Experience the Transformative Power of Praying in Jesus’ Name | Tony Evans Highlight

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so Jesus’s name is not a name to be

played with nor is it is it dice is it

magic you just throw out there uhuh this

is a person behind the name and if you

don’t know the person submitted to the

person intimate with the person

following the person yielding to the

person submitted to the person don’t

expect the

power power comes from a

person Verse 18 husbands be the kind of

husband I want you to be because I’m

your lord children be the kind of child

I want you to be cuz verse 20 says cuz

I’m your lord he goes to 21 fathers be

the kind of father I want you to be cuz

I’m your lord then he goes to the

workplace he says servants when you go

to work tomorrow be the kind of worker I

want you to be because I’m your lord

whatever you do he says verse 23 do your

work hardly as for the Lord

rather than from men knowing from the

Lord you will receive the reward of

inheritance it is Jesus Christ the lord

whom you serve you don’t serve the man

you work for the man but you serve the

Lord you don’t even get to go to work

tomorrow morning without Jesus being

Lord he wants to own your home your life

your money your time your efforts your

work he wants total ownership uh if you

want to answered

prayer if you want to see Heaven if you

want to see Kingdom Authority manifested

in your life listen the more you

surrender the more of Heaven you’ll see

you want to get close to him that’s why

the scripture talks about how much the

father loves the son they are so into

each other that they never turn each

other down cuz they so into each other

he wants us to be into him like that

that’s why 1 Corinthians 15:7 says you

abide in me and my word abide in you ask

me whatever you want to and I will do it

for you cuz we hang out together how

does this work it works like this

whatever the father thinks the son

thinks exactly the same thing cuz they

always on the same page whatever the

father thinks that the son thinks the

Holy Spirit thinks because he’s part of

the Triune God so they always on the

same page the closer you get to the Lord

whatever the father thinks whatever the

son thinks that the spirit thinks

because he renews our mind we think so

we begin to think what the spirit thinks

that’s exactly what the son thinks

that’s exactly what the father thinks

Matthew 6:24 no man can serve two

masters you can’t have the Lord and

anything as a final decision maker no

everybody has ideas only the Lord gets

the final decision maker to rule and

overrule overrule your manhood overrule

your Womanhood overrule your marriage

overrule your singlehood overrule your

work overrule your finances overrule

your activities overrule Your

Entertainment he wants the whole kitten

Kaboodle that is if you want to see

heaven’s Authority on Earth it’s not

enough to believe in

God that that’s that’s not good enough

when it comes to having God

move on Earth he moves on Earth through

his son so your belief in God and love

of God and appreciation of God that’s

nice but it’s not sufficient for

intervention in history that comes

through

Christ if you want intervention in

history then Jesus Christ you must be

willing to be identified with

him people ought to know that you’re a

Christian and you ought to be found

guilty of all charges

you should not apologize for your faith

other folk aren’t apologizing for that

stuff you should not be apologizing that

you are a follower of Jesus the

Christ to call on his name in the day of

trouble means you have publicly

confessed him before men Romans chap 10:

