Watch “A Circle Of Prayer” Jentezen Franklin, host of Kingdom Connection & Pastor of Free Chapel.
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well may God bless you Pastor Jentezen
Franklin and all your kingdom connects
your partners we love you well here we
are sharing I am too we’re inside one of
the many buildings this is they’re going
to the produce section they’ve been
selling their their produce here and
down below is the security metal doors
of course you’re not paying to get
everything is under construction but
they’re going to be all kind of
buildings selling everything you can
think of in this marketplace 85% on
appointment out here but now as helping
Haitians help themselves it’s changing
lives forever
and at the end many people come and know
the Lord out here sherry yeah you know I
just want to say too that there’s no
price that you can put on hope hope is
the greatest thing that the Haitian
people can have so pastor Jenson and all
your friends
you’ve done so much for these people
you’ve not only built the marketplace
but you’ve given them hope and the
Haitian say hope makes us live thank you
thank you Pastor Jentezen Franklin and
your kingdom connection partners
pretty soon the grand the grand
dedication will be coming up and I know
you will be here but god bless you for
saving lives and actually thousands of
people will be able to work and be
blessed because of love is something
that you do thank you pastor Jentezen we
love you
if you have your Bibles I’d like for you
to open them with me for a few moments
to the book of Joshua chapter 6 Joshua
chapter 6 look with me in the scripture
Joshua chapter 6 verse 10 now Joshua had
commanded the people saying everybody
read this out loud
you shall not shout or make any noise
with your voice nor shall a word proceed
out of your mouth until the day I say to
you shall then you shall shout this is
an instruction that Joshua gave the
children of Israel as they were about to
conquer the first city of the promised
land Joshua was aware of the inclination
then and as well as now for us to talk
ourselves out of the victories that are
about to unfold before us when there is
no evidence when there is delay when
there is annoyance when there is
opposition we have a tendency and Joshua
knew it to talk ourselves out of the
victory that God is unfolding in our
life proverbs 18 said the power of death
and life are in your tongue your words
have tremendous power when and where was
it that Joshua learned this subtle
lesson in life it was when he looked
back in the rearview mirror at the
intersection of opportunity forty years
before when Moses sent the twelve spies
and Joshua was one of the twelve and
Caleb came back and said we are well
able to take the land but ten came back
and with their mouth dismantled the
promise of God the victory of God that
he had already planned for his people he
watched them talk the whole camp of
Israel out of the victory that
God wanted them to have 40 years earlier
the Bible said in numbers 13 that they
brought an evil report saying and all
the congregation lifted up their voice
and said would to God that we would have
died in the land of Egypt this is on the
brink of the greatest victory that God
wanted to give his people another verse
said in the children of Israel murmured
and they said one unto another let us
return to Egypt and he set back 40 years
before and he watched them start talking
to one another and start complaining and
murmuring and saying we can’t do it and
there was grasshoppers and those cities
are so big and those walls are so high
and he saw that happen with his own eyes
and so he understood that for every day
they talked forty days of talking that
God gave him a year in the wilderness
and when Joshua stood there watching
Israel talk themselves out of that
victory dismantling the design of God
for their life with their voice and with
their conversation he determined then
and there never again will I get to this
place where I’m on the threshold of a
victory and allow words and
conversations and people discussions to
talk me out of the victory God is
unfolding so he gives this command we’re
going to march six days around the walls
of Jericho every day
on the seventh day we’re going to march
seven times and when we do that every
day you shall not utter a word and in
case you didn’t understand that you
shall not let a word proceed out of your
mouth and in case you didn’t get
you shall not talk it out of your mouth
because God is unfolding a victory and
you need to be quiet quiet
there’s a victory in progress we’re
inclined ladies and gentlemen to talk
ourselves out of victory victory that’s
unfolding in our life victory that God
is wanting to bring to our families and
our homes but we start talking negative
