Make Up Your Mind to Pray | Jentezen Franklin

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Jesus prayer life was not spasmodic it

was not own again off again he was not

too busy doing things like healing the

sick and casting out Devils to pray in

your sacred place pray out loud because

there’s power in words life and death

are in the power of the tongue the last

place in the world the devil wants to be

is in a prayer meeting because that’s

where the angels come and surround and

beat back the forces of hail

today I have a very simple message and I

want to talk to you about the five key

essentials that we can learn from Jesus

personal prayer life five essentials

from the prayer life of Jesus Christ

that teach you and I how to pray you see

the first key essential to prayer is

found in verse 35 now in the morning

having risen a long time the King James

says a long time alone while either way

it’s dealing with time he rose up early

and he prayed the first key essential

about the prayer life of Jesus is Jesus

had a time to pray he had a time to pray

he set aside time to pray to commune and

fellowship with the father

nothing separated Jesus from his prayer

time he was not too busy to pray he was

not too successful to pray he was not

too active to pray he was not too busy

doing things like healing the sick and

casting out Devils to pray but he

understood I need a time of Prayer he

understood that if I don’t make any

deposit in the bank of prayer I can’t

write checks all day long as I’m healing

people or the cheques will bounce if

there’s nothing in the bank our problem

is we write checks but we don’t make any

deposits into the prayer bank but Jesus

had a time everybody say he had a time

he had a specific time to pray it talks

about that same time a prayer in Luke 5

and verse 16 Jesus often times there it

is again

withdrew himself into the wilderness and

prayed

Jesus prayer life was not spasmodic it

was not owned again off again on again

off again it was regular it was

predictable it was a specific time of

Prayer oftentimes he prayed morning

after morning after morning

after morning so Jesus could stand

before any King because he had knelt

before the King of Kings Jesus could

stand before any judge and not feel

intimidated or afraid or any powerful

person because he at first in private

prayed and kneeled before the God of the

universe and Jesus number one had a time

of Prayer the Bible records in Luke nine

eighteen and this is what it says and it

happened as he was alone prayed that the

disciples joined him and asked him

saying who do the crowds say that I am

but notice he was alone praying can I

ask you a question today do you have a

time of Prayer if Jesus had a time of

Prayer and he was the son of God don’t

you think you need a time of prayer

isn’t church more about coming and

sitting and going through another

service isn’t our relationship with

Jesus supposed to be more than a weekend

gathering but really when you want to

grow and you want to come alive you get

a time of Prayer and nothing so changed

my prayer life one day when the Lord

spoke to me many many years ago and he

said I want you to see prayer like this

because ahead of time when I was so busy

with the church and it was growing so

much and we had small children and just

running here and there and everywhere

that my prayer life began to the flame

began to to fade out in prayer I was

praying you know but not in that place

of Prayer that time of prayer the Lord

spoke to me and he said I want you to

see me I’m gonna show up in this place

and I wait for you to come and eat with

me you have an appointment with me and

if you don’t come you stand me up but

I’ll be here I’ll be in this place I

call you to this place of Prayer nothing

changed me more about prayer than to

understand he waits for me he had I have

an appointment with the God of universe

in my time of Prayer and he waits for me

he looks for me a time to pray a time

alone with God

time not to be interrupted so easy to

have emails and this and that and that

phone and all of that but this is where

you put all of that aside and you say

this is our time Jesus number-one key

essential from the prayer life of Jesus

is he had a time to pray sometimes

secondly not only did he have a time to

pray but notice in mark chapter 1 same

verse verse 35 he had a place to pray he

departed into a solitary place Jesus had

a place to pray he often when he was in

Jerusalem went into the Garden of

Gethsemane and among the olive trees he

would pray and you read of it over and

over and over in the scriptures he

withdrew himself he went away and he

prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane when

we was at the Galilee or the Sea of

Galilee

many times you read he went into a field

and pray he went up into a mountain at a

boulder and he knelt and he prayed he

had place a place a prayer do you have a

place a prayer I have a place of prayer

that I prayed many many decades now it’s

trails in the woods I have trees that I

have marked by by rocks and by knives

that I’ve taken and scratched those

trees and carved into those trees

particular burdens or trials or

situations with family and I would mark

those trees and say God I want this to

be a memorial before you about this

situation about this child or that

situation in the church or that need

that I’m praying about and I can walk

through those trails as I did yesterday

as I do almost every day of my life I

can see those trees and I’m reminded God

gave me a victory right there I remember

when it was a burden and it became a

victory in the place of Prayer hey Luke

the third thing that I want you to see

about Jesus prayer life is number three

he prayed out loud

this is so important don’t misunderstand

there are times when praying out loud

would be inappropriate let’s say you’re

at work and your computer worker or

something you fix computers and and you

have a problem with a computer you

shouldn’t drop down on your knees in the

middle of a secular workplace and throw

up your hands and ask God for wisdom and

start pleading the blood over the

computer you don’t do that sometimes

when public prayer open out loud prayers

