Open Hearts, Bold Witness: A Prayer Night
February 10, 2019 · 1:45:45 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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Summary
This was a once-a-month praise, worship and prayer night at Slavic Full Gospel Church, held during the congregation's 21-day Daniel Fast at the start of 2019. The pastors opened by calling everyone to make their heart a house of prayer, to choose to worship God like Daniel and David did even when feelings run low, and to be obedient to the Holy Spirit by stepping forward to share whatever God laid on their hearts.
Several young members gave open-microphone testimonies and short messages. One warned that unchecked hate, even over something as small as a football game, is spiritual murder in God's eyes, pointing to Cain and Abel and the letters of John. Others shared about handing out invitation flyers on the streets and sponge docks of Tarpon Springs - learning to overcome rejection, to not judge people by appearance, to know their freedom to witness in public, and to imitate Christ, who came for the poor, the weak and the sick.
More testimonies described God arranging divine encounters: a stranger led by the Spirit asked a young man if he was a Christian and prayed with him in a parking lot, people were healed at an American Bible study, and the words 'Be still and know that I am God' found on a card at a military base calmed a nursing student's fears. The night closed with believers praying for one another, for revival in the nation, and surrendering all of 2019 into God's hands.
Key Points
- Make your heart a house of prayer, and choose to worship God by decision rather than feeling, the way David spoke to his own soul.
- Begin the year seeking God's face through prayer and fasting, asking Him to reveal His will for your life, your church and your town.
- Obey the Holy Spirit's nudge to speak, give or pray - obedience starts the moment you step out, even when you feel unprepared.
- Guard your heart against hate; it grows quietly and, like Cain's, leads to sin and death, so let God remove it.
- Imitate Christ by going to the poor, weak and overlooked, and stop judging people by their outward appearance.
- Be a bold yet gracious witness, knowing your freedom to share the gospel and trusting God to do the rest.
- Stay attentive to God in ordinary places - a store, a job site, a military base - because He is already at work there.
Devotional
Tonight is not about how you feel but about Whom you have chosen. Like David, tell your own soul to rejoice in the Lord, and make your heart a house of prayer where He is truly welcome. When the Spirit nudges you to speak a kind word, hand someone an invitation, or simply pray, do not wait until it is comfortable, because obedience begins the moment you step forward. Watch for Him in the most ordinary places, and let 'Be still and know that I am God' quiet your fears. The same Jesus who told weary fishermen to cast their nets once more is asking you to try again and to leave the results in His hands.
Worship is a decision, not a feeling - like David, tell your own soul to rejoice in the Lord.
Hate that grows unchecked is murder in God's eyes; let Him take it from your heart.
Hand out the invitation, open your mouth, and let God do the rest.
Transcript
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this day we've dedicated our time to be here tonight and just to Worship the Lord amen you know in heaven the Angels they worship day and night every single day and they never stop because they see something new every single day that God reveals to them you know and one day we will see those glorious things and we're gonna sing I Surrender right now so I just prepare your hearts [Music] again surrendering surrendering [Music] thank you I Surrender Bridge my soul as mercy and Grace [Music] it's our change [Applause] [Music] I [Music] surrender I wanna know I [Music] am I Wanna Know [Music] my garage [Music] Lord amen ities song Stay within my [Music] head your way [Music] [Music] Jesus Christ [Music] forever [Music] I Surrender [Music] foreign [Applause] [Music] [Music] you're for us before your children you call the sons and daughters Jesus Christ Lord everything before you Jesus Hallelujah praise your name God in this place it's a night of prayer God a night of worship Lord when we worship god with our lips with our hearts God Lord that is what you want to hear Lord is for us to come and give you glory out of our own mouths Jesus Christ with our own son Jesus no matter what we go through God and our strength and our weakness of God you want to hear praise God to come out of our lips Hallelujah have your way Holy Spirit have your way in us God hallelujah [Music] Jesus [Music] [Applause] [Music] in me Jesus [Music] Jesus [Music] I Surrender [Music] Ed foreign [Music] foreign [Music] you ready it was excited to be here there it is don't fall asleep on us it's only six o'clock God always ready you know blessed everybody you are ready for taken for God blessed for your life you are here [Music] it's okay [Music] [Applause] living room [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] I Feel The Rains of your life your spirits [Music] we feel The Rains of your life [Music] [Applause] [Music] it's okay [Music] [Applause] [Music] 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our hearts to you Jesus by us feeling you and hearing your God and that sure will be done in this place God Hallelujah in Jesus name amen we continue as we continue praising worship we're gonna do you feel the spirit of God in here you know it's very important to just plugged in to just to say You Lord yes I'm here I'm with you I'm with you Holy Spirit and I agree with Holy Spirit you know as our church we've been going through uh we're continual worship we continue we'll praise name praise God's name I know the few people Was preparing to speak today and we encourage everyone to just continue to stay in the spirit continue to be open be open to the wave of the Holy Spirit you know as our church we're going through this beginning of the year we with we was going uh through the serious fasting and prayer 21 days of Daniel Fast that's what we are decided in the beginning of the year to continue to fix God's face to know what's his will for you for me for our church for our town for our nation and we encourage everyone just continue to seek the face of God this year beginning of the year you know as one of Wednesday who was coming to the Wednesdays we were staying on the Daniel you know we get this example of a Daniel Fast it's how Daniel was prayed and one of our pastors on Wednesday he shared the message who got used today why he choose Daniel and a few other people you know it was interesting first Daniel make the choice in his heart to worship God that's what we do today that's what we do this year we just want him God said soon as you have your heart like a tilt it towards me I already sent it the answer then there was another one the enemy doesn't stop there there was actually it was a it was another another was a battlefield when he had to choose who he's gonna serve and he said you know I'm not just to choose you to follow you Lord Jesus he's my savior but I want you to serve you I want you to be my Lord and he had the choice and he's going through the foreness but you know the more important