Teach us to pray part 1
By Apostle Joshua Selman

Acts chapter 12.

Now, about the time, Herod the king stretched forth his hand to vex certain of the church. So we're talking about a man here under the influence of wicked spirits to persecute the church. Please don't lose your focus. Don't lose your attention. And he killed James, the brother of John, with the sword. So James is dead now. 3, and because he saw that it pleased the Jews, look at this wicked man. He proceeded further to take Peter also. Then were the days of unleavened bread. Okay, during the feast. 4. And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him, intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people. So he's about to destroy someone, the pillars of the church. Next verse, Peter. Look at this, Peter, therefore, was kept in prison. But prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him. Prayer was made without ceasing. And when Herod would have brought him forth, Carla, that same night, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers.

Can you imagine it? Aside from the fact that he's in prison, the two soldiers held him, he stabbed the chains, and they're also sleeping close to him so that if he moves and they wake up, they can say, "Where are you going to?" He was bound with two chains, and the keepers before the door kept the prison.

Next verse, "And behold, the angel of the Lord." Wait till next part when I will show you the ministry of prayer and the angels, the angelic ministry that excels in strength. If you do not understand the ministry of angels in prayer and the warfare dimension of prayer, you will get into trouble. The Bible is full of the ministry of angels in prayer.

The angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light shined in the prison. He smote Peter on the side and raised him up, saying, "Rise up quickly, " and the chains fell off from his hand. They are praying, and praying correctly because Jesus had taught them how to pray. Remember before now, they were not getting results. Now Jesus had mentored them, and this, the apostles, were now mentoring the early church. So there was no confusion as to whether the prayer would be answered or not. And while they prayed, something was happening in the realm of the spirit. We'll find out next part because the Bible says, "Let it be done in the earth as it is in heaven." So, an angel came from heaven to make sure what is in heaven happens in the earth. He came to that prison and said, "God, thyself." Angels can speak and bind on thy sandals, and so he did. He said unto him, "Cast thy garment about thee and follow me." This is the angel. Next verse, And he went out and followed him and was not that it was true which was done by the angel, but thought he was inefficient.

Look at this. He was already so used to visions; he didn't know whether it was real or it was a visionary experience. When they were past the first and the second ward, they came to the iron gate, which leads to the city, which opened of its own accord. And they went out and passed through the street, and forthwith the angel departed and said, "You can go."

My brothers and my sisters, these are not parables. Can these things happen again? Why are they not happening if this is true? And scripture cannot be broken. That men prayed and physical angels.

Let me give you a story. I like teaching on these kinds of things. Listen, I have many stories on these. Let me give you one of my... Okay, that would be the second or the third encounters with angels in the body. Now, not in visuals. I was in Abuja, one year, I can't remember. And then I got into a bus, and I alighted. I was at Mararaba, you know, and my wallet fell, and everything fell. And the bus had gone. I was with one of my friends, and it was so frustrating for me. I think if I'm not mistaken, I hope it will be when we were trying to prepare for one of our crusades or so. And then everything had gone, and the time it was busy, you would not even know which of the buses or who someone would have carried it. And I pleaded with my friend. I said, "Please, you have to get a bike and go to maybe where the park is, and then they'll begin to check." I stood there, and I was just praying in the spirit. And I remember the scripture that just came, "He shall put his angels charged over thee, " and all of that. Now I tell the truth, and I lie not. I fear God. I was standing there, and the next thing, a man is limping. Remember the story. A man is limping with my wallet and brings it to me and says, "Take, " and just walks and goes away. And I'm standing there, and I'm looking at this man. "What is your name? Who are you?" At least, let me say thank you. After a while, I cannot remember seeing the man again.

The first time we were going to hold our crusade in Jaws. We were there, and quite honestly, we were confused, and we did not know what to do. Suddenly, a stranger walks up to me and says, "Get a bus and get a loud megaphone." He said, "Go around the city." Remember, and do publicity. I never saw that man again.

