He was a very dear old gentleman to
me.
He was an elder in the church where
I was.
And he used to say, if God don't
hear my cries, he hears my tears.
Amen.
He hears my tears, he said.
Blessed be the name of our Lord.
There are things that speak louder than words,
beloved.
And that's what the Lord really wants.
Someone that knows, someone that gets hold of
God.
There is a love that will never let
you go.
Amen.
It's blessed when by the Spirit it is
shed abroad in the hearts of men and
women.
Glory be to the name of the Lord.
And never will let go.
Amen.
Never.
Samuel said to the rebellious soul, he said,
God forbid that I should sin against thee
in ceasing to pray for thee.
That's what he said to the rebellious soul.
God forbid that I should sin against thee
in ceasing to pray for thee.
Have you ever thought that prayerlessness can be
sin?
Amen.
There are sins that are far more subtle
than the ugly, blatant, outward things.
God wants us to understand and move in
that great realm of life and power.
Oh, what a wonderful thing it is.
And here is the great privilege that God
grants his people.
And through Jesus Christ we come in and
we really get hold of God.
Turn with me for a moment or two
to John's Gospel.
Just a little of the true prayer life
that God wants us to live, beloved, in
John chapter 16.
He's talking to his disciples.
The cross is just ahead.
He's shortly going to pray the prayer of
his life on the way to the garden
of betrayal and the court of injustice.
And the cross of death.
And he gathers his disciples around him and
they're moving.
And in verse 19 Jesus knew that they
were desirous to ask him and said unto
them, Do ye inquire among yourselves that I
said a little while and ye shall not
see me, and again a little while and
ye shall see me?
Verily, verily I say unto you that you
shall weep and lament, but the world shall
rejoice.
And ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow
shall be turned into joy.
It's a marvelous thing that Jesus can turn
sorrow into joy.
Has he ever done it for you?
Turn sorrow into joy.
No psychiatrist has ever discovered that secret has
he?
No scientist has ever got there has he?
Politics can't reach that can they?
Money can't do that can it?
Armies can't do any of that can they?
Navies and air forces and kings and queens
and statesmen can't do anything about that can
they?
I turn sorrow into joy.
Glory to God.
Did you ever know anyone like Jesus?
Did you ever hear of anyone like him?
Amen.
We have a way of turning joy into
sorrow.
You've done it many a time for people
haven't you?
Haven't you?
Be honest.
Shattered them.
Let's read the next verse.
A woman, when she is in travail, hath
sorrow, because her hour is come.
But as soon as she is delivered of
the child, she remembereth no more the anguish
for joy that a man is born into
the world.
Amen.
And you now, therefore, has sorrow, but I
will see you again, and your heart shall
rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from
you.
Whatever is he talking about?
The resurrection.
That's what he's talking about.
That's the thing that turns sorrow into joy.
The resurrection.
Hallelujah.
I'll see you again.
Blessed be the name of the Lord.
Isn't this glorious?
Let's go on shall we?
And in that day, when you've got joy
that no one can take from you, I
want to tell you a story about this.
It's this kind of evening tonight.
I know a young man.
He lived over in the southeast corner of
England, where I used to live there a
long time ago now.
And I got to know him because a
nephew of mine was friendly with him.
And this nephew of mine came to know
the Lord, and he started to talk to
his pal.
And he so talked to him that this
boy, who it appears was just about waiting,
he must have had a heart that was
ready to receive the seed.
You never know these people you've been with.
You don't know what's really going on behind
the facade of all the things that they
put on.
You don't know.
Anyway, this nephew of mine spoke to this
boy, his friend.
And this young fellow, he was pushing a
cycle along the road.
He leaned in over on the hedge, and
he knelt down there in the road, and
he received Jesus into his heart.
Well, you know what happened.
Those of you who know that when people
really mean it like that, they don't care
who knows or who cares or what people
think.
They don't mind their best trousers and kneel
down what happens, and they kneel down in
the road.
It's very rare, very rare.
You know what happens, don't you?
He was so changed, immediately, absolutely transformed.
His mother and father thought he'd gone absolutely
round the bin.
He went out one way and came in
another.
He went out one kind of boy and
came in another boy.
Absolutely radically changed.
He didn't have a Bible, but he had
one given to him.
He spent his days, he was working on
a farm at this time.
He worked amongst the, you know, he was
the cowhand.