is I was sitting listening the message I received the Revelation I shared with you today and that was the last battle was the prayer the prayer you can incept accept the Lord Jesus is your savior you can make him as the Lord belongs you not pray just keep quiet don't pray you listen you know you don't have to pray but we decided as a church to make tonight as a prayer night let's just continue to praise and worship God and for those who is incur I would encourage who prepare yourself to to share testimonies short sermons be ready and social worship has come you feel like it's time just come up Throne I know the Jacob I know that David and possible Ruby maybe but whatever the Holy Spirit Will moves I know the few people prepare we like to be obedient to the holy spirit in this prayer night are we agreed to this let's continue to worship God hallelujah I'm encouraging let's continue to worship God [Music] one more time [Music] promise [Music] you you in this place [Music] if you are in this way life worship you I worship we make a miracles [Music] in the darkness my God that is who you are in the darkness my God that is who you are one more time [Music] you are you alive I worship you [Music] she knew you you land in America [Music] way make a miracle worker promise [Music] [Applause] [Music] miracles [Music] darkness my God that is [Music] I worship you I worship you you may make it Miracle work blind the darkness my God that is the darkness my God that is [Music] my God miracle from the darkness my mind promise [Music] light in the darkness my God that is [Music] all ours Hallelujah [Music] oh yes you are lying you are alive oh in my darkness hallelujah hallelujah your work is [Music] [Music] the name of the Lord hallelujah [Music] it is your glory yes your honor it is your spirit it is Jesus Christ [Music] to your name [Music] for your name is [Music] I sing praises to your name [Music] and Grace [Music] [Applause] [Music] glory to your name is [Music] I give glory to your name [Music] oh Lord for your name is [Music] for your name [Music] is [Music] I sing praises to your name oh Lord praises to your name is [Music] for your name is [Music] praise His name come on don't be stingy just open up your mouth open your lips and you will feel you with the praise His name find something to Just Praise His Name bring it together in his name today is a Sunday today the whole world prays in here in Praise His Name from the all in the morning and until pass they will be over everybody is praising his name holy church all the same people praise His name in heaven 24 7. he prays his name just buying something in your life to say Thank You Lord come on come on come on people come on church it's a time to praise His name come on tomorrow is Monday but today is a Sunday today is his day and with his house he walked in you healthy you have your feet you have your hands you have your breath in your mouth don't you think it's it's worth it to praise His name hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah we praise you know him Lord Jesus we decided to pray is you nobody else deserved the praise Only You Lord Only You Lord because of you we're here today because of you the world still in one piece because of you if you perfect love is saying that on his enemy under control because of your new church and the Holy Spirit In This World in people like us thank you Lord Jesus thank you Lord Jesus we praise and worship your name nothing better what's happening around us tonight this is the moment what we can say thank you Lord we can Praise Your Name we've only come to your throne in your presence forgive our sins Jesus forgive our sins you did once on the cross Lord Jesus was any condemnation we come to you for bringing to you in the blood of Jesus when we repent when we confess when we come and say we're not the perfect but you're the perfect God yes Lord Jesus you're the perfect and we praise your name for this tonight is a night for you Lord Jesus we have lots of reasons to praise and worship you and we do this so in your name one more time one more time welcome to praise and worship night Slavic Full Gospel Church I just want to encourage you have filled in the spirit whatever you're going through sometimes it's hard to plug it in you really have to move yourself and say to your soul like David said David was speaking to his soul he said oh my soul just rejoice in God sometimes you have to do that you don't follow the feelings it's a decision it's your my decision we're just here to worship him you know I just encourage you I know the people Was preparing tonight I just want to encourage I just want to collapse with Jacob I want to call you a prawn brother we're praying for you we know you're going to be sharing the word yes yes come come we're gonna continue to stay in the spirit but we're like let's welcome in Jacob make sure he's in college come Jacob for Glory of God for Glory of God Jacob see we was you brother I know when we worship together it's one things but we come and grab the microphone and you have to speak and more than that and bring in my people to the prayer you know what whatever the God put on your heart just share it and remember this is the moment when Jesus Christ preparing this time that you can share let's just do that let's just continue let's just pray a little really quickly for Jacob Lord Jesus we pray we pray because it's you Lord Jesus because of you what you've done on the cross you bought us out Lord Jesus was your blood and we worship you tonight and tonight not just the worship not just the preaching today is even harder we decided we choose we agree to have a prayer night we ask your blessing for Jacob and for everyone who is going to be sharing the word of encouragement or testimonies whatever is going to be in their heart Lord Jesus we ask the Holy Spirit lead us through speak to us encourage us and with us your name be glorified through this night in Jesus name we pray and bless amen God bless you brother it's all yours it's all yours foreign good evening everyone thank you for coming to the prayer night um today I would like to talk about uh testimony and um about how to overcome hate uh without God's work and without his touch today we would be the same as we were yesterday and today and forever uh basically we would be in sin and continually sinning but praise be to God and uh for the grace that he is continually showing to us and that we are saved amen and uh by uh grace of God that he is working in our hearts as you notice in our life we Face many challenges and sometimes we make the wrong choices and um today I'd like to speak on this issue which is hate um I lived through it and um and understood through it um I would like to share with you about the grace of God in my experience so that it would touch some of you and bring the light into your life because this is all what we all need um I would like to read from uh first John 2 9. and um if you could uh yeah the one who says he is in the light and yet hates his brother is in the darkness until now the one who loves his brother abides in the light and there is no cause for stumbling in him but the one who hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness and the and he does not know where he is going because the darkness has blinded his eyes um and I would like to also read first John 3 