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0:01got this done this this afternoon at the
0:03house which is very odd for me but it
0:06just got feeling the
0:09inspiration and
0:12uh uh I'm trying to get us in shape to
0:15have
0:19Revival I think I I can't say for sure
0:22but I think brother Bryant may be here
0:25the
0:2715th think I'm thinking I'm thinking
0:31I want to say that tentatively in case
0:33something wants to happen but that's
0:35kind of that's kind of what it's look
0:37looking like but but I don't know if
0:40y'all ready to have it yes sir so I'm
0:43going to try to get y'all in
0:45shape praise God I tell some of you
0:48really need
0:52it praise the Lord Brother Andy you're
0:54doing good Hallelujah good good to see
0:56you hallelujah amen God's a good God
1:02man I worked on Brian uh Sunday I tried
1:05to beat the Daylights out of him I I I
1:08told I told Anthony and need' to come
1:10early he'd been going so long
1:13I had to work these folks over praise
1:16God
1:17Amen and uh and lord Jimmy he's been
1:22gone and we have a lot these folk been
1:25gone and
1:27uh and boy I know they need it
1:31amen but I'm glad they've made it back
1:34home praise
1:38God I'm going to read three scriptures
1:41tonight and then I'm going to go into
1:43our Bible
1:50[Music]
1:52class verse 1 Peter
1:573 and verse 12
2:01the eyes of the Lord are over the
2:05righteous and his ears are open under
2:08their
2:09prayers but the face of the
2:13Lord is against them that do
2:18evil I think a lot of time we really
2:20look the first part of that
2:22verse and then we kind of shout through
2:26the last
2:27part but the last part is inspired just
2:30like the first
2:33part Psalm
2:3734 Psalm
2:4334
2:48and verses 10 through
2:5312 no I wrote something down wrong
3:05okay Psalms verse 15
3:1034:15 the eyes of the Lord are upon the
3:12righteous his ears are open unto their
3:16cry the face of the Lords against them
3:19that do
3:20evil to cut off the remembrance of them
3:23from the
3:24earth one of y'all boys cut this off
3:28here I Isaiah
3:3159 1 and
3:332 Isaiah 59 1 and2 behold the Lord's
3:38hand is not shortened that he cannot
3:41say neither is his ear heavy that he
3:44cannot
3:46hear but your iniquities are separated
3:49between you and your
3:51God and your sins have hid his face from
3:56you that he will not
4:00here I I want to teach
4:03tonight if the Lord help me how many
4:06won't you get your prayers
4:08answered and you praying if you can't
4:10get them
4:12answered I want to talk tonight on the
4:16four most common hindrances to
4:22prayer the four most common
4:26hindrances to prayer well will you pray
4:29pray with me eternal God we're so
4:31thankful for your goodness and your
4:33kindness and your love touch us tonight
4:37God help me Lord to be a blessing to
4:40somebody in this house tonight speak to
4:44our hearts and our
4:46mind Lord you do it and I give your name
4:50the glory for it Jesus name amen
4:56amen the four
4:59most common hindrances to prayer
5:07now I don't claim that I got this by
5:10Revelation or by
5:12inspiration and I promise you I didn't
5:15get it off preach
5:18it.com I ain't never preached y'all
5:20anything I got to off preach
5:23it.com
5:24amen I'd be a poor excuse I've heard
5:30messages that's inspired me I've got
5:33thoughts from them I've read things and
5:36got thoughts from them brother gross
5:39writes a lot of literature I've got
5:42Thoughts From Him brother B does a lot
5:44of writing I've got thoughts from him
5:48but I I ain't
5:49never copied
5:52somebody's deal and tried to give that
5:54off to you as a word from the Lord
6:00but really I I didn't get this by
6:02inspiration this this Bible class that
6:04I'm teaching to you
6:06tonight it comes out of
6:10experience been preaching 50
6:13years and pastoring for most of those at
6:17least nearly 40 of those years probably
6:20I've been
6:21pastoring and I've dealt with a lot of
6:24folks and people and situations and uh
6:29and I promise you you ask me to pray
6:32about something I pray about
6:35it I give you my word if you you ask me
6:39said you pray about so and so I I do I I
6:43I I take that to heart I pray about it I
6:47I do I I I really do all the time I
6:50don't pray for it to take place I
6:53sometimes I pray that the will of the
6:55Lord be done but I promise you I pray
7:00I've had folks pray asked me to pray I
7:02had had situation asked me to pray about
7:05uh Financial
7:07situations brother he I really need this
7:10financial situation take place in my
7:12life or job situation I really want you
7:15to pray and and anybody's ever asked me
7:18I I've
7:19prayed there have been times when I was
7:21down
7:23praying and I'm again I'm not blaming
7:26this on the Lord but I I was down
7:28praying and I was really seeking the
7:30Lord God you bless brother so and so you
7:33you you you bless his finances and and
7:38and you help him through that and uh I
7:42get