Angels are real. Our carnality has reduced us to a point where we don't even have the eyes and the perception. You will be joking to think everyone standing here is a human being. Do you know, I tell you the truth, and I lie not. There are many times I started sharing it during the early days of Koinonia. You notice I stopped. I stopped saying it for a reason. There are times that I would be ministering like this, and suddenly, you know, many things happen as a man of God when you are ministering. You cannot say everything. There are times that I'm standing here already, and I'm having multiple visionary experiences while I'm ministering. It's training with time. Your spirit is you. You understand it, so you are not distracted. And there are many times when God opens my eyes. Now I see people, now not from the body. I now see the spirit man of people. And suddenly, in the realm of the spirit, you will know that it's an angel now, because they excel in light, and suddenly, you will check and you will find out that this person sitting down is not a human being. The moment they see me and we make contact, they will just stand up gradually and walk out. I've seen this thing many times when Koinonia started, I used to say it, but eventually I kept quiet because I don't want people to build their monuments. You know, people start to make all this idolatry and the rest. So I understand what the scripture is saying.

Listen, let me tell you, warfare is real. And it is important to be able to bet victory. James chapter 5 and verse 13, we pray because it is an instrument of warfare. What is warfare? Establishing the will of God in spite of the contentions of darkness. That's warfare. Engaging scripture, engaging the mysteries of the kingdom in prayer to establish the will of God. Satan will never let your destiny go without a battle. Just because God said, "All things are yours, " does not mean all things will come to you. Just because God said, "Oh, you'll be a great man. You'll be..." He will attack you. He will attack your children. He will attack everything that can be attacked. I believe in warfare when it is biblically engaged.

I believe that any believer who sits down and allows his destiny to move by default is in trouble. He will never win in life.

Warfare and intercession. What is intercession? Standing in the gap for someone else. Standing in the gap for a territory, making petitions to heaven on behalf of an individual, on behalf of a territory.

Listen, do you know why God allowed for intercession? Because of this explanation I'm giving. Because, assuming, for instance, the spirit of death is attempting to take my life this night, and I do not have the faculty to discern. I can become a victim of it, and that means my destiny and all who are connected to me will be in trouble. So God, see this how... It is a revelation of God's mercy. The mercy of God starts moving around that territory to find who has the discernment and the will to obey God. Do you understand? So it's like a cloud. The Holy Ghost will come upon somebody in his room. He will shake up and say, "God forbid. I need to sleep." The Holy Ghost will live quietly, find another house, but somehow he will just come to someone who just gets up and says, "Something is wrong." He will now say, "Pray. Pray in the Spirit." And while he is praying, he does not know why he's praying. And I do not even know him, but because he's in the body, his prayer life will now save me. That's why when we get to heaven, many people will receive thank you for things they don't know. Well, what is that? He said, "in 1999, remember one three days fast you did that you don't even know what it was for. That fast was what secured the man who would later become the president. But you will never know that it was your prayer."

If Velah the prophetess did not intercede for Jesus, they would have killed him. Believe me, if Jesus could not die, the angel would not say he wrong. He was in the flesh. The only thing is that the body will not decay.

Velah the prophetess was praying. Imagine this kind of intercessor. She sacrificed her life since her husband died. See, I'm teaching you many things in this series because if Velah prophetess were in our generation, and you saw Velah prophetess, and saw Apostle Joshua Selman, . Velah prophetess would bow to me and say, "You are the great man of God. And we are the quiet people." Whereas you do not know that the way things happen in the realm of the spirit, those that may be making the greatest impact may not be the Joshua Selman and all of this as visible as we look. There will be one quiet mama somewhere that is the backbone behind our success that we may never know. God gives this mama a mandate and says, "Mama, you have 30 more years to live." And your assignment every day is to pray for someone called Joshua Selman. Where is he in the world? You don't need to know him. I may never know that the health of this ministry, the health of my life primarily may be founded upon that deep intercessory ministry.

If you really find an intercessor somewhere, not just a lazy person who just says, "I'm an intercessor, " but a real intercessor, respect them. If I bless you, you see me. I prophesy to you, you will package offering and come and give me. Is that true? If I speak over your life, they can carry that message all around the world. People will watch the videos and see me speaking. They will open doors for me.