are inappropriate but I would say

something big there is never an

inappropriate time to pray silently

never anywhere everywhere you can pray

silently but with that said there is a

secret to the prayer life of Jesus

Matthew 26 and verse 39 and when he had

gone a little further he fell on his

face listen to these words and he prayed

saying didn’t say he prayed thinking it

didn’t say he prayed meditating in his

heart it said he prayed saying I don’t

think there’s an accident that he said

it he didn’t just think prayer but he

said it and there’s power in that Jesus

had a time of Prayer he had a place of

Prayer he prayed out loud I know the

power of praying out loud there’s

something that happens when a church

learns to pray out loud

we’re so politically correct in the

church we worry so much about what

people think when we ought to just Bible

said it’s better to please God than

please men and we need to learn how to

pray there’s something about having a

mom or a dad that prays out loud in a

house I can remember on Saturdays

my dad was a preacher and we lived in a

little parsonage in Rocky Mount and that

home was so tiny for our big old family

and Daddy had had to take a closet and

he tore all the stuff out of the closet

and made that closet his study and here

this family is of five kids we the

living room is right here where we all

watch TV and we play basketball all day

Saturday come in and eat and clean

dishes and Daddy would go in that

little scythe calls it that was right

there and I’d come in late sometimes

after playing basketball all day long

around eleven o’clock I’d wanna watch

Saturday Night Live I couldn’t wake and

and I’d hear daddy in that little side

room let’s see the little light on up

under not here my daddy prayed oh god oh

god touch us give us a mighty move of

your spirit – mom there’s something

about hearing the prayers of a mother a

father out loud it’s powerful it really

is a time to pray a place to pray

praying out loud that’s why the

disciples came and said Lord teach us to

pray why because they heard him pray

they heard him praying out loud and that

never heard anybody pray like Jesus

prayed and it’s so moved them that they

said teach us to pray and that’s when he

taught them the Lord’s Prayer but it was

a response to them hearing him pray out

loud does your family ever hear you pray

out loud are you shamed we don’t do it

for people to see us but I’m gonna tell

you even in your secret place pray out

loud because there’s power in words life

and death are in the power of the tongue

at the sound of the earnest prayer Satan

hosts and his demons flee God’s angels

wing their way from afar world Spurgeon

said to shut you in and beat back the

forces of hell I’m saying to you that

when you pray God will sanctify the

place where you’re praying and he was

surrounded with angels and demons cannot

get in on that conversation when you use

the name of Jesus just take a praise

break right there

oh there’s power in that name power in

that name number four you need a you

need a time to pray Jesus had a place of

Prayer Jesus prayed out loud and then

notice the fourth essential from the

prayer life of Jesus he prayed for

people by name

he prayed for his friends and family by

name Luke 22 and the Lord said Simon

Simon indeed Satan has desired to sift

you as wheat but I have prayed for you

oh my I prayed for you by name that your

faith fail not Jesus prayer was not

unspecific his prayer was not general

but he prayed out loud and he prayed for

his four people by their name he said

Peter I have prayed for you and the Lord

told me to tell everybody under the

sound of my voice that Jesus is saying

that about you today there may be

difficulty and challenges that you’re

facing but Jesus right now is praying

for you you are on his heart your name

is on his lips and he is not just

praying general prayers for all his

billions of children but he’s praying

your name he ever lives to make

intercession and he’s calling your name

out because he knows when Satan is

targeting somebody’s life Jesus prayed

for Simon Peter by name I want to ask

you a question when Satan asks for

permission to sift Peter who was he

asking when he said I desire to have

Simon Peter who was he asking was he

asking God God wouldn’t give him

permission Jesus wouldn’t give him

permission so this is what many scholars

believe they believed that he was asking

for evil angels to attack him he was

saying to his evil angels I desired to

sift that one as wheat I want you evil

angels or fallen angels demon spirits to

go get this man and stop him and ruin

him he has a great possibility I sense

God’s hand and destiny is upon his life

and so I want you to focus demonic

hordes of hell

on him and stop him before he gets there

to his purpose and wipe him off the face

of the earth and demon said we’ll do it

and they were released

hordes of Hell upon his life but here

comes Jesus and he says I’m going to

pray for you by name Simon I’m praying

for you by name and it’s not that you

won’t fall and it’s not that you won’t

mess up but that you won’t quit and you

won’t utter Li fall out of the hands of

God’s grace and on the day of Pentecost

you’ll get up and preach and 3,000 will

be saved hallelujah Satan studies our

genetic backgrounds he studies our past

failures he studies our children and our

children’s children and he puts these

demonic hordes and he says I want to

stop on my sense that there’s a plan and

a purpose for their life go go now and

wipe that person out but as you pray for

your son out loud as you call your

daughter’s name out loud as you pray for

your husband and speak his name out loud

as you pray for your wife and speak her

name out loud all of a sudden there is a

strength and a power and a grace that

covers them Jesus prayed for Simon Peter

by name I want to ask you a question are

you praying for your son every day in a

place at a time out loud do you call

their name before the throne are you

praying for your daughter are you

praying for your son are you praying for

your husband I can honestly say every

day of my life I go through it and I

name every one of my children every one

