Lesson of Prevailing Prayer in the Scriptures

The Purpose of the Solemn Assembly and Prevailing Prayer

But again, we just wanted to get underway. I'm gonna take you through some of the scriptures this morning. This time allotted from nine o 'clock to 1030 this morning, the sessions are 90 minutes, and try to give every speaker enough time to bring the word, to lead us in prayer, share with us what the Lord was saying to them about the need for a solemn assembly.

Brother Doug did last night why we have a solemn assembly, and some prayer points. A lot of times people, they say, I wanna pray, but I really don't know what to pray. So some of you, again, you're seasoned in this.

You've been at this for a long time. You're just praying along in agreement with us, and we're grateful for those of you that are following with the same heart and mind, but others are looking for something.

They need some help. They need some encouragement. And so it's the intent of this solemn assembly, a call for solemn assembly, that we present to the body of Christ, to draw those in that they have questions about a solemn assembly.

It's not a familiar topic in the church. It's not a popular one. And so the prayer meeting is not a popular one. So most of the time when you say prayer meeting, is that the music is what their mindset is, is standing and worshiping in music.

And there's never any petitions or supplications or confession that's done. Solemn assembly is not about any of that. Solemn assembly is about being before the Lord, as Joel chapter one and two, and we'll keep reiterating this.

When you see these things happen, there's a judgment on the land. There's a judgment on God's people, the church, and it's time to respond. And so that's what the solemn assembly is all about. So it is for us this morning, is that we're gonna take our Bibles and walk through some of the scriptures.

The Conference Focus on Prevailing Prayer

Again, our emphasis for this conference, for this weekend is prevailing prayer. And so we wanna focus on that here this morning. I'm not gonna preach, I'm just gonna kind of share and give you some prayer points as we walk through this that we can cry out to the Lord in agreement with.

And again, we thank you to each of you that are signing on, joining us. We benefit from those that write and share with us where you're from. We see numerous places and familiar names from those of you that are on, and so welcome.

Good morning to you. Some of you, again, were stretched out across the United States, and the time zones are different. So again, for some of you, it's much, much earlier if the sun's even up out on the west and in the mountain region.

Others of us is that we've been up for a little bit, and so we're getting underway for our time this morning. And so good morning to you and welcome. So let's go ahead and let's open up in prayer. And then we're gonna dive right in because again, time is one of the things that I'm conscious of is that, again, we want to make the most of our 90 minutes here this morning as we open up.

Brother Bill Ellif will be with us from 10 .30 to 12, and he's out of Little Rock, Arkansas, so we look forward to having Brother Bill. And at noon, Dasub Han will be with us. As a matter of fact, this morning, while we're doing this morning conference, morning session, he's on a conference call for intercessors, and so they're promoting and praying as well.

So numerous, numerous speakers throughout this day, each of them with their respective prayer ministries and prayer life that I tried to assemble to bring on so that they can share with us their heart about revival, spiritual awakening, which is our greatest desire.

But again, if we don't prevail, we'll never see it. So let's go ahead and we'll open up in prayer. Blessed Father, we thank you for this morning to enter in to your presence, where two or three are gathered together via live stream, Father.

We enter in with the same desire and passion, Lord, to meet with you, to hear from you. Lord, again, is that you would lead us by your Holy Spirit, as we honor your word, as we bring before you, Lord, desires that you've placed within our minds and our hearts to advance your kingdom, to glorify your name.

And again, Father, the things that have erred and provoked, sinned against, transgressed against, Lord, again, for our nation, for our church, for families, for our own individual selves. Lord, we lament before you this morning for the sins that have separated from us, from you.

And again, the judgments that are fallen, Lord, in direct response to those sins. And so here we are, gathered as a people, a remnant, Lord, to seek your face, to call upon your name, to wait before you.

Again, Father, not to be denied, is that again, to call that you would answer us and grant to us, O Lord, that which is so needful, revival for the church, spiritual awakening for the nation, and the fulfillment of your kingdom here on earth to reach the nations.

All honor, glory, and praise to you, Lord, this morning as we begin, Holy Spirit, guide and lead us in our thoughts, guide and lead us in our responses and our actions. Open our ears, again, let the Holy Spirit, Lord, do your best work in the midst of us this day.

We honor you and we love you, Lord, in Jesus' name, amen. All right, as we get underway from this morning, I wanna start the passage of these things, because again, it was one of the things that in quiet time, almost all things, again, proceed out of what the secret clause.