But if I intercede for you, there is no man who will see me to say thank you. These are the people who are greatly prized in the spirit. Some of them are here. They don't even believe that their ministry, I just have the grace for intercession. Do you know there are times that I'm sleeping, and it's as if they are soaking me inside hot water. I know somebody somewhere shouting on heaven on me. I character, allow me to sleep small. There are times I know his prayer burn. That fire is coming from prayer burn Tuesday. There are times I know that individuals are just praying. They prayed for Jesus. The Bible never said Hannah the prophetess stopped praying after the dedication.

She just said, "my eyes have seen the consolation of Israel." Intercession is powerful.

Listen to me, don't sit back and allow the devil destroy your loved ones. I shared with you the story about my mom one time, that I saw what I saw. You must learn to pray.

Some of you are not only lazy spiritually, you are responsible for the pain of many people. This is why sometimes when God is quarreling with people, you think you are innocent. He will come and say you are part of the reasons why these people are not doing well. "Oh God, why?" "I put a burden on you to pray one time, and you just carelessly said it's not my business." There are selfish believers until God... That's why God will use the face of someone you love. It's not that something is wrong with that person, that's the only way. It's not always demons. It is the only way to wake you up to pray because if you saw another person, your selfishness will not allow you to stand up. So you see the face of the person who promised to marry you and say, 'No, God, this cannot happen. I've waited long.' And God said, 'That's it.' You'll be rewarded for praying, but that was the only skill to be able to lift you.

Hallelujah. Warfare and intercession. James 5:13. Is any man afflicted? He says, 'Let him do what?' is any man afflicted?' The biblical approach to affliction. Is any man challenged by a situation you cannot understand. Before you sit down, start using your brain because you see, in the flesh, you will calculate wrongly what is going on. My children suddenly are falling sick in a way that I cannot explain. Suddenly, money is disappearing in this family. Suddenly, my wife, my husband, my children, it's like there is no peace. Suddenly, my grandmother is hating me. I came out in the morning, three accidents before returning back home. Already, you are sensitive, that is affliction. The Bible says, 'Don't sit down and start discussing scientifically.' It says, 'Start praying. Because when you pray, among the many things that happen, is that you begin to perceive. You are allowing your spirit, man, in partnership with the Holy Spirit, to draw forth what the real issue is and communicate to you. Hallelujah.

How many of you have ever been confident about a decision? You were so bold until you prayed. Somewhere in that prayer, you stood and said, 'God, thank you. This, I would have died.' You felt like Ghana is the place God is sending it. In fact, everything in you was just spelling Ghana until you went to pray. When that prayer was done, you were embarrassed. You just stood there and said, 'So, this is how I would have been on my way.'

You know powerful believers by this one thing. They will tell you, 'I want to do this, this, and that.' And then two weeks later, they just keep quiet. He said, 'You won't do it again. I know what has happened to them. They have gone to fine-tune that thing.'

A brother just looks at his sister and can almost be confident as, 'I know, Abba. I know based on what I'm feeling. This is my wife.' Until you go to pray. While you are praying, the flesh and the feelings are giving way to destiny. And when you rise up, then you will know that you would have made nonsense of your life. You now come back and say, 'Thank you, Jesus.'

Someone can come to you and say, 'I'm a real estate mogul. I'm this and that and that.' And you are sitting down. You want to carry all your land papers and everything and give the person. And you just say, 'Okay, let me just sleep over it, Sir, would you come tomorrow morning?' 'Fine no problem.' Until you are sleeping in the night and you wake up and begin to pray, and you find out that your entire destiny would have gone down because of lack of discernment.

When believers don't pray, you know a believer who does not pray by the repetition of trouble that he always gets into. See, when you are getting into trouble again and again, every bad thing waits till you come, then it happens. Something is wrong with your prayer life. I'm telling you this.

Why do we pray?

