"Panic Prayers" RESCUE RADIO with Marjorie Cole
Panic praying is like being thrown overboard into the deep end of the lake when we have never taken swimming lessons. Praying in a crisis is terrifying. It comes out of a relationship with fear and unbelief. Jesus said if we abide in Him and His word abides in us, we can ask what we will, and it will be done for us.
Praying in faith comes out of courage and knowing that God is good. He is with us, and we are in covenant with Him. Praying in faith comes from spending time with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit and in the Word of God. We will pray in faith and confidence because we know God is good.
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"Because There Is A War For Your Soul"
00:24 - The War for Your Soul
02:19 - Praying Prophetically
02:56 - Prophetic, Preventative, and Panic Prayers
08:46 - The Power of Prayer According to His Will
10:56 - Praying According to His Will
13:23 - Unanswered Prayers and Faith
21:34 - Managing God or Trusting Him
24:27 - The Revelation of God’s Ways
26:46 - Trust and Declaration in Prayer
29:51 - The Power of Distraction
34:29 - Refreshing with Truth and Peace
35:11 - Spiritual Warfare and Deliverance
0:00 Music. Rescue radio, because there's a war for your soul. Yes, Father God, indeed, the war rages, and we thank you, Lord God, that you are in control. We thank you, Lord God, that no matter what men do or try to do under the counsel of the evil one, you have already defeated the enemy.
0:42 And we thank you. We look forward to the day when you will rule and reign on this earth, and we declare that your kingdom come, your will be done on earth, in and through us, as it's being done and declared in heaven. It must start in us before it can go out there. So, Lord God, open our eyes to understand, open our hearts, remove the hardness of heart, the stony hearts, the distraction. Father God, thank you, Jesus, that you took us to heart and you died for us. You died in our place, even when we were yet sinners and enemies, hateful, mockers, disrespecting and despising you. Lord, you died for us because you knew that's what you needed to do for us in order to be saved, that we'd be saved. So, So, Lord, we thank you for looking past our wickedness and dying for us.
1:26 We thank you, Lord, for giving us power, too, and inviting us to be joint heirs, to come into your family, to be part of your kingdom, to rule and reign with you, to do the military moves that you've called us to do in this earth, Lord, through prayer and through fasting and through praising. Father, God, help your people draw your remnant together. Lord, let us not be deceived and confused in these last days. Lord God, give us a heart to hear, eyes to see, a heart to understand, ears to hear. And I thank you, Lord God, for coming now with that wisdom. I bind every spirit that would snatch or hinder or obstruct the revelation of your truth to us. I pray that you'd wake people up. I thank you, Jesus, that no weapon formed against us will prosper, that no word said, deed done, action taken will be able to be used by the enemy to stop your word, your kingdom, or our lives.
2:12 Protect us, Father God, as we ask you now in Jesus' name to give us your wisdom and guidance. Amen. Amen. Well, last week we were talking about praying prophetically, praying prayers that would pray into the future, bringing things to pass by declaring them now, by using our authority to bind and loose. Binding means forbidding, and loosing means permitting. So when we pray ahead of time, like the prophets did, you know, they prayed. Well, we can do that, and we've talked about that. That was last week's show. But this week, we want to talk about praying from the point of view, from panic, panic prayers, and how panic prayers, well, here's what's going to happen. The men's hearts are going to be troubled and failing them for fear. And these situations and circumstances are only going to get worse.
2:56 And so we really need to recognize the difference between prophetic prayers, preventative prayers, and panic prayers. Philippians chapter 4, verses 6 and 7, be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God, and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. So he's telling us right there, he says, don't be fearful, don't be worried. There's an old chorus years ago why worry why why worry when you can pray and the prayer is not worrying out loud so yeah you listen to some christians pray and it's like they're worrying they're worrying they're worrying out loud to god they're worrying out loud and they're also praying the problem and it's interesting before you realize what you've done you've already repeated the problem and given permission to the problem because you've declared it it's gone it's never you know this is that and and bad, and whatever, you're actually giving permission through your words to extend the longevity of that problem, instead of knowing that God already knows the problem, and he is well aware, and he is asking us to come boldly to the throne of grace and mercy to make a difference.