15. everyone who hates his brother is a murderer and um you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him so how do you actually overcome hate if you have Hate in Your Heart then the hate will show in your everyday lives like they say hate is a strong word but you might say no that's that's what everybody says I'm different this doesn't apply to me but actually does uh this is my personal experience last week was a Super Bowl um uh versus the the Patriots and the Rams and me going into the game was hoping that the Rams wouldn't skipping to the end of the game the Patriots won 13-3 but that's not the main idea not the main point over to over the uh course of the game I formed the hate on The Patriot because they beat my my team which was ramped after the game and over the course of about three days the hate followed me and it grew and grew I was not happy with myself because I was getting mad at people and uh treating family members wrongly and um I prayed to God and he helped me overcome this hate and to love Tom Brady so I stopped and um and stopped and this was just about a little football game but if you have hate on like a person on on an individual and that he grows that is as if you killed somebody just says Kane did so do you guys remember Kane's story when Abel brought his um offering to the Lord and God accepted Abel's offering and he did not accept Keynes this is what led Kane to hate um just like the winning team that always wins and wins another game the hate grew and came God warned hay about Warren Kane about his hate but Kane did not take that into consideration and he kept on hating until the hate became uncontrollable and he murdered his brother so um don't let hate control your life and bring you down into sin through hate just let God um just as God uh was letting uh Cain was just like God was telling Cain to stop hating his brother the holy spirit is telling us every day to stop hating so that it will not bring us into sin amen [Applause] yes Lord God thank you for um for protecting us and uh helping us get to this service and um God help us to not hate each other and um and if you do God uh help us to overcome this hate so that it would not bring us into sin and Temptation God and uh bless the rest of the service and whoever else is speaking so that this light would touch Our Lives amen thank you yes he has Brother David and everybody just stopped you know today it's uh different than morning service you know morning service you have to all of the nights and all the tights and everything we decided to have a once a month to praise and worship night or or topics night tonight is a prayer it's just you feel like a spirit move you just you know after the David we might have a one more who prepare them who prepare who prepare to speak and after that they will be open microphone just I encourage you to be obedient to the Holy Spirit you know that was a beginning to obedience starts if you feel like Lord put it on your heart to speak you just don't sit there you just come and deliver the word just share it and go home you'll be not just empty your will be feel like you fulfill the God's will you not feel guilty and guess what God can use it more and more Amen on this halleluia how's everyone doing today good you know what Pastor Peter just said it's actually perfect because me personally today when I walked into church I was not prepared myself I didn't know that I was going to come up here and talk even when the service started I didn't know what I was going to I was talk I was gonna talk but you know God God had a plan he knew I was gonna talk today and he just had my testimony ready so it all started a week ago about on a Saturday when we went out with uh missionary team to pass out flyers for this service and for a reason to smile and I got partnered up with Ellen and so we were just walking around giving out flyers I started we we just started and in the beginning it's very awkward because you're just not used to it you're not in your flow you're just uncomfortable and so we started passing can we have a picture on the while he's speaking and so I um I start passing out fires and then I say Ellen you need to pass them out too you need to start fasting out and now it's like okay I see this lady walking I'm gonna give a fire to her and as Alan goes to hand out the flyer she's the lady just turns to her and just straight up with the straight face says no and just walks by and that was the worst reaction that we had all day and it was the first time first flyer that Allen passed out I'm happy that she overcame it and she was able to give out more flyers so as we were walking around passing out more flyers we actually saw lots and lots of different kind of people and there are a few instances where I would walk up to people and I didn't think they were going to accept the flyer like people say there's a saying don't judge a book by its cover and I judged them and I didn't think they were going to accept the flyer but in some instances they took it and I was surprised and there was there was these two people that me and Alan walked up to they looked like a couple they were sitting on the bench they were smoking I didn't I didn't think they were going to get a um grab a flyer but I give it to everyone because God just puts out my heart offer it to anyone you don't know who is going to take it and I give these people uh I ask if they want a flyer and the guy he first he hesitates and then but then the lady says yeah sure we'll take one why not and they grab it for me and they start reading and that was very weird to me and then Ellen said wow that's a good thing you offered that fire to him because I wasn't sure if they were gonna take it and I just want to read a passage in the Bible to encourage us about this I would like to read from Ephesians chapter five verse 1. it says therefore be imitators of God as dear children and walk in love as Christ also has loved us and given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling aroma and you know here it says uh here for us to be imitators of God and Christ who walked in love and you know Christ didn't come here for the rich people for the people who are living comfortably for the people who have a steady job Christ came for the poor the weak and the sick and that's also how we should be when we're walking around those passing out those fires we shouldn't walk up to the man in a nice Mercedes and ask if he needs a flyer we should go up to those people who are in need and who need Jesus and you could just tell that they're desperate even though you look at them and you might think they not might not take the fire you just have to give it to everyone and God will work in their lives I just want to encourage you guys all to spread the word of God to everyone you see out there it doesn't matter what they look like you just got to give give it all you got and then God will do the rest thank you let us in the prayer would you please lead us in a prayer today is a prayer night remember guys let's pray all right Lord God Jesus we just stand here before you and we just pray Lord we thank you for what you've given us Lord this blessing Lord some of us might not known we would be here Lord some of us might not known we'd be doing what we are doing but you have a plan for all of us Lord you know which Ministry we will be