7:44a i me my mind goes
7:47working and I go thinking and said you
7:51know Lord I really want you to bless him
7:55but then it comes back in my mind you
7:57know
8:00he wants
8:03blessed but he ain't faithful on paying
8:05his
8:11TI my prayers won't override that right
8:16so I change my prayers and I say Lord
8:18you you touch his heart well he'll get
8:21that right with you you know because
8:23because uh he's with not only is he
8:26withholding blessings in this life
8:30he going to keep him out of the world to
8:31come that's right and I said God you
8:34don't and and but I
8:36pray I pray I prayed but I really don't
8:39think it's really going to help a whole
8:42lot but I I don't pray in a lot of faith
8:44and I I just pray in
8:46Hope but I want to talk about the four
8:48most common hindrances to prayer Brother
8:52Andy will pick
8:54up Psalms
8:5766 17 through
9:0120 brother cotton to pick up James 5
9:0814-6 we'll start there
9:10brother Dallas 1 Peter 3
9:15and7
9:16brother uh Adam Mark 522 through 26
9:22they'll probably a lot more me meat get
9:24on these bones as we go but how many
9:28want your prayers answer
9:31Bo I I want that I want the Lord you
9:36know I don't want to be uh go through a
9:40a ritual or routine and then and and
9:43then the Lord not going to Lord not
9:45going to do
9:46it sister tried years ago you
9:50know we can't help but go back in her
9:53past cuz that's just how we
9:55are but I can remember day among
9:58Pentecostal people people when when when
10:01when when you got praying or somebody
10:04got real sick or talk brother Avery
10:06about he called me before service and
10:09what you going to teach on tonight I I
10:12told him and he said let me write that
10:14down amen and uh I said you know brother
10:18Avery I can remember back when your mom
10:20and dad was young and we all kind of all
10:23got the Holy Ghost together about the
10:26same time brother Smith and sister Smith
10:29can testify about this in in our part of
10:32the country where we were reared at you
10:35know when folks really needed to get a
10:38hold of
10:39God and maybe a a death nearly a death
10:44situation or serious ailment or maybe a
10:49child was really
10:51sick you know
10:54what folks really went searching their
10:58hearts that's the truth I mean it wasn't
11:01just trying to have faith over the top
11:04of what they was doing but they really
11:06got you know is there
11:10anything is there anything that's
11:12keeping me from from this getting
11:15through espe espe if it's a life and
11:18death
11:19situation is there or or or or an
11:22illness of some kind is there is there
11:24anything Lord or Lord just just and
11:29folks kind of went searching and looking
11:32and praying and God show me Lord when I
11:37thought Brother Paul's testimony when's
11:39the last time that you got down and
11:41prayed said God I want you to look at me
11:45and show me
11:46anything that's not pleasing to
11:49you I mean look at look look me over God
11:53I mean search me
11:55Father you know you you you know uh uh
11:59uh uh we got all these uh folks got all
12:02these little sayings you know if
12:04anybody's on social media folks put all
12:07these little quotes on there and they
12:09all they all sound so good you know
12:11they're they're great you know but I'm
12:13going to tell you what God's promises
12:15are not for
12:17everybody well praise the
12:20Lord the majority of the promises in
12:23your Bible are
12:25conditional and if you don't meet the
12:28condition then God don't God's not
12:29obligated to meet his God don't have to
12:33hear
12:36you when you're
12:38sinning now I know somebody probably
12:40sitting back there well Uncle Zeke dip
12:45snuff and was making moonshine and
12:48prayed and God hurt him well it may have
12:51not been Uncle Zeke it may have been
12:53ain't Molly's
12:54prayer instead of Uncle zek praise the
12:57Lord but if if God did hear Uncle Zeke
13:01well that would be that wouldn't be the
13:04rule that would be the exception of the
13:07rule well can you say Amen all right
13:11where you at Brother Andy 6617 Psalm
13:1566 yeah 17 through 20 go ahead I Cried
13:20unto him with my mouth Yes and he was
13:23extol with my tongue yes if I regard
13:26iniquity in my heart if i I regard
13:30iniquity in my heart the Lord will not
13:33hear me the Lord will not hear me let me
13:37let
13:38me the word regard means to
13:43uh
13:46respect it means to
13:49view it means to look
13:52after it means to enjoy in other words
13:56iniquity has a reserve seat in your
14:01heart you may not be doing
14:06it but you made space for
14:09it well praise
14:14God David said if I've got a place
14:17reserved in my heart for
14:20iniquity if there's something in my
14:23heart that's
14:25fascinated with iniquity right
14:29if there's something in my heart that is
14:32beholding to
14:37iniquity the Lord will
14:41not hear
14:42me you know you got to go look at at