Sorry, pigs, swineherd, in one of these better
classes.
Really, when they do it properly, you know.
You know, where was I the other day,
driving somewhere.
You know, I drive all over the place,
some people, people usually drive me.
And we passed...
I didn't say round the bin.
And I, we came to a bend in
the road.
And as we turned, we had to slow
to turn.
And I read over and it said, a
mootel.
I thought, what is this?
What a highfalutin name for a cowshed.
Better class cows.
Somebody, a mootel.
I tell you, I see things when I
go round.
I couldn't tell you what cowshed.
I thought it must have been Devon.
No, I think it was in Gloucestershire.
No, but...
Praise God, this boy, he went home, and
he got a Bible and he started to
read it.
His mother came in the room, snatched it
out of his hand.
Raved at him.
Tore it up.
So he went and got another one.
Sat down, started to read it.
His mother raged at him.
Snatched it away from him.
He never resisted her.
Burned it.
When he got another one, she said, You're
not coming here, reading that in our house.
Not having it.
This Jesus business.
The rage at Jesus in people's hearts.
They won't have it.
You talk about God, that's not too bad.
But when you start talking about Jesus, that
does it.
Yeah.
They don't mind you talking about God.
But that name seems to do it.
Oh, I don't know.
It really is terrible.
Well, anyway.
She said, You're not going to have it.
So, he put it in his pocket.
And she searched his jacket when he went
inside.
And she destroyed it.
And he got another one.
Very good.
Ah.
The heart that was hungry for God.
And she called him in his bedroom.
Reading it on his knees.
She pulled over him by the hair and
pulled him off his feet.
Pulled him round her room.
Cursed him.
Well, he just went through.
He never complained.
He used to say, Pray for my mum,
will you?
Never argued.
Never answered back.
He got something genuine.
He got it real.
People got enough to make them argumentative.
You know, like some people when they drink
beer.
They drink enough to get argumentative.
You see.
Went through.
And so, this time he got a Bible.
And he hid it in the pig shed.
And he used to go out and have
his quiet time with the stinking pigs.
With God.
That's right.
And he prayed.
And he abode.
And God broke through in that home.
Beloved.
Because he was faithful.
You see.
It's so wonderful, beloved, when God does this.
And I want to encourage you people.
You believe God.
You get hold of God.
If you've got the heart of a chicken
in you.
Change it for the heart of the lamb.
Be, be strong.
Stand up to it.
Don't run away.
Stay with it.
Amen.
Glory be to God.
God can do something.
I know that there are circumstances when you
just have to get out.
We know that.
But normally speaking, stay with it.
And let the Lord work his work.
Your joy.
Nobody takes from you.
Verse 22.
This boy just overflowed with joy.
Glory.
And it's absolutely true.
When you're joyful, you're strong.
The weak person is a person without joy
every time.
It's the joy.
Hallelujah.
Joy means that you've really got it sufficiently
to be enjoying it.
That's right.
It's moved you into reality.
It's done something for you.
And God, he gives this thing.
And you know that there's nothing so infectious
as joy.
You try it.
Everybody's miserable.
The infectious thing is joy.
Isn't it?
Yes, it's glory, isn't it?
All right, let's go on.
And in that day, verse 23.
He says, you shall ask me nothing.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, whatsoever ye
shall ask the Father in my name, he
will give it to you.
Amen.
My word.
Do you really believe that?
Glory be to God.
Let's go on.
Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name.
See?
They used to come and ask in their
own name.
They said, come and heal my daughter, please.
Come and make my mother better, please.
Come and do this.
They didn't.
Nobody had ever asked in his name.
He told his disciples that.
You've never asked in my name.
How about that?
What do you think of it?
All right, this is what he says.
Ask.
And ye shall receive that your joy may
be full.
You ever seen a person lose what joy
they had?
It may be.
It's because they keep on asking the Lord.
They think they are for things they don't
get them.
You see?
And their faith gets undermined.
And doubts come in.
You see?
Oh, glory.
When we move into the place where we
ask in Jesus name.
That is really for his sake alone.
That is really that he may be glorified.
Really.
That it might be his will that's working.
Really.
Hallelujah.
That you know that you are asking the
thing that Jesus would ask.
All right?
Now you've prayed tonight.
Do you really believe that you asked for
the thing that Jesus would have asked for
if he'd have sat in your chair?