serving in you Lord you know which people we were would will encour encounter and I just pray Lord that you bless every single one of us and give us boldness Lord to to talk to these people Lord to start conversations about you Lord God so that we could spread your word and Your Name Lord so that they would all know about you Lord God so that there was not one soul in this world who didn't know you so Lord we would give everybody an opportunity to know you and your name Jesus we pray we pray Jesus amen amen amen David before you go uh Ruby if you're ready to just make yourself over here David um David uh Cassandra can I see your front and is it true that you and Alan came to me when I was at sponge tax on the last Saturday and they say you've been kicked out can you share about this real quick yeah yeah you oh I can call Alan I'll do it I'll do it so in the sponge Dock there's like a little area where it's like there's a few group of stores that you walk into and so me and Ellen we walked in and we were just walking in a lot along the sidewalk handing them out to people and so we were walking in front of these stores and then two people walk out of the stores and they come up to us and they ask us what we're doing and sometimes that's good because people are interested so this lady comes up to us and we give her a flyer we show her we're spreading the word of God and we're helping people smile but the man want and then the man walks up to us like he's keeping his distance um from us and the lady and he's saying you guys can't be doing this around here this isn't this is where the stores are and you guys if you don't have permission you're not allowed to be up here and this kind of discouraged us so then we we politely left we didn't cause a problem and then we came to Pastor Peter and asked him are we allowed to do this and Pastor Peter kind of explained to us that yes you guys are allowed you uh if you're on public property which is the sidewalk and you're not inside their stores you're allowed to pass out flyers and you could just tell this man we we didn't want to disturb him but he just wasn't happy with what we were doing it's not it's not that we were passing out flyers it's I think it was the reason that we were passing out flyers and you could just tell he wasn't happy yes yes that's exactly and I ask and I ask you I'll give you assignment UNL and I said you guys go to college right near the college boy and school boys you go and do the research you can come back to me and tell me what's the Florida law said about going to sidewalk and spread the gospel did you guys have any extra success for that maybe you're on the next missionary meeting or something like this you just educate us and tell us what's update in Tarpon Springs what we can what we cannot do you have to know the rights I would remember it wasn't in New York it once a twice remember when we went to New York couple years ago Manhattan there was a Market Fresh uh fresh produce market and has walked in and people was yelling get out of here we can't do this here I stopped it was really Spirit was right inside of me you know you would have to be like a lamb sometimes but sometimes you have to be like a warrior yeah I came and I said no and it was everybody's stop and those who picked the tomatoes they just kind of started picking in us and see what we're talking about it was a perfect moment and I was like no I was loud they said I don't think so I can go away so why what is get out of here you cannot do this no actually I can because it's it's a public place like you and me and everybody was listening sometimes the Satan you want to just Striker but they give you the opportunity to speak and preach to god so let's just continue to do that there was one man who was walking same time you've been kicked out right but me and Peter were standing by the big statue that the John was a helmet right they said what is a diver who what they call him you know who's died for the sponges yes right there right there as a as a famous spot we discovered that because we would sit down with Raphael I have a little talk people come and they want a picture and the whole family want to be on the on on on a picture right here I am with just Peter and I we just take the turns we take the pictures soon enough people after this they receive the Gospel because we was polite and what was accepted and people will just accept the gospel yellow flyer and words we're coming back one man came to us crossed the traffic shake the hands and they said thank you what you've been doing don't be discouraged so let's continue to praise and worship God for this and we're gonna pray whatever the Lord would put in our heart to continue to do this to work now is any of you would like to share what's God doing in your life please we encourage everyone somebody shake the hand like this that's okay no pressure well we're gonna we're gonna continue to have this you know more uh the feeling and moment of praise and worship God and uh while somebody's thinking who's gonna be next can we have another worship song before we're gonna have before we're gonna have us uh you know in inclusion sermon or maybe possible another testimony I'm encouraged just God bless you all baby while they pick up their son you're still waiting right the moment okay [Music] yes Jesus I Need You every time we need Jesus to hell [Music] I need you here love your grace foreign [Music] is [Music] Jesus [Music] [Applause] [Music] forever Jesus [Music] forever [Music] forever [Music] you hear about his grace [Music] remember [Music] [Applause] [Music] Mercy Christ before me rise behind me this is [Music] Jesus I need you here now these days [Music] see now your praise forever [Music] Jesus lead us hallelujah I want to take a second and talk about these cards again and the majority of us here are familiar so I want to stress that I want to send these around and you don't need to fill out the whole thing but I do want everybody to take an opportunity and fill out the bottom and do something and let us know how we're doing how we can improve or encourage us let us know uh if the word meant something to you how we're doing send a word of encouragement because one of the biggest things I I'm always surprised by was when I preach uh I'm usually preaching from my experience as a younger person as a youth member and my usual intended audience is the youth but then it's always surprising to get somebody from uh the members of our church or even though like Grandma and grandpas of our church approaching me and they're saying wow your word touched me that was that was for me and I'm like I was preaching to the youth I had no idea I was even talking to you you know and that's something that's always encouraging to me so I I please encourage one another that he's going to come around in a minute and let us know how we're doing and encourage one another that's what we're here for amen thank you how's everybody doing so far so good all right um I didn't really have anything planned for today either and uh I just kind of wanted to share I guess you could call it a testimony and a word of motivation for all of us so uh once this is gonna be a kind of like a storyline so you guys are gonna have to follow me with this one so like if I lose you guys just let me know okay so once uh when I was in North Carolina I decided