of my family I call their name because I

believe in the power of praying out loud

and speaking their name before the

throne first John Five’s tells what

happens when we pray now this is the

confidence we have in him when we pray

notice our confidence is not in US and

how holy we’ve been when we pray our

finance is in him that if we ask

anything according to his will he hears

us is it God’s will to save your family

is it God’s will that your children make

wise choices is it God’s will that they

marry the right present God’s will

it absolutely is God’s will and what

he’s saying is if I will say their name

and pray for them it will be harder for

them to reject Christ than accept Christ

if we pray actually when we pray for

someone it’s harder for them to reject

Christ than it is to accept Christ the

more we pray the more they keep bumping

into the grace of God we’re seeing

abounds they’ll find grace grace right

away what in the world what in the world

they start to do something imagine this

in your mind they start to do something

crazy but a mom drops to her knees in

the bedroom or a dad and says God I

don’t know why they’re on my heart but I

hold them up and I ask you Lord to move

now what you don’t know is in the unseen

world the Bible says around the throne

of God the angels are there and they’re

waiting on the command from Jesus and

Jesus says they say can we go can we go

can we go can we beat some demons up

today can we go and Jesus says oh here

comes the prayers from a mom in the

bedroom now going those angels go and

find that son that daughter surround

them and just when they start to do

something stupid there’s a restraining

force that pulls them back into the

grace of God and even if they mess up

the grace of God will pick them back up

and say brush yourself off God’s not

through with you don’t you ever stop

praying the fervent effectual prayers of

a righteous man avails a place of Prayer

there was a time of Prayer in Jesus life

there there was the praying out loud

there was the specific calling of names

of loved ones and friends and lastly

there is something that you see in the

prayer life of Jesus this powerful a

real essential and it’s this he often

prayed with others the Bible said that

Jesus prayed alone but it also points

out over and over again such as in Luke

chapter 9 he took Peter James and John

and went to the mountain to pray what is

that that’s a prayer band he had a few

that he liked to if one can put a

thousand to fight to ten thousand and he

had friends and family that he would

form a prayer band width now what’s

powerful about this is Matthew 18:18

surely I say unto you whatever you bind

on earth will be bound in heaven

whatever you loose on earth will be

loosed in heaven watch this and again I

say unto you if any two of you agree on

earth concerning anything they ask there

it is it’s that prayer band it’s that

agreement if they agree on anything they

ask it’ll be done for them by My Father

in heaven now here’s the key to it for

where two or three are gathered together

in my name I am there in their midst so

we we must quote that verse right there

and we act like it’s an excuse for low

attendance in church that’s about what

it means to us but all that is is a

reference to the first two verses that

when people are binding together in

prayer bands wherever two or three are

gathered in my name praying I get right

in the middle I’ll come in any situation

I’ll come in an office I’ll come in a

home I’ll come in a hospital I’ll come

in a funeral home

I’ll come anywhere people band together

and pray the Bible said when Paul got to

Macedonia there was a band of women

praying by the river it was a prayer

band over and over and over and how

powerful how powerful if we could get

thousands of Prayer vans in this church

all over this place and even

our nation as we’re facing things in

this election coming up if the body of

Christ would start having prayer bands

and praying and praying and praying and

praying I’m saying to you today you

ought to have fine people you’re praying

over calling their name out loud because

there’s power when we pray and I’m gonna

ask every person who will in this room

to stand to your feet but I want every

person who can physically do it to get

down on your knees lift up your hands

toward heaven open up your mouth and

when I say pray I just taught you to

pray out loud there’s a rumble and a

roar to a church that nut learns how to

pray I want you to lift your voice out

loud and I want you to begin to pray for

the members of your family one by one

all over this room open your mouth and

let’s praise the father for just a

moment come on father we worship You

Father we come come on that’s not out

loud turn the volume up on your throat

right now turn it up turn it up three

notches oh we call on the name of the

Lord today Lord we cry out to you today

for our families we cry out to you today

for our homes we cry out to you today

for our nation we cry out to you

concerning this election we cry out to

you O God we humble ourselves before you

we kneel for this cause for this purpose

that we might commune in fellowship with

the father Oh father we come and we ask

you today for your wheel for your

kingdom to come your will to be done and

Lord we pray out loud for those who are

lost we pray out loud for family members

that are on our heart we pray out loud

they just began to pray out loud for

your family members call their name as

though Heaven has a band of squadron of

angels that are waiting on reserve in

the mall

you speak their name those angels are

dispatched they’re sent forth by the

hand of God just begin to call their

name call your husband’s name call your

wife your children your grandchildren

father we thank you we speak blessing

over our homes over our marriages over

our families and we seek your face it’s

time for the body of Christ the church

the Christians to stand up as America

goes the world goes and that’s why I’m

asking the church and all of the people

who love Jesus Christ and believe the

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dig counted to let your prayers be heard

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