conversation and Joshua said never again
and I want you to hear me in this room
today and those of you listening to me
all around the world and wherever you’re
listening to this listen hear me in
every life in every need and every
problem represented in this room and
wherever you’re listening to me there is
a victory unfolding in your life if
you’re trusting in God and praying and
holding on to his promises there is a
victory in our homes there is a victory
in our church there is a victory in our
lives that is unfolding let’s not talk
ourselves out of the victory let’s not
begin to murmur and whine and
discouraging talk and defeated talk when
we understand that victory is ours it
stopped them from possessing the
promised land and Joshua said it’s not
going to happen again the victory is not
in question
I know stuffs going on I know prophecies
being fulfilled like crazy I know Jesus
is coming soon but let’s not just talk
the bad stuff that’s happening in the
world
let’s talk that in the last days God is
going to pour out his spirit on all
flesh there are some inevitable
victories before us if we can keep our
mouth shut
he said I will build my church and the
gates of Hell shall not prevail against
it they march to the border of victory
and there were vineyards that were
already planted in homes that were
already built and all they had to do was
occupy it second Kings chapter 4 the
Bible said there was a wall
who had a son and he died that son was
born by a prophecy that the Prophet gave
many years before and now the boys died
in the field and she takes off in her
chariot to get to the Prophet and a
cloud of dust comes over the horizon and
the Prophet sees it and he says that’s
that little widow woman or that’s that
little woman that didn’t have a child
and now she’s gonna have a child and and
she had the child go see if everything
is well with her and the Bible said the
servant went out and he asked her is it
well with your husband and listen to her
responds in in second Kings 4:26 she
said it is well she just kept on going
getting to the Prophet and then he ran
up beside her and said is it well with
thee are you okay
trying to talk her down you know she
said it is well it is well she said Shh
there’s a victory in progress
and then she asked him the big question
he asked her the big question is it well
with your son and that’s where we would
have fell the pieces but she said the
same words it is well with my child that
is dead she was saying that old prophet
gave me my boy in the beginning by the
word of the Lord and I’m not about to
talk myself out of a victory that’s
unfolding I’m gonna get to God I’m gonna
get to what he promised me and he will
bring a miracle to this situation if I
won’t let this guy let me talk sometimes
if you just get into discussion with
everybody about things you’ll start
talking yourself out of victory just get
a word from God and taught that back to
God and pray that back to God and you’ll
stay in victory the Bible said in mark
chapter 5 that there was a man by the
name of Jairus his daughter was sick and
while they were on the way to pray for
her she died and as soon as Jesus heard
those words he said in verse 36 don’t
say anything Shh and he put the mourners
out and he put the Criers out
and he got in the room and he said quiet
please I’m about to give a great victory
to my people and I don’t need a lot of
talk of unbelief and he put them out
suffer no man to go in with me but Peter
James and John and he raised that child
from the dead because he said I need you
to not talk me out of the victory jesus
said in Matthew chapter 16 on Matthew
chapter 6 and verse 22 he said I must go
to Jerusalem and there I was suffer and
die and Peter spoke up and said to him
no Lord thou speakest not the things of
God no Lord don’t do it and he said get
thee behind me Satan in other words he
was saying
you are saying what you shouldn’t be
saying and you’re not going to stop the
victory that I’m about to release to the
world I’m gonna defeat sin and sickness
and Satan and you’re trying to talk me
out Peter tried to talk him out of it no
Lord you won’t go and you won’t die I
won’t let it happen he said get behind
me called him Satan you know when you
start speaking words that are contrary
to what God said he wanted to do in your
life you are being used by the enemy a
lot of people are experiencing a lot of
things and the Lord sent me to tell you
don’t talk yourself out of the victory
that’s unfolding in your life oh I just
don’t see much of Shh do you know what
prayer is prayer is prophecy when you
pray you’re prophesying your future if
you pray right it’s not that you can’t
talk to God about your problems you can
go to them and say god I’m lonely I’m
really really lonely but lord I thank