to go to TJ Maxx not sure why I needed to go there but I went there it might have been for Christmas shopping or something like that and I was just walking around doing my own thing like nothing special whatever I had to buy I bought and I was walking I was walking I was walking out sorry I thought they were pointing at me I was walking out and a lady comes up to me and she was like Hey like uh oh no it was in the in the line and I started talking to her shared me talking on the phone with my mom and she was like oh what are you speaking I was like oh yeah I'm like you Slavic so I can speak a different language it's like oh that's so cool I've been learning Russian for the past 16 years and so on like Rosetta Stone or something like that and so she like she starts like speaking with me and it was pretty cool like she was I think Egyptian or something like that so I started talking to her like wow we're in line waiting and everything so got to know her a little bit and as I'm walking out she hands me a card like like oh no she didn't I walked out I had like some mix up at the cash register so she went past me she went to her car grabbed a card and gave it to me and so like I was like oh what is this she was like oh just check it out this is like the website that I learned my thing on she was like there's like Bible studies and stuff like that and I was like oh this is pretty interesting this sounded good like I was like oh yeah I'm a Christian and everything like that and then uh like as she's well she was like oh yeah just check out the website As She's Walking Away I turn over the card and it's a it's a Jehovah's Witness card I was like oh my goodness why didn't I look at this earlier that would have been perfect time for witness I told my mom and Ellen I was like man I missed an opportunity right there that was just like right there in my grasp to witness to someone anyway I then had to go to a different store CVS and I also same thing I walk in I had to look at like hand sanitizer or something and I'm standing there looking and some random like uh lady walks up to me and she was like hey I just saw you at J Max I was like oh really yeah I was just there she's like yeah I just had this feeling I had to come up to you and um just ask you are you a Christian I was like yeah like what makes you think that she was like I don't know there's just something about you like you're just walking around uh you have like this light to how you're walking I'm like I mean I was just shopping I don't know like I wasn't singing It's just praying nothing and this lady just she was like yeah I just had this strong feeling in my heart she's like I told my husband he was like nah you're crazy there's no way that boy's Christian uh he didn't say it like that that I'm exaggerating a little bit come on so anyway she was like yeah can you come with me outside I want to like to prove to my husband like yeah this this boy is a Christian I was like yeah sure she was like oh what are you doing in Charlotte like where do you live and everything I told her I'm here for college it's a Christian call she was like no way that's so awesome so then like I got to meet him uh the the father's name was Hezekiah which is I thought it was a Biblical name not sure yeah right where Ezekiel something like that and so like I got uh Like a Prayer we had like a prayer literally in the parking lot right outside the door of CVS and they're like praying for me I prayed for them it was like great moment and like that moment just how obedient she was even though her husband's like nah you're crazy there's no way like why are you gonna walk up to someone like randomly come up to them and be like oh are you a Christian like can I talk to you pray for you and literally that that made my week like that whole week I was like wow that's so amazing that she was so um open to listening to this what the spirit of God told her and being obedient to the way it moved her to like to just come up to someone she completely didn't know saw once and then she was just like yeah can I like pray for you and so I like it's been kind of on my heart to just always have your heart open to the spirit never shut it down like you have to be be attentive to what God wants you at all times sometimes it may be some random like uh for me recently I don't know a lot of people know this about me that uh do this that I hang out around me like I'll just like to talk to random people like in grocery shopping like you're just standing there it's like it's not like you're doing anything you don't have to say any like you don't even have to minister to them just at the end say God bless you that could make someone's day make someone's week if they want to you could be like hey dude if you have it on your heart be like hey can I pray with you just being attentive and obedient to the word of God so uh I just wanna if we you guys want to stand up you guys could say we'll we'll just like chant we'll say a prayer you guys will repeat after me if any if you guys want so let's do this that we like to do this in our in our church so just repeat after me Father God I pray to you today to make my heart obedient open my heart up so that I am attentive to where the Holy Spirit leads me let me not walk in my own ways but let my feet be your feet let my hands be your your hands let my mouth be your mouth wherever your will whatever your will is for my life every single day let me accomplish that will with your help Lord in Jesus name and the church said amen hello brothers and sisters as you can see I wasn't planning on preaching today either I just came from the Park picnic so uh anyways so uh that was just speaking this uh or this Sunday School uh I'm a teacher at one of my the Sunday School classes and I was just teaching them about fishing as you one of us all of you guys know I love to fish so of course I'm gonna teach the kids how to fish and uh I mean physically and spiritually so we were reading it's my favorite book in the Bible you can pull it up it's gonna be Luke chapter 5 verse 10. it's like the second half of the verse it's going to be about uh whenever Jesus found his disciples and since we're disciples so the second half is my favorite oh well that word that translation is not as good uh all right so the second part and Jesus said to Simon do not be afraid from now on you will catch men in my translations it says from now on you will fish men so uh as a fisherman I love to fish and so whenever he says fish men what he was doing is uh Simon and his buddies uh James and John they were out fishing and so they got stuck they were sitting there and they said that everybody knows this miracle it's classic and they were sitting there and they were casting their nets all night and so he was the Jesus said to him you know cast out to the other side and they were sitting there like man I don't know like who's this guy to tell me like to cast out to the other side uh but you know they're obedient and they uh followed his word and we all know what happened afterwards they caught a whole bunch of fish they're fishing that's almost broke they're about to drown and so how much does that relate to our lives like Jesus tells us hey go out and fish and for us we're being like dude we've been trying we've been trying you know we're all Christians we've all tried to preach to unbelievers and