Lord, Say A Word! Part 2 Series

When we go before the Almighty God in prayer, when we go and stand before the Almighty God in prayer, we need to know that He has the authority over everything, every situation. He has the authority over the wind and the wave. He has the authority over sickness. He has the authority over demonic spirits. He has the authority over your finances. He has the authority over your job. He has authority over every human being in this world. He can do anything. If we have that resolved in our hearts that God can do anything, then when we come to the Lord, we know, “When I ask my Father, He will give it to me.” That confidence that we have in God, when we enter into His presence, with that confidence saying, “Lord, I am coming to You because I know that You are here.”

When we close our eyes we should be able to see God in front of us. It’s not like, I am closing my eyes and I am saying, “Lord, I don’t where You are”, and cry and cry and cry and cry and say, “Lord, I don’t know if You can hear, I don’t know if You can see. Lord, I don’t even know if You can feel what I feel. I am the only person going through this. Lord, I don’t know. I don’t feel like reading. I don’t feel like praying. Lord, I am not going to listen to Your message. I am not going to do anything. What is the use in following Jesus? I might as well go back to where I was before.” That is Satan. That comes from Satan but we know who God is.

Two things: 1) His power (2) His character.

We need to know the power of God. If you are not sure how powerful God is, or how powerful Jesus Christ is, read the Bible. Just reading the gospels will show you that He is the Lord of resurrection and life. He has the power over the wind and the waves. He has the power over death. And Jesus can bring a dead person back to life and we have seen that more than once in the Bible. So, basically, He can do anything. And if you read the Old Testament, God made the sun to stand still. So, God can do anything. God can do anything for His children. He will stop the sun, He will stop the moon. He can stop anything. But, we need to know who God is. God is there. His character is the same. He doesn’t change. We need to know who God is.

The third thing I want to say is, that God is good. God is all-powerful. The goodness of God is the character of God. And God is all-powerful, that talks about his power. The third thing is: that God is holy. We cannot come to the Lord, expecting something from the Lord, if our heart is unrighteous. If we have sin in our hearts, God can do it once to show His glory. But, if it is a repeated pattern that we see, we harbor sin in our hearts, we harbor adultery in our hearts, we harbor hate in our hearts, we harbor vengeance in our hearts. If we keep lying continuously and if we steal a little bit here, some of the office papers, office pens and office pencils and whatever it is. And do some wrong calculations in our tax returns and lie and take a little bit of change from work and whatever it is, whatever you do. If you say you are a child of God, you have no business touching that which does not belong to you. That includes somebody else’s wife also. So, when it comes to dealing truthfully in the presence of the Lord, God will look at it. Just like God sees, God’s eyes run to and fro throughout the earth, to see whose hearts are loyal to Him.(I Chronicles 16:9) God’s ears are listening attentively to the cry of the righteous, to the voice of the righteous. (Psalm 34:15) So, if you and I become righteous by the blood of Jesus, and if we are righteous by walking in that righteous path, cleansing ourselves continuously with the blood of Jesus and living a righteous life, then we are bound to receive that which we ask of the Lord. We go into God’s presence and say, “Lord”...it’s like a child coming to me and saying, my daughter coming to me and saying, “Mommy, I am hungry.” I never say, “Ok, be quiet. You don’t need food. Go and sit down in the corner.” We don’t say that. We never do that. But if a child is hungry, we say, “Ok, I am going to give you food.” If the child comes and says, “Mommy, my socks is ripped or my shirt is torn.” We don’t say, “It’s ok, who cares how your clothes are. You can just have that.” We never say that. How much more our Heavenly Father! When we say, “Lord, I need this. Lord, I need this.” When we come and tell the Lord knowing that He is right in front of us.