“The Habit of Prayer” – Touré Roberts

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so wonderful to be here with you this

morning I want to get right into the

word as we continue in our prospective

series and and today I’m gonna do a lot

more teaching today I want to I want to

lay some foundations as a release of

perspective so I want to draw your

attention to Matthew the sixth chapter

and we’ll begin our reading in verse

five and we’ll read verse five through

verse thirteen Matthew chapter six

beginning at verse five this is not an

unfamiliar passage of Scripture we’ve

heard it we’ve seen it some of us may

have a portion of this passage of

scripture memorized but we’re gonna

break it down and look at it perhaps

more closely than we ever have before

and it reads like this and when you pray

and when you pray just turn to your

neighbor and say prayer is not optional

and when you pray not if you pray not if

you feel like praying and when you pray

you shall not be like the hypocrites for

they love to pray standing in the

synagogues and on the corners of the

streets that they may be seen by men

assure it loot assuredly I say to you

they have their reward it says but you

when you pray go into your room and when

you have shut your door pray to your

father who is in the secret place Oh

hallelujah

and your father watch this who sees in

secret that’ll preach all by itself

right there your father who sees in

secret God he dwells in the secret place

he doesn’t dwell in the place of

performance he does not dwell in the

place of putting on your best face or or

trying to be he dwells in the secret

place that is the place of reality our

relationship with God is not really a

public relationship

it’s not really a public relationship

the fruit is public but the relationship

is private it is a secret relationship

and it is played out in the hidden

places of our hearts our minds and our

souls and that’s what God is looking at

he is looking at something completely

different than what man is looking at I

feel the Holy Ghost he’s looking at

something completely different and some

of you have been doing good in secret

and what you’ve been doing in secret has

not manifests openly yet but I hear

God’s saying don’t stop doing what

you’re doing in secret

even though man is not celebrating you

yet man is not applauding you yet don’t

worry about it

stay at it because God is looking at

every seed see even when you sow a seed

into the ground that seed is in secret

but when that seed sprouts up it doesn’t

sprout up in the secret place it sprouts

up so that everybody could see I feel

the Spirit of God there’s some people in

Los Angeles California

there’s some people in Denver Colorado

and you have been sowing in secret and I

decree and declare right now I prophesy

over you right now it is gonna spring up

openly and the world is gonna see your

faithfulness in secret and that’s what

it says it says and your father who sees

in secret will reward you openly I feel

that for somebody if that’s your word if

he hit you right in the chest take about

ten seconds come on and just sell it

that that’s for me that might be the

word you came for that might be the word

right there

God says I’m gonna honor your secret

life I’m gonna honor the fact that you

committed to intercession I’m gonna

honor the fact that you serve me without

lunar ayat II I’m gonna honor the fact

that it looked like you were serving me

for nothing not realizing that God was

increasing your bank account so you have

an earthly bank account and you’ve got a

heavenly bank account are you hearing

what I’m saying that’s what it means

when he says I’ll supply all of your

need according to my riches and glory by

Christ Jesus I’m not preaching today I’m

teaching I’m not doing that to see don’t

don’t do that y’all I know what y’all

trying to do I know what you’re trying

to do he says and when you pray do not

use vain repetitions in other words

prayer I don’t always be fresh Oh

hallelujah

and always be fresh don’t know prayer is

not a routine necessarily it can be part

of your routine but it in and of itself

is not a routine some more some more

don’t use vain repetitions as the

heathen do for they think that they will

be heard for their many words therefore

do not be like them for your father oh

this is powerful look at this for your

father knows the things that you have

need of before you ask him Wow

a preacher he says in this manner

therefore pray in fact in Luke chapter

11 I believe there’s another account of

this very same text and the disciples

saying what you teach us how to pray I

understand prayer is about teach us how

to pray and Jesus says all right all

right in this manner verse 9 and this

man are therefore pray our Father in

heaven

how will be your name your kingdom come

your will be done on earth as it is in

heaven give us this day our daily bread

and forgive us our debts as we forgive

our debtors and do not lead us into

temptation but deliver us from the evil

one

for yours is the kingdom and the power

and the glory forever amen father you

want to feed your people today Bethlehem