so we're all sitting there like you know like Jesus we're trying to preach but like how like we've already been fishing all night they said to him and he's like no how about this go try and cast it out to the other side and so it kind of spoke to me saying like don't just keep like don't just give up and uh try something different like follow Jesus's word and just think about like try something new try something out of your comfort zones even if you don't think it'll work it'll work with Jesus's blessing and uh and just a little testimony from from uh my life this week I went to an American Bible study and I was just sitting there and um I come up to it with like low expectations I was like you know a lot a lot of my parents a lot of my uh like you know the saliva culture they're like man you know the Americans Sometimes some of their ways you know sometimes they don't believe uh the same and so it's a non-denominational Bible study and I come there and I was like so I came with low expectations people are like tatted up sleeves you know the whole thing they got like piercings I was just saying I was like Lord where did I go so I walk in with my Bible I'm the only one with the Bible I was like uh I thought this was a Bible study so I kind of like started questioning it like five minutes in and everybody's like eating so I was like man am I at the right place Lord and now it's like so I was like quick to judge which is definitely not good and so I'll start judging people I was like man we might where am I you know and then uh so then after we ate we all sat down and uh they started preaching and uh at the end we had a fire like uh we had a prayer that was fire yeah so and uh we start they start praying for healing and my eyes were like shot up like whoa my parents never told me Americans pray for healing you know what I'm saying and so I was just sitting there and people were just getting healed right in front of my eyes and I was just like man Lord why was I so quick to judge these people you know why why did we you know why did I think I was better or why didn't I see them as as followers as Christ too you know I saw a person fully tatted up started praying for some for for some girl's knee and her knee was healed I was just like you know we got to leave everything like behind and don't just judge somebody just because based off their appearances obviously but even for us like what happens is like we were even talking this all relates like uh this is what everything that went through my week even on the way back from our bachelor party for trust is bachelor party on the way back we were driving and we were like you know what's the difference between a righteous and unrighteous and the Bible says though A righteous will fall seven times and get back up eight and the unrighteous will fall once and not not get up and so what happened was yes that guy might have got tattoos but he really got up and he's already left it behind and Jesus already died for him and so we have sins they have sins and so that's something like we all we have in common I know Nick was just preaching this today he was saying that we have nothing in common with the world but we have one thing in common which is sin and so we gotta like not just judge them which we got to preach to him Jesus which heals that sin and that's what God spoke to my life this week amen get up and pray Lord thank you for this day Lord thank you for giving us opportunity Lord to speak about you Lord help us Lord feel more encouraged Lord to go preach out your word Lord help us Lord so that we can go out and not judge Lord so we can preach your word Lord help us Lord give us the opportunity Lord although we think that we think that there's nothing to open Lord there's no windows open Lord help us Lord show us the way Lord show us which way we should be going Lord guide us the Holy Spirit Lord so we know which way to go Lord help us so we can reach as many people as possible Lord help us lead your potential Lord help us get out of that comfort zone Lord try something new Lord to preach your word Lord help us in every every single one of us Lord to help from judging Lord from everything Lord let you keep us safe Lord so you give us the opportunities in everything we do Lord in Jesus name I pray amen how you guys doing praise God you know as we come into a conclusion tonight it is probably would be a right way and will be a proper to just offer the prayer the prayer we pray not just for the world but pray for the needs of one another and tonight is a prayer night and we hear it just was one reason praise His name and pray to God you know God has a plan for your life for my life sometimes it's hard to understand when you go through the time when the tears come and out of your eyes when you go through the time one is no understand people cannot understand you you couldn't even understand yourself what you're going through it's hard to believe that God has a perfect plan but he know what separates the man from the boy there is one way can trust him one we can follow him one we can stay with him even if everything is going against us so the strong encouragement to continue you know we was praying for tonight it is a prayer Night In Worship night but if you notice that there's the Holy Spirit move the directions that we can actually to come back to the missionary statement go and preach the world I mean to the world preach the gospel did you notice that we didn't really I mean a few people who was like but I feel that the Holy Spirit inviting us in that direction that this new thousand I mean 2019 New Year but it you know it's important to restore yourself in a prayer night like tonight to be encouraged to be filled with a spirit I was just come back I wasn't at the church but uh we didn't even have a chance to look at the services I'm gonna check it out later but we was at the park for disorder that's what we came for last three days and I come to the playground and Benjamin on all the sun he took all my uh all my my our younger daughter and all the nieces and cousins to the playground he's the right man you know Benjamin right hand man if I can go to the kids playground Benjamin there and as I came there was activity going on and it was a group of people sitting on the benches and Ben and Ruby came and they said oh they speak Russian looks like and I see the molvina or granddaughter she's already come out come back from a trail with another the the girl who was playing it was over they tied the hand they hold their hands she doesn't make the friends she's like her grand you know man Grandpa he's friendly she's friendly and and I was like going to ban I was like go Ben talk to them and he's like uh and I feel like um I'm on a vacation then I look at my bike and I see the yellow Flyers Rafaela and and I we distributed our neighborhood and I was I said no one thing is right I grabbed three I came to them I say hello hello you speak Russian they say yeah yeah I said I'm Peter he said oh I'm Yuri I said guys this is four reasons to smile and I just simply give them those yellow flies and as fast as I can go back to my bike and drive to my campsite I don't feel like I want to be in engage myself in the conversation sometimes you feel like you know my wife said I'm talking too much because I said it's my gift God give me my gift you know I exercise I