14:45your heart old Drew's got to look at his
14:47heart and
14:49said do do I have any room there have I
14:53got any is there a room somebody's got a
14:57room that's got it kind of locked off
14:59off you
15:00know
15:02and you can hide from
15:06me but you can't hide from
15:10God now listen I'm going to tell you
15:12right now I'm not the Lord's private eye
15:16I'm not going to be trying to catch
15:19you if I catch you it'll be by
15:23accident go praise the
15:26Lord I'm the Watchman on the wall I
15:28don't make me a private
15:30eye you know I'm not going to be I'm not
15:33an
15:35attorney we're in a room and I have if
15:38it comes to a deal and I have to
15:39question you you can lie to my face I'm
15:42not going to try to catch you in a lie
15:45I'm not Perry
15:46Mason I'm not flee
15:49Bailey no praise I'm not Johnny Cochran
15:53I'm not trying to catch you no no no no
15:56that that ain't that ain't my job
15:59well praise
16:00God
16:03because everything we're naked and open
16:06with him with whom we have to do I mean
16:10there's nothing you ain't got nothing
16:12secret with God that's right he knows
16:15what you're looking at he knows what
16:18you're listening
16:19to he knows everything about
16:23you praise God
16:27nothing I mean you can go down middle MD
16:29downtown Chicago where don't don't won
16:30don't nobody know
16:32you and do what you want to do and
16:35nobody ever catch
16:38you
16:40but if I regard iniquity in my
16:46heart somewhere down the line you're
16:48going to need the Lord to answer
16:51prayer and you going to be praying but
16:53you're not going to get it
16:54through
16:56because iniquity has a recliner sitting
17:00in the middle of your
17:06heart it's got a place of honor sitting
17:09there well praise the Lord I want the
17:12Lord to hear me how about
17:15you but if I regard iniquity I I won't
17:18make sure I I I pull it out anything
17:21that's not not like him I want to I want
17:23to pull it I want to pull it
17:26out amen
17:30and you
17:36know you young ladies can go in Macy's
17:38and dealers and get you a pair of
17:41britches go in the dressing room put it
17:43on see how you look in it none of us
17:47ever know I sure ain't going to follow
17:50you over there to find
17:53out but you won't have it hid from him
17:55that's
17:57right you you can snip around on your
18:01hair and
18:03and we may not
18:06know you boys can sneak around put a put
18:10a chew in your in your lip you
18:14idiot that's
18:17right but don't you be coming to me want
18:19me to rub you down with oil and pray for
18:21you the Cancer all to rock your tongue
18:25out you sitting in here in an Apostolic
18:28Church claim be right with God and you
18:30dipping snuff you going to hell come on
18:34come on Pastor well praise the Lord
18:36praise the Lord you you cocky idiot
18:40you you're an idiot come on if you're
18:44doing it you're an idiot come on that's
18:46right you are an idiot come on
18:48Amen now onward praise
18:52God if I regard iniquity I said somebody
18:55said well that looks you don't look
18:57tough you look like an idiot you're
18:59you're an
19:01idiot praise God
19:04amen glory to God
19:07Amen woo I kind of hit that there kind
19:10of feel it bounce a little bit praise
19:12the Lord I'm offended
19:15good won't you offended you hypocrite
19:19you well glory to God you
19:23idiot you are an
19:27idiot Glory G to God now let's move on
19:32if I regard iniquity in my
19:36heart he won't hear
19:38me he won't hear me God I want you to I
19:42want you to hear
19:43me anybody want the Lord to hear
19:48him you may need it about 1: in the
19:50morning and your kid may be burning up
19:52with fever that's right or you may be in
19:54a wreck on the side of the road and and
19:57and your child or your wife you L laying
19:59there nearly bleeding to death and you
20:01you may need the Lord to hear
20:07you you got to jerk that chair out of
20:09your heart iniquity you're not welcome
20:13here you may be here but I'm fighting
20:16you you may be here but me and you's
20:19having a fight I'm not putting you at a
20:21chair as the guest of honor you're not
20:24welcome here amen
20:27[Applause]
20:32I regard iniquity in my
20:36heart he won't hear
20:39me I want him to hear me want a bunch of
20:43junk in my
20:46heart amen you may not have an hour you
20:49may not have an hour to pray
20:52through make things right with
20:56God number one if I regard iniquity in
21:01my heart he will not hear
21:05me well I'm feeling pretty
21:08good I can tell I done slap somebody
21:10right in the next week oh and I'm glad I
21:15did Amen to God hallelujah I don't think
21:18you ought to call me idot you do what
21:20you want to when God gives you a pull
21:22pit I'm going to do what I want to since
21:24God gave me this one praise the Lord
21:27amen thank
21:29Hallelujah number two where you at
21:33brother cotton James 54 yes read is
21:37there any sick among you yes yes let