4:11 And I remember, how did Jesus say that? That men, their hearts will be failing them for fear. Of the things that are coming upon the earth. Yeah, so there's a lot of panic, and there's a lot of fear. But Jesus said, you know, bring these things before me. The prayer, sometimes... We think of prayer as us talking to God, but that's only part of it. Right. You know, we're talking to God, and, you know, we've heard people say, well, we've done everything we could, now all we can do is pray. Prayer is a last resort. But prayer needs to be a lifestyle. It needs to be an everyday, ongoing, whether you're kneeling and bowing your head and folding your hands like some people teach you have to do to pray.
4:54 No, you can pray walking here, going there, washing your dishes. You know there's so many ways we can pray and you can even pray in the spirit and what what prayer is is really by definition it's communication with god and we're not here to do all the talking we're here to listen part of prayer is listening and and jesus said your kingdom come your will be done on earth as it is in heaven so and and first john talks about we ask according to his His will, He hears us, and we know that if He hears us, then we have the things that we've asked for. That's a very powerful scripture that I don't think people even know exists in 1 John 5.
5:34 If we pray anything according to His will, we know, not think, not hope, but we know that He hears us. And if we know that He hears us, which we should know that He hears us on everything, then we know that we receive the things that we've asked of Him. And so when you're praying according to His will, So you have to listen first to understand what is his will. You mean reading the word of God. And as the spirit of God bears witness with our spirit, what his will is for truth, for justice, for freedom. But let's just look at this for a minute. Panicking prayers that are prayed during that time of panic, when things are out of control, when there's, you know, there's fear, unbelief, overwhelming circumstances in a moment of crisis, when everything is just coming upon us, that can mean like, you know, a sudden an event, making me an event that's your, you know, where there was a.
6:24 Quick change of events. Someone is struck down and there's fear and panic. And we come upon the scene of an urgent situation and we just freak out. We go with fear and belief. Oh no, what's going to happen? We're looking at the circumstances instead of looking at the Lord and listening for what his will is in the circumstance. So we can bind and loosen, forbid, like a lot of times people in hospital rooms, whatever, they need to be quiet and pray the will of God. Pray from a a place of knowing that they're loved and that God works all things together for good and that you do have power to not just, I would say, persuade God. We do. We're his children. I mean, your children persuade you all the time.
7:06 And we have the power to do that. But if we're freaking out and panicking and looking at fear and unbelief, or maybe we're feeling too guilty that we have not been perfect. And so we think we have to be perfect in order to pray. And so we feel undone and that our prayers, God's not going to listen to our prayers. Some folks, you know, the only time they pray is when there's a crisis. They're desperate. You know, they disregard the Lord nine-tenths of the time or 99% of the time. And then when something comes, they pray and cry out to God, Oh God, do this, help me, do this and this. And then if the answer doesn't come the way they think it should come, then they get mad at God. Well, yeah, because our concept of God is wrong again, because Satan is trying to make us to believe that every bad thing that happens to us...
7:57 Every crisis, every accident, every tragedy, everything is God trying to teach us a lesson or is God mad at us because we've somehow broke his law. And so Satan wants to flip all this around to make it look like God is the one who's judging us. And it's interesting that we must understand God is really, we think, well, God's judging them. That was the big thing Jesus talked about in, I think it was Luke where he says, do you think these people were worse people because the tower fell on them? Do you think Job, do you think he was a bad guy because all this stuff was happening? Bad things happen to good people all the time. But somehow Satan wants us to believe that God is impartial and that he just throws his weight around.
8:38 He brings bad things upon people, whether they're good people or bad people. There's no rhyme or reason to what God is doing. There's no rules. And so people just don't know how to approach God safely. They think, well, he's mad at them. He's, you know what, if you can't feel safe in approaching God with your prayers, then there's something wrong with your faith because God is safe. And you say, well, I sinned and you don't know how bad. God knows how bad you've been. He knows every step you've taken so far in your journey. He knows every time you've been tempted, every time you fell down, gave into the temptation, he knows it all. And God is there willing to help you and Satan is saying, no, no, no. But see, if these crisis moments happen and we don't have a relationship with God and we're not abiding in him.