And so this morning, I felt like, again, just to share some of those things about what this is that we're focused on for this weekend, that we talk about a prevailing prayer. How do you prevail in prayer?

You go back and you see some of the great sermons that have been preached or written with that emphasis. Probably one of the most, to me, you might have others, but to me, there's two that stands out in the 18, I believe, 70s or 80s.

D .L. Moody, a great evangelist out of Chicago, wrote that sermon, preached it, and then they wrote a book with that in it on prevailing prayer. But probably the most famous, that sermon that has been put out there has been by Charles Finney.

And so when you look at this, one of the things that you see in the midst of the church, it's passages of scripture in the Old Testament, the life of Christ, the first church, and the book of Acts, and then for 2 ,000 years of history, how they wrestled with God and how they prevailed.

And that is a lesson for us to learn. Maybe you've given time and thought to that, studied to that, maybe you haven't. Again, how does that happen? How does that occur? And what is it happening for? You know, again, if people got their prayers, Ian Bounds wrote on this where he said, if we received a prayer the first time we asked for it, would we know what it is to wrestle?

Would we know what it is to prevail? Would we know what it is to be persistent before God? Or would we simply always just simply in a whim, make a request to God and expect to be answered in that? Somebody would say that, just to say, well, I get all the prayers I ask of God.

Those are the kind of people that you wanna submit everything that you got on your heart to mind. But again, the reality is, is that we know the truth of prayer. Is that, again, we ask for some things which are not in accordance with God's will.

We know that we ask for some things and that we're not gonna get them overnight. It's gonna be a lifetime pursuit. We hear testimonies of that, people that prayed for 50, 60, 70 years. And some have prayed, as I just mentioned, Ian Bounds, he prayed for his children's salvation and never saw him, died and was buried.

And in their nineties, his children came to Christ. So long after his death, before God answered that prayer, but he prevailed. And that is the focus today. So whether in this lifetime, or whether I'm dead and buried, whether I ever get to see it or not, it is with that spirit of prevailing that we wanna cover this morning.

By the scriptural examples, I'm gonna share a couple of personal things. And then again, just to be able to give you some revival history of how God answered prayers and that and the encouragement that it brings to us, because so often when I talk to brothers and sisters in Christ, and for those that are on this morning from the church families, we do this all the time.

Thursday night prayer, hour of prayer that I do, we do this all the time. Are you read up? Are you prayed up? Are you serving the Lord? And again, I'm simply asking, are you being faithful? Now again, the hit in the midst of this day is an issue for the church.

It's a struggle for Christians to maintain. But one of the old slogans of one of my day in essence that I have in my prayer notebook from 2012, 14, something like that, I don't remember the exact date on it, but in the unction of praying for the fullness of the Holy Spirit, upon me, upon the church, for revival, His manifest presence, it goes with those two words that rhyme, obtain and maintain.

And the object of that is that, just to kind of say it for you, I will never obtain unless I maintain. And if I do not maintain, I will not obtain. Now that's just a little thing I wrote one night in prayer and I keep that in front of me as my means.

And it's simply just to say this, I cannot expect to prevail in prayer. You cannot expect, the church cannot, with a haphazard, inconsistent prayer line. God is still sovereign. God can take the prayers of one and do it for His own purpose and His own will.

God is not restricted by that. But the rule of thumb that we've seen in history is that there must be a consistency. There must be a steadfastness. And these are some of the terms that we wanna look at this morning in scripture.

Faithful, persevering, steadfast, maintaining, and being right there before the Lord on a daily basis. Now I know that there are some that they would say, oh, you don't have to pray every day, you can hit and miss.

Remember the first time I was in a prayer conference and one of the speakers said that. You don't have to do this every day. I know my mouth hit the floor. Because I believe is that one of the testimonies that we've seen in the church, how did any backsliding ever begin?

How did any falling away ever begin? Someone dropped the ball and it was in their spiritual disciplines. And so we wanna be very careful of that. And I wanna give a word to you this morning that if you have a lazy mindset of saying, well, if I get to it, I get to it.

If I don't, I don't. Prevailing is probably not on a high priority with you for God's kingdom. And in this day and age, as we expressed last night, the urgency of the hour, we can't afford it. And I make a statement and I say it again, any day that you begin and go throughout without prayer is that you pretty much forfeited that day to the devil.

And he takes full advantage of it. And so therefore we must, we must prevail. Part of that prevailing is the standard of priorities that we enter into our spiritual disciplines with to be before the Lord.