21:39call for the of the church all right let
21:42pray over him
21:45yes all
21:48right yes
21:51yes yes and if committed any they shall
21:55be forgiven yes confess your f I'm going
21:59to tell you
22:00what a lot of folks ain't getting the
22:03prayer answered because they have
22:05unconfessed
22:07sin in their
22:12life and you ain't got to confess it to
22:14me we're not
22:18Catholics yeah praise the
22:24Lord but somewhere down in your life you
22:27may have to get your your mouth
22:30open because you we're not getting it
22:36done they've Anointed with
22:38oil they've prayed the prayer of
22:41faith they may have felt the Lord but
22:45nothing's
22:47changed well
22:50sometimes the only thing that will bring
22:54that is is oh
22:57Josiah gets real serious and he
23:01said you know I need
23:04to I need to really make some things
23:06right
23:09on sometimes you need to
23:12confess because it exposes that
23:19sin well praise
23:24God I want tell you I think the only way
23:29to have total victory over moral
23:34sin is it has to be
23:42confessed I believe
23:44that because you need to be put on
23:50notice praise the
23:52Lord why some folks commit sin for thing
23:55they do they you up run across country
23:58well when you get
24:00there it'll meet
24:05you well praise
24:08God there's a lot there's a lot of
24:11folks
24:13brother Murphy I believe there's people
24:16that went to a early
24:19grave because they did not confess their
24:25sin and they tried to pray over the top
24:28of it
24:29and they tried to shout over the top of
24:31it and they tried to run over the top of
24:34it but they never could get complete
24:37Victory because brother Jimmy it slapped
24:40them back in the face they knew
24:43it well praise
24:46God ah give me Proverbs Brother Andy
24:51flip over there Proverbs 28 and13
25:01glory to God well can you say praise the
25:04Lord
25:06Saints
25:08amen confess your faults
25:13any it's me
25:20Lord I was
25:23preaching I preaching on this certain
25:27sin and when I pastoring in Indiana and
25:31every time oh when I I just every time I
25:34got
25:36up I'd be taking a prayer request I'd be
25:39slapping every sermon it wouldn't matter
25:42what I preaching on it make no
25:43difference i' I'd get on that
25:46subject and
25:48uh I got concerned about
25:51myself said why am I these people are
25:55going to think something wrong with me
25:57why am I
25:58I know this can't be
26:01here I know this I know this can't be
26:05happening
26:08here but I every time I get it I'd hit
26:11it no matter what it was I'd go back
26:15I've hit
26:17it on a cold day is raining real
26:22bad heard a knocking on my
26:26door and this man was standing there
26:29with big tears running down his face I
26:32didn't know what he want he said it's
26:36me it's
26:38me I'm the guilty one it's
26:41me I said it's you what I don't know
26:44what you're talking about what you've
26:46been preaching
26:48about oh
26:50no you mean soone tell yeah that's me
27:01I said does your wife
27:04know said my wife don't know I said
27:08you're getting in your car right
27:10now you're driving
27:13home and you're telling your
27:18wife said do I have said oh yes you
27:21ain't sinned against me you sinned
27:24against your wife you're getting in your
27:26car and you're going right down there
27:29and you're going to confess to your
27:31wife so I'll give y'all a little while
27:34and I'll be up the
27:43house it's quiet in
27:47here confess your
27:50faults one to another you'll never get
27:54over unconfessed
27:56sin it'll stop your prayers every time
28:01Fess it
28:04up but say Brother
28:10Andy
28:13yes and for but if you confess and
28:17forsake that sin you'll
28:21find
28:24Mercy well praise God
28:28I'm talking about hindrances to
28:30prayer unconfessed sin will clog the
28:35drain it'll shut Heaven up against you
28:39it'll keep the blessings of God off of
28:42your life worse than
28:47that it'll make you miss the
28:52city Bible said some men sins go
28:55beforehand into judgment
28:58other men's sins they come trailing
29:01after
29:03that brother you better send them on the
29:06head cuz if they catch you in the
29:10Judgment if they catch you in the
29:12Judgment it's going to be too late
29:14that's
29:15right young people young men young
29:21ladies this altar is not your
29:25enemy this altar is your friend the best
29:28friend you have is this
29:31Altar and when you're out of Shanghai
29:34with
29:35God hit this
29:38altar God cleanse
29:42me don't be General in your confession
29:45be specific in your confession Lord I
29:48did so and so I want you to forgive
29:54me cleansed
29:59well glory to
30:02God confess your faults one to
30:05another pray you one for
30:09another that you may
30:11be may be
30:14healed number
30:17three who's got 1 Peter 3 and
30:217 1 Peter 3 deals with family it deals
30:24with
30:26home deals with obligations of a husband
30:30and the obligations of a