9:21 Jesus said in John chapter 15, 7, if you abide in me and my word abides in you, you will ask what you desire and it will be done for you. So if you're abiding in Christ Jesus on a regular day by day basis. Then you're going to be able to come boldly to the throne of grace and mercy. You're going to be confident that you know what God wants. And if you know, you can bind spirits of death. You can release the presence of God. You can do all kinds of things if you know that you're in good standing with God. But a lot of people, may I suggest, that when this crisis happens, they're thrown into the deep water and they have not learned how to swim in the pool. They've never taken swimming lessons to know how to do the little things, the various strokes and whatnot.
10:04 So they're thrown into the deep end of the pool and they panic because they don't know how to swim. They've never been taught. They've never taken swimming lessons. Taking swimming lessons is reading the Word of God, building yourself up in the most holy faith, talking to him on a daily basis, then you're ready for the panic. Then you're ready for the bad things. Yeah, it's like an EMT or a paramedic. They're well-trained in all kinds of crisis situations. They're trained, they're prepared, they're ready. They have ongoing training programs, Year by year, you know, and so when they go into situations that are desperate, some car crash. They're confident, yeah. They're confident. In that situation, they might run into some unexpected things, but yet they have an expectation and preparation, so they will know what to do because they've been prepared.
10:56 Well, and I think prepared, too, means also spiritually knowing what to do because you're listening to God. So when we get into that place of deep water, which we're going into, people, we're going into some really deep water, not to curse it, not to call it forth, not to prophetically call it forth, but just as a warning. God gave many warnings. The whole book of Revelation is a warning. It's a prophetic warning. And so we're here to say, no, he doesn't want this to come upon us suddenly and unaware. So we fall into this place of fear. We're in the deep water. Water and so we panic because we don't know that God is good. We don't know God is with us. We don't know God is for us and we've been compromised on the opinions of others, their words.
11:42 If you're living a compromised life, half in, half out in the middle of the road, you are not going to make it. You need to get in or get out and if you get in, then get in and if you get out, then go where you're going to go because you know that there's no middle ground, you know, there's no safe place in the middle of the road anymore, in or out. And for those of us who know God, you know that God is the only way. But if you believe that God is somehow still conniving and against you somehow, because you believe so much religious indoctrination, that he's not good all the time, and he's not got your best interest, he's not got your back, he's waiting to trip you up. But that's not who God is. That's who the devil is.
12:23 The devil brings these demonic judgments on us and then flips it, like I said, to make it look like God is mad at you and punishing you. But that doesn't make any sense. Why then, if God is doing that and bad things are happening to innocent people, bad things are happening to little children, bad things are happening to people who didn't do anything wrong, then what kind of God is that? That must be an unreasonable God, someone you can't deal with, someone you can't expect any good things. We have to know, like Jesus, when he said the Our Father, Our Father, first thing he did in the Our Father was identify his relationship with his Father. He is my Father. He is God, who art in heaven, hallowed, glory, praise to your name.
13:04 Thy kingdom come. We got to declare our loyalties to God's kingdom. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth. And we can add in and through us because we are God's vessels on this earth as ministers. A lot of people have the the attitude, if there is a God, if there is a God. They're not he's probably he's against us well and even christians even christians who believe there is a god believe he's against us they really believe you might even believe that as you're listening you might even have a double thought he's out to get us because you've been taught that you need to settle that before you do any other kind of praying because otherwise when it does come to crisis time you're going to be you're going to be swept away what would you say to of folks that they say, well, I prayed.
13:50 I prayed and prayed and prayed about something, and it didn't happen, so God didn't hear me, so prayer doesn't do any good. Well, that's a very common problem. I prayed, and that's really the biggest obstacle to praying with faith and confidence is unanswered prayers, and many prayers do not get answered because the prayer, it doesn't just depend on you and God. Sometimes it depends on the other person, their willingness to receive the answer. Like he said to the guy who was 38 years by the pool, blind or paralyzed, we don't even know which one it was. He said, do you want to be well? The man had made 38 years of agreements with sickness, infirmity, blindness, whatever it was that he couldn't get into the pool.