is the house of bread Lord turned the

Potter’s House right now

one la in the Potter sauce in Denver The

Potter’s House of all over the world

turned this house into a house of bread

father every person of the sound of my

voice is hungry in some area feed us we

need you feed our hearts feed our minds

feed our souls and feed our spirits

father I surrender myself to you

and I take full advantage of the

resources of heaven I thank you that not

one spiritual and divine resource will

be kept back from me in this moment to

reach your people by the power of God

God expressed through the love of God

and that the end result will be healed

lives heal minds heal souls edification

wisdom learned understanding established

in your children and that will be better

upon leaving more equipped than we were

upon entering thank you God have your

way in Jesus name Amen god bless you you

may be seated family you may be seated

Los Angeles god bless you hallelujah

we’ve been talking about perspective and

we’re going to be talking about

perspective for a long time because I

believe that perspective is everything

and I believe that this is the year of

perspective and I believe that this is a

year

where God is going to ground you and

establish you in his perspectives and

he’s going to ground you and establish

you in a way that you will see things

right and as you see things right you’re

gonna move differently I feel the Holy

Spirit your perspective is gonna be

aligned with God’s perspective and then

and and I believe and I hear this

prophetically that’s going to create an

acceleration it’s gonna be an

acceleration sometimes the reason why

things lag and drag is because there is

a wrestling match between God’s

perspective as he has communicated to us

through the words that he speaks to us

and our perspective because our

perspective is our reality and God will

not super impose his will in your life

if you don’t believe because you are so

consumed with your perspective and so I

believe that this year we’re gonna see

incredible things because I believe that

that God is gonna lock some of you in

into his mentality you know the Bible

says in Colossians chapter 3 it says set

your mind on things above it doesn’t say

put your mind on things above it says

set set establish your mind in God’s

perspective that you may prosper anybody

wouldn’t prosper anybody want to stop

vacillating to-and-fro I’m in I’m out

I’m happy one day sad the next day do I

have any people that you just want to

set your mind on the good news of God

the good plans that God has for you you

want to wake up in the morning with the

joy of the Lord because you know that is

just a matter of time before everything

that God has promised will be manifest

that’s what I believe God is doing this

year I believe he’s gonna set your mind

he’s gonna lock in your perspective and

your whole universe is gonna be

recolored and you’re gonna see things

that were there that you did not know

that they were there because there were

blinders on your mind and blinders on

your heart because of all sorts of

things that have been thrown at you but

God is getting ready to bring you to a

place where you are no longer confused

he’s going to give you clarity where

there was once confusion and it’s gonna

be wonderful and awesome and you’re

gonna start moving differently I see it

you’re gonna start walking differently

and talking differently and expecting

differently and you’re

there’s gonna be so much bigger and

you’re gonna begin to experience the

exceedingly abundantly far above what

you can ask for or imagine it’s coming

it’s coming

that’s why we’ve got to get this

prospective thing worked out no longer

will I walk around with a negative

expectation or a negative perspective

the gospel is good news there is a good

story over my life right now it is an

incredible story it is an amazing story

and I’m gonna do everything in my power

to fight back every negative thing that

tries to keep me from a divine

perspective if you are going to do that

this year

you are gonna fight for our true

perspective a healthy perspective a

divine perspective I dare you to claim

it right now as I’m slaying it claim it

right now I’m gonna see right

i’ma see right God if you gotta make me

blind in order for me to see do it are

you tracking with me do it I need to see

right this year I need to see right I

feel that I need to I need to see right

I need to see right I feel like

something wants to break out in here

I feel like something must to break out

in here for like something needs to

break out of here I leave that music to

match what I’m saying I feel like

something god wants something to break

out in here I got some teaching to do

but I feel the glory of God in this

house

now there’s a crisis at an annoyed thing

for you to say right what’s sad fall

oh come on I can’t see for you I can’t

see for you I can’t see for you there’s

some people and you were so walking in

you’re gonna be Paul leaving out you are

getting ready just see right

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open my eyes Lord open my eyes Lord open

