LUKE 11:1
And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a
certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said
unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught
his disciples.
FEAST.OF.THE.TRUMPETS
64-0719M 1-1 Lord, on one occasion it was said by
Thy beloved disciples, "Teach us to pray." For when we
catch sight of the great God of heaven, we do realize
how insufficient we are. So teach us to pray, Lord, in
our hearts now, for the things that would be beneficiary
to Thy Kingdom and for Thy servants. Thou knowest the
need of every person here. And here on the desk this
morning is handkerchiefs, and aprons, and just little
parcels from the needy of physical aid, and domestic,
and whatever it might be. But Thou art God and God
alone, the only true God that there is; and we ask Thee
in the Name of Jesus, Thy beloved Son, that You will
heal each of these. …There may be some out across the
nations around the world that (even this tape) would
meet in their homes or their churches. We would pray,
Lord, that while the service is going on that or the
tape is being played, or whatever position we might be
in, or condition, may the great God of heaven honor this
sincerity of our hearts this morning, and heal the
needy, give to them what they have need of. Bless us now
in the coming on service. Speak through us like never
before for the Kingdom of God's sake. Amen.
Here’s how NOT to pray:
MATTHEW 6:5
And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the
hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the
synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they
may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have
their reward. 6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into
thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to
thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which
seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.7 But when ye
pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen [do]: for
they think that they shall be heard for their much
speaking. 8 Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your
Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye
ask him.
Some things require more
earnest prayer:
CHOOSING.OF.A.BRIDE 65-0429E
8-6 And if we would study what we were doing when we
were going to get married, when we choose our wife or
husband... A man should pray earnestly, for he could
ruin his entire life. Remember the vow is "Until death
do we part." And he could ruin his life by making the
wrong choice. But if he knows what he's making the wrong
choice and is marrying a woman that isn't fit to be his
wife, and he does it anyhow, then it's his fault. If the
woman takes a husband and knows that he's not fit to be
a husband to you, then that's your own fault after you
know what's right and wrong. So you shouldn't do it
until you thoroughly pray through.
It’s good to be alone:
MATTHEW 14:22
And straightway Jesus constrained his disciples to get
into a ship, and to go before him unto the other side,
while he sent the multitudes away. 23 And when he had
sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain
apart to pray: and when the evening was come, he was
there alone.
BLIND.BARTIMAEUS 57-0301 E-9
You know there's something about getting alone to
yourself. Many people never pray until they come to
church. Many people thinks that the only place to pray
is at church, but the Bible said for men to pray
everywhere, lifting up holy hands. And then when we get
by ourself, we'll usually pray different than what we
would if we pray it in church. It's the secret prayer
that Jesus spoke of, saying, "Enter ye into a secret
closet, and close the door, and when you have did so,
pray to your Father Who sees in secret; and He that
seeth in secret shall reward thee openly." And when
we're praying like that, there seems to be something to
the prayer that takes all the hypocrisy out of it. It
seems like that we get in a better connection with God,
to get alone. And there's been many times in my life, as
perhaps in your life, that you just have to get alone
once in a while with Jesus. I've took my car and drove
down the road and just studying. After I got to the
highway where it was free, or off on some country road,
till I would become so filled with His mercies and
goodness, till I'd just stopped the car and held the
wheel and wept like a baby.
E-10 That being alone... Many
times I've climbed up into the mountains. Where every
man thought (was with me), I was going hunting. Go up
there, and set down on a rock, and just look up to the
sky until looked like that my whole innermost being
become filled with something that you could just feel...
Oh, everything of the world seemed to pass away. Oh, for
those precious hours alone with God.
And it's there that when the
greatest revelation and inspiration comes, is when we're
alone with God. We'd take more time on that, I'm sure,
that we would live a better life, more victorious life
in Christ.
What happens when Believers
pray:
ACTS 12:1-19
Now about that time Herod the king
stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church.
TESTIMONY.OF.JESUS.CHRIST
53-0829 E-70 ... It's just like Christians, when
we pray, that gathers up a barricade like. When
you're praying and believing me... Jesus could do no
mighty works in His own town because the people didn't
believe. And the only way I can help you, or Brother
Osborn, or anybody, is when you have faith in us, as
ministers of the Word of God. You've got to believe us.
And when them demons... They're calling for one another,
like that. And they scream and pull. Pray out there and
find out if it's not right.
The opposite effect in the
atmosphere of unbelief:
MARK 8:23
And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out
of the town; and when he had spit on his eyes, and put
his hands upon him, he asked him if he saw ought.
MATTHEW 11:20
Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his
mighty works were done, because they repented not: 21
Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for
if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been
done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long
ago in sackcloth and ashes. 22 But I say unto you, It
shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of
judgment, than for you 23 And thou, Capernaum, which art
exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell: for
if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had
been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this
day. 24 But I say unto you, That it shall be more
tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment,
than for thee.