love to talk amen amen and sometimes when I kicked in him I'm working and I have my tools with me or doing it if it's some people who work with me in a team when it feels like pit is kicked in they can ties and take a break because if I talk and I can talk I can talk to people I was nailed down to the floor epoxy floor for one of the customers thing doesn't go right the moisture coming out from the floor and it's all the people say you cannot do it they recall the manufacturer we go through the Scot paint Sean William Spain all they go to the labs they couldn't figure out the answer and I was doing preparing the floor and I see the two uh uh two guys came those uh what they call this Mormons nice tight and all this stuff I was doing this time he said sir I said yeah guys how you doing and I'm keep doing it because I have a quick month you know you can't really play with it I I talk unto them they said oh guys you know I said oh God loves you I said hey I know I know and I said guys I like what you're doing and I continue to mow the floor he said yeah so my favorite I said I'm a missionary myself and my favorite book is in Luke Chapter 10. they said yeah I said yes yeah missionary what you doing oh what's pretty good I said I love it bite you right they said yeah yeah buy two so I quick finish up my mod I come to them and I said guys come back next week I'd really like to talk to you oh you know the God and they start witness to me and I said I know it guys but I have a little trouble with a Theology of yours oh they told you that I said no I studied you know sometimes we discourage sometimes we're not in a good position to preach the gospel sometimes like tonight a look at you are filled in the spirit you feel like you do you need a prayer not to go around and preach for somebody tomorrow it's Monday it feels like you know the world waiting for you but Jesus encourage you Jesus have a power you just open the mouth you just hand out those yellow flyers and I ran on my bike back to the campsite and I was so excited that I actually was brave enough not one of you people around you Most Wanted 10 people was the yellow shirts no time when you're on Sunday you're preaching when you're alone but you're not feel like it you feel like you're on the strange you know like in a strange in a strange you feel it as a stranger to the people but it's still you're just passing on the gospel sometimes quietly sometimes you talk would like to pray I would like to pray I would like to pray no just oh you know I wanted you God want you to be preacher no maybe so well I would like to pray with you to encourage you to say Lord Jesus with a prayer night we've been fasting in prayer for 21 days but right now Sunday is over tomorrow is Monday and a month from now on we're planning to have another night like tonight but I would like to ask the God's blessings for you for me for us that we will have a prayer tonight that will encourage one another did you feel like maybe you have a special need and I feel like maybe I don't know God only you think they got the only interested in you when it was yellow Flyers running around and preaching oh my brother and sister if you would just know that how precious you are in God's eyes by the enemy how he attacking you I can tell but he's attacked how much your depression how much you're the valuable in the Gods life into God's hand I would like to pray with you and I'm not going to pray in the Lord I would like to Pastor Nikolai to bless me bless us and I would like to team up if we can for this special prayer that we will pray if you have whatever needs you have just as we're gonna stand up for a prayer I would like to that the God will bless you today and tonight we set apart as a prayer now let's just stand up and we're going to have a prayer Hallelujah Lord Jesus while this worship team will pick up the right songs and we're going to have just a good prayer don't hesitate just Just Close Your Eyes just you and Lord there is a time when you can speak to him you don't have to pretend you don't have to like say there's no expectation it's just you it's just you and the lord it's just you and his presence in Jesus mighty name we just wanted Lord Jesus to come to you tonight with one was one desire we'll like to be here we would like to be hurt by you Lord Jesus near us Lord hear our Lord hear our Lord hallelujah halleluia Legends the praise God his name Let's Just Praise His Name whatever it is whatever we have we will have this prayer tonight you know what is in my heart right now [Music] let's pray for each other okay if you need the prayer that we with Peter and I we pray for you but you close enough to each other just pray just come and say listen I need your support and prayer let's do it right now okay let's do this is the House of Prayer we did this sound right in the beginning make the Lord me as a House of Prayer let's pray come introduce yourself Nikolai come this is gentlemen's right there let's pray hallelujah hallelujah worship now same time as Apostles came thank you [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] yes [Music] Superman [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] the law what they made in New York Lord we ask be merciful Jesus it worse than even communist Lord did Lord can remember three months but we see Lord what's gonna now Lord in this country where we live in Lord we ask that you fire the Lord will work in Lord hallelujah and many people will be saved Lord change Lord the direction for destruction oh Lord please Lord this country to your blessing Hallelujah and Revival we pray Jesus we pray Lord hallelujah you only hope you only hope Lord Jesus Hallelujah [Music] Lord you see this needs Lord you see what we ask him Lord you said if it's too agreed Hallelujah they pray in your name you said I will do it thank you Lord thank you thank you Jesus Hallelujah Jesus and we need more love we need more love to each other Lord oh protect us from condemnation that will not judge people Lord you forbid to do it with us help us Lord pray for them to love them Lord hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] praise and worship your name we come to you you're the Fortress [Music] you're the unshakable ground Lord Jesus for me for my faith Lord Jesus for my brother and sister who come to you Lord Jesus whatever it is whatever the fear we overcome this fear in the power of the Holy Spirit In Your Name Lord Jesus not us but you you're the stronger Lord Jesus and we praise and worship your name if we come to you tonight Lord Jesus was one desire Lord Jesus we proud our hearts o Jesus sometimes it's hard Lord Jesus but you overcome this world Lord Jesus yours is strong you're the strong Warrior Lord Jesus we just follow your footsteps Lord Jesus said tonight we pray we pray for one another we pray to you we pray in Your Name Lord Jesus because of you because what you've done on the cross would you to continue doing in our life every day even tonight or Jesus the freedom has come one more time Victory is called encouragement hope it's in you Lord Jesus [Music] we worship you Lord Jesus we worship you Lord Jesus [Music] Hallelujah [Music] your name is [Music] ten thousand Reasons my mind bless their Lord oh my soul oh my soul virgin [Music] bless their Lord oh my soul oh my soul ever [Music] before [Music] and on that day but in my