Prayer, according to Scripture, is a strategy to keep your faith alive. It's a strategy to keep your faith alive. Luke chapter 2, verse 31

And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, Satan had desired to have you like a possession, right? And that he may sift you like wheat. He says, 'But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not.' So how does Satan sift man? He does something to your faith. What is faith? Conviction. Listen, when Satan wants to sift you like wheat, remember the Bible says, 'A double-minded man, let him not think he will receive anything from the Lord.' So when Satan wants to make sure you don't receive anything, he will begin to make you doubt your convictions. He will manipulate the flesh realm and make sure that what you believe, God, but didn't you tell me this by January? And now you are thinking, 'Is it God? Is it not God?' Satan is attempting to sift you. Is he really extraordinary fruitfulness? God, this is September. Did Apostle really hear God well? Because it looks like it would have been the year where your stamina is built, because this is my thing. It's been... I've not seen any fruitfulness. Satan is sifting you like wheat. And he says when you pray, you stop your faith from failing, your conviction.

There are many things that, believing them, may be difficult for you, but start praying. Start praying. A word has been spoken concerning you. By November, by December, this would have happened. Those would have opened. You will say, 'Amen.' But you don't believe it. Your pain has overwhelmed you. You are used to prophecy. It's not coming to pass. So you don't believe it. But when you begin to pray, something begins to happen in your spirit man. It's like a gate. It's like a compression that is broken. Suddenly, you can believe God. Yes, this is real, Lord. I know you are able to do it. Prayer is a way that we keep our faith alive.

Let me give us one more. Why do we pray? The sixth reason why we pray is that it is a platform to make requests and petitions. Prayer is the authorized biblical platform to table your requests and to make petitions. You don't make petitions in this kingdom by complaining. The Bible says, 'Do everything without complaining or arguing.'

Let me tell you this. Most believers do not pray. Most of what we think is prayer is just blind, fleshly, carnal argument.

"What is this? Is this how life will treat me? And God, you are watching like that." Are you praying? No, you are not praying; you are lamenting. Lamentation does not have a harvest of answered prayer. No, unto Him that answers prayer, He hears prayer, not complaints, He hears prayer, not grumbling.

Mark 11:24

Look at this, Jesus is teaching. Therefore, I say unto you, what things so ever ye desire. One more time, say desire. When you pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall, what?

Three things. One, your desire. Number two, reception. Number three, manifestation. You first receive before you have. You cannot have what you have not received. You don't receive things physically; you receive them in the realm of the spirit; you have them physically. So it says, 'What things so ever you desire, prayer is the channel that makes your desire to be received and then to manifest when you pray. So you can have desires and leave them there, and you find out that nothing ever changes in your life.'

Philippians chapter 4, verse 6.

'Be careful for nothing.' Hold on; the word there is careful. It's not trying to say you should live a careless life. The word there is anxiety. Now, other versions who correct that say, 'Be anxious for nothing.' Right, so, be anxious for nothing, ' then it says, 'But in everything.' That means there is no matter that you should not pray for. In everything, the Bible does not isolate certain things and say, 'Don't pray for them.' There is no issue that cannot be prayed for.

This is where we must put a little correction to our teaching on finance. A lot of people say prayer has nothing to do with finance. There are keys. Anytime prayer is not the key, prayer is the hand that holds the key. In any case, you will still need prayer, either as the key or the hand that will hold the key to open the door. A key does not open itself. So prayer is important. The Bible says, 'In everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God.'

This is a very interesting scripture because in one of the scriptures we read, the Bible says, 'For your heavenly Father already knows the things that you need.' And now, He says, 'Make your request known to God.' God wants the saints to make their request known because He answers prayers.

You have many requests. "Oh God, my house rent. Oh God, the issue of my stubborn child. Oh God, the issue of my destiny. I'm tired of escorting men in life, not knowing where I stand. Oh God, the issue of my finances. Oh God, the issue of fruitfulness. Oh God, the issue of this and that. The issue of my job. It's been 10 years, 20 years now, no job."

The Bible says, 'Don't be ashamed to make your request known unto God.' That means it is not out of scripture when you pray in understanding. You can make your request known to God. Are you seeing why sometimes we come with our requested miracle service? We are making it known to God. It is scriptural. God wants to know. Bring before Him your request because He will answer.

James chapter 4, verse 2 and 3. James chapter 4. God is speaking now. Requests are very important. Inasmuch as prayer is not just for only asking things, there is a major part of prayer that was designed to allow your petitions to reach heaven.