my eyes or open my lord

take the sleep out of my eyes Lord take

the shame out of my lord take the pain

out of my eyes Lord take the doubt out

of mice I need to see this thing I need

to see this thing I need to see this

thing I need to see this thing I need to

see this thing no music I need to see

this thing I need to see this thing we

are about to be the music no music we’re

about to be the music I need to see this

thing I need to see this thing I need to

see this thing I need to see this thing

come on some I need to see this thing I

need to see this thing Jesus came to

open blind my perspective in this season

is gonna make me a break man so I’ve got

to fight for my sight I’ve gotta fight

for my sight David said open my eyes

that I might see wondrous things out of

your law and one of the things I can’t

think of any greater activity that helps

shape our perspective than the model

prayer and that’s what I want to talk

about that’s what I want to talk about

prayer brings us into God’s perspective

so much so that when

the disciples asked Jesus to teach them

how to pray he teaches them how to

access God in such a way that it would

change their perspective and I wanted us

to look at that I can’t think of a

better daily habit than prayer and I

think that this is important so early on

in the year to develop the habit of

prayer so that you can flow in the

rhythm of perspective the habit of

prayer the habit of prayer keeps you in

the rhythm of divine perspective and is

interesting when I when I begin to quote

what we call the Lord’s Prayer and I

understand why you might call it the

Lord’s Prayer because it’s the prayer

that the Lord taught us but really

beyond it being the Lord’s Prayer it’s

really a model prayer Jesus said Jesus

the master of prayer one who understands

prayer more than anyone else says I need

you to pray like this if you don’t pray

like this you’re missing Oh God

he simplifies prayer and to a few things

that I believe alter and shape our

perspective our perspective about the

heavenly realm our perspective about our

mission and purpose our perspective

about each day our perspective about

provision our perspective about others

our perspective about divine protection

our perspective about spirit-led living

and our perspective about the

preeminence of God and it’s interesting

as and we’re going to go through these

things one by one with the time that we

have today but it’s interesting that

before he gets into this model prayer he

says first I’m Latino some God already

knows what you need Wow Wow

just think about this for a second huh

I’m a firm believer in praying for what

you need and all it’s wonderful but if

the majority of your time praying is

spent begging for your needs we have

missed the power of what prayer is for

but you understand what I’m saying

so let’s look at it let’s look at let’s

unpack it a little bit I want to I want

to teach today I’ll be just up for only

about seven or eight hours and then

we’ll be off

I’ll finish today but let’s break it

down he says when you pray first of all

when you pray do this he says pray like

this pray our Father in Heaven hallowed

be thy name

first of all the reason why he tells us

to start the prayer off by acknowledging

where God is watch this is to bring this

out of the limitations of the earthly

realm he is laying the foundation of

pretty he doesn’t say our Father who I

just met and in Cusco oh no no no no our

Father in heaven our Father who art in

heaven it immediately

elevates your perspective from the

limits and the confines of what you can

produce in your own strength to the

unlimited and untapped realm of heaven

that’s why I do not have to see what I

need in the natural realm all I’ve got

to do is believe that there is a realm

greater than the realm that I am

functioning in in fact the reason why I

can function in this realm is because

the reality of the other realm are you

tracking with me so the first thing that

God is introducing to us as a relates to

perspective is the perspective of the

heavenly realm anybody grateful that

there is a heavenly realm aren’t you

glad that there’s something greater than

what you can see a father in heaven

hallowed be your name

I am sanctifying your name I am setting

apart your name there is none like you

it gives me perspective about heaven and

sometimes we need an escape from this

realm Oh hallelujah

that that’s what prayer is the beginning

of prayer is an escape from the confines

of this realm oh I feel it I’ve got

somewhere to go sometimes when life box

you in anybody ever been boxed in by

life come on Los Angeles life ever box

you in you feel like you can’t go to the

left or go to the right

you ever feel boxed in the only way the

only reason why you and I whatever feel

boxed in is because we don’t know how to

escape to the secret place we don’t know

how to escape to the realm where all

things are possible the realm where all

of our promises are yes and a man in

Christ and so it allows me an escape

before we enter into our work day or any

day we need to enter into the heavenly

realm that’s what prayer does it is a

meeting it is a meeting on earth with

the realities of heaven I need to be

reminded that there’s something greater

than this world that I’m living in

there’s something greater than

government shutdowns and furloughs and

and bickering in government I need to be

reminded that I’m not living by man’s

system alone but I am a citizen of

heaven

I’ve got dual citizenship baby I’m a

citizen of LA or not LA of the u.s. or

Zimbabwe or whatever but most

importantly I am a citizen of heaven

I have got right and we are praying for

our government leaders and we are

praying for those who work for the

government and those who don’t work for

the government but are affected by the

government shutdowns because maybe you

didn’t work for the government but the

person who did work for the government

has been contributing to your food can

we just take a minute and say in the

name of Jesus I thank you that I’m a

citizen of heaven and god I pray you

turn it around in the earth but if you

don’t open up heaven over your sons and

daughters who are going through this

difficult time and provide for them just

like you did manna from heaven in the

mighty name of Jesus can we just take a

minute and celebrate the fact that God

is not going to let his children starve

I’ve got a feeling they’re not gonna

stop but I want to stay on course I want

to stay on course I want you to know

that and you know what there’s many

people that watch this via live

streaming people they’re sitting here

sitting in LA campus or or wherever you

might be the reality of it is there’s

some need to know that God’s gonna take

care of you as some in this room right

now affected some in California right

now affected some watching from the DMV

right now heavily populated government