30:33wife and and then Peter sums this up
30:37with this
30:38verse this is
30:40not it's just not verse seven but it's
30:43all them you need to read that sometime
30:46it's all them all them seven verses 1 2
30:513 4 5 6
30:547 and it talks about relationship
30:57between husband and
30:59wife and what does it say brother
31:04Dallas
31:07yes yes
31:09yes yes yes yes
31:14yes
31:17yes I'm G to tell you what listen to me
31:20young men listen to me young ladies you
31:23young men can't treat your wife like a
31:26dog
31:30and get your prayer
31:33suit you young ladies you can't treat
31:36your husband like a
31:38dog you can't talk to each other like
31:43stepchildren it ought it ought to
31:45convict
31:46you praise the
31:49Lord now I'm I'm not going to I'm not
31:52going to pretend that I've never been
31:53sharp with my wife I have been sharp
31:56with my wife
32:00well praise the
32:02Lord but I'm glad it convicts
32:08me
32:09amen I'm glad I feel
32:14ashamed I don't care what kind of bad
32:16day you've had at work or you ladies
32:20have had at home with the kids that
32:22don't give you any right to take your
32:24frustrations out on your husband or your
32:28wife if you want your prayers
32:32answered hairs together that your prayer
32:36you can't talk to your wife like a dog
32:39call her every name in the
32:41world well praise God Treat Her Like
32:45She's a
32:46stepchild you women can't can't dress
32:49down your
32:51husband like he's an idiot he's out
32:54there working making you a living trying
32:57to Prov provide for you and and and and
32:59and you got a tongue that's so sharp and
33:02nasty and
33:03ugly then you wonder why God won't hear
33:06your kids when they're
33:10sick wonder why your finances can't get
33:14ahead well praise the Lord why why
33:17nothing ever works out for you I tell
33:19you why your prayers are
33:23hindered amen you got you oh glory to
33:27God
33:29amen amen amen amen amen
33:35amen you know if
33:39if if you don't if you don't treat if
33:42you don't treat your wife with respect
33:45and you don't treat your husband with
33:47respect and treat them with honor you're
33:50going to have you're going to have the
33:51Lord against
33:56you I wonder if folks would say would
33:58say stuff to their husband or
34:00wife
34:02that if all of us was
34:06present well praise
34:09God have a bad day and come in you
34:13know when you're coming in from work
34:15you're coming home from
34:19work your wife ought to be so happy to
34:22see you coming in said you know man
34:25that's
34:26great but if she's cringing when she
34:28sees you come in the door shame on
34:34you well glory to
34:37God but not only does it make for a bad
34:40home hey do you realize how how big the
34:44divorce rate
34:48is sad to say that's not just in the
34:51world it's in the
34:54church only difference in the church we
34:57know it's a
34:58it's against God God hates putting
35:02away praise the
35:05Lord and and uh but man in the world boy
35:10they you just all so crazy you know W I
35:14want my space you should have thought
35:16about that before you got married you
35:18lost your space when you said I do
35:20that's right amen go find I go find
35:25myself but look in the mirror
35:28at
35:31you well praise
35:34God
35:36amen amen folks are living better now
35:40than they've ever lived the the the
35:42these young couples that's in these
35:44young couple that's in this
35:46church can I talk to y'all young couples
35:49a minute these young couple that's in
35:51this church all of them without
35:53exception every one of them are a lot
35:56better off than their parents parents
35:57was when they first got married their
36:00age I'm telling you right
36:02now you'd be surprised with the meager
36:05existence that your parents had when the
36:08first two or three years of their of
36:10their
36:11marriage well glory to
36:14God and I'm glad you're I'm glad it's
36:17better for you your parents are glad
36:20it's better for you
36:25amen you need treat each other you need
36:28to treat that woman like she's a queen
36:30and you women need treat that husband
36:32like
36:33he's if you don't want your prayers to
36:36be
36:36hindered you can't call each other every
36:39name under
36:41heaven and expect God to be attentive to
36:44your
36:47prayers and for man to stoop so
36:53low to to hit his wife
36:58that's as low as it can
37:00go and a woman be so
37:04bold to hit her
37:10husband I had a lady that's pastoring
37:13well I she well she's come to
37:18church she come to church she had a
37:20black
37:22eye I sis what what's the matter and her
37:25husband wasn't in church said
37:28well said he blacked
37:32my
37:34man that's
37:36horrible
37:37and said would you mind talking to us
37:41well I wasn't jump up and down to do it
37:43I mean I didn't want a black
37:47eye he wasn't going to church I well if
37:49he agrees if he agrees to that yeah I
37:52said he so I so I'm so I drive out there
