Watch “God’s Secret Remedy: Fasting and Prayer” Jentezen Franklin, host of Kingdom Connection & Pastor of Free Chapel.
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connection Happy New Year everybody I’m
so excited about this year and every
year we do a 21-day fast it begins this
week today as a matter of fact there are
just thousands and thousands of people
who are joining us on this fast I want
to challenge you are you believing God
for amazing things this year have you
ever considered fasting in prayer
there’s something about fasting in
prayer that God really honors I wrote a
whole book about it you can read about
it learn about it listen to these
messages all month long I’m going to
help you with the fast and I promise you
as we pray as we fast as we seek God’s
face early in the beginning of a new
year there’s something about the heavens
that open up and favor and blessing will
flow into your life no matter of fact I
felt like just to cream this a year of
increase increase of joy increase of
health increase of finances increase of
souls and influence and power to make a
difference in people’s lives I’m
claiming this as the year of influence
for the church for the kingdom for all
the churches that are watching this this
is your year of increase and to all of
you believers I believe that what the
enemy has stolen this is the scripture
that comes to me he’s going to restore
the years that the enemy has stolen I
believe this is your year of increase
join us on this 21 day fast we have all
kinds of things that are going to bless
your life and you can go online and find
out about that well open up your heart
listen with your ears listen with your
spirit
because God’s going to speak to you
today as I teach on fasting the results
of fasting the power of fasting and
prayer I believe this message is going
to challenge you
if you have your Bibles I want you to
open them with me for a few moments this
morning to the Book of Psalms 141 verse
1 Lord I cry out to you make haste to me
give ear to my voice when I cry out to
you let my prayer be set before you as
incense the lifting up of my hands as
the evening sacrifice verse 2 let my
prayer be set before you as incense I’m
preaching today on God’s secret remedy
of fasting and prayer and specifically I
want to focus in on that word incense
it’s one that we really don’t relate to
a lot in our time but it had profound
implications in the scripture Old
Testament and new it’s found the word
incense what is that about well he said
in this writing that let my prayers be
like incense before your throne in the
old testament in the book of Exodus
chapter 30 when God gave instructions to
Moses for the Old Testament tabernacle
where his presence would dwell he said
you’re going to have to build several
pieces of furniture if you want my
presence and he said one of them is
going to be placed right in front of the
big curtain that separated the people
from the Holy of Holies and you will
place this altar called the altar of
incense right in front of this massive
curtain and behind the curtain was the
Ark of the Covenant where God’s mercy
seat and God’s residence on planet earth
as much as he can be contained in one
place was there and he said you are to
always have the priests burning incense
on days of sacrifice a sacrifice in the
morning a sacrifice in the evening and
on special days like the day of
atonement every person is to bring a
lamb for the
house or an ox according to how they had
prospered or a Turtledove
but everybody was to bring an offering
and it would be slaughtered on the altar
of sacrifice and then the priests would
take hot coals from off of the altar of
sacrifice put them in a sensor and we we
actually have one but perhaps something
like they would use which a sensor is
just like a container and they would put
these hot coals in it and they would go
to the altar of incense and in Exodus
chapter 30 there were four ingredients
it could only be made with these four
ingredients and it gives those four
ingredients such as frankincense and
myrrh and there were several others but
four and all and they would take this
perfume once they had those hot coals
and they would pour it on to the hot
coals and that would cause the curling
smoke to come up not only off of the
altar of incense as the priest could not
go into the presence of God without the
incense of prayer and praise going up he
could not enter in unless there was the
incense curling smoke going up but it
was not confined the the incense were
not confined to the tabernacle because
they would then take them and run
through the camp and walk out into the
outer court sometimes I saw pitchers
this week a priest who would carry as
many as six of these three in one hand