area that are concerned but I’m here to

declare to you right now and you know

what I’ll just talk to that one person

if I have to have that five people that

I have to god is going to take care of

you you will never ever solely a citizen

of the United States you’re a citizen of

heaven if you trust God and God’s gonna

come through and we’re praying for you

okay I got to keep moving because we’ve

got to go some places so so we have a

perspective about heaven that’s why I

got to pray every day because if I don’t

continue to connect with heaven I will

think that earth is all there is if I

don’t daily and consistently go vertical

I mean everyday then life on Earth will

be terrorized

all of the fears of of woulda

coulda or what if the fears of what if

rather will consume me and there’s some

in here right now I feel is so strongly

there’s some here in this room right now

and you forgot that you have a God in

heaven you forgot and because you forgot

that because you have not been regularly

visiting heaven via prayer there are

some fears and some anxieties that that

you were never intended to have that

have creeped into your life and I just

want you to do me a favor just in case

it’s the person sitting next to you I

just want you to turn to your neighbor

and say go to heaven go to heaven I need

you to go to heaven go to heaven go to

heaven go to heaven go to heaven so it

gives us perspective about heaven it

gives us perspective that we are not

limited to the confines and the

constructs of the earthly realm but but

we’re not from here we didn’t start here

hello somebody we didn’t start here and

we’re not gonna end up here but we’re

part of something else and then he goes

into something and now he begins to give

us perspective about mission he says

your kingdom come your will be done on

earth as it is in heaven so much there

you’ve heard this a million times

sometimes the reason why perhaps we’re

not fulfilled in life or perhaps we’re

not experiencing the power of God the

way that we believe we should is because

we forget that our sole purpose as

believers in the earth our sole purpose

watch this is to advance the kingdom of

God hear me out

our sole purpose of believers is not God

blessing us and not God taking care of

us those are advantages in fact those

are add-ons you know when the Bible says

seek first the kingdom and all those

other things will be added on so if my

expectation of the what it means to be a

believer is that God is gonna bless me

we’ve missed it because the only reason

why you

not get saved and get zapped to heaven

is because you are a part of God’s plan

to perpetuate the kingdom of heaven in

the earth I notice is not sexy preaching

it’s just true are you tracking with me

Jesus says let me teach you how to pray

Jesus doesn’t talk about your bills

he doesn’t talk about your relationships

hello somebody he doesn’t talk about

your finances he doesn’t talk about the

bully at work he doesn’t talk about any

of that he says if you pray my kingdom

come my will be done in earth as it is

in heaven it will take care of

everything that ails you every single

day your assignment in your own unique

expression of God is to move his kingdom

forward I want to see your kingdom

advance I want to hear your name lift it

up I want to see your power in the earth

do I have any real Christians in God’s

house God has saved you he has redeemed

you and now all you want to see it’s the

whole earth full of his glory God I’m

praying everyday your kingdom come your

will be done in earth as it is in heaven

everything that is

get in the earth the kingdom remedies I

need your kingdom and government

I need your kingdom where there is

poverty I need your kingdom in my

marriage how did your kingdom in my

business if you are a kingdom citizen I

dare you to shout your kingdom come come

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Jesus Jesus could have asked for

anything he could have asked for

anything if there was anyone who had the

excuse to feel entitled it was Jesus he

could have been a complete spoiled brat

son of God and he knew it from earlier

people coming from all over bringing

gifts anointing him with oil coming to

see him lifted up lifting him up praying

for him respecting and honoring him but

at 12 years old instead of trying to see

what he can get out of life he is lost

but not lost he is lost from those who

don’t get it but completely found in his

purpose and he says out of his own mouth

I must be about my father’s business

something is going to break loose for

Kingdom people I’ve got a prophetic word

for Kingdom people hear this clearly I

failed this God gave this to me and I

gotta release it over you right now this

is not for everybody

I’ll be honest with you it’s for Kingdom

people minier called everybody’s called

but only fewer choosable many are called

fewer chosen what does that mean

everybody’s called come one come all but

I can only choose the person who’s about

my business are you tracking with me and

I’ve got a word in this year I’ve seen

it God is he spoke this to me he says I

am clearing the path for Kingdom people

I wish I could say it the way I see it I

am clearing the path I am moving things

out of the way I am shaking of

everything and you’re going to go from

obscurity in Jesus

and two places a prominence overnight

because your prayer is God your kingdom

come your will be done on earth as it is

in heaven

I am yours I belong to you if you are

forward I’m for it

if you’re against it I’m against it I am

sold out for you and God is getting

ready to part skip ready to part

something for you I feel the Holy Ghost

if you’re a kingdom person holla at me

because something’s get ready to happen

here I feel it God is getting ready for

something promotion comes from the Lord

he sets down one and raises up God I’m

so glad that you’ve been faithful in

secret I’m so glad that you’ve been

praying at Secrets

I’m so glad that you opened Efex in

secret because God is ready for you

you gotta catch that you gotta catch

them la are you catching it I see it

God is shaking some things up it’s not

gonna look like what it’s always looked

at in a moment boom you’re gonna see

something the tables are gonna turn in

your favor if you believe that’s a word

from God for you do me a favor celebrate

him with me

oh it’s true

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he’s clear in the path it’s clear in the

past my bottommost shop is clear in the

past he’s clear in the past the walls of

Jericho are getting ready to fall on

your behalf ah it’s getting ready to

happen it’s clearing the path stay there

stay there

don’t move too quick because that

mounted in front of you is getting ready

to become a molehill I know what I’m

talking about

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he’s not gonna teach you to pray a