The Bible says, "ye lust and have not." That means ye desires so strongly, yet you don't have it. "Ye kill, and desire to have and cannot obtain. You fight." That means, look at the alternatives you have introduced, whereas prayer would have still given it to you. The inability to have prayed will make you desire in an ungodly way, bad things, whether money or whatever, and to kill even because of it, and then to fight because of it. "He says you have not simply because you ask not." That means if you can ask, there will be no reason to kill, no jealousy, none of these things because the same Lord is rich unto all. He's saying if you don't know how to ask, you will continue to admire people and to hate people's breakthroughs and to hate their testimonies as though God isolated them and blessed them alone. If you know how to ask.

The Bible says "you have not and ask not." Then it says, 'You ask and receive not because you ask amiss.' What we started correcting, "that he may consume it upon your lust." We would deal with it when we talk about the patterns of prayer.

What does it mean to consume it upon your lust? That means the ultimate scope of your desire is just to satisfy yourself. There is nothing kingdom in it. You will now understand the prayer of Jesus: 'Thy kingdom come.' It is within the scope of the kingdom that he says, 'Give us our daily bread, ' so that we'll be strong enough to continue making your kingdom come. Once you detach the kingdom, you also detach the possibility for your daily bread. Your daily bread is connected to your desire and your participation in making his kingdom come.

Listen to my teaching "for your glory, " where I teach that in this kingdom, God is not obliged to stand and partner with you on any matter that does not have a provision to give him glory.

Our selfish world has mastered how to use the realm of the spirit to draw realities for our own personal desires. Why do you want a child? Why do you want the marriage? Why do you want the prosperity? "Apostle I'm tired; people have been looking down on me. I want them to know that I'm not a nobody." And God says, "that is the kind of nonsense prayer that will not be answered." Why won't it be answered? Because there is no provision for the kingdom in it.

'Oh God, I want all my children to excel.' Why? 'So that everybody will know that I'm not a small woman.' And God says, 'This is a joke, not in my kingdom.' 'Lord, I want money to buy a new car.' Why? 'So that every woman in that church would know that me too, I'm not just a... ' And God looks at all these things and says, 'What do you think I am, an ATM machine?' He is the Lord of all, but let Him find your heart plotted toward His kingdom.

'Father, I'm trusting you to give me twins so that I can hurry up and have children and have the grace to serve you.' God says, before you finish, twins are on their way coming. He will roast every devil on the way between the second heavens and that womb and make sure those twins come.

Let me tell you this, I have learnt something about God. You want to see the Spirit of God in your life? Die to yourself and say, 'Lord, this is about you.'

It is one big secret in my life: I submit to you, you will see the hand of God in fearful ways when everything about your life becomes about you. What name are you looking for yourself? If the name it is, is just so that He will find expression, then He will shake the heavens and the earth and give you that name.

Wealth and prosperity: There are many gullible people who love money. 'Oh God, give me money. Why? , 'They mocked at me that day, and Lord, this shame must leave my life.' And God says, 'This is not how I walk. Everything in my world is consistent with my purposes. And if your life cannot find a bearing in my purposes...'

You see, let me tell you this, that most of our prayer in church are lust-driven prayers. Let's tell ourselves the truth.

What do I mean by lust-driven prayer? It is either the kind of prayer that was sponsored by a competitive spirit. 'I want to have this too, Lord. I want this anointing. The other day I saw this guy prophesying as if I was not called into ministry. God, are you going to put this grace on me, or just let me go and look for a job?' And God says, 'You hear what you are saying?'

'Requests you ask, and you have not because you ask amiss, ' what is being amazed so that you will satisfy yourself. I have cried this secret to the body of Christ again and again, and I pray that this time around, believers will get it. There is excellency in stepping out of the way and letting God have His way. When you let God have His way, you would not be in the dark. Can God be in a place and His light not be on you?

This mundane pursuit for fame, this mundane pursuit for recognition, this mundane pursuit for this and that is why many people pray amiss.

Someone sent me a text one day and said, 'Ah, Apostle, you are enjoying o.' I said, You see the kind of talk this... I know what he meant to say because they see all these photos and see all these things, and that statement is not a commendation; it's a derivative of lust.

