me if everybody turns their back there's one that said I'll never leave you I'll never forsake you I'll always be with you and that's the one I'm gonna praise right now that's the one I'm gonna magnify right now that's the one I'm gonna praise tonight come on if you feel that way give him a hearty a glorious a thunderous praise to God Gotta Have you God come on stand up right now I got to have you God come on stand back up I got to have you God I need thee Oh I need thee every hour I need thee I need thee all I need thee every hour I need the God God I've got to have you you're the breath that I breathe you're the Potter I'm the clay if I'm ever going to be made something God I gotta let you make me right now Lord You're the breath in my lungs you're the life in my heart God you're my everything you're my all and all you're my beginning and my ending God oh mighty God I need you Lord look at that pot of manna look at that pot of manna right now God I gotta have you I gotta have you God I I gotta have you God I gotta have you God I got to have you God the name of Jesus just be seated for a minute I want to ask I want to ask you please ham in this room are a cancer survivor would you stand you're a cancer survivor would you stand right now stand right now everybody else will be seated would you stand right now would you look around here would you look around here look around here look around here tonight crank your head around look around here you know what the enemy remains standing cancer survivors remains you know who you are tonight you are a pot of man in the house of God you are a pot of man in the house of God right now you're you're a pot of manna because you know what you are you are to us a reminder that God can see you through that Christ somebody said somebody said well I I got The Big C I got The Big C I listen you can have the Big C some of them refer to it as cancer but you need to really have the ultimate Big C and that is Christ all right and and I can look around here tonight and understand if cancer would invade my body I could look around here and there's a pot of mana and there's a pot of Nana and there's a pot of manna that these people have been healed of cancer if it's God's will to do it God will do it for me if it's God's will now now I want you to remain standing I want you I want you to remain standing right now the cancer survivors because I want to say this because I'm a firm believer in this I'm a firm believer when we pray for people who have cancer we need to pray for them Body Soul and Spirit Body Soul and Spirit because that sickness that has that has come upon their body soon gets into their soul and soon gets into their spirit so we need to pray for them Body Soul and Spirit they're not here tonight they're not here tonight you're looking at men and women who got a temporary healing all right you're looking at pots of manna that got a temporary healing but sprinkled through cemeteries throughout Blount County are people who love God just as much as every man and woman love God had Faith just as like much as everybody else but God chose to give them the ultimate healing the Bible says precious in the eyes of the Lord is the death of his Saints is the death of his Saints I just want to balance I just want to balance it out tonight I I just want to balance it out whether God heals you now or God gives you the ultimate healing you you are a winner either way but tonight you're a testimony that I can look around and say hey here's here's here's God you may be seated right now I don't want to ask you I want to ask somebody tonight how many in this room tonight have children that got prodigaled and you prayed them back in the church would you care to stand right now you had prodigal children that they're back in church right now look around here look around here look around here tonight look around here tonight look around here tonight look around here look around here tonight look at you oh yes look around here tonight now I'm going to tell you something when the when the enemy is telling you oh you just that they went too far they've done too much they've done they've done all this all that that you ought to hear what they say they're saying they're never going to come back to church oh you already know what drug they're on you ought to know what this or what that you ought to look around here tonight and when you get in the presence of God you know what I'm looking at tonight pots of manna right now pots of manna all of you it's got if you've got a prodigal son or daughter you need to be looking around saying if God Did It for brother Holland if God Did It for the saliers if God did it for them if God Did It for Glenn of us God is going to do it now could the rest of us stand right now well and could we give him praise and honor and glory in the house of the Lord tonight come on give him praise and honor I'm in the presence of God oh there's a pot of man up there God's going to do it again God's going to do it again God's going to come through again may not come when you want him but he's always on time God's going to see it through God's going to come through for you go ahead have faith in God right now come on have faith in that God right now you're my redeemer you're my friend oh you're my comforter you're my God you're my shepherd you're my everything God oh I give you praise tonight I give you praise tonight I give you praise tonight as your pastor he's your pastor I'm going to challenge you one more time let's give him a thunderous praise tonight Our Father who Our Father Who Art in Heaven count it would be thy name hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah oh yes Lord Lord Jesus I thank you for the privilege of ministering the word to this body of people tonight Lord I Thank you for your spirit God that I feel right now and God as we leave this place and God that's tomorrow when we get up to have our prayer time Lord let us say Our Father Who Art in Heaven Hallowed be thy name oh Hallelujah God you're my father oh you're my father tonight Lord You're My Father tonight God you've never let me down God you've never left me God you've always been right there God oh God you've been an on time God oh yes Lord Lord Jesus Jesus I ask one thing Lord I ask that your holy presence would seal this message tonight Lord I pray that you go with us as we go home you keep us safe God as we go home tonight on the roads but God in the morning when we wake up Lord let the first thought on our minds be our father Who Art in Heaven Hallowed Be thy name in Jesus name I pray God bless you tonight you're dismissed In The Name Of The Lord thank you Lord
Scripture references as spoken: Matthew 6:9-10; Exodus 25:40; Hebrews 8:1-5; Hebrews 9:1; Deuteronomy 12:5; Exodus 25:21-22; Exodus 16:32-34; Philippians 4:19.