#6 - Prayer Still Works - Pr. William Lee | August 10, 2026
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The video centers on the enduring power of prayer and challenges believers to persevere without fainting when facing difficult circumstances. Drawing primarily from Luke chapter 18, the speaker explains Jesus' parable of the persistent widow and the unjust judge as a lesson that even an unrighteous human authority eventually responds to constant pleading; therefore, God will certainly answer His elect who cry out day and night. The preacher emphasizes that prayer is not merely another activity but a vital connection where believers align themselves with divine wisdom, trusting that nothing is impossible for God regardless of how hopeless the situation may seem from a human perspective.
To illustrate this truth personally, the speaker shares two powerful stories about his mother's miraculous survival after falling off a merry-go-round at six months old and her subsequent ability to have children despite doctors saying it was medically unlikely due to broken bones. He also recounts a terrifying incident during his own pregnancy where his wife faced an emergency surgery because their baby appeared ready to be born prematurely, requiring them to lie flat on the hospital bed for four and a half months until God intervened at exactly eight and a half months. These narratives serve as evidence that when people of faith pray earnestly, heaven begins to move in ways that exceed human imagination and understanding.
The message concludes with an urgent call to action, urging listeners to stop rehearsing their difficulties instead of trusting God for healing, love, and power. The speaker encourages the audience to surrender bitterness, anger, and resentment so they can fully yield to God's will before He answers their prayers. By quoting scriptures such as Matthew 7:7-8 and James 5:16, he reinforces that asking, seeking, and knocking leads to receiving, finding, and having doors opened, urging everyone present to stand in faith for a breakthrough miracle right now.
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God is good.
And all the time
God is good. Amen. Amen.
I want to invite your attention today to
the New Testament Gospel of Luke once
again.
And as we turn there today, I'm going to
ask if you would join me in a word of
prayer as we hear the word of God today.
Let's pray together together. Father in
heaven,
God, we are so so thankful that your
word is a lamp unto our feet
and a light unto our path.
God, I pray now that you would indeed
think through my mind and God that you
will speak through my vocal cords. God,
give me power to declare your holy word
and your truth. And may those who hear,
oh God, align themselves with your will
and your way. For we ask it in Jesus'
name. Amen.
And amen.
Now, I'm going to ask again if
[clears throat] you would take your
Bible, excuse me, and go with me to Luke
chapter number 18. Luke chapter 18 and
beginning at verse number one. Luke
chapter 18 and beginning at verse number
one.
Here's what the word of the Lord says.
Say Luke chapter 18 and beginning at
verse number one.
The Bible says, "And he spoke a parable
unto them to this end, that men ought to
always pray and not to faint."
Verse two says, "Saying, there was a
judge in there was in a city a judge
which feared not God neither regarded
men." Verse three, "And there was a
widow in that city and she came unto him
saying, 'Avenge me of mine adversary.'"
"And when he would not for a while,
afterward he said within himself,
"Though I fear not God nor regard man,
and yet because this widow troubleth me,
I will avenge her lest by her continual
coming she weary me." And the Lord said,
"Hear what the unjust judge saith."
"And shall not God avenge his own elect,
which cry out day and night unto him?
Though he bear long with them." Verse 8,
"I tell you that he will avenge them
speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of
man cometh, shall he find faith on the
earth?" Who says amen?
I am a firm believer that our God is a
prayer-hearing and a prayer-answering
God.
I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that
when we pray, God bends his ear from
heaven, and God hears the prayers of his
children. I don't believe that prayer is
just another
activity that we do. I believe that when
we call upon the name of God, that God
is able to do for us what nobody else
can do.
There is power in prayer. I am a
benefactor
of prayer. I am a recipient of the
divine benefits that God has given us as
it relates to prayer. And as only do
this morning, I want to challenge our
faith today because I believe that God
in this encampment wants to do something
miraculous in every last one of our
lives. Who says amen?
Do you believe God today? I believe that
God wants to do something miraculous in
this encampment. And I believe everybody
that it happens as we come to God in
prayer. Let me say this thing, I believe
that prayer still works. Come on, say
amen.
Prayer works because God works every
step of the way. There is a quote from
uh
Review and Herald, October 7th, 1865,
where the author says, she says, "Prayer
is the answer to every problem in life.