and they would walk through the camp and
many of the priests would walk through
the camp and the smell of those incense
as the curling smoke would go up would
feel the whole camp of Israel and that
doesn’t make a lot of sense to us and we
really we don’t see why that was a big
deal because we don’t really
per hand what it was like and I promise
I’m going somewhere with this so just
just come in here with me for just a few
moments because we don’t really come we
almost make it like when when the priest
was slaughtering the animals and you
know all of this stuff that it was like
a holy hush over the camp it was real
quiet and reverent and it it was a
slaughterhouse
you have to understand on the day of
atonement there would be tens of
thousands of animals ox and Bullock’s
goats lammed and I could see six priests
as they are wrestling to the ground a
cow or a bullock and they’re holding it
down and they screamed for two other
priests to run over and hold it down and
it’s kicking and it’s bellowing and it’s
and it’s crying and it’s leg is kicking
and they sit and and this is a little
graphic but they would slit the throat
of that animal in the blood and they
would try to capture as much as they
could and it’s a gruesome thing and the
priest would get up the priest wasn’t
walking around with a necktie and a suit
on he he wouldn’t do this one time but
I’m talking about
imagine 10,000 animals and this blood is
all over his clothes and it’s all over
his feet and it’s all over have you have
you if you’re on earth many of you men
are a hunter and you’ve seen someone or
you’ve done it yourself you’ve had to
fix and and clean an animal in the field
it’s it’s gruesome it’s that everything
has to be cleaned out and blood is
everywhere and there are smells there
smells and aromas the smell of blood the
smell of all of the gore it and not just
one animal but thousands and thousands
of animals and blood is everywhere and
then the priest is is sprinkling the
blood seven times on every piece of
furniture and it’s all over him from
head to toe it would be it would be
knowledge
and then on top of that you have
something in your in your nose called
the olfactory Oh L FA ctor Y olfactory
nerve and the olfactory nerve is a
sensor that God put into your nose that
can trigger things and some things when
it when that sensor picks up it triggers
nausea it makes you sick
certain smells just turn your stomach
other things would cause hunger you know
if you smell a delicious smelling food
cooking it would it would trigger hunger
in you so all through the count imagine
on the Day of Atonement and the reason
is so gruesome is it’s a picture of
Calvary the gore the blood the it was
horrible and it’s a picture of Calvary
and what our Savior would do for you and
do for me to to cleanse us of our sins
but on that day of atonement can you
imagine the blood the gore the stench it
was just stench everywhere there was
there was this smell there was this
horrible rich smell and it was all over
the camp of Israel and all of the sudden
there comes this God inspired substance
that is like a perfume it’s very strong
smelling they were forbidden to ever use
it anywhere only the priests could could
could put it together the apothecary
would would make it and here comes the
priest just when you couldn’t stand it
anymore
just when you couldn’t take it anymore
just when you were about to just I can’t
handle can you imagine those priests and
the people and the smell and the gore
and everywhere you look and I can’t take
it anymore and just when you couldn’t
take it anymore here comes a priest and
he has this smell and suddenly it
changes the whole atmosphere there’s
this sweet smell that comes in the
middle of all that suffering and all of
that
blood and all of that pain and all of
that gore and all of the bellowing of
the cows and the screams of the lambs
and the and and the blood and in the
middle of all of that comes the incense
that brings a sweetness to a horrible
wretched situation the priest is
swinging the censor and everything
smells sweeter and suddenly that you see
people say oh thank God for that oh it’s
a it’s temporary relief but I’ll take it
and I can almost see the priest probably
having hours of doing this and he even
goes to the altar of incense and just
stands there and says I can’t take it
anymore it’s so it’s so it’s it’s my
nerves are going off and I’m about to
throw up I’m about to lose it so let me
stand here and let me be in a sweeter
smell and a sweeter atmosphere it made
it bearable something sweet was mixed
into a horrible situation the incense
the writer says is a type of our prayers
that goes to God there is a power in
prayer there there is a sweetness in
prayer life can begin distinct things
can happen in your life that are so