futile prayer and watch this he’s also

not gonna teach you to pray a prayer

that is not gonna come to pass how many

of us know the kingdom is coming the

kingdom is coming with we’re not begging

heaven Jesus wants us to pray in

alignment with what he is doing his

kingdom is coming and in order for his

kingdom to come on earth as it is in

heaven

he needs some kings he’s handing out

crowns I feel the Holy Ghost he’s

handing out count crown kings and queens

he’s handing out cross hallelujah

hallelujah some of you you’ve had a

crown but it’s felt like a crown of

thorns not realizing that that crown of

thorns is getting ready to become a

golden crown a royal diadem on your head

I feel the Holy Ghost yes you’ve had to

bleed you’ve had to bleed you’ve had to

suffer but I hear God saying that I

reckon the sufferings of this present

time are not worthy to be compared to

the glory that shall be revealed

I came to prophesy to you this morning

and I pray that there’s some people in

here that say I hear God speaking to me

and I’m gonna allow every word that God

speaks to me to change my perspective

watch this God doesn’t even need our

prayers he doesn’t need our prayers he

doesn’t say if you don’t pray my

father’s kingdom come my father’s will

be done on earth as it is in heaven

if you don’t pray that’s not gonna

happen he said that ain’t what he said

he’s saying I want you to be aligned

with my perspective I want you to be

aligned with my perspective the kingdom

wins the kingdom wins the kingdom is

already won and anybody that aligns with

the kingdom is gonna win in every season

of their life do you hear what I’m

saying you can’t have the perspective of

a loser

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keep them comfy

Lord I want my life to be that which can

be blessed to be utilized to advance

your kingdom hallelujah in whatever Lane

you give me I’m gonna advance your

kingdom I’m gonna study your kingdom I’m

gonna seek your kingdom it says seek the

kingdom in other words if I don’t see

the kingdom in it I’m not in it are you

tracking with me I am seeking the

kingdom like someone searching for

riches

you know the parable is about the

kingdom like a merchant who goes looking

for rare stones and finds a pearl of

great price finds it and sells

everything that he has to buy it because

he realized that in it was everything

that he needed and then some

so my perspective is God’s perspective

I’m here to see your kingdom come see

your kingdom come that’s why I’m here

I’m not even here to have a great life

if I seek your kingdom I’ll have a great

life but I have prioritized my

perspective so he says my Father who art

in heaven hallowed be thy name thy

kingdom come thy will be done on earth

as it is in heaven which means that now

I am I am I am the connection between

heaven and earth Oh God see I want you

to see yourself right

you my sister brother you are God’s

connection between heaven and earth your

kingdom come your will be done on earth

as it is in heaven you know I love about

that it says your kingdom come will be

done the kingdom come on earth as it is

in heaven so heaven is not trying to

figure it out it’s settled in heaven now

our job is to bring to earth what heaven

has already pre-ordered every day that’s

what we ought to live for in some way

but that’s perspective and if you don’t

have perspective you’ll be living for

other stuff and you’ll forget about the

most important thing I gotta kind of I

gotta move through there’s a hope we can

finish this today your kingdom come your

will be done on earth as it is in heaven

now then he says give us this day our

daily bread and herein he is giving us

perspective about each day here’s what I

mean by that a lot of us you know you

hear people say how you’re doing all the

same stuff different day

just another day just you’ve heard is

just another day just another dollar but

here as the Lord is teaching us how to

pray in game perspective he is also

giving us perspective about the value of

each day oh god I feel the Holy Ghost

each day each day has great value and in

each day the value of that day is more

valuable than yesterday and tomorrow oh

you got to catch what I’m saying I got I

wish I could say it the way I see it the

most valuable day you have is not

tomorrow

it is not yesterday the most valuable

day you have is the day you are in right

now because if yesterday was the most

valuable day then you would have gone on

to be with Jesus yesterday and

everything goes how every round goes

higher we go from glory to glory which

means that the over Shibata box it is a

lie to say I wish I was in the old glory

days the devil is a liar that is a

former glory

the latter glory is always greater than

the former glory and if you get your

perspective together you will be able to

seize the glory that’s in this day are

you tracking with me the most powerful

days you have is today Oh God

that’s why procrastination is one of the

greatest sins can I talk to you like

this Los Angeles that’s why

procrastination is is one of the

greatest sins because because what it

does is it forsakes the glory of today

hoping

that you even see tomorrow

Bishop Rosie O’Neil said something

profound I cannot get this out of my

spirit

she says procrastination is the arrogant

assumption that God will give you

another opportunity to do tomorrow what

he anointed you to do today it is an

arrogant assumption give us this day you

notice that in that prayer he’s not

talking about tomorrow

he doesn’t say God give me give me my

brand for today and tomorrow and for

next no no no no he says give us this

day this day this day our daily bread

he’s giving you perspective about the

day I want some people in this room you

go have to forgive yesterday see the

mercy of God and each day he grants you

to have feel the Holy Ghost

you’ve got to see each day bold kind of

stuff you’ve got to see each day right

you stay right each day is loaded with

benefits every single day there is

something I’ve got a run through this I

got a run through that I’m sorry I

wanted to differently give us each day

our daily bread that means it that there

is something in this day for me that

means that God has placed provision out

of Moshe everything I need for today’s

and today some of you are worried about

