"Why Aren’t My Prayers Being Answered?" RESCUE RADIO with Marjorie Cole

0:00 I have an emergency. What is your location? 'Cause there's a war for your soul. Yes, Father God. Thank you, Jesus, that you have won the war, Lord God. And we're standing in that victory. You said, stand in having done all to stand. So we declare your kingdom come, your will be done with power, with salvation, with your will to accomplish your will through us, through our prayers, through our intercession, that you will be glorified. I thank you, Jesus, that you completed the will of the Father. Obedient to death unto the cross even.

0:54 And you laid down your life sacrifice, gave your blood, gave your body, gave it for us that we might be set free from the demands of Satan, sin, and death. And I thank you, Lord. You've also given us power. You said power to bind and loose, declare, forgive. You've given us those assignments, Lord God, to preach the gospel, heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons. Lord God, these are very specific things you've given us to do. And you've given us also specific access to your throne of grace and mercy to find help in time of trouble. So we pray now that you give us eyes to see, ears to hear, and open our ears if they're stuffed and dull and our eyes are blind and foggy. Open, quicken, receive, remove the sludge and the contamination and the unanswered prayers from our receptor sites so that we will receive the download of the revelation of your love, your peace, your power, and your truth, Father God. And we thank you for that divine protection.

1:46 As we said, that no weapon formed against us will prosper, that we are the weapons of God. We are the instruments of your righteousness to bring forth righteousness, peace, hope, and answers to prayer in this devastated, messed up world. So thank you, Father, for this wonderful opportunity. Give us now excitement in our spirits and joy to do this in your truth. In Jesus' name. Amen. Okay. Well, we're going to talk today about a problem that we all have. I'm sure you've experienced it. It's called Unanswered Prayers or, uh, what, you know, you know, really, Jerry, unanswered prayers become the biggest obstacle to getting prayers answered because it's, it's an accumulation of doubt, unbelief. It didn't work. God wasn't there. Something went wrong. I don't, you know, whatever. So all of that becomes like a mountain in front of the answers that you're looking for, the answers to prayer. So, um, You know, I think a lot of our mandate, our authority, the specifics of the instruction that we have been given in the Word of God is either very, very well hidden within the context of many of the things and hard to discern except through the Holy Spirit, or maybe some of it has been removed. But nonetheless, we have enough in the Word of God to know that our prayers are powerful. Our prayers are not to be just requests, but with no confirmed results.

3:14 A lot of times we pray like, oh God, please deliver. Oh God, please heal. Oh, just heal. Oh, you know, we do these kinds of very, I think, weak and wimpy prayers, but prayer is meant to be a command, a specific, a very specific declaration, ask, request. Command, and then there's a very specific answer or result. Like, for example, a demon leaves or spirit leaves. So, we have specific prayers, are not general requests. They're commands. They're petitions. They're not vague, double-minded appeals. The early church knew how to pray. Yeah, they absolutely did. And They were— they're praying with authority, with specific— well, think of Peter and John specificity. Can I use that word? In the temple. Yeah, they were praying. No, the thing is, what happens with a lot of us with prayer— prayer is worrying to God out loud. Yeah, that's right.

4:14 And we're very— we're so vague, you know, if it— and/or we repeat the problem to God again, which is very negative. Does God know the problem? Does God know the situation? When we speak it again, we're just confirming the problem's right to be there. I mean, not that we can't say what happens, but you're right, we worry out loud. And a lot of the times prayers are so vague and so general. And another thing is that we're just guessing, hoping this is the will of God. Sometimes we think our prayer is, my will be done, rather than, thy will be done. The Our Father, thy kingdom come, thy will be done. It's not my kingdom come, my will be done. It's his. But so what is the will of the kingdom? What is to be done on earth as it is in heaven? What is he actually asking us to do? What are we praying specifically for? How does this kingdom come in and through? How does God bring the kingdom to earth? He brings it to earth through us. We are his contact points. We're his remnant.