37:55and I'm talking to him and
37:58and we got around to it I said man why
38:02would you black your wife's eye she's
38:05coming to church with her eye
38:08black you know how that makes you look I
38:11know it I I'm
38:13ashamed well why did you do it since you
38:16hit me with her
38:19catalog she did what yeah she slapped me
38:22right upside the head with a
38:23catalog so I decked her
38:33I'm I'm I'm looking at her name of
38:35sister Patty I
38:36said did you hit him with a
38:39catalog yeah we've done that our whole
38:42marriage said I see
38:46y'all I just got in my car went home I
38:49said I said don't get been i w get in
38:52that
38:53again tell you what you getting a man
38:55you getting a man and woman's fuss you
38:57hear me you getting a man and woman's
38:59fuss when it's over they both be mad at
39:02you so I'm just going to PR my I pray
39:05for I'll pray for you Lord I'll be glad
39:08to I'll be glad to help you look at my
39:10office is open I'll counsel you I don't
39:12care to Cel you at all but it does zero
39:15good to counsel un praying
39:20people I don't have no fix I ain't got
39:22nothing I can rub on you make y'all get
39:25along but if y'all spend enough time
39:31praying you praying you'll keep your big
39:33mouth shut amen you pray and you won't
39:36be finding fault with each other amen
39:38you pray and you'll be content with such
39:39things as you have that's right well
39:42glory to God go ahead if you're praying
39:45you keep them roaming eyes Ro roaming
39:48over your wife instead of somebody
39:52else glory to
39:55God Amen
39:59praying to do praise the Lord Brother
40:01Steven A you got down and preach this
40:03tonight Hallelujah you doing you doing
40:04good back there amen
40:07good sis am I doing all right I'm I know
40:10what you told me I'm no no no no I'm
40:13just no I'm just funny with him she
40:16ain't told me
40:18nothing glory to God
40:22hallelujah I mean don't want your
40:24prayers
40:25in well you got to treat your wife right
40:28God treat your husband right but that
40:31verse
40:33says being as heirs
40:38together Dallas and
40:41Melinda is a packaged deal
40:46right that's what that verse says praise
40:50the Lord oh oh oh Tyler's laughing
40:53praise the
40:55lord it's a package
40:59still
41:02amen glory to
41:04God let your prayers be not
41:12hindered I tell you
41:17what you don't know what you might need
41:20from the Lord before morning's
41:23over and to crawl over the top of a
41:26bunch of ugliness
41:28that you've said to each other it may
41:31not convict you some folks don't have
41:32any more conscience than a snake has
41:38hips I I understand
41:42that but it ought to convict
41:45you amen glory to
41:49God that's
41:51right you ladies you know you know when
41:54you leave the house when your husband
41:55leaves the house your hair is in
41:59curlers and your teeth out praise the
42:04Lord you got that house cold on and
42:07buggers in your
42:10eyes and you fixing that cold Mater
42:13sandwich shove him out the door
42:16amen and he's
42:18gone way these guys are around here but
42:21I'm thank the Lord I don't past a bunch
42:23of lazy
42:24men there ain't nothing worse than
42:27there I'm going to tell you what there's
42:28nobody harder to get along with than an
42:30old lazy
42:33man they're they're unhappy they're
42:36miserable they're mad at life they think
42:39life owes them everything well praise
42:42the Lord that's right ain't nothing I'm
42:44glad I ain't Pastor much I have pastored
42:46lazy men
42:48before but I I ain't Pastor a much of
42:50lazy men and and and here most these
42:53guys here they work 10 11 12 hours
42:57they come in the door you ought to be
43:00spruced
43:02up your hair comb amen put a little
43:06smell good on I know what really smells
43:09good is something cooking on the
43:13stove they'd rather they'd rather smell
43:16that than Max Factor I'm going to tell
43:18you they been walk in that door and
43:21something good is smelling woo
43:23Hallelujah to
43:24God Amen to God yeah that's right house
43:29is
43:31clean some of y'all folks you ain't
43:33going to heaven cuz the Lord don't have
43:34a sanitation
43:36department on and if you win it' have to
43:39hire
43:40one come on well glory be to God
43:43hallelujah praise the
43:45Lord amen to God
43:48hallelujah had a lady in church one time
43:51her mama her mama died and she was she
43:55was healthy praise the Lord and and and
43:57she she died and and and and and
44:02uh uh they called me over there they
44:06called
44:07me and I'm telling you what them them
44:10guys was trying to get around that house
44:13I wasn't going in
44:14there I would I ain't a Catholic preach
44:16so I wouldn't send no last rights praise
44:18the
44:19Lord and then coming out of our house
44:22just a puking and a
44:24gagging I I I thought to myself myself
44:27maam before they take her to the
44:30Undertaker shop they'll have to carry
44:33her through a car