strength [Music] and so this is [Music] in the foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] his glory name [Music] and then she is [Music] Hallelujah we praise and worship your name she thank you Lord Jesus for the night of prayer thank you Lord Jesus you heard the cry you heard the cry at night you heard the praise and worship your name what we have today Lord Jesus Lord Jesus I know my future is in you Lord Jesus I know that my future is in you the future my brother and sister is in you it's your future and it's God's hands your future is God's hands it's a perfect will of God for 2019. we walked in this year was a praise with a worship god with a fastening prayer with one desire Lord Jesus lead us through this 2019. let us Lord Jesus to be in your will don't let us miss your will miss Lord Jesus what you have for us oh Jesus thank you for that you was leading this night of praise and worship the way you want a holy spirit we continue we continue we continue we'll walk with you we'll continue to walk in your grace we need you more Lord Jesus and we ask you bless us Lord Jesus that whatever you give us to us through the prayer Hallelujah but Jesus let us continue continue to walk with you in through you Hallelujah feel like you're received tonight does anybody feel like you deceived tonight I mean honestly you don't have to you don't have to you don't have to be politically correct listen I don't even ask you to raise the hand and do this stuff if you've done this that's okay we're in the presence of God but if you're inside you felt like look Lord speak to you he is one of the brothers and sisters use this this time on the Holy Spirit ministering to you let's just praise God for this closing moment religious praise God let's close your eyes and just tell him what you feel how you feel Lord Jesus thank you thank you for this beautiful time thank you for a fellowship with you Holy Spirit through you with a heavenly father thank you for this time that we set apart it was worth it Lord Jesus come to you it will worship Lord Jesus to come with the praise and worship tonight thank you Lord Jesus was one reason we lift up our hands our faces to you we just say thank you Lord thank you Lord thank you Jesus thank you for your blood thank you for your mercy thank you for your forgiveness for the word of encouragement thank you for the praise of the holy spirit in US through us thank you Lord Jesus for this night we praise and worship your name we glorified your name all the praise only to you Lord Jesus thank you you let us ending up this week was a praise and worship your Holy Name Lord Jesus we ask your blessings and I pray the prayer of blessings for everyone who will go home tonight so Jesus tomorrow it's a new week new week New Beginning Monday I ask your blessings bless every one of us all what we pray today Lord Jesus we believe the answer is on the way thank you Lord Jesus we receive this we believe it and we will keep it in your mighty name thank you thank you Father Son and the Holy Spirit thank you we all can say amen next Sunday evening service like this we're planning to have a following month on the day of 10 March March 10th if you look at the calendar please make your notes in your calendar and we're going to continue to send the invitation and probably going to be put on the Facebook uh can we do that right like we did the last event can we count on this brother Nick and let's just spread the word invite the people we continue we'll pray and then we'll come up with what what the Lord was put us in the heart what's going to be the topic or the theme what we're going to have if any anybody else have any announcements before we're gonna say oh please come look Nick your husband he believed in you he said you can handle it uh okay so I'm going to college and and I have some worries that maybe some of you can understand because you're not in my shoes but is this my period of time that I experienced some like difficulties or I have some um I mean let's say like a I'm worried every day like about my to finish my college so and it was Tuesday and I went to the magdal based on it on Tampa I have rotations that means I cleaned the uh like uh this people on the base uh deities so and I I was like not really like comfortable because I always like every day when I have like participation I'm worried and so and I I should like my morning patients should be like really I don't want to participation I cannot say why because it's like I cannot discloses but I was not comfortable about this and um as a lady who was like supervisor she I went with her to office to pick up the chart or something I don't know and I was just like shocked because when I entered her office she on the Shelf she has thick some like cards and the one on one of these cards were the words like be still and knows if I am God whether it was just like you know being in church it's a different but when you go to the like real world and yes everybody was has like experienced different things in their life so and it was just like cold water on me because when I saw these words I like I had like like homework the poorly food and my my my my like my eyes were so watery because I cannot believe they can see those words in the base I don't know maybe maybe she's Christian she has like few of different cars but those words were like words that we had last all last year on our mom's prayer we have like this teacups and these cards be still and knows that I am God and for me it was like it's like life from the heaven I mean and of course after this I was actually this patient cancel his appointment and rest of the day I was I was so calm that what I actually really need I mean so I am this I want to share this I don't wanna I forgot this I want to share with with you and I want to leave these words with you when you come like the next week starts and we will have all these months like be still and know that I am God so that our God is mighty and I know that many of you needs like you go to like school or college or work everyone's got something going on in our life but I want to praise God that even in this situation and is in like in this building or where I was he gave me this word from the Bible so that I was in first so I praise God and encourage you our God is mighty Natalia stay here for a second you know I couldn't find any better way to close a night like this encouragement Natalia God bless you so you say one more time right in middle of the McDowell Air Force Base I've been there I've worked in there for eight months I know where that place is the place itself is so serious right the old checkpoints and all that stuff high clearance probably two weeks probably you feel application before they say give you okay and then I know what it is and right middle of that place and you've found the words God uh God's Awards right in it and then and so this how you say again what's the words gonna say be still [Music] be still then know that he is a god you hear the accusation you see all the positive Nikolai Peter did you hear that Peter did you hear that yes Lila did you hear that that's so amazing God bless you I don't know nothing to edit let's just let's just uh greet the people and bless them with what this was amen God bless you thank you Natasha thank you okay thank 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