Did God send you to ministry just to enjoy? Is ministry a platform? Is it because of the clothes the....? No! All those things are there because of Him and His purposes, to please Him. If this is all you get to pray in the next few minutes.... if you read this and leave with this purified motive: that everything about me is for Him. Get to that point in your life and watch God arise for you.

That is the point where anybody who touches you touches the apple of His eyes; He will shake kingdoms for your sake, the kind of prayer that produces power.

Why am I praying for more anointing, Father? Greater anointing, greater revelation. Why? So that I will be a very senior man of God that people can see and acknowledge, and God says, 'not in my world, in my dealings, in my economy with men, I will not walk that way.'

We're going to pray the prayer. Ministry is an advantage; it's one of the dominion systems of the saints. God has helped us to look at a few things. Part one, next part we'll continue and now, begin to deal with the dynamics of effective prayer as intended by God; not as intended by culture, not as intended by religion.

Prayer section

Begin to pray in the spirit for a few minutes.

Pray for 2-3 minutes in the spirit

Hallelujah. Just two prayer points.

Number one:

Further purify my motive in prayer. Let the Refiner's fire purify my motive. That I be not as the hypocrites. Purify my motive. May I be more interested in the concept of fellowship in the transformation and growth that comes from prayer than the desire to be seen, know and accredited by men.

Purify my motive in prayer! That which drives me to pray!.

Pray in tongues

Hallelujah, hallelujah. We are on a prayer series, and that means any attack on your prayer life, this is the series that should bring it under judgment. We will not wait till we finish.

Listen, every time God introduces a series, the grace to make the truth communicated and to make it effectual in your life is also present with the series.

You are going to pray one prayer. Listen, be honest with yourself. If you know your prayer life has gone down, now is the time to cry to God and say, 'Lord, my life cannot continue like this.' And if you have been praying at a level and you have refused to grow for many years, now is the time to shake off yourself and say, 'Lord, it's time to rise higher.' Very deep dimensions of prayer. Lift your voice and pray.

'Lord, I contact the grace for prayer.'

'The grace for consistent, effectual, bible based prayer'

'Every spiritual laziness, the inertia to pray. I challenge it in this series, '

'My commitment to prayer, corporate prayer, personal prayer.'

'Please pray one more minute.'

Pray in tongues

Hallelujah, hallelujah, praise the Lord.

Please, let me just give us some instructions, and then we'll pray.

In the next week, please find a day, just one day, a personal day. Wait upon the Lord personally. Please listen to the instruction. One day, complete. You are waiting upon the Lord, 6 to 6. If you have children, maybe 6 to 2 is okay. I don't expect any adults to wait upon the Lord 6 to 12. You are lazy.

This is a series that is aimed at shaking. Find a day. I know that there are individuals that fast, groups that fast, but find a day when you are least distracted. You can have some time. And then pray, pray. Take out time to really pray in the spirit. Take out time. I don't expect you to pray at least in that day for anything less than a total combined, at least three hours, at least. You are dedicated. Otherwise, your fast is useless. What were you fasting for? You are praying.

Take out time. You will pray for other things, but you are just saying to pray for stamina in the spirit. You are praying to activate, you are not praying for things. Leave the issue of things. This prayer is not for tea and bread. Leave all those ones. The purpose of this prayer is, 'Oh God, whatever is blocking my organs of interaction with the realm of the spirit, deadening my capacity to perceive, that in this prayer, this time of prayer, take it seriously. You can pray even as friends, and this, provided you will have time alone and seriously pray.

Get worship. Saturate yourself. Take some time. Please do it. Don't forget. Our family online. Try to find time. I know many of us are working. You have things to do. But discipline yourself. You will not die.

Maximize night prayer. I've taught you this thing. I've sheltered it again. Maximize night prayer. Wake up in the night. Suspend movies for this week. You will not die. Suspend excessive browsing of the Internet. You know, I'm not abusing your... You can always watch whatever you have. But just dedicate this time and get something that is serious. If you are watching, maybe you are watching a message or something. That's all right. But where you are now praying, and then one drama, one play, just suspend it and give your destiny some serious attention. Take out time and pray, and while you are praying, be sensitive to the things the Holy Ghost is going to be saying. Be sensitive to the kinds of dreams you are going to be having. Be sensitive to the illumination that will come. This is destiny.