5:24 We're his people. And he brings it through our words, through our requests, through our petitions. Well, he gave us— we call it the Lord's Prayer. It's the prayer the Lord gave to us. He said, like, your kingdom come, your will be done. And so we're here to be praying to release the will of God on the earth. That's exactly right. We're his channels. Right, to bring the will of God. What God— will of God is what God wants. What does God desire? What does God want? And he wanted to be carried out through us and through our words, our prayers.

6:07 God— prayers are words. God needs specific, specific words. He needs declarations. He needs faith. He needs thy kingdom come, thy will be done now on earth in and through, like you said, us. It's not a vague, oh, when you, if you want to, God. God's kingdom is coming in power, not in vague generalities. It is coming in power to relieve, to undo, to remove, to cast out, to tear down the specific situations that the illegal powers have set up. And it's here to wash away all tears. It's here to bring revelation, salvation, and justice. And these things don't come through, um, you know, just casual prayers, indifferent prayers. They come through warrior prayers. They come through declarations. They come through knowing.

7:04 See, what we're doing is we're allowing God to put his words in my mouth, like the prophets, to declare what's going to come. The prophets declare it, then God uses those words to make it happen. Does that make sense? Yeah, it makes sense. Of course, prayer too is communication with God, right? It's listening, listening to what the Lord is saying by his Spirit, listening to him. And so there's, there's another— the part of prayer is that, that sharing with God, hearing his heart, hearing his voice. We're just— we're in that intimacy with the Lord that we have to have. And then there's the other part of prayer is closely connected to it. If you don't have that intimacy with God where you're not— relationship, right? If you don't have that relationship you're not going to— you're not going to pray powerfully. You're not going to— you're not going to pray accurately. But what we're talking about today is that specific prayer. Prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

8:05 And, and part of it, the prayer is too much— like you're saying, it's begging and whining before God. Instead of declaring his will. I believe that all of our prayer must originate in the will of God. Thy will be done through us. And that we become, like you said, his vessels. We are his instruments that bring the will of God, the kingdom of God from heaven to earth. We are God's means and chosen methods to combat the evil standing on the earth by standing in the truth. And the evil comes through demonic forces, the kingdom of darkness. And so really what a lot of what we're doing is declaring God's kingdom come against the forces of darkness that are trying to take over and have pretty much— they've pretty much claimed every element, every fragment, every section, every factor of human life and existence on the planet. And so our specific prayers are to reject that, to bring God his will, his method to earth to combat the evil and the darkness, the lies, so that the truth becomes part of the prayer. The truth declaring God's goodness, his will, his kingdom to come, and giving him our words so he can fulfill them. Ephesians 5:17 says, don't be unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is. And then a parallel passage to that is in

9:36 1 John chapter 5, verses 14 and 15. He says, now this is the confidence that we have in him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions we have asked of him. So there's Jesus, you know, said in Luke chapter— where is it? Ask and you shall receive. Seek and you shall find. Knock and it shall be opened to you. So he's asking— there's a time to ask and receive, but then there's a time to declare, declare the will of the Lord. Well, and we can ask what is the will of the Lord and then declare that too. So, um, you know, really, who are we? Hebrews talks about who we are in chapter 1, verse 14. The angels have been sent to protect or as ministers of right to the heirs of righteousness. So they've been assigned to each one of us as heirs of righteousness. And then in Hebrews 4:16, he says, come boldly to the throne of grace to obtain mercy and find grace and help in time of trouble or time of need.

10:48 So we're invited to come into the throne room to bring these urgent requests to God. Um, and you know, not everything has to be an urgent— sometimes we can just praise him and just thank him and just everything doesn't have to always be initiated with a problem. Sometimes it can be initiated with thanksgiving and praise and revelation of how good God is. Those are good prayers to pray too, prayers of praise and thanksgiving. But when we come boldly and urgently to the throne of grace and mercy to find help in time of trouble, there is trouble, there's need. And so, we get into that place of more passionate praying. Jesus himself prayed in the same— in Hebrews, he says Jesus prayed, who in the days of his flesh, when he was— okay, so in the days of his flesh, when he was a human being in that capacity on the earth, when he had offered up prayers and supplication with vehement cries and tears to him who was able to save him from death and was heard because of his godly fear, his passion, his focused, intentional praying and intercession to his Father.