It puts us in tune with divine wisdom,
which knows how to adjust everything
perfectly. So often, we do not pray in
certain situations because from our
standpoint, the outlook is hopeless. But
nothing is impossible with God. Nothing
is so entangled that it cannot be
remedied. No human relation is too
strained from God to bring about
reconciliation and understanding. No
habit is so deep-rooted that it cannot
be overcome. No one is so weak that he
cannot be made strong. No one is so ill
that he cannot be healed. No mind is so
dull that it cannot be made brilliant. I
love this. Whatever we need, if we trust
God, he will supply it. If anything is
causing worry or anxiety, let us stop
rehearsing the difficulty and trust God
for healing, for love, and power. Who
says amen today?
Oh, I love this. When I was a child, I
came across this quote. And from that
day to today, I believe y'all that there
is nothing impossible with God. I
believe that when the children of God
come together and pray, that heaven
begins to move. That when the children
of God seek the face of God, that God
begins to move in such a powerful way.
In Luke chapter 18 and verse 1, this is
so interesting because we have here the
thesis of this parable from the very
beginning of scripture. In Luke 18:1, we
have the main point of this parable.
Jesus tells us in Luke 18:1, he says
that men ought to always pray and not to
faint.
You see, in our text today, Jesus is
encouraging us as the body of believers
that we ought to pray, persevere in
prayer, have faith under pressure, and
then waiting on God in an unjust world.
How many of you all believe today that
there is power in prayer? Let me see
your hands right now.
I believe everybody that the very things
that we're praying about, that God can
do more than we ever imagined if we
submit our wills to him. Now, here is
the challenge though, because when we
are praying, there are times in our
lives where we have to simply wait on
God.
Where we cannot do anything at all, but
we have to wait on God to move. And let
me tell you, sometimes it may take uh uh
6 months or a year. Sometimes it may
take a long time, but the Bible says
they that wait upon the Lord shall renew
their strength. They shall mount up with
wings as eagles. They shall run and not
be weary. They shall walk and not faint.
Sometimes, we have to wait and trust
that God sees exactly what we need and
he will bring it at just the right time.
There is a quote that says, "If God
makes you wait, it's because what he's
preparing is worth the patience." I love
that. In Luke 18 and verse 1, the Bible
tells us that there is a widow in a
particular city. In the ancient biblical
world, a widow was often the most
challenged individual. She was
challenged economically, socially. She
was vulnerable in society. And without a
husband, she could lose her primary
source of financial provision, social
standing, legal advocacy, and physical
protection. A widow in biblical society
was the individual who was thought to be
literally without any help at all. Well,
Jesus today tells us this story, this
parable, about this widow because this
widow is persistent in everything that
she does. In Luke 18 and verse 2, the
Bible says that there was in a city,
maybe it was Nairobi. Maybe it was
another city, but the Bible says there
was a judge in that city. This judge did
not fear God at all. Anybody ever know a
judge like that? Come on, look at me
somebody. Anybody ever know Look, a
judge that does not fear God, a judge
that is wicked in all that he does.
Well, the Bible says there was a judge,
he feared not God, neither did he regard
man. The judge lacked vertical
accountability.
He did not fear God, and the Bible says
that he lacks horizontal compassion.
That is, he has no respect for people.
This judge that Jesus says, he is a
corrupt judge. He is immoral. He is a
downright scoundrel in the word of God.
And the Bible says that because this
judge is so wicked, the Bible says that
there was in verse three a widow in that
city. And she came unto him saying,
"Avenge me of my adversary." Now, what's
interesting everybody is that the word
there, adversary, is almost like we see
in Revelation chapter 12 as well.
Because how many of y'all know that we
have an adversary called the devil?
And the adversary called the devil is
always coming against you and I. Well,
she says in the text, "Avenge me of my
adversary." In other words, this judge,
she looks at him and says that because
he is wicked, because he is not doing
anything for anybody else. Maybe she has
lost some money. Maybe she has some land
that she is trying to gain. But she has
nothing in her hands at all, but the one
thing that this widow has is her
persistence.
She believes that the judge can do for
her what nobody else can do. So, this
widow has persistence, and hear me, she
also has faith.