I'm not trying to cast a doubt in
your mind.
But we'd better face reality.
So, of course, we know.
He wants our schools to be better.
He wants our queen to be better.
He wants our kingdom.
He wants horse racing gone out.
He wants gambling finished.
He wants this.
He wants that.
Well, all right.
Why doesn't he do it then?
He's had a long time to do it
if he really wanted to.
If his will was set to do it.
You've got to do that.
He has said that this old world of
ours is going to get worse and worse
and worse and worse.
That's what he said.
Yeah.
We're not going to pray that it gets
worse and worse and worse.
But in the midst of it, we've got
to know what he wants in these days.
And we've got to pray for these.
Oh, God, save all our doctors.
Well.
Oh, God, save all our nurses.
Oh, God, save all our politicians.
You see, well, all those things that are
being said to God, you'd have thought they
would all have been saved by now, wouldn't
you?
Do you know the great Finney, who became
the greatest preacher, probably, that America had?
He was an unsaved, godless man.
But he was religious.
He used to go down to the church,
you see.
And he was a lawyer.
He didn't care much about this, that and
the other.
And everybody knew he lived a worldly, godless
life, going to church.
And one day, one of the deacons in
the church said, Would you like us to
pray for you now, for our meeting?
He said, No, you've never done any good
yet.
No, you've never accomplished anything yet.
That's what Finney told them.
He saw things as bare as a pole.
There came a day when Finney got, he
really got born again.
Something happened to Finney.
And God moved in that man tremendously.
And he wrote a series of things called,
Lectures on Revivals of Religion.
He was a great authority of them, because
wherever he went, that's what happened.
And you'll read what he says about prayer.
I advise you to buy his book.
I advise you to do it.
It's better than reading about witchcraft to Christ,
or all these popular novels that we're getting.
You don't want to soak yourself up with
these kinds of things, beloved.
They're happening.
Get down to something that's real.
These are the sort of, you can't live
on waffles and things like that.
You've got to get down to meat.
Something that's solid.
Something that you've got to know.
Not that we don't praise God that something
gets delivered from black magic.
Of course we do.
But that's a sort of a bagatelle.
It sort of should be ordinary, happening all
the time.
That sort of thing should be.
Amen.
I've got nothing against anybody that's written, but
it's not bad.
But this concern to get down to reality.
How many of you have read, say, Charles
Finney's lectures on revivals of religion?
How many of you?
One, two, three, four, five.
You see it?
Six.
How many of you read From Witchcraft to
Christ, or From Something to Praise?
This sort of popular book.
There you are, you see.
Speaks for itself.
How many of you read the Bible through?
Praise God.
No prizes for it.
It's your duty.
You've done that which you ought to have
done.
Amen.
Oh, beloved.
Do mean it.
Will you mean it?
Listen.
I stayed recently in a home in London.
Now, I know after this, I mean, I've
attacked all your favorite authors, and all your
reading, but now I'm going to attack, I'm
going to really attack, at least you might
think it's an attack, on a long cherished
belief you have.
I said to the young man in that
home, I said, stop reading the Bible.
Stop reading it.
He said, if you tell me so, I
will.
Yeah.
Do you know why I told him?
He'd set himself to read it four times
this year, and he'd read it three times,
on top of all his other duties.
I said, now stop it.
Stop it.
He was tired.
He sat up into the night.
He did all sorts of things.
I said, now stop it.
He stopped it.
But don't you ever hunger like that to
get the word in, dear.
Have you ever known the like?
Glory be to God.
Oh, it's tremendous.
But, you see, beloved, we've got to get
to this place where we're really getting down
to it.
That you and I have got to ask
the Father in his name, and the Father
will give it to us.
That doesn't mean to say that you have
a long list of prayers and say, in
Jesus' name, Amen.
That doesn't.
That's not in his name.
That means it's the kind of prayer that
Jesus would pray about the thing or person
that you're concerned with.
That'll sort you out.
You say, well, how am I going to
know that?
Oh, you'll have to be baptised and filled
with the Spirit to know that.
You see.
You have to know that.
Not that everybody that's filled with the Spirit
does it.
Or has had an experience of the baptism
in the Spirit, does it.
But they're qualifying.
Hallelujah.
They're qualifying.
Amen.