11:53 So the vehement cries and tears, he was saved. He was saved, he says, from death. But was he saved from death? Well, he was saved from death because he was delivered from the grip of death. And God the Father was happy to hear him. But so many times we aren't doing any vehement crying or tears or intentional, intense and intentional intercession. We're praying, we're dazed. We have vague, ambiguous, sloppy, without focus, distracted, non-urgent, passive, double-minded, open-ended, dead prayers. Or we pray ritual prayers, like over and over we repeat, repeat, repeat whatever it is. And we think that we will be heard for our much speaking. Jesus said, you know, that's not— his demonstration is, Be involved, be engaged, know who you are. And that's part of it too. We got to know 2 things. God is good and he wants to hear our prayers and that he will.

12:53 And we're his children. And there is nothing he delights in more than answering the prayers of his children. And the other side of that coin is to give his children part of the victory by giving us the petitions that we ask. And so specifically praying, we're afraid to pray specifically because So many times people have prayed those things and people didn't get well. They got sick, they died, they, they got divorced, they whatever, whatever. And so we just, that becomes the devil's, um, you know, I don't know, his argument, I guess his, his, he presents this to us. What do you think? Who do you think you are that your prayers should be answered when all these other people's prayers didn't get answered? And so you have to blow that off, deny that, reject that. And no, no, no, no. I am the daughter of the Most High God. He likes me.

13:40 He wants me to come into the throne room. He invites me to come. He invites me even to ask me of things to come concerning my sons and daughters and the works of my hands. So what was he saying to the prophets? He was actually saying to the prophets, all right, let's— you pray, ask me, declare things so that I can bring them to pass. Jesus even said, today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing, in Luke chapter 4. So what he was saying is, I am fulfilling the prayer of the prophet Isaiah, who said, you know, I've come to heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, heal the brokenhearted. So Jesus in Luke was fulfilling what Isaiah said in Isaiah 61. And so, but God prompted Isaiah to say it, you know, so that Jesus could fulfill it. I believe that's part of the process We declare things according to the will of God. Isaiah was in the will of the Spirit of God when he spoke those things. And then God brings it to pass later through Jesus Christ. Um, and I believe that's what he says when he says, um, command me concerning the works of my hands, give me, you know, pray to me, petition me specifically, give me something that, that God is actually getting it, putting it in our hearts. Then he gives us the opportunity to give it back to him so he can make it come to pass because God has to have us as that inter— link to make things happen and make prayers be answered. Isaiah 44:26, it says he's the one who confirms the

15:11 word of his servant and performs the counsel of his messenger. So those— he confirms the words of those who are truly his prophets, who are truly his messengers. Another thing too that, you know, you see over and over again in the Old Testament, Ezekiel 34 and other places, where God is going after the prophets because they're speaking words out of their own hearts. They, they, they've had their own vision, and not a vision from God, but their own personal vision, uh, speaking out of their own hearts and not from the will of God. So, so they're just— God's— they're just basically blowing smoke. But, but, but then the true prophets of God, they hear the word of God, they declare the word of God, yeah, and the word of God is fulfilled.