You see, faith is the substance of
things hoped for. It is the evidence of
things not seen. There are times in your
life when you're praying for God for
move in a certain situation. Maybe
you're saying, "God, bless my financial
situation." Maybe you're praying for
your family that God would do something
amazing for your family. Maybe you're
praying that God would save a lost loved
one. Any parent ever prayed that prayer
before? God, save my children.
Well, this judge of this widow in our
text, she has faith. She has dogged
faith. She believes that that somehow if
she keeps on praying, if she keeps on
asking, that this judge would do
something for her. Well, in verse three,
the Bible says again, and there was a
widow in that city, she came unto him,
and she says, "Avenge me of my
adversary." Now, what's interesting, if
you look at it in the Greek manuscript,
that word for this is it comes it is in
the imperfect tense. And the imperfect
tense literally means that she did not
go to the judge just one time. In other
words, she kept on going to the judge
every single day. Day after day, moment
after moment, this widow goes to the
judge and says, "Listen, judge, avenge
me of my adversary." If the judge went
to a lunch break, the widow followed him
in the lunch break. If the the judge was
holding court, the widow was there every
single day because she believed that if
she kept on being persistent, that
somehow the judge would hear her plea.
I love this quote from Ellen White in
Steps to Christ. Ellen White says this,
she says, "Keep your wants,
your joys, your sorrows, and your cares,
and your fears before God."
Listen, church. She says, "You cannot
burden him.
You cannot weary him. He who numbers the
hairs on your head is not indifferent to
the wants of his children." Who says
amen, somebody?
Again, she says, "Keep your wants, keep
your joys, your sorrows, your cares
before God." God knows everything
about us.
He knows our secret prayers. He knows
what we desire. He knows the the burdens
on our hearts. And God is saying,
"Listen, church, we have not
because we ask not.
We have not because sometimes we ask
amiss." But God is saying, "I am such a
God that when you pray, he will bend his
ear from heaven, and God will do more
than we ever could imagine." She goes on
to say that nothing that in any way
concerns our peace is too small for him
to notice. There is no chapter in our
experience too dark for him to read.
There is no perplexity too difficult for
him to unravel. No calamity can befall
on the least of his children. No anxiety
harass the soul. No joy, no cheer, no
sincere prayer that escapes the lips of
which our heavenly Father is unobservant
or in which he takes no immediate
interest. Our problem though is that
sometimes we are not desperate enough
for a mighty move of God.
Oftentimes only when we become desperate
for a breakthrough that we see the glory
of God.
When I was a child, I prayed some
prayers as a child that I'll never
forget to this day. There was where we
have
this big youth gathering of youth
congress back in the day and I don't
know how old I was. I was just a small
little boy and I'll never forget we
didn't have the money to send me to
youth congress.
And I really wanted to go. All of my
young people are going to be there.
There're going to be young people all
across the
the United States that were coming to
youth congress for this major youth
event. I remember as a child
going to my room and bowing my head and
saying, "Lord, please God, if you're
real. God, if you're able, please make a
way for I be able to go to youth
congress."
And I remember that that finished
praying that prayer. It was not shortly
after even that same day that the pastor
of my church called and said, "I am no
longer able to go to youth congress."
And he asked my parents, "Does your son
want to take my ticket and go TO YOUTH
CONGRESS?"
OH, CHURCH, I WAS SO AMAZED AS a little
boy. I was like, "Wow, the little prayer
that I prayed, God heard that prayer."
And from that day to this day, I totally
believe that when you call upon the name
of God, that God is able to do
exceedingly, abundantly above that we
could ever imagine.
He's a prayer hearing and a prayer
answering God. Church, sometimes you
need to become desperate in your
prayers. You need to say, "God, I need
you. God, would you please move in this
way?" I've prayed prayers that you can
never imagine. I've prayed prayers that
sometimes I didn't even believe that God
could do all that I prayed in my prayer,
but yet God has done amazing because
when the people of God pray, God begins
to move. Who says amen?
Her request is "Avenge me of my
adversary." Now, again, that that Greek
word behind avenge means to to really
give somebody a black eye, opposing
exploiting
wrongdoing against another. She is
literally saying, "Judge, move. God,
judge, move out of the way because I
have a case that I'm praying about right
now." This widow is not asking for
revenge. She's simply asking for
justice.
"Would you grant me justice against the
situation that I'm facing right now?"
This is not a cry for revenge. No, this
is a cry for righteousness. She's
saying, "Please give me righteousness
right now." She's not asking to win.