you that you’ve got a man of God for me
somewhere a woman of God for me
somewhere and I thank you see your
for sign prayer is prophesying to your
future God I’ve really got this need
it’s overwhelming this bill is coming to
you but I want to thank you that you
supply all my needs you’re always made a
way for me and lord I praise you what
are you doing
prayer is prophesying to your future so
I read a book some time ago by a friend
of mine I know this guy pastors in
Washington DC his name is Mark Batterson
and he wrote a book called the circle
maker and I want to tie this all
together in conclusion and he begins his
book by talking about the legend of the
circle maker which is a it’s taught by
rabbis to this day in Jewish synagogues
Joseph Josephus documented that this
occurrence actually happened by the way
listen to this and I just thought I’m
gonna do something different but I
thought I would read it to you because
I’m gonna sum it all up we’re gonna do
something in a moment this is a class
participation sermon and in just a
moment we’re going to end by by drawing
some some circles around some needs in
people’s lives and you’re gonna
understand what I’m talking about in
just a moment listen to this the legend
of the circle maker young children
danced in the downpour like it was the
first rainfall they had ever seen and it
was parents threw back their heads and
opened their mouths and caught raindrops
like they were diamonds falling from the
sky it could be forever remembered as
the day the day thunderclaps applauded
the Almighty the day puddle jumping
became an act to praise the day the
legend of the circle maker was born it
was the first century BC in devastating
droughts threatened to destroy an entire
generation the generation before Jesus
the last of the Jewish prophets had died
off nearly four centuries before
miracles were such a distant memory that
they seemed like a false memory and God
was nowhere to be heard but there was
one man an eccentric sage who lived
outside the walls of Jerusalem who dared
pray anyway his name was Hana and even
if people could no longer hear God he
believed that God could still hear them
when rain is plentiful it’s an
afterthought during a drought it’s the
only thought and Hanoi was their only
hope famous for his ability to pray for
rain it was on this day the day that
Hana would earn his moniker with a
6-foot staff in his hand
Hana began to turn like a math compass
his circular movement was rhythmical and
methodical 90 degrees 180 degrees 270
degrees 360 degrees he never looked up
as the crowd looked on after what seemed
to be like hours but it was only seconds
Hana stood inside of the circle that he
had drone then he dropped to his knees
and raised his hands to heaven and with
an authority of like the Prophet Elisha
who called down fire from heaven Hana
called down rain Lord I’m quoting now
Lord of the universe I swear before you
before your great name that I will not
move from this circle until we have
shown mercy until you have shown mercy
upon your children the word sent a
shudder down the spines of all who were
within earshot that day it wasn’t just
the volume of this voice it was the
authority of his tone like water from an
artesian well the words flowed from the
depth of his soul his prayer was
resolute yet humble confident yet meek
expectant yet unassuming then it
happened as his prayer ascended to the
heavens raindrops descended to the earth
an audible gasp went across the
thousands of congregants who encircled
Honan every head turned heavenward as
the first raindrops parachuted from the
sky but Haun eyes hid remained bound the
people rejoiced over every drop but Hana
I wasn’t satisfied with a sprinkle still
kneeling in the circle hona lifted his
voice over the sounds of celebration and
said not for such a rain have I prayed
but for rain that will fill the cisterns
and the valleys and the caverns the
sprinkle turned into such a torrential
downpour that eyewitnesses said no
raindrops smaller than an egg and sighs
fail it rains so heavy and so steadily
that people fled the Temple Mount to
escape a flash-flood hole I stayed and
prayed inside his protracted circle once
more he refined his bold request not for
such a rain have I prayed but for the
rain of your favour and blessing and
graciousness then like a well
proportioned Sun shower on a hot and
humid August afternoon it began to rain
calmly peacefully every raindrop was a
tangible token of God’s grace and they
did not just soak in the skin they
soaked into the spirit with faith it had
been difficult to believe the day before
the day the day after the day it was
impossible not to believe the prayer
that saved a generation was deemed one
of the most significant prayers in the
history of Israel the circle he drew in