14:32 38 years. So God had to ask him, Jesus asked you, it's a dumb question. Do you want to be well? Of course you want to be well. Do you really want to be well? You're used to being not well. You're used to not having your prayers answered. So that becomes an object of hindrance in prayer. And I know, I know, Satan sets people up to pray and fast and pray and fast and pull out their hair and shred their garments, and then it doesn't work. And he's just using that to train them that God isn't there, God doesn't care. And so their relationship with God goes cold, and then they become skeptical, and then they live within the limits of their own strength. People who do not have faith, live within the limits of what they can do. Well, I can do this. I can do that. I can call for this.
15:14 I can make a phone call. I can pull in some money. I can take out a loan. They live within their own strength because they don't rely on the strength of God. Two words. Communication, which is two-way. God speaks to us. We speak to him. That's what prayer is. It's interaction. It's relationship. It's not going to God to get stuff. You know, it's. It is. Communication with them. Ask and you shall receive. Yeah, but if that's the only time we come to the Lord, and we say, you know, a lot of people have the idea when they're praying, Margie, instead of thy will be done, thy kingdom come, thy will be done.
15:54 It's my kingdom come, my will be done. Well, they don't even realize it's my kingdom. They're actually living out of a kingdom of fear, and they're trying to gather together their assets so they can survive. Going back to the Our Father, however, However, Jesus said, you know, forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us. So there's a debt problem too. Trespasses, sins, unforgiveness, bitterness, holding grudges. These are obstacles, iniquities that keep us from our prayers from getting through. And if we're going to hold on to that bitterness, that offense, that even that offense and bitterness against God, it's not even you who's doing it, but the enemy makes you think it's your thought that you're mad at God. God, if those things are there and we don't get rid of those obstacles or barricades, barriers, then we will not get through to God either.
16:40 So you have to know that you know that God is good and he's not mad at you. And we can't of our own self do nothing. Jesus kept saying that all the time. I can't of my own self do nothing. And we have to surrender to that place. And I believe it's going to get to that place where there's a whole lot of stuff we cannot do anything think about unless God does act. If we're listening to God, if we're really hearing God, it's like sometimes we just dive into a prayer rather than waiting. Okay, Lord, what do you want us to know here? What are you doing here? And what do you want to do? What do you want to do here? We have to listen for that rather than just making just foolish declarations. But we need to make declarations. Prayer is communication and it's declaration.
17:24 Jesus taught us in that outline for prayer. He says, your kingdom come, your will be done. That's what we're to do. And the thing is, it's not just, well, whatever your will is, Lord, just do it. We need to come to a place where we know and we understand. Be not under wise, scripture says, but understanding what the will of the Lord is. What Jesus showed us, the will of God is to forgive one another. Oh, no, man, anything, pay up, make sure you're paid up on your debts of loving people. people letting go of the bitterness, forgiving them. You say, well, I can't forgive them. Well, you can. It's an act of your will. It's not a feeling in your heart. It's not something you can, God gives us the grace to forgive, which means you're releasing the judgment of that crime committed against you or your loved one over to God.
18:12 Let him be the judge of it. That's how, what forgiveness means. You're now turning it over to the court of heaven and let them judge it and leave it with him. So otherwise, how will we ever be prepared to do the mighty works unless we lay down our own thoughts, our feelings, our fears, our bitterness, the things that Satan has tried to do. The most powerful prayers are the ones who've been the most resisted and obstructed by bitterness and unforgiveness, and they feel doubt and unbelief because Satan doesn't want them to believe. And again, another thing about praying is we pray, we ask for things, and sometimes we don't get them right away. God has given them right away, but Satan has held up the answer like he did with Daniel where he was praying 21 days and fasting, and the answer came, but Daniel didn't know the answer came until the angel broke through to bring the revelation of the prophetic word.
19:03 So a lot of times that may be the case as well, that there's a spiritual hindrance in the heavenlies because Satan wants you to be discouraged. He wants you to give in. He wants you to cave. He doesn't want you to stand in having done all to stand in believing God for what's going on. But we are in this place now, in this place in time, where time is going so fast. Even young kids are saying it's going so fast. We are in a time of great revelation and great war, great difficulty. Difficulty we have to know where we're going and yet we're going to a place where we've never been before. There's no history that will cover what's coming here as far as the rapture, as far as the mark of the beast, as far as people being left behind, as far as the ascending of the Antichrist.