16:05 You know, eventually it's fulfilled. It might not seem to be fulfilled right away, but eventually it's fulfilled. 400 or 500 or 600 years later, it's fulfilled, whatever. So he says again, like you said, in Isaiah 44, who confirms the word of his servants— you could say the prophets, us— and performs the counsel of his messengers who says to Jerusalem, you will be inhabited. So he's asking and telling and inspiring the prophets to declare these things over these various nations. And then God brings them to pass. So that's, you're praying. Now, did they live to see those answers? Not necessarily. Um, you know, Isaiah's prophecy about a virgin giving birth, Isaiah never saw that answer. He, that was 400 or 500 or 600 years before Jesus arrived. But nonetheless, those words are powerful. See, there's death and life in the power of the tongue, and words are prayers. Prayers are words. When you use your words to pray to God, you can use your sloppy agape words, or you can really stand up and say, God, this is urgent. This is important. I'm praying here. This is an intercession on behalf of my friend, my situation, whatever it is, because I'm asking you, God, to confirm your word. Because you said ask.

17:19 So here's what Moses did when God got a little— I think God was upset with the people for being so ungrateful and murmuring and complaining. And Moses, his argument back to God was, look, God, everybody's watching you. Everybody's watching this nation. You have said these are your people. You have just confirmed, you endorsed them completely by taking them dry shod through the Red Sea, you know, and then kill their enemies behind them. So you are on trial here, God. You are on display. And so when you— if we are knowing that our God, he wants to be and needs to be and will be glorified in and through us, then he needs something specifically to do so that he can be glorified. If you just say, oh God, you know, deliver so-and-so, and you don't say, oh God, I come against the power of the spirit of death or deaf and dumb, or I come against the spirit of cancer. If you don't say that because you're afraid, if I say that and it doesn't happen, I'll look bad. If you do say that specifically and believe in without doubting in your heart, then it's up to God. Then it's on God.

18:35 God is going to have to look good. By, you know, and with Moses, that turned God's heart. God's okay, you know, I'll give you another, you know, don't— Moses said, blot me out. Don't put yourself at risk here, God. Don't look bad. And so God isn't that he's all insecure about his relationship or his reputation. He's not, but he has absolutely incorporated us, woven us into the work. Of redemption through our specific assignments, through standing and having done all to stand, to declare to the works of darkness and to ask God, you know, we have angels assigned to us. We don't pray to the angels, but we have angels. God has given them to us to do and protect and whatever needs to be done to bring us forth and bring forth the kingdom of God. That's God's bottom line. Bring the kingdom of heaven to earth. That means save people, get people saved.

19:31 That means the kingdom is— and healed. Yeah, healed, delivered, set free, all that. The kingdom of God, right? The kingdom speaks of a king and a dome, king and a dominion. So kingdom of God, the rule of God. When, when demons are cast out and the Spirit of God comes in, that's the kingdom coming in. When people are healed and delivered and diseases are cured and gone from people, that's the kingdom of God coming. When people repent and believe and receive Jesus and become born again, become new creations in him, that's the kingdom of God coming. So the more specific that we are— you mentioned specificity, specific requests, and you know if that's a word.

20:19 Anyway, the more specific the better. Right? So it's just like if you, if you have a, a hammer and a nail and you're going to pound it into a board, you don't just stand there and hold the nail and wave your hammer around or close your eyes or close your eyes. What you do is you take that nail and put it in a specific spot, take your hammer and hit it on a specific spot on the head of the nail and drive it in. Nothing becomes dynamic until it is specific. Nothing works in our world. Things have to be specific before they become— in your computer, things have to be specific. Right. Very much so.

21:00 And, and, and just like playing baseball or something, you have to hit the ball, hit the ball in the right— in the sweet spot on the barrel of the bat and all that stuff. So, okay, so this is where we're called. This is where the power of God comes. Well, look at Peter and James and John. Oh yeah. In the, in the temple gate. Oh, they're coming there and they see this lame man that's been there. We find out later on he's been over— he's over 40 years old. He was lame from his mother's womb and he was there begging alms. And he— they, they'd probably walked by him many, many times. Jesus had walked by him many, many times. The guy looks— possibly, we don't know, very likely, because he was there pretty much every day. And I think Jesus saved this saved the healing for Peter and John. But anyway, well, so, so Peter comes up, he's walking through with John in the temple. The guy looks at him, oh, here's a good candidate. So he begins to say, um, he, he asking for alms beautifully, to ask for alms of those who enter the temples, who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked for alms. So this guy's asking specifically, do you have any money on you? And fixing his eyes on him with John, Peter said, look at us. Look at me.