something that might happen in two weeks

it is a waste of creative energy it is a

waste of cognitive energy so you’ve been

worried worried worried about something

that that might happen in a month he

wouldn’t tell you to pray give us each

day our daily bread daily bread I hate

God saying I’ve got you

and and see and see I’ve got to do it

that way because because you don’t trust

me in the time of abundance when you

have enough for today tomorrow next week

six months from now and a year from now

it is wonderful I believe in savings I

save all the time right I got all kind

of stashes thank God hallelujah but I’ll

tell you some of those stashes are my

liability because it is difficult the

more that you can see the more difficult

it is for you to trust God on the level

that you need to trust him are you

tracking with me so some of you are

wishing oh god I wish ahead you know six

or seven figures in the bank I wish I

had that saved up not realizing that the

real value is that you can give God a

hallelujah and I thank you Jesus each

and every single day because you are

convinced that there is provision in

each day sometimes God does not give you

a button that’s all at once sometimes

God gives you abundance in rations are

you tracking with me in fact if you will

go over your life and if you will look

at all the times that you were worried

and God came through just for that day

you will see a history of abundance and

if I can see a history of abundance then

I can thank God and I can believe him

for a future of abundance M&S day

my daily bread because because family

all you really need I’m gonna let you in

on something this is revolutionary I’m

gonna let you in on something all you

really need is your daily bread the

other guy lies to you and tells you you

need bread you need bread for tomorrow

on the next day and today that is a lot

you couldn’t even consume bread

dispersed in that fashion God says I got

you all you need in your business oh you

need if you’re watching via livestream

in your ministry all you need in your

house it’s daily bread some of you are

worried about having the answer to a

problem that hasn’t even showed up yet I

wish you would catch what I just said

because daily bread is not simply the

provision of resource it is also the

provision of wisdom when it’s time for

you to cross that bridge there will be

wisdom and revelation and clarity and

favor and whatever it is you need jesus

told his disciples i gotta stop jesus

told his disciples he says when you go

before the magistrates don’t even worry

about what you’re gonna say it will be

given to you that very hour hallelujah

i’m trying to change your perspective

give us this day our daily bread that

means that in every day i am loaded with

benefits there is provision in that day

there is wisdom for that day if i seek

him if i seek him if i lean not into my

own understanding but i had not let him

in all of my ways he is gonna order my

steps and direct my path even if it’s a

place I’ve never been before because

there’s some of you that God is calling

out of

he’s calling you to go to lands that are

unfamiliar to you but I hear God saying

if you trust me if you seek me I’m gonna

order your steps I’m not gonna give you

the map I’m gonna give you the step

that’s in front of you and if you step

I’ll catch you and I will not reveal to

you

step two until you make step one that’s

why you gotta stop disqualifying

yourself you don’t have to know

everything all you’re gonna do is know

how to stop stop trying to know

everything la stop trying to know

everything Zimbabwe just know how to

hear God’s voice that’s all you need and

he will order your steps perspective I

don’t have to have it all figured out I

just have to know how to hear I just

have to know how to sense I just have to

know how to see perspective give us this

day our daily bread it’s perspective

about each day and then he says and

forgive us our debts as we forgive our

debtors as so much into that I can’t

even do it so much there but he’s

basically saying I need you to have

perspective about yourself forgive us

our debts you notice that Jesus doesn’t

say if you have any he doesn’t say

forgive us of our trespasses if you have

any no he says pray it’s humility

humility it says I don’t have it figured

out and right now I’m probably wrong in

some area about something right now with

my smart self

I was quiet now it’s quiet now is quiet

even right now with my smart intelligent

educated experienced self I am probably

just even if it’s just a little bit

wrong about something right now forgive

us our debts as we forgive our debtors

but I believe Kingdom people have to

learn how to navigate others you have to

learn how to navigate others and is

difficult and I talked about a little

bit on New Year’s Eve but you’ve got to

you’ve got to learn how to navigate

people Jesus was a master navigator he

navigated many personalities from Peter

to Judas navigated them and I can’t

teach it now but you have to see

yourself right and you have to see

others right and you have to walk in

humility and you have to walk in

forgiveness and then he he says and lead

us not into temptation that is to say

that it is again rather arrogant to step

out into a day to step out into a day

without seeking God’s wisdom there are

lions tigers and bears out there every

single day particularly if you’re living

for God lead me not into temptation

other words temptation is waiting for

you hey even right now temptation wants

to pull right up and from the church

come on somebody right out on Florida

Avenue right there on the brereton

tation wants to pull up and say hey we

rollin again lead us not into temptation

is to say Holy Spirit leave me today I

don’t want to lean into my own

understanding I don’t want to lean into

my own tendencies I don’t want to lean

into my own proclivities I have

perspective about guidance and that is I

need your guidance he says and keep me

from evil that’s the divine protection

again lions tigers and bears there’s all

sorts of things out there and there’s

not a date that I’d leave my house well

I don’t cover my family hello somebody I

don’t cover my family I don’t cover

these churches and these campuses hello

some but not a day I do not take for