Oh, when God realigns the pattern of your
living, and the pattern of your thinking, and
changes everything, and brings us into direct prayer
with God, eh?
Blessed be the name of the Lord.
He says, he says this, in verse 25,
These things have I spoken unto you in
Proverbs, or parables, but the time cometh when
I shall no more speak unto you in
Proverbs, but I will show you plainly of
the Father.
Now, we did that, he did that at
Calvary.
He showed them plainly of the Father.
The lengths to which Father would go to
deal with sin, and to have children.
He showed us plainly of the Father.
That's what he did.
But it's this bit next I want to
come to.
At that day, when you see the Father
plainly, now you've got to ask the Father
in his name.
You've got to see the Father plainly.
Do you?
I'm talking about heart vision now.
This is the basis for our prayer life.
At that day, when I have shown you
plainly of the Father, glory be to the
name of the Lord, when you see plainly
your birth in God, the Holy Ghost, and
when you see clearly that He is your
Father, and the understanding of this marvellous new
life you've got is clear to you, that's
the whole basis of it.
It isn't adopting a new method of prayer.
It's on personal heart vision of God.
It's on a true relationship with God that
prayer comes.
It doesn't come from reading a book about
prayer, though that may help you, and sort
of getting what we call the evangelical approach,
or the Pentecostal approach, or anything like that,
to the way you should pray, or the
things you should pray about.
It's you knowing your relationship with the Father.
Amen.
And the privileges that are yours as a
son.
Amen.
That's what you've got to see.
It isn't saying prayers.
It's seeing Father.
You see, it isn't saying words.
It's having Jesus' name.
This is what it lies in.
When that really comes deeply into the experience,
this is what he says, At that day
you shall ask in my name, and I
say not unto you that I will pray
the Father for you.
Listen to what he's saying.
He's saying to them, at that day, he's
really telling them he's not going to pray
for them.
My word.
That's right, isn't it?
It's almost surprising to read these words in
the Bible.
Hope you don't skip them over because they're
unpalatable, or your mind can't grapple with it.
I say not unto you that I will
pray the Father for you.
You say, well, all my hopes are based
on the fact that he's praying for me.
Well, you've got to read the Bible.
For the Father himself loveth you.
Oh, glorious.
Hallelujah.
He loves you.
Because you've loved me.
And have believed that I came out from
God.
Amen.
That's the basis of it.
He's as good as saying, when you really
get here, you don't really need me to
pray for you anymore.
He told them he would pray for them
a certain way.
You've got to go back to the 14th
chapter for this.
In the 14th chapter, he says this in
verse 15.
If you love me, keep my commandments, and
I will pray the Father.
And he will give you another comforter.
Amen.
Oh, this is tremendous, isn't it?
And that he may abide with you forever.
Even the Spirit of truth.
Oh, this is tremendous, isn't it?
You see, he said, I will pray for
you to receive the Holy Ghost.
That's what I will pray for you.
Oh, glory.
Ah, that's tremendous.
And you know, he says such great things.
Look in the 16th chapter.
And in the 16th chapter, he's still talking
about the Holy Ghost.
His heart's full of it.
He says, I tell you the truth, verse
7.
It's expedient for you that I go away.
So we say, oh Jesus, don't go.
We've only known you for three years.
Don't go.
We're only just beginning to get our eyes
open.
Don't go, Lord.
Who's going to love us if you go?
Who's going to lead us when you go?
That's what they were saying.
This kind of thing.
You see.
And he said, it's expedient for you that
I go away.
If I stay here, I'll block up the
plan.
It'll be bad for you if I stay
here.
Yeah, try it.
Fancy that.
Hallelujah.
Oh, this is great.
If I go not away, the Comforter won't
come to you.
But if I depart, I will send him
to you.
And when he's come, that is, come to
you, he will reprove the world of sin,
and of righteousness, and of judgment.
Sin, because they believe not on me.
Of righteousness, because I go to my Father,
and you see me no more.
Of judgment, because the Prince of this world
is judged.
I have many things to say unto you,
but you cannot bear them now.
Howbeit, listen now, when he, the Spirit of
Truth, is come, he will guide you into
all truth, for he shall not speak from
himself, you've got of, it's authorized, but it's
from.
He shall not speak from himself, but whatsoever
he shall hear, that shall he speak, and
he will show you things to come.
Now, there's the basis of your prayer life.
There's the basis of your prayer life.