44:40wash they'll have to run her through a
44:43few
44:44times get all
44:49that there dirt in there it ain't been
44:51discovered yet praise
44:53God Amen
45:01yeah heyen come in and everything looks
45:04nice and presentable that's right praise
45:08God and and and
45:10[Music]
45:13man your home you need to make your home
45:16so inviting that your husband's getting
45:20uh traffic
45:21tickets speeding coming home to see
45:25you well glory to God he can't hard wait
45:29to get there amen hallelujah excited you
45:34don't even be coming home in your over
45:36Mama's house
45:38either well glory to God hey be a good
45:43time for message in tongues and
45:45interpretation
45:49amen let's move on to the next
45:53one Mark chap 11 you there brother
46:01well I'm sorry Mark 11:22 I probably did
46:04say five what happened to you when you
46:06get
46:07old
46:11amen all right Mark
46:1611:22
46:17yes yes I
46:22yes
46:24yes yes
46:29yes
46:32yes
46:34yes
46:36yes woo ain't that a
46:41promise it ain't a blank
46:47check now I know Kenneth Hagen and
46:50Copeland all them guys preaching like a
46:53blank it's a blank check for them you
46:54don't believe it he living in a 19 ,000
46:58foot house praise the Lord he's got the
47:00prosperity plan he's got the prosperity
47:03and you've got the
47:04[Laughter]
47:08plan it work for them
47:13amen that ain't a blank
47:16check keep on
47:18reading therefore I say you
47:22yes
47:24yes yes
47:27yes woo my Lord how many wants to
47:31operate in that
47:34realm
47:36Lord man is that pretty good brother
47:40ades that sound prettyy good to you that
47:43sounds pretty good
47:44huh man a
47:46lie turn and tell the person that next
47:49to you what sounds good to
47:54me but the chapter don't stop
47:59there he don't stop
48:02there so what else does he say
48:05brother when you stand and when you
48:08stand
48:10praying
48:13forgive
48:17yes yes
48:27the amount of forgiveness that you
48:30get is going to be determined by the
48:33amount of
48:34forgiveness you
48:39give I can tell you some of you is in
48:41trouble right
48:43now but you want I want to get my prayer
48:47but if you want to get your prayer
48:49answered you've got to forgive brother
48:53Zimmerman brother Zimmerman wrong me
48:57well you got to forgive
48:59it brother zma may not ask you to
49:03forgive
49:04it he may be stubborn and bullheaded not
49:08that he
49:10is but I'm really you I'm really
49:12stretching out oh I got just Renee
49:15shouting praise the Lord that's more she
49:18done in the year glory to God they'll be
49:20carrying her out of here drunk in the
49:22spirit
49:25amen you think boy I'm Discerning
49:28amen but he you
49:31know he may he may not care if he gets
49:33right or
49:34not so he may not he may not he may not
49:38be in a mood to repent this passage does
49:42not say if brother Zimmerman comes and
49:45repents to you brother Matt you need to
49:48forgive him it don't have it moves him
49:52out of it it's you and Jesus it ain't
49:56you and simmerman in Jesus it's you in
50:00Jesus that if man wants his prayers
50:03through if he wants to for whatsoever
50:07you pray whatsoever you desire pray and
50:11believe and you shall have
50:15them if he wants verse 24 read verse
50:2324
50:25yes yes
50:27yes
50:29yes and you shall have them if you want
50:33verse 24 in your life move
50:36on you got to forgive Zimmerman if he
50:40never says I'm
50:43sorry that's right now Zimmerman will be
50:46in trouble that don't excuse
50:49Zimmerman if he can't get I'm sorry out
50:52of his mouth he's in trouble I know
50:54folks that cannot get I'm sorry sorry
50:57out of their mouth you're probably going
50:58to go to hell that's right that's the
51:01truth sad to say I know preachers they
51:04can't say I'm
51:06sorry you're going to have to learn how
51:08to say I'm
51:15sorry but whether brother Mike says I'm
51:18sorry or
51:19not that okay go back there brother give
51:23me what is it give me 25 and 26
51:28when brother Mike stands praying stand
51:30pray brother get up when you stand
51:37praying and you've got an
51:40ALT against brother
51:43Donnie you got an all against brother
51:45Donnie and you're you're standing
51:47praying what does it say forgive that
51:52your heavenly father May forgive you of
51:55your trespasses
51:57but that's not all what does it say not
52:00but if you do not
52:06forgive well glory to God there's folk
52:09that's pack stuff
52:12around and they pack it
52:15around and they pack it
52:17around and they're wore out their
52:21spirit's worn their mind is worn because
52:25they're packing all this old junk
52:32around joose say I don't have to smoke
52:37cigarettes to cause him not to make
52:41it or sneak around watch
52:44television praise the Lord if you got a
52:47television hit in your house and you're
52:49look you hypocrite
52:51you you
52:54hypocrite if you're watch watching
52:56Hollywood I don't care what you're
52:58watching it on watching on television