granted if Jesus said

pray that you will be kept from evil see

all these things keep you aligned and

then it goes into for yours is the

kingdom and the power and the glory

forever and ever and ever amen I need to

tie this up how can I tie this up

I believe that pare that prayer is one

of the number one things that keeps you

with a healthy perspective and in

particular if you’re not big on prayer

in fact the disciples themselves were

asking to be taught how to pray if

you’re not big on prayer just pray these

things just pray these things if you

pray this prayer every day with

understanding not vain repetition or

rather like I don’t ever I love a day my

kingdom come no that’s not what I’m

talking about

but pray with fresh understanding it

will bless you our Father who art in

heaven whoa all of a sudden things will

open up the moment that your words align

with the reality of God

our Father who art in heaven and then

kingdom come that will be done you’ll

feel a strength come over you Wow I’m a

part of something I’ve been praying to

week about this thing that’s going on

god I pray your kingdom would come to

this situation your kingdom would come

to this obstacle your kingdom would come

to this assignment your kingdom would

come to this nation your kingdom would

come to this community your signal would

come and all of a sudden a boldness will

begin to come over you and then God give

us this day give us this day thank you

God for this brand-new day and thank you

God for being both my source and my

resource in this day this is a day

unlike any other and I want to have a

successful day I want this day to be

fruitful I don’t want it to go come and

go and I never had the opportunity to be

to be awake to all of the opportunities

because I feel this today is strategic

nerado today is part of God’s strategy

for the whole of your life today is

strategic Oh God I posted something on

Instagram the other day I will not be

strategy list in 2019 so so if today is

a part of God’s strategy for my life

then I cannot go randomly recklessly

watch this or whiningly in this day

there’s a strategy and today Oh

hallelujah

there’s a strategy there’s a strategy

there’s a strategy everything for a

reason everything everything for a

reason I don’t know who this is for

everything everything for a reason

there’s a strategy in today so I can’t

be lazy I gotta be awake I gotta be

alert there’s a strategy and I don’t

want to miss it

give us this day our daily bread lord

have mercy on me and lord help me to

have mercy on others God the only way

that I will be able to actualize that

strategy is if you leave me by your

spirit your spirit knows like in a video

game where all the hidden prizes are

leave me by your spirit so I can uncover

the hidden treasure hidden in this

underrated thing called today and keep

me from evil evil is lurking you know

one form of evil the counterfeit version

of youth

the counterfeit version of you evil

don’t think of the boogeyman think of

distraction as evil if there is a

strategy that’s designed to be a

building block for my life then and the

enemy cannot kill me because there are

limits to the enemy’s influence in our

life then what is the most evil thing

that can happen to me if it can’t if he

can’t kill me what’s the most evil thing

that could happen to me to distract me

for yours is the kingdom and the glory

and the power forever amen your alpha

and your Omega it starts with you your

everything in between and it ends with

you and then it starts with you again

the next day and everything in between

and it ends with you family I believe

with all of my heart I’m done I’m Way

over time I’m done I believe with all of

my heart that your prayer life is going

to be your most critical tool in

maintaining the perspective that you

need to have this year I want you to

pray this prayer every single day and

pray it with understanding and watch God

show up in your life

I want to pray for you once you stand

while we pray if you don’t mind la come

on stand while you pray if you’re here

and the Lord spoke to you today and you

know it spoke to you today and you want

to recommit yourself to the kingdom of

God to the kingdom of God if that’s you

I want you to meet me here at this altar

you’re here come on LA I’m talking to

you – I see you if you hear and you say

you know what I haven’t been praying

like I should I haven’t been focused on

the kingdom I’ve been focused on trying

to build my kingdom I want you to come I

want you to come wherever you are coming

to the altar you say God 20:19 my

perspective my perspective I see you

coming in LA I see you I see you coming

in Denver my perspective my perspective

my perspective I want my perspective to

be your perspective I want to lay down

I want to lay down my agenda for your

agenda family I’m stepping back I see

people coming I see you LA I see you

Denver come on somehow we ought to

celebrate come on let’s celebrate what’s

happening family

listen to me this is not out of a sense

of religious repetition let me let me

tell you something you’ve got to pay

attention we’re gonna play just a little

softly because I want us this is

important we’re coming into a time in

our world a time in our just real soft

please real soft turn it way down we’re

coming into a time in our world the time

in our world just off for now off I just

think I want to say this this is really

important we’re coming into a time in

our world where everything that can be

shaken is being shaken everything that

can be shaken is being shaken and we’re

not going to be there are a lot of

things that are going to happen in the

next five years a lot of things and the

fluff that is on our country and our

world is getting ready to be diminished

and it’s gonna drive humanity to its

core whatever that is whatever that is

the fluff the fluff of comfort the fluff

of compromise God is shaking a lot of

things right now and it’s not just going

to go away what we’re experiencing right

now is a bit of a norm I love you too

much to play with you I want you to be

ready what we’re experiencing right now

we’re like oh you know when these things

are going to end the the the debate and

the argument that’s happening in the

White House and in Congress and the

Senate all that kind of stuff all that