I'm going to pray, if you want to
be a praying people, I'm going to pray
that you're going to receive the Holy Ghost.
When you receive the Holy Ghost, what he
hears, he'll tell you.
Here's the guide for your prayer life, not
sort of the accepted lists that people hand
out.
Here's the guide for your prayer life.
Oh, the Holy Ghost telling you.
That's for your own absolute certainty.
You can't go wrong, you see.
You're not on the grounds of certainty when
you've got all these other things functioning.
You see.
Your prime need, my brother and sister, is
to receive the Holy Ghost.
You cannot pray properly, even.
You cannot enter into this realm of being
a prince and having power with God, unless
the Blessed Spirit's come to you.
You don't know what to pray for.
You don't know.
Look here.
You'll agree with me that the Apostle Paul
knew what he was talking about.
I don't know whether you're a better prayer
than the Apostle Paul was.
Let's go into Romans chapter 8.
This is what it tells us here.
He says this.
We know in verse 22 that the whole
creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together unto
now.
Well, let's get praying for it then.
Come on.
Groaning, travailing in pain.
They're blowing one another to bits.
They're cutting one another's heads off.
They're fighting.
They're squabbling over tapes in America.
They're going through corruption in England in high
places.
Oh, everything.
The nations are torn apart.
What's going to happen?
Where's the healing?
Don't you care, you people?
This then is pseudo fleshly sympathy.
It doesn't understand.
It sounds so good and pious and it's
as wrong as wrong can be.
Here it is.
The whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain
together until now.
It would be a good thing if the
church all got together, wouldn't it?
And groaned and travailed together.
If the whole creation's travailing together.
Here it is.
And not only they, but ourselves also, which
had the firstfruits of the Spirit.
Amen.
What's that?
What's the firstfruits of the Spirit?
The nature of Jesus Christ in us now.
When I've got that, I can pray in
His name.
Not until.
I can't pray in Jesus' name properly until
the Spirit has come to me and brought
the firstfruits of my heavenly heritage into my
life and I have the nature of Jesus
Christ and then I can bear His name
and use it.
It's all simple.
And on we go.
It says this.
We ourselves groan within ourselves waiting for the
adoption to wit the redemption of our body
for we're saved by hope.
And so we go on.
Verse 26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our
infirmities for we know not what we should
pray for.
We're too infirm to know what we should
pray for.
We don't know what we should pray for
as we ought.
Too many people think they do.
The Holy Ghost has come to be the
heavenly teacher and He hasn't put into our
hands the traditions of the church.
He's put into our hearts or you should
have allowed Him to a whole new conceptual
approach to the troubles and ills of the
world.
A whole new attitude to these things.
Blessed be His name.
This is His faithfulness.
But you see the Spirit He comes we're
told in this verse and He makes intercession
for us with groanings which cannot be uttered
and He that searcheth the hearts knows what
is the mind of the Spirit because He
maketh intercession for the saints according to the
will of God.
That's right.
That's what He comes for.
And that's why you can always know you're
praying in the will of God and that's
how you know your prayers will always be
answered and that's how you know that the
promises are yea and amen.
Isn't it simple?
God's plan is very simple.
There's nothing in it really beloved but for
us to throw away the preconceived ideas and
start afresh.
Hallelujah.
And when we're brave enough to do that
and break with the traditions of a lifetime
in positions from a realm that we knew
nothing about when we came into the world
but we moved into a set that did
this or a family that behaved like that
we had no way of testing before we
came into the world whether this thing was
right or whether it wasn't.
Amen.
But once we're born again from above beloved
the blessed Holy Ghost comes to give us
a thorough I was going to say spring
clean move into everything regenerate, revitalize,
renew oh this is the great work of
the Spirit of God to bring us into
this real place that's what he's come for
whatsoever he shall hear that shall he speak
and if you'll listen you'll hear him and
if you'll attend to what he says he'll
keep speaking to you.
Hallelujah.
It's as simple as that.
This then is the life of communion and
then we can walk with the Lord and
then we can see our prayers being answered
what a marvellous and wonderful thing it is
then.
Let's go back to John and John is
talking to us so very very plainly I
like his plain speech he will show you
things to come well when you're seeing things
to come I mean you can pray about
them can't you?
I see this coming Hallelujah I can see
this coming you talking about visions?