Scriptural Lessons on Persistence and Faithfulness

So let's walk through some scriptures. I'm not gonna give you all of them, of course, but again, it's some of those things that stand out that we can write down and that you can have. Now, some expressed last night.

And so let me just take a moment to share with you on that. These videos are being recorded. They're being saved. YouTube channel is gonna be uploaded. They're uploaded and they're there. We haven't segmented them.

We won't do that till probably the first of the week which will split up each sermon and each session of each speaker for your ease and accessibility to that and to go back and to review. Many ask about Brother Doug's PowerPoint last night.

Those things are on here and you can contact him about that. And we'll try to get a word. He'll be back on with us Sunday night. So might try to get him to answer that for some of you in that time before we get there, okay?

So for the notes that I wanna bring to you and share with you this morning out of scriptures, that's one of the things that we wanna cover on this issue of our topic and our emphasis in prevailing prayer.

Now, when we first started this, which again, when you do a word search for the scriptures, prevail is found predominantly in the most recognized passage of scripture which is over in the book of Genesis.

Here we have one of the, what we say Abraham, Isaac and Jacob of the patriarchs that began with the covenant for the children of Israel. And so you have Jacob who having been away for decades away from his family, his last message from his brother that he had stole the birthright and him and his mother had got the blessing from the father and he went away and he married wives and had children and the Lord now spoke to him and said, now go back, go back home.

And so he was supposed to leave Laban, his father-in-law and this didn't go over well. And so in this conflict between him and Laban, that was Laban was given a voice from God the night before he met with Jacob and said, don't, you'd be very careful how you speak to my servant.

And so he was protected with that. Now that same protection that he got from Laban still was a little fearful when he turned around because he had sent word to his brother Esau that he was returning. And he said, Esau heard that you was returning and he got 400 servants of his and they are on their way to meet you.

And fear grips Jacob. And he, that night, separates the family, he separates the mothers and the children and then he himself goes alone in that place where he wrestles with God. And that great passage there, as he wrestled, they wrestled all night long and the dawning of the morning was coming and the angel said, let me go.

And he said, I will not let you go till you bless me. He was determined with that steadfastness to prevail. And I will not let you go. It's that dogmatic definitive moment that say, if I let you go without the blessing is that I'm incomplete.

I have not reached where God wants me to be, where I need to be. My brother's coming to kill me and I need a blessing from the Lord. That's desperation. And out of desperation, people pray in such manners.

And we looked at that last night with Hannah and the angels spoke to him and said, what is your name? And he said, Jacob. He said, your name will no longer be called Jacob. Your name is Israel because you have prevailed with God and with men.

Now that is probably in the scriptures, the most definitive passage that we have for prevailing. He wrestled with God and he prevailed. In the prayer clause, we wrestle with God. Now, sometimes is that you might simply worship him, which again, adoration, silent beholding him and just loving him.

Sometimes you might be in confession where again, sin, your personal sins or national sins, church sins, and you're lamenting before the Lord for the conditions that has offended God. But in this thing of prevailing, there is a notch that the adrenaline flows, a notch where again, we go into this mode of desperation, of urgency, for the fervency.

You know, Jesus wrestling, we'll look at this in a moment. Jesus wrestled in the garden and great drops of blood poured forth from him because of the strenuousness of what was on his soul in that place.

And then he got up and he prevailed, it was done. And this same kind of thing happens in a lifetime for you and I as Christian believers, that we enter into the prayer closet and we have in our minds some kind of what I'm gonna petition, what I'm gonna pray for, what I'm gonna bring before the Lord.

Maybe you have a prayer note book as we talk about so that you have things wrote out that you can be reminded of, remember, and petition before the Lord, worship, confess, and supplicate and intercede for those kind of things and people in the moments.

But when God puts something on your heart and mind that there is a time limit, there is the matter of eternity, there is an issue at hand and there's a crisis, calamity at hand, it'll put you into that place where you cannot be denied without an answer.

You will not be satisfied without an answer. And this is where the saint goes into the closet, prevails with God, is to say, I'll have an answer one way, satisfied with that. And so again, Jacob is probably one of the foremost that we look at scripture and see that he prevailed.

And he prevailed with God and with me. That's the dual standard there, that we prevail over men, the government, the nation, the wickedness that's in this world, and that we prevail with God because God is sovereign.

