Don’t have the Strength to Pray? | John Giftah | Christian Sermon

0:01 Do you ever look around and think, Wow, the world is a crazy

0:06 place and it just seems to get crazier and crazier. Ease your mind and

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0:40 International. Welcome to Fuel for the Soul with John GIFTA. How to pray

0:58 when you don't have this drink to pray and that is when you realize that

1:02 prayer is not a ritual. That is when you realize that God is not

1:07 a mad God. God is not an angry figure. God is not a

1:11 person who's filled with rule bugs and saying I will answer your prayers, or

1:17 I will meet your niece, or I will do this or do that in

1:21 your life, or bless you or protect you or watch over you or whatever.

1:25 Only if you pray buy my formila. That's when you realize that God

1:30 is your dad. That's when you realize that you know it's all about the

1:36 heart connector between you and your creator. When you understand that God is your

1:42 dad, you are opened before him. When you understand God is your dad,

1:47 you talk to him. And if you can't talk, what you do

1:53 pour out. The other day, I was feeling so overwhelmed about something and

2:05 I just started crying. And I I mean like it was just at home

2:12 and and I was like, what is it? I want to help you,

2:15 tell me what is it? And I just couldn't tell him. I

2:19 was just oh, and then I started crying. He was not like,

2:23 you're stupid for crying. No, you know what I'm trying to tell you

2:28 is if you're if you can just cry out to an earthly dad, cry

2:35 out to your heavenly dad. Just cry you want to cry. Cry.

2:40 That's what I shared even in one of my recent segments also about how we

2:46 see in First Samuel, Hannah was not just praying. The Bible says that

2:50 she cried. When you look at even Your Second King, chapter twenty,

2:53 when Zekaiah got the word that he was about to die, the Bible says,

2:58 he prayed and he vet he wept bitterly. I'm telling you something.

3:02 To your saints of God. You want to cry, cry, but people

3:07 are like, I need to be strong. No, just because you cry

3:13 doesn't mean that you're not strong in your faith. Just because you're trained to

3:17 be a soldier doesn't mean you'll never get tired. There will be battle fatigues,

3:23 there will be moments when you grow weary. There will be moments when

3:27 you're tired and exhausted. What do you do during such times? I want

3:31 to tell you something that I do, and that's from the scripture. And

3:37 you look at Exodus chapter two, verse twenty four, and then come to

3:45 the next verse. It says God heard they're groaning, and he remembered his

3:52 covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob. God heard they're groaning.

4:01 Now I want to say this again. When you look at Exodus chapter six,

4:05 verse five, my God is giving this word. I've heard they're groaning.

4:13 I heard the groaning of the Israelites whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and

4:18 I have remembered my covenant. And when you have to remember something, they

4:30 didn't have the strength to pray, but you realize that they've grown moved God's

4:35 thrown. You're grown, will move God's thrown. You don't have strength to

4:42 pray, just grown. That's a prayer in itself. I know some of

4:51 us are in a place where you're like, oh, come on, you

4:54 know, I don't understand that. That's what the Bible says. That girl,

5:00 God hurt. They're grown and he came here because he wanted to rescue

5:04 them. Don't have strength to pray, just grown, just grown. And

5:11 I'm telling you, the Saints of God, that's the beauty of a god.

5:14 He's not expecting you to go by a rule book. He's not expecting

5:17 you to follow all the formila. He's expecting you to just be yourself before

5:23 him. If you feel like crying, cry, you feel like groaning.

5:27 Grown And I'm telling you, when you're just grown, you're releasing that and

5:34 you will see the sigh of relief. You know why, because that's a

5:39 prayer in itself. There's the difference. Simply crying is not going to solve

5:44 right Like you cry to the Lord, say you're just grown to the Lord,

5:50 and I'm telling you you will see that strength. You will see because

5:58 when you pray, God will and God will strengthen you. God will help

6:02 you. God will show up in your life. You will see an output

6:06 when you pray, and that prayer includes when you pray a grown male.

6:16 Today. My challenge is when you don't have strength, don't pressure yourself to

6:24 just put words. Don't get into more mental blocks because of that. If

6:31 you can growan remember just grown into the lawyer, just grown. I want

6:42 you to do that as I'm telling you, because you see you're releasing and

6:45 you're just praying to the lawyer. And when you're grown, you're moving God's

6:51 throne and your life will never be the same. For right now, God,

6:58 I pray that this word will go forth in strengthen those who are weak.

7:01 They don't have strength to pray God, they don't have strength. When

7:05 they don't have strength to a Lord, I pray that you will show forth

7:09 and you will hear their grown. Like you heard the groan of the Israelites

7:15 in the book of Exodus, you will hear the groan of your people.

7:18 You will come out those are crying and weeping. I pray that you will

7:24 turn the sorrow into joy, that they will see the God who answers prayers.

7:32 That the prayers will fail much because they are the righteousness of God in

7:39 Christ. In Jesus name, I pray Amen. You've been listening to Fuel

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8:56 with that. Now, do you know where you're going? And this is

8:58 not a message condemnation. This is a message of hope. There is a

9:03 God who loves you so much he sent his only son, Jesus Christ to

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9:35 I thank you for what you did on the cross. Thank you for

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