53:01sneaking off to a drivein going to a
53:03cinema well praise the Lord looking at
53:07on the DVD or looking at it on your
53:09phone you are a
53:14hypocrite David said I will set no
53:17Wicked thing before my eyes it don't
53:20matter what the medium is they didn't
53:22have they didn't have television back
53:24when that verse was wrote
53:27I wasn't talking about television they
53:29was no television invented in David's
53:31day but the principle applies that's
53:35right old David shouldn't have been on
53:37that house roaming
53:41around well they ain't no difference
53:43between
53:44listening between seeing and listening
53:47if he had all he had heard was water
53:49splashing he may have thought it was a
53:51duck
53:57that's good he may have thought a dog
53:59was over there Walling around in
54:02there but when he climbed up on that
54:05[Music]
54:08house I don't think there no accident he
54:11climbs up on that house and she's out
54:13there bathing praise the Lord that
54:16probably wasn't a one time Journey on
54:18that
54:19house and knowing old sensual women like
54:22she was she is probably happy to be
54:24showing it but I tell when they wasn't
54:27happy they wasn't happy when they was
54:29burying that baby that's
54:32right that took the fun out of it God
54:35can take the fun out of your
54:38escapades you wish you'd never climbed
54:41on top of a house that's right and you
54:43wish you wouldn't have been taking a
54:45bath in public well glory to
54:48God
54:52amen
54:54amen but but but but but but but if
55:00Josiah he has to forgive he's got to
55:03forgive
55:05Drew he's got to forgive
55:07Brady they got to forgive each other you
55:11know we we put that down as little on
55:14minor stuff but that's major
55:18stuff if you got if there's folks
55:20sitting in this house and you've got an
55:22all against them you're not your feet
55:24will stay right on the floor when Jesus
55:27comes you're not going in the
55:29Rapture I don't care if your sleeves is
55:31to your risk and your and
55:35whatever that ain't going to count if
55:38you got a Heart full of
55:41unforgiveness you got to forgive your
55:45husband you got to forgive your
55:49wife you got to forgive those that wrong
55:52you praise God got to close the door
55:56door on that you're going to make Heaven
55:57your home somewhere down you got to
55:59close a door on that I refuse to be
56:02bound by this boy bitterness and
56:05unforgiveness is a
56:07prison you you know what them folks are
56:10doing that you're you can't sleep and
56:13you can't
56:15eat and you're all tore up get ulcers in
56:18your stomach all wear it over you know
56:21what them folks are doing they're eating
56:23steaks not running the road they could
56:24care less what you think
56:27well praise the Lord most folks you got
56:30stuff against they could care less they
56:32don't care that you're all tore up if
56:34they knew you was a torp as bad as you
56:36are they'd be happy about
56:40it well glory to
56:45God but worse than stealing your peace
56:49and worse than stealing your
56:51joy it'll clog them prayer bells up
56:58if your line is
57:00grounded and connection
57:02true has been lost with Jesus tell you
57:06what to do prayer and faith and promise
57:10will mend the broken wire tell your soul
57:14is burning with a Pentecostal fire
57:17telephone the
57:18glory well glory to God
57:21hallelujah man it's just easier it just
57:24sister trip is just easy easier for me
57:26to say look you
57:28know just forgive me I'm
57:31sorry I'm sorry see she said you forgive
57:34I'm
57:36sorry I want to be I want to be quick to
57:38forgive
57:41them you married couples listen to me
57:45you married couples listen to me be
57:48quick to
57:50repent and when your companion repents
57:53be quick to
57:55forgive you're
57:58forgiven I'm not going to crawl in bed
58:00with you and this
58:03unforgiveness unforgiveness got to get
58:05out of this
58:07bed that's where the Bible
58:10said better is a dinner of
58:13herbs where love
58:16is than a stalled
58:19Ox where there's hatred and
58:22strife you ever been in an atmosphere
58:25where folks was eating and it was so
58:28tense it didn't matter how good the meal
58:31was you'll be glad when this meal's over
58:34right and get out of
58:35here then I've been somewhere where the
58:37boy that didn't have a whole lot but
58:40they're just so happy to have you and
58:42there's so much joy in the
58:44house I hate to leave well praise the
58:49lord well I'm getting ready to close
58:52this off
58:56four most common hindrances to prayer
58:58number
58:59one you got a reserve spot in your heart
59:02for
59:04iniquity number two you have failed to
59:08confess get everything get the decks
59:10clear where God can bless you number
59:13three you got your home life right
59:16treating each other like you ought to
59:18treat each other number four

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