He is the Lord of this world and universe and the ruler of it. Nothing happens without God's say so. And so with the church coming before God in prayer, it is the time to prevail. And that's one of the main thrusts of why we are doing this call for a solemn assembly, that we might be rallied, stirred, moved to be serious about this time and not be haphazard, not be inconsistent and not lose our passion.

Again, when you lose your passion in prayer, you're just going through the motions. You're just saying prayers. Saying prayers is much like what we talk about when we teach children. Now lay me down to sleep, pray the Lord my soul to keep.

And they say the words, but they're not meaning the words. God is good, God is great, and we thank him for it. But they're saying prayers. They're learning to say prayers. But there's not a desperation in that.

There's not really a priority there to prevail. And so again, crisis and calamity moves us that we cannot be satisfied with anything less than for God. So let's look at a few more passages of scripture.

And then we're just gonna bounce around. Let me give you the second one again that I preached last night. Hannah, 1 Samuel chapter one. You know, what a great account that is there. That she went before God and she prayed to the Lord and God remembered her.

She got what she asked for. She went in there with burden. She went in there brokenhearted. She went in there, as the scripture says, bitterness of the soul, but she came out and the confidence, I have laid my petition before God.

He has heard me and it's in his hands. And she had the child. And because she gave her child back, and I never shared this last night, but again, for those of you who know scripture, you know that Paul hardly would say the rest of the story.

She gave Samuel to Eli to be raised in the temple, to be a servant to the Lord. And God rewarded her for that. And she went on to have five more children that she was able to raise and to care for because she had lent her child to the Lord.

And so again, what a great example. But again, the need, she was provoked, she was fretting, and she went in before God determined to say, I can't go on like this. And so that desperation is an evidence of that once again.

Now, passage of scripture over in the book of Acts, chapter two, the day of Pentecost. Now, this is much of what this conference is about. I say conference, it's a prayer time, live stream, whatever you want to speak of it towards.

One of the things that we are up against is the lack of power inside the Christian church. Now again, where there are moments of outpourings for God's people, glory to God, we rejoice in that. But a consistent flowing of the Holy Spirit is nowhere to be found.

And so again, most Christians walk around in defeat. Most Christians walk around with struggles against sin. We hear this constantly in the prayer meetings, you know, I'm struggling against this sin, I can't overcome.

There's not victory. Most prayer meetings is that it's hard to find even an answer prayer that's going on in this. And so one of the things is that, again, we want to express and share for our prayer meeting is that one of the greatest things that brings joy, glory, is answer prayer.

Let me testify what the Lord has done. Let me talk about how the soul was in drugs. Let me talk about how the soul was lost and how God gloriously saved. There's a victory that brings joy to the prayer meeting over answer prayer.

Some will prevail, and that's what we need more of. But for the most part, Christians say prayers and they walk away from the prayer, the prayer meeting, the prayer times, the closet, whatever they said the prayer, and they are content without an answer.

You cannot be content without an answer. God didn't set up promises like that. Asking it shall be given. Seeking it shall find. Knocking it shall be opened. Whatsoever you shall ask in my name, that will I do that the Father might be glorified in the Son.

If you ask anything in my name, I will do that the Father might be glorified. I mean, these are promises that God and Christ has given to us in the scriptures to prevail. And so in the midst of this, it is that the day of Pentecost, the outpouring and the fullness of the Holy Spirit came upon the church.

And Jesus had instructed them over in the book of Luke in chapter 24, he says, now go into Jerusalem until you be endued with power, endued with power. Every revival that we could talk about and share in the church's history for 2000 years, someone was endued with power.

When I talk about Charles Finney, is that you should know, again, part of the second great awakening, tremendous revival lectures filled with his experiences, filled with the Holy Spirit on the night of his salvation.

He goes out into the woods. He is again, determined is that he is not gonna go back, back home until he prevails with God. It works this thing, he was under great conviction. And he went out into the woods and he threw himself down and all day long, he sought the Lord, he cried out to God, Satan, save me.

And he came to terms with that. And he walked into the woods lost and he walked out of the woods on that day, saved and born again Christian. He went home that night. And as he sat before the fireplace in prayer, rejoicing for his salvation, the Holy Spirit comes upon him.

And he said, and then he gives the description of this. And again, one of the advantages of watching the ocean is that he said it was as ocean waves, crashing over him, surging through him from the top to the bottom, just literally going over him constantly.