She's absolutely asking to be treated
right. Ah, but the Bible says there is a
wicked judge.
This judge does not care about man. He
does not fear God at all. He's only
concerned about himself. He probably
even takes bribes from other individuals
in the city. Whoever can grease his
pocket, whoever can do something for
him, that's he'll do something for. But
the Bible tells us in verse 4 that this
widow, hear me today, that she would not
give up.
That that she would The The Bible says
verse 4, "And he would not for a while."
But the Bible says, "But afterward, he
said within himself." Here's what he
says.
"Though I fear not God nor regard man,
yet because this widow troubleth me,
I will avenge her, lest by her continual
coming she weary me." I can see her in
my eyes right now. Every single day she
shows up to the courtroom. And I I told
you that I don't read the Bible like
most people read the Bible. I see it in
pictures. I've jumped into the text. I
swam around the text. And I believe,
everybody, don't don't get upset, but I
believe that this must be an African
sister in the Bible.
You didn't say amen right there. I'm
going to say it for myself. Amen.
I can see her right now.
She comes determined.
She has her hair flowing down, and now
she begins to wrap it up.
Takes a bobby pin, and she pins it up.
She looks around with intention now, and
she says, "I'm not going to let it go
until I get what I need from the judge."
Let me tell you somebody, prayer is us
coming to God and believing that the God
of the universe is able to do for us
what nobody else can do.
It's not just coming to God once. And
and and I know that in the church we've
been taught so often that only pray once
and then leave it to God. Can I tell you
that is not biblical theology?
Because in biblical theology, the Bible
says that Paul prayed three times that
the thorn in his flesh might be removed.
HE KEPT ON PRAYING, "GOD, REMOVE the
thorn. Remove the thorn. Remove the
thorn." But finally, he says, "Thy grace
is sufficient."
Even Jesus prayed three times when he
was going to Calvary. "If there be any
way, if there be any way, let this cup
pass from me." You see, sometimes you
have to pray, hear me,
until the burden is released.
There are children
and I know what I'm talking about. There
are children
that we are praying for right now
that think up is down and left is right.
There are children that have walked away
from the faith of God and the only way
that God can bring our children back is
if we begin to pray and ask God, "God,
save my children."
There are families who are under the
attack of the enemy.
And sometimes the only way that that
chain can be broken is if we go to God
and ask God, "God, would you break the
generational curses that the enemy has
tried to to
upon my family?" The Bible says in Acts
12, you may remember the story in Acts
12, the Bible says that Peter was thrown
in prison.
But the Bible says while Peter was in
prison, the church kept praying for
Peter. And the more they prayed, the
Bible says that God heard their prayer
and God sent an angel and when Rhoda
showed up at the door, they didn't even
believe that God had heard their prayer,
but God moves when we call upon his
name.
The Bible reminds us that faith is not
proven by how fast God answers, but how
long we trust when he does not answer.
See, this parable that's that's short
today, this parable is not our typical
stories in the word of God. This is a
contrast
parable and not a comparison.
The this is not the judge does not
represent God, this judge is saying he's
a comparison or
contrast between evil and between
goodness. Look at verse six, the Bible
says and the Lord said, "Hear what the
unjust judge says.
And shall not God avenge his elect,
which cry day and night unto him, though
he bear long with them?"
So in other words, the judge again, the
Bible says, "Will not God avenge his own
elect?" Here it is, when we cry day and
night unto God.
God bears long with us,
but we have to learn how to call upon
his name. Go with me right now a text
you know well 2 Chronicles 7 verse 14.
Go there right now. 2 Chronicles 7. You
know the text quite well.
Verse 14.
The word of God says this 2 Chronicles 7
and verse 14.
The Bible says this right here again 2
Chronicles
chapter 7.
And I want you to look now at verse 14.
I want to do something powerful today.
Here is what the word of God says 2
Chronicles 7 and verse 14. The Bible
says this, if
my people
which are called by my name
shall humble themselves and pray
and seek my face and turn from their
wicked ways, then I will hear from
heaven. I will forgive their sins and
God says, I will heal their land. Who
says amen?
The reality is God says, I will hear
your prayers if you come to me and
number one, humble yourself. Somebody
say humble yourself.
Humble yourself means to recognize that
you have no power.