22:19 Focus on us. So the man did. So he gave them his attention, expecting to receive something from them, looking probably to their hand to see if they're going to pull something out of their pouch or pocket. Then Peter said, silver and gold I do not have. Whoa, disappointment. That's what I want. I wanted the silver and gold. But what I do have, I will give you in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk. So I have something better. But Peter was taking a great step of, he was taking a risk, you know, 'cause this guy had been there a long time and no one had either prayed for him or prayed for him and it didn't work. Maybe they had prayed for him and it didn't work other times. So he said, look at me, focus on me. Peter was looking at him. He took him by the right hand and lifted him up. This was an act of faith. Not just words, but there was a little action in there. He didn't just say a word.

23:13 He put his hand out, lifted him up, and immediately when he touched him, his feet and ankle bones received their strength. Now, did Peter figure that was going to happen? Probably not. Peter didn't know what was going to happen. Peter just did what God was directing him to do through the Spirit. So he, in this shock to his ankles and his strength in his bones, caused the man to leap stood up, walked. They entered the temple with them walking, leaping, and praising God. So this didn't take years. It was probably moments. And it was a very specific stand up, you know, receive strength. He says, rise up and walk in the name of Jesus, rise up and walk. So it was a very specific need, a very specific command, a very specific prayer made to a very specific situation. And there was this very specific answer. It was, yeah, this was definitely a God thing. How, you know, this is how God gets glory. It's not when you pray, oh God, heal them.

24:13 And you don't say, well God, I come against the powers of darkness that are binding their spleen or the polyneuropathy that is messing with their, uh, their neurological system. I bind that spirit of polyneuropathy. I bind the spirit that's demyelinating their, They're mild and sheath. I bind and forbid you in the name of Jesus Christ. I forbid you, spirit of inflammation. I forbid you in the name of Jesus Christ for taking out this God, this man of God, this woman of God. You, you have power in your words. There's death and life in those words. Do you believe that? I think the first thing we need to understand is that, that there's death and life in the power of our words. And then we can use those words to kill people, destroy people, discourage people, or we can build them up and we can, Do the King— what does God want to do through your words today? That's a good question.

24:59 What does God want to do? What does he want you to say? What does he want you to declare? What does he want to— how does he want to bring the kingdom of God today to earth in the place where you hang out? What does God want to do in that place today with your words, your prayers, your petitions? In Acts chapter 9, beginning with verse 32, it says, now it came to pass as Peter went through the all parts of the country, that he also came to the saints who dwelt in Lydda. There he found a certain man named Aeneas who had been bedridden 8 years— 8 years— and was paralyzed. That's a long time. And Peter said to him, Aeneas, Jesus the Christ heals you.

25:39 Arise and make your bed. And he rose immediately. So all who dwelt in Lydda and Sharon saw him and turned So Peter is getting it. He's excited about this. He likes this new idea of healing the sick, cleansing the lepers, raising up those. And you know, if you've been on something for 8 years, you've been, you know, under doctors, you know, command orders, whatever, for 8, 9 years you're sick. You know, the woman with the issue of blood, the woman with the spirit of infirmity, 18 years, 12 years. This gets to be in itself the biggest obstacle. Well, it's never going to change. Well, I've did all that before. Well, it never worked before. Well, people have prayed for me before. And so we, we, kind of slump into a place of despair or despond.

26:22 And that's, that's, that's another spiritual demonic attack or tactic to get you to not believe or give up. And so, um, you and the man with the boy, he said, you know, and Jesus, how long has he been like this? And the man says, well, since dad says, since a child. And so Jesus, you know, this man, he then, he said, um, Jesus says, well, if you can believe, all things are possible. And the man says, Lord, help my unbelief. So this was a wise and wonderful con— the man took the unbelief, the years and years of struggle and pain and weeping and crying and unanswered prayer. He took all of that and gave that to the Lord and says, here, here, you know, deal with my unbelief.