And he was filled with the Holy Spirit. Now I share about a book called, they found the secret. And there are 20 sermons in that of great saints in church history, that the same thing, they got before God and they were endued with power for what God was getting ready to do through them and in them for his namesake.

Most Christians are content to be born again, to be saved, but never to be endued with the power of the Holy Spirit. We read this in the book of Acts, where again, some Christians who were believers. And he said, well, what was you saved to?

And they said, well, we understand the teachings of John the Baptist and that we accept again for the acceptance of Christ and receiving of Christ. But he says, but have you been filled with the Holy Spirit?

And they said, we have not even heard of this. And so he lays hands on them and they are filled with the Holy Spirit. Now they were saved, but they weren't filled. Most in North American church are content to be saved and never to be filled.

But that's not the command of Christ. The command of Christ in Luke 24, wait in Jerusalem till you be endued with power. Over in the book of John, after his resurrection, he comes into the disciples and while they were hiding out there, and he greets them and he says, don't be afraid.

And in chapter 20 of John, verse 22, and it says, and he breathed on them. And he said, receive the Holy Spirit. And then Acts chapter one, chapter two, Foxes Hollow, we're studying this. We just got into our Bible study Sunday school hour at Foxes Hollow where I'm pastor.

And we're just starting the book of Acts. And so we're just getting up to chapter two. And on the day, the Lord's day, is that they were gathered together. They had been there for 10 days, staying there together in one accord as one people.

And they were there to prevail. They were not going to leave Jerusalem until they were endued with power that Christ had promised them. And they were content to wait 10 days, 100 days, as long as it took, because they would not walk away without the promise that was promised to them of the comforter coming.

And you shall receive power and the comforter will come to you and he will teach you and bring all things to remember in accordance of what things that I have taught you. So we see this answer to prayer in Acts chapter two of what Christ had promised in Luke and in John.

And again, other passages where he said, I must go away that he may come. And so here it is, they prevail. Now, again, we are much in the same one. We are in an expectancy hour for the church, for our nation.

And one of the things is that again, because men and church leaders, churches and Christians, we don't even know what it is to be filled with the Holy Spirit, is that they are content then to continue on in their Christian faith, their Christian pilgrimage without power.

And the world looks at the church and the hell looks at the church and they laugh at us because we don't have answers to prayers. We don't have victory over sin. We don't bear a testimony or a witness to say, look what God has done.

And so therefore it is absolutely necessity for us to reclaim this, to get before God and to say, we can't do this in our own strength. Now, humanism, one of the sins of the church, humanism says the opposite.

Humanism says, I got this, we can do this. I just come up with this new program. I just come up with this new promotion. I just come up with this new means and method. We don't need any new gadgets or gizmos.

All we need is the Lord. And it is for us to do it exactly the way that he said, be endued with power from on high. And again, one of the wrestlings of prevailing that we're crying out to is for God to come upon the church in North America.

Again, other nations, Canada we have, some people from Canada, some other nations have signed on and signed on to the channels and all that, tremendous. All the body of Christ is for the days that are coming, for we know what's coming, greater persecution, greater tribulation.

This is only the beginning of sorrows that we're facing and to walk in strength, to walk in power. And this does not come, again, I reiterate this to you, this does not come of answer prayer and prevailing for the Holy Spirit in a haphazard, inconsistent manner.

It will not happen. It must be sought for and you will never obtain until you maintain a vigilant prayer life of saying, God, here I am again before you. Some people say, well, I get tired, I get weary.

And the absolute necessity is to rest and trust in the presence of God. And so Acts chapter two, what a wonderful prevailing that came. We know that there were other episodes to go to the two chapters, Acts chapter four.

And when they were gathered together and had shared that Peter and John had shared what had happened and the place was shaken, the Holy Spirit came again. And I could fill the rest of this morning up with the experiences of revival, where God came down because somebody prevailed for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, the Hebrides revival.

Boy, I wanna get into this, restrain me on this. My boy's sitting here running the laptop for the system here, so I'm looking to him. Hebrides, the two sisters that prayed and prevailed for the outpouring upon the Hebrides church, destitute, young people absent from the church, nothing, scattered people sitting in the churches today without anybody being fear of the Lord, alcoholics, broken homes, broken lives.

And the two sisters set themselves in front of God and said, this can't go on. Now there's that determination. There's that dogmatic purpose. We will not be denied. Deacon in the church starts a Friday night prayer meeting in the barn and he prevailed.