No I'm not talking about visions I'm not
talking about you becoming a visionary I'm only
telling that you'll become a person with sight
you'll see you can see Hallelujah Yeah that's
the prayer life what a great world you're
going to enter into it's an amazing thing
I don't want to get all political and
this isn't a party political broadcast but couldn't
you see what was coming when the Labour
government got in about the unions going to
rule the country couldn't you foresee that?
well this is a special well you see
everybody is special they all feel that couldn't
you see that politically?
if not well well now now come right
out of that realm get rid of it
anyway come into the spiritual realm you can
see things are coming that's right that's marvellous
see you're coming into a new realm you're
in a new relationship and you're not wasting
your time running around chasing your tail Lord
oh it's a thrill when you get into
this it's a thrill when your prayers are
answered so many times in a day and
God does this and God does that and
miracles become bread and butter to you so
you never talk about it anymore they're just
the natural things of life that's it you're
in an entirely new realm Amen and you
don't have to read books that boost your
faith or anything like that you're there beloved
you're moving that's it it's the life glory
you must pray you must I didn't say
you must say your prayers you see people
that don't understand they sometimes think they're very
funny you're going off to church they say
say one for me you see they only
think about saying prayers they've been brought up
on books of them somebody at the front
says something that's not prayer prayer is my
life moving in God's life prayer is my
spirit moving in God's spirit that's what prayer
is prayer uses words but it can as
well get on without them for it doesn't
lie in the words but we are so
constituted as human beings having powers of speech
and don't we all know it that we
talk the way our spirit goes if not
we're humbugs and hypocrites hallelujah this
is the wonder and the reality of it
and God starts to move us he'll show
you things that can listen let's read this
13th verse of John 16 the spirit of
truth is come hallelujah and he's going to
guide me into all truth how about that
I'll have the truth of the matter all
the truth of the matter how about that
in principle it doesn't mean I'll have a
head stocked up with all the knowledge that's
ever been revealed unto man but you see
truth isn't in that realm truth lies in
spiritual reality that's where truth lies first and
fundamentally and I can have all that truth
glory be to God I get illuminated and
led out into understandings as I go on
with the spirit of God amen I can
cope with more I can take on more
my heart can be as it were just
open to the Lord so the spirit of
God can take it up and take up
my whole self and engage it on this
and then engage it on another and the
great flowing river of God is moving through
me that's what God wants oh
hallelujah the thrill of it he'll guide you
into all truth he'll not speak from himself
whatsoever he shall hear that shall he speak
and he will show you things to come
it's marvellous if father says to Jesus it's
about time that north down there God on
the Holy Ghost will tell me what he
hears he tells me he's in on the
council chambers of heaven and if Jesus said
to the father see that woman I won't
point at you sister that woman she needs
to get out of her silly ways I
mean he loves you so the Holy Ghost
hears that all the nonsense that's what it's
all about that fellow wants to stop the
way he's behaving that girl wants to dress
properly alright the Holy Ghost will tell you
if you listen to him you're alright shut
your ears and you're out of usefulness all
depends on obedience and you see it's so
lovely so simple I think God's plan is
marvellous you can't compliment God but we have
to worship him it couldn't be bettered and
here then it says verse 14 he shall
glorify me for listen he shall receive of
mine and show it to you what blessed
be the name of the Lord he'll receive
if Jesus is he'll show you if Jesus
says now that situation's mine you show it
to him and you pray you say I'm
going to get out a list of the
things I'm going to pray for he'll show
it to you there that's mine that woman
there's mine oh she may be steeped in
the world and saturated in rottenness mine mine
see this is the way it goes and
it's lovely it's so simple it's so real
and it works that's the main thing works
if you've got a prayer life that don't
work get rid of it get rid of
it not that sometimes he doesn't delay as
we pointed out if he delays it's in
order to do a bigger miracle than you
know and that's wonderful amen sometimes I've had
to get hold of women and they're very
concerned about their husbands here's my husband he
doesn't seem to see he's dead I don't
understand I pray for him and I generally
say to her now look you take your
hands off your husband best way to drive
him away take your hands off him you
see this is quite intensive womanly concern this
broody thing like a hen over everything get
off him get off him leave him to
God that's right praise God they don't trust
God they trust that they keep on nagging
at their husband keep giving him hints as
though he's blind in the back and can't
see anything leave him alone leave her alone
too that's right that's not prayer it's just