horrible listen I’m a faith preacher I
believe in miracles I believe in signs
and wonders and healings and a massive
God can do it oh I don’t I don’t not
believe I believe in it and yet I’ve
been pastoring 25 years long enough to
say that I have seen God not answer my
prayer like I wanted him to pray and I
wanted him to answer and I prayed and I
prayed and I prayed in the situation
notice when they’re swinging the sensor
it didn’t change the reality it didn’t
change the situation but
made them able to deal with it in a
sweeter better atmosphere in our lives
things come but God says the way that
you tolerate it the way that you bear
the unbearable how do you bear the
unbearable
you take the censor a prayer and you
walk through that house where the hell
may be trying to take one of your
children and their own drugs and alcohol
and it’s not a quick fix but sometimes
it’s years that people struggle with
stuff but what you do is you just the
stinkier the house gets you just get the
sensor out and you won’t through our
Father which art in heaven hallowed be
thy name thy kingdom come thy will be
done in these children as it is in
heaven give us this day our daily bread
in the workplace I know money’s running
tight and we need some big give us this
day our daily bread forgive us our
trespasses as we forgive those who
trespass against us have you ever fasted
and prayed God would kill somebody you
ever had you you know okay let me preach
this is it have you ever had somebody
get on your nerves and you convince
yourself that it’s probably God’s will
for them to go on home
anybody been that deceived like your
pastor has maybe once or twice in his
life just just take them Lord you know
what just fast and pray about it and you
get in about the third day of that fast
and it’s just like what Jesus said he
said pray for those who despitefully use
you and you know why here’s the big deal
they may never as a matter fact they
might get worse but what prayer does is
it changes you
it changes your atmosphere it changes
your spirit
it changes your ugliness to a beautiful
sweet spirit all you got to do is pray
for those in and this all you got to do
is swing the censer a prayer and
it’ll sweeten you up and they may keep
on despising you and doing you wrong and
talking about you but you just pray for
them some of you oughta those people you
are hating you ought to just start doing
like this prayer doesn’t always get rid
of everything let me preach this right
here the father they were from the altar
of incense the more things stunk and the
further you stay away from prayer the
stinkier your life will get the less you
pray the more things stink the less you
pray the harder it is to stand it to
bear it to take it but if you will pray
I believe God there’s a scripture in
Ecclesiastes 3 that’s I love it it said
he makes oh this is gonna bless somebody
it said he makes everything beautiful in
its time not your time but if you keep
praying about it it may be stinky and
ugly and stinky and what a mess and it’s
easy to boat and give up and say forget
it but if you keep praying about it he
makes all things beautiful even the
tragedies even the losses even the
terrible things that that that are
gorian and if you’ve ever walked with
someone who was sick and ill and they
kept getting worse and worse and worse
it just breaks your heart and you pray
and you pray and they’re not getting
better but what it does is it sweetens
the atmosphere enough for you to bear it
for you to stand it and then you begin
to trust you’ll make all things
beautiful all things are working
together for the good I don’t understand
this right now but I’m just going to
make the best out of it and gonna turn
it into you
beautiful worship and beautiful prayers
of God I trust you even when you don’t
answer my prayers like I thought you
would Jesus used this prayer when he
said father if it’s possible let this
cup pass from me nevertheless not my
will but thine be done
the cup was not removed the cup was not
taken the cup was not removed but
something came when Jesus prayed that
sweetened the atmosphere of what he was
about to go through enough that he could
bear the unbearable and the angels came
and ministered to him
that’s what prayer does prayer may not
solve every problem in your life
instantly but prayer sweetens up your
life it brings joy to your soul it
brings strength to your life let’s
sweeten up the air in the atmosphere of
our families and our homes you may have
trouble everywhere but if you will pray
about it that’s why what what what what
we’ve been doing during this fast is
we’ve been saying to this church pray
the Lord’s Prayer at least four times
every day at least four times out loud
verbally utter the Lord’s Prayer I’ve