That God has the power. That God has the
strength. If we would humble ourselves
and pray and here it is, and seek the
face of God.
I told you the story yesterday on how I
went to the hospital and prayed for my
deacon.
But I can tell you story after story and
hear me right now. Church
you're looking
at a miracle.
I'm going to say it again. You are
looking at America.
When my mother
was just 6 months old,
my mother had a tragic accident at 6
months old.
She was on a merry-go-round that that
spins the kids around. Are you familiar
with that? Right? She was on a
merry-go-round and my aunt had placed
her there on the merry-go-round. She
tells the story all the time.
As she was placed on the merry-go-round,
she says that her aunt slowly began to
twirl her around.
And you know that little kid, she cannot
hold on you know really tight. So, her
she was trying to sit there and all of a
sudden some kids showed up and said,
"Can we take a turn?" and turned the
little baby as well.
So, when the kids showed up, she says
that they turned it and twisted it and
ran around as fast as they could and my
mother fell off the merry-go-round.
6 months old and she tumbled and fell
underneath the merry-go-round.
For 6 at 6 months years old,
for the next year, she was in a full
body cast,
unable to move.
Broken limbs from the top of her from
the the neck all the way down to her
feet, bones in her body were broken.
She literally almost lost her life as a
6-month-old
baby.
For the next year, she was in the
hospital, people praying, asking God,
"God, please save this baby. God, please
bless them. Please, God, help them. And
now she grew older, and now she had a
struggle learning how to walk again. How
to be able to take some steps, and and
all through her life she's she had a
little problem every now and then
stumbling, but but thank God for his
grace that she had began to walk and do
well. Who says amen?
But now, here's a challenge.
Because she fell and broke most of her
bones, she also broke her pelvis as well
and other important bones.
So, when she met my father,
the doctor told her that because her
bones never really healed properly, that
she probably would never probably be
able to have a baby.
But my mother was like this woman in
Luke chapter 18. She believed God and
said that I believe that God is able to
help me to have a baby.
She says, "I began to pray, and I began
to ask God, God, please." And though
they struggled for a long time, in 1970,
Rhode Island, a baby was born.
Ah,
but that baby was my older brother.
And the doctors, hear me now, the
doctors, Pastor McKenzie, said that my
brother was a miracle.
They said, "Wow, we we did not have
think that that was going to be able to
be happen." And I Let me say this again.
I thank God for doctors, but I thank God
that God is a sovereign God of this
universe. And if God says, "You're going
to have a baby," you're going to have a
baby.
If God says, "I'm going to bless you,"
God will bless you.
In 19, I'll tell you 1975,
a beautiful baby was born. Ah!
But four years later,
the doctors told my mother that was
good, but don't try it again.
My mother said, "Hold up now. One is
good, but two is even better."
So, on March 21st, on a Wednesday
morning at 8:31 p.m., the most
handsomest baby
that had ever been born came out from my
mother's womb.
And they called his name William
Geoffrey Lee.
My father This This is they tell me my
father looked at me and said, "There's
something special about this baby."
I can't tell you
the power of prayer
like I want to tell you.
I can't tell you today, church, that
that God knows every single thing that
we stand in need of.
And the Bible says that the promises of
God are yay and amen.
God knows what you stand in need of.
He knows that he's able to do
exceedingly
abundantly.
Hear me. Above all that we could think
or even imagine.
He's a prayer-hearing and a
prayer-answering God.
Can I give you another one? I'm a
miracle, and that's why I get so excited
about Jesus.
Because I know that I could not, I may
not have been here
but for the prayers of the righteous.
There's a song that says,
I pray for you,
you pray for me, and watch God change
things.
There's another song that says that
that that when we pray, that God again,
he begins to move in such a powerful
way. So, here's what happened. My wife,
that's joining me on this mission for
camp meeting,
when she became pregnant,
uh
was it the first baby or first baby bed
rest? First baby bed rest?
I'll never forget it.
We were young parents at the time. We've
been married now for 22 years. Come on,
say amen.
Amen. Someone said, "Pastor, you only
look 20 years old." Praise God.
22 years, pastors.