9 and 10 he says if you if you confess

with your mouth that is open declaration

that I am a I’m a committed Christian I

belong to Jesus Christ open

declaration not hidden that’s right he

says those who call on me who have

confessed he says will be delivered

whatever you ask in my name that will I

do so that the father may be

glorified in the son if you ask anything

in my name I will do it in other words

anything that’s going to make me and my

daddy look

good I’mma do glorified if if you going

to make me look good by your prayer

request that’s why I want to give you a

secret give you a secret this is a

secret when you go to God and you’ve

been fully you’re fully surrendered and

you go to him in the name of Jesus

here’s here’s don’t tell nobody I told

you this but here’s what I want you to

do I want you to tell God if he answers

your request what he’ll get out of it

cuz God loves to hear His glory on

display he loves to know he’ll be

glorified in the process his name will

be great first John says this in chapter

5 John says in verse

13 these things I’ve written to you who

believe in the name of the son of God so

that you might know keep the word know

in mind that you have eternal life so

when you place faith alone in Christ

alone he gives you an inner confidence

of your salvation a conviction that

you’re his

child but now notice what he says right

after that verse 14 this is the

confidence which we have before him so

the word confidence the word no if we

ask anything according to his will he

hears us and if we know that he hears us

in whatever we ask we know that we have

the request that we have asked from him

o you see how many times I’ve said the

word

no that is inner persuasion or

confidence anybody been waiting for

something for a

while okay well the first question is

are you praying in his name okay are you

surrendered okay but given that when

there is a of

time between a legitimate prayer in

Jesus’s name the knowing that he’s going

to answer but the lapse in time between

the answer it is for one reason and one

reason alone

preparation either God is preparing it

for you or he’s preparing you for it or

he’s preparing the two for each other

it is for

Preparation God will use whatever time

is needed for the preparation to occur

for the request to be answered and you

to be qualified to receive the request

when it comes now that’s the good news

the bad news is you can delay the time

because you can delay the

preparation you can decide I’m not going

to be surrendered you can decide I’m not

going to obey you can decide not and you

can just spend that time on so God may

have decided I’m going to it’s going to

take one year and you may be at 25 years

because he never got the surrender so

you never got the preparation so it can

never answer it should have taken Israel

about a month a month and a half to

leave Egypt and get to the promised land

they walking around in circles for 40

years because they never accepted the

preparation that the Wilderness was

designed to give he says there is is a

knowing that

occurs when we are in framework with

God it’s powerful for watch this

physical and spiritual healing James

chapter 5: 13-

15 he says if you pray in the name of

the Lord the prayer will heal the sick

okay and address the sin oo oo

the prayer will heal the

sick and address the

sin now all sickness is not due to

sin but a lot of sickness

is he says the prayer of

faith he says in the name of the Lord so

he brings the name in will heal the sick

and it will deal with the sin

what God is saying is if I could ever

get to the spiritual we could do a lot

better with the

physical see most of our prayers wants

we want God to change stuff in the

physical give me more money give me

better health give me a new car give me

a new house give me nice clothes give me

know yeah we want God to do something in

the physical and and that’s not there’s

nothing wrong with that but we often

want him to do stuff in the physical

without touching the

spiritual don’t touch my sin but give me

my

blessing don’t touch my Rebellion but

give me my blessing no he doesn’t mind

changing the physical but he wants to

address the

spiritual and that brings in a

monster Authority Kingdom Authority you

want to know Kingdom Authority here’s

the

monster the name of Jesus gives you

power over the

devil because much of what we deal with

has come from him or through him or by

him in Luke 10: 17-

19 he told his disciples he he’s having

a conversation with his disciples and he

says you have authority over the devil

in my

name you tread among the demons you

Tread On Top of the Demons instead of

the devil and the demons walking on you

you walking on them tread means to walk

on when’s the last time you walked on

the devil just just walk oh devil let me

walk on you yeah rather than him walking

over you he says I give you Authority he

uses the word authority to tread on the

devil and his demonic scorpions why

because many of the issues we have are

demonically

exacerbated see we think the problem in

the divorce was our personalities that

wasn’t a problem the problem is the

devil got a hold of your personalities

and when the demons got a hold of your

personalities your personalities got

amped up in chapter 19 of Acts I I love

this verse 13- 17 okay Paul is casting

out

demons in Jesus’s name they he just

getting rid of demons in Jesus’s name

just just the sick of being healed the

Supernatural is occurring regularly in

Jesus’s

name well some dudes see

this and they say wait a minute wait a

minute wait a minute Paul using his name

Jesus and stuff happening yeah why don’t

we do

that cuz they concluded there’s magic in

his name it’s a magical name here Paul

doing all this stuff in jesus’ name so

they came to this demon-possessed person

the sons of scha they came as Jesus

person and they used the name of Jesus

they do like Chris do Jesus Jesus Jesus

Jesus in the name of Jesus Jesus they

they went they they went Jesus on them

just just Jesus all over the place just

Jes come out

demon then Acts 19 says the demon spoke

up demon spoke up and the demon

says Jesus we

know Paul we know we don’t know who you

folks

are it says the demon jumped out of the

man and jumped onto the folk who was

used in the name of Jesus stripped them

of their clothes and it says and they

ran out naked why because when you don’t

know how to use the name and you still

use the name you just invite the devil

to jump all over you and make things

worse on you while you calling Jesus’s

name so Jesus’s name is not a name to be

played with nor is it is it dice is it

magic you just throw out there uh-uh

this is a person behind the name and if

you don’t know the person submitted to

the person intimate with the person

following the person yielding to the

person submitted to the person don’t

expect the

power power comes from a person

when you when you get on your knees to

pray and you go to your heavenly father

and say father I want this I need this

help me over here deliver me over there

God has a question show me your

ID upon what right and Authority do you

have right now to come to my throne and

to make this request and to expect me to

let you in to my holy Throne where is

your

ID and all if you understand the name of

Jesus you got an Ida just like when it

comes time to go to heaven and if the

Peter would say on what ground should I

let you in glory I hope you don’t say my

good works I hope you don’t say I was a

member of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship I

hope you don’t say I’m a nice person cuz

that’ll get you booted out of Heaven

there’s only one thing that’s going to

get you in the glory and that is I have

somebody who died on the cross for my

sins who was my personal substitute who

I placed my eternal Destiny in the hands

of for the gift of eternal life that’s

your ID for Glory but while you on your

way there and you go to God for answered

prayer and the father says what’s your

ID all you got to do is tell him I come

in the name of the Lord Jesus who I’ve

submitted my life to who rules over my

life who controls my life who I’m not

ashamed to be identif with or as the

words of the Apostle Paul says I’m not

ashamed of the gospel for it is the

power of God unto salvation to everyone

who believes anybody wants some power

anybody wants some victory anybody wants

some Deliverance anybody want to see

some Heaven well then give God the glory

by giving Jesus the honor

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