27:06 Here's my unbelief. Take that too. Take the unbelief. I, I can't handle that tormenting spirit anymore. How many of us have, you know, Lord, help my unbelief. How many of us pray that as part of a preliminary to getting the prayer answered? Lord, help my double-mindedness. Lord, remove the demonic spirit of double-mindedness, wavering, half-hearted. These have to be dealt with probably before you go into the full declaration. Lord, help my unbelief. And Jesus healed the boy. And obviously the man's unbelief was taken care of at that point. So if you're struggling with getting a prayer answered, number one, do you know specifically what you want, what needs to be prayed? And secondly, do you know, you know, what were the lies and the agreements that you gave that allowed that thing, that demonic stronghold to be set up? And third, do you, um, have you asked the Lord to remove your spirit of double-mindedness? I believe double-mindedness is the probably— well, James says that double-minded man is unstable in all of his ways. Let not that man think that he will receive anything from the Lord. And so that's exactly what does the Bible say? The Bible says what the Bible says. And the Bible isn't kidding or making a suggestion. It is saying a double-minded man, let not that man think that he will receive anything from the Lord. So if you trace back the unbelief or the double-mindedness, and then you say, well, it's my— the devil will say, well, or someone will say, he'll get someone to say for you, over you, well, it's your unbelief.

28:33 It's your, your, your, you don't have enough faith. Well, you know what? That is an accusation that makes it all my fault. That, that makes it, nah, this, this answer is not coming because it's my fault. I can't work the program. I don't have enough faith, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But what really needs to happen is to understand that this is a lie. This is a trick and an accusation against you that you don't have to use your faith anyway. You can use the faith of Jesus Christ to get this, this thing done. And it's not your problem. It's his willingness, his heart. God's heart is to heal. God's heart is to remove pain and tears. God's heart is to bring joy and peace in the kingdom of God. You know, that's his will. And you know, most of us are so settled in the devil's will that we don't even seek God's will, which would be healing and restoration.

29:21 Hebrews 4:16 says, let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. I just said that. A lot of our— that time of need is boldness. Boldness. We need boldness and, uh, urgency and, and come before the Lord and listen to what he says. So sometimes we say, well, you don't know what, what is the will of the Lord. Well, find out. Don't be unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is in Ephesians. I believe we all like success and answers to prayer, specific answers. For other people, for yourself, for whoever, those are, those bring confidence. They build confidence and faith because you see it's working. And so I believe Peter, he got this idea of this works.

30:09 And so, you know, even after a while, people were getting healed by the shadow of Peter falling on them as they, as he walked along. Jesus, they were diving at the hem of his garment to get healed because you know what? That garment was full of the power and the anointing and the authority of God. And the, uh, I think the frequencies and vibrations were emanating out of there. That's probably why they cast lots for his robe. I'm sure that they thought it had some magical powers in it. But the thing is, there is, there is truth to the fact that it is the words, the frequencies, the faith, the love, the relationship you have with God. God have mercy. God, this isn't okay. God, You know, it's not, you know, you don't want to get— you say, well, I don't want to get disappointed, so I don't want to get my hopes up. So I don't want to make my prayer too specific because then I'll get disappointed. There's another demon for you. He's trying to make you feel afraid to be— you're going to be disappointed. And so therefore don't ask, don't be too specific. So if it doesn't happen, you won't get disappointed.

31:09 What is that? That's double-mindedness and disappointment are 2 demons that try to shut you, shut your mouth. What harm is there in asking when you're asking a righteous, holy God that loves you? And if the devil has some claim to your life, ask the Lord to show you what is the claim Satan is using to stand in the way. There might be an agreement, there might be unforgiveness. That's a big one. So ask the Lord, what is blocking the answer to prayer? Because we already assume by faith, knowing that God wants to answer that prayer. So if it's not getting answered, what, where's the problem? It's not on God's end. And it's, it's probably somewhere in between. It's not on my end necessarily, but the devil wants to make it. He wants to delay or discourage or snatch away that answer to prayer to destroy your hope, your faith, your courage in God. So Satan does that a lot. He tries to wear us out. Uh, you know, do not become weary in well-doing for in due season you'll reap if you do not faint. But a lot of people, are in that interim where Satan is really pressuring you like he did Job.