19:50 Now we may have a few years of plenty like they did in Egypt to prepare for this time of a tragedy that's coming, or demonic overrule taking over. But in this meantime, let's pray that God will give us the grace and the anointing and the authority that we already have to help us to understand that. So we can pray these prayers, even though they're born in the fire of affliction or in a crisis moment, we will prevail because we will know that God is bigger than the problem. What happens, so with prayer, we think the problem, our problem is bigger than God. In other words, you can take a quarter and put it over your eye and block out the sun.
20:35 You know, our problems are so overwhelming. I mean, just even personally, you know, with family, with friends, with work and stuff like that, we get so overwhelmed. Or we focus on the person. Yeah, and it's just like, I think of a friend of mine years ago that was a manager of a company, quite a large company. He was the manager of the whole company and oversaw the office and everything. And he saw some things going on in the office that he didn't like. And he was just like, one day the Lord says, hey, you don't have to put up with this. So basically he would go in early before work and he would pray.
21:17 He would declare the will of God. He would declare these situations to be settled, resolved, that the enemy would not have power. And things changed in that office. Sometimes we think, well, it is what it is. No, it is what we let it be. It is what we make of it. And so let's see it. Let's see these situations from God's perspective. And I know we can't, I mean, because we're not God, obviously. But if we can just say, hey, here's something. This is not impossible. This is something that we really don't have to put up with. And the thing is, another thing, too, with the answers. A lot of times the answers come.
21:59 God answers, I believe, in three different ways. Yes, no, or later. And sometimes the answers come later. In ways that we don't even recognize right they're there and we don't even see that they've arrived but so again we're going back to for a second to john chapter 15 7 he says if you abide in me and my words abide in you what does that mean that means if you're walking in the truth and you're walking in the revelation the relationship with god walking in the place of the covenant knowing that god is for you knowing that god is not trying to undermine you secretly because if he does that he's devious and if he's devious he's not a good god God, that we can ask what we will and it will be done for us.
22:39 But there are some conditions, you know, we must fulfill our part of the covenant, which is to walk in obedience to God. Because if you don't walk in obedience, there's nothing God can do because you've already voted for the devil. You've given your disobedience vote over to the devil and he uses that, your agreement with him to bring a curse and trouble upon you. Now this can be personal or it can be you're working with other people who've given their agreements over to the devil, which is harder because you and I don't have control over other people's wills. And so we can't make them see the truth. We can't make them do the right thing. You can beg, you can try to reason. But the other thing is too, when it comes to our conversations with God and asking for prayer, I don't believe he wants us to beg.
23:25 Begging comes from panic. Panic comes from unbelief. Panic comes from not knowing who God is and his goodness to us. So when we, in times of panic, if we turn to begging, that's not going to work. It's not going to bring forth what we really want to see. We got to declare things. Panic praying fails to recognize the sure foundations of God's promises, his goodness, his mercy, his love, his covenant. God said, I will never leave you orphans or forsake you. I'll never forsake you. We need to know that God does not lie. And I think one of the things, getting to know someone, you have to spend time with them. You can't just jump into a relationship and know everything about that person.
24:06 You have to spend some time with them and see how they respond under crises and getting a kind of a track record of answers to prayer or times when God set you free or healed you or whatever. And if we're half in and half out in compromise, we won't even recognize what God has done to set us free or heal us or deliver us from death. It's an interesting comment that Scripture makes about Moses. He revealed his works to Israel, but he revealed his ways to Moses. Israel saw his works, or they saw what he was doing or what he was not doing.
24:46 But Moses had some understanding about his ways. Right, and I think that's because Moses spent a lot of time with him. So that's deeper, because one of the things that Moses had that we don't think about is that outside the camp of Israel, back when they were still in the wilderness, they had the tabernacle, which is basically their worship center. And they also had a separate tent. It was called a tabernacle, a tent of meeting. So Moses would go out there. He would go out there just to meet with God, just him. And then Joshua, he hung out there a lot too because he was basically Moses' successor.