the sand became a sacred symbol and the
legend of Honi the circle maker stands
forever as a testimony to the power of a
single prayer to change the course of
history why did I read that here’s why
because in my prayer place this week the
Lord said to me tell the people that
that’s exactly what Joshua did so what I
want you to do is I want you to think
what do you want me to do if Jesus
himself walked up to you this morning
and looked you face to face and said
what do you want me to do
for you what is your heart come on you
you don’t you don’t have to play games
with Jesus you may can’t tell other
people but but you can tell Jesus what
do you want me to do is it a person
maybe it’s a son maybe it’s a daughter
maybe it’s a healing maybe it’s a
financial need maybe it’s your business
maybe maybe it’s a grandchild maybe
you’ve got cancer
maybe maybe you’re facing some maybe
you’re single and you’re lonely and you
you know you want you want God to give
you the person that that he’s promised
you I want you to write down the number
one thing you want Jesus to do for you
write it down right now
just take them on you can cover it up if
you want to if you got peepers you know
write it down maybe it’s an addiction
maybe you’d love to never pick up a
bottle again or maybe it’s a pill or
drugs or I don’t know I don’t know but
but but just write it down maybe it’s
the Sun maybe it’s named the child named
the person named the issue what do you
want me to do for you now have you
written it down if you have say yes now
take that pen and draw a circle around
that need that you’ve just singled out
draw a circle around it and I don’t want
you to leave that piece of paper here I
want you to put it in your Bible or put
it in your wallet or put it in your
purse or put it on your refrigerator or
put it on your mirror even greater I
want you to put it in your car somewhere
where you’re seeing or wherever you will
notice it and for the next seven days I
want you to march around it in prayer
and in praise and refuse this is the
most important part refuse to speak or
say anything about that situation but
prayer and praise prayer and praise I
mean if you believe God can honor this
well I don’t know about that stuff well
you know what I know you don’t know
about that stuff but I’ve been around
for a while and you know how we built
this church stuff like this and it
sounds weird to you and it sounds crazy
to you but maybe God likes bold prayers
maybe God likes for people to access the
Sun to stand steel in ax-head to swim
and the Red Sea depart maybe God likes
bold prayers so have you got it hold it
up in the air if you’ve got it I mean if
you’ve got a prayer circle around it
right now you’re gonna for the next
seven days I’m gonna walk around that
thing in prayer those walls of
resistance are gonna come down hold it
up hold it up and before we even get
into the prayer and the praise he said
when I tell you shout and I am your
Joshua this morning and I don’t want you
to wait until the wall falls and there
are some Jericho’s that will never fall
until you shall I know you’re dignified
I know you’re something else I know
you’re educated I know you drive a Lexus
I know this I know that but I’m just
telling you there are some walls see
it’s just like do you know that there
there are decibels you put it in there
decibels that a sound that that certain
people can hit have you ever been
sitting in your house and thunder rolled
King and your windows respond because
sound is invisible but there are certain
decibels that can that can hit real
matter God knows how to how to transform
the sound of your praise to the decibel
level that will make your walls of
resistance respond so I’m here to tell
you hold it up in the air and shout
now hallelujah
cone shout now shout like you believe he
can move the mountain he can defile the
walls he can slay the Giants shout now
come on take a moment
voice in prayer and in praise the next
seven days I put them in that circle put
that husband in that circle put that
child in that circle put that financial
need in that circle
glory glory glory glory get up on your
feet and shout a little bit get up on
your feet and shout a little bit I know
the world says this is crazy but it’s
not crazy when we hear from the Lord I
feel the Lord grieving on this little
word and he’s saying I’m telling you
that if you’ll agree in prayer and make
a prayer circle against that attack ‘no
scum against you no weapon formed
against you will prosper and God is
going to bless whatever you put in that
circle hallelujah
thank you Jesus
Gloria come
what councillors couldn’t do what money
couldn’t do what all yours couldn’t do
what doctors couldn’t do you put it in a
prayer circle
and begin
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