You are praying and saying, 'Lord, I've lost too many things in my life because I could not hear. I've lost too many things because I could not see. I don't want this to continue. I'm using this series to pray so that I know when good things are coming and know how to position myself. To know when evil things are coming and to know when to drive them back. You take our time and pray like that, and then you prepare yourself for the next part; I'll be sharing with you. Please invite anybody you know on Friday. Many people don't understand prayer. I will be sharing with you God's pattern, the dynamics of prayer, and what really happens in the realm of the Spirit when the saints pray. What really happens.

Apostle's Prayer

Father, we thank you. Thank you because you are teaching us how to pray. We want to stop shadow boxing. We want to stop assumptions. We want to pray the kind of prayer that produces results. And Lord, our hearts are opened in the name of Jesus, that even in this series, you will fire up our prayer lives. I'm praying for everyone under the sound of my voice whose prayer life has gone down. In the name of Jesus, fresh fire upon your prayer altar. Every excuse that justifies prayerlessness, I cancel it in this series, in the name of Jesus Christ.

Whatever needs to be done in your life to give you room to pray. Some of you, you will need a room, a space for yourself. Some of you, you need God to just favor you so that you can have a place where you pray. Whatever needs to be done so that your prayer life will come back to life, I release my faith with you in the name of Jesus. May it happen for you.

For some of you, we need to cast out of your life the spirit of slumber. You have a problem with sleep. It doesn't matter whether you sleep early or you sleep late. The devil will take away precious moments in your life to pray. I command the spirit of slumber to leave your life now! In the name of Jesus.

And there are many of you who have precious dreams, visions, and prophetic experiences in prayer, but it has been hijacked by the spirit of error so that you don't even know. You are not getting clarity again. You don't know when it is God. You don't know when it's an evil spirit. And sometimes God will show you precious things in dreams and visions, but you wake up and forget everything. There are instructions in those things. In the name of Jesus, I'm praying for you now. Let there be a revival of retention.

The grace that makes for spiritual retention. That when instructions come from heaven, you will wake up remembering them. You will not be like the king who forgot his dream in the name of Jesus Christ.

Father, we thank you for tonight. In the name of Jesus.

Altar call

We're discussing prayer and matters of the spirit. Now, there are people here who are saying, "Apostle, I really want to make things right with Jesus Christ. You're outside, you're in here, you came from far, and you're saying, 'My life has not been the way it is. I really want to hand over my life to Jesus and receive His life.' Or you are here, you are saying, 'I need to just make things right with God.' Please, if you belong to any of this category, whether you are inside or outside, we just have two minutes for you. I want you to stand up.

Koinonia is a place for encounter. This is a place for revival. Don't come here and go back the way you came. It's a place where you can come as you are because God is the maker of men.

New dimension, a new season in my life. Hallelujah.

Don't be ashamed, or whatever it is. No, no. You must take your spiritual life very seriously. The Bible says, "You must be born again, not you may be born again." Hallelujah.

Praise the Lord.

I salute you. I know that many of you are making this decision for the very first time, and a number of you are rededicating your heart very genuinely. I want you to lift your hand, your right hand and say this sincerely. Say this truthfully. Jesus is in this place, and I want you to mean every word that you are saying.

Say, "Lord Jesus." Say it again. Say, "Lord Jesus, I believe in you, that you are the Son of God. I have heard your word. I desire relationship, a rich relationship. Therefore, according to Scripture, I confess that Jesus is my Savior, is my Lord, and my King. And I declare that I receive eternal life into my spirit. I receive the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness. And I declare that I reign in life. From today, I'm a child of God. I move forward ever and backward never. Amen."

I pray for you in the name of Jesus. May the Lord preserve you. There is a supply of grace for you. You will go from glory to glory. You will go from grace to grace. The hand of God is mighty upon your life. The lines have fallen for you in pleasant places. And I declare that you have a goodly heritage. I plant in you an appetite for spiritual things, a hunger for the word, a hunger for the things of the spirit. In the name of Jesus Christ, amen and amen.

I appreciate and congratulate every one of you. God bless you.