25:32 But there was that tabernacle. There was that relationship. That tent of meeting, there was that relationship. And when you have that, out of that relationship, What you shared, Margie, again, from John chapter 15, out of the relationship, out of the abiding, comes the fruitfulness. Right. And we also have to know now that God has also sent the Holy Spirit to inside of us, those of us who love the Lord. And so he has come as a guide, as a monitor, as a coach to help us. You say, well, I'm so busy, I can't take a lot of time to pray. Or you just don't understand how bad my life is, or you just don't, you know what the Bible says, God has not given us anything harder than he's given us grace to bear.
26:16 And so again, all this is training. We said, well, God didn't come through, you know, these, these little things that we, these judgments we make against God, we're also making against ourself because if we're abiding in him, that means we're abiding in him. That means we're hooked in together with him. His life is my life. My life is his life. And if we're judging God, you're also judging yourself. self. And so we got to let the life of God flow through us, the will of God, the Holy Spirit, and stop trying to manage God, manage the Holy Spirit. Well, he wouldn't do that. Well, that was just me where I don't, I don't see how that would ever work. You know, the Holy Spirit will take us in odd places. And God does sometimes really kind of weird, odd things.
26:56 And I noticed, you know, when Jesus was going to heal the little 12 year old girl that was dead, and there was the mourners were already there. They had already set up the funeral arrangements and brought in the flowers and the mourners, the musicians, they did that in those days was kind of the culture. And so when he got there, they already had all this stuff in place, and he pushed those things. He didn't push, but he closed the door. He pushed them out, so to speak, and he went into the room with himself and with Peter and James and John and the parents. So all the other unbelief was shut out. And so even Jesus had to have some peace and quiet when he was focusing on raising someone from the dead.
27:40 And so that peace and quiet, that rest, that concentration, that revelation, that assurance of the goodness of God, the spirit of God has to be within us. You're not going to be able to manage all the circumstances of crisis, chaos, lack, people getting shot, people, no food, running here, running there, you know, all the panic. We're not going to be able to shut all that out unless you have the peace of god within you and know where you are like daniel in the lion's den okay all the lions are surrounding him the peace of god maintained peace not only that in him but it it administered to the lions and they didn't jump up and kill him so again you're you're you are the carrier of peace by the power of the holy Holy Spirit.
28:29 You, the answer to the problem, God is maybe in some situations, he's put you in the situation, he's put the answer inside of you. And the answer is not you doing something big and great and wonderful. It's you calling on, connecting with heaven in that particular situation. And when there's things that happen that you don't understand, you trust. And we know. That's the thing is when you- What do you trust? You trust in the Lord. You trust in his heart. You trust that he's good, that he knows all things. I don't understand how things happen the way they did. I prayed this way, I prayed that way, and here's what happened.
29:11 But I trust that the Lord is good and that he's taking care of this. And we also need to know what the word says, that all things work together for good to those who love God and are called according to his purpose. The other thing we need to know is that both God and Satan are always working in the same place at the same time to do the opposite thing. And so you know the opponent is there. Unbelief is there. Fear is there. Doubt is there. Panic is there. Everything is there that's your enemy. And distraction, too. A lot of times people don't realize the power of the distraction. You get into a little prayer closet, or you get into a little this and that, and all of a sudden you look at what time it is, and you look at your phone, and you're out of there. You're done. You didn't spend the time to get any quality time with God because you're so busy. You have so many things you've got to do.
29:59 And so there is a rest, an internal rest, to the believer that rejects the spirit of fear, fear, anxiety, panic, unbelief, guilt, shame, condemnation. You know, we're not perfect. God didn't say, be perfect before you can come and pray to me. He says, come boldly to the throne of grace and mercy. As we come according to his will, obeying him, choosing his will over the enemy's projections and solutions, we are walking in the goodness and the righteousness of Jesus Christ, who is our righteousness. Your righteousness does not come from you being right. It comes from the righteousness that is imparted to us through the blood of Jesus Christ. And so as we're praying, as we're going forward in these difficult times, it's important.
30:45 Number one, the most important thing to really do is to have the Holy Spirit help you understand the Word of God, read the Word of God, have the Holy Spirit lead you in the understanding of the goodness of God. And then from there, you'll be qualified to go forth and declare things for God. There's a foundation here for prayer and for our times in 1 John 5, verses 20 and 21. And we know. Yeah, we said that already. This is the we know book, 1 John. And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding that we may know him who is true. Mm-hmm.