that that might end but the pressure

will not

well not and you studied Matthew chapter

24

it is not hearsay it’s not going to get

easy

it’s not good easy it’s gonna require

authenticity it’s gonna require and it’s

gonna require us coming under the

covering and the banner of the kingdom

because the kingdom will ultimately be

the only thing that cannot be shaken

that’s why some may be watching are

being shaking right now

but here’s the thing the real you is not

being shaken what’s being shaken is

everything that is not you you

understand what I’m saying everything

that’s not you is being shaken so that

we can get back down to basics because

God moves from the place of authenticity

he moves from our core we’ve been

talking about that and I truly believe

there’s some who have been walking with

God and there’s some who have had a

kingdom mentality and it’s been

difficult and rough see here’s what’s

gonna happen so so for Kingdom people in

the previous season it was very

difficult and rough you were sowing in

tears and it was challenging and it

seemed like everything else was doing

well except you that’s getting ready to

flip flop is getting ready to flip flop

gonna flip flop what you didn’t realize

is that all of that adversity against

you was building strength and the type

of Long’s that can live on the elevated

level that God is bringing you into in

this season when everybody else is

choking you’re gonna be soaring because

of what you went through

before things got flipped right-side up

so this moment is important I got a

zillion really cute fluffy things to

preach about but I want to lay a

foundation for you a foundation of

reality so that you can be ready for

what’s yours that’s why I’m calling you

down here that’s why I’m encouraging you

that’s why I’m talking about the kingdom

Jesus is not giving you a futile prayer

he’s saying pray this because this is

alignment this is happening baby I

started something when I came there

started something so if you hear and you

say you know what I’ve been kind of on

the outskirts of the god thing but I

feel like God is calling me closer to

him I want you to come meet me at this

altar I’m afraid just a second we are

out of time

but if that’s you I want you to come

because there’s more people there’s more

people God is calling you close I see

you come and I see you I see you coming

I see you coming

I seen you coming I see you coming come

on California I see you coming come on

that way I see you coming come on Denver

I see you coming I see you coming I see

you coming I see you coming I see you

coming come on come on come on come on

come on we getting it together

yeah come on I see you come on come on

come on we’re getting it together we’re

getting it together we’re getting

aligned we’re getting our perspective

right oh yes we are thank you Jesus

thank you Jesus

oh yes come on onto the covering come on

under the covering under the covering

under the covering under the covering

under the covering of the kingdom under

the covering of the kingdom when

everything shakes and crumbles the

Kingdom will still be standing it

crumbles around the kingdom it cannot

crumble the kingdom

come on home come on home come on come

on come on home

Alleluia father were yours and when we

call you father we we mean father you

are our Father you are our daddy you’re

more than our God you are our maker

we are the works of your hands you

delight in your children you love us and

you so loved us in spite of the worst of

us or the worst in us you so loved us

but you gave your only begotten Son to

gave Christ for us you gave your best

for our worst as a sign to us that you

are for us that you are passionately

disposed in our favor and I thank you I

thank you for those are at this altar

and Los Angeles Denver those who have

made their homes their bedrooms and

alter their hospital rooms and alter

their cars and alter even in this moment

I thank you that your presence is right

here meeting us you are the way the

truth and the life you are healing

hearts right now physically physically

and spiritually healing hearts and we

thank you God hallelujah and God we’re

here to say your kingdom come let your

kingdom come to us first hallelujah and

then let your kingdom come through us

and we hear God because we’re giving you

our lives

we’re coming under covering we thank you

for our church we thank you God for your

word it leads a guides it feeds we thank

you for your promise you spoke many

promises to us today you gave us insight

about many things

we receive it you gave us bread yes you

did and we’re grateful for that

nourishment and may it take root in our

lives and bear fruit and father I just

plead the blood of Jesus over everyone

at this altar everyone at the altar in

California everyone at the altar that

they have set up wherever they might be

I plead the blood of Jesus over their

mind especially that this perspective

will be sealed I plead the blood of

Jesus over their hearts over their

bodies over their lives cover them and

keep them God edify them build them up

strengthen them their Kingdom citizens

yes they are now I just want you to be

after me Heavenly Father I thank you for

your love I receive it I thank you for

your grace I receive it I thank you for

your word I receive it – I thank you for

Jesus thank you for making him who had

no sin all of mine all of my weakness

all of my shortcomings all of my

limitations

you placed in his body nailed it to the

cross and once and for all put it to

death

that means all my brokenness was crushed

in his body which means through his

resurrection I’m healed and I’m whole

and I’m on my way to everything he’s

created me to be

no more shackles no more chains I’m free

indeed in Jesus Christ Holy Spirit I

need you I can’t do this by myself leave

me not into temptation but leave me by

your spirit and keep me from evil be a

hedge of protection all around me I

release my past I’m not afraid of my

future this day I lay hold of my

promises and my identity in you in Jesus

name

amen come on let’s praise little off

their singing come on can we just take a

moment and worship Him

the Monica’s voice has been crazy

hallelujah praise him until you finish

ship

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