32:13 Put a lot of pressure on Job for a long time. And what did Job say and do? He did not curse God. He finally got it in the end. God showed him, and God showed him that it wasn't him that was the problem. It was the, the words of his friends over him that didn't speak right concerning the Lord. It was their religious interrogations that was causing this confusion. And God said, forgive your friends, you know, and then, then I can forgive them. So that's where we come into the place of forgiving so that Satan cannot judge you for holding a judgment against someone else. You forgive that person, loosen from your judgment so Satan cannot judge you because that's what he does. He brings that demonic judgment upon you, that pain, that, that cancer, that whatever. It's a demonic judgment that he's putting on you, justifying it because you didn't forgive. Because he uses the verse, judge not lest you be judged, for with what judgment you judge, you'll be judged. So that's what the devil is doing to play this game against us. Here's a good prayer for us to pray. And it says in Acts chapter 4, verse 29, now, Lord, look at their threats. We're being threatened all the time by every lie of the enemy. Fear. And grant to your servants that with all boldness they may speak your word by stretching out your hand to heal. Yes. And that signs and wonders may be done through the name of your holy servant Jesus. And when they had prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word

33:46 of God with boldness. Amen. That is hardcore praying. Oh, that's hardcore. I like hardcore. It's hardcore praying, um, that we need that these days because we're in hardcore. The place was shaken and people were saved, delivered, and anything So get out of the timidity, get out of the whining to God. Yeah, let's hear what the voice is saying. Get out of the vagueness, get into specific. He who has ears to hear, let him hear what the Spirit of God is saying. And he has a mouth to speak, let him declare the words and the will of the Lord. Amen. Amen. So Father, we just thank you, Lord, that you've called us to hardcore praying and, uh, You've got— we've got stuff to do. Your kingdom of God is to come.

34:29 Your will of God— your will is to be done, Lord. And you said, here's the list you gave us specifically: preach the gospel, cleanse the lepers, heal the sick, raise the dead, cast out demons. Freely you have received, freely give. That's a very specific list. That's what we're to be doing. And Jesus, you said, occupy till I come. Amen. That doesn't mean just sit around like you're occupying a couch. It means get out and do something. Get out, do business. And that's the business of the kingdom. Amen. Declaring the power of Jesus. May people see and come into your kingdom, Lord, through our prayers, through our words. Father, in Jesus' name. And Lord God, we pray that we'd run this race to the end. We wouldn't slow down at the last lap because You know, it's getting hard and then just give up. We're going to, we're going to run this race with confidence and your faithfulness to complete this race. So Father, again, hardcore praying, inspire, inspire, encourage us, get up off the couch and occupy.

35:34 Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, oh God, on earth, in and through us. Amen. Hey, I have a CD, an MP3, I guess you call it now, on Unanswered Prayers. Did you know that? Oh, really? Did you remember? Oh yeah. You should go to, you know what, guys, go to the website. There's a lot of stuff in there that's not anywhere else available. liferecovery.com, Unanswered Prayers or Why Prayers Don't Get Answered. And there's a lot of those MP3s in there that have a lot of, um, you can load it into your phone, whatever, and you can listen to it on the way to work. It will help you. Um, there's some, there's, there's many good ones and, And we need some inspiring listening to because of the way we're living in these days and age with everything being so horrible. Let your words be pleasing to God. Amen. You know, let our words, let the thoughts of our heart and the meditation of our hearts be acceptable in your sight, O Lord God.

36:31 Amen. Love you guys. I have an emergency. What is your location? Rescue Radio, 'cause there's a war for