And the Holy Spirit blew through the barn because they did it exactly as the disciples did, the apostles did, the 120 did in the upper room in Acts chapter two. They did it the way Christ said, wait until you be endued with power.

That's prevailing. That's where we're at, brother or sister, where there is a time to pray and there is a time to prevail. And we are in a day because of the crisis and calamity to prevail in this. Let's go on.

Christ’s Prayer for Peter and His Wrestling in Gethsemane

Time-wise, I won't make it through all of this. I mentioned just a few moments ago, Jesus praying in the garden. Now there's two answers to prayers here from John chapter 13, where again, the chapter 12, 13, where the last supper, the last words of Christ with the feet washing, Judas goes out and betrays Christ to the Pharisees that night, to the Sanhedrin.

And as he goes into the garden, on that way there, he has this conversation with the disciples and he comes to Peter and says, Peter, Satan has desire to sift you, to destroy you. Now again, we know the attributes and the tactics of our enemy, or we should.

Maybe again, that's something I assume too much. The church knows their enemy and we don't all the time. Now, Paul writes that in Corinthians, where he said, we are not ignorant of Satan's devices. In other words, is that we've studied the antics of our enemy and we know, and again, he comes to kill, to maim, to destroy.

Jesus tells us that to John. So we see, now here's Jesus coming to Peter, his beloved. And he says to him, Simon, Peter, he says, Satan has desire to sift you. And what's the words of Christ next? But I have prayed for you.

Now it's a wonderful thing where brothers and sisters, we get on here like this and we'll say, hey, I'm praying for you. And not, oh man, that's encouraging, isn't it? To know that someone's praying for you.

You know, I remember when we first started doing these prayer conferences 15 years ago, when I was starting small groups, this church, that association, would ask me to come in and share the burden on my heart for prayer.

My own churches, I've done. And I would say, do you know three people that pray for you? And again, there was that consistency that are you praying for me? Someone comes along and they'll say, you know, hey, I've got a test this week.

Hey, I've got a struggle. Hey, I've got this issue. Would you pray for me? And they said, yes, I'll pray for you. Now that need for that moment has now passed. Are they still praying for you? You know, one of the things about consistency is that when someone, for example, submits to me a need and they say, I've got this, let's just use cancer.

I've got cancer and I've got to go through tests. My loved one's got cancer. Would you put them on your prayer list? So I add them into the prayer group. And as you bring those names and those requests before the Lord day in and day out, there are times, two weeks, three weeks, a month, six weeks, and comes back around and you send a text, you send a message, you run into them and you say, hey, what's the update?

I've been praying for you and I'm wanting to get an update. Now that person then realizes that it wasn't one and done. It wasn't just someone saying I'm praying for you and they had a mental thought about it and they went on and they never wrote it down and they never rehearsed it before God and they never prevailed.

Versus that person that day in and day out holds them up before the Lord and says I'm praying for you day in and day out. Now there is a, I'm telling you, brother, sister, there is a vast difference in the church today between the person that does the prayer one and done versus this great need that we're talking about for revival, for spiritual awakening in our nation and in the church is that this cannot be done with one and done.

It must be done day in and day out. Now some people have been praying for it for decades. Some people have prayed for it and died and been buried and never saw it. But until their dying breath, they was before God asking for it.

There is where I, I mentioned last night, I am not content. Talking about content, I am not content to one, to live this life without ever seeing. Now again, I am surrendered to the will of God. I may be dead and buried and never see it, but the blessing may come to my children, my grandchildren, and they will see it and they will experience it and they will say, that's because, dad, that's because Pat prayed for this day in and day out, talked about it, wept over it, rejoiced in it, longed for it, was passionate about it and was content with nothing less than prevailing before God.

Christ holds Peter up at that night of great battle. Satan has desired to sift you, but I have prayed for you. Most people do not have three people to pray. And again, for us to develop a prayer line that is consistent with what is pleasing to God is that you be consistent in praying for people that you said that you will pray for.

And we come to the second part of this where Jesus enters into the garden and again, this great wrestling that took place with him. And it was for the plan of salvation to be introduced into the world through his death, through his horrible death.

And all that went through there and again, to read those passages in the gospels of what they did to Christ during that night in which he was betrayed after he came out of the garden to the time where he said it is finished and he gave up and he gave up the ghost.

And to know that in the midst of this, it all happened because of what took place in the garden where he prevailed. Because in the garden, he was left with a choice to either walk away, father, let this cup pass from me but again, prevail.