Our first child,
uh we had our first child, and I'll
never forget it. We had moved to a brand
new area. And my my my wife now goes to
a brand new doctor whom we've never met,
but her first doctor's appointment, oh
my goodness. The first doctor's
appointment we went in, and they began
to examine her on the table. She's there
on the table, and the doctors are doing
their thing, and the doctor looks at
her, and the DOCTOR SAYS,
"OH, NO."
LET ME TELL you something. If you ever
are in the doctor's office, and the
doctor says, "Oh, no," that is not good
news.
They rush my wife
immediately to have surgery, because
what happened was the baby's head was
already there, and she was what, about 4
months? 4 months pregnant at the time,
and the baby's head was already there.
The baby was about to come out.
Hear me right now. Talking about the
power of prayer.
They rushed her to the hospital,
stitched her up, and for the next 4 and
1/2 months, she would have to lie on her
back in the hospital.
Because you want to put pressure down
because if the if she put pressure
there, then the baby could come
premature and we may even lose the baby.
But can I tell you that she has a
praying husband?
She's a prayer warrior herself. COME ON,
SOMEBODY. WE KNOW THAT GOD IS ABLE to do
a more than we can ever imagine. And for
the Hear me now. For the next 4 and 1/2
months, when I would go to the hospital,
she would be there in her bed and she'll
be looking up every single day. One day,
I walked in and then God put it on my
heart that she's looking up.
And then Psalm 121 came into my eye to
my mind. The Bible says, "I will lift up
mine eyes unto the hills from which
cometh my help. My help cometh from the
Lord." How many of y'all know that when
you look up, you can look up to God and
God gives us power?
She was looking up every single day
because sometimes when you cannot figure
out what is going on in the world, you
have to look up to God.
And God will hear your prayers. After 8
and 8 and 1/2 months,
right on time.
The second handsomest baby came out.
And we named him William Jeffrey Lee II.
The second.
You can't tell me
that when we pray,
God does not bend his ears down from
heaven and begin to move.
I'm preaching this sermon this morning
because last night God told me
that there are some people that are here
today
that you have things that you're praying
about
and some of you have been praying about
them for a long time and you've not yet
seen them come to pass.
And I've come by this morning, on a
Tuesday morning of camp meeting, to
challenge your faith today.
I want to challenge you to put on your
mind right now the very thing that you
have been praying about.
I want you right now, like this widow
woman in Luke chapter 18, to begin to
ask God, "God, will you move in a mighty
way?" I want you to look at this quote
right now. "Prayer is not in order. It
is the laying hold of God's promises and
pleading them uh pleading them in faith
saying, 'Do as thou hast said.'"
She goes on to say Ellen White says
this, this is so powerful everybody. She
says, "It is through earnest prayer."
What kind of prayer everybody?
"Earnest
prayer and diligent effort that we must
obtain the victory. We must pray as
earnestly as if the responsibility
were all ours and work as faithfully as
it all depended up on us."
We've got to pray earnestly and
diligently today. Well, my last couple
of texts is Matthew 7:7
and 8.
The Bible says these words, Matthew 7:7
and 8 Bible says ask
and it shall be given you.
Oh, that's powerful. Seek and you shall
find.
Knock and it shall be opened unto you.
For everyone that asketh receiveth and
he that seeketh findeth and to him that
does what? Knocketh it shall be opened.
There was a woman.
I was watching it online and
she was running in a race.
And as she was running her race,
she was literally leading the pack.
But as she was running, she ended up
tripping and she fell down and then the
other runners began to step over her.
Let me tell you right now, sometimes in
our Christian walk, you may fall down.
But here's the reality.
What happened was when she fell down,
she had a decision to make.
Will I stay down or will I get back up
and continue to run the race?
What she did was she got back up and
though even though she's in last place
right now, she began to run and give it
everything that she have because she
understood that the race is not given to
the swift or to the strong, but to the
one that endureth unto the end and the
more she gave, the more faster she
became and the story has it, she came in
first place and won the race. Why?
Because she did not give up.
Church,
hear me right now.
When it comes to God,
and when it comes to prayer,
God is saying, "Don't
give
up.
Don't throw in the towel.
God is able to do for us what nobody
else can do.
So, James 5:13-16
says, my last text, "If any among you is
afflicted, let him pray.
Is any merry, let him sing psalms. Is
any sick among you, let him call for the
elders of the church, and let them pray
over him, anointing him with oil in the
name of the Lord, and the prayer of
faith
shall save the sick, and the Lord shall
raise him up. And if he hath committed
sins, they shall be forgiven him.