been doing it and the bad thing is I
have been doing more than four I’ve been
doing more like 40 or 50 it just it’s
consumed me and I get up and the first
thing on my brain is my Father which art
in heaven hallowed be thy name what are
you doing I don’t know what this day is
gonna bring that I’ll be prepared for it
because I have created the incense of a
sweetness that whatever comes so be it
he’s never failed me yet my God is a
faithful God he doesn’t require
perfection in our life he just says lean
on me and call on me and trust me
everybody’s sweetened up the air with
incense of praise right now let’s just
take a moment nothing may change while
you’re fasting and praying except the
atmosphere of your own life but he’ll
make all things beautiful in his time
the Apostle Paul said I have this stone
in the flesh and he said I pray three
times take this take this take this he
fasted and prayed take it take it take
it and God’s straight God said listen is
my strength is made perfect in your
weakness one translation said God’s
strength is not perfect until it finds
human weakness to apply to I qualify
for your greatest strength Paul my
strength is made perfect in your
weakness and then God gave him the
second part I will not remove it I will
not take it away you keep praying about
it and you keep creating a sweetness
about it’ll give you enough to bear it
and my grace is sufficient for thee not
taking it I’m going to give you faith to
bear it now that didn’t make you shout
desert that didn’t make you you’re not
you’re not engaged right now you’re just
kind of it’s not one of what I want up
we’re a microwave generation but we
serve a crock-pot God and he says I’m
going to let you walk through some stuff
and you’re going to learn how to pray
and the only reason you’re gonna pray is
to get relief because nothing on the
natural seems to be changing but when
you pray you change that mysterio
like I got the burden off and you go
back and the stench gets on you and you
run back and that’s how you develop a
prayer life there’s a sweetness that
comes drifting across the atmosphere and
it’s bearable I can’t change it but I
can live with it
that’s what prayer does prayer says
there’s some things I can’t change but
if I pray I can live with it and that in
then what they did it was awful the
smell was awful but the incense was just
enough to make it bearable tolerable
never get bitter at God well how do you
not get bitter at God he took my child
he took my my wife my husband he took
how do you not get bitter at God
prayers are like incense perfume that
sweeten you up instead of making you
bitter don’t get bitter in God because
you lost a child or something happen he
may not fix everything but like you want
it right when you on it but he makes all
thing here’s a word from the Lord right
in the middle of the fast he will make
all things in your life that are so ugly
and so jacked up and so messed up and so
they stink it just stinks
he will make those stinky ugly things
beautiful in his own time you watch what
I tell you everybody take a praise break
just praise God just from here well I’m
so glad that you’re listening to this
message I believe that there are
thousands of you that God is calling
into this 21 day fast you say I could
never do that I could never do that you
can learn how to do it it’s just like
it’s just like running you know I’m a
runner I run and I run a 5k pretty much
every day and it took me a while to
build up to 3 miles and you know when I
first started it was a struggle but the
more you do it the more comfortable you
get with it that’s how fasting is and I
want to encourage you just jump in and
fast and pray and seek God what we’re
saying the beginning of 2015 is Lord we
put you first rearrange my life power
wash my soul my family my life cleanse
us of everything we turn wholly to you
and I feel like God is saying in return
that that this is going to be the year
of mighty increase in people’s lives
that God is going to bless and restore
and I’m believing for you that this is
the year of increase increase of a
purpose and destiny and opportunity
increase of finances increase of souls
and family members being saved God is
going to enlarge your territory
God is going to bless your life and I
know he is and I sense he is for this
ministry
and I want to thank you for watching
this program and I want to pray for you
and maybe you’ve never asked Jesus into
your heart now’s your chance say Lord
Jesus I receive you today as my Saviour
forgive me cleanse me I surrender to you
take my life and rearrange my life this
year in Jesus name Amen and amen I thank
you for watching this program I want to
encourage you if this program is a
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