RESTORATION.OF.BRIDE.TREE
62-0422 17-2 And if Satan has robbed you… If he's
afflicted you and made you sick, we have a right before
God to enforce the laws of God: "By His stripes we are
healed." Amen. Bring him back; turn him loose. You're
taking him out yonder to death, and we claim him. Bring
him back." Now, that's the enforcement. Restore it back
to its natural condition again. A man's sick, baby's
sick, woman's sick; they're out of their natural
condition. Then we have a right to enforce our claim:
not our claim it's our claim because God give it to us:
"By His stripes we were healed; He was wounded for our
transgressions; with His stripes we were healed."
Now, we have a right to enforce that law. And the
Lawgiver, the Holy Spirit Himself is here, the Agent of
God to see that it's done that way.
Now, the only way He can work is
when you let Him work. You've got to believe it.
17-7 There's a law... given
amongst everything. You know, a fish has a law. And that
fish can stand up here in water, and he has a law within
him. If he will just let go of that law that's in him,
he can sink plumb to the bottom of the sea: won't bother
him a bit; won't break one cell. You try to do it. That
law's not in you. You can't do it, but the fish can.
…And he's made that way; he knows it, and he can enforce
that law to take him plumb to the bottom of the sea and
then raise him back up again.
18-1 Oh, there was a law in
Christ; that law's in man. You can bury him to the
deepest grave, or the deepest sea, or the lowest hell;
there's a law of the Spirit of God, that'll raise him up
again.
18-3 Now, we have a law, the
law of the Life in us. ...You're made, and borned, and
placed here in the Body of Christ as sons and daughters
of God. You don't have to "knuck" down to the devil.
We've got a law; that's the law of the Holy Spirit.
The only thing you have to do, is know how to let go and
let God. You keep fighting at it (See?), and it won't
never work. When you let go and let God, that's all...
Forces Against Prayer:
According to the Bible, the
kingdoms of this world are under the dominion of Satan,
except Israel!
An antichrist system formed in
the earth, able to gather power but not to fully
exercise it until this Scripture be fulfilled and the
Bride is extracted from the earth.
II Thes.2:7
For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he
who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the
way. 8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the
Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and
shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
Until that time every demon
power is set against the forming of Christ in you! To
keep you from becoming an overcomer, a zealous,
righteous man or woman of God.
200 million demons let out, so
we can’t pray like we used to. (Sunny day, cloudy day,
still sun!)
Bride will be driven to her
knees in desperation in the same way Israel was driven
to Palestine.
We’re enjoying a season of
maturing, ripening, until the final entrance to
tribulation.
FEAST.OF.THE.TRUMPETS
64-0719M 23-1 23-2 And when Hitler and them
persecuted the Jews, and did the things that they done
under that... Jews has scattered throughout all the
land, but there has raised in the last twenty years a
bitter persecution against the Jews. I've been out there
at the old places, where they burnt their bodies, and
cremated, and used their ashes to fertilize the ground,
Jewish children, and women, and everything. Then they
try to deny it. Take them right out and show them where
it was done. It's been a regular persecution against
Israel, because it's been the time calling him now back
to the Atonement; he is still under the atonement of a
natural lamb. The Real Lamb of God is the Atonement, and
he's rejected It, and the blood's been upon him ever
since.
23-4 Notice, making ready the
people. How perfect then the Seventh Trumpet and the
Seventh Seal is.
(Revelations 9:13)
And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from
the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet,
Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river
Euphrates. 15 And the four angels were loosed, which
were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a
year, for to slay the third part of men. 16 And the
number of the army of the horsemen [were] two hundred
thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them17 And
thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat
on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth,
and brimstone: and the heads of the horses [were] as the
heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and
smoke and brimstone.18 By these three was the third part
of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the
brimstone, which issued out of their mouths19 For their
power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their
tails [were] like unto serpents, and had heads, and with
them they do hurt.20 And the rest of the men which were
not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the
works of their hands, that they should not worship
devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and
stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor
walk: 21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of
their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their
thefts.
…there was two hundred thousand
horsemen that had been bound in the river of Euphrates
was turned loose under the Sixth Trumpet. Now, there's
not two hundred thousand horsemen in the world, but
there was two hundred thousand horsemen… They wasn't
natural horses. …It was spiritual horses, spiritual
devils, chargers, that had been bound in Euphrates all
these years, supernatural devils. What was it? The old
Roman Empire being revived, the persecution of the Jews.
And they'd been bound for nearly two thousand years at
the river Euphrates, can't cross to the promise, a
religious sect that was trying to get to the other side.
Euphrates, you know, come through Eden. But they were
bound there, two hundred thousand devils of persecution.
24-1 And notice what happens
under that Sixth Trumpet. They were turned loose on the
Jews, the persecution of the Jews. Supernatural devils,
nearly two thousand years, then loosed by Stalin,
Hitler, upon the Jews. You say, "Well, that isn't
Roman." It's the same spirit that done the same things
it did to the Christians in the old pagan Roman days
(Now, watch the natural Israel and the spiritual Church
now, as we separate it here.) turned loose on the Jews.