31:27 And we are in him who is true, in his son, Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life. So the whole world is under the sway of the wicked one. God is sovereign over all. And we know him, Paul's desire, that he cried out to the Lord at the end of his life. And I believe it was all through his ministry. He said that I may know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his suffering, being made conformable unto his death. His passion was to know him. And if our passion is to know him, that he is good, the Lord is good, his mercy is everlasting, and his truth endures to all generations.
32:11 Psalm 100, maybe go back and read that today. Psalm 100, his truth endures to all generations. The Lord is good. His mercy is everlasting. in that foundation in our hearts, that's the basis of our communion with him. That's a basis of powerful prayer because we know God is good and he wants something good to happen in the midst of all this evil that's going on. Yes, exactly. And just a side note, when Paul was praying that prayer, he was sitting in prison. And so he wasn't looking at his circumstances. He was looking at what you're talking about, looking at the goodness of God, and that there was wasn't that the prison where he was broken out of?
32:55 I'm not sure if him and Paul and Silas were in that one particularly, but he was in prison when he was praying this prayer, wanting to know more deeply the relationship, the fellowship with the Lord God. So again, it comes through spending time with him, spending time in the Word, and reading the Word, and knowing that the Word of God is actually the most solid foundational rock that you can stand on in your life. It's not about... About anything the world can offer, not about money, not about relationships, not about connections, not about career, not about education. It is about standing on the Word of God, because God does not lie. He cannot lie.
33:36 And that's, bottom line, that's why we pray in faith. Yeah, and the private time with the Lord, that's essential, just to hear His voice, quietly separate. And forgive yourself. Jesus said, go into your closet, go into a private And let the Lord speak to you. You speak to him. And when you're on the go, when you're driving, when you're working, in all your ways, acknowledge him. And he's directing your path. So you can live in that constant communion with him. And that's a basis of when he speaks to you. Power. That's the basis of power. It's a basis of power. He'll show you what to do, what's to be done. And he'll answer the prayers. Yeah. Amen.
34:18 Exceedingly. And so, Lord God, we just thank you, Father, for clearing out our minds and hearts and concepts of lies that we have believed about you, about prayer, about ourselves. Lord, let the Holy Spirit refresh us with truth and with peace and with your soon coming, Lord God. Let our hearts be sober and our eyes be watchful, looking up for the day of our salvation. Redemption draws nigh. And I thank you, Lord God, that each one today, you'll touch them afresh, refresh them with a new energy, strength, peace to know and to see and to believe that they're good, that you're good, that you've got this and we're okay because you are with us. Thank you, Jesus.
35:05 What about that new book that's out? Tell us about that again. Oh, again, again. Yes, please. If you haven't checked it out at Amazon, we've got a new book called Spiritual Warfare and How Deliverance Can Change Your Life. And I believe it's probably one of the most comprehensive, easy-to-read books on some of the most difficult theological subjects you can ever imagine, talking everything about where did the devil come from or where the demons come from to, you know, this war between God and Satan for the souls of men, flipping it, you know, to make it our problem, our fault. And then also understanding deliverance and how the enemy gets into our lives to impersonate us to ourselves and even impersonate us to each other.
35:48 And not only with deliverance, the resistance that we run into within us internally is not the Holy Spirit. We're built by God to love God and want God's will. So the the resistance that we're coming up against, the spirits of lust and confusion and perversion and addiction and all those things, that's the enemy pushing on you. And so again, and we have another whole chapter on inner healing and disassociation and going to the court of heaven. So again, the book, Spiritual Warfare and How Deliverance Can Change Your Life, is really very comprehensive. It doesn't just pick one section of deliverance or one section of this or that, psychological, whatever.
36:32 It covers the whole thing. Comprehensive. It is very comprehensive. So, again, you can get it at Amazon. We prefer that. And if you get a book and you read a little bit of it, or you read it all, please, read it all, please, send a review. you. And that will help us to promote this book because I believe this. I truly believe that even reading the book is a means of being delivered because truth sets us free. So if you're reading a book full of truth, you're going to be set free. So again, spiritual warfare and how deliverance can change your life. God bless you. Talk to you soon. Music.
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