this clawing human spirit makes you shudder it's
unclean sucks into itself calls it prayer
leave him alone that's right my mother used
to say something like it's a worldly saying
but not all the sayings of the world
are wrong she didn't say it in a
worldly sense but she used to talk about
if I give him enough rope he'll hang
himself that's right this is the way when
God moves sounds as though you've had some
of that treatment hallelujah that's the way praise
God there are other times when God will
bring you in to prevent something you don't
know the way of the spirit we don't
know what we should pray for as we
ought we don't oh to be free and
responsive to the spirit hallelujah oh to come
off that coffin you call a prayer list
amen free to the spirit it's alright you
can trust it you're thinking about it I
shall forget now you're in your mind you've
got to get in the spirit dare you
make the great transition dare you cross this
great gulf amen you don't know say you
don't know and be honest come and talk
God's language it's because you think you know
you say I'm hammering at the gates of
course you're not hammering at the gates they're
open hammering at the very gates of heaven
of course you're not not a nonsense sentimentalism
read the book of the reveler know the
truth tie yourself up in cliches and things
like that hallelujah be free and know what
you're doing move in and there are times
when just one word of prayer will do
more than the 50,000 words you've poured
out about it for the last 10 years
and called it importunity now I'm not saying
you haven't got to be importunate you have
of course you've got to be importunate but
importunity importunity is the spirit that makes opportunity
when there is none importunity importunity is
a spiritual thing not a thing of repetitious
words remember that everything in this great gospel
is in the spirit words are only necessary
as they come along this line amen with
the spirit amen and here then is the
great secret and importunity is the spirit now
listen that refuses to take no for an
answer that's the spirit and I tell you
why it refuses to take no for an
answer because it knows it's right with God
and all the promises are yes and amen
it's all simple there's nothing complicated about this
life you see but it's oh pray about
this oh pray about this pray about this
well you've heard that everything should be born
in prayer sustained in prayer that's right but
it's got to be prayer prayer prayer
hallelujah woke up in the night last night
ok as soon as I woke up pray
for so and so I won't tell you
what it was man phoned me up rang
big big serious trouble could be national international
see will you pray for this so I
woke up in the night about three o
'clock it must have been something like that
straight on Lord so and so so and
so we're not asleep again I'm going to
ask you a question here's the question which
is the greater the life of prayer or
the prayer life which is the greater the
prayer life the prayer life that's the life
that prays that's right that's the greater the
prayer life is greater than the life of
prayer amen do you know Jesus' life is
a prayer life isn't it he ever lived
to make intercession for me hallelujah isn't that
a marvelous thing marvelous and that's a spiritual
thing and he's maintaining the relationship between my
self and my father so that I can
come in and say father you see I
mean there are certain it's strange sometimes I
move amongst people they say Jesus pray for
me and they go through a whole list
of names somebody pray for me somebody pray
for me you see but that is not
prayer it's not prayer prayer is a living
vital glorious oneness with God that reaches out
and takes what belongs to it asking and
receiving and seeing God do the miracles oh
I say I haven't finished I think I'd
better stop do you pray nevertheless
I want to say this this then is
the prayer life for the children of God
and those who would go on with God
in this great way if you're a beginner
and you hardly know where to begin start
by crying out in your own hearts name
start there the earliest word used in the
scripture about prayer is the word a cry
just a cry that's the basic thing when
the whole inside of you what I mean
by that that is the spiritual man you
may not have thought of yourself like that
just cries out cries out and God hears
that God hears that that's not the prayer
life of course that I've been talking about
but that's the way it will start Lord
Lord he'll come he'll move on you he'll
move in you he'll do tremendous things and
if the spirit makes groans which cannot be
uttered in me he won't go to sleep
when I go to sleep tonight he won't
go to sleep hallelujah but you see the
life develops as it moves with the spirit
so sometimes he'll wake you up so you
can consciously pray because your life will develop
that way quicker than you do you know
why he's anxious to develop your life because
as your life develops you'll become a better
prayer you move more greatly and completely in
this realm amen until your life is one
great prayer to God amen God is able
to lay upon you the cares of the
world the needs of men the things that
must be answered and you won't be crushed
you'll be able to go on and the
joy of the Lord will be in you
and the glory of the Lord beloved will
just fill you more and more and more
and more amen I think it's time I
stopped