You remember, under the Sixth Seal how every one of
those martyrs are calling--according to the Word of God
receive robes? It was given to them by the grace,
because they're blinded that they can't see the Gospel,
that this people might be called out of the Gentiles for
the Bride. They were given robes; the Bible said so
under that trumpet, them Jews, who absolutely is against
Christ and everything. The reason they are, is because
the Bible said they're blinded; and they were blinded
for your sake. And the just God knows that they would
receive It, but they were made blind for your sake. The
Bible said so.
24-4 …loosed upon the Jew, who
knowed nothing of the spirit. There's your mysteries
that's hid under that seal there.
26-2 Now, he loosed... Under
that Sixth Seal, these two hundred thousand spiritual
demons, started in Rome, Germany--Hitler. Notice, over
in the Bible where they received--never--they received
power as kings, but wasn't crowned. A dictator's not a
crowned king, just receive power as a king.
26-4 Notice, two hundred
thousand demons turned loose upon those Jews, when they
burned them, they crucified them; they put bubbles in
their veins; they killed them till they had no more gas
to kill them with; and they shot them till they had no
more bullets to shoot with; and they--and they done
everything they could do. They cremated their bodies and
everything, and hung them on fences, children and all,
innocent people. Because they were Jews, they were
done that way. But God said He give each one of them
a robe, undeserving as they was, but His grace to blind
them so that we could see...
26-8 Notice, that natural power
under the natural, to a natural nation, Israel, was
loosed there. And what did it? It went and made war, and
how it murdered and persecuted. Now in the
ecclesiastical realm of it... I hope that God opens your
eyes to this now…
27-2 Well, what has it done? In
the cunningness, as He said, he'd come in like
flatteries. And what has he done? He's bringing the
Protestant ecumenical council of the world churches, the
spirit of antichrist, upon both of them, bringing them
to the slaughter, just like they did the other in a hour
to call the Bride. How? Loosed in the ecclesiastical
church, spirit. Loosed upon what? Not upon the
denominations, upon the Bride. But here you'd get it;
the Bride will not go through that time. The Bible says
not. The church will, but not the Bride.
28-2 Notice, the loosing of
this ecclesiastical spirit. Now, twenty years later
after that war, we see the loosing of the ecclesiastical
spirit, what under? …What is it? Joining in with the
ecclesiastical bunch. The ecumenical move, and with the
World Council of Churches has drove every man... What
does that thing stand for? Why, you have to surrender
all your evangelical teachings and things.
28-5 Notice, quickly now, these
supernatural demons. Then under the auspices of a United
Nations... Just like the right and left foot of the
image that Daniel saw... Oh, my, the hour that we're
living, the church and it's condition. But thank God,
the little Bride has made Herself ready. It ain't long,
just hold on. I don't know how long, don't know when
(nobody knows that), but we know it's close now.
29-5 The hour that we're
living, the ecclesiasticals, the spirits uniting
together now and bringing them all to this big one
slaughter to blot out; it's already in writing here in
this nation now. …And a power, a ecclesiastical power,
Jesus said it'd be so close like the real thing, it'd
deceive the very elected, if it was possible. But He
promised to have something here for us in that day, that
we wouldn't be deceived, and that's the Word, and Christ
to make It manifest to us. They're supernaturals devils
unseen to the eye, but you can see what they're doing.
30-1 They've been bound for two
thousand years almost, almost two thousand years. Not
exactly two thousand, 'cause the Romans kept on going
(that Titus in A.D. 96, and on down like that) to kill
the Jews, the Romans. Who was it killed the Jews? Who
was Titus? A Roman general.
ANGEL.OF.THE.LORD 51-0718
E-16 And when you see these crowds gathering,
that doesn't mean revival; that's just a gathering. But
a revival is when people get really right with God, and
pray through, and starts a revival throughout the city,
and everything. They put away sin, put away their
iniquity, turn to God, turn around and start back again,
the road. …Now, concerning the operation of the
spiritual gift, Brother Baxter will teach you in his
afternoon meetings and so forth, what is germ diseases,
how they're demons, and how they hold people, and
possess people.
GOD.IS.HIS.OWN.INTERPRETER
64-0205 119 …You never tell a Pentecost that
sanctification's all of it; he's seen the restoration of
the gifts… No, he's got more than that. And that's the
last church age that we had, and the Bible says there'll
be no more church ages. But there's to be a gathering
of the people and here we are. Now, remember, the
last sign. Are we people looking for a promised Son?
Raise up your hand. Do you believe you are the seed of
Abraham by being in Christ? Raise up your hand. Then,
seed of Abraham, receive your sign. It isn't out in
Babylon; it isn't out there in denominational world.
It's here among you, those who are not in that mess out
there. Believe it.