Confess your faults one to another, and
pray FOR ONE ANOTHER, THAT YOU may be
healed. For the effectual
fervent prayer of the righteous availeth
much." Who says, "Amen?" Prayer changes
everything.
Prayer changes everything.
Now, here's what I'm going to do right
now,
because I don't believe that we ought to
preach a sermon about prayer,
and not spend a few moments asking God
to do what he really wants to do in our
lives.
Can I ask you right now?
Anybody believe that God is able right
now to do what you've been praying
about? Let me see your hands. Do you
believe God is able right now?
Right now. Right now. He's able right
now.
I want to do something special today
in this mid-service.
I know it may not be your custom.
It may not be something that you have
been used to do, but hear me today right
now. I believe that God is able.
I believe everybody that that God is
wanting to do more than we ever could
have imagined.
And what God has placed on my heart
right now
is that there are some families
that you need God to do something
amazing
for your family.
You need God right now to to bring back
a son or daughter who has gone astray,
and you're saying, "God, please save my
children. Save my family."
Maybe you today, like my mother, has
gone through a a a a horrific accident,
and you're saying, "God, would you
please bless
my body once again."
I'm going to invite you
>> [music]
>> in the few moments that we have this
midday service.
Thank you, Jesus.
God is saying if we surrender,
if we yield unto God,
God says right now
that I'm going to show you my glory.
I'm going to show you that I'm the God
of Abraham, ISAAC, AND JACOB. GOD says
to his children this morning that we
must yield to him. Whatever you're
holding on to, God is saying right now,
I cannot bless your life while you're
still holding on to your sins.
While you're still holding on to
bitterness and to anger AND TO
RESENTMENT, GOD IS CALLING us right now,
church, to let it go.
Matter of fact,
turn to somebody right now and say,
"Neighbor, let it go." Come on, say,
"Neighbor, let it go."
Come on, say, "Let it go."
Let go of this sin.
Let go of whatever you've been holding
on to that you know
that God has been convicting you to let
it go of. And church,
I'm so serious today. Every sermon I
preach, y'all, I believe that God is
able.
But God is saying, "Listen, we've got to
get it straight with him. We've got to
get IT RIGHT WITH GOD."
He wants us
for himself.
And God is saying, "Listen,
I can do more in one moment
than you can do in [music] a lifetime."
But he's asking us right now to let it
go. Here's what I'll do right now.
There are some individuals that need to
surrender to [music] God.
Before God can hear you,
you've got to surrender.
Before God can do anything else, God
says, "I want you [music] for myself."
I don't care who you are, and I don't
care what you've done. The Bible says a
righteous man falls down seven times,
but gets back up again. The girl fell
down, but she got back up again and
began to finish the race.
God is calling you
to join me right now in believing
[music] God
for a miracle.
I'm going to ask you right now
if you [music] This is very specific
right now. I know there's a whole lot of
us today.
But if you're standing right now
in the need
of a tremendous blessing from God.
You've been praying about something for
a while.
I'm going to ask you to stand to your
feet right now. Stand to your feet right
now. I'm going to believe God right now
that as you stand, that God's going to
do something amazing in your life right
now.
Now, that's part one.
Part two is this.
There's a yielding [music]
that God wants.
Is I yield, I yield, [music] I yield to
the power of the Holy Ghost.
I don't want you to be afraid. I don't
want you to lack or or to stay where you
are. I want you right now to join me.
Mother,
are you praying for your child? [music]
Daddy, are you praying for your family?
Businessmen, are you praying that God
will bless your business?
Entrepreneur, are you praying that God
will do something amazing right now?
Elder, are you praying for your church?
Trying to hear God in the best [music]
way I can right now, but I want to
invite somebody right now.
If you've been like this widow in a
desperate situation, [music]
I'm going to ask you
in these few moments that we have right
now. we still have time. I'm going to
invite you to come and join me right
here on this altar. [music]
I know not everybody can come, but this
is for somebody right now that [music]
YOU'RE SAYING, "GOD, I NEED A
BREAKTHROUGH.
GOD, I need you to move right now in my
situation. If you HAVE THE FAITH, GOD
SAYS, "I have the power."
If you have the trust, God says, "I can
do more than you ever could do in your
life."